Luke 8:2, 3: Certain women which had been healed, &c

Poor for our sake, the Lord most high
Humbly accepts His creature's aid.
Doth on His Father's care rely,
And freely deals the' immortal bread;
His sustenance from those receives
Whose sins He did by grace remove;
And thus to saints occasion gives
Of witnessing their grateful love.

Jesus, Thy travelling church below
In every age its Head attends,
Whoe'er Thy healing virtue know.
And trample on the' ejected fiends,
Pardon'd and thankful for their cure.
From Satan and the world set free.
By succouring Thy members poor
They serve and minister to Thee.

In the first infant church we view
The happy pair whom God hath join'd.
The mix'd inseparable two,
Knowledge and charity combined:
And still where Christ and His appear,
They hand in hand together move,
And both at once we see and hear.
The word of truth and works of love.