1 Peter 5:5: Vain of your gifts and boasted grace

Vain of your gifts and boasted grace,
Great things who of yourselves declare,
From you the Lord shall hide His face,
And leave you in the fowler's snare
A wretched, -self-deceiving crowd,
False saints, false-witnesses, for God!

Against your Luciferian pride
His furious jealousy shall burn,
And while ye in the flesh confide,.
Your towering confidence o'erturn,
Into the flaming dungeon cast,
Or save you as by fire at last.

But ye that tremble at His frown,
And scarcely dare for mercy hope,
Your God in justice casts you down,
Your God in love shall lift you up,
And bless and gospelise the poor
With pardon and salvation sure.

Pardon'd, if ye the grace retain,
And deeper groan your wants increased;
The Lord shall visit you again,
And entering into perfect rest,
Ye live, when pride and self's destroy'd,
For ever full, for ever void.