1 Peter 5:10: The God of all grace...after that ye have, &c

Our sufferings cannot grace procure,
Or add to Jesu's sacrifice,
And after that to' expect the prize:
And crucified with Christ we wait
The fulness of His life to prove,
The settled, firm, establish'd state
Of perfect holiness and love.
"But ah! they damp our eager thirst,
Who tell us, we must suffer first;
But ah! they cool our flaming zeal
Who bid us labour up the hill;"
Yet so the o/d apostle taught,
And though ye set his words at nought,
I think, he knew the surest road,
I think, he had the Spirit of God.
Il, PETER.