The conuersion of S. Paul

A Blest Conuersion, and a strange,
Was that, when Saul a Paul became;
And, LORD, for making such a change,
We praise and glorifie thy Name:
For whilst he went from place to place,
To persecute thy Truth and Thee;
(And running to perdition was)
By powerfull grace cal'd backe was hee.

When from thy Truth we goe astray.
(Or wrong it through our blinded zeale)
Oh come, and stop vs in the way,
And then thy Will to vs reueale;
That Brightnesse shew vs from aboue,
Which proues the sensuall eye-sight blinde;
And from our eyes those Scales remoue,
That hinder vs thy way to finde.

And as thy blessed seruant Paul,
When he a Conuert once became,
Exceeded thy Apostles all,
In painefull preaching of thy Name:
So grant that those who haue in Sinne
Exceeded others heretofore,
The start of them in Faith may winne,
Loue, serue, and honour thee the more.