Praise for Faith

“A View of Olney”
Fore-Edge Painting on Volume 1 of Poems by the late William Cowper, Esq. of the Inner Temple

O

f all the gifts Thine hand bestows,
Thou Giver of all good!
Not heaven itself a richer knows
Than my Redeemer’s blood.

Faith too, the blood-receiving grace,
From the same hand we gain;
Else, sweetly as it suits our case,
That gift had been in vain.

Till Thou Thy teaching power apply,
Our hearts refuse to see,
And weak, as a distemper’d eye,
Shut out the view of Thee.

Blind to the merits of Thy Son,
What misery we endure!
Yet fly that Hand from which alone
We could expect a cure.

We praise Thee, and would praise Thee more,
To Thee our all we owe:
The precious Saviour, and the power
That makes Him precious too. 

More on (and from) William Cowper:

• Cowper’s Grave
• Sunday’s Hymn: William Cowper
• Sunday’s Hymn: William Cowper
• Sunday’s Hymn: William Cowper
• Sunday’s Hymn: William Cowper
• Sunday’s Hymn: William Cowper

Pffft

Yesterday we had no cell phone or internet for much of the day. And when I sat down to blog this afternoon, the electricity went out and with it went my wireless signal. It’s back now, but I must move on to other things.

There are a couple of new developments in the household that I want to tell you about but that will have to wait until I have time and signal simultaneously.

I also have enough links collected for another Round the Sphere post, and you can expect a book review soon, too.

What is Baptism?

Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, wherein Christ hath ordained the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,[1] to be a sign and seal of ingrafting into himself,[2] of remission of sins by his blood,[3] and regeneration by his Spirit;[4] of adoption,[5] and resurrection unto everlasting life;[6] and whereby the parties baptized are solemnly admitted into the visible church,[7] and enter into an open and professed engagement to be wholly and only the Lord’s.[8]

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