IMITATION OF THE FRENCH HYMN, Quoted in the Spectator, No. 513. Hannah Brand Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T42452 K041482.000 Brand, Hannah, 1754-1821. Plays and poems: by Miss Hannah Brand. Norwich printed by Beatniffe and Payne; and sold by Messrs. F. and C. Rivington; and Messrs. Elmsley and Bremner, London 1798 pp. 418-419. xv,[1],424p.; 8⁰.

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IMITATION OF THE FRENCH HYMN , Quoted in the Spectator , No. 513. GREAT God ! thy judgments all are just , With strictest Equity combin'd . Though in thy sight I am but dust , Thou still delightest to be kind . But I am crimson'd o'er with sin , Have trespass'd on thy suffering Grace , Which gave my Soul that light within , Might guide me to behold thy Face . I've sinn'd , and from thy Wrath would flee : What City shall be refuge found ? For should thy Goodness pardon me , 'T will thy Eternal Justice wound . My Sins bereave my Soul of hope , To hear , O God ! thy pardoning Voice ; In thy dread power , they nought have left , But of my Punishment the choice . Thy Golden Sceptre , who rejects , An Iron Rod shall find to bruise . Thy Clemency my doom expects , Nor , to avert thy Justice , sues . If , Lord ! thy Glory it promote , Thy fearful Wrath must yet impend , My wounded Soul must still be smote , My Tears and contrite Groans offend . In sinning against Thee , I warr'd , Avenge Thyself , display thy Power ! Strike ! — But whilst perishing , — O Lord ! My Soul , though trembling , shall adore . Exhaust the Phial of thy Wrath ! My countless Sins deserve it all ; Yet can thy Justice pour it forth , Or can thy dreadful Thunder fall On any place , — Earth , Air , or Flood ? — Where canst thou lift 'gainst me thy Rod , Which is not sprinkled with Christ's Blood , The Blood of an atoning God ?