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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

William Cowper

Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
WILLIAM COWPER

Alast Best Blessing Enemy Forgiveness Friend Instance Life Neglect Remember
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
WILLIAM COWPER

Lodge Solitude Some Successful War Wilderness
This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
WILLIAM COWPER

Attachment Home Known Life Place Race Start
…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
WILLIAM COWPER

Evening Let Night Peaceful Welcome
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPER

Courage Failure Move Moving Mysterious Perform
A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
WILLIAM COWPER

Atheism Dear Heretic Regard Something
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
WILLIAM COWPER

Feeble Grace Judging Lord People Person Sweet
The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
WILLIAM COWPER

Accustom Fall Flower Man Rain Solitude
Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
WILLIAM COWPER

Authorship Genius Manner Sense Substitutes
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
WILLIAM COWPER

Devil Knee Prayer Saint Trembles Weakness
The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
WILLIAM COWPER

Begin Breathe Sight Spirit Upon World
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
WILLIAM COWPER

Alarm Face House Sage Seen Solitude
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
WILLIAM COWPER

Check Employed Good Happy Life Man
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
WILLIAM COWPER

Admit Degrees Enslave Judgment Leave Pleasure
After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
WILLIAM COWPER

Abundant After Drought Fall Flower Herb Long Rain Rejoice
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
WILLIAM COWPER

Around Cheer Close Fall Fire Shutter Sofa Stir

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

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