“Not for your sakes; for, bold and blind,
                To lust and avarice inclined,
                Each shadowy idol you obey,
                Disowning my paternal sway.

               “Not for your sakes; with heaven in view,
                For sin you sell your souls anew;
                You barter, for a gilded bait,
                The joys of an eternal state.

               “Not for your sakes; for though you eyed
                The cross of Christ on which he died,
                You scorn his love for worldly ends,
                And wound him in the house of friends.

               “Not for your sakes; with Jesus’ name,
                You put him to an open shame;
                And by your sins, consent again
                To have the dear Redeemer slain.

               “Not for your sakes; ’tis my free grace
                That grants you pardon, life, and peace;
                And works a change on all your frame,
                And binds you to adore my name.

               “Not for my sake!—­I hail the sound;
                Let power of grace my pride confound: 
                Salvation is a work divine;
                Confusion and the shame be mine.

               “Not for my sake!—­did I but trust
                To weakness, vanity, and dust,
                I ne’er could reach the heavenly prize,
                Nor hope a mansion in the skies.

               “Not for my sake!—­yet save and call;
                Let Jesus be my all in all: 
                When glory comes I’ll self disown,
                And grace, free grace shall wear the crown.”

“’Praise ye the Lord.  O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good:  for his mercy endureth for ever.’  Psalm 106:1.

“’Remember me, O Lord, with the favor that thou bearest unto thy people:  O visit me with thy salvation, that I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.’  Psalm 106:4, 5.

“’At that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world; but now, in Christ Jesus, ye who sometime were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.’  Eph. 2:12, 13.

“’Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble:  thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:  to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.’  Psalm 10:17.

“’Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.  And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.  Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.’