Explore "1 Samuel 6: 12" by John Newton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
I: The kine unguided went / When the Philistines homeward sent / The ark of Israel's God.
II: Lowing they pass'd along / And left their calves shut up; / They felt an instinct for their young, / But would not turn or stop.
III: Shall brutes, devoid of thought, / Their Maker's will obey; / And we, who by his grace are taught.
More stubborn prove than they?
IV: He shed his precious blood, / To make us his alone; / If wash'd in that atoning flood, / We are no more our own.
V: If he his will reveal, / Let us obey his call; / And think, whate'er the flesh may feel, / His love deserves our all.
VI: We should maintain in view / His glory as our end; / Too much we cannot bear or do / For such a matchless Friend.
VII: His saints should stand prepared / In duty's path to run; / Nor count their greatest trials hard / So that his will be done.
VIII: With Jesus for our guide, / The path is safe, though rough, / The promise says, "I will provide;"
And faith replies, "Enough! "