Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the p… - Philip Doddridge

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Live while you live, the epicure would say,
And seize the pleasures of the present day;
Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries,
And give to God each moment as it flies.
Lord, in my views, let both united be:
I live in pleasure when I live to thee.

Philip Doddridge

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Philip Doddridge (June 26, 1702 – October 26, 1751) was an English Nonconformist leader.

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O God of Bethel! by whose hand
Thy people still are fed,
Who through this weary pilgrimage
Hast all our fathers led.

Religion, in its most general view, is such a Sense of God in the soul, and such a conviction of our obligations to him, and of our dependence upon him, as shall engage us to make it our great care to conduct ourselves in a manner which we have reason to believe will be pleasing to him.

Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve,
And press with vigour on;
A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.

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