"1. My shepherd is the Eternal God; I shall not be in (any) want: 2. In pastures of a tender grass He (ever) makes me to lie down: To waters of tranquillities He gently carries me (along.) 3. My _feeble and my wandering_ soul He (kindly) does fetch back again; In the plain paths of righteousness He does lead (and guide) me along. Because of the regard He has (Ever) unto his glorious name. 4. Yea when I shall walk in the vale Of the dark (dismal) shade of Death, I'll of no evil be afraid, Because thou (ever) art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, these are what Yield (constant) comfort unto me. 5. A table thou dost furnish out Richly (for me) before my face. 'Tis in view of mine enemies; (And then) my head thou dost anoint With fatt'ning and perfuming oil; My cup it (ever) overflows. 6. Most certainly the thing that is Good, with (most kind) benignity, This all the days, that I do live, Shall (still and ever) follow me; Yea I shall dwell and Sabbatize Even to (unknown) length of days, _Lodg'd_ in the house which does belong To him who's the Eternal God."
_Sonnet 29._ As Christians we are under inexpressible obligations to God for his book of revealed truth, proved to be divine by the voice of prophecy, by the wonders of miracles, by the sublimity of its doctrines, and by the approval of conscience. Every man, who can read, is bound to examine this book for himself; for otherwise his faith will rest on a human not a divine teacher.――According to Mr. Chillingworth, what God requires of us is "to believe the Scripture to be God's word, to endeavor to find the true sense of it, and to live according to it." He also says――"I see plainly and with mine own eyes, that there are popes against popes, Councils against Councils, some Fathers against others, the same Fathers against themselves, a Consent of Fathers of one age against a Consent of Fathers of another age, the Church of one age against the Church of another age. Traditive interpretations of Scripture are pretended, but there are few or none to be found. No tradition, but only of Scripture, can derive itself from the fountain."――"Propose me any thing out of this book, and require whether I believe it or no; and seem it never so incomprehensible to human reason, I will subscribe it with hand and heart: As knowing no demonstration can be stronger than this; God hath said so, therefore it is true." But then we ought to be well assured, that God hath said what we attribute to him; that we understand the import of the divine word; and that no prepossession, or prejudice, or passion, or mental bondage leads us into an inexcusable misapprehension.