Blueridge Believer
Puritan Board Professor
This bewitching world, these alluring pleasures!
What a changeful world is this, and
what changeable creatures are we!
Oh, how have I seen this in myself and in others!
Friends whom I have most trusted have suddenly
grown cold and indifferent, freezing my affections
by their unfaithfulness and wavering.
But, oh, has not this some end? Methinks I see it.
The world's charms have too much allured my gaze
from Jesus and fixed it upon its empty bubbles.
And was not this trial sent to deaden my affections
to the world, and fix them upon something more
substantial? O yes, it was all for my good.
This bewitching world, these alluring pleasures,
how they ensnare! O God, keep me from their power.
May I be weaned from them, and attracted to
Jesus, finding the center of my happiness in
leaning in sweet repose upon His bosom who
never changes nor forsakes those who put
their trust in Him.
WHITMORE WINSLOW at age 15.
What a changeful world is this, and
what changeable creatures are we!
Oh, how have I seen this in myself and in others!
Friends whom I have most trusted have suddenly
grown cold and indifferent, freezing my affections
by their unfaithfulness and wavering.
But, oh, has not this some end? Methinks I see it.
The world's charms have too much allured my gaze
from Jesus and fixed it upon its empty bubbles.
And was not this trial sent to deaden my affections
to the world, and fix them upon something more
substantial? O yes, it was all for my good.
This bewitching world, these alluring pleasures,
how they ensnare! O God, keep me from their power.
May I be weaned from them, and attracted to
Jesus, finding the center of my happiness in
leaning in sweet repose upon His bosom who
never changes nor forsakes those who put
their trust in Him.
WHITMORE WINSLOW at age 15.
