"The Minister’s Advice to His Children," in Benjamin Lloyd’s The Primitive Hymns (1841)

Dear children, when you read these lines
May love possess your hearts;
May you, like Mary, humbly choose
That good and better part.

May you be guided by God’s word,
To love and fear his name,
Who bore your sins, if heirs with him,
When on Mount Calv’ry slain.

Oh! do not slight his blessed word,
As many sinners do,
But pray to him to guide and keep
Your souls from pain and woe.

If you should die in love with sin
Dreadful your doom will be;
Banished from God and all his saints,
To all eternity.

But Jesus waits with grace that’s free,
And gives it to the poor;
Oh! humbly seek, that you may drink,
And live for evermore.