Encouragement to Trust in God

Engaging argument! here let me rest

Author: Anne Steele (1760)
Published in 1 hymnal

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I. Engaging argument! here let me rest
With humble confidence and faith intire:
What, less than this, can calm my troubled breast?
What more can my distrustful heart desire?

II. Encouraged by so full, so sweet a word,
Fain would my soul forbid intruding fears:
To thee, almighty Father, gracious Lord!
Fain would I bring my load of anxious cares.

III. But can a vile, a guilty creature dare
Aspire to hope for favours so divine?
Aspire to claim an int'rest in thy care,
Or boldly call the glorious blessing mine?

IV. O let thy spirit's sacred influence seal
The kind assurance to my doubting soul,
Thy pard'ning love, thy tender care reveal;
The blissful view shall all my fears controul.

Source: Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, Vol. 2 #90

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Author: Anne Steele

Anne Steele was the daughter of Particular Baptist preacher and timber merchant William Steele. She spent her entire life in Broughton, Hampshire, near the southern coast of England, and devoted much of her time to writing. Some accounts of her life portray her as a lonely, melancholy invalid, but a revival of research in the last decade indicates that she had been more active and social than what was previously thought. She was theologically conversant with Dissenting ministers and "found herself at the centre of a literary circle that included family members from various generations, as well as local literati." She chose a life of singleness to focus on her craft. Before Christmas in 1742, she declined a marriage proposal from contemporar… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Engaging argument! here let me rest
Title:	Encouragement to Trust in God
Author:	Anne Steele (1760)
Language:	English
Publication Date:	1760
Copyright:	This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.