English poem
Mr. WATTS'S Hymns, HYMN 86
by Elizabeth Bury (?–1756)
How should the Sons of Adam's Race, Be pure before their GOD? If he contend in Righteousness, We fall beneath his Rod.
To vindicate my Words and Thoughts, I'll make no more Pretence; Not one of All my thousand Fau'ts, Can bear a just Defence.