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| A BLEST conuersion and a strange | |
| Was that, when Saul a Paul became; | |
| And, Lord, for making such a change | |
| We praise and glorifie thy name; | |
| For whil’st he went from place to place | 5 |
| To persecute thy truth and thee, | |
| And running to perdition was, | |
| By powerful grace cal’d backe was hee. | |
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| When from thy truth we goe astray, | |
| Or wrong it through our pointed zeale, | 10 |
| Oh, come and stop vs in the way, | |
| And then thy will to vs reveale. | |
| That brightnesse show vs from above, | |
| Which proues the sensuall eyesight blinde; | |
| And from our eyes those scales remoue | 15 |
| That hinder vs thy way to finde. | |
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| And as thy blessed servant Paul, | |
| When he a conuert once became, | |
| Exceeded thy apostles all | |
| In painefull preaching of thy name; | 20 |
| So grant that those who haue in sinne | |
| Exceeded others heretofore, | |
| The start of them in faith may winne— | |
| Loue, serue, and honour thee the more. | |
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