Logos Virtual Library: George Herbert: The Temple: The Church: Judgement

George Herbert

George Herbert (1593-1633)

The Temple

Judgement

Almightie Judge, how shall poore wretches brook

Thy dreadfull look,
Able a heart of iron to appall,

When thou shalt call

For ev’ry mans peculiar book?

What others mean to do, I know not well;

Yet I heare tell,
That some will turn thee to some leaves therein

So void of sinne,

That they in merit shall excell.

But I resolve, when thou shalt call for mine,

That to decline,
And thrust a Testament into thy hand:

Let that be scann’d.

There thou shalt finde my faults are thine.