We Will Make Thee Borders of Gold, with Studs of Silver
by Ralph Erskine (1685-1752)

bject not, saying, “How shall I,
So weak, so black a swain,
Such beauties in Jehovah’s eye
Or furnish or maintain?”

For with united power divine
We Father, Son, and Spirit,
Do stand engaged thee to refine,
And make thy form complete.

Keep thou no finite powers view,
To grace and deck thee thus;
Creation-work, both old and new,
Belongs to none but Us.

We’ll make thee yet more radiant gems
Of grace, without thine aid,
To fence thy robe, like golden hems,
With silver studs inlaid.

Thy growing grace shall thrive and bear
A perfect crop at length;
Yet by no might within thy sphere,
But Our concurring strength.

Thy gold and silver ornament
Must strong and lasting prove;
For, lo, it is the pow’rful vent
Of Our eternal love.

Of old the good, the great Three-One,
Did jointly take thy part;
Thy naked soul We thought upon
With pity in Our heart.

We held a counsel for thy good,
Where I, without a sob,
Did choose a vesture dipped in blood
To buy thy golden robe.

—from Worthy Is the Lamb (Soli Deo Gloria, 2004).

salme 20 (Geneva Bible)
To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid.

1 The Lorde heare thee in the day of trouble: the name of ye God of Iaakob defend thee:
2 Send thee helpe from the Sanctuarie, and strengthen thee out of Zion.
3 Let him remember all thine offerings, and turne thy burnt offerings into asshes. Selah:
4 And graunt thee according to thine heart, and fulfill all thy purpose:
5 That we may reioyce in thy saluation, and set vp the banner in the Name of our God, when the Lord shall performe all thy petitions.
6 Now know I that the Lord will helpe his anointed, and will heare him from his Sanctuarie, by the mightie helpe of his right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots, & some in horses: but we will remember the Name of ye Lord our God.
8 They are brought downe and fallen, but we are risen, and stand vpright.
9 Saue Lord: let the King heare vs in the day that we call.

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