Lyra Davidica/Spiritual Watchfulness

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Lyra Davidica (1708)
edited by John Baptist Walsh

Spiritual Watchfulness
by Johann Burchard Freystein, composed by Anonymous, translated by Anonymous

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2822390Lyra Davidica — Spiritual Watchfulness1708Johann Burchard Freystein

Spiritual Watchfulness.
Mache dich meine Geist bereit.

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Transcribed lyrics (not listed in original)

O my Soul W^th prayers & cries
⁠Watch & ready make thee
Lest approaching by Surprise
⁠th'evil time o'er Take thee.
⁠For a while
⁠Satan's Wile
hampers many Pious
loost to tempt and try Us.

2.

FIrst take care thy self to rouse
⁠From Sin's Sleep enchanting;
Torments great such heavy Brows
⁠Will not long be wanting.
⁠Least mishaps
⁠And Death traps
Seize thee time mispending,
Unawares Offending.

3.

Wake for Jesus otherwise
⁠Cannot thee Enlighten.
Rouse thee e're the true Light flies
⁠Which thy Lamp should brighten.
⁠Grant he will
⁠Graces still;
But bids us that have them
Look to him that gave them.

4.

Watchful be left Satan's Craft
⁠Should surprise thee sleeping.
Since his Darts more swift than shaft
⁠Fly the Winds out stripping.
⁠God let's all
⁠Such Saints fall,
Into woes and weeping,
Who are guardless sleeping.

5.

Lest the World should thee constrain,
⁠Watch with fear and trembling;
Lest she to herself regain
⁠Thee by her dissembling.
⁠Strict Watch set;
⁠And ne'er let
Treach'rous Conversation
Int' Association.

6.

Also watch thy self within,
⁠Flesh and Spirit ever;
Lest thro' Carelesness and Sin
⁠God withdraw his Favour.
⁠Mortal Dust's
⁠Full of Lnsts,
Of it self short sighted,
In its Pride delighted.

7.

But upon thy Watch Tow'r pray
⁠Taking no denyals,
That the Lord would take away
⁠Sins which caule thy Tryals.
⁠Which depress
⁠And distress,
And so sleepy make thee,
That Death may o'er take thee.

8.

God will humbly be ador'd
⁠E'er he does Relieve us.
With our Cries he'll be implor'd,
⁠That he may retreive us.
⁠Evermore
⁠By his Pow'r
Conquer Sin and Evil,
World, and Flesh, and Devil.

9.

All things must however turn
⁠To the best and ease us;
If to him we pray and mourn
⁠Thro' his dear Son Jesus;
⁠For ye know
⁠He'll bestow
On us Grace exceeding,
Thro' Christ's Interceding.

Still let's watch, and cry, and pray,
⁠And with hast prepare us;
Else the Evil Time and Day
⁠Quickly will ensnare us.
⁠God's Just Doom
⁠Is e'en come
To try ev'ry Creature;
And Dissolve all Nature