312    S.M.     J. Hart
Temptation. Matt. 4. 3-10; 1 Cor. 10. 13; Heb. 4. 15

1 Ye tempted souls, reflect
  Whose name ‘tis you profess;
  Your Master’s lot you must expect –
  Temptations more or less.

2 Dream not of faith so clear
  As shuts all doubtings out;
  Remember how the devil dared
  To tempt e’en Christ to doubt.

3 [“If thou’rt the Son of God,”
  (O what an IF was there!)
  “These stones here, speak them into food,
  And make that Sonship clear.”]

4 [View that amazing scene!
  Say, could the tempter try
  To shake a tree so sound, so green?
  Good God, defend the dry!]

5 Think not he now will fail
  To make us shrink and droop;
  Our faith he daily will assail,
  And dash our every hope.

6 [That impious IF he thus
  At God incarnate threw,
  No wonder if he cast at us,
  And make us feel it too.]

7 To cause despair’s the scope
  Of Satan and his powers;
  Against hope to believe in hope,
  My brethren, must be ours.

8 Buts, ifs, and hows are hurled
  To sink us with the gloom
  Of all that’s dismal in this world,
  Or in the world to come.

9 But here’s our point of rest:
  Though hard the battle seem,
  Our Captain stood the fiery test,
  And we shall stand through him.