644    11s     W. Gadsby
“Watch and be sober.” 1 Thess. 5. 6; 1 Pet. 5. 8

1 Watch, watch, and be sober, ye children of God;
  Your wonderful Lover has bought you with blood;
  Your Husband and Saviour for you gave his life;
  Then be your behaviour becoming his wife.

2 O watch against trusting to your native strength;
  Behold Peter boasting, but o’ercome at length;
  Your strength will forsake you, and leave you to fall,
  Unless the Lord make you to trust him for all.

3 Treat all as deceivers that lead not to Christ;
  As holy believers, rely on your Priest;
  Watch ye against sleeping, and stand to your post,
  Lest you should go weeping, while Canaanites boast.

4 By awful temptations attacked and distressed,
  Though thousand vexations each moment molest,
  Yet watch against falling, and yield not to doubt,
  On Christ your Lord calling, your foes you shall rout.