Page:Elegy on the much lamented death, of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Monteith, late Minister of the Gospel in Dunse, who departed this life the 22d of May, 1787.pdf/3

 Two pretty girls he's left behind,

In grief; and doth ſmall comfort find;

Their father's gone, and motherleſs,

So that they are in great diſtreſs.

To ſuch there is a promiſe ſure,

Left on record, and will procure;

Great comfort in the afflictive rod,

I'll be your father and your God.

His doctrine was both pure and found

And did with goſpel truths abound:

The word he rightly did divide,

And by it ſtill he did abide.

He preached Jeſus Chriſt the Lord,

As it is in his holy word:

Yea, Jeſus and him crucify'd,

Were moſt the ſubjects which he ey'd

The texts moſt ſuitable he choſe,

And did diſtinguiſh friends from foes,

Yea, he ſet forth in every caſe;

The counter ſits, from babes of grace.

Sometimes he thundred Moſes law,

To make proud rebels ſtand in awe;

And then he ſhow'd the goſpel grace,

That ſhineth bright in Jeſus face.

He open'd that quick and powerful word,

Sharper than any two edg'd ſword;

'Tween joints and marrow doth divide,

From which no ſecret we can hide.

By many arguments moſt fit,

He always ſtrove the mark to hit;

The bow he ſtill drew at a venture,

That piercing arrows in might enter.