William Cowper (Уильям Купер)

Olney Hymn 35. Welcome Cross

    'Tis my happiness below
        Not to live without the cross, 
    But the Saviour's power to know,
        Sanctifying every loss; 
    Trials must and will befall;
        But with humble faith to see 
    Love inscribed upon them all,
        This is happiness to me.

    God in Israel sows the seeds
        Of affliction, pain, and toil; 
    These spring up and choke the weeds
        Which would else o'erspread the soil: 
    Trials make the promise sweet,
        Trials give new life to prayer; 
    Trials bring me to His feet,
        Lay me low, and keep me there.

    Did I meet no trials here,
        No chastisement by the way, 
    Might I not with reason fear
        I should prove a castaway? 
    Bastards may escape the rod,
        Sunk in earthly vain delight; 
    But the true-born child of God
        Must not -- would not, if he might. 

1. Olney Hymn 4. Jehovah-Nissi. The Lord My Banner
2. Olney Hymn 17. The House of Prayer
3. Olney Hymn 13. The Covenant
4. An Ode, on Reading Mr. Richardson's History of Sir Charles Grandison
5. Olney Hymn 55. The Heart Healed and Changed by Mercy

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