Come, let us search our ways, and try

Verse 1

Come, let us search our ways and try; Have they been just and right? Is the great rule of equity Our practice and delight?

Verse 2

What we would have our neighbor do, Have we still done the same? From others ne'er withheld the due, Which we from others claim?

Verse 3

Have we ne'er envied others' good, Nor envied others' praise? In no man's path malignant stood, Nor us'd detraction's ways?

Verse 4

Have we not, deaf to his request, Turn'd from another's woe? The scorn, which wrings the suff'rer's heart, Have we abhorr'd to whew?

Verse 5

Then may we raise our modest pray'r To God, the just and kind; May humbly cast on him our care, And hope his grace to find.

Verse 6

Religion's path they never trod, Who equity contemn; Nor ever are they just to God, Who prove unjust to men.