Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By John Mason (1646?–1694)The Peace of God
| THE WORLD can neither give nor take, | |
| Nor can they comprehend | |
| The peace of God which Christ has bought, | |
| The peace which knows no end. | |
| The burning bush was not consumed | 5 |
| Whilst God remainèd there; | |
| The three, when Jesus made the fourth, | |
| Found fire as soft as air. | |
| God’s furnace doth in Zion stand; | |
| But Zion’s God sits by, | 10 |
| As the refiner views his gold | |
| With an observant eye. | |
| His thoughts are high, His love is wise, | |
| His wounds a cure intend; | |
| And though He does not always smile, | 15 |
| He loves unto the end. | |