A Hymn to God the Father
Hear
me,
O
God!
A
broken
heart
Is
my
best
part.
Use
still
thy
rod,
That
I
may
prove
Therein
thy
Love.
If
thou
hadst
not
Been
stern
to
me,
But
left
me
free,
I
had
forgot
Myself
and
thee.
For
sin's
so
sweet,
As
minds
ill-bent
Rarely
repent,
Until
they
meet
Their
punishment.
Who
more
can
crave
Than
thou
hast
done?
That
gav'st
a
Son,
To
free
a
slave,
First
made
of
nought;
With
all
since
bought.
Sin,
Death,
and
Hell
His
glorious
name
Quite
overcame,
Yet
I
rebel
And
slight
the
same.
But
I'll
come
in
Before
my
loss
Me
farther
toss,
As
sure
to
win
Under
His
cross.
Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson (born June 11?, 1572, London, England—died August 6, 1637, London) English Stuart dramatist, lyric poet, and literary critic. He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I. Among his major plays are the comedies Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone (1605), Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman (1609), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614). Ben Jonson died in Westminster on August 8, 1637. A tremendous crowd of mourners attended his burial at Westminster Abbey. He is regarded as one of the major dramatists and poets of the seventeenth century.