From the Scots

"Here is the spring where waters flow,
To quench our heat of sin:
Here is the tree where truth doth grow,
To lead our lives therein:
Here is the judge that stints the strife,
When men’s devices fail:
Here is the bread that feeds the life
That death cannot assail.
The tidings of salvation dear,
Comes to our ears hence:
The fortress of our faith is here,
And shield of defense.
Then be not like the swing that hath
A pearl at his desire,
And takes more pleasure from the trough
And wallowing in the mire.
Read not this book in any case.
But with a single eye:
Read not but first God’s grace,
To understand thereby.
Pray still in faith with this respect,
To bear good fruit therein,
That knowledge may bring this effect,
To mortify you sin.
Then happy you shall be in all you life,
What so to you befalls:
Yes, double happy you shall be,
When God by death you calls."

(From the first Bible printed in Scotland – 1676)
Taken from the MacArthur Study Bible c .1997 – John MacArthur