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George Herbert - The Holdfast
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I threatned to observe the strict decree 
     Of my deare God with all my power and might: 
     But I was told by one, it could not be; 
Yet I might trust in God to be my light.

Then will I trust, said I, in him alone.
     Nay, ev`n to trust in him, was also his: 
     We must confesse, that nothing is our own.
Then I confesse that he my succour is:

But to have nought is ours, not to confesse 
     That we have nought.  I stood amaz`d at this, 
     Much troubled, till I heard a friend expresse, 
That all things were more ours by being his. 
     What Adam had, and forfeited for all, 
     Christ keepeth now, who cannot fail or fall.
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