a

2 "Ye dying souls, that sit

"In darkness and distress, "Look from the borders of the pit, To my recovering grace.'

3 Sinners shall hear the sound;

Their thankful tongues shall own,
d "Our righteousness and strength is found
"In thee, the Lord alone."

4 In thee shall Israel trust,
And see their guilt forgiven;

o God will pronounce the sinners just,
And take the saints to heaven.]

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HYMN 86. C. M. Reading. [b]

God holy, just, and sovereign. Job ix. 2—10.
TOW shall the sons of Adam's race

H Be pure before their God!

If he contend in righteousness,

We fall beneath his rod.

2 To vindicate my words and thoughts,
I'll make no more pretence;
Not one of all my thousand faults
Can bear a just defence.

3 Strong is his arm, his heart is wise;
What vain presumers dare
Against their Maker's hand to rise,
Or tempt th' unequal war.

4 Mountains, by his almighty wrath,
From their old seats are torn:

He shakes the earth, from south to north,

And all her pillars mourn.

5 He bids the sun forbear to rise,

Th' obedient sun forbears;

His hand with sackcloth spreads the skies,
And seals up all the stars.

6 He walks upon the stormy sea;
Flies on the stormy wind:

There's none can trace his wondrous way,
Or his dark footsteps find.]

HYMN 87. L. M. Green's. Castle Street. [*]

God dwells with the Humble and Penitent. Isa. lvii.

TH

15, 16.

1 HUS saith the high and lofty One, "I sit upon my holy throne;

"My name is God; I dwell on high; "Dwell in my own eternity.

-2" But I descend to worlds below; "On earth, I have a mansion too:

e

"The humble spirit and contrite
"Is an abode of my delight.

-3 "The humble soul my words revive;
"I bid the mourning sinner live;
"Heal all the broken hearts I find,
"And ease the sorrows of the mind.

e 4 ("When I contend against their sin,
"I make them know how vile they've been;
a "But should my wrath forever smoke,
"Their souls would sink beneath my stroke."
05 O may thy pardoning grace be nigh,
Lest we should faint, despair and die!
-Thus shall our better thoughts approve
The methods of thy chastening love.)

HYMN 88. L. M. Armley. Bath. [b] Life, the Day of Grace and Hope. Eccl. ix. 4, 5, 6, 10. LIFE is the time to serve the Lord,

The time to insure the great reward;

And while the lamp holds out to burn,
The vilest sinner may return.

2 (Life is the hour that God has given,
To 'scape from hell and fly to heaven;
The day of grace ;-and mortals may
Secure the blessings of the day.)

p 3 The living know that they must die,
But all the dead forgotten lie:

Their memory, and their sense is gone,
Alike unknowing and unknown.

e 4 (Their hatred, and their love is lost,
Their envy buried in the dust;

They have no share in all that's done,
Beneath the circuit of the sun.)

-5 Then, what my thoughts design to do,
My hands, with all your might, pursue;

e Since no device, nor work is found,
Nor faith, nor hope, beneath the ground.
e 6 There are no acts of pardon past,

In the cold grave to which we haste;
a But darkness, death, and long despair,
Reign in eternal silence there.

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HYMN 89. L. M. Babylon. [b]
Youth and Judgment. Eccl. xi. 9.

E sons of Adam, vain and young,

YE

Indulge your eyes, indulge your tongue; Taste the delights your souls desire, And give a loose to all your fire.

2 Pursue the pleasures you design,

And cheer your hearts with songs and wine;
Enjoy the day of mirth ;—but know,

a There is a day of judgment too!

e 3 God from on high beholds your thoughts;
His book records your secret faults;
The works of darkness, you have done,
Must all appear before the sun.

4 The vengeance to your follies due Should strike your hearts with terror through: p How will you stand before his face, Or answer for his injured grace?

-5 Almighty God, turn off their eyes
From these alluring vanities;

o And let the thunder of thy word
A wake their souls to fear the Lord.

HYMN 90. C. M.

The same.

Windsor. [b]

10 the young tribes of Adam rise,
And through all nature rove;

Fulfill the wishes of their eyes,
And taste the joys they love.

2 They give a loose to wild desires;
But let the sinners know

The strict account that God requires,
Of all the works they do.

e 3 The Judge prepares his throne on high;

0

The frighted earth and seas

Avoid the fury of his eye,

And flee before his face.

p 4 How shall I bear that dreadful day,
And stand the fiery test?

I'd give all mortal joys away,
To be forever blest.]

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HYMN 91. L. M.

Geneva. [b]

Advice to Youth. Eccl. xii. 1, 7; Isa. lxv. 20.
TOW in the heat of youthful blood,

N Remember your Creator God;

e Behold the months come hastening on,
When you shall say-My joys are gone.
a 2 Behold the aged sinner goes,
Laden with guilt and heavy woes,
Down to the regions of the dead,
With endless curses on his head.
3 The dust returns to dust again;
The soul, in agonies of pain,

P

Ascends to God; not there to dwell,a But hears her doom, and sinks to hell. e 4 Eternal King, I fear thy name! Teach me to know how frail I am; -And when my soul must hence remove, Give me a mansion in thy love.

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HYMN 92. S. M. Dover. [*]

Christ the Wisdom of God. Prov. viii. 1, 22—32. HALL Wisdom cry aloud,

1

And not her speech be heard?

The voice of God's eternal Word,
Deserves it no regard?

2 "I was his chief delight,
"His everlasting Son,

"Before the first of all his works,-
"Creation, was begun.

3 ("Before the flying clouds,
"Before the solid land,

"Before the fields, before the floods,
"I dwelt at his right hand.

4" When he adorned the skies,
"And built them, I was there,
"To order when the sun should rise,
"And marshal every star.

5 "When he poured out the sea,
"And spread the flowing deep,

"I gave the flood a firm decree,
"In its own bounds to keep.)
6" Upon the empty air,

"The earth was balanced well; "With joy I saw the mansion, where "The sons of men should dwell.

7 "My busy thoughts at first,
"On their salvation ran,

"Ere sin was born, or Adam's dust
"Was fashioned to a man.

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8 "Then come, receive my grace,
"Ye children, and be wise;
Happy the man who keeps my ways,
"The man, who shuns them, dies."]

HYMN 93. L. M.

Christ obeyed or resisted.

TH

Islington. [* b]

Prov. viii. 34-36.

HUS saith the Wisdom of the Lord,
"Blest is the man, who hears my word;

"Keeps daily watch before my gates,

"And at my feet for mercy waits.

o 2"The soul that seeks me shall obtain "Immortal wealth, and heavenly gain; "Immortal life is his reward,

"Life, and the favour of the Lord.

e 3" But the vile wretch who flies from me, "Does his own soul an injury;

а Fools, who against my grace rebel,

"Seek death, and love the road to hell."

HYMN 94. C. M. Reading. [b *]

Justification; or, Law and Grace. Rom. iii. 19–22.

1

VAIN

AIN are the hopes, the sons of men
On their own works have built;

Their hearts by nature are unclean,

And all their actions guilt.

e 2 Let Jew and Gentile stop their mouths,
Without a murmuring word;

And the whole race of Adam stand
Guilty before the Lord.

-3 In vain we ask God's righteous law,
To justify us now;

Since to convince, and to condemn,
Is all the law can do.