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On the Death of two Friends.

S. M.

GRACE taught our friends to know
What rebels they had been;

"Twas grace redeem'd them from their woe,
And made their conscience clean.

2 Grace taught them to commune

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With Christ the Lamb once slain;
To hate the sins that made him mourn,
And put his soul to pain.

Grace taught their souls to sing,

Salvation through his blood;

Through grace they loved him as their King,
Their Saviour, and their God.

Grace must and will relieve,
From such a waste as this,
All souls that in the Lord believe,
And take them to his bliss.

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Last Judgment.-2 Thess. i. 7, 8

WITH great and awful power,
Jesus, the Judge, shall come,
To bid his foes depart,

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And take his children home:
How will the wicked quake and fear,
When they before him must appear.

2 [He comes, the world to judge,
Nor will he take a bribe;

His wrath none can escape,
But his beloved bride:

2 What tho' your sins like mountains on you fall, And God's just law with terror fills your soul, Jehovah Jesus is the sinner's Friend,

And he has answer'd all the law's demand.

3 'Tis true, in self you have no ground for joy, Nor can you hope the law to satisfy;

But Jesus' blood has full atonement made,
And faith therein will make the conscience glad.
4 Here sinners, black as hell, obtain relief;
A filthy Mary, and a dying thief;

And guilty I, though vile as they could be, Have proved his mercy, sovereign, rich, and free.

670.

"Without me ye can do nothing."-John xv. 5.

UNITED to Jesus, the vine,

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We've life, strength, and righteousness too; But this he will teach us in time, Without him we nothing can do: Our hope of performing what's right, And strictly obeying our God, If not wholly built on his might, Will leave us exposed to his rod. 2 Unless he uphold by his grace, We sink under Satan and sin, And plunge into shame and disgrace, Nor can we deliverance obtain; We neither can hope nor believe, Nor pray in a time of distress, But as we from Jesus receive The fruits of his own righteousness.

PART III.

SUPPLEMENT.

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671.

Approaching a Holy God.

How shall I come to thee,
O God, who holy art,
And cannot evil see

But with a loathing heart!
I am defil'd throughout by sin,
And by my very birth unclean.

148th.

Soon as my heart could beat, It drank in various woe; Pride, lust, and self-deceit, Through all its channels flow; A captive born, a child of earth, It knows and craves no higher birth

From this polluted spring

All filthy waters rise;
From this diseased thing
I date my maladies:

My heart a most degenerate root,
Produceth only canker'd fruit.

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And what can wash me clean
But Jesus' precious blood?

This only purgeth sin,

And bringeth nigh to God;

Lord, wash my sores, and heal them too,
And all my leprosy subdue.

Thy heavenly image draw
Upon my panting heart,
And well engrave thy law
Upon the inward part;

My soul in mercy upward raise,

And teach me how to love and praise.

672.

Spiritual Longing.

148th.

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JESUS, I long for thee,

And sigh for Canaan's shore,

Thy lovely face to see,

And all my warfare o'er;

Here billows break upon my breast,
And brooding sorrows steal my rest.

I mourn to see thy blood

So foully trampled on;
And sinners, daring God,

To swift destruction run;

With heedless heart and simpering face, They dance the hell-ward road apace.

I pant, I groan, I grieve

For my untoward heart;
How full of doubts I live,

Though full of grace thou art:

PART III.

SUPPLEMENT.

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671.

Approaching a Holy God.

How shall I come to thee,
O God, who holy art,
And cannot evil see

But with a loathing heart!
I am defil'd throughout by sin,
And by my very birth unclean.

148th.

Soon as my heart could beat, It drank in various woe; Pride, lust, and self-deceit, Through all its channels flow; A captive born, a child of earth, It knows and craves no higher birth

From this polluted spring

All filthy waters rise;
From this diseased thing

I date my maladies:

My heart a most degenerate root,
Produceth only canker'd fruit.