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LXXXIX. Youth and Judgment, XI.
• Ecclef, xi-9.bui

E Sons of Adam, vain and young,

Y Indulge your Eyes, indulge your Tongue;

Tafte the Delights your Souls defife, bu
And give aloofe to all your Firegli

2 Purfae the Pleasures you design,itsi oli 1 s7 And cheer your Hearts with Songsand Wine; Enjoy the Day of Mirth; but know,T There is a Day of Judgment tool and 3 Gon from on high beholds your Thoughts £ His Book records your fecret Faults

The Works of Darkness you have done T Must all. appear before the Sun...no HA 4 The Veng'ance to your Follies due,

T Should ftrike (your Hearts with Terror thro': How will ye ftand before his Face, Or anfwer for his injur'd Grace?

5 Almighty Go, turn off their Eyes From thefe alluring Vanities:

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And let the Thunder of thy Word
Awake their Souls to fear the LORD.

XC. The Same.

O, the young Tribes of Adam rife,
And thro' all Nature sove,

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Fulfil the Wishes of their Eyes, And tafte the Joys they Love. 2 They give a loofe to wild Defires; But let the Sinners know, The ftri&t Account that God requires Of all the Works they do, sa 3 The Judge prepares his Throne on high, The frighted Earth and Seas Avoid the Fury of his Eye,

And flee before his Face,

4 How fhall I bear that dreadful Day, And ftand the fiery Teft?

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I give all mortal Joys away;
To be for ever bleft.

XCI. Advice to Youth: or, "Old Age and

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Death in an unconverted fate
Ecclef. xii. 1, 7. Ifa. Ixv. 23.

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NOW in the Heat of youthful Blood,

Remember your Creator, GoD,

Behold, the Months come haft'ning on, When you fhall fay, My. Joys are gone. 2 Behold, the aged Sinner goes, bank Laden with Guilt and heavy Woes, Down to the Regions of the Dead, With endless Curfes on his Head. 3 The Duft returns to Duft agains The Soul, in Agonies of Pain

Afcends to Gón; not there to dwell,
But hears her Doom and finks to Hell.

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.

XCII. CHRIST the Wifdom of GOD1

Prov. viii. 1, 22-32.

HALL Wisdom cry aloud,"
And not her Speech be heard

The Voice of God's eternal Word,
Deferves it no Regard?

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

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

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"Before the flying Clouds,
Before the folid Land,

"Before the Fields, before the Floods,
" I dwelt at his right Hand..

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"When He adorn'd the Skics, "And built them, I was there, "To order when the Sun fhould rise, "And marshal ev'ry Star.

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"When he pour'd out the Sea, And fpread the flowing Deep; "I gave the Flood a firm Decree, "In its own Bounds to keep.]

6" Upon the empty Air

"The Earth was balanc'd well;" "With Joy I faw the Mansion where "The Sons of Men should dwell. 7" My bufy Thoughts at firft "On their Salvation ran,

"Ere Sin was born, or Adam's Dust "Was fashion'd to a Man.

8" Then come, receive my Grace, "Ye Children, and be wife; "Happy the Man that keeps my Ways, "The Man that fhuns them dies."

XCIII. CHRIST, or Wifdom, obeyed or refifted, Prov. viii. 34-36.

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HUS faith the Wisdom of the LORD, "Blcfs'd is the Man that hears myWord; "Keeps daily Watch before my Gates, "And at my Feet for Mercy waits.

2 "The Soul that feeks me fhall obtain
"Immortal Wealth and heav'nly Gain;
"Immortal Life is his Reward,

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"Life, and the Favour of the LORD.

"But the vile Wretch that flies from me,
"Doth his own Soul an Injury;

"Fools that against my Grace rebel,
"Seck Death, and love the Road to Hell".

XCIV. Juftification by Faith, not by Works: or, The Law Condemns, Grace Juflifies, Rom. iii. 19-29.

1 AIN are the Hopes the Sons of Men On their own Works have built;

Their Hearts by Nature all unclean,
And all their Actions Guilt.

2 Let Jew and Gentile ftop their Mouths, 3 Without a murm'ring Word,

And the whole Race of Adam stand
Guilty before the LORD...

3 In vain we afk God's righteous Law
To justify us now, some
Since to convince and to condemn
Is all the Law can do.'

4 JESUS, how glorious is thy Grace!
When in thy Name we truft,
Our Faith receives a Righteousness
That makes the Sinner juft.

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XCV. Regeneration, John i. 13. and
malanding,
poxiii.g, &c.

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TOT all the outward Forms on Earth, Nor Rites that God has giv'n, Nor Will of Man, nor Blood, nor Birth, Can raife a Soul to Heav'n.

2 The foy'reign Will of Gop alone Creates us Heirs of Grace;