Sinners, your proud presumption check, And stop your wild career. 7 Now is th' accepted time; To Christ for mercy fly: And you shall never die. Prepare us for that day ; To watch, and wait, a id pray. ADDITIONAL HYMNS. Hymn 327. P. M. As strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. 1 Pet ii ii. 1 HOW COW happy is the pilgrim's lot, How fre: from every auxions thought, From worldly hope and fear! Coutin'd to neither court nor cell, His soul disdains on earth to dwell; He only sojourns here. From every creature love! Aud seeks the things above. of those that basely paat For things by nature felt and seen; I neither have nor want. For nine I humbly claim: Temples divine, of living stones, Inscrib'd with Jesa's nanie. á No foot of land do I possess; No cottage in the wilderness; A poor way-faring man; Till I my Çanaan gain. Hymn 328. P. M. YUNG 1 men and maidens, raise The Lord of earth and sky: Extol to all eternity. 2 The universal King Let all the world proclaim! His attributes and name! Аа 3 fo his great name alone • All excellencies meet; And shall for ever sit: Glory to God be given, Of all in earth and heaven: Hymn 329. C, M. that is beyond Jordan. Deut. jii. 25. ON Jordan's stormy banks I stand, a To Canaan's fair and bappy land, Where my possessions lie. That rises to my sight! And rivers of delight! Oa trees immortal grow : With milk and honey flow. Shines one eternal day: There God the Sun for ever reigos, And scatters night away. 5 No chilling winds nor pois'nous breath, Can reach that healthful shore; Sickness and sorrow, pain and death, Are felt and fear'd do more. And be for ever blest? And in his bosom rest? Would bere no longer stay! Fearless I'd launch away. Our spirits ne'er shall tire; But iu perpetual, joyful strains, Redeeining love adinire. For what is your life? it is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time. James iv. 14. 1 Myspan of life will soon be done, The passing moments say; Proclaim the close of day. From all created things, Whence truc contentment springs! Courage, my soul, thy bitter cross, In every trial here, But shall not enter there In sorrowing paths below, Wbere endless comforts flow. Of sublunary care, This anxious breast ensnare. Deliv'rance soon will come: To bring believers home. From nature's prison free, Were written, Lord, for me. Hast led me kindly on; On Christ, the corner-stone. 5 So comforted, and so sustain'd, With dark events I strove, All messengers of love: Ador'd a chast’ning God, |