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

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

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15, 16.

THU
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."
o 5 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,

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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.

HYMN 89. L. M.

YE

Youth and Judgment.

Babylon. [b]

Eccl. xi. 9.

sons of Adam, vain and young, 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.]

HYMN 91. L. M. Geneva. [b]

Advice to Youth. Eccl. xii. 1, 7; Isa. lxv. 20.

NOW in the heat of youthful blood, 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,

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.

HYMN 92. S. M.

Dover. [*]

Christ the Wisdom of God. Prov. viii. 1, 22--32.

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SHALL Wisdom

cry aloud,

And not her speech be heard?

The voice of God's eternal Word,

Deserves it no regard?

d 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.

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

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HYMN 93. L. M.

Christ obeyed or resisted.

TH

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;

a "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.

AIN are the hopes, the sons of men

1 VAIN

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.

o 4 Jesus, how glorious is thy grace,
When in thy name we trust!
Our faith receives a righteousness
That makes the sinner just.

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IIYMN 95. C. M. St. Martin's. [*]

Regeneration. John i. 13, and iii. 3, &c.

OT all the outward forms on earth,

NOT

Nor rites that God has given,

Nor will of man, nor blood, nor birth,
Can raise a soul to heaven.

2 The sovereign will of God alone
Creates us heirs of grace;

Born in the image of his Son,
A new, peculiar race.

b 3 The Spirit, like some heavenly wind,
Blows on the sons of flesh;
New models all the carnal mind,
And forms the man afresh.

o 4 Our quickened souls awake, and rise
From the long sleep of death:

o On heavenly things we fix our eyes, And praise employs our breath.

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HYMN 96. C. M.

York. [b]

Election excludes Boasting. 1 Cor. i. 26–31.

B But few of noble race,

UT few among the carnal wise,

Obtain the favour of thine eyes,
Almighty King of grace.

2 He takes the men of meanest name,
For sons and heirs of God;

And thus he pours abundant shame
On honourable blood.

3 He calls the fool, and makes him know
The mysteries of his grace;

To bring aspiring wisdom low,
And all its pride abase.

4 Nature has all its glories lost,
When brought before his throne;
No flesh shall in his presence boast,
But in the Lord alone.]