6 With boldness, therefore, at the throne,
Let us make all our sorrows known;
And ask the aids of heavenly power
To help us in the evil hour.

210.

HEB. XI. 26.

1 My soul, with all thy waken'd powers survey the heavenly prize;

Nor let these glitt'ring toys of earth
allure thy wand'ring eyes..

2 The splendid crown which Moses chose, still beams around his brow;

While soon the king of Egypt's pride,
was taught by death to bow.

3 The joys and treasures of a day,
I cheerfully resign;
Rich in the everlasting store,
secur'd by grace divine.

4 Let fools my wiser choice deride,
angels and God approve;

Nor scorn of men, nor rage of hell,
my stedfast soul shall move.

5 With ardent eye, that bright reward
I daily will survey;

And, in the glorious prospect, lose

the sorrows of the way.

211.

HEB. xii. 1-13.

1 BEHOLD what witnesses unseen

encompass us around;

Men once like us with suff'ring tried, but now with glory crown'd.

2 Let us, with zeal like theirs inspir'd, begin the Christian race,

And, freed from each encumb'ring weight, their holy footsteps trace.

3 Behold a witness nobler still, who trod affliction's path,

Jesus, at once the finisher

and author of our faith.

4 He for the joy before him set,
so gen'rous was his love,
Endur'd the cross, despis'd the shame,
and now he reigns above.

5 If Christ the scorn of wicked men with patience did sustain; Becomes it those for whom he died, to murmur or complain?

6 Have ye, like him, to blood, to death,
the cause of God maintain'd?

And is your heavenly Father's voice
forgotten or disdain'd?

7 My son, saith he, with patient mind, endure the chast'ning rod; Believe, when by affliction tried, that thou art lov'd by God.

8 His children thus most dear to him, their heavenly Father trains, Through all the hard experience led of sorrows and of pains.

9 We know he owns us for his sons,
when we correction share;

Nor wander as an outcast race,
without our Father's care.

10 A father's voice with rev'rence we
on earth have often heard;
The Father of our spirits now
demands the same regard.

11 Parents may err; but he is wise,
nor lifts the rod in vain;

His chast'nings serve to cure the soul, by salutary pain.

12 Affliction, when it spreads around,
may seem a field of woe,

Yet there, at last, the happy fruits
of righteousness shall grow.

13 Then, let our hearts no more despond, our hands be weak no more;

Still let us trust our Father's love,

his wisdom still adore.

212.

HEB. xiii. 15, 16.

WE'LL proclaim the wondrous story

of the mercies we receive;
From the day-spring's dawning glory,
till the fading hour of eve.

2 All the blessings God is lending,
we'll extol in grateful lays;
To his radiant throne ascending,
wafted on the breath of praise.

3 In his blessed service joining,

we'll our happy days improve; Doing good with praise combining, living to the God of love.

213.

HEB. xiii. 17.

1 LET Zion's watchmen all awake,

and take th' alarm they give;

Now let them from the mouth of God
their solemn charge receive.

2 'Tis not a cause of small import
the pastor's care demands;

But what might fill an angel's heart,
and fill'd a Saviour's hands.

3 They watch for souls, for which the Lord did heavenly bliss forego,

For souls which must for ever live

in happiness or woe.

4 And, at the judgement-seat of Christ,
all their accounts must give;
With joy or grief unspeakable,
their sentence must receive.

5 May they that Jesus whom they preach, as their own Saviour see:

Lord! watch thou daily o'er their souls, that they may watch for thee.

214.

HEB. xiii. 20, 21.

1 FATHER of peace, and God of love! we own thy power to save,

That power by which our Shepherd rose victorious o'er the grave.

2 Him from the dead thou brought'st again, when by his sacred blood, Confirm'd and seal'd for evermore

th' eternal cov'nant stood,

3 O may thy Spirit seal our souls, and mould them to thy will,

That our weak hearts no more may stray, but keep thy precepts still;

4 That to perfection's sacred height,

we nearer still may rise,

And all we think, and all we do,

be pleasing in thine eyes.