Ο ANOTHER. That I was as heretofore, I only lived my LORD t'adore, 2. Upon my Head His Candle fhone, With Cords of Love He drew me on, 3. Butter and Honey did I eat, I faw the Clouds beneath my Feet, 4. Far, far above all Earthly Things I foar'd to Heaven on Eagle's Wings, 5. Where am I now! from what an Height And faded is the Crown. 6. My first Estate I could not keep, Implung'd in Sin's profoundest Deep, 7. Forlorn, forfaken, and alone, 8. Ah! woe is me! my Joy is fled, My My Hope cut off, my Life is dead, 9. Thro' the wide World of Sin and Woe: A banish'd Man I roam, But cannot find my Reft below, But cannot wander Home. 10. O GOD, Thou art my Home, my Reft, 11. Vengeance Divine is always near ; I fee the Cherubim appear, 12. When longing oft to be reftor'd, Thine Anger, as a Flaming Sword, 13. What shall I do? 'Tis worfe than Death To live without Thy Grace : I yield, I yield Thee up my Breath, So I may fee Thy Face. 14. A Sinner in Thy Hands I am,. But rufh upon that Sword of Flame, 15. Nothing, alas! have I to plead, Yet if Thy Juftice ftrike me dead, 16. This is the Way to find my LORD, Thy felf haft made it known, Be Be it according to Thy Word: 17. Slay me, and I fhall live indeed, From all the Life of Nature freed, In Love's fweet Paradise. 18. Now, LORD, Thy Death, Thy Life bring While at Thy Feet I bow, Enter at once, and caft out Sin, Destroy, and fave me Now. "L° After a RECOVERY. ORD, and is Thine Anger gone, After all that I have done, 2. Let it ftill my 'Heart conftrain, Charm, and melt, and change my Will, 3. If I have begun once more [in Still, and quiet may I lie, 4. To Thy Crofs, Thy Altar, bind From my dear LORD to move; May with my much-lov'd Master part, 5. See my utter Helplesness, And feal me for Thine own; More, and more Thy felf reveal. Thy Prefence let me always find, Comfort, and confirm, and heal My feeble, Sin-fick Mind. 6. As the Apple of an Eye Thy weakest Servant keep, i 7. Now I feem to tafte Thy Love If Thou once withdraw Thy Hand, I fink into the Deep. 8. Now, 8. Now, this inftant Now, if Sin And bid my LORD depart; I. SON ANOTHER ON of GOD, if Thy Free Grace Call'd me ftill to feek Thy Face, And never let me s ego. ཙ 2. Feebly if I now begin My Worst of Enemies; f And caufe me All Thy Power to know; 3. By me, O my Saviour, ftand In fore Temptation's Hour, Save me with Thine out-ftretch'd Hand, Thine All-fufficient Grace beftow; 4. Give me, LORD, an holy Fear, And fix it in my Heart, That I may from Evil near H |