3 Assure my conscience of her part
In the Redeemer's blood;

And bear thy witness with my heart,
That I am born of God.

4 Thou art the earnest of his love,
The pledge of joys to come;
And thy soft wings, celestial dove,
Will safe convey me home.

Hebrews iv, 9. (c. M.)

1 THERE is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign:
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.

2 There everlasting spring abides,
And never with'ring flow'rs:
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heav'nly land from ours.

3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood,
Stand dress'd in living green ;
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan roll'd between.

4 But tim'rous mortals, start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea,

And linger shiv'ring on the brink,
And fear to launch away.

5 Oh! could we make our doubts remove,
These gloomy doubts that rise,
And see the Canaan that we love,
With unbeclouded eyes.

6 Could we but climb where Moses stood,
And view the landscape o'er,

Not Jordan's streams, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.

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Isaiah lxiv, 6. (P. M.)

1 SEE the leaves around us falling,
Dry and wither'd to the ground:
Thus to thoughtless mortals calling,
In their rustling solemn sound:
"Sons of Adam, your first father,
Who in Eden blighted fell,
Listen, and instruction gather,
Profit by the truths we tell.

2 "If on length of days presuming,
Think how soon our course has fled:
We were lately fresh and blooming,
Now are wither'd, dry, and dead:
Your short course, like our's, is flying,
Youth's gay spring, how soon 'tis past!
Summer next, in autumn dying:

Then your winter comes at last."

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3 Cease we then, vain hopes to nourish, Let us to the refuge fly,

Since like leaves we rise and flourish,

And like leaves must droop and die ;

But to those in Jesus planted

By a true and living faith,
Shall unfading life be granted,
And full triumph over death.

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Psalm xiii, 5. (c. M.)

1 SALVATION! oh! the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears:

A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound,
A cordial for our fears.

2 Buried in sorrow and in sin,
At hell's dark door we lay,
But we arise, by grace divine,
To see a heav'nly day.

3 Salvation! let the echo fly,

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The spacious earth around,
While all the armies of the sky
Conspire to raise the sound.

Isaiah xxvi, 1-7. (c. M.)

1 HOW glorious Zion's courts appear,
The city of our God!

His throne he hath establish'd here,
Here fix'd his lov'd abode.

2 Its walls, defended by his grace,
No pow'r shall e'er o'erthrow;
Salvation is its bulwark sure,
Against th' assailing foe.

3 Lift up the everlasting gates,
The doors wide open fling;
Enter, ye nations, who obey
The statutes of our King.

4 Here shall ye taste unmingled joys,
And dwell in perfect peace,

Ye, who have known Jehovah's name,
And trusted in his grace.

5 Trust in the Lord, for ever trust,
And banish all your fears;

Strength in the Lord Jehovah dwells,
Eternal as his years.

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Isaiah lx, 15. (P. M.)

1 HEAR what God, the Lord, hath spoken!
O my people, faint and few,
Comfortless, afflicted, broken,
Fair abodes I build for you.

2 Thorns of heartfelt tribulation

Shall no more perplex your ways;
Ye shall name your walls salvation,
And your gates shall all be praise.

3 Ye, no more your suns descending,
Waning moons no more shall see;
But, your griefs for ever ending,
Find eternal noon in me.

4 God shall rise, and shining o'er ye,
Change to day the gloom of night;
He, the Lord, shall be your glory,
God, your everlasting light.

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Mark iv, 41. (P. M.)

1 WHY those fears? behold-'tis Jesus
Holds the helm, and guides the ship;
Spread the sails, and catch the breezes,
Sent to waft us through the deep,
To the regions

Where the mourners cease to weep.

2 Though the shore we hope to land on, Only by report is known;

Yet we freely all abandon,
Led by that report alone;
And with Jesus

Through the trackless deep move on.

3 Render'd safe by his protection, We shall pass the wat'ry waste:

Trusting to his wise direction,

We shall gain the port at last :

And with wonder

Think on toils and dangers past.