3 Assure my conscience of her part And bear thy witness with my heart, 4 Thou art the earnest of his love, Hebrews iv, 9. (c. M.) 1 THERE is a land of pure delight, 2 There everlasting spring abides, 3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, 4 But tim'rous mortals, start and shrink, To cross this narrow sea, And linger shiv'ring on the brink, 5 Oh! could we make our doubts remove, 6 Could we but climb where Moses stood, Not Jordan's streams, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore. 9 Isaiah lxiv, 6. (P. M.) 1 SEE the leaves around us falling, 2 "If on length of days presuming, Then your winter comes at last." E 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, 10 Psalm xiii, 5. (c. M.) 1 SALVATION! oh! the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears: A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, 2 Buried in sorrow and in sin, 3 Salvation! let the echo fly, 11 The spacious earth around, Isaiah xxvi, 1-7. (c. M.) 1 HOW glorious Zion's courts appear, His throne he hath establish'd here, 2 Its walls, defended by his grace, 3 Lift up the everlasting gates, 4 Here shall ye taste unmingled joys, Ye, who have known Jehovah's name, 5 Trust in the Lord, for ever trust, Strength in the Lord Jehovah dwells, 12 Isaiah lx, 15. (P. M.) 1 HEAR what God, the Lord, hath spoken! 2 Thorns of heartfelt tribulation Shall no more perplex your ways; 3 Ye, no more your suns descending, 4 God shall rise, and shining o'er ye, 13 Mark iv, 41. (P. M.) 1 WHY those fears? behold-'tis Jesus 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, 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. |