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Unclouded beauty to the sight,
And rapture to the heart.

6 Her part in those fair realms of bliss,
My spirit longs to know;
My wishes terminate in this,
Nor can they rest below.

7 LORD! shall the breathings of my heart
Aspire in vain to thee?

Confirm my hope, that, where thou art,
I shall for ever be.

8 Then shall my cheerful spirit sing
The darksome hours away,

And rise on faith's expanded wing
To everlasting day,

STEELE.

538 C. M. Abridge 201. David's 186.
Complaint and Hope under great Pain.

1 TORD! I am pain'd, but I resign
My body to thy will!
"Tis grace, 'tis wisdom all divine,
Appoints the pains I feel.

2 Dark are the ways of providence,
While they who love thee groan.
Thy reasons lie conceal'd from sense,
Mysterious and unknown.

3 Yet nature may have leave to speak,
And plead before her GoD,

Lest the o'erburden'd heart should break
Beneath thine heavy rod.

4 These mournful groans and flowing tears
Give my poor spirit ease;
While every groan my Father hears,
And every tear he sees.

5 [How shall I glorify my GoD,
In bonds of grief confin'd?

Damp'd is my vigour while this clod
Hangs heavy on my mind.]

6 Is not some smiling hour at hand
With peace upon its wings?
Give it, O God! thy swift command,
With all the joys it brings.

DR. WATTS.

539 C. M. Windsor 247. London 180.

For a Time of general Sickness.

1 DEATH, with his dread commission seal'd, Now hastens to his arms :

In awful state he takes the field,
And sounds his dire alarms.

2 Attendant plagues around him stand,
And wait his dread command;
And pains and dying groans obey
The signal of his hand.

3 With cruel force he scatters round
His shafts of deadly power;

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While the grave waits its destin'd prey, (12 Impatient to devour.

4 Look up, ye heirs of endless joy,

Nor let your fears prevail ;

Eternal life is your reward,

When life on earth shall fail.

5 What tho' his darts, promiscuous hurl'd,
Deal fatal plagues around;

And heaps of putrid carcasses
O'erload the cumber'd ground;

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6 The arrows that shall wound your flesh,'
Were given him from above,
Dipt in the great Redeemer's blood,
And feather'd all with love.

7 These with a gentle hand he throws,
And saints lie gasping too;

But heavenly strength supports their souls,
And bears them conquerors thro'.

8 Joyful they stretch their wings abroad,
And all in triumph rise,

Unclouded beauty to the sight,
And rapture to the heart.

6 Her part in those fair realms of bliss,
My spirit longs to know;
My wishes terminate in this,

Nor can they rest below.

7 LORD! shall the breathings of my heart
Aspire in vain to thee?

Confirm my hope, that, where thou art,
I shall for ever be.

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8 Then shall my cheerful spirit sing
The darksome hours away,
And rise on faith's expanded wing
To everlasting day,

STEELE.

538 C. M. Abridge 201. David's 186. Complaint and Hope under great Pain.

1 LORD! I am pain'd, but I resign
My body to thy will!

'Tis grace, 'tis wisdom all divine,
Appoints the pains I feel.

2 Dark are the ways of providence,
While they who love thee groan.
Thy reasons lie conceal'd from sense,
Mysterious and unknown.

3 Yet nature may have leave to speak,
And plead before her GoD,

Lest the o'erburden'd heart should break
Beneath thine heavy rod.

4 These mournful groans and flowing tears
Give my poor spirit ease;

While

every groan my Father hears,
And every tear he sees.

5 [How shall I glorify my GoD,
In bonds of grief confin'd?
Damp'd is my vigour while this clod
Hangs heavy on my mind.]

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6 Is not some smiling hour at hand
With peace upon its wings?
Give it, O GOD! thy swift command,
With all the joys it brings.

DR. WATTS.

539 C. M. Windsor 247. London 180.

For a Time of general Sickness.

1 DEATH, with his dread commission seal'd,

Now hastens to his arms:

In awful state he takes the field,
And sounds his dire alarms.

2 Attendant plagues around him stand,
And wait his dread command;
And pains and dying groans obey
The signal of his hand.

3 With cruel force he scatters round
His shafts of deadly power;

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While the grave waits its destin'd prey, 13 Impatient to devour.

4 Look up, ye heirs of endless joy, Nor let your fears prevail;

Eternal life is your reward,

When life on earth shall fail.

5 What tho' his darts, promiscuous hurl'd, Deal fatal plagues around;

And heaps of putrid carcasses

O'erload the cumber'd ground;

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6 The arrows that shall wound your flesh,
Were given him from above,
Dipt in the great Redeemer's blood,
And feather'd all with love.

7 These with a gentle hand he throws,
And saints lie gasping too;

But heavenly strength supports their souls,
And bears them conquerors thro'.

8 Joyful they stretch their wings abroad,
And all in triumph rise,

To the fair palace of their Gon,,

And mansions in the skies.

LEECH.

540 (1st P.) S. M. Harborough 142. Stoke 207.

Submission under Affliction.

1 DOST thou my profit seek,

And chasten as a friend?

O GOD! I'll kiss the smarting rod,
There's honey at the end.

2 Dost thou thro' death's dark vale
Conduct to heaven at last?

The future good will make amends
For all the evil past.

3 LORD! I would not repine poleic a
At strokes in mercy sent;

If the chastisement comes in love,
My soul shall be content.

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BEDDONE.

540 (2d P.) 8s. Limefield 94. New Jer. 230.

For a Sick Chamber,

Written when deprived by Sickness of attending Public

Worship.it ..

1 THE fabric of nature is fair,
But fairer the temple of grace;
To saints 'tis the joy of the earth,
The most glorious and beautiful place.
2 To this temple I once did resort,
With crowds of the people of GOD:
Enraptur'd we enter'd his courts,
-And hail'd the Redeemer's abode.
3 The Father of mercies we prais'd,
And prostrated low at his throne;
The Saviour we lov'd and ador'd,
Who lov'd us and made us his own.
4 Full oft to the message of peace,
To sinners address'd from the sky,
We listen'd extolling that grace,
Which set us, once rebels, on high.

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