3 Bound by his word, he will display
A strength proportion'd to our day:
And, when united trials meet,
Will show a path of safe retreat.
4 Thus far we prove that promise good,
Which JESUS ratified with blood:
Still he is gracious, wise, and just ;
And still in him let Israel trust:

DR. DODDRIDGE.

306 (2d P.) 7s. Bath Abbey 147. Alcester 213.

Welcoming the Cross; or, Trials sanctified.

1 "TIS my blessedness below

Not to live without the cross;
But the Saviour's power to know
Sanctifying every loss:
Trials must and will befall;
...But with humble faith to see
Love inscrib'd upon them all-
This is happiness to me,

2 GOD, in Israel, sows the seeds
Of affliction, pain and toil;

These spring up, and choke the weeds
Which would else o'erspread the soil;
Trials make the promise sweet;

Trials give new life to pray'r;
Trials bring me to his feet,

Lay me low, and keep me there.
3 Did I meet no trials here→

No chastisement by the way-
Might I not, with reason, fear
I should prove a cast-away?
Bastards may escape the rod,*
Sunk in earthly vain delight;
But the true-born child of God
Must not-would not if he might.

Heb. xii. 8.

COWPER.

306 (3d P.) S. M. Wirksworth 158. Eagle

Street New 55.

Call upon me in the day of trouble, I will deliver thée, &e. Psalm 1. 15.-2 Chron. xv, 4,

307

"The Christian man is never long at ease,
When one fright's gone, another doth bim seize."

1 THE troubles of the Saint

2

3

Are constant as his days,

And when in trouble, if he prays,
The accuser comes and says,**
Thou hast restrained pray'r
Before the God of grace,
And were it not for trouble now
Thou wouldst not seek his face.
Ah, what can I reply?

Shall I pretend to say

That were I now from trouble free

I heartily should pray?

4. This, this is my reply,

5

That God has said to me,

Because thou art in trouble call,
And I'll deliver thee.

Then, Lord, if I have gone

In smiling days astray,

In trouble let me on thee call
Until my dying day.

BUNYAN.

L. M. Chard 175. Derby 169.

The Ministry of Angels.

1

1 GREAT God! what hosts of angels stand,
In shining ranks at thy right hand,
Array'd in robes of dazzling light,
With pinions stretch'd for distant flight!
2 Immortal fires! seraphic flames!
Who can recount their various names?
In strength and beauty they excel;
For near the throne of GOD they dwell.

3 How eagerly they wish to know My 30; The duties he would have them do; What joy their active spirits feel To execute their sovereign's will! 4 Hither, at his command, they fly To guard the beds on which we lie, To shield our persons night and day, And scatter all our fears away. 5 [Aghast the hostile Syrian band Around the helpless prophet stand, While mighty Gabriel downward flies, And with his chariot fills the skies. 6 Herod attempts, but all in vain, To bind a Peter with his chain; At one soft word an angel speaks, The massy chain asunder breaks.] 7 Send, O my God! some angel down, (Tho' to a mortal eye unknown,) To guide and guard my doubtful way Up to the realms of endless day..

308 C. M.

C. M. Charmouth 28. Worksop 31. Walking in Darkness, and trusting in GoD, Isaiah i. 10. EAR, gracious God! my humble moan, To thee I breathe my sighs;

1 HEAR,

When will the mournful night be gone?
And when my joys arise?

2 My GoD-O could I make the claim-
My father and my friend-

And call thee mine, by ev'ry name
On which thy saints depend!-

3 By ev'ry name of power and love,
I would thy grace entreat:

Nor should my humble hopes remove,
Nor leave thy sacred seat.

4 Yet tho' my soul in darkness mourns,
Thy word is all my stay;

Here would I rest till light returns,
Thy presence makes my day.

5 Speak, LORD! and bid celestial peace
Relieve my aching heart;

O smile, and bid my sorrows cease,
And all the gloom depart.

6 Then shall my drooping spirit rise,
And bless thy healing rays,

IT

And change these deep complaining sighs
For songs of sacred praise.

STEELE.

309 S. M. Stoke 207. Harborough 142.

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Complaining The Good that I would, I do not, Rom. vii. 19.

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1 I WOULD
WOULD, but cannot sing,
I would, but cannot
For Satan meets me when I try,
And frights my soul away.

2 I would, but can't repent,"
Tho' I endeavour oft;

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This stony heart can ne'er relents?

Till JESUS make it soft.

3 I would, but cannot love, Tho' woo'd by love divine:

No arguments have power to move A
A soul so base as mine.

4 I would, but cannot rest

In God's most holy will;dr #46
I know what he appoints is best,
Yet murmur at it still.

50 could 1 but believe!

"Then all would easy be;

I would, but cannot-LORD! relieve,
My help must come from thee!

6 But if indeed I would,

Tho' I can nothing do;

Yet the desire is something good,
To thee my praise is due,

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7 By nature prone to ill, low on! Till thine appointed hour,

I was as destitute of will
As now I am of power.

8 Wilt thou not crown at length
The work thou hast begun ?

And, with a will, afford me strength
In all thy ways to run?

310. M. Virginia 234. Lewton 30.
Complaining of Inconstancy.2 70'l

1 THE wandering star, and fleeting wind,
Both represent th' unstable mind:
The morning cloud and early dew
Bring our inconstancy to view.
2 But cloud and wind, and dew and star,
Faint and imperfect emblems are ¦
Nor can there aught in nature be
So fickle and so false as we.

3 Our outward walk, and inward frame,
Scarce thro' a single hour the same:
We vow, and straight our vows forget,
And then these very vows repeat,

4 We sin forsake, to sin return;

Are hot, are cold, now freeze, now burn;
In deep distress, then raptures feel,
We soar to heaven, then sink to hell.
5 With flowing tears, Lord! we confess
Our folly and unsteadfastness:

When shall these hearts more fixed be,
Fix'd by thy grace, and fix'd for thee?

BEDDOME.

311 L. M. Mark's 65. Ulverston 179.
Pride lamented."

1 OFT have I turn'd my eyes within,
And brought to light some latent sin,

But pride, the vice I most detest,
Still lurks securely in my breast.