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541 (2d P.) L.M. Portugal 97. Rippon's 188.

Sickness and Recovery.

1 AWHILE remain'd the doubtful strife,

Till JESUS gave me back my life:

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My life?-my soul, recal the word, 5 "Tis life to see thy gracious LORD. 2 Why inconvenient now to die? Vile unbelief, O tell me why? When can it inconvenient be, My loving LORD! to come to thee? 3 He saw me made the sport of hell, He knew the tempter's malice well; And when my soul had all to fear, Then did the glorious SUN appear! 4 O bless him! bless, ye dying saints, The God of grace, when nature faints ! He show'd my flesh the gaping grave, To show me he had power to save.

542 (1st P.) C. M. David's 186. Newbury 132. Praise for Recovery from Sickness, Psalm cxviii, 18, 19.

1 SOVEREIGN of life! I own thy hand, In every chastening stroke;

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And, while I smart beneath thy rod,
Thy presence I invoke."

2 To thee in my distress I cried,

And thou hast bow'd thine ear;:
Thy powerful word my life prolong'd,
And brought salvation near.

3 Unfold, ye gates of righteousness,
That, with the pious throng,

I may record my solemn vows,
And tune my grateful song.

4 Praise to the LORD, whose gentle hand
Renews our labouring breath:

Praise to the LORD, who makes his saints
Triumphant e'en in death,

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5 My GoD! in thine appointed hour
Those heavenly gates display,
Where pain and sin, and fear and death,
For ever flee

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6 There, while the nations of the bless'd
With raptures bow around, a
My anthems to delivering grace
In sweeter strains shall sound.

DR. DODDRIDGE.

542 (2d P.) S. M. Harborough 142. Stoke 207. The Benefit of sanctified Affliction; or, God bringing his People into the Covenant under the Rod, Ezek. xx. 37.

1 HOW gracious and how wise

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Is our chastising God!

And, oh! how rich the blessings are N
Which blossom from his rodo

He lifts it up on high

With pity in his heart,

That every stroke his children feel.

May grace and peace impart.
Instructed thus they bow,

And own his sovereign sway;
They turn their erring footsteps back
To his forsaken way.

4 His cov'nant love they seek,
And seek the happy bands

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That closer still engage their hearts
To honour his commands.

Dear Father! we consent
To discipline divine;

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And bless the pain that makes our souls
Still more completely thine.

Supported by thy love,.

We tend to realms of peace;
Where every pain shall far remove,
And every frailty cease.

TIME AND ETERNITY.

543 L. M. Kingsbridge 88. Ulverstone 179. The Shortness of Time and Frailty of Man, Psi xxxix.

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ALMIGHTY Maker of my frame!
Teach me the measure of my days

Teach me to know how frail I am, /
And spend the remnant to thy praise.
2 My days are shorter than a span;i
A little point my life appears;

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How frail, at best, is dying man!
Tog How yain are all his hopes and fears!
3 Vain his ambition, noise, and show!
Vain are the cares which rack his mind!
He heaps up treasures mix'd with woe, I
And dies, and leaves them all behind.
4 Oh, be a nobler portion mine! fo
My Gobo I bow before thy throne ;
Earth's fleeting treasures I resign, I
And fix my hope on thee alone.

STEELE. 544 L.M. Paul's 246. Babylon Streams 23. The Wisdom of Redeeming Time, Eph. v. 15, 16.

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OD of Eternity! from thee

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Did infant Time his being draw;Moments, and days, and months, and years, Revolve by thine unvaried law.

2 Silent and slow they glide away;

Steady and strong the current flows
Lost in eternity's wide sea-

The boundless gulf from whence it rose.
3 With it the thoughtless sons of men
Before the rapid streams are borne
On to that everlasting home,

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Whence not one soul can e'er return. 4 Yet while the shore on either side Presents a gaudy flattering show, We gaze, raze, in fond amazement lost, Nor think to what a world we go.

5 Great source of wisdom! teach my heart
To know the price of every hour
That time may bear me on to joys
Beyond its measure and its power. !!

DR. DODDRIDGE.

54578 Stoel 164. Cookham 36.

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GOD.-My times are in thy hand, Psalm xxxi. 15; xxxiv. 1.
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Ever gracious, ever wise!

All my times are in thy hand,
All events at thy command.
2 His decree, who form'd the earth,
Fix'd my first and second birth'
Parents, native place, and time
All appointed were by him.
3 He that form'd me in the womb,
He shall guide me to the tomb;
All my times shall ever be 94
Order'd by his wise decree.

4 Times of sickness, times of health;
Times of penury and wealth;
Times of trial and of grief;
Times of triumph and relief;
5Times the tempter's power to prové;
Times to taste a Saviour's love":"
All must come, and last, and end,
As shall please my heavenly friend.
Plagues and deaths around me fly;
Till he bids, I cannot die:
Not a single shaft can hit

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Till the GoD of love thinks fit.

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O thou Gracious, Wise, and Just,
In thy hands my life I trust:

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I resign it to thy will.

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"May I always own thy hand-16T
Still to the surrender stand;

Know that thou art God alone,
I and mine are all thy own.

9 Thee, at all times, will I bless;
Having thee, I all possess:
How can I bereaved be,

Since I cannot part with thee? DR. RYLAND.

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Time and Eternity; or, longing after unseen Pleasures, 2 Cor. iv. 18.

1 HOW long shall earth's alluring toys Detain our heart and eyes,

Regardless of immortal joys,

And strangers to the skies?

2 These transient scenes will soon decay;
They fade upon the sight;!
And quickly will their brightest day
Be lost in endless night.

3 Their brightest day, alas, how vain!
With conscious sighs we own; }
While clouds of sorrow, care, and pain,
O'ershade the smiling noon.

4 Oh, could our thoughts and wishes fly
Above these gloomy shades,

To those bright worlds beyond the sky
Which sorrow ne'er invades !

5 There joys unseen to mortal eyes,
Or reason's feeble ray,

In ever-blooming prospects rise,
Unconscious of decay.

6. LORD! send a beam of light divine.
To guide our upward aim!
With one reviving touch of thine
Our languid hearts inflame.

7 Then shall, on Faith's sublimest wing,
Our ardent wishes rise.

To those bright scenes where pleasures spring,
Immortal in the skies,

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STEELE,

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