Soon shall you hear the Bridegroom's voice, To call you to your home. 5 The time is short! it swiftly flies- When we shall mount above the skies, 6 The time is short!-the moment near, DANGER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT'S WITHDRAWING 228. HIS INFLUENCE. L. M. The returning Backsider. 1 STAY, thou insulted Spirit, stay, Though I have done thee such despite; Nor cast the sinner quite away, Nor take thine everlasting flight. 2 Though I have steel'd my stubborn heart, 3 Though I have most unfaithful been 4 Yet O! the chief of sinners spare In honour of my great High-Priest: Nor in thy righteous anger swear, T'exclude me from thy people's rest. 5 This only wo I deprecate, This only plague I pray remove, Nor leave me in my lost estate, Nor curse me with this want of love. 6 E'en now, my weary soul release, Upraise me with thy gracious nand, 154 And guide into thy perfect peace, 229.J SAY, Sinner, L. M. My spirit shall not always strive. Gen. vi. 3. 2 Hath something met thee in the path 3 Sinner, it was a heav'nly voice,- 4 Spuru not the call to life and light; 5 God's Spirit will not always strive 6 Sinner-perhaps this very day, 230. 1 C. M. NOW is the time, th' accepted hour, O sinners, come away; The Saviour's knocking at your door, 2 Oh! don't refuse to give him room, He'll then in robes of vengeance come 3 Then where, poor mortals, will you be, When you your injur'd Judge shall see, 4 Oh! could you shun that dreadful sight, 5 The dead awak'd must all appear, 6 Let not these warnings be in vain, Lest you should meet thein all again, THE CERTAINTY OF DEATH AND JUDGMEN 231. Ꭵ S. M. ND am I born to die? AN To lay this body down' And must my trembling spirit fly Into a world unknown? 2 Soon as from earth I go What will become of me? Must then my portion be! 3 Wak'd by the trumpet's sound, 4 How shall I leave my tomb! A fearful or a joyful doom, A curse or blessing meet? 5 Will angel bands convey Their brother to the bar? Or devils drag my soul away To meet its sentence there? 6 Who can resolve the doubt That tears my anxious breast? Shall I be with the damn'd cast out, Or number'd with the blest? 7 I must from God be driven, Must come at his command to heaven, 80 thou that wouldst not have One wretched sinner die, 9 Show me the way to shun Thy dreadful wrath severe, That when thou comest on thy throne, 1 may with joy appear. 232. 1 P. M. AND am I only born to die? And must I suddenly comply 2 How then ought I on earth to live, 3 No room for mirth or trifling here, If now the Judge is at the door, 4 No matter which my thoughts employ; A moment's misery or joy: But oh! when both shall end, Where shall I find my destin'd place? Shall I my everlasting days With fiends or angels spend? 5 Nothing is worth a thought beneath, How make my own election sure; 6 Jesus, vouchsafe a pitying ray, Ah! write the pardon on my heart' 233. 1 ΜΥ L. M. Sickness and Death. soul, the minutes haste away, Apace comes on th' important day, When in the icy arms of death I must give up my vital breath. 2 Look forward to the moving scene; How wilt thou be affected then? When from on high some sharp disease Resistless shall my vitals seize, 3 When all the springs of life are low, The spirits faint, the pulses slow; |