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5. L.M.

Stanford's Coll.

Adoring Divine Providence.

1 LORD, how mysterious are thy ways! How blind are we, how mean our praise! Thy steps, can mortal eyes explore? "Tis ours to wonder and adore. 2 Thy deep decrees from creature sight Are hid in shades of awful night; Amid the lines with curious eye, Not angel minds presume to pry. 3 Great God! I would not ask to see What in futurity shall be;

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If light and bliss attend my days, Then let my future hours be praise. 4 Is darkness and distress my share? Then let me trust thy guardian care: Enough for me, if love divine

At length through every cloud shall shine 5. Yet this my soul desires to know, Be this my only wish below

That Christ is mine;" this great request Grant, bounteous God, and I am blest.

6. Doddridge. C. M.

The Effects of the Fall lamented.

1 WITH flowing eyes and bleeding heart, A blasted world survey!

See the wide ruin sin hath wrought
In one unhappy day!

2 Adam in God's own image form'd,
t From God and bliss estrang'd,
And all the joys of paradise

For guilt and horror chang'd!
s of labour and of grief
mourn'd his glory lost;

At length the goodliest work of heav'n
Sunk down to common dust.

4 O fatal heritage bequeath'd
To all his helpless race!

Thro' the thick maze of sin and woe
Thus to the grave we pass.

5 But, O my soul, with rapture hear
The second Adam's name;
And the celestial gifts he brings,
To all his seed proclaim.
6 In holiness and joy complete
He reigns to endless years,
And each adopted chosen child
His splendid image wears.
What tho' in mortal life they mourn?
What tho' by death they fall?
Jesus in one triumphant day

Transforms and crowns them all.
Praise to his rich mysterious grace!
E'en by our fall we rise;
And gain, for earthly Eden lost,
A heav'nly paradise.

SCRIPTURE

INVITATIONS, PROMISES, &c.

7. 7s. Cowper.

The Voice of Christ." Lovest thou me,"
John xxi. 16.

1 HARK! my soul, it is the Lord;
Tis thy Saviour, hear his word;
Jesus speaks, and speaks to thee:
Say, poor sinner, lov'st thou me?
2" I deliver'd thee, when bound,
And when wounded, heal'd thy wounds
Sought thee wand'ring, set thee right,
Turn'd thy darkness into light."

3 "Can a woman's tender care
Cease toward the child she bare?
Yes, she may forgetful be,
Yet will I remember thee.
4 "Mine is an unchanging love,
Higher than the heights above;
Deeper than the depths beneath,
Free and faithful, strong as death.
5 "Thou shalt see my glory soon,
When the work of grace is done;
Partner of my throne shalt be,
Say, poor sinner, lov'st thou me ?"
6 Lord, it is my chief complaint,
That my love is weak and faint;
Yet I love thee, and adore,
O for grace to love thee more!

8. L. M. (R.)

Seek ye my Face, Psalm xxvii, 8.

1 JEHOVAH Speaks: "Seek ye my face!" My soul admires the wondrous grace: I'll seek thy face-thy Spirit give! O let me see thy face and live. 2 I'll wait; perhaps my Lord may come; (If I turn back, how sad my doom!) And begging in his way I'll lie Till the sweet hour he passeth by. 3 Daily I'll seek with cries and tears, With secret sighs and fervent prayer; And, if not heard-I'll weeping sit, And perish at the Saviour's feet. 4 But canst thou, Lord! see all my pain, And bid me seek thy face in vain? Thou wilt not, canst not, me deceive,soul that seeks thy face shall live.

9. 8. 7. 4. By Mr. Fountain, one of the Missionaries in Bengal. (R.)

The Gospel Message; or, Reconciliation to
God.

1 SINNERS, you are now addressed
In the name of Christ our Lord;
He hath sent a message to you,
Pay attention to his word;

He hath sent it,

Pay attention to his word.

2 Think what you have all been doing,
Think what rebels you have been;
You have spent your lives in nothing
But in adding sin to sin:

All your actions

One continued scene of sin.
3 Yet your long-abused sovereign
Sends to you a message mild,
Loth to execute his vengeance,
Prays you to be reconcil'd;
Hear him woo you,-

Sinners, now be reconcil'd.

4 Pardon, now, is freely publish'd
Through a Mediator's blood;

Who hath died, to make atonement
And appease the wrath of God!
Wondrous mercy!

See, it flows through Jesus' blood! ·
5. In his name, you are entreated
To accept this act of grace;
This the day of your acceptance,
Listen to the terms of peace:

O delay not,

Listen to the terms of peace :

6 Having thus, then, heard the message, All with heavenly mercy fraught ;'

Go and tell the gracious Jesus

If you will be sav'd or not;

Say, poor sinner,

Will you now be sav'd or not?

10. C. M. (R.)

The Invitation of Wisdom.

1 Lo! Wisdom stands with smiling face,
And courts us to her arms;
Who can resist the wondrous grace,
And slight her pow'rful charms!
She, gen'rous holds out to our sight
Riches which shall endure;
Not sparkling rubies half so bright,
Nor finest gold so pure.

3 Eternal pleasures fill her train,
Pleasures which never cloy;
"Come drink of bliss unmix'd with pain,
"And taste celestial joy."

4 Immortal crowns she now displays,
And thrones beyond the skies;
Accept her blessings while she stays,
And seize the glorious prize.

11. L. M. (R.)

The Invitation of Wisdom accepted,
Rev. iii. 17.

1 I HEAR the counsel of a friend,
And to his soothing voice attend;

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Come, sinners, wretched, blind and poor, "Come, buy, from my unbounded store. "I only ask you to receive,

"For freely I my blessings give;"Jesus! and are thy blessings free? Then I may dare to come to thee. 3 I come for grace, like gold refin'd, T'enrich and beautify my mind; Grace that will trials well endure, ad in the furnace grow more pure..

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