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; 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 2 Adam in God's own image form'd, For guilt and horror chang'd! At length the goodliest work of heav'n 4 O fatal heritage bequeath'd Thro' the thick maze of sin and woe 5 But, O my soul, with rapture hear Transforms and crowns them all. SCRIPTURE INVITATIONS, PROMISES, &c. 7. 7s. Cowper. The Voice of Christ." Lovest thou me," 1 HARK! my soul, it is the Lord; 3 "Can a woman's tender care 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 1 SINNERS, you are now addressed He hath sent it, Pay attention to his word. 2 Think what you have all been doing, All your actions One continued scene of sin. Sinners, now be reconcil'd. 4 Pardon, now, is freely publish'd Who hath died, to make atonement See, it flows through Jesus' blood! · 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, 3 Eternal pleasures fill her train, 4 Immortal crowns she now displays, 11. L. M. (R.) The Invitation of Wisdom accepted, 1 I HEAR the counsel of a friend, 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.. |