g So grief is rooted in our souls,

And man grows up to mourn.

-3 Yet with my God I leave my cause,
And trust his promised grace;
He rules me by his well-known laws
Of love and righteousness.

o 4 Not all the pains that e'er I bore
Shall spoil my future peace;
For death and hell can do no more,
Than what my Father please.

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HYMN 84. L. M.

Christ the Saviour.

JEH

Old Hundred. [*]

Isa. xlv. 21-25.

EHOVAH speaks, let Israel hear! Let all the earth rejoice, and fear! While God's eternal Son proclaims His sovereign honours, and his nameș. d 2 "I am the last, and I the first, "The Saviour God, and God the just; "There's none besides pretends to shew "Such justice and salvation too.

3 ("Ye that in shades of darkness dwell, "Just on the verge of death and hell, "Look up to me from distant lands; "Light, life, and heaven are in my hands. g4"I by my holy Name have sworn, "Nor shall the word in vain return; "To me shall all things bend the knee, "And every tongue shall swear to me.) 5 "In me, alone, shall men confess, "Lies all their strength and righteousness: e "But such as dare despise my Name, "I'll clothe them with eternal shame. 6 "In me, the Lord, shall all the seed "Of Israel from their sins be freed; "And by their shining graces prove "Their interest in my pardoning love."

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HYMN 85.

1

S. M. St. Thomas's. [*]

The same.

[T His Godhead from his throne

HE Lord on high proclaims

a

"Mercy and justice are the names,

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By which I will be known.

2 "Ye dying souls, that sit

"In darkness and distress, "Look from the borders of the pit, "To my recovering grace.'

3 Sinners shall hear the sound;

Their thankful tongues shall own,

d "Our righteousness and strength is found "In thee, the Lord alone."

4 In thee shall Israel trust,

And see their guilt forgiven;

God will pronounce the sinners just,
And take the saints to heaven.]

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HYMN 86. C. M. Reading. [b]

God holy, just, and sovereign. Job ix. 2—10.

TOW shall the sons of Adam's race

HOW

Be pure

before their God!

If he contend in righteousness,

We fall beneath his rod.

2 To vindicate my words and thoughts,
I'll make no more pretence;
Not one of all my thousand faults
Can bear a just defence.

3 Strong is his arm, his heart is wise;
What vain presumers dare
Against their Maker's hand to rise,
Or tempt th' unequal war.

4 Mountains, by his almighty wrath,
From their old seats are torn :

He shakes the earth, from south to north,
And all her pillars mourn.

5 He bids the sun forbear to rise,-
Th' obedient sun forbears;

His hand with sackcloth spreads the skies,
And seals up all the stars.

6 He walks upon the stormy sea;
Flies on the stormy wind:

There's none can trace his wondrous way,
Or his dark footsteps find.]

HYMN 87. L. M. Green's. Castle Street. [*] God dwells with the Humble and Penitent. Isa. lvii

1

15, 16.

T" I sit upon my holy throne; HUS saith the high and lofty One, "My name is God; dwell on high; "Dwell in my own eternity.

-2" But I descend to worlds below; "On earth, I have a mansion too: e "The humble spirit and contrite "Is an abode of my delight.

-3 "The humble soul my words revive; "I bid the mourning sinner live; "Heal all the broken hearts I find, "And ease the sorrows of the mind. e 4 ("When I contend against their sin, "I make them know how vile they've been; a "But should my wrath forever smoke, "Their souls would sink beneath my stroke." o 5 O may thy pardoning grace be nigh, Lest we should faint, despair and die! -Thus shall our better thoughts approve The methods of thy chastening love.)

HYMN 88. L. M.

Armley. Bath. [b]

Life, the Day of Grace and Hope. Eccl. ix. 4, 5, 6, 10

LIFE is the time to serve the Lord,

The time to insure the great reward;

And while the lamp holds out to burn,
The vilest sinner may return.

2 (Life is the hour that God has given,
To 'scape from hell and fly to heaven;
The day of grace ;-and mortals may
Secure the blessings of the day.)

p 3 The living know that they must die,
But all the dead forgotten lie:

Their memory, and their sense is gone,
Alike unknowing and unknown.

e 4 (Their hatred, and their love is lost,
Their envy buried in the dust;

They have no share in all that's done,
Beneath the circuit of the sun.)

-5 Then, what my thoughts design to do,
My hands, with all your might, pursue;

Since no device, nor work is found,

Nor faith, nor hope, beneath the ground. e 6 There are no acts of pardon past,

In the cold grave to which we haste; a But darkness, death, and long despair, Reign in eternal silence there.

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HYMN 89. L. M. Babylon. [b]
Youth and Judgment. Eccl. xi. 9.

E sons of Adam, vain and young,

YE

Indulge your eyes, indulge your tongue.
Taste the delights your souls desire,
And give a loose to all your fire.

2 Pursue the pleasures you design,
And cheer your hearts with songs and wine;
Enjoy the day of mirth ;-but know,

a There is a day of judgment too!

e 3 God from on high beholds your thoughts;
His book records your secret faults;
The works of darkness, you have done,
Must all appear before the sun.

4 The vengeance to your follies due Should strike your hearts with terror through: p How will you stand before his face, Or answer for his injured grace? -5 Almighty God, turn off their eyes From these alluring vanities;

o And let the thunder of thy word Awake their souls to fear the Lord.

HYMN 90. C. M.

The same.

Windsor. [b]

O the young tribes of Adam rise,
And through all nature rove;

Fulfill the wishes of their eyes,

And taste the joys they love.

2 They give a loose to wild desires;
But let the sinners know

The strict account that God requires,
Of all the works they do.

3 The Judge prepares his throne on high;

The frighted earth and seas

Avoid the fury of his eye,

And flee before his face.

p 4 How shall I bear that dreadful day, And stand the fiery test?

I'd give all mortal joys away,

To be forever blest.]

HYMN 91. L. M.

Geneva. [b]

Advice to Youth. Eccl. xii. 1, 7; Isa. lxv. 20.

1 NOW in the heat of youthful blood,
Remember your Creator God;

e Behold the months come hastening on,
When you shall say My joys are gone.
a 2 Behold the aged sinner goes,
Laden with guilt and heavy woes,
Down to the regions of the dead,
With endless curses on his head.
p 3 The dust returns to dust again;
The soul, in agonies of pain,

Ascends to God; not there to dwell,-
a But hears her doom, and sinks to hell.
e 4 Eternal King, I fear thy name!
Teach me to know how frail I am;
-And when my soul must hence remove,
Give me a mansion in thy love.

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HYMN 92. S. M. Dover. [*]

Christ the Wisdom of God. Prov. viii. 1, 22—32.

1

HALL Wisdom cry aloud,

ISHALL

And not her speech be heard?

The voice of God's eternal Word,
Deserves it no regard?

2 "I was his chief delight,

"His everlasting Son,

"Before the first of all his works,"Creation,-was begun.

3 ("Before the flying clouds, "Before the solid land, "Before the fields, before the floods, "I dwelt at his right hand.

4" When he adorned the skies,
"And built them, I was there,
"To order when the sun should rise,
"And marshal every star.

5 "When he poured out the sea,
"And spread the flowing deep.