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Sinners, your proud presumption check,
And stop your wild career.

7 Now is th' accepted time;
To Christ for mercy fly:
O turu, repent and, trust in him,
And you shall never die.

8 Great God, in whom we live,
Prepare us for that day;
Help us in Jesus to believe,
To watch, and wait, and pray.

ADDITIONAL HYMNS.

Hymn 327. P. M.

As strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. 1 Pet ii 11.

HOW happy is the pilgrim's lot,

How free from every auxious thought, From worldly hope and fear!

Confin'd to neither court nor cell,

His soul disdains on earth to dwell;
He only sojourns here.

2 This happiness in part is mine,
Already sav'd from low design,
From every creature love!
Blest with the scorn of finite good,
My soul is lighten'd of its load,
Aud seeks the things above.

3 The things eternal I pursue,
A happiness beyond the view,
Of those that basely pant

For things by nature felt and seen;
Their honours, wealth, and pleasures mean,

I neither have nor want.

4 I have no babes to hold me here,
But children more securely dear,
For mine I humbly claim:
Better than daughters or than sons;
Temples divine, of living stones,
Inscrib'd with Jesu's namie.

5 No foot of land do I possess ;
No cottage in the wilderness;
A poor way-fariug man;
I lodge awhile in tents below,
Or gladly wander to and fro,
Till I my Canaan gain.

Hymn 328. P. M.

And these Three are One. 1 John v. 7.

Your tuneful voices high;

OUNG men and maidens, raise

Old men and children, praise
The Lord of earth and sky:

Him Three in One, and One in Three,
Extol to all eternity.

2 The universal King

Let all the world proclaim!

Let every creature sing

His attributes and name!

Him Three in One, and One in Three,

Extol to all eternity.

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Him Three in One, and One in Three,
Extol to all eternity.

4 Glory to God belongs;

Glory to God be given,
Above the noblest songs

Of all in earth and heaven:
Him Three in One, and One in Three,
Extol to all eternity.

Hymn 329. C. M.

I pray thee, let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan. Deut. iii. 25.

ON Jordan's stormy banks I stand,

And cast a wishful eye,

To Canaan's fair and happy land,
Where my possessions lie.

20 the transporting rapt'rous scene,
That rises to my sight!

Sweet fields array'd in living green,
And rivers of delight!

3 There gen'rous fruit that never fails,
On trees immortal grow:

There rocks, and hills, and brooks, and vales With milk and honey flow.

↑ O'er all those wide-extended plains Shines one eternal day:

There God the Son for ever reigns,
And scatters night away.

5 No chilling winds nor pois'nous breath,
Can reach that healthful shore;
Sickness and sorrow, pain and death,
Are felt and fear'd no more.

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6 When shall I reach that happy place,
And be for ever blest?

When shall I see my Father's face,
And in his bosom rest?

7 Fill'd with delight, my raptur'd soul
Would here no longer stay!
Though Jordan's waves around me roll,
Fearless I'd launch away.

8 There, on those high and flow'ry plains,
Our spirits ne'er shall tire;
But in perpetual, joyful strains,
Redeeming love admire.

Hymn 330. C. M.

For what is your life? it is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time. James iv. 14.

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MY span of life will soon be done,

The passing moments say;

As length'ning shadows o'er the mead,
Proclaim the close of day.

O that my heart might dwell aloof
From all created things,

And learn that wisdom from above,
Whence true contentment springs!

Courage, my soul, thy bitter cross,
In every trial here,

Shall bear thee to thy heaven above,
But shall not enter there
The sighing souls that humbly seek
In sorrowing paths below,
Shall in eternity rejoice,

Where endless comforts flow.

3 Soon will the toilsome strife be o'er,
Of sublunary care,

And life's dull vanities no more,
This anxious breast ensnare.
Courage, my soul, on God rely;
Deliv'rance soon will come:
A thousand ways has Providence
To bring believers home.

4 E'er first I drew this vital breath,
From nature's prison free,
Crosses in number, measure, weight,
Were written, Lord, for me.

But thou, my Shepherd, Friend, and Guide,
Hast led me kindly on;
Taught me to rest my fainting head
On Christ, the corner-stone.

5 So comforted, and so sustain'd,
With dark events I strove,

And found, when rightly understood,
All messengers of love:

With silenee, and submissive awe,
Ador'd a chast'ning God,

tever'd the terrors of his law,
And humbly kiss'd the rod,

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