And leave me in this world's wide maze,
To follow every wandering star.)

-5 Lord, thy commands are clean and pure,
Enlightening our beclouded eyes;
Thy threatenings just, thy promise sure,
Thy gospel makes the simple wise,
6 Give me thy counsel for my guide,
And then receive me to thy bliss: 10
All my desires and hopes beside

Are faint, and cold, compared with this.]

HYMN 80 L. M.

Bethel. [*]

An Evening Hymn. Ps. iv. 8; iii, 5, 6; exlii. 8. HUS far the Lord hath led me on,

1

T. Thus far his power prolongs my days;
And every evening should make known
Some fresh memorials of his grace.
e 2 Much of my time has run to waste,
And I perhaps am near my home ;
--But he forgives my follies past,

He gives me strength for days to come.
e 3 I lay my body down to sleep;
Peace is the pillow for my head:
-While well-appointed angels keep
Their watchful stations round my bed.
4 [In vain the sons of earth or hell
Tell me a thousand frightful things;
My God in safety makes me dwell,
Beneath the shadow of his wings.
5 Faith in his name forbids my fear;
O may thy presence ne'er depart;
And, in the morning, make me hear
The love and kindness of thy heart.]

e 6 Thus when the night of death shall come,
My flesh shall rest beneath the ground;
o And wait thy voice to rouse my tomb,
With sweet salvation in the sound.

HYMN 81. L. M. Nantwich. Sicilian. [*] A Song for Morning and Evening. Lam. iii. 23; Isu.

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xlv. 7.

God, how endless is thy love!
Thy gifts are every evening new

And morning mercies from above, on a duty, ná g
Gently distil like early dew. 24-Cly ffm baž.
2 Thou spread'st the curtains of the night, 167 f
Great Guardian of my sleeping hours;
Thy sovereign word restores the light,
And quickens all my drowsy powers, e voi

31 yield my powers to thy command, * B

To thee I consecrate my days;

Perpetual blessings from thine hand

Demand perpetual songs of praise. vrriz ned p

HYMN 82. L. M. Geneva. [b]

God far above Creatures; or, Man rain and mortal. Job iv. 17-21.

e 1

SHA

HALL the vile race of flesh and blood
Contend with their Creator God ?-
u Shall mortal worms presume to be
More holy, wise, or just than he ?
-2 Behold, he puts his trust in none
Of all the spirits round his throne;
Their natures, when compared with his,
Are neither holy, just, nor wise.

e 3 But how much meaner things are they,
Who spring from dust, and dwell in clay! savi
Touched by the finger of thy wrath,
We faint, and vanish like the moth.
4 From night to day, from day to night,
We die by thousands in thy sight;
Buried in dust whole nations lie,

Like a forgotten vanity.

5 Almighty Power, to thee we bow ;
How frail are we! how glorious thou!
No more the sons of earth shall dare A
With an eternal God compare.

HYMN 83. C. M. Isle of Wight. Bangor. [b] Affliction and Death under Providence. Job v. 6, 7, 8. OT from the dust affliction grows,

IN Nor troubles rise by chance:

p Yet we are born to cares and woes; A sad inheritance !

-2 As sparks break out from burning coals, And still are upwards borne; 105

g So grief is rooted in our souls, *1*2**

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.

HYMN 84. L. M. Old Hundred. [*] Christ the Saviour, Isa. xlv. 21-25.*

e 1 JEHOVAH speaks, let Israel hear!

Let all the earth rejoice, and fear ! While God's eternal Son proclaims His sovereign honours, and his names. d2"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. g 4" 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."

HYMN 85. S. M. St. Thomas's. [*]

The same... *1*14*

1 [This Godhead from his throne; HE Lord on high proclaims

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"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;

o 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.

OW shall the sons of Adam's race

HOW

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.}

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HYMN 87. L. M. Green's. Castle Street: [*]

God dwells with the Humble and Penitent. Isa. Ivu. 15, 16.

HUS saith the high and lofty One,

Tsit upon my holy throne;

“My name is God; I dwell on lugh; "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 50 may thy pardoning grace be night, 99 à
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 Gruce and Hope. Eccl. ix. 4, 5, 6, 10. 'The time to insure the great reward; IFE is the time to serve the Lord,

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

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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.)

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.)

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

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