e 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 Adain, vain and young,

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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!

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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.

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HYMN 90. C. M. Windsor, [b]

The same..

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

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The strict account that God requires, »t ^ë vë
Of all the works they do.

e 3 The Judge prepares his throne on high;

The frighted earth and seas

Avoid the fury of his eye,

And flee before his face.

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

I'd give all mortal joys away, a
To be forever blest.], v

HYMN 91. L. M. Geneva. [b] Advice to Youth. Eccl. xii. 1, 7; Isa. lxv. 20. 1 TOW in the heat of youthful blood, Now in the late

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, our te
Ascends
s to God; not there to dwell,

a But hears her doom, and sinks to hell.
e 4 Eternal King, I fear thy name len xane
Teach me to know how frail 1 am;

-And when my soul must hence remove,
Give me a mansion in thy love.

HYMN 92. S. M. Dover. [*1

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Christ the Wisdom of God. Prov, viii. 1, 22–32. SHALL Wisdom cry aloud,

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And not her speech be heard? The voice of God's eternal Word, Deserves it no regard?

"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, i

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"I gave the flood a firm decree, or at o "In its own bounds to keep.)

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6" Upon the empty air,

"The earth was balanced well; "With joy I saw the mansion, where "The sons of men should dwell.

"My busy thoughts at first,
"On their salvation ran,

"Ere sin was born, or Adam's dust
"Was fashioned to a man.

8" Then come, receive my grace,
"Ye children, and be wise;

o Happy the man who keeps my ways,
"The man, who shuns them, dies."]"

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HYMN 93. L. M.

Christ obeyed or resisted.

Islington. [* b]

word;

Prov. viii. 34-36. TH HUS saith the Wisdom of the Lord, "Blest is the man, who hears my "Keeps daily watch before my gates, "And at my feet for merey waits.

o 2 "The soul that seeks me shall obtain "Immortal wealth, and heavenly gain; "Immortal life is his reward,

"Life, and the favour of the Lord.

e 3" But the vile wretch who flies from me, "Does his own soul an injury ;

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a Fools, who against my grace rebel,

"Seek death, and love the road to hell."

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HYMN 94. C. M. Reading. [b]

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Justification; or, Law and Grace. Rom. iii. 19-22.

AIN are the hopes, the sons of men

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On their own works have built;

Their hearts by nature are unclean,

And all their actions guilt.

e 2 Let Jew and Gentile stop their mouths,
Without a murmuring word;

And the whole race of Adam stand
Guilty before the Lord.

-3 In vain we ask God's righteous law,

To justify us now;

Since to convince, and to condemn,

Is all the law can do

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o 4 Jesus, how glorious is thy grace,

When in thy name we trust!

Our faith receives a righteousness
That makes the sinner just.

HYMN 95. C. M. St. Martin's. [*]
Regeneration. John i. 13, and iii. 3, &c.

NOT all the outward forms on earth,

Nor rites that God has given,

Nor will of man, nor blood, nor birth,
Can raise a soul to heaven.

2 The sovereign will of God alone
Creates us heirs of grace;

Born in the image of his Son,
A new, peculiar race.

b 3 The Spirit, like some heavenly wind,
Blows on the sons of flesh;
New models all the carnal mind,
And forms the man afresh.

o 4 Our quickened souls awake, and rise
From the long sleep of death;

o On heavenly things we fix our eyes, And praise employs our breath.

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HYMN 96. .C. M.

York, [b *]

Election excludes Boasting. 1 Cor. i. 26―31.

BUT few among the carnal wise,

But few of noble race,

Obtain the favour of thine eyes,

Almighty King of grace.

2 He takes the men of meanest name,
For sons and heirs of God;

And thus he pours abundant shame
On honourable blood.

3 He calls the fool, and makes him know
The mysteries of his grace;

To bring aspiring wisdom low,
And all its pride abase.

4 Nature has all its glories lost,

When brought before his throne; No flesh shall in his presence boast, But in the Lord alone.]

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HYMN 97. L. M. Brentford. [*]

Christ our Wisdom, Righteousness, &c. 1 Cor. i. 30. URIED in shadows of the night,

'B We lie till Christ restores the light;

o Wisdom descends to heal the blind, And chase the darkness of the mind.

souls are

2 Our guilty
drowned in tears,
Till his atoning blood appears:
Then we awake from deep distress,

o And sing, The Lord ouk RIGHTEOUSNESS.
e 3 Our very frame is mixed with sin;
-His Spirit makes our natures clean,
Such virtues from his sufferings flow,
At once to cleanse, and pardon too.
e 4 Jesus beholds where Satan reigns,
Binding his slaves in heavy chains:
He sets the prisoners free, and breaks
The iron bondage from our necks.

e 5 Poor, helpless worins in thee possess
Grace, wisdom, power, and righteousness;
Thou art our mighty All-and we

Give our whole selves, O Lord, to thee.

HYMN 98. S. M. Aylesbury. [b]

The same.

1 H That hangs upon our eyes; OW heavy is the night, -Till Christ, with his reviving light, Over our souls arise!

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2 Our guilty spirits dread

To meet the wrath of Heaven;
But in his righteousness arrayed,
We see our sins forgiven.

3 Unholy and impure

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Are all our thoughts and ways;

- His hands infected nature cure,

With sanctifying grace.

4 The powers of hell agree To hold our souls in vain; o He sets the sons of bondage free, And breaks the cursed chain.

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To bring us near to God to 1.6..