"Mercy and justice are the names, By which I will be known.

a 2 Ye dying souls, that sit

In darkness and distress, Look from the borders of the pit, To my recov❜ring grace.'

3 Sinners shall hear the sound, Their thankful tongues thall own, d "Our righteousness and strength is found In thee, the Lord alone."

4 In thee shall Israel trust,
And see their guilt forgiv'n;

• God will pronounce the sinners just,
And take the saints to heav'n.]

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HYMN 86. C. M. Walsal. [b] GOD holy, just, and sovereign. Job ix, 2-10. OW shall the sons of Adam's race before their God!

HOW

Be pure

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 sends 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. Ivii, 15,16. 1 HUS saith the high and lofty One,

g

TH
"I sit upon my holy throne;
My name is God; I dweil on high;
Dwell in my own eternity.

-2 But I descend to works 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 pard'oing grace be nigh,
Lest we should faint, despair and die!
-Thus shall our better thoughts approve
The methods of thy chast'ning love.)

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HYMN 88. L. M. Armley. Bath. [b] Life the Day of Grace and Hope. Ecel. ix, 4, 5, 6, 10. IFE is the time to serve the Lord,

1

L'

The time to insure the great reward;
And while the lamp holds out to bura,
The vilest sinner may return.

2 (Life is the hour that God has giv'n,
To 'scape from hell and fly to heav'n;
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 mem❜ry, and their sense is gone,
Alike unknowing and unknown.

e 4 (Their hatred, and their love is lost,
Their envy bury'd 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;

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.

YES

E sons of Adam, vain and young, 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 tho❜ts,
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 terrour through: p How will you stand before his face, Or answer for his injur'd grace?

-5 Almighty God, turn off their eyes
From these alluring vanities;

• And let the thunder of thy word
Awake their souls to fear the Lord.
HYMN 90. C. M. Windsor. [b]

1 []

The same.

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

Fulfil 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.]

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HYMN 91. L. M. Geneva. [b] Advice to Youth. Eccl. xii, 1,7; Isa. lxv, 20. TOW in the heat of youthful blood, Remember your Creator God; e Behold the months come hast'ning 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 [ SHALL wisdom cry aloud,

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 adorn'd the skies,
And built them, I was there,
To order when the sun should rise,
And marshal ev'ry star.

5. "When he pour'd out the sea,
And spread the flowing deep,

I gave the flood a firm decree, In its own bounds to keep.] 6 "Upon the empty air,

The earth was balanc'd well;
With joy I saw the mansion, where
The sons of men should dwell.

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

Ere sin was born, or Adam's dust
Was fashion'd to a man.

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

Happy the man, who keeps my ways?
The man, who shuns them, dies."]
HYMN 93. L. M. Islington. [*b]
CHRIST obeyed or resisted. Prov. viii, 34-36.

1

HUS saith the Wisdom of the Lord,

Test is the man, who hears my word; Keeps daily watch before my gates, And at my feet for mercy waits.

o 2 The soul that seeks me shall obtain Immortal wealth, and heav'nly 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;

a Fools, who against my grace rebel, Seek death, and love the road to hell."

HYMN 94. C. M. Reading. [b*]
Justification: or Law and Grace. Rom. iii, 19—22.
1 VAIN are the hopes, the sons of men
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 'murm'ring word;

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

-- In vain we ask God's righteous law,
To justify us now;

Since to convince, and to condemn,
Is all the law can do.