68. L.M. WATTS. The vanity of earthly desires. MAN has a soul of vast desires, He burns within with restless fires; Tost to and fro, his passions fly In vain on earth we hope to find To change the place, but keep the pain. O cure the fever of the mind, GRE 69. L.M. WATTS. Christian zeal tempered by charity. REAT Goo! whose all-pervading eye When sunk too low, or rais'd too high, While hope and heav'n-ey'd faith excite, 4 That wisdom which to meekness turns, 1 WH 70. L. M. MERRICK. The divine compassion. HAT fondness for his infant care A father's bosom learns to share, Such from th' eternal monarch claim The souls that rev'rent own his name. 2 If e'er our trespass he chastise, Not to its weight proportion'd rise The just corrections of his hand, But bounded by his mercy stand: 3 That mercy to the starry pole Extends; and, far as from his goal The sun in daily circuit roves, The humbl'd sinner's guilt removes. 4 The man that's merciful and just In thy compassions, LORD! shall trust; His heart, inspir'd with holy flame, Thy kind, paternal care proclaim. A 71. C. M. DR. COTTON. Go the refuge of the afflicted. FFLICTION is a stormy deep, Where wave resounds to wave: Though o'er my head the billows roll, I know the LORD can save. 2 Perhaps, before the morning dawn, For be, who bade the tempest roar, 89. C.M. DR. ENFIELD. The example of Jesus. BEHOLD, where in a mortal form The virtues all in Jesus met, To spread the rays of heav'nly light, To preach glad tidings to the poor,. Lowly in heart, to all his friends He wash'd their feet, he wip'd their tears, Midst keen reproach, and cruel scorn, is foes, ungrateful, sought his life; o God he left his righteous cause, the last hour of deep distress, With soul resign'd he bow'd, and said, e Christ our pattern, and our guide! may we tread his holy steps, 3 D 90. L. M. 90. L.M. DR. WATTS. The institution of the Lord's Supper. 1 'TW WAS on that dark, that awful night, When all the pow'rs of darkness rose Against the son of GoD's delight, And friends betray'd him to his foes. 2 Before the mournful scene began, He took the bread, and bless'd, and brake:What love through all his actions ran! What wondrous words of grace he spake ! 3 This is my body, broke for sin; Receive and eat the living food:Then took the cup, and bless'd the wine'Tis the new cov'nant in my blood. 4 Meet at my table, and record The love of your departed LORD: Do this, he cry'd, till time shall end, In mem'ry of your dying friend. 1 91. L. M. Dr. Enfield's SELECTION. Hymn for the Communion, THIS HIS feast was Jesus' high behest, This cup of thanks his last request: Ye who can feel his worth! attendEat, drink, in mem'ry of your friend. 2 Around the patriot's bust ye throng, Him ye exalt in swelling song; For him the wreath of glory bind, Who freed from vassalage his kind. 3 And shall not he your praises reap, Who rescues from the iron sleep ;— The The great deliv'rer, whose breath Unbinds the captives ev'n of death? 4 Shall he who, fellow-men to save, Became a tenant of the grave, Unthank'd, uncelebrated, rise, Pass unremember'd to the skies? 1 92. L.M. DUBLIN COLLECTION. "EAT, friend!" Such was our master's last request; 3 'Tis pleasure more than earth can give 1 93. P.M. MR. M. CALAMY. LORD of nature! source of light! 3 D2 2 Grant |