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WILLOUGHBY. P. M.

Come on, my partners in distress, My comrades thro' the wilderness,

Who still your bodies feel: Awhile forget your griefs and fears,

And look beyond this vale of tears, To that celestial hill.

175 Bliss-inspiring hope.

2 Beyond the bounds of time and space,
Look forward to that heavenly place,
The saint's secure abode;

On faith's strong eagle pinions rise,
And force your passage to the skies,
And scale the mount of God.

3 Who suffer with our Master here,
We shall before his face appear,
And by his side sit down;
To patient faith the prize is sure;
And all that to the end endure

The cross, shall wear the crown.
4 Thrice blessed, bliss-inspiring hope!
It lifts the fainting spirits up;

It brings to life the dead;
Our conflicts here shall soon be past,
And you and I ascend at last,

Triumphant with our Head.

GANGES. P. M.

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Lo! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand,

Secure, in sensible: A point of time, a moment's space,

Removes me to that heavenly place, Or shuts me up in hell.

176 The brink of fate.

2 O God, mine inmost soul convert,
And deeply on my thoughtful heart
Eternal things impress:

Give me to feel their solemn weight,
And tremble on the brink of fate,
And wake to righteousness.

3 Be this my one great business here-
With serious industry and fear
Eternal bliss t' insure;
Thine utmost counsel to fulfill,
And suffer all thy righteous will,
And to the end endure.

4 Then, Saviour, then my soul receive,
Transported from this vale, to live
And reign with thee above,
Where faith is sweetly lost in sight,
And hope, in full, supreme delight,
And everlasting love.

128

LUCAS.

177 Renewed fidelity and zeal.

1. Come let us anew Our journey pursue, Roll round with the 2. Our life is a dream; our time, as a stream, Glides swiftly a3. O that each, in the day of His coming, may say, I have fought my way

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of hope, and the labor of love. to our view, and eternity's here. in to my joy, and sit down on my throne.

Come let us a-new our journey pursue, With vigor a-
Of heavenly birth, though wand'ring on earth, This is not our

2 At Jesus's call, we gave up our all;
And still we forego,

For Jesus's sake, our enjoyments below.
No longing we find for the country behind;
But onward we move,

And still we are seeking a country above ;

8 A country of joy without any alloy;

We thither repair;

Our hearts and our treasures already are there.
We march hand in hand to Immanuel's land;
No matter what cheer

We meet with on earth, for eternity's here! 4 The rougher the way, the shorter our stay; The tempests that rise

Shall gloriously hurry our souls to the skies:
The fiercer the blast, the sooner 'tis past;
The troubles that come

Shall come to our rescue, and hasten us home.

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HEDDING. 4th P. M.

1. And am I only born to die? And must I suddenly comply 2. How then ought I on earth to live, While God prolongs the kind

[reprieve,

With nature's stern decree? What, after death, for me remains?
And props the house of clay? My sole concern, my single care,

Celestial joys, or hellish pains, To all eternity.
To watch, and tremble, and prepare Against that fatal day.

179 The momentous question.

3 No room for mirth or trifling here,
For worldly hope, or worldly fear,
If life so soon is gone;

If now the Judge is at the door,
And all mankind must stand before
Th' inexorable throne!

4 Nothing is worth a thought beneath,
But how I may escape the death
That never, never dies!

How make mine own election sure;
And when I fail on earth, secure
A mansion in the skies.

5 Jesus, vouchsafe a pitying ray;
Be thou my Guide, be thou my Way
To glorious happiness.

Ah! write the pardon on my heart;
And whensoe'er I hence depart,

Let me depart in peace.