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Vows.

1 What shall I render to my God,
For all his kindness shown?
My feet shall visit thine abode,
My songs address thy throne.

2 How happy all thy servants are!

How great thy grace to me!

My life which thou hast made thy care, Lord, I devote to thee.

3 Now I am thine-forever thine

Nor shall my purpose move; Thy hand hath loos'd my bonds of pain, And bound me with thy love.

4 Here, in thy courts, I leave my vow,

And thy rich grace record; Witness, ye saints, who hear me now, If I forsake the Lord.

105.

The Way and End of the Righteous and the Wicked. 1 Blest is the man who shuns the place,

Where sinners love to meet;

Who fears to tread their wicked ways,

And hates the scoffer's seat:

2 But in the statutes of the Lord,

Has plac'd his chief delight;

By day he reads or hears the word,

And meditates by night.

3 Not so the impious and unjust,

What vain designs they form!
Their hopes are blown away like dust,

Or chaff, before the storm.

4 Sinners in judgment will not stand Amongst the sons of grace,

When Christ the Judge, at his right hand Appoints his saints a place.

106.

For Sunday Schools.

1 There is a glorious world of light, Above the starry sky;

Where saints departed, clothed in white, Adore the Lord most high.

2 And hark! amid the sacred songs

Those heavenly voices raise,
Ten thousand, thousand infant tongues
Unite and perfect praise.

3 Those are the hymns that we shall know, If Jesus we obey;

That is the place where we shall go,

If found in wisdom's way.

4 Soon will our earthly race be run,
Our mortal frame decay;
Children and teachers, one by one,
Must droop, and pass away.

5 Great God! impress the serious thought, This day, on every breast;

That both the teachers and the taught
May enter to thy rest.

107.

The Bible.

1 How precious is the book divine,
By inspiration given!
Bright as a lamp, its doctrines shine,
To guide our souls to heaven.

2 It sweetly cheers our drooping hearts,
In this dark vale of tears;
Life, light, and joy it still imparts,
And quells our rising fears.

3 This lamp, through all the tedious night
Of life, shall guide our way;
Till we behold the clearer light

Of an eternal day.

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108. Youthful Piety.

1 Ye hearts, with youthful vigor warm,
In smiling crowds draw near,
And turn from ev'ry mortal charm,
A Saviour's voice to hear.

2 He, Lord of all the worlds on high,
Stoops to converse with you;
And lays his radiant glories by,

Your friendship to pursue.

3 "The soul that longs to see my face
Is sure my love to gain;

And those that early seek my grace,
Shall never seek in vain."

4 What object, Lord, my soul should move,
If once compar'd with thee?
What beauty should command my love,
Like what in Christ I see?

5 Away, ye false, delusive toys,

Vain tempters of the mind!
"Tis here I fix my lasting choice,
And here true bliss I find.

109.

The Power of Faith.

1 Faith adds new charms to earthly bliss,

And saves us from its snares:

It yields support in all our toils,

And softens all our cares.

2 The wounded conscience knows its power, The healing balm to give;

That balm the saddest heart can cheer,
And make the dying live.

3 Wide it unveils the heavenly world,
Where endless pleasures reign;
It bids us seek our portion there,
Nor bids us seek in vain.

110.

Assurance of Hope desired.

1 Why should the children of a king
Go mourning all their days?
Great Comforter, descend, and bring
Some tokens of thy grace.

2 Dost thou not dwell in all the saints,
And seal the heirs of heaven?
When wilt thou banish my complaints,
And show my sins forgiv'n?

3 Assure my conscience of her part
In the Redeemer's blood;

And bear thy witness with my heart,
That I am born of God.

4 Thou art the earnest of his love,-
The pledge of joys to come;
And thy soft wings, celestial Dove,
Will safe convey me home.

111.

The Morning of the Lord's Day. 1 Early, my God, without delay, I haste to seek thy face; My thirsty spirit faints away, Without thy cheering grace.

2 So pilgrims, on the scorching sand, Beneath a burning sky,

Long for a cooling stream at hand;
And they must drink or die.

3 I've seen thy glory and thy power
Through all thy temple shine;
My God, repeat that heavenly hour,
That vision so divine.

4 Thus, 'till my last expiring day,
I'll bless my God and King;
Thus will I lift my hands to pray,
And tune my lips to sing.

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115.

Death of a young person.

1 When blooming youth is snatch'd away By death's resistless hand, Our hearts the mournful tribute pay

Which pity must demand.

2 While pity prompts the rising sigh,
Oh, may this truth, impress'd
With awful pow'r-"I too must die "
Sink deep in ev'ry breast.

3 The voice of this alarming scene
May ev'ry heart obey;
Nor be the heav'nly warning vain,
Which calls to watch, and pray.

4 Oh, let us fly, to Jesus fly,

Whose pow'rful arm can save;
Then shall our hopes ascend on high,
And triumph o'er the grave.

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On the Death of Children.

1 Ye mourning saints, whose streaming tears
Flow o'er your children dead,
Say not, in transports of despair,
That all your hopes are fled.

2 While, cleaving to that darling dust,
In fond distress ye lie,

Rise, and with joy, and reverence, view
A heavenly Parent nigh.

3 "I'll give the mourner," saith the Lord,
"In my own house a place;
No name of daughters and of sons
Could yield so high a grace.

4 "Transient and vain is every hope
A rising race can give;

In endless honor and delight,

My children all shall live.

5 We welcome, Lord, those rising tears, Through which thy face we see;

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And bless those wounds which, through our Prepare a way to thee.

118.

The Fall and its Effects.

1 When Adam sinned, through all his race
The dire contagion spread;-
Sickness and death, and deep disgrace
Sprang from our fallen head.

2 From God and happiness we fly,

To earth and sense confined;
Lost in a maze of misery,

Yet to our misery blind.

3 Corruption flows through all our veins,

Our mortal beauty's gone:

The gold is fled, the dross remains:
O sin, what hast thou done?

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119..

The World's three chief Temptations.

1 When, in the light of faith divine, We look on things below,Honor, and gold, and sensual joy,

How vain and dangerous too!

2 The pleasures that allure our sense Are dang'rous snares to souls; There's but a drop of flatt'ring sweet, And dash'd with bitter bowls.

3 God is mine all-sufficient good,

My portion and my choice;
In him my vast desires are fill'd,
And all my powers rejoice.

4 In vain the world accosts my ear,
And tempts my heart anew;

I cannot buy your bliss so dear,
Nor part with heaven for you.

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123.

Prayer for a Contrite Heart. 1 O for that tenderness of heart, Which bows before the Lord; Acknowledging how just thou art, And trembling at thy word.

2 O for those humble, contrite tears,
Which from repentance flow;

That consciousness of guilt, which fears
The long-suspended blow.

3 Saviour, to me, in pity, give

The sensible distress;

The pledge thou wilt at last receive,

And bid me die in peace;

4 Wilt from the dreadful day remove,
Before the evil come;

My spirit hide with saints above,
My body in the tomb.

124.

Safe trusting in God.

1 O Lord! my best desires fulfil,

And help me to resign

Life, health, and comfort, to thy will,

And make thy pleasure mine.

2 Why should I shrink at thy command, Whose love forbids my fears? Or tremble at the gracious hand

That wipes away my tears?

3 No-rather let me freely yield

What most I prize to thee,
Who never hast a good withheld,
Or wilt withhold from me.

4 Wisdom and mercy guide my way;
Shall I resist them both? -

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A poor, blind creature of a day,

And crushed before the moth!

125. Brotherly Love.

1 Lo, what an entertaining sight,
Are brethren who agree!
Brethren, whose cheerful hearts unite
In bands of piety.

2 When streams of love, from Christ the spring, Descend to ev'ry soul,

And heavenly peace, with balmy wing,
Shades and bedews the whole:

3 'Tis like the oil, divinely sweet,
On Aaron's rev'rend head;
The trickling drops perfum'd his feet,
And o'er his garments spread.

4 'Tis pleasant as the morning dews,
That fall on Zion's hill;
Where God his mildest glory shews,
And makes his grace distil.

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