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Gentle, as a summer's eve;
Not one object of his care
Ever suffer'd shipwreck there!

5 See the haven full in view!

Love divine shall bear thee through:
Trust to that propitious gale,
Weigh thy anchor, spread thy sail!
Saints in glory perfect made,

Wait thy passage through the shade ;
Ardent for thy coming o'er,-
See, they throng the blissful shore!

6 Mount, their transports to improve;
Join the longing choir above;
Swiftly to their wish be given;
Kindle higher joy in heaven!
Such the prospects that arise
To the dying Christian's eyes!
Such the glorious vista, Faith
Opens through the shades of death!

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514. (1 Cor. xv. 55-57.)
1 VITAL spark of heavenly flame,
Quit, O quit this mortal frame!
Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying;
Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond nature! cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life!

2 Hark! they whisper-angels say,
'Sister spirit, come away!"
What is this absorbs me quite,
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,

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Heaven opens on my eyes!-my ears

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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly !
O Grave! where is thy victory?

O Death! where is thy sting?

All the invisible shall crowd; And the naked soul surrounded, With realities unknown, Triumph in the view unbounded, Feel herself with God alone.

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And receive its influence?

Angels, guard the new immortal

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To the everlasting portal,

To the spirit's resting place.

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Or absorb'd in pure devotion,

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With the very heart-strings twin'd?
Must she part, and part for ever,
With the friend she leaves behind?

4 No: the past she still remembers,

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5 Angels, let the ransom'd stranger
In your tender care be blest;
Hoping, trusting, safe from danger,
Till the trumpet end her rest:
Till the trump which shakes creation
Through the circling heavens shall roll,

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Till the day of consummation,

Till the bridal of the soul.

516.

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(PART II.)

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8's & 7's.

AN I trust a fellow being?
Can I trust an angel's care?

O thou merciful All-seeing,
Beam around my spirit there!
Jesus, blessed Mediator,

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2 Blessed fold! no fue can enter, And no friend departeth thence

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Thought, repress thy weak endeavour,
Here must Reason prostrate fall:

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517.

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(REV. i. 7.)

O! He comes, with clouds descending,
Once for favour'd sinners slain!
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Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of his train:
Hallelujah!

Jesus comes, and comes to reign,

2 Every eye shall now behold him,
Rob'd in dreadful majesty
Those who set at nought and sold him, ast
Pierc'd and nail'd him to the tree,onT

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3 Every island, sea and mountain,
Heaven and earth shall flee away;
All who hate him must, confounded, "
Hear the trump proclaim the day :
Come to Judgment!

Come to Judgment! come away.'
4 Now redemption, long expected,
See, in solemn pomp appear!
All his saints, by man rejected,
Now shall meet him in the air.
Hallelujah!

See the day of God appear!
5 Yea, amen! let all adore thee,
High on thine eternal throne!
Saviour, take the power and glory;
Claim the kingdom for thine own!
O come quickly,

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Hallelujah! come, Lord, come!

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E comes! he comes! the Judge severe i
The seventh trumpet speaks him near!
The lightnings flash, the thunders roll,
He's welcome to the faithful soul.

2 From heaven angelic voices sound,
See the almighty Jesus crown'd!
Girt with omnipotence and grace;
And glory decks the Saviour's face.
3 Shout, all ye people of the sky,
the sky,
And all ye saints of God most high;
Jesus, who now his right
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