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3 But know, thy Judge with watchful eye
Marks every daring fin;
Thy open crimes all naked lie,

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And all that lurks within.

Whate'er thou haft in darkness done,
To fhun a public fhame,

He will expofe before the fun,

And to the world proclaim.

5 O how wilt thou abide his frown,
Thy awful fentence bear?

Let not the thought away be thrown,
But stop thy mad career.

6 Renounce each dear and tempting vice,
Thy loofe affociates fly;

Be ferious, fober, chafte, and wife,
And virtue's pleasures try.

7. That when thy righteous Judge fhall come, In all his glories drest;

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Thou may'ft ferenely wait thy doom,

The voice which hails thee bleft.

CCCXXXIII. Common Metre. UNKNOWN.

Youth admonished.

ETHINK, ye heedlefs youths, in time;

B Wifely your hour enjoy ;

Nor, idly fportive, wafte your prime
In ways that peace destroy.

2 Let virtue's footsteps guide your way,
And where the leads pursue;
Nor ever from her precepts ftray,
But keep them ftill in view.

3 Of her poffeft, in her you'll find Delights of truer taste;

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Content of heart, with peace of mind,
And joys that ever laft.

CCCXXXIV. Long Metre. DODDRIDGE.

The one Thing needful.

WHY will ye wafte on trifling cares
The life, which heavenly mercy

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spares ;

While in your various range of thought
The one thing needful is forgot?

2 Why will ye chafe the fleeting wind,
And famifh an immortal mind;
While angels with regret look down
To fee you spurn a heavenly crown?

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The voice of God calls from above, Your Saviour pleads his dying love, Confcience inflicts her bofom pain; And shall they join their pleas in vain ?

Not fo your dying eyes fhall view Those objects, which ye now pursue; Nor fo eternity appear,

When the decifive hour is near.

Almighty God, thy aid impart
To fix conviction on the heart;
That we our trueft good may fee,
And our affections raife to thee.

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cccxxxv. Long Metre.
Religion approved in every View.

OW foolish to oppose to God
Our paffions, or in other road
The happiness of mind purfue,

Than what with favour God may view.

'Tis impious to suspect his will,

Or deem it capable of ill;

'Tis defperate madness to refift

The power, which ordereth what it lift.

But though nor impious nor unwife
The man, who Providence defies:

The heart, which love of God has fled,
To every good affection's dead.

Though many faults do me reprove;
Religion, thee I dearly love.

Come, faireft feraph, breathe thy fire,
And all thy bleffed peace infpire.

If aught this foul of mine can raise,
Thine is the power, be thine the praise :
Teach me a more exalted mind,
From every low defire refined.

Though frail, not obftinate in crime;
Strengthened in good by hope fublime;
If bleft, forgetful not of God,

Nor funk, when chaftened by his rod.
Mild, humble, docile, just and kind,
To every fellow-good inclined.
Come, holy feraph, breathe thy fire,
And all thy virtuous foul infpire.

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The fame.

IS religion that can give

Trueft pleasures while we live :

'Tis religion must supply

Solid comforts when we die.

After death its joys will be
Lafting as eternity.

Let me then make God my friend,
And on all his ways attend.

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The Neceffity and the Blessedness of Revelation.

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The error of his ways?

Left to himself, with daring mind,
From God and heaven he ftrays.

The favage and the fage
Alike this truth proclaim;
And every nation, every age,
Partakes the general shame.
Nor could our fallen race
Recovery e'er have known,
If God his better truth and grace
In mercy had not shown.

O welcome to my heart

This cure of human ill!

O God, thy prefence ftill impart
To work in me thy will.

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A man, may I abhor

Beneath the man to move :
A Chriftian, may I higher foar,
And answer all thy love.

CCCXXXVIII. Long Metre. BARBAULD.
The Chriftian Warfare.

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WAKE my foul, lift up thine eyes; See where thy foes against thee rife, In long array, a numerous hoft Awake, my foul, or thou art loft.

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2 Here giant danger threat'ning stands,
Muftering his pale terrific bands;
There pleasure's filken banners spread,
And willing fouls are captive led.

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See where rebellious paffions rage,
And fierce defires and lufts engage;
The meaneft foe of all the train
Has thousands and ten thousands flain.

Thou treadeft upon enchanted ground, Perils and fnares beset thee round; Beware of all, guard every part,

But most, the traitor in thy heart.

Come then, my foul, now learn to wield The weight of thine immortal shield; Put on the armour from above

Of heavenly truth and heavenly love.

The terror and the charm repel, And powers of earth, and powers of hell: The man of Calvary triumphed here, Nor fhould his faithful followers fear.

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