4 "Be wife as ferpents where you go, Thus fhall your doctrines be believ'd, Dymn CCLIV. Common Metre. [*] Divine Goodness to Man. HY wifdom, power and goodness, Lord, But man thy bounties fhall record, 2 From thee, the breath of life we drew, Our brittle frame fuftains. 3 Yet nobler gifts demand our praife, By revelation's brighter rays 4 Thy providence our conflant guard, Will either threat'ning dangers ward, 5 On us thy providence has fhone Olet cur lips and lives make known 6 All bounteous Lord, thy grace impart; Thy gifts with ever grateful heart, Mrs. STEELE. bpmn CCLV. Short Metre. [or] The Voice of Wisdom. IS wifdom's earnest cry, TW To young and old, the low and high, 2 Within the human breaft She calls with open arms; "How long, ye fools, will you embrace Folly's deceiving charms?" 4 "The race of men I love; Severely faithful, I reprove; 3 Far, far above our humble fongs, O let our warm affections move, 5 Let faith our feeble fenfes aid, To fee thy wond'rous love difplay'd; Hymn CCLIX. Mrs. STEELE. Long Metre. [*] The Heavenly Conqueror. 10 Jefus, our victorious Lord, Forever be his name ador'd, -The subject of each thankful fong. 2 Enflav'd by fin, befet by foes, Undone and perifhing, we lay; His pity melted o'er our woes, To fave the trembling, dying prey. 3 He fought, he conquer'd, though he fell, Whilft with his laft expiring breath He triumph'd o'er the powers of hell, To crown the dying Conq'ror's brow; Mrs. STEELE. Hymn CCLX. Long Metre. [b] The Lord's Supper. WAS on that dark and doleful night, 'T When powers of earth and hell arofe 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 bleft, and brake; What love through all his actions ran; What wond'rous words of grace he spake! 3 "This is my body, broke for fin, Receive and eat the living food :" Then took the cup, and bleft the wine, We fhow thy death, we fing thy name; WATTS. Hymn CCLXI. Com. Metre. [or] V The New Birth. AIN are the hopes the fons of men The carnal mind is all unclean, And all its actions guilt. 2 Let Jew and Gentile ftop their mouth, And the whole race of Adam stand 3 In vain we afk God's righteous law When, to convince and to condemn 4 Not all the outward forms on earth, Nor rites that Mofes gave; Nor will of men, nor blood, nor birth, God's Spirit, like a heavenly wind, Blows on the fens of flesh; |