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Through Christ we shall victorious prove, And live and reign with him above.

618.

148th,

"I will lead them in paths that they have not known."-Isa. xlii. 16.

THE path that Christians tread
To reason's eye is strange;
Through regions of the dead,
They frequently must range;
Ten thousand monstrous beasts of prey

Beset the soul by night and day.

We must not learn God's truth
As school-boys learn their task;
Such knowledge is not proof
Against delusion's blast:

An empty knowledge bloats with air,
But dies when dreadful storms appear.

Christians oft pray for faith;

To trace God's beauties more;
To triumph over death;

And Jesus' name adore:

God hears and answers their desire;

But 'tis through scenes of floods and fire.

[Sin, arm'd with all the spleen

Of enmity to God,

Oft rises up within,

And scorns the Saviour's blood: A world of filth, too base to name, Beset and plunge the soul in shame. To pray, he thinks too bold, While he in silence mourns;

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617.

Flesh and Spirit.-Gal. v. 17.

THE new man and the old
By no means can agree;
The one in sin is bold,

From sin the other's free:
The principles of grace and sin
A constant warfare must maintain.

[One loves to watch and pray,
And walk in Jesus' path;

The other hates the way,
And loves the road to death;

148th.

Christ is the new man's boast and joy;
Flesh doth the old man satisfy.]

Christ, and him crucified,
The new man loves to view;
Lust, vanity, and pride,

The old man will pursue;

One pants with God to live and reign,
The other hates his sovereign name.

The principle of grace

On Jesus puts the crown;

But sin, with shameless face,

Would pull his glory down:

Jesus shall reign, the new man cries; His right to reign the flesh denies.

Well, let old nature toil;

The warfare can't be long;

And Christians, with a smile,
Shall sing the conqueror's song;

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[Heart and flesh may fail, 'tis true;.
Sin and Satan plague them too!
Hell and earth their powers unite,
Christ to banish from their sight.
For a season, they may be
Left at an uncertainty,

Overwhelm'd with fear and doubt,
Scarcely know what they're about.
6 Yet they feel a panting mind
For a God supremely kind;
Satisfied they cannot be,
But as they his beauty see.]

620.

L. M.

"The heart is deceitful above all things."-Jer. xvii. 9.

SIN has a thousand pleasing charms, Which flatter to preserve from harms; She richly gilds her pleasing baits, And calls her trash delicious sweets. 2 Young men and maidens, rich and poor, Are pleased with her deceptive ore: There's scarce an eye that views the light, But she can charm by day or night. 3 Nor are the vessels of the Lord Free from the chirpings of this bird: Her craft and spleen she'll make them feel, And make them like a drunkard reel.

4 Her nature's serpentine indeed;

Her strength could make a Sampson yield; Nor David could against her stand,

When David's God withheld his hand.

5 Good God! what can a mortal do,
With such a cursed, artful foe?
Let grace divine my soul defend,
Nor let me to this monster bend.

6 [Work in me, Lord, to will and do,
My way to Zion to pursue;

And while I tread the thorny road,
Teach me to lean upon my God.]

621.

L. M.

"The carnal mind is enmity against God."-Rom. viii. 7.

THE carnal mind takes different ways,
And different objects she surveys;

She's pleased with things that suit her taste,
But hates the God of truth and grace.

2 No beauty in the Lord she views,
Nor is she charm'd with gospel-news;
She sets at nought, with vain contempt,
The Man the Lord Jehovah sent.

3 She hates him as the mighty God,
The church's Wisdom, Life, and Head;
His priestly office she disdains,

And wantons with his wounds and pains. 4 Whatever office Jesus bears,

Or in what glorious form appears,
She was, and is, and still will be,
Against him dreadful enmity.

5 [Is this the case? yes, Lord, 'tis true;
And I've a carnal nature too,

That fights, with all its hellish might,
Against the God of my delight.

4 [Heart and flesh may fail, 'tis true;
Sin and Satan plague them too!
Hell and earth their powers unite,
Christ to banish from their sight.
5 For a season, they may be
Left at an uncertainty,

Overwhelm'd with fear and doubt,
Scarcely know what they're about.
6 Yet they feel a panting mind
For a God supremely kind;
Satisfied they cannot be,
But as they his beauty see.]

620.

L. M.

"The heart is deceitful above all things."-Jer. xvii. 9.

SIN has a thousand pleasing charms, Which flatter to preserve from harms; She richly gilds her pleasing baits, And calls her trash delicious sweets. 2 Young men and maidens, rich and poor, Are pleased with her deceptive ore: There's scarce an eye that views the light, But she can charm by day or night. 3 Nor are the vessels of the Lord Free from the chirpings of this bird: Her craft and spleen she'll make them feel, And make them like a drunkard reel.

4 Her nature's serpentine indeed;

Her strength could make a Sampson yield;
Nor David could against her stand,
When David's God withheld his hand.