Holy Jealousy and Watchfulness.
UKEWARM souls, the foe grows stronger,
See what hosts your camp surround ;
Arm to battle, lag no longer,
Hark! the silver trumpets sound.
Wake, ye sleepers; wake, what mean you?
Sin besets you round about:
Up, and search; the world's within you,
Slay, or chase the traitor out.
2 What enchants you; pelf or pleasure?
Pluck right eyes, with right hands part;
Ask your conscience, where's your treasure?
For, be certain, there's your heart.
Give the fawning foe no credit;
Lo the bloody flag's unfurl'd,
That base heart (the word hath said it)
Loves not God that loves the world.
3 God and Mammon? Oh! be wiser;
Serve them both? it cannot be;
Ease in warfare, saint and miser?
These will never well agree.
Shun the shame of foully falling,
Cumber'd captives, clogg'd with clay;
Prove your faith, make sure your calling:
Wield the sword, and win the day.
4 Forward pressing towards perfection,
Watch, and pray, and all things prove;
Seek to know your God's election;
Search his everlasting love:
Dread backsliding, scorn dissembling,
Now salvation's near in view;
Work it out, with fear and trembling,
"Tis your God that works in you.
HYMN DCCCI.
Humility and Retirement.
TOW vain is grandeur's purple pride!
And guards, and roofs of gold, how vain!
Through circling guards may sorrow glide,
And gilded roofs are claim'd by pain.
2 Give me, great God! unknown to dwell,
Remote from pomp, and care, and strife;
Secure from passions that rebel,
And shelter'd from the storms of life.
HYMN DCCCII.
A Call for grateful Praise.
ORAT. OF ABEL.
1 HOW cheerful the fields and the mead,. How gay does all nature appear;
The flocks, as they carelessly feed,
Rejoice in the spring of the year...
2 The foliage that shades the gay bowers,
The herbage that springs from the sod,
Trees, plants, cooling fruits, and fair flowers,
All rise to the praise of our God.
3 Shall man, the great master of all,
The only insensible prove?
Forbid it, fair gratitude's call!
Forbid it, devotion and love!
4 The Lord who such wonders could raise,
And still can destroy with a nod,
My lips shall incessantly praise,
My soul shall be wrapt in my God.
Send out thy Light and Truth.
BRIGHT as the sun's meridian blaze,
Vast as the blessings he conveys,
Wide as his reign from pole to pole,
And permanent as his controul:
2 So, Jesus, let thy kingdom come,
Then sin and hell's terrific gloom
Shall, at his brightness, flee away,
The dawn of an eternal day.
3 Then shall the heathen, fill'd with awe,
Learn the blest knowledge of thy law,
And Antichrist, on every shore,
Fall from his thrones to rise no more,
4 Then shall the Jew and Gentile meet,
In pure devotion, at thy feet:
And earth shall yield thee, as thy due,
Her fulness, and her glory too.
5 O! that from Britain now might shine
This heavenly light, this truth divine!
Till the whole universe shall be
But one great temple, Lord, for thee.
EE! the bright monarch of the day
In ocean dips his beams,
While from his brow a parting ray
In milder glory streams.
2 The moon, pale empress of the night,
In sweet succession reigns,
And finely paints with silver light
The mountains, vales, and plains.
3 The planets in progression rise,
And shine from pole to pole:
Their pleasing course delights our eyes,
And charms th' attentive soul
4 The starry arch in grandeur glows
Through all it's ample round:
Great GOD! thy power no limit knows,
Thy wisdom knows no bound,
The Incarnation of Christ.
N heaven the rapturous song began,
And sweet seraphic fire
Through all the shining legions ran,
And strung and tun'd the lyre.
2 Swift through the vast expanse it flew,
And loud the echo roll'd;
The theme, the song, the joy was new,
"Twas more than heaven could hold.
3 Down through the portals of the sky
Th' impetuous torrent ran;
And angels flew with eager joy
To bear the news to man.
4 Hark! the cherubic armies shout,
And glory leads the song;
Good-will and peace are heard throughout
Th' harmonious, heavenly throng.
5 With joy the chorus we'll repeat,
Glory to God on high;
"Good-will and peace are now complete, "Jesus was born to die."
6 Hail, Prince of life, for ever hail! Redeemer, Brother, Friend!.
Though earth, and time, and life should fail, Thy praise shall never end.
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