Yet GOD the same abiding, His praise shall tune my voice; For while in him confiding, I cannot but rejoice. L. [BK. III. xlix.] TRUE PLEASURES LORD, my soul with pleasure springs, When JESUS' name I hear; And when GOD the Spirit brings The word of promise near: Beauties too, in holiness, Still delighted I perceive; Nor have words that can express The joys thy precepts give. 32 8 Cloth'd in sanctity and grace, How sweet it is to see Those who love thee as they pass, Those the comforts I possess, LI. [BK. III. 1.] THE CHRISTIAN HONOUR and happiness unite To make the Christian's name a praise; A kingly character he bears, No change his priestly office knows; 16 24 8 Adorn'd with glory from on high, Inferior honours he disdains, Nor stoops to take applause from earth; The noblest creature seen below, My soul is ravish'd at the thought! And shout him welcome to the skies! LII. [BK. III. li.] LIVELY HOPE, AND GRACIOUS FEAR I WAS a groveling creature once, I wanted spirit to renounce But God has breath'd upon a worm, And sent me, from above, Wings, such as clothe an angel's form, The wings of joy and love. With these to Pisgah's top I fly, And there delighted stand; 16 24 8 The LORD of all the vast domain, Has promis'd it to me; The length and breadth of all the plain, 16 As far as faith can see. How glorious is my privilege! I stand upon a mountain's edge, Tho' much exalted in the LORD, And none shall cast me down. 24 LIII. [BK. III. lvii.] FOR THE POOR WHEN Hagar found the bottle spent', A message from the LORD was sent Should not Elijah's cake and cruse2 A gracious GOD will not refuse His saints and servants shall be fed, "Bread shall be giv'n them," he has said, Repasts far richer they shall prove, TO JESUS then your trouble bring, While you are poor, and he is King, LIV. [BK. III. lxi.] MY SOUL THIRSTETH FOR GOD I THIRST, but not as once I did, The vain delights of earth to share; It was the sight of thy dear cross, I want that grace that springs from thee, 2 1 Kings xvii. 14. 1 Gen. xxi. 19. 3 Isa. xxxiii. 16. 8 16 8 provision A. 11 he has 1779, 1781, A.: as he later edd. 13 Repasts] Delights 17 troubles A. 19 While... and] Supply is sure while A. Dear fountain of delight unknown! LV. [BK. III. lxii.] LOVE CONSTRAINING TO OBEDIENCE How long beneath the law I lay I toil'd the precept to obey, Was more than I could do; 16 8 Then to abstain from outward sin Then all my servile works were done Now, freely chosen in the Son, I freely choose his ways. 16 What shall I do, was then the word, That I may worthier grow? What shall I render to the LORD? To see the Law by Christ fulfill'd, And duty into choice. LVI. [BK. III. lxiii.] THE HEART HEALED AND SIN enslav'd me many years, LV-2 the om. 1779. 24 Where, I said in deep distress, Friends and ministers said much Thus afraid to trust his grace, Till, despairing of my case, Down at his feet I fell : Then my stubborn heart he broke, By a simple word he spoke, LVII. [BK. III. lxiv.] HATRED OF SIN HOLY LORD GOD! I love thy truth, But tho' the poison lurks within, Had I a throne above the rest, Would make that heav'n as dark as hell. The pris'ner, sent to breathe fresh air, Would mourn, were he condemn'd to wear But oh no foe invades the bliss, When glory crowns the Christian's head; Will strike all sin for ever dead. 8 16 24 8 16 |