Nor have words that can express Those who love thee as they pass, What we owe to love divine; LI. THE CHRISTIAN. HONOUR and happiness unite To make the Christian's name a praise; How fair the scene, how clear the light, That fills the remnant of his days! A kingly character he bears, No change his priestly office knows; Unfading is the crown he wears, His joys can never reach a close. Adorn'd with glory from on high, Salvation shines upon his face; His robe is of the ethereal dye, His steps are dignity and grace. Inferior honours he disdains, Nor stoops to take applause from earth; The King of kings himself maintains The expenses of his heavenly birth. The noblest creature seen below, His kingdom of eternal love! My soul is ravish'd at the thought! And shout him welcome to the skies! LII. LIVELY HOPE AND GRACIOUS FEAR. I WAS a groveling creature once, I wanted spirit to renounce But God has breathed upon a worm, Wings such as clothe an angel's form, With these to Pisgah's top I fly, The Lord of all the vast domain The length and breadth of all the plain How glorious is my privilege! I stand upon a mountain's edge, Though much exalted in the Lord, LIII. FOR THE POOR. WHEN Hagar found the bottle spent, A message from the Lord was sent Should not Elijah's cake and cruse † A gracious God will not refuse His saints and servants shall be fed, Repasts far richer they shall prove, LIV. MY SOUL THIRSTETH FOR GOD. I THIRST, but not as once I did, The vain delights of earth to share; Thy wounds, Emmanuel, all forbid That I should seek my pleasures there. It was the sight of thy dear cross First wean'd my soul from earthly things; And taught me to esteem as dross The mirth of fools and pomp of kings. * Gen. xxi. 19. +1 Kings, xvii. 14. Isa. xxxiii. 16. Dear fountain of delight unknown! Or yields him meaner fruit than I. LV. LOVE CONSTRAINING TO OBEDIENCE. No strength of nature can suffice How long beneath the law I lay But toil'd without success. Then, to abstain from outward sin Then all my servile works were done Now, freely chosen in the Son, I freely choose his ways. "What shall I do," was then the word, "That I may worthier grow? 'What shall I render to the Lord ?" Is my inquiry now. To see the law by Christ fulfill'd, And hear his pardoning voice, Changes a slave into a child,* And duty into choice. Romans, iii. 31. LVI. THE HEART HEALED AND CHANGED BY SIN enslaved me many years, And make the Lord my friend? But my blindness still was such, Much I fasted, watch'd, and strove, Thus afraid to trust his grace, Long time did I rebel; Down at his feet I fell : By a simple word he spoke, LVII. HATRED OF SIN. HOLY Lord God! I love thy truth, |