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HYMN 265.

DESIRING CHRIST.

COME, O thou univerfal good!

Balm of the wounded confcience,
come!

The hungry, dying fpirit's food;
The weary, wand'ring pilgrim's home;
Haven to take the fhipwreck'd in,
My everlasting reft from fin!

2 Come, O my comfort and delight!
My ftrength, and health, and shield, and

fun;

My boast, my confidence, and might,
My joy, my glory, and my crown;
My gofpel-hope, my calling's prize,
My tree of life, my paradife..

HYMN 266.

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SALVATION.

ALVATION! O the joyful found!
What pleasure to our ears l

A foy'reign balm for ev'ry wound,
A cordial for our fears.

2 Salvation let the echo fly.
The fpacious earth around,
While all the armies of the sky
Confpire to raise the found

3 Salvation! O thou bleeding Lamb!
To thee the praise belongs:
Salvation fhall infpire our hearts,
And dwell upon our tongues.

HYMN 267.

EVERY CREATURE AT GOD'S COMMAND.

ELIJAH'S example declares,

Whatever diftrefs may betide,

The faints may commit all their cares
To him who will always provide.
When rain long withheld from the earth
Occafion'd a famine of bread,
The prophet, fecur'd from the dearth,
By ravens was conftantly fed.

2 More likely to rob than to feed,

Were ravens who live upon prey; But where the LORD's people have need, His goodness will find out a way. This inftance, to thofe may feem ftrange, Who know not how faith can prevail; But fooner all nature fhall change, Than one of God's promifes fail.

3 Nor is it a fingular cafe';"

The wonder is often renew'd;
And many may fay to God's praife,
By ravens he fendeth them food.

Thus worldlings, tho' ravens indeed,
Tho' greedy and selfish their mind,
If God has a fervant to feed,

Against their own wills can be kind, 4 Thus Satan, the raven unclean,

That croaks in the ears of the faints, O'errul'd by a power unseen,

Adminifters oft to their wants: GOD teaches them how to find food From all the temptations they feel: This raven who thirfts for my blood, Has help'd me to many a meal. 5 How fafe and how happy are they Who on the good Shepherd rely! He'll give them out ftrength for their day, Their wants he will furely fupply. He ravens and lions can tame;

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All creatures obey his command:
Then let me rejoice in his name,

And leave all my cares in his hand.

HYMN 268.

VANITY OF THE WORLD.

GOD gives his mercies to be spent,
Your hoard will do your foul no good;

Gold is a bleffing only lent,
Repaid by giving others food..

2 The world's esteem is but a bribe: To buy their peace you'll fell your own; The flave of a vainglorious tribe,

Who hate you while they make you
known.

3 The joy that vain amusements give,
O fad conclufion that it brings;
The honey of a crouded hive,
Defended by a thousand stings.

4 'Tis thus the world rewards the fools
That live upon her treach'rous fmiles;
She leads them blindfold by her rules,
And ruins all whom she beguiles.

5 God knows the thousands who go down
From pleasure into end lefs woe:
They give a long defpairing groan,
And dread their Maker as they go.
6 O fearful thought! be timely wife,
Delight but in a Saviour's charms,
And GOD fhall take you to the fkies,
Embrac'd in everlasting arms.

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COME

HYMN 269.

OME, guilty fouls, and flee away,
Like doves, to JESU's wounds;
This is the welcome gospel-day,
Wherein free grace abounds.

2 GOD lov'd the world, and gave his Son

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To drink the cup of wrath;
And JESUS fays he'll caft out none
That come to him by faith.

HYMN

270

SELF-ACQUAINTANCE.

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EAR LORD, accept a finful heart
Which of itself complains,

And mourns with much & frequent smart,

The evil it contains.

2 Those fiery feeds of anger lurk,
That often hurt my frame,
And wait but for the tempter's work
To fan them to a flame.

3 Legality holds out a bribe

To purchafe life from thee,
And discontent would fain prefcribe
How thou shalt deal with me.

4 While unbelief withstands thy grace,
And puts the mercy by,

Prefumption with a brow of brafs
Says, Give me, or I die.

5 How eager are my thoughts to roam
In queft of what they love!
But ah when duty calls them home,
How heavily they move?

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