Who lengthens out our trial here, 2 Barren and wither'd trees, We cumber'd long the ground; No fruit of holinefs On our dead fouls was found: Yet did he us in mercy fpare, Another, and another year. 3 When justice bar'd the fword, To cut the fig-tree down, The pity of our Lord, Cry'd-"Let it ftill alone :" The Father mild inclin'd his ear, And spar'd us yet another year. 4 Jefus, thy fpeaking blood 5 From God obtain'd the grace, Who therefore has beftow'd Then dig about our root, Break up our fallow ground, And let our gracious fruit To thy great praise abound. O let us all thy praise declare, And fruit unto perfection bear. BES HYMN 106.-For YOUTH. ESTOW, dear Lord, upon our youth And let the feed of facred truth, Fall in a fruitful place. Grace is a plant, where'er it grows, 3 Ye careless ones, O hear betimes The voice of fovereign love! Your youth is ftain'd with many crimes, But mercy reigns above. 4 True, you are young, but there's a stone, Within the youngest breaft; Or half the crimes which you have done Would rob you of your rest. 5 For you the public pray'r is made, 6 We pray that you may early prove, You cannot be too young to love 'L HYMN 107.FOR YOUTH. ET us adore the grace that seeks To draw our hearts above! Attend, 'tis God the Saviour speaks, And ev'ry word is love. 2 Tho' fill'd with awe, before his throne Each angel veils his face ; He claims a people for his own 3 Carelefs awhile, they live in fin, But they obey the call divine, 66 4 Come forth, he fays, no more purfuc "The paths that lead to death ; 5 My fons and daughters you shall be, "Thro' the atoning blood; "And you shall claim, and find, in me "A Father, and a God." 6 Lord, fpeak these words to ev'ry heart, By thine all-powerful voice; That we may now from fin depart, 7 If now, we learn to feek thy face, We'll praife thee for this hour of grace, B HYMN 108.- -FOR YOUTH, ENEATH the tyrant Satan's yoke, Our fouls were long oppreft; Till grace our galling fetters broke, And gave the weary reft. 2 Jefus, in that important hour, His mighty arm made known; 3 Now freed from bondage, fin, and death, 4 Ere long, we hope with him to dwell, 5 O! might we ere we hence remove, To feek, that they may likewife prove, 6 Like Simeon, we fhall gladly go. When Jefus calls us home; If they are left a feed below, To ferve him in our room. 7 Lord hear our pray'r, indulge our hope, That they may take our story up, I HYMN 109.ON CHARITY, B And melt with pity to the poor; Feels, what his fellow-faints endure. 2 His heart contrives for their relief, More good than his own hands can do; He in the time of gen'ral grief, Shall find the Lord has bowels too. 3 His foul fhall live fecure on earth, 4 Or if he languish on his couch, I HYMN I 10.- -ON CHARITY. HAP Who lends the poor without reward, 2 As pity dwells within his breaft So God fhall anfwer his request, |