3. From Satan's all bewitching guiles, His fatal power and traitrous smiles; From all that hardens or defiles,

Good Lord, deliver me!

4. From worldly men and worldly snares, From anxious hopes and earth-born cares, From all that Christian life impairs,

Good Lord, deliver me!

5. From terrors of unconquer'd death, And the sad boasts it often saith, When it assaults the failing breath,

Good Lord, deliver me!

6. From hell's inextricable state,

Where dwells unutterable hate

Which endless night cannot abate,

Good Lord, deliver me!

7. From thousand ills that here below, Flow on and will not cease to flow, Till Christ in glory I shall know,

Good Lord, deliver me!

CCCXIV.

EARTHLY HOPE.

(Anon.)

1. THE wing of time hath brush'd away The hopes that once were fair and bright;

Sweet flowers that lasted scarce a day,
Closed e'er the sun had set in night.

2. Hope was the life-breath of my heart,
But ah! her magic charms are fled :
Take back thy promises,--we part:
Thy rosy wreathes are wither'd,—dead!
3. I thought the rapid hours too few

;

For fancy woke such happy dreams,
As turn'd to rapture all she knew

Of life, with it's uncertain schemes.
4. But O! my heart,-truth would not seal
The flatteries of life's early day;
And sanguine hope, and youthful zeal,
And promised joys have flown away.

CCCXV.

SECOND PART.

5. YET, though my earthly hopes are dead,
And storms upon my pathway rise;
Though peace hath long this bosom fled,
Faith points a way to yonder skies.
6. I hope ;-I fear;-oh, for a guide!
My faith is weak: the storm is keen:
Be Thou my refuge,-Jesus, hide!
Again I live;-His light is seen!

7. Sorrow shall cease amongst the blest,

And pain, and sin, and torturing care: Oh, Saviour, strengthen in my breast Desires Thyself hast planted there! 8. And, when my soul, with parting sigh, Shall wing it's way to shores unknown; Safe shall I be, if Thou art nigh, If Thou wilt then thy creature own!

CCCXVI.

OMNIPRESENCE.

Guion, translated by Cowper. Music, 29th Ps. Mel. Sac.
1. OH Thou by long experience tried,
Near whom no grief can long abide;
My Lord, how full of calm content
I pass my years of banishment!

2. All scenes alike engaging prove
To souls impress'd with sacred love!
Where'er they dwell, they dwell in Thee;
In heaven, in earth, or on the sea,
3. To me remains nor place nor time;
My country is in every clime:

I can be calm and free from care
On any shore, since God is there.

4. While place we seek, or place we shun,
The soul finds happiness in none;
But, with a GOD to guide our way,
'Tis equal joy to go or stay.

5. Could I be cast where Thou wert not,
That were indeed a dreadful lot;
But regions none remote I call,
Secure of finding God in all.

CCCXVII.

HUMAN TRANSGRESSION.

Psalm cxix. 136, 158.
Doddridge.

1. ARISE, my tenderest thoughts, arise;
To torrents melt my streaming eyes:
And thou, my heart, with anguish feel
For evils, which thou canst not heal.
2. See human nature sunk in shame:
See scandals pour'd on Jesu's name;
The Father wounded through the Son;
His word abused; the soul undone.
3. See man's short course of vain delight
Closing in everlasting night;

In flames that no abatement know,
Though briny tears for ever flow.

4. My God! I feel the mournful scene; My bowels yearn o'er dying men: And fain my pity would reclaim

And snatch the firebrands from the flame. 5. But feeble my compassion proves,

And can but weep where most it loves;
Thine own all-saving arm employ,
And turn these streams of grief to joy!

CCCXVIII.

I HAVE SINNED.

(Abridged, from Montgomery.) 2 Sam. xii. 13. 1. I LEFT the God of truth and light, I left the God who gave me breath, To wander in the wilds of night, And perish in the snares of death.

2. Sweet was His service, and His yoke Was light and easy to be borne ; Through all the bonds of love I broke, I cast away His gifts with scorn.

3. I danced in folly's giddy maze,

And drank the sea, and chased the wind
But falsehood lurked in all her ways,
Her laughter left remorse behind.