L. 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; 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! LI. LIVELY HOPE AND GRACIOUS FEAR. I was a grovelling creature once, I wanted spirit to renounce The clod that gave me birth. But God has breath'd upon a worm, 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! Though much exalted in the Lord, Then let me tremble at his word, And none shall cast me down. LII. FOR THE POOR. WHEN Hagar found the bottle spent, A message from the Lord was sent Should not Elijah's cake and cruise + A gracious God will not refuse His saints and servants shall be fed, "Bread shall be given them," he has said, Repasts far richer they shall prove, To Jesus then your trouble bring, While you are poor and he is King, LIII. 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. Gen. xxi. 19. +1 Kings xvii. 14. Isa. xxxiii. 16. 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. I want that grace that springs from thee, LIV. LOVE CONSTRAINING TO OBEDIENCE. No strength of nature can suffice How long beneath the law I lay Then, to abstain from outward sin Was more than I could do; Now, if I feel its power within, I feel I hate it too. Then, all my servile works were done I freely choose his ways. "What shall I do," was then the word, "That I may worthier grow ?" To see the law by Christ fulfill'd, LV. THE HEART HEALED AND CHANGED SIN enslaved me many years, *Romans iii. 31. |