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Then anxious to be longer spar'd

Man mourns his fleeting breath; All evils then feem light, compar'd With the approach of Death.

'Tis Judgment shakes him; there's the fear
That prompts the wish to stay:

He has incurr'd a long arrear,
And must despair to pay.

Pay!-follow CHRIST, and all is paid;
His death your peace infures;

Think on the Grave where He was laid,

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De sacris autem hæc sit una sententia, ut conserventur.

CICERO DE legibus,

But let us all concur in this sentiment,

That things SACRED be INVIOLATE.

He lives who lives to GOD, alone;
And all are dead befide;

For other fource than God, is none
Whence life can be supplied.

To live to GOD, is to requite
His love as best we may;
To make his precepts our delight,
His promises our stay.

But life, within a narrow ring
Of giddy joys compris'd,
Is falfely nam'd, and no fuch thing,
But rather death disguis'd.

Can life in them deferve the name,

Who only live, to prove

For what poor toys, they can disclaim

An endless life above?

Who, much difeas'd, yet nothing feel; Much menac'd, nothing dread;

Have wounds, which only Gon can heal, Yet never afk his aid!

Who deem his houfe an ufelefs place;

Faith, want of common fenfe;

And ardour in the Chriftian race,

A hypocrite's pretence !

Who trample order; and the day
Which GOD afferts his own,
Dishonour with unhallow'd play,
And worship Chance alone!

If fcorn of God's commands, imprefs'd On word and deed, imply

The better part of man,

unblefs'd

With Life that cannot die;

Such want it; and that Want, uncur'd

Till man refign his breath,

Speaks him a Criminal, affur'd
Of everlasting death.

Sad period to a pleasant course !

Yet fo will GOD repay

Sabbaths profan'd without remorfe,
And Mercy caft away.

THE ENCHANTMENT DISSOLVED.

BLINDED in youth by Satan's arts,
The world to our unpractis'd hearts
A flatt'ring profpect shows;

Our fancy forms a thousand schemes
Of gay delights, and golden dreams,
And undisturb'd repofe,

So in the defert's dreary waste,
By magic pow'r produc'd in hafte,

(As ancient fables fay)

Caftles, and groves, and mufic fweet,
The fenfes of the trav'lier meet,
And ftop him in his way.

But while he liftens with furprise, The charm diffolves, the vifion dies, 'Twas but enchanted ground:

Thus if the Lord our fpirit touch,

The world, which promis'd us fo much,
A wilderness is found.

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LIGHT SHINING OUT OF DARKNESS.

At first we start, and feel diftrefs'd,
Convinc'd we never can have rest
In fuch a wretched place;

But He whofe mercy breaks the charm,
Reveals his own almighty arm,

And bids us feek his face.

Then we begin to live indeed,
When from our fin and bondage freed
By this beloved Friend;

We follow him from day to day,
Affur'd of thro' all the way,

grace

And glory at the end.

LIGHT SHINING OUT OF DARKNESS.

GOD moves in a mysterious way,

His wonders to perform;

He plants his footsteps in the fea,
And rides upon the storm.

Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never-failing skill,

He treasures up his bright defigns,
And works his fov'reign will.

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