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TIME AND ETERNITY.

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522. The Shortness of Time and Frailty of Man. L.M.

LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail Tam, &c.-PSALM xxxix. 4, &c.

ALMIGHTY maker of my frame,
Teach me the measure of my days!
Teach me to know how frail I am,
Aud spend the remnant to thy praise.
2 My days are shorter than a span;
A little point my life appears;
How frail, at best, is dying man!
How vain are all his hopes and fears!
3 Vain his ambition, noise, and show!
Vain are the cares which rack his mind!
He heaps up treasures mix'd with woe,
And dies, and leaves them all behind.

4 Oh, be a nobler portion mine,
My GOD! I bow before thy throne;
Earth's fleeting treasures I resign,
And fix my hope on thee alone.

523. The Sinner's Portion. and Saint's Hope. L.M.

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.-Ps. xvii. 15.

WHAT sinners value, I resign;
LORD, 'tis enough that thou art mine;

I shall behold thy blissful face, bis And stand complete in righteousness. 2 This life's a dream, an empty show But the bright world to which I go, Hath joys substantial and sincere When shall I wake and find me there.

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3 0 glorious hour! O blest abode!
I shall be near and like my GOD!
And flesh and sin no more controul
The sacred pleasures of the soul.
4 My flesh shall slumber in the ground,
Till the last trumpet's joyful sound;
Then burst the chains with sweet sur-
And in my SAVIOUR's image rise. [prise,

JUDGMENT. * 524. The Day of Judgment. 8-7-7.

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the LORD, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.-2 TIM. iv. 8.

WELCOME sight! the LORD descend-
JESUS in the clouds appears: [ing:
Lo! the SAVIOUR comes intending
Now to dry his people's tears,
Lo! the SAVIOUR comes to reign;
Welcome to his waiting train..

2 Long they mourn'd their absent Master; Long they felt like men forlorn:

Bid the seasons fly still faster, sez3While they sigh'd for his return ! Lo! the period comes at last:

All their sorrows now are past.

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3 Now from home no longer banish'd, 976dThey are going to his rest! 11vd Though the heav'ns and earth have vanish'd,

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With their LORD they shall be blest:
Blest with him his saints shall be:
Blest throughout eternity!

4 Happy people! grace unbounded,
Grace alone exalts you thus:
Be asham'd and be confounded:
Sing for ever-"Not to us,
"Not to us be glory giv❜n:
Glory to the GoD of Heav'n!"

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525. The Day of Judgment. 8-7-4.

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. -REV. i. 7.

LO! he comes, with clouds descending, Once for favour'd sinners slain ! Thousand thousand saints attending, Swell the triumph of his train:

Hallelujah!

JESUS now shall ever reign!

2 Ev'ry eye shall now bebold him,
Rob'd in dreadful majesty:

Those who set at nought and sold him,
Pierc'd and nail'd him to the tree,
Deeply wailing,

Shall the great Messiah see!

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3 [Ev'ry island, sea, and mountain,
Heav'n and earth shall flee away:
All who hate him must, confounded,
Hear the trump proclaim the day:
Come to judgment!

Come to judgment, come away!]
4 Now redemption, long expected,
See in solemn pomp appear!
All his saints, by man rejected,
Now shall meet him in the air!
Hallelujah!

See, the day of GoD appear!

5 Yea! Amen! let all adore thee,
High on thine exalted throne!
SAVIOUR! take the pow'r and glory!
Claim the kingdoms for thine own!
O come quickly!
Hallelujah! come LORD, come

526. The Day of Judgment. 8-7-4.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised. -1 COR. xv. 52.

DAY of judgment, day of wonders!
Hark! the trumpet's awful sound,
Louder than a thousand thunders,
Shakes the vast creation round!
How the summons

Will the sinner's heart confound!

2 See the Judge our nature wearing, Cloth'd in majesty divine!

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You who long for his appearing,
Then shall say, "This GoD is mine!"
Gracious SAVIOUR!

Own me in that day for thine!

3 At his call the dead awaken,

Rise to life from earth and sea;
All the powers of nature, shaken
By his looks prepare to flee:
Careless sinner!

What will then become of thee?

4 But to those who have confessed, Lov'd, and serv'd the LORD below, He will say, "Come near, ye blessed! "See the kingdom I bestow:

"You for ever

"Shall my love and glory know."

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