Thy threatenings wake my slumbering

eyes,

And warn me where my danger lies;
They show me all my guilt and shame,
And make me prize the Saviour's name.

May this blest volume ever lie,
Close to my heart and near my eye;
Till life's last hour my thoughts engage,
And be my chosen heritage.

422 WITH one consent let all the earth

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To God their cheerful voices raise ;
Glad homage pay with awful mirth,
And sing before him songs of praise.

Convinced that he is God alone,
From whom both we and all proceed;
We, whom he chooses for his own,
The flock that he vouchsafes to feed.

For he's the Lord, supremely good,
His mercy is for ever sure;

His truth, which always firmly stood,
To endless ages shall endure.

423 THE Covenant of grace all blessings

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secures,

Believer, rejoice, for all things are yours;

And God from his purpose will never remove,

But love thee, and bless thee, and rest in

his love.

424 CHILD of sorrow, do they leave thee, Those on whom thy hopes were

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stayed?

Jesus calls, and will receive thee

With a love which cannot fade ;
Hark, he bids thee

Seek the home for sinners made.

425 THE Lord hath eyes to give the blind;

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The Lord supports the sinking mind;
He helps the stranger in distress,
The widow and the fatherless.

His truth for ever stands secure :
He saves the oppress'd, he feeds the
poor:

He sends the labouring conscience
peace,

And grants the prisoners sweet release.

426 WHAT though no flowers the fig-tree

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clothe,

Though vines their fruit deny,

The labour of the olive fail,

And fields no meat supply:

Though from the fold, with sad surprise,
My flock cut off I see;
Though famine pine in empty stalls,
Where herds were won't to be:

Yet in the Lord will I be glad,

And glory in his love;

In him I'll joy, who will the God
Of my salvation prove.

God is the treasure of my soul,
The source of lasting joy,

A joy which want shall not impair,
Nor death itself destroy.

427 THE Lord, the Judge, before his throne
Bids the whole world draw nigh;
The nations near the rising sun,
And near the western sky.

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No more shall bold blasphemers say,
"Judgment will ne'er begin ;"
No more abuse his long delay
To impudence and sin.

Thron'd on a cloud our God shall come,
Bright flames prepare his way;
Thunder and darkness, fire and storm,
Lead on the dreadful day.

429 O THAT God's children here below,

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Might thus his laws fulfil,

And each, where God has placed him, know,

And do his holy will.

Guide us, O Lord, by grace divine,

That we may never stray;
May Christ our Sun, for ever shine
Upon our heavenward way.

430 OZION, when I think on thee,
I wish for pinions like the dove,
And mourn to think that I should be
So distant from the place I love.

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But yet we shall behold the day
When Zion's children shall return;
Our sorrows then shall flee away,
And we shall never, never mourn.
The hope that such a day will come
Makes e'en the captives' portion sweet;
Tho' now we wander far from home,
In Zion soon we all shall meet.

431 AS parched in the barren sands,
Beneath a burning sky,

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The worthless bramble with'ring stands,
And only grows to die ;

Such is the sinner's awful case,
Who makes the world his trust,
And dares his confidence to place
In vanity and dust.

A secret curse destroys his root,
And dries his moisture up;

He lives a while, but bears no fruit,
Then dies without a hope.

432 PRESERVE me from the snares of sin

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Through my remaining days;

And in me let each virtue shine

To my Redeemer's praise.

Let deep repentance, faith and love,
Be join'd with godly fear;
And all my conversation prove
My heart to be sincere.

Teach thou my soul all sin to hate,

And loathe the thing unclean;
Thine image in me new-create,
And keep me pure from sin.

433 REASON'S glimmering light is vain Till thy Spirit I receive :

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He thy language must explain,
He must give me to believe.
Then thy wisdom's gift is mine
When thou dost the truth reveal ;
Then I see the Lamb divine,
All the mysteries unseal.

All the seven seals he breaks,
Every truth of grace makes known ;
All his children wise he makes,
But their wisdom is his own.

434 JESUS, thy mighty kingdom rear,

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A stone unhewn of mortal hands,
Let the fifth monarchy appear,

And spread its way o'er all the lands.
Now let that stone the image smite,
And break the iron and the clay ;
Conquer by thy blest Spirit's might,
And force the nations to obey.

Lord, let thy kingdom now prevail,
And all opposing power disperse ;
Soon to a boundless mountain swell,
And fill the happy universe.

435 FATHER of mercies! in thy word

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What endless glory shines!

For ever be thy name adored,

For these celestial lines.

The best relief that mourners have,
It makes our sorrows blest;
Our fairest hope beyond the grave,
And our eternal rest.