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4 Then if the Gospel I refuse,?How shall I e'er lift up mine eyes??For all the Gentiles and the Jews?Against me will in judgment rise.
Song 7.?The Excellency of the Bible.
1 Great God, with wonder and with praise,?On all thy works I look;?But still thy wisdom, power and grace?Shine brighter in thy Book.
2 The stars that in their courses roll,?Have much instruction given;?But thy good Word informs my soul?How I may climb to heaven.
3 The fields provide me food, and show?The goodness of the Lord;?But fruits of life and glory grow?In thy most holy Word.
4 Here are my choicest treasures hid,?Here my best comfort lies;?Here my desires are satisfy'd;?And hence my hopes arise.
5 Lord, make me understand thy law,?Show what my faults have been;?And from thy Gospel let me draw?Pardon for all my sin.
6 Here would I learn how Christ has dy'd?To save my soul from hell:?Not all the books on earth beside?Such heav'nly wonders tell.
7 Then let me love my Bible more,?And take a fresh delight?By day to read these wonders o'er,?And meditate by night.
Song 8.?Praise to God for learning to read.
1 The praises of my tongue?I offer to the Lord,?That I was taught, and learnt so young?To read his holy Word.
2 That I am taught to know?The danger I was in,?By nature and by practice too?A wretched slave to sin.
3 That I am led to see?I can do nothing well;?And whither shall a sinner flee,?To save himself from hell?
4 Dear Lord, this book of thine?Informs me where to go?For grace to pardon all my sin,?And make me holy too.
5 Here I can read and learn?How Christ the Son of God?Did undertake our great concern,?Our ransom cost his blood.
6 And now he reigns above,?He sends his Spirit down,?To show the wonders of his love,?And make his Gospel known.
7 O may that Spirit teach,?And make my heart receive?Those truths which all thy servants preach,?And all thy saints believe!
8 Then shall I praise the Lord?In a more chearful strain,?That I was taught to read his Word,?And have not learnt in vain.
Song 9.?The All-Seeing God.
1 Almighty God, thy piercing eye?Strikes through the shades of night,?And our most secret actions lie?All open to thy sight.
2 There's not a sin that we commit,?Nor wicked word we say,?But in thy dreadful book `tis writ?Against the judgment-day.
3 And must the crimes that I have done?Be read and publish'd there,?Be all exposed before the sun,?While men and angels hear?
4 Lord, at thy feet ashamed I lie,?Upward I dare not look;?Pardon my sins before I die,?And blot them from thy book.
5 Remember all the dying pains?That my Redeemer felt,?And let his blood wash out my stains,?And answer for my guilt.
6 O may I now for ever fear?T' indulge a sinful thought,?Since the great God can see, and hear,?And writes down every fault!
Song 10.?Solemn Thoughts of God and Death.
1 There is a God that reigns above,?Lord of the heavens, and earth, and seas:?I fear his wrath, I ask his love,?And with my lips I sing his praise.
2 There is a law which he has writ,?To teach us all what we must do;?My soul, to his commands submit,?For they are holy, just and true.
3 There is a Gospel of rich grace,?Whence sinners all their comfort draw;?Lord, I repent, and seek thy face;?For I have often broke thy law.
4 There is an hour when I must die,?Nor do I know how soon `twill come;?A thousand children young as I?Are call'd by death to hear their doom.
5 Let me improve the hours I have?Before the day of grace is fled;?There's no repentance in the grave,?No pardons offer'd to the dead.
6 Just as a tree cut down, that fell?To north, or southward, there it lies:?So man departs to heaven or hell,?Fix'd in the state wherein he dies.
Song 11.?Heaven and Hell.
1 There is beyond the sky?A heaven of joy and love,?And holy children, when they die,?Go to that world above.
2 There is a dreadful hell,?And everlasting pains,?There sinners must with devils dwell?In darkness, fire, and chains.
3 Can such a wretch as I?Escape this cursed end??And may I hope, whene'er I die,?I shall to heaven ascend?
4 Then will I read and pray?While I have life and breath;?Lest I should be cut off to day,?And sent t' eternal death.
Song 12.?The Advantages of early Religion.
1 Happy's the child whose youngest years?Receive instruction well;?Who hates the sinner's path, and fears?The road that leads to hell.
2 When we devote our youth to God,?'Tis pleasing in his eyes;?A flower, when offer'd in the bud,?Is no vain sacrifice.
3 'Tis easier work if we begin?To fear the Lord betimes;?While sinners that grow old in sin?Are hard'ned in their crimes.
4 'Twill save us from a thousand snares?To mind religion young;?Grace will preserve our following years?And make our vertue strong.
5 To thee, Almighty God, to thee?Our childhood we resign;?'Twill please us to look back and