2 From unbelief, impatience, pride 3 Our giddy minds would rove abroad; They scarcely mifs the downward road, 4 Unprofitablek fervants in 50 grant that ev'ry one may feel CXLV. Confeffion and Prayer. G Hence we deferve thy frown: To duties we are dragg'd along, take is 2 How cold are we? how loath to pray, Or feek the things above? Hereby we do thy calls gainfay, And daily grieve thy love. (k) Luke xvii. 10. (1) Deut. x. 17.—2 Chron. ii. 5. Let the half-hearted in the work of GoD attend carefully to the awful meffage written to the Church of the Laodiceans, which equally belongs to all other lukewarm Profeffors,-I know thy works, &c. Rev. iii. 14, &c. 3 If thou fhould all our misdeeds mark Amidft the blaze of day. ΩΣ 4 We therefore grieve, and now confefs 5 Through Chrift thy mercy magnify", 6 Defcend and let thy love infpire, K CXLVI. Confeffion and Prayer. IND as thou art, we faithlefs are Who waiteth long, and ftill doth spare 2 Deep in our hearts imprefs thy love, And from thy glorious throne above 3 Vanquish like fmoke our doubts and fears, That darkness or diftreffing tears (m)' Pfal. cxxx. 3. (n) Pfal. cxlv. 8,9. (p) Matt. ix. 6. (q) Zech. xiii. 9.-Mal. iii. 2, 3.* (f) Isa, xlv. 21, 22.-Jude 25. (s) Mal. iv. 2. 6 6 (0) Gen. xix. 19. (r) 1 John iv. 9. 4 With grateful thoughts much more enlarge That we our duty may discharge, I CXLVII. For the Holy Spirit, in allufion to Ezekiel's Vision of dry Bones, Ezek. xxxvii. 4, &c. Lord, thy Holy Spirit give, For we in earnest cry: O breathe and thefe dry bones fhall live 2 Speak, that the finews may unite; Cover with skin and fashion right, 3 Lo, fhould we noife and fhaking hear, 4 Within" us put thy fpirit, Lord, 8896 CXLVIII. Prayer, with acknowledgements of Unfruitfulness, in Sow living feed, that we again (t) Luke xi. 13. (v) Luke viii. 6. 6 xxxvii. 14. (x) I John iii. 9. (u) Ezek. xxxvi. 25, 26.. (w) Jer. iv. 3.-Hof, x. 12. 2 For like the barren fig-tree dry, 3 We fometimes bloffom bright and fair, 4 Lord, that we may of life partake, From death prevent us now; And dig', and dung, and prune, and make 5 Send grace in fhowers from above, That faith, and hope, and humble love 6 Thus fruit fhall in due feason grow, And prove to all the world below, CXLIX. That Sinners may be converted till righteousness shall cover the Earth. I RISE, great God! arife, From ev'ry finner's heart and eyes, 2 No longer let them fleep", (y) Luke xiii. 8. (z) Pfal. i. 3. (a) Deut. x. 17. (b) Eph. v. 14. (c) Luke xvi. 23. 3 O let thy inward voiced 4 In Jefu's name we pray 6 Make truth and righteousness Till all the heathen do poffefs CL. That the Heathen may be converted from Idolatry and Superftition to the Knowledge of the true GOD. LMIGHTY God! lay to thine hand, A Loofe all who are in fetters bound: 2 O fhew the heathen gracious God! 3 Shew these who worship wood and ftone And that his blood doth ftill atonem (d) John v. 25. (e) John xiv. 13, 14. (g) If. xi. 9.-Hab. ii. 14. (h) Pfal. ii. 8. (k) Deut. xxix. 17.-Ifa. xliv. (m) Rom. v. 1. (j) Zeph. ii. 11. (1) 1 Tim. ii. 6. 8 8 8 (f) Jer. vi. 16. (i) Matt. xxiv. 14. 17.-Hab. ii. 19. |