SPIRITUAL SONGS. SONGS ADDRESSED CHIEFLY TO THE UNREGENERATE. I. P. M. NEWTON. Warning. 1STOP, poor sinner, stop and think, Will you sport upon the brink, See! hell beneath you gaping wide! 2 Say, have you an arm like God, Fear you not that iron rod, With which he breaks his foes? Can you stand in that great day, s Ghastly death will quickly come Then be entreated, &c. 4 Though your heart be made of steel, (Though they now despise his grace,) Rocks and mountains on us fall, And hide us from his face! 5 But as yet there is a hope, He still forbears the blow: II. L. M. MS. Altered and several verses added. Parting address. 1 FAREWELL, my dearest friends, farewell; Before we part I must you tell; If, during life, my Lord your slight, He'll plunge yqu in eternal night. 2 Could you a better friend embrace, Or one who loves with equal grace? His glory once he laid aside, And wept and groan'd and bled and died! S Enough to break a heart of stone; This, sinners, may you feel and own! Nor longer court the wrath of God, But cry for life, through Jesus' blood. 4 You slight the Saviour, now enthron'd, Who once with piercing thorns was crown'd; But soon he'll rend the skies in twain, And burn the mountains and the main. 5 World upon world in flames shall fall! The whole creation hear his call; His friends in heaven shall be combin❜d, His foes to hell shall be consigu’d. 6 Methinks I hear th' awaken'd say, O dreadful thought! O dreadful day! Must old and young to judgment go! Then what,-great God! what shall we do? 7 Fly to the Gospel-hiding-place,Jesus, the Lord, our righteousness; He now receives halt, blind and lame→ But soon will come, reveal'd in flame. 8 Then, O the dreadful fate of those, Who know not God, and truth oppose! He shall take vengeance on them all, 11 Young women too, your case now hear, 1 14 The thought how painful none can tell ;- III. 13s. MS Altered. 1 The Dream. ONE night, as I lay sleeping and slumb'ring on my bed, A vision there appeared, a dream came in my head; The awful day of judgment I thought was surely come; The Judge himself was there for to summon old and young. 2 I heard myself call'd forth by the trumpet loud and shrill; Arise ye sons of or ill: men, let your deeds be good I trembled as I listen'd, with sorrow grief and Wo; But could not be exempted-to judgment. I must go. 3 I had not long been there, until Satan came, I thought; He came as my accuser, and all my sins he brought, He laid them down before me and claim'd me for his own, I felt my crimes were great, and exclaim'd, "I am undone.” 4 The Judge then gravely said, I will quickly end the strife, I'll see if th' sinner's name is not in the book of life : The book of life was brought, and the judge did it unfold; The sinner's name was there, and in letters wrote in gold. |