This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...and praise that sovereign love, That shews salvation nigh.--2 On all the wings of time it flies, Each moment brings it near; o Then welcome, each declining day! Welcome, each closing year!--3 Not many years their rounds shall run, Nor many mornings rise, Ere all its glories stand reveal'd To our admiring eyes. o 4 Ye ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...and praise that sovereign love, That shews salvation nigh.--2 On all the wings of time it flies, Each moment brings it near; o Then welcome, each declining day! Welcome, each closing year!--3 Not many years their rounds shall run, Nor many mornings rise, Ere all its glories stand reveal'd To our admiring eyes. o 4 Ye wheels of nature speed your course; e Ye mortal powers decay;--Fast as ye bring the night of death, o Ye bring eternal day. Doddridge. HYMN 216. L. M. Carthage..b Importance of Time. e 1 /V TIME, how few thy value weigh: V/ How few will estimate a day! e Days, months, and years, are rolling on, a The soul neglected--and undone.--2 In painful cares, or empty joys, Our life its precious hours destroys; Whilst death stands watching at our side, Eager to stop the living tide. e 8 Was it for this, ye mortal race, Your Maker gave you here a place? Was it for this his thoughts design'd The frame of your immortal mind? d 4 For nobler cares, for joys sublime, He fashion'd all the sons of time; Pilgrims on earth; but soon to be--The heirs of immortality.--5 This season of your being, know, Is given to you your seeds to sow; Wisdom's and folly's differing grain, In future worlds, is bliss, and pain. e 6 Then let me every day review, --Idle or busy, search it through;--And, whilst probation's minutes last, Let ev'ry day amend the past. Scott. HYMN 217. C. P. M. Pilgrim. b Serious prospect of Eternity. e 1 T O! on a narrow neck of land, -Li 'Twixt two unbounded seas I stand--p Yet how insensible!--A point of time--a moment's space--o Removes me to yon heavenly place, e Or--shuts me up in hell!--2 O God, my inmost soul convert, And deeply in my thoughtless heart Eternal things impress; Give me to feel their solemn weight, And save me, ere it be too late--o Wak...
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