4. "I plead thy sorrows, dearest Lord;
Do thou my sins forgive:

Thy justice will approve the word,
That bids the sinner live."

Succor implored in spiritual Conflicts. — Steele.

1. "Alas! what hourly dangers rise!
!

What snares beset my way

To heaven, oh! let me lift mine eyes,
And hourly watch and pray.

2. "How oft my mournful thoughts complain,
And melt in flowing tears!

My weak resistance!-ah! how vain!
How strong my foes and fears!

8. "O gracious God! in whom I live,
My feeble efforts aid;

Help me to watch, and pray, and strive,
Though trembling and afraid.

4. "Increase my faith- increase my hope,
When foes and fears prevail;

Oh! bear my fainting spirit up,
Or soon my strength will fail.

5. "Whene'er temptations fright my heart,
Or lure my feet aside,

My God, thy powerful aid impart,
My guardian and my guide.

6. "Oh! keep me in thy heavenly way,
And bid the tempter flee;

And let me never, never stray
From happiness and thee.

Psalm LI. Part I.-Watts.

1. "Show pity, Lord-O Lord, forgive,—
Let a repenting rebel live:

Are not thy mercies large and free?
May not a sinner trust in thee?

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2. "My crimes are great

but can't surpass

The power and glory of thy grace;
Great God, thy nature hath no bound,
So let thy pardoning love be found!

3. “Oh! wash my soul from every sin,

And make my guilty conscience clean:
Here, on my heart, the burden lies;
And past offences pain mine eyes.

4. "My lips, with shame, my sins confess,
Against thy law against thy grace:
Lord, should thy judgment grow severe,
I am condemned- but thou art clear.

5. "Yet, save a trembling sinner, Lord, Whose hope, still hovering round thy word, Would light on some sweet promise there, Some sure support against despair."

Invocation.-Watts.

1. "Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, With all thy quickening powers,

Kindle a flame of sacred love

In these cold hearts of ours.

2. "Look! how we grovel here below,
Fond of these trifling toys!
Our souls can neither fly nor go,
To reach eternal joys.

3. "In vain we tune our formal songs,
In vain we strive to rise;
Hosannas languish on our tongues,
And our devotion dies.

4. "Dear Lord! and shall we ever lie
In this poor dying state,

Our love so faint, so cold to thee,
And thine to us so great!

* The elocutionary analysis of the style of reading, should now be applied to every change of emotion indicated in each stanza.

8. "Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood,
Stand dressed in living green:
So to the Jews fair Canaan stood,
While Jordan rolled between.

4. "But timorous mortals start and shrink,
To cross this narrow sea;
And linger, trembling on the brink,
And fear to launch away.

5. "Oh! could we make our doubts remove,
Those gloomy doubts that rise,

And see the Canaan that we love
With unbeclouded eyes; —

6. "Could we but climb where Moses stood,
And view the landscape o'er,

Not Jordan's stream—nor death's cold flood,
Should fright us from the shore."

The Atonement.- Cowper.

1. "There is a fountain, filled with blood
Drawn from Immanuel's veins;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.

2. "The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain, in his day;

And there may I, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away.

3. "Thou dying Lamb! thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power,

Till all the ransomed church of God
Are saved, to sin no more.

4. "Since first, by faith, I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply,

Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be, till I die.

5. "And when this feeble, stammering tongue Lies silent in the grave—