2 When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, 3 O! on that day! that wrathful day, XVIII. BEFORE JEHOVAH'S AWFUL THRONE. BY THE REV. G. WHITEFIELD. TUNE: Denmark. 1 BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne, He can create, and he destroy. 2 His sov'reign pow'r, without our aid, We'll croud thy gates with thankful Songs, 4 Wide as the world is thy command, Firm as a rock thy truth must stand XIX. THE LORD'S PRAYER. BY DR. ADAMS,` MASTER OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD. 1 FATHER of all! be thou alone In heaven and earth ador'd! Earth is thy footstool, heav'n thy throne, 2 What pow'r to praise thee, and obey, 3 This day be bread and peace our lot: Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not; And let thy will be done.* 4 Thy love expecting, let us love, Reliev'd, let us relieve: Thy pity let our pity move; 5 When from without temptations come, Thy grace descend, and save us from The greatest evil, sin. 6 Supreme in power! all nature waits Obedient at thy call! O first! O last! for thought too great, * This verse is from Pope's Universal Prayer. See Vol. 2, of my Collection, p. 416. XX. GOD EXALTED ABOVE ALL PRAISE. BY DR. WATTS. 1 ETERNAL Power! whose high abode Infinite length beyond the bounds Where stars revolve their little rounds. 2 The lowest step above thy seat To reach thine height with wond'ring eyes. 3 Thy dazzling beauties whilst he sings And ranks of shining thrones around 4 Lord, what shall earth and ashes do? 5 Earth from afar has heard thy fame, Leave all our soaring thoughts behind. 6 God is in heaven, and men below; And, now, Sir, in concluding, I wish to express sentiments which, I trust, will accord with those in my first letter. Well aware of the extreme difficulty of writing controversy so as to keep within the bounds which should ever be prescribed to the gentleman and the Christian, I have endeavoured to "set a watch". "before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips." Psalm cxli. 3. But, if, in the course of these letters, written at different times, and under various circumstances of health, of spirits and of business, any expression shall have escaped which may give offence to you, I intreat you to impute it to any other motive, rather than to disrespect, or to want of Christian love. That |