3 The Judge prepares his throne on high, The frighted earth and seas Avoid the fury of his eye, And flee before his face. 4 How shall I bear that dreadful day, And stand the fiery test? I give all mortal joys away To be for ever blest. Hymn 1:91. Advice to youth; or, Old age and death in an unconverted state, Eccles. 12. 1 7. Isa. 65. 20. 1 Now in the heat of youthful blood Remember your Creator God, Behold the months come hastening on When you shall say, "My joys are gone." 2 Behold, the aged sinner goes, Laden with guilt and heavy woes Down to the regions of the dead, With endless curses on his head. 3 The dust returns to dust again, The soul in agonies of pain Ascends to God, not there to dwell, But hears her doom, and sinks to hell. 4 Eternal King! I fear thy Name, Teach me to know how frail I am; And when my soul must hence remove, Give me a mansion in thy love. Hymn 1:92. Christ the wisdom of God, Prov. 8. 1 22-32. 1 Shall wisdom cry aloud And not her speech be heard? The voice of God's eternal word, Deserves it no regard? 2 "I was his chief delight, "His everlasting Son, "Before the first of all his works, "Creation, was begun. 3 ["Before the flying clouds, "Before the solid land, "Before the fields, before the floods, "I dwelt at his right hand. 4 "When he adorn'd the skies, "And built them I was there "To order where the sun should rise, "And marshal every star. 5 "When he pour'd out the sea, "And spread the flowing deep, "I gave the flood a firm decree, "In its own bounds to keep.] 6 "Upon the empty air The earth was balanc'd well; "With joy I saw the mansion where "The sons of men should dwell. 7 "My busy thoughts at first "On their salvation ran, "Ere sin was born, or Adam's dust "Was fashioned to a man. 8 "Then come, receive my grace, "Ye children, and be wise; "Happy the man that keeps my ways; "The man that shuns them dies." Hymn 1:93. Christ, or wisdom, obeyed or resisted, Prov. 8. 31 35 36. 1 Thus saith the wisdom of the Lord, "Bless'd is the man that hears my word, "Keeps daily watch before my gates, "And at my feet for mercy waits. 2 "The soul that seeks me shall obtain "Immortal wealth and heavenly gain; "Immortal life is his reward, "Life, and the favour of the Lord. 3 "But the vile wretch that flies from me "Doth his own soul an injury; Fools that against my grace rebel "Seek death, and love the road to hell." Hymn 1:94. Justification by faith, not by works; or, The law condemns, grace justifies, Rom. 3. 19-22. 1 Vain are the hopes the sons of men On their own works have built; Their hearts by nature all unclean, And all their actions guilt. 2 Let Jew and Gentile stop their mouths Without a murmuring word, And the whole race of Adam stand Guilty before the Lord. 3 In vain we ask God's righteous law To justify us now, Since to convince and to condemn Is all the law can do.