WHEN thou, my righteous Judge, shalt come
To take thy ransomed people home,
Shall I among them stand?

Shall such a worthless worm as I,
Who sometimes am afraid to die,
Be found at thy right hand?

I love to meet thy people now,
Before thy feet with them to bow,
Though vilest of them all;

But can I bear the piercing thought?-
What if my name should be left out,
When thou for them shalt call?

O Lord, prevent it by thy grace;
Be thou my only hiding place,
In this the accepted day;
Thy pardoning voice, O, let me hear,
To still my unbelieving fear,

Nor let me fall, I pray.

And when the final trump shall sound,
Among thy saints let me be found,
To bow before thy face:

Then in triumphant strains I'll sing,
While heaven's resounding mansions ring
With praise of sovereign grace.

GROWTH IN GRACE:

OR,

THE YOUNG PROFESSOR DIRECTED HOW TO ATTAIN TO EMINENT PIETY.

BY

THE REV. JONATHAN EDWARDS,

AND

JOHN ANGELL JAMES.

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THE

YOUNG PROFESSOR.

BY JOHN ANGELL JAMES.

By the Young Professor, I mean the person lately converted, and who has but recently assumed the Christian name, whether in the morning or the meridian of his days. I cannot do better than submit to the consideration of such persons the following judicious advice, given by the justly celebrated Jonathan Edwards, to a young person who had just commenced the life of faith.

"My dear young Friend:

"As you desired me to send you, in writing, some directions how to conduct yourself in your Christian course, I would now answer your request. The sweet remembrance of the great things I have lately seen at S

inclines me to do anything in my power, to contribute to the spiritual joy and prosperity of God's people there.

“1.

would advise you to keep up as great a strife and earnestness in religion as if you knew yourself to be in a state of nature, and were seeking conversion. We advise persons under conviction to be earnest and violent for the kingdom of heaven; but when they have attained to conversion, they ought not to be the less watchful, laborious, and earnest in the whole work of religion; but the more so, for they are under infinitely greater obligation. For want of this, many persons, in a few months after their conversion, have begun to lose their sweet and lively sense of spiritual things, and to grow cold and dark, and have 'pierced themselves through with many sorrows;' whereas, if they had done as the apostle did, (Phil. iii. 12—14,) their path would have been as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.'

"2. Do not leave off seeking, striving, and praying for the very same things that we exhort unconverted persons to strive for, and a degree of which you have had already in conversion. Pray that your eyes may be opened, that you may receive sight, that you may know yourself, and be brought to God's footstool; and that you may see the glory of God and Christ, and may be raised from the dead, and have the love of Christ shed abroad