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T £T uiadort^and bow before, 
■" The ibfcrcign Lord qf mighl } 
Who turn* away th& flaming day. 
Into -the (hades of night. 

All nature (land* when he command!, 
Or changes in its courfe 
His mighty Mnd rules fea slid l*s% 
He is the LORD of rfoft. 


Nineteenth of May a gloomy day, 
>\hcn datknefs veil'd the iky j 

The Son** decline may be a fign. 
Some great event is nigh. 

Let u$ remark, how black and dark, 
Was the cnlutng night K 

And for a*trnie the moon doling. 
And did ‘not give her light. 

Can mortal man this wonder fcan ? 
Or tell a fecond caufe ? 

Did notour God, then (hake hit rod. 
And alter nature’s Jaws. 

T hat great went neat will be fent. 
Upon this guilty land ? 

He only knows, who can dPpofe 
All things at his t^nfimaccfr 

Cur wicke^nefs we muft ccnfefv 
It rmibJfc and grear ! 

Sin is the thirg, that we fbould ftum, 
The thing Goes foul doth hate. 


Our mighty fini,God%judgfnentbringt 
lit)) we hardened f|PW; 
Th awe d p tree ts gi cat may not abate, 
cur overthrow. 


Heir fin abimS£a in all our ^oWftt, 
Wow in thefc Gofpel day! ! 
How vice Prevails, and virtue /aft*, 
And gcdUtcls decays. 


If we reficA cao we expelt 
According to our doing? 

But ifetf we ?re, as we may Wir, 
J^Un the brink of nrio. 

Awake, awa^a, your fins for/ike, 
And that Immediately ; 
ff we dcaYifrn, his wrath will burn. 
To all eugiuty 


AM W Lines compofod 


ON THE 

dark day 


Of MAt 19, 1 780. 


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TW* is the day, that doners may 
Repent, and turn to God; 

If they delay and wboVobay. 

Them they mull fed his todt 

How good and kind would fin iters fed 
^ bejr great Redeemer no«r« 

If they’d awake,’ their ftoi forftke. 

And to his Sceptre bow. 

The Go/pcl call, is unto al! | 

Repent, why will ye die? 

Why. will you go to endlefs woe* 

And pafs my mercy by r 

Come unto me, Jefas doth fay. 

All ye that weary are; 

Ye fhal] find reft, ye /hall be Weft, 

For fo hit his words declare. 

If after ail, this gracious call 
You utterly refufe ; 

And flop your car and will not hear, 
But your own ruin chpofe; 

Mercy abufc, and grace rdule,' 

Jnftice then t^kei the throne; 

And in feme hour Almighty Power 
Will make his vengeance known. 

9 dreadful Rate. tofea *t it tool**, 
For finners to return ; " 

W hen life and breath is loft in dcath. 
The Soul in Hell muft butt). 

What mortal tongue, what buman pen 
Ihe terror can declare. 

That finners ail in hell, who Iball 
Ibat dreadful torments bear f 

Eternity l Eternity ! 

Behold there is no end, 

Where fiimers lie, a«d wiflj to die. 
Why into Hell defeend. 

And now let all, who hear this call 
A nd faw the day fo dark ; 

Make hafte away without delay. 

And get into the Aik. 

Then fife {ball he, forever be, 

T bat doth to Jcfus cr me, 

He need rot fear ihcugh death be test 
bi^ce Heaven is bis home,