Let the world account me poor, Having this I need no more. 2. Holy, inviolate thy fear, Enduring as thy throne: (vere, 2. Food to which the world's a Thy judgments, chastening or se stranger Here my hungry soul enjoys: 3. When my faith is faint and sickly, 4. In the hour of dark temptation Justice and truth alone. 3. More prized than gold,- than gold, whose waste Refining fire expels : Sweeter than honey to my taste, Than honey from the cells. II. THE FALL AND REDEMPTION OF MAN. 14.* T. 89. IN thine image, Lord, thou mad'st Sacred Love, I long to be 2. Love, by whom I was ordained In thy church to have a place, Ev'n before I life obtained, Or could know thy saving grace: Love almighty and divine, I would be forever thine. 3. Love, who hast for me endured Keenest pains of death and hell; Love, whose sufferings have procured More for me than tongue can tell; Sacred Love, &c. 4. Love, my life, and my salvation, Light and truth, eternal Word, Thou alone dost consolation To my sinking soul afford: 5. Love, thy yoke I gladly carry, Sacred Love, &c. 6. Love, my advocate in heaven Love almighty, &c. 7. Love, thou me wilt raise to glory John Angelus. Call on his saving name; For thee he shed his precious blood, And now his own doth claim. John Angelus. T. 79. 16. Man was corrupt, condemn'd, undone, Entangled fast by Satan's guile. 2. Thou, for their sake who hated thee, Didst shed thy blood upon the tree, Thy life for ours didst give; Thou barest our curse; our debt was paid, Thy soul for sin an offering made, Thou diedst, that we with thee might live. 3. Never may I depart from thee; Thou hast procur'd my liberty, Thanks to thy boundless grace. Thy wounds, whereon I trust by faith, Whom dost thou bless? Children, who scorn'd thy grace; Being most gracious, whom Thou takest delight in things angels adore, worthless and poor. 2. Our thirsting can never, O merciful God, (grace; Equal thy love and boundless On us thou more blessings and love hast bestow'd, THOU holy, spotless Lamb of God, The Spirit's kind teachings in all | things to prove, Yea, live to thy honour, thee serve, praise, and love. 3. We pray thee, O Being most gracious and mild, (now, Instruct our minds and teach us So that in Immanuel, thine image and child, (know; How great thy name is, we may Ah, show us how easy it is to bear Thy yoke, and to trust thy paternal (shall end, That, till the short period of trial Our faith and our love may their author commend. care, HOW sad our state by nature is! 2. But there's a voice of sovereign grace, Sounds from the sacred word: "Ho, ye despairing sinners, come, Believe in Christ the Lord." 3. My soul, obey the gracious call, 4. To the dear fountain of thy I, WITH the fallen human race, Lay weltering in my blood; O'erwhelm'd with shame and deep disgrace, And banish'd far from God. 2. The loving Jesus passing by, His bowels yearn'd to see Me, wretched sinner, helpless lie In deepest misery. 3. He turned to me in tenderness, His instant aid to give, And, pitying my sore distress," He said, "Arise and live." 4. He washed away my every stain, And cleans'd me in his blood; Deck'd me with righteousness divine, And brought me nigh to God 5. A guilty, weak, and helpless Into thy arms I fall: (worm, 5. My heart no condemnation fears, Be thou my strength and righteousNor hell, nor Satan dreads, My Jesus and my All. (ness, Christ at the mercy-seat appears, Watts. His blood my pardon pleads. 6. Against the fiercest powers of hell 8. A pardon'd sinner I remain, Mercy is all my boast. 9. Arise, my happy soul, arise, 21. 2. Soon as we draw our infant breath, The seeds of sin engender death; Thy law demands a perfect heart, But we're defil'd in every part. 3. O God, create my heart anew, And form my spirit pure and true; O make me wise betimes to see My danger and my remedy. 4. Behold, I fall before thy face; My only refuge is thy grace: (clean, No outward forms can make me The leprosy lies deep within. 5. My sin I feel, my guilt I know, Thy blood can make me white as snow; 2. He meekly all our sorrows bore, Us fallen sinners to restore To life and liberty: was, For us he suffer'd deep distress, 4. The Holy One, made sin for us, 5. Rejoice, O heavens, and earth reply, (sky, With praise, ye sinners, fill the All grace his death procures ; Your woes to blessings he will change, You in his children's order range, Thro' him eternal life is yours. Erskine. III. THE INCARNATION AND BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST. 23.* T. 97. JESUS, the almighty Son of God, Takes up with mortals his abode; He who was sworn to Abraham, Who ever was and is the same, Came in due time and mysteries reveal'd, (were conceal'd. Which from the world's foundation 2. We, dead in sins and trespasses, The narrow way to life and peace Had neither will nor power to find; Nor were our stubborn hearts in(know, To wish, or seek that happiness to clin'd Which love alone on sinners could bestow. 3. Then Love brake forth, "Behold me still Prepar'd, O God, to do thy will; I in his stead will suffer on the receive 5. Out of mere grace unmerited, Salvation showers upon our head; Because the Lamb was crucified, Because the Lord of glory died, Are we invited to possess a throne, Before the world was made ordain'd our own. Matth. Stach. The First and Last with wonder Partake of human misery. 4. He came to seek and save the lost; (cost, We sinn'd, and he would bear the That we might share eternal bliss; O what unbounded love was this. 5. How wretched they who still despise Jesus, the pearl of greatest price: 6. Unhappy those who turn away, |