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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:
Of excess there is no danger,
Though it fills, it never cloys:
On a dying Christ I feed,
He is meat and drink indeed.

3. When my faith is faint and sickly,
Or when Satan wounds my mind;
Cordials to revive me quickly,
Healing medicines here I find;
To the promises I flee,
Each affords a remedy.

4. In the hour of dark temptation
Satan cannot make me yield:
For this word of consolation
Is to me both sword and shield:
While the scripture truths are sure,
From his malice I'm secure.

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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.

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II. THE FALL AND REDEMPTION OF MAN.

14.*

T. 89.

IN thine image, Lord, thou mad'st
Gav'st me being out of love: (me,
Though I fell, yet thou hast sent me
Full redemption from above:

Sacred Love, I long to be
Thine to all eternity.

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:
Love almighty, &c.

5. Love, thy yoke I gladly carry,
It is easy, gentle, light;
Grant that I may ne'er be weary
Thee to serve with all my might:

Sacred Love, &c.

6. Love, my advocate in heaven
Pleading for me when oppress'd,
Bearing still my name engraven
Upon thy high-priestly breast:

Love almighty, &c.

7. Love, thou me wilt raise to glory
In thy likeness, from the dust,
And as conqueror place before thee,
Crown'd with bliss among the just:
Sacred Love, I long to be
Thine to all eternity.

John Angelus.
15.*
T. 590.
CHRIST, the good Shepherd, God's
From all eternity, (own Son,
Urg'd by his love, exchang'd his
For human misery;
(throne
His wandering sheep gone far astray
He sought with pungent pain,
And did for all a ransom pay
To bring them home again.
2. One of those sheep, in deserts
Art thou, my sinful soul; (lost,
His life it hath the Shepherd cost,
To save and make thee whole;
Now hear his voice with gratitude,

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,

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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,
(passes.
Didst leave thy glorious, blest Than stripes deserv'd our tres-
In love to sinners vile; (abode, O teach us to trust thy fidelity, (be,
Earth's face the curse had overrun, And closely united with Christ to

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,

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HOW sad our state by nature is!
Our sin how deep it stains!
How Satan binds our captive souls
Fast in his slavish chains!

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,
And haste to gain relief;
I would believe thy promise, Lord;
O help my unbelief.

4. To the dear fountain of thy
Incarnate God, I fly: (blood,
Here let me wash my spotted soul
From crimes of deepest dye.

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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
He is my strength and shield:
Beneath his cross I safely dwell;
He fights, I win the field.
7. Since he became my sacrifice,
My bonds and chains he broke;
Now to my willing neck he ties
His soft and easy yoke.

8. A pardon'd sinner I remain,
But sin its power hath lost;
Sin still I have, but grace doth
reign;

Mercy is all my boast.

9. Arise, my happy soul, arise,
Redeem'd by sovereign grace,
Open to thee is paradise,
Go in and take thy place.
W. Hammond.

21.
T. 22.
LORD, I am vile, conceiv'd in sin,
And born unholy and unclean; (fall
Sprung from the man whose guilty
Corrupts his race, and taints us all.

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;

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2. He meekly all our sorrows bore, Us fallen sinners to restore To life and liberty:

was,

For us he suffer'd deep distress,
Was without form or comeliness
O depth of love, O mystery!
3. The almighty Judge condemned
(cause;
That he by death might gain our
The Prince of life was slain:
And since he suffer'd in our stead,
We need no condemnation dread,
Eternal life in him we gain.

4. The Holy One, made sin for us,
Was nailed to the accursed cross,
And shed his precious blood;
Thus he obtained a righteousness
For all who mourn for pardoning
grace;
(God.
Thro' Jesus we have peace with

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 freely come, I freely.die,
For guilty man to satisfy:

I in his stead will suffer on the
tree,
(set him free."
From sin, and death, and hell to
4. And thus, to save our souls from
guilt,
(spilt:
Our Surety's precious blood was
The sins of all on him were laid,
And he for all hath fully paid:
Now God, as children, freely will
(believe.
Repenting sinners who in Christ

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.

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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:
Those who neglect to hear his
voice,
(choice.
Must perish by their own free

6. Unhappy those who turn away,
Or such as carelessly delay
To meet their Saviour, tho' he came
Their souls from misery to reclaim.

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