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5. In search of empty joys below, Ye toil with unavailing strife: Whither, ah, whither would ye go? Christ hath the words of endless life.

A servant's form he meekly wears, He sojourns in a house of clay: His glory through a veil is seen, And God with God is man with

6. To you he calls, "My goodness 3. prove,

My promises for all are free:
O taste my everlasting love,
And let your souls delight in me."

232.

Wesley.

T. 205.

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men.

Behold our God incarnate stands,

And calls his wandering creatures home;

He all day long spreads out his hands,

Come, weary souls, to Jesus come: Tho' ye be e'er so much oppress'd, Believe, and he will give you rest.

4. Ah, do not of his goodness doubt,

His saving grace for all is free;
He says, "I ne'er will cast him out,
Who as a sinner comes to me;
I can to none myself deny;"
Come, sinners, come; why will you
die?

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SINNERS, would ye be healed?
Then come to Jesus Christ;
In him is grace revealed,
Come only undisguis'd:
Come poor and miserable,
Draw nigh just as you are;
You'll find that he is able
Your losses to repair.

2. His wounds are open fountains
To wash you white all o'er;
Yea, were your sins like moun-
tains,

Or sands on ocean's shore:
Believe in the atonement

Do not delay one moment;
By Christ's all-saving blood:

Come to the Lamb of God.

Hutton.

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COME, weary souls, with sin dis-
tress'd,
(rest;
Come, and accept the promis'd
The Saviour's gracious call obey,
And cast your gloomy fears away.

2. Oppress'd with guilt, a painful
load,
(abroad;
O come, and spread your woes
Divine compassion, mighty love,
Will all the painful load remove.
3. Here mercy's boundless ocean
flows

To cleanse your guilt, and heal
your woes;

Pardon, and life, and endless

peace;

How rich the gift! how free the
grace!

4. Lord, we accept, with thankful
heart,
(part;
The hope thy gracious words im-
We come with trembling, yet re-
joice,

5. For you the healing current And bless the kind inviting voice. flow'd From the Redeemer's wounded 5. Dear Saviour! let thy powerful Languish'd for you the Son of God, For you the Prince of glory died: Believe, your sins shall be forgiv'n; nly believe, and yours is heaven.

Watts.

love (move; Confirm our faith, our fears reAnd sweetly influence every breast, And guide us to eternal rest.

Mrs. Steele.

T. 11.

238.
NOW begin the heavenly theme,
Praise ye Jesus' saving name:
Ye who Jesus' kindness prove,
Triumph in redeeming love.
2. Ye who see the Father's grace
Beaming in the Saviour's face;
As to heaven ye onward move,
Praise and bless redeeming love.

3. Mourning souls, dry up your
tears,

Banish all your guilty fears;
Jesus will your guilt remove,
Prompted by redeeming love.
4. Ye, who long, alas, have been
Willing slaves of death and sin;

Now from bliss no longer rove,
Stop and taste redeeming love.

5. Welcome, all by sin oppress'd,
Jesus Christ will give you rest;
Nothing brought him from above,
Nothing but redeeming love.

6. Sing, ye ransom'd, to his praise, Tune your songs to grateful lays; Mortals, join the hosts above,

Join to praise redeeming love.

7. When his Spirit leads us home,
When we to his glory come,
We shall all the fulness prove
Of our Lord's redeeming love.
Countess of Huntingdon's Hymns.

XIV. REPENTANCE UNTO LIFE. 239.*

T. 132. LORD Jesus Christ, my sovereign good,

Thou fountain of salvation,
Behold me bow'd beneath the load
Of guilt and condemnation:
My sins indeed are numberless;
O Lord, regard my deep distress,
Relieve my guilty conscience.
2. In pity look upon my need,
Remove my sore oppression :
Since thou hast suffer'd in my stead,
And paid for my transgression,
Let me not yield to dark despair;
A wounded spirit who can bear?
O show me thy salvation!
3. When I review my mis-spent
I feel a heavy burden;
Reflecting on my trespasses,
I scarce could hope for pardon,

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But should be hopeless and forlorn,
If I had not thy promise.
Uncertain where for help to turn,

4. But thy reviving gospel-word,
Which leads me to salvation,
Does joy unspeakable afford,
And lasting consolation:
This tells me, thou wilt not despise
A broken heart, in sacrifice
Upon thy altar offer'd.

5. Me, heavy laden sinner, hear,
Bemoaning my transgression;
To my complaints now lend an ear,
To thee I make confession:
My longing is, O wash me clean
From every spot and stain of sin,
Like David and Manasseh.

6. Lord, I approach thy mercy-seat,
And pray thee to forgive me;
With contrite heart, I thee entreat,

Show pity and receive me:
Cast all my sins and trespasses
Into the ocean of thy grace,
And them no more remember.

7. O, for thy name's sake let me prove

Thy mercy, gracious Saviour:
The yoke which galls me, soon re-
Restore me to thy favour: (move,
Thy love shed in my heart abroad,
That I may live to thee, my God,
And yield thee true obedience.

8. Thy joyful Spirit give me power,
Thy stripes heal my diseases:
Apply thy blood at my last hour
To save me, dearest Jesus:
Then to thy promis'd rest me bring,
That with the ransom'd I may sing
Thy praise above for ever.

240.*

B. Ringwald.

T. 132.

OUT of the deep I cry to thee,
My God, with heart's contrition;
Bow down thine ear in grace to me,
And hear thou my petition:
For if in judgment thou wilt try
Man's sin and great iniquity,
Ah, who can stand before thee?

2. To gain remission of our sin,
No work of ours availeth;
God's favour we may strive to win,
But all our labour faileth;
We're 'midst our fairest actions
lost,
(boast:
And none 'fore him of aught can
We live alone thro' mercy.
3. Therefore my hope is in his
And not in my own merit; (grace,
On him my confidence I place,
Instructed by his Spirit: (me
His precious word hath promis'd

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241. T. 79. THOU God of glorious majesty, To thee, against myself, to thee, A worm of earth, I cry; An heir of endless bliss or pain, A half-awaken'd child of man, A guilty sinner born to die. 2. Lo, on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas I Secure, insensible; (stand, A point of time, a moment's space, Removes me to that heavenly place, Or ever shuts me up in hell.

3. O God, mine inmost soul con-
vert!
(heart
And deeply on my thoughtful
Eternal things impress; (weight,
Give me to feel their solemn
To tremble on the brink of fate,
And to awake to righteousness.
4. Before me place in dread array
The pomp of that tremendous day,
When thou with clouds shalt come,
To judge the nations at thy bar:
And tell me, Lord, shall I be there,
To meet from thee a joyful doom?
5. Be this my one great business
here,

With godly jealousy and fear,
Eternal bliss to insure;

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4. Resolve, my stubborn heart, and cleave

To Jesus Christ alone: Would I all other objects leave, The work at once were done. 5. Vile worm, shouldst thou refuse Devoted unto him, (to be Who died upon the cross for thee, And did thy soul redeem?

6. Redeeming Lord, O be thou mine,

My Saviour, Sun, and Shield, Thy blood and death have made me To thee myself I yield. (thine, 7. Mould me as clay, and fashion A vessel to thy praise,

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Unto a sin-sick soul, (good, This balsam, powerful, precious, Ne'er fails to make it whole.

4. He freely laid his majesty And all his glory by,

That our wants thro' his poverty He richly might supply.

5. He's full of grace and truth inOf peace, of life and light; (deed, To all, that helpless sinners need, He gives thy soul a right.

6. Tho' heaven's his throne, he came from thence

To seek and save the lost; (pense, Whate'er might be the vast exHis love would bear the cost.

7. On us he spent his life and blood, Our losses to retrieve: (good Mankind's redemption now holds For sinners who believe.

Erskine.

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