siah-p. 177.] HYMN 196. 7s & 6s.
ESUS drinks the bitter cup,
The wine press treads alone:
Tears the graves and mountains up,
By his expiring groan:
Lo, the powers of heaven he shakes,
Nature in convulsion lies;
Earth's profoundest centre quakes,
The great Jehovah dies!
2 O my God, he dies for me,
I feel the mortal smart!
See him hanging on the tree,
A sight that breaks my heart!
O that all to thee might turn!
Sinners, ye may love him too;
Look on him ye pierc'd, and mourn
For one who bled for you.
3 Weep o'er your desire and hope,
With tears of humblest love!
Sing, for Jesus is gone up,
And reigns enthron'd above!
Lives our Head to die no more,
Power is all to Jesus given;
Worship'd as he was before,
The immortal King of heaven.
4 Lord, we bless thee for thy grace
And truth, which never fail;
Hast'ning to behold thy face,
Without a dimming veil;
We shall see our heavenly King,
All thy glorious love proclaim,
Help the angel choirs to sing
Our blest triumphant Lamb,
Tunbridge-p. 113.] HYMN 197. 6 lines & W How shall I all to heaven aspire?
HERE shall my wond'ring soul begin
A slave redeem'd from death and sin;
A brand pluck'd from eternal fire:
How shall I equal triumphs raise,
Or sing my great Deliverer's praise?
2 O how shall I thy goodness tell,
Father, which thou to me hast show'd?
That I, a child of wrath, and hell,
I should be call'd a child of God!
Should know, should feel my sins førgiven,
Blest with this antepast of heaven!
3 And shall I slight my Father's love?
Or basely fear his gifts to own?
Unmindful of his favours prove?
Shall I, the hallow'd cross to shun,
Refuse his righteousness to' impart,
By hiding it within my heart?
4 No, though the ancient dragon rage,
And call forth all his host to war;
Though earth's self-righteous sons engage,
Them and their god alike I dare;
Jesus, the sinner's friend proclaim;
Jesus, to sinners still the same.
5 Come, O my guilty brethren, come,
Groaning beneath your load of sin;
His bleeding heart shall make you room,
His open side shall take you in:
He calls you now, invites you home:
Come, O my guilty brethren, come.
6 For you the purple current flow'd,
In pardons from his wounded side;
Languish'd for you the Son of God,
For you the Prince of Glory died:
Believe and all your sin 's forgiven:
Only believe, and yours is heaven!
Portugal-p. 53.] HYMN 198. L. M
ADAM descended from above!
Saviour and Head of all mankind;
The covenant of redeeming love,
In thee let every sinner find.
2 Our Surety, thou alone hast paid
The debt we to thy Father ow'd:
For the whole world atonement made,
And seal'd the pardon with thy blood.
3 Thee, the Paternal Grace Divine,
A universal blessing gave;.
A Light, in every heart to shine;
A Saviour, every soul to save.
4 Light of the Gentile world, appear,
Command the blind thy rays to see:
Our darkness chase, our sorrows cheer,
And set the plaintive prisoner free.
5 Me, me, who still in darkness sit,
Shut up in sin and unbelief;
Deliver from this gloomy pit,
This dungeon of despairing grief.
6 Open mine eyes the Lamb to know,
Who bears the general sin away;
And to my ransom'd spirit show,
The glories of eternal day.
Luthers-p. 107.] HYMN 199. 6 lines 8s.
"OULD Jesus have the sinner die?
W Why hangs he then on yonder tree?
What means that strange expiring cry? (Sinners, he prays for you and me ;)
"Forgive them, Father, O forgive, They know not that by me they live!" 2 Jesus descended from above,
Our loss of Eden to retrieve; Great God of universal love,
If all the world through thee may live, In us a quick'ning Spirit be,
And witness thou hast died for me.
3 Thou loving, all-atoning Lamb,
Thee by thy painful agony,
Thy bloody sweat, thy grief and shame,
Thy cross and passion on the tree,
Thy precious death and life-I pray
Take all, take all my sins away.
4 O let me kiss thy bleeding feet,
And bathe and wash them with my tears; The story of thy love repeat
In every drooping sinner's ears;
That all may hear the quick'ning sound;
Since I, even I have mercy found.
5 O let thy love my heart constrain,
Thy love for every sinner free,
That every fallen son of man,
May taste the grace that found out me; That all mankind with me may prove, Thy sovereign, everlasting love.
Josiah-p. 177.] HYMN 200. 7s & 6s.
GOD of unexampled grace,
Redcemer of mankind,
Matter of eternal praise
We in thy passion find:
Still our choicest strains we bring,
Still the joyful theme pursue,
Thee the friend of sinners sing,
Whose love is ever new.
2 Endless scenes of wonder rise, With that mysterious tree, Crucify'd before our eyes,
Where we our Maker see:
Jesus, Lord, what hast thou done?
Publish we the death divine,
Stop, and gaze, and fall, and own
Was never love like thine!
3 Never love nor sorrow was
Like that my Jesus show'd;
See him stretch'd on yonder cross,
And crush'd beneath our load!
Now discern the Deity,
Now his heavenly birth declare!
Faith cries out, ""Tis he, 'tis he,
My God that suffers there!"
Archdale-p. 46.] HYMN 201. C. M.
ATHER, how wide thy glories shine!
Known through the earth by thousand signs,
By thousands through the skies:
Those mighty orbs proclaim thy power:
Their motions speak thy skill:
And on the wings of every hour
We read thy patience still.
2 Part of thy name divinely stands,
On all thy creatures writ,
They show the labour of thy hands,
Or impress of thy feet;
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