2. Food to which the world's a Thy judgments, chastening or se

II. THE FALL AND REDEMPTION OF MAN.

IN thine image, Lord, thou mad'st
Gav'st me being out of love; (me, 3. Love, who hast for me endured
Though I fell, yet thou hast sent me Keenest pains of death and hell;
Full redemption from above:
Love, whose sufferings have pro-
Sacred Love, I long to be
Thine to all eternity.

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.

|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,

My refuge are from sin and death,
My feeble soul's abiding-place.
M. Taylor.

T. 590.

(24.)

CHRIST, the good Shepherd, God's

17.*

T. 221.

From all eternity, (own Son YE bottomless depths of God's in

Urg'd by his love, exchang'd his
For human misery ; (throne
His wandering sheep gone far astray Its
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,

16.

finite love,

In Jesus Christ to us reveal'd! motions how burning, how flam

ing they prove,
(conceal'd:
Though from man's wisdom quite
Whom dost thou love? Sinners,
the vilest race;

Whom dost thou bless? Children,
O Being most gracious, whom
who scorn'd thy grace;
Thou takest delight in things
angels adore,
worthless and poor.

2. Our thirsting can never, O merci-
ful God,
(grace;
Equal thy love and boundless
T. 79. On us thou more blessings and love

hast bestow'd,

(23.) THOU holy, spotless Lamb of God, (passes. Didst leave thy glorious, blest Than stripes deserv'd our tresIn 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

Yea, live to thy honour, thee serve, praise, and love.

19.

NOT one of Adam's race,

If in the balance tried, Can by his works of righteousness 3. We pray thee, O Being most 'Fore God be justified. gracious and mild, The works which we have done Instruct our minds and teach us Are all, alas! unclean; So that in Immanuel, thine image

and child,

(now,

(know;

But we are sav'd by faith alone,
And cleans'd thereby from sin.

How great thy name is, we may 2. Ye sinners, who with grief
Ah, show us how easy it is to bear Your condemnation feel,
Thy yoke, and to trust thy paternal Look up to Jesus for relief,
(shall end,
That, till the short period of trial
Our faith and our love may their
author commend.

care,

Count Zinzendorf.

T. 14.

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.

And to his blood appeal;
God gave his only Son

That sinners who believe
Might not be lost, but be his own,
And in his kingdom live.

4. To the dear fountain of thy 4. He washed away my every stain,

6. Against the fiercest powers of hell Lord, let me hear thy pardoning

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.

;

voice,

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

For us he suffer'd deep distress,
Was without form or comeliness;
O depth of love, O mystery!

3. The almighty Judge condemned
(cause;

was,

LORD, I am vile, conceiv'd in sin, That he by death might gain our
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;

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 obtain'd a righteousness
For all who mourn for pardoning
Thro Jesus we have peace with
grace;
(God.

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

JESUS, the almighty Son of God, TO God we render thanks and

Takes up with mortals his abode;

He who was sworn to Abraham,

praise,

Who pitied mankind's fallen race, Who ever was and is the same, And gave his dear and only Son, Came in due time and mysteries That us, as children, he might own. (were conceal'd. 2. What grace, what great benevo

(sense!

reveal'd, Which from the world's foundation lence, 2. We, dead in sins and trespasses, What love, surpassing human The narrow way to life and peace For this great work no angel can Had neither will nor power to find; Him duly praise, much less a man. Nor were our stubborn hearts in3. The Word eternal did assume clin'd (know, Our flesh and blood, and man beTo wish, or seek that happiness to 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.

receive

come;

(see

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

Repenting sinners who in Christ To meet their Saviour, tho' he came Their souls from misery to reclaim.

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.