5. In search of empty joys below, A servant's form he meekly wears, Ye toil with unavailing strife: He sojourns in a house of clay : Whither, ah, whither would ye go? His glory through a veil is seen, Christ hath the words of endless And God with God is man with life. men. 6. To you he calls, "My goodness 3. Behold prove, My promises for all are free: O taste my everlasting love, our God incarnate stands, And calls his wandering creatures home; And let your souls delight in me." He all day long spreads out his Wesley. hands, Come, weary souls, to Jesus come: His saving grace for all is free; (282.) 234. Come only undisguis'd: Draw nigh just as you are; Your losses to repair. 2. His wounds are open fountains Or sands on ocean's shore: By Christ's all-saving blood: Come to the Lamb of God. Hutton. 66 All ye who are oppress'd,. WHERE shall my wondering soul" COME to me," saith the Lord, sin, A brand pluck'd from eternal fire; How shall I due thanksgivings (praise? raise, And sound my great Deliverer's 2. O how shall I thy goodness tell, Saviour, which thou hast shown to me? That I, a child of wrath and hell, And that I am an heir of heaven. Repenting sinners he'll receive; No need of him the righteous have, He came the lost to seek and save. And I will give you rest. 0 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; 4. Come, O my fellow-sinners, Pardon, and life, and endless (weight; peace; come, Groaning beneath sin's ponderous How rich the gift! how free the He calls you now, invites you home; grace! Come quickly, ere it be too late : 4. Lord, we accept, with thankful Though foes protest, and friends repine, heart, (part; (mine. The hope thy gracious words imHe died for crimes like yours and We come with trembling, yet re 5. For you the healing current joice, flow'd (side; And bless the kind inviting voice. From the Redeemer's wounded 5. Dear Saviour! let thy powerful Languish'd for you the Son of God, love (move; For you the Prince of glory died: Confirm our faith, our fears reBelieve, your sins shall be forgiv'n; And sweetly influence every breast, Only believe, and yours is heaven. And guide us to eternal rest. Watts. Mrs. Steele. T. 11. Now from bliss no longer rove, (286.) 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; 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. (287.) 239.* T. 132. (But should be hopeless and forlorn, LORD Jesus Christ, my sovereign Uncertain where for help to turn, good, Thou fountain of salvation, (days, Reflecting on my trespasses, If I had not thy promise. 4. But thy reviving gospel-word, This tells me, thou wilt not despise 5. Me, heavy laden sinner, hear, Show pity and receive me : 7. O, for thy name's sake let me Thy mercy, gracious Saviour: (289.) 240.* THOU God of glorious majesty, To thee, against myself, to thee, A worm of earth, I cry; A half-awaken'd child of man, An heir of endless bliss or pain, A guilty sinner born to die. B. Ringwald. 2. Lo, on a narrow neck of land, "Twixt two unbounded seas I T. 132. Secure, insensible; (stand, OUT of the deep I cry to thee, A point of time, a moment's space, My God, with heart's contrition; Removes me to that heavenly place, Bow down thine ear in grace to Or ever shuts me up in hell. And hear thou my petition: (me, 3. O God, mine inmost soul con-For if in judgment thou wilt try vert! (heart Man's sin and great iniquity, And deeply on my thoughtful Ah, who can stand before thee? Eternal things impress; (weight, 2. To gain remission of our sin, Give me to feel their solemn No work of ours availeth; To tremble on the brink of fate, God's favour we may strive to win, And to awake to righteousness. But all our labour faileth; 4. Before me place in dread array We're 'midst our fairest actions The pomp of that tremendous day, lost, (boast: When thou with clouds shalt come, And none 'fore him of aught can To judge the nations at thy bar : We live alone thro' mercy.. And tell me, Lord, shall I be there, 3. Therefore my hope is in his To meet from thee a joyful doom? And not in my own merit; (grace, 5. Be this my one great business On him my confidence I place, Instructed by his Spirit: here, (me With godly jealousy and fear, His precious word hath promis'd Eternal bliss to insure; T. 14. 2. All fears and terrors, when he The bruis'd and wounded heart he heals, 2. That way is holy, Christians true blood 3. Cold is my love, hence sin doth Unto a sin-sick soul, reign, And grief corrode my heart; With things, whose only fruit is How loth am I to part. (pain, 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, (good, This balsam, powerful, precious, 5. He's full of grace and truth in- 6. Tho' heaven's his throne, he To seek and save the lost; (pense, My Saviour, Sun, and Shield, 7. On us he spent his life and blood, (me Erskine |