1 Hymn 39. L. M. The Lord our righteousness. Jer. xxiii. 36. JESUS, thy blood and righteousness My beauty are, my glorious dress; 'Midst flaming worlds in these array'd, With joy shall I lift up my head. 2 Bold shall I stand in that great day; 3 The holy, meek, unspotted Lamb, 4 Lord, I believe thy precious blood, Hymn 40. P. M. And that he died for all. 2 Cor. v. 15. WOULD Jesus have the sinner die? Why hangs he then on yonder tree? What means that strange expiring cry? 2 Jesus descended from above, Our loss of Eden to retrieve: 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, Thy bloody sweat, thy grief and shame; 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; If I, e'en I have mercy found. 50 let thy love my heart constrain, Thy love for every sinner free, That every fallen soul of man May taste the grace that found out me; That all mankind with me may prove Thy sovereign, everlasting love. P 2 Hymn 41. P. M. I will give to him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. Rev. xxi. 6. 1 A FOUNTAIN of life and of grace; In Christ our Redeemer we see ; For us who his offers embrace, For all it is open and free. To drink of his pleasures unknown, By faith of his Spirit partake; And witness a heaven below. SEEKING PARDON OF SIN, AND JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. And I will pardon all their iniquities. Jer. xxxiii. 8. And by him all that believe are justified from all things. Acts xiii. 39. 1 Hymn 42. S. M. To obtain mercy. 1 Tim. i. 16. 1 MY gracious, loving Lord, To thee what shall I say? Well may I tremble at thy word, And scarce presume to pray. 3 Yet, Lord, well might I fear, Thy hallow'd courts I trod : 5 Nigh with my lips I drew; 6 Far from the living Lord, Hymn 43. S. M. But their heart is far from me. Matt. xv. S. PART SECOND. My passions I obey'd, My own desires pursued: And still a den of thieves I made The hallow'd house of God. 2 The worship he approves, 3 My sin and nakedness I studied to disguise : Spoke to my soul a flatt'ring peace, 4 In fig-leaves I appear'd, Nor with my form would part; Hymn 44. S. M. Except he first bind the strong man, and then he will spoil his house. Matt. xii. 29. 1 A PART THIRD. GOODLY formal saint By self and Satan taught to paint 2 The Pharisee within, Still undisturb'd remain'd: The strong man arm'd with guilt of sin, 3 But oh! the jealous God, In my behalf came down : 4 My spirit he alarm'd, And brought into distres3; |