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e But the dear stream, when Christ was slain,
-Speaks peace-as loud from every vein.

2 Pardon and peace from God on high;
Behold he lays his vengeance by ;
And rebels, who deserve his sword,
Become the favourites of the Lord.
o 3 To Jesus let our praises rise,
Who gave his life a sacrifice;
Now he appears before our God,
And, for our pardon, pleads his blood.

HYMN 119. C. M. Plymouth. [b *]
The Holy Scriptures.

1LADEN with guilt, and full of fears,

fly to thee, my Lord;

And not a glimpse of hope appears,
But in thy written word.

2 The volume of my Father's grace
Does all my grief assuage:

Here I behold my Saviour's face,
Almost in every page.

3 (This is the field where hidden lies
The pearl of price unknown;
That merchant is divinely wise,
Who makes the pearl his own.)
4 (Here consecrated water flows,
To quench my thirst of sin;
Here the fair tree of knowledge grows,
No danger dwells therein.)

5 This is the Judge that ends the strife,
Where wit and reason fail;

My guide to everlasting life,

Through all this gloomy vale.

6 Oh! may thy counsels, mighty God,
My roving feet command;
Nor 1 forsake the happy road

That leads to thy right hand.

HYMN 120. S. M. Aylesbury. [b]

1

The Law and Gospel joined in Scripture.

HE Lord declares his will,

THE

And keeps the world in awe; e Amidst the smoke of Sinai's hill,

Breaks out his fiery law.

2 The Lord reveals his face,
And, smiling from above,

o Sends down the gospel of his grace,

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Th' epistles of his love.

3 These sacred words impart

Our Maker's just commands; e The pity of his melting heart,

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And vengeance of his hands.
4 (Hence we awake our fear;
We draw our comfort hence;
The arms of grace are treasured here,
And armour of defence.)

5 (We learn Christ crucified,
And here behold his blood;
All arts and knowledges beside
Will do us little good.)

6 We read the heavenly word,
We take the offered grace;
Obey the statutes of the Lord,
And trust his promises.

7 In vain shall Satan rage
Against a book divine,-

e Where wrath and lightning guard the page,
Where beams of mercy shine.

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HYMN 121. L. M. Armley. [b*]
The Law and Gospel distinguished.

HE law commands, and makes us know
That duties to our God we owe;

o But 'tis the gospel must reveal

Where lies our strength to do his will.

e 2 The law discovers guilt and sin,

And shows how vile our hearts have been;

o Only the gospel can express

Forgiving love and cleansing grace.

e 3 What curses does the law denounce
Against the man who fails but once?
o But in the gospel Christ appears,
Pardoning the guilt of numerous years.
4 My soul, no more attempt to draw
Thy life and comfort from the law;
a Fly to the hope the gospel gives:
The man who trusts the promise-lives.

HYMN 122. L. M. Bethel. [b*]
Retirement and Meditation.

1 MY God, permit me not to be

A stranger to myself and thee:

Amidst a thousand thoughts I rove,
Forgetful of my highest love.

e 2 Why should my passions mix with earth,
And thus debase my heavenly birth?
Why should I cleave to things below,
And let my God, my Saviour, go?
d 3 Call me away from flesh and sense;
One sovereign word can draw me thence;
-I would obey the voice divine,

And all inferior joys resign.

e 4 Be earth with all her scenes withdrawn ; Let noise and vanity be gone :

a In secret silence of the mind,

My heaven-and there my God, I find.

HYMN 123. L. M.

Green's. [*]

The Benefit of Public Ordinances.

1AWAY from every mortal care,

Away from earth, our souls retreat; We leave this worthless world afar, And wait, and worship, near thy seat. 2 Lord, in the temple of thy grace We see thy feet, and we adore;

We

gaze upon thy lovely face,

And learn the wonders of thy power.

p 3 While here our various wants we mourn, United groans ascend on high;

-And prayers produce a quick return
Of blessings in variety.

e 4 (If Satan rage, and sin grow strong,
-Here we receive some cheering word;
o We gird the gospel armour on,
• To fight the battles of the Lord.
e 5 Or if our spirit faints and dies,

-(Our conscience galled with inward stings,)
o Here does the righteous Sun arise,
With healing beams beneath his wings.)
e 6 Father, my soul would still abide
Within thy temple, near thy side:
But if my feet must hence depart,
Still keep thy dwelling in my heart.]

HYMN 124. C. M.

York. [b*]

Moses, Aaron, and Joshua.
IS not the law of ten commands,
On holy Sinai given,

1 'TIS

And sent to men by Moses' hands,
Can bring us safe to heaven.

2 'Tis not the blood which Aaron spilt,
Nor smoke of sweetest smell,
Can buy the pardon of our guilt,
Or save our souls from hell.

e 3 Aaron the priest resigns his breath,
At God's immediate will;
And in the desert yields to death,
Upon th' appointed hill.

4 And thus on Jordan's yonder side,
The tribes of Israel stand;

While Moses bowed his head and died,
Short of the promised land.

o 5 Israel rejoice, now Joshua * leads,
He'll bring your tribes to rest:
So far the Saviour's name exceeds
The ruler and the priest.

HYMN 125. L. M. Pleyel's. [b]
Faith and Repentance, Unbelief and Impenitence.
IFE and immortal joys are given

To souls that mourn the sins they've done;

Children of wrath, made heirs of heaven,
By faith in God's eternal Son.

e 2 Woe to the wretch who never felt
The inward pangs of pious grief;
But adds to all his crying guilt
The stubborn sin of unbelief.

3 The law condemns the rebel dead;
Under the wrath of God he lies:

a He seals the curse on his own head, And with a double vengeance dies.]

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HYMN 126. C. M. Wareham.
God glorified in the Gospel.

THE

THE Lord, descending from above,
Invites his children near;

While power, and truth, and boundless love,
Display their glories here.

2 Here, in the gospel's wondrous frame,
Fresh wisdom we pursue;

d A thousand angels learn thy name, Beyond whate'er they knew.

* Joshua same with Jesus, and signifies a Saviour

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3 Thy name is writ in fairest lines;

Thy wonders here we trace;

-Wisdom through all the mystery shines,
And shines in Jesus' face.

4 The law its best obedience owes
To our incarnate God;

And thy revenging justice shows
Its honours in his blood.

o 5 But still the lustre of thy grace
Our warmer thoughts employs;
Gilds the whole scene with brighter rays,
And more exalts our joys.

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HYMN 127. L. M. Portugal. [*]
Circumcision and Baptism.

THUS

HUS did the sons of Abra'am pass
Under the bloody seal of grace;
The young disciples bore the yoke,
Till Christ the painful bondage broke.
2 By milder ways does Jesus prove
His Father's covenant and his love;
He seals to saints his glorious grace,
Nor does forbid their infant race.

3 Their seed is sprinkled with his blood,
Their children set apart for God;
His Spirit on their offspring shed,
Like water poured upon the head.

0 4 Let every saint, with cheerful voice,
In this large covenant rejoice;

Young children, in their early days,
Shall give the God of Abra'am praise.

HYMN 128. C. M. China. Plymouth. [b]

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B

Corrupt Nature from Adam.

LEST with the joys of innocence,
Adam our father stood,

Till he debased his soul to sense,

And ate th' unlawful food.

2 Now we are born a sensual race,
To sinful joys inclined;
Reason has lost its native place,

And flesh enslaves the mind.

3 While flesh and sense and passion reigns, Sin is the sweetest good;

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