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Behold the Lamb.

OOK unto Christ, ye nations; own

Look, and be saved through faith alone,
Be justified by grace.

2 See all your sins on Jesus laid :
The Lamb of God was slain;
His soul was once an off'ring made
For every soul of man.

3 Awake from guilty nature's sleep,
And Christ shall give you light;
Cast all your sins into the deep,
And wash the Ethiop white.

4 With me, your chief, ye then shall know, Shall feel, your sins forgiven;

Anticipate your heaven below,
And own that love is heaven.

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Proclaiming the universal Saviour.
ET earth and heaven agree,

To celebrate with me
The Saviour of mankind:
To' adore the all-atoning Lamb,
And bless the sound of Jesus' name.

2 Jesus! transporting sound!
The joy of earth and heaven;
No other help is found,
No other name is given,
By which we can salvation have;
But Jesus came the world to save.

OF THE GOSPEL.

3 Jesus! harmonious name!
It charms the hosts above;
They evermore proclaim,

And wonder at, his love:
"Tis all their happiness to gaze,-
'Tis heaven to see our Jesus' face.

4 His name the sinner hears,
And is from sin set free;
'Tis music in his ears;
'Tis life and victory;

New songs do ow his lips employ,
And dances his glad heart for joy.

5 0 unexampled love!
all-redeeming grace!

How swiftly didst thou move
To save a fallen race!

What shall I do to make it known,
What thou for all mankind hast done?

60 for a trumpet voice,

On all the world to. call,-
To bid their hearts rejoice
In him who died for all:
For all, my Lord was crucified;
For all, for all, my Saviour died.

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The immensity of His grace.
HAT shall I do my God to love?

My

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The length, and breadth, and height to prove,
And depth of sov'reign grace?

2 Thy sov'reign grace to all extends,
Immense and unconfined;

From age to age it never ends;
It reaches all mankind.

3 Throughout the world its breadth is known,' HE Wide as infinity:

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So wide it never pass'd by one,

Or it had pass'd by me.

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4 My trespass was grown up to heaven;
But, far above the skies,

Through Christ abundantly forgiven,
I see thy mercies rise.

5 The depth of all-redeeming love,
What angel tongue can tell?
O may I to the utmost prove
The gift unspeakable !

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Rejoicing in the glory of His grace. YLORY to God, whose sov'reign grace Hath animated senseless stones,Call'd us to stand before his face,

And raised us into Abrah'm's sons. 2 The people that in darkness lay,

In sin and error's deadly shade, Have seen a glorious gospel-day

In Jesus' lovely face display'd. 3 Thou only, Lord, the work hast done, And bared thine arm in all our sight; Hast made the reprobates thine own, And claim'd the outcasts as thy right. 4 Thy single arm, almighty Lord,

To us the great salvation brought;
Thy Word, thy all-creating Word,

That spake at first the world from naught.
5 For this the saints lift up their voice,
And ceaseless praise to thee is given;
For this the hosts above rejoice,

And praise thee in the highest heaven.

DEPRAVITY.

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Original and actual sin.
ORD, we are vile, conceived in sin,
And born unholy and unclean;
Sprung from the man whose guilty fall
Corrupts his race, and taints us all.
2 Soon as we draw our infant breath
The seeds of sin grow up for death;
Thy law demands a perfect heart,
But we 're defiled in every part.
3 Behold, we fall before thy face;
Our only refuge is thy grace:
No outward forms can make us clean;
The leprosy lies deep within.

4 Nor bleeding bird, nor bleeding beast,
Nor hyssop branch, nor sprinkling priest,
Nor running brook, nor flood, nor sea,
Can wash the dismal stain away.

5 Jesus, thy blood, thy blood alone,
Hath power sufficient to atone;
Thy blood can make us white as snow;
No Jewish types could cleanse us so.

6 While guilt disturbs and breaks our peace,
No flesh nor soul hath rest or ease;
Lord, let us hear thy pard'ning voice,
And make these broken hearts rejoice.

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Totally diseased.

WHILE dead in trespasses I lie,
Thy quick'ning Spirit give;
Call me, thou Son of God, that I
May hear thy voice, and live.

4 Jesus, my Shepherd, Saviour, My Prophet, Priest, and KingMy Lord, my Life, my Way, my

Accept the praise I bring.

5 I would thy boundless love pr
With every fleeting breath;
So shall the music of thy name
Refresh my soul in death.

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The unspeakable gift. [APPY the man who finds the of The wisdom coming from above, The faith that sweetly works by 2 Happy, beyond description, he Who knows the Saviour died for The gift unspeakable obtains, And heavenly understanding ga 3 Wisdom divine! who tells the Of wisdom's costly merchandise Wisdom to silver we prefer, And gold is dross compared to h 4 Her hands are fill'd with leng True riches, and immortal prais Riches of Christ on all bestow'd. And honour that descends from

5 To purest joys she all invites,Chaste, holy, spiritual delights; Her ways are ways of pleasantn And all her flowery paths are pe

6 Happy the man who wisdom g Thrice happy, who his guest reta He owns, and shall forever own, Wisdom, and Christ, and heaven