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This for sin could not atone;
Thou must save, and Thou alone;
In my hand no price I bring;
Simply to Thy cross I cling.

3 While I draw this fleeting breath,
When mine eye-lids close in death,
When I rise to worlds unknown,
And behold Thee on Thy throne,
Rock of ages, cleft for me!
Let me hide myself in Thee.

C. M.-No. 2.

'TIS not by works of righteousness

Which our own hands have done,
But we are saved by sov'reign grace
Abounding through His Son.

2 'Tis from the mercy of our God
That all our hopes begin;

'Tis by the water and the blood

Our souls are washed from sin.

3 'Tis through the purchase of His death
Who hung upon the tree,

The Spirit is sent down to breathe
On such dry bones as we.

4 Raised from the dead we live anew,
And, justified by grace,

We shall appear in glory too,
And see our Father's face.

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L. M.-No. 1.

BLEST is the man, forever blest,

Whose guilt is pardoned by his God,
Whose sins with sorrow are confessed,

And covered with his Savior's blood.

2 Blest is the man to whom the Lord Imputes not his iniquities,

He pleads no merit of reward,

And not on works, but grace relies. 3 From guile his heart and lips are free, His humble joy, his holy fear, With deep repentance well agree, And join to prove his faith sincere. 4 How glorious is that righteousness That hides and cancels all his sins! While a bright evidence of grace Through his whole life appears and shines.

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L. M.-No. 1.

JESUS, Thy blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress:
'Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed,
With joy shall I lift up my head.

2 When from the dust of death I rise
To take my mansion in the skies,
E'en then shall this be all my plea--
"Jesus hath lived, hath died for me."
3 Bold shall I stand on that great day,
For who aught to my charge shall lay?
Fully, through Thee, absolved I am
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.

4 This spotless robe the same appears
When ruined nature sinks in years;
No age can change its glorious hue,
The robe of Christ is ever new.

5 And when the dead shall hear Thy voice,
Thy banished children shall rejoice;
Their beauty this, their glorious dress,
Jesus, the Lord our righteousness.

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MY

No. 6.

Y hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness:

I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus' name.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand.

2 When darkness veils His lovely face
I rest on His unchanging grace ;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.*
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand.
3 His oath, His covenant, and blood,
Support me in the sinking flood;
When every earthly prop gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand.

4 When I shall launch to worlds unseen,
I then be found in Him,

may

*See Hebrews 6, 19-20.

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Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand.

CHRIS

L. M.-No. 1.

HRIST'S crimson blood and righteousness
My glory are and spotless dress;

In this before my God I'll stand

And enter heaven, my fatherland.

2 And should I through Christ's merits prove
Yet e'er so faithful in my love,
That I could keep from wrong alway
And sin not, to my dying day,

3 Still would I, when I Christ shall see,
Not think of zeal or piety,

But this: a sinner nears the throne
Whose plea for life is grace alone.

4 Be praised, O Jesus, without end,
That Thou from heaven didst descend,
And hast for me a ransom paid---
For all a full atonement made.

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HOLY COMMUNION.

No. 62.

RANT us, Lord! due preparation

For Thy blest Supper's celebration; Come, come, O God! our midst within; Unto life do Thou enable

Us now in faith t' approach Thy table;
Pronounce us free from death and sin!

O Savior! we are Thine;

Thine let us e'er remain!

Amen! amen!

Praise be to Thee!

In heaven we,

Thy Supper great shall celebrate.

2 Take and eat, the bread here offered; Eternal life by Christ is proffered;

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His peace and comfort be with you!
Take, and unto life in heaven
Drink of salvation's cup now given,
Inherit Jesus' kingdom true.
Watch, let your ev'ry breath
Be faithful unto death!

Amen! amen!

Straight is the way,

And few are they

The Judge shall crown and call His own.

N love still faithful to the end,

L. M.-No. 1.

The Lord approved Himself our Friend, And granted in His last bequest

That which through faith gives peace and rest.

2 The night in which He was betrayed,
He blessed the bread and cup, and said,
Eat, drink, and named the given good :
'This is My Body and My Blood.'

3 Israel's Paschal-feast had long
Kept waiting hope in Israel strong,