-3 But Satan found a worse reward:
Thus saith the vengeance of the Lord,
o'Let everlasting hatred be

'Betwixt the woman's Seed and thee.
4 The woman's Seed shall be my Son;
'He shall destroy what thou hast done :-
'Shall break thy head, and only feel
'Thy malice raging at his heel.'

-5 He spake-and bade four thousand years
Roll on; at length his Son appears :
s Angels with joy descend to earth,

And sing the young Redeemer's birth.
p 6 Lo, by the sons of hell he dies;
-But, as he hung 'twixt earth and skies,
o He gave their prince a fatal blow,
u And triumph'd o'er the powers below.

1

HYMN 108. S. M. Dover. [*]
Christ unseen, yet beloved.
1 Pet. i, 8.
TOT with our mortal eyes
Have we beheld the Lord;
Yet we rejoice to hear his name,

N

And love him in his word.

2 On earth we want the sight
Of our Redeemer's face;
Yet, Lord, our inmost thoughts delight
To dwell upon thy grace.

3 And when we taste thy love,
Our joys divinely grow
Unspeakable, like those above,

And heaven begins below.

HYMN 109 L. M. Portugal. Armley. [*] The Value of Christ and his Righteousness. Phil. iii, 7, 8, 9.

1

Nor all the duties I have done;
O more, my God-I boast no more,

I quit the hopes I held before,
To trust the merits of thy Son.

2 Now, for the love I bear his name,
What was my gain, I count my loss;
My former pride I call my shame,
And nail my glory to his cross.

3 Yes, and I must and will esteem
All things but loss for Jesus' sake;

O may my soul be found in him,
And of his righteousness partake!
4 The best obedience of my hands
Dares not appear before thy throne;
But faith can answer thy demands,
By pleading what my Lord has done.

HYMN 110. C. M. St. Paul's. Canterbury. [*] Death, and immediate Glory. 2 Cor. v, 1, 5, 8.. • 1 HERE is a house, not made with hands,

TH Eternal, and on high;

e And here my spirit waiting stands, Till God shall bid it fly.

e 2 Shortly this prison of my clay Must be dissolv'd and fall;

s Then, O my soul, with joy obey
Thy heavenly Father's call.

-3 'Tis He, by his almighty grace,
Who forms thee fit for heaven;
And, as an earnest of the place,
Has his own Spirit given.

4 We walk by faith of joys to come;
Faith lives upon his word;

e But while the body is our home, We're absent from the Lord.

-5 'Tis pleasant to believe thy grace, But we had rather see;

o We would be absent from the mesh, And present, Lord, with thee.

HYMN 111. C. M.

Salvation by Grace.

Reading. [*]
Titus iii, 3, 7.

e 1 (TORD, we confess our numerous faults.

How great our guilt has been!

Foolish and vain were all our thoughts,

And all our lives were sin.

o 2 But, O my soul, for ever praise,
For ever love his name,

Who turns thy feet from dang'rous ways
Of folly, sin, and shame.)

-3 'Tis not by works of righteousness,
Which our own hands have done;
o But we are sav'd by sovereign grace
Abounding through his Son.

-4 'Tis from the mercy of our God, That all our hopes begin;

"Tis by the water and the blood,

Our souls are wash'd from sin.

p 5 '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.

o 6 Rais'd from the dead, we live anew:
And, justify'd by grace,

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

HYMN 112. C. M. Bedford. [*]
The Brazen Serpent. 2 John ver. 14-16.
1 So did the Hebrew prophet raise
The brazen serpent high;

The wounded felt immediate ease,
The camp forbore to die.

d 2 Look upward in the dying hour,
And live!' the prophet cries!
e But Christ performs a nobler cure,
When faith lifts up her eyes.

-3 High on the cross the Saviour hung!
High in the heavens he reigns!
Here sinners, by th' old serpent stung,
Look, and forget their pains.

g 4 When God's own Son is lifted up,
A dying world revives;

The Jew beholds the glorious hope;
Th' expiring Gentile lives.

HYMN 113. C. M.

Wareham. [*]

Abraham's Blessing on the Gentiles. Gen. xv

1

7; Rom. xv, 8; Mark x, 14.

HOW large the promise—how divine—

To Abra'am and his seed ;

d I'll be a God to thee and thine,

'Supplying all their need!'

-2 The words of his extensive love
From age to age endure;

The Angel of the cov❜nant proves,
And seals the blessing sure

3 Jesus the ancient faith confirms,

To our great fathers given;

He takes young children to his arms,
And calls them heirs of heaven.

4 Our God, how faithful are his ways!
His love endures the same;
Nor from the promise of his grace
Blots out the children's name.

HYMN 114. C. M. Sunday. [*]
The same. Rom. xi, 16, 17.

e1 GENTILES by nature, we belong

the wild olive wood;

o Grace took us from the barren tree, And grafts us in the good.

-2 With the same blessings grace endows
The Gentile and the Jew;

If pure and holy be the root,
Such are the branches too.

o 3 Then let the children of the saints
Be dedicate to God;

e Pour out thy Spirit on them, Lord, And wash them in thy blood.

4 Thus to the parents, and their seed, Shall thy salvation come;

• And num❜rous households meet at last, In one eternal home.

HYMN 115. C. M. Plymouth. [b] Conviction by the Law. Rom. vii, 8, 9, 14, 24. LORD how secure my conscience was,

1

And felt no inward dread!

I was alive without the law,

And thought my sins were dead.

2 My hopes of heaven were firm and bright; But since the precept came,

With a convincing power and light,

I find how vile I am.

3 (My guilt appear'd but small before,
Till terribly I saw,

How perfect, holy, just, and pure,
Is thine eternal law.

e 4 Then felt my soul the heavy load,
My sins reviv'd again ;

P

I had provok'd a dreadful God,
And all my hopes were slain.)
5 I'm like a helpless captive, sold
Under the power of sin;

I cannot do the good I would,

Nor keep my conscience clean. -6 My God, I cry with ev'ry breath, For some kind power to save; To break the yoke of sin and death, And thus redeem the slave.

HYMN 116. L. M. Bath. [*]

Love to God and our Neighbour. Matt. xxii, 37-40.

1

THUS

HUS saith the first, the great command, 'Let all thy inward powers unite,

To love thy Maker, and thy God,

With utmost vigour and delight.

2 Then shall thy neighbour, next in place, 'Share thine affection and esteem; And let thy kindness to thyself 'Measure and rule thy love to him.' 3 This is the sense that Moses spoke ; This did the prophets preach and prove; For want of this the law is broke, And the whole law's fulfill'd by love. a 4 But oh how base our passions are! How cold our charity and zeal ! -Lord, fill our souls with heavenly fire, Or we shall ne'er perform thy will.

[* b]

HYMN 117. L. M. Blendon. Bath. Election sovereign and free. Rom. ix, 21-24. EHOLD the potter and the clay!

BE

He forms his vessels as he please;

Such is our God, and such are we,

The subjects of his just decrees.

2 [Doth not the workman's power extend
O'er all the mass, which part to choose,
And mould it for a nobler end,
And which to leave for viler use?]

e 3 May not the sovereign Lord on high
Dispense his favours as he will,

Choose some to life, while others die,
And yet be just, and gracious still?