o Sends down the gospel of his grace, Th' epistles of his love.

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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.
(Hence we awake our fear;
We draw our comfort hence;
The arms of grace are treasur'd here,
And armour of defence.)

5 (We learn Christ crucify'd,
And here behold his blood:
All arts and knowledges beside
Will do us little good.)

6 We read the heavenly word,
We take the offer'd grace,
Obey the statutes of the Lord,"
And trust his promises.

07 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.
THE law commands, and makes us know
What 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 shews 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 inan who fails but once? o But in the gospel Christ appears,

Pard'ning the guilt of num'rous years.
-4 My soul, no more attempt to draw
Thy life and comfort from the law;
o Fly to the hope the gospel gives:
The man who trusts the promise-lives

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

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e 4 Be earth with all her scenes withdrawn; Let noise and vanity be gone: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

LAWAY from ev'ry 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,
o To fight the battles of the Lord.

e 5 Or if our spirit faints and dies,

-(Our conscience gall'd 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 bow'd his head and dy'd,
Short of the promis'd land.

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.
1[LIFE and immortal joys are given [done;
To souls that mourn the sins they've
Children of wrath, made heirs of heaven,
By faith in God's eternal Son.

e 2 Wo 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

IE 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;

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

Joshua, same with Jesus, and signifies a Saviour

3 Thy name is writ in fairest lines; Thy wonders here we trace; -Wisdom through all the myst❜ry 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 einploys,
Gilds the whole scene with brighter rays,
And more exalts our joys.

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

T

1 THUS 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 cov'nant 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 pour'd upon the head.

o 4 Let ev'ry 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]
Corrupt Nature from Adam.

1

BLESS'D with the joys of innocence,

Adam our father stood,

Till he debas'd his soul to sense,

And ate th' unlawful food.

2 Now we are born a sensual race, To sinful joys inclin'd;

Reason has lost its native place,

And flesh enslaves the mind.

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

We fancy music in our chains,
And so forget the load.

4 Great God, renew our ruin'd frame,-
Our broken powers restore;
Inspire us with a heavenly flame,
And flesh shall reign no more.
5 Eternal Spirit, write thy law
Upon our inward parts;
And let the second Adam draw
His image on our hearts.

HYMN 129. L. M. Bath. Islington. [*] We walk by Faith, not by Sight.

1'T We walk through deserts dark as night, 'TIS by the faith of joys to come,

Till we arrive at heaven, our home,
Faith is our guide, and faith our light.
2 The want of sight she well supplies;
She makes the pearly gates appear;
Far into distant worlds she pries
And brings eternal glories near.

3 Cheerful we tread the desert through,
While faith supplies a heavenly ray;
Though lions roar, and tempests blow
And rocks and dangers fill the way.
4 So Abra'am, by divine command,
Left his own house to walk with God;
His faith beheld the promis'd land,
And fir'd his zeal along the road.

HYMN 130. C.M. Sunday. [*]
The New Creation.

1 ATTEND, while God's exalted Son

Doth his own glory show.

d'Behold, I sit upon my throne,
'Creating all things new.

2' Nature and sin are pass'd away,
'And the old Adam dies;
'My hands a new foundation lay-
'See the new world arise!

3'I'll be a Sun of righteousness
"To the new heavens I make;
'None, but the new born heirs of grace,
'My glories shall partake.'

e 4 Mighty Redeemer, set me free
From my old state of sin;