3 (Malice and rage, those fires of hell,
She quenches with her tongue;
Hopes, and believes, and thinks no ill,
Though she endures the wrong.)

4 (She ne'er desires, nor seeks to know
The scandals of the time;

Nor looks with pride on those below,
Nor envies those who climb.)

5 She lays her own advantage by,
To seek her neighbour's good:-
o So God's own Son came down to die,
And bought our lives with blood.

o 6 Love is the grace, that keeps her pow'r,
In all the realms above;

There faith and hope are known no more,
But saints for ever love.

HYMN 134. L. M. Islington. Quercy. [b*] Religion vain without Love. 1 Cor. xiii, 1, 2, 3.

1

H

AD I the tongues of Greeks and Jews,
And nobler speech than angels use;
If love be absent, I am found,

Like tinkling brass, an empty sound.
2 Were I inspir'd to preach, and tell
All that is done in heaven and hell;
Or could my faith the world remove,
Still-I am nothing without love.
3 Should I distribute all my store,
To feed the bowels of the poor;
Or give my body to the flame,
To gain a martyr's glorious name ;-
4 If love to God, and love to men,
Be absent-all my hopes are vain:
Nor tongues, nor gifts, nor fiery zeal,
The works of love can e'er fulfil.

HYMN 135. L. M. Sicilian. Green's. [*]
Love of Christ in the Heart. Eph. iii, 16. &c.

1 COME, dearest Lord, descend and dwell,

By faith and love in ev'ry breast;

Then shall we know, and taste, and feel,
The joys that cannot be express'd.

2 Come, fill our hearts with inward strength;
Make our enlarged souls possess,

And learn the height and breadth and length,
Of thine unmeasurable grace.

s 3 Now to the God whose pow'r can do,
More than our tho'ts or wishes know;
Be everlasting honours done,

By all the church-thro' Christ his Son.

HYMN 136. C. M. Abridge Plymouth [b*] Sincerity and Hypocrisy. John iv, 24. Psalm cxxxix 23, 24.

1

G

OD is a Spirit, just and wise, He sees our inmost mind: In vain to heav'n we raise our cries, And leave our souls behind.

2 Nothing but truth, before his throne,
With honour can appear:

The painted hypocrites are known,
Through the disguise they wear.
3 Their lifted eyes salute the skies,
Their bending knees the ground;
But God abhors the sacrifice,

Where not the heart is found.

24 Lord, search my thoughts, and try my ways

And make my soul sincere ;

• Then shall I stand before thy face,

And find acceptance there.

HYMN 137. L. M. Leeds. Castle-Street. [*]
Salvation by Grace in Christ. 2 Tim, i, 9, 10.
N Be everlasting honours giv'n;
OW, to the pow'r of God supreme

He saves from hell-(we bless his name,)
He calls our wand'ring feet to Heav'n.
e 2 Not for our duties, or deserts,
o But of his own abundant grace,
He works salvation in our hearts,
And forms a people for his praise.
-3 'Twas his own purpose that begun
To rescue rebels, doom'd to die;
He gave us grace in Christ his Son,
Before he spread the starry sky.

o 4 Jesus the Lord appears at last,

And makes his Father's counsels known; o Declares the great transactions pass'd, And brings immortal blessings down. e 5 He dies!-and in that dreadful night Did all the pow'rs of hell destroy; • Rising he brought our heav'n to light, And took possession of the joy.

HYMN 138. C. M.

Colchester. [*]

Saints in the Hands of Christ. John x, 28, 29.

1

FIR

IRM as the earth, thy gospel stands,
My Lord, my hope, my trust;

If I am found in Jesus' hands,

My soul can ne'er be lost.

2 His honour is engag'd to save
The meanest of his sheep;

All, whom his heav'nly Father gave,
His hands securely keep.

3 Nor death, nor hell shall e'er remove
His fav'rites from his breast;

In the dear bosom of his love

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They must forever rest.

HYMN 139. L. M.

Green's. [b *]

Hope in the Covenant. Heb. vi, 17-19.
TOW oft have sin and Satan strove

HOW

To rend my soul from thee, my God? • But everlasting is thy love,

And Jesus seals it with his blood. -2 The oath and promise of the Lord Join to confirm the wondrous grace; g Eternal pow'r performs the word, And fills all heav'n with endless praise. e 3 Amidst temptations, sharp and long, My soul to this dear refuge flies; -Hope is my anchor, firm and strong, While tempests blow, and billows rise. o 4 The gospel bears my spirit up; g A faithful and unchanging God Lays the foundation for my hope, In oaths, and promises, and blood.

HYMN 140. C. M. York. Reading. [b]

e 1

A living and a dead Faith.

M and make their empty boast

[ISTAKEN souls! that dream of heav'n,

Of inward joys, and sins forgiv'n,
While they are slaves to lust.
2 Vain are our fancies, airy flights,
If faith be cold and dead;
-None but a living pow'r unites
To Christ the living head.

o 3 'Tis faith, that changes all the heart
'Tis faith that works by love;

That bids all sinful joys depart,
And lifts the thoughts above.

o 4 'Tis faith that conquers earth and hell,
By a celestial pow'r;

This is the grace that shall prevail.

In the decisive hour.

e 5 (Faith must obey her Father's will,
As well as trust his grace;

A pard'ning God is jealous still,
For his own holiness.

-6 When from the curse he sets us free,
He makes our natures clean;
Nor would he send his Son to be

The Minister of sin.

07 His Spirit purifies our frame,

And seals our peace with God:
-Jesus, and his salvation came,
By water and by blood.)

HYMN 141. S. M. Aylesbury. [b]

The Humiliation and Exaltation of Christ. Isa. liii 1-5, 10-12.

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1

WH

"HO has believ'd thy word,
Or thy salvation known?

o Reveal thine arm, Almighty Lord,

And glorify thy Son.

e 2 The Jews esteem'd him here, Too mean for their belief;

p Sorrows his chief acquaintance were, And his companion grief.

3 They turn'd their eyes away, And treated him with scorn; p But 'twas their grief upon him lay, Their sorrows he has borne.

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4 'Twas for the stubborn Jews, And Gentiles, then unknown, The God of justice pleas'd to bruise His best beloved Son.

5"But I'll prolong his days,

"And make his kingdom stand;
"My pleasure, saith the God of grace,
"Shall prosper in his hand.

6 ("His joyful soul shall see
The purchase of his pain;

"And by his knowledge justify

"The guilty sons of men.)

07 ("Ten thousand captive slaves, "Releas'd from death and sin,

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"Shall quit their prisons, and their graves,
"And own his pow'r Divine.)

8 "Heav'n shall advance my Son,
"To joys that earth deny'd;

"Who saw the follies men had done,
"And bore their sins, and died."

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HYMN 142. S. M.

Bingham. [b] The same. Isa. liii, 6-9-12.

LIKE sheep we went astray

And broke the fold of God;
Each wand'ring in a diff'rent way,
But all the downward road.

2 How dreadful was the hour,
When God our wand'rings laid,
And did at once his vengeance pour,
Upon the Shepherd's head.

o 3 How glorious was the grace,

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When Christ sustain'd the stroke!
His life and blood the Shepherd pays
A ransom for the flock.

4 His honour and his breath

Were taken both away;

Join'd with the wicked in his death,
And made as vile as they.