The first young pulse begins to beat
Depravity and death.
Wild and unwholesome as the root,
Will all the branches be:
How can we hope for living fruit
From such a deadly tree?
What mortal pow'r from things unclean
Can pure productions bring?
Who can command a vital stream
From an infected spring?
Yet, mighty God, thy wondrous love
Can make our nature clean;
While Christ and grace prevail above
The tempter, death, and sin.
The second Adam can restore
The ruins of the first;
Hosanna to that sov'reign pow'r,
That new-creates our dust!
HYMN 3. Third Part. C. M.
We are corrupt and incapable of doing good.
SIN, like a venomous disease,
Infects our vital blood;
The only help is sov'reign grace,
The sole physician, God.
Our beauty and our strength are fled,
And we draw near to death;
But Christ, the Lord, recals the dead
With his almighty breath.
3 Madness, by nature, reigns within
The passions burn and rage;
Till God's own Son, with skill divine,
The inward fire assuage.
4 We lick the dust, we grasp the w
And solid good despise:
Such is the folly of the mind,
Till Jesus make us wise.
5 We give our souls the wounds, they feel;
We drink the pois'nous gall,
And rush with fury down to hell;
But grace prevents the fall.
6 The man, possess'd among the tombs,
Cuts his own flesh, and cries;
He foams and raves, till Jesus comes:
Then the foul spirit flies.
HYMN 3. Fourth Part. C. M.
We must be born again,
UR nature's totally deprav'd;
The heart a sink of sin:
Without a change we can't be sav'd;
We must be born again.
2 That, which is born of flesh, is flesh,
And flesh it will remain;
Then marvel not that Jesus saith,
"Ye must be born again."
3 Spirit of life, thy grace impart,
And breathe on sinners slain;
Bear witness, Lord, in ev'ry heart,
That we are born again.
4 Dear Saviour, let us now begin
To trust and love thy word;
And, by forsaking ev'ry sin,
Prove we are born of God.
HYMN 3. Fifth Part. S. M.
Vital union to Christ in regeneration.
DEAR Saviour, we are thine
By everlasting bands:
Our names, our hearts, we would resign,
And souls, into thy hands.
2 Accepted for thy sake,
And justified by faith,
We of thy righteousness partake,
And find in thee our life.
3 To thee we still would cleave,
With ever growing zeal;
If millions tempt us Christ to leave,
O let them ne'er prevail.
4 Thy spirit shall unite
Our souls to thee our head:
Shall form us to thy image bright,
That we thy paths may tread.
5 Death may our souls divide
From these abodes of clay;
But love shall keep us near thy side,
Thro' all the gloomy way.
6 Since Christ and we are one,
Why should we doubt or fear? -
Since he in heav'n hath fix'd his throne,
He'll fix his members there.
HYMN 4. First Part. P. M.
The perfections of God.
HE Lord Jehovah reigns,
His throne is built on high;
The garments he assumes,
Are light and majesty.
His glories shine with beams so bright,
No mortal eye can bear the sight.
2 The thunders of his hand
Keep the wide world in awe;
His wrath and justice stand
To guard his holy law :
And where his love resolves to bless,
His truth confirms and seals the grace.
3 Thro' all his perfect works
Surprising wisdom shines;
Confounds the pow'rs of hell,
And breaks their curs'd designs:
Strong is his arm, and shall fulfil
His great decrees, his sov'reign will,
4 And can this mighty King
Of glory condescend?
And will he write his name,
My Father and my Friend?
I love his name, I love his word;
Join all my pow'rs, and praise the Lord.
HYMN 4. Second Part. L. M.
ETERNAL King! the greatest, best,
For ever glorious, ever blest
The great I AM, Jehovah, Lord,
By seraphim and saint ador'd.
2 Justice, the firm foundation lays,
Of all thy laws, thy works, and ways
Obedient souls will ever find
A God that's faithful, loving, kind.
3 But he who sins, becomes accurs'd,
Or God would be no longer just ;
Curs'd is the man, who dares withdraw
Obedience from thy holy law.
4 Where then, great God, or how shall we
Approach thy dreadful majesty!
Thy sacred law we oft have broke,
And stand obnoxious to thy stroke.
5 But O thou holy, just, and true!
Tho' justice must have all its due,
Thou canst be just, yet justify
The soul, that doth on Christ rely.
& O boundless wisdom, love and pow'r !
Thy matchless mercy we adore,
That found out this amazing plan,
To save thy ruin'd creature, man.
7 We plead the suff'rings of thy Son,
We plead his righteousness alone;
He bore the curse, whence thou art just
In pard'ning those, who were accurs'd.
HYMN 4. Third Part. L. M.
Justice and mercy united.
1 INFINITE grace and can it be
[low! That heav'n's supreme should stoop so
A wretch to visit, vile, like me;
One who has been his bitt'rest foe!
2 Can holiness and wisdom join,
With truth, with justice, and with grace,
To make eternal blessings mine,
And sin, with all its guilt, erase?
3 O love! beyond conception great,
That form'd the vast stupendous plan!
Where all divine perfections meet
To reconcile rebellious man!
4 There wisdom shines in fullest blaze,
And justice all her rights maintains!
Astonish'd angels stoop to gaze,
While mercy o'er the guilty reigns.
5 Yes, mercy reigns, and justice too;
In Christ harmoniously they meet :
He paid to justice all her due,
And now he fills the mercy-seat.
16 Such are the wonders of our God,
And such th' amazing depths of grace:
To save, from wrath's vindictive rod,
The chosen sons of Adam's race.
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