7 With grateful songs, then let our souls
Surround our gracious Father's throne;
And all between the distant poles
His truth and mercy ever own.
HYMN 5. First Part. L. M.
A Saviour is necessary.
ENSLAV'D by sin, and bound in chains
Beneath its dreadful tyrant sway,
And doom'd to everlasting pains,
We wretched guilty captives lay.
2 Nor can our arm procure our peace;
Nor will the world's collected store
Suffice to purchase our release:
A thousand worlds were all too poor.
3 A Saviour, man, and mighty God,
A glorious ransom must procure;
Justice divine demands his blood;
And nothing less can life insure.
4 Jesus the man, the mighty God,
This all-sufficient ransom paid :
The Mediator's precious blood
For wretched sinners has been shed.
5 Jesus the sacrifice became,
To rescue guilty souls from hell;
The spotless, bleeding, dying Lamb
Beneath avenging justice fell.
6 Amazing justice! love divine!
O may our grateful hearts adore
The matchless grace; nor yield to sin,
Nor wear its cruel fetters more!
HYMN 5. Second Part. C. M.
Saviour.
HE Saviour! O what endless charms
Dwell in the blissful sound!
Its influ❜nce ev'ry fear disarms,
And spreads sweet comfort round.
2 Here pardon, life, and joys divine,
In rich effusion flow,
For guilty rebels lost in sin,
And doom'd to endless woe.
3 Th' almighty former of the skies
Stoop'd to our vile abode !
While angels view'd, with wond'ring eyes,
And hail'd th' incarnate God.
4 O the rich depths of love divine,
Of bliss a boundless store!
Dear Saviour, let me call thee mine;
I cannot wish for more.
5 On thee alone my hope relies,
Beneath thy cross I fall;
My Lord, my life, my sacrifice,
My Saviour, and my all.
HYMN 5. Third Part. C. M.
ALVATION! O melodious sound
To wretched dying men!
Salvation, that from God proceeds,
And leads to God again.
2 Rescued from hell's eternal gloom,
From fiends, and fires, and chains :
Rais'd to a paradise of bliss,
Where love triumphant reigns! 3 But may a poor bewilder'd soul, Sinful and weak as mine, Presume to raise a trembling eye To blessings so divine?
4 The lustre of so bright a bliss, My feeble heart o'erbears;
And unbelief almost perverts
The promise into fears.
5 My Saviour God, no voice, but thine,
These dying hopes can raise ;
Speak thy salvation to my soul,
And turn my pray❜r to praise.
HYMN 6. First Part. L. M.
Jesus is God and man.
IERE the blue heav'ns were stretch'd abroad,
From everlasting was the Word: With God he was; the Word was God, And must divinely be ador'd.
2 By his own pow'r all things were made; By him supported all things stand;' He is the whole creation's head, And angels fly at his command. 3 Ere sin was born, or Satan fell, He led the host of morning stars: His generation who can tell,
Or count the number of his years!
4 But lo! he leaves those heav'nly forms:
The word descends and dwells in clay,
That he may converse hold with worms,
Drest in such feeble flesh as they.
5 Mortals with joy beheld his face,
Th' eternal Father's only Son:
How full of truth, how full of grace,
When thro' his flesh the Godhead shone!
6 The angels leave their high abode,
To learn new mysteries here, and tell
The love of our descending God,
The glories of Immanuel.
HYMN 6. Second Part. L. M.
ALL hail, thou great Immanuel!
Thy love, thy glory, who can tell?
Angel's, and all the heav'nly host,
Are in the boundless prospect lost.
2 Mortals, with reverential songs,
Take this dear name upon your tongues;
With holy fear, attempt his praise,
In solemn, yet triumphant, lays.
3 Among a thousand forms of love,
In which he shines and smiles above;
This with peculiar joy we view,
He's David's root and offspring too.
4 There Jesus, in the glorious plan,
Shines, the great God, the wondrous man!
As God, the root of all our bliss,
As man, the branch of righteousness.
5 All hail, thou dear redeeming Lord!
All hail, thou co-essential Word!
All hail, thou Root and Branch divine!
All hail, and be the glory thine!
HYMN 6. Third Part. L. M.
Types and proprecies fulfilled in Christ.
1 BEHOLD the woman's promis'd sced!
Behold the great Messiah come!
Behold the prophets all agreed
To give him the superior room!
2 Abra'm, the saint, rejoic'd of old,
When visions of the Lord he saw;
Moses, the man of God, foretold
This great fulfiller of his law.
3 The types bore witness to his name,
Obtain❜d their chief design, and ceas'd :
The incense and the bleeding lamb,
The ark, the altar, and the priest.
4 Predictions in abundance meet,
To join their blessings on his head;
Jesus, we worship at thy feet,
And nations own the promis'd seed.
HYMN 6. Fourth Part. L. M.
The gospel of Christ.
GOD, in the gospel of his Son,
Makes his eternal counsels known; 'Tis here his richest mercy shines, And truth is drawn in fairest lines. 2 Here sinners of a humble frame May taste his grace, and learn his name; "Tis writ in characters of blood, - Severely just, immensely good. 3 Here Jesus, in ten thousand ways, His soul attracting charms displays; Recounts his poverty and pains, And tells his love in melting strains. 4 Wisdom its dictates here imparts, To form our minds, to cheer our hearts; Its influ'nce makes the sinner live, It bids the drooping saint revive. 5 Our raging passions it controls, And comfort yields to contrite souls; It brings a better world in view, And guides us all our journey through. 6 May this blest volume ever lie Close to my heart, and near mine eye; Till life's last hour my soul engage, And be my chosen heritage.
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