C. M.

THE WORK OF REDEMPTION.

35.

Tune 14.

BEHOLD what love the Father hath
On guilty men bestowed,

That we,

who children are of wrath, Should children be of God.

2 Oh, how beyond expression great
His love in Christ doth shine!
"T is like himself the eternal God,
Past knowledge, all divine.

3 Behold, for fallen, guilty man,
The Lord of glory dies;

Lays down his life us to redeem,
A precious sacrifice.

4 Now doth our Lord, the Son of God,
Who for us lived and died,

See of the travail of his soul,
And is well satisfied.

5 Peace and good-will are now to man Most gloriously displayed,

And life eternal we obtain

From God, in Christ our head.

6 Oh, let us then repeat the theme,
Which always sounds above;
And ever sing with joyful hearts,
The wonders of his love.

C. M. D.

36.

Tune 590.

CHRIST, the good shepherd, God's own Son

From all eternity,

Urged by his love, exchanged his throne

For human misery;

His wandering sheep gone far astray
He sought with pungent pain,
And did for all a ransom pay,
To bring them home again.

2 One of those sheep, in deserts lost,
Art thou, my sinful soul;

His life it hath the shepherd cost,
To save and make thee whole;
Now hear his voice with gratitude,
Call on his saving name;

For thee he shed his precious blood,
And now his own doth claim.

L. M.

37.

Tune 22,

To GOD we render thanks and praise,
Who pitied mankind's fallen race,
And gave his dear and only Son,
That us, as children, he might own.

2 The Word eternal did assume

Our flesh and blood, and man become,
The First and Last with wonder see
Partake of human misery.

3 He came to seek and save the lost;
We sinned, and he would bear the cost,
That we might share eternal bliss ;
Oh, what unbounded love was this.

4 How wretched they who still despise
Jesus, the pearl of greatest price;
Those who neglect to hear his voice,
Must perish by their own free choice.

5 Unhappy those who turn away,
Or such as carelessly delay

To meet their Saviour, though he came Their souls from misery to reclaim. 6 Come, sinners, Jesus will receive The chief of sinners; come and live; "I'll dwell with you," our Saviour saith; Receive him in your hearts by faith.

C. M.

GOD THE SON.

38.

Tune 14.

OH, the delights, the heavenly joys,
The glories of the place,

Where Jesus sheds the brightest beams
Of his o'erflowing grace!

2 Sweet majesty and awful love
Sit smiling on his brow;

And all the glorious ranks above,
At humble distance bow.

3 Archangels sound his lofty praise,
Through every heavenly street;
And lay their highest honors down,
Submissive, at his feet.

4 Princes to his imperial name

Bend their bright sceptres down;
Dominions, thrones, and powers rejoice
To see him wear the crown.

5 Upon that dear majestic head,
That cruel thorns did wound,
See what immortal glories shine,
And circle it around.

6 This is the man, the exalted man,
Whom we unseen adore;

But when our eyes shall see his face,
Our hearts shall love him more.

7s.

39.

Tune 581.

CHRIST, whose glory fills the skies,
Christ, the true, the only light,
Sun of righteousness, arise,

Triumph o'er the shades of night;
Day-spring from on high, be near;
Day-star, in my heart appear.

2 Dark and cheerless is the morn,
Unaccompanied by thee;
Joyless is the day's return,

Till thy mercy's beams I see;
Till they inward light impart,
Glad my eyes, and warm my heart.
3 Visit, then, this soul of mine,

Pierce the gloom of sin and grief;
Fill me, radiancy divine!

Scatter all my unbelief;

More and more thyself display,
Shining to the perfect day.

5s, 8s & 5s.

40.

Tune 68.

JESUS, who with thee

Can comparéd be?

Source of rest and consolation,
Life, and light, and full salvation;
Son of God, with thee

None compared can be.

2 Thou hast died for me,
From all misery

And distress me to deliver,
And from death to save forever;
I am by thy blood

Reconciled to God.

3 Highest King and Priest,
Prophet, Lord, and Christ,

L. M.

Thy dear sceptre is embracéd
By me at thy feet abaséd;
I choose Mary's seat
At thy holy feet.

4 Grant me steadiness,

Lord, to run my race,
Following thee with love most tender,
So that Satan may not hinder
Me by craft or force;
Further thou my course.

5 By thy Spirit's light
Me instruct aright,
That I watch and pray with fervor,
Trusting thee, my soul's preserver;
Love unfeigned, O Lord,

Unto me afford.

6 When I hence depart,

Strengthen thou my heart;
Where thou art, O Lord, convey me;
In thy righteousness array me,
That at thy right hand
Joyful I may stand.

41.

My song shall bless the Lord of all,
My praise ascend to his abode:
Thee, Saviour, by that name I call,
The great supreme, the mighty God.

2 Without beginning or decline,
Object of faith, and not of sense;
Eternal ages saw him shine,
He shines eternal ages hence.

3 As much, when in the manger laid,
Almighty ruler of the sky,

Tune 22