4

5

'Twas for the stubborn Jews,
And Gentiles, then unknown,

It pleased the Father's love to bruise
His own beloved Son.

"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."

1 THE law by Moses came,

2

WATTS.

But peace, and truth, and love,

Were brought by Christ, a nobler name,
Descending from above.

Amidst the house of God

Their different works were done;

Moses a faithful servant stood,

But Christ a faithful Son.

3

Then to His new commands

Be strict obedience paid;

O'er all His Father's house He stands

The sovereign and the head.

4

The man that durst despise

The law that Moses brought,
Behold! how terribly he dies,
For his presumptuous fault.

Who hate to hear when Jesus calls,

And dare resist His grace.

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IS not the law of ten commands,
On

Ton Sinai's mountain given,

Or sent to men by Moses' hands,

Can lead our feet to heaven.

2 Nor can the blood which Aaron spilt,
Nor smoke of sweetest smell,

Obtain a pardon for our guilt,
Or save our souls from hell.

3 Aaron, the priest, resigns his breath
At God's immediate will,
And in the desert yields to death,
Upon the appointed hill.

4 And while on Jordan's yonder side
The tribes of Israel stand,
Moses on Pisgah's summit died,
Short of the promised land.

5 Israel, rejoice! now Jesus leads,
He'll bring Thy tribes to rest;
Thus our triumphant Lord exceeds
The ruler and the priest.

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C. M.

WATTS.

WATTS.

EHOLD the sure foundation stone
Which God in Zion lays,

To build our heavenly hopes upon,
And His eternal praise.

2 Chosen of God, to sinners dear,
And saints adore the name;

They trust their whole salvation here,
Nor shall they suffer shame.

3 The foolish builders, scribe and priest,
Reject it with disdain;

Yet on this rock the church shall rest,
And envy rage in vain.

4 What though the gates of hell withstand,
Yet shall this building rise;
It is the work of God's own hand,
And wondrous in our eyes.

WE need not be ashamed to own

KELLY.

That He, on whom our hopes depend,
Though now He fills the highest throne,
Was styled on earth "the sinner's Friend."

2 The title came from those who sought
To bring dishonour on His name;
But Jesus then refused it not,
Nor sought to vindicate His fame.

3 And now, though yonder throne is His,
He bears the gracious title still:
Jesus "the Friend of sinners" is,
He owns the charge, and ever will.

4 The title that was meant in scorn
He takes and binds upon His brow;
And thus the guilty and forlorn
Are taught His character to know.

5 And while His name is set at nought
By those who on their worth depend,
The wretched and the vile are taught
To bless Him as the sinner's Friend."

THE LORD JESUS CHRIST:

178

1

HIS SUFFERINGS AND DEATH.

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O to dark Gethsemane,

Go

MONTGOMERY.

Ye that feel the tempter's power;
Your Redeemer's conflict see;

Watch with Him one bitter hour:
Turn not from His griefs away;
Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.

2 Follow to the judgment-hall,

View the Lord of life arraigned;
Oh, the wormwood and the gall!
Oh, the pangs His soul sustained!
Shun not suffering, shame, or loss;
Learn of Him to bear the cross.

3 Calvary's mournful mountain climb;
There, adoring at His feet,
Mark that miracle of time,

God's own sacrifice complete :
"It is finished!" hear Him cry;
Learn of Jesus Christ to die.

4 Early hasten to the tomb

Where they laid His breathless clay;

All is solitude and gloom:

Who hath taken Him away?

Christ is risen :-He meets our eyes:
Saviour, teach us so to rise.

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E knelt, the Saviour knelt and prayed,
When but His Father's eye

Looked through the lonely garden's shade,
On that dread agony:

The Lord of all, above, beneath,

Was bowed with sorrow unto death.

2 The sun set in a fearful hour;

The stars might well grow dim, When this mortality had power Thus to o'ershadow Him!

That He who gave man's breath might know,
The very depths of human woe.

3 He proved them all-the doubt, the strife,
The faint, perplexing dread ;
The mists that hang o'er parting life
All gathered round His head:
And the Deliverer knelt to pray,
Yet passed it not, that cup, away.

4 It passed not, though the stormy wave
Had sunk beneath His tread;

It passed not, though to Him the grave
Had yielded up its dead:

But there was sent Him from on high
A gift of strength for man to die.

5 And was the Sinless thus beset

With anguish and dismay?

How may we meet our conflict yet
In the dark narrow way?

Through Him, through Him, that path who
trod;

Save, or we perish, Son of God!