2 Israel's strength and consolation, Hope of all the saints thou art; Dear desire of every nation, Joy of every longing heart. 3 Born thy people to deliver r; Born a child, and yet a king. HYMN 7. C. M. HART. Desire of all Nations. Hag. ii. 7. Job 14, 15. Isa. xxvi. 8. INFINITE excellence is thine, INFI Thou lovely Prince of Grace; Thine uncreated beauties shine 2 Sinners, from earth's remotest end, To Thee their pray'rs and vows ascend, 3 Thy name, as precious ointment shed, 4 Millions of happy spirits live On thine exhaustless store; From Thee they all their bliss receive, 5 Thou art their triumph, and their joy; They find their all in Thee: Thy glories will their tongues employ RIPPON'S Coll. Universal Praise. Ps. lxvi. 4. Rev. v. 13. FROM all that dwell below the skies Let the Creator's praise arise: Thy praise shall sound from.shore to shore, HYMN 9. C. M. WATTS. Fountain opened. Zec. xiii. 1. Ps. xxxvi. 9. Isa. xii. 18. HERE is a fountain fill'd with blood, THE Drawn from Immanuel's veins; And sinners, plung'd beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains. 2 The dying thief rejoic'd to see O may I there, though vile as he, 3 Dear, dying Lamb, thy precious blood Till all the ransom'd church of God 4 E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream, Redeeming love has been my theme, 5 But when this lisping, stamm'ring tongue. COWPER. HYMN 10. L. M. King of Nations. Ps. lxvii 6,7. lxxii. 10-14. JESUS shall reign, where'er the sun, Does his successive journies run; His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, 5 People and realms of every tongue 6 Blessings abound where'er he reigns, And all the sons of want are blest. 7 Where he displays his healing power, Peculiar honours to their King; WATTS. Rain of Heaven. Ps. lxxii. 6. Isa. lv. 10, 11. Crown'd with whose life-infusing drops, Falls the sweet influence from above. 5 That heavenly influence let me find In holy silence of the mind, While ev'ry grace maintains its bloom, 6 Nor let these blessings be confin'd HYMN 12. S. M. Salvation, Righteousness and Strength. Isa. xlix. 6. lix. 16, 17. xxvi Ps. lxxi. 15, 16. Lord on high proclaims THis godhead from his throne; Mercy and justice are the names 2 "Ye dying souls, that sit In darkness and distress, Look from the borders of the pit 3 Sinners shall hear the sound; 4 In thee shall Israel trust, And see their guilt forgiv'n; God will pronounce the sinners just, HYMN 13. C. M. WATTS. Offices of Christ prophetically described. Isa. xxix. 18, 24. xl. 45. HA ARK the glad sound! the Saviour comes, Let ev'ry heart prepare a throne, And ev'ry voice a song. 2 On him the spirit, largely pour'd, Wisdom and might, and zeal and love, 3 He comes, the pris'ners to release, The gates of brass before him burst, 4 He comes, from thickest films of vice And on the eye, oppress'd with night, 5 He comes, the broken heart to bind, 6 Our glad hosannas, Prince of Peace, And Heaven's eternal arches ring RIPPON'S Coll. |