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MATTHEW i. 21. 1 PETER ii. 24. LUKE xxiv. 51.
EPHESIANS i. 20-22.

C. M.

1 BLESSED be the Lord, who sent his Son

To take our flesh and blood;

He for our lives gave up

his own

To make our peace with God.
2 He honored all his Father's laws,
Which we have disobeyed;
He bore our sins upon

the cross,

And our full ransom paid.

3 Behold him rising from the grave;
Behold him raised on high;
He pleads his merits there, to save
Transgressors doomed to die.

4 There, on a glorious throne, he reigns,
And, by his power divine,

Redeems us from the slavish chains
Of Satan and of sin.

5 Thus saved may we with joy appear
In heaven before his face;

And, with the blest assembly there
Sing his redeeming grace.

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GENESIS ii. 3. JOHN XX.

C. M.

1 BLEST day of God, how calm, how bright ; A day of joy and praise;

The laborer's rest-the saint's delight,
The first and best of days.

2 This day the Lord our Saviour rose
Victorious from the dead;

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PSALMS AND HYMNS.

And, as a Conqueror, his foes
In glorious triumph led.

3 This day believers doth enrich,
Grace rests upon them all;
It is their Pentecost, on which
The Holy Ghost doth fall.

4 As the first fruits an earnest prove
Of all the sheaves behind,

So they who do the Sabbath love
A happy week shall find.

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LUKE X. xlii. PSALM xlv. 2.

JEREMIAH ii. 13.

7's.

1 CORINTHIANS i. 19, 20.

1 BLESSED Jesus, heavenly Lamb,

Thine and only thine I am;

Take me, body, spirit, soul,
Only thou possess the whole.

2 Thou my one thing needful be,
Let me ever cleave to thee;
Let me choose the better part,
Let me give thee all my heart.

3 Fairer than the sons of men,
Do not let me turn again;
Leave the fountain-head of bliss,
Seeking other happiness.

4 All my treasure is above,

All my riches is thy love;
Who that depth of love can tell?
Infinite, unsearchable.

BL.

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1 BLES

LEST is the man, for ever blest, Whose guilt is pardoned by his God; Whose sins with sorrow are confessed, And covered with his Saviour's blood.

2 Blest is the man to whom the Lord Imputes not his iniquities;

He pleads no merit of reward And not on works, but grace relies. 3 How glorious is that righteousness That hides and cancels all his sins; While a bright evidence of grace Through his whole life appears and shines.

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1

BLEST is the man, who fears and flies,
The broad and downward way,

Where impious scorn its God defies,
And vice allures to slay.

2 Blest, who in God's unerring law
Finds guidance and delight;
Walks by his word with daily awe,
And ponders it by night.

3 Like trees with water at their root
The heirs of glory rise;

Their boughs are hung with holy fruit,
Their verdure never dies.

E

4 Beneath the wings of heavenly love
On earth they safely dwell;
And soar to endless joys above
When sinners sink to hell.

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PSALM xli.

L. M.

1 BLEST is the man whose spirit shares
A suffering brother's wants and cares:
The Lord will visit him in grief,
And bring his trials sweet relief.
2 The sinner's Friend delights to see
His people kind and good as He;
And bids them each with each unite,
To make their common burden light.
3 That burden well the Saviour knows,
He bore on earth our sins and woes;
By friends betrayed, by foes assailed;
Yet love divine o'er all prevailed.

4 That love, O Lord still let us share,
Still lead us on through foe and snare,
Till we thy face unclouded see,

And rise from earth to heaven and thee.

1 BLEST is the penitent, who feels

His sins are all forgiven;

Thrice blest the soul whom Jesus heals
And fills with hopes of heaven.

2 Oh, seek him all ye sinners round,
Fall low before his face;

C. M.

Oh, seek him while he may be found,
And share like us his grace.

3 'Tis ours to pray 'tis his to bless ;
The Lord is ever nigh,

To guide us through the wilderness,
And land us safe on high.

1 BLESSED Reedemer how divine,

How righteous is this rule of thine!

To do to all men just the same
As we from them expect or claim.

2 How blest would every nation be,
Thus ruled by love and equity;
And every conscience must approve
This universal law of love.

3 Forgive us Lord that we so ill
Thy sacred law of love fulfil;

No more let envy, wrath, and pride,
But thy commandments be our guide.

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PHILIPPIANS ii. 5-8.

LESSED Saviour, was it love to us Which nailed thee to the tree? Then by that love constrained we yield Our hearts, our all to thee.

2 We love thee for thy grace and truth,
Who wast so rich yet poor;

We love thee for the painful cross
Thou didst for us endure.

L. M.

C. M.