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PART FOURTH.

HYMNS

ON

MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.

THE

CHRISTIAN PSALMIST.

PART IV.

MISCELLANEOUS HYMNS.

325.

The strife between sin and grace.

1 LONG I strove my God to love,
Long I strove his laws to keep;
Fain would fix my thoughts above,
Mingle with the Saviour's sheep;
But my striving all proved vain,
Still I found my heart in pain;
Yet my vileness never saw,
Till declared accursed by law.

2 Then with sense of guilt oppress'd,
All my soul was sunk in fear;
Grief and anguish fill'd my breast:
Then did Jesus Christ appear;
Not with vengeance in his eyes,
No, but as a sacrifice,
Acceptable unto God;

Glorious offering! precious blood!

3 He was offer'd on the tree,
Jesus the unspotted Lamb;
Worthy truth, great mystery!
By his blood salvation came.

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By his stripes my wounds are heal
By his death, God's love reveal'd;
We, once strangers far from God,
Are brought nigh by Jesus' blood.

326.

Formality and Ordinances.

1 LONG have I seem'd to serve The With unavailing pain;

Fasted and pray'd, and read thy
And heard it preach'd, in vain
2 Oft did I with the assembly join,
And near thine altar drew;
A form of godliness was mine,
The power I never knew.

3 I rested in the outward law,
Nor knew its deep design;
The length and breadth I never
And height, of love divine.

4 To please Thee thus, at length
Vainly I hoped and strove;
For, what are outward things to
Unless they spring from love
5 I see the perfect law requires
Truth in the inward parts;
Our full consent, our whole des
Our undivided hearts.

6 But I of means have made my
Of means an idol made!
The spirit in the letter lost,
The substance in the shade!

7 Where am I now, or what my
What can my weakness do?
Jesus! to Thee my soul looks
'Tis Thou must make it new

327.

Submission to the Grace of God.

I STILL for thy loving-kindness, Lord,
I in thy temple wait:

I look to find Thee in thy word.
Or at thy table meet.

2 Here in thine own appointed ways,
I wait to learn thy will;
Silent I stand before thy face,

And hear Thee say, "Be still!"

3"Be still, and know that I am God!" 'Tis all I live to know; To feel the virtue of thy blood, And spread its praise below!

4 I wait my vigour to renew,
Thine image to retrieve;

The veil of outward things pass through,
And gasp in Thee to live.

5 I work; and own the labour vain;
And thus from works I cease:
I strive; and see my fruitless pain,
Till God create my peace.

6 Fruitless, till Thou thyself impart,
Must all my efforts prove;
They cannot change a sinful heart,
They cannot purchase love.

7 I do the thing thy laws enjoin,
And then the strife give o'er;
To Thee I then the whole resign,
I trust in means no more.

8 I trust in Him who stands between
The Father's wrath and me:
Jesu, Thou great eternal Mean,
I look for all from Thee!

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