His streaming feet transfixt and torn! The fountain gushing from his side! 7 Where is the King of Glory now! The everlasting Son of God? The Immortal hangs his languid brow: The Almighty faints beneath his load! 8 Beneath my load he faints and dies:
I fill'd his soul with pangs unknown: I caus'd those mortal groans and cries, I kill'd the Father's only Son!
Mourner.] HYMN 195. L. M.
THOU dear suffering Son of God,
How doth thy heart to sinners move!
Help me to catch thy precious blood;
Help me to taste thy dying love!
2 Give me to feel thy agonies,
One drop of thy sad cup afford:
I fain with thee would sympathize,
And share the sufferings of my Lord.
3 The earth could to her centre quake,
Convuls'd while her Creator died:
O let my inmost nature shake,
And die with Jesus crucify'd!
4 At thy last gasp the graves display'd
Their horrors to the upper skies;
O that my soul might burst the shade,
And, quicken'd by thy death, arise!
5 The rocks could feel thy powerful death,
And tremble, and asunder part:
O rend with thine expiring breath,
The harder marble of my heart!
Josiah.] HYMN 196. 7's & 6's.
ESUS drinks the bitter cup,
Tears the graves and mountains up
By his expiring groan:
Lo, the powers of heaven he shakes,
Nature in convulsion lies;
Earth's profoundest centre quakes,
The great Jehovah dies!
2 0 my God, he dies for me,
I feel the mortal smart!
See him hanging on the tree,
A sight that breaks my heart!
O that all to thee might turn!
Sinners, ye may love him too;
Look on him ye pierc'd, and mourn
For one who bled for you.
3 Weep o'er your desire and hope,
With tears of humblest love!
Sing, for Jesus is gone up,
And reigns enthron'd above!
Lives our Head to die no more,
Power is all to Jesus given;
Worshipp'd as he was before,
The immortal King of heaven.
4 Lord, we bless thee for thy grace
And truth, which never fail;
Hast'ning to behold thy face
Without a dimming veil;
We shall see our heavenly King,
All thy glorious love proclaim,
Help the angel choirs to sing
Our blest triumphant Lamb.
Tunbridge.] HYMN 197. 6 lines 8's.
W How shall I all to heaven aspire?
WHERE shall my wond'ring soul begin?
A slave redeem'd from death and sin,
A brand pluck'd from eternal fire;
How shall I equal triumphs raise,
Or sing my great Deliverer's praise?
2 O how shall I thy goodness tell,
Father, which thou to me hast show'd?
That I, a child of wrath, and hell,
I should be call'd a child of God;
Should know, should feel my sins forgiven,
Blest with this antepast of heaven.
3 And shall I slight my Father's love,
Or basely fear his gifts to own?
Unmindful of his favours prove?
Shall I, the hallow'd cross to shun,
Refuse his righteousness t' impart,
By hiding it within my heart?
4 No, though the ancient dragon rage,
And call forth all his host to war;
Though earth's self-righteous sons engage,
Them and their god alike I dare;
Jesus, the sinner's friend proclaim;
Jesus, to sinners still the same.
5 Come, O my guilty brethren, come,
Groaning beneath your load of sin;
His bleeding heart shall make you room,
His open side shall take you in:
He calls you now, invites you home,
Come, O my guilty brethren, come.
6 For you the purple current flow'd,
In pardons from his wounded side,
Languish'd for you the Son of God,
For you the Prince of Glory died;
Believe, and all your sins' forgiven:
Only believe, and your's is heaven.
Portugal.] HYMN 198. L. M.
1 ADAM descended from above!
Saviour and Head of all mankind;
The covenant of redeeming love,
In thee let every sinner find.
2 Our Surety, thou alone hast paid
The debt we to thy Father ow'd:
For the whole world atonement made,
And seal'd the pardon with thy blood.
3 Thee, the Paternal Grace Divine,
A universal blessing gave;
A Light, in every heart to shine;
A Saviour,-every soul to save.
4 Light of the Gentile world appear,
Command the blind thy rays to see:
Our darkness chase, our sorrows cheer,
And set the plaintive prisoner free.
5 Me, me, who still in darkness sit,
Shut up in sin and unbelief;
Deliver from this gloomy pit,
This dungeon of despairing grief.
6 Open mine eyes the Lamb to know,
Who bears the general sin away;
And to my ransom'd spirit show,
The glories of eternal day.
Luthers.] HYMN 199. 6 lines 8's.
OULD Jesus have the sinner die?
Why hangs he then on yonder tree?
What means that strange expiring cry?
(Sinners, he prays for you and me ;)
"Forgive them, Father, O forgive, They know not that by me they live!" 2 Jesus descended from above,
Our loss of Eden to retrieve;
Great God of universal love,
If all the world through thee may live,
In us a quick'ning Spirit be,
And witness thou hast died for me.
3 Thou loving, all-atoning Lamb,
Thee by thy painful agony,
Thy bloody sweat, thy grief and shame,
Thy cross and passion on the tree,
Thy precious death and life-I pray
Take all, take all my sins away.
4 O let me kiss thy bleeding feet,
And bathe and wash them with my tears;
The story of thy love repeat
In ev'ry drooping sinner's ears;
That all may hear the quick'ning sound;
Since I, even I have mercy found.
50 let thy love my heart constrain,
Thy love for every sinner free,
That every fallen son of man,
May taste the grace that found out me;
That all mankind with me may prove,
Thy sov'reign, everlasting love.
Josiah.] HYMN 200. 7's & 6's.
OD of unexampled grace,
G Redeemer of mankind,
Matter of eternal praise
We in thy passion find:
Still our choicest strains we bring,
Still the joyful theme pursue,
Thee the friend of sinners sing,
Whose love is ever new,
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