13. The Covenant of Peace. 104.
A COV'NANT of peace
With Jesus was made,
His bride to release;
He stood as her Head;
In Him as her Surety,
Who bled on the tree,
From all condemnation
She's more than set free.
Jehovah her sins
On Jesus hath laid;
Her sorrows he bore,
Her debts he hath paid':
In Him, lacking nothing,
Without or within,
The blood of this cov'nant
Hath cancell'd her sin.
Sent forth from the curse,
How favour'd are we;
Our Surety we bless,
As captives set free;
Law, Justice, nor Satan,
No charges can bring,
While thus of the blood of
The cov❜nant we sing.
With blood o'er the door,
Thine Israel of old,
From wrath were secure,
As sheep in thy fold;
From terrors at midnight,
Hid under thy wing,
Whose blood is the blood of
The cov❜nant we sing.
Surrounding the throne,
The glorify'd throng
Make Jesus the First and
The Last in the song;
And when, on Mount Zion,
We join their employ,
We'll aid the sweet chorus,
And drink of their joy.
14. God's Covenant. C. M.
My God, the covenant of thy love
Abides for ever sure,
And in its matchless grace I feel
My happiness secure.
What though my house be not with thee
As nature could desire:
To nobler joys than nature gives
Thy servant shall aspire.
My cares, I cast them all on thee:
Take them, dear Lord thou must:
Well may I leave my all with him
With whom my soul I trust.
1 welcome all thy sov'reign will,
For all that will is love;
And when I know not what thou dost, I wait the light above.
Thy cov'nant in the darkest gloom
Shall heav'nly rays impart,
Which, when my eye-lids close in death,
Shall warm my chilling heart.
15. Stability of the Covenant.
REJOICE, ye saints, in ev'ry state,
Divine decrees remain unmoy'd,
No turns of providence abate
God's care for those he once hath lov'd.
Firmer than heav'n his cov'nant stands;
Though earth should shake and skies depart
You're safe in your Redeemer's hands,
Who bears your names upon his heart.
Our surety knows for whom he stood,
And gave himself a sacrifice;
The souls once sprinkled with his blood,
Possess a life that never dies.
Though darkness spread around our tent,
Though fear prevail, and joy decline,
God will not of his oath repent:
Dear Lord, thy people still are thine.
16. He shall rest in his Love, &c. 104th.
SALVATION by grace,
How charming the song;
With Seraphims join,
The theme to prolong:
"Twas plann'd by Jehovah,
In council above, Who to everlasting
Shall rest in his love,
This cov'nant of grace
All blessings secures;
Believers, rejoice,
For all things are yours;
And God from his purpose,
Shall never remove,
But love thee and bless thee,
And rest in his love.
But when, like a sheep
That strays from the fold,
To Jesus thy Lord
Thy love shall grow cold,
Think not he'll reject thee,
But rather reprove;
Yet, tho' he correct thee,
He'll rest in his love.
When sold under sin,
A slave to thy lust,
Deep sunk in the fall
Of Adam the first,
And oft in rebellion
With God thou hast strove,
Yet wonder, O heavens,
He rests in his love,
In Jesus the Lamb,
The Father's delight,
The saints without blame,
Appear in his sight;
And while he in Jesus
Their souls shall approve,
So long shall Jehovah
Abide in his loye.
17. Everlasting Love,
BENEATH the sacred throne of God
The streams were peace and pard'ning blood Descending from the skies.
Angelic minds cannot explore
This deep, unfathom'd sea;
"Tis void of bottom, brim, or shore,
And lost in Deity.
I stood amaz'd, and wonder'd when,
Or why, this ocean rose,
That wafts salvation down to men,
His traitors and his foes.
That sacred flood, from Jesu's veins,
Was free to take away
A Mary's or Manasseh's stains,
Or sins more vile than they.
Free to the sinner, dead to God,
Who sought the road to hell;
That trampled on a Saviour's blood,
And on his buckler fell.
Triumphant grace, and man's free will,
Shall not divide the throne;
For man's a fallen sinner still,
And Christ shall reign alone.
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