3 Tempted souls, they bring you succour; Fearful hearts, they quell your fears; And with news of consolation,

Chase away the falling tears:
Tender heralds-

Chase away the falling tears.

4 False professors, grov'ling worldlings,
Callous hearers of the word,
While the messengers address you,
Take the warnings they afford;
We entreat you,

Take the warnings they afford.

5 Who hath our report believed?
Who receiv'd the joyful word?
Who embrac'd the news of pardon,
Offer'd to you by the Lord!
Can you slight it-
Offer'd to you by the Lord!

6 O, ye angels, hovering round us,
Waiting spirits, speed your way,
Hasten to the court of heaven,
Tidings bear without delay:
Rebel sinners

Glad the message will obey.

HYMN 72. L. M.

Come and see. John 1. 39.

1 JESUS, dear name, how sweet the sound!
Replete with balm for every wound!
His word declares his grace is free;
Come, needy sinner, come and see.

2 He left the shining courts on high,
Came to our world to bleed and die;
Jesus, the God, hung on the tree;
Come, careless sinner, come and see.
3 Your sins did pierce his bleeding heart,
Till death had done its dreadful part:
Yet his dear love still burns to thee;
Come, anxious sinner, come and see.
4 Ilis blood can cleanse the foulest stain,
And make the filthy leper clean;
His blood at once avail'd for me;
Come, guilty sinner, come and see.

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HYMN 73. L. M.

STEELE.

Healing virtue in Christ. Luke vi. 19.

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E mourning sinners, here disclose
Your deep complaints, your various

woes;

Approach-'tis Jesus, he can heal
The pain which mourning sinners feel.
2 Dear Lord, extend thy healing hand;
Diseases fly at thy command;

O, let thy sov'reign touch impart

Life, strength, and health to every heart 3 Then shall the sick, the blind, the lame, Adore their great Physician's name; Then dying souls shall bless their God, And spread his wondrous praise abroad.

HYMN 74. C. M.

NEWTON.

The leaper healed. Matt. viii. 2, 3.

1 WHEN the poor leper's case I read,

My own describ'd I feel;

Sin is a leprosy indeed,

Which none but CHRIST can heal.

2 What anguish did my soul endure,
Till hope and patience ceas'd?
The more I strove myself to cure,
The more the plague increas'd.

3 While thus I lay distress'd, I saw
The Saviour passing by;

To him, though fill'd with shame and awe, I rais'd my mournful cry:

4 "Lord, thou canst heal me, if thou wilt, Oh, pity to me show;

Oh, cleanse my leprous soul from guilt; My filthy heart renew.”

5 He heard, and with a gracious look, Pronounc'd the healing word:

"I will be clean," and while he spoke I felt my health restor❜d.

6 Core, sinners, seize the present hour
The Saviour's grace to prove ;
He can relieve, for he is pow'r-
He will, for he is love.

HYMN 75.

C. M.

MONTGOMERY.

The soul. Mark viii. 36.

1 W The whole creation round? THAT is the thing of greatest price,

That which was lost in Paradise,
That which in Christ is found:

2 The soul of man-Jehovah's breath--
That keeps two worlds at strife;
Hell moves beneath to work its death,
Heaven stoops to give it life.

3 God, to redeem it, did not spare
His well beloved Son;

Jesus, to save it, deign'd to bear
The sins of all in one.

4 And is this treasure borne below,
In earthen vessels frail?

Can none its utmost value know,
Till flesh and spirit fail?

5 Then let us gather round the cross,
That knowledge to obtain;
Not by the soul's eternal loss,
But everlasting gain.

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RIPPON.

1L

ORD, shall we part with gold for dross
With solid good for show!

Out live our bliss, and mourn our loss
In everlasting wo!

2 Let us not lose the living God,
For one short dream of joy :
With fond embrace cling to a clod,
And fling all heav'n away.

3 Vain world, thy weak attempts forbear, We all thy charms defy;

And rate our precious souls too dear
For all thy wealth to buy.

HYMN 77.

C. M.

E. JONES.

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Resolve. Esther iv. 16.

COME, humble sinner, in whose breast,

A thousand thoughts revolve;

Come, with your guilt and fear opprest, And make this last resolve:

2 "I'll go to Jesus, though my sin
"Hath like a mountain rose;
"I know his courts, I'll enter in,
"Whatever may oppose.

3" Prostrate I'll lie before his throne,
"And there my guilt confess,
"I'll tell him, I'm a wretch undone
"Without his sov❜reign grace.

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4 "Perhaps he will admit my plea,
Perhaps will hear my pray'r;
"But, if I perish, I will pray,
"And perish only there,

go;

5 "I can but perish if I
"I am resolv'd to try: