4 Feebly they lisp thy glories forth,
Yet grace the victory gives;
Quickly they moulder back to earth,
Yet still the gospel lives.
5 Such wonders power divine effects ;
Such trophies God can raise ;
His hand from crumbling dust erects
His monuments of praise.
HYMN 252. L. M. [#]
Excellency of the Christian Religion. 1 LET everlasting glories crown
Thy head, my Saviour and my Lord;
Thy hands have brought salvation down,
And writ the blessings in thy word.
2 In vain the trembling conscience seeks
Some solid ground to rest upon;
With long despair the spirit breaks,
Till we apply to Christ alone.
3 How well thy sacred truths agree!
How wise and holy thy commands !
Thy promises, how firm they be!
How firm our hope and comfort stand! 4 Should all the forms that men devise Assault my faith with treacherous art, I'd call them vanity and lies,
And bind the gospel to my heart.
HYMN 253. C. M. [#]
Triumph of the Gospel.
1 LORD, send thy word, and let it fly,
Armed with thy spirit's power;
Ten thousand shall confess its sway,
And bless the saving hour.
2 Beneath the influence of thy grace,
The barren wastes shall rise,
With sudden greens and fruits arrayed,—
A blooming paradise.
3 True holiness shall strike its root
In each believing heart;
Shall in a growth divine arise,
And heavenly fruits impart.
4 Peace, with her olives crowned, shall stretch
Her wings from shore to shore;
No trump shall rouse the rage of war,
Nor murderous cannon roar.
5 Lord, for those days we wait; those days
Are in thy word foretold :
Fly swifter, sun and stars, and bring
This promised age of gold.
HYMN 254. S. M. [#]
Excellency of the Gospel.
1 BEHOLD, the heavens declare
The glory of our God;
The starry firmament on high
Proclaims his power abroad.
2 But from his gospel beams
Instruction more divine :
There God unfolds an endless day;
There love and mercy shine.
3 There God reveals his laws,
So perfect and so pure ;
And there is taught that fear of him,
Which ever shall endure.
4 There he instructs the wise,
Reclaims the wandering soul,
And brings to light those hidden joys
Which all our griefs control.
HYMN 255. H.M. [#]
Gospel Day.
1 I SING the gospel day,
When Christ shall finish sin,
His wondrous love display,
And conquered rebels bring:
They prostrate fall,
And humbly own
That God, alone,
Is all in all.
2 The Saviour, Christ, must reign
Till all his foes submit,
And, saved by him from pain,
Shall worship at his feet;
Shall prostrate fall,
And humbly own
That God, alone,
Is all in all.
3 Then death itself shall die,
And life triumphant reign;
No more shall sinners sigh
In darkness, guilt, and pain:
Prostrate they fall,
And humbly own
That God, alone,
Is all in all.
HYMN 256. L. M. [#]
Strains of Gospel Grace.
1 THE God who once to Israel spoke,
From Sinai's top, in fire and smoke,
In gentler strains of gospel grace
Invites us now to seek his face.
2 He wears no terrors on his brow;
He speaks in love, from Zion, now :
It is the voice of Jesus' blood
That calls us, wanderers, back to God.
3 God's servant, Moses, quaked and feared,
When Sinai's thundering law he heard ;
But gospel grace, with accents mild,
Speaks to the sinner as a child.
4 What other arguments can move
The heart that slights a Saviour's love?
O may that heavenly power be felt,
And cause the stony heart to melt
HYMN 257. C. M. [#]
Gospel Trumpet.
1 LET every mortal ear attend,
And every heart rejoice;
The trumpet of the gospel sounds
With an inviting voice.
2 Ho, all ye hungry, starving souls,
That feed upon the wind,
And vainly strive with earthly toys
To fill an empty mind,-
3 Eternal Wisdom has prepared
A soul-reviving feast,
And bids our longing appetites
The rich provision taste.
4 Ho, ye that pant for living streams,
And pine away and die,
Here you may quench your raging thirst
With springs that never dry.
5 Dear Lord, the treasures of thy love
Are everlasting mines,
Deeper than all our miseries are,
More boundless than our sins.
6 The happy gates of gospel grace
Stand open night and day;
Lord, we are come to seek supplies,
And drive our wants away.
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