HE day of Christ, the day of God,
We humbly hope with joy to see,-
Wash'd in the sanctifying blood
Of an incarnate Deity-
2 Who did for us his life resign:
There is no other God but one;
For all the plenitude Divine
Resides in the eternal Son.
3 Spotless, sincere, without offence,
O may we to his day remain,
Who trust the blood of Christ to cleanse
Our souls from every sinful stain.
4 Lord, we believe the promise sure;
The purchased Comforter impart;
Apply thy blood to make us pure,-
To keep us pure in life and heart.
5 Then let us see that day supreme,
When none thy Godhead shall deny,-
Thy sov'reign majesty blaspheme,—
Or count thee less than the Most High: 6 When all who on their God believe,Who here thy last appearing love,— Shall thy consummate joy receive, And see thy glorious face above.
Reigning, and interceding for sinners. (EE Jesus rising from the grave; Behold him raised on high;
He pleads his merits there, to save
Transgressors doom'd to die.
2 There, on a glorious throne, he reigns; And, by his power divine,
Redeems us from the slavish chains
Of Satan and of sin.
3 Thus saved, may we with joy appear
In heaven before his face;
And, with the blest assembly there,
Sing his redeeming grace.
Messiah, the Saviour and the Judge.
ESSIAH, joy of
Thou, thou the King of glory art,
The Father's everlasting Son:
Thee it delights thy Church to own;
For all our hopes on thee depend,
Whose glorious mercies never end.
2 When thou hadst render'd up thy breath,
And, dying, drawn the sting of death,
Thou didst from earth triumphant rise,
And ope the portals of the skies;
That all who trust in thee alone,
Might follow, and partake thy throne.
3 Seated at God's right hand again,
Thou dost in all his glory reign;
Thou dost, thy Father's image, shine
In all the attributes divine;
And thou with judgment clad shalt come,
To seal our everlasting doom.
4 Wherefore we now for mercy pray;
O Saviour, take our sins away:
Before thou as our Judge appear,
In dreadful majesty severe,
Appear our Advocate with God,
And save the purchase of thy blood.
THOU whose off'ring on the tree The legal off'rings all foreshow'd, Borrow'd their whole effect from thee, And drew their virtue from thy blood:
2 The blood of goats and bullocks slain,
Could never for one sin atone;
To purge the guilty off'rer's stain,
Thine was the work, and thine alone.
3 These feeble types and shadows old,
Are all in thee, the Truth, fulfill'd :
We in thy sacrifice behold
The substance of those rites reveal'd.
4 Thy meritorious suff'rings past,
We see by faith to us brought back;
And, on thy grand oblation cast,
Its saving benefits partake.
His sympathizing love.
ITH joy we meditate the grace
W of our High Priest above;
His heart is made of tenderness,
His bowels melt with love.
2 Touch'd with a sympathy within,
He knows our feeble frame;
He knows what sore temptations mean,
For he hath felt the same.
3 He, in the days of feeble flesh,
Pour'd out strong cries and tears,
And in his measure feels afresh
What every member bears.
4 He'll never quench the smoking flax,
But raise it to a flame;
The bruiséd reed he never breaks,
Nor scorns the meanest name.
5 Then let our humble faith address
His mercy and his power;
We shall obtain deliv'ring grace
In every trying hour.
The Pillar and the Cloud.
THOU very Paschal Lamb,
Whose blood for us was shed,
Through whom we out of bondage came, Thy ransom'd people lead.
2 Angel of gospel grace,
Fulfil thy character:
To guard and feed the chosen race,
In Israel's camp appear.
3 Throughout the desert way,
Conduct us by thy light;
Be thou a cooling cloud by day,
A cheering fire by night.
4 Our fainting souls sustain
With blessings from above;
And ever on thy people rain
The manna of thy love.
An Advocate with the Father.
ESUS, my Advocate above,
My Friend before the throne of love,
If now for me prevails thy prayer,
If now I find thee pleading there,—
2 If thou the secret wish convey,
And sweetly prompt my heart to pray,-
Hear, and my weak petitions join,
Almighty Advocate, to thine.
3 Jesus, my heart's desire obtain;
My earnest suit present, and gain:
My fulness of corruption show;
The knowledge of myself bestow.
4 Save me from death; from hell set free;
Death, hell, are but the want of thee:
My life, my only heaven thou art ;-
O might I feel thee in my heart.
He ever liveth to make intercession for us.
LORD, how shall sinners dare
Look up to thine abode ? Or offer their imperfect prayer, Before a holy God?
2 Bright terrors guard thy seat,
And glories veil thy face;
Yet mercy calls us to thy feet,
And to thy throne of grace.
3 My soul, with cheerful eye
See where thy Saviour stands,-
The glorious Advocate on high,
With incense in his hands.
4 Teach my weak heart, O Lord,
With faith to call thee mine;
Bid me pronounce the blissful word-
Father-with joy divine.
NATHER, hear the blood of Jesus,
Speaking in thine ears above:
From impending wrath release us;
Manifest thy pard'ning love.
2 O receive us to thy favour,-
For his only sake receive;
Give us to the bleeding Saviour,—
Let us by his dying live.
3 To thy pard'ning grace receive them,-
Once he pray'd upon the tree;
Still his blood cries out-Forgive them;
All their sins were laid on me.
4 Still our Advocate in heaven,
Prays the prayer on earth begun,-
Father, show their sins forgiven ;
Father, glorify thy Son!
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