3 (Malice and rage, those fires of hell,
She quenches with her tongue;
Hopes, and believes, and thinks no ill,
Though she endures the wrong.)

4 (She ne'er desires, nor seeks to know
The scandals of the time;

Nor looks with pride on those below,
Nor envies those who climb.)

5 She lays her own advantage by,
To seek her neighbour's good :—
So God's own Son came down to die,
And bought our lives with blood.

o 6 Love is the grace, that keeps her power,
In all the realms above;

There faith and hope are known no more,
But saints forever love.

HYMN 134. L. M. Islington. Quercy. [b *] Religion vain without Love. 1 Cor. xiii. 1, 2, 3.

1HAD I the tongues of Greeks and Jews,
And nobler speech than angels use;

If love be absent, I am found,
Like tinkling brass, an empty sound.
2 Were I inspired to preach, and tell
All that is done in heaven and hell;
Or could my faith the world remove,
Still-I am nothing without love.
3 Should I distribute all my store,
To feed the bowels of the poor;
Or give my body to the flame,
To gain a martyr's glorious name ;-
4 If love to God, and love to men,
Be absent-all my hopes are vain:
Nor tongues, nor gifts, nor fiery zeal,
The works of love can e'er fulfill.

HYMN 135. L. M. Sicilian. Green's. [*]

1

Love of Christ in the Heart. Eph. iii. 16, &c.

COME, dearest Lord, descend and dwell,
By faith and love, in every breast;
Then shall we know, and taste, and feel,
The joys that cannot be expressed.

2 Come, fill our hearts with inward strength;
Make our enlarged souls possess,

And learn the height, and breadth, and length,
Of thine unmeasurable grace.

3 Now to the God whose power can do
More than our thoughts or wishes know;
Be everlasting honours done,

By all the church-through Christ his Son.

HYMN 136. C. M. Abridge. Plymouth. [b *] Sincerity and Hypocrisy. John iv. 24. Psalm cxxxix. 23, 24.

G

OD is a Spirit, just and wise;

He sees our inmost mind:

In vain to heaven we raise our cries,
And leave our souls behind.

2 Nothing but truth, before his throne,
With honour can appear:
The painted hypocrites are known,
Through the disguise they wear.
3 Their lifted eyes salute the skies,
Their bending knees the ground;
But God abhors the sacrifice,

Where not the heart is found.

4 Lord, search my thoughts, and try my ways, And make my soul sincere;

Then shall I stand before thy face,

And find acceptance there.

HYMN 137. L. M. Leeds. Castle Street. [*]

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Salvation by Grace in Christ. 2 Tim. i. 9, 10.

NOW, to the

power

of God supreme Be everlasting honours given; He saves from hell-(we bless his name,) He calls our wandering feet to heaven. e 2 Not for our duties, or deserts, o But of his own abundant grace, He works salvation in our hearts, And forms a people for his praise. -3 'Twas his own purpose that begun To rescue rebels, doomed to die; He gave us grace in Christ his Son, Before he spread the starry sky.

o 4 Jesus the Lord appears at last,

And makes his Father's counsels known; o Declares the great transactions passed, And brings immortal blessings down. e 5 He dies!-and in that dreadful night Did all the powers of hell destroy; o Rising-he brought our heaven to light, And took possession of the joy.

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HYMN 138. C. M.

Colchester. [*]

Saints in the Hands of Christ. John x. 28, 29.

F My Lord, my hope, my trust;

IRM as the earth, thy gospel stands,

If I am found in Jesus' hands,

My soul can ne'er be lost.

2 His honour is engaged to save
The meanest of his sheep;
All, whom his heavenly Father gave,
His hands securely keep.

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3 Nor death, nor hell shall e'er remove His favourites from his breast;

In the dear bosom of his love

They must forever rest.

HYMN 139. L. M.

Green's. [b*]

Hope in the Covenant. Heb. vi. 17-19.

HOW

OW oft have sin and Satan strove To rend my soul from thee, my God' o But everlasting is thy love,

And Jesus seals it with his blood.

-2 The oath and promise of the Lord
Join to confirm the wondrous grace;
g Eternal power performs the word,
And fills all heaven with endless praise.
e 3 Amidst temptations, sharp and long,
My soul to this dear refuge flies;
-Hope is my anchor, firm and strong,
While tempests blow, and billows rise.
o 4 The gospel bears my spirit up;
g A faithful and unchanging God
Lays the foundation for my hope,
In oaths, and promises, and blood

HYMN 140. C. M. York. Reading. [b *]

A living and a dead Faith.

e 1 Mand make their empty boast

ISTAKEN souls! that dream of heaven,

Of inward joys, and sins forgiven,
While they are slaves to lust.

2 Vain are our fancies' airy flights,
If faith be cold and dead;
-None but a living power unites
To Christ the living head.

o 3 'Tis faith, that changes all the heart;
'Tis faith, that works by love;
That bids all sinful joys depart,
And lifts the thoughts above.

o 4 'Tis faith that conquers earth and hell
By a celestial power;

This is the grace that shall prevail,
In the decisive hour.

e 5 (Faith must obey her Father's will,
As well as trust his grace;

A pardoning God is jealous still,
For his own holiness.

-6 When from the curse he sets us free,
He makes our natures clean;
Nor would he send his Son to be
The Minister of sin.

o 7 His Spirit purifies our frame,
And seals our peace with God:
-Jesus, and his salvation, came
By water and by blood.)

HYMN 141. S. M Aylesbury. [b]

The Humiliation and Exaltation of Christ. Isa. liii. 1-5, 10-12.

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1

WHO

HO has believed thy word,
Or thy salvation known?

o Reveal thine arm, Almighty Lord,

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And glorify thy Son.

2 The Jews esteemed him here
Too mean for their belief;

p Sorrows his chief acquaintance were,

And his companion grief.

3 They turned their eyes away,
And treated him with scorn;
p But 'twas their grief upon him lay;
Their sorrows he has borne.

a 4 'Twas for the stubborn Jews,
And Gentiles, then unknown,
The God of justice pleased to bruise
His best beloved Son.

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5" But I'll prolong his days,

“And make his kingdom stand; My pleasure," saith the God of grace, "Shall prosper in his hand.

o 6 ("His joyful soul shall see

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"The purchase of his pain; “And by his knowledge justify "The guilty sons of men.)

7 ("Thousands of captive slaves,
"Released from death and sin,

"Shall quit their prisons, and their graves,
"And own his power divine.)
8"Heaven shall advance my Son
"To joys that earth denied;

"Who saw the follies men had done,
"And bore their sins, and died."

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HYMN 142. S. M. Bingham. [b]

The same.

Isa. liii. 6-9-12.

L'And be the fold of God;
IKE sheep we went astray,

Each wandering in a different way,
But all the downward road.

2 How dreadful was the hour,
When God our wanderings laid,
And did at once his vengeance pour,
Upon the Shepherd's head."

3 How glorious was the grace, When Christ sustained the stroke His life and blood the Shepherd pays, A ransom for the flock.

4 His honour and his breath

Were taken both away;

Joined with the wicked in his death,
And made as vile as they.