ye slight his

2 Sinners, turn, why will ye die?
God, your Saviour, asks you why!
God, who did your souls retrieve,
Died himself that ye might live.
Will you let him die in vain ?
Crucify your Lord again?
Why, ye ransom'd sinners, why
Will

grace,

and die?
3 Sinners, turn, why will ye

die?
God, the Spirit, asks you why!
He who all your lives hath strove,
Woo'd you to embrace his love :
Will ye not his grace receive ?
Will ye still refuse to live?
Why, you long-sought sinners, why
Will you grieve your God, and die?
4 Dead already, dead within,
Spiritually dead in sin:
Dead to God, while here you breathe;
Pant you after second death?
Will you still in sin remain,
Greedy of eternal pain?
O, ye dying sinners, why,
Why will ye for ever die ?
5 Alfreton—p. 77.] L. M.

FIRST PART.

S ;

INNERS, obey the gospel word !
Be wise to know your gracious day;
All things are ready, come away!
2 Ready the Father is to own,
And kiss his late-returning son ;
Ready your loving Saviour stands,
And spreads for you his bleeding hands.

3 Ready the Spirit of his love,
Just now the stony to remove;
T'apply and witness with the blood,
And wash and seal the sons of God.
4 Ready for you the angels wait,
To triumph in your blest estate:
Tuning their harps, they long to praise
The wonders of redeeming grace.
5 The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Are ready with their shining host :
All heaven is ready to resound,
“ The dead's alive! the lost is found !"
Wayland-p. 82.) SECOND PART.
COME, then, ye sinners, to your Lord,
In Christ to paradise restored :
His proffer'd benefits embrace,
The plenitude of gospel grace.
2 A pardon written with his blood,
The favour and the peace of God;
The seeing eye, the feeling sense,
The mystic joys of penitence.
3 The godly fear, the pleasing smart,
The meltings of a broken heart;
The tears that tell your sins forgiven;
The sighs that waft your souls to heaven.
4 The guiltless shame, the sweet distress,
The unutterable tenderness;
The genuine, meek humility;
The wonder, “Why such love to me!"
5 Th’ o'erwhelming power of saving grace,
The sight that veils the seraph’s face ;
The speechless awe that dares not move,
And all the silent heaven of love.

6 Portsmouth—p. 185.) 3d P. M. 46s & 2 8s.

LOW ye the trumpet, blow,

B

Let all the nations know,

To earth's remotest bound;
The year of jubilee is come ;
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.
2 Jesus, our great High Priest,

Hath full atonement made :
Ye weary spirits, rest,

Ye mournful souls, be glad;
The year of jubilee is come ;
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.
3 Extol the Lamb of God,

The all-atoning Lamb;
Redemption in his blood

Throughout the world proclaim;
The year of jubilee is come ;
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.
4 Ye slaves of sin and hell,

Your liberty receive,
And safe in Jesus dwell,

And blest in Jesus live ;
The year of jubilee is come ;
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.
5 Ye who have sold for naught

Your heritage above,
Shall have it back unbought,

The gift of Jesus' love ;
The year of jubilee is come ;
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.
6 The gospel trumpet hear,

The news of heavenly grace;
And, saved from earth, appear

Before your Saviour's face ;

The year of jubilee is come ;

Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home. 7 Confidence—p. 285.] 13th P.M. 10 10,11 11: O ,

ALL that pass by, to Jesus draw near : From hell to retrieve you, he spreads out his

hands; Now, now to receive you, he graciously stands. 2 If any man thirst, and happy would be, The vilest and worst may come unto me; May drink of my Spirit, excepted is none, Lay claim to my merit, and take for his own. 3 Whoever receives the life-giving word, In Jesus believes, his God and his Lord; In him a pure river of life shall arise, Shall in the believer spring up to the skies. 4 My God and my Lord! thy call I obey; My soul on thy word of promise I stay : Thy kind invitation I gladly embrace, Athirst for salvation, salvation by grace. 5 O hasten the hour, send down from above The Spirit of power, of health, and of love : Of filial fear, of knowledge and grace; Of wisdom and prayer, of joy and of praise : 6 The Spirit of faith, of faith in thy blood, Which saves us from wrath, and brings us to Removes the huge mountain of indwelling sin, And opens a fountain that washes us clean. 8 Confidence-p. 285.] 13th P. M. 10 10,1111. THY

So true to thy word, so loving and kind :

God;

, , ,

Thy mercy so tender to all the lost race,
The vilest offender may turn and find grace.
2 The mercy I feel, to others I show,
I set to my seal that Jesus is true :
Ye all may find favour, who come at his call,
O come to my Saviour, his grace is for all.
3 To save what was lost, from heaven he came;
Come, sinners, and trust in Jesus's name!
He offers you pardon; he bids you be free;
“ If sin be your burden, O come unto me !"
4 O let me commend my Saviour to you ;
The publican's Friend, and Advocate too:
For you he is pleading his merits and death;
With God interceding for sinners beneath.
5 Then let us submit his grace to receive :
Fall down at his feet, and gladly believe :
We all are forgiven for Jesus's sake :
Our title to heaven, his merits we take.
9 Bethany—p.217.) 6th P. M. 6 lines 79.
WE
TEARY souls that wander wide

From the central point of bliss,
Turn to Jesus crucified,

Fly to those dear wounds of his ;
Sink into the purple flood;
Rise into the life of God.
2 Find in Christ the way of peace,

Peace unspeakable, unknown!
By his pain he gives you ease,

Life by his expiring groan ;
Rise exalted by his fall,
Find in Christ your all in all.
3 O believe the record true,

God to you his Son hath given ;