-3 But Satan found a worse reward: Thus saith the vengeance of the Lord, o 'Let everlasting hatred be

'Betwixt the woman's Seed and thee. 4 'The woman's Seed shall be my Son; 'He shall destroy what thou hast done :'Shall break thy head, and only feel 'Thy malice raging at his heel.'

-5 He spake-and bade four thousand years Roll on; at length his Son appears: s Angels with joy descend to earth, And sing the young Redeemer's birth. p 6 Lo, by the sons of hell he dies; -But, as he hung 'twixt earth and skies, o He gave their prince a fatal blow, u And triumph'd o'er the powers below.

HYMN 108. S. M. Dover. [*]

NOT

Christ unseen, yet beloved. 1 Pet. i, 8. OT with our mortal eyes Have we beheld the Lord; Yet we rejoice to hear his name,

And love him in his word.

2 On earth we want the sight
Of our Redeemer's face;
Yet, Lord, our inmost thoughts delight
To dwell upon thy grace.
3 And when we taste thy love,
Our joys divinely grow
Unspeakable, like those above,

And heaven begins below.

HYMN 109. L. M. Portugal. Armley. [*] The value of Christ and his Righteousness. Phil. iii, 7, 8, 9. O more, my God-I boast no more,

1 No more, my God-1

Of all the duties I have done;

I quit the hopes I held before,
To trust the merits of thy Son.
2 Now, for the love I bear his name,
What was my gain, I count my loss;
My former pride I call my shame,
And nail my glory to his cross.
3 Yes, and I must and will esteem
All things but loss for Jesus' sake;

O may my soul be found in him, And of his righteousness partake! 4 The best obedience of my hands Dares not appear before thy throne; But faith can answer thy demands, By pleading what my Lord has done. HYMN 110. C. M. St. Paul's. Canterbury. [*] Death, and immediate Glory. 2 Cor. v. 1, 5, 8.

0 1T Eternal, and on high;

HERE is a house, not made with hands,

e And here my spirit waiting stands,
Till God shall bid it fly.

e 2 Shortly this prison of my clay
Must be dissolv'd and fall;
s Then, O my soul, with joy obey
Thy heavenly Father's call.
-3 'Tis He, by his almighty grace,
Who forms thee fit for heaven;
And, as an earnest of the place,
Has his own Spirit given.

4 We walk by faith of joys to come;
Faith lives upon his word;

e But while the body is our home,
We're absent from the Lord.

-5 'Tis pleasant to believe thy grace,
But we had rather see;

o We would be absent from the flesh,
And present, Lord, with thee.

HYMN 111. C. M._Reading. [*]
Salvation by Grace. Titus iii, 3, 7.

e 1 How great our guilt has been!
Foolish and vain were all our thoughts,
And all our lives were sin.

ORD, we confess our numerous faults;

o 2 But, O my soul, for ever praise,
For ever love his name,

Who turns thy feet from dang'rous ways
Of folly, sin, and shame.)

3 'Tis not by works of righteousness,
Which our own hands have done;

o But we are sav'd by sovereign grace
Abounding through his Son.

-4 'Tis from the mercy of our God,
That all our hopes begin;
'Tis by the water and the blood,

Our souls are wash'd from sin.

p 5 'Tis through the purchase of His death,
Who hung upon the tree,

The Spirit is sent down to breathe
On such dry bones as we.

0 6 Rais'd from the dead, we live anew:
And, justify'd by grace,

s We shall appear in glory too, And see our Father's face.

1

HYMN 112. C. M. Bedford. [*]

The Brazen Serpent. 2 John ver. 14-16.

O

So did the Hebrew prophet raise
The brazen serpent high;

The wounded felt immediate ease,
The camp forbore to die.

d 2 'Look upward in the dying hour,
And live!' the prophet cries!

e But Christ performs a nobler cure,
When faith lifts up her eyes.

-3 High on the cross the Saviour hung!
High in the heavens he reigns!
Here sinners, by th' old serpent stung,
Look, and forget their pains.

g 4 When God's own Son is lifted up,
A dying world revives ;

The Jew beholds the glorious hope;
Th' expiring Gentile lives.

1

HYMN 113. C. M. Wareham. [*]
Abraham's Blessing on the Gentiles. Gen. xvii, 7;
Rom. xv, 8; Mark x, 14.

H

TOW large the promise-how divine-
To Abra'am and his seed;

d 'I'll be a God to thee and thine,

'Supplying all their need.'

-2 The words of his extensive love
From age to age endure;

The Angel of the cov'nant proves.
And seals the blessing sure

b 3 Jesus the ancient faith confirms,
To our great fathers given;

He takes young children to his arms,
And calls them heirs of heaven.

0 4 Our God, how faithful are his ways!
His love endures the same;
Nor from the promise of his grace
Blots out the children's name.

HYMN 114. C. M. Sunday. [*]

The same. Rom. xi, 16, 17.

e 1 GTo the wild olive wood;
GE
ENTILES by nature, we belong

o Grace took us from the barren tree,
And grafts us in the good.

-2 With the same blessings grace endows The Gentile and the Jew;

If

pure and holy be the root,

Such are the branches too.

o 3 Then let the children of the saints Be dedicate to God;

e Pour out thy Spirit on them, Lord, And wash them in thy blood.

o 4 Thus to the parents, and their seed, Shall thy salvation come;

o And num'rous households meet at last, In one eternal home.

e

1

HYMN 115. C. M. Plymouth. [b]
Conviction by the Law. Rom. vii, 8, 9, 14, 24.

'L

ORD, how secure my conscience was,
And felt no inward dread!

I was alive without the law,

And thought my sins were dead.

2 My hopes of heaven were firm and bright;

But since the precept came,

With a convincing power and light,

I find how vile I am.

3 (My guilt appear'd but small before,
Till terribly I saw,

How perfect, holy, just, and pure,
Is thine eternal law.

e 4 Then felt my soul the heavy load
My sins reviv'd again;

I had provok'd a dreaeful God,

And all my hopes were slain.)
p 5 I'm like a helpless captive, sold
Under the power of sin;

I cannot do the good I would,
Nor keep my conscience clean.
6 My God, I cry with ev'ry breath,
For some kind power to save;
To break the yoke of sin and death,
And thus redeem the slave.

HYMN 116. L. M. Bath. [*]

1 TH

Love to God and our Neighbour. Matt. xxii, 37—40. HUS saith the first, the great command, 'Let all thy inward powers unite, "To love thy Maker, and thy God,

'With utinost vigour and delight.

2 'Then shall thy neighbour, next in place, Share thine affection and esteem; And let thy kindness to thyself 'Measure and rule thy love to him.' 3 This is the sense that Moses spoke; This did the prophets preach and prove; For want of this the law is broke, And the whole law's fulfill'd by love. a 4 But oh! how base our passions are! How cold our charity and zeal!

-Lord, fill our souls with heavenly fire,
Or we shall ne'er perform thy will.
HYMN 117. L. M. Blendon. Bath. [* b]
Election Sovereign and Free. Rom. ix, 21-24.

1 BEHOLD the potter and the clay!

He forms his vessels as he please;
Such is our God, and such are we,
The subjects of his just decrees.

2 [Doth not the workman's power extend
O'er all the mass, which part to choose,
And mould it for a nobler end,

And which to leave for viler use ?]

e 8 May not the sovereign Lord on high
Dispense his favours as he will,

Choose some to life, while others die,
And yet be just, and gracious still?