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d 4 [What if, to make his terrour known, He lets his patience long endure, Suff'ring vile rebels to go on,

And seal their own destruction sure?
5 What if he means to show his grace,
And his electing love employs,
To mark out some of mortal race,
And form them fit for heavenly joys?]
6 Shall man reply against the Lord,
And call his Maker's ways unjust?-
o The thunder of whose dreadful word
Can crush a thousand worlds to dust.
p But, O my soul, if truth so bright,
Should dazzle and confound thy sight;
Yet still, his written will obey,
And wait the great, decisive day.

g 8 Then he shall make his justice known;
And the whole world before his throne,
With joy or terrour shall confess
The glory of his righteousness.

HYMN 118. S. M. St. Bridge's. [*]

Sin against the Law and Gospel. John i, 17; Heb. iii, 3, 5, 6; x, 28, 29. 1 THE law by Moses came;

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But peace and truth and love,

Were brought by Christ, a nobler name,
Descending from above.

2

Amidst the house of God,

Their diff'rent works were done;

Moses a faithful servant stood,

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But Christ a faithful Son.

'Then to his new commands
Be strict obedience paid;

O'er all his Father's house he stands,
The Sovereign and the Head.

e 4 The man who durst despise
The law that Moses brought-
p Behold! how terribly he dies-
For his presumptuous fault.

e 5 But sorer vengeance falls
On that rebellious race,

Who hate to hear when Jesus calls,
And dare resist his grace.

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HYMN 119. C. M. Abridge. [*]
Various success of the Gospel.

1 Cor. i, 23, 24; 2 Cor. ii, 16; 1 Cor. iii, 6, 7.

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HRIST and his cross is all our theme;
The myst❜ries that we speak

Are scandal in the Jews' esteem,

And folly to the Greek.

o 2 But souls, enlighten'd from above, With joy receive the word;

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They see what wisdom, power, and love,
Shine in their dying Lord.

-3 The vital savour of his name
Restores their fainting breath:
e But unbelief perverts the same
To guilt, despair, and death.
-4 Till God diffuse his graces down,
Like showers of heavenly rain,
In vain Apollos sows the ground,
And Paul may plant in vain.

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HYMN 120. C. M. Mear. [*]
Faith of Things unseen. Heb. xi, 1, 3, 8, 10.
AITH is the brightest evidence
Of things beyond our sight;

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Breaks through the clouds of flesh and sense, And dwells in heavenly light.

2 It sets times past in present view,
Brings distant prospects home—

Of things a thousand years ago,
Or thousand years to come.

3 By faith, we know the worlds were made,
By God's almighty word;
Abra'am, to unknown countries led,
By faith obey'd the Lord.

4 He sought a city fair and high,
Built by th' eternal hands;
o And faith assures us, though we die,
That heavenly building stands.

HYMN 121. C. M. St. Martin's. [*]

Children devoted to God. Gen. xvii, 7, 10; Acts xvi, 14, 15, 33. 1 NHUS saith the mercy of the Lord

"THE

'I'll be a God to thee:

'I'll bless thy num'rous race, and they
'Shall be a seed for me."

2 Abra'am believ'd the promis'd grace,
And gave his sons to God;
But water seals the blessing now,
That once was seal'd with blood.
3 Thus Lydia sanctified her house,
When she receiv'd the word;
Thus the believing Jailer gave
His household to the Lord.
4 Thus later saints, eternal King,
Thine ancient truth embrace:
To thee their infant offspring bring,
And humbly claim the grace.

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HYMN 122. L. M. Quercy. [*]
Believers buried with Christ. Rom. vi, 3, 4, &c.
O we not know that solemn word,
That we are buried with the Lord?
Baptiz'd into his death, and then
Put off the body of our sin?

o 2 Our souls receive diviner breath,
Rais'd from corruption, guilt, and death;
o So from the grave did Christ arise,
And lives to God above the skies.
-3 No more let sin or Satan.reign
Over our mortal flesh again!

The various lusts, we serv'd before,
Shall have dominion now no more.

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HYMN 123. C. M. Reading. [b*]
The Repenting Prodigal. Luke xv, 13, &c.
EHOLD the wretch, whose lust and wine
Have wasted his estate!

He begs a share among the swine,
To taste the husks they eat.

p 2 'I die with hunger here,' he cries,
I starve in foreign lands;

'My father's house has large supplies, 'And bounteous are his hands.

-3 'I'll go, and with a mournful tongue, 'Fall down before his face ;

p 'Father, I've done thy justice wrong, 'Nor can deserve thy grace.'

o 4 He said, and hasten'd to his home,
To seek his father's love;

-The father saw the rebel come,
And all his bowels move.

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u 5 He ran and fell upon his neck, Embrac'd and kiss'd his son;

p The rebel's heart with sorrow brake, For follies he had done.

o 6 'Take off his clothes of shame and sin;' (The father gives command ;)

o 'Dress him in garments white and clean; 'With rings adorn his hand.

7 'A day of feasting I ordain; 'Let mirth and joy abound!

s 'My son was dead, and lives again; "Was lost and now is found.'

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HYMN 124. L. M. Armley. [b*]

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The First and Second Adam. Rom. v, 12, &c. EEP in the dust, before thy throne, Our guilt and our disgrace we own; a Great God we own th' unhappy name, Whence sprung our nature, and our shame! 2 Adam the sinner: at his fall

Death, like a conqu'ror, seiz'd us all:
A thousand new-born babes are dead,
By fatal union to their head.

e 3 But whilst our spirits, fill'd with awe,
Behold the terrours of thy law,

o We sing the honours of thy grace,
That sent to save our ruin'd race.
4 We sing thine everlasting Son,
Who join'd our nature to his own:
g Adam, the Second, from the dust
Raises the ruins of the first.

e 5 [By the rebellion of one man,
Through all his seed the mischief ran ;
-And by one man's obedience now,
Are all his seed made righteous too.

o 6 Where sin did reign and death abound, There have the sons of Adam found

o Abounding life; there glorious grace

Reigns, through the Lord our righteousness.]

HYMN 125. C. M. Barby. [*]

Christ's Compassion to the Weak and Tempted.
Heb. iv, 16; v, 7; Matt. xii, 20.
ITH joy we meditate the grace
Of our High Priest above;

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e His heart is made of tenderness, His bowels melt with love.

p 2 Touch'd with a sympathy within,
He knows our feeble frame;

He knows what sore temptations mean,
For he has felt the same.

3 But spotless, innocent, and pure,
The great Redeemer stood;

e While Satan's fiery darts he bore, And did resist to blood.

p 4 He, in the days of feeble flesh, Pour'd out his cries and tears ; e And, in his measure, feels afresh What ev'ry member bears.

b 5 (He'll never quench the smoking flax,
But raise it to a flame;

The bruised reed he never breaks,
Nor scorns the meanest name.)

o 6 Then let our humble faith address
His mercy and his power;

o We shall obtain deliv'ring grace, In the distressing hour.

HYMN 126. L. M. Islington. [*]

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Charity and Uncharitableness. Rom. xiv, 17, 19; 1 Cor. x, 32.
TOT diff'rent food, nor diff'rent dress,
Compose the kingdom of our Lord;
But peace, and joy, and righteousness,
Faith, and obedience to his word.
2 When weaker Christians we despise,
We do the gospel mighty wrong;
For God, the gracious and the wise,
Receives the feeble with the strong.
3 Let pride and wrath be banish'd hence;
Meekness and love our souls pursue;

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