My touch and taste shall do the same, 5 Not choicest meats, nor noblest wines, As when my faith goes through the signs, 6 I love the Lord, who stoops so low, HYMN 142. S. M. Peckham. [b*] e 1 NOT all the blood of beasts, Could give the guilty conscience peace, 0 2 But Christ, the heavenly Lamb, A sacrifice of nobler name, And richer blood than they. p 3 My faith would lay her hand -4 My soul looks back to see The burdens thou didst bear,When hanging on the cursed tree,And hopes her guilt was there. Believing, we rejoice u 5 To see the curse remove; s We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice, And sing his bleeding love. HYMN 143. C. M Armley. [b*] 1 WHAT Fresh and Spirit. HAT diff'rent powers of grace and sin I hate the thoughts that work within, p 2 Now I complain, and groan, and die, While sin and Satan reign: o Now raise my songs of triumph high, For grace prevails again. --3 So darkness struggles with the light, Water and fire maintain the fight, 4 Thus will the flesh and spirit strive, o But I shall quit this mortal life, HYMN 144. L. M. Old Hundred. [*] 1 G REAT was the day, the joy was great, When the divine disciples met; Whilst on their heads the Spirit came, And sat like tongues of cloven flame. e 2 What gifts, what miracles he gave! And power to give, and power to save! Furnish'd their tongues with wondrous words, Instead of shields, and spears, and swords. 3 Thus arm'd, he sent the champions forth, o From east to west, from south to north; d 'Go-and assert your Saviour's cause; 'Go-spread the myst'ry of his cross. -4 These weapons of the holy war, Of what almighty force they areTo make our stubborn passions bow, And lay the proudest rebel low! 5 Nations, the learned and the rude, Are by those heavenly arms subdu'd: While Satan rages at his loss, And hates the doctrine of the cross. 6 Great King of grace, my heart subdue, I would be led in triumph tooA willing captive to my LordAnd sing the vict'ries of his word. HYMN 145. C. M. Barby. [*] And long to meet my Saviour's face, e 2 Oh, that the happy hour were come; -I should behold my Lord at home, o 3 Haste, my Beloved, and remove HYMN 146. L. M. Babylon. Carthage. [b] 1 MAN a swithin He burns within with restless fires; 2 In vain on earth we hope to find To change the place, but keep the pain. Cure the vile fever of the mind. 1['NOW let a spacious world arise,' At once th' obedient earth and skies 2 (Dark was the deep: the waters lay 3 He bids the clouds ascend on high; A wat❜ry treasure to the sky, The rolling seas together flow, 5 With herbs and plants of flow'ry birth, Ere there was rain to bless the earth, 6 Then he adorn'd the upper skies: The moon and stars in order rise, The painted fowls of ev'ry wing, 8 He gave the lion and the worm, He saw the building from on high, His word pronounc'd it good. 11 Lord, while the frame of nature stands, But the new world of grace demands HYMN 148. C. M. Canterbury. St. Ann's. [b *] Ꭰ God reconciled in Christ. EAREST of all the names above, Who can resist thy heavenly love, -2 'Tis by the merits of thy death, 0 3 Till God in human flesh I a The holy, just, and sacred Three e 4 But if Emmanuel's face appear, HYMN 149. C. M. Arundel. [*] "E1 TERNAL Sovereign of the sky, We mortals to thy Majesty Our first obedience owe. 2 Our souls adore thy throne supreme, 3 (The crowns of all those princes shine, 4 Kingdoms on firm foundations stand, 5 Let Cæsar's due be ever paid But consciences and souls were made 1 HYMN 150. C. M. Plymouth. [b] SIN The Deceitfulness of Sin. IN has a thousand treach'rous arts With flatt'ring looks she tempts our hearts, But leaves a sting behind. 2 With names of virtue she deceives The aged and the young; And while the heedless wretch believes, 3 She pleads for all the joys she brings, |