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The first generation +of this Project Gutenberg file was from an 1818 printing by C. +Corrall of 38 Charing Cross, London. + +The "Index" and the "Table of the Scriptures that are Turned into +Verse" are retained, and can be found at the end of the text. The +"Table to find any Hymn by the first Line," however, has been +omitted for the following reasons: +1. It refers to page numbers that are here expunged; and +2. In this electronic version first lines can be easily +located via searches. + +There are 3 books of hymns, and numbers have been added to indicate +in which of these the hymns are placed. For example, "2:38" refers +to "Book 2, Hymn Number 38," and so on. + +Throughout, modern numerals have been substituted for their Roman +equivalents. + + + +Preface. + +The following extracts from the Doctor's preface contain the +substance of his plan in the three different parts into which the +Hymns are divided; the whole would have exceeded the limits of a +small book. + +"Far be it from my thoughts to lay aside the Book of Psalms in +public worship; few can pretend so great a value for them as +myself: it is the most noble, most devotional and divine collection +of poesy; and nothing can be supposed more proper to raise a pious +soul to heaven than some parts of that book; never was a piece of +experimental divinity so nobly written, and so justly reverenced +and admired. But it must be acknowledged still, that there are a +thousand lines in it which were not made for a church in our days +to assume as its own. There are also many deficiencies of light +and glory which our Lord Jesus and his apostles have supplied in +the writings of the New Testament: and with this advantage I have +composed these Spiritual Songs, which are now presented to the +World. Nor is the attempt vainglorious or presuming; for in respect +of clear evangelical knowledge, 'The least in the kingdom of heaven +is greater than all the Jewish Prophets.' Matt. xi. 11. + +"Now let me give a short account of the following composures. + +"The greatest part of them are suited to the general state of the +gospel, and the most common affairs of Christians: I hope there +will be very few found but what may properly be used in a religious +assembly, and not one of them but may well be adapted to some +seasons either of private or public worship. The most frequent +tempers and changes of our spirit, and conditions of our life, +are here copied, and the breathings of our piety expressed according +to the variety of our passions, our love, our fear, our hope, our +desire, our sorrow, our wonder and our joy, as they are refined +into devotion, and act under the influence and conduct of the +blessed Spirit; all conversing with God the Father 'by the new +and living Way' of access to the throne, even the person and the +mediation of our Lord Jesus Christ. To him also, even 'to the Lamb +that was slain and now lives,' I have addressed many a song; for +thus doth the holy Scripture instruct and teach us to worship in +the various patterns of Christian psalmody described in the +Revelation. + +"I have aimed at ease of numbers, and smoothness of sound, and +endeavoured to make the sense plain and obvious. If the verse +appears so gentle and flowing as to incur the censure of feebleness, +I may honestly affirm, that sometimes it cost me labour to make +it so. + +"In the first part I have borrowed the sense and much of the form +of the song from some particular portions of scripture, and have +paraphrased most of the doxologies in the New Testament, that +contain any thing in them peculiarly evangelical: and many parts +of the Old Testament also, that have a reference to the times of +the Messiah. + +"The second part consists of hymns whose form is mere human +composure; but I hope the sense and materials will always appear +divine. I might have brought some text or other, and applied it +to the margin of every verse, if this method had been as useful +as it was easy. If there be any poems in the book that are capable +of giving delight to persons of a more refined taste and polite +education, perhaps they may be found in this part; but except they +lay aside the humour of criticism, and enter into a devout frame, +every ode here already despairs of pleasing. + +"I have prepared the third part only for the celebration of the +Lord's Supper, that, in imitation of our blessed Saviour, we may +sing an hymn after we have partaken of the Bread and Wine." + + + +Hymns. + + +Book 1. +Collected from the Holy +Scriptures. + + +Hymn 1:1. +A new song to the Lamb that was slain. +Rev. 5. 6 8 9 10 12. + +1 Behold the glories of the Lamb +Amidst his Father's throne +Prepare new honours for his name, +And songs before unknown. + +2 Let elders worship at his feet, +The church adore around, +With vials full of odours sweet, +And harps of sweeter sound. + +3 Those are the prayers of the saints, +And these the hymns they raise: +Jesus is kind to our complaints, +He loves to hear our praise. + +4 [Eternal Father, who shall look +Into thy secret will? +Who but the Son shall take that book +And open every seal? + +5 He shall fulfil thy great decrees, +The Son deserves it well; +Lo, in his hand the sovereign keys +Of heaven, and death, and hell!] + +6 Now to the Lamb that once was slain +Be endless blessings paid; +Salvation, glory, joy remain +For ever on thy head. + +7 Thou hast redeem'd our souls with blood, +Hast set the pris'ners free, +Hast made us kings and priests to God, +And we shall reign with thee. + +8 The worlds of nature and of grace +Are put beneath thy power; +Then shorten these delaying days, +And bring the promis'd hour. + + +Hymn 1:2. +The deity and humanity of Christ, John 1. 1-3 14. +Col. 9. 16. Eph. 3, 9 10. + +1 Ere the blue heavens were stretch'd abroad, +From everlasting was the Word; +With God he was; the Word was God, +And must divinely be ador'd. + +2 By his own power were all things made; +By him supported all things stand; +He is the whole creation's head, +And angels fly at his command. + +3 Ere sin was born, or Satan fell, +He led the host of morning stars; +(Thy generation who can tell, +Or count the number of thy years?) + +4 But lo, he leaves those heavenly forms, +The Word descends and dwells in clay, +That he may hold converse with worms, +Dress'd in such feeble flesh as they. + +5 Mortals with joy beheld his face, +Th' eternal Father's only Son; +How full of truth! how full of grace! +When thro' his eyes the Godhead shone! + +6 Archangels leave their high abode +To learn new mysteries here, and tell +The loves of our descending God, +The glories of Imannuel. + + +Hymn 1:3. +The nativity of Christ, Luke 1. 30 &c. Luke 2, 10 &c. + +1 Behold, the grace appears, +The promise is fulfill'd; +Mary the wondrous virgin bears, +And Jesus is the child. + +2 [The Lord, the highest God, +Calls him his only Son; +He bids him rule the lands abroad, +And gives, him David's throne. + +3 O'er Jacob shall he reign +With a peculiar sway; +The nations shall his grace obtain, +His kingdom ne'er decay.] + +4 To bring the glorious news +A heavenly form appears; +He tells the shepherds of their joys, +And banishes their fears. + +5 "Go, humble swains," said he, +"To David's city fly; +"The promis'd infant born to-day, +"Doth in a manger lie. + +6 "With looks and heart serene, +"Go visit Christ your King;" +And straight, a flaming troop was seen; +The shepherds heard them sing: + +7 "Glory to God on high, +"And heavenly peace on earth, +"Good-will to men, to angels joy, +"At the Redeemer's birth!" + +8 [In worship so divine +Let saints employ their tongues, +With the celestial host we join, +And loud repeat their songs: + +9 "Glory to God on high, +"And heavenly peace on earth, +"Good-will to men, to angels joy, +"At our Redeemer's Birth."] + + +Hymn 1:4. [Supplement] +The inward witness to Christianity, 1 John 5. 10. + +1 Questions and doubts be heard no more; +Let Christ and joy be all our theme; +His Spirit seals his gospel sure, +To every soul that trusts in him. + +2 Jesus, thy witness speaks within: +The mercy which thy words reveal +Refines the heart from sense and sin, +And stamps its own celestial seal. + +3 'Tis God's inimitable hand +That moulds and forms the heart anew; +Blasphemers can no more withstand, +But bow and own thy doctrine true. + +4 The guilty wretch that trusts thy blood, +Finds peace and pardon at thy cross; +The sinful soul averse to God, +Believes and loves his Maker's laws. + +5 Learning and wit may cease their strife, +When miracles with glory shine; +The voice that calls the dead to life +Must be almighty, and divine. + + +Hymn 1:5. +Submission to afflictive providences, Job 1. 21. + +1 Naked as from the earth we came, +And crept to life at first, +We to the earth return again, +And mingle with our dust. + +2 The dear delights we here enjoy, +And fondly call our own, +Are but short favours borrow'd now, +To be repaid anon. + +3 'Tis God that lifts our comforts high, +Or sinks them in the grave; +He gives, and (blessed be his name!) +He takes but what he gave. + +4 Peace, all our angry passions, then, +Let each rebellious sigh +Be silent at his sov'reign will, +And every murmur die. + +5 If smiling mercy crown our lives, +Its praises shall be spread; +And we'll adore the justice too +That strikes our comforts dead. + + +Hymn 1:6. +Triumph over death, Job 19. 25-27. + +1 Great God, I own thy sentence just +And nature must decay; +I yield my body to the dust +To dwell with fellow-clay. + +2 Yet faith may triumph o'er the grave, +And trample on the tombs: +My Jesus, my Redeemer lives, +My God, my Saviour comes. + +3 The mighty Conqueror shall appear +High on a royal seat, +And Death, the last of all his foes, +Lie vanquish'd at his feet. + +4 Tho' greedy worms devour my skin, +And gnaw my wasting flesh, +When God shall build my bones again, +He clothes them all afresh. + +5 Then shall I see thy lovely face +With strong immortal eyes, +And feast upon thy unknown grace +With pleasure and surprise. + + +Hymn 1:7. +The invitation of the gospel; or, Spiritual +food and clothing, Isa. 55. 1 &c. + +1 Let every mortal ear attend, +And every heart rejoice, +The trumpet of the gospel sounds +With an inviting voice. + +2 Ho, all ye hungry starving souls, +That feed upon the wind, +And vainly strive with earthly toys +To fill an empty mind, + +3 Eternal wisdom has prepar'd +A soul reviving feast, +And bids your longing appetites +The rich provision taste. + +4 Ho, ye that pant for living streams, +And pine away and die, +Here you may quench your raging thirst +With springs that never dry. + +5 Rivers of love and mercy here +In a rich ocean join; +Salvation in abundance flows, +Like floods of milk and wine. + +6 [Ye perishing and naked poor, +Who work with mighty pain +To weave a garment of your own +That will not hide your sin, + +7 Come naked, and adorn your souls +In robes prepar'd by God, +Wrought by the labours of his Son, +And dy'd in his own blood.] + +8 Dear God, the treasures of thy love +Are everlasting mines, +Deep as our helpless miseries are, +And boundless as our sins. + +9 The happy gates of gospel grace +Stand open night and day, +Lord, we are come to seek supplies, +And drive our wants away. + + +Hymn 1:8. +The safety and protection of the church, Isa. 26. 1-6. + +1 How honourable is the place +Where we adoring stand, +Zion the glory of the earth, +And beauty of the land! + +2 Bulwarks of mighty grace defend +The city where we dwell, +The walls of strong salvation made, +Defy th' assaults of hell. + +3 Lift up the everlasting gates, +The doors wide open fling, +Enter, ye nations, that obey +The statutes of our King. + +4 Here you shall taste unmingled joys, +And live in perfect peace, +You that have known Jehovah's name, +And ventur'd on his grace. + +5 Trust in the Lord, for ever trust, +And banish all your fears; +Strength in the Lord Jehovah dwells, +Eternal as his years. + +6 [What tho' the rebels dwell on high, +His arm shall bring them low, +Low' as the caverns of the grave +Their lofty heads shall bow.] + +7 [On Babylon our feet shall tread +In that rejoicing hour, +The ruins of her walls shall spread +A pavement for the poor.] + + +Hymn 1:9. +The promises of the covenant of grace, Isa. 55. 1 2. +Zech. 13. 1. Mich. 7. 19. Ezek. 36. 25 &c. + +1 In vain we lavish out our lives +To gather empty wind, +The choicest blessings earth can yield +Will starve a hungry mind. + +2 Come and the Lord shall feed our souls +With more substantial meat, +With such as saints in glory love, +With such as angels eat. + +3 Our God will every want supply, +And fill our hearts with peace; +He gives by covenant and by oath +The riches of his grace. + +4 Come, and he'll cleanse our spotted souls, +And wash away our stains, +In the dear fountain that his Son +Pour'd from his dying veins. + +5 [Our guilt shall vanish all away +Tho' black as hell before; +Our sins shall sink beneath the sea, +And shall be found no more. + +6 And lest pollution should o'erspread +Our inward powers again, +His Spirit shall bedew our souls +Like purifying rain.] + +7 Our heart, that flinty stubborn thing, +That terrors cannot move, +That fears no threat'nings of his wrath, +Shall be dissolv'd by love; + +8 Or he can take the flint away +That would not be refin'd, +And from the treasures of his grace +Bestow a softer mind. + +9 There shall his sacred Spirit dwell, +And deep engrave his law, +And every motion of our souls +To swift obedience draw. + +10 Thus will he pour salvation down, +And we shall render praise, +We the dear people of his love, +And he our God of grace. + + +Hymn 1:10. +The blessedness of gospel times; or, The revelation of +Christ to Jews and Gentiles, Isa. 5. 2 7-10. Matt. +13. 16 17. + +1 How beauteous are their feet +Who stand on Zion's hill! +Who bring salvation on their tongues, +And words of peace reveal! + +2 How charming is their voice! +How sweet the tidings are! +"Zion, behold thy Saviour King, +He reigns and triumphs here." + +3 How happy are our ears +That hear this joyful sound, +Which kings and prophets waited for, +And sought, but never found! + +4 How blessed are our eyes +That see this heavenly light! +Prophets and kings desir'd it long, +But dy'd without the sight. + +5 The watchmen join their voice, +And tuneful notes employ; +Jerusalem breaks forth in songs, +And deserts leant the joy. + +6 The Lord makes bare his arm +Thro' all the earth abroad +Let every nation now behold +Their Saviour and their God. + + +Hymn 1:11. +The humble enlightened, and carnal reason humbled; +or, The sovereignty of grace, Luke 10. 21 22 + +1 There was an hour when Christ rejoic'd, +And spoke his joy in words of praise; +"Father, I thank thee, mighty God, +"Lord of the earth, and heavens, and seas. + +2 "I thank thy sovereign power and love, +"That crowns my doctrine with success; +"And makes the babes in knowledge learn +"The heights, and breadths, and lengths of grace. + +3 "But all this glory lies conceal'd +"From men of prudence and of wit; +"The prince of darkness blinds their eyes, +"And their own pride resists the light. + +4 "Father, 'tis thus, because thy will +"Chose and ordain'd it should be so; +"T'is thy delight t' abase the proud, +"And lay the haughty scorner low. + +5 "There's none can know the Father right +"But those who learn it from the Son; +"Nor can the Son be well receiv'd, +But where the Father makes him known." + +6 Then let our souls adore our God +That deals his graces as he please, +Nor gives to mortals an account +Or of his actions, or decrees. + + +Hymn 1:12. +Free grace in revealing Christ, Luke 10. 21. + +1 Jesus, the man of constant grief, +A mourner all his days; +His spirit once rejoic'd aloud, +And tun'd his joy to praise. + +2 "Father, I thank thy wondrous love, +"That hath reveal'd thy Son +"To men unlearned; and to babes +"Has made thy gospel known. + +3 "The mysteries of redeeming grace +"Are hidden from the wise, +"While pride and carnal reasonings join +"To swell and blind their eyes." + +4 Thus doth the Lord of heaven and earth +His great decrees fulfil, +And orders all his works of grace +By his own sovereign will. + + +Hymn 1:13. +The Son of God incarnate; or, The titles and the +kingdom of Christ, Isa. 9. 2 6 7. + +1 The lands that long in darkness lay +Now have beheld a heavenly light; +Nations that sat in death's cold shade +Are bless'd with beams divinely bright. + +2 The virgin's promis'd Son is born, +Behold th' expected Child appear; +What shall his names or titles be? +The Wonderful, the Counsellor. + +3 This infant is the mighty God +Come to be suckled and ador'd +Th' eternal Father, Prince of Peace, +The son of David, and his Lord. + +4 The government of earth and seas +Upon his shoulders shall be laid +His wide dominions still increase, +And honours to his name be paid. + +5 Jesus the holy child shall sit +High on his father David's throne, +Shall crush his foes beneath his feet, +And reign to ages yet unknown. + + +Hymn 1:14. +The triumph of faith; or, Christ's unchangeable love, +Rom. 8. 33 &c. + +1 Who shall the Lord's elect condemn? +'Tis God that justifies their souls, +And mercy like a mighty stream +O'er all their sins divinely rolls. + + +2 Who shall adjudge the saints to hell? +'Tis Christ that suffer'd in their stead, +And the salvation to fulfil, +Behold him rising from the dead. + +3 He lives, he lives, and sits above, +For ever interceding there: +Who shall divide us from his love? +Or what should tempt us to despair? + +4 Shall persecution, or distress, +Famine, or sword, or nakedness? +He that hath lov'd us bears us thro', +And makes us more than conquerors too. + +5 Faith hath an overcoming power, +It triumphs in the dying hour; +Christ is our life, our joy, our hope, +Nor can we sink with such a prop. + +6 Not all that men on earth can do, +Nor powers on high, nor powers below, +Shall cause his mercy to remove, +Or wean our hearts from Christ our love. + + +Hymn 1:15. +Our own weakness, and Christ our strength, +2 Cor. 12. 7 9 10. + +1 Let me but hear my Saviour say, +"Strength shall be equal to thy day," +Then I rejoice in deep distress, +Leaning on all-sufficient Grace. + +2 I glory in infirmity, +That Christ's own power may rest on me; +When I am weak, then am I strong, +Grace is my shield, and Christ my song. + +3 I can do all things, or can bear +All sufferings, if my Lord be there; +Sweet pleasures mingle with the pains, +While his left hand my head sustains. + +4 But if the Lord be once withdrawn, +And we attempt the work alone, +When new temptations spring and rise +We find how great our weakness is. + +5 [So Samson, when his hair was lost, +Met the Philistines to his cost; +Shook his vain limbs with sad surprise, +Made feeble fight, and lost his eyes.] + + +Hymn 1:16. +Hosanna to Christ, Matt. 21. 9. Luke 19. 38 40. + +1 Hosanna to the royal Son +Of David's ancient line, +His natures two, his person one, +Mysterious and divine. + +2 The root of David here we find, +And offspring is the same; +Eternity and time are join'd +In our Immanuel's name. + +3 Bless'd he that comes to wretched men +With peaceful news from heaven; +Hosannas of the highest strain +To Christ the Lord be given. + +4 Let mortals ne'er refuse to take +Th' hosanna on their tongues, +Lest rocks and stones should rise, and break +Their silence into songs. + + +Hymn 1:17. +Victory over death, 1 Cor. 15, 55 &c. + +1 O for an overcoming faith +To cheer my dying hours, +To triumph o'er the monster Death, +And all his frightful powers. + +2 Joyful with all the strength I have +My quivering lips should sing, +"Where is thy boasted victory, Grave? +And where the monster's sting?" + +3 If sin be pardon'd I'm secure, +Death hath no sting beside; +The law gives sin its damning power, +But Christ, my ransom, died. + +4 Now to the God of victory +Immortal thanks be paid, +Who makes us conquerors while we die, +Thro' Christ our living head. + + +Hymn 1:18. +Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, Rev. 14. 13. + +1 Hear what the voice from heaven proclaims, +For all the pious dead, +Sweet is the savour of their names, +And soft their sleeping bed. + +2 They die in Jesus, and are bless'd; +How kind their slumbers are! +From sufferings and from sins releas'd, +And freed from every snare. + +3 Far from this world of toil and strife, +They're present with the Lord; +The labours of their mortal life +End in a large reward. + + +Hymn 1:19. +The song of Simeon; or, Death made desirable, +Luke 2. 27 &c. + +1 Lord at thy temple we appear, +As happy Simeon came, +And hope to meet our Saviour here; +O make our joys the same! + +2 With what divine and vast delight +The good old man was fill'd, +When fondly in his wither'd arms +He clasp'd the holy child! + +3 "Now I can leave this world," he cry'd, +"Behold thy servant dies, +"I've seen thy great salvation, Lord, +"And close my peaceful eyes. + +4 "This is the light prepar'd to shine +"Upon the Gentile lands, +"Thine Israel's glory, and their hope +"To break their slavish bands." + +5 [Jesus, the vision of thy face +Hath overpowering charms +Scarce shall I feel death's cold embrace +If Christ be in my arms. + +6 Then while ye hear my heart-strings break, +How sweet my minutes roll! +A mortal paleness on my cheek, +And glory in my soul.] + + +Hymn 1:20. +Spiritual apparel; namely, the robe of righteousness, +and garments of salvation, Isa. 61. 10. + +1 Awake, my heart, arise, my tongue, +Prepare a tuneful voice, +In God the life of all my joys, +Aloud will I rejoice. + +2 'Tis he adorn'd my naked soul, +And made salvation mine, +Upon a poor polluted worm +He makes his graces shine. + +3 And lest the shadow of a spot +Should on my soul be found, +He took the robe the Saviour wrought, +And cast it all around. + +4 How far the heavenly robe exceeds +What earthly princes wear! +These ornaments, how bright they shine! +How white the garments are! + +5 The Spirit wrought my faith and love, +And hope, and every grace; +But Jesus spent his life to work +The robe of righteousness. + +6 Strangely, my soul, art thou array'd +By the great sacred Three: +In sweetest harmony of praise +Let all thy powers agree. + + +Hymn 1:21. +A vision of the kingdom of Christ among men, +Rev. 21. 1-4. + +1 Lo, what a glorious sight appears +To our believing eyes! +The earth and sea are pass'd away, +And the old rolling skies. + +2 From the third heaven where God resides, +That holy happy place, +The New Jerusalem comes down +Adorn'd with shining grace. + +3 Attending angels shout for joy, +And the bright armies sing, +"Mortals, behold the sacred seat +"Of your descending King. + +4 "The God of glory down to men +"Removes his blest abode, +"Men the dear objects of his grace, +"And he the loving God. + +5 "His own soft hand shall wipe the tears +"From every weeping eye, +"And pains, and groans, and griefs, and fears, +"And death itself shall die." + +6 How long, dear Saviour, O how long, +Shall this bright hour delay! +Fly swifter round, ye wheels of time, +And bring the welcome day. + + +Hymn 1:22. [Supplement.] +Flesh and Spirit. Rom. 8. 1. + +1 What vain desires, and passions vain, +Attend this mortal clay! +Oft have they pierc'd my soul with pain, +And drawn my heart astray. + +2 How have I wander'd from my God, +And following sin and shame +In this vile world of flesh and blood +Defil'd my nobler frame! + +3 For ever blessed be thy grace +That form'd my soul anew, +And made it of an heaven-born race, +Thy glory to pursue. + +4 My spirit holds perpetual war, +And wrestles and complains; +But views the happy moment near +That shall dissolve its chains. + +5 Cheerful in death I close my eyes, +To part with every lust; +And charge my flesh whene'er it rise +To leave them in the dust. + +6 My purer spirit shall not fear +To put this body on: +Its tempting powers no more are there, +Its lusts and passions gone. + + +Hymn 1:23. [Supplement.] +A hopeful youth falling short of heaven, Mark 10. 21. + +1 Must all the charms of nature then +So hopeless to salvation prove? +Can hell demand, can heaven condemn +The man whom Jesus deigns to love? + +2 The man who sought the ways of truth, +Paid friends and neighbours all their due, +(A modest, sober, lovely youth) +And thought he wanted nothing now. + +3 But mark the change! thus spake the Lord, +"Come, part with earth for heaven to-day," +The youth astonish'd at the word, +In silent sadness went his way. + +4 Poor virtues that he boasted so, +This test unable to endure; +Let Christ, and grace, and glory go +To make his land and money sure. + +5 Ah foolish choice of treasures here! +Ah fatal love of tempting gold! +Must this base world be bought so dear? +Are life and heaven so cheaply sold? + +6 In vain the charms of nature shine, +If this vile passion govern me: +Transform my soul, O love divine, +And make me part with all for thee. + + +Hymn 1:24. +The rich sinner dying, Psalm 49. 6 9. Eccl. 8. 8. +Job 3. 14 15. + +1 In vain the wealthy mortals toil, +And heap their shining dust in vain, +Look down and scorn the humble poor, +And boast their lofty hills of gain. + +2 Their golden cordials cannot ease +Their pained hearts or aching heads, +Nor fright nor bribe approaching death +From glittering roofs and downy beds. + +3 The lingering, the unwilling soul +The dismal summons must obey, +And bid a long a sad farewell +To the pale lump of lifeless clay. + +4 Thence they are huddled to the grave, +Where kings and slaves have equal thrones; +Their bones without distinction lie +Amongst the heap of meaner bones. + +The rest referred to Psalm 49. + + +Hymn 1:25. +A vision of the Lamb, Rev 5. 6-9. + +1 All mortal vanities, be gone, +Nor tempt my eyes, nor tire my ears, +Behold amidst th' eternal throne +A vision of the Lamb appears. + +2[Glory his fleecy robe adorns, +Mark'd with the bloody death he bore; +Seven are his eyes, and seven his horns, +To speak his wisdom and his power. + +3 Lo, he receives a sealed book +From him that sits upon the throne: +Jesus, my Lord, prevails to look +On dark decrees, and things unknown.] + +4 All the assembling saints around +Fall worshipping before the Lamb, +And in new songs of gospel-sound +Address their honours to his name, + +5 The joy, the shout, the harmony +Flies o'er the everlasting hills, +"Worthy art thou alone," they cry, +"To read the book, to loose the seals."] + +6 Our voices join the heavenly strain, +And with transporting pleasure sing, +"Worthy the Lamb that once was slain, +"To be our teacher and our king!" + +7 His words of prophecy reveal +Eternal counsels, deep designs; +His grace and vengeance shall fulfil +The peaceful and the dreadful lines. + +8 Thou hast redeem'd our souls from hell +'With thine invaluable blood; +And wretches that did once rebel +Are now made favourites of their Cod. + +9 Worthy for ever is the Lord, +That died for treasons not his own, +By every tongue to be ador'd, +And dwell upon his Father's throne. + + +Hymn 1:26. +Hope of heaven by the resurrection of Christ, +1 Peter 1. 3-5. + +1 Bless'd be the everlasting God, +The Father of our Lord, +Be his abounding mercy prais'd, +His majesty ador'd. + +2 When from the dead he rais'd his Son, +And call'd him to the sky, +He gave our souls a lively hope +That they should never die. + +3 What tho' our inbred sins require +Our flesh to see the dust! +Yet as the Lord our Saviour rose, +So all his followers must. + +4 There's an inheritance divine +Reserv'd against that day, +'Tis uncorrupted, undefil'd, +And cannot waste away. + +5 Saints by the power of God are kept +Till the salvation come; +We walk by faith as strangers here +Till Christ shall call us home. + + +Hymn 1:27. +Assurance of heaven; or, A saint prepared to die, +2 Tim. 4. 6 7 8 18. + +1 [Death may dissolve my body now, +And bear my spirit home; +Why do my minutes move so slow, +Nor my salvation come? + +2 With heavenly weapons I have fought +The battles of the Lord, +Finish'd my course, and kept the faith, +And wait the sure reward.] + +3 God has laid up in heaven for me +A crown which cannot fade; +The righteous Judge at that great day +Shall place it on my head. + +4 Nor hath the King of grace decreed +This prize for me alone; +But all that love and long to see +Th' appearance of his Son. + +5 Jesus the Lord shall guard me safe +From every ill design; +And to his heavenly kingdom keep +This feeble soul of mine. + +6 God is my everlasting aid +And hell shall rage in vain; +To him be highest glory paid, +And endless praise.--Amen. + + +Hymn 1:28. +The triumph of Christ over the enemies of his church, +Isa. 63. 1 2 3 &c. + +1 What mighty man, or mighty God, +Comes travelling in state, +Along the Idumean road, +Away from Bozrah's gate? + +2 The glory of his robes proclaim +'Tis some victorious king: +"'Tis I, the just, th' Almighty One, +"That your salvation bring." + +3 "Why, mighty Lord," thy saints enquire, +"Why thine apparel red? +"And all thy vesture stain'd like those +"Who in the wine-press tread?" + +4 "I by myself have trod the press, +"And crush'd my foes alone, +"My wrath has struck the rebels dead, +"My fury stamp'd them down. + +5 "'Tis Edom's blood that dyes my robes +"With joyful scarlet stains, +"The triumph that my raiment wears +"Sprung from their bleeding veins. + +6 "Thus shall the nations be destroy'd +"That dare insult my saints, +"I have an arm t' avenge their wrongs, +"An ear for their complaints." + + +Hymn 1:29. +The ruin of Antichrist, Isa. 63. 4-7. + +1 "I lift my banners," saith the Lord, +"Where Antichrist has stood, +"The city of my gospel-foes +"Shall be a field of blood. + +2 "My heart has study'd just revenge, +"And now the day appears, +"The day of my redeem'd is come +"To wipe away their tears. + +3 "Quite weary is my patience grown, +"And bids my fury go +"Swift as the lightning it shall move, +"And be as fatal too. + +4 "I call for helpers but in vain: +"Then has my gospel none? +"Well, mine own arm has might enough +"To crush my foes alone. + +5 "Slaughter and my devouring sword +"Shall walk the streets around, +"Babel shall reel beneath my stroke, +"And stagger to the ground." + +6 Thy honours, O victorious King! +Thine own right-hand shall raise, +While we thy awful vengeance sing, +And our deliverer praise. + + +Hymn 1:30. +Prayer for deliverance answered, Isa. 26. 8-12 20 21. + +1 In thine own ways, O God of love, +We wait the visits of thy grace, +Our souls desire is to thy Name, +And the remembrance of thy face. + +2 My thoughts are searching, Lord, for thee, +'Mongst the black shades of lonesome night; +My earnest cries salute the skies +Before the dawn restore the light. + +3 Look, how rebellious men deride +The tender patience of my God; +But they shall see thy lifted hand, +And feel the scourges of thy rod. + +4 Hark, the Eternal rends the sky, +A mighty voice before him goes, +A voice of music to his friends, +But threatening thunder to his foes. + +5 Come, children, to your Father's arms, +Hide in the chambers of my grace, +Till the fierce storms be overblown, +And my revenging fury cease. + +6 My sword shall boast its thousands slain, +And drink the blood of haughty kings, +While heavenly peace around my flock +Stretches its soft and shady wings. + + +Hymn 1:31. [Supplement.] +The hidden life of a Christian, Col. 3. 3. + +1 O happy soul that lives on high; +While men lie grovelling here! +His hopes are fix'd above the sky, +And faith forbids his fear. + +2 His conscience knows no secret stings, +While peace and joy combine +To form a life whose holy springs +Are hidden and divine. + +3 He waits in secret on his God; +His God in secret sees: +Let earth be all in arms abroad, +He dwells in heavenly peace. + +4 His pleasures rise from things unseen, +Beyond this world and time, +Where neither eyes nor ears have been, +Nor thoughts of sinners climb. + +5 He wants no pomp nor royal throne +To raise his figure here; +Content and pleas'd to live unknown, +Till Christ his life appear. + +6 He looks to heaven's eternal hill +To meet that glorious day: +But patient waits his Saviour's will +To fetch his soul away. + + +Hymn 1:32. +Strength from heaven, Isa. 40. 27-30. + +1 Whence do our mournful thoughts arise? +And where's our courage fled? +Has restless sin and raging hell +Struck all our comforts dead? + +2 Have we forgot th' almighty Name +That form'd the earth and sea? +And can an all-creating arm +Grow weary or decay? + +3 Treasures of everlasting might +In our Jehovah dwell; +He gives the conquest to the weak, +And treads their foes to hell. + +4 Mere mortal power shall fade and die, +And youthful vigour cease; +But we that wait upon the Lord +Shall feel our strength increase. + +5 The saints shall mount on eagles' wings +And taste the promis'd bliss, +Till their unwearied feet arrive +Where perfect pleasure is. + + +Hymn 1:33. [Supplement.] +The gospel the power of God to salvation, Rom. 1. 16. +1 Cor. 1. 18 24. + +1 What shall the dying sinner do +That seeks relief for all his woe? +Where shall the guilty conscience find +Ease for the torment of the mind? + +2 How shall we get our crimes forgiven, +Or form our natures fit for heaven? +Can souls all o'er defil'd with sin +Make their own powers and passions clean? + +3 In vain we search, in vain we try, +Till Jesus bring his gospel nigh; +'Tis there such power and glory dwell +As saves rebellious souls from hell. + +4 This is the pillar of our hope +That bears our fainting spirits up; +We read the grace, we trust the word, +And find salvation in the Lord. + +5 Let men or angels dig the mines +Where nature's golden treasure shines, +Brought near the doctrine of the cross +All nature's gold appears but dross. + +6 Should vile blasphemers with disdain +Pronounce the truths of Jesus vain, +I'll meet the scandal and the shame, +And sing and triumph in his Name. + + +Hymn 1:34. [Supplement.] +None excluded from hope, Rom. 1. 16. 1 Cor. 1. 24. + +1 Jesus, thy blessings are not few, +Nor is thy gospel weak; +Thy grace can melt the stubborn Jew, +And bow th' aspiring Greek. + +2 Wide as the reach of Satan's rage +Doth thy salvation flow; +'Tis not confin'd to sex or age, +The lofty or the low. + +3 While grace is offer'd to the prince, +The poor may take their share; +No mortal has a just pretence +To perish in despair. + +4 Be wise, ye men of strength and wit, +Nor boast your native powers; +But to his sovereign grace submit, +And glory shall be yours. + +5 Come, all ye vilest sinners come, +He'll form your souls anew: +His gospel and his heart have room +For rebels such as you. + +6 His doctrine is almighty love; +There's virtue in his Name +To turn the raven to a dove, +The lion to a lamb. + + +Hymn 1:35. [Supplement.] +Truth, sincerity, &c. Phil. 4. 8. + +1 Let those who bear the Christian name +Their holy vows fulfil: +The saints, the followers of the Lamb, +Are men of honour still. + +2 True to the solemn oath they take, +Tho' to their hurt they swear; +Constant and just to all they speak, +For God and angels hear. + +3 Still with their lips their hearts agree, +Nor flattering words devise, +They know the God of truth can see +Thro' every false disguise. + +4 They hate th' appearance of a lie +In all the shapes it wears; +They live the truth; and, when they die, +Eternal life is theirs. + +5 While hypocrites and liars fly +Before the Judge's frown, +His faithful friends, who fear a lie, +Receive th' immortal crown. + + +Hymn 1:36. [Supplement.] +A lovely carriage. + +1 O 'tis a lovely thing to see +A man of prudent heart, +Whose thoughts, and lips, and life agree +To act a useful part. + +2 When envy, strife, and wars begin, +In little angry souls, +Mark how the sons of peace come in, +And quench the kindling coals. + +3 Their minds are humble, mild, and meek, +Nor let their fury rise; +Nor passion moves their lips to speak, +Nor pride exalts their eyes. + +4 Their frame is prudence mix'd with love, +Good works fulfil their day: +They join the serpent with the dove, +But cast the sting away. + +5 Such was the Saviour of mankind; +Such pleasures he pursu'd; +His flesh and blood were all refin'd, +His soul divinely good. + +6 Lord, can these plants of virtue grow +In such a heart as mine? +Thy grace my nature can renew, +And make my soul like thine. + + +Hymn 1:37. [Supplement.] +Zeal and Fortitude. + +1 Do I believe what Jesus saith, +And think the gospel true? +Lord, make me bold to own my faith, +And practise virtue too. + +2 Suppress my shame, subdue my fear, +Arm me with heavenly zeal, +That I may make thy power appear, +And works of praise fulfil. + +3 If men shall see my virtue shine, +And spread my name abroad, +Thine is the power, the praise is thine, +My Saviour and my God. + +4 Thus when the saints in glory meet, +Their lips proclaim thy grace; +They cast their honours at thy feet, +And own their borrow'd rays. + +PAUSE. + +5 Are we the soldiers of the cross? +The followers of the Lamb? +And shall we fear to own his cause, +Or blush to speak his name? + +6 Now we must fight, if we would reign; +Increase our courage, Lord! +We'll bear the toil, endure the pain, +Supported by thy word. + +7 Thy saints in all this glorious war +Shall Conquer tho' they're slain; +They see the triumph from afar, +And shall with Jesus reign. + +8 When that illustrious day shall rise, +And all thy armies shine +In robes of victory thro' the skies, +The glory shall be thine. + + +Hymn 1:38. [Supplement.] +The universal law of equity. Matt. 8. 12. + +1 Blessed Redeemer how divine, +How righteous is this rule of thine, +"To do to all men just the same +"As we expect or wish from them." + +2 This golden lesson, short and plain, +Gives not the mind nor memory pain; +And every conscience must approve +This universal law of love. + +3 How blest would every nation be, +Thus rul'd by love and equity! +All would be friends without a foe, +And form a paradise below. + +4 Jesus, forgive us, that we keep +Thy sacred law of love asleep, +No more let envy, wrath, and pride, +But thy blest maxims be our guide. + + +Hymn 1:39. +God's tender care of his church, Isa. 13 &c. + +1 How shall my inward joys arise +And burst into a song, +Almighty love inspires my heart, +And pleasure tunes my tongue. + +2 God on his thirsty Sion-hill +Some mercy-drops has thrown, +And solemn oaths have bound his love +To shower salvation down. + +3 Why do we then indulge our fears, +Suspicions and complaints? +Is he a God, and shall his grace +Grow weary of his saints? + +4 Can a kind woman e'er forget +The infant of her womb, +And 'mongst a thousand tender thoughts +Her suckling have no room? + +5 "Yet (saith the Lord) should nature change, +"And mothers monsters prove, +"Sion still dwells upon the heart +"Of everlasting love. + +6 "Deep on the palms of both my hands +"I have engrav'd her name, +"My hands shall raise her ruin'd walls, +"And build her broken frame." + + +Hymn 1:40. +The business and blessedness of glorified saints, +Rev. 7. 13 &c. + +1 "What happy men, or angels these +"That all their robes are spotless white? +"Whence did this glorious troop arrive +"At the pure realms of heavenly light?" + +2 From tort'ring racks and burning fires, +And seas of their own blood they came; +But nobler blood has wash'd their robes, +Flowing from Christ the dying Lamb. + +3 Now they approach th' almighty throne, +With loud hosannas night and day, +Sweet anthems to the great Three One +Measure their blest eternity. + +4 No more shall hunger pain their souls, +He bids their parching thirst be gone, +And spreads the shadow of his wings +To screen them from the scorching sun. + +5 The Lamb that fills the middle throne +Shall shed around his milder beams, +There shall they feast on his rich love, +And drink full joys from living streams. + +6 Thus shall their mighty bliss renew +Thro' the vast round of endless years, +And the soft hand of sovereign grace +Heals all their wounds, and wipes their tears. + + +Hymn 1:41. +The same; or, The martyrs glorified, Rev. 7. 13 &c. + +1 "These glorious minds, how bright they shine +"Whence all their white array? +"How came they to the happy seats +"Of everlasting day?" + +2 From tort'ring pains to endless joys +On fiery wheels they rode, +And strangely wash'd their raiment white +In Jesus' dying blood. + +3 Now they approach a spotless God, +And bow before his throne +Their warbling harps and sacred songs +Adore the Holy One. + +4 The unveil'd glories of his face +Amongst his saints reside, +While the rich treasure of his grace +Sees all their wants supply'd. + +5 Tormenting thirst shall leave their souls, +And hunger flee as fast; +The fruit of life's immortal tree +Shall be their sweet repast. + +6 The Lamb shall lead his heavenly flock +Where living fountains rise, +And love divine shall wipe away +The sorrows of their eyes. + + +Hymn 1:42. +Divine wrath and mercy, Nahum 1, 2 &c. + +1 Adore and tremble, for our God +Is a _consuming fire_;* +His jealous eyes his wrath inflame, +And raise his vengeance higher. + +2 Almighty vengeance how it burns! +How bright his fury glows! +Vast magazines of plagues and storms +Lie treasur'd for his foes. + +3 Those heaps of wrath by slow degrees +Are forced into a flame, +But kindled, O how fierce they blaze! +And rend all nature's frame. + +4 At his approach the mountains flee, +And seek a watery grave; +The frighted sea makes haste away, +And shrinks up every wave. + +5 Thro' the wide air the weighty rocks +Are swift as hailstones hurl'd: +Who dares engage his fiery rage +That shakes the solid world? + +6 Yet, mighty God, thy sovereign grace +Sits regent on the throne, +The refuge of thy chosen race +When wrath comes rushing down. + +7 Thy hand shall on rebellious kings +A fiery tempest pour, +While we beneath thy sheltering wings +Thy just revenge adore. + +*Hebrews 12:29. + + +Hymn 1:43. [Supplement.] +The Christian treasure, 1 Cor. 3. 21. + +1 How vast the treasure we possess! +How rich thy bounty, King of Grace! +This world is ours, and worlds to come +Earth is our lodge, and heaven our home. + +2 All things are ours, the gifts of God; +The purchase of a Saviour's blood: +While the good Spirit shews us how +To use and to improve them too. + +3 If peace and plenty crown my days, +They help, me, Lord, to speak thy praise! +If bread of sorrows be my food, +Those sorrows work my lasting good. + +4 I would not change my blest estate +For all the world calls good or great: +And while my faith can keep her hold, +I envy not the sinner's gold. + +5 Father, I wait thy daily will; +Thou shalt divide my portion still: +Grant me on earth what seems thee best, +Till death and heaven reveal the rest. + + +Hymn 1:44. [Supplement.] +The true improvement of life. + +1 And is this life prolong'd to me? +Are days and seasons given? +O let me then prepare to be +A fitter heir of heaven. + +2 In vain these moments shall not pass, +These golden hours be gone: +Lord, I accept thine offered grace, +I bow before thy throne. + +3 Now cleanse my soul from every sin, +By my Redeemer's blood: +Now let my flesh and soul begin +The honours of my God. + +4 Let me no more my soul beguile +With sin's deceitful toys: +Let cheerful hope increasing still +Approach to heavenly joys. + +5 My thankful lips shall loud proclaim +The wonders of thy praise, +And spread the savour of thy Name +Where'er I spend my days. + +6 On earth let my example shine, +And when I leave this state, +May heaven receive this soul of mine +To bliss supremely great. + + +Hymn 1:45. +The last judgment, Rev. 21. 5-8. + +1 See where the great incarnate God +Fills a majestic throne, +While from the skies his awful voice +Bears the last judgment down. + +2 ["I am the first, and I the last, +"Thro' endless years the same; +"I AM is my memorial still, +"And my eternal name. + +3 "Such favours as a God can give +"My royal grace bestows; +"Ye thirsty souls come taste the streams +"Where life and pleasure flows.] + +4 ["The saint that triumphs o'er his sins, +"I'll own him for a son, +"The whole creation shall reward +"The conquests he has won. + +5 "But bloody hands and hearts unclean, +"And all the lying race, +"The faithless and the scoffing crew, +"That spurn at offer'd grace, + +6 "They shall be taken from my sight, +"Bound fast in iron chains, +"And headlong plung'd into the lake +"Where fire and darkness reigns." + +7 O may I stand before the Lamb, +When earth and seas are fled! +And hear the Judge pronounce my name +With blessings on my head! + +8 May I with those for ever dwell +Who here were my delight, +While sinners banish'd down to hell, +No more offend my sight. + + +Hymn 1:46. [Supplement.] +The privileges of the living above the dead. + +1 Awake, my zeal, awake, my love, +To serve my Saviour here below, +In works which perfect saints above +And holy angels cannot do. + +2 Awake my charity, to feed +The hungry soul, and clothe the poor: +In heaven are found no sons of need, +There all these duties are no more. + +3 Subdue thy passions, O my soul! +Maintain the fight, thy work pursue, +Daily thy rising sins control, +And be thy victories ever new. + +4 The land of triumph lies on high, +There are no foes t' encounter there: +Lord, I would conquer till I die, +And finish all the glorious war. + +5 Let every flying hour confess +I gain thy gospel fresh renown; +And when my life and labour cease, +May I possess the promis'd crown. + + +Hymn 1:47. [Supplement.] +Death of kindred improved. + +1 Must friends and kindred drop and die? +And helpers be withdrawn? +While sorrow with a weeping eye +Counts up our comforts gone? + +2 Be thou our comfort, mighty God! +Our helper and our friend: +Nor leave us in this dangerous road, +Till all our trials end. + +3 O may our feet pursue the way +Our pious fathers led! +With love and holy zeal obey +The counsels of the dead. + +4 Let us be wean'd from all below, +Let hope our grief expel, +While death invites our souls to go +Where our best kindred dwell. + + +Hymn 1:48. +The Christian race, Isa. 40. 28-31. + +1 Awake, our souls, away, our fears, +Let every trembling thought be gone; +Awake and run the heavenly race, +And put a cheerful courage on. + +2 True, 'tis a strait and thorny road, +And mortal spirits tire and faint; +But they forget the mighty God +That feeds the strength of every saint. + +3 Thee, mighty God, whose matchless power +Is ever new and ever young, +And firm endures while endless years +Their everlasting circles run. + +4 From thee the overflowing spring, +Our souls shall drink a fresh supply, +While such as trust their native strength +Shall melt away, and drop and die. + +5 Swift as an eagle cuts the air +We'll mount aloft to thine abode, +On wings of love our souls shall fly, +Nor tire amidst the heavenly road. + + +Hymn 1:49. +The works of Moses and the Lamb, Rev. 15. 3. + +1 How strong thine arm is, mighty God, +Who would not fear thy Name! +Jesus, how sweet thy graces are! +Who would not love the Lamb! + +2 He has done more than Moses did, +Our Prophet and our King; +From bonds of hell he freed our souls, +And taught our lips to sing. + +3 In the Red-sea by Moses' hand +Th' Egyptian host was drown'd; +But his own blood hides all our sins, +And guilt no more is found. + +4 When thro' the desert Israel went, +With manna they were fed; +Our Lord invites us to his flesh, +And calls it living bread. + +5 Moses beheld the promis'd land, +Yet never reach'd the place; +But Christ shall bring his followers home +To see his Father's face. + +6 Then shall our love and joy be full, +And feel a warmer flame; +And sweeter voices tune the song +Of Moses and the Lamb. + + +Hymn 1:50. +The song of Zacharias, and the message of John +the Baptist; or, Light and salvation by Jesus Christ, +Luke 1. 68 &c. John 1. 29. 32. + +1 Now be the God of Israel bless'd +Who makes his truth appear, +His mighty hand fulfils his word, +And all the oaths he sware. + +2 Now he bedews old David's root +With blessings from the skies; +He makes the branch of promise grow, +The promis'd horn arise. + +3 [John was the prophet of the Lord +To go before his face, +The herald which our Saviour God +Sent to prepare his ways. + +4 He makes the great salvation known, +He speaks of pardon'd sins; +While grace divine and heavenly love +In its own glory shines. + +5 "Behold the Lamb of God," he cries, +"That takes our guilt away: +"I saw the Spirit o'er his head +"On his baptizing day.] + +6 "Be every vale exalted high, +"Sink every mountain low, +"The proud must stoop, and humble souls +"Shall his salvation know. + +7 "The heathen realms with Israel's land +"Shall join in sweet accord; +"And all that's born of man shall see +"The glory of the Lord. + +8 "Behold the morning star arise, +"Ye that in darkness sit; +"He marks the path that leads to peace, +"And guides our doubtful feet." + + +Hymn 1:51. +Persevering grace, Jude 24 25. + +1 To God the only wise, +Our Saviour and our King, +Let all the saints below the skies +Their humble praises bring. + +2 'Tis his almighty love, +His counsel, and his care, +Preserves us safe from sin and death, +And every hurtful snare. + +3 He will present our souls +Unblemish'd and complete, +Before the glory of his face, +With joys divinely great. + +4 Then all the chosen seed +Shall meet around the throne, +Shall bless the conduct of his grace, +And make his wonders known. + +5 To our Redeemer God +Wisdom and power belongs, +Immortal crowns of majesty, +And everlasting songs. + + +Hymn 1:52. +Baptism, Matt. 28. 19. Acts 2. 38. + +1 'Twas the commission of our Lord, +"Go, teach the nations, and baptize;" +The nations have receiv'd the word +Since he ascended to the skies. + +2 He sits upon th' eternal hills, +With grace and pardon in his hands, +And sends his covenant with the seals, +To bless the distant British lands. + +3 "Repent, and be baptiz'd, (he saith) +For the remission of your sins;" +And thus our sense assists our faith, +And shews us what his gospel means. + +4 Our souls he washes in his blood, +As water makes the body clean; +And the good Spirit from our God +Descends like purifying rain. + +5 Thus we engage ourselves to thee, +And seal our covenant with the Lord: +O may the great eternal Three +In heaven our solemn vows record! + + +Hymn 1:53. +The Holy Scriptures, Heb. 1. 1 2. 2 Tim. 3. 15 16. +Psalm 147. 19 20. + +1 God who in various methods told +His mind and will to saints of old, +Sent down his Son, with truth and grace, +To teach us in these latter days. + +2 Our nation reads the written word, +That book of life, that sure record: +The bright inheritance of heaven +Is by the sweet conveyance given. + +3 God's kindest thoughts are here express'd, +Able to make us wise and bless'd; +The doctrines are divinely true, +Fit for reproof, and comfort too. + +4 Ye British isles, who read his love +In long epistles from above, +(He hath not sent his sacred word +To every land) Praise ye the Lord. + + +Hymn 1:54. +Electing grace; or, Saints beloved in Christ, +Eph. 1. 3 &c. + +1 Jesus, we bless thy Father's Name; +Thy God and ours are both the same: +What heavenly blessings from his throne +Flow down to sinners thro' his Son! + +2 "Christ be my first elect," he said, +Then chose our souls in Christ our head, +Before he gave the mountains birth, +Or laid foundations for the earth. + +3 Thus did eternal love begin +To raise us up from death and sin; +Our characters were then decreed, +"Blameless in love, a holy seed." + +4 Predestinated to be sons, +Born by degrees, but chose at once; +A new regenerated race +To praise the glory of his grace. + +5 With Christ our Lord we share our part +In the affections of his heart, +Nor shall our souls be thence remov'd +Till he forgets his first belov'd. + + +Hymn 1:55. +Hesekiah's song; or, Sickness and recovery, Isa. 38.9 &c. + +1 When we are rais'd from deep distress +Our God deserves a song; +We take the pattern of our praise +From Hezekiah's tongue. + +2 The gates of the devouring grave +Are open'd wide in vain, +If he that holds the keys of death +Commands them fast again. + +3 Pains of the flesh are wont t' abuse +Our minds with slavish fears, +"Our days are past, and we shall lose +"The remnant of our years." + +4 We chatter with a swallow's voice, +Or like a dove we mourn, +With bitterness instead of joys, +Afflicted and forlorn. + +5 Jehovah speaks the healing word, +And no disease withstands; +Fevers and plagues obey the Lord, +And fly at his commands. + +6 If half the strings of life should break, +He can our frame restore; +He casts our sins behind his back, +And they are found no more. + + +Hymn 1:56. +The song of Moses and the Lamb; or, Babylon falling, +Rev. 15. 3. and chap. 16. 19. and 17. 6. + +1 We sing the glories of thy love, +We sound thy dreadful Name; +The Christian church unites the songs +Of Moses and the Lamb. + +2 Great God, how wondrous are thy works +Of vengeance and of grace! +Thou King of saints, Almighty Lord, +How just and true thy ways! + +3 Who dares refuse to fear thy Name, +Or worship at thy throne? +Thy judgments speak thine holiness +Thro' all the nations known. + +4 Great Babylon, that rules the earth, +Drunk with the martyrs' blood, +Her crimes shall speedily awake +The fury of our God. + +5 The cup of wrath is ready mix'd, +And she must drink the dregs; +Strong is the Lord her sovereign Judge, +And shall fulfil the plagues. + + +Hymn 1:57. +Original sin; or, The first and second Adam, +Rom. 5. 12. Psalm 51. 5. Job 11. 4. + +1 Backward with humble shame we look +On our original; +How is our nature dash'd and broke +In our first father's fall! + +2 To all that's good averse and blind, +But prone to all that's ill +What dreadful darkness veils our mind! +How obstinate our will! + +3 [Conceiv'd in sin (O wretched state!) +Before we draw our breath, +The first young pulse begins to beat +Iniquity and death. + +4 How strong in our degenerate blood +The old corruption reigns, +And, mingling with the crooked flood, +Wanders thro' all our veins!] + +5 Wild and unwholesome as the root +Will all the branches be; +How can we hope for living fruit +From such a deadly tree? + +6 What mortal power from things unclean +Can pure productions bring? +Who can command a vital stream +From an infected spring?] + +7 Yet, mighty God, thy wondrous love +Can make our nature clean, +While Christ and grace prevail above +The tempter, death, and sin. + +8 The second Adam shall restore +The ruins of the first, +Hosanna to that sovereign power +That new creates our dust. + + +Hymn 1:58. +The devil vanquished; or, Michael's war with the +dragon, Rev. 12. 7. + +1 Let mortal tongues attempt to sing +The wars of heaven, when Michael stood +Chief general of th' Eternal King, +And fought the battles of our God. + +2 Against the dragon and his host +The armies of the Lord prevail: +In vain they rage, in vain they boast, +Their courage sinks, their weapons fail. + +3 Down to the earth was Satan thrown, +Down to the earth his legions fell; +Then was the trump of triumph blown, +And shook the dreadful deeps of hell. + +4 Now is the hour of darkness past, +Christ hath assum'd his reigning power; +Behold the great accuser cast +Down from the skies, to rise no more. + +5 'Twas by thy blood immortal Lamb, +Thine armies trod the tempter down; +'Twas by thy word and powerful Name, +They gain'd the battle and renown. + +6 Rejoice, ye heavens; let every star +Shine with new glories round the sky; +Saints, while ye sing the heavenly war, +Raise your Deliverer's name on high. + + +Hymn 1:59. +Babylon fallen, Rev. 18. 20 21. + +1 In Gabriel's hand a mighty stone +Lies, a fair type of Babylon +''Prophets, rejoice, and, all ye saints, +"God shall avenge your long complaints." + +2 He said, and dreadful as he stood, +He sunk the milstone in the flood: +"Thus terribly shall Babel fall; +"Thus, and no more be found at all." + + +Hymn 1:60. +The virgin Mary's song; or, The promised Messiah +born, Luke 1. 46 &c. + +1 Our souls shall magnify the Lord, +In God the Saviour we rejoice; +While we repeat the Virgin's song, +May the same spirit tune our voice. + +2 [The Highest saw her low estate, +And mighty things his hand hath done: +His overshadowing power and grace +Makes her the mother of his Son. + +3 Let every nation call her bless'd, +And endless years prolong her fame; +But God alone must be ador'd; +Holy and reverend is his Name.] + +4 To those that fear and trust the Lord +His mercy stands for ever sure: +From age to age his promise lives, +And the performance is secure. + +5 He spake to Abr'am and his seed, +"In thee shall all the earth be bless'd;" +The memory of that ancient word +Lay long in his eternal breast. + +6 But now no more shall Israel wait, +No more the Gentiles lie forlorn: +Lo the desire of nations comes, +Behold the promis'd seed is born. + + +Hymn 1:61. +Christ our high Priest and King, and Christ coming +to judgment, Rev. 1. 5 6 7. + +1 Now to the Lord that makes us know +The wonders of his dying love, +Be humble honours paid below, +And strains of nobler praise above. + +2 'Twas he that cleans'd our foulest sins, +And wash'd us in his richest blood; +'Tis he that makes us priests and kings, +And brings us rebels near to God. + +3 To Jesus our atoning priest, +To Jesus our superior king, +Be everlasting power confess'd, +And every tongue his glory sing. + +4 Behold, on flying clouds he comes, +And every eye shall see him move; +Tho' with our sins we pierc'd him once, +Then he displays his pardoning love. + +5 The unbelieving world shall wail +While we rejoice to see the day: +Come, Lord; nor let thy promise fail, +Nor let thy chariots long delay. + + +Hymn 1:62. +Christ Jesus, the Lamb of God, worshipped by all +the creation, Rev. 5. 11 12 13. + +1 Come let us join our cheerful songs +With angels round the throne; +Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, +But all their joys are one. + +2 "Worthy the Lamb that dy'd," they cry, +"To be exalted thus:" +"Worthy the Lamb," our lips reply, +"For he was slain for us." + +3 Jesus is worthy to receive +Honour and power divine; +And blessings more than we can give, +Be, Lord, for ever thine. + +4 Let all that dwell above the sky, +And air, and earth, and seas, +Conspire to lift thy glories high, +And speak thine endless praise. + +5 The whole creation join in one +To bless the sacred Name +Of him that sits upon the throne, +And to adore the Lamb. + + +Hymn 1:63. +Christ's humiliation and exaltation, Rev. 5. 12. + +1 What equal honours shall we bring +To thee, O Lord our God, the Lamb, +When all the notes that angels sing +Are far inferior to thy Name? + +2 Worthy is he that once was slain, +The Prince of Peace that groan'd and dy'd, +Worthy to rise, and live, and reign +At his Almighty Father's side. + +3 Power and dominion are his due, +Who stood condemn'd at Pilate's bar: +Wisdom belongs to Jesus too, +Tho' he was charg'd with madness here. + +4 All riches are his native right, +Yet he sustain'd amazing loss: +To him ascribe eternal might, +Who left his weakness on the cross. + +5 Honour immortal must be paid, +Instead of scandal and of scorn: +While glory shines around his head, +And a bright crown without a thorn. + +6 Blessings for ever on the Lamb, +Who bore the curse for wretched men: +Let angels sound his sacred Name, +And every creature say, Amen. + + +Hymn 1:64. +Adoption, 1 John 3. 1 &c. Gal. 4. 6. + +1 Behold what wondrous grace +The Father hath bestow'd +On sinners of a mortal race, +To call them sons of God! + +2 'Tis no surprising thing +That we should be unknown; +The Jewish world knew not their King, +God's everlasting Son. + +3 Nor doth it yet appear +How great we must be made; +But when we see our Saviour here, +We shall be like our head. + +4 A hope so much divine +May trials well endure, +May purge our souls from sense and sin, +As Christ the Lord is pure. + +5 If in my Father's love +I share a filial part, +Send down thy Spirit like a dove +To rest upon my heart. + +6 We would no longer lie +Like slaves beneath the throne; +My faith shall Abba, Father, cry, +And thou the kindred own. + + +Hymn 1:65. +The kingdoms of the world become the kingdoms +of our Lord; or, The day of judgment, Rev. 11. 15-18. + +1 Let the seventh angel sound on high, +Let shouts be heard thro' all the sky; +Kings of the earth, with glad accord +Give up your kingdoms to the Lord. + +2 Almighty God, thy power assume, +Who wast, and art, and art to come: +Jesus, the Lamb, who once was slain, +For ever live, for ever reign. + +3 The angry nations fret and roar, +That they can slay the saints no more; +On wings of vengeance flies our God +To pay the long arrears of blood. + +4 Now must the rising dead appear, +Now the decisive sentence hear; +Now the dear martyrs of the Lord +Receive an infinite reward. + + +Hymn 1:66. +Christ the King at his table, Cant. (Transcriber's Note: +Song of Solomon) 1. 2-5 12 13 17. + +1 Let him embrace my soul, and prove +Mine interest in his heavenly love: +The voice that tells me, "Thou art mine," +Exceeds the blessings of the vine. + +2 On thee th' anointing Spirit came, +And spreads the savour of thy name; +That oil of gladness and of grace +Draws virgin souls to meet thy face. + +3 Jesus, allure me by thy charms, +My soul shall fly into thine arms, +Our wandering feet thy favours bring +To the fair chambers of the King. + +4 [Wonder and pleasure tune our voice +To speak thy praises and our joys: +Our memory keeps this love of thine +Beyond the taste of richest wine.] + +5 Tho' in ourselves deform'd we are, +And black as Kedar tent appear, +Yet when we put thy beauties on, +Fair as the courts of Solomon. + +6 While at his table sits the King, +He loves to see us smile and sing; +Our graces are our best perfume, +And breathe like spikenard round the room.] + +7 As myrrh new bleeding from the tree, +Such is a dying Christ to me; +And while he makes my soul his guest, +My bosom, Lord, shall be thy rest. + +8 [No beams of cedar or of fir +Can with thy courts on earth compare; +And here we wait until thy love +Raise us to nobler seats above.] + + +Hymn 1:67. +Seeking the pastures of Christ the Shepherd, Cant. 1.7. + +1 Thou whom my soul admires above +All earthly joy, and earthly love, +Tell me, dear shepherd, let me know, +Where doth thy sweetest pasture grow? + +2 Where is the shadow of that rock +That from the son defends thy flock? +Fain would I feed among thy sheep, +Among them rest, among them sleep. + +3 Why should thy bride appear like one +That turns aside to paths unknown? +My constant feet would never rove, +Would never seek another love. + +4 [The footsteps of thy flock I see; +Thy sweetest pastures here they be; +A wondrous feast thy love prepares, +Bought with thy wounds, and groans, and tears. + +5 His dearest flesh he makes my food, +And bids me drink his richest blood; +Here to these hills my soul will come, +To my beloved lead me home.] + + +Hymn 1:68. +The banquet of love, Cant. 2. 1 2 3 4 6 7. + +1 Behold the Rose of Sharon here, +The Lily which the vallies bear; +Behold the Tree of Life, that gives +Refreshing fruit and healing leaves. + +2 Amongst the thorns so lilies shine, +Amongst wild gourds the noble vine; +So in mine eyes my Saviour proves +Amidst a thousand meaner loves. + +3 Beneath his cooling shade I sat +To shield me from the burning heat; +Of heavenly fruit he spreads a feast +To feed my eyes and please my taste. + +4 [Kindly he brought me to the place +Where stands the banquet of his grace, +He saw me faint, and o'er my head +The banner of his love he spread. + +5 With living bread and generous wine +He cheers this sinking heart of mine; +And opening his own heart to me, +He shews his thoughts how kind they be.] + +6 O never let my Lord depart, +Lie down and rest upon my heart; +I charge my sins not once to move +Nor stir, nor wake, nor grieve my Love. + + +Hymn 1:69. +Christ appearing to his church, and seeking her +company, Cant. 2. 1-13. + +1 The voice of my beloved sounds +Over the rocks and rising grounds, +O'er hills of guilt, and seas of grief, +He leaps, he flies to my relief. + +2 Now thro' the veil of flesh I see +With eyes of love he looks at me; +Now in the gospel's clearest glass +He shews the beauties of his face. + +3 Gently he draws my heart along +Both with his beauties and his tongue; +"Rise," saith my Lord, "make haste away; +"No mortal joys are worth thy stay. + +4 "The Jewish wintery state is gone, +"The mists are fled, the spring comes on, +"The sacred turtle-dove we hear +"Proclaim the new, the joyful year. + +5 "Th' immortal vine of heavenly root +"Blossoms and buds, and gives her fruit:" +Lo, we are come to taste the wine; +Our souls rejoice and bless the vine. + +6 And when we hear our Jesus say, +"Rise up, my love, make haste away!" +Our hearts would fain out-fly the wind, +And leave all earthly loves behind. + + +Hymn 1:70. +Christ inviting, and the church answering the +invitation, Cant. 2. 14 16 17. + +1 [Hark, the Redeemer from on high +Sweetly invites his favourites nigh; +From caves of darkness and of doubt, +He gently speaks, and calls us out: + +2 "My dove, who hidest in the rock, +"Thine heart almost with sorrow broke, +"Lift up thy face, forget thy fear, +"And let thy voice delight mine ear. + +3 "Thy voice to me sounds ever sweet; +"My graces in thy countenance meet; +"Tho' the vain world thy face despise, +"'Tis bright and comely in mine eyes." + +4 Dear Lord, our thankful heart receives +The hope thine invitation gives: +'To thee our joyful lips shall raise +The voice of prayer, and of praise.] + +5 [I am my Love's, and he is mine; +Our hearts, our hopes, our passions join: +Nor let a motion, nor a word, +Nor thought arise to grieve my Lord. + +6 My soul to pastures fair he leads, +Amongst the lilies where he feeds; +Amongst the saints (whose robes are white, +Wash'd in his blood) is his delight. + +7 Till the day break, and shadows flee, +Till the sweet dawning light I see, +Thine eyes to me-ward often turn, +Nor let my soul in darkness mourn. + +8 Be like a hart on mountains green, +Leap o'er the hills of fear and sin; +Nor guilt, nor unbelief divide +My Love, my Saviour from my side.] + + +Hymn 1:71. +Christ found in the street, and brought to the church, +Cant. 3. 1-5. + +1 Often I seek my Lord by night, +Jesus, my love, my soul's delight; +With warm desire and restless thought +I seek him oft, but find him not. + +2 Then I arise, and search the street +Till I my Lord, my Saviour meet; +I ask the watchmen of the night, +"Where did you see my soul's delight?" + +3 Sometimes I find him in the way, +Directed by a heavenly ray; +I leap for joy to see his face, +And hold him fast in mine embrace. + +4 [I bring him to my mother's home, +Nor does my Lord refuse to come, +To Sion's sacred chambers, where +My soul first drew the vital air. + +5 He gives me there his bleeding heart, +Pierc'd for my sake with deadly smart; +I give my soul to him, and there +Our loves their mutual tokens share.] + +6 I charge you all, ye earthly toys, +Approach not to disturb my joys; +Nor sin, nor hell come near my heart, +Nor cause my Saviour to depart. + + +Hymn 1:72. +The coronation of Christ, and espousals of the church, +Cant. 3. 2. + +1 Daughters of Sion, come, behold +The crown of honour and of gold, +Which the glad church with joys unknown +Plac'd on the head of Solomon. + +2 Jesus, thou everlasting King, +Accept the tribute which we bring, +Accept the well-deserv'd renown, +And wear our praises as thy crown. + +3 Let every act of worship be +Like our espousals, Lord, to thee; +Like the dear hour, when from above +We first receiv'd thy pledge of love. + +4 The gladness of that happy day, +Our hearts would wish it long to stay, +Nor let our faith forsake its hold, +Nor comfort sink, nor love grow cold. + +5 Each following minute as it flies, +Increase thy praise, improve our joys, +Till we are rais'd to sing thy Name +At the great supper of the Lamb. + +6 O that the months would roll away, +And bring that coronation-day! +The King of Grace shall fill the throne +With all his Father's glories on. + + +Hymn 1:73. +The church's beauty in the eyes of Christ, +Cant. 4. 1 10 11 7 9 8. + +1 Kind is the speech of Christ our Lord, +Affection sounds in every word, +"Lo, thou art fair, my love, he cries, +"Not the young doves have sweeter eyes. + +2 ["Sweet are thy lips, thy pleasing voice +"Salutes mine ear with secret joys, +"No spice so much delights the smell, +"Nor milk nor honey taste so well.] + +3 "Thou art all fair, my bride, to me, +"I will behold no spot in thee." +What mighty wonders love performs, +And puts a comeliness on worms! + +4 Defil'd and loathsome as we are, +He makes us white, and calls us fair; +Adorns us with that heavenly dress, +His graces and his righteousness. + +5 "My sister, and my spouse," he cries, +"Bound to my heart by various ties, +"Thy powerful love my heart detains +"In strong delight and pleasing chains." + +6 He calls me from the leopard's den, +From this wild world of beasts and men, +To Sion where his glories are; +Not Lebanon is half so fair. + +7 Nor dens of prey, nor flowery plains +Nor earthly joys, nor earthly pains +Shall hold my feet, or force my stay, +When Christ invites my soul away. + + +Hymn 1:74. +The church the garden of Christ, Cant. 4. 12 14 15, +and 5. 1. + +1 We are a garden wall'd around, +Chosen and made peculiar ground; +A little spot inclos'd by grace, +Out of the world's wide wilderness. + +2 Like trees of myrrh and spice we stand, +Planted by God the Father's hand; +And all his springs in Sion flow +To make the young plantation grow. + +3 Awake, O heavenly wind, and come, +Blow on this garden of perfume; +Spirit divine, descend and breathe +A gracious gale on plants beneath. + +4 Make our best spices flow abroad +To entertain our Saviour God: +And faith, and love, and joy appear, +And every grace be active here. + +5 [Let my beloved come, and taste +His pleasant fruits at his own feast: +"I come, my spouse, I come," he cries, +With love and pleasure in his eyes. + +6 Our Lord into his garden comes, +Well pleas'd to smell our poor perfumes; +And calls us to a feast divine, +Sweeter than honey, milk, or wine. + +7 "Eat of the tree of life, my friends, +"The blessings that my Father sends; +"Your taste shall all my dainties prove, +"And drink abundance of my love." + +8 Jesus, we will frequent thy board, +And sing the bounties of our Lord: +But the rich food on which we live +Demands more praise than tongues can give.] + + +Hymn 1:75. +The description of Christ the beloved, +Cant. 5. 9-12 14 15 16. + +1 The wondering world enquires to know +Why I should love my Jesus so: +"What are his charms," say they, "above +"The objects of a mortal love!" + +2 Yes, my beloved, to my sight, +Shews a sweet mixture red and white: +All human beauties, all divine, +In my beloved meet and shine, + +3 White is his soul, from blemish free; +Red with the blood he shed for me; +The fairest of ten thousand fairs: +A sun amongst ten thousand stars. + +4 [His head the finest gold excels, +There wisdom in perfection dwells; +And glory like a crown adorns +Those temples once beset with thorns. + +5 Compassions in his heart are found, +Hard by the signals of his wound; +His sacred side no more shall bear +The cruel scourge, the piercing spear.] + +6 [His hands are fairer to behold +Than diamonds set in rings of gold; +Those heavenly hands that on the tree +Were nail'd, and torn, and bled for me. + +7 Tho' once he bow'd his feeble knees, +Loaded with sins and agonies, +Now on the throne of his command +His legs like marble pillars stand.] + +8 [His eyes are majesty and love, +The eagle temper'd with the dove: +No more shall trickling sorrows roll +Thro' those dear windows of his soul. + +9 His mouth, that pour'd out long complaints, +Now smiles, and cheers his fainting saints; +His countenance more graceful is +Than Lebanon with all its trees.] + +10 All over glorious is my Lord, +Must be belov'd, and yet ador'd: +His worth if all the nations knew, +Sure the whole earth would love him too. + + +Hymn 1:76. +Christ dwells in heaven, but visits on earth, +Cant. 6. 1 2 3 12. + +1 When strangers stand and hear me tell +What beauties in my Saviour dwell; +Where he is gone, they fain would know, +That they may seek and love him too. + +2 My best beloved keeps his throne +On hills of light in worlds unknown +But he descends, and shews his face +In the young gardens of his grace. + +3 [In vineyards planted by his hand, +Where fruitful trees in order stand; +He feeds among the spicy beds, +Where lilies shew their spotless heads. + +4 He has engross'd my warmest love, +No earthly charms my soul can move: +I have a mansion in his heart, +Nor death nor hell shall make us part.] + +5 [He takes my soul ere I'm aware, +And shews me where his glories are; +No chariot of Amminadib +The heavenly rapture can describe. + +6 O may my spirit daily rise +On wings of faith above the skies, +Till death shall make my last remove +To dwell for ever with my love.] + + +Hymn 1:77. +The love of Christ to the church, in his language to +her, and provisions for her, Cant. 7. 5 6 9 12 13. + +1 Now in the galleries of his grace +Appears the King, and thus he says, +"How fair my saints are in my sight; +"My love how pleasant for delight!" + +2 Kind is thy language, sovereign Lord, +There's heavenly grace in every word: +From that dear mouth a stream divine +Flows sweeter than the choicest wine. + +3 Such wondrous love awakes the lip +Of saints that were almost asleep, +To speak the praises of thy name, +And makes our cold affections flame. + +4 These are the joys he lets us know +In fields and villages below, +Gives us a relish of his love, +But keeps his noblest feast above. + +5 In Paradise within the gates +An higher entertainment waits; +Fruits new and old laid up in store, +Where we shall feed, but thirst no more. + + +Hymn 1:78. +The strength of Christ's love, and the soul's jealousy +of her own, Cant. 8. 5 6 7 13 14. + +1 [Who is this fair one in distress, +That travels from the wilderness? +And press'd with sorrows and with sins, +On her beloved Lord she leans. + +2 This is the spouse of Christ our God, +Bought with the treasure of his blood; +And her request and her complaint +Is but the voice of every saint.] + +3 "O let my name engraven stand, +"Both on thy heart and on thy hand: +"Seal me upon thine arm; and wear +"That pledge of love for ever there. + +4 "Stronger than death thy love is known, +"Which floods of wrath could never drown; +"And hell and earth in vain combine +"To quench a fire so much divine. + +5 "But I am jealous of my heart, +Lest it should once from thee depart; +"Then let thy name be well impress'd +As a fair signet on my breast. + +6 "Till thou hast brought me to thy home, +"Where fears and doubts can never come, +"Thy count'nance let me often see, +"And often thou shalt hear from me. + +7 "Come, my beloved, haste away, +"Cut short the hours of thy delay, +"Fly like a youthful hart or roe +"Over the hills where spices grow." + + +Hymn 1:79. +A morning hymn, Psalm 19. 5 8 and 73. 24 25. + +1 God of the morning, at whose voice +The cheerful sun makes haste to rise, +And, like a giant doth rejoice +To run his journey thro' the skies; + +2 From the fair chambers of the east +The circuit of his race begins, +And without weariness or rest, +Round the whole earth he flies and shines. + +3 O like the sun may I fulfil +Th' appointed duties of the day, +With ready mind and active will +March on and keep my heavenly way. + +4 [But I shall rove and lose the race, +If God my sun should disappear, +And leave me in this world's wild maze, +To follow every wandering star. + +5 Lord, thy commands are clean and pure, +Enlightening our beclouded eyes, +Thy threatenings just, thy promise sure, +Thy gospel makes the simple wise.] + +6 Give me thy counsels for my guide, +And then receive me to thy bliss; +All my desires and hopes beside +Are faint and cold compar'd to this. + + +Hymn 1:80. +An evening hymn, Psalm 4. 8. and 3. 5 6. and 143. 8. + +1 Thus far the Lord has led me on, +Thus far his power prolongs my days, +And every evening shall make known +Some fresh memorial of his grace. + +2 Much of my time has run to waste, +And I perhaps am near my home; +But he forgives my follies past, +He gives me strength for days to come. + +3 I lay my body down to sleep, +Peace is the pillow for my head, +While well-appointed angels keep +Their watchful stations round my bed. + +4 In vain the sons of earth or hell +Tell me a thousand frightful things, +My God in safety makes me dwell +Beneath the shadow of his wings. + +5 [Faith in his name forbids my fear: +O may thy presence ne'er depart! +And in the morning make me hear +The love and kindness of thy heart. + +6 Thus when the night of death shall come, +My flesh shall rest beneath the ground, +And wait thy voice to rouse my tomb, +With sweet salvation in the sound. + + +Hymn 1:81. +A song for morning or evening, Lam. 3. 23. Isa. 45. 7. + +1 My God, how endless is thy love! +Thy gifts are every evening new; +And morning mercies from above +Gently distil like early dew. + +2 Thou spreadst the curtains of the night, +Great guardian of my sleeping hours; +Thy sovereign word restores the light, +And quickens all my drowsy powers. + +3 I yield my powers to thy command, +To thee I consecrate my days; +Perpetual blessings from thine hand +Demand perpetual songs of praise. + + +Hymn 1:82. +God far above creatures; or, Man vain and +mortal, Job 4. 77-21. + +1 Shall the vile race of flesh and blood +Contend with their creator, God? +Shall mortal worms presume to be +More holy, wise, or just than he? + +2 Behold he puts his trust in none +Of all the spirits round his throne; +Their natures, when compar'd with his +Are neither holy, just nor wise. + +3 But how much meaner things are they +Who spring from dust and dwell in clay! +Touch'd by the finger of thy wrath, +We faint and vanish like the moth. + +4 From night to day, from day to night, +We die by thousands in thy sight; +Bury'd in dust whole nations lie +Like a forgotten vanity. + +5 Almighty power, to thee we bow; +How frail are we, how glorious thou! +No more the sons of earth shall dare +With an eternal God compare. + + +Hymn 1:83. +Afflictions and death under providence, Job 5. 6 7 8. + +1 Not from the dust affliction grows, +Nor troubles rise by chance; +Yet we are born to care and woes, +A sad inheritance. + +2 As sparks break out from burning coals, +And still are upwards borne; +So grief is rooted in our souls, +And man grows up to mourn. + +3 Yet with my God I leave my cause, +And trust his promis'd grace; +He rules me by his well-known laws +Of love and righteousness. + +4 Not all the pains that e'er I bore +Shall spoil my future peace, +For death and hell can do no more +Than what my Father please. + + +Hymn 1:84. +Salvation, righteousness, and strength in Christ, +Isa. 45. 21 25. + +1 Jehovah speaks, let Israel hear, +Let all the earth rejoice and fear, +While God's eternal Son proclaims +His sovereign honours and his names: + +2 "I am the last, and I the first, +"The Saviour God, and God the just; +"There's none beside pretends to shew +"Such justice and salvation too. + +3 "[Ye that in shades of darkness dwell, +"Just on the verge of death and hell, +"Look up to me from distant lands, +"Light, life and heaven are in my hands. + +4 "I by my holy Name have sworn, +"Nor shall the word in vain return, +"To me shall all things bend the knee, +"And every tongue shall swear to me.] + +5 "In me alone shall men confess +"Lies all their strength and righteousness; +"But such as dare despise my Name, +"I'll clothe them with eternal shame. + +6 "In me the Lord, shall all the seed +"Of Israel from their sins be freed, +"And by their shining graces prove +"Their interest in my pardoning love." + + +Hymn 1:85. +The same. + +1 The Lord on high proclaims +His Godhead from his throne; +"Mercy and justice are the names +"By which I will be known. + +2 "Ye dying souls that sit +"In darkness and distress, +"Look from the borders of the pit +"To my recovering grace." + +3 Sinners shall hear the sound; +Their thankful tongues shall own, +"Our righteousness and strength is found +"In thee, the Lord, alone." + +4 In thee shall Israel trust, +And see their guilt forgiven; +God will pronounce the sinners just, +And take the saints to heaven. + + +Hymn 1:86. +God holy, just, and sovereign. Job 9. 2-10. + +1 How should the sons of Adam's race +Be pure before their God? +If he contend in righteousness +We fall beneath his rod. + +2 To vindicate my words and thoughts +I'll make no more pretence; +Not one of all my thousand faults +Can bear a just defence. + +3 Strong is his arm, his heart is wise; +What vain presumers dare +Against their Maker's hand to rise, +Or tempt th' unequal war? + +4 [Mountains by his almighty wrath +From their old seats are torn; +He shakes the earth from south to north, +And all her pillars mourn. + +5 He bids the sun forbear to rise, +Th' obedient sun forbears: +His hand with sackcloth spreads the skies, +And seals up all the stars. + +6 He walks upon the stormy sea +Flies on the stormy wind; +There's none can trace his wondrous way, +Or his dark footsteps find.] + + +Hymn 1:87. +God dwells with the humble and penitent, Isa. 57. 15 16. + +1 Thus saith the High and Lofty One, +"I sit upon my holy throne, +"My name is God, I dwell on high, +"Dwell in my own eternity. + +2 "But I descend to worlds below, +"On earth I have a mansion too, +"The humble spirit and contrite +"Is an abode of my delight. + +3 "The humble soul my words revive, +"I bid the mourning sinner live, +"Heal all the broken hearts I find, +"And ease the sorrows of the mind. + +4 "When I contend against their sin +"I make them know how vile they've been; +"But should my wrath for ever smoke, +"Their souls would sink beneath my stroke."] + +5 O may thy pardoning grace be nigh, +Lest we should faint, despair, and die! +Thus shall our better thoughts approve +The methods of thy chastening love. + + +Hymn 1:88. +Life the day of grace and hope. Eccles. 9. 4 3 6 10. + +1 Life is the time to serve the Lord, +The time t' insure the great reward; +And while the lamp holds out to burn +The vilest sinner may return. + +2 [Life is the hour that God has given +To 'scape from hell, and fly to heaven, +The day of grace, and mortals may +Secure the blessings of the day.] + +3 The living know that they must die, +But all the dead forgotten lie, +Their memory and their sense is gone, +Alike unknowing and unknown. + +4 [Their hatred and their love is lost, +Their envy bury'd in the dust; +They have no share in all that's done +Beneath the circuit of the sun.] + +5 Then what my thoughts design to do, +My hands, with all your might pursue, +Since no device, nor work is found, +Nor faith, nor hope beneath the ground. + +6 There are no acts of pardon past +In the cold grave to which we haste, +But darkness, death, and long despair +Reign in eternal silence there. + + +Hymn 1:89. +Youth and judgment, Eccles. 11. 9. + +1 Ye sons of Adam, vain and young, +Indulge your eyes, indulge your tongue, +Taste the delight your souls desire, +And give a loose to all your fire. + +2 Pursue the pleasures ye design, +And cheer your hearts with songs and wine, +Enjoy the day of mirth; but know +There is a day of judgment too. + +3 God from on high beholds your thoughts, +His book records your secret faults; +The works of darkness you have done +Must all appear before the sun. + +4 The vengeance to your follies due +Should strike your hearts with terror thro': +How will ye stand before his face, +Or answer for his injur'd grace? + +5 Almighty God, turn off their eyes +From these alluring vanities; +And let the thunder of thy word +Awake their souls to fear the Lord. + + +Hymn 1:90. +The same. + +1 Lo the young tribes of Adam rise, +And thro' all nature rove, +Fulfil the wishes of their eyes, +And taste the joys they love. + +2 They give a loose to wild desires, +But let the sinners know, +The strict account that God requires +Of all the works they do. + +3 The Judge prepares his throne on high, +The frighted earth and seas +Avoid the fury of his eye, +And flee before his face. + +4 How shall I bear that dreadful day, +And stand the fiery test? +I give all mortal joys away +To be for ever blest. + + +Hymn 1:91. +Advice to youth; or, Old age and death in an +unconverted state, Eccles. 12. 1 7. Isa. 65. 20. + +1 Now in the heat of youthful blood +Remember your Creator God, +Behold the months come hastening on +When you shall say, "My joys are gone." + +2 Behold, the aged sinner goes, +Laden with guilt and heavy woes +Down to the regions of the dead, +With endless curses on his head. + +3 The dust returns to dust again, +The soul in agonies of pain +Ascends to God, not there to dwell, +But hears her doom, and sinks to hell. + +4 Eternal King! I fear thy Name, +Teach me to know how frail I am; +And when my soul must hence remove, +Give me a mansion in thy love. + + +Hymn 1:92. +Christ the wisdom of God, Prov. 8. 1 22-32. + +1 Shall wisdom cry aloud +And not her speech be heard? +The voice of God's eternal word, +Deserves it no regard? + +2 "I was his chief delight, +"His everlasting Son, +"Before the first of all his works, +"Creation, was begun. + +3 ["Before the flying clouds, +"Before the solid land, +"Before the fields, before the floods, +"I dwelt at his right hand. + +4 "When he adorn'd the skies, +"And built them I was there +"To order where the sun should rise, +"And marshal every star. + +5 "When he pour'd out the sea, +"And spread the flowing deep, +"I gave the flood a firm decree, +"In its own bounds to keep.] + +6 "Upon the empty air +The earth was balanc'd well; +"With joy I saw the mansion where +"The sons of men should dwell. + +7 "My busy thoughts at first +"On their salvation ran, +"Ere sin was born, or Adam's dust +"Was fashioned to a man. + +8 "Then come, receive my grace, +"Ye children, and be wise; +"Happy the man that keeps my ways; +"The man that shuns them dies." + + +Hymn 1:93. +Christ, or wisdom, obeyed or resisted, Prov. 8. 31 35 36. + +1 Thus saith the wisdom of the Lord, +"Bless'd is the man that hears my word, +"Keeps daily watch before my gates, +"And at my feet for mercy waits. + +2 "The soul that seeks me shall obtain +"Immortal wealth and heavenly gain; +"Immortal life is his reward, +"Life, and the favour of the Lord. + +3 "But the vile wretch that flies from me +"Doth his own soul an injury; +Fools that against my grace rebel +"Seek death, and love the road to hell." + + +Hymn 1:94. +Justification by faith, not by works; or, The law +condemns, grace justifies, Rom. 3. 19-22. + +1 Vain are the hopes the sons of men +On their own works have built; +Their hearts by nature all unclean, +And all their actions guilt. + +2 Let Jew and Gentile stop their mouths +Without a murmuring word, +And the whole race of Adam stand +Guilty before the Lord. + +3 In vain we ask God's righteous law +To justify us now, +Since to convince and to condemn +Is all the law can do. + +4 Jesus, how glorious is thy grace, +When in thy name we trust, +Our faith receives a righteousness +That makes the sinner just. + + +Hymn 1:95. +Regeneration, John 1. 13. and 3. 3 &c. + +1 Not all the outward forms on earth, +Nor rites that God has given, +Nor will of man, nor blood, nor birth, +Can raise a soul to heaven. + +2 The sovereign will of God alone +Creates us heirs of grace; +Born in the image of his Son, +A new peculiar race. + +3 The Spirit like some heavenly wind +Blows on the sons of flesh, +New models all the carnal mind, +And forms the man afresh. + +4 Our quicken'd souls awake, and rise +From the long sleep of death; +On heavenly things we fix our eyes, +And praise employs our breath. + + +Hymn 1:96. +Election excludes boasting, 1 Cor. 1. 26-31. + +1 But few among the carnal wise, +But few of noble race, +Obtain the favour of thine eyes, +Almighty King of Grace. + +2 He takes the men of meanest name +For sons and heirs of God; +And thus he pours abundant shame +On honourable blood. + +3 He calls the fool, and makes him know +The mysteries of his grace, +To bring aspiring wisdom low, +And all its pride abase. + +4 Nature has all its glories lost +When brought before his throne; +No flesh shall in his presence boast +But in the Lord alone. + + +Hymn 1:97. +Christ our wisdom, righteousness, &c. 1 Cor. 1. 30. + +1 Bury'd in shadows of the night +We lie till Christ restores the light: +Wisdom descends to heal the blind, +And chase the darkness of the mind. + +2 Our guilty souls are drown'd in tears +Till his atoning blood appears, +Then we awake from deep distress, +And sing, "The Lord our Righteousness." + +3 Our very frame is mix'd with sin, +His Spirit makes our natures clean; +Such virtues from his sufferings flow, +At once to cleanse and pardon too. + +4 Jesus beholds where Satan reigns, +Binding his slaves in heavy chains; +He sets the prisoners free, and breaks +The iron bondage from our necks. + +5 Poor helpless worms in thee possess +Grace, wisdom, power, and righteousness; +Thou art our mighty All, and we +Give our whole selves, O Lord, to thee. + + +Hymn 1:98. +The same. + +1 How heavy is the night +That hangs upon our eyes, +Till Christ with his reviving light, +Over our souls arise! + +2 Our guilty spirits dread +To meet the wrath of heaven +But, in his righteousness array'd, +We see our sins forgiven. + +3 Unholy and impure +Are all our thoughts and ways; +His hands infected nature cure +With sanctifying grace. + +4 The powers of hell agree +To hold our souls in vain; +He sets the sons of bondage free, +And breaks the cursed chain. + +5 Lord, we adore thy ways +To bring us near to God, +Thy sovereign power, thy healing grace, +And thine atoning blood. + + +Hymn 1:99. +Stones made children of Abraham; or, Grace not +conveyed by religious parents, Matt. 3. 9. + +1 Vain are the hopes that rebels place +Upon their birth and blood, +Descended from a pious race; +(Their fathers now with God.) + +2 He from the caves of earth and hell +Can take the hardest stones, +And fill the house of Abra'm well +With new-created sons. + +3 Such wondrous power doth he possess +Who form'd our mortal frame, +Who call'd the world from emptiness, +The world obey'd and came. + + +Hymn 1:100. +Believe and be saved, John 3. 16 17 18. + +1 Not to condemn the sons of men +Did Christ, the Son of God, appear; +No weapons in his hands are seen, +No flaming sword, nor thunder there. + +2 Such was the pity of our God, +He lov'd the race of man so well, +He sent his Son to bear our load +Of sins, and save our souls from hell. + +3 Sinners, believe the Saviour's word, +Trust in his mighty name and live; +A thousand joys his lips afford, +His hands a thousand blessings give. + +4 But vengeance and damnation lies +On rebels who refuse the grace; +Who God's eternal Son despise +The hottest hell shall be their place. + + +Hymn 1:101. +Joy in heaven for a repenting sinner, Luke 15. 7-10. + +1 Who can describe the joys that rise +Thro' all the courts of Paradise +To see a prodigal return, +To see an heir of glory born? + +2 With joy the Father doth approve +The fruit of his eternal love; +The Son with joy looks down and sees +The purchase of his agonies. + +3 The Spirit takes delight to view +The holy soul he form'd anew; +And saints and angels join to sing +The growing empire of their King. + + +Hymn 1:102. +The beatitudes, Matt. 5. 3-12. + +1 [Bless'd are the humble souls that see +Their emptiness and poverty; +Treasures of grace to them are given, +And crowns of joy laid up in heaven.] + +2 [Bless'd are the men of broken heart, +Who mourn for sin with inward smart; +The blood of Christ divinely flows, +A healing balm for all their woes.] + +3 [Bless'd are the meek, who stand afar +From rage and passion, noise and war; +God will secure their happy state, +And plead their cause against the great.] + +4 [Bless'd are the souls that thirst for grace, +Hunger and long for righteousness, +They shall be well supply'd and fed, +With living streams and living bread.] + +5 [Bless'd are the men whose bowels move +And melt with sympathy and love; +From Christ the Lord shall they obtain +Like sympathy and love again.] + +6 [Bless'd are the pure, whose hearts are clean +From the defiling powers of sin, +With endless pleasure they shall see +A God of spotless purity.] + +7 [Bless'd are the men of peaceful life +Who quench the coals of growing strife, +They shall be call'd the heirs of bliss, +The sons of God, the God of peace.] + +8 [Bless'd are the sufferers who partake +Of pain and shame for Jesus' sake; +Their souls shall triumph in the Lord, +Glory and joy are their reward.] + + +Hymn 1:103. +Not ashamed of the gospel, C Tim. 1. 12. + +1 I'm not asham'd to own my Lord, +Or to defend his cause, +Maintain the honour of his word, +The glory of his cross. + +2 Jesus, my God, I know his Name, +His Name is all my trust, +Nor will he put my soul to shame, +Nor let my hope be lost. + +3 Firm as his throne his promise stands, +And he can well secure +What I've committed to his hands +Till the decisive hour. + +4 Then will he own my worthless name +Before his Father's face, +And in the new Jerusalem +Appoint my soul a place. + + +Hymn 1:104. +A state of nature and of grace, 1 Cor. 6. 10 11. + +1 Not the malicious or profane, +The wanton or the proud, +Nor thieves, nor slanderers shall obtain +The kingdom of our God. + +2 Surprising grace! and such were we +By nature and by sin, +Heirs of immortal misery, +Unholy and unclean. + +3 But we are wash'd in Jesus' blood, +We're pardon'd thro' his Name; +And the good Spirit of our God +Has sanctify'd our frame. + +4 O for a persevering power +To keep thy just commands! +We would defile our hearts no more, +No more pollute our hands. + + +Hymn 1:105. +Heaven invisible and holy, 1 Cor. 2. 9 10. Rev. 21. 27. + +1 Nor eye has seen, nor ear has heard, +Nor sense nor reason known +What joys the Father hath prepar'd +For those that love the Son. + +2 But the good Spirit of the Lord +Reveals a heaven to come: +The beams of glory in his word +Allure and guide us home. + +3 Pure are the joys above the sky, +And all the region peace; +No wanton lips, nor envious eye +Can see or taste the bliss. + +4 Those holy gates for ever bar +Pollution, sin, and shame; +None shall obtain admittance there +But followers of the Lamb. + +5 He keeps the Father's book of life, +There all their names are found; +The hypocrite in vain shall strive +To tread the heavenly ground. + + +Hymn 1:106. +Dead to sin by the cross of Christ, Rom. 6. 1 2 6. + +1 Shall we go on to sin +Because thy grace abounds, +Or crucify the Lord again, +And open all his wounds? + +2 Forbid it, mighty God, +Nor let it e'er be said +That we whose sins are crucify'd +Should raise them from the dead. + +3 We will be slaves no more, +Since Christ has made us free, +Has nail'd our tyrants to his cross, +And bought our liberty. + + +Hymn 1:107. +The fall and recovery of man; or, Christ and Satan +at enmity, Gen. 3 1 15 17 Gal. 4. 4. Col. 2. 15. + +1 Deceiv'd by subtle snares of hell +Adam our head, our father fell, +When Satan in the serpent hid +Propos'd the fruit that God forbid. + +2 Death was the threatening; death began +To take possession of the man; +His unborn race receiv'd the wound, +And heavy curses smote the ground. + +3 But Satan found a worse reward; +Thus saith the vengeance of the Lord, +"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 bid four thousand years +Roll on;--at length his Son appears; +Angels with joy descend to earth, +And sing the young Redeemer's birth. + +6 Lo, by the sons of hell he dies; +But, as he hung 'twixt earth and skies, +He gave their prince a fatal blow, +And triumph'd o'er the powers below.] + + +Hymn 1:108. +Christ unseen and beloved, 1 Pet. 1. 8. + +1 Not 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 1:109. +The value of Christ and his righteousness, Phil. 3. 7 8 9. + +1 No more, my God, I boast no more +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 1:110. +Death and immediate glory, 2 Cor. 5. 1 5-8. + +1 There is a house not made with hands, +Eternal and on high: +And here my spirit waiting stands +Till God shall bid it fly. + +2 Shortly this prison of my clay +Must be dissolv'd and fall, +Then, O my soul, with joy obey +Thy heavenly Father's call. + +3 'Tis he by his almighty grace +That 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; +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; +We would be absent from the flesh, +And present, Lord, with thee. + + +Hymn 1:111. +Salvation by grace, Titus 3. 3-7. + +1 [Lord, we confess our numerous faults, +How great our guilt has been! +Foolish and vain were all our thoughts, +And all our lives were sin. + +2 But O, my soul, for ever praise, +For ever love his Name, +Who turns thy feet from dangerous ways +Of folly, sin, and shame.] + +3 ['Tis not by works of righteousness +Which our own hands have done; +But we are sav'd by sovereign grace +Abounding thro' 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. + +5 'Tis thro' the purchase of his death, +Who hung upon the tree, +The Spirit is sent down to breathe +On such dry bones as we. + +6 Rais'd from the dead we live anew; +And justify'd by grace +We shall appear in glory too, +And see our Father's face. + + +Hymn 1:112. +The brazen serpent; or, Looking to Jesus, +John 3. 14 15 16. + +1 So did the Hebrew prophet raise +The brazen serpent high, +The wounded felt immediate ease, +The camp forbore to die. + +2 "Look upward in the dying hour, +And live," the prophet cries; +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. + +4 When God's own Son is lifted up, +A dying world revives, +The Jew beholds the glorious hope, +Th' expiring Gentile lives. + + +Hymn 1:113. +Abraham's blessings on the Gentiles, Gen. 17. 7. +Rom. 15. 8. Mark 10. 14. + +1 How large the promise! how divine, +To Abra'am and his seed! +"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 covenant proves, +And seals the blessing sure. + +3 Jesus the ancient faith confirms +To our great fathers given; +He takes young children to his arms, +And calls them heirs of heaven. + +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 1:114. +The same, Rom. 11. 16 17. + +1 Gentiles by nature we belong +To the wild olive wood; +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. + +3 Then let the children of the saints +Be dedicate to God; +Pour out thy Spirit on them, Lord, +And wash them in thy blood. + +4 Thus to the parents and their seed +Shall thy salvation come, +And numerous households meet at last +In one eternal home. + + +Hymn 1:115. +Conviction of sin by the law, Rom. 7. 8 9 14 24. + +1 Lord, 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, +Was thine eternal law. + +4 Then felt my soul the heavy load, +My sins reviv'd again, +I had provok'd a dreadful God, +And all my hopes were slain.] + +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 every breath +For some kind power to save, +To break the yoke of sin and death, +And thus redeem the slave. + + +Hymn 1:116. +Love to God and our neighbour, Matt. 22. 37-40. + +1 Thus saith the first, the great command, +"Let all thy inward powers unite +"To love thy Maker and thy God, +"With utmost vigour and delight. + +2 "Then shall thy neighbour next in place +"Share thine affections 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. + +4 But O! 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 1:117. +Election sovereign and free, Rom. 9. 21 22 23 20. + +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 high 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?] + +3 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? + +4 [What if to make his terror known +He lets his patience long endure, +Suffering vile rebels to go on +And seal their own destruction sure! + +5 What if he means to shew 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, +The thunder of whose dreadful word +Can crush a thousand worlds to dust? + +7 But, O my soul, if truths so bright +Should dazzle and confound thy sight +Yet still his written will obey, +And wait the great decisive day. + +8 Then shall he make his justice known, +And the whole world before his throne +With joy or terror shall confess +The glory of his righteousness. + + +Hymn 1:118. +Moses and Christ; or, Sins against the law and +gospel, John 1. 17. Heb. 3. 3 5 6 and 10. 28 29. + +1 The law by Moses came, +But peace, and truth, and love, +Were brought by Christ, a nobler name, +Descending from above. + +2 Amidst the house of God +Their different works were done; +Moses a faithful servant stood, +But Christ a faithful Son. + +3 Then to his new commands +Be strict obedience paid; +O'er all his Father's house he stands +The sovereign and the head. + +4 The man that durst despise +The law that Moses brought, +Behold! how terribly he dies +For his presumptuous fault. + +5 But sorer vengeance falls +On that rebellious race, +Who hate to hear when Jesus calls, +And dare resist his grace. + + +Hymn 1:119. +'The different success of the gospel, 1 Cor. 1. 23 24. +2 Cor. 2. 16. 1 Cor. 3. 6 7. + +1 Christ and his cross is all our theme; +The mysteries that we speak +Are scandal in the Jew's esteem, +And folly to the Greek. + +2 But souls enlighten'd from above +With joy receive the word; +They see what wisdom, power, and love +Shines in their dying Lord. + +3 The vital savour of his Name +Restores their fainting breath; +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. + + +Hymn 1:120. +Faith of things unseen, Heb. 11. 1 3 8 10. + +1 Faith is the brightest evidence +Of things beyond our sight, +Breaks thro' 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'm to unknown countries led, +By faith obey'd the Lord. + +4 He sought a city fair and high, +Built by th' eternal hands; +And faith assures us, tho' we die, +That heavenly building stands. + + +Hymn 1:121. +Children devoted to God, Gen. 17. 7 10. Acts 16. +14 15 33. (For those who practise infant Baptism.) + +1 Thus saith the mercy of the Lord, +"I'll be a God to thee; +"I'll bless thy numerous race, and they +"Shall be a seed for me." + +2 Abra'm 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 sanctify'd her house +When she receiv'd the word; +Thus the believing jailor 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. + + +Hymn 1:122. +Believers buried with Christ in baptism, Rom. 6. 3 &c. + +1 Do we not know that solemn word, +That we are bury'd with the Lord, +Baptis'd into his death, and then +Put off the body of our sin? + +2 Our souls receive diviner breath, +Rais'd from corruption, guilt, and death; +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. + + +Hymn 1:123. +The repenting prodigal, Luke 15. 13 &c. + +1 Behold the wretch whose lust and wine +Had wasted his estate, +He begs a share among the swine, +To taste the husks they eat! + +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, +"Father, I've done thy justice wrong, +"Nor can deserve thy grace." + +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. + +5 He ran, and fell upon his neck, +Embrac'd and kiss'd his son; +The rebel's heart with sorrow brake +For follies he had done. + +6 "Take off his clothes of shame and sin," +(The father gives command) +"Dress him in garments white and clean, +"With rings adorn his hand. + +7 "A day of feasting I ordain, +"Let mirth and joy abound; +"My son was dead, and lives again, +"Was lost, and now is found." + + +Hymn 1:124. +The first and second Adam, Rom. 5. 12 &c. + +1 Deep in the dust before thy throne +Our guilt and our disgrace we own; +Great God, we own th' unhappy name +Whence sprang our nature and our shame. + +2 Adam, the sinner: At his fall +Death like a conqueror seiz'd us all; +A thousand new-born babes are dead +By fatal union to their head. + +3 But whilst our spirits fill'd with awe +Behold the terrors of thy law, +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; +Adam the second, from the dust +Raises the ruins of the first. + +5 [By the rebellion of one man +Thro' all his seed the mischief ran; +And by one man's obedience now +Are all his seed made righteous too.] + +6 Where sin did reign, and death abound, +There have the sons of Adam found +Abounding life; there glorious grace +Reigns thro' the Lord our righteousness. + + +Hymn 1:125. +Christ's compassion to the weak and tempted, Heb. 4. +15 16. and 5. 7. Matt. 12. 20. + +1 With joy we meditate the grace +Of our High Priest above; +His heart is made of tenderness, +His bowels melt with love. + +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, +While Satan's fiery darts he bore, +And did resist to blood. + +4 He in the days of feeble flesh +Pour'd out his cries and tears, +And in his measure feels afresh +What every member bears. + +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.] + +6 Then let our humble faith address +His mercy and his power, +We shall obtain delivering grace +In the distressing hour. + + +Hymn 1:126. +Charity and uncharitableness, Rom. 14. 17 19. +1 Cor. 10. 32. + +1 Not different food, or different 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; +Nor shall our practice give offence +To saints, the Gentile or the Jew. + + +Hymn 1:127. +Christ's invitation to sinners; or, Humility and +pride, Matt. 11. 28 29 30. + +1 "Come hither, all ye weary souls, +"Ye heavy laden sinners, come, +"I'll give you rest from all your toils, +"And raise you to my heavenly home. + +2 "They shall find rest that learn of me; +"I'm of a meek and lowly mind; +"But passion rages like the sea, +"And pride is restless as the wind. + +3 "Blest is the man whose shoulders take +"My yoke, and bear it with delight; +"My yoke is easy to his neck, +"My grace shall make the burden light." + +4 Jesus, we come at thy command, +With faith and hope and humble zeal +Resign our spirits to thy hand, +To mould and guide us at thy will. + + +Hymn 1:128. +The Apostles' commission; or, The gospel attested by +miracles, Mark 16. 15 &c. Matt. 28. 18 &c. + +1 "Go preach my gospel, (saith the Lord,) +"Bid the whole earth my grace receive; +"He shall be sav'd that trusts my word, +"He shall be damn'd that won't believe. + +2 "[I'll make your great commission known, +"And ye shall prove my gospel true +"By all the works that I have done, +"By all the wonders ye shall do. + +3 "Go heal the sick, go raise the dead, +"Go cast out devils in my name; +"Nor let my prophets be afraid, +"Tho' Greeks reproach, and Jews blaspheme.] + +4 "Teach all the nations my commands, +"I'm with you till the world shall end; +"All power is trusted to my hands, +"I can destroy, and I defend." + +He spake, and light shone round his head, +On a bright cloud to heaven he rode; +They to the farthest nations spread +The grace of their ascended God. + + +Hymn 1:129. +Submission and deliverance; or, Abraham offering +his son, Gen. 22. 6 &c. + +1 Saints, at your Father's heavenly word +Give up your comforts to the Lord; +He shall restore what you resign, +Or grant you blessings more divine. + +2 So Abraham with obedient hand, +Led forth his son at God's command, +The wood, the fire, the knife he took, +His arm prepar'd the dreadful stroke. + +3 "Abraham, forbear, (the angel cry'd) +"Thy faith is known, thy love is try'd, +"Thy son shall live, and in thy seed +"Shall the whole earth be bless'd indeed." + +4 Just in the last distressing hour +The Lord displays delivering power; +The mount of danger is the place +Where we shall see surprising grace. + + +Hymn 1:130. +Love and hatred, Phil. 2. 2. Eph. 4. 30 &c. + +1 Now by the bowels of my God, +His sharp distress, his sore complaints, +By his last groans, his dying blood, +I charge my soul to love the saints. + +2 Clamour, and wrath, and war be gone, +Envy and spite for ever cease, +Let bitter words no more be known +Amongst the saints, the sons of peace. + +3 The Spirit, like a peaceful dove, +Flies from the realms of noise and strife; +Why should we vex and grieve his love, +Who seals our souls to heavenly life? + +4 Tender and kind be all our thoughts, +Thro' all our lives let mercy run; +So God forgives our numerous faults +For the clear sake of Christ his Son. + + +Hymn 1:131. +The Pharisee and the Publican, Luke 18. 10 &c. + +1 Behold how sinners disagree, +The Publican and Pharisee! +One doth his righteousness proclaim, +The other owns his guilt and shame. + +2 This man at humble distance stands, +And cries for grace with lifted hands; +That boldly rises near the throne, +And talks of duties he has done. + +3 The Lord their different language knows, +And different answers he bestows; +The humble soul with grace he crowns, +Whilst on the proud his anger frowns. + +4 Dear Father, let me never be +Join'd with the boasting Pharisee; +I have no merits of my own, +But plead the sufferings of thy Son. + + +Hymn 1:132. +Holiness and grace, Titus 2. 10-13. + +1 So let our lips and lives express +The holy gospel we profess, +So let our works and virtues shine +To prove the doctrine all divine. + +2 Thus shall we best proclaim abroad +The honours of our saviour God; +When the salvation reigns within, +And grace subdues the power of sin. + +3 Our flesh and sense must be deny'd, +Passion and envy, lust and pride; +While justice, temperance, truth and love +Our inward piety approve. + +4 Religion bears our spirits up, +While we expect that blessed hope, +The bright appearance of the Lord, +And faith stands leaning on his word. + + +Hymn 1:133. +Love and charity, 1 Cor. 13. 2-7 13. + +1 Let Pharisees of high esteem +Their faith and zeal declare, +All their religion is a dream +If love be wanting there. + +2 Love suffers long with patient eye, +Nor is provok'd in haste; +She lets the present injury die, +And long forgets the past. + +3 [Malice and rage, those fires of hell, +She quenches with her tongue; +Hopes, and believes, and thinks no ill, +Tho' she endure the wrong.] + +4 [She nor desires nor seeks to know +The scandals of the time; +Nor looks with pride on those below, +Nor envies those that 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. + +6 Love is the grace that keeps her power +In all the realms above; +There faith and hope are known no more, +But saints for ever love. + + +Hymn 1:134. +Religion vain without love, 1 Cor. 13. 1 2 3. + +1 Had I the tongues of Greeks and Jews, +And nobler speech that angels use, +If love be absent, I am found +Like tinkling brass, an empty sound. + +2 Were I inspir'd 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 work of love can e'er fulfil. + + +Hymn 1:135. +The love of Christ shed abroad in the heart, +Eph. 3. 16 &c. + +1 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 exprest. + +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, thro' Christ his Son. + + +Hymn 1:136. +Sincerity and hypocrisy; or, Formality in worship, +John 4. 24. Psalm 139. 23 24. + +1 God 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 +Thro' 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 1:137. +Salvation by grace in Christ, 2 Tim. 1. 9 10. + +1 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. + +2 Not for our duties or deserts, +But of his own abounding grace, +He works salvation in our hearts, +And forms a people for his praise. + +3 'Twas his own purpose that begun +To rescue rebels doom'd to die; +He gave us grace in Christ his Son +Before he spread the starry sky. + +4 Jesus the Lord appears at last, +And makes his Father's counsels known; +Declares the great transactions past, +And brings immortal blessings down. + +5 He dies; and in that dreadful night +Did all the powers of hell destroy; +Rising he brought our heaven to light, +And took possession of the joy. + + +Hymn 1:138. +Saints in the hands of Christ, John 10. 28 29. + +1 Firm as the earth thy gospel stands, +My Lord, my hope, my trust; +If I am found in Jesus' hands, +My soul can ne'er be lost. + +2 His honour is engag'd to save +The meanest of his sheep, +All that his heavenly Father gave +His hands securely keep. + +3 Nor death, nor hell shall e'er remove +His favourites from his breast; +In the dear bosom of his love +They must for ever rest. + + +Hymn 1:139. +Hope in the covenant; or, God's promise and truth +unchangeable, Heb. 6. 17 18 19. + +1 How oft have sin and Satan strove +To rend my soul from thee, my God, +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; +Eternal power performs the word, +And fills all heaven with endless praise. + +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. + +4 The gospel bears my spirits up; +A faithful and unchanging God +Lays the foundation for my hope +In oaths, and promises, and blood. + + +Hymn 1:140. +A living and a dead faith. Collected from +several scriptures. + +1 Mistaken souls! that dream of heaven, +And make their empty boast +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. + +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. + +4 'Tis faith that conquers earth and hell +By a celestial power; +This is the grace that shall prevail +In the decisive hour. + +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. + +7 His Spirit purifies our frame, +And seals our peace with God; +Jesus, and his salvation, came +By water and by blood.] + + +Hymn 1:141. +The humiliation and exaltation of Christ, +Isa. 53. 1-5 10 11 12. + +1 Who has believ'd thy word, +Or thy salvation known? +Reveal thine arm, almighty Lord, +And glorify thy Son. + +2 The Jews esteem'd him here +Too mean for their belief: +Sorrows his chief acquaintance were, +And his companion, grief. + +3 They turn'd their eyes away, +And treated him with scorn; +But 'twas their grief upon him lay, +Their sorrows he has borne. + +4 'Twas for the stubborn Jews, +And Gentiles then unknown, +The God of justice pleas'd to bruise +His best beloved Son. + +5 "But I'll prolong his days, +"And make his kingdom stand, +"My pleasure, (saith the God of grace) +"Shall prosper in his hand. + +6 ["His joyful soul shall see +"The purchase of his pain, +"And by his knowledge justify +"The guilty sons of men.] + +7 ["Ten thousand captive slaves, +"Releas'd 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 deny'd; +"Who saw the follies men had done, +"And bore their sins, and dy'd."] + + +Hymn 1:142. +The same, Isa. 53. 6-9 12. + +1 Like sheep we went astray, +And broke the fold of God, +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 sustain'd the stroke! +His life and blood the Shepherd pays, +A ransom for the flock. + +4 His honour and his breath +Were taken both away; +Join'd with the wicked in his death, +And made as vile as they. + +5 But God shall raise his head +O'er all the sons of men, +And make him see a numerous seed +To recompense his pain. + +6 "I'll give him, (saith the Lord) +"A portion with the strong; +"He shall possess a large reward, +"And hold his honours long." + + +Hymn 1:143. +Characters of the children of God, +from several scriptures. + +1 So new born babes desire the breast +To feed, and grow, and thrive: +So saints with joy the gospel taste, +And by the gospel live. + +2 [With inward gust their heart approves +All that the word relates; +They love the men their Father loves, +And hate the works he hates.] + +3 [Not all the flattering baits on earth +Can make them slaves to lust; +They can't forget their heavenly birth, +Nor grovel in the dust. + +4 Not all the chains that tyrants use +Shall bind their souls to vice; +Faith like a conqueror can produce +A thousand victories.] + +5 [Grace like an uncorrupting seed +Abides and reigns within; +Immortal principles forbid +The sons of God to sin.] + +6 [Not by the terrors of a slave +Do they perform his will, +But with the noblest powers they have +His sweet commands fulfil.] + +7 They find access at every hour, +To God within the veil; +Hence they derive a quickening power, +And joys that never fail. + +8 O happy souls! O glorious state +Of overflowing grace! +To dwell so near their Father's seat, +And see his lovely face. + +9 Lord, I address thy heavenly throne; +Call me a child of thine, +Send down the Spirit of thy Son +To form my heart divine. + +10 There shed thy choicest loves abroad, +And make my comforts strong: +Then shall I say, "My Father God," +With an unwavering tongue. + + +Hymn 1:144. +The witnessing and sealing Spirit, Rom. 8. 14 16. +Eph. 1. 13 14. + +1 Why should the children of a King +Go mourning all their days? +Great Comforter, descend and bring +Some tokens of thy grace. + +2 Dost thou not dwell in all the saints, +And seal the heirs of heaven? +When wilt thou banish my complaints, +And shew my sins forgiven? + +3 Assure my conscience of her part +In the Redeemer's blood; +And bear thy witness with my heart, +That I am born of God. + +4 Thou art the earnest of his love, +The pledge of joys to come; +And thy soft wings, celestial dove, +Will safe convey me home. + + +Hymn 1:145. +Christ and Aaron. Taken from Heb. 7. and 9. + +1 Jesus, in thee our eyes behold +A thousand glories more +Than the rich gems and polish'd gold +The sons of Aaron wore. + +2 They first their own burnt-offerings brought +To purge themselves from sin; +Thy life was pure without a spot, +And all thy nature clean. + +3 [Fresh blood as constant as the day +Was on their altar spilt; +But thy one offering takes away +For ever all our guilt.] + +4 [Their priesthood ran thro' several hands. +For mortal was their race; +Thy never-changing office stands +Eternal as thy days.] + +5 [Once in the circuit of a year +With blood, but not his own, +Aaron within the veil appears +Before the golden throne; + +6 But Christ by his own powerful blood +Ascends above the skies, +And in the presence of our God +Shews his own sacrifice.] + +7 Jesus, the King of Glory, reigns +On Sion's heavenly hill, +Looks like a lamb that has been slain, +And wears his priesthood still. + +8 He ever lives to intercede +Before his Father's face; +Give him, my soul, thy cause to plead, +Nor doubt the Father's grace. + + +Hymn 1:146. +Characters of Christ, borrowed from inanimate +things, in scripture. + +1 Go, worship at Immanuel's feet, +See in his face what wonders meet; +Earth is too narrow to express +His worth, his glory, or his grace. + +2 [The whole creation can afford +But some faint shadows of my Lord: +Nature to make his beauties known +Must mingle colours not her own.] + +3 [Is he compar'd to wine or bread? +Dear Lord, our souls would thus be fed; +That flesh, that dying blood of thine, +Is bread of life, is heavenly wine.] + +4 [Is he a tree? The world receives +Salvation from his healing leaves; +That righteous branch, that fruitful bough, +Is David's root and offspring too.] + +5 [Is he a rose? Not Sharon yields +Such fragrancy in all her fields: +Or if the lily he assume, +The vallies bless the rich perfume.] + +6 [Is he a vine? His heavenly root +Supplies the boughs with life and fruit: +O let a lasting union join +My soul the branch to Christ the vine: + +7 [Is he the head? Each member lives, +And owns the vital powers he gives; +The saints below, and saints above, +Join'd by his Spirit and his love.] + +8 [Is he a fountain? There I bathe, +And heal the plague of sin and death +These waters all my soul renew, +And cleanse my spotted garments too.] + +9 [Is he a fire? he'll purge my dross, +But the true gold sustains no loss; +Like a refiner shall he sit, +And tread the refuse with his feet.] + +10 [Is he a rock? How firm he proves! +The rock of ages never moves; +Yet the sweet streams that from him flow +Attend us all the desert thro'.] + +11 [Is he a way? He leads to God, +The path is drawn in lines of blood; +There would I walk with hope and zeal, +Till I arrive at Sion's hill.] + +12 [Is he a door? I'll enter in +Behold the pastures large and green, +A paradise divinely fair, +None but the sheep have freedom there.] + +13 [Is he design'd a corner-stone, +For men to build their heaven upon? +I'll make him my foundation too, +Nor fear the plots of hell below.] + +14 [Is he a temple? I adore +Th'indwelling majesty and power; +And still to this most holy place, +Whene'er I pray, I turn my face.] + +15 [Is he a star? He breaks the night, +Piercing the shades with dawning light; +I know his glories from afar, +I know the bright, the morning-star.] + +16 [Is he a sun? His beams are grace, +His course is joy, and righteousness; +Nations rejoice when he appears +To chase their clouds, and dry their tears. + +17 O let me climb those higher skies, +Where storms and darkness never rise! +There he displays his powers abroad, +And shines, and reigns th'incarnate God.] + +18 Nor earth, nor seas, nor sun, nor stars, +Nor heaven his full resemblance bears; +His beauties we can never trace, +Till we behold him face to face. + + +Hymn 1:147. +The names and titles of Christ, from several scriptures. + +1 ['Tis from the treasures of his word +I borrow titles for my Lord? +Nor art, nor nature can supply +Sufficient forms of majesty. + +2 Bright image of the Father's face, +Shining with undiminish'd rays; +Th' eternal God's eternal Son, +The heir, and partner of his throne.] + +3 The King of kings, the Lord most high, +Writes his own Name upon his thigh: +He wears a garment dipt in blood, +And breaks the nations with his rod. + +4 Where grace can neither melt nor move +The Lamb resents his injur'd love, +Awakes his wrath without delay, +And Judah's Lion tears the prey. + +5 But when for works of peace he comes, +What winning titles he assumes! +"Light of the World, and Life of Men;" +Nor bears those characters in vain. + +6 With tender pity in his heart +He acts the Mediator's part; +A friend and brother he appears, +And well fulfils the names he wears. + +7 At length the Judge his throne ascends, +Divides the rebels from his friends, +And saints in full fruition prove +His rich variety of love. + + +Hymn 1:148. As the 148th Psalm. +The same. + +1 [With cheerful voice I sing +The titles of my Lord, +And borrow all the names +Of honour from his word: +Nature and art +Can ne'er supply +Sufficient forms +Of majesty. + +2 In Jesus we behold +His Father's glorious face, +Shining for ever bright +With mild and lovely rays: +Th' eternal God's +Eternal Son +Inherits and +Partakes the throne.] + +3 The sovereign King of kings, +The Lord of lords most high, +Writes his own name upon +His garment and his thigh: +His Name is call'd +"The Word of God;" +He rules the earth +With iron rod. + +4 Where promises and grace +Can neither melt nor move, +The angry Lamb resents +The injuries of his love; +Awakes his wrath +Without delay, +As lions roar +And tear the prey. + +5 But when for works of peace +The great Redeemer comes, +What gentle characters, +What titles he assumes! +"Light of the world, +"And Life of men" +Nor will he bear +Those names in vain. + +6 Immense compassion reigns +In our Immanuel's heart, +When he descends to act +A Mediator's part: +He is a friend +And brother too +Divinely kind, +Divinely true. + +7 At length the Lord the Judge +His awful throne ascends, +And drives the rebels far +From favourites and friends: +Then shall the saints +Completely prove +The heights and depths +Of all his love. + + +Hymn 1:149. +The offices of Christ, from several scriptures. + +1 Join all the names of love and power +That ever men or angels bore; +All are too mean to speak his worth, +Or set Immanuel's glory forth. + +2 But O what condescending ways +He takes to teach his heavenly grace! +My eyes with joy and wonder see +What forms of love he bears for me. + +3 [The "Angel of the covenant" stands +With his commission in his hands, +Sent from his Father's milder throne, +To make the great Salvation known.] + +4 Great Prophet let me bless thy Name; +By thee the joyful tidings came, +Of wrath appeas'd, of sins forgiven, +Of hell subdu'd, and peace with heaven.] + +5 [My bright Example, and my Guide, +I would be walking near thy side; +O let me never run astray, +Nor follow the forbidden way!] + +6 [I love my Shepherd, he shall keep +My wandering soul among his sheep: +He feeds his flock, he calls their names, +And in his bosom bears the lambs.] + +7 [My surety undertakes my cause, +Answering his Father's broken laws; +Behold my soul at freedom set; +My surety paid the dreadful debt.] + +8 [Jesus, my great High Priest has dy'd, +I seek no sacrifice beside; +His blood did once for all atone, +And now it pleads before the throne.] + +9 [My advocate appears on high, +The Father lays his thunder by; +Not all that earth or hell can say, +Shall turn my Father's heart away.] + +10 [My Lord, my Conqu'ror and my King, +Thy sceptre and thy sword I sing; +Thine is the victory, and I sit +A joyful subject at thy feet.] + +11 [Aspire my soul, to glorious deeds, +The "Captain of salvation" leads; +March on, nor fear to win the day, +Tho' death and hell obstruct the way. + +12 Should death and hell, and powers unknown +Put all their forms of mischief on, +I shall be safe; for Christ displays +Salvation in more sovereign ways.] + + +Hymn 1:150. As the 149th Psalm. +The same. + +1 Join all the glorious names +Of wisdom, love, and power, +That ever mortals knew, +That angels ever bore: +All are too mean +To speak his worth, +Too mean to set +My Saviour forth. + +2 But O what gentle terms, +What condescending ways +Doth our Redeemer use +To teach his heavenly grace! +Mine eyes with joy +And wonder see +What forms of love +He bears for me. + +3 [Array'd in mortal flesh +He like an angel stands, +And holds the promises +And pardons in his hands: +Commission'd from +His Father's throne +To make his grace +To mortals known.] + +4 [Great Prophet of my God, +My tongue would bless thy Name; +By thee the joyful news +Of our salvation came. +The joyful news +Of sins forgiven, +Of hell subdu'd, +And peace with heaven.] + +5 [Be thou my counsellor, +My pattern and my guide, +And thro' this desert land +Still keep me near thy side: +O let my feet +Ne'er run astray, +Nor rove nor seek +The crooked way.] + +6 [I love my Shepherd's voice, +His watchful eyes shall keep +My wandering soul among +The thousands of his sheep: +He feeds his flock, +He calls their names, +His bosom bears +The tender lambs.] + +7 [To this dear surety's hand +Will I commit my cause; +He answers and fulfils +His Father's broken laws: +Behold my soul +At freedom set! +My surety paid +The dreadful debt.] + +8 [Jesus my great high Priest +Offer'd his blood and dy'd; +My guilty conscience seeks +No sacrifice beside: +His powerful blood +Did once atone; +And now it pleads +Before the throne.] + +9 [My Advocate appears +For my defence on high, +The Father bows his ear, +And lays his thunder by: +Not all that hell +Or sin can say +Shall turn his heart, +His love away.] + +10 [My dear Almighty Lord, +My Conqu'ror and my King, +Thy sceptre and thy sword, +Thy reigning grace I sing: +Thine is the power; +Behold I sit +In willing bonds +Before thy feet.] + +11 [Now let my soul arise, +And tread the tempter down +My captain leads me forth +To conquest and a crown. +A feeble saint +Shall win the day, +Tho' death and hell +Obstruct the way.] + +12 Should all the hosts of death, +And powers of hell unknown, +Put their most dreadful forms +Of rage and mischief on; +I shall be safe, +For Christ displays +Superior power, +And guardian grace. + + +End of the First Book. + + + +Hymns. + +Book 2. + +Composed on Divine Subjects. + + +Hymn 2:1. +A song of praise to God from Great Britain. + +1 Nature with all her powers shall sing +God the Creator and the King; +Nor air, nor earth, nor skies, nor seas +Deny the tribute of their praise. + +2 [Begin to make his glories known, +Ye seraphs that sit near his throne; +Tune your harps high, and spread the sound +To the creation's utmost bound. + +3 All mortal things of meaner frame, +Exert your force and own his Name; +Whilst with our souls and with our voice +We sing his honours and our joys.] + +4 [To him be sacred all we have +From the young cradle to the grave: +Our lips shall his loud wonders tell, +And every word a miracle.] + +5 [This northern isle, our native land, +Lies safe in God th' Almighty's hand: +Our foes of victory dream in vain, +And wear the captivating chain. + +6 He builds and guards the British throne, +And makes it gracious like his own, +Makes our successive princes kind, +And gives our dangers to the wind.] + +7 Raise monumental praises high +To him that thunders thro' the sky, +And with an awful nod or frown +Shakes an aspiring tyrant down. + +8 [Pillars of lasting brass proclaim +The triumphs of th' eternal Name; +While trembling nations read from far +The honours of the God of war.] + +9 Thus let our flaming zeal employ +Our loftiest thoughts and loudest songs +Britain pronounce with warmest joy +Hosanna from ten thousand tongues. + +10 Yet, mighty God, our feeble frame +Attempts in vain to reach thy Name; +The strongest notes that angels raise +Faint in the worship and the praise. + + +Hymn 2:2. +The death of a sinner. + +1 My thoughts on awful subjects roll, +Damnation and the dead; +What horrors seize the guilty soul +Upon a dying bed! + +2 Lingering about these mortal shores, +She makes a long delay, +Till like a flood with rapid force +Death sweeps the wretch away. + +3 Then swift and dreadful she descends +Down to the fiery coast, +Amongst abominable fiends, +Herself a frightful ghost. + +4 There endless crowds of sinners lie, +And darkness makes their chains; +Tortur'd with keen despair they cry, +Yet wait for fiercer pains. + +5 Not all their anguish and their blood +For their old guilt atones, +Nor the compassions of a God +Shall hearken to their groans. + +6 Amazing grace, that kept my breath, +Nor bid my soul remove, +Till I had learn'd my Saviour's death, +And well insur'd his love! + + +Hymn 2:3. +The death and burial of a saint. + +1 Why do we mourn departing friends +Or shake at death's alarms? +'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends +To call them to his arms. + +2 Are we not tending upward too +As fast as time can move? +Nor would we wish the hours more slow +To keep us from our love. + +3 Why should we tremble to convey +Their bodies to the tomb? +There the dear flesh of Jesus lay, +And left a long perfume. + +4 The graves of all his saints he bless'd, +And soften'd every bed; +Where should the dying members rest, +But with the dying head? + +5 Thence he arose, ascending high, +And shew'd our feet the way; +Up to the Lord our flesh shall fly +At the great rising day. + +6 Then let the last loud trumpet sound, +And bid our kindred rise, +Awake, ye nations under ground, +Ye saints, ascend the skies. + + +Hymn 2:4. +Salvation in the cross. + +1 Here at thy cross, my dying God, +I lay my soul beneath thy love, +Beneath the droppings of thy blood, +Jesus, nor shall it e'er remove. + +2 Not all that tyrants think or say, +With rage and lightning in their eyes, +Nor hell shall fright my heart away, +Should hell with all its legions rise. + +3 Should worlds conspire to drive me thence, +Moveless and firm this heart should lie; +Resolv'd (for that's my last defence) +If I must perish, there to die. + +4 But speak, my Lord, and calm my fear, +Am I not safe beneath thy, shade? +Thy vengeance will not strike me here, +Nor Satan dares my soul invade. + +5 Yes, I'm secure beneath thy blood, +And all my foes shall lose their aim, +Hosanna to my dying God, +And my best honours to his Name. + + +Hymn 2:5. +Longing to praise Christ better. + +1 Lord, when my thoughts with wonder roll +O'er the sharp sorrows of thy soul, +And read my Maker's broken laws +Repair'd and honour'd by thy cross; + +2 When I behold death, hell and sin, +Vanquish'd by that dear blood of thine, +And see the man that groan'd and dy'd +Sit glorious by his Father's side; + +3 My passions rise and soar above, +I'm wing'd with faith and fir'd with love; +Fain would I reach eternal things, +And learn the notes that Gabriel sings. + +4 But my heart fails, my tongue complains, +For want of their immortal strains; +And in such humble notes as these +Must fall below thy victories. + +5 Well, the kind minute must appear +When we shall leave these bodies here, +These clogs of clay, and mount on high, +To join the songs above the sky. + + +Hymn 2:6. +A morning song. + +1 Once more, my soul, the rising day +Salutes thy waking eyes. +Once more, my voice, thy tribute pay +To him that rolls the skies. + +2 Night unto night his name repeats, +The day renews the sound, +Wide as the heaven on which he sits +To turn the seasons round. + +3 'Tis he supports my mortal frame, +My tongue shall speak his praise; +My sins would rouse his wrath to flame, +And yet his wrath delays. + +4 On a poor worm thy power might tread, +And I could ne'er withstand; +Thy justice might have crush'd me dead, +But mercy held thine hand. + +5 A thousand wretched souls are fled +Since the last setting sun, +And yet thou length'nest out my thread, +And yet my moments run. + +6 Dear God, let all my hours be thine +Whilst I enjoy the light, +Then shall my sun in smiles decline, +And bring a pleasing night. + + +Hymn 2:7. +An evening song. + +1 [Dread Sovereign, let my evening song +Like holy incense rise; +Assist the offerings of my tongue +To reach the lofty skies. + +2 Thro' all the dangers of the day, +Thy hand was still my guard, +And still to drive my wants away +Thy mercy stood prepar'd.] + +3 Perpetual blessings from above +Encompass me around, +But O how few returns of love +Hath my Creator found! + +4 What have I done for him that dy'd +To save my wretched soul? +How are my follies multiply'd, +Fast as my minutes roll; + +5 Lord, with this guilty heart of mine +To thy dear cross I flee, +And to thy grace my soul resign +To be renew'd by thee. + +6 Sprinkled afresh with pardoning blood +I lay me down to rest, +As in th' embraces of my God, +Or on my Saviour's breast. + + +Hymn 2:8. +A hymn for morning or evening. + +1 Hosanna, with a cheerful sound, +To God's upholding hand; +Ten thousand snares attend us round, +And yet secure we stand. + +2 That was a most amazing power +That rais'd us with a word, +And every day and every hour +We lean upon the Lord. + +3 The evening rests our weary head, +And angels guard the room; +We wake and we admire the bed +That was not made our tomb. + +4 The rising morning can't assure +That we shall end the day, +For death stands ready at the door +To seize our lives away. + +5 Our breath is forfeited by sin +To God's revenging law; +We own thy grace, immortal King, +In every gasp we draw. + +6 God is our sun, whose daily light +Our joy and safety brings: +Our feeble flesh lies safe at night +Beneath his shady wings. + + +Hymn 2:9. +Godly sorrow arising from the sufferings of Christ. + +1 Alas! and did my Saviour bleed, +And did my Sovereign die? +Would he devote that sacred head +For such a worm as I? + +2 [Thy body slain, sweet Jesus, thine, +And bath'd in its own blood, +While all expos'd to wrath divine +The glorious Sufferer stood.] + +3 Was it for crimes that I had done +He groan'd upon the tree? +Amazing pity! grace unknown! +And love beyond degree! + +4 Well might the sun in darkness hide, +And shut his glories in, +When God the mighty Maker dy'd +For man the creature's sin. + +5 Thus might I hide my blushing face +While his dear cross appears, +Dissolve my heart in thankfulness, +And melt my eyes to tears. + +6 But drops of grief can ne'er repay +The debt of love I owe; +Here, Lord, I give myself away, +'Tis all that I can do. + + +Hymn 2:10. +Parting with carnal joys. + +1 My soul forsakes her vain delight, +And bids the world farewell +Base as the dirt beneath my feet, +And mischievous as hell. + +2 No longer will I ask your love, +Nor seek your friendship more; +The happiness that I approve +Lies not within your power. + +3 There's nothing round this spacious earth +That suits my large desire; +To boundless joy and solid mirth +My nobler thoughts aspire. + +4 [Where pleasure rolls its living flood, +From sin and dross refin'd, +Still springing from the throne of God, +And fit to cheer the mind. + +5 Th' Almighty Ruler of the sphere, +The glorious and the great, +Brings his own all-sufficience there, +To make our bliss complete.] + +6 Had I the pinions of a dove, +I'd climb the heavenly road; +There sits my Saviour dress'd in love, +And there my smiling God. + + +Hymn 2:11. +The same. + +1 Send the joys of earth away, +Away ye tempters of the mind, +False as the smooth deceitful sea, +And empty as the whistling wind. + +2 Your streams were floating me along +Down to the gulf of black despair, +And whilst I listen'd to your song, +Your streams had e'en convey'd me there. + +3 Lord, I adore thy matchless grace, +That warn'd me of that dark abyss, +That drew me from those treacherous seas, +And bid me seek superior bliss. + +4 Now to the shining realms above +I stretch my hands, and glance mine eyes; +O for the pinions of a dove +To bear me to the upper skies. + +5 There from the bosom of my God +Oceans of endless pleasure roll; +There would I fix my last abode, +And drown the sorrows of my soul. + + +Hymn 2:12. +Christ is the substance of the Levitical priesthood. + +1 The true Messiah now appears, +The types are all withdrawn; +So fly the shadows and the stars +Before the rising dawn. + +2 No smoking sweets, nor bleeding lambs, +Nor kid, nor bullock slain, +Incense and spice of costly names +Would all be burnt in vain. + +3 Aaron must lay his robes away; +His mitre and his vest, +When God himself comes down to be +The offering and the priest. + +4 He took our mortal flesh to show +The wonders of his love; +For us he paid his life below, +And prays for us above. + +5 "Father, (he cries) forgive their sins, +"For I myself have dy'd," +And then he shews his open'd veins, +And pleads his wounded side. + + +Hymn 2:13. +The creation, preservation, dissolution, and +restoration of this world. + +1 Sing to the Lord that built the skies, +The Lord that rear'd this stately frame; +Let half the nations sound his praise, +And lands unknown repeat his Name. + +2 He form'd the seas, and form'd the hills, +Made every drop and every dust, +Nature and time with all their wheels, +And push'd them into motion first. + +3 Now from his high imperial throne +He looks far down upon the spheres; +He bids the shining orbs roll on, +And round he turns our hasty years. + +4 Thus shall this moving engine last +Till all his saints are gather'd in, +Then for the trumpet's dreadful blast +To shake it all to dust again! + +5 Yet when the sound shall tear the skies, +And lightning burn the globe below, +Saints, you may lift your joyful eyes, +There's a new heaven and earth for you. + + +Hymn 2:14. +The Lord's day; or, Delight in ordinances. + +1 Welcome, sweet day of rest, +That saw the Lord arise; +Welcome to this reviving breast, +And these rejoicing eyes! + +2 The King himself comes near, +And feasts his saints to-day, +Here we may sit, and see him here, +And love, and praise, and pray. + +3 One day amidst the place +Where my dear God hath been, +Is sweeter than ten thousand days +Of pleasurable sin. + +4 My willing soul would stay +In such a frame as this, +And sit and sing herself away +To everlasting bliss. + + +Hymn 2:15. +The enjoyment of Christ; or, Delight in worship. + +1 Far from my thoughts, vain world, be gone, +Let my religious hours alone; +Fain would my eyes my Saviour see, +I wait a visit, Lord, from thee. + +2 My heart grows warm with holy fire, +And kindles with a pure desire: +Come, my dear Jesus, from above, +And feed my soul with heavenly love. + +3 [The trees of life immortal stand +In flourishing rows at thy right-hand, +And in sweet murmurs by their side +Rivers of bliss perpetual glide. + +4 Haste then, but with a smiling face, +And spread the table of thy grace: +Bring down a taste of fruit divine, +And cheer my heart with sacred wine.] + +6 Blest Jesus, what delicious fare! +How sweet thy entertainments are! +Never did angels taste above +Redeeming grace, and dying love. + +6 Hail, great Immanuel, all divine, +In thee thy Father's glories shine; +Thou brightest, sweetest, fairest one, +That eyes have seen, or angels known. + + +Hymn 2:16. +Part the second. + +7 Lord, what a heaven of saving grace, +Shines thro' the beauties of thy face, +And lights our passions to a flame! +Lord, how we love thy charming Name! + +8 When I can say, my God is mine, +When I can feel thy glories shine, +I tread the world beneath my feet, +And all that earth calls good or great. + +9 While such a scene of sacred joys +Our raptur'd eyes and souls employs, +Here we could sit, and gaze away +A long, an everlasting day. + +10 Well, we shall quickly pass the night +To the fair coasts of perfect light; +Then shall our joyful senses rove +O'er the dear object of our love. + +11 [There shall we drink full draughts of bliss, +And pluck new life from heavenly trees: +Yet now, and then, dear Lord, bestow +A drop of heaven on worms below. + +12 Send comforts down from thy right-hand, +While we pass thro' this barren land, +And in thy temple let us see +A glimpse of love, a glimpse of thee.] + + +Hymn 2:17 +God's eternity. + +1 Rise, rise, my soul, and leave the ground, +Stretch all thy thoughts abroad, +And rouse up every tuneful sound +To praise th' eternal God. + +2 Long ere the lofty skies were spread +Jehovah fill'd his throne; +Or Adam form'd, or angels made, +The Maker liv'd alone. + +3 His boundless years can ne'er decrease, +But still maintain their prime; +Eternity's his dwelling-place, +And ever is his time. + +4 While like a tide our minutes flow, +The present and the past, +He fills his own immortal now, +And sees our ages waste. + +5 The sea and sky must perish too, +And vast destruction come! +The creatures--look, how old they grow, +And wait their fiery doom! + +6 Well, let the sea shrink all away, +And flame melt down the skies, +My God shall live an endless day, +When th' old creation dies. + + +Hymn 2:18. +The ministry of angels. + +1 High on a hill of dazzling light, +The King of Glory spreads his seat, +And troops of angels stretch'd for flight, +Stand waiting round his awful feet. + +2 "Go," saith the Lord, "my Gabriel go, +"Salute the virgin's fruitful womb,[1] +"Make haste, ye cherubs, down below, +Sing and proclaim the Saviour come." + +3 Here a bright squadron leaves the skies, +And thick around Elisha stands;[2] +Anon a heavenly soldier flies, +And breaks the chains from Peter's hands.[3] + +4 Thy winged troops, O God of hosts, +Wait on thy wandering church below, +Here we are sailing to thy coasts, +Let angels be our convoy too. + +5 Are they not all thy servants,[4] Lord? +At thy command they go and come +With cheerful haste obey thy word, +And guard thy children to their home. + +[1] Luke 1:16. [2] Luke 2:13. +[3] Acts 11:7. [4] Heb. 1:14. + + +Hymn 2:19. +Our frail bodies, and God our preserver. + +1 Let others boast how strong they be, +Nor death, nor danger fear; +But we'll confess, O Lord, to thee, +What feeble things we are. + +2 Fresh as the grass our bodies stand, +And flourish bright and gay, +A blasting wind sweeps o'er the land, +And fades the grass away. + +3 Our life contains a thousand springs, +And dies if one be gone; +Strange! that a harp of thousand strings +Should keep in tune so long. + +4 But 'tis our God supports our frame, +The God that built us first; +Salvation to th' Almighty Name, +That rear'd us from the dust. + +5 [He spoke, and straight our hearts and brains +In all their motions rose; +"Let blood, (said he) flow round the veins," +And round the veins it flows. + +6 While we have breath, or use our tongues, +Our Maker we'll adore; +His Spirit moves our heaving lungs +Or they would breathe no more.] + + +Hymn 2:20. +Backslidings and returns; or, The +inconstancy of our love. + +1 Why is my heart so far from thee, +My God, my chief delight? +Why are my thoughts no more by day +With thee, no more by night? + +2 [Why should my foolish passions rove? +Where can such sweetness be +As I have tasted in thy love; +As I have found in thee?] + +3 When my forgetful soul renews +The savour of thy grace, +My heart presumes I cannot lose +The relish all my days. + +4 But ere one fleeting hour is pass'd, +The flattering world employs +Some sensual bait to seize my taste, +And to pollute my joys. + +5 [Trifles of nature or of art +With fair deceitful charms +Intrude upon my thoughtless heart, +And thrust thee from my arms.] + +6 Then I repent and vex my soul +That I should leave thee so, +Where will those wild affections roll +That let a Saviour go? + +7 [Sin's promis'd joys are turn'd to pain, +And I am drown'd in grief; +But my dear Lord returns again, +He flies to my relief. + +8 Seizing my soul with sweet surprise +He draws with loving bands; +Divine compassion in his eyes, +And pardon in his hands.] + +9 [Wretch that I am to wander thus +In chase of false delight! +Let me be fasten'd to thy cross, +Rather than lose thy sight.] + +10 [Make haste, my days, to reach the goal, +And bring my heart to rest +On the dear centre of my soul, +My God, my Saviour's breast.] + + +Hymn 2:21. +A song of praise to God the Redeemer. + +1 Let the old heathens tune their song +Of great Diana and of Jove; +But the sweet theme that moves my tongue +Is my Redeemer and his love. + +2 Behold a God descends and dies +To save my soul from gaping hell; +How the black gulf where Satan lies +Yawn'd to receive me when I fell! + +3 How justice frown'd and vengeance stood +To drive me down to endless pain! +But the great Son propos'd his blood, +And heavenly wrath grew mild again. + +4 Infinite lover, gracious Lord, +To thee be endless honours given; +Thy wondrous Name shall be ador'd +Round the wide earth, and wider heaven. + + +Hymn 2:22. +With God is terrible majesty. + +1 Terrible God, that reign'st on high, +How awful is thy thundering hand! +Thy fiery bolts how fierce they fly! +Nor can all earth or hell withstand. + +2 This the old rebel angels knew, +And Satan fell beneath thy frown: +Thine arrows struck the traitor thro', +And weighty vengeance sunk him down. + +3 This Sodom felt, and feels it still, +And roars beneath th' eternal load, +"With endless burnings who can dwell, +"Or bear the fury of a God!" + +4 Tremble, ye sinners, and submit, +Throw down your arms before his throne, +Bend your heads low beneath his feet, +Or his strong hand shall crush you down. + +5 And ye, blest saints, that love him too, +With rev'rence bow before his Name, +Thus all his heavenly servants do: +God is a bright and burning flame. + + +Hymn 2:23. +The sight of God and Christ in heaven. + +1 Descend from heaven, immortal Dove, +Stoop down and take us on thy wings, +And mount and bear us far above +The reach of these inferior things. + +2 Beyond, beyond this lower sky, +Up where eternal ages roll, +Where solid pleasures never die, +And fruits immortal feast the soul. + +3 O for a sight, a pleasing sight +Of our almighty Father's throne! +There sits our Saviour crown'd with light +Cloth'd in a body like our own. + +4 Adoring saints around him stand, +And thrones, and powers before him fall; +The God shines gracious thro' the man, +And sheds sweet glories on them all. + +5 O what amazing joys they feel +While to their golden harps they sing, +And sit on every heavenly hill, +And spread the triumphs of their King! + +6 When shall the day, dear Lord, appear +That I shall mount to dwell above, +And stand and bow amongst them there, +And view thy face, and sing, and love! + + +Hymn 2:24. +The evil of sin visible in the fall of angels and men. + +1 When the great Builder arch'd the skies, +And form'd all nature with a word, +The joyful cherubs tun'd his praise, +And every bending throne ador'd. + +2 High in the midst of all the throng, +Satan, a tall archangel, sat, +Amongst the morning stars he sung [1] +Till sin destroy'd his heavenly state. + +3 ['Twas sin that hurl'd him from his throne, +Grov'ling in fire the rebel lies: +"How art thou sunk in darkness down, +"Son of the morning, from the skies!" [2] + +4 And thus our two first parents stood +Till sin defil'd the happy place +They lost their garden and their God, +And ruin'd all their unborn race. + +5 [So sprung the plague from Adam's bower, +And spread destruction all abroad; +Sin, the curs'd name, that in one hour +Spoil'd six days labour of a God.] + +6 Tremble, my soul, and mourn for grief, +That such a foe should seize thy breast; +Fly to thy Lord for quick relief; +O! may he slay this treacherous guest. + +Then to thy throne, victorious King, +Then to thy throne our shouts shall rise, +Thine everlasting arm we sing, +For sin the monster bleeds and dies. + +[1] Job 38:7. [2] Isaiah 14:12. + + +Hymn 2:25. +Complaining of spiritual sloth. + +1 My drowsy powers, why sleep ye so? +Awake, my sluggish soul! +Nothing has half thy work to do, +Yet nothing's half so dull. + +2 The little ants for one poor grain +Labour, and tug, and strive, +Yet we who have a heaven t' obtain, +How negligent we live! + +3 We for whose sake all nature stands +And stars their courses move; +We for whose guard the angel bands +Come flying from above; + +4 We for whom God the Son came down, +And labour'd for our good, +How careless to secure that crown +He purchas'd with his blood! + +5 Lord, shall we lie so sluggish still, +And never act our parts? +Come, holy Dove, from th' heavenly hill, +And sit and warm our hearts. + +6 Then shall our active spirits move, +Upward our souls shall rise: +With hands of faith and wings of love +We'll fly and take the prize. + + +Hymn 2:26. +God invisible. + +1 Lord, we are blind, we mortals blind, +We can't behold thy bright abode; +O 'tis beyond a creature-mind +To glance a thought half-way to God. + +2 Infinite leagues beyond the sky +The great Eternal reigns alone, +Where neither wings nor soul can fly, +Nor angels climb the topless throne. + +3 The Lord of glory builds his seat +Of gems insufferably bright, +And lays beneath his sacred feet +Substantial beams of gloomy night. + +4 Yet, glorious Lord, thy gracious eyes +Look thro', and cheer us from above; +Beyond our praise thy grandeur flies, +Yet we adore, and yet we love. + + +Hymn 2:27. +Praise ye him, all his angels, Psalm 148. 2. + +1 God! the eternal awful Name +That the whole heavenly army fears, +That shakes the wide creation's frame, +And Satan trembles when he hears. + +2 Like flames of fire his servants are, +And light surrounds his dwelling place; +But, O ye fiery flames, declare +The brighter glories of his face. + +3 'Tis not for such poor worms as we +To speak so infinite a thing, +But your immortal eyes survey +The beauties of your sovereign King. + +4 Tell how he shews his smiling face, +And clothes all heaven in bright array; +Triumph and joy run thro' the place, +And songs eternal as the day. + +5 Speak, (for you feel his burning love) +What zeal it spreads thro' all your frame: +That sacred fire dwells all above, +For we on earth have lost the name. + +6 [Sing of his power and justice too, +That infinite right-hand of his +That vanquish'd Satan and his crew, +And thunder drove them down from bliss. + +7 [What mighty storms of poison'd darts +Were hurl'd upon the rebels there! +What deadly jav'lins nail'd their hearts +Fast to the racks of long despair!] + +8 [Shout to your King, you heavenly host, +You that beheld the sinking foe; +Firmly ye stood when they were lost; +Praise the rich grace that kept you so.] + +9 Proclaim his wonders from the skies, +Let every distant nation hear; +And while you sound his lofty praise, +Let humble mortals bow and fear. + + +Hymn 2:28. +Death and eternity. + +1 Stoop down, my thoughts, that use to rise, +Converse awhile with death: +Think how a gasping mortal lies, +And pants away his breath. + +2 His quivering lip hangs feebly down +His pulses faint and few, +Then, speechless, with a doleful groan +He bids the world adieu. + +3 But, O the soul that never dies! +At once it leaves the clay! +Ye thoughts, pursue it where it flies, +And track its wondrous way. + +4 Up to the courts where angels dwell, +It mounts triumphing there, +Or devils plunge it down to hell +In infinite despair. + +5 And must my body faint and die? +And must this soul remove? +O for some guardian angel nigh +To bear it safe above! + +6 Jesus, to thy dear faithful hand +My naked soul I trust, +And my flesh waits for thy command +To drop into my dust. + + +Hymn 2:29. +Redemption by price and power. + +1 Jesus, with all thy saints above +My tongue would bear her part, +Would sound aloud thy saving love, +And sing thy bleeding heart. + +2 Bless'd be the Lamb, my dearest Lord, +Who bought me with his blood, +And quench'd his Father's flaming sword +In his own vital blood: + +3 The Lamb that freed my captive soul +From Satan's heavy chains, +And sent the lion down to howl +Where hell and horror reigns. + +4 All glory to the dying Lamb, +And never ceasing praise, +While angels live to know his Name, +Or saints to feel his grace. + + +Hymn 2:30. +Heavenly joy on earth. + +1 [Come, we that love the Lord, +And let our joys be known; +Join in a song with sweet accord, +And thus surround the throne. + +2 The sorrows of the mind +Be banish'd from the place! +Religion never was design'd +To make our pleasures less.] + +3 Let those refuse to sing +That never knew our God, +But favourites of the heavenly King +May speak their joys abroad. + +4 [The God that rules on high, +And thunders when he please, +That rides upon the stormy sky +And manages the seas.] + +5 This awful God is ours, +Our Father and our love, +He shall send down his heavenly powers +To carry us above. + +6 There we shall see his face, +And never, never sin; +There from the rivers of his grace +Drink endless pleasures in. + +7 Yes, and before we rise +To that immortal state, +The thoughts of such amazing bliss +Should constant joys create. + +8 [The men of grace have found +Glory begun below, +Celestial fruits on earthly ground +From faith and hope may grow.] + +9 The hill of Sion yields +A thousand sacred sweets, +Before we reach the heavenly fields, +Or walk the golden streets. + +10 Then let our songs abound, +And every tear be dry; +We're marching thro' Immanuel's ground +To fairer worlds on high. + + +Hymn 2:31. +Christ's presence makes death easy. + +1 Why should we start and fear to die? +What timorous worms we mortals are! +Death is the gate of endless joy, +And yet we dread to enter there. + +2 The pains, the groans, and dying strife, +Fright our approaching souls away; +Still we shrink back again to life, +Fond of our prison and our clay. + +3 O, if my Lord would come and meet, +My soul should stretch her wings in haste, +Fly fearless thro' death's iron gate, +Nor feel the terrors as she pass'd. + +4 Jesus can make a dying bed +Feel soft as downy pillows are, +While on his breast I lean my head, +And breathe my life out sweetly there. + + +Hymn 2:32. +Frailty and Folly. + +1 How short and hasty is our life! +How vast our souls' affairs! +Yet senseless mortals vainly strive +To lavish out their years. + +2 Our days run thoughtlessly along, +Without a moment's stay; +Just like a story or a song +We pass our lives away. + +3 God from on high invites us home, +But we march heedless on, +And ever hastening to the tomb, +Stoop downwards as we run. + +4 How we deserve the deepest hell +That slight the joys above! +What chains of vengeance should we feel +That break such cords of love! + +5 Draw us, O God, with sovereign grace, +And lift our thoughts on high, +That we may end this mortal race +And see salvation nigh. + + +Hymn 2:33. +The blessed society in heaven. + +1 Raise thee, my soul, fly up, and run +Thro' every heavenly street, +And say, there's nought below the sun +That's worthy of thy feet. + +2 [Thus will we mount on sacred wings, +And tread the courts above; +Nor earth, nor all her mightiest things +Shall tempt our meanest love.] + +3 There on a high majestic throne +Th' Almighty Father reigns, +And sheds his glorious goodness down +On all the blissful plains. + +4 Bright like a sun the Saviour sits, +And spreads eternal noon, +No evenings there, nor gloomy nights, +To want the feeble moon. + +5 Amidst those ever-shining skies +Behold the sacred Dove, +While banish'd sin and sorrow flies +From all the realms of love. + +6 The glorious tenants of the place +Stand bending round the throne; +And saints and seraphs sing and praise +The infinite Three One. + +7 [But O what beams of heavenly grace +Transport them all the while! +Ten thousand smiles from Jesus' face, +And love in every smile!] + +8 [Jesus, and when shall that dear day, +That joyful hour appear, +When I shall leave this house of clay +To dwell amongst them there?] + + +Hymn 2:34. +Breathing after the Holy Spirit; +or, Fervency of devotion desired. + +1 Come, holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, +With all thy quickening powers, +Kindle a flame of sacred love, +In these cold hearts of ours. + +2 Look, how we grovel here below, +Fond of these trifling toys; +Our souls can neither fly nor go +To reach eternal joys. + +3 In vain we tune our formal songs, +In vain we strive to rise; +Hosannas languish on our tongues, +And our devotion dies. + +4 Dear Lord! and shall we ever lie +At this poor dying rate? +Our love so faint, so cold to thee, +And thine to us so great? + +5 Come holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, +With all thy quickening powers; +Come shed abroad a Saviour's love, +And that shall kindle ours. + + +Hymn 2:35. +Praise to God for creation and redemption. + +1 Let them neglect thy glory, Lord, +Who never knew thy grace, +But our loud songs shall still record +The wonders of thy praise. + +2 We raise our shouts, O God, to thee, +And send them to thy throne, +All glory to th' united Three, +The undivided One. + +3 'Twas he (and we'll adore his Name) +That form'd us by a word, +'Tis he restores our ruin'd frame; +Salvation to the Lord. + +4 Hosanna! let the earth and skies +Repeat the joyful sound, +Rocks, hills, and vales, reflect the voice +In one eternal round. + + +Hymn 2:36. +Christ's intercession. + +1 Well, the Redeemer's gone +T' appear before our God, +To sprinkle o'er the flaming throne +With his atoning blood. + +2 No fiery vengeance now, +Nor burning wrath comes down; +If justice call for sinners' blood, +The Saviour shews his own. + +3 Before his Father's eye +Our humble suit he moves, +The Father lays his thunder by, +And looks, and smiles, and loves. + +4 Now may our joyful tongues +Our Maker's honour sing, +Jesus the priest receives our songs, +And bears them to the King. + +5 [We bow before his face, +And sound his glories high, +"Hosanna to the God of grace +"That lays his thunder by.] + +6 "On earth thy mercy reigns, +"And triumphs all above;" +But, Lord how weak are mortal strains +To speak immortal love! + +7 [How jarring and how low +Are all the notes we sing! +Sweet Saviour, tune our songs anew, +And they shall please the King.] + + +Hymn 2:37. +The same. + +1 Lift up your eyes to th' heavenly seats +Where your Redeemer stays; +Kind intercessor, there he sits, +And loves, and pleads, and prays. + +2 'Twas well, my soul he dy'd for thee, +And shed his vital blood, +Appeas'd stern justice on the tree, +And then arose to God. + +3 Petitions now and praise may rise, +And saints their offerings bring, +The priest with his own sacrifice +Presents them to the King. + +4 [Let Papists trust what names they please, +Their saints and angels boast; +We've no such advocates as these, +Nor pray to th' heavenly host.] + +6 Jesus alone shall bear my cries +Up to his Father's throne, +He, dearest Lord! perfumes my sighs, +And sweetens every groan. + +6 [Ten thousand praises to the King, +Hosanna in the highest; +Ten thousand thanks our spirits bring +To God and to his Christ.] + + +Hymn 2:38. +Love to God. + +1 Happy the heart where graces reign, +Where love inspires the breast; +Love is the brightest of the train, +And strengthens all the rest. + +9 Knowledge, alas! 'Tis all in vain, +And all in vain our fear, +Our stubborn sins will fight and reign +If love be absent there. + + +3 'Tis love that makes our cheerful feet +In swift obedience move, +The devils know and tremble too, +But Satan cannot love. + +4 This is the grace that lives and sings +When faith and hope shall cease, +'Tis this shall strike our joyful strings +In the sweet realms of bliss. + +5 Before we quite forsake our clay, +Or leave this dark abode, +The wings of love bear us away +To see our smiling God. + + +Hymn 2:39. +The shortness and misery of life. + +1 Our days, alas! our mortal days +Are short and wretched too; +"Evil and few," the patriarch says, [1] +And well the patriarch knew. + +2 'Tis but at best a narrow bound +That heaven allows to men, +And pains and sins run thro' the round +Of threescore years and ten. + +3 Well, if ye must be sad and few, +Run on, my days, in haste; +Moments of sin, and months of woe, +Ye cannot fly too fast. + +4 Let heavenly love prepare my soul, +And call her to the skies, +Where years of long salvation roll, +And glory never dies. + +[1] Genesis 47:9. + + +Hymn 2:40. +Our comfort in the covenant made with Christ. + +1 Our God, how firm his promise stands, +E'en when he hides his face! +He trusts in our Redeemer's hands +His glory and his grace. + +2 Then why, my soul, these sad complaints, +Since Christ and we are one; +Thy God is faithful to his saints, +Is faithful to his Son. + +3 Beneath his smiles my heart has liv'd, +And part of heaven possess'd; +I praise his Name for grace receiv'd, +And trust him for the rest. + + +Hymn 2:41. +A sight of God mortifies us to the world. + +1 [Up to the fields where angels lie, +And living waters gently roll, +Fain would my thoughts leap out and fly, +But sin hangs heavy on my soul. + +2 Thy wondrous blood, dear dying Christ, +Can make this load of guilt remove; +And thou canst bear me where thou fly'st, +On thy kind wings, celestial Dove!] + +3 O might I once mount up and see +The glories of th' eternal skies, +What little things these worlds would be! +How despicable to my eyes! + +4 Had I a glance of thee, my God, +Kingdoms and men would vanish soon, +Vanish, as tho' I saw them not, +As a dim candle dies at noon. + +5 Then they might fight, and rage, and rave, +I should perceive the noise no more +Than we can hear a shaking leaf, +While rattling thunders round us roar. + +6 Great All in All, eternal King, +Let me but view thy lovely face, +And all my powers shall bow and sing +Thine endless grandeur and thy grace. + + +Hymn 2:42. +Delight in God. + +1 My God, what endless pleasures dwell +Above at thy right-hand! +The courts below, how amiable, +Where all thy graces stand! + +2 The swallow near thy temple lies, +And chirps a cheerful note; +The lark mounts upward to thy skies, +And tunes her warbling throat: + +3 And we, when in thy presence, Lord, +We shout with joyful tongues, +Or sitting round our Father's board, +We crown the feast with songs. + +4 While Jesus shines with quickening grace, +We sing and mount on high; +But if a frown becloud his face, +We faint, and tire, and die. + +5 [Just as we see the lonesome dove +Bemoan her widow'd state, +Wandering she flies thro' all the grove, +And mourns her loving mate. + +6 Just so our thoughts from thing to thing +In restless circles rove, +Just so we drop, and hang the wing, +When Jesus hides his love.] + + +Hymn 2:43. +Christ's sufferings and glory. + +1 Now for a tune of lofty praise +To great Jehovah's equal Son! +Awake, my voice, in heavenly lays, +Tell the loud wonders he hath done. + +2 Sing how he left the worlds of light +And the bright robes he wore above, +How swift and joyful was his flight +On wings of everlasting love. + +3 Down to this base, this sinful earth +He came to raise our nature high; +He came t' atone almighty wrath; +Jesus the God was born to die.] + +4 [Hell and its lions roar'd around, +His precious blood the monsters spilt, +While weighty sorrows press'd him down, +Large as the loads of all our guilt.] + +5 Deep in the shades of gloomy death +Th' almighty Captive pris'ner lay; +Th' almighty Captive left the earth, +And rose to everlasting day. + +6 Lift up your eyes, ye sons of light, +Up to his throne of shining grace, +See what immortal glories sit +Round the sweet beauties of his face. + +7 Amongst a thousand harps and songs +Jesus the God exalted reigns, +His sacred Name fills all their tongues +And echoes thro' the heavenly plains! + + +Hymn 2:44. +Hell; or, The vengeance of God. + +1 With holy fear and humble song, +The dreadful God our souls adore; +Reverence and awe becomes the tongue +That speaks the terrors of his power. + +2 Far in the deep where darkness dwells, +The land of horror and despair, +Justice has built a dismal hell, +And laid her stores of vengeance there. + +3 [Eternal plagues and heavy chains, +Tormenting racks and fiery coals, +And darts t' inflict immortal pains, +Dy'd in the blood of damned souls.] + +4 [There Satan the first sinner lies, +And roars, and bites his iron bands; +In vain the rebel strives to rise, +Crush'd with the weight of both thine hands.] + +5 There guilty ghosts of Adam's race +Shriek out, and howl beneath thy rod; +Once they could scorn a Saviour's grace, +But they incens'd a dreadful God. + +6 Tremble, my soul, and kiss the Son; +Sinners, obey the Saviour's call; +Else your damnation hastens on, +And hell gapes wide to wait your fall. + + +Hymn 2:45. +God's condescension to our worship. + +1 Thy favours Lord, surprise our souls; +Will the Eternal dwell with us? +What canst thou find beneath the poles +To tempt thy chariot downward thus? + +2 Still might he fill his starry throne, +And please his ears with Gabriel's songs; +But th' heavenly Majesty comes down, +And bows to hearken to our tongues. + +3 Great God, what poor returns we pay +For love so infinite as thine! +Words are but air, and tongues but clay, +But thy compassion's all divine. + + +Hymn 2:46. +God's condescension to human affairs. + +1 Up to the Lord that reigns on high, +And views the nations from afar, +Let everlasting praises fly, +And tell how large his bounties are. + +2 [He that can shake the worlds he made, +Or with his word, or with his rod, +His goodness how amazing great! +And what a condescending God!] + +3 [God that must stoop to view the skies, +And how to see what angels do, +Down to our earth he casts his eyes, +And bends his footsteps downward too.] + +4 He over-rules all mortal things, +And manages our mean affairs; +On humble souls the King of kings +Bestows his counsels and his cares. + +5 Our sorrows and our tears we pour +Into the bosom of our God, +He hears us in the mournful hour, +And helps us bear the heavy load. + +6 In vain might lofty princes try +Such condescension to perform; +For worms were never rais'd so high +Above their meanest fellow-worm. + +7 O could our thankful hearts devise +A tribute equal to thy grace, +To the third heaven our songs should rise, +And teach the golden harps thy praise. + + +Hymn 2:47. +Glory and grace in the person of Christ. + +1 Now to the Lord a noble song! +Awake, my soul, awake, my tongue; +Hosanna to th' eternal Name, +And all his boundless love proclaim. + +2 See where it shines in Jesus' face, +The brightest image of his grace; +God, in the person of his Son, +Has all his mightiest works outdone. + +3 The spacious earth and spreading flood +Proclaim the wise, the powerful God; +And thy rich glories from afar +Sparkle in every rolling star. + +4 But in his looks a glory stands, +The noblest labour of thine hands: +The pleasing lustre of his eyes +Outshines the wonders of the skies. + +5 Grace, 'tis a sweet, a charming theme; +My thoughts rejoice at Jesus' name: +Ye angels, dwell upon the sound, +Ye heavens, reflect it to the ground! + +6 O, may I live to reach the place +Where he unveils his lovely face, +Where all his beauties you behold, +And sing his Name to harps of gold! + + +Hymn 2:48. +Love to the creatures is dangerous. + +1 How vain are all things here below! +How false, and yet how fair! +Each pleasure hath its poison too, +And every sweet a snare. + +2 The brightest things below the sky +Give but a flattering light; +We should suspect some danger nigh +Where we possess delight. + +3 Our dearest joys, and nearest friends, +The partners of our blood, +How they divide our wavering minds, +And leave but half for God! + +4 The fondness of a creature's love, +How strong it strikes the sense! +Thither the warm affections move, +Nor can we call them thence. + +5 Dear Saviour, let thy beauties be +My soul's eternal food; +And grace command my heart away +From all created good. + + +Hymn 2:49. +Moses dying in the embraces of God. + +1 Death cannot make our souls afraid +If God be with us there; +We may walk thro' her darkest shade, +And never yield to fear. + +2 I could renounce my all below, +If my Creator bid, +And run, if I were call'd to go, +And die as Moses did. + +3 Might I but climb to Pisgah's top, +And view the promis'd land, +My flesh itself shall long to drop, +And pray for the command. + +4 Clasp'd in my heavenly Father's arms +I would forget my breath, +And lose my life among the charms +Of so divine a death. + + +Hymn 2:50. +Comfort under sorrows and pains. + +1 Now let the Lord my Saviour smile, +And shew my name upon his heart, +I would forget my pains awhile, +And in the pleasure lose the smart. + +But O it swells my sorrows high +To see my blessed Jesus frown! +My spirits sink, my comforts die, +And all the springs of life are down. + +3 Yet why, my soul, why these complaints? +Still while he frowns his bowels move; +Still on his heart he bears his saints, +And feels their sorrows and his love. + +4 My name is printed on his breast; +His book of life contains my name; +I'd rather have it there impress'd +Than in the bright records of fame. + +5 When the last fire burns all things here, +Those letters shall securely stand, +And in the Lamb's fair book appear, +Writ by th' eternal Father's hand. + +6 Now shall my minutes smoothly run, +Whil'st here I wait my Father's will; +My rising and my setting sun +Roll gently up and down the hill. + + +Hymn 2:51. +God the Son equal with the Father. + +1 Bright King of Glory, dreadful God! +Our spirits bow before thy seat, +To thee we lift an humble thought, +And worship at thine awful feet. + +2 [Thy power hath form'd, thy wisdom sways +All nature with a sovereign word; +And the bright world of stars obeys +The will of their superior Lord.] + +3 [Mercy and truth unite in one, +And smiling sit at thy right-hand; +Eternal justice guards thy throne, +And vengeance waits thy dread command.] + +4 A thousand seraphs strong and bright +Stand round the glorious Deity; +But who amongst the sons of light +Pretends comparison with thee? + +5 Yet there is one of human frame, +Jesus, array'd in flesh and blood, +Thinks it no robbery to claim +A full equality with God. + +6 Their glory shines with equal beams; +Their essence is for ever one, +Tho' they are known by different names +The Father God, and God the Son. + +7 Then let the name of Christ our King +With equal honours be ador'd; +His praise let every angel sing, +And all the nations own their Lord. + + +Hymn 2:52. +Death dreadful or delightful. + +1 Death! 'tis a melancholy day +To those that have no God, +When the poor soul is forc'd away +To seek her last abode. + +2 In vain to heaven she lifts her eyes, +But guilt, a heavy chain, +Still drags her downward from the skies +To darkness, fire, and pain. + +3 Awake and mourn, ye heirs of hell, +Let stubborn sinners fear, +You must be driven from earth, and dwell +A long for-ever there. + +4 See how the pit gapes wide for you, +And flashes in your face, +And thou, my soul, look downwards too, +And sing recovering grace. + +5 He is a God of sovereign love +That promis'd heaven to me, +And taught my thoughts to soar above, +Where happy spirits be. + +6 Prepare me, Lord, for thy right-hand, +Then come the joyful day, +Come death, and some celestial band, +To bear my soul away. + + +Hymn 2:53. +The pilgrimage of the saints; or, Earth and heaven. + +1 Lord! what a wretched land is this +That yields us no supply! +No cheering fruits no wholesome trees, +Nor streams of living joy! + +2 But pricking thorns thro' all the ground +And mortal poisons grow, +And all the rivers that are found +With dangerous waters flow. + +3 Yet the clear path to thine abode +Lies thro' this horrid land; +Lord! we would keep the heavenly road, +And run at thy command. + +4 [Our souls shall tread the desert thro' +With undiverted feet; +And faith and flaming zeal subdue +The terrors that we meet.] + +5 [A thousand savage beasts of prey +Around the forest roam; +But Judah's lion guards the way, +And guides the strangers home.] + +6 [Long nights and darkness dwell below, +With scarce a twinkling ray; +But the bright world to which we go +Is everlasting day.] + +7 [By glimmering hopes and gloomy fears +We trace the sacred road, +Thro' dismal deeps and dangerous snares +We make our way to God.] + +8 Our journey is a thorny maze, +But we march upward still; +Forget these troubles of the ways, +And reach at Zion's hill. + +9 [See the kind angels at the gates, +Inviting us to come; +There Jesus the fore-runner waits +To welcome travellers home.] + +10 There on a green and flowery mount +Our weary souls shall sit, +And with transporting joys recount +The labours of our feet. + +11 [No vain discourse shall fill our tongue, +Nor trifles vex our ear, +Infinite grace shall be our song, +And God rejoice to hear.] + +12 Eternal glories to the King +That brought us safely thro'; +Our tongues shall never cease to sing, +And endless praise renew. + + +Hymn 2:54. +God's presence is light in darkness. + +1 My God, the spring of all my joys, +The life of my delights, +The glory of my brightest days, +And comfort of my nights. + +2 In darkest shades if he appear, +My dawning is begun; +He is my soul's sweet morning star +And he my rising sun. + +3 The opening heavens around me shine +With beams of sacred bliss, +While Jesus shews his heart is mine, +And whispers, "I am his!" + +4 My soul would leave this heavy clay +At that transporting word, +Run up with joy the shining way +T' embrace my dearest Lord. + +5 Fearless of hell and ghastly death! +I'd break thro' every foe; +The wings of love, and arms of faith +Should bear me conqueror thro'. + + +Hymn 2:55. +Frail life and succeeding eternity. + +1 Thee we adore, eternal Name, +And humbly own to thee, +How feeble is our mortal frame! +What dying worms are we! + +2 [Our wasting lives grow shorter still +As months and days increase; +And every beating pulse we tell +Leaves but the number less. + +3 The year rolls round, and steals away +The breath that first it gave; +Whate'er we do, where'er we be, +We're travelling to the grave. + +4 Dangers stand thick thro' all the ground +To push us to the tomb, +And fierce diseases wait around +To hurry mortals home. + +5 Good God! on what a slender thread +Hang everlasting things! +Th' eternal states of all the dead +Upon life's feeble strings. + +6 Infinite joy or endless woe +Attends on every breath; +And yet how unconcern'd we go +Upon the brink of death! + +7 Waken, O Lord, our drowsy sense +To walk this dangerous road; +And if our souls are hurried hence, +May they be found with God! + + +Hymn 2:56. +The misery of being without God in this world; or, +Vain prosperity. + +1 O, I shall envy them no more +Who grow profanely great, +Tho' they increase their golden store, +And rise to wondrous height. + +2 They taste of all the joys that grow +Upon this earthly clod, +Well they may search the creature thro', +For they have ne'er a God. + +3 Shake off the thoughts of dying too, +And think your life your own; +But death comes hastening on to you +To mow your glory down. + +4 Yes, you must bow your stately head, +Away your spirit flies, +And no kind angel near your bed +To bear it to the skies. + +5 Go now, and boast of all your stores, +And tell how bright you shine; +Your heaps of glittering dust are yours, +And my Redeemer's mine. + + +Hymn 2:57. +The pleasures of a good conscience. + +1 Lord, how secure and bless'd are they +Who feel the joys of pardon'd sin! +Should storms of wrath shake earth and sea, +Their minds have heaven and peace within. + +2 The day glides sweetly o'er their heads, +Made up of innocence and love; +And soft and silent as the shades +Their nightly minutes gently move. + +3 [Quick as their thoughts their joys come on, +But fly not half so fast away; +Their souls are ever bright as noon, +And calm as summer evenings be. + +4 How oft they look to th' heavenly hills, +Where groves of living pleasure grow! +And longing hopes and cheerful smiles +Sit undisturb'd upon their brow.] + +5 They scorn to seek our golden toys, +But spend the day and share the night +In numbering o'er the richer joys +That heaven prepares for their delight. + +6 While wretched we, like worms and moles, +Lie grovelling in the dust below: +Almighty grace, renew our souls, +And we'll aspire to glory too. + + +Hymn 2:58 +The shortness of life, and the goodness of God. + +1 Time! what an empty vapour 'tis! +And days how swift they are! +Swift as an Indian arrow flies, +Or like a shooting star. + +2 [The present moments just appear, +Then slide away in haste, +That we can never say, "They're here," +But only say, "They're past."] + +3 [Our life is ever on the wing, +And death is ever nigh; +The moment when our lives begin +We all begin to die.] + +4 Yet, mighty God, our fleeting days +Thy lasting favours share, +Yet with the bounties of thy grace +Thou load'st the rolling year. + +5 'Tis sovereign mercy finds us food, +And we are cloth d with love; +While grace stands pointing out the road +That leads our souls above. + +6 His goodness runs an endless round; +All glory to the Lord: +His mercy never knows a bound, +And be his Name ador'd! + +7 Thus we begin the lasting song, +And when we close our eyes, +Let the next age thy praise prolong +Till time and nature dies. + + +Hymn 2:59. +Paradise on earth. + +1 Glory to God that walks the sky, +And sends his blessings thro', +That tells his saints of joys on high, +And gives a taste below. + +2 [Glory to God that stoops his throne +That dust and worms may see't, +And brings a glimpse of glory down +Around his sacred feet. + +3 When Christ, with all his graces crown'd, +Sheds his kind beams abroad, +'Tis a young heaven on earthly ground, +And glory in the bud. + +4 A blooming paradise of joy +In this wild desert springs; +And every sense I straight employ +On sweet celestial things. + +5 White lilies all around appear, +And each his glory shows; +The rose of Sharon blossoms here, +The fairest flower that blows. + +6 Cheerful I feast on heavenly fruit, +And drink the pleasures down, +Pleasures that flow hard by the foot +Of the eternal throne.] + +7 But ah! how soon my joys decay, +How soon my sins arise, +And snatch the heavenly scene away +From these lamenting eyes! + +8 When shall the time, dear Jesus, when +The shining day appear, +That I shall leave those clouds of sin, +And guilt and darkness here? + +9 Up to the fields above the skies +My hasty feet would go, +There everlasting flowers arise, +And joys unwithering grow. + + +Hymn 2:60. +The truth of God the promiser; or, +The promises are our security. + +1 Praise, everlasting praise be paid +To him that earth's foundations laid; +Praise to the God whose strong decrees +Sway the creation as he please. + +2 Praise to the goodness of the Lord +Who rules his people by his word, +And there as strong as his decrees +He sets his kindest promises. + +3 [Firm are the words his prophets give, +Sweet words on which his children live; +Each of them is the voice of God, +Who spoke and spread the skies abroad. + +4 Each of them powerful as that sound +That bid the new-made heavens go round; +And stronger than the solid poles, +On which the wheel of nature rolls.] + +5 Whence then should doubts and fears arise, +Why trickling sorrows drown our eyes? +Slowly, alas, our mind receives +The comforts that our Maker gives. + +6 O for a strong, a lasting faith +To credit what th' almighty saith! +T' embrace the message of his Son, +And call the joys of heaven our own. + +7 Then should the earth's old pillars shake, +And all the wheels of nature break, +Our steady souls should fear no more +Than solid rocks when billows roar. + +8 Our everlasting hopes arise +Above the ruinable skies, +Where the eternal Builder reigns, +And his own courts his power sustains. + + + +Hymn 2:61. +A thought of death and glory. + +1 My soul, come meditate the day, +And think how near it stands, +When thou must quit this house of clay, +And fly to unknown lands. + +2 [And you, mine eyes, look down and view +The hollow gaping tomb, +This gloomy prison waits for you +Whene'er the summons come.] + +3 O could we die with those that die, +And place us in their stead, +Then would our spirits learn to fly, +And converse with the dead: + +4 Then should we see the saints above +In their own glorious forms, +And wonder why our souls should love +To dwell with mortal worms. + +5 [How we should scorn these clothes of flesh, +These fetters and this load! +And long for evening to undress, +That we may rest with God.] + +6 We should almost forsake our clay +Before the summons come, +And pray, and wish our souls away +To their eternal home. + + +Hymn 2:62. +God the thunderer; or, +The last judgment and hell.* + +1 Sing to the Lord, ye heavenly hosts, +And thou, O earth, adore, +Let death and hell thro' all their coasts, +Stand trembling at his power. + +2 His sounding chariot shakes the sky, +He makes the clouds his throne, +There all his stores of lightning lie, +Till vengeance dart them down. + +3 His nostrils breathe out fiery streams, +And from his awful tongue +A sovereign voice divides the flames, +And thunder roars along. + +4 Think, O my soul, the dreadful day +When this incensed God +Shall rend the sky, and burn the sea, +And fling his wrath abroad. + +5 What shall the wretch the sinner do? +He once defy'd the Lord; +But he shall dread the Thunderer now, +And sink beneath his word. + +6 Tempests of angry fire shall roll +To blast the rebel-worm, +And beat upon his naked soul +In one eternal storm. + +* Made in a great sudden storm +of thunder, August 20, 1697. + + +Hymn 2:63. +A funeral thought. + +1 Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound, +My ears attend the cry, +"Ye living men, come view the ground +"Where you must shortly lie. + +2 "Princes, this clay must be your bed, +"In spite of all your towers; +"The tall, the wise, the reverend head +"Must lie as low as ours." + +3 Great God, is this our certain doom? +And are we still secure? +Still walking downward to our tomb, +And yet prepare no more? + +4 Grant us the powers of quickening grace +To fit our souls to fly, +Then, when we drop this dying flesh, +We'll rise above the sky. + + + +Hymn 2:64. +God the glory and defence of Sion. + +1 Happy the church, thou sacred place, +The seat of thy Creator's grace; +Thine holy courts are his abode, +Thou earthly palace of our God. + +2 Thy walls are strength, and at thy gates +A guard of heavenly warriors waits; +Nor shall thy deep foundations move, +Fix'd on his counsels and his love. + +3 Thy foes in vain designs engage, +Against his throne in vain they rage, +Like rising waves, with angry roar, +That dash and die upon the shore. + +4 Then let our souls in Zion dwell, +Nor fear the wrath of Rome and hell: +His arms embrace this happy ground, +Like brazen bulwarks built around. + +5 God is our shield, and God our sun; +Swift as the fleeting moments run, +On us he sheds new beams of grace, +And we reflect his brightest praise. + + +Hymn 2:65. +The hope of heaven our support under trials on earth. + +1 When I can read my title clear +To mansions in the skies, +I bid farewell to every fear, +And wipe my weeping eyes. + +2 Should earth against my soul engage, +And hellish darts be hurl'd, +Then I can smile at Satan's rage, +And face a frowning world. + +3 Let cares like a wild deluge come, +And storms of sorrow fall, +May I but safely reach my home, +My God, my heaven, my all. + +4 There shall I bathe my weary soul +In seas of heavenly rest, +And not a wave of trouble roll +Across my peaceful breast. + + +Hymn 2:66. +A prospect of heaven makes death easy. + +1 There is a land of pure delight +Where saints immortal reign, +Infinite day excludes the night, +And pleasures banish pain. + +2 There everlasting spring abides, +And never withering flowers: +Death like a narrow sea divides +This heavenly land from ours. + +3 [Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, +Stand dress'd in living green +So to the Jews old Canaan stood, +While Jordan roll'd between. + +4 But timorous mortals start and shrink +To cross this narrow sea, +And linger shivering on the brink, +And fear to launch away.] + +5 O! could we make our doubts remove, +These gloomy doubts that rise, +And see the Canaan that we love, +With unbeclouded eyes! + +6 Could we but climb where Moses stood, +And view the landscape o'er, +Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, +Should fright us from the shore. + + +Hymn 2:67. +God's eternal dominion. + +1 Great God, how infinite art thou! +What worthless worms are we! +Let the whole race of creatures bow +And pay their praise to thee. + +2 Thy throne eternal ages stood, +Ere seas or stars were made; +Thou art the ever-living God +Were all the nations dead. + +3 Nature and time quite naked lie +To thine immense survey, +From the formation of the sky +To the great burning day. + +4 Eternity with all its years +Stands present in thy view; +To thee there's nothing old appears, +Great God, there's nothing new. + +5 Our lives thro' various scenes are drawn, +And vex'd with trifling cares; +While thine eternal thought moves on +Thine undisturb'd affairs. + +6 Great God, how infinite art thou! +What worthless worms are we! +Let the whole race of creatures bow +And pay their praise to thee. + + +Hymn 2:68. +The humble worship of heaven. + +1 Father, I long, I faint to see +The place of thine abode, +I'd leave thy earthly courts and flee +Up to thy seat, my God! + +2 Here I behold thy distant face, +And 'tis a pleasing sight; +But to abide in thine embrace +Is infinite delight. + +3 I'd part with all the joys of sense +To gaze upon thy throne; +Pleasure springs fresh for ever thence, +Unspeakable, unknown. + +4 [There all the heavenly hosts are seen, +In shining ranks they move, +And drink immortal vigour in, +With wonder and with love. + +5 Then at thy feet with awful fear +Th' adoring armies fall +With joy they shrink to _nothing_ there, +Before th' Eternal All. + +6 There I would vie with all the host +In duty and in bliss, +While _less than nothing_ I could boast, +And _vanity_ confess.] _[1]_ + +7 The more thy glories strike mine eyes, +The humbler I shall lie; +Thus while I sink, my joys shall rise +Unmeasurably high. + +_[1]_ Isaiah 40:17. + + +Hymn 2:69. +The faithfulness of God in his promises. + +1 [Begin, my tongue, some heavenly theme, +And speak some boundless thing, +The mighty works, or mightier name +Of our eternal King. + +2 Tell of his wondrous faithfulness, +And sound his power abroad, +Sing the sweet promise of his grace, +And the performing God. + +3 Proclaim "salvation from the Lord +"For wretched dying men;" +His hand has writ the sacred word +With an immortal pen. + +4 Engrav'd as in eternal brass, +The mighty promise shines; +Nor can the powers of darkness rase +Those everlasting lines.] + +5 [He that can dash whole worlds to death +And make them when he please, +He speaks, and that almighty breath +Fulfils his great decrees. + +6 His very word of grace is strong +As that which built the skies, +The voice that rolls the stars along +Speaks all the promises. + +7 He said, "Let the wide heaven be spread," +And heaven was stretch'd abroad; +"Abrah'm, I'll be thy God," he said, +And he was Abrah'm's God. + +8 O, might I hear thine heavenly tongue +But whisper, "Thou art mine;" +Those gentle words should raise my song +To notes almost divine. + +9 How would my leaping heart rejoice +And think my heaven secure! +I trust the all-creating voice, +And faith desires no more.] + + +Hymn 2:70. +God's dominion over the sea, Psalm 107. 23 &c. + +1 God of the seas, thy thundering voice +Makes all the roaring waves rejoice, +And one soft word of thy command +Can sink them silent in the sand. + +2 If but a Moses wave thy rod, +The sea divides, and owns its God: +The stormy floods their Maker knew, +And let his chosen armies thro'. + +3 The scaly flocks amidst the sea, +To thee, their Lord, a tribute pay; +The meanest fish that swims the flood +Leaps up, and means a praise to God. + +4 [The larger monsters of the deep, +On thy commands attendance keep, +By thy permission sport and play, +And cleave along their foaming way. + +5 If God his voice of tempest rears, +Leviathan lies still and fears, +Anon he lifts his nostrils high, +And spouts the ocean to the sky.] + +6 How is thy glorious power ador'd, +Amidst those watery nations, Lord! +Yet the bold men that trace the seas, +Bold men, refuse their Maker's praise. + +7 [What scenes of miracle they see, +And never tune a song to thee! +While on the flood they safely ride, +They curse the hand that smooths the tide. + +8 Anon they plunge in watery graves, +And some drink death among the waves: +Yet the surviving crew blaspheme, +Nor own the God that rescu'd them.] + +9 O for some signal of thine hand! +Shake all the seas, Lord, shake the land, +Great Judge, descend, lest men deny +That there's a God that rules the sky. + + +From the 70th to the 109th Hymn, I hope the +reader will forgive the neglect of the rhyme +in the first and third lines of the stanza. + + +Hymn 2:71. +Praise to God from all creatures. + +1 The glories of my Maker God, +My joyful voice shall sing, +And call the nations to adore +Their Former and their King. + +2 'Twas his right-hand that shap'd our clay, +And wrought this human frame, +But from his own immediate breath +Our nobler spirits came. + +3 We bring our mortal powers to God, +And worship with our tongues: +We claim some kindred with the skies +And join th' angelic songs. + +4 Let groveling beasts of every shape, +And fowls of every wing, +And rocks, and trees, and fires, and seas, +Their various tribute bring. + +5 Ye planets, to his honour shine, +And wheels of nature roll, +Praise him in your unwearied course +Around the steady pole. + +6 The brightness of our Maker's Name +The wide creation fills, +And his unbounded grandeur flies +Beyond the heavenly hills. + + +Hymn 2:72. +The Lord's Day; or, The resurrection of Christ. + +1 Bless'd morning, whose young dawning rays +Beheld our rising God, +That saw him triumph o'er the dust, +And leave his dark abode. + +2 In the cold prison of a tomb, +The dead Redeemer lay, +Till the revolving skies had brought +The third, th' appointed day. + +3 Hell and the grave unite their force +To hold our God in vain, +The sleeping Conqueror arose, +And burst their feeble chain. + +4 To thy great Name, Almighty Lord, +These sacred hours we pay, +And loud hosannas shall proclaim +The triumph of the day, + +5 [Salvation and immortal praise +To our victorious King, +Let heaven, and earth, and rocks, and seas, +With glad hosannas ring.] + + +Hymn 2:73. +Doubts scattered; or, Spiritual joy restored. + +1 Hence from my soul, sad thoughts, be gone, +And leave me to my joys, +My tongue shall triumph in my God, +And make a joyful noise. + +2 Darkness and doubts had veil'd my mind, +And drown'd my head in tears, +Till sovereign grace with shining rays +Dispell'd my gloomy fears. + +3 O what immortal joys I felt, +And raptures all divine, +When Jesus told me, I was his, +And my Beloved mine. + +4 In vain the tempter frights my soul, +And breaks my peace in vain, +One glimpse, dear Saviour, of thy face, +Revives my joys again. + + +Hymn 2:74. +Repentance from a sense of divine goodness; +or, A complaint of ingratitude. + +1 Is this the kind return, +And these the thanks we owe, +Thus to abuse eternal love, +Whence all our blessings flow? + +2 TO what a stubborn frame +Has sin reduc'd our mind! +What strange rebellious wretches we, +And God as strangely kind! + +3 [On us he bids the sun +Shed his reviving rays, +For us the skies their circles run +To lengthen out our days. + +4 The brutes obey their God, +And bow their necks to men, +But we more base, more brutish things +Reject his easy reign.] + +5 Turn, turn us, mighty God, +And mould our souls afresh, +Break, sovereign grace, these hearts of stone, +And give us hearts of flesh. + +6 Let old ingratitude +Provoke our weeping eyes, +And hourly as new mercies fall +Let hourly thanks arise. + + +Hymn 2:75. +Spiritual and eternal joys; or, +The beatific sight of Christ. + +1 From thee, my God, my joys shall rise, +And run eternal rounds, +Beyond the limits of the skies +And all created bounds. + +2 The holy triumphs of my soul +Shall death itself out-brave, +Leave dull mortality behind, +And fly beyond the grave. + +3 There, where my blessed Jesus reigns +In heaven's unmeasur'd space, +I'll spend a long eternity +In pleasure and in praise. + +4 Millions of years my wondering eyes +Shall o'er thy beauties rove, +And endless ages I'll adore +The glories of thy love. + +5 [Sweet Jesus, every smile of thine +Shall fresh endearments bring, +And thousand tastes of new delight +From all thy graces spring. + +6 Haste, my beloved, fetch my soul +Up to thy bless'd abode, +Fly, for my spirit longs to see +My Saviour and my God. + + +Hymn 2:76. +The resurrection and ascension of Christ. + +1 Hosanna to the Prince of Light, +That cloth'd himself in clay, +Enter'd the iron gates of death, +And tore the bars away. + +2 Death is no more the king of dread +Since our Immanuel rose, +He took the tyrant's sting away, +And spoil'd our hellish foes. + +3 See how the Conqueror mounts aloft, +And to his Father flies, +With scars of honour in his flesh, +And triumph in his eyes. + +4 There our exalted Saviour reigns, +And scatters blessings down, +Our Jesus fills the middle seat +Of the celestial throne. + +5 [Raise your devotion, mortal tongues, +To reach his bless'd abode, +Sweet be the accents of your songs +To our incarnate God. + +6 Bright angels, strike your loudest strings, +Your sweetest voices raise, +Let heaven, and all created things, +Sound our Immanuel's praise.] + + +Hymn 77. +The Christian warfare. + +1 [Stand up, my soul, shake off thy fears, +And gird the gospel-armour on, +March to the gates of endless joy +Where thy great Captain-Saviour's gone. + +2 Hell and thy sins resist thy course, +But hell and sin are vanquish'd foes, +Thy Jesus nail'd them to the cross, +And sung the triumph when he rose.] + +3 [What tho' the prince of darkness rage, +And waste the fury of his spite, +Eternal chains confine him down +To fiery deeps, and endless night. + +4 What tho' thine inward lusts rebel, +'Tis but a struggling gasp for life +The weapons of victorious grace +Shall slay thy sins, and end the strife.] + +5 Then let my soul march boldly on, +Press forward to the heavenly gate, +There peace and joy eternal reign, +And glittering robes for conquerors wait. + +6 There shall I wear a starry crown, +And triumph in almighty grace, +While all the armies of the skies +Join in my glorious leader's praise. + + +Hymn 2:78. +Redemption by Christ. + +1 When the first parents of our race +Rebell'd and lost their God, +And the infection of their sin +Had tainted all our blood; + +2 Infinite pity touch'd the heart +Of the eternal Son, +Descending from the heavenly court +He left his Father's throne. + +3 Aside the Prince of glory threw +His most divine array, +And wrapt his Godhead in a veil +Of our inferior clay. + +4 His living power, and dying love +Redeem'd unhappy men, +And rais'd the ruins of our race +To life and God again. + +5 To thee, dear Lord, our flesh and soul +We joyfully resign, +Bless'd Jesus, take us for thy own, +For we are doubly thine. + +6 Thine honour shall for ever be +The business of our days, +For ever shall our thankful tongue +Speak thy deserved praise. + + +Hymn 2:79. +Praise to the Redeemer. + +1 Plung'd in a gulph of dark despair +We wretched sinners lay, +Without one cheerful beam of hope, +Or spark of glimmering day. + +2 With pitying eyes, the Prince of Grace +Beheld our helpless grief, +He saw, and (O amazing love!) +He ran to our relief. + +3 Down from the shining seats above +With joyful haste he fled, +Enter'd the grave in mortal flesh, +And dwelt among the dead. + +4 He spoil'd the Powers of darkness thus, +And brake our iron chains; +Jesus has freed our captive souls +From everlasting pains. + +5 [In vain the baffled prince of hell +His cursed projects tries, +We that were doom'd his endless slaves, +Are rais'd above the skies.] + +6 O for this love, let rocks and hills +Their lasting silence break, +And all harmonious human tongues +The Saviour's praises speak. + +7 [Yes, we will praise thee, dearest Lord, +Our souls are all on flame, +Hosanna round the spacious earth +To thine adored Name. + +8 Angels, assist our mighty joys, +Strike all your harps of gold; +But when you raise your highest notes +His love can ne'er be told.] + + +Hymn 2:80. +God's awful power and goodness. + +1 O the Almighty Lord! +How matchless is his power! +Tremble, O earth, beneath his word, +And all the heavens adore. + +2 Let proud imperious kings +Bow low before his throne, +Crouch to his feet, ye haughty things, +Or he shall tread you down. + +3 Above the skies he reigns, +And with amazing blows +He deals unsufferable pains +On his rebellious foes. + +4 Yet, everlasting God, +We love to speak thy praise; +Thy sceptre's equal to thy rod, +The sceptre of thy grace. + +5 The arms of mighty love +Defend our Sion well, +And heavenly mercy walls us round +From Babylon and hell. + +6 Salvation to the King +That sits enthron'd above; +Thus we adore the God of might, +And bless the God of love. + + +Hymn 2:81. +Our sin the cause of Christ's death. + +1 And now the scales have left mine eyes, +Now I begin to see; +O the curs'd deeds my sins have done! +What murderous things they be! + +2 Were these the traitors, dearest Lord, +That thy fair body tore? +Monsters, that stain'd those heavenly limbs +With floods of purple gore? + +3 Was it for crimes that I had done +My dearest Lord was slain +When justice seiz'd God's only Son, +And put his soul to pain? + +4 Forgive my guilt, O Prince of peace, +I'll wound my God no more; +Hence from my heart, ye sins, be gone, +For Jesus I adore. + +5 Furnish me, Lord, with heavenly arms +From grace's magazine, +And I'll proclaim eternal war +With every darling sin. + + +Hymn 2:82. +Redemption and protection from spiritual enemies. + +1 Arise my soul, my joyful powers, +And triumph in my God, +Awake, my voice, and loud proclaim +His glorious grace abroad. + +2 He rais'd me from the deeps of sin, +The gates of gaping hell, +And fix'd my standing more secure +Than 'twas before I fell. + +3 The arms of everlasting love +Beneath my soul he plac'd, +And on the rock of ages set +My slippery footsteps fast. + +4 The city of my bless'd abode +Is wall'd around with grace +Salvation for a bulwark stands +To shield the sacred place. + +5 Satan may vent his sharpest spite, +And all his legions roar, +Almighty mercy guards my life, +And bounds his raging power. + +6 Arise, my soul, awake, my voice, +And tunes of pleasure sing, +Loud hallelujahs shall address +My Saviour and my King. + + +Hymn 2:83. +The passion and exaltation of Christ. + +1 Thus saith the Ruler of the skies, +"Awake, my dreadful sword; +"Awake, my wrath and smite the man, +"My fellow," saith the Lord. + +2 Vengeance receiv'd the dread command, +And armed down she flies, +Jesus submits t' his Father's hand, +And bows his head and dies. + +3 But O! the wisdom and the grace +That join with vengeance now! +He dies to save our guilty race, +And yet he rises too. + +4 A person so divine was he +Who yielded to be slain, +That he could give his soul away, +And take his life again. + +5 Live, glorious Lord, and reign on high, +Let every nation sing, +And angels sound with endless joy +The Saviour and the King. + + +Hymn 2:84. +The same. + +1 Come, all harmonious tongues, +Your noblest music bring, +'Tis Christ the everlasting God, +And Christ the man we sing. + +2 Tell how he took our flesh +To take away our guilt, +Sing the dear drops of sacred blood +That hellish monsters spilt. + +3 [Alas, the cruel spear +Went deep into his side, +And the rich flood of purple gore +Their murderous weapons dy'd.] + +4 [The waves of swelling grief +Did o'er his bosom roll, +And mountains of almighty wrath +Lay heavy on his soul.] + +5 Down to the shades of death +He bow'd his awful head, +Yet he arose to live and reign +When death itself is dead. + +6 No more the bloody spear, +The cross and nails no more; +For hell itself shakes at his Name, +And all the heavens adore. + +7 There the Redeemer sits +High on the Father's throne; +The Father lays his vengeance by, +And smiles upon his Son. + +8 There his full glories shine +With uncreated rays, +And bless his saints' and angels' eyes +To everlasting days. + + +Hymn 2:85. +Sufficiency of pardon. + +1 Why does your face, ye humble souls, +Those mournful colours wear? +What doubts are these that waste your faith, +And nourish your despair? + +2 What tho' your numerous sins exceed +The stars that fill the skies, +And aiming at th' eternal throne, +Like pointed mountains rise? + +3 What tho' your mighty guilt beyond +The wide creation swell, +And has its curs'd foundations laid +Low as the deeps of hell? + +4 See here an endless ocean flows +Of never-failing grace, +Behold a dying Saviour's veins +The sacred flood increase: + +5 It rises high and drowns the hills, +'T has neither shore nor bound: +Nor if we search to find our sins, +Our sins can ne'er be found. + +6 Awake, our hearts, adore the grace +That buries all our faults, +And pardoning blood that swells above +Our follies and our thoughts. + + +Hymn 2:86. +Freedom from sin and misery in heaven. + +1 Our sins, alas, how strong they be! +And like a violent sea +They break our duty, Lord, to thee, +And hurry us away. + +2 The waves of trouble how they rise! +How loud the tempests roar! +But death shall land our weary souls +Safe on the heavenly shore. + +3 There to fulfil his sweet commands +Our speedy feet shall move, +No sin shall clog our winged zeal, +Or cool our burning love. + +4 There shall we sit, and sing, and tell +The wonders of his grace, +Till heavenly raptures fire our hearts, +And smile in every face. + +5 For ever his dear sacred Name +Shall dwell upon our tongue, +And Jesus and salvation be +The close of every song. + + +Hymn 2:87. +The divine glories above our reason. + +1 How wond'rous great, how glorious bright +Must our Creator be, +Who dwells amidst the dazzling light +Of vast infinity! + +2 Our soaring spirits upward rise +Tow'rd the celestial throne, +Fain would we see the blessed Three, +And the Almighty One. + +3 Our reason stretches all its wings, +And climbs above the skies; +But still how far beneath thy feet +Our groveling reason lies! + +4 [Lord, here we bend our humble souls, +And awfully adore, +For the weak pinions of our mind +Can stretch a thought no more.] + +5 Thy glories infinitely rise +Above our labouring tongue; +In vain the highest seraph tries +To form an equal song. + +6 [In humble notes our faith adores +The great mysterious King, +While angels strain their nobler powers, +And sweep th' immortal string.] + + +Hymn 2:88. +Salvation. + +1 Salvation! O, the joyful sound! +'Tis pleasure to our ears; +A sovereign balm for every wound, +A cordial for our fears. + +2 Buried in sorrow and in sin, +At hell's dark door we lay, +But we arise by grace divine +To see a heavenly day. + +3 Salvation! let the echo fly +The spacious earth around, +While all the armies of the sky +Conspire to raise the sound. + + +Hymn 2:89. +Christ's victory over Satan. + +1 Hosanna to our conquering King! +The prince of darkness flies, +His troops rush headlong down to hell +Like lightning from the skies. + +2 There, bound in chains, the lions roar, +And fright the rescu'd sheep, +But heavy bars confine their power +And malice to the deep. + +3 Hosanna to our conquering King, +All hail, incarnate love! +Ten thousand songs and glories wait +To crown thy head above. + +4 Thy victories and thy deathless fame +Thro' the wide world shall run, +And everlasting ages sing +The triumphs thou hast won. + + +Hymn 2:90. +Faith in Christ for pardon and sanctification. + +1 How sad our state by nature is! +Our sin how deep it stains! +And Satan binds our captive minds +Fast in his slavish chains. + +2 But there's a voice of sovereign grace +Sounds from the sacred word, +"Ho, ye despairing sinners, come, +"And trust upon the Lord." + +3 My soul obeys th' almighty call, +And runs to this relief, +I would believe thy promise, Lord, +O! help my unbelief. + +4 [To the dear fountain of thy blood, +Incarnate God, I fly, +Here let me wash my spotted soul +From crimes of deepest die. + +5 Stretch out thine arm victorious King, +My reigning sins subdue, +Drive the old dragon from his seat, +With all his hellish crew.] + +6 A guilty, weak, and helpless worm, +On thy kind arms I fall: +Be thou my strength and righteousness, +My Jesus, and my all. + + +Hymn 2:91. +The glory of Christ in heaven. + +1 O the delights, the heavenly joys, +The glories of the place +Where Jesus sheds the brightest beams +Of his o'erflowing grace. + +2 Sweet majesty and awful love +Sit smiling on his brow, +And all the glorious ranks above +At humble distance bow. + +3 [Princes to his imperial Name +Bend their bright sceptres down, +Dominions, thrones, and powers rejoice +To see him wear the crown.] + +4 Archangels sound his lofty praise +Thro' every heavenly street, +And lay their highest honours down +Submissive at his feet. + +5 Those soft, those blessed feet of his +That once rude iron tore, +High on a throne of light they stand, +And all the saints adore. + +6 His head, the dear majestic head +That cruel thorns did wound, +See what immortal glories shine, +And circle it around. + +7 This is the Man, th' exalted Man, +Whom we unseen adore; +But when our eyes behold his face, +Our hearts shall love him more. + +8 [Lord, how our souls are all on fire +To see thy bless'd abode, +Our tongues rejoice in tunes of praise +To our incarnate God. + +9 And whilst our faith enjoys this sight, +We long to leave our clay, +And wish thy fiery chariots, Lord, +To fetch our souls away.] + + +Hymn 2:92 +The church saved, and her enemies disappointed. + +Composed the 5th of November, 1694. + +1 Shout to the Lord, and let our joys +Thro' the whole nation run; +Ye British skies, resound the noise +Beyond the rising sun. + +2 Thee, mighty God, our souls admire, +Thee our glad voices sing, +And join with the celestial choir +To praise th' eternal King. + +3 Thy power the whole creation rules, +And on the starry skies +Sits smiling at the weak designs +Thine envious foes devise. + +4 Thy scorn derides their feeble rage, +And with an awful frown +Flings vast confusion on their plots, +And shakes their Babel down. + +5 [Their secret fires in caverns lay, +And we the sacrifice: +But gloomy caverns strove in vain +To 'scape all-searching eyes. + +6 Their dark designs were all reveal'd, +Their treasons all betray'd: +Praise to the God that broke the snare +Their cursed hands had laid.] + +7 In vain the busy sons of hell +Still new rebellions try, +Their souls shall pine with envious rage, +And vex away and die. + +8 Almighty grace defends our land +From their malicious power, +Let Britain with united songs +Almighty grace adore. + + +Hymn 2:93. +God all, and in all, Psalm 73. 25. + +1 My God, my life, my love, +To thee, to thee I call, +I cannot live if thou remove, +For thou art all in all. + +2 [Thy shining grace can cheer, +This dungeon where I dwell; +'Tis paradise when thou art here; +If thou depart, 'tis hell.] + +3 [The smilings of thy face, +How amiable they are! +'Tis heaven to rest in thine embrace, +And no where else but there.] + +4 [To thee, and thee alone, +The angels owe their bliss; +They sit around thy gracious throne, +And dwell where Jesus is.] + +5 [Not all the harps above +Can make a heavenly place, +If God his residence remove, +Or but conceal his face.] + +6 Nor earth nor all the sky +Can one delight afford; +No not a drop of real joy, +Without thy presence, Lord. + +7 Thou art the sea of love, +Where all my pleasures roll, +The circle where my passions move, +And centre of my soul. + +8 [To thee my spirits fly +With infinite desire; +And yet how far from thee I lie! +Dear Jesus, raise me higher!] + + +Hymn 2:94. +God my only happiness, Psalm 73. 25. + +1 My God, my portion, and my love, +My everlasting all, +I've none but thee in heaven above, +Or on this earthly ball. + +2 [What empty things are all the skies, +And this inferior clod! +There's nothing here deserves my joys, +There's nothing like my God.] + +3 [In vain the bright, the burning sun +Scatters his feeble light; +'Tis thy sweet beams create my noon; +If thou withdraw, 'tis night. + +4 And whilst upon my restless bed, +Amongst the shades I roll, +If my Redeemer shew his head +'Tis morning with my soul.] + +5 To thee we owe our wealth and friends, +And health, and safe abode; +Thanks to thy Name for meaner things, +But they are not my God. + +6 How vain a toy is glittering wealth, +If once compar'd to thee; +Or what's my safety, or my health, +Or all my friends to me? + +7 Were I possessor of the earth, +And call'd the stars my own +Without thy graces and thyself +I were a wretch undone. + +8 Let others stretch their arms like seas, +And grasp in all the shore, +Grant me the visits of thy face, +And I desire no more. + + +Hymn 2:95. +Look on him whom they pierced, and mourn. + +1 Infinite grief! amazing woe! +Behold my bleeding Lord: +Hell and the Jews conspir'd his death, +And us'd the Roman sword. + +2 O the sharp pangs of smarting pain +My dear Redeemer bore, +When knotty whips and ragged thorns +His sacred body tore! + +3 But knotty whips and ragged thorns +In vain do I accuse; +In vain I blame the Roman bands, +And the more spiteful Jews. + +4 'Twere you, my sins, my cruel sins, +His chief tormentors were; +Each of my crimes became a nail, +And unbelief the spear. + +5 'Twere you that pull'd the vengeance down +Upon his guiltless head: +Break, break, my heart, O burst mine eyes! +And let my sorrows bleed. + +6 Strike, mighty grace, my flinty soul, +Till melting waters flow, +And deep repentance drown mine eyes +In undissembled woe. + + +Hymn 2:96. +Distinguishing love; or, Angels +punished and men saved. + +1 Down headlong from their native skies +The rebel angels fell, +And thunderbolts of flaming wrath +Pursu'd them deep to hell. + +2 Down from the top of earthly bliss +Rebellious man was hurl'd +And Jesus stoop'd beneath the grave +To reach a sinking world. + +3 O love of infinite degree! +Unmeasurable grace! +Must heaven's eternal Darling die +To save a traitorous race? + +4 Must angels sink for ever down, +And burn in quenchless fire, +While God forsakes his shining throne +To raise us wretches higher? + +5 O for this love let earth and skies +With hallelujahs ring, +And the full choir of human tongues +All hallelujah sing. + + +Hymn 2:97. +The same. + +1 From heaven the sinning angels fell, +And wrath and darkness chain'd them down; +But man, vile man, forsook his bliss, +And mercy lifts him to a crown. + +2 Amazing work of sovereign grace +That could distinguish rebels so! +Our guilty treasons call'd aloud +For everlasting fetters too. + +3 To thee, to thee, Almighty Love, +Our souls, ourselves, our all we pay: +Millions of tongues shall sound thy praise +On the bright hills of heavenly day. + + +Hymn 2:98. +Hardness of heart complained of. + +1 My heart, how dreadful hard it is! +How heavy here it lies, +Heavy and cold within my breast +Just like a rock of ice! + +2 Sin like a raging tyrant sits +Upon this flinty throne, +And every grace lies buried deep +Beneath this heart of stone. + +3 How seldom do I rise to God, +Or taste the joys above! +This mountain presses down my faith, +And chills my flaming love. + +4 When smiling mercy courts my soul +With all its heavenly charms, +This stubborn, this relentless thing +Would thrust it from my arms. + +5 Against the thunders of thy word +Rebellious I have stood, +My heart it shakes not at the wrath +And terrors of a God. + +6 Dear Saviour, steep this rock of mine +In thine own crimson sea: +None but a bath of blood divine +Can melt the flint away. + + +Hymn 2:99. +The book of God's decrees. + +1 Let the whole race of creatures lie +Abas'd before their God; +Whate'er his sovereign voice hath form'd +He governs with a nod. + +2 [Ten thousand ages ere the skies +Were into motion brought, +All the long years and worlds to come +Stood present to his thought.] + +5 [There's not a sparrow or a worm +But's found in his decrees; +He raises monarchs to their thrones, +And sinks them as he please.] + +4 If light attends the course I run, +'Tis he provides those rays; +And 'tis his hand that hides my sun, +If darkness cloud my days. + +5 Yet I would not be much concern'd, +Nor vainly long to see +The volume of his deep decrees, +What months are writ for me. + +6 When he reveals the book of life, +O, may I read my name +Amongst the chosen of his love, +The followers of the Lamb! + + +Hymn 2:100. +The presence of Christ is the life of my soul. + +1 [How full of anguish is the thought, +How it distracts and tears my heart +If God, at last, my sovereign Judge, +Should frown, and bid my soul, "Depart!"] + +2 Lord, when I quit this earthly stage, +Where shall I fly but to thy breast? +For I have sought no other home +For I have learn'd no other rest. + +3 I cannot live contented here, +Without some glimpses of thy face; +And heaven without thy presence there +Would be a dark and tiresome place. + +4 When earthly cares engross the day +And hold my thoughts aside from thee, +The shining hours of cheerful light +Are long and tedious years to me. + +5 And if no evening visit's paid +Between my Saviour and my soul, +How dull the night! how sad the shade! +How mournfully the minutes roll! + +6 This flesh of mine might learn as soon +To live, yet part with all my blood; +To breathe when vital air is gone, +Or thrive and grow without my food. + +7 [Christ is my light, my life, my care, +My blessed hope, my heavenly prize, +Dearer than all my passions are, +My limbs, my bowels, or my eyes. + +8 The strings that twine about my heart, +Tortures and racks may tear them off, +But they can never, never part +With their dear hold of Christ my love.] + +9 [My God! and can an humble child +That loves thee with a flame so high, +Be ever from thy face exil'd +Without the pity of thine eye? + +10 Impossible--For thine own hands +Have tied my heart so fast to thee; +And in thy book the promise stands, +That where thou art thy friends must be. + + +Hymn 2:101. +The world's three great temptations. + +1 When in the light of faith divine +We look on things below, +Honour, and gold, and sensual joy, +How vain and dangerous too! + +2 [Honour's a puff of noisy breath; +Yet men expose their blood, +And venture everlasting death +To gain that airy good. + +3 Whilst others starve the nobler mind, +And feed on shining dust, +They rob the serpent of his food +T' indulge a sordid lust.] + +4 The pleasures that allure our sense +Are dangerous snares to souls; +There's but a drop of flattering sweet, +And dash'd with bitter bowls. + +5 God is mine all-sufficient good, +My portion and my choice; +In him my vast desires are fill'd, +And all my powers rejoice. + +6 In vain the world accosts my ear, +And tempts my heart anew; +I cannot buy your bliss so dear, +Nor part with heaven for you. + + +Hymn 2:102. +A happy resurrection. + +1 No, I'll repine at death no more, +But with a cheerful gasp resign +To the cold dungeon of the grave +These dying, withering limbs of mine. + +2 Let worms devour my wasting flesh, +And crumble all my bones to dust, +My God shall raise my frame anew +At the revival of the just. + +3 Break, sacred morning, thro' the skies, +Bring that delightful, dreadful day, +Cut short the hours, dear Lord, and come, +Thy lingering wheels, how long they stay! + +4 [Our weary spirits faint to see +The light of thy returning face, +And hear the language of those lips +Where God has shed his richest grace.] + +5 Haste then upon the wings of love, +Rouse all the pious sleeping clay, +That we may join in heavenly joys, +And sing the triumph of the day. + + +Hymn 2:103. +Christ's commission, John 3. 16 17. + +1 Come happy souls, approach your God +With new melodious songs; +Come, render to almighty grace +The tribute of your tongues. + +2 So strange, so boundless was the love +That pity'd dying men, +The Father sent his equal Son +To give them life again. + +3 Thy hands, dear Jesus, were not arm'd +With a revenging rod, +No hard commission to perform +The vengeance of a God. + +4 But all was mercy, all was mild, +And wrath forsook the throne, +When Christ on the kind errand came, +And brought salvation down. + +5 Here, sinners, you may heal your wounds, +And wipe your sorrows dry; +Trust in the mighty Saviour's Name, +And you shall never die. + +6 See, dearest Lord our willing souls +Accept thine offer'd grace; +We bless the great Redeemer's love, +And give the Father praise. + + +Hymn 2:104. +The same. + +1 Raise your triumphant songs +To an immortal tune, +Let the wide earth resound the deeds +Celestial grace has done. + +2 Sing how eternal love +Its chief beloved chose, +And bid him raise our wretched race +From their abyss of woes. + +3 His hand no thunder bears, +Nor terror clothes his brow, +No bolts to drive our guilty souls +To fiercer flames below. + +4 'Twas mercy fill'd the throne, +And wrath stood silent by, +When Christ was sent with pardons down +To rebels doom'd to die. + +5 Now, sinners, dry your tears, +Let hopeless sorrow cease; +Bow to the sceptre of his love, +And take the offer'd peace. + +6 Lord we obey thy call; +We lay an humble claim +To the salvation thou hast brought, +And love and praise thy Name. + + +Hymn 2:105. +Repentance flowing from the patience of God. + +1 And are we wretches yet alive? +And do we yet rebel? +'Tis boundless, 'tis amazing love +That bears us up from hell! + +2 The burden of our weighty guilt +Would sink us down to flames, +And threatening vengeance rolls above +To crush our feeble frames. + +3 Almighty goodness cries, "Forbear;" +And straight the thunder stays; +And dare we now provoke his wrath, +And weary out his grace? + +4 Lord, we have long abus'd thy love, +Too long indulg'd our sin; +Our aching hearts e'en bleed to see +What rebels we have been. + +5 No more, ye lusts, shall ye command, +No more will we obey; +Stretch out, O God, thy conquering hand, +And drive thy foes away. + + +Hymn 2:106. +Repentance at the cross. + +1 Oh, if my soul was form'd for woe, +How would I vent my sighs! +Repentance should like rivers flow +From both my streaming eyes. + +2 'Twas for my sins, my dearest Lord +Hung on the cursed tree, +And groan'd away a dying life, +For thee, my soul, for thee. + +3 O how I hate those lusts of mine +That crucify'd my God, +Those sins that pierc'd and nail'd his flesh +Fast to the fatal wood! + +4 Yes, my Redeemer, they shall die, +My heart has so decreed, +Nor will I spare the guilty things +That made my Saviour bleed. + +5 Whilst with a melting broken heart +My murder'd Lord I view, +I'll raise revenge against my sins, +And slay the murderers too. + + +Hymn 2:107. +The everlasting absence of God intolerable. + +1 That awful day will surely come, +Th' appointed hour makes haste, +When I must stand before my Judge, +And pass the solemn test. + +2 Thou lovely chief of all my joys, +Thou sovereign of my heart, +How could I bear to hear thy voice +Pronounce the sound, "Depart?" + +3 [The thunder of that dismal word, +Would so torment my ear, +'Twould tear my soul asunder, Lord, +With most tormenting fear.] + +4 [What, to be banish'd from my life, +And yet forbid to die! +To linger in eternal pain, +Yet death for ever fly!] + +5 O wretched state of deep despair, +To see my God remove, +And fix my doleful station where +I must not taste his Love. + +6 Jesus, I throw my arms around, +And hang upon thy breast; +Without a gracious smile from thee +My spirit cannot rest. + +7 O tell me that my worthless name +Is graven on thy hands; +Shew me some promise in thy book +Where my salvation stands! + +8 [Give me one kind assuring word, +To sink my fears again, +And cheerfully my soul shall wait +Her threescore years and ten.] + + +Hymn 2:108. +Access to the throne of grace by a Mediator. + +1 Come, let us lift our joyful eyes +Up to the courts above, +And smile to see our Father there +Upon a throne of love. + +2 Once 'twas a seat of dreadful wrath, +And shot devouring flame; +Our God appear'd consuming fire, +And vengeance was his name. + +3 Rich were the drops of Jesus' blood, +That calm'd his frowning face, +That sprinkled o'er the burning throne, +And turn'd the wrath to grace. + +4 Now we may bow before his feet, +And venture near the Lord; +No fiery cherub guards his seat, +Nor double-flaming sword. + +5 The peaceful gates of heavenly bliss +Are open'd by the Son; +High let us raise our notes of praise, +And reach th' Almighty throne. + +6 To thee ten thousand thanks we bring +Great Advocate on high: +And glory to th' eternal King +That lays his fury by. + + +Hymn 2:109. +The darkness of providence. + +1 Lord, we adore thy vast designs, +Th' obscure abyss of providence, +Too deep to sound with mortal lines +Too dark to view with feeble sense. + +2 Now thou array'st thine awful face +In angry frowns, without a smile; +We thro' the cloud believe thy grace, +Secure of thy compassion still. + +3 Thro' seas and storms of deep distress +We sail by faith and not by sight; +Faith guides us in the wilderness +Through all the briers and the night. + +4 Dear Father, if thy lifted rod +Resolve to scourge us here below, +Still we must lean upon our God, +Thine arm shall bear us safely thro'. + + +Hymn 2:110. +Triumph over death in +hope of the resurrection. + +1 And must this body die? +This mortal frame decay? +And must these active limbs of mine +Lie mouldering in the clay? + +2 Corruption, earth and worms, +Shall but refine this flesh, +Till my triumphant spirit comes +To put it on afresh. + +3 God my Redeemer lives, +And often from the skies +Looks down, and watches all my dust, +Till he shall bid it rise. + +4 Array'd in glorious grace +Shall these vile bodies shine, +And every shape and every face +Look heavenly and divine. + +5 These lively hopes we owe +To Jesus' dying love; +We would adore his grace below, +And sing his power above. + +6 Dear Lord, accept the praise +Of these our humble songs, +Till tunes of nobler sound we raise +With our immortal tongues. + + +Hymn 2:111. +Thanksgiving for victory; or, God's +dominion and our deliverance. + +1 Zion rejoice, and Judah sing; +The Lord assumes his throne; +Let Britain own the heavenly King, +And make his glories known. + +2 The great, the wicked, and the proud, +From their high seats are hurl'd; +Jehovah rides upon a cloud, +And thunders thro' the world. + +3 He reigns upon th' eternal hills, +Distributes mortal crowns, +Empires are fix'd beneath his smiles, +And totter at his frowns. + +4 Navies, that rule the ocean wide, +Are vanquish'd by his breath; +And legions arm'd with power and pride +Descend to watery death. + +5 Let tyrants make no more pretence +To vex our happy land; +Jehovah's Name is our defence, +Our buckler is his hand. + +6 [Long may the King our Sovereign live +To rule us by his word; +And all the honours he can give +Be offer'd to the Lord.] + + +Hymn 2:112. +Angels ministering to Christ and saints. + +1 Great God, to what a glorious height +Hast thou advanc'd the Lord thy Son! +Angels, in all their robes of light, +Are made the servants of his throne. + +2 Before his feet their armies wait, +And swift as flames of fire they move, +To manage his affairs of state +In works of vengeance or of love. + +3 His orders run thro' all their hosts, +Legions descend at his command +To shield and guard the British coasts, +When foreign rage invades our land. + +4 Now they are sent to guide our feet +Up to the gates of thine abode, +Thro' all the dangers that we meet +In travelling the heavenly road. + +5 Lord, when I leave this mortal ground, +And thou shall bid me rise and come, +Send a beloved angel down +Safe to conduct my spirit home. + + +Hymn 2:113. +The same. + +1 The majesty of Solomon! +How glorious to behold +The servants waiting round his throne, +The ivory and the gold. + +2 But, mighty God, thy palace shines +With far superior beams; +Thine angel-guards are swift as winds, +Thy ministers are flames. + +3 [Soon as thine only Son had made +His entrance on this earth, +A shining army downward fled +To celebrate his birth. + +4 And when oppress'd with pains and fears +On the cold ground he lies, +Behold a heavenly form appears +T' allay his agonies.] + +5 Now to the hands of Christ our King +Are all their legions given; +They wait upon his saints, and bring +His chosen heirs to heaven. + +6 Pleasure and praise run thro' their host +To see a sinner turn; +Then Satan has a captive lost, +And Christ a subject born. + +7 But there's an hour of brighter joy, +When he his angels sends +Obstinate rebels to destroy, +And gather in his friends. + +8 O! could I say, without a doubt, +There shall my soul be found, +Then let the great archangel shout, +And the last trumpet sound. + + +Hymn 2:114. +Christ's death, victory and dominion. + +1 I sing my Saviour's wondrous death; +He conquer'd when he fell: +_'Tis finish'd_, said his dying breath, +And shook the gates of hell. + +2 _'Tis finish'd_, our Immanuel cries, +The dreadful work is done; +Hence shall his sovereign throne arise, +His kingdom is begun. + +3 His cross a sure foundation laid +For glory and renown, +When thro' the regions of the dead +He pass'd to reach the crown. + +4 Exalted at his Father's side +Sits our victorious Lord; +To heaven and hell his hands divide +The vengeance or reward. + +5 The saints from his propitious eye +Await their several crowns, +And all the sons of darkness fly +The terror of his frowns. + + +Hymn 2:115. +God the avenger of his saints; or, His kingdom. + +1 High as the heavens above the ground +Reigns the Creator God; +Wide as the whole creation's bound +Extends his awful rod. + +2 Let princes of exalted state +To him ascribe their crown, +Render their homage at his feet, +And cast their glories down. + +3 Know that his kingdom is supreme, +Your lofty thoughts are vain; +He calls you gods, that awful name, +But ye must die like men. + +4 Then let the sovereigns of the globe +Not dare to vex the just; +He puts on vengeance like a robe, +And treads the worms to dust. + +5 Ye judges of the earth, be wise, +And think on heaven with fear; +The meanest saint that you despise +Has an avenger there. + + +Hymn 2:116. +Mercies and thanks. + +1 How can I sink with such a prop +As my eternal God, +Who bears the earth's huge pillars up, +And spreads the heavens abroad? + +2 How can I die while Jesus lives, +Who rose and left the dead? +Pardon and grace my soul receives +From mine exalted head. + +3 All that I am, and all I have +Shall be for ever thine, +Whate'er my duty bids me give +My cheerful hands resign. + +4 Yet if I might make some reserve, +And duty did not call, +I love my God with zeal so great +That I should give him all. + + +Hymn 2:117. +Living and dying with God present. + +1 I cannot bear thine absence, Lord, +My life expires if thou depart; +Be thou, my heart, still near my God, +And thou, my God, be near my heart. + +2 I was not born for earth and sin, +Nor can I live on things so vile; +Yet I would stay my Father's time, +And hope and wait for heaven a while. + +3 Then, dearest Lord, in thine embrace +Let me resign my fleeting breath, +And with a smile upon my face +Pass the important hour of death. + + +Hymn 2:118. +The priesthood of Christ. + +1 Blood has a voice to pierce the skies +_Revenge_, the blood of Abel cries; +But the dear stream when Christ was slain +Speaks _Peace_ as loud from ev'ry vein. + +2 Pardon and peace from God on high, +Behold he lays his vengeance by, +And rebels that deserv'd his sword, +Become the favourites of the Lord. + +3 To Jesus let our praises rise, +Who gave his life a sacrifice; +Now he appears before his God, +And for our pardon pleads his blood. + + +Hymn 2:119. +The holy scriptures. + +1 Laden with guilt, and full of fears, +I fly to thee, my Lord, +And not a glimpse of hope appears, +But in thy written word. + +2 The volume of my Father's grace +Does all my griefs assuage: +Here I behold my Saviour's face +Almost in every page. + +3 [This is the field where hidden lies +The pearl of price unknown, +That merchant is divinely wise +Who makes the pearl his own.] + +4 [Here consecrated water flows +To quench my thirst of sin; +Here the fair tree of knowledge grows, +Nor danger dwells therein.] + +5 This is the Judge that ends the strife, +Where wit and reason fail; +My guide to everlasting life, +Thro' all this gloomy vale. + + +6 O may thy counsels, mighty God, +My roving feet command; +Nor I forsake the happy road +That leads to thy right-hand. + + +Hymn 2:120. +The law and gospel joined in scripture. + +1 The Lord declares his will, +And keeps the world in awe; +Amidst the smoke on Sinai's hill +Breaks out his fiery law. + +2 The Lord reveals his face, +And smiling from above, +Sends down the gospel of his grace, +Th' epistles of his love. + +3 These sacred words impart +Our Maker's just commands; +The pity of his melting heart, +And vengeance of his hands. + +4 [Hence we awake our fear, +We draw our comfort hence; +The arms of grace are treasur'd here, +And armour of defence. + +5 We learn Christ crucify'd, +And here behold his blood: +All arts and knowledges beside +Will do us little good.] + +6 We read the heavenly word, +We take the offer'd grace, +Obey the statutes of the Lord, +And trust his promises. + +7 In vain shall Satan rage +Against a book divine; +Where wrath and lightning guard the page, +Where beams of mercy shine. + + +Hymn 2:121. +The law and gospel distinguished. + +1 The law commands, and makes us know +What duties to our God we owe; +But 'tis the gospel must reveal +Where lies our strength to do his will. + +2 The law discovers guilt and sin, +And shews how vile our hearts have been; +Only the gospel can express +Forgiving love and cleansing grace. + +3 What curses doth the law denounce +Against the man that fails but once! +But in the gospel Christ appears +Pardoning the guilt of numerous years. + +4 My soul, no more attempt to draw +Thy life and comfort from the law, +Fly to the hope the gospel gives; +The man that trusts the promise lives. + + +Hymn 2:122. +Retirement and meditation. + +1 My God, permit me not to be +A stranger to myself and thee; +Amidst a thousand thoughts I rove +Forgetful of my highest love. + +2 Why should my passions mix with earth, +And thus debase my heavenly birth? +Why should I cleave to things below, +And let my God, my Saviour go? + +3 Call me away from flesh and sense, +One sovereign word can draw me thence; +I would obey the voice divine, +And all inferior joys resign. + +4 Be earth with all her scenes withdrawn, +Let noise and vanity be gone; +In secret silence of the mind, +My heaven, and there my God I find. + + +Hymn 2:123. +The benefit of public ordinances. + +1 Away from every mortal care, +Away from earth our souls retreat; +We leave this worthless world afar, +And wait and worship near thy seat. + +2 Lord, in the temple of thy grace +We see thy feet, and we adore; +We gaze upon thy lovely face, +And learn the wonders of thy power. + +3 While here our various wants we mourn, +United groans ascend on high, +And prayer bears a quick return +Of blessings in variety. + +4 [If Satan rage and sin grow strong, +Here we receive some cheering word; +We gird the gospel armour on +To fight the battles of the Lord. + +5 Or if our spirit faints and dies, +(Our conscience gall'd with inward stings) +Here doth the righteous sun arise +With healing beams beneath his wings.] + +6 Father, my soul would still abide +Within thy temple, near thy side; +But if my feet must hence depart +Still keep thy dwelling in my heart. + + +Hymn 2:124. +Moses, Aaron, and Joshua. + +1 'Tis not the law of ten commands +On holy Sinai given, +Or sent to men by Moses' hands, +Can bring us safe to heaven. + +2 'Tis not the blood which Aaron spilt, +Nor smoke of sweetest smell, +Can buy a pardon for our guilt, +Or save our souls from hell. + +3 Aaron the priest resigns his breath +At God's immediate will; +And in the desert yields to death +Upon th' appointed hill. + +4 And thus on Jordan's yonder side +The tribes of Israel stand, +While Moses bow'd his head and dy'd +Short of the promis'd land. + +5 Israel rejoice, now Joshua * leads, +He'll bring your tribes to rest; +So far the Saviour's name exceeds +The ruler and the priest. + +* Joshua, the same with Jesus, +and signifies a Saviour. + + +Hymn 2:125. +Faith and repentance; unbelief and impenitence. + +1 Life and immortal joys are given +To those that mourn the sins they've done, +Children of wrath made heirs of heaven +By faith in God's eternal Son. + +2 Woe to the wretch that never felt +The inward pangs of pious grief, +But adds to all his crying guilt +The stubborn sin of unbelief. + +3 The law condemns the rebel dead, +Under the wrath of God he lies, +He seals the curse on his own head, +And with a double vengeance dies. + + +Hymn 2:126. +God glorified in the gospel. + +1 The Lord, descending from above, +Invites his children near, +While power and truth and boundless love +Display their glories here. + +2 Here in thy gospel's wondrous frame +Fresh wisdom we pursue; +A thousand angels learn thy Name +Beyond whate'er they knew. + +3 Thy Name is writ in fairest lines, +Thy wonders here we trace; +Wisdom thro' all the mystery shines, +And shines in Jesu's face. + +4 The law its best obedience owes +To our incarnate God; +And thy revenging justice shows +Its honours in his blood. + +6 But still the lustre of thy grace +Our warmer thoughts employs, +Gilds the whole scene with brighter rays, +And more exalts our joys. + + +Hymn 2:127. +Circumcision and baptism. +(Written only for those +who practise infant baptism.) + +1 Thus did the sons of Abrah'm pass +Under the bloody seal of grace; +The young disciples bore the yoke, +Till Christ the painful bondage broke. + +2 By milder ways doth Jesus prove +His Father's covenant, and his love; +He seals to saints his glorious grace, +And not forbids their infant race. + +3 Their seed is sprinkled with his blood, +Their children set apart for God, +His Spirit on their offspring shed, +Like water pour'd upon the head. + +4 Let every saint with cheerful voice +In this large covenant rejoice; +Young children in their early days +Shall give the God of Abrah'm praise. + + +Hymn 2:128. +Corrupt nature from Adam. + +1 Bless'd with the joy of innocence +Adam, our father, stood, +Till he debas'd his soul to sense, +And ate th' unlawful food. + +2 Now we are born a sensual race, +To sinful joys inclin'd; +Reason has lost its native place, +And flesh enslaves the mind. + +3 While flesh and sense and passion reigns, +Sin is the sweetest good: +We fancy music in our chains, +And so forget the load. + +4 Great God, renew our ruin'd frame, +Our broken powers restore, +Inspire us with a heavenly flame, +And flesh shall reign no more. + +5 Eternal Spirit, write thy law +Upon our inward parts, +And let the second Adam draw +His image on our hearts. + + +Hymn 2:129. +We walk by faith, not by sight. + +1 'Tis by the faith of joys to come +We walk thro' deserts dark as night; +Till we arrive at heaven our home, +Faith is our guide, and faith our light. + +2 The want of sight she well supplies, +She makes the pearly gates appear; +Far into distant worlds she pries, +And brings eternal glories near. + +3 Cheerful we tread the desert thro', +While faith inspires a heavenly ray, +Tho' lions roar, and tempests blow, +And rocks and dangers fill the way. + +4 So Abrah'm, by divine command, +Left his own house to walk with God; +His faith beheld the promis'd land, +And fir'd his zeal along the road. + + +Hymn 2:130. +The new creation. + +1 Attend while God's exalted Son +Doth his own glories shew; +"Behold I sit upon my throne +Creating all things new. + +2 "Nature and sin are pass'd away, +And the old Adam dies; +"My hands a new foundation lay, +"See the new world arise. + +3 "I'll be a sun of righteousness +"To the new-heavens I make; +"None but the new-born heirs of grace +"My glories shall partake." + +4 Mighty Redeemer, set me free +From my old state of sin; +O make my soul alive to thee, +Create new powers within. + +5 Renew mine eyes, and form mine ears, +And mould my heart afresh; +Give me new passions, joys and fears, +And turn the stone to flesh. + +6 Far from the regions of the dead, +From sin, and earth, and hell, +In the new-world that grace has made +I would for ever dwell. + + +Hymn 2:131. +The excellency of the Christian religion. + +1 Let everlasting glories crown +Thy head, my Saviour and my Lord; +Thy hands have brought salvation down, +And writ the blessings in thy word. + +2 [What if we trace the globe around, +And search from Britain to Japan, +There shall be no religion found +So just to God, so safe for man.] + +3 In vain the trembling conscience seeks +Some solid ground to rest upon; +With long despair the spirit breaks, +Till we apply to Christ alone. + +4 How well thy blessed truths agree! +How wise and holy thy commands! +Thy promises how firm they be! +How firm our hope and comfort stands! + +5 [Not the feign'd fields of heathenish bliss +Could raise such pleasures in the mind; +Nor does the Turkish paradise +Pretend to joys so well refin'd.] + +6 Should all the forms that men devise +Assault my faith with treacherous art, +I'd call them vanity and lies +And bind the gospel to my heart. + + +Hymn 2:132. +The offices of Christ. + +1 We bless the Prophet of the Lord, +That comes with truth and grace; +Jesus, thy Spirit and thy word +Shall lead us in thy ways. + +2 We reverence our High Priest above, +Who offer'd up his blood, +And lives to carry on his love, +By pleading with our God. + +3 We honour our exalted King, +How sweet are his commands! +He guards our souls from hell and sin +By his almighty hands. + +4 Hosanna to his glorious Name, +Who saves by different ways; +His mercies lay a sovereign claim +To our immortal praise. + + +Hymn 2:133. +The operations of the Holy Spirit. + +1 Eternal Spirit! we confess +And sing the wonders of thy grace; +Thy power conveys our blessings down +From God the Father and the Son. + +2 Enlighten'd by thine heavenly ray +Our shades and darkness turn to day; +Thine inward teachings make us know +Our danger and our refuge too. + +3 Thy power and glory works within, +And breaks the chains of reigning sin, +Doth our imperious lusts subdue, +And forms our wretched hearts anew. + +4 The troubled conscience knows thy voice, +Thy cheering words awake our joys; +Thy words allay the stormy wind, +And calm the surges of the mind. + + +Hymn 2:134. +Circumcision abolished. + +1 The promise was divinely free, +Extensive was the grace; +"I will the God of Abrah'm be, +"And of his numerous race." + +2 He said; and with a bloody seal +Confirm'd the words he spoke; +Long did the Sons of Abrah'm feel +The sharp and painful yoke. + +3 Till God's own Son, descending low, +Gave his own flesh to bleed; +And Gentiles taste the blessing now, +From the hard bondage freed. + +4 The God of Abrah'm claims our praise, +His promises endure; +And Christ the Lord in gentler ways +Makes the salvation sure. + + +Hymn 2:135. +Types and prophecies of Christ. + +1 Behold the woman's promis'd seed! +Behold the great Messiah come! +Behold the prophets all agreed +To give him the superior room! + +2 Abrah'm the saint rejoic'd of old +When visions of the Lord he saw; +Moses the man of God foretold +This great fulfiller of his law. + +3 The types bore witness to his Name, +Obtain'd their chief design, and ceas'd; +The incense and the bleeding lamb, +The ark, the altar, and the priest. + +4 Predictions in abundance meet +To join their blessings on his head; +Jesus, we worship at thy feet, +And nations own the promis'd seed. + + +Hymn 2:136. +Miracles at the birth of Christ. + +1 The King of Glory sends his Son +To make his entrance on this earth! +Behold the midnight bright as noon, +And heavenly hosts declare his birth! + +2 About the young Redeemer's head +What wonders and what glories meet! +An unknown star arose, and led +The eastern sages to his feet. + +3 Simeon and Anna both conspire +The Infant-Saviour to proclaim; +Inward they felt the sacred fire, +And bless'd the babe, and own'd his Name. + +4 Let Jews and Greeks blaspheme aloud, +And treat the holy Child with scorn; +Our souls adore th' eternal God +Who condescended to be born. + + +Hymn 2:137. +Miracles in the life, death, +and resurrection of Christ. + +1 Behold the blind their sight receive; +Behold the dead awake and live; +The dumb speak wonders, and the lame +Leap like the hart, and bless his Name. + +2 Thus doth th' eternal Spirit own +And seal the mission of the Son; +The Father vindicates his cause, +While he hangs bleeding on the cross. + +3 He dies; the heavens in mourning stood; +He rises, and appears a God; +Behold the Lord ascending high, +No more to bleed, no more to die. + +4 Hence and for ever from my heart +I bid my doubts and fears depart; +And to those hands my soul resign +Which bear credentials so divine. + + +Hymn 2:138. +The power of the gospel. + +1 This is the word of truth and love, +Sent to the nations from above; +Jehovah here resolves to shew +What his almighty grace can do. + +2 This remedy did wisdom find +To heal diseases of the mind: +This sovereign balm, whose virtues can +Restore the ruin'd creature, man. + +3 The gospel bids the dead revive, +Sinners obey the voice, and live; +Dry bones are rais'd and cloth'd afresh, +And hearts of stone are turn'd to flesh. + +4 [Where Satan reign'd in shades of night +The gospel strikes a heavenly light; +Our lusts its wondrous power controls, +And calms the rage of angry souls.] + +5 [Lions and beasts of savage name +Put on the nature of the lamb; +Whilst the wild world esteems it strange +Gaze, and admire, and hate the change.] + +6 May but this grace my soul renew, +Let sinners gaze and hate me too; +The word that saves me does engage +A sure defence from all their rage. + + +Hymn 2:139. +The example of Christ. + +1 My dear Redeemer and my Lord, +I read my duty in thy word; +But in thy life the law appears +Drawn out in living characters. + +2 Such was thy truth, and such thy zeal, +Such deference to thy Father's will, +Such love, and meekness so divine, +I would transcribe, and make them mine. + +3 Cold mountains and the midnight air +Witness'd the fervor of thy prayer: +The desert thy temptations knew, +Thy conflict and thy victory too. + +4 Be thou my pattern; make me bear +More of thy gracious image here; +Then God the Judge shall own my name, +Amongst the followers of the Lamb. + + +Hymn 2:140. +The example: of Christ and the saints. + +1 Give me the wings of faith to rise +Within the veil, and see +The saints above, how great their joys, +How bright their glories be. + +2 Once they were mourning here below, +And wet their couch with tears; +They wrestled hard, as we do now, +With sins, and doubts, and fears. + +3 I ask them whence their victory came, +They, with united breath, +Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb, +Their triumph to his death. + +4 They mark'd the footsteps that he trod, +(His zeal inspir'd their breast;) +And following their incarnate God +Possess the promis'd rest. + +5 Our glorious Leader claims our praise +For his own pattern given, +While the long cloud of witnesses +Shew the same path to heaven. + + +Hymn 2:141. +Faith assisted by sense; or, Preaching, +baptism, and the Lord's Supper. + +1 My Saviour-God, my Sovereign-Prince +Reigns far above the skies; +But brings his graces down to sense, +And helps my faith to rise. + +2 My eyes and ears shall bless his Name, +They read and hear his word; +My touch and taste shall do the same +When they receive the Lord. + +3 Baptismal water is design'd +To seal his cleansing grace; +While at his feast of bread and wine +He gives his saints a place. + +4 But not the waters of a flood +Can make my flesh so clean, +As by his Spirit and his blood +He'll wash my soul from sin. + +5 Not choicest meats or noblest wines, +So much my heart refresh, +As when my faith goes thro' the signs, +And feeds upon his flesh. + +6 I love the Lord, that stoops so low +To give his word a seal; +But the rich grace his hands bestow +Exceeds the figures still. + + +Hymn 2:142. +Faith in Christ our sacrifice. + +1 Not all the blood of beasts +On Jewish altars slain +Could give the guilty conscience peace, +Or wash away the stain. + +2 But Christ the heavenly Lamb +Takes all our sins away; +A sacrifice of nobler name +And richer blood than they. + +3 My faith would lay her hand +On that dear head of thine, +While like a penitent I stand +And there confess my sin. + +4 My soul looks back to see +The burdens thou didst bear +When hanging on the cursed tree, +And hopes her guilt was there. + +5 Believing we rejoice +To see the curse remove; +We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice, +And sing his bleeding love. + + +Hymn 2:143. +Flesh and spirit. + +1 What different powers of grace and sin +Attend our mortal state! +I hate the thoughts that work within, +And do the works I hate. + +2 Now I complain, and groan, and die, +While sin and Satan reign: +Now raise my songs of triumph high, +For grace prevails again. + +3 So darkness struggles with the light +Till perfect day arise; +Water and fire maintain the fight +Until the weaker dies. + +4 Thus will the flesh and spirit strive, +And vex and break my peace; +But I shall quit this mortal life, +And sin for ever cease. + + +Hymn 2:144. +The effusion of the Spirit; or, +The success of the gospel. + +1 Great 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. + +2 What gifts, what miracles he gave! +And power to kill, 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 +From east to west, from south to north; +"Go, and assert your Saviour's cause, +"Go, spread the mystery of his cross." + +4 These weapons of the holy war, +Of what almighty force they are +To make our stubborn passions bow, +And lay the proudest rebel low! + +5 Nations, the learned and the rude, +Are by these 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 too, +A willing captive to my Lord, +And sing the victories of his word. + + +Hymn 2:145. +Sight through a glass, and face to face. + +1 I love the windows of thy grace +Thro' which my Lord is seen, +And long to meet my Saviour's face +Without a glass between. + +2 O, that the happy hour were come +To change my faith to sight! +I shall behold my Lord at home +In a diviner light. + +3 Haste, my beloved, and remove +These interposing days: +Then shall my passions all be love, +And all my powers be praise. + + +Hymn 2:146. +The vanity of creatures; +or, No rest on earth. + +1 Man has a soul of vast desires, +He burns within with restless fires; +Tost to and fro, his passions fly +From vanity to vanity. + +2 In vain on earth we hope to find +Some solid good to fill the mind, +We try new pleasures, but we feel +The inward thirst and torment still. + +3 So when a raging fever burns +We shift from side to side by turns, +And 'tis a poor relief we gain +To change the place, but keep the pain. + +4 Great God, subdue this vicious thirst, +This love to vanity and dust; +Cure the vile fever of the mind, +And feed our souls with joys refin'd. + + +Hymn 2:147. +The creation of the world, Gen. 1. + +1 "Now let a spacious world arise," +Said the Creator-Lord: +At once the obedient earth and skies +Rose at his sovereign word. + +2 [Dark was the deep; the waters lay +Confus'd and drown'd the land: +He call'd the light; the new-born day +Attends on his command. + +3 He bids the clouds ascend on high; +The clouds ascend and bear +A watery treasure to the sky, +And float on softer air. + +4 The liquid element below +Was gather'd by his hand; +The rolling seas together flow, +And leave the solid land. + +5 With herbs and plants, a flowery birth, +The naked globe he crown'd, +Ere there was rain to bless the earth, +Or sun to warm the ground. + +6 Then he adorn'd the upper skies; +Behold the sun appears, +The moon and stars in order rise +To make our months and years, + +7 Out of the deep th' almighty King +Did vital beings frame; +The painted fowls of every wing, +And fish of every name.] + +8 He gave the lion and the worm +At once their wondrous birth; +And grazing beasts of various form, +Rose from the teeming earth. + +9 Adam was fram'd of equal clay, +Tho' sovereign of the rest, +Design'd for nobler ends than they, +With God's own image bless'd. + +10 Thus glorious in the Maker's eye +The young creation stood; +He saw the building from on high, +His word pronounc'd it good. + +11 Lord, while the frame of nature stands, +Thy praise shall fill my tongue; +But the new world of grace demands +A more exalted song. + + +Hymn 2:148. +God reconciled in Christ. + +1 Dearest of all the names above +My Jesus, and my God, +Who can resist thy heavenly love, +Or trifle with thy blood? + +2 'Tis by the merits of thy death +The Father smiles again; +'Tis by thine interceding breath +The Spirit dwells with men. + +3 Till God in human flesh I see, +My thoughts no comfort find; +The holy, just, and sacred Three +Are terrors to my mind. + +4 But if Immanuel's face appear, +My hope, my joy, begins; +His Name forbids my slavish fear, +His grace removes my sins. + +5 While Jews on their own law rely, +And Greeks of wisdom boast, +I love th' incarnate mystery, +And there I fix my trust. + + +Hymn 2:149. +Honour to Magistrates; or, +Government from God. + +1 Eternal Sovereign of the sky, +And Lord of all below, +We mortals to thy majesty +Our first obedience owe. + +2 Our souls adore thy throne supreme, +And bless thy providence +For magistrates of meaner name, +Our glory and defence. + +3 [The crowns of British princes shine +With rays above the rest, +Where laws and liberties combine +To make the nation bless'd.] + +4 Kingdoms on firm foundations stand, +While virtue finds reward; +And sinners perish from the land +By justice and the sword. + +5 Let Cesar's due be ever paid +To Cesar and his throne; +But consciences and souls were made +To be the Lord's alone. + + +Hymn 2:150. +The deceitfulness of sin. + +1 Sin has a thousand treacherous arts +To practise on the mind; +With flattering 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, +She makes his fetters strong. + +3 She pleads for all the joys she brings, +And gives a fair pretence; +But cheats the soul of heavenly things, +And chains it down to sense. + +4 So on a tree divinely fair +Grew the forbidden food; +Our mother took the poison there, +And tainted all her blood. + + +Hymn 2:151. +Prophesy and inspiration. + +1 'Twas by an order from the Lord +The ancient prophets spoke his word; +His Spirit did their tongues inspire, +And warm'd their hearts with heavenly fire. + +2 The works and wonders which they wrought +Confirm'd the messages they brought; +The prophet's pen succeeds his breath +To save the holy words from death. + +3 Great God, mine eyes with pleasure look +On the dear volume of thy book; +There my Redeemer's face I see, +And read his name who dy'd for me. + +4 Let the false raptures of the mind +Be lost and vanish in the wind; +Here I can fix my hopes secure, +This is thy word, and must endure. + + +Hymn 2:152. +Sinai and Sion, Heb. 12. 18 &c. + +1 Not to the terrors of the Lord, +The tempest, fire, and smoke, +Not to the thunder of that word +Which God on Sinai spoke; + +2 But we are come to Sion's hill, +The city of our God, +Where milder words declare his will +And spread his love abroad. + +3 Behold th' innumerable host +Of angels cloth'd in light! +Behold the spirits of the just +Whose faith is turn'd to sight! + +4 Behold the bless'd assembly there, +Whose names are writ in heaven; +And God the judge of all declares +Their vilest sins forgiven. + +5 The saints on earth and all the dead +But one communion make; +All join in Christ their living head, +And of his grace partake. + +6 In such society as this +My weary soul would rest: +The man that dwells where Jesus is, +Must be for ever blest. + + +Hymn 2:153. +The distemper, folly, and madness of sin. + +1 Sin like a venomous disease +Infects our vital blood; +The only balm is sovereign grace, +And the physician, God. + +2 Our beauty and our strength are fled, +And we draw near to death; +But Christ the Lord recalls the dead +With his almighty breath. + +3 Madness by nature reigns within, +The passions burn and rage; +Till God's own Son with skill divine +The inward fire assuage. + +4 [We lick the dust, we grasp the wind, +And solid good despise; +Such is the folly of the mind, +Till Jesus makes us wise. + +5 We give our souls the wounds they feel, +We drink the poisonous gall, +And rush with fury down to hell; +But heaven prevents the fall.] + +6 [The man possess'd amongst the tombs, +Cuts his own flesh and cries; +He foams, and raves, till Jesus comes, +And the foul spirit flies.] + + +Hymn 2:154. +Self-righteousness insufficient. + +1 "Where are the mourners, [1] (saith the Lord) +"That wait and tremble at my word, +"That walk in darkness all the day? +"Come, make my name your trust and stay. + +2 ["No works nor duties of your own +"Can for the smallest sin atone; +"The robes [2] that nature may provide +"Will not your least pollutions hide. + +3 "The softest couch that nature knows +"Can give the conscience no repose: +"Look to my righteousness, and live; +"Comfort and peace are mine to give.] + +4 "Ye sons of pride that kindle coals +"With your own hands to warm your souls, +"Walk in the light of your own fire, +"Enjoy the sparks that ye desire. + +5 "This is your portion at my hands; +"Hell waits you with her iron bands, +"Ye shall lie down in sorrow there, +"In death, in darkness, and despair." + +[1] Isaiah 1:10-11. [2] Isaiah 28:20. + + +Hymn 2:155. +Christ our passover. + +1 Lo the destroying angel flies +To Pharaoh's stubborn land: +The pride and flower of Egypt dies +By his vindictive hand. + +2 He pass'd the tents of Jacob o'er, +Nor pour'd the wrath divine; +He saw the blood on every door, +And bless'd the peaceful sign. + +3 Thus th' appointed Lamb must bleed +To break th' Egyptian yoke; +Thus Israel is from bondage freed, +And 'scapes the angel's stroke. + +4 Lord, if my heart were sprinkled too +With blood so rich as thine, +Justice no longer would pursue +This guilty soul of mine. + +5 Jesus our passover was slain, +And has at once procur'd +Freedom from Satan's heavy chain, +And God's avenging sword. + + +Hymn 2:156. +Presumption and despair; +or, Satan's various temptations. + +1 I hate the tempter and his charms, +I hate his flattering breath; +The serpent takes a thousand forms +To cheat our souls to death. + +2 He feeds our hopes with airy dreams, +Or kills with slavish fear; +And holds us still in wide extremes, +Presumption, or despair. + +3 Now he persuades, "How easy 'tis +"To walk the road to heaven;" +Anon he swells our sins, and cries, +"They cannot be forgiven." + +4 [He bids young sinners, "Yet forbear +"To think of God or death; +"For prayer and devotion are +"But melancholy breath." + +5 He tells the aged, "They must die, +"And 'tis too late to pray; +"In vain for mercy now they cry, +"For they have lost their day."] + +6 Thus he supports his cruel throne +By mischief and deceit; +And drags the sons of Adam down +To darkness and the pit. + +7 Almighty God, cut short his power, +Let him in darkness dwell; +And, that he vex the earth no more, +Confine him down to hell. + + +Hymn 2:157. +The same. + +1 Now Satan comes with dreadful roar, +And threatens to destroy; +He worries whom he can't devour +With a malicious joy. + +2 Ye sons of God, oppose his rage, +Resist, and he'll be gone; +Thus did our dearest Lord engage +And vanquish him alone. + +3 Now he appears almost divine +Like innocence and love, +But the old serpent lurks within +When he assumes the dove. + +4 Fly from the false deceiver's tongue, +Ye Sons of Adam, fly; +Our parents found the snare too strong, +Nor should the children try. + + +Hymn 2:158. +Few saved; or, The almost Christian, +the hypocrite, and apostate. + +1 Broad is the road that leads to death, +And thousands walk together there; +But wisdom shews a narrower path, +With here and there a traveller. + +2 "Deny thyself, and take thy cross," +Is the Redeemer's great command; +Nature must count her gold but dross +If she would gain this heavenly land. + +3 The fearful soul that tires and faints, +And walks the ways of God no more, +Is but esteem'd almost a saint, +And makes his own destruction sure. + +4 Lord, let not all my hopes be vain; +Create my heart entirely new, +Which hypocrites could ne'er attain, +Which false apostates never knew. + + +Hymn 2:159. +An unconverted state; +or, Converting grace. + +1 [Great King of Glory and of grace, +We own with humble shame, +How vile is our degenerate race, +And our first father's name.] + +2 From Adam flows our tainted blood, +The poison reigns within, +Makes us averse to all that's good, +And willing slaves to sin. + +3 [Daily we break thy holy laws, +And then reject thy grace; +Engag'd in the old serpent's cause +Against our Maker's face.] + +4 We live estrang'd afar from God, +And love the distance well; +With haste we run the dangerous road +That leads to death and hell. + +5 And can such rebels be restor'd? +Such natures made divine? +Let sinners see thy glory, Lord, +And feel this power of thine. + +6 We raise our Father's name on high, +Who his own Spirit sends +To bring rebellious strangers nigh, +And turn his foes to friends. + + +Hymn 2:160. +Custom in sin. + +1 Let the wild leopards of the wood +Put off the spots that nature gives, +Then may the wicked turn to God, +And change their tempers and their lives. + +2 As well might Ethiopian slaves +Wash out the darkness of their skin; +The dead as well might leave their graves, +As old transgressors cease to sin. + +3 Where vice has held its empire long +'Twill not endure the least control; +None but a power divinely strong +Can turn the current of the soul. + +4 Great God, I own thy power divine, +That works to change this heart of mine; +I would be form'd anew, and bless +The wonders of creating grace. + + +Hymn 2:161. +Christian virtues; or, The +difficulty of conversion. + +1 Strait is the way, the door is strait +That leads to joys on high; +'Tis but a few that find the gate, +While crowds mistake and die. + +2 Beloved self must be deny'd, +The mind and will renew'd: +Passion suppress'd, and patience try'd, +And vain desires subdu'd. + +3 [Flesh is a dangerous foe to grace, +Where it prevails and rules; +Flesh must be humbled, pride abas'd, +Lest they destroy our souls. + +4 The love of gold be banish'd hence, +(That vile idolatry); +And every member, every sense +In sweet subjection lie.] + +5 The tongue, that most unruly power, +Requires a strong restraint; +We must be watchful every hour, +And pray, but never faint. + +6 Lord, can a feeble helpless worm +Fulfil a task so hard? +Thy grace must all my work perform, +And give the free reward. + + +Hymn 2:162 +Meditation of heaven; +or, The joy of faith. + +1 My thoughts surmount these lower skies +And look within the veil; +There springs of endless pleasure rise, +The waters never fail. + +2 There I behold with sweet delight +The blessed Three in One; +And strong affections fix my sight +On God's incarnate Son. + +3 His promise stands for ever firm, +His grace shall ne'er depart; +He binds my name upon his arm, +And seals it on his heart. + +4 Light are the pains that' nature brings, +How short our sorrows are, +When with eternal future things, +The present we compare! + +5 I would not be a stranger still +To that celestial place, +Where I for ever hope to dwell +Near my Redeemer's face. + + +Hymn 2:163. +Complaint of desertion and temptations. + +1 Dear Lord, behold our sore distress; +Our sins attempt to reign; +Stretch out thine arm of conquering grace, +And let thy foes be slain. + +2 [The lion with his dreadful roar +Affrights thy feeble sheep; +Reveal the glory of thy power, +And chain him to the deep. + +3 Must we indulge a long despair, +Shall our petitions die; +Our mournings never reach thine ear, +Nor tears affect thine eye?] + +4 If thou despise a mortal groan, +Yet hear a Saviour's blood; +An Advocate so near the throne +Pleads and prevails with God. + +5 He bought the Spirit's powerful sword +To slay our deadly foes; +Our sins shall die beneath thy word, +And hell in vain oppose. + +6 How boundless is our Father's grace, +In height and depth, and length! +He makes his Son our righteousness, +His Spirit is our strength. + + +Hymn 2:164. +The end of the world. + +1 Why should this earth delight us so? +Why should we fix our eyes +On these low grounds where sorrows grow, +And every pleasure dies? + +2 While time his sharpest teeth prepares +Our comforts to devour, +There is a land above the stars, +And joys above his power. + +3 Nature shall be dissolv'd and die, +The sun must end his race, +The earth and sea for ever fly +Before my Saviour's face. + +4 When will that glorious morning rise! +When the last trumpet sound, +And call the nations to the skies +From underneath the ground? + + +Hymn 2:165. +Unfruitfulness, ignorance, +and unsanctified affections. + +1 Long have I sat beneath the sound +Of thy salvation, Lord +But still how weak my faith is found, +And knowledge of thy word! + +2 Oft I frequent thy holy place +And hear almost in vain; +How small a portion of thy grace +My memory can retain! + +3 [My dear Almighty, and my God, +How little art thou known +By all the judgments of thy rod, +And blessings of thy throne!] + +4 [How cold and feeble is my love! +How negligent my fear! +How low my hope of joys above! +How few affections there!] + +5 Great God, thy sovereign power impart +To give thy word success: +Write the salvation in my heart, +And make me learn the grace. + +6 [Shew my forgetful feet the way +That leads to joys on high; +There knowledge grows without decay, +And love shall never die.] + + +Hymn 2:166. +The divine perfections. + +1 How shall I praise th' eternal God, +That infinite unknown? +Who can ascend his high abode, +Or venture near his throne? + +2 [The great Invisible! he dwells +Conceal'd in dazzling light; +But his all-searching eye reveals +The secrets of the night. + +3 Those watchful eyes that never sleep +Survey the world around; +His wisdom is a boundless deep +Where all our thoughts are drown'd.] + +4 [Speak we of strength? His arm is strong +To save or to destroy: +Infinite years his life prolong, +And endless is his joy.] + +5 [He knows no shadow of a change, +Nor alters his decrees; +Firm as a rock his truth remains +To guard his promises.] + +6 [Sinners before his presence die; +How holy is his Name! +His anger and his jealousy +Burn like devouring flame.] + +7 Justice upon a dreadful throne +Maintains the rights of God; +While Mercy sends her pardons down, +Bought with a Saviour's blood. + +8 Now to my soul, immortal King, +Speak some forgiving word; +Then 't will be double joy to sing +The glories of my Lord. + + +Hymn 2:167. +The divine perfections. + +1 Great God, thy glories shall employ +My holy fear, my humble joy; +My lips in songs of honour bring +Their tribute to th' eternal King. + +[2 Earth and the stars and worlds unknown, +Depend precarious on his throne, +All nature hangs upon his word, +And grace and glory own their Lord.] + +3 [His sovereign power what mortal knows? +If he command who dares oppose? +With strength he girds himself around, +And treads the rebels to the ground.] + +4 [Who shall pretend to teach him skill? +Or guide the counsels of his will? +His wisdom like a sea divine, +Flows deep and high beyond our line.] + +5 [His Name is holy, and his eye +Burns with immortal jealousy; +He hates the sons of pride, and sheds +His fiery vengeance on their heads.] + +6 [The beamings of his piercing sight +Bring dark hypocrisy to light; +Death and destruction naked lie, +And hell uncover'd to his eye.] + +7 [Th' eternal law before him stands; +His justice with impartial hands +Divides to all their due reward, +Or by the sceptre or the sword.] + +8 [His mercy like a boundless sea +Washes our loads of guilt away, +While his own Son came down and dy'd, +T' engage his justice on our side.] + +9 [Each of his words demands my faith, +My soul can rest on all he saith; +His truth inviolably keeps +The largest promise of his lips.] + +10 O tell me with a gentle voice, +"Thou art my God," and I'll rejoice! +Fill'd with thy love, I dare proclaim +The brightest honours of thy Name. + + +Hymn 2:168. +The same. + +1 Jehovah reigns, his throne is high, +His robes are light and majesty; +His glory shines with beams so bright +No mortal can sustain the sight. + +2 His terrors keep the world in awe, +His justice guards his holy law; +His love reveals a smiling face, +His truth and promise seal the grace. + +3 Thro' all his works his wisdom shines, +And baffles Satan's deep designs; +His power is sovereign to fulfil +The noblest counsels of his will. + +4 And will this glorious Lord descend +To be my father and my friend? +Then let my songs with angels join; +Heaven is secure if God be mine. + + +Hymn 2:169. As the 148th Psalm. +The same. + +1 The Lord Jehovah reigns +His throne is built on high; +The garments he assumes +Are light and majesty; +His glories shine +With beams so bright +No mortal eye +Can bear the sight. + +2 The thunders of his hand +Keep the wide world in awe; +His wrath and justice stand +To guard his holy law; +And where his love +Resolves to bless, +His truth confirms +And seals the grace. + +3 Thro' all his ancient works +Surprising wisdom shines, +Confounds the powers of hell, +And breaks their curs'd designs: +Strong is his arm, +And shall fulfil +His great decrees, +His sovereign will. + +4 And can this mighty King +Of Glory condescend? +And will he write his Name, +"My Father and my Friend?" +I love his Name, +I love his word; +Join all my powers, +And praise the Lord. + + +Hymn 2:170. +God incomprehensible and sovereign. + +1 Can creatures to perfection find [1] +Th' eternal uncreated mind? +Or can the largest stretch of thought +Measure and search his nature out? + +2 'Tis high as heaven, 'tis deep as hell, +And what can mortals know or tell? +His glory spreads beyond the sky, +And all the shining worlds on high. + +3 But man, vain man, would fain be wise, +Born like a wild young colt he flies +Thro' all the follies of his mind, +And swells and snuffs the empty wind. + +4 God is a King of power unknown, +Firm are the orders of his throne; +If he resolve, who dares oppose, +Or ask him why, or what he does? + +5 He wounds the heart, and he makes whole; +He calms the tempest of the soul; +When he shuts up in long despair +Who can remove the heavy bar? + +6 He frowns, [2] and darkness veils the moon; +The fainting sun grows dim at noon; +The pillars [3] of heaven's starry roof +Tremble and start at his reproof. + +7 He gave the vaulted heaven its form, +The crooked serpent and the worm; +He breaks the billows with his breath, +And smites the Sons of pride to death. + +8 These are a portion of his ways, +But who shall dare describe his face? +Who can endure his light, or stand +To hear the thunders of his hand? + +[1] Job 11:7 &c. [2] Job 25:5. +[3] Job 26:11 &c. + + +End of the Second Book. + + + +Hymns. + +Book 3. + +Prepared for the Lord's Supper. + + +Hymn 3:1. +The Lord's Supper instituted, +1 Corinthians 11:23 &c. + +1 'Twas on that dark, that doleful night +When powers of earth and hell arose +Against the Son of God's delight, +And friends betray'd him to his foes; + +2 Before the mournful scene began +He took the bread, and bless'd, and brake: +What love thro' all his actions ran! +What wondrous words of grace he spake! +3 "This is my body broke for sin, +"Receive and eat the living food:" +Then took the cup, and bless'd the wine; +"'Tis the new covenant in my blood." + +4 [For us his flesh with nails was torn, +He bore the scourge, he felt the thorn; +And justice pour'd upon his head +Its heavy vengeance in our stead. + +5 For us his vital blood was spilt, +To buy the pardon of our guilt, +When for black crimes of biggest size +He gave his soul a sacrifice.] + +6 "Do this, (he cry'd) till time shall end, +"In memory of your dying Friend; +"Meet at my table, and record +"The love of your departed Lord." + +7 [Jesus, thy feast we celebrate, +We shew thy death, we sing thy Name, +Till thou return, and we shall eat +The marriage-supper of the Lamb.] + + +Hymn 3:2. +Communion with Christ, and with saints, +1 Cor. 10. 16 17. + +1 [Jesus invites his saints +To meet around his board; +Here pardon'd rebels sit, and hold +Communion with their Lord. + +2 For food he gives his flesh, +He bids us drink his blood, +Amazing favour! matchless grace +Of our descending God!] + +3 This holy bread and wine +Maintains our fainting breath, +By union with our living Lord, +And interest in his death. + +4 Our heavenly Father calls +Christ and his members one; +We the young children of his love, +And he the first-born Son. + +5 We are but several parts +Of the same broken bread; +One body hath its several limbs, +But Jesus is the head. + +6 Let all our powers be join'd +His glorious Name to raise; +Pleasure and love fill every mind, +And every voice be praise. + + +Hymn 3:3. +The new testament in the blood of +Christ; or, The new covenant sealed. + +1 "The promise of my Father's love +"Shall stand for ever good;" +He said, and gave his soul to death, +And seal'd the grace with blood. + +2 To this dear covenant of thy word +I set my worthless name; +I seal th' engagement to my Lord, +And make my humble claim. + +3 Thy light, and strength, and pardoning grace, +And glory shall be mine; +My life and soul, my heart and flesh, +And all my powers are thine. + +4 I call that legacy my own +Which Jesus did bequeath; +'Twas purchas'd with a dying groan, +And ratify'd in death. + +5 Sweet is the memory of his Name, +Who bless'd us in his will, +And to his testament of love +Made his own life the seal. + + +Hymn 3:4. +Christ's dying love; or, Our +pardon bought at a dear price. + +1 How condescending and how kind +Was God's eternal Son! +Our misery reach'd his heavenly mind, +And pity brought him down. + +2 [When Justice by our sins provok'd +Drew forth its dreadful sword, +He gave his soul up to the stroke, +Without a murmuring word.] + +3 [He sunk beneath our heavy woes +To raise us to his throne; +There's ne'er a gift his hand bestows +But cost his heart a groan.] + +4 This was compassion like a God, +That when the Saviour knew +The price of pardon was his blood, +His pity ne'er withdrew. + +5 Now tho' he reigns exalted high, +His love is still as great: +Well he remembers Calvary, +Nor lets his saints forget. + +6 [Here we behold his bowels roll, +As kind as when he dy'd; +And see the sorrows of his soul +Bleed thro' his wounded side.] + +7 [Here we receive repeated seals +Of Jesus' dying love: +Hard is the wretch that never feels +One soft affection move.] + +8 Here let our hearts begin to melt, +While we his death record, +And with our joy for pardon'd guilt +Mourn that we pierc'd the Lord. + + +Hymn 3:5. +Christ the bread of life, John 6. 31 35 39. + +1 Let us adore th' eternal Word, +'Tis he our souls hath fed; +Thou art our living stream, O Lord, +And thou th' immortal bread. + +2 [The manna came from lower skies, +But Jesus from above, +Where the fresh springs of pleasure rise +And rivers flow with love. + +3 The Jews the fathers dy'd at last, +Who ate that heavenly bread; +But these provisions which we taste +Can raise us from the dead.] + +4 Bless'd be the Lord that gives his flesh +To nourish dying men; +And often spreads his table fresh, +Lest we should faint again. + +5 Our souls shall draw their heavenly breath +While Jesus finds supplies; +Nor shall our graces sink to death, +For Jesus never dies. + +6 [Daily our mortal flesh decays, +But Christ our life shall come; +His unresisted power shall raise +Our bodies from the tomb.] + + +Hymn 3:6. +The memorial of our absent Lord, +John 16. 16. Luke 22. 19. John 14. 3. + +1 Jesus is gone above the skies, +Where our weak senses reach him not +And carnal objects court our eyes +To thrust our Saviour from our thought. + +2 He knows what wandering hearts we have, +Apt to forget his lovely face; +And to refresh our minds he gave +These kind memorials of his grace. + +3 The Lord of life this table spread +With his own flesh and dying blood; +We on the rich provision feed, +And taste the wine, and bless the God. + +4 Let sinful sweets be all forgot, +And earth grow less in our esteem; +Christ and his love fill every thought, +And faith and hope be fix'd on him. + +5 While he is absent from our sight +'Tis to prepare our souls a place, +That we may dwell in heavenly light, +And live for ever near his face. + +6 Our eyes look upwards to the hills +Whence our returning Lord shall come; +We wait thy chariot's awful wheels +To fetch our longing spirits home.] + + +Hymn 3:7. +Crucifixion to the world by the +cross of Christ, Gal. 6. 14. + +1 When I survey the wondrous cross +On which the Prince of Glory dy'd, +My richest gain I count but loss, +And pour contempt on all my pride. + +2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, +Save in the death of Christ my God; +All the vain things that charm me most, +I sacrifice them to his blood. + +3 See from his head, his hands, his feet, +Sorrow and love flow mingled down; +Did e'er such love and sorrow meet? +Or thorns compose so rich a crown? + +4 [His dying crimson like a robe +Spreads o'er his body on the tree; +Then am I dead to all the globe, +And all the globe is dead to me.] + +5 Were the whole realm of nature mine, +That were a present far too small; +Love so amazing, so divine, +Demands my soul, my life, my all. + + +Hymn 3:8. +The tree of life. + +1 Come let us join a joyful tune +To our exalted Lord, +Ye saints on high around his throne, +And we around his board. + +2 While once upon this lower ground +Weary and faint ye stood, +What dear refreshments here ye found +From this immortal food! + +3 The tree of life that near the throne +In heaven's high garden grows, +Laden with grace, bends gently down +Its ever-smiling boughs. + +4 [Hovering amongst the leaves there stands +The sweet celestial Dove, +And Jesus on the branches hangs +The banner of his love.] + +5 ['Tis a young heaven of strange delight +While in his shade we sit; +His fruit is pleasing to the sight, +And to the taste as sweet. + +6 New life it spreads thro' dying hearts, +And cheers the drooping mind; +Vigour and joy the juice imparts +Without a sting behind.] + +7 Now let the flaming weapon stand +And guard all Eden's trees; +There's ne'er a plant in all that land +That bears such fruits as these. + +8 Infinite grace our souls adore, +Whose wondrous hand has made +This living branch of sovereign power +To raise and heal the dead. + + +Hymn 3:9. +The Spirit, the water, and the blood, John 5. 6. + +1 [Let all our tongues be one +To praise our God on high, +Who from his bosom sent his Son +To fetch us strangers nigh. + +2 Nor let our voices cease +To sing the Saviour's Name; +Jesus th' ambassador of peace, +How cheerfully he came! + +3 It cost him cries and tears +To bring us near to God; +Great was our debt, and he appears +To make the payment good.] + +4 [My Saviour's pierced side, +Pour'd out a double flood; +By water we are purify'd +And pardon'd by the blood. + +5 Infinite was our guilt, +But he our Priest atones; +On the cold ground his life was spilt, +And offer'd with his groans.] + +6 Look up, my soul, to him +Whose death was thy desert, +And humbly view the living stream +Flow from his breaking heart. + +7 There on the cursed tree +In dying pangs he lies, +Fulfils his Father's great decree, +And all our wants supplies. + +8 Thus the Redeemer came +By water and by blood; +And when the Spirit speaks the same +We feel his witness good. + +9 While the eternal Three +Bear their record above, +Here I believe he dy'd for me, +And seal my Saviour's love. + +10 [Lord, cleanse my soul from sin, +Nor let thy grace depart; +Great Comforter, abide within, +And witness to my heart.] + + +Hymn 3:10. +Christ crucified; the wisdom and power of God. + +1 Nature with open volume stands +To spread her Maker's praise abroad; +And every labour of his hands +Shews something worthy of a God. + +2 But in the grace that rescu'd man +His brightest form of glory shines; +Here on the cross 'tis fairest drawn +In precious blood and crimson lines. + +3 [Here his whole name appears complete; +Nor wit can guess, nor reason prove +Which of the letters best is writ, +The power, the wisdom, or the love.] + +4 Here I behold his inmost heart +Where grace and vengeance strangely join, +Piercing his Son with sharpest smart +To make the purchas'd pleasure mine. + +5 O the sweet wonders of that cross +Where God the Saviour lov'd and dy'd! +Her noblest life my spirit draws +From his dear wounds and bleeding side. + +6 I would for ever speak his Name +In sounds to mortal ears unknown, +With angels join to praise the Lamb, +And worship at his Father's throne. + + +Hymn 3:11. +Pardon brought in our senses. + +1 Lord, how divine thy comforts are! +How heavenly is the place +Where Jesus spreads the sacred feast +Of his redeeming grace! + +2 There the rich bounties of our God, +And sweetest glories shine; +There Jesus says, that "I am his, +"And my Beloved's mine." + +3 "Here," (says the kind redeeming Lord, +And shews his wounded side) +"See here the spring of all your joys, +"That open'd when I dy'd." + +4 [He smiles and cheers my mournful heart +And tells of all his pain, +"All this," says he, "I bore for thee;" +And then he smiles again.] + +5 What shall we pay our heavenly King +For grace so vast as this? +He brings our pardon to our eyes, +And seals it with a kiss. + +6 [Let such amazing loves as these +Be sounded all abroad, +Such favours are beyond degrees, +And worthy of a God.] + +7 [To him that wash'd us in his blood +Be everlasting praise, +Salvation, honour, glory, power, +Eternal as his days.] + + +Hymn 3:12. +The gospel feast, Luke 14. 16 &c. + +1 [How rich are thy provisions Lord! +Thy table furnish'd from above, +The fruits of life o'erspread the board, +The cup o'erflows with heavenly love. + +2 Thine ancient family the Jews, +Were first invited to the feast; +We humbly take what they refuse, +And Gentiles thy salvation taste. + +3 We are the poor, the blind, the lame, +And help was far, and death was nigh, +But at the gospel call we came +And every want receiv'd supply. + +4 From the highway that leads to hell, +From paths of darkness and despair, +Lord, we are come with thee to dwell, +Glad to enjoy thy presence here.] + +5 [What shall we pay th' eternal Son, +That left the heaven of his abode, +And to this wretched earth came down +To bring us wanderers back to God? + +6 It cost him death to save our lives, +To buy our souls it cost his own; +And all the unknown joys he gives, +Were bought with agonies unknown. + +7 Our everlasting love is due +To him that ransom'd sinners lost; +And pity'd rebels when he knew +The vast expense his love would cost.] + + +Hymn 3:13. +Divine love making a feast, and calling +in the guests, Luke 14. 17 22 23. + +1 How sweet and awful is the place +With Christ within the doors, +While everlasting love displays +The choicest of her stores! + +2 Here every bowel of our God +With soft compassion rolls +Here peace and pardon bought with blood +Is food for dying souls. + +3 [While all our hearts and all our songs +Join to admire the feast, +Each of us cry with thankful tongues, +"Lord, why was I a guest? + +4 "Why was I made to hear thy voice, +"And enter while there's room? +"When thousands make a wretched choice, +"And rather starve than come."] + +5 'Twas the same love that spread the feast, +That sweetly forc'd us in, +Else we had still refus'd to taste, +And perish'd in our sin. + +6 [Pity the nations, O our God, +Constrain the earth to come; +Send thy victorious word abroad, +And bring the strangers home. + +7 We long to see thy churches full, +That all the chosen race +May with one voice and heart and soul, +Sing thy redeeming grace.] + + +Hymn 3:14. +The song of Simeon, Luke 2. 28; +or, A sight of Christ makes death easy. + +1 Now have our hearts embrac'd our God, +We would forget all earthly charms, +And wish to die as Simeon would, +With his young Saviour in his arms. + +2 Our lips should learn that joyful song, +Were but our hearts prepar'd like his; +Our souls still willing to be gone, +And at thy word depart in peace. + +3 Here we have seen thy face, O Lord, +And view'd salvation with our eyes, +Tasted and felt the living word, +The bread descending from the skies. + +4 Thou hast prepar'd this dying Lamb, +Hast set his blood before our face, +To teach the terrors of thy Name, +And show the wonders of thy grace. + +5 He is our light; our morning star +Shall shine on nations yet unknown; +The glory of thine Israel here, +And joy of spirits near the throne. + + +Hymn 3:15. +Our Lord Jesus at his own table. + +1 [The memory of our dying Lord +Awakes a thankful tongue: +How rich he spread his royal board, +And blest the food, and sung. + +2 Happy the men that eat this bread, +But double bless'd was he +That gently bow'd his loving head, +And lean'd it, Lord, on thee. + +3 By faith the same delights we taste +As that great favourite did, +And sit and lean on Jesus' breast, +And take the heavenly bread.] + +4 Down from the palace of the skies, +Hither the King descends; +"Come my beloved, eat, (he cries) +"And drink salvation, friends. + +5 "[My flesh is food and physic too, +"A balm for all your pains; +"And the red streams of pardon flow +"From these my pierced veins."] + +6 Hosanna to his bounteous love +For such a taste below! +And yet he feeds his saints above +With nobler blessings too. + +7 [Come the dear day, the glorious hour +That brings our souls to rest! +Then we shall need these types no more, +But dwell at th' heavenly feast.] + + +Hymn 3:16. +The agonies of Christ. + +1 Now let our pains be all forgot, +Our hearts no more repine, +Our sufferings are not worth a thought, +When, Lord, compar'd with thine. + +2 In lively figures here we see +The bleeding Prince of love; +Each of us hope he dy'd for me, +And then our griefs remove. + +3 [Our humble faith here takes her rise, +While sitting round his board; +And back to Calvary she flies, +To view her groaning Lord. + +4 His soul, what agonies it felt +When his own God withdrew! +And the large load of all our guilt +Lay heavy on him too. + +5 But the divinity within +Supported him to bear: +Dying he conquer'd hell and sin, +And made his triumph there.] + +6 Grace, wisdom, justice join'd and wrought +The wonders of that day: +No mortal tongue, nor mortal thought +Can equal thanks repay. + +7 Our hymns should sound like those above, +Could we our voices raise; +Yet, Lord, our hearts shall all be love, +And all our lives be praise. + + +Hymn 3:17. +Incomparable food; or, +The flesh and blood of Christ. + +1[We sing th' amazing deeds +That grace divine performs; +Th' eternal God comes down and bleeds +To nourish dying worms. + +2 This soul reviving wine, +Dear Saviour, 'tis thy blood; +We thank that sacred flesh of thine +For this immortal food.] + +3 The banquet that we eat +Is made of heavenly things, +Earth hath no dainties half so sweet +As our Redeemer brings. + +4 In vain had Adam sought +And search'd his garden round, +For there was no such blessed fruit +In all the happy ground. + +5 Th' angelic host above +Can never taste this food, +They feast upon their Maker's love, +But not a Saviour's blood. + +6 On us th' Almighty Lord +Bestows this matchless grace, +And meets us with some cheering word, +With pleasure in his face. + +7 Come, all ye drooping saints, +And banquet with the King, +This wine will drown your sad complaints, +And tune your voice to sing. + +8 Salvation to the Name +Of our adored Christ: +Thro' the wide earth his grace proclaim +His glory in the high'st. + + +Hymn 3:18. +The same. + +1 Jesus, we bow before thy feet, +Thy table is divinely stor'd: +Thy sacred flesh our souls have eat, +'Tis living bread; we thank thee, Lord! + +2 And here we drink our Saviour's blood, +We thank thee, Lord, 'tis generous wine; +Mingled with love the fountain flow'd +From that dear bleeding heart of thine. + +3 On earth is no such sweetness found, +For the Lamb's flesh is heavenly food; +In vain we search the globe around +For bread so fine, or wine so good. + +4 Carnal provisions can at best +But cheer the heart, or warm the head, +But the rich cordial that we taste +Gives life eternal to the dead. + +5 Joy to the Master of the feast, +His name our souls for ever bless: +To God the King, and God the Priest, +A loud Hosanna round the place. + + +Hymn 3:19. +Glory in the cross; or, Not ashamed +of Christ crucified. + +1 At thy command, our dearest Lord, +Here we attend thy dying feast; +Thy blood like wine adorns thy board, +And thine own flesh feeds every guest. + +2 Our faith adores thy bleeding love, +And trusts for life in one that dy'd; +We hope for heavenly crowns above +From a Redeemer crucify'd. + +3 Let the vain world pronounce it shame, +And fling their scandals on thy cause; +We come to boast our Saviour's Name, +And make our triumphs in his cross. + +4 With joy we tell the scoffing age +He that was dead has left his tomb, +He lives above their utmost rage, +And we are waiting till he come. + + +Hymn 3:20. +The provisions for the table of our Lord; or, The +tree of life, and river of love. + +1 Lord, we adore thy bounteous hand, +And sing the solemn feast +Where sweet celestial dainties stand +For every willing guest. + +2 [The tree of life adorns the board +With rich immortal fruit, +And ne'er an angry flaming sword +To guard the passage to't. + +3 The cup stands crown'd with living juice; +The fountain flows above, +And runs down streaming for our use +In rivulets of love.] + +4 The food's prepar'd by heavenly art, +The pleasure's well refin'd, +They spread new life thro' every heart, +And cheer the drooping mind. + +5 Shout and proclaim the Saviour's love, +Ye saints that taste his wine, +Join with your kindred saints above, +In loud hosannas join. + +6 A thousand glories to the God +That gives such joy as this; +Hosanna! let it sound abroad, +And reach where Jesus is. + + +Hymn 3:21. +The triumphal feast for Christ's victory +over sin, and death, and hell. + +1 [Come let us lift our voices high, +High as our joys arise, +And join the songs above the sky, +Where pleasure never dies. + +2 Jesus, the God that fought and bled, +And conquer'd when he fell; +That rose, and at his chariot-wheels +Dragg'd all the powers of hell.] + +3 [Jesus the God invites us here +To this triumphal feast, +And brings immortal blessings down +For each redeemed guest.] + +4 The Lord! how glorious is his face! +How kind his smiles appear! +And O what melting words he says +To every humble ear! + +5 "For you, the children of my love, +"It was for you I dy'd; +"Behold my hands, behold my feet, +"And look into my side. + +6 "These are the wounds for you I bore, +"The tokens of my pains, +"When I came down to free your souls +"From misery and chains. + +7 "Justice unsheath'd its fiery sword, +And plung'd it in my heart; +"Infinite pangs for you I bore, +"And most tormenting smart. + +8 "When hell and all its spiteful powers +"Stood dreadful in my way, +"To rescue those dear lives of yours +"I gave my own away. + +9 "But while I bled, and groan'd, and dy'd, +"I ruin'd Satan's throne; +"High on my cross I hung, and spy'd +"The monster tumbling down. + +10 "Now you must triumph at my feast, +"And taste my flesh, my blood; +"And live eternal ages bless'd, +"For 'tis immortal food." + +11 Victorious God! what can we pay +For favours so divine? +We would devote our hearts away +To be for ever thine. + +12 We give thee, Lord, our highest praise, +The tribute of our tongues; +But themes so infinite as these +Exceed our noblest songs. + + +Hymn 3:22. +The compassion of a dying Christ. + +1 Our spirits join t' adore the Lamb; +O that our feeble lips could move +In strains immortal as his Name, +And melting as his dying love. + +2 Was ever equal pity found? +The Prince of heaven resigns his breath, +And pours his life out on the ground +To ransom guilty worms from death. + +3 [Rebels, we broke our Maker's laws; +He from the threatening set us free, +Bore the full vengeance on his cross, +And nail'd the curses to the tree.] + +4 [The law proclaims no terror now, +And Sinai's thunder roars no more; +From all his wounds new blessings flow, +A sea of joy without a shore. + +5 Here we have wash'd our deepest stains, +And heal'd our wounds with heavenly blood: +Bless'd fountain! springing from the veins +Of Jesus, our incarnate God.] + +6 In vain our mortal voices strive +To speak compassion so divine; +Had we a thousand lives to give, +A thousand lives should all be thine. + + +Hymn 3:23. +Grace and glory by the death of Christ. + +1 [Sitting around our Father's board +We raise our tuneful breath; +Our faith beholds her dying Lord, +And dooms our sins to death.] + +2 We see the blood of Jesus shed, +Whence all our pardons rise; +The sinner views th' atonement made, +And loves the sacrifice. + +3 Thy cruel thorns, thy shameful cross +Procure us heavenly crowns; +Our highest gain springs from thy loss, +Our healing from thy wounds. + +4 O 'tis impossible that we, +Who dwell in feeble clay, +Should equal sufferings bear for thee, +Or equal thanks repay. + + +Hymn 3:24. +Pardon and strength from Christ. + +1 Father, we wait to feel thy grace, +To see thy glories shine; +The Lord will his own table bless, +And make the feast divine. + +2 We touch, we taste the heavenly bread, +We drink the sacred Cup; +With outward forms our sense is fed, +Our souls rejoice in hope. + +3 We shall appear before the throne +Of our forgiving God, +Dress'd in the garments of his Son, +And sprinkled with his blood. + +4 We shall be strong to run the race, +And climb the upper sky; +Christ will provide our souls with grace, +He bought a large supply. + +5 [Let us indulge a cheerful frame, +For joy becomes a feast; +We love the memory of his Name, +More than the wine we taste.] + + +Hymn 3:25. +Divine glories, and our graces. + +1 How are thy glories here display'd, +Great God, how bright they shine, +While at thy word we break the bread, +And pour the flowing wine! + +2 Here thy revenging justice stands +And pleads its dreadful cause; +Here saving mercy spreads her hands +Like Jesus on the cross. + +3 Thy saints attend with every grace +On this great sacrifice; +And love appears with cheerful face, +And faith with fixed eyes. + +4 Our hope in waiting posture sits, +To heaven directs her sight; +Here every warmer passion meets, +And warmer powers unite. + +5 Zeal and revenge perform their part, +And rising sin destroy; +Repentance comes with aching heart, +Yet not forbids the joy. + +6 Dear Saviour, change our faith to sight, +Let sin for ever die; +Then shall our souls be all delight, +And every tear be dry. + + +****** + +I cannot persuade myself to put a full period to these Divine +Hymns, till I have addressed a special song of glory to God the +Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Though the Latin name of it, +Gloria Patri, be retained in our nation from the Romish church; +and thought there may be some excesses of superstitious honour paid +to the words of it, which may have wrought some unhappy prejudices +in weaker Christians, yet I believe it still to be one of the +noblest parts of Christian worship. The subject of it is the +doctrine of the Trinity, which is that peculiar glory of the Divine +Nature, that our Lord Jesus Christ has so clearly revealed unto +men, and is so necessary to true Christianity. The action is praise, +which is one of the most complete and exalted parts of heavenly +worship. I have cast the song into a variety of forms, and have +fitted it to a plain version, or a larger paraphrase, to be sung +either alone, or at the conclusion of another Hymn. I have added +also a few hosannas, or ascriptions of salvation to Christ, in the +same manner, and for the same end. + + + +Doxologies. + + +Hymn 3:26. 1st. L.M. +A song of praise to the ever-blessed Trinity, +God in Father, Son, and Spirit. + +1 Bless'd be the Father and his love: +To whose celestial source we owe +Rivers of endless joy above, +And rills of comfort here below. + +2 Glory to thee, great Son of God, +From whose dear wounded body rolls +A precious stream of vital blood, +Pardon and life for dying souls. + +3 We give the sacred Spirit praise, +Who in our hearts of sin and woe +Makes living springs of grace arise, +And into boundless glory flow. + +4 Thus God the Father, God the Son, +And God the Spirit, we adore; +That sea of life and love unknown, +Without a bottom or a shore. + + +Hymn 3:27. 1st. C. M. + +1 Glory to God the Father's Name, +Who, from our sinful race, +Chose out his favourites to proclaim +The honours of his grace. + +2 Glory to God the Son be paid, +Who dwelt in humble clay, +And, to redeem us from the dead, +Gave his own life away. + +3 Glory to God the Spirit give, +From whose almighty power +Our souls their heavenly birth derive, +And bless the happy hour. + +4 Glory to God that reigns above, +Th' eternal Three and One, +Who by the wonders of his love +Has made his nature known. + + +Hymn 3:28. 1st. S. M. + +1 Let God the Father live +For ever on our tongues; +Sinners from his first love derive +The ground of all their songs. + +2 Ye saints, employ your breath +In honour to the Son, +Who bought your souls from hell and death +By offering up his own. + +3 Give to the Spirit praise +Of an immortal strain, +Whose light and power and grace conveys +Salvation down to men. + +4 While God the Comforter +Reveals our pardon'd sin, +O may the blood and water bear +The same record within. + +5 To the great One and Three +That seal this grace in heaven, +The Father, Son, and Spirit, be +Eternal glory given. + + +Hymn 3:29. 2d. L.M. + +1 Glory to God the Trinity +Whose name has mysteries unknown; +In essence One, in person Three; +A social nature, yet alone. + +2 When all our noblest powers are join'd +The honours of thy Name to raise, +Thy glories over-match our mind, +And angels faint beneath the praise. + + +Hymn 3:30. 2d. C. M + +1 The God of mercy be ador'd, +Who calls our souls from death, +Who saves by his redeeming word, +And new-creating breath. + +2 To praise the Father and the Son +And Spirit all divine, +The One in Three, and Three in One, +Let saints and angels join. + + +Hymn 3:31. 2d. S. M. + +1 Let God the Maker's name +Have honour, love and fear, +To God the Saviour pay the same, +And God the Comforter. + +2 Father of lights above, +Thy mercy we adore, +The Son of thy eternal love +And Spirit of thy power. + + +Hymn 3:32. 3d. L. M. + +To God the Father, God the Son, +And God the Spirit, Three in One, +Be honour, praise, and glory given, +By all on earth, and all in heaven. + + +Hymn 3:33. +Or thus: + +All glory to thy wondrous Name, +Father of mercy, God of love, +Thus we exalt the Lord, the Lamb, +And thus we praise the heavenly Dove. + + +Hymn 3:34. 3d. C. M. + +Now let the Father and the Son +And Spirit be ador'd, +Where there are works to make him known, +Or saints to love the Lord. + + +Hymn 3:35. +Or thus: + +Honour to thee, almighty Three, +And everlasting One; +All glory to the Father be, +The Spirit, and the Son. + + +Hymn 3:36. 3d. S. M. + +Ye angels round the throne +And saints that dwell below, +Worship the Father, love the Son, +And bless the Spirit too. + + +Hymn 3:37. +Or thus: + +Give to the Father praise, +Give glory to the Son, +And to the Spirit of his grace +Be equal honour done. + + +Hymn 3:38. +A song of praise to the blessed Trinity. + +The 1st, as the 148th Psalm. + +1 I give immortal praise +To God the Father's love +For all my comforts here, +And better hopes above; +He sent his own +Eternal Son, +To die for sins +That man had done. + +2 To God the Son belongs +Immortal glory too, +Who bought us with his blood +From everlasting woe; +And now he lives, +And now he reigns, +And sees the fruit +Of all his pains. + +3 To God the Spirit's Name +Immortal worship give, +Whose new-creating power +Makes the dead sinner live: +His work completes +The great design +And fills the soul +With joy divine. + +4 Almighty God, to thee +Be endless honours done, +The undivided Three, +And the mysterious one: +Where reason fails +With all her powers, +There faith prevails, +And love adores. + + +Hymn 3:39. +The 2d, as the 148th Psalm. + +1 To Him that chose us first +Before the world began, +To Him that bore the curse +To save rebellious man, +To Him that form'd +Our hearts anew, +Is endless praise +And glory due. + +2 The Father's love shall run +Thro' our immortal songs, +We bring to God the Son +Hosannas on our tongues: +Our lips address +The Spirit's Name +With equal praise, +And zeal the same. + +3 Let every saint above +And angel round the throne, +For ever bless and love +The sacred Three in One: +Thus heaven shall raise +His honours high +When earth and time +Grow old and die. + + +Hymn 3:40. +The 3d, as the 148th Psalm. + +To God the Father's throne +Perpetual honours raise; +Glory to God the Son, +To God the Spirit praise: +And while our lips +Their tribute bring, +Our faith adores +The name we sing. + + +Hymn 3:41. +Or thus: + +To our eternal God, +The Father and the Son, +And Spirit all divine, +Three mysteries in one, +Salvation, power, +And praise be given +By all on earth +And all in heaven. + + +Hymn 3:42. L. M. + +The Hosanna; +or, Salvation ascribed to Christ. + +1 Hosanna to King David's Son, +Who reigns on a superior throne; +We bless the Prince of heavenly birth +Who brings salvation down to earth. + +2 Let every nation, every age, +In this delightful work engage; +Old men and babes in Sion sing +The growing glories of her King. + + +Hymn 3:43. C. M. + +1 Hosanna to the Prince of Grace, +Sion, behold her King; +Proclaim the Son of David's race, +And teach the babes to sing. + +2 Hosanna to th' incarnate Word, +Who from the Father came; +Ascribe salvation to the Lord, +With blessings on his Name. + + +Hymn 3:44. S. M. + +Hosanna to the Son +Of David and of God, +Who brought the news of pardon down, +And bought it with his blood, + +2 To Christ th' anointed King +Be endless blessings given, +Let the whole earth his glory sing +Who made our peace with heaven. + + +Hymn 3:45. As the 148th Psalm. + +1 Hosanna to the King +Of David's ancient blood; +Behold he comes to bring +Forgiving grace from God: +Let old and young +Attend his way, +And at his feet +Their honours lay. + +2 Glory to God on high, +Salvation to the Lamb; +Let earth, and sea, and sky +His wondrous love proclaim: +Upon his head +Shall honours rest, +And every age +Pronounce him blest. + + +End of the Third Book. + + + +AN INDEX +To find any Hymn by the Title or Contents of it. + +_Note_, The letters, i ii iii, signify the first, second, end +third book: The figures direct to the Hymn. (Transcriber's Note: +In this electronic version modern numerals are used; for example, +"2:108" refers to "Book 2, Hymn Number 108," and so on.) If you +find not what hymn you seek under one word of the title, seek it +under another, or by some word that is of the same signification, +though perhaps not mentioned in the title of the hymn. + + +Aaron + and Christ, 1:145; + Moses and Joshua, 2:124. +Abraham's + blessing on the Gentiles, 1:60, 1:113, 1:114; 2:134; + offering his son, 1:129. +Absence + and presence of God, 2:93, 2:94, 2:100; + from God for ever intolerable, 2:107. +Access to the throne by a Mediator, 2:108. +Adam, + his fall, 1:107; + corrupt nature from him, 2:128; + the first and second, 1:571, 1:124. +Adoption, 1:64, 1:143; + and election, 1:54. +Advocate, see Christ's intercession. +Affections + inconstant, 2:20; + unsanctified, 2:165. +Afflicted, Christ's compassion to them, 1:125. +Afflictions + removed, 1:87; + submitted to, 1:5, 1:129; 2:109; + support and comfort under them, 2:50, 2:65; + and death under providence, 1:83. +Almost Christian, 2:158. +Ambition, &c. 2:101. +Angels + sinning, 2:24; + standing and falling, 2:27; + praise ye the Lord, 2:27; + punished, and man saved, 2:96, 2:97; + their ministry to Christ and saints, 2:18, 2:112, 2:113. +Anger of God, see Wrath, Vengeance, Hell. +Answer to the church's prayers, 1:30. +Antichrist, his ruin, 1:29, 1:56, 1:59; + see Enemies. +Apostate, 2:158. +Apostles' commission, 1:128. +Ascension and resurrection of Christ, 2:76. +Assistance against temptations, 1:15, 1:32; 2:50, 2:65. +Assurance + of heaven, 1:27; 2:65; + of the love of Christ, 1:14; 2:73; + of faith, 1:103. +Attributes, see God. + + +Babylon falling, 1:56, 1:59; + see Enemies. +Backslidings and returns, 2:20. +Baptism, 1:52; + preaching, and the Lord's supper, 2:141; + and circumcision, 1:121; 2:127, 2:134; + burial with Christ in, 1:122. +Beatitudes, 1:102. +Believe and be saved, 1:100. +Believer baptized, 1:52, 1:122. +Birth, first and second, 1:95, 1:99; + of Christ, miracles at it, 2:136. +Blessed are the dead in the Lord, 1:18; + society in heaven, 2:33, 2:75. +Blessedness + and business of heaven, 1:40, 1:41; 2:86; + only in God, 2:93, 2:94, 2:100. +Blessing of Abraham on the Gentiles, 1:113, 1:114; 2:134. +Blood and flesh of Christ + is our food, 3:17, 3:18; + the seal of the New Testament, 3:3; + the Spirit and the water, 3:9. +Boasting excluded, 1:96. +Bodies frail, see Life, Health, Flesh. +Book of God's decrees, 2:99. +Bread of life is Christ, 3:5. +Breathing towards heaven, 2:23. +Britain's God praised, 2:1; + for deliverance, 2:92. +Burial, 2:63; + with Christ in baptism, 1:122; + and death of a saint, 2:3. + + +Canaan and heaven, 2:66, 2:124. +Carnal joys parted with, 2:10, 2:11; + reason humbled, 1:11, 1:12. +Ceremonial, see Law, Types, Priest. +Characters + of the children of God, 1:143; + of Christ, 1:146, 1:150; + of blessedness, 1:102. +Charity and uncharitableness, 1:126; + and love, 1:130, 1:133. +Children + in the covenant of grace, 1:113, 1:114; + devoted to God, 1:121; 2:127. +Christ, see Lord; + and Aaron, 1:145; + and Adam, 1:124; + his ascension, 2:76; + beatific sight of him, 2:75; + beloved described, 1:75; + the bread of life, 3:5; + his care of the young and feeble, 1:125, 1:138; + and the church, seeking, finding, &c., see Church; + coming to judge, 1:61; + his commission, 2:103, 2:104; + communion with him, 1:66, 1:71; + and saints, 1:67, 1:76; 3:2; + compared to inanimate things, 1:146; + his coronation and espousals, 1:72; + his cross not to be ashamed of, 3:19; + crucified, God's wisdom and power, 2:10; + David's Son, 1:16, 1:50; + his death caused by sin, 2:81; + grace and glory by it, 3:23; + victory and kingdom, 2:114; + his divine nature, 1:2, 1:13, 1:92; 2:51; + dwells in heaven, visits the earth, 1:76; + enjoyment of him, 2:15, 2:16; + his eternity, 1:2, 1:92; + example, 2:139; + excellences, 1:75; 2:47; + faith and knowledge of him, 1:103; + his flesh and blood our food, 3:17, 3:18; + found and brought to the church, 1:71; + his glory in heaven, 2:91; + God reconciled in him, 2:148; + grace given us in him, 1:137; 2:40; + High Priest and King, 1:61; + his human and Divine nature, 1:2, 1:13, 1:16; + humiliation and exaltation, 1:1, 1:63, 1:141, 1:142; 2:5, + 2:43, 2:81, 2:83, 2:84; 3:10, 3:16; + his incarnation, 1:1, 1:3, 1:13; + intercession, 2:36, 2:37, 2:118; + invitation to sinners, 1:127; + the King at his table, 1:66; + his kingdom among men, 1:3, 1:21; + knowledge and faith in him, 1:103; + the Lamb of God, 1:1, 1:25, 1:62, 1:63; + his love to the church, 1:14, 1:77; + under desertion, 2:50; + shed abroad in the heart, 1:135; + to men, 1:92; + lifted up, 1:112; + ministered to by angels, 2:112, 2:113; + miracles at the birth of Christ, 2:136; + miracles in his life, death, and resurrection, 2:137; + and Moses, 1:49, 1:118; + names and titles, 1:147, 1:148, 1:149; + nativity, 1:3, 1:13; + obeyed or resisted, 1:93; + his offices, 1:149, 1:150; 2:132; + pardon and strength from him, 3:24; + our Passover, 2:155; + his person glorious and gracious, 1:75; 2:47; + our Physician, 1:112; + his pity to the afflicted and tempted, 1:125; + his priesthood, 1:145; 2:118; + his presence, see Presence; + prophecies and types of him, 2:135; + Prophet, Priest, and King, 1:25; 2:132; + our Prophet and Teacher, 1:93; + redemption, see Redeem; + rejected by the Jews, 1:141; + resurrection, 2:72, 2:76; + is our hope, 1:26; + resurrection, life, and death miraculous, 2:137; + revealed to men, 1:10; + to babes, 1:11, 1:12; + righteousness and strength in him, 1:15, 1:84, 1:85, 1:97; + righteousness valuable, 1:109; + his sacrifice, 2:142; + and intercession, 2:118; + salvation, righteousness, and strength in him, 1:15, 1:84, + 1:85, 1:97, 1:98; + our sanctification, 1:97, 1:98; + Satan at enmity, 1:107; + saints in his hand, 1:138; + our Shepherd, 1:67, 1:142; + the substance of the types, 2:12; + sent by the Father, 1:100; 2:103, 2:104; + and godly sorrow, 2:9, 2:106; + and glory, 1:1, 1:62, 1:63; 2:43, 2:81, 2:83, 2:84; 3:10; + his titles and kingdom, 1:13; + triumph over our enemies, 1:28, 1:29; + types and prophecies of him, 2:135; + victory over Satan, 1:58, 2:89; + death and hell, 3:21; + unseen and beloved, 1:108; + Wisdom of God, 1:92; + our wisdom and Righteousness, 1:97, 1:98; + worshipped by the creation, 1:62; +Christian, see Saints, Spiritual, etc; + Religion, its excellency, 2:131; + almost, 2:158; + virtues, 2:161. +Church, see Worship, Saints, Spiritual. + its enemies slain by Christ, 1:28, 1:29; + conversing with Christ, namely, seeking, finding, calling, + answering, 1:66-71; + under God's care, 1:39; + espousals with Christ, 1:72; + beauty in the eyes of Christ, 1:73; + the garden of Christ, 1:74. +Circumcision abolished, 2:134; + and baptism, 1:121; 2:127. +Clothing, spiritual, 1:7, 1:40. +Comfort in the covenant with Christ, 2:40; + Restored, 2:73; + see Pardon; + in sorrows of mind and body, 2:50, 2:65. +Communion + With Christ and saints, 3:2; + between Christ and the church, 1:66-71; 2:15, 2:16. +Compassion + of a dying Christ, 3:22; + to the afflicted, 1:125. +Complaint + of a hard heart, 2:98; + of desertion and temptations; + of dulness, 2:34; + of in-dwelling sin, 1:115; + of ingratitude, 2:74; + of sloth and negligence, 2:25, 2:32. +Condemnation by the law, 1:94. +Condescension to our worship, 2:45; + Affairs, 2:46. +Confession and pardon, 1:131. +Conscience + good, the pleasures of it, 2:57; + secure and awakened, 1:115. +Constancy in the gospel, 2:4. +Contention and love, 1:130. +Conversion, 1:104; 2:159; + the difficulty of it, 2:161; + delayed, 1:88-91; + the joy of heaven, 1:101. +Conviction of sin + by the law, 1:94, 1:115; + by the cross of Christ, 2:81, 2:95. +Corrupt nature from Adam, 1:57, 107; 2:128, 2:159. +Covenant of grace, 1:9; + children therein, 1:113, 1:114; + sealed and sworn, 1:139; 3:3; + hope in it, 1:139; + made with Christ, our comfort, 2:40; + of works, + see Law and Gospel. +Covetousness, &c., 1:24; 2:56, 2:101. +Courage and constancy, 1:14, 1:15, 1:48; 2:4, 2:65. +Creation, 1:92; 2:71, 2:147; + new, 2:130; + preservation, &c., + of this world, 2:13. +Creatures + praise the Lord, 2:71; + love dangerous, 2:48; + God above them, 1:82; + their vanity, 2:146; +Cross of Christ is our glory, 3:19; + repentance flowing from it, 2:106; + salvation in it, 2:4; + crucifixion to the world by it, 3:7. +Curse and promise, 1:107, +Custom in sin, 2:160. + + +Dangers + of our earthly pilgrimage, 2:53; + of death and hell, 2:55; + of love to the creatures, 2:48. +Darkness + Dispelled by Christ's presence, 2:54; + of providence, 2:109. +Day + of grace and time of duty, 1:88; + of judgment, 1:45, 1:61, 1:65, 1:89, 1:90. +Dead + In the Lord, their blessedness, 1:18; + to sin by the cross of Christ, 1:106. +Death, see Christ; + And Afflictions under providence, 1:83; + terrible to the unconverted, 1:91; + made easy by the sight of Christ, 2:31; 3:14; + by a sight of heaven, 2:66; + God's presence in it, 2:49, 2:117; + our fear of it, 2:31; + desirable, 1:19; 2:61; + overcome, 1:17; + triumphed over, 1:6; 2:110; + prepared for, 1:27; 2:63; + of a sinner, 1:24; 2:2; + and burial of a saint, 1:18; 2:3; + and eternity, 2:28; + and glory, 1:110; 2:61; + and the resurrection, 2:3, 2:102, 2:110; + of Moses at God's command, 2:49; + dreadful and delightful, 2:52. +Deceitfulness of sin, 2:150. +Decrees of God, 1:11, 1:12, 1:96, 1:117; 2:99. +Deity of Christ, 1:2, 1:13, 1:92; 2:51. +Delay of conversion, 1:88-91; 2:25, 2:32. +Delight + in worship, 2:14; + in God, 2:42; + in converse with Christ, 2:15, 2:16. +Deliverance from death and the grave, 2:3; + see Enemies, Church; + and submission, 1:129; + from spiritual enemies, 1:47; 2:65, 2:82, 2:111. +Dependence, see Faith. +Desertion and temptations complained of, 2:163. +Desire of Christ's presence, 2:100; + see more in Heaven, Christ, Love, &c. +Despair and presumption, 1:115; 2:156, 2:157. +Devil vanquished, 1:58; see Victory. +Devotion, fervent, desired, 2:34. +Difficulty of conversion, 2:161. +Disease, see Sickness. +Dissolution of this world, 2:13, 2:164. +Distemper, folly, and madness of sin, 2:153. +Distinguishing love, 1:11, 1:12, 1:96, 1:117; 2:96, 2:97. +Divine, see God, Deity, &c. +Dominion + Of God, and our deliverance, 2:111; + eternal, 2:67; + over the sea, 2:70. +Doubts and fears suppressed, 2:73. +Doxologies, 3:26-45. +Dulness, spiritual, 2:25. + + +Earth, + no rest on it, 2:146; + and heaven, 2:10, 2:11, 2:53. +Effusion of the Spirit, 2:144. +Election + excludes boasting, 1:96; + free, 1:11, 1:12, 1:54, 1:117; + see Decrees. +End of the world, 2:164. +Enemies of the church + disappointed, 2:90, 2:92; + salvation from them, 2:82, 2:88; + triumphed over by Christ, 1:28, 1:29; + see Church, Babylon, Michael. +Enjoyment of Christ, 2:15, 2:16; + see Worship. +Enmity between Christ and Satan, 1:107. +Envy and love, 1:130. +Espousals of the church to Christ, 1:72. +Establishment in grace, 2:82. +Eternity + of God, 2:17; + of his dominion, 2:67; + and death, 2:28; + succeeding this life, 2:55; + see Heaven, Death. +Evening and morning hymns, 1:79, 1:80, 1:81; 2:6, 2:7, 2:8. +Exaltation, see Christ, Glory, Sufferings, &c. +Example + of Christ, 2:139; + of saints, 2:140. +Excellency of the Christian religion, 2:131. + + +Faith + in things unseen, 1:120, 2:129. + and knowledge of Christ, 1:103; + love and joy, 1:108; + and unbelief, 2:125; + living and dead, 1:140; + assisted by sense, 2:141; + its joy, 2:162; + in Christ our sacrifice, 2:142; + and salvation, 1:100; + of assurance, 1:103; + and sight, 1:110; 2:145; + triumphing in Christ, 1:14; + for pardon and sanctification, 2:90; + faith and reason, 2:87, 2:109. +Faithfulness of God's promises, 2:40, 2:60, 2:69. +Fall + of angels and men, 2:24; + and recovery of man, 1:107. +Fears and doubts suppressed, 2:73. +Feast + Of love, 1:68; + of triumph, 3:21; + of the gospel, 1:7; 3:12, 3:20; + made, and guests invited, 3:13. +Fellowship, see Communion. +Fervency of devotion desired, 2:34. +Few saved, 2:158. +Flesh + And blood of Christ the best food, 3:17, 3:18; + our tabernacle, 1:110; + and spirit, 2:143. +Folly and madness of sin, 2:153. +Food, spiritual, 1:7, 1:67, 1:68, 1:74; 2:15; see Feast. +Forbearance, see Patience. +Forgiveness, see Pardon. +Formality in worship, 1:136. +Frail, see Life, Health, Forgetfulness, 2:165. +Frailty and folly, 2:32. +Free, see Grace, Election. +Freedom from sin and misery in heaven, 2:86. +Funeral thought, 2:61, 2:63; see Death, Burial. + + +Garden of Christ is the church, 1:74. +Garment of salvation, 1:7, 1:20. +Gentiles, + Christ revealed to them, 1:10, 1:13, 1:50; 3:13, 3:14; + Abraham's blessing on them, 1:113, 114; 2:134. +Glorified + martyrs and saints, 1:40, 1:41; + body, 2:110. +Glory + and death, 1:110; 2:61; + see Heaven; + of God above our reason, 2:87; + of Christ in heaven, 2:91; + see Christ, and grace by the death of Christ, 3:23; + justification and sanctification, 1:3; + to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 3:26-41; + of God in the gospel, 2:126; + and grace in the person of Christ, 2:47; + and sufferings of Christ, 2:43; see Sufferings. +Glorying in the cross of Christ, 3:19. +God + all and in all, 2:93, 2:94; + his absence, see Absence; + his attributes, 2:51, 2:166, 2:169; + glorified by Christ, 2:126; 3:10; + the avenger of his saints, 2:115; + care of his church, 1:39; + condescension to human affairs, 2:46; + to our worship, 2:45; + the Creator and Redeemer, 2:35; + our delight, 2:42; + our defence, 1:47; + dominion over the sea, 2:70; + dominion, and our deliverance, 2:111; + dwells with the humble, 1:87; + eternity, 2:17; + eternal dominion, 2:67; + everlasting absence intolerable, 2:100, 2:107; + far above his creatures, 1:82; + the Father, Son, and Spirit, 3:26-41; + his faithfulness to his promises, 2:60, 2:69; + glory and defence of Sion, 2:64; + his glory above our reason, 2:87; + his goodness, 2:58, 2:80; + his grace, see Grace; + government from him, 2:149; + holiness, justice, and sovereignty, 1:86; + invisible, 2:26; + incomprehensible, 2:87, 2:170; + his kingdom supreme, 2:115; + his love in sending his Son, 1:100; + and our neighbour loved, 1:116; + our portion or chief good, 2:93, 2:94; + his power, 2:80; + and goodness, 2:6, 2:7, 2:8; + his praise, see Praise; + presence in life and at death, 2:115; see Presence; + preserver of our lives, 2:6, 2:7, 2:8, 2:19; + promise and truth unchangeable, 1:139; + sight of him weans us from earth, 2:41; + sovereign, 2:170; + terrible majesty, 2:22; + and mercy, 2:80; + his truth, 2:60, 2:69; + vengeance, 2:44, 2:62; + Unity and Trinity, 3:26-11; + his word, 1:53; + wrath and mercy, 1:42. +Goodness of God, 2:58, 2:74; see Grace; + and power of God, 1:42; 2:80. +Gospel feast, 3:12; see Grace, Feast; + invitation and provision, 1:7; 3:20; + times, their blessedness, 1:10; see Scripture; + glorifies God, 2:126; + no liberty to sin, 1:106, 1:132, 1:140; + not ashamed of it, 1:103; 3:19; + and law, 1:94; 2:120, 2:121, 2:124; + sinned against, 1:118; + its different success, 1:119; 2:144; + ministry, 1:10; + attested by miracles, 1:128; 2:136, 2:137; + its glorious effects, 2:138. +Government from God, 2:149. +Grace + and glory by the death of Christ, 3:23; + of the Spirit, 1:102; + converting, 2:138, 2:159; + in exercise, 3:25; + justifies, 1:94; + sanctifies and saves, 1:111; + not conveyed by parents, 1:99; + all-sufficient in duty and sufferings, 1:15, 1:32, 1:104; + given in Christ, 1:137; + covenant, 1:9; + children in it, 1:113, 1:114; + and holiness, 1:132; + electing, 1:54; + its freedom and sovereignty, 1:11, 1:12, 1:96, 1:117; 2:96, 2:97; + and glory in the person of Christ, 2:47; + adopting, 1:64; + persevering, 1:51; + promises, 1:7, 1:9; + throne accessible by Christ, 2:36, 2:37, 2:108. +Gratitude for Divine favours, 2:116 +Great Britain's God praised, 2:1. + + +Happiness, see Blessed, Heaven. +Hardness of heart, 2:98. +Hatred and love, 1:130. +Health + Preserved, 2:6, 2:7, 2:8, 2:19; + restored, 1:55. +Heaven + And earth, 2:10, 2:53; + and hell, 1:45; + invisible and holy, 1:105; + meditation of it, 2:162; + joy there for repenting sinners, 1:101; + its blessedness and business, 1:40, 1:41; + the hope of it our support, 2:65; + its prospect makes death easy, 2:66; + worship of it humble, 2:68; + freedom from sin and misery there, 2:86; + hoped for by Christ's resurrection, 1:26; + insured and prepared for, 1:27; + Christ's dwelling-place, 1:76; 2:91 + sight of God and Christ there, 2:23; + blessed society there, 2:33 + desired, 2:68. +Heavenly + mindedness, 2:57; + joy on earth, 2:15, 2:30, 2:59. +Hell + and death 2:2; + and judgment, 1:45, 1:175; 2:62; + or the vengeance of God, 2:22, 2:44; + the holy fear of it, 2:107. +Hezekiah's song, 1:55. +Holiness, see Grace, Spiritual, Sanctification, and sovereignty + of God, 1:82, 1:86; + and grace, 1:132, 1:140; + its characters, 1:102. +Holy, see Spirit. +Honour + vain, 1:101; + to magistrates, 2:149. +Hope + of the living, 1:88; + gives light and strength, 2:129; + in the covenant, 1:139; + of heaven by Christ's resurrection, 1:26; + of heaven our support under trials, 2:65; + of the resurrection, 2:3, 2:110. +Hosanna to Christ, 1.16; 2:42, &c. +Human + affairs condescended to by God, 2:46; + nature of Christ, 1:2, 1:3, 1:13, 1:60. +Humble, + God's dwelling, 1:87; + enlightened, 1:11, 1:12, 1:50; + worship of heaven, 2:68. +Humiliation, see Christ, Sufferings, &c. and prayer public, 1:30. +Humility + And pride, 1:127; + and meekness, 1:102; + in heaven, 2:68. +Hypocrisy + and sincerity, 1:136; + hypocrite, or almost Christian, 2:158. + + +Ignorance + enlightened, 1:11, 1:12; + and unfruitfulness, 2:165. +Impenitence, 2:125. +Incarnation of Christ, 1:2, 1:3, 1:13, 1:60. +Incomprehensible God, 2:87, 2:170; + and invisible, 2:26. +Inconstancy of our love, 2:20. +Infants, see Children. +Ingratitude complained of, 2:74. +Inspiration and prophecy, 2:151. +Institution of the Lord's supper, 3:1. +Insufficiency of self-righteousness, 2:154. +Intercession of Christ, 2:36, 2:37, 2:118. +Invitation + Of Christ answered, 1:70; + of the gospel, 1:79, 1:127; 3:13, 3:20. + + +Jealousy of our love to Christ, 1:78. +Jesus, see Lord, Christ. +Jews, see Moses, Gospel, Christ, Gentiles. +John the Baptist's message, 1:50. +Joshua, Aaron, and Moses, 2:124. +Joy, + Faith and love, 1:108; + of faith, 2:162; + carnal, parted with, 2:10, 2:11; + heavenly upon earth, 1:135; 2:30, 2:59; + spiritual restored, 2:73; + see more in Delight, Comfort. +Judgment + day, 1:45, 1:61, 1:65, 1:89, 1:90; + and hell, 2:62; + Christ coming to it, 1:61. +Justice, &c. of God, 1:86. +Justification, 1:14; see Pardon; + by faith, not by works, 1:94, 1:109; + sanctification, 1:7, 1:9, 1:20, 1:84, 1:85; 2:90; + and glory, 1:3. + + +Kingdom + And titles of Christ, 1:13; + of Christ among men, 1:21, 1:65; + of God eternal, 2:67; + supreme, 2:115. +Knowledge and faith + in Christ, 1:103; + saving, from God, 1:11. 1:12. 1:93. + + +Lamb that was slain, 1:1, 1:25, 1:62; see Christ. +Law + convinces of sin, 1:115; + condemns, 1:94; + and gospel, 2:120, 1:121, 1:124; + and gospel sinned against, 1:118. +Levitical priesthood fulfilled in Christ, 2:12. +Life + frail and succeeding eternity, 2:55; + preserved, 2:6, 2:7, 2:8, 2:19; + short, frail, miserable, 1:82; 2:39, 2:58; + the day of grace and hope, 1:88. +Light + And salvation by Jesus Christ, 1:50; + in darkness by the presence of God, 2:54; + given to the blind, 1:11, 1:12. +Long-sufferance, see Patience. +Lord Jesus at his own table, 1:66; 3:15; + supper, preaching, and baptism, 2:141; + supper instituted, 3:1; + day, 1:72; + delightful, 2:14; + table provided for, 3:20; + see more in Christ. +Love + Of Christ unchangeable, 1:14. 1:39; + shed abroad in the heart, 1:135; + its banquet, 1:68; 3:13; + of Christ in words and deeds, 1:77; + of Christ its strength, 1:78; + unseen, 1:108; + to Christ, 2:100; + to God pleasant and powerful 2:38; + and hatred, 1:130; + faith and joy, 1:108; + and charity, 1:133; + of God in sending his Son, 1:100; 2:103, 2:104; + to God and our neighbour, 1:116; + religion vain without it, 1:134; + peace and meekness, 1:102; + of Christ dying, 3:4, 3:22; + to God inconstant, 2:20; + to the creatures dangerous, 2:48; + distinguishing, 1:11, 1:12; 2:96, 2:97. + + +Madness, folly, and distemper of sin, 2:153. +Magistrates honoured, 2:149. +Majesty of God terrible, 2:22, 2:62. +Malice and love, 1:130. +Man + saved and angels punished, 2:96, 2:97; + mortal and vain, 1:82; + his fall and recovery, 1:107. +Martyrdom, 1:14; 2:4. +Martyrs glorified, 1:40, 1:41. +Mary the virgin's song, 1:60. +Mediator the way to the throne of grace, 2:108. +Meditation + of heaven, 2:162; + and retirement, 2:122. +Memorial of our absent Lord, 3:6. +Memory, weak, 2:165. +Mercies, national, 2:111; see Grace, Wrath, Thanks. +Messiah + born, 1:60; + come, 2:12. +Michael's war with the dragon, 1:58. +Ministers' commission, 1:128. +Ministry + of angels, 2:18; + of the gospel, 1:10. +Misery +And sin banished from heaven, 2:86; + and shortness of life. 2:39; + without God in the world, 2:56; + of sinners, see Sinner, Death, Hell. +Morning and evening songs, 1:79, 1:80, 1:81; 2:6, 2:7, 2:8. +Mortality and vanity of man, 1:82. +Mortification + to the world by the sight of God, 2:41; + by the cross of Christ, 2:106; 3:7. +Moses + And Christ, 1:49, 1:118; + dying, 2:49; + Aaron, and Joshua, 2:124. +Mourning, see Complaint, Repentance. +Mysteries revealed, 1:11, 1:12. + + +National mercies and thanks, 2:1, 2:111. +Nativity of Christ, 1:2, 1:3, 1:13. +Nature + Corrupt from Adam, 1:57; + corrupt from Adam, 1:57; 2:128, 2:159. +Neighbour and God loved, 1:116. +New + Covenant sealed, 3:3; + promises, 1:7; + song, 1:1; + creature, 1:9; + testament in the blood of Christ, 3:3; + creation, 1:95; 2:130; + birth, 1:95. +November 5th, a song of praise, 2:92. + + +Obedience evangelical, 1:140, 1:143. +Old age and death of the unconverted, 1:91. +Offence not to be given, 1:126. +Offices and operations + of the Holy Spirit, 2:133; + and of Christ, 1:146-150; 2:132. +Olive-tree, the wild and good, 1:114. +Ordinances, see Worship, Lord's Supper. +Original sin, 1:57; see Adam, Nature. + + +Pains, comfort under them, 2:50. +Paradise on earth, 2:30, 2:59. +Pardon, + sufficiency of it, 2:85; + and confession, 1:131; + and strength from Christ, 3:24; + bought at a dear price, 3:4; + and sanctification by faith, 1:9; 2:90; + brought to our senses, 3:11. +Parents + and children, 1:113, 1:114; + convey not grace, 1:99. +Passions, see Christ, Sufferings, Anger, Love. +Passover, Christ is ours, 2:155. +Patience + under afflictions, 1:5. 1:129; 2:109; + of God producing repentance, 2:74, 2:105. +Peace + Of conscience, 2:57; + and contention, 1:130; + see Comfort, Joy. +Perfections of God, 2:166-169. +Persecution, courage under it, 1:14. +Persevering grace, 1:26, 1:32, 1:48, 1:51, 1:138. +Person of Christ glorious and gracious, 1:75; 2:47. +Pharisee and publican, 1:131. +Pilgrimage of the saints, 2:53. +Pleasures + of a good conscience, 2:37; + of religion, 2:30, 2:59; + sinful forsaken, 2:10, 2:11; + their vanity and danger, 2:101. +Poverty of spirit, 1:102, 2:127. +Power + of God, 1:86; + and wisdom in Christ crucified, 2:126; 3:10; + and goodness of God awful, 1:42; 2:80. +Praise + imperfect on earth, 2:5; + for daily protection and preservation, 2:6, 2:7, 2:8; + from angels, 2:27; + from the creation, 2:71; + to the Redeemer, 2:5, 2:21, 2:29, 2:35, 2:78; + to the Trinity, 3:26-41; + for creation and redemption, 2:35. +Prayer and praise, 1:1; + for deliverance answered, 1:30. +Preaching, baptism, and the Lord's supper, 2:141. +Predestination, see Election. +Preparation for death, 1:27; see Death. +Presence + of God in worship, 2:45; + light in darkness. 2:54; + in death, 1:19; 2:31, 2:49; 3:14; + in life and death, 2:117; + or absence of Christ, 2:50; + of Christ in worship, 1:66; 2:15, 2:16; 3:15; + of God our life, 2:93, 2:94, 2:100. +Preservation + of this world, 2:13; + of our graces, 1:51; + of our lives, 2:6, 2:7, 2:8, 2:19. +Presumption and despair, 1:115; 2:156, 2:157. +Pride and humility, 1:11, 1:12, 1:127. +Priesthood, + Levitical ending in Christ, 2:12; + of Christ, 2:118. +Prodigal repenting, 1:123. +Profit and unprofitableness, 1:118; 2:165. +Promised Messiah born, 1:60, 1:107. +Promises of the covenant, 1:9, 1:39, 1:107; see scripture; + and truth of God unchangeable, 1:139; + our security, 2:40, 2:60, 2:69. +Prophecies + and types of Christ, 2:135; + and inspiration, 2:151. +Prosperity + and adversity, 1:5; + vain, 2:56, 2:101. +Protection + from spiritual enemies, 2:82; + of the church, 1:8, 1:22, 1:23; see Church. +Providence, 2:46; + executed by Christ, 1:1; + over afflictions and death, 1:83; + its darkness, 2:109; + prosperous and afflictive, 1:5. +Provisions, see Gospel, Lord's Table. +Public ordinances, see Worship. +Publican and Pharisee, 1:131. +Punishment for sin, see Hell, 1:100, 1:118. + + +Race, Christian, 1:48. +Reason + Feeble, 2:87; + carnal, humbled, 1:11, 1:12. +Reconciliation to God in Christ, 2:148. +Recovery from sickness, 1:55. +Redemption + in Christ, 1:97, 1:98; + and protection, 2:82; + by price, 3:4; + and by power, 2:29; + see Christ. +Regeneration, 1:95; 2:130; see Election, Adoption, Sanctification. +Religion + Neglected, 2:32; + vain without love, 1:134; + Christianity, the excellency of it, 2:131; + revealed, see Gospel, Scripture. +Remembrance of Christ, 3:6. +Repentance + from God's goodness and patience, 2:74, 2:105; + and humiliation, 1:87; + at the cross of Christ, 2:9, 2:106; + and impenitence, 2:125; + gives joy to heaven, 1:101. +Repenting prodigal, 1:123. +Resignation, see Submission. +Resurrection, 1:6; 2:102, 110; see Death, Christ, heaven. +Retirement and meditation, 2:122. +Returns and backslidings, 2:20. +Revelation of Christ, see Gentile, Gospel. +Revenge and love, 1:130. +Rich sinner dying, 1:24; 2:56. +Riches, their vanity, 2:56, 2:101. +Righteousness + And strength in Christ, 1:84; 1:85, 1:97; 1:98; + of Christ valuable, 1:109; + our robe, 1:7, 2:20; + and self-righteousness, 1:131; + our own insufficient, 2:154. + + +Sabbath delightful, 2:14. +Sacrament, see Baptism, Lord's Supper. +Sacrifice + of Christ, 2:142; + and intercession, 2:118. +Safety of the church, 1:8, 1:39; 2:64, 2:92. +Saints, see Church, Spiritual; + God their avenger, 2:115; + and hypocrites, 1:136, 1:140; + their example, 2:140; + characters of them, 1:143; + in the hands of Christ, 1:138; + security, 2:64; + beloved in Christ, 1:54; + adopted, 1:64; + death and burial, 2:3; + in glory, 1:40, 1:41; + communion, 3:2. +Salvation, 2:88; + of the worst sinners, 1:104; + by grace, 1:111; + in Christ, 1:137; + see Christ, Cross, Grace, Heaven, Light, Redeem, Righteousness. +Sanctification, + Justification, and glory, 1:3; + and pardon, 1:9; + through faith, 2:90. +Satan + and Christ at enmity, 1:107; + his various temptations, 2:156, 2:157; + conquered by Christ, 2:89; + see Devil. +Scripture, 1:53; 2:119; see Gospel. +Sea under the dominion of God, 2:70. +Sealing and witnessing Spirit, 1:144. +Secure and awakened sinner, 1:115. +Security in the promises, 2:40, 2:60, 2:69. +Seeking after Christ, 1:67, 1:71. +Self-righteousness, 1:131; + Insufficient, 2:154; +Sense assisting our faith, 2:141. +Sensual delights dangerous, 2:10, 2:11, 2:48. +Serpent, brazen, 1:112. +Shepherd, Christ and his pastures, 1:67. +Shortness, frailty, and misery of life, 2:32, 2:39, 2:58. +Sickness and recovery, 1:55. +Sight + of God mortifies us to the world, 2:41; + of Christ beatific, 2:16, 2:75; + and faith, 1:110, 1:120; 2:129, 2:145; + of Christ makes death easy, 3:14. +Simeon's song, 1:19; 3:14. +Sin + the cause of Christ's death, 2:81; + and misery banished from heaven, 1:105; 2:86; + original, 1:57; + pardoned and subdued, 1:9, 1:104; 2:90; + indwelling, 1:115; + its power, 1:115; 2:86; + the ruin of angels and men 2:24; + custom in it, 2:160; + folly, madness, and distemper of it, 2:153; + conviction of it by the law, 1:115; + against the law and gospel, 1:118; + crucified, 1:106; + deceitfulness of it, 2:150. +Sinai and Sion, 2:152. +Sincerity and hypocrisy, 1:136. +Sinful pleasures forsaken, 2:10, 2:11. +Sinner, + the vilest saved, 1:104; + and saint's death, 2:2, 2:3, 2:52; + invited to Christ, 1:127; + excluded heaven, 1:104, 1:105; + his death terrible, 1:91; 2:2. +Sinning and repenting, 2:20. +Sloth, spiritual, complained of, 2:25. +Society in heaven blessed, 2:53. +Son equal with the Father, 2:51; see Christ. +Song + of angels, 1:3; + of Simeon, 1:19; 3:14; + of Zacharias, 1:50; + of Moses and the Lamb, 1:49, 1:56; + of Hezekiah, 1:55; + of Solomon paraphrased, 1:66-78; + of the Virgin Mary, 1:60; + for November 5th, 2:92. +Sons of God, 1:64, 1:143; + elect and new-born, 1:54. +Sorrow, see Repentance; + comfort under it, 2:50, 2:69; + for the dead, relieved, 2:3. +Sovereignty, 1:86; see Grace, Election, God. +Soul separate, see Death, Heaven, Hell. +Spirit + breathed after, 1:74; + water and blood, 3:9; + his offices, 2:133; + witnessing and sealing, 1:144; + its fruits, 1:102. +Spiritual + enemies, deliverance, 1:47; 2:65, 2:82; + warfare, 2:77; + pilgrimage, 2:53; + apparel, 1:7, 1:20; + race, 1:48; + sloth and dulness, 2:25, 2:34; + joy, 2:73, 2:75; + meat, drink, and clothing, 1:7; + food, see Feast. +State of nature and grace, 1:104. +Storm, see Thunder. +Strength from heaven, 1:15, 1:32, 1:48; + righteousness and pardon in Christ, 1:84, 1:85; 3:24; +Submission + and deliverance, 1:129; + to afflictions, 1:5; 2:109. +Success of the gospel, 1:11, 1:12, 1:119; 2:144. +Sufferings for Christ, 1:102; see Christ; +Supper of the Lord instituted, 3:1; + baptism and preaching, 2:141. +Support under trials, 2:50, 2:65. +Sympathy of Christ, 1:125. + + +Table of the Lord, see Lord. +Temptations, + hope under them, 1:139; + of the world, 2:101; + of the devil, 2:65, 2:156, 2:157; + and desertion complained of 2:163. +Tempted, Christ's compassion to them, 1:125. +Terrors of death to the unconverted, 1:91. +Testament, new, in the blood of Christ, 3:3. +Thanksgiving + for victory, 2:111; + for mercies, 2:116; + national, 2:1. +Throne of Grace, see Grace. +Thunderer, God, 2:62. +Time + redeemed, 1:88; + ours, and eternity God's, 2:67. +Tree of life, 3:8; + and river of love, 3:20; +Trials on earth, and hope of heaven, 2:63. +Trinity praised, 3:26-41. +Triumph + over death, 1:6; 2:110; + of faith in Christ, 1:14; + at a feast, 3:21; + of Christ over our enemies, 1:82. +Trust, see Faith. +Truth and promises of God unchangeable, 1:139; 2:60, 2:69. +Types, 2:12; + and prophecies of Christ, 2:135. + +Unbelief + and faith, 1:100; + punished, 1:118. +Uncharitableness and charity, 1:126. +Unconverted state, 2:159. + death terrible to them, 1:91 +Unfruitfulness, 2:165. +Unsanctified affections, 2:165. +Unseen things, faith in them, 1:120 + + +Vain prosperity, 2:56, 2:101. +Value of Christ and his righteousness, 1:109. +Vanity + and mortality of man, 1:82; + of youth, 1:89, 1:90; + of the creatures, 2:146. +Victory, + a thanksgiving for it, 2:111 + over death, 1:17; + sin and sorrow, 1:14; + of Christ over Satan, 1:58; 2:89; + see Enemies. +Virtues, + Christian, 2:161; + see Holiness, Love, Saints, Spiritual. + + +Wandering + affections, 2:20; + thoughts in worship, 1:136. +Warfare, Christian, 2:77. +Water, the Spirit, and the blood, 3:9. +Weak saints encouraged + by Christ, 1:125; + by the church, 1:126. +Weakness our own, and Christ our strength, 1:15. +Wisdom + and power of God in Christ crucified, 3:10; + carnal humbled, 1:11, 1:12. +Witnessing and sealing Spirit, 1:144. +Word of God, 1:53; + preached, 1:10, 1:119; + see Gospel, Scripture. +World, + crucifixion to it by the cross, 3:7; + the temptations of it, 2:101; + its ends, 2:164; + mortification to it by the sight of God, 2:41; + its creation, 2:147; + and preservation, 2:13. +Worship of heaven + humble, 2:68; + profitable, 2:123; + condescended to by God, 2:45; + Christ present at it, 1:66; 2:15, 2:16; 3:15; + accepted through Christ, 2:36, 2:37; + formality in it, 1:136; + delightful, 2:14, 2:15, 2:16, 2:42. +Wrath and mercy of God, 1:42; 2:80; see God, Hell. + + +Yoke of Christ easy, 1:127. +Youth, + its vanities, 1:89, 1:90; + advised, 1:91. + + +Zacharia's song, and John's message, 1:50. +Zeal + in the Christian race, 1:48; 2:129; + and love, 1:14; + for the gospel, 1:103; 2:3; + the want of it, 2:25; + against sin, 2:106; + for God, 2:116. +Zion, her glory and defence, 2:64; + + + +A TABLE of the Scriptures that are Turned into Verse. + +In the First Book. + +Genesis +3:1, 15, 17 - Hymn 1:107 +17:1 - Hymn 1:113 +17:7, 10 - Hymn 1:121 +22:6 &c. - Hymn 1:129 + +Job +1:21 - Hymn 1:5 +3:14, 15 - Hymn 1:94 +4:17, 21 - Hymn 1:82 +5:6, 7, 8 - Hymn 1:83 +9:2, 10 - Hymn 1:86 +14:4 - Hymn 1:57 +29:25, 26, 27 - Hymn 1:6 + +Psalms +3:5, 6 - Hymn 1:80 +4:8 - Hymn 1:80 +19:5, 8 - Hymn 1:79 +49:6, 9 - Hymn 1:24 +51:5 - Hymn 1:57 +73:24, 25 - Hymn 1:70 +139:23, 24 - Hymn 1:136 +143:8 - Hymn 1:80 +147:19, 20 - Hymn 1:53 + +Proverbs +8:1, 22, 32 - Hymn 1:92 +8:34, 36 - Hymn 1:93 + +Ecclesiastes +8:8 - Hymn 1:24 +9:4, 5, 6, 10 - Hymn 1:88 +9:9 - Hymns 1:89 and 1:90 + +Song of Solomon +1:2-5, 12, 17 - Hymn 1:66 +1:7 - Hymn 1:67 +2:1,2,3 &c. - Hymn 1:68 +2:8, 9 &c. - Hymn 1:96 +3:14, 16, 17 - Hymn 1:70 +3:1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - Hymn 1:71 +3:2 - Hymn 1:72 +4:1, 7, 11 - Hymn 1:73 +4:12, 14, 15 - Hymn 1:74 +5:1 - Hymn 745:9-16 - Hymn 1:75 +6:1, 2, 3, 12 - Hymn 1:76 +7:5, 6, 9 12, 13 - Hymn 1:77 +8:5, 8, 14 - Hymn 1:78 + +Isaiah +5:2, 7, 10 - Hymn 1:10 +9:2, 6, 7 - Hymn 1:13 +26L1, 2 &c. - Hymn 1:8 +24:8, 20 - Hymn 1:30 +38:9 &c. - Hymn 1:55 +40:27, 28 &c. - Hymns 1:32 and 1:48 +45:7 - Hymn 1:81 +45:21, 25 - Hymns 1:84 and 1:85 +49:13, 14 &c. - Hymn 1:39 +53:1-5, 10-12 - Hymn 1:141 +53:6, 9, 12 - Hymn 1:142 +55:1, 2 &c. - Hymns 1:7 and 1:9 +57:15, 16 - Hymn 1:87 +61:10 - Hymn 1:20 +63:1, 2, 3 &c. - Hymn 1:28 +63:4, 5, 6, 7 - Hymn 1:29 +65:20 - Hymn 1:91 + +Lamentations +3:23 - Hymn 1:81 + +Ezekiel +36:25 &c. - Hymn 1:9 + +Micah +7:19 - Hymn 1:9 + +Nahum +1:1, 2, 3 &c. - Hymn 1:24 + +Zechariah +13:1 - Hymn 1:9 + +Matthew +3:9 - Hymn 1:99 +5:3, 12 - Hymn 1:102 +11:28, 30 - Hymn 1:127 +12:20 - Hymn 1:125 +13:16, 17 - Hymn 1:10 +21:9 - Hymn 1:16 +22:37, 40 - Hymn 1:116 +28:18, &c. - Hymn 1:128 +28:19 - Hymn 1:52 + +Mark +10:14 - Hymn 1:113 +16:15 &c. Hymn 1:128 + +Luke +1:30 &c. - Hymn 1:3 +1:46 &c. - Hymn 1:60 +1:68 - Hymn 1:50 +2:10 &c. - Hymn 1:3 +2:27 - Hymn 1:19 +10:21, 22 - Hymns 1:11 and 1:12 +15:7, 10 - Hymn 1:101 +15:13 &c. - Hymn 1:123 +18:10 &c. - Hymn 1:131 +19:38, 40 - Hymn 1:16 + +John +1:1, 3, 14 - Hymn 1:42 +1:13 - Hymn 1:95 +1:17 - Hymn 1:118 +1:29, 32 - Hymn 1:50 +3:3 &c. - Hymn 1:95 +3:14, 16 - Hymn 1:112 +3:16, 17, 18 - Hymn 1:100 +4:24 - Hymn 1:136 +10:28, 29 - Hymn 1:107 + +Acts +2:38 - Hymn 1:52 +16:14, 15, 33 - Hymn 1:121 + +Romans +3:19, 22 - Hymn 1:94 +5:12 &c. - Hymns 1:57 and 1:124 +6:1, 2 6 - Hymn 1:106 +6:3, 4 &c. - Hymn 1:122 +7:8, 9, 14, 24 - Hymn 1:115 +8:14, 16 - Hymn 1:144 +8:33 &c. - Hymn 1:14 +9:21, 22 &c. - Hymn 1:117 +11:16, 17 - Hymn 1:114 +14:17, 19 - Hymn 1:126 +15:8, 9, 12 - Hymn 1:113 + +1 Corinthians +1:23, 24 - Hymn 1:119 +1:26, 3 - Hymn 1:96 +1:39 - Hymns 1:97 and 1:98 +2:9, 10 - Hymn 1:105 +3:6, 7 - Hymn 1:119 +6:10, 11 - Hymn 1:104 +10:32 - Hymn 1:126 +13:1, 2, 3 - Hymn 1:134 +13:2, 3, 7, 13 - Hymn 1:183 +15:55 &c. - Hymn 1:1 + +2 Corinthians +2:16 - Hymn 1:119 +5:1, 5, 8 - Hymn 1:110 +12:7, 9, 10 - Hymn 1:15 + +Galatians +4:4 - Hymn 1:107 +4:6 - Hymn 1:64 + +Ephesians +1:3 &c. - Hymn 1:54 +1:13, 14 - Hymn 1:144 +3:9, 10 - Hymn 1:2 +3:16 &c. - Hymn 1:135 +4:30 &c. - Hymn 1:130 + +Philippians +2:2 - Hymn 1:130 +3:7, 8, 9 - Hymn 1:109 + +Colossians +1:16 - Hymn 1:2 +2:15 - Hymn 1:107 + +2 Timothy +1:9, 10 - Hymn 1:137 +1:12 - Hymn 1:103 +3:15, 16 - Hymn 1:53 +4:6, 7, 8, 18 - Hymn 1:27 + +Titus +2:10, 13 - Hymn 1:132 +3:3, 7 - Hymn 1:111 + +Hebrews +1:1 - Hymn 1:53 +3:3, 5, 6 - Hymn 1:111 +4:15, 16 - Hymn 1:125 +5:7 - Hymn 125 +6:17, 19 - Hymn 1:139 +Chapter 7 - Hymn 1:145 +Chapter 9 - Hymn 1:145 +10:28, 29 - Hymn 1:118 +11:1, 3, 8, 10 - Hymn 1:120 + +1 Peter +1:3, 4, 5 - Hymn 1:26 +1:8 - Hymn 1:108 + +1 John +3:1 &c. - Hymn 1:64 + +Jude +Verses 24 and 25 - Hymn 1:51 + +Revelation +1:5, 6, 7 - Hymn 1:61 +5:6, 8, 12 - Hymns 1:1 and 1:25 +5:11-13 - Hymns 1:62 and 1:63 +7:13 &c. - Hymns 1:40 and 1:41 +11.15 - Hymn 1:65 +12:7 - Hymn 1:58 +14:13 - Hymn 1:18 +15:3 - Hymns 1:49 and 1:56 +16:19 - Hymn 1:56 +17:6 - Hymn 1:56 +18:20, 21 - Hymn 1:59 +21:1, 2, 3, 4 - Hymn 1:21 +21:5, 6, 7, 8 - Hymn 1:45 +21:27 - Hymn 1:105 + + +In the Third Book. + +Luke +2:28 - Hymn 3:14 +14:16 - Hymn 3:12 +14:17, 23 - Hymn 3:13 +22:19 - Hymn 3:6 + +John +6:31, 35, 39 - Hymn 3:5 +14:3 - Hymn 3:6 +16:16 - Hymn 3:6 + +1 Corinthians +10:16, 17 - Hymn 3:2 +11:23 &c. - Hymn 3:1 + +Galatians +4:14 - Hymn 3:7 + +1 John +Verse 6 - Hymn 3:9 + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Hymns and Spiritual Songs, by Isaac Watts + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13341 *** diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6312041 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +This eBook, including all associated images, markup, improvements, +metadata, and any other content or labor, has been confirmed to be +in the PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE UNITED STATES. + +Procedures for determining public domain status are described in +the "Copyright How-To" at https://www.gutenberg.org. + +No investigation has been made concerning possible copyrights in +jurisdictions other than the United States. 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The first generation +of this Project Gutenberg file was from an 1818 printing by C. +Corrall of 38 Charing Cross, London. + +The "Index" and the "Table of the Scriptures that are Turned into +Verse" are retained, and can be found at the end of the text. The +"Table to find any Hymn by the first Line," however, has been +omitted for the following reasons: +1. It refers to page numbers that are here expunged; and +2. In this electronic version first lines can be easily +located via searches. + +There are 3 books of hymns, and numbers have been added to indicate +in which of these the hymns are placed. For example, "2:38" refers +to "Book 2, Hymn Number 38," and so on. + +Throughout, modern numerals have been substituted for their Roman +equivalents. + + + +Preface. + +The following extracts from the Doctor's preface contain the +substance of his plan in the three different parts into which the +Hymns are divided; the whole would have exceeded the limits of a +small book. + +"Far be it from my thoughts to lay aside the Book of Psalms in +public worship; few can pretend so great a value for them as +myself: it is the most noble, most devotional and divine collection +of poesy; and nothing can be supposed more proper to raise a pious +soul to heaven than some parts of that book; never was a piece of +experimental divinity so nobly written, and so justly reverenced +and admired. But it must be acknowledged still, that there are a +thousand lines in it which were not made for a church in our days +to assume as its own. There are also many deficiencies of light +and glory which our Lord Jesus and his apostles have supplied in +the writings of the New Testament: and with this advantage I have +composed these Spiritual Songs, which are now presented to the +World. Nor is the attempt vainglorious or presuming; for in respect +of clear evangelical knowledge, 'The least in the kingdom of heaven +is greater than all the Jewish Prophets.' Matt. xi. 11. + +"Now let me give a short account of the following composures. + +"The greatest part of them are suited to the general state of the +gospel, and the most common affairs of Christians: I hope there +will be very few found but what may properly be used in a religious +assembly, and not one of them but may well be adapted to some +seasons either of private or public worship. The most frequent +tempers and changes of our spirit, and conditions of our life, +are here copied, and the breathings of our piety expressed according +to the variety of our passions, our love, our fear, our hope, our +desire, our sorrow, our wonder and our joy, as they are refined +into devotion, and act under the influence and conduct of the +blessed Spirit; all conversing with God the Father 'by the new +and living Way' of access to the throne, even the person and the +mediation of our Lord Jesus Christ. To him also, even 'to the Lamb +that was slain and now lives,' I have addressed many a song; for +thus doth the holy Scripture instruct and teach us to worship in +the various patterns of Christian psalmody described in the +Revelation. + +"I have aimed at ease of numbers, and smoothness of sound, and +endeavoured to make the sense plain and obvious. If the verse +appears so gentle and flowing as to incur the censure of feebleness, +I may honestly affirm, that sometimes it cost me labour to make +it so. + +"In the first part I have borrowed the sense and much of the form +of the song from some particular portions of scripture, and have +paraphrased most of the doxologies in the New Testament, that +contain any thing in them peculiarly evangelical: and many parts +of the Old Testament also, that have a reference to the times of +the Messiah. + +"The second part consists of hymns whose form is mere human +composure; but I hope the sense and materials will always appear +divine. I might have brought some text or other, and applied it +to the margin of every verse, if this method had been as useful +as it was easy. If there be any poems in the book that are capable +of giving delight to persons of a more refined taste and polite +education, perhaps they may be found in this part; but except they +lay aside the humour of criticism, and enter into a devout frame, +every ode here already despairs of pleasing. + +"I have prepared the third part only for the celebration of the +Lord's Supper, that, in imitation of our blessed Saviour, we may +sing an hymn after we have partaken of the Bread and Wine." + + + +Hymns. + + +Book 1. +Collected from the Holy +Scriptures. + + +Hymn 1:1. +A new song to the Lamb that was slain. +Rev. 5. 6 8 9 10 12. + +1 Behold the glories of the Lamb +Amidst his Father's throne +Prepare new honours for his name, +And songs before unknown. + +2 Let elders worship at his feet, +The church adore around, +With vials full of odours sweet, +And harps of sweeter sound. + +3 Those are the prayers of the saints, +And these the hymns they raise: +Jesus is kind to our complaints, +He loves to hear our praise. + +4 [Eternal Father, who shall look +Into thy secret will? +Who but the Son shall take that book +And open every seal? + +5 He shall fulfil thy great decrees, +The Son deserves it well; +Lo, in his hand the sovereign keys +Of heaven, and death, and hell!] + +6 Now to the Lamb that once was slain +Be endless blessings paid; +Salvation, glory, joy remain +For ever on thy head. + +7 Thou hast redeem'd our souls with blood, +Hast set the pris'ners free, +Hast made us kings and priests to God, +And we shall reign with thee. + +8 The worlds of nature and of grace +Are put beneath thy power; +Then shorten these delaying days, +And bring the promis'd hour. + + +Hymn 1:2. +The deity and humanity of Christ, John 1. 1-3 14. +Col. 9. 16. Eph. 3, 9 10. + +1 Ere the blue heavens were stretch'd abroad, +From everlasting was the Word; +With God he was; the Word was God, +And must divinely be ador'd. + +2 By his own power were all things made; +By him supported all things stand; +He is the whole creation's head, +And angels fly at his command. + +3 Ere sin was born, or Satan fell, +He led the host of morning stars; +(Thy generation who can tell, +Or count the number of thy years?) + +4 But lo, he leaves those heavenly forms, +The Word descends and dwells in clay, +That he may hold converse with worms, +Dress'd in such feeble flesh as they. + +5 Mortals with joy beheld his face, +Th' eternal Father's only Son; +How full of truth! how full of grace! +When thro' his eyes the Godhead shone! + +6 Archangels leave their high abode +To learn new mysteries here, and tell +The loves of our descending God, +The glories of Imannuel. + + +Hymn 1:3. +The nativity of Christ, Luke 1. 30 &c. Luke 2, 10 &c. + +1 Behold, the grace appears, +The promise is fulfill'd; +Mary the wondrous virgin bears, +And Jesus is the child. + +2 [The Lord, the highest God, +Calls him his only Son; +He bids him rule the lands abroad, +And gives, him David's throne. + +3 O'er Jacob shall he reign +With a peculiar sway; +The nations shall his grace obtain, +His kingdom ne'er decay.] + +4 To bring the glorious news +A heavenly form appears; +He tells the shepherds of their joys, +And banishes their fears. + +5 "Go, humble swains," said he, +"To David's city fly; +"The promis'd infant born to-day, +"Doth in a manger lie. + +6 "With looks and heart serene, +"Go visit Christ your King;" +And straight, a flaming troop was seen; +The shepherds heard them sing: + +7 "Glory to God on high, +"And heavenly peace on earth, +"Good-will to men, to angels joy, +"At the Redeemer's birth!" + +8 [In worship so divine +Let saints employ their tongues, +With the celestial host we join, +And loud repeat their songs: + +9 "Glory to God on high, +"And heavenly peace on earth, +"Good-will to men, to angels joy, +"At our Redeemer's Birth."] + + +Hymn 1:4. [Supplement] +The inward witness to Christianity, 1 John 5. 10. + +1 Questions and doubts be heard no more; +Let Christ and joy be all our theme; +His Spirit seals his gospel sure, +To every soul that trusts in him. + +2 Jesus, thy witness speaks within: +The mercy which thy words reveal +Refines the heart from sense and sin, +And stamps its own celestial seal. + +3 'Tis God's inimitable hand +That moulds and forms the heart anew; +Blasphemers can no more withstand, +But bow and own thy doctrine true. + +4 The guilty wretch that trusts thy blood, +Finds peace and pardon at thy cross; +The sinful soul averse to God, +Believes and loves his Maker's laws. + +5 Learning and wit may cease their strife, +When miracles with glory shine; +The voice that calls the dead to life +Must be almighty, and divine. + + +Hymn 1:5. +Submission to afflictive providences, Job 1. 21. + +1 Naked as from the earth we came, +And crept to life at first, +We to the earth return again, +And mingle with our dust. + +2 The dear delights we here enjoy, +And fondly call our own, +Are but short favours borrow'd now, +To be repaid anon. + +3 'Tis God that lifts our comforts high, +Or sinks them in the grave; +He gives, and (blessed be his name!) +He takes but what he gave. + +4 Peace, all our angry passions, then, +Let each rebellious sigh +Be silent at his sov'reign will, +And every murmur die. + +5 If smiling mercy crown our lives, +Its praises shall be spread; +And we'll adore the justice too +That strikes our comforts dead. + + +Hymn 1:6. +Triumph over death, Job 19. 25-27. + +1 Great God, I own thy sentence just +And nature must decay; +I yield my body to the dust +To dwell with fellow-clay. + +2 Yet faith may triumph o'er the grave, +And trample on the tombs: +My Jesus, my Redeemer lives, +My God, my Saviour comes. + +3 The mighty Conqueror shall appear +High on a royal seat, +And Death, the last of all his foes, +Lie vanquish'd at his feet. + +4 Tho' greedy worms devour my skin, +And gnaw my wasting flesh, +When God shall build my bones again, +He clothes them all afresh. + +5 Then shall I see thy lovely face +With strong immortal eyes, +And feast upon thy unknown grace +With pleasure and surprise. + + +Hymn 1:7. +The invitation of the gospel; or, Spiritual +food and clothing, Isa. 55. 1 &c. + +1 Let every mortal ear attend, +And every heart rejoice, +The trumpet of the gospel sounds +With an inviting voice. + +2 Ho, all ye hungry starving souls, +That feed upon the wind, +And vainly strive with earthly toys +To fill an empty mind, + +3 Eternal wisdom has prepar'd +A soul reviving feast, +And bids your longing appetites +The rich provision taste. + +4 Ho, ye that pant for living streams, +And pine away and die, +Here you may quench your raging thirst +With springs that never dry. + +5 Rivers of love and mercy here +In a rich ocean join; +Salvation in abundance flows, +Like floods of milk and wine. + +6 [Ye perishing and naked poor, +Who work with mighty pain +To weave a garment of your own +That will not hide your sin, + +7 Come naked, and adorn your souls +In robes prepar'd by God, +Wrought by the labours of his Son, +And dy'd in his own blood.] + +8 Dear God, the treasures of thy love +Are everlasting mines, +Deep as our helpless miseries are, +And boundless as our sins. + +9 The happy gates of gospel grace +Stand open night and day, +Lord, we are come to seek supplies, +And drive our wants away. + + +Hymn 1:8. +The safety and protection of the church, Isa. 26. 1-6. + +1 How honourable is the place +Where we adoring stand, +Zion the glory of the earth, +And beauty of the land! + +2 Bulwarks of mighty grace defend +The city where we dwell, +The walls of strong salvation made, +Defy th' assaults of hell. + +3 Lift up the everlasting gates, +The doors wide open fling, +Enter, ye nations, that obey +The statutes of our King. + +4 Here you shall taste unmingled joys, +And live in perfect peace, +You that have known Jehovah's name, +And ventur'd on his grace. + +5 Trust in the Lord, for ever trust, +And banish all your fears; +Strength in the Lord Jehovah dwells, +Eternal as his years. + +6 [What tho' the rebels dwell on high, +His arm shall bring them low, +Low' as the caverns of the grave +Their lofty heads shall bow.] + +7 [On Babylon our feet shall tread +In that rejoicing hour, +The ruins of her walls shall spread +A pavement for the poor.] + + +Hymn 1:9. +The promises of the covenant of grace, Isa. 55. 1 2. +Zech. 13. 1. Mich. 7. 19. Ezek. 36. 25 &c. + +1 In vain we lavish out our lives +To gather empty wind, +The choicest blessings earth can yield +Will starve a hungry mind. + +2 Come and the Lord shall feed our souls +With more substantial meat, +With such as saints in glory love, +With such as angels eat. + +3 Our God will every want supply, +And fill our hearts with peace; +He gives by covenant and by oath +The riches of his grace. + +4 Come, and he'll cleanse our spotted souls, +And wash away our stains, +In the dear fountain that his Son +Pour'd from his dying veins. + +5 [Our guilt shall vanish all away +Tho' black as hell before; +Our sins shall sink beneath the sea, +And shall be found no more. + +6 And lest pollution should o'erspread +Our inward powers again, +His Spirit shall bedew our souls +Like purifying rain.] + +7 Our heart, that flinty stubborn thing, +That terrors cannot move, +That fears no threat'nings of his wrath, +Shall be dissolv'd by love; + +8 Or he can take the flint away +That would not be refin'd, +And from the treasures of his grace +Bestow a softer mind. + +9 There shall his sacred Spirit dwell, +And deep engrave his law, +And every motion of our souls +To swift obedience draw. + +10 Thus will he pour salvation down, +And we shall render praise, +We the dear people of his love, +And he our God of grace. + + +Hymn 1:10. +The blessedness of gospel times; or, The revelation of +Christ to Jews and Gentiles, Isa. 5. 2 7-10. Matt. +13. 16 17. + +1 How beauteous are their feet +Who stand on Zion's hill! +Who bring salvation on their tongues, +And words of peace reveal! + +2 How charming is their voice! +How sweet the tidings are! +"Zion, behold thy Saviour King, +He reigns and triumphs here." + +3 How happy are our ears +That hear this joyful sound, +Which kings and prophets waited for, +And sought, but never found! + +4 How blessed are our eyes +That see this heavenly light! +Prophets and kings desir'd it long, +But dy'd without the sight. + +5 The watchmen join their voice, +And tuneful notes employ; +Jerusalem breaks forth in songs, +And deserts leant the joy. + +6 The Lord makes bare his arm +Thro' all the earth abroad +Let every nation now behold +Their Saviour and their God. + + +Hymn 1:11. +The humble enlightened, and carnal reason humbled; +or, The sovereignty of grace, Luke 10. 21 22 + +1 There was an hour when Christ rejoic'd, +And spoke his joy in words of praise; +"Father, I thank thee, mighty God, +"Lord of the earth, and heavens, and seas. + +2 "I thank thy sovereign power and love, +"That crowns my doctrine with success; +"And makes the babes in knowledge learn +"The heights, and breadths, and lengths of grace. + +3 "But all this glory lies conceal'd +"From men of prudence and of wit; +"The prince of darkness blinds their eyes, +"And their own pride resists the light. + +4 "Father, 'tis thus, because thy will +"Chose and ordain'd it should be so; +"T'is thy delight t' abase the proud, +"And lay the haughty scorner low. + +5 "There's none can know the Father right +"But those who learn it from the Son; +"Nor can the Son be well receiv'd, +But where the Father makes him known." + +6 Then let our souls adore our God +That deals his graces as he please, +Nor gives to mortals an account +Or of his actions, or decrees. + + +Hymn 1:12. +Free grace in revealing Christ, Luke 10. 21. + +1 Jesus, the man of constant grief, +A mourner all his days; +His spirit once rejoic'd aloud, +And tun'd his joy to praise. + +2 "Father, I thank thy wondrous love, +"That hath reveal'd thy Son +"To men unlearned; and to babes +"Has made thy gospel known. + +3 "The mysteries of redeeming grace +"Are hidden from the wise, +"While pride and carnal reasonings join +"To swell and blind their eyes." + +4 Thus doth the Lord of heaven and earth +His great decrees fulfil, +And orders all his works of grace +By his own sovereign will. + + +Hymn 1:13. +The Son of God incarnate; or, The titles and the +kingdom of Christ, Isa. 9. 2 6 7. + +1 The lands that long in darkness lay +Now have beheld a heavenly light; +Nations that sat in death's cold shade +Are bless'd with beams divinely bright. + +2 The virgin's promis'd Son is born, +Behold th' expected Child appear; +What shall his names or titles be? +The Wonderful, the Counsellor. + +3 This infant is the mighty God +Come to be suckled and ador'd +Th' eternal Father, Prince of Peace, +The son of David, and his Lord. + +4 The government of earth and seas +Upon his shoulders shall be laid +His wide dominions still increase, +And honours to his name be paid. + +5 Jesus the holy child shall sit +High on his father David's throne, +Shall crush his foes beneath his feet, +And reign to ages yet unknown. + + +Hymn 1:14. +The triumph of faith; or, Christ's unchangeable love, +Rom. 8. 33 &c. + +1 Who shall the Lord's elect condemn? +'Tis God that justifies their souls, +And mercy like a mighty stream +O'er all their sins divinely rolls. + + +2 Who shall adjudge the saints to hell? +'Tis Christ that suffer'd in their stead, +And the salvation to fulfil, +Behold him rising from the dead. + +3 He lives, he lives, and sits above, +For ever interceding there: +Who shall divide us from his love? +Or what should tempt us to despair? + +4 Shall persecution, or distress, +Famine, or sword, or nakedness? +He that hath lov'd us bears us thro', +And makes us more than conquerors too. + +5 Faith hath an overcoming power, +It triumphs in the dying hour; +Christ is our life, our joy, our hope, +Nor can we sink with such a prop. + +6 Not all that men on earth can do, +Nor powers on high, nor powers below, +Shall cause his mercy to remove, +Or wean our hearts from Christ our love. + + +Hymn 1:15. +Our own weakness, and Christ our strength, +2 Cor. 12. 7 9 10. + +1 Let me but hear my Saviour say, +"Strength shall be equal to thy day," +Then I rejoice in deep distress, +Leaning on all-sufficient Grace. + +2 I glory in infirmity, +That Christ's own power may rest on me; +When I am weak, then am I strong, +Grace is my shield, and Christ my song. + +3 I can do all things, or can bear +All sufferings, if my Lord be there; +Sweet pleasures mingle with the pains, +While his left hand my head sustains. + +4 But if the Lord be once withdrawn, +And we attempt the work alone, +When new temptations spring and rise +We find how great our weakness is. + +5 [So Samson, when his hair was lost, +Met the Philistines to his cost; +Shook his vain limbs with sad surprise, +Made feeble fight, and lost his eyes.] + + +Hymn 1:16. +Hosanna to Christ, Matt. 21. 9. Luke 19. 38 40. + +1 Hosanna to the royal Son +Of David's ancient line, +His natures two, his person one, +Mysterious and divine. + +2 The root of David here we find, +And offspring is the same; +Eternity and time are join'd +In our Immanuel's name. + +3 Bless'd he that comes to wretched men +With peaceful news from heaven; +Hosannas of the highest strain +To Christ the Lord be given. + +4 Let mortals ne'er refuse to take +Th' hosanna on their tongues, +Lest rocks and stones should rise, and break +Their silence into songs. + + +Hymn 1:17. +Victory over death, 1 Cor. 15, 55 &c. + +1 O for an overcoming faith +To cheer my dying hours, +To triumph o'er the monster Death, +And all his frightful powers. + +2 Joyful with all the strength I have +My quivering lips should sing, +"Where is thy boasted victory, Grave? +And where the monster's sting?" + +3 If sin be pardon'd I'm secure, +Death hath no sting beside; +The law gives sin its damning power, +But Christ, my ransom, died. + +4 Now to the God of victory +Immortal thanks be paid, +Who makes us conquerors while we die, +Thro' Christ our living head. + + +Hymn 1:18. +Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, Rev. 14. 13. + +1 Hear what the voice from heaven proclaims, +For all the pious dead, +Sweet is the savour of their names, +And soft their sleeping bed. + +2 They die in Jesus, and are bless'd; +How kind their slumbers are! +From sufferings and from sins releas'd, +And freed from every snare. + +3 Far from this world of toil and strife, +They're present with the Lord; +The labours of their mortal life +End in a large reward. + + +Hymn 1:19. +The song of Simeon; or, Death made desirable, +Luke 2. 27 &c. + +1 Lord at thy temple we appear, +As happy Simeon came, +And hope to meet our Saviour here; +O make our joys the same! + +2 With what divine and vast delight +The good old man was fill'd, +When fondly in his wither'd arms +He clasp'd the holy child! + +3 "Now I can leave this world," he cry'd, +"Behold thy servant dies, +"I've seen thy great salvation, Lord, +"And close my peaceful eyes. + +4 "This is the light prepar'd to shine +"Upon the Gentile lands, +"Thine Israel's glory, and their hope +"To break their slavish bands." + +5 [Jesus, the vision of thy face +Hath overpowering charms +Scarce shall I feel death's cold embrace +If Christ be in my arms. + +6 Then while ye hear my heart-strings break, +How sweet my minutes roll! +A mortal paleness on my cheek, +And glory in my soul.] + + +Hymn 1:20. +Spiritual apparel; namely, the robe of righteousness, +and garments of salvation, Isa. 61. 10. + +1 Awake, my heart, arise, my tongue, +Prepare a tuneful voice, +In God the life of all my joys, +Aloud will I rejoice. + +2 'Tis he adorn'd my naked soul, +And made salvation mine, +Upon a poor polluted worm +He makes his graces shine. + +3 And lest the shadow of a spot +Should on my soul be found, +He took the robe the Saviour wrought, +And cast it all around. + +4 How far the heavenly robe exceeds +What earthly princes wear! +These ornaments, how bright they shine! +How white the garments are! + +5 The Spirit wrought my faith and love, +And hope, and every grace; +But Jesus spent his life to work +The robe of righteousness. + +6 Strangely, my soul, art thou array'd +By the great sacred Three: +In sweetest harmony of praise +Let all thy powers agree. + + +Hymn 1:21. +A vision of the kingdom of Christ among men, +Rev. 21. 1-4. + +1 Lo, what a glorious sight appears +To our believing eyes! +The earth and sea are pass'd away, +And the old rolling skies. + +2 From the third heaven where God resides, +That holy happy place, +The New Jerusalem comes down +Adorn'd with shining grace. + +3 Attending angels shout for joy, +And the bright armies sing, +"Mortals, behold the sacred seat +"Of your descending King. + +4 "The God of glory down to men +"Removes his blest abode, +"Men the dear objects of his grace, +"And he the loving God. + +5 "His own soft hand shall wipe the tears +"From every weeping eye, +"And pains, and groans, and griefs, and fears, +"And death itself shall die." + +6 How long, dear Saviour, O how long, +Shall this bright hour delay! +Fly swifter round, ye wheels of time, +And bring the welcome day. + + +Hymn 1:22. [Supplement.] +Flesh and Spirit. Rom. 8. 1. + +1 What vain desires, and passions vain, +Attend this mortal clay! +Oft have they pierc'd my soul with pain, +And drawn my heart astray. + +2 How have I wander'd from my God, +And following sin and shame +In this vile world of flesh and blood +Defil'd my nobler frame! + +3 For ever blessed be thy grace +That form'd my soul anew, +And made it of an heaven-born race, +Thy glory to pursue. + +4 My spirit holds perpetual war, +And wrestles and complains; +But views the happy moment near +That shall dissolve its chains. + +5 Cheerful in death I close my eyes, +To part with every lust; +And charge my flesh whene'er it rise +To leave them in the dust. + +6 My purer spirit shall not fear +To put this body on: +Its tempting powers no more are there, +Its lusts and passions gone. + + +Hymn 1:23. [Supplement.] +A hopeful youth falling short of heaven, Mark 10. 21. + +1 Must all the charms of nature then +So hopeless to salvation prove? +Can hell demand, can heaven condemn +The man whom Jesus deigns to love? + +2 The man who sought the ways of truth, +Paid friends and neighbours all their due, +(A modest, sober, lovely youth) +And thought he wanted nothing now. + +3 But mark the change! thus spake the Lord, +"Come, part with earth for heaven to-day," +The youth astonish'd at the word, +In silent sadness went his way. + +4 Poor virtues that he boasted so, +This test unable to endure; +Let Christ, and grace, and glory go +To make his land and money sure. + +5 Ah foolish choice of treasures here! +Ah fatal love of tempting gold! +Must this base world be bought so dear? +Are life and heaven so cheaply sold? + +6 In vain the charms of nature shine, +If this vile passion govern me: +Transform my soul, O love divine, +And make me part with all for thee. + + +Hymn 1:24. +The rich sinner dying, Psalm 49. 6 9. Eccl. 8. 8. +Job 3. 14 15. + +1 In vain the wealthy mortals toil, +And heap their shining dust in vain, +Look down and scorn the humble poor, +And boast their lofty hills of gain. + +2 Their golden cordials cannot ease +Their pained hearts or aching heads, +Nor fright nor bribe approaching death +From glittering roofs and downy beds. + +3 The lingering, the unwilling soul +The dismal summons must obey, +And bid a long a sad farewell +To the pale lump of lifeless clay. + +4 Thence they are huddled to the grave, +Where kings and slaves have equal thrones; +Their bones without distinction lie +Amongst the heap of meaner bones. + +The rest referred to Psalm 49. + + +Hymn 1:25. +A vision of the Lamb, Rev 5. 6-9. + +1 All mortal vanities, be gone, +Nor tempt my eyes, nor tire my ears, +Behold amidst th' eternal throne +A vision of the Lamb appears. + +2[Glory his fleecy robe adorns, +Mark'd with the bloody death he bore; +Seven are his eyes, and seven his horns, +To speak his wisdom and his power. + +3 Lo, he receives a sealed book +From him that sits upon the throne: +Jesus, my Lord, prevails to look +On dark decrees, and things unknown.] + +4 All the assembling saints around +Fall worshipping before the Lamb, +And in new songs of gospel-sound +Address their honours to his name, + +5 The joy, the shout, the harmony +Flies o'er the everlasting hills, +"Worthy art thou alone," they cry, +"To read the book, to loose the seals."] + +6 Our voices join the heavenly strain, +And with transporting pleasure sing, +"Worthy the Lamb that once was slain, +"To be our teacher and our king!" + +7 His words of prophecy reveal +Eternal counsels, deep designs; +His grace and vengeance shall fulfil +The peaceful and the dreadful lines. + +8 Thou hast redeem'd our souls from hell +'With thine invaluable blood; +And wretches that did once rebel +Are now made favourites of their Cod. + +9 Worthy for ever is the Lord, +That died for treasons not his own, +By every tongue to be ador'd, +And dwell upon his Father's throne. + + +Hymn 1:26. +Hope of heaven by the resurrection of Christ, +1 Peter 1. 3-5. + +1 Bless'd be the everlasting God, +The Father of our Lord, +Be his abounding mercy prais'd, +His majesty ador'd. + +2 When from the dead he rais'd his Son, +And call'd him to the sky, +He gave our souls a lively hope +That they should never die. + +3 What tho' our inbred sins require +Our flesh to see the dust! +Yet as the Lord our Saviour rose, +So all his followers must. + +4 There's an inheritance divine +Reserv'd against that day, +'Tis uncorrupted, undefil'd, +And cannot waste away. + +5 Saints by the power of God are kept +Till the salvation come; +We walk by faith as strangers here +Till Christ shall call us home. + + +Hymn 1:27. +Assurance of heaven; or, A saint prepared to die, +2 Tim. 4. 6 7 8 18. + +1 [Death may dissolve my body now, +And bear my spirit home; +Why do my minutes move so slow, +Nor my salvation come? + +2 With heavenly weapons I have fought +The battles of the Lord, +Finish'd my course, and kept the faith, +And wait the sure reward.] + +3 God has laid up in heaven for me +A crown which cannot fade; +The righteous Judge at that great day +Shall place it on my head. + +4 Nor hath the King of grace decreed +This prize for me alone; +But all that love and long to see +Th' appearance of his Son. + +5 Jesus the Lord shall guard me safe +From every ill design; +And to his heavenly kingdom keep +This feeble soul of mine. + +6 God is my everlasting aid +And hell shall rage in vain; +To him be highest glory paid, +And endless praise.--Amen. + + +Hymn 1:28. +The triumph of Christ over the enemies of his church, +Isa. 63. 1 2 3 &c. + +1 What mighty man, or mighty God, +Comes travelling in state, +Along the Idumean road, +Away from Bozrah's gate? + +2 The glory of his robes proclaim +'Tis some victorious king: +"'Tis I, the just, th' Almighty One, +"That your salvation bring." + +3 "Why, mighty Lord," thy saints enquire, +"Why thine apparel red? +"And all thy vesture stain'd like those +"Who in the wine-press tread?" + +4 "I by myself have trod the press, +"And crush'd my foes alone, +"My wrath has struck the rebels dead, +"My fury stamp'd them down. + +5 "'Tis Edom's blood that dyes my robes +"With joyful scarlet stains, +"The triumph that my raiment wears +"Sprung from their bleeding veins. + +6 "Thus shall the nations be destroy'd +"That dare insult my saints, +"I have an arm t' avenge their wrongs, +"An ear for their complaints." + + +Hymn 1:29. +The ruin of Antichrist, Isa. 63. 4-7. + +1 "I lift my banners," saith the Lord, +"Where Antichrist has stood, +"The city of my gospel-foes +"Shall be a field of blood. + +2 "My heart has study'd just revenge, +"And now the day appears, +"The day of my redeem'd is come +"To wipe away their tears. + +3 "Quite weary is my patience grown, +"And bids my fury go +"Swift as the lightning it shall move, +"And be as fatal too. + +4 "I call for helpers but in vain: +"Then has my gospel none? +"Well, mine own arm has might enough +"To crush my foes alone. + +5 "Slaughter and my devouring sword +"Shall walk the streets around, +"Babel shall reel beneath my stroke, +"And stagger to the ground." + +6 Thy honours, O victorious King! +Thine own right-hand shall raise, +While we thy awful vengeance sing, +And our deliverer praise. + + +Hymn 1:30. +Prayer for deliverance answered, Isa. 26. 8-12 20 21. + +1 In thine own ways, O God of love, +We wait the visits of thy grace, +Our souls desire is to thy Name, +And the remembrance of thy face. + +2 My thoughts are searching, Lord, for thee, +'Mongst the black shades of lonesome night; +My earnest cries salute the skies +Before the dawn restore the light. + +3 Look, how rebellious men deride +The tender patience of my God; +But they shall see thy lifted hand, +And feel the scourges of thy rod. + +4 Hark, the Eternal rends the sky, +A mighty voice before him goes, +A voice of music to his friends, +But threatening thunder to his foes. + +5 Come, children, to your Father's arms, +Hide in the chambers of my grace, +Till the fierce storms be overblown, +And my revenging fury cease. + +6 My sword shall boast its thousands slain, +And drink the blood of haughty kings, +While heavenly peace around my flock +Stretches its soft and shady wings. + + +Hymn 1:31. [Supplement.] +The hidden life of a Christian, Col. 3. 3. + +1 O happy soul that lives on high; +While men lie grovelling here! +His hopes are fix'd above the sky, +And faith forbids his fear. + +2 His conscience knows no secret stings, +While peace and joy combine +To form a life whose holy springs +Are hidden and divine. + +3 He waits in secret on his God; +His God in secret sees: +Let earth be all in arms abroad, +He dwells in heavenly peace. + +4 His pleasures rise from things unseen, +Beyond this world and time, +Where neither eyes nor ears have been, +Nor thoughts of sinners climb. + +5 He wants no pomp nor royal throne +To raise his figure here; +Content and pleas'd to live unknown, +Till Christ his life appear. + +6 He looks to heaven's eternal hill +To meet that glorious day: +But patient waits his Saviour's will +To fetch his soul away. + + +Hymn 1:32. +Strength from heaven, Isa. 40. 27-30. + +1 Whence do our mournful thoughts arise? +And where's our courage fled? +Has restless sin and raging hell +Struck all our comforts dead? + +2 Have we forgot th' almighty Name +That form'd the earth and sea? +And can an all-creating arm +Grow weary or decay? + +3 Treasures of everlasting might +In our Jehovah dwell; +He gives the conquest to the weak, +And treads their foes to hell. + +4 Mere mortal power shall fade and die, +And youthful vigour cease; +But we that wait upon the Lord +Shall feel our strength increase. + +5 The saints shall mount on eagles' wings +And taste the promis'd bliss, +Till their unwearied feet arrive +Where perfect pleasure is. + + +Hymn 1:33. [Supplement.] +The gospel the power of God to salvation, Rom. 1. 16. +1 Cor. 1. 18 24. + +1 What shall the dying sinner do +That seeks relief for all his woe? +Where shall the guilty conscience find +Ease for the torment of the mind? + +2 How shall we get our crimes forgiven, +Or form our natures fit for heaven? +Can souls all o'er defil'd with sin +Make their own powers and passions clean? + +3 In vain we search, in vain we try, +Till Jesus bring his gospel nigh; +'Tis there such power and glory dwell +As saves rebellious souls from hell. + +4 This is the pillar of our hope +That bears our fainting spirits up; +We read the grace, we trust the word, +And find salvation in the Lord. + +5 Let men or angels dig the mines +Where nature's golden treasure shines, +Brought near the doctrine of the cross +All nature's gold appears but dross. + +6 Should vile blasphemers with disdain +Pronounce the truths of Jesus vain, +I'll meet the scandal and the shame, +And sing and triumph in his Name. + + +Hymn 1:34. [Supplement.] +None excluded from hope, Rom. 1. 16. 1 Cor. 1. 24. + +1 Jesus, thy blessings are not few, +Nor is thy gospel weak; +Thy grace can melt the stubborn Jew, +And bow th' aspiring Greek. + +2 Wide as the reach of Satan's rage +Doth thy salvation flow; +'Tis not confin'd to sex or age, +The lofty or the low. + +3 While grace is offer'd to the prince, +The poor may take their share; +No mortal has a just pretence +To perish in despair. + +4 Be wise, ye men of strength and wit, +Nor boast your native powers; +But to his sovereign grace submit, +And glory shall be yours. + +5 Come, all ye vilest sinners come, +He'll form your souls anew: +His gospel and his heart have room +For rebels such as you. + +6 His doctrine is almighty love; +There's virtue in his Name +To turn the raven to a dove, +The lion to a lamb. + + +Hymn 1:35. [Supplement.] +Truth, sincerity, &c. Phil. 4. 8. + +1 Let those who bear the Christian name +Their holy vows fulfil: +The saints, the followers of the Lamb, +Are men of honour still. + +2 True to the solemn oath they take, +Tho' to their hurt they swear; +Constant and just to all they speak, +For God and angels hear. + +3 Still with their lips their hearts agree, +Nor flattering words devise, +They know the God of truth can see +Thro' every false disguise. + +4 They hate th' appearance of a lie +In all the shapes it wears; +They live the truth; and, when they die, +Eternal life is theirs. + +5 While hypocrites and liars fly +Before the Judge's frown, +His faithful friends, who fear a lie, +Receive th' immortal crown. + + +Hymn 1:36. [Supplement.] +A lovely carriage. + +1 O 'tis a lovely thing to see +A man of prudent heart, +Whose thoughts, and lips, and life agree +To act a useful part. + +2 When envy, strife, and wars begin, +In little angry souls, +Mark how the sons of peace come in, +And quench the kindling coals. + +3 Their minds are humble, mild, and meek, +Nor let their fury rise; +Nor passion moves their lips to speak, +Nor pride exalts their eyes. + +4 Their frame is prudence mix'd with love, +Good works fulfil their day: +They join the serpent with the dove, +But cast the sting away. + +5 Such was the Saviour of mankind; +Such pleasures he pursu'd; +His flesh and blood were all refin'd, +His soul divinely good. + +6 Lord, can these plants of virtue grow +In such a heart as mine? +Thy grace my nature can renew, +And make my soul like thine. + + +Hymn 1:37. [Supplement.] +Zeal and Fortitude. + +1 Do I believe what Jesus saith, +And think the gospel true? +Lord, make me bold to own my faith, +And practise virtue too. + +2 Suppress my shame, subdue my fear, +Arm me with heavenly zeal, +That I may make thy power appear, +And works of praise fulfil. + +3 If men shall see my virtue shine, +And spread my name abroad, +Thine is the power, the praise is thine, +My Saviour and my God. + +4 Thus when the saints in glory meet, +Their lips proclaim thy grace; +They cast their honours at thy feet, +And own their borrow'd rays. + +PAUSE. + +5 Are we the soldiers of the cross? +The followers of the Lamb? +And shall we fear to own his cause, +Or blush to speak his name? + +6 Now we must fight, if we would reign; +Increase our courage, Lord! +We'll bear the toil, endure the pain, +Supported by thy word. + +7 Thy saints in all this glorious war +Shall Conquer tho' they're slain; +They see the triumph from afar, +And shall with Jesus reign. + +8 When that illustrious day shall rise, +And all thy armies shine +In robes of victory thro' the skies, +The glory shall be thine. + + +Hymn 1:38. [Supplement.] +The universal law of equity. Matt. 8. 12. + +1 Blessed Redeemer how divine, +How righteous is this rule of thine, +"To do to all men just the same +"As we expect or wish from them." + +2 This golden lesson, short and plain, +Gives not the mind nor memory pain; +And every conscience must approve +This universal law of love. + +3 How blest would every nation be, +Thus rul'd by love and equity! +All would be friends without a foe, +And form a paradise below. + +4 Jesus, forgive us, that we keep +Thy sacred law of love asleep, +No more let envy, wrath, and pride, +But thy blest maxims be our guide. + + +Hymn 1:39. +God's tender care of his church, Isa. 13 &c. + +1 How shall my inward joys arise +And burst into a song, +Almighty love inspires my heart, +And pleasure tunes my tongue. + +2 God on his thirsty Sion-hill +Some mercy-drops has thrown, +And solemn oaths have bound his love +To shower salvation down. + +3 Why do we then indulge our fears, +Suspicions and complaints? +Is he a God, and shall his grace +Grow weary of his saints? + +4 Can a kind woman e'er forget +The infant of her womb, +And 'mongst a thousand tender thoughts +Her suckling have no room? + +5 "Yet (saith the Lord) should nature change, +"And mothers monsters prove, +"Sion still dwells upon the heart +"Of everlasting love. + +6 "Deep on the palms of both my hands +"I have engrav'd her name, +"My hands shall raise her ruin'd walls, +"And build her broken frame." + + +Hymn 1:40. +The business and blessedness of glorified saints, +Rev. 7. 13 &c. + +1 "What happy men, or angels these +"That all their robes are spotless white? +"Whence did this glorious troop arrive +"At the pure realms of heavenly light?" + +2 From tort'ring racks and burning fires, +And seas of their own blood they came; +But nobler blood has wash'd their robes, +Flowing from Christ the dying Lamb. + +3 Now they approach th' almighty throne, +With loud hosannas night and day, +Sweet anthems to the great Three One +Measure their blest eternity. + +4 No more shall hunger pain their souls, +He bids their parching thirst be gone, +And spreads the shadow of his wings +To screen them from the scorching sun. + +5 The Lamb that fills the middle throne +Shall shed around his milder beams, +There shall they feast on his rich love, +And drink full joys from living streams. + +6 Thus shall their mighty bliss renew +Thro' the vast round of endless years, +And the soft hand of sovereign grace +Heals all their wounds, and wipes their tears. + + +Hymn 1:41. +The same; or, The martyrs glorified, Rev. 7. 13 &c. + +1 "These glorious minds, how bright they shine +"Whence all their white array? +"How came they to the happy seats +"Of everlasting day?" + +2 From tort'ring pains to endless joys +On fiery wheels they rode, +And strangely wash'd their raiment white +In Jesus' dying blood. + +3 Now they approach a spotless God, +And bow before his throne +Their warbling harps and sacred songs +Adore the Holy One. + +4 The unveil'd glories of his face +Amongst his saints reside, +While the rich treasure of his grace +Sees all their wants supply'd. + +5 Tormenting thirst shall leave their souls, +And hunger flee as fast; +The fruit of life's immortal tree +Shall be their sweet repast. + +6 The Lamb shall lead his heavenly flock +Where living fountains rise, +And love divine shall wipe away +The sorrows of their eyes. + + +Hymn 1:42. +Divine wrath and mercy, Nahum 1, 2 &c. + +1 Adore and tremble, for our God +Is a _consuming fire_;* +His jealous eyes his wrath inflame, +And raise his vengeance higher. + +2 Almighty vengeance how it burns! +How bright his fury glows! +Vast magazines of plagues and storms +Lie treasur'd for his foes. + +3 Those heaps of wrath by slow degrees +Are forced into a flame, +But kindled, O how fierce they blaze! +And rend all nature's frame. + +4 At his approach the mountains flee, +And seek a watery grave; +The frighted sea makes haste away, +And shrinks up every wave. + +5 Thro' the wide air the weighty rocks +Are swift as hailstones hurl'd: +Who dares engage his fiery rage +That shakes the solid world? + +6 Yet, mighty God, thy sovereign grace +Sits regent on the throne, +The refuge of thy chosen race +When wrath comes rushing down. + +7 Thy hand shall on rebellious kings +A fiery tempest pour, +While we beneath thy sheltering wings +Thy just revenge adore. + +*Hebrews 12:29. + + +Hymn 1:43. [Supplement.] +The Christian treasure, 1 Cor. 3. 21. + +1 How vast the treasure we possess! +How rich thy bounty, King of Grace! +This world is ours, and worlds to come +Earth is our lodge, and heaven our home. + +2 All things are ours, the gifts of God; +The purchase of a Saviour's blood: +While the good Spirit shews us how +To use and to improve them too. + +3 If peace and plenty crown my days, +They help, me, Lord, to speak thy praise! +If bread of sorrows be my food, +Those sorrows work my lasting good. + +4 I would not change my blest estate +For all the world calls good or great: +And while my faith can keep her hold, +I envy not the sinner's gold. + +5 Father, I wait thy daily will; +Thou shalt divide my portion still: +Grant me on earth what seems thee best, +Till death and heaven reveal the rest. + + +Hymn 1:44. [Supplement.] +The true improvement of life. + +1 And is this life prolong'd to me? +Are days and seasons given? +O let me then prepare to be +A fitter heir of heaven. + +2 In vain these moments shall not pass, +These golden hours be gone: +Lord, I accept thine offered grace, +I bow before thy throne. + +3 Now cleanse my soul from every sin, +By my Redeemer's blood: +Now let my flesh and soul begin +The honours of my God. + +4 Let me no more my soul beguile +With sin's deceitful toys: +Let cheerful hope increasing still +Approach to heavenly joys. + +5 My thankful lips shall loud proclaim +The wonders of thy praise, +And spread the savour of thy Name +Where'er I spend my days. + +6 On earth let my example shine, +And when I leave this state, +May heaven receive this soul of mine +To bliss supremely great. + + +Hymn 1:45. +The last judgment, Rev. 21. 5-8. + +1 See where the great incarnate God +Fills a majestic throne, +While from the skies his awful voice +Bears the last judgment down. + +2 ["I am the first, and I the last, +"Thro' endless years the same; +"I AM is my memorial still, +"And my eternal name. + +3 "Such favours as a God can give +"My royal grace bestows; +"Ye thirsty souls come taste the streams +"Where life and pleasure flows.] + +4 ["The saint that triumphs o'er his sins, +"I'll own him for a son, +"The whole creation shall reward +"The conquests he has won. + +5 "But bloody hands and hearts unclean, +"And all the lying race, +"The faithless and the scoffing crew, +"That spurn at offer'd grace, + +6 "They shall be taken from my sight, +"Bound fast in iron chains, +"And headlong plung'd into the lake +"Where fire and darkness reigns." + +7 O may I stand before the Lamb, +When earth and seas are fled! +And hear the Judge pronounce my name +With blessings on my head! + +8 May I with those for ever dwell +Who here were my delight, +While sinners banish'd down to hell, +No more offend my sight. + + +Hymn 1:46. [Supplement.] +The privileges of the living above the dead. + +1 Awake, my zeal, awake, my love, +To serve my Saviour here below, +In works which perfect saints above +And holy angels cannot do. + +2 Awake my charity, to feed +The hungry soul, and clothe the poor: +In heaven are found no sons of need, +There all these duties are no more. + +3 Subdue thy passions, O my soul! +Maintain the fight, thy work pursue, +Daily thy rising sins control, +And be thy victories ever new. + +4 The land of triumph lies on high, +There are no foes t' encounter there: +Lord, I would conquer till I die, +And finish all the glorious war. + +5 Let every flying hour confess +I gain thy gospel fresh renown; +And when my life and labour cease, +May I possess the promis'd crown. + + +Hymn 1:47. [Supplement.] +Death of kindred improved. + +1 Must friends and kindred drop and die? +And helpers be withdrawn? +While sorrow with a weeping eye +Counts up our comforts gone? + +2 Be thou our comfort, mighty God! +Our helper and our friend: +Nor leave us in this dangerous road, +Till all our trials end. + +3 O may our feet pursue the way +Our pious fathers led! +With love and holy zeal obey +The counsels of the dead. + +4 Let us be wean'd from all below, +Let hope our grief expel, +While death invites our souls to go +Where our best kindred dwell. + + +Hymn 1:48. +The Christian race, Isa. 40. 28-31. + +1 Awake, our souls, away, our fears, +Let every trembling thought be gone; +Awake and run the heavenly race, +And put a cheerful courage on. + +2 True, 'tis a strait and thorny road, +And mortal spirits tire and faint; +But they forget the mighty God +That feeds the strength of every saint. + +3 Thee, mighty God, whose matchless power +Is ever new and ever young, +And firm endures while endless years +Their everlasting circles run. + +4 From thee the overflowing spring, +Our souls shall drink a fresh supply, +While such as trust their native strength +Shall melt away, and drop and die. + +5 Swift as an eagle cuts the air +We'll mount aloft to thine abode, +On wings of love our souls shall fly, +Nor tire amidst the heavenly road. + + +Hymn 1:49. +The works of Moses and the Lamb, Rev. 15. 3. + +1 How strong thine arm is, mighty God, +Who would not fear thy Name! +Jesus, how sweet thy graces are! +Who would not love the Lamb! + +2 He has done more than Moses did, +Our Prophet and our King; +From bonds of hell he freed our souls, +And taught our lips to sing. + +3 In the Red-sea by Moses' hand +Th' Egyptian host was drown'd; +But his own blood hides all our sins, +And guilt no more is found. + +4 When thro' the desert Israel went, +With manna they were fed; +Our Lord invites us to his flesh, +And calls it living bread. + +5 Moses beheld the promis'd land, +Yet never reach'd the place; +But Christ shall bring his followers home +To see his Father's face. + +6 Then shall our love and joy be full, +And feel a warmer flame; +And sweeter voices tune the song +Of Moses and the Lamb. + + +Hymn 1:50. +The song of Zacharias, and the message of John +the Baptist; or, Light and salvation by Jesus Christ, +Luke 1. 68 &c. John 1. 29. 32. + +1 Now be the God of Israel bless'd +Who makes his truth appear, +His mighty hand fulfils his word, +And all the oaths he sware. + +2 Now he bedews old David's root +With blessings from the skies; +He makes the branch of promise grow, +The promis'd horn arise. + +3 [John was the prophet of the Lord +To go before his face, +The herald which our Saviour God +Sent to prepare his ways. + +4 He makes the great salvation known, +He speaks of pardon'd sins; +While grace divine and heavenly love +In its own glory shines. + +5 "Behold the Lamb of God," he cries, +"That takes our guilt away: +"I saw the Spirit o'er his head +"On his baptizing day.] + +6 "Be every vale exalted high, +"Sink every mountain low, +"The proud must stoop, and humble souls +"Shall his salvation know. + +7 "The heathen realms with Israel's land +"Shall join in sweet accord; +"And all that's born of man shall see +"The glory of the Lord. + +8 "Behold the morning star arise, +"Ye that in darkness sit; +"He marks the path that leads to peace, +"And guides our doubtful feet." + + +Hymn 1:51. +Persevering grace, Jude 24 25. + +1 To God the only wise, +Our Saviour and our King, +Let all the saints below the skies +Their humble praises bring. + +2 'Tis his almighty love, +His counsel, and his care, +Preserves us safe from sin and death, +And every hurtful snare. + +3 He will present our souls +Unblemish'd and complete, +Before the glory of his face, +With joys divinely great. + +4 Then all the chosen seed +Shall meet around the throne, +Shall bless the conduct of his grace, +And make his wonders known. + +5 To our Redeemer God +Wisdom and power belongs, +Immortal crowns of majesty, +And everlasting songs. + + +Hymn 1:52. +Baptism, Matt. 28. 19. Acts 2. 38. + +1 'Twas the commission of our Lord, +"Go, teach the nations, and baptize;" +The nations have receiv'd the word +Since he ascended to the skies. + +2 He sits upon th' eternal hills, +With grace and pardon in his hands, +And sends his covenant with the seals, +To bless the distant British lands. + +3 "Repent, and be baptiz'd, (he saith) +For the remission of your sins;" +And thus our sense assists our faith, +And shews us what his gospel means. + +4 Our souls he washes in his blood, +As water makes the body clean; +And the good Spirit from our God +Descends like purifying rain. + +5 Thus we engage ourselves to thee, +And seal our covenant with the Lord: +O may the great eternal Three +In heaven our solemn vows record! + + +Hymn 1:53. +The Holy Scriptures, Heb. 1. 1 2. 2 Tim. 3. 15 16. +Psalm 147. 19 20. + +1 God who in various methods told +His mind and will to saints of old, +Sent down his Son, with truth and grace, +To teach us in these latter days. + +2 Our nation reads the written word, +That book of life, that sure record: +The bright inheritance of heaven +Is by the sweet conveyance given. + +3 God's kindest thoughts are here express'd, +Able to make us wise and bless'd; +The doctrines are divinely true, +Fit for reproof, and comfort too. + +4 Ye British isles, who read his love +In long epistles from above, +(He hath not sent his sacred word +To every land) Praise ye the Lord. + + +Hymn 1:54. +Electing grace; or, Saints beloved in Christ, +Eph. 1. 3 &c. + +1 Jesus, we bless thy Father's Name; +Thy God and ours are both the same: +What heavenly blessings from his throne +Flow down to sinners thro' his Son! + +2 "Christ be my first elect," he said, +Then chose our souls in Christ our head, +Before he gave the mountains birth, +Or laid foundations for the earth. + +3 Thus did eternal love begin +To raise us up from death and sin; +Our characters were then decreed, +"Blameless in love, a holy seed." + +4 Predestinated to be sons, +Born by degrees, but chose at once; +A new regenerated race +To praise the glory of his grace. + +5 With Christ our Lord we share our part +In the affections of his heart, +Nor shall our souls be thence remov'd +Till he forgets his first belov'd. + + +Hymn 1:55. +Hesekiah's song; or, Sickness and recovery, Isa. 38.9 &c. + +1 When we are rais'd from deep distress +Our God deserves a song; +We take the pattern of our praise +From Hezekiah's tongue. + +2 The gates of the devouring grave +Are open'd wide in vain, +If he that holds the keys of death +Commands them fast again. + +3 Pains of the flesh are wont t' abuse +Our minds with slavish fears, +"Our days are past, and we shall lose +"The remnant of our years." + +4 We chatter with a swallow's voice, +Or like a dove we mourn, +With bitterness instead of joys, +Afflicted and forlorn. + +5 Jehovah speaks the healing word, +And no disease withstands; +Fevers and plagues obey the Lord, +And fly at his commands. + +6 If half the strings of life should break, +He can our frame restore; +He casts our sins behind his back, +And they are found no more. + + +Hymn 1:56. +The song of Moses and the Lamb; or, Babylon falling, +Rev. 15. 3. and chap. 16. 19. and 17. 6. + +1 We sing the glories of thy love, +We sound thy dreadful Name; +The Christian church unites the songs +Of Moses and the Lamb. + +2 Great God, how wondrous are thy works +Of vengeance and of grace! +Thou King of saints, Almighty Lord, +How just and true thy ways! + +3 Who dares refuse to fear thy Name, +Or worship at thy throne? +Thy judgments speak thine holiness +Thro' all the nations known. + +4 Great Babylon, that rules the earth, +Drunk with the martyrs' blood, +Her crimes shall speedily awake +The fury of our God. + +5 The cup of wrath is ready mix'd, +And she must drink the dregs; +Strong is the Lord her sovereign Judge, +And shall fulfil the plagues. + + +Hymn 1:57. +Original sin; or, The first and second Adam, +Rom. 5. 12. Psalm 51. 5. Job 11. 4. + +1 Backward with humble shame we look +On our original; +How is our nature dash'd and broke +In our first father's fall! + +2 To all that's good averse and blind, +But prone to all that's ill +What dreadful darkness veils our mind! +How obstinate our will! + +3 [Conceiv'd in sin (O wretched state!) +Before we draw our breath, +The first young pulse begins to beat +Iniquity and death. + +4 How strong in our degenerate blood +The old corruption reigns, +And, mingling with the crooked flood, +Wanders thro' all our veins!] + +5 Wild and unwholesome as the root +Will all the branches be; +How can we hope for living fruit +From such a deadly tree? + +6 What mortal power from things unclean +Can pure productions bring? +Who can command a vital stream +From an infected spring?] + +7 Yet, mighty God, thy wondrous love +Can make our nature clean, +While Christ and grace prevail above +The tempter, death, and sin. + +8 The second Adam shall restore +The ruins of the first, +Hosanna to that sovereign power +That new creates our dust. + + +Hymn 1:58. +The devil vanquished; or, Michael's war with the +dragon, Rev. 12. 7. + +1 Let mortal tongues attempt to sing +The wars of heaven, when Michael stood +Chief general of th' Eternal King, +And fought the battles of our God. + +2 Against the dragon and his host +The armies of the Lord prevail: +In vain they rage, in vain they boast, +Their courage sinks, their weapons fail. + +3 Down to the earth was Satan thrown, +Down to the earth his legions fell; +Then was the trump of triumph blown, +And shook the dreadful deeps of hell. + +4 Now is the hour of darkness past, +Christ hath assum'd his reigning power; +Behold the great accuser cast +Down from the skies, to rise no more. + +5 'Twas by thy blood immortal Lamb, +Thine armies trod the tempter down; +'Twas by thy word and powerful Name, +They gain'd the battle and renown. + +6 Rejoice, ye heavens; let every star +Shine with new glories round the sky; +Saints, while ye sing the heavenly war, +Raise your Deliverer's name on high. + + +Hymn 1:59. +Babylon fallen, Rev. 18. 20 21. + +1 In Gabriel's hand a mighty stone +Lies, a fair type of Babylon +''Prophets, rejoice, and, all ye saints, +"God shall avenge your long complaints." + +2 He said, and dreadful as he stood, +He sunk the milstone in the flood: +"Thus terribly shall Babel fall; +"Thus, and no more be found at all." + + +Hymn 1:60. +The virgin Mary's song; or, The promised Messiah +born, Luke 1. 46 &c. + +1 Our souls shall magnify the Lord, +In God the Saviour we rejoice; +While we repeat the Virgin's song, +May the same spirit tune our voice. + +2 [The Highest saw her low estate, +And mighty things his hand hath done: +His overshadowing power and grace +Makes her the mother of his Son. + +3 Let every nation call her bless'd, +And endless years prolong her fame; +But God alone must be ador'd; +Holy and reverend is his Name.] + +4 To those that fear and trust the Lord +His mercy stands for ever sure: +From age to age his promise lives, +And the performance is secure. + +5 He spake to Abr'am and his seed, +"In thee shall all the earth be bless'd;" +The memory of that ancient word +Lay long in his eternal breast. + +6 But now no more shall Israel wait, +No more the Gentiles lie forlorn: +Lo the desire of nations comes, +Behold the promis'd seed is born. + + +Hymn 1:61. +Christ our high Priest and King, and Christ coming +to judgment, Rev. 1. 5 6 7. + +1 Now to the Lord that makes us know +The wonders of his dying love, +Be humble honours paid below, +And strains of nobler praise above. + +2 'Twas he that cleans'd our foulest sins, +And wash'd us in his richest blood; +'Tis he that makes us priests and kings, +And brings us rebels near to God. + +3 To Jesus our atoning priest, +To Jesus our superior king, +Be everlasting power confess'd, +And every tongue his glory sing. + +4 Behold, on flying clouds he comes, +And every eye shall see him move; +Tho' with our sins we pierc'd him once, +Then he displays his pardoning love. + +5 The unbelieving world shall wail +While we rejoice to see the day: +Come, Lord; nor let thy promise fail, +Nor let thy chariots long delay. + + +Hymn 1:62. +Christ Jesus, the Lamb of God, worshipped by all +the creation, Rev. 5. 11 12 13. + +1 Come let us join our cheerful songs +With angels round the throne; +Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, +But all their joys are one. + +2 "Worthy the Lamb that dy'd," they cry, +"To be exalted thus:" +"Worthy the Lamb," our lips reply, +"For he was slain for us." + +3 Jesus is worthy to receive +Honour and power divine; +And blessings more than we can give, +Be, Lord, for ever thine. + +4 Let all that dwell above the sky, +And air, and earth, and seas, +Conspire to lift thy glories high, +And speak thine endless praise. + +5 The whole creation join in one +To bless the sacred Name +Of him that sits upon the throne, +And to adore the Lamb. + + +Hymn 1:63. +Christ's humiliation and exaltation, Rev. 5. 12. + +1 What equal honours shall we bring +To thee, O Lord our God, the Lamb, +When all the notes that angels sing +Are far inferior to thy Name? + +2 Worthy is he that once was slain, +The Prince of Peace that groan'd and dy'd, +Worthy to rise, and live, and reign +At his Almighty Father's side. + +3 Power and dominion are his due, +Who stood condemn'd at Pilate's bar: +Wisdom belongs to Jesus too, +Tho' he was charg'd with madness here. + +4 All riches are his native right, +Yet he sustain'd amazing loss: +To him ascribe eternal might, +Who left his weakness on the cross. + +5 Honour immortal must be paid, +Instead of scandal and of scorn: +While glory shines around his head, +And a bright crown without a thorn. + +6 Blessings for ever on the Lamb, +Who bore the curse for wretched men: +Let angels sound his sacred Name, +And every creature say, Amen. + + +Hymn 1:64. +Adoption, 1 John 3. 1 &c. Gal. 4. 6. + +1 Behold what wondrous grace +The Father hath bestow'd +On sinners of a mortal race, +To call them sons of God! + +2 'Tis no surprising thing +That we should be unknown; +The Jewish world knew not their King, +God's everlasting Son. + +3 Nor doth it yet appear +How great we must be made; +But when we see our Saviour here, +We shall be like our head. + +4 A hope so much divine +May trials well endure, +May purge our souls from sense and sin, +As Christ the Lord is pure. + +5 If in my Father's love +I share a filial part, +Send down thy Spirit like a dove +To rest upon my heart. + +6 We would no longer lie +Like slaves beneath the throne; +My faith shall Abba, Father, cry, +And thou the kindred own. + + +Hymn 1:65. +The kingdoms of the world become the kingdoms +of our Lord; or, The day of judgment, Rev. 11. 15-18. + +1 Let the seventh angel sound on high, +Let shouts be heard thro' all the sky; +Kings of the earth, with glad accord +Give up your kingdoms to the Lord. + +2 Almighty God, thy power assume, +Who wast, and art, and art to come: +Jesus, the Lamb, who once was slain, +For ever live, for ever reign. + +3 The angry nations fret and roar, +That they can slay the saints no more; +On wings of vengeance flies our God +To pay the long arrears of blood. + +4 Now must the rising dead appear, +Now the decisive sentence hear; +Now the dear martyrs of the Lord +Receive an infinite reward. + + +Hymn 1:66. +Christ the King at his table, Cant. (Transcriber's Note: +Song of Solomon) 1. 2-5 12 13 17. + +1 Let him embrace my soul, and prove +Mine interest in his heavenly love: +The voice that tells me, "Thou art mine," +Exceeds the blessings of the vine. + +2 On thee th' anointing Spirit came, +And spreads the savour of thy name; +That oil of gladness and of grace +Draws virgin souls to meet thy face. + +3 Jesus, allure me by thy charms, +My soul shall fly into thine arms, +Our wandering feet thy favours bring +To the fair chambers of the King. + +4 [Wonder and pleasure tune our voice +To speak thy praises and our joys: +Our memory keeps this love of thine +Beyond the taste of richest wine.] + +5 Tho' in ourselves deform'd we are, +And black as Kedar tent appear, +Yet when we put thy beauties on, +Fair as the courts of Solomon. + +6 While at his table sits the King, +He loves to see us smile and sing; +Our graces are our best perfume, +And breathe like spikenard round the room.] + +7 As myrrh new bleeding from the tree, +Such is a dying Christ to me; +And while he makes my soul his guest, +My bosom, Lord, shall be thy rest. + +8 [No beams of cedar or of fir +Can with thy courts on earth compare; +And here we wait until thy love +Raise us to nobler seats above.] + + +Hymn 1:67. +Seeking the pastures of Christ the Shepherd, Cant. 1.7. + +1 Thou whom my soul admires above +All earthly joy, and earthly love, +Tell me, dear shepherd, let me know, +Where doth thy sweetest pasture grow? + +2 Where is the shadow of that rock +That from the son defends thy flock? +Fain would I feed among thy sheep, +Among them rest, among them sleep. + +3 Why should thy bride appear like one +That turns aside to paths unknown? +My constant feet would never rove, +Would never seek another love. + +4 [The footsteps of thy flock I see; +Thy sweetest pastures here they be; +A wondrous feast thy love prepares, +Bought with thy wounds, and groans, and tears. + +5 His dearest flesh he makes my food, +And bids me drink his richest blood; +Here to these hills my soul will come, +To my beloved lead me home.] + + +Hymn 1:68. +The banquet of love, Cant. 2. 1 2 3 4 6 7. + +1 Behold the Rose of Sharon here, +The Lily which the vallies bear; +Behold the Tree of Life, that gives +Refreshing fruit and healing leaves. + +2 Amongst the thorns so lilies shine, +Amongst wild gourds the noble vine; +So in mine eyes my Saviour proves +Amidst a thousand meaner loves. + +3 Beneath his cooling shade I sat +To shield me from the burning heat; +Of heavenly fruit he spreads a feast +To feed my eyes and please my taste. + +4 [Kindly he brought me to the place +Where stands the banquet of his grace, +He saw me faint, and o'er my head +The banner of his love he spread. + +5 With living bread and generous wine +He cheers this sinking heart of mine; +And opening his own heart to me, +He shews his thoughts how kind they be.] + +6 O never let my Lord depart, +Lie down and rest upon my heart; +I charge my sins not once to move +Nor stir, nor wake, nor grieve my Love. + + +Hymn 1:69. +Christ appearing to his church, and seeking her +company, Cant. 2. 1-13. + +1 The voice of my beloved sounds +Over the rocks and rising grounds, +O'er hills of guilt, and seas of grief, +He leaps, he flies to my relief. + +2 Now thro' the veil of flesh I see +With eyes of love he looks at me; +Now in the gospel's clearest glass +He shews the beauties of his face. + +3 Gently he draws my heart along +Both with his beauties and his tongue; +"Rise," saith my Lord, "make haste away; +"No mortal joys are worth thy stay. + +4 "The Jewish wintery state is gone, +"The mists are fled, the spring comes on, +"The sacred turtle-dove we hear +"Proclaim the new, the joyful year. + +5 "Th' immortal vine of heavenly root +"Blossoms and buds, and gives her fruit:" +Lo, we are come to taste the wine; +Our souls rejoice and bless the vine. + +6 And when we hear our Jesus say, +"Rise up, my love, make haste away!" +Our hearts would fain out-fly the wind, +And leave all earthly loves behind. + + +Hymn 1:70. +Christ inviting, and the church answering the +invitation, Cant. 2. 14 16 17. + +1 [Hark, the Redeemer from on high +Sweetly invites his favourites nigh; +From caves of darkness and of doubt, +He gently speaks, and calls us out: + +2 "My dove, who hidest in the rock, +"Thine heart almost with sorrow broke, +"Lift up thy face, forget thy fear, +"And let thy voice delight mine ear. + +3 "Thy voice to me sounds ever sweet; +"My graces in thy countenance meet; +"Tho' the vain world thy face despise, +"'Tis bright and comely in mine eyes." + +4 Dear Lord, our thankful heart receives +The hope thine invitation gives: +'To thee our joyful lips shall raise +The voice of prayer, and of praise.] + +5 [I am my Love's, and he is mine; +Our hearts, our hopes, our passions join: +Nor let a motion, nor a word, +Nor thought arise to grieve my Lord. + +6 My soul to pastures fair he leads, +Amongst the lilies where he feeds; +Amongst the saints (whose robes are white, +Wash'd in his blood) is his delight. + +7 Till the day break, and shadows flee, +Till the sweet dawning light I see, +Thine eyes to me-ward often turn, +Nor let my soul in darkness mourn. + +8 Be like a hart on mountains green, +Leap o'er the hills of fear and sin; +Nor guilt, nor unbelief divide +My Love, my Saviour from my side.] + + +Hymn 1:71. +Christ found in the street, and brought to the church, +Cant. 3. 1-5. + +1 Often I seek my Lord by night, +Jesus, my love, my soul's delight; +With warm desire and restless thought +I seek him oft, but find him not. + +2 Then I arise, and search the street +Till I my Lord, my Saviour meet; +I ask the watchmen of the night, +"Where did you see my soul's delight?" + +3 Sometimes I find him in the way, +Directed by a heavenly ray; +I leap for joy to see his face, +And hold him fast in mine embrace. + +4 [I bring him to my mother's home, +Nor does my Lord refuse to come, +To Sion's sacred chambers, where +My soul first drew the vital air. + +5 He gives me there his bleeding heart, +Pierc'd for my sake with deadly smart; +I give my soul to him, and there +Our loves their mutual tokens share.] + +6 I charge you all, ye earthly toys, +Approach not to disturb my joys; +Nor sin, nor hell come near my heart, +Nor cause my Saviour to depart. + + +Hymn 1:72. +The coronation of Christ, and espousals of the church, +Cant. 3. 2. + +1 Daughters of Sion, come, behold +The crown of honour and of gold, +Which the glad church with joys unknown +Plac'd on the head of Solomon. + +2 Jesus, thou everlasting King, +Accept the tribute which we bring, +Accept the well-deserv'd renown, +And wear our praises as thy crown. + +3 Let every act of worship be +Like our espousals, Lord, to thee; +Like the dear hour, when from above +We first receiv'd thy pledge of love. + +4 The gladness of that happy day, +Our hearts would wish it long to stay, +Nor let our faith forsake its hold, +Nor comfort sink, nor love grow cold. + +5 Each following minute as it flies, +Increase thy praise, improve our joys, +Till we are rais'd to sing thy Name +At the great supper of the Lamb. + +6 O that the months would roll away, +And bring that coronation-day! +The King of Grace shall fill the throne +With all his Father's glories on. + + +Hymn 1:73. +The church's beauty in the eyes of Christ, +Cant. 4. 1 10 11 7 9 8. + +1 Kind is the speech of Christ our Lord, +Affection sounds in every word, +"Lo, thou art fair, my love, he cries, +"Not the young doves have sweeter eyes. + +2 ["Sweet are thy lips, thy pleasing voice +"Salutes mine ear with secret joys, +"No spice so much delights the smell, +"Nor milk nor honey taste so well.] + +3 "Thou art all fair, my bride, to me, +"I will behold no spot in thee." +What mighty wonders love performs, +And puts a comeliness on worms! + +4 Defil'd and loathsome as we are, +He makes us white, and calls us fair; +Adorns us with that heavenly dress, +His graces and his righteousness. + +5 "My sister, and my spouse," he cries, +"Bound to my heart by various ties, +"Thy powerful love my heart detains +"In strong delight and pleasing chains." + +6 He calls me from the leopard's den, +From this wild world of beasts and men, +To Sion where his glories are; +Not Lebanon is half so fair. + +7 Nor dens of prey, nor flowery plains +Nor earthly joys, nor earthly pains +Shall hold my feet, or force my stay, +When Christ invites my soul away. + + +Hymn 1:74. +The church the garden of Christ, Cant. 4. 12 14 15, +and 5. 1. + +1 We are a garden wall'd around, +Chosen and made peculiar ground; +A little spot inclos'd by grace, +Out of the world's wide wilderness. + +2 Like trees of myrrh and spice we stand, +Planted by God the Father's hand; +And all his springs in Sion flow +To make the young plantation grow. + +3 Awake, O heavenly wind, and come, +Blow on this garden of perfume; +Spirit divine, descend and breathe +A gracious gale on plants beneath. + +4 Make our best spices flow abroad +To entertain our Saviour God: +And faith, and love, and joy appear, +And every grace be active here. + +5 [Let my beloved come, and taste +His pleasant fruits at his own feast: +"I come, my spouse, I come," he cries, +With love and pleasure in his eyes. + +6 Our Lord into his garden comes, +Well pleas'd to smell our poor perfumes; +And calls us to a feast divine, +Sweeter than honey, milk, or wine. + +7 "Eat of the tree of life, my friends, +"The blessings that my Father sends; +"Your taste shall all my dainties prove, +"And drink abundance of my love." + +8 Jesus, we will frequent thy board, +And sing the bounties of our Lord: +But the rich food on which we live +Demands more praise than tongues can give.] + + +Hymn 1:75. +The description of Christ the beloved, +Cant. 5. 9-12 14 15 16. + +1 The wondering world enquires to know +Why I should love my Jesus so: +"What are his charms," say they, "above +"The objects of a mortal love!" + +2 Yes, my beloved, to my sight, +Shews a sweet mixture red and white: +All human beauties, all divine, +In my beloved meet and shine, + +3 White is his soul, from blemish free; +Red with the blood he shed for me; +The fairest of ten thousand fairs: +A sun amongst ten thousand stars. + +4 [His head the finest gold excels, +There wisdom in perfection dwells; +And glory like a crown adorns +Those temples once beset with thorns. + +5 Compassions in his heart are found, +Hard by the signals of his wound; +His sacred side no more shall bear +The cruel scourge, the piercing spear.] + +6 [His hands are fairer to behold +Than diamonds set in rings of gold; +Those heavenly hands that on the tree +Were nail'd, and torn, and bled for me. + +7 Tho' once he bow'd his feeble knees, +Loaded with sins and agonies, +Now on the throne of his command +His legs like marble pillars stand.] + +8 [His eyes are majesty and love, +The eagle temper'd with the dove: +No more shall trickling sorrows roll +Thro' those dear windows of his soul. + +9 His mouth, that pour'd out long complaints, +Now smiles, and cheers his fainting saints; +His countenance more graceful is +Than Lebanon with all its trees.] + +10 All over glorious is my Lord, +Must be belov'd, and yet ador'd: +His worth if all the nations knew, +Sure the whole earth would love him too. + + +Hymn 1:76. +Christ dwells in heaven, but visits on earth, +Cant. 6. 1 2 3 12. + +1 When strangers stand and hear me tell +What beauties in my Saviour dwell; +Where he is gone, they fain would know, +That they may seek and love him too. + +2 My best beloved keeps his throne +On hills of light in worlds unknown +But he descends, and shews his face +In the young gardens of his grace. + +3 [In vineyards planted by his hand, +Where fruitful trees in order stand; +He feeds among the spicy beds, +Where lilies shew their spotless heads. + +4 He has engross'd my warmest love, +No earthly charms my soul can move: +I have a mansion in his heart, +Nor death nor hell shall make us part.] + +5 [He takes my soul ere I'm aware, +And shews me where his glories are; +No chariot of Amminadib +The heavenly rapture can describe. + +6 O may my spirit daily rise +On wings of faith above the skies, +Till death shall make my last remove +To dwell for ever with my love.] + + +Hymn 1:77. +The love of Christ to the church, in his language to +her, and provisions for her, Cant. 7. 5 6 9 12 13. + +1 Now in the galleries of his grace +Appears the King, and thus he says, +"How fair my saints are in my sight; +"My love how pleasant for delight!" + +2 Kind is thy language, sovereign Lord, +There's heavenly grace in every word: +From that dear mouth a stream divine +Flows sweeter than the choicest wine. + +3 Such wondrous love awakes the lip +Of saints that were almost asleep, +To speak the praises of thy name, +And makes our cold affections flame. + +4 These are the joys he lets us know +In fields and villages below, +Gives us a relish of his love, +But keeps his noblest feast above. + +5 In Paradise within the gates +An higher entertainment waits; +Fruits new and old laid up in store, +Where we shall feed, but thirst no more. + + +Hymn 1:78. +The strength of Christ's love, and the soul's jealousy +of her own, Cant. 8. 5 6 7 13 14. + +1 [Who is this fair one in distress, +That travels from the wilderness? +And press'd with sorrows and with sins, +On her beloved Lord she leans. + +2 This is the spouse of Christ our God, +Bought with the treasure of his blood; +And her request and her complaint +Is but the voice of every saint.] + +3 "O let my name engraven stand, +"Both on thy heart and on thy hand: +"Seal me upon thine arm; and wear +"That pledge of love for ever there. + +4 "Stronger than death thy love is known, +"Which floods of wrath could never drown; +"And hell and earth in vain combine +"To quench a fire so much divine. + +5 "But I am jealous of my heart, +Lest it should once from thee depart; +"Then let thy name be well impress'd +As a fair signet on my breast. + +6 "Till thou hast brought me to thy home, +"Where fears and doubts can never come, +"Thy count'nance let me often see, +"And often thou shalt hear from me. + +7 "Come, my beloved, haste away, +"Cut short the hours of thy delay, +"Fly like a youthful hart or roe +"Over the hills where spices grow." + + +Hymn 1:79. +A morning hymn, Psalm 19. 5 8 and 73. 24 25. + +1 God of the morning, at whose voice +The cheerful sun makes haste to rise, +And, like a giant doth rejoice +To run his journey thro' the skies; + +2 From the fair chambers of the east +The circuit of his race begins, +And without weariness or rest, +Round the whole earth he flies and shines. + +3 O like the sun may I fulfil +Th' appointed duties of the day, +With ready mind and active will +March on and keep my heavenly way. + +4 [But I shall rove and lose the race, +If God my sun should disappear, +And leave me in this world's wild maze, +To follow every wandering star. + +5 Lord, thy commands are clean and pure, +Enlightening our beclouded eyes, +Thy threatenings just, thy promise sure, +Thy gospel makes the simple wise.] + +6 Give me thy counsels for my guide, +And then receive me to thy bliss; +All my desires and hopes beside +Are faint and cold compar'd to this. + + +Hymn 1:80. +An evening hymn, Psalm 4. 8. and 3. 5 6. and 143. 8. + +1 Thus far the Lord has led me on, +Thus far his power prolongs my days, +And every evening shall make known +Some fresh memorial of his grace. + +2 Much of my time has run to waste, +And I perhaps am near my home; +But he forgives my follies past, +He gives me strength for days to come. + +3 I lay my body down to sleep, +Peace is the pillow for my head, +While well-appointed angels keep +Their watchful stations round my bed. + +4 In vain the sons of earth or hell +Tell me a thousand frightful things, +My God in safety makes me dwell +Beneath the shadow of his wings. + +5 [Faith in his name forbids my fear: +O may thy presence ne'er depart! +And in the morning make me hear +The love and kindness of thy heart. + +6 Thus when the night of death shall come, +My flesh shall rest beneath the ground, +And wait thy voice to rouse my tomb, +With sweet salvation in the sound. + + +Hymn 1:81. +A song for morning or evening, Lam. 3. 23. Isa. 45. 7. + +1 My God, how endless is thy love! +Thy gifts are every evening new; +And morning mercies from above +Gently distil like early dew. + +2 Thou spreadst the curtains of the night, +Great guardian of my sleeping hours; +Thy sovereign word restores the light, +And quickens all my drowsy powers. + +3 I yield my powers to thy command, +To thee I consecrate my days; +Perpetual blessings from thine hand +Demand perpetual songs of praise. + + +Hymn 1:82. +God far above creatures; or, Man vain and +mortal, Job 4. 77-21. + +1 Shall the vile race of flesh and blood +Contend with their creator, God? +Shall mortal worms presume to be +More holy, wise, or just than he? + +2 Behold he puts his trust in none +Of all the spirits round his throne; +Their natures, when compar'd with his +Are neither holy, just nor wise. + +3 But how much meaner things are they +Who spring from dust and dwell in clay! +Touch'd by the finger of thy wrath, +We faint and vanish like the moth. + +4 From night to day, from day to night, +We die by thousands in thy sight; +Bury'd in dust whole nations lie +Like a forgotten vanity. + +5 Almighty power, to thee we bow; +How frail are we, how glorious thou! +No more the sons of earth shall dare +With an eternal God compare. + + +Hymn 1:83. +Afflictions and death under providence, Job 5. 6 7 8. + +1 Not from the dust affliction grows, +Nor troubles rise by chance; +Yet we are born to care and woes, +A sad inheritance. + +2 As sparks break out from burning coals, +And still are upwards borne; +So grief is rooted in our souls, +And man grows up to mourn. + +3 Yet with my God I leave my cause, +And trust his promis'd grace; +He rules me by his well-known laws +Of love and righteousness. + +4 Not all the pains that e'er I bore +Shall spoil my future peace, +For death and hell can do no more +Than what my Father please. + + +Hymn 1:84. +Salvation, righteousness, and strength in Christ, +Isa. 45. 21 25. + +1 Jehovah speaks, let Israel hear, +Let all the earth rejoice and fear, +While God's eternal Son proclaims +His sovereign honours and his names: + +2 "I am the last, and I the first, +"The Saviour God, and God the just; +"There's none beside pretends to shew +"Such justice and salvation too. + +3 "[Ye that in shades of darkness dwell, +"Just on the verge of death and hell, +"Look up to me from distant lands, +"Light, life and heaven are in my hands. + +4 "I by my holy Name have sworn, +"Nor shall the word in vain return, +"To me shall all things bend the knee, +"And every tongue shall swear to me.] + +5 "In me alone shall men confess +"Lies all their strength and righteousness; +"But such as dare despise my Name, +"I'll clothe them with eternal shame. + +6 "In me the Lord, shall all the seed +"Of Israel from their sins be freed, +"And by their shining graces prove +"Their interest in my pardoning love." + + +Hymn 1:85. +The same. + +1 The Lord on high proclaims +His Godhead from his throne; +"Mercy and justice are the names +"By which I will be known. + +2 "Ye dying souls that sit +"In darkness and distress, +"Look from the borders of the pit +"To my recovering grace." + +3 Sinners shall hear the sound; +Their thankful tongues shall own, +"Our righteousness and strength is found +"In thee, the Lord, alone." + +4 In thee shall Israel trust, +And see their guilt forgiven; +God will pronounce the sinners just, +And take the saints to heaven. + + +Hymn 1:86. +God holy, just, and sovereign. Job 9. 2-10. + +1 How should the sons of Adam's race +Be pure before their God? +If he contend in righteousness +We fall beneath his rod. + +2 To vindicate my words and thoughts +I'll make no more pretence; +Not one of all my thousand faults +Can bear a just defence. + +3 Strong is his arm, his heart is wise; +What vain presumers dare +Against their Maker's hand to rise, +Or tempt th' unequal war? + +4 [Mountains by his almighty wrath +From their old seats are torn; +He shakes the earth from south to north, +And all her pillars mourn. + +5 He bids the sun forbear to rise, +Th' obedient sun forbears: +His hand with sackcloth spreads the skies, +And seals up all the stars. + +6 He walks upon the stormy sea +Flies on the stormy wind; +There's none can trace his wondrous way, +Or his dark footsteps find.] + + +Hymn 1:87. +God dwells with the humble and penitent, Isa. 57. 15 16. + +1 Thus saith the High and Lofty One, +"I sit upon my holy throne, +"My name is God, I dwell on high, +"Dwell in my own eternity. + +2 "But I descend to worlds below, +"On earth I have a mansion too, +"The humble spirit and contrite +"Is an abode of my delight. + +3 "The humble soul my words revive, +"I bid the mourning sinner live, +"Heal all the broken hearts I find, +"And ease the sorrows of the mind. + +4 "When I contend against their sin +"I make them know how vile they've been; +"But should my wrath for ever smoke, +"Their souls would sink beneath my stroke."] + +5 O may thy pardoning grace be nigh, +Lest we should faint, despair, and die! +Thus shall our better thoughts approve +The methods of thy chastening love. + + +Hymn 1:88. +Life the day of grace and hope. Eccles. 9. 4 3 6 10. + +1 Life is the time to serve the Lord, +The time t' insure the great reward; +And while the lamp holds out to burn +The vilest sinner may return. + +2 [Life is the hour that God has given +To 'scape from hell, and fly to heaven, +The day of grace, and mortals may +Secure the blessings of the day.] + +3 The living know that they must die, +But all the dead forgotten lie, +Their memory and their sense is gone, +Alike unknowing and unknown. + +4 [Their hatred and their love is lost, +Their envy bury'd in the dust; +They have no share in all that's done +Beneath the circuit of the sun.] + +5 Then what my thoughts design to do, +My hands, with all your might pursue, +Since no device, nor work is found, +Nor faith, nor hope beneath the ground. + +6 There are no acts of pardon past +In the cold grave to which we haste, +But darkness, death, and long despair +Reign in eternal silence there. + + +Hymn 1:89. +Youth and judgment, Eccles. 11. 9. + +1 Ye sons of Adam, vain and young, +Indulge your eyes, indulge your tongue, +Taste the delight your souls desire, +And give a loose to all your fire. + +2 Pursue the pleasures ye design, +And cheer your hearts with songs and wine, +Enjoy the day of mirth; but know +There is a day of judgment too. + +3 God from on high beholds your thoughts, +His book records your secret faults; +The works of darkness you have done +Must all appear before the sun. + +4 The vengeance to your follies due +Should strike your hearts with terror thro': +How will ye stand before his face, +Or answer for his injur'd grace? + +5 Almighty God, turn off their eyes +From these alluring vanities; +And let the thunder of thy word +Awake their souls to fear the Lord. + + +Hymn 1:90. +The same. + +1 Lo the young tribes of Adam rise, +And thro' all nature rove, +Fulfil the wishes of their eyes, +And taste the joys they love. + +2 They give a loose to wild desires, +But let the sinners know, +The strict account that God requires +Of all the works they do. + +3 The Judge prepares his throne on high, +The frighted earth and seas +Avoid the fury of his eye, +And flee before his face. + +4 How shall I bear that dreadful day, +And stand the fiery test? +I give all mortal joys away +To be for ever blest. + + +Hymn 1:91. +Advice to youth; or, Old age and death in an +unconverted state, Eccles. 12. 1 7. Isa. 65. 20. + +1 Now in the heat of youthful blood +Remember your Creator God, +Behold the months come hastening on +When you shall say, "My joys are gone." + +2 Behold, the aged sinner goes, +Laden with guilt and heavy woes +Down to the regions of the dead, +With endless curses on his head. + +3 The dust returns to dust again, +The soul in agonies of pain +Ascends to God, not there to dwell, +But hears her doom, and sinks to hell. + +4 Eternal King! I fear thy Name, +Teach me to know how frail I am; +And when my soul must hence remove, +Give me a mansion in thy love. + + +Hymn 1:92. +Christ the wisdom of God, Prov. 8. 1 22-32. + +1 Shall wisdom cry aloud +And not her speech be heard? +The voice of God's eternal word, +Deserves it no regard? + +2 "I was his chief delight, +"His everlasting Son, +"Before the first of all his works, +"Creation, was begun. + +3 ["Before the flying clouds, +"Before the solid land, +"Before the fields, before the floods, +"I dwelt at his right hand. + +4 "When he adorn'd the skies, +"And built them I was there +"To order where the sun should rise, +"And marshal every star. + +5 "When he pour'd out the sea, +"And spread the flowing deep, +"I gave the flood a firm decree, +"In its own bounds to keep.] + +6 "Upon the empty air +The earth was balanc'd well; +"With joy I saw the mansion where +"The sons of men should dwell. + +7 "My busy thoughts at first +"On their salvation ran, +"Ere sin was born, or Adam's dust +"Was fashioned to a man. + +8 "Then come, receive my grace, +"Ye children, and be wise; +"Happy the man that keeps my ways; +"The man that shuns them dies." + + +Hymn 1:93. +Christ, or wisdom, obeyed or resisted, Prov. 8. 31 35 36. + +1 Thus saith the wisdom of the Lord, +"Bless'd is the man that hears my word, +"Keeps daily watch before my gates, +"And at my feet for mercy waits. + +2 "The soul that seeks me shall obtain +"Immortal wealth and heavenly gain; +"Immortal life is his reward, +"Life, and the favour of the Lord. + +3 "But the vile wretch that flies from me +"Doth his own soul an injury; +Fools that against my grace rebel +"Seek death, and love the road to hell." + + +Hymn 1:94. +Justification by faith, not by works; or, The law +condemns, grace justifies, Rom. 3. 19-22. + +1 Vain are the hopes the sons of men +On their own works have built; +Their hearts by nature all unclean, +And all their actions guilt. + +2 Let Jew and Gentile stop their mouths +Without a murmuring word, +And the whole race of Adam stand +Guilty before the Lord. + +3 In vain we ask God's righteous law +To justify us now, +Since to convince and to condemn +Is all the law can do. + +4 Jesus, how glorious is thy grace, +When in thy name we trust, +Our faith receives a righteousness +That makes the sinner just. + + +Hymn 1:95. +Regeneration, John 1. 13. and 3. 3 &c. + +1 Not all the outward forms on earth, +Nor rites that God has given, +Nor will of man, nor blood, nor birth, +Can raise a soul to heaven. + +2 The sovereign will of God alone +Creates us heirs of grace; +Born in the image of his Son, +A new peculiar race. + +3 The Spirit like some heavenly wind +Blows on the sons of flesh, +New models all the carnal mind, +And forms the man afresh. + +4 Our quicken'd souls awake, and rise +From the long sleep of death; +On heavenly things we fix our eyes, +And praise employs our breath. + + +Hymn 1:96. +Election excludes boasting, 1 Cor. 1. 26-31. + +1 But few among the carnal wise, +But few of noble race, +Obtain the favour of thine eyes, +Almighty King of Grace. + +2 He takes the men of meanest name +For sons and heirs of God; +And thus he pours abundant shame +On honourable blood. + +3 He calls the fool, and makes him know +The mysteries of his grace, +To bring aspiring wisdom low, +And all its pride abase. + +4 Nature has all its glories lost +When brought before his throne; +No flesh shall in his presence boast +But in the Lord alone. + + +Hymn 1:97. +Christ our wisdom, righteousness, &c. 1 Cor. 1. 30. + +1 Bury'd in shadows of the night +We lie till Christ restores the light: +Wisdom descends to heal the blind, +And chase the darkness of the mind. + +2 Our guilty souls are drown'd in tears +Till his atoning blood appears, +Then we awake from deep distress, +And sing, "The Lord our Righteousness." + +3 Our very frame is mix'd with sin, +His Spirit makes our natures clean; +Such virtues from his sufferings flow, +At once to cleanse and pardon too. + +4 Jesus beholds where Satan reigns, +Binding his slaves in heavy chains; +He sets the prisoners free, and breaks +The iron bondage from our necks. + +5 Poor helpless worms in thee possess +Grace, wisdom, power, and righteousness; +Thou art our mighty All, and we +Give our whole selves, O Lord, to thee. + + +Hymn 1:98. +The same. + +1 How heavy is the night +That hangs upon our eyes, +Till Christ with his reviving light, +Over our souls arise! + +2 Our guilty spirits dread +To meet the wrath of heaven +But, in his righteousness array'd, +We see our sins forgiven. + +3 Unholy and impure +Are all our thoughts and ways; +His hands infected nature cure +With sanctifying grace. + +4 The powers of hell agree +To hold our souls in vain; +He sets the sons of bondage free, +And breaks the cursed chain. + +5 Lord, we adore thy ways +To bring us near to God, +Thy sovereign power, thy healing grace, +And thine atoning blood. + + +Hymn 1:99. +Stones made children of Abraham; or, Grace not +conveyed by religious parents, Matt. 3. 9. + +1 Vain are the hopes that rebels place +Upon their birth and blood, +Descended from a pious race; +(Their fathers now with God.) + +2 He from the caves of earth and hell +Can take the hardest stones, +And fill the house of Abra'm well +With new-created sons. + +3 Such wondrous power doth he possess +Who form'd our mortal frame, +Who call'd the world from emptiness, +The world obey'd and came. + + +Hymn 1:100. +Believe and be saved, John 3. 16 17 18. + +1 Not to condemn the sons of men +Did Christ, the Son of God, appear; +No weapons in his hands are seen, +No flaming sword, nor thunder there. + +2 Such was the pity of our God, +He lov'd the race of man so well, +He sent his Son to bear our load +Of sins, and save our souls from hell. + +3 Sinners, believe the Saviour's word, +Trust in his mighty name and live; +A thousand joys his lips afford, +His hands a thousand blessings give. + +4 But vengeance and damnation lies +On rebels who refuse the grace; +Who God's eternal Son despise +The hottest hell shall be their place. + + +Hymn 1:101. +Joy in heaven for a repenting sinner, Luke 15. 7-10. + +1 Who can describe the joys that rise +Thro' all the courts of Paradise +To see a prodigal return, +To see an heir of glory born? + +2 With joy the Father doth approve +The fruit of his eternal love; +The Son with joy looks down and sees +The purchase of his agonies. + +3 The Spirit takes delight to view +The holy soul he form'd anew; +And saints and angels join to sing +The growing empire of their King. + + +Hymn 1:102. +The beatitudes, Matt. 5. 3-12. + +1 [Bless'd are the humble souls that see +Their emptiness and poverty; +Treasures of grace to them are given, +And crowns of joy laid up in heaven.] + +2 [Bless'd are the men of broken heart, +Who mourn for sin with inward smart; +The blood of Christ divinely flows, +A healing balm for all their woes.] + +3 [Bless'd are the meek, who stand afar +From rage and passion, noise and war; +God will secure their happy state, +And plead their cause against the great.] + +4 [Bless'd are the souls that thirst for grace, +Hunger and long for righteousness, +They shall be well supply'd and fed, +With living streams and living bread.] + +5 [Bless'd are the men whose bowels move +And melt with sympathy and love; +From Christ the Lord shall they obtain +Like sympathy and love again.] + +6 [Bless'd are the pure, whose hearts are clean +From the defiling powers of sin, +With endless pleasure they shall see +A God of spotless purity.] + +7 [Bless'd are the men of peaceful life +Who quench the coals of growing strife, +They shall be call'd the heirs of bliss, +The sons of God, the God of peace.] + +8 [Bless'd are the sufferers who partake +Of pain and shame for Jesus' sake; +Their souls shall triumph in the Lord, +Glory and joy are their reward.] + + +Hymn 1:103. +Not ashamed of the gospel, C Tim. 1. 12. + +1 I'm not asham'd to own my Lord, +Or to defend his cause, +Maintain the honour of his word, +The glory of his cross. + +2 Jesus, my God, I know his Name, +His Name is all my trust, +Nor will he put my soul to shame, +Nor let my hope be lost. + +3 Firm as his throne his promise stands, +And he can well secure +What I've committed to his hands +Till the decisive hour. + +4 Then will he own my worthless name +Before his Father's face, +And in the new Jerusalem +Appoint my soul a place. + + +Hymn 1:104. +A state of nature and of grace, 1 Cor. 6. 10 11. + +1 Not the malicious or profane, +The wanton or the proud, +Nor thieves, nor slanderers shall obtain +The kingdom of our God. + +2 Surprising grace! and such were we +By nature and by sin, +Heirs of immortal misery, +Unholy and unclean. + +3 But we are wash'd in Jesus' blood, +We're pardon'd thro' his Name; +And the good Spirit of our God +Has sanctify'd our frame. + +4 O for a persevering power +To keep thy just commands! +We would defile our hearts no more, +No more pollute our hands. + + +Hymn 1:105. +Heaven invisible and holy, 1 Cor. 2. 9 10. Rev. 21. 27. + +1 Nor eye has seen, nor ear has heard, +Nor sense nor reason known +What joys the Father hath prepar'd +For those that love the Son. + +2 But the good Spirit of the Lord +Reveals a heaven to come: +The beams of glory in his word +Allure and guide us home. + +3 Pure are the joys above the sky, +And all the region peace; +No wanton lips, nor envious eye +Can see or taste the bliss. + +4 Those holy gates for ever bar +Pollution, sin, and shame; +None shall obtain admittance there +But followers of the Lamb. + +5 He keeps the Father's book of life, +There all their names are found; +The hypocrite in vain shall strive +To tread the heavenly ground. + + +Hymn 1:106. +Dead to sin by the cross of Christ, Rom. 6. 1 2 6. + +1 Shall we go on to sin +Because thy grace abounds, +Or crucify the Lord again, +And open all his wounds? + +2 Forbid it, mighty God, +Nor let it e'er be said +That we whose sins are crucify'd +Should raise them from the dead. + +3 We will be slaves no more, +Since Christ has made us free, +Has nail'd our tyrants to his cross, +And bought our liberty. + + +Hymn 1:107. +The fall and recovery of man; or, Christ and Satan +at enmity, Gen. 3 1 15 17 Gal. 4. 4. Col. 2. 15. + +1 Deceiv'd by subtle snares of hell +Adam our head, our father fell, +When Satan in the serpent hid +Propos'd the fruit that God forbid. + +2 Death was the threatening; death began +To take possession of the man; +His unborn race receiv'd the wound, +And heavy curses smote the ground. + +3 But Satan found a worse reward; +Thus saith the vengeance of the Lord, +"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 bid four thousand years +Roll on;--at length his Son appears; +Angels with joy descend to earth, +And sing the young Redeemer's birth. + +6 Lo, by the sons of hell he dies; +But, as he hung 'twixt earth and skies, +He gave their prince a fatal blow, +And triumph'd o'er the powers below.] + + +Hymn 1:108. +Christ unseen and beloved, 1 Pet. 1. 8. + +1 Not 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 1:109. +The value of Christ and his righteousness, Phil. 3. 7 8 9. + +1 No more, my God, I boast no more +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 1:110. +Death and immediate glory, 2 Cor. 5. 1 5-8. + +1 There is a house not made with hands, +Eternal and on high: +And here my spirit waiting stands +Till God shall bid it fly. + +2 Shortly this prison of my clay +Must be dissolv'd and fall, +Then, O my soul, with joy obey +Thy heavenly Father's call. + +3 'Tis he by his almighty grace +That 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; +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; +We would be absent from the flesh, +And present, Lord, with thee. + + +Hymn 1:111. +Salvation by grace, Titus 3. 3-7. + +1 [Lord, we confess our numerous faults, +How great our guilt has been! +Foolish and vain were all our thoughts, +And all our lives were sin. + +2 But O, my soul, for ever praise, +For ever love his Name, +Who turns thy feet from dangerous ways +Of folly, sin, and shame.] + +3 ['Tis not by works of righteousness +Which our own hands have done; +But we are sav'd by sovereign grace +Abounding thro' 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. + +5 'Tis thro' the purchase of his death, +Who hung upon the tree, +The Spirit is sent down to breathe +On such dry bones as we. + +6 Rais'd from the dead we live anew; +And justify'd by grace +We shall appear in glory too, +And see our Father's face. + + +Hymn 1:112. +The brazen serpent; or, Looking to Jesus, +John 3. 14 15 16. + +1 So did the Hebrew prophet raise +The brazen serpent high, +The wounded felt immediate ease, +The camp forbore to die. + +2 "Look upward in the dying hour, +And live," the prophet cries; +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. + +4 When God's own Son is lifted up, +A dying world revives, +The Jew beholds the glorious hope, +Th' expiring Gentile lives. + + +Hymn 1:113. +Abraham's blessings on the Gentiles, Gen. 17. 7. +Rom. 15. 8. Mark 10. 14. + +1 How large the promise! how divine, +To Abra'am and his seed! +"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 covenant proves, +And seals the blessing sure. + +3 Jesus the ancient faith confirms +To our great fathers given; +He takes young children to his arms, +And calls them heirs of heaven. + +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 1:114. +The same, Rom. 11. 16 17. + +1 Gentiles by nature we belong +To the wild olive wood; +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. + +3 Then let the children of the saints +Be dedicate to God; +Pour out thy Spirit on them, Lord, +And wash them in thy blood. + +4 Thus to the parents and their seed +Shall thy salvation come, +And numerous households meet at last +In one eternal home. + + +Hymn 1:115. +Conviction of sin by the law, Rom. 7. 8 9 14 24. + +1 Lord, 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, +Was thine eternal law. + +4 Then felt my soul the heavy load, +My sins reviv'd again, +I had provok'd a dreadful God, +And all my hopes were slain.] + +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 every breath +For some kind power to save, +To break the yoke of sin and death, +And thus redeem the slave. + + +Hymn 1:116. +Love to God and our neighbour, Matt. 22. 37-40. + +1 Thus saith the first, the great command, +"Let all thy inward powers unite +"To love thy Maker and thy God, +"With utmost vigour and delight. + +2 "Then shall thy neighbour next in place +"Share thine affections 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. + +4 But O! 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 1:117. +Election sovereign and free, Rom. 9. 21 22 23 20. + +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 high 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?] + +3 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? + +4 [What if to make his terror known +He lets his patience long endure, +Suffering vile rebels to go on +And seal their own destruction sure! + +5 What if he means to shew 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, +The thunder of whose dreadful word +Can crush a thousand worlds to dust? + +7 But, O my soul, if truths so bright +Should dazzle and confound thy sight +Yet still his written will obey, +And wait the great decisive day. + +8 Then shall he make his justice known, +And the whole world before his throne +With joy or terror shall confess +The glory of his righteousness. + + +Hymn 1:118. +Moses and Christ; or, Sins against the law and +gospel, John 1. 17. Heb. 3. 3 5 6 and 10. 28 29. + +1 The law by Moses came, +But peace, and truth, and love, +Were brought by Christ, a nobler name, +Descending from above. + +2 Amidst the house of God +Their different works were done; +Moses a faithful servant stood, +But Christ a faithful Son. + +3 Then to his new commands +Be strict obedience paid; +O'er all his Father's house he stands +The sovereign and the head. + +4 The man that durst despise +The law that Moses brought, +Behold! how terribly he dies +For his presumptuous fault. + +5 But sorer vengeance falls +On that rebellious race, +Who hate to hear when Jesus calls, +And dare resist his grace. + + +Hymn 1:119. +'The different success of the gospel, 1 Cor. 1. 23 24. +2 Cor. 2. 16. 1 Cor. 3. 6 7. + +1 Christ and his cross is all our theme; +The mysteries that we speak +Are scandal in the Jew's esteem, +And folly to the Greek. + +2 But souls enlighten'd from above +With joy receive the word; +They see what wisdom, power, and love +Shines in their dying Lord. + +3 The vital savour of his Name +Restores their fainting breath; +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. + + +Hymn 1:120. +Faith of things unseen, Heb. 11. 1 3 8 10. + +1 Faith is the brightest evidence +Of things beyond our sight, +Breaks thro' 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'm to unknown countries led, +By faith obey'd the Lord. + +4 He sought a city fair and high, +Built by th' eternal hands; +And faith assures us, tho' we die, +That heavenly building stands. + + +Hymn 1:121. +Children devoted to God, Gen. 17. 7 10. Acts 16. +14 15 33. (For those who practise infant Baptism.) + +1 Thus saith the mercy of the Lord, +"I'll be a God to thee; +"I'll bless thy numerous race, and they +"Shall be a seed for me." + +2 Abra'm 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 sanctify'd her house +When she receiv'd the word; +Thus the believing jailor 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. + + +Hymn 1:122. +Believers buried with Christ in baptism, Rom. 6. 3 &c. + +1 Do we not know that solemn word, +That we are bury'd with the Lord, +Baptis'd into his death, and then +Put off the body of our sin? + +2 Our souls receive diviner breath, +Rais'd from corruption, guilt, and death; +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. + + +Hymn 1:123. +The repenting prodigal, Luke 15. 13 &c. + +1 Behold the wretch whose lust and wine +Had wasted his estate, +He begs a share among the swine, +To taste the husks they eat! + +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, +"Father, I've done thy justice wrong, +"Nor can deserve thy grace." + +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. + +5 He ran, and fell upon his neck, +Embrac'd and kiss'd his son; +The rebel's heart with sorrow brake +For follies he had done. + +6 "Take off his clothes of shame and sin," +(The father gives command) +"Dress him in garments white and clean, +"With rings adorn his hand. + +7 "A day of feasting I ordain, +"Let mirth and joy abound; +"My son was dead, and lives again, +"Was lost, and now is found." + + +Hymn 1:124. +The first and second Adam, Rom. 5. 12 &c. + +1 Deep in the dust before thy throne +Our guilt and our disgrace we own; +Great God, we own th' unhappy name +Whence sprang our nature and our shame. + +2 Adam, the sinner: At his fall +Death like a conqueror seiz'd us all; +A thousand new-born babes are dead +By fatal union to their head. + +3 But whilst our spirits fill'd with awe +Behold the terrors of thy law, +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; +Adam the second, from the dust +Raises the ruins of the first. + +5 [By the rebellion of one man +Thro' all his seed the mischief ran; +And by one man's obedience now +Are all his seed made righteous too.] + +6 Where sin did reign, and death abound, +There have the sons of Adam found +Abounding life; there glorious grace +Reigns thro' the Lord our righteousness. + + +Hymn 1:125. +Christ's compassion to the weak and tempted, Heb. 4. +15 16. and 5. 7. Matt. 12. 20. + +1 With joy we meditate the grace +Of our High Priest above; +His heart is made of tenderness, +His bowels melt with love. + +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, +While Satan's fiery darts he bore, +And did resist to blood. + +4 He in the days of feeble flesh +Pour'd out his cries and tears, +And in his measure feels afresh +What every member bears. + +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.] + +6 Then let our humble faith address +His mercy and his power, +We shall obtain delivering grace +In the distressing hour. + + +Hymn 1:126. +Charity and uncharitableness, Rom. 14. 17 19. +1 Cor. 10. 32. + +1 Not different food, or different 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; +Nor shall our practice give offence +To saints, the Gentile or the Jew. + + +Hymn 1:127. +Christ's invitation to sinners; or, Humility and +pride, Matt. 11. 28 29 30. + +1 "Come hither, all ye weary souls, +"Ye heavy laden sinners, come, +"I'll give you rest from all your toils, +"And raise you to my heavenly home. + +2 "They shall find rest that learn of me; +"I'm of a meek and lowly mind; +"But passion rages like the sea, +"And pride is restless as the wind. + +3 "Blest is the man whose shoulders take +"My yoke, and bear it with delight; +"My yoke is easy to his neck, +"My grace shall make the burden light." + +4 Jesus, we come at thy command, +With faith and hope and humble zeal +Resign our spirits to thy hand, +To mould and guide us at thy will. + + +Hymn 1:128. +The Apostles' commission; or, The gospel attested by +miracles, Mark 16. 15 &c. Matt. 28. 18 &c. + +1 "Go preach my gospel, (saith the Lord,) +"Bid the whole earth my grace receive; +"He shall be sav'd that trusts my word, +"He shall be damn'd that won't believe. + +2 "[I'll make your great commission known, +"And ye shall prove my gospel true +"By all the works that I have done, +"By all the wonders ye shall do. + +3 "Go heal the sick, go raise the dead, +"Go cast out devils in my name; +"Nor let my prophets be afraid, +"Tho' Greeks reproach, and Jews blaspheme.] + +4 "Teach all the nations my commands, +"I'm with you till the world shall end; +"All power is trusted to my hands, +"I can destroy, and I defend." + +He spake, and light shone round his head, +On a bright cloud to heaven he rode; +They to the farthest nations spread +The grace of their ascended God. + + +Hymn 1:129. +Submission and deliverance; or, Abraham offering +his son, Gen. 22. 6 &c. + +1 Saints, at your Father's heavenly word +Give up your comforts to the Lord; +He shall restore what you resign, +Or grant you blessings more divine. + +2 So Abraham with obedient hand, +Led forth his son at God's command, +The wood, the fire, the knife he took, +His arm prepar'd the dreadful stroke. + +3 "Abraham, forbear, (the angel cry'd) +"Thy faith is known, thy love is try'd, +"Thy son shall live, and in thy seed +"Shall the whole earth be bless'd indeed." + +4 Just in the last distressing hour +The Lord displays delivering power; +The mount of danger is the place +Where we shall see surprising grace. + + +Hymn 1:130. +Love and hatred, Phil. 2. 2. Eph. 4. 30 &c. + +1 Now by the bowels of my God, +His sharp distress, his sore complaints, +By his last groans, his dying blood, +I charge my soul to love the saints. + +2 Clamour, and wrath, and war be gone, +Envy and spite for ever cease, +Let bitter words no more be known +Amongst the saints, the sons of peace. + +3 The Spirit, like a peaceful dove, +Flies from the realms of noise and strife; +Why should we vex and grieve his love, +Who seals our souls to heavenly life? + +4 Tender and kind be all our thoughts, +Thro' all our lives let mercy run; +So God forgives our numerous faults +For the clear sake of Christ his Son. + + +Hymn 1:131. +The Pharisee and the Publican, Luke 18. 10 &c. + +1 Behold how sinners disagree, +The Publican and Pharisee! +One doth his righteousness proclaim, +The other owns his guilt and shame. + +2 This man at humble distance stands, +And cries for grace with lifted hands; +That boldly rises near the throne, +And talks of duties he has done. + +3 The Lord their different language knows, +And different answers he bestows; +The humble soul with grace he crowns, +Whilst on the proud his anger frowns. + +4 Dear Father, let me never be +Join'd with the boasting Pharisee; +I have no merits of my own, +But plead the sufferings of thy Son. + + +Hymn 1:132. +Holiness and grace, Titus 2. 10-13. + +1 So let our lips and lives express +The holy gospel we profess, +So let our works and virtues shine +To prove the doctrine all divine. + +2 Thus shall we best proclaim abroad +The honours of our saviour God; +When the salvation reigns within, +And grace subdues the power of sin. + +3 Our flesh and sense must be deny'd, +Passion and envy, lust and pride; +While justice, temperance, truth and love +Our inward piety approve. + +4 Religion bears our spirits up, +While we expect that blessed hope, +The bright appearance of the Lord, +And faith stands leaning on his word. + + +Hymn 1:133. +Love and charity, 1 Cor. 13. 2-7 13. + +1 Let Pharisees of high esteem +Their faith and zeal declare, +All their religion is a dream +If love be wanting there. + +2 Love suffers long with patient eye, +Nor is provok'd in haste; +She lets the present injury die, +And long forgets the past. + +3 [Malice and rage, those fires of hell, +She quenches with her tongue; +Hopes, and believes, and thinks no ill, +Tho' she endure the wrong.] + +4 [She nor desires nor seeks to know +The scandals of the time; +Nor looks with pride on those below, +Nor envies those that 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. + +6 Love is the grace that keeps her power +In all the realms above; +There faith and hope are known no more, +But saints for ever love. + + +Hymn 1:134. +Religion vain without love, 1 Cor. 13. 1 2 3. + +1 Had I the tongues of Greeks and Jews, +And nobler speech that angels use, +If love be absent, I am found +Like tinkling brass, an empty sound. + +2 Were I inspir'd 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 work of love can e'er fulfil. + + +Hymn 1:135. +The love of Christ shed abroad in the heart, +Eph. 3. 16 &c. + +1 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 exprest. + +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, thro' Christ his Son. + + +Hymn 1:136. +Sincerity and hypocrisy; or, Formality in worship, +John 4. 24. Psalm 139. 23 24. + +1 God 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 +Thro' 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 1:137. +Salvation by grace in Christ, 2 Tim. 1. 9 10. + +1 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. + +2 Not for our duties or deserts, +But of his own abounding grace, +He works salvation in our hearts, +And forms a people for his praise. + +3 'Twas his own purpose that begun +To rescue rebels doom'd to die; +He gave us grace in Christ his Son +Before he spread the starry sky. + +4 Jesus the Lord appears at last, +And makes his Father's counsels known; +Declares the great transactions past, +And brings immortal blessings down. + +5 He dies; and in that dreadful night +Did all the powers of hell destroy; +Rising he brought our heaven to light, +And took possession of the joy. + + +Hymn 1:138. +Saints in the hands of Christ, John 10. 28 29. + +1 Firm as the earth thy gospel stands, +My Lord, my hope, my trust; +If I am found in Jesus' hands, +My soul can ne'er be lost. + +2 His honour is engag'd to save +The meanest of his sheep, +All that his heavenly Father gave +His hands securely keep. + +3 Nor death, nor hell shall e'er remove +His favourites from his breast; +In the dear bosom of his love +They must for ever rest. + + +Hymn 1:139. +Hope in the covenant; or, God's promise and truth +unchangeable, Heb. 6. 17 18 19. + +1 How oft have sin and Satan strove +To rend my soul from thee, my God, +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; +Eternal power performs the word, +And fills all heaven with endless praise. + +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. + +4 The gospel bears my spirits up; +A faithful and unchanging God +Lays the foundation for my hope +In oaths, and promises, and blood. + + +Hymn 1:140. +A living and a dead faith. Collected from +several scriptures. + +1 Mistaken souls! that dream of heaven, +And make their empty boast +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. + +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. + +4 'Tis faith that conquers earth and hell +By a celestial power; +This is the grace that shall prevail +In the decisive hour. + +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. + +7 His Spirit purifies our frame, +And seals our peace with God; +Jesus, and his salvation, came +By water and by blood.] + + +Hymn 1:141. +The humiliation and exaltation of Christ, +Isa. 53. 1-5 10 11 12. + +1 Who has believ'd thy word, +Or thy salvation known? +Reveal thine arm, almighty Lord, +And glorify thy Son. + +2 The Jews esteem'd him here +Too mean for their belief: +Sorrows his chief acquaintance were, +And his companion, grief. + +3 They turn'd their eyes away, +And treated him with scorn; +But 'twas their grief upon him lay, +Their sorrows he has borne. + +4 'Twas for the stubborn Jews, +And Gentiles then unknown, +The God of justice pleas'd to bruise +His best beloved Son. + +5 "But I'll prolong his days, +"And make his kingdom stand, +"My pleasure, (saith the God of grace) +"Shall prosper in his hand. + +6 ["His joyful soul shall see +"The purchase of his pain, +"And by his knowledge justify +"The guilty sons of men.] + +7 ["Ten thousand captive slaves, +"Releas'd 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 deny'd; +"Who saw the follies men had done, +"And bore their sins, and dy'd."] + + +Hymn 1:142. +The same, Isa. 53. 6-9 12. + +1 Like sheep we went astray, +And broke the fold of God, +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 sustain'd the stroke! +His life and blood the Shepherd pays, +A ransom for the flock. + +4 His honour and his breath +Were taken both away; +Join'd with the wicked in his death, +And made as vile as they. + +5 But God shall raise his head +O'er all the sons of men, +And make him see a numerous seed +To recompense his pain. + +6 "I'll give him, (saith the Lord) +"A portion with the strong; +"He shall possess a large reward, +"And hold his honours long." + + +Hymn 1:143. +Characters of the children of God, +from several scriptures. + +1 So new born babes desire the breast +To feed, and grow, and thrive: +So saints with joy the gospel taste, +And by the gospel live. + +2 [With inward gust their heart approves +All that the word relates; +They love the men their Father loves, +And hate the works he hates.] + +3 [Not all the flattering baits on earth +Can make them slaves to lust; +They can't forget their heavenly birth, +Nor grovel in the dust. + +4 Not all the chains that tyrants use +Shall bind their souls to vice; +Faith like a conqueror can produce +A thousand victories.] + +5 [Grace like an uncorrupting seed +Abides and reigns within; +Immortal principles forbid +The sons of God to sin.] + +6 [Not by the terrors of a slave +Do they perform his will, +But with the noblest powers they have +His sweet commands fulfil.] + +7 They find access at every hour, +To God within the veil; +Hence they derive a quickening power, +And joys that never fail. + +8 O happy souls! O glorious state +Of overflowing grace! +To dwell so near their Father's seat, +And see his lovely face. + +9 Lord, I address thy heavenly throne; +Call me a child of thine, +Send down the Spirit of thy Son +To form my heart divine. + +10 There shed thy choicest loves abroad, +And make my comforts strong: +Then shall I say, "My Father God," +With an unwavering tongue. + + +Hymn 1:144. +The witnessing and sealing Spirit, Rom. 8. 14 16. +Eph. 1. 13 14. + +1 Why should the children of a King +Go mourning all their days? +Great Comforter, descend and bring +Some tokens of thy grace. + +2 Dost thou not dwell in all the saints, +And seal the heirs of heaven? +When wilt thou banish my complaints, +And shew my sins forgiven? + +3 Assure my conscience of her part +In the Redeemer's blood; +And bear thy witness with my heart, +That I am born of God. + +4 Thou art the earnest of his love, +The pledge of joys to come; +And thy soft wings, celestial dove, +Will safe convey me home. + + +Hymn 1:145. +Christ and Aaron. Taken from Heb. 7. and 9. + +1 Jesus, in thee our eyes behold +A thousand glories more +Than the rich gems and polish'd gold +The sons of Aaron wore. + +2 They first their own burnt-offerings brought +To purge themselves from sin; +Thy life was pure without a spot, +And all thy nature clean. + +3 [Fresh blood as constant as the day +Was on their altar spilt; +But thy one offering takes away +For ever all our guilt.] + +4 [Their priesthood ran thro' several hands. +For mortal was their race; +Thy never-changing office stands +Eternal as thy days.] + +5 [Once in the circuit of a year +With blood, but not his own, +Aaron within the veil appears +Before the golden throne; + +6 But Christ by his own powerful blood +Ascends above the skies, +And in the presence of our God +Shews his own sacrifice.] + +7 Jesus, the King of Glory, reigns +On Sion's heavenly hill, +Looks like a lamb that has been slain, +And wears his priesthood still. + +8 He ever lives to intercede +Before his Father's face; +Give him, my soul, thy cause to plead, +Nor doubt the Father's grace. + + +Hymn 1:146. +Characters of Christ, borrowed from inanimate +things, in scripture. + +1 Go, worship at Immanuel's feet, +See in his face what wonders meet; +Earth is too narrow to express +His worth, his glory, or his grace. + +2 [The whole creation can afford +But some faint shadows of my Lord: +Nature to make his beauties known +Must mingle colours not her own.] + +3 [Is he compar'd to wine or bread? +Dear Lord, our souls would thus be fed; +That flesh, that dying blood of thine, +Is bread of life, is heavenly wine.] + +4 [Is he a tree? The world receives +Salvation from his healing leaves; +That righteous branch, that fruitful bough, +Is David's root and offspring too.] + +5 [Is he a rose? Not Sharon yields +Such fragrancy in all her fields: +Or if the lily he assume, +The vallies bless the rich perfume.] + +6 [Is he a vine? His heavenly root +Supplies the boughs with life and fruit: +O let a lasting union join +My soul the branch to Christ the vine: + +7 [Is he the head? Each member lives, +And owns the vital powers he gives; +The saints below, and saints above, +Join'd by his Spirit and his love.] + +8 [Is he a fountain? There I bathe, +And heal the plague of sin and death +These waters all my soul renew, +And cleanse my spotted garments too.] + +9 [Is he a fire? he'll purge my dross, +But the true gold sustains no loss; +Like a refiner shall he sit, +And tread the refuse with his feet.] + +10 [Is he a rock? How firm he proves! +The rock of ages never moves; +Yet the sweet streams that from him flow +Attend us all the desert thro'.] + +11 [Is he a way? He leads to God, +The path is drawn in lines of blood; +There would I walk with hope and zeal, +Till I arrive at Sion's hill.] + +12 [Is he a door? I'll enter in +Behold the pastures large and green, +A paradise divinely fair, +None but the sheep have freedom there.] + +13 [Is he design'd a corner-stone, +For men to build their heaven upon? +I'll make him my foundation too, +Nor fear the plots of hell below.] + +14 [Is he a temple? I adore +Th'indwelling majesty and power; +And still to this most holy place, +Whene'er I pray, I turn my face.] + +15 [Is he a star? He breaks the night, +Piercing the shades with dawning light; +I know his glories from afar, +I know the bright, the morning-star.] + +16 [Is he a sun? His beams are grace, +His course is joy, and righteousness; +Nations rejoice when he appears +To chase their clouds, and dry their tears. + +17 O let me climb those higher skies, +Where storms and darkness never rise! +There he displays his powers abroad, +And shines, and reigns th'incarnate God.] + +18 Nor earth, nor seas, nor sun, nor stars, +Nor heaven his full resemblance bears; +His beauties we can never trace, +Till we behold him face to face. + + +Hymn 1:147. +The names and titles of Christ, from several scriptures. + +1 ['Tis from the treasures of his word +I borrow titles for my Lord? +Nor art, nor nature can supply +Sufficient forms of majesty. + +2 Bright image of the Father's face, +Shining with undiminish'd rays; +Th' eternal God's eternal Son, +The heir, and partner of his throne.] + +3 The King of kings, the Lord most high, +Writes his own Name upon his thigh: +He wears a garment dipt in blood, +And breaks the nations with his rod. + +4 Where grace can neither melt nor move +The Lamb resents his injur'd love, +Awakes his wrath without delay, +And Judah's Lion tears the prey. + +5 But when for works of peace he comes, +What winning titles he assumes! +"Light of the World, and Life of Men;" +Nor bears those characters in vain. + +6 With tender pity in his heart +He acts the Mediator's part; +A friend and brother he appears, +And well fulfils the names he wears. + +7 At length the Judge his throne ascends, +Divides the rebels from his friends, +And saints in full fruition prove +His rich variety of love. + + +Hymn 1:148. As the 148th Psalm. +The same. + +1 [With cheerful voice I sing +The titles of my Lord, +And borrow all the names +Of honour from his word: +Nature and art +Can ne'er supply +Sufficient forms +Of majesty. + +2 In Jesus we behold +His Father's glorious face, +Shining for ever bright +With mild and lovely rays: +Th' eternal God's +Eternal Son +Inherits and +Partakes the throne.] + +3 The sovereign King of kings, +The Lord of lords most high, +Writes his own name upon +His garment and his thigh: +His Name is call'd +"The Word of God;" +He rules the earth +With iron rod. + +4 Where promises and grace +Can neither melt nor move, +The angry Lamb resents +The injuries of his love; +Awakes his wrath +Without delay, +As lions roar +And tear the prey. + +5 But when for works of peace +The great Redeemer comes, +What gentle characters, +What titles he assumes! +"Light of the world, +"And Life of men" +Nor will he bear +Those names in vain. + +6 Immense compassion reigns +In our Immanuel's heart, +When he descends to act +A Mediator's part: +He is a friend +And brother too +Divinely kind, +Divinely true. + +7 At length the Lord the Judge +His awful throne ascends, +And drives the rebels far +From favourites and friends: +Then shall the saints +Completely prove +The heights and depths +Of all his love. + + +Hymn 1:149. +The offices of Christ, from several scriptures. + +1 Join all the names of love and power +That ever men or angels bore; +All are too mean to speak his worth, +Or set Immanuel's glory forth. + +2 But O what condescending ways +He takes to teach his heavenly grace! +My eyes with joy and wonder see +What forms of love he bears for me. + +3 [The "Angel of the covenant" stands +With his commission in his hands, +Sent from his Father's milder throne, +To make the great Salvation known.] + +4 Great Prophet let me bless thy Name; +By thee the joyful tidings came, +Of wrath appeas'd, of sins forgiven, +Of hell subdu'd, and peace with heaven.] + +5 [My bright Example, and my Guide, +I would be walking near thy side; +O let me never run astray, +Nor follow the forbidden way!] + +6 [I love my Shepherd, he shall keep +My wandering soul among his sheep: +He feeds his flock, he calls their names, +And in his bosom bears the lambs.] + +7 [My surety undertakes my cause, +Answering his Father's broken laws; +Behold my soul at freedom set; +My surety paid the dreadful debt.] + +8 [Jesus, my great High Priest has dy'd, +I seek no sacrifice beside; +His blood did once for all atone, +And now it pleads before the throne.] + +9 [My advocate appears on high, +The Father lays his thunder by; +Not all that earth or hell can say, +Shall turn my Father's heart away.] + +10 [My Lord, my Conqu'ror and my King, +Thy sceptre and thy sword I sing; +Thine is the victory, and I sit +A joyful subject at thy feet.] + +11 [Aspire my soul, to glorious deeds, +The "Captain of salvation" leads; +March on, nor fear to win the day, +Tho' death and hell obstruct the way. + +12 Should death and hell, and powers unknown +Put all their forms of mischief on, +I shall be safe; for Christ displays +Salvation in more sovereign ways.] + + +Hymn 1:150. As the 149th Psalm. +The same. + +1 Join all the glorious names +Of wisdom, love, and power, +That ever mortals knew, +That angels ever bore: +All are too mean +To speak his worth, +Too mean to set +My Saviour forth. + +2 But O what gentle terms, +What condescending ways +Doth our Redeemer use +To teach his heavenly grace! +Mine eyes with joy +And wonder see +What forms of love +He bears for me. + +3 [Array'd in mortal flesh +He like an angel stands, +And holds the promises +And pardons in his hands: +Commission'd from +His Father's throne +To make his grace +To mortals known.] + +4 [Great Prophet of my God, +My tongue would bless thy Name; +By thee the joyful news +Of our salvation came. +The joyful news +Of sins forgiven, +Of hell subdu'd, +And peace with heaven.] + +5 [Be thou my counsellor, +My pattern and my guide, +And thro' this desert land +Still keep me near thy side: +O let my feet +Ne'er run astray, +Nor rove nor seek +The crooked way.] + +6 [I love my Shepherd's voice, +His watchful eyes shall keep +My wandering soul among +The thousands of his sheep: +He feeds his flock, +He calls their names, +His bosom bears +The tender lambs.] + +7 [To this dear surety's hand +Will I commit my cause; +He answers and fulfils +His Father's broken laws: +Behold my soul +At freedom set! +My surety paid +The dreadful debt.] + +8 [Jesus my great high Priest +Offer'd his blood and dy'd; +My guilty conscience seeks +No sacrifice beside: +His powerful blood +Did once atone; +And now it pleads +Before the throne.] + +9 [My Advocate appears +For my defence on high, +The Father bows his ear, +And lays his thunder by: +Not all that hell +Or sin can say +Shall turn his heart, +His love away.] + +10 [My dear Almighty Lord, +My Conqu'ror and my King, +Thy sceptre and thy sword, +Thy reigning grace I sing: +Thine is the power; +Behold I sit +In willing bonds +Before thy feet.] + +11 [Now let my soul arise, +And tread the tempter down +My captain leads me forth +To conquest and a crown. +A feeble saint +Shall win the day, +Tho' death and hell +Obstruct the way.] + +12 Should all the hosts of death, +And powers of hell unknown, +Put their most dreadful forms +Of rage and mischief on; +I shall be safe, +For Christ displays +Superior power, +And guardian grace. + + +End of the First Book. + + + +Hymns. + +Book 2. + +Composed on Divine Subjects. + + +Hymn 2:1. +A song of praise to God from Great Britain. + +1 Nature with all her powers shall sing +God the Creator and the King; +Nor air, nor earth, nor skies, nor seas +Deny the tribute of their praise. + +2 [Begin to make his glories known, +Ye seraphs that sit near his throne; +Tune your harps high, and spread the sound +To the creation's utmost bound. + +3 All mortal things of meaner frame, +Exert your force and own his Name; +Whilst with our souls and with our voice +We sing his honours and our joys.] + +4 [To him be sacred all we have +From the young cradle to the grave: +Our lips shall his loud wonders tell, +And every word a miracle.] + +5 [This northern isle, our native land, +Lies safe in God th' Almighty's hand: +Our foes of victory dream in vain, +And wear the captivating chain. + +6 He builds and guards the British throne, +And makes it gracious like his own, +Makes our successive princes kind, +And gives our dangers to the wind.] + +7 Raise monumental praises high +To him that thunders thro' the sky, +And with an awful nod or frown +Shakes an aspiring tyrant down. + +8 [Pillars of lasting brass proclaim +The triumphs of th' eternal Name; +While trembling nations read from far +The honours of the God of war.] + +9 Thus let our flaming zeal employ +Our loftiest thoughts and loudest songs +Britain pronounce with warmest joy +Hosanna from ten thousand tongues. + +10 Yet, mighty God, our feeble frame +Attempts in vain to reach thy Name; +The strongest notes that angels raise +Faint in the worship and the praise. + + +Hymn 2:2. +The death of a sinner. + +1 My thoughts on awful subjects roll, +Damnation and the dead; +What horrors seize the guilty soul +Upon a dying bed! + +2 Lingering about these mortal shores, +She makes a long delay, +Till like a flood with rapid force +Death sweeps the wretch away. + +3 Then swift and dreadful she descends +Down to the fiery coast, +Amongst abominable fiends, +Herself a frightful ghost. + +4 There endless crowds of sinners lie, +And darkness makes their chains; +Tortur'd with keen despair they cry, +Yet wait for fiercer pains. + +5 Not all their anguish and their blood +For their old guilt atones, +Nor the compassions of a God +Shall hearken to their groans. + +6 Amazing grace, that kept my breath, +Nor bid my soul remove, +Till I had learn'd my Saviour's death, +And well insur'd his love! + + +Hymn 2:3. +The death and burial of a saint. + +1 Why do we mourn departing friends +Or shake at death's alarms? +'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends +To call them to his arms. + +2 Are we not tending upward too +As fast as time can move? +Nor would we wish the hours more slow +To keep us from our love. + +3 Why should we tremble to convey +Their bodies to the tomb? +There the dear flesh of Jesus lay, +And left a long perfume. + +4 The graves of all his saints he bless'd, +And soften'd every bed; +Where should the dying members rest, +But with the dying head? + +5 Thence he arose, ascending high, +And shew'd our feet the way; +Up to the Lord our flesh shall fly +At the great rising day. + +6 Then let the last loud trumpet sound, +And bid our kindred rise, +Awake, ye nations under ground, +Ye saints, ascend the skies. + + +Hymn 2:4. +Salvation in the cross. + +1 Here at thy cross, my dying God, +I lay my soul beneath thy love, +Beneath the droppings of thy blood, +Jesus, nor shall it e'er remove. + +2 Not all that tyrants think or say, +With rage and lightning in their eyes, +Nor hell shall fright my heart away, +Should hell with all its legions rise. + +3 Should worlds conspire to drive me thence, +Moveless and firm this heart should lie; +Resolv'd (for that's my last defence) +If I must perish, there to die. + +4 But speak, my Lord, and calm my fear, +Am I not safe beneath thy, shade? +Thy vengeance will not strike me here, +Nor Satan dares my soul invade. + +5 Yes, I'm secure beneath thy blood, +And all my foes shall lose their aim, +Hosanna to my dying God, +And my best honours to his Name. + + +Hymn 2:5. +Longing to praise Christ better. + +1 Lord, when my thoughts with wonder roll +O'er the sharp sorrows of thy soul, +And read my Maker's broken laws +Repair'd and honour'd by thy cross; + +2 When I behold death, hell and sin, +Vanquish'd by that dear blood of thine, +And see the man that groan'd and dy'd +Sit glorious by his Father's side; + +3 My passions rise and soar above, +I'm wing'd with faith and fir'd with love; +Fain would I reach eternal things, +And learn the notes that Gabriel sings. + +4 But my heart fails, my tongue complains, +For want of their immortal strains; +And in such humble notes as these +Must fall below thy victories. + +5 Well, the kind minute must appear +When we shall leave these bodies here, +These clogs of clay, and mount on high, +To join the songs above the sky. + + +Hymn 2:6. +A morning song. + +1 Once more, my soul, the rising day +Salutes thy waking eyes. +Once more, my voice, thy tribute pay +To him that rolls the skies. + +2 Night unto night his name repeats, +The day renews the sound, +Wide as the heaven on which he sits +To turn the seasons round. + +3 'Tis he supports my mortal frame, +My tongue shall speak his praise; +My sins would rouse his wrath to flame, +And yet his wrath delays. + +4 On a poor worm thy power might tread, +And I could ne'er withstand; +Thy justice might have crush'd me dead, +But mercy held thine hand. + +5 A thousand wretched souls are fled +Since the last setting sun, +And yet thou length'nest out my thread, +And yet my moments run. + +6 Dear God, let all my hours be thine +Whilst I enjoy the light, +Then shall my sun in smiles decline, +And bring a pleasing night. + + +Hymn 2:7. +An evening song. + +1 [Dread Sovereign, let my evening song +Like holy incense rise; +Assist the offerings of my tongue +To reach the lofty skies. + +2 Thro' all the dangers of the day, +Thy hand was still my guard, +And still to drive my wants away +Thy mercy stood prepar'd.] + +3 Perpetual blessings from above +Encompass me around, +But O how few returns of love +Hath my Creator found! + +4 What have I done for him that dy'd +To save my wretched soul? +How are my follies multiply'd, +Fast as my minutes roll; + +5 Lord, with this guilty heart of mine +To thy dear cross I flee, +And to thy grace my soul resign +To be renew'd by thee. + +6 Sprinkled afresh with pardoning blood +I lay me down to rest, +As in th' embraces of my God, +Or on my Saviour's breast. + + +Hymn 2:8. +A hymn for morning or evening. + +1 Hosanna, with a cheerful sound, +To God's upholding hand; +Ten thousand snares attend us round, +And yet secure we stand. + +2 That was a most amazing power +That rais'd us with a word, +And every day and every hour +We lean upon the Lord. + +3 The evening rests our weary head, +And angels guard the room; +We wake and we admire the bed +That was not made our tomb. + +4 The rising morning can't assure +That we shall end the day, +For death stands ready at the door +To seize our lives away. + +5 Our breath is forfeited by sin +To God's revenging law; +We own thy grace, immortal King, +In every gasp we draw. + +6 God is our sun, whose daily light +Our joy and safety brings: +Our feeble flesh lies safe at night +Beneath his shady wings. + + +Hymn 2:9. +Godly sorrow arising from the sufferings of Christ. + +1 Alas! and did my Saviour bleed, +And did my Sovereign die? +Would he devote that sacred head +For such a worm as I? + +2 [Thy body slain, sweet Jesus, thine, +And bath'd in its own blood, +While all expos'd to wrath divine +The glorious Sufferer stood.] + +3 Was it for crimes that I had done +He groan'd upon the tree? +Amazing pity! grace unknown! +And love beyond degree! + +4 Well might the sun in darkness hide, +And shut his glories in, +When God the mighty Maker dy'd +For man the creature's sin. + +5 Thus might I hide my blushing face +While his dear cross appears, +Dissolve my heart in thankfulness, +And melt my eyes to tears. + +6 But drops of grief can ne'er repay +The debt of love I owe; +Here, Lord, I give myself away, +'Tis all that I can do. + + +Hymn 2:10. +Parting with carnal joys. + +1 My soul forsakes her vain delight, +And bids the world farewell +Base as the dirt beneath my feet, +And mischievous as hell. + +2 No longer will I ask your love, +Nor seek your friendship more; +The happiness that I approve +Lies not within your power. + +3 There's nothing round this spacious earth +That suits my large desire; +To boundless joy and solid mirth +My nobler thoughts aspire. + +4 [Where pleasure rolls its living flood, +From sin and dross refin'd, +Still springing from the throne of God, +And fit to cheer the mind. + +5 Th' Almighty Ruler of the sphere, +The glorious and the great, +Brings his own all-sufficience there, +To make our bliss complete.] + +6 Had I the pinions of a dove, +I'd climb the heavenly road; +There sits my Saviour dress'd in love, +And there my smiling God. + + +Hymn 2:11. +The same. + +1 Send the joys of earth away, +Away ye tempters of the mind, +False as the smooth deceitful sea, +And empty as the whistling wind. + +2 Your streams were floating me along +Down to the gulf of black despair, +And whilst I listen'd to your song, +Your streams had e'en convey'd me there. + +3 Lord, I adore thy matchless grace, +That warn'd me of that dark abyss, +That drew me from those treacherous seas, +And bid me seek superior bliss. + +4 Now to the shining realms above +I stretch my hands, and glance mine eyes; +O for the pinions of a dove +To bear me to the upper skies. + +5 There from the bosom of my God +Oceans of endless pleasure roll; +There would I fix my last abode, +And drown the sorrows of my soul. + + +Hymn 2:12. +Christ is the substance of the Levitical priesthood. + +1 The true Messiah now appears, +The types are all withdrawn; +So fly the shadows and the stars +Before the rising dawn. + +2 No smoking sweets, nor bleeding lambs, +Nor kid, nor bullock slain, +Incense and spice of costly names +Would all be burnt in vain. + +3 Aaron must lay his robes away; +His mitre and his vest, +When God himself comes down to be +The offering and the priest. + +4 He took our mortal flesh to show +The wonders of his love; +For us he paid his life below, +And prays for us above. + +5 "Father, (he cries) forgive their sins, +"For I myself have dy'd," +And then he shews his open'd veins, +And pleads his wounded side. + + +Hymn 2:13. +The creation, preservation, dissolution, and +restoration of this world. + +1 Sing to the Lord that built the skies, +The Lord that rear'd this stately frame; +Let half the nations sound his praise, +And lands unknown repeat his Name. + +2 He form'd the seas, and form'd the hills, +Made every drop and every dust, +Nature and time with all their wheels, +And push'd them into motion first. + +3 Now from his high imperial throne +He looks far down upon the spheres; +He bids the shining orbs roll on, +And round he turns our hasty years. + +4 Thus shall this moving engine last +Till all his saints are gather'd in, +Then for the trumpet's dreadful blast +To shake it all to dust again! + +5 Yet when the sound shall tear the skies, +And lightning burn the globe below, +Saints, you may lift your joyful eyes, +There's a new heaven and earth for you. + + +Hymn 2:14. +The Lord's day; or, Delight in ordinances. + +1 Welcome, sweet day of rest, +That saw the Lord arise; +Welcome to this reviving breast, +And these rejoicing eyes! + +2 The King himself comes near, +And feasts his saints to-day, +Here we may sit, and see him here, +And love, and praise, and pray. + +3 One day amidst the place +Where my dear God hath been, +Is sweeter than ten thousand days +Of pleasurable sin. + +4 My willing soul would stay +In such a frame as this, +And sit and sing herself away +To everlasting bliss. + + +Hymn 2:15. +The enjoyment of Christ; or, Delight in worship. + +1 Far from my thoughts, vain world, be gone, +Let my religious hours alone; +Fain would my eyes my Saviour see, +I wait a visit, Lord, from thee. + +2 My heart grows warm with holy fire, +And kindles with a pure desire: +Come, my dear Jesus, from above, +And feed my soul with heavenly love. + +3 [The trees of life immortal stand +In flourishing rows at thy right-hand, +And in sweet murmurs by their side +Rivers of bliss perpetual glide. + +4 Haste then, but with a smiling face, +And spread the table of thy grace: +Bring down a taste of fruit divine, +And cheer my heart with sacred wine.] + +6 Blest Jesus, what delicious fare! +How sweet thy entertainments are! +Never did angels taste above +Redeeming grace, and dying love. + +6 Hail, great Immanuel, all divine, +In thee thy Father's glories shine; +Thou brightest, sweetest, fairest one, +That eyes have seen, or angels known. + + +Hymn 2:16. +Part the second. + +7 Lord, what a heaven of saving grace, +Shines thro' the beauties of thy face, +And lights our passions to a flame! +Lord, how we love thy charming Name! + +8 When I can say, my God is mine, +When I can feel thy glories shine, +I tread the world beneath my feet, +And all that earth calls good or great. + +9 While such a scene of sacred joys +Our raptur'd eyes and souls employs, +Here we could sit, and gaze away +A long, an everlasting day. + +10 Well, we shall quickly pass the night +To the fair coasts of perfect light; +Then shall our joyful senses rove +O'er the dear object of our love. + +11 [There shall we drink full draughts of bliss, +And pluck new life from heavenly trees: +Yet now, and then, dear Lord, bestow +A drop of heaven on worms below. + +12 Send comforts down from thy right-hand, +While we pass thro' this barren land, +And in thy temple let us see +A glimpse of love, a glimpse of thee.] + + +Hymn 2:17 +God's eternity. + +1 Rise, rise, my soul, and leave the ground, +Stretch all thy thoughts abroad, +And rouse up every tuneful sound +To praise th' eternal God. + +2 Long ere the lofty skies were spread +Jehovah fill'd his throne; +Or Adam form'd, or angels made, +The Maker liv'd alone. + +3 His boundless years can ne'er decrease, +But still maintain their prime; +Eternity's his dwelling-place, +And ever is his time. + +4 While like a tide our minutes flow, +The present and the past, +He fills his own immortal now, +And sees our ages waste. + +5 The sea and sky must perish too, +And vast destruction come! +The creatures--look, how old they grow, +And wait their fiery doom! + +6 Well, let the sea shrink all away, +And flame melt down the skies, +My God shall live an endless day, +When th' old creation dies. + + +Hymn 2:18. +The ministry of angels. + +1 High on a hill of dazzling light, +The King of Glory spreads his seat, +And troops of angels stretch'd for flight, +Stand waiting round his awful feet. + +2 "Go," saith the Lord, "my Gabriel go, +"Salute the virgin's fruitful womb,[1] +"Make haste, ye cherubs, down below, +Sing and proclaim the Saviour come." + +3 Here a bright squadron leaves the skies, +And thick around Elisha stands;[2] +Anon a heavenly soldier flies, +And breaks the chains from Peter's hands.[3] + +4 Thy winged troops, O God of hosts, +Wait on thy wandering church below, +Here we are sailing to thy coasts, +Let angels be our convoy too. + +5 Are they not all thy servants,[4] Lord? +At thy command they go and come +With cheerful haste obey thy word, +And guard thy children to their home. + +[1] Luke 1:16. [2] Luke 2:13. +[3] Acts 11:7. [4] Heb. 1:14. + + +Hymn 2:19. +Our frail bodies, and God our preserver. + +1 Let others boast how strong they be, +Nor death, nor danger fear; +But we'll confess, O Lord, to thee, +What feeble things we are. + +2 Fresh as the grass our bodies stand, +And flourish bright and gay, +A blasting wind sweeps o'er the land, +And fades the grass away. + +3 Our life contains a thousand springs, +And dies if one be gone; +Strange! that a harp of thousand strings +Should keep in tune so long. + +4 But 'tis our God supports our frame, +The God that built us first; +Salvation to th' Almighty Name, +That rear'd us from the dust. + +5 [He spoke, and straight our hearts and brains +In all their motions rose; +"Let blood, (said he) flow round the veins," +And round the veins it flows. + +6 While we have breath, or use our tongues, +Our Maker we'll adore; +His Spirit moves our heaving lungs +Or they would breathe no more.] + + +Hymn 2:20. +Backslidings and returns; or, The +inconstancy of our love. + +1 Why is my heart so far from thee, +My God, my chief delight? +Why are my thoughts no more by day +With thee, no more by night? + +2 [Why should my foolish passions rove? +Where can such sweetness be +As I have tasted in thy love; +As I have found in thee?] + +3 When my forgetful soul renews +The savour of thy grace, +My heart presumes I cannot lose +The relish all my days. + +4 But ere one fleeting hour is pass'd, +The flattering world employs +Some sensual bait to seize my taste, +And to pollute my joys. + +5 [Trifles of nature or of art +With fair deceitful charms +Intrude upon my thoughtless heart, +And thrust thee from my arms.] + +6 Then I repent and vex my soul +That I should leave thee so, +Where will those wild affections roll +That let a Saviour go? + +7 [Sin's promis'd joys are turn'd to pain, +And I am drown'd in grief; +But my dear Lord returns again, +He flies to my relief. + +8 Seizing my soul with sweet surprise +He draws with loving bands; +Divine compassion in his eyes, +And pardon in his hands.] + +9 [Wretch that I am to wander thus +In chase of false delight! +Let me be fasten'd to thy cross, +Rather than lose thy sight.] + +10 [Make haste, my days, to reach the goal, +And bring my heart to rest +On the dear centre of my soul, +My God, my Saviour's breast.] + + +Hymn 2:21. +A song of praise to God the Redeemer. + +1 Let the old heathens tune their song +Of great Diana and of Jove; +But the sweet theme that moves my tongue +Is my Redeemer and his love. + +2 Behold a God descends and dies +To save my soul from gaping hell; +How the black gulf where Satan lies +Yawn'd to receive me when I fell! + +3 How justice frown'd and vengeance stood +To drive me down to endless pain! +But the great Son propos'd his blood, +And heavenly wrath grew mild again. + +4 Infinite lover, gracious Lord, +To thee be endless honours given; +Thy wondrous Name shall be ador'd +Round the wide earth, and wider heaven. + + +Hymn 2:22. +With God is terrible majesty. + +1 Terrible God, that reign'st on high, +How awful is thy thundering hand! +Thy fiery bolts how fierce they fly! +Nor can all earth or hell withstand. + +2 This the old rebel angels knew, +And Satan fell beneath thy frown: +Thine arrows struck the traitor thro', +And weighty vengeance sunk him down. + +3 This Sodom felt, and feels it still, +And roars beneath th' eternal load, +"With endless burnings who can dwell, +"Or bear the fury of a God!" + +4 Tremble, ye sinners, and submit, +Throw down your arms before his throne, +Bend your heads low beneath his feet, +Or his strong hand shall crush you down. + +5 And ye, blest saints, that love him too, +With rev'rence bow before his Name, +Thus all his heavenly servants do: +God is a bright and burning flame. + + +Hymn 2:23. +The sight of God and Christ in heaven. + +1 Descend from heaven, immortal Dove, +Stoop down and take us on thy wings, +And mount and bear us far above +The reach of these inferior things. + +2 Beyond, beyond this lower sky, +Up where eternal ages roll, +Where solid pleasures never die, +And fruits immortal feast the soul. + +3 O for a sight, a pleasing sight +Of our almighty Father's throne! +There sits our Saviour crown'd with light +Cloth'd in a body like our own. + +4 Adoring saints around him stand, +And thrones, and powers before him fall; +The God shines gracious thro' the man, +And sheds sweet glories on them all. + +5 O what amazing joys they feel +While to their golden harps they sing, +And sit on every heavenly hill, +And spread the triumphs of their King! + +6 When shall the day, dear Lord, appear +That I shall mount to dwell above, +And stand and bow amongst them there, +And view thy face, and sing, and love! + + +Hymn 2:24. +The evil of sin visible in the fall of angels and men. + +1 When the great Builder arch'd the skies, +And form'd all nature with a word, +The joyful cherubs tun'd his praise, +And every bending throne ador'd. + +2 High in the midst of all the throng, +Satan, a tall archangel, sat, +Amongst the morning stars he sung [1] +Till sin destroy'd his heavenly state. + +3 ['Twas sin that hurl'd him from his throne, +Grov'ling in fire the rebel lies: +"How art thou sunk in darkness down, +"Son of the morning, from the skies!" [2] + +4 And thus our two first parents stood +Till sin defil'd the happy place +They lost their garden and their God, +And ruin'd all their unborn race. + +5 [So sprung the plague from Adam's bower, +And spread destruction all abroad; +Sin, the curs'd name, that in one hour +Spoil'd six days labour of a God.] + +6 Tremble, my soul, and mourn for grief, +That such a foe should seize thy breast; +Fly to thy Lord for quick relief; +O! may he slay this treacherous guest. + +Then to thy throne, victorious King, +Then to thy throne our shouts shall rise, +Thine everlasting arm we sing, +For sin the monster bleeds and dies. + +[1] Job 38:7. [2] Isaiah 14:12. + + +Hymn 2:25. +Complaining of spiritual sloth. + +1 My drowsy powers, why sleep ye so? +Awake, my sluggish soul! +Nothing has half thy work to do, +Yet nothing's half so dull. + +2 The little ants for one poor grain +Labour, and tug, and strive, +Yet we who have a heaven t' obtain, +How negligent we live! + +3 We for whose sake all nature stands +And stars their courses move; +We for whose guard the angel bands +Come flying from above; + +4 We for whom God the Son came down, +And labour'd for our good, +How careless to secure that crown +He purchas'd with his blood! + +5 Lord, shall we lie so sluggish still, +And never act our parts? +Come, holy Dove, from th' heavenly hill, +And sit and warm our hearts. + +6 Then shall our active spirits move, +Upward our souls shall rise: +With hands of faith and wings of love +We'll fly and take the prize. + + +Hymn 2:26. +God invisible. + +1 Lord, we are blind, we mortals blind, +We can't behold thy bright abode; +O 'tis beyond a creature-mind +To glance a thought half-way to God. + +2 Infinite leagues beyond the sky +The great Eternal reigns alone, +Where neither wings nor soul can fly, +Nor angels climb the topless throne. + +3 The Lord of glory builds his seat +Of gems insufferably bright, +And lays beneath his sacred feet +Substantial beams of gloomy night. + +4 Yet, glorious Lord, thy gracious eyes +Look thro', and cheer us from above; +Beyond our praise thy grandeur flies, +Yet we adore, and yet we love. + + +Hymn 2:27. +Praise ye him, all his angels, Psalm 148. 2. + +1 God! the eternal awful Name +That the whole heavenly army fears, +That shakes the wide creation's frame, +And Satan trembles when he hears. + +2 Like flames of fire his servants are, +And light surrounds his dwelling place; +But, O ye fiery flames, declare +The brighter glories of his face. + +3 'Tis not for such poor worms as we +To speak so infinite a thing, +But your immortal eyes survey +The beauties of your sovereign King. + +4 Tell how he shews his smiling face, +And clothes all heaven in bright array; +Triumph and joy run thro' the place, +And songs eternal as the day. + +5 Speak, (for you feel his burning love) +What zeal it spreads thro' all your frame: +That sacred fire dwells all above, +For we on earth have lost the name. + +6 [Sing of his power and justice too, +That infinite right-hand of his +That vanquish'd Satan and his crew, +And thunder drove them down from bliss. + +7 [What mighty storms of poison'd darts +Were hurl'd upon the rebels there! +What deadly jav'lins nail'd their hearts +Fast to the racks of long despair!] + +8 [Shout to your King, you heavenly host, +You that beheld the sinking foe; +Firmly ye stood when they were lost; +Praise the rich grace that kept you so.] + +9 Proclaim his wonders from the skies, +Let every distant nation hear; +And while you sound his lofty praise, +Let humble mortals bow and fear. + + +Hymn 2:28. +Death and eternity. + +1 Stoop down, my thoughts, that use to rise, +Converse awhile with death: +Think how a gasping mortal lies, +And pants away his breath. + +2 His quivering lip hangs feebly down +His pulses faint and few, +Then, speechless, with a doleful groan +He bids the world adieu. + +3 But, O the soul that never dies! +At once it leaves the clay! +Ye thoughts, pursue it where it flies, +And track its wondrous way. + +4 Up to the courts where angels dwell, +It mounts triumphing there, +Or devils plunge it down to hell +In infinite despair. + +5 And must my body faint and die? +And must this soul remove? +O for some guardian angel nigh +To bear it safe above! + +6 Jesus, to thy dear faithful hand +My naked soul I trust, +And my flesh waits for thy command +To drop into my dust. + + +Hymn 2:29. +Redemption by price and power. + +1 Jesus, with all thy saints above +My tongue would bear her part, +Would sound aloud thy saving love, +And sing thy bleeding heart. + +2 Bless'd be the Lamb, my dearest Lord, +Who bought me with his blood, +And quench'd his Father's flaming sword +In his own vital blood: + +3 The Lamb that freed my captive soul +From Satan's heavy chains, +And sent the lion down to howl +Where hell and horror reigns. + +4 All glory to the dying Lamb, +And never ceasing praise, +While angels live to know his Name, +Or saints to feel his grace. + + +Hymn 2:30. +Heavenly joy on earth. + +1 [Come, we that love the Lord, +And let our joys be known; +Join in a song with sweet accord, +And thus surround the throne. + +2 The sorrows of the mind +Be banish'd from the place! +Religion never was design'd +To make our pleasures less.] + +3 Let those refuse to sing +That never knew our God, +But favourites of the heavenly King +May speak their joys abroad. + +4 [The God that rules on high, +And thunders when he please, +That rides upon the stormy sky +And manages the seas.] + +5 This awful God is ours, +Our Father and our love, +He shall send down his heavenly powers +To carry us above. + +6 There we shall see his face, +And never, never sin; +There from the rivers of his grace +Drink endless pleasures in. + +7 Yes, and before we rise +To that immortal state, +The thoughts of such amazing bliss +Should constant joys create. + +8 [The men of grace have found +Glory begun below, +Celestial fruits on earthly ground +From faith and hope may grow.] + +9 The hill of Sion yields +A thousand sacred sweets, +Before we reach the heavenly fields, +Or walk the golden streets. + +10 Then let our songs abound, +And every tear be dry; +We're marching thro' Immanuel's ground +To fairer worlds on high. + + +Hymn 2:31. +Christ's presence makes death easy. + +1 Why should we start and fear to die? +What timorous worms we mortals are! +Death is the gate of endless joy, +And yet we dread to enter there. + +2 The pains, the groans, and dying strife, +Fright our approaching souls away; +Still we shrink back again to life, +Fond of our prison and our clay. + +3 O, if my Lord would come and meet, +My soul should stretch her wings in haste, +Fly fearless thro' death's iron gate, +Nor feel the terrors as she pass'd. + +4 Jesus can make a dying bed +Feel soft as downy pillows are, +While on his breast I lean my head, +And breathe my life out sweetly there. + + +Hymn 2:32. +Frailty and Folly. + +1 How short and hasty is our life! +How vast our souls' affairs! +Yet senseless mortals vainly strive +To lavish out their years. + +2 Our days run thoughtlessly along, +Without a moment's stay; +Just like a story or a song +We pass our lives away. + +3 God from on high invites us home, +But we march heedless on, +And ever hastening to the tomb, +Stoop downwards as we run. + +4 How we deserve the deepest hell +That slight the joys above! +What chains of vengeance should we feel +That break such cords of love! + +5 Draw us, O God, with sovereign grace, +And lift our thoughts on high, +That we may end this mortal race +And see salvation nigh. + + +Hymn 2:33. +The blessed society in heaven. + +1 Raise thee, my soul, fly up, and run +Thro' every heavenly street, +And say, there's nought below the sun +That's worthy of thy feet. + +2 [Thus will we mount on sacred wings, +And tread the courts above; +Nor earth, nor all her mightiest things +Shall tempt our meanest love.] + +3 There on a high majestic throne +Th' Almighty Father reigns, +And sheds his glorious goodness down +On all the blissful plains. + +4 Bright like a sun the Saviour sits, +And spreads eternal noon, +No evenings there, nor gloomy nights, +To want the feeble moon. + +5 Amidst those ever-shining skies +Behold the sacred Dove, +While banish'd sin and sorrow flies +From all the realms of love. + +6 The glorious tenants of the place +Stand bending round the throne; +And saints and seraphs sing and praise +The infinite Three One. + +7 [But O what beams of heavenly grace +Transport them all the while! +Ten thousand smiles from Jesus' face, +And love in every smile!] + +8 [Jesus, and when shall that dear day, +That joyful hour appear, +When I shall leave this house of clay +To dwell amongst them there?] + + +Hymn 2:34. +Breathing after the Holy Spirit; +or, Fervency of devotion desired. + +1 Come, holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, +With all thy quickening powers, +Kindle a flame of sacred love, +In these cold hearts of ours. + +2 Look, how we grovel here below, +Fond of these trifling toys; +Our souls can neither fly nor go +To reach eternal joys. + +3 In vain we tune our formal songs, +In vain we strive to rise; +Hosannas languish on our tongues, +And our devotion dies. + +4 Dear Lord! and shall we ever lie +At this poor dying rate? +Our love so faint, so cold to thee, +And thine to us so great? + +5 Come holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, +With all thy quickening powers; +Come shed abroad a Saviour's love, +And that shall kindle ours. + + +Hymn 2:35. +Praise to God for creation and redemption. + +1 Let them neglect thy glory, Lord, +Who never knew thy grace, +But our loud songs shall still record +The wonders of thy praise. + +2 We raise our shouts, O God, to thee, +And send them to thy throne, +All glory to th' united Three, +The undivided One. + +3 'Twas he (and we'll adore his Name) +That form'd us by a word, +'Tis he restores our ruin'd frame; +Salvation to the Lord. + +4 Hosanna! let the earth and skies +Repeat the joyful sound, +Rocks, hills, and vales, reflect the voice +In one eternal round. + + +Hymn 2:36. +Christ's intercession. + +1 Well, the Redeemer's gone +T' appear before our God, +To sprinkle o'er the flaming throne +With his atoning blood. + +2 No fiery vengeance now, +Nor burning wrath comes down; +If justice call for sinners' blood, +The Saviour shews his own. + +3 Before his Father's eye +Our humble suit he moves, +The Father lays his thunder by, +And looks, and smiles, and loves. + +4 Now may our joyful tongues +Our Maker's honour sing, +Jesus the priest receives our songs, +And bears them to the King. + +5 [We bow before his face, +And sound his glories high, +"Hosanna to the God of grace +"That lays his thunder by.] + +6 "On earth thy mercy reigns, +"And triumphs all above;" +But, Lord how weak are mortal strains +To speak immortal love! + +7 [How jarring and how low +Are all the notes we sing! +Sweet Saviour, tune our songs anew, +And they shall please the King.] + + +Hymn 2:37. +The same. + +1 Lift up your eyes to th' heavenly seats +Where your Redeemer stays; +Kind intercessor, there he sits, +And loves, and pleads, and prays. + +2 'Twas well, my soul he dy'd for thee, +And shed his vital blood, +Appeas'd stern justice on the tree, +And then arose to God. + +3 Petitions now and praise may rise, +And saints their offerings bring, +The priest with his own sacrifice +Presents them to the King. + +4 [Let Papists trust what names they please, +Their saints and angels boast; +We've no such advocates as these, +Nor pray to th' heavenly host.] + +6 Jesus alone shall bear my cries +Up to his Father's throne, +He, dearest Lord! perfumes my sighs, +And sweetens every groan. + +6 [Ten thousand praises to the King, +Hosanna in the highest; +Ten thousand thanks our spirits bring +To God and to his Christ.] + + +Hymn 2:38. +Love to God. + +1 Happy the heart where graces reign, +Where love inspires the breast; +Love is the brightest of the train, +And strengthens all the rest. + +9 Knowledge, alas! 'Tis all in vain, +And all in vain our fear, +Our stubborn sins will fight and reign +If love be absent there. + + +3 'Tis love that makes our cheerful feet +In swift obedience move, +The devils know and tremble too, +But Satan cannot love. + +4 This is the grace that lives and sings +When faith and hope shall cease, +'Tis this shall strike our joyful strings +In the sweet realms of bliss. + +5 Before we quite forsake our clay, +Or leave this dark abode, +The wings of love bear us away +To see our smiling God. + + +Hymn 2:39. +The shortness and misery of life. + +1 Our days, alas! our mortal days +Are short and wretched too; +"Evil and few," the patriarch says, [1] +And well the patriarch knew. + +2 'Tis but at best a narrow bound +That heaven allows to men, +And pains and sins run thro' the round +Of threescore years and ten. + +3 Well, if ye must be sad and few, +Run on, my days, in haste; +Moments of sin, and months of woe, +Ye cannot fly too fast. + +4 Let heavenly love prepare my soul, +And call her to the skies, +Where years of long salvation roll, +And glory never dies. + +[1] Genesis 47:9. + + +Hymn 2:40. +Our comfort in the covenant made with Christ. + +1 Our God, how firm his promise stands, +E'en when he hides his face! +He trusts in our Redeemer's hands +His glory and his grace. + +2 Then why, my soul, these sad complaints, +Since Christ and we are one; +Thy God is faithful to his saints, +Is faithful to his Son. + +3 Beneath his smiles my heart has liv'd, +And part of heaven possess'd; +I praise his Name for grace receiv'd, +And trust him for the rest. + + +Hymn 2:41. +A sight of God mortifies us to the world. + +1 [Up to the fields where angels lie, +And living waters gently roll, +Fain would my thoughts leap out and fly, +But sin hangs heavy on my soul. + +2 Thy wondrous blood, dear dying Christ, +Can make this load of guilt remove; +And thou canst bear me where thou fly'st, +On thy kind wings, celestial Dove!] + +3 O might I once mount up and see +The glories of th' eternal skies, +What little things these worlds would be! +How despicable to my eyes! + +4 Had I a glance of thee, my God, +Kingdoms and men would vanish soon, +Vanish, as tho' I saw them not, +As a dim candle dies at noon. + +5 Then they might fight, and rage, and rave, +I should perceive the noise no more +Than we can hear a shaking leaf, +While rattling thunders round us roar. + +6 Great All in All, eternal King, +Let me but view thy lovely face, +And all my powers shall bow and sing +Thine endless grandeur and thy grace. + + +Hymn 2:42. +Delight in God. + +1 My God, what endless pleasures dwell +Above at thy right-hand! +The courts below, how amiable, +Where all thy graces stand! + +2 The swallow near thy temple lies, +And chirps a cheerful note; +The lark mounts upward to thy skies, +And tunes her warbling throat: + +3 And we, when in thy presence, Lord, +We shout with joyful tongues, +Or sitting round our Father's board, +We crown the feast with songs. + +4 While Jesus shines with quickening grace, +We sing and mount on high; +But if a frown becloud his face, +We faint, and tire, and die. + +5 [Just as we see the lonesome dove +Bemoan her widow'd state, +Wandering she flies thro' all the grove, +And mourns her loving mate. + +6 Just so our thoughts from thing to thing +In restless circles rove, +Just so we drop, and hang the wing, +When Jesus hides his love.] + + +Hymn 2:43. +Christ's sufferings and glory. + +1 Now for a tune of lofty praise +To great Jehovah's equal Son! +Awake, my voice, in heavenly lays, +Tell the loud wonders he hath done. + +2 Sing how he left the worlds of light +And the bright robes he wore above, +How swift and joyful was his flight +On wings of everlasting love. + +3 Down to this base, this sinful earth +He came to raise our nature high; +He came t' atone almighty wrath; +Jesus the God was born to die.] + +4 [Hell and its lions roar'd around, +His precious blood the monsters spilt, +While weighty sorrows press'd him down, +Large as the loads of all our guilt.] + +5 Deep in the shades of gloomy death +Th' almighty Captive pris'ner lay; +Th' almighty Captive left the earth, +And rose to everlasting day. + +6 Lift up your eyes, ye sons of light, +Up to his throne of shining grace, +See what immortal glories sit +Round the sweet beauties of his face. + +7 Amongst a thousand harps and songs +Jesus the God exalted reigns, +His sacred Name fills all their tongues +And echoes thro' the heavenly plains! + + +Hymn 2:44. +Hell; or, The vengeance of God. + +1 With holy fear and humble song, +The dreadful God our souls adore; +Reverence and awe becomes the tongue +That speaks the terrors of his power. + +2 Far in the deep where darkness dwells, +The land of horror and despair, +Justice has built a dismal hell, +And laid her stores of vengeance there. + +3 [Eternal plagues and heavy chains, +Tormenting racks and fiery coals, +And darts t' inflict immortal pains, +Dy'd in the blood of damned souls.] + +4 [There Satan the first sinner lies, +And roars, and bites his iron bands; +In vain the rebel strives to rise, +Crush'd with the weight of both thine hands.] + +5 There guilty ghosts of Adam's race +Shriek out, and howl beneath thy rod; +Once they could scorn a Saviour's grace, +But they incens'd a dreadful God. + +6 Tremble, my soul, and kiss the Son; +Sinners, obey the Saviour's call; +Else your damnation hastens on, +And hell gapes wide to wait your fall. + + +Hymn 2:45. +God's condescension to our worship. + +1 Thy favours Lord, surprise our souls; +Will the Eternal dwell with us? +What canst thou find beneath the poles +To tempt thy chariot downward thus? + +2 Still might he fill his starry throne, +And please his ears with Gabriel's songs; +But th' heavenly Majesty comes down, +And bows to hearken to our tongues. + +3 Great God, what poor returns we pay +For love so infinite as thine! +Words are but air, and tongues but clay, +But thy compassion's all divine. + + +Hymn 2:46. +God's condescension to human affairs. + +1 Up to the Lord that reigns on high, +And views the nations from afar, +Let everlasting praises fly, +And tell how large his bounties are. + +2 [He that can shake the worlds he made, +Or with his word, or with his rod, +His goodness how amazing great! +And what a condescending God!] + +3 [God that must stoop to view the skies, +And how to see what angels do, +Down to our earth he casts his eyes, +And bends his footsteps downward too.] + +4 He over-rules all mortal things, +And manages our mean affairs; +On humble souls the King of kings +Bestows his counsels and his cares. + +5 Our sorrows and our tears we pour +Into the bosom of our God, +He hears us in the mournful hour, +And helps us bear the heavy load. + +6 In vain might lofty princes try +Such condescension to perform; +For worms were never rais'd so high +Above their meanest fellow-worm. + +7 O could our thankful hearts devise +A tribute equal to thy grace, +To the third heaven our songs should rise, +And teach the golden harps thy praise. + + +Hymn 2:47. +Glory and grace in the person of Christ. + +1 Now to the Lord a noble song! +Awake, my soul, awake, my tongue; +Hosanna to th' eternal Name, +And all his boundless love proclaim. + +2 See where it shines in Jesus' face, +The brightest image of his grace; +God, in the person of his Son, +Has all his mightiest works outdone. + +3 The spacious earth and spreading flood +Proclaim the wise, the powerful God; +And thy rich glories from afar +Sparkle in every rolling star. + +4 But in his looks a glory stands, +The noblest labour of thine hands: +The pleasing lustre of his eyes +Outshines the wonders of the skies. + +5 Grace, 'tis a sweet, a charming theme; +My thoughts rejoice at Jesus' name: +Ye angels, dwell upon the sound, +Ye heavens, reflect it to the ground! + +6 O, may I live to reach the place +Where he unveils his lovely face, +Where all his beauties you behold, +And sing his Name to harps of gold! + + +Hymn 2:48. +Love to the creatures is dangerous. + +1 How vain are all things here below! +How false, and yet how fair! +Each pleasure hath its poison too, +And every sweet a snare. + +2 The brightest things below the sky +Give but a flattering light; +We should suspect some danger nigh +Where we possess delight. + +3 Our dearest joys, and nearest friends, +The partners of our blood, +How they divide our wavering minds, +And leave but half for God! + +4 The fondness of a creature's love, +How strong it strikes the sense! +Thither the warm affections move, +Nor can we call them thence. + +5 Dear Saviour, let thy beauties be +My soul's eternal food; +And grace command my heart away +From all created good. + + +Hymn 2:49. +Moses dying in the embraces of God. + +1 Death cannot make our souls afraid +If God be with us there; +We may walk thro' her darkest shade, +And never yield to fear. + +2 I could renounce my all below, +If my Creator bid, +And run, if I were call'd to go, +And die as Moses did. + +3 Might I but climb to Pisgah's top, +And view the promis'd land, +My flesh itself shall long to drop, +And pray for the command. + +4 Clasp'd in my heavenly Father's arms +I would forget my breath, +And lose my life among the charms +Of so divine a death. + + +Hymn 2:50. +Comfort under sorrows and pains. + +1 Now let the Lord my Saviour smile, +And shew my name upon his heart, +I would forget my pains awhile, +And in the pleasure lose the smart. + +But O it swells my sorrows high +To see my blessed Jesus frown! +My spirits sink, my comforts die, +And all the springs of life are down. + +3 Yet why, my soul, why these complaints? +Still while he frowns his bowels move; +Still on his heart he bears his saints, +And feels their sorrows and his love. + +4 My name is printed on his breast; +His book of life contains my name; +I'd rather have it there impress'd +Than in the bright records of fame. + +5 When the last fire burns all things here, +Those letters shall securely stand, +And in the Lamb's fair book appear, +Writ by th' eternal Father's hand. + +6 Now shall my minutes smoothly run, +Whil'st here I wait my Father's will; +My rising and my setting sun +Roll gently up and down the hill. + + +Hymn 2:51. +God the Son equal with the Father. + +1 Bright King of Glory, dreadful God! +Our spirits bow before thy seat, +To thee we lift an humble thought, +And worship at thine awful feet. + +2 [Thy power hath form'd, thy wisdom sways +All nature with a sovereign word; +And the bright world of stars obeys +The will of their superior Lord.] + +3 [Mercy and truth unite in one, +And smiling sit at thy right-hand; +Eternal justice guards thy throne, +And vengeance waits thy dread command.] + +4 A thousand seraphs strong and bright +Stand round the glorious Deity; +But who amongst the sons of light +Pretends comparison with thee? + +5 Yet there is one of human frame, +Jesus, array'd in flesh and blood, +Thinks it no robbery to claim +A full equality with God. + +6 Their glory shines with equal beams; +Their essence is for ever one, +Tho' they are known by different names +The Father God, and God the Son. + +7 Then let the name of Christ our King +With equal honours be ador'd; +His praise let every angel sing, +And all the nations own their Lord. + + +Hymn 2:52. +Death dreadful or delightful. + +1 Death! 'tis a melancholy day +To those that have no God, +When the poor soul is forc'd away +To seek her last abode. + +2 In vain to heaven she lifts her eyes, +But guilt, a heavy chain, +Still drags her downward from the skies +To darkness, fire, and pain. + +3 Awake and mourn, ye heirs of hell, +Let stubborn sinners fear, +You must be driven from earth, and dwell +A long for-ever there. + +4 See how the pit gapes wide for you, +And flashes in your face, +And thou, my soul, look downwards too, +And sing recovering grace. + +5 He is a God of sovereign love +That promis'd heaven to me, +And taught my thoughts to soar above, +Where happy spirits be. + +6 Prepare me, Lord, for thy right-hand, +Then come the joyful day, +Come death, and some celestial band, +To bear my soul away. + + +Hymn 2:53. +The pilgrimage of the saints; or, Earth and heaven. + +1 Lord! what a wretched land is this +That yields us no supply! +No cheering fruits no wholesome trees, +Nor streams of living joy! + +2 But pricking thorns thro' all the ground +And mortal poisons grow, +And all the rivers that are found +With dangerous waters flow. + +3 Yet the clear path to thine abode +Lies thro' this horrid land; +Lord! we would keep the heavenly road, +And run at thy command. + +4 [Our souls shall tread the desert thro' +With undiverted feet; +And faith and flaming zeal subdue +The terrors that we meet.] + +5 [A thousand savage beasts of prey +Around the forest roam; +But Judah's lion guards the way, +And guides the strangers home.] + +6 [Long nights and darkness dwell below, +With scarce a twinkling ray; +But the bright world to which we go +Is everlasting day.] + +7 [By glimmering hopes and gloomy fears +We trace the sacred road, +Thro' dismal deeps and dangerous snares +We make our way to God.] + +8 Our journey is a thorny maze, +But we march upward still; +Forget these troubles of the ways, +And reach at Zion's hill. + +9 [See the kind angels at the gates, +Inviting us to come; +There Jesus the fore-runner waits +To welcome travellers home.] + +10 There on a green and flowery mount +Our weary souls shall sit, +And with transporting joys recount +The labours of our feet. + +11 [No vain discourse shall fill our tongue, +Nor trifles vex our ear, +Infinite grace shall be our song, +And God rejoice to hear.] + +12 Eternal glories to the King +That brought us safely thro'; +Our tongues shall never cease to sing, +And endless praise renew. + + +Hymn 2:54. +God's presence is light in darkness. + +1 My God, the spring of all my joys, +The life of my delights, +The glory of my brightest days, +And comfort of my nights. + +2 In darkest shades if he appear, +My dawning is begun; +He is my soul's sweet morning star +And he my rising sun. + +3 The opening heavens around me shine +With beams of sacred bliss, +While Jesus shews his heart is mine, +And whispers, "I am his!" + +4 My soul would leave this heavy clay +At that transporting word, +Run up with joy the shining way +T' embrace my dearest Lord. + +5 Fearless of hell and ghastly death! +I'd break thro' every foe; +The wings of love, and arms of faith +Should bear me conqueror thro'. + + +Hymn 2:55. +Frail life and succeeding eternity. + +1 Thee we adore, eternal Name, +And humbly own to thee, +How feeble is our mortal frame! +What dying worms are we! + +2 [Our wasting lives grow shorter still +As months and days increase; +And every beating pulse we tell +Leaves but the number less. + +3 The year rolls round, and steals away +The breath that first it gave; +Whate'er we do, where'er we be, +We're travelling to the grave. + +4 Dangers stand thick thro' all the ground +To push us to the tomb, +And fierce diseases wait around +To hurry mortals home. + +5 Good God! on what a slender thread +Hang everlasting things! +Th' eternal states of all the dead +Upon life's feeble strings. + +6 Infinite joy or endless woe +Attends on every breath; +And yet how unconcern'd we go +Upon the brink of death! + +7 Waken, O Lord, our drowsy sense +To walk this dangerous road; +And if our souls are hurried hence, +May they be found with God! + + +Hymn 2:56. +The misery of being without God in this world; or, +Vain prosperity. + +1 O, I shall envy them no more +Who grow profanely great, +Tho' they increase their golden store, +And rise to wondrous height. + +2 They taste of all the joys that grow +Upon this earthly clod, +Well they may search the creature thro', +For they have ne'er a God. + +3 Shake off the thoughts of dying too, +And think your life your own; +But death comes hastening on to you +To mow your glory down. + +4 Yes, you must bow your stately head, +Away your spirit flies, +And no kind angel near your bed +To bear it to the skies. + +5 Go now, and boast of all your stores, +And tell how bright you shine; +Your heaps of glittering dust are yours, +And my Redeemer's mine. + + +Hymn 2:57. +The pleasures of a good conscience. + +1 Lord, how secure and bless'd are they +Who feel the joys of pardon'd sin! +Should storms of wrath shake earth and sea, +Their minds have heaven and peace within. + +2 The day glides sweetly o'er their heads, +Made up of innocence and love; +And soft and silent as the shades +Their nightly minutes gently move. + +3 [Quick as their thoughts their joys come on, +But fly not half so fast away; +Their souls are ever bright as noon, +And calm as summer evenings be. + +4 How oft they look to th' heavenly hills, +Where groves of living pleasure grow! +And longing hopes and cheerful smiles +Sit undisturb'd upon their brow.] + +5 They scorn to seek our golden toys, +But spend the day and share the night +In numbering o'er the richer joys +That heaven prepares for their delight. + +6 While wretched we, like worms and moles, +Lie grovelling in the dust below: +Almighty grace, renew our souls, +And we'll aspire to glory too. + + +Hymn 2:58 +The shortness of life, and the goodness of God. + +1 Time! what an empty vapour 'tis! +And days how swift they are! +Swift as an Indian arrow flies, +Or like a shooting star. + +2 [The present moments just appear, +Then slide away in haste, +That we can never say, "They're here," +But only say, "They're past."] + +3 [Our life is ever on the wing, +And death is ever nigh; +The moment when our lives begin +We all begin to die.] + +4 Yet, mighty God, our fleeting days +Thy lasting favours share, +Yet with the bounties of thy grace +Thou load'st the rolling year. + +5 'Tis sovereign mercy finds us food, +And we are cloth d with love; +While grace stands pointing out the road +That leads our souls above. + +6 His goodness runs an endless round; +All glory to the Lord: +His mercy never knows a bound, +And be his Name ador'd! + +7 Thus we begin the lasting song, +And when we close our eyes, +Let the next age thy praise prolong +Till time and nature dies. + + +Hymn 2:59. +Paradise on earth. + +1 Glory to God that walks the sky, +And sends his blessings thro', +That tells his saints of joys on high, +And gives a taste below. + +2 [Glory to God that stoops his throne +That dust and worms may see't, +And brings a glimpse of glory down +Around his sacred feet. + +3 When Christ, with all his graces crown'd, +Sheds his kind beams abroad, +'Tis a young heaven on earthly ground, +And glory in the bud. + +4 A blooming paradise of joy +In this wild desert springs; +And every sense I straight employ +On sweet celestial things. + +5 White lilies all around appear, +And each his glory shows; +The rose of Sharon blossoms here, +The fairest flower that blows. + +6 Cheerful I feast on heavenly fruit, +And drink the pleasures down, +Pleasures that flow hard by the foot +Of the eternal throne.] + +7 But ah! how soon my joys decay, +How soon my sins arise, +And snatch the heavenly scene away +From these lamenting eyes! + +8 When shall the time, dear Jesus, when +The shining day appear, +That I shall leave those clouds of sin, +And guilt and darkness here? + +9 Up to the fields above the skies +My hasty feet would go, +There everlasting flowers arise, +And joys unwithering grow. + + +Hymn 2:60. +The truth of God the promiser; or, +The promises are our security. + +1 Praise, everlasting praise be paid +To him that earth's foundations laid; +Praise to the God whose strong decrees +Sway the creation as he please. + +2 Praise to the goodness of the Lord +Who rules his people by his word, +And there as strong as his decrees +He sets his kindest promises. + +3 [Firm are the words his prophets give, +Sweet words on which his children live; +Each of them is the voice of God, +Who spoke and spread the skies abroad. + +4 Each of them powerful as that sound +That bid the new-made heavens go round; +And stronger than the solid poles, +On which the wheel of nature rolls.] + +5 Whence then should doubts and fears arise, +Why trickling sorrows drown our eyes? +Slowly, alas, our mind receives +The comforts that our Maker gives. + +6 O for a strong, a lasting faith +To credit what th' almighty saith! +T' embrace the message of his Son, +And call the joys of heaven our own. + +7 Then should the earth's old pillars shake, +And all the wheels of nature break, +Our steady souls should fear no more +Than solid rocks when billows roar. + +8 Our everlasting hopes arise +Above the ruinable skies, +Where the eternal Builder reigns, +And his own courts his power sustains. + + + +Hymn 2:61. +A thought of death and glory. + +1 My soul, come meditate the day, +And think how near it stands, +When thou must quit this house of clay, +And fly to unknown lands. + +2 [And you, mine eyes, look down and view +The hollow gaping tomb, +This gloomy prison waits for you +Whene'er the summons come.] + +3 O could we die with those that die, +And place us in their stead, +Then would our spirits learn to fly, +And converse with the dead: + +4 Then should we see the saints above +In their own glorious forms, +And wonder why our souls should love +To dwell with mortal worms. + +5 [How we should scorn these clothes of flesh, +These fetters and this load! +And long for evening to undress, +That we may rest with God.] + +6 We should almost forsake our clay +Before the summons come, +And pray, and wish our souls away +To their eternal home. + + +Hymn 2:62. +God the thunderer; or, +The last judgment and hell.* + +1 Sing to the Lord, ye heavenly hosts, +And thou, O earth, adore, +Let death and hell thro' all their coasts, +Stand trembling at his power. + +2 His sounding chariot shakes the sky, +He makes the clouds his throne, +There all his stores of lightning lie, +Till vengeance dart them down. + +3 His nostrils breathe out fiery streams, +And from his awful tongue +A sovereign voice divides the flames, +And thunder roars along. + +4 Think, O my soul, the dreadful day +When this incensed God +Shall rend the sky, and burn the sea, +And fling his wrath abroad. + +5 What shall the wretch the sinner do? +He once defy'd the Lord; +But he shall dread the Thunderer now, +And sink beneath his word. + +6 Tempests of angry fire shall roll +To blast the rebel-worm, +And beat upon his naked soul +In one eternal storm. + +* Made in a great sudden storm +of thunder, August 20, 1697. + + +Hymn 2:63. +A funeral thought. + +1 Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound, +My ears attend the cry, +"Ye living men, come view the ground +"Where you must shortly lie. + +2 "Princes, this clay must be your bed, +"In spite of all your towers; +"The tall, the wise, the reverend head +"Must lie as low as ours." + +3 Great God, is this our certain doom? +And are we still secure? +Still walking downward to our tomb, +And yet prepare no more? + +4 Grant us the powers of quickening grace +To fit our souls to fly, +Then, when we drop this dying flesh, +We'll rise above the sky. + + + +Hymn 2:64. +God the glory and defence of Sion. + +1 Happy the church, thou sacred place, +The seat of thy Creator's grace; +Thine holy courts are his abode, +Thou earthly palace of our God. + +2 Thy walls are strength, and at thy gates +A guard of heavenly warriors waits; +Nor shall thy deep foundations move, +Fix'd on his counsels and his love. + +3 Thy foes in vain designs engage, +Against his throne in vain they rage, +Like rising waves, with angry roar, +That dash and die upon the shore. + +4 Then let our souls in Zion dwell, +Nor fear the wrath of Rome and hell: +His arms embrace this happy ground, +Like brazen bulwarks built around. + +5 God is our shield, and God our sun; +Swift as the fleeting moments run, +On us he sheds new beams of grace, +And we reflect his brightest praise. + + +Hymn 2:65. +The hope of heaven our support under trials on earth. + +1 When I can read my title clear +To mansions in the skies, +I bid farewell to every fear, +And wipe my weeping eyes. + +2 Should earth against my soul engage, +And hellish darts be hurl'd, +Then I can smile at Satan's rage, +And face a frowning world. + +3 Let cares like a wild deluge come, +And storms of sorrow fall, +May I but safely reach my home, +My God, my heaven, my all. + +4 There shall I bathe my weary soul +In seas of heavenly rest, +And not a wave of trouble roll +Across my peaceful breast. + + +Hymn 2:66. +A prospect of heaven makes death easy. + +1 There is a land of pure delight +Where saints immortal reign, +Infinite day excludes the night, +And pleasures banish pain. + +2 There everlasting spring abides, +And never withering flowers: +Death like a narrow sea divides +This heavenly land from ours. + +3 [Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, +Stand dress'd in living green +So to the Jews old Canaan stood, +While Jordan roll'd between. + +4 But timorous mortals start and shrink +To cross this narrow sea, +And linger shivering on the brink, +And fear to launch away.] + +5 O! could we make our doubts remove, +These gloomy doubts that rise, +And see the Canaan that we love, +With unbeclouded eyes! + +6 Could we but climb where Moses stood, +And view the landscape o'er, +Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, +Should fright us from the shore. + + +Hymn 2:67. +God's eternal dominion. + +1 Great God, how infinite art thou! +What worthless worms are we! +Let the whole race of creatures bow +And pay their praise to thee. + +2 Thy throne eternal ages stood, +Ere seas or stars were made; +Thou art the ever-living God +Were all the nations dead. + +3 Nature and time quite naked lie +To thine immense survey, +From the formation of the sky +To the great burning day. + +4 Eternity with all its years +Stands present in thy view; +To thee there's nothing old appears, +Great God, there's nothing new. + +5 Our lives thro' various scenes are drawn, +And vex'd with trifling cares; +While thine eternal thought moves on +Thine undisturb'd affairs. + +6 Great God, how infinite art thou! +What worthless worms are we! +Let the whole race of creatures bow +And pay their praise to thee. + + +Hymn 2:68. +The humble worship of heaven. + +1 Father, I long, I faint to see +The place of thine abode, +I'd leave thy earthly courts and flee +Up to thy seat, my God! + +2 Here I behold thy distant face, +And 'tis a pleasing sight; +But to abide in thine embrace +Is infinite delight. + +3 I'd part with all the joys of sense +To gaze upon thy throne; +Pleasure springs fresh for ever thence, +Unspeakable, unknown. + +4 [There all the heavenly hosts are seen, +In shining ranks they move, +And drink immortal vigour in, +With wonder and with love. + +5 Then at thy feet with awful fear +Th' adoring armies fall +With joy they shrink to _nothing_ there, +Before th' Eternal All. + +6 There I would vie with all the host +In duty and in bliss, +While _less than nothing_ I could boast, +And _vanity_ confess.] _[1]_ + +7 The more thy glories strike mine eyes, +The humbler I shall lie; +Thus while I sink, my joys shall rise +Unmeasurably high. + +_[1]_ Isaiah 40:17. + + +Hymn 2:69. +The faithfulness of God in his promises. + +1 [Begin, my tongue, some heavenly theme, +And speak some boundless thing, +The mighty works, or mightier name +Of our eternal King. + +2 Tell of his wondrous faithfulness, +And sound his power abroad, +Sing the sweet promise of his grace, +And the performing God. + +3 Proclaim "salvation from the Lord +"For wretched dying men;" +His hand has writ the sacred word +With an immortal pen. + +4 Engrav'd as in eternal brass, +The mighty promise shines; +Nor can the powers of darkness rase +Those everlasting lines.] + +5 [He that can dash whole worlds to death +And make them when he please, +He speaks, and that almighty breath +Fulfils his great decrees. + +6 His very word of grace is strong +As that which built the skies, +The voice that rolls the stars along +Speaks all the promises. + +7 He said, "Let the wide heaven be spread," +And heaven was stretch'd abroad; +"Abrah'm, I'll be thy God," he said, +And he was Abrah'm's God. + +8 O, might I hear thine heavenly tongue +But whisper, "Thou art mine;" +Those gentle words should raise my song +To notes almost divine. + +9 How would my leaping heart rejoice +And think my heaven secure! +I trust the all-creating voice, +And faith desires no more.] + + +Hymn 2:70. +God's dominion over the sea, Psalm 107. 23 &c. + +1 God of the seas, thy thundering voice +Makes all the roaring waves rejoice, +And one soft word of thy command +Can sink them silent in the sand. + +2 If but a Moses wave thy rod, +The sea divides, and owns its God: +The stormy floods their Maker knew, +And let his chosen armies thro'. + +3 The scaly flocks amidst the sea, +To thee, their Lord, a tribute pay; +The meanest fish that swims the flood +Leaps up, and means a praise to God. + +4 [The larger monsters of the deep, +On thy commands attendance keep, +By thy permission sport and play, +And cleave along their foaming way. + +5 If God his voice of tempest rears, +Leviathan lies still and fears, +Anon he lifts his nostrils high, +And spouts the ocean to the sky.] + +6 How is thy glorious power ador'd, +Amidst those watery nations, Lord! +Yet the bold men that trace the seas, +Bold men, refuse their Maker's praise. + +7 [What scenes of miracle they see, +And never tune a song to thee! +While on the flood they safely ride, +They curse the hand that smooths the tide. + +8 Anon they plunge in watery graves, +And some drink death among the waves: +Yet the surviving crew blaspheme, +Nor own the God that rescu'd them.] + +9 O for some signal of thine hand! +Shake all the seas, Lord, shake the land, +Great Judge, descend, lest men deny +That there's a God that rules the sky. + + +From the 70th to the 109th Hymn, I hope the +reader will forgive the neglect of the rhyme +in the first and third lines of the stanza. + + +Hymn 2:71. +Praise to God from all creatures. + +1 The glories of my Maker God, +My joyful voice shall sing, +And call the nations to adore +Their Former and their King. + +2 'Twas his right-hand that shap'd our clay, +And wrought this human frame, +But from his own immediate breath +Our nobler spirits came. + +3 We bring our mortal powers to God, +And worship with our tongues: +We claim some kindred with the skies +And join th' angelic songs. + +4 Let groveling beasts of every shape, +And fowls of every wing, +And rocks, and trees, and fires, and seas, +Their various tribute bring. + +5 Ye planets, to his honour shine, +And wheels of nature roll, +Praise him in your unwearied course +Around the steady pole. + +6 The brightness of our Maker's Name +The wide creation fills, +And his unbounded grandeur flies +Beyond the heavenly hills. + + +Hymn 2:72. +The Lord's Day; or, The resurrection of Christ. + +1 Bless'd morning, whose young dawning rays +Beheld our rising God, +That saw him triumph o'er the dust, +And leave his dark abode. + +2 In the cold prison of a tomb, +The dead Redeemer lay, +Till the revolving skies had brought +The third, th' appointed day. + +3 Hell and the grave unite their force +To hold our God in vain, +The sleeping Conqueror arose, +And burst their feeble chain. + +4 To thy great Name, Almighty Lord, +These sacred hours we pay, +And loud hosannas shall proclaim +The triumph of the day, + +5 [Salvation and immortal praise +To our victorious King, +Let heaven, and earth, and rocks, and seas, +With glad hosannas ring.] + + +Hymn 2:73. +Doubts scattered; or, Spiritual joy restored. + +1 Hence from my soul, sad thoughts, be gone, +And leave me to my joys, +My tongue shall triumph in my God, +And make a joyful noise. + +2 Darkness and doubts had veil'd my mind, +And drown'd my head in tears, +Till sovereign grace with shining rays +Dispell'd my gloomy fears. + +3 O what immortal joys I felt, +And raptures all divine, +When Jesus told me, I was his, +And my Beloved mine. + +4 In vain the tempter frights my soul, +And breaks my peace in vain, +One glimpse, dear Saviour, of thy face, +Revives my joys again. + + +Hymn 2:74. +Repentance from a sense of divine goodness; +or, A complaint of ingratitude. + +1 Is this the kind return, +And these the thanks we owe, +Thus to abuse eternal love, +Whence all our blessings flow? + +2 TO what a stubborn frame +Has sin reduc'd our mind! +What strange rebellious wretches we, +And God as strangely kind! + +3 [On us he bids the sun +Shed his reviving rays, +For us the skies their circles run +To lengthen out our days. + +4 The brutes obey their God, +And bow their necks to men, +But we more base, more brutish things +Reject his easy reign.] + +5 Turn, turn us, mighty God, +And mould our souls afresh, +Break, sovereign grace, these hearts of stone, +And give us hearts of flesh. + +6 Let old ingratitude +Provoke our weeping eyes, +And hourly as new mercies fall +Let hourly thanks arise. + + +Hymn 2:75. +Spiritual and eternal joys; or, +The beatific sight of Christ. + +1 From thee, my God, my joys shall rise, +And run eternal rounds, +Beyond the limits of the skies +And all created bounds. + +2 The holy triumphs of my soul +Shall death itself out-brave, +Leave dull mortality behind, +And fly beyond the grave. + +3 There, where my blessed Jesus reigns +In heaven's unmeasur'd space, +I'll spend a long eternity +In pleasure and in praise. + +4 Millions of years my wondering eyes +Shall o'er thy beauties rove, +And endless ages I'll adore +The glories of thy love. + +5 [Sweet Jesus, every smile of thine +Shall fresh endearments bring, +And thousand tastes of new delight +From all thy graces spring. + +6 Haste, my beloved, fetch my soul +Up to thy bless'd abode, +Fly, for my spirit longs to see +My Saviour and my God. + + +Hymn 2:76. +The resurrection and ascension of Christ. + +1 Hosanna to the Prince of Light, +That cloth'd himself in clay, +Enter'd the iron gates of death, +And tore the bars away. + +2 Death is no more the king of dread +Since our Immanuel rose, +He took the tyrant's sting away, +And spoil'd our hellish foes. + +3 See how the Conqueror mounts aloft, +And to his Father flies, +With scars of honour in his flesh, +And triumph in his eyes. + +4 There our exalted Saviour reigns, +And scatters blessings down, +Our Jesus fills the middle seat +Of the celestial throne. + +5 [Raise your devotion, mortal tongues, +To reach his bless'd abode, +Sweet be the accents of your songs +To our incarnate God. + +6 Bright angels, strike your loudest strings, +Your sweetest voices raise, +Let heaven, and all created things, +Sound our Immanuel's praise.] + + +Hymn 77. +The Christian warfare. + +1 [Stand up, my soul, shake off thy fears, +And gird the gospel-armour on, +March to the gates of endless joy +Where thy great Captain-Saviour's gone. + +2 Hell and thy sins resist thy course, +But hell and sin are vanquish'd foes, +Thy Jesus nail'd them to the cross, +And sung the triumph when he rose.] + +3 [What tho' the prince of darkness rage, +And waste the fury of his spite, +Eternal chains confine him down +To fiery deeps, and endless night. + +4 What tho' thine inward lusts rebel, +'Tis but a struggling gasp for life +The weapons of victorious grace +Shall slay thy sins, and end the strife.] + +5 Then let my soul march boldly on, +Press forward to the heavenly gate, +There peace and joy eternal reign, +And glittering robes for conquerors wait. + +6 There shall I wear a starry crown, +And triumph in almighty grace, +While all the armies of the skies +Join in my glorious leader's praise. + + +Hymn 2:78. +Redemption by Christ. + +1 When the first parents of our race +Rebell'd and lost their God, +And the infection of their sin +Had tainted all our blood; + +2 Infinite pity touch'd the heart +Of the eternal Son, +Descending from the heavenly court +He left his Father's throne. + +3 Aside the Prince of glory threw +His most divine array, +And wrapt his Godhead in a veil +Of our inferior clay. + +4 His living power, and dying love +Redeem'd unhappy men, +And rais'd the ruins of our race +To life and God again. + +5 To thee, dear Lord, our flesh and soul +We joyfully resign, +Bless'd Jesus, take us for thy own, +For we are doubly thine. + +6 Thine honour shall for ever be +The business of our days, +For ever shall our thankful tongue +Speak thy deserved praise. + + +Hymn 2:79. +Praise to the Redeemer. + +1 Plung'd in a gulph of dark despair +We wretched sinners lay, +Without one cheerful beam of hope, +Or spark of glimmering day. + +2 With pitying eyes, the Prince of Grace +Beheld our helpless grief, +He saw, and (O amazing love!) +He ran to our relief. + +3 Down from the shining seats above +With joyful haste he fled, +Enter'd the grave in mortal flesh, +And dwelt among the dead. + +4 He spoil'd the Powers of darkness thus, +And brake our iron chains; +Jesus has freed our captive souls +From everlasting pains. + +5 [In vain the baffled prince of hell +His cursed projects tries, +We that were doom'd his endless slaves, +Are rais'd above the skies.] + +6 O for this love, let rocks and hills +Their lasting silence break, +And all harmonious human tongues +The Saviour's praises speak. + +7 [Yes, we will praise thee, dearest Lord, +Our souls are all on flame, +Hosanna round the spacious earth +To thine adored Name. + +8 Angels, assist our mighty joys, +Strike all your harps of gold; +But when you raise your highest notes +His love can ne'er be told.] + + +Hymn 2:80. +God's awful power and goodness. + +1 O the Almighty Lord! +How matchless is his power! +Tremble, O earth, beneath his word, +And all the heavens adore. + +2 Let proud imperious kings +Bow low before his throne, +Crouch to his feet, ye haughty things, +Or he shall tread you down. + +3 Above the skies he reigns, +And with amazing blows +He deals unsufferable pains +On his rebellious foes. + +4 Yet, everlasting God, +We love to speak thy praise; +Thy sceptre's equal to thy rod, +The sceptre of thy grace. + +5 The arms of mighty love +Defend our Sion well, +And heavenly mercy walls us round +From Babylon and hell. + +6 Salvation to the King +That sits enthron'd above; +Thus we adore the God of might, +And bless the God of love. + + +Hymn 2:81. +Our sin the cause of Christ's death. + +1 And now the scales have left mine eyes, +Now I begin to see; +O the curs'd deeds my sins have done! +What murderous things they be! + +2 Were these the traitors, dearest Lord, +That thy fair body tore? +Monsters, that stain'd those heavenly limbs +With floods of purple gore? + +3 Was it for crimes that I had done +My dearest Lord was slain +When justice seiz'd God's only Son, +And put his soul to pain? + +4 Forgive my guilt, O Prince of peace, +I'll wound my God no more; +Hence from my heart, ye sins, be gone, +For Jesus I adore. + +5 Furnish me, Lord, with heavenly arms +From grace's magazine, +And I'll proclaim eternal war +With every darling sin. + + +Hymn 2:82. +Redemption and protection from spiritual enemies. + +1 Arise my soul, my joyful powers, +And triumph in my God, +Awake, my voice, and loud proclaim +His glorious grace abroad. + +2 He rais'd me from the deeps of sin, +The gates of gaping hell, +And fix'd my standing more secure +Than 'twas before I fell. + +3 The arms of everlasting love +Beneath my soul he plac'd, +And on the rock of ages set +My slippery footsteps fast. + +4 The city of my bless'd abode +Is wall'd around with grace +Salvation for a bulwark stands +To shield the sacred place. + +5 Satan may vent his sharpest spite, +And all his legions roar, +Almighty mercy guards my life, +And bounds his raging power. + +6 Arise, my soul, awake, my voice, +And tunes of pleasure sing, +Loud hallelujahs shall address +My Saviour and my King. + + +Hymn 2:83. +The passion and exaltation of Christ. + +1 Thus saith the Ruler of the skies, +"Awake, my dreadful sword; +"Awake, my wrath and smite the man, +"My fellow," saith the Lord. + +2 Vengeance receiv'd the dread command, +And armed down she flies, +Jesus submits t' his Father's hand, +And bows his head and dies. + +3 But O! the wisdom and the grace +That join with vengeance now! +He dies to save our guilty race, +And yet he rises too. + +4 A person so divine was he +Who yielded to be slain, +That he could give his soul away, +And take his life again. + +5 Live, glorious Lord, and reign on high, +Let every nation sing, +And angels sound with endless joy +The Saviour and the King. + + +Hymn 2:84. +The same. + +1 Come, all harmonious tongues, +Your noblest music bring, +'Tis Christ the everlasting God, +And Christ the man we sing. + +2 Tell how he took our flesh +To take away our guilt, +Sing the dear drops of sacred blood +That hellish monsters spilt. + +3 [Alas, the cruel spear +Went deep into his side, +And the rich flood of purple gore +Their murderous weapons dy'd.] + +4 [The waves of swelling grief +Did o'er his bosom roll, +And mountains of almighty wrath +Lay heavy on his soul.] + +5 Down to the shades of death +He bow'd his awful head, +Yet he arose to live and reign +When death itself is dead. + +6 No more the bloody spear, +The cross and nails no more; +For hell itself shakes at his Name, +And all the heavens adore. + +7 There the Redeemer sits +High on the Father's throne; +The Father lays his vengeance by, +And smiles upon his Son. + +8 There his full glories shine +With uncreated rays, +And bless his saints' and angels' eyes +To everlasting days. + + +Hymn 2:85. +Sufficiency of pardon. + +1 Why does your face, ye humble souls, +Those mournful colours wear? +What doubts are these that waste your faith, +And nourish your despair? + +2 What tho' your numerous sins exceed +The stars that fill the skies, +And aiming at th' eternal throne, +Like pointed mountains rise? + +3 What tho' your mighty guilt beyond +The wide creation swell, +And has its curs'd foundations laid +Low as the deeps of hell? + +4 See here an endless ocean flows +Of never-failing grace, +Behold a dying Saviour's veins +The sacred flood increase: + +5 It rises high and drowns the hills, +'T has neither shore nor bound: +Nor if we search to find our sins, +Our sins can ne'er be found. + +6 Awake, our hearts, adore the grace +That buries all our faults, +And pardoning blood that swells above +Our follies and our thoughts. + + +Hymn 2:86. +Freedom from sin and misery in heaven. + +1 Our sins, alas, how strong they be! +And like a violent sea +They break our duty, Lord, to thee, +And hurry us away. + +2 The waves of trouble how they rise! +How loud the tempests roar! +But death shall land our weary souls +Safe on the heavenly shore. + +3 There to fulfil his sweet commands +Our speedy feet shall move, +No sin shall clog our winged zeal, +Or cool our burning love. + +4 There shall we sit, and sing, and tell +The wonders of his grace, +Till heavenly raptures fire our hearts, +And smile in every face. + +5 For ever his dear sacred Name +Shall dwell upon our tongue, +And Jesus and salvation be +The close of every song. + + +Hymn 2:87. +The divine glories above our reason. + +1 How wond'rous great, how glorious bright +Must our Creator be, +Who dwells amidst the dazzling light +Of vast infinity! + +2 Our soaring spirits upward rise +Tow'rd the celestial throne, +Fain would we see the blessed Three, +And the Almighty One. + +3 Our reason stretches all its wings, +And climbs above the skies; +But still how far beneath thy feet +Our groveling reason lies! + +4 [Lord, here we bend our humble souls, +And awfully adore, +For the weak pinions of our mind +Can stretch a thought no more.] + +5 Thy glories infinitely rise +Above our labouring tongue; +In vain the highest seraph tries +To form an equal song. + +6 [In humble notes our faith adores +The great mysterious King, +While angels strain their nobler powers, +And sweep th' immortal string.] + + +Hymn 2:88. +Salvation. + +1 Salvation! O, the joyful sound! +'Tis pleasure to our ears; +A sovereign balm for every wound, +A cordial for our fears. + +2 Buried in sorrow and in sin, +At hell's dark door we lay, +But we arise by grace divine +To see a heavenly day. + +3 Salvation! let the echo fly +The spacious earth around, +While all the armies of the sky +Conspire to raise the sound. + + +Hymn 2:89. +Christ's victory over Satan. + +1 Hosanna to our conquering King! +The prince of darkness flies, +His troops rush headlong down to hell +Like lightning from the skies. + +2 There, bound in chains, the lions roar, +And fright the rescu'd sheep, +But heavy bars confine their power +And malice to the deep. + +3 Hosanna to our conquering King, +All hail, incarnate love! +Ten thousand songs and glories wait +To crown thy head above. + +4 Thy victories and thy deathless fame +Thro' the wide world shall run, +And everlasting ages sing +The triumphs thou hast won. + + +Hymn 2:90. +Faith in Christ for pardon and sanctification. + +1 How sad our state by nature is! +Our sin how deep it stains! +And Satan binds our captive minds +Fast in his slavish chains. + +2 But there's a voice of sovereign grace +Sounds from the sacred word, +"Ho, ye despairing sinners, come, +"And trust upon the Lord." + +3 My soul obeys th' almighty call, +And runs to this relief, +I would believe thy promise, Lord, +O! help my unbelief. + +4 [To the dear fountain of thy blood, +Incarnate God, I fly, +Here let me wash my spotted soul +From crimes of deepest die. + +5 Stretch out thine arm victorious King, +My reigning sins subdue, +Drive the old dragon from his seat, +With all his hellish crew.] + +6 A guilty, weak, and helpless worm, +On thy kind arms I fall: +Be thou my strength and righteousness, +My Jesus, and my all. + + +Hymn 2:91. +The glory of Christ in heaven. + +1 O the delights, the heavenly joys, +The glories of the place +Where Jesus sheds the brightest beams +Of his o'erflowing grace. + +2 Sweet majesty and awful love +Sit smiling on his brow, +And all the glorious ranks above +At humble distance bow. + +3 [Princes to his imperial Name +Bend their bright sceptres down, +Dominions, thrones, and powers rejoice +To see him wear the crown.] + +4 Archangels sound his lofty praise +Thro' every heavenly street, +And lay their highest honours down +Submissive at his feet. + +5 Those soft, those blessed feet of his +That once rude iron tore, +High on a throne of light they stand, +And all the saints adore. + +6 His head, the dear majestic head +That cruel thorns did wound, +See what immortal glories shine, +And circle it around. + +7 This is the Man, th' exalted Man, +Whom we unseen adore; +But when our eyes behold his face, +Our hearts shall love him more. + +8 [Lord, how our souls are all on fire +To see thy bless'd abode, +Our tongues rejoice in tunes of praise +To our incarnate God. + +9 And whilst our faith enjoys this sight, +We long to leave our clay, +And wish thy fiery chariots, Lord, +To fetch our souls away.] + + +Hymn 2:92 +The church saved, and her enemies disappointed. + +Composed the 5th of November, 1694. + +1 Shout to the Lord, and let our joys +Thro' the whole nation run; +Ye British skies, resound the noise +Beyond the rising sun. + +2 Thee, mighty God, our souls admire, +Thee our glad voices sing, +And join with the celestial choir +To praise th' eternal King. + +3 Thy power the whole creation rules, +And on the starry skies +Sits smiling at the weak designs +Thine envious foes devise. + +4 Thy scorn derides their feeble rage, +And with an awful frown +Flings vast confusion on their plots, +And shakes their Babel down. + +5 [Their secret fires in caverns lay, +And we the sacrifice: +But gloomy caverns strove in vain +To 'scape all-searching eyes. + +6 Their dark designs were all reveal'd, +Their treasons all betray'd: +Praise to the God that broke the snare +Their cursed hands had laid.] + +7 In vain the busy sons of hell +Still new rebellions try, +Their souls shall pine with envious rage, +And vex away and die. + +8 Almighty grace defends our land +From their malicious power, +Let Britain with united songs +Almighty grace adore. + + +Hymn 2:93. +God all, and in all, Psalm 73. 25. + +1 My God, my life, my love, +To thee, to thee I call, +I cannot live if thou remove, +For thou art all in all. + +2 [Thy shining grace can cheer, +This dungeon where I dwell; +'Tis paradise when thou art here; +If thou depart, 'tis hell.] + +3 [The smilings of thy face, +How amiable they are! +'Tis heaven to rest in thine embrace, +And no where else but there.] + +4 [To thee, and thee alone, +The angels owe their bliss; +They sit around thy gracious throne, +And dwell where Jesus is.] + +5 [Not all the harps above +Can make a heavenly place, +If God his residence remove, +Or but conceal his face.] + +6 Nor earth nor all the sky +Can one delight afford; +No not a drop of real joy, +Without thy presence, Lord. + +7 Thou art the sea of love, +Where all my pleasures roll, +The circle where my passions move, +And centre of my soul. + +8 [To thee my spirits fly +With infinite desire; +And yet how far from thee I lie! +Dear Jesus, raise me higher!] + + +Hymn 2:94. +God my only happiness, Psalm 73. 25. + +1 My God, my portion, and my love, +My everlasting all, +I've none but thee in heaven above, +Or on this earthly ball. + +2 [What empty things are all the skies, +And this inferior clod! +There's nothing here deserves my joys, +There's nothing like my God.] + +3 [In vain the bright, the burning sun +Scatters his feeble light; +'Tis thy sweet beams create my noon; +If thou withdraw, 'tis night. + +4 And whilst upon my restless bed, +Amongst the shades I roll, +If my Redeemer shew his head +'Tis morning with my soul.] + +5 To thee we owe our wealth and friends, +And health, and safe abode; +Thanks to thy Name for meaner things, +But they are not my God. + +6 How vain a toy is glittering wealth, +If once compar'd to thee; +Or what's my safety, or my health, +Or all my friends to me? + +7 Were I possessor of the earth, +And call'd the stars my own +Without thy graces and thyself +I were a wretch undone. + +8 Let others stretch their arms like seas, +And grasp in all the shore, +Grant me the visits of thy face, +And I desire no more. + + +Hymn 2:95. +Look on him whom they pierced, and mourn. + +1 Infinite grief! amazing woe! +Behold my bleeding Lord: +Hell and the Jews conspir'd his death, +And us'd the Roman sword. + +2 O the sharp pangs of smarting pain +My dear Redeemer bore, +When knotty whips and ragged thorns +His sacred body tore! + +3 But knotty whips and ragged thorns +In vain do I accuse; +In vain I blame the Roman bands, +And the more spiteful Jews. + +4 'Twere you, my sins, my cruel sins, +His chief tormentors were; +Each of my crimes became a nail, +And unbelief the spear. + +5 'Twere you that pull'd the vengeance down +Upon his guiltless head: +Break, break, my heart, O burst mine eyes! +And let my sorrows bleed. + +6 Strike, mighty grace, my flinty soul, +Till melting waters flow, +And deep repentance drown mine eyes +In undissembled woe. + + +Hymn 2:96. +Distinguishing love; or, Angels +punished and men saved. + +1 Down headlong from their native skies +The rebel angels fell, +And thunderbolts of flaming wrath +Pursu'd them deep to hell. + +2 Down from the top of earthly bliss +Rebellious man was hurl'd +And Jesus stoop'd beneath the grave +To reach a sinking world. + +3 O love of infinite degree! +Unmeasurable grace! +Must heaven's eternal Darling die +To save a traitorous race? + +4 Must angels sink for ever down, +And burn in quenchless fire, +While God forsakes his shining throne +To raise us wretches higher? + +5 O for this love let earth and skies +With hallelujahs ring, +And the full choir of human tongues +All hallelujah sing. + + +Hymn 2:97. +The same. + +1 From heaven the sinning angels fell, +And wrath and darkness chain'd them down; +But man, vile man, forsook his bliss, +And mercy lifts him to a crown. + +2 Amazing work of sovereign grace +That could distinguish rebels so! +Our guilty treasons call'd aloud +For everlasting fetters too. + +3 To thee, to thee, Almighty Love, +Our souls, ourselves, our all we pay: +Millions of tongues shall sound thy praise +On the bright hills of heavenly day. + + +Hymn 2:98. +Hardness of heart complained of. + +1 My heart, how dreadful hard it is! +How heavy here it lies, +Heavy and cold within my breast +Just like a rock of ice! + +2 Sin like a raging tyrant sits +Upon this flinty throne, +And every grace lies buried deep +Beneath this heart of stone. + +3 How seldom do I rise to God, +Or taste the joys above! +This mountain presses down my faith, +And chills my flaming love. + +4 When smiling mercy courts my soul +With all its heavenly charms, +This stubborn, this relentless thing +Would thrust it from my arms. + +5 Against the thunders of thy word +Rebellious I have stood, +My heart it shakes not at the wrath +And terrors of a God. + +6 Dear Saviour, steep this rock of mine +In thine own crimson sea: +None but a bath of blood divine +Can melt the flint away. + + +Hymn 2:99. +The book of God's decrees. + +1 Let the whole race of creatures lie +Abas'd before their God; +Whate'er his sovereign voice hath form'd +He governs with a nod. + +2 [Ten thousand ages ere the skies +Were into motion brought, +All the long years and worlds to come +Stood present to his thought.] + +5 [There's not a sparrow or a worm +But's found in his decrees; +He raises monarchs to their thrones, +And sinks them as he please.] + +4 If light attends the course I run, +'Tis he provides those rays; +And 'tis his hand that hides my sun, +If darkness cloud my days. + +5 Yet I would not be much concern'd, +Nor vainly long to see +The volume of his deep decrees, +What months are writ for me. + +6 When he reveals the book of life, +O, may I read my name +Amongst the chosen of his love, +The followers of the Lamb! + + +Hymn 2:100. +The presence of Christ is the life of my soul. + +1 [How full of anguish is the thought, +How it distracts and tears my heart +If God, at last, my sovereign Judge, +Should frown, and bid my soul, "Depart!"] + +2 Lord, when I quit this earthly stage, +Where shall I fly but to thy breast? +For I have sought no other home +For I have learn'd no other rest. + +3 I cannot live contented here, +Without some glimpses of thy face; +And heaven without thy presence there +Would be a dark and tiresome place. + +4 When earthly cares engross the day +And hold my thoughts aside from thee, +The shining hours of cheerful light +Are long and tedious years to me. + +5 And if no evening visit's paid +Between my Saviour and my soul, +How dull the night! how sad the shade! +How mournfully the minutes roll! + +6 This flesh of mine might learn as soon +To live, yet part with all my blood; +To breathe when vital air is gone, +Or thrive and grow without my food. + +7 [Christ is my light, my life, my care, +My blessed hope, my heavenly prize, +Dearer than all my passions are, +My limbs, my bowels, or my eyes. + +8 The strings that twine about my heart, +Tortures and racks may tear them off, +But they can never, never part +With their dear hold of Christ my love.] + +9 [My God! and can an humble child +That loves thee with a flame so high, +Be ever from thy face exil'd +Without the pity of thine eye? + +10 Impossible--For thine own hands +Have tied my heart so fast to thee; +And in thy book the promise stands, +That where thou art thy friends must be. + + +Hymn 2:101. +The world's three great temptations. + +1 When in the light of faith divine +We look on things below, +Honour, and gold, and sensual joy, +How vain and dangerous too! + +2 [Honour's a puff of noisy breath; +Yet men expose their blood, +And venture everlasting death +To gain that airy good. + +3 Whilst others starve the nobler mind, +And feed on shining dust, +They rob the serpent of his food +T' indulge a sordid lust.] + +4 The pleasures that allure our sense +Are dangerous snares to souls; +There's but a drop of flattering sweet, +And dash'd with bitter bowls. + +5 God is mine all-sufficient good, +My portion and my choice; +In him my vast desires are fill'd, +And all my powers rejoice. + +6 In vain the world accosts my ear, +And tempts my heart anew; +I cannot buy your bliss so dear, +Nor part with heaven for you. + + +Hymn 2:102. +A happy resurrection. + +1 No, I'll repine at death no more, +But with a cheerful gasp resign +To the cold dungeon of the grave +These dying, withering limbs of mine. + +2 Let worms devour my wasting flesh, +And crumble all my bones to dust, +My God shall raise my frame anew +At the revival of the just. + +3 Break, sacred morning, thro' the skies, +Bring that delightful, dreadful day, +Cut short the hours, dear Lord, and come, +Thy lingering wheels, how long they stay! + +4 [Our weary spirits faint to see +The light of thy returning face, +And hear the language of those lips +Where God has shed his richest grace.] + +5 Haste then upon the wings of love, +Rouse all the pious sleeping clay, +That we may join in heavenly joys, +And sing the triumph of the day. + + +Hymn 2:103. +Christ's commission, John 3. 16 17. + +1 Come happy souls, approach your God +With new melodious songs; +Come, render to almighty grace +The tribute of your tongues. + +2 So strange, so boundless was the love +That pity'd dying men, +The Father sent his equal Son +To give them life again. + +3 Thy hands, dear Jesus, were not arm'd +With a revenging rod, +No hard commission to perform +The vengeance of a God. + +4 But all was mercy, all was mild, +And wrath forsook the throne, +When Christ on the kind errand came, +And brought salvation down. + +5 Here, sinners, you may heal your wounds, +And wipe your sorrows dry; +Trust in the mighty Saviour's Name, +And you shall never die. + +6 See, dearest Lord our willing souls +Accept thine offer'd grace; +We bless the great Redeemer's love, +And give the Father praise. + + +Hymn 2:104. +The same. + +1 Raise your triumphant songs +To an immortal tune, +Let the wide earth resound the deeds +Celestial grace has done. + +2 Sing how eternal love +Its chief beloved chose, +And bid him raise our wretched race +From their abyss of woes. + +3 His hand no thunder bears, +Nor terror clothes his brow, +No bolts to drive our guilty souls +To fiercer flames below. + +4 'Twas mercy fill'd the throne, +And wrath stood silent by, +When Christ was sent with pardons down +To rebels doom'd to die. + +5 Now, sinners, dry your tears, +Let hopeless sorrow cease; +Bow to the sceptre of his love, +And take the offer'd peace. + +6 Lord we obey thy call; +We lay an humble claim +To the salvation thou hast brought, +And love and praise thy Name. + + +Hymn 2:105. +Repentance flowing from the patience of God. + +1 And are we wretches yet alive? +And do we yet rebel? +'Tis boundless, 'tis amazing love +That bears us up from hell! + +2 The burden of our weighty guilt +Would sink us down to flames, +And threatening vengeance rolls above +To crush our feeble frames. + +3 Almighty goodness cries, "Forbear;" +And straight the thunder stays; +And dare we now provoke his wrath, +And weary out his grace? + +4 Lord, we have long abus'd thy love, +Too long indulg'd our sin; +Our aching hearts e'en bleed to see +What rebels we have been. + +5 No more, ye lusts, shall ye command, +No more will we obey; +Stretch out, O God, thy conquering hand, +And drive thy foes away. + + +Hymn 2:106. +Repentance at the cross. + +1 Oh, if my soul was form'd for woe, +How would I vent my sighs! +Repentance should like rivers flow +From both my streaming eyes. + +2 'Twas for my sins, my dearest Lord +Hung on the cursed tree, +And groan'd away a dying life, +For thee, my soul, for thee. + +3 O how I hate those lusts of mine +That crucify'd my God, +Those sins that pierc'd and nail'd his flesh +Fast to the fatal wood! + +4 Yes, my Redeemer, they shall die, +My heart has so decreed, +Nor will I spare the guilty things +That made my Saviour bleed. + +5 Whilst with a melting broken heart +My murder'd Lord I view, +I'll raise revenge against my sins, +And slay the murderers too. + + +Hymn 2:107. +The everlasting absence of God intolerable. + +1 That awful day will surely come, +Th' appointed hour makes haste, +When I must stand before my Judge, +And pass the solemn test. + +2 Thou lovely chief of all my joys, +Thou sovereign of my heart, +How could I bear to hear thy voice +Pronounce the sound, "Depart?" + +3 [The thunder of that dismal word, +Would so torment my ear, +'Twould tear my soul asunder, Lord, +With most tormenting fear.] + +4 [What, to be banish'd from my life, +And yet forbid to die! +To linger in eternal pain, +Yet death for ever fly!] + +5 O wretched state of deep despair, +To see my God remove, +And fix my doleful station where +I must not taste his Love. + +6 Jesus, I throw my arms around, +And hang upon thy breast; +Without a gracious smile from thee +My spirit cannot rest. + +7 O tell me that my worthless name +Is graven on thy hands; +Shew me some promise in thy book +Where my salvation stands! + +8 [Give me one kind assuring word, +To sink my fears again, +And cheerfully my soul shall wait +Her threescore years and ten.] + + +Hymn 2:108. +Access to the throne of grace by a Mediator. + +1 Come, let us lift our joyful eyes +Up to the courts above, +And smile to see our Father there +Upon a throne of love. + +2 Once 'twas a seat of dreadful wrath, +And shot devouring flame; +Our God appear'd consuming fire, +And vengeance was his name. + +3 Rich were the drops of Jesus' blood, +That calm'd his frowning face, +That sprinkled o'er the burning throne, +And turn'd the wrath to grace. + +4 Now we may bow before his feet, +And venture near the Lord; +No fiery cherub guards his seat, +Nor double-flaming sword. + +5 The peaceful gates of heavenly bliss +Are open'd by the Son; +High let us raise our notes of praise, +And reach th' Almighty throne. + +6 To thee ten thousand thanks we bring +Great Advocate on high: +And glory to th' eternal King +That lays his fury by. + + +Hymn 2:109. +The darkness of providence. + +1 Lord, we adore thy vast designs, +Th' obscure abyss of providence, +Too deep to sound with mortal lines +Too dark to view with feeble sense. + +2 Now thou array'st thine awful face +In angry frowns, without a smile; +We thro' the cloud believe thy grace, +Secure of thy compassion still. + +3 Thro' seas and storms of deep distress +We sail by faith and not by sight; +Faith guides us in the wilderness +Through all the briers and the night. + +4 Dear Father, if thy lifted rod +Resolve to scourge us here below, +Still we must lean upon our God, +Thine arm shall bear us safely thro'. + + +Hymn 2:110. +Triumph over death in +hope of the resurrection. + +1 And must this body die? +This mortal frame decay? +And must these active limbs of mine +Lie mouldering in the clay? + +2 Corruption, earth and worms, +Shall but refine this flesh, +Till my triumphant spirit comes +To put it on afresh. + +3 God my Redeemer lives, +And often from the skies +Looks down, and watches all my dust, +Till he shall bid it rise. + +4 Array'd in glorious grace +Shall these vile bodies shine, +And every shape and every face +Look heavenly and divine. + +5 These lively hopes we owe +To Jesus' dying love; +We would adore his grace below, +And sing his power above. + +6 Dear Lord, accept the praise +Of these our humble songs, +Till tunes of nobler sound we raise +With our immortal tongues. + + +Hymn 2:111. +Thanksgiving for victory; or, God's +dominion and our deliverance. + +1 Zion rejoice, and Judah sing; +The Lord assumes his throne; +Let Britain own the heavenly King, +And make his glories known. + +2 The great, the wicked, and the proud, +From their high seats are hurl'd; +Jehovah rides upon a cloud, +And thunders thro' the world. + +3 He reigns upon th' eternal hills, +Distributes mortal crowns, +Empires are fix'd beneath his smiles, +And totter at his frowns. + +4 Navies, that rule the ocean wide, +Are vanquish'd by his breath; +And legions arm'd with power and pride +Descend to watery death. + +5 Let tyrants make no more pretence +To vex our happy land; +Jehovah's Name is our defence, +Our buckler is his hand. + +6 [Long may the King our Sovereign live +To rule us by his word; +And all the honours he can give +Be offer'd to the Lord.] + + +Hymn 2:112. +Angels ministering to Christ and saints. + +1 Great God, to what a glorious height +Hast thou advanc'd the Lord thy Son! +Angels, in all their robes of light, +Are made the servants of his throne. + +2 Before his feet their armies wait, +And swift as flames of fire they move, +To manage his affairs of state +In works of vengeance or of love. + +3 His orders run thro' all their hosts, +Legions descend at his command +To shield and guard the British coasts, +When foreign rage invades our land. + +4 Now they are sent to guide our feet +Up to the gates of thine abode, +Thro' all the dangers that we meet +In travelling the heavenly road. + +5 Lord, when I leave this mortal ground, +And thou shall bid me rise and come, +Send a beloved angel down +Safe to conduct my spirit home. + + +Hymn 2:113. +The same. + +1 The majesty of Solomon! +How glorious to behold +The servants waiting round his throne, +The ivory and the gold. + +2 But, mighty God, thy palace shines +With far superior beams; +Thine angel-guards are swift as winds, +Thy ministers are flames. + +3 [Soon as thine only Son had made +His entrance on this earth, +A shining army downward fled +To celebrate his birth. + +4 And when oppress'd with pains and fears +On the cold ground he lies, +Behold a heavenly form appears +T' allay his agonies.] + +5 Now to the hands of Christ our King +Are all their legions given; +They wait upon his saints, and bring +His chosen heirs to heaven. + +6 Pleasure and praise run thro' their host +To see a sinner turn; +Then Satan has a captive lost, +And Christ a subject born. + +7 But there's an hour of brighter joy, +When he his angels sends +Obstinate rebels to destroy, +And gather in his friends. + +8 O! could I say, without a doubt, +There shall my soul be found, +Then let the great archangel shout, +And the last trumpet sound. + + +Hymn 2:114. +Christ's death, victory and dominion. + +1 I sing my Saviour's wondrous death; +He conquer'd when he fell: +_'Tis finish'd_, said his dying breath, +And shook the gates of hell. + +2 _'Tis finish'd_, our Immanuel cries, +The dreadful work is done; +Hence shall his sovereign throne arise, +His kingdom is begun. + +3 His cross a sure foundation laid +For glory and renown, +When thro' the regions of the dead +He pass'd to reach the crown. + +4 Exalted at his Father's side +Sits our victorious Lord; +To heaven and hell his hands divide +The vengeance or reward. + +5 The saints from his propitious eye +Await their several crowns, +And all the sons of darkness fly +The terror of his frowns. + + +Hymn 2:115. +God the avenger of his saints; or, His kingdom. + +1 High as the heavens above the ground +Reigns the Creator God; +Wide as the whole creation's bound +Extends his awful rod. + +2 Let princes of exalted state +To him ascribe their crown, +Render their homage at his feet, +And cast their glories down. + +3 Know that his kingdom is supreme, +Your lofty thoughts are vain; +He calls you gods, that awful name, +But ye must die like men. + +4 Then let the sovereigns of the globe +Not dare to vex the just; +He puts on vengeance like a robe, +And treads the worms to dust. + +5 Ye judges of the earth, be wise, +And think on heaven with fear; +The meanest saint that you despise +Has an avenger there. + + +Hymn 2:116. +Mercies and thanks. + +1 How can I sink with such a prop +As my eternal God, +Who bears the earth's huge pillars up, +And spreads the heavens abroad? + +2 How can I die while Jesus lives, +Who rose and left the dead? +Pardon and grace my soul receives +From mine exalted head. + +3 All that I am, and all I have +Shall be for ever thine, +Whate'er my duty bids me give +My cheerful hands resign. + +4 Yet if I might make some reserve, +And duty did not call, +I love my God with zeal so great +That I should give him all. + + +Hymn 2:117. +Living and dying with God present. + +1 I cannot bear thine absence, Lord, +My life expires if thou depart; +Be thou, my heart, still near my God, +And thou, my God, be near my heart. + +2 I was not born for earth and sin, +Nor can I live on things so vile; +Yet I would stay my Father's time, +And hope and wait for heaven a while. + +3 Then, dearest Lord, in thine embrace +Let me resign my fleeting breath, +And with a smile upon my face +Pass the important hour of death. + + +Hymn 2:118. +The priesthood of Christ. + +1 Blood has a voice to pierce the skies +_Revenge_, the blood of Abel cries; +But the dear stream when Christ was slain +Speaks _Peace_ as loud from ev'ry vein. + +2 Pardon and peace from God on high, +Behold he lays his vengeance by, +And rebels that deserv'd his sword, +Become the favourites of the Lord. + +3 To Jesus let our praises rise, +Who gave his life a sacrifice; +Now he appears before his God, +And for our pardon pleads his blood. + + +Hymn 2:119. +The holy scriptures. + +1 Laden with guilt, and full of fears, +I fly to thee, my Lord, +And not a glimpse of hope appears, +But in thy written word. + +2 The volume of my Father's grace +Does all my griefs assuage: +Here I behold my Saviour's face +Almost in every page. + +3 [This is the field where hidden lies +The pearl of price unknown, +That merchant is divinely wise +Who makes the pearl his own.] + +4 [Here consecrated water flows +To quench my thirst of sin; +Here the fair tree of knowledge grows, +Nor danger dwells therein.] + +5 This is the Judge that ends the strife, +Where wit and reason fail; +My guide to everlasting life, +Thro' all this gloomy vale. + + +6 O may thy counsels, mighty God, +My roving feet command; +Nor I forsake the happy road +That leads to thy right-hand. + + +Hymn 2:120. +The law and gospel joined in scripture. + +1 The Lord declares his will, +And keeps the world in awe; +Amidst the smoke on Sinai's hill +Breaks out his fiery law. + +2 The Lord reveals his face, +And smiling from above, +Sends down the gospel of his grace, +Th' epistles of his love. + +3 These sacred words impart +Our Maker's just commands; +The pity of his melting heart, +And vengeance of his hands. + +4 [Hence we awake our fear, +We draw our comfort hence; +The arms of grace are treasur'd here, +And armour of defence. + +5 We learn Christ crucify'd, +And here behold his blood: +All arts and knowledges beside +Will do us little good.] + +6 We read the heavenly word, +We take the offer'd grace, +Obey the statutes of the Lord, +And trust his promises. + +7 In vain shall Satan rage +Against a book divine; +Where wrath and lightning guard the page, +Where beams of mercy shine. + + +Hymn 2:121. +The law and gospel distinguished. + +1 The law commands, and makes us know +What duties to our God we owe; +But 'tis the gospel must reveal +Where lies our strength to do his will. + +2 The law discovers guilt and sin, +And shews how vile our hearts have been; +Only the gospel can express +Forgiving love and cleansing grace. + +3 What curses doth the law denounce +Against the man that fails but once! +But in the gospel Christ appears +Pardoning the guilt of numerous years. + +4 My soul, no more attempt to draw +Thy life and comfort from the law, +Fly to the hope the gospel gives; +The man that trusts the promise lives. + + +Hymn 2:122. +Retirement and meditation. + +1 My God, permit me not to be +A stranger to myself and thee; +Amidst a thousand thoughts I rove +Forgetful of my highest love. + +2 Why should my passions mix with earth, +And thus debase my heavenly birth? +Why should I cleave to things below, +And let my God, my Saviour go? + +3 Call me away from flesh and sense, +One sovereign word can draw me thence; +I would obey the voice divine, +And all inferior joys resign. + +4 Be earth with all her scenes withdrawn, +Let noise and vanity be gone; +In secret silence of the mind, +My heaven, and there my God I find. + + +Hymn 2:123. +The benefit of public ordinances. + +1 Away from every mortal care, +Away from earth our souls retreat; +We leave this worthless world afar, +And wait and worship near thy seat. + +2 Lord, in the temple of thy grace +We see thy feet, and we adore; +We gaze upon thy lovely face, +And learn the wonders of thy power. + +3 While here our various wants we mourn, +United groans ascend on high, +And prayer bears a quick return +Of blessings in variety. + +4 [If Satan rage and sin grow strong, +Here we receive some cheering word; +We gird the gospel armour on +To fight the battles of the Lord. + +5 Or if our spirit faints and dies, +(Our conscience gall'd with inward stings) +Here doth the righteous sun arise +With healing beams beneath his wings.] + +6 Father, my soul would still abide +Within thy temple, near thy side; +But if my feet must hence depart +Still keep thy dwelling in my heart. + + +Hymn 2:124. +Moses, Aaron, and Joshua. + +1 'Tis not the law of ten commands +On holy Sinai given, +Or sent to men by Moses' hands, +Can bring us safe to heaven. + +2 'Tis not the blood which Aaron spilt, +Nor smoke of sweetest smell, +Can buy a pardon for our guilt, +Or save our souls from hell. + +3 Aaron the priest resigns his breath +At God's immediate will; +And in the desert yields to death +Upon th' appointed hill. + +4 And thus on Jordan's yonder side +The tribes of Israel stand, +While Moses bow'd his head and dy'd +Short of the promis'd land. + +5 Israel rejoice, now Joshua * leads, +He'll bring your tribes to rest; +So far the Saviour's name exceeds +The ruler and the priest. + +* Joshua, the same with Jesus, +and signifies a Saviour. + + +Hymn 2:125. +Faith and repentance; unbelief and impenitence. + +1 Life and immortal joys are given +To those that mourn the sins they've done, +Children of wrath made heirs of heaven +By faith in God's eternal Son. + +2 Woe to the wretch that never felt +The inward pangs of pious grief, +But adds to all his crying guilt +The stubborn sin of unbelief. + +3 The law condemns the rebel dead, +Under the wrath of God he lies, +He seals the curse on his own head, +And with a double vengeance dies. + + +Hymn 2:126. +God glorified in the gospel. + +1 The Lord, descending from above, +Invites his children near, +While power and truth and boundless love +Display their glories here. + +2 Here in thy gospel's wondrous frame +Fresh wisdom we pursue; +A thousand angels learn thy Name +Beyond whate'er they knew. + +3 Thy Name is writ in fairest lines, +Thy wonders here we trace; +Wisdom thro' all the mystery shines, +And shines in Jesu's face. + +4 The law its best obedience owes +To our incarnate God; +And thy revenging justice shows +Its honours in his blood. + +6 But still the lustre of thy grace +Our warmer thoughts employs, +Gilds the whole scene with brighter rays, +And more exalts our joys. + + +Hymn 2:127. +Circumcision and baptism. +(Written only for those +who practise infant baptism.) + +1 Thus did the sons of Abrah'm pass +Under the bloody seal of grace; +The young disciples bore the yoke, +Till Christ the painful bondage broke. + +2 By milder ways doth Jesus prove +His Father's covenant, and his love; +He seals to saints his glorious grace, +And not forbids their infant race. + +3 Their seed is sprinkled with his blood, +Their children set apart for God, +His Spirit on their offspring shed, +Like water pour'd upon the head. + +4 Let every saint with cheerful voice +In this large covenant rejoice; +Young children in their early days +Shall give the God of Abrah'm praise. + + +Hymn 2:128. +Corrupt nature from Adam. + +1 Bless'd with the joy of innocence +Adam, our father, stood, +Till he debas'd his soul to sense, +And ate th' unlawful food. + +2 Now we are born a sensual race, +To sinful joys inclin'd; +Reason has lost its native place, +And flesh enslaves the mind. + +3 While flesh and sense and passion reigns, +Sin is the sweetest good: +We fancy music in our chains, +And so forget the load. + +4 Great God, renew our ruin'd frame, +Our broken powers restore, +Inspire us with a heavenly flame, +And flesh shall reign no more. + +5 Eternal Spirit, write thy law +Upon our inward parts, +And let the second Adam draw +His image on our hearts. + + +Hymn 2:129. +We walk by faith, not by sight. + +1 'Tis by the faith of joys to come +We walk thro' deserts dark as night; +Till we arrive at heaven our home, +Faith is our guide, and faith our light. + +2 The want of sight she well supplies, +She makes the pearly gates appear; +Far into distant worlds she pries, +And brings eternal glories near. + +3 Cheerful we tread the desert thro', +While faith inspires a heavenly ray, +Tho' lions roar, and tempests blow, +And rocks and dangers fill the way. + +4 So Abrah'm, by divine command, +Left his own house to walk with God; +His faith beheld the promis'd land, +And fir'd his zeal along the road. + + +Hymn 2:130. +The new creation. + +1 Attend while God's exalted Son +Doth his own glories shew; +"Behold I sit upon my throne +Creating all things new. + +2 "Nature and sin are pass'd away, +And the old Adam dies; +"My hands a new foundation lay, +"See the new world arise. + +3 "I'll be a sun of righteousness +"To the new-heavens I make; +"None but the new-born heirs of grace +"My glories shall partake." + +4 Mighty Redeemer, set me free +From my old state of sin; +O make my soul alive to thee, +Create new powers within. + +5 Renew mine eyes, and form mine ears, +And mould my heart afresh; +Give me new passions, joys and fears, +And turn the stone to flesh. + +6 Far from the regions of the dead, +From sin, and earth, and hell, +In the new-world that grace has made +I would for ever dwell. + + +Hymn 2:131. +The excellency of the Christian religion. + +1 Let everlasting glories crown +Thy head, my Saviour and my Lord; +Thy hands have brought salvation down, +And writ the blessings in thy word. + +2 [What if we trace the globe around, +And search from Britain to Japan, +There shall be no religion found +So just to God, so safe for man.] + +3 In vain the trembling conscience seeks +Some solid ground to rest upon; +With long despair the spirit breaks, +Till we apply to Christ alone. + +4 How well thy blessed truths agree! +How wise and holy thy commands! +Thy promises how firm they be! +How firm our hope and comfort stands! + +5 [Not the feign'd fields of heathenish bliss +Could raise such pleasures in the mind; +Nor does the Turkish paradise +Pretend to joys so well refin'd.] + +6 Should all the forms that men devise +Assault my faith with treacherous art, +I'd call them vanity and lies +And bind the gospel to my heart. + + +Hymn 2:132. +The offices of Christ. + +1 We bless the Prophet of the Lord, +That comes with truth and grace; +Jesus, thy Spirit and thy word +Shall lead us in thy ways. + +2 We reverence our High Priest above, +Who offer'd up his blood, +And lives to carry on his love, +By pleading with our God. + +3 We honour our exalted King, +How sweet are his commands! +He guards our souls from hell and sin +By his almighty hands. + +4 Hosanna to his glorious Name, +Who saves by different ways; +His mercies lay a sovereign claim +To our immortal praise. + + +Hymn 2:133. +The operations of the Holy Spirit. + +1 Eternal Spirit! we confess +And sing the wonders of thy grace; +Thy power conveys our blessings down +From God the Father and the Son. + +2 Enlighten'd by thine heavenly ray +Our shades and darkness turn to day; +Thine inward teachings make us know +Our danger and our refuge too. + +3 Thy power and glory works within, +And breaks the chains of reigning sin, +Doth our imperious lusts subdue, +And forms our wretched hearts anew. + +4 The troubled conscience knows thy voice, +Thy cheering words awake our joys; +Thy words allay the stormy wind, +And calm the surges of the mind. + + +Hymn 2:134. +Circumcision abolished. + +1 The promise was divinely free, +Extensive was the grace; +"I will the God of Abrah'm be, +"And of his numerous race." + +2 He said; and with a bloody seal +Confirm'd the words he spoke; +Long did the Sons of Abrah'm feel +The sharp and painful yoke. + +3 Till God's own Son, descending low, +Gave his own flesh to bleed; +And Gentiles taste the blessing now, +From the hard bondage freed. + +4 The God of Abrah'm claims our praise, +His promises endure; +And Christ the Lord in gentler ways +Makes the salvation sure. + + +Hymn 2:135. +Types and prophecies of Christ. + +1 Behold the woman's promis'd seed! +Behold the great Messiah come! +Behold the prophets all agreed +To give him the superior room! + +2 Abrah'm the saint rejoic'd of old +When visions of the Lord he saw; +Moses the man of God foretold +This great fulfiller of his law. + +3 The types bore witness to his Name, +Obtain'd their chief design, and ceas'd; +The incense and the bleeding lamb, +The ark, the altar, and the priest. + +4 Predictions in abundance meet +To join their blessings on his head; +Jesus, we worship at thy feet, +And nations own the promis'd seed. + + +Hymn 2:136. +Miracles at the birth of Christ. + +1 The King of Glory sends his Son +To make his entrance on this earth! +Behold the midnight bright as noon, +And heavenly hosts declare his birth! + +2 About the young Redeemer's head +What wonders and what glories meet! +An unknown star arose, and led +The eastern sages to his feet. + +3 Simeon and Anna both conspire +The Infant-Saviour to proclaim; +Inward they felt the sacred fire, +And bless'd the babe, and own'd his Name. + +4 Let Jews and Greeks blaspheme aloud, +And treat the holy Child with scorn; +Our souls adore th' eternal God +Who condescended to be born. + + +Hymn 2:137. +Miracles in the life, death, +and resurrection of Christ. + +1 Behold the blind their sight receive; +Behold the dead awake and live; +The dumb speak wonders, and the lame +Leap like the hart, and bless his Name. + +2 Thus doth th' eternal Spirit own +And seal the mission of the Son; +The Father vindicates his cause, +While he hangs bleeding on the cross. + +3 He dies; the heavens in mourning stood; +He rises, and appears a God; +Behold the Lord ascending high, +No more to bleed, no more to die. + +4 Hence and for ever from my heart +I bid my doubts and fears depart; +And to those hands my soul resign +Which bear credentials so divine. + + +Hymn 2:138. +The power of the gospel. + +1 This is the word of truth and love, +Sent to the nations from above; +Jehovah here resolves to shew +What his almighty grace can do. + +2 This remedy did wisdom find +To heal diseases of the mind: +This sovereign balm, whose virtues can +Restore the ruin'd creature, man. + +3 The gospel bids the dead revive, +Sinners obey the voice, and live; +Dry bones are rais'd and cloth'd afresh, +And hearts of stone are turn'd to flesh. + +4 [Where Satan reign'd in shades of night +The gospel strikes a heavenly light; +Our lusts its wondrous power controls, +And calms the rage of angry souls.] + +5 [Lions and beasts of savage name +Put on the nature of the lamb; +Whilst the wild world esteems it strange +Gaze, and admire, and hate the change.] + +6 May but this grace my soul renew, +Let sinners gaze and hate me too; +The word that saves me does engage +A sure defence from all their rage. + + +Hymn 2:139. +The example of Christ. + +1 My dear Redeemer and my Lord, +I read my duty in thy word; +But in thy life the law appears +Drawn out in living characters. + +2 Such was thy truth, and such thy zeal, +Such deference to thy Father's will, +Such love, and meekness so divine, +I would transcribe, and make them mine. + +3 Cold mountains and the midnight air +Witness'd the fervor of thy prayer: +The desert thy temptations knew, +Thy conflict and thy victory too. + +4 Be thou my pattern; make me bear +More of thy gracious image here; +Then God the Judge shall own my name, +Amongst the followers of the Lamb. + + +Hymn 2:140. +The example: of Christ and the saints. + +1 Give me the wings of faith to rise +Within the veil, and see +The saints above, how great their joys, +How bright their glories be. + +2 Once they were mourning here below, +And wet their couch with tears; +They wrestled hard, as we do now, +With sins, and doubts, and fears. + +3 I ask them whence their victory came, +They, with united breath, +Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb, +Their triumph to his death. + +4 They mark'd the footsteps that he trod, +(His zeal inspir'd their breast;) +And following their incarnate God +Possess the promis'd rest. + +5 Our glorious Leader claims our praise +For his own pattern given, +While the long cloud of witnesses +Shew the same path to heaven. + + +Hymn 2:141. +Faith assisted by sense; or, Preaching, +baptism, and the Lord's Supper. + +1 My Saviour-God, my Sovereign-Prince +Reigns far above the skies; +But brings his graces down to sense, +And helps my faith to rise. + +2 My eyes and ears shall bless his Name, +They read and hear his word; +My touch and taste shall do the same +When they receive the Lord. + +3 Baptismal water is design'd +To seal his cleansing grace; +While at his feast of bread and wine +He gives his saints a place. + +4 But not the waters of a flood +Can make my flesh so clean, +As by his Spirit and his blood +He'll wash my soul from sin. + +5 Not choicest meats or noblest wines, +So much my heart refresh, +As when my faith goes thro' the signs, +And feeds upon his flesh. + +6 I love the Lord, that stoops so low +To give his word a seal; +But the rich grace his hands bestow +Exceeds the figures still. + + +Hymn 2:142. +Faith in Christ our sacrifice. + +1 Not all the blood of beasts +On Jewish altars slain +Could give the guilty conscience peace, +Or wash away the stain. + +2 But Christ the heavenly Lamb +Takes all our sins away; +A sacrifice of nobler name +And richer blood than they. + +3 My faith would lay her hand +On that dear head of thine, +While like a penitent I stand +And there confess my sin. + +4 My soul looks back to see +The burdens thou didst bear +When hanging on the cursed tree, +And hopes her guilt was there. + +5 Believing we rejoice +To see the curse remove; +We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice, +And sing his bleeding love. + + +Hymn 2:143. +Flesh and spirit. + +1 What different powers of grace and sin +Attend our mortal state! +I hate the thoughts that work within, +And do the works I hate. + +2 Now I complain, and groan, and die, +While sin and Satan reign: +Now raise my songs of triumph high, +For grace prevails again. + +3 So darkness struggles with the light +Till perfect day arise; +Water and fire maintain the fight +Until the weaker dies. + +4 Thus will the flesh and spirit strive, +And vex and break my peace; +But I shall quit this mortal life, +And sin for ever cease. + + +Hymn 2:144. +The effusion of the Spirit; or, +The success of the gospel. + +1 Great 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. + +2 What gifts, what miracles he gave! +And power to kill, 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 +From east to west, from south to north; +"Go, and assert your Saviour's cause, +"Go, spread the mystery of his cross." + +4 These weapons of the holy war, +Of what almighty force they are +To make our stubborn passions bow, +And lay the proudest rebel low! + +5 Nations, the learned and the rude, +Are by these 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 too, +A willing captive to my Lord, +And sing the victories of his word. + + +Hymn 2:145. +Sight through a glass, and face to face. + +1 I love the windows of thy grace +Thro' which my Lord is seen, +And long to meet my Saviour's face +Without a glass between. + +2 O, that the happy hour were come +To change my faith to sight! +I shall behold my Lord at home +In a diviner light. + +3 Haste, my beloved, and remove +These interposing days: +Then shall my passions all be love, +And all my powers be praise. + + +Hymn 2:146. +The vanity of creatures; +or, No rest on earth. + +1 Man has a soul of vast desires, +He burns within with restless fires; +Tost to and fro, his passions fly +From vanity to vanity. + +2 In vain on earth we hope to find +Some solid good to fill the mind, +We try new pleasures, but we feel +The inward thirst and torment still. + +3 So when a raging fever burns +We shift from side to side by turns, +And 'tis a poor relief we gain +To change the place, but keep the pain. + +4 Great God, subdue this vicious thirst, +This love to vanity and dust; +Cure the vile fever of the mind, +And feed our souls with joys refin'd. + + +Hymn 2:147. +The creation of the world, Gen. 1. + +1 "Now let a spacious world arise," +Said the Creator-Lord: +At once the obedient earth and skies +Rose at his sovereign word. + +2 [Dark was the deep; the waters lay +Confus'd and drown'd the land: +He call'd the light; the new-born day +Attends on his command. + +3 He bids the clouds ascend on high; +The clouds ascend and bear +A watery treasure to the sky, +And float on softer air. + +4 The liquid element below +Was gather'd by his hand; +The rolling seas together flow, +And leave the solid land. + +5 With herbs and plants, a flowery birth, +The naked globe he crown'd, +Ere there was rain to bless the earth, +Or sun to warm the ground. + +6 Then he adorn'd the upper skies; +Behold the sun appears, +The moon and stars in order rise +To make our months and years, + +7 Out of the deep th' almighty King +Did vital beings frame; +The painted fowls of every wing, +And fish of every name.] + +8 He gave the lion and the worm +At once their wondrous birth; +And grazing beasts of various form, +Rose from the teeming earth. + +9 Adam was fram'd of equal clay, +Tho' sovereign of the rest, +Design'd for nobler ends than they, +With God's own image bless'd. + +10 Thus glorious in the Maker's eye +The young creation stood; +He saw the building from on high, +His word pronounc'd it good. + +11 Lord, while the frame of nature stands, +Thy praise shall fill my tongue; +But the new world of grace demands +A more exalted song. + + +Hymn 2:148. +God reconciled in Christ. + +1 Dearest of all the names above +My Jesus, and my God, +Who can resist thy heavenly love, +Or trifle with thy blood? + +2 'Tis by the merits of thy death +The Father smiles again; +'Tis by thine interceding breath +The Spirit dwells with men. + +3 Till God in human flesh I see, +My thoughts no comfort find; +The holy, just, and sacred Three +Are terrors to my mind. + +4 But if Immanuel's face appear, +My hope, my joy, begins; +His Name forbids my slavish fear, +His grace removes my sins. + +5 While Jews on their own law rely, +And Greeks of wisdom boast, +I love th' incarnate mystery, +And there I fix my trust. + + +Hymn 2:149. +Honour to Magistrates; or, +Government from God. + +1 Eternal Sovereign of the sky, +And Lord of all below, +We mortals to thy majesty +Our first obedience owe. + +2 Our souls adore thy throne supreme, +And bless thy providence +For magistrates of meaner name, +Our glory and defence. + +3 [The crowns of British princes shine +With rays above the rest, +Where laws and liberties combine +To make the nation bless'd.] + +4 Kingdoms on firm foundations stand, +While virtue finds reward; +And sinners perish from the land +By justice and the sword. + +5 Let Cesar's due be ever paid +To Cesar and his throne; +But consciences and souls were made +To be the Lord's alone. + + +Hymn 2:150. +The deceitfulness of sin. + +1 Sin has a thousand treacherous arts +To practise on the mind; +With flattering 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, +She makes his fetters strong. + +3 She pleads for all the joys she brings, +And gives a fair pretence; +But cheats the soul of heavenly things, +And chains it down to sense. + +4 So on a tree divinely fair +Grew the forbidden food; +Our mother took the poison there, +And tainted all her blood. + + +Hymn 2:151. +Prophesy and inspiration. + +1 'Twas by an order from the Lord +The ancient prophets spoke his word; +His Spirit did their tongues inspire, +And warm'd their hearts with heavenly fire. + +2 The works and wonders which they wrought +Confirm'd the messages they brought; +The prophet's pen succeeds his breath +To save the holy words from death. + +3 Great God, mine eyes with pleasure look +On the dear volume of thy book; +There my Redeemer's face I see, +And read his name who dy'd for me. + +4 Let the false raptures of the mind +Be lost and vanish in the wind; +Here I can fix my hopes secure, +This is thy word, and must endure. + + +Hymn 2:152. +Sinai and Sion, Heb. 12. 18 &c. + +1 Not to the terrors of the Lord, +The tempest, fire, and smoke, +Not to the thunder of that word +Which God on Sinai spoke; + +2 But we are come to Sion's hill, +The city of our God, +Where milder words declare his will +And spread his love abroad. + +3 Behold th' innumerable host +Of angels cloth'd in light! +Behold the spirits of the just +Whose faith is turn'd to sight! + +4 Behold the bless'd assembly there, +Whose names are writ in heaven; +And God the judge of all declares +Their vilest sins forgiven. + +5 The saints on earth and all the dead +But one communion make; +All join in Christ their living head, +And of his grace partake. + +6 In such society as this +My weary soul would rest: +The man that dwells where Jesus is, +Must be for ever blest. + + +Hymn 2:153. +The distemper, folly, and madness of sin. + +1 Sin like a venomous disease +Infects our vital blood; +The only balm is sovereign grace, +And the physician, God. + +2 Our beauty and our strength are fled, +And we draw near to death; +But Christ the Lord recalls the dead +With his almighty breath. + +3 Madness by nature reigns within, +The passions burn and rage; +Till God's own Son with skill divine +The inward fire assuage. + +4 [We lick the dust, we grasp the wind, +And solid good despise; +Such is the folly of the mind, +Till Jesus makes us wise. + +5 We give our souls the wounds they feel, +We drink the poisonous gall, +And rush with fury down to hell; +But heaven prevents the fall.] + +6 [The man possess'd amongst the tombs, +Cuts his own flesh and cries; +He foams, and raves, till Jesus comes, +And the foul spirit flies.] + + +Hymn 2:154. +Self-righteousness insufficient. + +1 "Where are the mourners, [1] (saith the Lord) +"That wait and tremble at my word, +"That walk in darkness all the day? +"Come, make my name your trust and stay. + +2 ["No works nor duties of your own +"Can for the smallest sin atone; +"The robes [2] that nature may provide +"Will not your least pollutions hide. + +3 "The softest couch that nature knows +"Can give the conscience no repose: +"Look to my righteousness, and live; +"Comfort and peace are mine to give.] + +4 "Ye sons of pride that kindle coals +"With your own hands to warm your souls, +"Walk in the light of your own fire, +"Enjoy the sparks that ye desire. + +5 "This is your portion at my hands; +"Hell waits you with her iron bands, +"Ye shall lie down in sorrow there, +"In death, in darkness, and despair." + +[1] Isaiah 1:10-11. [2] Isaiah 28:20. + + +Hymn 2:155. +Christ our passover. + +1 Lo the destroying angel flies +To Pharaoh's stubborn land: +The pride and flower of Egypt dies +By his vindictive hand. + +2 He pass'd the tents of Jacob o'er, +Nor pour'd the wrath divine; +He saw the blood on every door, +And bless'd the peaceful sign. + +3 Thus th' appointed Lamb must bleed +To break th' Egyptian yoke; +Thus Israel is from bondage freed, +And 'scapes the angel's stroke. + +4 Lord, if my heart were sprinkled too +With blood so rich as thine, +Justice no longer would pursue +This guilty soul of mine. + +5 Jesus our passover was slain, +And has at once procur'd +Freedom from Satan's heavy chain, +And God's avenging sword. + + +Hymn 2:156. +Presumption and despair; +or, Satan's various temptations. + +1 I hate the tempter and his charms, +I hate his flattering breath; +The serpent takes a thousand forms +To cheat our souls to death. + +2 He feeds our hopes with airy dreams, +Or kills with slavish fear; +And holds us still in wide extremes, +Presumption, or despair. + +3 Now he persuades, "How easy 'tis +"To walk the road to heaven;" +Anon he swells our sins, and cries, +"They cannot be forgiven." + +4 [He bids young sinners, "Yet forbear +"To think of God or death; +"For prayer and devotion are +"But melancholy breath." + +5 He tells the aged, "They must die, +"And 'tis too late to pray; +"In vain for mercy now they cry, +"For they have lost their day."] + +6 Thus he supports his cruel throne +By mischief and deceit; +And drags the sons of Adam down +To darkness and the pit. + +7 Almighty God, cut short his power, +Let him in darkness dwell; +And, that he vex the earth no more, +Confine him down to hell. + + +Hymn 2:157. +The same. + +1 Now Satan comes with dreadful roar, +And threatens to destroy; +He worries whom he can't devour +With a malicious joy. + +2 Ye sons of God, oppose his rage, +Resist, and he'll be gone; +Thus did our dearest Lord engage +And vanquish him alone. + +3 Now he appears almost divine +Like innocence and love, +But the old serpent lurks within +When he assumes the dove. + +4 Fly from the false deceiver's tongue, +Ye Sons of Adam, fly; +Our parents found the snare too strong, +Nor should the children try. + + +Hymn 2:158. +Few saved; or, The almost Christian, +the hypocrite, and apostate. + +1 Broad is the road that leads to death, +And thousands walk together there; +But wisdom shews a narrower path, +With here and there a traveller. + +2 "Deny thyself, and take thy cross," +Is the Redeemer's great command; +Nature must count her gold but dross +If she would gain this heavenly land. + +3 The fearful soul that tires and faints, +And walks the ways of God no more, +Is but esteem'd almost a saint, +And makes his own destruction sure. + +4 Lord, let not all my hopes be vain; +Create my heart entirely new, +Which hypocrites could ne'er attain, +Which false apostates never knew. + + +Hymn 2:159. +An unconverted state; +or, Converting grace. + +1 [Great King of Glory and of grace, +We own with humble shame, +How vile is our degenerate race, +And our first father's name.] + +2 From Adam flows our tainted blood, +The poison reigns within, +Makes us averse to all that's good, +And willing slaves to sin. + +3 [Daily we break thy holy laws, +And then reject thy grace; +Engag'd in the old serpent's cause +Against our Maker's face.] + +4 We live estrang'd afar from God, +And love the distance well; +With haste we run the dangerous road +That leads to death and hell. + +5 And can such rebels be restor'd? +Such natures made divine? +Let sinners see thy glory, Lord, +And feel this power of thine. + +6 We raise our Father's name on high, +Who his own Spirit sends +To bring rebellious strangers nigh, +And turn his foes to friends. + + +Hymn 2:160. +Custom in sin. + +1 Let the wild leopards of the wood +Put off the spots that nature gives, +Then may the wicked turn to God, +And change their tempers and their lives. + +2 As well might Ethiopian slaves +Wash out the darkness of their skin; +The dead as well might leave their graves, +As old transgressors cease to sin. + +3 Where vice has held its empire long +'Twill not endure the least control; +None but a power divinely strong +Can turn the current of the soul. + +4 Great God, I own thy power divine, +That works to change this heart of mine; +I would be form'd anew, and bless +The wonders of creating grace. + + +Hymn 2:161. +Christian virtues; or, The +difficulty of conversion. + +1 Strait is the way, the door is strait +That leads to joys on high; +'Tis but a few that find the gate, +While crowds mistake and die. + +2 Beloved self must be deny'd, +The mind and will renew'd: +Passion suppress'd, and patience try'd, +And vain desires subdu'd. + +3 [Flesh is a dangerous foe to grace, +Where it prevails and rules; +Flesh must be humbled, pride abas'd, +Lest they destroy our souls. + +4 The love of gold be banish'd hence, +(That vile idolatry); +And every member, every sense +In sweet subjection lie.] + +5 The tongue, that most unruly power, +Requires a strong restraint; +We must be watchful every hour, +And pray, but never faint. + +6 Lord, can a feeble helpless worm +Fulfil a task so hard? +Thy grace must all my work perform, +And give the free reward. + + +Hymn 2:162 +Meditation of heaven; +or, The joy of faith. + +1 My thoughts surmount these lower skies +And look within the veil; +There springs of endless pleasure rise, +The waters never fail. + +2 There I behold with sweet delight +The blessed Three in One; +And strong affections fix my sight +On God's incarnate Son. + +3 His promise stands for ever firm, +His grace shall ne'er depart; +He binds my name upon his arm, +And seals it on his heart. + +4 Light are the pains that' nature brings, +How short our sorrows are, +When with eternal future things, +The present we compare! + +5 I would not be a stranger still +To that celestial place, +Where I for ever hope to dwell +Near my Redeemer's face. + + +Hymn 2:163. +Complaint of desertion and temptations. + +1 Dear Lord, behold our sore distress; +Our sins attempt to reign; +Stretch out thine arm of conquering grace, +And let thy foes be slain. + +2 [The lion with his dreadful roar +Affrights thy feeble sheep; +Reveal the glory of thy power, +And chain him to the deep. + +3 Must we indulge a long despair, +Shall our petitions die; +Our mournings never reach thine ear, +Nor tears affect thine eye?] + +4 If thou despise a mortal groan, +Yet hear a Saviour's blood; +An Advocate so near the throne +Pleads and prevails with God. + +5 He bought the Spirit's powerful sword +To slay our deadly foes; +Our sins shall die beneath thy word, +And hell in vain oppose. + +6 How boundless is our Father's grace, +In height and depth, and length! +He makes his Son our righteousness, +His Spirit is our strength. + + +Hymn 2:164. +The end of the world. + +1 Why should this earth delight us so? +Why should we fix our eyes +On these low grounds where sorrows grow, +And every pleasure dies? + +2 While time his sharpest teeth prepares +Our comforts to devour, +There is a land above the stars, +And joys above his power. + +3 Nature shall be dissolv'd and die, +The sun must end his race, +The earth and sea for ever fly +Before my Saviour's face. + +4 When will that glorious morning rise! +When the last trumpet sound, +And call the nations to the skies +From underneath the ground? + + +Hymn 2:165. +Unfruitfulness, ignorance, +and unsanctified affections. + +1 Long have I sat beneath the sound +Of thy salvation, Lord +But still how weak my faith is found, +And knowledge of thy word! + +2 Oft I frequent thy holy place +And hear almost in vain; +How small a portion of thy grace +My memory can retain! + +3 [My dear Almighty, and my God, +How little art thou known +By all the judgments of thy rod, +And blessings of thy throne!] + +4 [How cold and feeble is my love! +How negligent my fear! +How low my hope of joys above! +How few affections there!] + +5 Great God, thy sovereign power impart +To give thy word success: +Write the salvation in my heart, +And make me learn the grace. + +6 [Shew my forgetful feet the way +That leads to joys on high; +There knowledge grows without decay, +And love shall never die.] + + +Hymn 2:166. +The divine perfections. + +1 How shall I praise th' eternal God, +That infinite unknown? +Who can ascend his high abode, +Or venture near his throne? + +2 [The great Invisible! he dwells +Conceal'd in dazzling light; +But his all-searching eye reveals +The secrets of the night. + +3 Those watchful eyes that never sleep +Survey the world around; +His wisdom is a boundless deep +Where all our thoughts are drown'd.] + +4 [Speak we of strength? His arm is strong +To save or to destroy: +Infinite years his life prolong, +And endless is his joy.] + +5 [He knows no shadow of a change, +Nor alters his decrees; +Firm as a rock his truth remains +To guard his promises.] + +6 [Sinners before his presence die; +How holy is his Name! +His anger and his jealousy +Burn like devouring flame.] + +7 Justice upon a dreadful throne +Maintains the rights of God; +While Mercy sends her pardons down, +Bought with a Saviour's blood. + +8 Now to my soul, immortal King, +Speak some forgiving word; +Then 't will be double joy to sing +The glories of my Lord. + + +Hymn 2:167. +The divine perfections. + +1 Great God, thy glories shall employ +My holy fear, my humble joy; +My lips in songs of honour bring +Their tribute to th' eternal King. + +[2 Earth and the stars and worlds unknown, +Depend precarious on his throne, +All nature hangs upon his word, +And grace and glory own their Lord.] + +3 [His sovereign power what mortal knows? +If he command who dares oppose? +With strength he girds himself around, +And treads the rebels to the ground.] + +4 [Who shall pretend to teach him skill? +Or guide the counsels of his will? +His wisdom like a sea divine, +Flows deep and high beyond our line.] + +5 [His Name is holy, and his eye +Burns with immortal jealousy; +He hates the sons of pride, and sheds +His fiery vengeance on their heads.] + +6 [The beamings of his piercing sight +Bring dark hypocrisy to light; +Death and destruction naked lie, +And hell uncover'd to his eye.] + +7 [Th' eternal law before him stands; +His justice with impartial hands +Divides to all their due reward, +Or by the sceptre or the sword.] + +8 [His mercy like a boundless sea +Washes our loads of guilt away, +While his own Son came down and dy'd, +T' engage his justice on our side.] + +9 [Each of his words demands my faith, +My soul can rest on all he saith; +His truth inviolably keeps +The largest promise of his lips.] + +10 O tell me with a gentle voice, +"Thou art my God," and I'll rejoice! +Fill'd with thy love, I dare proclaim +The brightest honours of thy Name. + + +Hymn 2:168. +The same. + +1 Jehovah reigns, his throne is high, +His robes are light and majesty; +His glory shines with beams so bright +No mortal can sustain the sight. + +2 His terrors keep the world in awe, +His justice guards his holy law; +His love reveals a smiling face, +His truth and promise seal the grace. + +3 Thro' all his works his wisdom shines, +And baffles Satan's deep designs; +His power is sovereign to fulfil +The noblest counsels of his will. + +4 And will this glorious Lord descend +To be my father and my friend? +Then let my songs with angels join; +Heaven is secure if God be mine. + + +Hymn 2:169. As the 148th Psalm. +The same. + +1 The Lord Jehovah reigns +His throne is built on high; +The garments he assumes +Are light and majesty; +His glories shine +With beams so bright +No mortal eye +Can bear the sight. + +2 The thunders of his hand +Keep the wide world in awe; +His wrath and justice stand +To guard his holy law; +And where his love +Resolves to bless, +His truth confirms +And seals the grace. + +3 Thro' all his ancient works +Surprising wisdom shines, +Confounds the powers of hell, +And breaks their curs'd designs: +Strong is his arm, +And shall fulfil +His great decrees, +His sovereign will. + +4 And can this mighty King +Of Glory condescend? +And will he write his Name, +"My Father and my Friend?" +I love his Name, +I love his word; +Join all my powers, +And praise the Lord. + + +Hymn 2:170. +God incomprehensible and sovereign. + +1 Can creatures to perfection find [1] +Th' eternal uncreated mind? +Or can the largest stretch of thought +Measure and search his nature out? + +2 'Tis high as heaven, 'tis deep as hell, +And what can mortals know or tell? +His glory spreads beyond the sky, +And all the shining worlds on high. + +3 But man, vain man, would fain be wise, +Born like a wild young colt he flies +Thro' all the follies of his mind, +And swells and snuffs the empty wind. + +4 God is a King of power unknown, +Firm are the orders of his throne; +If he resolve, who dares oppose, +Or ask him why, or what he does? + +5 He wounds the heart, and he makes whole; +He calms the tempest of the soul; +When he shuts up in long despair +Who can remove the heavy bar? + +6 He frowns, [2] and darkness veils the moon; +The fainting sun grows dim at noon; +The pillars [3] of heaven's starry roof +Tremble and start at his reproof. + +7 He gave the vaulted heaven its form, +The crooked serpent and the worm; +He breaks the billows with his breath, +And smites the Sons of pride to death. + +8 These are a portion of his ways, +But who shall dare describe his face? +Who can endure his light, or stand +To hear the thunders of his hand? + +[1] Job 11:7 &c. [2] Job 25:5. +[3] Job 26:11 &c. + + +End of the Second Book. + + + +Hymns. + +Book 3. + +Prepared for the Lord's Supper. + + +Hymn 3:1. +The Lord's Supper instituted, +1 Corinthians 11:23 &c. + +1 'Twas on that dark, that doleful night +When powers of earth and hell arose +Against the Son of God's delight, +And friends betray'd him to his foes; + +2 Before the mournful scene began +He took the bread, and bless'd, and brake: +What love thro' all his actions ran! +What wondrous words of grace he spake! +3 "This is my body broke for sin, +"Receive and eat the living food:" +Then took the cup, and bless'd the wine; +"'Tis the new covenant in my blood." + +4 [For us his flesh with nails was torn, +He bore the scourge, he felt the thorn; +And justice pour'd upon his head +Its heavy vengeance in our stead. + +5 For us his vital blood was spilt, +To buy the pardon of our guilt, +When for black crimes of biggest size +He gave his soul a sacrifice.] + +6 "Do this, (he cry'd) till time shall end, +"In memory of your dying Friend; +"Meet at my table, and record +"The love of your departed Lord." + +7 [Jesus, thy feast we celebrate, +We shew thy death, we sing thy Name, +Till thou return, and we shall eat +The marriage-supper of the Lamb.] + + +Hymn 3:2. +Communion with Christ, and with saints, +1 Cor. 10. 16 17. + +1 [Jesus invites his saints +To meet around his board; +Here pardon'd rebels sit, and hold +Communion with their Lord. + +2 For food he gives his flesh, +He bids us drink his blood, +Amazing favour! matchless grace +Of our descending God!] + +3 This holy bread and wine +Maintains our fainting breath, +By union with our living Lord, +And interest in his death. + +4 Our heavenly Father calls +Christ and his members one; +We the young children of his love, +And he the first-born Son. + +5 We are but several parts +Of the same broken bread; +One body hath its several limbs, +But Jesus is the head. + +6 Let all our powers be join'd +His glorious Name to raise; +Pleasure and love fill every mind, +And every voice be praise. + + +Hymn 3:3. +The new testament in the blood of +Christ; or, The new covenant sealed. + +1 "The promise of my Father's love +"Shall stand for ever good;" +He said, and gave his soul to death, +And seal'd the grace with blood. + +2 To this dear covenant of thy word +I set my worthless name; +I seal th' engagement to my Lord, +And make my humble claim. + +3 Thy light, and strength, and pardoning grace, +And glory shall be mine; +My life and soul, my heart and flesh, +And all my powers are thine. + +4 I call that legacy my own +Which Jesus did bequeath; +'Twas purchas'd with a dying groan, +And ratify'd in death. + +5 Sweet is the memory of his Name, +Who bless'd us in his will, +And to his testament of love +Made his own life the seal. + + +Hymn 3:4. +Christ's dying love; or, Our +pardon bought at a dear price. + +1 How condescending and how kind +Was God's eternal Son! +Our misery reach'd his heavenly mind, +And pity brought him down. + +2 [When Justice by our sins provok'd +Drew forth its dreadful sword, +He gave his soul up to the stroke, +Without a murmuring word.] + +3 [He sunk beneath our heavy woes +To raise us to his throne; +There's ne'er a gift his hand bestows +But cost his heart a groan.] + +4 This was compassion like a God, +That when the Saviour knew +The price of pardon was his blood, +His pity ne'er withdrew. + +5 Now tho' he reigns exalted high, +His love is still as great: +Well he remembers Calvary, +Nor lets his saints forget. + +6 [Here we behold his bowels roll, +As kind as when he dy'd; +And see the sorrows of his soul +Bleed thro' his wounded side.] + +7 [Here we receive repeated seals +Of Jesus' dying love: +Hard is the wretch that never feels +One soft affection move.] + +8 Here let our hearts begin to melt, +While we his death record, +And with our joy for pardon'd guilt +Mourn that we pierc'd the Lord. + + +Hymn 3:5. +Christ the bread of life, John 6. 31 35 39. + +1 Let us adore th' eternal Word, +'Tis he our souls hath fed; +Thou art our living stream, O Lord, +And thou th' immortal bread. + +2 [The manna came from lower skies, +But Jesus from above, +Where the fresh springs of pleasure rise +And rivers flow with love. + +3 The Jews the fathers dy'd at last, +Who ate that heavenly bread; +But these provisions which we taste +Can raise us from the dead.] + +4 Bless'd be the Lord that gives his flesh +To nourish dying men; +And often spreads his table fresh, +Lest we should faint again. + +5 Our souls shall draw their heavenly breath +While Jesus finds supplies; +Nor shall our graces sink to death, +For Jesus never dies. + +6 [Daily our mortal flesh decays, +But Christ our life shall come; +His unresisted power shall raise +Our bodies from the tomb.] + + +Hymn 3:6. +The memorial of our absent Lord, +John 16. 16. Luke 22. 19. John 14. 3. + +1 Jesus is gone above the skies, +Where our weak senses reach him not +And carnal objects court our eyes +To thrust our Saviour from our thought. + +2 He knows what wandering hearts we have, +Apt to forget his lovely face; +And to refresh our minds he gave +These kind memorials of his grace. + +3 The Lord of life this table spread +With his own flesh and dying blood; +We on the rich provision feed, +And taste the wine, and bless the God. + +4 Let sinful sweets be all forgot, +And earth grow less in our esteem; +Christ and his love fill every thought, +And faith and hope be fix'd on him. + +5 While he is absent from our sight +'Tis to prepare our souls a place, +That we may dwell in heavenly light, +And live for ever near his face. + +6 Our eyes look upwards to the hills +Whence our returning Lord shall come; +We wait thy chariot's awful wheels +To fetch our longing spirits home.] + + +Hymn 3:7. +Crucifixion to the world by the +cross of Christ, Gal. 6. 14. + +1 When I survey the wondrous cross +On which the Prince of Glory dy'd, +My richest gain I count but loss, +And pour contempt on all my pride. + +2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, +Save in the death of Christ my God; +All the vain things that charm me most, +I sacrifice them to his blood. + +3 See from his head, his hands, his feet, +Sorrow and love flow mingled down; +Did e'er such love and sorrow meet? +Or thorns compose so rich a crown? + +4 [His dying crimson like a robe +Spreads o'er his body on the tree; +Then am I dead to all the globe, +And all the globe is dead to me.] + +5 Were the whole realm of nature mine, +That were a present far too small; +Love so amazing, so divine, +Demands my soul, my life, my all. + + +Hymn 3:8. +The tree of life. + +1 Come let us join a joyful tune +To our exalted Lord, +Ye saints on high around his throne, +And we around his board. + +2 While once upon this lower ground +Weary and faint ye stood, +What dear refreshments here ye found +From this immortal food! + +3 The tree of life that near the throne +In heaven's high garden grows, +Laden with grace, bends gently down +Its ever-smiling boughs. + +4 [Hovering amongst the leaves there stands +The sweet celestial Dove, +And Jesus on the branches hangs +The banner of his love.] + +5 ['Tis a young heaven of strange delight +While in his shade we sit; +His fruit is pleasing to the sight, +And to the taste as sweet. + +6 New life it spreads thro' dying hearts, +And cheers the drooping mind; +Vigour and joy the juice imparts +Without a sting behind.] + +7 Now let the flaming weapon stand +And guard all Eden's trees; +There's ne'er a plant in all that land +That bears such fruits as these. + +8 Infinite grace our souls adore, +Whose wondrous hand has made +This living branch of sovereign power +To raise and heal the dead. + + +Hymn 3:9. +The Spirit, the water, and the blood, John 5. 6. + +1 [Let all our tongues be one +To praise our God on high, +Who from his bosom sent his Son +To fetch us strangers nigh. + +2 Nor let our voices cease +To sing the Saviour's Name; +Jesus th' ambassador of peace, +How cheerfully he came! + +3 It cost him cries and tears +To bring us near to God; +Great was our debt, and he appears +To make the payment good.] + +4 [My Saviour's pierced side, +Pour'd out a double flood; +By water we are purify'd +And pardon'd by the blood. + +5 Infinite was our guilt, +But he our Priest atones; +On the cold ground his life was spilt, +And offer'd with his groans.] + +6 Look up, my soul, to him +Whose death was thy desert, +And humbly view the living stream +Flow from his breaking heart. + +7 There on the cursed tree +In dying pangs he lies, +Fulfils his Father's great decree, +And all our wants supplies. + +8 Thus the Redeemer came +By water and by blood; +And when the Spirit speaks the same +We feel his witness good. + +9 While the eternal Three +Bear their record above, +Here I believe he dy'd for me, +And seal my Saviour's love. + +10 [Lord, cleanse my soul from sin, +Nor let thy grace depart; +Great Comforter, abide within, +And witness to my heart.] + + +Hymn 3:10. +Christ crucified; the wisdom and power of God. + +1 Nature with open volume stands +To spread her Maker's praise abroad; +And every labour of his hands +Shews something worthy of a God. + +2 But in the grace that rescu'd man +His brightest form of glory shines; +Here on the cross 'tis fairest drawn +In precious blood and crimson lines. + +3 [Here his whole name appears complete; +Nor wit can guess, nor reason prove +Which of the letters best is writ, +The power, the wisdom, or the love.] + +4 Here I behold his inmost heart +Where grace and vengeance strangely join, +Piercing his Son with sharpest smart +To make the purchas'd pleasure mine. + +5 O the sweet wonders of that cross +Where God the Saviour lov'd and dy'd! +Her noblest life my spirit draws +From his dear wounds and bleeding side. + +6 I would for ever speak his Name +In sounds to mortal ears unknown, +With angels join to praise the Lamb, +And worship at his Father's throne. + + +Hymn 3:11. +Pardon brought in our senses. + +1 Lord, how divine thy comforts are! +How heavenly is the place +Where Jesus spreads the sacred feast +Of his redeeming grace! + +2 There the rich bounties of our God, +And sweetest glories shine; +There Jesus says, that "I am his, +"And my Beloved's mine." + +3 "Here," (says the kind redeeming Lord, +And shews his wounded side) +"See here the spring of all your joys, +"That open'd when I dy'd." + +4 [He smiles and cheers my mournful heart +And tells of all his pain, +"All this," says he, "I bore for thee;" +And then he smiles again.] + +5 What shall we pay our heavenly King +For grace so vast as this? +He brings our pardon to our eyes, +And seals it with a kiss. + +6 [Let such amazing loves as these +Be sounded all abroad, +Such favours are beyond degrees, +And worthy of a God.] + +7 [To him that wash'd us in his blood +Be everlasting praise, +Salvation, honour, glory, power, +Eternal as his days.] + + +Hymn 3:12. +The gospel feast, Luke 14. 16 &c. + +1 [How rich are thy provisions Lord! +Thy table furnish'd from above, +The fruits of life o'erspread the board, +The cup o'erflows with heavenly love. + +2 Thine ancient family the Jews, +Were first invited to the feast; +We humbly take what they refuse, +And Gentiles thy salvation taste. + +3 We are the poor, the blind, the lame, +And help was far, and death was nigh, +But at the gospel call we came +And every want receiv'd supply. + +4 From the highway that leads to hell, +From paths of darkness and despair, +Lord, we are come with thee to dwell, +Glad to enjoy thy presence here.] + +5 [What shall we pay th' eternal Son, +That left the heaven of his abode, +And to this wretched earth came down +To bring us wanderers back to God? + +6 It cost him death to save our lives, +To buy our souls it cost his own; +And all the unknown joys he gives, +Were bought with agonies unknown. + +7 Our everlasting love is due +To him that ransom'd sinners lost; +And pity'd rebels when he knew +The vast expense his love would cost.] + + +Hymn 3:13. +Divine love making a feast, and calling +in the guests, Luke 14. 17 22 23. + +1 How sweet and awful is the place +With Christ within the doors, +While everlasting love displays +The choicest of her stores! + +2 Here every bowel of our God +With soft compassion rolls +Here peace and pardon bought with blood +Is food for dying souls. + +3 [While all our hearts and all our songs +Join to admire the feast, +Each of us cry with thankful tongues, +"Lord, why was I a guest? + +4 "Why was I made to hear thy voice, +"And enter while there's room? +"When thousands make a wretched choice, +"And rather starve than come."] + +5 'Twas the same love that spread the feast, +That sweetly forc'd us in, +Else we had still refus'd to taste, +And perish'd in our sin. + +6 [Pity the nations, O our God, +Constrain the earth to come; +Send thy victorious word abroad, +And bring the strangers home. + +7 We long to see thy churches full, +That all the chosen race +May with one voice and heart and soul, +Sing thy redeeming grace.] + + +Hymn 3:14. +The song of Simeon, Luke 2. 28; +or, A sight of Christ makes death easy. + +1 Now have our hearts embrac'd our God, +We would forget all earthly charms, +And wish to die as Simeon would, +With his young Saviour in his arms. + +2 Our lips should learn that joyful song, +Were but our hearts prepar'd like his; +Our souls still willing to be gone, +And at thy word depart in peace. + +3 Here we have seen thy face, O Lord, +And view'd salvation with our eyes, +Tasted and felt the living word, +The bread descending from the skies. + +4 Thou hast prepar'd this dying Lamb, +Hast set his blood before our face, +To teach the terrors of thy Name, +And show the wonders of thy grace. + +5 He is our light; our morning star +Shall shine on nations yet unknown; +The glory of thine Israel here, +And joy of spirits near the throne. + + +Hymn 3:15. +Our Lord Jesus at his own table. + +1 [The memory of our dying Lord +Awakes a thankful tongue: +How rich he spread his royal board, +And blest the food, and sung. + +2 Happy the men that eat this bread, +But double bless'd was he +That gently bow'd his loving head, +And lean'd it, Lord, on thee. + +3 By faith the same delights we taste +As that great favourite did, +And sit and lean on Jesus' breast, +And take the heavenly bread.] + +4 Down from the palace of the skies, +Hither the King descends; +"Come my beloved, eat, (he cries) +"And drink salvation, friends. + +5 "[My flesh is food and physic too, +"A balm for all your pains; +"And the red streams of pardon flow +"From these my pierced veins."] + +6 Hosanna to his bounteous love +For such a taste below! +And yet he feeds his saints above +With nobler blessings too. + +7 [Come the dear day, the glorious hour +That brings our souls to rest! +Then we shall need these types no more, +But dwell at th' heavenly feast.] + + +Hymn 3:16. +The agonies of Christ. + +1 Now let our pains be all forgot, +Our hearts no more repine, +Our sufferings are not worth a thought, +When, Lord, compar'd with thine. + +2 In lively figures here we see +The bleeding Prince of love; +Each of us hope he dy'd for me, +And then our griefs remove. + +3 [Our humble faith here takes her rise, +While sitting round his board; +And back to Calvary she flies, +To view her groaning Lord. + +4 His soul, what agonies it felt +When his own God withdrew! +And the large load of all our guilt +Lay heavy on him too. + +5 But the divinity within +Supported him to bear: +Dying he conquer'd hell and sin, +And made his triumph there.] + +6 Grace, wisdom, justice join'd and wrought +The wonders of that day: +No mortal tongue, nor mortal thought +Can equal thanks repay. + +7 Our hymns should sound like those above, +Could we our voices raise; +Yet, Lord, our hearts shall all be love, +And all our lives be praise. + + +Hymn 3:17. +Incomparable food; or, +The flesh and blood of Christ. + +1[We sing th' amazing deeds +That grace divine performs; +Th' eternal God comes down and bleeds +To nourish dying worms. + +2 This soul reviving wine, +Dear Saviour, 'tis thy blood; +We thank that sacred flesh of thine +For this immortal food.] + +3 The banquet that we eat +Is made of heavenly things, +Earth hath no dainties half so sweet +As our Redeemer brings. + +4 In vain had Adam sought +And search'd his garden round, +For there was no such blessed fruit +In all the happy ground. + +5 Th' angelic host above +Can never taste this food, +They feast upon their Maker's love, +But not a Saviour's blood. + +6 On us th' Almighty Lord +Bestows this matchless grace, +And meets us with some cheering word, +With pleasure in his face. + +7 Come, all ye drooping saints, +And banquet with the King, +This wine will drown your sad complaints, +And tune your voice to sing. + +8 Salvation to the Name +Of our adored Christ: +Thro' the wide earth his grace proclaim +His glory in the high'st. + + +Hymn 3:18. +The same. + +1 Jesus, we bow before thy feet, +Thy table is divinely stor'd: +Thy sacred flesh our souls have eat, +'Tis living bread; we thank thee, Lord! + +2 And here we drink our Saviour's blood, +We thank thee, Lord, 'tis generous wine; +Mingled with love the fountain flow'd +From that dear bleeding heart of thine. + +3 On earth is no such sweetness found, +For the Lamb's flesh is heavenly food; +In vain we search the globe around +For bread so fine, or wine so good. + +4 Carnal provisions can at best +But cheer the heart, or warm the head, +But the rich cordial that we taste +Gives life eternal to the dead. + +5 Joy to the Master of the feast, +His name our souls for ever bless: +To God the King, and God the Priest, +A loud Hosanna round the place. + + +Hymn 3:19. +Glory in the cross; or, Not ashamed +of Christ crucified. + +1 At thy command, our dearest Lord, +Here we attend thy dying feast; +Thy blood like wine adorns thy board, +And thine own flesh feeds every guest. + +2 Our faith adores thy bleeding love, +And trusts for life in one that dy'd; +We hope for heavenly crowns above +From a Redeemer crucify'd. + +3 Let the vain world pronounce it shame, +And fling their scandals on thy cause; +We come to boast our Saviour's Name, +And make our triumphs in his cross. + +4 With joy we tell the scoffing age +He that was dead has left his tomb, +He lives above their utmost rage, +And we are waiting till he come. + + +Hymn 3:20. +The provisions for the table of our Lord; or, The +tree of life, and river of love. + +1 Lord, we adore thy bounteous hand, +And sing the solemn feast +Where sweet celestial dainties stand +For every willing guest. + +2 [The tree of life adorns the board +With rich immortal fruit, +And ne'er an angry flaming sword +To guard the passage to't. + +3 The cup stands crown'd with living juice; +The fountain flows above, +And runs down streaming for our use +In rivulets of love.] + +4 The food's prepar'd by heavenly art, +The pleasure's well refin'd, +They spread new life thro' every heart, +And cheer the drooping mind. + +5 Shout and proclaim the Saviour's love, +Ye saints that taste his wine, +Join with your kindred saints above, +In loud hosannas join. + +6 A thousand glories to the God +That gives such joy as this; +Hosanna! let it sound abroad, +And reach where Jesus is. + + +Hymn 3:21. +The triumphal feast for Christ's victory +over sin, and death, and hell. + +1 [Come let us lift our voices high, +High as our joys arise, +And join the songs above the sky, +Where pleasure never dies. + +2 Jesus, the God that fought and bled, +And conquer'd when he fell; +That rose, and at his chariot-wheels +Dragg'd all the powers of hell.] + +3 [Jesus the God invites us here +To this triumphal feast, +And brings immortal blessings down +For each redeemed guest.] + +4 The Lord! how glorious is his face! +How kind his smiles appear! +And O what melting words he says +To every humble ear! + +5 "For you, the children of my love, +"It was for you I dy'd; +"Behold my hands, behold my feet, +"And look into my side. + +6 "These are the wounds for you I bore, +"The tokens of my pains, +"When I came down to free your souls +"From misery and chains. + +7 "Justice unsheath'd its fiery sword, +And plung'd it in my heart; +"Infinite pangs for you I bore, +"And most tormenting smart. + +8 "When hell and all its spiteful powers +"Stood dreadful in my way, +"To rescue those dear lives of yours +"I gave my own away. + +9 "But while I bled, and groan'd, and dy'd, +"I ruin'd Satan's throne; +"High on my cross I hung, and spy'd +"The monster tumbling down. + +10 "Now you must triumph at my feast, +"And taste my flesh, my blood; +"And live eternal ages bless'd, +"For 'tis immortal food." + +11 Victorious God! what can we pay +For favours so divine? +We would devote our hearts away +To be for ever thine. + +12 We give thee, Lord, our highest praise, +The tribute of our tongues; +But themes so infinite as these +Exceed our noblest songs. + + +Hymn 3:22. +The compassion of a dying Christ. + +1 Our spirits join t' adore the Lamb; +O that our feeble lips could move +In strains immortal as his Name, +And melting as his dying love. + +2 Was ever equal pity found? +The Prince of heaven resigns his breath, +And pours his life out on the ground +To ransom guilty worms from death. + +3 [Rebels, we broke our Maker's laws; +He from the threatening set us free, +Bore the full vengeance on his cross, +And nail'd the curses to the tree.] + +4 [The law proclaims no terror now, +And Sinai's thunder roars no more; +From all his wounds new blessings flow, +A sea of joy without a shore. + +5 Here we have wash'd our deepest stains, +And heal'd our wounds with heavenly blood: +Bless'd fountain! springing from the veins +Of Jesus, our incarnate God.] + +6 In vain our mortal voices strive +To speak compassion so divine; +Had we a thousand lives to give, +A thousand lives should all be thine. + + +Hymn 3:23. +Grace and glory by the death of Christ. + +1 [Sitting around our Father's board +We raise our tuneful breath; +Our faith beholds her dying Lord, +And dooms our sins to death.] + +2 We see the blood of Jesus shed, +Whence all our pardons rise; +The sinner views th' atonement made, +And loves the sacrifice. + +3 Thy cruel thorns, thy shameful cross +Procure us heavenly crowns; +Our highest gain springs from thy loss, +Our healing from thy wounds. + +4 O 'tis impossible that we, +Who dwell in feeble clay, +Should equal sufferings bear for thee, +Or equal thanks repay. + + +Hymn 3:24. +Pardon and strength from Christ. + +1 Father, we wait to feel thy grace, +To see thy glories shine; +The Lord will his own table bless, +And make the feast divine. + +2 We touch, we taste the heavenly bread, +We drink the sacred Cup; +With outward forms our sense is fed, +Our souls rejoice in hope. + +3 We shall appear before the throne +Of our forgiving God, +Dress'd in the garments of his Son, +And sprinkled with his blood. + +4 We shall be strong to run the race, +And climb the upper sky; +Christ will provide our souls with grace, +He bought a large supply. + +5 [Let us indulge a cheerful frame, +For joy becomes a feast; +We love the memory of his Name, +More than the wine we taste.] + + +Hymn 3:25. +Divine glories, and our graces. + +1 How are thy glories here display'd, +Great God, how bright they shine, +While at thy word we break the bread, +And pour the flowing wine! + +2 Here thy revenging justice stands +And pleads its dreadful cause; +Here saving mercy spreads her hands +Like Jesus on the cross. + +3 Thy saints attend with every grace +On this great sacrifice; +And love appears with cheerful face, +And faith with fixed eyes. + +4 Our hope in waiting posture sits, +To heaven directs her sight; +Here every warmer passion meets, +And warmer powers unite. + +5 Zeal and revenge perform their part, +And rising sin destroy; +Repentance comes with aching heart, +Yet not forbids the joy. + +6 Dear Saviour, change our faith to sight, +Let sin for ever die; +Then shall our souls be all delight, +And every tear be dry. + + +****** + +I cannot persuade myself to put a full period to these Divine +Hymns, till I have addressed a special song of glory to God the +Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Though the Latin name of it, +Gloria Patri, be retained in our nation from the Romish church; +and thought there may be some excesses of superstitious honour paid +to the words of it, which may have wrought some unhappy prejudices +in weaker Christians, yet I believe it still to be one of the +noblest parts of Christian worship. The subject of it is the +doctrine of the Trinity, which is that peculiar glory of the Divine +Nature, that our Lord Jesus Christ has so clearly revealed unto +men, and is so necessary to true Christianity. The action is praise, +which is one of the most complete and exalted parts of heavenly +worship. I have cast the song into a variety of forms, and have +fitted it to a plain version, or a larger paraphrase, to be sung +either alone, or at the conclusion of another Hymn. I have added +also a few hosannas, or ascriptions of salvation to Christ, in the +same manner, and for the same end. + + + +Doxologies. + + +Hymn 3:26. 1st. L.M. +A song of praise to the ever-blessed Trinity, +God in Father, Son, and Spirit. + +1 Bless'd be the Father and his love: +To whose celestial source we owe +Rivers of endless joy above, +And rills of comfort here below. + +2 Glory to thee, great Son of God, +From whose dear wounded body rolls +A precious stream of vital blood, +Pardon and life for dying souls. + +3 We give the sacred Spirit praise, +Who in our hearts of sin and woe +Makes living springs of grace arise, +And into boundless glory flow. + +4 Thus God the Father, God the Son, +And God the Spirit, we adore; +That sea of life and love unknown, +Without a bottom or a shore. + + +Hymn 3:27. 1st. C. M. + +1 Glory to God the Father's Name, +Who, from our sinful race, +Chose out his favourites to proclaim +The honours of his grace. + +2 Glory to God the Son be paid, +Who dwelt in humble clay, +And, to redeem us from the dead, +Gave his own life away. + +3 Glory to God the Spirit give, +From whose almighty power +Our souls their heavenly birth derive, +And bless the happy hour. + +4 Glory to God that reigns above, +Th' eternal Three and One, +Who by the wonders of his love +Has made his nature known. + + +Hymn 3:28. 1st. S. M. + +1 Let God the Father live +For ever on our tongues; +Sinners from his first love derive +The ground of all their songs. + +2 Ye saints, employ your breath +In honour to the Son, +Who bought your souls from hell and death +By offering up his own. + +3 Give to the Spirit praise +Of an immortal strain, +Whose light and power and grace conveys +Salvation down to men. + +4 While God the Comforter +Reveals our pardon'd sin, +O may the blood and water bear +The same record within. + +5 To the great One and Three +That seal this grace in heaven, +The Father, Son, and Spirit, be +Eternal glory given. + + +Hymn 3:29. 2d. L.M. + +1 Glory to God the Trinity +Whose name has mysteries unknown; +In essence One, in person Three; +A social nature, yet alone. + +2 When all our noblest powers are join'd +The honours of thy Name to raise, +Thy glories over-match our mind, +And angels faint beneath the praise. + + +Hymn 3:30. 2d. C. M + +1 The God of mercy be ador'd, +Who calls our souls from death, +Who saves by his redeeming word, +And new-creating breath. + +2 To praise the Father and the Son +And Spirit all divine, +The One in Three, and Three in One, +Let saints and angels join. + + +Hymn 3:31. 2d. S. M. + +1 Let God the Maker's name +Have honour, love and fear, +To God the Saviour pay the same, +And God the Comforter. + +2 Father of lights above, +Thy mercy we adore, +The Son of thy eternal love +And Spirit of thy power. + + +Hymn 3:32. 3d. L. M. + +To God the Father, God the Son, +And God the Spirit, Three in One, +Be honour, praise, and glory given, +By all on earth, and all in heaven. + + +Hymn 3:33. +Or thus: + +All glory to thy wondrous Name, +Father of mercy, God of love, +Thus we exalt the Lord, the Lamb, +And thus we praise the heavenly Dove. + + +Hymn 3:34. 3d. C. M. + +Now let the Father and the Son +And Spirit be ador'd, +Where there are works to make him known, +Or saints to love the Lord. + + +Hymn 3:35. +Or thus: + +Honour to thee, almighty Three, +And everlasting One; +All glory to the Father be, +The Spirit, and the Son. + + +Hymn 3:36. 3d. S. M. + +Ye angels round the throne +And saints that dwell below, +Worship the Father, love the Son, +And bless the Spirit too. + + +Hymn 3:37. +Or thus: + +Give to the Father praise, +Give glory to the Son, +And to the Spirit of his grace +Be equal honour done. + + +Hymn 3:38. +A song of praise to the blessed Trinity. + +The 1st, as the 148th Psalm. + +1 I give immortal praise +To God the Father's love +For all my comforts here, +And better hopes above; +He sent his own +Eternal Son, +To die for sins +That man had done. + +2 To God the Son belongs +Immortal glory too, +Who bought us with his blood +From everlasting woe; +And now he lives, +And now he reigns, +And sees the fruit +Of all his pains. + +3 To God the Spirit's Name +Immortal worship give, +Whose new-creating power +Makes the dead sinner live: +His work completes +The great design +And fills the soul +With joy divine. + +4 Almighty God, to thee +Be endless honours done, +The undivided Three, +And the mysterious one: +Where reason fails +With all her powers, +There faith prevails, +And love adores. + + +Hymn 3:39. +The 2d, as the 148th Psalm. + +1 To Him that chose us first +Before the world began, +To Him that bore the curse +To save rebellious man, +To Him that form'd +Our hearts anew, +Is endless praise +And glory due. + +2 The Father's love shall run +Thro' our immortal songs, +We bring to God the Son +Hosannas on our tongues: +Our lips address +The Spirit's Name +With equal praise, +And zeal the same. + +3 Let every saint above +And angel round the throne, +For ever bless and love +The sacred Three in One: +Thus heaven shall raise +His honours high +When earth and time +Grow old and die. + + +Hymn 3:40. +The 3d, as the 148th Psalm. + +To God the Father's throne +Perpetual honours raise; +Glory to God the Son, +To God the Spirit praise: +And while our lips +Their tribute bring, +Our faith adores +The name we sing. + + +Hymn 3:41. +Or thus: + +To our eternal God, +The Father and the Son, +And Spirit all divine, +Three mysteries in one, +Salvation, power, +And praise be given +By all on earth +And all in heaven. + + +Hymn 3:42. L. M. + +The Hosanna; +or, Salvation ascribed to Christ. + +1 Hosanna to King David's Son, +Who reigns on a superior throne; +We bless the Prince of heavenly birth +Who brings salvation down to earth. + +2 Let every nation, every age, +In this delightful work engage; +Old men and babes in Sion sing +The growing glories of her King. + + +Hymn 3:43. C. M. + +1 Hosanna to the Prince of Grace, +Sion, behold her King; +Proclaim the Son of David's race, +And teach the babes to sing. + +2 Hosanna to th' incarnate Word, +Who from the Father came; +Ascribe salvation to the Lord, +With blessings on his Name. + + +Hymn 3:44. S. M. + +Hosanna to the Son +Of David and of God, +Who brought the news of pardon down, +And bought it with his blood, + +2 To Christ th' anointed King +Be endless blessings given, +Let the whole earth his glory sing +Who made our peace with heaven. + + +Hymn 3:45. As the 148th Psalm. + +1 Hosanna to the King +Of David's ancient blood; +Behold he comes to bring +Forgiving grace from God: +Let old and young +Attend his way, +And at his feet +Their honours lay. + +2 Glory to God on high, +Salvation to the Lamb; +Let earth, and sea, and sky +His wondrous love proclaim: +Upon his head +Shall honours rest, +And every age +Pronounce him blest. + + +End of the Third Book. + + + +AN INDEX +To find any Hymn by the Title or Contents of it. + +_Note_, The letters, i ii iii, signify the first, second, end +third book: The figures direct to the Hymn. (Transcriber's Note: +In this electronic version modern numerals are used; for example, +"2:108" refers to "Book 2, Hymn Number 108," and so on.) If you +find not what hymn you seek under one word of the title, seek it +under another, or by some word that is of the same signification, +though perhaps not mentioned in the title of the hymn. + + +Aaron + and Christ, 1:145; + Moses and Joshua, 2:124. +Abraham's + blessing on the Gentiles, 1:60, 1:113, 1:114; 2:134; + offering his son, 1:129. +Absence + and presence of God, 2:93, 2:94, 2:100; + from God for ever intolerable, 2:107. +Access to the throne by a Mediator, 2:108. +Adam, + his fall, 1:107; + corrupt nature from him, 2:128; + the first and second, 1:571, 1:124. +Adoption, 1:64, 1:143; + and election, 1:54. +Advocate, see Christ's intercession. +Affections + inconstant, 2:20; + unsanctified, 2:165. +Afflicted, Christ's compassion to them, 1:125. +Afflictions + removed, 1:87; + submitted to, 1:5, 1:129; 2:109; + support and comfort under them, 2:50, 2:65; + and death under providence, 1:83. +Almost Christian, 2:158. +Ambition, &c. 2:101. +Angels + sinning, 2:24; + standing and falling, 2:27; + praise ye the Lord, 2:27; + punished, and man saved, 2:96, 2:97; + their ministry to Christ and saints, 2:18, 2:112, 2:113. +Anger of God, see Wrath, Vengeance, Hell. +Answer to the church's prayers, 1:30. +Antichrist, his ruin, 1:29, 1:56, 1:59; + see Enemies. +Apostate, 2:158. +Apostles' commission, 1:128. +Ascension and resurrection of Christ, 2:76. +Assistance against temptations, 1:15, 1:32; 2:50, 2:65. +Assurance + of heaven, 1:27; 2:65; + of the love of Christ, 1:14; 2:73; + of faith, 1:103. +Attributes, see God. + + +Babylon falling, 1:56, 1:59; + see Enemies. +Backslidings and returns, 2:20. +Baptism, 1:52; + preaching, and the Lord's supper, 2:141; + and circumcision, 1:121; 2:127, 2:134; + burial with Christ in, 1:122. +Beatitudes, 1:102. +Believe and be saved, 1:100. +Believer baptized, 1:52, 1:122. +Birth, first and second, 1:95, 1:99; + of Christ, miracles at it, 2:136. +Blessed are the dead in the Lord, 1:18; + society in heaven, 2:33, 2:75. +Blessedness + and business of heaven, 1:40, 1:41; 2:86; + only in God, 2:93, 2:94, 2:100. +Blessing of Abraham on the Gentiles, 1:113, 1:114; 2:134. +Blood and flesh of Christ + is our food, 3:17, 3:18; + the seal of the New Testament, 3:3; + the Spirit and the water, 3:9. +Boasting excluded, 1:96. +Bodies frail, see Life, Health, Flesh. +Book of God's decrees, 2:99. +Bread of life is Christ, 3:5. +Breathing towards heaven, 2:23. +Britain's God praised, 2:1; + for deliverance, 2:92. +Burial, 2:63; + with Christ in baptism, 1:122; + and death of a saint, 2:3. + + +Canaan and heaven, 2:66, 2:124. +Carnal joys parted with, 2:10, 2:11; + reason humbled, 1:11, 1:12. +Ceremonial, see Law, Types, Priest. +Characters + of the children of God, 1:143; + of Christ, 1:146, 1:150; + of blessedness, 1:102. +Charity and uncharitableness, 1:126; + and love, 1:130, 1:133. +Children + in the covenant of grace, 1:113, 1:114; + devoted to God, 1:121; 2:127. +Christ, see Lord; + and Aaron, 1:145; + and Adam, 1:124; + his ascension, 2:76; + beatific sight of him, 2:75; + beloved described, 1:75; + the bread of life, 3:5; + his care of the young and feeble, 1:125, 1:138; + and the church, seeking, finding, &c., see Church; + coming to judge, 1:61; + his commission, 2:103, 2:104; + communion with him, 1:66, 1:71; + and saints, 1:67, 1:76; 3:2; + compared to inanimate things, 1:146; + his coronation and espousals, 1:72; + his cross not to be ashamed of, 3:19; + crucified, God's wisdom and power, 2:10; + David's Son, 1:16, 1:50; + his death caused by sin, 2:81; + grace and glory by it, 3:23; + victory and kingdom, 2:114; + his divine nature, 1:2, 1:13, 1:92; 2:51; + dwells in heaven, visits the earth, 1:76; + enjoyment of him, 2:15, 2:16; + his eternity, 1:2, 1:92; + example, 2:139; + excellences, 1:75; 2:47; + faith and knowledge of him, 1:103; + his flesh and blood our food, 3:17, 3:18; + found and brought to the church, 1:71; + his glory in heaven, 2:91; + God reconciled in him, 2:148; + grace given us in him, 1:137; 2:40; + High Priest and King, 1:61; + his human and Divine nature, 1:2, 1:13, 1:16; + humiliation and exaltation, 1:1, 1:63, 1:141, 1:142; 2:5, + 2:43, 2:81, 2:83, 2:84; 3:10, 3:16; + his incarnation, 1:1, 1:3, 1:13; + intercession, 2:36, 2:37, 2:118; + invitation to sinners, 1:127; + the King at his table, 1:66; + his kingdom among men, 1:3, 1:21; + knowledge and faith in him, 1:103; + the Lamb of God, 1:1, 1:25, 1:62, 1:63; + his love to the church, 1:14, 1:77; + under desertion, 2:50; + shed abroad in the heart, 1:135; + to men, 1:92; + lifted up, 1:112; + ministered to by angels, 2:112, 2:113; + miracles at the birth of Christ, 2:136; + miracles in his life, death, and resurrection, 2:137; + and Moses, 1:49, 1:118; + names and titles, 1:147, 1:148, 1:149; + nativity, 1:3, 1:13; + obeyed or resisted, 1:93; + his offices, 1:149, 1:150; 2:132; + pardon and strength from him, 3:24; + our Passover, 2:155; + his person glorious and gracious, 1:75; 2:47; + our Physician, 1:112; + his pity to the afflicted and tempted, 1:125; + his priesthood, 1:145; 2:118; + his presence, see Presence; + prophecies and types of him, 2:135; + Prophet, Priest, and King, 1:25; 2:132; + our Prophet and Teacher, 1:93; + redemption, see Redeem; + rejected by the Jews, 1:141; + resurrection, 2:72, 2:76; + is our hope, 1:26; + resurrection, life, and death miraculous, 2:137; + revealed to men, 1:10; + to babes, 1:11, 1:12; + righteousness and strength in him, 1:15, 1:84, 1:85, 1:97; + righteousness valuable, 1:109; + his sacrifice, 2:142; + and intercession, 2:118; + salvation, righteousness, and strength in him, 1:15, 1:84, + 1:85, 1:97, 1:98; + our sanctification, 1:97, 1:98; + Satan at enmity, 1:107; + saints in his hand, 1:138; + our Shepherd, 1:67, 1:142; + the substance of the types, 2:12; + sent by the Father, 1:100; 2:103, 2:104; + and godly sorrow, 2:9, 2:106; + and glory, 1:1, 1:62, 1:63; 2:43, 2:81, 2:83, 2:84; 3:10; + his titles and kingdom, 1:13; + triumph over our enemies, 1:28, 1:29; + types and prophecies of him, 2:135; + victory over Satan, 1:58, 2:89; + death and hell, 3:21; + unseen and beloved, 1:108; + Wisdom of God, 1:92; + our wisdom and Righteousness, 1:97, 1:98; + worshipped by the creation, 1:62; +Christian, see Saints, Spiritual, etc; + Religion, its excellency, 2:131; + almost, 2:158; + virtues, 2:161. +Church, see Worship, Saints, Spiritual. + its enemies slain by Christ, 1:28, 1:29; + conversing with Christ, namely, seeking, finding, calling, + answering, 1:66-71; + under God's care, 1:39; + espousals with Christ, 1:72; + beauty in the eyes of Christ, 1:73; + the garden of Christ, 1:74. +Circumcision abolished, 2:134; + and baptism, 1:121; 2:127. +Clothing, spiritual, 1:7, 1:40. +Comfort in the covenant with Christ, 2:40; + Restored, 2:73; + see Pardon; + in sorrows of mind and body, 2:50, 2:65. +Communion + With Christ and saints, 3:2; + between Christ and the church, 1:66-71; 2:15, 2:16. +Compassion + of a dying Christ, 3:22; + to the afflicted, 1:125. +Complaint + of a hard heart, 2:98; + of desertion and temptations; + of dulness, 2:34; + of in-dwelling sin, 1:115; + of ingratitude, 2:74; + of sloth and negligence, 2:25, 2:32. +Condemnation by the law, 1:94. +Condescension to our worship, 2:45; + Affairs, 2:46. +Confession and pardon, 1:131. +Conscience + good, the pleasures of it, 2:57; + secure and awakened, 1:115. +Constancy in the gospel, 2:4. +Contention and love, 1:130. +Conversion, 1:104; 2:159; + the difficulty of it, 2:161; + delayed, 1:88-91; + the joy of heaven, 1:101. +Conviction of sin + by the law, 1:94, 1:115; + by the cross of Christ, 2:81, 2:95. +Corrupt nature from Adam, 1:57, 107; 2:128, 2:159. +Covenant of grace, 1:9; + children therein, 1:113, 1:114; + sealed and sworn, 1:139; 3:3; + hope in it, 1:139; + made with Christ, our comfort, 2:40; + of works, + see Law and Gospel. +Covetousness, &c., 1:24; 2:56, 2:101. +Courage and constancy, 1:14, 1:15, 1:48; 2:4, 2:65. +Creation, 1:92; 2:71, 2:147; + new, 2:130; + preservation, &c., + of this world, 2:13. +Creatures + praise the Lord, 2:71; + love dangerous, 2:48; + God above them, 1:82; + their vanity, 2:146; +Cross of Christ is our glory, 3:19; + repentance flowing from it, 2:106; + salvation in it, 2:4; + crucifixion to the world by it, 3:7. +Curse and promise, 1:107, +Custom in sin, 2:160. + + +Dangers + of our earthly pilgrimage, 2:53; + of death and hell, 2:55; + of love to the creatures, 2:48. +Darkness + Dispelled by Christ's presence, 2:54; + of providence, 2:109. +Day + of grace and time of duty, 1:88; + of judgment, 1:45, 1:61, 1:65, 1:89, 1:90. +Dead + In the Lord, their blessedness, 1:18; + to sin by the cross of Christ, 1:106. +Death, see Christ; + And Afflictions under providence, 1:83; + terrible to the unconverted, 1:91; + made easy by the sight of Christ, 2:31; 3:14; + by a sight of heaven, 2:66; + God's presence in it, 2:49, 2:117; + our fear of it, 2:31; + desirable, 1:19; 2:61; + overcome, 1:17; + triumphed over, 1:6; 2:110; + prepared for, 1:27; 2:63; + of a sinner, 1:24; 2:2; + and burial of a saint, 1:18; 2:3; + and eternity, 2:28; + and glory, 1:110; 2:61; + and the resurrection, 2:3, 2:102, 2:110; + of Moses at God's command, 2:49; + dreadful and delightful, 2:52. +Deceitfulness of sin, 2:150. +Decrees of God, 1:11, 1:12, 1:96, 1:117; 2:99. +Deity of Christ, 1:2, 1:13, 1:92; 2:51. +Delay of conversion, 1:88-91; 2:25, 2:32. +Delight + in worship, 2:14; + in God, 2:42; + in converse with Christ, 2:15, 2:16. +Deliverance from death and the grave, 2:3; + see Enemies, Church; + and submission, 1:129; + from spiritual enemies, 1:47; 2:65, 2:82, 2:111. +Dependence, see Faith. +Desertion and temptations complained of, 2:163. +Desire of Christ's presence, 2:100; + see more in Heaven, Christ, Love, &c. +Despair and presumption, 1:115; 2:156, 2:157. +Devil vanquished, 1:58; see Victory. +Devotion, fervent, desired, 2:34. +Difficulty of conversion, 2:161. +Disease, see Sickness. +Dissolution of this world, 2:13, 2:164. +Distemper, folly, and madness of sin, 2:153. +Distinguishing love, 1:11, 1:12, 1:96, 1:117; 2:96, 2:97. +Divine, see God, Deity, &c. +Dominion + Of God, and our deliverance, 2:111; + eternal, 2:67; + over the sea, 2:70. +Doubts and fears suppressed, 2:73. +Doxologies, 3:26-45. +Dulness, spiritual, 2:25. + + +Earth, + no rest on it, 2:146; + and heaven, 2:10, 2:11, 2:53. +Effusion of the Spirit, 2:144. +Election + excludes boasting, 1:96; + free, 1:11, 1:12, 1:54, 1:117; + see Decrees. +End of the world, 2:164. +Enemies of the church + disappointed, 2:90, 2:92; + salvation from them, 2:82, 2:88; + triumphed over by Christ, 1:28, 1:29; + see Church, Babylon, Michael. +Enjoyment of Christ, 2:15, 2:16; + see Worship. +Enmity between Christ and Satan, 1:107. +Envy and love, 1:130. +Espousals of the church to Christ, 1:72. +Establishment in grace, 2:82. +Eternity + of God, 2:17; + of his dominion, 2:67; + and death, 2:28; + succeeding this life, 2:55; + see Heaven, Death. +Evening and morning hymns, 1:79, 1:80, 1:81; 2:6, 2:7, 2:8. +Exaltation, see Christ, Glory, Sufferings, &c. +Example + of Christ, 2:139; + of saints, 2:140. +Excellency of the Christian religion, 2:131. + + +Faith + in things unseen, 1:120, 2:129. + and knowledge of Christ, 1:103; + love and joy, 1:108; + and unbelief, 2:125; + living and dead, 1:140; + assisted by sense, 2:141; + its joy, 2:162; + in Christ our sacrifice, 2:142; + and salvation, 1:100; + of assurance, 1:103; + and sight, 1:110; 2:145; + triumphing in Christ, 1:14; + for pardon and sanctification, 2:90; + faith and reason, 2:87, 2:109. +Faithfulness of God's promises, 2:40, 2:60, 2:69. +Fall + of angels and men, 2:24; + and recovery of man, 1:107. +Fears and doubts suppressed, 2:73. +Feast + Of love, 1:68; + of triumph, 3:21; + of the gospel, 1:7; 3:12, 3:20; + made, and guests invited, 3:13. +Fellowship, see Communion. +Fervency of devotion desired, 2:34. +Few saved, 2:158. +Flesh + And blood of Christ the best food, 3:17, 3:18; + our tabernacle, 1:110; + and spirit, 2:143. +Folly and madness of sin, 2:153. +Food, spiritual, 1:7, 1:67, 1:68, 1:74; 2:15; see Feast. +Forbearance, see Patience. +Forgiveness, see Pardon. +Formality in worship, 1:136. +Frail, see Life, Health, Forgetfulness, 2:165. +Frailty and folly, 2:32. +Free, see Grace, Election. +Freedom from sin and misery in heaven, 2:86. +Funeral thought, 2:61, 2:63; see Death, Burial. + + +Garden of Christ is the church, 1:74. +Garment of salvation, 1:7, 1:20. +Gentiles, + Christ revealed to them, 1:10, 1:13, 1:50; 3:13, 3:14; + Abraham's blessing on them, 1:113, 114; 2:134. +Glorified + martyrs and saints, 1:40, 1:41; + body, 2:110. +Glory + and death, 1:110; 2:61; + see Heaven; + of God above our reason, 2:87; + of Christ in heaven, 2:91; + see Christ, and grace by the death of Christ, 3:23; + justification and sanctification, 1:3; + to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 3:26-41; + of God in the gospel, 2:126; + and grace in the person of Christ, 2:47; + and sufferings of Christ, 2:43; see Sufferings. +Glorying in the cross of Christ, 3:19. +God + all and in all, 2:93, 2:94; + his absence, see Absence; + his attributes, 2:51, 2:166, 2:169; + glorified by Christ, 2:126; 3:10; + the avenger of his saints, 2:115; + care of his church, 1:39; + condescension to human affairs, 2:46; + to our worship, 2:45; + the Creator and Redeemer, 2:35; + our delight, 2:42; + our defence, 1:47; + dominion over the sea, 2:70; + dominion, and our deliverance, 2:111; + dwells with the humble, 1:87; + eternity, 2:17; + eternal dominion, 2:67; + everlasting absence intolerable, 2:100, 2:107; + far above his creatures, 1:82; + the Father, Son, and Spirit, 3:26-41; + his faithfulness to his promises, 2:60, 2:69; + glory and defence of Sion, 2:64; + his glory above our reason, 2:87; + his goodness, 2:58, 2:80; + his grace, see Grace; + government from him, 2:149; + holiness, justice, and sovereignty, 1:86; + invisible, 2:26; + incomprehensible, 2:87, 2:170; + his kingdom supreme, 2:115; + his love in sending his Son, 1:100; + and our neighbour loved, 1:116; + our portion or chief good, 2:93, 2:94; + his power, 2:80; + and goodness, 2:6, 2:7, 2:8; + his praise, see Praise; + presence in life and at death, 2:115; see Presence; + preserver of our lives, 2:6, 2:7, 2:8, 2:19; + promise and truth unchangeable, 1:139; + sight of him weans us from earth, 2:41; + sovereign, 2:170; + terrible majesty, 2:22; + and mercy, 2:80; + his truth, 2:60, 2:69; + vengeance, 2:44, 2:62; + Unity and Trinity, 3:26-11; + his word, 1:53; + wrath and mercy, 1:42. +Goodness of God, 2:58, 2:74; see Grace; + and power of God, 1:42; 2:80. +Gospel feast, 3:12; see Grace, Feast; + invitation and provision, 1:7; 3:20; + times, their blessedness, 1:10; see Scripture; + glorifies God, 2:126; + no liberty to sin, 1:106, 1:132, 1:140; + not ashamed of it, 1:103; 3:19; + and law, 1:94; 2:120, 2:121, 2:124; + sinned against, 1:118; + its different success, 1:119; 2:144; + ministry, 1:10; + attested by miracles, 1:128; 2:136, 2:137; + its glorious effects, 2:138. +Government from God, 2:149. +Grace + and glory by the death of Christ, 3:23; + of the Spirit, 1:102; + converting, 2:138, 2:159; + in exercise, 3:25; + justifies, 1:94; + sanctifies and saves, 1:111; + not conveyed by parents, 1:99; + all-sufficient in duty and sufferings, 1:15, 1:32, 1:104; + given in Christ, 1:137; + covenant, 1:9; + children in it, 1:113, 1:114; + and holiness, 1:132; + electing, 1:54; + its freedom and sovereignty, 1:11, 1:12, 1:96, 1:117; 2:96, 2:97; + and glory in the person of Christ, 2:47; + adopting, 1:64; + persevering, 1:51; + promises, 1:7, 1:9; + throne accessible by Christ, 2:36, 2:37, 2:108. +Gratitude for Divine favours, 2:116 +Great Britain's God praised, 2:1. + + +Happiness, see Blessed, Heaven. +Hardness of heart, 2:98. +Hatred and love, 1:130. +Health + Preserved, 2:6, 2:7, 2:8, 2:19; + restored, 1:55. +Heaven + And earth, 2:10, 2:53; + and hell, 1:45; + invisible and holy, 1:105; + meditation of it, 2:162; + joy there for repenting sinners, 1:101; + its blessedness and business, 1:40, 1:41; + the hope of it our support, 2:65; + its prospect makes death easy, 2:66; + worship of it humble, 2:68; + freedom from sin and misery there, 2:86; + hoped for by Christ's resurrection, 1:26; + insured and prepared for, 1:27; + Christ's dwelling-place, 1:76; 2:91 + sight of God and Christ there, 2:23; + blessed society there, 2:33 + desired, 2:68. +Heavenly + mindedness, 2:57; + joy on earth, 2:15, 2:30, 2:59. +Hell + and death 2:2; + and judgment, 1:45, 1:175; 2:62; + or the vengeance of God, 2:22, 2:44; + the holy fear of it, 2:107. +Hezekiah's song, 1:55. +Holiness, see Grace, Spiritual, Sanctification, and sovereignty + of God, 1:82, 1:86; + and grace, 1:132, 1:140; + its characters, 1:102. +Holy, see Spirit. +Honour + vain, 1:101; + to magistrates, 2:149. +Hope + of the living, 1:88; + gives light and strength, 2:129; + in the covenant, 1:139; + of heaven by Christ's resurrection, 1:26; + of heaven our support under trials, 2:65; + of the resurrection, 2:3, 2:110. +Hosanna to Christ, 1.16; 2:42, &c. +Human + affairs condescended to by God, 2:46; + nature of Christ, 1:2, 1:3, 1:13, 1:60. +Humble, + God's dwelling, 1:87; + enlightened, 1:11, 1:12, 1:50; + worship of heaven, 2:68. +Humiliation, see Christ, Sufferings, &c. and prayer public, 1:30. +Humility + And pride, 1:127; + and meekness, 1:102; + in heaven, 2:68. +Hypocrisy + and sincerity, 1:136; + hypocrite, or almost Christian, 2:158. + + +Ignorance + enlightened, 1:11, 1:12; + and unfruitfulness, 2:165. +Impenitence, 2:125. +Incarnation of Christ, 1:2, 1:3, 1:13, 1:60. +Incomprehensible God, 2:87, 2:170; + and invisible, 2:26. +Inconstancy of our love, 2:20. +Infants, see Children. +Ingratitude complained of, 2:74. +Inspiration and prophecy, 2:151. +Institution of the Lord's supper, 3:1. +Insufficiency of self-righteousness, 2:154. +Intercession of Christ, 2:36, 2:37, 2:118. +Invitation + Of Christ answered, 1:70; + of the gospel, 1:79, 1:127; 3:13, 3:20. + + +Jealousy of our love to Christ, 1:78. +Jesus, see Lord, Christ. +Jews, see Moses, Gospel, Christ, Gentiles. +John the Baptist's message, 1:50. +Joshua, Aaron, and Moses, 2:124. +Joy, + Faith and love, 1:108; + of faith, 2:162; + carnal, parted with, 2:10, 2:11; + heavenly upon earth, 1:135; 2:30, 2:59; + spiritual restored, 2:73; + see more in Delight, Comfort. +Judgment + day, 1:45, 1:61, 1:65, 1:89, 1:90; + and hell, 2:62; + Christ coming to it, 1:61. +Justice, &c. of God, 1:86. +Justification, 1:14; see Pardon; + by faith, not by works, 1:94, 1:109; + sanctification, 1:7, 1:9, 1:20, 1:84, 1:85; 2:90; + and glory, 1:3. + + +Kingdom + And titles of Christ, 1:13; + of Christ among men, 1:21, 1:65; + of God eternal, 2:67; + supreme, 2:115. +Knowledge and faith + in Christ, 1:103; + saving, from God, 1:11. 1:12. 1:93. + + +Lamb that was slain, 1:1, 1:25, 1:62; see Christ. +Law + convinces of sin, 1:115; + condemns, 1:94; + and gospel, 2:120, 1:121, 1:124; + and gospel sinned against, 1:118. +Levitical priesthood fulfilled in Christ, 2:12. +Life + frail and succeeding eternity, 2:55; + preserved, 2:6, 2:7, 2:8, 2:19; + short, frail, miserable, 1:82; 2:39, 2:58; + the day of grace and hope, 1:88. +Light + And salvation by Jesus Christ, 1:50; + in darkness by the presence of God, 2:54; + given to the blind, 1:11, 1:12. +Long-sufferance, see Patience. +Lord Jesus at his own table, 1:66; 3:15; + supper, preaching, and baptism, 2:141; + supper instituted, 3:1; + day, 1:72; + delightful, 2:14; + table provided for, 3:20; + see more in Christ. +Love + Of Christ unchangeable, 1:14. 1:39; + shed abroad in the heart, 1:135; + its banquet, 1:68; 3:13; + of Christ in words and deeds, 1:77; + of Christ its strength, 1:78; + unseen, 1:108; + to Christ, 2:100; + to God pleasant and powerful 2:38; + and hatred, 1:130; + faith and joy, 1:108; + and charity, 1:133; + of God in sending his Son, 1:100; 2:103, 2:104; + to God and our neighbour, 1:116; + religion vain without it, 1:134; + peace and meekness, 1:102; + of Christ dying, 3:4, 3:22; + to God inconstant, 2:20; + to the creatures dangerous, 2:48; + distinguishing, 1:11, 1:12; 2:96, 2:97. + + +Madness, folly, and distemper of sin, 2:153. +Magistrates honoured, 2:149. +Majesty of God terrible, 2:22, 2:62. +Malice and love, 1:130. +Man + saved and angels punished, 2:96, 2:97; + mortal and vain, 1:82; + his fall and recovery, 1:107. +Martyrdom, 1:14; 2:4. +Martyrs glorified, 1:40, 1:41. +Mary the virgin's song, 1:60. +Mediator the way to the throne of grace, 2:108. +Meditation + of heaven, 2:162; + and retirement, 2:122. +Memorial of our absent Lord, 3:6. +Memory, weak, 2:165. +Mercies, national, 2:111; see Grace, Wrath, Thanks. +Messiah + born, 1:60; + come, 2:12. +Michael's war with the dragon, 1:58. +Ministers' commission, 1:128. +Ministry + of angels, 2:18; + of the gospel, 1:10. +Misery +And sin banished from heaven, 2:86; + and shortness of life. 2:39; + without God in the world, 2:56; + of sinners, see Sinner, Death, Hell. +Morning and evening songs, 1:79, 1:80, 1:81; 2:6, 2:7, 2:8. +Mortality and vanity of man, 1:82. +Mortification + to the world by the sight of God, 2:41; + by the cross of Christ, 2:106; 3:7. +Moses + And Christ, 1:49, 1:118; + dying, 2:49; + Aaron, and Joshua, 2:124. +Mourning, see Complaint, Repentance. +Mysteries revealed, 1:11, 1:12. + + +National mercies and thanks, 2:1, 2:111. +Nativity of Christ, 1:2, 1:3, 1:13. +Nature + Corrupt from Adam, 1:57; + corrupt from Adam, 1:57; 2:128, 2:159. +Neighbour and God loved, 1:116. +New + Covenant sealed, 3:3; + promises, 1:7; + song, 1:1; + creature, 1:9; + testament in the blood of Christ, 3:3; + creation, 1:95; 2:130; + birth, 1:95. +November 5th, a song of praise, 2:92. + + +Obedience evangelical, 1:140, 1:143. +Old age and death of the unconverted, 1:91. +Offence not to be given, 1:126. +Offices and operations + of the Holy Spirit, 2:133; + and of Christ, 1:146-150; 2:132. +Olive-tree, the wild and good, 1:114. +Ordinances, see Worship, Lord's Supper. +Original sin, 1:57; see Adam, Nature. + + +Pains, comfort under them, 2:50. +Paradise on earth, 2:30, 2:59. +Pardon, + sufficiency of it, 2:85; + and confession, 1:131; + and strength from Christ, 3:24; + bought at a dear price, 3:4; + and sanctification by faith, 1:9; 2:90; + brought to our senses, 3:11. +Parents + and children, 1:113, 1:114; + convey not grace, 1:99. +Passions, see Christ, Sufferings, Anger, Love. +Passover, Christ is ours, 2:155. +Patience + under afflictions, 1:5. 1:129; 2:109; + of God producing repentance, 2:74, 2:105. +Peace + Of conscience, 2:57; + and contention, 1:130; + see Comfort, Joy. +Perfections of God, 2:166-169. +Persecution, courage under it, 1:14. +Persevering grace, 1:26, 1:32, 1:48, 1:51, 1:138. +Person of Christ glorious and gracious, 1:75; 2:47. +Pharisee and publican, 1:131. +Pilgrimage of the saints, 2:53. +Pleasures + of a good conscience, 2:37; + of religion, 2:30, 2:59; + sinful forsaken, 2:10, 2:11; + their vanity and danger, 2:101. +Poverty of spirit, 1:102, 2:127. +Power + of God, 1:86; + and wisdom in Christ crucified, 2:126; 3:10; + and goodness of God awful, 1:42; 2:80. +Praise + imperfect on earth, 2:5; + for daily protection and preservation, 2:6, 2:7, 2:8; + from angels, 2:27; + from the creation, 2:71; + to the Redeemer, 2:5, 2:21, 2:29, 2:35, 2:78; + to the Trinity, 3:26-41; + for creation and redemption, 2:35. +Prayer and praise, 1:1; + for deliverance answered, 1:30. +Preaching, baptism, and the Lord's supper, 2:141. +Predestination, see Election. +Preparation for death, 1:27; see Death. +Presence + of God in worship, 2:45; + light in darkness. 2:54; + in death, 1:19; 2:31, 2:49; 3:14; + in life and death, 2:117; + or absence of Christ, 2:50; + of Christ in worship, 1:66; 2:15, 2:16; 3:15; + of God our life, 2:93, 2:94, 2:100. +Preservation + of this world, 2:13; + of our graces, 1:51; + of our lives, 2:6, 2:7, 2:8, 2:19. +Presumption and despair, 1:115; 2:156, 2:157. +Pride and humility, 1:11, 1:12, 1:127. +Priesthood, + Levitical ending in Christ, 2:12; + of Christ, 2:118. +Prodigal repenting, 1:123. +Profit and unprofitableness, 1:118; 2:165. +Promised Messiah born, 1:60, 1:107. +Promises of the covenant, 1:9, 1:39, 1:107; see scripture; + and truth of God unchangeable, 1:139; + our security, 2:40, 2:60, 2:69. +Prophecies + and types of Christ, 2:135; + and inspiration, 2:151. +Prosperity + and adversity, 1:5; + vain, 2:56, 2:101. +Protection + from spiritual enemies, 2:82; + of the church, 1:8, 1:22, 1:23; see Church. +Providence, 2:46; + executed by Christ, 1:1; + over afflictions and death, 1:83; + its darkness, 2:109; + prosperous and afflictive, 1:5. +Provisions, see Gospel, Lord's Table. +Public ordinances, see Worship. +Publican and Pharisee, 1:131. +Punishment for sin, see Hell, 1:100, 1:118. + + +Race, Christian, 1:48. +Reason + Feeble, 2:87; + carnal, humbled, 1:11, 1:12. +Reconciliation to God in Christ, 2:148. +Recovery from sickness, 1:55. +Redemption + in Christ, 1:97, 1:98; + and protection, 2:82; + by price, 3:4; + and by power, 2:29; + see Christ. +Regeneration, 1:95; 2:130; see Election, Adoption, Sanctification. +Religion + Neglected, 2:32; + vain without love, 1:134; + Christianity, the excellency of it, 2:131; + revealed, see Gospel, Scripture. +Remembrance of Christ, 3:6. +Repentance + from God's goodness and patience, 2:74, 2:105; + and humiliation, 1:87; + at the cross of Christ, 2:9, 2:106; + and impenitence, 2:125; + gives joy to heaven, 1:101. +Repenting prodigal, 1:123. +Resignation, see Submission. +Resurrection, 1:6; 2:102, 110; see Death, Christ, heaven. +Retirement and meditation, 2:122. +Returns and backslidings, 2:20. +Revelation of Christ, see Gentile, Gospel. +Revenge and love, 1:130. +Rich sinner dying, 1:24; 2:56. +Riches, their vanity, 2:56, 2:101. +Righteousness + And strength in Christ, 1:84; 1:85, 1:97; 1:98; + of Christ valuable, 1:109; + our robe, 1:7, 2:20; + and self-righteousness, 1:131; + our own insufficient, 2:154. + + +Sabbath delightful, 2:14. +Sacrament, see Baptism, Lord's Supper. +Sacrifice + of Christ, 2:142; + and intercession, 2:118. +Safety of the church, 1:8, 1:39; 2:64, 2:92. +Saints, see Church, Spiritual; + God their avenger, 2:115; + and hypocrites, 1:136, 1:140; + their example, 2:140; + characters of them, 1:143; + in the hands of Christ, 1:138; + security, 2:64; + beloved in Christ, 1:54; + adopted, 1:64; + death and burial, 2:3; + in glory, 1:40, 1:41; + communion, 3:2. +Salvation, 2:88; + of the worst sinners, 1:104; + by grace, 1:111; + in Christ, 1:137; + see Christ, Cross, Grace, Heaven, Light, Redeem, Righteousness. +Sanctification, + Justification, and glory, 1:3; + and pardon, 1:9; + through faith, 2:90. +Satan + and Christ at enmity, 1:107; + his various temptations, 2:156, 2:157; + conquered by Christ, 2:89; + see Devil. +Scripture, 1:53; 2:119; see Gospel. +Sea under the dominion of God, 2:70. +Sealing and witnessing Spirit, 1:144. +Secure and awakened sinner, 1:115. +Security in the promises, 2:40, 2:60, 2:69. +Seeking after Christ, 1:67, 1:71. +Self-righteousness, 1:131; + Insufficient, 2:154; +Sense assisting our faith, 2:141. +Sensual delights dangerous, 2:10, 2:11, 2:48. +Serpent, brazen, 1:112. +Shepherd, Christ and his pastures, 1:67. +Shortness, frailty, and misery of life, 2:32, 2:39, 2:58. +Sickness and recovery, 1:55. +Sight + of God mortifies us to the world, 2:41; + of Christ beatific, 2:16, 2:75; + and faith, 1:110, 1:120; 2:129, 2:145; + of Christ makes death easy, 3:14. +Simeon's song, 1:19; 3:14. +Sin + the cause of Christ's death, 2:81; + and misery banished from heaven, 1:105; 2:86; + original, 1:57; + pardoned and subdued, 1:9, 1:104; 2:90; + indwelling, 1:115; + its power, 1:115; 2:86; + the ruin of angels and men 2:24; + custom in it, 2:160; + folly, madness, and distemper of it, 2:153; + conviction of it by the law, 1:115; + against the law and gospel, 1:118; + crucified, 1:106; + deceitfulness of it, 2:150. +Sinai and Sion, 2:152. +Sincerity and hypocrisy, 1:136. +Sinful pleasures forsaken, 2:10, 2:11. +Sinner, + the vilest saved, 1:104; + and saint's death, 2:2, 2:3, 2:52; + invited to Christ, 1:127; + excluded heaven, 1:104, 1:105; + his death terrible, 1:91; 2:2. +Sinning and repenting, 2:20. +Sloth, spiritual, complained of, 2:25. +Society in heaven blessed, 2:53. +Son equal with the Father, 2:51; see Christ. +Song + of angels, 1:3; + of Simeon, 1:19; 3:14; + of Zacharias, 1:50; + of Moses and the Lamb, 1:49, 1:56; + of Hezekiah, 1:55; + of Solomon paraphrased, 1:66-78; + of the Virgin Mary, 1:60; + for November 5th, 2:92. +Sons of God, 1:64, 1:143; + elect and new-born, 1:54. +Sorrow, see Repentance; + comfort under it, 2:50, 2:69; + for the dead, relieved, 2:3. +Sovereignty, 1:86; see Grace, Election, God. +Soul separate, see Death, Heaven, Hell. +Spirit + breathed after, 1:74; + water and blood, 3:9; + his offices, 2:133; + witnessing and sealing, 1:144; + its fruits, 1:102. +Spiritual + enemies, deliverance, 1:47; 2:65, 2:82; + warfare, 2:77; + pilgrimage, 2:53; + apparel, 1:7, 1:20; + race, 1:48; + sloth and dulness, 2:25, 2:34; + joy, 2:73, 2:75; + meat, drink, and clothing, 1:7; + food, see Feast. +State of nature and grace, 1:104. +Storm, see Thunder. +Strength from heaven, 1:15, 1:32, 1:48; + righteousness and pardon in Christ, 1:84, 1:85; 3:24; +Submission + and deliverance, 1:129; + to afflictions, 1:5; 2:109. +Success of the gospel, 1:11, 1:12, 1:119; 2:144. +Sufferings for Christ, 1:102; see Christ; +Supper of the Lord instituted, 3:1; + baptism and preaching, 2:141. +Support under trials, 2:50, 2:65. +Sympathy of Christ, 1:125. + + +Table of the Lord, see Lord. +Temptations, + hope under them, 1:139; + of the world, 2:101; + of the devil, 2:65, 2:156, 2:157; + and desertion complained of 2:163. +Tempted, Christ's compassion to them, 1:125. +Terrors of death to the unconverted, 1:91. +Testament, new, in the blood of Christ, 3:3. +Thanksgiving + for victory, 2:111; + for mercies, 2:116; + national, 2:1. +Throne of Grace, see Grace. +Thunderer, God, 2:62. +Time + redeemed, 1:88; + ours, and eternity God's, 2:67. +Tree of life, 3:8; + and river of love, 3:20; +Trials on earth, and hope of heaven, 2:63. +Trinity praised, 3:26-41. +Triumph + over death, 1:6; 2:110; + of faith in Christ, 1:14; + at a feast, 3:21; + of Christ over our enemies, 1:82. +Trust, see Faith. +Truth and promises of God unchangeable, 1:139; 2:60, 2:69. +Types, 2:12; + and prophecies of Christ, 2:135. + +Unbelief + and faith, 1:100; + punished, 1:118. +Uncharitableness and charity, 1:126. +Unconverted state, 2:159. + death terrible to them, 1:91 +Unfruitfulness, 2:165. +Unsanctified affections, 2:165. +Unseen things, faith in them, 1:120 + + +Vain prosperity, 2:56, 2:101. +Value of Christ and his righteousness, 1:109. +Vanity + and mortality of man, 1:82; + of youth, 1:89, 1:90; + of the creatures, 2:146. +Victory, + a thanksgiving for it, 2:111 + over death, 1:17; + sin and sorrow, 1:14; + of Christ over Satan, 1:58; 2:89; + see Enemies. +Virtues, + Christian, 2:161; + see Holiness, Love, Saints, Spiritual. + + +Wandering + affections, 2:20; + thoughts in worship, 1:136. +Warfare, Christian, 2:77. +Water, the Spirit, and the blood, 3:9. +Weak saints encouraged + by Christ, 1:125; + by the church, 1:126. +Weakness our own, and Christ our strength, 1:15. +Wisdom + and power of God in Christ crucified, 3:10; + carnal humbled, 1:11, 1:12. +Witnessing and sealing Spirit, 1:144. +Word of God, 1:53; + preached, 1:10, 1:119; + see Gospel, Scripture. +World, + crucifixion to it by the cross, 3:7; + the temptations of it, 2:101; + its ends, 2:164; + mortification to it by the sight of God, 2:41; + its creation, 2:147; + and preservation, 2:13. +Worship of heaven + humble, 2:68; + profitable, 2:123; + condescended to by God, 2:45; + Christ present at it, 1:66; 2:15, 2:16; 3:15; + accepted through Christ, 2:36, 2:37; + formality in it, 1:136; + delightful, 2:14, 2:15, 2:16, 2:42. +Wrath and mercy of God, 1:42; 2:80; see God, Hell. + + +Yoke of Christ easy, 1:127. +Youth, + its vanities, 1:89, 1:90; + advised, 1:91. + + +Zacharia's song, and John's message, 1:50. +Zeal + in the Christian race, 1:48; 2:129; + and love, 1:14; + for the gospel, 1:103; 2:3; + the want of it, 2:25; + against sin, 2:106; + for God, 2:116. +Zion, her glory and defence, 2:64; + + + +A TABLE of the Scriptures that are Turned into Verse. + +In the First Book. + +Genesis +3:1, 15, 17 - Hymn 1:107 +17:1 - Hymn 1:113 +17:7, 10 - Hymn 1:121 +22:6 &c. - Hymn 1:129 + +Job +1:21 - Hymn 1:5 +3:14, 15 - Hymn 1:94 +4:17, 21 - Hymn 1:82 +5:6, 7, 8 - Hymn 1:83 +9:2, 10 - Hymn 1:86 +14:4 - Hymn 1:57 +29:25, 26, 27 - Hymn 1:6 + +Psalms +3:5, 6 - Hymn 1:80 +4:8 - Hymn 1:80 +19:5, 8 - Hymn 1:79 +49:6, 9 - Hymn 1:24 +51:5 - Hymn 1:57 +73:24, 25 - Hymn 1:70 +139:23, 24 - Hymn 1:136 +143:8 - Hymn 1:80 +147:19, 20 - Hymn 1:53 + +Proverbs +8:1, 22, 32 - Hymn 1:92 +8:34, 36 - Hymn 1:93 + +Ecclesiastes +8:8 - Hymn 1:24 +9:4, 5, 6, 10 - Hymn 1:88 +9:9 - Hymns 1:89 and 1:90 + +Song of Solomon +1:2-5, 12, 17 - Hymn 1:66 +1:7 - Hymn 1:67 +2:1,2,3 &c. - Hymn 1:68 +2:8, 9 &c. - Hymn 1:96 +3:14, 16, 17 - Hymn 1:70 +3:1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - Hymn 1:71 +3:2 - Hymn 1:72 +4:1, 7, 11 - Hymn 1:73 +4:12, 14, 15 - Hymn 1:74 +5:1 - Hymn 745:9-16 - Hymn 1:75 +6:1, 2, 3, 12 - Hymn 1:76 +7:5, 6, 9 12, 13 - Hymn 1:77 +8:5, 8, 14 - Hymn 1:78 + +Isaiah +5:2, 7, 10 - Hymn 1:10 +9:2, 6, 7 - Hymn 1:13 +26L1, 2 &c. - Hymn 1:8 +24:8, 20 - Hymn 1:30 +38:9 &c. - Hymn 1:55 +40:27, 28 &c. - Hymns 1:32 and 1:48 +45:7 - Hymn 1:81 +45:21, 25 - Hymns 1:84 and 1:85 +49:13, 14 &c. - Hymn 1:39 +53:1-5, 10-12 - Hymn 1:141 +53:6, 9, 12 - Hymn 1:142 +55:1, 2 &c. - Hymns 1:7 and 1:9 +57:15, 16 - Hymn 1:87 +61:10 - Hymn 1:20 +63:1, 2, 3 &c. - Hymn 1:28 +63:4, 5, 6, 7 - Hymn 1:29 +65:20 - Hymn 1:91 + +Lamentations +3:23 - Hymn 1:81 + +Ezekiel +36:25 &c. - Hymn 1:9 + +Micah +7:19 - Hymn 1:9 + +Nahum +1:1, 2, 3 &c. - Hymn 1:24 + +Zechariah +13:1 - Hymn 1:9 + +Matthew +3:9 - Hymn 1:99 +5:3, 12 - Hymn 1:102 +11:28, 30 - Hymn 1:127 +12:20 - Hymn 1:125 +13:16, 17 - Hymn 1:10 +21:9 - Hymn 1:16 +22:37, 40 - Hymn 1:116 +28:18, &c. - Hymn 1:128 +28:19 - Hymn 1:52 + +Mark +10:14 - Hymn 1:113 +16:15 &c. Hymn 1:128 + +Luke +1:30 &c. - Hymn 1:3 +1:46 &c. - Hymn 1:60 +1:68 - Hymn 1:50 +2:10 &c. - Hymn 1:3 +2:27 - Hymn 1:19 +10:21, 22 - Hymns 1:11 and 1:12 +15:7, 10 - Hymn 1:101 +15:13 &c. - Hymn 1:123 +18:10 &c. - Hymn 1:131 +19:38, 40 - Hymn 1:16 + +John +1:1, 3, 14 - Hymn 1:42 +1:13 - Hymn 1:95 +1:17 - Hymn 1:118 +1:29, 32 - Hymn 1:50 +3:3 &c. - Hymn 1:95 +3:14, 16 - Hymn 1:112 +3:16, 17, 18 - Hymn 1:100 +4:24 - Hymn 1:136 +10:28, 29 - Hymn 1:107 + +Acts +2:38 - Hymn 1:52 +16:14, 15, 33 - Hymn 1:121 + +Romans +3:19, 22 - Hymn 1:94 +5:12 &c. - Hymns 1:57 and 1:124 +6:1, 2 6 - Hymn 1:106 +6:3, 4 &c. - Hymn 1:122 +7:8, 9, 14, 24 - Hymn 1:115 +8:14, 16 - Hymn 1:144 +8:33 &c. - Hymn 1:14 +9:21, 22 &c. - Hymn 1:117 +11:16, 17 - Hymn 1:114 +14:17, 19 - Hymn 1:126 +15:8, 9, 12 - Hymn 1:113 + +1 Corinthians +1:23, 24 - Hymn 1:119 +1:26, 3 - Hymn 1:96 +1:39 - Hymns 1:97 and 1:98 +2:9, 10 - Hymn 1:105 +3:6, 7 - Hymn 1:119 +6:10, 11 - Hymn 1:104 +10:32 - Hymn 1:126 +13:1, 2, 3 - Hymn 1:134 +13:2, 3, 7, 13 - Hymn 1:183 +15:55 &c. - Hymn 1:1 + +2 Corinthians +2:16 - Hymn 1:119 +5:1, 5, 8 - Hymn 1:110 +12:7, 9, 10 - Hymn 1:15 + +Galatians +4:4 - Hymn 1:107 +4:6 - Hymn 1:64 + +Ephesians +1:3 &c. - Hymn 1:54 +1:13, 14 - Hymn 1:144 +3:9, 10 - Hymn 1:2 +3:16 &c. - Hymn 1:135 +4:30 &c. - Hymn 1:130 + +Philippians +2:2 - Hymn 1:130 +3:7, 8, 9 - Hymn 1:109 + +Colossians +1:16 - Hymn 1:2 +2:15 - Hymn 1:107 + +2 Timothy +1:9, 10 - Hymn 1:137 +1:12 - Hymn 1:103 +3:15, 16 - Hymn 1:53 +4:6, 7, 8, 18 - Hymn 1:27 + +Titus +2:10, 13 - Hymn 1:132 +3:3, 7 - Hymn 1:111 + +Hebrews +1:1 - Hymn 1:53 +3:3, 5, 6 - Hymn 1:111 +4:15, 16 - Hymn 1:125 +5:7 - Hymn 125 +6:17, 19 - Hymn 1:139 +Chapter 7 - Hymn 1:145 +Chapter 9 - Hymn 1:145 +10:28, 29 - Hymn 1:118 +11:1, 3, 8, 10 - Hymn 1:120 + +1 Peter +1:3, 4, 5 - Hymn 1:26 +1:8 - Hymn 1:108 + +1 John +3:1 &c. - Hymn 1:64 + +Jude +Verses 24 and 25 - Hymn 1:51 + +Revelation +1:5, 6, 7 - Hymn 1:61 +5:6, 8, 12 - Hymns 1:1 and 1:25 +5:11-13 - Hymns 1:62 and 1:63 +7:13 &c. - Hymns 1:40 and 1:41 +11.15 - Hymn 1:65 +12:7 - Hymn 1:58 +14:13 - Hymn 1:18 +15:3 - Hymns 1:49 and 1:56 +16:19 - Hymn 1:56 +17:6 - Hymn 1:56 +18:20, 21 - Hymn 1:59 +21:1, 2, 3, 4 - Hymn 1:21 +21:5, 6, 7, 8 - Hymn 1:45 +21:27 - Hymn 1:105 + + +In the Third Book. + +Luke +2:28 - Hymn 3:14 +14:16 - Hymn 3:12 +14:17, 23 - Hymn 3:13 +22:19 - Hymn 3:6 + +John +6:31, 35, 39 - Hymn 3:5 +14:3 - Hymn 3:6 +16:16 - Hymn 3:6 + +1 Corinthians +10:16, 17 - Hymn 3:2 +11:23 &c. - Hymn 3:1 + +Galatians +4:14 - Hymn 3:7 + +1 John +Verse 6 - Hymn 3:9 + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Hymns and Spiritual Songs, by Isaac Watts + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS *** + +***** This file should be named 13341.txt or 13341.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/3/4/13341/ + +Produced by Lewis Jones. + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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