67 C. M. Missionary 257. Worksop 31. '
Support in God's Covenant under Troublé. 2 Sam. xxiii, 5.
IMY God, the covenant of thy love
Abides for ever sure;
And in its matchless grace I feel
My happiness secure.
2 What tho' my house be not with thee
As nature could desire!
To nobler joys than nature gives
Thy servants all aspire.
3 Since thou, the everlasting God,
My father art become;
Jesus, my guardian and my friend,
And heaven my final home;
4 I welcome all thy sovereign will,
For all that will is love;
And when I know not what thou dost,
I'll wait the light above..
5 Thy covenant the last accent claims
Of this poor falt'ring tongue ;
And that shall the first notes employ
Of my celestial song.
112th. Scarborough 203. Hoxton 121. Pleading the Covenant. Psalm ixxiv. 20.
LORD, my God! whose sovereign love Is still the same, nor e'er can move, Look to the covenant and see,
Has not thy love been shewn to me?
Remember me, my dearest friend,
And love me always to the end.
2 Be with me still, as heretofore,
And help me forward more and more;
My strong, my stubborn will, incline
To be obedient still to thine :
O lead me by thy gracious hand,
And guide me safe to Canaan's land.
7s. Feversham 220. Bath Abbey 147,
1 NOW begin the heavenly theme,
Sing aloud in Jesus' name!
Ye, who his salvation prove,
Triumph in redeeming love.
2 Ye, who see the Father's grace
Beaming in the Saviour's face,
As to Canaan on ye move,
Praise and bless redeeming love,
3 Mourning souls, dry up your tears;
Banish all your guilty fears;
See your guilt and curse remove,
Cancell'd by redeeming love.
4 Ye, alas! who long have been
Willing slaves to death and sin,
Now from bliss no longer rove;
Stop and taste redeeming love.
5 Welcome all by sin opprest,
Welcome to his sacred rest;
Nothing brought him from above,
Nothing but redeeming love.
6 When his Spirit leads us home,
When we to his glory.come,
We shall all the fulness prove
Of our Lord's redeeming love.
7 He subdu'd th' infernal powers,
Those tremendous foes of ours
From their cursed empire drove,.
Mighty in redeeming love.
8 Hither, then, your music bring,
Strike aloud each cheerful string!
Mortals, join the host above,
Join to praise redeeming love..
70 L. M. Winchester 137. Rothwell 174.
Redemption by Christ alone. 1 Pet. i. 18, 19.
1 ENSLAV'D by sin, and bound in chains, Beneath its dreadful tyrant sway,
And doom'd to everlasting pains,
We wretched guilty captives lay.
2 Nor gold nor gems could buy our peace: Nor the whole world's collected store Suffice to purchase our release;
A thousand worlds were all too poor.
3 Jesus, the Lord, the mighty God,
An all-sufficient ransom paid;
Invalu'd price! his precious blood,
For vile rebellious traitors shed.
4 Jesus the sacrifice became
To rescue guilty souls from hell:
The spotless, bleeding, dying Lamb
Beneath avenging justice fell.
5 Amazing goodness! love divine!
O may our grateful hearts adore
The matchless grace; nor yield to sin,
Nor wear its cruel fetters more!
6 Dear Saviour, let thy love pursue
The glorious work it has begun :
Each secret lurking foe subdue,
And let our hearts be thine alone. STEELE.
71 8.7.4. Westbury 51. Calvary 297. · Finished Redemption.
I HARK! the voice of love and mercy Sounds aloud from Calvary! ́
See, it rends the rocks asunder,
Shakes the earth, and veils the sky! {
Hear the dying Saviour cry!
2 It is finish'd!-0 what pleasure
Do these charming words afford !
Heavenly blessings without measure
Flow to us from Christ the Lord:
It is finish'd!
Saints, the dying words record.
Qur pillar of cloud in the day,
And also of fire in the night;
8 Till, the Jordan of death safely pass'd,
We land on the heavenly shore,
Where we the hid manna shall taste,
Nor hunger nor thirst any more.
9 And there, while his glories we see,
And feast on the joys of his love,
We chang'd to his likeness shall be,
And then shall all gratitude prove.
74 8.8. 6. Chatham 59. Hinton 266.
10 THOU, who didst thy glory leave,
A postate sinners to retrieve
From nature's deadly fall,-
If thou hast bought me with a price,
My sins against me ne'er shall rise,
For thou hast borne them all.
2 And wast thou punish'd in my stead?
Didst thou without the city bleed
To expiate my stain?
On earth my God vouchsaf'd to dwell,
And made of infinite avail
The sufferings of the man.
3 Behold him for transgressors given!
Behold th' incarnate King of heaven
For us, his foes, expire!
Amaz'd, O earth! the tidings hear!
He bore, that we might never bear,
His Father's righteous ire.
4 Ye saints, the Man of Sorrows bless,
The God, for your unrighteousness,
Deputed to atone ;
Praise, till, with all the ransom'd throng,
Ye sing the never-ending song,
And see him on his throne.
75 8. 7. Tabernacle 239.. Trowbridge 21.
Gratitude for the Atonement. *
1 HAIL! thou once despised Jesus,
Hail, thou Galilean King!
Thou didst suffer to release us;*
Thou didst free salvation bring.
Hail, thou agonizing Saviour,
Bearer of our sin and shame!
By thy merits we find favour;
Life is given thro' thy name.
2 Paschal Lamb, by God appointed,
All our sins on thee were laid;
By Almighty love anointed,
Thou hast full atonement made:
All thy people are forgiven
Thro' the virtue of thy blood;
Open'd is the gate of heaven;
Peace is made 'twixt man and God.
3 Jesus, hail! enthron'd in glory,
There for ever to abide!
All the heavenly host adore thee,
Seated at thy Father's side:
There for sinners thou art pleading;
'There thou dost our place prepare ;
Ever for us interceding,
Till in glory we appear.
4 Worship, honour, power, and blessing,
Thou art worthy to receive;
Loudest praises, without ceasing,,
Meet it is for us to give :
Help, ye bright angelic spirits!
Bring your sweetest, noblest lays!
Help to sing our Saviour's merits;
Help to chant Immanuel's praise.{'
76 7s. Deptford 124. Firth's 146.
Pleading the Atonement. Ps. lxxxiv. 9.
1 FATHER, God, who seest in me
Only sin and misery,
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