5 Now, sinners, dry your tears,
Let hopeless sorrow cease:
Bow to the sceptre of His love,
And take the offered peace.
6 Lord, we obey Thy call,
We lay a humble claim
To the salvation Thou hast brought,
And love and praise Thy name.
God is my salvation.-Isa. 12. 2.
1 ARISE, my soul, my joyful powers,
And triumph in my God;
Awake, my voice, and loud proclaim
His glorious grace abroad.
2 He raised me from the deeps of sin,
The gates of gaping hell,
And fixed my standing more secure
Than 'twas before I fell.
3 The arms of everlasting love
Beneath my soul He placed,
And on the Rock of Ages set
My slippery footsteps fast.
4 The city of my blest abode
Is walled around with grace;
Salvation for a bulwark stands,
To shield the sacred place.
5 Arise, my soul, awake, my voice,
And songs of gladness sing;
Loud hallelujahs shall address
My Saviour and my King.
According to His own purpose and grace.-2 Tim. 1. 9.
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 doomed 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
Doth all the powers of hell destroy;
Rising, He brings our heaven to light,
And takes possession of the joy.
The Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song.—Isa. 12. 2
GOD of salvation, we adore
Thy saving love, Thy saving power;
And to our utmost stretch of thought,
Hail the redemption Thou hast wrought.
2 We love the stroke that breaks our chain,
The sword by which our sins are slain;
And while abased in dust we bow,
We sing the grace that laid us low.
3 Perish each thought of human pride;
Let God alone be magnified;
His glory let the heavens resound,
Borne from the earth's remotest bound.
4 Saints, who His full salvation know,
Saints, who but taste it here below,
With angel voices join to raise
The chorus of eternal praise.
maketh intercession for us.
LORY be to God on high,
God whose glory fills the sky;
Peace on earth to man forgiven,
Man, the well-beloved of heaven.
2 Sovereign Father, heavenly King,
Thee Thy grateful children sing;
Glad, Thine attributes confess,
Glorious all, and numberless.
3 Hail, by all Thy works adored!
Hail, the everlasting Lord!
Thee with thankful hearts we prove
God of power, and God of love.
4 Christ, our Lord and God we own,
Christ, the Father's only Son,
Lamb of God for sinners slain,
Saviour of offending men.
5 Powerful Advocate with God,
Justify us by Thy blood;
Jesus, in Thy name we pray,
Take, O take our sins away.
6 Glory be to Christ on high,
Praise redeeming majesty ;
Light and Love come down from heaven,
Peace on earth and man forgiven.
In this was manifested the love of God.-1 John 4. 9.
FATHER, how wide Thy glory shines;
How high Thy wonders rise!
Known through the earth by thousand signs,
By thousands through the skies.
2 Those mighty orbs proclaim Thy power,
Their motions speak Thy skill,
And on the wings of every hour
We read Thy patience still.
3 But when we view Thy strange design
To save our rebel race,
Our souls adore with awe divine
Thy justice, and Thy grace.
4 When sinners break the Father's laws,
The dying Son atones;
Oh, the dear wonders of His cross,
The mystery of His groans!
5 Now the full glories of the Lamb
Adorn the heavenly plains;
Bright angels learn Immanuel's name,
And try their choicest strains.
60 may I bear some humble part
In that immortal song;
Wonder and joy shall tune my heart,
And love command my tongue.
that Thou visitest him?-Ps. 8. 4.
LORD our God, how wondrous great
Is Thine exalted name!
The glories of Thy heavenly state
Let men and babes proclaim.
2 When I behold Thy works on high,
The moon that rules the night,
And stars that well adorn the sky,
Those moving worlds of light;
3 Lord what is man, or all his race,
Who dwell so far below,
That Thou shouldst visit him with grace, And love his nature so!
4 That Thine eternal Son should bear
To take a mortal form,
Made lower than His angels are,
To save a dying worm.
5 Let Him be crowned with majesty,
Who bowed His head to death;
And be His honours sounded high
By all things that have breath.
6 Jesus our Lord! how wondrous great
Is Thine exalted name!
The glories of Thy heavenly state,
Let the whole earth proclaim.
God is light.-1 John 1. 5.
ETERNAL Light! Eternal Light!
How pure the soul must be,
When, placed within Thy searching sight,
It shrinks not, but, with calm delight,
Can live and look on Thee.
2 The spirits that surround Thy throne
May bear the burning bliss,
But that is surely theirs alone,
Since they have never, never known,
A fallen world like this.
8 Oh, how shall I, whose native sphere
Is dark, whose mind is dim,
Before the Ineffable appear,
And on my naked spirit bear
The uncreated beam ?
4 There is a way for man to rise
To that sublime abode,
An offering and a sacrifice,
A Holy Spirit's energies,
An Advocate with God.
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