4. He came to raise our fall'n state,
And our lost hopes restore;
Faith leads us to his mercy seat,
And bids us fear no more.
5. But vengeance just for ever lies
O'er all the rebel race,
Who dare the Son of GOD despise
Or scorn his offer'd grace.
1. Stranger to pain, and guilt, and strife,
Man pluck'd th' immortal tree of life;
But soon a flaming sword defies
The exile panting for its joys.
2. Yet ere the threat'ned death began Its silent work in fallen man ;
Or woman, torn with angry throes,
Had borne the offspring of her woes;
3. Mild MERCY, which delights to raise
The voice of sorrow into praise,
Prevail'd on JUSTICE still to spare
His hopeless victims from despair.
4. To Satan spake the mighty LORD:
"The deepest curse be thy reward;
"The Woman's seed shall be thy foe,
"And bind thee with increasing woe.
5. To man he said, "the blood now spilt
"Is type of blood to clear thy guilt;
"These skins shall constant emblems be
"Of righteousness deriv'd from me.
5. Praise to the LORD, who
Of Hope upon our ravish'd sight;
And who for us the victory won,
1, Behold! th' Ambassador divine
Descending from above,
To publish to mankind the law
Of everlasting love!
It is the opinion of the best commentators, that sacrifices, typical of our Lord's atonement, were instituted at the time of the fall; and that the skins, with which Adam and Eve were clothed, were those of the first victims immolated.
2. On him in rich effusion pour'd,
The heav'nly dew descends;
And truth divine he shall reveal
To earth's remotest ends.
3. No trumpet-sound, at his approach,
Shall strike the wond'ring ears;
But still and gentle breathe the voice
In which the God appears.
4. By his kind hand, the shaken reed
Shall raise its falling frame ;
The dying embers shall revive,
And kindle into flame.
5. The onward progress of his zeal
Shall never know decline :
Till foreign lands, and distant isles,
Receive the law divine.
1. Where high the heav'nly temple stands,
The house of God not made with hands,
A great HIGH PRIEST Our nature wears,
And Patron of mankind appears.
2. He, who for men in mercy stood,
And pour'd on earth his precious blood,
Pursues in heaven his plan of grace,
The Guardian of the human race.
3. Tho' now ascended up on high,
He bends on earth a brother's eye;
Partaker of the human name,
He knows the frailty of our frame.
4. Our fellow-sufferer yet retains
A fellow-feeling of our pains;
And still remembers in the skies
His tears, and agonies, and cries.
5. In every pang that rends the heart
The man of sorrows had a part;
He sympathises in our grief,
And to the sufferer sends relief.
6. With boldness, therefore, at the throne,
I.et us make all our sorrows known;
And ask the aids of heavn'ly pow'r,
To help us in the evil hour!
1. Thou, Saviour, whose mercy and love
Once led thee to suff'ring and shame;
Archangels now praise thee above,
And Potentates bow to thy Name.
2. Thy word with authority give,
Prescribe to thy people their way:
Thy law we attend to receive,
And gladly acknowledge thy sway.
3. Thy sway among men to maintain,
Compassion and righteousness meet;
Thy reign is a peaceable reign,
Thy throne is a merciful seat!
4. Great KING of an army of saints,
The friend of affliction thou art,
The life of the sinner who faints,
The joy of the comfortless heart.
1. We bless the PROPHET of the LORD,
Who comes with truth and grace;
The CHRIST, whose Spirit and whose word
Shall lead us in his ways.
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