5 O may thy pardoning grace be nigh, 39. The Faithfulness of God. 1 BEGIN, my tongue, some heavenly theme, 2 Tell of his wondrous faithfulness, 3 Proclaim salvation from the Lord, His hand has writ the sacred word, 4 Engraved, as in eternal brass, Nor can the powers of darkness 'rase 5 His every word of grace is strong, 240. God's message to man by his anointed, the Lord Messiah. 1 LET every mortal ear attend, The trumpet of the Gospel sounds, 2 Ho! all ye hungry fainting souls, 3 Eternal wisdom hath prepared And bids your longing appetites Ho! ye that pant for living streams, Here you may quench your raging thirst, 5 Rivers of love and mercy here, Salvation in abundance flows, Like floods of milk and wine. 6 Great God! the treasures of thy love Deep as our helpless miseries are, 7 The happy gates of Gospel grace And here we come to seek supplies, 241. Man's Duty. 1 GOD is goodness, wisdom, power, 2 Born for this intent we are, God to love, and serve, and praise, 3 Lift we then our hearts to God, 5 Let us then to God aspire, Live by heaven and earth adored! INSTRUCTIVE HYMNS. 242. PART II. OF GOD THE REDEEMER. New Creation. The beginning of the Creation of God, the author and finisher of our faith. 1 ATTEND while God's exalted Son, 2 Nature and sin are passed away, 3 I'll be a Sun of Righteousness, 4 Mighty Redeemer! set me free, O make my soul alive to thee, 5 Renew mine eyes, and form mine ears, 6 Far from the regions of the dead, In the new world that grace has made, 243. (Or) The Sun of Righteousness. 1 TO thee, O God, we homage pay, Source of the light that rules the day; Who, while he gilds all nature's frame, Reflects thy rays, and speaks thy name. 2 In louder strains we sing that grace Which gives the Sun of Righteousness; Whose noble light salvation brings, And scatters healing from his wings. 3 Still on our hearts may Jesus shine, With beams of light, and love divine : Quicken'd by Him our souls shall live, And cheer'd by Him, shall grow and thrive. 4 Oh, may his glories stand confess'd, From north to south, from east to west; Successful may his Gospel run, Wide as the circuit of the sun. 5 Then shall that blissful scene arise, When fix'd on high in purer skies, Christ all his lustre shall display, On all his saints through endless day. 244. Preserved in Jesus 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 Descending from the heavenly court, 3 Aside the Prince of Glory threw And wrapt his Godhead in a veil Of our inferior clay. 4 His living power, and dying love, And raised the ruins of our race, 5 To thee, O Lord, our flesh and soul Blest Jesus, take us for thine own, 6 Thine honour shall for ever be 45. Offices of Christ—the WORD. V. 1, 2, 3, 5, 9. Or 1, 4, 6, 7, 11. Or 1, 8-11. 1 JOIN all the names of love and power, 2 But O, what condescending ways 6 I love my Shepherd, he shall keep |