d 4 [What if, to make his terrour known, He lets his patience long endure, Suff'ring vile rebels to go on,

And seal their own destruction sure? 5 What if he means to show 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. p 7 But, O my soul, if truth so bright, Should dazzle and confound thy sight. Yet still, his written will obey,

g

And wait the great, decisive day.

8 Then he shall make his justice known; And the whole world before his throne, With joy or terrour shall confess

The glory of his righteousness.

HYMN 118. S. M. St. Bridge's. [*]

Sin against the Law and Gospel.

John i, 17;
Heb. iii, 3, 5, 6; x, 28, 29.
HE law by Moses came;

1 THE

But peace and truth and love,

Were brought by Christ, a nobler name,
Descending from above.

2

Amidst the house of God,

Their diffrent works were done

Moses a faithful servant stood,

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But Christ a faithful Son.

Then to his new commands
Be strict obedience paid;

O'er all his Father's house he stands,
The Sovereign and the Head.
The man who durst despise
The law that Moses brought-
p Behold! how terribly he dies-
For his presumptuous fault.
But sorer vengeance falls
On that rebellious race,

e 5

Who hate to hear when Jesus calls,
And dare resist his grace.

HYMN 119. C. M Abridge.

Various Success of the Gospel.

[*]

1 Cor. i, 23, 24; 2 Cor. ii, 16; 1 Cor. iii, 6, CHRIST and his cross is all our theme; The myst'ries that we speak

1

Are scandal in the Jews' esteem,

And folly to the Greek.

o 2 But souls, enlighten'd from above, With joy receive the word;

a

They see what wisdom, power, and love.
Shine in their dying Lord.

-3 The vital savour of his name
Restores their fainting breath:
e 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 120. C. M. Mear. [*]

Faith of Things unseen. Heb. xi, 1, 3,8, 10. AITH is the brightest evidence

1

FA

Of things beyond our sight;

Breaks through 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 werd;
Abra'am, to unknown countries led,
By faith obey'd the Lord.

4 He sought a city fair and high,

Built by th' eternal hands;

o And faith assures us, though we die, That heavenly building stands.

HYMN 121. C. M. St. Martin's. [*] Children devoted to God Gen. xvii, 7, 10; Acts xvi, 14, 15, 33.

1

TI'll be a God to thee:

HUS saith the mercy of the Lord,

'I'll bless thy num'rous race, and they
'Shall be a seed for me.'

2 Abra'am 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 sanctified her house,
When she receiv'd the word;
Thus the believing jailer 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 122. L. M. Quercy. [*] Believers buried with Christ. Rom. vi, 3, 4, &e. O we not know that solemn word,

e 1

1D That we are buried with the Lord?

Baptiz'd into his death, and then
Put off the body of our sin?

o 2 Our sols 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 123. C. M. Reading. [b *]
The Repenting Prodigal. Luke xv, 13, &c.
BEHOLD the wretch, whose lust and wine

Have wasted his estate!

He begs a share among the swine,

To taste the husks they eat.

2' die with hunger here,' he cries, 'I starve in foreign lands;

'My father's house has large supplies, And bounteous are his hands.

-3I'll go, and with a mournful tongue, "Fall down before his face;

pFather, I've done thy justice wrong, "Nor can deserve thy grace.'

o 4 He said,-and hasten'd to his home To seek his father's love;

-The father saw the rebel come, e And all his bowels move.

u 5 He ran and fell upon his neck, Embrac'd and kiss'd his son;

p 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
s 'My son was dead,-and lives again;
"Was lost-and now is found."

HYMN 124. L. M. Armley. [b *] The First and Second Adam. Rom. v, 12, &c. e 1 DEEP in the dust, before thy throne,

Our guilt and our disgrace we own; a Great God we own th' unhappy namie, Whence sprung our nature, and our shame! 2 Adam the sinner: at his fall

Death, like a conqu❜ror, seiz'd us all :
A thousand new-born babes are dead,
By fatal union to their head.

e 3 But whilst our spirits, fill'd with awe,
Behold the terrours 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:
g Adam, the Second, from the dust
Raises the ruins of the first.

e 5 [By the rebellion of one man,
Through all his seed the mischief ran ;
-And by one man's obedience now,
Are all his seed made rightecus too.

o 6 Where sin did reign and death abound,
There have the sons of Adam found

Abounding life; there glorious grace
Reigns, through the Lord our righteousness.]

HYMN 125. C. M. Barby. [*]

Christ's Compassion to the Weak and Tempted.
Heb. iv, 16; v, 7; Matt. xii, 20.
WITH joy we meditate the grace
Of our High Priest above;

1

W

e His heart is made of tenderness,

His bowels melt with love.

p 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:

e While Satan's fiery darts he bore, And did resist to blood.

p 4 He, in the days of feeble flesh, Pour'd out his cries and tears; e And, in his measure, feels afresh What ev'ry member bears.

b 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.)

o 6 Then let our humble faith address
His mercy and his power;

。 We shall obtain deliv'ring grace, In the distressing hour.

HYMN 126. L. M. Islington. [*] Charity and Uncharitableness. Rom. xív, 17, 19; 1 Cor. x, 32.

1N Compose the kingdom of our Lord;

[OT diff'rent food, nor different dress,

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: