1 had provok'd a dreadful God,
And all my hopes were slain.)
p 5 I'm like a helpless captive, sold
Under the pow'r of sin;

I cannot do the good I would,
Nor keep my conscience clean,
-6 My God, I cry with ev'ry breath,
For some kind pow'r to save;
To break the yoke of sin and death,
And thus redeem the slave.

HYMN 116. L. M. Bath. [*] Love to GOD and our Neighbour. Matt. xxii,37-40. 1HUS saith the first, the great command, "Let all thy inward pow'rs unite,

To love thy Maker, and thy God,
With utmost vigour and delight.

2 Then shall thy neighbour, next in place,
Share thine affection and esteem;
And let thy kindness to thyself,
Measure and rule thy love to him."

3 This is the sense that Moses spoke;
This did the prophets preach and prove;
For want of this the law is broke,
And the whole law's fulfill'd by love.
a 4 But oh! how base our passions are!
How cold our charity and zeal!
-Lord, fill our souls with heav'nly fire,
Or we shall ne'er perform thy will.

HYMN 117. L. M. Blendon. Bath. [*]
Election Sovereign and Free. Rom. ix, 21-24.

1

BEHOLD the potter and the clay,

He forms his vessels as he please;

Such is our God, and such are we,
The subjects of his just decrees.

2 [Doth not the workman's pow'r extend
O'er all the mass, which part to chuse,
And mould it for a nobler end,
And which to leave for viler use?]

e 3 May not the sov'reign Lord on high
Dispense his favours as he will,

Choose some to life, while others die,
And yet be just, and gracious still?

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 heav'nly 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,

And wait the great decisive day.

g 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. 1 THE law by Moses came; But peace and truth and love,

Were bro't by Christ, a nobler name,
Descending from above.

2 Amidst the house of God, ? Their diff'rent works were done; Moses a faithful servant stood,

But Christ a faithful Son.

3 Then to his new commands
Be strict obedience paid;

O'er all his Father's house he stands,
The Sov'reign and the Head.

e 4 The man who durst despise
The law that Moses brought!
p Behold! how terrible he dies-
For his presumptuous fault.

e 5 But sorer vengeance falls

On that rebellious race,

1

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, 7.

a

1

CHRIST and his cross is all our theme;
The myst❜ries that we speak

Are scandal in the Jews' esteem,

And folly to the Greek.

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

They see what wisdom, pow'r 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. 'Till God diffuse his graces down, Like show'rs of heav'nly rain, In vain Apollos sows the ground, And Paul may plant in vain.

1

HYMN 120. C. M. Mear. [*]
Faith of Things unseen. Heb. xi, 1, 3, 8, 10.
AITH is the brightest evidence,

FAITH

Of things beyond our sight;

1

Breaks through the clouds of flesh and sense,
And dwells in heav'nly 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 word;
Abrah'm 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 heav'nly building stands.

HYMN 121. C. M. St. Martin's. [*] Children devoted to Gon. Gen. xvii,7,10. Acts xvi,14,15,33. 1 THUS saith the mercy of the Lord,

THUS

"I'll be a God to thee:

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

"

2 Abrah'm 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.

e 1

HYMN 122. L. M. Quercy. [*]
Believers buried with CHRIST. Rom. vi, 3, 4, &c.
O we not know that solemn word,
That we are buried with the Lord?

Baptis'd into his death, and then

Put off the body of our sin?

o 2 Our souls receive diviner breath,
Rais'd from corruption, guilt, and death;
o 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.

1

HYMN 123. C. M. Reading. [b*]
The Repenting Prodigal. Luke xv, 13, &c.

BEHOLD the wretch, whose lust and wine

Has wasted his estate!

He begs a share among the swine,

To taste the husks they eat.

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

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

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

p "Father, 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;

e

-The father saw the rebel come,

And all his bowels move.,„, vei 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. EEP in the dust, before thy throne,

e 1D Our guilt and our disgrace we own;

a Great God we own th' unhappy name, 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 righteous too.

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