3 Thus saved, may we with joy appear
In heaven before his face;
And, with the blest assembly there,
Sing his redeeming grace.
Messiah, the Saviour and the Judge.
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MESSIAH, joy of every heart,
Thou, thou the King of glory art,
The Father's everlasting Son:
Thee it delights thy Church to own;
For all our hopes on thee depend,
Whose glorious mercies never end.
2 When thou hadst render'd up thy breath,
And, dying, drawn the sting of death,
Thou didst from earth triumphant rise,
And ope the portals of the skies;
That all who trust in thee alone,
Might follow, and partake thy throne.
3 Seated at God's right hand again,
Thou dost in all his glory reign;
Thou dost, thy Father's image, shine
In all the attributes divine;
And thou with judgment clad shalt come,
To seal our everlasting doom.
4 Wherefore we now for mercy pray;
O Saviour, take our sins away:
Before thou as our Judge appear,
In dreadful majesty severe,
Appear our Advocate with God,
And save the purchase of thy blood.
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THOU whose off'ring on the tree
The legal off'rings all foreshow'd,
Borrow'd their whole effect from thee,
And drew their virtue from thy blood:-
2 The blood of goats and bullocks slain,
Could never for one sin atone;
To purge the guilty offrer's stain,
Thine was the work, and thine alone.
3 These feeble types and shadows old,
Are all in thee, the Truth, fulfill'd:
We in thy sacrifice behold
The substance of those rites reveal'd.
4 Thy meritorious suff'rings past,
We see by faith to us brought back;
And, on thy grand oblation cast.
Its saving benefits partake.
His sympathizing love.
W of Jur High Priest above;
ITH joy we meditate the grace
His heart is made of tenderness,
His bowels melt with love.
2 Touch'd with a sympathy within,
He knows our feeble frame;
He knows what sore temptations mean,
For he hath felt the same.
3 He, in the days of feeble flesh,
Pour'd out strong cries and tears,
And in his measure feels afresh
What every member bears.
4 He'll never quench the smoking flax,
But raise it to a flame;
The bruised reed he never breaks,
Nor scorns the meanest name.
5 Then let our humble faith address
His mercy and his power;
We shall obtain deliv'ring grace
In every trying hour.
The Pillar and the Cloud.
THOU very Paschal Lamb,
Whose blood for us was shed,
Through whom we out of bondage came,
Thy ransom'd people lead.
2 Angel of gospel grace,
Fulfil thy character:
To guard and feed the chosen race,
In Israel's camp. appear.
3 Throughout the desert way,
Conduct us by thy light;
Be thou a cooling cloud by day,
A cheering fire by night.
4 Our fainting souls sustain
With blessings from above;
And ever on thy people rain
The manna of thy love.
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An Advocate with the Father.
ESUS, my Advocate above,
My Friend before the throne of love,
If now for me
If now I find thee pleading there,—
prevails thy prayer,
2 If thou the secret wish convey,
And sweetly prompt my heart to pray,—
Hear, and my weak petitions join,
Almighty Advocate, to thine.
3 Jesus, my heart's desire obtain;
My earnest suit present, and gain:
My fulness of corruption show;
The knowledge of myself bestow.
4 Save me from death; from hell set free;
Death, hell, are but the want of thee:
My life, my only heaven thou art;-
O might I feel thee in my heart.
He ever liveth to make intercession for us.
ORD, how shall sinners dare
Look up to thine abode?
Or offer their imperfect prayer,
Before a holy God?
2 Bright terrors guard thy seat,
And glories veil thy face;
Yet mercy calls us to thy feet,
And to thy throne of
grace.
3 My soul, with cheerful eye
See where thy Saviour stands,-
The glorious Advocate on high,
With incense in his hands.
4 Teach my weak heart,
With faith to call thee mine;
Bid me pronounce the blissful word—
Father-with joy divine.
FATHER, hear the blood of Jesus,
Speaking in thine ears above:
From impending wrath release us;
Manifest thy pard'ning love.
2 O receive us to thy favour,-
For his only sake receive;
Give us to the bleeding Saviour,—
Let us by his dying live.
3 To thy pard'ning grace receive them,-
Once he pray'd upon the tree;
Still his blood cries out-Forgive them;
All their sins were laid on me.
4 Still our Advocate in heaven,
Prays the prayer on earth begun,—
Father, show their sins forgiven;.
Father, glorify thy Son!
The Way, the Truth, and the Life.
HOU art the Way: to thee alone,
From sin and death we flee;
And he who would the Father seek,
Must seek him, Lord, by thee.
2 Thou art the Truth: thy word alone
True wisdom can impart;
Thou only canst inform the mind,
And purify the heart.
3 Thou art the Life: the rending tomb
Proclaims thy conqu'ring arm;
And those who put their trust in thee
Nor death nor hell shall harm.
4 Thou art the Way-the Truth-the Life;
Grant us that way to know-
That truth to keep-that life to win-
Whose joys eternal flow.
The only name given under heaven.
JESUS, thou Source divine,
Whence hope and comfort flow,-
Jesus, no other Name than thine
Can save from endless wo.
2 None else will heaven approve:
Thou art the only way,
Ordain'd by everlasting love,
To realms of endless day.
3 Here let our feet abide,
Nor from thy path depart:
And cheer the fainting heart.
steps, thou gracious Guide!
4 Safe through this world of night,
Lead to the blissful plains,—
The regions of unclouded light,-
Where joy forever reigns.
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