ye 2 Our Lord now calleth constantly: 4 Ah! come Lord Jesus, hear our pray'r T. 89. IN thine image, Lord, thou mad'st me, Gav'st me being out of love; 2 Love! before I life obtained 3 Love! who hast for me endured Keenest pains of death and hell, Love! whose suff'rings have procured More for me than tongue can tell, Sacred Love, &c. my 4 Love! my Life, and Salvation, Light and Truth, eternal Word! Thou alone dost consolation To my sinking soul afford. 5 Love! thy yoke I gladly carry, 6 Love! who interced'st in heaven 7 Love! thou me wilt raise to glory From the grave, the bed of dust, And as conqueror place before thee Crown'd with bliss the just, among Sacred Love! I long to be Thine to all eternity. 20.* T. 590. THE true good Shepherd, God's own His wand'ring sheep gone far astray To bring them home again. 2 One of those sheep, in deserts lost, Art thou, my sin-sick soul; His life it hath the Shepherd cost To save and make thee whole; Now hear his voice with gratitude, Call on his saving name; For thee he shed his precious blood, And now his own doth claim. In love to sinners vile, To bleed for fallen Adam's race, Who were accurs'd, unclean and base, Entangled fast by Satan's guile. 2 Thou, for their sake who hated thee, Didst shed thy blood upon the tree, Thy life for ours didst give; [paid, Thou bar'st our curse; our debt was Thy soul for sin an off'ring made, Thou dy'dst, that we with thee might live. [blood, 3 Thus hast thou bought us with thy That price accepted was by God With him we are at peace; No wrath remains on any one, Who will but come unto the Son, Take and put on his righteousness. 4 Never may I depart from thee; Thou hast procur'd my liberty, Thanks to thy boundless grace! Thy wounds, whereon I trust by faith, My refuge are from sin and death, My feeble soul's abiding-place. 22. T. 22. [bled GIVE thanks that Jesus Christ hath Though from man's wisdom quite conceal'd. Whom dost thou love? Sinners, the vilest race; Whom dost thou bless? Children, who scorn'd thy grace; O Being most gracious! whom angels adore, Thou takest delight in the worthless and poor. [God, 2 Our thirsting can never, O merciful Extend as far as doth thy grace ; On us thou more blessings and love hast bestow'd, Than stripes deserv'd our trespasses; O teach us to trust thy fidelity, And closely united with Christ to be, TheSpirit's kind teachings in all things to prove, Yea live to thy honor, thee serve, praise and love. 3 We pray thee, O Being most gracious and mild, Instruct our minds and teach us now, So that in Immanuel, thine image and child, Howgreat thyname is, we may know. Ah! shew us how easy it is to bear Thy yoke, and to trust thy paternalcare, That till the short period of this life shall end, Our faith and our love may the Author commend. 24. T. 14. HOW sad our state by nature is! 2 But there's a voice of sov'reign grace 3 My soul, obey the gracious call, To the dear fountain of thy blood, 5 A guilty, weak and helpless worm, NOT 25. T. 582. one of Adam's race, If in the balance try'd, Can, by his works of righteousness, 'Fore God be justify'd. The works which we have done Your condemnation feel, God gave his only Son That sinners who believe, Might not be lost, but be his own, And in his kingdom live. 26. T. 14. Lay welt'ring in my blood; Cover'd with shame and deep disgrace, And banish'd far from God. 3 Inclin❜d to me in tenderness, 6 Against the fiercest pow'rs of hell, 7 Since he became my sacrifice, 8 A pardon'd sinner I remain, 9 Arise, O happy soul, rejoice, 27. T. 22. LORD, I am vile, conceiv'd in sin, 3 O God! create my heart anew, 4 Behold, I fall before thy face; 5 My sin I feel, my guilt I know, 28. T. 22. WHEN justice did demand its due, Run, hide thyself, my soul, within Thy bleeding Saviour's out-stretch'd arms. 3 When lawcondemns,andjustice cries 4 God on these terms is reconcil'd, 5 What can be laid unto my charge? When God saith," Freely I forgive!" Tho' Satan on my crimes enlarge, Christ saith, I shall not die, but live. 6 The curses which the law of God 7 Awaythen doubts and anxious fears! 8 Jesus! be endless praise to thee, III. 29. T. 580. ARISE, ye who are captive led, Complain no more, for Christ our Head From sin can set you free: Redemption Jesus freely gives, Repenting sinners he receives, He came to save both thee and me. 2 He meekly all our sorrows bore, Us fallen sinners to restore To life and liberty: O depth of love! O mystery! 3 Th'almighty Judge condemnedwas, That heby death might gain our cause; The Prince of life was slain: And shed his precious blood; Thro'Jesuswe have peacewithGod! 5 Rejoice, O heav'ns, and earth reply! With praise, ye sinners, fill the sky, All grace his death procures; Your woes to blessings he will change, You in his children's order range, Thro' him eternal life is yours. Of the Incarnation and Birth of Jesus Christ. 30.* T. 97. JESUS, th' almighty Son of God, 2 We, dead in sins and trespasses, The narrow way to life and peace Had neither will nor pow'r to find; Nor were our stubborn hearts inclin'd Towish,orask,that happiness to know, Which love alone on sinners could bestow. 3 Then Love brake forth, "Behold me "Prepar'd, O God,to do thywill! [still "I freely come, I freely die, "For guilty man to satisfy; "I in his stead will hang upon the tree, "From sin, and death, and hell to set him free." 4 And thus, to save oursouls fromguilt, Our Surety's precious bloodwas spilt; To God we render thanks and praise, 4 He came to seek and save the lost; 5 For what is all the human race, That God should show such matchless grace, To give his Son, that we might claim Life everlasting in his name. 6 How wretched they who still despise Jesus, the Pearl of greatest price! Such as neglect to hear his voice, Must perish by their own free choice. 7 Unhappy those who turn away, Or such as carelessly delay To meet their Saviour, tho' he came Their souls from mis'ry to reclaim. 8 Come, sinners, Jesus will receive The worst of sinners; come and live! C BEHOLD, to us a Child is born, In mercy form'd a plan To suffer in our stead. "I come to do God's will;" And in this fallen world appear'd, His counsel to fulfil. 4 The Holy Ghost had long foretold Did his salvation share : The holy child she bore: |