Who can resist thy heavenly love,
Or trifle with thy blood?

2 'Tis through the merit of thy death
The Father smiles again;

'Tis through thy interceding breath
The Spirit dwells with men.

3 Till God in human flesh I see,
My thoughts no comfort find;
The holy, just, and sacred Three
Are terrors to my mind.

4 But if Immanuel's face appears,
My hope, my joy begins;
His name forbids my slavish fears,
His grace removes my sins.

99

MATTHEW ix. 11-13.

L. M

1 DEEP are the wounds which sin has made,

Where shall the sinner find a cure?

He asks in vain for human aid;
The work exceeds all human power.

2 Sin like a raging fever reigns,
With fatal strength in every part;
The dire contagion fills the veins,
And spreads the poison to the heart.

2 And must the sinner sink unblessed?
And is there no physician nigh

The fatal poison to arrest
E're he in helpless misery die?

4 There is a great Physician nigh
Whose skill new life and health can give;
Whose power forbids the sinner's fear;
O sinner! trust and thou shalt live.
5 There's nought before thee but despair
Rejecting what the Saviour saith ;
But place thyself beneath his care
And thou art saved from sin and death.

100 PROV. XXviii 15. Acts iii. 19. 2 Cor. 7-10. C. M.

1 DES

ESERTERS to the camp return ;
Resume the abandoned post;

baseness mourn,

Bewail your sin, your
For yet ye are not lost.

2 No more in disobedience live,
Be humble and relent;

For God has promised to forgive
The moment you repent.

3 Sinners are saved by Jesus' blood,
How vile soe'er they be;
And endless life, the gift of God,
Is like the sunshine free.

4 God cannot own our righteousness,
For sinful men have none;

But he has said that he will bless
All those who trust his Son.

101

1

1 COR. iii. 6-9. JOHN XX. 19, 26.

L. M.

DISMISS us with thy blessing, Lord,
Help us to feed upon thy word;

All that has been amiss, forgive,

And let thy truth within us live.

2 Though we are guilty, Thou art good,
Wash all our works in Jesus' blood;
Give to each troubled soul release,
And bid us all depart in peace.

102

1 DR

READ Sovereign, let our evening songs
Like holy incense rise;

Assist the offerings of our tongues

To reach the lofty skies.

2 Through all the dangers of the day,
Thy hand has been our guard;
Thy love has cheered us on our way,
Thy bounties we have shared.

3 Perpetual blessings from above
Encompass us around;

But Oh, how few returns of love
Hath our Reedemer found.

4 Lord, with these guilty hearts of ours,
To thy dear cross we flee;

And may our souls, with all their powers,
Be sanctified by thee.

103

1 EA

PSALM lxiii.

ARLY, O God from day to day,
We'll haste to seek thy face;

For we must faint unless we pray
And fall without thy grace.

C. M.

2 So pilgrims, on the scorching sand,
Beneath a burning sky,

Long for a cooling stream at hand,
And they must drink or die.

3 No earthly bliss the wicked know,
Can please thy saints so well,
As daily in thy grace to grow,
And in thy presence dwell.

4 Not life itself is half so sweet
As thy forgiving love;
And countless joys thy children meet
As on to heaven they move.

5 Then till our last expiring day,
We'll bless our God and King;
In duty and in danger pray,
In joy thy praises sing.

104

1E

1 COR. ii. 9. 1 JOHN iii. 2.

C. M.

ARTH'S myriad children rest beneath
The senseless clod and wave:

Art thou insatiable, O death?

And thou devouring grave?

2 Must mortal years for ever glide? Life but appear and go?

And generations, as a tide,

For ever ebb and flow?

3 Behold they wake, put on their strength, Array themselves afresh ;

H

The saints of Christ have lost at length

The infirmities of flesh.

4 An army of immortals stands,
With energies of fire,

And ne'er to die, their radiant bands,
Unto the skies aspire.

5 Oh, this is life: for each one now
Hath reached his true estate:
Is wiser than the wise below,
And greater than the great.

6 Then grieve not at the rise and fall
Of generations here;

But follow Christ, and wait his call
When he and his appear.

105

2

E'ER

SABBATH EVENING.

"'ER another sabbath close,
Ere again we seek repose,
Lord our song ascends to thee,
At thy feet we bow the knee.

2 For the mercies of the day,
For this rest upon our way,
Thanks to thee alone be given,
Lord of earth and King of heaven.

3 Cold our services have been,
Mingled every prayer with sin;
But thou canst and will forgive;
By thy grace
alone we live.

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