-3 But Satan found a worse reward: Thus saith the vengeance of the Lord, 0 "Let everlasting hatred be

"Betwixt the woman's Seed and thee.
4 "The woman's Seed shall be my Son,
"He shall destroy what thou hast done:
"Shall break thy head, and only feel
"Thy malice raging at his heel."

-5 He spake-and bade four thousand years
Roll on; at length his Son appears :
8 Angels with joy descend to earth,
And sing the young Redeemer's birth.
p 6 Lo! by the sons of hell he dies;
-But as he hung 'twixt earth and skies,
o He gave their prince a fatal blow,
u And triumphed o'er the powers below.

S. M.

HYMN 108. S. M.

Dover. [*] Christ unseen, yet beloved. 1 Pet. i. 8. with our mortal eyes

1 NH

Have we beheld the Lord;

Yet we rejoice to hear his name,
And love him in his word.

2 On earth we want the sight
Of our Redeemer's face;
Yet, Lord, our inmost thoughts delight
To dwell upon thy grace.

3 And when we taste thy love, Our joys divinely grow Unspeakable, like those above,

And heaven begins below.

HYMN 109. L. M. Portugal. Armley. [*] The Value of Christ and his Righteousness. Phil. iii. 7,8,9. O more, my God, I boast no more,

1 Nor all the duties I have done;

I quit the hopes I held before,
To trust the merits of thy Son.

2 Now for the love I bear his name,
What was my gain, I count my loss;
My former pride I call my shame,
And nail my glory to his cross.
3 Yes, and I must and will esteem
All things but loss for Jesus' sake;

O may my soul be found in him,
And of his righteousness partake!
4 The best obedience of my hands
Dares not appear before thy throne;
But faith can answer thy demands,
By pleading what my Lord has done.

HYMN 110. C. M. St. Paul's. Canterbury. [*]
Death and immediate Glory. 2 Cor. v. 1, 5, 8.
o 1 HERE is a house, not made with hands,
Eternal, and on high;

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e And here my spirit waiting stands,
Till God shall bid it fly.

e 2 Shortly this prison of my clay
Must be dissolved and fall;
Then, O my soul, with joy obey
Thy heavenly Father's call.
-3 "Tis He by his almighty grace,
Who forms thee fit for heaven;
And as an earnest of the place,
Has his own Spirit given.

4 We walk by faith of joys to come;
Faith lives upon his word;
e But while the body is our home,
We're absent from the Lord.

-5 'Tis pleasant to believe thy grace, But we had rather see;

o We would be absent from the flesh,
And present, Lord, with thee.

HYMN 111. C. M. Reading. [*]
Salvation by Grace. Titus iii. 3, 7.

e 1 LORD, we confess our numerous faults
How great our guilt has been!

Foolish and vain were all our thoughts,
And all our lives were sin.

• 2 But, O my soul, forever praise,
Forever love his name,

Who turns thy feet from dangerous ways
Of folly, sin, and shame.)

-3 'Tis not by works of righteousness, Which our own hands have done; o But we are saved by sovereign grace Abounding through his Son.

'Tis from the mercy of our God,
That all our hopes begin;
"Tis by the water and the blood,

Our souls are washed from sin.

p 5 'Tis through the purchase of His death,
Who hung upon the tree,

The Spirit is sent down to breathe
On such dry bones as we.

o 6 Raised from the dead, we live anew:
And, justified by grace,

s We shall appear in glory too,

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And see our Father's face.

HYMN 112. C. M. Bedford. [*]
The Brazen Serpent. 2 John, ver. 14-16.

So did the Hebrew prophet raise
The brazen serpent high;

The wounded felt immediate ease,
The camp forbore to die.

d 2 "Look upward in the dying hour,
"And live!" the prophet cries!
e But Christ performs a nobler cure,
When faith lifts up her eyes.

-3 High on the cross the Saviour hung!
High in the heavens he reigns!
Here sinners, by th' old serpent stung,
Look, and forget their pains.

g 4 When God's own Son is lifted up,
A dying world revives;

The Jew beholds the glorious hope,
Th' expiring Gentile lives.

HYMN 113. C. M. Wareham. [*]

Abraham's Blessing on the Gentiles. Gen. xvii. 7.

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Rom. xv. 8.

Mark x. 14.

TOW large the promise-how divine-
To Abra'am and his seed;

d"I'll be a God to thee and thine,

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Supplying all their need."

-2 The words of his extensive love
From age to age endure;

The Angel of the covenant proves,
And seals the blessing sure.

b 3 Jesus the ancient faith confirms,
To our great fathers given;

He takes young children to his arms,
And calls them heirs of heaven.

o 4 Our God, how faithful are his ways!
His love endures the same;
Nor from the promise of his grace
Blots out the children's name.

e 1

HYMN 114. C. M. Sunday. [*]
The same. Rom. xi. 16, 17.

GENTILES by nature, we belong

To the wild olive wood;

o Grace took us from the barren tree,
And grafts us in the good.

-2 With the same blessings grace endows
The Gentile and the Jew;
If pure and holy be the root,

Such are the branches too.

o 3 Then let the children of the saints Be dedicate to God;

e Pour out thy Spirit on them, Lord, And wash them in thy blood.

o 4 Thus to the parents, and their seed,
Shall thy salvation come;

And numerous households meet at last,
In one eternal home.

HYMN 115. C. M. Plymouth. [b]
Conviction by the Law. Rom. vii. 8, 9, 14, 24.

1 LORD, how secure my conscience was,

And felt no inward dread!

I was alive without the law,

And thought my sins were dead.

2 My hopes of heaven were firm and bright; But since the precept came,

With a convincing power and light,

1 find how vile I am.

3 (My guilt appeared but small before,
Till terribly 1 saw,

How perfect, holy, just, and pure,
Is thine eternal law.

e 4 Then felt my soul the heavy load,
My sins revived again;

1 had provoked a dreadful God, And all my hopes were slain.) p 5 I'm like a helpless captive, sold Under the power of sin; I cannot do the good I would, Nor keep my conscience clean. -6 My God, I cry with every breath, For some kind power to save; To break the yoke of sin and death, And thus redeem the slave.

HYMN 116. L. M.

Love to God and our Neighbour.

Bath. [*]

Matt. xxii. 37–40. HUS saith the first, the great command, "Let all thy inward powers unite,

"To love thy Maker, and thy God,

"With utmost vigor 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 fulfilled by love.
a 4 But O! how base our passions are
How cold our charity and zeal!
-Lord, fill our souls with heavenly fire,
Or we shall ne'er perform thy will.

HYMN 117. L. M. Blendon. Bath. [* b]
Election sovereign and free. Rom. ix. 21-24.
1B He forms his vessels as he please;
EHOLD the potter and the clay !

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

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

e 3 May not the sovereign Lord on high
Dispense his favours as he will,

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