And when the Spirit speaks the same, 9 While the eternal Three Bear their record above; e Here I believe he dy'd for me, HYMN 10. L. M. Green's. [*] Christ Crucified, the Wisdom and Power of God. 1 ATURE with open volume stands, N To spread her Maker's praise abroad. And ev'ry labour of his hands d Shews something worthy of a God :— • The pow'r, the wisdom, or the love.) Where grace and vengeance strangely join; HYMN 11. C. M. St. Ann's. [*] 1 LORD, how divine thy comforts are! How heav'nly is the place, Where Jesus spreads the sacred feasts Of his redeeming grace! 2 There the rich bounties of our God, There Jesus says that I am his, And my Beloved's mine. 3 Here (says the kind redeeming Lord See here the spring of all your joys, 4 He smiles, and cheers my mournful heart, And tells of all his pain: All this, says he, I bore for thee: And then he smiles again. 5 What shall we pay our heav'nly King, He brings our pardon to our eyes, 6 Let such amazing loves as these Such favours are beyond degrees, 7 To Him who wash'd us in his blood, 1 HYMN 12. L. M. H Sicilian. [b*] The Gospel Feast. Luke xiv, 16, &c. 3 We are the poor, the blind, the lame; 4 From the high way that leads to hell, 5 What shall we pay th' eternal Son, And to this wretched earth came down, To bring us wand'rers back to God! 6 It cost him death, to save our lives; To buy our souls it cost his own; And all the unknown joys he gives, Were bought with agonies unknown. o 7 Our everlasting love is due To him who ransom'd sinners lost; e And pitied rebels, when he knew The vast expense his love would cost. HYMN 13. C. M. Zion. Hymn 2d. [*] Divine Love making a Feast, and calling in the GuestsLuke xiv, 17, 22, 23. b1H With Christ within the doors TOW sweet and awful is the place, -While everlasting love displays e 2 [Here ev'ry bowel of our God, -Here peace and pardon, bought with blood, o 3 While all our hearts, and all our songs, -Each of us cry, with thankful tongues, "Lord, why was I a guest?" e 4 66 Why was I made to hear thy voice, "When thousands make a wretched choice, o 5 'Twas the same love that spread the feast That sweetly forc'd us in; e Else we had still refus'd to taste, And perish'd in our sin. -6 (Pity the nations, O our God, Constrain the earth to come; o Send thy victorious word abroad, And bring the strangers home. -7 We long to see thy churches full, May with one voice, and heart, and soul, HYMN 14. L. M. Shoel. [*] The Song of Simeon: Luke ii, 28; or, a Sight of Christ, makes death easy. 1 OW have our hearts embrac'd our God, And wish to die, as Simeon would, With his young Saviour in his arms. "The bread descending from the skies. 1 HYMN 15. C. M. Zion. [*] Our Lord Jesus at his own Table. Twakes a thankful tongue : HE mem'ry of our dying Lord How rich he spread his royal board, 3 By faith the same delights we taste, And sit, and lean on Jesus' breast, 4 Down from the palace of the skies, 5 "My flesh is food and physic too, "And the red streams of pardon flow "From these my pierced veins." 6 Hosanna to his bounteous love, For such a feast below! And yet he feeds his saints above, 7 Come, the dear day, the glorious hour, Then we shall need these types no more, 1 HYMN 16. C. M. Canterbury. [*b] N OW let our pains be all forgot, 3 Our humble faith here takes her rise, To view her groaning Lord. -5 But the Divinity within, o Dying, he conquer'd hell and sin! And made his triumph there. g 6 Grace, wisdom, justice, join'd and wro't No mortal tongue, nor mortal thought, o 7 Our hymns should sound like those above, e Yet, Lord, our hearts shall all be love, And all our lives be praise.] HYMN 17. S. M. St. Thomas's. [*] Incomparable Food: or, the Flesh and Blood of Christ. ΓΕ WE sing th' amazing deeds, That grace Divine performs; |