2 He saw me ruin'd in the fall, Yet loved me, notwithstanding all; Ile saved me from my lost estate; His loving-kindness, O how great! 3 [Though numerous hosts of mighty foes, Though earth and hell my way oppose, He safely leads my soul along;

His loving-kindness, O how strong!] 4 [When trouble, like a gloomy cloud, Has gather'd thick, and thunder'd loud, He near my soul has always stood; His loving-kindness, O how good!] 5 Often I feel my sinful heart Prone from my Saviour to depart; But, though I have him oft forgot, His loving-kindness changes not! 6 Soon shall I pass the gloomy vale; Soon all my mortal powers must fail: O, may my last expiring breath His loving-kindness sing in death. 7 Then let me mount and soar away To the bright world of endless day, And sing, with rapture and surprise, His loving-kindness in the skies.

10.

L. M.

KENT

The Everlasting Love of God.--Jer. xxxi. 3.

"TWAS with an everlasting love
That God his own elect embraced;
Before he made the worlds above,
Or earth on her huge columns placed.

2 Long ere the sun's refulgent ray
Primeval shades of darkness drove,
They on his sacred bosom lay,
Loved with an everlasting love.

3 Then, in the glass of his decrees,
Christ and his bride appear'd as one;
Her sin, by imputation, his,

Whilst she in spotless splendour shone.
4 O love, how high thy glories swell!
How great, immutable, and free!
Ten thousand sins, as black as hell,
Are swallow'd up, O love, in thee!
5 [Loved, when a wretch defiled with sin,
At war with heaven, in league with hell;
A slave to every lust obscene;
Who, living, lived but to rebel.]

6 Believer, here thy comfort stands.-
From first to last, salvation's free,
And everlasting love demands
An everlasting song from thee.

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11s.

MRS. STEELE.

The Mercy of God.-Ps. lxxxix. 1.

THY mercy, my God, is the theme of my song, The joy of my heart, and the boast of my tongue; Thy free grace alone, from the first to the last, Hath won my affections, & bound my soul fast.

2

Thy mercy, in Jesus, exempts me from hell; Its glories I'll sing, and its wonders I'll tell; 'Twas Jesus, my Friend, when he hung on the tree. Who open'd the channel of mercy for me.

3

[Without thy sweet mercy I could not live here; Sin soon would reduce me to utter despair; But, thro' thy free goodness, my spirits revive, And he that first made me, still keeps me alive.]

4

[Thy mercy is more than a match for my heart, Which wonders to feel its own hardness depart: Dissolved by thy goodness, I fall to the ground, And weep to the praise of the mercy I found.]

5

The door of thy mercy stands open all day,
To the poor & the needy, who knock by the way;
No sinner shall ever be empty sent back,
Who comes seeking mercy for Jesus's sake.

6

Great Father of mercies, thy goodness I own, And the covenant love of thy crucified Son: All praise to the Spirit, whose whisper divine Seals mercy, & pardon, & righteousness mine.

2

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8s.

BURNHAM.

The All-Sufficient Mercy of God.-Ps. lxxxix. 28.

ALL glory to mercy we bring,
The mercy that reigns evermore,
The infinite mercy we sing,
The mercy eternal adore.

The mercy converting we prize;
In mercy forgiving delight;
For conquering mercy we rise,
We rise, and triumphantly fight.

4

3 [And when we are wounded by sin,
And scarcely a prayer can repeat,
The mercy that heals us again,
Is mercy transportingly sweet.]
What though in the furnace we fall,
Free mercy the Saviour proclaims;
Free mercy in Jesus we call,
And glorify God in the flames.
5 For mercy upholding we pray;
For mercy confirming aspire;
And mercy will bear us away
To God and the glorified choir.

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8.6.8.

HART

The Everlasting Mercy of God.-Ps. cxxxvi.

God's mercy is for ever sure;
Eternal is his name:

His mercy is for ever sure:
As long as life and speech endure,
My tongue this truth proclaim:
His mercy is for ever sure.

2 I basely sinn'd against his love,
And yet my God was good:

His mercy is for ever sure:
His favour nothing could remove,
For I was bought with blood:
His mercy is for ever sure.

8 [That precious blood atones all sin,

And fully clears from guilt:

This hymn, and also the 108th, may be sung as Common Meter by omitting the third and last lines of each verse

His mercy is for ever sure:
It makes the foulest sinner clean,
For 'twas for sinners spilt:

His mercy is for ever sure.]

4 He raised me from the lowest state, When hell was my desert:

His mercy is for ever sure:

I broke his law, and, worse than that,
Alas! I broke his heart!

His mercy is for ever sure.

5 My soul, thou hast, let what will ail,
A never-changing Friend:
His mercy is for ever sure:

When brethren, friends, and helpers fail,
On Him alone depend:

His mercy is for ever sure.

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C. M.

WATTS.

The Faithfulness of God.-Ps. lxxxix. 1–8; Numb. xxiii. 19.

BEGIN, my tongue, some heavenly theme,
And speak some boundless thing;
The mighty works, or mightier name,
Of our eternal King.

2 Tell of his wondrous faithfulness,
And sound his power abroad;
Sing the sweet promise of his grace,
And the performing God.

3 Proclaim, "Salvation from the Lord,
For wretched, dying men;"

His hand has writ the sacred word
With an immortal pen.