3 O Saviour of all, thy word we believe,
And come at thy call, thy grace to receive:
The blessing is given wherever thou art :
The earnest of heaven is love in the heart.

4 To us, at thy feet, the Comforter give,
Who gasp to admit thy Spirit, and live;
The weakest believers acknowledge for thine,
And fill us with rivers of water divine.

19

Magdalen-p. 84.]

L. M.

LORD, we are vile, conceived in sin,

And born unholy and unclean;

Sprung from the man whose guilty fall
Corrupts his race, and taints us all.

2 Soon as we draw our infant breath
The seeds of sin grow up for death;
Thy law demands a perfect heart,
But we're defiled in every part.

3 Great God, create my heart anew,
And form my spirit pure and true;
O make me wise betimes to see
My danger and my remedy.

4 Behold, I fall before thy face;
My only refuge is thy grace:

No outward forms can make me clean;
The leprosy lies deep within.

5 No bleeding bird, nor bleeding beast,
Nor hyssop branch, nor sprinkling priest,
Nor running brook, nor flood, nor sea,
Can wash the dismal stain away.

6 Jesus, my God, thy blood alone
Hath power sufficient to atone ;
Thy blood can make me white as snow;
No Jewish types could cleanse me so.

7 While guilt disturbs and breaks my peace,
Nor flesh nor soul hath rest or ease;
Lord, let me hear thy pard'ning voice,
And make my broken heart rejoice.

20 Arlington—p. 3.

C. M.

INNERS, the voice of God regard;

S 'Tis mercy speaks to-day,

He calls you by his sacred word
From sin's destructive way.

2 Like the rough sea that cannot rest,
You live, devoid of peace;

A thousand stings within your breast
Deprive your souls of ease.

3 Your way is dark, and leads to death: Why will you persevere ?

Can you

in endless torments breathe,

Shut up in black despair?

4 Why will you in the naked ways
Of sin and folly go?

In pain you travel all your days,
To reap eternal wo.

5 But he that turns to God shall live
Through his abounding grace:
His mercy will the guilt forgive
Of those that seek his face.

6 Bow to the sceptre of his word,
Renouncing every sin,

Submit to him, your sovereign Lord,
And learn his will divine.

21 Woodland-p. 13.]

THO

C. M.

HOU Son of God, whose flaming eyes
Our inmost thoughts perceive,

Accept the evening sacrifice
Which now to thee we give.

2 We bow before thy gracious throne,
And think ourselves sincere :
But show us, Lord, is every one
Thy real worshipper?

3 Is here a soul that knows thee not,
Nor feels his want of thee;
A stranger to the blood which bought
His pardon on the tree?

4 Convince him now of unbelief;
His desp'rate state explain:

And fill his heart with sacred grief,
And penitential pain.

5 Speak with that voice that wakes the dead, And bid the sleeper rise;

And bid his guilty conscience dread

The death that never dies.

6 Extort the cry, "What must be done
To save a wretch like me?

How shall a trembling sinner shun
That endless misery?

7 "I must this instant now begin
Out of my sleep to wake,
And turn to God, and every sin
Continually forsake.

8 "I must for faith incessant cry,
And wrestle, Lord, with thee;
I must be born again, or die

22

To all eternity."

Randall-p. 16.]

C. M.

OME, O thou all-victorious Lord,
Thy power to us make known;

Strike with the hammer of thy word,
And break these hearts of stone.

2 O that we all might now begin
Our foolishness to mourn!

And turn at once from every sin,
And to the Saviour turn.

3 Give us ourselves and thee to know,
In this our gracious day;
Repentance unto life bestow,
And take our sins away.

4 Convince us first of unbelief,
And freely then release;
Fill every soul with sacred grief,
And then with sacred peace.

5 Impov'rish, Lord, and then relieve,
And then enrich the poor;
The knowledge of our sickness give,
The knowledge of our cure.

6 That blessed sense of guilt impart,
And then remove the load;

Trouble, and wash the troubled heart
In the atoning blood.

7 Our desp❜rate state, through sin, declare, And speak our sins forgiven:

By perfect holiness prepare,

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And take us up to heaven.

Greenwalk-p. 69.]

C. M.

ERRIBLE thought! shall I alone,
Who may be saved, shall I,

Of all, alas! whom I have known,
Through sin for ever die?

2 While all my old companions dear,
With whom I once did live,

Joyful at God's right hand appear,
A blessing to receive :

3 Shall I, amidst a ghastly band,
Dragg'd to the judgment seat,
Far on the left with horror stand,
My fearful doom to meet?

4 Ah! no;-I still may turn and live,
For still his wrath delays;
He now vouchsafes a kind reprieve,
And offers me his grace.

5 I will accept his offers now:
From every sin depart;
Perform my oft-repeated vow,
And render him my heart.
6 I will improve what I receive,
The grace through Jesus given;
Sure, if with God on earth I live,
To live with God in heaven.

PENITENTIAL.

24 Kingswood-p.278.] 12th P.M. 76,76,78,76. AMB of God, for sinners slain, To thee I humbly pray;

Heal me of my grief and pain,

O take my sins away!

From this bondage, Lord, release :
No longer let me be oppress'd:
Jesus, Master, seal my peace,
And take me to thy breast!

2 Wilt thou cast a sinner out,
Who humbly comes to thee?