My vile ingratitude I mourn:

O take the wanderer home.

3 And canst thou-wilt thou yet forgive,
And bid my crimes remove?
And shall a pardoned rebel live,
To speak thy wondrous love?
4 Almighty grace, thy healing power,
How glorious-how divine!
That can to life and bliss restore,

So vile a heart as mine.

5 Thy pardoning love-so free-so sweet— Dear Saviour, I adore ;

O keep me at thy sacred feet,

1

And let me rove no more.

STEELE

HYMN 38. L. M. Armley. [b]
Sinner submitting to God.

WEA

EARY of struggling with my pain,
Hopeless to burst this sinful chain,

At length I give the contest o'er,
And seek to free myself no more.
2 From my own works at last I cease-
God, who creates, must seal my peace;
Fruitless my toil, and vain my care,
Unless thy sovereign grace I share.
e 3 Lord, I despair myself to heal;
I see my sin, but cannot feel;
I cannot, till thy Spirit blow,
And bid th' obedient waters flow.
-4 'Tis thine a heart of flesh to give;
Thy gifts I only can receive;
Here, then, to thee I all resign;
To draw, redeem, and seal is thine.
• 5 Speak, gracious Lord, my sickness cure;
Make my infected nature pure;
Peace, righteousness, and joy, impart,
And pour thyself into my heart.

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HYMN 39. C. M. Reading. [b*]
Sinner resolving to go to Christ. Esth. iv. 16.
OME, humble sinner, in whose breast
thousand thoughts revolve;

Come, with your guilt and fear oppressed,
And make this last resolve :-

2

"I'll go to Jesus, though my sin "Hath like a mountain rose; "I know his courts, I'll enter in,

"Whatever may oppose.

e 3" Prostrate I'll lie before his throne,
"And there my guilt confess;
p"I'll tell him I'm a wretch undone,
"Without his sovereign grace.

o 4 "I'll to the gracious King approach,
"Whose sceptre pardon gives;
"Perhaps he may command my touch-
"And then the suppliant lives.
5 "Perhaps he will admit my plea,-
Perhaps will hear my prayer;

e "But if I perish, I will pray,
"And perish only there.
-6"I can but perish if I go,
"I am resolved to try;
"For if I stay away, I know
"I must forever die."

1

JONES

Clark's. [b]

The Heart healed by Mercy.

IN enslaved me many years, And led me bound and blind; 'Till at length a thousand fears

Came swarming o'er my mind. o Where (I said in deep distress)

Will these sinful pleasures end?
How shall I secure my peace,
And make the Lord my friend?
-2 Friends and ministers said much,
The gospel to enforce ;

e But my blindness still was such,
I chose a legal course:

Much I fasted, watched, and strove,
Scarce would show my face abroad;
e Feared, almost, to speak or move-
A stranger still to God.

-3 Thus afraid to trust his grace,
Long time did I rebel;

e Till, despairing of my case, Down at his feet I fell:

o Then my stubborn heart he broke, And subdued me to his sway;

COWPER.

HYMN 41. L. M. Islington. [*]

The happy Change.

arch of fancied good we range;
sin, by blinded passions led,

The paths of disappointment tread,
To nothing fixed-but love of change.
-2 But when the Holy Ghost imparts
A knowledge of the Saviour's love;
Our wandering, weary, restless hearts
Are then renewed, no more to rove.
o 3 Now a new principle takes place,
Which guides and animates the will;
-This love, another name for grace,
Constrains to good, and bars from ill.
o 4 By love's pure light we soon perceive
Our noblest bliss, and proper end;
And gladly every idol leave,

To love and serve our Lord and Friend.

HYMN 42. L. M. Portugal. [b *] The Influences of the Spirit experienced. John xiv. 16, 17. EAR Lord-and shall thy Spirit rest

• 1 Din such a wretched heart as mine?
d Unworthy dwelling!-glorious Guest!
Favours astonishing-divine!

e 2 When sin prevails, and gloomy fear,
And hope almost expires in night;
Lord, can thy Spirit then be here
-Great spring of comfort, life, and light?
o 3 Sure the blest Comforter is nigh;
"Tis he sustains my fainting heart;
Else would my hopes forever die,
And every cheering ray depart.

4 When some kind promise glads my soul,
Do I not find his healing voice

The tempest of my fears control,
And bid my drooping powers rejoice?

5 Whene'er to call the Saviour mine, With ardent wish my heart aspires, Can it be less than Power Divine, Which animates these strong desires? 6 And when my cheerful hope can say, d"I love my God, and taste his grace,' e Lord, is it not thy blissful ray,

Which brings this dawn of sacred peace? -7 Let thy kind Spirit in my heart Forever dwell, O God of love;

o And light, and heavenly peace impart― Sweet earnests of the joys above.

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HYMN 43. 8s.

STEELE

Bethany. [*]

Power of Faith. Rom. i. 17.

Tanu trusts in his crucified God,

HE moment a sinner believes,

o His pardon at once he receivesRedemption in full through his blood.

o 2 Though thousands and thousands of foes
Against him in malice unite-

Their rage he, through Christ, can oppose,
Led forth by the Spirit to fight.

-3 The faith that unites to the Lamb,
And brings such salvation as this,
Is more than mere fancy, or name-
d The work of God's Spirit it is.

o 4 It treads on the world, and on hell,
It vanquishes death and despair,
e And what is still stranger to tell,
d It overcomes heaven by prayer.
o 5 It says to the mountains, " Depart,"
That stand betwixt God and the soul;

. It binds up the broken in heart,

And makes wounded consciences whole ;-
-6 Bids sins of a crimson-like dye
Be spotless as snow, and as white;

o And raises the sinner on high,
To dwell with the angels of light.

HART.

HYMN 44. S. M. Peckham. [*]
Preciousness of Faith. Eph. ii. 8. 2 Pet. i. 1.

1F Where'er it is bestowed;

AITH-'tis a precious grace,

It boasts of a celestial birth,

And is the gift of God. 2 Jesus it owns as King,

And all-atoning Priest; It claims no merit of its own,

But looks for all in Christ.
3 To him it leads the soul,

When filled with deep distress;
Flies to the fountain of his blood,
And trusts his righteousness.
4 Since 'tis thy work alone,
And that divinely free;
Lord, send the Spirit of thy Son,
To work this faith in me.

BEDDOME.

HYMN 45. C. M. Arundel. [*]

Faith encouraged by ancient Example. Heb. xi. 13.

•1 RISE, O my soul. pursue the path,

By ancient worthes trod;

Aspiring, view those holy men,

Who lived and walked with God.

-2 Though dead, they speak in reason's ear, And in example live;

Their faith, and hope, and mighty deeds,

Still fresh instruction give.

o 3 'Twas through the Lamb's most precious blood,
They conquered every foe;
And to his power and matchless grace,
Their crowns of life they owe.

4 Lord, may I ever keep in view
The patterns thou hast given-
And ne er forsake the blessed road,
That led them safe to heaven.

NEEDHAM.

IIYMN 46 L. M. Oporto. [*]

The new Convert.

HE new-born child of gospel grace,

1 THE

Like some fair tree when summer's nigh,

Beneath EMMANUEL's shining face,

Lifts up his blooming branch on high.

2 No fears he feels-he sees no foesNo conflict yet his faith employs;