2 Teach me some melodious measure,
Sung by raptured saints above;
Fill my soul with sacred pleasure,
While I sing redeeming love.
3 Thou didst seek me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
Thou, to save my soul from danger,
Didst redeem me with thy blood.
4 By thy hand restored, defended,
Safe through life, thus far, I'm come;
Safe, O Lord, when life is ended,
Bring me to my heavenly home.
1 ONE there is, above all others,
Well deserves the name of Friend;
His is love beyond a brother's,
Costly-free-and knows no end.
Which of all our friends, to save us,
Could, or would have shed his blood?-
But this Saviour died to have us
Reconciled in him to God.
2 When he lived on earth abased,
FRIEND OF SINNERS was his name;
Now, above all glory raised,
He rejoices in the same.
Oh, for grace our hearts to soften!
Teach us, Lord, at length to love;
We, alas! forget too often
What a Friend we have above.
Christ dwelling in his People.
1 LOVE divine, all love excelling!
Joy of heaven, to earth come down:
Fix in us thy humble dwelling,
All thy faithful mercies crown:
Jesus! thou art all compassion,
Pure, unbounded love thou art;
Visit us with thy salvation,
Enter every trembling heart!
2 Come! almighty to deliver,
Let us all thy life receive!
Suddenly return-and never,
Never more thy temples leave!
Thee we would be always blessing,
Serve thee as thy hosts above;
Pray, and praise thee without ceasing,
Glory in thy precious love.
150 Christ's unchanging Love the Safety of his People.
1 WHO shall the Lord's elect condemn ?
"Tis God that justifies their souls;
And mercy, like a mighty stream,
O'er all their sins divinely rolls.
2 Who shall adjudge the saints to hell?
"Tis Christ who suffered in their stead;
And their salvation to fulfil,
Behold him rising from the dead!
3 He lives!-he lives, and reigns above,
Forever interceding there:
Who shall divide us from his love?
Or what shall tempt us to despair?
4 Not all that men on earth can do,
Nor powers on high-nor powers below, Shall cause his mercy to remove,
Or wean our hearts from Christ our love.
Our Saviour, and our King,
Let all the saints below the skies
Their humble praises bring.
2 "Tis his almighty love,
His counsel and his care,
Preserves us safe from sin and death,
And every hurtful snare.
3 He will present our souls,
Unblemished and complete,
Before the glory of his face,
With joys divinely great.
4 Then all the chosen seed
Shall meet around the throne,
Shall bless the conduct of his grace,
And make his wonders known.
5 To our Redeemer God,
Wisdom with power belongs,
Immortal crowns of majesty,
And everlasting songs.
1 FIRM as the earth thy gospel stands,
My Lord, my hope, my trust;
If I am found in Jesus' hands,
My soul can ne'er be lost.
2 His honor is engaged to save
The meanest of his sheep:
All whom his heavenly Father gave
His hands securely keep.
3 Nor death, nor hell shall e'er remove
His favorites from his breast;
Safe, on the bosom of his love,
Shall they forever rest.
Grateful Remembrance of Christ.
1 IF human kindness meets return,
And owns the grateful tie;
If tender thoughts within us burn,
To feel a friend is nigh,-
2 Oh! shall not warmer accents tell
The gratitude we owe
To him who died, our fears to quell,
And save from death and wo!
3 While yet in anguish he surveyed
Those pangs he would not flee,
What love his latest words displayed-
"Meet and remember me!"
4 Remember thee!-thy death, thy shame-
Our sinful hearts to share!
O memory! leave no other name
But his recorded there!
Godly Sorrow from the Sufferings of Christ.
1 ALAS! and did my Saviour bleed,
And did my Sovereign die?
Would he devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I?
2 Was it for crimes that I had done,
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity!-grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!
3 Well might the sun in darkness hide,
And shut his glories in,
When Christ, th' almighty Saviour, died
For man, the rebel's sin.
4 Thus might I hide my blushing face,
While his dear cross appears;
Dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
And melt my eyes to tears.
5 But drops of grief can ne'er repay
The debt of love I owe:
Here, Lord, I give myself away-
"Tis all that I can do.
1 HOW condescending, and how kind
Was God's eternal Son!
Our misery reached his heavenly mind,
And pity brought him down.
2 This was compassion like a God,
That when the Saviour knew
The price of pardon was his blood,
His pity ne'er withdrew.
3 Here let our hearts begin to melt,
While we his death record;
And with our joy for pardoned guilt,
Mourn that we pierced the Lord.
Medway. Uxbridge.
1 THOU Prince of glory, slain for me,
Breathing forgiveness in thy prayer;
That loving, melting look I see,
That bursting sigh, that tender tear.
2 Let me but hear thy dying voice
Pronounce forgiveness in my breast;
My trembling spirit shall rejoice,
And feel the calm of heavenly rest.
3 Lord, thine atoning blood apply,
And life or death is sweet to me;
In life's last hour, thy presence, nigh,
From fear shall set my spirit free.
Barby. Grafton.
1 AND can mine eyes, without a tear,
A weeping Saviour see?
Shall I not weep his groans to hear,
Who groaned and died for me?
2 Blest Jesus! let those tears of thine
Subdue each stubborn foe;
Come, fill my heart with love divine,
And bid my sorrows flow.
Love of Christ celebrated.
1 TO our Redeemer's glorious name
Awake the sacred song!
Oh may his love-immortal flame!-
Tune every heart and tongue.
2 His love, what mortal thought can reach!
What mortal tongue display!
Imagination's utmost stretch
In wonder dies away.
3 Dear Lord, while we adoring pay
Our humble thanks to thee,
May every heart with rapture say,
"The Saviour died for me!"
4 Oh may the sweet, the blissful theme,
Fill every heart and tongue,
Till strangers love thy charming name,
And join the sacred
1 AWAKE, and sing the song
Of Moses and the Lamb!
Wake every heart, and every tongue,
To praise the Saviour's name!
2 Sing of his dying love
Sing of his rising power-
Sing how he intercedes above,
For us, whose sins he bore.
3 Sing, till we feel our heart
Ascending with our tongue;
Sing, till the love of sin depart,
And grace inspire our song.
4 Sing on your heavenly way,
Ye ransomed sinners, sing;
Sing on, rejoicing every day,
In Christ, th' eternal King.
5 Soon shall we hear him say,
"Ye blessed children, come!"
Soon will he call us hence away,
To our eternal home.
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