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To break the yoke of sin and death,
And thus redeem the slave.

C. M.

HYMN 2. Fourth Part. Conviction of misery by the law. AIN are the hopes the sons of men On their own works have built: Their hearts by nature are unclean, And all their actions guilt.

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2 Let Jew and Gentile stop their mouths, Without a murm'ring word,

And the whole race of Adam stand
Guilty before the Lord.

3 In vain we ask God's righteous law
To justify us now;

Since to convince, and to condemn,
Is all the law can do.

4 Jesus, how glorious is thy grace!
When in thy name we trust,
Our faith receives a righteousness
That makes the sinner just.

HYMN 3. First Part. L. M.

God created man good, and after his own image.
DAM in Paradise was plac'd,

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Our nat❜ral and our fed'ral head;
With holiness and wisdom grac❜d,
In his Creator's image made.

2 Bless'd with the joys of innocence,
Upright and happy, firm he stood;
Till he debas'd himself to sense,
And eat of the forbidden food.

3 His soul at first, a holy flame,

Was kindled by his Maker's breath;

But stung by sin, it soon became
The seat of darkness, strife, and death.

HYMN 3. Second Part. C. M.

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Original sin.

OW back with humble shame we look
On our original;

How is our nature dash'd and broke
In our first father's fall!

2 To all that's good, averse and blind,
But prone to all that's ill;

What dreadful darkness veils our mind!
How obstinate our will!

3 Conceiv'd in sin, O wretched state!
Before we draw our breath,

The first young pulse begins to beat
Depravity and death.

4 Wild and unwholesome as the root,
Will all the branches be:
How can we hope for living fruit
From such a deadly tree?

5 What mortal pow'r from things unclean
Can pure productions bring?
Who can command a vital stream
From an infected spring?

6 Yet, mighty God, thy wondrous love
Can make our nature clean;

While Christ and grace prevail above
The tempter, death, and sin.

7 The second Adam can restore
The ruins of the first;

Hosanna to that sov'reign pow'r,
That new creates our dust!

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HYMN 3. Third Part. C. M.

We are corrupt and incapable of doing good.
NIN, like a venomous disease,

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Infects our vital blood;

The only help is sov'reign grace,
The sole physician, God.

2 Our beauty and our strength are fled,
And we draw near to death;
But Christ, the Lord, recalls the dead
With his almighty breath.

3 Madness, by nature, reigns within;
The passions burn and rage;

Till God's own Son, with skill divine,
The inward fire assuage.

4 We lick the dust, we grasp the wind,
And solid good despise;

Such is the folly of the mind,

Till Jesus make us wise.

5 We give our souls the wounds they feel;
We drink the pois'nous gall,
And rush with fury down to hell;
But grace prevents the fall.

6 The man, possess'd among the tombs, Cuts his own flesh, and cries;

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He foams and raves, till Jesus comes:
Then the foul spirit flies.

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HYMN 3. Fourth Part.

We must be born again.

C. M.

UR nature's totally deprav'd;
The heart a sink of sin:

Without a change we can't be sav'd;
We must be born again.

2 That, which is born of flesh, is flesh, And flesh it will remain;

Then marvel not that Jesus saith,
"Ye must be born again."
3 Spirit of life, thy grace impart,
And breathe on sinners slain;
Bear witness, Lord, in ev'ry heart,
That we are born again.

4 Dear Saviour, let us now begin
To trust and love thy word;
And, by forsaking every sin,
Prove we are born of God.

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HYMN 3. Fifth Part. S. M.
Vital union to Christ in regeneration.

EAR Saviour, we are thine
By everlasting bands:

Our names, our hearts, we would resign,
And souls, into thy hands.

2 Accepted for thy sake,
And justified by faith,

We of thy righteousness partake,
And find in thee our life.

3 To thee we still would cleave,
With ever growing zeal;
If millions tempt us Christ to leave,
O let them ne'er prevail.

4 Thy spirit shall unite

Our souls to thee our head: Shall form us to thy image bright, That we thy paths may tread. 5 Death may our souls divide From these abodes of clay;

But love shall keep us near thy side,
Thro' all the gloomy way.

6 Since Christ and we are one,
Why should we doubt or fear?
Since he in heav'n hath fix'd his throne,
He'll fix his members there.

HYMN 4. First Part. P. M.
The perfections of God.

1HE Lord Jehovah reigns,

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His throne is built on high;
The garments he assumes,
Are light and majesty.

His glories shine with beams so bright,

No mortal eye can bear the sight.

2 The thunders of his hand

Keep the wide world in awe;
His wrath and justice stand
To guard his holy law:

And where his love resolves to bless,
His truth confirms and seals the grace.

3 Thro' all his perfect works
Surprising wisdom shines;
Confounds the pow'rs of hell,
And breaks their curs'd designs:
Strong is his arm, and shall fulfil
His great decrees, his sov'reign will.

4 And can this mighty King
Of glory condescend?

And will he write his name,
My Father and my Friend?
I love his name, I love his word;
Join all my pow'rs, and praise the Lord.

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