3. Be thou, O Rock of Ages, nigh! So shall each murm'ring thought be gone! And grief, and fear, and care shall fly, As clouds before the mid-day sun. 4. Speak to my warring passions : “ Peace;"> Say to my troubled heart: “ Be still :" Thy pow'r my strength and fortress is, For all things serve thy sov'reign will. 5. Q death! where is thy sting? where now, Thy boasted victory, O grave? Who shall contend with God? or who Can hurt whom God delights to save ? 1 Y. THE FALL AND TEMPTATION OF MAN, 1.B Hymn 157. c. M. 1. ACKWARD with humble shame we look On our original ; In our first father's fall ! But prone to all that's ill ; How obstinate our will ! Will all the branches be : How can we hope for living fruit From such a deadly tree? Can make our nature clean, The tempter, death and sin. 3. The second Adam shall restore The ruins of the first ; Hosanna to that sov'reign pow'r That new-creates our dust ! Hymn 158. C.M. And vile ingratitude. So false as mine has been ; So faithless to its promises, So prone to every sin ! 3. My reason tells me, thy commands Are holy, just, and true ; Tells me, whate'er my God demands Is his most righteous due. 4. Reason I hear, her counsels weigh, And all her words approve: But still I find it hard t' obey, And harder yet to love. 5. How long, dear Saviour, shall I feel These struggles in my breast ? When wilt thou bow my stubborn will, And give my conscience rest ? 6. Break, sov'reign grace, O break the charm, And set the captive free : And haste to rescue me. C. M. Hymn 159. "SIN, like a venemous disease, The only balm is sov’reign grace, And the physician God. 2. Our beauty and our strength are fled, And we draw near to death: With his almighty breath. The passions burn and rage, The inward fire assuage. 4. The man, possess'd among the tombs Cuts his own flesh, and cries; And the foul spirit flies. G Hymn 160. c. M. I. REAT king of glory and of grace! We own with humble shame, How vile is our degen’rate race, And our first father's name. 2. From Adam flows our tainted blood, The poison reigns within, Makes us averse to all that's good. And willing slaves to sin. And love the distance well; That leads to death and hell. 4. And can such rebels be restor'd ? Such natures made divine ? Let sinners see thy glory, Lord, And feel this pow'r of thine. Hymn 161. L. M. Then may the wicked turn to God, And change their tempers and their lives. 2. As well might Ethiopian slaves Wash out the darkness of their skin: 'Twill not endure the least controul; Can turn the current of the soul. That works to change this heart of mine ; Hymn 162. c. u. 1. practise on the mind With flattring looks she tempts our hearts, But leaves a sting behind, The aged and the young; She make his fetters strong. And gives a fair pretence: And chains it down to sense. 4. So on a tree divinely fair Grew the forbidden food; And tainted all her blood, SIN hasaatine usande treacherous arts 1. Hymn 163. L. M. to , And thousands walk together there ; But wisdom shews the narrow path, With here and there a traveller. Is the Redeemer's great.command ! If she would gain this heav'nly land. 3. The fearful soul that tires and faints, And walks the ways of God no more, TI. THE SCRIPTURES, DOCTRINES, AND INVITATIONS OF THE SCRIPTURES. 1. THE SCRIPTURES. Hymn 164. C. u. Invites his children near; Display their glories here. Fresh wisdom we pursue ; Beyond whate'er they knew.. 3. Thy name is writ in fairest lines, Thy wonders here we trace ; Wisdom thro' all the myst'ries shines And shines in Jesus' face.. To our incarnate God! Its honours in his blood, |