4 Ho! ye that pant for living streams, Here you may quench your raging thirst, 5 Rivers of love and mercy here, 6 Ye perishing and naked poor, 7 Come naked, and adorn your souls 8 Dear God! the treasures of thy love, 9 The happy gates of gospel grace, Lord, we are come to seek supplies, 524. 1 IN The Promises of the Covenant of Grace. N vain we lavish out our lives, The choicest blessings earth can yield, 2 Come, and the Lord shall feed our souls 3 Our God will ev'ry want supply, Come, and he'll cleanse our spotted souls, And lest pollution should o'erspread His Spirit shall bedew our souls, Our heart, that flinty stubborn thing, Or he can take the flint away, And from the treasures of his grace, There shall his Sacred Spirit dwell, And ev'ry motion of our souls, 10 Thus will he pour salvation down, 525. The Beatitudes. Matt. v. 3—12. (L.M.) 1 BLESS'D are the humble souls that see Their emptiness and poverty; Treasures of grace to them are giv'n, 2 Bless'd are the men of broken heart, 3 Bless'd are the meek who stand afar, 4 Bless'd are the souls that thirst for grace, 5 Bless'd are the men whose bowels move, 6 Bless'd are the pure, whose hearts are clean, From the defiling pow'r of sin : With endless pleasure they shall see Bless'd are the men of peaceful life, Bless'd are the suffrers who partake 526. Christ's Comm ssion. John iii. 16, 17. (C. M.) COME COME, happy souls, approach your God, Come, render to almighty grace, The tribute of your tongues. So strange, so boundless was the love, The Father sent his equal Son, To give them life again. Thy hands, dear Jesus, were not arm'd With a revenging rod: No hard commission to perform The vengeance of a God. But all was mercy, all was mild, And wrath forsook the throne, When Christ on the kind errand came, Here, sinners, you may heal your wounds, And wipe your sorrows dry; Trust in the mighty Saviour's name, 6 See, dearest Lord, our willing souls We bless the great Redeemer's love, 527. The Law and Gospel distinguished. (L.M.) 1TH HE law commands, and makes us know But 'tis the gospel must reveal Where lies our strength to do his will. 2 The law discovers guilt and sin, And shows how vile our hearts have been; Forgiving love and cleansing grace. 528. God glorified in the Gospel. (C. M.) 1 THE Lord, descending from above, While pow'r and truth, and boundless love, 2 Here, in thy gospel's wond'rous frame, A thousand angels learn thy name, |