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To our Redeemer God,
Wisdom and power belong,
Immortal crowns of majesty,
And Heaven's eternal song.

45. PRAISE FOR REDEMPTION.

Melrose Bishopthorpe-Tiverton.

1 Plunged in a gulf of dark despair
We wretched sinners lay,

Without one cheerful beam of hope,
Or glimmering spark of day.

2 With pitying eyes the Prince of grace
Beheld our helpless grief;

He saw, and O, amazing love!

He came to our relief.

3 Down from the shining seats above,
With joyful haste he sped;
Entered the grave in mortal flesh,
And dwelt among the dead.

C. M.

4 He spoiled the powers of darkness thus,
And brake our iron chains;
Jesus hath freed our captive souls
From everlasting pains.

5 O for this love let rocks and hills

Their lasting silence break,

And all harmonious human tongues
The Saviour's praises speak.

46.

NO HOPE EXCEPT IN CHRIST.

C. M.

Martyrdom-St. James'-Abbey.

1 Vain are the hopes the sons of men
Upon their works have built;
Their hearts by nature are unclean,
Their actions full of guilt.

2 Silent let Jew and Gentile stand,
Without one vaunting word;
And, humbled low, confess their guilt
Before heaven's righteous Lord.

3 No hope can on the law be built
Of justifying grace;

The law, that shows the sinner's guilt,
Condemns him to his face.

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

47.

THE GLAD TIDINGS.

Peckham-Gainsborough-Fairfield.

1 Salvation! oh the joyful sound!
"Tis music to our ears!

A sovereign balm for every wound,
A cordial for our fears.

C. M.

2 Buried in sorrow and in sin,
At hell's dark door we lay,
But we arise by grace divine
To see a heavenly day.

3 Salvation! O thou bleeding Lamb,
To thee the praise belongs,
Salvation shall inspire our hearts,
And dwell upon our tongues.

4 Salvation! let the echo fly
The spacious earth around,
While all the armies of the sky
Conspire to raise the sound.

48.

REDEEMING LOVE.

Consolation-Benediction-Italian Hymn.

1 Come, thou Fount of every blessing! Tune my heart to sing thy grace! Streams of mercy never ceasing

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Call for songs of loudest praise: Teach me some melodious measure, Sung by raptured saints above; Fill my soul with sacred pleasure, While I sing redeeming love. 2 By thy hand sustained, defended, Safe through life thus far I've come; Safely, Lord, when life is ended, Bring me to my heavenly home:

Jesus sought me when a stranger, Wandering from the fold of God; He, to save my soul from danger, Interposed his precious blood. 3 0! to grace how great a debtor Daily I'm constrained to be! Let that grace, now, like a fetter, Bind my wandering heart to thee! Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I loveHere's my heart-oh, take and seal it! Seal it from thy courts above.

49. JUSTIFICATION AND SANCTIFICATION. C. M.

St. Andrew's-KentCanterbury.

1 How wretched was our former state,
When, slaves to Satan's sway,
With hearts disordered and impure,
O'erwhelmed in sin we lay!

2 But, O my soul! for ever praise,
For ever love his name,

Who turned thee from the fatal paths
Of folly, sin, and shame.

3 Vain and presumptuous is the trust
Which in our works we place,
Salvation from a higher source
Flows to the human race.

4 "Tis from the mercy of our God
That all our hopes begin;

His mercy saved our souls from death,
And washed our souls from sin.

5 His Spirit, through the Saviour shed,
Its sacred fire imparts,

Refines our dross, and love divine
Rekindles in our hearts.

6 Thence raised from death, we live anew; And, justified by grace,

We hope in glory to appear,
And see our Father's face.

50.

SOVEREIGN MERCY.

French-Winchester Old-St. Thomas'.

1 Not all the outward forms on earth, Nor rites that God has given,

C. M.

Nor will of man, nor blood, nor birth,
Can raise a soul to heaven.

2 The sovereign will of God alone
Creates us heirs of grace;
Born in the image of his Son,
A new peculiar race.

3 The Spirit, like a heavenly wind,
Blows on the sons of flesh,

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