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New-models all the carnal mind,
And forms the man afresh.

4 Our quickened souls awake and rise
From the long sleep of death;
On heavenly things we fix our eyes,
And praise employs our breath.

51.

SALVATION BY GRACE.

8. M.

Hampton-Hobb's-Shirland.

1 Grace! 'tis a charming sound,
Harmonious to the ear;

Heaven with the echo shall resound,
And all the earth shall hear.

2 Grace first contrived a way
To save rebellious man,

And all the steps that grace display,
Which drew the wondrous plan.

3 Grace taught my wandering feet
To tread the heavenly road,
And new supplies each hour I meet,
While pressing on to God.

4 Grace all the work shall crown
Through everlasting days;

It lays in heaven the topmost stone,
And well deserves the praise.

52.

5 and 7,

THE VOICE OF FREE GRACE.

or 12s.

Wareham (by dividing last semibreve in each line, and repeating two lines)-Erfurt (by dividing last semibreve of each line).

1 The voice of free grace

Cries, Escape to the mountain,
For Adam's lost race

Christ hath opened a fountain;
For sin and uncleanness,
And every transgression,
His blood flows most freely,
In streams of salvation.
Hallelujah to the Lamb,

Who hath purchased a pardon,
We will perfectly praise him
When we've passed over Jordan.

2 Ye souls that are wounded,

O flee to the Saviour,

He calls you in mercy,
"Tis infinite favour;
Your sins are increasing,
Escape to the mountain;
His blood can remove them,
It flows like a fountain.
Hallelujah, &c.

3 O Jesus! ride onward,

Triumphantly glorious,

O'er sin, death, and hell,

Thou art more than victorious; Thy name shall be praised

In the great congregation,
While angels and men

Raise the shout of salvation.
Hallelujah, &c.

4 With joy shall we stand,
When escaped to the shore;
With harps in our hand,

We will praise him the more;
We'll range the sweet plains
On the banks of the river,
And sing of salvation
For ever and ever.

Hallelujah, &c.

53.

THE ETERNAL FATHER.

C. M.

Huntingtower-Harrington-Harborough.

1 Father! the sweetest, dearest name

That men or angels know!

Fountain of life, that had no fount
From which itself could flow.

2 Far upward in the timeless past,
Ere form or space had come,
We see thee by thine own dread light,
Thyself thine only home.

3 Lost in thy greatness, Lord, I live
As in some gorgeous maze;
Thy sea of unbegotten light
Blinds me, and yet I gaze.

4 For thy grandeur is all tenderness,
All mother-like and meek;

The hearts that will not come to it
Humbling itself to seek.

5 On earth thou hidest, not to scare
Thy children with thy light;
Then showest us thy face in heaven,
When we can bear the sight.

6 All fathers learn their craft from thee;
All loves are shadows cast
From the beautiful eternal hills
Of thine unbeginning past.

54. THE FATHER OF THE LORD JESUS.

New London-Gloucester-Loughton.

1 Blessed be the everlasting God,
The Father of our Lord;

Be his abounding mercy praised,
His majesty adored.

C. M.

2 When from the dead he raised his Son, And called him to the sky,

He gave our souls a lively hope

That they should never die.

3 To an inheritance divine

He taught our hearts to rise; 'Tis uncorrupted, undefiled, Unfading in the skies.

4 Saints by the power of God are kept
Till the salvation come:

We walk by faith as strangers here;
But Christ shall call us home.

55.

THE GOD OF LOVE.

St. Mirren's-St. David's-Bethany.

1 Father of peace, and God of love! We own thy power to save,

C. M.

That power by which our Shepherd rose
Victorious o'er the grave.

2 Him from the dead thou brought'st again,
When, by his sacred blood,
Confirmed and sealed for evermore,
Th' eternal cov'nant stood.

3 O may thy Spirit seal our souls,
And mould them to thy will,

That our weak hearts no more may stray, But keep thy precepts still;

4 That to perfection's sacred height We nearer still may rise,

And all we think, and all we do,

Be pleasing in thine eyes.

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