2 In part displayed to realms above, 3 Elected by thy grace alone, Our names were writ in heaven ; 4 Thou reignest the unchanging God, 5 Thy name, Jehovah, be adored Whom none but thine essential Word 12. Micah vii. 18. GREAT God of wonders! all thy ways Most God-like and unrivalled shine. 2 Crimes of such horror to forgive, Such guilty, daring worms to spare, This is thy grand prerogative; And none shall in this honour share. Who is a pardoning God like thee? And who hath grace so rich and free? 3 Angels and men, resign your claim To pity, mercy, love, and grace; 4 In wonder lost, with trembling joy, We view the covenant of our God; Thro' our most precious Jesu's blood. ABBA, Father! Lord we call thee, 2 This high blessing we inherit, First thy gift, and then Christ's blood; 3 Abba's love first gave us being, 4 Abba, Father, made all certain Both by word, by oath, and blood; B 5 Hence through all our changing seasons, 6 Soon shall all thy blood-bought children, Round thy throne their anthems raise; And in songs of rich salvation, 14. Shout to Abba endless praise! Job xxxiii. 24. ALL praise to Jehovah, by Adam's lost race, The fountain of mercy, the God of all grace, Who, ere by transgression man captive was bound, In infinite wisdom a ransom had found. 2 His Surety was Jesus, his ransom Christ's blood: Thus blameless he stood in the purpose of God; And justice no more can elect ones pursue, Their debts are all cancelled, the law had its due. 3 Here seraphs may ponder, o'erwhelmed with the thought, How man found a ransom, when angels did not; A depth so mysterious what mind can. explore, Or fathom this sea without bottom or shore. 4 Ye debtors to mercy, this freedom who know, Haste, render to Jesus the praises you owe; 15. With harps, and with odours, and seraphim lays, Let all the redeemed sing the Ransomer's praise. Heb. xiii. 20, 21. FATHER of peace, and God of love, That power by which our Shepherd rose 2 Him from the dead thou broughtest again, When, by his sacred blood, The everlasting covenant Confirmed and sealed stood. 3 Lord, may thy Spirit in our souls That our frail hearts no more may stray, 4 So to the source from whence the power 16. And all we will, and all we do, 1 Pet. i. 3, 5. BLEST be the everlasting God, 2 When from the dead he raised his Son, He gave his Church a lively hope, 3 There's an inheritance divine Reserved against that day; 'Tis incorruptible and pure, And fadeth not away. 4 Reserved for those kept by God's power, Till their salvation come; 17. Who walk by faith as strangers here, Ps. xxxvi. 7. NOW in a sweet triumphant song, 2 When he beheld the chosen race 3 He turned his eyes to Jesus then, His dear delights, the sons of men, 4 'Twas on this deep unfathomed sea, He bore his people's sins away- 5 To Zion's great eternal King, |