5 ’Tis pleasant to believe thy grace,
But we had rather see;
We would be absent from the flesh,
And present, Lord, with thee.

Hymn 1:111. 
Salvation by grace, Titus 3. 3-7.

1 [Lord, we confess our numerous faults,
How great our guilt has been! 
Foolish and vain were all our thoughts,
And all our lives were sin.

2 But O, my soul, for ever praise,
For ever love his Name,
Who turns thy feet from dangerous ways
Of folly, sin, and shame.]

3 [’Tis not by works of righteousness
Which our own hands have done;
But we are sav’d by sovereign grace
Abounding thro’ his Son.]

4 ’Tis from the mercy of our God
That all our hopes begin;
’Tis by the water and the blood
Our souls are wash’d from sin.

5 ‘Tis thro’ the purchase of his death,
Who hung upon the tree,
The Spirit is sent down to breathe
On such dry bones as we.

6 Rais’d from the dead we live anew;
And justify’d by grace
We shall appear in glory too,
And see our Father’s face.

Hymn 1:112. 
The brazen serpent; or, Looking to Jesus,
John 3. 14 15 16.

1 So did the Hebrew prophet raise
The brazen serpent high,
The wounded felt immediate ease,
The camp forbore to die.

2 “Look upward in the dying hour,
And live,” the prophet cries;
But Christ performs a nobler cure,
When Faith lifts up her eyes.

3 High on the cross the Saviour hung,
High in the heavens he reigns: 
Here sinners by th’ old serpent stung
Look, and forget their pains.

4 When God’s own Son is lifted up,
A dying world revives,
The Jew beholds the glorious hope,
Th’ expiring Gentile lives.

Hymn 1:113. 
Abraham’s blessings on the Gentiles, Gen. 17. 7. 
Rom. 15. 8.  Mark 10. 14.

1 How large the promise! how divine,
To Abra’am and his seed! 
“I’ll be a God to thee and thine,
“Supplying all their need.”

2 The words of his extensive love
From age to age endure;
The angel of the covenant proves,
And seals the blessing sure.

3 Jesus the ancient faith confirms
To our great fathers given;
He takes young children to his arms,
And calls them heirs of heaven.

4 Our God, how faithful are his ways! 
His love endures the same;
Nor from the promise of his grace
Blots out the children’s name.

Hymn 1:114. 
The same, Rom. 11. 16 17.

1 Gentiles by nature we belong
To the wild olive wood;
Grace took us from the barren tree,
And grafts us in the good.

2 With the same blessings grace endows
The Gentile and the Jew;
If pure and holy be the root,
Such are the branches too.

3 Then let the children of the saints
Be dedicate to God;
Pour out thy Spirit on them, Lord,
And wash them in thy blood.