Hymns and Spiritual Songs eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 211 pages of information about Hymns and Spiritual Songs.

Hymns and Spiritual Songs eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 211 pages of information about Hymns and Spiritual Songs.

Hymn 1:122. 
Believers buried with Christ in baptism, Rom. 6. 3 &c.

1 Do we not know that solemn word,
That we are bury’d with the Lord,
Baptis’d into his death, and then
Put off the body of our sin?

2 Our souls receive diviner breath, Rais’d from corruption, guilt, and death; So from the grave did Christ arise, And lives to God above the skies.

3 No more let sin or Satan reign
Over our mortal flesh again;
The various lusts we serv’d before
Shall have dominion now no more.

Hymn 1:123. 
The repenting prodigal, Luke 15. 13 &c.

1 Behold the wretch whose lust and wine
Had wasted his estate,
He begs a share among the swine,
To taste the husks they eat!

2 “I die with hunger here (he cries)
“I starve in foreign lands,
“My father’s house has large supplies,
“And bounteous are his hands.

3 “I’ll go, and with a mournful tongue
“Fall down before his face,
“Father, I’ve done thy justice wrong,
“Nor can deserve thy grace.”

4 He said, and hasten’d to his home,
To seek his father’s love;
The father saw the rebel come,
And all his bowels move.

5 He ran, and fell upon his neck,
Embrac’d and kiss’d his son;
The rebel’s heart with sorrow brake
For follies he had done.

6 “Take off his clothes of shame and sin,”
(The father gives command)
“Dress him in garments white and clean,
“With rings adorn his hand.

7 “A day of feasting I ordain,
“Let mirth and joy abound;
“My son was dead, and lives again,
“Was lost, and now is found.”

Hymn 1:124. 
The first and second Adam, Rom. 5. 12 &c.

1 Deep in the dust before thy throne
Our guilt and our disgrace we own;
Great God, we own th’ unhappy name
Whence sprang our nature and our shame.

2 Adam, the sinner:  At his fall
Death like a conqueror seiz’d us all;
A thousand new-born babes are dead
By fatal union to their head.

3 But whilst our spirits fill’d with awe
Behold the terrors of thy law,
We sing the honours of thy grace,
That sent to save our ruin’d race.

4 We sing thine everlasting Son,
Who join’d our nature to his own;
Adam the second, from the dust
Raises the ruins of the first.

5 [By the rebellion of one man
Thro’ all his seed the mischief ran;
And by one man’s obedience now
Are all his seed made righteous too.]

6 Where sin did reign, and death abound,
There have the sons of Adam found
Abounding life; there glorious grace
Reigns thro’ the Lord our righteousness.

Hymn 1:125. 
Christ’s compassion to the weak and tempted, Heb. 4.
15 16. and 5. 7.  Matt. 12. 20.

1 With joy we meditate the grace
Of our High Priest above;
His heart is made of tenderness,
His bowels melt with love.

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