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 1:129. 
Submission and deliverance; or, Abraham offering
his son, Gen. 22. 6 &c.

1 Saints, at your Father’s heavenly word
Give up your comforts to the Lord;
He shall restore what you resign,
Or grant you blessings more divine.

2 So Abraham with obedient hand,
Led forth his son at God’s command,
The wood, the fire, the knife he took,
His arm prepar’d the dreadful stroke.

3 “Abraham, forbear, (the angel cry’d)
“Thy faith is known, thy love is try’d,
“Thy son shall live, and in thy seed
“Shall the whole earth be bless’d indeed.”

4 Just in the last distressing hour
The Lord displays delivering power;
The mount of danger is the place
Where we shall see surprising grace.

Hymn 1:130. 
Love and hatred, Phil. 2. 2.  Eph. 4. 30 &c.

1 Now by the bowels of my God, His sharp distress, his sore complaints, By his last groans, his dying blood, I charge my soul to love the saints.

2 Clamour, and wrath, and war be gone,
Envy and spite for ever cease,
Let bitter words no more be known
Amongst the saints, the sons of peace.

3 The Spirit, like a peaceful dove, Flies from the realms of noise and strife; Why should we vex and grieve his love, Who seals our souls to heavenly life?

4 Tender and kind be all our thoughts,
Thro’ all our lives let mercy run;
So God forgives our numerous faults
For the clear sake of Christ his Son.

Hymn 1:131. 
The Pharisee and the Publican, Luke 18. 10 &c.

1 Behold how sinners disagree,
The Publican and Pharisee! 
One doth his righteousness proclaim,
The other owns his guilt and shame.

2 This man at humble distance stands,
And cries for grace with lifted hands;
That boldly rises near the throne,
And talks of duties he has done.

3 The Lord their different language knows,
And different answers he bestows;
The humble soul with grace he crowns,
Whilst on the proud his anger frowns.

4 Dear Father, let me never be
Join’d with the boasting Pharisee;
I have no merits of my own,
But plead the sufferings of thy Son.

Hymn 1:132. 
Holiness and grace, Titus 2. 10-13.

1 So let our lips and lives express
The holy gospel we profess,
So let our works and virtues shine
To prove the doctrine all divine.

2 Thus shall we best proclaim abroad
The honours of our saviour God;
When the salvation reigns within,
And grace subdues the power of sin.

3 Our flesh and sense must be deny’d, Passion and envy, lust and pride; While justice, temperance, truth and love Our inward piety approve.

4 Religion bears our spirits up,
While we expect that blessed hope,
The bright appearance of the Lord,
And faith stands leaning on his word.

Hymn 1:133. 
Love and charity, 1 Cor. 13. 2-7 13.

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