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.

7 His Spirit purifies our frame,
And seals our peace with God;
Jesus, and his salvation, came
By water and by blood.]

Hymn 1:141. 
The humiliation and exaltation of Christ,
Isa. 53. 1-5 10 11 12.

1 Who has believ’d thy word,
Or thy salvation known? 
Reveal thine arm, almighty Lord,
And glorify thy Son.

2 The Jews esteem’d him here
Too mean for their belief: 
Sorrows his chief acquaintance were,
And his companion, grief.

3 They turn’d their eyes away,
And treated him with scorn;
But ’twas their grief upon him lay,
Their sorrows he has borne.

4 ’Twas for the stubborn Jews,
And Gentiles then unknown,
The God of justice pleas’d to bruise
His best beloved Son.

5 “But I’ll prolong his days,
“And make his kingdom stand,
“My pleasure, (saith the God of grace)
“Shall prosper in his hand.

6 ["His joyful soul shall see
“The purchase of his pain,
“And by his knowledge justify
“The guilty sons of men.]

7 ["Ten thousand captive slaves, “Releas’d from death and sin, “Shall quit their prisons and their graves; “And own his power divine.]

8 ["Heaven shall advance my Son
“To joys that earth deny’d;
“Who saw the follies men had done,
“And bore their sins, and dy’d.”]

Hymn 1:142. 
The same, Isa. 53. 6-9 12.

1 Like sheep we went astray,
And broke the fold of God,
Each wandering in a different way,
But all the downward road.

2 How dreadful was the hour
When God our wanderings laid,
And did at once his vengeance pour
Upon the Shepherd’s head!

3 How glorious was the grace
When Christ sustain’d the stroke! 
His life and blood the Shepherd pays,
A ransom for the flock.

4 His honour and his breath
Were taken both away;
Join’d with the wicked in his death,
And made as vile as they.

5 But God shall raise his head
O’er all the sons of men,
And make him see a numerous seed
To recompense his pain.

6 “I’ll give him, (saith the Lord)
“A portion with the strong;
“He shall possess a large reward,
“And hold his honours long.”

Hymn 1:143. 
Characters of the children of God,
from several scriptures.

1 So new born babes desire the breast
To feed, and grow, and thrive: 
So saints with joy the gospel taste,
And by the gospel live.

2 [With inward gust their heart approves
All that the word relates;
They love the men their Father loves,
And hate the works he hates.]

3 [Not all the flattering baits on earth
Can make them slaves to lust;
They can’t forget their heavenly birth,
Nor grovel in the dust.

4 Not all the chains that tyrants use
Shall bind their souls to vice;
Faith like a conqueror can produce
A thousand victories.]

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