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 2:80. 
God’s awful power and goodness.

1 O the Almighty Lord! 
How matchless is his power! 
Tremble, O earth, beneath his word,
And all the heavens adore.

2 Let proud imperious kings
Bow low before his throne,
Crouch to his feet, ye haughty things,
Or he shall tread you down.

3 Above the skies he reigns,
And with amazing blows
He deals unsufferable pains
On his rebellious foes.

4 Yet, everlasting God,
We love to speak thy praise;
Thy sceptre’s equal to thy rod,
The sceptre of thy grace.

5 The arms of mighty love
Defend our Sion well,
And heavenly mercy walls us round
From Babylon and hell.

6 Salvation to the King
That sits enthron’d above;
Thus we adore the God of might,
And bless the God of love.

Hymn 2:81. 
Our sin the cause of Christ’s death.

1 And now the scales have left mine eyes,
Now I begin to see;
O the curs’d deeds my sins have done! 
What murderous things they be!

2 Were these the traitors, dearest Lord,
That thy fair body tore? 
Monsters, that stain’d those heavenly limbs
With floods of purple gore?

3 Was it for crimes that I had done
My dearest Lord was slain
When justice seiz’d God’s only Son,
And put his soul to pain?

4 Forgive my guilt, O Prince of peace,
I’ll wound my God no more;
Hence from my heart, ye sins, be gone,
For Jesus I adore.

5 Furnish me, Lord, with heavenly arms
From grace’s magazine,
And I’ll proclaim eternal war
With every darling sin.

Hymn 2:82. 
Redemption and protection from spiritual enemies.

1 Arise my soul, my joyful powers,
And triumph in my God,
Awake, my voice, and loud proclaim
His glorious grace abroad.

2 He rais’d me from the deeps of sin,
The gates of gaping hell,
And fix’d my standing more secure
Than ’twas before I fell.

3 The arms of everlasting love
Beneath my soul he plac’d,
And on the rock of ages set
My slippery footsteps fast.

4 The city of my bless’d abode
Is wall’d around with grace
Salvation for a bulwark stands
To shield the sacred place.

5 Satan may vent his sharpest spite,
And all his legions roar,
Almighty mercy guards my life,
And bounds his raging power.

6 Arise, my soul, awake, my voice,
And tunes of pleasure sing,
Loud hallelujahs shall address
My Saviour and my King.

Hymn 2:83. 
The passion and exaltation of Christ.

1 Thus saith the Ruler of the skies,
“Awake, my dreadful sword;
“Awake, my wrath and smite the man,
“My fellow,” saith the Lord.

2 Vengeance receiv’d the dread command,
And armed down she flies,
Jesus submits t’ his Father’s hand,
And bows his head and dies.

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