2 The burden of our weighty guilt
Would sink us down to flames,
And threatening vengeance rolls above
To crush our feeble frames.
3 Almighty goodness cries, “Forbear;”
And straight the thunder stays;
And dare we now provoke his wrath,
And weary out his grace?
4 Lord, we have long abus’d thy love,
Too long indulg’d our sin;
Our aching hearts e’en bleed to see
What rebels we have been.
5 No more, ye lusts, shall ye command,
No more will we obey;
Stretch out, O God, thy conquering hand,
And drive thy foes away.
Hymn 2:106.
Repentance at the cross.
1 Oh, if my soul was form’d for woe,
How would I vent my sighs!
Repentance should like rivers flow
From both my streaming eyes.
2 ’Twas for my sins, my dearest Lord
Hung on the cursed tree,
And groan’d away a dying life,
For thee, my soul, for thee.
3 O how I hate those lusts of mine
That crucify’d my God,
Those sins that pierc’d and nail’d his
flesh
Fast to the fatal wood!
4 Yes, my Redeemer, they shall die,
My heart has so decreed,
Nor will I spare the guilty things
That made my Saviour bleed.
5 Whilst with a melting broken heart
My murder’d Lord I view,
I’ll raise revenge against my sins,
And slay the murderers too.
Hymn 2:107.
The everlasting absence of God intolerable.
1 That awful day will surely come,
Th’ appointed hour makes haste,
When I must stand before my Judge,
And pass the solemn test.
2 Thou lovely chief of all my joys,
Thou sovereign of my heart,
How could I bear to hear thy voice
Pronounce the sound, “Depart?”
3 [The thunder of that dismal word,
Would so torment my ear,
’Twould tear my soul asunder, Lord,
With most tormenting fear.]
4 [What, to be banish’d from my life,
And yet forbid to die!
To linger in eternal pain,
Yet death for ever fly!]
5 O wretched state of deep despair,
To see my God remove,
And fix my doleful station where
I must not taste his Love.
6 Jesus, I throw my arms around,
And hang upon thy breast;
Without a gracious smile from thee
My spirit cannot rest.
7 O tell me that my worthless name
Is graven on thy hands;
Shew me some promise in thy book
Where my salvation stands!
8 [Give me one kind assuring word,
To sink my fears again,
And cheerfully my soul shall wait
Her threescore years and ten.]
Hymn 2:108.
Access to the throne of grace by a Mediator.
1 Come, let us lift our joyful eyes
Up to the courts above,
And smile to see our Father there
Upon a throne of love.
2 Once ’twas a seat of dreadful wrath,
And shot devouring flame;
Our God appear’d consuming fire,
And vengeance was his name.


