SIN

HYMN. CXXIX. L. M.

The Sinner's alarm.

I.

INNERS, O why so thoughtless grown? Why in such dreadful haste to die; Daring to leap to worlds unknown, Heedless against thy God to fly.

II.

Wilt thou despise eternal fate,
Urg'd on by sin's fantastic dreams,
Madly attempt th' infernal gate,
And force thy passage to the flames.

III.

Stay, sinner, on the Gospel plains,
Behold the GoD of love unfold
The glories of his dying pains,
For ever telling, yet untold.

HYMN CXXX. P. M.
The dying Christain to his Soul.

I.

VITAL spark of heav'nly flame!

Quit, Oh quit this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life.

II.

Hark! they whisper; angels say,
Sister spirit, come away,

What is this absorbs me quite ?
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,
Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?

III.

The world recedes, it disappears!
Heav'n opens on my eyes!--my ears
With sounds seraphic ring:

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O Grave! where is thy victory?
O Death, where is thy sting?

HYMN CXXXI. Sevens.
Melchizedek a Type of Christ.

I.

KING of Salem, bless my soul !

Make a wounded sinner whole,

King of righteousness and peace,
Let not thy sweet visits cease.

II.

Come! refresh this soul of mine,
With thy sacred bread and wine,
All thy love to me unfold,

Half of which cannot be told.

III.

Hail Melchizedek divine!

Great High-Priest thou shalt be mine;

Q

All my powers before thee fall,
Take not tythe, but take them all.

HYMN CXXXII. L. M.
Jesus the Hiding Place.

I.

HAIL Sov'reign love! that first began

The scheme to rescue fallen men!

Hail matchless, free, eternal grace,
That gave my soul, an Hiding Place!

II.

Against the LORD that rules the sky
I fought with hand uplifted high,
Despis'd the mention of his grace,
Secure without an Hiding Place!

III.

Enwrapt in thick Egyptian night,
And fond of darkness more than light,
Madly I ran the sinful race,

Too proud to seek an Hiding Place!

IV.

But thus eternal counsel ran,
"Almighty love, arrest that man,"
I felt the terrors of distress,

And found I had no Hiding Place.

V.

Indignant justice stood in view:
To Sinai's fiery Mount I flew :
But Justice cried with frowning face;
"This Mountain is no Hiding Place!"

VI.

Ere long a heav'nly voice I heard,
And mercy's angel form appear'd,
She led me on, with placid face,
TO JESUS as my Hiding Place!

VII.

On HIM the tenfold vengeance fell,
That wou'd have sunk a world to hell:
He bore it for the chosen race
And thus became their Hiding Place!

VIII.

A few more rolling Suns at most, Will land me on fair Canaan's coast; There shall I sing the song of grace, And see my glorious Hiding Place!

HYMN CXXXIII. L. M.
Way to Canaan.

I.

JESUS, my all, to heaven is gone,

He whom I fix my hopes upon;
His track I see, and I'll pursue
The narrow way till him I view.

II.

The way the holy prophets went,
The road that leads from banishment,
The king's highway of holiness
I'll go, for all his paths are peace.

III.

This is the way I long have sought, And mourn'd because I found it not;

My grief, my burden long has been,
Becaue I could not cease from sin.

IV.

The more I strove against its power,
I sinn'd and stumbled but the more,
'Till late I heard my SAVIOUR say,
Come hither, soul, "I AM THE WAY."

V.

Lo! glad I come, and thou, blest Lamb,
Shalt take me to thee as I am;
My sinful self to thee I give,
Nothing but love shall I receive.

VI.

Then will I tell to sinners round,
What a dear SAVIOUR I have found;
I'll point to thy redeeming blood,
And

say, "BEHOLD THE WAY TO GOD."

HYMN CXXXIV. L. M.
The call of Mercy, & alarm of Death.

I.

“AWAKE! celestial mercy cries;

Awake, ye thoughtless and be wise:

"Eternal life, eternal death,

"Depend on ev'ry fleeting breath.

II.

"O seize my blessings, while you may,
"And hear the voice of grace to day
"To Morrow some surprizing blow

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May sink you to the Shades below.