Hymns and Spiritual Songs | Page 4

Isa. 5. 2 7-10. Matt.
13. 16 17.
1 How beauteous are their feet
Who stand on Zion's hill!
Who bring
salvation on their tongues,
And words of peace reveal!
2 How charming is their voice!
How sweet the tidings are!
"Zion,
behold thy Saviour King,
He reigns and triumphs here."
3 How happy are our ears
That hear this joyful sound,
Which kings
and prophets waited for,
And sought, but never found!
4 How blessed are our eyes
That see this heavenly light!
Prophets
and kings desir'd it long,
But dy'd without the sight.
5 The watchmen join their voice,
And tuneful notes employ;


Jerusalem breaks forth in songs,
And deserts leant the joy.
6 The Lord makes bare his arm
Thro' all the earth abroad
Let every
nation now behold
Their Saviour and their God.
Hymn 1:11.
The humble enlightened, and carnal reason humbled;

or, The sovereignty of grace, Luke 10. 21 22
1 There was an hour when Christ rejoic'd,
And spoke his joy in words
of praise;
"Father, I thank thee, mighty God,
"Lord of the earth, and
heavens, and seas.
2 "I thank thy sovereign power and love,
"That crowns my doctrine
with success;
"And makes the babes in knowledge learn
"The
heights, and breadths, and lengths of grace.
3 "But all this glory lies conceal'd
"From men of prudence and of wit;

"The prince of darkness blinds their eyes,
"And their own pride
resists the light.
4 "Father, 'tis thus, because thy will
"Chose and ordain'd it should be
so;
"T'is thy delight t' abase the proud,
"And lay the haughty
scorner low.
5 "There's none can know the Father right
"But those who learn it
from the Son;
"Nor can the Son be well receiv'd,
But where the
Father makes him known."
6 Then let our souls adore our God
That deals his graces as he please,

Nor gives to mortals an account
Or of his actions, or decrees.
Hymn 1:12.
Free grace in revealing Christ, Luke 10. 21.
1 Jesus, the man of constant grief,
A mourner all his days;
His spirit
once rejoic'd aloud,
And tun'd his joy to praise.

2 "Father, I thank thy wondrous love,
"That hath reveal'd thy Son

"To men unlearned; and to babes
"Has made thy gospel known.
3 "The mysteries of redeeming grace
"Are hidden from the wise,

"While pride and carnal reasonings join
"To swell and blind their
eyes."
4 Thus doth the Lord of heaven and earth
His great decrees fulfil,

And orders all his works of grace
By his own sovereign will.
Hymn 1:13.
The Son of God incarnate; or, The titles and the

kingdom of Christ, Isa. 9. 2 6 7.
1 The lands that long in darkness lay
Now have beheld a heavenly
light;
Nations that sat in death's cold shade
Are bless'd with beams
divinely bright.
2 The virgin's promis'd Son is born,
Behold th' expected Child appear;

What shall his names or titles be?
The Wonderful, the Counsellor.
3 This infant is the mighty God
Come to be suckled and ador'd
Th'
eternal Father, Prince of Peace,
The son of David, and his Lord.
4 The government of earth and seas
Upon his shoulders shall be laid

His wide dominions still increase,
And honours to his name be
paid.
5 Jesus the holy child shall sit
High on his father David's throne,

Shall crush his foes beneath his feet,
And reign to ages yet unknown.
Hymn 1:14.
The triumph of faith; or, Christ's unchangeable love,

Rom. 8. 33 &c.
1 Who shall the Lord's elect condemn?
'Tis God that justifies their
souls,
And mercy like a mighty stream
O'er all their sins divinely
rolls.

2 Who shall adjudge the saints to hell?
'Tis Christ that suffer'd in their
stead,
And the salvation to fulfil,
Behold him rising from the dead.
3 He lives, he lives, and sits above,
For ever interceding there:
Who
shall divide us from his love?
Or what should tempt us to despair?
4 Shall persecution, or distress,
Famine, or sword, or nakedness?

He that hath lov'd us bears us thro',
And makes us more than
conquerors too.
5 Faith hath an overcoming power,
It triumphs in the dying hour;

Christ is our life, our joy, our hope,
Nor can we sink with such a
prop.
6 Not all that men on earth can do,
Nor powers on high, nor powers
below,
Shall cause his mercy to remove,
Or wean our hearts from
Christ our love.
Hymn 1:15.
Our own weakness, and Christ our strength,
2 Cor. 12.
7 9 10.
1 Let me but hear my Saviour say,
"Strength shall be equal to thy
day,"
Then I rejoice in deep distress,
Leaning on all-sufficient
Grace.
2 I glory in infirmity,
That Christ's own power may rest on me;

When I am weak, then am I strong,
Grace is my shield, and Christ my
song.
3 I can do all things, or can bear
All sufferings, if my Lord be there;

Sweet pleasures mingle with the pains,
While his left hand my
head sustains.
4 But if the Lord be once withdrawn,
And we attempt the work alone,

When new temptations spring and rise
We find how great our
weakness is.

5 [So Samson, when his hair was lost,
Met the Philistines to his cost;

Shook his vain limbs with sad surprise,
Made feeble fight, and lost
his eyes.]
Hymn 1:16.
Hosanna to Christ, Matt.