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Man: his Need of Regeneration.

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SOUTHPORT.

C. M.

Templi Carmina.

How sad our state by nature is! Our sin-how deep it stains

And Sa- tan holds our cap-tive minds Fast in his slav-ish chains.

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1. How sad our state by nature is!
Our sin-how deep it stains!
And Satan holds our captive minds
Fast in his slavish chains.

2. But there's a voice of sovereign grace
Sounds from the sacred word:
"Ho! ye despairing sinners, come,
And trust upon the Lord."

3. My soul obeys th' almighty call,
And runs to this relief;

I would believe thy promise, Lord:
O, help my unbelief!

4. A guilty, weak, and helpless worm,
On thy kind arms I fall:
Be thou my strength and righteousness,
My Saviour and my All.

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2. My hopes of heaven were firm and bright; 4.
But since the precept came
With such convincing power and light,
I find how vile I am.

3. My guilt appeared but small before,
Till I with terror saw
How perfect, holy, just, and pure
Is thine eternal law.

To chase the shades of death away,
And bid the sinner live:

A beam of heaven, a vital ray,
'Tis thine alone to give.

5. O, change these wretched hearts of curs,
And give them life divine;
Then shall our passions and our powers,
Almighty Lord, be thine.

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With-out one cheerful beam of hope, Or spark of glimmering day.

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1. PLUNGED in a gulf of dark despair,

We wretched sinners lay,
Without one cheerful beam of hope,
Or spark of glimmering day.

2. With pitying eyes the Prince of Grace Beheld our helpless grief:

He saw, and, oh, amazing love!-
He ran to our relief.

3. Down from the shining seats above,
With joyful haste he fled,
Entered the grave in mortal flesh,
And dwelt
the dead.
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4. Oh, for this love let rocks and hills
Their lasting silence break;
And all harmonious human tongues
The Saviour's praises speak!

5. Angels, assist our mighty joys!

Strike all your harps of gold!

But when you raise your highest notes,
His love can ne'er be told.

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3. But thine atoning sacrifice

Hath answered all demands;
And peace and pardon from the skies
Are offered by thy hands.

4. 'Tis by thy death we live, O Lord!
'Tis on thy cross we rest
Forever be thy love adored,
Thy name forever blest.

198. "It is God which worketh in you.” 1. Nor all the outward forms on earth, Nor rites that God has given, Nor will of man, nor blood, nor birth, Can raise a soul to heaven.

2. The sovereign will of God alone
Creates us heirs of grace;
Born in the image of his Son,
A new, peculiar race.

3. The Spirit, like some heavenly wind,
Blows on the sons of flesh,
New-models all the carnal mind,
And forms the man afresh.

4. Our quickened souls awake and rise
From the long sleep of death;
On heavenly things we fix our eyes,
And praise employs our breath.

Doxology. To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, One God, whom we adore, Be glory as it was, is now, And shall be evermore!

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If he con - tend in right-eous - ness, We fall be neath his rod.

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2. If he our way should mark,

With strict inquiring eyes,

Could we for one of thousand faults
A just excuse devise?

3. All-seeing, powerful God!

Who can with thee contend?

Or who that tries th' unequal strife

Shall prosper
in the end?

4. The mountains, in thy wrath,

Their ancient seats forsake;

The trembling earth deserts her place,
Her rooted pillars shake.

5. Ah, how shall guilty man

Contend with such a God?

None, none can meet him and escape,
But through the Saviour's blood.

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Hope in the Cross. Self-renunciation.

BRADEN. S. M.

WM. B. BRADBURY.

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My former hopes are fled, My terror now begins: I feel, alas! that I

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1. My former hopes are fled,
My terror now begins:
I feel, alas! that I am dead
In trespasses and sins.

2. Ah! whither shall I fly?

I hear the thunder roar:
The law proclaims destruction nigh,
And vengeance at the door.

3. When I review my ways,

I dread impending doom; But sure a friendly whisper says, "Flee from the wrath to come."

4. I see, or think I see,

A glimmering from afar;

A beam of day that shines for me,
To save me from despair.

5. Forerunner of the sun,

It marks the pilgrim's way;
I'll gaze upon it while I
And watch the rising day.

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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!

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1. MAN'S wisdom is to seek
His strength in God alone;
And ev'n an angel would be weak,
Who trusted in his own.

2. Retreat beneath his wings,

And in his grace confide;

This more exalts the King of kings,
Than all your works beside.

3. In Jesus is our store;

Grace issues from his throne; Whoever says, "I want no more," Confesses he has none.

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Way of Salvation.

HIDING PLACE. L. M.

Spiritual Songs.

1. Hail, sovereign Love! that formed the plan To save re - bell - ious, ruined man;

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2. AGAINST the God who rules the sky I fought, with hand uplifted high; I madly ran the sinful race, Regardless of a hiding-place. 3. Indignant Justice stood in view; To Sinai's burning mount I flew : But Justice cried, with frowning face, "This mountain is no hiding-place." 4. Ere long a heavenly voice I heard; A bleeding Saviour then appeared: Led by the Spirit of his grace, I found in him a biding-place. 5. On him the weight of vengeance fell, That else had sunk a world to hell; Then, O my soul! for ever praise Thy Saviour God, thy hiding-place!

207. 1. Now to the power of God supreme Be everlasting honors given; He saves from hell-we bless his name,He guides our wandering feet to heaven.

"Not by works of righteousness which
we have done."

2. Not for our duties or deserts,

But of his own abundant grace,

He works salvation in our hearts, And forms a people for his praise 3. 'Twas his own purpose that begun To rescue rebels doomed to die; He gave us grace in Christ his Son, Before he spread the starry sky. 4. Jesus, the Lord, appears at last,

And makes his Father's counsels known, Declares the great transaction past, And brings immortal blessings down. 5. He dies, and, in that dreadful night, Did all the powers of hell destroy; He rose, and brought our heaven to light, And took possession of the joy..

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"A Name which is above every name."
PHIL. ii. 9.

1. THERE is none other name than thine,
Jehovah Jesus! Name divine!
On which to rest for sins forgiven-
For peace with God, for hope of heaven
2. There is none other name than thine,
When cares, and fears,and griefs are mine,
That, with a gracious power, can heal
Each care, and fear, and grief I feel.
3. There is none other name than thine,
When called my spirit to resign,
To bear me through that latest strife,
And ev'n in death to be my life.

4. Name, above every name! thy praise
Shall fill the remnant of my days:
Jehovah Jesus! Name divine!
Rock of salvation! thou art mine.

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