Man: his Need of Regeneration. 60 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. 1. How sad our state by nature is! 2. But there's a voice of sovereign grace 3. My soul obeys th' almighty call, I would believe thy promise, Lord: 4. A guilty, weak, and helpless worm, 2. My hopes of heaven were firm and bright; 4. 3. My guilt appeared but small before, To chase the shades of death away, A beam of heaven, a vital ray, 5. O, change these wretched hearts of curs, With-out one cheerful beam of hope, Or spark of glimmering day. 1. PLUNGED in a gulf of dark despair, We wretched sinners lay, 2. With pitying eyes the Prince of Grace Beheld our helpless grief: He saw, and, oh, amazing love!- 3. Down from the shining seats above, 4. Oh, for this love let rocks and hills 5. Angels, assist our mighty joys! Strike all your harps of gold! But when you raise your highest notes, 3. But thine atoning sacrifice Hath answered all demands; 4. 'Tis by thy death we live, O Lord! 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 3. The Spirit, like some heavenly wind, 4. Our quickened souls awake and rise Doxology. To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, One God, whom we adore, Be glory as it was, is now, And shall be evermore! If he con - tend in right-eous - ness, We fall be neath his rod. 2. If he our way should mark, With strict inquiring eyes, Could we for one of thousand faults 3. All-seeing, powerful God! Who can with thee contend? Or who that tries th' unequal strife Shall prosper 4. The mountains, in thy wrath, Their ancient seats forsake; The trembling earth deserts her place, 5. Ah, how shall guilty man Contend with such a God? None, none can meet him and escape, Hope in the Cross. Self-renunciation. BRADEN. S. M. WM. B. BRADBURY. 63 My former hopes are fled, My terror now begins: I feel, alas! that I am 1. My former hopes are fled, 2. Ah! whither shall I fly? I hear the thunder roar: 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, 5. Forerunner of the sun, It marks the pilgrim's way; run, 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! 1. MAN'S wisdom is to seek 2. Retreat beneath his wings, And in his grace confide; This more exalts the King of kings, 3. In Jesus is our store; Grace issues from his throne; Whoever says, "I want no more," Confesses he has none. 64 Way of Salvation. HIDING PLACE. L. M. Spiritual Songs. 1. Hail, sovereign Love! that formed the plan To save re - bell - ious, ruined man; 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 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.. 208. "A Name which is above every name." 1. THERE is none other name than thine, 4. Name, above every name! thy praise |