Wesley, John ‘Hymns for Those That Seek and Those That Have Redemption... DUKE UNIVERSITY DIVINITY SCHOOL LIBRARY _wesle gy HY M NS THOSE THAT SEEK = thes - KS LM pak THOSE THAT HAVE -REDEMPTION ees THE BLOOD -O F | ie FES SUS CHRIST : THE EIGHTH EDITION. SSS ae BANE Cae WILMINGTON, ‘Printed by Faines Adams, 17702 4 fF ’ ‘ ime a? rg’. Digitized by the Intern ‘ in 2022 with fundit _ Duke University Li https://archive.org/details/hymnst } ch Imperfect pages 1-10 missing Ke =. REDEMPTION HYMNS. Rd ae 2 Jesu, I cry for Help to Thee; WS] 3 HY Y, A Thou. halt, Lorp, the double Key: ~. Open the gracious Door, ~And_let me Kee with Pardon Bleft, = then obtzin one Blefling more, “And lay me down to Reft. 3 In Love forbid my longer -Stay, e Beckon - ‘me from Earth away, ~ Fulfil my Heart’s Defire, . And fign my pardon’d Soul’s Releafe: vs oe in now my pardon’d Soul require, And let me Le in Peace. pono MN \ WUE - To—Réjcice, the Lorn is King. ie E tempted Souls, that feel The great and fore Diftreis, a Waiting "till Cuarst reveal ' His Joy and Love, and Peace: Lift up your Heads, the Signs appear, * -Look up, and fee your Saviour near ! : g» * Long have you heard and known ; The Wars that rage within, | “* And Nature ftill fights on, © And Grace oppofés Sin; . Lift up your Heads, Gv. - 3 ~Thofe ftrong convulfive Throes, oa erate : That fhake your inmoft Frame,” : Thofe Fears, 2nd-Griefs, and Woes, : His fare Approach aay . Lift up your Heads, &c. .& > Who pine for heavenly Food, As at the Point to die, Your pee ant of Gop - Himfelf fhall foon fupply : Lift . MP your fen See > REDEMPTION _ HYMNS. ins nat: Plague of your own fleart, naa Which poifons all the Race, Shall fuddenly depart, x" | Expell’d by fovereign Grace: ; Lift up your Heads, the Signs appear, ‘Look ae and ee re Saviour’ near! 6: Ye now ‘affi@ed are, ins = And hated for his Name, And in your Bodies bear The- Tokens of the Lamb: _-Lift up your Heads, Sree 7 “Who ftumble at the Crofs, And: vilely. fall away, x ‘ Deferters of the Caufe, Po. \ Your Brethren you betray : : Lift up your Heads, &c, sd To vilify the True, The Truth to fcandalize, SERA And make a Prey of you: ees «Lift By. vane eats BG. os, Mie oo x 's 3. Lot. the falfe Prophets: ae =) eases ee And ‘many are grown cold, And, forfeiting their Peace, . Have wand’red from the Fold : Lift up’ = Heads, SiGe ‘10, Who patiently edie ats ate : *Till all their - Trials end, an eer m Are of Salvation fure, ch gels eee And fhall to Heaven’ afcend+ ° Lift up your Heads, the Signs” appear, d00k up, = fee your oan hue! ~< REDEMP1ION HYMNS, 13 H Y.M Nex. To—Jesus, foew us thy Salvation. “vig OVE Divire, all Loves excelling. _ : Joy of Heaven to Earth co:ne dows Fix: ‘in us thy hamble Dwelling, All thy faithful Mercies crown : ~ Jesus, Thow art all Compaffion, Pure‘ unbounded Love Thou art, Vifit. us with thy Salvation, ‘ Enter every trembling Heart. 2 Breathe, O ‘breathe thy loving Spirit” < Into-every troubled Breatt, . Let us all m thee inherit, ; Let us find that Second Reft: Take away cur Power of Sinning, + Alpha:and Omega be, F pend of Faith as its Beginning, | » Set our Hearts at Liberty. 3 oa Almighty fade diver,” =) =) Let, us all thy” Life receive, Suddenly: return, and never, Never more thy Temples leave. , Sérve’ Thee as- thy Hot above, ~ Pray, and praife Thee, without ceafing, s Glory in thy perfect Love. © : 4 Finifh then thy New Cre: ation, | -;- Pure -and finlefs let us be, Let us fee thy great Salvation, PerfeQly reitor’d in Thee; Chane’d from Gfory into Glory 7 Till in Heaven we take our Place, ?Till “we catt our Crowns before Thee, Loft in Wonder, Love, and praite ! -. * 4 a —_ Thee we would be always blefling, > eae acing 44 REDEMPTION HYMNS, = HYMN: xX. '.* "To——Happy Magdalane. , £ OME, ye weary Sinners, come, All who groan to bear your Load, «: Jesus calls his Wanderers Home; Haften to your pard’ning God’: ~ Come, ye guilty Spirits oppref, Anfwer to the Saviour’s Call, “‘ Come, and I will give you Reft, -.- Come, and-I will fave you all.” =~ --2. Jesus, full of Truth and Love, _ "We thy kindeft Word obey, o* Faithful: let thy Mercies prove, _. Take our Load of Guilt away: Now, the promis’d Reft beftow, = , Reflt from Servitude fevere, .. Reft from all our Toil and Woe, ° - Reft from all our Grief and Fear. 3 Weary of this War within, : Weary of this endlefs Strife, -- Weary of Ourfelves and Sin, _. Weary of awretched Life 5 . Fain we would on Thee rely, os _~ Caft on Thee our Sin and Care, To thy Arms of Mercy Ay, “:_-,:"-Find our lafting Quiet there.” = “-~-4 Burthen’d with a World of Grief, =~ --. Burthen’d with our finful *-Load, - ‘Burthen’d with this Unbelief, Burthen’d with the Wrath of Gop, Lo! we come to Thee for Eafe, True and gracious as thou art, . Now our groaning Soul releafe, r Write Forgivenefs on ‘our Heart. * ‘ XX I ¢ REDEMPTION HYMNS. 15 oe M.¥ Me Mex . . WA Funzrzay Hymn, Te—Hail tbe Day that fees Him rife! G LORY be to God on high, Gop in whom we live and die, Gop who guides us to his Love, Takes us to his Throne above! Angels that furround his Throne, Sing the Wonders He hath done, Shout, while we on Earth reply, _Glory be to Gop on high! Gop of everlafting Grace, Worthy Thou of endlefs Praife, “Thou “haft all thy Bleffings thed On the Livirg and the Dead: Thou waft here their fure Defence, Thou haft borne their Spirits hence, : Worthy Thou of endlefs Praife, Gop of everlaing Grace! “Thanks be all afcrib’d to Thee, Blefing, Power, and Majelty, Thee, by whofe Almighty Name They their latett Foe o’ercame ; Thou the Viéory haft won, Sav’d them by thy Grace alone, ‘Caught them op thy Face to fee, ' Thanks be all afcrib’d to Thee! Happy in thy glorious Love, We fhalt from the Vale remove, Glad Partakers of our Hope, "We hall foon be taken up, Meet again our heavenly Friends, Blef{ with Blifs that never ends, Join’d to all thy Holts above, Happy in thy glorious Love!- ce. 33 Bigt Aeeeee _——— ee 36- REDEMPTION HYMNS. : HYMN Bak io Bul Jesus, Bail, our ‘great High-Prieft. x RM. of the Lorp, “awake’ for me! Art Thou not-i# that fmote the Sea, _ And all its mighty Waters’ dried ? ‘Art thou not i that quell’d the Boaft T: Of haughty Pharach, and his Holt, And ‘ba Red - all - their furious Pride ? 2 Thou didft th’outrageous "Dragon rounds _ Thou haft.the Horfe and Rider drown’ Fy ‘Glorious and excellent in Power; | While Yrael march’d .in firm: Array, So thro’: the wond’rous Way, Nor fumbled till they. reached the Shore. 3 Aisles as in the antient Days : "? See in-our Foes th’ Egyftian Race, “With Hell’s grim Tyrant at their Head : sEnrag’d at our-Efcape he roars, « ° And follows us with all his Powers; : Ont - of his ‘Iron_Furnace ; freed. —-s cv re FY will purfue, ‘I will o’ertake, - T will my Fugitives* bring back, s© And “fatisfy my Luft of Blood, * Draw. out my Sword of keénett’ Lies, «© Pour a whole Flood of Perjuries, ° ’ «< And make the Rebels know their cee ci 5 Angel Divine, who ftilf art near, Remove and guard thy People’s Rear, | This Day for thine own. J/rael fight O let the Pillar interpofe, “A A Cloud .and Darknefs ‘to’ our Foes, ~ To us a Flame of chearing Light. Oe Hear us to. Thee for Succoer cry, Nor let the hottile Powers come nigh In all our Night of Doubts and Fears 5 —— ‘. REDEMPTION HYMNS. x7 They cannot force their Way thro” Thee, And Thou fhalt our Protection be, ?Till the glad. Morning Light appears.. - 7 Look thro” the tatelary Cloud, In: which: ‘Thou dof our Souls infhroud,. : And: blaft’ the’ Aliens with thine Eye, Trouble: the proud Ez;ttian Hoft, Confound’ their vain “Pre(umptuous ‘Boakt Who: Jracl’s Gop in us defy. 8: Arreft’ our fierce’ Purfuers Speed, Take-off their Chariot-wheels, with Dread -*. And: heavy’ Wrath their Spirits pain, Extort- the’ Cry from every Heart, s* Jenovan: takes his People’s Part, We fight: againit the Logo in. vain.’ EY MN. XI . Te Deum. 3° To—Sinners, rejoice, your Peace is made» NFINITE Gop, to Thee we raifé _ Our Hearts in folémn Songs of Praife 5° - By all. thy Works on Earth ador’d, We worfhip. Thee, the Common Lorop,. The Everlafting Father own,. And: bow our ‘Souls before thy Throne.- =z Thee all the Choir of Angels fings,- The Lorp. of Holts, the King of “Kings F Cherubs proclaim thy Praife aloud, Ard Seraphs fhout ne Tri-une. Gop,. And holy, holy, holy, cry, Thy Glory fills both Earth and Sky! a Gop of the Patriarchal Race, . She antient. Seers record thy Praife;. “She goodly Apoffolic Band ~ In-bigheh- Joy ae fiand,. z R- i a ht : if Ni 38 -REDEMPTION HYMNS. And all the Saints and Prophets join. T’ extol thy Majefty. Divine.. 4 Head of the Martyrs noble Hott, - Of Thee they juftly make their Boat; - The Church to Earth’s remoteft Bounds. _ Her heav’nly. Founder’s Praife.refounds, ' And ftrive with thofe around the Throne: To hymn the myftic Three in One. 5 Father of endlefs Majefty,. All Might and Love they render Thee,, -'Thy-true and only Son adore, The fame in Dignity and’ Power; “And Gop the Holy Ghoft' declare,. The_Saints-eternal Comforter. _ 6.Messtan! Joy of every Heart, tr. - Thou, Thou the King of Glory art!: .. The Father’s .everlafting Son !* Nie ae ='Thee, Thee we mof delight to own;; -For all our Hopes on Thee depend,. Whote | glorious Mercies never. end.. * ~ 7 Bent to redeem a finful Race; Thou, Lorp, with unexampled Grace: ‘Into our lower World didft come, _And ftoop to a poor Virgin’s. Womb, ~ Whom all the Heavens cannot contain,. _ Our Gop appear’d—a Child of Man! - 8 When Thou hadft’render’d up thy Breath;, - . And: dying. drawn the Sting of Death, * "Thou didft from Earth triumphant rife, - ~~ , And’ ope the Portals of the. Skies, ; That, all who truft.in Thee alone Might -follow, and’ partake thy- Throne.- g Seated at Gop’s Right Hand again, Fhou doft in all his Glory reign, Thou doft, thy Father’s Image, fhine- Ep, all the Atyributes Divine, = - REDEMPTION HYMNS. 19 And Thou in Vengeance clad fhalt come To feal our everlafting Doom. 40 Wherefore we now for Mercy pray, O Saviour, take our Sins away! -Before Thou as our Judge appear - In dreadful Majefty fevere, | Appear our Advocate with Gop, And fave the Purchafe of thy Blood. ‘t1 Hallow, and make thy Servants meet; And with thy Saints in Glory Seat, Suitain, and blefs us by thy Sway, And keep to that tremendous Day, When all thy Church fhall chaunt above The new eternal Song of Love. 22 Rejoicing now in glorious Hope -, That Thou at lalft wilt take us up, With. daily Triumph we proclaim, And blefs, and magnify thy Name, And wait thy Greatnefs to adore , When Time and Death fhall be no more, 23, Till then with us vouchfafe to ftay, ‘ “. And keep us pure from Sin To-day, Thy great confirming Grace beftow, _ And guard us all our Days below, . And ever mightily defend, And fave, O fave us to.tae End! “4 Still let us, Lorp, with Love be blef, _ Who in thy Guardian Mercy reit, The weakeit Soul that tru:ts in Thee, Extend thy Mercy’s Arms to -me, And never Jet me loie thy Love, *Vill I, ev’n 1, am crowa’d above, Se a-«@ HYMN XIV. : j x ; 3 i -;.f)°¢-°.? HYMN, VT 2 To— Spirit of Truth defend, WE Far from the Path of Peace, " (That anfreqented Way ass ; To Life and Happinefs) ~ How long will ye your Folly love, And throng the downward Road, And hate the Wifdom from above, _ And mock the Sons of Gop ? 2 Madnefs and Mifery ~ "°° pay Ye count our Life beneath, And Nothing great can fee Or glorious in our Death: ‘As born to fuffer, and to grieve, Beneath your Feet we lie, — .. And utterly contemn’d we live, -- - And unlamented die. . ea aces r [REDEMPTION HYMNS. - 23 g Poor penfive Sojourners, Nias O’erwhelm’d with Griefs and Woes, Perplex’d with needlefs Fears, And Pleafure’s mortal Foes ; More irkfome shan a gaping Tomb Our Sight ye cannot. bear, ‘Wrapt in the melancholy Gloom . _ Of fancitul Defpair. ge “So. wretched, and obfcure, The Men whom ye difpife, So foolifh, weak, and poor, Above your Scorn we rife: _ Our Confcience in the Holy Ghof Can witnefs better Things; For He, whofe Blood is all our Boatt, 5 Hath made us Priefts and Kings. 5 Riches unfearchable = » In Jesu’s Love we know, And Pleafures, from the Well Pee Of Life, our Souls o’erflow; - . From Him the Spirit we receive Of Wifdom, Grace, and Power, And -always forrowful we live - . Rejoicing evermore... 6 — Angels our Servants are, ; ie keep in all our Ways . And in their Hands they bear : “> + The faced Sons of. Grace ; ~~ . Our Guardians to that heavenly BliG, *. ‘They all our Steps attend, .And Gop Himfelf our Father is, And Jesus is our Friend. 7»: With Him we walk in white, -.. .. We in. his Image fhine, ~ Our~Ro>zs are Robes of Light, -&- Our Righteoufnefs Divine 3 —. On all the grov’ling Kings of Earth vi: With Pity we look dovn, _ Andclaim, in Virtue of our Birth, “A mever-fading Crown. — \ m ee ri ay Se, SOT PY motrin \, TOS pam rae iceman marca ". 24 REDEMPTION HYMNS. een HY MN_ XVIL _ For a Minifter of Curisto To—Hail bey, boly,-bely Lorn! ar; ESUS, my Strength and Rigteoufnels, My Saviour and my King, Triumphantly thy Name I blefs, Thy conquering Name [ fing, Thou, Lorp, haft magnified “thy Name, > Thou hak maintained thy Caufe, J And I enjey the glorious Shame, - oe ‘The Scandal of thy Crofs. + 2 Thou gaveft me to fpeak thy eo = . Jn the appointed Hour, I have proclaim’d my dying ona And felt thy fpirit’s Power: > ~ Superior to thy Foes I ftood, : Above their Smile or ea On all the Strangers to thy Blood - With pitying Love look’d down. 3 Olet mehave thy Prefence fill, =-- Set as a Flint my Face, . To fhew the Counfel of thy Will, - Which faves a World by Grace. . © let me never blufh to own - The glorious Gofpel-Word, Which faves a World thro’ Faith ence \ Faith in a bleeding Logo!” < 4 This is te Tce Page ne Gas: é Whoe’er this Word receive, Feel all th’ Effeéts of Jesu’s Blood, <2 And Jenfrily nelieve, Sav'd from the Guilt and Power ‘of = By inftantaneous Grace, - : They truft to -have thy Lif = brought ie ins , And alias fce thy Fase. le “REDEMPTION HYMNS. | 25 The Pure in Ileart thy Face fhall fee ~Before they hence remove, . Redeem’d from Iniquity, : And perfected in Love. - This is the great Salvation; this = ; The Prize at which we aim, ‘The End of Faith, the hidden Blif, ; The new myfterious Name. - .6 The Name ~infcrib’d in the White Stone, The Unbeginning Word, “The Myftery fo long unknown, * The Secret of the Lorn; The living Bread fent down from Reaven, j ‘The Saints and Angels Food, Th’ immortal Seed, the little Leaven, The Effiuence of Gop! ’ | The Tree of Life, that blooms and grows 4 ~ Pth’Midit of Paradife, The pure and living Stream, that flows Back to its native ‘Skies ; . The Spirit’s Law, the Cov’nant Seal, ’ ‘Th’ Eternal Righteoufnefs, ‘The glorious Joy “unfpeakable, Th’ unutterable Peace! .$8 The Treafufe of the Gofpel- Field, The Wifdom from above, q Hid from the Wife, to Babes reveal’d, + The precious Pearl of Love; - i The myftic Power of Godlinefs, The End of Death and Sin, The Antepaft_of heavenly Biits, “The Kingdom fixt within. g The Morning- Star, that glittering bright, ‘SHines to the perfect Day, The Sun of Righteoufnefs—the Light, The Life, the Truth, the Way: The Image of the Living Gop, His Race and his Mind, Himfelf He hath on us peed And All in Curist we find. en ae Oe gg SPIN Mihi DET RA iy SR dn HN ITT restive weg OPE AS oe a i i ‘ } ‘ 1 ; ee ee ee . pare HYMN XVII Prov. iii 135 Se. . ToSinners obey the Cofpel-Word. APPY ee Man who finds the cae 3 The Blefiing of Gop’s chofen Race, The Wifdom coming from above, _ The Faith that fweetly works by Love. - 2 , Happy beyond Defcription he, Who knows, the Saviour died for me, "The Gift unfpeakable obtains,- . And heavenly Underftanding gains. -3 Wildom Divine! Who tells the price Of Waifdom’s coftly Merchandize? “ Witdom to Silver we prefer, * And Gold is Drofs, compair’d to oe 4 Better fhe is than ‘rickeft Mines All earthly Treafures fhe outfhines, Her Value above Rubies is, t And precious Pearls are vile to this. ; Whate’er thy Heart can wifh, is poor To Wildom’s all-fuficient. Store: Pleafure, and Fame, and Health, and Friends, She all created Good aoe 6 Her Hands are fll’d with Length of Day? “True Riches, and immortal Praife, Riches of Curist on All beftow’d, _And Honour, that defcends from Gop. 7 To pureft Joys the All invites, Chafte, holy, fpiritual Delights : Her Ways- are Ways of Pleafantnefs, Aad all her HONE, Paths are Peace, A ree ist > REDEMPTION HYMNS. «> 27 8 He finds, who Wifdom apprehends ; “A life begun that neverends, The Tree of Life Divine fhe is ' “"Set in the Midtt of Paradife. > ~«-g Happy the Man who Wifdom gains, Seve happy who his Guett “retains, ; He owns, and fhall for ever own ‘Wifdom and Curist, and Heaven are one. - ee pee HYMN XIx. _ To—O Leve Divine, how fweet Thex art! Whofe Love hath geatly led me on Eve’n from my infant Days, Mine inmoft Soul expofe to View, ~ And tell me if I never knew Thy juattifying Grace. hh See \ HOU great myfterious Gop unknown, « =" . 2 If [have only known thy Fear, ‘ And follow’d, with an Heart fincere, Thy Drawings from above, - Now, now the farther Grace beftow, And let my fprinkled Confcience know, ‘ Thy fweet forgiving Love. y -.3 Short of thy Love I would not fop, .A- Stranger to the Gofpel-Hope, = The Senfe of Sin forgiven, I wou!d not, Lorp, my Soul deceive, Without thy inward Witness - live, « ~ That Antepat of Heaven. 4 If now the Witnefs were in me, Would He not teftify of Thee _ In Jesus reconcil’d? And fhould I not with Faith draw nigh, And boldly Abba Father cry, I know myfelf thy .Child ? Cee st. ee SS f es ; | »~ ; 4/28 - REDEMPTION HYMNS. 5 Ah never let thy Servant reft, ?Till of my Part in Curistr poffeR ‘ Ion thy Mercy feed,. A Unworthy of the Crumbs that fall, “Yet rais’d by Him. who died for All - ‘To eat the Children’s Bread. i 3 { -6 O may I caft my Rags afide,.~ My filthy Rags of virtuous Pride, _ _ And for Acceptance groan ; _My Works of Righteoufnefs difclaim, - -With all I.have, or can, or am, - And troft in Grace alone. 7. Whate’er obftru&s thy pard’ning Love;._ Or Sin, or Righteoufnefs, remove, Thy Glory to difplay, _ Mine Heart of Unbelief convince, . 4 And now abfolve me from my Sins, 1 4 And take them all away... ‘ '* § Father in me reveal thy Son, a3 And to my inmoft Soui make known © ( 3 How merciful Thou art; ; 4 The Secret of thy Love reveal, es And by thine hallowing Spirit. dwell’ oe For ever in my Heart. ‘| 4 - a ee te ~ © HYMN Xx. P i _ Written after a Deliverance ina Tumult. ‘ 4 : To—Head of the Church triumphant. " - FORSHIP, and Thanks, and Biefiing,. And Strength afcribe to Jesus !. Jesus alone js pee? Defends his own, ~ eae et : When Earth and Hell opprefs US.- j}. ~ . Jesus with Joy we witnels, a : Almighty to deliver, Our feal fet to "That Gop is true, And reigns a King for ever.- ~ REDEMPTION HYMNS. 29 2 Omnipotent Redeemer, “Our ranfom’d Souls adore Thee, Our Saviour Thou, : - We find it now, And give Thee all the Glory. We fing thine Arm unfhort’ned, Brought thro” our fore ‘Temptation, With Heart and Voice In Thee rejoice, The Gop of our Salvation. 3 Thine Arm hath fafely brought us _A Way no more expected, Than when thy Sheep Pafs’d thro’ the Deep, By chryftal Walls protected. Thy Glory was our Rereward - 'Fhine Hand our Lives did cover, And we, ev’n we Have walked the Sea, And march’d triumphant over. 4 Thy Works we now acknowledge, ‘Fhy ‘wond’rous Loving-kinduels,- ~ Which help’d thine own By Means unknown, - And fmote our Foes with Blindnefs: By Satan’s Hof furrounded Thou didit with Patience arm us, But would not give - The Syrians Leave, Or Sodom’s Sons to harm us. g Safe as devoted Peter Betwixt the Soldiers fleeping, Like Sheep we lay To Wolves a Prey, Yet fill in Jesu’s Keeping, : C 3 fale: es abate Libiiied Ae 5 ene Ogg AAAs et lb ‘ (a =< nay Sted eoniy, ew De ke re ie AU Na lala ms, o> i 4 His Mercy hath brought Salvation to All, 30 REDEMPTION HYMNS.. Thou (ae th? jafernal Hered, . And Fewifh Epettation,. Haft fet us free: All Praife to Thee, Ps .@) Gop of. our Salvation !° 6 The World and Satan’s Malice _ _* Thou, Jesus, haft confounded;- . . .And by thy Grace With Songs of Piaife “Our happy Souls refounded. "Accepting our Deliverance, We trivmph in thy Favour, And for the Love Which now we prove, Shall noe thy Name for ever. —— HYMN XxI.. az Tot eet. of Gop..- bo E uae rejoice In Jesus’? s Grace, Let Earth makea Noifeand eccho his Praife ! : ene all-loving Savicur Hath pacified Gop, ‘And paid forbis Favour The Priceof his Blood. 2 Ye Mountains and Vales In Praifes abound, Ye Hills and ye Dales Continue the Sound, Break forth into Singing Ye Trees ofthe Wood, . Za For Jesus’s bringing Loft Sinners to Goo. 3 Atonement He made For every one, The Debt Hehath paid, the Work He hath done, Shout. all the Creation, Below and above, “Afcribing Salvation To Jesus: s Love. . Whotakeit unboughthe frees. them fromT hrall, Throughout the Believer his Glory difplays, ae Pano for ever The Vefiels of Grace.” : pee ar -.. >, REDEMPTION HYMNS. 3. Ss ee ~ Soe HYMN Xe ; At lying down. _ To—Ab Lvely Appeararce of Death. tr - N-Decan Tin Sorrow lay down My weary and languifhing Head, Nor think on the Souls that are gone, Nor envy the peaceable Dead ! . The peaceable Dead are fet free, The Good. which I covet théy have,- And End of their Sorrows they fee, And bury their Cares in the Grave. z-Their Souls are impaffive above, And Nothing of. Mortals they know,. Unlefs on an Errand of Love They vifit a Mourner below 3. With Pity angelical view 1 A Spirit imprifon’d im Pain, ! : And long for nis Happinels too, Pees -. And wait for his buriting the Chain. 3 Ye Souls of the Righteous, appear, If any are waiting around, To look on a: Spe&tacle here, In Iron and Mifery bound ; ,. Survey the fad Children’ of Men, S - The Purchafe of Mercy Divine, - .°* And fay, if ye ever have feen < A Soul fo afflicted as mine. - 4 When will the affiiction be o’er, When will the fierce Agony ceafe? _ / With thofe that are gather’d before = I. prefs to the Haven of Peace: “EF would as a Shadew remove, And’ fuddenly vanifh away, Efcape: to the Spirits above, Afcend to the Regions of Day! ee m ‘ cid eae ce oe i a i A lt ai > - saint 32° REDEMPTION HYMNS. ees Et HYMN. XXIII. ast ase To—'Tis finif'd, "tis done L ik EJ OICE evermore With Angels above, : . In Jesus’s Power, In Jesus’s Love, ; With glad Exultation Your triumph proclaim, is Afcribing Salvation To Gop andthe Lamb. 2 Thou, Lorp; our Relief InTrouble haft been, : Hatt fav’d us fromGrief, Haft faved us from Sin, ThePower of thySpiritHath fet ourHearts free, And now we inherit All Fulnefs in Thee. *3 All Fulnefs of Peace, All Falnefs of Joy, = And fpiritual Blifs That never fhall cloy 5° - To us itis given In Jesus to know ~ j __ A Kingdom of Heaven, An Heaven below. : 4 No longer we join While Sinners invite, 4 Or envy the Swine Their brutifh Delight : a TheirJoy is all Sadnefs, TheirMirth is all vain, a TheirLaughter isMadnefs, theirPleafure is Pain. 5 | ~.. 5 O might they. at lat With Sorrow return, | ThePleafures to tafte for which they were born, . : 3 “Our Jesus receiving, Our Happinefs prove,- - < _. The Joy of Believing,.The Heaven of Love. BES eee ree a an HY MN: XXIV. 4 : To---Thanks be to Gop alone. i ; Lamb of Gop, to Thee > In deep Diftrefs I flee, Thou didft purge my guilty Stain, Did for All Atonement make; ‘Take away my Sins and Pain, '_ Save ing for thy Mercy’s Sake, ee OTe ee REDEMPTION HYMNS. Thy Mercy is my Prop, And bears my WeaknefS up ; Full of Evil as Iam, Foller thou of pard’ning Grace, Jesus is thy healing Name. Saviour of the finful Race, For thine-own Sake, I pray, Take all my Sins away : Other Refuge have I none, None dol defire befide; ~ . ‘Thou haft died for All t’atone, > © "Thou: for me, for me hait died. Haft died that I might live, - Might all thy Life receive ; _ Haften, Lorp, my Heart prepare, Bring thy Death and Suffering in; -Tear away my Idols, tear, Save me,. faye me from Sin.- O bid it all depart, This Unbelief of Heart, ‘All my Mountain-Sins remove, Wrath, Concupifcence, and Pride, Caft them out by perfe& Love, Save me, who'for-me haft- died. This, this is all my Plea, ‘Fhy Blood was fhed for me, * Shed, to wafh my -Confcience clean, Shed, to purify my Heart, Shed, to purge me from all Sin, Shed, to make meas Thou art.. O that the cleanfing Tide Were now, ey’n now applied ;- Plunge me in the crimfon Flood, Drown my Sins in the Red-Sea,. Bring. me now, ev’n now to Gas Swallow up my Soul in-Thee! . rere <) weatataliahada flee Ss tet! CAs aot Se ORO Jaa een yene hi minleer lV lat sie eee Penis am 34 REDEMPTION HYMNS. ———~ HYMN XXV. The Musicray’ Se “And lulls the ravifh’d Spheres, On Thee in feeble Strains Teall, “And mix my humble Voice: with all, --.- The heavenly Chorifters. 2 If well I know the faecenl Art To captivate an human Heart, The Gtory, Lorn, be Thine: - A Servant of thy bleffed Will, T here dovote my atmoft Sxill - Fo found the Praife Divine. : ome 5 With TuscPs wretched Sons no more I proftitute my facred Power To pleafe thé Fiends beneath, Or modulate the wanton Lay, Or fmooth with Mufick’s Hand the Wa ay To everlafting Death. ‘4 Suffice for this the Seafon pat : "3 ~ I come, great Gop, to learn at laft a #¥he Leffon of thy Grace : Teach me the New, the Gofpel Song, And let my Hand, my [eart, my -Ponetes Move only to thy Praife. [~ ‘reine own Mufician, Tenn, infpire, And let my confecreated Lyre Repeat the Pfalmiit’s Part; His Son*and Thine reveal in me, And. fill with facred Melody The Fibres of my Heart. _ 6 So fhall I charm the liftning renee ‘And draw the living Stones along, ee Jasy’ s tuneful Name :. HOU Gop of Harmony and haces WhofeName tranfports the Saints above MT aes rier a REDEMPTION HYMNS, 3; re] ‘The living Stones fhall dance, fhall rife _And from a City in the Skies, ~~ The New Ferufalem! z O. might I with thy Saints afpire, -" “The meaneft of that dazzling Choir, ’ Who chaunt thy Praife above, Mixt with the bright Mufician-Band, .. May I an heavenly Harper ftand, "And fing the Song of Love. ~+8 What Extacy of Blifs is there, “ While all th’ angelic Concert fhare, _ ‘> :And drink the floating Joys! | ~~ - What more than Extacy, when All Struck to the golden Pavement fall At Jesu’s glorious Voice! .Q Jesus! the Heaven of Heaven He is, ~The Soul of Harmony and Blifs; * And while on Him we gaze, And while his-¢forious Voice we hear, Our Spirits are all Eye, -all Ear, And Silence fpeaks his Praife. zo O might I die that Awe to prove, } ? < That proftrate Awe which dares not move Before the great Three-One, To fhout by Turns the burfting Joy, And all Eternity employ ® In Songs around the Throne. SD - JEE YM N* Xo XVE Outthe Dedioot a Clie i ND 1s the lovely Shadow fled, The blooming Wonder of her Years ! So foon infhrin’d among the Dead She juftly claims our pious Tears, Who to: thof heavenly Spirits join’d, Hath left a wretched World behind. © re 36. REDEMPTION HYMNS, 2 Her early fhort-liv’d Excellence With meek Submiffion we bemoan, Snatch’d in a fatal Moment hence, Gone from our Arms, to Jesus gone, +. To heighten by her fwift Remove The Grief below and Joy above. -.3 In vain the dear departing Saint Forbids cur gufhing Tears to flow, . “ Forbear, my Friends, your fond Complaint, _ From Earth to Heaven I gladly go, To glorious Company above, Bright Angels, and the Gop of Love. 4 O praife Him and .rejoice for me -= So happy, happy in my Gop! So foon from ail my Pain fet free, And haften to that bleit Abode, _ With fwift Defire my Steps’ purfue, And take the Prize prepar’d for you. -§ Meet am I for the great Reward, The great Reward I know is mine, Come, O my fweet redeeming Lorp, Open thofe loving Arms of Thine, And take me up thy Face to fee, -And let me die to live-with Thee.” 6 The Prayer is feal’d, the Soul is fled, - And fees her Saviour Face to Face: But ftill fhe fpeaks to us tho’ dead, She calis us to -that -heavenly Place, Where all the Storms of Life are o’er, — And Pain and Parting is no more. ~ , HYMN XXVIL | To—Ab Wee is me, conftrain'd to dwell. of HOU hidden Gop, for whom I groan, ; ?Till Thou Thy(eif declares “Gop inaccefible, unknowa, ‘Reward a Sianer’s Prayer; REDEMPTION HYMNS. 37 A Sinner welt’ring in His Blood, Unpurg’d and unforgiven, ‘Far diftant from the living Gop, As far as Hell from Heaven, 22 An unregenerate Child of Man On Thee for Faith J call, Pity thy fallen Creature’s Pain, And raife me from my Fall. “The Darknefs which thro’? Thee I feei Thou only canft remove, “Thine own eternal Power reveal, The Deity of Love. 3 Thou haft in Unbelief fhut up, - . That Grace may let me go: In Hope believing againft Hope, I wait the Truth to know. | “Thou wilt in me reveal thy Name, Thou wilt thy Light afford: ‘Bound, and oppreft, yet Thine I am, ous Prifoner of the Lorp. ‘ 41 Saat not to thy Foe fubmit, But hate the Tyrant’s Chain: Send forth the Prifoner from the Pit, Nor let me cry in vain: ,Shew me the Blood that bought my Peace, The Cov’nant-Blood apply, And all my Griefs at once fhall ceafe, And all my Sins fhall die. 5 Now, Lorp, if Thou art Power, defcend, The Mountain-Sin remove, My Unbelief and Troubles end, If Thou art Truth and Love: Speak, Jesu, fpeak into my Heart What Thou tor me hat done, One Grain of living Faith impart, And Gop is all my own. D CT Saas 38 . REDEMPTION HYMNS, Peerage a en I le TA OE BRC Sete SEH SHY MNUXXVIT. 2 io aint is my Head, and fick my Heart. - X YESU, as taught’by Thee, I pray, Preferve me ’till I fee thy Light, ~ Still let me for thy Coming ftay, Stop a poor wavering Sinner’s Flight, Till Thou my full Redeemer art, ‘O keep, in Mercy keep my Heart. : Teer & so i 2 Keep, ’till this Yeah State is paft, _ This wintry State of Doubts and Fears: Expof’d to Paffion’s fierceft Blatt, Bound up: in Sin and Grief I mourn, a hae “And Janguifh for the Spring’s Return. .-3 O might I hear the Turtle’s Voice, "~The Cooing. of thy gentle Dove, “The Call that bids my Heart rejoice, - & Arife, and come away my Love, «¢ The Storm is gone, the Winter’s o’er, “46. $© Arife, for thou fhalt weep no more,” | ~ 4 When fhell this fhadowy Sabbath ene _. This tedious Length of legal Woe, © would my Lorp the Subitance fend! O might I now his Rifing know! Come, Lorn, and chafe the Clonds away, _ And bring thine own aufpicious Day. Give me to bow with Thee, tay Head, And fink into thy filent Grave, | To reft among the quiet ‘Dead, ‘ ?Till Thou difplay thy Power to fave, Thy Refurre&tion’s Power exert, . Ant rife triumphentin my Heart. With Horrors chill’d and drown’d in Tears, z . REDEMPTION HYMNS. 39 ae et HYM™M XNXIX, To—Saviour, the Worlds and mines UT of the Deep T cry, Jult at the Point to die, ; Hat? ning to infernal Pain, Jesus, Lorp, I cry to’ Bees Help a feeble Child of Man, 6 SBE forth all thy Power in me. On Thee I ever. call, : Saviour, and Friend of All: Well Thou know’ft .my defp’rate Cafe, Thou my Curfe of Sin remove, Save me by thy richeft Grace, Save me by thy pard’nisc Love, How fhall a Sinner find The Saviour of apes €anft Thou not accept my Prayer, Not beftow the Grace I claim? Where are thy. old Mercies, where All the powers of Jesu’s Name? What fhall I fay to move The. Bowels. of thy Love? Be tee Are they not-already ftirr’d ! Have I in thy~ Death no Part? Ak. thy own™ pomp tioas: Lorp, ‘Afk the Yearnings of thy Heart! I wll not let Thee go, ?Till I thy Mercy krow: Let me hear the welcome Sound, Speak, if ftill Thou can forgive;- Speak, and let the Loft be found, Speak, and*tet the Dying live. Thy Love is all my Plea, Thy Paffica fpealss for me: eee ae ee Teed tt ee th By thy Pangs, and bloody Sweat, By thy Depth of Grief unknown, Save me gafping at thy Feet, _ Saye, O fave thy Ranfom’d One! “What haft Thou done for me? ~ O think- on Calvary! By thy mortal Groans and Sighs,. By thy precious Death I pray, - Hear my dying Spirit’s Cries, - ‘Take, O take my Sins away! ° pee ALY MN XXX. ee 5 “To—Miniflerial Spirits, come. ; ’ al -J EARY World, when will it end,. Deftin’'d to the purging Fire! Fain I would to Heaven afcend ; Fhitherward I ftill -afpire :. Saviour, this is not my Place, Let me die to fee thy Face. ~ 2 O cut fhort the Work in me, Meke- a fpeedy End of Sin, Set my Heart at Liberty, - ~ Bring the Heavenly Nature in,. Seal me to Redemption’s Day, Bear my new born Soul away. 3 For this only Thing I wait, This for which I here was born,, Raife me to my firft Eftate,. - Bid me to thy Arms return, Let me to thine Image rife,. ‘Give me. back my Paradife. 4-For thine only Love I pant, : Gop of Love Thyfelf reveal, Love, Thou know’ft, is all I want,. .Now my only. Want fulfil, Anfwer now thy Spirit’s Cry, Let me love my Gop, and die, 7 f AO ‘REDEMPTION HYMNS, ae +. REDEMPTION HYMNS: 42 a ee er HYMN: XxXee For the Outcafts of Israzv. E C'Hepherd of Souls, with pitying Eye S The Thoufands of our Ijrael fee: To Thee in their Behalf we fly, Ourfelves bat newly found in“ Thee. z See where o’er defart Waftes they err, f < And neither Food nor Feeder have, Nor Fold, nor Place of Refuge near, For no Men cares their Souls to fave: 3 Wild as the untaught Jndian’s Brood, The Cérizian Savages remain, Strangers znd Enemies to Gop, ‘They make Thee {pend thy Blood in vain, ‘4 Thy Peozle, Lorn, are fold for Nought, Nor know they their Redeemer nigh : They perih whom Thyfelf hak boughr, Their Souls for Bee of Knowledge die. g. The Pit its Month hath open'd wide, To fwallow up its carelefs Prey: "Why faould they die, when thou haf died, Hait died to bear their Sins away? 6 Why fhould the Foe thy Purchafe feize? Remember, Lorn, thy dying Groans : The Mead of all thy Svfferings thef, O claim’ them for thy Ranlom’d Ones! * 7 Extend to thefe thy pard’ning Gas To thefe be thy Salvation thew’ d, O add them to thy chofen Race! O fprinkle all their Hearts with Blood ! 8: Still lec the Publicans draw near, Open the Door of Faith and Heaven, And grast their Hearts thy Word to bee Ane whifper all their Sins forgiven, Ds, Seopa edteenen eon 1 a omer en Mae cece yma rN TO PMY op pve IN AY ee ~~ Oey ges ¥ - #2. REDEMPTION HYMNS; aH Y MN XXXIL _At Meerine of Frienps. el all thy Mercies, O. my GOD:. LL Praife to-our Redeeming ao Who joins us by his Grace, » And bids us, each to each reftor’d, . . Together feek his Face. * He bids us build ezch other Be . And gather’d into ons, To our high Calling’s glorious Hope: - We Handin Hand go on. 2 The Gift which He on cone beftows,- We all delight to prove, The Grace thro” every Veiel flows In pureft Streams of Love.. é Ev’n now we fpeak, and think the fame;, And cordially agree, ft Goncentred all thro? Jssu’s-Name . - In perfeS&t Harmony. 3 We all partake the Joy of one, The common Peace we feel, A Peace to fenfual Minds unknown;. A: Joy unfpeakable, And if our Fellowfhip below,. : In Jesus be fo fweet, ¥ What Height of Rapture fhall we einer _When round his Throne. we_ oe - HYM N “XXXII THANKSGIVING: To—Praifz the Lorp, who reigns ee RAISE the Lorp, ye Blefled’ Ones,- Your glorious Lorp, and Ous, é Principalities and Thrones,. And all ths heayenly Powers 5 RED EMPTION HYMNS. 42 Angels, that in Strength excel, Here your utmof Strenath employ,. Let your ravith’d Spirit fwell With endlefs Praife and Joy. 2: Worms of Earth on Gods we call). . And challenge you to fing, Sing the fovering Caufe of All, w ~ The univerfal King ; While eternal Ages laft, The tranfporting heme repeat; Shout, and gaze, and fall,.and cal Your Crowns before his Seat, -3 There with you we traft to lie,- With you to rife again, Neareft Him that rules the Sky, And: foremott of. his T'rain ; We fhall lead the heavenly Choir,. We fhall give the Key to you, Singing to our golden Lyre,. The Song for ever new. a a i ger HYMN XXXIV. > "Eo the Trinity To—Soldiers of Curist, ari ee ATHER, in whom we live,- In whom we are, and move,. “The Gian. Power, and Praife receive, Of thy creating Love: Let all the Angel-Throng Give thanks to Gop on high, * While - Earth, repeats the joyful Song,. And ecchoes to the Sky. 2. ..* Incarnate Deity, wre Let all the ranfom’d Race ; Render in Thanks their Lives to Theo For thy redeeming Grace: $4 REDEMPTION HY MNS. The -Grace to Sinners fhew’d Ye heavenly Choirs proclaim, And cry Salvation to our Gop, Salvation to the Lamb!. : Spirit of Holine®, Let all thy Saints adore Thy facred Energy, aud blefs , Thine Heart-renewing Power:: soe ee Ang el-Tongues can tell Thy Love’s s extatic Height, - The glorious Joy unfpeakable, ‘The beatific Sight! Eternal Tri-une Lorn; ‘Letall the Hofts above, Let alf the Sons of Men record,. And dwell upon thy Love: When Heaven and Earth are fled Before thy glorious Face, : Sing all the Saints thy Love hath made,, ~ Thine ses Eraile ' ‘ “HYMN XXXvV.. Te—Father of ex erieae ie r Ee ing, ahd Praife, and Thanks andLoves. To Gop, who draws us from above,. And ftirs us up to feck his Face! - For what Thou haf already done, Father, we blefs thy Name_ alone, And look to tafte thy pard’ning Grace :. We, who among the Fiefh-Pots lay, The Dawning of a Gofpel-Day Have feen, and rifeto meet our Gop; Our Gop hath heard his People’s Groans, Hatk out of £ gypt call’d his Sons, And lo! we. wait to pals ae Flood, . ns REDEMPTON HYMNS. 45 gz Prifoners of Hope, we meekly ftand, - To fee the Wonders of thy Hand, Nv , The faving Power Divine to fee: Father, till Thou ‘our . Pardon feal, ?Till_ Thou in us thy Son reveal, Our Eyes, our Hearts are all to Thee. O that the Blood were now applied! © that. into the Crimfon Tide : ‘ Our Sins might fink, and rife no more! Now, Lorp, thy pard’ning Mercy fhew, And bring thy ranfom’d People thro’, And land. us on our heavenly Shore. vv H ¥ M.N XxXxVve To---4l] Thanks to. the Lamb. Y¥ Jesus,my Hope, when will he appear ASoul to lift up, That waits for him here, In much Tribulation,-In Trouble’s Excefs, _InHeight of Temptation, and Depth of Diftrefs! O when fhall I fee An End of my Pain, And triumphin Thee, My Saviour, again ? Lorp hatien theHour, Thy Kingdom bring i in, And give me the Power To live without Sin. 0 Jesus, Thou know’ft My forrowful Load, And feeft that wmy -Iruft Ts all in thy Blood: Thou wilt hay eCompaffion, my Burthen remove, Thy Name is Salvation, Thy Nature is Love. 4 Thy Nature and Name My Portion fhall be, Who humbly lay Claim To all Things in Thee, TheDays of my Mourning, And painfulDittress, Shall at thy Returning Eterna lly ceafe. anit roeemee (Wane, f —46 REDEMPTION HYMNS. per es HYMN XXXVI. = eee [ sa LN ae lad Max of Grief I fain awould be.- ELP ae help againft my as 7 Pity or thy Captive thew, Intangled in the Snare, © The hellith Snare of Sin-I lie ; Ses O caft not out my plaintive Prayer;. : * But fave me, or I die. 2 With all my Soul I feek thy Face ; - Give me thy reftoring Grace ?. 4 Mine Agony of Fear, And Guilt, and- Shame, and Sorrow end’; _Appear, my Advocate appear, And fhew Thyfelf my Friend. 3 O might I feel thy Blood applied,. ‘Nothing would I atk. befide: Thine orly Love be given, Tevery other Good refign, Of all Thou haftin Earth or Heaven,. Let Love. alone be mine | =e AY MN XXXVI. : “THawesGrvine. ; Rae Fo Foie : ail ye joyful Nations. : “¢ WESUS, take all the Glory ! é oo te Thy meritorious Paffion, Se ; a Thy Pardon bought, 4 Thy. Mercy brought f To us the gréat = Salvation: Thee gladly we acknowledge, Our only Lorp and Saviour, - Thy Name confefs, Thy Goodnefs blefs, : : And triumph i in thy Fayour,. + 8s een I ae ee ee eel : (REDEMPTION HYMNS. 47 2 With Angels, and Archangels, We proitrate fall before Theex Again we rait Our Souls in Praife, And thankfully adore Thee. ‘Honour, and Power, and Blefling, To Thee be ever given, By all who know Thy ‘Love below, And al! our Friends in Heaven. —_—— a HYMN xXx Before Private PRAYER. ~To—W iy fesuld the Children of a King. a ATHER of Jesus Crist, my Lorp, I humbly feek thy Face, _ Encour2g’d by the Saviour’s Word To afk thy pard’ning Grace. 2 Ent’ring into my Clofet, I The ‘bufy World exclude, In fecret Prayer for Mercy cry, And groan to be renew’d. 3 Far from the Paths of Men, to Thee . I folemnly retire ; .See Thou, who doth in fecret fee, . And grant my Heart’s Defire. 4 Thy Grace I languifh to receive, The Spirit of Love and Power, Blamelefs before thy Face to live, To live, and fin no more. 5 Fain would I all thy Goodnefs feel, And know. my Sins forgiven, i And do on Earth thy perfect Will, As Angels do in Heaven. ne Fhbig) Keene mR Ty a 48 . REDE MPTION- HYMNS. 60 ate glorify thy Son, And grant what I require ‘For Jesu’s Sake the . Gift fend down, And anfwer me by Fire. “9 Kindle the ‘Flame of Love within; ’ Which may to Heaven afcend, ~ And now the Work of Grace begin, SS Which fall in oi end. Sees [HY MONS XL. To—The Lorp my Pafture foal prepare. a (% Wond’rous Power of faithful Prayer, What Tounge can tell th’ Almighty Grace, Gop’s Hands or bound or open are, As Maefes or Elias prays: Let Mzfes in the Spirit groan, dete And Gop cries out, “ Let me alone! z “Let me alone,—that all my Wrath - “*May rife, the Wicked to confume : «While Jofice hears thy praying Faith «Jt cannot feal the Rebel’s Doom, ~ « Or if thy Hand be lifted up, j } : Now let it on thy Rebels fall, ; Unlefs thy yearning Bowels ftop The Stroke, and. Jesus prays for All. Unlefs ‘Thou hear’ft his Spirit groan Who will noc let thy Wrath alone. ‘6 Dot Thou not fee our lab’ring. Heart Big with unutterable Prayer? : Thou ‘Shale, Thou meft thy Wrath avert, And fpare whom “Jesus bids Thee fpare. . His Death demands that we fhould live, And ttl the Victim gafps, Forgive! “7 Ee (cries, and weeps, and groans, and bleeds, . As for our Sins this Moment flain, ; The Blood of Sprinkling ‘peaks, and p! leads, ‘And lo! we fhare -his mortal Pain! Our Cries are mingled with his Cries, Our Tears gufh out at Jisu’s Eyes. “38 Father regard thy pleading Son, Accept his all-availing Prayer, And fend the peaceful Anfwer down In honour of our fpckefman there, “Whole Blood proclaims our. Sins forgiven, And eas 8 Rebels up to Heaven. HYMN XLL The Traveller. To—0f7 2 pave ae pale d the guilt ty Night. EADER of faithful aoa and Guide OF all that travel to the Sky, ome and with us, ev’n us abide, Who would on Thee alone rely, On Thee alone our -Spint flay, While Hee in she s uneven Way 2& NSN ei NS li My a = ae > = / 4 : 3 GE, (go ~~ REDEMPTION. HYMNS. 2 Strangers and Pilgrims here below, This Earth we know, is not our Place: "i And haften thro’ the Vale of Woe, if “And reftlefs to behold thy Face, ‘4; ‘Swift to our heavenly Country move, Our everlafting Home: above. 3 We have no ’biding City here, But feek a City out of Sight: Thither our Ready Courfe we fteer, Afpiring to the Plains of Light, i _ Serufalem, the Saints Abode, f Whaie Founder is the living Gop. 4? -) ‘(= 4 Patient th’appointed Race to run, This weary World we caft behind, . From “Strength to Strength we travel on F The New Ferufalem to find, - 4 Our Labour this, our only Aim, To find the New Fersfalem. Thither in all our Thoughts we tend, And fill with longing Eyes look up,- i Cur Hearts and Prayers before us fend, t ~ Our ‘ready Scouts of Faith and Hope, - Who brings us-News of Sion near, ~ ~*- i -. We foon fhall fee the Towers appear. i 6 Thro? Thee, who. all our_Sins haf . borne j Freely and gracioufly forgiven, ; ; With Songs to Siem we return, i Contending for our native Heaver, Ky . "That Palace of our glorious King, - We find it nearer avhile we fing.” k Ev’n now we tafte the Pleafures there, i A Cloud of Spicy Odours comes, bi Soft wafted by the balmy Air, ;| *.“s Sweeter.than drady’s Perfumes: i From: Sicz?s Top the Breezes blaw, And chear us ia the. Vale below. REDEMPTION HYMNS. et $ Rais’d by the Breath af Love Teves _ We urge our Way with Strength renew'd; “The Church of the Firlt-born to join, ‘ . We travel to the Mount of Gon, . _.~* With Joy upon our Heads arife, And méet our pie in the Skies. ~ : a SFY M Noe To--O Love Divine; evbat baft Thaw dints E Thou, whofe Spirit hath made know - O My Want ‘of Living Faith Divine, 4 Hear thy poor mournful Captive groan, Now in my Nature’s Darknefs fhine, -Now in mine inmoit Soul difplay .- . % The glorious Blaze of Gofpel- Days pues z A Stranger to thy People’s Joys, An Alien from the Life of Grace;: I never heard thy pard’ning Voice, - I never faw. thy frniling Face, T never felt thy Blood applied, -Or knew for me the Saviour died. | -g Or if I did begin to tafe -- =; The Sweetnels of redeeming Love; - The momeittary Blifs is paft, . 2--<+ - The tender Joy nod more I prove,- My Faith is loft, my Power is gone,. TI fin, and Jesus, ave hot known: 4; But wilt Thow not at laft appear, Obje&t ‘of all my withful Hope; ~ The confcious Unbeliever chear, : _ And raife the fallen Sinner up,, = 1 . "Phe Ged revealing eek Bives 3 And kindly help me to belie E.2 t ig : ———————— PPO OMEN tm, 4 tl | ee i Tes REDEMPTION HYMNS. 5 Thou only doit the Godhead know, Thou only canit to Man reveal, \\. - "To me, to me the Father fhew, i! Tome, to me the Secret tell, * - Now, Saviour, now the Veil remove,’ And tell my Heart that Gop is Love, #6 O never fuffer me to reft, Pate haea ~—~?Till Ithe Reft of Love obtain : With Trouble fill my lab’ring Breatt, My aching Heart with Grief and Pain,. . 14 } - And give me ftill to weep and grieye, | ’ ’Phis, only” this do! require; eae 4 e >; 3 eH i ; 4 renee = Rivera brah Fill Thou haft fore’d ‘me-to believe. IT oa /, Always to feel the Load I-bear In. Veh’mence of extreme Deéfire, <~’ To groan the Spirit’s fpeechlefs Prayer: a i Conftrain’d to cry by Love Divine, * * i *. “My Gop, Thou-art forever mine! gle eg M Ne pAmIUe, Te—0 They. te whonn-i in A lor reveal ds Obdurate Heart, will nothing move, | Will nothing melt or foften thee.?. 2 jesus, Thou lovely bleeding. amb: To Thee I pour out my Complaint a I cannot hide from Thee my Shame, I own, and blufh to own my Want. Tete, ES ee eer ne er ere on asec Ci i } And cry, I will not, . will not ref bs ?Till Jzsug hath pronounc’d me- bles. = ba ) { we X HAT hall Ido my ‘Gon tolove, : V My Gop, who lov’d; and died for me ?: = P ~ REDEMPTION HYMNS. 3 I want an Heart to love my Gop, ¥ cannot bear this Hearr of Stone: Soften it, Saviour, by thy. Blood, And melt the nether Miilfiome down. Oe uy 4 Thou know’ft (bat muft I tell Thee fo, A.Wretch concemn’d and felf abhor’d ~ Accurft, and worthy endlefs Woe!) ~ Thou know’ft I do notlove Thee, Lorp. 5-'This- is my Shame, my Curfe, my Hell, I do not Jove the biceding Lamb, The Lamb who lov’d my Soul fo well:. -This is my Hell; my Curfe, my Shame, 6 The Stone cries out; I do not love, And breakes my Heart its Want to own, The Mountain now begins to move, And half relents my Heart of Stone, 7 The Word hath pafs’d thy gracious Lips, I feel I feel the Waters flow, The Rock is cleft, the Marble weeps; .And: lo! I-mourn thy: Love to know. _& For Thee, not‘ without Hope I mourn, I know, I feel thy Love to me, Thy Love my flinty Heart shail. turn, - And get. itlelf the Vitory. 9. Thou: lov’d& before the World began This- poor unloving Soul of mine: Jesus came down, my: Gop. was Man, Tiiat F mightall become Divine, z0 My. Anchor this, which cannot move, The Servant as his Lorp hall be, . And I fhall live my Gop to love;- And die\for'Him who died fer me, E-3; =e oe tn ot By SAWN 22 amounts Sete Se eT ON nh oh irict 5ch M AE, \ \ : ee “REDEMPTION WYN INS, 1a 4 ewe EY MNS XELV. bd re To—Captain,, we Tock to. 9, bee.. 3 =! OME, our Pete Lorse ‘Come quickly from 2bov ves. ‘Halters etie to thy Word; _The Kingdom of thy uses By all the Signs foretold, ~~ We know that Thouart near, ~ - And lift up our Hands, divinely bold;. > — And long to giafp Thee here. ; as a Sorrow. and Sins ‘increafe, ie And wide: -deftroying | \ieie ae Forerunner of the Prince_ of. Peace,, Thy.fure Approach “declare :. ; In threaten’d Faniine we ~ Thy promis’d Fulnefs find, “And clofe behind: the Plague we aa 3 - Lhe Dealer of ' Mankind. Spy 3 Bieler on ce “side _-.->With Terror and’ Diftrefg, .-.7F -3 Untroabled. and_unterrified 3 0 os.cd i . We fill our Souls poffefs :- b aakve ss The Cominz-of our Loieb is a. 5 ™ - In patient Hope attends.) And fee fulfill’ thy faithful ‘Word; ! re : And calmly. wait the Ends Bie 4 hs Dilturb’d | the Newer are - See s With fad Perplexity, ~ *_-~ "Yoft to and fro by ftormy Care," Geek ~ And all atroubled Sea; ¢ “ They faint thro’ fore Ditinay: ~Atdefolation near, _ , bry While we exult to.fes-thy Day. To fee thy Face appear. Pe Pre ae, = : . Saat SI and ee REDEMPTION HYMN The Waves lift up their Voice, ~And horribly they roar, - The more they rage, we fhout-our Joysy. And praife our Gop the move: Sullin the general Wreck Immoveable we ftaad; He comes, He comes, the Lord we heels, .. &His Kingdom is at hand... ase 6. ‘Jesus. fall foon defcend,, Se Our Saviour and our King,. -And bring the Joys that never end,. And full Redemption bring :_- Redemption from the Grace, 3 We know, _and feel it nigh, a Jesus. fiall foon defcend and faye. : Us up SEONG ‘the Sky. 1 | 7 -Earth to Her Center quakes, ‘And owns her Judge i is near ; Bowing the Heavens,. their Powers He tha And He fhall foon appear: Him we fhall all furvey High on a glorious Cloud, ~Whofe Tokens cry, Prepare his Way! Prepare. to meet our Gop! 2. Jesus.thy Word we own,. Wess And wait th’appointed Hour, he Come in thy glorious Kingdom down,. With. Majefty. and Power. Thy heavenly Blifs reveal, — ‘And bid us take our Flight, Caught up to meet Thee on a * Hil: all oe Saints in. Lights,. : a a oe 56 \ REDEMPTION HYMNS. ~~ ee eee ae ws “Scheie ; | ; a <= HYMN XLV. ee: : vd es, ert a ww -: 2 Sa, : : 5 : : FP TERNAL Power. of Jesu’s Namé,- \y For Thee with broken Heart I cry,. Saviour, from Sin, from. Fear, from Shame, ~ > Come down, or.I for ever: die !- 2 Thy only. Name can be my Balm, My Spirit’s defp’rate Sickmefs heal, _ Thy only Voice the Storm‘can calm,- And bid my ‘troubled Heart.be ffill. 3 If yet Thou.canft'Compaffion have, - = = * If Grate doth more than Sin abound}. Exert thine utrnoft Power to fave, +And let me in thy Reft.be found, 4 Th? atreparable Lofs repair, . ee Bind up the Wound incofrable,.. ° ...-, Snatch from the Jaws of deep Défpair, ~ \ And plock the Firebrand out-of Hell. g Lay to thy Hend Almighty Love, The Work, O Gop; is worthy Thee;.. Suchi- huge DeftruXion to remove, : “ And fave 4 Soul fo lofvas me !. © 6. Th’ intolerable Load fuftain, _'TR* inextricable Knot untie,. Loofe the indifioluble Chain,” 23 And .fhew Thyfelf the Lory Moft Highs. _ z No opening Door, no Way to fhun< Th’ inevitable Death T fee _ Out of the Deep I cry- Undone;, . Undone to all Eternity !: : a REDEMPTION HYMNS. 57 ~% No Poflibility of Hope Angels, or Saints can ever thew, Unlefs th’ Almighty lift me. yp, I fink into infernal Woe. g Nor can my defp’rate Heart conceive Hew Gov Himfelf fhould fave fo far: ~ But “humbly all.-to him I, leave; If yet He will his Power declare. ro Dying “in Sin, condem’d afd: lof, _I.caft me.on_a, Gop. unknown, HAnd~ cry, while’ rend’ring up the Ghoft -- Thy Will, thy only, Will be done! i y. M. a XLVI. “Tomi! Sifer in Jesus, adieu.” TTL cunor de deepeft. Abyfs. . O£ Trouble I mournfully cry, ‘And pine ; to.secover my. Peace, Po-+ 77 To fee my Redeemer, and die: I cannot, I cannot. forbear sa) S Thefe paffionate Longings for Tomes _ © when will my Spirit be there? O when: will. the Meficnger come ?: 2 Thy Nature T long to put on, Thine Image on? Earth to regain, And then in the Grave to- lay ” down: My Burthen of Body and Pain: © Jesus, in Pity draw near, And lull me to fleep on thy Breaf; Appear, to my Refcue, appear And gather me into thy Ref 3 To take a poor. Fugitive in, The Arms of thy Mercy difplay, And give me to reit from all Sia, And bear me triumphant avray 5, 1 OR (Pecan me . omens ——- ern ie ete Reet ag pe ne elie a aT i 58 REDEMPTION HYMNS. 4 Away from a Wotld of Diftrefs, — Away to “the Manfions “above, The Heaven of feeing thy Face, ‘Fhe oo i. feeling Bes Love. - % S to Naa te es ies x ; nt ner i Y. M be ‘XLVI. ees nag the eae ae ple re or ye 6 jer Gn. Heart” ‘to preife wy Gop: THER; behold ‘with practaus Eyes- The Souls before thy Throne. . Who. now.-prefent their Sacrifice, -. .-- —~ And feck Thee in-thy Son. aeek U 2 Well pledsd ‘in Him Thytelfdectare,. Thy: pard’ning Eove veveal,- = ~*~ His Ozth to Sinners: “given, | We look to fee reftor’d The rvin’d Earth: and Heaven, Jn a new World his“Truth to prove, A World of ‘Righteoufnefs and Love. $ Then let us wait theSound - : Thar fball our Souls releafe, ~ And labour to be found A ~ Of him in fpotlefs Bae 2 In peric& Holinefs renew'd, ae = Adc A ‘d with Carist, ead meet forG Gop. a i Seance wt ees — HY MN XLIX. mr ese oO Jesus, my Ref! eet oe » -All-loving Lamb, ae aes A Sinner T am, _ Ani c cor ne asa Sinner thy } Marcie to claim. a aoe ees. - 2 se Wich Joy! Soe ar tS The Pz ardon and: Grace: ERY: Fall fon hath eae for ee the lft Race. y i oi Thy Mercy-is frees - ° ae ‘oO who. would hot love fach a Savions: as, {The Z ; a ‘Yet es I Stead ren Baye ™ =. ‘And fled from my Gop, ae Sat Mercy g partu! 'd wish the Cry of ay Riss bee <7. ~~ REDEMPTION HYMNS, 6x . hs COAT challeng’d its Stray, And fore’d me to ftay, > And walh’d all my Sins in a Moment away. 6 I ‘felt it applied, And joyfully cried, Me, me Thot haftlov’d and forme Thowhafdiec’ : os 7 How mighty Thou art, , ©O Love, to convert ! Love only could corquer fo ftubborn an Heart. g The Love of Gop-Man Alone could conftrain « §o fturdy a Rebel to love Thee again. _ 9 But fure at the laf : Thy Goodnefs I tafte; My Soul on thy Goodnefs delighted I caft. eon to. —- Thy_ Goodnefs I praife, I fing of thy Grace, ACI ‘live out my few happy Days. aren And when thy dear Love From Earth fhall remove, O then I fhall fing like the Angels above, y2 Yet there when Iam, : My work is the fame, =. To BLES my ae to Geta and the Lamb. rete ‘Salvation to Gop : Bie ~ Will I publ ifh abroad, e:% And make Heaven ring with the Cry of thy Blood. Pg 34 The reels that was flain, Lo! He liveth again, -And Iwi th my Jesus eter na lly resin on = 62. REDEMPTION HYMNS. z § RE Teaa Te: ie 3H YM.N- I |. ‘The Great Supper, Luke XIV. 16—24. ' To—Awake, Jerufalem, ‘awake. — 1 ; é; 2) ‘1 ¢ NOME, Sinners, to the Gofpel-Feaf, Pe Let every Soul be Jesu’s Guef, : * - You need not one be left behind, ' For Gon hath bidden all Mankind. ij, 2 Sent by my Lorp, on you J call, | ji The Invitation is to All, -i° -Come all the World: Come, Sinner, thou, -All Things in. Curist are ‘ready’ now. 3 Jesus to you his Fulnefs brings, j A Feaft ef Marrow, and fat Things’: All, ali in Curist is freely given, ; { '.. Pardon, and Holinefs, and Heaven. . , ‘ : aie > not begin to make Excufe, a sh} “de not you his Grace, refufe ; - ' “our/worldly Cares and Pleafures leave, ‘nd take what Jesus hath to give. ~ | Your Grounds forfake, your Oxen quit, {| Your every earthly Thought forget, . Seek not the Comforts of this Life, - | - Nor fell your “Saviour for a Wife. 1-6 « Have me excus’d,” why. will ye fay? © , Why will ye for. Damnation pray? j; Have -you.excus’d—from Joy and Peace . | Have you excus’d—from-Happinefs! | 7, Excus’d from ‘coming to a Feaft!, ~ i Excus’d from .being “Jesu’s Guet as }> From knowing xeqw your Sins forgiven,’ ~ 4 = <2] ‘i x k From tafting here the Joys of Heaven! 3 ‘ ‘ . ~~ ‘ = = 5 eee terre acre corporate tO DEL OA RAI act REDEMPTION HYMNS. 6 8 Excus’d alas! why would you be From Health, and Life, and Liberty, From entering into glorious Reit, From leaning on your Saviour’s Break? Yet mutt I, Lorp, to Thee complain, The World hath made thy Ofers vain, Too bufy, or too happy they, They will not, Lorn, thy Call obey. to Go then, my angry Mafter faid, Since thefe on all my Mercies tread, Invite the Rich and Gee no more, But preach my Gofpel to the Poor. ~ 13 Confer not thou with. Flefh and Bloods Go quickly forth, invite the Croud; 3 Search every Lane, and every Street; | And bring in all the Souls you meet. 12 Come’ then, ye Souls by Sin oppref, Ye reftlefs Wanderers after Relt, - - Ye Poor, and Maim’d, and Halt, and 4 Blind, In Curist an hearty Welcome find 13 Sinners my gracious Loxp receives Harlots, and Publicans, and Thieves; Drunkards, and all ys. heilifi Crew, I have a Meffage now.to you. 14 Come, and partake the Gofpel-Fealt, Be fav’d from Sin, in Jesus reit: O tafte the Goodne&S of ogr Gop, And ezt his Flefh, and drink his Biood-. i5 - Tis done: my all-redeeming Lorp, al have gone forth, and preach’d thy Word, The Sinners to thy Feat are come, And yet, O Saviour,~ there is Room. . 16-Go then, my Logp again enjoin’d, And other wand’ring Sinners find ; * Go to the Hedges and Highways, And offer All my pard’ning Grace. ° S] SS Bt: 64 REDEMPTION HYMNS. 17 The Worft unto my Supper prefs, Moniters of daring Wickednefs, Tell them my Grace for All is free, They cannot be too bad for Me. 18 Tell them, their Sins are all forgiven, Tetl every Creature under Heaven, * J died to fave them from all Sin, And force the Vagrants to come in. ' + 19 Ye vagrant Souls, on you: I call, ae NE a as te NF ee ae meena me s3'€O that my Voice could reach you All ) is Ye All are freely. Jultified, Ye All may live, for Gop hath died. 20 My Meflage as from Gop receive, Ye All may come to Curist, and live: O let his Love your Hearts conftrain, Nor fuffer Him to die in vain. 21 His Love is mighty to compel, His conquering Love confent to feel; Yield to his Love’s refiftlefs Power, ~ And fight againft your Gop no more: ‘>2'3ee Him fet forth before your Eyes, Behold the bleeding Sacrifice! ; His offer’d Love make hafte t? embrace; And freely now be fav’d by Grace. 23 Ye. w tho believe his Record true, . Shall fap with Him, and He with you: _ Come to the Feaft; be fav’d from Sin, For Jesus waits to take -you ‘in. 24 This is the a i oa no more delay, This is the sepue Day, Come in, this-Moment, at his Call, And live os — who died- = All, ; it ore a + "eae s SSS besa cent ee sae e } seas Va 2 “js i ¢ REDEMPTION HYMNS. és ty eer ee eee H ¥- MN. £e ~The Pitcrio. To—Thee Jesus, Thee the § ianer’s Friend. 1. OW happy is the Pilgrim’s Lot, How free from every anxious Thought, 4 From worldly Hope and Fear! - Confin’d to neither Court nor Cell, His Soul difdains on Earth to dwell, He only fojorns here. z His Happinefs in Part is mine, Already fav’d from Self-Defign, From every Creature-Love ! Bleft with the Scorn of finite Good, My Soul is lighten’d of its Load, And féeks the Things above, 3 The Things Eternal I purfue, An Happinefs beyond the View - OF thofe that bafely pant For Things by Nature felt and feen; Their Honours, Wealth, and Pleafures mean, : I neither have nor want. : nae Me 4.1 have no Sharer of my Heart, +b. To rob my Saviour of a Part, And defecrate’ the whole: Only bethroth’d to Crrist am TI, And wait his coming from the Sky, To wed my happy Soul. I have no Babes to hold me here, But Children more fecurely dear ~~ For mine IJ humbly claim: Better than Davghters, or than Sons, Temples divine of living Stones In{crib’d with Jesu’s Name. — a ie ea i ed ae f at cen / ; (66 : "REDEMPTION HZMNS, 6 No Foot of Land do I poffefs, No Cottage in this -Wildernefs -A poor “way faring Man, I lodge a while in. "Tents below, _Or gladly wander to and- fro, ?Till I my Canaan gain.’ oe, Nothing on Earth I call my own, A Stranger to the World unknown, __ I all their Goods defpife, : “I trample on their whole delight, “And feek a Country out of Sight, . A Country in the Skies. ) s There is aay Houle and Portion fair, - . My ‘Treafore and ‘my Heart is there, oo And my abiding Home: re ear For me my elder “Brethren flay, And Angels beckon me away, - ~ And Jesus bids me come. ‘9 I come, thy Servant, Lorp,, replies I come to meet Thee in the Skies," 2. And claim my heavenly Reft: wy . = Now let *the Pilgrim’s Journey. end, i Now, oO my Saviour, Brother, rend: Receive me to any Breatt. a eo eer SHYMN LL ~ At Partinc of FRIENDS. A ol. cme, let us foin our chear ful Say 43 rmyxtoD of all Confolation, take * The Glory of thy Grate, nas. “Thy Gilts “to Thee we'render back ~ + In cealel fs. Songs ‘of Praife. Not. witb a. <,..but Thee, ‘O Lorp, Gfory to. Thee be given, Fort -every gracious Thought and Word That br ought us neater Heaven. a <= aE satan a REDEMPTION HYMNS. — 67 2 Further’d in Faith, or Hope, or Love, The Praife to Thee we give, Thy Gifts defcending from above We only can receive: * The Gift; the Grace, the Work is Thine, If ours, the a We bow, and blefs the Hand Divine, All, all defcends Ha Thee. 3 Thro’ Thee we now together came, ie In Singlenefs of Heart, We met, O Jesus, in thy Name, And in thy Name we part: ‘We part in Body, notin Mind, Our Minds continue one, And each to each in Jesus join’d, We Hand in Hand go on. 4 Subfift as in us all one Soul, No Power can- make us twain, : And Mountains rife, and Oceans roll, To fever us in vain. t =~ - Prefent we ‘ftill in Spirit are, And intimately nigh, While on the Wings of Faith and Prayer, _. We each to other fly. g With Jesus Curt together we Ss In heavenly Places fit, ~**“Cloath’d with the Sun, we fmile to fee ( The Moon .beneath our Feet. . . Oor Life is hid with Curist in Gop; Our Life fhall foon appear, And fpread his Glory. all abroad - ~° Jn all his Members: here. 6 The heavenly Treafure now we have In a mean Houfe of Clay, Which He thall to the utmott fave, And guard againft that Day. than ‘In Robes of white array’d, : ‘ Palms in our Hands we all fhall bear, And ees ns upon our en i | \ $ Then ices us lawfully contend, pe And fight our Palface thro’, ;; .« -2Bearin our faithful Mind the End, 24k ‘And nes the Prize in View = ia 4 V2 Then let us fated to the Day ; | Sy 53 ~ When all fhall be brought Sone E.% ‘Come, O Redeemer, come away ! i : -.O ts eee: come fb os ie ie 5 pee SiR Ani ge eee epee (Pare Five | } oF res ; *s = 2: 3: = é oy : eS > a | A} SNe ee I Ne gene FADS 2eE a | } 3 a Sock = clio oe > > * oe ; # ¥ Peete ve pier ys fils PE sRoSk ee Seer saree ei t~ 4 Bie a Ae eos Ge ot ie $a oe ahs Se tae 5 sic is Ria ens “ ¥ = 73 [ : ee : 2 Faghe a: ff a “he Se ee ns i. *68 REDEMPTION HYMNS, ; a : Our Souls arein his mighty Hand, And He will keep them ftill, : And you and I fhall furely : fad i With Him on Stan's’ Ha ii ~ i 7 Him Eye to Eye we te fhall i ’ Our Face like His fhall fhine: je O what a glorious Company,. «When Saints and Angels join! ERE LS © what a joyful Meeting there ! ~ DEMCO 38-297 WA TAAL D01322525K M Wn