2. But when the dawn of heaven we view
In fallen sinners born anew;
When in the Gospel's brighter skies,
We see the Sun of glory rise;
3. No more we ask the stars to tell,
What Jesus only could reveal;
In him at once our eyes behold,
More than creatiou ever told.
4. Omnipotence, in accents sage,
Creation sings through every age;
But Love and Justice, Truth and Grace,
Shine brightest in Redemption's rays.
Glory of God in the Person of Christ.
NOW to the Lord a noble song!
Awake, my soul, awake my tongue :
Hosanna to the eternal name,
And all his boundless love proclaim.
2. See where it shines in Jesus' face,
The brightest image of his grace;
God, in the person of his Son,
Has all his mightiest works outdone.
3. The spacious earth and spreading flood
Proclaim the wise, the powerful God;
And thy rich glories from afar,
Sparkle in every rolling star.
4. But in His looks a glory stands,
The noblest labour of thine hands:
The pleasing lustre of his eyes
Outshines the wonders of the skies.
5. Grace! 'tis a sweet, a charming theme;
Our thoughts rejoice at Jesus' name;
Ye angels, dwell upon the sound,
Ye heavens, reflect it to the ground!
7s. Redeeming Love.
NOW begin the heavenly theme,
Sing aloud in Jesus' name!
Ye, who his salvation
Triumph in redeeming love.
2. Ye, who see the Father's grace
Beaming in the Saviour's face,
As to Canaan on ye move,
Praise and bless redeeming love.
3. Mourning souls, dry up your tears;
Banish all your guilty fears;
See your guilt and curse remove,
Cancelled by redeeming love.
4. Welcome all, by sin opprest,
Welcome to his sacred rest;
Nothing brought him from above,
Nothing but redeeming love.
5. When his Spirit leads us home,
When we to his glory come,
We shall all the fulness prove
Of our Lord's redeeming love.
60 C. M. Redemption by Christ alone. WATTS. WHEN the first parents of our race Rebelled, and lost their God,
And the infection of their sin
Had tainted all our blood;
2. Infinite pity touched the heart
Of God's beloved Son,
Descending from the heavenly court,
He left his Father's throne.
3. Aside the Prince of Glory threw
His most divine array,
And wrapt his Godhead in a veil
Of our inferior clay.
4. His living power and dying love
Redeemed unhappy men,
And raised the ruins of our race
To life and God again.
5. To thee, dear Lord, our flesh and soul
We joyfully resign,
Bless'd Jesus, take us for thy own,
For we are doubly thine.
SALVATION! O, the joyful sound !
'Tis pleasure to our ears;
A sovereign balm for every wound,
A cordial for our fears.
2. Buried in sorrow and in sin,
At hell's dark door we lay ;
But we arise by grace divine,
To see a heavenly day.
3. Salvation! let the echo fly,
The spacious earth around,
While all the armies of the sky
Conspire to raise the sound.
SALVATION! O melodious sound
To wretched dying men!
Salvation that from God proceeds,
And leads to God again.
2. Rescued from hell's eternal gloom,
From fiends, and fires and chains;
Raised to a paradise of bliss,
Where love triumphant reigns!
3. But may a poor bewildered soul,
Sinful and weak as mine,
Presume to raise a trembling eye
To blessings so divine?
4. The lustre of so bright a bliss
My feeble heart o'erbears;
And unbelief almost perverts
The promise into tears.
5. My Saviour God, no voice but thine
These dying hopes can raise :
Speak thy salvation to my soul,
And turn my prayer to praise.
63 C. M. Salvation by Grace in Christ. WATTS. FATHER, we sing thy wondrous grace, We bless our Saviour's name;
He bought salvation for the poor,
And bore the sinner's shame.
2. His deep distress has raised us high;
His duty and his zeal
Fulfilled the law which mortals broke,
And finished all thy will.
3. His dying groans, his living songs,
Shall better please our God
Than harp, or trumpet's solemn sound,
Than goats' or bullocks' blood.
4. This shall his humble followers see,
And set their hearts at rest;
They by his death draw near to thee,
And live for ever blest.
5. Let heaven, and all that dwell on high,
To God their voices raise,
While land and seas assist the sky,
And join to advance the praise.
64 S, M. Salvation by Grace throughout. DODDRIDGE. GRACE! 'tis a charming sound!
Harmonious to the ear!
Heaven with the echo shall resound,
And all the earth shall hear.
Grace first contrived the way,
To save rebellious man;
And all the steps that grace display,
Which drew the wondrous plan.
Grace taught my roving feet
To tread the heavenly road:
And new supplies each hour I meet,
While pressing on to God.
Grace all the work shall crown,
Through everlasting days;
It lays in heaven the topmost stone,
And well deserves the praise,
Reigning Grace. Hymn 165.
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