FORGIVENESS OF SINS.

"The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin."-1 JOHN i. 7.

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HOLY

7.7.7.7.

[OLY Spirit! from on high,
Bend on us a pitying eye;
Animate the drooping heart,
Bid the power of sin depart.
2 Light up every dark recess
Of our heart's ungodliness;
Show us every devious way
Where our steps have gone astray.
3 Teach us, with repentant grief,
Humbly to implore relief:

Then the Saviour's blood reveal,
All our deep disease to heal.

4 Other groundwork should we lay,
Sweep those empty hopes away;
Make us feel that Christ alone
Can for human guilt atone.
5 May we daily grow in grace,
And pursue the heavenly race,
Trained by wisdom, led by love,
Till we reach our rest above.

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THERE

C.M.

HERE is a fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Emmanuel's veins;

And sinners plunged beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.

2 The dying thief rejoiced to see

That fountain in his day;

And there may I, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away.

3 Dear dying Lamb! Thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power,

Till all the ransomed Church of God
Be saved, to sin no more.

4 E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply,

Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.

5 Lord! I believe Thou hast prepared,
Unworthy though I be,

For me a blood-bought free reward,
A golden harp for me!

6 'Tis strung and tuned for endless years,
And formed by power divine,

To sound in God the Father's ears

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No other name but Thine.

6.6.6.6.6.6.

Cowper.

TOW I have found the ground wherein

1 NOW

Sure my soul's anchor may remain :

The wounds of Jesus for my sin
Before the world's foundation slain;
Whose mercy shall unshaken stay
When heaven and earth are fled away.

2 0 Love, thou fathomless abyss !
My sins are swallowed up in Thee;
Cover'd is my unrighteousness,
Nor spot of guilt remains on me,

While Jesu's blood, through earth and skies,
Mercy, free, boundless mercy, cries!

3 Though waves and storms go o'er my head, Though strength, and health, and friends be

gone,

Though joys be withered all and dead,

Though every comfort be withdrawn ;

On this my steadfast soul relies :
Father, Thy mercy never dies.

4 Fix'd on this Rock will I remain,
Though my heart fail, and flesh decay;
This anchor shall my soul sustain,
When earth's foundations melt away;
Mercy's full power I then shall prove,
Loved with an everlasting love.

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1 THY

6.6.6.6.

Tr Wesley.

works, not mine, O Christ! Speak gladness to this heart;

They tell me all is done;

They bid my fear depart.

2 Thy wounds, not mine, O Christ!
Have healed my bruisèd soul;
Thy stripes, not mine, contain
The balm that made me whole.
3 Thy blood, not mine, O Christ!
Thy blood so freely spilt,

Has cleansed my darkest stain,
And purged away my guilt.

4 Thy death, not mine, O Christ!
Has paid the ransom due;

Ten thousand deaths like mine
Would have been all too few.
5 Thy righteousness, O Christ!
Alone does cover me;

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No righteousness avails,
Save that which is in Thee.

JESU

7.7.7.7.

ESUS Christ is passing by :
Sinner, lift to Him thine eye;
As the precious moments flee,
Cry, "Be merciful to me.

Bonar.

2 Jesus Christ is passing by ;
Will He always be so nigh?
Now is the accepted day,
Seek for healing while you may.
3 Fearest thou He will not hear?
Art thou bidden to forbear?
Let no obstacle defeat:

Yet more earnestly entreat.

4 Lo! He stands and calls to thee,
"What wilt thou then have of Me?"
Rise and tell Him all thy need;
Rise, He calleth thee indeed.

5

Lord, I would Thy mercy see;
Lord reveal Thy love to me;
Let it penetrate my soul;

All my heart and life control."

6 Oh how sweet! the touch of power
Comes; it is salvation's hour;
Jesus gives from guilt release ;
Faith hath saved thee, go in peace.

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P.M.

THERE is life for a look at the crucified One,

There is life at this moment for thee; Then hasten to look unto Him, and be saved; Unto Him who was nailed to the tree.

2 Oh! why was He there as the bearer of sin, If on Jesus thy sins were not laid?

Oh! why from His side flowed the sin-cleansing blood,

If His dying thy debt has not paid?

3 It is not thy tears of repentance or prayers,
But the Blood that atones for the soul;
On Him, then, who shed it, thou mayest at once
Thy weight of iniquities roll.

4 Then doubt not thy welcome, since God has declared

There remaineth no more to be done;

That once in the end of the world He appeared, And completed the work He begun.

5 But take with rejoicing, from Jesus at once, The Life Everlasting He gives;

And know, with assurance, Thou never canst die,

Since Jesus, thy Righteousness, lives.

6 There is life for a look at the crucified One: There is life at this moment for thee;

Then look, sinner! look unto Him and be saved,

And know thyself spotless as He.

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THE

7.6.7.6.

HE sprinkled blood is speaking
Before the Father's throne,
The Spirit's power is seeking
To make its virtues known.

2 The sprinkled blood is speaking
Forgiveness full and free,
Its wondrous power is breaking
Each bond of guilt for me.

3 The sprinkled blood is pleading
Its virtue as mine own,
And there my soul is reading
Her title to the throne.

4 The sprinkled blood secureth
Our mansions bright and fair
There sinless joy endureth,
We rest with Jesus there.

Hull.