Book II.] 3 My faith would lay her hand On that dear head of thine, While like a penitent I stand, And there confess my sin. 4 My soul looks back to see The burdens thou didst bear, When hanging on the cursed tree, And hopes her guilt was there. 5 Believing, we rejoice To see the curse remove ; We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice, And sing his heeding love. HYMN CXLIII. (C. M.) Flesh and spirit. I WHAT difl'rent power's of grace and sin Attend our mortal state ? I hate the thoughts that work within, And do the works I hate. 2 Now I complain, and groan, and die, While sin and Satan reign: Now raise my songs of triumph high, Forgrace prevails again. 3 So darkness struggles with the light, 'Till perfect day arise ; Water and fire maintain the fight, Until the weakerdies. 4 Thus will the flesh and spirit strive, And vex and break my peace: But I shall quit this mortal life, And sin for ever cease. HYMNS. CXLVII. CXLIV. CXLV. CXLVI. CXLVII. 191 HYMN CXLV. (C. M.) Sight through a glass, and face to face, HYMN CXLIV. (L. M.) The effusion of the spirit :, or, The success of the gospel. 1 GREATiwas theday, the joy was great, When the divine disciples met ; Whilst on their heads the spirit came, And sat like tongues of cloven flame 2 What gifts, what miracles he gave ! And pow'r to kill, and pow'r to save ! Furmsh'd their tongues with wondrous words, Instead of shields, and spears, and swords. 3 Thusarm'il he sent th' champions forth, From East to West,fromSouthtoNorth; " Go, and assert your Saviour'scause ; Go spread the myst'ry of his cross." 4 These weapons of th'e holy war, Of what almighty force they are, To make our stubborn passions bow, And lay the proudest rebel low ! 5 Nations, the learned and the rude, Are by these heav'nly arms subdu'd ; While Satan rages at his loss, And bates the doctrine of the cross. 6 Great Kingof grace! my heartsubdue; I would be led in triumph too, A willing captive to my Lord, And sing the vict'ries of his word. I I LOVE the windows of thy grace Thro' whichmy Lord is seen, And long to meet my Saviour's face Without a glass between. 2 0, that the happy hour were come, To change my faith to sight ! I shall behold my Lord at home In a diviner light. 3 Haste, my Beloved, and remove These interposing days Then shall my passions all be love, And all my pow'rs be praise. HYMN CXLVI. (L. M.) The vanity ofcreatures: or, nó rest ois earth. 1 MAN has a soul of vast desires, He burns within with restless fires ; Tost to and fro, his passions fly From vanity to vanity. 2 In vain on earth we hope to find Some solid good to fill the mind We try new pleasures, but we feel The inward thirst and torments still. 3 So When a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 'tis a poor relief we gain, To change theplace, but keep the pain. 4 Great God! subdue this vicious thirst, This love to vanity and dust; Cure the vile fever of the mind, And feed our soulswith joys refin'd. HYMN CXLVII. (C. M.) The creation of the world, Gen. i. I " NOW let a spacious world arise,!' Said the Creator Lord : At once th' obedient earth and skies Rose at his sov'reign word. 2 [Dark was thedeep ; the waters lay Confus'd, and drown'd the land He call'd the light ; the new-born day Attends on his command. 3 He bids the clouds ascend on high ; The clouds ascend, and bear A wat'ry treasure to the sky, And float in softer air. 4 The liquidelement below Was gather'd by his hand ; The rolling seas together flow, And leave the solid land. 5 With herbs and plants (a flow'rybirth) The linked globe be crown'd, Ere there was rain to bless the earth, Or sun to warm the ground. 6 Then he adorn'd the upper skies; Behold, the sun appears, The moon and stars in order rise, To mark out months and years.
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