Tho', alas! ye long have been We will therefore praise the Lord, 78. C. M. HART. Mercy. [ERCY is welcome news indeed, M To thofe that guilty ftand: Wretches, who feel the help they need, Who rightly would his alms difpose, None, but the wounded patient, knows We all have finn'd against our God; But, let our debts be what they may, 'Tis perfect poverty, alone, 7 While we can call one mite our own, We have no full difcharge, 79. L. M. GIBBONS and WATTS. Forgiveness. ORGIVENESS! 'tis a joyful found To malefactors doom'd' to die : Publish the blifs the, world around; Ye Seraphs, fhout it from the tky! "Tis the rich gift of love divine; 'Tis full, out-meas'ring ev'ry crime; Unclouded fhall its glories fhine, T And feel no change by changing time. O'er fins unnumber'd as the fand, And like the mountains for their fize, The feas of fov'reign grace expand, The feas of fov reign grace arife. " Great God! what poor returns we pay Words are but air, and tongues but clay; O could our thankful hearts devise To the third heav'n our fongs fhould rife, 80. C. M. WATTS'S H. WE Pardon. THY does your face, ye humble fouls, What doubts are these that waste your faith, What tho' your num'rous fins exceed What though your mighty guilt beyond See here an endless ocean flows It rifes high, and drowns the hills, :,, Has neither thore nor bound: Now, if we fearch to find our fins," f Our fins can ne'er be found. Awake, our hearts, adore the grace, And pard'ning blood, that fwells above SA 81. C. M. WATTS'S H. Salvation. ALVATION! oh, the joyful found the A fov'reign balm for ev ty wound, A cordial for fears. TO our Bury'd in forrow and in fin, 82. C. M. MIDDLETON'S Col. Salvation Finifbed. ALVATION thro' our dying Lord, He paid whate'er his people ow'd, Salvation finifl'd! charming found! grace doth more than fin abound, Salvation, to fweet harps of gold, 83.L. M. TOPLADY Another. Finish'd-The Melliah dies, Cut off for fin, but not his own! Accomplish'd is the facrifice, The great redeeming work is done. Finish'd, the firft tranfgreffion is, And purg'd the guilt of actual fin;' And everlasting righteoufnefs Is brought, for all his people in.: Sin, death, and hell are now subduld, All grace is now to finners giv'n, And lo, I plead th' atoning blood, For pardon, holiness, and heav'n! J ESUS is our great falvation; He has fav'd his fav'rite nation; Chrift alone could us redeem. When involv'd in fin and ruin, And no helper there was found; Jefus dur diftrefs was viewing'; Grace did more than fin abound: He has call'd us, With falvation in the found. |