3 When to the law I trembling fled,
It poured its curses on my head,
A vast, oppressive load.
Alas! I read and saw it plain,
The sinner must be born again,
Or feel the wrath of God!

4 The saints I heard with rapture tell
How Jesus conquered death and hell,
And broke the fowler's snare;
Yet when I found this truth remain,
The sinner must be born again,
I sunk in deep despair.

5 But while I thus in anguish lay,
Jesus of Nazareth passed that way,
And felt His pity move-
The sinner, by His justice slain,
Now by His grace is born again,
And sings redeeming love.

OOKUM.

86.

LL ye that pass by,

ΑΙ

To Jesus draw nigh

To you is it nothing that Jesus should die?

Your ransom and peace,

Your surety He is ;

Come see if there ever was sorrow like His.

2 For what you have done

His blood must atone;

The Father hath punished for you His dear Son:

The Lord, in the day

Of His anger, did lay

Your sins on the Lamb, and He bore them

away.

3 For you, and for me,
He prayed on the tree;

The prayer is accepted, the sinner is free:
That sinner am I,

Who on Jesus rely,

And come for the pardon God can not deny.

4 My pardon I claim,

5

6

For sinner I am;

A sinner believing in Jesus's name:
He purchased the grace

Which now I embrace;

O Father! thou know'st He has died in my

place.

Love moved Him to die,

On this I rely;

My Saviour hath loved me, I can not tell why: But this thing I find,

We two are joined;

He'll not be in glory, and leave me behind.

With joy we approve

The plan of His love,

A wonder to all both below and above:

When time is no more,

We still shall adore

That ocean of love without bottom or shore.

J1

87.

The Lord our Righteousness.

L. M.

ESUS, Thy blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress;
'Midst flaming worlds in these arrayed,
With joy shall I lift up my head.

2 When from the dust of death I rise To take my mansion in the skies, E'en then shall this be all my plea, "Jesus hath lived and died for me."

3 Bold shall I stand in that great day,
For who aught to my charge shall lay?
While through Thy blood absolved I am
From sin's tremendous curse and shame.

4 Thus Abraham, the friend of God,
Thus all the armies bought with blood,
Saviour of sinners, Thee proclaim,
Sinners, of whom the chief I am.

5 This spotless robe the same appears
When ruined nature sinks in years;
No age can change its glorious hue,
The robe of Christ is ever new.

6 Oh! let the dead now hear Thy voiceBid, Lord, Thy banished ones rejoice: Their beauty this, their glorious dress, Jesus, the Lord our Righteousness.

ZINZENDORF.

88.

THERE is a fountain filled with blood,

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

2 The dying theif 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 Then in a nobler, sweeter song, I'll sing thy power to save,

C. M.

When this poor lisping, stamm'ring tongue Lies silent in the grave.

6 Lord, I believe Thou hast prepared,
Unworthy though I be,

For me a blood-bought rich reward,
A golden harp for me.

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

To sound in God the Father's ears

No other name but Thine.

COWPER.

OVEREIGN grace hath power alone
To subdue a heart of stone;

And the moment grace is felt,
Then the hardest heart will melt.

2 When the Lord was crucified,
Two transgressors with Him died;
One, with vile blaspheming tongue,
Scoffed at Jesus as he hung.

3 Thus he spent his wicked breath,
In the very jaws of death;
Perished, as too many do,
With a Saviour in his view.

4 But the other, touched with grace,
Saw the danger of his case;
Faith received to own his Lord,
Whom the scribes and priests abhorred.

5 "Lord," he cries, "remember me,
When in glory thou shalt be:"
"Soon with me," the Lord replies,
"Thou shalt rest in Paradise."

6 This was wondrous grace indeed;
Grace bestowed in time of need!
Sinners, trust in Jesus' name;
You will find Him still the same.

NEWTON.