"Twas when by faith I saw Him bleed, 2 Not all the tears that sinners shed, The voice of God awakes the dead, 3 Yet when I feel that he is good, 4 O then how pleasing 'tis to weep! I 362. S. M. We love Him, because He first loved us. LOVE my Saviour God, Because he first lov'd me; Because he shed his precious blood, 2 'Twas love my bosom felt, And made me wipe my eyes, When low before his throne I knelt, To pour my feeble cries. 3 Touch'd by his dying love, Swift on the wings of love he mov'd, 4 With my whole heart I love The God that lov'd and bled; 5 Who can forbear to love 363. S. M. Stennett. Praise for Conversion. Psalm lxvi. 16. Co NOME, ye that fear the Lord, How narrowly my feet escap'd 2 Darkness, and shame, and grief, 3 At length to God I cried; 4 My drooping head he rais'd; 5 O, may I ne'er forget The mercy of my God! Nor ever want a tongue to spread 364. C. M. Psalm cxvi. Watts. Gracious Deliverance acknowledged. WHAT shall I render to my God, For all his kindness shown? My feet shall visit thine abode, 2 Among the saints that fill thy house, 3 How happy all thy servants are! The life which thou hast made thy care, Lord, I devote to thee. 4 Now I am thine, for ever thine. Thy hands have loos'd my bonds of pain, 5 Here, in thy courts, I leave my vow, Witness, ye saints, who hear me now, BAPTISM. 365. C. M. Christ's Baptism. WHEN Christ, who came my soul to save, In Jordan was baptiz'd; Arising from the liquid grave, 2 Thou art my well-beloved Son, : I am well pleas'd that thou hast shown 3 O heavenly Dove, who did descend, With all thy quickening power attend 4 And while we in obedience move, O breathe the power of faith and love, 366. C. M. Christ's Baptism inspires Faith. SAVIOUR, wast thou baptis'd in blood, Immers'd in woe for me! And shall I not obey thy word, And be baptis'd with thee? 2 Didst thou reclaim my sinful heart, 3 Didst thou into the Jordan go, 4 That thou art Christ the Son of God; 367. S. M. Baptism a voluntary act of its Subject. He that would be baptis'd Must be immers'd, like Christ the Lord, 2 Upon his name must call, 3 Planted into his death, 4 Must worship in the act, The act must be his own; 5 But where the rite is forc'd, There can no worship be address'd, 368. C. M. Faith and Baptism. 'Go, preach the gospel,' saith the Lord, To all the sons of men; He that believes and is baptis'd, 2 That thou art Christ the Son of God, And in obedience to thy word, 3 Smile, sacred Spirit, from on high, 369. C. M. Putting on Christ in Baptism. Quick'ning to life the guilty dead- 2 With holy zeal my breast inspire, 3 Obedient to thy gracious word 4 To thee I all my powers resign, |