While sinners perish in surprise,
Beneath thine angry rod.
4 Because they dwell at ease,
And no sad changes feel,
They will not seek thee, Lord, to please, Nor learn to do thy will.
HYMN 86. L. M. [412]
THE Saviour lives, no more to die;
The Saviour lives, enthron'd on high:
He lives, triumphant o'er the grave;
He lives eternally to save.
2 The Saviour lives, to wipe the tear;
The Saviour lives to quell all fear;
He lives, bright mansions to prepare;
He lives, to bring his servants there.
3 Ye mourning souls, dry up your tears;
Dismiss your gloomy doubts and fears;
Let cheerful hope your hearts revive,
For Christ, the Lord, is yet alive.
4 His saints he loves and never leaves;
The contrite sinner he receives;
Abundant grace will he afford,
Till all are present with the Lord.
HYMN 87. L. M. [305]
SINNERS, obey the heavenly call,
Your prison doors stand open wide;
Go forth, for he hath ransom'd all,
For every soul of man hath died.
2 'Tis his the drooping soul to raise,
To rescue all by sin opprest,
To clothe them with the robes of praise
And give their weary spirits rest:
3 To help their grovelling unbelief,
Beauty for ashes to confer,
The oil of joy for abject grief,
Triumphant joy for sad despair;
4 To make them trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord below,
To spread the honor of his grace,
And on to full perfection grow.
HYMN 88. S. M. [360]
COME to the house of prayer,
O thou afflicted, come;
The God of peace shall meet thee there;
He makes that house his home.
2 Come to the house of praise,
Ye who are happy now;
In sweet accord your voices raise
In kindred homage bow.
3 Ye aged, hither come,
For ye have felt his love;
Soon shall your trembling tongues be dumb,
Your lips forget to move.
4 Ye young, before his throne,
Come, bow; your voices raise;
Let not your hearts his praise disown
Who gives the power to praise.
HYMN 89. L. M. [51]
JESUS, the sinner's friend, to thee,
Lost and undone, for aid I flee:
Weary of earth, myself, and sin;
Open thine arms, and take me in.
2 Pity and heal my sin-sick soul;
'Tis thou alone canst make me whole;
Fall'n, till in me thine image shine,
And lost I am till thou art mine.
3 At last I own it cannot be,
That I should fit myself for thee:
Here, then, to thee I all resign;
Thine is the work, and only thine. ·
4 What shall I say, thy grace to move?
Lord, I am sin,—but thou art love:
I give up every plea beside,
“Lord, I am lost-but thou hast died."
HYMN 90. S. M. [51]
AND can I yet delay,
My little all to give?
To tear my soul from earth away,
For Jesus to receive?
2 Nay, but I yield, I yield!
I can hold out no more:
I sink, by dying love compell'd,
And own Thee conqueror!
3 Though late, I all forsake,
My friends, my all resign;
Gracious Redeemer, take, O take,
And seal me ever thine!
4 Come, and possess me whole,
Nor hence again remove:
Settle and fix my wav'ring soul
With all thy weight of love.
5 My one desire be this,
Thy only love to know;
To seek and taste no other bliss,
No other good below.
6 My life, my portion thou,
Thou all sufficient art;
My hope, my heavenly treasure, now,
Enter and keep my heart.
HYMN 91. C. M. [52]
WHEN thou, O Lord, shalt stand disclos'd
In majesty severe,
And sit in judgment on my soul,
O how shall I appear!
2 Oh, may my broken, contrite heart,
Timely my sins lament;
And early, with repentant tears,
Eternal wo prevent.
3 Behold the sorrows of my heart,
Ere yet it be too late;
And hear my Saviour's dying groan,
To give those sorrows weight!
4 For never shall my soul despair,
Her pardon to secure;
Who knows thine only son hath died,
To make that pardon sure.
HYMN 92. L. M. [53]
OH, for a glance of heavenly day,
To take this stubborn heart away;
And thaw, with beams of love divine,
This heart, this frozen heart of mine!
2 The rocks can rend; the earth can quake;
The seas can roar; the mountains shake:
Of feeling, all things show some sign,
But this unfeeling heart of mine.
3 To hear the sorrows thou hast felt,
O Lord, an adamant would melt:
But I can read each moving line,
And nothing moves this heart of mine.
4 Thy judgments too, unmov'd I hear, (Amazing thought!) which devils fear: Goodness and wrath in vain combine To stir this stupid heart of mine! 5 But something yet can do the deed; And that blest something much I need: Thy Spirit can from dross refine, And melt and change this heart of mine.
HYMN 93. C. M. [53]
STILL, for thy loving kindness, Lord,
I in thy temple wait:
I look to find thee in thy word
Or at thy table meet.
2 I wait my vigor to renew,
Thine image to retrieve;
The veil of outward things pass through,
And gasp in thee to live.
3 I work; and own the labor vain;
And thus from works I cease;
I strive; and see my fruitless pain,
Till God create my peace.
4 Fruitless, till thou thyself impart
Must all my efforts prove;
They cannot change a sinful heart;
They cannot purchase love.
5 I do the thing thy laws enjoin,
And then the strife give o'er;
To thee I then the whole resign,
I trust in means no more.
HYMN 94. L. M. [54]
SHOW pity, Lord; O Lord, forgive;
Let a repenting rebel live;
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