That He alone has pow’r to save,And claims the glory as his own.The dew which first the fleece had filled,When all the earth was dry around;Was from it afterwards withheld,And only fell upon the ground.To Israel thus the heavenly dewOf saving truth was long restrained;Of which the Gentiles nothing knew,But dry and desolate remained.But now…
And the moment grace is felt,Then the hardest heart will melt.When the Lord was crucified,Two transgressors with him died;One with vile blaspheming tongue,Scoffed at Jesus as he hung.Thus he spent his wicked breath,In the very jaws of deathPerished, as too many do,With the Saviour in his view.But the other, touched with grace,Saw the danger of…
Soul, eat and drink, and take thine ease,Secure from wants and fears.Thus while a worldling boasted once,As many now presume;He heard the Lord himself pronounceHis sudden, aweful doom.This night, vain fool, thy soul must passInto a world unknown;And who shall then the stores possessWhich thou hast called thine own.Thus blinded mortals fondly schemeFor happiness below;Till…
Now, seated on th’ eternal throne,The God of glory reigns.His hands the wheels of nature guideWith an unerring skill;And countless worlds extended wide,Obey his sovereign will.While harps unnumbered sound his praise,In yonder world above;His saints on earth admire his ways,And glory in his love.His righteousness, to faith revealed,Wrought out for guilty worms,Affords a hiding place…
Piercing thorns a guard composeRound the fragrant blooming rose.Where we think to find a sweet,Oft a painful sting we meet:When the rose invites our eye,We forget the thorn is nigh.Why are thus our hopes beguiled?Why are all our pleasures spoiled?Why do agony and woeFrom our choicest comforts grow?Sin has been the cause of all!‘Twas not…
So faith in Jesus, gives the soulA tendency before unknown.‘Till then, by blinded passions led,In search of fancied good we range;The paths of disappointment tread,To nothing fixed, but love of change.But when the Holy Ghost impartsA knowledge of the Saviour’s love;Our wand’ring, weary, restless hearts,Are fixed at once, no more to move.Now a new principle…
Surrenders all to thee;Against thy terrors long I strove,But who can stand against thy love?Love conquers even me.All that a wretch could do, I tried,Thy patience scorned, thy pow’r defied,And trampled on thy laws;Scarcely thy martyrs at the stake,Could stand more steadfast for thy sake,Than I in Satan’s cause.But since thou hast thy love revealed,And…
The whole creation homage paid,And owned him LORD, below!He dwelt in Eden’s garden, storedWith sweets for every sense;And there with his descending LORDHe walked in confidence.But O! by sin how quickly changed!His honour forfeited,His heart, from God and truth, estranged,His conscience filled with dread!Now from his Maker’s voice he flees,Which was before his joy:And thinks…
The scenes which then before us rise,Prove something in us never sleeps.As in another world we seem,A new creation of our own,All appears real, though a dream,And all familiar, though unknown.Sometimes the mind beholds againThe past day’s business in review,Resumes the pleasure or the pain;And sometimes all we meet is new.What schemes we form, what…
Precious Bible! what a treasureDoes the Word of God afford?All I want for life or pleasure,Food and med’cine, shield and sword:Let the world account me poor,Having this I need no more.Food to which the world’s a stranger,Here my hungry soul enjoys;Of excess there is no danger,Though it fills, it never cloys:On a dying Christ I…
