"And let thy kindness to thyself "Measure, and rule thy love to him.” 3 The substance this, that Moses spoke, This did the prophets preach and prove : For want of this the law is broke; The law demands a perfect love. 4 But O how base our passions are! This holy law we can't fulfil: Regenerate our souls, O Lord! Or we shall ne'er perform thy will. HYMN 2. Second Part. S. M. The law is spiritual.

1 THE law of God is just,

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A strict and holy way;

And he, that would escape the curse,
Must all the law obey.

2 Not one vain thought must rise,
Not one unclean desire ;
He must be holy, just, and wise,
Who keeps the law entire.
3 If in one point he fail,

In thought or word or deed,
The curses of the law prevail,
And rest upon his head.
4 I tremble and confess;

O God! I am accurs'd;
Guilty, I fall before thy face,

And own thy sentence just. 5 But does the curse still rest

Upon my guilty head?

No-Jesus-let his name be blest
Hath borne it in my stead.

6 He hath fulfill'd the law;

Obtain'd my peace with God:

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Hence doth my soul her comforts draw,
And leave her heavy load.

HYMN 2. Third Part. C. M.

Conviction of sin by the law.

1 LORD, how secure my conscience was,

And felt no inward dread!

I was alive without the law,

And thought my sins were dead. 2 My hopes of heav'n were firm and bright; But since the precept came

With a convincing pow'r and light,
I find how vile I am.

3 My guilt appear'd but small before,
Till, terribly I saw,

How perfect, holy, just, and pure,
Was thine eternal law.

4 Then felt my soul the heavy load,
My sins reviv'd again ;

I had provok'd a dreadful God,
And all my hopes were slain.

5 My God, I cry with ev'ry breath
For grace and pow'r to save ;
To break the yoke of sin and death,
And thus redeem the slave.

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VA

HYMN 2. Fourth Part. C. M.
Conviction of misery by the law.
AIN are the hopes the sons of men
On their own works have built :
Their hearts by nature are unclean,
And all their actions guilt.

2 Let Jew and Gentile stop their mouths,
Without a murm'ring word,

And the whole race of Adam stand
Guilty before the Lord.

3 In vain we ask God's righteous law
To justify us now;

Since to convince, and to condemn,
Is all the law can do.

4 Jesus, how glorious is thy grace,
When in thy name we trust!
Our faith receives a righteousness
That makes the sinner just.

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HYMN 3. First Part. L. M.
God created man good, and after his own image.
'DAM in Paradise was plac'd,

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Our nat❜ral and our fed'ral head;
With holiness and wisdom grac'd,
In his Creator's image made.
2 Bless'd with the joys of innocence,
Upright and happy, firm he stood;
Till he debas'd himself to sense,
And ate of the forbidden food.
3 His soul at first, a holy flame,
Was kindled by his Maker's breath;
But stung by sin, it soon became
The seat of darkness, strife, and death.

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HYMN S. Second Part. C. M.

Original sin.

NOW back with humble shame we look

On our original;

How is our nature dash'd and broke

In our first father's fall!

2 To all that's good, averse, and blind,
But prone to all that's ill;

What dreadful darkness veils our mind!
How obstinate our will!

3 Conceiv'd in sin, O wretched state!
Before we draw our breath,

The first young pulse begins to beat
Depravity and death.

4 Wild and unwholesome as the root,
Will all the branches be:
How can we hope for living fruit
From such a deadly tree?

5 What mortal pow'r from things unclean
Can pure productions bring?
Who can command a vital stream
From an infected spring?

6 Yet, mighty God, thy wondrous love
Can make our nature clean;
While Christ and grace prevail above
The tempter, death, and sin.

7 The second Adam can restore
The ruins of the first;

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Hosanna to that sov'reign pow'r,
That new-creates our dust!

HYMN 3. Third Part. C. M.
We are corrupt and incapable of doing good.

SIN, like a venomous disease,

Infects our vital blood;

The only help is sov'reign grace,
The sole physician, God.

2 Our beauty and our strength are fled, And we draw near to death;

But Christ, the Lord, recals the dead
With his almighty breath.

3 Madness, by nature, reigns within;
The passions burn and rage;

Till God's own Son, with skill divine,
The inward fire assuage.

4 We lick the dust, we grasp the wind, And solid good despise:

Such is the folly of the mind,

Till Jesus make us wise.

5 We give our souls the wounds, they feel;
We drink the pois'nous gall,
And rush with fury down to hell;
But grace prevents the fall.

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The man, possess'd among the tombs,
Cuts his own flesh, and cries;
He foams and raves, till Jesus comes :
Then the foul spirit flies.

HYMN 3. Fourth Part. C. M.
We must be born again.

OUR nature's totally deprav'd;

The heart a sink of sin :
Without a change we can't be sav'd;
We must be born again.

2 That, which is born of flesh, is flesh,
And flesh it will remain ;

Then marvel not that Jesus saith,
"Ye must be born again."

3 Spirit of life, thy grace impart,
And breathe on sinners slain;
Bear witness, Lord, in ev'ry heart,
That we are born again.

4 Dear Saviour, let us now begin
To trust and love thy word;
And, by forsaking ev'ry sin,
Prove we are born of God.

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HYMN 3. Fifth Part. S. M
Vital union to Christ in regeneration.

DEAR Saviour, we are thine
By everlasting bands :

Our names, our hearts, we would resign,
And souls, into thy hands.