Hymns and Spiritual Songs, in Three Books ‎#I.IX

I.IX. The promises of the covenant of grace

1 In vain we lavish out our lives
To gather empty wind:
The choicest blessings earth can yield
Will starve a hungry mind.

2 Come and the Lord shall feed our souls
With more substantial meat;
With such as saints in glory love,
With such as angels eat.

3 Our God will ev'ry want supply,
And fill our hearts with peace;
He gives by covenant and by oath
The riches of his grace.

4 Come, and he'll cleanse our spotted souls,
And wash away our stains,
In the dear fountain that his Son
Pour'd from his dying veins.

5 [Our guilt shall vanish all away,
Tho' black as hell before;
Our sins shall sink beneath the sea,
And should be found no more.

6 And lest pollution should o'erspread
Our inward pow'rs again,
His Spirit shall bedew our souls
Like purifying rain.

7 Our heart, that flinty stubborn thing,
That terrors cannot move,
That fears no threat'nings of his wrath,
Shall be dissolv'd by love;

8 Or he can take the flint away,
That would not be refin'd,
And from the treasures of his grace
Bestow a softer mind.

9 There shall his sacred Spirit dwell,
And deep engrave his law;
And ev'ry motion of our souls
To swift obedience draw.

10 Thus will he pour salvation down,
And we shall render praise;
We the dear people of his love,
And he our God of grace.

Text Information

• First Line: In vain we lavish out our lives
• Title: The promises of the covenant of grace
• Meter: C. M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1793
• Scripture:
  Isaiah 55:1-2
  ;
  Zechariah 13:1
  ;
  Micah 7:19
  ;
  Ezekiel 36:25-27

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