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Hail! thou once despised Jesus

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #346 (1828) Meter: Irregular Topics: Salvation through Jesus Christ Addresses to Christ and gratitude for redeeming love Lyrics: 1 Hail! thou once despised Jesus, Hail! thou Galilean king! Thou didst suffer to release us; Thou didst free salvation bring: Hail! thou agonnizing Saviour, Bearer of our sin and shame! By thy merits we find favour; Life is given through thy name. 2 Paschal Lamb, by God appointed, All our sins on thee were laid; By almighty love anointed, Thou hast full atonement made: All thy people are forgiven Through the virtue of thy blood; Open'd is the gate of heaven; Peace is made 'twixt man and God. 3 Jesus, hail! enthron'd in glory, There forever to abide! All the heavenly host adore thee, Seated at thy Father's side: There for sinners thou art pleading; There thou dost our place prepare; Ever for us interceding, Till in glory we appear. 4 Worship, honour, power, and blessing, Thou art worthy to receive; Highest praises, without ceasing, Meet it is for us to give: Help, ye bright angelic spirits! Bring your sweetest, noblest lays! Help to sing our Saviour's merits; Help to chant Immanuel's praise.

Every fallen soul, by sinning

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #321 (1828) Meter: Irregular Topics: Salvation through Jesus Christ The gracious nature of this salvation Lyrics: 1 Every fallen soul, by sinning, Merits everlasting pain; But thy love without beginning, Has redeemed the world again. Countless millions Shall in life, through Jesus reign. 2 Pause, my soul, adore and wonder! Ask, "O why such love to me?" Grace hath put me in the number Of the Saviour's family: Hallelujah! Thanks, eternal thanks to thee! 3 Since that love had no beginning, And shall never, never cease; Keep, O keep me, Lord, from sinning! Guide me in the way of peace! Make me walk in All the paths of holiness. 4 When I quit this feeble mansion, And my soul returns to thee; Let the power of thy ascension Manifest itself in me; Through thy Spirit, Give the final victory! 5 When the angel sounds the trumpet; When my soul and body join; When my Saviour comes to judgment, Bright in majesty divine; Let me triumph In thy righeousness as mine.

O thou God of my salvation

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #344 (1828) Meter: Irregular Topics: Salvation through Jesus Christ Addresses to Christ and gratitude for redeeming love Lyrics: 1 O thou God of my salvation, My Redeemer from all sin, Mov'd to this by great compassion, Yearning bowels from within; I will praise thee: Where shall I thy praise begin? 2 While the angel-choirs are crying Glory to the great I AM; I with them will still be vying., Glory, glory, to the Lamb! O how precious Is the sound of Jesus’ name! 3 Now I see, with joy and wonder, Whence the healing streams arose: Angels-minds are lost to ponder Dying love's mysterious cause; Yet the blessing, Down to all, to me it flows. 4 Though unseen, I love the Saviour, He almighty grace hath shown; Pardon'd guilt, and purchas'd favor! This he makes to mortals known, Give him glory, Glory, glory is his own. 5 Angels now are hov'ring round us, Unperceiv'd they mix the throng, Wond'ring at the love that crown'd us, Glad to sing the holy song: Hallelujah, Love and praise to Christ belong.

Bright source of everlasting love!

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #354 (1828) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Salvation through Jesus Christ Addresses to Christ and gratitude for redeeming love Lyrics: 1 Bright source of everlasting love! To thee our souls we raise; And to thy matchless bounty rear A monument of praise. 2 Thy mercy gilds the path of life With ev'ry cheering ray; Kindly restrains the rising tear, Or wipes that tear away. 3 When, sunk in guilt, our race approach'd The borders of despair; Thy grace through Jesus' blood proclaim'd A free salvation near. 4 What shall we render, bounteous Lord, For all the grace we see? Alas! the goodness worms can yield Extendeth not to thee. 5 To tents of wo, to beds of pain, Our cheerful feet repair; And, with the gifts thy hand bestows, Relieve the mourners there. 6 The widow's heart shall sing for joy; The orphan shall be glad; And hung'ring souls we'll gladly point To Christ the living bread. 7 Thus, passing through this vale of tears, Our useful light shall shine; And other learn to glorify Our Father's name divine.

Sing to the Lord, who loud proclaims

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #312 (1828) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Salvation through Jesus Christ The sinner trusting in Christ for salvation Lyrics: 1 Sing to the Lord, who loud proclaims His various and his saving names. O may they not be heard alone, But by our sure experience known. 2 Awake, our noblest pow'rs to bless The God of Abra'm, God of peace; Now by a dearer title known, Father and God of Christ his Son. 3 Through ev'ry age his gracious ear Is open to his servants' pray'r; Nor can one humble soul complain, That it hath sought its God in vain. 4 What unbelieving heart shall dare In whispers to suggest a fear, While still he owns his ancient name, The same his pow'r, his love the same! 5 To thee our souls in faith arise, To thee we lift expecting eyes, And boldly through the desert tread, For God will guard, where God shall lead.

Of him who did salvation bring

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #345 (1828) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Salvation through Jesus Christ Addresses to Christ and gratitude for redeeming love Lyrics: 1 Of him who did salvation bring I could forever think and sing; Arise, ye guilty, he'll forgive; Arise, ye needy, he'll relieve. 2 Ask but his grace, and lo, ’tis given, Ask, and he turns your hell to heaven; Tho' sin and sorrow wound my soul, Jesus, thy balm will make it whole, 3 to shame our sins he blush'd in blood, He clos'd his eyes to show us God; Let all the world fall down and know, That none but God such love can show. 4 'Tis thee I love, for thee alone I shed my tears and make my moan! Where'er I am, where'er I move, I meet the object of my love. 5 Insatiate to this spring I fly; I drink, and yet am ever dry; Ah! who against thy charms is proof? Ah! who that loves can love enough?

Tis by the faith of joys to come

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #314 (1828) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Salvation through Jesus Christ The sinner trusting in Christ for salvation Lyrics: 1 'Tis by the faith of joys to come, We walk through deserts dark as night; Till we arrive at heav'n our home, Faith is our guide, and faith our light. 2 The want of sight she well supplies; She makes the pearly gates appear; Far into distant worlds she pries, And brings eternal glories near. 3 Cheerful we tread the desert through, While faith inspires a heav'nly ray, Though lions roar, and tempests blow, And rocks and dangers fill the way. 4 So Abra'm, by divine command, Left his own house to walk with God; His faith beheld the promis'd land, And fir'd his zeal along the road.

Lord, we confess our numerous faults

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #338 (1828) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Salvation through Jesus Christ Addresses to Christ and gratitude for redeeming love Lyrics: 1 Lord, we confess our numerous faults, How great our guilt has been! Foolish and vain were all our thoughts, And all our lives were sin. 2 But, O my soul, for ever praise, For ever love his name Who turns thy feet from dangerous ways Of folly, sin, and shame. 3 'Tis not by works of righteousness Which our own hands have done; But we are sav'd by sovereign grace Abounding through his Son. 4 'Tis from the mercy of our God That all our hopes begin; 'Tis by the water and the blood Our souls are wash'd from sin. 5 'Tis through the purchase of his death Who hung upon the tree, The Spirit is sent down to breathe On such dry bones as we. 6 Rais'd from the dead we live anew; And, justified by grace, We shall appear in glory too, And see our Father's face. Scripture: Titus 3:3

Jesus, my Saviour, Brother, Friend

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #343 (1828) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Salvation through Jesus Christ Addresses to Christ and gratitude for redeeming love Lyrics: 1 Jesus, my Saviour, Brother, Friend, On whom I cast my every care, On whom for all things I depend, Inspire, and then accept my prayer. 2 If I have tasted of thy grace, The grace that sure salvation brings; If with me now thy Spirit stays, And hov'ring hides me in his wings: 3 Still let him with my weakness stay, Nor for a moment’s space depart; Evil and danger turn away, And keep, till he renews my heart. 4 When to the right or left I stray, His voice behind me may I hear, "Return, and walk in Christ thy way, Fly back to Christ, for sin is near." 5 Jesus, I fain would walk in thee, From nature’s every path retreat; Thou art my way, my leader be, And set upon the rock my feet. 6 Uphold me, Saviour, or I fall; O reach me out Thy gracious hand: Only on thee for help I call; Only by faith in thee I stand.

In vain would boasting reason find

Hymnal: Hymns, Selected and Original #315 (1828) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Salvation through Jesus Christ The sinner trusting in Christ for salvation Lyrics: 1 In vain would boating reason find The path to happiness and God; Her weak directions leave the mind Bewilder'd in a doubtful road. 2 Jesus, thy words alone impart Eternal life; on these I live; Diviner comforts cheer my heart Than all the pow'rs of nature give. 3 Here let my constant feet abide; Thou art the true, the living way: Let thy good Spirit be my guide To the bright realms of endless day. 4 The various forms that men devise To shake my faith with treach'rous art, I scorn as vanity and lies, And bind thy gospel to my heart.