AMSTERDAM. 7s & 6s. (PECULIAR.)
1. RISE, my soul, and stretch thy wings;
Thy better portion trace;
Rise, from all terrestrial things,
Towards heaven, thy native place:
Sun, and moon, and stars, decay;
Time shall soon this earth remove;
Rise, my soul, and haste away
To seats prepared above.
2. Rivers to the ocean run,
Nor stay in all their course;
Fire, ascending, seeks the sun;
Both speed them to their source:
So a soul that's born of God
Pants to view his glorious face,
Upward tends to his abode,
To rest in his embrace.
1. ROCK of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee;
Let the water and the blood,
From thy side, a healing flood,
Be of sin the double cure,-
Save from wrath, and make me pure.
2. Should my tears forever flow,
Should my zeal no languor know,
All for sin could not atone;
Thou must save, and thou alone;
In my hand no price I bring;
Simply to thy cross I cling.
8. While I draw this fleeting breath,
When mine eyelids close in death,
When I rise to worlds unknown,
See thee on thy judgment throne,
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee.
1. WEARY sinner, keep thine eyes
On th' atoning Sacrifice;
View him bleeding on the tree,
Pouring out his life for thee:
There the dreadful curse he bore:
Weeping soul, lament no more.
2. Cast thy guilty soul on him;
Find him mighty to redeem;
At his feet thy burden lay;
Look thy doubts and care away;
Now by faith the Son embrace,
Plead his promise, trust his grace.
1. YE, who in his courts are found
Listening to the joyful sound,
Lost and helpless as ye are,
Sons of sorrow, sin, and care,
Glorify the King of kings;
Take the peace the gospel brings.
2. Turn to Christ your longing eyes;
View this bleeding sacrifice;
See in him your sins forgiven,
Pardon, holiness, and heaven;
Glorify the King of kings;
Take the peace the gospel brings.
1. GO to dark Gethsemane,
Ye that feel temptation's power; Your Redeemer's conflict see;
Watch with him one bitter hour: Turn not from his griefs away; Learn of Jesus Christ to pray. 2. Follow to the judgment-hall;
View the Lord of life arraigned! O, the wormwood and the gall!
O, the pangs his soul sustained! Shun not suffering, shame, or loss; Learn of him to bear the cross. 3. Calvary's mournful mountain climb; There, admiring at his feet, Mark that miracle of time,
God's own sacrifice complete: "It is finished," hear him cry; Learn of Jesus Christ to die.
4. Early hasten to the tomb
Where they laid his breathless clayAll is solitude and gloom:
Who has taken him away? Christ is risen; he meets our eyes: Saviour, teach us so to rise.
1. HEART of stone, relent. relent;
Break, by Jesus' cross subdued;
See his body, mangled, rent,
Covered with a gore of blood;
Sinful soul, what hast thou done?
Crucified th' eternal Son.
2. Yes, thy sins have done the deed,
Driven the nails that fixed him there,
Crowned with thorns his sacred head,
Plunged into his side the spear,
Made his soul a sacrifice,
While for sinful man he dies.
3. Wilt thou let him bleed in vain?
Still to death thy Lord pursue?
Open all his wounds again?
And the shameful cross renew?
No; with all my sins I'll part;
Break, O, break, my bleeding heart.
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