Cover'd is my unrighteousness,

From condemnation I am free:
While Jesu's blood, through earth and skies,
Mercy, free, boundless mercy, cries!

8. Though waves and storms go o'er my head, Though strength and health and friends be gone;

Though joys be wither'd all, and dead,
Though every comfort be withdrawn ;
Steadfast on Thee my soul relies,
Father, Thy mercy never dies!

4. Fix'd on this ground shall I remain Though my heart fail, and flesh decay; This anchor can my soul sustain,

When earth's foundations melt away; Mercy's full power I then shall prove, Loved with Thine everlasting love.

CXII.

SWEET THE MOMENTS. Music, as lately arranged by R. W, Beaty. 1. SWEET the moments, rich in blessing, Which before the cross I spend ; Life and health and peace possessing From the sinner's dying friend!

Here I'll sit for ever viewing

Mercy's streams in streams of blood:
Precious drops my soul bedewing

Plead and claim my peace with God. 2. Love and grief my heart dividing, With my tears his feet I'll bathe: Constant still in faith abiding, Life deriving from his death. May I never lose this feeling, Never from my Saviour go: Prove his wounds each day more healing, And myself more deeply know!

CXIII.

SECOND PART.

Verses which may be sung at pleasure in
connexion with the foregoing.
(Corrected, from Wesley.)

1. COME, Thou fount of every blessing,

Tune my heart to sing thy grace!
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wandering from the fold of God:
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed his precious blood.

To

2. To Thy grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrain❜d to be!

Love Divine-how strong the fetter,
Binds my wandering soul to thee!
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Given to leave the God I love:
Take, O take this heart and seal it,
Seal it for thyself above!

CXIV.

IT IS FINISHED:

John xix. 39.

Words selected principally from Mr. Kelly's Hymns.
Music, from the Bethesda Collection,

1. HARK the voice of love and mercy
Sounds aloud from Calvary:
Rending rocks the words attesting
Shaking earth and veiled sky :
"It is finished!"

Was the Saviour's dying cry.

2. Mark the sacrifice appointed, See who bears th' afflicting rod:

Prince of Peace,'

Anointed,'

'The Lord's

Son of Man,' and Son of God!'

"It is finished,"

He hath died beneath our load!

3. Gracious Lord! my heart is fixed,
Sing I will, and sing of Thee:
Since the cup which justice mixed
Thou hast drank, and drank for me.
It is finished:

Thou hast set the prisoner free!

CXV.

A SECOND PART.

4. HARK:-ten thousand harps and voices ! High their notes of rapture rove: Jesus reigns, and Heaven rejoices: Jesus reigns the God of Love! "It is finished,"

Swells the immortal strain above!

5. Hark again! the trumpet sounding
Loud proclaims the judge more near :
Jesus comes, his foes confounding;
Jesus to his people dear!

All is finished:

The new heaven and earth appear!

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CXVI.

THE SHAME OF THE CROSS.

1. LORD JESUS, shall it ever be,
A mortal man ashamed of Thee?
Scorn'd be the thought by rich and poor;
Oh may I scorn it more and more!
2: Ashamed of Jesus ?-sooner far,
Let evening blush to own its star:
Ashamed of Jesus?-just as soon
Let midnight blush to think of noon.
3. Ashamed of Jesus ?-that best friend
On whom my hopes of heaven depend:
It must not be; be this my shame,
That I no more revere His name.

4. Ashamed of Jesus!-yes, I may

When I've no guilt to wash away:
No tear to wipe, no good to crave,
No fears to quell, no soul to save.

5. Till then, (nor is this boasting vain,)

Till then I'll boast a Saviour slain:
And Oh may this my portion be,
That Jesu's not ashamed of me!