4 This sad disease has taken place
In all the sons of Adam's race;
There's no one free, or high or low,
The infant and the aged too.
1 SIN dwells within this heart of mine;
No child its power escapes;
It can in thousand colours shine,
Or take a thousand shapes.
2 It robs the Christian of his rest;
Annoys his soul in prayer;
But though it lodges in his breast,
He hates its presence there.
3 'Tis present when we speak or think;
It moves the hands and feet;
It is a bitter draught to drink,
Though many call it sweet.
4 It oft adopts a change of plan,
Its deadly ends to gain,
And suits itself to every man—
Religious or profane.
5 But God's own word distinctly saith,-
May we its truth confess !-
Sin's wages are eternal death,
And life is all of grace.
1 SIN has a thousand treacherous arts To practise on the mind;
With flattering looks she tempts our hearts, But leaves a sting behind.
2 With names of virtue she deceives
The aged and the young,
And while the heedless wretch believes,
She makes his fetters strong.
1 THOUGH small the drops of falling rain,
If one be singly viewed,
Collected, they o'erspread the plain,
And form a mighty flood.
2 Thus sinners think their evil deeds,
Like drops of rain, are small;
But it the power of thought exceeds
To count the sum of all.
3 One sin can raise, though small it seems, A flood to drown the soul;
What, then, when countless million streams Shall join to swell the whole ?
4 Yet, while they think the weather fair,
If warned, they smile or frown;
But they will tremble and despair
When the fierce flood comes down.
All Guilty before God.
1 VAIN 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 murmuring 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 accuse and to condemn
Is all the law can do.
4 Jesus, how glorious is Thy grace!
For all who in Thee trust
By faith receive a righteousness
That makes them truly just.
Healing in Jesus.
1 DEEP are the wounds which sin has made;
Where shall the sinner find a cure?
In vain, alas! is nature's aid;
The work exceeds all nature's power.
2 Sin, like a raging fever, reigns
With fatal strength in every part;
The dire contagion fills the veins,
And spreads its poison to the heart.
3 And can no sovereign balm be found?
And is no kind physician nigh,
To ease the pain, and heal the wound,
Ere life and hope for ever fly?
4 There is a great Physician near,
And all repenting souls shall live;
Yes, in His heavenly smiles appear
Such ease as nature cannot give.
5 For in the Saviour's dying blood,
Life, health, and bliss abundant flow;
'Tis only this dear, sacred flood
Can ease that pain, and heal such woe.
Peace through Blood.
1 WHERE shall the guilty conscience go
To find a sure relief?
Can bleeding bulls or goats bestow
A balm to ease my grief?
2 Will popish rites and penances
Release my soul from sin?
What insufficient things are these
To calm the wrath divine !
3 In vain we seek for peace with God
By methods of our own:
There's nothing but Immanuel's blood
Can bring us near the throne.
1 THERE is a fountain filled with sin,
From which all evil flows;
It has its poisonous spring within,—
Source of ten thousand woes.
2 It had its rise in Eden's bowers,
Ere sorrow could begin ;
Those thorns that choke the fairest flowers
Are all produced by sin.
3 But see! a fountain filled with blood
From Jesu's side doth flow;
And sinners in that precious flood
Are washed as white as snow.
4 Happy the child who feels his sin
To be his greatest grief!
For all who mourn the plague within
Shall surely find relief.
THE LAW OF GOD.
The Law Just and Holy.
1 HEAR what God Himself hath spoken-
(May it pierce some sinner's soul !)
He who one command has broken,
He is guilty of the whole.
2 God's good law is just and holy,
And must be completely met:
We are born in sin and folly,
How can we discharge the debt?
3 Man, alas! could never pay it,
Even if he had the will;
How can he in truth obey it
Who is only prone to ill?
4 But the voice of condemnation,
Issued through the broken law,
In the Author of salvation
Could not find a single flaw.
5 Jesus kept the law completely;
Paid to justice all its due;
Mercy now abounds, and sweetly
Ransomed sinners prove it true.
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