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Christ's Compassion to the Weak

Author: Watts Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #120 (1844) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Offices and Characters of Christ First Line: With joy we meditate the grace Lyrics: 1 With joy we meditate the grace Of our High Priest above; His heart is made of tenderness; His bowels melt with love. 2 Touched with a sympathy within, He knows our feeble frame; He knows what sore temptations mean, For he has felt the same. 3 But spotless, innocent, and pure, The great Redeemer stood, While Satan’s fiery darts he bore, And did resist to blood. 4 He, in the days of feeble flesh, Poured out his cries and tears; And, in his measure, feels afresh What every member bears. 5 [He’ll never quench the smoking flax, But raise it to a flame; The bruisèd reed he never breaks, Nor scorns the meanest name.] 6 Then let our humble faith address His mercy and his power; We shall obtain delivering grace, In the distressing hour. Languages: English

Faith in Christ, our Sacrifice

Author: Watts Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #125 (1844) Meter: 6.6.8.6 Topics: Offices and Characters of Christ First Line: Not all the blood of beasts Lyrics: 1 Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain. 2 But Christ, the heavenly Lamb, Takes all our sins away; A sacrifice of nobler name And richer blood than they. 3 My faith would lay her hand On that dear head of thine; While like a penitent I stand, And there confess my sin. 4 My soul looks back to see The burdens thou didst bear, When hanging on the accursed tree, And hopes her guilt was there. 5 Believing, we rejoice To see the curse remove; We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice, And sing his bleeding love. Languages: English

Christ bears the name of all his saints

Author: Newton Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #128 (1844) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Offices and Characters of Christ Lyrics: 1 Christ bears the names of all his saints, Deep on his heart engraved; Attentive to the state and wants Of all his love has saved. 2 In him a holiness complete, Light, and perfection shine; And wisdom, grace, and glory meet; A Saviour all divine. 3 The blood, which, as a priest, he bears For sinners, is his own; The incense of his prayers and tears Perfumes the holy throne. 4 In him my weary soul has rest, Though I am weak and vile; I read my name upon his breast, And see the Father smile. Scripture: Romans 5:11-12 Languages: English

Christ, a True Friend

Author: Swain Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #132 (1844) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Offices and Characters of Christ First Line: A Friend there is, your voices join Lyrics: 1 A Friend there is, your voices join, Ye saints, to praise his name, Whose truth and kindness are divine, Whose love’s a constant flame. 2 When most we need his helping hand, This Friend is always near; With heaven and earth at his command, He waits to answer prayer. 3 His love no end or measure knows; No change can turn its course; Immutably the same, it flows From one eternal source! 4 When frowns appear to veil his face, And clouds surround his throne, He hides the purpose of his grace, To make it better known. 5 And if our dearest comforts fall Before his sovereign will, He never takes away our all – Himself he gives us still. 6 [Our sorrows in the scale he weighs, And measures out our pains; The wildest storm his word obeys; His word its rage restrains.] Languages: English

Christ, a True Friend

Author: Newton Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #133 (1844) Meter: 8.7.7 Topics: Offices and Characters of Christ First Line: One there is above all others Lyrics: 1 One there is, above all others, Well deserves the name of Friend; His is love beyond a brother’s – Costly, free, and knows no end; They who once his kindness prove, Find it everlasting love. 2 Which of all our friends, to save us, Could or would have shed his blood; But our Jesus died to have us Reconciled in him to God. This was boundless love indeed! Jesus is a Friend in need! 3 O for grace our hearts to soften! Teach us, Lord, at length to love; We, alas! forget too often What a Friend we have above. But when home our souls are brought, We will praise thee as we ought. Languages: English

Christ the Sinner's Hiding-Place

Author: Brewer Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #134 (1844) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Offices and Characters of Christ First Line: Hail, sovereign Love, that first began Lyrics: 1 Hail, sovereign love, that first began The scheme to rescue fallen man! Hail, matchless, free, eternal grace, That gave my soul a hiding-place! 2 [Against the God who rules the sky I fought with hand uplifted high; Despised the mention of his grace, Too proud to seek a hiding-place. 3 But thus the eternal counsel ran: “Almighty love, arrest that man!” I felt the arrows of distress, And found I had no hiding-place. 4 Indignant Justice stood in view; To Sinai’s fiery mount I flew; But Justice cried, with frowning face, “This mountain is no hiding-place!” 5 Ere long a heavenly voice I heard, And Mercy’s angel-form appeared; She led me on, with placid pace, To Jesus, as my Hiding-place.] 6 Should storms of seven-fold thunder roll, And shake the globe from pole to pole, No flaming bolt could daunt my face, For Jesus is my Hiding-place. 7 On him almighty vengeance fell, That must have sunk a world to hell; He bore it for a chosen race, And thus became their Hiding-place. 8 A few more rolling suns, at most, Will land me on fair Canaan’s coast, Where I shall sing the song of grace, And see my glorious Hiding-place. Languages: English

Christ our Shepherd

Author: Watts Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #139 (1844) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Offices and Characters of Christ First Line: My Shepherd will supply my need Lyrics: 1 My Shepherd will supply my need; Jehovah is his name. In pastures fresh he makes me feed, Beside the living stream. 2 He brings my wandering spirit back, When I forsake his ways; And leads me, for his mercy’s sake, In paths of truth and grace. 3 When I walk through the shades of death, Thy presence is my stay; A word of thy supporting breath Drives all my fears away. 4 Thy hand, in sight of all my foes, Does still my table spread; My cup with blessings overflows; Thy oil anoints my head. 5 The sure provisions of my God Attend me all my days. O may thy house be my abode, And all my work be praise! 6 [There would I find a settled rest, (While others go and come) No more a stranger or a guest, But like a child at home.] Languages: English

Christ, the Way

Author: Cennick Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #144 (1844) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Offices and Characters of Christ First Line: Jesus, my all, to heaven is gone Lyrics: 1 Jesus, my all, to heaven is gone, He whom I fix my hopes upon; His track I see, and I’ll pursue The narrow way, till him I view. 2 [The way the holy prophets went, The road that leads from banishment, The King’s highway of holiness I’ll go, for all his paths are peace.] 3 This is the way I long have sought, And mourned because I found it not; My grief, my burden long has been, Because I could not cease from sin. 4 The more I strove against its power, I sinned and stumbled but the more; Till late I heard my Saviour say, “Come hither, soul, I AM THE WAY.” 5 Lo! glad I come; and thou, blest Lamb, Shalt take me to thee as I am; Nothing but sin I thee can give; Nothing but love shall I receive. 6 Then will I tell to sinners round, What a dear Saviour I have found; I’ll point to thy redeeming blood, And say, “Behold the way to God.” Languages: English

Christ his People's Surety

Author: Berridge Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #148 (1844) Meter: 8.8.6 Topics: Offices and Characters of Christ First Line: For wretched strangers, such as I Lyrics: 1 For wretched strangers such as I, The Saviour left his native sky, And surety would become; He undertakes for sinners lost, And, having paid the utmost cost, Returns triumphant home. 2 A judgment bond against me lay, Law charges, too, which he must pay, But found a smarting debt. The garden scene begins his woes, And fetches agonising throes, And draws a bloody sweat. 3 His back with hardy stripes is hewed, Till flakes of gore, and streams of blood, Besmear the frighted ground! A scornful and a smarting crown His holy head is thrust upon, And thorns begird it round. 4 He smarts with nails that pierce his feet, And smarts with hanging all his weight Upon the accursèd tree! He smarts beneath a Father’s rod, And roars aloud, “Why, O my God, Hast thou forsaken me?” 5 [May all my Saviour’s love and smart, Be sweetly graven on my heart, And with me fast abide; And let me sing thy praises well, And love thee more than I can tell, And trust in none beside.] Languages: English

Christ, the Believer's Surety

Author: Hart Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship. In four parts (10th ed.) (Gadsby's Hymns) #151 (1844) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Offices and Characters of Christ First Line: What slavish fears molest my mind Lyrics: 1 What slavish fears molest my mind, And vex my sickly soul! How is it, Lord, that thou art kind, And yet I am not whole? 2 [Ah! why should unbelief and pride, With all their hellish train, Still in my ransomed soul abide, And give me all this pain? 3 Thy word is past, thy promise made; With power it came from heaven; “Cheer up, desponding soul,” it said, “Thy sins are all forgiven. 4 “Behold, I make thy cause my own; I bought thee with my blood; Thy wicked works on me be thrown, And I will work thy good. 5 “I am thy God, thy Guide till death, Thy everlasting Friend; On me for love, for works, for faith, On me for all depend.”] 6 Thy blood, dear Lord, has brought my peace, And paid the heavy debt; Has given a fair and full release, But I’m in prison yet. 7 Unjustly now these foes of mine Their devilish hate pursue; They made my Surety pay the fine, Yet plague the prisoner too. 8 What right can my tormentors plead, That I should not be free? Here’s an amazing change indeed! Justice is now for me. 9 Lord, break these bars that thus confine, These chains that gall me so; Say to that ugly gaoler, Sin, “Loose him, and let him go.” Languages: English