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Though every comfort be withdrawn ;
On this my steadfast soul relies,
Father, thy mercy never dies.

4 Fix'd on this ground will I remain,
Though my heart fail and flesh decay;
This anchor shall my soul sustain,
When earth's foundations melt away:
Mercy's full power I then shall prove,
Loved with an everlasting love."

270 It was founded upon a rock.-Matt. vii. 25. [SIX 8s.
1 My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus' name.

On Christ, the solid rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.

2 When long appears my toilsome race,
I rest on his unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.

On Christ, the solid rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.
3 His oath, his covenant, and blood,
Support me in the whelming flood;
When every earthly prop gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.

On Christ, the solid rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.

4 When the last trumpet's voice shall sound,
O may I then in him be found,

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2

3

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Robed in his righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.
On Christ, the solid rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.

I am the Lord: I change not.—Malachi iii. 6.
CHANGE is our portion here;

Soon fades the summer sky,

The landscape droops in autumn sear,
And spring flowers bloom to die :
But faithful is Jehovah's word,

"I will be with thee," saith the Lord.

Change is our portion here,
Along the heavenly road:
In faith and hope and holy fear,

In love towards our God:

How often we distrust the word,
"I will be with thee," saith the Lord.

Change is our portion here:

Yet midst our changing lot,

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Midst withering flowers and tempests drear,
There is that changes not.

Unchangeable Jehovah's word,

"I will be with thee," saith the Lord.

Changeless, the way of peace:

Changeless, Emmanuel's name;
Changeless, the covenant of grace;
Eternally the same.

"I change not," is a Father's word.

"And I am with thee," saith the Lord.

272 Ye shall find rest unto your souls.—Matt. xi. 29. [P.M.

1

JESUS, I rest on thee,

In thee myself I hide :

Laden with guilt and misery,

Where can I rest beside ?

'Tis on thy meek and lowly breast
My weary soul alone can rest.

3

4

The Father rests in thee;

The voice of thy atoning blood

Pleads evermore for me:

The curse is gone; through thee I'm blest:
God rests in thee; in thee I rest.

The slave of sin and fear

Thy truth my bondage broke,
And now my spirit loves to wear

Thy light and easy yoke.

The love, which fills my grateful breast,

Makes duty joy and labour rest.

Soon the bright glorious day,
The rest of God, shall come;
Sorrow and sin shall pass away,

And I shall reach my home:
Then of the promised land possess'd
My soul shall know eternal rest.

273 I know that my Redeemer liveth.-Job xix. 25. [L.M. 1 I KNOW that my Redeemer lives;

O the sweet joy this sentence gives!
He lives, he lives, who once was dead;
He lives, my everlasting Head.

2 He lives to bless me with his love,
And still he pleads for me above;
He lives to raise me from the grave,
And me eternally to save.

3 He lives, my kind, wise, constant Friend;
Who still will keep me to the end;
He lives, and while he lives I'll sing,
Jesus, my Prophet, Priest, and King.
4 He lives my mansion to prepare,
And he will bring me safely there;
He lives, all glory to his name,
Jesus, unchangeably the same."

274

He hath covered me with the robe of
righteousness.-Isa. lxi. 10.

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1 JESU, thy blood and righteousness My beauty are, my glorious dress, 'Midst flaming worlds, in these array'd, With joy shall I lift up my head. 2 Bold shall I stand in thy great day, For who aught to my charge shall lay ? Fully absolved through these I am, From sin and fear, from guilt and shame. 3 When from the dust of death I rise To claim my mansion in the skies, Even then, this shall be all my plea, Jesus hath lived, hath died for me. 4 Thou God of power, thou God of love, Let the whole world thy mercy prove; Now let thy word o'er all prevail;

Now take the spoils of death and hell.a

275 There shall be a fountain opened for sin and
uncleanness.-Zech. xiii. 1.

1 THERE is a fountain fill'd with blood,
Drawn from Emmanuel's veins;

And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.

2 The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in his day;
And there have I, as vile as he,
Wash'd all my sins away.

3 Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power,

Till all the ransom'd church of God
Be saved to sin no more.

4 E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream
Thy flowing wounds supply,

Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.

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5 Then in a nobler, sweeter song
I'll sing thy power to save;

When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue
Lies silent in the grave.

6 Lord, I believe thou hast prepared,
Unworthy though I be,

For me a blood-bought free reward,
A golden harp for me:

7 'Tis strung, and tuned for endless years,
And form'd by power divine,

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To sound in God the Father's ears,
No other name but thine.c

In my Father's house are many mansions.
John xiv. 2.

1 WHEN I can read my title clear
To mansions in the skies,

I bid farewell to every fear,

And wipe my weeping eyes.

2 Should earth against my soul engage,
And hellish darts be hurl'd,
Then I can smile at Satan's rage,
And face a frowning world.

3 Let cares like a wild deluge come,
And storms of sorrow fall,

May I but safely reach my home,
My God, my heaven, my all.
4 There shall I bathe my weary soul
In seas of heavenly rest,
And not a wave of trouble roll
Across my peaceful breast."

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277 God will be with me, so that I come again to my [C.M. father's house in peace.-Gen. xxviii. 20, 21.

1 FATHER, whate'er of earthly bliss
Thy sovereign will denies,
Accepted at thy throne of grace
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