SOCIAL PSALMIST, OR HYMNS, SELECTED FOR THE PRIVATE USE AND SOCIAL MEETINGS OF EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...abounding mercy praised,--His majesty adored. 2 When from the dead he raised his Sod, And called him to the sky, He gave our souls a lively hope, That they should never die. 3 What though our inbred sins require Our flesh to see the dust; Yet, as the Lord, our Saviour, rose, So all his followers must. 4 There 's an inheritance divine Reserved against that day;' 'T is uncorrupted, undefiled, And cannot waste away. 5 Saints, by the power of God, are kept Till the salvation come; We walk by faith, as strangers here, Till Christ shall call us home. OQO « M KJ%JfiJm Adoption. 1 BEHOLD! what wondrous grace The Father has bestowed, On sinners of a mortal race, To call them sons of 'God., 2 T is no surprising thing, That we should be unknown; The Jewish world knew not their king,--God's everlasting Son. 3 Nor doth it yet appear How great we must be made: But when we see our Saviour here. We shall be like our head. 4 A hope, so much divine, May trials well endure; May purge our souls from sense and sin, As Christ, the Lord, is pure. 5 If, in my Father's love, I share a filial part, Send down thy Spirit, like a dove, To rest upon my heart. 6 We would no longer lie, Like slaves, beneath the throne; Our faith shall--"Abba, Father!"--cry And thou the kindred own. qQO CM. JJU The Fearful encouraged. 1 YE trembling souls! dismiss your fears, Be mercy all your theme; Mercy--which, like a river, flows, In one perpetual stream. 2 Fear not the powers of earth and hell;--Those powers will God restrain; His arm shall all their rage repel, And make their efforts vain. 3 Fear not the want of outward good; For his he will provide, Grant them supplies of daily food, And all they need beside. 4 Fear not that he will e'er forsake, Or leave his work undone; He s faithfu...