CHRISTIAN SONGS, Part I

Eternal love's the darling song, Well-pleasing to JEHOVAH'S ear; Attend, ye sav'd, ye pardon'd throng, With all your grateful harps drawn near:

2 'Tis yours to sing th' eternal date Of love divine, and how it moves To helpless man, with gladness great: Sing loud, for God the song approves.

3 Hail, Bethleh'm! hail! that ruddy morn, Whose rays adorn the infant God, JEHOVAH of a virgin born, Who righteousness and life bestow'd.

4 For us salvation wide displays Her ample all-refreshing wing; Safe in the shade, that love we praise, And all its peerless glories sing:

5 We sing the garden and the tree, Red with the blood which cries for peace; Heav'n echoes back, I'm pleas'd in thee; And Wrath to Mercy now gives place.

6 From this dread object flows our joy, Here all the majesty and worth, And love of God, without alloy, In brightest splendor do shine forth.

7 We sing a note that high prevails, Above the angels free from sin; Who cannot taste the cure which heals The deadly smart of wrath divine.

8 As food the hungry soul relieves, As choice perfumes delight the smell; So Mercy from the cross revives Man sinking in the jaws of hell:

9 The wonders of Christ's blood arise Bright in the drooping wretches view: Astonished with the dear surprize, His joyful transport who can shew?