8 Bleffed be the pow'r who gave us, I EASTER- DAY. ESUS, who dy'd a world to fave, From fin, and death, and hell set free, And lives to die no more. and fee 2 Children of God, look up 3 Give o'er your griefs, caft off your fears, His church is ftill his joy and crown, On her he did redeem: He taftes her joys, he feels her woes, 4 O may we all from fin awake, May all in heav'n our places take, Near our exalted Head! I May all our fouls to heav'n afpire, CHE HRIST the LORD is ris'n to day, Sons of men and angels fay! Raife your joys and triumphs high, Sing, ye heav'ns, and earth reply. 2 Love's redeeming work is done, Fought the fight, the battle won; Lo! our fun's eclipfe is o'er, Lo! he fets in blood no more. 3 Vain the stone, the watch, the feal 4 Lives again our glorious King, 5 Soar we now where CHRIST hath led, Following our exalted Head; Made like him, like him we rise, 6 What tho' once we perish'd all, Partners of our parents fall; Second life we all receive, In our heav'nly Adam live. 7 Hail, the LORD of earth and heav'n!: Praise to thee by both be giv'n! Thee we greet triumphant now, Hail, the refurrection-Thou! 8 King of glory! foul of bliss! Everlasting life is this— Thee to know, thy pow'r to prove ;; THE HYMN 325: ANOTHER. HE Sun of righteousness appears,, Adore the scatt'rer of your fears, 2 The faints, when he refign'd his breath, Unclos'd their fleeping eyes; He breaks again the bands of death, 3 Alone the dreadful race he ran, He dy'd, and fuffer'd as a man, 4 In vain the ftone, the watch, the seal, Forbid an early rife, To him who breaks the gates of hell, HY M N 326. THE RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION OF CHRIST., I HOSANNA to the Prince of light, Enter'd the iron gates of death, 2 Death is no more the king of dread, 3 See how the Conqu❜ror mounts aloft, 4 Raife your devotion, mortal tongues, 5 Bright Angels, ftrike your loudest strings, Your fweeteft voices raife: Let heav'n, and all created things, HYMN 327. THE RESURRECTION. I PLEAS'D we read in facred ftory, How our LORD refum'd his breath; 2 I am Alpha, fays the Saviour; 3 Ye that die without repentance, Ye must rife when CHRIST appears; Rife to hear your dreadful fentence, While the faints rejoice in theirs : You to dwell with fiends infernal, They with JESUS CHRIST to reign: They go into life eternal, You to everlasting pain. |