my tongue, will no longer be able to move in their scrvice. But I trust, while my heart continues to beat, it will feel a warm desire for the prosperity of their souls; and while my hand can write, and my tongue speak, it will be the business and the pleasure of my life, to aim at promoting their growth and establishment in the grace of our God and Saviour. To this precious grace I commend them, and earnestly entreat them, and all who love his name, to strive mightily with their prayers to God for me, that I may be preserved faithful to the end, and enabled at last to finish my course with joy. Olney, Bucks, February 15, 1779. VOL. III. X JOHN NEWTON. OLNEY HYMNS, &c. BOOK I. ON SELECT PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE. GENESIS. HYMN I. Adam. Chap. iii. 1 ON N man, in his own image made, How much did God bestow! The whole creation homage paid, And own'd him Lord below. 2 He dwelt in Eden's garden, stor'd With sweets for ev'ry sense; And there, with his descending Lord, He walk'd in confidence. 3 But, oh! by sin how quickly chang'd! His honour forfeited, His heart from God and truth estrang'd, 4 Now from his Maker's voice he flees, Which was before his joy; And thinks to hide, amidst the trees, 5 Compell'd to answer to his name, He cast on God himself the blame; 6 But grace, unask'd, his heart subdu'd, By faith the promis'd Seed he view'd, 7 Thus we ourselves would justify, 8 But when by faith the sinner sees II. Cain and Abel. Chap. iv. 3—8. 1 WHEN Adam fell, he quickly lost God's image which he once possess'd: See all our nature since could boast In Cain, his first-born son, express'd! 2 The Sacrifice the Lord ordain'd When, with a sullen downcast look, 4 By Cain's own hand good Abel died, Call evil good, and darkness light, 7 The saints in ev'ry age and place 1 Thus Jesus fell-but, oh! his blood III. C. Walking with God. Chap. v. 24. 1 OH! for a closer walk with God, 2 Where is the blessedness I knew Where is the soul-refreshing view a Rom. viii. 36. b Heb. xii, 24. |