Redemption Found
From the German.
Now I have found the ground, wherein
Sure my soul’s anchor may remain,—
The wounds of Jesus, for my sin
Before the world’s foundation slain:
Whose mercy shall unshaken stay,
When heaven and earth are fled away.
Father, Thy everlasting grace
Our scanty thought surpasses far:
Thy heart still melts with tenderness,
Thy arms of love still open are
Returning sinners to receive,
That mercy they may taste, and live.
O Love, Thou bottomless abyss!
My sins are swallow’d up in Thee:
Cover’d is my unrighteousness,
Nor spot of guilt remains in me,
While Jesu’s blood, through earth and skies,
Mercy, free, boundless mercy, cries!
With faith I plunge me in this sea;
Here is my hope, my joy, my rest:
Hither, when hell assails, I flee,
I look into my Saviour’s breast!
Away, sad doubt, and anxious fear!
Mercy is all that’s written there.
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Though every comfort be withdrawn,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.
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.
From the Same
Holy Lamb, who Thee receive,
Who in Thee begin to live,
Day and night they cry to Thee,
As Thou art, so let us be.
Jesu, see my panting breast!
See, I pant in Thee to rest!
Gladly would I now be clean!
Cleanse me now from every sin.
Fix, O, fix my wavering mind;
To Thy cross my spirit bind;
Earthly passions far remove;
Swallow up our souls in love.
Dust and ashes, though we be
Full of guilt and misery,
Thine we are, Thou Son of God:
Take the purchase of Thy blood.
Who in heart on Thee believes,
He the atonement now receives;
He with joy beholds Thy face,
Triumphs in Thy pardoning grace.
See, ye sinners, see, the flame
Rising from the slaughter’d Lamb,
Marks the new, the living way,
Leading to eternal day.
Jesu, when this light we see,
All our soul’s athirst for Thee:
When Thy quickening power we prove,
All our heart dissolves in love.
Boundless wisdom, power Divine,
Love unspeakable are Thine!
Praise by all to Thee be given,
Sons of earth, and hosts of heaven!
Christ Our Wisdom
1 Corinthians 1:30.
Made unto me, O Lord, my God,
Wisdom Divine Thou art:
Thy light, which first my darkness show’d,
Still searches out my heart.
Thy Spirit, breathing in the word,
Gave me myself to see,
Fallen, till by Thy grace restored,
And lost, till found in Thee.
Jesus, of all my hopes the ground,
Through Thee Thy name I know,
The only name where health is found,
Whence life and blessings flow.
’Tis now by faith’s enlighten’d eye,
I see Thy strange design;
See the God-man come down to die,
That God may all be mine!
Thou art the truth: I now receive
Thy unction from above;
Divinely taught, in Thee believe,
And learn the lore of love.
Still with Thy grace anoint my eyes,
Throughout my darkness shine;
O, make me to salvation wise,—
My All, be ever mine!
Christ Our Righteousness
1 Corinthians 1:30.
Jesu, Thou art my Righteousness,
For all my sins were Thine:
Thy death hath bought of God my peace,
Thy life hath made Him mine.
Spotless and just in Thee I am;
I feel my sins forgiven;
I taste salvation in Thy name,
And antedate my heaven.
For ever here my rest shall be,
Close to Thy bleeding side;
This all my hope, and all my plea,
For me the Saviour died!
My dying Saviour, and my God,
Fountain for guilt and sin,
Sprinkle me ever in Thy blood,
And cleanse, and keep me clean.
Wash me, and make me thus Thine own;
Wash me, and mine Thou art;
Wash me, (but not my feet alone,)
My hands, my head, my heart.
The atonement of Thy blood apply,
Till faith to sight improve,
Till hope shall in fruition die,
And all my soul be love.