my tongue, will no longer be able to move in their service. 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. JOHN NEWTON. OLNEY HYMNS, &c. BOOK I. ON SELECT PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE. GENESIS. HYMN I. Adam. Chap. iii. ON man, in his own image made, How much did God bestow ! And own'd him Lord below. 2 He dwelt in Eden's garden, stor'd And there, with his descending Lord, 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, 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. S-8. 1 WHEN Adam fell, he quickly lost God's image which he once possess❜d: See all our nature since could boast 2 The sacrifice the Lord ordain'd 3 Yet rage and envy fill'd his mind, When, with a sullen downcast look, He saw his brother favour find, Who God's appointed method took. 4 By Cain's own hand good Abel died, Because the Lord approv'd his faith; And, when his blood for vengeance cry'd, He vainly thought to hide his death. 5 Such was the wicked murd❜rer Cain, 6 Like him, the way of grace we slight, 7 The saints in ev'ry age and place Of Abels, whom the Cains have kill'd*! 8 Thus Jesus fell-but, oh! his blood Far better things than Abel's criest, Obtains his murd'rers peace with God, And gains them mansions in the skies. III. C. Walking with God. Chap. v. 24. 1 OH! for a closer walk with God, 2 Where is the blessedness I knew Rom. viii. 36. † Heb. xii. 24. |