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The Fall.-Gen. iii. 6.

1 SHE saw; she took; she ate; Death enter'd by the eye:

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And parleying in a tempted state,
We lust, consent, and die.
But all mankind restored

Their Eden may retrieve:

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And lo, by faith we see our Lord,
We touch, and taste, and live!

Jesus, Thou art a tree

That makes the foolish wise,
And safely we may feed on Thee,
And feast both heart and eyes:

Wisdom divine Thou art,
Received through faith alone;
And when Thou dost Thyself impart,
We know as we are known.

4.

Lot looking towards Sodom.-Gen. xix. 16, 17.

1 THIS world is all enchanted ground,
Oh whither shall I fly!

The vengeful flames are kindling round,
And if I stop, I die.

2 When some kind hand has brought me forth,
How lingering is my pace!
Lord, either drive me by thy wrath,
Or draw me by thy grace.

3 Oh let me not a moment waste,
On this destructive plain;

Hence let me flee with greater haste,
Till I the Zoar gain!

5.

Abraham gathered to his people.-Gen. xxv. 8. 1 Is God's peculiar people mine?

To them I then shall be

Gather'd beneath the Saviour's sign,
And Christ in glory see.

2 Gather'd into the Church above,
Whoe'er to Christ belong

Shall meet to sing the song of love,
The Lamb's eternal song.

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Jacob at Bethel.-Gen. xxviii. 8. 10 GOD of Bethel! by whose hand Thy people still are fed:

Who through this weary pilgrimage
Hast all our fathers led.

2 Our vows, our prayers, we now present
Before thy throne of grace:

God of our fathers! be the God
Of their succeeding race.

3 Through each perplexing path of life
Our wandering footsteps guide;
Give us each day our daily bread,
And raiment fit provide.

4 O spread thy covering wings around,
Till all our wanderings cease,
And at our Father's loved abode
Our souls arrive in peace.

5 Such blessings from thy gracious hand
Our humble prayers implore;

And Thou shalt be our chosen God,
And portion evermore.

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Jacob wrestling with the Angel.-Gen. xxxii. 24.

PART FIRST.

1 COME, O thou traveller unknown, Whom still I hold, but cannot see!

My company before is gone,

And I am left alone with thee.

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With thee all night I mean to stay,
And wrestle till the break of day.
2 I need not tell thee who I am;
My misery and sin declare:
Thyself hast called me by my name :
Look on thy hands, and read it there:
But who, I ask thee, who art thou?
Tell me thy name, and tell me now.
3 In vain thou strugglest to get free,
I never will unloose my hold,

Art thou the Man that died for me?
The secret of thy love unfold:
Wrestling I will not let thee go,
Till I thy name, thy nature know.
4 Wilt thou not yet to me reveal
Thy new unutterable name?
Tell me, I still beseech thee, tell;
To know it now, resolved I am :
Wrestling I will not let thee go,
Till I thy name, thy nature know.

5 What though my shrinking flesh complain, And murmur to contend so long?

I rise superior to my pain:

When I am weak, then I am strong:
And when my all of strength shall fail,
I shall with the God-man prevail.

PART SECOND.

1 YIELD to me now, for I am weak;
But confident in self-despair;
Speak to my heart, in blessings speak;
Be conquer'd by my instant prayer:
Speak, or thou never hence shalt move,
And tell me if thy name be Love.

2 'Tis Love! 'tis Love! Thou diedst for me;
I hear thy whisper in my heart:
The morning breaks, the shadows flee,
Pure, Universal Love Thou art:

To me, to all thy bowels move,

Thy nature, and thy name is Love.

3 My prayer hath power with God; the grace Unspeakable I now receive;

Through faith I see Thee face to face;
I see Thee face to face and live:
In vain I have not wept and strove;
Thy nature and thy name is Love.
4 I know Thee, Saviour, who Thou art,
Jesus, the feeble sinner's friend:
Nor wilt Thou with the night depart,
But stay and love me to the end:
Thy mercies never shall remove,
Thy nature and thy name is Love.
5 The Sun of Righteousness on me
Hath rose, with healing on his wings;
Wither'd my nature's strength: from Thee
My soul its life and succour brings;
My help is all laid up above;
Thy nature and thy name is Love.
6 Contented now upon my thigh

I halt, till life's short journey end;
All helplessness, all weakness, I
On Thee alone for strength depend;
Nor have I power from Thee to move:
Thy nature and thy name is Love.
7 Lame as I am, 1 take the prey;
Hell, earth, and sin, with ease o'ercome;
I leap for joy, pursue my way,
And, as a bounding heart fly home;
Through all eternity to prove,

Thy nature and thy name is Love.

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Jacob dying amidst his children.-Gen. xlvi. 4.

1 A FEW more days preserve me here;
And when from earth my spirit flies,
O let a child of mine be near,
A child of God, to close mine eyes!

2 Before its strong arrest I feel,
Give me my death's approach to see,
And having lived to serve thy will,
Lord, let me then depart in Thee.

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A father leaving his family to God.-Gen. xlviii. 21.
1 AMID the anguish and the strife,
That shrinking nature fears,
Look gently down, great Source of life,
And dry death's starting tears!

2 Serene, like Jacob, we would die,
And "gather up our feet;"

Would chide the lingering hours and fly,
Our Saviour-God to meet.

3 Our dearest comforts we could leave,
With glory in our eyes;

Would wipe the tears of those that grieve,
And point them to the skies.

4 Our trembling lips, if Thou art nigh,
When life's sad hours are few,
With joy shall say " Behold we die,
But God shall be with you."

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The birth of Moses.-Exod. ii. 3.

1 TREMBLING with tenderest alarms,

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A mournful mother bore

Her babe, close cradled in her arms,
To Nile's green sloping shore.

2 Long bending o'er her sleeping child,
With prayers and tears she stood;
Then-with a look of sorrow wild-
She launch'd him on the flood.

3 Forlorn, in ark of bulrush left,
Misfortune's meekest child,

Of every human hope bereft,
Moan'd to the waters wild.

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