DIVINE HYMNS FOR SERMONS I, II, AND III.
The Inward Witness to Christianity.
Long Metre.
Questions and doubts be heard no more:
Let Christ and joy be all our theme;
His Spirit seals his gospel sure
To every soul that trusts his name.
Jesus, thy witness speaks within;
The mercy which thy words reveal,
Refines the heart from sense and sin,
And stamps its own celestial seal.
’Tis God’s inimitable hand
That moulds and forms the heart anew;
Blasphemers can no more withstand,
But bow and own thy doctrine true.
The guilty wretch that trusts thy blood
Finds peace and pardon at the cross;
The sinful soul averse to God,
Believes and loves his Maker’s laws.
Learning and wit may cease their strife
When miracles with glory shine;
The voice that calls the dead to life,
Must be almighty and divine.
Common Metre.
Witness, ye saints, that Christ is true;
Tell how his name imparts
The life of grace and glory too:
Ye have it in your hearts.
The heav’nly building is begun
When ye receive the Lord;
His hands shall lay the crowning stone,
And well perform his word.
Your souls are form’d by wisdom’s rules,
Your joys and graces shine;
You need no learning of the schools,
To prove your faith divine.
Let heathens scoff, and Jews oppose,
Let Satan’s bolts be hurl’d;
There’s something wrought within you shews
That Jesus saves the world.