1 How large the promise! how divine, To Abra'am and his seed! "I'll be a God to thee and thine, "Supplying all their need." 2 The words of his extensive love From age to age endure; The angel of the covenant proves, And seals the blessing sure. 3 Jesus the ancient faith confirms To our great fathers given; He takes young children to his arms, And calls them heirs of heaven. 4 Our God, how faithful are his ways! His love endures the same; Nor from the promise of his grace Blots out the children's name. Hymn 1:114. The same, Rom. 11. 16 17. 1 Gentiles by nature we belong To the wild olive wood; Grace took us from the barren tree, And grafts us in the good. 2 With the same blessings grace endows The Gentile and the Jew; If pure and holy be the root, Such are the branches too. 3 Then let the children of the saints Be dedicate to God; Pour out thy Spirit on them, Lord, And wash them in thy blood. 4 Thus to the parents and their seed Shall thy salvation come, And numerous households meet at last In one eternal home. Hymn 1:115. Conviction of sin by the law, Rom. 7. 8 9 14 24. 1 Lord, how secure my conscience was, And felt no inward dread! I was alive without the law, And thought my sins were dead. 2 My hopes of heaven were firm and bright, But since the precept came With a convincing power and light, I find how vile I am. 3 [My guilt appear'd but small before, Till terribly I saw How perfect, holy, just, and pure, Was thine eternal law. 4 Then felt my soul the heavy load, My sins reviv'd again, I had provok'd a dreadful God, And all my hopes were slain.] 5 I'm like a helpless captive sold Under the power of sin; I cannot do the good I would, Nor keep my conscience clean. 6 My God, I cry with every breath For some kind power to save, To break the yoke of sin and death, And thus redeem the slave. Hymn 1:116. Love to God and our neighbour, Matt. 22. 37-40. 1 Thus saith the first, the great command, "Let all thy inward powers unite "To love thy Maker and thy God, "With utmost vigour and delight. 2 "Then shall thy neighbour next in place "Share thine affections and esteem, "And let thy kindness to thyself "Measure and rule thy love to him." 3 This is the sense that Moses spoke, This did the prophets preach and prove, For want of this the law is broke, And the whole law's fulfill'd by love. 4 But O! how base our passions are! How cold our charity and zeal! Lord, fill our souls with heavenly fire, Or we shall ne'er perform thy will. Hymn 1:117. Election sovereign and free, Rom. 9. 21 22 23 20. 1 Behold the potter and the clay, He forms his vessels as he please: Such is our God, and such are we, The subjects of his high decrees. 2 [Doth not the workman's power extend O'er all the mass, which part to choose, And mould it for a nobler end, And which to leave for viler use?] 3 May not the sovereign Lord on high Dispense his favours as he will, Choose some to life while others die, And yet be just and gracious still?