He who on the cross did suffer,
He who from the grave arose,
He has vanquished sin and Satan,
He by death has spoiled his foes.
3 While he lifts his hands in blessing,
He is parted from his friends;
While their eager eyes behold him,
He upon the clouds ascends;

He who walked with God, and pleased him,
Preaching truth and doom to come,
He, our Enoch, is translated

To his everlasting home.

4 Now our heavenly Aaron enters,
With his blood, within the veil;
Joshua now is come to Canaan,
And the kings before him quail;
Now he plants the tribes of Israel
In their promised resting-place;
Now our great Elijah offers

Double portion of his grace.

5 He has raised our human nature
In the clouds to God's right hand;
There we sit in heavenly places,
There with him in glory stand:
Jesus reigns, adored by angels;
Man with God is on the throne;
Mighty Lord, in thine ascension
We by faith behold our own.

6 TOLY Ghost, Illuminator,

Shed thy beams upon our eyes,
Help us to look up with Stephen,
And to see, beyond the skies,

Where the Son of man in glory
Standing is at God's right hand,
Beckoning on his martyr army,
Succouring his faithful band;

7 See him, who is gone before us
Heavenly mansions to prepare,
See him, who is ever pleading
For us with prevailing prayer,
See him, who with sound of trumpet
And with his angelic train,
Summoning the world to judgment,
On the clouds will come again.

8 Raise us up from earth to heaven,
Give us wings of faith and love,
Gales of holy aspirations

Wafting us to realms above;
That, with hearts and minds uplifted,
We with Christ our Lord may dwell,
Where he sits enthroned in glory
In his heavenly citadel.

9 So at last, when he appeareth,

We from out our graves may spring,
With our youth renewed like eagles,
Flocking round our heavenly King,
Caught up on the clouds of heaven,
And may meet him in the air,
Rise to realms where he is reigning,
And may reign for ever there.

The following Doxology may be sung at the end of either part.

Glory be to God the Father;

Glory be to God the Son,

Dying, risen, ascending for us,

Who the heavenly realm has won;

Glory to the Holy Spirit;

To One God in Persons Three Glory both in earth and heaven, Glory, endless glory be. Amen.

6-8 s.

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1 CINNERS, rejoice: your peace is made;

SINN

Your Saviour on the cross hath bled:

Your God, in Jesus reconciled,

On all his works again hath smiled;
Hath grace through him and blessing given,
To all in earth and all in heaven.

2 Angels rejoice in Jesu's grace,
And vie with man's more favoured race;
The blood that did for us atone,

Conferred on them some gift unknown;
Their joy through Jesu's pains abounds,
They triumph by his glorious wounds.

3 Or, stablished and confirmed by him
Who did our lower world redeem,
Secure they keep their blest estate,
Firm on an everlasting seat;
Or, raised above themselves, aspire,
In bliss improved, in glory higher.

4 Him they beheld our conquering God,
Returned with garments rolled in blood!
They saw, and kindled at the sight,
And filled with shouts the realms of light;
With loudest hallelujahs met,

And fell, and kissed his bleeding feet.

5 They saw him in the courts above, With all his recent prints of love;

The wounds, the blood! they heard its voice,. That heightened all their highest joys;

They felt it sprinkled through the skies,
And shared that better sacrifice.

6 Not angel-tongues can e'er express
The unutterable happiness;

Nor human hearts can e'er conceive
The bliss wherein through Christ they live,
But all your heaven, ye glorious powers,
And all your God, is doubly ours!

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[AIL, thou once despised Jesus!
Hail, thou Galilean King!
Thou didst suffer to release us;
Thou didst free salvation bring.
Hail, thou agonizing Saviour,
Bearer of our sin and shame!
By thy merits we find favour;
Life is given through thy name.

2 Paschal Lamb, by God appointed,
All our sins on thee were laid;
By almighty love anointed,

Thou hast full atonement made;
All thy people are forgiven

Through the virtue of thy blood;
Opened is the gate of heaven,

Peace is made 'twixt man and God.

3 Jesus, hail! enthroned in glory,
There for ever to abide:

All the heavenly host adore thee,
Seated at thy Father's side;
There for sinners thou art pleading,
There thou dost our place prepare,
Ever for us interceding,

Till in glory we appear.

4 Worship, honour, power, and blessing,
Thou art worthy to receive;
Loudest praises without ceasing,
Meet it is for us to give.
Help, ye bright, angelic spirits!
Bring your sweetest, noblest lays;
Help to sing our Saviour's merits;
Help to chant Immanuel's praise.

2-6s & 4-7 s. The Forerunner.-Heb. vi. 20.

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JESUS,

ESUS, to thee we fly,
thee for help rely;

Thou our only refuge art,

Thou dost all our fears control,
Rest of every troubled heart,

Life of every dying soul.

2 We lift our joyful eyes,
And see the dazzling prize,
See the purchase of thy blood,
Freely now to sinners given;
Thou the living way hast showed,
Thou to us hast opened heaven.

3 We now, divinely bold,
Of thy reward lay hold;
All thy glorious joy is ours,

All the treasures of thy love;
Now we taste the heavenly powers,
Now we reign with thee above.

4 Our anchor sure and fast
Within the veil is cast;
Stands our never-failing hope
Grounded in the holy place;
We shall after thee mount up,
See the Godhead face to face.

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