In envy or contention live,
Presume that they indeed believe ?
6 True faith unites to Christ the root,
By him producing holy fruit ;
And they who no such fruit can show,
Still on the stock of nature grow.
7 Lord, let thy word effectual prove
To work in us obedient love !
And may each one who hears it, dread
A name to live, and yet be dead.
SIMILAR HYMNS.
Book 1. Hymns 8, 20, 85, 87, 91, 104, 12 , 139, 141.
Book II. Hymns 34, 49, 86, 91, 99.
VII. PRAISE.
80.
Praise for Faith. C.
1 OF all the gifts thine hand bestows,
Thou Giver of all good!
Not heaven itself a richer knows,
Than my Redeemer s blood.
2 Faith too, the blood-receiving grace,
From the same hand we gain ;
Else, sweetly as it suits our case,
That gift had been in vain.
3 Till thou thy teaching power apply,
Our hearts refuse to see,
And, weak as a distemper d eye,
Shut out the view of thee.
4 Blind to the merits of thy Son,
What misery we endure !
Yet fly that hand from which alone
We could expect a cure.
