God of all power, and truth, and grace, thou hast increased

Verse 1
God of all power, and truth, and grace, (Pet. 5:10)
Thou hast increas’d the holy seed,
Thou hast increas’d the chosen race,
The souls from sin for ever freed. (Rom. 6:7, Rom. 6:18, Rom. 6:22)

Verse 2
Thou in thy saints art glorified, (Isa. 26:15, John 17:10, II Thess. 1:10, II Thess. 1:12)
Thou hast in them thine image shewn; (Rom. 8:29, II Cor. 3:18, Col. 3:10)
Shepherdless souls they wandred wide, (Num. 27:17, Isa. 53:6, Ezek. 34:5, Matt. 9:36, Matt. 18:12-13, Mark 6:34, Luke 15:4-7, I Pet. 2:25)
’Till call’d and perfected in one. (John 17:23)

Verse 3
All we like sheep have gone astray, (Ps. 119:176, Isa. 53:6, Matt. 18:12-13, Luke 15:4-7, I Pet. 2:25)
To earth’s remotest bounds remov’d, (Isa. 26:15)
’Till Jesus shew’d himself the way, (John 14:6, Heb. 10:20)
And kindly chasten’d whom he lov’d. (Deut. 8:5, Prov. 3:11-12, Heb. 12:6, Rev. 3:19)

Verse 4
To thee we in our trouble turn’d,
Constrain’d thy chastisements to bear, (Isa. 26:16, Heb. 12:7, Heb. 12:11)
We then our sin and folly mourn’d, (Jer. 31:18-19, II Cor. 7:10)
And pour’d out all our soul in prayer. (Isa. 26:16, I Sam. 1:15, Ps. 62:8)

Verse 5
As women, when their time draws nigh,
Cry out in sore distress, and pain, (Isa. 26:17, Jer. 4:31, Mic. 4:10, John 16:21)
So have we travail’d, in thine eye,
And struggled to be born again. (Isa. 26:17, Rom. 8:22, John 3:3, John 3:5, John 3:7, Gal. 4:19)

Verse 6
In anguish, agony, and grief,
For years our lab’ring souls have been, (Isa. 26:17-18)
Nor could we bring ourselves relief,
Nor could we save ourselves from sin. (Isa. 26:18)

Verse 7
Our toil, and strife avail’d us not, (Eph. 2:8-9, Tit. 3:5)
Abortive prov’d our hope, and vain, (Isa. 26:18)
For we have no deliverance wrought, (Isa. 26:18)
For yet we were not born again. (John 3:3, John 3:6-7, I Pet. 1:23)

Verse 8
The world did not before us fall, (Isa. 26:18)
We wanted still the victory,
The mighty faith that conquers all, (I John 5:4-5)
And makes the soul for ever free.

Verse 9
But they who sunk in self-despair,
Death’s sentence in themselves receive, (II Cor. 1:9)
The quickning voice divine shall hear, (Isa. 26:19, John 5:25, Eph. 2:1, Col. 2:13)
And dead with Christ, with Christ shall live. (Isa. 26:19, Rom. 6:8, Col. 2:12, Col. 3:3, II Tim. 2:11)

Verse 10
The Spi’rit that rais’d him from the dead,
My mortal body shall inspire, (Rom. 8:11)
Shall raise us all with Christ our head, (I Cor. 6:14, I Cor. 15:20-22, II Cor. 4:14, Eph. 1:22-23, Eph. 2:5-6, Col. 1:18, Col. 3:1)
And hallow and baptize with fire. (Matt. 3:11, Luke 3:16, Acts 2:3-4)

Verse 11
Awake and sing, ye souls that dwell (Isa. 26:19)
Indignant in the shade of death, (Isa. 9:2, Luke 1:79)
Our Lord, who burst the gates of hell, (Matt. 16:18, Rev. 1:18)
Shall bear you from the gulph beneath. (Ps. 40:2, Ps. 86:13, Hos. 13:14, Luke 16:26)

Verse 12
As herbs reviv’d by vernal dew
Spring from the earth, and flourish fair, (Isa. 26:19, Isa. 66:14, Hos. 14:5-7)
Ye all shall rise with verdure new,
And fruit unto perfection bear. (Luke 8:14)

Verse 13
The hour shall come, the gospel-hour, (John 5:25)
When all that wait, his power shall prove,
His resurrection’s glorious power, (Rom. 1:4, I Cor. 6:14, Eph. 1:19-20, Phil. 3:10)
And live the life of faith and love. (Gal. 2:20)

Verse 14
They from the death of sin shall rise, (Rom. 6:4, Rom. 6:13, Eph. 2:1, Eph. 2:5-6, Col. 2:12-13)
Preventing here the general doom, (I Thess. 4:15)
When Christ the Lord shall bow the skies, (II Sam. 22:10, Ps. 18:9, Ps. 144:5, I Thess. 4:16)
And all mankind to judgment come. (Matt. 25:31-32, John 5:28-29, Rom. 14:10, II Cor. 5:10, Heb. 9:27)

Verse 15
The earth shall then cast out its dead, (Isa. 26:19, Rev. 20:13)
While all who perish’d unforgiven,
Horribly lift their guilty head,
And rise, to be shut out from heaven. (Dan. 12:2, Matt. 25:10, Matt. 25:41, Luke 13:25, John 5:28-29)

Verse 16
Come, little flock (my people now (Isa. 26:20, Luke 12:32)
My Israel, if thy heart be clean) (Ps. 73:1, Rom. 2:28-29)
Enter into thy chamber thou,
Exclude the world, the hell of sin. (Isa. 26:20, Matt. 6:6)

Verse 17
Betake thee to the secret place,
Safe in my tabernacle rest, (Ps. 27:5, Ps. 61:3-4, Ps. 91:1)
O hide thee for a little space, (Isa. 26:20)
Be shelter’d in thy Saviour’s breast. (Isa. 40:11, John 13:23)

Verse 18
Rest, ’till the storm is all o’er-past, (Isa. 26:20, Ps. 57:1, Isa. 25:4)
For lo! The Lord from heaven shall come,
Judgment to execute at last, (Isa. 26:21, II Thess. 1:7-8, Jude 1:14-15)
And seal the guilty sinner’s doom.

Verse 19
The sea shall then its dead restore, (Rev. 20:13)
The earth shall then disclose her blood, (Isa. 26:21)
Shelter their carcases no more,
Or screen them from an angry God. (Amos 9:2-3)

Verse 20
Dragg’d from their graves, they then shall call (John 5:28-29)
On rocks their quickned dust t’ entomb,
And bid the burning mountains fall, (Deut. 32:22, Isa. 2:19, Hos. 10:8, Luke 23:30, Rev. 6:15-17, Rev. 8:8)
To hide them from the hell to come.

Verse 21
The wrath is come, the curse takes place, (Matt. 3:7, Matt. 25:41, I Thess. 1:10, Rev. 6:17, Rev. 11:18)
The slaves of sin receive their hire, (Rom. 6:23)
And punish’d from my glorious face, (II Thess. 1:9)
They sink into eternal fire. (Matt. 18:8, Matt. 25:41, Jude 1:7, Rev. 20:14-15)