195    L.M.     Samuel Medley
Grace Exalted in the New Birth. John 1. 13; James 1. 18

1 Assist my soul, my heavenly King,
  Thy everlasting love to sing;
  And joyful spread thy praise abroad,
  As one, through grace, that’s born of God.

2 [No, it was not the will of man
  My soul’s new heavenly birth began;
  Nor will nor power of flesh and blood
  That turned my heart from sin to God.]

3 Herein let self be all abased,
  And sovereign love alone confessed;
  This be my song through all the road,
  That born I am, and born of God.

4 O may this love my soul constrain
  To make returns of love again;
  That I, while earth is my abode,
  May live like one that’s born of God.

5 [May I thy praises daily show,
  Who hast created all things new,
  And washed me in a Saviour’s blood
  To prove that I’m a son of God.]

6 And when the appointed hour shall come,
  That thou wilt call me to my home,
  Joyful I’ll pass the chilling flood,
  And die as one that’s born of God.

7 Then shall my soul triumphant rise
  To its blest mansion in the skies;
  And in that glorious, bright abode,
  Sing then as one that’s born of God.