RANSOM.
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him.—Psalm xlix. 6, 7.
And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.—Isaiah, xxxv. 10.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.—I. Timothy, ii. 5, 6.
Ere the third dawning light
Return, the stars of morn shall see Him rise,
The ransom paid which man from death redeems
His death for man.
Milton.
Lord of every land and nation,
Ancient of eternal days,
Sounded through the wide creation
Be Thy just and lawful praise.
Brightness of Thy Father’s glory,
Shall Thy praise unuttered be?
Fly my tongue, such guilty silence,
Sing the Lord who came to die!
From the highest throne of glory,
To the cross of deepest woe;
All to ransom guilty sinners:
Flow, thy praise, for ever, flow!
Robinson.
The ransomed shout to their glorious King,
Where no sorrow shades the soul as they sing;
But a sinless and joyless song they raise,
And their voice of prayer is eternal praise.
Henry Ware, Jr.
Blessed are the sons of God;
They are bought with Jesu’s blood,
They are ransom’d from the grave,
Life eternal they shall have:
With them number’d may we be,
Now and through eternity!
Humphreys.