Hymn 7, “The Invitation of the Gospel”, from Hymns and Spiritual Songs in Three Books, by Isaac Watts, English Congregational Minister and Hymn writer (1674 \u2013 1748).<\/p>\n
The music for this reading is \u201cStyle<\/a>\u201d by Borrtex<\/a> and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0)<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let every mortal ear attend,<\/span><\/p>\n And every heart rejoice;<\/span><\/p>\n The trumpet of the gospel sounds<\/span><\/p>\n With an inviting voice.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lo! all ye hungry, starving souls.<\/span><\/p>\n That feed upon the wind,<\/span><\/p>\n And vainly strive with earthly toys<\/span><\/p>\n To fill an empty mind.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Eternal Wisdom has prepared<\/span><\/p>\n A soul-reviving feast,<\/span><\/p>\n And bids your longing appetites<\/span><\/p>\n The rich provision taste.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ho! ye that pant for living streams,<\/span><\/p>\n And pine away and die,<\/span><\/p>\n here you may quench your raging thirst<\/span><\/p>\n With springs that never dry.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rivers of love and mercy here<\/span><\/p>\n In a rich ocean join;<\/span><\/p>\n Salvation in abundance flows,<\/span><\/p>\n Like floods of milk and wine.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [Ye perishing and naked poor,<\/span><\/p>\n Who work with mighty pain<\/span><\/p>\n To weave a garment of your own<\/span><\/p>\n That will not hide your sin,<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Come naked, and adorn your souls<\/span><\/p>\n In robes prepared by God,<\/span><\/p>\n Wrought by the labors of his Son,<\/span><\/p>\n And dyed in his own blood.]<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dear God! the treasures of thy love<\/span><\/p>\n Are everlasting mines,<\/span><\/p>\n Deep as our helpless miseries are,<\/span><\/p>\n And boundless as our sins.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The happy gates of gospel grace<\/span><\/p>\n Stand open night and day;<\/span><\/p>\n Lord, we are come to seek supplies,<\/span><\/p>\n And drive our wants away.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hymn 7, “The Invitation of the Gospel”, from Hymns and Spiritual Songs in Three Books, by Isaac Watts, English Congregational Minister and Hymn writer (1674 \u2013 1748). The music for this reading is \u201cStyle\u201d by Borrtex and was adapted for length under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Let every mortal ear attend,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":1,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[684],"tags":[680],"class_list":["post-12333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-unsung-hymns-podcast","tag-devotional","post_format-post-format-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/TUHP-Post_Image_800HX500H.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12335,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12333\/revisions\/12335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronniebrown.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}