A COLLECTION
H Y M N.S,
For the use of the
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH,
Principally from Uie col lection of
THE REV. JOHN WESLEY, A.M.
LaU Fellow of Liiuxln College, Oxford.
REVISED AND CORRECTED.
WITH A SUPPLEMENT.
" I will sisis unto the Lord as Ion? as I live : I
will sins praise uuto my GoJ while I have my
beiii?," Ps:ilm civ, 33.
" 1 will sing witli the spirit, and I vi-ill sing w'tb
the understanding alsu," 1 Cor. xiv, 15.
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To
The Members and Friends
OF THE
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
THE Hymnbook heretofore in use among ni
tas been thoujht by many to be defective, partly
on account of the mutilated state of many of the
bymns, and partly because of its being divided
into two books. To remedy these inconveniences,
measures have been adopted to prepare a revised
edition of our Hymnbook, siAh a one as should
exclude the defects and retain the excellences of
the one heretofore published. This revised edition
we now present to you.
The greater part of the hymns contained in the
former selection are retained in this, and several
from Wesley's and Coke's collections, not before
published in this country, are added. The prin-
cipal improvements which have been made, consist
in restoring those which had been altered, as is
believed for the worse, to their original state, as
Ibey came from the poetical pen of the Wesleys ;
(or the following hymus were, except a fsw whicb
have been taken from other authors, composed by
the Rev. John and Charles Wesley ; names that
will ever be held dear and in high estimation by
every lover of sacred poetry.
The fojowing hymns, arranged under their ap-
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for publication.
In presenting this revised Hymnbook to you fo>
your use, we humbly trust that we are putting intr
your hands one of the choicest selections of evari
gelical hymns, suitable for private devotion, as weJJ
as for family, social, and public worship, by whid-
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procure our Hymnbooks," will be stopped.
We exhort you to sing with the spirit and with
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praises of GOD be sent up from east to west, from
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mental in leading the devotion of thousands, and
(hall rejoice to join you in time and eternity.
We are, dear brethren.
Tour faithful pastors in Christ,
JOSHUA SOULE,
ELIJAH HEDDIXa,
JAMES 0. ANDREW,
BEVERLY WAUGH,
THO^LiS A. MORRIS,
LEO>'IDAS L. HAMLINE,
EDMUND S. JAXES.
NOTICE.
IN this improved edition of the Methodiat
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as contained in the Methodist Harmonist, are
named at the head of each hymn, together with
the page of the Harmonist at which the tuiie
may be found. The page of the Harmonirt is
signified by the letter " p." following the name
of the tune. The hymns are numbered as hereto*
fore, but the word hymn is left out.
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COLLECTION OF HYMNS.
AWAKENING AND INVITING.
1 Majesty— p. 49.] C. M.
FIRST PART.
f\ FOR a thousand tongues to sing
^-' My ^at Redeemer's praise !
The glories of my God and K.inj,
The triuniplis of bis grace !
2 My gracious Master, and my God,
Assist me to proclaim,
To spread through all the earth abroad
The honours of thy name.
3 Jesus ! the name that charms oar fean.
That bids our sorrows cease;
Tis music in the sinner's ean,
'TIS life, and health, and peace.
4 He breaks the power of cancell'd sin,
He sets the pris'ner free ;
His blood can make the foulest clean ;
His blood avail'd for me.
5 He speaks — and, listening to hij voice,
New life the dead receive ;
The mournful, broken hearts rejoice;
The bumble poor believe.
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6 H-ar him, ye deaf; bis praise, ye dumb,
Yoiir loosen'J tonjiics employ ;
Ye bliDii. behold y"ur Saviour come,
And leap, ye lauie, for joy.
SECOND PART.
LOOK unto Hill), ye nations j.oivn
Your God, ye fallen race ;
Look, and be saved through faith alone.
Be justified by g-race.
2 See all your sins on Jesus laid:
The Lamb of God was slain :
His soul was once an olfijriDg made
For every soul of man.
3 Awake from ^ilty nature's sleep,
And Christ shall give you light;
Cast all yo«ir sins into the deep,
And wash llie Ethiop while.
4 With me, yoiir chief, ye then shall know.
Shall feel your sins forgiven ;
Anticipate your heaven below.
And own that love is heaven.
2 Calvary— x>. 237.] Sth P. M. 87, 87, 47.
COME, ye sinners, poor and needy,
Weak and wounded, sick and sore,
Jesus ready stands to save you.
Full of pity, love, and power;
He is able.
He is willing, doubt no more.
2 Now, ye needy, come and welcome,,
God's free bounty glorify:
True belief and tnie r. pentance,
Every grace that brings you nigh;
Withovit money
Come to Jesus Christ and buy.
AND INVITING.
3 Let not conscience make you linger ,
Nor of fitness fondly dream :
All the fitness he requireth
Is to feel your need of him ;
This he gives you,
'Tis the Siurit's glimm'ring beam.
4 Come, ye weary, heavy-laden.
Bruised and manded by the fall,
If you tarry till you're better,
Vou will never come at all ;
Not the righteous,
Sinners Jesus came to call.
6 Agonizing in the garden,
Lo! your Maker prostrate lies !
On the bloody tree behold him 1
Hear him cry before he dies,
" It is finish'd !"
Sinners, will not this suffice ?
6 Lo ! th' incarnate God ascending,
Pleads the merit of his blood ;
Venture on him, venture freely;
Let no other trust intrude :
None but Jesus ■
Can do helpless sinners good.
7 Saints and angels, joiu'd in concert,
Sing the praises of the Lamb,
While the blissful seats of heaven
Sweetlv echo with his came:
Hallelujah!
Smners here may do the same.
Forest— J,. 76.] L. M.
/^OME, sinners, to the gospel feast,
^ Let every soul be Jesus' guest :
Ye need not one be left behind,
For God bath bidden all mankind.
1*
10 AWAKENING
2 Sent by my Lord, on you I call ;
The invitation is to all :
Come, all the world ! come, sinner, thou 1
All things iu Christ are ready now.
3_ Come, all ye souls by sin oppress'd,
Ye restless wand'rers after rest ;
Ye poor, and maim'd, and halt, and blind,
In Christ a hearty welcome find.
4 My message as from God receive ;
Ye all may come to Christ and live:
O let his love your hearts constrain,
Nor suffer him to die in vain !
5 His love is miglitv to compel ;
Hisconq'ring love consent to feel :
Yield to his love's resistless power,
And fight against your God no more.
6 See him set forth before your eyes,
That precious, bleeding sacrifice!
His offer'd benefits embrace,
And freely now be saved by grace '.
7 This is the time, no more delay!
This is the acceptable day ;
Come in this moment at his call,
And live for him who died for all.
4 Senevento—p. 2iH.] 7th P. M. 8 Unci It,
<;^INNERS, turn, why will ye die?
'■-' God, your Maker, asks you why !
God, who did your being give,
Made ynu with himself to live,
He the fatal cause flemands,
Ajks the work of his own hands.
Why, ye thankless creatures, why
Will ye MOM hu Im9, and die i
AND INVITING. 11
2 Sinners, turn, why will ye die ?
God, your Saviour, asks you why !
God, who did your souls retrieve,
Died himself that ye might live.
Will you let him die in vain ?
Crucify your Lord again ?
Why, ye ransom'd siuners, why
Will ye slight his grace, and die?
3 Sinners, turn, why will ye die?
God, the Spirit, asks you why !
He who all your lives hath strove,
Woo'd you to embrace his love :
Will ye not his grace receive ?
Will ye still refuse to live?
Why, you long-sought sinners, why
Will you grieve your God, and die?
4 Deadalready, deid within,
Spiritually dead in sin :
Dead to God, while here you breathe ;
Pant you after second death ?
Will you still in sin remain,
Greedy of eternal pain ?
O, ye dying sinners, why.
Why will ye for ever die ?
5 Alfreton—^. 77.] li. M.
FIRST PART.
OINNERS, obey the gospel word !
*^ Haste to the supper of my Lord;
Be wise to know yourgracious day ;
All things are ready, come away '.
2 Ready the Father is to own.
And kiss his late-returning son ;
Ready your loving Saviour stands,
And spreads for you his bleeding bands.
12 AWAKENING
3 Ready the Spirit of his love,
Just now the stony to remove;
T' apply and witness with the blood.
And wash and seal the sons of God.
4 Ready for you the angels wait,
To triumph m your blest estate :
Tunmg their harps, they Ion- to praise
The wonders of redeeming grace.
6 The Father, Son. and Holy Ghost.
•A.^e '^ady with their shining host :
AM heaven is ready to resound,
The dead's alive! the lost is found !"
TVayland—p. 82.] SECOND PART.
CO>fEj then, ye sinners, to vour Lortl.
in Christ to paradise restored :
His proffer'd benefits embrace,
The plenitude of gospel grace.
2 A pardon written with his blood,
i he favour and the peace of God:
The seeing eye, the feeling sense,
u he mystic joys of penitence.
3 The godly fear, the pleasing smart,
The meltings of a broken heart;
The teap that tell your sins forgiven ;
The sighs that waft your soub to heaven.
4 The guiltless shame, the sweet distress.
The unutterable tenderness :
The genuine, meek humility ;
The wonder, « Why such love to me ."»
5 Th' o'erwhelming nower of saving grace.
The sight that veils t>.e seraph's facif ^
The speechless awe that dares not move.
And all the silent heaven of love.
AND INVITING. 13
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■p LOW ye the trumpet, blow,
■'-' The gladly solemn sound J
Let all the nations know,
To earth's remotest bound^
Tie year of jubilee is come ;
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.
2 Jesus, our ereat hijh priest.
Hath full atonement made :
Te weary spirits, rest,
Ye mournful souls, be glad ;
The yearof jubilee is come;
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.
3 Extol the Lamb of God,
The all-atoning Lamb ;
Redemption in his blood
Throushout the world proclaim •
The year of jubilee is come j
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.
4 Teslavesof sin and hell,
■^ Your liberty receive,
And safe in Jesus dwell,
And blest in Jesus lire;
The year of jubilee is come ;
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.
5 Ye who have sold for naught
Your heritage above.
Shall have it back unbought.
The gift of Jesus' love ;
The year of jubilee is come j
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.
6 The gospel trumpet hear.
The news of heavenly grace ;
And, saved frsm earth, appear
Before your Saviour's face ;
14 AWAKENING
The year of jubilee is come ;
Return, ye ransom'd sinuere, home.
7 Confidence— -p. 285.] 13th P. M. 10 10, U 11.
Q ALL (hat pass by, to Jesus draw near :
^^ He utters a cry, ye sinners, give ear !
From hell to retrieve you, he spreads oat Ml
hands ;
Now, now to receive you, he graciously stands.
2 If any man thirst, and happy would be.
The vilest and worst may come unto me :
May drink of my Spirit, excepted is none,
Lay claim to my merit, and tal£e for his own.
3 Whoever receives the life-giving word,
In Jesus believes, his God and his Lord ;
In him a pure river of life shall arise,
Shall in the believer spring up to the skies.
4 My God and my Lord ! thy call I obey;
My soul on thy word of promise I stay :
Thy kind invitation I gladly embrace,
Athirst for salvation, salvation by grace,
5 O hasten the hour, send down from above
The Spirit of power, of health, and of love :
Of filial fear, of knowledsje and grace ;
Of wisdom and prayer, of joy and of praise :
6 The Spirit of faith, of faith in thy blood,
nhich saves us from wrath, and brings ns to
God;
Removes the huge mountain of indwelling sin.
And opens a fountain that washes us clean.
8 Co/J/Wcnce— p. 285.] 13th P. M. 10 10, 11 IL
'pHY faithfulness, Lord, each moment we find,
* So true to thy word, so loving and kind :
AND INVITING. 15
Thy mercy so tender to all the lost race,
The vilest ofl'ender may turn and find grace.
2 The mercy I feel, to others I show,
I set to my seal that Jesus is true :
Yr all may find favour, who come at his call,
O come to my Saviour, his grace is for all.
S To save what was lost from heaven he came ;
Come, sinners, and trust in Jesus's name !
He offers you pardon ; he bids you be free ;
" If sin be your burden, 0 come unto me !"
4 0 let me commend my Saviour to you ;
The publican's friend, and advocate too :
For you he is pleading his merits and death;
With God interceding for simmers beneath.
5 Then let us submit his grace to receive :
Fall down at his feet, and gladly believe :
We all are forgiven for Jesus's sake :
Our title to heaven, his merits we take.
9 Eeaiany—i>. 217.] 6th P. M. 6 lines 78.
rEARY souls that wander wide
From the central point of bliss,
Turn to Jesus crucified,
Fly to those dear wounds of his ;
Sink into the purple flood j
Rise into the life of God.
W^
2 Find in Christ the way of peace,
Peace unspeakable, unknown !
By his pain he gives you ease,
Life by his expiring groan ;
Rise exalted by his fall,
Find in Christ your all in all.
3 Obelitve the recojrd true,
God to you bit Son bath girva ;
16 AWAKENINO
Ye nay now be happy too,
FinJ on earth the life of heaven:
Livn the life of heaveu above,
AI he life of glorious love.
4 This the universal bliss,
Bliss for every soul desi^n'd ;
God's original promise this,
God's great gift to all mankind.
Blest ia Christ this moment be,
Blest to all eternity 1
10 Soward—p. 1.] C. M..
T OVERS of pleasure more than God,
■^ For you he suifer'd pain:
Swearers, for you he spilt his blood;
And shall he bleed in vain ?
2 Misers, his life for you he paid,
Your basest crimes he bore ;
Drunkards, your sins on him were laid,
That you might sin no more.
3 The God of love, to earth he came,
That you might come to heaven:
Believe, believe in Jesus' name.
And all your sin "s forgiven.
4 Believe in him who died for thee.
And sure as he hath died,
Thy debt is paid, thy soul is free.
And thou art justified.
1 J Bromley— p. 95.] L. M.
A WAKE, Jerusalem, awake,
■"■ No longer in thy sins lie dowTi:
The garmeiit of salvation take,
Tl^ bMuty tad thy itrength ptit oo.
AND INVITING. 17
2 Shake off llie dust that blinds thy sight,
Aud hides the promise from thine eyes ;
Arise, and stru^zle into li^ht,
The great Deliverer calls, Arise !
3 Shake off the bands of sad despair,
Sion, assert thy liberty ;
Look lip, thy broken heart prepare,
And God shall set the captive free.
4 Vessels of mercy, sons of ^ace,
Be purged from every sinful stain.
Be like your Lord, his word embrace,
Nor bear his hallow'd name in vain.
5 The Lord shall in your front appear,
And lead the pompous triumph on;
His glory shall bring up the rear,
And perfect what his grace begun.
12 ^isAap— p. 73.] L.M.
"LTO! every one that 'hirsts, draw nigh,
■"■ 'Tis God invites the fallen race;
Mercy and free sahation buy,
Buy wine, and milk, and gospel grace.
2 Come to the living waters, cornel
Sinners, obey your Maker's call ;
" Return, ye weary wand'rers, home.
And find my grace is free for all."
3 See from the Rock a fountain rise;
For you in healing streams it rolls;
Money ye need not bring, nor price,
Ye lab'ring, burdeu'd, sin-sick souls.
4 Nothing ye in exchange shall give.
Leave all you have, and are, behind
Frankly the gilt of God receive.
Pardon and peace in Jesus find.
18 AWAKENING
5 " Why seek ye that which is not bread.
Nor can your hungry souls sustain ?
On ashes, husks, and air ye feed ;
Ye spend your little ali in vain.
6 '• In search of empty joys below,
Ye toil witli unavailing strife:
Whither, ah ! wlii'.her would ye go?
1 have the words of endless life.
7 " Hearken to me with earnest care,
And freely eat substantial food ;
The sweetness of my mercy share ;
And taste that I alone am ^ood.
8 " I bid you all my goodness prove.
My promises for all are free :
Come, taste the manna of my love,
And let your souls delight in me.
9 " Your willing ear and heart incline,
My words believinely receive;
Qiiicken'd your souls by faith divine,
An everlasting life shall live."
13 Porma— p. 25.] C. M.
T ET every mortal ear attend,
■" And every heart rejoice;
The trumpet of the gospel sounds
With an inviting voice.
2 Ho! all ye hungry, starving souls,
That feed upon the wind.
And vainly strive with earthly toys
To fill an empty mind ;
3 Eternal Wisdom hath prepared
A soul-reviving fe.-ust,
And bids your longing appetites
The rich provision taste.
AND INVITING. 19
4 Ho ! ye that pant for living streams,
And pine away and die,
Here you may quench your raging thirst
With springs that never dry.
5 Rivers of love and mercy here '
In a rich ocean join ;
Salvation in abundance flows,
Like floods of milk and wine.
6 The happy gates of gospel grace
Stand open night and day:
Lord, we are come to seek supplies,
And drive our wants away.
14 Edgefield— p. 252.] 7th P. M. 8 /in« 7s.
FIRST PART.
T ET the heasts their breath resign,
■*-' Strangers to the life divine;
Who their God can never know,
Let their spirits downward go.
Ye for higher ends were born;
Ye may all to God return :
Dwell with him above the sky :
Why will ye for ever die ?
2 Ye on whom he favours showers,
Ye, possess'd of nobler powers ;
Ye, of reason's powers posseis'd ;
Ye, with will and mem'ry bless'd ;
Ye, with finer sense endued,
Creatures capable of God :
Noblest of his creatures, why,
Why will ye for ever die ?
3 Ye, who own his record true;
Ye, his chosen people too ;
Ye, who call the Saviour, Lord,
Ye, who read his written word ;
20 AWAKENING
Ye, who see the gospel lijlit,
Chini a crown in Jesus' right;
Why will ye, ye Christians, why
Will the house of Israel die ?
Brown— 1>.226.-\ SECOND PART. 7th P.M. 8 7«.
WHAT could your Redeemer do,
More than he hath done for yon ?
To procure your peace with God,
Could he more than shed his blood ?
After all his tlo-.v of love.
All his drawings from above,
Why will ye your Lord deny ?
Why will ye resolve to die ?
2 Turn, he cries, ye sinners, turn :
By his life your God hath sworn,
He would have you turn and live,
He would all the world receive;
If your death were his delight.
Would he you to life invite?
Would he ask, beseech, and cry,
Why will ye resolve to die ?
3 Sinners, turn, while God is near:
Dare not think him insincere:
Now, e'en now, your Saviour stands.
All day long he spreads his hands;
Cries, " Ye will not happy be ;
No, ye will not come to me, —
Me, who life to none deny ;
Why will ye resolve to die ?"
4 Can ye doubt if God is love ?
If to all his bowels move ?
Will ve not his ivard receive?
Will ye not his OATH believe?
Ses, the suffering God appears;
Jesus weeps, believe his tears !
AND INVITING. 81
Mingled with his blood they cry,
" Why will ye resolve to die 5"
15 Fremmington — p. 16".] 1st P.M. 6 Zt?i« Ss.
QEE, sinners, in the gospel plass,
*^ The Frieud and Saviour of mankind I
Not one of all th' apostate race,
But may in him salvation find !
His thoughts, and words, and actions prove,
His life and death — that God is love.
2 Behold the Lamb of God, who bears
The sins of all the world away !
A servant's form he meekly wears,
He sojourns in a house of ciay j
His slory is no longer seen,
But God with God, is man with men.
3 See where the God incarnate stands,
And calls his wand'ring creatures home;
He all day long spreads out his hands ;
Come, wear)' souls, to Jesus come !
Te all may hide you in his breast ;
Believe, and he will give you rest.
4 "Ah ! do not of my goodness doubt,
!My saving grace for all is free j
I will in no wise cast him out
That comes a sinner unto me :
I can to none myself deny ;
Why, sinners, wiil ye perish, why ?"
1 6 Omnipoteiice^p. 168.] 1st P. M. 6 linct Ss.
QJINNERS. believe the gospel word,
'^ Jesus is come your souls to save !
Jesus is come, your common Lord ;
Pardon ye all through hijn may have;
May now be saved whoever will ■
This man receivetb sinners still.
22 AWAKENING
2 See where the lame, the half, the blind,
The deaf, the dumb, the sick, the poor,
Jlock to the Friend of human kind,
And freely all accept their curei
To whom did he his help deny?
Whom, iu his days of flesh, pass by ?
3 Did not his word the fiends expel,
The lepers cleanse, and raise the dead ?
Did be not all their sickness heal,
And satisfy their every need It
Did he reject his helpless clay.
Or send them sorrowful away ?
4 Nay, but his bowels yearn'd to see
The people hun^y, scatter'd, faint;
Nay, but he utter'd over thee,
Jerusalem, a true complaint ;
Jerusalem, who shedd'st his blood.
That with his tears for thee bath flow'd.
17 Peckham— p. 119.] S. M.
OINNERS, the call obey,
^ The latest call of grace:
The day is come, the vengeful day
Of a devoted race :
Devils and men combine
To plague the faithless seed.
And vials full of wrath divine
Are bursting on your head.
2 Enter into the Rock,
Ye treniblii.^ slaves of sin.
The Rock of your sah-ation, Blmck,
And cleft to take you in:
To shelter Uie distress'd
He did the cross endure ;
Enter into the clefts, and rest
In Jesus' \v<)und» secure.
AND INVITING. 23
3 Jesus, to thee we fly
From the devouring sword ;
Our city of defence is nigh ;
Our help is in the Lord,
Or if the scourge o'erflow,
And laueh at innocence,
Thine everlasting arms, we know,
Shall be our souls' defence.
4 We in thy word believe,
And on thy promise stay ;
Our life, which still to thee we give,
Shall be to us a prey :
Our life with thee we hide
Above the furious blast,
And shelter'd in thy wounds abide
Till all the storms are past.
5 Believing against hope,
We hang upon thy grace.
Through ev'ry low'ring cloud look up.
And wait for happy days :
The days when all shall know
Their sins in Christ forgiven.
And walk awhile with God below,
And then fly up to heaven.
18 Confidence— p.2So.-i I3th P.M. 1010, II 11.
YE thirsty for God, To Jesus give ear,
And take, through his blood, A pow'r to draw
near;
Hb kind invitation. Ye sinners, embrace.
Accepting salvation. Salvation by grace.
2 Sent down from above. Who governs the skie^
In vehement love. To sinners he cries,
" Drink into my spirit. Who happy would be,
And all things laberit, By coming to me."
24 AWAKENING
3 0 Saviour of all, Thy word we believe,
And conje at thy call, T!iy grace to receive :
The blessing is ^iven Wherpver thou art :
The earnest of heaven Is love in the heart.
4 To us at thy feel. The Cnmforler give :
Who gisp to adiiiit Thy Spirit, and live ;
The wt-aktst believers Acknowledsje for thine,
Aud fill us with rivers Of water divine!
1 9 Magdalen— p. 84.] L. M.
T ORD, we are vile, conceived in sin,
■'-' And born unholy and unclean ;
Sprune from the njau whose guilty fall
Corrupts bis race, and taints us all.
2 Soon as we draw our infaht breath,
The seeds of sin grow up for death ;
Thy 1.1 \v den.ands a perfect heart.
But we Ye defiled in tver)' parL
3 Great God, create my heart anew,
And form my spirit pure and true ;
0 make me wise betimes to see
My danger and my remedy.
4 ISehold, I fall before thy face;
Wy only refuse is thy grace:
No outward forms can m^ke me clean ;
The leprosy lies deep within.
5 No bleeding bird, nor bleeding beast.
Nor hyssop branch, nor sprinkling priest,
Nor running brook, nor fiood, nor sea,
Can wash the dismal stain away.
6 Jesus, my God, thy blood alone
Hath power suflicicnt to alone;
Thy blood can make me white as snow ;
No Jewish types could cleanse me so.
AND INVITING. 25
7 While guilt disturbs and breaks my peace,
Nor flesh nor soul hath rest or ease ;
Lord, let me hear thy pardoning voice,
And make my broken heart rejoice.
30 AHington—p. 3.] C. M.
CINNERS, the voice of God regard ;
•^ 'Tis mercy speaks to-day ;
He calls you by his sacred word
From sin's destructive way.
2 Like the rough sea that cannot rest,
Ton live, devoid of peace ;
A thousand stings within your breast
Deprive your souls of ease.
S Tour way is dark, and leads to death :
Why will you persevere ?
Can you in endless torments breathe,
Shut up in black despair ?
4 Why will you in the naked way«
Of sin and folly go ?
In pain you travel all your days.
To reap eternal wo.
5 But he that turns to God shall live.
Through his al)Ounding grace :
His mercy will the guilt forgive
Of those that seek'his face.
6 Bow to the sceptre of his word,
Renouncing every sin, i
Submit to him, your sovereign Lord,
And learn his will divine.
SI Woodland— p. 13.] C. M.
'pHOU Son of God, whose flaming eye*
■*• Our inmost thoughts perceive,
2
26 AWAKENING
Accept the evenia? sacrifice
Which now to thee we give.
2 We bow before thy gracious throne.
And think ourselves sincere :
But show us. Lord, is every one
Thy real worshipper?
3 Is here a soul that knows thee not.
Nor feels his want of theej
A stranger to the blood which bongbt
His pardon on the tree ?
4 Convince him now of unbelief,
His desperate state explain :
And fill his heart with sacred grief,
And penitential pain.
5 Speak with that voice that wakes the daad,
And bid the sleeper rise ;
And bid his guilty conscience dread
The death that never dies.
6 Extort the cry, " What must be done
To save a wretch like me ?
How shall a trembling sinner shun
That endless misery ?
7 " I must this instant now begin
Out of my sleep to wake,
And turn to God, and every sin
Continually forsake.
8 " I must for faith incessant cry,
And wrestle, Lord, with thee ;
I must be born a^ain, or die
To all eternity !"
23 RandaO—p. 16.] C. M.
p»OME,.0 thou all-victorious Lord,
^ Thy power to us make known ;
AND INVITING. 37
Strike with the hammer of thy word,
And break these hearts of stone.
2 0 that we all might now begin
Our foolishness to mourn !
And turn at once from every sin,
And to the Saviour turn.
3 Give us ourselves and thee to know,
In this our gracious day;
Repentance unto life bestow,
And take our sins away.
4 Convince us first of unbelief.
And freely then release ;
Fill every soul with sacred grief.
And then with sacred peace.
5 Impov'rish, Lord, and then relieve,
And then enrich the poor ;
The knowledge of our sickness give.
The knowledge of our cure.
6 That blessed sense of guilt impart,
And then remove the load ;
Trouble, and wash the troubled heart
In the atoning blood.
7 Our desp'rate state, through sin, declare,
And speak our sins forgiven:
By perfect holiness prepare,
And take us up to heaven.
23 GreemoaJk—Tp. 69.] C. M.
O^ERRIBLE thought ! shall I alone,
-*• Who may be saved, shall I,
Of all, alas ! whom 1 have known,
Through sin for evtr die ?
2 While all my old comp:jiiou3 dear,
With whom I once did live,
38 PENITENTIAL.
Joyful at God's right hand appear,
A blessing to receive.
3 Shall I, amidst a ghastly band,
Dragg'd to tl>e judemeu't seat,
Far on the left with horror stand,
My fearful doom to meet ?
4 Ah ! no ; — I still may turn and live,
For still his n rath delays;
He now vouchsafes a kind reprieve,
And offers me his grace.
5 I will accept his offers now:
From every sin depart ;
Perform my oft-repeated vow,
And render him my heart.
6 I will improve what I receive,
The grace through Jesus given;
Sure, if with God on earth I live,
To live with God in heaven.
PENITENTIAL.
24 N. JTm^noood— p.278.] 12th P.M.76.76,78,7«.
LA^rB of God, for sinners slain,
To thee I humbly pray ;
Heal me of my grief and pain,
0 take my sins away !
From this bondage, Lord, release :
No longer let me be oppress'd:
Jesus, Mister, seal my peace.
And take me to thy breast !
2 Wilt thon casta sinner out.
Who humbly comet to tbee!
PENITENTIAL. 29
No, my God, I cannot doubt
Thy mercy is for me :
Let me then obtain the grace,
And be of paradise possess'd ;
Jesus, Master, seal my peace.
And take me to thy breast !
3 Worldly good I do not want;
Be that to others given :
Only for thy love I pant ;
My all in earth or heaven ;
This is the crown I fain would seize,
The £;ood wherewith 1 would be blest :
Jesus, Master, seal my peace.
And take me to thy breast !
4 This delight I fain would prove,
And then resign my breath ;
Join the happy few whose love
Was mightier than death !
Let it not my Lord displease.
That I would die to be thy guest !
Jesus, Master, seal my peace,
And take me to thy breast !
25 StoeZ-p. 91.] L. M,
OTHOU, whom once they flock'd to hear!
Thy words to hear, thy power to feel :
SnfiFerthe sinners to draw near,
And graciously receive us still.
2 Tbey that be whole, thyself hast said,
No need of a physician have ;
But I am sick and want thine aid.
And wait thine utmost power to save.
3 Thy power, and truth, and love divine,
The same from age to age endure:
A word, a gracious word of thine,
The most invet'rate plague can cure.
30 PENITENTIAL.
4 Helpless, howe'er, my spirit lies,
And lon» hath lansruishM at the pool,
A word of thine shall make it rise,
And speak me in a moment whole.
5 Eighteen or eight-and-thirt}' years.
Or thousands, are alike to thee :
Soon as thy Inviug erace appears.
My iila»ue is gone, my heart is free.
6 Maf.j this the acceptable hour!
Come, 0 my soul's physician, thou '.
Display thy sanctifying power,
And show me thy salvation now.
26 Waverly—p. 72.] L. M.
1V/r7 sufferings all to thee are known.
•'•'■'- Tempted in every point like me!
Regard my grief, regard thy own ;
Jesus, remember Calvary !
2 0 call to mind thy earnest prayers !
Thy agony and sweat of blood !
Thy strong and bitter criesand tears!
Thy mortal groan, "My God ! my God !"
3 For whom didst thou the cross endure ?
AVho nail'd thy body tothf tree?
Did not thy death my life procure r
O let thy bowels answer me !
4 Art thou not touch'd with human wo ?
Hath pity left the Son of man ?
Dost thou not all my sorrows know.
And claim a share in all my pain ?
6 Have I not heard, have I not known,
That thou, the everlasting I«ord,
Whom heaven and earth their Maker own.
Art always (Suthful to thy word ?
PENITENTIAL. 31
6 Tbon wilt not break a bruised reed,
Or quench the smallest spark of grace,
Till through the soul thy power is spread,
Thy all-victorious righteousness.
7 The day of small and feeble things
1 know thou never wilt despise ;
I know, with healing in his wings,
The Sun of righteousness shall rise.
8 With labour faint, thou wilt not fail.
Or, wearied, give the sinner o'er.
Till xnthis earth thy judgments dwell,
And, born of God, 1 sin no more.
27 Devizes— Tp. 14.] C. M.
"LTOW sad our state by nature is !
■^ Our sin, how deep it stains !
And Satan binds our captive souls
Fast in his slavish chains.
2 But there 's a voice of sovereign grace
Sounds from the sacred wordt
Ho ! ye despairing sinners, come.
And trust a faithful Lord.
S My soul obeys the gracious call,
And runs to this relief ;
I would believe thy promise, Lord,
0 help my unbelief!
4 To the blest fountain ofthy blood,
Iijcamate God. I fiy ;
Here let me wash my spotted soul
From crimes of deepest die.
5 A guilty, weak, and helpless worm.
Into thy arms I fall ;
Ee thou my strength and righteowness.
My Jesus and my all.
32 PENITENTIAL.
28 QutTicy—p. 179.] 2d P. M. 6 Una 8i.
T^ATHER of lights, from whom proceeds
■'■ Whate'er thy every creature needs;
Whose goodness, providently nigh,
Feeds the young ravens when they cry,
To thee I look, my heart prepare ;
Suggest and hearken to my prayer.
2 Since, by thy light, myself I see
Naked, and poor, and void of thee :
Thine eyes must all my thoughts survey,
Preventing what my lips would say :
Thou seest my wants, for help they call,
And ere I speak thoii know'st them all.
3 Thou know'st the baseness of my mind,
Wayward, and impotent, and blind ;
Thou know'st how unsubdued my will.
Averse to good, and prone to ill :
Thou know'st how wide my passions rove.
Nor check'd by fear, nor cbarni'd by love.
4 Fain would I know, as known by thee.
And feel the indigence I see ;
Fain would I all my vileness own.
And deep beneath the burden groan !
Abhor the pride that lurks within,
Detest and loathe myself and sin.
6 Ah, give me, Lord, myself to feel,
My total misery reveal :
Ah, give me. Lord, (I still would say,)
A heart to mourn, a heart to pray :
My business this, my only care,
My ) ife, my every breath be prayer.
29 Golden Hill— p. 120.] S. M.
o
THAT I could repent !
0 -that I could believe '.
PENITENTIAL. 33
Thou, by thy voice, the marble rent,
The rock in sunder cleave :
Thou, by thy two-edged svford,
My soul and spirit part ;
Strike with the hanjiner of thy word,
And break my stubborn heart. -
2 Saviour and Prince of peace,
The double grace bestow;
Unloose the bauds of w ickeduess.
And let the captive go :
Grant me my sins to ftel,
And then the load remove :
Wound, and pour in, my wounds to heal,
The balm of pard'ning love.
3 For thine own mercy's sake,
The hind'rance now remove ;
And into thy protection take
The prisoner of thy love :
In every trying hour
Stand by my feeble soul,
And screen me from my nature's power,
Till thou hast made me whole.
4 This is thy will, I know.
That I should holy be ;
Should let my sins this moment go, ■
This moment turn to thee :
O might I now embrace
Thy all-sufficient power ;
And never more to sin give place.
And never grieve thee more.
30 Penitenco-p.2S0.-i 12th P.M. 76, 76, 78, 7&
TESUS. let thy pitying eye
" Call back a wandering sheep ;
False to thee, like Peter, I
Would fain like Peter weej>.
2*
34 PENITENTIAL.
Let me be by erace restored ;
On me be all lon»-suff 'ring shown ;
Turn, and look upon me. Lord,
And break my heart of stone.
2 Saviour, Prince, enthroted above,
Repentance to impart,
Give me, through thy dying love,
The humble, contrite heart :
Give what I have long implored,
A portion of thy grief unknown ;
Turn, and look upon me, Lord,
And break my heart of stone.
3 For thine own compassion's sake,
The gracious wonder show ;
Cast my sins behind thy back,
And wash me white as snow:
If thy bowels now are stirr'd,
If now I do myself bemoan.
Turn, and look upon me, Lord,
And break my heart of stone.
4 See me. Saviour, from above,
Nor suffer me to die !
Life, and happiness, and love,
Drop from thy gracious eye :
Speak the reconciling word.
And let thy mercy melt me down;
Turn, and look upon me. Lord,
And break my heart of stone.
5 Look, as when thine eye pursued
The first npostate man ;
Saw him well'ring in his blood,
And bade him rise asain :
Speak my paradise restored ;
Redeem me by thy grace alone :
Turn, and look upon me. Lord,
And break my heart of stone
PENITENTIAL. 35
6 Look as when thy languid eye
Was closed that we might live ;
" Father," (at the point to die
My Saviour gasp'd,) " forgive."
Surely with that dying word
He turns, and looks, and cries, *' Tis done !"
0 my bleeding, loving Lord,
Thou breali-at my heart of stone.
31 Euphrates— f.'Z^i.} 12th P. M. 76,76,78,76.
LET the world their virtue boast,
Their works of righteousness ;
I, a wretch undone and lost.
Am freely saved by grace ;
Other title I disclaim j
This, only this, is all my plea,
1 the chief of sinners am,
But Jesus died for me.
2 Happy they whose joys abound.
Like Jordan's swelling stream:
Who their heaven in Christ have foundj
And give the praise to him ;
Meanest follower of the Lamb,
His steps I at a distance see ;
I the chief of sinners am,
But Jesus died for me.
3 I, like Gideon's fleece, am found,
Unwater'd still and dry;
While the dew on all around
Falls plenteous from the sky ;
Yet my Lord I cannot blame,
The Saviour's grace for all is free ;
1 the chief of sinners am,
But Jesus died for me.
4 Surely he will lift me up.
For I of him have need ;
36 PENITENTIAL.
I cannot give up my hope,
Though I am colJ and dead :
To bring fire on earth he came ;
0 that it now might kindled be !
I the chief of sinners am,
But Jesus died for me.
5 Jesus, thou for me hast died,
And thou in me wilt live;
I shall feel thy death applied ;
1 shall thy life receive :
Tet when melted in the flame
Of love, this shall be all my plea,
1 the chief of sinners am.
But Jesus died for me.
32 Virsinia—p. 69.] C. M.
"\liriTH glorious clouds encompass'd round,
'" Whom angels dimly see ;
Will the unsearchable be found,
Or God appear to me ?
2 "Will he forsake his throne above,
Himself to worms impart?
Answer, thou Man of grief and love,
And speak it to my heart.
3 In manifested love explain
Thy wonderful design ;
"What meant the suffering Son of man,
The streaming blood divine ?
4 Didst thou not in our flesh appear,
And live and die below,
That I might now perceive thee near.
And my Redeemer know ?
6 Come, th6n, and to my soul reveal
The heights and depths of grace,
PENITENTIAL. 37
The wounds which all my sorrows heal,
That dear disfigured face.
6 Before my eyes of faith confess'd,
Stand forth a slaughter'd Lamb;
And wrap me in thy crimson vest,
And tell me all thy name.
7 JEHOVAH in thv person show,
JEHOVAH crucified !
And then the pard'nins God I know,
And feel the blood applied.
8 I view the Lamb in his own light,
Whom angels dimly see ;
And gaze, transported at the sight,
To all eternity.
33 Brishtan-p.U3.-i 1st P. M. 6 Kn« 83.
TESUS, if still the same thou art,
^ If all thy promises are sure,
Set up thy kinjdom in my heart,
And make me rich, for I am poor:
To me be all thv treasures given.
The kingdom of an inward heaven.
■2 Thou hast pronounced the mourner blest,
And lo ! for thee I ever mourn ;
I cannot, no, I will not rest,
Till thou, my only rest, return ;
Till thou the Prince of peace appear,
And I receive the ComforterT
3 Where is the blessedness besfow'd
On all that hunger after thee ?
I hunger now, I thirst for God ;
See the poor fainting sinner, see ;
And satbfy with endless peace,
And fill me with thy righteousneM.
38 PENITENTIAL.
4 Ah ! Lord, if thou art in that sigh,
Then hear thyself \rHhin me pray :
Hear in my heart thy Spirit's cry,
Marie what my lab'ring soul would say :
Answer the deep, unutter'd groan,
And show that tliou and I are one.
6 Shine on thy work, disperse the gloom ;
Light in thy light I then shall see:
Say 10 my soul, " Thy light is come,
Glor>- divine is risen on thee ;
Thy warfare 's past, thy mourning H o'er :
Look up, for thou shall weep no more."
6 Lord, I believe thv promise sure,
And trust thou wi'lt not long delay ;
Hungry, and sorrowful, and poor,
Upon thy word myself I stay ;
Into thy hands my all resign.
And wait till all thou art is mine.
34 TVeUs-i,. 91.] L. M.
WHEREWITH, 0 Lord, shall I draw near.
And bow myself before thy face ?
How in thy purer eyes appear ?
What shall 1 bring to gain thy grace ?
2 WiU gifts delight the Lord Most High ?
Will multiplied oblations please?
Thousands of rams his favour buy ?
Or slaughter'd hecatombs appease ?
3 Can these avert the wrath of God ?
Can these wash out mv guilty stain ?
Rivers of oil, and seas of blood,
Alas : they all must flow in vain :
4 Whoe'er to thee' themselves approve,
Must take the path thyself hast show'd :
PENITENTIAL. 39
Justice pursue, and mercy love,
And humbly walk by faith with God.
5 But thoush my life henceforth be thine,
Present for past can ne'er atone :
Thoueh I to thee the whole resign,
I only give thee back thine own.
6 "What have I then wherein to trust ;
I nothing have, I nothing am ;
Excluded is my every boast ;
My glory swallow'd up in shame.
7 Guilty I stand before thy face ;
On me I feel thy wrath abide ;
'Tis just the sentence should take place,
'Tis just,— but 0, thy Son hath died
8 Jesus, the Lamb of God. hath h\oi.
He bore our sins upon the tree ;
Beneath our curse he bow'd his head ;
'TIS finish'd ! he hath died for me !
9 See where before the throne he stands,
And pours the all-prevailing prayer !
Points to his side, and lifts his hands.
And shows that I am graven there !
10 He ever lives for me to pray ;
He prays that I with him may reign;
Amen, to what my Lord doth say !
Jesus, thou canst not pray in vain.
35 Eotham—p. Z23.-\ 7th P. M. 8 Ztna 7fc
JESUS, lover of my soul,
•^ Let me to thy bosom fly,
"While the nearer waters roll.
While the tempest still is high ;
Hide me, O my Saviour, hide,
Till the storm of life is past ;
40 PENITENTUL.
Safe into the haven guide,
0 receive my soul at last
2 Other refuge have I none,
Hangs my helpless soul on thee;
Leave, ah ! leave me not alone,
Still support and comfort me 1
All my trust on thee is stay'd,
All my help from thee I bring,
Cover my defenceless head
With the shadow of thy wing.
3 Thou, 0 Christ, art all I \vant;
More than all in thee I find :
Raise the fallen, cheer the faint.
Heal the sick, and lead the bljod.
Just and holy is thy name;
1 am all unrighteousness;
False, and full of sin I am.
Thou art full of truth and gTac&
4 Plenteous grace with thee ig found,
Grace to cover all my sin :
Let the healing streams atxjund.
Make and keep me pure within ;
Thou of life the fountain art ;
Freely let me take of thee :
Spring thou up within my heart.
Rise to all eternity !
36 Peru— p< 199.] 4th P, RL 886, 886,
f\ LOVE divine, how sweet thou art !
^^ When shall I find my willing heart
All taken up by tliee ?
1 thirst, 1 faint. 1 die to prove
The greatness of redeeuiing love.
The love of Christ to me.
2 Stronger h'is love than death or hell,
Its riches are unsearchable:
PENITENTIAL. 41
The first-born sons of light
Desire in vain its depths to see ;
They cannot reach the mystery,
The length, the breadth, and height.
3 God only knows the love of Go4 ;
O that it now were shed abroad
In this poor stony heart !
For love I sigh, for love I pine,
This only portion, Lord, be mine !
Be mine this better part !
4 0 that I conld for ever sit,
With Mary, at the Master's feet !
Be this my happy choice;
My only care, delight, and bliss,
My joy, my heaven on earth be this,
To hear the bridegroom's voice '.
5 0 that I could, with favour'd John,
Kecline my weary head upon
The dear Redeemer's breast :
From care, and sin, and sorrow free,
Give me, 0 Lord, to find in thee
My everlasting rest !
37 Sunbury—p.U\.] S.M.
AH ! whither should I go,
Burden'd,and sick, and faint!
To whom should I my troubles show,
And pour out my complaint ?
My Saviour bids me come,
Ah ! why do I delay ?
He calls the weary sinner home.
And yet from him I stay I
2 What is it keeps me back
From which I cannot part ?
Which will not let the Saviour tak«
Fossenion of my heart ?
42 PENITENTIAL.
Bome cursed thing unknown
Must surely lurk within ;
Some idol which I will not own,
Some secret bosom sin.
3 Jesus, the hind'rance show,
Which I have fear'd to see ;
And let me now consent to know
What keeps me bacif from thee.
Searcher of hearts, in mine
Thy trying power display;
Into its darkest corners shine.
And take the veil away.
4 I now believe in thee
Compassion rei?ns alone ;
According to my faith, to me
0 let it, Lord, be done !
In me is all the bar,
Which thou wouldst fain remove ;
Remove it, and I shall declare
That God is only love,
38 JSellville—p. 144.] 1st P. M. 6 lines 8^
FATHER of Jesus Christ, the ^ust.
My Friend and Advocate with thee,
Pity a soul that feign would trust
In him who lived and died forme :
But only thou canst make him known
And in my heart reveal thy Son.
2 If, drawn by thine alluring grace,
My want of living faith I feel.
Show me in Christ thy smilin; face,
What flesh and blno<l can ne'er reveal ;
Thy co-eternal Son display,
And speak my darkness into day.
3 T he gift unspes^able impart:
Command the light of faith totbin« ;
PENITENTIAL. 43
To shine in my dark, drooping heart,
And fill me with the life divine:
Now bid the new creation be ;
0 God, let there be faith in me !
39 Atwood—Tp. 262.] 10th P. M. 8 Una Si-
OOME, holy, celestial Dove,
^ To visit a sorrowful breast!
My burden of guilt to remove.
And brins: me assurance in rest.
Thou only hast power to relieve
A sinner o'erwhelm'd with his load :
The sense of acceptance to give,
And sprinkle his heart with thy blood.
8 With me if of old thou hast strove,
And strangely withheld from my sin,
And tried by the lure of thy love
My worthless affections to win ;
The work of thy mercy revive ;
Thy uttermost mercy exert:
And kindly continue to strive,
And hold, till I yield thee my hear*.
8 Thy call if I ever have known,
Andsigh'd from myself to get free.
And groan'd the unspeakable groan,
And long'd to be happy in thee ;
Fulfil the imperfect desire ;
Thy peace to my conscience reveal ;
The sense of thy favour inspire,
And give me my pardon to feel !
4 If when I had put thee to grief,
And madly to folly return'd,
Thy pity hath been my relief,
And lifted me up as I moum'd ;
Most pitiful Spirit of grace,
Relieve me again, and restore ;
44 PENITENTIAL.
My spirit in holiness raise,
To fall and to suffer no more !
5 If now I lament after God,
And gasp for a drop of thy love ;
If Jesus hath bought thee with blood,
For me to receive from above;
Come, heavenly Comforter, come !
True witness of mercy divine,
And make me thy permanent home.
And seal me eternally thine !
40 Windham-p. U5.1 L. M.
CTAY, thou insulted Spirit, stay,
^ Though I have done thee such despite;
Nor cast a sinner quite away,
Nor take thine everlasting flight.
2 Though I have steel'd my stubborn heart,
And still shook off my guilty fears;
And vex'd and urged thee to depart,
"■ For many long rebellious years:
3 Though I have most unfaithful been,
Of all who e'er thy grace received ;
Ten thousand times thy goodness seen ;
Ten thousand times thy goodness grieved :
4 Yet 0 ! the chief of sinners spare.
In honour of my great High Priest ;
Nor in thy righteous anger swear
T* exclude me from thy people's rest.
5 This only wo I deprecate ;
This only plague I pray remove;
Nor leave me in my lost estate ;
Nor curse me with this want of love.
6 Now, Lord, my weary soul release,
Upraise me with thy gracious hand.
And guide me into perfect peace.
And bring me to tne promised land.
PENITENTIAL. 45
41 Euphrates~v.21A.] 12th P. M. 76,76,78,76.
TO the haven of thy breast,
OSonofmai., I fly!
Be my refuge and tiy rest,
For 0 ! the storo- is high ! ,
Save me from the fn-ious blast :
A covert from thi» tempest be !
Hide me, Je^us, fill ""erpast
The storm of sia J nee.
2 Welcome as the water-spring
To a dry, barren ptnce j
0 descend on me anH bring
Thy sweet refreshirig grace !
O'eraparch'd and weiry land.
As a great rock extends its shade,
Hide me, Saviour, wih thy hand,
And screen my nak':d head.
3 In the time of my d'stress
Thou hast my succour been,
In my utter helplessDjss,
Restraining nie from sin;
O how swiftly didst ttiou move
To save me in the ^ying hour!
Still protect me with thy love,
And shield me with thy power.
4 First and last in me perform
The work thou hast begun :
Be my shelter from the storm,
My shadow from the sun ;
Weary, parch'd with thirst, and faint,
Till thou th' abiding Spirit breathe,
Every moment, Lord, I want
The merit of thy death,
6 Never shall I want it less,
Wb«n thou the gift hast giveiii
•AG PENITENTIAL.
Fill'd me with toy righteousness,
And seal'd the heir of heaven ;
1 shall hang upon my God,
Till I thy perfect glory see ;
Till the sp'riiitling of thy blood
Shall speak me up to thee.
13 Rosetta^p. 71.] C. M.
/") THAT I could my Lord receive,
^-^ Who did the world redeem;
Who gave his life that I might live
A life concealM in him !
2 0 that I could the blessing prove.
My heart's extreme desire !
Live happy in my Saviour's love,
And in his arms expire !
3 Mercy I ask to seal my peace,
That, kept by mercy's power,
I may from every evil cease.
And never grieve thee more.
4 Now, if thy gracious will it be,
E'en now my sins remove,
And set my soul at liberty
By thy victorious love.
5 In answer to ten thousand prayers,
Thou pard'ning God, descend :
Number me with salvation's hein.
My sins and troubhs end.
6 Nothing I ask or want beside,
Of all in earth or heaven :
But let me feel thy blood applied.
And live and die forgiven.
43 Hotham-p. 223.] 7th P. M. 8 Una 7a.
T)ROOPING soul, shake o6f thy fean ;
'-^ Fearful soul, be strong, be bold ;
PENITENTIAL. 47
Tarry till thy Lord appears.
Never, never quit thy hold !
Murmur not at his delay,
Dare not set thy God a time :
Calmly for bis coming stay,
Leave it, leave it all to bim.-
2 Fainting soul, be bold, be strong:
Wait the coming of thy Lord,
Though it seem to tarry long,
True and faithful is his word ;
On his word my soul I cast,
(He cannot himself deny,)
Surely it shall speak at last :
It shall speak, and shall not lie.
3 Every one that seeks shall find ;
Every one that asks shall have
Christ, the Saviour of mankind.
Willing, able all to save ;
I shall his salvation see :
I in faith on Jesus call ;
1 from sin shall be set free,
Perfectly set free from all.
4 Lord, my time is in thine hand.
Weak and helpless as I am ;
Surely thou canst make me staiid J
I believe in Jesus' name ;
Saviour in temptation thou,
Thou hast saved me heretofore;
Thou from sin dost save me now :
Thou shalt save me evermore.
44 Oxbridge— I,. 17.] C. M.
"VXZHY should the children of a king
' ' Go mourning all their days ?
Great Comforter, descend and bring
The tokens of thy grac«.
48 PENITENTIAL.
2 Dost thou not dwell in all thy saioti,
And seal the heirs of heaven?
When wilt thou banish my complaints,
And show my sins forgiven ?
3 Assure my conscience of her part
In the Redeemer's blood :
And bear thy witness with my heart.
That I am born of God.
4 Thou art the earnest of his love,
The pledge of joys to come;
May thy blest wings, ce.estial dove,
Safely convey me home !
45 Nichols— p. 2S.] C. M.
■jV/TY drowsy powers, why sleep ye so ?
■'■'••• Awake, my sluggish soul !
Nothing hath half thy work to do,
Yet nothing 's half so dull.
2 Go to the ants ; for one poor graia
See how they toil and strive !
Yet we, who have a heaven t' obtain,
How negligent we live !
3 We, for whose sake all nature stands,
And stars their courses move :
We, for whose guard the angel bands
Come flying from above :
4 We, for whom God the Son came down,
And labour'd for our good :
How careless to secure that crown
He purchased with bis blood !
5 Lord, shall we live so sluggish still,
And never act our parts ?
Come, holy dove, from th' heavenly bill.
And warm our frozen hearti.
PENITENTIAL. 49
6 Give us with active warmth to move,
With vig'rous souls to rise ;
With hands of faith and wings of love,
To fly and take the prize.
46 Fmmtain—p. 29.] C. M.
f^ OD is in this and every place ! -
^-^ But 0 I bow dark and void ;
To me 'tis one great wilderness,
This earth wiiliout my God.
2 Enipty of Him who all things fill*,
Till he his lijht impart:
Till he his glorious self reveals,
The veil is on my heart.
3 0 thou who seest and know'st my grief.
Thyself unseen, unknown;
' Pity my helpless unbelief,
And break my heart of stone.
4 Regard me with a gracious eye.
The long sou^-ht blessing give;
And bid me, at the point to die.
Behold thy face and live.
5 A darker soul did never yet
Thy promised help implore :
0 that I now my Lord might meet.
And never lose him more 1
6 Now, Jesus, now the Father's love
Shed in my heart abroad ;
The middle wall of sin remove,
And let me into GoJ.
47 Devotitm—p. 46.] C. RL
THOU hidden God, for whom I grcan.
Till thou thyself declare :
God, inaccessible, unknown,
Regard atioDer's prayer I
3
50 PENITENTIAL.
A sinner welt'ring in his blood,
Unpurse'i and mifor»iven ;
Far distant from tlie livins; God,
As far as hell from heaven.
2 An uiire:;cnurate child of man,
To thee for faith I call ;
Pity thy fallen creature's pain,
And raise me from my lall.
Tlie darkness which through thee I feel
Thou only canst remove j
Thy own eternal power reveal,
Thy everlasting love.
3 Thou hast in unbelief shut up,
That ?race may let me go j
In hojie. believing against hope,
I wait the triith to know.
Thou wilt in roe reveal thy name.
Thou wilt thy light afford ;
Bound and oppress'd, yet thine I am,
The prisoner of the Lord.
4 I would not to thy foe submit;
I hate the t)Tant's chain ;
Send forth the prisoner from the pit,
Nor let me cry in vain.
Show me the blood that bought my peace.
The covenant blood apply,
And all my griefs at once shall cease.
And all my sins shall die.
5 Now, Lord, if thou art power, descend,
The mountain sin remove ;
My unbelief and troubles end,
if thou art truth and love.
Speak, Jesus, speak into my heart,
VVbat thou f'>r me hast done !
A ray of living faith impart,
And Gpd is all my own.
PENITENTIAL. 51
48 mndham—p. 115.] L. M.
THOU man of griefs, remember me,
Who never canst thyself forget,
Thy last mysterious agony,
Thy fainting pangs and bloody sweat !
il %Vhen wrestling in the strength of prayer
Thy spirit sunk beneath its load ;
rhy feeble flesh abhorr'd to bear
The wrath of an almighty God.
8 Father, if I may call thee so,
Regard my fearful heart's desire :
Remove this load of guilt)' wo,
Nor let me in my sins expire !
4 I tremble, lest the wrath divine,
Which bruises now my wretched sonl,
Should bruise this wretched soul of mine
Long as eternal ages roll.
6 To thee my last distress I bring;
The heighten'd fear of death I find ;
The tyrant, brandishing his sting.
Appears, and hell is close behind.
6 I deprecate that death alone.
That endless bainishment from thee ;
O save, and give me to thy Son,
Who trembled, wept, and bled for me.
49 VaUntia—^. 104.] L. U.
T ORD Jesus, when, when shall it be,
-*-' That I no more shall break with thee ?
When will this war of passions cease.
And my free soul enjoy thy peace ?
2 Here I repent, and sin again ;
Now I revive, and now am slain ;
Slain with the same unhappy dart.
Which 0, too often wounds my heart I
52 PENITEiNTUL.
3 O Saviour, when, when shall I be
A garden seai'd to all tut thee ?
No more exposed, no more undone ;
But live and grow to thee alone?
4 Guide thou, O Lord, guide thou my counO|
And draw nie on with thy sweet force;
Still make uie walk, still make me tend,
By thee, my way, to thee, my end !
50 Surrey— p. lOG.] L. M.
r) GOD, to whom in flesh reveal'd
^-^ The helpless all for succour came :
The sick to be relieved and heal'd,
And found salvation in thy name:
2 With publicans and harlots, I,
In these thy Spirit's gospel days,
To thee, the sinner's friend, draw nigh,
And humbly sue for saving grace.
3 Thou seest me helpless and distress'd,
Feeble, and faint, and blind, and poor J
Weary, I ronie to thee for rest.
And, sick of sin, implore a cure.
4 My sin's incurahle disease.
Thou, Jesus, thou alone canst heal ;
Inspire me with thy power and peace,
And pardon on niy conscience seal.
5 A touch, a word, a look from thee,
Can turn my heart, and make it clean;
Pur^e the foul inbred leprosy.
And save me from my bosom sin.
6 Lord, if thou wilt, I do believe
Thou canst the saving grace impart;
Thou canst this instant now forgive.
And stamp thine imafe oo my heart.
PENITENTIAL. 53
7 My heart, which now to thee I raise,
I know thou canst this moment cleanse ;
The deepest stains of sin efface,
And drive the evil spirit hence.
8 Be it accordin; to thy word ;
Accomplish now thy work in me, '
And let my snul, to health restored,
Devote its little all to t^ee I
51 Brentford— p. Ul.l L. M.
TESUS. thy far-extended fame
•* My drooping soul exults to hear:
Thy name, thy all-restoring name.
Is music in a sinner's ear.
S Sinners of old thou didst receive
With comfortable words, and kind ;
Their sorrows cheer, their wants relieve,
Heal the diseased, and cure the blind.
3 And art thnu not the Saviour still.
In every place and age the same ?
Hast thou forgot thy gracious skill,
Or lost tlie virtue of thy name ?
4 Faith in thy changeless name I have,
The good, the kind physiciazi, thou
Art abfe now our souls to save.
Art willing to restore them now.
5 Though eighteen hundred years are past
Since thou didst in the flesh appear;
Thy tender mercies ever last.
And still thy healing power is here.
6 Wouldst thou the body's health restore;
And not regard the sin-sick soul ?
The sin-sick soul thou lov'st much more.
And surely thou wilt make it whole.
54 PENITENTIAL.
7 All my disease, mv every sin,
To thee, O Jesus, I coofess :
In pardon. Lord, my cure begin,
And perfect it in holiness.
S That token of thine utmost good,
Now, Saviour, now, on me bestow;
And purge my conscience with thy blood
And wash my nature white as snow.
52 £»/ion/-p. 217.] 6th P. M. 6 Urtei Tk.
O AVIOUR, Prince of Israel's race,
^ Save me !— from thy lofty throne
Give the sweet relenting grace,
Soften this obdurate stone !
Stone to flesh, O God, convert ;
Cast a look, and break my heart !
2 By thy Spirit, Lord, reprove,
All mine inmost sins reveal ;
Sins against thy light and love.
Let me see, and let me feel ;
Sins that crucified my God,
Spilt again thy precious blood.
3 Jesus, seek thy wandVing sheep,
Make me restless to return ;
Bid me look on thee, and weep.
Bitterly as Peter mourn :
Till I say, by grace restored,
"Now, thou know'st, I love thee, Lord."
4 Might I in thy si?ht appear,
As the publican d'istress'd ;
Stand, not daring to draw near;
Smite on my unworthy breast ;
Groan the sinner's only plea,
" God be merciful to me !"
6 0 remember me for good.
Passing through the mortal vale ;
PENITENTIAL, 55
Show me the atoning blood
When niT strength and spirits fail;
Give my gasping soul to see
Jesus crucified for me.
o
53 Neu>-Haven—p. 21.] , C. M.
FOR that tenderness of heart,
Which bows before the Lord ;
Acknowledging how just thou art,
And trembling at thy word !
0 for these humble, contrite tears,
AVhich from repentance flow ;
That consciousness of guilt which fears
The long-suspended blow !
2 Saviour, to me in pity give
The sensible distress;
The pledge thou wilt, at last, receive,
And bid me die in peace :
Wilt from the dreadful day remove.
Before the evil come ;
My spirit hide with saint^ above.
My body in the tomb.
54 GutZ/ord— p. 140.] S. M.
THAT I could repent.
With all my idols part ;
And to thy gracious eye present
An himible, contrite heart :
2 A heart with grief oppress'd
For having grieved my God ;
A troubled heart that cannot rest
Till sprinkled v?ith thy blood.
3 Jesus, on me bestow
The penitent desire :
With true sincerity of wo
M J aching breast inspire ;
0
56 PENITENTIAI..
4 With soft'ning pity look,
And melt ray liardness down ;
' A. ?""',"'>■ '■'*•'='» resistless Ltroks.
Aud break tliis heart of stone !
**^ SunlAiry—p. 141.] g. M.
Q THAT I could revere
•My rouch-ot'bRded God !
O that 1 could but stand in fear
Ofthy alJlictine rod!
If mercy cannot draw,
Thou by thy tlireafning move :
And keep an ahject soul in awe.
That u-ill not yield to love.
2 Show me the nakej sword
Im|)enJing o'er my head :
Olet me tremble at thv word,
And to my » ays take heed J
With sacred horror fly
From everv sinful snare:
Nor ever in my Judge's eye
My Judge's ang-er dare."
3 Thou great tremendous God,
rhe conscious awe impart ;
The grace be now on me bejtow'd
The tender fl.slilv heart: '
For Jesus' sake aloiie
The stonv heirt remove-
And melt ai last. () melt me down.
Into the Diould of love.
"W PVarwick~p. 47.] c. M.
JJXSLAVED to sense, to pleasure prona.
~ Fond of created good : ' "> .
Father, our helplessness we own
And. tie^ibling, taste our food.
PENITENTIAL. 57
2 Treotbling we taste; for ah ! no more
To tffee the creatures lead :
Changed, they eiert a baneful power,
And poison while they feed.
3 Cursed for the sake of wretched man,
They now eiiaross him wholej-
With pleasing force on earth detain.
And sensualize his soul.
4 Grov'line on earth we still must lie,
Till Christ the curse repeal :
Till Christ, descending from on high,
Infected nature heal.
5 Come, then, our heavenly Adam, come,
Thy healing infiuence give ;
Hallow our food, reverse our doom.
And bid us eat and live.
6 The bondage of corruption break ;
For this our spirits grcan
Thy only will we fain would seek;
0 save us from our own :
7 Turn the full stream of nature's tide ;
Let all our actions tend
To thee, their source ; thy love the guide.
Thy glory be the end.
8 Earth then a scale to heaven shall be ;
Sense shall point o-jt the road ;
The creatures all shall lead to thee.
And all we taste be God.
67 Xtngywood— p. 277.] 12th P. M. 76, 76, 78, 76.
WRETCHED, helpless, and distress'd,
''' Ah! whither shall I fly 1
Ef^r gasping after rest,
1 cannot find it nigh :
3*
58 PENITENTIAL.
Naked, sick, and poor, and blind, 4
Fast bound in sm and misery,
Friend of sinners, let me find
My help, my all in thee !
2 I am all unclean, unclean,
Thy purity I want ;
My whole heart is sick of sin,
And my whole head is faint :
Full of putrefying sores,
Of bruises, and of wounds, my soul
Looks to Jesus, help implores.
And gasps to be made whole.
3 In the wilderness I stray,
My foolish heart is blind ;
Nothing do I know ; the way
Of peace I cannot find :
Jesus, Lord, restore my sight.
And take, 0 tike the veil away,
Turn my darkness into light;
ily midnight into day.
4 Naked of thine image. Lord,
Forsaken, and alone :
Unrenew'd, and unrestored,
I have not thee put on :
Over me thy mantle spread,
Send down thy likeness from above;
Let thy goodness be display 'd,
And wrap me in thy love !
5 Poor, alas I thou know'st I am,
And would be poorer still ;
See my wretchedness and shame,
And all my vileness feel.
No good thing in me resides,
My soul js all an aching void.
Till thv Spirit here abides,
And'l am till'd with GoJ.
PENITENTIAL. 59
6 Jesus, full of truth and grace,
In thee is all I want :
Be the wand'rer's resting-place,
A cordial to'^e faint ;
Make me rich, for lam poor:
In thee may I my Eden find,:
To the dyin»,' health restore.
And eye-si^ht to the blind.
7 Clothe me Tvith thy holiness.
Thy meek humility ;
Put on me thy glorious dress,
Endue my soul with thee :
Let thine image be restored.
Thy name and nature let me prove ;
With thy fulness fill me, Lord,
And perfect me in love.
58 Tremont—^. 60.] C. M.
"PATHER of Jesus Christ, my Lord,
■'• I humbly seek thy face ;
Encouraged by the Saviour's word
To ask thy pard'ning grace.
2 Enfring into my closet, I
The busy world exclude ;
In secret prayer for mercy cry.
And groan to be renew'd.
3 Far from the paths or men, to thee
I solemnly retire j
See thou, who dost m secret see.
And grant my heart's desire.
4 Thy grace I languish to receive,
The Spirit of love and power ;
Blameless before thv face to live,
To live and sin no more.
5 Fain would I all thy goodness feel,
And know my sins forgiven !
60 PENITENTIAL.
Ani do on earth thy perfect will
As angels do ia heaven.
6 0 Father, glorify thy An,
And grant what I nquire ;
For Jesus' sake thi; ^ift seud down,
Aad answer me by fire.
7 Kimile the flame of love within.
Which may to heaven ascend ;
And now the work of ^race begin,
Which shall iu glory end.
59 Minorca— p. IGl .] 1st P. i\L 6 Une* Si.
\I7"HEN my relief will most display
'* Thy ^lory in thy creature's gooid,
Then, Jesus, take the veil away.
Sprinkle me with th' atoning blood ;
The power of living faith impart,
And breathe thy love into my heart.
2 Jesus, the promised help supply;
Support the feeble, fainting mind;
Nor let me from thy presence fly,
But seek till I acceptance find :
But ask till I ajn saved from sin,
And knock till mercy takes me in.
60 GiZman— p. 169.] 1st P. ^L 6 JtHci S«
JESUS, in whom the weary find
" Their late, but permanent repose ;
Physician of the sin-sick mind,
Relieve my wants, assuage my woes;
And lei my soul on thee be cast,
Till life's fierce tyranny be past.
2 Loosed from my God, and far removed,
Long have I wanderM to aiid fro ;
O'er earth in endless circles roved,
Nor found Whereon to rest below;
PENITENTIAL. 61
Bact to my God at last I fly ;
For 0, the waters stili are high.
3 Selfish pursuits, and nature's maze,
The things of earth, for thee I leave ;
Put forth thy hand, thy hand of grace ;
Into the ark of love receive ;
Take this poor flutt'ring soul to rest,
And lodge it, Saviour, in thy breast.
4 Fill with inviolable peace ;
'Stablish and keep my settled heart ;
In thee may all my wanderings cease.
From thee no more may I depart:
Thy utmost goodness call'd to prove,
Loved with an everlasting love !
61 Sherbnme—p. 1S6.] 4th P. M. 886, 886.
A UTHOR of faith, to thee I cry,
-^ To thee, who wouldst not have me die,
But know the truth and live :
Open mine eyes to see thy face ;
Work in my heart the saving grace.
The life eternal give.
2 Shut up in unbelief I groan.
And blindly serve a God unknown,
Till thou the veil remove ;
The gift unspeakable impart,
And write thy name upon my heart,
And manifest thy love.
3 I know the grace is only thine.
The gift of faith is all divine ;
But if on thee we call,
Thou wilt the benefit bestow,
And give us hearts to feel and know
That thou hast died for aU.
4 Thou bidst us knock and enter in,
Come unto thee, and rest from lin.
The blessing seek and find :
62 PENITENTIAL.
Thou bidsf us ask thv grace, and have :
Thou canst, thou wouldst this moment save
Both me and all mankind.
5 Be it according to thy word :
Now let me find my pard'ning Lord ;
Let what I ask be given :
The bar of unbelief remove,
Open the door of faith and love,
And take me into heaven !
62 Aylesbury— p. 140.] S. M.
A ND wilt thou yet he found ?
■'^ And n^ay I still draw near ?
Then listen to the plaintive sound
Of a poorsinner's prayer.
2 Jesus, thine aid aflford.
If still the same thou art.
To thee I look, to thee, my Lord !
Lift up a helpless heart.
3 Thou seest mv troubled breast,
The strusglin'^s of my will.
The foes that interrupt my rest,
The agonies I feel.
4 The daily death I prove.
Saviour, to thee is known :
"Tis worse than death my God to love,
And not my God alone.
5 O my offended Lord,
Restore my inward peace :
I know thou canst ; pronounce the wonL
And bid the tempest cease '.
6 I long to see thy face.
Thy Spirit I implore,
The lining water of thy grace,
That I may thirst no more.
PENITENTIAL. 63
63 Cartterbury iVeno— p. 52.] C. M.
FIRST PART.
TESUS, if still thou art to-day,
J As yesterday, the same,
Present to heal, in me display
The virtue ot thy name !
2 If still thou goest about to do
Thy needy creatures good,
On me, that I thy praise may show.
Be all thy -NTonders show'd.
3 Now, Lord, to whom for help I call,
Thy miracles repeat ;
With pitying eyes behold me fall
A leper at thy feet.
4 Loathsome, and vile, and self-abhorr'd,
1 sink beneath my sin;
But if thou wilt, a gracious word
Of thine can make me clean.
5 Thou seest me deaf to thy command.
Open, 0 Lord, my ear :
Bid me stretch out my wither'd hand,
And lift it up in prayer.
6 Silent, (alas ! thou know'sthow long,)
My voice I cannot raise :
But 0 ! when thou shalt loose my tongue,
The dumb shall sing thy praise.
7 Lame at the pool I still am found :
Giye, and my strength employ ;
Light as a hart I then shall bound ;
The lame shall leap for joy.
8 Blind from my birth to guilt and thee,
And dark I am within :
The love of God I cannot see,
The sinfulness of sin.
64 PENITENTIAL.
9 But thou, they say, art passing by 1
0 let me find thee near :
Jesus, in mercy hear mv cry
Thou son of David, hear !
10 Behold me waiting in the way
for thee, the heavenly light ;
Command me to be brought, and sav
Smner, receive thy sight !" '
Gai7isborotigh—p. 7.] SECOND PART.
WHILE dead in trespasses I lie,
Thy quick'ning Spirit give ;
Call me, thcu Son of God, that I
May hear thy voice and live.
2 mile full of anguish and disease.
Aiy weak, distemi^r'd soul
Thy love compassionatelv sees,
0 let it make me whole !
3 Cast out thy foes, and let them still
1 o Jesus' name submit :
Clothe with thy righteousness, and heaL
And place me at thy feet.
4 To Jesus' name, if all things now
A trembling homage pay ;
O let my stubborn spirit bow
My stiff-neck'd will obey !
b Impotent, dumb, and deaf, and blind
And sick, and poor I am : '
But sure a remedy to find
For all in J»sus' name.
6 I know in thee all fulness dwells.
And all for wretched man : /
Fill every want my spirit feeN
And brtsk offever%- clinin.
PENITENTIAL. 65
7 K thon impart thyself to me,
No other good 1 need :
If thou, the Son, shall make me free,
I shall be free indeed.
8 I cannot rest, till in thy blood
I full redenip'iou have:
But thou, through whom I come to God,
Canst to the utmost save.
9 From sin, the ?uilt, the power, the pain.
Thou wilt redeem my soul :
Lord, I believe, and not in vain:
My faith shall make me whole.
10 I too, with thee, shall walk in white.
With all thy saints shall prove
What is the length, and breadth, and height,
And depth of perfect love.
64
Geneva — p. 65.] C. M.
T ET the redeem 'd eive thanks and praJae
■^ To a forgiving God !
My feeble voice I cannot raise,
Till wash'd in Jesus' blood :
2 Till at thy coming from above.
My mountain-sin depart,
And fear gives place to filial love.
And peace o'erflows my heart.
3 Prisoner of hope, I still attend
Th' appearance of my Lord,
These endless doubts and fears to end,
And speak my soul restored :
4 Restored by reconciling grace ;
With present pardon blest;
And fitted by true holiness
Jot my eternal rest.
6ft PENITENTIAL.
5 The peace which man can ne'er conceivs,
The love and joy unknown,
Now, Father, to thy servant give,
And claim me for thine own.
6 My God, throuih Jesus pacified ;
My God, thyself declare;
And draw me to his open side.
And plunge the sinner there !
65 Shoel—p. 91.1 L. M,
J ORD, I despair mvself to heal j
-^ I see my sin, but cannot feel :
1 cannot till thy Spirit blow,
And bid th' obedient waters flow.
2 'Tis thine a heart of flesh to give :
Thy gifts I only can receive ;
Here, then, to thee I all resign,
To draw, redeem, and seal— are thine.
3 With simple faith on thee I call ;
My light, my life, my Lord, my all :
I wait the moving of the pool ;
1 wait the word that speaks me whole.
4 Speak, gracious Lord, my sickness cure;
Make my infected nature pure :
Peace, righteousness, and jov impart.
And pour thyself into my heart !
66 ArmUy—ii. IH.-i L. AL
JESUS, the sinner's friend, to thee,
*' Lost and undone, for aid I flee:
Weary of earth, myself, and sin ;
Open thine arms, and fake me in.
2 Pity aiid heal my sin-sick soul ;
'Tis tliou alone canst make me whole;
Fall'n, till in me thine image shine.
And lost I am till thou art mine.
PENITENTIAL. 67
3 Awake, the woman's conquering seed,
Awake, and bruise the serpent's head !
Tread down thy foes, with power control
The beast and devil in my soul.
4 The mansion for thyself prepare.
Dispose my heart by entering there !
'Tis this alone can make me clean ;
'Tis this alone can cast out sin.
5 At last I own it cannot be
That I should fit myself for thee:
Here, then, to thee I all resign j
Thine is the work, and only thme.
6 What shall I say thy grace to move ?
Lord, I am sin, — but thou art love :
I give up every plea beside,
" Lord, I am lost — ^but thou hast died."
67 Watchman^p. US.} S. M-
FIRST PART.
^TITHEN shall thy love constrain,
' ' And force me to thy breast ?
When shall my soul return again
To her eternal rest ?
2 Ah ! what avails my strife,
My wandering to and fro ?
Thou hast the words of endless life :
Ah ! whither should I go ?
3 Thy condescending grace
To me did freely move ;
It calls me still to seek thy face,
And stoops to ask my love.
4 Lord, at thy feet I fall,
I groan to be set free ;
I fam would now obey the call.
And give up all for thee.
68 PENITENTIAL.
6 To rescue me from wo
Thou didst with all things part,
Didst lead a suff'riti' life below
To gain my worthless heart
6 My worthless heart to gain,
The God of all that breathe
Was found in fashion as a man,
And died a cursjd death.
Little Marlhoroush—p. 141.] SECOND PART.
AND can I yet delay
My little all to give?
To tear my soul from earth away
For Jesus to receive ?
2 Nay, but I yieW, I yield !
1 can hold out no more:
I sink, by dying Inve compell'd.
And own thee conqueror !
3 Thoush late, I all forsake;
My friends, my all resign :
Gracious Redeemer, take, 0 take,
And seal me ever thine !
4 Come, and possess me whole,
Nnr hence again remove:
Settle and fix my wav'ringsoul
With all thy weight of love.
6 My one desire be this,
Thy only love to know:
To seek and taste no other bliss,
No other good below.
6 My life, my portion thou,
Thou all sufficient art;
My hope, my heavenly treasure, now
Enter aind keep my hsart.
PENITENTIAL. 69
68 LanesbcTOush — p. 5.] C. iL
FIRST PART.
r\ THAT thou wouWst the heavens rent,
^ In majesty come do» n ;
Stretch out thine arm omnipotent,
And seize me for thine own !
2 Descend, and let thv lightnings burn
The stubble of thy ioe ;
My sins o'erturn, o'erturn, o'ertum, »
And make the mountains flow 1 '
3 Thou my impetuous spirit guide,
And curb my headstrong will ;
Thou only canst drive back the tide,
And bid the sun stand still.
4 What though I cannot break my chain.
Or e'er throw otf my load ;
The things impossible to men
Are possible to God.
5 Is there a thing too hard for thee.
Almighty Lord of all ;
Whose threat'ning looks dry up the sea,
And make the mountains fall?
6 Who, who shall in thy presence stand.
And match Omnipotence ?
Cngrasp the hold of thy right hand,
Or pluck the sinner thence ?
7 Sworn to destroy, let earth assail ;
Nearer to save thou art ;
Stronger than all the powers of hell,
And greater than my heart.
8 Lo ! to the bills I lift mine eye ;
Thy promised aii I claim :
Father of mercies, glorify
Thy favourite Je$ui' naiD».
70 PENITENTIAL.
9 Salvation in that name is found,
Ealm of my grief and care ;
A med'cine for my every wound,
All, all I want is there.
New-Btdford—T^. 19.] SECOND PART.
JESUS ! Redeemer, Saviour, Lord,
The weary sinner's friend ;
Come to my help, pronounce the word.
And bid my troubles end.
2 Deliv'rance to my soul proclaim,
And life and liberty;
Shed forth the virtue of thy name,
And Jesus prove to me !
3 Faith to be heal'd thou know'st I have.
For thou that faith hast given ;
Thou canst, thou wilt the sinner save,
And make me meet for heaven.
4 Thou canst o'ercome this heart of mine ;
Thou wilt victorious prove :
For everlasting strength is thine,
And everlasting love.
6 Thy powerful Spirit shall subdue
Unconquerable sin ;
Cleanse this foul heart, and make it new,
And write thy law within.
6 Bound down with twice fen thousand ties,
Vet let me hear thy call.
My soul in confidence shall rise,
Shall rise and break through all.
7 Speak, and the deaf shall hear thy voice,
The blind his sight receive ;
The dumb ip songs of praise r^oice;
The heart of stone believe.
PENITENTIAL. 71
8 The Ethiop then shall change his skin ;
The dead shall fee! thy pnn'er;
The loathsome leper shall be clean,
And I shall sin no more.
69 ^itA?o?i£— p. 200.] 4thP,M. 8S6,8SS
FffiST PART.
T^HEE, Jesus, thee, the sinner's friend,
■*■ I follow on to apprehend,
Renew the glorious strife ;
Divinely confident and bold.
With faith's strong arm on thee lay hold,
Thee, my eternal life.
2 Thy heart, I know, thy tender heart
Doth in my sorrow feel its part.
And at my tears relent ;
My powerful sighs thou canst not bear,
Nor stand the violence of my prayer,
My prayer omnipotent.
3 Give me the grace, the love I claim ;
Thy Spirit now demands thy name !
Thou know'st the Spirit's will ;
He helps my soul's infirmity,
And strongly intercedes for me
With groans unspeakable.
4 Answer, 0 Lord, thy Spirit's groan !
0 mike to me thy nature known ;
Thy hidden name impart !
(Thy name and nature are the same)
Tell me thy nature, and thy name.
And write it on my heart.
Emma— p. 2{K.] SECOND PART.
PRISONER of hope, to thee I turn,
And, calmly confident, I mourn,
And pray, and weep for thee :
T2 PENITENTIAL.
Tell me thy love, thy secret tell,
Thy mystic name in me reveal.
Reveal thyself in me !
2 Descend, pass by me, and proclaim,
O Lord of hosts, thy glorious name,
" The Lord, the gracious Lord ;
Long-suffering, merciful, and kind.
The God who always bears in mind
His everlasting word."
3 Plenteous he is in truth and grace ;
He wills that all the fallen race
Should turn, repent, and live;
His pardoning grace for all is free ;
Transgression, sin, iniquity,
He freely doth forgive.
4 Mercy he doth for thousands keep ;
He goes and seeks the one lost sheep,
And brings his wand'rer home :
And every soul that sheep might be ;
Come, then, my Lord, and gather me,
My Jesus, quickly come.
5 Take me into thy people's rest,
O come, and with my sole request.
My one desire comply !
Make me partaker of my hope,
Then bid me get me quickly up,
And on thy bosom die I
70 Hcddins—p. 203.] 4th P. M. S86, 88a
<^TILL, Lord, I languish for thy grace;
^ Reveal the lienuties of thy face,
The middle wall remove:
Appear and banish my complaint ;
Come and supply my only want.
Fill all jny aoul with lov«I
PENITENTIAL. 73
2 O ! conquer this rebellinas will ;
Willing thou art, and ready still,
Thy help is always nigh :
The stony trom my heart remove,
And give me, Lord, 0 give me love.
Or at thy feet I die.
3 To thee I lift my mournful eye ;
Why am I tlius ? 0 tell me why
I cannot love m.y God I
The hindrance must be all in me :
It cannot in my Saviour be ;
Witness that streaming blood !
4 It cost thy blood my heart to win :
To buy me from the pow er of sin,
And make me love again :
' Come, then, iny Lord, thy right assert.
Take to thyself my racsom'd heart.
Nor bleed nor die in vain.
71 IVeOs—ip. 91.] L. AL
f^OD of my life, what just return
^-"^ Can sinful dust and ashes give? ,
1 only live my sin to mourn ;
To' love my God I only live.
2 To thee, benign and saving power,
I cnnsecrate my leiigthen'd days :
tVhile, mark'd with blessings, every honr
Shall speak thy co-extended praise.
3 Be all my added life euiploy'd
Thine image in my soul to see:
Fill with thyself the mighty vnid !
Enlarge my heart to compass thee '
4 0 give m^j Saviour, give me more
Thy mercies to my soul reveal 1
Alas '. I see their endless store;
Put, O, J cannot, cannot /W.
1
74 PENITENTIAL.
5 The blessing of thy love bestowr,
For this my cries shall never fail ;
Wrestling, I'will not let thee go,
I will not, till my suit prevail.
6 ni weary Ihee with niv complaint :
Here at thy feet for ever lis;
With longing, sick ; with groauiiig, faint;
0 give me love, or else I die.
7 Come then, my hope, my life, my Lord,
And fix in me thy lasting home!
Be mindful of thy gracious uord !
Thou, with tliy promised Father, come.
8 Prepare, and then possess my heart ;
0 take me, seize me from above !
Thee may I love, for God thou art;
Thee may I feel, for God is love !
72 lVard~-p. 109.] L. M
ipAIN would I go to thee, my God,
•*■ Thy mercies and my wants to tell ;
To feel my pardon seal'd in blood :
Saviour, thy love I wilt to feel.
2 Freed from the power of cancell'd sia
When shall my soul triumphant provu
Why breaks not out the fire within,
In flames of joy, and praise, and lovei
3 Jesus, to thee my soul sspires ;
Jesus, to thee I plight my vows :
Keep me from eartlily, base desires.
My God, my Saviour, and my spous**.
4 Fountain of all-sufficient bliss.
Thou art the good I seek below ;
Fulness of joy in thee there is ;
Without, "tij misery all, and wo.
PENITENTIAL. 75
To Gainsboroug't — p. 7.] C. M.
TM^Y God, my God, to thee I cry ;
-'■'■ Tbee only would I know ;
Thv purilyiug blood apply,
And ^vash me white as snow.
2 Touch me, and make the leper clean,
Purge my iniquity :
Cnlea thou wash my soul from sin,
I have no part in thee.
3 But art thou not already mine ?
Answer, if mine thou art!
Whisper within, thou love divine,
And cheer my drooping heart,
4 Behold, for me the victim 1 leads,
His wounds are cpen wide ;
For me the hlood of sprinkling pleads.
And speaks me justified.
74 Morrison— p. 112.] L. M.
lUty soul before thee prostrate lies,
•'•*•'• To thee, her source, my spirit fliea ;
Mt wants I mourn, my chains I see ;
0 let thy presence set me free 1
2 Jesus, vouchsafe mv heart and will
With thy meek lowliness to fill ;
No more her power let nature boast.
But in thy will may mine be lost.
3 And well I know thy tender love ;
Thou never canst unfaithful prove :
And well I know thou standi by me,
Pleased, from myself, to set me firee.
4 Still will I watch and lab-^ur still
To hanish every thought of ill ;
Till thou, in thy good time, appear.
And s'v'«t me from ihe fowler's snara.
76 PENITENTIAL.
5 Already sprinfjing hope 1 feel,
God will destroy the power of hell ;
God, from (he land of wars and pain.
Leads me where peace and safety rei^.
6 One onlv care my soul shall know,
Father, all thy commands to do;
And feel, what endless age shall prove,
That thou, my Lord, my God, art love.
75 Gremwalk—j>. 69.] C. M.
TIT HEN risin» from the bed of death,
O'erwhelm'd with guilt and fear,
1 view my Maker face to face,
0 how shall I appear !
2 If yet, while pardon may be found.
And mercy may be sought,
My soul with in\i'ard horror shrinks,
And trembles at the thought :
3 When thou, O Lord, shalt stand disclosed
In majesty severe.
And sit in judgment on my soul,
0 how shall 1 appear !
4 0 may my broken, contrite heart,
Timely my sins lament.
And eaily with repentant tears.
Eternal wo prevent.
5 Behold the sorrows of my heart,
Ere yet it be too late ;
And hear my Saviour's dyin; i^roan.
To give those sorrows weight !
6 For never shall my soul despair
Her pardon to secure,
Who know? thine only Son hath died
To make that pardon sure.
PENITENTIAL. 77
76 Kingsbridse—p. 117.] L. M.
r\ FOR a glance of heavenly day,
^■' To take this stubborn heart away j
And thaw, with beams of love divine,
This heart, this frozea heart of mipe !
2 The rocks can rend ; the earth can quake ;
The seas can roar ; the mountains shake :
Of feeling, all things show some sign.
But this uufeeling heart of mine.
3 To hear the sorrows thou hast felt,
O Lord, an adamant would melt :
But I can read each moving line,
And nothing moves this heart of mine.
4 Thy judgments, too, unmoved I hear,
(Amazing thought !) which devils fear ;
Goodness and « rath in vain combine
To stir this stupid heart of mine.
6 But something yet can do the deed;
And that blest something much I need ;
Thy Spirit can from dross refine.
And melt and change this heart of mine.
77 Liberty— p. 146.] 1st P. M. 6 lines 8a,
Wrestlmg Jacob.
FIRST FART.
/"^OME, 0 thou traveller unknown,
^ Whom still I hold, but cannot see !
My company before is gone.
And I am left alone with thee :
With thee all night J mean to stay,
And wrestle till the break of day.
2 I need not teU thee who I am ;
My sin and misery declare ;
Thyself hast call'd me by my name,
Look on thy hands aiid read it there'
78 PENITENTIAL.
But who, 1 ask thee, who art thou ?
Tell me thy oame, aud tell me now.
3 In vain thou strug^lest to get free,
I never will unloose my hold ;
Art thou the man thai died for me ?
The secret of thy love unfuld :
Wrestling, I will not let thee go,
Till I thy name, thy nature know.
4 Wilt thou not yet to me reveal
Thy new, unutterable name ?
Tell me, I still beseech thee, tell ;
To know it now resDlved I am :
Wrestling, I will not let thee go,
Till I thy name, thy nature know.
5 What though my shrinking flesh complain.
And murmur to contend so long:
I rise superior to my pain :
When I am weak, then I am strong!
And when my all or strength shall fail,
1 shall with the God-man prevail.
SECOND PART.
YIELD to me now, for I am weak,
But confident in self-despair;
Speak to my heart, in blessings speak ;
Ee conquer'd by my instanr prayer:
Speak, or thou never hence slialt move,
And tell me if thy name be Love.
2 Tislove! 'tis love ! thou diedst for me;
I hear thy whisper in mv heart ;
The morniiig breaks, the shadows flee,
Pure, universal love thou art :
To me, to all, thy bowels move,
Thy nature and thy name is Love.
3 My praver hath power with God ; the grata
Unspeakable I now receive ;
PENITENTIAL. 79
Through faitli I see thee face to face;
I gee tliee face to face and live !
In vain I have not wept and strove;
Thy nature and thy name is Love.
4 I know thee. Saviour, who thou art,
Jesus, the feeble sinner's friend,:
Nor wilt thou with the nisht depart,
But stay and love me to the end :
Thy mercies never shall remove :
Thy nature aci thy name is Lcve.
5 The Sun of righteousness on me
Hath rose, with healing in his win's ;
Wither'd my nature's strec^h ; from thee
My soul its life and succour brings ;
My help is all laid up above ;
Thy nature and thy name is Love.
6 Contented now upon my thi^h
I halt, till life's short journey end ;
All belplessi.ess, all weakness, I
On thee alot.e for strenerth depend ;
Nor have I power from thee to move ;
Thy nature and thy name is Love.
7 Lame as I am, I tate the prey ;
Hell, earth, and sin, with ease o'ercome
I leap for joy, pursue my way,
And, as a bound inzhsirt, fly home;
Through all eternity to prove
Thy nature and thy name is Love.
78 Sroadmead—p. 150.^ 1st P.M. 6 hVietSs.
f\ THOU, whom fain my soul would love,
^^ Whom I would gladly die to know ;
This veil of unbelief remove.
And show me all thy goodness, show ;
■fesus, thyself in me reveal,
Tell me thy name, thy nature tell.
80 DESCRIBING
2 Hast thou been with me, Lord, so Ion;,
Yet thee, my Lord, h^ve I not known !
I claim thee with a falfrinjlougue ;
I pray thee in a feeble gronn.
Tell me, 0 tell nie, who thnu art !
And speak thy name into my heart.
3 If now thou talkest by the way
With such an abject worm as me,
The mystery of grace display ;
Open mine eyes that I may see :
That I may understand thy word,
And now cry out, — " It is the Lord !"
DESCRIBING FORMAL RELIGION.
79 IVilmington—i). 12.] C. M.
T OXG have I seem'd to serve thee, Lord,
•" With unavailing pain :
Fasteil, and pray'd. and re.ad thy word,
And heard it preach'd in vain.
2 Oft did I with th' assembly join,
And near thy altar drew ;
A form of sodiiness was mine,
The power I never knew.
3 I rested in the outward law,
Nor knew its deep design :
The length and breadth I never saw,
And height of love divine.
4 To please thee thus at length I see,
Vainly 1 hoped and strove ;
For what are outward things to thee,
Unless they spring from love ?
FORMAL RELIGION. 81
6 I see the perfect law requires
Truth in the inward parts;
Our full consent, our whole desires,
Our undivided hearts.
6 But I of means have made my boast,
Of means an idol made :
The spirit in the letter lost,
The substance in the shade.
7 Where am I now, or what my hope ?
What can my weakness do ?
Jesus, to thee my soul looks up :
'Tis thou must make it new.
80 Oldford—p. 125.] S. M,
FIRST PART.
MY gracious, loving Lord,
To thee v;hz.t shall I say ?
Well may I tremble at thy wordj
And scarce presume to pray !
Ten thousand wants have I ;
Alas ! I all things want !
But thou hast bid me always cry,
And never, never faint.
2 Tet, Lord, well might I fear.
Fear e'en to ask thy grace ;
So oft have I, alas '. drawn near.
And mock'd thee to thy face :
With all pollutions stain'd,
Thy hallow'd courts I trod ;
Thy name and temple I profaned,
And dared to call thee God.
3 Nigh with my lips I drew;
My lips were all unclean :
Thee with my heart I never knew ;
My heart was full of sin :
4*
83 DESCRIBING
Far fmm the living Lord,
As far as hell from heaven ;
Thy purity I still abhorr'd,
Nor look'd to be forgiven.
4 My nature I obey'd ;
My own desires pursued :
And still a den of thieves I niade
The hallow'd boi^e of God.
The worship he approves,
To him I would not pay ;
My selfish ends, and creature loves,
Had stole iny heart away.
6 My sin and nai:ednes3
I studied to disguise ;
Spoke to my soul a flattering peace,
And put out my own eyes:
In fig leaves I ap|}ear'd ;
Nor with my form would part;
But still retaiu'd a conscieuce sear'd,
A hard, deceitml heart.
SECOND PART.
A GODLY, formal saint,
I long appear'd in sight ;
By self and Satan taught to paint
My tomb, my nature, white,
The Pharisee within
Still undisturb'd remain'd ;
The strong man, arm'd with guilt of sin,
Safe in his palace reign'd.
2 But, 0 ! the jealous God
In mv behalf camn down ;
Jesus himself the stronger show'd,
And claim'd me for his own.
My spirit 4ie alarm'd,
And brought iato distreas ■
FORMAL RELIGION. 83
He shook and bound the strong man ann'd
III his self-righteousness.
3 Faded my virtuous show,
My foim without the power;
The sin-convincing Spirit blew,.
And blasted every flower:
My mouth was stopp'd, and shame
Cover'd my guilty face:
I fell on the atoning Lamb,
And 1 was saved by grace.
81 LitcJifield—p. U.] CM.
CTILL, for thy loving kindness. Lord,
^ I in thy temple wait :
1 look to find thee in thy word,
Or at thy table meet.
2 HerCj in thine own appointed ways,
I wait to learn thy will :
Silent I stand before thy face,
And hear thee say, "' Be still !
3 " Be still ! and know that I am God 1"
Tis all I live to know •
To feel the virtue of thy blood.
And spread its praise below !
4 I wait my vigour to renew,
Thine image to retrieve !
The veil of outward things pass through.
And gasp in tiiee to live.
5 I work ; and own the labour vain ,
And thus from works I cease :
I strive ; and see my fruitless pain,
Till God create niy peace.
6 Fruitless, till thou thyself impart.
Must all my efforts prove ;
86 ON BACKSLIDINO.
3 Sin's deceitfulness hath spread
A hardness o'er my heart ;
Bu' if thou thy Spirit jhed,
The stony sliali depart :
Shed thy love, thy u iideriiess,
Aui tel me feel thy aofl'iiiiie power,
Love Die freely, seal uiy peace,
And bid me siu no more.
4 From th' oppressive power of sin
My stnijffliii? spirit free:
Perfect riihteousncss hrin^ in,
Unspotted puriiy :
Speak, aiid all this nar sliall cea^e,
And sin shall give its raging o'er :
Love me freely, seal my peace,
And bid me si& no more.
5 For this only thing I pray,
And this will 1 require,
Take the power of sin away,
fill me with chaste desire;
Perfect me in holiness ;
Thine image (o my soul restore.
Love me freely, seal my peace,
And bid me siu no more.
84 PriwtdeTice— p. 276.] 12th P. XL 76, 76, 78, 76.
OON of God, if thy free grace
^ Again hath raised me up ;
Call'd me still to seek thy face.
And given me back my hope :
Still thy timely helpaJford,
And all thy loving kindness show;
Keep me, keep me, gracious Lord,
And never let me go.
2 By me, O my Saviour, stand.
In sore temptation's hour ;
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Save me with thine onts*Tetch'd hand,
And show forth all thy power j
0 be niiiiiifiil of thy word !
Thy all-snfficient arace bestow ;
Keep me, keep me. rracious Lord,
And never let me go.
3 Give me. Lord, a holy fear.
And fix it in my heart ;
That I may from evil near
With timely care depart ;
Sin be m^^rp thsn hell abborr'd.
Till thou 'lestroy the tyrant foe;
Keep me. keep me, jracious Lord,
And never let me go.
4 Never let me leave thy breast,
From thee, my Savionr, stray ;
Thou art my support and rest,
My true and liviii' wny ;
My esceedins ereat reward,
in heaven above and earth below
Keep me. keep me. eracious Lord,
And never let me go.
5 Never let me go, till I,
Upborne on win?s of iove,
Gain the region of the sky.
And take my seat above ;
See thee by all heaver, adored.
And all thy glorious fulness know j
Keep me, keep me, gracious Lord,
And never let me go.
Euphrates— y>. 274.] 12th P. >L 76, 76, 78, 7S.
T ORD, and is thine anger gone,
•*-' And art thou pacified ?
After all ,that I have done,
Doft thou DO longer chide ?
88 ON BACKSlIDING.
Let thy love my heart constrain,
And all my restless passions sway :
Keep me, lest I turn ag:ain
Out of the narrow way.
2 If I have begun once more
Thy sweet return to feel j
If even now I find thy power
Present my soul to heal :
Still and quiet may I lie,
Kor strujgle out of thine embrace:
Never more resist or fly
From thy pursuing grace.
3 To the cross, thine altar, bind
Me with the cords of love j
Freedom never let me find
From thee, my Lord, to move ;
That I never, never more
May with my mucli-laved Master part,
To the posts of mercy's door
0 nail my willing heart !
4 See my utter helplessness,
And leave me not alone ;
0 preserve in perfect peace,
And seal me for thine own.
More and more thyself reveal.
Thy presence let me always find,
Comfort, and confirm, and heal
My feeble, sin-sick mind-
5 As the apple of thine eye.
Thy weakest servant keep;
Help me at thy feet to lie,
And there for ever weep ;
Tears of joy mine eyes o'erflow,
That I have any hope of heaven ;
Much of love I ought to know.
For I have BiQcta forgfiven.
ON BACKSLIDING. 89
86 Fonyth'St.— p. 332.] )5th P. M. U 9, 119.
FIRST PART.
■LTOW happy are they
"■ Who their Saviour obey,
AsJ have laid up their treasures above !
Tongue caiiuot expre.ss
The sweet cuiiifort aiiJ peace
Of a soul ID its earliest love !
2 That comfort was mine,
When the favour divine
1 first found in the blood of the Lamb;
When my heart it believed,
What a joy I received,
What a heaven iu Jesus's name !
3 'Twas a heaven below
My Redeemer to kaow^
The angels could do nothing more
Thau fall at his feet.
And the story repeat,
And the lover of sinners adore.
4 Jesus all the day long
W.T3 my joy an J n)y snne :
0 that all his salvation mi^ht see !
He hath loved me, I cried,
He hath sulfer'd and died,
To redeem such a rebel as me.
5 On the wings of his love
I was carried above
AjI sin, and teniptatioo, and paio ;
I could not believe
That I ever should grieve,
That I ever should svStr again.
6 I rode on the sky,
Freely justified I,
Nor did envy Elijah his seat :
90 ON BACKSLIDING.
My jnul mounted higher
In a chariot of fire,
And the moon it was under my feet.
7 O the rapturous height
Ofthat holy delight,
Which I felt in the life-giving blood !
Of my Saviour possessM,
I was perfectly blest,
As if fiird with the fulness of God.
SECOND PART.
AH '. where am I now !
When was it, or how,
That I fell from my heaven of grace
I am brought into thrall ;
I am str;pp'd of my a.i ;
1 am banish'd from Jesus's face
2 Hardly yet do I know
How I let my Lord go.
So insensibly starling aside ;
When the tempter came in
With his own subtle sin.
And infected n-f spirit with pride.
3 But I felt it too soon,
That my Saviour was gone,
Swiftly vanishing out of my si^ t ;
Afy triumph and boast
On a sudden were lost.
And my day it was turn'd Lito night
4 Only pride could destroy
That mnocent joy,
And make my Reieemer depart,
Put whate'er was the cause,
I lament the sad loss.
For the veil is come over my heart
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6 Ah ! wretch that I am !
I can only exclaim,
Like a devil torineiiteJ withii) ;
My Saviour is eone,
And has left me alone
To the fuT)- of Satan and sin.
6 Nothing now rm relieve ;
Without comfort I grieve ;
I have lost all my peace and my power;
No access do I fin i
To the Friend of mankind :
I can ask for bis mercy no more.
7 Toni^e cannot declare
The torment I be.-<.r,
(While no end to my troubles I see,)
Only Adam could tell
On the day that he fell.
And was turn'd out of Eaen like me.
8 Driven out from my God,
I wander abniad.
Through a desert of sorro^vs I rove :
How great is my p.iin
That 1 cannot regain
My Eden of Jesus's love!
9 I never shall rise
To my first paradise,
Or come my Redeemer to see :
But I feel a faint hope.
That at list he will stoop.
And his pity shall bring him to me.
87 Carmel—p. 253.] 10th P. M. 8 Utu>S%.
TTOW sh.ill a lest sinner in pain
^^ Recover his forfeited peace ?
When brought into bondage again,
What hope of a second release ;
90 ON BACKSLIDING.
My «nul mounted higher
In a chariot of fire,
Anil the moon it was under my feet.
7 0 the rapturous height
Ofthat holy delight,
Which I felt in the life-giving blood !
Of my Saviour possess'd,
I was perfectlv blest,
As if fiU'd with the fulness of God.
SECOND PART.
AH '. where am I now !
Wheii was it, or how,
That I tell from my heaven of grace
I am broj2;ht into thr?ll ;
I am stiipp'd of my a., ;
1 am banish'd from Jesus's face
2 Hardly yet do I know
How i let my Lord go,
So insensibly starting aside;
When the tempter came in
Willi his own subtle sin,
And infected n-T sjiirit with pride.
3 But I felt it too soon,
That my Saviour was gone,
Swiftly vanishing out of my si^ t ;
My triumph and boasl
On a sudden were lost,
And my day it was turn'd iito night.
4 Only pride could destroy
That innocent joy,
And make my Rprlcemer depart,
Rut whate'er was the cause,
1 lament the sad loss.
For the veil is come over my heart
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5 Ah ! wretch that I am !
I can only exclaim,
Like a devil torioeiiteJ within;
My Saviour is gone,
And has left me alone
To the fury of Satan and sin.
6 Nothing now nn relieve ;
Without comfort I grieve ;
I have lost all my peice and my power;
No access do I find
To the Friend of mankind :
1 can ask for his mercy no more.
7 Tongue cannot declare
The torment I bear,
(While no end to my troubles I see,)
Only Adam could tell
On the day that he fell.
And was turn'd out of Eden like me.
8 Driven out from my God,
I wander abroad.
Through a desert of sorro^vs I rove :
How great is my pain
That I cannot regain
My Eden of Jesus's love !
9 I never shall rise
To my first paradise,
Or come my Redeemer to see :
But I feel a faint hope.
That at list he will stoop,
And his pity shall bring hjm to me.
87 CamieZ— p. ^3.] 10th P. M. 8 li>ie.i 8*.
"LTOW shall a lest sinner in pain
■»••■■ Recover his forfeited peace ?
When brought into bondage agam,
What hope of a second release ;
93 ON BACKSLIDING.
Will mercy itself be so kind
To spare such a rebel as me ?
And 0, can I possibly find
Such plenteous redeiiiptioa in thee?
2 0 Jesus, of thee I inquire.
If still thou art able \o save,
The brand to pluck out of the fire.
And ranson) my soul fioni the grave;
The help of thy Spirit restore.
And show me the life-giving blood :
And pardon a sinner once more,
And bring me again unto God.
3 0 Jesus, in pity draw near,
Come quickly to help a lost soul,
To comfort a mourner appear.
And make a poor Lazarus whole ;
The balm cf thy mercy apply,
Thou seest the sore anguish I feel ;
Save, Lord, or I perish, I die,
0 save, or I sink into hell !
4 I sink, if thou longer delay
Tliy pardoning mercy to show :
Come quickly, and kindly display
The power of thy passion below;
By all thou hast done for iny sake.
One drop of thy blood ] implore :
Now. now let it touch me, and make
The sinner a sinner no more.
88 Rochester— p. IS.] C. M.
f\ THAT I were as heretofore !
^-^ When warm in my first love;
1 only lived my God I' adore,
And seek the tilings above !
2 Upon my head his candle sboue,
Aod lavish of his grace,
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With cords of love he drew me on.
And half unveil'd his face.
8 Butter and honey did I eat,
And, lifted upon hijh,
I saw (he cbuds beneath my feet,
And rode upon the sky.
4 Far, far above all earthly things
Triumphantly I rode ;
1 soar'd to heaven on ei^Ies' win^s.
And found ar.d talk'd with God.
5 Where am I now ? from what a height
Of happiness cast down !
The glory swallow'd up in night.
And faded is the crown.
6 0 God, thou art my home, my rest,
For which I sigh in piin !
How shall I 'scape into thy breast.
My Eden now regain ?
89 Chester— p. 4S.] C M
(\ FOR a closer walk with God,
^-^ A calm and heavenly frame ;
A lijht to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb !
2 Where is the blessedness I knew
t When first I saw the Lord ?
Where is the soul-refreshing view
Of Jesus and his word ?
3 What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd,
How sweet their mem'ry still !
But they have left an aching void
The world can never fill.
4 Return, 0 holy Dove, return.
Sweet TneBtenjer of rest I
94 ON BACKSLIDING.
1 hate the sins that made thee mourn,
And drove thee from my breast.
5 The dearest idol I have known,
Whate'er tliat idol be,
Help me to tear it fmm thy throne,
Aiid worship only thee.
6 So 6h.\U my walk be close with God,
Calm and serene iny frame ;
So purer li»ht shall mark the road
That leads me to the Lamb.
90 Wing-ton— p. 7S.] L. M.
OHOW pity, Lord, 0 Lord, forgive,
'^ Let a repenting rebel live ;
Are not thy mercies lar^e njid free?
May not a siuuer trust in thee ?
2 My crimes are ^reat, but dont surpass
The povier and glory rf thy grace ;
Great God, thy nature hatli no bound,
So let thy pard'cing love be found.
3 O ! wash my soul from every sin !
Anl make my guilty conscience clean 1
Hereon my heart tlie burden lies.
And past otleuces p^in my eyes.
4 My lips with shame my sins confess,
Against thy law, against thy grace ;
Lord, should (hy judgments grow severe,
I am condemn'd, but thnu art clear.
5 Should sudden vengeance seize my breath.
I must pronounce thee just in death ;
And if my soul wers sent to hell,
Thy righteous law approves it well.
6 Yet save a trembling sinner. Lord,
VVliose hope, t'ill hnv'rinf round thy word,
ON BACKSLIDING. 95
Would light on some in-eet promise there,
Some sure support a^iost despair.
91 IVelis—p. 91.] L yi.
AH ! Lord, with trembling I confess,
A gracious soul ma)' fall from grace ;
The salt may lose its seasoning power,
And never, never find it more I
2 Lest that my fearful case should be,
Each moment kiiit my soul to thee :
And lead me to the mount above,
1 hrough the low vale of hunible love
92 lVoolwich~-p. 212.] 5th P. M. 4 linu It.
DEPTH of mercy! can there be
Mercy still reserved for me?
■ Can my G«d his wrath forbear ?
Me, the chief of sinners, spare ?
2 I have long withstood his grace ;
Long provoked him to his face;
Would not hearken to his calls :
Grieved him by a thousand falls.
3 Kindled his relentings are.
Me he now deli?lits to spare ;
Cries, " How shall I ;ive thee up ?"
Lets the lifted thunder drop.
4 There for me the Saviour stands j
Shows his wounds, ajid spreads his hands;
God is love ! I know, I feel ;
Jesus weeps and loves me still.
5 Jesus, answer from above,
Is not all thy nature love ?
Wilt thou not the wrong forget ?
Suffer me to kiss thy feet ?
96 ON BACKSLIDING.
6 Now incline me to repent !
• Let me now my fall Iniiient !
Now my foul revolt dejilore!
Weep, believe, and siu uo more.
03 Richmond— 1^.26-.] llth P. M. 76, 76, 77 76.
T WILL hearken what the Lord
■'- Will say concerning inej
Hast thou uot a gracious word
For one who waits on thee ?
Speak it to my soul, that I
May in thee have peace and power;
• Never from my Saviour iiy.
And uever grieve thee more.
2 How have I thy Spirit grieved,
Since first witii me he strove 1
Obstinately disbelieved,
And trampled on thy love !
I have sinii'J against the light;
I have broke from thy embrace ;
No, I would not, when I might,
Be freely saved by grace.
6 After all that I have done
To drive thee from my heart,
Still thou w.lt not leave thine own,
Thou wilt not yet depart ;
Wilt not give the sinner o'er:
Ready art thou now to save;
Bi.ist me come as heretofore,
That I thy life may have.
4 0 thou meek and irentle Lamb !
tury is not in thee ;
Thnu co'ntinuest still the same,
And still thy grace is free ;
St ilHhine arms -vre open wide.
Wretched flniiprs ro receive:
ON BACKSLIDING. 97
Tbon hast once for sinoen died,
That all may turn and live.
5 Lo ! I take thee at thy word, '
My foolisliiicss I ni"urn ;
Unto thee, my bleeiliiig Lord,
However late, I turn :
Tea: I yield, I yi'ldal last,
Listeu lo thy speakiug blood ,
Me, with all my sins, 1 cast
Oo niy atoning God.
94 ^ctOTi— p. 88.] L.M.
Q< AVlorR, r now with shame confew
*^ My thirst for creature hapnines3 ;
By base deiires I wrongM thy love.
And forced thy mercy to remove.
2 Yet would I not reeard thy stroke,
But when thou didsl lliy erace revoke.
And wlien thou didst thy face conceal.
Thy al.seiice I refused to feel.
3 I knew not that tht- Lord was gone ;
Id my own froward will went on;
I lived to the desires of men,
And thou hast all my waiid'rings (eea.
4 Yet, O the riches of thy znce I
Thou, who hast seen my evil wayi.
Wilt freely my backsli .'iujsheal,
And pardon on my conscience seal*
5 For this I at thy footstool wait,
Till thou my i>eacp a:rain create:
Fruit nf thy ^lacii us lips restore
My peace, and bid me sin no more!
6 Farotr, yet at thy feet I lie,
(Till thou again thy blood apply ;
5
08 UN BACKSLIDINO.
Till thou repeat my sins forgiven,)
As far from God as bell from heaven.
7 But, for thy truth and mercy's sake,
My comfort thou wilt give me back;
And lead me on from i;race to grace,
In all the paths of righteousness :
8 Till throughly saved, my new-bom soul,
And perfectly by faith macle whole,
Shall bright m thy full image rise.
To share thy glory iu the skies.
95 Minorca— p. 161.] 1st P. M, 6 Una 8k.
• r\ 'TIS enough, my Gf>d, my God !
^^ Here let me give my wand'riugs o'er j
No longer trample on thy blood.
And grieve ihy gentleness no more;
No more thy ling'ring anger move,
Or sin against thy light and love.
2 0 Lord, if mercy is with thee,
Now let it all on me be shown 1
On me, the chief of sinners, me.
Who humbly for thy mercy groan ;
Me to thy Father's grace restore •
Nor let me ever grieve thee more 1
3 Fountain of unexliausted love,
Of infinite compassion, hear :
My Saviour, and my Prince above,
Once more in my behalf appear ;
Repentance, faithj and pardon give:
0 let me turn again and live.
96 Ophir—p. 21 S.] 6th P. M. 6 llnei 7fc
JESUS, I, believe Ihee near.
Now my guilty soul restore:
Novy my guilty conscience clear:
Give me back my peace and power
ON BACKSLIDING. 99
Stone to flesh again convert,
Write forgiveness on my heart.
2 I believe thy pard'nin^ grace,
As at the beginning, free :
Open are thy arms t' embrace,
;Me, the worst of rebels, me :
In me all the hind'rance lies :
Call'd, I still refuse to rise.
3 Now the gracious work begin ;
Now for good some token give ;
Give me now to feel my sin ;
Give me now my sin to leave;
Bid me look on thee and mourn ;
Bid me to thy arms return !
4 Take this heart of stone away :
Melt me, into gracious tears;
Grant me power to watch and pray,
Till thy lovely face appears:
Till thy favour I retrieve.
Till by faith again I live.
97 Coomffton— p. 62.) C. M.
r\ WHY did I my Saviour leave,
^ So soon unfaithful prove !
How could I thy good Spirit grieve.
And sin against thy love !
2 I forced thee first to disappear,
I turn'd thy face aside ;
Ah, Lord ! if thou hidst still been here,
Thy servant had not died.
3 rtfct 0, how soon thy wrath is o'er
And pard'niiig love takes place I
Assist me, Saviour, to adore
The riches of thy grace.
100 ON BACKSLIDINO.
4 0 could I lose myself in thee;
Thy liepth of mercy prove ;
Thou vast, unf.ithum.iLile sea
Of unexhausted love !
5 My humbled soul, when thou art near,
III dust and ashes lies:
How shall a siuful worm appear,
Or meet thy purer eyes ?
6 I loathe myself when God I see,
And into nothing fall ;
Content if thou exalted be,
And Christ be AU in All.
98 Guilford— I,. 140.] S, M.
r\ JESUS! full of grace,
^ To thee I make my moan;
Let me arain behold thy face-,
Call home thy banish'd one.
2 Again my pardon seal,
Again my soul restore,
And freely my backslidings heal.
And bid me sin no more.
3 Wilt thou not bid me rise ?
Speak, and my soul shall live :
Forgive, my gasping spirit cries.
Abundantly forgive.
4 For thine own mercy's sake,
Relieve my wretchedness;
And 0, my pardon give nie back,
And give me back my peace !
5 Again thy love reveal.
Restore that inward heaven:
O grant me once again to feel,
Through faith, my sins forgiven I
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6 Thy iHmost mercy show,
Say to my drooping soul,
In peace and full assurance po, '
Thy faith hath made thee whole.
99 Plymouth Dock— p. 1 4a ] 1 st P. M. 6 lines 8%.
f^ GOU, thy righteousness we own :
^-' Judgment is at thy house begua!
With humble awe thy rod we hear,
And guilty in thy sight appear:
We cannot in thy judgment stand ;
But sink beneath thy mighty baud.
2 Our mouth as in the dust we lay,
And still for mercy, mercy, pray:
Unworthy to behfild thy face ;
Unfaithful stewards of thy grace ;
Our sin and wicke<lness we own.
And deeply for acceptance groaji.
3 We have not. Lord, thy gifts improved,
But basely from thy statutes roved ;
And done thy loving Spirit despite,
And sinn'd against the clearest light;
Brought back thy agonizing pain,
And nail'd thee to the cross again.
4 Tet do not drive us from thy face,
A stilf-neck'd and hard-hearted race ;
But, 0 ! in tender mercy lircak
The iron sinew in our neck :
The sofl'ning power of love impart,
And melt the marble of our heart.
100 N Ki7ignoood—i>.2lS.] 12th P.M.76,76,78,76.
■p^ATHER, if thou must reprove,
^ For all that I have done,
Not in anger, but in love,
Chastise thine btuubled ton I
102 ON BACKSLIDING.
Use the rod, and not the sword : '
Correct with kind severity :
Bring me not to nothing, Lord,
But bring me home to thee.
2 True and faithful as thou art
To all thy church and me,
Give a new, believing heart,
That knows and cleaves to thee.
Freely our backslidings heal ;
And by thy balmy blood restored.
Grant that every soul may feel
Thou art our pard'ning Lord.
3 Mis;ht we now, with pure desire,
Thine only love request :
Now, with willing heart entire,
Return to Christ our rest !
When we our whole heart resign,
0 Jesus, to be fill'd with thee.
Thou art ours, and we are thine.
Through all eternity !
101 Clarlie—p. 1 49. ] 1st P. M. 6 Knu 8«.
/~) GOD, if thou art love indeed,
^ Let it once more be proved in me,
That I thy mercy's praise may spread,
For every chill of Adam free ;
O, let me now the gift embrace ;
O, iet me now be saved by grace !
2 If all long-suffering thou hast shown
On me, that others may believe.
Now maKe thy loving kindness knouii,
Now the all-conqu'ring.Spiril give;
Spirit of victory and power.
That I may never grieve thee more.
S Grant my importunate request :
It tj not my desire, but thme :
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Since thou wonldst have the sinoer blest,
Now let me in thine imaee shine;
Nor ever from thy footsteps move,
But more than conquer through thy love.
4 Be it according to fhv ivIU !
Set my imprisouM spirit free ;
(The counsel of thy erace fulfil ;)
Into thy florious liberty
My ipirit, soul, and flesh restore,
And I shall never ?rieve thee more.
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TTES, from this instant, now, I will
■*■ To my oflended Father cry ;
Mv base ingratitude I feel.
Vilest of all thy children, I ;
Not worthy to be call'd thy son ;
Tet will I thee, my Father, own.
2 Guide of my life hast thou not been,
And rescued me from passion's power ;
Ten thousand times preser»ed from sin ;
Nor let the preetly grave devour:
And wilt thou now thy wrath retain,
Nor ever love thy child again ?
3 Ah ! canst thou find it in thy heart
To give me up, so long pursued ?
Ah ! canst thou finally depart.
And leave thy creat\ire in his blood ?
Leave me,— out of thy presence cast,
To perish in my sins at last ?
4 If thou hast call'd me to return ;
If weepine :»t thy feet I fall.
The prodigal thou %vilt not spurn.
But pity and forgive me all ;
In answer to my Friend above ;
In honour of his bleeding love.
IM PRAYER AMD
PRAYER AND INTERCESSION.
103 Kingsbridge—p.Ul.] L. M.
OHEPHERD f)f souh. with pitying eye,
*^ The tlious.'xnds of our Israel see;
To thee in their behalf we cr>',
Ourselves but newly fouud in thee.
2 See where o'er desert wastes they err,
And neither fond nor feeder have ;
Nor fold nor plate of refuge near ;
For Qo man cares their souls to save.
3 Wild as the untaught Indian's brood,
The Christian savajra remain ;
Strangers, yea, enemies to God,
They make thee siiill thy blood in vain.
4 Thy people, Lord, are sTid for naught;
Nor know they tlieir Redeemer nigh:
Thev perish whom thyself liast liouglit ;
Tteir souls for lack of knowledge die.
6 The pit its mouth hath open'd wide,
To swallow up its careless prey :
Why should they die. when thou hast died;
Hast died to bear their sins away ?
6 Why should the foe thy purchase seize ?
Remember, Lord, thy dying groans:
The meed of all thy suilerings these ;
O claim them for thy ransora'd ones.
7 Extend to these thy pard'ning grace;
To these be thy salvaliou show'd:
O add them to thy chosen race !
0 sprinkle all tlieir hearts with blood!
INTERCESSION. 105
8 SKll let the publicans draw near :
Open the door of faith and heaven ;
And grant their hearts thy word to hear,
And witness all their sins forgiven.
104 flifcron— p. in.] L.M.
TESUS, mj' Advocate above,
" My Friend before the throne of love.
If now for me prevails thy prayer.
If now I find thee pleading there.
If thou the secret wish convey,
And sweetly prompt my heart to pray;
Hear, and my weak petitions join,
Almighty Advocate, to thine.
2 Fain T7ould I know my utmost ill.
And groan my nature's weight to feel !
To feel the clouds that round me roU,
The night that bangs upon my soul :
The darkness of my carnal mind,
My will per%'erse, my passions blind,
Scatter'J o'er all the earth abroad.
Immeasurably far from God.
3 Jesus, my heart's desire obtain ;
My earnest suit present and gain :
My fulness of corruption show.
The knowledge of myself bestow ;
A deeper displacerce at sin ;
A sharper sense of guilt within ;
Astronfer strusgling to get free;
A keener appetite for thee.
4 0 soverei?n love, to thee I cry !
Give me thyself, or else I die !
Save me from death ; from hell set free!
Death, hell, are but the want of thee.
Quicken'd by thy imparted flame ;
^ved, when possess'd of thee I am i
5*
106 PRAYER AND
My life, my only heaven thou art;
0 might I feel thee in my heart !
105 Pelham— p. \28.] S. M.
OPiniT of faithj come down,
•^ Reveal the things of God ;
And make to us llie G')dliead known,
And wiiiiess with the tilood :
'Tis thine the blood t' apply,
And give us eyes to see ;
Who did for every sinner die,
Halh surely died for me.
2 No man can truly say
That Jesus is the Lord ;
Uuless. thou take the veil away,
And breathe the living word :
Then, only then we feel
Our int'rest in his blood ;
And cry, with joy unspeakable,
" Thou art my Lord, my God !"
3 O that the world might know
The all-atoning Lamb !
Spirit of faith, descend and show
The virtue of his name :
The grace which all may find,
The saving power impart;
And testify to all mankind,
And speak in every heart.
4 Inspire the living faith,
Which whosoe'er ri-ceives.
The witness in himst-lf lie hath,
And coMscinusly lielitves:
The f:tilli that C"iH;uers all,
And doth the mountain move:
Ajttd saves whoe'er on Jesus call.
And perfects them in love.
INTERCESSION. 107
106 Amsterdam— p. 272.] 1 1th P. M. 76,76,77,76
TV/TAKER, Saviour of mankind,
-'■'■'■ Who hast on me beslow'd
An imniorUl soul, desizu'd
To be the house of God :
Come, and now reside in me,
Never, never to remove;
Make me just and ^od like thee,
And full of power and love.
2 Bid me in thine im^^e rise,
A saint, a creature new :
True, and merciful, and wise.
And pure, and happy too ;
This thy primitive desijn,
That I should in thee be blest;
Should within thine arms divine,
For ever, ever rest.
3 Let thy will in me be done ;
Fulfil my heart's desire,
Thee to know, and love alone,
And rise in raptures higher.
Thee descendin? on a cloud.
Till with ravish'd eves I see ;
Then shall I be fill'd with God
To all eternity !
107 Euphrates— p.T7i.] 12th P. M. 76,76,78,7^
GOD of my salvation, hear.
And help me to believe :
Simply do I now draw near,
Thy blessin? to receive ;
Full of ^ilt, alas '. I am,
But to thy wounds for refuge flee :
Friend of sinners, spotless Lsonb,
Thy blood was shed for me.
108 PRAYER AND
2 Stauding now as newly slain,
To thee I lift mine eye,
Balm of all my grief and pain.
Thy blood is always nigh.
Now as yesterday the same
Thou art, and wilt for ever be :
Friend of sinners, spotless Lamb,
Thy blood was shed for me.
3 Nothing have I, Lord, to pay,
Nor can thy grace procure ;
Empty send me not away,
For I, thou kuow'st, am poor;
Dust and ashes is my name ;
My all is sin and misery :
Friend of sinners, spotless Lamb,
Thy blood was shed for me.
4 No good word, or work, or thought.
Bring I to buy thy grace ;
Pardon I accept, unbought,
Thy proffer I embrace,
Coming as at first I came.
To take, and not bestow on thee ;
Friend of sinners, spotless Lamb,
Thy blood was shed for me.
5 Saviour, from thy wounded side
I never will depart ;
Here will I my spirit hide,
When I am pure in heart:
Till my place above I claim.
This only shall be all my plea,
Friend of sinners, spotless Lamb,
Thy blood was shed for me.
108 _ New- Haven— p. 21.] CM.
rjOD of all grace and majesty,
^^ Supremely great and good,
INTERCESSION. 109
If I have mercy foun^ with thee
Through the atocing blood ;
The guard of all thy mercies give,
And to my parJon join
A fear lest I sh'iulJ ever grieve
Thy gracious Spirit divine.
2 If mercy is indeed with thee,
May I obedient prove,
Nor e'er abuse my liberty,
Or sin against thy love :
This choicest fruit of faith bestow
On a poor sojourner ;
And let me pass my daj-s below
In humbleness and fear.
3 Still may I walk as in thy sight,
My strict observer see ;
And thou, liv rev'rent love, unite
My childlike heart to thee :
Still let me, till my days are put.
At Jesus' feet abide :
So shall he lift me up at last,
And seat me by his side.
109 Shirland—p. 135.] S. M.
MY God, mv life, mv love,
Tolliee.'to theeTcall:
1 cannot live if thou remove,
For thou art all in all.
2 Thy shining grace can cheer
This dunreon where I dwell :
Tis paradise when thou art here,
If thou depart 'tis hell.
3 The smilings of thy face.
How amiable they are !
TIs heaven to rest m thine embrace,
And nowhere else but there.
110 PRAYER AND
4 To thee, and fhee alone,
The angels owe their bliss ;
They sit around thy gracious throne,
And dwell where Jesus is.
6 Not all the harps above
Can make a heavenly place.
If God his residence remove.
Or but conceal his face.
6 Nor earth, nor all the sky,
Can one delight alTord ;
No, not one drop of real joy.
Without thy presence. Lord.
7 Thou art the sea of love,
Where all my pleasures roll :
The circle where my pMsions move,
And centre of my soul.
8 To thee my spirits fly,
With infinite desire:
And yet how far from thee I lie !
O Jesus, raise me higher.
110
HamiUon—p. 80.] L. M.
1 THIRST, thou wounded Lamb of God,
^ To wash me in thy cleansing blood ;
To dwell within thy wounds: then pain
Is sweet, and life or death is gain.
2 Take my poor heart, and let it be
For ever closed to all but thee !
Seal thou my breast, and let me wear
That pledge of Inve for ever there.
3 How blest are they who still abide
Close shelter'd in thy bleeding side !
Who life and strength from thence derive,
And by tbee move, and in thee live.
INTERCESSION. Ill
4 What are our works but sin and death,
Till thou thy quick'ning Spirit breathe?
Thou giv'st the power thy erace to more ;
0 wondrous ep^ce I O boundless'love !
5 How can it be, thou heavenly^ I^ing,
Th»t thnu shouldst us to glorj- bring ;
Mnke slaves the partners of ihy tlirone,
Oeck'd with a uever-fadiug crown ?
6 Hence our hearts melt, our eyes o'erflow,.
Our words are lost, uor will we know—
Ner will we think of au?hl beside,
" My Lord, my love is crucified."
7 Ah ! Lord, enUirge our scanty thought.
To know the wonders thou hast wrought;
Unloose our stanmiYing tongues to tell
Thy love ininiense, unsearchable !
8 First -bom of many brethren thou,
To thee, lo. ail our souls we bow :
To thee our hearts and hands we give ;
Thine may we die, thine may we live.
Ill St. Jago—p. 50.] C. M.
JESUS, thou all-redeeming Lord,
Thy blessing we implore ;
Open the door to preach thy word,
The great, effectual door.
8 Gather the outcasts in, and save
From sin and Satan's ()0\ver ;
And let them now acceptance have.
And know their gracious hour.
3 Lover of souls 1 thou know'st to prize
What thou hast bought so dear :
Come, then, and iu thy people's eyei.
With all thy wounds appear !
112 PRATER AND
4 Appear, as when of old confess'd.
The suffering Son of God ;
And let them see thee in thy vest,
But newly dippM in blood.
5 The hardness from their hearts remore,
Thou who for all hast died :
Show them the tokens of thy love,
Thy feet, thy hands, thy side.
6 Thy feet were nail'd to ponder tree
To trample down their sin ;
Thy hands stretch'd out they all may see,
To take thy murderers in.
7 Thy side an open fountain is,
Where all may freely go.
And drink the living streams of bliss,
And wash them white as snow.
8 Ready thou art the blood t' apply,
And prove the record true :
And all thy wounds to sinners cry,
" I suffer'd this for you !"
112 Stou>— p. 26.] C. M.
COME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
One God in persons three,
Bring back the heavenly blessing lost
By all mankind and me.
2 Thy favour and thy nature too.
To me, to all restore ;
Forgive, and after God renew,
And keep me evermore. ^
3 Eternal Sun of rijhteousness,
Display thy beams divine,
And cause the glories of thy fac«
Upon my heart to shine.
INTBRCESSION. 113
4 Li^ht, in thy light, 0 may 1 see,
Thy grace and mercy prove 1
Bevived, and cheer'd, and blest by thee.
The God of pard'oing love. •
6 Lift up thy countenance serene.
And let thy happy child
Behold, wiilioul a cloud between,
The Godhead reconciled.
6 Tlat all-comprising pi-ace bestow
On me, throcih grace forgiven ;
The joys of holiness below.
And then the joys of heaven !
113 ^rTUferdam— p.271.] llth P.M.76,76,77,7«k
r\ ALMIGHTY God of love,
^ Thy holy ami display ;
Send me succour from above,
In this my evil day :
Arm my \veakness u-ilh thy power,
Woman's seed afjpeai within !
Be my safeguard and my tower.
Against the face of sin.
2 Could I of thv strength take hold,
And always feel thee near,
Confident, divinely bold,
My soul would scorn to fear:
NoTliing should my firmness shock;
Though the gates of hell assail,
Were I built upon the rock.
They never could prevail.
3 Rock of my salvation, haste,
»■ Extend thy ample shade,
I Let it over me be cast,
p And screen my nakwl head ;
' Save me in the trying hour;
Thou my sure protectioD be ;
114 PRATER AND
Shelter me from Satan's power,
Till I am fix'd on thee.
4 Set upon thyself my feet,
And make me surely stand ;
From temptation's ra?e and heat
Cover me with thy hand ;
Let me in the cleft be placed ;
Never from my fence remove ;
In thine arms of love embraced.
Of everlasting love.
114 Matthias— p. \2-.] S. M.
T 0, in thy hand I lay,
••-' And wait thy will to prove;
My potter, stamp on me, thy clay.
Thine only stamp of love :
Be this my whole desire,
I know that it is thine ;
Then kindle in my soul a fire
Which shall for ever shine.
2 Thy gracious readiness
To save mankind assert;
Thine image, love, thy name impress,
Thy nature on my heart :
Father of mercies, hear !
Into my soul come down ;
Let it throuehout my life appear.
That I have Christ put on.
3 0 plant in me thy mind !
0 fix in me thy hime !
So shall I cry to all mankind.
Come to the waters, come !
iestis IS full of grace.
To all his bowels move ;
Behold in me, ye fallen race,
That God ii only lov«.
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115 Castle Street— p. 1&2.] L. M.
/^REAT God, indulge my humble claim ;
^^ Be thou my hope, my joy, my'rest ;
The glories that compose thy name
Stand all engaged to make me blest.
2 Thou great and good, thou just and wise,
Thou art my Father and my God !
And I am thine by sacred ties.
Thy son, thy servant, bought vrith blood.
3 With heart, and eyes, and lifted hands,
For thee I long, to thee I look,
As travellers in thirsty lands
Pamt for the cooling water brook.
4 E'en life itself, without thy love.
No lasting pleisure can aflford ;
Tea, 'tivoul I a tiresome burden prove.
If I were banish'J from thee. Lord !
5 I'll lift my hands, I'll raise my voice.
While I have breath to pray or praise :
This work shall make my heart rejoice,
And spend the remnant of my days.
1 16 Alfretm—p. 77.] L. M
f\ THOU, to whose all-searchin» sight
^ The darkness shineth as the lighU
Search, prove my heart, it pants for thee
0 burst these bonds and set it free !
2 Wash out its stains, refine its dross,
Nail my affections to the cross ;
Hallow each thought, let all within
Be clean, as thou, my Lord, art clean.
3 If in this darksome wild I stray,
Be thou my light, be thou my way ;
No foes, no violence I fear.
No fraud, while thou, my God, ai i oear.
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4 When rising floods my soul o'erflow.
When sinks my heart in waves of wo.
Jesus, thy timely aid impart, '
And raise my head and cheer my heart.
. 6 Saviour, where'er thv s'eps I see.
Daunt ess untired, Ifollowthee:
u lei Iljy hand support nie still.
And lead me to tliy holy hill !
6 If rough and thorny be the way
Wy strength proportion to my dav ;
Till toil, and grief, and pain shall cease.
Where all ,s calm, and joy, and peaw. *
117 Smrton-p. 292.] 14th P. M. 10 n, 10 11.
QOME Lord from above, the mountains remove.
O'erturn al that hinde,, the c.ui^e of thy love^
My bosom inspire, enkindle the fire ^ '
And wrap my whole soul in the flakes of desire.
2 I languish and pine for the comfort divine
r J h° '^V' ' "^y "'y ''«'°^ed is mine ! '
I \e chose the good part, mv portion thou art •
0 Love, let me find thee, 0 (Jod, in my h^A !
'^ ^"'suffice;'"'' ^'""' ''^'"' ""'^'"^ "^ '^
It cannot be "bought, thou know'st I have nau'ht
Not an action, a word, or a truly good thought.
4 But I hear-a voice say. Without money you aa.1
Receive it, whoever hath nothing to pay- '
Who on Jesus relies, without money or price.
1 he pearl of loi^iveness and holiness buys.
INTERCESSION. 117
6 The blessing is free, so. Lord, let it be :
I yield that thy love should be ^iven to me;
I freely receive what thou freely dost jive,
And consent to thy love, in thine Eden to live.
6 The gift I embrace, the giver I praise,
And ascribe my salvali^ii to Jesus's ?race;
It came from above, the foretaste I prove.
And I soon shall receive all Ihy fulness of lore.
118 Meridai—p. 57.] C. M.
"DEING of beinrs, God of love,
■^ To thee our hearts we raise ;
Thy all-su<;tainin? power we prove.
And gladly sing thy praise.
2 Thine, wholly thine, we pant to be,
Our sacrifice receive ;
Made, and preserved, and saved by thee,
To thee ourselves we give.
3 Heavenward our every wish aspires,
For all thy mercy's store ;
The sole return thy love requires,
Is that we ask for more.
4 For more we ask, we open then^
Our hearts t' embrace thy will j
Turn, and bejet us, Lord, again ;
With all ihy fulness fill.
5 Come, Holy Ghost, the Saviour's love
Shed in our hearts abroad ;
So shall we ever live and move,
And be with Christ in Goa.
119 OZmi/ir— p. 124.] S. M.
TESUS, my Lord, attend
** Thy feeble creature's cry ;
And show thyself the sinner's friend.
And set me up on hii;h.
118 PRAYER AND
From hell's oppressive power
My strugfling soul release ;
And to Ihy Father's grace restore;
And to thy perfect peace.
2 Thy blood and righteousness
I make my only plea;
My present and eternal peace
Are both derived from thee.
Rivers of life divine
From thee, their fountain, flow;
And all who know that love of thine,
The joy of angels know.
3 Come, then, impute, impart,
To me thy rirhteousness ;
And let me tasie how good thou art,
How full of truth and grace:
That thou canst here forgive.
Grant me to testify;
And justified bv faith to live,
And in that faith to die.
120 Hanover— p. 5T.] CM.
(\ SUN of righteousness, arise
^-^ With healing in thy wing ;
To my diseased, my fainting soul,
Life and salvation bring.
2 These clouds of pride and sin dispel.
By thine all-piercing Learn ;
Lighten mine eyes with faith, my heart
With holy hope inflame.
3 My mind, by thy all-nuick'ning power,
From low .lesires set tree ;
Unite my scallei'd ihi.ughts, and fix
My love entire on thee.
4 Father, thy long-lost son receive ;
Saviour, thy purchase own ;
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Blest Comforter, with peace and joy,
Thy new-Diade creature crown.
6 Eternal, undivided Lord,
Co-equal One in three.
On thee all faith, all hope be placed,
All love be paid to thee.
121 Ephenis—p.2\3.-i 5th P. M. 4 Kntt 7i.
QJON of God, thy blessing grant,
'^ Still supply our every want !
Tree of life, thy influence shed !
With thy sap my spirit feed.
2 Tenderest branch, alas ! am I,
Wither without tliee and die ;
Weak as helpless infancy ;
0 confirm my soul in thee !
3 Unsustain'd by thee I fall ;
Send the help for wliich I call :
Weaker than a bruised reed,
Help 1 every moment need.
4 All my hopes on thee depend ;
Love me, save me to the end ;
Give me the continuing jrace,
Take the everlasting praise.
122 Boston— f. 213.] 5lb P. >L 4 linu ?&
T ORD, we come before thee now,
•*-* At thy feet we hunibly bow ;
0! do not our suit disdain;
Shall we seek ihee, Lord, in vain ?
2 Lord, on thee our souls depend ;
In mil, passion now descend ;
Fill our hearts with thy rich grace.
Tune our lips to sing thy praiae.
VSO PRATER AND
3 In thine own appointed way
Now we seek thee, here we stay ;
Lord, we know not how to go,
Till a blessing thou bestow.
4 Send some message from thy word,
That may joy and peace afford ;
Let thy Spirit now impart
Full salvation to each heart.
5 Comfort those who weep and moain,
Let the time of joy return ;
Those that are cast down lift up ;
Make them strong in faith and hope.
6 Grant that all may seek and find
Thee a sracious God, and kind ;
Heal the sick, the captive free ;
Let us all rejoice in thee.
123
Newry—p. 88.] L. M.
TESUS, from whom all blessings flow,
* Great builder of thy church below ;
If now thy S))irit move my breast,
Hear, and fulfil thine own request.
2 The few that truly call thee Lord,
And wail Ihy sanctifying word,
And thee their utmost Saviour own, —
Unite and perfect them in one.
3 0 let them all thy mind express,
Stand forth thy chosen witnesses;
Thy power unto salvation show,
And perfect holiness helow.
4 In them let all mankind behold
How Christians lived in "d:iy8 of old ;
Mighty their envious foes to move,
& proverb of reproach — and love.
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6 Call them into thy wondrous light,
Worthy to walk with thee in white !
Make up thy jewels, LorJ, and show
Thy glorious, spotless church below.
6 From every sinful wrinkle free,
Redeeni'd from all iniquity,
The fellowship of saints make known.
And 0, my God, may I be one !
7 0 might my lot be cast with these;
The least of Jesus' witnesses;
0 that my Lord would count me meet
To wash his dear disciples' feet !
8 This only thing do I require :
Thou knoiv'st 'tis all my heart's desire,
Treely what I receive to give.
The servant of thy church to live.
9 After my lowly Lord to go,
And wait upon thy saints below ;
Enjoy the grace to angels given.
And serve the royal heirs of heaven.
10 Lord, if I now thy drawings feel,
And ask according to thy will,
Confirm the prayer, ilie seal impart,
And speak the answer to my heart.
11 Tell me, or thou shalt never go,
"Thy prayer is heard ; it shall be so:"
The word hath pass'd thy lips, and I
Shall with thy people live and die.
124 Magdalm—p. S4.] L. M.
■jV/TY hope, my all, my Saviour thou,
■'• To thee, lo, nov.- my soul I bow;
1 feel the bliss thy wounds impart,
1 find thee, Saviour, in my heart.
6
122 PRAYER AND
2 Be thou my strengtli, le fhou my way,
Protect me through my life's short day :
In all my acts may wisdom °:uide,
And keep me, Saviour, near thy side.
3 Correct, reprove, ai;i comfort me;
As I have need, my Saviour be:
And if I would from thee depart,
Then clasp nie, Saviour, to thy heart.
4 In fierce temptation's darkest hour,
Siave me from sin and Satin's power;
Tear every ido! from thy throne,
And reign, my Saviour, reign alone.
6 My sutf'rins time shall soon be o'er,
Then shall I sigh and weep no more ;
Wy ransom'd soul shall soar away.
To sing thy praise in endless day.
125 Oratitxide—p. 30.] C. M.
TESUS, (he all-restorint' Word,
•* My fallen 3)>irit's hope,
After thy lovely likeness. Lord,
Ah 1 when shall I wake up 1
2 Thou, 0 my God, thou only art
The Life, the Truth, the Way ;
Quicken my soul, instruct my heart,
My sinking footsteps stay.
3 Of all thou hast in earth belov7.
In hea.ven above, to ;ive,
Give nie thy only love to know,
In thee to walk and live.
4 Fill me with all the life of love;
In mystic union join
Me to thyself, and let me prove
Tbe fellowship diviDs.
INTERCESSION. 133
5 Open the intercourse between
My longin? soul and thee,
Never to be broke off again
To all eternity.
126 Srookfield—p. 115.] L. M.
Tl/HEN, fracious Lord, when shall it b«
''' That 1 shall find my all in thee ?
The fulness of thy promise prove,
The seal of thine eternal love ?
2 A poor blind child 1 wander here,
If haply I may feel thee near :
0 dark ! dark ! dark ! I still must say,
Amidst the blaze of gospel day.
3 Thee, only thee, I fain would find,
And cast the world and flesh behind :
Thou, only thou, to me be given.
Of all thou hast in earth or heaven.
4 When from the arm of flesh set free,
Jesus, my soul shall fly to thee :
Jesus, when I have lost my all,
1 shall upon thy bosom fall.
127 fVindliam—p. 115.] L. M.
TIT'HOM man forsakes tiiou wilt not lea re,
Ready the outcasts to receive :
Though all my simpleness I own,
And aJl my faults to thee are known.
2 Ah '. wherefore did I ever doubt?
Thou wilt in nowise cast me out,
A helpless soul that conies to thee,
With only sin and misery.
3 Lord, I am sick, my sickness cure ;
I want, do thou enrich the poor :
Under thy mightv hand I stoop ;
0 lift the abject smaer up I
\
134 PRAYER AND
4 Lord, I am blind, be thou niy sight :
Lord, I am weak, be thou my might:'
A helper of the helpless be,
And let me find my all iu thee !
1^8 Newton— p. 59.] c. M.
JESUS, Redeemer of mankind,
** Display thy saving power :
Thy mercy let these outcasts find,
And know their gracious hour.
2 Ah ! give them. Lord, a longer space,
^or suddenly consume:
But let them take the profferM grace,
And flee the wrath to come.
3 0 wouldst thou cast a pitying look,
All goodness as thou art.
Like that which faitliless Peter's broke,
On each obdurate heart!
4 Who thee beneath their feet have trod.
And crucified afresh.
Touch with thine all-victorious blood.
And turn the stone to flesh.
5 Open their eyes thy cross to see,
Their ears to hear thv cries :
Sinner, thy Saviour weeps for thee,
For thee he weeps and dies.
6 All the day long he meekly stands.
His rebels to receive,
And shows his wounds, and spreads his hands,
And bids you turn and live.
7 Turn, and your sirss of deepest die
He will with blood eirice :
E'en DOW he waits the blood I' apply ;
Be saved, be saved by grace !
INTERCESSION. 125
8 Be saved from hell, from siu, and fear:
He speaks you now forjiven ;
Walk with your God, be perfect here,
And then come up to heaven.
129 Bramerd—p. 61.] C. M.
COME, Holy Si)irit, heavenly Dove,
\ViUi all thy quick'nin? powers,
Kindle a flame of sacred love
In these cold hearts of ours.
2 Look how we grovel here below,
Fond cf these earthly toys;
Our souls how heavily they go,
To reach eternal joys !
3 In vain we tune our fcrmal songs,
In vain we strive to rise ;
Hosannas languish on our tongues,
And our devotion dies.
4 Father, and shall we ever live.
At this poor dying rate ?
Our love so faint, so cold to thee,
And thine to us so great ?
5 Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
With all thy quick'ning powers;
Come, shed abroad a Saviour's love.
And that shall kindle ours.
' 130 Mount Pkasanf—-p. 4.] C. M.
ALL glory to the dying Lamb,
And never-ceasing praise ;
While angtls live to know thy came,
Or men to feel thy g-^ce !
2 With this cold stony heart of mine,
Jesus, to thee I flee ;
And to thy grace my soul resign,
To be renew'd by thee.
126 PRATER AND
3 Give me to hide my blushing face,
While thy dear cross appears ;
Dissolve my heart in thaulifulness, j
And melt mine eyes to tears.
4 0 niay the uncomipted seed
Abide and reia^i within :
And thy life-giving word forbid
My new-born soul to sin.
5 Father, I vraif before thy throne ;
Call me a child of thine :
Send down the Spirit of thy Son,
To form my heart divine.
6 There shed thy promised love abroad.
And make my comfort strong:
Then shall I say, " My Father God!"
With an unwavVing tongue.
131 ^ratVierd— p. 61.] C. Bl
FATHER, I stretch my hands to thee,
No other help I know;
If thou withdraw thyself from me,
Ah, whither shall 1 go ?
2 AVhat did thine only Son endure.
Before I drew my breath '.
What pain, what labour to secure
My soul from endless death '.
3 0 Jesus, could I this believe,
I now should fee! thy power;
Now my poor soul thou wouldst retrieve^
Nor let me wait one hour.
4 Author of faith, to thee I lift
My weairy, lonsing eyes :
O let me now receive tnat gift.
My soul without it dies.
INTERCESSION, 127
5 Surely thou canst not let me die;
0 speak, and I shall live ;
And here 1 will unwearied lie,
Till thou thy Spirit give.
6 The worst of sinners would rejoice,
Could they but see thy face:
0 let me hear thy quick'nin? voice,
And taste thy pard'ning grace !
132 St. TJiomas—p. 134.] S. M.
/~) MAY thy powerful word
^ Inspire a feeble worm,
To rush into thy kingdom, Lord,
And take it as by storm.
2 O may we all improve
The grace already riven,
To seizs the crown of perfect love.
And scale the mount of heaven.
133 Bolly—p. 1 60.] 1st P. M. 6 lines St.
r\ WnNDROUS power cf faithful prayer!
^^ What tongue can tell th' almighty gracaf
God's hands or bound or o]en are.
As Mos-s or Elijah prays ;
Let Moses in the Spirit gri>an,
And God cries out, " Let me alone !
2 " Let me alone, that all my wrath
May rise, the wicked to consume;
While justice hears !hy pmying faith,
It cannot seal the sinner's doom :
My Son is in my sen ant's prayer.
And Jesus forces me to spare."
S 0 blessed word of gospel grace.
Which now we for our Israel pl&id I
128 PRAYER AND
A faithless and backsliiinj race,
Whom thou hast out of Eg>-pt freed •
O do not thou in wrath chastise, '
Nor let thy whole displeasure rise!
4 Father, we ask in Jesus' name ;
In Jesus' power and spirit pray;
Divert thy venfeful thunder's aim !
O turn thy threat'ning wralh away'
Our ^ilt and punishment remoi'e,
And magnify thy pard'ning love.
5 Father, regard thy pleading Son,
Accept his all-availing praver;
And send a peaceful answer down,
In honour of our spokesman there !
Wh -se blood proclaims our sins forgiven
And speaks thy rebels up to heaven. *
lo4: Dau)son—p. 84.] L, M.
Q GOD. most merciful and true.
Thy nature to mv soul impart ;
'Stablish with me the lov'nant new.
And stamp thine image on my heart
2 To real holiness restored,
0 let me eain my Saviour's mind,
And in the knowledge of my Lord,
Fulness of life eternal find !
8 Remember, Lord, my sins no more,
That them I miy no "more forget ;
But, sunk i. euiltfess shame, adore
With speechless wonder at thy feet.
4 O'erwhelfn'd with thy stupendous grace
1 shall not in thy presence move.
But breathe unutterable praise.
And rapturous awe, and silent love.
INTERCESSION. 129
5 Then every mnrmurin* thought, and vain.
Expires, in sweet cnnfusion lost:
1 cannot of my cross complain, -
I cannot of my goodness boast.
6 Pardon'd for all that I have done,
My mouth as In the dust I hide ;
And glory give to Goi alone,
My God for ever pacified !
135 Inaxmation—p.2\e.] 6th P. M. 6 Iin« 7i
TITHT not now, my God, my God :
Ready if thou always art,
"Make in me thy mean abode.
Take possession of my heart :
If thou canst so ereatly bow.
Friend of sinners, why not now r
2 God of love, ill this thy day,
For thvself to thee I cry;
Dying, if thou still delay,
Must I not for ever die ?
Enter now thy poorest home ;
Now, my utmost Saviour, come '.
136 Gorham—p. 12.] CM.
pOUNTAIN of life, to all below
•*• Let thy salvation roll ;
Wafer, replenish, and o'erflow,
Every believing soul.
2 Into that happy number, Lord,
Us weary sinners take ;
Jesus, fulfil thy gracious word.
For thine own mercy's sake.
3 Turn back our nature's rapid tide.
And we shall flow to thee.
6»
190 PRAYER AND
While down the stream of lime we glide
To our eternity.
4 The well of life to us thou art,
Of joy the swelling flood ;
Wafted by thee, with willing heart,
We swift return to God.
5 We soon shall reach the boundless sea,
Into thy fulness fall ;
Be lost and swallow'd up iu thee,
Our God, our all in all.
137 Bramcoat—i>. 79.] L. M-
f\ THOU, whom all thy saints adore,
^-' We now with all thy saints agree.
And bow our inmost souis before
Thy glorious, awful majesty.
2 The King of nations we proclaim ;
Who would not our great Sovereign fear?
We long t' experience all thy name.
And now we come to meet thee here.
3 We Qpme, great God, to seek thy face.
And fir thy loving kindness wait;
And O, how dreadful is this place I
'TIS God's own house, 'tis heaven's gate !
4 Tremble our hearts to find thee nigh.
To thee our trembling hearts aspire ;
And lo 1 we see descend from high
The pillar ana the flame of fire.
5 Still let it on th' assembly stay.
And all the house with glor>' fill:
To Canaan's bounds point out the way,
And lead us to thy holy hill.
6 There let us all witli Jesus stand.
And join the general church above ;
INTERCESSION. 131
And take our seats at thy right hand,
And sing thine everlasting love.
7 Come, Lord, our souls are on the wing,
Now on thy great white throne appear,
And let mine eyes behold my King,
And let me see my Saviour there.
138 Quebec— x>. 110.] L. M.
SAY, which of you would see the Lord ?
You all may now ob'iin the grace:
Behold him in the written word,
Where John unveils the Saviour's face !
2 Clear as the trumpet's voice he speaks
To every soul that turns his ear j
Amid the golden candlesticks
He walks : and lo, he now is here !
3 Present to all believing souls;
They see him with an eagle eye;
Down to his feet a garment rolls,
Stain'd witli a glorious crimson dye.
4 A golden girdle binds his breast.
Whence streams of consolation flow ;
Milk for his new-born babes, who rest
In him, Dor other comfort know.
5 His form is as the Son of man,
His eyes are as a flame of fire,
They dart a sin-consuming pain.
And life, and joy divine inspire.
6 His spotless purity of soul
We by a lovely emblem know,
His head and hair are white as wool.
White are they as the driven snow.
7 Glitter his feet like bumish'd brass.
That long hath in the furnace shone,
132 PRAYER AND
Brighter thau lightning is his face,
Brighter than the meridian sun.
8 As many waters sounds his word ;
Seven stars he holds in his right hand;
Out of his mouth a t« o-edijed sword
Goes forth ; before it « ho can stand ?
9 Lord, at thy feet we fall as dead,
Lay thy right hand upon our soul ;
Scatter our fear, thy Spirit shed.
And all our unbelief ccintrol.
10 Tell us, " I am the First and Last,
Who lived and died fur all, am I !
And lo, my bitter death is past.
And lo, I live no more to die,
11 " I have the keys of death and hell ;"
Amen ! thy record we receive,
And wait till tliou our spirits seal,
And all in all fur ever live.
139 Savannah-p. 300.] 17thP.M.4Zi»i«10l
TN boundless mercy, gracious Lord, appear,
■'• Darkness dispel, the humble mounier cheer ;
Vain thoughts remove, melt down this flinty heart;
Cause every ioul to choose the better part.
2 Thy presence fills the universal space;
Thy grace appears to all the fallen race ;
O visit us witn lisrlit and life divine,
fill every soul, for every soul is thine.
3 The blessed Jesus is my Lord, my love ;
He is my King, from hini 1 would not move ;
Away, then, all ye objects that divert,
Nor seek to draw from my dear Lord my betrt<
INTERCESSION. 133
4 That uncreated beauty which hath gain'd
M^ ravish'd heart, hath all your glory stain'd ;
His loveliness my soul hath prepossess'd,
And left no room for any other guest.
140 Peterborough— X,. IS.] C ftL
T ORD, all I am is kno\m to thee ;
-*-' In vain my soul would try
To shun thy presence, or to flee
The notice of thine eye.
2 Thy all-surrounding sight surveys
My rising and my rest,
My public walks, my private ways.
The secrets of my breast.
3 My thoughts lie open to thee. Lord,
Before they're form'd within,
And ere my lips pronounce the word,
Thou know'st the sense I mean.
4 0 wondrous knowledge ! deep and tight
Where can a creature hide ?
Within thy circling arms I lie,
Beset on every side.
5 So let thy grace surround me still,
And like a bulwark prove.
To guard my snul from every ill.
Secured by sovereign love.
141 Vpton—j,. 101.] L. M.
f\ THOU, who earnest from above,
" The pure celestial fire t' impart,
Kindle a flame of sacred love
On the mean altar of my heart.
8 There let it for thy glory bum.
With ineactingnishable blaze.
134 PRAYER AND
And trembling to its source return,
In bumble 'ove, aiid fervent praise.
3 Jesus, confirm my lieart's desire,
To work, and speak, and think for thee ;
Still let me eniard the h'.lv fire,
And still stir up thy gift in me.
4 Ready for all thy perfect will,
My acts of faith and love rtjpeat ;
Till death fliy endless mercies seal,
And make the sacrifice complete.
142 Salisbury— p. 163.] 1st P. M. 6 Ii7i« 8i.
T ET God, who comforts the distress'd,
■'-' Let Israel's consolation hear ;
Hear, Holy Ghost, our j^int request.
And show thy-elf the Comforter ;
And swell th' unulteratjle ^roan,
And breathe our wishes to the throne.
2 We weep for those that weep below.
And burdeti'd for the atflicted, sigh ;
The various forms of human wo
Excite our softest sympathy :
Fill every heart with mournful care.
And draw out all our soul in prayer.
3 We wrestle for the ruin'd race,
By sin eternally und"iic-,
Unless thou maffiiify thy srace.
And make thy richest mercy known;
And make thy vanquished rebels find,
Pardon in Christ for all mankind.
4 Father of eveiiastmj love.
To every soul thy Son reveal,
Our g:uiU and sutferiujs to remove,
Our deep, original wound to heal :
And bid the fallen race arise.
And turn uur earth to paradise.
INTERCESSION. 135
143 New-Haven— p. 2\.'i CM.
FATHER, behold with gracious eye»
The souls before thy throne, -
Who now present their sacrifice,
And seek thee in thy Sim.
Well pleased in him thyself declare,
Thy pard'ning love reveal,
The peaceful answer of our prayer
To every conscience seal.
2 Meanest of all thy servants, I
Those happier spirits meet,
And mix with theirs my feeble cry
And worship at thy feet.
On me, on all some gift bestow.
Some blessing now impart.
The seed of life eternal sow
In every mournful heart.
3 Thy loving, powerful Spirit shed.
And speak our sins forgiven,
Or haste throughout the lump to spreau^
The sanctifying leaven.
Refresh us with a ceaseless shower
Of graces from above.
Till all receive the perfect power
Of everlasting love.
144 JBelnumt—p. 26.] C. M.
JEHOVAH, God the Father, bless,
** And thy own work defend !
With mercy's nutstretcli'd arms embrace,
And keep us to the end.
2 Preserve the creatures of thy love ;
By providential care
Conducted to the realms above,
To sing thy joodness there.
196 FRA.YER AND
3 Jehovah, God the Son, reveal
The brightness of thy face ;
And all thy pardon'd people fill
With plenitude of grace.
4 Shine forth with all the Deity,
Which dwells in thee alone ;
And lifts us up thy face to see,
On thy eternal throne.
5 Jehovah, God the Spirit, shine.
Father and Son to show :
With bliss inetlable, divine,
Our ravish'd hearts o'erflon-.
6 Sure earnest of that happiness
Which human hope transcends,
Be thou our everlasting peace.
When grace in glory ends.
145 Framingham— p. IG6.] 1st P. M. 6/»'7J«j8|b
TESUS, thou sovereign Lord of all,
•' The same through one eternal day,
Attend thy feeblest follower's call,
And 0 instnct us how to pray !
Pour Oct the supplicating grace,
And stir us up to seek thy face.
2 We cannot think a gracious thought,
We cannot fe?! a good desire,
Till thou who call'dst a world from naught
The power into our hearts inspire;
And then we in the Spirit groan.
And then we give thes back thine ov^n.
3 Jesus, regard the joint complaint
Of all thy tempted followers here.
And now supply the common want,
And send us down the Comforter ;
The spirit of ceaseless prayer impart,
And fix thy agent in our hear<.
INTERCESSION. 137
4 To help our souls' infirmity,
To heal thv sin-sick peopled care.
To ur^e ourfeod-commandins plea.
And make put heart a h^use oC prayer,
The promised Intercessor rive,
And let us now th)-self receive.
6 Come in thy pleadine Spirit down,
To us vWio for thy coming stay ;
Of all thy sifts we risk but one.
We ask the constant power to pray :
Indulge us. Lord, in this request,
Thou canst not then deny the rest.
146 Penitence— p. 2^.] 12th P. M. T6, 76, 78, 76.
JESCS. thou hast bid us pray.
Pray always, and not faint ;
With the word a power convey
To utter our complaint ;
Quiet shall thou never know,
Till we from sin are fully freed :
0 aven^ us of our foe,
And bruise the serpent's head !
2 We have now begun to cry,
And we "ill never end,
Till we find sal\-a!ion nijh.
And grasp the sinner's Fr.end :
Day and night we'll speak our wo,
VVith thee importunately plead;
0 avenee us of our foe.
And bruise the serpent's head !
3 Speak the word, and we shall be
From all our bands released :
Only thou canst set us free,
By Satan long oppress'd :
Now thy power almighty tbow,
Arise, (he woman's conquVing teed •
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O avenge us of our foe,
And bruise the serpent's head i
4 To destroy his work of sin,
Thyself in us reveal ;
Manifest thyself within
Our flesh, and fully dwell
With us, in us, here below- :
Enter, and make us free indeed :
O avenge us of our foe.
And bruise the serpent's head !
5 Stronser than the strong man, thou
His fury canst control :
Cast him out, by ent'rins now,
And keep our ransom'd soul :
Satan's kingdom overthrow.
On all the powers of darkness tread ;
0 avenge us of our foe.
And bruise the serpent's head !
6 To the never-ceasing cries
Of thine elect attend :
Send deliverance from the skies,
Thy mighty Spirit send :
Though to man ihou seemest slow.
Our cries thou seemest not to heed ;
0 avenge us of our foe.
And bruise the serpent's head !
7 Come, 0 come, all-glorious Lord !
No Innser now delay.
With thy Spirit's two-edeed sword
The crooked serpent slay !
Bare thine arm and give the blow.
Root out and kill tlie hellish seed :
0 avenge us of our foe.
And bruise 'he serpent's head !
8 Jesus, hear thy Spirit's call.
Thy Bride, who bids thee come :
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Come, thou righteous Judge of all,
Pronounce the tempter's doom;
Doom him to eternal wo,
For him and for his angels made,
Now avenje us of our foe.
For ever bruise his head !
147 CamberuxO—p. 125.] S. M.
TESrS, I fain would find
♦* Thy zeal for God in me :
Thy yearning pity for mankind,
Thy burning charity.
2 In me thy Spirit dwell !
In me thy bowels move l
So shall the fervour of my zeal
Be the pure flame of love.
148 Gor/iam— p. 193.] 4th P. M. 886, 8S4.
SAVIOUR, on me the want bestow,
Which all that feel shall surely know,
Their sins on earth forgiven ;
Give me to prove the kingdom mine.
And taste, in holiness divine,
The happiness of heaven.
2 Meeken my soul, thou heavenly Lamb,
That I in the new earth may claim
My hundred-fold reward ;
My rich inheritance possess.
Co-heir with the great Prince of peace,
Co-partner with my Lord.
3 Me with that rettless thirst inspire,
That sacred, infinite desire,
And feast my liungry heart;
Less than thyself cannot suffice ;
My soul for all thy fulness cries.
For all thou bast and art.
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4 Mercy vrho show sJiall mercy find ;
Thy pitiful and tender mind
Be, Lord, on me bestow'd ;
So shall I still the blessing gain,
And to eternal life retain
The mercy of my God.
5 Jesus, the crowning grace imparl !
Kless me with purity of heart,
That now beholding thee,
1 soon may view thy open face,
On all thy glorious beauties gaze,
And God for ever see !
6 Not for my fault, or folly's sake,
The name, or mode, or form I take,
But for true holiness ;
Let me be wrong'd, reviled, abhorr'd,
And thee, my sanctifying Lord,
In life and death confess.
7 Call'd to sustain the hallow'd cross,
And suffer for thy righteous cause,
Pronounce me doubly blest ;
And let thy glorious Spirit, Lord,
Assure me of my great reward.
In heaven's eternal feast.
149 Kendall— -p. i2n.} CM.
•yHEE, Jesus, full of truth and grace,
■'- Thee, Saviour, «e adore ;
Thee in affliction's furnace praise.
And magnify thy power.
2 Thy power, in human weakness shown,
Slinll make us all entire;
AV'e now thy guardian presence own,
And walk unburnt in fire.
3 Thee, Son of man, by faith we see,
And glory in our guide ;
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Surrounded and upheld by thee,
The fiery test abide.
4 The fire our graces shall refine,
Till, moulded from above,
We bear the chnracrer divine,
The s'.ainp of perfect love.
150 Danoen— p. I\i4 L. AL
f\ LET the prisoners' mournful cries
^^ As incense in thy sight appear!
Their hunjble wailing pierce Ine skies,
If haply tliey may feel thee near.
2 Tlie captive exiles make their moans.
From sin impatient to lie free:
Call home, call home thy banish'd ones!
Lead captive their captivity!
3 Show them the blood that bought their peace
The anchor of their steajfast hope ;
And bid their guilty terrors cease,
And bring the ransonx'd prisoners up.
4 Out of the deep regard their CTie%
The fallen raise, the mourners cheer ;
O Sun of righteousness, arise,
And scatter all their doubt and fear!
5 Pity the day of feeble things ;
0 gather every halting soul '
And drop salvation from thy wings,
And make the contrite sinner whole.
6 Stand by them in the fiery hour.
Their feebleness of mind defend ;
And in their weakness show thy power,
And make them patient to the end.
7 0 satisfy their soul in drought !
Give them thy saving health to see,
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And let thy mercy find them out ;
And let thy mercy reach to me.
8 Hast thou the work of erace begun,
And brouffht them to the birth in vain?
0 let thy children see the sun !
Let all their souls be born again !
9 Relieve the souls whose cross we bear,
For whom thy suffering members mourn ;
Answer our faith's eilectual prayer ;
Bid every struggling child be born !
151 Gi7man— p. 169.] 1st P. M. 6 Iirm &8,
/^XJR earth we now lament to see
^ With floods of wickedness o'erflow'd,
With violence, wronj, and cruelty,
One wide-extended field of blood,
Where men like fiends each other tear,
In all the hellish rage of war.
2 As listed on Abaddon's side.
They mangle their own flesh, and slay,
Tophet is moved, and opens wide
Its mouth for its enormous prey ;
And myriads sink beneath the grave,
And plunge into the flaming wave.
8 0 might the universal Friend
This havoc of his creatures see !
Bid our unnatural discord end ;
Declare us reconciled in thee :
Write kindness on our inward parts.
And chase the murderer from our hearts I
4 Who now against each other rise.
The nations of the earth, constrain
To follow after peace, and prize
The bletsiiifs of tbjr righteous reiso*
INTERCESSION. 143
The joys of unity to prove.
The paradise of perfect love.
152 Lancaster— j^. 86.] ' L. M.
A UTHOR of faith, we seek thy face,
•"■ For all who feel thy work begun:
Confirm and strengthen them in grace,
And bring thy feeblest cluluren on.
2 Thou seest their wants, thou know'st their
names.
Be minuful of fty youngrest care
Be tender ot tne aew-born lannba,
And gently in tiiy bosom bear.
3 The lion roaring tor his prey.
With ravening wolves on every side,
Watch over them to te.-ir and slay,
If found one moment fr<,'m their Guide.
4 Satan his thousand arts essays.
His asents all their powers employ,
To blast the blooming work of grace,
The heavenly oflfspring to destroy.
5 Baffle the crooked serpent's skill.
And turn his sharpest darts aside:
Hide from their eyes the dev'lisL ill,
O save them from the demon, pride !
6 In safety lead thy little flock !
From hell, the world, and sin secure:
And set their feet upon the rock,
And make in thee their goings sure<
144 PRAYER AND
PRAYER AND WATCHFULNESS.
153 New-Bedford~p. 10.] CM
T WANT a principle within,
■I- Of jealous, ffodly fear ;
A sensibility of sin,
A pain to feel it iie.ir;
1 want the first approach to feel,
Of pride, or fond desire :
To catch the wand'rii'g of my will,
And quench the kindling fire.
2 From thee that I no more may part.
No more thy goodness grieve,
The (ilial awe, the fleshly heart,
The tender conscience give.
Quick as the apple of an eye,
0 God, my conscience make !
Awake my soul when sin is nigh.
And keep it still awake.
3 If to the right or left I stray,
That moment, Lord, reprove;
And let me weep my life away.
For having grieved thy love.
0 may the least omission pain
Mv well-instructed soul !
And drive me to the blood again,
VVhicb makes the wounded whole.
154 Lucer/i— p. 121.] S. M.
THB pr.iying spirit breathe,
The watching power impart;
From all entanglements beneath
Call off my peaceful heart ;
• WATCHFULNESS. 143
My feeble mind sustain,
By worldly thoughts oppress'd ;
Appear, and bid me turn again
To my eternal rest.
S Swift to my rescue come,
Tliine own this monjent seize;
Gather my wand'ring spirit home,
And keep in perfect peace :
Suflfer'd no more to rove
O'er all the earth abroad,
Arrest the prisoner of thy love,
And shut me up in God.
155 CZarendOTt— p. 33.] C. M.
OHEPHERD divine, our wants relieve,
•^ In this our evii day :
To all thy tempted followers give
The power to watch and pray.
2 Long as our fiery trials last,
Long as the cross we bear,
O let our souls on thee be cast
In never-ceasing prayer !
3 The spirit of interceding grace,
Give us in faith to claim ;
To wrestle till we see thy face.
And know thy hidden name.
4 Till thou thy perfect love impart ;
Till thou thyself bestow ;
Be this the cry of every heart,
I will not let thee go.
5 I will not let thee go unless
Thou tell thy name to me ;
With all thv great salvation bleak
And make me all like thee.
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146 PRAYER AND *
6 Then let me on the mountain top
Behold thy open face ;
Where faith in sisht is swallow'd up,
And prayer in endless praise.
156 Cambencell—p. 125.] S. M.
JESUS, my strength, my hope,
•' On thee I cast my care.
With humble confidence look up,
And know thou hear'st my prayer.
Give me on thee to wait,
Till I can all things do,
On thee, almighty to create.
Almighty to renew.
2 I want a s'^ber mind,
A self-renouncing will,
That tramples down, and casts behind
The baits of pleasing ill.
A soul inured to pain,
To hardship, grief, and loss :
Bold to take up, firm to sustain.
The consecrated cross.
3 I want a godly feir,
A Quick discerning eye,
That looks to thee when sin is near
And sees the tempter fly ;
A spirit still prepared,
And arm'd with jealous cire,
For ever standing on its guard.
And watching unto prayer.
4 1 want a heart to pray.
To pray and never cease.
Never to murmur at thy stay,
Or wish mv sufferings less.
This blessing, at>ove ail,
^ways to pray, I wanU
WATCHFULNESS. 147
Out of the deep on thee to call,
And never, never faint.
5 I want a true regard,
A single, steady aim.
Unmoved by threatening or reward,
To thee and thy great name j
A jealous, just concern
For thine immortal praise ;
A pure desire that all may learn,
And glorify thy grace.
6 I rest upon thy word,
The promise is for me ;
My succour and salvation, Lord,
Shall surely come from thee;
But let me still abide,
Nor from my hope remove;
Till thou my patient spirit guide.
Into thy perfect love.
157 SyzarUium—p.l9-.'i 4th P. M. 886, 88«.
[ELP, Lord, to whom for help I fly.
And still my tempted soul stand by
Throughout the evil day ;
The sacred watchfulness impart.
And keep the issues of my heart.
And stir me up to pray,
2 My soul with thy whole armour arm,
In each approach of sin alarm.
And show the danger near :
Surround, sustain, and strengthen me,
And fill with godly jealousy,
And sanctifying fear.
3 Whene'er my careless hands hang dow&i
O let me see thy gathering frowD}
And feel ibj wamiog eye ;
H^
148 PRAYER AND
And starting, cry from ruin's brink,
Save, Jesus, or I yield, I sink !
0 save me, or I die !
4 If near the pit I rashly stray,
Before I wholly fall away.
The keen conviction dart '.
Recall me by that pitying look,
That kind, upbraiding glance, which broke
Unfaithful Peter's heart.
5 In me thine utmost mercy show,
And make ine like tliyself below,
Unblameable in grace ;
Ready prepared and iitted here.
By perfect holiness, t' appear
Before thy glorious face.
158 Retireme7it—p. 100.] L. M.
TESTIS, my Saviour, Brother, Friend,
** On whom I cast iny ever>' care,
On whom for all things I depend.
Inspire, and then accept my prayer.
2 If I have tasted of thy grace.
The grace that sure salvation brings ;
If with me now thy Spirit stays,
And hov'ring, hides me in his wings:
3 Still let him with my weakness stay
Nor for a moment's space depart ;
Evil and danger turn away.
And keep till he renews my heart.
4 When to the right or left I stray,
His voice behind me may I hear,
"Return, and walk in Christ thy way,
Fly back to Christ, for sin is near !"
6 His sacred unction from above.
Be still my comforter and guide,
WATCHFULNESS. 149
Till all the stony he remore,
And in my loving heart reside.
6 Jesus, I fain would walk in.thee,
From nature's everj' path retreat :
Thou art my way, my leader be,
And set upon the rock my feet.
7 Uphold me. Saviour, or I fall ;
0 reach me out thy gracious hand !
Only on thee for help I call ;
Omy by faith in thee I staiid.
159 Kentucky— p. 142.] S. »L
A CHARGE to keep I have,
■"■ A God to glorify ;
A never-dying soul to save,
And fit it for the sky.
To serve the present age,
My calling to fulfil,
0 may it all my powers engage,
To do my Master's will !
2 Arm me with jealous care.
As in thy sight to live ;
And 0, thy servant, Lord, prepare,
A strict account to give !
Help me to watch and pray,
And on thyself rely,
Assured if I my trust betray,
1 shall for ever die.
160 Zemira— p. 201.] 4th P. ^L SS6, 886.
■DE it my only wisdom here
-'-' To 3er\-e the Lord with filial fear,
With loving gratitude;
Superior sense may I display,
By shunning every evil way,
And walking in the good.
/ -
/
150 PRAYER AND
2 0 may I still from sin depart;
A wise and understanding heart,
Jesus, to me be given !
And let me through thy Spirit know,
To glorify my God below,
And find my way to heaven.
161 Larusborough — p. 5.] C. M.
TTOW vain are all things here below,
■'••'• How false, and vet how fair!
Each pleasure hath its poison too.
And every sweet a snare.
2 The brightest things below the skj
Give but a flatt'ring light ;
We should suspect some danger nigh,
Where we possess delight.
3 Our dearest joys and nearest friends.
The partners of our blood.
How they divide our wav'ring minds,
And leave but half for God !
4 The fondness of a creature's love.
How strong it strikes the sense !
Thither the warm alfcctions move,
Nor can we call them thence.
5 Dear Saviour, let thy beauties be
My soul's eternal food ;
And gr?ce command my heart away
From all created good.
162 Shepherd— p. 130.] S. M.
GOD of almiglity love,
By whose sBflicient grace,
I lift my heart to things amove.
And humbly seek thy face :
Through Jesus Christ the Just,
Mv faint desires receive.
WATCHFULNESS. 151
And let me in thy goodness trust,
And to thy glory live.
2 Whatever I say or do,
Thy glorj- be iny aim ;
My oBferings all be oii'er'd tlirougb
The ever-blessed name.
Jesus, my single eye
Be fii'd on thee alone :
Thy name be praised on earth, on high,
Thy will by all be done!
3 Spirit of faith, inspire
My consecrated heart ;
Fill me with pure celestial fire,
With all thou hast and art.
My feeble mind transform.
And perfectly renew'd.
Into a saint exalt a worm ;
A worm exalt to God !
163 Armley—p. IH.] L. M.
piERCE, fill me with an humble fear
■^ My utter heljilessness reveal ;
Satan and siu are always near ;
Thee may I always nearer feel.
2 0 that to thee my constant mind
Might with an even flame aspire ;
Pride in its earliest motions find,
And mark the risings of desire.
3 O that my tender soul might fly
The first abhcrr'd approach of ill :
Quick as the apple of an eye,
The slightest touch of sin to feel.
4 Till thou ar.ew my soul create.
Still may I strive, and watch, and pray |
Humbly and confidently wait.
And long to see the perfect day.
152 PRAYER AND
164 Miburtm— x>. 1-0.] IstP.M. 6Zin«8».
JVatch Night.
/~\FX have wepass'd the guilty night
'-' In revellins; and frantic mirth j
The creature was our sole delight,
Our liappiuess the things of earth :
But 0, suffice the season past !
We choose the better part at last.
2 We will not close our wakeful eyes,
We will not let our eyelids sleep ;
But humbly lift them to the skies,
And all a solemn vigil keep ;
So many nights on sin bestow'd,
Can we not watch one hour for God ?
3 We can, O Jesus, for thy sake,
Devote our every hour to tliee ;
Speak but the word, our souls shall wake,
Aud siug with cheerful melody.
Tky praise sh-all our glad tongues employ
And every heart sliall dance lor joy.
4 Bless'd object of our faith and love,
We listen for thy welcome voice ;
Our persons and our works approve",
And bid us in thy strength rejoice ;
Now let us hear tlie mighty cry.
And shout to find the Bridegroom nigh.
6 Shout in the midst of us, 0 King
Of saiiitSj and let our joys abouiid;
Let us rejoice, give thanks, and sing,
And triumph in redemption found;
We ask in faith for every soul ;
0 let our glorious joy be full !
6 0 may we all triumphant rise,
With>oy upon our heads retuza.
WATCHFULNESS. 153
And, far above these net'ner skies,
By thee on eagle's winjs upborne,
Through all yon radiant circles /nove,
And gain the highest heaven of love.
165 iJomney— p. 42.] CM.
T^HY presence. Lord, the place shall fill,
■*• My heart shall be thy throne ;
Thy holy,just, and perfect will,
Shall in my flesh be done.
2 I thank thee for tht pre<!ent grace,
And now in hope rejoice ;
In confidence to see thy face,
And always hear thy voice.
3 I have the things I ask of thee.
What shall I more require ?
That still my soul may restless be.
And only thee desire.
4 Thy only will be done, not mine,
But make me, Lord, thy home.
Come when thou wilt, I that resign.
But 0, my Jesus, come !
166 JTatchman—p. 118.] S. M.
rjRACIOUS Redeemer, shake
^^ This slumber from my soul !
Say to me now, " Awake,'awake,
And Christ shall make thee whole '
2 Lay to thy mighty hand,
Alarm me in this hour:
And make nie fully understand
The thunder of thy power !
3 Give me on thee to call,
Alwavs to watch and pray,
7*
154 PRAYER AND
Lest I into temptation fall,
And cast my shield away.
4 For each assault prepared,
And ready may I be,
For ever standing on my guard,
And looking up lo thee.
5 0 do thou always warn
My soul of evil near!
When to the ri?ht or left I turn,
Thy voice still et me hear :
6 " Come back ! this is the way !
Come back ! and walk therein '."
O may I hearken and obey,
And shun the paths of sin !
167 Smtthfieldr-p. 121.] S. M.
T^HOU seest my feebleness,
■*• Jesus, be thou my power,
My help and refuge in distress.
My fortress and my tower.
2 Give m.e to trust in thee ;
Be thou my sure abode :
My horn, and rock, and buckler be,
My Saviour and my God.
3 Myself I cannot save,
Myself I cannot keep ;
ijut strength in thee I surely have,
Whose eyelids never sleep.
4 My soul to thee alone,
Now, therefore, I commend :
Thou, Jesus, love me as thine own,
And love me to the end !
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168 St. Tltomas—'p. 134.] S. M,
"DID me of men beware,
■•-' Aud to my ways take heed ;
Discern their every secret snare,
And circumspectly tread.
2 0 may I calmly wait
Thy succours from above !
And stand against their open hate,
And well-dissembled love.
3 My spirit, Lord, alarm.
When men and devils join :
•Gainst all the powers of Satan arm,
In panoply divine.
4 0 may I set my face,
His onsets to repel !
Quench all his tiery darts, and chase
The fiend to his own hell.
5 But above all, afraid
Of my own bosom foe,
Still let me seek to thee for aid.
To thee my weakness show.
6 Han^ on thy arm alone.
With self-distrusting care.
And deeply in the spirit groan
The never-ceasing prayer.
169 SpUsby—p. 123.] S. M.
GIVE me a sober mind,
A quick diicerningeye.
The first apprnarh of si a to find.
And all occti?ions fly.
2 Still may I cleave to thee.
And never more depart,
Bnt watch with godly jealousy
Over mv evil heart.
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3 Thus may I pass my days
Of sojourning beneath,
And languish to conclude my race,
And render up my breath.
4 In humble love and fear,
Thine image to regain,
And see thee in the clouds appear,
And lise with thee to reign !
170 Cwi^ence— p. 96.] L. M.
(\ THOU who all things canst control,
^ Chase this dread slumber from my goul J
With joy and fear, with love and awe,
Give me to keep thy perfect law.
2 O may one beam of thy blest light
Pierce through, dispel the shade of night ;
Touch my cold breast with heavenly fire,
With holy, conqu'ring zeal inspire.
3 For zeal I sigh, for zeal I pant,
Yet heavy is my soul and faint;
With steps onwav'ring, undismay'd,
Give me in all thy paths to tread.
4 With outstretch'd hands, and streaming eyet,
Oft I begin to grasp the prize ;
I groan, I strive, I watch, I pray;
But ,ah ! how soon it dies away !
5 The deadly slumber soon I feel
Afresh upon my spirit steal ;
Rise, Lord, stir up lliy quick'ning power,
And wake me, that I sleep no more.
6 Single of heart, 0 may I be !
Nothing may I desire Lut thee ;
Far, far from me the world remove-
And all that holds me from thy love.
WATCHFULNESS. 157
171 S<. -9mj)/w— p. 282.] 12th P.M. 76,76,78,76.
COME, j-e follo^ve^3 of theXord,
In Jesus' service join:
Jesus gives the sacred word,
The ordinance divine :
Let us his command obey,
And ask and have whate'er we want ;
IVay we, eveiy moment pray,
Aiid never, never faint.
2 Place no longer let us give
To the old tempter's will:
Never more our dutv leave,
While Pat.in cries', " Be still :"
Stand we in the ancient way,
And here with God ourselves acquaint ;
Pray we, every moment pray.
Aid never, never faint.
3 Be it weariness and pain
To slothful flesh and blood j
Yet we will the cross sustain.
And bless the welcome load ;
All our griefs to God display.
And humbly pour out our compliUDt ;
Pray we, every moment pray,
Ajjd never, never fadnt.
4 Let us patiently endure,
And still our wants declare ;
All the promises are sure
To persevering prayer :
Till we see the perfect day,
And each wakes up a spotless saint,
Pray we, every moment pray,
Aind never, never faint.
6 Pray we on when all renew'd,
And perfected in love,
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Till we see our Saviour God
Descending; from almve ;
All his heavenly charms survey,
Beyond what angel minds can paint,
Pray we, every moment pray,
And never, never faint.
172 Josiah— p. 263.] 11th P.M. 76, 76, 77, 76
'yO the hills I lift mine eyes,
-*■ The everlasting hills;
Streaming thence in fresh supplies.
My soul the Spirit feels :
Will he not his help atl'ord ?
Help, while yet I ask is given :
God comes down : the God and Lord
That made both esu-th and heaven.
2 Faithful soul, pray always ; pray,
And still in God confide;
He thy feeble steps shall stay,
Nor suffer thee to slide ;
L«an on thy Redeemer's breast ;
He thy quiet spirit keeps ;
Rest in him, securely rest;
Thy watchman never sleeps.
3 Neither sin, nor earthy nor hell,
Thy keeper can surprise ;
Cureless slumbers cannot steal
On his all-seeing eyes ;
He is Israel's sure defence ;
Israel all his care shall prove
Kept by watchful Providence,
And ever-waking i,ove.
4 See the Lord, tliy keeper, stand, ,
Omnipotently near :
Lo '. he holds thee by thy hand.
And banishes thy fear ;
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Shadows with his wings thy head ;
Guards from all impending harms ;
Round thee and beneath are spread
The everlasting arms.
5 Christ shall bless thy going out.
Shall bless thy comin;; in j
Kindly compass thee about,
Till thou art saved from sin ,
Like thy spotless Master thou,
Fill'd with wisdom, love, and povfcr ;
Holy, pure, and perfect now,
Henceforth and evermore.
Penst/ord— p. 265. ) U th P.M. 76,76,77,76k
TJEARKKN to the solemn voice,
■" The awful midnight cry !
Waiting souls, rejoice, rejoice.
And see the Bridegroom nifh !
Lo, he conies to keep his word,
Light and joy his looks impart ;
Go ye forth to meet your Lord,
And meet him in your heart.
2 Ye who faint beneath the load
Of sin, your heads lift up;
See your great redeeming God ;
He comes, and bids you hope!
In the midnight of your grief,
Jesus doth his mourners cbeer;
Lo, he brings you sure relief ;
Believe, and feel him here !
3 Te whose loins are girt, stand forth,
Whose lamps are burning bright;
Worthy in your Saviour's worth,
To walk with him in white;
Jesus bids your hearts be clean ;
Bids yoTi all his prnnii'e proTe ;
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Jesus comes to cast out sin,
And perfect you in love.
4 Wait we all in patient hope,
Till Christ, the Judge, shall come ;
We shall soon be all caught up,
To meet the gen'ml doom :
In an hour to us unknown,
As a thief in deepest night,
Christ shall suddenly come down
With all his saints in light.
6 Happy he whom Christ shall find
Watchitig to see him come;
Him the Judge of all m.->iikind
Shall bear triumphant home:
Who can answer to his word ?
Which of you dares meet his day ?
"Rise, and come io judgment!" — Lord,
AVe rise and come away.
174 ^!frcton-x>.^^.^ L. M.
TDRAYER is appointed to cnnvey
■*■ The blessings God designs to give :
Long as they live sliouKl Christians pray.
They learn to pray when first they live.
2 If pain afflict, or wronss oppress,
If cares distract, or fears dismay ;
If guilt deject ; if sin distress ;
111 every case, still watch and pray.
3 'Tis prayer supports the soul that's weak:
Though thought be broken, language lame,
Pray if Ihou canst, or canst not speak :
But pray with faith in Jesus' name.
4 Depend on him; tliou canst not fail ;
Ma!ke all thy wants and wishes known {
Fear not ; his merits must prevail :
Ask but in failb, it shall be done.
WATCHFULNESS. IGl
175 Edgware—p. 43.] CM.
THOU, Lord, hast blest my going oiit.
0 bless my coming in I
Compass my weakness round about,
And keep me safe from sin.
2 Still hide me in thy secret place,
Thy tabem^icle spread ;
Shelter me with preserving grace.
And screen my aikei head.
3 To THEE for refuge may I run,
From sin's alluring snare :
Ready its first approach to shun,
And watchiu;; unto prayer.
4 0 that I never, never more
Might from thy ways depart ;
Here let me give my wand 'rings o'er,
By giving thee my heart.
5 Fix my new heart on things abqve.
And then fr .m earth release;
I ask not life, but let me love,
And lay me down in peace.
JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH.
1T6 Portitgal—'p. 75.] L. M.
A UTHOR of fiith, eternal Word,
-'*- Whose Spirit breathes the active flaoMi
Faith, libe its finisher and Lord,
To-day as yesterxlay the same :
2 To thee our bumble he\rfs aspire.
And ask the gift unspeakable :
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Increase la us the kindled fire,
Id us the work of faith fulfil.
3 By faith we know thee strong to save,
(Save us, a present Saviour thou I)
Whate'er we hope, by faith we have;
Future and past subsisting now.
4 To him that in thv name believes,
Eternal life with thee is given ;
Into himself he all receives,
Pardon, and holiness, ami heaven.
5 The things unknown to feeble sense,
Unseen by reason's glimm'ring ray,
With strong commanding evidence.
Their heavenly origin display.
6 Faith lends its realizing light.
The clouds disperse, the shadows fly,
Th' invisible appears in sight.
And God is seen by mortal eye.
177 Oxford— p. 123.] S M.
FIRST PART.
"LTOVV cm a sinner know
^^ His sins on earth forgiven?
How can my gracious Saviour show
My name inscribed in heaven ?
2 What we have felt and seen
With confidence we tell ;
And publish tu t.':" sons of men
The signs infallible.
3 We who in Christ believe
That he for us hath died,
We all his unknown peace receive,
And feel his blood applied.
By FAITH. 163
4 Exults our rising soul,
Disburden'd of her load,
And swells unutterably full
Of glory and of God.
5 His love, surpassing far
The love of all beneath,
We find within our hearts, and dare
The pointless darts of death.
6 Stronger than death or hell
The sacred power we prove ;
And conqu'rors of the world, we dwell
In heaven, who dwell in love.
Olney—p. 134.] SECOND PART.
WE by his Spirit prove.
And know the things of God,
The things which freely of his love
He hath on us bestow'd.
2 His Spirit to us he gave,
And dwells in us we know ;
The witness in ourselves we have,
And all its fruits we show.
3 The meek and lowly heart
That in our Saviour was.
To us his Spirit does impart.
And signs us with his cross.
4 Our nature 's tum'd, our mind
Transform'd in all its powers ;
And both the witnesses are join'd,
The Spirit of God with ours.
5 Whate'er our pard'ning Lord
Commands, we gladly do ;
And guided by his sacred word,
We aH his stecs oursua
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6 His elnry our design,
We live our Gnd to please ;
And rise with filial fear divine
To perfect holiness.
178 nitham—p. )92.-] 4th P. M. 886, 888.
'T'HOU ffreat mysterious God unknown,
■'• Whose love hath gently led me on,
E'en from my infant days ;
Mine inmost soul expose to view,
And tell me if I ever knew
Thy justifying grace.
2 If I have only known thy fear.
And follow'd, with a heart sinoere.
Thy drawings from above ;
Now, now the farther jrace bestow
And let my sprinkled conscience know
Thy sweet forgiving love.
3 Short of thy love I would not stop,
A stranger to the gospel hope.
The sense of sin forgiven :
I would not, Lord, my soul deceive,
Without the inward witness live.
That antepasl of heaven.
4 If now the witness were in me.
Would he not testify of thee.
In Jesus reconciled ?
And should I not with faith draw nigh,
And boldly, Alba, Father, cry,
And know niyself thy child ?
5 Whate'er obstructs thy pard'ning love.
Or sin, or righteousness remove,
Thy etory to display;
My heart of unbelief convince.
And now absolve me from my sins.
And take them all away.
BY FAITH. 163
6 Father, in me reveal thy Son,
And to my inmost soul make known
How merciful thou art :
The secret of thy love reveal.
And by thy hallonin' Spirit dwell
For ever in my heart !
179 Letiox—p.lSi.] 3dP.M. 4 6S&2S8.
A RISE, my soul, arise,
■"■ Shake oifthy guilty fears,
The bleeding Sacritice
In my behalf appears;
Before the throne my Surety stands.
My name is vs ritteu on bis hands.
2 He ever lives above,
For me to intercede ;
His all-redeeming love,
His precious blood, to plead ;
His blood atoned for all our race,
And sprinkles now the throne of grace.
3 Five bleeding wounds he bears.
Received on Calvarj- ;
They pour eSectual prayers,
They strongly speak tor me ;
Forgive him, 0 forgive, they cry.
Nor let that ransom'd sinner die !
4 The Father hears him pray,
His dear anointed One :
He cannot turn away
The presence of bis Son :
His Spirit answers to the blood.
And tells me I am born of God.
5 My God is reconciled,
His pard'ning voice I hear*
He owns me for his child,
I can DO longer fear ;
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With confidence I now draw nigh,
And Father, Abba, Father, cry.
180 Rochester— p. 18.] C. M.
GREAT God ! to me the sight afford
To him of old allowM ;
And let my faith behold its Lord,
Descending iu a cloud !
2 In that revealing Spirit come down.
Thine attributes proclaim,
And to my inmost soul make known
The glories of thy name.
3 Jehovah, Christ, I thee adore,
Who gav'st my soul to be !
Fountain of being, and of power,
And great in majesty.
4 The Lord, the mighty God, thou art,
But let me rather prove
That name inspoken to my heart.
That favVite name of Love.
5 Merciful God, thyself proclaim
In this polluted breast ;
Mercy is thy distinguish'd name,
And suits the sinner best.
6 Our misery doth for pity call.
Our sin implores thy grace;
And thou art merciful to all
Our lost, apostate race.
181 Crauen— p. 36.] CM.
I ASK th&gift of righteousness,
The sin-subduing power;
Power to believe, and go in peace,
And never grieve thee more.
BY FAITH. 167
2 I ask the blood-bought pardon seai'd,
The liberty- fr^m sin :
The grace infused, the love reveal'd,
The kingdom fii'd within.
3 Thou hear'st me for salvation pray ;
Thou seest my hearts desire ;
Made ready in thy powerful day,
Thy fulness I require.
4 My vehement soul cries out, oppress'd.
Impatient to be freed !
Nor can I, Lord, nor will I rest.
Till I am saved indeed.
5 Art thou not able to convert ?
Art thnu not willing too ?
To change this old rebellious heart.
To conquer and renew ?
6 Thou canst, thou wilt, I dare believe,
So arm me with thy power,
That I to sin may never cleave.
May never feel it more.
182 TVxwind^e— p. 164.] lstP.M.6/tJiaS«.
EXPAND thy wings, celestial Dove,
And brooding o'er my nature's night.
Call forth the ra^of heavenly love,
Let there in my dark soul be light;
And fill th' illustrated abyss
With glorious beams of endless bliss.
2 " Let there be light," again command,
And light there in our hearts shall be ;
We then through faith shall understand
Thy great mj-sterious majesty;
And by the shining of thy grace,
Behold in Ctirist thy glorious facet
168 JUSTIFICATION
3 Father of everlastine srace.
Be mindful of thy changeless word;
We worship tovarJ that Ti ly place
In which thou dost thy name record ;
Dost make thy gracious nature kuowD,
That living temple of thy Son.
4 Thou dost with sweet complacence we
The temple tillM with light divine ;
And art thou not well pleased with me,
WIk), turning to that heavenly shrine.
Through Jesus to thy throne apply,
Through Jesus for acceptance cry ?
6 With all who for redemption groan,
Father, in Jesus' name we pray !
And still we cry and wrestle en
Till mercy take our sins-away :
Hear from thy dwelling place iu heaven,
And now pronounce our sins forgiven.
I 83 jlithlone~p. 200.] 4th P. M. 886, 8S6.
f\ THOU who hast our sorrows borne,
^^ Hrlp us to look on thee and mourn,
On thee whom we have slain;
Have pierceil a tliousand, thousand times,
And by reiterated crimes
Renew'd thy sacred pain.
2 Vouchsafe us eyes of faith, to see
The man trai;stix"d on Calvary!
To know thee who thou art.
The one eternal God and true ;
And let the sight atfect, subdue,
And break my stubborn heart.
3 Lover of souls, to rescue mine.
Reveal the charity divine.
That sufier'd in my stead I
BY FAITH. 169
That made thy soul a sacrifice,
And quench'd in death those flkmlDg eye*.
And bow'd that sacred head.
4 The veil of unbelief remove.
And by thy manifested love,
And by thy sprinkled blood,
Destroy the love of sin in me.
And get thyself the victory,
And bring me back to God.
6 Now let thy dyine; love constrain
My soul to love its God again.
Its God to glorify!
And lo 1 I come thy cross to share,
Echo thy sacrificial prayer.
And with my Saviour die!
1 84 Morton— p. 162.] Ist P. M. 6 Unet Si,
'T'HOU God unsearchable, unknown,
■»• Who still conceal'st thyself from me,
Hear an apostate spirit groan,
Broke off, and banish'd far from thee;
But, conscious of my fall, I mourn,
And fain I would to thee return,
2 Send forth one ray of heavenly light.
Of gospel hope, of humble fear,
To guiie me through the gulf of night,
My poor desponding soul to cheer,
Till thou my unbelief remove.
And show me all thy glorious love.
3 A hidden God indeed thou art ;
Thy absence I this moment feel ;
Yet must I own it from my heart,
Conceal'd, thou art a Saviour still:
And though thy face I cannot see,
I know thine eye is fiz'd on me.
8
170 JUSTIFICATION
4 My Saviour thou, though not revealM,
Yet will I thee my Saviour call :
' Adore thy hanj, from sin withheld ;
Thy hand shall save me from my fall :
Now, Lord, throughout my darkness shine,
And show thyself for ever mine.
185 St. Peter's— p. 73.] L. M.
TESUS, whose glory's streaming rays,
•' Though duteous to thy high command.
Not seraphs view with open face,
But veil'd before thy presence stand :
2 How shall weak eyes of flesh, weigh'd doyrn
With sin, and dim with error's night,
Dare to behold thy awful throne,
Or view thy unapproached light!
3 Restore my sight ! let ^hy free grace
An entrance to the holiest give!
Open mine eyes of faith ! t!iy face
So shall I see : yet seeing live.
4 The golden sceptre from above
Reach forth ; see, my whole heart I bow|
Say to my soul, " Thou art my love.
My chosen 'midst ten thousand thou!"
5 O Jesus, full of grace I the sighs
Of a sick heart with pi'y view !
Hark, how my silence speaks, and cries,
"Mercy, thou God of mercy, show !"
6 I knoiv thou canst not but be good;
How shouldst thou. Lord, thy grace restrail^
Thou, Lord, whtise blood so freely flow'd.
To save me from all guilt and pain?
7 By faith I to the fountain fly,
Opeu'd for all mankind and me.
BY FAITH. 171
To purge my sins of deepest die,
ftiy life and heart's impurity :
8 From Christ, the smitten rock, ii flows.
The purple and the crystal stream ;
Pardon and holiness bestows,
And both I gain through faith in bin:.
1SE GOODNESS OF GOD IN REDEMPTION.
186 /reTifi— p. 307.] 20th P. M. 66,77,77.
0 AVIOUR, the world's and mine,
*^ Was ever grief like thine '.
Thou my pain, my curse, hast took,
All my sins were laid on thee;
Help me, Lord, to thee I look;
Draw me, Saviour, after thee.
2 'Tis done ! my Lord hath died ;
My Love is crucified ;
Break, this stony heart of mine ;
Pour, mine eyes, a ceaseless flood;
Feel, my soul, the pangs divine ;
Catch, my heart, the issuing blood I
3 When, 0 my God, shall I
For thee submit to die?
How the mighty debt repay ?
Rival of thy passion prove ?
Lead me in thyself, the way.
Melt my hardness into love.
4 To love is all my wish ;
1 only live for this:
t73 THE GOODNESS OF
Grant me, Lord, my heart's desire,
There by faith for ever dwell :
This I always will require,
Thee, and only thee, to feel.
5 Thy power I pant to prove,
Rooted and fix'd in love ;
Stren'theu'd by thy Spirit's might,
Wise to fathom things divine.
What the length, and breadth, and height.
What the depth of love like thine.
6 Ah ! give me this to know,
With all thy saints below ;
Swells my soul to compass thee :
Gasps in thee to live and move ;
Fill'd with all the Deity,
All immersed and lost in love !
187 Brighton— p. I'a.'i 1st P. M, 6 Zt?i«8i.
f^ LOVE divine, what hast thou done !
" Th' immortal God hath died for me!
The Father's co-eternal Son
Bore all my sins upon the tree !
Th' immortal God for me hath died:
My Lord, my love, is crucified.
2 Behold him, all ye that pass by,
The bleeding Prince of life and peace!
Come see, ye worms, your Maker die,
And say, was ever grief like his?
Come, feel with me bis blood applied
My Lord, my love, is cruci&ed.
3 Is crucified for me and you.
To bring us rebels back to God :
Believe, believe the record true.
Ye all are bought with Jesus' blood;
Pardon for all flows from his side:
My Lord, my love, is crucified.
GOD IN REDEMPTION. 173
4 Then let us sit beneath his cross,
And gladly catch the healing stream :
All things for him account but loss,
And ^ive up all our hearts to him ;
Of nothing think or speak beside.
My Lord, my love, is crucified.
188 Bangtyr—ip. 10.] CM.
■pEHOLD the Saviour of mankind
•'-* Nail'd to the shameful tree !
How vast the love that him inclined
To bleed and die for thee !
2 Hark, how he groans ! while nature shakes,
And earth's strong pillars bend !
The temple's veil in sunder breaks,
The solid marbles rend.
3 Tisdone! the precious ransom's paid!
"Receive my soul 1" he cries:
See where he bows his sacred head !
He tK)ws his head, and dies !
4 But soon hell break death's envious chain.
And in full glory shine :
0 Lamb of God I was ever pain,
Was ever love, like thine !
189 Doddridge— f. 99.] L. M.
f\T Him who did salvation bring,
^-^ I could for ever think and sing;
Arise, ye needy, he'll relieve ;
Arise, ye guilty, he'll forgive.
2 Ask but his ^race, and lo, 'tis given !
Ask, and he turns your hell to heaven :
Though sin and sorrow wound my soul :
Jesus, thy balm will make it whole.
174 THE GOODNESS OF
3 To shnne our sins he blush'd in blood.
He closed his eyes to show us God ;
Let all the world fall down and know
That none but God such love can show.
4 'Tis thee I love, for thee alone
I shed my tears and make my moan !
Where'er I am, where'er I move,
I meet the object of my love.
5 Insatiate to this spring I fly ;
1 drink, and yet am ever dry ;
Ah ! who against thy charms is proof?
Ah ! who that loves can love enough ?
190 Temj)}etcm—p. It.] CM.
"P LUNGED in a sulf of dark despair,
-'■ We wretched sinners lay,
Without one cheering beam of hope,
Or spark of glimm'rmg day.
2 With pitying eyes the Prince of grace
Beheld our helpless grief;
He saw, and (0 amazing love !)
He ran to our relief.
3 Down from the shining seats above
With joyful haste he fled :
Enter'd the grave in mortal flesh,
And dwelt among the dead.
4 O for thb love let rocks and hilU
Their lasting silence break !
And all harmonious human tongues
The Saviour's praises speak.
5 Angels, assist our mighty joys;
Strike all your harps of gold :
But when you raise your highest notes,
His love can ne'er be told !
GOD IN REDEMPTION. 175
191 Asbury—p. 6S.] C. M.
ALAS '. and did my Saviour bleed ?
And did my Sovereign die ?
Would he devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I ?
2 Was it for crimes that I have done
He eroan'd upon the tree ?
Amazing pity ! erace unknown !
And love beyond degree !
3 Well misht the sun in darkness hide,
And shut his glories in ;
When Christ the mighty ^Iaker died
For man the creature's sin !
4 Thus might I hide my blushing fac«.
While his dear crc«s appears;
Dissolve my heart in thankfuli.ess,
And melt mine eyes to tears.
5 But drops of grief can ne'er repay
The debt of love I owe :
Here, Lord, I give niyself away,
Tis all (hat I can do.
192 Portuguese— p. 2S8.] 13th P. M. 10 10, 11 11.
"Y^E heavens, rejoice in Jesus's grace,
•*■ I,et earth make a noise, and echo his praiaoi
Our alMoving Saviour hath pacified God,
And paid for his favour the price of his blood.
2 Te Trouutains and vales, in praises abound;
Te hills and ye dales, continue the sound ;
Break forth into singins, ye trees of the woodf
For Jesus is briuging lost sir.cers to God.
S Atonement he made for every one,
The debt he hath paid, the work be bath donef
176 THE GOODNESS OF
Shout, all the creation, belovr and above,
Atcribing salvation to Jesus's love.
4 His mercy hath brought salvation to all,
Who take it unbougbt, he frees them from tkraD,
Throughout the believer his glory displays,
And perfects for ever the vessels of grace.
193 yakntia—p. 104.] L. M.
EXTENDED on a cursed tree,
Besmear'd with dust, and sweat, and blood.
See there, the King of glory see !
Sinks, and expires, the Son of God !
2 Who, who, my Saviour, this hath done ?
Who could thy sacred body wound ?
No guilt thy spotless heart hath known,
No guile hath in thy lips been found.
3 I, — I alone have done the deed !
Tis I thy sacred flesh have torn ;
My sins have caused thee, Lord, to bleed,
Pointed the nail, and fix'd the thorn.
4 For me the burden to sustain
Too great, on thee, my Lord, was laid .
To heal me thou hast borne the pain :
To bless me, thou a curse wast maae.
5 In the devouring lion's teeth,
Tom, and forsook of all, I lay;
Thou sprang'st into the jaws of death.
From death to save the helpless prey
6 My Saviour, how shall I proclaim,
How pay the mighty debt I owe ?
Let 1,1) I have, and all I am,
Ceaseless to ill thy glory show.
7 Too much to thee I cannot give;
Too much I cannot do for thee :
i
GOD IN REDEMPTION. 177
Let all thy love, and all thy grief,
Graven on my heart for ever be !
8 The meek, the still, the lowly mind,
0 may I learn from thee, v.y God;
And love, with softest pity join'd,
For those that trample on thy blood.
9 Still let thy tears, thy groans, thy sighs,
O'erflow my eyes, and heave my breast :
Till loose from flesh and earth I rise,
And ever in thy bosom rest.
194 Darwen— J). 114.] L. M.
VE that pass by, behold the man !
^ The man of griefs, condemn'd for you I
The Lamb of God, for sinners slain.
Weeping to Calvary pursue !
2 See ! how his back the scourges tear,
While to the bloody pillar bound !
The ploughers make long furrows there,
Till all his body is one wound.
3 Nor can he thus their hate assuage;
His innocence, to death pursued,
Must fully glut their utmost rage ;
Hark ! how they clamour for his blood
4 To us our own Barabbas give;
Away with him, (they loudly cry:)
Away with him, not fit to live,
The vile seducer crucify '
5 His sacred limbs they stretch, they tear,
With nails they fasten to the wood!
His sacred limbs, exposed and bare,
Or only cover'd with his blood.
6 See there, his temples crownM with thou
His bleeding hands extended wide ;
8*
178 THE GOODNESS OP
His streaming feet transfii'd and torn!
The fountain gushing from his side !
7 Where is the King of glory now?
The everlasting Son of God ?
Th' Imiiiortal hangs his languid brow;
The Almighty faints beneath his load 1
8 Beneath my load he faints and dies :
I fill'd his soul with pangs unknown;
1 caused those mortal groans and cries,
I kill'd the Father's only Son !
195 Limehoust—p. U6.] L. M.
r\ THOU dear suffering Son of God,
^^ How doth thy he:irt to sinners move !
Help me to catch thy precious blood 1
Help me to taste thy dying love !
2 Give me to feel thy agonies,
One drop of thy sad cup afford ;
I fain with thee would sympathize,
And share the sufferings of my LoTd.
3 The earth could to her centre quake,
Convulsed while her Creator died :
O let my in.'uost nature shake,
And die with Jesus crucified !
4 At thy last gasp the ;raves display'd
Their horrors to the upper skies :
0 that my soul mijht burst the shade.
And, quicken'd by ihy death, arise 1
5 The rooks coulJ feel thy powerful death,
And tremble, and asunder part :
O rend with thine expiring breath
The harder marble of my heart 1
GOD IN REDEMPTION. 179
196 Waterford— p. 270.] 11 th P. M. 76,76,77,76,
TESrS drinks the bitter cnp,
" The winepress treads alone :
Tears the graves and n^jountains up.
By his expirinsT eroan :
Lo, the powers of heaven he shakes,
Nature in convulsion lies;
Earth's profoundest centre quakes,
The great Jehovah dies !
2 0 my God, he dies for me,
I feel tlie mortal smart 1
See him hanging on the tree,
A sight that breaks my heart !
0 that all to thee might turn !
Sinners, ye may love him too ;
Look on him ye pierced, and mouin
For one who bled for you.
3 Weep o'er your desire and hope,
With tears of huniblest love !
Sing, for Jesus is gone up.
And reigns enthroned above !
Lives our Head to die no more,
Power is all to Jesus given ;
Worshipped as he « as before,
The immortal King of heaven.
4 Lord, we bless thee for thy grace
And truth, which never fail;
Hast'ning to behold thy face
Without a dinjming veil ;
We shall see our heavenly King,
All thy glorious love proclaim,
Help the angel choirs to sing
Our blest triumphant Lamb.
180 THE GOODNESS OP
197 Creati(m—p 153.] 1st P. M. 6 Una St.
TITHERE shall my wond'ring soul begin ?
'* How shall I all to heaven aspire ?
▲ slave redeeiii'd from death and sin ;
A brand pluck 'd from eternal fire:
How shall I equal triumphs raise,
Or sing my great Deliverer's praise?
2 0 how shall I thy goodness tell,
Father, which thou to me hast show'd ?
That I, a child of wrath aud hell,
I should be call'd a child of God !
Should know, should feel my sins forgiven,
Blest with this antepast of heaven 1
3 And shall I slight my Father's love ?
Or basely fear nis E;ifts to own ?
• Dnmindful of his favours prove ?
Shaill I, the hallow'd cross to shun.
Refuse his righteousness t' impart,
By hiding it within my heart ?
4 No, though the ancient dragon rage,
And calltorth all his hosts to war;
Though earth's self-righteous sons engage,
Them and their god alike I dare ;
Jesus the sinner's Friend proclaim ;
Jesus to sinners still the same.
5 Come, 0 my guilty brethren, come.
Groaning beneath your load of sin ;
His bleeding heart sliall make you room.
His open side shall take you in:
He calls you now, invites you home :
Come, 0 my guilty brethren, come.
6 For you tfie purple current flow'd,
In pardons from his wounded side;
Languish'd for you the Son of God,
For you the Prince of glory died :
GOD IN REDEMPTION. 181
Believe, and all your sin 's forgiven :
Only believe, and yours is heaven.
198 Qurto— p. 94.] -L. M.
A DAM descended from above !
■"• Saviour and head of all mankind •
The covenant of redeeming love
In thee let every sinner find.
2 Our Surety, thou alone hast paid
The debt we to thy Father owed :
For the whole world atonement made,
And seal'd the pardon with thy blood.
3 Thee, the Paternal Grace Divine,
A universal blessing gave ;
A Light, in every heart to shine j
A Saviour, — everj- soul to save.
4 Light of the Gentile world, appear.
Command the blind thy rays to see :
Our darkness chase, our sorrows cheer.
And set the plaintive prisoner fr«e.
5 Me, me, who still in darkness sit,
Shut up in sin and unbelief.
Deliver from this gloomy pit.
This dungeon of despairmg griet
6 Open mine eyes the Lamb to knovr,
Who bears the general sin away;
And to my ransom'd spirit show
The glories of eternal day.
199 Luther's— p. 147.] 1st P. M. 6 lines 8l
■^/■QULD Jesus have the sinner die ?
Why hangs he then on vender tree ?
What means that strange expiring cry?
(Sinners, he prays for you and me ;)
182 THE GOODNESS OF
" Forgive them, Father, 0 forgive,
They know not that by me they live !"
2 Jesus descended from above,
Our loss of Eien to retrieve ;
Great God of universal love,
If all the world through thee may live^
In us a quick'ning spirit be.
And witness thou hast died for me.
3 Thou loving, all-atoning Lamb,
Thee by thy painful agony,
Thy bloody sweat, thy grief and shame,
Thy cross and passion on the tree,
Thy precious death and life — I pray
Take all, take all my sins away.
4 0 let me kiss thy bleeding feet.
And bathe and wash them with my teanj
The story of thy love repeat
In every drooping sinner's ears ;
That alt may hear the quick'ning sound ;
Since I, e'en I, have mercy found.
6 O let thy love my heart constrain.
Thy love for every sinner free,
That every fallen son of man
May taste the grace that found out me ;
That all mankind with me may prove,
Thy sovereign, everlasting lo^e.
200 Kilbum— p. 270.] 11th P.M. 76,76,77,78.
/^OD of unexampled grace,
^^ Redeemer of mankind,
Matter of eternal praise
We in thy passion find :
Still our choicest strains we bring,
Still the joyful theme pursue,
Thee the Friend of sinners sing,
Whose love is ever new.
GOD IN REDEMPTION. 183
2 Endless scenes of wonder rise,
With that mysterious tree.
Crucified before our eyes,
Where we our Maker see :
Jesus, Lord, what hast thou done?
Publish we the death divine,
Stop, and gaze, aud fall, and own
Was never love like thine '.
3 Never love nor sorrow was
Like that my Jesus show'd ;
See him stretch'd on yonder crosa,
And crush 'd beneath our load !
Now discern the Ueitj-,
Now his heavenly birth declare !
Faith cries out, " 'Tis he, 'tis he,
My God that suffers there !"
THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD.
201 ArchdaU—f. 6.] C. M
"PATHER, how wide thy glory shines !
■*■ How high thy wonders rise !
Known throueh the earth by thousand sigLa,
By thousands through the skies :
Those mighty orbs proclaim thy power:
Their motions speak thy skill :
And on the wings of every hour
We read thy patience still.
2 Fart of thy name divinely stands,
On all thy creatures writ ;
They show the labour of thy handii
Or impreae of thy feet :
184 THE ATTRIBUTES
But when we view thy strange design
To save rebellious worms,
Where veneeance and compassion join
In their divinest forms :
3 Here the whole Deity is known,
Nor dares a creature guess
Which of the glories brightest shone,
The justice or the grace ;
Now the full glories of the Lamb
Adorn the heavenly plains:
Bright seraphs learn Iinnianuel's napie,
And try their choicest strains.
4 0 may I bear some humble part
In that immortal song !
Wonder and joy shall tune my heart,
And love command my tongue.
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Who sweetly all agree
To save a world of sinners lost,
Sternal glory be !
202 Roberts— j>. 158.] 1st P. M. 6 Urut Sa,
WHEN Israel out of Egypt came,
' ' And left the proud oppressor's land
Supported by the great I AM,
Safe in the hollow of his hand !
The Lord in Israel reign'd alone,
And Judah was his favourite throne.
2 The sea beheld his power, and fled,
Disparted by the wondrous rod ;
Jordan ran backward to its head.
And Sinai felt th' incumbent God :
The mountains skipp'd like frighten'd rams.
The hills leap'd after them as lambs.
3 What ail'd thee, O thou trembling sea?
What horror turn'd the river back ?
OP GOD. 185
Was nature's God displeased ^vith thee?
And why should hills or mountains shake?
Te mountains huge, that skipp'd like rams?
Ye hills, that leap'd as frighten'd lambs ?
4 Earth, tremble on, with all thy sons.
In presence of thy awful Lord,
Whose power inverted nature owns,
Her only law his sovereign word :
He shakes the centre with his rod,
And heaven Ixjws down to Jacob's God
5 Creation, varied by his hand,
Th' omnipotent Jehovah knows !
The sea is tum'd to solid land,
The rock into a fountain flows:
And all things, as they change, proclaim
The Lord eternally the same.
303 Coronation— p. 28.] C. M,
ETERNAL Wisdom ! thee we praisa.
Thee the creation sings :
With thy loved n.-ime, rocks, hills, and sea*
And heaven's high palace, rings.
2 Thy hand, how wide it spreads the sky,
How glorious to behold !
Tinged with a blue of heavenly die,
Aiid starr'd with sparkling gold.
3 There thou hast bid the globes of light
Their endless circuits run :
There the pale planets rule the night ;
The day obeys the sun.
4 irdown I turn my wond'ring eyes
On clouds and storms below ;
Those under regions of the skies
Thy numerous glories show.
5 The noisy winds stand ready tbere^
Thy orden to obey
186 THE ATTRIBUTES
With sounding winzs they sweep the air,
To make thy chariot way.
6 There, like a trumpet loud and strong
Thy thunder shakes our coast ;
While the red lijbtnin^s wave along
The banners of thy host.
7 On the thin air, without a prop,
Hang fruitful showers around ;
At thy command they sink and drop
Their fatness on the ground.
8 Lo ! here thy wondrous skill arrays
The earth in cheerful green ;
A thousand herbs thy art displays,
A tliousand flowers between.
9 There the rough mountains of the deep
Obey thy strong c 'mniand :
Thy breath can raise the billows steep,
Or sink them to the sand.
ID Thy glories blaze all nature round,
And strike the wond'ring sijht.
Through skies, and seas, and solid ground.
With terror and delight.
11 Infinite strength and equal skill
Shine through thy works abroad :
Our souls with vast amazement fill,
And speak the builder God !
12 But the mild glories of thy grace
Our softer passions move :
Pity divine in Jesus' face.
We see, adore, and love.
304 Maysty~x<. 49.] C. M.
PRAISE ve the Lord, ye immortal cboira
That fill the worlds above ;
Praise him who form'd you of bis fires,
And feeds you with his love.
OF GOD. 187
2 Shine to his praise, ye crystal skies.
The floor of his abode :
Or veil in shades your thousand eyes,
Before your brighter God.
3 Thou restless globe of ^Idea light,
^V'hose beanis create our days,
Joiu with the silver queen of night.
To own your borrow'd rays.
4 Winds, ye shall bear his name aloud
Through the ethereal blue ;
For when his chariot is a cloud,
He makes his wheels of you.
5 Thunder and liail, and fire and storms.
The troops of his command.
Appear in all your dreadful forms,
And speak his awful hand.
6 Shout to the Lord, ye surging seas,
In your eternal roar:
Let wave to wave resound his praise ;
And shore reply to shore.
7 While monsters, sporting on the flood.
In scaly silver sliine,
Speak terribly their maker, God,
And lash the foaming brine.
8 But sentler things shall tune his name
To softer notes than these :
Toung zephyrs breathing o'er the stream^
Or whisp'ring through the trees.
9 Wave your tall heads, ye lofty pines.
To Him that bids you irmw ;
Sweet clusters, bend the fruitful vines
On every thankful bough.
10 Let the shrill birds bis honours raise.
And climb the av-^iing sky ;
188 THE ATTRIBUTES
While grov'ling beasts attempt his praise,
In hoarser harmony.
11 Thus while the meaner creatures sing,
Ye mortals, take the sound ;
Echo the glories of your King
Thrci;5h all the nations round.
205 St. Helm's— p. l-:i.-i 2d P. fiL 6 Kn« 8fc
/~V GOD, of good th' unfathom'd sea !
^-^ Who would not give his heart to thee ?
Who would not love thee with bis might ?
0 Jesus, lover of mankind !
Who would not his whole soul and mind,
With all his strength, to thee unite ?
2 Thou shin'st with everlasting rays;
Before th' insufl'erable blaze.
Angels with both wings veil their eyesj
Yet, free as air thy bounty streams :
On all thy works, thy mercy's beams,
Dillusive as thy sun's, arise.
Asfonish'd at thy frowning brow,
Earth, hell, and heaven's strong pillars bow ;
Terrible majesty is thine!
Who then can that vast love express.
Which bows thee down to me, who less
Than nothing am, till thou art mine !
4 High throned on heaven's eternal hill,
In number, weight, auid measure, still
Thou sweetly orderest all that is :
And yet thou deign'st to come to me.
And guide my steps, that 1, with thee
Enthroned, may reign in endless bliss.
6 Fountain of good ! all blessine flows
From thee; no want thy fulness knows:
What but thyself canst thou desire ?
OF GOD. 189
Yes ; self-sufficient as thou art,
Thou dost desire my worthless heart ;
This, only this, dost thou require.
6 Primeval Beauty ! in thy sight
The first-bom fairest sons of li^ht
See all their brightest glories fade:
What then to me thine eyes could turn?
In sin conceived, of woman born,
A. worm, a leaf, a blast, a shade !
7 Hell's armies tremble at thy nod,
And, trembling, own th' almighty God,
Soverei^ of earth, hell, air, and sky !
But who IS tliis that comes from far,
Whose garments roU'd in blood appear ?
Tis God made man, for man to die !
8 0 God, of good th' unfathom'd sea !
Who would not give his heart to thee ?
Who would not love thee with his might?
0 Jesus, lover of msmkind.
Who would not his whole soul and mind,
With all his strength, to thee unite?
306 Zt<cA/5eW— p. 11.] CM.
TJAIL, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
•^^ One God in persons three ;
Of thee we make our joyful boast.
And homage pay to thee.
2 Present alike in every place,
Thy Godhead we adore :
Beyond the Iwunds of time and space
Thou dwell'st for evermore.
3 In wisdom infinite thou art.
Thine eye doth all things see ;
And every thought of every heart
Is fully known to thee.
190 THE ATTRIBUTES
4 ^\'hate'er thou wilt, in earth below,
Thou dost in heaven above ;
But chieflj" we rejoice to know
Th' almighty Go J of love.
3 Thou lov'st nhate'er thy hands have mada
Thv goodness we cehearse.
In shining characters display'd
Throughout our universe.
6 Mercy, with love, an'! endless grace,
O'er all thy works doth rei?n ;
But mostly thou delijht'st to bless
Thy favourite, creature man.
7 AVherefore let every creature give
To thee the praise design'd ;
But chiefly, I^rd, the thanks receive,
The hearts of all manKind.
307 Park-street— p. 97.] L. M.
FIRST PART.
f\ GOD, thou bottomless abyss !
^-^ Thee to perfection who can know?
0 height immense ! what words suffice
Thy countless attrij)ules to show ?
Unfathomable depths thou art !
0 plunge me in thy mercy's sea!
Void of true wisdom is my heart ;
With love embrace and cover me !
While thee, all infinite, I set
By faith, before my ravish'd eye ;
My weakness ben is beneath the weight,
b'erpower'd I sink, 1 faint, I die.
S Eternity thy fountain was.
Which, like thee, no beginning knew;
Thou wast ere time began its race,
Ere glow'd with stars th' etherral blue.
OF GOD. 191
Oreatness anspeakable is thine,
Greatness, whose undiminish'd ray,
When short-lived worlds are lost, shall shine,
When earth and heaven are fled arway :
Unchangeable, all perfect Lord,
Essential life's unbounded sea;
What lives, and moves, lives by thy word;
It lives and moves, aud is from thee !
3 Thy parent hand, thy forming skill.
Firm fix'd this universal chain :
Else empty, barren darkness still
Had held his unmolested rei^.
Whate'er in earth, or sea, or sky,
Or shuns or meets the wand'ring thought,
Escapes or strikes the searching eye,
By thee was to perfection brought !
High is thy power above all height,
Whate'er thy will decrees is done;
Thy wisdom, equal to thy might,
Only to thee, O God, is known!
4 Heaven's glory is thy awful throne.
Yet earth partakes thy irracious sway ;
Vain man ! thy wisdom folly own,
Lost is thy reason's feeble ray.
What our dim eye could never see
Is plain and naked to thy sight ;
What thickest darkness veils, to thee
Shines clearly as the morning light.
In light thou d wellSl ; light, that no shade.
No variation ever knew ;
Heaven, earth, and bell stint! all dbplayM,
And open to thy piercing view.
/oi— p. 103.] SECOND PART.
THOU, true and only God, lead'st forth
Th' immortal armies of the sky:
193 THE ATTRIBUTES
Thou laugh'st to scorn the gods of earth t
Thou thund'rest, and amazed they fly I
With downcast eye th'arj^elic choir
Appear before thy awful face ;
Trembling, they strike the golden lyre,
And thro' heaven's vault resound thy praliau
In earth, in heaven, in all thou art:
The conscious creature feels thy nod,
Thy forming hand on every part
Impress'd the image of its God.
2 Thine, Lord, is wisdom, thine alone!
Justice and truth before thee stand :
Yet nearer to thj' sacred throne
Mercy withholds thy lifted hand.
Ejch evening shows thy tender love,
Each rising morn thy plenteous grace :
Thy waken'd wrath does slowly move,
Thy willing mercy flies apace !
To thy benign, indulgent care,
Father, this light, this breath we owe ;
And all we have, and all we are,
From thee, great Source of being, flow,
3 Parent of good ! thy bounteous hand
Incessant blessings now distils ;
And all in air, or sea. or land.
With plenteous food and gladness filli.
All things in thee live, move, and are;
Thy power infused doth all sustain:
E'en those thy daily favours share
Who thankless spurn thy easy reign.
Thy sun thou bidst his genial ray
Alike on all impartial pour;
On all who hate or bless thy sway
Thou bidst .descend the fruitful shower.
Yet, while at length, who scorn'd thy mJghU
Shall feel thee a consuming fire:
OF GOD. 193
How Bweet the joys, the crown how bright.
Of those who to thy love aspire !
All creatures praise th' eternal name!
Ye hnsts that to his court belong;
Cherubic choirs, seraphic flames,
Awake the everlasting song!
Thrice holy ! thine the kingdom is,
The power omnipotent is thine ;
And uhen created nature dies,
Thy never-ceasing glories shine.
508 ^rju^erJam— p. 272.] Uth P.M.76,76,r;,":6,
p LORIOUS God, accept a heart
^-^ That pants to sing thy praise •
Thou without beeinning art,
And without end of days:
Thou, a spirit invisible,
Dost to none thy fulness show ;
None thy majesty can tell,
Or all thy Godhead know.
2 All thine attributes we own,
Thy wisdom, power, and might :
Happy in thyself alone
In goodness infinite ;
Thou thy goodness hast display'd,
On thine every work impress'd ;
Lov'st whate'er thy hands have made,
But man thou lov'st the best.
3 Willing thou that all should know
Thy saving truth and live j
Dost to each, or bliss or wo,
With strictest justice give :
Thou with perfect righteousness
Renderest every man his due :
Faithful in thy promises,
4nd in thv threat'nings too.
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194 THE ATTRIBUTES
4 Thou art merciful to all
Who truly lurii to thee !
Hear me then for pardon call,
And show thy grace to me :
Me, through mercy reconciled,
Me, for Jesus' sake forgiven ;
Me receive, thy favour'd child.
To sing thy praise io heaven.
309 Atlantic— p. 105.] L. M.
tlOLY as thou, 0 I/ird, is none !
■•■•' Thy holiness is all thy own j
A drop of that unbounded sea
Is ours, a drop derived from thee.
2 And when thy purity we share,
Thy only glory we declare;
And humbled into nothing, own
Holy and pure is God alone.
5 Sole, self -existing God and Lord,
"= By all thy heavenly hosts adored j
Let all on earth bow do-vn to thee,
And own thy peerless majesty :
4 Thy power unparallel'd confess,
Establish'd on the Rock of peace ;
The Rock that never shall remove,
The Rock of pure, almighty love.
210 Siloam— p. 275.] 12th P. M. 76,76,78,7i
'T'HOU, the great, eternal God,
■*• Art high above our thought!
Worthy to be fear'd, adored
By ail thy hands have wrought :
None caQ_wilh thyself cimpare,
'1 hy glory tills both earth and iky I
We, and all thy creaiurt-s, are
Ag nothing iu thiLe eye.
OF GOD. 195
2 Of thy great unbounded power,
To thee the praise we give :
Infinitely great, and more
Than heart can e'er conceive ;
When thou wilt to work proceed.
Thy purpose Crm can none withstand,
Frustrate thy determined deed,
Or stay th' almighty band.
3 Thou, 0 God, art wise alone,
Thy counsel doth excel ;
Wonderful thy work we own,
Thy ways unsearchable ;
Who can sound the mystery.
Thy judgments' deep abjss explain :
Thine, whose eyes in darkness see,
And search the heart of man.
31 1 Nichols-f. 28.] C. M.
BLEST be our everlasting Lord,
Our Father, God, and King !
Thy sovereign goodness we record.
Thy glorious power we sing.
2 By thee the victory is given :
The majesty divine,
And strength, and might, and eaitb, and heavca,
And all therein is thine.
3 The kingdom. Lord, is thine alone.
Who dost thy right maintain ;
And high on thy eternal throne,
O'er men and angels reign.
4 Riches, as seemelh good to thee,
Tho\i dost, and honour, give ;
And kings their power and dignity
Out of thy hand receive.
6 Thou hast on us the grace bestow'd,
Thy greatness to proclaim ;
196 THE ATTRIBUTES
And therefore now we Uiank our God,
And praise thy glorious name.
6 Thy glorious name, and nature's power*,
Thm dost to us make known ;
And all the Deity is ours,
Through thy incarnate Son.
212 Canada— p. 89.] L. M.
"PTERNAL Power, whose high abode
•*-' Becoiiifs the grandeur of a God ;
Infinite lengths, bej-ond the bounds
Where stars revolve their little rounds.
2 Thee while the first archangel sings,
He hides bis face behind his wings :
And ranks of shining thrones around
Fall worshijjjjing, and spread the ground.
3 Lord, what shall earth and ashes do?
We would adore our IMaker too !
From sin and dust to thee we cry,
The Great, the Holy, and the High !
4 Earth from afar hath heard thy fame,
And worms have learn'd to lisp thy name;
But 0\ the glories of thy mind
Leave all our soaring thoughts behind !
5 God is in heaven, and men beiow :
Be short our tunes ; our words be few !
A solemn reverence checks our songs,
And praise sits silent on our tongues.
213 SenevaUo—p.222.] 7th P.M. 8 It net "».
HOLY, holv, holy Lord,
God the Father, and the Word,
God the C(>mforter, receive
Blessings mure than we can give ;
I
OF GOD. 197
MixM with those beyonJ the sky,
Chanters to the Lord most high,
We our hearts and voices raise,
Echoing thy eternal praise. •
2 One, inexplicably^three.
One, in simplest unity :
God, incline thy gracious ear.
Us thy lisping creatures he»r :
Thee, while dust and ashes sings.
Angels shrink within their wings;
Prostrate seraphim above
Breathe unutterable love.
3 Happy they who never rest.
With thy heavenly presence blest !
They the heights of glory see,
Sound the depths of Deity :
Fain with them our souls would vie.
Sink as Ion-, and mount as high ;
Fall, o-erwhelm'd with love, or soar,
Shout, or sileully adore !
314 Bedford— p. 10.] C. M.
HAIL : holy, holy, holy Lord !
Whom one in three we know ;
By all thy heavenly host adored.
By all thy church below.
2 One undivided Trinity
With triumph we proclaim ;
Thy universe is full of thee.
And speaks thy glorious name.
3 Thee, holy Father, we confess ;
Thee, holy Son, adore :
Thee, Spirit'of truth and holiness,
We worship evermore.
4 The incommunicable right,
Almighty God, receive !
198 THE ATTRIBUTES
Which angel-choirs, and saints in light,
And saints embodied give.
6 Three Persons equally divine
'We magnify and love :
And both the choirs ere long shall join
To sing thy praise above.
6 Hail ! holy, holy, holy Lord,
(Our heavenly song shall be,)
Supreme, essential One adored
In co-eternal Three !
215 TVilminston—p. 12.] C. M.
A THOUSAND oracles divine
■"• Their common beams unite j
That sinners may with angels join
To worship God aright.
2 To praise a Trinity adored
By al' the hosts above :
And one tnrice holy God and Lord
Through endless ages love.
3 Triumphant host ! they never ceaie
To laud and magnify
The triune God of holiness,
\Vhose glorj- fills the sky.
4 Whose glory to this earth extends,
When God himself imparts,
And the whole Trinitj" descends
Into our faithful hearts.
6 By faith the upper choir we meet.
And challenge them to sing
Jehovah, on bis shining seat.
Our ^laker and our King.
6 But God made flesh is wholly oun,
And asks our noblest strain;
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The Father of celestial powers,
The Friend of eartb-born man !
7 Ye seraphs, nearest to the throne.
With rapturous amaze
On us, poor ransoniM worms, look down,
For heaven's superior praise !
S The Kin», whose glorious face ye see,
For us his crown resien'd j
That fulness of the Deity,
He died for all mankind !
216 Plymouth Dock— p. 148.] 1st P. M. 6 Una 81.
pOME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
^ Whom one all-perfect God we own.
Restorer of thy image lost,
Thy various ciffices make known :
Display, our fallen souls to raise,
Thy whole economy of grace.
2 Jehovah, in three Persons, come.
And draw, and sprinkle us, and seal.
Poor, guilty, dying worms, in whom
Thou dost eternal life reveal ;
The knowledge of thyself bestow,
And all thy glorious goodness show.
3 Soon as our pardon 'd hearts believe
That thou art pure essential love ;
The proof we in ourselves receive
Of the three Witnesses above ;
Sure, as the saints around thy throne.
That Father, Word, and Spirit are one.
4 0 that we no%v, in love renew'd,
Might blameless in thy sight appear!
Wake we in thy similitude,
Slamp'd with the triune character;
Flesh, spirit, soul, to thee resign j
And live and die entirely thine !
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317 Shirland—^. 135.] S. NL
r\ ALL-CREATING God,
^-^ At whose supreme decree
Our body rose, a breatliing clod.
Our souls sprang forth from thee :
2 For this thou hast design'd,
And form'd us man for this ;
To know, and love thyself, and find
In thee our endless bliss.
318 Surrey— p. 1 OS.] L. M.
■jV/ry soul, through my Redeemer's care,
-'■'•'• Saved from the second death. I feel ;
My eyes f roin tears of dark despair,
iMy feet from falling into hell.
2 Wherefore to him my feet shall run ;
My eyes on his perfections ga2e :
My soul shall live for God alone,
And all within me shout his praise.
SACRAMENTAL.
/'
THE lord's SDPPEB.
319 Minorca~-p. 16L] 1st P. M. 6 linetSt,
IN that sad memorable night.
When Jesus was for us betray'd,
He left his death-recording rite,
He took, an* bless'd. and brake the bread ;
And gave his own their last bequest,
Aad thus his love's intent ezcress'd :
SACRAMENTAL. 201
2 " Take, eat, this is my body, given
To purchase life and peace for you,
Pardon, and holiness, and heaven;
Do this my dying love to showf
Accept your precious legacy,
And thus, my friends, remember me."
3 He took into his bands the cup,
To cro«-n the sacramental feast,
And full of kind concern look'd up,
And gave to them what he had olest :
"And drink ye all of this, (he said,)
In solemn memory of the dead.
4 "This is my blood, which seals the new
Eternal cov'nant of my grace :
My blood so freely shed for you.
For you and all the sinful race ;
My blond thai speaks your sins forgiven,
And justifies vour claim to heaven."
220 7Vo<M-p. 135.] S. M.
T ET all who truly bear
•'-' The bleeding Saviour's name.
Their faithful hearts with us prepare,
And eat the Paschal Lamb ;
Our Passover was slain
At Salem's hallow'd place.
Yet we who in our tents remain
Shall gain his largest grace.
2 This eucharistic feast
Our every want supplies,
And still we by his death are blest,
And share his sacrifice ;
By faith his flesh we eat,
Who here his passion show,
And God out of his holy seat
Shall all his gifts bestow,
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3 Who thus our faith employ
His suflf 'rings to record,
E'en now we mournfully enjoy
Communion with our Lord ;
As though we every one
Beneath his cross had stood,
And seen him heave, and heard him groan,
And felt his gushing blood.
4 0 God ! 'tis fiuish'd now !
The mortal pjing is past !
By faith his head we see him bow,
And hear him breathe his laist.
We too with him are dead,
And shall with him arise,
The cross on which he bows his bead
Shall lift us to the skies.
331 NcwHaven—ii. 21.] C. M.
JESUS, at whose supreme command
" We now approach to God,
Before us in thy vesture stand,
Thy vesture dipp'd in blood.
Obedient to thy gracious word.
We break the hallow'd bread,
Commeni'rate thee, our dying Lord,
And trust on thee to feed.
2 Now, Saviour, now thyself reveal,
And make thy nature known.
Affix thy blessed Spirit's seal.
And stamp us for thy own.
The tokens of thy dying love
0 let us all receive,
And feel the quick'ning Spirit move.
And sensibly believe 1
3 The cup of blessing, blest by thee,
Let it thy blood impart ;
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The bread thy niystic body be,
And cheer each lan^id heart,
The ?race which sure salvation brings,
Let us herewith receive;
Satiate the hun^r)- with jood things,
The hidden manna give.
4 The living bread sent down from heaven
In us vouchsafe to be ;
Thy flesh for all the world is given,
And all may live by thee.
Now, Lord, on us thy flesh bestow.
And let us drink thy blood.
Till all our souls are fiU'd below
With all the life of God.
222 Olney—p. 134.] S. *L
TESUS, we thus obey
** Thy last and kindest word ;
Here in thine own appointed way
We come to meet our Lord.
2 The way thou hast enjoin'd.
Thou wilt therein appear;
We come with confidence to find
Thy special presence here.
3 Whate'er th' Almighty can
To pardoflM sinners give.
The fulness of our God made man,
We here with Christ receive.
S223 Pi/gnm— p.273.] 1 1th P.M. 7t -6,77,70.
ROCK of Israel, cleft for me,
For us, for all mankind.
See, thy feeblest followers see.
Who call thy death to mind :
Still the fountain of thy blood
Stands for sinners open'd wide ;
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Now, e'en now, my Lord, my God,
1 wash me in thy eide.
2 Now, e'en now, we all plunge in,
And drink the purple wave j
This the antidote for sin,
'Tis this our souls shall save;
With the life of Jesus fed,
Lo ! from streusth to strength we rise,
FoUovv'd by our Rock, and led
To meet thee in the skies.
224 HeWs— p. 91.] L. M.
A UTHOR of our salvation, thee
•^*- With lowly, thankful hearts we praise.
Author of this great mystery.
Figure and means of saving grace.
2 The sacred, true, effectual s'lpa,
Thy body and thy blood it shows j
Tlie glorious instruuient divine,
Thy mercy and thy strength bestows.
3 We see the blood that seals our peace ;
Thy pard'ning mercy we receive ;
The bread doth visibly express
The strength through which our spirits live.
4 Our spirits dnnk a fres'i supply,
And eat the bread so freely given.
Till borne on eagles' wings we fly,
And banquet with our Lord in heaven.
225 Nuremlnirg — p. 207. ] 5th P. M. 4 line* Ta.
TESUS, all-redeeming Lord,
•* Magnify<hy dying word.
In thine ordinance appear.
Come and meet thy followers here.
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2 In the rite thou hast en.ioin'd,
Let us no\T our Saviour find ;
Drink thy blood for sinners shed.
Taste thee in the broken bread.
3 Thou our faithful hearts prepare :
Thou thy pard'ning grace declare,
Thou that hast for sinners died,
Show thyself the crucified 1
4 All the powers of sin remove ;
Fill us with thy perfect love ;
Stamp us with the stamp divine ;
Seal our souls for ever thine.
226 ^auaria— p. 246.] 9lh P. M. 87,87,87,87.
piOME, thou everlasting Spirit,
^ Bring to every thankful mind
AH the Saviour's dying nieritj
All his suflF'rin^ for mankind :
True recorder of his passion.
Now the living fire impart.
Now reveal his great salvation,
Preach his gospel to our heart.
2 Come, thou witness of his dying.
Come, remembrancer divine,
Let us frel thy power applying
Christ to ever}- soul and mine:
Let us groan thins inward groaning,
Look on him we pierced and grieve.
All receive the grace atoning,
All the sprinkled blood receive.
327 Minorca— X). 161.] 1st P. M. 6 Una 8l.
r\ THOU eternal Victim slain,
^■^ A sacrifice for guilty man,
By the eternal Spirit made
An offering in the sinner's stead ;
206 SACRAMENTAL.
Our evcrlastine: Priest art thou,
And plead'st thy death for sinnen now !
2 Thy offering still continues new,
Thy vesture keeps its bloody hue ;
Thou stand'st the ever-sbughter'd Lamb,
Thy priesthood still remains the same;
Thy years, 0 God, can never fail.
Thy goodness is unchangeable.
3 0 that our faith may never move,
But stand unshaken as thy love :
Sure evidence of things unseen.
Now let it pass the years between.
And view thee bleeding on the tree,
My God, who dies for me, for me !
282 Eup!irata—p.2n5.} 12th P.M. 76,76,78,76
T AMB of God, whose dying love
•*-' We now recall to mind.
Send the answer from above,
And let us mercy find ;
Think on us, who think on thee.
And every struggling soul release !
O remember Calvary,
And bid us go in peace !
2 By thine agonizing pain,
And bloody sweat, we pray,
By thy dying love to man.
Take all our sins away :
Burst our bonds and set us free
From all iniquity release:
0 remember Calvary,
And bid us go in peace !
3 Let thy blood, by faith applied,
The sinner's pardon seal,
Speak us freely justified.
And all our sickness heal:
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By thy passion on the tree,
Let all our griefs and troubles cease ;
0 remember Calvary,
And bid us go in peace !
4 Never will we hence depart
Till thou our wants relieve ;
Write forgiveness on our heart,
And all tliiue image give:
Still our souls shall crj- to thee,
Till perfected in holiness:
0 '•emember Calvary,
AMd bid us go in peace !
229 Kendall— f. 27.] C. M.
r^OMl. Saviour, let thy tokens prove,
^ Fitted by heavenly art,
As channels to convey thy love
To every faithful heart.
2 The living bread, sent down from heaveili
In us vouchsafe to be;
Thy flesh for all the world is given,
And all may live by thee.
3 Now, Lord, on us thy flesh bestow,
And let us drink thy blood.
Till all our souls are fiU'd below.
With all the life of God.
4 Determined nothing else to know
But Jesus crucified,
1 will not from my Jesus go.
Or leave his wounded side.
230 fVaUal—x>. 70.] C. M.
T^HAT doleful night before his death,
■*■ The Lamb for sinners slain.
Did, almost with his dying breath,
This solemn feast ord.iin.
208 SACRAMENTAL.
2 To keep the feast, Lord, we have met,
And to remember thee :
Help each poor trembler to repeat,
" For me, he died for me 1"
3 These sacred signs, thy suff'rings, Lord,
To our remembrance bring :
We eat and drink around thy board,
But think on nobler things.
4 0 tune our tongues, and set in frame
Each heart that pants for thee,
To sing " Hosanna to the Lamb,"
The L.amb that died for me 1
231 St. Alban3—p. 44.] C. M.
■yE wretched, huntry, starving poor,
■''• Behold a royal feast !
Where mercy spreads her bounteons store
For every bumble guest
2 See, Jesus stands with open arms ;
He calls, he bids you come :
0 stay not back, though fear alarms I
For yet there still is room.
3 0 come, and with his children taste
The blessings of his love ;
While liope attends the sweet repast
Of nobler joys above !
4 There with united heart and voice,
Before the eternal throne.
Ten thousand thousand souls rejoice,
In ecstasies unknown.
i> And yet fen thouwnd thousand more
Are welcome still to come :
Te happy souls, the grace adore ;
Approach, there yet is room.
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232 Suffolk-p. 24.] C. M.
'T'HK King of heaven his table spreads,
-'■ And blessinirs crown the tioard ;
Not paradise, with all its joys,
Could such delight afford.
2 Pardon and peace to dying nnen,
And endless life are given :
Through the rich blood that Jesus shed
To raise our souls to heaven.
3 Millions of sculs, in glory now.
Were fed an J feast td here ;
And millions more still on the way.
Around the board appear.
4 All things are ready, come away.
Nor weak excuses frame ,
Crowd to your places at the feast.
And bless the Founder's name.
233 ThachcT—p. 136.] S. M.
LORY to God on hi?h
= '.,
^-^ Our peace is made with Heaven
The Son of God came down to die
That we might be forgiven.
2 His precious blood was shed,
His body bruised for sin :
Remember this in eating bread.
And this in drinking wine.
3 Approach his royal board.
In his rich garments clad ;
Join every tongue to praise the LorA,
And every heart be glad.
4 The Father eives the Son ;
The Son his 'flesh and blood :
The Spirit applies, and faith puts oi
The righteousness of God.
210 SACRAMENTAL.
BAPTISM.
234 St. jjmt'j— p. 2.] C. M.
pELESTIAL Dove, descend from high,
^^ And on the water brood:
Come, with thy quickening power apply
The water and the blood.
2 I love the Lord, that stoops so low
To ^ive his word a seal ;
But the rich grace his hands bestow
Exceeds the figure still.
3 Almighty God, for thee we call,
And our request renew ;
Accept in Christ, and bless withal,
The work we have to do.
235 Athol—i>. 132.] S. M.
MY Saviour's pierced side
Pour'd out a double flood :
By water we are purified.
And pardon'd by his blood.
2 Call'd from above, I rise.
And wash away my sin ;
The stream to which my spirit flies
Can make the foulest clean.
3 It runs divinely clear,
A fountain deep and wide;
'Twas open'd by the soldier's spear,
In my Redeemer's side !
236 Neiory-v. 8S.] L. M.
r-<OME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
^ Honour t_h« means ordain'd by thee;
tiake good oiir aDostolic boast,
And own thy glorious ministry.
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2 We now thj promised presence claim ;
Sent to disciple all mankind ;
Sent to baptize into thy name ;
We now thy promised presenoe find.
3 Father, in these reveal thy Son,
In these for whom we seek thy facej
The hidden mysterj' make known,
The inward, pure, baptizing grace,
4 Jesus, with us thou always art,
Effectuate now the sacred sign,
The gift unspeakable impart.
And bless the ordinance divine.
6 Eternal Spirit, descend from high,
Baptizer of our spirits thou !
The sacramental seal apply.
And witness with the water now !
6 0 that the souls baptized herein
May now tty truth and mercy fee
May rise and wash away their s:n :
dome, Holt Gbo«t their pardon seal 1
REJOICING AND PRAISE.
JJ37 Devmuhire—p. 284.] 13th P.M. 10 10, 11 11.
r\ HEAVENLY King, look down from above,
^^ Assist us to sing thy mercy and love:
So sweetly o'erflowing, so plenteous the store,
Thou still art bestowing, and giving us more.
2 O God of our life, we hallow thy name,
Oar business and strife is thee to proclaim t
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Accept our thanksgiving fAr creating grace!
The living, the living shall show forth thy praise.
3 Our Fatlfbrand Lord, almighty art thou ;
Preserved by thy word, we worship thee now,
The bountiful donor of all we enjoy ;
Our tongues to thy honour, and lives we employ.
4 But 0 ! above all, thy kindness we praise,
From sin and from thrall, which saves the lost race;
Thy Son thou hast given, a world to redeem,
And bring us to heaven, whose trust is in him.
5 Wherefore of thy love we sing and rejoice,
Like angels above, we lift up our voice :
Thy love each believer shall gladly adore,
For ever and ever, when time is no more.
238 Warwick— p. Sie.'i 23d P.M. 88,88,77.
'T'HE voice of my Beloved sounds,
■*• While o'er the mountain top he bounds ;
He flies exulting o'er the hills.
And all my soul with transport fills:
Gently doth he chide my stay,
"Rise, my love, and come away."
2 The scatter'J clouds are fled at last.
The rain is eone, the winter "s past.
The lovely vernal flowers appear,
The warbling choir enchants our ear;
Now with sweetly pensive moan,
Coos the turtle dove alone.
239 New Gabriel— 'p. 58.] C. M.
/^OME, let us who in Christ believe,
^^ Our common Saviour praise :
To him, with joyful voices, give
The glory of bis grace.
AND PRAISE. 213
2 He now stands knocking at the door
Of every sinner's heart :
The worst need keep him out no more.
Or force him to depart.
3 Through frace we hearken to thy voice,
Yield to be saved from sin ;
In sure and certain hope rejoice,
That thou wilt enter in.
4 Come quickly in, thou heavenly guest.
Nor ever heuce remove :
But sup with us, and let the feast
Be everlasting love.
240 Morning Hymn— Tp.\S9.] lstP.M.6Z»"»J«8*.
T^HOU hidden source of calm repose,
-*■ Thou all-sufficient love divine.
My help and refuge from my foes,
Secure I am if thou art mine !
And lo ! from sin, and grief, and shame,
1 hide me, Jesus, io thy name.
2 Thy mighty name salvation is.
And keeps my happy soul above:
Comfort it brings, and power, and peace,
And joy, and everlasting love :
To me, with thy great name are given.
Pardon, and holiness, and heaven.
3 Jesus, my all in all thou art.
My rest in toil, my ease in pain ;
The med'cine of my broken heart ;
In war, my peace ; in loss, my gain ;
My smile beneath the tyrant's frown ;
In shame, my glory and my crown.
4 In want, my plentiful supply ;
In weakness, my almighty pewer;
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In bonds, my perfect liberty ;
My light, in Satan's darkest hour ;
In grief, my joy unspeakable;
My life in death, my all in all.
241 Randall— p. 16.] C. M.
fyALK with us. Lord, thyself reveal
-•• While here o'er earth we rove ;
Speak to our hearts, and let us feel
The kindlings of thy love.
2 With thee conversing, we forget
All time, and toil, and care :
Labour is rest, and pain is sweet,
If thou, my God, art here.
3 Here then, my God, vouchsafe to stay,
And bid my heart rejoice ;
My bounding heart shall own thy sway,
And echo to thy voice.
< Thou callest me to seek thy face ;
'Tis all I wish to seek :
T' attend the whispers of thy grace,
And heair thee inly speak.
5 Let this my every hour employ,
Till I thy glory see ;
Enter into my Master's joy.
And find my heaven in thee !
242 Arlington— p. 3.] C. M.
TESUS, to thee I now can fiy,
•' On whom my help is laid :
Oppressed by sins, I lift my eye,
And see the shadows fade.
2 Believing on my Lord, I find
A sure and present aid :
AND PRAISE. 215
On thee alone my constant mind
Be every moment stay'd !
3 Whate'er in me seems wise or good,
Or strong, I here disclaim :
1 wash my garments in the blood
Of the atoning Lamb.
4 Jesus, my strength, my life, my re»t,
On thee will I depend.
Till summon'd to the marriage feast,
When faith in sight shall end.
243 Rapture— p. 195.1 4th P.M. 886,886.
UOW happy, gracious Loni, are we !
^^ Divinely drawn to follow thee,
Whose hours divided are
Between the mount and multitude ;
Our day is spent in doing good.
Our night in praise and prayer.
2 With us no melancholy void.
No moment lingers unemploy'd.
Or unimproved below :
Our weariness of life is gone,
Who live to serve our God ajone,
And only thee to know.
3 The winter's night, and summer's day.
Glide imperceptibly away.
Too short to sing thy praise ;
Too few we find the happy hours,
And baste to join those heavenly powers,
In everlasting lays.
4 With all who chant thy name on high.
And holy, holy, holy, crj',
A bright harmonious tliroDg ;
We long thy praises to repeat.
And ceaseless sing, around tby seat.
The new eternal song 1
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K 244 Framingham— p. 166."] IstF.M.G lines St.
fyHEE will I love, my strength, my tower;
••- Thee will I love, my joy, my crown j
Thee "ill I love with all my power,
la all thy works, and thee alone :
Thee will I love, till the pure fire
Fill my whole soul with ctiaste desire.
2 Ah I why did I so late thee know,
Thee, lovelier than the sons of men !
Ah ! ^vhy diJ ! no sooner go
To thee, the only ease in pain !
Ashamed I sigh, and inly mourn,
That I so late to thee did turn.
3 In darkness willingly I stray'd :
I sought thee, yet from thee I roved :
Far wide my wand'ring thoughts were spread J
Thy creatures more than thee I loved j
And now, if more at length I see,
»Tis through thy light, and comes from thee.
4 I tl-ank thee, uncreated Sun,
Ti it thy bright beams on me have shined ;
I ths/k thee who hast overthrown
M ' foes, and heal'd my wounded mind >
1 thank thee, whose enlivening voice
Bids my freed heart in thee rejoice.
5 Uphold me in the doubtful race,
Nor sulTer me again to stray ;
Strengthen my feet, with steady pace
Still to press forward in thy way ;
My soul and flesh, 0 Lord of might,
Fill, satiate v.-ith thy heavenly light.
6 Give to mine eyes refreshing tears ;
Give to my heart chaste, hallow'd fires;
Give to my soul, with filial fears,
The love that all heaven's host inspires;
AXD PRaISE. 217
Thit all my powers, with all their might,
In thy sole glory may unite.
7 Thee will I love, my joy, my crowq,
Thee will I love, my Lord, my God ;
Thee will I love, beneatli thy frown,
Or smile, thy sceptre, or thy rod ;
Whit though my tiesh and heart decay;
Thee shall I love iu endless day '.
245 Suffolk— p. 21.] C. M.
INFINITE, unexhausted love;
Je?us and love are one :
If still to me thy bowels move,
They are restrain'd to none.
2 What shall I do my God to love,
My levin? God to praise ;
The length, and bre.idth, .ind height to prove,
And depth of sovereign grace ?
3 Thy sovereign grace to all extends,
Immense and uncnnfined ;
From age to age it never ends.
It reaches all mankind.
4 Throughout the world its breadth is knovi^
Wide as infinity :
So wide it never pass'd by one,
Or it had pass'd by me.
5 My trespass was grown up to heaven ;
But f^r above the skies.
Through Christ abundantly forgiven,
I see thy mercies rise.
6 The depth of all-redeeming love.
What angel tongue can tell ?
0 may I to the utmost prove
The gift unspeakable !
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7 Come qaickly, ^acious Lord, and take
Possession of thine own ;
Mv longing heart vouchsafe to make
'Thine everlasting throne.
8 Assert thjf cl.iim, maintain thy right.
Come quickly from above ;
And sink me to perlVrtion's height,
The depth of humble love.
246 Parmu—p. 74.] L. M.
TESUS, thou everlasting King,
*' Accept the tribute which we bring ;
Accept thy well-deserved renown,
And wear our praises .as thy crown.
2 Let every act of worship be,
Like our espousals, Lord, to thee:
Like the blest hour, when from above
We first received the pledge of love.
3 The gladness of that happy day,
O may it ever, ever stay .'
Nor let our faith forsake its hold.
Nor hope decline, nor love grow cold !
4 Each following minute as it flies.
Increase thy praise, improve our joys,
Till we are raised to sing thy name,
At the great supper of the Lamb.
347 Bradley— p. 256.] 10th P. M. 8 Una Ek,
'T'HOU Shepherd of Israel and mine,
•*• The joy and desire of my heart,
For closer communion I pine,
I long to reside where thou art:
The pasture I languish to find,
where all \Vho their Shepherd obey,
Are fed, on thy bosom reclined,
And screeu'a (rom the beat of the daj.
AND PRAISE. 219
2 Ah ! show me that happiest place,
The place of thy people's abode :
Where saints in an ecstasy saze,
And har? on a crucified God :
Thy love for a sinner declare ;
Thy passion and death on the tree ;
My spirit to Calvary bear,
To suffer and triumph with thee.
3 'Tis there with the lambs of thy flock,
There only I covet to rest ;
To lie at the foot of the rock,
Or rise to be hid in thy breast :
'Tis there I would always abide,
And never a monjent depart :
Conceal'd in the cleft of thy side,
Eternally held in thy heart.
248 7Vi7iiJv— p. 304.] 19th P. M. 664, 6664.
pOME, thou almighty King,
^ Help us thy name to sing,
Help us to praise !
Father all florious.
O'er all victorious,
Come, and reism over us,
Ancient of days.
2 Jesus, our Lord, arise.
Scatter our enemies,
And make them fall ;
Let thine almighty aid
Our sure defence be made,
Our souls on thee be stav'd ;
Lord, hear our call !
3 Come, thou incarnate Word,
Gird on thy mighty sword.
Our prayer attend ;
220 REJOICING
Come, and thy people bless,
And give thy word success :
Spirit of holiness,
On us descend '.
4 Come, holy Comforter,
Thy sacred witness bear
In this glad hour;
Thou who almighty art,
Now rule in every heart,
And ne'er from us depart,
Spirit of power!
5 To the great One and Three
Eternal praises be
Hence — evermore !
His sovereign majesty
May we in glorj- see,
And to eternity
Love and adore.
249 Solitude— p. '261.] 10th P. M. 8 lines 8a.
TTOW tedious and tasteless the hours,
^^ When Jesus no longer I see ;
S'.veet prospects, sweet birds, and sweet flow'rs,
Have all lost their sweetness to me:
The midsummer sun shines but dim,
The fields strive in vain to look gayj
But when I am Happy in Him,
December 's as pleasant as May.
2 His name yields the richest perfume,
And sweeter than music his voice j
His presence disperses my gloom,
And makes all within me rejoice;
I shnuld, were he always thus nigh,
Have not\,ing to wish or to fear.
No mortal so happy as I,
My «mnmer would last all the year.
r
AND PRAISE. 221
3 Content with beholding his face,
My all to his pleasure resljn'd ;
Ko changes of season or place
Would make any change in my mind ;
While bless"d with a sense of his love,
A palace a toy would appear;
And prisons would palaces prove,
If Jesus would dwell with me there.
4 Dear Lord, if indeed I am thine,
If thou art my sun and my song.
Say why do I languish and pine ?
And why are my winters so long?
0 drive these dark clouds from my sky,
Thy soul-cheering presence restore ;
Or Uke me to thee up on high,
Where winter and clouds are no more.
250 Quee7isborough—p.242.] 9th P.M. 8s and 7a,
/^OME, thou Fount of every blessing,
^ Tune my heart to sing thy grace ;
Streams of mercy never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above :
Praise the mount — I'm fii'd upon it;
Mount of thy redeeming love !
2 Here I '11 raise mine Ebenezer,
Hither by thy help I 'm come ;
And I hope, by thy good pleasure.
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus soueht me when a stranger,
Wand'ring from the fold of God ;
He, to rescue me from dansrer,
Interposed his precious blood !
3 O ! to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm coDstrain'd to be!
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Let tliy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wand'rin? heart to thee:
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it;
Prone to leave the G^d I love —
Here 's my heart, O take and seal it ;
Seal it for thy courts above.
25 1 Bumham—p. ISO.] 3d P. M. 4 6s & 2 St.
VE ransom'd sinners, hear,
■*■ The prisoners of the Lord;
And wait lill Christ appear,
According to his word :
Rejoice in hope, rejoice with me.
We shall from all our sins be free.
2 Let others hu» their chains,
For sin and Satan plead.
And say, from sin's remains
They never can be freed ;
Rejoice in hope, rejoice with me,
We shall from all our sins be free.
3 In God we put our trust ;
If we our sms confess,
Faithful is he, and just.
From all unrighteousness
To cleanse us all, both you and me :
We shaj from all our sins be free.
4 Surely in us the hope
Of glory shall appear ;
Sinners, your heads li'^t up,
And see redemption near:
Again I sav, Rejoice with me,
We shall from all our sins be free.
5 Who Jesus' sufferings share,
My fellpw prisoners now,
Ye soon the wreath shall wear
On your triumphant brow :
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Rejoice in hope, rejoice with me,
We shall from all our sins be free
6 The word of God is sure,
And never can remove ; -
We shall in heart be pure,
And perfected in love :
Rejoice in hope, rejoice with me.
We shall from all our sins be free.
7 Then let us gladly bring
Our sacrifice of praise :
Let us give thanks and sing,
And glorj' in his grace :
Rejoice in hope, rejoice with me,
We shall from all our sins be free.
252 Lisbon— ip. US.] S. M.
pOME, ye that love the Lord,
^ And let your joys be known :
Join in a song with sweet accord.
While ye surround his throne.
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God ;
But servants of the heavenly King
May speak their joys abroad.
2 The God tliat rules on high,
That all the earth surveys,
That rides upon the stormy sky,
And calms the roaring seas ;
This awful God is ours,
Our Father and our love ;
He will send down his heavenly powen,
To carr)' us above.
3 There we shall see his face.
And never, never sin ;
There from the rivers of his grace
Drink endless pleasures in
224 REJOICING
Yen, and before we rise
To that immortal stale,
The thoughts of such aniazin; blisg
Should constant joys create.
4 The men of g^race have found
Glory begun below :
Celestial fruit on earthly ground
From faith and iiope may grow :
Then let our sonss abound,
And every tear be dry :
We're marching through Immanuel's ground,
To fairer worlds on high.
253 Portugal— J,. 75.] L. M.
XJAPPY the man that finds the grace,
-'•^ The blessing of God's chosen race;
The wisdom coming from above,
The faith that sweetly works by love.
2 Happy beyond description he
Who knows " the Saviour died for me!**
The gift unspeakable obtains,
And heavenly understanding gains.
3 Wisdom divine ! who tells the price
Of wisdom's costly merchandise ?
Wisdom to silver we prefer,
And gold is dross compared to her.
4 Her hands are fill'd with length of day%
Tnie riches, and immortal praise:
Riches of Christ on all bestow'd.
And honour that descends from God.
5 To purest joys she all invites.
Chaste, holy, spiritual delights ;
Her ways are ways of pleasantness.
And all uer flowery paths are peace.
AND PRAISE. 225
6 Happy the man who wisdom gains :
Thrice happy who his guest retains:
He owns, and shall for ever own.
Wisdom, and Christ, and heaven are one.
254 Deviza—jt. 14.] C. M.
TJAPPY the souls to Jesus join'd,
■'^ And saved by grace alone :
Walking in all his ways, they find
Their heaven on earth begun.
2 The church triumphant in thy love,
Their mighty joys we knoTv:
They sing the Lamb in hymns above,
Aud we in hymns below.
3 Thee in thy glorious realm they praise
And bow before thy throne I
We, in the kingdom of Ihy grace:
The kingdoms are but one.
4 The holy to the holiest leads;
From thence our spirits rise;
And he that in thy statutes treads,
Shall meet thee in the skies.
255 fVesleij—i). 299.] 16th P. M. U 12, 11 12.
MY God, I am thine, what a comfort divine.
What a blessing to know that my Jesus b
mine '.
In the heavenly Lamb, thrice happy I am ;
And my heart doth rejoice at the sound of bit
name.
2 True pleasures abound in the rap'urous sound J
And whoever hath found it, hath paradise founrt.
My dear Jesus to know, and feel his blood flow,
It is life everlasting, 'lis heiven below.
10*
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3 Yet onward I haste to the heavenly feast;
That, that is the fulness ; but this is the taste!
And this I shall prove, till with joy I remove
To the heaven of heavens in Jesus's love.
356 Darwell—'p. 187.] 3d P. M. 4 6s & 2 Ss.
T ET earth and heaven agree,
-'-' Angels and men be joia'd,
To celebrate with me
The Saviour of mankind :
T' adore the all-atoning Lamb,
And bless the sound of Jesus' name.
2 Jesus! transporting sound !
The joy of earth and heaven :
No other help is found,
No other name is given.
By which we can salvation have ;
But Jesus came the world to save.
3 Jesus! harmonious name!
It charms the hosts above J
They evermore proclaim.
And wonder at his love !
'T)s all their happiness to gaze,
"Tis heaven to see our Jesus' face.
4 His name the sinner hears,
And is from sin set free ;
'Tis music in his ears ;
'TIS life and victory:
New songs do now his lips employ,
And dances his glad heart for joy.
5 Stung *T the scorpion, sin.
My poor eipirins soul
The balmy sound drinks in,
And is at once made whole :
See there my Lord upon the tree !
I bear, I feel be died for me.
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6 0 unexampled love !
0 all-redeemin; grace !
How swiftly didst thou move
To save a fallen race I
What shall I do to make it known
What thou for all mankind hast done?
7 O for a trumpet voice,
On all the world to call !
To bid their hearts rejoice
In Him who died for all !
For all my Lord was crucified ;
For all, for all my Saviour died.
257 Medford—i,. 79.] L. M.
T ORD, how secure and bless'J are they
■*-' Who feel the joys of pardon'd sin !
Should storms of wrath shake earth and sea,
Their minds have heaven and peace within.
2 The day glides sweetly o'er their heads,
Made up of innocence and love ;
And soft, and silent as the shades.
Their nightly minutes gently move.
3 Quick as their thouzhts, their joys come on,
But fly not half so swift away :
Their souls are ever bright as noon,
And calm as summer evenings be.
4 How oft they look to th' neavenly hills.
Where eroves of livin? pleasure grow !
And longing hopes, and cheerful smiles,
Sit undisturb'd upon their brow.
5 They scorn to seek our golden toys.
But spend the day, and share the night,
In numb'ring o'er the richer joy^s
That heaven prepares for their delight.
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258 Kingstotv—p. 43.] C. M.
'T'HY ceaseless, unexhausted love,
■*• Unmerited and free,
Delights our evil to remove,
And help our misery.
2 Thou waitest to be gracious still,
Thou dost with sinners bear:
That saved, we may thy goodness feel,
And all thy grace declare.
3 Thy goodness and thy truth to me,
To every soul abound ;
A vist unfathomable sea,
Where all our thoughts are drown'd.
4 Its streams the whole creation reach,
So plenteous is the store;
Enough for all, enough for each.
Enough for evermore.
5 Faithful, 0 Lord, thy mercies are !
A rock that cannot move :
A thousand promises declare
Thy constancy of love.
6 Throughout the universe it re'igaa.
Unalterably sure; •
And while the truth of God remains,
His goodness must endure.
259 Cannarr/ieii— p. ISl.] 3d P.M. 4 6s&2Ss.
■p EJOICE, the Lord is King;
-''' Your Lord and Kin? a lore;
Mortals, give thanks and sing,
And triumph evermore ;
Lift up your hearts, lift up your voice,
Rejjoice, a^in I say, rejoice.
AND PKAISE. 229
2 Jesus, the Saviour, reigns.
The God of truth and love;
When he had purged our stains,
He took his seat above j
Lift up your hearts, &c.
3 His kingdom cannot fail,
He rules o'er earth and heaven;
The keys of death and hell
Are to our Jesus given ;
Lift up your hearts, &c.
4 He sits at God's right hand
Till all his foes submit.
And bow to his command.
And fal I beneath his feet ;
Lift up your hearts, &c.
5 He all his foes shall quell,
Shall all our sins destroy :
And every trosom swell
With pure seraphic joy ;
Lift up your hearts, &c.
6 Rejoice in glorious hope,
Jesus the Judge shall come.
And Uike his servants up
To their eternal home ;
We soon shallTear th' archangel's voice.
The trump of God shall sound, Rejoice !
260 Holborn—p.2°S.] 14th P.M. 10 11, 1011.
f\ TELL me no more of this world's vain store,
^^ The time for such trifles with me now is o'er
A country I've found where true joys abound.
To dwell I'm determined on that happy ground.
2 The souls that believe in paradise live.
And mn in that number will Jesus receive
230 REJOICING
My soul, don't delay — he calls thee away,
Rise, follow thy Saviour, and bless the glad day.
3 No mortal doth know what he can bestow,
What light, strength, and comfort — go after him,
go;
Lo, onward I move to a city above.
None guesses how woudrous my journey will
prove.
4 Great spoils I shall win from death, bell, and
sin,
'Midst outward afflictions shall feel Christ within :
And when I'm to die, receive me. I'll cry.
For Jesus hath loved me, I cannot tell why.
6 But this I do find, we two are so join'd,
He'll not live in plor)- and leave me behind:
So this is the race I'm running through grace,
Henceforth — till admitted to see my Lord's face.
6 And now I'm in care, my neighbours may share
These blessings : to seek them will none of yoa
dare?
J"» bondage, 0 why, and death will you lie,
When one here assures you free grace is so nigh ?
261 Broomsgrave— p. 30.1 CM.
MY God, the spring of ill my joys,
The life of my delights.
The glory of my brightest days,
And comfort of niy nights!
2 In darkest shades, if thou appear.
My dawnin? is beirun;
Thou art my soul's bright morning star,
And thou my rising sun.
3 The opening heavens around me shine
With beams of sacred bliss,
AND PRAISE. 231
If Jesus show his mercy mine,
And whisper I am his.
4 My soul would leave this heavy clay
At that transporting word,
Run up with ioy the shining way.
To see and praise my Lord.
5 Fearless of hell and ghastly death,
I'd break through every foe ;
The wings of love and arms of faith
Would bear me cooqu'ror through.
262 MaTtMsLane—-p. 174.] ■2d P. M. 6 linet 8i
T'LL praise my Maker while I've breath,
■•• And when my voice is lost in death,
Praise shall employ my nobler powers ;
My days of praise sliall ne'er be past,
While life, and thought, and being last,
Or immortality endures.
2 Happy the man whose hopes rely
On Israel's God ; he made the sky.
And earth, and seas, with all their train;
His truth for ever stands secure ;
He saves th' oppress'd, he feeds the poor,
And none shall find his promise vain.
3 The Lord pours eyesight on the blind ;
The Lord supports the fainting mind ;
He sends the lab'ring conscience peace ;
He helps the stranger in distress.
The widow and the fatherless,
And.grants the prisoner sweet release.
4 I'll praise him while he lends me breath.
And when my voice is lost in death.
Praise shall employ my nobler powers j
My days of praise shall ne'er be past,
While life, and thought, and being las^
Or immortality endures.
232 REJOICING
263 Lmiesborough — p. 5.] C, AL
T ET every tongue lliy goodness speak,
■*-' Thou sovereign t/'rd of all ;
Thy strength'nin? hands uphuld the weak,
And raise the poor that fall.
2 When sorrows bow the spirit down,
When virtue lies disfress'd ;
Beneath the proud oppressor's frown
Thou giv'st the mourner rest,
3 Thou know'st the pains thy servants feel.
Thou hear'st thy children's cry j
And their best wishes to fulfd,
Thy grace is ever nigh.
4 Thy mercy never shall remove
From men of heart sincere :
Thou sav'st the souls whose humble love
Is join'd with holy feai'.
5 My lips shall dwell upon thy praise,
And spread thy fame aliroad ;
Let all the sons of Adam raise
Tlie honours of their God.
264 TVuro— p. ST.] L. M.
■pRAlSE ye the Lord, 'tis good to raise
-'- Vour hearts and voices in his praise:
His ii.ature and his works invite
To make this duty our delight.
2 He form'd the stars, those heavenly flames;
He counts their numbers, calls their name«;
His wisdom's vast, and knows no bound,
A deep where all our thoughts are drown 1.
3 Sing to the Lord, exalt him high,
Who spreads his clouds along the sky;
AND PRAISE. 533
There he prepares the fruitful rain,
Hot lets the drops descend in vain.
4 He makes the enss the hills adorn ;
He clothes the snjiling fields with corn:
The beasts with f'iod his hands supply,
And the young ravens when they CTy.
5 What is the creature's skill or force?
The spri^hily man, or warlike horse?
The piercing wit, the active limb?
All are too mean delights for him.
6 But saints are lovely in his sight,
He vit^us his children with drli^ht;
He sees their hope, he knows their fear,
He looks, and loves his image there.
265 Otley—p. 20S.] 5lh P. M. 4 Una 7».
p LORY be to Gnd on high,
^-^ God, whose glory fills Ibc sky;
Peace on earth to man for;iven,
Man, the well-beloved of Heaven.
2 Sovereign Father, heavenly King,
Thee we now presume to sing ;
Glad thine attributes confess.
Glorious all, and numberless.
3 Hail, by all thy works adored !
Hail, the everlnstiiig Lord !
Thee with thankful hearts we prove,
God of power, aud God of love.
4 Christ our Lord and God we omi,
Christ, the Father's oidy Son ;
Lamb of God, for sinners slain.
Saviour of offending man.
5 Bow thine ear, in mercy bovr ;
Hear, the world's Atonement, thou !
234 REJOicixo
Jesus, in thy name we pray,
Take, 0 take our sir.s away I
6 Powerful Advocate with God,
Justify us by thy Llood j
Bow thine ear. in mercy bow.
Hear, the world's Atonement, thou 1
7 Hear, for thou, 0 Christ, alone,
Art w ith thy great Father one ;
One the Holy Ghost with thee ;
One supreme eternal THREE.
266 Old Hundred— p. ST.] L. M.
■pEFORE Jehovah's awful throne,
■'-' Ye nati'^ns bow with sacred joy;
Know that the Lord is God alone,
He can create, and he destroy.
2 His sovereign power, without our aid.
Made us of clay and form'd us men :
And when like wand'ring sheep we stray'd,
He brought us to his fold agam.
3 We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs,
High as the heavens our voices raise ;
And earth, with her ten thousand tongues.
Shall tiil thy courts with sounding prajse.
■I Wide as the world is thy command ;
Vast as eternity thy love;
/irm as a rock thy truth must stand.
When rolling yeai's shall cease to move.
267 Tcynpkton—p. \l. CM.
CALVATION : 0 the jo-'ul sound!
*~^ What pleasure to our c,\rs !
A sovereign balm for ever--' ivota I,
A cordial foi "ur fears.
AND PRAISE. 235
Glory, honour, praise, and power,
£e unto the Lamb for ever !
Jesus Chriit is our Redeemer!
Hallelujah! praise tlie Lord! -
2 Salvatiou! let the echo fly
The spacious earth around,
While all the armies of the sky
Conspire to raise the sound. Glory, S[t,
3 Salvation ! 0 thou bleeding Lamb !
To thee the praise belongs :
Salvation shall inspire our hearts.
And dwell upon our tongues. Glory, ifC
368 Old Hundred—^. 87.] L. M.
■pROM all that dwell below the skies
■'■ Let the Creator's praise arise,
Let the Redeemer's nanie be sung
Through everv' land, by every tongue.
Eternal are thy mercies. Lord,
Eternal truth attends thy word ;
Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore,
Till suns shall rise and set no more.
2 Your lofty themes, ye mortals, bring,
In songs of praise divinely sing:
The great salvation loud jiroclaim,
And sliout for joy the Saviour's name.
In every land begin the song :
To every land the strains belong;
In cheerful sounds all voices raise,
And fill the world with loudest praise.
269 Mount PleasaiU—p. 4.] C. M.
/^ORfE, let us join our cheerful songs
^^ With angels round the throne ;
Ten thousand thousand are their tongura,
But all their joys are one.
236
REJOICING
2 Worthy the Lamb that died, they cry,
To be exalted thus:
Worthy the Lamb, our hearts reply.
For he was slain for us.
3 Jesus is wortliy to receive
Honour and power divine ;
And blessings more than we can five.
Be, Lord, for ever thine.
4 The whole creation join in one
To bless the sacred name
Of Him that sits upon the throne.
And to adore the Lamb.
370 Godo/.4fcr'a»n-p.311.] 21st PJVL 66,84,66,84
fpHE God of Abr'am praise,
•*• Who reigns enthroned aoove:
Ancient of everlasting days.
And God of love:
JEHOVAH, GREAT I AM !
By earth and heaven confess'd ;
1 bow, and bless the sacred name.
For ever bless'd.
2 The God of Abr'am praise.
At whose supreme command
From earth I rise — and seek the joy»
At his right hand :
I all on earth forsake.
Its wisdom, fame, and power;
And him my only portion make,
My shield and tower.
3 The God of Abr'am praise,
Whose all-sufficient erace
Shall guide mn all my happy days
In all his ways :
He calls a worm his friend !
He calls himself my God !
AND PRAISE. 237
And be shall save me to the end
Through Jesus' blood ;
4 He by himself hath sworn ;
I on bis oath depend ;
I shall, on eagles' wings upborne.
To heaven ascend :
I shall behold his face,
I shall his power adore.
And sing the wonders of his grace
For evermore.*
271 Lexingtmi—p. 64.] C. M.
TV/TY Saviour, my almighty Friend,
•'■'•'• When I begin thy praise,
Where will the growing numbers end?
The numbers of thy grace.
2 Thou art my everlasting trust;
Thy goodness I adoie :
Send down thy grace, 0 blessed Lord,
That I may love thee more.
3 My feet shall travel all the length
Of the celestial road :
And march with couriffe in thy strength.
To see the Lord my God.
4 Awake ! awake ! my tuneful powers.
With this delightfiil song.
And entertain the darkest hours,
Kor tliink the season long.
272 Holstein—p. 25.5.] lOlh P. M. Slines 81,
»T«HIS, this is the God we adore,
■*• Our faithful, unchangeable Friend,
Whose love is as great as his power.
And neither knows measure nor end t
238 REJOICING
Tis Jesus, the First and the Last.
Whose Spirit shall fuide us safe bome ;
We'll praise him for all that is past, "
And trust him for all that's to come.
273 Oliphant— ■p. 239.] 8th P. M. 87, 87, 0.
r\ THOU God of my salvation,
^-^ My Redeemer from all sin ;
Moved by thy divine compassion,
Who hast died my heart to xvin,
I will praise thee, I "'ill praise thee :
Where shall I thy praise begin?
2 Thoueh unseen, I love the Saviour j
He hath broueht salvalion near:
Manifests his pard'ning favour ,
And when Jesus doth appear.
Soul and body
Shall his glorious image bear.
3 While the angel choirs are crying,
Glorv to the »reat 1 AM 1
J with them will still be vying.
Glory '. glory to the tamb !
0 liow precious
Is the sound of Jesus' name !
4 Angels now are hov'ring round us,
Unperceived they mix the throng,
Wond'ring at the love that crown'd us,
Glad to join the holy song:
Hallelujah,
Love and praise to Christ belong !
5 Now I see with joy and wonder,
Whence the gracious spring arose ;
Aneel minds are lost to pomier
Dying love's niysterious cause :
Yet the blessing,
lown to all, to nie it flows.
AND PRAISE. 239
6 This hath set me all on fire ;
Strongly glows the flame of love ;
Higher mounts my soul, and higher.
Struggles for its svrid remove;
Then I'll praise him.
In a nobler strain above !
274 Arundel— ip. 10.] C. M.
XJOW happy every cliild of grace,
■*■■*■ Who knows his sins forgiven '.
This earth, he cries, is not my place,
I seek ray place in heaven :
A country far from mortal sight,
Yet 0 1 by faith I see ;
The land of rest, the saints' delight.
The heaven prepared for me.
2 0 what a bli ssed hope is ours !
While here on earlh we stay.
We more than taste the heavenly power*,
And antedate that day :
We feel the resurrection near,
Our life in Christ conceai'd,
And with his glorious presence here
Our earthen vessels till'd.
3 0 would he more of heaven bestow !
And let the vessels break ;
And let our ransoni'd spirits go.
To grasp the God we seek ;
In rapt'rous awe on him to gaze,
Who bought the sight for me,
And shout and wonder at his grace
To all eternity.
3T5 Triumph-^. 320.] 25th P. M. 77,57,77,8
TJEAD of the church triumphant,
*^ We joyfully adore thee ;
Till thou appear, thy members here
Shall sing like those in glory ;
240 REJOICING
We lift our hearts and voices
V/ith blest anticipation.
And cry aloud, and give to God
The praise of our salvation.
2 \\Tiile in afflictinn's fnmace,
Anil passiii? through the fire,
Thy love we jir.iise which knows no days.
And ever brings us nigher:
We cbp our hands exulting
In thine almighty favour:
The love divine, which made us thine,
Can keep us thine for ever.
3 Thou dost conduct thy people
Thiough torren'.s of teniptation ;
Nor will we fear, while thou art near,
The fire of tribulation :
The world, with sin and Satan,
In vain our march opposes j
By thee we shall brcik through them all,
And sing the song of Moses.
4 By faith we see the glory
To which thou shalt restore us.
The cross despise for tlut high prize
Which Ibou hast set before us:
And if Ihou couut us v.orlhy.
We each, as dying Stephen,
Shall see thee stand at God's right band,
To take us up to heaven.
276 C/<anng— p. 129.] S. M.
A LMIGHTY Maker. God,
•^ How glorious is thy D.ini" !
Thy wonders how diffuse 1 abroad,
Throughout creation's frame !
2 In native wiiite and red
The rose and lily stand,
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Aad free from pride, their beantiea tpittd,
To chow thy skilful hand.
3 Thehiknonntiiip theiky, .
With anaagfeitiogi (ocg;
And bean her Uaker^ praiae on hifh.
Upon her artlea toosoe.
4 Fain would I rise aad ting
To my Creator too :
Fain would mr heart adore mj King,
And ^ve him praises due.
5 Descend, celestial fire,
And seize me irom alWTe !
Wrap me in flames of pore deare^
A sacrifice ot lore.
6 Let joy and worship spead
The remnant of my days :
And to my God my soal ascend
In sveet perfumes of praise.
277 Ly<mJ—p.2S9.] I3lh P.M. 1010,11 IL
■p EJOICE evermore with ansels abore,
-^ In Jesns's power, in JesosVlore :
With ^ad exmtatioa your triumph proclaim,
Ascribmg salvation to God and the Lamb.
2 Tbou, Lord, our relief in trouble hast been ;
Ha!t saved xa from erief, hast saved ns from so ;
The power of thy Spirit hath set our hearts fic^
And DOW we inl^ri' all fulness in thee.
3 All fulness of peace, all folcess of joy.
And spiritoal bliss that never shall cloy.
To us i: is given in Jesus to kcow,
A kingdom cf heaven, a heaven below.
4 No longer we join, while sinneis invite.
Nor envy the swine their bratidi ddif^;
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Their joy is all sadness, their mirlh is all TaiB}
Their laughter is madness, their pleasure is paufe
5 0 might they at last with sorrow return,
The pleasure to taste for which they were bomt
Our Jesus receiving, our happiness prove,
The jny of believing, the heaven of love.
278 ^aHtJnore— p.318.] 24th P.M. 6666,8,6,8,8,
YE simple souls that stray
Far from the path of peace.
That unfrequented way
To life and happiness :
How long will ye your folly love.
And throng the downward road,
And hate the wisdom from above,
And mock the sons of God !
2 Madness and misery,
Ye count our lives beneath.
And nothing great can see.
Or glorious in our death :
As born to suffer and to grieve.
Beneath your feet we lie ;
And utterly contemn'd we live.
And unlamented die.
3 Poor pensive sojourners,
O'erwhelm'd with grief and woes,
Perplex'd with needless fears,
And pleasure's mortal foes ;
More irksome than a gaping tomb.
Our sight ye cannot bear,
Wrapp'd in the melancholy gloom
Of fanciful despair.
4 So wretched and obscure.
The men whom ye despise,
So foolish, weak, and poor,
Above your scorn we rise ;
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Our conscience in the Holy Ghost
Can witness better things :
For He whose blood is all our boast
Hath made us priests and kings
5 Riches unsearchable,
In Jesus' love we know,
And pleasures from the well
Of life our souls o'erflow ;
From him the Spirit we receive,
Cf wisdom, grace, and power,
And always sorrowful we live.
Rejoicing evermore.
6 Angels our servants are,
And keep in all our ways,
And in their hands they bear
The sacred sons of grace :
Our guardians to that heavenly bliss,
They all our steps attend ;
And God himself our Father is,
And Jesus is our friend.
7 With him we walk in white ;
We in his image shine :
Our robes are robes of light,
Our righteousness divine:
On all the grov'Iing kings of earth
With pity we look down,
And claim, in virtue of our birth,
A never-fading crown.
ZeaZand— p. 268.] 11th P. M. 76,76,77,76.
/~\FT I in my heart have said,
'-' Who shall ascend on high.
Mount to Christ, my glorious Head,
And bring him from the sky i
Borne on contemplation's wing,
Surely I shall dud him there,
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Where the angels praise their King,
And gain the morning star.
2 Oft I in my heart have said.
Who to the deep shall stoop,
Sink with Christ among the dead.
From thence to bring him up ?
Could I but my heart prepare,
By unfeign'd humility,
Christ would quickly enter there.
And ever dwell in me.
3 But the righteousness of faith
Hath taught me better things j
" Inward turn thine eyes," it sailh,
While Christ to me it brings :
" Christ is ready to impart
Life to all for life who sigh :
In thy mouth and in thy hrairt
The word is ever nigh."
280 Conquest— ^.315.] 22dP.M.88,8£!,84.
HARK ! how the gospel trumpet sounds '.
Through all the world the echo bounds.
And Jesus, bj redeeming blood,
Is bringing sinners back to God ;
And guides them safely by his word
To endless day.
2 Hail \ all-victorious, conquering Lord I
Be thou by all thy works adored.
Who undertook for sinful man.
And brought salvation through thy name,
That we with thee may ever reign
In endless day.
3 Figtit on, ye conquering souls, fight on'.
And when the conquest you have won,
Then palms of victory you shall bear.
And in his kingdom have a share;
AND PRAISE. 345
And crowns of glory ever wear
In endless day.
4 There we shall in full chorus join,
With saints and angels all combine,
To sing of his redeeming love,
When rolling years shall cease to move,
And this shall be our theme above,
In endless day.
281 M'Kmdree—p.2-16.] 9th P. M. 87,S7,87,8T
TJAIL ! thou once despised Jesus,
•"• Hail, thou everlasting King!
Thou didst suffer to redeem us ;
Thou didst free salvation bring.
Hail, thou agonizing Saviour,
Bearer of our sin and shame I
By thy merits we find favour;
Life is given through thy name.
2 Paschal Lamb, by God appointed,
All our sins on thee were laid :
By almighty love anointed,
Thou hast full atonement made:
All thy people are forgiven,
Through the virtue of thy blood :
Open'd is the gate of heaven ;
Peace is made twixt man and God.
3 Jesus, hail ! enthroned in glory.
There for ever to abide I
All the heavenly hosts adore thee,
Seated at thy Father's side :
There for sinners thou art pleading,
There thou dost our place prepare:
Ever for us interceding,
Till in glory we appear.
4 Worship, Honour, power, and blessing,
Thou art worthy to receive:
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Loudest praises without censing,
Meet it is for us to fi;ive j
Help, ye bright aiigelic spirits,
Bring your sweetest, noblest lays ;
Help to sing our Saviour's merits;
Help to chant Lnmanuel's praise.
283 i>uren— p. 287.] 13th P, M. 10 10, 11 IL
r\ WHAT shall I do my Saviour to praise!
^ So faithful and true, so plenteous in grace J
So strong to deliver, so good to redeem.
The weakest believer that hangs upon him.
2 How happy the man whose heart is set free I
The people that can be joyful iu thee :
Their joy is to walk in the light of thy face;
And still they are talking of Jesus's grace.
3 Their daily delight shall be in thy name;
They shall as their right thy righteousness claim:
Thy righteousness wearing, and cleansed by thy
blood.
Bold shall they appear in the presence of God.
4 For thou art their boast, their glory, and power,
And I also trust to see the glad hour.
My soul's new creation, a life from the dead,
The day of salvation that lifts up my head.
5 For Jesus, my Lord, is now my defence ;
I trust in his word, none plucks me from thence}
Since I have found favour, he all things will do;
My King and my Saviour shall make me anew.
6 Yes, Lord, I shall see the bliss of thine own ;
Thy secret to me shall soon be made known ;
For sorrow and sadness I joy shill receive,
And share in the gladness of all that believe.
AND PRAISE. 24T
283 Atlanlic—f. 105.] L. M.
INTO thy gracious hands I fall,
And with the arms of faith embrace ;
0 Kinj of glory, hear my call 1
0 raise me, heal me by thy grace !
Kow righteous through thy grace I am :
No condemnation now I dread ;
1 taste salvation in thy name;
Alive in thee, my living head.
2 Still let thy wisdom be my guide,
Nor lake thy flight from me away ;
Still with me let thy grace abide.
That I from thee may never stray :
Let thy word richly in me dwell ;
Thy peace and love my portion be :
My joy t' endure and do thy will,
Till perfect 1 am found iu thee.
3 Ann me with thy whole armour, Lord !
Support my weakness with thy might"
Gird on my thigh thy conqu'rinj sword.
And shield me in the threat'ning fight:
From faith to faith, from grace to grace,
So in thy strength shall I go on ;
Till heaven and earth flee from thy (aoe,
And glory end what grace begun.
284 .^cton— p. 88.] L. >L
'pHE day of Christ, the day of God,
■•• We humbly hope with joy to see,
Wash'd in the sanctifying blood
Of an expiring Deity :
2 Who did for us his life resign :
There is no other God but one;
For all the plenitude divine
Resides in the eternal Son.
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3 Spotless, sincere, without offence.
Wh."l^^ 71KY" ''ay '■emain ! '
oVT, "?^ "°°'' "'Christ to cleanse
Our souls from every sinful stain.
4 Lord, we believe the promise sure!
ihe purchased Comforter imnart '
Apply thy blood to „>ake us p^ref '
io keep us pure in life and heart!
5 Then let us see that day supreme,
When none thy Godhead shall deW;
Thy sovereign Majesty blaspheme, '
Or count thee less than the Most High '
^ Wh^,,^" TJ"*,"" "'«''• God believe,
Shl^ fh^"' ""^ '*"' appearing love, '
bhall thy consummate joy receive,
And see thy glorious face above.
285 Plymouth Dock~p.m.} lstP.M.6Kn«a
TO I God is here! let us adore,
T .» "^f °Z" ^""^^ dreadful is this place !
I-et all withm us feel his power.
And silent bow before his face '
Who know his power, his grace who prove
Serve him with awe, with rev'rence love '
2 ^Zl ^°^ f here ! him day and night
Th' united choirs of angels sing ;
To him enthroned above all height
Heaven's host their noblest praises brine;
Disdain not. Lord, our meaner song
Who praise thee with a stamm'ring tongue.
3 ^'adl'' the toys of earth we leave,
Weal'h, pleasure, fame, for thee alone:
To thee our will, soul, flesh, we eive
0 take 1 O seal them for thine Swn'i
Thou art the God, thou art the Lord :
Be tnou by all thy works adored !
AND PRAISE. 249
4 Being of beings ! may our praise
Thy courts with grateful fragrance fill :
Still may we stand before thy face,
Still hear and do thy sovereign will;
To thee may all our thoughts arise,
Ceaseless, accepted sacrifice.
6 In thee we move : — all things of thee
Are full, thou source and life of all;
Thou vast unfathomable sea !
(Fall prostrate, lost in wonder fall,
Te sons of men 1 for God is man I)
All may we lose, so thee we gain !
6 As flowers their op'ning leaves display,
And glad drink in the solar fire,
So may we catch thy everv- ray,
So may thy influence us inspire;
Thou beam of the eternal beam !
Thou purging fire, thou quick'ning flame !
286 ^tirnAam— p. ISO.] 3d P. M. 4 6s & 2 8a.
YOUNG men and maidens, raise
Your tuneful voices high ;
Old men and children, praise
The Lord of earth and sky :
Him Three in One, and One in Three,
Extol to all eternity.
2 The universal King
Let all the world proclaim ;
Let every creature sing
His attributes and name !
Him Three in One, and One in Three,
Extol to all eternity.
3 In his great name alone
All excellences meet :
Who sits upon the throne,
And shall for ever sit ;
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Him Three in One, and One in Three,
Extol to all eternity.
4 Glory to God belongs ;
Glory to God be given ;
Above the noblest songs,
Of all in earth and heaven:
Him Three in One, and One in Three,
Extol to all eternity.
287 Maton—^. 145.] 1st P. AL 6 Una St.
A ND can it be that I should gain
■**■ An interest in the Saviour's blood?
Died he for me, who caused his pain?
For me, who him to death pursued?
Amazing love I how can it be
That thou, my Lord, shouldst die for me !
2 'Tis mystery all ! th' Immortal dies !
Who can explore his strange design I
In vain the first-born seraph tries
To sound the depths of love divine !
'TIS mercy all 1 let earth adore :
Let angel minds inquire no more.
3 He left his Father's throne above;
(So free, so infinite his grace I)
Emptied himself of all but love,
And bled for Adam's helpless race ;
'Tis mercy all, immense and free,
For, 0 my God, it found out me !
A Long my imprison'd spirit lay,
Fast bound in sin and nature's night:
Thine eye diffused a quick'nin? ray ;
I woke ; the dungeon flamed with light I
My chains fell off,, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and foUow'd thee.
AND PRAISE. 251
6 No condemnation now I dread,
Jesus, and all in bim is mine !
Alive in him, my living Head,
And clothed in righteousness divine,
Bold I approach th' eternal throne,
And claim the cro«n, through Christ, my own.
288 Triumph— 1,.320.] 25th P. M. T7,87,T7,87.
JESUS, take all the glory !
•* Thy meritorious passion
The pardon bought, thy mercy brought
To us the great salvation.
Thee gladly we acknowledge
Our only Lord and Saviour,
Thy name confess, thy eoodness blesa.
And triumph in thy favour.
2 With anjels and archangels
We prostrate fall before thee :
Again we raise our souls in praise,
And thankfully adore thee.
Honour, and power, and blessing,
To thee be ever given.
By all who know thy love belovr,
And all our friends in heaven.
289 Brewer — p. 76.] L. M.
JESUS, thy blood and righteousness
•' My beauty are, my glorious dress :
•Midst flaming worlds in these array'd,
With joy sliall I lift up my head.
2 Bold shall 1 stand in thy great day,
For who aught to my charge shall lay?
Fully absolved through these I am,
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.
8 The holy, meek, unspotted Lamb,
Who from the Father's bosom came ;
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Who died for me, even me t' atone,
Now for my Lord and God I own.
4 Lord, I believe thy precious blood,
Which at the mercy seat of God
For ever doth for sinners plead,
For me, even for my soul was shed.
5 Lord, I believe, were sinners more
Than sands upon the ocem shore,
Thou hist for ALL a ransom paid,
For ALL a full atonement made.
290 iroorffcrirfffe— p.253.] lOthP.M.SIinaSfc
A FOUNTAIN of life and of grace
•^ In Christ, our Redeemer, we see:
For us, who his offers embrace;
For all it is open and free :
Jehovah himself doth invite
To drink of his pleasures unknown;
The streams of immortal delight
That flow from his heavenly throne.
2 As soon as in him we believe,
By faith of his Spirit we take :
And, freely forgiven, receive
The mercy for Jesus's sake !
We gain a pure drop of his love;
The life of eternity know;
Angelical happiness prove,
And witness a heaven below.
291 Fremmington— p. \67.'i IttP.M. 6Zt?i«afc
Xifl^ ^T am I, O Ihnu glorious God !
And what my Father's Imuse to thee?
That thou such mercies hast l)estow'd
On me, the vilest reptile, me!
I take the blessing from above,
And wonder at tby boundless lore.
AND PRAISE. 253
2 Me in my blood thy love pass'd by,
And stopp'd, my ruin to retrieve;
Wept o'er my soul thy pitying eye :
Thy bowels yearn'd, and sounded, " Live I"
Dying, I heard the welcome sound,
And pardon in thy mercy found.
3 Honour, and might, and thanks, and praise,
1 render to my pard'ning God !
Extol the riches of thy grace,
And spread thy saving name abroad ;
That onl^' name to sinners given
Which lifts poor dying worms to heaven.
4 Jesus, 1 bless thy gracious power,
And all within me shouts thy name ;
Thy name let ever)- soul adore,
Thy power let every tongue proclaim :
Thy grace let every sinner know.
And find in thee their heaven below.
292 Jotiah—p.263.] 11th P.M. 76,76,77,71
■]V4"EET and right it is to sing,
-'■'■'• In every time and place.
Glory to our heavenly King,
The God of truth and grace.
Join we then with sweet accord
All in one thanksgiving join:
Holy, holy, holy Lord,
Eternal praise be Ihiue !
2 Thee, the first -b^m sons of light,
In choral symphonies.
Praise by d.iy, day without night.
And never, never c>-ase ;
Angels, and archangels, all
Praise the mystic"Three in One;
Sing, and stop, and gaze, and fall
O'erwhelmM before thy throne 1
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3 Vying with that heavenly choir,
VVho chant thy praise above;
We on eagles' wings aspire,
The wings of faith and love ;
Thee they sing, with glory crown'd;
We extol the slaiighter'd Lamb j
Lower if our voices sound.
Our subject is the same.
4 Father, God, thy love we praise,
Which gave thy Son to die;
Jesus, full of truth and grace,
Alike we glorify ;
Spiritj Comforter divine.
Praise by all to thee be given,
Till we in full chorus join.
And earth is turn'd to heaven.
293 Olmutz—p. 124.] S. M.
■pATHER, in whom we live,
■'■ In whom we are and move.
The glory, power, and praise receive
Of thy creating love.
2 Let all the angel throng
Give thanks to God on high,'
While earth repeats the joyful song.
And echoes through the sky.
3 Incarnate Deity,
Let all the ransom'd race
Render in thanks their lives to thee,
For thy redeeming grace :
4 The grace to sinners show'd
Ye heavenly choirs proclaim,
And cry, Salvation to our God,
Salvation tn the Lamb !
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6 Spirit of holiness,
Let all thy saints adore
Thy sacred energy, and bless
Thy heart-renewing power.'
6 Not angel tongues can tell
Thy love's ecstatic height,
The glorious joy unspeakable.
The beatific sight !
7 Eternal triune Lori,
Let all the hosts atx>ve,
Let all the sons of men, record,
And dwell upon thy love :
8 When heaven and earth are fled
Before thy glorious face.
Sing, all the saints thy love hath made,
Thine everlasting praise !
1^4 ^enerento— p.222.] TthP.M. 8itn«7».
TESUS is our con-imon Lord,
■^ He our loving Saviour is :
By his death to life restored.
Misery we exchange for bliss.
Blui to carnal minds unknown :
0 't's more than tongue can tell !
Onl" to believers shown :
Glorious and unspeakable.
2 Christ, our Brother and our Fri«o<<,
Shows us his etei-nal love ;
Never sh»U ou"- triumnhs end.
Till P'e take oa' seats «bovc.
Let us wa'k wi'h him in white,
For o'»r brdal d-y prepare;
For our partnership in light,
for our glorious meetioj; theM
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295 Conway— p. 1.] C. M.
r\ TIS delight, without alloy,
^^ Jesus, to hear thy name ;
My spirit leaps willi iinvard joy,
1 feel the sacred flame.
2 My passions hold a pleasing reign.
When love inspirts my breast.
Love, the divinesi of the train,
The sovereign of the rest.
3 This is the grace must live and sinj
When faith and hope shall cease.
Must sound from every joyful string
Through the sweet groves of bliss.
4 Let life immortal seize my clay;
Let love refine my blood ;
Her flames can bear my soul away,
Can bring me near uiy God.
5 Swift I ascend the heavenly place,
And hasten to my home,
I eap to meet thy kind embrace,
I come, 0 Lord, I come.
6 Sink down, ye separating hills,
Let sin and death remove ;
rris love that drives my chariot wheels.
And death must yield to love.
296 New-Bedford— T^. 19.] C. M.
nPHE wisdom own'd by all thy sons,
-'■ To me, 0 God, impart.
The knowledge of the Holy Ones,
The understand in? heart.
Thy name, 0 holy V'.ither, tell
To one who would believe;
To me thine only Spn reveal,
Thv Holv Spirit eive.
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2 Tis life, eternal life, to know
The heavenly persons mine :
Father, and Son, and Spirit bestow
That precious faith divine !
A Trinity in unity
My soul shall then adore :
And love, and praise, and vroTship thee,
JEHOVAH, evermore.
Gitoi— p. 264.] nth P.M. 76, 76, 77, 76.
p OD of Israel's faithful three,
^^ Who braved the tyrant's ire,
Nobly scom'd to lx)w the knee.
And walk'd unhurt in fire :
Breathe their faith into my breast ;
Arm me in this fiery hour ;
Stand, 0 Son of man, confess'd
In all thy saving power !
2 For while thou, my Lord, art nigh,
My soul disdains to fear;
Sin and Satan I defy,
Still impotently near;
Earth and hell their wars may wage.
Calm I mark their vain design ;
Smile to see them idly rage
Against a child of thine.
3 Unto thee, my help, my hope,
My safeguard, and my tower,
Confident I still look up,
And still receive thy power;
All the alien's host I chase,
Blast and scatter with mine eyes ;
Satan comes ; I turn my face ;
And, lo 1 the tempter flies'.
4 Sin in me, the inbred foe,
Awhile subsists in chains :
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But thou all thy power shall show,
And slay its last remains ;
Thou bast conquer'd my desire,
Thou sbalt queiicii it with thy blood;
Fill me wilh a purer fire,
And make me all like God.
398 New Sabbath— p. 92.] L. M.
'T'HE spacious firmament on high,
■*■ Wilh all the blue ethereal sky.
And spangled heavens, (a shining frame,)
Their great Original proclaim :
Th' unwearied sun from day to day
Doth his Creator's power display,
And publishes to ever}' land
The work of an Almighty liand.
2 Soon as the evening shades prevail.
The mr>on takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the list'ning earth
Repeats the story of her birth :
While all the stars that round her bum.
And all the planets in their turn,
Confirm the tidings as they roll.
And spread the truth from pole to pole.
3 What though in solemn silence, all
Move round the dark terrestrial ball ;
What though no real voice nor sound
Amid the radiant orbs be found ;
In reason's ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice,
For ever singing as they shine,
^ The hand that made us is divine."
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FOR FULL REDEMPTION.
299 Spauldins—p.206.] 5\hF.^^l. Alinala.
JESUS comes with all his grace,
" Comes to save a fallen race ;
Object of our glorious hope,
Jesus comes to lift us up !
2 Let the living stones cry out;
Let the sons of Abr'am shout :
Praise we all our lowly King ;
Give him thanks ; rejoice and sing.
3 He hath our salvation wrought ;
He our captive souls hath bought ;
He hath reconciled to God :
He hath wash'd us in his blood.
4 We are now his lawful right ;
Walk as children of the light .
We shall soon obtain the grace,
Pure iu heart to see his face.
5 We shall gain our calling's prize ;
After God we all shall rise,
Fill'd with joy, and love, and peace.
Perfected in holiness.
6 Let us then rejoice in hope.
Steadily to Christ look up ;
Trust to be redeem'd from sin,
Wait, till he appear within.
7 Fools and madmen let us be,
Yet is our sure trust in thee :
Faithful is the promised word.
We shall all be as our Lord.
8 Hasten, Lord, the perfect day:
Let thy ev'rv servant say,
260 FOR FULL REDEMPTION.
" I have now obtain'd the power,
Born of God to sic no more."
300 DerUy New— p. 93.] L. M.
r\ JESUS, full of truth and grace,
^-^ 0 all-atoning Lamb of Gad,
1 wait to see thy lovely face,
I seek redemijtion in thy blood !
2 Now in thy strength I strive with thee.
My Friend and Advocate with God j
Give me the glorious liberty,
Grant me the purchase of thy blood.
3 Thou art the anchor of my hope,
The faithful promise I receive ;
Surely thy death shall raise me up,
For thou bast died tliat I might live.
4 Satan with all his arts, no more
Me from the gospel hope can movej
1 shall receive the gracious power.
And find the pearl of perfect love.
6 My flesh, which cries, " It cannot be,"
Shall silence keep before the Lord;
And earth, and hell, and sin shall flee
At Jesus' everlasting word.
301 Benson— p. 105.] L. J>L
/^OME, Saviour, Jesus, from above!
'-^ Assist me with tliy heavenly grace ;
Empty my heart of earthly love.
And for thyself prepare the place.
2 0 let thy sacred presence fill,
And set my longmg spirit free ;
Which pants to ha*e no other will.
But night and day to feast on thee.
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3 While in this region here below,
No other good will I pursue :
I'll bid this world of noise and show,
With all its glitt'ring snares, a'dieu.
4 That path with humble speed I'll seek,
In which my Saviour's footsteps shine,
Nor will I hear, nor will I speak.
Of any other love but thine.
5 Henceforth may no profane delight
Divide this consecrated soul ;
Possess it thou, who hast the right.
As Lord and Master of the whole.
6 Nothing on earth do I desire
But thy pure love within my breast ;
This, only this, will I require,
And freely five up all the rest.
302 Southfield~p. 121.] S. M.
rpHE thing my God doth hate,
-•• That I no more may do.
Thy creature, Lord, a?ain create,
And all my soul renew :
My soul shall then, like thine.
Abhor the thing unclean.
And, sanctified by love divine,
For ever cease from sin.
2 That blessed law of thine,
Jesus, to me impart.
The Spirit's law of life divine,
0 write it in my heart !
Implant it deep within.
Whence it may ne'er remove,
The law of liberty fmm sin,
The perfect law of love.
3 Thy nature be my law,
Thy spotless sanctity ;
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And sweetly every moment draw
My happy soul to thee.
Soul of my soul, remain !
Who didst for all fulfil,
In me, O Lord, fulfil asain
Thy heavenly Father's will.
oOo Canterbury New — p. 52.] C. M.
r\ FOR a heart to praise my God,
^-^ A heart from siu set free !
A heart that always feels thy blood.
So freely spilt for me.
2 A heart resign'd, submissive, meek,
My great Redeemer's throne :
Where only Christ is heard to speak.
Where Jesus reigns alone.
3 0 for a lowly, contrite heart,
Believing, true, and clean !
Which neither life nor death can part
From Him that dwells within :
4 A heart in every thought renew'd,
And full of love divine ;
Perfect, and right, and pure, and good|
A copy, Lord, of thine.
5 Thy tender heart is still the same,
And melts at human wo ;
Jesus, for thee distress'd I am,
I want thy love to know.
6 My heart thou know'st can never rest,
Till thou create my peace ;
Till of my Eden repossess'd.
From every siu 1 cease.
7 Fruit of thy gracious lips, on me
Bestow that peace unknown ;
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The hidden manna, and the tree
Of life, and the while stone.
8 Thy nature, gracious Lord, impart,
Come quickly from above ;
Write thy new name upon my heart,
Thy new, best name of love.
304 Framingham— p. 166.] UtP. M. 6Z»7j«8i.
'T'HOU hidden love of God, whose height,
^ Whose depth unfathom'd, no man kBOWt,
1 see from far thy beauteous light,
Inly I sigh for thy repose :
My heart is pain'd, nor can it be
At rest, till it find rest in thee.
2 Thy secret voice invites me still
The sweetness of thy yoke to prove;
And fain I would ; but though my will
Seem fix'd, yet wide my passions rove ;
Tet hind'rances strew all the way ;
I aim at thee, yet from thee stray.
3 "Tis mercy all, that thou hast brought
My mind to seek her peace in thee !
Tet while 1 seek, but find thee not,
No peace my wand'ring soul shall see ;
O when si all all my wand "rings end,
And all my steps to thee-ward tend 1
4 Is there a thing beneath the sun
That strives with thee my heart to share ?
Ah, tear it thence, and reign alone,
The Lord of every motion there I
Then shall my heart from earth be free,
When it hath found repose in thee.
5 O hide this self from me, that I
No more, but Christ in me may live i
My vile affections cmcify,
Nor let one darling hut surrive i
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In all things nothing may I see,
Nothing desire or seek but thee !
6 O Love, thy sovereign aid impart,
To save me from low-thoughted care ;
Chase this self-will through all my heart.
Through all its latent mazes there :
Make nie thy duteous child, that I
Ceaseless may Abba, Father, cry.
7 Ah no ; ne'er will 1 backward turn:
Thine wholly, thine alone I am :
Thrice happy he who views with scorn
Earth's toys, for thee his constant flame:
0 help, that I may never move
From the blest footsteps of thy love !
8 Each moment draw from eartli away
My heart, that lowly waits thy call;
Speak to my inmost soul, and say,
" I am thy love, thy God, thy all !"
To feel tliy power, to hear thy voice,
To taste thy love, be all my choice.
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■pOR ever here my rest shall be,
■*• Close to thy bleeding side ;
This all my hope, and all my plea,
For me the Saviour died.
2 My dying Saviour, and my God,
Fountain for guilt and sin,
Sprinkle uie ever with thy blood.
And cleanse and keep me clean.
3 Wash me, and make me thus thine own ;
Wash me, and mine thou art :
Wash me, but not my feet alone.
My bands, my head, my heart.
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4 Th' atonement of thy blood apply,
Till faith to sight improve ;
Till hope in fulf fruition die,
And all my soul be love.
306 LaTicaaier—p. 64.] C. M.
TESCS, my life, thvself apply,
'' Thy Holy Spirit breathe :
My vile affections crucify,
Conform me to thy death.
2 Conqu'ror of hell, and earth, and sin,
Still with the rebel strive :
Enter my soul and ^vork within
And kill and make alive.
3 More of thy life, and more I have.
As the old Adam dies :
Bury me, Saviour, in thy grave,
That I with thee may rise.
4 Rei^n in me, Lord, thy foes control.
Who would not own thy sway ;
Diffuse thine image through my soul,
Shine to the perfect day.
5 Scatter the last remains of sin.
And seal me thine abode ;
0 make me glorious all within,
A temple built by God.
307 Philaddphia^ip. 212.] 5th P. M. 4 Unu'X
HOLY Lamb, who thee receive,
Who in thee begin to live,
Day and night they cry to thee,
As thou art, so let us be !
2 Jesus, see my panting breast !
S«e I peuit in thee to reet !
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Gladly wnuld I now be clean ;
Cleanse me now from every sin.
3 Fix, 0 fix my wav'rin? mind !
To thy cross my spirit bind :
Earthly passions far remove ;
Swallow up my soul in love.
4 Dust and ashe^ though we be,
Full of sin and misery,
Thine we are, thou Son of God ;
Take the purchase of thy blood !
6 Who in heart on thee believes,
He th' atonement now receives :
He with joy beiiolils thy face,
Triumphs in thy pard'ning grace.
6 See, ye sinners, see the flame,
Rising from the slaushter'd Lajnb,
Marks the new, the living way,
Leading to eternal day.
7 Jesus, when this light we see.
All our soul 's athirst for thee ;
When thy quick'ning power we prove.
All our heart dissolves in love.
S Boundless wislom, power divine,
Love unspeakable are thine;
Praise by all to thee be given,
Sons of earth, and hosts of heaven.
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TESUS, thou art our King !
*' To me thy succour bring —
Christ the mighty One art thou,
Help for all on thee is laid :
This tiie wor4 ; I claim it now}
Send me now the promised aid.
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2 High on thy Father's throne,
0 look with pity down !
Help, 0 help, attend my call,
Captive lead captivity :
Kins of glory. Lord of all,
Christ, be Lord, be King to me !
3 I pant to feel thy sway,
And only thee t' obey ;
Thee my spirit gasps to meet :
This my one, my ceassless prayer,
Make, 0 make my heart thy seat ;
O set up thy kingdom there !
4 Triumph and reisn in me.
And spread thy victory ;
Hell, and death, and sin control.
Pride, and wrath, and every foe,
All subdue; through all my soul,
Conqu'ring and to conquer go.
309 Paradise—^. 40.] C. M.
T ORD, I believe thy every word,
■" Thy every promise true ;
And lo ! I wait on thee, my Lord,
Till I my strength renew.
2 If in this feeble flesh I may
Awhile show forth thy praise,
Jesus, support the toti'ricg clay.
And lengthen out my days.
3 If such a worm as I can spread
The common Saviour's name,
Let him who raised thee from the dead
Quicken my mortal frame.
4 Still let me live thy blood to shon^
Which purges every stain ;
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And gladly linger out beloT7
A few more years in pain.
5 Spare me till I my strength of loal.
Till I thy love retrieve :
Till faith shall make my spirit whole,
And perfect soundness give.
6 For this in steadfast hope I wait.
Now, Lord, my soul restore ;
Now the new heavens and earth create,
And I shall sin no more.
310 ixwei>tw"7ie— p.245.] 9th P.M. 87,87,87,9?.
T OVE divine, all loves excelling,
-*-' Joy of heaven to earth come down ;
Fix in us thy humble dwelling,
All thy faithful mercies crown !
Jesus, thou art all compassion,
Pure unbounded love thou art;
Visit us with thy salvation;
Enter every trembling heart.
2 Breathe, 0 breathe thy loving Spirit,
Into every troubled breast !
Let us all in thee inherit,
Let us find that second rest.
Take away our bent to sinning,
Alpha and Ome^ be.
End of faith as its beginning,
Set our hearts at lit)erty.
3 Come, almighty to deliver,
Let us all thy life receive,
Suddenly return, and never,
Never more thy temples leave:
Thee we would be always blessing,
Serve thee as thy hosts above,
Fray, and praise thee without ceasinif,
Glory in thy perfect love.
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4 Finish then thy new creation,
Pure and spotless let us be ;
Let us see thy great salvation, ,
Perfectly restored in thee :
Changed from glory into glory,
Till in heaven we take our place.
Till we cast our crowns before thee,
Lost in wonder, love, and praise !
311 Forest— J,. ^6.} L. M.
OTHAT mv load of sin were gone !
0 that I could at last submit,
At Jesus' feet to lay it down !
To lay my soul at Jesus' feet !
2 Rest for my soul I long to find :
Saviour of all, if mine thou art,
Give me thy meek and lowly mind,
And stamp thine image on my heart.
3 Break oflf the yoke of inbred sin.
And fully set my spirit free ;
1 cannot rest till pure within.
Till I am wholly lost in thee.
4 Fain would I learn of thee, my God,
Thy light and easy burden prove;
The cross all stain'd with hallow'd blood,
The labour of thy dying love.
6 I would, but thou must give the power ;
My heart from every sin release ,
Bring near, bring near the joyful hour.
And fill me with thy perfect peace.
6 Come, Lord, the drooping sinner cheer,
Nor let thy chariot wheels delay :
Appear, in my poor heart appear!
My Grod, my Saviour, come away 1
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313 Damascus— p. 225. ] 7th P. M. 8 lintt Tt,
T IGHT of life, seraphic fire,
■'-' Love divine, thyself impart:
Every fainting soul inspire ;
Shine in ever>' drooping heart :
Every mnumful sinner cheer,
Scatter all our guilty gloom:
Son of God, appear ! appear !
To thy human temples come.
2 Come in this accepted hour;
Bring thy heavenly kingdom in ;
Fill us wiih thy glorious power.
Rooting out the seeds of sin:
Nothing more can we require,
We will covet nothing less;
Be thou all our heart's desire,
All our joy, and all our peace.
313 Hotham—p. 223.] 7th P. M. 8 lines 7i.
r^ OD of all-redeeming grace,
^~^ By thy pard'ning love compeliy,
Up to thee our souls we raise,
Up to thee our bodies yield ;
Thou our sacrifice receive.
Acceptable through thy Son,
While to thee alone we live,
While we die to thee alone.
2 Meet it is, and just, and right,
Th.at we should be wholly thine ;
In thy only will delight,
In thy blessed service join :
O that every work and word
Might proclaim how good thou art;
" Holiness unto-the Lord,"
S'ill he written on our heart !
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314 St. Jago— p. 50.] CM.
T ET Him to whom we now belong
■'-' His sovereign right assert ! -
And take up every thankful song,
And every loving heart.
2 He justly claims us for his own,
Who bought us with a price :
The Christian lives to Christ alone,
To Christ alone he dies.
3 Jesus, thine own at last receive,
Fulfil our heart's desire ;
And let us to thy glory live,
And in thy cause expire !
4 Our souls and bodies we resign ;
With joy we render thee
Our all, no longer ours, but thine
To ail eternity.
315 Plymouth Dodi—j>.HS.] 1st P.M.6Jin«a^
BEHOLD, the servant of-the Lord !
I wait thy guiding eye to feel.
To hear and keep thy every word,
To prove and do thy perfect will ;
Joyful from my own works to cease,
GUd to fulfil all righteousness.
2 Me, if thy grace vouchsafe to use,
Meanest of all thy creatures, me.
The deed, the time, the manner choose J
Let all my fruit be found of thee ;
Let all my works in thee be wrought,
By thee to full perfection brought.
3 My every weak, though good design,
O'errule, or change, as seems thee meel ;
Jesus, let jJl my work he thine '.
Thy work, O Lord, is all complete
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And pleasing in thy Father's sight;
Thou only hast done all things right.
4 Here then to thee thine own I leave;
Mould as thou wilt thy passive clay ;
But let me all thy stamp receive,
But let me all thy words obey :
Ser\'e with a single heart and eye,
And to thy glory live and die.
316 Staiitcm— p. 215.] Gth P.M. 6 Itn«7l.
•pATHER, Son, and Holy Ghost,
■•■ One in Three, and Three iu One,
As by the celestial host,
Let thy will on earth be done ;
Praise by all to thee be given,
Gracious Lord of earth and heaven.
2 Vilest of the sinful race,
Lo ! I answer to thy call :
Meanest vessel of thy grace,
Grace divinely free for all ;
Lo ! I come to do thy will, i
All thy counsel to fulfil.
3 If so poor a worm as I
May to thy great glory live,
All my actions sanctify,
All my words and thoughts receive;
Claim me for thy service, claim
All I have, and all I am.
4 Take my soul and body's powers :
Take my memory, mind, and will:
All my goods, and all my hours,
All I know, and all I feel ;
All I think, or speak, or do ;
Take my heart, but make it new !
3 Now, my God, thine own I am,
Now I give thee back thine own :
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Freedom, friends, and health, and fame.
Consecrate to thee alone :
Thine I live, thrice happy I !
Happier still if Ihitie I die.
6 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
One in Three, and Three in One,
As by the celesti.^1 host.
Let thy will on earth be done:
Praise by all to thee be given,
Glorious Lord of earth and heaven !
317 Golden Hill— p. \20.1 S. M.
JESUS, my Truth, my Way,
" My sure iinerririg Light,
On thee my feeble steps I stay,
Which thou wilt guide aright.
2 My Wisdom and my Guide,
My Counsellor thou art ;
0 never let me leave thy side.
Or from thy paths dejiart.
3 I lift mine eyes to thee,
Thou gracious bleeding Lamb,
That I may now enlighten'd be.
And never put to shame.
4 Never will I remove
Out of thy hands my cause ;
But rest in thy redeeming love.
And hang upon thy cross.
5 Teach me the happy art,
In all things to depend
On thee ; 0 never, Lord, depart.
But love me to the end.
6 Still stir me up to strive
\tT;»v »hp« in strength divine ;
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And every moment, Lord, revive
This fainting soul of mine.
7 Persist to save my soul
Tliroughout the liery hour,
Till 1 am every whit made whole,
And show forth all thy power.
8 Through fire and water bring
Into the wealthy place;
And teach me the new song to sing,
When perfected in grace 1
^ O make me all like thee,
Before I hence remove '.
Settle, confirm, and 'stablish me,
And build me up in love.
10 Let me thy witness live,
When sin is all destroy 'd;
And then my spotless soul receive.
And take me home to God.
olo Canterbury New — ^p. 52.] CM.
TV/TY God, I know, I feel thee mine,
•'•'■'■ And will not quit my claim,
Till all I have is lost in thine,
And all renew'd I am.
2 I hold thee with a trembling hand,
And will not let thee go.
Till steadfastly by faith I stand,
And all thy goodness know.
3 Jesus, thine all-victorious love
Shed in my heart abroad :
Then shall my feet no iDngerrove,
Rooted and fix'd in God.
4 O that in me the sacjred fire
Might now begin to glow !
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Bum up the dross of tase desire,
And make the mountains flow !
5 0 that it now from henven might faJI,
And all my sins consume :
Come, Holy Ghost, for thee I call,
Spirit of burning', come.
6 Refining fire, go through my heart.
Illuminate my soul ;
Scatter thy life through every part,
And sanctify the whole.
7 Sorrow and sin shall then expire.
When, enter'd into rest,
1 only live my God t' admire,
My God for ever bless'd !
8 My steadfast soul, from falling free,
Shall then no longer move ;
But Christ be all the world lo me.
And all my heart be love.
319 Aubv.m—'p. 260.] 10th P. M. 8 Ztne* Ss.
TXTHAT now is my object and aim ?
' What now is my hope and desire?
To follow the heavenly I.amb,
And after his image .aspire :
My hope is ail centred in thee;
I trust to recover thy love :
On earth thy salvation to see,
And then to enjoy it above.
2 I thirst for a life-giving God,
A Goii that on Calvary died :
A fountain of wa'er and blood.
That gush'd from Immanuel's side!
I gasp for the streams of Ihy love.
The spirit of rapture unknown :
And then to redrink it above,
Eternally fresh fi-om the throne.
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320 Afc»«iom— p. 279.] 12th P.M. 76,76,78,76.
■p VER faintiui with desire,
-•-' For thee. O Christ. I call ;
Thee I restlessly require,
I want III)' God, liiy all !
Jesus, dear redeeming Lord,
I wait thy comiug From above:
Help me, Saviour, speak the word,
Aud perfect nie in love.
2 Wilt thou sutTer me to go
Lamenting all my days?
Shall 1 never, never know
Thv sanctifying srrace ?
Wilt thou not'thy lijht alford,
The darkness from my soul remove?
Help me. Saviour, speak the word,
And perfect me in love.
3 Lord, if I on thee believe,
Thy perfect love impart ;
With th' indwelling Spirit give
A new, a contrite heart;
If with love thy heart be stored.
If now o'er me thy bdwels move,
Help me, Saviour, speak the word,
And perfect me in love.
4 Let me gain my calling's hope,
0 mnke the sinner c'u-an !
ory corruption's fountain up,
Cut olf th' entail of sin :
Take me into thee, my Ixrd,
And 1 shall then no longer rove:
Help me. Saviour, spi-ak the word,
And perfect ma in love.
5 Thou, my life, mv treasure be>
Hv portlou her*' '#io w :
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Nothing would I seek but thee,
Thee only would I knmv :
Mv exceeding great reward,
]My heaven on earth, my heaven above :
Help ine, Saviour, spiak the word,
And perfect me iu love.
6 Grant me now the bliss to feel
Of those thit are in thee :
Son of God, thyself reveal,
Engrave thy name on me!
As iu heaven, be here adored,
And le! nie now the promise prove.
Help me. Saviour, speak the word,
AJid perfect me in love.
331 Spring Grove^^. 165.] 1st P. M. 6 li/us St.
FIRST PART.
TESL'S, thy boundless love to me
" No thought can reach, no tongue declare;
O knit Diy thankful heart to thee,
And reign without a rival there !
Thine wholly, thine alone I aui;
Be thou alone my constant flame.
2 0 grant that nothing in my soul
May dwell, but thy pure love alone!
O may thy love possess me whole,
My joy, tny treasure, and my crown!
Strange flames far from my heart remivi^
My every act, word, thought, be love.
3 O love, how cheering is thy ray!
All pain before thy presence flies;
Care, anguish, sorrow, melt away.
Where'er thy healing beams ai'ise ;
0 Jesus, nothing may I see.
Nothing desire or seek but thee!
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4 Unwearied may I this pursue,
Dauntless to the hieh prize aspire ;
Hourly within my siul renew
This holy flame, this lieavenly fire:
And day and night be all iny care
To guard the sacred treasure there,
SECOND PART,
MY Saviour, thou thy love to me
In shame, in want, in pain, hast show'd ;
For me, on the accursed tree.
Thou pouredst forth thy guiltless blood !
Thine iroa^e on my heart impress.
Nor aught shall the loved stamp efface.
2 More hard than marble is my heart.
And foul with sins of deepest stain j
But thou the mighty Saviour art;
Nor flow'J thy cleansing blood in vain.
Ah, soften, melt this rock, and may
Thy blood wash all these stains away !
3 0 that r, as a little child,
May follow thee and never rest,
Till sweetly thou hast breathed thy mild
And lowly mind into my breast;
Nor ever may we parted be,
Till I become one spirit with thee.
4 Still let thv love point out my way ;
How wondrcus things thy love. hath wrought;
Still lead me, lest I go astray:
Direct my work, inspire my thought;
And if I fall, soon may I hear
Thy voice, and know' that love is near.
6 In suff'ring be thy love my peace,
Id weakness be thy love my power;
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And when the storms of life shall cease,
Jesus, in that important hour,
In death as life be thou my ^uide,
And save me, who for me hast died.
322 Spring-— p. 206.] 5th P. M. 4 Una 78.
C AVIOUR of the sin-sick soul,
^ Give lae faith to make me whole;
Finish thy great work of ^race j
Cut it short in righteousness.
2 Speak the second time, '• Be clean !"
Take .away my inbred sin :
Every stumbling-block remove;
Cast it out by perfect love.
3 Nothing less will I require.
Nothing more can I desire;
None but Christ to me be given ;
None but Christ in earth or heaven.
4 0 that I might now decrease ;
O that all I am might cease I
Let me into nothing fall !
Let my Lord be all in all !
323 Jordan — p. 54.] C. M,
T ORD, I believe a rest remains
■•-' To all thy people known;
A rest where pure enjoyment reigns,
And thou art loved alone :
2 A rest where all our soul's desire
Is fii'd on things above ;
Where fear, and sin, and grief expire,
Cast out by perfect love.
3 0 that I now the rest might know.
Believe and enter in !
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Now, Saviour, now the power bestow,
And let me cease from sin !
4 Remove this hardness from my heart,
Tliis unbelief remove :
To nie the rest of faith impart,
The sabbath of thy love.
5 I would be thine, thou kiiow'st I would,
And have thee all my own ;
Thee, — 0 my all-sufficient good !
I want, — and thee aloue.
6 Thy name to me, thy nature grant !
This, only this be given :
Nothing besides my God I want;
Nothing in esrth or heaven.
7 Come, 0 my Saviour, come away !
Into iny soul descend !
No longer from thy creature stay.
My Author and my End !
8 The bliss thou hast for me prepared,
No longer be delay'd,
Come, my exceeding great Reward,
For whom I first was made.
9 Come, Father, Son, and Holy Gfco't,
And seal me thine abode 1
Let all I am in thee be lost ;
L^tall be lost in God!
324 Jcnisalem—Tp.Sl.] CM.
{~\ JOYFUL sound of gospel grace,
^^ Christ shall in me appear!
I, even I, shall see his face ;
I shall be holy here.
2 The glorious crown of righteousnew
T -n*^ rpi»rh>l nut I vie > "
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Conqu'ror through him, I soon shall seize.
And wear it as my due.
3 The promised land from Pisgah's tc_
I now exult to see :
My hope is full (0 glorious hope !)
Of immortality.
4 He visits now the house of clay;
He shakes his future home :
0 wouldst thou, Lord, on this glad da)
Into thy temple come !
5 With me, I know, I feel thou art ;
But this cannot suffice,
Unless thou plantest in my heart
A constant paradise.
6 My earth thou water'st from on high.
But make it all a pool :
Spring up, 0 well, I ever cry,
Spring up within my soul !
7 Come, 0 my God, thyself reveal.
Fill all this mighty void:
Thou only canst my spirit fill :
Come, 0 my God, my God !
325 Piety— p. 56.] C. M.
TESUS hath died that I might live,
*' Might live to God alone ;
In him eternal life receive,
And be in spirit one.
2 Saviour, 1 thank thee for the grace,
The gift unspeakable ;
And wait with arms of faith t' embrace,
And all thy love to feel.
3 My soul breaks out in strong desire
The perfect bliss to prove ;
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My longing heart is all on fire
To be dissolved in love.
4 Give me thyself, from every Ix3ast,
From every wisn set free;
Let all I am in thee be lost,
But give thyself to me.
5 TTiy gifts, alas ! cannot suffice,
Unless thyself be given ;
Thy presence makes my paradise.
And where thou art is heaven.
326 Sharon— x>. 266.] Uth P.M. 76, 76,77,76.
TVrOW, e'en now, I yield. I yield,
-'■^ With all my sins to part ;
Jesus, speak my pardon seal'd,
And purify my heart !
Purge the love of sin away,
Then 1 into nothing fall ;
Then I see the perfect day.
And Christ is all in all.
2 Jesus, now our hearts inspire
With that pure love of thine ;
Kindle now the heavenly lire.
To brighten and refine :
Purify our faith like gold ;
All thn drnss of sin remove ;
Melt our spirits down, and mould
Into thy perfect love.
327 Blandford—p. 4S.] C. M.
/^OME, thou omniscient Son of man,
^ Display thy sifting power ;
Come with thy Spirit's winnowing fan,
And throughly pur^e tfay floor.
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2 The chaflF of sin, th' accursed thin^.
Far from our souls be driven ;
The wheat into thy gamer bring,
And lay us up for heaven.
3 Look through us with thine eyes of flame,
The clouds and darkness chase,
And tell me what by sin I am,
And what I am by grace.
4 "VVhate'er offends thy glorious eyes.
Far from our hearts remove ;
As dust before the whirlwind flies,
Disperse it by thy love.
5 Then let us all thy fulness know,
From every sin set free;
Saved to the utmost, saved below.
And perfected by thee.
328 Aihhurtm—p. \69.1 1st P. M. 6 Kne» Si.
C AV'IOUR from sin, I wait to prove
*^ That Jesus is thy healing name;
To lose, when perfected in love,
Whate'er I have, or can, or am :
1 stay me on thy faithful word.
The servant shall be as his Lord.
2 Answer that gracious end in me
For which thy precious life was given:
Redeem from all iuiqu'ty,
Restore, and make me meet for heaven!
Unless thou purge my every stain,
Thy suffVing and my faith are vain.
3 Didst thou not in the flesh appear,
Sin to condemn and man to save?
That perfect love might cast out fear?
That I thy mind in me might have ?
In holiness show forth thy praise.
And serve thee all my spotless days ?
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4 Didst thou not die that I mifht live
No longer to myself liut thee ?
Might body, soul, and spirit eive
To Him \vhn ?ave himself for me?
Come, then, my Master and my God,
Take the dear purchase of thy blood.
5 Thy own peculiar servant claim,
For thy own truth and mercy's ^e;
Hallow in me thy glorious name ;
Me for thine own this moment take,
And change and throughly purify :
Thine only may I live and die.
329 Milo—x>. 77.] L. M.
A N inward baptism of pure fire,
-'*• Wherewith to be baptized, I have;
Tis all my longing soul's desire ;
This, only this my soul can save.
2 Straiten'd I am till this be done ;
Kindle in me the living flame;
Father, in me reveal thy Son ;
Baptize me into Jesus' name.
i Transform my nature into thine,
Let all my powers thine impress feel,
Let all my soul become divine,
And stamp me with thy Spirit's seal.
4 Love, mighty love, my heart o'erpower;
Ah ! why dost thou so long delay?
Cut short the work, bring near the hour,
And let me see the perfect day.
6 Behold, for thee I ever wait.
Now let in me thine image shine.
Now the new heaven and earth create,
And plant with righteousness divine,
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6 If with the wretched sons of men
It still be thy delight to live,
Come, Lord, beget my soul again,
Thyself thy quick'uin? Spirit give.
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■pATHER, I dare believe
-•- Thee merciful and true :
Thou wilt my guilty soul forgive,
My fallen soul renew.
2 Come then, for Jesus' sake,
And bid my heart be clean;
An end of all my troubles make;
An end of all my sin.
3 I cannot wash my heart,
But by believing thee ;
And waiting for thy blood t' impart
The spotless purity.
4 While at thy cross I lie,
Jesus, the grace bestow ;
Now thy all-cleansing blood apply,
And I am white as snow.
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r\ GLORIOUS hope of perfect love!
^ It lifts me up to things above;
It bears on eagles' wings ;
It gives my ravish'd soul a taste,
And makes me for some moments feast
With Jesus' priests and kings.
2 Rejoicing now in earnest hope,
I stand, and from the mountain top
See all the land below :
Rivers of milk and honey rise.
And all the fruits of paradise,
In endlftss n'ewtv grow.
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3 A land of corn, and wine, and oil,
Favour'd with God's peculiar smile,
With every blessing bless'd ;
There dwells the Lord our righteousness.
And keeps his own in perfect peace,
And everlasting rest.
4 O that I misht at once go up !
No more on this side Jordan stop.
But now the land possess !
This moment end my legal years ;
Sorrows, and sins, and doubts, and fears,
A howling wilderness.
5 Now, 0 my Joshua, bring me in !
Cast out thy foes ; the iubred sin.
The carnal mind remove ;
The purchase of thy death divide ;
And, O ! with all the sanctified.
Give me a lot of love i
332 Swanwick — p. 15.] C. M.
T KNOW that my Redeemer lives,
■•■And ever prays for me :
A token of his love he gives,
A pledge of liberty.
2 I find him liftinj up my head,
He brings salvation near ;
His presence makes me free indeed,
And he w ill soon appear.
3 He wills that I should holy be!
AVhat can withstand his will ?
The counsel of his grace in me
He surely shall fulfil.
4 Jesus, I hang upon thy word ;
I steadfastly believe
Thou wilt return, and claim me, Lord,
And to thyself receive.
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5 Joyful in hope, my spirit soars
To meet thee from above :
Tty goodness thankfully adores :
And sure I taste thy love.
6 Thy love I sonn expect to fiud",
In all its depth and height:
To comprehend th' Kteinal Mind,
And grasp the Infinite.
7 When God is mine, and I am his,
Of paradise possess'd,
1 taste unutterable bliss,
And everlasting rest.
8 The bliss of those that fully dwell,
Fully in thee believe,
'Tis more than angel tongues can ts\V
Orang-iJ <iia«'c cn-jctivs
9 Thou only knowst mi& didst obtain,
And die to make it known ;
The great salvation now explain,
And perfect us in one.
333 SaiiatA— p. 227.] 7th P. M. 8 lines "s.
FIRST PART.
TTEAVENLY F:ither, sovereign Lord,
-^*- Ever faithful to thy word.
Humbly we our seal set to,
Testify that thou art true.
Lo '. for us the wil Js are glad,
All in cheerful green array'd.
Opening sweets they all disclose.
Bud and blossom as the rose.
2 Hark '. the wastes have found a voice I
Lonely deserts now rejoice !
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Gladsome hallelujahs sing:
All around with praises ring.
Lo ! abundantly they bloom,
Lebanon is hither come :
Carmel's stores the heavens dispense,
Sharon's fertile excellence.
3 See, these barren souls of ours
Bloom, and put forth fruits and floweri —
Flowers of Eden, fruits of grace,
Peace, and joy, and righteousness.
We behold^ (the abjects we !)
Christ, th' incarnate Deity,
Christ, in whom thy glories shine.
Excellence of strength divine.
4 Ye that tremble at his frown,
He shall lift your hands cast down :
Christ, who all your weakness sees,
He shall prop your feeble knees.
Ye of fearful hearts, be strong,
Jesus will not tarry long ;
Fear not lest his truth should fail,
Jesus is unchangeable.
5 God, your God, shall surelj* come.
Quell your foes, and sei their doom :
He shall come, and save you too :
We, 0 Lord, have found thee true!
Blind we were, but now we see :
Deaf ; we hearken now to thee :
Dumb ; for thee our tongues employ :
Lame ; and lo ! we leap for joy.
6 Faint we were, and parch'd with droogbt;
Water at thy word gush'd out:
Streams of grace our thirst repress,
Starting from the wilr'^rness :
Still we gasp thy grace to know !
Here for ever let tr Sow;
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Make the thirsty land a pool,
Fix the Spirit in our soul.
SECOND PART.
WHERE the nncient dragon lay,
Open for thyself a way !
There let holy tempers rise,
All the fruits of paradise.
Lead us in the way of peace,
In the path of righteousness.
Never by the sinner trod,
Till he feels the ckansiug blood
2 There the simple cannot stray,
Babes, thougli blmd, may find the way
Find, nor ever thence depart.
Safe in lowliness of heart.
Far from fear, from danger far.
No devourins beast is there;
There the humble walk secure,
God hath made their footsteps sure.
3 Jesus, mighty to redeem.
Let our lot be cast with them ;
Far from earth our souls remove,
Ransom'd by thy dying love.
Leave us not below to mourn ;
Fain we would to thee return :
Crown'd with righteousness, arise
Far above these nether skies.
4 Come, and all our sorrows chase,
Wipe the tears from every face;
Gladness let us now obtain,
Partners of thy endless reign.
Death, the latest foe, destroy ;
Sorrow then shall yield to joy;
Gloomy grief shall flee away,
Swallow'd up in endless dar.
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334 CooWiam— p. 209.] 5lhP.M.4Kn«'Jfc
T OVING Jesus, gentle Lamb,
^-* In thy CTacious hands I am ;
Make me, Saviour, what thou art,
Live thyself within my heart.
S I shall then show forth thy praise,
Serve thee all my happy days,
7hea the world shall always see
Christ the holy child in me.
335 A'etocoiirt—p.llo.] 2dF.M. 6Imct8k
f\ JESUS, source of calm repose,
^^ Thy like nor man nor an^el knows,
Fairest among ten thousand fair :
E'en those whom death's sad fetters bound.
Whom thickest darkness compass'd round.
Find light and life if thou appear.
S Effulgence of the light divine.
Ere rolling planets knew to shine.
Ere time its ceaseless courje began :
Thou, when th' appointed hour was come.
Didst not abhor the virgin's womb,
But God with God was man with man.
3 The world, sin, death oppose in vain ;
Tbou, by thy dying, death hast slain,
My great Deliverer, and my God !
In vain does the old dragon rage.
In vain all hell its powers engage ;
None can withstand thy conquering blood.
4 Lord over all, sent to fulfil
Thy gracious Father's sovereign will.
To thy dread sceptre will I bow ;
With duteous reverence at thy feet,
Like humble Mary, lo ! I sit ;
^iMk, Lord, thy tervaut hearetli noir.
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6 Renew thine image, Lord, in me,
Lowly and gentle may I be ;
No charms but these to thee are dear;
No anger may'st thou ever find,
No pride in rny unruffled mind,'
But faith and heaven-born peace be there.
6 A patient, a victorious mind.
That life and all things casts behind,
Springs forth obedient to Ihy call :
A heart that no desire can move,
But still t' adore, believe, and love,
Give me, my Lord, my life, my all !
336 Gildersome—Tp. 41.] C. M.
TESUS, the Life, the Truth, the Way,
•^ In whom I now believe.
As taught by thee, in faith I pray.
Expecting to receive.
2 Thy will by me on earth be done,
As by the powers above,
Who always see thee on thy throne^
And glory in thy love.
S I aik in confidence the gnce,
That I may do thy will,
As angels who behold thy face,
And all thy words fulfil.
4 Surely I shall, the sinner I,
Shall serve thee without fear.
If thou my nature s.inctify
In answer to my prayer.
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/^OME, Lord, and claim me for thine Vhbf
^•^ And reign thyself in me :
la my poor heart erect thy thrODOi
Aad Babb e« tniy tn%.
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2 The day of thy p^it pouer I feel,
And piul for liberty ;
1 loathe myself, deny my will,
And give up all for thee.
3 I hate my sias, no longer mine,
For I renounce them too ;
My weaicness with thy strength I joia,
Thy strength shall all subdue.
4 So shall I hless thy pleasing away,
And sitting at thy feet,
Thy laws with all my heart obey,
With all my soul submit.
5 Thy love the conquest more than gains.
To all 1 shall proclaim,
Jesas, the King, the conq'ror reigns ;
Bow down to Jesus' name.
6 To thee shall earth and hell submit.
And every foe shall fall.
Till death expires beneath thy feet,
And God is all in ajl.
338 Forest— ji. 76.] L. M.
TyHAT ! ne ver speak one evil word ?
' ' Or rash, or idle, or unkind ?
O how shall I, most gracious Lord,
This mark of true perfection find ?
2 Thy sinless mind in me reveal ;
Thy Spirit's plenitude impart ;
And all my spotless life shall tell
Th' abundance of a loving heajt.
3 Saviour, I long to testify
The fulness of thy saving grace:
0 might thy Spirit th' blood apply.
Which bought for me the sacred peacfj
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4 Forgive, and make my nature whole ;
My inbred ma'ady remove ;
To perfect health restore my soul,
To perfect holiness and lofe.
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r\ JESUS, let thy dying cry
^-^ Pierce to the bottom of my heart ;
lis evils cure, its wants supply,
And bid my unbelief depart.
2 Slay the dire root and seed of sin ;
Prepare for thee the holiest place !
Then, () essential love, come in !
And (ill thy hriuse with endless praise.
3 Let me, according to thy word,
A tender, contrite heart receive.
Which grieves at having grieved its Lord,
And never can itself forgive.
4 A heart, thy joys and griefs to feci,
A heart that cannot failbleis prove :
A heart where Christ alone may dwell,
All praise, all meekness, and all love.
340 Swantoick—p. 15.] C. M.
/^OD of eternal truth and grace,
^^ Thy faithful promise seal !
Thy vs-drd, thy oath, to Abraham's race.
In ns, e'en us, fulfil.
2 Let us, to perfect love restored.
Thy image here retrieve :
And in the presence of our Lord,
The life of angels live.
3 That mighty faith on me bestow
Which cannot ask in vain ;
Which holds, and will not let thee go,
Till I my suit obtain :
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4 Till thou into my soul inspire
The perfect love unknown :
And tell my infiaile desire,
" Whate'er thou %vilt, be done."
6 But is it possible that I
Should live, and sin no more?
Lord, if on thee I dare rely,
The faith shall bring the power.
6 On me the faith divine bestow,
Which dnth the mountain move;
And all my spotless life sliall show
Th' omnipotence of love.
341 Danvers—p. lOO.] L. M.
FraST PART.
/^OD of all power, and truth, and grace,
'-'^ Which shall from a2;e to age endure ;
Whose word, when heaven and earth shall paSi
Remains and stands for ever sure :
2 Tliat I thy mercy may proclaim,
Tliat all mankind thy truth may see :
Hallow thy ^eat and glorious name,
And perfect holiness in me.
3 Thy sanctifying Spirit pour,
To quench my thirst and make me clean:
Now, Father, let the gracious shower
Descend, and make me pure from tin.
4 Purge me from every sinful blot,
Mv idols all be cast aside.
Cleanse me from every sinful thought,
From all the filth of self and pride.
6 Give me a new, a perfect heart.
From doubt, and fear, and sorrow free ;
The mind which was in Christ impart,
And let my spirit cleave to thee.
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6 0 take this heart of stone away !
Thy sway it doth not, cannci own :
In me no longer let it stay ;
O take away this heart of stone !
7 0 that I now, from sin released.
Thy word may to the utmost prove 1
Enter into the promised rest.
The Canaan of thy perfect love.
Canada— p. S9.] SECOND PART.
FATHER, supply my every nred ;
Sustain the life thyself hast eriven ;
O grant the never-failing bread,
The manna that comes down from heaven
2 The gracioM fruits of righteousness.
Thy blessings' unexhausted store,
In me abundantly increase,
Nor ever let me hunger more !
8 Let me no more in deep complaint,
" My leanness, 0 my leanness !" cry :
Alone consumed with pining want,
Of all my Father's children, L
4 The painful thirst, the fond desire.
Thy joyous presence shall remove 1
But my full soul shall still require
A whole eternity of love.
ftZefgroDC— p. 95.] THIRD PART.
HOLY, and true, and righteous Lord,
I want to prove thy perfect will !
Be mindful of thy gracious word,
And stamp me with thy Spirit's tea],
2 Open my faith's interior eye;
Display thy glory from above ;
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And all I am shall sink and die,
Lost in astonishment and love !
3 Confound, overpower me by thy grace;
I would be by myself abhoir'd ;
All might, all majesty, all praise.
All glory be to Christ my Lord !
4 Now let me gain perfection's height,
Now let me into nothing fall ;
As less thau nothing iu thy sight,
And feci that Christ is du in ail 1
343 Bdher—p. 216.] 6th P. M. 6 lines Ts.
OI>'CE the Son hath made me free,
^ Let me taste my liberty !
Thee behold with open face,
Triumph in thy saving grace !
Thy great will delight to prove,
Glory in thy perfect love.
2 Abba, Father, hear thy child,
Late in Jesus reconciled ;
Hear, znd all the graces shower,
All the joy, and peace, and power ;
All my Saviour asks above,
All the life and heaven of love.
3 Lord, I will not let thee go
Till the blessing thou bestow :
Hear my Advocate divine !
Lo '. to his my suit I join :
Join'd to his. it cannot fail :
Bless me ; for " will prevail.
4 Heavenly F.(ther, life divine.
Change my nature into thine!
Move, an I" spread throughout my soul,
Actuate, and fill the whole 1
Be it I no longer now
Living in the flesh, but thou.
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6 Holy Ghost, no more delay !
Come, and in thy temples stay !
Now thine inward witness bear,
Stronj, and permanent, and clear :
Spring of life, thj^self impart; '
Rise eternal in t>iy heart !
343 Paradise— p. 40.] C. M.
O JESUS : at thy feet we waif,
Till thou shalt bid us rise ;
Restored to our unsinning slate,
To love's sweet paradise.
2 Saviour from sin, we thee receive.
From all indwellinj sin ;
Thy blood, v.e steadfastly believe,
t^hall make us throughly clean.
3 Since thou wouldst have us free from sin,
And pure as those above ;
Make haste to bring thy nature in.
And perfect us in love I
4 The counsel of thy love fulfil :
Come quickly, gracious Lord !
Be it according to thy will,
According to thy word.
5 O that the perfect grace were given,
Thy love diffused abroad !
O that our hearts were all a heaven.
For ever fill'd with God !
344 Gorham—p. 12.] C. M.
"^TITHAT is our calling's glorious hope,
'' But inward holiness?
For this to Jesus I look up,
calmly wait for this.
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2 I wait, till he shall touch me clean,
Shall life and power impart,
Give me the faith that casts out sin,
And purifies the heart.
3 This is the dear redeeming grace,
For every sinner free ;
Surely it shall on me take place,
The chief of sinners, me.
4 From all iniquity, from all,
He shall my soul redeem I
In Jesus I believe, and shall
Believe myself to him.
5 When Jesus makes my heart his horns,
My sin shall all depart ;
And, lo ! he saith, " I quickly come.
To fill and rule thy heart 1"
6 Be it according to thy word,
Redeem me from all sin :
My heart would now receive thee, Lord ;
Come in, my Lord, come in !
345 CAapZiw— p. 269.] llthP. M.76,76,77,W.
NONE is like Jeshurun's God,
So great, so strong, so high !
Lo ! he spreads his wings abroad.
He rides upon the sky !
Israel is his first-born son :
God, th' almighty God, is thine;
See him to thy help come do^vn,
The excellence divine !
2 Thee the great Jehovah deigns
To succour and defend ;
Thee th' eternal God sustains.
Thy Maker and thy Friend :
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Israel, what hast thou to dread ?
Safe from all impendiog banns,
Round thee and beneath are spread
The everlasting anus.
3 God is thine ; disdain to fear
The enemy within :
God shall in thy flesh appear,
And make an end of sin ;
God the man of sin shall slayj
Fill thee with triumphant joy ;
God shall thrust him out, and say,
" Destroy them all, destroy !"
4 All the struesle then is o'er.
And wars and fighting cease :
Israel then shall sin no more,
But dwell in perfect peace.
All his enemies are gone :
Sin shall have in him no part:
Israel now shall dwell alone,
With Jesus in his heart.
5 In a land of corn and wine
His lot shall be below :
Comforts there, and blessings join.
And milk and honey flow I
Jacob's well is in his soul :
Gracious dews his heavens distil,
Fill his soul, already full,
And shall for ever fill.
6 Blest, 0 Israel, art thou !
What people is like thee!
Saved from sm, by Jesus, now
Thou art and still sbalt be.
Jesus is thy seven-fold shield,
Jesus is thy flaming sword ;
Earth, and hell, and sin shall yield
To God's almighty word.
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346 UjDton— p. 101.] L. M.
TJE wills that I should hnly be:
■*■•*• That holiness I Ion? to feel ;
Th^it full divine conformity
To all my Saviour's righteous wilL
2 See, Lord, the travail of thy soul,
Accoinplish'd in the change of mine ;
And plunge me, every whit made wbolei,
In all the depths of love diviue !
3 On thee, O God, my soul is slay'd,
And waits to prove thine utmost will :
The promise by thy mercy made,
Thou canst, thou wilt in me ful£L
4 No more I stagger at thy power.
Or doubt thy truth, which caimot move:
Hasten the long-expected hour.
And bless me with thy perfect love.
347 DocWndg-e— p. 99.] L, M.
TESUS, thy loving Spirit alone
** Can lead me forth and make me free ;
Burst every bond tlirough which I groan,
And set my heart at liberty.
2 Now let thy Spirit bring me in.
And give thy sen-ant to possess
The land of rest from inbred sin,
The land of perfect holiness.
3 Lord, I believe thy power the same,
The same thy truth and grace endure;
And in thy blessed hands I am.
And trust thee for a perfect cure.
4 Come, Saviour, come, and make me whole i
Entirely all my sins remove !
To perfect health restore my soul.
To perfect boliuesa and love.
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348 Douglass— p. 5.] C. M.
TESUS, my Lord, I cry to thee,
"^ Against the spirit Tincleaa;
1 want a constant liberty,
A perfect rest from sin.
2 Expel the fiend out of my heart,
By love's almishty power :
Now, now command him to depart,
And never enter more.
3 Thy killing and thy quick'oing power,
Jesus, in me display ;
The life of nature, from this hour,
My pride and passion slay.
4 Then, then, my utmost Saviour, raise
My soul with saints above.
To serve thy will, and spread thy praise,
And sing thy perfect love.
6 This moment I thy truth confess ;
This moment I receive
The heavenly gift, the dew of grace,
And by thy mercy live.
6 The next, and every moment. Lord
On me thy Spirit pour:
And bless me, who believe thy word.
With that last glorious shower I
349 Alfretcn—p. 77.] L. M.
tTPHOU God that answerest by fire,
■*• On thee in Jesus' name we call.
Fulfil our faithful hearts' desire,
And let on us thy Spirit fall.
2 Bound on the altar of thy cross
Our old offending nature lies;
Now, for the honour of thy cause,
Come, and consume the sacrifice !
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3 Consume our lusts as rotten wood ;
Consume our stony hearts within ;
Consume the dust, the serpent's food,
And dry up all the streams of sis.
4 Its body totally destroy !
Thyself the Lord, the God approve !
And fill our hearts with holy joy,
And fervent zeal, and perfect love.
5 O that the fire from heaven might fall !
Our sins its ready victims find :
Seize on our sins, and burn up all.
Nor leave the least remains betiind.
6 Then shall our prostrate souls adore;
The Lord, he is the God, confess ;
He is the God of saving power!
He is the God of hallowing grace.
350 Salem^p. 9.] C. M.
I^OME, 0 my God, the promise seal,
^ This mountain sin remove !
Now in my waiting soul reveal
The virtue of thy love.
2 I want thy life, thy purity,
Thy righteousness brought in :
I ask, desire, aiii trust in thee
To be redeem'd from sin.
3 For this, as taught by thee, I pray,
And can no longer doubt !
Remove from hence, to sin I say,
Be cast this moment out.
4 Anger and sloth, desire and pride,
This moment be subdued !
Be cast into the crimson tide
Of my Redeemer's blood.
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5 Saviour, to thee my soul looks up
My present Saviour thou !
In ail the confidence of hope
I claim the blessing now !
6 'Tis done ; thou dost this moiient savr,
With full salvation bless ;
Redemption through thy blood I have,
And spotless love and peace.
35 1 Bramcoat—p. 79.] L. M.
QUICKENTJ with our immortal Head,
Who daily, Lord, ascend with thee,
Redeem'd froui sin, and free indeed,
We taste our glorious liberty.
2 Saved from the fear of hell and death,
With joy we seek the thin?s above,
And all thy saints the spirit breathe
Of power, sobriety, ajid love.
3 Power o'er the world, the fiend, and sin
We through thy gracious Spirit feel:
Full power The victory to win.
And answer all thy righteous wilL
4 Pure love to God thy members find.
Pure love to every soul of man ;
And in thy sober, spotless mind,
Saviour, oui heaven on earth we gain.
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■\17"HEN, my Saviour, shall I be
'' Perfectly resign'd to thee?
Poor and vile in my own eye»,
Only in thy wisdom wise !
2 Only thee content 1o know.
Ignorant of all below ?
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Only guided by thy lieht ;
Only Blighty i"u thy might ?
3 So I may thy Spirit know,
Let him as he listeth Mow:
Let the manner be unknown,
So I may with Ihee be one.
4 Fully in my life express
All the heights of holiness ;
Sweetly let my spirit prove
All the depths of humble love.
353 Nahayit— p. no.] L. M.
TESUS, in whom the Godhead's rayg
** Beam forth with mildest majesty ;
1 see thee full of truth and grace.
And come for all I want to thee.
2 Save me from pride, the plague expel,
Jesus, thine humble self impart ;
D let thy mind within me dwell :
O give me lowliness of hesst I
3 Enter thyself and cast out sin :
Thy spotless purity bestow;
Touch me and make the leper clean,
Wash me and I am white as snow.
4 Sprinkle me. Saviour, with thy blood,
And all tliy gentleness is mine;
And plunge me in the purple flood.
Till all I am is lost in thine.
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TESUS, to thee my heart I bow ;
•' Stranee flames far from my soul remove ;
Fairest among ten thousand thou,
Be thou my Lord, my life, my love.
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2 All heaven fhon fill'st with pure desire,
O shine upon my frozen lireast !
With sacred love my heart inspire,
Let me thy hidden sweetness taste.
3 I see thy irirments roll'd in blood,
Thy streaming heal, thy hands, thy side:
AJl hail, thou suff'rin?, conqu'rir.; God !
Non- man shall live, for Christ bath dieU.
4 0 kill in me this rebel sin.
And triumph o'er niy willing breast !
Restore thine ima?e, I^rJ, therein,
And lead me to thy Father's rest.
6 Let earthly love be far away ;
Saviour, be thou my love alone ;
No more njay mine usurp the sveay ;
In me thy only will be done.
6 And thou true Witness, spotless Lamb
All things f.'r tliee I count but loss;
My sole desire, my constant aim,
My oiJy glory, be tliy cross.
355 Derly New—Tp. 93.] L. M,
TF now I have acceptance found
-'■ With thee, or favour in thy sight.
Still with thy srace and truth surrouud
And arm me with thy Spirit's might.
2 0 may I hear thy warning voice,
And timely fiy from danger neai',
"With rev'rence unto tliee rejoice,
And love thee with a filial fear :
3 Still hold my soul in second life,
And suffer not my feet 'o sli.'e:
Support me in the glorious strife.
And comfort me on every side.
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4 0 five me faith, and faith's increase ;
Finish the work be^un in me.
Preserve my snul in perfect peace.
And let me always rest on tbee 1
6 0 let thy gncio'js Spirit guide
And bring me to the promised land:
Where righteousness and peace reside,
And all submit to love's command !
6 A land where milk and honey flow,
And springs of pure delights arise,
Deliehls which I shall shortly know,
When I regain my paradise.
356 Prodamation—p. 130.] S. M.
r\ COME, and dwell in me,
^^ Spirit of power within :
And bring the glorious liberty
From sorrow, fear, and sin !
2 This inward, dire disease,
Sfiirit of health, remove;
Spirit of finish'J holiness,
Spirit of perfect love.
3 Hasten the joyful day
Which shall my sins consume ;
When old things shall be done away.
And all things new become.
4 I want the witness. Lord,
That all I do is risrht ;
Accord ine to Itiy will and word.
Well ple.Tsing in thy sight.
5 I ask no higher state j
Indulge me but in this ;
And soon or later then translate
To my eternal bliss.
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357 Qutto— p. 94,] L. M.
piOME, 0 thou ^eater than our heart,
^ And make thy faithful mercies known ;
The mind which was in thee im"part ;
Thy constant mind in us be shown.
2 0 let us by thy cross abide,
Thee, only thee, resolved to know
The Lamb for sinners crucified,
A world to save from endless wo.
3 Take us into thy people's rest,
And we from our own works shall ceaw ;
With thy meek spirit arm our breast.
And keep our minds in perfect peace.
4 Jesus, for this we calmly wait,
0 let our eyes behold thee near !
Hasten to make our heaven complete,
Appear, our glorious God, appear !
358 Sherburne— -p. im.-\ 4th P. M. 886, 888.
BUT can it be that I should prove
For ever faithful to thy love,
From sin for ever cease ?
1 thank thee for the blessed hope;
It lifts my drooping spirits up,
Its gives me back my peace.
2 In thee, 0 Lord, I put my trust;
Mighty, and merciful, and just,
Thy sacred word is past ;
And I who dare thy word believe,
"Without committing sin shall live.
Shall live to God at last.
3 I reit in thine almighty power,
The name of Jesus is my tower
That hides my life above :
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Thou canst, thou wilt my helper be;
My confidence is all in tliee,
The faithful God of love.
4 "While still to thee for help I call,
Thou wilt not suiter me to fall,
Thou wilt rot let me sin ;
Ami thou shalt give me power to pray.
Till all my sins are pureed away,
And all ti.y miud Drought in.
6 Wherefore in never-ceasing prayer.
My soul to thy continual care
i faithfully commend ;
Assured that thou throusrh life wilt save.
And show thyself beyond the grave
My everlasting Friend.
359 mnter-j,. 16.] C. M.
TXTHEN shall I see the welcome hour
'" That plants my God in me !
Spirit of health, and life, and power.
And perfect liberty.
2 Love only can the conquest win,
The strength of siu subdue,
Come, 0 my Saviour, cast out sin.
And form my soul anew !
3 No longer then my heart shall nioura,
While sanctified by grace,
1 only for his glory burn,
And always see his face.
360 Elliott— p. 152.] 1st P. ^l. 0 lines Sk.
•pOUNTAIN of life and all my joy,
•*■ Jesus, thy mercies I embrace ;
The breath thou eiv'st, fi>r thee employ.
And wait to taste thy perfect grace *
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No more forsaken and forlorn,
1 bless the day that I was bora !
2 Preserved through faith, by power divine
A miracle of grace I sland ! -
I prove the strength of Jesus mine !
Jesus, upheld by tby ri^ht hand,
Though in my flesh 1 feel the thorn,
I bless the day that I was born. •
3 Weary of life, through inbred sin,
I was, but now defy its p'.iwer:
When as a flood the foe comes in,
My soul is mire than conqueror :
1 tread him down with holy scorn,
And bless the day that I was bom.
4 Come, Lord, and make me pare within,
And let me now be f.U'd with God !
Live to declare I'm siveJ from sin :
And if I seal the truth with blood.
My soul, from out the bndy torn,
Shall bless the day that I was burn 1
361 Spencer— p. 172.] 2dP.M.e.in«8B.
pOME, Holy Ghost, all-quick'ning fire,
'-' Come, and my hallow'd heart iuspire^
Sprinkled with th' atoning blood j
Now to my soul thyself reveal.
Thy mighty working let me feel.
And know that 1 am bom of God.
2 Thy witness with my spirit bear,
That God, my God, inhabits there :
Thou, with the Father, and the Son,
Etern.al life's coeval beam.
Be Christ in me, and 1 in him.
Till perfect we are made in on«.
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3 When wilt thou my whole heart subdue?
Come, Lord, and form my soul anew.
Emptied of pride, and wrath, and hell :
Less than the least of all thy store
Of mercies, I myself abhor :
All, all my vileness may I feel.
4 Humble, and teachable, and mild,
0 may I, as a little child,
My lowly Master's steps pursue !
Be anger to my soul unknown ;
Hate, envy, jealousy, be ^ one ;
In love create thou all things new.
6 Let earth no more my heart divide;
With Christ may I be crucified ;
To thee with my whole heart aspire;
Dead to the world and all its toys,
Its idle pomp, and fading joys.
Be thou alone my one desire !
6 Be thou my joy, be thou my dread ;
In battle cover thou my head.
Nor earth, nor bell I then shall fear;
1 then shall turn my steady face :
Want, pain defy — enjoy disgrace —
Glory in dissolution near.
7 My will be swallow'd up in thee !
Light in thy light still may I see,
Beholding thee with open face:
Call'd the full power of faith to prove.
Let all my hallow'd heart be love,
And all my spotless life be praise.
8 Come, Holy Ghost, all-quick'ning fire.
My consecrated heart inspire,
Sprinkled with the atoning blood :
Still to my soul thyself reveal :
Thy mighty working may I feel,
And Know that I am one with God.
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362 Mexico-^. 34.] C. M.
FATHER of Jesus Christ, my Lord,
My Saviour, and my Head,
1 trust in thee, whose powerful 'word
Hath raised him from the dead.
2 Thou know'st for my oSence he died,
And rose again for me ;
PuUv and freely justified,
That I might live to thee.
3 Eternal life to all mankind
Thou hast in Jesus given :
And all who seek, in him shall find
The happiness of heaven.
4 0 God, thy record I believe.
In Abrahaim's footsteps tread ;
And wait, expecting to receive
The Christ, the promised Seed.
6 Faith in thy power thou seest I have,
For thou this faith hast wrought ;
Dead souls thou callest from their grave,
And speakest worlds from naught.
6 Things that are not, as though they wat.
Thou callest by their name ;
Present with thee the future are,
With thee, the great I AM.
7 In hope, against all human hope,
Self-desperate I believe;
Thy quick'ning word shall raise me up
Thou shalt thy Spirit give.
8 The thing surpasses all my thought;
But faithful is my Lord ;
Through unl)elief I stagger not.
'. For God bath spoke the wora.
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9 Faith, mighty faith the promise sees.
And Inoks to that alni:e;
Laughs at impcssilfilities.
And cries, " It shall be done I"
10 To thee the fflorr of thr povver
And f:iilhfu1iieis 1 five !
1 shall in Ciirist, at that glad hour,
And Christ in me shall live.
11 Obedient faith that waits on thee,
Thou never wilt reprr>ve ;
But thou wilt form thy Son in me.
And perfect me in love.
363 Clartndon—-p. 33.] C. M.
T^EEPEN the wound thy hands have made
■^ In this weak, helpless siul;
Till mercy, with its balmy aid.
Descend to make me whole.
2 The sharpness of thy two-edged sword
Enable me t' endure ;
Till bold to s\y, my hallowing Lord,
Hath wrought a perfect care.
3 I see th' exceeding broad command.
Which all contains in one;
Enlarge my heart to understand
The mysterj- unknown.
4 O that with all thy saints I might
By sweet experience prove.
What is the length, an i tre.i Hh, and height.
And depth of perfect 1 've I
364 Pcnj/orrf— p. 265.] 11th P.M. 76,76,T7,'»i
(^ rV'E me the enlarged desire,
^-^ And open. Lord, my s'lul,
Thy own fulness to require,
iiid coiiiprcbend the uhnle:
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Stretch my faith's capacity
Wider and yet wider still;
Then with all that is in thee
My soul for ever fill !
365 Sediury— p. 151.] 1st P.M.6J»n«»8fc
/~iOME, Holy Ghost, all-quick 'ning fire,
^-' Come, and in nie delight to rest;
Drawn by the lure of strong desire,
0 come and consecrate my breast 1
The temple of my soul prepare.
And fix thy sacred presence there t
2 If now thy influence I feel,
If now in thee begin to live,
Still to my heart thyself reveal :
Give me thyself, for ever give:
A point my good, a drop my store,
Eager I ask, I pant for more.
3 Eager for thee I ask and pant,
So strong the principle divine
Carries me out with sweet constraint,
Till all my hallow'J soul is thine;
Plunged in the Godhead's deepest sea,
And lost in thy immensity.
4 My peace, my life, my comfort thou,
My treasure and my all thou art !
True witness of my sonship now,
Engraving pardon on my heart.
Seal of my sins in Christ forgiven.
Earnest of love, and pledge of heaven.
5 Come, then, my God, mark out thine heir
Of heaven a larger earnest give !
With clearer light thy witness bear ;
More sensibly witliin me live :
Let all my powers thine entrance feel.
And deeper stamp thyself the seal !
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366 Mmmotah^p.m.] 2d P.M. 6 Una da,
■pATHER of everlasting grace,
•*• Thy goodness and thy truth we praiie,
Thy goodness and thy truth we prove ;
Thou hast, in honour of thy Son,
The gift unspeakable sent down.
The Spirit of life, and power, and love.
2 Send us the Spirit of thy Son,
To make the depths of Godhead known,
To make us share the life divine :
Send him the sprinkled blood t' apply,
Send him our souls to sanctify,
And show and seal us ever thine.
3 So shall we pray, and never cease.
So shall we thankfully confess
Thy wisdom, truth, and power, and love i
With joy unspeakable adore.
And bless and praise thee evermore,
And serve thee as thy hosts above.
4 Till added to that heavenly choir,
We raise our songs of triumphs higher.
And praise thee in a bolder strain ;
Out-soar the first-born seraph's fliirht.
And sing, with all our friends in light.
Thy everlasting love to man.
367 Neginoth—i). 171.] Itt P. AL 6 ItnMSh
T WANT the spirit of power within,
■'■ Of love, and nf a healthful mind ;
Of power to conquer inbred siii :
Of love to thee and all mankind ;
Of health, tl\at pain and death defies,
Most vigorous when the body dies.
5 When shall I hear the Inward voice,
Which only faithful souls can hear 7
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Pardon, and peace, and heavenly joys,
Attend the promised Comforter :
0 come, and righteousness divine,
And Christ, and all with Christ axe mine 1
3 0 that the Comforter would come !
Nor visit as a transient fuest.
But fii in me his constant home,
And keep possession of my breast:
And make my soul his loved abode,
The temple of indwelling God !
4 Come, Holy Ghost, my heart inspire !
Attest that I am born again ;
Come, and baptize me now with fire,
Nor let thy former gifts be vain :
1 cannot rest iu sins forgiven:
Where is the earnest of my heaven ?
5 Where the indubitable seal
That ascertains the kingdom mine?
The powerful stamp I long to feel,
The signature of love divine!
0 shed it in my heart abroad,
Fulness of love, of heaven, ol God !
368 HoUy—p. 160.] 1st P. aL 6 lina Ss.
OLOVE, I languish at thy stay !
I pine for thee with ling'ring smartl
Weary and faint through long delay ;
When wilt thou come into my heart ?
From sin and sorrow set nie free.
And swallow up my soul in thee !
2 Come, 0 thou universal good !
Balm of the wounded conscience, cornel
The hungry, dying spirit's food,
The weary, wand'ring pilgrim's home "
Haven to take the shipwreck'd in,
My everlasting rest from sin !
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3 Be thou, 0 love, whate'er I want :
Support my feebleness of mind;
Relieve the thirsty soul, the faint,
Revive, illuminate the blind ;
The mournful cheer, the drooping lead,
And heal the sick and raise the dead.
4 Come, 0 my comfort and delight !
My strength and health, my shield and sun,
My boast, and confidence, and might,
My joy, my glory, and my crown :
My gospel hope, my calling's prize ;
My tree of life, my paradise.
6 The secret of the Lord thou art,
The mystery so long unknown,
Christ in a pure and perfect heart !
The name inscribed on the white stone!
The life divine, the little leaven.
My precious pearl, my present heaven.
369 Richmond— p.267.] 11th P. M. 76,76,77,76.
FIRST PART.
r\ GREAT mountain, who art thou ?
^-^ Immense, immoveable!
Hish as heaven aspires thy brow,
Thy foot sinks deep as hell !
Thee, alas, I long have known.
Long have felt thee fix'd within •
Still beneath thy weight I groan;
Thou art indwelling sin.
2 Thou art darkness in my mind,
Perverseness iu my will !
Love inordinate and blind.
That always cleaves to ill :
Every passion's wild excess;
Anger, luit, and pride thou art
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Thou art sin, and sinfulness,
And unbelief of heart !
3 Not by human mieht or power
Canst thou be moved from hetce:
But thou shall flow down before
Divine Omnipofence :
My Zerubbabel is near :
I have not believed in vain :
Thou, when Jesus doth appear,
Shalt sink into a plain.
4 Christ, the head, the comer stone,
Shall be broufht forth in me :
Glory be to Christ alone !
His grace shall set me free :
I shall shout my Saviour's name;
Him I evermore shall praise;
All the work of erace proclaim,
Of sanctifying grace.
5 Christ hath the foundation laid,
And Christ shall build me up :
Surely I shall soon be made
Partaker of mv hope :
AUTHOR of mv faith he is,
He its FINISHER shall be;
Perfect love shall seal me his
To all eternity,
SECOND PART.
WHO hath slighted or contemn'd
The day of feeble things?
I shall be by grace redeem'd ;
'Tis grace salvation brings :
Beady now my Saviour stands!
Him 1 now rejoice to see
With the plummet in bis handg.
To build and finish me
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2 I right earif shall awake
And see the perfect day ;
Soon the Lamb of God shall take
My inbred sin away ;
When to me my Lord shall come,
Sin for ever shall depart ;
Jesus takes up all the room
In a believing heart.
3 Son of God, arise, arise,
And to thy temple come !
Look, and with thy flaming eyes
The man of sin consume ;
Slay him with thy Spirit, Lord,
Reign thou in my heart alone ;
Speak the sanctifymg word.
And seal me all thine own.
370 Bavme— p. Hi.] lstP.M.62tnMSs.
PRISONERS of hope, lift up your heads,
■'• The day of liberty draws near !
Jesus, who on the serpent treads,
Shall soon in your behalf appear :
The Lord will to his temple come ;
Prepare your hearts to make him room.
2 Te all shall find whom in his word
Himself hath caused to put your trast,
The Father of our dying Lord
Is ever to his promise just ;
Faithful, if we our sins confess,
To cleanse from all unrighteousness.
3 Yes, Lord, we must believe thee kind.
Thou never canst unfaithful prove:
Surely we shall thy mercy find ;
Who ask, shall all receive thy love:
Nor canst thou it to me deny ;
I ask, the chief of simierB, I !
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4 0 ye of fearful hearts, be strong !
Your downcast eyes and hands lift up '
Ye shall not be forgotten Ion? :
Hope to the end, in Jesus hope !
Tell him, ye wait his ^ace to prrive;
And cannot fail, if God is love !
5 Prisoners of hope, be stron^f, be bold ;
Cast o£f your doubts, disdain to fear 1
Dare to believe '. on Christ lay hold !
Wrestle with Christ in mighty prayer;
Tell him, " We will not let fhee go,
Till we thy name, thy nature know."
6 Hast thou not died to purge our sin.
And rose, thy death for us to plead ?
To write thy law of love within
Our hearts, and make us free indeed ?
That we our Eden might regain.
Thou diedst, and could not die in vain.
7 Lord, we believe, and wait the hour
Which all thy great salvation brings ;
The Spirit of love, and health, and power,
Shall come and make us priests and king*;
Thou wilt perform thy faithful word ;
" The servant shall be as his Lord."
8 The promise stands for ever sure,
And we shall in thine image shine,
Partakers of a nature pure,
Holy, angelical, divine;
In spirit jom'd to thee, the Son,
As thou art with thy Father one.
371 PiUggrove—p. 95.] L. ^L
T ET not the wise their wisdom boast;
-'-' The mighty glory in his might :
The rich in flatfring riches trust.
Which take their evsrla^ting flight.
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The rush of numerous years bean down
The most gigantic strength of man ;
And where is all his wisdom gone,
When dust he turns to dust again ?
2 One only gift can justify
The boasting soul that knows bis God ;
When Jesus doth his blood apply,
I glory in his sprinkled blood.
The Lord my righteousness I praise,
I triumph in the love divine,
The wisdom, wealth, and strength of grace,
In Christ to endless ages mine.
372 Dorer— p. 120.] S. M,
T ORD, in the strength of grace,
•*-' With a glad heart and free,
Myself, my residue of days,
I consecrate to thee. ,
2 Thy ransom'd servant, I
Restore to thee thy own ;
And from this moment live or die,
To serve my God alone.
373 Selville—p. 144.] 1st P. M. 6 lint$ 8fc
r\ GOD, what offering shall 1 give
'-^ To thee, the Lord of earth and skies ?
My spirit, soul, and flesh receive,
A holy, living sacrifice;
Small as it is, 'Us all my store ;
More shouldst thou have, if I had more.
S Now then, my God, thou hast my souli
No longer mine, but thine 1 am :
Guard thou thine own, possess it whole!
Cheer it with hope, with love inflame'
Thou hast my spirit ; there di?piay
Thy glory to the perfect day.
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3 Thou hast my flesh, thy hallow'd shrine,
Devoted solely to thy will:
Here let thy light for ever shine :
This house still let thy presence fill :
0 source of life — live, dwell, and move
In me, till all my life be love !
4 0 never in these veils of shame,
(Sad fruits of sin,) my gloryin? be !
Clothe with salvation, through thy name,
My soul, and let me put on thee !
Be living faith my costly dress.
And my best robe thy righteousness.
5 Send down thy likeness from above,
And let this my adorning be :
Clothe me with wisdom, patience, love,
With lowliness and purity :
Than gold and pearls more precious far,
And brighter than the morning star.
6 Lord, arm me with thy Spirit's might,
Since I am call'd by thy great name :
In thee let all my thoughts unite.
Of all my works be thou llic aim :
Thy love attend me all my days.
And my sole business be thy praise !
374 SaUm—x>. 9.] 0. M.
■pATHER, into thy hands alone
■^ I have my all restored :
My all thy property I own :
The steward of the Lord.
2 Hereafter none can take away
My life, or goods, or fame ;
Ready at thy demand to lay
Them down, I always am.
3 Confiding in thy only love.
Through Jesus strength'ning m ■,
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1 wait thy faithfulness to prove,
And give back all to thee.
4 Take when thou wilt into thy hands,
And as thou wilt require;
Resume by the Chaldean bands,
Or the devouring fire.
6 Determined all thy will t'obey,
Thy blessings I restore j
Give, Lord, or take thy g.fts away,
I praise thes evermore.
375 Resigiiation—ii. 41.] C. M.
FATHER, to thee my soul I lift ;
My soul on thee depends ;
Convinced that every perfect gift
From thee alone descends.
2 Mercy and grace are thine alone,
And power and wisdom too :
Without the Spirit of thy Son
We nothing good can do.
3 We cannot speak one useful word,
One holy thought receive ;
Unless, in answer to our Lord,
Thyself the blessing give.
4 His blood demands the purchased grace i
His blood's availing plea
Obtain'd the help for all our race,
And sends it down to me.
6 Thou all our works in us hast wrought.
Our good is all divine :
The praise of every virtuous thought.
And righteous word, is thine.
6 From thee, through Jesus, we receiye
The power on thee to call ;
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In whom we are, and move, and live,
Our God is AJLL in ALL.
376 Monmouth— p. nZ.] 2i TAl. 6 Una Si.
'T'HOC, Jesus, then vaj breast inspire,
^ And touch my lips with hallow'd fire,
And loose a stamm'ring infant's tongue :
Prepare the vessel of thy grace ;
Adora me with the robes of praise,
And mercy shall be all my song :
Mercy for all who know not God ;
Mercy for all in Jesus' blood ;
Mercy that earth and heaven transcends;
Love, that o'erwhelms the saints in light:
The length, and breadth, and depth, suid height
Of love divine, which never ends.
2 A faithful witness of thy grace.
Well may I fill th' allotted space,
And answer all thy great design ;
Walk in the works by thee prepared,
And find annex'd the vast reward.
The crown of righteousness divine.
When I have lived to thee alone,
Pronounce the welcome word, " Well done !*
And let me take my place above I
Enter into my Master's joy.
And all eternity employ
In praise, and ecstasy, and love.
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TRUSTING IN GRACE AND
PROVIDENCE.
377 Clarendon— I,. 33.] C. M.
TTtrHEN all thy mercies, 0 my God,
*' My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view^ I'm lost
In wonder, love, and praise !
2 0 how can words with equal warmth
The gratitude declare,
That glows within my ravish'd heart ?
But thou canst read it there I
3 Thy providence my life sustain'd,
And all my wants redress'd,
■WTiile in the silent womb I lay,
And hung upon the breast.
4 To all my weak complaints and cries
Thy mercy lent an ear,
Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learn'd
To form themselves in prayer.
5 Unnumber'd comforts on my soul
Thy tender care bestow'd,
Before my infant heart conceived
From whom those comforts flow'd.
6 When in the slippery paths of youth
With heedless steps I ran,
Thine arm, unseen, convey-d me safe.
And led me up to man.
7 Through hidden dangers, toils, and deatla,
It gently clear'd my way ;
And through the pleasing snares of vice,
More to be fear'd than they.
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8 Ten thousand thousand precious gifts
My daily thanks employ :
Nor is the least a cheerful heart
That tastes those gifts with joy.
9 Through every period of my life
Thy goodness I'll pursue ;
And after death, in distant world*.
The pleasing theme renew.
10 Through all eternity to thee
A grateful soug I'll raise ;
But 0 ! eternity's too short
To utter all thy praise.
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"VTAIN, delusive world, adieu,
' With all of creature good !
Only Jesus I pursue,
Who bought me with his blood!
All thy pleasures I forego,
I trample on thy wejJth and pride,
Only Jesus will I know,
And Jesus clucilied.
2 Other knowledge I disdain,
'TIS all but vanity :
Christ, the Lamb of God, was slain.
He tasted death for me !
Me to save from endless wo
The sin-atoning victim died
Only Jesus will I know,
Aid Jesus crucified !
3 Here will I set up my rest ;
My fluctuating heart
From the haven of his breast
Shall never more depai't :
Whither should a sinner go f
His wounds for me stand open wid«;
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Only Jesus will I know,
And Jesus crucified !
4 Him to know is life and peace,
And pleasure without end ;
This is all my happiness,
On Jesus to depend ;
Daily in his grace to erowj
And ever in his faith abide.
Only Jesus will I know,
And Jesus crucified !
5 0 that 1 could all invite,
This saving truth to prove .
-Show the length, the breadth, the height,
And depth of Jesus' love !
Fain I would to sinners show
The blood by faith alone applied !
Only Jesus will I know,
And Jesus crucified !
379 Woodland— p. 13.] C. M.
TTtriTH joy we meditate the grace
' ' Of our" High Priest above ;
His heart is made of tenderness,
His bowels melt with love.
2 Touch'd with a sjrmpathy within,
He knows our feeble frame ;
He knows what sore temptations mean,
For he hath felt the same.
3 He in the days of feeble flesh
Pour'd out strong cries and tears,
And in his measure feels afresh
What every member bears.
4 He'll never quench the smoking flax,
But raise it to a flame ;
The bruised reed he never breaks,
Nor scorns tlie meanest name.
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5 Then let our humble faith address
His mercy and his power;
We shall obtain deliv'ring grace
In the distressing hour.
380 ^ntigvia—p. 81.] L. >L
JESUS, my all, to heaven is gone}
•' He whom I fix my hopes upon ;
His track I see, and I'll pursue
The narrow way, till him I view.
2 The way the holy prophets went,
The road that leads from banishment,
The King's highway of holiness,
I'll go, for all his paths are peace.
3 This is the way I long have sought,
And mourn'd because I found it not;
My grief a burden long has been.
Because I was not saved from sin.
4 The more I strove against its power,
I felt its weight and guilt the more;
Till late I heard my Saviour say,
" Come hither, soul, I AM THE WAT."
5 Lo ! glad I come, and thou, bless'd Lamb
Shalt tsike me to thee, whose I am ;
Nothing but sin have I to give.
Nothing but love shall I receive.
6 Then will I tell to sinners round
What a dear Saviour I have found;
I'll point to thy redeeming blood.
And say, " Behold the way to God !"
381 St. Ann's— p. 2.] CM.
TU[^ God, my portion, and my love,
■••'•»• My everlasting all,
I've none but thee in heaven above.
Or on this earthly ball.
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2 What empty things are all the skies,
And this inferior clod !
There 's nothing here deserves my joys,
There 's nothing like my God.
3 In vain the bright, the burning sun,
Scatters his feeble light ;
'Tis thy sweet beams create my noon;
If thou withdraw, 'tis night.
4 And while upon my restless bed,
Among the shades I roll,
If my Redeemer shows his head,
'Tis morning with my soul.
5 To thee we owe our wealth, and friendi
And health, and safe abode:
Thanks to thy name for meanert hings ;
But they are not my God.
6 How vain a toy is elitt'ring wealth,
If once compared to thee :
Or what's my safety, or my health.
Or all my friends to me?
7 Were I possessor of the earth.
And call'd the stars my own,
Without thy graces and thyself
I were a T\Tetch undone.
8 Let others stretch their arms like seas,
And grasp in all the shore :
Grant me the visits of thy face,
And I desire no more.
382 Coohham—p. 209.] 5th P. M. 4 iinu 7i.
pHILDREN of the heavenly King,
^ As we journey, let us sing;
Sing our Saviour's worthy praise.
Glorious iu his works and ways.
AND PROVIDENCE. 329
2 We are travelling home to God,
In the way our fathers trod ;
They are happy now, and we
Soon their happiness shall see.
3 0 ye banish'd seed, be glad,
Christ our Advocate is made :
Us to save our flesh assumes,
Brother to our souls becomes.
4 Fear not, brethren, joyful stand
On the borders of our land ;
Jesus Christ, our Father's Son,
Bids us undismay'd go on.
6 Lord !. obediently we'll go,
Gladly leaving all below:
Only thou our leader be,
And we still will follow thee.
383 Ward— p. 109.] L. M.
TJOW do thy mercies close me roond !
^^ For ever be thy name adored ;
1 blush in all things to abound ;
The servant is above his Lord !
2 Inured to poverty ^nd pain,
A suff'ring life my Master led ;
The Son of God, the Son of man,
He had not where to lay his head.
3 But lo ! a plice he hath prepared
For me, whom watchful angels keep;
Tea, he himself becomes my guard ;
He smooths my bed, and gives me sleep.
4 Jesus protects ; my fears, begone •.
What can the Rock of ages move !
Safe in thy anns 1 lay me down.
Thy everlasting anns of love.
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5 While thou art intimately nigh,
Who, who shall violate my rest?
Sin, earth, and hell, I now defy;
1 lean upon my Saviour's breast.
6 I rest beneath th' Almighty's shade.
My griefs expire, njy troubles cease;
Thou, Lord, on whom my soul is stay'd,
Wilt keep me still in perfect peace.
7 Me for thine own thou lov'st to take
In time and in eternity;
Thou never, never wilt forsake
A helpless worm that trusts in thee.
384 Troas—p. 135.] S. M.
/COMMIT thou all thy griefs
^ And ways into His hands,
To His sure trust and tender care.
Who earth and heaven commands:
Who points the clouds their course,
Whom winds and seas obey,
He shall direct thy wand'riug feet,
a« shall prepare thy way.
2 Thou on the Lord rely,
So safe shall thou go on ;
Fix Oh his work thy steadfast eye,
So sball thy work be done.
No profit canst thou gain
By self-consuming care;
To him conuiiend thy cause, his ear
Attends the softest prayer.
3 Thine everlasting truth.
Father, thy ceaseless love,
Sees all thy children's wants, and know!
What best 'or each will prove;
And whatsoe'er thou will'st,
Thou dost, 0 King of kinc^ !
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What's thy unerring wisdom's 'choice,
Thy power to being brings.
4 Thou everywhere hast way,
And all things serve thy might;
Thine every act pure blessing is,
Thy path unsullied light;
When thou arisest, Lord,
What shall thy work withstand ?
When all thy children want, thou giv'st :
Who, who shall stay thy band ?
385 Peiham—p. 128.] S. ^L
/^rVE to the winds thy fears,
^^ Hope, and be undismay'd ;
God hears thy sighs, and counts thy tears,
God shall lift up thy head :
Through waves, and clouds, and storms,
He gently clears thy way ;
Wait thou his time, so shall this night
Soon end in joyous day.
2 Still heavy is thy heart?
SliU sink thy spirits down?
Cast off the weight, let fear depart.
And every care be gone.
What though thou rulest not,
Yet heaven, and earth, and hell,
Proclaim, God sittetb on the throne,
And ruleth all things well.
3 Leave to his sovereign sway
To choose and to command ;
So shalt thou, wond'ring, own his way.
How wise ; how strong his hand!
Far, far abo ve thy thought
His counsel shall appear.
When fuUy he the work hath wrought
That caused thy needless fear.
332 TRUSTING IN GRACE
4 Thou seesf our weakness, Lord,
Our hearts are known to thee ;
O lift thou up the sinking hand,
Confirm the feeble knee :
T.et us in life, in death,
Thy steadfast truth declare ;
And publish with our latest breath
Thy love and guardian care.
386 Bridgevoater—p. 85.] L. M.
ri-OTi of my life, whose gracious power
'-^ Through various deaths my soul halh led.
Or tum'J aside the fatal hour,
Or lifted up my sinking head !
2 In all my ways thy hand 1 own,
Thy ruling providence I see:
Assist me still my course to run,
And still direct my paths to thee.
3 Whither, 0 whither should I fly
But to my loving Saviour's breast!
Secure within thine arms to lie,
And safe beneath thy wings to rest.
4 I have no skill the snare to shun,
But thou, 0 Christ, my wisdom art:
I ever into ruin run.
But thou art greater than my heart.
5 Foolish, and impotent, and blind.
Lead me a way I have not known ;
Bring me where I my heaven may find,
The heaven of loving thee alone.
6 Enlarge my heart to make thee room ;
Ente; and in me ever stay :
The crooked then shall straight become,
The darkness shall be lost in day.
AND PRCVIDENCE. 333
387 Provision— p. 289.] 13th P. M. 10 10, 1111.
npHOUGH troubles assail, and daneers affright,
-'- Though friends should all fail, and foes all
unite,
Tet one thing secures us, whatever.betide.
The promise assures us, the Lord will provide.
2 The birds, without barn or storehouse, are fed,
From them let us learn to trust for our bread :
His saints what is fitting shall ne'er be denied,
So long as 'lis written, the Lord will provide.
3 We all may, like ships, by tempest be toss'd
On perilous deeps, but need not be lost ;
Though Satan enrages the wind and the tide,
Yet Scripture engages, the Lord will provide.
4 His call we obey, like Abr'am of old :
We know not the way, but faith makes us bold ;
For though we are strangers, we have a sure guide,
And trust in all dangers, the Lord will provide.
5 When Satan appears to stop up our path,
And fills us with fears, we triumph by faith;
He cannot take from us (though oft he has tried)
The heart-cheering promise, the Lord will provide*
6 He tells us we're weak, our hope is in vain,
The good that we seek we ne'er shall obtain .
But when such suggestions our graces have tried.
This answers all questions, the Lord will provide.
7 No strength of our own, nor goodness we claim,
Our trust is all thrown on Jes\is's name ;
In this our strong tower for safety we hide ;
The Lord is our power, the Lord will provide.
8 When life sinks apace, and death is in view.
The word of his grace shall comfort us through ;
334 TRUSTING IN GRACE
Not fearing or doubtin?, with Christ on our side,
We hope to die shouting, the Lord will provide.
388 Bavaie~p. lU.] Ist p. M. 6 una 8a.
'T'HE Lord my pasture shall prepare,
•*■ And feed me with a shepherd's care ;
His presence shall my wants supply,
And guard me with a watchful eye :
My noon-day walks he shall attend.
And all my midnight hours defend.
2 When in the sultry glebe I faint.
Or on the thirsty mountain pant,
To fertile vales and dv;wy meads
My weary wand'ring steps he leads,
Where peaceful rivers, soft and slow,
Amid the verdant landscape flow.
3 Though in the paths of death I tread.
With gloomy horrors overspread,
My steadfast heart shall fear no ill,
For thou, 0 Lord, art with me still :
Thy friendly cronk shall give me aid.
And guide me through the dreadful shade.
4 Though in a bare and rugged way,
Through devious, lonely wilJs I stray,
Thy bounty shall my pains beguile,
The barren wilderness shall smile,
With sudden greens and herbage crown'd,
And streams shall murmur all around.
389 Bedford— p. 10.] C. M.
riOV) moves in a mysterious way,
^-^ His wonders to perform ;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
2 Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never-failing skill.
AND PROVIDENCE. 335
He treasures up his bright designs,
And works his sovereign will.
3 Te fearful saints, fresh courage take,
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy, and shall break
In blessings on your head. -
4 Judge not the Lord bv feeble sense,
But trust him for his grace ;
Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.
6 His purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding ever)- hour :
The bud may have a bitter taste.
But sweet will be the flower.
6 Blind unbelief is sure to err.
And scan his work in vain :
God is his own interpreter.
And he will make it plain.
390 Doddridge— I,. 79.] L. M.
A WAY, my unbelieving fear !
■^ Fear shall in me no more have place
My Saviour doth not yet appear,
He hi les the brightness of his face :
But shall I therefore let him go,
And basely to the tempter yield ?
No, in the strength of Jesus, no,
I never will give up my shield.
2 Althouch the vine its fn>'> deny.
Although the olive yielt' :-o oil.
The with'ring fie trees drt p and die,
The fields elude the tilled toil.
The empty stall no herd afford,
And perish all the bleatig race,
Tet will I triumph in the Lord.
The Got of my salvation pmie.
336 TRUSTING IN GRACE
3 Barren although my soul reniaia,
And not one bud of grace appear,
No fruit of all my toil and pain,
But sin, and only sin is here ;
Although my gifts and comforts lost.
My blooming hopes cut cfl'I see ;
Yet will I in my Saviour trust,
And glory that he died for me.
4 Id hope believing against hope,
Jesus, my Lord, my God, I claim,
Jesus, my strength, shall lift nje up.
Salvation is in Jesus' name.
To me he soon shall bring it nigh.
My soul shall then outstrip the wind;
On w ings of love mount up on high.
And leave the world and sin behind.
391 Quebec— p. no.] L. M.
■pEACE, troubled soul, thou need'st not fearl
■*■ Thy great Provider still is near:
Who fed thee lastj will feed thee still.
Be calm, and sink into his will.
2 The Lord who built the earth and sky,
In mercy sloops to hear thy cry ;
His proz.ise all may freely claim,
" Ask und receive in Jesus' name."
3 Hi] stores are open all, and free
To such as truly upright be:
Wattr and bread he'll give for food.
With all things else which be sees good.
4 Your sacred hairs, which are so small.
By God himself are number'd all ;
This truth he "s published all abroad.
That men may learn to trust the Lord.
AND PROVIDENCE. 337
5 The ravens daily he do!h feed,
And sends them food as they have need;
Although they nothing have in store,
Yet as they lack he gives them more.
6 TTien do not seek, with aniious care,
What ye shall eat, or drink, or wear;
Vour heavenly Father will you feed.
He knows that all these things you need.
7 Without reserve give Christ your heart;
Let him his righteousness iuiparl ;
Then all things else he"ll freely give;
With him you all things shall receive.
8 Thus shall the soul be truly blest.
That seeks in God his only rest :
May I that happy person be,
In time and in eternity.
392 GorAam— p. 193.] 4th P.M. SS6, 886.
/^OME on, my partners in distrtss,
^ My comrades through the vrildemen.
Who still your bodies feel :
Awhile forget your griefs and fears,
And look beyond this vale of tears,
To that celestial hill.
2 Beyond the bounds of time and space
Ix)ok forward to that heavenly place,
The saints' secure abode ;
On faith's strong eagle-pin i-^ns rise,
And force your pafeage to the skies.
And scale the mount of God.
3 Who suffer with our Master here,
We shall before his face appear,
And by his side sit down ;
To patient faith the prize is sure ;
And all that to the end endure
The cross, shall wear the crown.
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4 Thrice blessed bliss-inspiring hope !
It lifts the fainting spirits up,
It brings to life the dead :
Our conflicts here shall soon be past,
And you and I ascend at last,
Triumphant with our Head.
5 That great mysterious Deity
We soon with open face shall see j
The beatific sight
Shall fill the heavenly courts with prais*,
And wide diffuse the golden blaze
Of everlasting light.
The Father, shining on his throne,
The glorious co-eternal Son,
The Spirit, One and seven,
Conspire our rapture to complete;
And lo ! we fall before his feet,
And silence heightens heaven.
7 In hope of that ecstatic pause,
Jesus, we now sustain the cross.
And at thy footstool fall ;
Till thou our hidden life reveal,
Till thou our ravish'd spirits fill,
And God be all in all.
393 Dundee— p. 2.] C. M.
JESUS, great Shepherd of the sheep.
To thee for help we fly :
Thy little flock in safety keep.
For 0 ! the wolf is nigh.
2 He comes, of hellish malice full,
To scatter, tear, and sUy ;
He seizes every strangling soul
As his own lawful prey.
3 Us into thy protection take.
And gather with thy arm ;
AND PROVIDENCE. 339
Unless the fold we first forsake,
The wolf can never harm.
4 We laugh to scorn his cruel power,
While by our Shepherd's side ;
The sheep he never can devour,
Unless he first divide.
5 O do not suffer him to part
The souls that here i^ree :
But make us of one mind and heart,
And keep us one in thee.
6 Together let us sweetly live,
Together let us die;
And each a starry crown receive,
And reign above the sky.
394 Liberty— p. 146.] 1st P. M. 6 2rn«8fc,
■|\^ ASTER, I own thy lawful claim,
-'■'■'- Thine, wholly thine, I long to be !
Thnu seest, at last, I willing am.
Where'er thou goesf, to follow thee :
Myself in all thin^ to deny;
Thine, wholly thine, to live and die.
2 Whate'er my sinful flesh requires.
For thee I cheerfully forego ;
My covetous and vain desires.
My hopes of happiness below ;
My senses' and my passions' food.
And all my thirst for creature good.
3 Pleasure, and wealth, and praise no mora
Shall lead mv captive soul astray;
Mv fond pursuits I all give o'er.
Thee, only thee, resolved t' obey :
My own in all things to resign,
And know no other will but thine.
340 TRUSTING IN GRACE
4 All power is thine in earth and heaven ;
All fulness dwells in thee alone:
Whate'er I have was freely given :
Nothing but sin I call my own :
All other property disclilm :
Thou only art the' great I AM.
5 Wherefore to thee I all resign :
Being thnu art, and love, and power;
Thy only will be done, not mine !
Thee, Lord, let heaven and earth adore !
Flow back the rivers to the sea.
And let our all be lost in thee !
395 ^«/Zum— p. 281.] 12th P.M. 76,76,78,76.
pAST on the fidelity
^ Of my redeeming Lord,
1 shall his salvation see.
According to his word :
Credence to his word I give.
My Saviour in distresses past.
Will not now his servant leave.
But bring me through at last.
2 Better than my boding fears
To me thou oft hast proved ;
Oft observed my silent tears.
And challenged thy beloved :
Mercy to my rescue flew,
And death ungrasp'd his fainting preyi
Pain before thy face withdrew,
And sorrow fled away.
3 Now as yesterday ^he same,
In all mv troubles nigh,
Jesus, on thy word and name
I steadfastly rely :
Sure as now the ^rief I feel,
The promised joy I soon shall have;
AND PROVIDENCE. 341
Saved again, to sinners tell
Thj power and will to save.
4 To thy blessed will resign'd,
And stay'd on that alone,
I thy perfect strength shall find,
Thy faithful mercies own:'
Compass'd round with son^ of praise,
lly all to my Redeenier give ;
Spread thy miracles of grace.
And to thy glory live.
396 GUford—^. 86.] L. M.
'T'HOU Lamb of God, thou Prince of peac^
-*■ For thee my thirsty soul doth pine ;
My longing heart implnres thy grace;
0 make me in thy likeness shine !
2 With fraudless, even, humble mind,
Thy will in all things may I see;
In love be every wish resign'd,
And hallow'd my whole heart to thee.
3 When pain o'er my weak flesh prevails,
With lanib-like patience arm my breast ;
When grief my wounded soul .issails,
In lowly meekness may I rest.
4 Close by thy side still may I keep,
Howe'er life's various currents flow ;
With steadfast eye mark every step.
And follow thee where'er thou go,
5 Thou, Lord, the dreadful fight hast won j
Alone thou hast the wine-press trod ;
In me thy strengthening grace be shown,
0 may I conquer through thy blood !
6 So, when on Sion thou shalt stand.
And all heaven's hosts adore their King,
Shall I be found at thy right hand.
And, free from pain, thy glories sing.
342 TRUSTING IN ORACE
397 Hebron— p. lU.] L.ML
■pTERNAL Beam of light divine,
■" Fountain of unexhausted love;
In whom the Father's glories shine,
Through earth beneath, and heaven above I
2 Jesus, the weary wanderer's rest,
Give nie thy easy yoke to bear ;
With steadfast patience arm my breast.
With spotless love, and lowly fear.
3 Thankful I take the cup from thee,
Prepared and mingled by thy skill:
Though bitter to the taste it be,
Powerful the wounded soul to heal.
4 Be thou, 0 Rock of ages, nigh !
So shall each murm'ring thought be gone;
Aud grief, and fear, and care shall fly,
As clouds before the mid-day sun.
5 Speak to my warring passions, " Peace;"
Say to my trembling heart, " Be still ;"
Thy power my strength and fortress is,
For all things serve thy sovereign will.
6 0 death ! where is thy sting? Where now
Thy boasted victory, 0 grave ?
Who shall contend with God ? or who
Can hurt whom God delights to save ?
398 Roseland— p. 2S6.1 13th P.M. 1010,11 IL
'T'HE earth is the Lord's, and all it contains;
•'■ The truth of his word for ever remains ;
The saints have a mountain of blessings in him;
His grace is the fountain, his peace is the stream.
2 To him our request we now have made known.
Who sees what is best for each of his own :
AND PROVIDENCE. 343
Our heathenish care, we cast it aside ;
He heareth the prayer, and he will provide.
3 The modest and meek the earth shall possess;
The kingdom who seek of Jesus's p-ace,
The power of his Spirit shall joyfully own,
And all things inherit, in virtue of one.
399 Ledbury— ip. 151.] 1st P. M. 6 Una Si.
"M'OW I have found the sfround wherein
-•■^ Sure my soul's anchor may remain;
The wounds of Jesus for njy sin,
Before the world's foundation slain ^
Whose mercy shall unshaken stay,
When heaven and earth are fled away.
8 Father, thine everlasting grace
Our scanty thought surpasses far:
Thy heart still melts with tenderness,
Thy arms of love still open are,
■Returning sinners to receive.
That mercy they may taste, and live.
3 0 love, thou bottomless abyss !
My sins are swallow'd up in thee ;
Cover'd is my unrighteousness,
Nor spot of guilt remains on me,
■While Jesus' blood, through earth and skies,
Mercy, free, boundless mercy, cries !
4 By faith I plunge me in this sea,
Here is my hope, my joy, my rest;
Hither, when hell assails, I flee ;
I look into my Saviour's breast;
Away, sad doubt and anxious fear,
Mercy is all that's written there.
5 Though waves and storms go o'er my head.
Though strength, and health, and friends b«
gone;
344 THE christian's warfarb.
Thnufch jnys be wither'd all and dead,
Though every cmiifort be withdrawn;
On this inj- steadfast siiil relies,
Father, thy mercy never dies.
6 Fix'd on this ground will I remain,
Though my heart fail, and flesh decay ;
This anchor shall my soul sustain.
When earth's fnundalions melt away ;
Mercy's full power I then shall prove,
Loved with an everlasting love.
THE CHRISTIAN'S WARFARE.
400 Pelham-p. 12S.) S. M.
FIRST PART.
OOLDIERS of Christ, arise,
•^ And put your armour on,
Strong in the stretisth which God supplies
Through his eternal Son ;
6tron» ill the Lord of hosts.
And in his mi'hty power,
Wbo in the strength of Jesus trusts.
Is more than conqueror.
2 Stand, then, in his Ereat mi?ht,
With all his strenzth eo Jued :
But take, to arm y 'u for the fight.
The panoply of God :
That havin;; all things done,
And all your conflicts past.
Ye may o'ercome llirou»n Christ ilone.
And stand entire at last.
3 Stand, then, against your foes.
Id close and &m array '
THE christian's WARFARE. 345
L^ions of wily fiends oppose
Throushout the evil day :
But meet the sons of nigiit,
But mock their vain design,
Arm'd in the anus of heavenly light,
Of righteousness divine. .
4 Leave no ungu?.rded place,
Ko weakness of the soul ;
Take every virtue, every grace,
And fortify the whole :
Indissolubly join'd.
To battle all proceed ;
But arm yourselves uilh all the mind
That was in Christ your Head.
Cfiaring—p. 129.] SECOND PART.
BUT, above all, lay hold
On faith's victorious shield ;
Arm'd with that adamant and gold,
Be sure to win the field :
If faith surround your heart,
Satan shall be subdued ;
Repell'd his every fiery dart,
And quench'd with Jesus' blood.
2 Jesus hath died for you r
What can his love withstand ?
Believe, hold fast your shield, and who
Shall pluck you from his hand?
Believe that Jesus reigns,
All power to him is given :
Believe, till freed from sin's remains.
Believe yourselves to heaven !
3 To keep your armour bright,
Attend with constant care;
Still walking in your Captain's sight,
And watching unto praver. •
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346 THE Ch?ISTIAN*S WARFARE,
Ready for all alamo,
Stradfastly set your face,
Acd alsvays exercise your arms,
Aud use your every grace.
4 Pray, Tvithout ceasine, pray,
(Your Captain gives the word,)
His summons cheerfully obey.
And call upon the Lord :
To God your every want
In instant prayer display:
Pray always; pray, and never faint;
Pray, without ceasing, pray.
ChnrUstown—p. 13S.] THIRD PART.
IN fellowship alone,
To God with faitli draw near :
Approach his courts, besiege his throne,
With all the power of prayer ;
Go to his temple, go.
Nor from his altar move ;
Let every house his worship know.
And every heart his love.
2 To God your spirits dart;
Your souls in words declare ;
Or groan to him who reads the heart,
Th' unutterable prayer;
His mercy now implore,
And now show forth his praise,
In shouts, or silent awe, adore
His miracles of grace.
3 Pour out your souls to God,
And bow them with your knees;
And spread your hearts and hands abroad,
And pray for Sion's peace.
Tour guides and brethren bear.
For ever on your mind ;
THE christian's WARFARE. 347
Extend the arms of miehty prayer,
In grasping all mankind.
4 From strensth to slrensth go on,
Wrestle, and fight, and pray :
Tread all the powers of darkness down,
And win the well -fought day-;
Still let the Spirit cry.
In all his soldiers, Come,"
Till Christ the Lord descend from high,
.And take the conquerors home.
401 WatchjTian—p. 118.] S. M.
FIRST PART.
"LI ARK, how the watchmen cry !
J^ Attend the trumpet's sound ;
Stand to your arms, the foe is nigh ;
The powers of hell surround ;
Who bow to Christ's command,
Your arms and hearts prepare ;
The day of battle is at hand !
Go forth to glorious war !
2 See, on the mountain top.
The standard of your God !
In Jesus' name 1 lilt it up,
All stain'd in hallow'd blood.
His standard-bearer, I
To all the nations call :
Let all to Jesus' cross draw nigh ;
He bore the cross for all.
3 Go up with Christ your Head,
Your Captain's footsteps see ;
Follow your Captain, and be led
To certain victory.
All power to him is given :
He ever reigns the same :
348 THE christian's WABPARB.
Salvation, happiness, ar.d heaven,
Are all hi Jesus' name.
4 Only have faith in Giel :
In faith your foes assail :
Not wrestling against flesh and blood,
But all the p'nvt-rs of hell :
From thrones of glorj- driven.
By flaming vengeance hurl'd,
They throng the air, and darken heaven.
Aid rule this lower world.
SECOND PART.
ANGELS your march oppose,
Who stiil in strength excel.
Your secret, sworn, eternal foes,
Countless, invisible;
With rage that never ends,
Their hellish arts they try:
Legions of dire, malicious hends,
And spirits enthroned on high.
2 On earth th' usurpers reign,
Exert their baneful power ;
O'er the poor fallen sons of men
They tyrannize their hour:
But shall believei-s fear?
But shall believers fly?
Or see the bloody cross appear,
And all their powers defy ?
3 Jesus' tremendous name
Puts all our focs to flight !
Jesus, the meek, the augry Lamb,
A lion is in fight.
By all hell's bust withstood,
We all hell's h;^st o'erthrow ;
And conquering them through Jesus' blood.
We on to conquer go.
THE CHKISTIAX'S WARFARE. 349
4 Oiir Captain leads us on ;
He beckons from the skies,
And reiches out a s'^rry crown,
And bids us take the prize.
"Be faithful unto death;
Partake my victory,
And thou shall wear this glorious wreath,
And thou shall reign with me."
402 Arniapoli-i—p. 22.] C. M.
Ty HEN I can read my title clear
' To mansions in the skies,
I'll bid farewell to every fear.
And wipe my weeping eyes.
2 Should earth agaiust my soul engage,
And fiery darts be hurl'd,
Then I can smile at Satan's rage.
And face a frownin; world.
3 Let cares like a wild deluge come.
Let storms of sorrow fall ;
So I but safely reach my home,
My God, my heaven, my all.
4 There I shall bathe my weary souL
In s-^as of heavenly rest.
And not a wave of trouble roll
Across my peaceful breast.
403 Cranbrcx)h—p. 131.] S. .U
■pQLHP me for the war,
-*-' And teach my hands to fight ;
My simple, upright heart prepare.
And guide my words aright.
2 Control my every thought ;
My whole of sin remove ;
Let all my works in thee be wrought ;
Let all be wrought in love.
350 THE christian's Warfare.
3 0 arm me with the mind,
Meek Lamb, that was in thee !
And let my knowing zeal be join'd
With perfect charity.
4 With calm and temper'd zeal
Let me enforce thy call ;
And vindicate thy gracious will,
Which otfers life to all.
5 0 may I love like thee !
In all thy footsteps tread !
Thou hatest all iniquity,
But nothing thou hast made.
6 O may I learn the art,
With meekness to reprove !
To hate the sin with all my heart,
But still the sinner love.
404 Eaton— ip. 154.] 1st P. M. 6 Utiu Si.
QAVIOUR of all, what hast thou done,
^ What hast thou suffer'd on the tree ?
Why didst thou groan thy mortal groan,
Obedient unto death for me ?
The mystery of thy passion show,
The end of all thy griefs below.
2 Pardon, and grace, and heaven to buy,
My bleeding sacrifice expired :
But didst thou not my pattern die,
That by thy glorious Spirit fired,
Faithful to death I might endure,
And make the crowu by suflf 'ring sure?
3 Thou didst the meek example leave,
That I mie;ht in thy footsteps tread ;
Wight like the Man of sorrows grieve,
And froan, and bow with thee my bead :
The dying in my body bear.
And all thy state of sufif 'ring share.
THE christian's WARFARE. 351
4 Thy every suff 'rins servant, Lord,
Shall as his perfect Mas^E:r be ;
To all thy inward life restored.
And outwardly confnrnrd to thee:
Out of thy grave the saint shall rise.
And grasp, through death, the glorious prize
5 This is the strait, the royal way
That leads us to the courts above :
Here let me ever, ever stay.
Till on the win^ of perfect love,
I take my last triumphant flight.
From Calvary's to Sion's height.
405 J\'egtnotA— p. 171.] 1st P. M. 6 K»J« 8s.
CURROUNDED by a host of foes,
*^ Storm'd by a host of foes within ;
Nor swift to flee, nor strong t' oppose,
Single a^inst hell, earth, and sin;
Single, yet undismay'd, I am j
1 dare believe in Jesus' name.
2 What though a thousand hosts engage,
A thousand worlds my soul to shake ;
I have a shield shall quell their rage,
And drive the alien armies back ;
Fortray'd it bears a bleedinj Lamb,
I dare believe in Jesus' name.
3 Me to retrieve from Satan's hands,
Me from this evil world to free.
To purge my sins, and loose my bands,
AJnd save from all iniquity.
My Lord and God, from heaven he came,
I dare believe in Jesus' name.
4 Salvation in his name there is.
Salvation from sin, death, and hell ;
Salvation into glorious bliss ;
How great salvation who can tell ?
352 THE christian's WARFAEK.
But all lie hath for mine I claim,
1 dare believe inVesus' name.
406 Trowbridge— ip. 1 64 .] 1 st P. M. 6 Unu St.
■pEACE, doubting heart, my God's I am;
-*■ Who form'd me man, forbids my fear:
The Lord hath call'd me by my name;
The Lord protects, for ever near:
His blood for me did once atone,
And still he loves and guards his own.
2 When passing tlirough the watery deep,
I ask in faith his pminised aid.
The waves an awfi;l distance keep,
And shrink from my devoted head :
Fearless their violence I dare;
They cannot harm ; for God is there '
3 To him mine eye of faith I turn.
And throush the fire pursue my way;
The fire forgets its power to bum,
The lambent flames around me play;
I own his power, accept the sign.
And shout to prove t!;e Saviour mine.
4 Still nigh me, O my Saviour, stand !
And guard in fierce temptation's hour;
Hide in the hollow of thy hand ;
Show forth in me thy savins power;
Still be thy arms my sure defence ;
Mor earth nor hell shall pluck me thence.
5 Since thou hast bid me come to thee,
(Good as ilx)u art, and strong to save,)
I'll walk o'er life's tempestuous sea.
Upborne by the unyielding wave.
Dauntless, though rocks of pride be near,
And yawning whirlpools of despair.
6 When darkness intercepts the skies.
And sorrow'* waves around ir.e roll,
THE christian's WARFARE. 353
And high the storms of trouble rise,
And half o'erwhelm my sinking soul ;
Wy s>ul a sudden calm shall feel,
And hear a whisper, " Peace ; be still 1"
7 Though in affliction's furnace tried.
Unhurt on snares and death Til tread ;
Though sin assail, and hell, thrown wide.
Pour all its flames upon my head ;
Like Moses' bush I'll mount the higher,
And flourish, unconsumed, in fire.
407 Spring Grove— p. iBo.'i 1st P.M. 6 Jin«i8fc
f\ GOD, my hope, my heavenly rest,
^-^ My all of happiness below,
Grant my importunate request.
To nie, to me thy gtxidness show ;
Thy beatific face display.
The brightness of eternal day.
2 Before my faith's enlighten'd eyes
Make all thy gracious goodness pass;
Thy goodness is the sight I prize :
O might I see thy smiling face !
Thy nature in my soul proclaim.
Reveal thy love, thy glorious name !
3 There, in the place beside thy throne,
Where all that find acceptance stand.
Receive me up into thy Son ;
Cover me with thy mi»hty hand :
Set me upon the Rock, and hide
My soul in Jesus' wounded side.
4 0 put me in the cleft ; empower
My soul the glorious sijht to bear !
Descend in this accepted hour;
Pass by me, and thy name declare;
Thy wrath withdraw, thy hand remove,
Aoa show thyself the God of love.
354 THE christian's warfare.
408 Zion— p. 155.] UtP.M.eiinesSt.
'T'O thee, preaf God of love, I bow !
■*• And prostrate ia tliy sisht adore :
By faith I see thee passine now j
I have, l)ut still I ask for more ;
A glimpse of love cannot suffice,
My soul for all thy presence cries.
2 I cannot see thy hce and live ! .
TTien let me see thy face and die ! —
Now, Lord, my ^aspint: spirit receive,
Give me on eagles' wings to fly ;
With eagles' eyes on thee to gaze,
And plunge into the glorious blaze.
3 The fulness of my vast reward,
A blest eternity sliall be: —
But hast thou not on earth prepared
Some better thing than this for jne ?
What, — but one drop ? — one transient sight?
I want a sun — a sea of light.
4 Moses thy backward parts might view,
But not a perfect sight obtain ;
The gospel doth thy fulness show
To us, by the commandment slain :
The dead to sin shall find the grace ;
The pure in heart shall see thy face.
5 More favour'd than the saints of old,
Who now by faith approach to thee,
Shall all with open face behold
In Christ, the glorious Deity ;
Shall see and put salvation on.
The nature of thy sinless Son.
6 This, this is our high calling's prize!
Thine image in thy Son I claim :
And still to higher glories rise,
Till, all trausform'd, I know thy uajne:
THE christian's WARFARE. 355
And glide to all my heaven above,
My highest heaven in Jesus' love.
409 iJapfure— p. 195.] 4th P. M. SS6, SS6.
r\ GOD, thy faithfulness I plead :
^ My present help in time of need.
My great Deliverer thnu !
Haste to my aid ! thine ear incline.
And rescue this poor soul of mine !
I claim the promise now I
2 Where is the way ? ah, shew me where.
That I thy mercy may declare,
The power that sets me free :
How can I my destruction shun ?
How can I from my nature run ?
Answer, 0 Lord, for me !
3 One only way the erring mind
Of man, short-sighted man, can find.
From inbred sm to fly :
Stronger than love, I fondly thought.
Death, only death, can cut the knot,
Which love cannot untie.
4 But thou, 0 Lord, art full of grace;
Thy love can find a thousand ways
To foolish man uoknown :
My soul upon thy love I cast ;
I rest me till the storm be past,
Upon thy love alone.
5 Thy faithful, wise, almighty love.
Shall every stumbling block remove.
And make an open way :
Thy love shall burst the shades of death,
And bear me from the gulf beneath,
To everlasting day.
356 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
410 MorrisoJi—p. 112.] L. M.
■pONDLY my foolish heart essays
■'■ T' augment the source of perfect blisa,
Love's all-sufficient sea to raise.
With drops of creature happiness.
2 O Love, thy sovereign aid impart;
And guard the ^ift thyself hast given ;
My portion, thou, my treasure art,
My life, and happiness, and heaven.
3 Would au^ht on earth my wishes share ;
Though dear as life the idol be.
The idol from my breast I'll tear,
Resolved to seek my all in thee.
4 Whate'er I fondly counted mine,
To thee, my Lord, I here restore;
Gladly I all to thee resign ;
Give me thyself, I ask no more.
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
411 TVooj— p. 135.] S. M.
A ND are we yet alive,
■^ And see each other's face ?
Glory and praise to Jesus give
For his redeeming grace !
Preserved by power divine
To full salvation here.
Again in Jesus' praise we join,
And in his sight appear.
2 What troubles have we seen,
What conflicts have we past.
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 357
Fightings without, and fears n-ithin.
Since we assembled last ;
But out of all the Lord
Hath brought us by his love ;
And still he doth his help afford,
And hides our life above.
3 Then let us make our boast
Of his redeeming power,
Which saves us to the uttermost,
Till we can sin no more:
Let us take up the cross.
Till we the crown obtain ;
And gladly reckon alt things loss,
So we may Jesus gain.
412 Bou)Z«y— p. 296.] 15th P. M. 11 9, 11 9.
/^OME away to the skies, my beloved arise,
^^ And rejoice in the day thnu wast born :
On this festival day, come exulting away.
And with singing to Sion return.
2 We have laid up our love and our treasure
above,
Though our bodies continne below -.
The redeem'd of nur Lord, we remember his w^rd
And with singing to paradise go.
3 With singing we praise the original grace,
By our heavenly Father bestow'd ;
Our being receive from his b mnty, and live
To the honour and glory of God.
4 For thy glory we are, created to share
Both the nature and kingdom divine:
Created again, that our souls may remain
In time and eternity thine.
6 With thanks we approve the design of fjyJcre
Which hath jom'd us in Jesus's name;
358 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
So united in heart, that we never can part,
Till we meet at the feast of the I.,amb.
6 There, there at his feet, we shall suddenly meeti
And be parted in body no more !
We shall sing to our lyres, with the heavenly
choirs,
And our Saviour in glory adore.
7 Hallelujah we sing, fo our Father and King,
And his niplurous praises repeat :
To the Lamb that was slain, hallelujah again,
Sing all heaven, auad fall at his feet!
8 In assurance of hope, we to Jesus look up.
Till his banner unfurlM in the air.
From our graves we shall see, and cry out, •!
is he !"
And fly up to acknowledge him there.
413 Tcnham—p. 301 .] 1 8th P. M. 10, 5, JI.
OOME, let us anew our journey pursue,
^^ With vigour arise.
And press to our permanent place in the skiea.
Of heavenly birth, though wand'ring on earth.
This is not our place.
But strangers and pilgrims ourselves we confessi
2 At Jesus's call, we gave up our all j
And still we forego.
For Jesus's sake, our enjoymenta below.
No longing we find for the country behind ;
But onward we move,
And still we are seeking a country above.
3 A country of joy without any alloy,
We thither repair :
Our hearts and ou' treasure already are there.
We march liand in jnd to Immanuel's land
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No matter what cheer
We meet with on earth ; for eternity's here !
4 The rougher our way, the shorter our stay ;
The tempests that rise
Shall gloriously liurrj- our souls to the skies.
The fiercer the blast, the sooner 'lis past;
The troubles that come
Shall come to our rescue, and hasten us home.
414 SaUm—p. 294.] 15th P. M. 11 9, 11 9.
pOME, let us ascend,
^^ My companion and friend,
To a taste of the banquet above :
If thy heart be as mine,
If for Jesus it pine.
Come up into the chariot of love.
2 Who in Jesus confide,
We are bold to outride
The storms of affliction beneath ;
With the prophet we soar
To the heavenly shore,
And outfly all the arrows of death.
3 By faith we are come
To our permanent home.
By hope we the rapture improve;
By love we still rise
Aid look down on the skies.
For the heaven of heavens is love.
4 Who on earth can conceive
How happy we live
In the palace of God, the great King!
What a concert of praise.
When our Jesus's grace
The whole heavenly company sing!
5 What a rapturous song,
When the glorified throng
360 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
In the spirit of harmony join ;
Join all the glad choirs,
Hearts, voices, and lyres,
And the burden is " Mercy divine."
6 Hallelujah they cry.
To the King of the sky,
To the great everlasting I AM;
To the Lamb lliat was slain,
And that livelh a^ain,
Hallelujah to God and the Lamb !
7 The Lamb on the throne,
Lo! he dwells with his own.
And to rivers of pleasure he leads;
■VVilh his mercy's full blaze,
V/ith the sight of his face,
Our beatified spirits he feeds.
8 Our foreheads proclaim
His ineil'able name ;
Our bodies his glory display;
A dav without night.
We feast in his sight ;
And eternity seems as a day.
415 ./JjinapoHs— p. 22.] CM.
'T'RY us, 0 God, and search the ground
•*■ Of every sinful heart :
Whate'er of sin in us is found,
0 bid it all depart !
2 When to the righi or left we stray
Leave us not comfortless ;
But guide our feet into the way
Of everlasting peace.
3 Help us to help each other, Lord,
Each other's cross to bear :
Let each his friendly aid atiord.
And feel his brother's care.
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 361
4 Help lis to build each other up,
Our little stock iinprove ;
Increase our faith, confirm our hope,
Aud perfect us in love.
5 I'p into thee, our living HecJ, -
Let us in all things grow ;
Till thou hast made us free indeed,
And spotless here 'lelow.
6 Then, when the mighty work is wrought
Receive thy ready bride :
Give us in heaven a happy lot
With all the sanctified.
416 fllwWam— p. 183.] 3d P.M. 46s&28«.
nPHOU God of truth and love,
■'• We seek thy perfect way,
Ready thy choice t' approve.
Thy providence t' obey;
E-nter into thy wise design.
And sweetly lose our will in thins.
2 Why hast thMi cast our lot
In the same agt- and place ?
And why together brought
To see each other's face ;
To join with softest sympathy.
And mix our friendly souls in thee}
3 Didst thou not make us one.
That we might one remain ;
Together travel on,
And bear each othei 's pain ;
Till all thy utmost goodness proi-e.
And rise renew'd in perfect love?
4 Surely thou didst nnhe
'tur kindred spirlbJ-htrre,
16
362 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
That all hereafter might
Before thy throne appear:
Meet »t the marriage oi the Lamb,
And all thy gracious love proclaim.
6 Then let us ever bear
The blessed end- in view,
And join with mutual care,
To fight our passage through ;
And kindly help each other on,
Till all receive the starry crown.
6 0 may thy Spirit seal
Our snuls unto that day !
With all thy fulness fill,
And then transport away !
Away to our eternal rest,
Away to our Redeemer's breast !
417 Zealand— \). 269.] llth P. ^L 76,76,'."7,76
FATHER of our dying Lord,
Remember us for good ;
0 fulfil his faithful wor'.
And hear his speaking blood!
Give us that for which he prays:
Father, glorify thy Son !
Show his truth, and power, and gracet
And send the promise down.
2 True and faithful witness, thou,
0 Christ, the Spirit give !
Hast thou nit received him now,
That we might now receive ?
Art thou not the living Head ?
Life to all thy limbs ininart;
Sbed thy love, thy Spirit shed,
In every waiting heart.
3 Holv Ghost, the Comfortw.
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 363
Glow our hearts to 6nd thee near,
And swell to make thee room ;
Present with us thee we feel,
Come, 0 come, and in us be !
With us, in us, live and dwell,
To all eternity !
418 Douglass— p. 5.] C. AL
TESUS, united by thy grace,
" And each to each endear'd,
With confidence we seek thy face,
And know our prayer is heard.
2 Still let us own our common Lori,
And bear thine easy yoke ;
A band of love, a threefold cord,
Which never can be broke.
3 Make ns into one spirit drink ;
Baptize into thy name;
And let us always kindly think,
And sweetly speak the same.
4 Touch'd by the loadstone of thy love.
Let all our hearts agree;
And ever toward each other move,
And ever move toward thee.
5 To thee inseparably join'd,
Let all our spirits cleave ;
0 may we all the loving mind
That was in thee receive '.
6 This is the bond of perfectness.
The spotless charity ;
0 let us (still we pray) possess
The mind that was in thee 1
7 Grant this, and then from all below
Insensibly remov* :
364 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
Our siuls the chanfe shill scarcely know,
Made perfect first in love 1
8 With ease our snuls through death shall glide
y. Into their paradise ;
-'And thence on win^ of angels ride,
Triumphant through the skies.
9 Yet when the fullest joy is given,
The same delight we prove,
In earth, in paradise, in beaveu,
Our all in all is love.
419 Bostc»v-p. 213.] 5th P. M. 4 lints 7s.
JESUS, Lord, we look to thee,
" Let us in thy name agree ;
Show thyself the Prince of peace,
Bid our jars for ever cease.
2 By thy reconciling love.
Every stumbling block remove ;
Each to each uuite, endear;
Come, and spread thy banner her«.
3 Make us of one heart and mind,
Courteous, pitiful, and kind;
Lowly, meek, in thought and word,
Altogether like our Lord.
4 Let us for each other care.
Each the other's burden bear :
To thy church the pattern give :
Show how true believers live.
5 Free from anger and from pride.
Let us thus in God abide;
All the depths of love express,
All the heights of holiness.
6 Let us then with joy remove
To t'<i« fairiJy above j
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On the wings of an?els fly ;
Show how true believers die.
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LOVE FEAST.
FIRST PART.
/^OME, and let us sweetly join,
'-^ Christ to praise in hymns divine !
Give we all, with one accord,
Glory to our common Lord ;
Hands, and hearts, and voices raise;
Sing as in the ancient days ;
Antedate the joys above,
Celebrate the feast of love.
2 Strive we, in aflection strive :
Let the purer flame revive ;
Such as in the martyrs elow'd.
Dying champions for their God ;
We like them may live and love;
Call'd we are their joys to prove ;
Saved with them from futnre wrath:
Partners of like precious failh.
3 Sing we then in Jesus' name,
Now as yesterday the same ;
One in every time and place,
Full for all of truth and grace:
We for Christ, our Master, stasdt
Lights in a benighted land :
We our dying Lord confess,
We are Jesus' witnesses.
4 Witnesses that Christ hath died :
We with him are crucified ;
Christ hath burst the bands of death,
We his quick'ning Spirit breathe:
Christ is now gone up on high ;
Thither all our wishes fiy ;
366 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
Sits at God's right hand above ;
There with him we reign in love !
SECOND PART.
COME, thou high and lofty Lord !
Lowly, meek, incarnate \Vord:
Humbly stoop to earth again :
Come and visit abject man !
Jesus, dear expecleil guest,
Thou art bidden to tlie feast :
For thyself our hearts prepare :
Come, and sit, and banquet there !
2 Jesus, we thy promise claim :
We are met in thy great name:
In the midst do thou appear,
Manifest thy presence here !
Sanctify us. Lord, and bless ;
Breathe thy Spirit, give thy peace;
Thou thyself within us move :
Make our feast a feast of love.
3 Let the fruits of grace abound;
Let us in thy bowels sound.
Faith, and love, and joy increase,
Temperance and gentleness ;
Plant in us ihy humble mind,
Patient, pitiful, and kind :
Meek and lowly let us be,
Full of goodness, full of thee.
4 Make us all in thee complete ;
Make us all for glory meet ;
Meet t' appear before thy si^ht,
X'artners » Ith the saints m light.
Call, O call us each by name,
To the marriage of the Lamb :
Let us lean upon thy breast.
Love be there our eiidlesi feait I
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 367
THIRD PART.
LET us join, ('tis God cominands,)
Let us join our hearts and hand* :
Help to gain our ciUing's hope,
Build ne each the other up :
God his blessing shall dispense;
God shall crown his ordinancej
Meet in his appointed ways;
Nourish U3 with social grace.
2 Let us then as brethren love,
Faithfully his gifts improve ;
Carry on the earnest strife,
Walk in holiness of life;
Still forget the things behind.
Follow Christ in heart and mind;
Toward the mark unwearied press,
Seize the crown of righteousness.
3 Plead we thus for faith alone,
Faith which by our works is shown
God it is who justifies;
Only faith the grace applies:
Active faith that lives within.
Conquers earth, and hell, and sin ;
Sanctifies, and makes us whole.
Forms the Saviour iu the soul.
4 Let us for this faith contend ;
Sure salvation is its end ;
Heaven already is begun,
Everlasting life is won.
Only let us persevere.
Till we see our Lord appear;
Never from the Rock remove.
Saved by bJth wbicb works by lova.
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FOURTH PART.
PARTNERS of a glorious hope,
Lift your hearts and voices up :
Jointly lei us rise and sing,
Christ, our Prophet, Priest, and King:
Monuments of Jesus' grace.
Speak we by our lives his praise :
Walk in him we have received ;
Show we not in vain believed.
2 AVhile we walk with God in light,
God our hearts doth still unite:
Dearest fellowship we prove,
Fellowship in Jesus' love :
Sweetly each with each combined,
In the bonds of duly join'd,
Feels the cleansing blood applied,
Daily feels that Christ hath died.
3 Still, 0 Lord, our faith increase;
Cleanse from all unrighteousness:
Thee th' unholy cannot see :
Make, O make us meet for thee :
Every vile affection kill ;
Root out every seed of ill j
litlerly abolish sin ;
Wnte'thy law of love within.
4 Hence may all our actions flow,
Love the proof that Christ we know:
Mutual love the token be.
Lord, that we belong to thee :
Love, thine ima?e, love impart!
Stamp it on our face and heart 1
Only love to us be »iven I
Loro, we ask uo otAor heaven.
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421 JTanotcfe— p. 47.] CM.
/"'OME, let us use the grace divine,
^ And all wilh one accord,
In a perpetual covenant join
Ourselves to Ctirist the Lord. ,
2 Give up ourselves through Jesus' power,
His name to glorify ;
And promise, in this sacred hour,
For God to live and die.
3 The covenant we this moment make
Be ever kept in mind ;
We will no more our God forsake.
Or cast his words behind.
4 We never will throw off his fear,
Who hears our solemn vow ;
And if thou art well pleased to hear.
Come down, and meet us now !
5 Thee, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Let all our hearts receive ;
Present with the celestial host,
The peaceful answer give.
6 To each the covenant blood apply,
WWch takes our sins away ;
And register our names on high.
And keep us to that day.
422 Sabbath— p. 227.] 7th P. M. 8 liiia '*
TDEACE be on this house besfow'd,
-'■ Peace on all that here reside ;
Let the unknown peace of God
With the man of peace abide !
Let the Spirit now come down*
Let the blessing now take piace i
Son of peace, receive thy crown,
Fulness of the gospei grace.
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2 Christ, my Master and my Lord,
Let me ttiy forerunner be :
O be mindful of thy word,
Visit them, and visit me.
To this house and all herein
Now let thy salvation come:
Save our souls from inbred sin !
Make us thy eternal home !
3 Let us never, never rest.
Till the promise is fulfill'J :
Till we are of thee possess'd,
Pardon'd, sanctified, and seal'd ;
Till we all, in love renew'd.
Find the pearl that Adam lost ;
Temples of the living God,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost !
423 RochdaU—ip. 20S.] 4th P. M. 886, 886.
"PXCEPT the Lord conduct the plan,
-'-' The best concerted schemes are vain,
And never can succeed ;
We spend our wretched stren?th for naught;
But if our works in thee be wrought.
They shall be bless'd indeed.
2 Lord, if thou didst thyself inspire
Our souls with this intense desire,
Thy goodness to proclaim ;
Thy glory if we now intend,
O let our deeds t)esin and end
Complete in Jesus' name !
3 In Jesus' name behold we meet,
Far from an evil world retreat,
And aU .'s frantic ways ;
One only thiUf, resolved to know,
And square our useful livei below
By reaioD and by grace.
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4 Not in the tombs we pine to dwell,
Not in the dark monastic cell,
By vows and zrales coufined ;
Freely to all ourselves we give,
Constrain'd by Jesus' love to live
The servants of mackind.
5 Now, Jesus, now thy love impart,
To govern each devoted heart,
And fit us for thy will !
Deep founded in the truth of grace,
£uild up thy rising church, and place
The city on the hill.
6 0 let our love and faith abound !
0 let our lives to all around
With purest lustre shine !
That all around our works may see,
And give the glory, Lord, to thee,
The heavenly light divine !
424 DeuomWre— p.284.] 13th P.iL 10 10, 11 11.
A LL thanks to the Lamb, who gives us to
-"■ meet :
His love we proclaim, his praises repeat:
We own him our Jesus, continually near.
To pardon and bless us, and perfect us here.
2 In him we have peace, in him we have power,
Preserved by his grace throughout the dark hour:
In all our temptation he keeps us, to prove
His utmost salvation, bis fulness of love.
3 Pronounce the glad word, and bid ns be free ;
Ah 1 hast thou not. Lord, a blessing for me?
The peace thou hast given this moment impart,
And open thy heaven, 0 love, in my heart.
372 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
425 Morning Hymn— p. laS."] 1st P.M.62tn<t8i
TXTATCH'D by the world's malignant eye,
*' Who load us with reproach and shame;
As servants of the Lord most high,
As zealous for his glorious name,
We ought in all his paths to move,
With holy fear and humble love.
2 That wisdom, Lord, on us bestow.
From every evil to depart :
To stop the mouth of every foe,
While upright both in life and heart,
The proofs of godly fear we give.
And show them bow the Christiana live.
426 Amherst— p. 14.] C. M.
OEE, Jesus, thy disciples see,
^ The promisai blessing give !
Met in thy name, we look to thee,
Expecting to receive.
2 Thee we expect, our faithful Lord,
Who in thy name are join'd ;
We wait, according to thy word,
Thee in the midst to find.
3 With us thou art assembled here,
But 0, thyself reveal !
Son of the living God, appear!
Let us thy presence feel.
4 Breathe on us, Lord, in this our day,
And these dry bones shall live ;
Speak peace into our hearts, and say,
. "The Holy Ghost receive."
0 Whom now we seek, 0 may we meet !
Jesus, the crucified ;
Show us thy bleeding hands and feet.
Thou who for us hast died.
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 373
6 Cause us the record to receive !
Speak, and the tokens show,
" 0 be not faithless, but believe
In me, who died for you !"
427 ^niano— p. 29L] 13lh P. M. 10 10, 11 11.
A PPOINTED by thee, we meet in thy name,
■"■ And meekly a^ee to follow the Lamb ;
To trace thy example, the world to disdain^
And constantly trample on pleasure and pain.
2 0 what shall we do our Saviour to love !
To make us anew, come, Lord, from above,
The fruit of thy passion, thy holiness give !
Give us the salvation of all that believe !
3 0 Jesus, appear, no longer delay,
To sanctify here, and bear us away ;
The end of our meeting on earth let us see ;
Triumphantly sitting u* glory with thee!
428 FountaiTi—p. 29,] C. M.
BLESS'D be the dear uniting love
That will not let us part ;
Our bodies may far off remove,
We still are one in heart.
2 Join'd in one spirit to our Head,
Where he appoints we go ;
And still in Jesus' footsteps tread.
And show his praise below.
3 0 may we ever walk in him,
And nothing know beside.
Nothing desire, nothing esteem.
But Jesus crucified !
4 Closer and closer let us cleave
To bis beloved embrace ;
374 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
Expect his fulness to receive,
And grace to answer grace.
5 Partakers of the Saviour's grace,
The same in mind and heart,
Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place,
Nor life, nor death, can part,
6 But let us hasten to the day
Which shall our flesh restore ;
When death shall all be done away,
And bodies part no more,
429 Flixton— p. 1^2.] 3dP.M. 463&2 8a.
TESUS, accept the praise
" That to thy name belongs !
Matter of all our lays,
Sulijeet of all our songs ;
Through thee we now together came,
And part exulting in thy name.
2 In fltfsh we part awhile, *
But still in spirit join'd,
T' embrace the happy toil
Thou hast to each assigned ;
And while we do thy blessed will.
We bear our heaven about us still.
3 0 let us thus go on
In all thy pleasant ways,
And, arm'd with patience, run
With joy th' appointed race !
ivecp us and every seeking soul,
TiU all attain the heavenly goal.
4 There we shall meet again.
When all our toils are o'er,
And death, and grief, and pain,
And parting are no more :
We shall with all our brethren rise,
And grasp thee in the flaming skies.
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 375
5 0 happy, hippy day,
That calls thy exiles home !
The heavens shall pass a\vay,
The earth receive its doom :
Earth we shall view, and heaven destroy'd,
And shout above the fierj- void. -
6 These eyes shall see them fall,
Mountains, and stars, and skies!
These eyes shall see Ihem all
Out of their ashes rise !
These lips his praises shall rehearse.
Whose nod restores the universe.
7 According to his word.
His oath to sinners given,
We look to see restored
The ruin'd earth and heaven I
In a new world his truth to prove,
A world of righteousness and love.
8 Then let us wait the sound
That shall our souls release,
And labour to be found
Of him in spotless peace :
In perfect holiness renew'd ;
Adorn'd with Christ and meet for God I
430 Schatffer—^. 62.1 C. M.
/^OD of all consolation, take
^-^ The glorj' of tliy grace !
Thy gifts to thee we render back
In ceaseless songs of praise.
2 Through thee we now together came
In singleness of heart;
We met, 0 Jesus, in thy name ;
And in thy name we part.
3 We part in bodr, not in mind ;
Our minds continue one :
376 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
And each to each in Jesus join'd,
We hand in liand go on.
4 Subsists as in us all one soul ;
No power can make us twain;
And mountains rise, ar.d oceans roll,
To sever us in vain.
5 Present we still in spirit are,
And iiitimatelj' nijh ;
While on the win»s of faith and prayer
We each to other fly.
6 In Jesus Christ together we
In heavenly places sit :
Clothed with the sun, we sir.ile to see
The moon beneath our feet.
7 Oij ife is hid with Christ in God !
Our Life shall soon appear,
And shed his elory all abroad
On all his membei-s here.
8 The heavenly treasure now we have
In a vile house of clay ;
But He shall to the utmost save,
And keep us to that day.
9 Our souls are in his mighty hand,
And he shall keep them still ;
And you and I shall surely stand
With him on Zioa's hill.
10 Him eye to eye we there shall see,
Our face like his shall shine:
O what a <;Iorious coiupany.
When saints aud angels join!
110 what a joyful meeting there !
In robes of « hite array'd :
Palms in our hands we all shall bear,
Asd crowns upon our haad.
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 377
12 Then let us lawfully contend,
And fight our passiee through :
Bear in our faithful miudi the end,
Ajid keep the prize in view.
13 Then let us hasten to the day
Wt;en all shall be brought home !
Come, 0 Redeemer, come away !
0 Jesus, quickly come !
431 Shepherd^p. ^30.] S. M.
A ND let our bodies part,
-^ To different climes repair;
Inseparably join'd in heart
The friends of Jesus are.
2 Jesus, the corner-stone,
Did first our hearts unite;
And still he keeps our spirits one,
Who walk with him in white.
3 0 let us still proceed
In Jesus' work below ;
And, following our triumphant Head,
To farther conquests go.
4 The vineyard of the Lord
Before his lab Vers lies ;
And lo 1 we see the vast reward
Which waits us in the skies.
5 0 let our heart and mind
Continually ascend.
That haven of repose to find
Where all our labours end !
6 Where all our toils are o'er,
Our suff'ring and ;ur pain ;
Who meet on that eternal shore
ShaJI aever part acaio.
378 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
7 0 happy, happy place,
Where saims and anpels meet !
There we shall see each other's face,
And all our brethren greet,
8 The church of the first-born,
We shall viih them be bless'd,
And, croivn'd with endless joy, return
To our eternal rest.
9 With joy we shall beheld.
In yonder bless'd abode,
The patriarchs a/id prophets old,
And all the saints of God.
10 Abr'am and Isaac, there,
And Jacob, shall receive
The followers of their faith and prayer,
Who now in bodies live.
11 We shall our lime beneath
Live out in cheerful hope,
And fearless pass the vale of death,
And gain the mountain top.
12 To gather home his own
God shall his angels send,
And bid our bliss, on earth begun.
In deathless triumphs end.
432 Braintree—p. 29.] C. M.
T IFT up your hearts to things above,
■" Te followers of the Lanib,
And join with us to praise his love.
And glorify his name.
2 To Jesus' name give thanks and sing,
Whose mercies never end :
Rejoice ! rejoice I the Lord is King !
The King »3 ijfw our Friend !
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 379
3 We for his sake count all things loss,
On earthly good look down :
And joyfully sustain the cross,
Till we receive the crown.
4 0 let us stir each other up.
Our faith by works t' approve,
By holy, purifying hope.
And the sweet task of love.
6 Let all who for the promise wait,
The Holy Ghost receive ;
And, raised to our unsinning state.
With God in Eden live !
6 Live, till the Lord in glory come.
And wait his heaven to stiare !
He now is fitting up your home :
Go on, we'll meet you there !
433 Havm—p. 23 L] 7th P. M. 8 Una Tfc
r^ LORY be to God above,
'-' God from whom all blessings flow;
Make we mention of his love,
Publish we his praise below :
Call'd together by his grace,
We are met in Jesus' name ;
See with joy each other's face.
Followers of the bleeding Lamb.
2 Let us then sweet counsel take.
How to make our calling surej
Our election how to make.
Past the reach of hell, secure:
Build we each the other up ;
Pray we for our faith's increase;
Solid comfort, settled hope,
Constant joy, and lasting peace.
3 More and more let love abound >
Let us never, never re»',
380 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
Till we are in Jesus found,
Of our paradise possess 'd :
He removes the flaming sword,
Calls us hack from Eden driven:
To his imase here restored,
Soon he takes us up to heaven !
434 Obiey—p. 134.] S. M.
CAVIOUR of sinful men,
^ Thy goodness we proclaim.
Which brings us here to meet again,
And triuniph in thy name:
Thy mighty name hath been
Our safeguard and our tower;
Hath saved us from the world and sin,
And all th' accuser's power.
2 Jesus, take all the praise.
That slill on earth we live;
Unspotted in so foul a place,
And innocently grieve:
We shall from Sodom flee,
When perfected in love ;
And haste to better company
Who wait for us above.
3 Awhile in flesh disjoin'd,
Our friends that went before,
We soon in paradise shall find.
And meet to part no more j
In yon thrice happy seat.
Waiting for us they are:
And thou shalt there a husband meet,
And I a parent there !
4 0 what a mighty change
Shall Jesus' suff'rers know !
While o'er the happy plains they range,
Incapable of wo !
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 381
No ill-requited love
Shall there our spirits wouod:
No base ingratitude above;
No sin in heaven is found.
5 There all our griefs are spent !
There all our sorrows end :
We cannot there the fall lament
Of a departed friend !
A brother dead to God,
By sin, alas I undone !
No father there, in passion loud,
Cries, " 0 my son, my son '."
6 No sliffhtest touch of pain,
Nor sorrow's least alloy.
Can violate our rest, or stain
Our purity of joy !
In that eternal day
No clouds or tempests rise •
There gushing tears are wiped away
For ever from our eyes.
435 £n>o«— p. 152.] lstP.M.6Zin«8»
TESUS, to thee our hearts we lift,
*' May all our hearts with love o'erflow I
With thanks for thy continued gift,
That still thy gracious name we kno«v ;
Retain our sense of sin forgiven,
And wait for all our inward heaven.
2 What mighty troubles hast thou shown
Thy feeble, tempted foU'wers here!
We have througi; fire and water gone;
But saw thee im 'he floods appear ;
But felt thee present in the flame.
And shouted our Deliverer's name.
3 Thou who hast kept us to this hour,
0 keep OS faithful tiTthe eixi I
382 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
When robed in majesty and power,
Our Jesus shall from heaven descend,
His friends and confessors to own,
And seat us on his glorious throne.
436 Sicily-p. 122.] S. M.
TE<=US, we look to thee,
** Thy promised presence claim ;
Thou in the midst of us shalt be.
Assembled in thy name:
Thy name salvation is,
Which here we come to prove ;
Thy name is life, and heallo, and peace,
And everlasting love.
2 Not in the name of pride
Or selfishness we meet ;
From nature's paths we turn aside.
And worldly thoughts forget ;
We meet the grace to take,
Which thou hast freely ^iven;
We meet on earth for thy dear sake,
That we may meet in heaven.
3 Present we know thou art ;
But, 0, thyself reveal !
Now, Lord, let every bounding heart
The mighty comfort feel !
O may thy quick'ning voice
The death of sin remove;
And bid our inmost souls rejoice.
In hope of perfect love I
437 Broomssrove—p. 30.] C. M
A LL praise to our redeeming Lord,
-'*• Who joins us by his grace.
And bids us, each to each restored,
Toeethsr !teek bis face.
CHRISTIAN JPELLOWSHIP. 383
2 He bids us build each other up;
And, ^ather'd into one,
To our high calling's glorious hope.
We hand in hand go on.
3 The gift which he on one bestowT,
We all delight to prove,
The grace through every vessel flow*,
In purest streams of love.
4 Even now we think and speak the same.
And corjially agree,
United all through Jesus' name
In perfect harmony.
5 We all partake the joy of one,
The common peace n-e feel ;
A peace to sensual minds uukiwwn,
A joy unspeakable.
6 And if our fellowship below
In Jesus be so sweet.
What height of rapture shall we know,
When found his throne we meet !
438 JValley—p. U3.] L. M.
TTNCHANGEABLE, almighty Lord,
^ Our souls upon thy truth we stay ;
Accomplish now thy faithful word.
And give, 0 give us all one way '.
2 0 let us all join hand in hand.
Who seek redemption in thy blood;
Fast in one mind an.l spirit stand.
And build the temple of our God.
3 Thou only canst our wills control.
Our wild unruly passions bind ;
Tame the old Adam in our soul,
AqJ make us of one bearl and wiai
384 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
4 Speak but the reconciliiij word,
Tht winds shall cease, the waves subside;
We all shall praise our common Lord,
Our J«su3, and him crucified.
6 Giver of peace and unity,
Send down thy mild, pacific Dove;
We all shall then in one ajree,
And breathe the spirit of thy love.
6 We all shall think and speak the same
Delightful lesson of thy ^ace :
One undivided Christ proclaim.
And jointly glory iu thy praise.
7 O let us take a softer mould ;
Blended and gather'd into thee ;
Under one Shepherd make one fold,
Where all is love and harmony.
8 Regard thine o\vn eternal prayer.
And send a peaceful answer down ;
To us thy Father's name declare :
Unite and perfect us in one !
9 So shal' the world believe and know
That God hath sent thee from above,
When thou art si*en in us below,
And every soul displays tliy love.
439 Philaddphia—p. 212.] 5th P. M. 4 Unu%
p* CD of love, that hear'st the prayer,
^-^ Kindly for thy people care ;
Who on thee alone deper.d :
Love us, save us to the end.
2 Save us in the prosperous hour,
From the flattering tempter's power ;
From his unsuspected wiles,
From the world's pSrnicioiB soiilm
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 385
8 Out off our dependance vain
On the help of feeble man ;
Every arm of flesh remove ;
Stay u8 on thy only love !
4 Men of worldly, low design, '
Let not these thy people join,
Poison our simplicity,
Drag us from our trust in thee.
5 Save u» from the great and wise.
Till they sink in their own eyes.
Tamely to thy yoke submit.
Lay their honour at thy feet.
6 Never let the world break in,
Fix a mighty gulf between;
Keep us little and unknown,
Prized and loved by God alone-
7 Let us still to thee look up, »
Thee, thy Israel's strength and hepej
Nothing know, or seek beside
Jesus, and him crucified.
8 Far above all earthly thin|B,
Look we down on earthly kings !
Taste our glorious liberty ;
Find our happy all in thfe !
440 . H'ard— p. 109.] L. M.
Q AVIOUR of all, to thee we bow,
^ And own thee faithful to thy word
We hear thy voice, and open now
Our hearts to entertain our Lord.
2 Come in^ come in, thou heavenly guest.
Delight m what thyself hast given;
On thy own gifts and graces feast.
And make the contrite heart thy beaven.
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386 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
3 Smell the sweet odour of our prayers.
Our sacrifice of praise approve;
And treasure up our gracious tears,
Who rest in thy redeeming love.
4 Beneath thy shadow let us sit,
Call us thy friends, and love, and bride;
And bid us freely drink and eat
Thy dainties, and be satisfied.
6 0 let us on thy fulness feed !
And eat thy fiesh, and drink thy blood!
Jesus, thy blood is drink indeed ;
Jesus, thy flesh is angels' food.
6 The heavenly manna faith imparts :
Faith makes thy fulntss all our o^vn;
We feed upon tlice in our hearts,
And find that heaven and thou art one.
441 Rest— p. 214.1 6th P. M. 6 linei 7i.
pENTRE of our hopes thou art,
'^ End of our enlarged desires;
Stamp thine image on our heart;
Fill us now with heavenly fires;
Cemented by love divine,
Seal our souls for ever tliine I
V All our works in thee be wrought,
Levell'd at one common aim :
Every word and every thought
Purge in the refining flame : •
Lead us through the paths of peace
On to perfect holiness.
3 Let us all together rise,
To thy glorious li'hl restored;
Here regain our paradise.
Here prepare to meet our Lord :
Here enjoy the earnest given :
Travel bajid in band to heaven '
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 387
443 SaZutury— p. 163.] 1st P. AL 6 I«i« 8s.
JESUS, with kindest pity see
The souls that would be one in thee
If now accepted in thy sight,
Thou dost our uprisht hearts unite,
Allow us e'en on earth to prove
The noblest joys of heavenly love !
2 Before thy sriorious eyes we spread
The wish which doth from thee proceed :
Our love from earthly dross refine ;
Holy, anselical, divine,
Thee, its great Author, let it show,
And back to the pure fountain flow.
3 A drop of that unbounded sea,
0 Lord, resorb it into thee !
While all our souls, with restless strife,
Spring up into eternal life:
And lost in endless raptures, prove
Thy whole immensity of love.
4 A spark of that ethereal fire,
Still let it to its source aspire:
To thee in every wish return,
Intensely for thy glory burn :
"While all our souls fly up to thee,
And blaze through all eternity.
443 Gratitude— p. 30.] C. M.
LO ! what an entertaining sight
Those friendly brethren prove.
Whose cheerful hearts in bands unite
Of harmony and love !
2 Where streams of bliis from Christ the spring
Descend on every soul ;
And heavenly peace with balmy wing
Shades and revives the whole.
388 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
3 'Tis pleasant as the morning dew>
That fall on Zion's hill,
Where God his mildest glory shows,
And makes bis grace distil.
444 Salbath—p. 227.] 7th P. M. 8 Una 7i
■pATHER, at thy footstool see
■*■ Those who now are one in thee!
Draw us by thy grace alone :
Give, O give us to thy Son.
Jesus, friend of human kind,
Let us in thy name be join'd;
Each to each unite and bless,
Keep us still in perfect peace.
2 Heavenly, all-alluring Dove,
Shed thy overshadowing love ;
Love, the sealing grace, impart;
Dwell within our single heart.
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Be to us what Adam lost ;
Let us in thine image rise;
Give us back our Paradise !
445 Murray— X,. 137.] S. M.
■pLESS'D are the sons of peace,
^ Whose hearts and hopes are one ;
Whose kind designs to serve and please
Through all their actions run.
2 Bless'd is the pious house
Where zeal and friendship meet;
Their sonsrs of praise, their mingled vowa^
Make their comm\mion sweet.
3 Thus on the heavenly hills
The saints are bless'd above,
Where joy, like morning dew, diiitib, ;
And all the air i< love.
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 389
446 Crawford— p. 34.] C. M.
GrVER of concord, Prince of peace,
Meek, lamb-like Son of God,
Bid our unruly passions cease,
By thy atoning blood.
2 Rebuke our rage, our passions chide,
Our stubborn wills coiitrol ;
Beat down our wrath, root out our pride,
And calm our troubled soul.
3 Subdue in us the carnal mind.
Its enmity destroy,
With cords of love our spirits bind.
And melt us into joy.
4 Us into closest union draw,
And ia our inward parts
Let kindness sweetly write her law,
And love command our hearts.
5 Saviour, look down with pitying eyes,
Our jarrin? wills control.
Let cordial, kind affections rise,
And harmonize the soul.
6 0 let us find the ancient way.
Our wond'ring foes to move,
And force the heathen world to say,
" See how these Christians love 1"
447 Bath Abbey— f. 233.] 7th P. M. 8 line* 7i.
pHRIST, from whom all blessings 6ow,
^ Perfecting the saints below.
Hear us, who thy nature share.
Who thy mystic body are.
Join us, in one spirit join,
Let us still receive of thine:
Still for more on thee we call,
Thou who fillest all io all !
390 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
2 Move, and actuate, and ^ide :
Divers gifts to each divide :
Placed according to thy will,
Let us all our work fulfil :
Never from our office move :
Needful to each other prove :
Let us daily growth receive,
More and more in Jesus live.
3 Sweetly may we all agree,
Touch'd with softest sympathy ;
Kindly for each other care ;
Every member feel its share.
Many are we now and one.
We who Jesus have put on :
Names, and sects, and parties fall :
Thou, 0 Christ, art all in all.
448 Nashville— p. l^e.} 2i P.M. 6 lines Sa.
/~)UR friendship sanctify and guide,
^-^ Unmix'd with siifishness and pride.
Thy glory be our single aim !
In all our intercourse below.
Still let us in thy footsteps go.
And never meet but in thy nams
Fix on tliyself our single eye j
Still let us on thyself rely
For all the help that each conveys ;
The help as from thy hand receive.
And still to thee all glory give.
All thanks, all might, all love, all praise.
2 Whafe'er thou dost on one bestow,
Let each the double blessing know.
Let each the common burden bear;
In comforts and in griefs agree,
And wrestle for his friends with thee,
In all th' onmipotence of prayer.
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 391
Our mutual prayer accept and seal ;
In all thy glorious self reveal ;
All with the fire of love baptize:
Thy kingdom in our souls restore ;
And keep till we can sin no more,
Till all in Ihy whole image rise.
3 Witnesses of th' all<leaii!ing blood,
Long may we work the works of God,
And do thy will like thn«« aU)ve:
Together spread the gospel sound,
And scatter peace on all around.
And joy. and happiness, and love.
True yoke-fellows, by love compelled
To labour in the gospel ticld,
Our all let us dclizht to spend
In gathering in Ihy lambs and sheep,
Assured that thou our souls wilt keep,
Wilt keep us faithful to the end.
449 t^p<OTj— p. 101.] L. M.
r\ THOU, our Husband, Brother, Friend,
^-^ Behold a cloud of incense rise 1
The prayers of saiuts to heaven ascend.
Grateful, accepted sacrifice !
2 Regard our prayers for Sion's peace :
Shed in our h&irts thy love abroad :
Thy eifts abundantly increase :
Enlarge, and fill us all with God !
3 Before thy sheep, great Shepherd, go.
And guide into Ihy perfect will ;
Cause us Ihy hallo w'd name to kno^
The work of faith in us fulfil.
4 Help ns to make our calling sure;
O let us all be saints indeed !
And pure as thou Cjv elf art pure ;
Coiiform'd in aU. ^ ijigs to our Head.
392 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
5 Take the dear purchase of thy blood ;
Thy blood shall wash us white as snow^
Present us «anctified to God,
And perfected in love below.
6 That blood which cleanses from all sin,
That efficacious blood apply ;
And wash, and make us wholly clean.
And ctiange, and throughly sanctify.
450 Praise— p. 194.] 4lh P. M. 4 8« & 2 fit.
/^OME, wisdom, power, and jrace divine!
^ Come, Jesus, in thy name to join
A happy chosen band ;
Who fain would prove thine utmost will,
And all thy righteous laws fulfil.
In love's benign conunand.
2 If pure essential love thou art.
Thy nature into every heart.
Thy lovins; self inspire :
Bid all our simple souls be one.
United in a bond unknown.
Baptized with heavenly fire.
3 Still may we to our centre tend.
To spread thy praise our common end.
To help each other on ;
Companions through the wilderness;
To share a moment's piin, and seize
An everlasting crown.
4 Jesus, our tenderM souls prepare !
Infuse the softest social care.
The warmest charity ;
The bowels of our bleeding Lamb,
The virtues of thy wondrous name,
The heart that was in thee.
6 Supply what every member wants;
To found the fellowship of saints,
Thj Spirit, Lord, supply ;
CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 393
So shall we all thy love receive,
Together to thy glory live,
And to thy glory die.
45 1 Willowby—p. 191.] 4th P. M. 886, 886.
f\ SAVIOUR, cast a gracious smile !
^^ Our gloomy guilt, and selfish guile,
And shy distrust remove ;
The true simplicity impart,
To fashion every passive heart.
And mould it into love.
2 Our naked hearts to thee we raise ;
Whate'er obstructs the work of grace.
For ever drive it hence :
Exert thy all-subduing power,
And each regenerate soul restore
To child-like innocence.
3 Soon as in thee we gain a part,
Our spirit purged from nature's art
Appears, by grace forgiven ;
We then pursue our sole design.
To lose our melting will in thine.
And want no other heaven.
4 0 that we now the power n)ight feel,
To do on earth thy blessed will,
As angels do above !
In thee, the life, the truth, the way,
To walk, and perfectly obey
Thy sweet constraining love !
5 Jesus, fulfil our one desire.
And spread the spark of living fire
Through every hallow'd breast;
Bless with divine conformity,
And give us now to find in thee
Our everlasting rest.
17*
394 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.
452 Easilurn—p. 189.] S. M.
•DLESS'D be the tie tliat tjinds
■'-' Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowsliip of kindred minds
Is like to that above.
2 Before our Father's throne
We pour our ardent pravers ;
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,
Our comforts and our cares.
3 We share our mutual woes ;
Our mutual burdens bear ;
And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.
4 When we asunder part,
It gives us inward pain ;
But we shall still be join'd in heart,
And hope to meet again.
5 This glorious hope revives
Our courage by the way ;
While each In expectation lives.
And longs to see the day.
6 From sorrow, toil, and pain,
And sin we shall be free ;
And perfect love and friendship reig^
Through all eteruity.
453 Consolation— p-ZSi."] 7th P. M. 8 it/wi 7».
XTOLY Lamb, who thee confess,
■'■■*■ Followers of thy hfijiness.
Thee they ever keep in view.
Ever ask, " What siiall wc do ?»
Govern'd by thy only will,
All thy words we would fulfil,
Would in all thy footsteps go,
Walk as Jesus walk'd below.
PASTORAL. 395
2 %Vhile thou didst on earth appear,
Servant to thy servants here,
Mindful of thy place above,
All thy life was prayer and love.
Such our whole employment be,
Works of faith and charity ;
Works of love on man bestow'd,
Secret intercourse with God.
3 Early in the temple meet.
Let us still our Saviour greet ;
Nightly to the mount repair;
Join our praying pattern there.
There by wrestling faith obtain
Power to work for God again ;
Power his image to retrieve.
Power like thee, our Lord, to live.
4 Vessels, instruments of grace,
Pass we thus our happy days,
Twixt the mount and multitude,
Doing or receiving good :
Glad to pray and labour on,
Till our earthly course is run :
Till we on the sacred tree
Bow the head and die like thee.
PASTORAL.
454 Gaford—p. 86.] L. M.
TESUS, thy wand'ring sheep behold !
•* See, Lord, with yearning bowels, see,
Poor souls that cannot find the fold.
Till sought and gatber'd in by thee.
396 PASTORAL.
2 Lost are they now and scatter'd wide,
In pain, and weariness, and want:
With no kind shepherd near, to guide
The sick, and spiritless, and faint.
3 Thou, only thou, the kind and ^ood.
And sheep-redeeming Shepherd art ;
Collect thy flock, and give them food,
And pastors after thine own heart.
4 Give the pure word of general grace,
And great shall be the [ireachers' crowd ;
Preachers who all the sinful race
Point to the all-atoning blood.
5 Open their mouth, and utterance give.
Give them a trumpet-voice to call
A world, who all may turn and live,
Through faith in Him who died for all.
6 In every messenger reveal
The grace they preach divinely free;
That each may by thy Spirit tell,
" He died for all, who died for me."
7 A double portion from above.
Of that all-quick'ning Spirit impart;
Shed forth thy universal love
In every faithful pastor's heart.
8 Thine only glory let them seek,
O let their hearts with love o'erflow I
Let them believe, and therefore speak.
And spread thy mercy's praise below,
455 SpiUby—p. 123.] S. M.
T ORD of the harvest, hear
-'-' Thy needy servants' cry;
Answer our faith's effectual prayer,
And all our wants supply.
PASTORAL. 397
2 On thee we humbly wait,
Our wants are in thy view;
The harvest truly, Lord, is great,
The labourers are few.
3 Convert, and send forth more
Into thy church abroad.
And let them speak thy word of power,
As workers with their God.
4 Give the pure gospel word.
The word of general ?race ;
Then let them preach the common Lord.
Saviour of human race.
5 0 let them spread thy name,
Their mission fully prove ;
Thy universal erace proclaim.
Thine all-redeeming love !
H^
456 Ashford—p. 124.] S. M.
fOVV beauteous are their feet
Who stand on Zion's hill ;
That bring salvation on their tongnea.
And words of peace reveal.
2 How charming is their voice,
So sweet the tiding are ;
"Zion, behold thy Saviour King;
He reigns and triumphs here !"
3 How happy are our ears,
That hear the joyful sound.
Which kings and prophets waited for,
And sought, but never found !
4 How blessed are our eyes,
That see this heavenly light;
Prophets and kings desired it long.
But died without the sight !
398 PASTORAL.
5 The wafchmen join their voice,
And tuneful notes employ ;
Jenisalem breaks forth in songs,
And deserts learn the joy.
6 The Lord makes bare his arm
Through all the earth abroad :
Let every nation now behold
Their Saviour and their God.
457 Rockingham—^. 101.] L. M.
■pATHER, if justly still we claim
•*■ To us and ours the promise made.
To us be graciously the same,
And crown with living fire our head.
2 Our claim admit, and from above.
Of holiness the Spirit shower,
Of wise discernment, humble love,
And zeal, and unity, ajud power.
8 The spirit of convincing speech,
Of power demonstrative impart :
Such as may every conscience reach,
And sound the unbelieving heart.
4 The Spirit of refining fire,
Searching the inmost of the mind,
To purge all fierce and foul desire,
Ajid kindle life more pure and kind.
6 The Spirit of faith in this thy day,
To break the power of cancellM sin ;
Tread down its strength, o'ertum its sway,
And still the conquest more than win.
6 The Spirit breathe of inward life,
Which in our hearts thy laws may write;
Then grief expires, and pain, and strife;
Tis nature all,— and ail delight.
PASTORAL. 399
458 Parhstreet—p. 97.] L. M.
/^N all the earth thy Spirit shower,
^ The ea" "h in righteousness renew:
Thy kingdom come, and hell's o'erpower,
And to thy sceptre all subdue.'
2 Like mighty winds or torrents fierce,
Let it opposers all o'erturn ,
And e%-ery law of sin reverse,
That faith and love may make all one.
3 Yea, let thy Spirit in every place
His richest energj' declare ;
While lovely tempers, fruits of grace,
The kingdom of thy Christ prepare.
4 Grant this, 0 holy God and true !
The ancient seers thou didst inspire !
To us perform the promise due,
Descend and crown us now with fire.
459 Job— p. 103.] L. M.
(piOMFORT, ye ministers of grace,
^ Comfort the people of your Lord ;
0 lift ye up the fallen race.
And cheer them by the gospel word.
2 Go into every nation, go.
Speak to their trembling hearts, and cry,
Glad tidings unto all we show:
Jerusalem, thy God is nigh.
3 Hark ! in the wilderness a cry,
A voice that loudly calls. Prepare;
Prepare your hearts, for God is nigh,
And means to make his entrance there!
4 The Lord your God shall quickly come;
Sinners, repent, the call obey :
Open your hearts, to make him room :
Ye desert souls, prepare his way.
400 PASTORAL.
6 The Lord shall clear liis way through all}
Whate'er obstructs, obstructs In vain ;
The vale shall rise, the mountain fall,
Crooked be straight, and rugged plain.
6 The glory of the Lord display'd
Shall all mankind tosether view,
And what his mouth in truth hath said,
His own almighty hand sliall do.
460 Uxbridge—p. 98.] L. M.
TJIGH on his everlasting throne,
•*■•'■ The King of saints his work surveys,
Marks the dear snuls he calls his own,
And smiles on the peculiar race.
2 He rests well pleased their toils to see ;
Beneath his easy yoke they move :
With all their heart and strength agree
In the sweet labour of his love.
3 See where the servants of the Lord,
A busy multitude, appear :
For Jesus day and night employ'd,
Hjs neritage they toil to clear.
4 The love of Christ their hearts constrains,
And strengthens their unwearied hands;
They spend their sweat, and blood, and pains.
To cultivate Immanuel's lands.
6 Jesus their toil delighted sees,
Their industry vouchsafes to crown ;
He kindly gives the wish'd increase,
And sends the promised blessing down.
6 The sap of life, the Spirit's powers,
He rains incessant from above ;
He all his gracious fulness showers,
To perfect their great work of love.!
PASTORAL. 401
7 0 multiply thy sowbtb' seed,
And fruit they every hour shall bear:
Throughout the world thy gospel spread,
Thine everlasting truth declare !
8 We then, in perfect love renew'd.
Shall know the greatness of thy power,
Stand in the temple of our God
As pillars, and go out no more.
461 Uxbridse—p. 98.] L. AL
■pjRAW near, 0 Son of God, draw near !
^-^ Us with thy flaming eye behold ;
Still in thy church vouchsafe t' appear.
And let our candlestick be gold.
2 Still hold the stars in thy right hand.
And let them in thy lustre glow,
The lights of a benighted land.
The angels of thy church below.
3 Make good their apostolic boast.
Their high commission let them prove.
Be temples of the Holy Ghost,
And fiU'd with faitli, and hope, and love.
4 Their hearts from things of earth remove.
Sprinkle them, Lord, from sin and Itar,
Jii their affections all above.
And lay up all their treasures there.
5 Give them an ear to hear thy word ;
Thou speakest to the churches now:
And let all tongues confess their Lord,
Let every knee to Jesus bow.
462 Arnold— p. 9S.] L. IkL
OHALL I, for fear of feeble man,
*^ The Spirit's course in me restrain?
Or, undismay'd in deed and word,
Be a true witness of my Lord
402 PASTORAL.
2 Awed by a mortal's frown, shall I
Conceal the word of God Most High !
How then before thee shall I dare
To stand, or how thine anger bear?
3 Shall I, to sooth th' unholy throng,
Soften thy truth, or smooth my tongue,
To gain earth's gilded toys, or flee
The cross endured, my Lord, by thee?
4 What then is he whose scorn I dread ?
Whose wrath or hate makes me afraid ?
A man ! an heir of death ! a slave
To sin ! a bubble on the wave 1
5 Yea, let men rage ; since thou wilt spread
Thy shadowing wings around my head ;
Since in all pain thy tender love
Will still my sure refreshment prove.
463 Gilford— p. 86.] L. M.
O AVIOUR of men, thy searching eye
^ Dolh all my inmost thoughts descry :
Doth aught on earth my wishes raise.
Or the world's pleasures, or its praise ?
2 The love of Christ doth me constrain
To seek the wand'ring souls of men ;
With cries, entreaties, tears, to save,
To snatch them from the gaping grave.
3 For this let men revile my name,
No cross I shun, I fear no shame ;
All hail reproach, and welcome pain;
Only thy terrors, Lord, restrain.
4 My life, my blood, I here present,
If for thy truth they may be spent,
Fulfil thy sovereign counsel, Lord !
Thy will be done, thy name adored !
PASTORAL. 403
5 Give me thy strength, 0 God of power,
Then let winds blow, or thunders roar.
Thy faithful witness will I be :
Tis fii'd ; I can do all through thee.
464 TValky—p. 113.] L. M.
fyHE Lord is Kinj, and earth submitf,
■*■ Howe'er impatient, to his sway ;
Between the cherubim he sits,
And makes bis restless foes obey.
2 All power is to our Jesus given ;
0"er earth's rebellious sons he reigns;
He mildly rules the hosts of heaven.
And holds the powers of hell in chains.
3 In vain doth Satan rage his hour,
Beyond his chain he cannot go;
Our Jesus shall stir up his power.
And soon avenge us of our foe.
4 Jesus shall his great arm reveal ;
Jesus, the woman's conquering seed ;
(Thouzh now the serpent bruise his HEEL)
Jesus shall bruise the serpent's HEAD.
5 The enemy his tares hath sown,
But Christ shall shortly root them up ;
Shall cast the dire accuser down.
And disappoint his children's hope:
6 Shalt still the proud Philistine's noise;
Baffle the sons of unbelief;
Nor long permit them to rejoice,
But turn their triumph into grief.
" Come, glorious Lord, the rebels spani>
Scatter thy foes, victorious King;
And Oath and Askeloo shall mourn.
And all the sons of God shall sing :
404 PASTORAL.
8 Shall magnify the soverei^ grace
Of Him that sits upon the throne ;
And earth and heaven couspire tr) praise
Jehovah, and his conquering Son.
465 Prowe— p. 194.] 4th P. M. 8S6, 886.
AREI
there not in the labourer's day
Twelve hours, in which he safely may
His calling's work pursue ?
Though sin and Satan still are near,
Nor sin nor Satan can I fear,
With Jesus in my view.
2 Light of the world, thy beams I bless !
On thee, bright Sun of righteousness.
My faith hath tlx'd its eye ;
Guided by thee through all I go,
Nor fear the ruin spread below,
For thou art always nigh.
3 Ten thousand snares my paths beset.
Yet will I, Lord, the work complete,
Whif h thou to me hast given ;
Begani\ess of the pains I feel,
Close by the gates of death and hell,
I urge mv way to heaven.
4 Still will I strive, and labour still
With humble zeal to do thy will,
And trust in thy defence j
My soul into thy hands I give,
And if he can obtain Ihy leave.
Let Satan pluck me thence.
466 St. Peter— ^. 75.] L. M.
C!LO preach my gospel, saith the Lord,
^-^ Bid the whole world my grace receive;
He shall be saved who trusts my word ;
He shall be damo'd that wont believeu
PASTORAL. 405
8 111 make your cjeat commission known,
And ye shall prove my gospel true,
By all the works that I have done.
By all the wonders ye shall do.
3 Teach all the nations my commands ;
" I 'm with you till the world shall end ;
All power is trusted in my bands,
1 can destroy, and I defeud."
467 Winter— p. 16.] C. M.
TESUS, the word of mercy give,
** And let it swiftly run ;
And let the priests themselves believa
And put salvation on.
2 Clothed with the Spirit of holinea.
May all thy people prove
The plenitude of gospel grace,
The joy of perfect love.
3 Jesus, let all thy lovers shine,
Illustrious as the sun ;
And bright with borrow'd rays divine,
Their glorious circuit run.
4 Beyond the reach of mortals, spread
Their light where'er they go;
And heavenly influences shed
On all the world below.
6 As giants may they run their race,
Eiultinj in their might ;
As burning luminaries chase
The gloom of hellish night.
6 As the bright Sun of righteousness.
Their healing wings display;
And let their lustre still increase
Unto the perfect day.
406 PASTORAL.
468 Hanover— -p. 57.] C. M.
TESUS, the name high over all,
" In hell, or earth, or sky !
Angels and men before it fall,
And devils fear and fly.
2 Jesus, the name to sinners dear,
The name to sinners given !
It scatters all their guilty fear ;
It turns their hell to heaven.
3 Jesus the prisoner's fetters breaks,
And bruises Satan's head ;
Power into strengthless souls it speaks,
And life into the dead.
4 0 that the world might taste and see
The riches of his grace ;
The arms of love that compass me,
Would all mankind embrace !
5 His only righteousness I show,
His saving truth procl.iim :
'Tis all my business here below,
To cry, " Behold the Lamb !"
6 Happy, if with my latest breath
I may but gasp his name !
Preach him to all, and cry in death,
"Behold, behold the Lamb !»
469 Jlbridge—p. 42.] C. AL
TESUS, my strength and righteousness,
•' My Saviour and my King,
Triumphantly thy name I bless.
Thy conq'ring name I sing.
2 Thou, Lord, hast magnified thy name.
Thou hast maintain'd thy cause.
And I enjoy the glorious shame.
The scandal of thy cross.
PASTORAL. 407
3 Thou gavest me to speak thy word,
In the appointed hour :
1 have proclaim'd my dying Lord,
And felt thy Spirit's power.
4 Superior to my foes I stood.
Above their smile or frown :
On all the strangers to thy blood
With pitying love look down.
5 0 let me have thv presence still.
Set as a flint my face,
To show the counsel of thy will,
Which saves a world by grace !
6 O never let me blush to own
The glorious gospel word ;
Which saves a world through faith alone.
Faith in a dying Lord !
470 Ashfordr-p. 124.] S. ^L
" T THE good fight have fought,"
-'• 0 when shall I declare !
The victory by my Saviour got
I long with Paul to share.
2 0 may I triumph so,
When all my warfare's past ;
And dying, find my latest foe
Under my feet ^ last !
3 This blessed word be mine.
Just as the port is gain'd ;
" Kept by the power of grace divine,
I have the faith maintain'd."
4 Th' apostles of my Lord,
To whom it first was given,
They could not speak a greater word.
Nor all the saints in beano.
408 PASTORAL.
471 Arabia— ip. 51.] C. M.
T ET Zion's watchmen all awake,
•^ And take th' alarm they give,
Kow let them from the mouth of God
Their awful charge receive.
2 Tis not a cause of small import
The pastor's care demands ;
But what might fill an angel's heart,
And fill'd a Saviour's hands.
3 They watch for souls, for whidi the Lord
Did heavenly bliss forego !
For souls which must for ever live
In raptures, or in wo.
4 And to the great tribunal haste,
Th' account to render there ;
And shouldst thou strictly mark our faults,
Lord, where should we appear !
5 May they that Jesus whom they preach.
Their own Redeemer see,
And watch thou daily o'er their souls.
That they may watch for thee.
472 Luton— p. "H.] L. M. ,
OTEEL me to shame, reproach, disgrace,
^ Arm me with all thine armour now:
Set like a flint my steady face.
Harden to adamant my brow.
2 Bold may I wax, exceeding bold,
My high commission to perform,
Nor shrink thy harshest truths t' unfold;
But more than meet the gathering stonn.
3 Adverse to earth's rebellious throng,
Still may I turn my fearless face :
Stand as an iron pillar strong.
And steadfast as a wall of brasi.
G'
pastokal. 409
4 Give me tny mizni, Ihou God of power:
Then let or men ct fienjs assail,
Strong in thy stren^ih I'll s'and, a tower
Impresnable to earth or bell.
473 Aranon—p. 162.] Hif.M. 6 linet St.
UVE me the faith which can remove
And silk the mountain to a plain;
Give me the childlike praying love,
Which longs to build tiiy house again:
Thy love let it my heir! o'erpower,
And all my simple soul devour.
2 I want an even, strong desire,
I want a calmly fervent zeal.
To save poor souls out c{ the tire,
To snatch them from the verge of hell,
And turn them to a jiard'i.iiig GoJ,
And quench tlie brands iu Jesus' blood.
3 I would the precious time redeem,
Ard longer live for this alone,
To spend, and to be spent for them,
Who have not yet my Savi lur known ;
Fully on these my mission prove.
And only breathe, to breathe thy love.
4 My talents, gifts, and graces, Lord,
Into thy blessed hands receive ;
And let me live to preach thy word ;
And let me to thy glory live ;
My every sacred moment spend
In publishing the sinner's Friend.
5 Enlarge, inflame, and fill my heart
With boundless charity divine !
So shall I all my strength exert,
And love them with a zeal like tliine;
And lead them to thy open side.
The sheep for whom their Shepherd iiad-
IS
410 ON THE SPREAD
ON THE SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL.
474 mUau3by—j,.}9\.] 4th P. M. 8S6, 88«.
TESUS, thou soul of all our joys,
•' For whom we now lift up our voice.
And all our strength exert;
Vouchsafe the grace we humbly claim ;
Compose into a thankful frame,
And tune thy people's heart
2 While in the heavenly work we join.
Thy glory be our whole design,
Thy glory, not our own : —
Still let us keep our end in view.
And still the pleasing tasii pursue,
To please our God alone.
3 The secret pride, the subtle sin,
O let it never more steal in,
T' offend thy glorious eyes !
To desecrate our haliow'd strain,
And make our solemn service vain,
And mar our sacrifice.
4 To magnify thy awful name,
To spread the honours of the Lamb,
Let us our voices raise ;
Our souls' and bodies' powers unite,
Regardless of our own delight.
And dead to human praise.
5 Still let us on our guard be found.
And watch against the power of sound,
With sacred jealousy :
Lest, haply, sense should damp our zeal,
And music's charms bewitch and steal
Our hsart away from tiee.
OF THE GOSPEL. 411
6 That hiuTving strife far off remove,
That noisy burst of selfish love,
Which swells the formal son j ;
The joy from out our hearts arise,
And speak and sparkle in our eyes.
And vibrate on our tongue.
7 Thee let us praise, our common Lord,
And sweetly join with one accord
Thy goodness to proclaim :
Jesus, thyself in us reveal,
And all our faculties shall feel
Thy harmonl2ing name.
8 With calmly reverential joy,
O let us all our lives employ
In setting forth thy love !
And raise in death our triumph higher.
And sing, with all the heavenly choir.
That endless song above.
475 Axlridge—p. 17.] C. M.
p\NCE more we come before our God ;
^ Once more his blessings ask :
0 may not duty seem a load,
Nor worship prove a task I
2 Father, thy quick'ning Spirit send
From heaven, in Jesus' name,
To make our waiting minds attend.
And put our souls In frame.
3 May we receive the word we hear
Each in an honest heart ;
And keep the precious treasure there.
And never with it part.
4 To seek thee all our hearts dispose,
To each thy blessings suit,
And let the seed thy servant sows
Produce abundant froit.
412 ON THE SPREAD
476 Stonefidd—p. 99.] L. M.
FIRST PART.
FATHER of all, whose powerful voice
Call'd forth this universal frame!
Whose mercies over all rejoice,
Through endless a»es still the same ;
Thou by thy word uphnldest all ;
Thy bounteous love to all is show'd ;
Thou hear'st thy every creature's callj
And fiUest every mouth with good.
2 In heaven thou reigrn'st enthroned in light,
Nature's expanse before thee spread ;
Earth, air, and sea, before thy siglit,
And hell's deep gloom, are open laid !
Wisdom, and might, and love are thine ;
Prostrate before thy face we fall,
Confess thine attributes divine,
And hail thee sovereign Lord of all.
3 Thee, sovereign Lord, let all confess
That move in earth, or air, or sky ;
Revere thy power, thy goodness bless,
Tremble before thy piercing eye;
All ye who owe to him your birth, «
In praise your every hour employ :
Jehovah reigns, be glad, 0 earth ;
And shout, ye morning stars, for joy !
Bis!iop—p. 73.] SECOND FART.
SON of thy Sire's eternal love.
Take to thyself thy mighty power;
Let all earth's sons thy mercy prove,
Let all thy wondrous grace a. lore;
The triumphs of thy love display ;
In every heart reign thou alone.
Till all tliy foes confess thy sway,
Ani' ?lory end what grace begun.
OF THE GOSPEL. 413
2 Spirit of erace, and health, and power:
Fountain of lijht and love below ;
Abroad thy healing influence shower,
O'er all the nations let if flow ;
Inflame our hearts with perfect love,
In us the work of faith fulfil ;
So not heaven's host shall swifter move,
Than we on earth to do thy will.
3 Father, 'tis thine each day to yield
Thy children's wants a fresh supply ;
Thou cloth'st the lilies of the f.eld,
And hearest the youn? ravens cry;
On thee we cast our care; we live'
Through thee, who knov.-'st our every need
0 feed us with thy grace, and ?ive
Our souls this day the living^Eread !
THIRD PART.
ETERNAL, spotless Lamb of God,
Before the world's foundation slain !
Sprinkle us ever with thy blood :
0 cleanse, and keep us ever clean !
To every soul, (all praise to thee !)
Our bowels of compassion move :
And all mankind by this may see,
God is in us; for God is love.
2 Giver and Lord of life, whose power
And ^ardian care for all is free,
To thee, in fierce temptation's nour.
From sin and Satan let us flee ;
Thine, Lord, we are, and ours thou art :
In us be all thy soodness show'd ;
Renew, enlarge,'aud fill our heart
With peace, and joy, and heaven, and God,
3 Blessing and honour, praise and love,
Co-equal, co-etemaJ Three,-
414 ON THE SPREAD
In earth below, in heaven above,
By all thy works be paid to thee !
Thrice holy, thine the kingdom is,
The power onmipofent is thine :
And when created nature dies.
Thy never-ceasing glories siiine.
477 raZnum— p. 228. ] 7th P. M. 8 Una tt.
OGE how great a flame aspires,
•■^ Kindled by a spark of grace !
Jesus' love the nations fires.
Sets the kingdoms on a blaze.
To bring fire on earth he came ;
Kindled in some hearts it is:
0 that all might catch the flame,
All partake the glorious bliss !
2 When he first the work begun,
Small and feeble was his day :
Now the word doth swiftly run,
Now it wins its wiJ'ning way:
More and more it spreads and grows.
Ever mighty to prevail ;
Sin's strong holds it now o'erthrows.
Shakes the trembling gates of hell.
3 Sons of God, your Saviour praise !
He the door hath open'd wide ;
He hath given the word of grace,
Jesus' word is glorified ;
Jesus, mighty to redeem.
He alone the work hath wrought ;
Worthy is the work of him.
Him who sjiake a world from naugbt.
4 Saw ye not the cloud arise,
Little as a human hand ?
Now it spreads along the skies,
Hangs o'er all the thinty laud ;
OF THE GOSPEL. 415
Lo ! the promise of a shower
Drops already from above ;
But the Lord will shortly pour
All the Spirit of his love !
478 Lockport—p. 126.] ' S. M.
FIRST PART.
TXSrS, the Conqueror, rei^s,
" In glorious strencth array'd :
His kinedom over all maintains,
And bids the earth be glad !
Ye sons of men, rejoice
In Jesus' mighty love :
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice.
To him who rules above.
2 Extol his kingly power,
Kiss the exalted Son,
Who died, and lives to die no more
High on his father's throne :
Our Advocate with God,
He undertakes our cause.
And spreads through all the earth abroad
The victory of his cross.
3 That bloody banner see,
And in your Captain's sight.
Fight the good fight of faith with me,
5ly fellow soldiers, tight;
In mighty phalanx join'd,
To battle all proceed ;
Arm'd with th' unconquerable mind
Which was in Christ your Head.
Charlestou:7i—p. 13S.] SECOND PART
URGE on your rapid course,
Ye blood-besprinkled bands ;
The heavenly kingdom suffers force ;
Tis seized by violent bauds:
416 ON THE SPREAD
See there the starry crown
That glitters through the skies!
Satau, the world, and siu, tread down,
And take the glorious prize !
2 Through much distress and pain,
Through many a conflict here,
Through blood ye must the entrance gaioy
Yet, 0 disdain to fear :
" Courage," your Captain cries,
(Who all your toil foreknew,)
"Toil ye shall have, yet all despise,
I have o'ercome for you."
3 The world cannot withstand
Its ancient conqueror :
The world must sink beneath the hand
Which arms us for the war :
This is the victory,
Before our faith they fall,
Jesus hath died for you and mej
Believe, and conquer all !
479 Litchfield— p. 90.] L. M.
fESDS shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run ;
His kingdom spread from sliore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more^
2 From north to south the princes meet
To pay their homage at his feetj
While western enjpires own their Lord,
And savage tribes attend his word.
3 To him shall endless prayer be made.
And endless praises crown h s head;
His name like sweet perfume shall rise
"With every morning sacrifice.
4 People and realms of every tongue
Dwell on his love with sweetest son^,
P
OP THE GOSPEL. 417
And infant voices shall proclaim
Their early blessings on his name,
480 KimboUmi—p. 106.] L. M.
A RM of the Lord, awake, awake !
■'*• Thine own immortal strenjth put on !
With terror clotheJ, hell's kingdom shake,
And cast thy foes with fury down.
2 As in the ancient days appear !
The sacred annals speak thy fame ;
Be now omnipotently near,
To endless ages still the same.
3 By death and hell pursued in vain,
To thee the ransom'd seed shall come ;
Shouting, their heavenly Sion gain,
And pass through death triumphant honi&
4 The pain of life shall then be o'er,
The anguish and distracting care ;
There sighing grief sliall weep no more.
And sin shalf never enter there.
5 Where pure essential joy is found,
The Lord's redeem'd their heads shall raise.
With everlasting gladness crown'd,
And fiird with love, and lost in praise.
iSl Kingswood-p. 217.] 12th P.M. 76,76,78,';6i
JESUS, from thy heavenly place,
•' Thy dwelling in the skv.
Fill our church with right'ei,usness,
Our want of faith supply ;
Faith our strong protection be.
And godliness with all its power ;
'Stablish our posterity.
Till time shall be no more.
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418 ON THE SPREAD
2 Let the Spirit of grace o'erflow
Our re-converted land :
Let the least and greatest know,
And bow to thy command :
Wisdom, pure religious fear,
Our land's peculiar treasure prove;
Bless'd with piety sincere;
Inspired with humble love.
482 Mcri}jtion— p. 229.] 7th P. M. S /»>*« Tlfc
"LTAPPY soul, who sees the day,
■*^ The glad day of gospel grace :
Thee, my Lord, (thou then will say :)
Thee will 1 for ever praise ;
Though thy wrath against me burn'd,
Thou Jost comfort me again ;
All thy wrath aside is turn'd,
Thou hast blotted out my sin.
2 Me, behold ! thy mercy spares ;
Jesus my salvation is;
Hence my doubts ; away my fears ;
Jesus is become my peace :
JAH, JEHOVAH, is my Lord,
Ever merciful and just ;
I will lean upon his word ;
I will on his promise trust.
3 Strong I am, for he is strong ;
Just in righteousness divine ;
He is my triumphal song j
All he has, and is, is mine :
Mine ; — and yours, whoe'er believe ;
On his name whoe'er shall call,
Freely shall his grace receive ;
He is full of grace for all.
4 Therefore shall ye draw with joy
Water from salvation's well ;
OF THE GOSPEL. 419
Praise shall your dad tongues employ,
While his streaming s;race ye feel.
Each to each, ye then shall say,
" Sinners, call upon his name ;
O rejoice to see his day ;
See it, and his praise proclaim !"
5 Glory to his name belongs,
Great, and man'elloiis, and high :
Sing unto the Lord vour sTigs,
Cry, to ever}' nation, cry :
Wondrous thinjs the Lord hath done,
Excellent his name we find ;
This to all mankind is known;
Be it known to all mankind !
6 Sion, shout thy I/)rd and King,
Israel's HOLY ONE is HE !
Give him thanks, rejoice, and sing,
Great is he, and dwells in thee.
O the erace unsearchable I
While eternal ages roll,
God delights in man to dwell.
Soul of each believing soul !
483 Pari*— p. 82.1 L. M.
fr}.LORY to God, whose sovereign grace
^^ Hath animated senseless stones;
Call'd us to stand before his face.
And raised us into Abraham's sons.
2 The people that in darkness lay.
In sin and error's deadly shade,
Have seen a glorious ^spel-day.
In Jesus' lovely face display'd.
3 Thou only. Lord, the work hast done.
And bared thine arm in all our sight ;
Hast made the reprobates thine own,
And daim'd the outcasts as thy righU
420 SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL.
4 Thy single arm, almighty Lord,
To U3 the great salva'ion brought:
Thy Word, thy all-creating Word,
That spake at first the world from naught.
5 For this the saints lift up their voice,
And ceaseless praise to thee is given ;
For this the hosts above rejoice : —
We raise the happiness of heaven.
6 For this, (no longer sons of nisrht,)
To thee our thankful hearts we give ;
To thee, who call'dst us into light:
To thee we die, to thee we live.
484 Dordiester—'p. 27.] C. M.
FATHER of me and all mankind.
And all the hosts above.
Let every understanding mind
Unite to praise thy love !
8 To know thy nature and thy name,
One God in persons Three ;
And glorify the great I AM,
Through all eternity.
3 Thy kingdom come, with power and grace,
To every heart of man :
Thy peace, and .joy, and righteousness,
Id all our bosoms reign.
4 Thy righteousness our sins keep down,
Thv peace our passions bind ;
And let us, in thy joy unknown,
The first domiuiou find.
5 The rigliteousness that never enda.
But makes an end of sin ;
The joy that human thought transcends,
Into our souls bring in.
CHRISTMAS. 421
6 The kingdom of estaMish'd peace,
Which can no more remove ;
The perfect power of gojliness,
Th' omoipotence of love.
CHRISTMAS.
485 Portland— p. 25 1.] 10th P. M. 8 Una St.
A LL glory to God in the sky,
•^ And peace upon earth be restored !
0 Jesus, exalted on high,
Appear our omnipotent Lord !
Who meanly in Bethlehem bom,
Didst stoop to redeem a lost race.
Once more to thy creatures return.
And reign in thy kingdom of grace.
2 When thou in our flesh didst appear
All nature acknowledged thy birth ;
Arose the acceptable year,
And heaven was open'd on earth;
Receiving its Lord from above.
The world was united to bless
The Giver of concord and love.
The Prince and the Author of peace.
3 0 wonldst thou again be made known.
Again in thy Spirit descend.
And set up in each of thine own
A kingdom that never shall end !
Thou only art able to bless.
And make the glad nations obey,
And bid the dire enmity cease,
, And bow the whole world to thy twzj I
422 CHRISTMAS.
4 Cojne then to thy servants again,
Wlin long thy apppiring to know ;
Thy quiet and peaccalile reign
In mercy establish below :
All sorrow before thee shall fly,
»And anger ami hntred be o'er ;
And envv and malice shall die,
And discord afllict us no more.
5 No horrid alarum of war
Shall break our eternal repose ;
Ko sound of the trumpet is there.
Where Jesus's Spirit o'erflows :
Appeased by the charms of thy grace,
We all shall in amity join,
And kindly each other embrace,
And love with a passion like thine.
486 Pelliam-p. 12S.] S. M.
■pATHER, our hearts we lift
■'• Up to thy gracious throne.
And thank thee for the precious gift
Of thine incarnate Son !
The gift unspeakable
We thankfully receive,
And to the world thy goodness tell
And to thy glory live.
2 Jesus, the holy child.
Doth liy his birth dec.^re
That God and man are reconciled,
And one in him we are.
Salvation thniugh bis name
To all mankind is »iven,
And loud his infant cries proclaim
A peace 'tween earth and heaven.
3 A peace on earth he brings,
Which never more shall end ;
CHRISTMAS. 423
The Lord of hosts, the King of kings,
Declares himself our Friend ;
Anuiues our Rts\\ and blood,
That we his grace may gain :
The everlasting Son of God,
The mortal son cf man.
4 His kingdom from above
He doth to us impar',
And pure benevolence and love
O'erflow the faithful heart :
Changed in a moment, we
The sweet attraction find,
With open arms of charity
Embracing all mankind.
6 0 might they all receive
The uew-bom 1 rinco of peace I
And meekly in his !-,pirit live,
And in his love increase !
Till he convey us home,
Cry every soul aloud,
Come, thou Desire of nations, come,
And take us up to God '.
JVest-st.—p. 293.] 15th P. M. 11 9, U 9.
A LL hail ! happy day,
■"• When, enrobed in our clay.
The Redeemer appear'd upon earth;
How can we retrain,
For to join the glad strain,
And to hail our Immanuers birth '
2 How boundless that love.
First begotten above,
And through Jesus to sinners madeknowa 1
Lift, lift up your voice.
And exulting rejoice,
For Jehovah to earth is come downl
434 CHRISTMAS.
3 Ye angels of God,
Sound his praises abroad,
And acknowledge him JAH, the I AM:
We also will join
In a hymn so divine.
Giving glory to God and the Lamb !
4 To Christ we will sin^,
As our Hi^h Priest and King,
And our Prophet to teach us the road :
But more than all this,
For almighty he is:
And we own him our Saviour and God.
5 To Jesiis's praise
Let us spend all our days !
For 'tis he who our surety hath stood ;
He sojoum'd below,
That his mercy might flow.
And he purchased our pardon with blocd.
6 0 may the return
Of this once blessed morn
Be for ever remember'd with joy :
Sweet accents of praise
All nur voices shall raise;
Hallelujahs shall be our employ !
7 Let echo prolong
The harmonious song,
Hallelujahs again and again j
He kindles the fire,
Whom the nations desire.
And to him we devote the glad strain.
8 Bless'd Jesus, while we
Pay our tribute to thee,
Let us worship, admire, and adore ;
Accept as thy crown^
What before was thme ovra,
Hallelujahs and praiie evermore.
CHRISTMAS. 425
488 Bristol— p. 44.] C. JL
" OHEPHERDS, rejoice, lift up your »ye»
'-^ And send your fears away,
News from the regions of the skies-^
A Saviour's born to-day.
2 "Jesus, the God whom angels fear.
Comes down to dwell with you ;
Tn-<Jay he makes his entrance here,
But not as mouarchs do.
3 " No gold, nor purple swaddling bands.
Nor roy.il shiiiiii» thinsrs;
A manger for his cradle stands;
And holds the King of kings.
4 " Go, shepherds, where the infant liei.
And see his humble throne j
With tears of joy in all your eyes,
Go, shepherds, kiss the Son."
6 Thus Gabriel sang, and straight around
The heavenly armies throng;
They tune their harps to lofly sound.
And thus conclude the song :
6 " Glory to God that reigns jbove,
Let peace surround the earth ;
Mortals shall know their Maker's love.
At their Redeemer's birth."
7 Lord ! and shall angels have their songs,
And men no tunes to raise?
0 may we lose these useless tongues
When we forget to praise !
8 Glory to God that reigns above,
That pitied us forlorn ;
We join to sing our Maker's love,
For there \ a Saviour bom.
426 CHRISTMAS.
489 Chrittnuu—x,. 39.] C. M.
■^^HILF, shepherds watch'd their flocks bynigh
' All seated on 'he ground,
The angel of the Lord came dowD,
And glorj' shone around.
2 " Fear not," said he, f for mighty dread
Had seized their trouliletl mind,)
" Glad tidinps of ^reat joy I bring
To you and all mankiud.
3 " To you, in David's fovm, this day,
Is born of David's line,
The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord ;
And this shall be the sign :
4 " The heavenly babe you there shall find
To human view display'd,
All meanly wTapp'd in swathing bands,
And in a manger laid."
5 Thus spake the seraph, and forthwith
Appear'd a shining throng
Of angels praising God, on high.
And thus address'J their song :
6 " All glory be to God "-n high.
And to the earth be peace ;
Good will henceforth, from heaven to men,
Begin and never cease."
490 Talmon—p.22S.1 7th P. M. 8 Ztrwf 7».
HARK ! the herald .inrels sin?
"Glor>' to the new-horn King;
Peace on earth, and mercy mild ;
God and sinners reconciled ;"
Joyful all ye nations rise,
Join the triumph* of the skiei:
CHRISTMAS. 427
With th' angelic hosts proclaim,
" Christ is bom in Bethlehem."
2 Christ, by highest heaven adored,
Christ, the everlasting t/)rd ; .
Late in time behold him come,
OflFspring of a virgin's womb ;
Veil'd in flesh, the Godhead see,
Hail th' incarnate Deity I
Pleased as man with men t' appear,
Jesus our Immanuet here.
3 Hail the heaven-bom Prince of peac« '
Hail the Sun of rijhteousness !
Light and life to all he brings,
Risen with healin? in his wings:
Mild he lays his glory by.
Bom that man no more may die ;
Bora to raise the sons of earth ;
Bom to give them second birth.
4 Come, Desire of nations, come !
Fix in us thy humble home ;
Rise, the woman's conqu'ring Seed,
Bruise in us the serpent's head ;
Adam's likeness now efl'ace,
Stamp thine ima;e in its place ;
Second Adam from above,
Reinstate us in thy love
491 December— p. 8.] C. M.
TVTORTALS, awake, with angeU join,
■^'■'- And chant the solemn lay ;
Joy, love, and gratitude combine.
To hail th' auspicious day.
2 In heaven the rapturous song began,
And sweet seraphic fire
Through all the shining legions ran,
And Rtrong and tuned the lyre.
428 N'EW-YEAR.
3 Swift through Ihe vast expanse it flew,
And loud the echo roll'd ;
The theme, the song, the joy was new,
'Twas more than heaven could hold.
4 Down through the portals of the sky
The impetuous torrent ran j
And angels flew with eager joy
To bear the news to man.
6 With joy the chorus we'll repeat,
" Glor)' to God on high ;
Good will and peace are now complete,
Jesus was bom to die."
6 Hail, Prince of life, for ever hail !
Redeemer, Brother, Friend !
Though earth, and time, and life shall fail,
Thy praise shall never end.
7 Hark '. the cherubic armies shout,
And glory leads the song :
Good will and peace are heard throughout
Th' harmonious heavenly throng.
NEW-YEAR.
493 TfeiTiam— p. 301.] 18th P.M. 10,5, 11.
COME, let us anew our journey pursue,
Roll round with the year,
And never stand still till the ^iaster appear !
His adorable will let us gladly fulfil,
And our talents improve,
By the patience of hope, and the labour of love.
2 Our life as a dream, our time as a stream
Glides swiftly away ;
And the fugitive moment refuses to stay.
NEW-YEAR, 439
The arrow is flown, the moment is gone ;
The millennial year
Rushes on to our view, and eternity 's here.
3 0 that each in the day of his coming may say,
" I have fought my way through ;
I have tinish'd the work thou didst give me to do I"
O that each from his Lord may receive the glad
word,
" Well and faithfully done !
Enter into my joy, and sit down on my thro le."
493 Zelulon—p. 187.] 3d P. M. 4 6s&li 8s.
fyHE Lord of earth and sky,
-'■ The God of ages praise !
Who reigns enthroned on high,
Ancient of endless days !
Who lengthens out our trials here,
And spares us yet another year.
2 Barren and wither'd trees,
We cumber'd long the ground !
No fruit of holiness
On our dead souls was found ;
Yet doth he us in mercy spare
Another and another year.
3 When justice bared the sword,
To cut the fig tree down.
The pity nf the Lord
Cried, " Let it still alone !"
The Father mild inclines his ear.
And spares us yet another year.
4 Jesus, thy speaking blood
From God obtained the grace ;
Who therefore hath bestow'd
On us a longer space ;
Thou didst in our behalf appear,
And lo ! we tee another year !
490 NEW-YEAR.
5 Then dig about the root,
Break up our fallow ground,
And let our gracious fruit
To thy great praise abound ;
0 let us all thy praise declare,
And fruit unto perfection bear.
494 JVarcham—i,. 3T.] C. M.
QJING 10 the great Jehovah's pratae !
^ All praise to him belongs.
Who kindly lengthens out our days,
Demands our choicest songs :
His providence hath brought us through
Another various year ;
We all with vows and anthems new
Before our God appear.
2 Father, hy mercies past we own,
Thy still continued care :
Tt thee presenting, through thy Son,
"Vhate'er we have or are :
Chi' lips and lives shall gladly show
The wonders of thy love,
IVhile on in Jesus' steps we go
To seek thy face above.
3 Our residue of days or hours,
Thine, wholly thine, shall be ;
And all our consecrated powers
A sacrifice to thee ;
Till Jesus in the clouds appear
To saints on earth forsiven,
And bring the grand sabbatic year.
The jubilee of heaven.
FAMILY WOKSHIP. 431
FAMILY WORSHIP.
MORNING AND EVENING.
495 Mbany—p.\57.'i IstP.M. 6KnM8fc
TTTHERE is my God, my joy, my hope,
'' The dear desire of nations, where?
Jesus, to thee my soul looks up,
To thee directs her morning prayer ;
And spreads her arms of faith abroad,
T' embrace my hope, my joy, my GoJ !
2 Mine eyes prevent the mornin» ray,
Lookina; and longing for ihy word :
Come, O my Jesus, come away,
And let my heart receive its Lord ;
Which pants and struggles to be free,
And breaks to be detain'd from thee.
3 Appear in me, bright Morning Star,
And scatter all the shades of night !
I saw thee once, and came from far,
But quickly lost the transient light :
And now again in darkness pine,
Till thou throughout my nature shine.
4 In patient hope I now take heed
To the sure word of promised grace;
Whose rays a feeble lustre shed.
Faint glimm'ring through the darksome placi^
Till thou thy glorious light impart,
And rise the Day-star in my heart.
5 Come, Lord, be manifested here,
And all the devil's works destroy;
Now, without sin, iu me appear,
AnH fill with everiastinf joy;
432 .FAMILY WORSHIP.
Thy beatific face display ;
Thy presence is the perfect day.
496 Miol—p. 132.] S. M.
TKTE lift our hearts to thee,
O Day-star from on hieh !
The sun itstlf is but thy shade.
Yet cheers both earth and sky.
2 0 let thy orient beams
The iii;;ht of sin disperse.
The mists of error and of vice
Which shade the universe !
3 How beauteous nature now !
How dark and sad before '.
With joy we view the pleasing change.
And nature's God adore.
4 0 may no gloomy crinae
Pollute the rising day ;
Or Jesus' blood, like evening few,
Wash all its stains away !
5 May we this life improve,
To mourn for errors past :
And live this short revolving day,
As if it were our last.
6 To God, the Father, Son,
And Spirit, One in Three,
Be glory, as it was, is now.
And shall for ever be.
497 Coronation— p. 28.] C. M.
A LL praise to Him who dwells in bliss,
-'*■ Who made both day and night:
Whose throne is darkness in tb' abyss
Of uncreated light.
2 Each thought and deed, his piercing ey«
With strictest search furvey j
FAMILY WORSHIP. 433
The deepest shades no more disguise
Than the full blaze of day.
3 Whom thou dost ?uard, 0 King of kings.
No evil shall molest :
Under the shadow of thy wings
Shall they securely rest.
4 Thy angels shall around their beds
Their constant stations keep :
Thy faith and truth shall shield their heads,
For thou dost never sleep.
5 May we with calm and sweet repose,
And heavenly thoughts refresh'd,
Our eyelids with the morn unclose,
And bless thee, ever bless'd.
498 Barl/y—p. 33.] C. M.
(^ ITER and suardian of my sleep,
^^ To praise thy name I wake :
Still, Lord, thy helpless servant keep,
For thine own mercy's sake.
2 The blessing of another day
I thankfully receive:
0 may I only thee obey,
And to thy glory live !
3 Vouchsafe to keep my soul from sin.
Its cruel power suspend,
Till all this strife and war within
In perfect peace shall end.
4 I'pnn me lay thy mighty hand,
My words and thoughts restrain:
Bow mj whole soul to thy command.
Nor let my faith be vain.
6 Prisoner of hope, I wait the hour
Which shiU salvatijti bring :
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434 FAMILY WORSHIP.
When all I am shall own thy power,
And call my Jesus King.
499 Framtnsham—ii. \Ge.] 1st P.M.6It7l«ab
■yyHEN quiet in my house I sit,
'' Thy book be my coinjianion still ;
My jov, thy sayings to repeat,
Talk o'er the records of thy will :
And search the omcles divine,
Till every heartfelt word be mine.
2 O may the gracious words divine
Subject of all my converse be !
So will the Lord his follower join.
And walk and talk himself with me :
So shall my heart his presence prove,
And burn with everlasting love.
3 Oft as I lay me down to rest,
0 may the reconciling word
Sweetly compose my weary breast ;
While on the Iwsoni of my Lord
1 sink in blissful dreams tway.
And visions of eternal day.
4 Rising to sing my Saviour's praise,
Thee may I publish all day long ;
And let thy precious word of grace
Flow from my heart and fill my tongue,
Fill all my life with purest love,
And join me tathe cnurcb above.
500 Howard— p. L] C. M.
/^NCE more, my soul, the rising day
^^ Salutes thy waking eyes ;
Once more, my voice, thy tribute pay
To Him that rules the skies.
2 Night unto night bis name repeat*.
The day renews the sound :
FAMILY WORSHIP. 435
Wide as the heavens on -which he sits,
To turn the seasons round.
3 Tis he supports my mortal frame ;
My tongue shall speak his praise ;
My sins might rouse his wrath to flame,
i3ut yet his wrath delays.
4 0 God, let all my hours be thine,
While I enjoy the light;
Then shall my sun in smiles decline,
And bring a pleasing night.
501 Westford^p. 47.] C. M.
T ORD, thou wilt hear me when I pray,
-*-^ I am for ever thine :
1 fear before thee all the day,
Nor would I dare to sin.
2 And while I rest my weary head,
From cares and bus'ness free,
Tis sweet conversing on my bed
With my own heart and thee.
3 I pay this evening sacrifice ;
And when my work is done, '
Great God, my faith and hope relies
Upon thy grace alone.
4 Thusj with my thoughts composed to peace,
I'll give mine eyes to sleep ;
Thy hand in safety keeps my days,
And will my slumbers keep.
502 Colchater—p. 55.] p. M.
T ORD, in the morning thou shalt hear
-" My voice ascending high :
To thee will I direct my prayer,
To thee lift up mine eye :
436 FAMILY WORSHIP.
2 Up to the hills where Christ is gone
To plead for all liis saints,
Presenting at the Father's throne
Our songs and our complaints.
3 Thou art a God before whose sight
The wicked shall not stand,
Sinners stuU ne'er be thy delight,
Nor dwell at thy right hand.
4 0 may thy Spirit guide my feet
In ways of righteousness !
Make every path of duty straight,
And plain before my face.
5 Now to thy house will I resort,
To taste thy mercies there J
1 will frequent thy holy court,
And worship in tliy fear.
503 Margat^-ii. 132.] S. M.
OEE how the morning sun
^ Pursues his shining way ;
And wide proclaims his Maker's praise,
With every bright'uiug ray.
2 Thus would my rising soul
Its heavenly Parent sing;
And to its great original
The humble tribute bring.
3 Serene I laid me down,
Beneath his guardian care ;
I slept, and I awoke, and found
My kind Preserver near !
4 My life I would anew
Devote, 0 Lord, to thee:
And in thy service I would ipend
A long eternity.
M^
FAMILY WORSHIP. 437
504 miyla7id—p. 82.] L. M.
Y God, how endless is thy love !
Thy sifts are every evening new ;
And morning mercies from above
Gently descend like early dew.
2 Thou spread'st the curtains of the night,
Great Guardian of my sleeping hours j
Thy sovereign word restores the light,
And quickens all my drowsy powers.
3 I yield myself to thy command ;
To thee devote my nights and days;
Perpetual blessings from thy hand
Demand perpetual songs of praise.
505 Se7ieven(o—p. 222.) 7th P. M. 8 Una "»,
MNIPRESENT God ! whose aid
No one ever ask'd in vain,
Be this night about my bed,
Every evil thought restrain :
Lay thy hand upon my soul,
6od of my unguarded hours!
AH my enemies control,
Hell, and earth, and nature's powers.
2 0 thou jealous God ! come down,
God of spotless purity ;
Claim and seize me for thine ovrn,
Consecrate my heart to thee :
Under thy protection take ;
Songs in the night season give;
Let me sleep to thee, and wake ;
Let me die to thee, and live.
3 Let me of thy life partake.
Thy own holiness impart ;
0 that I may sweetly wake,
^ With my Saviour in my heart !
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0 that I may know thee mine !
0 that I may thee receive !
Only live the life divine !
Only to thy glory live.
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A WAKE, my soul, to meet the day,
-^ Unfold thy drowsy eyes,
And burst the pond'rous chain that load*
Thine active faculties.
2 God's guardian shield was round me spread
In my defenceless sleep :
Let him have all my waking hours
Who doth my slumbers keep.
3 Pardon, 0 God, my former sloth,
And arm my soul with grace;
As rising now, I seal my vows
To prosecute thy ways.
4 Bright Sun of righteousness, arise;
Thy radiant beams display,
And guide my dark, bewilder'd soul,
To everlasting day.
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'M'OW from the altar of our hearts
■'•^ Let warmest thanks arise ;
Assist us, Loni, to offer up
Our evening sacrifice.
2 This day God was our sun and shield,
Our keeper and our guide j
His care was on our weakness ibowDt
His mercies multiplied.
3 Minutes and mercies multiplied
Have made up all this day ;
FAMILY WORSHIP. 439
Minutes came quick, but mercies were
More swift and free than they.
4 New time, new favours, and new Joys,
Do a new sons; require :
Till we stiall praise thee as we would,
Accept our heart's desire.
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"pATHER, to thee I lift mine eyes,
-'■ My longing eyes, and restless heart;
Before the morning watch I rise,
And wait to taste how good thou art ;
T' obtain the grace I humbly claim,
The saving power of Jesus' name.
2 This slumt)er from my soul, 0 shaie !
Warn'd by thy Spirit's inward call.
Let me to righteousness awake,
And pray that I no more may fall ;
Or give to sin or Satan place,
But walk in all thy righteous ways.
3 0 wouldst thou. Lord, thy servant guard
'Gainst every known or secret foe ;
A mind for all assaults prepared,
A sober, vigilant mind bestow.
Ever apprized of danger nigh,
And wnen to fight, and when to flyy
4 0 never suffer me to sleep
Secure within the verge of hell.
But still my watchful spirit keep
In lowly awe and loving zeal ;
And bless me with a godly fear,
And plant that guardian angel hen
6 Attended by that sacred dread.
And wise mm evil to depart,
440 FAMILY WORSHIP.
Let me from strength to strength proceed,
And rise to purity of tieart :
Through all the paths of duty move,
From humble faith to perfect love.
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'T'HnS far the Lord hath led me on,
•*■ Thus far his power proloiijs uiy days,
And every evening shall make knoun
Some fresh memorial of his grace.
2 Much of my time has run to waste,
And 1 perhaps aiu near my home :
But he forgives my follies past.
And gives me strength for days to come.
3 I lay my body down to sleep,
Peace is the pillow for uiy head ;
While well-appointed angeis keep
Their watchful stations ruuud my beJ.
4 Thus when the night of death shall come,
My flesh shall rest beneath the ground,
And wait thy voice to rouse my tomb,
With sweet salvation in the sound.
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r\ GOD, my God, my all thou art !
^ Ere shines the daivn of rising day.
Thy sovereign light within my heart,
Thy all-enlivening power display.
2 For thee my thirsty soul doth pant.
While in this desert land I live ;
Aod hungry as I am, and faint,
Thy love alone can comfort give.
3 In a dry land, behold I place
My whole desire on thee, 0 Lok!^
FAMILY WORSHIP. 441
And more I joy to gain thy grace
Than all earth's treasures can aflford,
4 More dear than life itself, thy love .
My heart and tongue shall still employ;
And to declare thy praise will prove
My peace, my glory, and my joy.
5 In blessing thee vrith grateful songs,
My hajipy life shall glide away;
The praise that to thy name belongs.
Hourly with lifted hands TU pay.
6 Abundant sweetness, while I sing
Thy If've, my ravish'd heart overflows;
Secure in thee, my God and King,
Of glory tliat no period knows.
" TTiy name, 0 God, upon my be^,
Dwells on my lips, and fires my thought :
With trembling awe, in midniglit shade,
I muse on all thy hands have wrought.
8 In all I do I feel Ihine aid ;
Therefore thy greatness will Lsiug,
0 God, who bidj'st my heart be glad,
Beneath the shadow of thy wiugl
9 My soul draws nigh and cleaves to thee :
Then let or earth or hell assail.
Thy mighty hand shall set me free ;
for whom thou sav'st, he ne'er shall faiL
PARENTS AND MASTERS.
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/TJ-OD, only wise, almighty, good,
^-^ Send forth thy truth and figh^
To point us out the narrow road,
And g«ide otiT steps arigbt.
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442 FAMILY WORSHIP.
2 To steer our dangerous course between
The rocks on either hand ;
And fix us in the golden menn,
Av.d brins our charge to land.
3 Made apt by thy sufficient grace
To teach as taught by thee,
We come to train in all tliy ways
Our rising progeny.
4 Their selfish will in time subdue,
And mortify their pride ;
And lend their vouth a sacred clew
To find tlie Crucified.
6 We would in every step look up,
By thy example taught,
T' alarm their fear, excite their hope,
And rectify their thought.
6 We would persuade their hearts t' obey,
With mildest zeal proieed :
And never take the harsher way,
When love will do the deed.'
7 For this we ask in faith sincere.
The wisdom from above ;
To touch their hearts with filisd fear.
And pure ingenuous love!
8 To watch their will, to sense inclined,
Withhold the hurtful food :
And gently bend their tender mind,
Aud draw their souls to God.
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"PATHER of lights, thy needful aid
■*• To us that ask impart ;
Mistrustful of ourselves, airaid
0{ ovr own tr»a«ta'r»«f i)«Ml
I
FAMILY WORSHIP. 443
2 O'erwhelm'd with justest fear, agaiu
To thee for help we call :
\Vhere many mightier have been slaiD,
By thee unsaved, we fall.
3 Unless resfrain'd by CT"ace we are,
In vain the snare we see :
We see, and n;sh into the snare
Of blind idolatry.
4 We plunee ourselves in endless woes,
Our helpfess infants sell :
Resist the lisht, and side with those
Who send their babes to hell.
5 Ah ! what avails superior light,
Without superior love !
We see the truth, we jud^e aright,
Aud wisdonri's ways approve.
6 We mark the idolizinsr throng;
Their cruel fondness blame;
Their children's souls we know they wrong«
And we shall do the same.
7 In spite of our resolves, we fear
Our own infirmity ;
And tremble at the trial near,
Aud cry, 0 God, to thee !
8 We soon shall do what we condemn.
And down the current borne,
With shame confess our nature's stream
Too stroi g for us to turn.
9 Our only help in danger's hour,
Our only strenzth thou art ;
Above the world and Sa'au's power,
And greater than our heart.
10 Us from ourselves thou canst secure.
In nature's slippery ways ;
444 FAMILY WORSHIP.
And make our feeble footsteps sure,
By thy sufficient ^race.
11 If on thy promised prace alone
We faithfully depeiid,
Thou surely wilt jirrserve thy owDi
And keep them to the eud :
12 Wilt keep us tenderly discreet,
To guard what thou hast eiveri:
And bring our child with us to meet
At thy right liand in heaven.
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TTOW shall I walk my Gnd to please,
••••*• And spread content and happiness
O'er all beneath my care ?
A pattern to my household give,
And as a guanlian angel live,
As Jesus' messenger ?
2 The opposite extremes I see,
Remissness and severity,
And know rot how to shun
The precipice on either hand,
While in the narrow path I stand.
And dread to venture on.
3 Shall I, through indolence supine.
Neglect, betray my charge divme, —
iVly delegated power
The souls I from my Lord receive.
Of whom I an account must give.
At that tremendous hour?
4 Lord over all, and God most high !
Jesus, to thee for help I fly.
For constant power and_grace !
That by thy Spirit taught and led,
I may with confidence proceed,
And all thy footsteps trace.
Family worship. 445
5 0 teach me thy first lesson now'!
Th-it I to thy sweet yoke may bow,
Thine easy service prove :
Lowly and meek in heart, I see
The art of governing like thee,
Is governing by love.
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pOME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
^-^ To whom we for our children cry:
The good desired and wanted most,
Out of thy richest grace supply 1
The sacred discijjline be given,
To train and bring them up for heaven.
2 Answer on them the end of all
Our cares, and pains, and studies here;
On them recover'd from their fall,
Stamn'd with the humble character I
Raised by the nature of the Lord,
To all their paradise restored.
3 Error and ignorance remove,
Their blindness both of heart and mind ;
Give them the wisinm from above.
Spotless, and peaceable, and kind:
In knowledge pure their minds renew ;
And store with thoughts divinely true.
4 Learning's redundant part and vain
Be here cut otF, and cast aside :
But let them. Lord, the substance gain,
In every solid truth abide ;
Swiftly acquire, and ne'er forego
The knowledge fit for man to know.
5 Unite the pair so long disjoin'd,
Knowledge and viUl piety :
Learning and holiness combined.
And truth and love let all men se«,
446 FAMILY WORSHIP.
In those whom up to thee we ^ive,
Thine, wholly thir.e, to die and live.
6 Father, accept them throujh thy Son,
And ever by thy Spirit giiiiie !
Thy wisdom in their lives l.e shown,
Thy name confess'd and glorified ;
Thv power and love diffused abroad,
Till all the earth is fiU'd with God.
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TV/TASTER supreme, I look to thee
^^'^ For ^race and wisdom from above;
Vested with thy authority,
Endue me with thy patient love :
2 That taught according to thy will,
To rule my family aright,
I may th' appointed charge fulfil,
With all my heart and all my might
3 Inferiors, as a sacred trust,
I from the sovereign T/ird receive,
That what is suitable and just,
Impartial I to all may give :
4 O'erlook them with a guardian eye ;
From vice and wickedness restrain;
Mistakes and lesser faults pass by,
And govern with a looser rein.
5 The servant faithfully discreet.
Gentle to him, and good, and mild.
Him I would tenderly entreat,
And scarce distinguish from a child.
6 Tet let me not my place forsake,
Th' occasion of his stumbling prove.
The servant to my bosom lake.
Or mar him by familiar love.
FAMILY WORSHIP. 447
7 Order, if some invert, confound,
Their Lord's authority betray,
1 hearken to the gospel sound,
And trace the provideutial way.
8 As far from abjectness as pride,
With condescending dignity :
Jesus, I malie thy word my guide.
And keep the post assigu'd by thee.
9 0 could I emulate the zeal
Thou dost to thy poor servants bearl
The troubles, griefs, aud burden feel,
Of souls intrusted to my care !
10 In daily prayer to God commend
The souls whom Christ expired to save;
And think how soon my sway may end,
And all be equal in ttie grave !
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T AND my house w-ill serve the Lord :
•'• But first obedient to his word
I must myself appear:
By actions, words, and tempers, abow
That I my heavenly Master know,
And serve with heart sincere.
2 I must the fair example set :
From those that on my pleasure wait
The stumbling block remove ;
Their duty by my life explain,
And still in all my works maintain
The dignity of love.
3 Easy to be entreated, mild,
Quickly appeased and reconciled,
A follower of my God :
A saint indeed I long to be.
And lead my faithful famU/
1b tbe t^stiai ivai.
448 Family wokship.
4 Lord, if thou didst the wish infuse,
A vessel fitted for thy use
Into thy hands receive :
Work in me both to will :ind do:
And show them how believers true
And real Christians live.
5 With all-sufficient gn^ce supply,
And. lo ! I come to testify
The wonders of thy nnme !
Which saves from sin, the world, and hell.
Whose virtue every heart may feel,
And every tongue proclaiui.
6 A sinner, saved myself from sin,
1 come my family to win.
To preach their sins forgiven ;
Children, and wife, aiiJ servants seize,
And through the paths of jiieasantness
Conduct them all to heaven,
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FIRST PART.
■pATHER of all, by whom we arCj
■'■ For whom was made whatever is;
\Vho hast intrusted to our care
A candidate for glorious bliss:
2 Poor worms of earth, to thee we en-,
For erace to ruide what grace lias given ;
We ask for wisdom from on hiph,
To train our infant up for heaven.
3 We tremble at the daneer near,
And crowds of wretcht 1 parents see.
Who, blindly fond, their ciuldreii rear
In tempers far as bell from thee.
4 Themselves the slaves of sense and praise
Their babes thay pamper and admire ;
FAMILY WORSHIP. 449
And ijiske the helpless infinfs piss
To murderer Muloch, through the fire.
Uxl/ridge—p. 98.] SECOND PART.
OR, if thou grant a longer date,
With resolute wisdoni us endue,
To point him out his lost estate,
His dire aposlacy to show :
2 To time our ever)- smile or frown ;
To mark the bounds of good and ill ;
And beat the pride of nature down.
And bend or break his rising will.
3 Him let us teni severely kind,
As guardians of his ?i'!dy youth:
As set to form his tender mind,
By principles of virtuous truth.
4 To fit his soul for heavenly grace j
Discharge the Christian parent's part ;
And beep him till thy love t3ikes place
And Jesus rises in bis heart.
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r^APTAIN of our salvation, take
^ The snuls we here present to thee,
And fit for thy great service make
These heirs of immortality :
And let them in thine image rise,
And then transplant to paradise.
2 Unspotted from the world and pure,
Preserve them for thy glorious cause,
Accustom'd daily to endure
The welcome burden of thy cross.
Inured to toil and patient pain,
Till all thy perfect m'bd Ihey gain.
3 Our sons henceforth be whol' y thine,
And serve and love thee all their days;
Freely as they receive to give,
And preach the death by which we live.
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fyHE power to bless my house
^ Belongs to God aloue ;
Yet rendering him my constant vows,
He sends his blessings down.
2 Shall I not then engage
My house to serve the Lord,
To search the soul-converting page ,
And feed upon his word :
3 To ask with faith and hope
The grace his Spirit supplies,
la prayer and praise to offer up
Their daily sacrifice?
4 Let each his sin eschew,
Through thy restraining grace,
Our father ALr'am's steps pursue^
And walk in all thy ways.
6 Saviour of men, incline
The hearts which thou hast m de,
Which thou hast Ix)ug:ht with blood divine,
To ask thy promised aid.
6 Me and my house receive.
Thy family f increase,
jLnd let us in thy favour live,
And let ui die in peace.
BIRTHDAY. 451
BIRTHDAY,
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r^ OD of my life, to thee
^-^ My cheerful soul I raise !
Thy goodness bade me be,
And still prolongs my days;
I see my natal hour return,
And bless the day that I was born. ,
2 A clod of living earth,
I glorify thy name,
From whom alone my birth,
And all my blessings came ;
Creating and preserving grace,
Let idl that is within me praise.
3 Long as I live beneath,
To thee 0 let me live,
To thee my every breath
In thanks and praises give !
Whate'er I have, uhate'er I am,
Shall magnify my Maker's name.
4 My soul and all its powers,
Thine, wholly thine shall bcj
All, all my happy hours
I consecrate to thee ;
Me to thine image now restore.
And I shall praise thee evermore.
5 I wait thy will to do.
As angels do i n heaven :
In Christ a creature new,
Most graciously forgiven :
I wait thy perfect will to prove,
All sanctified by spotless love.
A WAY with our fears! the g-lad morning appears,
•"• When an heir of salvation was Ixjm !
From Jehovah I came, for his glorj' I am,
And to him I with singing return.
2 Thee, Jesus, alone, the fountain I own,
Of my life and felicity here :
And cheerfully sing my Redeemer and King,
Till his sign in the heavens appear.
5 With thanks I rejoice in thy fatherly choice
Of my slate and condition below :
If of parents I came who honour'd thy name,
'Twais thy wisdom appointed it so.
4 I sing of thy grace, from my earliest days,
Ever near to allure and defend ;
Hitherto hast thou been my Preserver from sin,
And I trust thou wilt save to the end.
6 0 the infinite cares, and temptations, and snarei^
T:jy hand hath conducted me through !
O the blessings bestow'd by a bountiful God,
And the mercies eternally new !
6 What a mercy is this ; what a heaven of blissj
How unspeakably happy am 1 1
Gather'd into thy fold, with thy people enroll'd,
With thy people to live and to die !
BIRTHDAY. 453
7 0 the goodness of God, in emploj-ing a clod,
His tribute of glory to raise ;
His standard to bear, and with triumph declare
His unspeakable riches of grace !
8 0 the fathomless love that has deign'd to
approve,
And prosper the work of my hands !
With my pastoral crook, I went over the brook,
And behold I am spread into bands !
9 ^VhOj I ask in amaze, hath begotten me these ?
And inquire from what quarter they came ;
My full heart it replies, They are Ixjrn from the
skies.
And gives glory to God and the Lsunb.
10 All honour and praise to the Father of grace,
To the Spirit and Son, I return I
The business pursue he hath maJe me to do.
And rejoice that I ever was bom.
11 In a rapture of joy my life I employ.
The God of my life to proclaim ;
Tis worth living for this, to administer bliss,
And salvatiou m Jesus's name.
12 My remnant of days I spend in his praiie.
Who died the whole world to redeem :
Be they many or few, my days are his due.
And they ai\ are devoted to him.
Who, joyful ill hamionious lays,
Employ an endless rest.
2 Thus, Lord, while we remember thee,
We blest and pious grow ;
By hymns of praise we learn to be
Triumphant here below.
3 On this glad day a brighter scene
Of glory was display'd,
By God, th' eternal Word, than when
This universe was made.
4 He rises, who mankind lias bought
With grief and pain extreme :
'Twas great to speak the world from naught;
'Twas greater to redeem.
5 Alone the dreadful race he ran.
Alone the winepress trod ;
He dies and sufl'ers as a man.
He rises as a God.
6 The Sun of righteousness appears,
To set in blood no more;
Adore the Scatterer of your fears.
Your rising Sun adore.
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/^UR Lord is risen from the dead ;
^-^ Our Jesus is gone up on high !
The powers of hell are captive led,
Dra^'d to the portals ot the iky.
RESURRECTION. 455
There his triumphal chariot waits,
And angels chant the solemn lay ;
Lift up your heads, ye heavenly gates ;
Ye everlasting doors, give way.
2 Loose all your bars of massy light,
And wide unfold th' ethereal scene ;
He claims these mansions as his right,
Receive the King of glory in.
Who is the King of glory ? Who ?
The Lord that all our foes o'ercame.
The world, sin, death, and hell o'erthrew ; —
And Jesus is the conqueror's name.
3 Lo ! his triumphal chariot waits,
And angels chant the solemn lay ;
Lift up you" heads, ye heavenly gates;
Ye everlai./Dg doors, give way.
Who is the King of glory ? \V ho ?
The Lord, of glorious power possess'd ;
The King of saints and angels too,
God over all, for ever bless'd.
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TJE dies ! the Friend of sinners dies!
■"■ Lo ! Salem's daughters weep around;
A solemn darkness veils the skies,
A sudden trembling shakes the ground :
Come, saints, and drop a tear or two
For him who groao'd beneath your load :
He shed a thousand drops for you,
A thousand drops of richer blood.
2 Here's love and grief beyond degree,
The Lord of zlory dies for man !
But lo ! what sudden joys we see :
Jesus the dead revives again !
The rising God forsakes the tomb ;
(In vaiB th« tomb forbids his ris«0
Then ask the monster, " Where's thy sting?"
And, " Where's thy victory, boasting grave ?"
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"\7"E faithful snuls, whn Jesus know,
■*■ If risen indeed with him ye are,
Superior to the joys below.
His resurrection's power declare.
2 Your faith by holy tempers prove :
By actioi;s show your sins forgiven !
And seek the glorious things aljove,
And follow Christ, your Head, to heaven.
3 There your exalted Saviour see.
Seated at God's right hand again,
In all itis Father's majesty,
In ever.asting pomp to reign.
4 To him continually aspire,
Contending for your native place:
And emulate the angel choir,
And only live to love and praise.
b For who by faith your Lord receive.
Ye nothing seek or want beside ;
Dead to the world and sin ye live;
Your creature love is crucified.
6 Your real life with Christ conceal'J,
Beep in the Father's bosom lies ;
And glorious as your Head r«veal'd.
Ye toon shall meet him in the skies.
FOR THE SABBATH. 457
FOR THE SABBATH.
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C^VEET is the work, my God, my K'vag,
^ To praise thy name, ^ire thanks, and aogl
To show thy love by morning light,
And talk of all thy truth by night.
2 Sweet is the day of sacred rest,
No mortal cares shall seize my breast,
0 may my heart in tune be found,
Like David's harp of solemn sound !
3 When grace has purified my heart,
Then I shall share a glorious part :
And fresh supplies of joy are shed.
Like holy oil to cheer my head.
4 Then shall I see, and hear, and know
All I desired or wish'd below ;
And every hour find sweet employ
In that eternal world of joy.
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MAY I, throughout this day of thine
Be in thy Spirit, Lord,
Spirit of humble fear divine,
That trembles at thy word.
2 Spirit of faith, my heart to raise,
And fix on things above ;
Spirit of sacrifice and praise.
Of holiness and love.
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WELCORfE, sweet day of rest,
' ' That saw the Lord arise :
Welcome to this reviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes !
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13 Bweeier uiau (en loousaua aajl
Of pleasurable ain.
4 My willing sonl would stiy
In such a mme as this,
And sit and sing herself away
To e%'erlasting bliss.
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"p ETURN, my soul, enjoy thy rest,
•^ Improve the day thy God has blesi'd,
Another six days' work is done,
Another sabbath is begun.
2 Come, bless the Lord, whose love assigns
So sweet a rest to wearied minds.
Provides a blest foretaste of heaven,
On this day more than all the seven.
3 O that our thoughts and thanks may ris«,
As grateful incense to the skies ;
And draw from Christ that sweet repose,
Which none but he that feels it knows.
4 This heavenly calm within the breast
Is the blest pledge of glorious rest,
Which for the church of God remains.
The end of cares, the end of pains.
6 With joy, great God, thy works we (can.
Creation's sceue, redemption's plan,
With praise we think on mercies past,
With hope we future pleasures taste.
FOR THE SABBATH. 459
6 In holy duties let the day
In holy comforts pass away ;
How sweet, a sabbath thus to spend.
In hope of one that ne'er shall end '.
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'T'HE Saviour meets his flock to-day,
-'• Shall I in sloth abide at home ?
Shall I behind the people stay,
When Jesus kindly bids me come?,
I'll go ; it is a place of prayer,
In hope that God may meet me there.
2 How long did faithful Hannah wait,
And ser\-ed the Lord for many years.
Attending at the temple gate,
With fasting, and with many tears !
She seldom left the house of prayer,
Till God was pleased to meet her there.
3 Then, 0 my Lord I give me the power ;
And like the saints, Til watch for thee;
In earnest wait the joyful hour
When thou shalt be reveal'd in me :
Now give the justifying grace,
And saved from sin, show me thy face.
4 Remove temptation, 0 my Lord,
And let mine enemies be slain,
Which would withdraw me from thy word,
And plunge me in the world again :
And always ready may I stand
To take my seat at thy right hand.
Source of the old prophetic fire,
Fountain of life and love.
2 Come, Holy Ghost, for, moved by thee,
The prophets wrote and spoke ;
Unlock the truth, thyself the key,
Unseal the sacred book.
3 Expand thy wings, celestial Dove,
Brood o'er our nature's night ;
On our disorder'd spirits move,
And let there now be light.
4 God, through himself, we then shall know,
If thou within us shine ;
And sound, with all thy saints below,
The depths of love divine.
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FATHER of all, in whom alone
We live, and move, and breathe.
One bright, celestial ray dart down,
And cheer thy sons beneath.
2 'While in thy word we search for thee,
(We search with trembling awe !)
Open our eyes, and let us see
The wonders of thy law,
3 Now let our darkness comprehend
The light that shines so clear ;
Now the revealing Spirit send.
And give us ears to bear.
READING THE SCRIPTURES. 461
4 Before us make thy goodness psss,
Which here by faith we know;
Let us in Jesus see thy face,
And die to all below.
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INSPIRER of the ancient seers,
Who wrote from thee the sacred page.
The same through all succeeding years ;
To us, in our degenerate age,
The Spirit of thy word impart.
And breathe the life into our heart.
2 While now thine oracles we read.
With earnest prayer and strong desire,
0 let thy Spirit from thee proceed,
Our souls t' awaken 3inJ inspire ;
Our weakness help, our darkness chase,
And guide us by the light of grace.
3 Whene'er in error's paths we rove.
The living God through sin forsake.
Our conscience by thy word reprove,
Convince, and bring the wand'rers back ;
Deep wounded by thy Spirit's sword.
And then by Gilead's balm restored.
4 The sacred lessons of thy grace,
Transmitted through thy word, repeat,
And train us up in all thy ways,
To make us in thy will complete:
Fulfil thy love's redeeming plan,
And bring us to a perfect man.
6 Fumish'd out of thy treasurv,
0 may we always ready stand.
To help the souls redeem'd by thee.
In what their various states demand j
To teach, convince, correct, reprove;
And build tbem up ia holiest love.
Directs our doubtful feet j
Here promises of heavenly love
Our ardent wishes meet.
3 Our numerous griefs are here redress'd,
And all our wants supplied :
Naught we can ask to make us blest
Is in this book denied.
4 For these inestimable gains,
That so enrich the mind,
O may we search with ea^er pains,
Assured that we shall find.
535 Ascension^p. 33.] C. ftL
FATHER of mercies, in thy word
What endless glorv shines !
For ever be thy name adored
For these celestial lines.
2 Here may the wretched sons of want
Exhaustless riches find,
Riches above what earth can grant,
And lasting as the miud.
3 Here the fair tree of knowledge grows.
And yields a free repast,
Sublimer sweets than nature knows^
Invite the longing taste.
4 Here the Redeemer's welcome voice
Spreads heavenly peace around ;
BEADING THE SCRIPTURES. 463
Aod life, and everlasting joys,
Attend the bliisful sound.
5 0 may these heavenly pages be
My ever dear delight ;
And still new beauties uiny I see,
And still increasing light !
6 Divine Iiistructer, gracious I/>rd,
Be thou for ever near ;
Teach me to love thy sacred word,
And view my Saviour there.
536 AfO/on— p. 145.] l8tP.M.6ttn«&
CPIRIT of truth, essential God,
^ Who didst thy ancient saints inspire.
Shed in their hearts thy love abroad.
And touch their hallow'd lips wiln fire:
Our God from all eternity,
World without end we worship thee.
2 Still we believe, almighty Lord,
Whose presence fills both earth and beanBt
The meaning of the written word
Is by thy inspiration given;
Thou only dost thyself explain
The secret mind of Grod to man.
8 Come, then, divine Interpreter,
The Scriptures to our hearts apply,
And, taught by thee, we God revere,
Him in Three Persons magnify:
And still the triune God adore,
Who was, and is, for evennors.
(jome, ana wiin us, even us auiae,
Who would on thee alone rely ;
On thee alone our spirits stay,
While held in life's uneven way.
3 Strangers and pilgrims here below,
This earth we know is not our place j
But hasten through the vale of wo.
And, restless to behold thy face.
Swift to our heavenly country move,
Our everlasting home above.
3 We have no 'biding city here,
But seek a city out of sight ;
Thither our steady course we steer.
Aspiring to the plains of light,
Jerusialem, the saints' abode,
Whose founder is the living God.
4 Patient th' appointed race to run.
This weary world we cast behind ;
From strength to strength we travel on,
The New Jerusalem to find ;
Our labour this, our only aim,
To find the New Jerusalem.
5 Through thee, who all our sins hast boma
Freely and graciously forgiven,
Witli songs to Zion we return,
contending for our native heaven;
That palace of our glorious King j
We find it uearer while we ling.
PROSPECT OF HEAVEN. 465
6 Raised by the breath of love divine,
We urge our way with stren^ renew'd,
The church of the first-born to join,
We travel to the mount of God,
With joy upon our heads arise,
And meet our Saviour in the skies.
538 Richmond— p. 259.] 10th P. AL 8 Iin« St.
T LONG to behold hira array'd
•'■ With glory and light from above;
The King in his beiuty display'd,
His beauty of holiest love :
1 languish and sigh to be there,
Where Jesus hath fixM his abode ;
0 when shall we meet in Uie air.
And fly to the mountain of God !
2 With him I on Sion shall stand.
For Jesus hath spoken the wora,
The breadth of Immauuel's land
Survey by the light of my Lord:
But when on thy Ijosom reclined.
Thy face I am strenfthen'd to see,
My fulness of rapture I find.
My heaven of heavens in thee.
3 How happy the people that dwell
Secure in the city above !
No pain the inhabitants feel,
No sickness or sorrow shall prove ;
Physician of souls, unto me
Forgiveness and holiness give ;
And then from the body set free,
And then to the city receive.
539 ParadUe—p. 40.] C. M.
T^HERE is a land of pure delight,
■*■ Where saints immortal reign ;
20*
stand dress'd in living greeu:
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan roU'd betweeo.
4 Could we but climb where Moses stood,
And view the landscape o'er ;
Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood,
Should fright us from the shore.
540 NegiTWthr-p. 171.] 1st P. >L 6 linu Ss,
nPHOU, Lord, on whom I still depend,
-•• Shalt keep me faithful to the end ;
1 trust thy truth, and love, and power,
Shall save me till my latest hour ;
And when I lay this body down,
Reward with an immortal crown.
Jesus, in thy great name I go.
To conquer death, my iinal foe ;
And when I quit this cumbrous clay,
And soar on angels' wings away.
My guul the secoud death deties.
And reigns eternal in the skies.
o Eye hath not seen, nor ear hath heard.
What Christ hath for his saints prepared ;
Who conquer through their Saviour's might,
Who bink into perfection's heisl^t.
And trample death beneath their feet.
And gladly die their Lord to meet.
PROSPECT OF HEAVEN. 467
4 Dost thou desire to know or see
What thy mysterious name shall be ?
Contendiu? for thy heavenly home,
Thy latest foe in death o'ercome ;
Till then thou searchest out in vain,
What only conquest can explain.
54 1 Portland— p. 251 .] 10th P. M. S Una 8$.
A WAY with our sorrow and fear,
-'*■ We soon shall recover our home ;
The city of saints shall appear;
The day of eternity come.
From earth we shall quickly remove.
And mount to our native abode;
The house of our Father above,
The palace of angels and God.
2 Our mouminsc is all at an end.
When, raised by the life-giving Wordj
We see the new city descend,
Adom'd as a bride for her Lord :
The city so holy and clean,
No sorrow can breathe in the air:
No gloom of affliction or sin ;
No shadow of evil is there !
3 By faith we already beiiold
That lovely Jerusalem here :
Her walls are of jasper and gold,
As crystal her buildings are clear;
Immoveably founded in grace,
She stands as she ever hath stood.
And brightly her Builder displays.
And flames with the glory of God.
4 No need of the sun in that day
Which never is follow'd by night,
^AHiere Jesus's beauties display
A pure and a permanent light ;
The name of angelical love
Is kindled at Jesus's face ;
And all the enjoyment above
Consists in the rapturous gaze!
542 ffope-p. 139.] S. M.
TIT'S know, by faith we know,
*' If this vile house of clay,
This tabernacle sink below,
In ruinous decay ;
We have a house above.
Not made with mortal hands ;
And firm as our Redeemer's love
That heavenly fabric stands.
2 It stands securely high,
Indissolubly sure ;
Our glorious mansion in the sky
Shall evermore endure:
O were we enter'd there !
To perfect heaven restored !
0 were we all caught up to share
The triumph of our Lord !
3 For this in faith we call ;
For this we weep and pray:
0 might the tabernacle fall :
0 might we 'scape away !
Full of immortal hope,
We urge the restless strife,
PROSPECT OF HEAVEN. 469
And hasten to be swallow'd np
Of everlasting life.
4 Absent, alas ! from God,
We in the body mourn.
And pine to guit this mean abode,
And languish to return.
Jesus, rejard our vows,
And change our faith to sijht;
And clothe us with our nobler houM
Of everlasting light '.
6 0 let us put on thee
In perfect holiness !
And rise prepared thy face to see,
Thy bright, unclouded face:
Thy erace with glory crown,
Who hast the earnest given ;
And then triumphantly comedown.
And take us up to heaven !
Sardinia— p. 25S,] 10th P. M. 8 linei 8a.
'T'HE church in her militant state
-*■ Is weary, and cannot forbear !
The saints in an agony wait,
To see Him again in the air!
The Spirit invites in the Bride,
Her heavenly Lord to descend :
And place her enthroned at his side.
In glory that never shall end.
2 The news of his coming I hear,
And join in the catholic cry :
O Jesus, in triumph appear;
Appear in the clouds of the sky t
Whom only I languish to love.
In fulness of majesty come ;
And give me a mansion above ;
And take to my heavenly home !
Crowns of glory on tbeir bead.
2 Saints, bejin the endless song,
Cry aloi.d in heavenly lays,
Glory doth to God belong,
God the glorious Saviour praise :
All salvation from him came ;
Him who reigns enthroned on high:
Glory to the bleeding L,;imb,
Let the morning stars reply.
3 Angel-powers the throne surround,
Next the saints in glory they ;
Lnll'd with the transporting sound.
They their silent homage pay :
Prostrate on their face, before
God and his Messiah fall ;
Then in hymns of praise adore,
Shout the Lamb that died for all
4 Be it so, they all reply :
Him let all our orders praise;
Him that did for sinners die,
Saviour of the favour'd race!
Render we our God his right,
Glor)', wisdom, thanks, nnd power;
Honour, majesty, and might ;
Praise him, praise him evermore!
545 Edstficld—p.23S.] 7th P. M. 8 Zinw 7«.
"VyHO are these array'd in white,
Brighter than the noon-day sun ?
PROSPECT OF HEAVEN. 471
Foremost of the sons of light;
Nearest the eternal throne?
These are they that bore the cross,
Nobly for their Master stood ;
Sutferers in bis righteous cause :
Followers of the dying God.
2 Out of great distress they came ;
Wash'd their robes by faith below
In the blood of yonder Lamb,
Blood that washes white as snow ;
Therefore are they neit the throne,
Serve their Maker day and night :
God resides among his own,
God doth in his saints delight.
3 More than conquerors at last,
Here they find their trials o'er ;
They have all their sufl'erings past,
Hunger now and thirst no more :
No excessive heat they feel
From the sun's directer ray ;
In a milder clime they dwell.
Region of eternal day.
4 He that on the throne doth reign.
Them the Lamb shall always feed;
With the tree of life sustam ;
To the living fountains lead ;
He shall all their so^ro^^ s chase.
All their wants at once remove ;
Wipe the tears from every face;
FiU up ever>- soul with love.
546 ArU7tston—p. 3.] C. >L
/^N Jordan's stormy banks I stattd,
^^ And cast a wishful eye.
To Canaan's fair and happy land.
Where my possessions lie.
472 PROSPECT OF HEAVEN.
2 0 the transporting, rapCrous scene,
That rises to my sisiit !
Sweet fields array'd in living green.
And rivers of delight !
3 There gen'rous fruits that never fail
On trees immortal ^row:
There rocks, and hills, and brooks, and vala^
With milk and honey flow.
4 All o'er those wide extended plains
Shines one eternal day ;
There God the Son for ever reigns.
And scatters night away.
5 No chilling winds nor pois'nous breath
Can reach tliat healthful shore;
Sickness and sorrow, pain and death.
Are felt and fear'd no more.
6 When shall I reach that happy place.
And be for ever blest ?
When shall I see my Father's face,
And in his bosom rest ?
7 Fill'd with delight, my raptured soul
Would here no longer stay !
Though Jordan's waves around me roll,
Fearless I'd launch away.
8 There on those hish and flowery plaim
Our spirits ne'er shall tire ;
But in perpetual joyful strains
Redeeming love admire.
547 Devotim—f. 46.] C. M.
T^Y span of life will soon be done,
■^'■'- The passing moments sav ;
As length'ning shadows o'er the mead
Proclaim the close of day.
PROSPECT OF HEAVEN, 473
0 that my heart might dvreU aloof
From all created things,
And learn that wisdom froni alx)ve,
Whence true contentment springs !
2 Courage, my soul, thy bitter cross,
In everj- trial here.
Shall bear thee to thy heaven above.
But shall not enter there.
The sighing ones that humbly seek
In sorrowing paths below,
Shall in eternity rejoice,
^Vhere endless comforts flow.
3 Soon will (he toilsome strife be otr
Of sublunary care,
And life's duli vanities no more
This anxious breast insnare.
Courage, my soul, on God rely,
Deliv'rance soon will come ;
A thousand ways has Providence
To bring believers home.
4 Ere first I drew this vital breath.
From nature's prison free,
Crosses in number, measure, weight.
Were written, Lord, for me:
But thou, my Shepherd, Friend, and Guida,
Hast led me kindly on,
Taught me to rest my fainting bead
On Christ, the corner stone.
6 So comforted, and so sustam'd,
AVith dark events 1 strove.
And found, when rightly undcrstocxl.
All messengers of love ;
With silence and submissive awe.
Adored a chast'nin| God,
Revered the terrors of his law,
And humbly kiss'd th« rod.
474 PROSPECT OP HEAVEN.
548 Alderton—ii.\X.] 4thP. M. 886,88i
TJOW happy is the pilgrim's lot ;
^^ How free from every anxious thought,
From worldly hope and fear!
Confined to neither court nor cell,
His soul disdains on earth to dwell.
He only sojourns here.
2 This happiness in part is mine,
Already saved from low design,
From every creature love !
Blest with the scorn of finite E;ood,
My soul is lighten'd of its load,
And seeks the things above.
3 The things eternal I pursue;
A happiness beyond the view
Of those that basely pant
For things by nature felt and seen ;
Their honours, wealth, and pleasures mean,
I neither have nor want.
4 I have no babes to hold me here :
But children more securely dear
For mine I humbly claim :
Better than daughters or than sons.
Temples divine of living stones,
Inscribed with Jesus' name.
5 No foot of land do I possess ;
No cottage in this' wilderness:
A poor way-faring man,
I lodge awhile in tents below ;
Or gladly wander to and fro,
Till I my Canaan gain.
6 Nothing on earth I call my own ;
A stranger to the world, unknown,
I all tii«ir goods deiptie ;
PKOSPECT OF HEAVEN. 475
I trample on their whole delight.
And seek a city out of sight,
A city in the skies.
7 There is my house and portion fair ;
My treasure aud my heart are there,
And my abidiug home ;
For me my elder bretiiren stay.
And anjjels beckon me away,
And Jesus bids me come !
8 I come, thy servant, Lord, replies;
I come to meet thee in the skies.
And claim my heavenly rest !
Now let the pilgrim's journey end ;
Now, 0 my Saviour, Brother, Friend,
Receive me to thy breast 1
549 Mwood— p. 262.-i 10thP.M.8Zin«8*.
STILL out of the deepest abyss
Of trouble, I mournfully cry :
And pine to recover my peace,
And see my Redeemer, aud die.
1 cannot, I cannot forbear,
These passionate longings for home;
0 ! when shall my spirit be there ;
0 ! when will the messenger come.
2 Thj' nature I long to put on,
Thme image on earth to regain ;
And then in the grave to lay down
This burden of body and pain.
0 Jesus, in pity draw near,
And lull me to sleep on thy breast,
Appear, to my rescue appear.
And gather me into thy rest !
3 To take a poor fugitive in.
The arms of thy mercy display.
And give me to rest from all sin.
And bear me triumphant away ;
476 FUNERAL HYMNS.
Away from a world of distress,
Away to the mansions above ;
The heaven of seeing thy face,
The heaven of feeling thy love.
FUNERAL HYMNS.
550 China— p. 7.] C. M.
'T'HEE we adore, eternal Name!
■*• And humbly own to thee
How feeble is our mortal frame,
AVhat dying worms we be !
2 Our wasting lives grow shorter still,
As days and months increase :
And every beating pulse we tell
Leaves but the number less.
3 The year rolls round, and steals away
The breath that first it gave :
Whate'er we do, where'er we be,
We 're travelling to the grave.
4 Dangers stand thick through all the ground
To push us to the tomb ;
And fierce diseases wait around
To hurry mortals home.
6 Great God ! on what a slender thread
Hang everlasting tilings !
Th' eternal states of all The dead
Upon life's feeble strings.
6 Infinite joy or endless wo
Attends on every breath ;
And yet how unconcern'd we go
Upon the briiiii of death !
FUNERAL HYMNS. 477
7 Waken, 0 Lord, our drowsy sense
To walk this dangerous road ;
And if our souls are hurried hence
May they be found with God !
551 Aylesbury— p. UO.] S. M.
FIRST PART.
A ND am I bom to die ?
-"■ To lay this body down ?
And must my trembling spirit fly
Into a world unknown ?
A land of deepest shade,
Unpierced by human thought;
The dreary regions of the dead,
Where all things are forgot 1
2 Soon as from earth I go,
What will become of me ?
Eternal happiness or wo
Must then my portion be :
Waked by the trumpet's sound,
I from my grave shall rise!
And see the Judge with glory crown'd.
And see the flaming skies !
3 How shall I leave my tomb?
With triumph or regret?
A fearful, or a joyful doom,
A curse, or blessing meet?
Will angtl bands convey
Their brother to the bar?
Or devils drag my soul away,
To meet its sentence there?
4 Who can resolve the doubt
That tears my anxious breast ?
Shall I be with the damn'd cast out,
Or nmnber'd wilb the blest ?
478 FUNERAL HYMNS.
1 must from God be driven,
Or with my Saviour dwell ;
Must come at his command to heaven,
Or else — depart to hell.
lUtleMarlhoroush—p.U\.-\ SECOND PAR
O THOU that wouldst not have
One wretched sinner die ;
Who diedst thyself, my soul to save
From endless misery !
Show me the way to slmn
Thy dreadful wrath severe ;
That when thou comest on thy throne,
I may with joy appear.
2 Thou art thyself the way,
Thyself in me reveal ;
So shall I spend my life's short day
Obedient to thy will :
So shall I love my God,
Because he first loved me ;
And praise thee in thy bright abode,
To all eternity.
552 Bedding— 1,.203.] 4th P. M. SS6, 886.
AND am I only born to die ?
And must I suddenly comply
With nature's stern decree ?
WTiat after death for nie remains?
Celestial jrvs, or hellish pains.
To all eternity !
2 How then ousht I on earth to live.
While God prolongs the kind reprieve.
And props the house of clay :
My sole concern, my single care.
To watch, and tremble, and prepare
A^inst tha^ fatal day !
FUNERAL HYMNS. 479
S No room for mirth or trifling here,
For worldly hope, or worldly fear,
If life so soon is gone ;
If now the Judge is at the door,
And all mankind must stand before
Th' inexorable throne !
4 No matter which my thoughts employ,
A moment's misery or joy ;
But 0 ! when both shall end,
Where shall I find my destined place?
Shall I my everlasting days,
With fiends or angels spend ?
5 Nothing is worth a thought beneath,
But how I may escape the death
That never, never dies !
How make mine own election sure ;
And when I fail on earth, secure
A mansion in the skies.
6 Jesus, vouchsafe a pit3ring ray,
Be thou my Guide, be thou my Way
To glorious happiness !
Ah ! write the pardon on my heart !
And whensoe'er I hence depairt,
Let me depart in peace !
553 Gainsborough— -p. 7.] C. >L
/~\ GOD, our help in ages past,
^-^ Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home:
2 Under the shadow of thy thronCi
Still may we dwell secure ;
Sufficient is thine arm alone.
And our defence is sure.
3 Before the bills in order stood.
Or earth received her frame.
480 FUNERAL HYMNS.
From everlasting thou art God,
To endless yean the same.
4 A thousand a^es in thy sight
Are like an evenins gone ;
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.
5 The busy tribes of flesh and blood,
With all their cares and fenrs.
Are carried downward by llie flood.
And lost in following years.
6 Time, like an erer-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away :
They fly, forgotten, as a aream
Dies at the op'ning day.
7 O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come ;
Be thou our guide wliile life sliall last,
And our perpetual home !
554 Esifpt—p. 136.] S. AL
A ND most this body die,
■"- This well-wrought frame decay ?
And must these active limljs of mine
Lie mould'ring in the clay ?
2 Corruption, earth, and worms,
Shall but refine this flesh.
Till my triumphant spirit comes
To put it on afresh.
S God my Redeemer lives,
And ever from the skies
Looks down and watches all my dust.
Till be shall bid it rise.
4 Array'd in glorious grace
Shall tbcM vile bcdiei shine,
FUNERAL HYMNS. 481
And every shape, and every face,
Be beaveuly and divioe.
5 These lively h^pes we owe,
Lord, to thy dyiijg love:
0 may we bless thy gmce below,
Aud sing thy f race above !
6 Saviour, accept the praise
Of these our humble songs,
Till tunes of nobler sounds we raise
With our imiuortal tongues.
555 Skieldi—p. 68.] C. M.
A NT) let this feeble body fail,
•'*■ And let it faint or die ;
My soul shall quit the mnnrnful vale,
And soar to worlds on high :
Shall jriin the disembodied saints.
And find its Ion? snujht rest :
That only bliss for «hich it pants.
In the Redeemer's breast.
2 In hope of that immortal crown
I now the cross sustain ;
And gladly wander up and down.
And smile at toil and pain :
1 suffer on my threescore years,
Till my Deliverer come ;
And wipe away his servant's tears,
And take his exile home.
3 0 what hath Jesus bought for me !
Befnre my ravish'd eyes
Rivers of life divine I see.
And ti-ees of paradise I
I see a world of spirits brigrht,
Who taste the pleasures there!
They all are robed m spotless white,
And cocqu'ring palms tbey bear.
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482 FUNERAL HYMNS.
4 O what are all my suff'rin;js here,
If, Lord, thou count me niuct
With that enraptured host t'appear,
And worsliip at thy feet I
Give joy or grief, give ease or pain,
Take life or friends away :
But let me find them all again
In that eternal day.
556 jrdch—p. 242.] 9th P. M. 8« & 7».
XJAPPY soul, tliy days are ended,
•*■■•■ All thy mourning days beluw;
Go, by angel guards attended,
To the sight of Jesus go.
Waiting to receive thy spirit,
Lo '. the Saviour stands above!
Shows the purchase of his merit.
Reaches out the crown of love.
2 Struggle through thy latest passion,
To tfiy great Redeemer's breast j
To his uttermost salvation.
To his everlasting rest.
For the joy he sets before thee,
Bear a momentary pain :
Die to live a life of glrry !
Suffer, with thy Lord to reign.
557 Carmel—p. 253.] 10th P. M. 8 linet9^
AH, lovely appearance of death !
What sight upon earth is so fair*
Not all the gay pageants that breatne
Can with a dead body compare;
With solemn delight I survey
The corpse, wlien the spirit is fled;
In love with the beautiful clay,
AuJ longing ts lie in it» stead.
rUNERAL HYMNS. 483
2 How blest is our brother, bereft
Of all that could burden his miud !
How easy the soul that has left
This wearisome body behind !
Of evil incapable, thou.
Whose relics with envy I see,
Ko longer in misery now.
No longer a sinner like me.
3 This earth is affected no more
With sickness, or shaken with pain ;
The war in the members is o'er,
And never shall vex him again:
No anger, henceforward, or shatne,
Shall redden this innocent clay:
Extinct is the animal flame,
And passion is vanish'd aw.ay.
4 This languishing head is at rest,
Its thinking and aching are o'er;
This quiet, immoveable breast.
Is heaved by affliction no more:
This heart is no longer the seat
Of trouble and torturing pain;
It ceases to flutter and beat.
It never shall flutter again.
5 The lids he so seldom could close,
By sorrow forbidden to sleep,
Now seal'd in their mortal repose.
Have strangely forgotten to weep !
The fountains can yield no supplies.
These hollows from water are free ;
The tears are all wiped from these eyes,
And evil they never shall see.
6 To mourn and to suffer is mine,
While bound in a prison I breathe,
And still for di^liverauce pine,
And press to the issues of death:
484 FUNERAL HYMNS.
What now with my tears I bedew,
O might I this momeut become!
Mv spirit created anew,
My flesh be cousign'd to the tomb.
658 Northampton— p. IS7.] 10th P.M. 8ZinM8«,
t> EJOICE for a brother deceased,
•'■'' Our loss is his infinite ^ain ;
A soul out of prison released,
And freed from its bodily chain;
With songs let us follow his flight,
And mount with his spirit alxive;
Escaped to the mansions of light,
And lodged in the Eden of love.
2 Our brother the haven hath gain'd,
Outflying the tempest and wind,
His rest he hath sooner obtain'd,
And left his companions behind;
Still toss'd on a sea of distress,
Hard toiling to make the blest shore)
Where all is assurance and peace.
And sorrow and sin are no more.
3 There all the ship's company meet,
Who sail'd with the Saviour beneath;
With shouting each olht- r they greet.
And triumph o'er sorrow and death:
The voyage of life's at an end,
The mortal affliction is past :
The age that in heaven they spend,
For ever and ever shall last.
559 Amana—i>. 291.] 13th P. M. 10 10, 11 IL
'^flS finish'd, 'tis done, the spir'.t is fled:
■*■ The prisoner is gone, the 'christian is dead)
The Christian is living, through Jesus's love,
And gladly receiving a kingiaOm above.
FUNERAL HYMNS. 485
2 All honour and praise are Jesus's diie :
Supported by grace he fought his way through ;
Triumphantly glorious through Jesus's zeal,
And more than Tictorious o'er sin, death, and
hell.
3 Then let ns record the conquering name ;
Our Captain and Lord with shoutings proclaim;
Who trust in his passion and follow our Head,
To certain salvation we all shall be led.
4 0 Jesus ! lead on thy militant care-;
And give us the crown of righteousness there,
Where, dazzled with glory, the senphim garej
Or prostrate adore thee, in silence of praise.
5 Come, Lord, and display thy sign in the skjr,
And bear us away to mansions on high :
The kingdom be given, the purchase divine,
And crown us in heaven eternally thine.
560 Northampton— p.ZS'.] lOfhP.M. 8Kn«&,
XJOSANNA to Jesus on high !
■»^ Another has enter'd his rest ;
Another has 'scaped to the sky,
And lodged in Immanuel's breast;
The soul of our sister is gone
To heighten the triumph above;
Exalted to Jesus's throne,
And clasp'd in the arms of his love.
2 What fulness of rapture is there,
While Jesus his glory displays;
And purples the heavenly air,
And scatters the odours of grace:
He looks — and his servants in light
The blessings ineffable meet :
He imiles — and they faint at his sight,
And fall overwhelm'd at hu'feet
486
FUNERAL HYMNS.
3 How happy the angels that fall,
Transported at Jesus's name ;
The saints whom he soonest shall call.
To share in the fe.ist of the Lamb!
No longer imprisoned in clay,
Who next from his dungeon shall fly?
Who first shall be summon'd away,
My merciful Lord — is it 1?
4 0 Jesus, if this be thy will,
That suddenly I should depart;
Thy counsel of mercy reveal,
And whisper the call in my he&rt;
0 give me a signal to know,
If soon thou wouldst have me remove ;
And leave the dull body below,
And fly to the regions above.
561 A'assau— p. 230.] 7th P. iL 8 Itn«» 7«.
"DLESSING, honour, tlianks, and praise,
-'-' Pay we, gracious God, to thee ;
Thou, in thine abundant grace,
Givest us the victory;
True and faithful to thy word,
Thou hast glorified thy Son,
Jesus Christ, our dying Lord,
He for us the fight bath won.
2 IjO '. the prisoner is released,
Lighten'd of his fleshly load :
Where the we.iry are at rest,
He is gather'd into God !
Lo ! the pain of life is past,
All his warfare now is o'er;
Death and hell behind are cast,
Grief and suffering are no more.
3 Tes, the Christian's course is run.
Ended is the g-lorious strife ;
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Fought the fight, the work is done,
Death is swallowM up of life!
Borne l^y angels on their wings,
Far frnm earth the spirit flies:
Finds his God, and sits, and sings,
Triumphing in paradise.
4 Join we then with one accord
fn the new, the joyful song :
Absent from our lovii;g Ij^rd
We shall not continue long:
We shall quit the house of clay,
We a better lot shall share;
We shall see the realms of day.
Meet our happy brother there.
5 Let the world bewail their dead.
Fondly r f their loss complain :
Brother, friend, by Jesus freed.
Death, to thee, to us, is gain .
Thou art enter'd into joy:
Lei the unbelievers mourn:
We in songs our lives employ
Till we all to God return.
562 Mcrrism—ip. 4S7.] L. M.
"XTyFTY should we start and fear to die ?
What tinvrous worms we mortals ard
Death is the gate to endless joy,
Aud yet we dread to enter there.
2 The pain', the groans, the dying strife,
Fright nur approaching souls away ;
And we shrink back again to life,
Fond of our prison and our clay.
3 0 if my Lord would come and meet.
My soul would stretch her wings in baste,
Fly fearless through death's iron gate,
Nor feel the terrors as she pass'd !
488 FUNERAL HYMNS,
4 Jesus can make a dying bed
Feel soft as downy pillows are,
While on his breast I lean my head,
And breathe my life out sweetly there.
563 TVitidsar—p. 67.] C. M.
TTARK ! from the tombs a doleful sound,
■*■•"• My ears attend the cr)' :
*'Ye living men, come view the ground
Where you must shortly lie.
2 " Princes, this clay must be your bed,
In spite of all your towers ;
The tall, the wise, the reverend head,
Shall lie as low as ours."
3 Great God ! is this our certain doom !
And are we still secure !
Still walking downward to the tomb,
And yet prepared no more !
4 Grant us the power of quick'ning ?race,
To fit our souls to fly j
Then when we drop this dying flesh,
We'll rise above the sky.
564 Condolcjice—p. 209.] 5th P. M. 8 Una '
TTARK ! a voice divides the sky;
■^^ Kappy are the faithful dead I
In the Lord who sweellv die.
They from all their toils are freed !
Them the Spirit hath declared
Blest, unutterably blest ;
Jesus is their ^reat reward,
Jesus is their endless rest.
2 Follow'd by their works, they go
Where their Head is gone before ;
Reconciled by grace below,
Grace bath openM mercy's door;
FUNERAL HYMNS. 489
Justified through faith alone,
Here they linew their sins foi^ven ,
Here they laid their burden down,
Hallow'd, and made meet for heaven.
3 Who can now lament the lot
Of a saint in Christ deceased ?
Let the world, who know us not,
Call us hopeless and unblest:
When from flesh the spirit freed,
Hastens homeward to return,
Mortals cry, " A man is dead !" -
Angels sing, " A child is bom !"
4 Bom into the world above,
They our happy brother greet;
Bear him to the throne of love.
Place him at the Saviour's feet :
Jesus smiles, and says, " Wei! done.
Good and faithful servant thou!
Enter, and receive thy crown,
Reign with me triumphant now."
5 Angels catch th" approving sound,
Bow, and bless the just award ;
Hail the heir with ^lory crown'd,
Now rejoicing with his Lord :
Fuller joys-ordaiii'd to know,
Waiting for tlie general doom,
When Ih' archangel's trump shall blow,
"Rise, ye dead, to judgment come."
565 Canton— p. 71.] C. M.
TITHY do we mourn for dying friendi,
"'' Or shake at death's alarms ?
'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends,
To cajl them to his arms.
2 Are we not tending upward too,
A» fast as time can move ?
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490 FUNERAL HYMNS.
Nor shoiilJ we wish the hours more slow
To keep us from our love.
3 Why should we tremble to convey
Their bodies to the tomb ?
There once tlie flesh of Jesus lay,
And left a long perfume.
4 The graves of all his s-iints he blest.
And soften'd every bed:
Where should the dying members rest,
But with their dying Head ?
5 Thence he arose, ascending high,
And show'd our feet the way:
Up to the Lord our flesh shall fly,
At the great rising day.
6 Then let the last loud trumpet sound.
And bid our kindred rise :
Awake, ye nations under ground ;
Ye saints, asceud the skies \
566 Quito— p. 94.] L. M.
QHRINKING from the cold hand of death,
*^ I soon shall gather up my feet ;
Shall soon resign this fleeting breath,
And die, — my father's God to meet.
2 Number'd among tliy people, I
Expect with joy thy face to see : —
Because thou didst fur sinners die,
Jesus, in death remember me !
3 0 that without a ling'rins; groan
I may the welcome word receive!
My body with my charge lay down.
And cease at once to work and live '.
4 Walk with me through the dreadful shade,
And, certified that thou art mine,
My spirit, calm and undismay'd, s
I shall JBto thy hands resign.
FUNERAL HYMNS. 491
5 No anxious doubt, no guilty gloom,
Shall damp whom Jesus' presence cheers:
My light, my life, my God is come,
And glory in his face appears !
567 Kingsbrid§e—i>.n'.'] L. M.
■pASS a few swiftly fleeting years,
■^ And all that now in bodies live
Shall quit, like me, the vale of tears,
Their righteous sentence to receive.
2 But all, before they hence remove,
May mansions for themselves prepare,
In that eternal house above :
And, 0 my God, shall I be there?
568 Zimeftouse— p. 116.] L. M.
'T'HE morning flowers display their sweeti,
-'■ And gay their silken leaves unfold,
As careless of the noontide heats,
As fearless of the evening cold.
2 Nipp'd by the wind's unkindly blast,
Parch'd by the sun's directer ray,
The momentary glories waste.
The short-lived beauties die awav.
3 So blooms the human face divine,
When youth its pride of beauty shoTn,
Fairer than spring the colours shine,
And sweeter than the virgin rose.
4 Or worn by slowly-rolling years.
Or broke by sickness in a day,
The fading glory disappears,
The short-lived beauties die away.
6 Yet these, new rising from the tomb,
With lustre brighter far shall shine.
Revive with ever-during bloom.
Safe from diseases and decline.
492 FUNERAL HYMNS.
6 Let sickness blast, l-„t death devour,
If heaven must recompense our pains:
Perish the grass, and fade the flower,
If firm the word of God remains.
569 SZate/orrf— p. 306.] 20th P. M. 66, 77, TT.
A GAIN we lift our voice,
■^ And shout our solemn joy!
Cause of higliest raptures this.
Raptures that shall never fai
See a soul escaped to bliss,
Keep the Christian festiva. !
2 Our friend is gone before
To that celestial shore;
He hath left his mates behind.
He hath all the storms outrode;
Found the rest we toil to find,
Landed in the arms of God.
3 And shall we mourn to see
Our fellow prisoner free ?
Free from doubts, and griefs, and fean.
In the haven of the skies:
Can we weep to see the tears
Wiped for ever from his eyes ?
4 No, dear companion, no !
We gladly let thee go.
From a suffering church beneath,
To a reigning church above:
Thou hast more than conquer'd death ;
Thou art crown'd with life and love.
b Thou in tliv youthful prime
Hast leap'd the bounds of time:
Suddenly from earth relexsed,
Lo ! we now rejoice for thee ;
Taken to an early rest.
Caught into eternity.
FUNERAL HYMNS. 493
6 Thither may we repair,
That glorious bliss to share !
We shall see the welcome day,
We shall to the summons bow:
Come, Redeemer, come a«ay :
Noiv prepare, and take us now !
570 Poland— -p. 65.] C. M.
"VTAIN man, thy fond pursuits forbear;
' Repent, thy end is ni^h :
Death at the farthest can't be far: '
0 ! think before thou die.
2 Reflect ; thou hast a soul to save ;
Thy sins, how hijh they mount!
What are thy hopes beyond the ^rave?
How stands that dark account ?
3 Death enters, and there 's no defence ;
His time there's none can tell ;
He '11 in a moment call thee hence,
To heaven, or down to hell.
4 Thy flesh, perhaps thy greatest care,
Shall crawlin? worms consume :
But ah ! destruction stops not there;
Sin kills beyond the tomb.
ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD,
571 £rainerd—p. 61.] C. M.
fyHT life I read, my gnicious Lord,
-*■ With transport all divine ;
Thine ima?e trace in every word,
Thy love in every line.
2 Methinks I see a thousand charms
Spread o'er thy lovely face,
While infants in thy tender arms
Receive the smiling grace.
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3 " I take these little lambs," said he,
"And lay them in my hreast;
Protection they sli.iU liiid in me,
In me be ever bUst.
4 " Death may tlie bands of life unloose,
But can't dissolve my love:
Millions of infant souls compose
The family above.
5 " Their feeble frames my power shall raise.
And mould with heavenly skill;
I'll give them tongues to sing my praise,
And hands to do my will."
6 His words the happy parents hear,
And shout with joys divine;
O Saviour, all we liave and are
Shall be for ever thine.
DESCRIBIXG JUDGMENT.
572 Sutioji— p. 119.] S.M.
'T'HOU Judge of quick and dead,
■*• Before wliose bar severe,
With holy joy, or guilty dread,
We all shall soon ajipear ;
Our caution'J souls prt-pare
For that tremenious day.
And fill us now with watchful care,
And stir us up to pray :
2 To pray, and wait the hour.
That awful hour unknown,
When, robed in majesty and power,
Thou shalt from heaven come down,
DESCRIBING JUDGMENT. 495
Th' immortal Son of man,
To judge the human race,
Wi'h all thy Father's c!az7lin; train,
With all thy glorious grace.
3 To (lamp our earthly joys,
T' increase oijr eraci'>us fears,
For ever let th' archangel's voice
Be soiindin? in tmr ears ;
The solemn mi Inisht cry,
" Ye dead, the Judge is come !
Arise, and meet him in tlis sky, -
And meet your instant doom !"
4 0 may we thus bo fnucd
Obedient to thy word.
Attentive to the trumpet's sound,
And looking for our Lord !
O may we all ensure
A lot among the blest :
And watch a moment to secure
An everlasting rest.
5 73 Zionr-p. 24 1 .] 8th P. M 87 87, 47.
LO! He comes, with clouds descending,
Once for fivour'd sinners slain !
Thousand thousand saiiils attending,
Swell the triumph of his train!
Hallelujah !
God appears on earth to reign.
2 Every «ye shall now behold him
Robed in dreadful majfsty ;
Those who set at naught and sold him,
Pierced and nail'd him to the tree.
Deeply wailir.g,
Shall the true ilessiah see.
3 The dear tokens of his passion
Still his dazziJiig body bean
496 DESCRIBINO JUDGMENT.
Cause of endless exultation
To his ransom'd worshippers;
With what rai'ture
Gaze we on these glorious scars !
4 Tea, Amen ! Iff all adore thee,
High on thy eternal throne !
Saviour, taie llie power and glory,
Claim the kinedoui for thine Own I
Jah ! Jehovah !
Everlasting God, come down !
674 Sttmefidd—p. 99.] L. M.
TLJE comes ! he comes ! the Judge severe !
■*■•'• The seventh trumpet speaks him near;
His lightnings flash, his thunders roll ;
How welcome to the faithful soul !
2 From heaven angelic voices sound ;
See the almighty Jesus crown'd !
Girt with omnipotence and grace.
And glory decks the Saviour's face.
3 Descending on his azure throne,
He claims the kingdoms for his own ;
The kingdoms all obey his word,
And hail him their triumphant Lord!
4 Shout, all the people of the sky,
And all the saints of the Most High ;
Our Lord, who now his right obtains.
For ever and for ever reigns.
575 Emma— p. 202.] 4th P. M. 8S6, 888.
nnHOU God of glorious majesty,
•*• To thee, against myself, to thee,
A worm of earth I cry !
A half awakeu'd child of man,
An heir of endless bliss or pain,
A sinner bom to die !
DESCRIBING JUDGMENT. 497
2 Lo ! on a narrow neck of land,
Twixt two unbounded seas I stand,
Secure, insensible :
A point of time, a moment's space,
Removes me to that heavenly place,
Or shuts me up in hell.
3 0 God, mine inmost soul convert,
And deeply on my thoughtful heart
Eternal things impress:
Give me to feel their solemn weight,
And tremble on the brink of fate,-
And wake to righteousness!
4 Before me place in dread array
The pomp of that tremendous day,
When tliou with clouds shall coiiw>
To judsre the nations at thy bar;
And tell me, Lord, shall I be there.
To meet a joyful doom ?
5 Be this my cne great business hem.
With serious industry and fear
Eternal bliss t' ensure ;
Thine utmost counsel to fulfil,
And suffer all thy righteous will.
And to the end endure.
6 Then, Saviour, then my soul receirs.
Transported from t!;is vale, to live
And reign with thee above :
Where faith is sweetly lost in sight,
And hope in full, supreme delight.
And everlasting love.
576 St.Jsaphs—p. 2S2.] 12th P.M. 76,76,78,7a
^TAND th' omnipotent decree!
*^ Jehovah's will be d ine 1
Nature's end we wait to see,
And hear her final groan ;
498 DESCRIBING JUDGMENT.
Let this earth dissolve, and blend
In death the wicked and the just;
Let those poinl'rniis nrl/'s descend,
And grind us into dust.
2 Rests secure the riichteous man,
At his Redeemer's heck,
Sure t' emerge and rise again.
And mount ahove the wreck :
Lol the heavenly spirit towers,
Like ftames o'er nature's funeral pyre»
Triumphs in immortal powers,
And claps his w ings of fire !
3 Nothing hath the just to Irse,
By worlds on worlds destroy'd;
Far beneath his feet he views,
With smiles, the flaming void ;
See this universe renew'd,
The jrand millennial reign begun;
Shouts with all the sons of God,
Around th' eternal throne!
4 Resting in this glorious hope,
To be at last restored.
Yield we now our bodies up,
To earthquake, pla=:ue, or sword:
Li^f'ning for the call divine.
The latest trumpet of the seven.
Soon our soul and dust shall join,
And both fly up to heaven.
577 Maiden— p. 65.] C. M.
A ND must I be to judgment brought,
■^ And answer in I hat day
For every vain and idle thought,
And every word I say f
2 Yes, every secret of mv heart
Shall shortly be made jcnowa.
DESCRIBING JUDGMENT. 499
And I receive my just desert
For all that 1 have done.
3 How careful then ought I to live '.
With what religious fear,
Who such a strict account must give
For my behaviour here !
4 Thou awful Judre of quick and dead,
The watchful power bestow ;
So shall I to my ways take heed,
To all I speak or do.
5 If now thou standest at the door, -
0 let me feel thee near '.
And make my peace with God, before
1 at thy bar appear.
578 Old ffundred^p. 87.] L. M.
'T'HE great archangel's trump shall sound,
■*• (While twice ten thousand thunders roar,)
Tear up the graves, and cleave the ground,
And make the greedy sea restore.
2 The greedy sea shall yield her dead.
The earth no more her slain conceal ;
Sinners shall lift their guilty head,
And shrink to see a yawning hell.
3 But we, who now our Lord confess.
And faithful to the end endure,
Shall stand in Jesus' righteousness,
Stand as the Rock of ages, sure.
4 We, while the stars from heaven shall fall.
And mountains are on mountains hurl'd.
Shall stand unmoved amidst them all,
And smile to see a burning world.
6 The earth, and all the works therein,
Dissolve, by raging flames destroyed ;
500 DESCRIBING JUDGMENT.
While we survey the awful scene,
And mount above the fiery void.
6 By faith we now transcend the skies.
And on that ruin'd world look down:
My love above all height we rise,
And share the everlasting throne.
579 Bangor— J). 70.] C. M.
npHAT awful day will surely come,
■*■ Th' appointed hour njakes haste.
When I must stand before my Judge,
And pass the solemn test.
2 Jesus, thou source of all my joys,
Thou ruler of my heart,
How could I bear to hear thy voice
Pronounce the sound, " Depart !"
3 The thunder of that awful word
Would so torment my ear,
Twould tear my soul asunder. Lord,
With most tormenting fear.
4 What, to be banish'd from my Lord,
And yet forbid to die !
To linger in eternal pain,
And death for ever fly !
6 O wretched state of deep despair,
To see my God remove,
And fix my doleful station where
I must not taste his love !
580 S.ieria— p. 240.] 8th P. M. 87, 87, 47.
T IFT your heads, ye friends of Jesut,
^ Partners in his patience here:
Christ, to all believers precious.
Lord of lords, shall soon appear :
Mark the tokens
Of bis heavenly kingdom near.
DESCRIBING JUDGMENT. 501
2 Hear all nature's groans proclaiming
Nature's swift-approachin» doom!
War, and pestilence, and faniiue,
Signify the wrath to come ;
Cleaves the centre,
Nations rash into the tomb.
3 Close behind the tribulation
Of these last tremendous days ;
See the flamin? revelation !
See the universal blaze !
Earth and heaven
Melt before the Judge's face !
4 Sun and moon are both confounda .
Darken'.! into endless ni^ht.
When with an^el hosts surrounded.
In his Father's jlory bright,
Beams the Saviour,
Shines the everlasting light.
5 See the stars from heaven falling}
Hark, on earth the doleful cry ;
Men on rocks and mountains calline;.
While the frowning Judge draws at^
"Hide us, hide us.
Rocks and mountains, from his eve . ■
6 With what different txtiamation
Shall the saints his banner see !
By the monuments of his passion,
By the marks received for me !
Jt^l discern him,
All with shouts cry out, " 'Tis he!
7 " Lo ! 'tis he ! our hearts' desire,
Come for his espoused below ;
Come to jom us with his choir,
Come to make our joys o'erflow :
Palms of victory
Crowns of glory to bestow."
502 DESCRIBING JUDGMENT.
8 Tes, the prize shall soon be given ;
We his open face shall see :
Love, the earnest of our heaven,
Love our full reward shall be :
Love shall crown us
Kings through all eternity !
581 Colcshill—p. 66.] C. M.
'IIT'O to the men on earth who dwell,
' ' Nor dread tli' Almischty's frown ;
When God doth all his wrath reveal,
And shower his judgnjents down.
2 Sinners, expect those heaviest showers:
To meet your God prepare !
For, lo ! the seveu'h augel pours
His vial on the air.
3 Lo ! from their seats the mountains leap ;
The mountains are not found ;
Trajisported far into the deep,
And in the ocean drown'd.
4 Who then shall live and face the throne,
And face tlie Judge severe ?
When heaven and earth are tied and gone,
0 where shall I appear?
5 Now, only now against that hour
We may a place provide ;
Beyond the grave, beyond the power
Of hell our spirits liide :
6 Firm in the all-destroying shock,
May view the final scene;
For, lo I the everlasting Rock
Is cleft to take us in 1
582 Zealand— p. 26S.] 11th P. M. 76,76,T?,"6w
JESDS, faithful to his word.
Shall with a shout de&cend:
DESCRIBING JUDGMENT. 503
All heaven's host their glorious Lord
Shall .ioyfully attend.
Christ sliall come with dreadful noise,
Lightnings swift, and thunders loud^
With the ereat archangel's voice,
And with the trump of God.
2 First the dead in Christ shall rise ;
Then we that yet remain
Shall be caught up to the skies,
And see our Lord again.
We shall meet liini in the air;
All wrapt up to heaven sliall be;
Find, and love, and praise him there,
To all eternity.
3 Who can tell the happiness
This glorious hope aB'ords ?
Joy unutter'd we possess
in these reviving words:
Ha)ipy while on earth we breathe;
Mightier bliss ordain'd to know :
Trampling down sin, hell, and death,
To the third heaven we go.
583 • Geneua— p. 65.] C. M.
T) Y faith we find the place above,
■*-' The rock tliat rent in twain :
Beneath the shade of dying love,
Aud in the cleft remain.
2 Jesus, to thy dear wounds we flee;
We sink iufo thy side ;
Assured that all who trust in thee
Shall evermore abide.
3 Then let the thund'ring trumpet sound j
The latest lightnings glare ;
The mountains melt; the solid ground
Dissolve M liquid air ;
504 DESCRIBING JUDGMENT.
4 The huge celestial bodies roll
Amidst the general fire ;
And shrivel as a parchment scroll,
And all in smoke expire !
5 Yet still the Lord, the Saviour reigns,
When nature is destroy'd :
And no created thin^ remains,
Throughout the flaming void.
6 Sublime upon his ar.ure throne,
He speaks th' almighty word :
His^t is ohey'd ! 'tis done;
And paradise restored.
7 So be it! let this system end !
This ruinous eirth and skies!
The New Jerusalem descend !
The new creation rise !
8 Thy power omnipotent assume!
Thy brightest majes'y !
And when thou dost iu glory come.
My Lord, remember me !
584 Witham—y. IS2.] 4ih J-. M< ^86, 886.
TTOW happy are the little flock,
-'^ Who, safe beneath their guardian rock,
In all commotions rest !
When war's and fumu!fs ^Wlves run high,
Unmoved above the storm they lie,
They lodge in Jesus' breast.
2 Such happiness, 0 Lord, have we,
By niprcy gather'd into thee.
Before the floods descend ;
And while the bursting cloud comes down,
We mark the vengeful day begun.
And calmly wait the end.
DESCRIBING JUDGMENT. 505
3 The plague, and dearth, and din of war,
Our Saviciii's swift approach declare,
And bid our hearts arise :
Kirth's basis shnok, coi.firnis our hope:
its cities' tail but lifts us up.
To meet thee in the skies.
4 Thy tokens we with joy confess ;
The "ar proclaims tlie Prince of peace;
The earMiijuake speaks thy power:
The fiiiiii;e a!l thy fuli:ess brinjs;
The pla?ue pret-eiits thy healing wings,
And nature's tiiial hour.
5 Whatever ills the world befall,
A pledge of endless good we call ;
A si^n of Jesus near;
His chariot will not long delay;
We he;ir the runilling v. heels, and pray,
" Triunipliant Lord, appear :"
6 Appear willi clouds on Sion's bill,
The word aiid mysleiy to fulfil,
Thy coiifess'irs t' approve :
Thy uienibers on thy throne to place,
AtuJ stamp tliy name on every face,
In glorious heavenly love I
585 Oldford—p. 125.] S. M.
BEHOLD ! with awful pomp
The Judge prepares to come ;
Th' archangel sounds the dreadful tnimp,
And wakes the general doom.
2 Nature, in wild amaze,
Her dissolution mourns ;
Blushes of bloc I ftie moon deface,
The sua to darkness turns.
3 The living look with dread ;
The frighted dead arise :
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506 DESCRIBING JUDGMENT.
Start from the monumental bed,
And lift their ghastly eyc«.
4 Horrors all hearts appal,
They quake, they shriek, they cry ;
Bid rocks and mountains ou them fall ;
But rocks and mountains fly.
5 Ye wilful, wanton fools,
Let dangers piake you wise :
Carnal professors, carelesa souls,
Unclose your sleeping eyes.
6 'Tis time we all awake ;
The dreadful day draws nears
Sinners, your proud presumption check,
And stop your wild career.
7 Now is th' accepted time,
To Christ for mercy fly :
O turn, repent, and trust in him,
And you shall never die.
8 Great God, in whom we live.
Prepare us for that day :
Help us in Jesus to believe.
To watch, and wait, and pray.
586 Drummond—p.2o0.] 9th P. M. 87,87,87 81
■piGHTEOUS God ! whose vengeful viali
^*' All our fears and thouglits exceed ;
Big with woes and fiery trials.
Hanging, bursting o'er our head :
While thou visitest the nations, j
Thy selected people spare ;
Ann our caution'd souls with patience, '
Fill our humbled hearts with prayer. '
2 If thy dreadful controversy
With all flesh is now be^n ;
DISMISSION. 507
In thy wrath remember mercy ;
Mercy first and last be shown ;
Plead thy cause with sword and fire :
Shake us till the curse remove ;
Till thou com'st, the world's desire,
Conquering all with sovereign love.
3 Every fresh alarmins; token
More confirms the faithful word;
Nature, (for its Lord hath spoken,)
Must be suddenly restored :
From this national confusion ;
From this ruin'd earth and skies ;
See the times of restitution ;
See the new creation rise !
4 Vanish, then, this world of shadows;
Pass the former things away :
Lord ! appear ! appear to glad us
With the dawn of endless day !
0 conclude this mortal story !
Throw this universe aside !
Come, eternal King of glory.
Now descend, and take thy Bride!
DISJnsSION.
587 £Iessing~'p.3--i.] 9th P. M. 87,87,87,87.
T ORD, dismiss us with thy blessing,
■'-' Bid us now depart in peace;
Still on heavenly manna feeding.
Let our faith and love increase :
Fill each breast willi conyilation ;
Up to thee our hearts we raise :
When we reach our blissful station.
Then we'll give thee nobler praise.
Hallelujah I
508
ADDITIONAL HYMNS.
588 Kingsvoood—p.2-7.] 12th PJH. 76,76,78,78i
T 0 ! I cnme with jny to do
^ The Master's tilessed will —
Him in outward works pursue,
And sen-e his pleasure slill.
Faithful to my lord's C'lnimands,
I still would choose the better parti
Serve with careful Martha's bands
And loving Mary's heart.
2 Careful without care I am,
Nor feel my ha;'py toil :
Kept in peace by Jesus' name,
Supported by his smrle;
Joyful thus my faith to show,
i find his ser\'ice my reward ;
Every work I do below,
I do it to the Lord.
3 Thou, O Lord, in tender love
Dost all my buriens bear!
Lift my heart to things above.
And fix it ever there !
Calm on tumult's wheel I sit,
'Midst busy multitudes alone,
Sweetlv waiting at thv feet.
Till "all thy will be done.
4 Thou, 0 Lord, my portion art,
IJefore I hence remove 1
Now, my treasure and my heart
Are all laid up above:
Far above all earthly things,
While yet my hands are here employM,
Sees mv soul the King of king*,
And 'freelf t^u vttta God.
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6 0 that all the art might know
Of living thus to thee !
Find their hea%'en begun below,
And here thy glory see !
Walk in all the works prepared
By thee to eiercise llieir grace;
Till they gain tlieir full reward,
And see thy glorious face !
589 Pensford—p.265.] 11th P.M. 76,76,77,78.
THOU, my God, art good and wise.
And infinite iu poiver:
Thee let all in earth or skies
Continually adore!
Give me thy converting grace.
That I may obedient prove;
Serve my Maker all my days,
And my Redeemer love.
2 For my life, and clothes, and food,
And every coiicfort here.
Thee, my most indulgent God,
I thank with heart sincere:
For the blessings numberless,
Which thou liast already given :
For my smallest spark of grace.
And for my hope of heaven.
3 Gracious God, my sins forgive,
And lliy eood Spirit impart!
Then shall 1 in thee believe
With all my loving heart:
Always unto Jesus lonk.
Him in heavenly glory see,
Who my cause hath undertook.
And ever prays for me.
4 Grace, in answer to his prayer,
And every grace bestow ;
510 ADDITIONAL HYMNS.
That I may with zealous care
Perform thy will below;
Rooted in humility,
Still in evfry stale resign'd,
Plant, almighty Lord, in me
A meek and lowly mind.
6 Poor and vile in my own eyes,
With self-abasin? shame,
Still I would myself despise,
And mignify thy name;
Thee let every creature bless,
Praise alone to God be given ;
God alone deserves the praise
Of all in earth and heaven.
590 Omnipotence— p. 168.] 1st P. M 6 lint$ 8i.
A LL thing:s are possible to him
■'*■ That can in Jesus' name believe:
Lord, I no moic thy truth blaspheme,
Thy truth I lovingly receive j
1 can, I do believe in thee,
All things are possible to me.
2 The most impossible of all
Is that I e'er from sin should cease ;
Yet shall it be, I know it sliall ;
Jesus, look to thy faithfulness !
If nothing is too hard for thee,
All things are possible to me.
3 Though earth and hell the word gainsay,
The word of God can never fail ;
The Lamb shall take my sins away,
'Tis certain though impossible;
The thing impossible shall be :
All things are possible to me.
4 When thou the work of faith hast wroagbt,
I here shall in thine image shine,
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Nor sin in deed, or word, or thought ;
Let men exclaim and fiends repine,
They cannot break the firm decree ;
All thing? are possible to me.
5 Thy month, 0 Lord, hath spoke, hath Bworn,
That I shall serve thee without fearj
Shall find the pearl which others spurn,
Holy, and pure, and perfect here ;
The servant as his Lord shall be ;
All things are possible to me.
6 All things are possible to God. .
To Christ, the power of God in man,
To me, when I am all renew'd,
When I in Christ am fomi'd again,
And witness, from all sin set free.
All things are possible to me.
591 Spring Grove— p. 165.'] IstP.M.6Zt»J«8fc
OGOD of our forefathers, hear,
And make thy faithful mercies known;
To thee, through Jesus, we draw near,
Thy sufferinz, v.ell-beloved Son;
In whom thy smiling face «e see.
In whom thou art well pleased with me.
2 With solemn faith we offer up,
And spread before thy glorious eyes,
That only ground of all our hope,
That precious bleeding sacrifice,
Which brings thy grace on sinners down,
And perfects all our souls in one.
3 Acceptance through his only name.
Forgiveness in his blood we have ;
But more abundant life we claim,
Through him who died our souls to save;
To sanctify us bv his blood.
And fill with ali the life of God.
512 ADDITIONAL HYMNS.
4 Father, behold thy dying Son,
And bear the blood that speaks above I
On us let all thy erace be shmvu :
Peace, rishleousness, and jov, and love !
Thy kingdom come to even' lieart,
And all thou hast, ai.d all thou art.
O"^ Dan-sun — p. S4.] L. M.
A BHAHAM, when severely tried,
■^ His faith by his obedience sOow'd j
He wiih tlie harsh coniniaiid c^nipliea,
And fave his Isaac back to God.
2 His son the fnther offer'd up,
Son nf his a;e, his only son ;
Object of all his joy and h'<pe,
And less beloved thau God alore,
3 O for a faith like his, that we
The bright example nsjay p'irBue!
May gladly give up all to tlit-p,
To whom our more than all is due.
4 Now, Lord, to thee our all we leave,
Our willing soul thy mM oSirvs ;
Pleasure, and weilth, and fdii.e. we give,
Freedom, and life, — to wm lb) g:Tace.
5 Is there a thing than life uicre Jear?
A thing from which we raiiii'-l (.art?
We can ; we now rqoice tri tear
The idiil from our bleediug heart.
6 Jesus, riccept our sacrifice ;
All things for thee we c'>unl but loaa:
Lo! at thy word our idol dies.
Dies on the altar of thy cross.
7 For wh-«i *o thee, O Lord, we give,
A hundred-fnld we here ol)tain ;
And soon with thee shall alt receive,
And loss shall be eteinal gain.
ADDITIONAL HYMNS. 513
593 Dedtcatiori— p. 309.] 20th P. M. 66,77,77.
HOW weak the thoughts and vain
Of self-deluded jr en !
Men who. fix'd to earth alone.
Think their houses shall endure;
Fondly ciU their lands their own,
To their distant heirs secure.
2 How happy then are we,
Who build, 0 Lord, on thee !
What can '"ur foundation shock ?
Though the shatter'd earth remove,
Stands our city en a rock.
On the Rock of heavenly love.
3 A horse we call our own,
Which cannot be n'erthrown:
In the seneral ruin sure,
Storms and earthquakes it defiet;
Built imnrn-eribly secure;
Built eternal in tlie skies.
4 High on Immauutl's land
We see the fabric stand ;
From a tolti ring world remove.
To our steadfast mansion there t
Our inheritance above
Cannot pass from heir to heir.
5 Those amaranthine bowers
(Unalienably ours)
Bloom, our infinite reward ;
Rise, our permanent abode ;
From the founded world prepared j
Purchased by the blood of God.
6 0 might we quickly tied
The place for us design'd '.
See the long-expected day
Of our full redemption here !
Let the shadows flee away ;
I>et the new-made world appear I
22* -
514 ADDITIONAL HYMNS.
7 High on thy ^reat white throne,
0 King of saints, come down !
In the New Jerusalem,
Now triumphantly descend;
Let the final trump proclaim
Joys begun which ne'er shall end.
594 Pug-oA— p.321.] 25thP.M. 77,87,77,87.'
■tlTORSHIP, and thanks, and blessing,
* • And strength, ascribe to Jesus !
Jesus alone defends his own.
When earth and hell oppress us.
Jesus with joy we witness.
Almighty to deliver ;
Our seals set to that God is true.
And reigns a King for ever.
2 Omnipotent Redeemer,
Our ransom'd souls adore thee;
Our Saviour thou, we find it now,
And give thee all the glory.
We sing thine arm uushorten'd,
Brought through our sore temptation:
With heart and voice in thee rejoice,
The God of our salvation.
3 Thine arm hfith safely brought us
A way no more expected,
Than when thy sheep pass'd through the deep.
By crystal walls protected.
Thy glory was our rearward.
Thy hand our lives did cover.
And we, even we, have pass'd the sea.
And marcb'd triumphant over.
4 Thy worKs we now acknowledge.
Thy wondrous loving kindness.
Which help'd thine own, by means unkDOnSi
And smote our foes with blrndness :
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Bv Satan's host surrounded,
Thou didst with patience arm us,
But wouldst not give the Syrians leave,
Or Sodom's sons, to harm us.
5 The world's and Satan's malice
Thou, Jesus, hast confounded,
And by thy grace, with songs of praise
Our happy souls resounded.
Accepting our deliverance,
We triumph in thy favour,
And for the love which now we prove,
Shail praise thy name for ever.
595 Jonah— ■p.2G2.] llth P.M. 76,76,77,76.
WHO is this gigantic foe
That proudly stalks along:
Overlooks the crowd below.
In brazen armour strong ?
Loudly of his strength he boasts :
On fiis sword and spear relies:
Meets the God of Israel's hosts.
And all their force defies.
2 Tallest of the earth-bom race,
They tremble at his power;
Flee before the monster's face,
And own him conqueror.
Who this mighty champion \s.
Nature answers from within;
He is in" wn wickedness.
My ncD Desetting sin.
3 In the strength of Jesus' name
I with the monster fight,
Feeble and unarm'd I am,
But Jesus is my might :
516 ADDITIONAL HYMNS.
Mindful of his mercies past,
Still I trust the same to prove :
Still my helpless soul I cast
Oil liis redeeming love.
4 With my sling and stone I go
Tofijlit the Hiilistine;
God hath sai.1 it sliall be so,
And I sliall conquiT siu j
On his promise I rely,
Trust in au almighty Lord ;
Sure to win the victory,
For he hath spoke the word.
5 In the strength of God I rise,
I run to meet my foe ;
Faith the word of power applies.
And lays the giant low :
Faith in jesus' conqVing name
Slines the sin-destroying stone;
Points tlie word's unerring aim,
And brings the monster down.
6 Rise, ye men of Israel, rise,
Your routed foe pursue ;
Shout his praises to the skies,
Who conquers sin for you :
Jesus doth for you appear.
He his conquering grace affords ;
Saves you, not with sword and spear,
The battle is the Lord's.
7 Every day the Lord of hosts
His mighty power displavs ;
Stills the proud Philistine' '-jst,
The threat'nin? Gittite slaj'a;
Israel's God let all bchnv
Conq'ror over sin proclaim ;
0 that all tha earth might know
The power of Jesus' Dame !
ADDITIOXAL HYMNS, 517
, spring— p. 206.] 5th P. M. 4 lirsu 1i.
JESUS, shall I never be
Firmly grounded upon thee?
Kever by thy work abide ?
Never in thy wounds reside?
2 O how wavering 13 my niind !
Toss'd about with every wind !
0 how quicklv doth my heart
From the living God depart !
3 Jesus, let my nature feel ,
Thou art G"d uncli.ingeable :
JAH, JEHOVAH, great I AM,
Speak into my soul thy name.
4 Grant that every moment I
May believe and feel tliee nigh,
Steadfastly behold thy face,
'Stiblish'd with abiding grace.
5 Plant, and root, and fix in me
All the mind that was in thee ;
Settled peace I then shall find ;
JiMUJ' is a quiet mind.
6 Anger I no more shall feel,
Alwavs even, always still ;
Meek'lj' on my God reclined ;
Jesus' is a gentle, mind.
7 I shall sutler and fulfil
All niy Father's gracious will ;
Be in all alike resign'd ;
Jems' is a patient mind.
8 When 'tis deeplv rooted here.
Perfect love shill cast out fear;
Fear doth servile spirits bind ;
Jesw^ is a noUe. mini.
9 When I feel it fixy within,
I shall have uo power to sin ;
518 ADDITIONAL HYMNS.
How shall sin an entrance find ?
Jesus' is a spoCess mind.
10 I shall nothing know beside
Jesns, and him crucified :
Peifectly to him be join'd :
Jesus'' is a loving mind.
11 I shall triumph e\-ermore,
Gratefully mr God adore ;
God so good, so true, so kind ;
Jestu^ is a tharikfitl mind.
12 Lowly, lovins^, meek, and pare,
I shall to the end endure ;
Be no more to sin inclined :
Jesus' is a constant mind.
13 I shall fully be restored
To the ima^e of my Lord ;
Witnessing to all mankind
Jesus' is i perfect mind.
597 Broadmead— p. XSO.'i IstP. M. 6 Itnafifc
TEfiUS, the gift divine I know,
" The gift divine I ask of thee :
That living water now bestow,
Thy Spirit and thyself on me :
Thou, Lord, of life the fountain art.
Now let me find thee in my heart!
2 Thee let me drink, and thirst no more
For drops of finite happiness :
Spring up, 0 Well, in licrvcniy power,
In streams of pure, perennial peace ;
In joy that none can take away.
In life, which shall for ever stay.
3 Father, on me the grace bestow,
Unblampable before thy sight,
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Whence all the streams of mercy flow ;
Mercy thy own supreme Jeligbt,
To me, for Jesus' sake impart,
And plant thy nature in my heart.
4 Thy mind throughout my life be shown,
While lisfniu? to the wretches' cry,
The widows' auJ the orphans' groan,
On mercy's wings I swiftly fly
The poor and helpless to relieve.
My life, my all for them to give.
5 Thus may I show the Spirit witbio,
Which purges me from every stain,
Unspotted from the world and sin,
My faith's integrity maintain ;
The truth of my religion prove,
By perfect purity and love.
|698 Euphrata—p.21i.-\ I2th P.M.7G,76,78,7«.
■pATHER, see this living clod,
^ This spark cf heavenly fire !
See my soul, the breath of God,
« Uoth after God aspire ;
Let it still to heaven ascend.
Till I my princii)le rejoin;
Blended with my glorious end.
And lost in love divine !
2 Lord, if thou from me hast bro&e
The power of outward sin ;
Burst this Babylonish yoke,
And njake me free within ;
Bid mv inbred sin depart,
And' I thy utmost word shall prove.
Upright both in life and neart,
And perfected in love.
3 God of all-sufficient grace.
My God ia Christ thpu art :
520 ADDITIONAL UYMnS.
Bid me walk before thy face,
Till I am pure in Iieart :
Till transforui'd by faith divine,
I gain that perfect live unknowik
Bright in all thine imnije shiue,
By putting on thy Son,
4 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
In council join again.
To restore thine image, lost
By frail, apostate n:an ;
O might 1 tliy form express.
Through faith begotten from above,
Stamp'd with real holimxs.
And fill'd with perfect love !
699 Wayland-p. 82.] L. M.
'T'HE voice that speaks Jehovah near,
■*• The still, srj:all voice, I Icng to hear,
O might it now my Lo; J proclaim.
And fill my soul ^vith hcl y shame 1
2 Ashamed I must for ever be.
Ashamed the God of \o\e to see,
If saints and prophets bile their face,
And angels tremble while they gaze !
600 Ledbury— p. 151.] 1st P. »!. 6 linc3 i&.
T AY to thy hand, 0 Gol of grace !
•»-' O God, the work is worthy theej
See at thy feet, of all the race
The chief, the vilest sinner see ;
And let me all thy mercy prove.
Thine utmost miracle of love,
2 Speak, and a holy thing and clean
Shall strangely be brought out of me ;
My Ethiop soul shall change her skin,
Redeem'd from alj iniquity ;
ADDITIONAL HYMNS. 521
I. even I, sliall then proclaim
The wonders wrought by Jesus' name.
3 Thee I shall then fir ever praise,
In spirit and in truth adore :
While all I am declares thy prace.
And bom of Gid, I sin no more.
Thy pure and ht-avenly nature share,
And fruit unto perfection bear.
ON THE DEATH OF A WIDOW.
60 1 Auburn— p. 260. ] lOth P.M. 8 lines St.
(^ rVE glory to Jesus our Head,
^^ With all that encompass hia throne ;
A widow, a widow in'leed,
A mother in Israel is rone !
The winter of trouble is past;
The storms of affliction are o'er;
Her struggle is ended at last,
And sorrow and Jeath are no more.
2 The soul has o'ertiXen her mate.
And caurhi him a?ain in the sky:
Advanced to bei holy estate.
Arid pleasure I hat never shall die:
Where glorified spirits, by sifht,
Converse in their happy abode ;
As s'ars in the firmainent bright.
And pure as the angels cfGod.
3 Behold ! wh^ a triumph is there,
Where at' in his p-nises a^ree ;
His beautiful character bear,
And shinr with the elnry t! ey seel
The ?lorv ( f God and the Lamb,
(While a'l in the ecsu.y ioin,)
Darts into the:r spiritual frame,
And give* the ei^oyment divine.
522 ADDITIONAL HYMNS.
4 In loud hallelujahs they sing.
And harmony echnes his praise:
When lo ! the cplestial Kiu»
Pours out the full lijht of his face ;
The joy neither anrel nnr saint
Can bear, so inctl':ibly preat ;
But lo ! the whole company faint.
And heaven is found — at his feet.
FOR THE MOHAMMEDANS.
602 Clarke— p. 149.] 1st P. M. 6 Una 8i.
OUN of unclouded righteousness,
*^ With healing in thy wings arise,
A sad benighted world to bless,
Which now in sin and error lies,
Wrapp'd in Eeyptian night profound.
With chains of hellish darkness bound.
2 The smoke of the infernal cave,
Which hilf the Christi:i!i world o'erspread.
Disperse, thou heavenly light, and save
The souls by that impostor led.
The Aral' tliief, as Satan bold.
Who quite destroy'd thy Asian fold.
3 0 mieht the blood of sprinklin; cry
For those who spurn tlie sprinkled bl)od;
Assert thy glorious Deity !
Stretch out thy arm, thou triune God;
The Unitarian fiend einel,
AiiJ clia<e his doctrine back to helL
4 Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Thou Three in One, and One in Three,
Resun.e thy own, for a?es lost,
Fii..sh the dire aposfacy ;
Thy universal claim maintain.
And LorJ of the creation reign I
>DDil TONAL HYMNS. 523
?*P TFE HEATHEN.
i03 Ply outh Dock— pMS.] lstP.M.6/»?i«8«,
LORD over all, if thou hast made,
Has' •> asiui'd every soul of man,
Whv is the grace to long delay'd ?
Why unfutfiird the saving plan ?
The bliss for Adam's race design'd,
When will it reach to all mankind ?
2 Art thou the God of Jews alone, '
And not the God of Gentiles too ?
To Gentiles make thy goodness known ;
Thy judgments to the nations show;
Awake them by the gospel call ;
Light of the world, illumine all !
3 The servile progeny of Ham
Seize as the purchase of thy blood ;
Let all the heathen know thy name :
From idols to the living God
The dark Americans convert.
And shine in every pagan heart !
4 As lightning launch'd from east to west.
The coming of thy kingdom be ;
To thee, by angel hosts confess'd.
Bow every soul and every knee :
Thy glory let all flesh behold !
An^ then fill up thy heavenly fold.
604 Roberts— \>. 158.] 1st P. M. 6 lineiSi.
r\ COME, thou radiant Morning Star,
^^ Again in human darkness thine 1
Arise resplendent from afar !
Assert thy royalty divine
Thy sway o'er all the earth maintain,
And DOW be^D thy glorious reign.
524 ADDITIONAL HYMNS.
2 Thjr kiDgdom, Lord, we long to see :
Thy sceptre o'er the nations shake ;
T' erect that final monarchy,
Edom for thy possession take:
Take (for thou didst their ransom find)
The purchased souls of all mankind.
3 Now let thy chosen ones appear,
And valiantly the truth maintain!
Dispread thy gracious kingdom here;
Fly on the rebel sons of men :
Seize them with faith divinely bold,
And force the world into thy fold !
DOXOLOGIES.
605 Zw<(m— p.74.] L.M.
f\ LORD, our God, we bless thee now,
^^ To thee our souls and bodies tiow :
With humblest awe fall down before
Thy throne, and joyfully adore.
God of our ancestors, we praise
The Father, Son, and Spirit of trace I
one glorious God, in Persons Tliree I
Our God to all eternity.
606 Old Hundred— 1>. 87.] L. M.
■p RAISE God, from whom all blessings floi
-*■ Praise him, all creatures here below J
Praise him above, ye heavenly host,
Fraiae Father, Son, and Holy Gboit.
ADDITIONAL HYMNS. 525
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TH Christian Soldier.
AM I a soldier of the cross,
Afolloiveroflhe Lamb?
And shall I fear to own his cause,
' Or blush to speak his name?
2 Must I be carried to the skies
On flowery beds of ease;
While others foug'it to win the prize,
And sail'd through bloody seas ?
3 Are there no fnes i ir me to face ?
Must I not stem the flood ?
Is this vile world a friend to grace,
1 To help me on to God?
4 Sure I must fight, if I would reign;
Increase niy courage, Lord ;
I'll bear the toil, endure the pain,
Supported by thy word.
6 Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they die;
They see the triumph from afar,
By faith they bring it nigh.
6 When that illustrious day shall rise,
And all thy armies shine
Id robes of victory through the gklea.
The glory shall be thine.
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A SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
COLLECTION OF HYMNS
FOR THE USE OF THE
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The last General Conference recommended to
the Editors and Agents of the Book Concern the
publication of some additional Hymns in the form
of a Supplement to our Hymn Book. For various
reasons, not now necessary to mention, this has
been delayed until the present time, though a con-
siderable number had been prepared for that pur»
pose, some selected from Charles Wesley and others,
and some bein? original. These, however, were
t\\ consumed by the late fire wh'ch destroyed our
Book-room.
As the plates for the Hymn Book were destroyed
by that disastrous event, by which it has become
oecessary to prepare a new set, we have availed oiir-
selves if this opportunity to add th« Mlovrbof
528 ADVERTISEMENT.
Supplement, coosistin; chiefly oC hymns adapted to :
special occzsious, such as dedications, anniversaries, '
&c. Some of these are original, having been pre- \
pared expressly for this purpose, but the most o(
them are selected from the festival and other Hymi ;
of the late Rev. Charles Wesley, than whom n >
man ever united the spirit of poetry, fervent piety ,
and evangelical sentiment more firmly and delight
fully together. But though his poetical genius ie<J
bim to write on almost alt subjects within the range
of Christian doctrine and duty, yet there were sfmie
usages not so familiar in his day, such as Sundar
School and Missionary anniversaries, to which but
few of his Hymns, however excellent in other
respects, seem to be adapted. This led the Editor to
seek to other sources for supplying this deficiency.
N. BANGS.
ifewrork, March 18, 1S36.
SUPPLEMENT.
ON LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR A
NEW CHURCH.
608 Mear—p. 3.] C. M.
■pEHOLD the sure foundation stone
-^ Which God in Sion lirs,
To build our heavenly hopes upon,
And bis eternal praise.
2 Chosen of God, to sinners dear,
We now adore thy name;
We trust our whole salvation here.
Nor can we suffer shame.
3 The foolish builJersj scribe and priest.
Reject il with disdain:
Tet on this mck the church shall rest,
And envy rage in vain.
4 What though the eates of bell withstood.
Yet must this buildinfj rise:
'Tis thine own work, almighty God,
And wondrous in our eyes.
609 Beikany— p. 211.] 6th P. M. 6 Kn« Tk
■p OCK of a^es, cleft for me,
■'■*' Let me hide myself in thee;
Let the water and the blood,
From thy wounded side which flow'd,
Be of sin the double cure.
Save from wrath and make me pore
2 Could my tears or ever flow,
Oonld my real no languor know,
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530 SUPPLEMENT.
These for Bin could not atone ;
Thou must save, anJ tliou alooe:
In my hand no price 1 bring,
hfinjply to thy cross I cling.
3 While I draw this fleeting breath,
When my eyes shall close in death,
When I rise to worlds unknown,
And liehold thee on thy throne.
Rock of a^es, cleft for me.
Let me hide myself in thee.
610 Euphrates-p.2-4.] 12th P.M. 76,76,78,71}
fpHOU, who tiasf in Sion laid
■*• The true foundation stone.
And with those a covenant majde,
Who build on tliat alone:
Hear us, Architect divine !
Great builder of thy church below ;
Now upon thy servants shine, .
Who seek thy praise to show. '
2 Earth is thine; her thousand hills
Thy mighty hand sustains;
Heaven thy awful presence Clli ;
O'er all thy glory reisus;
Yet the place of old prepared
By regal David's favour'd son,
Thy peculiar blessing shared.
And stood thy chosen throne.
3 We, like Jesse's son, would raise
A temple t'> the Lord,
Sound throughout its courts his praiie,
His savin? name record ;
Dedicate a house to him,
Who, once in mortal weakness shrined
Sorrow'd, suffer'd to redeem,
To rescue al! mankind.
SUPPLEMENT. 531
4 Father, Son, and Spirit, $end
The consecrating flame ;
Now in majesty descend.
Inscribe the living name :
That great name by which we live,
Now write on this accepted stone;
Us into thy hands receive,
Our temple make thy throne.
611 jimnrfd— p. 10.] CM.
r^ REAT God '. who lai ) on Sion's mount
^^ A precious corner-stone ;
More powerful than the gates of hell,
And sacred as thy throne :
2 Regard us, who before thee spread
Our hands in solemn prayer ;
For by thy cloud and pillar led,
The ark hath rested here.
3 The patriarchs and prophets proved,
A sure foundation ?iven ;
The martyrs rested there unmoved
In holiest hope of heaven.
4 That rock was Christ — fore'er the same,
The Lord our righteousness :
O may this altar bear thy name,
And thou our labour bless !
6 And though in glorious temple high,
Eternal is thy throne ;
0 let us find thy footstool nigh,
And prove tliis place thine ovrn. «
612 Leydm—p. 107.] L. M.
THOU before whose lofty throne
The holy ones of heaven bow ;
With them we would thy glory own,
And grateful sing thy mercy now.
o
532 SUPPLEMENT.
2 When first thy lisrht the east array'd,
And morning stars shone on the sky.
Earth's comer-slnne with joy was laid,
The sons of glory sung on high.
3 Then Eden rose in heaven's light j
Beneath thy hand creation stood ;
Thy word dispell'd chaotic night —
Thy smile approved — the work was good.
4 To us 0 may Ihy smile be given,
This corner-stone approved by thee;
Our work complete, O Lord of heaven ;
Thy glory here let thousands see.
613 Dover— x>. 120.] S. M.
QURELY the Lord is here,
*^ And loves this holy place;
He hears the voice of fervent prayer,
And gives the promised grace.
2 How blest is this abode
Where angels' food is given,
'Tis no less than the house of God,
O, 'tis the gate of heaven.
3 Our corner-stone shall tell
The place where we hive found
The Lord, who deigns with man to dwell,
And seals this holy ground.
4 Our altar here we raise.
For he our help hath been ;
With angel hosts his name we '11 praise,
Who have his wonders seen.
6 Our rock the Son of God,
The Lord's anointed one ;
Eternal life is in his word,
Salvation his alone.
6 When in his bouse above
Hii gather'd tribei appear ;
SUPPLEMENT. 533
May we partake his endless love,
Who worship Jesus here.
514 SZa<e/ord— p.306.] 20th P.M. 66, 77, 7T.
Tht Lord's Prayer.
pATHER of earth and sky,
■'■ Thy name we magnify :
O that earth and heaven misrht join.
Thy perfections to proclaim ;
Praise the attributes divine,
Fear and love thy awful name!
2 When shall thy Spirit reign
In every heart of man ?
Father, bring the kingdom near,
Honour thy triumphant Son ;
God of heaven, on earth appear,
Fix with us thy glorious (broDe
3 Thy rood and holy will
Let all on earth fulfil ;
Men with minds angelic vie,
Saints below with saints above,
Thee to praise and glorify,
Thee to serve witii perfect love.
4 This day with this day's bread
Thy hungry children feed ;
Fountain of all blessings, giant
Now the manna from above;
Now supply our bodies' want,
Now sustain our souls with IoT&
5 Our trespasses forgive :
And when absolved we live.
Then our life of grace maintain ;
Lest we fr^'ni r ur God depart,
Lose thy pardoning grace again.
Grant us a forgiving heart.
6 In every fiery hour
Display thy guardian power;
534 SUPPLEMENT.
Near in our temptation stay,
With sufficient streris^h defend ;
Bring us through the evil day,
Make us faithful to the end.
7 Father, by ri;ht divine.
Assert the kingdom thine ;
Jesus, power of God, subdue
Thy own universe to thee;
Spirit of grace and glory too.
Reign through all eternity.
ON DEDICATING A HOUSE OF WORSHIP.
615 Brewer— p. 76.] L. M. I
p REAT God, thy watchful care we bless,
'-^ WWch guards these sacred courts in peace;
Nor dare tumultuous foes invade
To fill thy worshippers with dread.
2 These walls we to thy honour raise,
Long may they echo to thy praise !
And thou descending, fill the place
With choicest tokens of thy grace.
3 And in the great decisive day.
When God the nations shall survey.
May it before the world appear
That crowds were born to glory here.
616 Ports— p. 82.] L. M,
HOW pleasant, how divinely fair,
O Lord of hosts, thy dwellings are!
With strong desire my spirit faints
To meet th' assemblies of thy saints.
2 Blest are the saints that sit on high,
Around thy throne of majesty;
Thy brightest glories shine above,
And all their work is praise and love.
SUPPLEMENT. 535
S Blest are the souls that fiad i place
Within the temple of thy met::
Here the y behold thy genller rays,
And sett thy face, and learu thy praise.
4 Blest are the men whose hearts are set
To find the way :o Sion's ?ate ;
God is their str=ii<;th, and through the road
They leaii upon their helper, God.
5 Cheerful they walk with rrowin? strength.
Till all shall meet in heaven at length;
Till all before thy face appear,
And joia in nobler worship there.
617 Luicm—p. 1\.] L. >L
pREAT God, attend, while Sion sings
^-^ The joy that from thy presence spriogi}
To spend one day with thee on earth
Exceeds a thousand days of mirth.
2 Mieht I enjoy the meanest place
Wi'.hin thine house, 0 God of grace,
Not tents of ease, nor thrones of power,
Should temjit my feet to leave thy door.
3 God is our sun, he makes our day:
God is our shield, he guards our way
From all th' assaults of hell and sin ;
From foes without, and foes within.
4 AH needful grace will God bestow,
And crown that grace with glory too;
He gives us all things, and withholds
No real good from upriE;ht souls.
5 0 God our King, whose sovereign sway
The glorious hosts of heaven obey,
And devils at thy presence flee,
Blest is the man that trusts in thee.
536 SUPPLEMKNT.
618 Sfai/i/i-d-p. 142.] S.M.
QREAT is the Lord nur God,
'-' Aiid let his praise be great:
He males his ctiurchfs his abode.
His most delightful seat
2 These temples of his ?race,
How beautiful they stand !
The honours of our native place,
And bulwarks of our lazui.
3 In Sion God is known
A refuge in distress ;
How bright has his salvation shona
Through all her palaces I
4 In every new distress
We'll to his house repair;
We'll think upon his wondrous grace,
And seek deliverance there.
619 Brewer— p. 76.] L. M.
■XXriTH glory clad, with strength array'd,
'* The Lord thai o'er all nature reigni,
The world's foundations strongly laid,
And the vast fabric still sustains.
2 How sure establish'd is thy throne.
Which shall no change or period se«I
For thou, 0 Lord, and thou alone.
Art King from all eternity.
3 The floods, O Lord, lift up their voice.
And toss their troubled waves on high :
But God above can still tlieir uoise.
And make the angry sea comply.
4 Thy promise, Lord, is ever sure :
And they that in thy house would dwell,
That happy station to' secure,
Most still in holiness ezceL.
SUPPLEMENT. 537
620 Forty-sixth Ps.- p. 178.] 2d P.M. GZinesSs.
HOW lovely are thy tents, 0 Lord !
Where'er thou chonsest to record
Thy name, or place thy house of prayer,
My soul outflies the angel choir,
And faints, o'erpower'd with strong desire.
To meet thy special presence there.
2 Happy the men to whom 'tis given
To dwell within that gate of heaven,
And in thy house record thy praise ;
Whose strength and confideixe thou art,
Who feel thee, Saviour, in their heart.
The way, the truth, the life of grace :
3 Who, passing through the mournful vale,
Drink comfort from the living well
That flows replenish'd from above:
From strength to sTength advancing here,
Till all before their G'-d appear.
And each receives the crown of love.
4 Better a day thy cruris v.-i;hin
Than thousands in the tents of sin :
How base the noblest pleasures there !
How great the weakest cbiiJ of thine !
His meanest task is a!", jivine.
And kings and priests thy servants are.
5 The Lord protects and cheers his own, •
Their light and strength, their shield and siinf
He shall both grace and glorj- give;
Unlimited his bounteous grant ;
No real good they e'er shall want;
All, all is theirs who rijhteous live.
6 0 Lord of hosts, how blest is he
Who steadfastly believes in thee !
He all thy promises shall gain :
The soul that on thy love is cast
i Thy perfect love on earth shall taste,
I And soon with Ihee in glory reign.
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538 SUPPLEMENT.
62 1 Ledbury— p. 151.] 1 st P. M. 6 Zinw &.
■XXTHO Jesus our Example know,
And his apostles' fnntsleps trace,
We gladly to the temple go,
Frequent the coiisi-craled place
At ever>' solemn hour of i)rayer.
And meet the God of mercy there.
2 His otTerinz pure we call to mind.
There, on the goldi-n altar laid,
Whose Godhead, with the manhood join'd,
For every soul atonement made ;
And have whate'er we ask of God,
Through faith in that all-saving blood.
622 M/pnm— P.2S0.] 12th P.M. 76,76,77,76
(^ REAT is our redeeming Lord,
^-^ In power, and truth, and grace;
Him, by hirhest heaven adored.
His church on earth doth praise;
In the city of our God,
In his holy mount below,
Publish, spread his name abroad,
And all his grc^'ness show.
2 For thy loving-kiwJiess, Lord,
We in thy temple stay ;
* Here thy fajthful love record,
Thy saving power display:
With thy name thy praise is known,
Glorious thy perfections shine;
Earth's remotest bounds shall own
Thy works are all divine.
3 See the gospel church secure,
And founded on a rock ;
All her promises are sure :
Her bulwarks who can shock?
Count her every precious shrine ;
Tell, to after ages tell,
SUPPLEMENT. 539
Fortified bv power divine,
The church can never fail.
4 Sion's God is all our own,
Who on his love rely ;
We his pardoning love have known,
And live to Christ, and die:
To the New Jerusalem
He our faithful ?uide sha'.l be ;
Him we claim, and rest in him.
Through all eternity.
623 Bishop-p. 73.] L. M.
BEHOLD thy temple, God of grace.
The house that we have rear'd for thee ,
Regard it as thy resting place,
And fill it with thy majesty.
2 With outstretch'd hands on thee we call
Prostrate before thy throne we bow ;
0 let the cloud of glnr\- fall
On all thy waiting sen-ants now !
3 Now bv thy presence sanctify
This earthly sanctuary. Lord ;
And to its courts be ever nigh,
And here thy hallow'd name record
4 ^Vhen from its altar shall arise
Joint supplication to thy name,
Deign to accept the sacrifice,!
Thyself our answering God proclaim.
5 And when from hence the voice oC praise
Shall lift its triumphs to thy throne,
Show thv acceptance of our lays.
By making all thy glory known.
6 When here thy ministers shall stand,
To speak what thou shall bid them say,
Maintain thy cause with thine own band.
And give thy truth a witinmg way.
540 SUPPLEMENT.
7 Now, therefore, O our God, arise.
In this thy resting place appear ;
And let thy people's loiigine; eyes
Behold thee fix thy dwelljug here.
624 Litchfield— p. 90.] L. M.
^0 thee, th'^u High and I/ifty One,
■'• First in the glorious Trinity,
And thou, the great co-equil Son
And Holy Spirit, unto thee,
Whose rays combined, fill boundless space,
Who dwellelh in immensity —
We come to consecrate this pl,ice.
That it hencetbnh thy rest may be.
2 Assembled here before thy throne,
Thy congrrgated people wait ;
A people who thy power have known,
And own thy name exceeding great.
We wait, and lo! each anxious gaze,
And ardent prayer, is unto tbee!
Descend as in the ancient days,
And let us now thy glory see.
3 0 ! may that consecrated ray
Which from the Godhead's splendours shioe,
Its hallowing presence now display,
And prove this tabernacle thine.
May thousands y';t with joy confess
This is iiidee 1 a house of prayer,
God doth this sanctuary bless,
And guard it with peculiar care.
4 And ever may this sacreJ glow-
In these thy holy courts abide.
That all assembled here may know
That they in thy pavilion hide.
And while we now our offering bring,
To dedicate it to thy name,
O'ershadow us as with thy wing,
Thyself our answering God proclum.
SUPPLEMENT. 541
ANiNnERSARY HrMNS->USSIONARY.
625 /rene-p. 307.] 20th P. M. 66, T7, 77.
TESCS, my God and King,
•^ Thy re;'aj stale I sin?:
Thou, and only thou, art ?reat.
High thiue everlasting throne ;
Thou the sovereign Potentate,
Bless'd, immortal, tliou alone.
2 Essay your choicest strains, -
The King Messiah reigns !
Tune vour harps, celestial choir,
Joyful all your voices raise ;
Christ, than earth-born monarchs higher,
Sons of men and angels, praise.
3 Hail your dread Lord and ours,
Dominions, thrones, and powers !
Source of power, he rules alone:
Veil vour eyes and prostrate fall ;
Cast your crowns before his throne.
Hail the causa, the Lord of all '.
4 Let earth's remotest bound
With echoing joys resound ;
Christ to praise let' all conspire ;
Praise doth all to Christ belong:
Shout, ve lirst-bom sons of fire;
Earth, repeat the glorious song.
5 Worthy, 0 Lord, art thou.
That every knee shall bow,
Every touTue to thee confess;
Universal nature join.
Strong and mighty, thee to bless,
Gracious, merciful, benign.
6 Wisdom is due tn tbee.
And migbt and majesty ;
542 SUPPLE:!tfENT.
Thee in mercy rich we prove :
Glory, honour, praise receive ;
Worthy thou of all our love,
More than all we pant to give.
7 Justice and truth maintain
Thine everlasting reijn:
One with thine alniijhly Sire,
Partner of an equal tlirone,
King of saints, let all conspire
Gratefully thy sway In own.
626 Southampton— p. 207.] 5th P.M. 4 Una '§,
P'ARTH, rejoice, nur Lord is King!
■*-' Sons of men, his praises sing;
Sing ye in triumphant strains,
Jesus our Messiah reigns!
2 Power is all 'o Jesus given,
Lord of hell, and earth,"and heaven*
Everv kn~? to him shall bow ;
Sataa heai and tremble now !
3 Angels and archangels join,
All triumphantly combine ;
All in Jesus' praise agree.
Carrying on his victory.
4 Though the sons of night blaspheme,
More there are with us than them:
God with us, we cannot fear.
Fear, ye fiends, for Christ is here !
5 Lo! to faith's enlighten'd sight
All the mountain flames with light;
Hell is nigh, but God is nigher,
Circling us with hosts of tire.
6 Our Messias is come down.
Claims the nations for bis own,
Bids them stand before his face,
lyiomph in his saving grace.
^1
SUPPLEMENT. 543
627 Siberia-v.-UO.-] Sth P.M. 87.87,47.
COME, ihou Conq'ror of the nations,
Now oil ihy white horse appear ;
Earthquakes, deiths, and desolations.
Siznifv thy kinzdom near:
True and faithful '■
Stablish thv dominion here.
2 Thine the kingdom, power, and glory;
Thine the rausom'd nations are;
Let the heathen fall before thee,
Let the isles thy power declare ;
Judze and coiK^ner
All mankind in righteous war.
3 Thee let all mankind admire,
Object of our iov and dread !
Flame thine eves with heavenly fire,
Many crow'ns upon thy head ;
But thine essence
None, except thyself, can read.
4 Yet we know our Mediator,
By the Fathers rnce bes'ow'd,
Mea'nly clothed in human narare,
Thee we call the \Vord of God :
Flesh thv ves'ure.
Dipp'd in thy own sacred blood.
5 Captain, God of our salvation.
Thou who hast the wine-press trod.
Borne th' Almizhlv's indiznation,
Quench'd the fiercest wrath ot God,
Take the kinzdom.
Claim the purchase of thy blood.
6 On thv thigh and vesture written,
Show'the world thy heavenly name,
That, with lovin? wonders smitten,
All mav glorify the Lamb ;
All adore thee.
All the Lord of ho«U proclaim.
544 SUPPLEMENT.
7 Honour, glory, and salvation,
To the Lord our God we give ;
Power, and endless adoration,
Thou art wortliy to receive;
Reign triuniphaiit,
King of kings, for ever live !
638 Sicily— p. 122.] S. M.
■pATHER of boundless grace,
••- Thou hast in part fulfiU'd
Thy promise made lo Adam's race,
In God incarnate seal'd.
A few from every land
At first to Salem came,
And saw the wonders of thy hand,
■And saw the tonjnes of flame.
2 Yet still we v, ait the end,
The cominT "T <n:r Lord ;
The full accoiiiplislmien! attend
Of thy prophetic word.
Thy promise deeper lies
In unexhausted grace,
And new-discover'd worlds arise
To sing their Saviour's praise.
3 Beloved for Jesus' sake.
By him redeem'd of old,
All nations must come in, and make
One undivided fold :
While gather'd in by thee,
And perfected in one,
They all at once thy glory see
In thy co-eqaal Son.
629 Danvers—p. 100.] L. M.
TJEAD of thy church, whose Spirit fills,
■'•■'• And flows through every faithful soul,
Unites in mystic love, and seals
Them one, and sanctifies the whole i
SUPPLEMENT. 545
2 " Come, Lord," thy glorious Spirit cries.
And souls beneatli the aitar groan ;
" Come, Lord," the Bride on earth replies,
"And perfect all our souls in one."
3 Poui'out the promised gift on all,
Answer the universal " Come '."
The fulness of the Gentiles call.
And take thine ancieat people home.
4 To thee let all the nations flow,
Let all obey the ?ospel word ;
Let all their bleeding Saviour know,
Fill'd with the glory of tlie Lord.
5 0, for thy truth and mercy's sake,
The purchase nf thy passion claim ;
Thine heritage, the Gentiles, take.
And cause the world to know thy name.
630 Elliot— p. lo2.] UfP.M. Glims So.
"PTERNAL Lord of earth and skies,
•'-' We wait thy Spirit's latest call :
Bid all our fallen race arise.
Thou who hast purchased life for all}
Whose only name to sinners given,
Snatches from hell, and lifts to heaven.
2 The word thy sacred lips has past,
The sure, irrevocable word,
That every soul shall bow at last,
And yield allegiance to its Lord ;
The kingdoms of the earth shall be
For ever subjected to thee.
3 Jesus, for this we still attend,
Thy kingdom in the isles to prov*,
The law of sin and death to end,
We wait for all the power of lova^
The law of perfect liberty,
The law of life which ii in thee.
546 SUPPLEMENT,
4 0 might it now from thee proceed,
With thee into the souls of men!
Throujhout the world thy gospel spread;
And let thy glorious Spirit reign,
On all the ransora'd race hestowM ;
And let the world be fiU'd with God !
631 Stonefield—p. 99.] L. ftL
T ET Sion in her King rejoice,
■'-' Though Satan rage and kingdoms rise ;
He utters his almighty voice,
The nations melt, the tumult dies.
2 The Lord of old for Jacob fought ;
And Jacob's God is still our aid :
Beholdlhe works his hnnd liath wrought!
What desolations he bath made !
3 From sea to sea, thrcuzh all their shores,
He makes the noise rf battle cease;
When from on high his thunder roars,
He awes the trembling world to peace.
4 He breaks the bow, he cuts the spear;
Chariots he burns with heavenly flame;
Keep silence, all the earth, and hear
The sound and glorj- of his name :
E " Be still, and learn that I am God,
Exalted over all the lauds ;
I win be known and fear'd abroad ;
For still my throne in Sion stands."
6 0 Lord of hosts, almighty King !
While we so near thy presence dwell,
Our faith shall rest secure, and sing
Detiantu lO the gates of hell.
632 Marton— p. 162.] Ut P. M. 6 Zi7i« 8«.
ARM of the Lord, awake, awake !
The terrors of the Lord display ;
SUPPLEMENT. 547
Out of their sins the nations shake,
Tear their vain confideiice away ;
Conclude them all in unbelief,
And fill their hearts with sacred grief.
2 Of judsrment now the world convince,
The end of Jesus' coming show ;
To sentence their usurping prince,
Him and his works destroy below;
To finish and abolish sin,
And bring the heavenly nature in.
3 Then the whole earth again shall rest,
And see its paradise restored ;
Then every soul in Jesus blest
Shall bear the inaage of its Lord,
In finish'd holiness renew'd,
Immeasurably fill'd with God.
4 0 wouldst thou bring the final scene.
Accomplish the redeeming plan.
Thy great millennial reign begin;
That every ransom'd child of man.
That every soul, may bow the knee.
And rise to reign with God in thee !
633 Rothvxll-p. 109.] L. M.
THE heavens declare thy glory, Lord,
In everv star thy wisdom shines ;
But when our eyes behold thy word.
We read thy name in fairer lines.
2 The rolling sun, the changing light.
And niaht and day, thy power confess;
But the bless'd volume thou hast writ
Reveals thy justice and thy grace.
3 Sun, moon, and stars convey thy praise
Round the whole earth, and never stand;
So when thy truth began ils race,
It toucb'd and glanced on every land.
548 SUPPLEMENT.
4 Nor shall thy spreading gispel rest,
Till through the world thy truth has run;
Till Christ has all the nations blest
That see the liglit or feel the sun.
5 Great Sun of righteousness, arise,
Bless the dark world with heavenly light:
Thy gospel makes the simple wise;
Thy laws are pure, thy judgnlents right.
634 GiTcad— p. 264.] Uth P.M. 76,76,77 76.
O AVIOUR, whom our hearts adore,
^ To bless our earth again,
Now assume thy royal power.
And o'er the nations reign :
Christ, the world's desire and hope,
Power complete to thee is given;
Set the last great empire up.
Eternal Lord of heaven.
2 Where they all thy laws haxe spum'd,
Thy holiest name profaned,'
Where the ruin'd world hath moum'd
Wilh blood of millions slain :
Open there th' ethereal scene,
Claim the heathen tribes for thine;
There the endless reign begin
With majesty divine.
3 Universal Saviour, thou
Wilt all thy creatures bless;
Every knee to thee shall bow,
And every tongue confess:
None shall in thy mount destroy ;
War shall then be learn'd no more:
Saints shall their great King enjoy,
And all mankind adore.
4 Then according to thy word.
Salvation is reveal 'd !
SUPPLEMENT. 549
With thy glorious knowledge, I/)rd,
The new-made earth is fill'd :
Then we sound the mystery,
The depths and heights of Godhead prove,
Swallow'd up in mercy's sea,
For ever lost in love.
635 Casile-stTeet—x>. 102.] L. M.
THE law and prophets all foretold.
That Christ shoulJ die, and leave the grave
Gather the world into his fold,
The church of Jews and Gentiles save.
2 Tet by the prince of darkness bound.
The nations still are wrapp'd in night;
They never heard the joyful sound,
They never saw the gospel light.
3 Liilit of the world, a5ain appear
In mildest majesty of grace,
And bring the great salvation near.
And claim our whole apostate race,
636 Jeshunin-v- 137.] S. M.
JESUS, the word bestow,
The true immortal seed ;
Thy gospel then shall greatly grow,
And all our land o'erspread;
Through earth extended wide
Shall mightily prevail,
Deslrov the works of self and piiJc,
And' shake the gates of hell.
2 Its energy exert
In the believing soul;
Diffuse thy grace through every part.
And sanctity the whole:
Its utmost virtue show
In pure consummate love.
And fill with all thy life below,
And give vs thrones above.
550 SUPPLEMENT.
637 fliirfrfam— p. 1S3.] 3dP.M. 46s&28«.
QAVIOUH, we know thou art
^ In every age the same :
Now, Lord, in ours exert
The virtue of thy name ;
And daily, through thy word, increase
Thy blood-besprinkled witnesses.
2 Thy people, saved below
From ever)' sinful stain,
Shall multiply and gTO\r,
If thy command ordain ;
And one into a thousand rise.
And spread thy praise through earth and skies.
3 In many a sou), and mine,
Thou hast display'd thy power,
But to thy people join
Ten thousand thousand more ;
Saved from the guilt and strength of sin.
In life and heart entirely clean.
638 Inquiry— f. 139.] S. M.
T ORD, if at thy command
-'-' The word of life we sow,
Water'd by thy almighty hand.
The seed shall surely grow :
The virtue of thy grace
A large increase shall give,
And multiply the faithful race.
Who to thy glory live.
2 Now, then, the ceaseless shower
Of gospel blessings send,
And let the soul-converting power
Thy ministers attend.
On multitudes confer
The heart-renewing love,
And by the joy of grace prepare
For fuller joys above.
SUPPLEMENT. 551
539 Daughter o/.Stem-p.326.] 2S P.M. 6 lines 1 is.
LISTEN ! 0 Sion '. Jehovah h:\th spoken,
The Lord thy Redeemer coinmands thee arise ;
Par o'er the earth reigns darkness unbroken,
Whilst heaven's brisht day-star illumines thy gkies.
Listen ! 0 Sion ! Jehovah hath spoken,
The Lord thy Redeemer comnunids thee arise.
I Rise to their rescue ! lo ! error is stealing
O'er souls thy Redeemer has bought for his fold !
View Calvar\'s scenes 1 are they not appealing ?
The light thence enkindled, 0 bid them behold.
S Christian, awaken ! thy darkness hatfi vanisli'd,
Thy skT has been lit by its radiant glow ;
Joy that the shades that enwrapp'd thee are banish'd,
And hasten that all may thy blessediiess know.
4 Rouse thee to action, thy Saviour is pleading,
Look upward, the strength of the mishty is thine;
Omnipotent faith, through Christ interceding,
Will soon bid the world in God's image to shine.
640 Miss. Hynm-p. 522.] 26th P. M. 78 & 6b.
FROM Greenland's icy mountaini,
From India's coral strand ;
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand ;
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
Their land from error's chain.
2 What thoujh the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle,
Though every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile :
In vain with lavish kindness
The gifts of God are stro wn ;
'1 ne heathen in his blindness
Bows down to wood and stone.
552 SUPPLEMENT.
3 Shall we whose souls are lighted
With wisdom from on high.
Shall we to men benighted
The lamp of life deny ?
Salvation! 0 salvation !
The joyful sound proclaim,
Till earth's remotest nation
Has learn'd Messiah's name.
4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his stoiy,
And you, ye waters, roll,
Till, like a sea of glory,
It spreads from pole to pole :
Till o'er our ransom'd nature.
The Lamb for sinners slain,
Redeemer, King, Creator,
In bliss returns to reign.
641 Wayne— p. 107.] L. M.
T ORD, haste to claim thy purchased right,
■'-' The nations ransom'd by tliy Son;
Thy arm make bare, and by its might
Gather earth's kingdoms into one.
2 TTiine eye of lisht, with piercing beam,
Sees where dark error's children lie ;
From which to rescue and redeem.
Thy Son, thine only Son, did die.
3 0 Father! glorify thy Son,
O ntiignify thy wondrous grace ;
And Claim what by his death was won,
The whole of Adam's fallen race.
4 We dare not doubt thy gracious will.
Thou mighty, merciful, and just!
But haste, 0 hasten to fulfil
Thy word, in which thy servants trust 1
5 Earnest they long, and vn'tU and pray,
To see that time by propnets told j
When nations, ne%v-t)om in a day,
k«.U be Bigither'd to thy fold.
SUPPLEMENT. 553
ANNIVERSARY— BIBLE SOCIETY.
642 Ntw Sabtath—x>. 92.] L, M.
/^C, hnlv book I thou wrrd divine,
^-^ 0( H:m who spake as man ne'er spake,
Go! for omripo'ence is thine.
And to thy truths the nati"ii3 '^ake.
2 Go — anil wherever man hali. '.ro>l.
Where there is one (t whom Christ died.
Open the treasures of our Gol,
And tell them of the crucified.
3 Fly — (ly on win^: of angel .speed.
And bear the news of dyin5 grace.
Say, Jesus is the Christ i;ijeed,
And ransoni'd all the human race.
4 The veil of ijnorance shall rend.
And li^ht siiall pirrce through error's night
And idols of the earth shall lend
Beneath the glory of thy might.
5 Onward in thy triumphant way,
Thou message of the Holy One,
Thy truth sljall ush^r in the day.
The reign of God's beloved Son.
643 Leydcn—p. 107.] L. M.
'T'HE God of heaven reveals to man
-*■ His holy will, his word of ?race ;
Contaiiiins; ihe most glorious plan.
That saves from death the lallen race:
The lorig-condemn'd it hath reprieved,
It is to all the v i ie wtrld o'er —
Ye who it-j record have received,
0 ! bid it piss from shor<; to shore.
2 Ah! can the Christian, who hath knowa
Its high^ximmandicg chanty.
On whom this light of life hath shone.
In death's deep shade hij brother jee,
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Nor send to him this only ray
That beams from Deity on earth,
To show to dyinj man the way
That leads to an inimorlal birth?
3 It cannot be — the voice of blood,
A brother's blood, would loudly call ;
And incensed Heaven command the flood
Of eallier'd vengeance ((uickly fall :
This Tight shall spread; tliougli man may hidCj
All earth must see— 'tis Heaven's intent —
Its truths will triumph far and wide,
Performing whereuDto 'twas sent.
ANNIVERSAKY— SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
644 Wayne— ip. 107.] L. ^L
A S wave on wave years pass away,
■"• And in their flight returns the day;
When in thy house, O Lord ! to thee
We raise the voice of melody.
2 To thy great name, 0 God! belongs
Our manhood, youth, and infant songs;
And join'd in chorus, here we raise
One loud hosanna to thy praise.
3 On wings of light swift mounting high,
O may our lay ascend the sky,
There find acceptance at thy throne,
And God our annual festal own.
4 We here present our charge to thee,
0 ! as in thy buimnity,
May they be to thy bosom press'd.
And with preservinj grace be hless'd.
6 And as each year its bounds hath past,
May more ingatherings than the last
Crown our frail efforts in this cause.
And soeet a smiling Heaveo's aoplauie.
SUPPLEMENT. 555
645 Jiandaa-p. 16.] C. M.
MERCY, descending from above,
In softest accents pleads;
O may each tender bnsnni move,
When mercy intercedes 1
2 Children our kind protection claim,
And God will well approve.
When infants learn to lisp his name,
And their Creator love.
3 Delightful work! young souls to win,
And turn the rising race
From the deceitful paths of sin,
To seek their Saviour's face.
4 Almishly God '. thine influence shed,
To aid lliis blest design ;
The honour of thy name be spread,
Aud all the glory thiue.
646 Darwdl—\). ISl.] 3dP.M.46st2ai
Children.
OOME, let our voices join
^ In one glad song of praise ;
To God, the God of love,
Our grateful hearts we raise :
Congelation.
To God alone your praise belongs ;
His love demands your earliest songs.
Children.
2 Now we are taught to read
The book of liie divine;
Where our Redeemer's love
Aud brightest i^I'iries shiue:
Congregaticni.
To God alone the praise is due,
Who sends bis word to u» aud you.
556 SUPPLEMENT.
Children.
3 Within these hallow'd walls
Our wand'ring feet are brought;
Where prayer and praise ascend,
And lieavenly truths are laught;
Conp'e^aticn.
To God alone your oti'rings bring ;
Here in his church his praises sing.
Children.
4 For blessings such as these,
Our gratitude receive ;
Lord, here accept our hearts,
'Tis all that we can give :
Congregation.
Great God, accept their infant songs;
To thee alone their praise belongs.
JSoth.
5 Lord, bid this work of love
Be crown'd with meet success;
May thousands yet unborn
This institution b'.ess:
Thus shall the praise resound to thee
Now, and through all eternity.
647 Clip}ia7it—-p. 239. ] 8th P. M. 87, 37, 47
•yHOU, who didst with love and blessing
-'■ Gather Sion's babes to thee.
Still a Saviour's love expressing,
These, the babes of Sion, see ;
Bless the Labours
That would brinf them up for thee.
2 Smile \ipon the weak endeavour,
Vain, if thou thy smile deny ;
Lo ! they rise — to live for ever !
Train, 0 ! train them for the sky,
Ne'er may Satau
Plunder Sion's nursery.
SUPPLEMENT. 557
3 Let DO self-applauding feeling, —
Naught of praise from mortals won,
O'er the heart infectious stealing,
Poison nhat our hands have done.
Raise the motives,
Sink the pride of every one.
4 Lflve to thee, and pure affection
For the lambs that need a fold,
These should give our zeal direction,
And prevent its growing cold ;
Or support us,
E'en if blessing thou withhold.
5 Yet with humble fervour bending,
We that blessing would entreat :
On the youthful heart descending.
Make the toils of learning sweet :
Still to Sion
Guide the young disciples' feet.
6 Then, when long we both have slumbered
Side by side in common dust.
With thy ransom'd people number'd
With th' assembly of the just,
Child and teacher.
Saviour ! own our humble trust.
FOR ASCENSION DAY.
648 Spatadins—p.206.] SlhV.M. 4 lines It.
TJAIL the day that sees Him rise,
■*■•'■ Ravish'd from our wishful eyes !
Christ, awhile to mortals given,
Reascends his native heaven.
2 There the pompous triumph waits:
" Lift your beads, eternal gates ;
658 SUPPLEMENT.
Wide nnfnld the radiant scene;
Take the King of glor>- in '."
3 Circled round with an?el powen,
Their triumphant Lord, and ours,
Conq'ror over death and sin ;
Take the King of glorj' in !
4 Him llmush hlehest heaven receive*
Still he loves the earih he leav'es;
Though returninr to his throne,
Still he calls mankind his own.
5 See, he lifts his hands above !
See, he shows the prints of love '.
Hark, his gracious lips bestow
Blessings on his church below.'
6 Still for us his death he pleads;
Prevalent he intercedes ;
Near himself prepares our place,
Harbinger of human race.
7 Master, (will we ever say,)
Taken from our head to-day ;
See thy faithful servants, see.
Ever gazing up to thee.
8 Grant, though parted from our eight,
High above yon azure heijht,
Grant our hearts may (hither rise,
Following thee beyond the skies.
9 Ever upward let us move,
Wafted on the wings of love ;
Looking when our I-orJ sliall come.
Longing, gaspingafler home.
»0 There we shall with thee remaifi,
Partners of thy endless reign ;
There thy face unclouded see,
Fmd our heaven of heavens in theei.
SUPPLEMENT. 559
649 fTOmoJ— p. 210.] 5thP.M.4Zi7i«7t.
OONS of God, triiimphant rise,
•^ Shout th' accomplish 'd sacrifice !
Shout your sins in Christ forgiven,
Sons of God, and heirs of heaven !
2 Te that round our altars throng,
Listening angels, join the son? ;
Sin» with us, ye heavenly powers,
Pardon, jnce, and glory ours !
3 Love's mysterious work Is done ;
Greet we now th' atoning Son;
Heal'd and quicken'd by his blood,
Join'd to Christ, and one with God.
4 Him by faith we taste below,
Mightier joys ordain'd to know.
When his utmost grace we prove,
Rise to heaven by perfect love.
650 GiVearf— p. 264.] Uth P.M.76,76,77,78i
■pATHER, God, we glorify
■*■ Thy love to Ad.im's seed j
Ixjve that eave thy Son to die,
And raised him from the dead:
Him for our oflences slain,
That we all might pardon find,
Thou hast brouzht lo life again,
The Saviour of mankind.
2 By thy own right hand of power
Thou hast exalted him,
Sent the miehty Conqueror
Thy people to redeem :
Kingof saints and Prince of peacfc
Him thou hast for sinners given.
Sinners from their sins to bless.
And lift them up to be£.veii.
660 SUHI CEMENT.
3 Father, God, to ua impart
The gift unspeakxbh- ;
Noiv in every waiting heart
Thy glorious Son reveal :
Qnickeu'd with our living Lord,
Let us in thy Spirit ris2,
Rise to all thv life restored.
And bless thee iu the skies.
651 Calcutta— p. 72.] L. M.
TXTHAT equal honours shall we bring
'' To thee, O Lord our God, the Lamb,
Since all the notes that a.igels sing
Are far inferior to thy name ?
2 Worthy is he who once was slain,
The Prince of peace, that groan'd and died
Worthy to rise, and live, and reijn
At his almighty Father's side.
3 Power and dominion are his due
Who stood condemned at Pilate's bar ;
Wisdom belongs to Jesus too,
Though he was charged with madness here.
4 Immortal praises must be paid
Instead of scandal and of sc;>rn ;
While glorv shines around his head.
And a bright crown without a thorn.
6 Honour for ever to (he Lamb
Who bore our sin, and curse, and pain ;
Let angels bless his sicrcd name.
And everj- creature say, AMEN !
652 Danvcll—x,.l&7.] 3dP.M.469&28fc
/^OD is gone up on high,
^-^ With a triumphant noise
The clarions of the sky
Proclaim th' angelic joys!
SUPPLEMENT. 561
Join all on earth, rejoice and sing j
Glory ascribe to glorj's Kiug.
2 God in the flesh below,
For us he rei'iis above :
Let all the ualinns know
Our Jesus' coii<|uering love !
Join nil nil earth, rejnice and sing J
Glory ascribe to glory's King.
3 All power to our great Lord
Is by the Father given;
By angel hosts adored,
He reigns supreme in heaven :
Join all on earth, rejoice and sing;
Glory ascribe to glory's King.
4 High on his holy seat
He bears the righteous sway J
His foes beneath his feet
Shall sink and die av. ay;
Join all on earth, rejoice and sing ;
Glory ascribe to glory's King.
5 His foes and ours are one,
Satan, the world, and sin ;
But he shall tread them down.
And bring his kingdom in;
Join all on earth, rejoice and sing ;
Glory ascribe to glory's King.
6 Till all the earth renew* ^
In righteousness divine.
With all the hosts of God
In one great chorus join.
Join all on earth, rejoice and sing)
Glory ascribe to glory's King.
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562 SUPPLEMENT.
CHRIST'S IKTERCESSION.
653 ^m^jwooi— p. 277.] 12th P.M. 76,76,78,'WJ
pOMING through our great High Priest,
'-^ We find a pard'niiig God :
Jesus' spirit in our breast
Bears witness with the blood;
Spealij our Father paciiieJ
Toward every soul that Christ receives;
Tells us, once our Surety died,
And now for ever lives.
2 Christ for ever lives to pray
For all that trust in him ;
1 my soul on Jesus stay,
Almighty to redeem :
■ He shall purify my heart,
Who in his blood forgiveness hare.
All his hallowing power exert.
And to the utiiiost save.
3 BsLsis of our steadfast hope,
Saviour, thy ceaseles.' prayer
Sanctifies and litis us up
To meet "bee in the air ;
Yes, tliiiie mi,, reding grace
Preserves us every . nment thine,
Till we rise to see tny face.
And share the throne divine.
THE DAY OF PENTECOST.
654 SI. Petefs-p. 75.] L. M.
p<OME, Holy Spirit, raise our songs,
^ To reach the wonders of the day,
When with the fiery cloven tongues
Tbca didst those glorioui scenei display.
SUPPLEMENT. 563
2 0 'twas a most auspicious hour,
Season of ?race and sweet delifht,
When thou didst come with mighty power,
And li;ht of truth divinely bri;bt. j
3 By this the blest disciples knew I
Their risen Head had enter'd heaven,
Had now obtain'd the promise due,
Fully by God the Father given.
4 Lord, we believe to us and ours
The apostolic promise given ;
We wait the pentecostal powers, -
The Holy Ghost sent do« n from heaven.
5 Ah ! leave us not to mourn below,
■ Or long for thy return to pine ;
Now, Lord, the Comforter bestow,
And fix in us the guest divine.
6 Assembled here with one accord,
Calmly we wait the promised grace,
The purchase of our dying Lord :
Come, Holy Ghost, and fill the place.
7 If everyone that asks may find.
If still thou dost on sinners fall,
Come as a mighty rushing wind ;
Great grace be now upon us all.
8 Behold, to thee our souls aspire.
And languish thy descent to meet :
Kindle in each the living fire.
And fix in every heart thy seat.
655 Gloucester— p.\h6.] IstP.M. GJitimSs.
CREATOR, Spirit, bv whose aid
The world's fnundntions first were laid,
Come visit every waiting mind.
Come pour thy joys on human kind ;
From sin and sorrow set us free,
And make thy temples worthy thee.
564 SUPPLEMENT.
2 0 source of uncreated heat,
The Father's promised paraclete!
Thrice holy Fount, immortal Fire,
Our hearts with lieaveiily love inspire:
Come, and thy sacred unction bring,
To sanctify us « hile we sin».
3 Plenteous of grace, descend from high,
Rich in thy sevenfold energy !
Thou streni^tji of his almighty hand
Whose power does heaven and earth conunasj, I
Refine and purse our earthly parts,
And stamp thine ima^e on our hearts.
4 Create all new; our wills control.
Subdue the rebel in cirsoul :
Ch.nse from our minds th' infernal foe;
And peace, the fruit of faith, bestow :
And, lest a^in we go astray,
Protect and guide us in the way.
5 Immortal hnnour, endless fame.
Attend th' almighty Father's name;
The Saviour Son be glorified,
Who for lost man's redemption died;
And equal adoration be.
Eternal Comforter, to thee !
THE PROMISED COMFORTER.
656 Park-street— -p. 97.] L. M.
TESUS, we on the words depend,
" S|W)ken by thee while present here, —
" The Father in mv name shall send
The Holy Ghost,' the C'omibrier."
2 That primise made to Adam's race,
Now, Lord, in us, e'en us, fulfil ;
And give the Spirit of thy grace.
To teach us all thy perfect wilL
SUPPLEMENT. 56^
3 That heavenly Teacher of mankind.
That Guide infallible impart,
To brin; thy sayiiijs to our mmd,
And write them on our faithful Heart.
4 He onlv can the words npply.
Through which we endless life possess ;
And deal to each his legacy,
Our Lord's unutterable peace.
5 That peace of God, that peace of thine,
0 mizht he now to us bring in^
And fill our souls with power divine,
And make an end of fear and sin !
6 The lenzlh and breadth of love reveal,
The hei'ht and depth of Deity ;
And all the sons of zifery seal,
And change, and make us all like tnee.
657 Peterborotcgh—p. 18.] C. ^L
SOVEREIGN of all the worlds on high,
Allow my humble claim ; _
Nor while, unworlliy, 1 draw nigh.
Disdain a Father's name.
2 " My Father God '." that gracious sound
Dispels mv euilty fear ;
Not all the tiannony of heaven
Could so tieli^lit my ear.
3 Come, Holy Spirit, seal the grace
On mv expandiii' heart ;
And show that in Ih". Father's love
1 share a filial part.
4 CheerM by a witness so divine.
Unwavering 1 believe;
And " Abba, Father," humbly crjr;
Nor can the sign deceive.
566 SUPPLEMENT.
658 Z)edtca<i"on— p.309.] 20th P. M. 66,77,77. ■
■pTERNAL Spirit, come
■'-' Into thy meanest home;
From thy high and holy place,
Where thou dost in g'lory reign,
Stoop in condescending grace.
Stoop to the poor heart of man.
2 For thee our hearts we lift,
And wait the heavenly gift:
Giver, Lord, of life divine,
To our dying souls appear,
Grant the grace for which we pine,
Give thyself, the Comforter.
3 Our ruin'd souls repair.
And fix thy mansion there :
Claim us for thy eonstant shrine,
All thy glorious self reveal,
Life, and power, and love divine,
God in us for ever dwell.
659 Benjamin— p. 21^.] 6thP.M.62tn«7«.
■pATHER, glorify thy Son ;
-'• Answ'ring his all-powerful prayer,
Send that Intercessor down.
Send that other Comforter,
Whom believingly we claim,
Whom we ask in Jesus' name.
2 Then by failh we know and feel
Him, the Spirit of truth and gracet
With us he vouchsafes to dwell.
With us while unseen he stays:
All our help and scnnd, we own.
Freely flows from him alone,
3 Wilt thou not the promise seal,
Good and faithful as thou art.
Send the Comforter to dwell
Every moment in our heart ?
80PPLEMBNT. 567
Yes, thou must the grace bestow ;
Truth hath said it shall be so.
THE GOD OF ABRAHAJNI PRAISE.
660 John-st.-p.ZlO.] 21st P.M. 66, 84, 66, 34.
[For first part of this Hymn see p. 236.]
SECOND PART.
THOUGH nature's strength decay,
And earth and hell withstand.
To Canaan's bounds I urge my way,
At his command.
The wat'ry deep I pass.
With Jesus in my view ;
And through the howling wilderness
My way pursue.
2 The goodly land I see,
With peace and plenty bless'd ;
A land of sacred liberty,
And endless rest.
There milk and honey flow ;
And oil and wine abound;
And trees of life for ever grow.
With mercy crown'd.
3 There dwells the Lord our King.
The Loru t»ur righteousness,
Triumphant o'er the world and sin,
The Prince of peace ;
On Sion's sacred heisht
His kingdom still maintamsj
And glorious with the saints in light,
For ever reigns.
4 He keeps his own secure.
He guards them by his side,
Arrays in garments white and purfl
His ipotl«s» bride :
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With groves of living joys,
With streams of sacred liliss,
With all the fruits of paradise,
He still supplies.
THIRD PART.
BKFORE the ert-it Three-one
They all exulting slaiid,
And tell the wonders he hath done
Through all their land :
'i'he lisi'ning sphrres attend.
And swell tlie gro" ing fame ;
And sing, in songs uhich never end,
The wondrous name.
2 The God who reigns on high
The great archangels sing,
And " Holy, holy, holy," cry,
"Almighty King!
Who was and is the same,
And evermore shall be ;
Jehovah, Father, great I AM,
We worsliip thee."
3 Before the Saviour's face
The ransoni'd nations bow;
O'erwhelni'd at his almighty grace.
For ever new :
He shows his prints of love, —
Thi;y kindle to a flame !
And sound, through all the worlds above.
The slaughtered Lamb.
4 The whole triuniphanl host
Give thanks to God on high ;
"Hail, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,"
They ever cry :
Hail, Abiahani's God, and mine 1
(I join the heavenly lays,)
All might and majesty are thine,
And e&dleu prais».
SUPPLEMENT. 569
FOR NEW-YEAR'S DAY.
661 Rcxhingham—p. \0\.'\ JL M.
■pTERNAL Source of every joy,
•*-' Well may thy praise our lips employ,
While in thv tenipie we appear,
Whose goodness crowns the circling year.
2 The flowery spring, at thy command,
Embalms the air, and paiiiis the land ;
The summer rays with vigour shine,
To raise the corn and cheer the iiine.
3 Thy hand in autumn richly pours,
Through all our coasts, redundant stores ;
And winters, soften'd by thy care,
No more a face of horror wear.
4 Seasons, and months, and weeks, and dayi,
Demand successive s'ln^s of praise :
Still be the cheerful homage paid
With opening light, and evening shade
5 Here in thy house shall incense rise,
As circling sabbaths bless our eyes ,
Still we will make thy mercies kno^vn
Around thy board, and round our own.
6 0 may our more harmonious tongue
Jn worlds unknown pursue the song ;
And in those brighter courts adore.
Where days aud years revolve no more.
662 Creation— p. 153.] 1st P. M. 6 Hna 8i.
TITISDOM ascribe, and might, and praise,
' To God, who lengthens out our day*}
Who spares us yet another year,
And makes us see his goodness here:
O may we all the time redeem.
And henceforth live and die to hira I
570 SUPPLEMENT.
2 How often, when his arms were bared,
Hath he our sinful Israel spared !
•' Let me alone," his mercy cried.
And turn'd the veii'^ful bolt aside ;
Indulged another kiml reprieve,
And slransely suB'er'd us to live.
3 Merciful God, how shall we raise
Our hearts to pay thee all thy praise ?
Our hearts shall beat for thee alone ;
Our lives shall make thy goodness known;
Our souls and bodies shall be thine,
A living sacrifice divine.
0 Lord, my God, Tgive tha7iks unto thet,
663 TVwro— p. 87.] L. M.
/^OD of rny life, through all my days
^^ My grateful powers shall sound thy praise}
My song shall wake with opening light.
And cheer the dark and silent night.
2 When anxious cares would break my rest.
And griefs would tear my throbbing breast,
Thy tuneful praise?, raised on high, J
Shall check the murmur and the sigh. 1
3 When death o'er nature shall prevail, i
And all the powers of language fail,
Joy through my swimming eyes shall break,
And mean the i hanks i cannot speak.
4 But O, when that last conflict's o'er,
And I am chain'd to earth no more.
With what glad accents shall I rise
To join the music of the skies !
5 Soon shall I learn the exalted strains
Which echo tlirough the heavenly plains;
And emulate, with joy unknown,
Ttie glowing seraphs round the Uirone.
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6 The cheerful tribute will I give,
Lon? as a deathless soul shall live:
A work so sweet, a theme so high
Demands and crowns eternity.
DEATH.
G64 Salisbury— p. 163.] 1st P. M. 6 Una 8t.
JESUS, was ever Inve like thine?
Thy life a scene of wonder is;'
Thv death itself is all divine,
While pleased thy spirit to dismiss,
Thou dost out nf the flesh retire,
And like the Prince of life expire.
2 Thy death supports the dying saint-
Thv death mv sovereijn comfort be ;
While feeble flesh and nature faint
Ami with thv mortal ajony ;
And fill, while'soul and bo.iy part,
With life, immortal life, my heart.
3 0 let thv death's mysterious power.
With ail its sacred weight, descend,
To consecrate my final hour,
To bless me with thy peaceful end:
And, breathed into the hands divine,
My spirit be received with thine 1
665 Bridsewater—p. 85.] L. M.
TREMENDOUS God, with humble fear,
Prostrate before thy awful throne,
Th' irrevocable word we hear,
The sovereign righteousness we own.
2 'Tis fit we should to dust return,
Since such the will of the Most High ;
In sin conceived, to trouble bom,
Bom only to lament and die.
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3 Submissive to thy just decree,
We all shall soon from earth remove ;
Eut when thou sendest, Lord, for me,
0 let the messenger be love !
4 Whisper thv love into my heart,
Warn me of my approaching end;
And then I joyfully depart.
And then I to thy arms ascend,
666 Gloucester— p. 156.] 1st P. M. 6 Kiwa St.
T CALL the world's Redeemer mine ;
•'• He lives who died for me, 1 know ;
Who bought my soul with blood divine,
Jesus, shall reappear below,
Stand in that dreadful day unknown.
And fix on earth his heavenly throne.
2 Then the last judgment day shall come ;
And though the worms this skin devour,
The Judge shall call me from the tomb,
Shall bid the greedy grave restore,
And raise this individual me,
God in the flesh, my God, to see.
3 In this identic body I.
With eyes of flesh refined, restored,
Shall see that self-same Saviour nigh,
See for myself my smiling Lord,
See with ineffable delight :
Nor faint to bear the glorious sight.
4 Then let the worms demand their prey,
The greedy grave my reins consume ;
With joy I drop my mouldering clay.
And rest till my Redeemer come ;
On Christ my life, in death rely.
Secure that I can never die.
SUPPLEMENT. 573
B67 Prmidence— -p. 2-6.} 12th P.M. 76,76,78,7.6.
A/TAY not a creatine God,
-'■'-'• Who built this house of clay,
Re-inspire the breathless clod,
In his appointed dny ?
From the dust he forni'd us man,
And shall we circumscribe his power?
Doubtless the Almis;hty can
Our moulder'd dust restore.
2 He who breathe I into cur earth
The breath of lif;; di%'ine,
By a new celestial birth
Can God and sinners join !
Will a quick 'nin? Spirit become,
Our souls extinct ajnin to raise,
Call'd out of our nature's tomb.
To live the life of grace.
S Dead in sins and trespasses,
Jesus his people saves j
Lord, by faith we tliee confess,
The opener of cur graves ;
Joyfully the pledge receive
Of blissful immortality.
Sure our bodies too shall live
For ever one with thee.
668 n'averly—p. n.] L M-
A LMIGHTY Maker of my frame,
■^ Teach me the measure of my days.
Teach me to know how frail I am.
And spend the remnant to thy praise.
2 My days are shorter than a span ;
A little point my life appears :
How frail at best is dying man !
How vain are all his hopes and fears t
3 Vain his ambition, noise, and show ;
Vain are the caret that rack bis nina f
574 SUPPLEMENT.
He heaps up treasures mix'd with vro.
And dies, and leaves them all behind.
4 O be a nobler portion mine !
My God, I bow before thy throne;
Earth's fleeting treasures I resign,
And fix my hope on tliee alone.
669 Sim— P.2S2.1 10thP..M.8liJi«g8i
r\ WHEN shall we sweetly remove,
^^ 0 when shall we enter our rest,
Return to the Sinn above,
The mother of spirits distress'd!
That city of God the great King,
Where sorrow and death are no more ;
But saints our Iminai^uel sing,
And clierub and seraph adore.
2 Not all the archangtls can tell
The joys of that holiest place,
Where Jesus is pleased to reveal
The light of his heavenly face ;
When caught in the rapturous dame,
The sight beatific they prove,
And walk in the li^ht of the Lamb,
Enjoying the beams of his love.
3 Thou know'st in the spirit of prayer
We long thy appearing to see,
Besign'd to the bur!en we bear.
But longing to triumph with thee:
'Tis good at thy word to be here,
'Tis better in thee to be gone,
And see thee in glory appear.
And rise to a share in thy throne.
4 To mourn (it thy coming is sweet,
To vvccp at thy longer ielny :
But thou whom We hasten to meet,
Shalt chase all our sorrows away.
The tears shall be wiped from our eye*.
When thee vre behold in the cloud,
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And echo the joys of the skies.
And shout to the trumpet of God.
670 irard— p. 109.] L. M.
7b be ning at sea,
FIRST PART.
T ORD of the wide, extensive main,
^ Whose power the wind, the sea, controU
Whose hand doth earth and heaven sustain,
Whose Spirit leads believing souls:
2 For thee we leave our native shore,
(We whom thy love delights to keep,)
In other climes thy works explore.
And see thy wonders in the deep.
3 Tis here thine unknown paths we trace,
Which dark to human eyes appear ;
While through the mishty wavts we pass.
Faith only sees th.at God is here.
4 Throughout the deep thy footsteps shine.
We own thy way is in the sea,
O'erawed by majesty divine,
And lost in thine immensity.
5 Thy wisdom here we learn t' adore,
Thine everlisting truth we prove ;
Amazing heights of boundless power,
Unfathomable depths of love.
SECOND PART.
INFINITE God, thy greatness spann'd
These heavens, and nieted cut the skiea;
Lo 1 in the hollow of thy hand
The measured wa'ers sink and rise!
2 Thee to perfection who can tell I
Earth and her sons beneath thee lie.
Lighter than dust within thy scaie,
And Ian than notbio); in thine ere.
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3 Yet, in thy Son, divinely irreat,
We claim thy providential care;
Boldly we stand before thy seat.
Our Advocate hath placed us there.
4 Witli him we are pone up on hi£;h,
Since he is ours, and we are his;
With him we rei^n above tlie sky,
We walk upon our subject seas.
DIMORTALITY.
671 Fmintain—p. 29.] C. M.
r^ IVE me the win»s of fnitli, to rise
^^ Within the veil, and see
The saints above, how great thoir joys,
How bright their glories be.
2 Once they were mourners here below,
.A.nd pour'd out cries and tears :
They wrestled hard, as we do now,
With sins, and doubts, and fears.
3 I ask them whence their victory came:
They, with united breath.
Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb,
Their triumph to his death.
4 They mark'd the footsteps that he trod,
His zeal insj^ red their breast ;
And following their incarnate God,
Possess the promised rest.
5 Our glorious Leader claims our praise
For his own pattern given ;
While the long cloud of witnesses
Show the same path to heaven.
672 Sharon— p. 266.] Ilth P. M.76,76,77,7tt
-rtTHERE shall true believers go,
' * When from the flesh they fly ?
Glorious joys oniain'd to know.
They mount abovs the sky,
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To that bright celestial place ;
There they shall in raptures live,
More thao tongue can e'er express,
Or heart can e'er conceive.
2 When they once are enter'J there.
Their mournirii; clays are o'er;
Fain, and sin, atid v.^ni, and care,
And sighing is no mere;
Subject then To no decay,
Heavenly bodies they put on, ,
Swifter than the lightning's ray.
And brighter than the sun.
3 But their greatest happiness,
T heir highest j-)y, shall be,
God their Saviour to possess,
To know, and love, and see:
With that beatific sight
Glorious ecstasy is given :
TTiis is their supreme delight.
And makes a heaven of heaven.
. 4 Him beholding fire to face.
To him they glory give,
Blfss his nanje and slug his praise,
As long as God shall live.
While eternal sges roll.
Thus enipli.y'd in he.iven 'hey arei
Lord, receive my happy soul
With all thy servants there 1
FAMILY RELIGION.
673 Forest— p. 76.] L. M.
■pATHER of all, thy care w; bless,
-*■ Which crowns our fan-lues with peaotj
From thee they spring; And by thy haud
Tbey are, and sluill bf ttii < tijitaio'd.
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2 To God, most worthy to be praised,
Be our doniestic altars raised ;
Who, Lord of heaven, yet deigns to corns
And sanctify our huniMest home.
3 To thee may each united house
Morning and nijht present its voh-s:
Our servants there, and risiti? race,
Be taught tliy precepts, and thy grace.
4 So may each future a?e proclaim
The honours of thy glorious name ;
And each succeed in? mce remove
To join Uie fauiily above.
BAPTISM or CHILDREN.
674 Eaton— p. 154.] 1st P. M. Glints &.
f>OT> nf eternal truth and love,
^^ Vouchsafe the promised aid we claim,
Thine O" n sreat ordinance approve,
The child l)aptize<l into thy name.
Partaker of thy nature make,
And give him all thiiie image back.
2 Father, if such thy sovereign will,
If Jesus did the ri'e enjoin.
Annex thy hallnwins Spirit's seal,
And let thy prace attend the sign;
The seed nf endless life impart,
Take for thine own this infant's heart
3 Answer on him thy wisdom's end.
In present and eternal good ;
Whate'er thou didst for man intend,
Whate'er thou hast on man bestow'd,
Now to this favnurM child be given,
Hu^an, and holiness, and heaven.
4 In presence of thy heavenly host,
Thyself we faithfully reqv're:
H^
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Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
By blood, by water, and by fire,
And fill up all thy human shrine,
And seal our souls for ever thine.
675 Crawford— p. 34.] C. M.
row larre the promise, how divine,
I- To Abf'am and his seed !
"I am a God to ihee and ihine,
Supplying all their need."
2 The words of his extensive love
From aze to age endure ;
The Ansel of the covenant proves,
And seals the blessing sure.
3 Jesus the ancient faith confirms,
To our great iailier given ;
He takes our children to his arms.
And calls them heirs of heaven.
4 0 God, how faithful are thy wajrs !
Thy love endures the same;
Nor from the promise of thy grace
Blots out our children's name.
676 Semiuda—p. 221.] 6th P. M. 6 line* ^t.
T ORD of all, v/ilh pure intent,
-'-' From their tend'rest infancy.
In thy temple we present
Whom we first received from thee;
Throuffh thy well-beloved Son,
Ours acknoivledged for thine own.
2 Seal'd with the baptismal seal.
Purchased by th' atoning blood,
Jesus, in our cliildren dwell,
MaJie their heart the house of God}
Fill thy consecrated shrine,
Father, Sou, and Spirit divine.
580 SUPPLEMENT.
677 Belmont— p. 26.] C. M.
OEE Israel's gentle Shepherd stand
*^ With all-engagiii* charms :
Hark hon- he calls the tender lambs,
And folds them in his anus !
2 "Permit them to approach," he cries,
" Nor scorn their liunible name:
For 'twas to bless such s'luls as these
The Lord of angels came."
3 We brins them, Lord, in thankful h'^nHf^
And yield them up to thee ;
Joyful that we ourselves are thine,
Thine let our offspring be.
mSTITUTIOX OF THE GOSPEL MINISTRY,
678 AfiZo— p. 77.] L. M.'
'T'HE Saviour, when to heaven he rose,
•*• In splendid triumph o'er his foes,
Scatter'd his gifts on n)en below,
And wide his royal bounties flow.
2 Hence sprang th' apostles' honour'd name ;
Sacred beyond heroic fame:
In lowlier forms before our eyes.
Pastors from hence, and teachers rise.
3 From Christ their varied sifis derive,
And fed by Christ their graces live:
While guarded by his mis;hty hand,
'Midst all the rage of hell they stand.
4 So shall Ihe bright succession run
Tlirough the last courses of the sun ;
While unborn churches by their care
Shall rise and flourish large and fair.
5 .Tesus, now teach our hearts to know
The spring whence all these blessings flow|
Pastors and people shout thy praise
Tbrougb the long round of iradless dayi.
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679 Murray— p. 137.] S. M.
JESUS, thy servants bless.
Who, se:.'t by liiee, proclaim
The peace, and joy, and righteotisness
Experienced in thy name:
The kinga')ra of our Gr)d,
Which thy preat Spirit imparts,
The power nf thy victorious blood,
Which reigns in faithful hearts.
8 Their snuls with faith supply,
With lite and liberty;
And then they preach and testify
The things concerning thee :
And live for this alone,
Thy grace to minister.
And all thou hast for sinners done,
a ; ■ In life and death declare.
RENEWING THE COVENANT.
680 Zion—p. 135.] 1st P. M. 6 Una 8«.
OGOD ! how pften liath thine ear
To me in willing mercy bow'd ;
While worshipping thir.e altar near,
Lowly I wept and strongly vow'd:
But ah ! the feebleness of man !
Have I not vow'd and wept in vain!
2 Return, 0 Lord of hosts, return !
Behold thy servant in distress ;
My faithlessness again I mourn ;
Again forgive my faillile^sness ;
And to thine arms my spirit take.
And bless me for the Saviour's sake.
3 In pity of the soul thou lov'st,
Now bid the sin thou hat'st expire ;
Let me desire what thou approv'sf,—
Thou dost apprtive what I desire;
583 SUPPLEMENT.
And thou wilt deign to call me thiue,
And I will dare to call thee mine.
4 This day the covenant I sign,
The bond or sure and promised peace;
Nor can I doubt its power divine^
Since seal'd with Jrsus' blood it isj
That blc-od I take, that blood alone.
And make the cov'iiant peace mine own.
6 But, that my faith no more may know
Or change, or interval, or end, —
Help me in all thy paths to go.
And now, as e'er, my voice attend,
And gladden me with answers mild.
And conimuoe, Father, with thy child 1
681 rroodfcndg-e— p.254.] 10th P.M. 8 Kn« 8a.
r\ HOW shall a sinner perform
^-' The vows he hath vow'd to the Lord?
A sinful and impotent worm.
How can I be true to my word ?
1 tremble at « hat 1 have done:
0 send me thy help from above:
The power of thy Spirit make known,
The virtue of Jesus's love !
2 My solemn engagements are vain,
My promises empty as air;
My vows, 1 sinll break them again,
And plunge in eternal despair:
Unless my omnipotent God
The sense of his gooilness impart.
And shed by his Spirit abroad
The love of hinjself in my heart.
i O lover of sinners, extend
To me thy compassionate grace :
Appear my affliction to end,
Afford me a glimpse of thy (ace 1
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That light shall enkindle in me
A fl.iine of reci|irocil love;
And then I shall cleave unto thee,
And then 1 shall never remove.
4 0 coine »o a mourner in pain,
Thy peace in my conscience reveal!
And tlien I shall love thee a^ain.
And siijj of ihe goodness I feel :
Constrain'd by Hie jrace of my Lord,
My soul shall in all rliings oLey,
And uail to be fully res'oreJ,
And long to be summou'cl away.
682 Dunstan—ji. S6.] L. M.
0 HAPPY day that fix'd my choice
On thee, my Savinur and my God 1
Well may this glowing heart rejoice,
And tell its raptures all abroal.
2 0 happy bond, that seals my vows
To Hinj who merits all niy love!
Let cl eerful anthems hll his house.
While to that sacred shrine I move.
3 'Tis done, the great transaction '» done,
I am my Lord's, an 1 he is mine;
He drew me, and I follow 'd on,
Charm'd to confess the voice divine.
4 Now rest, my long-divii!ed heart;
Fix'd on this 1-lissful centre, rest:
Nor evpr from thy Ixird depart.
With 4iui of every gooU |x)ssess'd.
6 High Heaven, that heard Ihe solemn vow,
That vow renew'J shall daily hear,
Till in life's latest hour I bow.
And bless in death a bond to dear.
584 SCfPLEiRBST.
DELIGHT IN CHRIST.
683 Sout?iamptmt—p.20':.'\ SthP.M. 4h'n«f7«.
TJARK. my soul, — it is the Lird !
-'•■*■ 'Tis thy Saviour, hear his word !
Jesus speaks, he speaks to Ihee :
"Say, poor sinner, lov'it thou rae?
2 "I deliver'd Ihee when bound,
And, when Lilee<iin^, heal'd !hy wound,
Sousht thee waDd'rin?, set thes rijht,
Tum'd thy darkness into light.
3 " Can a. mother's tender care
Cease toward the child Sfce bai«?
Y«, she may f.-rgetful be,
Yet will I remen.ber thee.
4 " Mine is an uncliangins; love,
Higher than liie heights above.
Deeper than tiie depti'S beneath,
Free and faithful, strong as death.
5 "Thou shall see my glory soon,
When the work of faith is done,
Partner of my throne shalt be :
Say, poor sinner, lov'st thou ine?"
6 Lord, it is my chief complaint
That niy love is still so faint j
Yet I love thee and adore:
O for grace to love thee more !
684 Hinton^xt. 324.] 27lh P. M. 4 11a.
T^HOU sweet gliding Kedron, by thy sOver
-*• streams.
Our Saviour at midnijrht, when moonlight's pala
bsanis
Shone bright on the waters, would frequent! V gtrty,
And lose, in thy niunnurs. the toils of the day.
SUPPLEMENT. 585
2 Kow damp were the vapours that fell on his
head !
How hard was his pilbw, how humble his bed;
The angels, astonish'd, grew sad at the sizht,
And follow'd their Master with solemn delight.
3 O garden of Olivet, thou deir honour'd spot,
The fame of thy v.onder shall ne'er be forgot ;
The theme most transporting to seraphs above;
The triumph of sorrow, the triumph of love !
4 Come, saints, and adore him; come, bow at
his feet '.
O, give him the glory, the praise that is meet ;
Let joyful hosaiiuas unceasing arise.
And join the full chorus that gladdens the skies.
MEETING FOR BUSINESS.
(185 Luthtr's—p. 147.] 1st P. M. 6 liTia Sk.
'T'HOC f junt of ever>- srood reqisired,
■■• Thou source of wisdom, depth of skiU«
Thou who hast our hearts inspired
To seek the cou!:sels of thy will,
0 ! let our schemes thy impress bear,
Matured with heavenly art and care!
2 To Uiy omniscient sight alone,
Past, present, future, all are seen;
Omnipotence alone hath known
What to his glory most has been.
And what is now, and what will be,
Is only known, 0 God, to thee.
3 Therefore to thee we turn the eye,
The longing look, the earnest prayer.
Imploring wisdom from on high,
Casting on thee our every care ;
The honour of thy cause maintain,
Nor let U3 ask thy help in vain.
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4 Behold, thy willing servants stand,
And wait thy gracious influence, Lord;
United as a brother band,
We look to thee with one accord,
Fully ajrcf J in thy great name
To make thy glory our sole aim.
MISCELLANEOrS HYMNS.
686 Xuremburg—i). 207.] 5th P. M. 4 Una 7fc
On going on Shipboard.
T ORD, whom winds and seas obey,
■^ Guide us through the watery way;
In the hollow of thy hand
Hide, and brins; us safe to land.
2 Jesus, let our faithful mind
Rest, on thee alone reclined ;
Every anxious thought repress,
Keep our souls in perfect peace.
3 Keep the souls whom now we leave ;
Bid theiri to each other cleave;
Bid them walk on life's roush sea;
Bid them come by faith to thee.
4 Save, till all these tempests end,
All who on thy love depend ;
Waft our happy spirits o'er;
Land us on the heavenly shore.
687 Euphrates— p.2--l.^ 12th P.M. TS.Te.TS.Ta,
Another.
T ORD of earth, and air, and sea,
■•-' Supreme in power and grace.
Under thy protection we
Our souls and bodies place.
Bold an unknown land to try,
We launch into the foaaiiiig deep ;
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Rocks, and stnnr,s, and deaths defy,
With Jesus in the ship.
2 Who the calm can understand.
In a believer's breast?
In the hoUou- of His hand
Our souls securely rest :
Winds may rise, and seas may roar,
We on his love our spirit stay :
Him with quiet joy adore
Whom winds and seas obey. _
688 Mcdjord—x^.-SA L. M.
Tht dying Malefactor's Prayer.
FIRST PART.
OTHOU thai hangedst on the tree,
Our curse and sufferings to remove,
Pity the souls that look tn thee,
And save us by thy dying love.
2 We have no outward righteousness,
No merits or good works, to plead ;
We only can be saved by grace ;
Thy grace will here be free indeed.
3 Save us by grace, through faith alooe,
A faith tliou must thyself impart;
A faith that would by works be shown,
A faith that purifies the heart.
4 A faith that doth the mountains move,
A faith that shows our sirs forgiven,
A faith that sweetly works by love,
And ascertains our claim to heaven,
5 This is the faith we humbly seek,
The faith in thy all-cIeansing blood;
That faith which doth for sinners speak,
0 let it speak us up to God !
588 SUPPLEMENT.
SECOND PART.
CANST thou reject our dying prayer,
Or cnst us out who come to thee?
Our sins, ah ! wherefore didst thou bear >
Jesus, remember Calvary !
2 NumberM with the transgressors thou,
Between the felons crucified,
Speak to our hearts, and tell us now.
Wherefore li.ist thou f'r sinners died?
3 For us wast thou not lifted up ?
For us a bleeding victim made?
That we, the abjects we, iniglit hope,
Thou hast for all a ransom paid?
4 O might we, with believing eyes.
Thee in tliy blcndy vesture seej
And cast us on thy sacrifice !
Jesus, my Lord, remember me !
689 Clifton— jt. 23.] C. M.
Hymn to God the Father.
fJAIL, Father, whose creating call
■*^ rnnuniber'd worlds attend ;
Jehovah, comprehending all.
Whom none can comprehend !
2 In light unsearchable enthroned,
Whom angels dimly see ;
The fountain of the Godhead own'd.
And foremost of the Three :
3 From thee, through an eternal now,
The Son, tliine oilspriiig, flow'd;
An everlasting Father, thou.
An everlasting God.
4 Nor quite display'd to worlds above,
Nor quite on earth conceal'd ;
By wondrous, unexhausted love.
To mortal man reveaJ'd.
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5 Supreme and all-sufficient God,
When nature shall expire,
And worlds createJ by thy nod
Shall perish by thy fire ;
6 Thy name, Jehovah, be adored
By creatures without end ;
Whom none but thy essential Word
And Spirit comprehend.
690 Strafford— r>.30S.-\ 20th P.M. 66,77,77.
The Trinity in Unity. '
TJAIL, co-essential Three,
^^ In mystic uni'y !
Father, Son, and Spirit, hail !
Gcd by heaven and earth adored,
God incomprehensible;
One supreme, almighty Lord.
2 Thnu sitfest on the throne,
Plurality in one:
Saints behold thine open face,
Bright, insufferably bright;
Angels tremble as they gaze,
Sink into a'sea of light.
3 Ah I when shall we increase
Their heavenly ecstasies?
Chant, like them, the Lord most high.
Fall like them who dare not move;
" Holy, holy, holy," cry.
Breathe the praise of silent love?
4 Come, Father, in the Son
And in the Spirit down;
Glorious Triune Majesty,
God through endless ages blest,
Make us meet thy face to see, —
Then receive us to thy breasL
590 SUPPLEMENT.
691 Lilerty~p. U6.1 1st P. M. 6 Imw 8i.
" 7t Deum laudamus."
FIRST PART.
TNFINITE God, fo thee we raise
•'• Our hearts in solemn songs of praise;
By all thy works on earth adored,
We worship thee, the common Lord;
The everlastin; Fatlier own,
And how our souls before thy throne.
2 Thee all the choir of angels sings,
The Lord of hosts, the Kin? of Icings;
Cherubs proclaim thy praise aloud,
Ai:d seraphs shout the triune God ;
And, " Holy, holy, holy," cry,
"Thy glory fills both earth and sky !"
3 God of the patriarchal race.
The ancient seers record thy praise;
The goodly apostolic band
In highest joy and glory stand ;
And all the saints and prophets join
T' extol thy majesty divine.
4 Head of the martyrs' ncble host,
Of thee they justly make their boast ;
The church to earth's remotest bounds
Her heavenly Founder's praise resounds;
And strives with those around the throne
To hymn the mystic Three in One.
6 Father of endless majesty,
All might and love they render thee;
Thy true and only Son adore.
The same in dignity and power;
And God the Holy Ghost declare,
The saints' eternal Coii.forter.
Creation— p. \53.] SECOND PART. lstP.M.6 8fc
MESSIAH, jov of every heart,
Thou, thou' the King of glory art;
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The Father's everlastins Son,
Thee it delights thy church to own;
For all our hopes on thee depend,
Whose glorious mercies never end.
2 Bent to redeem a sinful race,
Thou, Lord, with unexampled grace,
Into our lower world didst c('rae,
And stoop to a poor virgin's womb ;
Whom all the heavens cannot contain.
Our God, appear'd a child of man !
3 When thou hadst render'd up thy breath.
And, dving, drawn the sting of death.
Thou didst from earth triumphant rise,
And ope the portals of the skies.
That all who trust in thee alone
Might follow, and partake thy throne.
4 Seated at God's right hand again,
Thou dost in all his glnry reign ;
Thou dost, thy Father's image, shine
In all the attributes divine ;
And thou with judgment clad shalt come,
To seal our everlasting doom.
5 Wherefore we now for mercy pray,
O Saviour, take our sins away !
Before thou as our Judge appear.
In dreadful majesty severe.
Appear our Advocate with God,
And save the purchase of tliy blood
6 Hallow and make thy ser^•ants meet,
And with thv saints in glory seat;
Sustain and bl.ss us by iliy sway.
And keep to that tremendous day.
When all thy church sliall chant above
The new eteiml song of love.
593 SUPPLEMENT.
Gloucester— 1,.\36.] THIRD PART. lstP.M.6 8fc
QJAVIOUR, we now rejoice in hope,
•^ That thou at last wilt take us upj
With daily triunipti we proclaim.
And bless and magnify thy name;
And wait thy greatness to adore,
When time and death shMl be no mora.
2 Till then with us vouchsafe to stay,
And keep us pure from sin to-day;
Thy ^e:it confirming grace bestow,
And guard us all our days below;
And ever mightily defend.
And save thy servants lo the end.
3 Still let us, Lord, by thee be blest,
Who in thy guardian mercy rest:
Extend thy mercy's arms to me.
The weakest soul that trusts in thee;
And never let me lose thy love,
Till I, even I, am crown'd above.
693 ^nti^ua—p. 81.] L. M.
The Glory of God.
f^OT) is a name my soul adores,
^^ Th' almighty Three, th' eteraal One;
Nature and gracf, with all their powers.
Confess the Infinite unknown.
2 Thy voice produced the sea and spheres.
Bade the waves roar, the planets shine:
But nothing like tliyself appears
Through all these spaci us works of thine.
3 Still restless nature dies and grows,
From change to change the creatures run;
Thy being no succession knows,
Anii all thy vast designs are one.
4 A glance of thine runs through the globe.
Rules the bright worlds and moves their uraOiOJ
Of light thou form'st thy dazzling robe,
Tby miaisten are living flame.
SUPPLEMENT. 593
6 How shall polluted mortalidare
To sing thy glory or thy grace ?
Beneath thy leet v.e lie afar,
And see but shadows of thy face.
6 Who can beh^!(i the blazing light?
'>Vho can approach consuming flame?
Is'one but thy wisdom knows thy might,
None but thy word can speak thy name.
693 Grmje— p. 1S6.] 3d P. M. 4 6s & 2 8».
Tht Greatness and Condescention of God.
T^HE Lord Jehovah reigns, -
-*• His throne is built on high ;
The rarments he ass'jnies
Are light and majesty :
His glories shine with beams so bright.
No mortal eye can bear the sight.
2 The thunders of his hand
Keep the wide world in awe ;
His wrath and justice stand
To guard his holy law ;
And where his love resolves to hless.
His truth confirms and seals the grace.
3 Through all his mighty works
Amazing wisdom shines;
Confounds the powers of hell,
And breaks their dark desigUi}
Strong is his arm, and shall fulfil
His great decrees and sovereign will.
4 And will this sovereign King
Of glory condescend ?
And will he write his name,
My Father and my Friend ?
I love bis nanr.e, I love his word ;
Join all my powers to praiie the Loni t
594 SUPPLEMENT.
694 Pilessrovt—p. 95.] L. AL
The earthly and the heavenly Saiiath.
T ORD of the sabbath, bear our vows,
•*-' On llii? Ihy day, lu this thy bouse;
And own, as pralefiil sacritice.
The songs « hich from Ihy servants rise.
2 Thine earthly sabbaths. Lord, we love;
But there 's a n'-Mer rest, above ;
To that our lab'ring souls :ispire.
With anient pangs of strong desire.
3 No more fatigue, no more distress,
Nor sill iinr hell shall re:ich the place;
No sighs shall mingle with the snngs
Wh'.ch w->rble from immortal tongues.
4 No ruQo ' »rnis of raging foes ;
No can-s to break the long repose ;
No mldiiighl shade, no clouJedsuQ,
But sacred, high, eternal noon.
6 0 long-expected day, begin ;
Dawn on these realms of wo and sin :
Fain would we leave th;s weary road,
And sleep in death, to rest with God.
695 Lancaster~r\. ¥6.] L. M-
The saine SiJjnect.
A GAIN our weekly '.a:ours end,
■"■ And we the sablhi::i's call attend;
Improve, our souls, t:.e sacred rest,
Anil seek to be for ei-r Llest.
2 This day let our deootiotis rise
To heaven, a gra'efui '.ict.t.ce :
And God thai peace div,.^ bestow.
Which none but Ihej \^ b • feel it know.
3 This holy calm within the breast
Prepares for that eternal rest
Which for the sons of G'M remains;
The end of cares, the eud o{ paius.
SUPPLEMENT. 595
4 In holy duties let the day,
In holy pleasures pass away :
How sweet the sabbath thus to spend,
In hope of that which ne'er shall end !
696 Neginoth—ii.l-].] 1st P. M. 6 KnM 8».
The Goodness of God acknowledged.
■p^AR as creation's bounds extend,
■*• Thy mercies, heavenly Lord, descend;
One chorus of perpetual praise,
To thee thy various works shall raise;
Thy saints to thee in hymns impart
The transports of a fateful heart..
2 They chant the splendours of thy name,
Delighted with the wondrous theme;
And bid the worM's wide realms admire
The glories of Ih' almighty Sire,
Whose throne all nature's wreck survives,
Whose power through endless ages lives.
3 From thee, great God, while every eye
Expectant waits the wish'd supply.
Their bread, propnrtiou'd to the day,
Thy opening hands to each convey;
In every sorrow of the heart
Eternal mercy bears a part.
4 Who ask thine aid with heart sincere,
Shall find thy succours ever near;
To thee their prayer in each distress,
Thy suffering servants, Lord, address;
And prove thee, verging on the grave,
Nor slow to hear, nor weak to save.
697 Parh-street—r>- 97] L- M.
The Condescension of God,
■pTERNAL depth of love divine,
-•-* In Jesus. God with us, display'd;
How bright thy beaming glories shine !
How wide thy healing streams are spread!
596 SUPPLEMENT
2 With whom dost thou delight to dwell ?
Sinners, a vile and thankless race ;
O Gnd, what tongue aright can tell
How vast thy love, how great thy grace?
3 The dictates of thy sovereign will
With joy our grateful hearts receive :
All thy delight in us fulfil ;
ho', all we are to thee we give.
4 To thy sure love, thy tender care.
Our flesh, soul, spirit, we resign ;
O fix thy sacred presence there.
And seal th' abode for ever thine.
6 0 King of glory, thy rich grace
Our feeble thought surpasses far;
Yea, e'en our crimes, though numberless.
Less numerous than thy mercies are.
6 Still, Lord, thy saving health display,
And arm our souls with heavenly zesJ ;
So fearless shall we urge our way
Through all the powers of earth and hell.
597
CONTENTS.
AWAKENING and Inviting . . . Page 7
Penitential 28
Describing formal Religion . . . .80
On Backsliding 84
Prayer and Intercession .... 104
Prayer and Watchfulness .... 144
Watchnizht 152
Justification by Faith 161
Goodness of God in Redemption . . . 171
The Attributes of God 183
Sacrameyital — The Lord's Supper '. . 200
Baptism 210
Rejoicing and Praise 211
For full Redemption 259
Trusting in Grace and Providence . . 324
The ChVistiau's Warfare .... 344
Christian Fellowship 356
Pastoral . . .' 395
On tne Spread of the Gospel . . . 410
Christmas 421
New-Year 423
Family IVorship — Morning and Evening . 431
Parents and Masters . 441
Birthday 451
Resurrection 454
For the Sabbath 457
Reading the Scriptures .... 460
Prospect of Heaven 464
Funeral Hymns 476
Describing Judgment 494.
Dismission 507
Additional Kymns 5tJ8
Dozologies 524
The Christian Soldier 625
SUPPLEMENT 627
598
A TABLE
OF TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE,
Illustrated in this volume.
Genesis
Joshua.
Psalms
Ch.Ver. Hymn
Ch.Ver. Hymn
Ch. Ver. Hymn
1 3
lb2
24 15 516
23 1-3
247
3 15
66
Judges.
3S8
3 17
56
6 40 31
23 4
261
3 23,24
433
1 Samuel.
24 7-10
623
8 9
60
20 3 570
32 7
395
17 1,2
270
2 Samuel.
36 9
35
22 14
387
7 18 • 291
136
28 16, 17
137
1 Kings.
39 l,tc
650
285
IS 24 58
42 1
115
32 24-31
7S
IS 31-39 349
42 2-4
496
71,77
19 19 57
45 2
m
Exodus
2 Kings.
3^
3 7
30
2 11 414
46 I-IO
H
32 10
133
Job.
£67
33 20, 22
407
3 17, IS 557
49 8
197
408
3 19 563
50 15
}S4
34 6
ISO
16 22 550
51 S-7
]9
34 S-7
69
22 27 174
51 7
■73
Leviticus.
29 2-5 S5
51 11 10,4C,10l
6 13
141
88, S9
65 1
23
25 8-13
6
33 15 505
67 l-{
6S7
Deuteronomv.
Psalms.
63 4-6
at)2
3 27
324
1 1, 2 243
73 25
1
6 7
499
ni,27S
73 26
f3
33 20-29
345
4 6 112
S5 8
M
34 1-3
331
16 11 109
S6 17
96
Joshua.
19 1-6 201
89 26
377
7 13
29
298
90 l.&c
tss
TABLE OF TEXTS.
599
Psalms.
1
Canticles
Isaiah.
Ch. Ver. Hvmni
Ch.Ver. H
k-mn Ch.Ver. Hvmn
91 4
35
2 9,10
23S 60 1 '33
95 1-6
209
5 10
354
63 3 196
95 9-11
40
8 6
24
396
100 1-5
210
Isaiah.
64 1 68
266
1 5,6
57
66 2 53,80
102 1,2
127
6 3
213
Jeremiah.
104 33
2-6
214
I 17 472
106 1-3
58S
12 1-6
102
8 11 80
113 6-9
205
482
9 23, 24 371
114 1-8
202
30 21 153
355
16 21 475
116 7-9
218
32 2
41
17 5 439
529
33 17-24
53^
23 , 6 2S9
118 24
28-1
3, 1-10
333
23 29 22. 54
119 72
535
35 5,6
1,63
50 5 421
119 96
363
—
77
lamentations.
121 1 69, 172
35 10 380
,537
3 26 74
127 1
423
33 17
30
Ezekiel.
130 I
549
40 1,8
459
11 19 55,82
133 1-3
443
40 1-8
568
16 6 30
139 5-12
139
40 11
530
18 31 4,14
139 23,24
37
42 16
3S6
33 11 4, 14
_^ 11
5.415
•13 2
406
34 8-12 33
147 l,&c.
264
45 22
1
454
143 l,&c.
203
43 4
82
36 26 63, 75
14S 12, 13
204
51 9
4S0
303,341
149 1. 2
268
52 1-15
11
36 32 96
Proverbs.
170
Daniel.
3 7
9
|_
189
3 19,20 297
3 13-18
25S:53 3-5
193
3 24 149
3 17
254
,53 4 183,186
Hosea.
6 6
45
!54 7
84
11 8 92
7 2 153,162
,55 1-3
2.13
14 4 82,94
8 15,21
211
113,117
Micah.
13 15
20
57 1
53
6 6-8 34
Ecclesiastes.
57 20,21
20
Habakkttk.
)J2 14
677
'08 13
526
1 13 34
600
TABLE OF TEXTS.
H.ib:ikkuk.
Ch. Ver. Hvmn
2 3 43
3 2 39,215
3 17-19 320
' ' 5S6
Zechariah
2 7
3
4 7-10
9 11
9 12
473
369
47
64,69
150
Malachi.
1 11 479
S 1 299
4 2 77,120
Matthew.
3 12 3^7
Ma'thew.
Ch. Ver. HjTnn
is:
S
s.n
31'.
Mt>
35.-
464
SO
339
16 16,17 3^
16 26 551,552
47
571
426,436
3^9
II 12
II 19
II 2S;,29
12 37
13 25
15 13
16
2,4,6
C S-26
6 9-13
7 7-U
7 21
8 2,3
8 16
S 19
8 25
S 26
3 20-22
9 27-29
9 32,33
9S7,3S
II C
453
14>
445
5<|
2*1
476
43.61
14
63
63
394
63
63
63
455
17 20
IS 14
IS 20
20 22
20 30,31
24 14
25 1-13
25 6
25 21
376,564
26 41
166
26 75
30
,157
27 46
26
27 51.
32
ISS
194
2S 19
466
Mark.
4 39
6S
9 24
27
9 50
91
10 27
6S
11 24
165
L
a"<e.
1 5
106
2 6
3S3,4S6
Lake.
Ch.Ver. Hvina
2 14 2d5,"4S8
459,490
6 IS, 19 60
6 40 404
7 S4
7 36-50
S 35
10 5,6
10 39
10 41,42
11 22
12 22 3S4,39l
12 32 5S4.
12 49 31,477
433
494
3,5
7, If.
6»
5
23
170
71
8
30
63
422
36
139
348
13 7,8
14 16-23
15 2
15 4
15 20. tc
16 24-2S
IS 1
IS 5
IS 10-14
22 19 219,220
221
22 29 195
22 61,62 30.52
23 IS 195
23 3| 30
24 I 623
24 31,32 73
241
John.
1 1-U 98
— too
TABLE OF TEXTS.
601
Jolm.
Ch. Ver. Hymn
19 199
1 29 1, 15, 34
3 7 21
3 16 9
4 14 35, 62
5 2-16 25,65
5 25 436
6 39 532
6 31-33 12, 13
6 6S 6"
V 37, 38
8 12 46.
8 32 342
8 36 63
0 11-14 393
3 8, 9 305
13 25 36
A 6, 14 125
317,336
4 16, 17 417
4 26 39, 129
367
5 1,2 121
6 7-15 366
7 3 296
9 34 191
;0 27 426
:i 15 52
:l 20 31
Acts.
2 3?, 39 457
45S
3 26 119
4 12 240,256
6 31 52, 94
6 7 467
Acts.
Ch. Ver. Hrmn
13 39 10
14 22 435
16 29, 30 21
17 23 61, 207
17 2ij 294
22 16 235
Romans.
3 20 81
4 12,25 362
4 IS, 20 4
5 5 46
5 10,11 2«l
6 4, 6 306
7 21 2S
7 21-23 49
8 16 361
8 21 56
8 26 33,69,145
9 21 31'
10 6,8 279
10 15 456
11 33 210
12 1 374
12 10 418
12 10-12 142
12 15 ' 452
13 14 113
14 8 313,314
14 17 33,65,4S4
15 13 64
1 Corinthians.
2 2 37S, 42S
2 9 540
2 10 104
10 16,17419,444
10 31 56
26
1 Corinthians.
Ch. Ver. Hymn
12 31 105
13 13 295
14 15 474
15 52 678
15 55 307
15 56 48
15 57 560, 561
2 Corlnttiiasa.
3 6 79
3 14 46, 61
3 ^8 310,408
4 17 392
5 1-8 199,642
5 10 74
5 14 3, 463
5 17 356
£0
168
346
32, S7
435
2
6 8
7 1-5
8 9
12 9, 11
167, 332
Galatiana.
2 20 287, 361
4 6 130
5 11 469
6 2 416
Ephesians.
1 i-6 398,442
1 13, 14 364
2 1 6S
2 5 851
2 8 61
2 14 446
3 18,19 63,187
4 4-12 4il
602
TABLE OF TEXTS.
Ephesiaiu.
Ch. Ver. Hymn
Hebrews.
Ch. Ver. Hymn
4 14-18 420
3 9-11 40
5 14 1
4 1-11 323
5 IS 347
4 12 29
6 26, 27 123
4 15 3-9
6 11-18 400
6 19 39i^
401
7 25 34, 179
Fbilippiaiis.
8 10 302
2 »-ll 468
9 14 227
3 8 187,411
9 19-26 19
3 21 654
10 29 40
4 4 86
II 1 176
Cotoasiaiu.
11 13-16 27-J
2 6 246
413
2 14, 15 524
492
3 1 524
537, 548
S3 42
1 1 34 307, 405
3 11 288
12 1 429
3 15,16 283
12 2 131
1 Thess.
152,242
4 15-17 5S2
12 6 99,275
585
13 17 471
5 22 169
James.
5 23, 24 373
1 17 375
1 Timothy.
4 14 547
1 15 S, 31
1 Peter.
6 12 478
1 17 107
2 Timothy.
2 11,12 425
3 5 79
4 17 98
3 U, 17 533
5 5 57
536
5 7 3S5
4 7 328,470
5 10 60,317
Titus.
2 Peter.
3 14 344
1 21 531
Hebrews.
3 10 576
1 3 397
57S, 579
2 18 26
3 U-14 429
1 John.
Ch. Ver. Hymn
1 3 m
1 9 851
2 1,2 34, ICS
3 9 358
3 21 357
4 12 356
4 16,17 71
240
4 18 G4, 328
348
5 7,8 144
216
2 John.
12 9
RevelatioD.
1 7 573
1 10 627
I 11-20 138
1 20 461
2 17 303,432
3 17 57
3 20 239, 440
3 21 540
5 9 412
6 17 6S0
7 9-12 212
544
7 13-17 434
545
12 5-S 293
14 4 427,453
19 13 32
21 1 541
21 3 574
22 2-5 639
22 17 643
603
ESTDEX TO THE HYMNS.
ABRAHAM, when severely tried . . Page 512
A charge to keep I ha\e .... 149
Adam descended from above
A fountain of life and of grace
Again we lift our voice
A godly, formal saint .
Ah ! Lord, with trembline I confess
Ah ! lovely appearance of death
Ah ! where am I now
Ah ! whither should I e^o
Alas ! and did my Saviour bleed
All ?lorj' to the dyine Lamb .
All thanks to the Larnb, who gives
AH ?lory to God in the sky
All hail ! Iiappy day
All praise to Him who dwells in bliss
All praise to our redeeming Lord
All thin^ are possible to him .
Almighty Maker, God .
Am I a soldier of the cross
And can I yet delay
And can it be that I should gain
And are we yet alive
And am I lx>m to die
And am I only born to die
And let our bodies part
And let this feeble body fail .
And must I be tn juJjment brought
And must this body die . .
And wilt thou yet be found
Angels your march oppose .... S48
An inward baptism of pure fire . . • 284
^;>poiDted by thee, we meet in thy name . 873
604 INDEX.
Are there not in the lab'rer's day . . Page 404
Arise, my soul, arise 165
Arm of the Lord, awake, awake . . .417
A thousand oracles divine .... 198
Author of faith, eternal Word . . . .161
Author of faith, to thee I cry ... 61
Author of faith, we seek thy face . . .143
Author of our salvation, thee . . . 204
Awake, Jerusalem, awake . . . .16
Awake, my soul, to meet the day . . . 43S
Away, my unbelieving fear .... 335
Away with our fears! the glad morning ap-
pears 452
Away with our sorrow and fear . . . 467
Before Jehovah's awful throne . , . 234
Behold the Saviour of mankind . . , 173
Behold the servant of the Lord . . .271
Behold ! with awful pomp .... 605
Beingof beings, God of love . . . . 117
Be it my only wisdom here .... 149
Bid me of nien beware , . . • • . 155
Blessing, honour, thanks, and praise . . 486
Blest are the sons of peace .... 388
Blest be our everlasting Lord .... 195
Blest be the dear uniting love . . . 373
Blest be the tie that binds 394
Blow ye the trumpet, blow .... 13
But above all, lay hold 345
But can it be that I should prove . . . 307
By faith we find the place above . . . 603
Captain of our salvation, take . . . 449
Cast on the fidelity .... . 340
Celestial Dove, descend from high . . 210
Centre of our hopes thou art . . , . 386
Children of the heavenly King . . . 328
Christ, from whom all blessings flow . . 389
INDEX. 605
Come, and let us sweetly join . ... Page 365
Come away to the skies, my beloved arise . 337
Crime, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost . . .11^
Come' Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, whom one
all-perfect, &c. . •,-,.• • ^^^
Come, Father, Sod, and Holy Ghost, honour the
means, &c. . • • , • -, • • ■^l"
Come, Father,' Son, and Holy Ghost, to w
&c .,;■•«:
Come, Holy Ghost, all-quick'nmg fire
Come, Holy Ghost, all-quick"Ding fire, come and
in me, &c. . • . .
Come, Holv Ghost, our hearts mspire
Come, holv, celestial Dove .
Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove .
Come, let us join our cheerful songs
Come, let us anew our journey pursue
Come, let us anew our journey pursue,
vigour arise
Come, let us ascend . . • ,;
Come, let us who in Christ believe
Come, let us use the grace divine .
Come, Lord, and claim me for thine own
Come, Lord, from above . . .
Come, 0 my God, the promise seal
Come, 0 thou ali-victorious Lord .
Come, 0 thou greater than our lieart
Come, 0 thou Traveller unknown .
Come on, my partners in distress .
Come, Saviour, Jesus, from above .
r«me. Saviour, let thy tokens prove
Come, sinners, to the gospel feast .
Come, then, ye sinners, to your Lord
Come, thou Fount of every blessing .
Come, thou everlasting Spirit
Come, thou almighty King
Come, thou omniscient Son of man
Come, thou high and lofty Lord
445
309
313
. 460
. 43
, 125
. 235
. 428
•with
. 358
. 359
. 212
.369
. 291
, 116
302
. 20
307
. T7
337
.260
207
. 9
12
. 221
205
.219
282
.366
606 INDEX.
Come, wisdom, power, and grace divine Page 392
Come, ye followers of the Lord , . , 157
Come, ye sinners, poor and needy
Come, ye that love the Lord .
Comfort, ye ministers of grace .
Commit thou all thy griefs .
Deepen the wounds thy hands have made
Depth of mercy ! can there be
Draw near, 0 Son of God, draw near
Drooping soul, sliake offtliy fears .
Enslaved to sense, to pleasure prone
Equip me for the war . .
Eternal Beam of light divine .
Eternal Power, whose high abode
Eternal, spotless Lamb of God .
Eternal Wisdom ! thee we praise .
Ever fainting with desire .
Except the Lord conduct the plan.
Expand thy wings, celestial Dove
Extended on a cursed tree
Fain would I go to thee, my God
Father, at thy footstool see
Father, behold with gracious eyes
Father, how wide thy glory shines
Father, I dare believe
Father, if justly still we claim .
Father, if thou must reprove
Father, in whom we live
Father, into thy hands alone
Father, I stretch my hands to thee
Father of all, by whom we are
Father of all, in whom alone
Father of lights, from whom proceeds
Father of Jesus Christ, my Lord .
Father of Jesus Christ, my Lord, my Saviour,
Father of Jesus Cbrist, the Just
IIVDBZ.
Iktber of oar dying Lord .
&ther of everlasting grace .
ther of all, whose powerfnl voice
Father of me and all maokind
Father of lights, thy needful aid
Fatberof mercies, in thy word
Father, our hearts we lift .
Father, see this living clod .
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost .
Father, supply my every need
Father, to thee I lift mine eyes .
Father, to thee my soul I lift .
Fondly my foolish heart essays .
For ever here my rest shall be
Fountain of life and all my joy .
Fountain of life to all below .
From all that dwell below the skies
Give glory to Jesus our Head .
Give me a sober mind
Give me the faith which can remove
Give me the enlarged desire
Giver and guardian of my sleep
Giver of concord, Prince of p«ice
Give to the winds thy fears .
Glory be to God above
Glory be In God on high
Glory to God on high
Glory to God, whose sovereign grace
Glorious Gofl, accept a heart
God is in this and every place
God moves in a mysterious way
God of all consolalinn, take .
God of all grace and majesty
God of almighty love
God of all power, and truth, and grace
God of all-redeeming grace .
Ood of eteroal truth and grace .
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608 INDEX.
God of Israel's faithful three .
God of love that hear'st the prayer
God of my life, to thee
God of my life, whr\t just return .
God of my life, whose £;rr»cious power
God of my salvation, hear
God of unexampled Krace . . .
God Only wise, almighty, zood
Go, iireach my gospel, saith the Lord
Gracious Redeemer, shake
Great God, indulge my humble claim
Great God, to me the sight afford .
Hail ! Father, Son, and Holy Ghost .
Hail ! holy, holy, holy Lord ,
Hail ! thou once despised Jesus .
Happy soul, thy days are ended .
Happy soul, who sees the day .
Happy the man thai finds the grace
Happy the souls to Jesus join'd . .
Hark 1 a voice divides the sliy
Hark ! from the tombs a doleful sound
Hark ! how the ?ospel trumpet sounds
Hark! how the watchmen cry . .
Hark! the herald angels sing .
Head of the church triumphant .
Hearken to the solemn voice , ,
Heavenly Father, sovereign Lord
He comes ! he comes I the Judge severe
He dies, the Friend of sinners dies ,
Help, I>ord, to whom for help 1 fly
He wills that I should holy be .
High on his everlasting throne
Ho ! every one that thirsts, draw nigh
Holy, and true, and righteous Lord
Holy as thou, 0 Lord, is none .
Holy, holy, holy Lord .
Holy Lamb, who thee confess .
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. 334
. 451
73
. 332
107
. 1S2
441
. 404
I&3
. IIS
16S
INDEX. 609
Holy Lamb, who thee receive . , . Page 265
Hosanca to Jesus on hish .... 485
How beauteous are their feet .... 397
How can a sinner know .... 162
How do thy mercies close me round . . . 329
How happy are the little flock . . . 504
How happy are they, who their Saviour obey . 89
How happy every child of grace . . . 239
How happy, gracious Lord, are we . . .215
How happy is the pilgrim's lot . . , 474
How sad our state by nature is . . . .31
How shall a lost sinner in pain ... 91
How shall I walk my God to please. . . 444
How tedious and tasteless the hours -, . 220
How vain are all things here below . . . 150
How weak the thoughts and vain . . . 613
I and my house will serve the Lord . . . 447
I ask the gift of righteousness . . . 166
If now I have acceptance found . . . 305
1 long to behold him array'd .... 465
111 praise my Maker while I've breath . . 231
I know that my Redeemer lives . . . 2S6
In boundless mercy, gracious Lord . . . 132
In fellowship alone 346
Infinite, unexhausted love .... 217
Inspirer of the ancient seers .... 461
In that sad memorable night .... 200
Into thy gracious hands I fall . . . 247
I the good fight have fought .... 407
I thirst, thou wounded Lamb of God . . 110
I want a principle within 144
I want the spirit of power within . . . 314
I will hearken what the Lord .... 96
Jehovah, God the Father, bless ... 135
Jesus, Redeemer, Saviour, Lord . . (TO
Jesus, shall I never be 617
26*
610 INDEX.
Jesu9, the word of mercy give .
Jesus, accept the praise .
Jesus, all-redeeming Lord .
Jesus, at whose supreme command
Jesus comes with all his grace .
Jesus dritiks the bitter cup
Jesus, faithful to his word .
Jesus, Friend of sinners, hear
Jesus, from thy heavenly place .
Jesus, from wtioni all blessings flow
Jesus, great Sheplierd of the sheep
Jesus hath died tliat I might live .
Jesus, I believe thee near .
Jesus, 1 fain would find . . .
Jesus, if still the same thou art .
Jesus, if still thou art to-day .
Jesus, in whom the Godhead's rays
Jesus, in whom the weary find
Jesus is our common Lord
Jesus, let thy pityinr eye
Jesus, Lord, we look to thee
Jesus, lover of my soul .
Jesus, my Advocate above .
Jesus, my all, to heaven is gone
Jesus, my life, thyself apply
Jesus, my Lord, attend . . .
Jesus, my Lord, I cry to thee .
Jesus, my Saviour, Brother, Friend
Jesus, my strength and righteousness
Jesus, my strength, my hope .
Jesus, my truth, my way .
Jesus, Redeemer of mankind .
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Jesus, the gift divine I know .
Jesus, the all-restoring Word .
Jesus, take all the glory .
Jesus, the conq'ror reigng .
Jeeus, the life, the truth, the way .
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Jesus, the name hie;h over all .
Jesus, the sinner's Friend, to thee
Jesus, to thee I now can fly
Jesus, to thee my heart I bow-
Jesus, to thee our hearts we lif:
Jesus, thou all-redeerning Lord
Jesus, thou art our King- .
Jesus, thou everlasting King .
Jesus, thou hasi bid us pray
Jesus, thou soul of all our joys
Jesus, thou sovereign Lord of all
•esus, thy blood and righteousness
Jesus, thy boundless love to me
Jesus, thy far-extended fame .
Jesus, thy loving Spirit alone .
Jesus, thy wandering sheep behold
Jesus, united by thy grace
Jesus, we thus obey
Jesus, we look to thee
Jesus, with kindest pity see .
Jesus, whose glory's streaming rays
Lamb of God, for sinners slain
Lamb of God, whose dying love
Lay to thy hand, 0 God of grace
Leader of faithful souls, and guide
Let all who truly bear .
Let earth and heaven agree
Let every mortal ear attend .
Let every tongue ihy goodness speak
Let God who comforts the distress'd
Let Him to whom we now belong ,
Let not the wise their wisdom boast
Let the beasts tlieir breath resign
Let the redeem'd give thanks and praise
Let the world their virtue boast
Let us join ('tis God commands) ,
Let Zioot watchmen all awake
611
Page 406
66
214
304
381
111
266
218
137
410
136
251
277
53
300
395
363
203
382
387
170
612 INDEX.
Lift up your eyes of faith, and see .
Lift up your hearts to things above
Lift your heads, ye friends of Jesus .
Light of life, seraphic fire
Lo I GoJ is here ! let us adore .
Lo ! he comes with clouds descending
Lo ! I come with joy to do .
Lol in thy hand 1 lay ...
Lo ! what an entertaining sight
Long have I seem'd to serve thee, Lord
Lord, all I am is known to thee
Lord, and is thine anger gone
Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing ,
Lord, how secure and blest are they
Lord, I believe a rest remains .
Lord, I believe thy every word
Lord, I despair myself to heal .
Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear
Lord, in the strength of grace .
Lord Jesus, w hen, when shall it be
Lord of the harvest, hear . . .
Lord over all, if thou hast made
Lord, thou wilt hear me when I pray
Lord, we are vile, conceived in sin
Lord, we come before thee now
Love divine, all loves excelling ,
Lovers of pleasure more than God .
Loving Jesus, gentle L,amb .
Maker, Saviour of mankind . .
Master, I own thy lawful claim
Alaster supreme, I look to thee . .
May I, throusjhout this day of thine
Meet and right it is to sing
Mortils awake, with angels join .
My drowsy powers, why sleep ye so
My God, how endless is thy love .
My God, I am thine, what a comfort divuie
INDEX. 613
My God, I know, I feel thee mine . . Page 274
My God, my God, to thee I cry . . . 75
My God, my life, my love 109
My God, my portion, and my love . . 327
My God, the spring of all my joys . . .230
My gracious, loving Lord .... 81
My hope, my all, my Saviour thou . . , 121
My Saviour, my almighty Friend . . . 237
My Saviour's pierced side 210
My Saviour thou, thy love to me . . . 278
My soul before thee prostrate lies . . .75
My Boul through my Redeemer's care . . 200
My span of life will soon be done . . .472
My sufferings all to thee are knowA . . 30
None is like Jeshurun's God
Now, even now, 1 yield, I yield ,
Now from the altar of our hearts
Now I have found the ground wherein
O all-creating God ....
O almighty God of love .
O all that pass by, to Jesus draw near
O come and dwell in me
O come, thou radiant Morning Star .
Of Him who did salvation bring .
O for a closer walk with God .
O for a thousand tongues to sing .
O for a heart to praise my God . .
O for that tenderness of heart
Oft have wj pass'd the guilty night .
Oft 1 in my heart have said .
O God, if thou art love indeed .
0 God, most merciful and true
0 God, my God, my all thou art
O God, my hope, my heavenly rest
0 God, of good th' unfathom'd sea
O God of onr forefathers, hear
614 INDEX.
O God, our help in aees past . . . Fige 479
O God, thou bottomless abyss . . . 190
O God, thy faithfulness I plead . . . .355
0 God, thy righteousness we owti . . . 101
0 God, to whom in flesh reveal'd . . .52
0 God, what oUeriuf shall I give ... 320
O glorious hope of perfect love .... 285
O great mountain, who art thou . . . 3l6
O beaveiily King, look down from above . . 211
O ! for a glance of heavenly day ... 77
O Jesus I at thy feet we wait .... 297
O Jesus: full of grace 100
O Jesus, full of truth and grace . , . 260
0 Jesus, let thy dving cry .... 293
0 Jesus, source of calm repose .... 290
0 joyful sound of gospel grace . . . 280
O let the prisoner's mournful cries . . . 141
O Lord, our God, we bless thee now . . 524
0 love divine, how sweet thou art . . .40
0 love divine! what hast thou done . . 172
0 love, I languish at thy stay .... 315
O may thy powerful word .... 127
Omnipresent God, whose aid .... 437
On all the earth thy Spirit shower . . 399
On Jordan's stormy banks I stand . . .471
Once more, my soul, the rising day . . 434
Once more we come before our God . . .411
O Saviour, cast a gracious smile . . . 393
0 Sun of righteousness, arise . . . .118
0 tell me no more of this world's vain store . 229
O that I could repent 32
O that I could repent ! with all my idols part 55
O that I could my Lord receive . . .46
O that I cnuld revere 56
C that X were as Heretofore . ... 92
C that my load of sin were gone . . . 269
;; that thou wouldst the heavens rent . . 69
0 tbou dear, suffering Son of God . . . 178
INDEX.
O thou eternal Victim slain
O thou God of my salvation .
O thou, our Husband, Brother, Friend
O thou to whose all-searching sight
0 thou who all thinss canst control .
O thou who earnest from above
O thou who hast our sorrows borne .
0 thou, whom all thy saints adore
O thou, whom fain my soul would love
O thou, whom once tiiey flock'd to hear
O 'tis delight, without alloy
0 'tis enough, my God, my God .
Our earth we now lament to see .
Our friendship sanctify and guide .
Our Lord is risen from the dead '.
O what shall I do my Saviour to praise .
O why did I my Saviour leave .
O wondrous power of faithful prayer .
Partners of a glorious hope
Pass a few swiftly fleeting years .
Peace be on this house bestow'd
Peace, doubting heart, my God's I am .
Peace, troubled soul, thou need'st not fear
Pierce, fill me with an humble fear
Plunged in a gulf of darl> despair
Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Praise ye the Lord, 'tis good to raise .
Praise ye the Lord, ye immortal choirs.
Prayer is appointed to convey .
Prisoner of hope, to thee I turn
Prisoners of hope, lift up your heads
Quicken'd with our immortal Head
Rejoice evermore, with angels above
Rejoice for a brother deceased
Rejoice, the Lord is King .
615
Page 205
238
. 391
115
. 156
133
. 168
130
. 79
29
. 256
616
INDEX.
Return, my soul, enjoy thy rest
Righteous God ! whose vengeful vials
Rock of Israel, cleft for me
Salvation ! 0 the ioyful sound
Saviour from sin, I wait to prove
Saviour, I now with stiame confess
Saviour of all, to thee we bow .
Saviour of all, what hast thou done
Saviour of men, thy searching eye
Saviour of sinful men
Saviour of the sin-sick soul
Saviour, on me the want bestow .
Saviour, Prince of Israel's race .
Saviour, the world's and mine
Say, which of you would see the Lord
See how great a flame aspfres
See how the morning sun .
See, Jesus, thy disciples see .
See, sinners, in the gospel glass.
Shall I, for fear of feeble man
Shepherd divine, our wants relieve
Shepherd of souls, with pitying eye
Shepherds, rejoice, lilt up your eyes
Show pity. Lord, 0 Lord forgive .
Shrinking from the cold hand of death
Since the Son hath made me free .
Sing to the great Jehovali's praise
Sinners, believe the gospel word
Sinners, obey the gospel word .
Sinners, the call oliey
Sinners, the voice of God regard
Sinners, turn, why will ye die
Soldiers of Christ, arise
Son of God, if thy free grace .
Son of God, thy blessing grant .
Son of Ihv Sire's eternal love .
Spirit of faith, come down
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506
.203
INDAX.
Spirit of truth, essential God .
Stand the omnipotent decree .
Stay, thou insulted Spirit, stay .
Steel me to shame, reproach, disgrace
Still for thy lovin» kindness. Lord .
Still, Lord, I lariffuish f T thy grace
Still out of the deepest abyss
Sun of unclouded righteousness
Surrounded by a host of foes
Sweet is the work, my God, my King
Talk with us, Lord, thyself reveal .
Terrible thought ! shall I alone
That awful dav will surely come
That doleful night before nis death
The church in her militant state
The counsels of redeeming grace .
The day of Christ, the day cf God
The earth is the Lord's, and all it contains
The God of Abr'am praise
The ereat Archangel's trump shall sound
The King of heaven his table spreads
The Lord is King, and earth submits .
The Lord of earth and sky . .
The Lord of sabbath let us praise . .
TTie Lord my pasture shall prepare .
The morning flowers display their sweets
The power to bless my house .
The praying Spirit breathe .
The Saviour meets his fiock to^ay .
The spacious firmament on high .
The thing my God doth hate . .
The voice of my Beloved sounds .
The voice that speaks Jehovah near .
The wis lom own'd by all thy sons
Thee, Jesus, full of truth and gnce .
Thee, Jesus, thee, the sinner's Friend
Thee we adore, eternal Name .
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Page 463
497
44
408
83
72
475
522
351
457
618 INDEX.
Thee will I love, my strength, my tower . P, 216
There is a lan'< i nure delight . . . 466
This, this is tb t J we adore .... 237
Thou God of e*. V lus majesty . . . 496
Thou God of tnj..n and love .... 361
Thou God that ans .verest by fire . . . 301
Thou God unsearchable, unknown . . . 169
Thou great niystetious God unknown . . 164
Thou hidden God, for whom I groan . . 49
Thou hidden love of God, whose height . 268
Thou hidden soi'.rce of calm repose . . .213
Thou, Jesus, thou my breast inspire . . 323
Thou Jud?e of qiiicb and dead . . . .494
Th.ju Lamb of God, thou Prince of peace . 341
Thou, Lord, hast bless'd my going out . . 161
Thou, Lord, nn whom I still depend . . 466
Thou Man of griefs, remember me . . .51
Thou, my God, art good and wise . . . 509
Thou seest my feebleness 154
Thou Shepherd of Israel and mine . . 2)8
Thou Son of God, whose flaming eyes . . 25
Thou, the great, eternal God . . . . 194
Thou, true and only God, lead'st forth . , 191
Thousch troubles assail, and dangers affright . 333
Thus far the Lord hath led me on . . . 440
Thy ceaseless, unexhausted love . . . 228
Thy faithfulness. Lord, each moment we
prove • 14
Thy life I read, my gracious Lord . 493
Thy presence, Lord, the place shall fill . . 153
Tis finish'd, 'tis done, the spirit is fled . 484
To thee, great God of love, I bow . . . 354
To the haven of thy breast ... 45
To the liills 1 lift mine eyes . . . .158
Try us, 0 God, and search the ground 360
Unchangeable, almighty Lord .... 883
Urge on your rapid courM . . . 415
INDEX. 619
Vain, delusive world, adieu . . . Page 325
Vain man, thy fond pursuits forbear . . 493
Watch'd by the world's malignant eye
We by his Spirit prove .
We know, by faith we know .
Weary of wand'ring from my God
Weary souls that wander wide .
Welcome, sweet day of rest .
We lift our hearts to thee .
What am I, 0 thou glorious God .
What could your Redeemer do .
What is our calling's glorious hope
What 1 never speak one e\ il word . ,
What now is my object and aim .
When all thy mercies, 0 my God
When, gracious Lord, when shall it be
When I can read my title clear
When Israel out of E^j'pt came .
When, my Saviour, shall I be .
When my relief will most display
When quiet in my house I sit .
When rising from the bed of death
When shall I see the welcome hour.
When shall thy love constrain
Where is my God, my joy, my hope
Where shall my wond'ring soul begin
Where the ancient dragon lay .
Wherewith, 0 Lord, shall I draw near
While dead in trespasses I lie .
While shepherds watch'd their flocks
night
Who are these array'd in white .
Who hath slighted or contemn'd
Who is this gigantic foe .
Whom man forsakes thou wilt not leave
Why do we mourn for dying friends
Why Bot now, my God, my God
620 INDEX.
Why should the children of a King .
Why should we start, and fear to die
With glorious clouds encorripass'd round
With joy we meditate the grace .
Wo to the men on e;irlh who dwell
Worship, a;id thanks, and blessing
Would Jesus have the sinner die
^Vretched, helpless, and distress'd
Te faithful souls, who Jesus know
Ye heavens rejoice in Jesus's grace
Ye simple souls that stray .
Ye ransom'd sinners, hear
Ye that pass by, behold the man
Ye thirsty for God, to Jesus give ear
Ye wretched, hungry, starving poor
Yes, from this instant, now I will .
Y'eld to me now, for I am weak
Young men and maidens, raise
Pago
47
487
38
326
5a2
514
181
67
456
175
242
222
177
23
.2C8
103
. 78
249
631
INDEX TO THE SUPPLEMENT.
AGAIN our weekly labours enj
Alnii^lity Maker of my frame
Arm of the Lord, awake, awake
As \vave on wave, years pass away
Before the great Three-one
Behold the sure foundation stone .
BeholJ thy temple, God of grace
Canst thou reject our dying prayer
Come, thou conq'ror of the nations .
Come, let our voices join
Come, Holy Spirit, raise our songs .
Coming through our great High Priest
Creator, Spirit, by whose aid .
Earth, rejoice, our Lord is King ,
Eternal depth of love divine . .
Eternal Lord of earth and skies .
Eternal Spirit, come ....
Eternal Source of every joy . ,
Far as creation's bounds extend
Father, GoJ, we glorify
Father, glorify thy Son . . .
Father of all, thy care we bless .
Father of boundless grace. . .
Father of earth and sky , .
From Greenland's icy mountains .
Give me the winjs of faith to rise
Go, holy bonk, thou word divine
God is gone up on high .
God of my life, through all my days.
God of eternal truth and love
God is a name my soul adores .
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. 546
. 554
. 568
. 529
. 539
632 INDEX TO SUPPLEMENT.
Great God, who laid on Sion's mount
Great God, thy watchful care we bless
Great God, attend while Sion sings
Great is the Lord oi;r God . .
Great is our redeem. ng Lord
Hail, co-essential Three
Hail, Father, whose creating call
Hail the day that sees him rise
Hark, my soul, it is the Lord .
Head of thy church, whose Spirit fills
How pleasant, how divinely fair
How large the promise, how divine
How lovely are thy tents, 0 Lord
I call the world's Redeemer mine.
Infinite God, thy greatness spann'd
Infinite God, to thee we raise .
Jesus, my God and King .
Jesus, the word bestow . . .
Jesus, we on the words depend .
Jesus, was ever love like thine .
Jesus, thy servants bless .
Let Sion in her King rejoice .
Listen ! 0 Sion ! Jehovah hath spoken
Lord, if at thy command
Lord, haste to claim thy purchased right
Lord of all, with pure intent.
Lord of earth, and air, and sea .
Lord of the sabbath, hear our vows
Lord of the wide, extensive main
Lord, whom winds and seas obey .
May not a crenting God .
Mercy, descend mg from above
Messiah, joy of every heart
0 God, how often hath thine ear .
0 happy day that fix'd my choice
0 how shall a sinner perform
0 thou, before whose lofty throne
O thou that hangedst on the tree .
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. 534
, 535
. 536
. 538
. 589
INDEX TO SUPPLEMENT. 623
0 vhen shall we sweetly remove .
Rock of ages, cleft for me
Saviour, whom our hearts adore
Saviour, we know thou art .
Saviour, we now rejoice in hope
See Israel's gentle Sheplierd stand .
Sods of God, triumphant rise .
Sovereign of all the worlds on high
Surely the Lord is here .
The God of heaven reveals to man
The heavens declare thy (;lory, LorJ
The law and prophets all foretold
The Lord Jehovah reigns .
The Saviour when to heaven he rose
Thou, who hast in Sion laid . -
To thee, thou high and lofty One .
Thou fount of every good required .
Thou sweet gliding Kedron . .
Thou who didst with love and bless;ag
Though nature's strength decay .
Tremendous God, with humble fear .
What equal honours shall we bring
Where shall true believers go .
Who Jesus our example know
Wisdom ascribe, and might, and praise
With glory clad, with strengtia array d
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. 548
. 550
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565
. 532
553
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549
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580
.530
540
. 585
584
. 556
567
. 571
560
. 576
538
569
636
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