A COLLECTION OF HYMNS, FOR THE USE OF THE PEOPLE CALLED METHODISTS. --------- BY THE REV. JOHN WESLEY, M.A., SOMETIME FELLOW OF LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD. With a New Supplement. LONDON: WESLEYAN-METHODIST BOOK-ROOM; 2, CASTLE STREET, CITY ROAD, E.C.; SOLD AT 66, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. 1889 CONTENTS. PART I. CONTAINING INTRODUCTORY HYMNS Hymn SECTION I. Exhorting Sinners to return to God 1 II. Describing, 1. The Pleasantness of Religion 12 2. The Goodness of God 22 3. Death 41 4. Judgment 54 5. Heaven 67 6. Hell 80 III. Praying for a Blessing 81 PART II. CONVINCING SECTION I. Describing Formal Religion 91 II. Inward Religion 95 PART III. SECTION I. Praying for Repentance 99 II. For Mourners convinced of Sin 108 III. For Persons convinced of Backsliding 168 IV. For Backsliders recovered 182 PART IV. FOR BELIEVERS SECTION I. For Believers Rejoicing 189 II. Fighting 265 III. Praying 291 IV. Watching 305 V. Working 321 VI. Suffering 329 VII. Seeking for full redemption 340 VIII. Saved 418 IX. Interceding for the World 441 PART V. SECTION I. For the Society Meeting 478 II. Giving Thanks 488 III. Praying 501 IV. Parting 533 SUPPLEMENT. SECTION I. SELECT PSALMS, i. to cl. 540 - 641 SECTION II. HYMNS OF ADORATION 642 - 664 SECTION III. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. His Person, Offices. and Work 665 His Incarnation, Life, and Works 683 His Sufferings and Death 699 His Resurrection 712 His Ascension 719 His Kingdom 727 SECTION IV. THE HOLY SPIRIT. His Person, Work, and Officcs 750 SECTION V. PENITENTIAL HYMNS 772 SECTION VI. THE EXPERIENCE AND PRIVILEGES OF BELIEVERS. Rejoicing 800 Praying 815 Watching 828 Suffering 831 Working 858 SECTION VII. CHRISTIAN ORDINANCES AND INSTITUTIONS. Worship 859 The Ministry, and Prayers for Ministers 868 The Scriptures, and Prayers before reading them 879 Baptism, and Prayers for Children and Parents 888 The Lord's Supper 897 For Covenant Services 909 SECTION VIII. DEATH AND THE FUTURE LIFE. Death 913 Resurrection 927 The Last Judgment 932 Heaven 938 SECTION IX. VARIOUS SEASONS AND OCCASIONS. The Lord's Day 950 Morning 955 Evening 961 Morning Hymn 963 Evening Hymn 967 Saturday Evening 975 The Watch Night 976 New Year's Day 978 For the King 985 In Time of Pestilence 986 Harvest Home 987 Laying the Foundation of a Chapel 989 Opening a Chapel 994 For a Wedding 995 Family Religion 997 After a Journey 998 Going on Shipboard, Prayers for Travellers 999 Benedictions 1005 Graces before and after Meat 1009 PREFACE. 1. For many years I have been importuned to publish such a hymn-book as might be generally used in all our congregations throughout Great Britain and Ireland. I have hitherto withstood the importunity, as I believed such a publication was needless, considering the various hymn-books which my brother and I have published within these forty years last past; so that it may be doubted whether any religious community in the world has a greater variety of them. 2. But it has been answered, "Such a publication is highly needful upon this very account: for the greater part of the people, being poor, are not able to purchase so many books; and those that have purchased them are, as it were, bewildered in the immense variety. A proper Collection of hymns for general use, carefully made out of all these books, is therefore still wanting; and one comprised in so moderate a compass, as to be neither cumbersome nor expensive." 3. It has been replied, "You have such a Collection already, (entitled 'Hymns and Spiritual Songs') which I extracted several years ago from a variety of hymn-books." But it is objected, "This is in the other extreme: it is far too small. It does not, it cannot, in so narrow a compass, contain variety enough; not so much as we want, among whom singing makes so considerable a part of the public service. What we want is, a Collection not too large, that it may be cheap and portable; nor too small, that it may contain a sufficient variety for all ordinary occasions." 4. Such a Hymn-Book you have now before you. It is not so large as to be either cumbersome or expensive; and it is large enough to contain such a variety of hymns as will not soon be worn threadbare. It is large enough to contain all the important truths of our most holy religion, whether speculative or practical; yea, to illustrate them all and to prove them both by Scripture and reason; and this is done in a regular order. The hymns are not carelessly jumbled together, but carefully ranged under proper heads, according to the experience of real Christians. So that this book is, in effect, a little body of experimental and practical divinity. 5. As but a small part of these hymns is of my own composing, I do not think it inconsistent with modesty to declare, that I am persuaded no such hymn-book as this has yet been published in the English language. In what other publication of the kind have you so distinct and full an account of scriptural Christianity? Such a declaration of the heights and depths of religion, speculative and practical? so strong cautions against the most plausible errors; particularly those that are now most prevalent? and so clear directions for making your calling and election sure; for perfecting holiness in the fear of God? 6. May I be permitted to add a few words with regard to the poetry? Then I will speak to those who are judges thereof, with all freedom and unreserve. To these I may say, without offence, 1. In these hymns there is no doggerel; no botches; nothing put in to patch up the rhyme; no feeble expletives. 2. Here is nothing turgid or bombast, on the one hand, or low and creeping, on the other. 3. Here are no cant expressions; no words without meaning. Those who impute this to us know not what they say. We talk common sense, both in prose and verse, and use no word but in a fixed and determinate sense. 4. Here are, allow me to say, both the purity, the strength, and the elegance of the English language; and, at the same time, the utmost simplicity and plainness, suited to every capacity. Lastly, I desire men of taste to judge, (these are the only competent judges) whether there be not in some of the following hymns the true spirit of poetry, such as cannot be acquired by art and labour, but must be the gift of nature. By labour a man may become a tolerable imitator of Spencer, Shakespeare, or Milton; and may heap together pretty compound epithets, as "pale-eyed," "meek-eyed," and the like; but unless he be born a poet, he will never attain the genuine spirit of poetry. 7. And here I beg leave to mention a thought which has been long upon my mind, and which I should long ago have inserted in the public papers, had I not been unwilling to stir up a nest of hornets. Many gentlemen have done my brother and me (though without naming us) the honour to reprint many of our Hymns. Now they are perfectly welcome so to do, provided they print them just as they are. But I desire they would not attempt to mend them; for they really are not able. None of them is able to mend either the sense or the verse. Therefore, I must beg of them one of these two favours; either to let them stand just as they are, to take them for better for worse; or to add the true reading in the margin, or at the bottom of the page; that we may no longer be accountable either for the nonsense or for the doggerel of other men. 8. But to return. That which is of infinitely more moment than the spirit of poetry, is the spirit of piety. And I trust, all persons of real judgment will find this breathing through the whole Collection. It is in this view chiefly, that I would recommend it to every truly pious reader, as a means of raising or quickening the spirit of devotion; of confirming his faith; of enlivening his hope; and of kindling and increasing his love to God and man. When Poetry thus keeps its place, as the handmaid of Piety, it shall attain, not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away. JOHN WESLEY. London, Oct. 20, 1779. N.B. The Hymns distinguished by the prefix of an asterisk were not in the editions published during the life of Mr. Wesley. The New Supplement to "A Collection of Hymns for the use of the People called Methodists," originally published by John Wesley in 1780, has been compiled under the direction of a Committee appointed by the Conference in 1874. The "Collection" of 1780 has been circulated by millions, and has been recognised as a priceless treasure, not only by Methodists, but by many other disciples of the One Master. As a testimony to Scripture doctrine and Christian experience, as a monument of piety, a manual of devotion, and a bond of fellowship, it can never cease to be precious to all who cherish the spirit of its authors, and wish well to that revival of religion of which they were the instruments; while, in instances almost innumerable, personal associations have invested portions of its contents with tender, and even sacred interest. The Conference therefore determined that it should be retained in use, and, while generally revised, should undergo no alteration which would affect its substance or impair its identity. But as altered circumstances, often resulting from the growth of the Connexion, and occasions repeatedly arising in public, social, and domestic life have rendered additional hymns necessary, an attempt has been made to meet the want which has been long felt, and which was by no means adequately provided for by the valuable Supplement published about forty-five years since. In this compilation the necessities of public worship have been first considered; and it is hoped that an ample supply of compositions suitable for mixed congregations is here furnished. In addition to hymns of adoration and thanksgiving, there will be found seventy versions of Psalms, or parts of Psalms (besides those contained in the former Supplement) by means of which that portion of Holy Scripture, which has supplied so large a share of the devotional exercises of Christians generally, will become more fully available for the use of Methodists than it has been for a long time past. Many poems of Charles Wesley also, which up to a late period only existed in manuscript, are now for the first time presented for congregational use; and by the force and sublimity of thought, the depth and tenderness of feeling, and the spirit of fervent piety displayed in them, will fully vindicate the judgment of John Wesley respecting his brother's poetical remains. Well does it become all the lovers of Scriptural Christianity, but especially the Methodists, to be thankful to the Author of every good gift for the endowments and labours of Charles Wesley, which were so long and faithfully consecrated to the promotion of vital and experimental religion, and by which that "power of godliness" which it is the mission of Methodism to spread, has been alike exemplified and vindicated. The full extent to which these labours have been rendered serviceable to the cause of Christ can only be known in the day when all secret things shall be revealed. The Spirit of its living Head having never departed from the Church, it follows that those in all ages who by the Holy Ghost have called Jesus Lord should have been occupied with attempts to set forth His praise. As in the old time they still "prophesy and do not cease," so that our age is richer in good hymns than any that have gone before it. The Committee have been glad to avail themselves of the labours of both contemporaries and predecessors, and accordingly the present volume is enriched by a selection from the works of modern hymnologists as well as from the accumulated treasures of the past. The names of authors as presented in the "Index of First Lines," will help to exemplify the substantial unity existing between all believers in Christ, notwithstanding the many causes which at present hinder its full manifestation to the world. It may be proper to add that the Committee, while mainly desirous to provide by this Supplement for the wants of congregations, have not restricted themselves to that object. The people called Methodists were supposed by their Founder to have many uses for good hymns besides singing them in public assemblies; and he selected for them accordingly. Here also will be found some adapted to personal and private, rather than to collective worship, or to praising the Lord "secretly among the faithful," rather than "in the congregation;" but none, it is hoped, which will not minister "to exhortation, edification, or comfort:" and for these objects they humbly invoke the blessing of God upon their work. The Committee offer respectful thanks to the authors and publishers concerned, for permission courteously given to use hymns in which they have a copyright. A list of these, as far as known, is given below. If they have in any instance failed to seek for permission where they ought to have done so, such omission has been entirely unintentional, and they trust this apology for it will be accepted. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lincoln; the Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster; the Right Hon. and Rev. the Earl Nelson; the Rev. Sir H. W. Baker, Bart.; the Rev. Sir J. Prevost, Bart.; the Rev. W. J. Hall, M.A., and the Rev. W. Josiah Irons, D.D., Prebendaries of St. Paul's; the Rev. B. H. Kennedy, D.D., Canon of Ely; the Rev. Horatius Bonar, D.D.; the (late) Rev. J. S. Monsell, LL.D.; the Rev. W. M. Punshon, LL.D.; the Rev. Messrs. J. Ellerton, M.A., J. M. Fuller, M.A., Arthur Tozer-Russell, M.A., the Rev. S. J. Stone, M.A., the Rev. H. Twells, M.A., the Rev. Ed. Caswall, and the Rev. E. E. Jenkins, M.A.; Sir Charles Reed; Richard Massie, Esq.; Granville R. Ryder, Esq.; Thomas Montgomery Foster, Esq.; T. Stamford Raffles, Esq.; George Rawson, Esq.; Miss C. Winkworth; Mrs. Lynch; and H. L. L., the Authors or representatives of the Authors of hymns; and Messrs. Murray, Longmans, Nisbet, Rivingtons, Masters, Hayes, Novello, Daldy Isbister & Co., and the Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and the Committee of the Religious Tract Society, the Publishers of the several volumes from which hymns have been selected. LONDON, 1876. ===1 ==C.M. 1 O FOR a thousand tongues to sing My great Redeemer's praise, The glories of my God and King, The triumphs of his 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 our fears, That bids our sorrows cease; 'Tis music in the sinner's ears, 'Tis life, and health, and peace. 4 He breaks the power of cancelled sin, He sets the prisoner free; His blood can make the foulest clean, His blood availed for me. 5 He speaks, and, listening to his voice, New life the dead receive, The mournful, broken hearts rejoice, The humble poor believe. 6 Hear him, ye deaf; his praise, ye dumb, Your loosened tongues employ; Ye blind, behold your Saviour come, And leap, ye lame, for joy. 7 Look unto him, ye nations, own Your God, ye fallen race; Look, and be saved through faith alone, Be justified by grace. 8 See all your sins on Jesus laid: The Lamb of God was slain, His soul was once an offering made For every soul of man. 9 Awake from guilty nature's sleep, And Christ shall give you light, Cast all your sins into the deep, And wash the ’thiop white. 10 With me, your chief, ye then shall know, Shall feel your sins forgiven; Anticipate your heaven below, And own that love is heaven. ===2 ==L.M. Luke xiv. 16 - 24. 1 COME, sinners, to the gospel feast, Let every soul be Jesu's guest; Ye need not one be left behind, For God hath bidden all mankind. 2 Sent by my Lord, on you I call, The invitation is to ALL: Come, all the world; come, sinner, thou! All things in Christ are ready now. 3 Come, all ye souls by sin opprest, Ye restless wanderers after rest, Ye poor, and maimed, and halt, and blind, In Christ a hearty welcome find. 4 Come, and partake the gospel feast; Be saved from sin; in Jesus rest; O taste the goodness of your God, And eat his flesh, and drink his blood! 5 Ye vagrant souls, on you I call; (O that my voice could reach you all!) Ye all may now be justified, Ye all may live, for Christ hath died. 6 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! 7 His love is mighty to compel; His conquering love consent to feel, Yield to his love's resistless power, And fight against your God no more. 8 See him set forth before your eyes, That precious, bleeding sacrifice! His offered benefits embrace, And freely now be saved by grace. 9 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. ===3 ==1Os & 11s. John vii. 37 - 39. 1 ALL that pass by, To Jesus draw near, He utters a cry, Ye sinners, give ear! From hell to retrieve you He spreads out his 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 take 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 knowledge and grace, Of wisdom and prayer, Of joy and of praise; G The Spirit of faith, Of faith in thy blood, Which saves us from wrath, And brings us to God, Removes the huge mountain Of indwelling sin, And opens a fountain That washes us clean. ===4 ==L.M. Isaiah lv. 1 - 3. 1 HO! every one that thirsts, draw nigh! ('Tis God invites the fallen race) Mercy and free salvation buy; Buy wine, and milk, and gospel grace. 2 Come to the living waters, come! Sinners, obey your Maker's call; Return, ye weary wanderers, 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 labouring, burdened, sin-sick souls. 4 Nothing ye in exchange shall give, Leave all you have and are behind, Frankly the gift of God receive, Pardon and peace in Jesus find. 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 all in vain. 6 In search of empty joys below, Ye toil with unavailing strife; Whither, ah! whither would ye go? I 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 good. 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 believingly receive; Quickened your souls by faith divine An everlasting life shall live. ===5 ==10s & 11s. 1 THY faithfulness, Lord, Each moment we find, So true to thy word, So loving and kind! Thy mercy so tender To all the lost race, The vilest offender May turn and find grace. 2 The mercy I feel To others I show, I set to my seal That Jesus is true: Ye all may find favour Who come at his call, O come to my Saviour, His grace is for all! 3 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, O come unto me!" 4 O 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 sinners 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. ===6 ==8-7s. "Why will ye die, O house of Israel?" Ezek. xviii. 31. 1 SINNERS, turn, why will ye die? God, your Maker, asks you why? God, who did your being give, Made you with himself to live - He the fatal cause demands, Asks the work of his own hands, Why, ye thankless creatures, why Will ye cross his love, and die? 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 ransomed sinners, why Will you 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, Wooed you to embrace his love: Will you not his grace receive? Will you still refuse to live? Why, ye long-sought sinners, why Will you grieve your God, and die? 4 Dead, already dead within, Spiritually dead in sin, Dead to God while here you breathe, Pant ye after second death? Will you still in sin remain, Greedy of eternal pain? O ye dying sinners, why, Why will you for ever die? ===7 ==8-7s. The same subject. 1 LET the beasts their breath resign, Strangers to the life divine; Who their God can never know, Let their spirit downward go. You for higher ends were born, You may all to God return, Dwell with him above the sky; Why will you for ever die? 2 You, on whom he favours showers, You, possest of nobler powers, You, of reason's powers possest, You, with will and memory blest, You, with finer sense endued, Creatures capable of God; Noblest of his creatures, why, Why will you for ever die? 3 You, whom he ordained to be Transcripts of the Deity; You, whom he in life doth hold; You, for whom himself was sold; You, on whom he still doth wait, Whom he would again create; Made by him, and purchased, why, Why will you for ever die? 4 You, who own his record true, You, his chosen people, you, You, who call the Saviour Lord, You, who read his written word, You, who see the gospel-light, Claim a crown in Jesu's right; Why will you, ye Christians, why Will the house of Israel die? ===8 ==8-7s. The same subject. 1 WHAT could your Redeemer do More than he hath done for you? To procure your peace with God, Could he more than shed his blood? After all his waste of love, All his drawings from above, Why will you your Lord deny? Why will you 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, obtest, and cry, Why will you resolve to die? 3 Sinners, turn, while God is near: Dare not think him insincere: Now, even 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 you resolve to die? 4 Can you doubt if God is love? If to all His bowels move? Will you not his word receive? Will you not his OATH believe? See! the suffering God appears! Jesus weeps! believe his tears! Mingled with his blood, they cry, Why will you resolve to die? ===9 ==L.M. 1 SINNERS, obey the gospel-word! Haste to the supper of my Lord! Be wise to know your gracious 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 hands. 3 Ready the Spirit of his love Just now the stony to remove, To apply, and witness with the blood, And wash and seal the sons of God. 4 Ready for you the angels wait, To triumph in your blest estate; Tuning their harps, they long to praise The wonders of redeeming grace. 5 The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost Is ready, with their shining host: All heaven is ready to resound, "The dead's alive! the lost is found!" 6 Come then, ye sinners, to your Lord, In Christ to paradise restored; His proffered benefits embrace, The plenitude of gospel grace: 7 A pardon written with his blood, The favour and the peace of God; The seeing eye, the feeling sense, The mystic joys of penitence; 8 The godly grief, the pleasing smart, The meltings of a broken heart, The tears that tell your sins forgiven, The sighs that waft your souls to heaven; 9 The guiltless shame, the sweet distress, The unutterable tenderness, The genuine, meek humility, The wonder, "Why such love to me?" 10 The o'erwhelming power of saving grace, The sight that veils the seraph's face; The speechless awe that dares not move, And all the silent heaven of love. ===10 ==10s & 11s. John vii. 37 - 39. 1 YE thirsty for God, To Jesus give ear, And take, through his blood, A power to draw near; His kind invitation Ye sinners embrace, Accepting salvation, Salvation by grace. 2 Sent down from above, Who governs the skies, In vehement love To sinners he cries, Drink into my Spirit, Who happy would be, And all things inherit By coming to me. 3 O Saviour of all, Thy word we believe! And come at thy call, Thy grace to receive; The blessing is given Wherever thou art. The earnest of heaven Is love in the heart. 4 To us at thy feet The Comforter give, Who gasp to admit Thy Spirit, and live; The weakest believers Acknowledge for thine, And fill us with rivers Of water divine. ===11 ==L.M. 2 Cor. v. 20. 1 GOD, the offended God most high, Ambassadors to rebels sends; His messengers his place supply, And Jesus begs us to be friends. 2 Us, in the stead of Christ, they pray, Us, in the stead of God, intreat, To cast our arms, our sins, away, And find forgiveness at his feet. 3 Our God in Christ! thine embassy, And proffered mercy, we embrace; And gladly reconciled to thee, Thy condescending goodness praise. 4 Poor debtors, by our Lord's request A full acquittance we receive! And criminals, with pardon blest, We, at our Judge's instance, live! ===12 ==S.M. 1 COME, 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 that 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 powers, To carry us above. 3 There we shall see his face, And never, never sin; There, from the rivers of his grace, Drink endless pleasures in: Yea, and before we rise To that immortal state, The thoughts of such amazing bliss Should constant joys create. 4 The men of grace have found Glory begun below; Celestial fruit on earthly ground From faith and hope may grow: Then let our songs abound, And every tear be dry; We are marching through Immanuel's grounds To fairer worlds on high. ===13 ==8-7s. 1 HAPPY soul that free from harms Rests within his Shepherd's arms! Who his quiet shall molest? Who shall violate his rest? Jesus doth his spirit bear, Jesus takes his every care; He who found the wandering sheep, Jesus still delights to keep. 2 O that I might so believe, Steadfastly to Jesus cleave, On his only love rely, Smile at the destroyer nigh; Free from sin and servile fear, Have my Jesus ever near, All his care rejoice to prove, All his paradise of love! 3 Jesus, seek thy wandering sheep, Bring me back, and lead, and keep; Take on thee my every care, Bear me, on thy bosom bear: Let me know my Shepherd's voice, More and more in thee rejoice, More and more of thee receive, Ever in thy Spirit live: 4 Live, till all thy life I know, Perfect through my Lord below, Gladly then from earth remove, Gathered to the fold above. 5 O that I at last may stand With the sheep at thy right hand, Take the crown so freely given, Enter in by thee to heaven! ===14 ==L.M. Prov. iii. 13 - 18. 1 HAPPY 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 filled with length of days, True riches, and immortal praise, Riches of Christ, on all bestowed, 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 her flowery paths are peace. 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. ===15 ==C.M. 1 HAPPY the souls to Jesus joined, 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 know; They sing the Lamb in hymns above, And we in hymns below. 3 Thee in thy glorious realm they praise, And bow before thy throne, We in the kingdom of thy 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. ===16 ==L.M. Primitive Christianity. 1 HAPPY the souls that first believed, To Jesus and each other cleaved, Joined by the unction from above In mystic fellowship of love. 2 Meek, simple followers of the Lamb, They lived, and spake, and thought the same; They joyfully conspired to raise Their ceaseless sacrifice of praise. 3 With grace abundantly endued, A pure, believing multitude, They all were of one heart and soul, And only love inspired the whole. 4 O what an age of golden days! O what a choice, peculiar race! Washed in the Lamb's all-cleansing blood, Anointed kings and priests to God! 5 Ye different sects, who all declare, "Lo, here is Christ! " or, "Christ is here!" Your stronger proofs divinely give, And show me where the Christians live. 6 The gates of hell cannot prevail; The church on earth can never fail; Ah, join me to thy secret ones! Ah, gather all thy living stones! 7 Scattered o'er all the earth they lie, Till thou collect them with thine eye, Draw by the music of thy name, And charm into a beauteous frame. 8 For this the pleading Spirit groans, And cries in all thy banished ones; Greatest of gifts, thy love impart, And make us of one mind and heart. 9 Join every soul that looks to thee In bonds of perfect charity; Now, Lord, the glorious fullness give, And all in all for ever live! ===17 ==L.M. SECOND PART. 1 JESUS, from whom all blessings flow, Great builder of thy church below, If now thy Spirit moves my breast, Hear, and fulfil thine own request! 2 The few that truly call thee Lord, And wait thy sanctifying word, And thee their utmost Saviour own, Unite, and perfect them in one. 3 O let them all thy mind express, Stand forth thy chosen witnesses, Thy power unto salvation show, And perfect holiness below! 4 In them let all mankind behold How Christians lived in days of old, Mighty their envious foes to move, A proverb of reproach - and love. 5 From every sinful wrinkle free, Redeemed from all iniquity, The fellowship of saints make known; And, O my God, might I be one! 6 O might my lot be cast with these, The least of Jesu's witnesses! O that my Lord would count me meet To wash his dear disciples' feet! 7 This only thing do I require: Thou knowest 'tis all my heart's desire Freely what I receive to give, The servant of thy church to live; 8 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. 9 Lord, if I now thy drawings feel, And ask according to thy will, Confirm the prayer, the seal impart, And speak the answer to my heart. ===18 ==7s & 6s. 1 FATHER, Saviour of mankind, Who hast on me bestowed An immortal soul, designed To be the house of God; Come, and now reside in me, Never, never to remove; Make me just and good, like thee, And full of power and love. 2 Bid me in thy image rise, A saint, a creature new, True, and merciful, and wise, And pure, and happy too. This thy primitive design, That I should in thee be blest, Should within the arms divine For ever, ever rest. 3 Let thy will on me be done; Fulfil my heart's desire, Thee to know and love alone, And rise in raptures higher; Thee, descending on a cloud, When with ravished eyes I see, Then I shall be filled with God To all eternity! ===19 ==10s & 11s. 1 REJOICE evermore With angels above, In Jesus's power, In Jesus's love: With glad exultation Your triumph proclaim, Ascribing salvation To God and the Lamb. 2 Thou, Lord, our relief In trouble hast been; Hast saved us from grief, Hast saved us from sin; The power of thy Spirit Hath set our hearts free, And now we inherit All fulness in thee; 3 All fulness of peace, All fulness of joy, And spiritual bliss That never shall cloy: To us it is given In Jesus to know A kingdom of heaven, A heaven below. 4 No longer we join While sinners invite, Nor envy the swine Their brutish delight; Their joy is all sadness, Their mirth is all vain, Their laughter is madness, Their pleasure is pain. 5 O might they at last With sorrow return, The pleasures to taste For which they were born; Our Jesus receiving, Our happiness prove, The joy of believing, The heaven of love! ===20 ==6-7s. 1 WEARY 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; Rise into the life of God! 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 O believe the record true, God to you his Son hath give Ye may now be happy too, Find on earth the life of heaven, Live the life of heaven above, All the life of glorious love. 4 This the universal bliss, Bliss for every soul designed, God's original promise this, God's great gift to all mankind: Blest in Christ this moment be! Blest to all eternity! ===21 ==S.M. 1 YE simple souls that stray Far from the path of peace, That lonely, unfrequented way To life and happiness, Why will ye 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 life beneath; And nothing great or good can see, Or glorious, in our death: As only born to grieve, Beneath your feet we lie; And utterly contemned we live, And unlamented die. 3 So wretched and obscure, The men whom ye despise, So foolish, impotent, and poor, Above your scorn we rise: We, through the Holy Ghost, Can witness better things; For He whose blood is all our boast Hath made us priests and kings. 4 Riches unsearchable In Jesu's love we know; And pleasures, springing from the well Of life, our souls o'erflow; The Spirit we receive Of wisdom, grace, and power; And always sorrowful we live, Rejoicing evermore. 5 Angels our servants are, And keep in all our ways, And in their watchful hands they bear The sacred souls of grace; Unto that heavenly bliss They all our steps attend; And God himself our Father is, And Jesus is our friend. 6 With him we walk in white, We in his image shine, Our robes are robes of glorious light, Our righteousness divine; On all the kings of earth With pity we look down, And claim, in virtue of our birth, A never-fading crown. ===22 ==C.M. 1 BEHOLD the Saviour of mankind Nailed 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 'Tis done! the precious ransom's paid, "Receive my soul," he cries! See where he bows his sacred head! He bows his head, and dies! 4 But soon he'll break death's envious chain, And in full glory shine: O Lamb of God! was ever pain, Was ever love, like thine? ===23 ==L.M. 1 EXTENDED on a cursed tree, Besmeared 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 fixed the thorn. 4 The burden, for me to sustain Too great, on thee, my Lord, was laid; To heal me, thou hast borne my pain; To bless me, thou a curse wast made. 5 In the devouring lion's teeth, Torn, and forsook of all, I lay; Thou sprang'st into the jaws of death, From death to save the helpless prey. 6 Saviour how shall I proclaim? How pay the mighty debt I owe? Let all I have, and all I am, Ceaseless to all thy glory show. 7 Too much to thee I cannot give; Too much I cannot do for thee; Let all thy love, and all thy grief, Graven on my heart for ever be! 8 The meek, the still, the lowly mind, O may I learn from thee, my God, And love, with softest pity joined, 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. ===24 ==8-7s. 1 SAVIOUR, if thy precious love Could be merited by mine, Faith these mountains would remove; Faith would make me ever thine: But when all my care and pains Worth can ne'er create in me, Nought by me thy fulness gains; Vain the hope to purchase thee. 2 Cease, O man, thy worth to weigh, Give the needless contest o'er; Mine thou art! while thus I say, Yield thee up, and ask no more: What thy estimate may be, Only can by him be told Who, to ransom wretched thee, Thee to gain, himself was sold. 3 But when all in me is sin, How can I thy grace obtain? How presume thyself to win? God of love, the doubt explain: Or if thou the means supply, Lo to thee I all resign! Make me Lord - I ask not why, How I ask not, - ever thine. ===25 ==8s & 6s. Matthew xi. 28. 1 STUPENDOUS love of God most high! He comes to meet us from the sky In mildest majesty; Full of unutterable grace, He calls the weary burdened race, "Come all for help to me." 2 Tired with the greatness of my way, From him I would no longer stray, But rest in Jesus have; Weary of sin, from sin would cease, Weary of mine own righteousness, And stoop, myself to save. 3 Weary of passions unsubdued, Weary of vows in vain renewed, Of forms without the power, Of prayers, and hopes, complaints, and groans, My fainting soul in silence owns I can hold out no more. 4 Beneath this mountain load of grief, Of guilt and desperate unbelief, Jesus, thy creature see; With all my nature's weight oppressed, I sink, I die for want of rest, Yet cannot come to thee. 5 Mine utter helplessness I feel; But thou, who gav'st the feeble will, The effectual grace supply; Be thou my strength, my light, my way, And bid my soul the call obey, And to thy bosom fly. 6 Fulfil thine own intense desire, And now into my heart inspire The power of faith and love; Then, Saviour, then to thee I come, And find on earth the life, the home, The rest of saints above. ===26 ==L.M. 1 I 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 we; That pledge of love for ever there! 3 How blest are they who still abide Close sheltered in thy bleeding side, Who life and strength from thence derive, And by thee move, and in thee live. 4 What are our works but sin and death, Till thou thy quickening Spirit breathe! Thou giv'st the power thy grace to move; O wondrous grace! O boundless love! 5 How can it be, thou heavenly King, That thou shouldst us to glory bring? Make slaves the partners of thy throne, Decked with a never-fading crown? 6 Hence our hearts melt, our eyes o'erflow, Our words are lost; nor will we know, Nor will we think of aught beside, "My Lord, my Love is crucified." 7 Ah, Lord! enlarge our scanty thought, To know the wonders thou hast wrought; Unloose our stammering tongues, to tell Thy love immense, unsearchable. 8 First-born of many brethren thou! To thee, lo! all our souls we bow: To thee our hearts and hands we give: Thine may we die, thine may we live! ===27 ==2-6s & 4-7s. 1 SAVIOUR, 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 God 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! 3 When, O 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, I only live for this; 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 fixed in love; Strengthened 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; Filled with all the Deity, All immersed and lost in love! ===28 ==6-8s. 1 LOVE divine! what hast thou done! The immortal God hath died for me! The Father's co-eternal Son Bore all my sins upon the tree; The 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 his blood applied: My Lord, my Love is crucified. 3 Is crucified for me and you, To bring us rebels back to God: Believe, believe the record true, Ye all are bought with Jesu's blood, Pardon for all flows from his side; My Lord, my Love is crucified. 4 Then let us sit beneath his cross, And gladly catch the healing stream, All things for him account but loss, And give up all our hearts to him; Of nothing think or speak beside, "My Lord, my Love is crucified." ===29 ==8-7s. Matthew xi. 28. 1 COME, ye weary sinners, come, All who groan beneath your load, Jesus calls his wanderers home, Hasten to your pardoning God! Come, ye guilty spirits oppressed, Answer to the Saviour's call, "Come, and I will give you rest, Come, and I will save you all." 2 Jesus, full of truth and love, We thy kindest word obey; Faithful let thy mercies prove, Take our load of guilt away; Fain we would on thee rely, Cast on thee our every care, To thine arms of mercy fly, Find our lasting quiet there. 3 Burdened with a world of grief, Burdened with our sinful load, Burdened with this unbelief, Burdened with the wrath of God; Lo! we come to thee for ease, True and gracious as thou art, Now our groaning souls release, Write forgiveness on our heart. ===30 ==6-8s. 1 WHERE shall my wondering soul begin? How shall I all to heaven aspire? A slave redeemed from death and sin, A brand plucked from eternal fire, How shall I equal triumphs raise, Or sing my great Deliverer's praise? 2 O how shall I the goodness tell, Father, which thou to me hast showed? That I, a child of wrath and hell, I should be called a child of God, Should know, should feel my sins forgiven, Blest with this antepast of heaven! 3 And shall I slight my Father's love? Or basely fear his gifts to own? Unmindful of his favours prove? Shall I, the hallowed cross to shun, Refuse his righteousness to impart, By hiding it within my heart? 4 No! though the ancient dragon rage, And call forth all his host 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 Outcasts of men, to you I call, Harlots, and publicans, and thieves! He spreads his arms to embrace you all; Sinners alone his grace receives; No need of him the righteous have; He came the lost to seek and save. 6 Come, O my guilty brethren, come, Groaning beneath your load of sin, His bleeding heart shall make you room, His open side shall take you in; He calls you now, invites you home; Come, O my guilty brethren, come! 7 For you the purple current flowed In pardons from his wounded side, Languished for you the eternal God, For you the Prince of glory died: Believe, and all your sin's forgiven; Only believe, and yours is heaven! ===31 ==6-8s. 1 SEE, sinners, in the gospel glass, The friend and Saviour of mankind! Not one of all the 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 clay, His glory is no longer seen, But God with God is man with men. 3 See where the God incarnate stands, And calls his wandering creatures home, He all day long spreads out his hands, "Come, weary souls, to Jesus come! Ye all may hide you in my breast, Believe, and I will give you rest. 4 "Ah! do not of my goodness doubt; My saving grace for all is free; I will in no wise cast him out That comes a sinner unto me; I can to none myself deny, Why, sinners, will ye perish, why?" ===32 ==6-8s. 1 SINNERS, believe the gospel word, Jesus is come your souls to save Jesus is come, your common Lord; Pardon ye all through him may have, May now be saved, whoever will; This man receiveth sinners still. 2 See where the lame, the halt, the blind, The deaf, the dumb, the sick, the poor, Flock to the friend of human kind, And freely all accept their cure; To whom did he his help deny? Whom in his days of flesh pass by? 3 Did not his word the fiends expel, The lepers cleanse, and raise the dead? Did he not all their sickness heal, And satisfy their every need? Did he reject his helpless clay, Or send them sorrowful away? 4 Nay, but his bowels yearned to see The people hungry, scattered, faint; Nay, but he uttered over thee, Jerusalem, a true complaint; Jerusalem, who shedd'st his blood, That, with his tears, for thee hath flowed. ===33 ==6-8s 1 WOULD Jesus have the sinner die? Why hangs he then on yonder tree? What means that strange expiring cry? (Sinners, he prays for you and me) "Forgive them, Father, O forgive, They know not that by me they live!" 2 Adam descended from above, Our loss of Eden to retrieve, Great God of universal love, If all the world through thee may live, In us a quickening 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 O let me kiss thy bleeding feet, And bathe and wash them with my tears! The story of thy love repeat In every drooping sinner's ears, That all may hear the quickening sound, Since I, even I, have mercy found. 5 O let thy love my heart constrain! Thy love for every sinner free, That every fallen soul of man May taste the grace that found out me; That all mankind with me may prove Thy sovereign everlasting love. ===34 ==4-6s & 2-8s. 1 LET earth and heaven agree, Angels and men be joined, To celebrate with me The Saviour of mankind; To adore the all-atoning Lamb, And bless the sound of Jesu's 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; They evermore proclaim And wonder at his love; 'Tis all their happiness to gaze, 'Tis heaven to see our Jesu's 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 by the scorpion sin, My poor expiring soul The balmy sound drinks in, And is at once made whole: See there my Lord upon the tree! I hear, I feel, he died for me. 6 O unexampled love! O all-redeeming grace! How swiftly didst thou move To save a fallen race! 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! ===35 ==C.M. 1 JESUS, thou all-redeeming Lord, Thy blessing we implore, Open the door to preach thy word, The great effectual door. 2 Gather the outcasts in, and save From sin and Satan's power; And let them now acceptance have, And know their gracious hour. 3 Lover of souls! thou know'st to prize What thou hast bought so dear; Come then, and in thy people's eyes With all thy wounds appear. 4 Appear, as when of old confest The suffering Son of God; And let them see thee in thy vest But newly dipt in blood. 5 The hardness from their hearts remove, Thou who for all hast died; Show them the tokens of thy love, Thy feet, thy hands, thy side. 6 Thy feet were nailed to yonder tree, To trample down their sin; Thy hands stretched 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 to apply, And prove the record true; And all thy wounds to sinners cry, "I suffered this for you!" ===36 ==C.M. 1 LOVERS of pleasure more than God, For you he suffered pain; Swearers, for you he spilt his blood; And shall he bleed in vain? 2 Misers, for you his life he paid, Your basest crime 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 Jesu's name, And all your sin's forgiven. 4 Believe in him that died for thee, And, sure as he hath died, Thy debt is paid, thy soul is free, And thou art justified. ===37 ==C.M. 1 JESUS! the name high over 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 O 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 proclaim, '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!" ===38 ==6-8s. 2nd. metre 1 GOD, of good the unfathomed sea! Who would not give his heart to thee? Who would not love thee with his might? O Jesu, 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 the insufferable blaze Angels with both Wings veil their eyes; Yet free as air thy bounty streams On all thy works; thy mercy's beams Diffusive as thy sun's arise. 3 Astonished 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, and measure still Thou sweetly orderest all that is: And yet thou deign'st to come to me, And guide my steps, that I, with thee Enthroned, may reign in endless bliss. 5 Fountain of good! all blessing flows From thee; no want thy fulness knows; What but thyself canst thou desire? 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-born, fairest sons of light 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 the Almighty God, Sovereign of earth, hell, air, and sky: But who is this that comes from far, Whose garments rolled in blood appear? 'Tis God made man, for man to die! 8 O God, of good the unfathomed sea! Who would not give his heart to thee? Who would not love thee with his might? O Jesu, lover of mankind, Who would not his whole soul and mind, With all his strength, to thee unite? ===39 ==L.M. 1 FATHER, whose everlasting love Thy only Son for sinners gave, Whose grace to all did freely move, And sent him down the world to save; 2 Help us thy mercy to extol, Immense, unfathomed, unconfined; To praise the Lamb who died for all, The general Saviour of mankind. 3 Thy undistinguishing regard Was cast on Adam's fallen race; For all thou hast in Christ prepared Sufficient, sovereign, saving grace. 4 The world he suffered to redeem; For all he hath the atonement made; For those that will not come to him The ransom of his life was paid. 5 Why then, thou universal Love, Should any of thy grace despair? To all, to all, thy bowels move, But straitened in our own we are. 6 Arise, O God, maintain thy cause! The fulness of the Gentiles call; Lift up the standard of thy cross, And all shall own thou diedst for all. ===40 ==10s & 11s. 1 YE neighbours, and friends Of Jesus, draw near: His love condescends by titles so dear To call and invite you His triumph to prove, And freely delight you In Jesus's love. 2 The Shepherd who died His sheep to redeem, On every side Are gathered to him The weary and burdened, The reprobate race; And wait to be pardoned Through Jesus's grace. 3 The blind are restored Through Jesus's name, They see their dear Lord, And follow the Lamb; The halt they are walking, and running their race; The dumb they are talking Of Jesus's grace. 4 The deaf hear his voice And comforting word, It bids them rejoice In Jesus their Lord, "Thy sins are forgiven, Accepted thou art;" They listen, and heaven Springs up in their heart. 5 The lepers from all Their spots are made clean, The dead by his call Are raised from their sin; In Jesu's compassion The sick find a cure, And gospel salvation Is preached to the poor. 6 To us and to them Is published the word: Then let us proclaim Our life-giving Lord, Who now is reviving His work in our days, And mightily striving To save us by grace. 7 O Jesus! ride on Till all are subdued, Thy mercy make known, And sprinkle thy blood; Display thy salvation, And teach the new song To every nation, And people, and tongue. ===41 ==C.M. Psalm xc. 1-5 1 O 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 throne, Still may we dwell secure; Sufficient is thine arm alone, And our defence is sure. 3 Before the hills in order stood, Or earth received her frame, From everlasting thou art God, To endless years the same. 4 A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening 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 fears, Are carried downward by the flood, And lost in following years. 6 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away; They fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day. 7 O God! our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Be thou our guard while life shall last, And our perpetual home. ===42 ==C.M. 1 THEE we adore, eternal name! And humbly own to thee, How feeble is our mortal frame, What 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 roll round, and steals away The breath that first it gave; Whate'er we do, where'er we be, We are 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. 5 Great God! on what a slender thread Hang everlasting things; The eternal states of all the dead Upon life's feeble strings! 6 Infinite joy, or endless woe, Depends on every breath; And yet how unconcerned we go Upon the brink of death! 7 Waken, O Lord, our drowsy sense, To walk this dangerous road! And if our souls be hurried hence, May they be found with God! ===43 ==S.M. 1 AND am I born 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? 2 Soon as from earth I go, What will become of me? Eternal happiness or woe Must then my portion be; Waked by the trumpet's sound, I from my grave shall rise, And see the Judge with glory crowned, 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 angel-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 damned cast out, Or numbered with the blest? I must from God be driven, Or with my Saviour dwell; Must come at his command to heaven, Or else - depart to hell. 5 O thou that wouldst not have One wretched sinner die, Who died'st thyself; my soul to save From endless misery! Show me the way to shun Thy dreadful wrath severe, That when thou comest on thy throne I may with joy appear. 6 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. ===44 ==8s & 6s. 1 AND am I only born to die? And must I suddenly comply With nature's stern decree? What after death for me remains? Celestial joys, or hellish pains, To all eternity? 2 How then ought 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 Against the fatal day. 3 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 The inexorable throne! 4 No matter which my thoughts employ, A moment's misery, or joy; But O! 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 pitying ray, Be thou my guide, be thou my way To glorious happiness; Ah, write the pardon on my heart, And whensoe'er I hence depart, Let me depart in peace. ===45 ==L.M. 1 SHRINKING from the cold hand of death, I too shall gather up my feet, Shall soon resign this fleeting breath, And die, my fathers' God to meet. 2 Numbered among thy people, I Expect with joy thy face to see; Because thou didst for sinners die, Jesus, in death remember me! 3 O that without a lingering groan I may the welcome word receive! My body with my charge lay down, And cease at once to work and live. ===46 ==L.M. Isaiah xl 6-8 1 THE morning flowers display their sweets, And gay their silken leaves unfold As careless of the noontide heats, As fearless of the evening cold. 2 Nipt by the wind's unkindly blast, Parched by the sun's directer ray, The momentary glories waste, The short-lived beauties die away. 3 So blooms the human face divine, When youth its pride of beauty shows; 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. 5 Yet these, new rising from the tomb, With lustre brighter far shall shine; Revive with ever-during bloom, Safe from diseases and decline. 6 Let sickness blast, let death devour, If heaven must recompense our pains: Perish the grass, and fade the flower, If firm the word of God remains. ===47 ==5 5 5, 11. 1 COME, let us anew Our journey pursue, Roll round with the year, And never stand still till the Master appear. 2 His adorable will Let us gladly fulfil, And our talents improve, By the patience of hope, and the labour of love. 3 Our life is a dream; Our time as a stream Glides swiftly away, And the fugitive moment refuses to stay. 4 The arrow is flown, The moment is gone; The millennial year Rushes on to our view, and eternity's here. 5 O that each in the day Of his coming may say, "I have fought my way through, I have finished the work thou didst give me to do!" 6 O that each from his Lord May receive the glad word, "Well and faithfully done! Enter into my joy, and sit down on my throne." ===48 ==L.M. 1 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, O my God, shall I be there? ===49 ==8s. 1 REJOICE for a brother deceased, Our loss is his infinite gain; A soul out of prison released, And freed from its bodily chain; With songs let us follow his flight, And mount with his spirit above, Escaped to the mansions of light, And lodged in the Eden of love. 2 Our brother the haven hath gained, Out-flying the tempest and wind, His rest he hath sooner obtained, And left his companions behind, Still tossed 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 sailed with the Saviour beneath; With shouting each other they greet, And triumph o'er trouble 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. ===50 ==8-7s. 1 BLESSING, honour, thanks, 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 hath won. 2 Lo! the prisoner is released, Lightened of his fleshly load; Where the weary are at rest, He is gathered 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 Yes, the Christian's course is run, Ended is the glorious strife; Fought the fight, the work is done, Death is swallowed up of life! Borne by angels on their wings, Far from earth the spirit flies, Finds his God, and sits and sings, Triumphing in Paradise. 4 Join we then, with one accord, In the new, the joyful song; Absent from our loving Lord 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 of their loss complain, Brother, friend, by Jesus freed, Death to thee, to us, is gain; Thou art entered into joy: Let the unbelievers mourn; We in songs our lives employ, Till we all to God return. ===51 ==8-7s. 1 HARK! a voice divides the sky, Happy are the faithful dead! In the Lord who sweetly die, They from all their toils are freed; Them the Spirit hath declared Blest, unutterably blest; Jesus is their great reward, Jesus is their endless rest. 2 Followed by their works, they go Where their Head hath gone before; Reconciled by grace below, Grace hath opened mercy's door; Justified through faith alone, Here they knew their sins forgiven, Here they laid their burden down, Hallowed, 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 born!" 4 Born 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, "Well done, Good and faithful servant thou; Enter, and receive thy crown, Reign with me triumphant now." 5 Angels catch the approving sound, Bow, and bless the just award; Hail the heir with glory crowned, Now rejoicing with his Lord: Fuller joys ordained to know, Waiting for the general doom, When the archangel's trump shall blow, "Rise, ye dead, to judgment come!" ===52 ==2-6s & 4-7s. 1 AGAIN we lift our voice, And shout our solemn joys; Cause of highest raptures this, Raptures that shall never fail, See a soul escaped to bliss, Keep the Christian festival! 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 fears, 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 conquered death; Thou art crowned with life and love. 5 Thou, in thy youthful prime, Hast leaped the bounds of time, Suddenly from earth released; Lo! we now rejoice for thee, Taken to an early rest, Caught into eternity. 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 away, Now prepare, and take us now. ===53 ==8-7s. A Funeral Hymn 1 GLORY be to God on high, God in whom we live and die, God, who guides us by his love, Takes us to his throne above! Angels that surround his throne Sing the wonders he hath done, Shout, while we on earth reply Glory be to God on high! 2 God of everlasting grace, Worthy thou of endless praise, Thou hast all thy blessings shed On the living and the dead; Thou wast here their sure defence, Thou hast borne their spirits hence, Worthy thou of endless praise, God of everlasting grace. 3 Thanks be all ascribed to thee, Blessing, power, and majesty, Thee, by whose almighty name They their latest foe o'ercame; Thou the victory hast won, Saved them by thy grace alone, Caught them up thy face to see, Thanks be all ascribed to thee! 4 Happy in thy glorious love, We shall from the vale remove, Glad partakers of our hope, We shall soon be taken up; Meet again our heavenly friends, Blest with bliss that never ends, Joined to all thy hosts above, Happy in thy glorious love! ===54 ==7s & 8s. 1 HEARKEN to the solemn voice, The awful midnight cry; Waiting souls, rejoice, rejoice, And see the Bridegroom nigh; Lo! he comes 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 cheer; Lo! he brings you sure relief; Believe, and feel him here. 3 Ye 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 you all his promise prove; 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 general doom: In an hour to us unknown, As a thief in deepest night, Christ shall suddenly come down, With all his saints in light. 5 Happy he whom Christ shall find Watching to see him come; Him the Judge of all mankind Shall bear triumphant home: Who can answer to his word? Which of you dares meet his day? "Rise, and come to judgment!" - Lord, We rise, and come away. ===55 ==S.M. 1 THOU Judge of quick and dead, Before whose bar severe, With holy joy, or guilty dread, We all shall soon appear; Our cautioned souls prepare For that tremendous 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 The immortal Son of man, To judge the human race, With all thy Father's dazzling train, With all thy glorious grace. 3 To damp our earthly joys, To increase our gracious fears, For ever let the archangel's voice Be sounding in our ears; The solemn midnight cry, "Ye dead, the Judge is come, Arise, and meet him in the sky, And meet your instant doom!" 4 O may we thus be found Obedient to his word, Attentive to the trumpet's sound, And looking for our Lord! O may we thus ensure A lot among the blest; And watch a moment to secure An everlasting rest! ===56 ==L.M. 1 HE 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 crowned, 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. ===57 ==L.M. 1 THE 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 Jesu's righteousness, Stand, as the Rock of ages, sure. 4 We, while the stars from heaven shall fall, And mountains are on mountains hurled, Shall stand unmoved amidst them all, And smile to see a burning world. 5 The earth, and all the works therein, Dissolve, by raging flames destroyed, While we survey the awful scene, And mount above the fiery void. 6 By faith we now transcend the skies, And on that ruined world look down; By love above all height we rise, And share the everlasting throne. ===58 ==7s & 6s. 1 JESUS, faithful to his word, Shall with a shout descend; All heaven's host their glorious Lord Shall pompously attend: Christ shall come with dreadful noise, Lightnings swift, and thunders loud; With the great 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 him in the air, All rapt up to heaven shall be, Find, and love, and praise him there, To all eternity. 3 Who can tell the happiness This glorious hope affords? Joy unuttered we possess In these reviving words; Happy while on earth we breathe, Mightier bliss ordained to know, Trampling down sin, hell, and death, To the third heaven we go. ===59 ==8s & 6s. 1 THOU God of glorious majesty, To thee, against myself, to thee, A worm of earth, I cry; A Half-awakened child of man; An heir of endless bliss or pain; A sinner born to die! 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 O 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 thou with clouds shalt come, To judge the nations at thy bar; And tell me, Lord, shall I be there To meet a joyful doom? 5 Be this my one great business here, With serious industry and fear Eternal bliss to ensure; Thine utmost counsel to fulfil, And suffer all thy righteous will, And to the end endure. 6 Then, Saviour, then my soul receive, Transported from this vale to live And reign with thee above; Where faith is sweetly lost in sight, And hope in full supreme delight, And everlasting love. ===60 ==8s & 7s. 1 RIGHTEOUS God! whose vengeful phials All our fears and thoughts exceed, Big with woes and fiery trials, Hanging, bursting o'er our head; While thou visitest the nations, Thy selected people spare; Arm our cautioned souls with patience, Fill our humbled hearts with prayer. 2 If thy dreadful controversy With all flesh is now begun, 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 alarming token More confirms the faithful word; Nature (for its Lord hath spoken) Must be suddenly restored: From this national confusion, From this ruined 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 O conclude this mortal story, Throw this universe aside! Come, eternal King of glory, Now descend, and take thy bride! ===61 ==7s & 8s. 1 STAND the omnipotent decree! Jehovah's will be done! Nature's end we wait to see, And hear her final groan; Let this earth dissolve, and blend In death the wicked and the just, Let those ponderous orbs descend, And grind us into dust. 2 Rests secure the righteous man! At his Redeemer's beck, Sure to emerge, and rise again, And mount above the wreck; Lo! the heavenly spirit towers, Like flame, o'er nature's funeral pyre, Triumphs in immortal powers, And claps his wings of fire! 3 Nothing hath the just to lose By worlds on worlds destroyed; Far beneath his feet he views, With smiles, the flaming void; Sees the universe renewed, The grand millennial reign begun; Shouts, with all the sons of God, Around the eternal throne. 4 Resting in this glorious hope To be at last restored, Yield we now our bodies up To earthquake, plague, or sword; Listening for the call divine, The latest trumpet of the seven, Soon our soul and dust shall join, And both fly up to heaven. ===62 ==8s & 6s. 1 HOW happy are the little flock, Who, safe beneath their guardian Rock, In all commotions rest! When war's and tumult's waves run high, Removed above the storm they lie, They lodge in Jesu's breast. 2 Such happiness, O Lord, have we, By mercy gathered into thee, Before the floods descend: And while the bursting clouds come down, We mark the vengeful day begun, And calmly wait the end. 3 The plague, and dearth, and din of war, Our Saviour's swift approach declare, And bid our hearts arise; Earth's basis shook confirms our hope; Its cities' fall but lifts us up, To meet thee in the skies. 4 Thy tokens we with joy confess: The war proclaims the Prince of peace, The earthquake speaks thy power, The famine all thy fulness brings, The plague presents thy healing wings, And nature's final hour. 5 Whatever ills the world befall, A pledge of endless good we call, A sign of Jesus near; His chariot will not long delay, We hear the rumbling wheels, and pray, Triumphant Lord, appear! 6 Appear with clouds on Sion's hill, Thy word and mystery to fulfil, Thy confessors to approve, Thy members on thy throne to place, And stamp thy name on every face, In glorious, heavenly love! ===63 ==C.M. 1 WOE to the men on earth who dwell, Nor dread the Almighty's frown, When God doth all his wrath reveal, And shower his judgments down! 2 Sinners, expect those heaviest showers, To meet your God prepare; For, lo! the seventh angel pours His phial in the air. 3 Lo! from their seats the mountains leap, The mountains are not found; Transported far into the deep, And in the ocean drowned. 4 Who then shall live, and face the throne, And face the Judge severe? When heaven and earth are fled and gone, O 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 hide: 6 Firm in the all-destroying shock, May view the final scene; For, lo! the everlasting Rock Is cleft to take us in. ===64 ==C.M. Part II 1 BY faith we find the place above, The Rock that rent in twain; Beneath the shade of divine love, And in the clefts remain. 2 Jesus, to thy dear wounds we flee, We sink into thy side; Assured that all who trust in thee Shall evermore abide. 3 Then let the thundering trumpet sound, The latest lightning glare, The mountains melt, the solid ground Dissolve as liquid air; 4 The huge celestial bodies roll, Amidst that general fire, And shrivel as a parchment-scroll, And all in smoke expire! 5 Yet still the Lord, the Saviour reigns, When nature is destroyed, And no created thing remains Throughout the flaming void. 6 Sublime upon his azure throne, He speaks the almighty word; His fiat is obeyed! 'tis done; And Paradise restored. 7 So be it! let this system end, This ruinous earth and skies, The new Jerusalem descend, The new creation rise! 8 Thy power omnipotent assume, Thy brightest majesty! And when thou dost in glory come, My Lord, remember me! ===65 ==4-6s & 2-8s. 1 YE virgin souls, arise, With all the dead awake Unto salvation wise, Oil in your vessels take; Upstarting at the midnight cry, "Behold the heavenly Bridegroom nigh!" 2 He comes, he comes, to call The nations to his bar, And raise to glory all Who fit for glory are; Made ready for your full reward, Go forth with joy to meet your Lord. 3 Go, meet him in the sky, Your everlasting friend; Your Head to glorify, With all his saints ascend; Ye pure in heart, obtain the grace To see, without a veil, his face! 4 Ye that have here received The unction from above, And in his Spirit lived, Obedient to his love, Jesus shall claim you for his bride: Rejoice with all the sanctified! 5 The everlasting doors Shall soon the saints receive, Above yon angel powers In glorious joy to live; Far from a world of grief and sin, With God eternally shut in. 6 Then let us wait to hear The trumpet's welcome sound; To see our Lord appear, Watching let us be found; When Jesus doth the heavens bow, Be found - as, Lord, thou find'st us now! ===66 ==8 7, 8 7, 4 7. 1 LO! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand saints attending, Swell the triumph of his train: Hallelujah! God appears on earth to reign. 2 Every eye shall now behold him Robed in dreadful majesty; Those who set at nought and sold him, Pierced and nailed him to the tree, Deeply wailing, Shall the true Messiah see. 3 The dear tokens of his passion Still his dazzling body bears; Cause of endless exultation To his ransomed worshippers; With what rapture Gaze we on those glorious scars! 4 Yea, Amen! let all adore thee, High on thy eternal throne; Saviour, take the power and glory, Claim the kingdom for thine own; Jah, Jehovah, Everlasting God, come down! ===67 ==2-6s & 4-7s. 1 HOW weak the thoughts, and vain, Of self-deluding men! Men who, fixed to earth alone, Think their houses shall endure, Fondly call their lands their own, To their distant heirs secure. 2 How happy then are we, Who build, O Lord, on thee? What can our foundation shock? Though the shattered earth remove, Stands our city on a rock, On the Rock of heavenly love. 3 A house we call our own Which cannot be o'erthrown; In the general ruin sure, Storms and earthquakes it defies; Built immovably secure, Built eternal in the skies. 4 High on Immanuel's land We see the fabric stand: From a tottering world remove To our steadfast mansion there; 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; Purchased by the blood of God. 6 O might we quickly find The place for us designed; See the long-expected day Of our full redemption here; Let the shadows flee away, Let the new-made world appear! 7 High on thy great white throne, O King of saints, come down! In the new Jerusalem Now triumphantly descend; Let the final trump proclaim Joys begun which ne'er shall end! ===68 ==8s & 6s. 1 HOW 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 self-design, From every creature-love; Blest with the scorn of finite good, My soul is lightened 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 Jesu's name. 5 No foot of land do I possess, No cottage in this wilderness, A poor wayfaring 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 their goods despise; I trample on their whole delight, And seek a country out of sight, A country in the skies. 7 There is my house and portion fair, My treasure and my heart are there. And my abiding home; For me my elder brethren stay, And angels 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, O my Saviour, Brother, Friend. Receive me to thy breast! ===69 ==6-8s. 1 THOU, Lord, on whom I still depend, Shalt keep me faithful to the end; I 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. 2 Jesus, in thy great name I go To conquer death, my final foe; And when I quit this cumbrous clay, And soar on angels' wings away, My soul the second death defies, And reigns eternal in the skies. 3 Eye hath not seen, nor ear hath heard, What Christ hath for his saints prepared, Who conquer through their Saviour's might, Who sink into perfection's height, And trample death beneath their feet, And gladly die their Lord to meet. 4 Dost thou desire to know and see What thy mysterious name shall be? Contending for thy heavenly home, Thy latest foe in death o'ercome; Till then, thou searchest out in vain What only conquest can explain. ===70 ==8s. 1 I LONG to behold Him arrayed With glory and light from above, The King in his beauty displayed, His beauty of holiest love: I languish and sigh to be there, Where Jesus hath fixed his abode; O when shall we meet in the air, And fly to the mountain of God! 2 With him I on Zion shall stand, (For Jesus hath spoken the word) The breadth of Immanuel's land Survey by the light of my Lord; But when, on thy bosom reclined, Thy face I am strengthened 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. ===71 ==6-8s. 1 LEADER of faithful souls, and guide Of all that travel to the sky, Come and with us, even us, abide, Who would on thee alone rely, On thee alone our spirits stay, While held in life's uneven way. 2 Strangers and pilgrims here below, This earth, we know, is not our place, And hasten through the vale of woe; And, restless to behold thy face, Swift to our heavenly country move, Our everlasting home above. 3 We have no abiding city here, But seek a city out of sight; Thither our steady course we steer, Aspiring to the plains of light, Jerusalem, the saints' abode, Whose founder is the living God. 4 Patient the 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 borne, Freely and graciously forgiven, With songs to Zion we return, Contending for our native heaven; That palace of our glorious King, We find it nearer while we sing. 6 Raised by the breath of love divine, We urge our way with strength renewed; The church of the first-born to join, We travel to the mount of God, With joy upon our heads arise, And meet our Captain in the skies. ===72 ==6-8s. 1 SAVIOUR, on me the grace bestow To trample on my mortal foe; Conqueror of death with thee to rise, And claim my station in the skies, Fixed as the throne which ne'er can move, A pillar in thy church above. 2 As beautiful as useful there, May I that weight of glory bear, With all who finally o'ercome, Supporters of the heavenly dome; Of perfect holiness possessed, For ever in thy presence blessed. 3 Write upon me the name divine, And let thy Father's nature shine, His image visibly exprest, His glory pouring from my breast, O'er all my bright humanity, For ever like the God I see! 4 Inscribing with the city's name, The heavenly new Jerusalem, To me the victor's title give, Among thy glorious saints to live, And all their happiness to know, A citizen of heaven below. 5 When thou hadst all thy foes o'ercome, Returning to thy glorious home, Thou didst receive the full reward, That I might share it with my Lord; And thus thy own new name obtain, And one with thee for ever reign. ===73 ==8s. 1 AWAY 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 mourning is all at an end, When, raised by the life-giving word, We see the new city descend, Adorned 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 behold That lovely Jerusalem here; Her walls are of jasper and gold, As crystal her buildings are clear; Immovably 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 followed by night, Where Jesus's beauties display A pure and a permanent light: The Lamb is their light and their sun, And lo! by reflection they shine, With Jesus ineffably one, And bright in effulgence divine! 5 The saints in his presence receive Their great and eternal reward; In Jesus, in heaven they live, They reign in the smile of their Lord: The flame of angelical love Is kindled at Jesus's face; And all the enjoyment above Consists in the rapturous gaze. ===74 ==S.M. 1 WE 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 entered there, To perfect heaven restored! O 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: O might the tabernacle fall! O might we 'scape away! Full of immortal hope, We urge the restless strife, And hasten to be swallowed up Of everlasting life. 4 Absent, alas! from God, We in the body mourn, And pine to quit this mean abode, And languish to return. Jesus, regard our vows, And change our faith to sight; And clothe us with our nobler house Of empyrean light! 5 O let us put on thee In perfect holiness, And rise prepared thy face to see, Thy bright, unclouded face! Thy grace with glory crown, Who hast the earnest given, And now triumphantly come down, And take our souls to heaven! ===75 ==8-7s. 1 LIFT your eyes of faith, and see Saints and angels joined in one; What a countless company Stand before yon dazzling throne! Each before his Saviour stands, All in milk-white robes arrayed, Palms they carry in their hands, Crowns of glory on their head. 2 Saints begin the endless song, Cry aloud 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 Lamb, Let the morning stars reply. 3 Angel-powers the throne surround, Next the saints in glory they; Lulled 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 favoured race! Render we our God his right, Glory, wisdom, thanks, and power, Honour, majesty, and might; Praise him, praise him evermore! ===76 ==8-7s. 1 WHAT are these arrayed in white, Brighter than the noon-day sun? Foremost of the sons of light, Nearest the eternal throne? These are they that bore the cross, Nobly for their Master stood; Sufferers in his righteous cause, Followers of the dying God. 2 Out of great distress they came, Washed their robes by faith below In the blood of yonder Lamb, Blood that washes white as snow: Therefore are they next 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 sufferings 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 sustain, To the living fountains lead; He shall all their sorrows chase, All their wants at once remove, Wipe the tears from every face, Fill up every soul with love. ===77 ==8-6s. 1 THE 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! Whom only I languish to love, In fulness of majesty come, And give me a mansion above, And take to my heavenly home. ===78 ==8s. 1 THE thirsty are called to their Lord, His glorious appearing to see; And, drawn by the power of his word, The promise I know is for me: I thirst for the streams of thy grace, I gasp for the Spirit of love, I long for a glimpse of thy face, And then to behold it above. 2 Thy call I exult to obey, And come, in the spirit of prayer, Thy joy in that happiest day, Thy kingdom of glory, to share; To drink the pure river of bliss, With life everlasting o'erflowed, Implunged in the crystal abyss, And lost in the ocean of God. ===79 ==8s. 1 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. ===80 ==C.M. 1 TERRIBLE thought! shall I alone, Who may be saved shall I Of all, alas! whom I have known, Through sin for ever die? 2 While all my old companions dear, With whom I once did live, Joyful at God's right hand appear, A blessing to receive; 3 Shall I - amidst a ghastly band, Dragged to the judgment-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 wrath 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 him in heaven. ===81 ==6-8s. 1 FATHER of omnipresent grace! We seem agreed to seek thy face; But every soul assembled here Doth naked in thy sight appear: Thou know'st who only bows the knee, And who in heart approaches thee. 2 Thy Spirit hath the difference made Betwixt the living and the dead; Thou now dost into some inspire The pure, benevolent desire: O that even now thy powerful call May quicken and convert us all! 3 The sinners suddenly convince, O'erwhelmed beneath their load of sins; To-day, while it is called to-day, Awake, and stir them up to pray, Their dire captivity to own, And from the iron furnace groan. 4 Then, then acknowledge, and set free The people bought, O Lord, by thee! The sheep for whom their Shepherd bled, For whom we in thy Spirit plead: Let all in thee redemption find, And not a soul be left behind. ===82 ==L.M. 1 SHEPHERD of souls, with pitying eye The thousands of our Israel see: To thee in their behalf we cry, Ourselves but newly found in thee. 2 See where o'er desert wastes they err, And neither food nor feeder have, Nor fold, nor place of refuge near, For no man cares their souls to save. 3 Wild as the ill-taught Indian's brood The Christian savages remain; Strangers, yea, enemies to God, They make thee spill thy blood in vain. 4 Thy people, Lord, are sold for nought, Nor know they their Redeemer nigh; They perish, whom thyself hast bought, Their souls for lack of knowledge die. 5 The pit its mouth hath opened 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 sufferings these, O claim them for thy ransomed ones! 7 Extend to these thy pardoning grace, To these be thy salvation showed: O add them to thy chosen race! O sprinkle all their hearts with blood! 8 Still 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. ===83 ==C.M. 1 THOU Son of God, whose flaming eyes Our inmost thoughts perceive, Accept the evening 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 thee? A stranger to the blood which bought 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 which wakes the dead, 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 awake; 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 again, or die To all eternity." ===84 ==C.M. 1 COME, O thou all-victorious Lord! Thy power to us make known; Strike with the hammer of thy word, And break these hearts of stone. 2 O that we all might now begin Our foolishness to mourn; And turn at once from every sin, And to our 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 Conclude us first in unbelief, And freely then release; Fill every soul with sacred grief, And then with sacred peace. 5 Impoverish, 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 desperate state through sin declare, And speak our sins forgiven; By perfect holiness prepare, And take us up to heaven. ===85 ==S.M. 1 SPIRIT of faith, come down, Reveal the things of God; And make to us the Godhead known, And witness with the blood: 'Tis thine the blood to apply, And give us eyes to see, Who did for every sinner die, Hath surely died for me. 2 No man can truly say That Jesus is the Lord, Unless thou take the veil away, And breathe the living word; Then, only then, we feel Our interest 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 receives, The witness in himself he hath, And consciously believes; The faith that conquers all, And doth the mountain move, And saves whoe'er on Jesus call, And perfects them in love. ===86 ==2-6s & 4-7s. 1 SINNERS, your hearts lift up, Partakers of your hope! This, the day of Pentecost; Ask, and ye shall all receive, Surely now the Holy Ghost God to all that ask shall give. 2 Ye all may freely take The grace for Jesu's sake; He for every man hath died, He for all hath risen again; Jesus now is glorified, Gifts he hath received for men. 3 He sends them from the skies On all his enemies; By his cross he now hath led Captive our captivity; We shall all be free indeed, Christ, the Son, shall make us free. 4 Blessings on all he pours, In never-ceasing showers, All he waters from above; Offers all his joy and peace, Settled comfort, perfect love, Everlasting righteousness. 5 All may from him receive A power to turn and live; Grace for every soul is free, All may hear the effectual call; All the light of life may see, All may feel he died for all. 6 Drop down in showers of love, Ye heavens, from above! Righteousness, ye skies, pour down! Open, earth, and take it in! Claim the Spirit for your own, Sinners, and be saved from sin! 7 Father, behold, we claim The gift in Jesu's name! Him, the promised Comforter, Into all our spirits pour; Let him fix his mansion here, Come, and never leave us more. ===87 ==C.M. Before Reading the Scriptures. 1 COME, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire, Let us thine influence prove, Source of the old prophetic fire, Fountain of light 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 disordered 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. ===88 ==C.M. The same subject. 1 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 hear. 4 Before us make thy goodness pass, Which here by faith we know; Let us in Jesus see thy face, And die to all below. ===89 ==6-8s. 2 Timothy iii. 16, 17. 1 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 earliest prayer and strong desire, O let thy Spirit from thee proceed, Our souls to awaken and 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 wanderers 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. 5 Furnished out of thy treasury, O may we always ready stand To help the souls redeemed by thee, In what their various states demand; To teach, convince, correct, reprove, And build them up in holiest love! ===90 ==6-8s. Luke xxiv. 45. 1 COME, O thou Prophet of the Lord, Thou great Interpreter divine, Explain thine own transmitted word, To teach and to inspire is thine; Thou only canst thyself reveal, Open the book, and loose the seal. 2 Whate'er the ancient prophets spoke Concerning thee, O Christ, make known; Chief subject of the sacred book, Thou fillest all, and thou alone; Yet there our Lord we cannot see, Unless thy Spirit lend the key. 3 Now, Jesus, now the veil remove, The folly of our darkened heart; Unfold the wonders of thy love, The knowledge of thyself impart; Our ear, our inmost soul, we bow, Speak, Lord, thy servants hearken now. ===91 ==C.M. 1 LONG have I seemed to serve thee, Lord, With unavailing pain; Fasted, and prayed, and read thy word, And heard it preached in vain. 2 Oft did I with the assembly join, And near thine altar drew; A form of godliness 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 I hoped and strove; For what are outward things to thee, Unless they spring from love? 5 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. ===92 ==C.M. 1 STILL for thy loving-kindness, Lord, I in thy temple wait; I look to find thee in thy word, Or at thy table meet. 2 Here, 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!" - '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 thee 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 my peace. 6 Fruitless, till thou thyself impart, Must all my efforts prove; They cannot change a sinful heart; They cannot purchase love. 7 I do the thing thy laws enjoin, And then the strife give o'er; To thee I then the whole resign, I trust in means no more. 8 I trust in him who stands between The Father's wrath and me; Jesu, thou great eternal Mean, I look for all from thee. ===93 ==S.M. 1 MY gracious, loving Lord, To thee what shall I say? Well may I tremble at thy word, And scarce presume to pray! Ten thousand wants have I; Alas! I all things want; And thou hast bid me always cry. And never, never faint. 2 Yet, Lord, well might I fear, Fear even to ask thy grace; So oft have I, alas! drawn near. And mocked thee to thy face: With all pollutions stained, Thy hallowed 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; Far from the living Lord, As far as hell from heaven, Thy purity I still abhorred, Nor looked to be forgiven. 4 My nature I obeyed, My own desires pursued; And still a den of thieves I made The hallowed house of God. The worship he approves To him I would not pay; My selfish ends and creature-loves Had stole my heart away. 5 A goodly, formal saint I long appeared in sight, By self and Satan taught to paint My tomb, my nature, white. The Pharisee within Still undisturbed remained The strong man, armed with guilt of sin, Safe in his palace reigned. 6 But O! the jealous God In my behalf came down; Jesus himself the stronger showed. And claimed me for his own: My spirit he alarmed, And brought into distress; He shook and bound the strong man armed In his self-righteousness. 7 Faded my virtuous show, My form without the power; The sin-convincing Spirit blew, And blasted every flower: My mouth was stopped, and shame Covered my guilty face; I fell on the atoning Lamb, And I was saved by grace. ===94 ==C.M. Jeremiah vii 4. 1 THE men who slight thy faithful word, In their own lies confide, These are the temple of the Lord, And heathens all beside! 2 The temple of the Lord are these. The only church and true, Who live in pomp, and wealth, and ease, And Jesus never knew. 3 The temple of the Lord - they pull Thy living temples down, And cast out every gracious soul That trembles at thy frown: 4 O wouldst thou, Lord, reveal their sins, And turn their joy to grief, The world, the Christian world, convince Of damning unbelief! 5 The formalists confound, convert, And to thy people join; And break, and fill the broken heart With confidence divine! ===95 ==L.M. 1 AUTHOR of faith, eternal Word, Whose Spirit breathes the active flame: Faith, like its Finisher and Lord, To-day as yesterday the same; 2 To thee our humble hearts aspire, And ask the gift unspeakable; Increase in us the kindled fire, In us the work of faith fulfil. 3 By faith we know thee strong to save; (Save us, a present Saviour thou!) Whate'er we hope, by faith we have, Future and past subsisting now. 4 To him that in thy name believes Eternal life with thee is given; Into himself he all receives, Pardon, and holiness, and heaven. 5 The things unknown to feeble sense, Unseen by reason's glimmering ray, With strong, commanding evidence, Their heavenly origin display. 6 Faith lends its realizing light, The clouds disperse, the shadows fly; The Invisible appears in sight, And God is seen by mortal eye. ===96 ==S.M. 1 HOW can a sinner know His sins on earth forgiven? How can my gracious Saviour show My name inscribed in heaven? What we have felt and seen, With confidence we tell; And publish to the sons of men The signs infallible. 2 We who in Christ believe That he for us hath died, We all his unknown peace receive, And feel his blood applied; Exults our rising soul, Disburdened of her load, And swells unutterably full Of glory and of God. 3 His love, surpassing far The love of all beneath, We find within our hearts, and dare The pointless darts of death: Stronger than death and hell The mystic power we prove; And conquerors of the world, we dwell In heaven, who dwell in love. 4 We by his Spirit prove And know the things of God, The things which freely of his love He hath on us bestowed; His Spirit to us he gave, And dwells in us, we know; The witness in ourselves we have, And all its fruits we show. 5 The meek and lowly heart That in our Saviour was, To us his Spirit doth impart, And signs us with his cross: Our nature's turned, our mind Transformed in all its powers; And both the witnesses are joined, The Spirit of God with ours. 6 Whate'er our pardoning Lord Commands, we gladly do; And guided by his sacred word, We all his steps pursue: His glory our design, We live our God to please; And rise with filial fear divine, To perfect holiness. ===97 ==8s & 6s. 1 THOU great mysterious God unknown, Whose love hath gently led me on, Even 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 followed with a heart sincere Thy drawings from above, Now, now the further grace 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 antepast 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 Abba, Father, cry, And know myself thy child? 5 Whate'er obstructs thy pardoning love, Or sin or righteousness, remove, Thy glory to display; Mine heart of unbelief convince, And now absolve me from my sins, And take them all away. 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 thine hallowing Spirit dwell For ever in my heart! ===98 ==7s & 6s. 1 UPRIGHT, both in heart and will, We by our God were made; But we turned from good to ill, And o'er the creature strayed; Multiplied our wandering thought, Which first was fixed on God alone, In ten thousand objects sought The bliss we lost in one. 2 From our own inventions vain Of fancied happiness, Draw us to thyself again, And bid our wanderings cease; Jesus, speak our souls restored By love's divine simplicity, Re-united to our Lord, And wholly lost in thee! ===99 ==6-8s. 1 FATHER of lights, from whom proceeds Whate'er thy every creature needs, Whose goodness, providently nigh, Heeds 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, Thy eyes must all my thoughts survey, Preventing what my lips would say; Thou seest my wants, for help they call, And ere I speak thou 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 from good and prone to ill; Thou know'st now wide my passions rove, Nor checked by fear, nor charmed 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. 5 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 life, my every breath, be prayer. ===100 ==L.M. 1 JESU, my 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 would I know my utmost ill, And groan my nature's weight to feel, To feel the clouds that round me roll, The night that hangs upon my soul, The darkness of my carnal mind, My will perverse, my passions blind, Scattered o'er all the earth abroad, Immeasurably far from God. 3 Jesu, my heart's desire obtain! My earnest suit present, and gain; My fulness of corruption show, The knowledge of myself bestow; A deeper displacence at sin, A sharper sense of hell within, A stronger struggling to get free, A keener appetite for thee. 4 O sovereign 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. Quickened by thy imparted flame, Saved, when possessed of thee, I am; My life, my only heaven thou art, O might I feel thee in my heart! ===101 ==6-7s. 1 SAVIOUR, Prince of Israel's race, See 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 my 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 Jesu, seek thy wandering 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 sight appear, As the publican distrest, Stand, not daring to draw near, Smite on my unworthy breast, Groan the sinner's only plea, "God, be merciful to me!" 5 O remember me for good, Passing through the mortal vale! Show me the atoning blood, When my strength and spirit fail; Give my gasping soul to see Jesus crucified for me! ===102 ==S.M. 1 O THAT I could repent! With all my idols part, And to thy gracious eye present A humble, contrite heart; A heart with grief opprest For having grieved my God, A troubled heart that cannot rest, Till sprinkled with thy blood. 2 Jesus, on me bestow The penitent desire; With true sincerity of woe My aching breast inspire; With softening pity look, And melt my hardness down, Strike with thy love's resistless stroke, And break this heart of stone! ===103 ==S.M. 1 O THAT I could revere My much-offended God! O that I could but stand in fear Of thy afflicting rod! If mercy cannot draw, Thou by thy threatenings move, And keep an abject soul in awe, That will not yield to love. 2 Show me the naked sword Impending o'er my head; O let me tremble at thy word, And to my ways take heed! With sacred horror fly From every sinful snare; Nor ever, in my Judge's eye, My Judge's anger dare. 3 Thou great tremendous God; The conscious awe impart; The grace be now on me bestowed, The tender, fleshly heart: For Jesu's sake alone The stony heart remove, And melt at last, O melt me do - Into the mould of love! ===104 ==C.M. 2 Kings xxii. 19, 20. 1 O FOR that tenderness of heart Which bows before the Lord, Acknowledging how just thou art, And trembles at thy word! O for those humble, contrite tears Which 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 saints above, My body in the tomb. ===105 ==S.M. 1 O THAT I could repent! O that I could believe! Thou by thy voice the marble rent, The rock in sunder cleave! Thou, by thy two-edged sword, My soul and spirit part, Strike with the hammer of thy word, And break my stubborn heart! 2 Saviour, and Prince of peace, The double grace bestow; Unloose the bands of wickedness, And let the captive go: Grant me my sins to feel, And then the load remove: Wound, and pour in, my wounds to heal, The balm of pardoning love. 3 For thy own mercy's sake The cursed thing 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 sin 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! ===106 ==7s & 6s. 1 JESU, let thy pitying eye Call back a wandering sheep False to thee, like Peter, I Would fain, like Peter, weep: Let me be by grace restored, On me be all long-suffering shown; Turn, and look upon me, Lord, And break my heart of stone. 2 Saviour, Prince, enthroned 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 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. 4 Look, as when thine eye pursued Thy first apostate man, Saw him weltering in his blood, And bade him rise again: Speak my paradise restored, Redeem me by thy grace alone; Turn, and look upon me, Lord, And break my heart of stone. 5 Look, as when thy pity saw Thine own in a strange land, Forced to obey the tyrant's law, And feel his heavy hand: Speak the soul-redeeming word, And out of Egypt call thy son; Turn, and look upon me, Lord, And break my heart of stone. 6 Look, as when thy grace beheld The harlot in distress, Dried her tears, her pardon sealed, And bade her go in peace: Vile, like her, and self-abhorred, I at thy feet for mercy groan; Turn, and look upon me, Lord, And break my heart of stone. 7 Look, as when thy languid eye Was closed, that we might live; "Father," (at the point to die My Saviour gasped) "forgive!" Surely, with that dying word, He turns, and looks, and cries, "'Tis done!" O my bleeding, loving Lord, Thou break'st my heart of stone! ===107 ==L.M. Isaiah lxi 1 - 3. 1 THE Spirit of the Lord our God (Spirit of power, and health, and love) The Father hath on Christ bestowed, And sent him from his throne above; 2 Prophet, and Priest, and King of peace, Anointed to declare his will, To minister his pardoning grace, And every sin-sick soul to heal. 3 Sinners, obey the heavenly call; Your prison-doors stand open wide; Go forth, for he hath ransomed all, For every soul of man hath died. 4 'Tis his the drooping soul to raise, To rescue all by sin opprest, To clothe them with the robes of praise, And give their weary spirits rest; 5 To help their grovelling unbelief, Beauty for ashes to confer, The oil of joy for abject grief, Triumphant joy for sad despair; 6 To make them trees of righteousness, The planting of the Lord below, To spread the honour of his grace, And on to full perfection grow. ===108 ==C.M. 1 ENSLAVED to sense, to pleasure prone, Fond of created good, Father, our helplessness we own, And trembling taste our food. 2 Trembling we taste; for, ah! no more To thee the creatures lead; Changed, they exert a baneful power, And poison while they feed. 3 Cursed for the sake of wretched man, They now engross him whole; With pleasing force on earth detain, And sensualize his soul. 4 Grovelling 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 influence give, Hallow our food, reverse our doom, And bid us eat and live! 6 The bondage of corruption break, For this our spirits groan; Thy only will we fain would seek, O 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 out the road, The creatures all shall lead to thee, And all we taste be God. ===109 ==7s & 6s. Revelation iii. 17. 1 WRETCHED, helpless, and distrest, Ah! whither shall I fly? Ever gasping after rest, I cannot find it nigh: Naked, sick, and poor, and blind, Fast bound in sin 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: Jesu, Lord, restore my sight, And take, O take, the veil away! Turn my darkness into light, My midnight into day. 4 Naked of thine image, Lord, Forsaken, and alone, Unrenewed, and unrestored, I have not thee put on; Over me thy mantle spread, Send down thy likeness from above, Let thy goodness be displayed, And wrap me in thy love. 5 Poor, alas! thou know'st I am, And would be poorer still, See my nakedness and shame, And all my vileness feel; No good thing in me resides, My soul is all an aching void Till thy Spirit here abides, And I am filled with God. 6 Jesus, full of truth and grace, In thee is all I want; Be the wanderer's resting-place, A cordial to the faint; Make me rich, for I am poor; In thee may I my Eden find; To the dying health restore. And eye-sight to the blind. 7 Clothe me with thy holiness, Thy meek humility; Put on me my 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. ===110 ==7s & 6s. 1 JESU, friend of sinners, hear, Yet once again I pray; From my debt of sin set clear, For I have nought to pay; Speak, O speak, the kind release, A poor backsliding soul restore! Love me freely, seal my peace, And bid me sin no more. 2 For my selfishness and pride Thou hast withdrawn thy grace, Left me long to wander wide, An outcast from thy face; But I now my sins confess, And mercy, mercy, I implore; Love me freely, seal my peace, And bid me sin no more. 3 Though my sins as mountains rise, And swell and reach to heaven, Mercy is above the skies, I may be still forgiven; Infinite my sin's increase, But greater is thy mercy's store; Love me freely, seal my peace, And bid me sin no more. 4 Sin's deceitfulness hath spread A hardness o'er my heart; But if thou thy Spirit shed, This hardness shall depart; Shed thy love, thy tenderness, And let me feel thy softening power; Love me freely, seal my peace, And bid me sin no more. 5 From the oppressive power of sin My struggling spirit free; Perfect righteousness bring in, Unspotted purity; Speak, and all this war shall cease, And sin shall give its raging o'er; Love me freely, seal my peace, And bid me sin no more. 6 For this only thing I pray, And this will I require, Take the power of sin away, Fill me with pure desire; Perfect me in holiness, Thine image to my soul restore, Love me freely, seal my peace, And bid me sin no more. ===111 ==L.M. Isaiah li. 1-4. 1 THUS saith the Lord! Who seek the Lamb, Who follow after righteousness, Look to the rock from whence ye came, The father of the faithful race. 2 Children of faithful Abraham these Who dare expect salvation here, The Lord shall give them gospel peace, And all his hopeless mourners cheer; 3 Shall soon his fallen Zion raise, Her waste and desolate places build; Pour out the Spirit of his grace, And make her wilds a fruitful field. 4 The barren souls shall be restored, The desert all renewed shall rise, Bloom as the garden of the Lord, A fair terrestrial paradise. 5 Gladness and joy shall there be found, Thanksgiving and the voice of praise; The voice of melody shall sound, And every heart be filled with grace. 6 A law shall soon from him proceed, A living, life-infusing word, The truth that makes you free indeed, The eternal Spirit, of your Lord. 7 His mercy he will cause to rest Where all may see their sins forgiven; May rise, no more by guilt opprest, And bless the light that leads to heaven. ===112 ==7s & 6s. The Good Samaritan. Luke x. 30. 1 WOE is me! what tongue can tell My sad afflicted state, Who my anguish can reveal, Or all my woes relate? Fallen among thieves I am, And they have robbed me of my God, Turned my glory into shame, And left me in my blood. 2 O thou good Samaritan! In thee is all my hope; Only thou canst succour man, And raise the fallen up: Hearken to my dying cry; My wounds compassionately see; Me, a sinner, pass not by, Who gasp for help from thee. 3 Still thou journeyest where I am, Still thy compassions move; Pity is with thee the same, And all thy heart is love; Stoop to a poor sinner, stoop, And let thy healing grace abound, Heal my bruises, and bind up My spirit's every wound. 4 Saviour of my soul draw nigh, In mercy haste to me, At the point of death I lie, And cannot come to thee; Now thy kind relief afford, The wine and oil of grace pour in; Good Physician, speak the word, And heal my soul of sin. 5 Pity to my dying cries Hath drawn thee from above, Hovering over me, with eyes Of tenderness and love, Now, even now, I see thy face; The balm of Gilead I receive; Thou hast saved me by thy grace, And bade the sinner live. 6 Surely now the bitterness Of second death is past; O my Life, my Righteousness, On thee my soul is cast! Thou hast brought me to thine inn, And I am of thy promise sure; Thou shalt cleanse me from all sin, And all my sickness cure. 7 Perfect then the work begun, And make the sinner whole; All thy will on me be done, My body, spirit, soul; Still preserve me safe from harms, And kindly for thy patient care, Take me, Jesus, to thine arms, And keep me ever there. ===113 ==6-8s. 1 O 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; Jesus, thyself in me reveal, Tell me thy name, thy nature tell. 2 Hast thou been with me, Lord, so long, Yet thee, my Lord, have I not known? I claim thee with a faltering tongue, I pray thee, in a feeble groan, Tell me, O tell me, who thou art, And speak thy name into my heart! 3 If now thou talkest by the way With such an abject worm as me, Thy 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!" ===114 ==6-8s. 1 JESU, in whom the weary find Their late, but permanent repose, Physician of the sin-sick mind, Relieve my wants, assuage my woes; And let my soul on thee be cast, Till life's fierce tyranny be past. 2 Loosed from my God, and far removed, Long have I wandered to and fro, O'er earth in endless circles roved, Nor found whereon to rest below: Back to my God at last I fly, For O, the waters still are high! 4 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 fluttering soul to rest, And lodge it, Saviour, in thy breast. 5 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 called to prove, Loved with an everlasting love! ===115 ==7s & 6s. 1 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; This, only this, is all my plea, I 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 found, 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 Unwatered still, und 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; I the chief of sinners am, But Jesus died for me. 4 Surely he will lift me up, For I of him have need, I cannot give up my hope, Though I am cold and dead; To bring fire on earth he came, O 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 shalt live, I shall feel thy death applied, I shall thy life receive; Yet, when melted in the flame Of love, this shall be all my plea, I the chief of sinners am, But Jesus died for me. ===116 ==6-7s. 1 SAVIOUR, cast a pitying eye, Bid my sins and sorrows end; Whither should a sinner fly? Art not thou the sinner's friend? Rest in thee I gasp to find, Wretched I, and poor, and blind. 2 Haste, O haste, to my relief! From the iron furnace take; Bid me of my sin and grief, For thy love and mercy's sake; Set my heart at liberty, Show forth all thy power in me. 3 Me, the vilest of the race, Most unholy, most unclean; Me, the farthest from thy face, Full of misery and sin; Me with arms of love receive, Me, of sinners chief, forgive! 4 Jesus, on thine only name For salvation I depend, In thy gracious hands I am, Save me, save me to the end; Let the utmost grace be given, Save me quite from hell to heaven. ===117 ==C.M. 1 God is in this and every place; But O how dark and void To me! 'tis one great wilderness, This earth without my God. 2 Empty of him who all things fills, Till he his light impart, Till he his glorious self reveals, The veil is on my heart. 3 O thou who seest and know'st my grief, Thyself unseen, unknown! Pity my helpless unbelief, And take away the stone. 4 Regard me with a gracious eye, The long-sought blessing give; And bid me, at the point to die, Behold thy face and live. 5 Now, Jesus, now, the Father's love Shed in my heart abroad; The middle wall of sin remove, And let me into God. ===118 ==8s & 6s. 1 AUTHOR 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 work 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 all. 4 Thou bidd'st us knock and enter in, Come unto thee, and rest from sin, The blessing seek and find; Thou bidd'st us ask thy 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 pardoning Lord, Let what I ask be given; The bar of unbelief remove, Open the door of faith and love, And take me into heaven. ===119 ==C.M. Before Private Prayer. 1 FATHER of Jesus Christ, my Lord, I humbly seek thy face, Encouraged by the Saviour's word To ask thy pardoning grace. 2 Entering into into my closet, I The busy world exclude, In secret prayer for mercy cry, And groan to he renewed. 3 Far from the paths of men, to thee I solemnly retire; See, thou who dost in secret see, And grant my heart's desire. 4 Thy grace I languish to receive, The Spirit of love and power, Blameless before thy face to live, To live and sin no more. 5 Fain would I all thy goodness feel, And know my sins forgiven, And do on earth thy perfect will As angels do in heaven. 6 O Father, glorify thy Son, And grant what I require; For Jesu's sake the gift send down, And answer me by fire. 7 Kindle the flame of love within, Which may to heaven ascend, And now the work of grace begin, Which shall in glory end. ===120 ==6-8s. 1 COMFORT, ye ministers of grace, Comfort my people, saith your God! Ye soon shall see his smiling face, His golden sceptre, not his rod, And own, when now the cloud's removed, He only chastened whom he loved. 2 Who sow in tears, in joy shall reap; The Lord shall comfort all that mourn; Who now go on their way and weep, With joy they doubtless shall return, And bring their sheaves with vast increase, And have their fruit to holiness. ===121 ==6-8s. 1 EXPAND thy wings, celestial Dove, And, brooding o'er my nature's night, Call forth the ray of heavenly love; Let there in my dark soul be light; And fill the 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 mysterious majesty; And, by the shining of thy grace, Behold in Christ thy glorious face. 3 Father of everlasting grace, Be mindful of thy changeless word; We worship toward that holy place In which thou dost thy name record, Dost make thy gracious nature known, That living temple of thy Son. 4 Thou dost with sweet complacence see The temple filled with light divine; And art thou not well pleased with me, Who, turning to that heavenly shrine, Through Jesus to thy throne apply, Through Jesus for acceptance cry ' 5 With all who for redemption groan, Father, in Jesu's name I pray, And still we cry and wrestle on, Till mercy take our sins away: Hear from thy dwelling-place in heaven, And now pronounce our sins forgiven. ===122 ==8s & 6s. 1 O THOU who hast our sorrows borne, Help us to look on thee and mourn, On thee whom we have slain, Have pierced a thousand thousand times, And by reiterated crimes Renewed thy mortal pain. 2 Vouchsafe us eyes of faith to see The man transfixed on Calvary, To know thee, who thou art, The one eternal God and true; And let the sight affect, subdue, And break my stubborn heart. 3 Lover of souls, to rescue mine, Reveal the charity divine, That suffered in my stead; That made thy soul a sacrifice, And quenched in death those flaming eyes, And bowed 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. 5 Now let thy dying love constrain My soul to love its God again, Its God to glorify; And lo! I come thy cross to share, Echo thy sacrificial prayer, And with my Saviour die. ===123 ==C.M. 1 LET the redeemed give thanks and praise To a forgiving God! My feeble voice I cannot raise Till washed in Jesu's blood: 2 Till, at thy coming from above, My mountain-sins depart, And fear gives place to filial love, And peace o'erflows my heart. 3 Prisoner of hope, I still attend The appearing 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 For my eternal rest. 5 The peace which man can ne'er conceive, The love and joy unknown, Now, Father, to thy servant give, And claim me for thine own. 6 My God, in Jesus pacified, My God, thyself declare, And draw me to his open side, And plunge the sinner there. ===124 ==8s & 6s. 1 O THAT I, first of love possessed, With my Redeemer's presence blessed, Might his salvation see! Before thou dost my soul require, Allow me, Lord, my heart's desire, And show thyself to me. 2 Appear my sanctuary from sin, Open thine arms and take me in, By thine own presence hide; Hide in the place where Moses stood, And show me now the face of God, My Father pacified. 3 What but thy manifested grace Can guilt, and fear, and sorrow chase, The cause of grief destroy? Thy mercy makes salvation sure, Makes all my heart and nature pure, And fills with hallowed joy. 4 Come quickly, Lord, the veil remove, Pass as a God of pardoning love Before my ravished eyes; And when I in thy person see Jehovah's glorious majesty, I find my paradise. ===125 ==C.M. 1 O THAT I could my Lord receive, Who did the world redeem, Who gave his life, that I might live A life concealed in him! 2 O 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, Even now, my sins remove, And set my soul at liberty By thy victorious love. 5 In answer to ten thousand prayers, Thou pardoning God, descend; Number me with salvation's heirs, My sins and troubles 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. ===126 ==L.M. 1 TOO strong I was to conquer sin, When 'gainst it first I turned my face; Nor knew my want of power within, Nor knew the omnipotence of grace. 2 In nature's strength I sought in vain For what my God refused to give; I could not then the mastery gain, Or lord of all my passions live. 3 But, for the glory of thy name, Vouchsafe me now the victory; Weakness itself thou know'st I am, And cannot share the praise with thee. 4 Because I now can nothing do, Jesus, do all the work alone; And bring my soul triumphant through, To wave its palm before thy throne. 5 Great God, unknown, invisible, Appear, my confidence to abase, To make me all my vileness feel, And blush at my own righteousness. 6 Thy glorious face in Christ display, That, silenced by thy mercy's power, My mouth I in the dust may lay, And never boast or murmur more. ===127 ==L.M. 1 WHEREWITH, O God, shall I draw near, And bow myself before thy face? How in thy purer eyes appear? What shall bring to gain thy grace? 2 Will gifts delight the Lord most high? Will multiplied oblations please? Thousands of rams his favour buy, Or slaughtered hecatombs appease? 3 Can these avert the wrath of God? Can these wash out my 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 thy word hath showed, Justice pursue, and mercy love, And humbly walk by faith with God. 5 But though my life henceforth be thine, Present for past can ne'er atone; Though 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 swallowed 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 O thy Son hath died! 8 Jesus, the Lamb of God hath bled, He bore our sins upon the tree; Beneath our curse he bowed his head; 'Tis finished! 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. ===128 ==C.M. 1 WITH glorious clouds encompassed 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 may now perceive thee near, And my Redeemer know? 5 Come then, and to my soul reveal The heights and depths of grace, The wounds which all thy sorrows heal, That dear disfigured face. 6 Before my eyes of faith confest, Stand forth a slaughtered Lamb; And wrap me in thy crimson vest, And tell me all thy name. 7 Jehovah in thy person show, Jehovah crucified! And then the pardoning 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, Through all eternity. ===129 ==L.M. 1 ADAM descended from above, Federal Head of all mankind, The covenant of redeeming love In thee let every sinner find. 2 Its Surety, thou alone hast paid The debt we to thy Father owed; For the whole world atonement made. And sealed the pardon with thy blood 3 Thee, the paternal grace divine A universal blessing gave, A light in every heart to shine, A Saviour every 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 thy plaintive prisoners flee. 5 Me, me, who still in darkness sit, Shut up in sin and unbelief, Bring forth out of this hellish pit, This dungeon of despairing grief: 6 Open mine eyes the Lamb to know, Who bears the general sin away; And to my ransomed spirit show The glories of eternal day. ===130 ==6-8s. 1 THOU God unsearchable, unknown, Who still conceal'st thyself from me, Hear an apostate spirit groan, Broke off, and banished 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 guide 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, Concealed, thou art a Saviour still; And though thy face I cannot see, I know thine eye is fixed on me. 4 My Saviour thou, not yet revealed, Yet will I thee my Saviour call; Adore thy hand, from sin withheld; Thy hand shall save me from my fall: Now, Lord, throughout my darkness shine, And show thyself for ever mine. ===131 ==L.M. 1 LORD, I despair myself to heal: I see my sin, but cannot feel; I cannot, till thy Spirit blow, And bid the 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, is thine. 3 With simple faith on thee I call, My light, my life, my Lord, my all: I wait the moving of the pool, I wait the word that speaks me whole. 4 Speak, gracious Lord, my sickness cure, Make my infected nature pure; Peace, righteousness, and joy impart, And pour thyself into my heart. ===132 ==L.M. 1 JESU, the sinner's friend, to thee, Lost and undone, for aid I flee, Weary of earth, myself, and sin, Open thine arms and take me in. 2 Pity, and heal my sin-sick soul; 'Tis thou alone canst make me whole; Fallen, till in me thine image shine, And cursed I am, till thou art mine. 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, Thine is the work, and only thine. 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 damned, but thou hast died." ===133 ==L.M. 1 JESU, whose glory's streaming rays, Though duteous to thy high command, Not seraphs view with open face, But veiled before thy presence stand; 2 How shall weak eyes of flesh, weighed down With sin, and dim with error's night, Dare to behold thy awful throne, Or view thy unapproached light? 3 Restore my sight! let thy free grace An entrance to the holiest give; Open mine eyes of faith! thy face So shall I see; yet seeing live. 4 Thy 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! the sighs Of a sick heart with pity view; Hark, how my silence speaks, and cries "Mercy, thou God of mercy, show!" 6 I know thou canst not but be good; How shouldst thou, Lord, thy grace restrain? Thou, Lord, whose blood so freely flowed To save me from all guilt and pain. ===134 ==6-8s. 1 JESU, if still the same thou art, If all thy promises are sure, Set up thy kingdom in my heart, And make me rich, for I am poor: To me be all thy treasures given, The kingdom of an inward heaven. 2 Thou hast pronounced the mourners 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 Comforter. 3 Where is the blessedness bestowed On all that hunger after thee? I hunger now, I thirst for God; See the poor fainting sinner, see, And satisfy with endless peace, And fill me with thy righteousness. 4 Ah, Lord! if thou art in that sigh, Then hear thyself within me pray Hear in my heart thy Spirit's cry, Mark what my labouring soul would say: Answer the deep unuttered groan, And show that thou and I are one. 5 Shine on thy work, disperse the gloom, Light in thy light I then shall see, Say to my soul, "Thy light is come, Glory divine is risen on thee, Thy warfare's past, thy mourning's o'er; Look up, for thou shalt weep no more." 6 Lord, I believe the promise sure, And trust thou wilt not long delay: Hungry, and sorrowful, and poor, Upon thy word myself I stay; Into thine hands my all resign, And wait till all thou art is mine. ===135 ==C.M. 1 JESU, if still thou art to-day As yesterday the same, Present to heal, in me display The virtue of 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 wonders showed. 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-abhorred I 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, O Lord, my ear; Bid me stretch out my withered hand, And lift it up in prayer. 6 Silent, (alas! thou know'st how long) My voice I cannot raise; But O! when thou shalt loose my tongue, The dumb shall sing thy praise. 7 Lame at the pool I still am found; Give, 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. 9 But thou, they say, art passing by; O let me find thee near! Jesu, in mercy hear my cry, Thou Son of David, hear! 10 Behold me waiting in the way For thee, the heavenly light; Command me to be brought, and say "Sinner, receive thy sight!" ===136 ==C.M. SECOND PART 1 WHILE dead in trespasses I lie, Thy quickening spirit give; Call me, thou Son of God, that I May hear thy voice and live. 2 While, full of anguish and disease My weak distempered soul Thy love compassionately sees, O let it make me whole! 3 Cast out thy foes, and let them still To Jesu's name submit; Clothe with thy righteousness, and heal And place me at thy feet. 4 To Jesu's name if all things now A trembling homage pay, O let my stubborn spirit bow, My stiff-necked will obey! 5 Impotent, dumb, and deaf, and blind, And sick, and poor I am, But sure a remedy to find For all in Jesu's name. 6 I know in thee all fulness dwells, And all for wretched man; Fill every want my spirit feels, And break off every chain. 7 If thou impart thyself to me, No other good I need; If thou, the Son, shalt make me free, I shall be free indeed. 8 I cannot rest till in thy blood I full redemption have; But thou, through whom I come to God, Canst to the utmost save. 9 From sin, the guilt, 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. ===137 ==S.M. 1 WHEN 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 fain would now obey the call, And give up all for thee. 5 To rescue me from woe, Thou didst with all things part; Didst lead a suffering 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 cursed death. 7 And can I yet delay My little all to give? To tear my soul from earth away, For Jesus to receive? 8 Nay, but I yield, I yield! I can hold out no more, I sink, by dying love compelled, And own thee conqueror. 9 Though late, I all forsake, My friends, my all resign; Gracious Redeemer, take, O take, And seal me ever thine! 10 Come and possess me whole. Nor hence again remove: Settle and fix my wavering soul With all thy weight of love. 11 My one desire be this, Thy only love to know; To seek and taste no other bliss No other good below. 12 My Life, my portion thou, Thou all-sufficient art; My hope, my heavenly treasure, now Enter, and keep my heart. ===138 ==C.M. 1 O THAT thou wouldst the heavens rent, In majesty come down; Stretch out thine arm omnipotent, And seize me for thine own! 2 Descend, and let thy lightning burn The stubble of thy foe; My sins o'erturn, o'erturn, o'erturn, And make the mountains flow. 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 off 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 threatening looks dry up the sea, And make the mountains fall? 6 Who, shall in thy presence stand, And match Omnipotence, Ungrasp 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 hills I lift mine eye, Thy promised aid I claim; Father of mercies, glorify Thy favourite Jesu's name. 9 Salvation in that name is found Balm of grief and care; A medicine for my every wound, All, all I want is there! ===139 ==C.M. SECOND PART 1 JESU! Redeemer! Saviour, Lord, The weary sinner's friend, Come to my help, pronounce the word, And bid my troubles end. 2 Deliverance to my soul proclaim, And life, and liberty; Shed forth the virtue of thy name, And Jesus prove to me! 3 Faith to be healed 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. 5 Thou powerful Spirit shall subdue Unconquerable sin, Cleanse this foul heart, and make it new, And write thy law within. 6 Bound down with twice ten thousand ties, Yet 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 in songs of praise rejoice, The heart of stone believe. 8 The Aethiop then shall change his skin, The dead shall feel thy power, The loathsome leper shall be clean, And I shall sin no more. ===140 ==6-8s. Wrestling Jacob. Genesis xxxii. 24 - 31. 1 COME, O 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 I mean to stay, And wrestle till the break of day. 2 I need not tell thee who I am, My misery and sin declare; Thyself hast called me by my name, Look on thy hands, and read it there; But who, I ask thee, who art Thou? Tell me Thy name, and tell me now. 3 In vain thou strugglest to get free, I never will unloose my hold! Art thou the Man that died for me? The secret of thy love unfold; 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 resolved 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 of strength shall fail, I shall with the God-man prevail. ===141 ==6-8s. SECOND PART 1 YIELD to me now, for I am weak, But confident in self-despair; Speak to my heart, in blessings speak, Be conquered by my instant prayer; Speak, or thou never hence shalt move, And tell me if thy name is Love. 2 'Tis Love! 'tis Love! thou diedst for me! I hear thy whisper in my heart; The morning 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 prayer hath power with God; the grace Unspeakable I now receive; Through faith I see thee face to face, I see thee 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 night depart. But stay and love me to the end, Thy mercies never shall remove; Thy nature and thy name is Love. 5 The Sun of righteousness on me Hath rose with healing in his wings, Withered my nature's strength; 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 thigh I halt, till life's short journey end; All helplessness, all weakness, I On thee alone for strength depend, Nor have I power from thee to move; Thy nature and thy name is Love. 7 Lame as I am, I take the prey, Hell, earth, and sin, with ease o'ercome; I leap for joy, pursue my way, And as a bounding hart fly home, Through all eternity to prove Thy nature and thy name is Love. ===142 ==8-7s. 1 DROOPING soul, shake off thy fears, Fearful soul be strong, be bold; Tarry till the Lord appears. Never, never quit thy hold! Murmur not at his delay, Dare not set thy God a time, Calmly for his coming stay, Leave it, leave it all to him. 2 Fainting soul, be bold, be strong Wait the leisure 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, I from sin shall he 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 stand; l believe in Jesu's name: Saviour in temptation thou; Thou hast saved me heretofore, Thou from sin dost save me now, Thou shalt save me evermore. ===143 ==8-7s. 1 JESU, 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 be past! Safe into the haven guide, O 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: All my trust on thee is stayed, All my help from thee I bring; Cover my defenceless head With the shadow of thy wing. 3 Thou, O Christ, art all I want, More than all in thee I find! Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, Heal the sick, and lead the blind; Just and holy is thy name, I am all unrighteousness; False and full of sin I am, Thou art full of truth and grace. 4 Plenteous grace with thee is found, Grace to cover all my sin, Let the healing streams abound; 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. ===144 ==8s & 6s. 1 THEE, Jesu, 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 sorrows 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 souls infirmity, And strongly intercedes for me With groans unspeakable. 4 Prisoner of hope, to thee I turn, And, calmly confident, I mourn, And pray, and weep for thee: Tell me thy love, thy secret tell, Thy mystic name in me reveal, Reveal thyself in me. 5 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. 6 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. 7 Mercy he doth for thousands keep; He goes and seeks the one lost sheep, And brings his wanderer home; And every soul that sheep might be: Come then, my Lord, and gather me, My Jesus, quickly come! ===145 ==8s & 6s. 1 JESUS, let me bless thy name! All sin, alas! thou know'st I am, But thou all pity art: Turn into flesh my heart of stone; Such power belongs to thee alone; Turn into flesh my heart. 2 A poor, unmoving wretch, to thee For help against myself I flee; Thou only canst remove The hindrances out of the way, And soften my unyielding clay, And mould it into love. 3 O let thy Spirit shed abroad The love, the perfect love of God, In this cold heart of mine! O might he now descend, and rest, And dwell for ever in my breast, And make it all divine! 4 What shall I do my suit to gain? O Lamb of God for sinners slain, I plead what thou hast done! Didst thou not die the death for me? Jesu, remember Calvary, And break my heart of stone. 5 Take the dear purchase of thy blood, My Friend and Advocate with God, My Ransom and my Peace; Surety, who all my debt hast paid, For all my sins atonement made, The Lord my Righteousness. ===146 ==8s & 6s. 1 STILL Lord, I languish for thy grace; Reveal the beauties of thy face, The middle wall remove; Appear, and banish my complaint, Come, and supply my only want, Fill all my soul with love. 2 O conquer this rebellious will! Willing thou art and ready still, Thy help is always nigh; The hardness from my heart remove And give me, Lord, O give me love, Or at thy feet I die! 3 To thee I lift my mournful eye: Why am I thus? - O tell me why I cannot love my God! 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 power of sin, And make me love again; Come then, my Lord, thy right assert, Take to thyself my ransomed heart, Nor bleed, nor die in vain. ===147 ==8s & 6s. 1 O LOVE divine, how sweet thou art! When shall I find my willing heart All taken up by thee? I thirst, I faint, I die to prove The greatness of redeeming love, The love of Christ to me! 2 Stronger his love than death or hell; Its riches are unsearchable; The first-born sons of light Desire in vain its depths to see, They cannot reach the mystery, The length, and breadth, and height. 3 God only knows the love of God; 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 O that I could 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 O that with humbled Peter I Could weep, believe, and thrice reply My faithfulness to prove, "Thou know'st (for all to thee is known), "Thou know'st, O Lord, and thou alone, Thou know'st that thee I love!" 6 O that I could with favoured John Recline my weary head upon The great Redeemer's breast! From care, and sin, and sorrow free, Give me, O Lord, to find in thee My everlasting rest. ===148 ==6-8s. 1 FATHER of Jesus Christ the Just. My Friend and Advocate with thee, Pity a soul that fain would trust In him who lived and died for me; 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 smiling face; What flesh and blood can ne'er reveal, Thy co-eternal Son, display, And call my darkness into day. 3 The gift unspeakable impart; Command the light of faith to shine, To shine in my dark, drooping heart, And fill me with the life divine: Now bid the new creation be! O God, let there be faith in me! 4 Thee without faith I cannot please, Faith without thee I cannot have; But thou hast sent the Prince of peace To seek my wandering soul, and save; O Father, glorify thy Son, And save me for his sake alone! 5 Save me through faith in Jesu's blood, That blood which he for all did shed; For me, for me, thou know'st it flowed, For me, for me, thou hear'st it plead; Assure me now my soul is thine, And all thou art in Christ is mine! ===149 ==6-7s. O! when wilt thou come unto me? Psalm ci. 2 l WHY 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 greatly bow, Friend of sinners, why not now? 2 God of love, in this my day For thyself 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! ===150 ==C.M. 1 THOU hidden God, for whom I groan, Till thou thyself declare, God inaccessible, unknown, Regard a sinner's prayer! A sinner weltering in his blood, Unpurged and unforgiven; Far distant from the living God As far as hell from heaven. 2 An unregenerate child of man, To thee for faith I call; Pity thy fallen creature's pain, And raise me from my fall. The darkness which through thee I feel Thou only canst remove; Thy own eternal power reveal, Thy Deity of love. 3 Thou hast in unbelief shut up, That grace may let me go; In hope believing against hope, I wait the truth to know: Thou wilt in me reveal thy name, Thou wilt thy light afford; Bound and oppressed, yet thine I am, The prisoner of the Lord. 4 l would not to thy foe submit, I hate the tyrant'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, Jesu, speak into my heart What thou for me hast done; One grain of living faith impart, And God is all my own! ===151 ==2-6s & 4-7s. 1 OUT of the deep I cry, Just at the point to die, Hastening to infernal pain, Jesus, Lord, I cry to thee; Help a feeble child of man, Show forth all thy power in me. 2 On thee I ever call, Saviour and friend of all; Well thou know'st my desperate case; Thou my curse and sin remove, Save me by thy richest grace, Save me by thy pardoning love. 3 How shall a sinner find The Saviour of mankind? Canst thou not accept my prayer? Not bestow the grace I claim? Where are thy old mercies? where All the powers of Jesu's name? 4 I will not let thee go, Till I thy mercy know: Let me hear the welcome sound, Speak, if still thou canst forgive; Speak, and let the lost be found; Speak, and let the dying live. 5 Thy love is all my plea, Thy passion speaks for me; By thy pangs and bloody sweat, By thy depth of grief unknown, Save me, gasping at thy feet, Save, O save, thy ransomed one! 6 What hast thou done for me! O think on Calvary! By thy mortal groans and sighs, By thy precious death I pray, Hear my dying spirit's cries, Take, O take, my sins away! ===152 ==S.M. 1 AH whither should I go, Burdened, 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! 2 What is it keeps me back, From which I cannot part, Which will not let my Saviour take, Possession of my heart? Some cursed thing unknown Must surely lurk within, Some idol, which I will not own, Some secret bosom-sin. 3 Jesu, the hindrance show, Which I have feared to see: Yet let me now consent to know What keeps me out of 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 reigns alone; According to my faith to me O 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. ===153 ==C.M. Philippians ii. 13. 1 I SEEM desirous to repent, But cannot without thee Soften this hard heart, or lament My own obduracy; Gladly I would thy word believe, My dear Redeemer know, But neither can rejoice, nor grieve, Till thou the power bestow. 2 I would more sensibly distressed, Throughout this evil day Struggle to utter my request. But cannot, cannot pray, Until the Spirit from on high His needful aid impart, And raise a supplicating cry Within my broken heart. 3 My want of thankfulness, and love, And every grace, I own, Nor will the mountains e'er remove Till thou, my God, come down; Till thou thine own desires fulfil, Thyself to sinners join, And kindly work in me to will And do the will divine. ===154 ==6-8s. 1 FAIN would I leave the world below, Of pain and sin the dark abode, Where shadowy joy or solid woe Allures or tears me from my God; Doubtful and insecure of bliss, Since faith alone confirms me his. 2 Till then, to sorrow born, I sigh, And gasp and languish after home; Upward I send my streaming eye, Expecting till the Bridegroom come: Come quickly, Lord! thy own receive; Now let me see thy face, and live. 3 Absent from thee, my exiled soul Deep in a fleshly dungeon groans; Around me clouds of darkness roll, And labouring silence speaks my moans: Come quickly, Lord! thy face display, And look my darkness into day. 4 Sorrow, and sin, and death are o'er, If thou reverse the creature's doom; Sad Rachel weeps her loss no more, If thou, the God, the Saviour come; Of thee possessed, in thee we prove The light, the life, the heaven of love. ===155 ==L.M. 1 GOD of my life, what just return Can sinful dust and ashes give? I only live my sin to mourn; To love my God I only live. 2 To thee, benign and saving Power, I consecrate my lengthened days; While, marked with blessings, every hour Shall speak thy co-extended praise. 3 Be all my added life employed Thine image in my soul to see; Fill with thyself the mighty void, Enlarge my heart to compass thee. 4 O give me, Saviour, give me more! Thy mercies to my soul reveal; Alas! I see their endless store, But O, I cannot, cannot feel! 5 The blessing of thy love bestow, For this my cries shall never fail; Wrestling, I will not let thee go, I will not, till my suit prevail. 6 I'll weary thee with my complaint, Here at thy feet for ever lie, With longing sick, with groaning faint; O 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 word, Thou with thy promised Father come! 8 Prepare, and then possess my heart, O take me, seize me, from above! Thee may I love, for God thou art! Thee may I feel, for God is love! ===156 ==6-7s. 1 O DISCLOSE thy lovely face! Quicken all my drooping powers; Gasps my fainting soul for grace, As a thirsty land for showers; Haste, my Lord, no more delay, Come, my Saviour, come away! 2 Well thou know'st I cannot rest Till I fully rest in thee, Till I am of thee possessed, Till from every sin set free, All the life of faith I prove, All the joy and heaven of love. 3 With me O continue, Lord! Keep me, or from thee I fly; Strength and comfort from thy word Imperceptibly supply, Hold me till I apprehend, Make me faithful to the end. ===157 ==L.M. 1 MY sufferings all to thee are known, Tempted in every point like me; Regard my grief, regard thy own, Jesus, remember Calvary! 2 O call to mind thy earnest prayers, Thy agony, and sweat of blood, Thy strong and bitter cries and tears, Thy mortal groan, "My God! my God!" 3 For whom didst thou the cross endure? Who nailed thy body to the tree? Did not thy death my life procure? O let thy pity answer me! 4 Art thou not touched with human woe? Hath pity left the Son of man? Dost thou not all my sorrows know, And claim a share in all my pain? 5 Have I not heard, have I not known, That thou, the everlasting Lord, Whom heaven and earth their Maker own, Art always faithful to thy word? 6 Thou 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 I 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 in this earth thy judgments dwell, And, born of God, I sin no more. ===158 ==8-7s. 1 O MY God, what must I do? Thou alone the way canst show; Thou canst save me in this hour, I have neither will nor power: God if over all thou art, Greater than my sinful heart, All thy power on me be shown, Take away the heart of stone. 2 Take away my darling sin; Make me willing to be clean; Make me willing to receive All thy goodness waits to give: Force me, Lord, with all to part, Tear these idols from my heart; Now thy love almighty show, Make even me a creature new. 3 Jesus, mighty to renew, Work in me to will and do; Turn my nature's rapid tide, Stem the torrent of my pride, Stop the whirlwind of my will, Speak, and bid the sun stand still; Now thy love almighty show, Make even me a creature new. 4 Arm of God, thy strength put on, Bow the heavens, and come down; All my unbelief o'erthrow, Lay the aspiring mountain low; Conquer thy worst foe in me, Get thyself the victory; Save the vilest of the race, Force me to be saved by grace. ===159 ==6-8s. 1 LAY to thy hand, O God of grace! O God, the work is worthy thee! 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 Athiop-soul shall change her skin, Redeemed from all iniquity; I, even I, shall then proclaim The wonders wrought by Jesu's name. 3 Thee I shall then for ever praise, In spirit and in truth adore; While all I am declares thy grace, And, born of God, I sin no more, Thy pure and heavenly nature share, And fruit unto perfection bear. ===160 ==5 5 11, 5 5 11. 1 O JESUS my Hope, For me offered up, Who with clamour pursued thee to Calvary's top, The blood thou hast shed, For me let it plead, And declare thou hast died in thy murderer's stead. 2 Come then from above, Its hardness remove, And vanquish my heart with the sense of thy love; Thy love on the tree Display unto me. And the servant of sin in a moment is free. 3 Neither passion nor pride Thy cross can abide, But melt in the fountain that streams from thy side; Let thy life-giving blood Remove all my load, And purge my foul conscience, and bring me to God. 4 Now, now let me know Its virtue below, Let it wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow; Let it hallow my heart, And throughly convert, And make me, O Lord, in the world as thou art. 5 Each moment applied My weakness to hide, Thy blood be upon me, and always abide, My Advocate prove With the Father above, And speak me at last to the throne of thy love. ===161 ==L.M. 1 STAY, thou insulted Spirit, stay, Though I have done thee such despite, Nor cast the sinner quite away, Nor take thine everlasting flight. 2 Though I have steeled my stubborn heart, And still shook off my guilty fears, And vexed, 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 O! the chief of sinners spare, In honour of my great High-priest, Nor in thy righteous anger swear To exclude me from thy people's rest. 5 This only woe 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, Up-raise me with thy gracious hand. And guide into thy perfect peace, And bring me to the promised land. ===162 ==S.M. l O MY offended God, If now at last I see That I have trampled on thy blood, And done despite to thee, If I begin to wake Out of my deadly sleep, Into thy arms of mercy take, And there for ever keep. 2 No other right have I Than what the world may claim; All, all may to their God draw nigh Through faith in Jesu's name; Thou all the debt hast paid; This is my only plea, The covenant God in thee hath made, With all mankind and me. 3 Thou hast obtained the grace That all may turn and live; And lo! thy offer I embrace, Thy mercy I receive: Whene'er the wicked man Turns from his sin to thee, His late repentance is not vain, He shall accepted be. 4 Thy death hath bought the power For every sinful soul, That all may know their gracious hour, And be by faith made whole: Thou hast for sinners died, That all might come to God; The covenant thou hast ratified, And sealed it with thy blood. 5 He that believes in thee, And doth till death endure, He shall be saved eternally; The covenant is sure: The mountains shall give place, Thy covenant cannot move, The covenant of thy general grace, Thy all-redeeming love. ===163 ==L.M. 1 WHEN, gracious Lord, when shall it be, That I shall find my all in thee, The fulness of thy promise prove, The seal of thine eternal love? 2 A poor blind child I wander here, If haply I may feel thee near: O dark! dark! dark! I still must say, Amid 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 Whom man forsakes thou wilt not leave, Ready the outcasts to receive, Though all my simpleness I own, And all my faults to thee are known. 5 Ah, wherefore did I ever doubt! Thou wilt in no wise cast me out, A helpless soul that comes to thee, With only sin and misery. 6 Lord, I am sick, my sickness cure; I want, do thou enrich the poor; Under thy mighty hand I stoop, O lift the abject sinner up! 7 Lord, I am blind, be thou my sight; Lord, I am weak be thou my might; A helper of the helpless be, And let me find my all in thee! ===164 ==7s & 6s. The Woman of Canaan. Matthew xv. 22 - 28. 1 LORD, regard my earnest cry, A potsherd of the earth; A poor guilty worm am I, A Canaanite by birth: Save me from this tyranny, From all the power of Satan save; Mercy, mercy upon me, Thou Son of David, have! 2 To the sheep of Israel's fold Thou in thy flesh wast sent; Yet the Gentiles now behold In thee their covenant: See me then, with pity see, A sinner whom thou came'st to save Mercy, mercy, upon me, Thou Son of David, have! 3 Still I cannot part with thee, I will not let thee go: Mercy, mercy upon me, Thou Son of David, show! Vilest of the sinful race, On thee, importunate, I call, Help me, Jesus, show thy grace; Thy grace is free for all. 4 Nothing am I in thy sight, Nothing have I to plead; Unto dogs it is not right To cast the children's bread: Yet the dogs the crumbs may eat That from the master's table Let the fragments be my meat; Thy grace is free for all. 5 Give me, Lord, the victory, My heart's desire fulfil; Let it now be done to me According to my will! Give me living bread to eat, And say, in answer to my call, "Canaanite, thy faith is great! My grace is free for all." 6 If thy grace for all is free, Thy call now let me hear; Show this token upon me, And bring salvation near; Now the gracious word repeat, The word of healing to my soul, "Canaanite, thy faith is great! Thy faith hath made thee whole." ===165 ==8s. 1 COME holy celestial Dove, To visit a sorrowful breast, My burden of guilt to remove, And bring me assurance and rest! Thou only hast power to relieve A sinner o'erwhelmed with his load, The sense of acceptance to give, And sprinkle his heart with the blood. 2 With me if of old thou hast strove, And strangely withheld from my sin, And tried, by the lure of his 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 heart. 3 Thy call if I ever have known, And sighed from myself to get free, And groaned the unspeakable groan, And longed 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 these to grief, And madly to folly returned, Thy pity hath been my relief, And lifted me up as I mourned; Most pitiful Spirit of grace, Relieve me again, and restore, 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! ===166 ==7s & 6s. 1 JESU, take my sins away, And make me know thy name! Thou art now, as yesterday And evermore, the same; Thou my true Bethesda be; I know within thine arms is room, All the world may unto thee, Their House of Mercy, come. 2 Mercy then there is for me, (Away my doubts and fears!) Plagued with an infirmity For many tedious years. Jesu, cast a pitying eye! Thou long hast known my desperate case; Poor and helpless here I lie, And wait the healing grace. 3 Long hath thy good Spirit strove With my distempered soul, But I still refused thy love, And would not be made whole; Hardly now at last I yield, I yield with all my sins to part; Let my soul be fully healed, And throughly cleansed my heart. 4 Pain and sickness, at thy word, And sin, and sorrow flies: Speak to me, Almighty Lord, And bid my spirit rise! Bid me bear the hallowed cross, Which thou, my Lord, hast borne before; Walk in all thy righteous laws, And go and sin no more. ===167 ==7s & 6s. 1 LAMB of God, for sinners slain, To thee I feebly pray; Heal me of my grief and pain, O take my sins away! From this bondage, Lord, release, No longer let me be opprest; Jesus, Master, seal my peace, And take me to thy breast! 2 Wilt thou cast a sinner out Who humbly comes to thee? No, my God, I cannot doubt Thy mercy is for me; Let me then obtain the grace, And be of paradise possest; 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 and heaven; This the crown I fain would seize, The good wherewith I 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! ===168 ==8-7s. 1 DEPTH of mercy! can there be Mercy still reserved for me? Can my God his wrath forbear? Me, the chief of sinners, spare? I have long withstood his grace, Long provoked him to his face, Would not hearken to his calls, Grieved him by a thousand falls. 2 I have spilt his precious blood, Trampled on the Son of God, Filled with pangs unspeakable, I, who yet am not in hell! Whence to me this waste of love? Ask my Advocate above! See the cause in Jesu's face, Now before the throne of grace. 3 Lo! I cumber still the ground: Lo! an Advocate is found: "Hasten not to cut l him down, Let this barren soul alone." Jesus speaks, and pleads his blood! He disarms the wrath of God; Now my Father's bowels move, Justice lingers into love. 4 Kindled his relentings are, Me he now delights to spare, Cries, "How shall I give thee up?" Lets the lifted thunder drop. There for me the Saviour stands; Shows his wounds, and 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? If I rightly read thy heart, If thou all compassion art, Bow thine ear, in mercy bow, Pardon and accept me now. 6 Pity from thine eye let fall, By a look my soul recall; Now the stone to flesh convert, Cast a look, and break my heart. Now incline me to repent, Let me now my fall lament, Now my foul revolt deplore, Weep, believe, and sin no more. ===169 ==C.M. 1 JESUS, the all-restoring Word, My fallen spirit's hope, After thy lovely likeness, Lord, Ah, when shall I wake up? 2 Thou, O 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 below, In heaven above, to give, Give me 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 The fellowship divine. 5 Open the intercourse between My longing soul and thee, Never to be broke off again To all eternity. ===170 ==6-8s. 1 O 'TIS enough, my God, my God! Here let me give my wanderings o'er; No longer trample on thy blood, And grieve thy gentleness no more; No more thy lingering anger move, Or sin against thy light and love. 2 O Lord, if mercy is with thee, Now let it all on me be shown; 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! 3 Fountain of unexhausted love, Of infinite compassions, hear; My Saviour and my Prince above, Once more in my behalf appear; Repentance, faith, and pardon give, O let me turn again and live! ===171 ==6-8s. 1 O GOD, if thou art love indeed, Let it once more be proved in me, That I thy mercy's praise may spread, For every child of Adam free; O let me now the gift embrace! O let 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 known, Now the all-conquering Spirit give, Spirit of victory and power, That I may never grieve thee more. 3 Grant my importunate request! It is not my desire, but thine; Since thou wouldst have the sinner blest, Now let me in thine image shine, Nor ever from thy footsteps move, But more than conquer through thy love. 4 Be it according to thy will! Set my imprisoned spirit free; The counsel of thy grace fulfil; Into thy glorious liberty My spirit, soul, and flesh restore, And I shall never grieve thee more. ===172 ==S.M. 1 O UNEXHAUSTED grace! O love unsearchable! I am not gone to my own place, I am not yet in hell! Earth doth not open yet, My soul to swallow up! And hanging o'er the burning pit, I still am forced to hope. 2 I hope at last to find The kingdom from above, The settled peace, the constant mind, The everlasting love; The sanctifying grace That makes me meet for home: I hope to see thy glorious face, Where sin can never come. 3 What shall I do to keep The blessed hope I feel? Still let me pray, and watch, and weep, And serve thy pleasure still; O may I never grieve My kind, long-suffering Lord! But steadfastly to Jesus cleave, And answer all his word. 4 Lord, if thou hast bestowed On me this gracious fear, This horror of offending God, O keep it always here! And that I never more May from thy ways depart, Enter with all thy mercy's power, And dwell within my heart. ===173 ==6-7s. 1 JESUS, I believe thee near, Now my fallen soul restore! Now my guilty conscience clear, Give me back my peace and power, Stone to flesh again convert, Write forgiveness on my heart. 2 I believe thy pardoning grace, As at the beginning, free; Open are thy arms to embrace Me, the worst of rebels, me; In me all the hindrance lies; Called, I still refuse to rise. 3 Yet, for thy own mercy's sake, Patience with thy rebel have; Me thy mercy's witness make, Witness of thy power to save; Make me willing to be free, Restless to be saved by thee. 4 Now the gracious work begin, Mow 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. 5 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. ===174 ==8s. 1 HOW shall a lost sinner in pain Recover his forfeited peace? When brought into bondage again, What hope of a second release? Will mercy itself be so kind To spare such a rebel as me? And O! can I possibly find Such plenteous redemption in thee? 2 O Jesus! of thee I inquire, If still thou art able to save? The brand to pluck out of the fire, And ransom my soul from 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 O 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 of thy mercy apply, (Thou seest the sore anguish I feel) Save, Lord, or I perish, I die, O save, or I sink into hell! 4 I sink, if thou longer delay Thy pardoning mercy to show; Come quickly, and kindly display The power of thy passion below! By all thou hast done for my sake, One drop of thy blood I implore, Now, now let it touch me, and make The sinner a sinner no more! ===175 ==7s & 6s. 1 GOD of my salvation, hear, And help me to believe! Simply do I now draw near, Thy blessing to receive: Full of sin, alas! I am, But to thy wounds for refuge flee; Friend of sinners, spotless Lamb, Thy blood was shed for me. 2 Standing now as newly slain, To thee I lift mine eye! Balm of all my grief and pain, Thy grace 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 know'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 gain 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. ===176 ==6-8s. 1 O GOD, thy righteousness we own, Judgment is at thy house begun With humble awe thy rod we hear, And guilty in thy sight appear, We cannot in thy judgement stand, But sink beneath thy mighty hand. 2 Our mouth as in the dust we lay, And still for mercy, mercy, pray; Unworthy to behold thy face, Unfaithful stewards of thy grace, Our sin and wickedness we own, And deeply for acceptance groan. 3 We have not, Lord, thy gifts improved, But basely from thy statutes roved, And done thy loving Spirit despite, And sinned against the clearest light Brought back thy agonizing pain, And nailed thee to thy cross again. 4 Yet do not drive us from thy face, A stiff-necked and hard-hearted race; But O! in tender mercy break The iron sinew in our neck; The softening power of love impart, And melt the marble of our heart. ===177 ==6-8s. 1 JESUS, thou know'st my sinfulness, My faults are not concealed from thee; A sinner in my last distress, To thy dear wounds I fain would flee, And never, never thence depart, Close sheltered in thy loving heart. 2 How shall I find the living way, Lost, and confused, and dark, and blind? Ah, Lord, my soul is gone astray! Ah, Shepherd, seek my soul, and find, And in thy arms of mercy take, And bring the weary wanderer back. 3 Weary and sick of sin I am I hate it, Lord, and yet I love; When wilt thou rid me of my shame? When wilt thou all my load remove? Destroy the fiend that lurks within, And speak the word of power, "Be clean!" 4 O Lord, if I at last discern That I am sin, and thou art love, If now o'er me thy bowels yearn, Give me a token from above; And conquer my rebellious will, And bid my murmuring heart be still. 5 Sin only let me not commit, (Sin never can advance thy praise) And lo! I lay me at thy feet, And wait unwearied all my days, Till my appointed time shall come, And thou shalt call thine exile home. ===178 ==6-8s "Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father?" Jeremiah iii, 4. 1 YES, from this instant now, I will To my offended father cry; My base ingratitude I feel, Vilest of all thy children, I, Not worthy to be called thy son; Yet will I thee my father own. 2 Guide of my life hast thou been, And rescued me from passion's power? Ten thousand times preserved from sin, Nor let the greedy 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 creature in his blood? Leave me, out of thy presence cast, To perish in my sins at last? 4 If thou hast willed me to return, If weeping at thy feet I fall, The prodigal thou wilt not spurn, But pity, and forgive me all, In answer to my Friend above, In honour of his bleeding love! ===179 ==7s & 6s. 1 FATHER, if thou must reprove For all that I have done, Not in anger, but in love Chastise thine humbled son; 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 precious blood restored, Grant that every soul may feel, "Thou art my pardoning Lord!" 3 Might we now with pure desire Thine only love request; Now, with willing heart entire, Return to Christ our rest! When we our whole hearts resign, O Jesus, to be filled with thee, Thou art ours, and we are thine, Through all eternity. ===180 ==L.M. Isaiah lvii. 18, 19. 1 SAVIOUR, I now with shame confess My thirst for creature happiness; By base desires I wronged thy love, And forced thy mercy to remove. 2 Yet would I not regard thy stroke; But when thou didst thy grace revoke, And when thou didst thy face conceal, Thy absence I refused to feel. 3 I knew not that the Lord was gone, In my own froward will went on, And lived to the desires of men; And thou hast all my wanderings seen. 4 Yet, O the riches of thy grace! Thou, who hast seen my evil ways, Wilt freely my backslidings heal, And pardon on my conscience seal. 5 For this I at thy footstool wait, Till thou my peace again create; Fruit of thy gracious lips, restore My peace, and bid me sin no more! 6 Far off, yet at thy feet, I lie, Till thou again thy blood apply; Till thou repeat my sins forgiven, As far from God as hell from heaven. 7 But, for thy truth and mercy's sake, My comfort thou wilt give me back, And lead me on from grace to grace, In all the paths of righteousness; 8 Till, throughly saved, my new-born soul, And perfectly by faith made whole, Doth bright in thy full image rise, To share thy glory in the skies. ===181 ==L.M. Hebrews v. 7, 8. 1 THOU Man of griefs, remember me, Who never canst thyself forget! Thy last mysterious agony, Thy fainting pangs, and bloody sweat! 2 When, wrestling in the strength of prayer, Thy spirit sunk beneath its load, Thy feeble flesh abhorred to bear The wrath of an almighty God. 3 Father, if I may call thee so, Regard my fearful heart's desire, Remove this load of guilty woe, Nor let me in my sins expire! 4 I tremble lest the wrath divine, Which bruises now my sinful soul, Should bruise this wretched soul of mine Long as eternal ages roll. 5 To thee my last distress I bring, The heightened fear of death I find; The tyrant, brandishing his sting, Appears, and hell is close behind. 6 I deprecate that death alone, That endless banishment from thee; O save, and give me to thy Son, Who trembled, wept, and bled for me! ===182 ==7s & 6s. 1 I WILL hearken what the Lord Will say concerning me: Hast thou not 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 fly, And never grieve thee more. 2 How have I thy Spirit grieved Since first with me he strove, Obstinately disbelieved, And trampled on thy love! I have sinned against the light; I have broke from thy embrace; No, I would not, when I might, Be freely saved by grace. 3 After all that I have done To drive thee from my heart, Still thou wilt not leave thine own, Thou wilt not yet depart; Wilt not give the sinner o er; Ready art thou now to save, Bidd'st me come, as heretofore, That I thy life may have. 4 O thou meek and gentle Lamb! Fury is not in thee; Thou continuest still the same, And still thy grace is free; Still thine arms are open wide, Wretched sinners to receive; Thou hast once for sinners died, That all may turn and live. 5 Lo! I take thee at thy word, My foolishness I mourn; Unto thee, my bleeding Lord, However late, I turn: Yes, I yield, I yield at last, Listen to thy speaking blood Me, with all my sins, I cast On my atoning God! ===183 ==6-7s. 1 JESU, Shepherd of the sheep, Pity my unsettled soul! Guide, and nourish me, and keep, Till thy love shall make me whole: Give me perfect soundness, give, Make me steadfastly believe. 2 I am never at one stay, Changing every hour I am; But thou art, as yesterday, Now and evermore the same; Constancy to me impart, Stablish with thy grace my heart. 3 Give me faith to hold me up, Walking over life's rough sea, Holy, purifying hope Still my souls sure anchor be; That I may be always thine, Perfect me in love divine. ===184 ==C.M. 1 MY God, my God, to thee I cry, Thee only would I know; Thy purifying blood apply, And wash me white as snow. 2 Touch me, and make the leper clean; Purge my iniquity; Unless 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 Tell me again my peace is made, And bid the sinner live; The debt's discharged, the ransom's paid, My Father must forgive. 5 Behold, for me the victim bleeds, His wounds are opened wide; For me the blood of sprinkling pleads, And speaks me justified. 6 O why did I my Saviour leave? So soon unfaithful prove! How could I thy good Spirit grieve, And sin against thy love? 7 I forced thee first to disappear, I turned thy face aside; Ah, Lord! if thou hadst still been here, Thy servant had not died. 8 But O, how soon thy wrath is o'er, And pardoning love takes place! Assist me, Saviour, to adore The riches of thy grace. 9 O could I lose myself in thee, Thy depth of mercy prove, Thou vast, unfathomable sea Of unexhausted love! 10 My humbled soul, when thou art near, In dust and ashes lies; How shall a sinful worm appear, Or meet thy purer eyes? 11 I loathe myself when God I see, And into nothing fall; Content if thou exalted be, And Christ be in my all. ===185 ==8-7s. 1 AFTER all that I have done, Saviour, art thou pacified? Whither shall my vileness run? Hide me, earth, the sinner hide! Let me sink into the dust, Full of holy shame, adore! Jesus Christ, the good, the just, Bids me go, and sin no more. 2 O confirm the gracious word, Jesus, Son of God and man! Let me never grieve thee, Lord, Never turn to sin again: Till my all in all thou art, Till thou bring thy nature in, Keep this feeble, trembling heart, Save me, save me, Lord, from sin! ===186 ==6-8s. 1 WEARY of wandering from my God, And now made willing to return, I hear, and bow me to the rod; For thee, not without hope, I mourn; I have an Advocate above, A Friend before the throne of Love. 2 O Jesus, full of truth and grace, More full of grace than I of sin, Yet once again I seek thy face; Open thine arms, and take me in, And freely my backslidings heal, And love the faithless sinner still. 3 Thou know'st the way to bring me back My fallen spirit to restore; O! for thy truth and mercy's sake, Forgive, and bid me sin no more; The ruins of my soul repair, And make my heart a house of prayer. 4 The stone to flesh again convert, The veil of sin again remove; Sprinkle thy blood upon my heart, And melt it by thy dying love; This rebel heart by love subdue, And make it soft, and make it new. 5 Give to mine eyes refreshing tears, And kindle my relentings now; Fill my whole soul with filial fears, To thy sweet yoke my spirit bow; Bend by thy grace, O bend or break, The iron sinew in my neck! 6 Ah! give me, Lord, the tender heart That trembles at the approach of sin; A godly fear of sin impart, Implant, and root it deep within, That I may dread thy gracious power, And never dare to offend thee more. ===187 ==7s & 6s. 1 SON of God, if thy free grace Again hath raised me up, Called me still to seek thy face, And given me back my hope; Still thy timely help afford, 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; Save me with thine outstretched hand. And show forth all thy power; O be mindful of thy word, Thy all-sufficient grace bestow: Keep me, keep me, gracious 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 more than hell abhorred; Till thou destroy the tyrant foe, Keep me, keep me, gracious Lord, And never let me go! 4 Never let me leave thy breast, From thee, my Saviour, stray; Thou art my support and rest, My true and living Way; My exceeding great Reward, In heaven above, and earth below: Keep me, keep me, gracious Lord, And never let me go! ===188 ==7s & 6s. 1 LORD, and is thine anger gone? And art thou pacified? After all that I have done, Dost thou no longer chide? Infinite thy mercies are, Beneath the weight I cannot move; O! 'tis more than I can bear, The sense of pardoning love. 2 Let it still my heart constrain, And all my passions sway; Keep me, lest I turn again Out of the narrow way; Force my violence to be still, And captivate my every thought; Charm, and melt, and change my will, And bring me down to nought. 3 If I have begun once more Thy sweet return to feel, If even now I find thy power Present my soul to heal, Still and quiet may I lie. Nor struggle out of thine embrace; Never more resist, or fly From thy pursuing grace. 4 To the cross, thine altar, bind Me with the cords of love; Freedom let me never find From thee, my Lord, to move; That I never, never more May with my much-loved Master part, To the posts of mercy's door O nail my willing heart! 5 See my utter helplessness, And leave me not alone; O 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. 6 As the apple of an 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 much forgiven. ===189 ==6-8s. 1 NOW I have found the ground wherein Sure my soul's anchor may remain, The wounds of Jesus, for my sin Before the world's foundation slain; Whose mercy shall unshaken stay, When heaven and earth are fled away. 2 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 O Love, thou bottomless abyss, My sins are swallowed up in thee! Covered is my unrighteousness, Nor spot of guilt remains on me, While Jesu's blood, through earth and skies, Mercy, free, boundless mercy, cries. 4 With 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 be gone, Though joys be withered all and dead, Though every comfort be withdrawn, On this my steadfast soul relies, Father, thy mercy never dies. 6 Fixed on this ground will I remain, Though my heart fail, and flesh decay; This anchor shall my soul sustain, When earth's foundations melt away; Mercy's full power I then shall prove, Loved with an everlasting love. ===190 ==L.M 1 JESU, thy blood and righteousness My beauty are, my glorious dress; Midst flaming worlds in these arrayed, With joy shall I lift up my head. 2 Bold shall I 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, 3 The holy, meek, unspotted Lamb, Who from the Father's bosom came, Who died for me, even me, to 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 ocean shore, Thou hast for all a ransom paid, For all a full atonement made. 6 When from the dust of death I rise, To claim my mansion in the skies, Even then this shall be all my plea, Jesus hath lived, hath died, for me. 7 Thus Abraham, the friend of God, Thus all heaven's armies bought with blood, Saviour of sinners thee proclaim; Sinners, of whom the chief I am. 8 Jesu, be endless praise to thee, Whose boundless mercy hath for me, For me and all thy hands have made, An everlasting ransom paid. 9 Ah! give to all thy servants, Lord, With power to speak thy gracious word, That all who to thy wounds will flee, May find eternal life in thee. 10 Thou God of power, thou God of love, Let the whole world thy mercy prove! Now let thy word o'er all prevail; Now take the spoils of death and hell. 11 O let the dead now hear thy voice, Now bid thy banished ones rejoice, Their beauty this, their glorious dress, Jesu, thy blood and righteousness! ===191 ==2-6s & 4-7s. Luke xv 20 - 24. 1 THEE, O my God and King, My Father, thee I sing! Hear, well-pleased, the joyous sound, Praise from earth and heaven receive; Lost, I now in Christ am found, Dead, by faith in Christ I live. 2 Father, behold thy son, In Christ I am thy own; Stranger long to thee, and rest, See the prodigal is come: Open wide thine arms and breast, Take the weary wanderer home. 3 Thine eye observed from far, Thy pity looked me near; Me thy bowels yearned to see, Me thy mercy ran to find, Empty, poor, and void of thee, Hungry, sick, and faint, and blind. 4 Thou on my neck didst fall, Thy kiss forgave me all: Still thy gracious words I hear, Words that made the Saviour mine, "Haste, for him the robe prepare, His be righteousness divine!" ===192 ==7s & 6s. Romans x. 6 - 9. 1 OFT I in my heart have said, Who shall ascend on high, Mount to Christ, my glorious Head, And bring him from the sky? Borne on contemplation's wing, Surely I shall find him there, 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 unfeigned humility, Christ would quickly enter there, And ever dwell with me. 3 But the righteousness of faith Hath taught me better things: "Inward turn thine eyes," it saith, (While Christ to me it brings) "Christ is ready to impart Life to all, for life who sigh; In thy mouth, and in thy heart, The word is ever nigh." ===193 ==2-6s & 4-7s. 1 O FILIAL Deity, Accept my new-born cry! See the travail of thy soul, Saviour, and be satisfied; Take me now, possess me whole, Who for me, for me, hast died! 2 Of life thou art the tree, My immortality! Feed this tender branch of thine, Ceaseless influence derive; Thou the true, the heavenly Vine; Grafted into thee I live. 3 Of life the fountain thou, I know - I feel it now! Faint and dead no more I droop; Thou art in me; thy supplies, Every moment springing up, Into life eternal rise. 4 Thou the good Shepherd art, From thee I ne'er shall part; Thou my keeper and my guide, Make me still thy tender care; Gently lead me by thy side, Sweetly in thy bosom bear. 5 Thou art my daily Bread; O Christ, thou art my Head! Motion, virtue, strength, to me, Me thy living member, flow; Nourished I, and fed by thee, Up to thee in all things grow. 6 Prophet, to me reveal Thy Father's perfect will; Never mortal spake like thee, Human prophet like divine; Loud and strong their voices be, Small, and still, and inward thine. 7 On thee, my Priest, I call, Thy blood atoned for all; Still the Lamb as slain appears, Still thou stand'st before the throne, Ever offering up my prayers, These presenting with thine own. 8 Jesu, thou art my King, From thee my strength I bring; Shadowed by thy mighty hand, Saviour, who shall pluck me thence? Faith supports; by faith I stand, Strong in thy omnipotence. ===194 ==2-6s & 4-7s. 1 ARISE, my soul, arise, Thy Saviour's sacrifice! All the names that love could find, All the forms that love could take, Jesus in himself hath joined, Thee, my soul, his own to make. 2 Equal with God most high, He laid his glory by; He, the eternal God, was born, Man with men he deigned to appear; Object of his creatures' scorn, Pleased a servant's form to wear. 3 Hail! everlasting Lord, Divine, incarnate Word! Thee let all my powers confess, Thee my latest breath proclaim; Help, ye angel-choirs, to bless, Shout the loved Immanuel's name! 4 Fruit of a virgin's womb, The promised blessing's come; Christ, the fathers' hope of old, Christ, the woman's conquering Seed, Christ, the Saviour long foretold, Born to bruise the serpent's head. 5 Jesus, to thee I bow, The Almighty's Fellow thou! Thou, the Father's only Son! Pleased he ever is in thee; Just and holy thou alone, Full of grace and truth for me. ===195 ==2-6s & 4-7s. SECOND PART 1 HIGH above every name, Jesus, the great I AM! Bows to Jesus every knee, Things in heaven, and earth, and hell; Saints adore him, demons flee, Fiends, and men, and angels feel! 2 He left his throne above, Emptied of all but love: Whom the heavens cannot contain, God, vouchsafed a worm to appear, Lord of glory, Son of man, Poor, and vile, and abject here. 3 His own on earth he sought, His own received him not; Him a sign by all blasphemed, Outcast and despised of men, Him they all a madman deemed, Bold to scoff the Nazarene. 4 Hail, Galilean King! Thy humble state I sing, Never shall my triumphs end; Hail, derided Majesty! Jesus, hail! the sinner's friend, Friend of publicans, - and me. ===196 ==L.M. 1 INTO thy gracious hands I fall, And with the arms of faith embrace; O King of glory, hear my call, O raise me, heal me, by thy grace! Now righteous through thy wounds I am; No condemnation now I dread: I taste salvation in thy name, Alive in thee, my living Head. 2 Still let thy wisdom be my guide, Nor take thy light 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 to endure and do thy will, Till perfect I am found in thee. 3 Arm me with thy whole armour, Lord! Support my weakness with thy might, Gird on my thigh thy conquering sword, And shield me in the threatening fight: From faith to faith, from grace to grace, So in thy strength shall I go on, Till heaven and earth flee from thy face, And glory end what grace begun. ===197 ==8-7s. Isaiah xii. 1 HAPPY soul who sees the day, The glad day of gospel grace! Thee, my Lord (thou then wilt say) Thee will I for ever praise; Though thy wrath against me burned, Thou dost comfort me again; All thy wrath aside is turned, 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; 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; Praise shall your glad tongues employ, While his streaming grace 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 marvelous, and high; Sing unto the Lord your songs, Cry to every nation, cry! Wondrous things the Lord hath done, Excellent his name we find; This to all mankind is known; Be it known to all mankind! 6 Zion, shout thy Lord and King, Israel's HOLY ONE is he! Give him thanks, rejoice, and sing; Great he is, and dwells in thee. O the grace unsearchable! While eternal ages roll, God delights in man to dwell, Soul of each believing soul. ===198 ==1Os & 11s. 1 WHAT shall I do My Saviour to praise, So faithful and true, So plenteous in grace, 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, The people that can Be joyful in 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 souls 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 shall receive, And share in the gladness Of all that believe. ===199 ==1Os & 11s 1 O 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! Our business and strife Is thee to proclaim; Accept our thanksgiving For creating grace; The living, the living Shall show forth thy praise. 3 Our Father and Lord, Almighty art thou; Preserved by thy word, We worship thee now; The bountiful donor Of all we enjoy, Our tongues to thine honour, And lives we employ. 4 But O! above all, Thy kindness we praise, From sin and from thrall Which saves the lost race; Thy Son thou hast given The world to redeem, And bring us to heaven Whose trust is in him. 5 Wherefore of thy love We sing and rejoice, With angels above We lift up our voice: Thy love each believer Shall gladly adore, For ever and ever, When time is no more. ===200 ==1Os & 11s. 1 MY Father, my God, I long for thy love, O shed it abroad; Send Christ from above! My heart ever fainting, He only can cheer, And all things are wanting, Till Jesus is here. 2 O when shall my tongue Be filled with thy praise! While all the day long I publish thy grace, Thy honour and glory To sinners forth show, Till sinners adore thee, And own thou art true. 3 Thy strength and thy power I now can proclaim, Preserved every hour Through Jesus's name; For thou art still by me, And holdest my hand; No ill can come nigh me, By faith while I stand. 4 My God is my guide; Thy mercies abound, On every side They compass me round; Thou sav'st me from sickness, From sin dost retrieve, And strengthen my weakness, And bid me believe. 5 Thou holdest my soul In spiritual life, My foes dost control, And quiet their strife; Thou rulest my passion, My pride and self-will, To see thy salvation, Thou bidd'st me "Stand still!" 6 I stand, and admire Thine outstretched arm, I walk through the fire, And suffer no harm; Assaulted by evil, I scorn to submit, The world and the devil Fall under my feet. 7 I wrestle not now, But trample on sin, For with me art thou, And shalt be within; While stronger and stronger In Jesus's power, I go on to conquer, Till sin is no more. ===201 ==6-8s. 1 AND 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! how can it be That thou, my God, shouldst die for me? 2 'Tis mystery all! The Immortal dies! Who can explore his strange design? In vain the first-born seraph tries To sound the depths of love divine! 'Tis mercy all! let earth adore, Let angel-minds inquire no more. 3 He left his Father's throne above, (So free, so infinite his grace!) Emptied himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race: 'Tis mercy all, immense and free, For, O my God, it found out me! 4 Long my imprisoned spirit lay Fast bound in sin and nature's night; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray, I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed thee. 5 No condemnation now I dread, Jesus, and all in him, is mine! Alive in him, my living Head, And clothed in righteousness divine, Bold I approach the eternal throne, And claim the crown, through Christ my own. ===202 ==4-6s & 2-8s. 1 ARISE, my soul, arise, Shake off thy guilty fears; The bleeding sacrifice In my behalf appears; Before the throne thy Surety stands; My name is written on his 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 Calvary; They pour effectual prayers, They strongly speak for me: "Forgive him, O forgive," they cry? "Nor let that ransomed sinner die!" 4 The Father hears him pray, His dear Anointed One; He cannot turn away The presence of his Son: His Spirit answers to the blood, And tells me I am born of God. 5 My God is reconciled, His pardoning voice I hear, He owns me for his child, I can no longer fear, With confidence I now draw nigh, And, Father, Abba, Father, cry! ===203 ==L.M. 1 GLORY to God, whose sovereign grace Hath animated senseless stones; Called 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 gospel day, In Jesu's lovely face displayed. 3 Thou only, Lord, the work hast done, And bared thine arm in all our sight; Hast made the reprobates thine own, And claimed the outcasts as thy right. 4 Thy single arm, almighty Lord, To us the great salvation brought, Thy Word, thy all-creating Word, That spake at first the world from nought. 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 night, To thee our thankful hearts we give; To thee, who call'dst us into light, To thee we die, to thee we live. 7 Suffice that for the season past Hell's horrid language filled our tongues, We all thy words behind us cast, And lewdly sang the drunkard's songs. 8 But, O the power of grace divine! In hymns we now our voices raise, Loudly in strange hosannas join, And blasphemies are turned to praise! ===204 ==8s & 6s. "I will sing with the Spirit" &c. 1 Corinthians xiv.15. 1 JESUS, 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 task pursue, To please our God alone. 3 The secret pride, the subtle sin, O let it never more steal in, To offend thy glorious eyes, To desecrate our hallowed 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 hearts away from thee. 6 That hurrying strife far oft remove, That noisy burst of selfish love, Which swells the formal song; 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 harmonizing 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! ===205 ==5 5 12. 1 MY God, I am thine, What a comfort divine, What a blessing to know that my Jesus is mine! 2 In the heavenly Lamb Thrice happy I am, And my heart it doth dance at the sound of his name. 3 True pleasures abound In the rapturous sound; And whoever hath found it hath paradise found: 4 My Jesus to know, And feel his blood flow, 'Tis life everlasting, 'tis heaven below. 5 Yet onward I haste To the heavenly feast: That, that is the fulness; but this is the taste! 6 And this I shall prove, Till with joy I remove To the heaven of heavens in Jesus's love. ===206 ==6-8s. 1 WHAT am I, O thou glorious God! And what my father's house to thee, That thou such mercies hast bestowed On me, the chief of sinners, me! I take the blessing from above, And wonder at thy boundless love. 2 Me in my blood thy love passed by, And stopped, my ruin to retrieve; Wept o'er my soul thy pitying eye, Thy bowels yearned, and sounded "Live!" Dying, I heard the welcome sound, And pardon in thy mercy found. 3 Honour, and might, and thanks, and praise, I render to my pardoning God, Extol the riches of thy grace, And spread thy saving name abroad, That only name to sinners given, Which lifts poor dying worms to heaven. 4 Jesus, I bless thy gracious power, And all within me shouts thy name; Thy name let every soul adore, Thy power let every tongue proclaim; Thy grace let every sinner know, And find with me their heaven below. ===207 ==8-7s. 1 JESUS is our common Lord, He our loving Saviour is; By his death to life restored, Misery we exchange for bliss; Bliss to carnal minds unknown, O 'tis more than tongue can tell! Only to believers shown, Glorious and unspeakable. 2 Christ, our Brother and our Friend, Shows us his eternal love; Never shall our triumphs end, Till we take our seats above. Let us walk with him in white, For our bridal day prepare, For our partnership in light, For our glorious meeting there. ===208 ==C.M. Revelation iii. 20. 1 COME, let us, who in Christ believe, Our common Saviour praise, To him with joyful voices give The glory of his grace. 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 grace 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 hence remove; But sup with us, and let the feast Be everlasting love. ===209 ==6-8s. 1 THOU 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, I hide me, Jesus, in 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 dear name, are given Pardon, and holiness, and heaven. 3 Jesu, my all in all thou art; My rest in toil, my ease in pain, The medicine 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 power, In bonds my perfect liberty, My light in Satan's darkest hour, In grief my joy unspeakable, My life in death, my heaven in hell. ===210 ==6-8s. 1 THEE will I love, my strength, my tower, Thee will I love, my joy, my crown, Thee will I love with all my power, In all thy works, and thee alone; Thee will I love, till the pure fire Fill my whole soul with chaste desire. 2 Ah, why did I so late thee know, Thee, lovelier than the sons of men! Ah, why did I 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 strayed, I sought thee, yet from thee I roved; Far wide my wandering thoughts were spread, Thy creatures more than thee I loved; And now if more at length I see, 'Tis through thy light and comes from thee. 4 I thank thee, uncreated Sun, That thy bright beams on me have shined; I thank thee, who hast overthrown My foes, and healed my wounded mind; I thank thee, whose enlivening voice Bids my freed heart in thee rejoice. 5 Uphold me in the doubtful race, Nor suffer me again to stray; Strengthen my feet with steady pace Still to press forward in thy way; My soul and flesh, O Lord of might, Fill, satiate, with thy heavenly light. 6 Give to mine eyes refreshing tears, Give to my heart chaste, hallowed fires, Give to my soul, with filial fears, The love that all heaven's host inspires; That all my powers, with all their might, In thy sole glory may unite. 7 Thee will I love, my joy, my crown, Thee will I love, my Lord, my God; Thee will I love, beneath thy frown, Or smile, thy sceptre, or thy rod; What though my flesh and heart decay? Thee shall I love in endless day! ===211 ==10s & 11s. 1 LET all men rejoice, By Jesus restored! We lift up our voice, And call him our Lord; His joy is to bless us, And free us from thrall, From all that oppress us He rescues us all. 2 Him Prophet, and King, And Priest we proclaim, We triumph and sing Of Jesus's name; Poor idiots he teaches To show forth his praise, And tell of the riches Of Jesus's grace. 3 No matter how dull The scholar whom he Takes into his school, And gives him to see; A wonderful fashion Of teaching he hath, And wise to salvation He makes us through faith. 4 The wayfaring men Though fools, shall not stray, His method so plain, So easy his way; The simplest believer His promise may prove, And drink of the river Of Jesus's love. 5 Poor outcasts of men, Whose souls were despised, And left with disdain, By Jesus are prized; His gracious creation In us he makes known, And brings us salvation, And calls us his own. ===212 ==10s & 11s. 1 MY brethren beloved, Your calling ye see; In Jesus approved, No goodness have we, No riches or merit, No wisdom or might, But all things inherit Through Jesus's right. 2 Yet not many wise His summons obey, And great ones despise So vulgar a way, And strong ones will never Their helplessness own, Or stoop to find favour Through mercy alone. 3 And therefore our God The outcasts hath chose, His righteousness showed To heathens like us; When wise ones rejected His offers of grace, His goodness elected The foolish and base. 4 To baffle the wise, And noble, and strong, He bade us arise, An impotent throng; Poor ignorant wretches, We gladly embrace A Prophet who teaches Salvation by grace. 5 The things that were not, His mercy bids live; His mercy unbought We freely receive; His gracious compassion We thankfully prove, And all our salvation Ascribe to his love. ===213 ==C.M. 1 MY God, the spring of all my joys, The life of my delights, The glory of my brightest days, And comfort of my nights! 2 In darkest shades, if thou appear, My dawning is begun; Thou art my souls bright morning star, And thou my rising sun. 3 The opening heavens around me shine With beams of sacred bliss, If Jesus shows his mercy mine, And whispers I am his. 4 My soul would leave this heavy clay At that transporting word; Run up with joy 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 conqueror through. ===214 ==C.M. 1 TALK with us, Lord, thyself reveal, While here o'er earth we rove; Speak to our hearts, and let us feel The kindling 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. 4 Thou callest me to seek thy face; 'Tis all I wish to seek; To attend the whispers of thy grace, And hear thee only 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. ===215 ==7s & 6s. 1 GLORIOUS Saviour of my soul, I lift it up to thee; Thou hast made the sinner whole, Hast set the captive free; Thou my debt of death hast paid, Thou hast raised me from my fall, Thou hast full atonement made; My Saviour died for all. 2 What could my Redeemer move To leave his Father's breast? Pity drew him from above, And would not let him rest; Swift to succour sinking man, Sinking into endless woe, Jesus to our rescue ran, And God appeared below. 3 God, in this dark vale of tears, A man of griefs was seen; Here for three and thirty years He dwelt with sinful men. Did they know the Deity? Did they own him, who he was? See the friend of sinners, see! He hangs on yonder cross! 4 Yet thy wrath I cannot fear, Thou gentle, bleeding Lamb! By thy judgment I am clear, Healed by thy stripes I am; Thou for me a curse wast made, That I might in thee be blest; Thou hast my full ransom paid, And in thy wounds I rest. ===216 ==C.M. 1 INFINITE, unexhausted Love! Jesus and love are one! If still to me thy bowels move, They are restrained to none. 2 What shall I do my God to love? My loving God to praise? The length, and breadth, and height to prove And depth of sovereign grace? 3 Thy sovereign grace to all extends, Immense and unconfined; From age to age it never ends; It reaches all mankind. 4 Throughout the world its breadth is known, Wide as infinity; So wide, it never passed by one, Or it had passed by me. 5 My trespass was grown up to heaven; But far above the skies, In Christ abundantly forgiven, I see thy mercies rise. 6 The depth of all-redeeming love What angel-tongue can tell? O may I to the utmost prove The gift unspeakable! 7 Deeper than hell, it plucked me thence; Deeper than inbred sin, Jesus's love my heart shall cleanse When Jesus enters in. 8 Come quickly, gracious Lord, and take Possession of thine own; My longing heart vouchsafe to make Thine everlasting throne! 9 Assert thy claim, maintain thy right, Come quickly from above; And sink me to perfection's height, The depth of humble love. ===217 ==C.M. 1 JESUS, to thee I now can fly, 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: On thee alone my constant mind Is every moment stayed. 3 Whate'er in me seems wise, or good, Or strong, I here disclaim: I wash my garments in the blood Of the atoning Lamb. 4 Jesus, my Strength, my Life, my Rest, On thee will I depend, Till summoned to the marriage-feast, When faith in sight shall end. ===218 ==8-7s. 1 SEE how great a flame aspires, Kindled by a spark of grace! Jesu's love the nations fires, Sets the kingdoms on a blaze; To bring fire on earth he came, Kindled in some hearts it is, O 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 widening 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 opened wide; He hath given the word of grace, Jesu's word is glorified; Jesus, mighty to redeem, He alone the work hath wrought; Worthy is the work of him, Him who spake a world from nought. 4 Saw ye not the cloud arise, Little as a human hand? Now it spreads along the skies, Hangs o'er all the thirsty land; Lo! the promise of a shower Drops already from above; But the Lord will shortly pour All the Spirit of his love! ===219 ==5 5 5 11, 5 5 5 11. 1 ALL thanks be to God, Who scatters abroad, Throughout every place, By the least of his servants, his savour of grace! Who the victory gave, The praise let him have, For the work he hath done: All honour and glory to Jesus alone! 2 Our conquering Lord Hath prospered his word, Hath made it prevail, And mightily shaken the kingdom of hell. His arm he hath bared, And a people prepared His glory to show, And witness the power of his passion below. 3 He hath opened a door To the penitent poor, And rescued from sin, And admitted the harlots and publicans in 7 They have heard the glad sound, They have liberty found Through the blood of the Lamb, And plentiful pardon in Jesus's name. 4 And shall we not sing Our Saviour and King? Thy witnesses, we With rapture ascribe our salvation to thee. Thou, Jesus, hast blessed, And believers increased, Who thankfully own We are freely forgiven through mercy alone. 5 His Spirit revives His work in our lives, His wonders of grace, So mightily wrought in the primitive days. O that all men might know His tokens below, Our Saviour confess, And embrace the glad tidings of pardon and peace! 6 Thou Saviour of all, Effectually call The sinners that stray; And, O let a nation be born in a day! Thy sign let them see, And flow unto thee For the oil and the wine, For the blissful assurance of favour divine. 7 Our heathenish land Beneath thy command In mercy receive, And make us a pattern to all that believe: Then, then let it spread, Thy knowledge and dread, Till the earth is o'erflowed, And the universe filled with the glory of God. ===220 ==8s. 1 ALL glory to God in the sky, And peace upon earth be restored! O Jesus, exalted on high, Appear our omnipotent Lord! Who, meanly in Bethlehem born, 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 opened 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 O wouldst 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 sway. 4 Come then to thy servants again, Who long thy appearing to know, Thy quiet and peaceable reign In mercy establish below; All sorrow before thee shall fly, And anger and hatred be o'er, And envy and malice shall die, And discord afflict us no more 5 No horrid alarum of war Shall break our eternal repose, No 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. ===221 ==7s & 6s. 1 MEET 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 thine! 2 Thee the first-born sons of light, In choral symphonies, Praise by day, day without night, And never, never cease; Angels and archangels all Praise the mystic Three in One, Sing, and stop, and gaze, and fall O'erwhelmed before thy throne. 3 Vying with that happy choir, Who chant thy praise above, We on eagles' wings aspire, The wings of faith and love; Thee they sing with glory crowned, We extol the slaughtered Lamb; 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; Spirit, Comforter divine, Praise by all to thee be given Till we in full chorus join, And earth is turned to heaven. ===222 ==8s & 6s. 1 HOW happy, gracious Lord! are we Divinely drawn to follow thee, Whose hours divided are Betwixt the mount and multitude; Our day is spent in doing good, Our night in praise and prayer. 2 With us no melancholy void, No period lingers unemployed, Or unimproved, below; Our weariness of life is gone, Who live to serve our God alone, 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 haste to join those heavenly powers, In everlasting lays. 4 With all who chant thy name on high? And, "Holy, Holy, Holy," cry, A bright harmonious throng, We long thy praises to repeat, And, restless, sing around thy seat The new, eternal song. ===223 ==6-8s. Psalm cxiv. 1 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 reigned 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 the incumbent God; The mountains skipped like frighted rams, The hills leaped after them as lambs! 3 What ailed thee, O thou trembling sea? What horror turned the river back? Was nature's God displeased with thee? And why should hills or mountains shake? Ye mountains huge, that skipped like rams Ye hills, that leaped as frighted 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 nod, And heaven bows down to Jacob's God. 5 Creation, varied by his hand, The omnipotent Jehovah knows; The sea is turned to solid land, The rock into a fountain flows; And all things, as they change, proclaim The Lord eternally the same. ===224 ==6-8s. 2nd metre. Psalm cxlvi. 1 I'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 shall 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 the opprest, he feeds the poor, And none shall find his promise vain. 3 The Lord pours eye-sight on the blind; The Lord supports the fainting mind; He sends the labouring 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; My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures. ===225 ==L.M. Psalm cxlvi. 1 PRAISE ye the Lord! 'tis good to raise Your hearts and voices in his praise: His nature and his works invite To make this duty our delight. 2 He formed the stars, those heavenly flames, He counts their numbers, calls their names, His wisdom's vast, and knows no bound, A deep where all our thoughts are drowned. 3 Sing to the Lord; exalt him high, Who spreads his clouds along the sky, There he prepares the fruitful rain, Nor lets the drops descend in vain. 4 He makes the grass the hills adorn, And clothes the smiling fields with corn; The beasts with food his hands supply, And the young ravens when they cry. 5 What is the creature's skill or force? The sprightly 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 views his children with delight; He sees their hope, he knows their fear, And looks and loves his image there. ===226 ==C.M. 1 ETERNAL Wisdom! Thee we praise, Thee the creation sings, With thy loved name, rocks, hills, and seas, 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 dye, And starred with sparkling gold. 3 There thou hast bid the globes of light Their endless circles run; There the pale planet rules the night, The day obeys the sun. 4 If down I turn my wondering eyes On clouds and storms below, Those under-regions of the skies Thy numerous glories show. 5 The noisy winds stand ready there Thy orders to obey; With sounding wings 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 lightnings 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 thousand flowers between. 9 There, the rough mountains of the deep Obey thy strong command, Thy breath can raise the billows steep, Or sink them to the sand. 10 Thy glories blaze all nature round, And strike the wondering sight 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 Jesu's face We see, adore, and love. ===227 ==8s. 1 HOW do thy mercies close me round! For ever be thy name adored! I blush in all things to abound; The servant is above his Lord! 2 Inured to poverty and pain, A suffering life my Master led; The Son of God, the Son of man, He had not where to lay his head. 3 But lo! a place he hath prepared For me, whom watchful angels keep; Yea, he himself becomes my guard, He smooths my bed, and gives me sleep. 4 Jesus protects; my fears, be gone! What can the Rock of ages move? Safe in thy arms I lay me down, Thy everlasting arms of love. 5 While thou art intimately nigh, Who, who shall violate my rest? Sin, earth, and hell I now defy; I lean upon my Saviour's breast. 6 I rest beneath the Almighty's shade, My griefs expire, my troubles cease: Thou, Lord, on whom my soul is stayed, 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. ===228 ==8s. Canticles i. 7. 1 THOU 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 There all, who their Shepherd obey. Are fed, on thy bosom reclined, And screened from the heat of the day. 2 Ah! show me that happiest place, The place of thy people's abode, Where saints in an ecstasy gaze, And hang 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 moment depart, Concealed in the cleft of thy side, Eternally held in thy heart. ===229 ==4-6s & 2-8s. A Birthday Hymn. 1 GOD 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 all that is within me praise. 3 Long as I live beneath, To thee O let me live! To thee my every breath In thanks and praises give. Whate'er I have, whate'er I am, Shall magnify my Maker's name. 4 My soul and all its powers Thine, wholly thine, shall be; 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 in heaven; In Christ a creature new, Most graciously forgiven, I wait thy perfect will to prove, All sanctified by spotless love. 6 Then, when the work is done, The work of faith with power, Receive thy favoured son, In death's triumphant hour; Like Moses to thyself convey, And kiss my raptured soul away. ===230 ==6-8s. 1 FOUNTAIN of life and all my joy, Jesus, thy mercies I embrace; The breath thou giv'st, for thee employ, And wait to taste thy perfect grace; No more forsaken and forlorn, I bless the day that I was born. 2 Preserved through faith by power divine, A miracle of grace I stand! I prove the strength of Jesus mine! Jesus, upheld by thy right hand, Though in my flesh I feel the thorn, I bless the day that I was born. 3 Weary of life, through inbred sin, I was, but now defy its power; When as a flood the foe comes in, My soul is more than conqueror; I tread him down with holy scorn, And bless the day that I was born. 4 Come, Lord, and make me pure within, And let me now be filled with God! Live to declare I'm saved from sin: And if I seal the truth with blood, My soul, from out the body torn, Shall bless the day that I was born. ===231 ==5 5 9, 5 5 9. 1 AWAY with our fears! The glad morning appears When an heir of salvation was born! From Jehovah I came, For his glory 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. 3 With thanks I rejoice In thy fatherly choice Of my state and condition below; If of parents I came Who honoured thy name, 'Twas thy wisdom appointed it so. 4 I sing of thy grace, From my earliest days Ever near to allure and defend; Hitherto thou hast been My preserver from sin, And I trust thou wilt save to the end. 5 O the infinite cares, And temptations, and snares, Thy hand hath conducted me through! O the blessings bestowed By a bountiful God, And the mercies eternally new! 6 What a mercy is this, What a heaven of bliss, How unspeakably happy am I! Gathered into the fold, With thy people enrolled, With thy people to live and to die! 7 O the goodness of God, Employing a clod His tribute of glory to raise! His standard to bear, And with triumph declare His unspeakable riches of grace. 8 O the fathomless love, That has deigned 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 Who, I ask in amaze, Hath begotten me these? And inquire from what quarter they came? My full heart it replies, They are born from the skies, And gives glory to God and the Lamb. 10 All honour and praise To the Father of grace, To the Spirit, and Son, I return! The business pursue He hath made me to do, And rejoice that I ever was born. 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 salvation in Jesus's name. 12 My remnant of days I spend in his praise, Who died the whole world to redeem: Be they many or few, My days are his due, And they all are devoted to him. ===232 ==4-6s & 2-8s. 1 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 excellencies meet, Who sits upon the throne, And shall for ever sit: 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 or heaven! Him Three in One, and One in Three, Extol to all eternity. ===233 ==8-7s. 1 HAPPY man whom God doth aid! God our souls and bodies made; God on us, in gracious showers, Blessings every moment pours; Compasses with angel-bands, Bids them bear us in their hands; Parents, friends, 'twas God bestowed, Life, and all, descend from God. 2 He this flowery carpet spread, Made the earth on which we tread; God refreshes in the air, Covers with the clothes we wear, Feeds us with the food we eat, Cheers us by his light and heat, Makes his sun on us to shine; All our blessings are divine! 3 Give him then, and ever give, Thanks for all that we receive! Man we for his kindness love, How much more our God above? Worthy thou, our heavenly Lord, To be honoured and adored; God of all-creating grace, Take the everlasting praise! ===234 ==L.M. 1 LET all that breathe Jehovah praise, Almighty, all-creating Lord! Let earth and heaven his power confess, Brought out of nothing by his word. 2 He spake the word, and it was done, The universe his word obeyed; His Word is his eternal Son, And Christ the whole creation made. 3 Jesus, the Lord and God most high, Maker of all mankind and me, Me thou hast made to glorify, To know, and love, and live to thee. 4 Wherefore to thee my heart I give, (But thou must first bestow the power) And if for thee on earth I live, Thee I shall soon in heaven adore. ===235 ==L.M. The Lord's Prayer. 1 FATHER of all! whose powerful voice Called forth this universal frame; Whose mercies over all rejoice, Through endless ages still the same; Thou by thy word upholdest all; Thy bounteous love to all is showed, Thou hear'st thy every creature's call, And fillest every mouth with good. 2 In heaven thou reign'st enthroned in light Nature's expanse beneath thee spread, Earth, air, and sea, before thy sight, 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 the sovereign Lord of all. 3 Thee, sovereign Lord, let all confess That moves 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, O earth! And shout, ye morning stars, for joy! ===236 ==L.M. SECOND PART 1 SON of thy Sire's eternal love, Take to thyself thy mighty power, Let all earth's sons thy mercy prove, Let all thy bleeding grace adore; The triumphs of thy love display, In every heart reign thou alone, Till all thy foes confess thy sway, And glory ends what grace begun. 2 Spirit of grace, and health, and power, Fountain of light and love below, Abroad thy healing influence shower, O'er all the nations let it 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 field, And hearest the young ravens cry: On thee we cast our care; we live Through thee, who know'st our every need; O feed us with thy grace, and give Our souls this day the living bread! ===237 ==L.M. THIRD PART 1 ETERNAL, spotless Lamb of God, Before the world's foundation slain, Sprinkle us ever with thy blood, O 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 guardian care for all are free, To thee, in fierce temptation's hour, From sin and Satan let us flee; Thine, Lord, we are, and ours thou art, In us be all thy goodness showed; Renew, enlarge, and fill our heart With peace, and joy, and heaven, and God. 3 Blessing and honour, praise and love, Co-equal, co-eternal Three, In earth below, and heaven above, By all thy works be paid to thee! Thrice Holy! thine the kingdom is, The power omnipotent is thine, And when created nature dies, Thy never-ceasing glories shine. ===238 ==8-7s. 1 MEET and right it is to praise God, the giver of all grace, God, whose mercies are bestowed On the evil and the good; He prevents his creatures' call, Kind and merciful to all; Makes his sun on sinners rise, Showers his blessings from the skies. 2 Least of all thy creatures, we Daily thy salvation see; As by heavenly manna fed, Through a world of dangers led; Through a wilderness of cares; Through ten thousand thousand snares, More than now our hearts conceive, More than we could know, and live! 3 Here, as in the lion's den, Undevoured we still remain; Pass secure the watery flood, Hanging on the arm of God; Here we raise our voices higher, Shout in the refiner's fire, Clap our hands amidst the flame, Glory give to Jesu's name. 4 Jesu's name in Satan's hour Stands our adamantine tower; Jesus doth his own defend, Love, and save us to the end. Love shall make us persevere Till our conquering Lord appear, Bear us to our thrones above, Crown us with his heavenly love. ===239 ==C.M. 1 HAIL! Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, One God, in Persons Three! Of Thee we make our joyful boast, Our songs we make of Thee. 2 Thou neither canst be felt nor seen; Thou art a Spirit pure; Thou from eternity hast been, And always shalt endure. 3 Present alike in every place, Thy Godhead we adore; Beyond the bounds of time and space, Thou dwell'st for evermore. 4 In wisdom infinite thou art, Thine eye doth all things see; And every thought of every heart Is fully known to thee. 5 Whate'er thou wilt, in earth below Thou dost, in heaven above: But chiefly we rejoice to know The almighty God of love. 6 Thou lov'st whate'er thy hands have made, Thy goodness we rehearse, In shining characters displayed Throughout our universe. 7 Mercy, with love and endless grace, O'er all thy works doth reign; But mostly thou delight'st to bless Thy favourite creature, man. 8 Wherefore, let every creature give To thee the praise designed, But, chiefly, Lord, the thanks receive, The hearts of all mankind. ===240 ==L.M. The Attributes of God. 1 O GOD, thou bottomless abyss! Thee to perfection who can know? O height immense! What words suffice Thy countless attributes to show? Unfathomable depths thou art; O 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 ravished eye, My weakness bends beneath the weight; O'erpowered I sink, I faint, I die. 2 Eternity thy fountain was, Which, like thee, no beginning knew; Thou wast ere time began his race, Ere glowed with stars the ethereal blue. Greatness unspeakable is thine, Greatness, whose undiminished ray, When short-lived worlds are lost, shall shine, When earth and heaven are fled away. Unchangeable, all-perfect Lord, Essential life's unbounded sea, What lives and moves, lives by thy word; It lives, and moves, and is from thee. 3 Thy parent-hand, thy forming skill, Firm fixed this universal chain; Else empty, barren darkness still Had held his unmolested reign. Whate'er in earth, or sea, or sky, Or shuns or meets the wandering 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 gracious 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 dwell'st; light that no shade, No variation, ever knew; Heaven, earth, and hell, stand all displayed, And open to thy piercing view. ===241 ==L.M. SECOND PART. 1 THOU, true and only God, lead'st forth The immortal armies of the sky; Thou laugh'st to scorn the gods of earth, Thou thunderest, and amazed they fly. With downcast eye the angelic choir Appear before thy awful face; Trembling they strike the golden lyre, And through heaven's vault resound thy praise, In earth, in heaven, in all thou art; The conscious creature feels thy nod, Whose forming hand on every part Impressed the image of its God. 2 Thine, Lord, is wisdom, thine alone; Justice and truth before thee stand; Yet, nearer to thy sacred throne, Mercy withholds thy lifted hand. Each evening shows thy tender love, Each rising morn thy plenteous grace Thy wakened wrath doth 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 down distils, And all in air, or sea, or land, With plenteous food and gladness fills. All things in thee live, move, and are, Thy power infused doth all sustain; Even those thy daily favours share Who thankless spurn thy easy reign. Thy sun thou bidd'st his genial ray Alike on all impartial pour; To all, who hate or bless thy sway, Thou bidd'st descend the fruitful shower. 4 Yet, while at length who scorned thy might Shall feel thee a consuming fire, How sweet the joys, the crown how bright, Of those who to thy love aspire! All creatures, praise the eternal name! Ye hosts 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 when created nature dies, Thy never-ceasing glories shine. ===242 ==7s & 6s. The same subject. 1 GLORIOUS God, accept a heart That pants to sing thy praise: Thou without beginning 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 displayed, On thine every work imprest; 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, Dost to each or bliss or woe With strictest justice give; Thou with perfect righteousness Renderest every man his due, Faithful in thy promises, And in thy threatenings too. 4 Thou art merciful to all Who truly turn to thee, Hear me then for pardon call, And show thy grace to me; Me, through mercy reconciled, Me, for Jesu's sake forgiven, Me receive, thy favoured child, To sing thy praise in heaven. ===243 ==7s & 6s. The same subject. 1 THOU, my God, art good and wise, And infinite in power, Thee let all in earth and 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 comfort here, Thee, my most indulgent God, I thank with heart sincere; For the blessings numberless Which thou hast already given, For my smallest spark of grace, And for my hope of heaven. 3 Gracious God, my sins forgive, And thy good Spirit impart; Then I shall in thee believe With all my loving heart; Always unto Jesus look, 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, That I may with zealous care Perform thy will below; Rooted in humility, Still in every state resigned, Plant, almighty Lord, in me A meek and lowly mind. 5 Poor and vile in my own eyes, With self-abasing shame Still I would myself despise, And magnify thy name; Thee let every creature bless, Praise to God alone be given, God alone deserves the praise Of all in earth and heaven. ===244 ==7s & 6s. The same subject. 1 THOU, the great, eternal Lord, Art high above our thought! Worthy to be feared, adored, By all thy hands have wrought; None can with thyself compare; Thy glory fills both earth and sky; We, and all thy creatures, are As nothing in thine eye. 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 firm none can withstand, Frustrate the determined deed, Or stay the almighty hand. 3 Thou, O God, art wise alone! Thy counsel doth excel; Wonderful thy works we own, Thy ways unsearchable; Who can sound the mystery, Thy judgments' deep abyss explain? Thine, whose eyes in darkness see, And search the heart of man. ===245 ==7s & 6s. The same subject. 1 GOOD thou art, and good thou dost, Thy mercies reach to all, Chiefly those who on thee trust, And for thy mercy call; New they every morning are; As fathers when their children cry, Us thou dost in pity spare, And all our wants supply. 2 Mercy o'er thy works presides; Thy providence displayed Still preserves, and still provide For all thy hands have made; Keeps with most distinguished care The man who on thy love depends; Watches every numbered hair, And all his steps attends. 3 Who can sound the depths unknown Of thy redeeming grace? Grace that gave thine only Son To save a ruined race! Millions of transgressors poor Thou hast for Jesu's sake forgiven, Made them of thy favour sure, And snatched from hell to heaven. 4 Millions more thou ready art To save, and to forgive; Every soul and every heart Of man thou wouldst receive: Father, now accept of mine, Which now, through Christ, I offer thee; Tell me now, in love divine, That thou hast pardoned me! ===246 ==L.M. Psalm cxvi. 8. 1 MY soul, through my Redeemer's care, Saved from the second death I feel, My eyes from tears of dark despair, My feet from falling into hell. 2 Wherefore to him my feet shall run, My eyes on his perfections gaze, My soul shall live for God alone, And all within me shout his praise. ===247 ==L.M. 1 Samuel ii. 2. 1 HOLY as thou, O Lord, is none! Thy holiness is all thy own; 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. 3 Sole, self-existing God and Lord, By all thy heavenly hosts adored, Let all on earth bow down to thee, And own thy peerless majesty; 4 Thy power unparalleled confess, Established on the rock of peace; The rock that never shall remove, The rock of pure, almighty love. ===248 ==C.M. 1 Chronicles xxix. 10 - 13. 1 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 earth, and heaven, And all therein, are thine. 3 The kingdom, Lord, is thine alone, Who dost thy right maintain, And, high on thine eternal throne, O'er men and angels reign. 4 Riches, as seemeth good to thee, Thou dost, and honour, give; And kings their power and dignity Out of thy hand receive. 5 Thou hast on us the grace bestowed Thy greatness to proclaim; And therefore now we thank our God, And praise thy glorious name. 6 Thy glorious name and nature's powers Thou dost to us make known; And all the Deity is ours, Through thy incarnate Son. ===249 ==C.M. Exodus xxxiv. 5, 6. 1 GREAT God! to me the sight afford To him of old allowed; And let my faith behold its Lord Descending in 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 in-spoken to my heart, That favourite name of Love. 5 Merciful God, thyself proclaim In this polluted breast; Mercy is thy distinguished name, Which suits a sinner best. 6 Our misery doth for pity call, Our sin implores thy grace; An and thou art merciful to all Our lost, apostate race. ===250 ==C.M. SECOND PART 1 THY 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 vast, unfathomable sea, Where all our thoughts are drowned. 4 Its streams the whole creation reach, So plenteous is the store, Enough for all, enough for each, Enough for evermore. 5 Faithful, O Lord, thy mercies are, A rock that cannot move! A thousand promises declare Thy constancy of love. 6 Throughout the universe it reigns, Unalterably sure; And while the truth of God remains, The goodness must endure. ===251 ==C.M. Luke xi. 2. 1 FATHER of me, and all mankind, And all the hosts above, Let every understanding mind Unite to praise thy love; 2 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 In all our bosoms reign. 4 The righteousness that never ends, But makes an end of sin; The joy that human thought transcends, Into our souls bring in; 5 The kingdom of established peace, Which can no more remove; The perfect power of godliness, The omnipotence of love. ===252 ==C.M. Numbers vi. 24 - 26. 1 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 us evermore. 3 Eternal Sun of righteousness, Display thy beams divine, And cause the glories of thy face Upon my heart to shine. 4 Light in thy light O may I see, Thy grace and mercy prove, Revived, and cheered, and blessed by thee, The God of pardoning love! 5 Lift up thy countenance serene, And let thy happy child Behold, without a cloud between, The Godhead reconciled. 6 That all-comprising peace bestow On me, through grace forgiven, The joys of holiness below, And then the joys of heaven. ===253 ==S.M. 1 FATHER, in whom we live, In whom we are, and move, The glory, power, and praise receive Of thy creating love. Let all the angel-throng Give thanks to God on high; While earth repeats the joyful song, And echoes to the sky. 2 Incarnate Deity, Let all the ransomed race Render in thanks their lives to thee, For thy redeeming grace. The grace to sinners showed Ye heavenly choirs proclaim, And cry, "Salvation to our God, Salvation to the Lamb!" 3 Spirit of Holiness, Let all thy saints adore Thy sacred energy, and bless Thine heart-renewing power. Not angel-tongues can tell Thy love's ecstatic height, The glorious joy unspeakable, The beatific sight. 4 Eternal, Triune Lord! Let all the hosts above, Let all the sons of men, record And dwell upon thy love. When heaven and earth are fled Before thy glorious face, Sing all the saints thy love hath made Thine everlasting praise! ===254 ==L.M. Philippians i. 10; Peter iii. 12. 1 THE day of Christ, the day of God, We humbly hope with joy to see, Washed in the sanctifying blood Of an expiring Deity, Who did for us his life resign; There is no other God but one; For all the plenitude divine Resides in the eternal Son. 2 Spotless, sincere, without offence, O may we to his day remain, Who trust the blood of God to cleanse Our souls from every sinful stain. Lord, we believe the promise sure; The purchased Comforter impart, Apply thy blood to make us pure, To keep us pure in life and heart. 3 Then let us see that day supreme, When none thy Godhead shall deny, Thy sovereign Majesty blaspheme, Or count thee less than the most High: When all Who on their God believe, Who here thy last appearing love, Shall thy consummate joy receive, And see thy glorious face above. ===255 ==6-8s. 1 SPIRIT of truth, essential God, Who didst thy ancient saints inspire, Shed in their hearts thy love abroad, And touch their hallowed lips with fire; Our God from all eternity, World without end we worship thee! 2 Still we believe, almighty Lord, Whose presence fills both earth and heaven, The meaning of the written word Is by thy inspiration given; Thou only dost thyself explain The secret mind of God to man. 3 Come, then, divine Interpreter, The scriptures to our hearts apply; And, taught by thee, we God revere, Him in Three Persons magnify; In each the Triune God adore, Who was, and is for evermore. ===256 ==C.M. 1 HAIL! Father, Son, and Spirit great, Before the birth of time Enthroned in everlasting state, JEHOVAH, ELOHIM! 2 A mystical plurality We in the Godhead own, Adoring One in Persons Three, And Three in nature One. 3 From thee our being we receive, The creatures of thy grace; And, raised out of the earth, we live To sing our Maker's praise. 4 Thy powerful, wise, and loving mind Did our creation plan; And all the glorious Persons joined To form thy favourite, man. 5 Again thou did'st, in council met, Thy ruined work restore, Established in our first estate, To forfeit it no more. 6 And when we rise in love renewed, Our souls resemble thee, An image of the Triune God, To all eternity. ===257 ==7s. "Glory be to God on high" &c. (Communion Service.) 1 GLORY be to God on high, God whose glory fills the skies; Peace on earth to man forgiven, 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 everlasting Lord! Thee with thankful hearts we prove God of power, and God of love. 4 Christ our Lord and God we own, Christ, the Father's only Son, Lamb of God for sinners slain, Saviour of offending man. 5 Bow thine ear, in mercy bow, Hear, the world's atonement, thou! Jesus, in thy name we pray, Take, O take our sins away! 6 Powerful advocate with God, Justify us by thy blood; Bow thine ear, in mercy bow, Hear, the world's atonement, thou! 7 Hear, for thou, O Christ, alone Art with God the Father one, One the Holy Ghost with thee, One supreme, eternal THREE. ===258 ==C.M. Numbers vi. 24 - 26. 1 JEHOVAH, God the Father, bless, And thy own work defend! With mercy's outstretched arms embrace And keep us to the end! Preserve the creatures of thy love, By providential care Conducted to the realms above, To sing thy goodness there. 2 Jehovah, God the Son, reveal The brightness of thy face; And all thy pardoned people fill With plenitude of grace! Shine forth with all the Deity, Which dwells in thee alone; And lift us up thy face to see On thy eternal throne. 3 Jehovah, God the Spirit, shine, Father and Son to show! With bliss ineffable, divine, Our ravished hearts o'erflow. Sure earnest of that happiness Which human hope transcends, Be thou our everlasting peace, When grace in glory ends! ===259 ==C.M. 1 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, Which angel-choirs, and saints in light, And saints embodied give. 5 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! ===260 ==8-7. 1 HOLY, holy, holy Lord, God the father, and the Word. God the Comforter, receive Blessings more than we can give! Mixed with those beyond the sky, Chanters to the Lord most high, We our hearts and voices raise, Echoing thy eternal praise. 2 One, inexplicably Three, Three, in simplest Unity, God, incline thy gracious ear, Us, thy lisping creatures, hear! Thee while man, the earth-born, 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 low, and mount as high; Fall o'erwhelmed with love, or soar, Shout, or silently adore! ===261 ==6-8s. 1 COME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Whom one all-perfect God we own, Restorer of thine image lost, Thy various offices 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 pardoned 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 O that we now, in love renewed, Might blameless in thy sight appear: Wake we in thy similitude, Stamped with the Triune character; Flesh, spirit, soul, to thee resign, And live and die entirely thine! ===262 ==C.M. 1 A THOUSAND oracles divine Their common beams unite, That sinners may with angels join To worship God aright; To praise a Trinity adored By all the hosts above, And one thrice-holy God and Lord Through endless ages love. 2 Triumphant host! they never cease To laud and magnify The Triune God of holiness, Whose glory fills the sky; Whose glory to this earth extends, When God himself imparts, And the whole Trinity descends Into our faithful hearts. 3 By faith the upper choir we meet, And challenge them to sing Jehovah on his shining seat, Our Maker and our King. But God made flesh is wholly ours, And asks our nobler strain; The Father of celestial powers, The friend of earth-born man! 4 Ye seraphs nearest to the throne, With rapturous amaze On us, poor ransomed worms, look down For heaven's superior praise; The King, whose glorious face ye see, For us his crown resigned; That fulness of the Deity, He died for all mankind! ===263 ==C.M. 1 FATHER, how wide thy glory shines! How high thy wonders rise! Known through the earth by thousand signs By thousands through the skies. 2 Those mighty orbs proclaim thy power, Their motions speak thy skill; And on the wings of every hour We read thy patience still. 3 Part of thy name divinely stands On all thy creatures writ; They show the labour of thy hands, Or impress of thy feet. 4 But when we view thy strange design To save rebellious worms, Where vengeance and compassion join In their divinest forms; 5 Here the whole Deity is known, Nor dares a creature guess Which of the glories brightest shone, The justice, or the grace. 6 Now the full glories of the Lamb Adorn the heavenly plains! Bright seraphs learn Immanuel's name, And try their choicest strains. 7 O may I bear some humble part In that immortal song! Wonder and joy shall tune my heart, And love command my tongue. ===264 ==S.M. 1 O ALL-CREATING God! At whose supreme decree Our body rose, a breathing clod, Our souls sprang forth from thee; 2 For this thou hast designed, And formed us man for this, To know and love thyself, and find In thee our endless bliss. ===265 ==S.M. 1 O 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 given, To seize the crown of perfect love, And scale the mount of heaven! ===266 ==S.M. 1 SOLDIERS of Christ, arise, And put your armour on, Strong in the strength which God supplies Through his eternal Son; Strong in the Lord of hosts, And in his mighty power, Who in the strength of Jesus trusts Is more than conqueror. 2 Stand then in his great might, With all his strength endued; But take, to arm you for the fight, The panoply of God; That, having all things done, And all your conflicts passed, Ye may o'ercome through Christ alone, And stand entire at last. 3 Stand then against your foes, In close and firm array; Legions of wily fiends oppose Throughout the evil day; But meet the sons of night, But mock their vain design, Armed in the arms of heavenly light, Of righteousness divine. 4 Leave no unguarded place, No weakness of the soul, Take every virtue, every grace, And fortify the whole; Indissolubly joined, To battle all proceed; But arm yourselves with all the mind That was in Christ, your Head. ===267 ==S.M. SECOND PART. 1 BUT, above all, lay hold On faith's victorious shield; Armed with that adamant and gold, Be sure to win the field: If faith surround your heart, Satan shall be subdued, Repelled his every fiery dart, And quenched with Jesu's blood. 2 Jesus hath died for you! 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 prayer. Ready for all alarms, Steadfastly set your face, And always exercise your arms, And use your every grace. 4 Pray, without ceasing 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! ===268 ==S.M. THIRD PART 1 IN fellowship, alone, To God with faith draw near, Approach his courts, besiege his throne With all the powers 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, The 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 Zion's peace; Your guides and brethren bear For ever on your mind; Extend the arms of mighty prayer, In grasping all mankind. 4 From strength to strength 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. ===269 ==6-8s. 1 SURROUNDED by a host of foes, Stormed by a host of foes within, Nor swift to flee, nor strong to oppose, Single, against hell, earth, and sin, Single, yet undismayed, I am; I dare believe in Jesu's 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; Portrayed it bears a bleeding Lamb I dare believe in Jesu's name. 3 Me to retrieve from Satan's hands, Me from this evil world to free, To purge my sins, and loose my bands, And save from all iniquity, My Lord and God from heaven he came; I dare believe in Jesu's name. 4 Salvation in his name there is, Salvation from sin, death, and hell, Salvation into glorious bliss, How great salvation, who can tell! But all he hath for mine I claim; I dare believe in Jesu's name. ===270 ==S.M. 1 EQUIP me for the war, And teach my hands to fight, My simple, upright heart prepare, And guide my words aright; Control my every thought, My whole of sin remove; Let all my works in thee be wrought, Let all be wrought in love. 2 O arm me with the mind, Meek Lamb! which was in thee, And let my knowing zeal be joined With perfect charity; With calm and tempered zeal Let me enforce thy call, And vindicate thy gracious will Which offers life to all. 3 O do not let me trust In any arm but thine! Humble, O humble to the dust This stubborn soul of mine A feeble thing of nought, With lowly shame I own, The help which upon earth is wrought, Thou dost it all alone. 4 O may I love like thee! In all thy footsteps tread, Thou hatest all iniquity, But nothing thou hast made. O may I learn the art With meekness to reprove; To hate the sin with all my heart, But still the sinner love. ===271 ==7s & 6s. 1 O ALMIGHTY God of love, Thy holy arm display! Send me succour from above In this my evil day; Arm my weakness with thy power, Woman's seed, appear within! Be my safeguard and my tower Against the face of sin. 2 Could I of thy strength take hold, And always feel thee near, Confident, divinely bold, My soul would scorn to fear; Nothing 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, Let it over me be cast, And screen my naked head; Save me from the trying hour, Thou my sure protection be; Shelter me from Satan's power, Till I am fixed on thee. 4 Set upon thyself my feet, And make me surely stand; From temptation's rage and heat Cover me with thy hand; Let me in the cleft be placed, Ne'er from my defence remove, In thine arms of love embraced, Of everlasting love. ===272 ==6-8s. Isaiah xliii. 1,2. 1 PEACE, doubting heart! my God's I am; Who formed me man, forbids my fear; The Lord hath called 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 through the watery deep, I ask in faith his promised aid, The waves all awful 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 through the fire pursue my way; The fire forgets its power to burn, The lambent flames around me play; I own his power, accept the sign, And shout to prove the 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 Saving power, Still be thy arms my sure defence, Nor earth nor hell shall pluck me thence. 5 Since thou hast bid me come to thee, (Good as thou art, and strong to save) I'll walk o'er life's tempestuous sea, Upbourne by the unyielding wave, Dauntless, though rocks of pride be near, And yawning whirlpools of despair. 6 When darkness intercepts the skies, And sorrow's waves around me roll, When high the storms of passion rise, And half o'erwhelm my sinking soul, My soul a sudden calm shall feel, And hear a whisper, "Peace; be still!" 7 Though in affliction's furnace tried, Unhurt on snares and death I'll 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. ===273 ==10s & 11s. 1 OMNIPOTENT Lord, My Saviour and King, Thy succour afford, Thy righteousness bring; Thy promises bind thee Compassion to have, Now, now let me find thee Almighty to save. 2 Rejoicing, in hope, And patient in grief, To thee I look up For certain relief; I fear no denial, No danger I fear, Nor start from the trial, While Jesus is near. 3 I every hour In jeopardy stand; But thou art my power, And holdest my hand; While yet I am calling, Thy succour I feel, It saves me from falling, Or plucks me from hell. 4 O who can explain This struggle for life! This travail and pain, This trembling and strife! Plague, earthquake, and famine, And tumult, and war, The wonderful coming Of Jesus declare. 5 For every fight Is dreadful and loud, The warrior's delight Is slaughter and blood, His foes overturning, Till all shall expire; But this is with burning And fuel of fire. 6 Yet God is above Men, devils, and sin, My Jesus's love The battle shall win, So terribly glorious His coming shall be, His love all victorious Shall conquer for me 7 He all shall break through; His truth and his grace Shall bring me into The plentiful place, Through much tribulation, Through water and fire, Through floods of temptation, And flames of desire. 8 On Jesus, my power, Till then I rely, All evil before His presence shall fly; When I have my Saviour, My Sin shall depart And Jesus for ever Shall reign in my heart. ===274 ==7s & 6s. 1 O MY old, my bosom foe, Rejoice not over me! Oft-times thou hast laid me low, And wounded mortally; Yet thy prey thou couldst not keep; Jesus, when I lowest fell, Heard me cry out of the deep, And brought me up from hell. 2 Foolish world, thy shouts forbear; Till thou hast won the day; Could thy wisdom keep me there, When in thy hands I lay? If my heart to thee incline, Christ again shall set it free; I am his, and he is mine To all eternity. 3 Satan, cease thy empty boast, And give thy triumphs o'er; Still thou seest I am not lost, While Jesus can restore, Though through thy deceit I fall, Surely I shall rise again, Christ my King is over all, And I with him shall reign. 4 O my three-fold enemy, To whom I long did bow, See Your lawful captive, see, No more your captive now! Now before my face ye fly; More than conqueror now I am; Sin, the world, and hell defy, In Jesu's powerful name. ===275 ==C.M. Psalm cx.1. 1 THE Lord unto my Lord hath said, "Sit thou, in glory sit, Till I thine enemies have made To bow beneath thy feet." 2 Jesu, my Lord, mighty to save, What can my hopes withstand, While thee my Advocate I have, Enthroned at God's right hand? 3 Nature is subject to thy word, All power to thee is given, The uncontrolled, almighty Lord Of hell, and earth, and heaven. 4 And shall my sins thy will oppose? Master, thy right maintain! O let not thy usurping foes In me thy servant reign! 5 Come then, and claim me for thine own, Saviour, thy right assert! Come, gracious Lord, set up thy throne, And reign within my heart! 6 So shall I bless thy pleasing sway; And sitting at thy feet, Thy laws with all my heart obey, With all my soul submit. 7 So shall I do thy will below, As angels do above; The virtue of thy passion show, The triumphs of thy love 8 Thy love the conquest more than gains; To all I shall proclaim, Jesus the King, the conqueror, reigns, Bow down to Jesu's name! 9 To thee shall earth and hell submit, And every foe shall fall, Till death expires beneath thy feet, And God is all in all. ===276 ==7 7, 4 4, 7. 7 7, 4 4, 7. 1 WORSHIP, 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 ransomed souls adore thee; Our Saviour thou, We find it now, And give thee all the glory. We sing thine arm unshortened, Brought through our sore temptation; With heart and voice In thee rejoice, The God of our salvation. 3 Thine arm hath safely brought us A way no more expected, Than when thy sheep Passed through the deep, By crystal walls protected. Thy glory was our rear-ward, Thine hand our lives did cover, And we, even we, Have passed the sea, And marched triumphant over. 4 The world, 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, Shall praise thy name for ever. ===277 ==S.M. 1 JESUS, the conqueror, reigns, In glorious strength arrayed, His kingdom over all maintains, And bids the earth be glad. Ye sons of men, rejoice In Jesu's 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, My fellow-soldiers, fight! In mighty phalanx joined, To battle all proceed; Armed with the unconquerable mind Which was in Christ your Head. 4 Urge on your rapid course, Ye blood-besprinkled bands; The heavenly kingdom suffers force, 'Tis seized by violent hands; See there the starry crown That glitters through the skies! Satan, the world, and sin, tread down, And take the glorious prize. 5 Through much distress and pain, Through many a conflict here, Through blood, ye must the entrance gain; Yet, O 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. 6 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 me; Believe, and conquer all! ===278 ==7s & 6s. David and Goliath.-1 Samuel xvii. 1 WHO is this gigantic foe That proudly stalks along, Overlooks the crowd below, In brazen armour strong? Loudly of his strength he boasts, On his sword and spear relies; Meets the God of Israel's hosts, And all their force defies. 2 Tallest of the earth-born race, They tremble at his power, Flee before the monster's face, And own him conqueror. Who this mighty champion is, Nature answers from within; He is my own wickedness, My own besetting sin. 3 In the strength of Jesu's name, I with the monster fight; Feeble and unarmed I am, But Jesus is my might; Mindful of His mercies past, Still I trust the same to prove, Still my helpless soul I cast On his redeeming love. 4 With my sling and stone I go To fight the Philistine; God hath said it shall be so, And I shall conquer sin; On his promise I rely, Trust in an 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 Jesu's conquering name Slings the sin-destroying stone; Points the 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 displays; Stills the proud Philistine's boast, The threatening Gittite slays; Israel's God let all below Conqueror over sin proclaim; O that all the earth might know The power of Jesu's name! ===279 ==L.M. 1 SHALL I, for fear of feeble man, The Spirit's course in me restrain? Or, undismayed, in deed and word Be a true witness for my Lord? 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 soothe the unholy throng, Soften thy truths, and smooth my tongue, To gain earth's gilded toys, or flee The cross, endured, my God, 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! 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. 6 Saviour of men, thy searching eye Doth all my inmost thoughts descry; Doth aught on earth my wishes raise, Or the world's pleasures, or its praise? 7 The love of Christ doth me constrain To seek the wandering souls of men; With cries, entreaties, tears, to save, To snatch them from the gaping grave. 8 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. 9 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! 10 Give me thy strength, O God of power; Then let winds blow, or thunders roar, Thy faithful witness will I be: 'Tis fixed; I call do all through thee! ===280 ==L.M. 1 THE Lord is King, and earth submits, Howe'er impatient, to his sway, Between the cherubim he sits, And makes his restless foes obey. 2 All power is to our Jesus given, O'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, (Though 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 Shall still the proud Philistine's noise, Baffle the sons of unbelief, Nor long permit them to rejoice, But turn their triumph into grief. 7 Come, glorious Lord, the rebels spurn, Scatter thy foes, victorious King! And Gath and Askelon shall mourn, And all the sons of God shall sing; 8 Shall magnify the sovereign grace Of him that sits upon the throne; And earth and heaven conspire to praise Jehovah, and his conquering, Son. ===281 ==8s & 6s. 1 ARE 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 Not all the powers of hell can fright A soul that walks with Christ in light, He walks and cannot fall; Clearly he sees, and wins his way, Shining unto the perfect day, And more than conquers all. 3 Light of the world, thy beams I bless; On thee, bright Sun of righteousness, My faith hath fixed its eye; Guided by thee, through all I go, Nor fear the ruin spread below, For thou art always nigh. 4 Ten thousand snares my path beset; Yet will I, Lord, the work complete Which thou to me hast given; Regardless of the pains I feel, Close by the gates of death and hell, I urge my way to heaven. 5 Still will I strive, and labour still, With humble zeal to do thy will, And trust in thy defence: My soul into thy hands I give; And, if he can obtain thy leave, Let Satan pluck me thence! ===282 ==8s & 6s. 1 BUT can it be, that I should prove For ever faithful to thy love, From sin for ever cease? I thank thee for the blessed hope; It lifts my drooping spirits up, It gives me back my peace. 2 In thee, O Lord, I put my trust, Mighty, and merciful, and just; Thy sacred word is passed; And I, who dare thy word receive, Without committing sin shall live, Shall live to God at last. 3 I rest in thine almighty power; The name of Jesus is a tower, That hides my life above: Thou canst, thou wilt my helper be; My confidence is all in thee, The faithful God of love. 4 While still to thee for help I call, Thou wilt not suffer me to fall, Thou canst not let me sin; And thou shalt give me power to pray Till all my sins are purged away, And all thy mind brought in. 5 Wherefore, in never-ceasing prayer, My soul to thy continual care I faithfully commend; Assured that thou through life shalt save, And show thyself beyond the grave My everlasting Friend. ===283 ==6-8s. Exodus xxxiii. 18 - 23. 1 O GOD, my hope, my heavenly rest, My all of happiness below, Grant my importunate request, To me, to me, thy goodness show; Thy beatific face display, The brightness of eternal day. 2 Before my faith's enlightened 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 mighty hand; Set me upon the rock, and hide My soul in Jesu's wounded side. 4 O put me in the cleft; empower My soul the glorious sight to bear! Descend in this accepted hour, Pass by me, and thy name declare; Thy wrath withdraw, thy hand remove, And show thy self the God of love. ===284 ==6-8s. SECOND PART. 1 TO thee, great God of love! I bow, And prostrate in thy sight adore; By faith I see thee passing now; I have, but still I ask for more, A glimpse of love cannot suffice, My soul for all thy presence cries. 2 I cannot see thy face, and live, Then let me see thy face, and die! Now, Lord, my gasping 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 shall be; But hast thou not on earth prepared Some better thing than this for me? 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 favoured 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 the Godhead 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 transformed I know thy name, And glide to all my heaven above, My highest heaven in Jesu's love. ===285 ==L.M. 1 COME, Saviour, Jesus, from above! Assist me with thy heavenly grace; Empty my heart of earthly love, And for thyself prepare the place. 2 O let thy sacred presence fill, And set my longing spirit free! Which pants to have no other will, But day and night to feast on thee. 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 glittering snares, adieu! 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 Wealth, honour, pleasure, and what else This short-enduring world can give, Tempt as ye will, my soul repels, To Christ alone resolved to live. 7 Thee I can love, and thee alone, With pure delight and inward bliss: To know thou tak'st me for thine own, O what a happiness is this! 8 Nothing on earth do I desire, But thy pure love within my breast; This, only this, will I require, And freely give up all the rest. ===286 ==L.M. 1 ABRAHAM, when severely tried, His faith by his obedience showed, He with the harsh command complied, And gave his Isaac back to God. 2 His son the father offered np, Son of his age, his only son, Object of all his joy and hope, And less beloved than God alone. 3 O for a faith like his, that we The bright example may pursue! May gladly give up all to thee, To whom our more than all is due. 4 Now, Lord, to thee our all we leave, Our willing soul thy call obeys; Pleasure, and wealth, and fame we give, Freedom, and life to win thy grace. 5 Is there a thing than life more dear? A thing from which we cannot part? We can; we now rejoice to tear The idol from our bleeding heart. 6 Jesus, accept our sacrifice; All things for thee we count but loss, Lo! at thy word our Isaac dies, Dies on the altar of thy cross. 7 For what to thee, O Lord, we give, A hundred-fold we here obtain; And soon with thee shall all receive, And loss shall be eternal gain. ===287 ==8-7s. An Evening Hymn. 1 OMNIPRESENT God! whose aid No one ever asked in vain, Be this night about my bed, Every evil thought restrain; Lay thy hand upon my soul, God of my unguarded hours! All my enemies control, Hell, and earth, and nature's powers. 2 O thou jealous God! come down, God of spotless purity, Claim, and seize me for thy own, 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 Only tell me I am thine, And thou wilt not quit thy right; Answer me in dreams divine, Dreams and visions of the night: Bid me even in sleep go on, Restlessly my God desire, Mourn for God in every groan, God in every thought require. 4 Loose me from the chains of sense, Set me from the body free, Draw with stronger influence My unfettered soul to thee; In me, Lord, thyself reveal, Fill me with a sweet surprise: Let me thee when waking feel, Let me in thy image rise. 5 Let me of thy life partake, Thy own holiness impart, O that I might sweetly wake With my Saviour in my heart! O that I might know thee mine! O that I might thee receive! Only live the life divine, Only to thy glory live! 6 Or if thou my soul require Ere I see the morning light, Grant me, Lord, my heart's desire, Perfect me in love to-night; Finish thy great work of love, Cut it short in righteousness, Fit me for the realms above, Change, and bid me die in peace. ===288 ==8s & 6s. 1 O GOD, thy faithfulness I plead! My present help in time of need, My great Deliverer thou! Haste to my aid, thine ear incline, And rescue this poor soul of mine, I claim the promise now! 2 Where is the way? Ah, show 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, O God, for me! 3 One only way the erring mind Of man, short-sighted man, can find, From inbred sin to fly; Stronger than love, I fondly thought, Death, only death can cut the knot, Which love cannot untie. 4 But thou, O Lord, art full of grace; Thy love can find a thousand ways To foolish man unknown; My soul upon thy love I cast, I rest me, till the storm is past, Upon thy love alone. 5 Thy faithful, wise, and mighty 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. ===289 ==L.M. 1 GOD of my life, whose gracious power Through varied deaths my soul hath led, Or turned aside the fatal hour, Or lifted up my sinking head; 2 In all my ways thy hand I own, Thy ruling Providence I see: Assist me still my course to run, And still direct my paths to thee. 3 Oft hath the sea confessed thy power, And given me back at thy command; It could not, Lord, my life devour, Safe in the hollow of thine hand. 4 Oft from the margin of the grave Thou, Lord, hast lifted up my head, Sudden, I found thee near to save; The fever owned thy touch, and fled. 5 Whither, O whither should I fly, But to my loving Saviour's breast? Secure within thine arms to lie, And safe beneath thy wings to rest. 6 I have no skill the snare to shun, But thou, O Christ, my wisdom art! I ever into ruin run, But thou art greater than my heart. 7 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. 8 Enlarge my heart to make thee room; Enter, and in me ever stay, The crooked then shall straight become, The darkness shall be lost in day. ===290 ==L.M. 1 My God, if I may call thee mine, From heaven and thee removed so far, Draw nigh; thy pitying ear incline, And cast not out my languid prayer. 2 Gently the weak thou lov'st to lead, Thou lov'st to prop the feeble knee; O break not then a bruised reed, Nor quench the smoking, flax in me! 3 Buried in sin, thy voice I hear, And burst the barriers of my tomb, In all the marks of death appear, Forth at thy call, though bound I come. 4 Give me, O give me fully, Lord, Thy resurrection's power to know; Free me indeed, repeat the word, And loose my bands, and let me go. 5 Fain would I go to thee, my God, Thy mercies and my wants to tell; To feel my pardon sealed in blood, Saviour, thy love I wait to feel. 6 Freed from the power of cancelled sin, When shall my soul triumphant prove? Why breaks not out the fire within In flames of joy, and praise, and love? 7 Jesus, to thee my soul aspires; Jesus, to thee I plight my vows; Keep me from earthly, base desires, My God, my Saviour, and my Spouse. 8 Fountain of all-sufficient bliss, Thou art the good I seek below, Fulness of joy in thee there is, Without, -'tis misery all, and woe. ===291 ==L.M. 1 FONDLY my foolish heart essays To augment the source of perfect bliss, Love's all-sufficient sea to raise With drops of creature happiness. 2 O Love, thy sovereign aid impart, And guard the gift thyself hast given: My portion thou, my treasure art, And life, and happiness, and heaven. 3 Would aught on earth my wishes share, Though dear as life the idol be, The idol from my breast I'd 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 for thee resign; Give me thyself, I ask no more. ===292 ==7s & 6s. Isaiah xxxii. 2. 1 TO the haven of thy breast, O Son of man, I fly! Be my refuge and my rest, For O the storm is high! Save me from the furious blast, A covert from the tempest be! Hide me, Jesus, till o'erpast The storm of sin I see. 2 Welcome as the water-spring To a dry, barren place, O descend on me, and bring Thy sweet refreshing grace; O'er a parched and weary land As a great rock extends its shade, Hide me, Saviour, with thine hand, And screen my naked head. 3 In the time of my distress Thou hast my succour been, In my utter helplessness Restraining me from sin; O how swiftly didst thou move To save me in the trying 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, parched with thirst, and faint, Till thou; the abiding Spirit breathe, Every moment, Lord, I want The merit of thy death. 5 Never shall I want it less, When thou the gift hast given, Filled me with thy righteousness, And sealed the heir of heaven; I shall hang upon my God, Till I thy perfect glory see; Till the sprinkling of thy blood Shall speak me up to thee. ===293 ==L.M. 1 JESUS, my King, to thee I bow, Enlisted under thy command; Captain of my salvation, thou Shalt lead me to the promised land. 2 Thou hast a great deliverance wrought, The staff from off my shoulder broke, Out of the house of bondage brought, And freed me from the Egyptian yoke. 3 O'er the vast howling wilderness, To Canaan's bounds thou hast me led; Thou bidd'st me now the land possess, And on thy milk and honey feed. 4 I see an open door of hope, Legions of sins in vain oppose; Bold I with thee, my Head, march up, And triumph o'er a world of foes. 5 Gigantic lusts come forth to fight, I mark, disdain, and all break through, I tread them down in Jesu's might, Through Jesus I can all things do. 6 Lo! the tall sons of Anak rise! Who can the sons of Anak meet? Captain, to thee I lift mine eyes, And, lo! they fall beneath my feet. 7 Passion, and appetite, and pride, (Pride, my old, dreadful, tyrant-foe) I see cast down on every side, And conquering, I to conquer go. 8 My Lord in my behalf appears; Captain, thy strength-inspiring eye Scatters my doubts, dispels my fears, And makes the host of aliens fly. 9 Who can before my Captain stand? Who is so great a King as mine? High over all is thy right hand, And might and majesty are thine! ===294 ==6-8s. 1 JESU, thou sovereign Lord of all, The same through one eternal day, Attend thy feeblest followers' call, And O instruct us how to pray! Pour out the supplicating grace, And stir us up to seek thy face. 2 We cannot think a gracious thought, We cannot feel a good desire, Till thou, who call'dst a world from nought, The power into our hearts inspire; And then we in thy Spirit groan, And then we give thee back thine own. 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 heart. 4 To help our souls infirmity, To heal thy sin-sick people's care, To urge our God-commanding plea, And make our hearts a house of prayer, The promised Intercessor give, And let us now thyself receive. 5 Come in thy pleading Spirit down To us who for thy coming stay; Of all thy gifts we ask but one, We ask the constant power to pray; Indulge us, Lord, in this request, Thou canst not then deny the rest. ===295 ==7s & 6s. Luke xviii. 1. 1 COME, ye followers of the Lord, In Jesu's service join, Jesus gives the sacred word, The ordinance divine; Let us his command obey, And ask and have whate'er we want; Pray we, every moment pray, And never, never faint. 2 Place no longer let us give To the old Tempter's will; Never more our duty leave, While Satan cries, "Be still;" Stand we in the ancient way, And here with God ourselves acquaint; Pray we, every moment pray, And never, never faint. 3 Be it weariness and pain To slothful flesh and blood, Yet we will the cross sustain, And bless the welcome load; All our griefs to God display, And humbly pour out our complaint; Pray we, every moment pray, And never, never faint. 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 sinless saint, Pray we, every moment pray, And never, never faint. 5 Pray we on when all renewed, And perfected in love, Till we see the Saviour-God Descending from above; All his heavenly charms survey, Beyond what angel minds can paint; Pray we, every moment pray, And never, never faint. ===296 ==S.M. In a hurry of business. 1 HELP, Lord! the busy foe Is as a flood come in! Lift up a standard, and o'erthrow The soul-distracting sin: This sudden tide of care Roll back, O God, from me, Nor let the rapid current bear My soul away from thee. 2 The praying Spirit breathe, The watching power impart, From all entanglements beneath Call off my anxious heart; My feeble mind sustain, By worldly thoughts opprest; Appear, and bid me turn again To my eternal rest. 3 Swift to my rescue come, Thy own this moment seize; Gather my wandering spirit home, And keep in perfect peace: Suffered no more to rove O'er all the earth abroad, Arrest the prisoner of thy love, And shut me up in God. ===297 ==C.M. 1 SHEPHERD Divine, our wants relieve In this our evil 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 thy great salvation bless, And make me all like thee: 6 "Then let me on the mountain-top Behold thy open face, Where faith in sight is swallowed up, And prayer in endless praise." ===298 ==6-8s. Exodus xxxii. 10. 1 WONDROUS power of faithful prayer! What tongue can tell the almighty grace? God's hands or bound or open are, As Moses or Elijah prays: Let Moses in the Spirit groan, And God cries out, "Let me alone! 2 "Let me alone, that all my wrath May rise the wicked to consume! While justice hears thy praying faith, It cannot seal the sinner's doom; My Son is in my servant's prayer, And Jesus forces me to spare." 3 O blessed word of gospel grace! Which now we for our Israel plead, A faithless and backsliding race, Whom thou hast out of Egypt freed; O do not then in wrath chastise, Nor let thy whole displeasure rise! 4 Father, we ask in Jesu's name, In Jesu's power and spirit pray; Divert thy vengeful thunder's aim, O turn thy threatening wrath away! Our guilt and punishment remove, And magnify thy pardoning love. 5 Father, regard thy pleading Son! Accept his all-availing prayer, And send a peaceful answer down, In honour of our Spokesman there; Whose blood proclaims our sins forgiven, And speaks thy rebels up to heaven. ===299 ==7s & 6s. Luke xviii. 1 - 8. 1 JESUS, thou hast bid us pray, Pray always, and not faint; With the word a power convey To utter our complaint; Quiet shalt thou never know, Till we from sin are fully freed; O avenge us of our foe, And bruise the Serpent's head! 2 We have now begun to cry, And we will never end, Till we find salvation nigh, And grasp the sinner's friend; Day and night we'll speak our woe, With thee importunately plead, O avenge 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 oppressed; Now thy power almighty show, Arise, the woman's conquering Seed! O avenge us of our foe, And bruise the Serpent's head! 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 Stronger than the strong man, thou His fury canst control: Cast him out, by entering now, And keep our ransomed soul; Satan's kingdom overthrow, On all the powers of darkness tread; O 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, The mighty Spirit send: Though to man thou seemest slow, Our cries thou seemest not to heed, O avenge us of our foe, And bruise the Serpent's head! 7 Come, O come, all-glorious Lord! No longer now delay; With thy Spirit's two-edged sword The crooked Serpent slay! Bare thine arm, and give the blow, Root out and kill the hellish seed, O avenge us of our foe, And bruise the Serpent's head! 8 Jesus, hear thy Spirit's call, Thy bride, who bids thee come; Come, thou righteous Judge of all, Pronounce the Tempter's doom: Doom him to infernal woe, For him and for his angels made; Now avenge us of our foe, For ever bruise his head! ===300 ==S.M. Revelation iii. 19. 1 JESUS, 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! So shall the fervour of my zeal Be the pure flame of love. ===301 ==S.M. 1 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 sober 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 fear, A quick-discerning eye, That looks to thee when sin is near, And sees the Tempter fly; A spirit still prepared, And armed with jealous care, For ever standing on its guard, And watching unto prayer. 4 I want a heart to pray, To pray and never cease, Never to murmur at thy stay, Or wish my sufferings less. This blessing, above all, Always to pray, I want, 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; 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. ===302 ==7s. Isaiah xxviii. 9. 1 LORD, that I may learn of thee, Give me true simplicity; Wean my soul, and keep it low. Willing thee alone to know. 2 Let me cast my reeds aside, All that feeds my knowing pride, Not to man, but God submit, Lay my reasonings at thy feet; 3 Of my boasted wisdom spoiled, Docile, helpless, as a child, Only seeing in thy light, Only walking in thy might. 4 Then infuse the teaching grace, Spirit of truth and righteousness; Knowledge, love divine, impart, Life eternal, to my heart. ===303 ==S.M. 1 AH, when shall I awake From sin's soft-soothing power, The slumber from my spirit shake, And rise to fall no more! Awake, no more to sleep, But stand with constant care, Looking for God my soul to keep, And watching unto prayer! 2 O could I always pray? And never, never faint, But simply to my God display My every care and want! I know that thou wouldst give. More than I can request; Thou still art ready to receive My soul to perfect rest. 3 I feel thee willing, Lord, A sinful world to save, All may obey thy gracious word, May peace and pardon have; Not one of all the race But may return to thee, But at the throne of sovereign grace May fall and weep, like me. 4 Here will I ever lie, And tell thee all my care, And, Father, Abba, Father, cry, And pour a ceaseless prayer; Till thou my sins subdue, Till thou my sins destroy, My spirit after God renew, And fill with peace and joy. 5 Messiah, Prince of peace, Into my soul bring in Thy everlasting righteousness, And make an end of sin. Into all those that seek Redemption through thy blood The sanctifying Spirit speak, The plenitude of God. 6 Let us in patience wait Till faith shall make us whole; Till thou shalt all things new create In each believing soul; Who can resist thy will? Speak, and it shall be done! Thou shalt the work of faith fulfil, And perfect us in one. ===304 ==8s & 6s. Matthew v.1 - 12 1 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 restless thirst inspire, That sacred, infinite desire, And feast my hungry heart; Less than thyself cannot suffice; My soul for all thy fulness cries, For all thou hast, and art. 4 Mercy who show shall mercy find; Thy pitiful and tender mind Be, Lord, on me bestowed; So shall I still the blessing gain, And to eternal life retain The mercy of my God. 5 Jesus, the crowning grace impart; Bless me with purity of heart, That, now beholding thee, I 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 wronged, reviled, abhorred And thee, my sanctifying Lord, In life and death; confess. 7 Called to sustain the hallowed 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 rest. ===305 ==S.M. 1 GRACIOUS Redeemer, shake This slumber from my soul! Say to me now, "Awake, awake! And Christ shall make thee whole." Lay to thy mighty hand! Alarm me in this hour, And make me fully understand The thunder of thy power. 2 Give me on thee to call, Always to watch and pray, Lest I into temptation fall, And cast my shield away; For each assault prepared And ready may I be, For ever standing on my guard, And looking up to thee. 3 O do thou always warn My soul of evil near! When to the right or left I turn, Thy voice still let me hear; "Come back! this is the way, Come back, and walk herein!" O may I hearken and obey, And shun the paths of sin! 4 Thou seest my feebleness; Jesus, be thou my power, My help and refuge in distress, My fortress and my tower; Give me to trust in thee. Be thou my sure abode, My horn, and rock, and buckler be, My Saviour, and my God. 5 Myself I cannot save, Myself I cannot keep, But strength in thee I surely have, Whose eyelids never sleep; My soul to thee alone Now therefore I commend; Thou, Jesus, love me as thy own, And love me to the end. ===306 ==6-8s. 1 FATHER, 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, To obtain the grace I humbly claim, The saving power of Jesu's name. 2 This slumber from my soul O shake! Warn 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 O 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 when to fight, and when to fly. 4 O 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 here. 5 Attended by the sacred dread, And wise from evil to depart, Let me from strength to strength proceed, And rise to purity of heart; Through all the paths of duty move, From humble faith to perfect love. ===307 ==C.M. 1 GOD of all grace and majesty, Supremely great and good! If I have mercy found with thee, Through the atoning blood, The guard of all thy mercies give, And to my pardon join A fear lest I should ever grieve The 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 days below In humbleness and fear. 3 Rather I would in darkness mourn The absence of thy peace, Than e'er by light irreverence turn Thy grace to wantonness: Rather I would in painful awe Beneath thine anger move, Than sin against the gospel law Of liberty and love. 4 But O! thou wouldst not have me live In bondage, grief, or pain, Thou dost not take delight to grieve The helpless sons of men; Thy will is my salvation, Lord; And let it now take place, And let me tremble at the word Of reconciling grace. 5 Still may I walk as in thy sight, My strict observer see; And thou by reverent love unite My child-like heart to thee; Still let me, till my days are past, At Jesu's feet abide, So shall he lift me up at last, And seat me by his side. ===308 ==C.M. 1 I WANT a principle within Of jealous, godly fear, A sensibility of sin, A pain to feel it near; I want the first approach to feel Of pride, or fond desire, To catch the wandering of my will, And quench the kindling fire. 2 That I from thee no more may part, No more thy goodness grieve, The filial awe, the fleshly heart, The tender conscience, give. Quick as the apple of an eye, O 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: O may the least omission pain My well-instructed soul, And drive me to the blood again Which makes the wounded whole! ===309 ==8s & 6s. 1 HELP, 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 down, O let me see thy gathering frown, And feel thy warning eye; And starting cry from ruin's brink Save, Jesus, or I yield, I sink, O 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 me like thyself below, Unblamable in grace; Ready prepared, and fitted here, By perfect holiness, to appear Before thy glorious face. ===310 ==C.M. 1 JESUS, my Master and my Lord, I would thy will obey, Humbly receive thy warning word, And always watch and pray. My constant need of watchful prayer I daily see and feel, To keep me safe from every snare Of sin, and earth, and hell. 2 Into a world of ruffians sent, I walk on hostile ground, Wild human bears on slaughter bent, And ravening wolves, surround: The lion seeks my soul to slay In some unguarded hour, And waits to tear his sleeping prey, And watches to devour. 3 But worse than all my foes I find The enemy within, The evil heart, the carnal mind, My own insidious sin: My nature every moment waits To render me secure, And all my paths with ease besets, To make my ruin sure. 4 But thou hast given a loud alarm; And thou shalt still prepare My soul for all assaults, and arm With never-ceasing prayer; O do not suffer me to sleep, Who on thy love depend; But still thy faithful servant keep, And save me to the end! ===311 ==S.M. 1 BID me of men beware, And to my ways take heed, Discern their every secret snare, And circumspectly tread; O may I calmly wait Thy succours from above; And stand against their open hate, And well-dissembled love! 2 My spirit, Lord, alarm When men and devils join; 'Gainst all of the powers of Satan arm In panoply divine; O may I set my face His onsets to repel; Quench all his fiery darts, and chase The fiend to his own hell! 3 But, above all, afraid Of my own bosom-foe, Still let me seek for thee for aid, To thee my weakness show; Hang on thy arm alone, With self-destructing care, And deeply in the spirit groan The never-ceasing prayer. 4 Give me a sober mind, A quick-discerning eye, The first approach of sin to find, And all occasions fly. Still may I cleave to thee, And never more depart, But watch with godly jealousy Over my evil heart. 5 Thus may I pass my days Of sojourning beneath, And languish to conclude my race, And render up my breath; In humble love and fear, Thine image to regain, And see thee in the clouds appear, And rise with thee to reign! ===312 ==L.M. 1 JESU, my Saviour, Brother, Friend, On whom I cast my every 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 hovering 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." 5 His sacred unction from above Be still my comforter and guide; Till all the hardness he remove, And in my loving heart reside. 6 Jesus, I fain would walk in thee, From nature's every path retreat; Thou art my Way, my leader be, And set upon the rock my feet. 7 Uphold me, Saviour, or I fall, O reach me out thy gracious hand Only on thee for help I call, Only by faith in thee I stand. ===313 ==L.M. 1 PIERCE, fill me with an humble fear; My utter helplessness reveal! Satan and sin are always near, Thee may I always nearer feel. 2 O 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 abhorred approach of ill, Quick as the apple of an eye, The slightest touch of sin to feel! 4 Till thou anew my soul create, Still may I strive, and watch, and pray, Humbly and confidently wait, And long to see the perfect day. ===314 ==S.M. 1 HARK, how the watchmen cry, 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 Jesu's name I lift it up, All stained with hallowed blood. His standard-bearer, I To all the nations call, Let all to Jesu's 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; Salvation, happiness, and heaven Are all in Jesu's name. 4 Only have faith in God; In faith your foes assail, Not wrestling against flesh and blood, But all the powers of hell; From thrones of glory driven, By flaming vengeance hurled, They throng the air, and darken heaven, And rule the lower world. ===315 ==S.M. SECOND PART 1 ANGELS your march oppose, Who still in strength excel, Your secret, sworn, eternal foes, Countless, invisible. With rage that never ends Their hellish arts they try; Legions of dire malicious fiends, And spirits enthroned on high. 2 On earth the usurpers reign, Exert their baneful power, O'er the poor fallen sons of men They tyrannize their hour: But shall believers fear? But shall believers fly? Or see the bloody cross appear, And all their power defy? 3 Jesu's tremendous name Puts all our foes to flight: Jesus, the meek, the angry Lamb, A Lion is in fight. By all hells host withstood, We all hells host o'erthrow; And conquering them, through Jesu's blood, We still to conquer go. 4 Our Captain leads us on; He beckons from the skies, And reaches out a starry crown, And bids us take the prize: "Be faithful unto death; Partake my victory; And thou shalt wear this glorious wreath. And thou shalt reign with me." ===316 ==S.M. SECOND PART 1 ETERNAL Power, whose high abode Becomes the grandeur of a God, Infinite lengths beyond the bounds Where stars revolve their little rounds! 2 Thee while the first archangel sings, He hides his face behind his wings, And ranks of shining thrones around Fall worshipping, and spread the ground. 3 Lord, what shall earth and ashes do? We would adore our Maker 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 learned to lisp thy name: But O! the glories of thy mind Leave all our soaring thoughts behind! 5 God is in heaven, and men below: Be short our tunes, our words be few! A solemn reverence checks our songs, And praise sits silent on our tongues. ===317 ==L.M. Matthew v.13 1 AH Lord, with trembling I confess, A gracious soul may fall from grace; The salt may lose its seasoning power, And never, never, find it more. 2 Lest that my fearful case should be, Each moment knit my soul to thee; And lead me to the mount above, Through the low vale of humble love. ===318 ==S.M. Leviticus viii.35 1 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: O 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 O 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, I shall for ever die. ===319 ==6-8s. Nehemiah v.9. 1 WATCHED 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 how the Christians live. ===320 ==8s & 6s. Job xxviii.28 1 BE it my only wisdom here To serve the Lord with filial fear, With loving gratitude; Superior sense may I display, By shunning every evil way, And walking in the good. 2 O 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. ===321 ==C.M. 1 SUMMONED my labour to renew, And glad to act my part, Lord, in thy name my work I do, And with a single heart. 2 End of my every action thou, In all things thee I see: Accept my hallowed labour now, I do it unto thee. 3 Whate'er the Father views as thine, He views with gracious eyes; Jesus, this mean oblation join To thy great sacrifice. 4 Stamped with all infinite desert, Thy work he then shall own; Well pleased with me, when mine thou art, And I his favoured son. ===322 ==C.M. 1 SERVANT of all, to toil for man Thou didst not, Lord, refuse; Thy majesty did not disdain To be employed for us! 2 Thy bright example I pursue, To thee in all things rise; And all I think, or speak, or do, Is one great sacrifice. 3 Careless through outward cares I go, From all distraction free; My hands are but engaged below, My heart is still with thee. ===323 ==S.M. 1 GOD of almighty love, By whose sufficient grace I lift my heart to things above, And humbly seek thy face; Through Jesus Christ the Just, My faint desires receive; And let me in thy goodness trust, And to thy glory live. 2 Whate'er I say or do, Thy glory be my aim; My offerings all be offered through The ever-blessed name! Jesu, my single eye Be fixed 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 renewed, Into a saint exalt a worm, A worm exalt to God! ===324 ==L.M. 1 FORTH in thy name, O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue, Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think, or speak, or do. 2 The task thy wisdom hath assigned O let me cheerfully fulfil, In all my works thy presence find, And prove thy acceptable will! 3 Thee may I set at my right hand, Whose eyes my inmost substance see; And labour on at thy command, And offer all my works to thee. 4 Give me to bear thy easy yoke, And every moment watch and pray, And still to things eternal look, And hasten to thy glorious day. 5 For thee delightfully employ Whate'er thy bounteous grace hath given; And run my course with even joy, And closely walk with thee to heaven. ===325 ==7s & 6s. 1 LO! I come with joy to do The Master's blessed will; Him in outward works pursue, And serve his pleasure still; Faithful to my Lord's commands, I still would choose the better part, Serve with careful Martha's hands, And loving Mary's heart. 2 Careful without care I am, Nor feel my happy toil, Kept in peace by Jesu's name, Supported by his smile; Joyful thus my faith to show, I find his service my reward; Every work I do below, I do it to the Lord. 3 Thou, O Lord, in tender love Dost all my burdens bear, Lift my heart to things above, And fix it ever there! Calm on tumult's wheel I sit, Midst busy multitudes alone, Sweetly waiting at thy feet, Till all thy will be done. 4 Thou, O Lord, my portion art, Before I hence remove! Now my treasure and my heart Are all laid up above; Far above all earthly things, While yet my hands are here employed, Sees my soul the King of kings, And freely talks with God. 5 O that all the art might know Of living thus to thee! Find their heaven begun below, And here thy glory see! Walk in all the works prepared By thee, to exercise their grace, Till they gain their full reward, And see thy glorious face! ===326 ==6-8s. Exodus xiii. 21. 1 CAPTAIN of Israel's host, and guide Of all who seek the land above, Beneath thy shadow we abide, The cloud of thy protecting love; Our strength, thy grace; our rule, thy word; Our end, the glory of the Lord. 2 By thine unerring Spirit led, We shall not in the desert stray; We shall not full direction need, Nor miss our providential way; As far from danger as from fear, While love, almighty love, is near. ===327 ==L.M. Leviticus vi.13 1 THOU who camest from above The pure celestial fire to impart, Kindle a flame of sacred love On the mean altar of my heart! 2 There let it for thy glory burn With inextinguishable blaze; And trembling to its source return, In humble prayer and fervent praise. 3 Jesus, confirm my heart's desire To work, and speak, and think for thee; Still let me guard the holy fire, And still stir up thy gift in me; 4 Ready for all thy perfect will, My acts of faith and love repeat, Till death thy endless mercies seal, And make the sacrifice complete. ===328 ==6-8s. Deuteronomy vi. 7. 1 WHEN quiet in my house I sit, Thy book be my companion still, My joy thy sayings to repeat, Talk o'er the records of thy will, And search the oracles 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, O may the reconciling word Sweetly compose my weary breast! While, on the bosom of my Lord, I sink in blissful dreams away, 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 to the church above. ===329 ==C.M. 1 THEE, Jesus, full of truth and grace, Thee, Saviour, we adore, Thee in affliction's furnace praise, And magnify thy power. 2 Thy power, in human weakness shown, Shall make us all entire; We now thy guardian presence own, And walk unburned in fire. 3 Thee, Son of man, by faith we see, And glory in our guide; Surrounded and upheld by thee, The fiery test abide. 4 The fire our graces shall refine, Till, moulded from above, We bear the character divine, The stamp of perfect love. ===330 ==6-8s. 1 SAVIOUR of all, what hast thou done, What hast thou suffered 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 Thy soul, for sin an offering made, Hath cleared this guilty soul of mine; Thou hast for me a ransom paid, To change my human to divine, To cleanse from all iniquity, And make the sinner all like thee. 3 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 crown by suffering sure? 4 Thou didst the meek example leave, That I might in thy footsteps tread, Might like the Man of sorrows grieve, And groan, and bow with thee my head, Thy dying in my body bear, And all thy state of suffering share. 5 Thy every perfect servant, Lord, Shall as his patient Master be; To all thy inward life restored, And outwardly conformed to thee, Out of thy grave the saint shall rise, And grasp, through death, the glorious prize. 6 This is the strait and royal way, That leads us to the courts above; Here let me ever, ever stay, Till, on the wings of perfect love, I take my last triumphant flight From Calvary's to Zion's height. ===331 ==6-8s. Hebrews xii.11. 1 AFFLICTED by a gracious God, The stroke I patiently sustain, Grievous to feeble flesh and blood; Unable to rejoice in pain, Beneath my Father's hand I bow, And groan to feel his chastening now. 2 But when he hath my patience proved, And sees me to his will resigned, His heavy hand and rod removed Shall leave the blest effect behind, The sure, inviolable peace, The ripened fruit of righteousness. 3 This pain, this consecrated pain, With which my soul and flesh are filled, His instrument if he ordain, The pure and perfect love shall yield; But by whatever means 'tis done, The work and praise are all his own. ===332 ==6-8s. Luke ix.23 1 MASTER, I own thy lawful claim, Thine, wholly thine, I long to be! Thou seest, at last, I willing am Where'er thou go'st to follow thee; Myself in all things to deny, Thine, wholly thine, to live and die. 2 Whate'er my sinful flesh require 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 more Shall lead my captive soul astray, My fond pursuits I all give o'er, Thee, only thee, resolved to obey; My own in all things to resign, And know no other will but thine. 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, Other propriety disclaim; Thou only art the great I AM. 5 Wherefore to thee I all resign; Being thou 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! ===333 ==8s & 6s. 1 COME on, my partners in distress, My comrades through the wilderness, 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, Look forward to that heavenly place, The saints' secure abode: On faith's strong eagle-pinions rise, And force your passage 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. 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; The beatific sight Shall fill heaven's sounding courts with praise, And wide diffuse the golden blaze Of everlasting light. 6 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 ravished spirits fill, And God is all in all! ===334 ==8s & 6s. 2 Samuel xvi. 10. LORD, I adore thy gracious will; Through every instrument of ill My Father's goodness see; Accept the complicated wrong Of Shimei's hand and Shimei's tongue, As kind rebukes from thee! ===335 ==7s & 6s. 1 CAST on the fidelity Of my redeeming Lord, I 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 ungrasped his fainting prey Pain before thy face withdrew And sorrow fled away. 3 Now as yesterday the same, In all my troubles nigh, Jesus, on thy word and name I steadfastly rely; Sure as now the grief I feel, The promised joy I soon shall have; Saved again, to sinners tell Thy power and will to save. 4 To thy blessed will resigned, And stayed on that alone, I thy perfect strength shall find, Thy faithful mercies own; Compassed round with songs of praise. My all to my Redeemer give, Spread thy miracles of grace, And to thy glory live. ===336 ==7s & 6s. 1 FATHER, in the name I pray Of thy incarnate Love, Humbly ask, that as my day My suffering strength may prove; When my sorrows most increase, Let thy strongest joys be given; Jesu, come with my distress, And agony is heaven! 2 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, For good remember me! Me, whom thou hast caused to trust For more than life on thee; With me in the fire remain, Till like burnished gold I shine, Meet, through consecrated pain, To see the face divine. ===337 ==L.M. 1 ETERNAL Beam of light divine, Fountain of unexhausted love, In whom the Father's glories shine Through earth beneath, and heaven above; 2 Jesu, the weary wanderer's rest, Give me 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, O Rock of ages, nigh! So shall each murmuring thought be gone, And 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 O death! where is thy sting? Where now Thy boasted victory, O grave? Who shall contend with God? or who Can hurt whom God delights to save? ===338 ==L.M. 1 THOU Lamb of God, thou Prince of peace, For thee my thirsty soul doth pine, My longing heart implores thy grace; O 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 resigned, And hallowed my whole heart to thee. 3 When pain o'er my weak flesh prevails, With lamb-like patience arm my breast; When grief my wounded soul assails, In lowly meekness may I rest. 4 Close by thy side still may I keep, Howe'er life's various current flow, With steadfast eye mark every step, And follow thee where'er thou go. 5 Thou, Lord, the dreadful fight hast won, Alone thou hast the winepress trod; In me thy strengthening grace be shown, O may I conquer through thy blood! 6 So when on Zion thou shalt stand, And all heaven's host adore their King, Shall I be found at thy right hand, And free from pain thy glories sing. ===339 ==L.M. 1 O THOU to whose all-searching sight The darkness shineth as the light, Search, prove my heart; it pants for thee; O 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, art near. 4 When rising floods my soul o'erflow, When sinks my heart in waves of woe, Jesu, thy timely aid impart, And raise my head, and cheer my heart. 5 Saviour, where'er thy steps I see, Dauntless, untired, I follow thee! O let thy hand support me still, And lead me to thy holy hill! 6 If rough and thorny be the way, My strength proportion to my day; Till toil, and grief, and pain shall cease, Where all is calm, and joy, and peace. ===340 ==S.M. 1 THE thing my God doth hate That I no more may do, Thy creature, Lord, again 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, O write it in my heart! Implant it deep within, Whence it may ne'er remove, The law of liberty from sin, The perfect law of love. 3 Thy nature be my law, Thy spotless sanctity, 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 again Thy heavenly Father's will! ===341 ==L.M. 1 O JESUS, let thy dying cry Pierce to the bottom of my heart, Its 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, O essential Love, come in! And fill thy house 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 feel, A heart that cannot faithless prove, A heart where Christ alone may dwell, All praise, all meekness, and all love. ===342 ==C.M. 1 GOD of eternal truth and grace, Thy faithful promise seal! Thy word, thy oath, to Abraham's race, In us, even 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; 4 Till thou into my soul inspire The perfect love unknown, And tell my infinite desire, "Whate'er thou wilt, be done." 5 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 that faith divine bestow Which doth the mountain move; And all my spotless life shall show The omnipotence of love. ===343 ==C.M. Psalm li. 10. 1 O FOR a heart to praise my God, A heart from sin set free! A heart that always feels thy blood So freely spilt for me! 2 A heart resigned, submissive, meek, My great Redeemer's throne, Where only Christ is heard to speak, Where Jesus reigns alone; 3 An humble, 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 renewed, 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 woe: Jesus, for thee distressed 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 re-possessed, From every sin I cease. 7 Fruit of thy gracious lips, on me Bestow that peace unknown, The hidden manna, and the tree Of life, and the white stone. 8 Thy nature, gracious Lord, impart! Come quickly from above, Write thy new name upon my heart, Thy new, best name of love. ===344 ==6-8s. 1 THOU hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed, no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Inly I sigh for thy repose; My heart is pained, nor can it be At rest, till it finds 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 Seems fixed, yet wide my passions rove; Yet hindrances 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; Yet, while I seek but find thee not, No peace my wandering soul shall see; O when shall all my wanderings end, And all my steps to thee-ward tend! 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! 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! My vile affections crucify, Nor let one darling lust survive 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 me thy duteous child, that l Ceaseless may, " Abba, Father," cry! 7 Ah no! ne'er will I backward turn; Thine wholly, thine alone, I am: Thrice happy he who views with scorn Earth's toys, for thee his constant flame! O help, that I may never move From the blest footsteps of thy love! 8 Each moment draw from earth 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 thy power, to hear thy voice, To taste thy love, be all my choice. ===345 ==4-6s & 2-8s. 1 YE ransomed sinners, hear, The prisoners of the Lord, And wait till Christ appear, According to his word: Rejoice in hope, rejoice with me, We shall from all our sins be free. 2 Let others hug 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 sins confess, Faithful he is, and just, From all unrighteousness To cleanse us all, both you and me We shall from all our sins be free. 4 Surely in us the hope Of glory shall appear, Sinners, your heads lift up, And see redemption near: Again I say, Rejoice with me, We shall from all our sins be free. 5 Who Jesu's sufferings share, My fellow-prisoners now, Ye soon the wreath shall wear On your triumphant brow: 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 glory in his grace: Rejoice in hope, rejoice with me, We shall from all our sins be free ===346 ==C.M. 1 FOR 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 me 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 hands, my head, my heart. 4 The atonement of thy blood apply, Till faith to sight improve, Till hope in full fruition die, And all my soul be love. ===347 ==C.M. 1 JESUS, my Life! thyself apply, Thy Holy Spirit breathe; My vile affections crucify, Conform me to thy death. 2 Conqueror of hell, and earth, and sin, Still with thy rebel strive; Enter my soul, and work 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 Reign 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; O make me glorious all within, A temple built by God! ===348 ==8-7s. Isaiah xxxv. 1 HEAVENLY Father, sovereign Lord, Ever faithful to thy word, Humbly we our seal set to, Testify that thou art true. Lo! for us the wilds are glad, All in cheerful green arrayed, Opening sweets they all disclose, Bud and blossom as the rose. 2 Hark! the wastes have found a voice, Lonely deserts now rejoice, 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 flowers, Flowers of Eden, fruits of grace, Peace, and joy, and righteousness. We behold (the abjects we!) Christ, the 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 surely come, Quell your foes, and seal their doom, He shall come and save you too; We, O Lord, have found thee true! Blind we were, but now we see, Deal; we hearken now to thee, Dumb, for thee our tongues employ, Lame, and, lo! we leap for joy. 6 Faint we were, and parched with drought, Water at thy word gushed out, Streams of grace our thirst repress, Starting from the wilderness; Still we gasp thy grace to know, Here for ever let it flow, Make the thirsty land a pool; Fix the Spirit in our soul. ===349 ==8-7s. SECOND PART. 1 WHERE the ancient 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 cleansing blood. 2 There the simple cannot stray, Babes, though blind, may find the way, Find, nor ever thence depart, Safe in lowliness of heart; Far from fear, from danger far, No devouring 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, Ransomed by thy dying love. Leave us not below to mourn; Fain we would to thee return, Crowned 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 thine endless reign. Death, the latest foe, destroy, Sorrow then shall yield to joy, Gloomy grief shall flee away, Swallowed up in endless day. ===350 ==7s. 1 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 Jesu, see my panting breast! See I pant in thee to rest! Gladly would I now be clean, Cleanse me now from every sin. 3 Fix, O fix my wavering mind! To thy cross my spirit bind; Earthly passions far remove, Swallow up my soul in love. 4 Dust and ashes though we be, Full of sin and misery, Thine we are, thou Son of God! Take the purchase of thy blood! 5 Who in heart on thee believes, He the atonement now receives, He with joy beholds thy face, Triumphs in thy pardoning grace. 6 See, ye sinners, see the flame, Rising from the slaughtered Lamb, 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 quickening power we prove, All our heart dissolves in love. 8 Boundless wisdom, power divine, Love unspeakable are thine: Praise by all to thee be given, Sons of earth, and hosts of heaven! ===351 ==6-8s. 2nd. metre. 1 COME, Holy Ghost, all quickening fire! Come, and my hallowed heart inspire, Sprinkled with the atoning blood; Now to my soul thyself reveal, Thy mighty working let me feel, And know that I am born of God. 2 Thy witness with my spirit bear, That God, my God, inhabits there; Thou, with the Father, and the Son, Eternal light's co-eval beam; Be Christ in me, and I in him, Till perfect we are made in one. 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, O may I, as a little child, My lowly Master's steps pursue! Be anger to my soul unknown, Hate, envy, jealousy, be gone; In love create thou all things new. 5 Let earth no more my heart divide, With Christ may I be crucified, To thee with my whole soul 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 hell I then shall fear; I then shall turn my steady face, Want, pain defy, enjoy disgrace, Glory in dissolution near. 7 My will be swallowed up in thee; Light in thy light still may I see, Beholding thee with open face; Called the full power of faith to prove, Let all my hallowed heart be love, And all my spotless life be praise. 8 Come, Holy Ghost, all quickening 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. ===352 ==2-6s & 4-7s. 1 JESUS, thou art our King! To me thy succour bring; Christ, the mighty One, art thou, Help for all on thee is laid; This the word; I claim it now, Send me now the promised aid. 2 High on thy Father's throne, O look with pity down! Help, O help, attend my call, Captive lead captivity: King of glory, Lord of all, Christ, be Lord, be King to me 3 I pant to feel thy sway, And only thee to obey, Thee my spirit gasps to meet; This my one, my ceaseless prayer, Make, O make my heart thy seat, O set up thy kingdom there! 4 Triumph and reign in me, And spread thy victory; Hell, and death, and sin control, Pride, and wrath, and every foe, All subdue; through all my soul Conquering, and to conquer go. ===353 ==6-8s. 2nd. metre. 1 O JESU, source of calm repose, Thy like nor man nor angel knows, Fairest among ten thousand fair! Even those whom death's sad fetters bound, Whom thickest darkness compassed round. Find light and life, if thou appear. 2 Effulgence of the light divine, Ere rolling planets knew to shine, Ere time its ceaseless course began, Thou, when the appointed hour was come, Didst not abhor the virgin's womb, But, God with God, wast man with man. 3 The world, sin, death, oppose in vain; Thou, 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; Speak, Lord, thy servant heareth now. 5 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 my 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 thy call, A heart that no desire can move, But still to adore, believe, and love, Give me, my Lord, my life, my all! ===354 ==7s & 6s. 1 EVER fainting with desire, For thee, O Christ, I call; Thee I restlessly require, I want my God, my all! Jesu, dear redeeming Lord, I wait thy coming from above; Help me, Saviour, speak the word, And perfect me in love. 2 Wilt thou suffer me to go Lamenting all my days? Shall I never, never know Thy sanctifying grace? Wilt thou not the light afford, The darkness from my soul remove? Help me, Saviour, speak the word, And perfect me in love. 3 Lord, if I on thee believe, The second gift impart; With the indwelling Spirit give A new, a contrite heart; If with love thy heart is stored, If now o'er me thy mercies move, Help me, Saviour, speak the word, And perfect me in love. 4 Let me gain my calling's hope, O make the sinner clean! Dry corruption's fountain up, Cut off the entail of sin; Take me into thee, my Lord, And I shall then no longer rove: Help me, Saviour, speak the word, And perfect me in love. 5 Thou, my Life, my treasure be, My Portion here below; Nothing would I seek but thee, Thee only would I know, My exceeding great reward, My heaven on earth, my heaven above! Help me, Saviour, speak the word, And perfect me in love. 6 Grant me now the bliss to feel Of those that are in thee; Son of God, thyself reveal, Engrave thy name on me; As in heaven be here adored, And let me now the promise prove; Help me, Saviour, speak the word, And perfect me in love. ===355 ==7s. Philippians ii. 5. 1 JESU, shall I never be Firmly grounded upon thee? Never by thy work abide, Never in thy wounds reside? 2 O how wavering is my mind, Tossed about with every wind! O how quickly doth my heart From the living God depart! 3 Jesu, let my nature feel, Thou art God unchangeable: JAH, JEHOVAH, great I AM, Speak into my soul thy name. 4 Grant that every moment I May believe, and feel thee nigh; Steadfastly behold thy face, Stablished with abiding grace. 5 Plant, and root, and fix in me All the mind that was in thee; Settled peace I then shall find; Jesu's is a quiet mind. 6 Anger I no more shall feel, Always even, always still, Meekly on my God reclined; Jesu's is a gentle mind. 7 I shall suffer and fulfil All my Father's gracious will, Be in all alike resigned; Jesu's is a patient mind. 8 When 'tis deeply rooted here, Perfect love shall cast out fear; Fear doth servile spirits bind; Jesu's is a noble mind. 9 When I feel it fixed within, I shall have no power to sin; How shall sin an entrance find? Jesu's is a spotless mind. 10 I shall nothing know beside Jesus, and him crucified; Perfectly to him be joined; Jesu's is a loving mind. 11 I shall triumph evermore, Gratefully my God adore, God so good, so true, so kind; Jesu's is a thankful mind. 12 Lowly, loving, meek, and pure, I shall to the end endure, Be no more to sin inclined; Jesu's is a constant mind. 13 I shall fully be restored To the image of my Lord, Witnessing to all mankind, Jesu's is a perfect mind. ===356 ==C.M. 1 LORD, 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, Jesu, support the tottering 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 show Which purges every stain; And gladly linger out below A few more years in pain. 5 Spare me till I my strength of soul, Till I thy love retrieve, Till faith shall make my spirit whole, And perfect soundness give. 6 Faith to be healed thou know'st I have, From sin to be made clean; Able thou art from sin to save, From all indwelling sin. 7 Surely thou canst, I do not doubt, Thou wilt, thyself impart; The bond-woman's base son cast out, And take up all my heart. 8 I shall my ancient strength renew: The excellence divine (If thou art good, if thou art true) Throughout my soul shall shine. 9 I shall, a weak and helpless worm, Through Jesus strengthening me, Impossibilities perform, And live from sinning free. 10 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. ===357 ==C.M. Matthew vi. 10 1 JESU, 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 choirs above, Who always see thee on thy throne, And glory in thy love. 3 I ask in confidence the grace, 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; My heart no longer gives the lie To my deceitful prayer. 5 When thou the work of faith hast wrought, I shall be pure within, Nor sin in deed, or word, or thought; For angels never sin. 6 From thee no more shall I depart, No more unfaithful prove, But love thee with a constant heart; For angels always love. 7 I all thy holy will shall prove: I, a weak, sinful worm, When thee with all my heart I love, Shall all thy law perform. 8 The graces of my second birth To me shall all be given; And I shall do thy will on earth, As angels do in heaven. ===358 ==7s & 6s. 1 OPEN, Lord, my inward ear, And bid my heart rejoice; Bid my quiet spirit hear Thy comfortable voice; Never in the whirlwind found, Or where earthquakes rock the place, Still and silent is the sound, The whisper of thy grace. 2 From the world of sin, and noise, And hurry, I withdraw; For the small and inward voice I wait with humble awe; Silent am I now and still, Dare not in thy presence move; To my waiting soul reveal The secret of thy love. 3 Thou didst undertake for me, For me to death wast sold; Wisdom in a mystery Of bleeding love unfold; Teach the lesson of thy cross, Let me die with thee to reign; All things let me count but loss, So I may thee regain. 4 Show me, as my soul can hear, The depth of inbred sin! All the unbelief declare, The pride that lurks within; Take me, whom thyself hast bought, Bring into captivity Every high aspiring thought, That would not stoop to thee. 5 Lord, my time is in thy hand, My soul to thee convert; Thou canst make me understand, Though I am slow of heart; Thine in whom I live and move, Thine the work, the praise is thine; Thou art wisdom, power, and love, And all thou art is mine. ===359 ==7s & 6s. Daniel iii. 1 GOD of Israel's faithful three, Who braved a tyrant's ire, Nobly scorned to bow the knee, And walked unhurt in fire; Breathe their faith into my breast, Arm me in this fiery hour; Stand, O Son of man, confest In all thy saving power! 2 Lo! on dangers, deaths, and snares I every moment tread, Hell without a veil appears, And flames around my head; Sin increases more and more, Sin in all its strength returns, Seven times hotter than before The fiery furnace burns. 3 But 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. ===360 ==C.M. Romans iv. 13, &c. 1 FATHER of Jesus Christ, my Lord, My Saviour, and my Head, I trust in thee, whose powerful word Hath raised him from the dead. 2 Thou know'st for my offence he died, And rose again for me, Fully 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 O God! thy record I believe, In Abraham's footsteps tread; And wait, expecting to receive, The Christ, the promised seed. 5 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 nought. 6 Things that are not, as though they were, 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 quickening word shall raise me up, Thou shalt thy Spirit give. 8 The thing surpasses all my thought, But faithful is my Lord; Through unbelief I stagger not, For God hath spoke the word. 9 Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to that alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries, It shall be done! 10 To thee the glory of thy power And faithfulness I give; I shall in Christ, in that glad hour, And Christ in me shall live. 11 Obedient faith, that waits on thee, Thou never wilt reprove: But thou wilt form thy Son in me, And perfect me in love. ===361 ==C.M. 1 MY God! I know, I feel thee mine, And will not quit my claim, Till all I have is lost in thine, And all renewed I am. 2 I hold thee with a trembling hand, But will not let thee go, Till steadfastly by faith I stand, And all thy goodness know. 3 When shall I see the welcome hour, That plants my God in me! Spirit of health, and life, and power, And perfect liberty! 4 Jesus, thine all-victorious love Shed in my heart abroad; Then shall my feet no longer rove, Rooted and fixed in God. 5 Love only can the conquest win, The strength of sin subdue, (My own unconquerable sin) And form my soul anew. 6 Love can bow down the stubborn neck, The stone to flesh convert, Soften, and melt, and pierce, and break An adamantine heart. 7 O that in me the sacred fire Might now begin to glow, Burn up the dross of base desire, And make the mountains flow! 8 O that it now from heaven might fall, And all my sins consume! Come, Holy Ghost, for thee I call, Spirit of burning, come! 9 Refining fire, go through my heart, Illuminate my soul; Scatter thy life through every part, And sanctify the whole. 10 No longer then my heart shall mourn, While, purified by grace, I only for his glory burn, And always see his face. 11 My steadfast soul, from falling free, Shall then no longer move; But Christ be all the world to me, And all my heart be love. ===362 ==C.M. Matthew x. 39. 1 BE it according to thy word; This moment let it be! O that I now, my gracious Lord, Might lose my life for thee! 2 Now, Jesus, let thy powerful death Into my being come; Slay the old Adam with thy breath; The man of sin consume. 3 My old affections mortify, Nail to the cross my will; Daily and hourly bid me die, Or altogether kill. 4 Jesus, my life, appear within, And bruise the serpent's head; Enter my soul, extirpate sin, Cast out the cursed seed. 5 Hast thou not made me willing, Lord? Would I not die this hour? Then speak the killing, quickening word; Slay, raise me, by thy power. 6 Slay me, and I in thee shall trust, With thy dead men arise, Awake, and sing out of the dust, Soon as this nature dies. 7 O let it now make haste to die, The mortal wound receive! So shall I live; and yet not I, But Christ in me shall live. 8 Be it according to thy word! This moment let it be! The life I lose for thee, my Lord, I find again in thee. ===363 ==L.M. 1 WHAT! never 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 The abundance of a loving heart. 3 Saviour, I long to testify The fulness of thy saving grace; O might thy Spirit the blood apply, Which bought for me the sacred peace! 4 Forgive, and make my nature whole, My inbred malady remove; To perfect health restore my soul, To perfect holiness and love. ===364 ==6-8s. John iv. 10 1 JESUS, 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, O well, in heavenly 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, Unblamable before thy sight, Whence all the streams of mercy flow; Mercy, thy own supreme delight, To me, for Jesu's sake, impart, And plant thy nature in my heart. 4 Thy mind throughout my life be shown, While, listening to the wretch's cry, The widow's and the orphan's 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 within, 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. ===365 ==6-8s. 2nd. metre 1 O GOD of my salvation, hear, And help a sinner to draw near With boldness to the throne of grace: Help me thy benefits to sing, And smile to see me feebly bring My humble sacrifice of praise. 2 I cannot praise thee as I would; But thou art merciful and good, I know thou never wilt despise The day of small and feeble things, But bear me, till on eagles' wings To all the heights of love I rise. 3 I thank thee for that gracious taste, (Which pride would not permit to last) That touch of love, that pledge of heaven Surely on me my Father smiled, And once I knew him reconciled, And once I felt my sins forgiven. 4 My Lord and God I then could see, My Saviour, who hath died for me, To bring the rebel near to God; Thou didst, thou didst, thy peace impart; Pardon was written on my heart, In largest characters of blood. 5 Vilest of all the sons of men, When I to folly turned again, And sinned against thy light and love, Grace did much more than sin abound; Amazed, I still forgiveness found, And thanked my Advocate above. 6 Saviour, for this I thank thee now; My Saviour to the utmost, thou Hast snatched me from the gates of hell; That I to all mankind may prove Thy free, thine everlasting love, Which all mankind with me may feel. 7 The boundless love that found out me For every soul of man is free, None of thy mercy need despair; Patient, and pitiful, and kind, Thee every soul of man may find, And, freely saved, thy grace declare. 8 A vile, backsliding sinner, I Ten thousand deaths deserve to die, Yet still by sovereign grace I live! Saviour, to thee I still look up; I see all open door of hope, And wait thy fulness to receive. 9 How shall I thank thee for the grace, The trust I have to see thy face, When sin shall all be purged away! The night of doubts and fears is past; The morning star appears at last, And I shall see the perfect day. ===366 SECOND PART ==6-8s. 2nd. metre. 1 I SOON shall hear thy quickening voice, Shall always pray, give thanks, rejoice; (This is thy will and faithful word) My Spirit meek, my will resigned, Lowly as thine shall be my mind, The servant shall be as his Lord. 2 Already, Lord, I feel thy power; Preserved from evil every hour, My great Preserver I proclaim: Safety and strength in thee I have; I find, I find thee strong to save, And know that Jesus is thy name. 3 By faith I every moment stand, Strangely upheld by thy right hand, I my own wickedness eschew: A sinner, I am kept from sin; And thou shalt make me pure within, And thou shalt form my soul anew. 4 Come then, and loose my stammering tongue, Teach me the new, the joyful song, And perfect in a babe thy praise: I want a thousand lives to employ In publishing the sounds of joy, The gospel of thy general grace. 5 Come, Lord, thy Spirit bids thee come; Give me thyself, and take me home; Be now the glorious earnest given! The counsel of thy grace fulfil, Thy kingdom come, thy perfect will Be done on earth, as 'tis in heaven. ===367 ==S.M. 1 O COME, and dwell in me, Spirit of power within! And bring the glorious liberty From sorrow, fear, and sin. The seed of sin's disease, Spirit of health, remove, Spirit of finished holiness, Spirit of perfect love. 2 Hasten the joyful day Which shall my sins consume, When old things shall be passed away And all things new become. The original offence Out of my soul erase, Enter thyself, and drive it hence, And take up all the place. 3 I want the witness, Lord, That all I do is right, According to thy will and word, Well-pleasing in thy sight: I ask no higher state; Indulge me but in this, And sooner or later then translate To my eternal bliss. ===368 ==7s & 6s. 1 FATHER, see this living clod, This spark of heavenly fire, See my soul, the breath of God, Doth after God aspire: Let it still to heaven ascend, Till I my principle rejoin, Blended with my glorious end, And lost in love divine. 2 Lord, if thou from me hast broke The power of outward sin, Burst this Babylonish yoke, And make me free within; Bid my inbred sin depart, And I thy utmost word shall prove, Upright both in life and heart, And perfected in love. 3 God of all-sufficient grace, My God in Christ thou art; Bid me walk before thy face, Till I am pure in heart; Till, transformed by faith divine, I gain that perfect love unknown, Bright in all thine image shine, By putting on thy Son. 4 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, In council join again, To restore thine image lost By hail, apostate man; O might I thy form express, Through faith begotten from above, Stamped with real holiness, And filled with perfect love! ===369 ==L.M. Ezekiel xvi. 62, 63. 1 O GOD most merciful and true! Thy nature to my soul impart; Stablish with me the covenant new, And write perfection on my heart. 2 To real holiness restored, O let me gain my Saviour's mind! And, in the knowledge of my Lord, Fulness of life eternal find. 3 Remember, Lord, my sins no more, That them I may no more forget; But sunk in guiltless shame adore With speechless wonder at thy feet. 4 O'erwhelmed with thy stupendous grace, I shall not in thy presence move, But breathe unutterable praise, And rapturous awe, and silent love. 5 Then every murmuring thought and vain Expires, in sweet confusion lost; I cannot of my cross complain, I cannot of my goodness boast. 6 Pardoned for all that I have done, My mouth as in the dust I hide; And glory give to God alone, My God for ever pacified! ===370 ==C.M. 1 DEEPEN the wound thy hands have made In this weak, helpless soul, Till mercy, with its balmy aid, Descends to make me whole. 2 The sharpness of thy two-edged sword Enable me to endure; Till bold to say, My hallowing Lord Hath wrought a perfect cure. 3 I see the exceeding broad command, Which all contains in one: Enlarge my heart to understand The mystery unknown. 4 O that with all thy saints I might By sweet experience prove, What is the length, and breadth, and height, And depth, of perfect love! ===371 ==8s. 1 WHAT now is my object and aim? What now is my hope and desire? To follow the heavenly Lamb, And after his image aspire; My hope is all 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 God that on Calvary died; A fountain of water and blood, Which gushed from Immanuel's side! I gasp for the stream of thy love, The spirit of rapture unknown, And then to re-drink it above, Eternally fresh from the throne. ===372 ==7s & 6s. Psalm lxxxi. 10. GIVE me the enlarged desire, And open, Lord, my soul, Thy own fulness to require, And comprehend the whole Stretch my faith's capacity Wider, and yet wider still; Then with all that is in thee My soul for ever fill! ===373 ==6-8s. 1 JESU, thy boundless love to me No thought can reach, no tongue declare; O knit my thankful heart to thee, And reign without a rival there! Thine wholly, thine alone, I am, Be thou alone my constant flame. 2 O grant that nothing in my soul May dwell, but thy pure love alone; O may thy love possess me whole, My joy, my treasure, and my crown! Strange flames far from my heart remove; 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 arise; O Jesu, nothing may I see, Nothing desire, or seek, but thee! 4 Unwearied may I this pursue, Dauntless to the high prize aspire; Hourly within my soul renew This holy flame, this heavenly fire; And day and night be all my care To guard the sacred treasure there. 5 My Saviour, thou thy love to me In shame, in want, in pain, hast showed; For me, on the accursed tree, Thou pouredst forth thy guiltless blood; Thy wounds upon my heart impress, Nor aught shall the loved stamp efface. 6 More hard than marble is my heart, And foul with sins of deepest stain; But thou the mighty Saviour art, Nor flowed thy cleansing blood in vain; Ah soften, melt this rock, and may Thy blood wash all these stains away! 7 O that I, 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. 8 Still let thy love point out my war; How wondrous things thy love hath wrought! Still lead me, lest I go astray; Direct my word, inspire my thought; And if I fall, soon may I hear Thy voice, and know that love is near. 9 In suffering be thy love my peace, In weakness be thy love my power; And when the storms of life shall cease, Jesus, in that important hour, ln death as life be thou my guide, And save me, who for me hast died. ===374 ==6-8s. 1 COME, Holy Ghost, all quickening fire, Come, and in me delight to rest; Drawn by the lure of strong desire, O come and consecrate my breast! The temple of my soul prepare, And fix thy sacred presence there. 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 hallowed soul is thine; Plunged in the Godhead's deepest sea, And lost in thine 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 within me live; Let all my powers thine entrance feel, And deeper stamp thyself the seal. ===375 ==6-8s. 1 SAVIOUR 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: I 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 iniquity, Restore, and make me meet for heaven; Unless thou purge my every stain, Thy suffering 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? 4 Didst thou not die that I might live No longer to myself, but thee? Might body, soul, and spirit give To him who gave 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 sake; 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. ===376 ==6-8s. 1 I WANT the Spirit of power within, Of love, and of a healthful mind; Of power, to conquer inbred sin, Of love, to thee and all mankind, Of health, that pain and death defies, Most vigorous when the body dies. 2 When shall I hear the inward voice Which only faithful souls can hear? Pardon, and peace, and heavenly joys Attend the promised Comforter; O come, and righteousness divine, And Christ, and all with Christ, are mine! 3 O that the Comforter would come! Nor visit as a transient guest, But fix in me his constant home, And take possession of my breast, And fix in me 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; I cannot rest in 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; O shed it in my heart abroad, Fulness of love, of heaven, of God! ===377 ==6-8s. 2nd. metre. 1 FATHER of everlasting, grace, Thy goodness and thy truth we praise, 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 to 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 The wisdom, truth, and power, and love; 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 triumph higher, And praise thee in a bolder strain, Out-soar the first-born seraph's flight, And sing, with all our friends in light, Thy everlasting love to man. ===378 ==6-8s. 1 WHAT shall I do my God to love, My Saviour, and the world's, to praise? Whose bowels of compassion move To me, and all the fallen race, Whose mercy is divinely free For all the fallen race, and me! 2 I long to know, and to make known, The heights and depths of love divine, The kindness thou to me hast shown, Whose every sin was counted thine! My God for me resigned his breath! He died to save my soul from death! 3 How shall I thank thee for the grace On me and all mankind bestowed? O that my every breath were praise! O that my heart were filled with God! My heart would then with love o'erflow, And all my life thy glory show. 4 See me, O Lord, athirst and faint! Me, weary of forbearing, see, And let me feel thy love's constraint, And freely give up all for thee; True in the fiery trial prove, And pay thee back thy dying love. ===379 ==6-8s. 1 O LOVE, I languish at thy stay! I pine for thee with lingering smart; Weary and faint through long delay, When wilt thou come into my heart? From sin and sorrow set me free, And swallow up my soul in thee? 2 Come, O thou universal Good! Balm of the wounded conscience, come The hungry, dying spirit's food, The weary, wandering pilgrim's home; Haven to take the shipwrecked in, My everlasting rest from sin! 3 Be thou, O 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, O 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 o life, my paradise! 5 The secret of the Lord thou art. The mystery so long unknown; Christ in a pure and perfect heart, The name inscribed in the white stone, The Life divine, the little leaven, My precious pearl, my present heaven. ===380 ==6-8s. 1 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 Ye all shall find, whom in his word Himself hath caused to put your trust, 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 sinners I! 4 O ye of fearful hearts, be strong! Your downcast eyes and hands lift up! We shall not be forgotten long, Hope to the end, in Jesus hope! Tell him ye wait his grace to prove, And cannot fail, if God is love! 5 Prisoners of hope, be strong, be bold, Cast off your doubts, disdain to fear! Dare to believe; on Christ lay hold! Wrestle with Christ in mighty prayer, Tell him, "We will not let thee go, Till we thy name, thy nature know." 6 Hast thou not died to purge our sin, And risen, 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 couldst 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 kings; 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 joined to thee the Son, As thou art with thy Father one. 9 Faithful and True, we now receive The promise ratified by thee: To thee the when and how we leave, In time and in eternity; We only hang upon thy word, "The servant shall be as His Lord." ===381 ==7s. 1 WHEN, my Saviour, shall I be Perfectly resigned to thee Poor and vile in my own eyes, Only in thy wisdom wise! 2 Only thee content to know, Ignorant of all below Only guided by thy light, Only mighty in thy might! 3 So I may thy Spirit know, Let him as he listeth blow; Let the manner be unknown, So I may with thee be one. 4 Fully in my life express All the heights of holiness, Sweetly let my spirit prove All the depths of humble love! ===382 ==7s & 6s. Zechariah iv. 7. 1 O GREAT mountain, who art thou, Immense, immovable? High as heaven aspires thy brow, Thy foot sinks deep as hell! Thee, alas, I long have known, Long have felt thee fixed within; Still beneath thy weight I groan; Thou art Indwelling Sin. 2 Thou art darkness in my mind, Perverseness in my will, Love inordinate and blind, That always cleaves to ill; Every passion's wild excess, Anger, lust, and pride, thou art; Thou art sin and sinfulness, And unbelief of heart. 3 Not by human might or power Canst thou be moved from hence; But thou shalt flow down before Divine omnipotence; 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 corner-stone, Shall be brought 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 grace proclaim, Of sanctifying grace. 5 Christ hath the foundation laid, And Christ shall build me up; Surely I shall soon be made Partaker of my hope; Author of my faith he is, He its finisher shall be; Perfect love shall seal me his To all eternity. ===383 SECOND PART ==7s & 6s. 1 WHO hath slighted or contemned The day of feeble things? I shall be by grace redeemed; 'Tis grace salvation brings: Ready now my Saviour stands: Him I now rejoice to see With the plummet in His hands, To build and finish me. 2 I right early 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 sanctifying word, And seal me all thine own. ===384 ==C.M. 1 I 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 lifting up my head, He brings salvation near, His presence makes me free indeed, And he will soon appear. 3 He wills that I should holy be, What 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, 5 Joyful in hope, my spirit soars To meet thee from above, Thy goodness thankfully adores; And sure I taste thy love. 6 Thy love I soon expect to find, In all its depth and height; To comprehend the Eternal Mind, And grasp the Infinite. 7 When God is mine and I am his, Of paradise possest, I taste unutterable bliss, And everlasting rest. 8 The bliss of those that fully dwell, Fully in thee believe, 'Tis more than angel-tongues can tell, Or angel-minds conceive. 9 Thou only know'st, who didst obtain, And die to make it known; The great salvation now explain, And perfect us in one! ===385 ==8s & 7s. 1 LOVE Divine, all loves excelling, Joy of heaven, to earth come down! Fix in us thy humble dwelling, All thy faithful mercies crown; Jesu, thou art all compassion, Pure, unbounded love thou art; Visit us with thy salvation, Enter every trembling heart. 2 Come, almighty to deliver, Let us all thy grace receive; Suddenly return, and never, Never more, thy temples leave; Thee we would be always blessing Serve thee as thy hosts above, Pray, and praise thee, without ceasing, Glory in thy perfect love. 3 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! ===386 ==L.M. Isaiah li. 9. 1 Arm of the Lord, awake, awake! Thine own immortal strength put on! With terror clothed, 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 Thy arm, Lord, is not shortened now, It wants not now the power to save; Still present with thy people, thou Bear'st them through life's disparted wave. 4 By death and hell pursued in vain, To thee the ransomed seed shall come, Shouting their heavenly Zion gain, And pass through death triumphant home. 5 The pain of life shall there be o'er, The anguish and distracting care, There sighing grief shall weep no more, And sin shall never enter there. 6 Where pure, essential joy is found, The Lord's redeemed their heads shall raise, With everlasting gladness crowned, And filled with love, and lost in praise. ===387 ==S.M. 1 PRISONERS of hope, arise, And see your Lord appear; Lo! on the wings of love he flies, And brings redemption near; Redemption in his blood He calls you to receive: "Look unto me, the pardoning God; Believe," he cries, "believe!" 2 The reconciling word We thankfully embrace; Rejoice in our redeeming Lord, A blood-besprinkled race. We yield to be set free; Thy counsel we approve; Salvation, praise, ascribe to thee, And glory in thy love. 3 Jesus, to thee we look, Till saved from sin's remains; Reject the inbred tyrant's yoke, And cast away his chains. Our nature shall no more O'er us dominion have; By faith we apprehend the power Which shall for ever save. ===388 ==L.M. Matthew xi. 28 1 O THAT my load of sin were gone O that I could at last submit At Jesu's feet to lay it down, To lay my soul at Jesu's feet!. 2 When shall mine eyes behold the Lamb, The God of my salvation see? Weary, O Lord, thou know'st I am, Yet still I cannot come to thee. 3 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. 4 Break off the yoke of inbred sin, And fully set my spirit free; I cannot rest till pure within, Till I am wholly lost in thee. 5 Fain would I learn of thee, my God; Thy light and easy burden prove, The cross, all stained with hallowed 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. 7 Come, Lord! the drooping sinner cheer, Nor let thy chariot-wheels delay; Appear, in my poor heart appear! My God, my Saviour, come away! ===389 ==C.M. 1 O JESUS, at thy feet we wait, Till thou shalt bid us rise, Restored to our unsinning state, To love's sweet paradise. 2 Saviour from sin, we thee receive, From all indwelling sin; Thy blood, we steadfastly believe, Shall 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. 4 The counsel of thy love fulfil; Come quickly, gracious Lord! Be it according to thy will, According to thy word! 5 According to our faith in thee Let it to us be done; O that we all thy face might see, And know as we are known! 6 O that the perfect grace were given, The love diffused abroad! O that our hearts were all a heaven, For ever filled with God! ===390 ==6s-7s. 1 SINCE 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, and 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; Joined to his, it cannot fail; Bless me; for I will prevail! 4 Heavenly Adam, Life divine, Change my nature into thine! Move and spread throughout my soul, Actuate and fill the whole! Be it I no longer now Living in the flesh, but Thou. 5 Holy Ghost, no more delay! Come, and in thy temple stay! Now thine inward witness bear, Strong, and permanent, and clear; Spring of life, thyself impart, Rise eternal in my heart! ===391 ==L.M. Ezekiel xxxvi. 25, &c. 1 GOD of all power, and truth, and grace, Which shall from age to age endure, Whose word, when heaven and earth shall pass, Remains and stands for ever sure; 2 That I thy mercy may proclaim, That all mankind thy truth may see, Hallow thy great 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 sin. 4 Purge me from every sinful blot; My idols all be cast aside; Cleanse me from every sinful thought, From all the filth of self and pride. 5 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. 6 O take this heart of stone away! Thy sway it doth not, cannot own; In me no longer let it stay, O take away this heart of stone! 7 O that I now, from sin released, Thy word may to the utmost prove, Enter into the promised rest, The Canaan of thy perfect love! ===392 SECOND PART ==L.M. 1 FATHER, supply my every need, Sustain the life thyself hast given, Call for the never-failing bread, The manna that comes down from heaven. 2 The gracious fruits of righteousness, Thy blessings' unexhausted store, In me abundantly increase; Nor ever let me hunger more. 3 Let me no more, in deep complaint, "My leanness, O my leanness!" cry; Alone consumed with pining want, Of all my Father's children, I. 4 The painful thirst, the fond desire, Thy joyous presence shall remove; But my full soul shall still require A whole eternity of love. ===393 THIRD PART ==L.M. 1 HOLY, and true, and righteous Lord, I wait to prove thy perfect will, Be mindful of thy gracious word, And stamp me with thy Spirit's seal. 2 Open my faith's interior eye, Display thy glory from above; And all I am shall sink and die, Lost in astonishment and love 3 Confound, o'erpower me by thy grace, I would be by myself abhorred; 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; Be less than nothing in thy sight, And feel that Christ is all in all! ===394 ==6-8s. 1 O GOD of our forefathers, hear, And make thy faithful mercies known! To thee through Jesus we draw near, Thy suffering, well-beloved Son, In whom thy smiling face we 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 by his blood, And fill with all the life of God. 4 Father, behold thy dying Son, And hear the blood that speaks above! On us let all thy grace be shown, Peace, righteousness, and joy, and love, Thy kingdom come to every heart, And all thou hast, and all thou art. ===395 ==L.M. 1 O GOD, to whom, in flesh revealed, The helpless all for succour came, The sick to be relieved and healed, 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 distrest, Feeble, and faint, and blind, and poor, Weary, I come to thee for rest, And sick of sin, implore a cure. 4 My sin's incurable disease Thou, Jesus, thou alone, canst heal, Inspire me with thy power and peace, And pardon on my conscience seal. 5 A touch, a word, a look from thee, Can turn my heart, and make it clean, Purge 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 image on my heart. 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 according to thy word, Accomplish now thy work in me; And let my soul, to health restored, Devote its little all to thee. ===396 ==L.M. 1 O THOU, whom once they flocked to hear, Thy words to hear, thy power to feel; Suffer the sinners to draw near, And graciously receive us still. 2 They that be whole, thyself hast said, No need of a physician have; But I am sick, and want thine aid, And want 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 inveterate plague can cure. 4 Helpless howe'er my spirit lies, And long hath languished at the pool, A word of thine shall make me rise, And speak me in a moment whole. 5 Eighteen, or eight and thirty, years, Or thousands, are alike to thee: Soon as thy saving grace appears, My plague is gone, my heart is free. 6 Make this the acceptable hour! Come, O my souls physician, thou! Display thy sanctifying power, And show me thy salvation now. ===397 ==L.M. 1 JESU, thy far-extended fame My drooping soul exults to hear; Thy name, thy all-restoring name, Is music in a sinner's ear. 2 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 thou not the Saviour still, In every place and age the same? Hast thou forgot thy gracious skill, Or lost the virtue of thy name? 4 Faith in thy changeless name I have; The good, the kind physician, thou Art able 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 shalt make it whole. 7 All my disease, my every sin, To thee, O Jesus, I confess; In pardon, Lord, my cure begin, And perfect it in holiness. 8 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. ===398 ==7s. 1 SAVIOUR of the sin-sick soul, Give me faith to make me whole! Finish thy great work of grace, 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 O that I might now decrease! O that all I am might cease! Let me into nothing fall, Let my Lord be all in all! ===399 ==8-7s. 1 LIGHT of life, seraphic fire, Love divine, thyself impart; Every fainting soul inspire, Shine in every drooping heart! Every mournful 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 with the 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 ===400 ==7s. 1 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 Abraham 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 washed us in his blood. 4 We are now his lawful right, Walk as children of the light; We shall soon obtain the grace, Pure in heart, to see his face. 5 We shall gain our calling's prize; After God we all shall rise, Filled with joy, and love, and peace, Perfected in holiness. 6 Let us then rejoice in hope, Steadily to Christ look up; Trust to be redeemed 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 every servant say, I have now obtained the power, Born of God, to sin no more. ===401 ==6 - 8s. Mark ix. 23. 1 All things are possible to him That can in Jesu's name believe: Lord, I no more thy truth blaspheme, Thy truth I lovingly receive; I 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 shall; 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 wrought, I here shall in thine image shine, Nor sin in deed, or word, or thought; Let men exclaim, and fiends repine, They cannot break the firm decree; All things are possible to me. 5 Thy mouth, O Lord, hath spoke, hath sworn That I shall serve thee without fear, 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 renewed, When I in Christ am formed again, And witness, from all sin set free, All things are possible to me. ===402 ==7s & 6s. 1 O MIGHT I this moment cease From every work of mine, Find the perfect holiness, The righteousness divine! Let me thy salvation see; Let me do thy perfect will; Live in glorious liberty, And all thy fulness feel. 2 O cut short the work, and make Me now a creature new! For thy truth and mercy's sake The gracious wonder show; Call me forth thy witness, Lord, Let my life declare thy power; To thy perfect love restored, O let me sin no more! 3 Fain would I the truth proclaim That makes me free indeed, Glorify my Saviour's name, And all its virtues spread; Jesus all our wants relieves, Jesus, mighty to redeem, Saves, and to the utmost saves, All those that come to him. ===403 ==C.M. 1 LORD, 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 souls desire Is fixed on things above; Where fear, and sin, and grief expire, Cast out by perfect love. 3 O that I now the rest might know, Believe, and enter in! Now, Saviour, now the power bestow, And let me cease from sin. 4 Remove this hardness from my heart, This unbelief remove: To me the rest of faith impart, The Sabbath of thy love. 5 I would be thine, thou know'st I would, And have thee all my own; Thee, O my all-sufficient good! I want, and thee alone. 6 Thy name to me, thy nature grant! This, only this be given: Nothing beside my God I want, Nothing in earth or heaven. 7 Come, O my Saviour, come away! Into my soul descend; No longer from thy creature stay, My author and my end! 8 Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, And seal me thine abode! Let all I am in thee be lost, Let all be lost in God. ===404 ==8s & 6s. 1 O GLORIOUS hope of perfect love! It lifts me up to things above, It bears on eagles' wings; It gives my ravished soul a taste, And makes me for some moments feast With Jesu's 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 endless plenty grow. 3 A land of corn, and wine, and oil, Favoured with God's peculiar smile, With every blessing blest; There dwells the Lord our Righteousness, And keeps his own in perfect peace, And everlasting rest. 4 O that I might 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 doubt, and fears, A howling wilderness. 5 Now, O my Joshua, bring me in! Cast out thy foes; the inbred sin, The carnal mind, remove; The purchase of thy death divide! Give me with all the sanctified The heritage of love! ===405 ==C.M. 1 O JOYFUL sound of gospel grace! Christ shall in me appear; I, even I, shall see his face, I shall be holy here. 2 This heart shall be his constant home; I hear his Spirit's cry, "Surely," he saith, "I quickly come," He saith, who cannot lie. 3 The glorious crown of righteousness To me reached out I view; Conqueror through him, I soon shall seize, And wear it as my due. 4 The promised land, from Pisgah's top, I now exult to see; My hope is full (O glorious hope!) Of immortality. 5 He visits now the house of clay, He shakes his future home; O wouldst thou, Lord, on this glad day, Into thy temple come! 6 With me, I know, I feel, thou art; But this cannot suffice, Unless thou plantest in my heart A constant paradise. 7 My earth thou waterest from on high, But make it all a pool; Spring up, O well, I ever cry, Spring up within my soul! 8 Come, O my God, thyself reveal, Fill all this mighty void; Thou only canst my spirit fill: Come, O my God, my God! 9 Fulfil, fulfil my large desires, Large as infinity; Give, give me all my soul requires, All, all that is in thee! ===406 ==C.M. 1 WHAT is our calling's glorious hope, But inward holiness? For this to Jesus I look up, I calmly wait for this. 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; In Jesus I believe, and shall Believe myself to him. 5 When Jesus makes my heart his home, My sin shall all depart; And lo! he saith, I quickly come, To fill and rule thy heart! 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! ===407 ==7s & 6s. Deuteronomy xxxiii. 26 - 29. 1 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, the Almighty God, is thine; See him to thy help come down, The excellence divine. 2 Thee the great Jehovah deigns To succour and defend; Thee the eternal God sustains, Thy Maker and thy friend: Israel, what hast thou to dread? Safe from all impending harms, Round thee and beneath are spread The everlasting arms. 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 slay, Fill thee with triumphant joy; God shall thrust him out, and say, "Destroy them all, destroy!" 4 All the struggle then is o'er, And wars and fightings 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; Jacob's well is in his soul; Gracious dew his heavens distil, Fill his soul, already full, And shall for ever fill. 6 Blest, O Israel, art thou! What people is like thee? Saved from sin, by Jesus, now Thou art, and still shalt be; Jesus is thy seven-fold shield, Jesus is thy flaming sword; Earth, and hell, and sin, shall yield To God's almighty Word. ===408 ==L.M. 1 HE wills that I should holy be, That holiness I long to feel; That full divine conformity To all my Saviour's righteous will. 2 See, Lord, the travail of thy soul Accomplished in the change of mine, And plunge me, every whit made whole, In all the depths of love divine. 3 On thee, O God, my soul is stayed, And waits to prove thine utmost will; The promise, by thy mercy made, Thou canst, thou wilt, in me fulfil. 4 No more I stagger at thy power, Or doubt thy truth, which cannot move: Hasten the long-expected hour, And bless me with thy perfect love. 5 Jesus, thy loving Spirit alone Can lead me forth, and make me free, Burst every bond through which I groan, And set my heart at liberty: 6 Now let thy Spirit bring me in, And give thy servant to possess The land of rest from inbred sin, The land of perfect holiness. 7 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. 8 Come, Saviour, come, and make me whole! Entirely all my sins remove; To perfect health restore my soul, To perfect holiness and love. ===409 ==C.M. 1 JESUS, my Lord, I cry to thee Against the spirit unclean; I want a constant liberty, A perfect rest from sin. 2 Expel the fiend out of my heart, By love's almighty power; Now, now command him to depart, And never enter more. 3 Thy killing and thy quickening 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. 5 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. ===410 ==S.M. 1 FATHER, I dare believe Thee merciful and true: Thou wilt my guilty soul forgive, My fallen soul renew. Come then for Jesu's sake, And bid my heart be clean; An end of all my troubles make, An end of all my sin. 2 I will, through grace, I will, I do, return to thee; Take, empty it, O Lord, and fill My heart with purity! For power I feebly pray: Thy kingdom now restore, To-day, while it is called to-day, And I shall sin no more. 3 I cannot wash my heart, But by believing thee, And waiting for thy blood to impart The spotless purity: While at thy cross I lie, Jesus, the grace bestow, Now thy all-cleansing blood apply, And I am white as snow. ===411 ==7s & 6s. 1 Corinthians vi. 20. 1 GOD! who didst so dearly buy These wretched souls of ours, Help us thee to glorify With all our ransomed powers: Ours they are not, Lord, but thine; O let the vessels of thy grace, Body, soul, and spirit, join In our Redeemer's praise! 2 Father, Son, and Spirit, come, And with thine own abide: Holy Ghost, to make thee room, Our hearts we open wide; Thee, and only thee request, To every asking sinner given; Come, our life, and peace, and rest, Our all in earth and heaven. ===412 ==412 1 Kings xviii. 1 THOU God that answerest by fire, On thee in Jesu's 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! 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 sin. 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 behind! 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! ===413 ==7s & 6s. 1 Timothy iii. 16. 1 ONCE thou didst on earth appear, For all mankind to atone; Now be manifested here, And bid our sin be gone! Come, and by thy presence chase Its nature with its guilt and power; Jesus, show thine open face, And sin shall be no more. 2 Thou who didst so greatly stoop To a poor virgin's womb, Here thy mean abode take up; To me, my Saviour, come! Come, and Satan's works destroy, And let me all thy Godhead prove, Filled with peace, and heavenly joy, And pure eternal love. 3 Then my soul, with strange delight, Shall comprehend and feel What the length, and breadth, and height Of love unspeakable: Then I shall the secret know, Which angels would search out in vain; God was man, and served below, That man with God might reign! ===414 "When shall it once be" ==7 & 6s. Jeremiah xiii. 27. 1 NOW, even now, I yield, I yield, With all my sins to part; Jesus, speak my pardon sealed, And purify my heart; Purge the love of sin away, Then I 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 fire, To brighten and refine; Purify our faith like gold, All the dross of sin remove; Melt our spirits down, and mould Into thy perfect love. ===415 ==C.M. 1 JESUS hath died that I might live, Might live to God alone; In him eternal life receive, And be in spirit one. 2 Saviour, I thank thee for the grace, The gift unspeakable! And wait with arms of faith to embrace, And all thy love to feel. 3 My soul breaks out in strong desire The perfect bliss to prove; My longing heart is all on fire To be dissolved in love. 4 Give me thyself; from every boast, From every wish set free; Let all I am in thee be lost; But give thyself to me. 5 Thy gifts, alas, cannot suffice Unless thyself be given; Thy presence makes my paradise, And where thou art is heaven! ===416 ==C.M. 1 I ASK the gift of righteousness, The sin-subduing power, Power to believe, and go in peace, And never grieve thee more. 2 I ask the blood-bought pardon sealed, The liberty from sin, The grace infused, the love revealed, The kingdom fixed within. 3 Thou hear'st me for salvation pray, Thou seest my heart's desire; Made ready in thy powerful day, Thy fulness I require. 4 My vehement soul cries out opprest, 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 thou 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 shall never cleave, Shall never feel it more. ===417 ==C.M. 1 COME, O my God, the promise seal, This mountain, sin, remove; Now in my gasping soul reveal The virtue of thy love. 2 I want thy life, thy purity, Thy righteousness, brought in; I ask, desire, and trust in thee, To be redeemed 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! 5 Saviour, to thee my soul looks up, My present Saviour thou! In all the confidence of hope, I claim the blessing now. 6 'Tis done! thou dost this moment save, With full salvation bless; Redemption through thy blood I have, And spotless love and peace. ===418 ==7s & 6s. Revelation i. 4,5. 1 TRUE and faithful Witness, thee, O Jesus, we receive; Fulness of the Deity, In all thy people live! First begotten from the dead, Call forth thy living witnesses; King of saints, thine empire spread O'er all the ransomed race. 2 Grace, the fountain of all good, Ye happy saints receive, With the streams of peace o'erflowed, With all that God can give; He who is, and was, in peace, And grace, and plenitude of power, Comes your favoured souls to bless, And never leave you more! 3 Let the Spirit before his throne, Mysterious One and Seven, In his various gifts sent down, Be to the churches given; Let the pure seraphic joy From Jesus Christ, the Just, descend; Holiness without alloy, And bliss that ne'er shall end. ===419 ==L.M. 2 Timothy i. 7. 1 QUICKENED with our immortal Head, Who daily, Lord, ascend with thee, Redeemed from sin, and free indeed, We taste our glorious liberty. 2 Saved from the fear of hell and death, With joy we seek the things above; And all thy saints the spirit breathe Of power, sobriety, and 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, our heaven on earth we gain. ===420 ==L.M. Colossians iii. 1-4. 1 YE faithful souls, who 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 actions show your sins forgiven, And seek the glorious things above, And follow Christ, your Head, to heaven. 3 There your exalted Saviour see, Seated at God's right hand again, In all his Father's majesty, In everlasting 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. 5 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 concealed, Deep in the Father's bosom lies; And, glorious as your Head revealed, Ye soon shall meet him in the skies. ==421 ==S.M. 2 Timothy iv. 7. 1 "I THE good fight have fought," O when shall I declare! The victory by my Saviour got I long with Paul to share. O may I triumph so, When all my warfare's past! And, dying, find my latest foe Under my feet at last. 2 This blessed word be mine, Just as the port is gained "Kept by the power of grace divine, I have the faith maintained." The apostles of my Lord, To whom it first was given, They could not speak a greater word, Nor all the saints in heaven. ===422 ==L.M. Jeremiah ix. 23,24. 1 LET not the wise his wisdom boast, The mighty glory in his might, The rich in flattering riches trust, Which take their everlasting flight. The rush of numerous years bears 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 his 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. ===423 ==7s & 6s. Revelation i. 5,6. 1 WHO can worthily commend Thy love unsearchable! Love that made thee condescend Our curse and death to feel; Thou, the great eternal God, Who didst thyself our ransom pay, Hast, with thy own precious blood, Washed all our sins away. 2 By the Spirit of our Head Anointed priests and kings, Conquerors of the world, we tread On all created things; Sit in heavenly places down, While yet we in the flesh remain; Now, partakers of thy throne, Before thy Father reign. 3 In thy members here beneath The Intercessor prays; Here we in the Spirit breathe Unutterable praise; Offer up our all to God; And God beholds, with gracious eyes, First the purchase of thy blood, And then our sacrifice. 4 Jesus, let thy kingdom come! (Inspired by thee we pray) Previous to the general doom, The everlasting day: Take possession of thine own, And let us then our Saviour see Glorious on thy heavenly throne, To all eternity. ===424 ==7s & 6s. Ezekiel xxxiv. 26. 1 US, who climb thy holy hill, A general blessing make, Let the world our influence feel, Our gospel grace partake; Grace to help in time of need, Pour out on sinners from above, All thy Spirit's fulness shed, In showers of heavenly love. 2 Make our earthly souls a field Which God delights to bless; Let us in due season yield The fruits of righteousness; Make us trees of paradise, Which more and more thy praise may show, Deeper sink, and higher rise, And to perfection grow. ===425 ==L.M. 1 Kings xix. 13. 1 THE voice that speaks Jehovah near, The still small voice, I long to hear; O might it now my Lord proclaim, And fill my soul with holy shame! 2 Ashamed I must for ever be, Afraid the God of love to see, If saints and prophets hide their face, And angels tremble while they gaze! ===426 ==S.M. 1 Chronicles xxix. 5. 1 LORD, in the strength of grace, With a glad heart and free, Myself, my residue of days, I consecrate to thee. 2 Thy ransomed servant, I Restore to thee thy own; And, from this moment, live or die To serve my God alone. ===427 ==8-7s. 1 GOD of all-redeeming grace, By thy pardoning love compelled, 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, That we should be wholly thine, In thine only will delight, In thy blessed service join: O that every work and word Might proclaim how good thou art! "Holiness unto the Lord" Still be written on our heart. ===428 ==C.M. 1 LET 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 hearts' 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 all eternity. ===429 ==6-8s. 1 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, Glad 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, 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 meet; Jesus, let all my work be thine! Thy work, O Lord, is all complete, And pleasing in thy Father's sight; Thou only hast done all things right. 4 Here then to thee thy own I leave; Mould as thou wilt thy passive clay; But let me all thy stamp receive, But let me all thy words obey, Serve with a single heart and eye, And to thy glory live and die. ===430 ==6-7s. 1 FATHER, Son, and Holy Ghost, One in Three, and Three in One, As by the celestial host, Let thy will on earth be done; Praise by all to thee be given, Glorious 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, 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! 5 Now, O God, thine own I am, Now I give thee back thine own; Freedom, friends, and health, and fame, Consecrate to thee alone: Thine I live, thrice happy I! Happier still if thine I die. 6 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, One in Three, and Three in One, As by the celestial host, Let thy will on earth be done; Praise by all to thee be given, Glorious Lord of earth and heaven! ===431 ==6-8s. 1 O GOD, what offering shall I give To thee, the Lord of earth and skies? My spirit, soul, and flesh receive, A holy, living sacrifice; Small as it is, 'tis all my store; More shouldst thou have, if I had more. 2 Now then, my God, thou hast my soul, No longer mine, but thine I am; Guard thou thine own, possess it whole, Cheer it with hope, with love inflame; Thou hast my spirit, there display Thy glory to the perfect day. 3 Thou hast my flesh, thy hallowed shrine, Devoted solely to thy will; Here let thy light for ever shine, This house still let thy presence fill; O Source of life, live, dwell, and move In me, till all my life be love! 4 O never in these veils of shame, Sad fruits of sin, my glorying 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 called by thy great name; In thee let all my thoughts unite, Of all my works be thou the aim; Thy love attend me all my days, And my sole business be thy praise! ===432 ==C.M. 1 FATHER, 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 strengthening me, I 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. 5 Determined all thy will to obey, Thy blessings I restore; Give, Lord, or take thy gifts away, I praise thee evermore. ===433 ==6-8s. 1 GIVE me the faith which can remove And sink the mountain to a plain; Give me the child-like praying love, Which longs to build thy house again; Thy love let it my heart 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 of the fire, To snatch them from the verge of hell, And turn them to a pardoning God, And quench the brands in Jesu's blood. 3 I would the precious time redeem, And longer live for this alone, To spend, and to be spent, for them Who have not yet my Saviour 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 thine; And lead them to thy open side, The sheep for whom their Shepherd died. ===434 ==7s. 1 JESUS, all-atoning Lamb, Thine, and only thine, I am; Take my body, spirit, soul; Only thou possess the whole. 2 Thou my one thing needful be; Let me ever cleave to thee; Let me choose the better part; Let me give thee all my heart. 3 Fairer than the sons of men, Do not let me turn again, Leave the fountain-head of bliss, Stoop to creature-happiness. 4 Whom have I on earth below? Thee, and only thee, I know; Whom have I in heaven but thee? Thou art all in all to me. 5 All my treasure is above, All my riches is thy love: Who the worth of love can tell? Infinite, unsearchable! 6 Thou, O love, my portion art: Lord, thou know'st my simple heart! Other comforts I despise, Love be all my paradise. 7 Nothing else can I require, Love fills up my whole desire; All thy other gifts remove, Still thou giv'st me all in love! ===435 ==C.M. 1 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 conceive, Unless, in answer to our Lord, Thyself the blessing give. 4 His blood demands the purchased grace; His blood's availing plea Obtained the help for all our race, And sends it down to me. 5 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 receive The power on thee to call, In whom we are, and move, and live; Our God is all in all! ===436 ==S.M. 1 JESU, my Truth, my Way, My sure, unerring light, On thee my feeble steps I stay, Which thou wilt guide aright. 2 My Wisdom and my guide, My Counsellor thou art; O never let me leave thy side, Or from thy paths depart! 3 I lift my eyes to thee, Thou gracious, bleeding Lamb, That I may now enlightened 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; O never, Lord, depart, But love me to the end! 6 Still stir me up to strive With thee in strength divine; And every moment, Lord, revive This fainting soul of mine. 7 Persist to save my soul Throughout the fiery hour, Till I 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. 9 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 destroyed; And then my spotless soul receive, And take me home to God. ===437 ==L.M. Psalm lxiii. 1 O GOD, my God, my all thou art! Ere shines the dawn 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; And 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, O Lord; And more I joy to gain thy grace, Than all earth's treasures can afford. 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 with grateful songs My happy life shall glide away; The praise that to thy name belongs Hourly with lifted hands I'll pay. 6 Abundant sweetness, while I sing Thy love, my ravished heart o'erflows; Secure in thee, my God and King, Of glory that no period knows. 7 Thy name, O God, upon my bed Dwells on my lips, and fires my thought; With trembling awe, in midnight shade, I muse on all thy hands have wrought. 8 In all I do I feel thine aid; Therefore thy greatness will I sing, O God, who bidd'st my heart be glad Beneath the shadow of thy wing! 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. ===438 ==6-8s. Hebrews xiii. 20, 21. 1 O GOD of peace and pardoning love, Whose bowels of compassion move To every sinful child of man, Jesus, our Shepherd great and good, Who dying bought us with his blood, Thou hast brought back to life again! 2 His blood to all our souls apply (His blood alone can sanctify, Which first did for our sins atone) The covenant of redemption seal; The depth of love, of God, reveal, And speak us perfected in one. 3 O might our every work and word Express the tempers of our Lord, The nature of our Head above! His Spirit send into our hearts, Engraving on our inmost parts The living law of holiest love. 4 Then shall we do, with pure delight, Whate'er is pleasing in thy sight, As vessels of thy richest grace; And, having thy whole counsel done, To thee and thy co-equal Son Ascribe the everlasting praise. ===439 ==6-8s. 2nd. metre. 1 THY power and saving truth to show, A warfare at thy charge I go, Strong in the Lord, and thy great might; Gladly take up the hallowed cross; And, suffering all things for thy cause, Beneath thy bloody banner fight. 2 A spectacle to fiends and men, To all their fierce or cool disdain With calmest pity I submit; Determined nought to know, beside My Jesus and him crucified, I tread the world beneath my feet. 3 Superior to their smile or frown, On all their goods my soul looks down, Their pleasures, wealth, and power, and state; The man that dares their god despise, The Christian, he alone is wise; The Christian, he alone is great. 4 O God, let all my life declare How happy all thy servants are, How far above these earthly things; How pure, when washed in Jesu's blood, How intimately one with God, A heaven-born race of priests and kings. 5 For this alone I live below, The power of godliness to show, The wonders wrought by Jesu's name: O that I might but faithful prove; Witness to all thy pardoning love, And point them to the atoning Lamb! 6 Let me to every creature cry, The poor and rich, the low and high, Believe, and feel thy sins forgiven! Damned, till by Jesus saved, thou art! Till Jesu's blood hath washed thy heart, Thou canst not find the gate of heaven! ===440 ==6-8s. 2nd. metre. 1 THOU, Jesu, thou my breast inspire, And touch my lips with hallowed fire, And loose a stammering infant's tongue; Prepare the vessel of thy grace, Adorn me with the robes of praise, And mercy shall be all my song; Mercy for all who know not God, Mercy for all in Jesu's blood, Mercy, that earth and heaven transcends; Love, that o'erwhelms the saints in light, The length, and breadth, and depth, and height Of love divine, which never ends! 2 A faithful witness of thy grace, Well may I fill the allotted space, And answer all thy great design; Walk in the works by thee prepared; And find annexed 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; Enter into my Master's joy, And all eternity employ In praise, and ecstasy, and love. ===441 ==6-8s. 1 LET God, who comforts the distrest, Let Israel's consolation hear! Hear, Holy Ghost, our joint request, And show thyself the Comforter, And swell the unutterable groan, And breathe our wishes to the throne. 2 We weep for those that weep below, And burdened, for the afflicted sigh; The various forms of human woe Excite our softest sympathy, Fill every heart with mournful care, And draw out all our souls in prayer. 3 We wrestle for the ruined race, By sin eternally undone, Unless thou magnify thy grace, And make thy richest mercy known, And make thy vanquished rebels find Pardon in Christ for all mankind. 4 Father of everlasting love, To every soul thy Son reveal, Our guilt and sufferings to remove, Our deep, original wound to heal; And bid the fallen race arise, And turn our earth to paradise. ===442 ==6-8s. 1 OUR earth we now lament to see With floods of wickedness o'erflowed, With violence, wrong, 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. 3 O 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! 4 Who now against each other rise, The nations of the earth, constrain To follow after peace, and prize The blessings of thy righteous reign, The joys of unity to prove, The paradise of perfect love! ===443 ==6-8s. 1 ARM of the Lord, awake, awake! The terrors of the Lord display; Out of their sins the nations shake, Tear their vain confidence away; Conclude them all in unbelief, And fill their hearts with sacred grief. 2 Of judgment now the world convince, The end of Jesu's 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 image of its Lord, In finished holiness renewed, Immeasurably filled with God. ===444 For the Heathen. ==6-8s. 1 LORD over all, if thou hast made, Hast ransomed every soul of man, Why is the grace so long delayed? Why unfulfilled the saving plan? The bliss, for Adam's race designed, 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 Their blinded votaries convert; And shine in every pagan heart! 4 As lightning launched from east to west, The coming of thy kingdom be; To thee, by angel-hosts confest, Bow every soul and every knee; Thy glory let all flesh behold, And then fill up thy heavenly fold. ===445 ==6-8s. Numbers xxiv. 17. 1 O COME, thou radiant morning Star, Again in human darkness shine! Arise resplendent from afar! Assert thy royalty divine! Thy sway o'er all the earth maintain, And now begin thy glorious reign. 2 Thy kingdom, Lord, we long to see: Thy sceptre o'er the nations shake! To 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. ===446 ==C.M. 1 JESU, the word of mercy give, And let it swiftly run; And let the priests themselves believe, And put salvation on. 2 Clothed with the spirit of holiness, 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 borrowed 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. 5 As giants may they run their race, Exulting 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. ===447 ==S.M. 1 MESSIAH, Prince of peace! Where men each other tear, Where war is learned, they must confess, Thy kingdom is not there. Who, prompted by thy foe, Delight in human blood, Apollyon is their king, we know, And Satan is their god. 2 But shall he still devour The souls redeemed by thee? Jesus, stir up thy glorious power And end the apostasy! Come, Saviour, from above, O'er all our hearts to reign; And plant the kingdom of thy love In every heart of man. 3 Then shall we exercise The hellish art no more, While thou our long-lost paradise Dost with thyself restore. Fightings and wars shall cease, And, in thy Spirit given, Pure joy and everlasting, peace Shall turn our earth to heaven. ===448 ==6-8s. Isaiah xlv. 22 &c. 1 ETERNAL 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 prove; The law of sin and death to end, We wait for all the power of love, The law of perfect liberty, The law of life which is in thee. 4 O might it now from thee proceed, With thee, into the souls of men! Throughout the world thy gospel spread; And let thy glorious Spirit reign, On all the ransomed race bestowed; And let the world be filled with God! ===449 ==7s & 6s. Isaiah xi. 5, 13. 1 TRUE and faithful Witness, thou In righteousness hast sworn, Every knee to thee shall bow, And every heart shall turn; Girt with equity and might, Arise to administer thy grace, Claim the kingdoms in thy right, And govern all our race. 2 Visit us, bright morning Star, And bring the perfect day! Urged by faith's incessant prayer, No longer, Lord, delay: Now destroy the envious root; The ground of nature's feuds remove; Fill the earth with golden fruit, With ripe, millennial love. ===450 ==S.M. For the Jews. 1 MESSIAH, full of grace, Redeemed by thee, we plead The promise made to Abraham's race, To souls for ages dead. 2 Their bones, as quite dried up, Throughout the vale appear: Cut off and lost their last faint hope To see thy kingdom here. 3 Open their graves, and bring The outcasts forth, to own Thou art their Lord, their God and king, Their true Anointed One. 4 To save the race forlorn, Thy glorious arm display! And show the world a nation born, A nation in a day! ===451 ==6-8s. Romans xi. 15-27. 1 FATHER of faithful Abraham, hear Our earnest suit for Abraham's seed! Justly they claim the softest prayer From us, adopted in their stead, Who mercy through their fall obtain, And Christ by their rejection gain. 2 But hast thou finally forsook, For ever cast thy own away? Wilt thou not bid the outcasts look On him they pierced, and weep, and pray? Yes, gracious Lord, thy word is passed; All Israel shall be saved at last. 3 Come then, thou great Deliverer, come! The veil from Jacob's heart remove; Receive thy ancient people home! That, quickened by thy dying love, The world may their reception find Life from the dead for all mankind. ===452 ==S.M. Isaiah lxvi. 19,20. 1 ALMIGHTY God of love, Set up the attracting sign, And summon whom thou dost approve For messengers divine; From favoured Abraham's seed The new apostles choose, In isles and continents to spread The dead-reviving news. 2 Them, snatched out of the flame, Through every nation send, The true Messiah to proclaim, The universal friend; That all the God unknown May learn of Jews to adore, And see thy glory in thy Son, Till time shall be no more. 3 O that the chosen band Might now their brethren bring, And, gathered out of every land, Present to Zion's King! Of all the ancient race Not one be left behind, But each, impelled by secret grace, His way to Canaan find. 4 We know it must be done, For God hath spoke the word: All Israel shall the Saviour own, To their first state restored; Rebuilt by his command, Jerusalem shall rise; Her temple on Moriah stand Again, and touch the skies. 5 Send then thy servants forth, To call the Hebrews home; From East, and West, and South, and North, Let all the wanderers come; Where'er in lands unknown The fugitives remain, Bid every creature help them on, Thy holy mount to gain. 6 An offering to their God, There let them all be seen, Sprinkled with water and with blood, In soul and body clean; With Israel's myriads sealed, Let all the nations meet, And show the mystery fulfilled, Thy family complete! ===453 For England. ==S.M. Acts xix. 20. 1 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, Destroy the works of self and pride, And shake the gates of hell. 2 Its energy exert In the believing soul; Diffuse thy grace through every part, And sanctify the whole; Its utmost virtue show In pure consummate love, And fill with all thy life below, And give us thrones above. ===454 ==L.M. Revelations iii. 14-19. 1 GOD of unspotted purity, Us and our works canst thou behold! Justly we are abhorred by thee, For we are neither hot nor cold. 2 We call thee Lord, thy faith profess, But do not from our hearts obey; In soft Laodicean ease We sleep our useless lives away. 3 We live in pleasure, and are dead, In search of fame and wealth we live: Commanded in thy steps to tread, We seek sometimes, but never strive. 4 A lifeless form we still retain; Of this we make our empty boast, Nor know the name we take in vain; The power of godliness is lost! 5 How long, great God, have we appeared Abominable in thy sight! Better that we had never heard Thy word, or seen the gospel light. 6 Better that we had never known The way to heaven through saving grace, Than basely in our lives disown, And slight and mock thee to thy face. 7 Thou rather wouldst that we were cold, Than seem to serve thee without zeal; Less guilty if, with those of old, We worshipped Thor and Woden still. 8 Less grievous will the judgment-day To Sodom and Gomorrah prove, Than us, who cast our faith away, And trample on thy richer love. ===455 SECOND PART. ==L.M. 1 O LET us our own works forsake, Ourselves, and all we have deny; Thy condescending counsel take, And come to thee pure gold to buy! 2 O might we, through thy grace, attain The faith thou never wilt reprove, The faith that purges every stain, The faith that always works by love! 3 O might we see, in this our day, The things belonging to our peace And timely meet thee in thy way Of judgments, and our sins confess! 4 Thy fatherly chastisements own, With filial awe revere thy rod; And turn, with zealous haste, and run Into the outstretched arms of God. ===456 ==L.M. Acts ii. 39. 1 FATHER, 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, and power. 3 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, And kindle life more pure and kind; 5 The Spirit of faith, in this thy day, To break the power of cancelled sin, Tread down its strength, o'erturn 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 all delight. ===457 SECOND PART ==L.M. 1 ON all the earth thy Spirit shower; The earth 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'errun; And every law of sin reverse, That faith and love may make all one. 3 Yea, let thy Spirit in every place Its richer energy declare; While lovely tempers, fruits of grace, The kingdom of thy Christ prepare. 4 Grant this, O holy God and true! The ancient seers thou didst inspire; To us perform the promise due; Descend, and crown us now with fire! ===458 ==L.M. 1 AUTHOR of faith, we seek thy face For all who feel thy work begun; Confirm and strengthen them in grace, And bring thy feeblest children on. 2 Thou seest their wants, thou know'st their names, Be mindful of thy youngest care; Be tender of thy new-born lambs, And gently in thy bosom bear. 3 The lion roaring for his prey, And ravening wolves on every side, Watch over them to tear and slay, If found one moment from their guide. 4 Satan his thousand arts essays, His agents all their powers employ, To blast the blooming work of grace, The heavenly offspring to destroy. 5 Baffle the crooked serpent's skill, And turn his sharpest dart aside; Hide from their eyes the devilish 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. ===459 ==S.M. 1 SHEPHERD of Israel, hear Our supplicating cry; And gather in the souls sincere That from their brethren fly. Scattered through devious ways, Collect thy feeble flock; And join by thine atoning grace, And hide them in the rock. 2 O wouldst thou end the storm, That keeps us still apart! The thing impossible perform, And make us of one heart, One spirit and one mind, The same that was in thee: O might we all again be joined In perfect harmony! 3 The soul-transforming word In us, even us, fulfil; Join to thyself, our common Lord, And all thy servants seal. Confer the grace unknown, The mystic charity; As thou art with the Father one, Unite us all in thee. 4 So shall the world believe Our record, Lord, and thine; And all with thankful hearts receive The messenger divine, Sent from his throne above, To Adam's offspring given, To join and perfect us in love, And take us up to heaven. ===460 ==S.M. Isaiah lxvi. 18. 1 FATHER of boundless grace, Thou hast in part fulfilled Thy promise made to Adam's race, In God incarnate sealed. A few from every land At first to Salem came, And saw the wonders of thy hand, And saw the tongues of flame. 2 Yet still we wait the end, The coming of our Lord; The full accomplishment attend Of thy prophetic word. Thy promise deeper lies In unexhausted grace, And new-discovered worlds arise To sing their Saviour's praise. 3 Beloved for Jesu's sake, By him redeemed of old, All nations must come in, and make One undivided fold: While gathered in by thee, And perfected in one, They all at once thy glory see In thine eternal Son. ===461 ==6-8s. 1 SAVIOUR, to thee we humbly cry! The brethren we have lost restore; Recall them by thy pitying eye, Retrieve them from the Tempter's power; By thy victorious blood cast down, Nor suffer him to take their crown. 2 Beguiled alas! by Satan's art, We see them now far off removed, The burden of our bleeding heart, The souls whom once in thee we loved; Whom still we love with grief and pain, And weep for their return in vain. 3 In vain, till thou the power bestow, The double power of quickening grace. And make the happy sinners know Their Tempter, with his angel-face, Who leads them captive at his will, Captive - but happy sinners still! 4 O wouldst thou break the fatal snare Of carnal self-security; And let them feel the wrath they bear, And let them groan their want of thee, Robbed of their false, pernicious peace, Stripped of their fancied righteousness! 5 The men of careless lives, who deem Thy righteousness accounted theirs, Awake out of the soothing dream, Alarm their souls with humble fears: Thou jealous God, stir up thy power, And let them sleep in sin no more! 6 Long as the guilt of sin shall last, Them in its misery detain; Hold their licentious spirits fast, Bind them with their own nature's chain, Nor ever let the wanderers rest, Till lodged again in Jesu's breast. ===462 ==L.M. 1 O LET the prisoners' mournful cries As incense in thy sight appear! Their humble wailings pierce the skies, If haply they may feel thee near. 2 The captive exiles make their moans, From sin impatient to be free: Call home, call home thy banished ones! Lead captive their captivity! 3 Show them the blood that bought their peace, The anchor of their steadfast hope; And bid their guilty terrors cease, And bring the ransomed prisoners up. 4 Out of the deep regard their cries, 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; O 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 O satisfy their soul in drought! Give them thy saving health to see; And let thy mercy find them out; And let thy mercy reach to me. ===463 ==6-7s. For the Nation. 1 LAMB of God, who bear'st away All the sins of all mankind, Bow a nation to thy sway; While we may acceptance find, Let us thankfully embrace The last offers of thy grace. 2 Thou thy messengers hast sent, Joyful tidings to proclaim, Willing we should all repent, Know salvation in thy name, Feel our sins by grace forgiven, Find in thee the way to heaven. 3 Jesus, roll away the stone! Good Physician, show thy art! Make thy healing virtue known, Break the unbelieving heart, By thy bloody cross subdue; Tell them, "I have died for you!" 4 Let thy dying love constrain Those who disregard thy frown; Sink the mountain to a plain; Bring the pride of sinners down; Soften the obdurate crowd; Melt the rebels with thy blood! ===464 ==7s & 6s. Isaiah xxxiii, 5,6. 1 JESUS, from thy heavenly place, Thy dwelling in the sky, Fill our church with righteousness, 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. 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 King's peculiar treasure prove, Blest with piety sincere, Inspired with humble love. ===465 ==C.M. For the King. 1 SOVEREIGN of all! whose will ordains The powers on earth that be, By whom our rightful Monarch reigns, Subject to none but thee: 2 Stir up thy power, appear, appear, And for thy servant fight; Support thy great vicegerent here, And vindicate his right. 3 Lo! in the arms of faith and prayer We bear him to thy throne; Receive thy own peculiar care, The Lord's anointed one. 4 With favour look upon his face; Thy love's pavilion spread, And watchful troops of angels place Around his sacred head. 5 Guard him from all who dare oppose Thy delegate and thee; From open and from secret foes, From force and perfidy! 6 Confound whoe'er his ruin seek, Or into friends convert: Give him his adversaries' neck; Give him his people's heart. 7 Let us, for conscience' sake, revere The man of thy right hand; Honour and love thine image here, And bless his mild command. 8 Thou only didst the blessing give; The glory, Lord, be thine: Let all with thankful joy receive The benefit divine. 9 To those who thee in him obey, The Spirit of grace impart: His dear, his sacred burden lay On every loyal heart. 10 Still let us pray, and never cease, "Defend him, Lord, defend: Stablish his throne in glorious peace, And save him to the end!" ===466 ==8s. & 6s. Job xxxiv. 29. 1 A NATION God delights to bless, Can all our raging foes distress, Or hurt whom they surround? Hid from the general scourge we are, Nor see the bloody waste of war, Nor hear the trumpet's sound. 2 O might we, Lord! the grace improve, By labouring for the rest of love, The soul-composing power; Bless us with that internal peace, And all the fruits of righteousness, Till time shall be no more. ===467 ==L.M. For Parents. 1 FATHER of all, by whom we are, For whom was made whatever is; Who hast entrusted to our care A candidate for glorious bliss: 2 Poor worms of earth, for help we cry, For grace to guide what grace has given; We ask for wisdom from on high, To train our infant up for heaven. 3 We tremble at the danger near, And crowds of wretched parents see, Who, blindly fond, their children rear In tempers far as hell from thee: 4 Themselves the slaves of sense and praise, Their babes who pamper and admire, And make the helpless infants pass To murderer-Moloch through the fire. 5 Rather this hour resume his breath, From selfishness and pride to save; By death prevent the second death, And hide him in the silent grave! 6 Or, if thou grant a longer date, With resolute wisdom us endue, To point him out his lost estate, His dire apostasy to show: 7 To time our every smile or frown, To mark the bounds of good and ill; And beat the pride of nature down, And subjugate his rising will. 8 Him let us tend, severely kind, As guardians of his giddy youth; As set to form his tender mind, By principles of virtuous truth: 9 To fit his soul for heavenly grace, Discharge the Christian parents' part, And keep him, till thy love takes place, And Jesus rises in his heart. ===468 ==C.M. For Parents. 1 GOD only wise, almighty, good, Send forth thy truth and light, To point us out the narrow road, And guide our steps aright: 2 To steer our dangerous course between The rocks on either hand; And fix us in the golden mean, And bring our charge to land. 3 Made apt, by thy sufficient grace, To teach as taught by thee, We come to train in all thy ways Our rising progeny: 4 Their selfish will in time subdue, And mortify their pride; And lend their youth a sacred clew To find the crucified. 5 We would in every step look up, By thy example taught To alarm their fear, excite their hope, And rectify their thought. 6 We would persuade their hearts to obey, With mildest zeal proceed; 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 filial fear, And pure, ingenuous love: 8 To watch their will, to sense inclined; Withhold the hurtful food; And gently bend their tender mind, And draw their souls to God. ===469 For Parents. ==C.M. 1 FATHER of lights! thy needful aid To us that ask impart; Mistrustful of ourselves, afraid Of our own treacherous heart. 2 O'erwhelmed with justest fear, again To thee for help we call: Where many mightier have been slain, By thee unsaved, we fall. 3 Unless restrained by grace we are, In vain the snare we see; We see, and rush into the snare Of blind idolatry. 4 Ah! what avails superior light, Without superior love? We see the truth, we judge aright, And wisdom's ways approve: 5 We mark the idolizing throng, Their cruel fondness blame; Their children's souls we know they wrong; And we shall do the same. 6 In spite of our resolves, we fear Our own infirmity; And tremble at the trial near, And cry, O God, to thee! 7 We soon shall do what we condemn, And, down the current borne, With shame confess our nature's stream Too strong for us to turn. 8 Our only help in danger's hour, Our only strength, thou art! Above the world and Satan's power, And greater than our heart! 9 Us from ourselves thou canst secure, In nature's slippery ways; And make our feeble footsteps sure By thy sufficient grace. 10 If on thy promised grace alone We faithfully depend, Thou surely wilt preserve thy own, And keep them to the end: 11 Wilt keep us tenderly discreet To guard what thou hast given; And bring our child with us to meet At thy right hand in heaven. ===470 ==L.M. For the Head of a Household. 1 MASTER supreme, I look to thee For grace 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 the appointed charge fulfil, With all my heart, and all my might. 3 Inferiors as a sacred trust I from the sovereign Lord 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 would I tenderly entreat, And scarce distinguish from a child. 6 Yet let me not my place forsake, The occasion of his stumbling prove, The servant to my bosom take, Or mar him by familiar love. 7 Order if some invert, confound, Their Lord's authority betray, I hearken to the gospel sound, And trace the providential way. 8 As far from abjectness as pride, With condescending dignity, Jesus, I make thy word my guide, And keep the post assigned by thee. 9 O could I emulate the zeal Thou dost to thy poor servants hear! The troubles, griefs, and burdens feel Of souls entrusted to my care: 10 In daily prayer to God commend The souls whom Jesus died to save; And think how soon my sway may end, And all be equal in the grave! ===471 ==8s & 6s. For the same. 1 HOW shall I walk my God to please, And spread content and happiness O'er all beneath my care? A pattern to my household give, And as a guardian angel live, As Jesu's messenger? 2 The opposite extremes I see, Remissness and severity, And know not 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 divine, My delegated power? The souls I from my Lord receive, Of each 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, taught by thy good Spirit and led, I may with confidence proceed, And all thy footsteps trace. 5 O teach me my first lesson now! And, while to thy sweet yoke I bow, Thy easy service prove, Lowly and meek in heart, I see The art of governing like thee Is governing by love. ===472 ==8s & 6s. For the same. 1 I AND my house will serve the Lord: But first obedient to his word I must myself appear; By actions, words, and tempers show, 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 family In the celestial road. 4 Lord, if thou didst the wish infuse, A vessel fitted for thy use Into thy hands receive! Work in me both to will and do; And show them how believers true And real Christians live. 5 With all-sufficient grace supply; And, lo! I come to testify The wonders of thy name, Which saves from sin, the world, and hell; Whose virtue every heart may feel, And every tongue proclaim. 6 A sinner, saved myself from sin, I come my family to win, To preach their sins forgiven; Children, and wife, and servants seize, And through the paths of pleasantness Conduct them all to heaven. ===473 ==6-8s. A Prayer for Children. 1 COME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, To whom we for our children cry; The good desired and wanted most Out of thy richest grace supply; The sacred discipline 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, recovered from their fall, Stamped with the humble character, Raised by the nurture of the Lord, To all their paradise restored. 3 Error and ignorance remove, Their blindness both of heart and mind; Give them the wisdom 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 all cut off, 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 disjoined, Knowledge and vital piety: Learning and holiness combined, And truth and love, let all men see In those whom up to thee we give, Thine, wholly thine, to die and live. 6 Father, accept them through thy Son, And ever by thy Spirit guide! Thy wisdom in their lives be shown, Thy name confessed and glorified; Thy power and love diffused abroad, Till all the earth is filled with God. ===474 ==6-8s. The same subject. 1 CAPTAIN of our salvation, take The souls 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, Accustomed daily to endure The welcome burden of thy cross; Inured to toil and patient pain, Till all thy perfect mind they gain. 3 Our sons henceforth be wholly thine, And serve and love thee all their days, Infuse the principle divine In all who here expect thy grace; Let each improve the grace bestowed; Rise every child a man of God! 4 Train up thy hardy soldiers, Lord, In all their Captain's steps to tread Or send them to proclaim the word, The gospel through the world to spread. Freely as they receive to give, And preach the death by which we live. ===475 ===6-8s. The same subject. 1 BUT who sufficient is to lead And execute the vast design? How can our arduous toil succeed, When earth and hell their forces join The meanest instruments to o'erthrow Which thou hast ever used below? 2 Mountains, alas! on mountains rise, To make our utmost efforts vain; The work our feeble strength defies, And all the helps and hopes of man; Our utter impotence we see; But nothing is too hard for thee. 3 The things impossible to men Thou canst for thine own people do: Thy strength be in our weakness seen; Thy wisdom in our folly show! Prevent, accompany, and bless, And crown the whole with full success. 4 Unless the power of heavenly grace, The wisdom of the Deity, Direct and govern all our ways, And all our works be wrought in thee, Our blighted works we know shall fail, And earth and hell at last prevail. 5 But, O almighty God of love, Into thy hands the matter take! The mountain-obstacles remove, For thy own truth and mercy's sake; Fulfil in ours thy own design, And prove the work entirely thine. ===476 ==L.M. At the Baptism of Adults. 1 COME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Honour the means ordained by thee! Make good our apostolic boast, And own thy glorious ministry. 2 We now thy promised presence claim, Sent to disciple all mankind, Sent to baptize into thy name; We now thy promised presence find. 3 Father! in these reveal thy Son: In these, for whom we seek thy face, The hidden mystery 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. 5 Eternal Spirit! descend from high, Baptizer of our spirits thou! The sacramental seal apply, And witness with the water now! 6 O that the souls baptized therein May now thy truth and mercy feel; May rise and wash away their sin! Come, Holy Ghost, their pardon seal! ===477 ==7s & 6s. For the same occasion. 1 FATHER, Son, and Holy Ghost, In solemn power come down! Present with thy heavenly host, Thine ordinance to crown: See a sinful worm of earth! Bless to him the cleansing flood, Plunge him, by a second birth, Into the depths of God. 2 Let the promised inward grace Accompany the sign; On his new-born soul impress The character divine; Father, all thy name reveal! Jesus, all thy name impart! Holy Ghost, renew, and dwell For ever in his heart! ===478 ==S.M. 1 AND 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 Jesu's praise we join, And in his sight appear. 2 What troubles have we seen, What conflicts have we past, Fightings without, and fears within, 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 all things loss, So we may Jesus gain. ===479 ==8-7s. 1 PEACE be on this house bestowed, 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 place! Son of peace, receive thy crown, Fulness of the gospel grace. 2 Christ, my Master and my Lord, Let me thy 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 fulfilled; Till we are of thee possessed, Pardoned, sanctified, and sealed Till we all, in love renewed, Find the pearl that Adam lost, Temples of the living God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost! ===480 ==8-7s. 1 GLORY be to God above, God from whom all blessings flow; Make we mention of his love, Publish we his praise below; Called together by his grace, We are met in Jesu's 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 sure, 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 rest, Till we are in Jesus found, Of our paradise possest; He removes the flaming sword, Calls us back, from Eden driven; To his image here restored, Soon he takes us up to heaven. ===481 ==10s & 11s. 1 ALL 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, His fulness of love. 3 Through pride and desire Unhurt we have gone, Through water and fire In him we went on; The world and the devil Through him we o'ercame, Our Saviour from evil, For ever the same. 4 When we would have spurned His mercy and grace, To Egypt returned, And fled from his face, He hindered our flying, (His goodness to show) And stopped us, by crying, "Will ye also go?" 5 O 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. 6 Come, Jesus, and loose The stammerer's tongue, And teach even us The spiritual song; Let us without ceasing Give thanks for thy grace, And glory, and blessing, And honour, and praise. ===482 ==S.M. 1 SAVIOUR of sinful men, Thy goodness we proclaim, Which brings us here to meet again, And triumph in thy name; Our safeguard and our tower; Hath saved us from the world, and sin, And all the accuser's power. 2 Jesus take all the praise, That still 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 disjoined, Our friends that went before We soon in Paradise shall find, And meet to part no more. In yon thrice-happy seat, Waiting for us they are; And thou shalt there a husband meet! And I a parent there! 4 O! what a mighty change Shall Jesu's sufferers know, While o'er the happy plains they range, Incapable of woe! No ill-requited love Shall there our spirits wound; 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! undone No father there, in passion loud, Cries, "O my son, my son!" 6 Nor slightest touch of pain, Nor sorrow's least alloy, Can violate our rest, or stain Our purity of joy: In that eternal day No clouds nor tempests rise, These gushing tears are wiped away For ever from our eyes. ===483 ==6-8s. 1 JESU, to thee our hearts we lift, (May all our hearts with love o'erflow!) With thanks for thy continued gift, That still thy precious name we know, Retain our sense of sin forgiven, And wait for all our inward heaven. 2 What mighty troubles hast thou shown Thy feeble, tempted followers here! We have through fire and water gone, But saw thee on the floods appear, But felt thee present in the flame, And shouted our Deliverer's name. 3 When stronger souls their faith forsook, And, lulled in worldly, hellish peace, Leaped desperate from their guardian Rock, And headlong plunged in sin's abyss, Thy strength was in our weakness shown; And still it guards and keeps thine own. 4 All are not lost or wandered back; All have not left thy church and thee; There are who suffer for thy sake, Enjoy thy glorious infamy, Esteem the scandal of the cross, And only seek divine applause. 5 Thou who hast kept us to this hour, O keep us faithful to the end! When, robed with majesty and power, Our Jesus shall from heaven descend, His friends and confessors to own, And seat us on his glorious throne. ===484 ==10s & 11s. 1 APPOINTED by thee, We meet in thy name, And meekly agree To follow the Lamb, To trace thy example, The world to disdain, And constantly trample On pleasure and pain. 2 Rejoicing, in hope, we humbly go on, And daily take up The pledge of our crown; In doing and bearing The will of our Lord, We still are preparing To meet our reward. 3 O Jesus, appear! No longer delay To sanctify here, And bear us away, The end of our meeting On earth let us see, Triumphantly sitting In glory with thee! ===485 ==S.M. 1 JESU, 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 health, 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 given; We meet on earth for thy dear sake, That we may meet in heaven. 3 Present we know thou art, But O thyself reveal! Now, Lord, let every bounding heart The mighty comfort feel. O may thy quickening voice The death of sin remove; And bid our inmost souls rejoice In hope of perfect love! ===486 ==C.M. 1 SEE, Jesu, thy disciples see, The promised 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 joined; We wait, according to thy word, Thee in the midst to find. 3 With us thou art assembled here, But O 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!" 5 Whom now we seek, O may we meet! Jesus, the crucified, Show us thy bleeding hands and feet, Thou who for us hast died. 6 Cause us the record to receive, Speak, and the tokens show; "O be not faithless, but believe In me, who died for you!" ===487 ==7s & 6s. Ecclesiastes iv. 9 - 12. 1 TWO are better far than one For counsel or for fight; How can one be warm alone, Or serve his God aright? Join we then our hearts and hands, Each to love provoke his friend; Run the way of his commands, And keep it to the end. 2 Woe to him whose spirits droop, To him who falls alone! He has none to lift him up, To help his weakness on: Happier we each other keep, We each other's burdens bear; Never need our footsteps slip, Upheld by mutual prayer. 3 Who of twain hath made us one, Maintains our unity, Jesus is the corner-stone, In whom we all agree; Servants of one common Lord, Sweetly of one heart and mind, Who can break a threefold cord, Or part whom God hath joined? 4 O that all with us might prove The fellowship of saints! Find supplied, in Jesu's love, What every member wants: Grasp we our high calling's prize, Feel our sins on earth forgiven, Rise, in his whole image rise, And meet our Head in heaven! ===488 ==5 5 9, 5 5 9. 1 HOW happy are we Who in Jesus agree To expect his return from above! We sit under our Vine, And delightfully join In the praise of his excellent love. 2 How pleasant and sweet, In his name when we meet, Is his fruit to our spiritual taste! We are banqueting here On angelical cheer, And the joys that eternally last. 3 Invited by him, We drink of the stream Ever flowing in bliss from the throne: Who in Jesus believe, We the Spirit receive That proceeds from the Father and Son. 4 The unspeakable grace He obtained for our race, And the Spirit of faith he imparts; Then, then we conceive How in heaven they live, By the kingdom of God in our hearts. 5 True believers have seen The Saviour of men, As his head he on Calvary bowed: We shall see him again, When, with all His bright train, He descends on the luminous cloud. G We remember the word Of our crucified Lord, When he went to prepare us a place; "I will come in that day, And transport you away, And admit to a sight of thy face." 7 With earnest desire After thee we aspire, And long thy appearing to see, Till our souls thou receive In thy presence to live, And be perfectly happy in thee. 8 Come, Lord, from the skies, And command us to rise, Ready made for the mansions above; With our Head to ascend, And eternity spend In a rapture of heavenly love. ===489 ==6-8s. 2nd. metre. 1 HOW good and pleasant 'tis to see, When brethren cordially agree, And kindly think and speak the same! A family of faith and love, Combined to seek the things above, And spread the common Saviour's fame. The God of grace, who all invites, Who in our unity delights, Vouchsafes our intercourse to bless; Revives us with refreshing showers, The fulness of his blessing pours, And keeps our minds in perfect peace. 2 Jesus, thou precious corner-stone, Preserve inseparably one Whom thou didst by thy Spirit join; Still let us in thy Spirit live, And to thy church the pattern give Of unanimity divine. Still let us to each other cleave, And from thy plenitude receive Constant supplies of hallowing grace; Till to a perfect man we rise, O'ertake our kindred in the skies, And find prepared our heavenly place. ===490 ==L.M. Christian Fellowship. 1 BRETHREN in Christ, and well-beloved, To Jesus and his servants dear, Enter and show yourselves approved; Enter, and find that God is here. 2 Welcome from earth: lo, the right hand Of fellowship to you we give! With open hearts and hands we stand, And you in Jesu's name receive. 3 Say, are your hearts resolved as ours? Then let them burn with sacred love; Then let them taste the heavenly powers, Partakers of the joys above. 4 Jesu, attend thyself reveal! Are we not met in thy great name? Thee in the midst we wait to feel, We wait to catch the spreading flame. 5 Thou God that answerest by fire, The Spirit of burning now impart; And let the flames of pure desire Rise from the altar of our heart. 6 Truly our fellowship below With thee and with the Father is; In thee eternal life we know, And heaven's unutterable bliss. 7 In part we only know thee here, But wait thy coming from above; And we shall then behold thee near, And we shall all be lost in love. ===491 ==5 5 9, 5 5 9. 1 COME away to the skies, My beloved, arise, And rejoice in the day thou wast born; On this festival day, Come exulting away, And with singing to Zion return. 2 We have laid up our love And treasure above, Though our bodies continue below; The redeemed of the Lord, We remember his word, And with singing to Paradise go. 3 With singing we praise The original grace, By our heavenly Father bestowed; Our being receive From his bounty, 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. 5 With thanks we approve The design of thy love, Which hath joined us in Jesus's name; So united in heart, That we never can part, Till we meet at the feast of the Lamb. 6 There, there at his feet We shall suddenly meet, 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, To our Father and King, And his rapturous praises repeat; To the Lamb that was slain, Hallelujah again, Sing all heaven, and fall at his feet! 8 In assurance of hope, We to Jesus look up, Till his banner unfurled in the air From our graves we shall see, And cry out, "It is he!" And fly up to acknowledge him there. ===492 ==L.M. 1 WHAT shall we offer our good Lord, Poor nothings! for his boundless grace? Fain would we his great name record, And worthily set forth his praise. 2 Great object of our growing love, To whom our more than all we owe, Open the fountain from above, And let it our full souls o'erflow. 3 So shall our lives thy power proclaim, Thy grace for every sinner free; Till all mankind shall learn thy name, Shall all stretch out their hands to thee. 4 Open a door which earth and hell May strive to shut, but strive in vain; Let thy word richly in us dwell, And let our gracious fruit remain. 5 O multiply the sower's seed! And fruit we every hour shall bear, Throughout the world thy gospel spread, Thy everlasting truth declare 6 We all, in perfect love renewed, Shall know the greatness of thy power; Stand in the temple of our God As pillars, and go out no more. ===493 ==6-8s. Isaiah ix. 2 - 5. 1 THE people that in darkness lay, The confines of eternal night, We, we have seen a gospel day, The glorious beams of heavenly light, His Spirit in our hearts hath shone, And showed the Father in the Son. 2 Father of everlasting grace, Thou hast in us thy arm revealed, Hast multiplied the faithful race, Who, conscious of their pardon sealed, Of joy unspeakable possest, Anticipate their heavenly rest. 3 In tears who sowed, in joy we reap, And praise thy goodness all day long: Him in our eye of faith we keep, Who gave us our triumphal song, And doth his spoils to all divide, A lot among the sanctified. 4 Thou hast our bonds in sunder broke, Took all our load of guilt away; From sin, the world, and Satan's yoke, (Like Israel saved in Midian's day) Redeemed us by our conquering Lord, Our Gideon, and his Spirit's sword. 5 Not like the warring sons of men, With shouts, and garments rolled in blood, Our Captain doth the fight maintain; But, lo! the burning Spirit of God Kindles in each a secret fire; And all our sins as smoke expire. ===494 ==6-8s. Genesis xxviii. 16, 17. 1 LO! God is here! let us adore, And own how dreadful is this place! Let all within us feel his power, And silent bow before his face; Who know his power, his grace who prove, Serve him with awe, with reverence love. 2 Lo! God is here! him day and night The united choirs of angels sing; To him, enthroned above all height, Heaven's host their noblest praises bring; Disdain not, Lord, our meaner song, Who praise thee with a stammering tongue. 3 Gladly the toys of earth we leave, Wealth, pleasure, fame, for thee alone; To thee our will, soul, flesh, we give, O take, O seal them for thine own! Thou art the God, thou art the Lord; Be thou by all thy works adored. 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. 5 ln 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, Ye sons of men, for God is man!) All may we lose, so thee we gain. 6 As flowers their opening leaves display, And glad drink in the solar fire, So may we catch thy every ray, So may thy influence us inspire; Thou beam of the eternal beam, Thou purging fire, thou quickening, flame. ===495 ==5 5 5 11, 5 5 5 11. 1 COME, let us arise, And press to the skies; The summons obey, My friends, my beloved, and hasten away. The Master of all For our service doth call, And deigns to approve, With smiles of acceptance, our labour of love. 2 His burden who hear, We alone can declare How easy his yoke, While to love and good works we each other provoke; By word and by deed, The bodies in need, The souls to relieve, And freely as Jesus hath given to give. 3 Then let us attend Our heavenly Friend, In his members distrest, By want, or affliction, or sickness opprest: The prisoner relieve, The stranger receive, Supply all their wants, And spend and be spent in assisting his saints. 4 Thus while we bestow Our moments below, Ourselves we forsake, And refuge in Jesus's righteousness take: His passion alone The foundation we own; And pardon we claim, And eternal redemption, in Jesus's name. ===496 ==10s & 11s. Matthew vi. 33. 1 THE earth is the Lord's, And all it contains; The truth of his words 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; 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 grace The power of his Spirit Shall joyfully own, And all things inherit In virtue of one. ===497 ==4-6s & 2-8s. 1 COME, all whoe'er have set Your faces Zion-ward, In Jesus let us us meet, And praise our common Lord; In Jesus let us still go on, Till all appear before his throne. 2 Nearer, and nearer still, We to our country come, To that celestial hill, The weary pilgrim's home, The new Jerusalem above, The seat of everlasting love. 3 The ransomed sons of God, All earthly things we scorn, And to our high abode With songs of praise return; From strength to strength we still proceed, With crowns of joy upon our head. 4 The peace and joy of faith Each moment may we feel; Redeemed from sin and wrath, From earth, and death, and hell, We to our Father's house repair, To meet our elder Brother there. 5 Our Brother, Saviour, Head, Our all in all, is he; And in his steps who tread, We soon his face shall see; Shall see him with our glorious friends, And then in heaven our journey ends. ===498 ==5 5 5 11, 5 5 5 11. 1 COME, let us anew Our journey pursue, With vigour arise, And press to our permanent place in the skies. Of heavenly birth, Though wandering on earth, This is not our place; But strangers and pilgrims ourselves we confess. 2 At Jesus's call, We gave up our all; And still we forego For Jesus's sake our enjoyments 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 our treasure already are there. We march hand in hand To Immanuel's land: No matter what cheer We meet with on earth; for eternity's near. 4 The rougher our way, The shorter our stay; The tempests that rise Shall gloriously hurry our souls to the skies, The fiercer the blast, The sooner 'tis past; The troubles that come, Shall come to our rescue, and hasten us home. ===499 ==5 5 9, 5 5 9. 1 COME, 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, And 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 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 that was slain, And liveth again, 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; With his mercy's full blaze, With the sight of his face, Our beatified spirits he feeds. 8 Our foreheads proclaim His ineffable name; Our bodies his glory display; A day without night We feast in his sight, And eternity seems as a day! ==500 ==C.M. 1 ALL praise to our redeeming Lord, Who joins us by his grace, And bids us, each to each restored, Together seek his face. 2 He bids us build each other up; And, gathered into one, To our high calling's glorious hope We hand in hand go on. 3 The gift which he on one bestows, We all delight to prove; The grace through every vessel flows, In purest streams of love. 4 Even now we think and speak the same, And cordially agree; Concentred all, through Jesu's name, In perfect harmony. 5 We all partake the joy of one, The common peace we feel, A peace to sensual minds unknown, A joy unspeakable. G And if our fellowship below In Jesus be so sweet, What heights of rapture shall we know, When round his throne we meet! ==501 ==C.M. 1 JESUS, great Shepherd of the sheep, To thee for help we fly: Thy little flock in safety keep; For O! the wolf is nigh. 2 He comes, of hellish malice full, To scatter, tear, and slay; He seizes every straggling soul, As his own lawful prey. 3 Us into thy protection take, And gather with thy arm; 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 agree; 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. ===502 ==C.M. 1 COME, thou omniscient Son of man, Display thy sifting power; Come with thy Spirit's winnowing fan, And throughly purge thy floor. 2 The chaff of sin, the accursed thing, Far from our souls be driven! The wheat into thy garner bring, And lay us up for heaven. 3 Look through us with thy eyes of flame, The clouds and darkness chase; And tell me what by sin I am, And what I am by grace. 4 Whate'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 perfectly like thee. ===503 ==C.M. 1 TRY us, O God, and search the ground Of every sinful heart, Whate'er of sin in us is found, O bid it all depart! 2 When to the right 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 afford, And feel his brother's care. 4 Help us to build each other up, Our little stock improve; Increase our faith, confirm our hope, And perfect us in love. 5 Up into thee, our living Head, Let us in all things grow, Till thou hast made us free indeed, And spotless here below. 6 Then, when the mighty work is wrought, Receive thy ready bride: Give us in heaven a happy lot With all the sanctified. ===504 ==C.M. 1 JESUS, united by thy grace, And each to each endeared, With confidence we seek thy face, And know our prayer is heard. 2 Still let us own our common Lord, And bear thine easy yoke, A band of love, a threefold cord, Which never can be broke. 3 Make us into one spirit drink; Baptize into thy name; And let us always kindly think, And sweetly speak, the same. 4 Touched by the loadstone of thy love, Let all our hearts agree, And ever towards each other move, And ever move towards thee. 5 To thee, inseparably joined, Let all our spirits cleave; O may we all the loving mind That was in thee receive! 6 This is the bond of perfectness, Thy spotless charity; O let us (still we pray) possess The mind that was in thee! 7 Grant this, and then from all below Insensibly remove: Our souls their change shall scarcely know, Made perfect first in love! 8 With ease our souls through death shall glide Into their paradise, And thence, on wings 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 heaven, Our all in all is love. ===505 ==L.M. John xvii. 20 &c. 1 UNCHANGEABLE almighty Lord, Our souls upon thy truth we stay; Accomplish now thy faithful word, And give, O give us all one way! 2 O let us all join hand in hand Who seek redemption in thy blood, Fast in one mind and 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, And make us of one heart and mind. 4 Speak but the reconciling word, The winds shall cease, the waves subside, We all shall praise our common Lord, Our Jesus, and him crucified. 5 Giver of peace and unity, Send down thy mild, pacific Dove; We all shall then in one agree, And breathe the spirit of thy love. 6 We all shall think and speak the same, Delightful lesson of thy grace! One undivided Christ proclaim, And jointly glory in thy praise. 7 O let us take a softer mould, Blended and gathered into thee; Under one Shepherd make one fold, Where all is love and harmony! 8 Regard thine own eternal prayer, And send a peaceful answer down; To us thy Father's name declare; Unite and perfect us in one! 9 So shall the world believe and know That God hath sent thee from above, When thou art seen in us below, And every soul displays thy love. ===506 ==7s & 6s. John xiv. 16, 17. 1 FATHER of our dying Lord, Remember us for good; O fulfil his faithful word, And hear his speaking blood! Give us that for which he prays; Father, glorify thy Son! Show his truth, and power, and grace, And send the Promise down. 2 True and faithful witness, thou, O Christ, thy Spirit give! Hast thou not received him now, That we might now receive? Art thou not our living Head? Life to all thy limbs impart; Shed thy love, thy Spirit shed In every waiting heart. 3 Holy Ghost, the Comforter, The gift of Jesus, come; Glows our heart to find thee near, And swells to make thee room; Present with us thee we feel, Come, O come, and in us be! With us, in us, live and dwell, To all eternity. ===507 ==L.M. Revelation iii. 20. 1 SAVIOUR 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 in what thyself hast given; On thy own gifts and graces feast, And make the contrite heart thy heaven. 3 Smell the sweet odour of our prayers, Our sacrifice of praise approve, And treasure up our gracious tears, And 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. 5 O let us on thy fulness feed, And eat thy flesh, and drink thy blood! Jesu, thy blood is drink indeed, Jesu, thy flesh is angels' food. 6 The heavenly manna faith imparts, Faith makes thy fulness all our own; We feed upon thee in our hearts, And find that heaven and thou are one. ===508 ==7s. 1 GOD of love, that hear'st the prayer, Kindly for thy people care, Who on thee alone depend: 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 pernicious smiles. 3 Cut off our dependence vain On the help of feeble man, Every arm of flesh remove; Stay us 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 us from the great and wise, Till they sink in their own eyes, Tamely to thy yoke submit, Lay their honours 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 Hope; Nothing know, or seek, beside Jesus, and him crucified. 8 Far above all earthly things, Look we down on earthly kings; Taste our glorious liberty, Find our happy all in thee! ===509 ==7s. 1 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 unite, endear, Come, and spread thy banner here! 3 Make us of one heart and mind, Courteous, pitiful, and kind, Lowly, meek, in thought and word? Together 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 the family above; On the wings of angels fly, Show how true believers die. ===510 ==4-6s & 2-8s. 1 THOU God of truth and love, We seek thy perfect way, Ready thy choice to approve, Thy providence to obey: Enter into thy wise design, And sweetly lose our will in thine. 2 Why hast thou cast our lot In the same age 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 other's pain; Till all thy utmost goodness prove, And rise renewed in perfect love? 4 Surely thou didst unite Our kindred spirits here, That all hereafter might Before thy throne appear; Meet at the marriage of the Lamb, And all thy glorious love proclaim. 5 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 O may thy Spirit seal Our souls unto that day, With all thy fulness fill, And then transport away! Away to our eternal rest, Away to our Redeemer's breast! ===511 ==6-8s. Exodus xxxiv. 9, 10. 1 FORGIVE us, for thy mercy's sake, Our multitude of sins forgive! And for thy own possession take, And bid us to thy glory live; Live in thy sight, and gladly prove Our faith by our obedient love. 2 The covenant of forgiveness seal, And all thy mighty wonders show! Our inbred enemies expel; And conquering them to conquer go, Till all of pride and wrath be slain, And not one evil thought remain! 3 O put it in our inward parts, The living law of perfect love! Write the new precept in our hearts: We shall not then from thee remove, Who in thy glorious image shine, Thy people, and for ever thine. ===512 ==6-7s. 1 CENTRE 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 thine. 2 All our works in thee be wrought, Levelled 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 life restored, Here regain our paradise, Here prepare to meet our Lord; Here enjoy the earnest given, Travel hand in hand to heaven! ===513 ==6-8s. 1 JESUS, with kindest pity see The souls that would be one in thee: If now, accepted in thy sight, Thou dost our upright hearts unite, Allow us even on earth to prove The noblest joys of heavenly love. 2 Before thy glorious eyes we spread The wish which doth from thee proceed: Our love from earthly dross refine; Holy, angelical, divine, Thee its great Author let it show, And back to the pure fountain flow. 3 A drop of that unbounded sea, O 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. ===514 ==7s. 1 FATHER, at thy footstool see Those who now are one in thee; Draw us by thy grace alone, Give, O give us to thy Son! 2 Jesus, friend of human kind, Let us in thy name be joined; Each to each unite, and bless; Keep us still in perfect peace. 3 Heavenly, all-alluring Dove, Shed thy over-shadowing love, Love, the sealing grace, impart; Dwell within our single heart. 4 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Be to us what Adam lost, Let us in thine image rise; Give us back our paradise. ===515 ==8-7s. The Communion of Saints. 1 FATHER, Son, and Spirit, hear Faith's effectual fervent prayer; Hear, and our petitions seal, Let us now the answer feel. Still our fellowship increase, Knit us in the bond of peace; Join our new-born spirits, join Each to each, and all to thine. 2 Build us in one body up, Called in one high calling's hope: One the Spirit whom we claim, One the pure baptismal flame, One the faith, and common Lord, One the Father lives adored, Over, through, and in us all, God incomprehensible. 3 One with God, the source of bliss, Ground of our communion this: Life of all that live below, Let thine emanations flow! Rise eternal in our heart: Thou our long-sought Eden art; Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Be to us what Adam lost. ===516 SECOND PART. ==8-7s. 1 OTHER ground can no man lay, Jesus takes our sins away; Jesus the foundation is, This shall stand, and only this: Fitly framed in him we are, All the building rises fair; Let it to a temple rise, Worthy him who fills the skies. 2 Husband of thy church below, Christ, if thee our Lord we know, Unto thee, betrothed in love, Always let us faithful prove; Never rob thee of our heart, Never give the creature part; Only thou possess the whole; Take our body, spirit, soul. 3 Steadfast let us cleave to thee; Love the mystic union be, Union to the world unknown, Joined to God, in spirit one: Wait we till the Spouse shall come, Till the Lamb shall take us home, For his heaven the bride prepare, Solemnize our nuptials there. ===517 THIRD PART. ==7s. 1 CHRIST, our Head, gone up on high Be thou in thy Spirit nigh: Advocate with God, give ear To thine own effectual prayer! 2 One the Father is with thee; Knit us in like unity; Make us, O uniting Son, One, as Thou and He are one! 3 Still, O Lord, (for thine we are) Still to us his name declare: Thy revealing Spirit give, Whom the world cannot receive. 4 Fill us with the Father's love; Never from our souls remove: Dwell in us, and we shall be Thine through all eternity. ===518 FOURTH PART. ==7s. 1 CHRIST, from whom all blessings flow, Perfecting the saints below, Hear us, who thy nature share, Who thy mystic body are. 2 Join us, in one spirit join, Let us still receive of thine; Still for more on thee we call; Thou who fillest all in all. 3 Closer knit to thee, our Head; Nourish us, O Christ, and feed! Let us daily growth receive, More and more in Jesus live. 4 Jesus, we thy members are, Cherish us with kindest care, Of thy flesh and of thy bone, Love, for ever love thine own! 5 Move, and actuate, and guide: Divers gifts to each divide; Placed according to thy will, Let us all our work fulfil; 6 Never from our office move, Needful to each other prove; Use the grace on each bestowed, Tempered by the art of God. 7 Sweetly may we all agree, Touched with softest sympathy; Kindly for each other care; Every member feel its share. 8 Wounded by the grief of one, Now let all the members groan; Honoured if one member is, All partake the common bliss. 9 Many are we now and one, We who Jesus have put on; There is neither bond nor free, Male nor female, Lord, in thee! 10 Love, like death, hath all destroyed, Rendered all distinctions void; Names, and sects, and parties fall: Thou, O Christ, art all in all! ===519 The Love Feast. ==8-7s. 1 COME, 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 affection strive; Let the purer flame revive, Such as in the martyrs glowed, Dying champions for their God: We, like them, may live and love; Called we are their joys to prove, Saved with them from future wrath, Partners of like precious faith. 3 Sing we then in Jesu's name, Now as yesterday the same; One in every time and place, Full for all of truth and grace: We for Christ, our Master, stand, Lights in a benighted land: We our dying Lord confess; We are Jesu's witnesses. 4 Witnesses that Christ hath died, We with him are crucified; Christ hath burst the bands of death, We his quickening Spirit breathe; Christ is now gone up on high, Thither all our wishes fly; Sits at God's right hand above; There with him we reign in love! ===520 SECOND PART. ==8-7s. 1 COME, thou high and lofty Lord! Lowly, meek, incarnate Word! Humbly stoop to earth again, Come and visit abject men! Jesus, dear expected guest, Thou art bidden to the 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 in us thy bowels sound; Faith, and love, and joy increase, Temperance and gentleness; Plant in us thy 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 to appear before thy sight, Partners with the saints in light. Call, O call us each by name, To the marriage of the Lamb; Let us lean upon thy breast, Love be there our endless feast! ===521 THIRD PART. ==8-7s. 1 LET us join, ('tis God commands) Let us join our hearts and hands Help to gain our calling's hope, Build we each the other up: God his blessings shall dispense, God shall crown his ordinance; Meet in his appointed ways; Nourish us 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 in 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 faith, which works by love. ===522 FOURTH PART. ==8-7s. 1 PARTNERS of a glorious hope, Lift your hearts and voices up, Jointly let us rise, and sing Christ our Prophet, Priest, and King: Monuments of Jesu's grace, Speak we by our lives his praise; Walk in him we have received, Show we not in vain believed. 2 While we walk with God in light, God our hearts doth still unite; Dearest fellowship we prove, Fellowship in Jesu's love: Sweetly each, with each combined, In the bonds of duty joined, Feels the cleansing blood applied, Daily feels that Christ hath died. 3 Still, O Lord, our faith increase, Cleanse from all unrighteousness, Thee the unholy cannot see; Make, O make us meet for thee! Every vile affection kill, Root out every seed of ill, Utterly abolish sin, Write 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 image, love impart! Stamp it on our face and heart! Only love to us be given! Lord, we ask no other heaven. ===523 ==L.M. 1 O THOU, our Husband, Brother, Friend, Behold a cloud of incense rise! The prayers of saints to heaven ascend, Grateful, accepted sacrifice. 2 Regard our prayers for Zion's peace; Shed in our hearts thy love abroad; Thy gifts abundantly increase; Enlarge, and fill us all with God. 3 Before thy sheep, great Shepherd, go, And guide into thy perfect will; Cause us thy hallowed name to know, The work of faith in us fulfil. 4 Help us to make our calling sure; O let us all be saints indeed, And pure as thou thyself art pure, Conformed in all things to our Head! 5 Take the dear purchase of thy blood; Thy blood shall wash us white as snow; Present us sanctified 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 change, and throughly sanctify. 7 From all iniquity redeem, Cleanse by the water and the word, And free from every spot of blame, And make the servant as his Lord! ===524 ==6-8s. 2nd. metre. 1 OUR friendship sanctify and guide: Unmixed with selfishness 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 name. Fix on thyself our single eye; 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 Whate'er thou dost on one bestow, Let each the double blessing know; Let each the common burden bear; In comforts and in grief`s agree; And wrestle for his friends with thee, In all the omnipotence of prayer. 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 thy whole image rise. 3 Witnesses of the all-cleansing blood, Long may we work the works of God, And do thy will like those above; 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 field, Our all let us delight to spend In gathering in thy lambs and sheep; Assured that thou our souls wilt keep, Wilt keep us faithful to the end. ===525 ==6-8s. Revelation xxii. 21. 1 JESU, thou great redeeming Lord, The kingdom of thy peace restored Let all thy followers perceive, And happy in thy Spirit live; Retain the grace through thee bestowed, The favour and the power of God. 2 Give all thy saints to find in thee The fulness of the Deity; His nature, life, and mind to prove, In perfect holiness and love: Fountain of grace, thyself make known With God and man for ever one. 3 Still with and in thy people dwell; Thy gracious plenitude reveal; Till coming with thy heavenly train We eye to eye behold the Man, And share thy majesty divine, And mount our thrones encircling thine. ===526 ==8s & 6s. 1 EXCEPT the Lord conduct the plan, The best concerted schemes are vain, And never can succeed; We spend our wretched strength for nought: But if our works in thee be wrought, They shall be blest 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 deed begin and end Complete in Jesu's name! 3 In Jesu's name, behold, we meet, Far from an evil world retreat, And all its frantic ways; One only thing resolved to know, And square our useful lives below By reason and by grace. 4 Not in the tombs we pine to dwell, Not in the dark monastic cell, By vows and grates confined; Freely to all ourselves we give, Constrained by Jesu's love to live The servants of mankind. 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, Build up thy rising church, and place The city on the hill. 6 O let our faith and love abound! O 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. ===527 ==8s & 6s. 1 COME, wisdom, power, and grace 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 command. 2 If pure essential love thou art, Thy nature into every heart, Thy loving 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 pain, and seize An everlasting crown. 4 Jesus, our tendered souls prepare! Infuse the softest social care, The warmest charity, The pity of the bleeding Lamb, The virtues of thy wondrous name, The heart that was in thee. 5 Supply what every member wants; To found the fellowship of saints, Thy Spirit, Lord, supply; So shall we all thy love receive, Together to thy glory live, And to thy glory die. ===528 ==8s & 6s. 1 O 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 thy 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 O that we now the power might feel To do on earth thy blessed will, As angels do above! In thee, the Life, the Truth, the Way, To walk, and perfectly to obey Thy sweet constraining love! 5 Jesus, fulfil our one desire, And spread the spark of living fire Through every hallowed breast; Bless with divine conformity, And give us now to find in thee Our everlasting rest. ===529 ==8-7s. 1 HOLY Lamb, who thee confess, Followers of thy holiness, Thee they ever keep in view, Ever ask, "What shall we do?" Governed by thy only will, All thy words we would fulfil, Would in all thy footsteps go, Walk as Jesus walked below. 2 While 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 bestowed, Secret intercourse with God. 3 Early in the temple met, 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. ===530 ==8s & 7s. 1 COME, thou all-inspiring Spirit, Into every longing heart! Bought for us by Jesu's merit, Now thy blissful self impart; Sign our uncontested pardon, Wash us in the atoning blood! Make our hearts a watered garden; Fill our spotless souls with God. 2 If thou gav'st the enlarged desire, Which for thee we ever feel, Now our panting souls inspire, Now our cancelled sin reveal; Claim us for thy habitation; Dwell within our hallowed breast; Seal us heirs of full salvation, Fitted for our heavenly rest. 3 Give us quietly to tarry, Till for all thy glory meet, Waiting, like attentive Mary, Happy at the Saviour's feet; Keep us from the world unspotted, From all earthly passions free, Wholly to thyself devoted, Fixed to live and die for thee. 4 Wrestling on in mighty prayer, Lord, we will not let thee go, Till thou all thy mind declare, All thy grace on us bestow; Peace, the seal of sin forgiven, Joy, and perfect love, impart, Present, everlasting heaven, All thou hast, and all thou art! ===531 ==7s & 6s. Ezekiel xxxiv. 29, 30. 1 CHRIST, whose glory fills the skies, That famous Plant thou art: Tree of Life eternal, rise In every longing heart! Bid us find the food in thee For which our deathless spirits pine, Fed with immortality, And filled with love divine. 2 Long we have our burden borne, Our own unfaithfulness, Object of the heathen's scorn, Who mocked our scanty grace; Jesus, our reproach remove; Let sin no more thy people shame! Show us rooted in thy love, In life and death the same. 3 In thy spotless people show Thy power and constancy; Give us thus to feel and know Our fellowship with thee: Give us all thy mind to express, And blameless in our Lord to abide, Transcripts of thy holiness, Thy fair, unspotted bride. ===532 ==C.M. Jeremiah l. 5. 1 COME, let us use the grace divine, And all, with one accord, In a perpetual covenant join Ourselves to CHRIST the LORD: 2 Give up ourselves, through Jesu's 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, Which takes our sins away; And register our names on high, And keep us to that day! ===533 ==4-6s & 2-8s. 1 LORD, we thy will obey, And in thy pleasure rest; We, only we, can say, "Whatever is, is best;" Joyful to meet, willing to part, Convinced we still are one in heart. 2 Hereby we sweetly know Our love proceeds from thee, We let each other go, From every creature free; And cry, in answer to thy call, "Thou art, O Christ, our all in all!" 3 Our Husband, Brother, Friend, Our Counsellor divine! Thy chosen ones depend On no support but thine: Our everlasting Comforter! We cannot want, if thou art here. 4 Still let us, gracious Lord, Sit loose to all below; And to thy love restored, No other portion know; Stand fast in glorious liberty, And live and die wrapped up in thee! ===534 ==C.M. 1 BLEST be the dear uniting love, That will not let us part! Our bodies may far off remove, We still are one in heart. 2 Joined in one spirit to our Head, Where he appoints we go; And stili in Jesu's footsteps tread, And show his praise below. 3 O 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 his beloved embrace; 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! ===535 ==S.M. 1 AND let our bodies part, To different climes repair! Inseparably joined in heart The friends of Jesus are! Jesus, the corner-stone, Did first our hearts unite, And still he keeps our spirits one, Who walk with him in white. 2 O let us still proceed In Jesu's work below; And, following our triumphant Head, To farther conquests go! The vineyard of their Lord Before his labourers lies; And lo! we see the vast reward Which waits us in the skies. 3 O let our heart and mind Continually ascend, That haven of repose to find Where all our labours end; Where all our toils are o'er, Our suffering and our pain! Who meet on that eternal shore Shall never part again. 4 O happy, happy place, Where saints and angels meet! There we shall see each other's face, And all our brethren greet: The church of the first-born, We shall with them be blest, And, crowned with endless joy, return To our eternal rest. 5 With joy we shall behold, In yonder blest abode, The patriarchs and prophets old, And all the saints of God. Abraham and Isaac there, And Jacob, shall receive The followers of their faith and prayer, Who now in bodies live. 6 We shall our time beneath Live out in cheerful hope, And fearless pass the vale of death, And gain the mountain-top. To gather home his own God shall his angels send, And bid our bliss, on earth begun, In deathless triumph end. ===536 ==4-6s & 2-8s. 1 JESUS, accept the praise That to thy name belongs; Matter of all our lays, Subject of all our songs: Through thee we now together came, And part exulting in thy name. 2 In flesh we part awhile, But still in spirit joined, To embrace the happy toil Thou hast to each assigned; And while we do thy blessed will, We bear our heaven about us still. 3 O let us thus go on In all thy pleasant ways, And, armed with patience, run With joy the appointed race! Keep us, and every seeking soul, Till 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. 5 O happy, happy day, That calls thy exiles home! The heavens shall pass away, The earth receive its doom; Earth we shall view, and heaven destroyed And shout above the fiery void. 6 These eyes shall see them fall, Mountains, and stars, and skies! These eyes shall see them all Out of their ashes rise! These lips his praises shall r