4 Dear Lord-and shall we ever live At this poor dying rate, Our love so faint, so cold to thee, And thine to us so great?
5 Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, With all thy quickening powers; Come, shed abroad a Saviour's love, And that shall kindle ours.
Reviving Influence,
COME, Holy Spirit, come;
Let thy bright beams divine
Rise on our sorrow and our gloom, And in our darkness shine,
Convince us all of sin,
Then lead to Jesus' blood; And to our wondering view reveal The mercy of our God.
Revive our drooping faith; Our doubts and fears remove;
And kindle in our breasts the flame Of never-dying love.
1 HOLY Ghost-dispel our sadness, Pierce the clouds of nature's night; Come, thou source of joy and gladness, Breathe thy life and spread thy light.
2 Hear, oh hear our supplication, Blessed Spirit, God of Peace; Rest upon this congregation, With th' abundance of thy grace. 3 Author of our new creation- Bid us all thine influence prove; Make our souls thy habitation; Shed abroad the Saviour's love.
Regeneration. John i. 13.
1 NOT all the outward forms on earth,
Nor rites that God has given,
Nor will of man, nor blood, nor birth, Can raise a soul to heaven.
2 The sovereign will of God alone Creates us heirs of grace; Born in the image of his Son, A new, peculiar race.
3 The Spirit, like some heavenly wind. Breathes on the sons of flesh; New models all the carnal mind, And forms the man afresh.
4 Our quickened souls awake and rise From the long sleep of death; On heavenly things we fix our eyes, And praise employs our breath. 176 The Operations of the Holy Spirit. ETERNAL Spirit, we confess
And sing the wonders of thy grace; Thy power conveys our blessings down, From God the Father and the Son. 2 Enlightened by thy heavenly ray, Our shades and darkness turn to day; Thine inward teachings make us know Our danger and our refuge too. 3 Thy power and glory work within, And break the chains of reigning sin; Do our imperious lusts subdue,
And form our wretched hearts anew. 4 The troubled conscience knows thy voice; Thy cheering words awake our joys; Thy words allay the stormy wind, And calm the surges of the mind.
1 HOW helpless guilty nature lies,
Unconscious of its load!
The heart, unchanged, can never rise To happiness and God.
2 Can aught, beneath a power divine, The stubborn will subdue ?
'Tis thine, almighty Saviour, thine To form the heart anew.
3 'Tis thine the passions to recall, And upward bid them rise, And make the scales of error fall From reason's darkened eyes.
4 To chase the shades of death away, And bid the sinner live; A beam of heaven, a vital ray, 'Tis thine alone to give.
5 Oh change these wretched hearts of ours, And give them life divine :
Then shall our passions and our powers, Almighty Lord, be thine.
178 The Dry Bones. Ezek. xxxvii. 3.
1 LOOK down, O Lord, with pitying eye, See Adam's race in ruin lie;
Sin spreads its trophies o'er the ground, And scatters slaughtered heaps around.
2 Thy ministers are sent in vain, To prophesy upon the slain;
In vain they call, in vain they cry, Till thine almighty aid is nigh.
3 But if thy Spirit deign to breathe,
Life spreads through all the realms of death; Dry bones obey thy powerful voice; They move-they waken-they rejoice.
179 Total Depravity. Eph. ii. 3.—Rom. v. 12, &c.
1 BACKWARD, with humble shame, we look On our original;
How is our nature dashed and broke In our first father's fall!
2 To all that's good averse and blind, But prone to all that's ill;
What dreadful darkness vails our mind! How obstinate our will!
3 Yet, mighty God, thy wondrous love
Can make our nature clean,
While Christ and grace prevail above The tempter, death, and sin.
4 The second Adam shall restore The ruins of the first;
Hosanna to that sovereign power That new creates our dust.
Divine Love. Rom. v. 5.
1L Joy of heaven, to earth come down;
OVE divine, all love excelling,
Fix in us thy humble dwelling, All thy faithful mercies crown; Jesus-thou art all compassion; Pure, unbounded love thou art; Visit us with thy salvation, Enter every longing heart. 2 Come, almighty to deliver,
Let us now thy life 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 precious love.
3 Carry on thy new creation;
Pure and spotless may we be; Let us see our whole salvation Perfectly secured by 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. C. Wesley.
Prayer for Sanctification.
1 Gow in Jesus reconciled; RACIOUS Father, hear thy child, Let me now behold thy face- Triumph in thy saving grace; Pour thy graces from above, Hope and joy and peace and love. 2 Lord, I will not let thee go, Till the blessing thou bestow:
Hear my Advocate divine; Lo, his powerful plea is mine; Can his intercession fail? Shall I not in him prevail ? 3 Holy Spirit-Life Divine, Come and make this temple thine Shed thy light throughout my soul, Move and actuate the whole; Spring of life-thyself impart, Rise eternal in my heart.
Praise for recovering Grace.
1 COME, thou fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing, Call for songs of loudest praise.
2 Teach me some melodious measure, Sung by flaming hosts above; I would chant, with heavenly pleasure, Praises to thy boundless love.
3 Jesus sought me when a stranger, Wandering from the fold of God; He, to save my soul from danger, Interposed his precious blood. 4 Oh, to grace how great a debtor Daily I'm constrained to be: Let thy grace, Lord, like a fetter, Bind my wandering heart to thee. 5 Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it- Prone to leave the God I love; Here's my heart, oh take and seal it, Seal it from thy courts above.
SWEET peace of conscience, heavenly guest, Come, fix thy mansion in my breast; Dispel my doubts, my fears control,
And heal the anguish of my soul.
2 Come, smiling hope, and joy sincere- Come, make your constant dwelling here; Still let your presence cheer my heart, Nor sin compel you to depart.
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