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Sanctified knowledge.

3. Learning's redundant part and vain
Be here 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.
4. Unite the pair so long disjoin'd,
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.

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For a blessing on the children.
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, Accustom'd 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 bestow'd; 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 thy word,Thy gospel through the world to spread; Freely as they receive to give, And preach the death by which we live.

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Pilgrims and strangers.

1. Leader of faithful souls, and guide
Of all that travel to the sky,
Come, and with us, e'en us, abide,
Who would on thee alone rely;
On thee alone our spirits stay,
While held in life's uneven way.

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2. Strangers and pilgrims here below, This earth, we know, is not our place; But hasten through the vale of wo,

And, restless to behold thy face, Swift to our heavenly country move, Our everlasting home above.

3. We 've 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.

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Homeward bound.

1. 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.

2. Through thee, who all our sins hast Freely and graciously forgiven, [borne, With songs to Zion we return,

Contending for our native heaven; That palace of our glorious King,We find it nearer while we sing.

3. Raised by the breath of love divine, We urge our way with strength renew'd; The Church of the first-born to join,

We travel to the mount of God; With joy upon our heads arise, And meet our Saviour in the skies.

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The Sabbath consecrated. 1. Great God, this hallow'd day of thine Demands our souls' collected powers; May we employ in works divine

These solemn and devoted hours: O may our souls, adoring, own The grace which calls us to thy throne.

2. Hence, ye vain cares and trifles, fly! Where God resides appear no more! Omniscient Lord, thy piercing eye

Doth every secret thought explore: O may thy grace our thoughts refine, And fix our hearts on things divine!

2.0 may the gracious words divine,
Subject of all my converse be;
So will the Lord his foll'wer 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.

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No condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. 1. And can it be that I should gain

An int'rest 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 Lord, shouldst die for me? 2. 'Tis myst'ry 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!

1. Let earth and heaven agree, Angels and men be join'd,

To celebrate with me

The Saviour of mankind:
To' adore the all-atoning Lamb,
And bless the sound of Jesus' name.

2. Jesus! transporting sound!
The joy of earth and heaven;
No other help is found,

No other name is given,
By which we can salvation have;
But Jesus came the world to save.

3. Jesus! harmonious name!
It charms the hosts above;
They evermore proclaim,

And wonder at, his love; "Tis all their happiness to gaze,'Tis heaven to see our Jesus' face.

4. His name the sinner hears,
And is from sin set free;
'Tis music in his ears;

"Tis life and victory;

New songs do now his lips employ,
And dances his glad heart for joy.

5. 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?

6. 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.