Entire purification. 1. Forever here my rest shall be, 2. My dying Saviour, and my God, And cleanse and keep me clean. 3. Wash me, and make me thus thine own; 4. The' atonement of thy blood apply, 5. Soul and body dedicated to the Lord. 2. He justly claims us for his own, 3. Jesus, thine own at last receive, 4. Our souls and bodies we resign; With joy we render thee Our all, -no longer ours, but thine To all eternity. Secret communion with God. 1. Sweet is the prayer whose holy stream In earnest pleading flows; Devotion dwells upon the theme, And warm and warmer glows. 2. Faith grasps the blessing she desires; 3. But sweeter far the still small voice, When God has made the heart rejoice, 4. No accents flow, no words ascend; 8. Thy will be done. 1. Thy presence, Lord, the place shall fill; 2. I thank thee for the present grace,. In confidence to see thy face, And always hear thy voice. 3. I have the things I ask of thee; 4. Thy only will be done, not mine, 3. Dear Name, the rock on which I build, 2. I find him lifting up my head; My shield and hiding-place; My never-failing treasure, fill'd 4. Jesus, my Shepherd, Saviour, Friend, My Prophet, Priest, and King, My Lord, my Life, my Way, my End, He brings salvation near; 3. He wills that I should holy be! FAMILY DEVOTIONS. 11 4. Jesus, I hang upon thy word; I steadfastly believe Thou wilt return, and claim me, Lord, And to thyself receive. 5. When God is mine, and I am his, Of paradise possess'd, I taste unutterable bliss, And everlasting rest. 11. Divine guidance and safety. 1. Before thy mercy-seat, O Lord, Behold, thy servants stand, To ask the knowledge of thy word, The guidance of thy hand. 2. Let thy eternal truths, we pray, 13. Confession, prayer, and praise. 1. Lord! when we bend before thy throne, And our confessions pour, O may we feel the sins we own, 2. Our contrite spirits pitying see; 3. When we disclose our wants in prayer, O let our wills resign; And not a thought our bosom share, 4. And when with heart and voice we strive Our grateful hymns to raise, Let love divine within us live, 3. Lord, from thy word remove the seal, 5. Then, on thy glories while we dwell, Unfold its hidden store; And as we hear, O may we feel Its value more and more. 4. Help us to see the Saviour's love 5. Thus while thy word our footsteps Thy mercies we 'll review; With love divine, transported, tellThou, God, art Father too! 14. The immensity of God's grace. 1. What shall I do my God to love? My loving God to praise? [prove, The length, and breadth, and height to And depth of sov'reign grace? 2. Thy sov'reign grace to all extends, Immense and unconfined; From age to age it never ends; It reaches all mankind. 3. Throughout the world its breadth is Wide as infinity:[known, So wide it never pass'd by one, Or it had pass'd by me. 4. My trespass was grown up to heaven; But, far above the skies, Through Christ abundantly forgiven, 5. The depth of all-redeeming love, |