2 To Jesus' Name give thanks and sing, Whose mercies never end: Rejoice! rejoice! the Lord is King; The King is now our Friend.
3 We for his sake count all things loss; On earthly good look down; And joyfully sustain the cross, Till we receive the crown.
4 0 let us stir each other up, Our faith by works to' approve,- By holy, purifying hope,
And the sweet task of love.
5 Let all who for the promise wait, The Holy Ghost receive;
And, raised to our unsinning state, With God in Eden live :-
6 Live, till the Lord in glory come, And wait his heaven to share: He now is fitting up your home; Go on, we'll meet you there.
4th P. M. 886, 886.
Unity of spirit and of purpose.
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 tender'd souls prepare ; Infuse the softest social care,- The warmest charity;
The bowels of our bleeding Lamb, The virtues of thy wondrous name, The heart that was in thee.
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.
NOME, 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; Ante-date the joys above,— Celebrate the feast of love.
2 Strive we, in affection strive; Let the purer flame revive; Such as in the martyrs glow'd, Dying champions for their.God: We like them may live and love; Call'd we are their joys to prove ; Saved with them from future wrath; Partners of like precious faith.
3 Sing we then in Jesus' Name, Now as yesterday the same; One in every time and place, Full for all of truth and grace: We for Christ, our Master, stand, Lights in a benighted land: We our dying Lord confess; We are Jesus' witnesses.
1OME, thou high and lofty Lord, Lowly, meek, incarnate Word;
Humbly stoop to earth again; Come, and visit abject man. 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 i Let us in 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.
Mutual love the bond of union.
HILE we walk with God in light, God our hearts doth still unite: Dearest fellowship we prove,― Fellowship in Jesus' love:
Sweetly each, with each combined, In the bonds of duty join'd, Feels the cleansing blood applied, Daily feels that Christ hath died.
2 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.
3 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 now on every heart: Only love to us be given; Lord, we ask no other heaven.
EHOLD the Christian warrior stand
all the armour of his God;
The Spirit's sword is in his hand,
His feet are with the Gospel shod ;
2 In panoply of truth complete, Salvation's helmet on his head; With righteousness a breast-plate meet, And faith's broad shield before him spread ;-
3 Undaunted to the field he goes;
Yet vain were skill and valour there, Unless, to foil his legion foes,
He takes the trustiest weapon, prayer.
4 Thus, strong in his Redeemer's strength, Sin, death, and hell, he tramples down; Fights the good fight, and wins at length, Through mercy, an immortal crown.
RM me with thy whole armour, Lord;
A Support my weakness with thy might;
Gird on my thigh thy conqu'ring sword,
And shield me in the threat'ning fight; From faith to faith, from grace to grace, So in thy strength shall I go on; Till heaven and earth flee from thy face, And glory end what grace begun.
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