Glow our hearts to find thee near, And swell 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.
Mount Pleasant.] HYMN 418. C. M.
JESUS, united by thy graced
And each to each endear'd,
With confidence we seek thy face, And know our pray'r 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; Baptise into thy Name; And let us always kindly think, And sweetly speak the same.
4 Touch'd by the loadstone of thy love, Let all our hearts agree; And ever tow'rds each other move, And ever move tow'rds thee.
5 To thee inseparably join'd, Let all our spirits cleave; O may we all the loving mind That was in thee receive!
6 This is the bond of perfectness, The spotless charity;
O let us (still we pray) possess The mind that was in thee!
Grant this, and then from all below Insensibly remove:
Our souls the 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 giv'n, The same delight we prove, In earth, in paradise, in heav'n, Our all in all is Love.
Townhead.] HYMN 419. 4 lines 7's.
ESUS, 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, Altogether 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 thy family above;
On the wings of angels fly; Show how true believers die.
Middletown.] HYMN 420. 8 lines 7's.
OME, and let us sweetly join,
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 glow'd, Dying champions for their God; We like them may live and love; Call'd we are their joys to prove; Sav'd 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 crucify'd:
Christ hath burst the bands of death:
We his quick'ning 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!
1 COME, 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; 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 t' 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!
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 blessing 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: Tow'rd 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; Heav'n already is begun, Everlasting life is won.
Only let us persevere,
Till we see our Lord appear; Never from the Rock remove,
Sav'd by faith, which works by love.
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