Our human frailty need not lead

Our souls from him astray;

469.*

Z.

T. 214.

Jesus' blood hath made me clean;
He my sin-sick soul hath healed:
Yea, tho' traces still remain
Of my former sad condition,
When to him for help I cry,
He to soothe my grief is nigh
Lord, remain my kind physician,
I, thy patient, then am sure
Thou wilt work a thorough cure.
Gregor.

470.* T. 22. JESUS, the church's Lord and Head,

The Spirit's influence on us shed, Whom thou, while sinners, by thy blood (God. Hast ransom'd and brought nigh to 2. Since thou our wretched, lost In mercy didst commiserate, (estate And feeble flesh and blood assume, To save us from the wrath to come:

3. We are, if we in thee believe, And from thy fulness grace receive, Made clean and sanctified by thee, And serve thy name acceptably. 4. Renew'd in heart, we're then inclin'd

To live according to thy mind: Can we do good-with cheerfulness We do it, and give thee the praise. 5. Whatever honors thee our Lord, What is call'd virtue in thy word,

HOW can a sinner here below

Be pleasing unto God?
By his own righteousness?-O no:
Alone thro' Jesus' blood.

2. When thro' his merits we obtain
The gift of pardoning grace,
A sanctified heart we gain,
And walk in holiness.

3. If anything in us appears
Unlike to Jesus' mind,
To own it with repenting tears,
Ah, may we be inclin'd.

4. A child of God for ever pants
More like his Lord to be;
Tho' with conviction still he grants,
That none is good but He.

5. Oft as in spirit Christ he views,
This is his humble cry,
Which he continually renews:
"As thou wast, O were I!
6. Whate'er is carnal, through thy
In me be mortified; (grace
Thus, clothed in thy righteousness,

I shall in thee abide."

Louisa v. Hayn.

473.* T. 185. HE who striveth for sanctification, But is unrenew'd in heart, Feeling yet a secret condemnation, Since with sin he still takes part; He who hath not yet in Christ believed,

WHO thro' Christ's blood remission
Of all his sins hath gain'd,
And without intermission
With Jesus hath remain'd;
To true sanctification

Attains through Jesus' grace,
And in his conversation

Shows forth his Saviour's praise.

2. Our pleasure and our duty,
Though opposite before,
Since we have seen his beauty,
Are join'd to part no more;
It is our highest pleasure,

No less than duty's call,
To love him beyond measure,

And serve him with our all. Z.

475. T. 585. BLESSED Jesus, we implore thee, Let us, cleans'd and purified, Walk in grace and truth before thee, And in thee by faith abide; Sanctified :||:

Both in body and in mind.

Is an ointment poured forth;

In thine eyes we have found favour,
Tho' deprav'd and void of worth;
And thy banner : []:
Over us is love divine.

3. Now the conflict is decided,
We count all things else but loss;
What with thee our hearts divided
Now is nailed to thy cross:

We will glory:||:

In the wounded Lamb of God,

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4. We will dwell on Calvary's mountain,

Where the flocks of Zion feed;
Oft resort unto the fountain,
Open'd when the Lord did bleed;
Thence deriving :||:
Grace, and life, and holiness.

5. There, with trimmed lamps we'll tarry,

Till the Lord comes from on high, Watch in prayer and ne'er be weary, But await the midnight cry:

Haste to meet him, :||:
Lo, the Bridegroom draweth nigh.
6. On that day of consummation
May we sinners mercy find,
Saved with complete salvation,
And not one be left behind;

As wise virgins : ||:
May we then before thee stand.

May we to the world be dead: That great prize to gain be our endeavour,

Purchas'd when for us he bled: By his love constrain'd may we adore him,

fore him,

TO the soul that seeks him Christ

is gracious; They who wait, ne'er wait in vain,

But experience him a God propiHe the feeble doth sustain: (tious; Hungry souls he on rich pastures feedeth,

(leadeth, Those who thirst, to living waters Hears the needy sinner's cry, And to help and save is nigh. 2. Hath he join'd us to the church, his body,

O may we in him abide; (ready,
As wise virgins be to meet him
Be our lamps with oil supplied:
Looking unto him for preservation,
May we shielded be from each
temptation,

And unto the end endure,
Making our election sure.

481.

T. 185. SHOULD our minds, to earthly objects cleaving,

Of the mark forgetful prove? God forbid! all worldly trifles leav ing,

Let us fix our thoughts above, Have with Christ in heaven our conversation, (tion, Keep in view our blessed destina

As redeem'd from this world's thrall,

To pursue our heavenly call. 2. Let us watch and pray, and never slumber,

Lest the foe approach unseen; Cast away whate'er would us encumber,

Fear to touch the thing unclean: Lest, escaped from the world's pollution, (sion: We again give way to sin's deluAh, 't would cause us pungent

3.

pain,

Christ to crucify again.

God be prais'd, tho' in ourselves

defiled,

C. Wesley.

Tho' sin cleaveth to us still,

485.*

mandeth:

T. 79

Grant that we may not only feel
Some drawings of thy grace,
But in communion with thee live,
The needful strength to run our
And daily from thy death derive

Hath hitherto withstood.

2. Earthly affections mortify, And carnal nature's strife; O may I henceforth only thirst For thee, the well of life.

3. Waters of life hence may draw,

And never more depart: My ardent longing is, O Lord,

2. May I hate a lying tongue,
Never seek another's wrong,
From all paths of fraud abstain,
And abhor unlawful gain.

3. Lord, each evil temper cure,
I Banish every thought impure,
Cleanse my heart, my sins forgive;
Teach me to thy praise to live.

487.

T. 16. JESUS, by thy Holy Spirit May we all instructed be; Sanctify us by the merit Of thy bless'd humanity.