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Grant us and all our children | 'Tis free mercy, we must own, (praise, And the gift of God alone.

grace,

In word and deed thy name to
Yea, in each family, thy will
And purpose to fulfil.

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865. T. 581 or 83.

PARENTS, weigh before the Lord

The importance of your state; Learn from his most holy Word

Your whole walk to regulate,
That each to his family
May a blessed pattern be.

2. All your children are his own, He hath bought them with his blood,

Unto him their souls are known, Full of sin and void of good: Yet he saith most graciously,

Suffer them to come to me." 3. 'Tis by you they should be led In the narrow way to bliss;

Grace is not inherited

As a worldly fortune is;

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And still in all my words maintain | Hear the parents' sighs and prayers,

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When for them before thee weepMercy for our children we, Gracious Lord, implore of thee.

869.

(ing;

B. La Trobe.

T. 586.

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2. Thou hast promis'd for our con- | But possess our souls in patience,

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YEAR after year commences,

And, as our life advances,

Of thy most Holy Spirit,
Until we heaven inherit.

6. O God of our salvation,
Withhold no kind donation
From us,
but let us savour

We, strength from Christ deriving, In this new year thy favour.

Each year by faith are thriving.

2. As in tempestuous weather
A kind and tender mother
Her babe from harm protecteth,
And safely home conducteth :-
3. So shelters Christ our Saviour
His children by his favour,
And proves in each temptation
Their refuge and salvation.
4. Lord, grant thy benediction
To every thought and action;
On youth and age declining,
Thou Sun of grace, be shining.

5. O keep our souls and senses
Under the influences

874.

P. Gerhard.

T. 585.

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3. Here is love divine portrayed, So that man the lines may trace; See, O man, God's love displayed In thy Saviour's marred face:

Wouldst thou praise him, :||: Be thy theme redeeming grace. 4. Bear in mind how Jesus suffer'd, He, the righteous, for th' unjust; How his sinless soul he offer'd Unto God for sinful dust;

Love thus triumph'd, :||:
Mighty now to save the lost.

5. Lo, the incarnate God ascended,
Pleads the merits of his blood;
Now all enmity is ended,
Man is reconcil'd to God;
All the ruin :||:

Of his fall is now made good.

6. We shall see our Lord returning, Then the sav'd their heads shall (mourning He will change their grief and Into notes of endless praise:

raise;

As Jehovah :||:

Every tongue will him confess.
7. Sing with glad anticipation,
Mortals and immortals, sing,
Jesus comes with full salvation,
Jesus doth his glory bring;

Hallelujah, :||:
Lord of lords, of kings the King.

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But hasten through this vale of

woe,

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.
4. Patient th' appointed race to run,
This weary world we cast behind;
From strength to strength we travel
The new Jerusalem to find: (OB,
Our labour this, our only aim,
To find the new Jerusalem.

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high, Ancient of never-ending days; Who lengthens out our trial here, And spares us yet another year.

3. Now a new scene of time begins; | Who reigns, in light enthron'd on
Press on, my soul, to heaven;
Seek pardon of thy former sins,
By Christ it will be giv'n.
4. Devoutly yield thyself to God,
And on his grace depend;
Unwearied walk the heavenly road,
Nor doubt a happy end.

La Trobe.

877.* T. 167. FAITHFUL souls their Saviour's blessing

Crave on each succeeding day, Asking, "Are we onward pressing? What may Jesus have to say? Are the ways of sin unpleasant?

Do we hold our Saviour fast? Are we more like him at present, Than we were in seasons past?" 2. Great defects are still revealed; Short we fall of his blest aim; Then the conscious soul is filled

With a deep, but wholesome shame;

Earnest to improve the morrow,
We our yesterday review,
While the tear of godly sorrow
Saddens, but enlivens too.
3. Jesus, for thy faithful leading,
Which throughout our course we
trace,

We adore thee, still proceeding
Onward in the path of grace:
While another year we enter,

We renew our vows of love,
All for thee resolv'd to venture;
Our benign conductor prove.

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2. Barren and wither'd, worthless trees,

Alas! we cumber'd long the ground;
No pleasant fruit of holiness
On our dead souls was ever found;
Yet mercy stay'd our doom severe :
"Oh, spare them yet another year."
3. Jesus, thy interceding blood
From God for us obtain'd the grace,
Who mercifully hath bestow'd
On us a longer time and space:
Thou didst in our behalf appear,
And, lo, we see another year.
4. Then dig, we pray, about our
root,

O Lord, break up our fallow-ground,
And henceforth let our gracious
fruit
(abound;
To thy great name's sole praise
O let us all thy praise declare,
And fruit unto perfection bear.
C. Wesley. (ad.)

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