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For evermore to reign: (more, O may a lasting union join Thee, Christ, God bless'd for ever- My soul to Christ the living Vine. Our lips confess, our hearts adore: Honour and majesty Be given to thee Now and eternally.

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4. He is the Rock; how firm he proves;

The Rock of ages never moves: But the sweet streams that from him flow,

Attend us all the desert through.

5. He is the Sun of righteousness, Diffusing light, and joy, and peace: What healing in his beams appears, To chase our clouds and dry our tears!

6. Yet faintly to us mortals here His glory, grace, and worth appear · His beauties we shall clearly trace, When we behold him face to face.

Watts.

XII. THE HOLY GHOST, HIS GIFTS AND OPERATIONS.

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4.4. Show us our poverty, relieve
And then enrich the poor;
The knowledge of our sickness give,
The knowledge of our cure.
5. A blessed sense of guilt impart,
And then remove the load;
Trouble, then lead the troubled
To Christ's atoning blood. (heart

(receive.

By thee to believe That Jesus, our Saviour, will sinners 3. Our hearts thou didst cheer,

Dispelling all fear;

We humbly could claim (name. Salvation and pardon in Jesus' dear

4. Grant us to obey

Thy teaching, we pray, O spirit of love, (to prove. And thankful to thee for thy mercies

5. We wish to afford

To Jesus our Lord,

For his bitter pain, (chosen train. Joy, honour, and glory, midst his 6. O therefore impart

Thyself to each heart, That thus we may show, In our whole behaviour, that Jesus we know.

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211.

Wesley.

T. 14.

O HOLY Ghost, eternal God, Descending from above, (blood, Thou fill'st the soul thro' Jesus' With faith, and hope, and love. 2. Thou comfortest the heavy heart, Thou to the dead dost life impart, By sin and grief oppress'd; And to the weary, rest.

3.

Thy sweet communion charms the soul,

And gives true peace and joy; Which Satan's power can ne'er control,

Nor all his wiles destroy.

4. Let no false comfort lift us up To confidence that's vain; Nor let their faith and courage droop,

Who love the Lamb once slain. 5. Breathe comfort, where distress abounds,

O make our conscience clean; And heal, with balm from Jesus' wounds,

The festering sores of sin.

6. Vanquish our lusts, our pride

remove,

Take out the heart of stone; Show us the Father's boundless

love,

The merits of the Son.

7. The Father sent his Son to die; | Look on us in mercy, grant us thy

The willing Son obey'd: The witness Thou to ratify The purchase Christ hath made.

J. Hart.

212. T. 582, or 595.

COME Holy Spirit come,

Let thy bright beams arise; Dispel the darkness from our minds,

And open all our eyes.

2. Revive our drooping faith,

Our doubts and fears remove; And kindle in our breasts the flame Of never-ceasing love. 3. Convince us of our sin,

Then lead to Jesus' blood;
And to our stubborn hearts reveal
The hidden love of God.

4. 'Tis thine to cleanse the heart,
To sanctify the soul,
To pour fresh life on every part,
And new-create the whole.

5. If thou, O Comforter,

Thine influence withdraw, What easy victims soon we fall To conscience and the law!

6. No longer burns our love;

Our faith and courage fail; Our sin revives, and death and hell Our feeble souls assail.

7. Dwell therefore in our hearts; Our minds from bondage free: Then shall we know, and praise, and love

The Father, Son, and Thee.

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favour,

(ever, Our souls and bodies we devote for O Lord, to thee.

2. O thou life-giving stream, the earth o'erflow, (break through: Whatever would obstruct thy course O most gracious Spirit, hear our Teach all to turn to Jesus with conpetition, (trition, That they may live.

3. We pray thee fill us all with Jesus' love, (prove: That we may in his service faithful Teach us to esteem it the greatest favour,

With humble, contrite hearts to serve our Saviour

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THOU promis'd Comforter, Fruit of the Saviour's prayer, Thee the world cannot receive; Thee they neither know nor see; Dead is all the life they live, Dark their light, while void of thee.

2 Yet I enjoy thy grace, Thro' Christ, my righteousness; Mine the gifts thou dost impart, Mine the unction from above; Pardon written on my heart,

Light, and life, and joy, and love.

3. Thee I exult to feel, Thou in my heart dost dwell; There thou bear'st thy witness true, Shed'st the love of God abroad: I, in Christ, a creature new,

I, even I, am born of God.

4. Thy gifts, blest Comforter,
I glory to declare :
Sweetly sure of grace I am,
Pardon to my soul applied,
Interest in the spotless Lamb;
Dead for all, for me he died.

5. Thou art thyself the Seal; I more than pardon feel: Peace, unutterable peace,

Joy, that ages ne'er can move, Faith's assurance, hope's increase, All the confidence of love.

2. No man can truly say

That Jesus is the Lord,
Unless thou take the veil away,
And breathe the living word:
Then, only then we feel
Our interest in his blood,
And cry with joy unspeakable,
"Thou art my Lord, my God."
3. O that the world might know
The all-atoning Lamb:
Spirit of faith, descend and show
The virtue of his name:

The grace which all may find,
The saving power impart;

O testify to all mankind,

And speak in every heart.

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COME, Holy Spirit, on us breathe

6. Pledge of the promise given, With all thy quickening powers;

My antepast of heaven, Earnest thou of joys divine,

Joys divine on me bestow'd; Heaven and Christ and all are mine, I'm through thee an heir of God.

7. Thou art my inward Guide, I ask no help beside; Holy Ghost, on thee I call,

Weak as helpless infancy; Weak I am, yet cannot fall, Stay'd by faith, and led by thee.

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Kindle our love, confirm our faith, Warm these cold hearts of ours.

2. Assure my conscience of her
In the Redeemer's blood; (part
And bear thy witness in my heart,
That I am born of God.

3. Thou art the Earnest of his love,
The Pledge of joys to come:
O lead us, that we may above
Obtain our lasting home.

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Move with one impulse every mind,
One soul, one feeling breathe:
The young, the old inspire

With wisdom from above; (fire,
And give us hearts and tongues of
To pray, and praise, and love.
3. Spirit of light, explore

And chase our gloom away,
With lustre shining more and more
Unto the perfect day!
Spirit of truth, be thou

In life and death our guide!
O, Spirit of adoption, Now
May we be sanctified!

218.

Montgomery.

T. 14.

220.

T. 14.

COME, Holy Ghost, eternal God,
Both from the Father and the Son;
Proceeding from above,

Thou God of peace and love.
2. Thou art the only Comforter
In all our soul's distress;
Thou showest us our unbelief,

And Christ's redeeming grace. 3. Thou dost thy sanctifying gifts Unto the church impart; Writest God's holy, precious law On each believer's heart.

4. Thy holy unction power affords The gospel to proclaim:

COME, Holy Ghost, our souls in- By thee enabled, we set forth

spire,

Let us thine influence prove; Source of the old prophetic fire, Fountain of life and love.

2. Open the hearts of all who hear,

To make the Saviour room; Now let us find redemption near, Let faith by hearing come. Congregational H. B. T. 79.

219.

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Salvation in Christ's name.

5. Assist and strengthen us, O Lord,

Thou know'st we all are frail;

Grant, neither Satan, world, nor
flesh,

May o'er Christ's flock prevail.
6. Cause all disharmony and strife
In Christendom to cease;
And give to all the flocks of Christ
Love, union, truth, and peace.

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