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But lift up your Eyes,
At JESUS's Cries,

Impaffive He fuffers! Immortal He dies!
IV.

For you and for me

He pray'd on the Tree,

The Pray'r is accepted, the Sinner is free;
The Sinner am 1,

Who on JESUS rely,

And core for the Pardon GOD cannot deny.* V..

My Pardon Iclaim,

For a Sinner I am,

A Sinner believing in Jesus's Name; §

He purchas'd the Grace,

Which now I embrace,

OFATHER, thou know'ft he hath dy'd in my

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OME Sinners to the Gospel Feaft,
Let every Soul be JESU's Guest,.

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* Tit. i. 2 Heb. vi. 18. § Rom. ix. 33. Heb. xii, 24.

Ye need not one be left behind,
For God hath bidden all Mankind.

II.

Do not begin to make Excufe,
Ah! do not ye his Grace refufe ;

This World's vain Cares and Lufts forfake,
What JESUS freely gives ye take.
III.

Have me excus'd, why will ye fay,
From Health, and Life, and Liberty,
From all that is in JESUS giv'n,

From Pardon, Holinefs, and Heav'n!
IV.

Come then ye Souls by Sin oppreft,'
Ye reftlefs Wand'rers after Reft,

Ye poor and maim'd, and halt, and blind,
In CHRIST an hearty Welcome find.

V.

Come, and partake the Gospel-feast,
Be fav'd from Sin in JESUS' Reft;
O taste the Goodness of our God,
And eat his Flesh and drink his Blood. †
VI.

See him fet forth before your Eyes, §
Behold the bleeding Sacrifice!
His offer'd Love make hafte, embrace,
And freely now be fav'd by Grace.

VII.

you;

Ye who believe his Record true,
Shall fup with Him, and He with
Come to the Feaft, be fav'd from Sin,
For JESUS waits to take you in.

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* Matt. xi. 28. † John vi. 51, 53. § Gal. Rev. iii. 20.

iii. I.

VIII.

This is the Time, no more delay,
This is the glorious Gospel-day;
Come in this. Moment at his Call,
And live for Him who dy'd for all.

HYMN

XXIII.

When they saw the STAR they rejoiced.

SON

Matt. ii. 10.

I.

ONS of Men, behold from far, Hail the long expected Star, Jacob's Star, that gilds the Night, Guides bewild'red Nature right.

II.

Fear not hence that there fhould flow
Wars or Peftilence below;

Wars it bids and Tumults cease,
Ufhering in the Prince of Peace.

.III.

Mild He fhines on all beneath,
Piercing thro' the Shades of Death,
Scatt'ring Error's wide-fpread Night,
Kindling Darkness into Light.

IV.

Nations all far off and near,

Hafte to fee your

God appear;

Hafte, for him your Hearts prepare,

Meet him manifefted there.*

They

2 Pet. i. 19.

V.

There behold the Day-fpring rife,
Pouring Eye-fight on your Eyes;
GOD in his own Light furvey,
Shining to the perfect Day.

VI.

Sing ye Morning-ftars again, t
GOD defcends on Earth to reign!
Deigns for Man his Life t' employ,
Shout, ye Sons of God, for Joy !

HYMN XXIV.

I.

JESU, Friend of Sinners, hear,

once again I pray,

From my Debt of Sin fet clear,
For I have nought to pay.
Speak, O fpeak the kind Release,
A poor backfliding Soul reftore; §
Love me freely, feal my Peace,
And bid me fin no more. ||
II.

Sin's Deceitfulness hath fpread,
An Hardness o'er my. Heart

But if thou thy Spirit fhed,
The ftony fhall depart

;

Shed thy Love, thy Tenderness,

And let me feel the foft'ning Pow'r;

Love me freely, feal my Peace,

And bid mę fin no more.

D:

For

Luke i. 78. tJob xxxviii. 7. § Hof. xiv. 4. John viii. 11.

III.

For this only Thing I pray,
And this will I require,
Take the Pow'r of Sin away,
Take ev'ry vain Defire:
Perfect me in Holiness,*

Thine Image to my Soul restore,
Love me freely, feal my Peace,
And bid me fin no more.

JESU

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ESUS, the all-reftoring Word,
Our fallen Spirit's Hope,

After thy lovely Likenefs LORD,
O when fhall we wake up!

.II.

Thou, O our GOD, Thou only art
The Life, the Truth, the Way;
Quicken our Souls, inftruct our Hearts,
Our finking Footsteps stay.

III.

All that Thou doft on Earth bestow,
Or Heaven, vouchsafe to give;
Give us, O LORD Thyfelf to know,
In Thee to + walk, and live.
IV.

Fill us with all the Life of Love, i
In myftic Union join. §

Us to Thyfelf, and let us prove
The Fellowship divine.

* Cor. vii. 1. + Col, ii. 6.

§ John xv. 5.

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