High and lofty as Thou art,
Dwell within my worthless heart.
Hear, a fainting soul revive;
Here forever walk and live.

Heavenly Adam, Life divine,
Change my nature into Thine;
Move and spread throughout my soul;
Actuate and fill the whole :

Be it I no longer now

Living in the flesh, but Thou.

Holy Ghost, no more delay!
Come, and in Thy temple stay;
Now Thy inward witness bear,
Strong, and permanent, and clear:
Spring of Life, Thyself impart :
Rise eternal in my heart.

HEBREWS 4: 9.

There remaineth therefore a Rest for the people of God.

LORD, I believe a rest remains

To all Thy people known;

A rest where pure enjoyment reigns,
And Thou art loved alone.

A rest, where all our soul's desire
Is fixt on things above;

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Where doubt, and pain, and fear expire, Cast out by perfect love.

A rest of lasting joy and peace,
Where all is calm within ;

'Tis there from our own works we cease, From pride, and self, and sin.

Our life is hid with Christ in God:
The agony is o'er ;

We wrestle not with flesh and blood,
We strive with sin no more.

Our spirit is right, our heart is clean,
Our nature is renewed:
We cannot, no, we cannot sin,
For we are born of God.

From every evil motion freed,

(The Son hath made us free) On all the powers of hell we tread, In glorious liberty.

Redeemed, we walk on holy ground;
In Christ we cannot err:

No lion in that way is found,
No ravenous beast is there.

Safe in the way of life, above
Death, earth, and hell we rise;

We find, when perfected in love,
Our long-sought paradise.

Within that Eden we retire,
We rest in Jesu's Name :
It guards us, as a wall of fire,
And as a sword of flame.

O that I now the rest might know,
Believe, and enter in!

Now, Saviour, now the power bestow,
And let me cease from sin.

Remove this hardness from my heart,
This unbelief remove;

To me the rest of faith impart,
The sabbath of Thy love.

I

groan from sin to be set free,

From self to be released :

O take me, take me into Thee,

Mine everlasting Rest.

I would be Thine, Thou know'st I would,
And have Thee all mine own;

Thee, O mine all-sufficient Good,
I want, and Thee alone.

Thy Name to me, Thy Nature grant;
This, only this be given:

Nothing besides my God I want,
Nothing in earth or heaven.

Come, O my Saviour, come away!
Into my soul descend:

No longer from Thy creature stay,
My Author, and my End.

The bliss Thou hast for me prepared
No longer be delayed;

Come, my exceeding great Reward,
For whom I first was made.

Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
And seal me Thine abode;

Let all I am in Thee be lost,

Let all I am be God!

IN VIEW OF DEATH.

JESUS, the just, the good,
Remember Calvary,

And claim the purchase of Thy Blood,
Expended all for me.

My Saviour hitherto,

A little longer save;

The pardoned penitent renew,
And hide me in the grave.

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Not my own faithfulness,

But Thine I humbly plead,

Who will not quench a spark of grace,

Nor break a bruised reed.

Thy work, with life begun, In this weak soul complete, And let me groan my latest groan For mercy at Thy feet. .

I ask not ecstasies;
But with a loving heart,
In steadfast hope and humble peace
Permit me to depart.

Suffice that here I know

My sins through grace forgiven,
And calmly blest, with safety go
To endless joys in heaven.

Preparation for Death, 1772.

THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS.

HAPPY the souls to Jesus joined,
And saved by grace alone:
Walking in all Thy ways we find
Our heaven on earth begun.

The Church triumphant in Thy Love,
Their mighty joys we know:
They sing the Lamb in hymns above,
And we in hymns below.