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4 Jesus, my Shepherd, Saviour, Friend,
My Prophet, Priest, and King,
My Lord, my Life, my Way, my End,
Accept the praise I bring.

5 I would thy boundless love proclaim
With every fleeting breath;

So shall the music of thy name
Refresh my soul in death.

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The unspeakable gift.

L. M.

TAPPY the man who finds the grace,
The blessing of God's chosen race,
The wisdom coming from above,
The faith that sweetly works by love.

2 Happy, beyond description, he
Who knows the Saviour died for me!
The gift unspeakable obtains,
And heavenly understanding gains.

8 Wisdom divine who tells the price
Of wisdom's costly merchandise!
Wisdom to silver we prefer,

And gold is dross compared to her.

4 Her hands are fill'd with length of days,
True riches, and immortal praise,-
Riches of Christ on all bestow'd,"
And nonour that descends from God.

5 To purest joys she all invites,-
Chaste, holy, spiritual delights;
Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
And all her flowery paths are peace.
6 Happy the man who wisdom gains;
Thrice happy, who his guest retains:
He owns, and shall forever own,

Wisdom, and Christ, and heaven, are one.

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He waiteth to be gracious.

THY ceaseless, unexhausted love,
Unmerited and free,

Delights our evil to remove,

And help our misery.

C. M.

2 Thou waitest to be gracious still;
Thou dost with sinners bear;
That, saved, we may thy goodness feel,
And all thy grace declare.

3 Thy goodness and thy truth to me,
To every soul, abound;

A vast, unfathomable sea,

Where all our thoughts are drown'd.

4 Its streams the whole creation reach, So plenteous is the store;

Enough for all, enough for each,

Enough forever more.

5 Faithful, O Lord, thy mercies are,-
A rock that cannot move:

A thousand promises declare
Thy constancy of love.

6 Throughout the universe it reigns,
Unalterably sure;

And while the truth of God remains,
His goodness must endure.

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Universal redemption.

L. M.

SINNERS, obey the heavenly call;
Your prison doors stand open wide:
Go forth, for Christ hath ransom'd all,
For every soul of man hath died.
2 'Tis his the drooping soul to raise;
To rescue all by sin oppress'd;
To clothe them with the robes of praise,
And give their weary spirits rest.

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8 To help their grov'ling unbelief;
Beauty for ashes to confer;
The oil of joy for abject grief;
Triumphant joy for sad despair.

4 To make them trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord below;
To spread the honour of his grace,
And on to full perfection go.

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8d P. M. 4 6s & 2 88.

The jubilee trumpet.

BThe gladly-solemn sound;

LOW ye the trumpet, blow

Let all the nations know,

To earth's remotest bound,
The year of jubilee is come;
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.

2 Jesus, our great High Priest,
Hath full atonement made:
Ye weary spirits, rest;

Ye mournful souls, be glad:

The year of jubilee is come;
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.

3 Extol the Lamb of God,-
The all-atoning Lamb;
Redemption in his blood"

Throughout the world proclaim:

The year of jubilee is come;
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.

4 Ye slaves of sin and hell,
Your liberty receive,
And safe in Jesus dwell,

And blest in Jesus live:

The year of jubilee is come;

Return, yé ranson'd sinners, home.

5 Ye who have sold for naught
Your heritage above,
Shall have it back anbought,
The gift of Jesus' love:
The year of jubilee is come;
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.

6 The gospel trumpet hear,---
The news of heavenly grace;
And, saved from earth, appear
Before your Saviour's face:
The year of jubilee is come;
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.

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The gospel feast.

LET mortal en

ET every mortal ear attend,

The trumpet of the gospel sounds
With an inviting voice.

C. M.

2 Ho! all ye hungry, starving souls,
That feed upon the wind,
And vainly strive with earthly toys
To fill an empty mind :-

3 Eternal Wisdom hath prepared
A soul-reviving feast,

And bids your longing appetites
The rich provision taste.

4 Ho! ye that pant for living streams, And pine away and die,

Here you may quench your raging thirst
With springs that never dry..

5 Rivers of love and mercy here
In a rich ocean join;
Salvation in abundance flows,

Like floods of milk and wine.

6 The happy gates of gospel grace
Stand open night and day:
Lord, we are come to seek supplies,
And drive our wants away."

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1st P. M. 6 lines 88.

The Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world.

EE, sinners, in the gospel glass,

The Friend and Saviour of mankind; Not one of all the' apostate race

But may in him salvation find:

His thoughts, and words, and actions, prove,-
His life and death,-that God is love.

2 Behold the Lamb of God, who bears
The sins of all the world away;
A servant's form he meekly wears,
He sojourns in a house of clay:
His glory is no longer seen,

Sut God with God is man with men.

3 See where the God incarnate stands,
And calls his wand'ring creatures home:
He all day long spreads out his hands;
Come, weary souls, to Jesus come!
Ye all may hide you in his breast;
Believe, and he will give you rest.

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29th P. M. 4 lines 12s. The voice of free grace.

THE voice of free grace cries,-Escape to th

mountain;

For Adam's lost race Christ hath open'd a fountain For sin and uncleanness, and every transgression. His blood flows most freely, in streams of salvation Hallelujah to the Lamb, who has purchased ots pardon:

We will praise him again when we pass over Jordan.

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