4 Author and Guardian of my life,

Sweet Source of light divine,
And all harmonious names in one,

My Saviour,-thou art mine!
5 The thanks I owe thee, and the love,

A boundless, endless store,
Shall echo through the realms above

When time shall be no more.
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Enter into thy closet,
FATHER of Jesus Christ, my Lord,

I humbly seek thy face;
Encouraged by the Saviour's word

To ask thy pard'ning grace.
2 Ent'ring into my closet, I

The busy world exclude;
In secret prayer for mercy, cry,

And groan to be renew d.
8 Far from the paths of men, to thee

I solemnly retire;
See, thou who dost in secret see,

And grant my heart's desire.
4 Fain would I all thy goodness feel,

And know my sins forgiven;
And do on earth thy perfect will,

As angeis do in ben ven.
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Secret Blessin 38.
TATHER divine, thy piercing eye

Sees through the darkest night;
In deep retirement thou art nigh,

With heart-discerning sight.
2 May that observing eye survey

My faithful homage paid,
With every morning's dawning ray,

And every evening's shade.

30 may thine own celestial fire

The incense still infiame,
While fervent vows to thee aspire,

Through my Redeemer's Name. 4 So shall the visits of thy love

My soul in secret bless;
So wilt thou deign, in worlds above,

Thy suppliant to confess. 647

Evening.--Solitude.

C.M

From every cumb'ring care,
And spend the hours of setting day

In humble, grateful prayer. 9 I love in solitude to shed

The penitential tear,
And all his promises to plead

Where none but God can hear. 3 I love to think on mercies past,

And future good implore,-
And all my cares and sorrows cast

On Him whom I adore.
4 I love by faith to take a view

Of brighter scenes in heaven;
The prospect doth my strength renew,

While here by tempests driven. 5 Thus, when life's toilsome day is o'er,

May its departing ray
Be calm as this impressive hour,

And lead to endless day. 648

Self-examination. 0 THOU, great God, whose piercing eyo

Distinctly marks each deep recess; In t'nese sequester'd hours draw nigh,

And with thy presence fill the place.

LM
L. M.

2 Through all the mazes of my heart,

My search let heavenly wisdom guide; And still its radiant beains impart,

Till all be search'd and purified.
3 Then, with the visits of thy love,

Do thou mine inmost spirit cheer;
Till every grace shall join to prove

That God has fix'd his dwelling here.
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1st P. M. 6 lines 8s.
Wrestling Jacob :-) will not let thee go.

, 0
Whom still I hold, but cannot see;
My company before is gone,

And I'am left alone with thee :
With thee all night I mean to stay,
And wrestle till the break of day.
2 I need not tell thee who I am;

My sin and misery declare;
Thyself hast call'd me by my name;

Look on thy hands, and read it there :
But who, I ask thee, who art thout
Tell me thy name, and tell me ww.
3 In vain thou strugglest to get mo;

I never will unloose my hold :
Art thou the Man that died for mo!

The secret of thy love unfold :
Wrestling, I will not let thee go,
Till I thy name, thy nature kuow.
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1st P. M. 6 lines 88. Continued. When I am weak, then am I strong.

ILT

Thy new, unutterable name?
Tell me, I still beseech thee, tell ;

To know it now resolved I am:
Wrestling, I will not let thee go,
Till I thy name, thy nature know.

2 What though my shrinking flesh com

plain, And murmur to contend so long! I rise superior to my pain :

When I am weak, then I am strong! And when my all of strength shall fail, I shall with the God-man prevail.

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1st P. M. 6 lines 8. Continued.- Victorious prayer. YIELD. to me now, for I am weak, But confident in self-despair;

Speak to my heart, in blessings speak;

Be conquer'd by my instant prayer: Speak, or thou never hence shalt move, And tell me if thy name be Love. 2 'Tis Love! 'tis Love! thou diedet for me;

I hear thy whisper in my heart; The morning breaks, the shadows flee;

Pure, universal Love thou art : To me, to all, thy bowels move,Thy nature and thy name is Love. 8 My prayer hath power with God; the

grace
Unspeakable I now recelve;
Through faith I see thee face to face;

I see thee face to face, and live!
In vain I have not wept and strove;
Thy nature and thy name is Love.
4 I know thee, Saviour, who thou art,

Jesus, the feeble sinner's Friend :
Nor wilt thou with the night depart,

But stay and love me to the end : Thy mercies never shall remove; Thy nature and thy name is Love.

king finde

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1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. Concluded.-Thy name is Love. THE Sun of Righteousness on me

wings : Wither'd my nature's strength, from theo

My soul its life and succour brings :
My help is all laid up above;
Thy nature and thy name is Love.
2 Contented now, upon my thigh

I halt, till life's short journey end ;
All helplessness, all weakness, I

On thee alone for strength depend :
Nor bave I power from thee to move;
Thy nature and thy name is Love.
8 Lame as I am, I take the prey;

Hell, earth, and sin, with ease o'ercome;
I leap for joy, pursue my way,

And, as a bounding hårt, fly home,
Through all eternity to prove
Thy nature and thy name is Love.
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The Minister's prayer : Christ's constraining

love.
SAVIOUR of men, thy searching eye
Doth aught on earth my wishes raise,
Or the world's pleasures, or its praise
2 The love of Christ doth me constrain
To seek the wand'ring souls of men;
With cries, entreaties, tears, to save,
To snatch them from the gaping grave.
3 For this let men revile my name;
No cross I shun, I fear no shance :
All hnil, reproach; and welcome, ain;
Only thy terrors, Lord, restrain.