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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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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 diedst 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 receive;
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.

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Concluded.-Thy name is Love.

HE Sun of Righteousness on me

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Hath risen with healing in his wings: Wither'd my nature's strength, from thee 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 have I power from thee to move; Thy nature and thy name is Love.

3 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 hart, 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

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AVIOUR of men, thy searching eye
Doth all mine immost thoughts descry:
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 shane:
All hail, reproach; and welcome, ain;
Only thy terrors, Lord, restrain.

4 My life, my blood, I here present,
If for thy truth they may be spent;
Fulfil thy sov'reign counsel, Lord;
Thy will be done, thy Name adored.

5 Give me thy strength, O God of power; Then let winds blow, or thunders roar, Thy faithful witness will be:

'Tis fix'd; I can do all through thee.

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The Minister's prayer: The scandal of the

cross.

JESUS, my strength and righteousness,
My Saviour and my King,
Triumphantly thy Name I bless,-
Thy conqu'ring Name I sing.

2 Thou, Lord, hast magnified thy Name;
Thou hast maintain'd thy cause;
And I enjoy the glorious shame,-
The scandal of thy cross.

3 Thou gavést me to speak thy word,
In the appointed hour;

I have proclaim'd my dying Lord,
And felt thy Spirit's power.

4 Superior to my foes I stood,
Above their smile or frown;
On all the strangers to thy blood
With pitying love look'd down.
5 O let me have thy presence still;
Set as a flint my face,
To show the counsel of thy will,
Which saves a world by grace.

6 O let me never blush to own
The glorious Gospel-word;

Which saves a world through faith alone,
Faith in a dying Lord.

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The Minister's prayer: Boldness in the Gospel.

CHALL I, for fear of feeble man,

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The Spirit's course in me restrain?
Or, undismay'd in deed and word,
Be a true witness of my Lord!

2 Awed by a mortal's frown, shall I
Conceal the word of God Most High?
How then before thee shall I dare A
To stand, or how thine anger bear!
3 Shall I, to soothe the' unholy throng,
Soften thy truth, or smooth my tongue,
To gain earth's gilded toys, or flee
The cross endured, my Lord, by thee?
4 What then is he whose scorn I dread!
Whose wrath or hate makes me afraid!
A man! an heir of death! a slave

To sin! a bubble on the wave!

5 Yea, let men rage; since thou wilt spread Thy shadowing wings around my head: Since in all pain thy tender love

Will still my sure refreshment prove.

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3d P. M. 4 6s & 2 88.

Birthday.

OD of my life, to thee
My cheerful soul I raise;
Thy goodness bade me be,
And still prolongs my days:

I see my natal hour return,
And bless the day that I was born.
2 A clod of living earth,
I glorify thy Name,
From whom alone my birth,

And all my blessings came
Creating and preserving grace,
Let all that is within me praise.

3 Long as I live beneath, To thee O let me live; To thee my every breath

In thanks and praises give: Whate'er I have, whate'er I am, Shall magnify my Maker's Name. 4 My soul and all its powers Thine, wholly thine, shall be; All, all my happy hours

I consecrate to thee:

Me to thine image now restore,
And I shall praise thee evermore.

5 I wait thy will to do,
As angels do in heaven;
In Christ a creature new,
Most graciously forgiven:
I wait thy perfect will to prove,
All sanctified by spotless love.

6 Then, when the work is done,
The work of faith with power,
Receive thy favour'd son,

In death's triumphant hour:
Like Moses, to thyself convey,
And kiss my raptured soul away.

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Smarting under the rod.

CHASTISED by an indulgent God,

But never faint beneath the rod,
Nor desp'rate, nor insensible :-
2 From each extreme divinely kept,
The trouble coming from above

I would with thankful awe accept
And bless with tears my Father's love.

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