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3 The dictates of thy sov'reign will With joy our grateful hearts receive; All thy delight in us fulfil;

Lo, all we are to thee we give.
4 To thy sure love, thy tender care,
Our flesh, soul, spirit, we resign;
O fix thy sacred presence there,
And seal the' abode forever thine.

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Infinite love.

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THOUSAND oracles divine Their common beams unite, That sinners may with angels join, To worship God aright.

2 Triumphant host! they never cease To laud and magnify

The triune God of holiness,

Whose glory fills the sky.

3 By faith the upper choir we meet, And join with them to sing Jehovah, on his shining seat,

Our Maker and our King.

4 For God, made flesh, is wholly ours, And asks our noblest strain;

The Father of celestial powers,

The Friend of earth-born man.

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God is love.

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REAT God! to me the sight afford U To him of old allow'd;

And let my faith behold its Lord,
Descending in a cloud.

2 In thy revealing Spirit come,
Thine attributes proclaim,

And to mine inmost soul make known The glories of thy Name.

3 Jehovah, Christ, I thee adore,
Who gav'st my soul to be;
Fountain of being and of power,
And great in majesty.

4 The Lord, the mighty God, thou art, But let me rather prove

That name inspoken to my heart,
That fav'rite name of Love.

5 Merciful God, thyself proclaim
In this polluted breast;

Mercy is thy distinguish'd name,
And suits the sinner best.

6 Our mis'ry doth for pity call,
Our sin implores thy grace;
And thou art merciful to all
Our lost, apostate race.

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Love and mercy.

REAT God, accept a heart

G That pants to sing thy praise;

Thou, who without beginning art,
And without end of days:

Thy goodness is display'd,

On all thy works impress'd;

Thou lovest all thy hands have made,
But man thou lovest best.

2 Gracious art thou to all
Who truly turn to thee;
O hear me, then, for pardon call,
And show thy grace to me:

Through mercy reconciled,

For Jesus' sake forgiven;

Receive, O Lord, thy favour'd child,
To sing thy praise in heaver.

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Source of all blessings.

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JEHOVAH, God, thy gracious power

On every hand we see;

O may the blessings of each hour
Lead all our thoughts to thee.

2 If on the wings of morn we speed,
To earth's remotest bound,
Thy hand will there our journey lead,
Thine arm our path surround.

3 Thy power is in the ocean deeps,
And reaches to the skies;
Thine eye of mercy never sleeps,
Thy goodness never dies.

4 From morn till noon-till latest eve,
Thy hand, O God, we see;

And all the blessings we receive,
Proceed alone from thee.

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The Author of every good gift.
FATHER, to thee my soul I lift;
My soul on thee depends;
Convinced that every perfect gift
From thee alone descends.

2 Mercy and grace are thine alone,
And power and wisdom too:
Without the Spirit of thy Son,
We nothing good can do.

8 We cannot speak one useful word,
One holy thought conceive,
Unless, in answer to our Lord,

Thyself the blessing give.

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4 His blood demands the purchased grace: His blood's availing plea

Obtain'd the help for all our race,
And sends it down to me.

5 Thou all our works in us hast wrought;
Our good is all divine :

The praise of every virtuous thought,
And righteous word, is thine.

6 From thee, through Jesus, we receive
The power on thee to call,

In whom we are, and move, and live;
Our God is all in all,

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HOLY

Holiness.

JOLY as thou, O Lord, is none;
Thy holiness is all thine own;
A drop of that unbounded sea
Is ours, a drop derived from thee.

2 And when thy purity we share,
Thine only glory we declare;
And, humbled into nothing, own,
Holy and pure is God alone.

3 Sole, self-existing God and Lord,
By all thy heavenly hosts adored,
Let all on earth bow down to thee,
And own thy peerless majesty.
4 Thy power unparallel'd confess,
Establish'd on the Rock of peace;
The Rock that never shall remove,-
The Rock of pure, almighty love.
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The Trinity.

ITAIL! holy, holy, holy Lord,

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HAIL
Whom one in three we know;

By all thy heavenly host adored,
By all thy Church below.

2 One undivided Trinity

With triumph we proclaim;
Thy universe is full of thee,
And speaks thy glorious name.

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3 Thee, holy Father, we confess;
Thee, holy Son, adore;

And thee, the Holy Ghost, we bless,
And worship evermore.

4 Hail! holy, holy, holy Lord,
Our heavenly song shall be;
Supreme, essential One, adored
In co-eternal Three!

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The glorious goodness of the triune Jehovah. COME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,

Whom one all-perfect God we own,
Restorer of thine image lost,

Thy various offices make known.
9 Jehovah in three persons, come,
And draw, and sprinkle us, and seal,
Poor, guilty, dying worms, in whom
Thou wilt eternal life reveal.

3 Our fallen, ruin'd souls, to raise,
The knowledge of thyself bestow;
Reveal the riches of thy grace,
And all thy glorious goodness show.

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One God in three persons.

C. M.

HAIL, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
One God in persons three;
Of thee we make our joyful boast,
And homage pay to thee.

2 Present alike in every place,
Thy Godhead we adore:
Beyond the bounds of time and space
Thou dwellest evermore.

8 In wisdom infinite thou art,
Thine eye doth all things see;
And every thought of every heart
La fully known to thee.

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