o Abounding life; there glorious grace
Reigns through the Lord our righteousness.]

HYMN 125. C. M. Barby. [*] Christ's Compassion to the Weak and Tempted. Heb. iv. 16; v. 7. Matt. xii. 20. ITH joy we meditate the grace Of our High Priest above; e His heart is made of tenderness,

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His bowels melt with love.
p 2 Touched with a sympathy within,
He knows our feeble frame;

He knows what sore temptations mean,
For he has felt the same.

-3 But spotless, innocent, and pure,
The great Redeemer stood;

e While Satan's fiery darts he bore, And did resist to blood.

p 4 He, in the days of feeble flesh, Poured out his cries and tears; e And, in his measure, feels afresh What every member bears.

b 5 (He'll never quench the smoking flax,
But raise it to a flame;

The bruised reed he never breaks,
Nor scorns the meanest name.)

o 6 Then let our humble faith address
His mercy and his power;

o We shall obtain delivering grace, In the distressing hour.

HYMN 126. L. M. Islington. [*] Charity and Uncharitableness.

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1 Cor. x. 32.

Rom. xiv. 17, 19.

OT different food, nor different dress,
Compose the kingdom of our Lord;
But peace, and joy, and righteousness,
Faith, and obedience to his word.
2 When weaker Christians we despise,
We do the gospel mighty wrong;
For God, the gracious and the wise,
Receives the feeble with the strong.
3 Let pride and wrath be banished hence,
Meekness and love our souls pursue:

Nor shall our practice give offence
To saints, the Gentile, or the Jew.

HYMN 127. L. M. Portugal. [*]
Christ's Invitation to Sinners.

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Matt. xi. 28-30.

OME hither, all ye weary souls,

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"Ye heavy laden sinners, come; “I'll give you rest from all your toils, "And raise you to my heavenly home. 2 "They shall find rest, who learn of me; "I'm of a meek and lowly mind; "But passion rages like the sea, "And pride is restless as the wind. 3"Blest is the man, whose shoulders take "My yoke, and bear it with delight;

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'My yoke is easy to his neck,

"My grace shall make the burden light." o 4 Jesus, we come at thy command, With faith, and hope, and humble zeal; Resign our spirits to thy hand,

To mould and guide us at thy will.

HYMN 128. L. M. Green's. [*] The Apostles' Commission. Mark xvi. 15, &c. Matt. xxviii. 18, &c.

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O, preach my gospel," saith the Lord; "Bid the whole earth my grace receive: "He shall be saved, who trusts my word; e "He shall be damned, who won't believe.

-2 "I'll make your great commission known,
"And ye shall prove my gospel true;
"By all the works that I have done.

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By all the wonders ye shall do.

3" Go heal the sick; go raise the dead;

"Go cast out devils in my name :

"Nor let my prophets be afraid,

"Though Greeks reproach, and Jews blaspheme

4 "Teach all the nations my commands;

"I'm with you till the world shall end:

"All power is trusted in my hands;

"I can destroy, and I defend."

o 5 He spake,—and light shone round his head; On a bright cloud to heaven he rode.

g They to the farthest nations spread The grace of their ascended God.

HYMN 129. L. M.

Armley. [b*]

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Abraham offering his Son.

Gen. xxii. 6, &c.

AINTS, at your heavenly Father's word,
Give up your comforts to the Lord;

He shall restore what you resign,
Or grant you blessings more divine.
2 So Abra'am, with obedient hand,
Led forth his son, at God's command;
The wood, the fire, the knife he took;
His arm prepared the dreadful stroke.
d 3" Abra'am, forbear," the angel cried,
"Thy faith is known, thy love is tried;
"Thy son shall live, and in thy seed,
"Shall the whole earth be blest indeed."
o 4 Just in the last distressing hour,
The Lord displays delivering power;
The mount of danger is the place,
Where we shall see surprising grace.

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HYMN 130. L. M. Sicilian. [b*]
Love and Hatred. Phil. ii. 2. Eph. iv. 30, &c.

NOW by the bowels of my God,

His sharp distress, his sore complaints,

By his last groans, his dying blood,-
I charge my soul to love the saints.
-2 Clamour and wrath and war begone,
Envy and spite forever cease;

Let bitter words no more be known, Amongst the saints, the sons of peace. e 3 The Spirit, like a peaceful dove,

Flies from the realms of noise and strife;
Why should we vex and grieve His love,
Who seals our souls to heavenly life?
4 Tender and kind be all our thoughts,
Through all our lives let mercy run:
-So God forgives our numerous faults,
For the dear sake of Christ his Son.

HYMN 131. L. M. Islington. [b *]
The Pharisee and Publican. Luke xviii. 10, &c.
EHOLD, how sinners disagree,-

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o One doth his righteousness proclaim, e The other owns his guilt and shame.

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2 This man at humble distance stands, And cries for grace with lifted hands; o That boldly rises near the throne,

And talks of duties he has done.

-3 The Lord their different language knows, And different answers he bestows:

o The humble soul with grace he crowns, e Whilst on the proud his anger frowns. -4 Dear Father, let me never be

Joined with the boasting Pharisee;

e I have no merits of my own,

But plead the sufferings of thy Son.

HYMN 132. L. M. Brentford. Oporto. [*] Holiness and Grace. Titus ii. 10, 13.

1 So let our lips and lives express
The holy gospel, we profess;

So let our works and virtues shine,
To prove the doctrine all divine.

2 Thus shall we best proclaim abroad
The honours of our Saviour God;
When the salvation reigns within,
And grace subdues the power of sin.
e 3 Our flesh and sense must be denied,
Passion and envy, lust and pride;

o Whilst justice, temperance, truth and love, Our inward piety approve.

-4 Religion bears our spirits up,

While we expect that blessed hope,o The bright appearance of the Lord;-And faith stands leaning on his word.

HYMN 133. C. M.

York. [*]

Love and Charity. 1 Cor. xiii. 2-7, 13.

1LET Pharisees of high esteem

Their faith and zeal declare;

All their religion is a dream,

If love be wanting there.

2 Love suffers long with patient eye,
Nor is provoked in haste;

She lets the present injury die,
And long forgets the past.

3 (Malice and rage, those fires of hell,
She quenches with her tongue;
Hopes, and believes, and thinks no ill,
Though she endures the wrong.)

4 (She ne'er desires, nor seeks to know
The scandals of the time;

Nor looks with pride on those below,
Nor envies those who climb.)

5 She lays her own advantage by, To seek her neighbour's good:o So God's own Son came down to die, And bought our lives with blood.

o 6 Love is the grace, that keeps her power,
In all the realms above;

There faith and hope are known no more,
But saints forever love.

HYMN 134. L. M. Islington. Quercy. [b *] Religion vain without Love. 1 Cor. xiii. 1, 2, 3.

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AD I the tongues of Greeks and Jews,
And nobler speech than angels use;

If love be absent, I am found,
Like tinkling brass, an empty sound.
2 Were I inspired to preach, and tell
All that is done in heaven and hell;
Or could my faith the world remove,
Still-I am nothing without love.
3 Should I distribute all my store,
To feed the bowels of the poor;
Or give my body to the flame,
To gain a martyr's glorious name ;—
4 If love to God, and love to men,
Be absent-all my hopes are vain:
Nor tongues, nor gifts, nor fiery zeal,
The works of love can e'er fulfill.

HYMN 135. L. M. Sicilian. Green's. [*]

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Love of Christ in the Heart. Eph. iii. 16, &c.

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OME, dearest Lord, descend and dwell,
By faith and love, in every breast;

Then shall we know, and taste, and feel,
The joys that cannot be expressed.