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IV.

Take Him for ftrength and righteoufnefs;
Make Him thy refuge in distress;
Love Him above all earthly joy,
And Him in every thing employ.

V.

Praise Him in chearful, grateful fongs,
To Him your highest praise belongs;
To Him who does your heav'n prepare,
And Him you'll praise for ever there.

LXXXVI. Following Chrift. L. M.

JESUS,

I.

ESUS, my all, to heav'n is gone,
He whom I fix my hopes upon;
His track I fee, and I'll purfue
The narrow way, till Him I view.

II.

The way the holy prophets went,
The way that leads from banishment;
The King's highway of holiness
go, for all his paths are peace.

I'll

III.

This is the way I long had fought,
And mourn'd because I found it not;

My grief a burden long had been,
Oppreft with unbelief and fin.

IV.

The more I ftrove against their pow'r,
I finn'd and stumbled but the more,
Till late I heard my Saviour say,
"Come, hither, foul, I am the way."

V.

Lo! glad I come, and Thou bleft Lamb,
Shall take me to Thee as I am:
Nothing but fin I Thee can give;
Nothing but love fhall I receive.

VI.

Then will I tell to finners round,
What a dear Saviour I have found;
I'll point to thy redeeming blood,
And say, Behold the way to God!

LXXXVII. Unchangeable Love. L. M.

WHEN

I.

HENdarkness long has veil'd my mind,
And smiling day once more appears

Then my Redeemer, then I find,

The folly of my doubts and fears.

II.

Strait I upbraid my wand'ring heart,
And blush that I fhould ever be
So prone to act so base a part,

And harbour one hard thought of Thee.

III.

O let me then at length be taught,
What ftill I am fo flow to learn,
That God is love, and changes not,
Nor knows the fhadow of a turn.

IV.

Sweet truth, and easy to repeat;
But when my faith is fharply try'd,
I find myself a learner yet,

Unfkilful, weak, and apt to flide.

V.

But Oh! my Lord, one look from Thee
Subdues the difobedient will,
Drives doubt and difcontent away,
And thy rebellious worm is ftill.

VI.

Thou art as willing to forgive,
As I am ready to repine;

Thou therefore all the praise receive,
Be fhame, and self-abhorrence mine.

LXXXVIII. Going without the Camp,bearing the reproach of Chrift. P. M.

COM

I.

SOME my Father's family,
Ye ranfom'd of the Lord;

Come, ye finners, who with

Are ev'ry where abhorr'd;

Let us gladly trace his steps

me,

Who fuffer'd death among the Jews;
Who the friendless foul accepts,
Whom all befide refuse.

II.

Jefus, the delpis'd and mean,

Our mafter let us own;
He the facrifice for fin,

The Saviour, He alone.
Let us take and bear his cross,
Defpis'd difciples let us be;
Mock'd and flighted as He was,
For you, my friends, and me.

III,

None but Jefus will we fing,

None else will we adore;

He our Prophet, Priest, and King,
Shall be for evermore.

None among the heav'nly pow'rs,
Nor one on earth our praise may claim;
None but Jefus call we ours,

None but the bleeding Lainb!

LXXXIX. Unchanging Grace. 104th.

I.

F Jefus is ours, we have a true friend, Whofe goodnefs endures the fame to the end;

Our comforts may vary, our frames may decline,

We cannot mifcarry, our aid is divine.

II.

Though God may delay to fhew us his light,
And heaviness may endure for a night,
Yet joy, in the morning, fhall furely abound,
No shadow of turning in Jefus is found.

III.

The hills may depart, and mountains remove, But faithful Thou art O fountain of love! The Father hath graven our names on thy hands;

Our building in heav'n eternally ftands.

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