JESUS fought me when a stranger, Wand'ring from the fold of GOD; He, to rescue me from danger, Interpos'd with precious blood. 3 O! to grace how great a debtor. Daily I'm constrain❜d to be! Let that grace, LORD, like a fetter, Bind my wand'ring heart to thee! Prone to wander, LORD, I feel it ; Prone to leave the GOD I loveHere's my heart, LORD, take and feal it; Seal it from thy courts above! I HYMN 129. LONGING AFTER CHRIST. THOU Shepherd of Ifrael, and mine, For clofer communion I pine, I long to refide where thou art : Where all, who their Shepherd obey, Are fcreen'd from the heat of the day. 2 Ah! fhew me that happiest place, That place of thy peoples abode ; Where faints in an extafy gaze, And hang on a crucify'd GoD: Thy love for a finner declare, To fuffer, and triumph with thee. 3 'Tis there with the lambs of thy flock, There only I covet to reft; To lie at the foot of the rock, Or rife to be hid in thy breaft;" 'Tis there I wou'd always abide, And never a moment depart,. Conceal'd in the cleft of thy fide, : Eternally held in thine heart Ο HYMN 130. CHRIST WITHDRAWŃC What shall I do to retrieve If 2 Ye watchmen of Ifrael, declare And 3 My Lover and LORD from above, The joy and defire of mine eyes, HYMN 131. THE PILGRIM'S SON È. RISE, my foul, and ftretch thy wings, Rise from transitory things, Tow'rds heaven, thy native place : 2 Rivers to the ocean run, Nor ftay in all their courfe; So a foul that's born of GOD 3 Ceafe, ye pilgrims, ceafe to mourn, And earth exchang'd for heav'n. XHYMN 132. I ANOTHER. CHILDREN of the heav'nly King, Sing your Saviour's worthy praife, I 4 Shout, ye little flock and blest, W HYMN 133. FLESH AND SPIRIT. HAT diff'rent pow'rs of grace and fin 2 Now I complain, and groan and die, Now raise my songs of triumph high, 3 So darkness struggles with the light, Water and fire maintain the fight, |