3 Darkness and unbelief remove;
Replenish all our fouls with love;
Caft out the power of fin:
JESUS, attend our feeble pray'r,
And for thyfelf our hearts prepare;
Come in, dear LORD, come in.
4 Let comfort, love, and joy, and peace,
Like rivers flow, and still increase,
Unto the ocean driv❜n:
LORD, Condefcend to fup with me,
And grant I now may fup with thee,
And fup at laft in heav'n!-
ICOME, thou Almighty King,
Help us thy name to fing,
Help us to praise !
Father all-glorious,
O'er all victorious,
Come, and reign over us,
ANTIENT OF DAYS.
2 JESUS, our LORD, arife,
Scatter our enemies,
And make them fall?
Let thine almighty aid
Our fure defence be made,
Our fouls on thee be 'ftay'd:
LORD, hear our call!
3 Come, thou incarnate Word,
Gird on thy mighty fword,
pray'r
Come! and thy people blefs,
And give thy word fuccefs;
Spirit of holiness
Our attend!
On us defcend!
4 Come, holy Comforter,
Thy facred witness bear
In this glad hour!
Thou who almighty art,
Now rule in ev'ry heart,
And ne'er from us depart,
Spirit of pow'r!
5 To the great One in Three
Eternal praises be,
Hence. evermore!
His fov'reign Majesty
May we in glory see,
And to eternity
Love and adore.
HYMN 13.
READING OR HEARING THE
SCRIPTURES.
God of wisdom, God of might,
Great ruler in the realms of light;
Whofe truths are hid from prudent eyes,
But make the babe and fuckling wife,
Help thy unknowing fervants, LORD,
To hear, and understand thy word.
2 Reveal thy fcriptures to our mind
Here let us heav'nly treafures find;
Do thou thofe facred leaves unfold,
Let us thy richest grace behold:
O let thy, Spirit lead us forth,
And teach us all its endless worth..
3 Direct us, left we judge amifs,
Left error cloud the hidden blifs;
Th' ingrafted word may we receive,
And back to thee the glory give:
O make us know, O make us hear
The glorious tidings treafur'd there.
ONG have we fat beneath the found
Of thy falvation, LORD
But ftill how weak our faith is found.
And knowledge of thy word !
2 Oft we frequent thy holy place, ・・
Yet hear almoft in vain;
How fmall a portion of thy grace
Do our falle hearts retain !
3. How cold and feeble is our love!
How negligent our feard
How low our hope of joys above!
How few affections there!
Great God, thy fov/reign aid impart
To give thy word fuccefsalt sul
Write thy falvation on our heart, 'lo F
And make us learn thy grace....
5 Shew our forgetful feet the way That leads to joys on high;
Where knowledge grows without decay,
And love fhall never die.
HYMN 15. BEFORE SPEAKING.
1 GLORY to God, who gave the word,
And bid the preachers cry;
Who caus'd his will to be proclaim'd,
And brought falvation nigh.
2 LORD, ever give us of this bread,
And grant us ears to hear;
Hearts to receive the heav'nly feed,
And bring forth fruit with fear,
3 O may thy word direct our path,
And guide our falt'ring feet;
Direct us in the living way,
And to thy mercy-feat!
4 Fountain of everlasting life,
Of blifs, and truth, and good
Give us (that we may never thirst)
To drink of JESU's blood.
5 Fill every hungry foul, who cries,
From thine exhaustless store;
And let no one go empty hence,
But taste, and pray for more.
6 Let all thy children, LORD, be fed
With the eternal Word;
;
Be wife, and stronger grow thereby,
Increafing in the LORD.
I ITH heart and lips unfeign'd,
We praife thee for thy word;
We bless thee for the joyful news
Of our redeeming LORD.
2 Like as the kindly rain
Returns not back to heav'n, But chears, and fruitful makes the earth, The end for which 'twas giv'n.:
3 So let thy prefent voice:
Accomplish thy defign;
Diftil on all our thirsty souls,
And confecrate us thine...
4 Water thy facred feed,
And give it great increase;
Let neither fowls, nor rocks, nor thorns,
Hinder the fruits of peace..
5 Then tho' we weeping fow,
And tears our hours employ
We know we shall return again,
And bring our fheaves with joy.
6 Our lives now hid with CHRIST,
With him fhall foon appear;
And we array'd in all his light,
Shall meet him in the air.
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