5 Bleft foul, that can fay,
"CHRIST Only I feek;"
Wait for him alway,

Be conftant, tho' weak:
The LORD whom thou seekest
Will not tarry long;
And to him the weakest
Is dear as the strong.

HYMN 276.

THE WORD OF GOD MORE PRECIOUS

THAN GOLD.

I PRECIOUS Bible! what a treasure

Does the word of God afford?

All I want for life or pleasure,

FOOD & MED'CINE, SHIELD & SWORD. Let the world account me poor,

Having this I need no more.

2. Food to which the world's a stranger,
Here my hungry foul enjoys;
Of excefs there is no danger,
Tho' it fills, it never cloys.
On a dying CHRIST I feed,
Here is meat and drink indeed.

3 When my faith is faint and fickly,
Or when Satan wounds my mind,
Cordials to revive me quickly,
Healing MED'CINES here I find :
To the promises I flee,
Each affords a remedy.

4 In the hour of dark temptation
Satan cannot make me yield;
For the word of confolation
Is to me a mighty SHIELD.
While the fcripture-truths endure,
From his pow'r I'm fecure.

5 Vain his threats to overcome me, When I take the Spirit's swORD, Then with eafe I drive him from me, Satan trembles at the word: 'Tis a fword for conqueft made, Keen the edge, and sharp the blade. 6 Shall I envy then the mifer Doating on his golden ftore? Sure I am, or fhou'd be wifer; I am rich, 'tis he is poor. JESUS gives me in his word

Food and med'cine, fhield and fword.

HYMN 277.

AT DISMISSION.

I Ismifs us with thy bleffing, LORD;
Help us to feed upon thy word;

All that has been amifs, forgive,
And let thy truth within us live.

2 Tho' we are guilty, thou art good;
Wash all our works in JEsu's blood;
Give ev'ry fetter'd foul release,
And bid us all DEPART IN PEACE.

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HYMN 278. ANOTHER.

JESU

ESUS, knit all our hearts to thee
And join us all in one;

In our affemblies, ev'ry where,

Be thou our aim alone.

2 Reign thou fole monarch of our hearts ; And we, as finners, lie.

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Before the feet of thee, our LORD,
To all eternity.

HYMN 279-1

ANOTHER,

FATHER, before we hence depart
Send thy good Spirit down;!

Let him refide in ev'ry heart,

And blefs the feed that's fown.

2 Thou fountain of eternal love,
Who gav'ft thy Son to die;
Olet thy Spirit from above,
Enlighten and apply.

HYMN 280.

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ANOTHER

ON NCE more before we part

We'll blefs the Saviour's Name Record his mercies ev'ry heart, Sing ev'ry tongue the fame.

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2 Hoard

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2 Hoard up his facred word,
And feed thereon, and grow;
Go on to feek to know the LORD,
And practise what you know.

HYMN 281.

AT THE SACRAMENT.

THIS

'HIS day the LORD of hosts invites
Unto a coftly feast;

I wou'd take care, and well prepare
To be a welcome guest.

2 Awake, repentance, faith, and love; Awake, O ev'ry grace;

To meet your LORD, with one accord,
In his most holy place.

3 Worldly distraction, stay behind,
Below the mount abide ;

Caufe no disturbance in my mind,
To make my Saviour chide.

4 O come, my LORD, the time draws nigh That I am to receive;

Stand with my pardon fealed by,
Perfuade me to believe.

5 Let not my JESUS now be strange,
Nor hide himself from me;

But cause thy face to fhine upon
The foul that longs for thee.

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6 Come, bleffed Spirit, from above,
My foul do thou infpire,
T'approach the table of the LORD
With fulness of defire.

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O let our entertainment now

Be fo exceeding fweet,

That we may long to come again,
And at thine altar meet.

HYMN 282.

FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST.

ICOME, deareft LORD, descend, and dwell
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By faith and love in ev'ry breaft!
Then fhall we know, and taste, and feel,
The joys that cannot be exprefs'd.

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2 Come fill our hearts with inward strength; Make our enlarged fouls poffefs, And learn the height, and breadth, and length

Of thine unmeasurable grace.

3 Now to the GOD whofe pow'r can do More than our thoughts and wishes know, Be everlasting honours done,

By all the church, thro' CHRIST the Son.