For Thee, O CHRIST, I call,
Thee I reftlessly require,
I want my GoD, my All.
JESU, dear redeeming LORD,
I wait Thy Coming from Above:
Help me, Saviour, fpeak the Word,
And perfect me in Love.
2. Wilt Thou fuffer me to go
Lamenting all my Days?
Shall I never, never know
Thy Sanctifying Grace?
Wilt Thou not Thy Light afford,
The Darkness from my Soul remove?
Help me, Saviour, &c.
3. Wretched, naked, poor, and blind,
Afflicted, and diftreft,
Settled Peace I cannot find,
Uninterrupted Reft,
Till my Spirit is reftor'd,
And fixt my Heart on Things above:
Help me, Saviour, &c.
4. Gifts, alas! cannot fuffice,
And Comforts all are vain,
While One Evil Thought Can rife, TOO
I am not born again:
Still I am not as my LORD,
Thy Holy Will I do not prove:
Help me, Saviour, &c.
5. Why haft Thou on me bestow'd Thy free, preventing Grace? Why beheld me in my Blood,
And call'd to feek Thy Face? Thou haft not my Soul abhor'd, But ftill with me Thy Spirit ftrově : Help me, Saviour, &c.
6. Why didft Thou my Ranfom pay,
The Work of Faith begin?
Surely Thou haft purg'd away
The Guilt of all my Sin:
All the Guilt's on Thee transfer'd:
And wilt Thou not the Power remove?
Help me, Saviour, &c.
7. LORD, if I on Thee believe,
The Second Gift impart,
With th' Indwelling Spirit give
A new, a loving Heart:
If with Love Thy Heart is ftor'd,
If now o'er me Thy Bowels move,
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8. Let me gain my Calling's Hope,
O make the Sinner clean,"
Dry Corruption's Fountain up,
Cut off the Intail of Sin?
Take me into Thee, my LORD,
And I fhall then no longer rove
Help me, Saviour, &end or for a drað a
9. Thou, my Life, my Treafare be,
My Portion here below.
Nothing would I. feek but Thee,
Thee only would I know;
My exceeding great Reward,
My Heaven on Earth, my Heaven above:
Help me, Saviour, &c,
to. Grant me now the Bliss to feel
Of those that are in Thee:
Son of GOD, Thyself reveal,
O ftamp Thy Name on me;
As in Heaven be here ador'd,
And let me now the Promise prove :
Help me, Saviour, fpeak the Word,
And perfect me in Love.
alfo in CHRIST JESUS.
ESU, fhall I never be
JFirmly grounded upon Thee?
Never by Thy Work abide,
Never in Thy Wounds refide!
2. Oh! how wavering is my Mind,
'Toft about with every Wind!
Oh! how quickly doth my Heart
From the Living GoD depart!
3. Eafily I fall away,
Never am I at one Stay;
Strong in Faith I seem this Hour,
Stript the next of all my Power.
4. Faith is loft in Unbelief,
Joy is swallow'd up of Grief:
Hope, my latest Hope expires,
GOD, my angry GOD, retires.
5 Vanishing cut of my Sight,
JESUS leaves me funk in Night;
Where fhall I my Jesus find,
Helpless I, and dark, and blind?
6. Seek, O feek me, Lord, again,
Let not all Thy Gifts be vain,
Comfort to my Soul feftore,
Come, and never leave me more.
7. JESU, let my Nature, feel
Thou art Gob unchangeable:
JAH, JEHOVAH, Great I AM,
Speak into my Soul Thy Name.
8. Fruit that I may bear, ordain
That my Fruit may ftill remain,
Make my Heart, and keep it true,
After GoD my Soul renew.
9. Grant, that every Moment I
May believe, and feel Thee nigh,
Stedfaftly behold Thy Face,
Stablish'd with Abiding Grace.
10. Plant, and root, and fix in me
All the Mind that was in Thee:
Settled Peace I then fhall find;
JESU's is a Quiet Mind.
11. When it doth in me appear,
I fhall nothing covet here.
I fhall caft the World behind;
JESU's is an Heavenly Mind.
12. Then th' accurfed Luft of Praife
Shall in me no more have Place;
Pride no more my Soul fhall bind;
JESU's is an Humble Mind.
13. Anger I no more fhall feel,
Always quiet, always ftill;
Meekly on my GoD reclin'd;
JESU's is a Gentle Mind.
14. I fhall fuffer, and fulfil
All my Father's gracious Will,
Be in all alike refign'd;
JESU's is a Patient Mind.
15. When 'tis deeply rooted here,
Perfect Love shall cast out Fear;
Fear doth fervile Spirits bind;
JESU's is a Noble Mind.
16. When I feel it fixt within,
Ishall have no Power to fin;
How fhould Sin an Entrance find?
JESU's is a Spotless Mind.
17. I fhall nothing know befide
JESUS, and Him Crucified;
I fhall All to Him be join'd;"
JESU's is a Loving Mind.
18. I fhall triumph evermore,
Gratefully my GoD adore,
GOD fo good, fo true, fo kind;
JESU's is a Thankful Mind.
19. Lowly, loving, meek, and pure
I fhall to the End endure,
Be no more to Sin inclin'd;
JESU's is a Conftant Mind.
20. I fhall fully be reftor'd
To the Image of my LORD,
Witneffing to all Mankind,
JESU's is a PERFECT Mind.
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