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6. Hide me, deareft Saviour, hide
Let me never leave Thy Side;
Oh! 'tis Hell from Thee to part,
Prefs me closer to Thy Heart.

7. When Thy Love is my Defence,
Sin shall never pluck me thence,
When my Heart with Love runs o'er,
Sin fhall never enter more.

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8. Only Love can end the Strife,
Give me Love, and take
Do not, LORD, my Suit deny,
Give me Love, and let me die.

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Looking unto JESUS.

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AMB of GOD for Sinners Slain,
To Thee I feebly pray,

Heal me of my Grief and Pain,
O take my Sins away.

From this Bondage, LORD, release,
No longer let me be oppreft:
JESUS, Mafter, feal my Peace,
And take me to Thy Breast.

2. Haft Thou not invited All
Who groan beneath their Sin?
Weary I obey Thy Call,

And come to be made clean:
Give my burthen'd Confcience ease,
O grant me now the promis'd Reft:
JESUS, Mafter, &c.

3. Wilt Thou caft a Sinner out
Who humbly comes to Thee?
No, my GoD, I cannot doubt,
Thy Mercy is for Me :

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Let me then obtain the Grace,
And be of Paradife poffeft:
JESUS, Mafter, &c.

4. Full of Pain and Sin am I,
I ever bear my Shame,
Waiting till my LORD pafs by,
And call me by my Name:
Surely now my Pain He fees,
And I fhall quickly be releas'd:
JESUS, Mafter, &c.

5. Worldly Good I do not want,
Be that to Others given,
Only for Thy Love I pant,

My All in Earth and Heaven; This the Crown I fain would feize, The Good wherewith I would be bleft. JESUS, Mafter, &c.

6. This Delight I fain would prove,
And then refign my Breath,
Join the Happy Few, whofe Love
Was mightier than Death.
Let it not my LORD displease,
That I would die to be Thy Gueft;
JESUS, Mafter, feal my Peace,
And take me to Thy Breaft.

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In DOUBT.

HE Children to the Birth are come,
But Oh! they have not Might

To burft the Barriers of the Womb,
And struggle into Light.

2. My feeble Soul gives o'er the Strife,

Just as it fees the Skies,

Fails in the very Gate of Life,

Sinks back again, and dies.

3. I faw the Port of JESU's Break,
But while I entred in,

A Whirlwind swept me from my Rest,
And plung'd me into Sin.

4.

What fhall I do, or whither turn?
Defpairing of Relief,

I only can my Ruin mourn
With unavailing Grief.

5. Ah woe is me! to Evil fold, And fallen back from Grace!

I never, never shall behold

The dear Redeemer's Face.

6. Better, that I had, never felt
My Saviour's Blood applied;
Lefs aggravated were my Guilt,
Had I in Egypt died.

7. Better that I had never known
The Way of Righteousness,
Than to break off the Courfe begun,
And leave th' unfinish'd Race.

8. Ah! wherefore did I ever take,
If I muft quit the Field;
Muft fhamefully at last turn back,
And caft away my Shield?

9. But fhall I throw on GoD the Blame?

Or daringly complain

Because I moft unfaithful am,

And make His Mercies vain ?

10. No, LORD, Thy Truth and Grace I clear; For Years Thy Spirit ftrove,

Faithful to me Thy Mercies were,
And infinite Thy Love.

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11. Far be it from my wretched Heart
To charge my Death on Thee,
To fave me now Thou ready art,
If fav'd I Now would be.

12. Whether or no my Heart of Stone
Will yield to be renewed,
Sufficient is Thy Grace I own,
I juftify my GoD.

13. This Record do I leave behind,
Whether I ftand or fall,

Sinners, Ye All his Grace may find,
His Grace is free for All.

For the SPIRIT of PRAYER.

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HAT fhall I do to 'scape the Hell
That burns me up within!

Satan, and all his Hofts I feel

In this Indwelling Sin..

2. It mocks my Strength, prevents my Flight,

Still intimately nigh,

Impoffible it is to fight,

Impoffible to fly.

3. One only Refuge there remains,

But That I cannot find,

So faft these grievous, fleshly Chains,
My flothful Spirit bind.

4. Monster of Sin! How can it be
That I fhould ftill delay!
JESUS I know would fet me free,
Would I to JESUS pray.

5. He bids me afk, and I fhall have :
I know it; and forbear ;

Affur'd He would the Sinner fave,
In answer to my Prayer.

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6. He pities now my fad Estate,

And gladly would relieve,

But Oh! I cannot

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Till He the Bleffing give.

7. He waits that He may gracious be,

To All His Bowels move;

Fury, O GOD, is not in Thee,
But all Thy Heart is Love.

8. Then help me to receive Thy Word,
Help me on Thee to call,

Have Patience with me, dearest LORD,
And I will pay Thee all.

9. On me for Good this Token shew,
Pronounce the Ephphatha,

And let my Heart in Prayer or'eflow,
And let me always pray.

10. A Time to Thee I will not fet,
Nor charge Thee with Delay;

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Do with me, LORD, as feems Thee meet,
But let me always pray.

11. Thou art not flack touching Thy Word,

Content I am to stay,

To wait the Leisure of my LORD,.

But let me always pray.

12. Though in my Flesh I feel the Thorn,

No more will I complain,

Let me but in Thy Bofom mourn,

And tell Thee all my Pain.

13. Come Joy, or Grief, come Life, or Death,.

For this I cake no Care,

But when I render up my Breath,

Let my laft Breath be Prayer.

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