Who on earth can conceive
How happy we live
In the palace of God, the great King? What a concert of praife,
When our Jefus's grace
The whole heavenly company fing?
What a rapturous fong,
When the glorify'd throng
In the spirit of harmony join?
Join all the glad choirs,
Hearts, voices, and lyres,
And the burden is mercy divine.
Hallelujah they cry
To the King of the sky,
To the great everlasting I AM;
To the Lamb that was flain,
And liveth again,
Hallelujah to God and the Lamb.
The Lamb on the throne,
Lo! he dwells with his own,
And to rivers of pleasure he leads:
With his mercy's full blaze,
With the fight of his face,
Our beatify'd fpirits he feeds.
Our foreheads proclaim
His ineffable name:
Our bodies his glory display:
A day without night
We feaft in his fight,
And eternity feems as a day!
HYMN CCV.
ESU, great Shepherd of the sheep,
To thee for help we fly:
Thy little flock in fafety keep!
For O the wolf is nigh!
2 He comes of hellish malice full,
To fcatter, tear, and flay:
He feizes every ftraggling foul,
As his own lawful prey.
3 Us into thy protection take,
And gather with thy arm!
Unless the fold we firft forfake,
The wolf can never harm.
4 We laugh to fcorn his cruel pow'r,
While by our Shepherd's fide:
The sheep he never can devour,
Unless he first divide.
5 O do not fuffer him to part
The fouls that here agree!
But make us of one mind and heart,
And keep us one in thee!
6 Together let us sweetly live!
Together let us die!
And each a starry crown receive,
And reign above the sky.
HYMN CCVI.
? TRY US, O God, and fearch the ground
Of ev'ry finful heart;
Whate'er of fin in us is found,
O bid it all depart!
2 When to the right or left we ftray,
Leave us not comfortless;
But guide our feet into the way
Of everlasting peace.
3 Help us to help each other, Lord,
Each other's cross to bear :
Let each his friendly aid afford,
And feel his brother's care.
4 Help us to build each other up,
Our little ftock improve;
Increase our faith, confirm our hope,
And perfect us in love.
5 Up into thee, our living Head,
Let us in all things grow,
Till thou haft made us free indeed,
And fpotlefs here below.
6 Then, when the mighty work is wrought,
Receive thy ready bride;
Give us in heaven a happy lot
With all the fanctify'd.
HYMN CCVII.
JESU, united by thy grace,
And each to each endear'd,
With confidence we feek thy face,
And now our pray'r is heard.
2 Still let us own our common Lord,
And bear thine easy yoke,
A band of love, a three-fold cord,
Which never can be broke.
3 Make us into one spirit drink;
Baptize into thy name;
And let us always kindly think,
And sweetly speak the fame.
4 Touch'd by the loadstone of thy love,
Let all our hearts agree;
And ever tow'rds each other move,
And ever move tow'rds thee.
To thee infeparably join'd
Let all our fpirits cleave;
O may we all the loving mind
That was in thee receive!
6 This is the bond of perfectness,
Thy spotless charity;
O let us ftill, we pray, poffefs
The mind that was in thee!
7 Grant this, and then from all below
Infenfibly remove;
Our fouls their change fhall fcarcely know,
Made perfect first in love.
8 With ease our fouls thro' death shall glide Into their paradife;
And thence on wings of angels ride
Triumphant thro' the skies.
9 Yet when the fulleft joy is giv'n,
The fame delight we prove,
In earth, in paradife, in heav'n,
Our All in All is love.
HYMN CCVIII.
FATHER of our dying Lord,
Remember us for good,
O fulfil his faithful word,
And hear his fpeaking blood?
Give us that for which he prays;
Father, glorify thy Son;
Shew his truth, and pow'r, and grace,
And fend the Promife down.
2 True and faithful Witnefs, thou,
O Chrift, the Spirit give!
Haft thou not receiv'd him now,
That we might now receive?
Art thou not our living Head ?
Life to all thy limbs impart
Shed thy love, thy Spirit fhed
In ev'ry waiting heart.
3 Holy Ghoft, the Comforter,
The gift of Jefus come:
Glows our heart to find thee near,'
And fwells to make thee room;
Prefent with us thee we feel,
Come, O come, and in us be!
With us, in us, live and dwell
To all eternity.
HYMN CCIX.
1 Jesu, Lord, we look to thee,
Let us in thy name agree;
Shew thyself the Prince of Peace;
Bid our jars for ever cease.
2 By thy reconciling love,
Ev'ry ftumbling-block remove,
Each to each unite, endear,
Come and spread thy banner here!
3 Make us of one heart and mind,
Courteous, pitiful, and kind;
Lowly, meek in thought and word,
Altogether like our Lord.
4 Let us each for other care,
Each the other's burden bear;
To thy church the pattern give,
Shew how true believers live.
5 Free from anger and from pride,
Let us thus in God abide;
All the depths of love exprefs,
All the heights of holiness!
6 Let us then with joy remove
To the family above:
On the wings of angels fly;
Shew how true believers die,
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