5 Spirit of Holiness,
Let all thy saints adore
Thy sacred energy, and bless
Thy heart-renewing power.

6 Not angel tongues can tell
Thy love's ecstatic height,
The glorious joy unspeakable,
The beatific sight!

7 Eternal Triune Lord,

Let all the hosts above,
Let all the sons of men record,
And dwell upon thy love :

8 When heaven and earth are fled
Before thy glorious face,

Sing, all the saints thy love hath made,
Thine everlasting praise!

Middletown-p. 152.] HYMN 294. 8 lines 73.

ESUS is our common Lord,

JESUS is our common

By his death to life restor❜d,
Misery we exchange for bliss.
Bliss to carnal minds unknown :
O'tis more than tongue can tell!
Only to believers shown:

Glorious and unspeakable.

2 Christ, our Brother and our Friend,
Shows us his eternal love;

Never shall our triumphs end,

Till we take our seats above.
Let us walk with him in white,
For our bridal day prepare;

For our partnership in light,

For our glorious meeting there!

Paradise-p. 40.] HYMN 295. C. M.

'TIS delight, without alloy,
Jesus, to hear thy name;

My spirit leaps with inward joy,
I feel the sacred flame.

2 My passions hold a pleasing reign,
When love inspires my breast,
Love, the divinest of the train,
The sovereign of the rest.

3 This is the grace must live and sing
When faith and hope shall cease,
Must sound from every joyful string
Through the sweet groves of bliss.
4 Let life immortal seize my clay;
Let love refine my blood;

Her flames can bear my soul away,
Can bring me near my God.

5 Swift I ascend the heavenly place,
And hasten to my home,

I leap to meet thy kind embrace,
I come, O Lord, I come.

6 Sink down, ye separating hills,
Let sin and death remove;
'Tis love that drives my chariot wheels,
And death must yield to love.

Swanwick-p. 15.] HYMN 296. C. M.

HE wisdom own'd by all thy sons,
To me, O God, impart,

The knowledge of the holy Ones,
The understanding heart.
Thy name, O holy Father, tell
To one who would believe;
To me thine only Son reveal,
Thy Holy Spirit give.

2 'Tis life, eternal life, to know
The heavenly Persons mine:
Father, and Son, and Spirit bestow,
That precious faith divine!

A Trinity in Unity,

My soul shall then adore :

And love, and praise, and worship thee,
JEHOVAH, evermore.

Josiah-p. 177.] HYMN 297. 8 lines 7s & 69.

G

OD of Israel's faithful three,

Who brav'd the tvrant's ire,
Nobly scorn'd to bow the knee,
And walk'd unhurt in fire:
Breathe their faith into my breast,
Arm me in this fiery hour;
Stand, O Son of Man, confest
In all thy saving power!

2 For while thou, my Lord, art nigh,
My soul disdains to fear;
Sin and Satan I defy,

Still impotently near;

Earth and hell their wars may wage,
Calm I mark their vain design;
Smile to see them idly rage

Against a child of thine.

3 Unto thee, my Help, my Hope,
My Safeguard, and my Tower,
Confident I still look up,

And still receive thy power;
All the alien's host I chase,

Blast and scatter with mine eyes;

Satan comes; I turn my face;

And, lo! the tempter flies!

4 Sin in me, the inbred foe,
Awhile subsists in chains:

But thou all thy power shalt show,
And slay its last remains;
Thou hast conquer'd my desire,

Thou shalt quench it with thy blood;
Fill me with a purer fire,

And make me all like God.

Firmament-p. 65.] HYMN 298. L. M.

HE spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky,

And spangled heavens (a shining frame)
Their great Original proclaim:
The' unwearied sun from day to day,
Doth his Creator's power display,
And publishes to every land

The work of an Almighty hand.

2 Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wond'rous tale,
And nightly to the list'ning earth
Repeats the story of her birth:

While all the stars that round her burn,
And all the planets in their turn,
Confirm the tidings as they roll,
And spread the truth from pole to pole.
3 What though in solemn silence, all
Move round the dark terrestrial ball;
What though no real voice nor sound
Amid the radiant orbs be found;
In reason's ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice,
For ever singing as they shine,
"The hand that made us is divine."

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Cookham-p. 147.] HYMN 299. 4 lines 7s

JESU

ESUS comes with all his grace,
Comes to save a fallen race;
Object of our glorious hope,
Jesus comes to lift us up!

2 Let the living stones cry out;
Let the sons of Abraham shout:
Praise we all our lowly King;
Give him thanks; rejoice and sing.
3 He hath our salvation wrought;
He our captive souls hath bought :
He hath reconcil'd to God:
He hath wash'd us in his blood

4 We are now his lawful right;
Walk as children of the light:
We shall soon obtain the grace,
Pure in heart to see his face.

5 We shall gain our calling's prize;
After God we all shall rise,
Fill'd with joy, and love, and peace,
Perfected in holiness.

6 Let us then rejoice in hope,
Steadily to Christ look up:
Trust to be redeem'd from sin,
Wait, till he appear within.

7 Fools and madmen let us be,
Yet is our sure trust in thee:
Faithful is the promis'd word,
We shall all be as our Lord.

8 Hasten, Lord, the perfect day :
Let thy every servant say,