Simple, innocent, and free,
Free from All that is not Thée.
3. Weaken, bring me down to nought,
Captivate my every Thought,
Take the Future from my View,
All Thy Love intends to do;
Let me to Thy Goodness leave
When, and what Thou art to givé,
All Thy Works to Thee are known,
Let Thy bleffed Will be done.
4. Is it not enough that I
Now can Abba Father cry?
I am now a Child of GoD,
Bought, and fprinkled with Thy Blood!
LORD, it doth not yet appear,
What I furely fhall be here,
When Thou shalt unfold the Word:
Only make me As my LORD.
5. So I may Thy Spirit know,
Let Him as he lifteth blow,
Let the Manner be unknown,
So I may with Thee be One.
Fully in my Life exprefs
All the Heights of Holiness,
Sweetly in my Spirit prove
All the Depths of humble Love.
For a Sick Friend.
EE, gracious LORD, with pitying Eyes,
Beneath Thine Hand a Sufferer lies,
Thy Mercy not Thine Anger proves,
And fick he is whom Jesus loves.
2. His to Thine own Afflictions join,
Accept, exalt, and count them Thine,
Thy Paffion which remains fulfil,
And fuffer in Thy Members ftill.
3. His Sickness feel, endure His Pain,
His Burthen bear, His Crofs fuftain,
Grieve in His Griefs, and figh His Sighs,
And breathe.his Wishes to the Skies.
4. Enter his Heart, poffefs him whole,
Infpire, and actuate his Soul,
Himself no longer let it be
That fuffers, or that lives but Thee:
5. Thyfelf thro' Sufferings perfect made
Conform him thus to Thee his Head,
Refine, and raise his Virtue higher,
When tried, and purified by Fire.
6. So when his Eyes behold Thee near,
And Thou his Hidden Life, appear,
Bright in Thy Likeness fhall he fhine,
And glorious all, and all Divine.
After a Recovery from Sickness.
Pfalm ciii. 1, &c.-
RAISE the LORD, my thankful Soul,
Him let all within me praise !
He again hath made me whole,
He hath lengthen'd out my Days.
2. Gracious, Merciful, and Kind,
Him my thankful Soul proclaim,
Bear His Benefits in mind,
Love, and blefs His hallow'd Name.
3. Thee how often doth he fave
From the firft, and fecond Death!
Snatch Thee from the gaping Grave,
Pluck thee from the Lion's Teeth?
4. He forgives thy every Sin,
Inly He thy Pardon feals,
Juftifies and makes thee clean,
All Thy Imperfections heals.
5. GOD on me His Bleffings fhowers,
All His Bleffings from above,
Bids me tafte the Heavenly Powers,
Crowns me with His Grace, and Love.
6. As an Eagle fwift and ftrong, Lo! renew'd I live, I rise,,' Active, vigorous, and young,
Earth I fpurn, and cleave the Skies.
Ifaiah xxxviii, 17. 18, &c.
LORY to GOD, whofe gracious Power
Is in His Creature's Weakness shew'd,
Who turns afide the Mortal Hour,
And bids me live to praise my God!
2. To praife my GOD I only live;
To Him my Refidue of Days,
His own continued Gift I give,
I only live my GoD to praife.
3. In Love, and Pity to my Soul,
Thou, LORD, hast snatch'd me from the Grave, Thy powerful Touch hath made me whole
O! who can as my Saviour fave?
4. JESU, the Saviour of Mankind, How fhall I magnify Thy Grace, Which caft my every Sin behind,
And brought me to Thy Father's Face!
5. Here I rejoyce to blefs Thy Name,
Thy Goodness here I live to fee:
The Grave cannot Thy Praife proclaim,
The Dead can call no Souls to Thee.
6. The Living, He fhall praife Thy Love; The Living, He Thy Truth fhall own, . As I this Day delight to prove,
And make Thy faithful Mercies known.
7. Let future Times Thy Name confefs
In which I fure Salvation have,
And learn from me their Gop to blefs,
So ready, and fo strong to fave.
8. The LORD hath fav'd my Soul from Death, Then let us fing my grateful Songs,
And render with our lateit Breath
The Praise that to my LORD belongs.
Receiving a Chriftian Friend.
LCOME Friend, in that great Name,
Whence our every Bleffing flows!
Enter, and increase the Flame
Which in all our Bofoms glows.
2. Sent of GoD, we Thee receive:
Hail the Providential Guest!
If in Jesus we believe,
Let us on His Mercies feast.
3. JESUS is Our Common LORD,
He our loving Saviour is,
By His Death to Life restor'd,
Mifery we exchange for Blifs:
4. Blifs to Carnal Minds unknown,
O! 'tis more than Tongue can tell,
Only to Believers known,
Glorious, and unspeakable!
5. CHRIST, our Brother, and our Friend,
Shews us His Eternal Love;
Never let our Triumphs end,
Till we join the Host above.
6. Let us walk with CHRIST in White,
For our Bridal-day prepare,
For our Partnership in Light,
For our Glorious Meeting there!
be on
this House bestow'd,
Peace on All that here refide!
Let the Unknown Peace of GoD
With the Man of Peace abide!
Let the Spirit now come down,
Let the Bleffing now take Place!
Son of Peace, receive thy Crown,
Fulness of the Gospel-Grace.
2. CHRIST, my Mafter, and my LORD,
Let me Thy Forerunner be,
O be mindful of Thy Word,
Vifit them, and visit me:
To this Houfe, and All herein,
Now let Thy Salvation come,
Save our Souls from Inbred Sin,
Make them Thine Eternal Home.
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