3. Let us never, never rest Till the Promife is fulfil'd, Till we are of Thee poffeft, Wafh'd, and fanctified, and feal'd: Till we all in Love renew'd,
Find the Pearl that Adam loft, Temples of the Living GoD, Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft.
At the Meeting of Christian Friends.
LORY be to GoD above, GOD, from whom all Bleffings flow!
G&D, from whom
Make we mention of His Love, Publifh we His Praife below; Call'd together by His Grace,
We are met in JESU's Name, See with Joy each others Face, Followers of the Bleeding Lamb.
2. Let us then fweet Counfel take How to make our Calling fure, Our Election how to make,
Paft the Reach of Hell fecure; Build we each the other up,
Pray we for our Faith's Increase, Lafting Comfort, steadfast Hope, Solid Joy, and fettled Peace.
3. More and more let Love abound, Never, never may we reft,
Till we are in JESUS found,
Of our Paradife poffeft. He removes the Flaming Sword, Calls us back, from Eden driven,
To His Image here reftor'd, Soon He takes us up to Heaven.
4. JESU, LORD, for this we wait, Till thine Image we regain : Wilt thou not our Souls create ? Saviour, fhall our Faith be vain? If we do in Thee believe,
Now the Second Gift impart, Now th' Abiding Witness give, Give us now the Perfect Heart.
5. Surely He will not delay, If we patiently endure, Will not empty send away
Sinners hungry, mournful, poor. JESUS wept! and ftill doth weep, Human Mifery to behold, Pities now His wand'ring Sheep, Longs to bring us to His Fold.
6" Children, have you ought to eat?” (Kindly afk's our Careful GoD) JESU's Flesh indeed is Meat, Drink indeed is JESU's Blood: Drink, and eat my Well-belov'd, Lean, He cries, upon my Breaft, Till ye All, from Earth remov'd, Share with Me the Marriage-Feast.
At Parting.
OLEST be the dear, Uniting Love That will not let us part:
Our Bodies may far off remove, We ftill are join'd in Heart.
2. Join'd in One Spirit to our Head, When He appoints we go,
And ftill in JESU's Footsteps tread, And do His Work below.
3. O let us ever walk in Him, And Nothing know befide, Nothing defire, Nothing efteem. But JESUS Crucified.
4. Clofer, and clofer let us cleave To His belov'd Embrace, Expect His Fulness to receive,
And Grace to answer Grace.
5. While thus we walk with CHRIST in Light Who fhall our Souls disjoin, Souls, which Himself vouchsafes t' unite In Fellowship Divine!
6. We All are One who Him receive, And each with each agree,
In Him the One, The Truth, we live,. Bleft Point of Unity!
7. Partakers of the Saviour's Grace,
The fame in Mind and Heart,
Nor Joy, nor Grief, nor Time, nor Place, Nor Life, nor Death can part:
8. But let us haften to the Day Which fhall our Flesh restore, When Death fhall all be done away, And Bodies part no more.
Er the World lament and grieve At Parting with a Friend,
Thee we back to JESUS give, We chearfully commend
Thee to His preferving Grace: Go, in full Affurance go! Heavenward fet thy ftedfaft Face, And only JESUS know.
2. JESUS, and Him Crucified Forever bear in Mind, Shelter in His bleeding Side Be confident to find;
Let His Truth, and Faithfulness Still thy Shield, and Buckler prove, Keep thy Soul in perfect Peace, And Everlasting Love.
3. Love the dear Atoning Lamb, And Us for JESU's Sake; Let us Each, in JESU's Name, Of Others mention make; Prefent thro' the Spirit's Prayer, Absent when in Flesh Thou art, To the Throne of Grace we bear, We bear Thee on our Heart.
4. To the Source of all our Good Thy Soul we now commend, JESU, fprinkle with Thy Blood, And love Him to the End: Faithfully on Thee we call, Perfect Him, and Us in One,, With Us, by Us, in Us, All. Thy only Will be done.
Though abfent in Body, yet prefent in Spirit.
1 HRIST, our Head, and Common LORD, See the Souls that wait on Thee,
Hear us all with one Accord
Sweetly in Thy Praise agree: Parted tho' in Flesh we are, Join'd to Thee, our Corner-Stone, We are intimately near,
Prefent, and in Spirit One..
2. Let us now to Thee afpire, Who Thy Life begin to know, Let the Circulating Fire
Now in every Bófom glow: Let the Incense of our Vows, From Thy Golden Cenfer rife, Fragrant thro' the Higher House, Well-accepted Sacrifice.
3. Come, ye Abfent Souls who love JESUS with a fimple Heart, Seek with us the Things above, Never from the Work depart Never let us ceale to fing
The great Riches of His Grace, Till we all behold our King Eye to Eye, and Face to Face.
4. Quickly we fhall All appear At the Judgment-seat above, We fhall fee our JESUS near, Him whom now unfeen we love"; We. His dear, peculiar Ones, Sharers of our Mafter's Bliss, We fhall fit upon our Thrones, We fhall fee Him as He is.
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