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"Then, Saviour, then my soul receive,
Transported from this vale to live

And reign with thee above:
Where faith is sweetly lost in sight,
And hope in full supreme delight
And everlasting love."

"HUSH, my distrustful heart,
Nor way give to thy fears,
For greater, Lord, thou art
Than all my doubts and fears.
Did Jesus once upon me shine?
Then Jesus is for ever mine.

"Unchangeable his will,

Whatever be my frame:

His loving heart is still

Eternally the same.

My soul thro' many changes goes,

His love no variation knows.

"Thou, Lord, wilt carry on,

And perfectly perform The work thou hast begun,

In me, vile sinful worm.

My own self-will brings grief and woe,

But Jesus will not let me go.

"The bowels of thy grace,

At first did freely move;

And still I see thy face,
And feel that God is love.

Into thine arms my soul I cast;
By sov'reign mercy sav'd at last."

The Priest and Ark now move

To Jordan's gulphy strand;
Come now thy cov'nant love,
Take firm thy promis'd stand:
Only to me thy count'nance show,
I ask no more the Jordan through.

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Their triumph to his death.

They mark'd the footsteps that he trod :

His zeal inspir'd their breast;

And following the incarnate God,

Possess'd the promis'd rest.

"Our glorious Leader claims our praise,

For his own pattern given: While the long cloud of witnesses Show the same path to heaven."

WITH heart, and hands, and lifted eyes,
I'll praise thee while I've life and breath;
And while my loosen'd spirit flies,
I'll gasp thy praise, in very death.

Faith fain would say in boasting mood,
Thy name be glorified:

By leading through the swelling flood,
Or through the channel dried.

If Grace in time of need I have,
And strength as is my day.
I'll triumph thro' the foaming wave,
As thro' the side-wall'd way.

"I'LL praise my Maker while I've breath,
And when my voice is lost in death,
Praise shall employ my noblest powers;

My days of praise shall ne'er be past
While life and breath and being last,
And immortality endures."

My God indulge my humble claim; Thou art my hope, my joy, my rest; The glories that compose thy name, Stand all engag'd to make me blest.

"Thou great and good, thou just and wise, Thou art my Father and my God:

And I am thine by sacred ties,

Thy child, thy servant, bought with blood.

"With heart, and eyes, and lifted hands,

For thee I long, to thee I look : As travellers in thirsty lands

Pant for the cooling water brook.”

"JESUS! the weary wanderer's rest, Give grace thy sov'reign will to bear; With steadfast patience arm my breast With holy loye and lowly fear.

"Thankful, I take the cup from thee, Prepar'd and mingled by thy skill; Tho' bitter to the taste it be,

Powerful the wounded soul to heal.

“Be thou a rock of ages nigh,

My saved soul on thee alone : Shall safely rest, and fears shall fly, As clouds before the mid-day sup.

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Speak to my troubled conscience peace,

Say to my tremb'ling heart, be still: My power thy strength and fortress is: Amen! to all thy sov'reign will.

"O Death where is thy sting, where now Thy boasted victory O Grave?

Who shall contend with God, or who Condemn whom he delights to save."

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"Dear name! the rock on which I build,

My shield and hiding place; My never failing treas❜ry fill'd With boundless stores of grace.

"Jesus, my Shepherd, husband, Friend,
My Prophet, Priest, and King,
My Lord, my life, my way, my end,
Accept the praise I bring.

"Weak is the effort of my heart,
And cold my warmest thought,
But when I see thee as thou art,
I'll praise thee as I ought.

"Till then I would thy love proclaim,
With ev'ry fleeting breath;

And may the music of thy name
Refresh my soul in death."

"AMAZING grace, how sweet the sound
That sav'd a wretch like me;

I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

""Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears reliev'd:

How precious did that grace appear

The hour I first believ'd.

"Thro' many dangers, toils, and snares

Already I have come :

'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,

And grace will lead me home.

"Yes, when this heart and flesh shall fail,

And mortal life shall cease,

I shall possess within the vail,
A life of joy and peace."

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