LOVE divine, all loves excelling,
Joy of heav'n to earth come down!
Fix in us thy humble dwelling
All thy faithful mercies crown. Jesus, thou art all compassion; Pure, unbounded love Thou art, Visit us with thy salvation,
Enter ev'ry trembling heart.
2 Breathe, O breathe thy loving spirit Into ev'ry troubled breast: Let us all in Thee inherit,
Let us find thy promis'd rest; Take away the love of sinning; Alpha and Omega be; End of faith, as its beginning, Set our hearts at liberty.
3 Come, Almighty to deliver, Let us all thy life receive; Suddenly return, and never,
Never more thy temples leave: Thee we would be always blessing; Serve Thee, as thy hosts above; Pray and praise Thee without ceasing; Glory in thy dying love.
4 Carry on thy new creation, Pure and holy may we be; Let us see our whole salvation Perfectly secur'd by Thee:
Change from glory into glory, 'Till in heav'n we take our place; 'Till we cast our crowns before Thee, Lost in wonder, love, and praise.
Looking to the Deliverer.
GOD of mercy and compassion, Look with pity on my pain;
Hear a mournful broken spirit, Prostrate at thy feet complain; Many are my foes, and mighty, Strength to conquer I have none : Nothing can uphold my goings, But thy blessed Self alone.
2 Saviour, look on thy beloved; Triumph over all my foes; Turn to heav'nly joy my mourning; Turn to gladness all my woes: Live, or die, or work, or suffer, Let my weary soul abide, In all changes whatsoever,
Sure and steadfast by thy side.
3 When temptations fierce assault me, When my enemies I find;
Sin and guilt, and death, and satan, All against my soul combin'd; Hold me up in mighty waters, Keep my eyes on things above, Righteousness, divine atonement, Peace, and everlasting love.
IS a point I long to know, Oft it causes anxious thought, Do I love the Lord, or no? Am I his, or am I not?
2 If I love, why am I thus ? Why this dull and lifeless frame? Hardly, sure, can they be worse, Who have never heard his name!
3 Could my heart so hard remain, Pray'r a task and burden prove; Ev'ry trifle give me pain,
If I knew a Saviour's love?
4 When I turn my eyes within, All is dark, and vain, and wild; Fill'd with unbelief and sin, Can I deem myself a child?
5 If I pray, or hear, or read, Sin is mix'd with all I do; You that love the Lord indeed, Tell me, is it thus with you?
6 Yet I mourn my stubborn will, Find my sin a grief and thrall; Should I grieve for what I feel, If I did not love at all?
7 Could I joy his saints to meet, Choose the ways I once abhorr'd, Find, at times, the promise sweet, If I did not love the Lord?
8 Lord, decide the doubtful case; Thou who art thy people's sun; Shine upon thy work of grace, If it be indeed begun.
9 Let me love Thee more and more, If I love at all, I pray;
If I have not lov'd before, Help me to begin to-day.
SAY, where's thy hope? thou sinner say Look ev'ry where, and ask around,
Who all the mighty debt can pay; Can a fit ransom e'er be found? Yes, Lord, before I drew my breath, The Lamb for me had suffer'd death!
2 Far, far away, must satan fly,
Nor think me captive to detain: For Jesus, when He deign'd to die,
My bondage broke, and burst my chain; And conqu'ror in the dreadful fight, My soul from thence becomes his right.
3 Take Thou possession of my heart, Jesu, and make me live to Thee : With Thee let nothing claim a part, But Thou my All for ever be! And give me, with thy saints above, All joy in Thee, Thou God of love!
GENTLE Jesus, lovely Lamb, Thine, and only thine, I am; Take my body, spirit, soul, Only Thou possess the whole.
2 Thou my one thing needful be, Let me ever cleave to Thee ; Let me choose the better part, Let me give Thee all my heart.
3 Fairer than the sons of men, Do not let me turn again, Leave the fountain head of bliss, Stoop to creature happiness!
4 Whom have I on earth below? Only Thee I'd wish to know: Whom have I, in heav'n, but Thee? Thou art all in all to me.
5 All my treasure is above,
All my riches is thy love:
Who the worth of love can tell?
Infinite! unsearchable !
« AnteriorContinuar » |