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Whate'er of sin in us is found,

O bid it all depart.

2 Help us to help each other, Lord, Each other's cross to bear;

Let each his friendly aid afford, art #

And feel his brother's care.

3 Help us to build each other up,
Our little stock improve;
Increase our faith, confirm our hope,
And perfect us in love.

1 SWEET the time, exceeding sweet; When the saints together meet,

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When the Saviour is the theme,
When they join to sing of him.
2 Sing we, then, eternal love,
Such as did the Father move:
He beheld the world undone,
Lov'd the world, and gave his Son.
3 Sing the Son's amazing love,
How he left the realms above,
Took our nature and our place,
Liv'd and died to save our races90

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Where the saints in glory meet; so baA
Where the Saviour's still the theme,
Where they see, and sing of him.

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LEST be the dear uniting love,
That will not let us part:
Our bodies may far off remove,
We still are one in heart!

2 Join'd in one spirit to our Head,
Where he appoints we go;

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And shew his praise below.

3 Oh may we ever walk in him,
And nothing know beside!
Nothing desire, nothing esteem,
But Jesus crucified!

4 Closer and closer let us cleave
To his belov'd embrace;

Expect his fulness to receive,
And grace to answer grace.

5 Partakers of the Saviour's grace,

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Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place,
Nor life, nor death can part.

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'Tis like the precious ointment shed
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The cups of Hermon's flowers,
Or Zion's fruitful hill,

Bright with the drops of showers; When mingling odours breathe around, And glory rests on all the ground:

For there the Lord commands

Blessings, a boundless store,

From his unsparing hands,

Yea, life for evermore:

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To spend eternity in love!

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2 When streams of love from Christ the spring, Descend to every soul,

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And heavenly peace, with balmy wing,

Shades and bedews the whole.ɔ

3 'Tis like the oil divinely sweet

On Aaron's reverend head;
The trickling drops perfum'd his feet,
And o'er his garments spread.

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1LET thy love our hearts constrain,
Jesus, the crucified:

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Languish'd, and groan'd, and died.

2 Us into closer union draw,

And in our inward parts,

Let kindness sweetly write her w,
Let love command our hearts.

3 Who would not now pursue the way,
Where Jesus' footsteps shine?

Who would not own the pleasing sway
Of charity divine?

4 O let us find the ancient way,

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Our wondering foes to move; And force a frowning world to say, 'See how these christians love!'

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(COL. iii. 11.)

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ET party names no more
The christian world o'erspread;
Gentile and Jew; and bond and free,
Are one in Christ their Head.

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Among the saints on earth

Let mutual love be found;

Heirs of the same inheritance,

With mutual blessings crown'd.

Be banish'd far away;

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Those should in strictest friendship dwell
Who the same Lord obey.

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Thus will the church below

Resemble that above,

Where streams of pleasure ever flow,

And every heart is love.

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(GAL. vi. 2.)

LEST be the tie that binds

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Our hearts in christian love!

The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.

Before our Father's throne

We pour our ardent prayers:

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Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one

Our comforts and our cares.

We share our mutual woes,
Our mutual burdens bear,
And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.

From sorrow, toil, and pain,
And sin we shall be free;

And perfect love and friendship reign
Through all eternity.

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(ACTS IX. 11.)

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1 PRAYER is the soul's sincere desire, Utter'd or unexpress'd;

The motion of a hidden fire,

That trembles in the breast.

2 Prayer is the burthen of a sigh,
The falling of a tear;

The upward glancing of an eye,
When none but God is near.