3 When our heart is faint, Thou warmest,
Justifiest our delight;
Thou our ignorance informest,
And our wisdom shapest right:
Thou in peace dost keep, defendest
In the hour of doubt and strife;
Thou beginnest and Thou endest
All that Christians count of life!
4 Gracious Spirit, Spirit Holy,
Take our spirits unto Thee,
Fain we would be happy, lowly,
Make us as we fain would be!
'Tis not our own will approves us,
If we praise or if we sue,
'Tis Thine own kind Spirit moves us
For 'tis Thine to will and do.
COME, Holy Ghost, the Maker, come;
Take in our lowly souls Thy place!
Thou whom our hearts had being from,
Oh fill them with Thy heavenly grace.
2 Thou art that Comfort from above,
The Highest doth by gift impart;
Thou, spring of life, a fire of love,
And the anointing Spirit art.
3 Oh give our blinded senses light:
Shed love into these hearts of ours: And by the strengthening of Thy might, Oh may our souls renew their powers.
4 Far from us drive away the foe,
Let victory and peace ensue :
Our leader also be, that so
We every danger may eschew.
5 To Thee, the Father, and the Son,
Whom past and present times adore,
The One in Three, and Three in One,
All glory be for evermore.
The Renovating Spirit,
0 SPIRIT of the living God!
In all Thy plenitude of grace, Where'er the foot of man hath trod, Descend on our apostate race. 2 Be darkness at Thy coming light, Confusion order in Thy path; Souls without strength inspire with might; Bid mercy triumph over wrath.
3 0 Spirit of the Lord! prepare
All the round earth her God to meet;
Breathe Thou abroad like morning air
Till hearts of stone begin to beat.
4 Baptize the nations; far and nigh
The triumphs of the cross record:
The name of Jesus glorify,
Till every kindred call Him Lord.
The Eternal Spirit.
1 CREATOR Spirit, by whose aid
The world's foundations first were laid,
Come, visit every humble mind;
Come, pour Thy joys on human kind :
From sin and sorrow set us free,
And make us temples worthy Thee.
2 Thou Strength of His Almighty hand, Whose power does heaven and earth command,
Thrice Holy Fount, Thrice Holy Fire,
Our hearts with heavenly love inspire;
Come, and Thy sacred unction bring,
To sanctify us while we sing.
3 Plenteous of grace, descend from high,
Rich in Thy seven-fold energy.
Give us Thyself, that we may see
The Father and the Son by Thee :
Make us eternal truths receive,
And practise all that we believe.
4 Immortal honour, endless fame,
Attend th' Almighty Father's name!
Let God the Son be glorified,
Who for lost man's redemption died!
And equal adoration be,
Eternal Comforter, to Thee!
The Pentecost.
LORD God, the Holy Ghost,
In this accepted hour,
As on the day of Pentecost,
Descend in all Thy power.
We meet with one accord
In our appointed place,
And wait the promise of our Lord,
The Spirit of all grace.
2 Like mighty rushing wind
Upon the waves beneath,
Move with one impulse every mind;
One soul, one feeling breathe;
The young, the old inspire
With wisdom from above;
And give us hearts and tongues of fire
To pray, and praise, and love.
3 Spirit of light, explore
And chase our gloom away,
With lustre shining more and more
Unto the perfect day.
Spirit of Truth, be Thou,
In life and death, our guide;
O Spirit of adoption, now
May we be sanctified.
1 ENTHRONED on high, Almighty Lord,
The Holy Ghost sent down!
Fulfil in us Thy faithful word,
And all Thy mercies crown.
2 Spirit of life, and light, and love,
Thy heavenly influence give:
Quicken our souls, born from above,
In Christ, that we may live.
3 To our benighted minds reveal
The glories of His grace;
And bring us where no clouds conceal
The brightness of His face.
4 His love within us shed abroad,
Life's ever-springing well;
Till God in us, and we in God,
In love eternal dwell.
COME to our poor nature's night
With Thy blessed inward light,
Holy Ghost the Infinite;
Comforter Divine.
2 We are sinful-cleanse us, Lord:
Sick and faint-Thy strength afford:
Lost,-until by Thee restored,
Comforter Divine.
3 Like the dew, Thy peace distil;
Guide, subdue our wayward will,
Things of Christ unfolding still,
Comforter Divine.
4 Dwell in us, as in the Son,
With His Father ever one
In adoring union;
Comforter Divine.
5 In us "Abba Father," cry;
Earnest of our bliss on high;
Seal of immortality,
Comforter Divine.
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