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ESUS, our great High Priest,
Offer'd his blood and died:
Our guilty conscience seeks
No sacrifice beside:

His precious blood did once atone, And now is sprinkled o'er the throne. 2 Our Advocate appears

For our defence, on high: The Father loves to hear,

And answers from the sky "Not all that sin or hell can say,

"Shall turn my heart, my love away."

3 Be, Lord! our Counsellor,

Our Pattern and our Guide;
And, thro' this desert land,
Still keep us near thy side:
O! let our feet ne'er run astray,
Nor rove, nor seek the crooked way.
4 We love our Shepherd's voice;
His watchful eyes shall keep
Our ransom'd souls among

The thousands of his sheep:

He feeds his flocks, he calls their names; His bosom bears the tender lambs.

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REAT Prophet of our God!
Our souls shall bless thy name :

By thee, the joyful news

Of his salvation came :

The joyful news of sins forgiv'n,

Of hell subdued, and peace with heav'n.

2 Our great almighty Lord!

Our Conqu❜ror and our King!
Thy sceptre, and thy sword,

Thy reigning grace we sing :
Thine is the pow'r behold we sit,
In bonds of love, beneath thy feet.

3 Now let us our souls arise,

And tread the tempter down:
Our Captain leads us forth

To conquest and a crown :
The weakest saint shall win the day,
Tho' death and hell obstruct the way.

4 Should all the host of death,

And pow'rs of hell unknown,
Put their most dreadful forms
Of rage and malice on,

We shall be safe; for Christ displays
Superior pow'r and sov'reign grace.

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HOLY SPIRIT.

235.

REAT was the day, the joy was great, When the ordain'd disciples met: When on their hearts the Spirit came, And sat like tongues of cloven flame. R*

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233.

JESUS, our great High Priest,

Offer'd his blood and died:
Our guilty conscience seeks

No sacrifice beside:

His precious blood did once atone,
And now is sprinkled o'er the throne.

2 Our Advocate appears

For our defence, on high:

The Father loves to hear,

And answers from the sky :-
"Not all that sin or hell can say,
"Shall turn my heart, my love away."

3 Be, Lord! our Counsellor,

Our Pattern and our Guide;
And, thro' this desert land,

Still keep us near thy side :
O let our feet ne'er run astray,
Nor rove, nor seek the crooked way.
4 We love our Shepherd's voice;
His watchful eyes shall keep
Our ransom'd souls among

The thousands of his sheep :
He feeds his flocks, he calls their names;
His bosom bears the tender lambs.

234.

GREAT Prophet of our God!

Our souls shall bless thy name :

By thee, the joyful news

Of his salvation came :
The joyful news of sins forgiv'n,
Of hell subdued, and peace

with heav'n.

2 Our great almighty Lord!
Our Conqu❜ror and our King!
Thy sceptre, and thy sword,

Thy reigning grace we sing:
Thine is the pow'r behold we sit,
In bonds of love, beneath thy feet.

3 Now let us our souls arise,

And tread the tempter down:
Our Captain leads us forth

To conquest and a crown :
The weakest saint shall win the day,
Tho' death and hell obstruct the way.

4 Should all the host of death,

And pow'rs of hell unknown,
Put their most dreadful forms
Of rage and malice on,

We shall be safe; for Christ displays
Superior pow'r and sov'reign grace..

GR

HOLY SPIRIT.

235.

REAT was the day, the joy was great, When the ordain'd disciples met: When on their hearts the Spirit came, And sat like tongues of cloven flame.

R*

2 What gifts miraculous he gave !
To spread the faith whereby he saves;
Furnish'd their tongues with wond'rous words,
Instead of shields, and spears, and swords :
3 Thus arm'd, he sent the champions forth,
From east to west, from south to north ;—
"Go and assert your Saviour's cause;
"Proclaim the myst'ry of his Cross."

4 These weapons of the holy war,
Of what almighty force they are,
To make our stubborn passions bow,
And lay the proudest rebel low!
5 Nations, the learned and the rude,
Are by these heav'nly arms subdued;
While Satan rages at his loss,

And hates the doctrine of the Cross.

6 Spirit of grace! our souls renew,
And fill them with thy wisdom too;
That we may glorify our Lord,
And spread the vict'ries of his word.

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TERNAL Spirit! we confess,

ETER

And sing the wonders of thy grace :
Thy pow'r conveys our blessings down
From God, the Father and the Son.

2 Enlighten'd by thine heav'nly ray,
And shades and darkness turn'd to day;
Thine inward teachings make us know
Our danger, and our refuge too.