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Christ in you, the hope of glory.
2 Is there a thing beneath the sun,
That strives with thee my heart to share?
Ah, tear it thence, and reign alone,

The Lord of every motion there;
Then shall my heart from earth be free,
When it hath found repose in thee.
3 O hide this self from me, that I
No more, but Christ in me, may live;
My vile affections crucify,

Nor let one darling lust survive!
In all things nothing may I see,
Nothing desire or seek, but thee.
4 O Love, thy sovereign aid impart,

To save me from low-thoughted care;
Chase this self-will through all my heart,
Through all its latent mazes there;
Make me thy duteous child, that I
Ceaseless may,
Abba, Father," cry.
5 Each moment draw from earth away
My heart, that lowly waits thy call;
Speak to my inmost soul, and say,

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"I am thy Love, thy God, thy All!" To feel thy power, to hear thy voice, To taste thy love, be all my choice.

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Gerhard Tersteegen. Tr. by J. Wesley.

Pressing toward the mark.

1 I THANK thee, uncreated Sun, That thy bright beams on me have shined; I thank thee, who hast overthrown

My foes, and healed my wounded mind; I thank thee, whose enlivening voice Bids my freed heart in thee rejoice. 2 Uphold me in the doubtful race, Nor suffer me again to stray;

rest, till it finds rest in thee,

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Strengthen ny feet, with steady pace
Still to press forward in thy way;
My soul and flesh, O Lord of might,
Fill, satiate, with thy heavenly light.
3 Give to mine eyes refreshing tears;

Give to my heart chaste, hallowed fires, Give to my soul, with filial fears,

The love that all heaven's host inspires, That all my powers, with all their might, In thy sole glory may unite.

4 Thee will I love, my joy, my crown; Thee will I love, my Lord, my God; Thee will I love, beneath thy frown

Or smile, thy scepter or thy rod. What though my flesh and heart decay? Thee shall I love in endless day!

Johann A. Scheffler. Tr. by J. Wesley.

479 His blood cleanseth from all sin 1 PRISONERS of hope, lift up your heads. The day of liberty draws near! Jesus, who on the serpent treads,

Shall soon in your behalf appear: The Lord will to his temple come; Prepare your hearts to make him room. 2 Ye all shall find, whom in his word Himself hath caused to put your trust, The Father of our dying Lord

Is ever to his promise just; Faithful, if we our sins confess, To cleanse from all unrighteousness. 3 O ye of fearful hearts, be strong! Your downcast eyes and hands lift up! Ye shall not be forgotten long;

Hope to the end, in Jesus hope! Tell him ye wait his grace to prove; And cannot fail, if God is love.

Charles Wesley

480 The sealing and sanctifying Spirit.
1 FATHER of everlasting grace,
Thy goodness and thy truth we praise,
Thy goodness and thy truth we prove;
Thou hast, in honor of thy Son,
The gift unspeakable sent down,-
Spirit of life, and power, and love.

2 Send us the Spirit of thy Son,
To make the depths of Godhead known,
To make us share the life divine:
Send him the sprinkled blood to apply;
Send him our souls to sanctify,

And show and seal us ever thine.
3 So shall we pray, and never cease;
So shall we thankfully confess

Thy wisdom, truth, and power, and love; With joy unspeakable adore, And bless and praise thee evermore,

And serve thee as thy hosts above: 4 Till, added to that heavenly choir, We raise our songs of triumph higher,

And praise thee in a bolder strain; Outsoar the first-born seraph's flight, And sing, with all the saints in light, Thy everlasting love to man.

Charles Wesley.

1 COME, Holy Ghost, all-quickening fire, My consecrated heart inspire,

Sprinkled with the atoning blood:
Still to my soul thyself reveal:
Thy mighty working may I feel,

And know that I arn one with God.

2 Humble, and teachable, and mild, O may I, as a little child,

My lowly Master's steps pursue! Be anger to my soul unknown; Hate, envy, jealousy, be gone;

In love create thou all things new. 3 Let earth no more my heart divide; With Christ may I be crucified;

To thee with my whole heart aspire
Dead to the world and all its toys,
Its idle pomp, and fading joys,

Be thou alone my one desire.

4 My will be swallowed up in thee; Light in thy light still may I see,

Beholding thee with open face; Called the full power of faith to prove. Let all my hallowed heart be iove, And all my spotless life be praise.

Charles Wesles.

1 THE thing my God doth hate
That I no more may do,
Thy creature, Lord, again create,
And all my soul renew:

2 My soul shall then, like thine,
Abhor the thing unclean,
And, sanctified by love divine,
Forever cease from sin.
3 That blessed law of thine,
Jesus, to me impart;
The Spirit's law of life divine,
O write it on my heart!
4 Implant it deep within,
Whence it may ne'er remove,
The law of liberty from sin,
The perfect law of love.

5 Thy nature be my law,
Thy spotless sanctity;

And sweetly every moment draw
My happy soul to thee.
6 Soul of my soul, remain!
Who didst for all fulfill,
In me, O Lord, fulfill again
Thy heavenly Father's will.

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Charles Wesley,

The Guide and Counselor. 1 JESUS, my Truth, my Way, My sure, unerring Light, On thee my feeble steps I stay, Which thou wilt guide aright. 2 My Wisdom and my Guide, My Counselor thou art: O never let me leave thy side, Or from thy paths depart.

3 I lift mine eyes to thee,
Thou gracious, bleeding Lamb,
That I may now enlightened be,
And never put to shame.

4 Never will I remove

Out of thy hands my cause;
But rest in thy redeeming love,
And hang upon thy cross.

5 O make me all like thee,
Before I hence remove;
Settle, confirm, and 'stablish me,
And build me up in love.

6 Let me thy witness live,
When sin is all destroyed;

And then my spotless soul receive, And take me home to God. Charles Wesley.

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Christian aspiration.

1 GOD of almighty love,
By whose sufficient grace
I lift my heart to things above,
And humbly seek thy face;

2 Through Jesus Christ the Just,
My faint desires receive,

And let me in thy goodness trust,
And to thy glory live.

3 Whate'er I say or do,

Thy glory be my aim;

My offerings all be offered through
The ever-blessed name.

4 Jesus, my single eye

Be fixed on thee alone:

Thy name be praised on earth, on high, Thy will by all be done.

Charles Wesley.

1 KING of kings, and wilt thou deign
D'er this wayward heart to reign?
Henceforth take it for thy throne,
Rule here, Lord, and rule alone.

2 Then, like heaven's angelic bands,
Waiting for thine high commands,
All my powers shall wait on thee,
Captive, yet divinely free.

3 At thy word my will shall bow,
Judgment, reason, bending low;
Hope, desire, and every thought,
Into glad obedience brought.

4 Zeal shall haste on eager wing,
Hourly some new gift to bring;
Wisdom, humbly casting down
At thy feet her golden crown.

5 Tuned by thee in sweet accord,
All shall sing their gracious Lord;
Love, the leader of the choir,
Breathing round her seraph fire.

William A. Muhlenberg.

486 Cut short the work in righteousness.

1 SAVIOUR of the sin-sick soul,
Give me faith to make me whole;
Finish thy great work of grace;
Cut it short in righteousness.

2 Speak the second time, "Be clean!" Take away my inbred sin;

Every stumbling-block remove;
Cast it out by perfect love.

3 Nothing less will I require;
Nothing more can I desire:

None but Christ to me be given;
None but Christ in earth or heaven.

4 O that I might now decrease!
O that all I am might cease!
Let me into nothing fall;
Let my Lord be all in all!

Charles Wesley.

487 Christ comforting mourners.

1 GRACIOUS soul, to whom are given
Holy hungerings after heaven,
Restless breathings, earnest moans,
Deep, unutterable groans,
Agonies of strong desire,

Love's suppressed, unconscious fire;

2 Turn again to God, thy rest,
Jesus hath pronounced thee blest:
Humbly to thy Jesus turn,
Comforter of all that mourn:
Happy mourner, hear, and see,
Claim the promise made to thee.
3 Gently will he lead the weak,
Bruiséd reeds he ne'er will break;
Touched with sympathizing care,
Thee he in his arms shall bear,
Bless with late but lasting peace,
Fill with all his righteousness.
4 Lift to him thy weeping eye,
Heaven behind the cloud descry:
If with Christ thou suffer here,
When his glory shall appear,
Christ his suffering son shall own;
Thine the cross, and thine the crown.
Charles Wesley.

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Ineffable love.

2 Every thought, design, and word,
Burns with love to thee, my Lord;
Body, soul, and spirit joined,
All in love to thee combined.
Ever since I saw thy face,
Proved thy plenitude of grace,
Chose thee as the better part-
Love has filled and fired my heart.
3 Jesus, Saviour, thou art mine;
Jesus, all I have is thine;
Never shall the altar-fire,
Kindled on my heart, expire.
Love my darkness shall illume,
Love shall all my sins consume:
Sweetly then I die to prove
An eternity of love!

2 Come in this accepted hour;
Bring thy heavenly kingdom in;
Fill us with thy glorious power,
Rooting out the seeds of sin:
Nothing more can we require,
We will covet nothing less;
Be thou all our heart's desire,
All our joy, and all our peace.

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Charles Wesley.

Panting for purity.

1 HOLY Lamb, who thee receive, Who in thee begin to live,

Day and night they cry to thee,
"As thou art, so let us be!"

2 Jesus, see my panting breast;
See, I pant in thee to rest;
Gladly would I now be clean;
Cleanse me now from every sin.
3 Fix, O fix my wavering mind;
To thy cross my spirit bind:
Earthly passions far remove;
Swallow up my soul in love.
4 Dust and ashes though we be,
Full of sin and misery,

Thine we are, thou Son of God;
Take the purchase of thy blood!
Mrs. Anna S. Dober. Tr. by J. Wesley.