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Away to our eternal rest,
Away to our Redeemer's breaft!

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HYMN CCXXIV.

ATHER of our dying Lord,
Remember us for good;

O fulfil his faithful word,

And hear his fpeaking blood!
Give us that for which he prays;
Father, glorify thy Son;

Shew his truth and pow'r and grace;
And fend the promise down.

2 True and faithful Witnefs, thon,
O Chrift, the Spirit give!
Haft thou not receiv'd him now,
That we might now receive?
Art thou not our living Head?
Life to all thy limbs impart;
Shed thy love, thy Spirit shed,
In ev'ry waiting heart.

3 Holy Ghoft, the Comforter,
The gift of Jefus, come;
Glows our heart to find the near,
And fwells to make thee room;
Prefent with us thee we feel,
Come, O come, and in us be!
With us, in us, live and dwell
To all eternity.

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HYMN CCXXV.

JESUS, Lord, we look to thee,

Let us in thy name agree;

Shew thyfelf the Prince of Peace ; Bid our jars for ever cease.

2 By thy reconciling love,
Ev'ry ftumbling block remove;
Each to each unite, endear;
Come and spread thy banner here.

3 Make us of one heart and mind,
Courteous, pitiful, and kind;
Lowly, meek in thought and word,
Altogether like our Lord.

4 Let us each for other care,
Each the other's burden bear;
To thy church the pattern give;
Shew how true believers live.

5 Free from anger and from pride,
Let us thus in God abide;
All the depths of love exprefs,
All the heights of holiness.

6 Let us then with joy remove To thy family above:

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On the wings of angels fly;
Shew how true believers die.

HYMN CCXXVI. C. M.

united

And each to each endear'd;
With confidence we feek thy face,
And know our pray'r is heard.

2 Still let us own our common Lord, And bear thine easy yoke,

A band of love, a three-fold cord,
Which never can be broke.

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3 Make us into one spirit drink ;
Baptize into thy name;

And let us always kindly think,
And sweetly fpeak the fame.

4 Touch'd by the loadftone of thy love,
Let all our hearts agree;

And ever t'wards each other move,
And ever move t'wards thee.

5 To thee infeparably join'd,
Let all our fpirits cleave:
O may we all the loving mind
That was in thee receive!

6 This is the bond of perfectnefs,
Thy fpotlefs charity:

O let us ftill, we pray, poffefs
The mind that was in thee!

7 Grant this, and then from all below
Infenfibly remove;

Our fouls their change fhall fcarcely know, Made perfect first in love.

8 With ease our fouls thro' death fhall glide Into their paradise,

And thence on wings of angels ride
Triumphant thro' the skies.

9 Yet, when the fulleft joy is giv'n,
The fame delight we prove;
In earth, in paradife, in heav'n,
Our All in All is love.

HYMN CCXXVII. Love-Feast

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OME, and let us fweetly join,
Chrift to praife in hymns divine;

Give we all with one accord,
Glory to our common Lord:
Hands, and hearts, and voices raife,
Sing as in the ancient days;
Antedate the joys above,
Celebrate the feaft of love.

2 Strive we, in affection ftrive!
Let the purer flame revive;
Such as in the martyrs glow'd,
Dying champions for their God:
We like them may live and love,
Call'd we are their joys to prove :
Sav'd with them from future wrath,
Partners of like precious faith.

3 Sing we then in Jefu's name,
Now as yesterday the fame,
One in every time and place,
Full for all of truth and grace:
We for Chrift our Master stand,
Lights in a benighted land:
We our dying Lord confefs;
We are Jefu's witneffes.

4 Witnesses that Chrift hath dy'd ;
We with him are crucify'd:

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Chrift hath burft the bands of death;
We his quick'ning Spirit breathe;
Chrift is now gone up on high;

Thither all our wishes fly;

Sits at God's right hand above;
There with him we reign in love.

HYMN CCXXVIII. Love-Feaft.

OME, thou high and lofty Lord;

Cowly, meck, incarnate Word;

Humbly stoop to earth again;
Come and vint abject man!
Jefus, dear expected gueft,
Thou art bidden to the feaft!
For thyfelf our hearts prepare!
Come, and fit, and banquet there.

2 Jefus, we thy.promise claim:
We are met in thy great name:
In the midst do thou appear,
Manifeft thy prefence here!
Sanctify us, Lord, and bless,
Breathe thy Spirit give thy peace;
Thou thyself within us move!
Make our feaft a feaft of love.

3 Let the fruits of grace abound;
Let in us thy bowels found;
Faith, and love, and joy increafe,
Temperance and gentleness;
Plant in us thy humble mind,
Patient, pitiful, and kind:
Meek and lowly let us be,
Full of goodnefs full of thee.

4 Make us all in thee complete:
Make us all for glory meet:
Meet t' appear before thy fight,
Partners with the faints in light;
Call, O call us each by name,
To the marriage of the Lamb:
Let us lean upon thy breast;
Love be there our endless feaft.

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