Away to our eternal rest, Away to our Redeemer's breaft!
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.
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:
On the wings of angels fly; Shew how true believers die.
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.
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.
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:
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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