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2 Thee, we expect, our faithful Lord,
Who in thy name are join'd:
We wait according to thy word,
Thee in the midst to find.

3 Whom now we feek, O may we meet!
Jefus, the crucify'd,

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Shew us thy bleeding hands and feet,
Thou who for us haft dy'd.

HYMN CCXXXVI.

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And meekly agree to follow the Lamb, To trace thine example, the world to difdain, And conftantly trample on pleasure and pain. 2 O what fhall we do, our Saviour to love? To make us anew, come Lord from above! The fruit of thy paffion, thy holiness give! Give us the falvation of all that believe!

30 Jefus appear! no longer delay,

To fanctify here, and bear us away;

The end of our meeting, at length, let us fee, Triumphantly fitting in glory with thee!

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PARTING OF CHRISTIAN FRIENDS.

HYMN CCXXXVII. C. M.

That will not let us part!

us love,

Our bodies may far off remove,
We ftill are one in heart.

2 Join'd in one fpirit to our Head,
Where he appoints we go;

And ftill in Jefu's footfteps tread,
And fhew his praise below.

3 O may we ever walk in him,
And nothing know befide;
Nothing defire, nothing efteem,
But Jefus crucify'd!

4 Closer and clofer let us cleave
To his belov'd embrace;
Expect his fulness to receive,
And grace to answer grace.

5 Partakers of the Saviour's grace,
The fame in mind and heart;
Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place,
Nor life, nor death, can part.

6 But let us haften to the day,
Which fhall our flesh restore;

When death shall all be done away,
And bodies part no more.

HYMN CCXXXVIII.

I ESUS, accept the praise

That to thy name belongs ;

Matter of all our praise,

Subject of all our fongs;

Through thee we now together came,
And part exulting in thy name.

2 In flesh we part a while,
But ftill in fpirit join'd,
T'embrace the happy toil,
Thou haft to each affign'd;
And while we do thy bleffed will,
We bear our heav'n about us fin

3 O let us then go on,
In all thy pleasant ways,
And arm'd with patience, rum
With joy th' appointed race!
Keep us and ev'ry feeking foul.
Till all attain the heav'nly goal.

4 There we shall meet again,
When all our toils are o'er,
And death, and grief, and pain,
And parting are no more:
We fhall with all our brethren rife,
And grafp thee in the flaming skies.

5 O happy, happy day,

That calls thine exiles home
The heav'ns fhall pass away:

The earth receive its doom;

Earth we shall view, and heav'n destroy'd,
And fhout above the fiery void!

6 Then let us wait the found,
That fhall our fouls release,
And labour to be found

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Of him in fpotless peace;
In perfect holinefs renew'd,

Adorn'd with Chrift, and meet for God.

HYMN CCXXXIX. C, M.

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OD of all confolation, take
The glory of thy grace!

Thy gifts to thee we render back
In ceafclefs fongs of praife.

2 Thro' thee we now together came
In fingleness of heart.

We met, O Jefus, in thy name;
And in thy name we part.

3 We part in body, not in mind:
Our minds continue one;
And each to each in Jesus join'd,
We hand in hand go on.

4 Subfifts as in us all one foul;

No pow'r can make us twain: And mountains rife and oceans roll, To fever us, in vain.

5 Prefent we ftill in spirit are,
And intimately nigh;

While on the wings of faith and prayr,
We each to other fly.

6 In Jefus Chrift, together we
In heav'nly places fit:

Cloath'd with the fun, we smile to fee The moon beneath our feet.

7 Our life is hid with Chrift in God;
Our Life fhall foon appear,

And shed his glory all abroad
On all his members here.

The heav'nly treasure now we have
In a vile houle of clay;
But he fhall to the utmost fave,
And keep it to that day.

9 Our fouls are in his mighty hand,
And he fhall keep them ftill;
And you and I shall surely stand
With him on Sion's hill!

10 Him, eye to eye, we there shall fee;
Our face like his fhall fhine;
O what a glorious company,
When faints and angels join!

11 O what a joyful meeting there!
In robes of white array'd,
Palms in our hands we all shall bear,
And crowns upon our head.

12 Then let us lawfully contend,
And fight our paffage through :
Bear in our faithful minds the end,
And keep the prize in view.

13 Then let us haften to the day,
When all fhall be brought home!
Come, O Redeemer, come away!
O Jefus, quickly come!

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HYMN CCXL. S. M.

ND let our bodies part,
To diff'rent climes repair;

Infeparably join'd in heart,
The friends of Jefus are!

2 Jefus, the corner-ftone,

Did firft our hearts unite! And ftill he keeps our fpirits one, Who walk with him in white,

3 O let us ftill proceed

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In Jefu's work below;

And foll'wing our triumphant Head, To farther conquests go.

4 The vineyard of the Lord

Before his labourers lies;

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