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Glow our hearts to find thee near,
And swell to make thee room;
Present with us thee we feel,
Come, O come, and in us be!
With us, in us, live and dwell
To all eternity.

Mount Pleasant.] HYMN 418. C. M.

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JESUS, united by thy graced

And each to each endear'd,

With confidence we seek 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 threefold cord,
Which never can be broke.

3 Make us into one spirit drink;
Baptise into thy Name;
And let us always kindly think,
And sweetly speak the same.

4 Touch'd by the loadstone of thy love,
Let all our hearts agree;
And ever tow'rds each other move,
And ever move tow'rds thee.

5 To thee inseparably join'd,
Let all our spirits cleave;
O may we all the loving mind
That was in thee receive!

6 This is the bond of perfectness,
The spotless charity;

O let us (still we pray) possess
The mind that was in thee!

Grant this, and then from all below
Insensibly remove:

Our souls the change shall scarcely know,

Made perfect first in love!

8 With ease our souls through death shall glide Into their paradise ;

And thence on wings of angels ride,
Triumphant through the skies.

9 Yet when the fullest joy is giv'n,
The same delight we prove,
In earth, in paradise, in heav'n,
Our all in all is Love.

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Townhead.] HYMN 419. 4 lines 7's.

ESUS, Lord, we look to thee,
Let us in thy name agree;

Show thyself the Prince of Peace:
Bid our jars for ever cease.

2 By thy reconciling love,
Every stumbling-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 for each other care,
Each the other's burden bear:
To thy church the pattern give;
Show how true believers live.

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

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

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

Middletown.] HYMN 420. 8 lines 7's.

LOVE-FEAST.

FIRST PART.

OME, and let us sweetly join,

Give we all with one accord, Glory to our common Lord; Hands, and hearts, and voices raise : Sing as in the ancient days; Antedate the joys above, Celebrate the feast of love. 2 Strive we, in affection strive: 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 Jesu's name, Now as yesterday the same; One in every time and place, Full for all of truth and grace : We for Christ, our Master, stand, Lights in a benighted land: We our dying Lord confess, We are Jesu's witnesses.

4 Witnesses that Christ hath died: We with him are crucify'd:

Christ hath burst the bands of death:

We his quick'ning Spirit breathe :
Christ 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!

SECOND PART.

1 COME, thou high and lofty Lord!
Lowly, meek, incarnate Word;
Humbly stoop to earth again :
Come, and visit abject man!
Jesus, dear expected guest,
Thou art bidden to the feast:
For thyself our hearts prepare:
Come, and sit, and banquet there!
2 Jesus, we thy promise claim:
We are met in thy great name:
In the midst do thou appear,
Manifest thy presence here!
Sanctify us, Lord, and bless!
Breathe thy Spirit, give thy peace;
Thou thyself within us move:
Make our feast a feast of love.

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

4 Make us all in thee complete ;
Make us all for glory meet;
Meet t' appear before thy sight,
Partners with the saints 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 feast!

THIRD PART.

1 LET us join, ('tis God commands,)
Let us join our hearts and hands:
Help to gain our calling's hope:
Build we each the other up:
God his blessing shall dispense;
God shall crown his ordinance;
Meet in his appointed ways;
Nourish us with social grace.

2 Let us then as brethren love,
Faithfully his gifts improve;
Carry on the earnest strife,
Walk in holiness of life;
Still forget the things behind,
Follow Christ in heart and mind:
Tow'rd the mark unwearied press,
Seize the crown of righteousness.

3 Plead we thus for faith alone,
Faith which by our works is shown:
God it is who justifies;

Only faith the grace applies:
Active faith that lives within,
Conquers earth, and hell, and sin;
Sanctifies, and makes us whole,
Forms the Saviour in the soul.

4 Let us for this faith contend;
Sure salvation is its end;
Heav'n already is begun,
Everlasting life is won.

Only let us persevere,

Till we see our Lord appear;
Never from the Rock remove,

Sav'd by faith, which works by love.

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