1 PARTNERS of a glorious hope, Lift your hearts and voices up: Jointly let us rise and sing,
Christ, our Prophet, Priest, and King:
Monuments of Jesu's grace,
Speak we by our lives his praise:
Walk in him we have receiv'd:
Show we not in vain believ'd.
2 While we walk with God in light,
God our hearts doth still unite:
Dearest fellowship we prove,
Fellowship in Jesu's love:
Sweetly each with each combin'd,
In the bonds of duty join'd,
Feels the cleansing blood applied,
Daily feels that Christ hath died.
3 Still, O Lord, our faith increase;
Cleanse from all unrighteousness:
Thee th' unholy cannot see:
Make, O make us meet for thee:
Every vile affection kill;
Root out every seed of ill;
Utterly abolish sin:
Write thy law of love within.
4 Hence may all our actions flow,
Love the proof that Christ we know :
Mutual love the token be,
Lord, that we belong to thee:
Love, thine image, love impart !
Stamp it on our face and heart!
Only love to us be giv'n!
Lord, we ask no other heav'n.
Clarendon.] HYMN 421. C. M.
OME, let us use the grace divine,
And all with one accord,
In a perpetual cov❜nant join
Ourselves to Christ the Lord.
2 Give up ourselves through Jesu's power, His name to glorify;
And promise in this sacred hour
For God to live and die.
3 The cov'nant we this moment make
Be ever kept in mind;
We will no more our God forsake,
Or cast his words behind.
4 We never will throw off his fear,
Who hears our solemn vow;
And if thou art well pleas'd to hear,
Come down and meet us now!
5 Thee, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Let all our hearts receive;
Present with the celestial host,
The peaceful answer give.
6 To each the cov'nant blood apply,
Which takes our sins away;
And register our names on high,
And keep us to that day.
Dudley.] HYMN 422. 8 lines 7's.
Peace on all that here reside;
EACE be on this house bestow'd,
Let the unknown peace of God
With the man of peace abide!
Let the Spirit now come down:
Let the blessing now take place:
Son of peace receive thy crown,
Fulness of the Gospel grace.
2 Christ, my Master, and my Lord,
Let me thy forerunner be:
O be mindful of thy word,
Visit them, and visit me!
To this house and all herein,
Now let thy salvation come :
Save our souls from inbred sin !
Make us thine eternal home!
3 Let us never, never rest,
Till the promise is fulfill'd:
Till we are of thee possess'd,
Pardon'd, sanctify'd, and seal'd;
Till we all, in love renew'd,
Find the pearl that Adam lost,
Temples of the living God,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
Rochdale.] HYMN 423. 4 8's & 2 6's.
XCEPT the Lord conduct the plan,
The best concerted schemes are vain,
And never can succeed;
We spend our wretched strength for nought,
But if our works in thee are wrought,
They shall be blest indeed.
2 Lord, if thou didst thyself inspire
Our souls with this intense desire,
Thy goodness to proclaim;
Thy glory if we now intend,
O let our deeds begin and end
Complete in Jesu's name!
3 In Jesu's name behold we meet,
Far from an evil world retreat,
And all its frantic ways;
One only thing resolv'd to know,
And square our useful lives below,
By reason and by grace.
4 Not in the tombs we pine to dwell,
Not in the dark monastic cell,
By vows and grates confin'd;
Freely to all ourselves we give;
Constrain'd by Jesu's love to live
The servants of mankind.
5 Now, Jesus, now thy love impart,
To govern each devoted heart,
And fit us for thy will!
Deep founded in the truth of grace,
Build up thy rising church and place,
The city on the hill.
60 let our love and faith abound!
O let our lives to all around
With purest lustre shine:
That all around our works may see,
And give the glory, Lord, to thee,
The heavenly light divine!
Harmony.] HYMN 424. 10's & 11's.
LL thanks to the Lamb, who gives us to
meet:
His love we proclaim, his praises repeat:
We own him our Jesus, continually near,
To pardon and bless us, and perfect us here.
2 In him we have peace, in him we have power, Preserv'd by his grace throughout the dark hour:
In all our temptations he keeps us to prove
His utmost salvation, his fulness of love.
3 Pronounce the glad word, and bid us be free; Ah! hast thou not, Lord, a blessing for me? The peace thou hast given, this moment im
And open thy heaven, O Love, in my heart.
Broadmead.] HYMN 425. 6 lines 8's.
W Who load us with reproach and shame,
"ATCH'D by the world's malignant eye,
As servants of the Lord most high,
As zealous for his glorious name,
We ought in all his paths to move,
With holy fear and humble love.
2 That wisdom, Lord, on us bestow,
From every evil to depart,
To stop the mouth of every foe;
While upright both in life and heart,
The proof of godly fear we give,
And show them how the Christians live.
Rochester.] HYMN 426. C. M.
EE, Jesus, thy disciples see,
Met in thy name, we look to thee,
Expecting to receive.
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 With us thou art assembled here,
But, O! thyself reveal!
Son of the living God, appear!
Let us thy presence feel.
4 Breathe on us, Lord, in this our day,
And these dry bones shall live;
Speak peace into our hearts, and say,
"The Holy Ghost receive."
5 Whom now we seek, O may we meet!
Jesus, the Crucify'd;
Show us thy bleeding hands and feet,
Tou who for us hast died.
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