2 Tell me, O Lord, if Thine I am,
Tell me Thy new, mysterious name,
Or Thou shalt never move;
No, never will I let Thee go,
Till I Thy name, Thy nature know,
And feel that God is love.

3

I feel that I have power with God;
(Thou only hast the power bestow'd,
And arm'd me for the fight ;)
A prince, through Thee invincible,
I pray, and wrestle, and prevail,
And conquer in Thy might.

4 Thy heart, I know, Thy tender heart
Doth in my sorrows feel its part,
And at my tears relent;

My powerful sighs Thou canst not bear,
Nor stand the violence of my prayer,
My prayer omnipotent.

5 Give me the grace, the love I claim;
Thy Spirit now demands Thy name,
Thou know'st the Spirit's will:

He helps my soul's infirmity,
And strongly intercedes for me
With groans unspeakable.

6 Answer, dear Lord, Thy Spirit's groan;
O make to me Thy nature known,
Thy hidden name impart ;

(Thy title is with Thee the same;)
Tell me Thy nature, and Thy name,

And write it on my heart.

Desiring to Love.

7 Prisoner of hope, to Thee I turn,
And, calmly confident, I mourn,
and weep for Thee;

And pray,
Tell me Thy love, Thy secret tell;

Thy mystic name in me reveal,
Reveal Thyself in me.

3 Descend, pass by me, and proclaim,
O Lord of Hosts, Thy glorious name,-
The Lord, the gracious Lord,
Long-suffering, merciful, and kind,
The God who always bears in mind.
His everlasting word:

9 Plenteous He is in truth and grace;
He wills that all the fallen race
Should turn, repent, and live;
His pardoning grace for all is free;
Transgression, sin, iniquity

He freely doth forgive.

10 Mercy He doth for thousands keep:
He goes and seeks the one lost sheep,
And brings His wanderer home;

And every soul that sheep might be:
Come then, dear Lord, and gather me,
My Jesus, quickly come.

II Take me into Thy people's rest;
O come, and with my sole request,

My one desire, comply:

Make me partaker of my hope;
Then bid me get me quickly up,

And on Thy bosom die.

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PART II.

I COME, Lord, and help me to rejoice
In hope that I shall hear Thy voice,
Shall one day see my God;

Shall cease from all my sin and strife,
Handle and taste the word of life,
And feel the sprinkled blood.

2 I shall not always make my moan,
Or worship Thee a God unknown;
But I shall live to prove

Thy people's rest, Thy saints' delight,

The length, and breadth, and depth, and height

Of all-redeeming love.

3 I cannot love Thee little, Lord,
Whenever by Thy grace restored
I taste how good Thou art:
Much I shall love, or not at all;
Forgiven much, I surely shall

Love Thee with all my heart.

4 O glorious hope of perfect love!
It lifts me up to things above,
It bears on eagle's wings;

It gives my ravish'd soul a taste,

And makes me for some moments feast

With Jesu's priests and kings.

5 Rejoicing now in earnest hope,

I stand, and from the mountain-top

See all the land below;

Rivers of milk and honey rise,
And all the fruits of paradise

In endless plenty grow:

Titus ii. 14.

6 A land of corn, and wine, and oil,
Favour'd with God's peculiar smile,
With every blessing blest;

There dwells the Lord our Righteousness,
And keeps His own in perfect peace

And everlasting rest.

7 O that I might at once go up,
No more on this side Jordan stop,
But now the land possess ;

This moment end my legal years,

Sorrows, and sins, and doubts, and fears,
An howling wilderness !

8 Now, O my Joshua, bring me in,
Cast out my foes; the inbred sin,
The carnal mind, remove;
The purchase of Thy death divide;
And O, with all the sanctified
Give me a lot of love.

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TITUS II. 14.

"Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from ALL iniquity."

I JESU, Redeemer of mankind,

How little art Thou known

By sinners of a carnal mind,

Who claim Thee for their own;

2 Who blasphemously call Thee Lord,

With lips and hearts unclean;

But make Thee, while they slight Thy word,
The Minister of sin;

3 Who madly plead for sin's remains, While, full of slavish fears,

They fancy Thou hast purged their stains,
And falsely call Thee theirs!
4 O wretched man, who dares divide
The pardon and the peace!
In vain for thee the Saviour died,
Unless He seal thee His.

5 O wretched man, from guilt to dream
Thy harden'd conscience freed!
When Jesus doth a soul redeem
He makes it free indeed.

6 The guilt and power, with all thy art,
Can never be disjoin'd;

Nor will God bid the guilt depart,

And leave the power behind.

7 Faith, when it comes, breaks every chain, And makes us truly free;

But Christ hath died for thee in vain,

Unless He lives in thee.

8 What is redemption in His blood,

But liberty within

A liberty to serve my God,

And to eschew my sin?

9 What is our calling's glorious hope,

But inward holiness?

For this to Jesus I look up,

I calmly wait for this.

10 I wait till He shall touch me clean, Shall life and power impart,

Give me a faith that roots out sin

And purifies my heart.