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

3 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,

4 Answer, O Lord, thy Spirit's groan!
✪ make to me thy Nature known,
Thy hidden Name impart !
(Thy Name and Nature are the same,)
Tell me thy Nature, and thy Name,
And write it on my heart.

5 Prisoner of hope, to thee I turn,
And, calmly confident, I mourn,
And pray, and weep for thee;
Tell me thy love, thy secret tell,
Thy mystic Name in me reveal,
Reveal thyself in me.

6 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.'

7 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.

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, my Lord, and gather me,
My Jesus, quickly come.
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.

HYMN 145. 6 lines 4-8's & 2-6's.

JESUS, let me bless thy Name!
All sin, alas! thou know'st I am,
But thou all pity art:

Turn into flesh my heart of stone:
Such power belongs to thee alone;
Turn into flesh my heart.

A poor, unloving wretch, to thee
For help against myself I flee!
Thou only canst remove
The hind'rances out of the way,
And soften my unyielding clay,
And mould it into love.

O let thy Spirit shed abroad
The love, the perfect love of God,
In this cold heart of mine:

O might he now descend, and rest,
And dwell for ever in my breast,
And make it all divine.

What shall I do my suit to gain?
O Lamb of God, for sinners slain,
I plead what thou hast done:

Didst thou not die the death for me?
Jesus, remember Calvary,

And break my heart of stone.

5 Take the dear purchase of thy Blood,
My Friend and Advocate with God,
My Ransom and my Peace:
Surety, who all my debt hast paid,
For all my sins atonement made,
The Lord my Righteousness.

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HYMN 146. 6 lines 4-8's & 2-6's.
TILL, Lord, I languish for thy grace,
Reveal the beauties of thy face,

The middle wall remove:

Appear, and banish my complaint;
Come, and supply my only want,
Fill all my soul with love!

2 0! conquer this rebellious will:
Willing thou art, and ready still,
Thy help is always nigh:

The stony from my heart remove,
And give me, Lord, O give me love,
Or at thy feet I die.

3 To thee I lift my mournful eye :
Why am I thus?-O, tell me why
I cannot love my God?

The hind'rance must be all in me;
It cannot in my Saviour be;

Witness that streaming blood!

4 It cost thy blood my heart to win;
To buy me from the power of sin,
And make me love again:
Come, then, my Lord, thy right assert
Take to thyself my ransom'd heart;
Nor bleed, nor die in vain!

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Open the intercourse between
My longing soul and thee,
Never to be broke off again
To all eternity.

HYMN 170, 6 lines 8's.
'TIS enough, my God, my God!
Here let me give my wanderings o'er;
No longer trample on thy blood,

And grieve thy gentleness no more ;
No more thy lingering anger move,
Or sin against thy light and love,
2 O Lord, if mercy is with thee,

Now let it all on me be shewn!
On me, the chief of sinners, me,

Who humbly for thy mercy groan:
Me to thy Father's grace restore;
Nor let me ever grieve thee more!
3 Fountain of unexhausted love,
Of infinite compassion, hear:
My Saviour and my Prince above,
Once more in my behalf appear;
Repentance, faith, and pardon give,
O, let me turn again and live!

GOD. if thou art love indeed!
Let it once more be prov'd in me,
That I thy mercy's praise may spread,
For every child of Adam free;

O, let me now the gift embrace;
O, let me now be sav'd by grace.
2 If all long-suffering thou hast shewn
On me, that others may believe,
Now make thy loving-kindness known,
Now the all-conquering Spirit give;
Spirit of victory and pow'r,

That I may never grieve thee more

3 Grant my importunate request;
It is not my desire, but thine;
Since thou wouldst have the sinner blest,
Now let me in thine image shine :
Nor ever from thy footsteps move,

But more than conquer through thy love. 4 Be it according to thy will!

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Set my imprison'd spirit free
(The counsel of thy grace fulfil;)
Into thy glorious liberty,

My spirit, soul, and flesh restore,
And I shall never grieve thee more.
HYMN 172. S. M.

UNEXHAUSTED Grace!
O Love unspeakable !

I am not gone to my own place;
I am not yet in hell!

Earth doth not open yet,

My soul to swallow up;

And, hanging o'er the the burning pit,
I still am forc'd to hope.

2 I hope at last to find

The kingdom from above;

The settled peace, the constant mind,

The everlasting love;

The sanctifying grace,

That makes me meet for home:

I hope to see thy glorious face,
Where sin can never come.

3 What shall I do to keep

The blessed hope I feel?

Still let me pray, and watch, and weep,
And serve thy pleasure still;

O may I never grieve

My kind long-suffering Lord,
But steadfastly to Jesus cleave,
And answer all his Word.