HYMN 499.-Continued.

4 Who on earth can conceive
How happy we live,

In the palace of God, the great King
What a concert of praise,
When our Jesus's grace

The whole heavenly company sing!

5 What a rapturous song,
When the glorified throng

In the spirit of harmony join:
Join all the glad choirs,
Hearts, voices, and lyres,

And the burden is, "Mercy divine!”

6 Hallelujah, they cry,

To the King of the sky,

To the great everlasting I AM;
To the Lamb that was slain,
And liveth again,
Hallelujah to God and the Lamb!

7 The Lamb on the throne,

Lo! he dwells with his own,
And to rivers of pleasure he leads;
With his mercy's full blaze,
With the sight of his face,
Our beatified spirits he feeds.

s Our foreheads proclaim
His ineffable name;
Our bodies his glory display;
A day without night
We feast in his sight,
And eternity seems as a day!

HYMN 500.-Continued.

2 He bids us build each other up;
And, gathered into one,

To our high calling's glorious hope
We hand in hand go on.

3 The gift which he on one bestows,
We all delight to prove;

The grace through every vessel flows,
In purest streams of love.

4 Even now we think and speak the same, And cordially agree;

Concentred all, through Jesu's name,
In perfect harmony.

5 We all partake the joy of one,
The common peace we feel,

A peace to sensual minds unknown,
A joy unspeakable.

6 And if our fellowship below
In Jesus be so sweet,

What heights of rapture shall we know, When round his throne we meet !

HYMN 501.-Continued.

2 He comes, of hellish malice full, To scatter, tear, and slay; He seizes every struggling soul, As his own lawful prey.

HYMN 501.-Continued.

3 Us into thy protection take,
And gather with thy arm;
Unless the fold we first forsake,
The wolf can never harm.

4 We laugh to scorn his cruel power,
While by our Shepherd's side;
The sheep he never can devour,
Unless he first divide.

5 0 do not suffer him to part
The souls that here agree;
But make us of one mind and heart,
And keep us one in thee!

6 Together let us sweetly live,
Together let us die;

And each a starry crown receive,
And reign above the sky.

HYMN 504.-Continued.

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 ;
Baptize into thy name;
And let us always kindly think,
And sweetly speak, the same.

4 Touched by the loadstone of thy love,
Let all our hearts agree,

And ever towards each other move,
And ever move towards thee.

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

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

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

7 Grant this, and then from all below
Insensibly remove :

Our souls their change shall scarcely know, Made perfect first in love!

S 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 given,
The same delight we prove,
In earth, in paradise, in heaven,
Our all in all is love.