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2 Thou standest in the holiest place,
As now for guilty sinners slain;
The blood of sprinkling speaks, and prays,
All-prevalent for helpless man;

Thy blood is still our ransom found,
And speaks salvation all around.

3 We need not now go up to heaven
To bring the long-sought Saviour down;
Thou art to all already given,

Thou dost e'en now thy banquet crown ;To every faithful soul appear,

And show thy real presence here.

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A foretaste of glory.

WHAT delight is this,

S. M.

Which now in Christ we know,-
An earnest of our glorious bliss,
Our heaven begun below!

2 When He the table spreads,
How royal is the cheer;
With rapture we lift up our heads,
And own that God is here.

3 The Lamb for sinners slain,
Who died to die no more,
Let all the ransom'd sons of men,
With all his hosts, adore.

4 Let earth and heaven be join'd,
His glories to display,

And hymn the Saviour of mankind
In one eternal day.

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Rejoicing at the table, with godly sorrow.

10 Jesus, our exalted Lord,

L. M.

The Wane by heaven and earth adored,

Fain would our hearts and voices raise

A cheerful song of sacred praise.

2 But all the notes which mortals know, Are weak, and languishing, and low; Far, far above our humble songs, The theme demands immortal tongues. 3 Yet while around his board we meet, And humbly worship at his feet, O let our warm affections move, In glad returns of grateful love! 4 Let humble, penitential wo, In tears of godly sorrow flow; And thy forgiving smiles impart Life, hope, and joy to every heart. 279

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The Spirit's quickening influences.
NOME, thou everlasting Spirit,
Bring to every thankful mind
All the Saviour's dying merit,
All his suff'rings for mankind:
True recorder of his passion,
Now the living fire impart;
Now reveal his great salvation
Unto every faithful heart.

2 Come, thou Witness of his dying;
Come, Remembrancer divine;
Let us feel thy power applying
Christ to every soul, and mine:
Let us groan thy inward groaning;
Look on Him we pierced, and grieve;
All partake the grace atoning,—
All the sprinkled blood receive.

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Universal gladness and joy.

LORY to God on high,

Our peace is made with Heaven; The Son of God came down to die, That we might be forgiven.

S. M.

2 His precious blood was shed,
His body bruised, for sin :
Remember this in eating bread,
And this in drinking wine.
3 Approach his royal board,
In his rich garments clad;
Join every tongue to praise the Lord,
And every heart be glad.

4 The Father gives the Son;

The Son, his flesh and blood:

The Spirit seals; and faith puts on,
The righteousness of God.

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JESUS

9th P. M. 87, 87, 87, 87.

The heavenly banquet.

ESUS spreads his banner o'er us,
Cheers our famish'd souls with food;
He the banquet spreads before us,
Of his mystic flesh and blood.
Precious banquet; bread of heaven;
Wine of gladness, flowing free;
May we taste it, kindly given,
In remembrance, Lord, of thee.
2 In thy holy incarnation,
When the angels sang thy birth;
In thy fasting and temptation;
In thy labours on the earth;
In thy trial and rejection;

In thy suff'rings on the tree;
In thy glorious resurrection;
May we, Lord, remember thee,

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of God, triumphant rise;
Shout the accomplish'd sacrifice;

Shout your sins in Christ forgiven,-
Sons of God, and heirs of heaven.

2 Love's mysterious work is done;
Greet we now the' atoning Son;
Heal'd and quicken'd by his blood,
Join'd to Christ, and one with God.

3 Him by faith we taste below,
Mightier joys ordain'd to know;
When his utmost grace we prove,
Rise to heaven by perfect love.

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12th P. M. 76, 76, 78, 76.

For a parting blessing.

L

AMB of God, whose dying love

We now recall to mind,

Send the answer from above,

And let us mercy find:
Think on us who think on thee,

And every struggling soul release;

O remember Calvary,

And bid us go in peace

2 By thine agonizing pain,

And bloody sweat, we pray,

By thy dying love to man,

Take all our sins away:
Burst our bonds, and set us free;
From all iniquity release
O remember Calvary,

And bid us go in peace!

3 Let thy blood, by faith applied, The sinner's pardon seal;

Speak us freely justified,

And all our sickness heal:

By thy passion on the tree,

Let all our griefs and troubles cease;

O remember Calvary,

And bid us go in peace!

PROVISIONS AND PROMISES OF

THE GOSPEL.

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The Fountain of living waters. FOUNTAIN of life and of grace In Christ, our Redeemer, we see: For us, who his offers embrace, For all, it is open and free: Jehovah, himself, doth invite

To drink of his pleasures unknown: The streams of immortal delight, That flow from his heavenly throne. 2 As soon as in him we believe, By faith of his Spirit we take: And, freely forgiven, receive The mercy for Jesus's sake! We gain a pure drop of his love; The life of eternity know; Angelical happiness prove,

And witness a heaven below.

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All-sufficiency of the gospel.

C. M.

HE gospel! O, what endless charms
Dwell in that blissful sound

Its influence every fear disarms,
And spreads delight around.

2 Here pardon, life, and joy divine, In rich effusion flow,

For guilty rebels, lost in sin,

And doom'd to endless wo.

3 The' almighty Former of the skies Stoops to our vile abode;

While angels view with wond'ring eyes, And hail the' incarnate God.

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