Make we mention of his love,
Publish we his praise below:
Call'd together by his grace,
We are met in Jesu's name;
See with joy each other's face,
Foll'wers of the bleeding Lamb.
2 Let us then sweet counsel take,
How to make our calling sure;
Our election how to make,
Past the reach of hell secure ;
Build we each the other up,
Pray we for our faith's increase;
Solid comfort, settled hope,
Constant joy, and lasting peace.
3 More and more let love abound:
Let us never, never rest,
Till we are in Jesus found,
Of our paradise possest:
He removes the flaming sword,
Calls us back, from Eden driven:
To his image here rester'd,
Soon he takes us up to heaven!
Hymn 137. S. M.
Pray for one another. James v. 16.
PART FIRST.
AVIOUR of sinful men,
Thy goodness we proclaim,
Which brings us here to meet again,
And triumph in thy name.
2 Thy mighty name hath been
Our safeguard and our tow'r,
Hath sav'd us from the world and sin,
And the accuser's power.
3 Jesus, take all the praise,
That still on earth we live;
Unspotted in so foul a place,
And innocently grieve!
4 We shall from sinners flee,
When perfected in love;
And haste to better company,
Who wait for us above.
Hymn 138. S. M.
And willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 2 Cor. v. 8.
1A WHILE in flesh disjoin'd,
Our friends that went before,
We soon in paradise shall find,
And meet to part no more.
2 There all our griefs are spent,
There all our sorrows end;
We cannot there the fall lament
Of a departed friend!
3 No slightest touch of pain,
Nor sorrow's least alloy,
Can violate our rest, or stain
Our purity of joy:
4 In that eternal day
No clouds or tempests rise;
There gushing tears are wip'd away
For ever from our eyes,
Hymn 139. P. M.
Through much tribulation. Acts xiv. 22,
JESUS, to thee our hearts we lift,
May all our hearts with love o'erflow! With thanks for thy continued gift,
That still thy gracious name we know;
Retain our sense of sins forgiven,
And wait for all our inward heaven.
2 What mighty troubles hast thou shown
Thy feeble, tempted followers bere!
We have through fire and water gone;
Put saw thee on the floods appear;
But felt thee present in the flame,
And shouted our Deliverer's name.
Thou who hast kept us to this hour,
O keep us faithful to the end!
When rob'd in majesty and power,
Our Jesus shall from beaven descend,
His friends and confessors to own,
And seat us on his glorious throne.
Hymn 140. S. M.
Might feel after him and find him. Acts xvii, 27.
[ESUS, we look to thee,
Thy promis'd presence claim:
Thou in the midst of us shalt be,
Assembled in thy name.
2 Thy name salvation is,
Which here we come to prove
Thy name is life, and health, and peace,
And everlasting love.
3 Not in the name of pride,
Or selfishness we meet,
From nature's paths we turn aside,
And worldly thoughts forget.
4 We meet, the grace to take,
Which thou hast freely given;
We meet on earth for thy dear sake,
That we may meet in heaven.
5 Present we know thou art;
But O thyself reveal!
Now, Lord, let every bounding heart
The mighty comfort feel!
60 may thy quick'ning voice
The inbred sin remove!
And bid our inmost souls rejoice,
In hope of perfect love.
Receive ye the Holy Ghost. John xx. 22.
SAVIOUR, with us assembled here,
Come, and thyself reveal!
Son of the living God, appear!
Let us thy presence feel.
2 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!"
3. Cause us the record to receive! Speak, and the tokens show: "O be not faithless, but believe "In me, who died for you!"
Hymn 142. P. M.
Two are better than one.
are better far than one,
For counsel or for fight;
How can one be warm alone,
Or serve his God aright?
Join we then our hearts and hands;
Each to love provoke his friend,
Run the way of his commands,
And keep it to the end.
2 Wo to him whose spirits droop?
To him who falls alone!
He hath none to lift him up,
To help his weakness on:
Happier we each other keep;
We each other's burdens bear,
Never need our footsteps slip,
Upheld by mutual prayer.
3 O that all of us might prove
The fellowship of saints!
Find supplied in Jesu's love,-
What every member wants!
Grasp we our high calling's prize,
Feel our sins on earth forgiven,
Rise, in his whole image rise,
And meet our Head in heaven.
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