5 For love like this, O let my song, Through endless years, thy praise prolong, Let distant climes thy Name adore,

Till time and nature are no more.

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Their universal diffusion.

ESUS, the word bestow,

JESU

The true immortal seed;

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Thy gospel then shall greatly grow,
And all our land o'erspread;
Through earth extended wide
Shall mightily prevail,—

Destroy the works of self and pride,
And shake the gates of hell.

2 Its energy exert

In the believing soul;

Diffuse thy grace through every part,

And sanctify the whole;

Its utmost virtue show

In pure consummate love,

And fill with all thy life below,
And give us thrones above.

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Revelation welcomed and disseminated.

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[AIL, sacred truth! whose piercing rays Dispel the shades of night;

Diffusing o'er a ruin'd world

The healing beams of light.

2 Thy word, O Lord, with friendly aid,
Restores our wand'ring feet;

Converts the sorrows of the mini
To joys divinely sweet.

3 O send thy light and truth abroad,
In all their radiant blaze;

And bid the' admiring world adore
The glories of thy grace.

The universal bond of love.

THE glorious universe around,

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The heavens with all their train, Sun, moon, and stars, are firmly bound In one mysterious chain.

2 The earth, the ocean, and the sky,
To form one world agree;
Where all that walk, or swim, or fly,
Compose one family.

3 God in creation thus displays
His wisdom and his might,

While all his works with all his ways
Harmoniously unite.

4 In one fraternal bond of love,
One fellowship of mind,
The saints below and saints above
Their bliss and glory find.

5 Here, in their house of pilgrimage,
Thy statutes are their song;
There, through one bright, eternal age,
Thy praises they prolong.

6 Lord, may our union form a part
Of that thrice happy whole;

Derive its pulse from thee, the heart,
Its life from thee, the soul.

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One in Christ Jesus.

ET party names no more

LET

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The Christian world o'erspread ; Gentile and Jew, and bond and free,

Are one in Christ their Head.

2 Among the saints on earth Let mutual love be found; Heirs of the same inheritance,

With mutual blessings crown'd. 3 Thus will the church below Resemble that above;

Where streams of bliss forever flow,
And every heart is love.

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OUR

Love the test of discipleship.

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UR God is love; and all his saints
His image bear below:

The heart with love to God inspired,
With love to man will glow.

2 None who are truly born of God
Can live in enmity;

Then may we love each other, Lord,
As we are loved by thee.

3 Heirs of the same immortal bliss,
Our hopes and fears the same,
With bonds of love our hearts unite,
With mutual love inflame.
4 So may the unbelieving world
See how true Christians love;
And glorify our Saviour's grace,
And seek that grace to prove.

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Sweet communion.

LEST are the sons of peace,

BLEST

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Whose hearts and hopes are one; Whose kind designs to serve and please Through all their actions run.

2 Blest is the pious house

Where zeal and friendship meet;

Their songs of praise, their mingled vows, Make their communion sweet.

3 Thus on the heavenly hills

The saints are blest above,

Where joy like morning dew distils,
And all the air is love.

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THE

The bond of perfectness.

HE sacred bond of perfectness
Is spotless charity;

O let us, Lord, we pray, possess
The mind that was in thee.

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

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Our souls the change shall scarcely know,
Made perfect first in love.

3 With ease our souls through death shall glide Into their paradise ;

And thence on wings of angels ride
Triumphant through the skies.

4 Yet when the fullest joy is given,
The same delight we prove;

In earth, in paradise, in heaven,
Our all in all is love.

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Sweet counsel.

LORY be to God above,

God, from whom all blessings flow;

Make we mention of his love;
Publish we his praise below:
Call'd together by his grace,

We are met in Jesus' 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 possess'd:-
He removes the flaming sword,
Calls us back, from Eden driven;

To his image here restored,

Soon he takes us up to heaven.

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All-uniting faith.

ET all in whom the Spirit glows, In whom God's word hath place, The all-uniting faith disclose,

The all-endearing grace.

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2 Then shall the world, admiring, view

The gather'd flock at rest;

And own the Son divinely true,

The saints divinely blest.

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One fold and one shepherd.

NIVER of peace and unity,

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UT Send down thy mild, pacific Dove;
We all shall then in one agree,

And breathe the spirit of thy love.
2 We all shall think and speak the same
Delightful lesson of thy grace:
One undivided Christ proclaim,
And jointly glory in thy praise.
30 let us take a softer mould,
Blended and gather'd into thee;
Under one Shepherd make one fold,
Where all is love and harmony.