2 To Jesus' Name give thanks and sing,
Whose mercies never end:
Rejoice! rejoice! the Lord is King;
The King is now our Friend.
3 We for his sake count all things loss;
On earthly good look down;"
And joyfully sustain the cross,
Till we receive the crown.
4 O let us stir each other up,
Our faith by works to' approve,-
By holy, purifying hope,
And the sweet task of love.
5 Let all who for the promise wait,
The Holy Ghost receive;
And, raised to our unsinning state,
With God in Eden live:-
6 Live, till the Lord in glory come,
And wait his heaven to share:
He now is fitting up your home;
Go on, we 'll meet you there.
Unity of spirit and of purpose.
COME, wisdom, power, and grace divine;
Come, Jesus, in thy name to join
A happy, chosen band;
Who fain would prove thine utmost will,
And all thy righteous laws fulfil,
In love's benign command.
2 If pure essential love thou art,
Thy nature into every heart,
Thy loving self, inspire:
Bid all our simple souls be one,
United in a bond unknown,
Baptized with heavenly fire.
3 Still may we to our centre tend,
To spread thy praise our common end,
To help each other on;
Companions through the wilderness,
To share a moment's pain, and seize
An everlasting crown.
4 Jesus, our tender'd souls prepare;
Infuse the softest social care,-
The warmest charity;
The bowels of our bleeding Lamb,
The virtues of thy wondrous name,
The heart that was in thee.
5 Supply what every member wants;
To found the fellowship of saints,
Thy Spirit, Lord, supply;
So shall we all thy love receive,
Together to thy glory live,
And to thy glory die.
Witnesses for Jesus.
YOME, and let us sweetly join,"
Christ to praise in hymns divine:
Give we all, with one accord,
Glory to our common Lord:
Hands, and hearts, and voices raise;
Sing as in the ancient days;
Ante-date the joys above,→
Celebrate the feast of love.
2 Strive we, in affection strive;
Let the purer flame revive;
Such as in the martyrs glow'd,
Dying champions for their God:"
We like them may live and love;
Call'd we are their joys to prove;
Saved with them from future wrath;
Partners of like precious faith.
3 Sing we then in Jesus' Name,
Now as yesterday the same;
One in every time and place,
Full for all of truth and grace:
We for Christ, our Master, stand,
Lights in a benighted land:
We our dying Lord confess;
We are Jesus' witnesses.
The feast of endless love.
YOME, thou high and lofty Lord, Lowly, meek, incarnate Word; Humbly stoop to earth again; Come, and visit abject man. Jesus, dear expected guest, Thou art bidden to the feast: For thyself our hearts prepare; Come, and sit, and banquet there.
2 Jesus, we thy promise claim:
We are met in thy great name:}
In the midst do thou appear;
Manifest thy presence here.
Sanctify us, Lord, and bless;
Breathe thy Spirit, give thy peace;
Thou thyself within us' move:
Make our feast a feast of love.
3 Let the fruits of grace abound;
Let us in thy bowels sound;
Faith, and love, and joy increase,-
Temperance and gentleness;
Plant in us thy humble mind,
Patient, pitiful, and kind:
Meek and lowly let us be,-
Full of goodness, full of thee.
4 Make us all in thee complete;
Make us all for glory meet;
Meet to' appear before thy sight,
Partners with the saints in light.
Call, O call us each by name,
To the marriage of the Lamb:
Let us lean upon thy breast;
Love be there our endless feast.
Mutual love the bond of union.
HILE we walk with God in light,
WHITE we walk with
Dearest fellowship we prove,→
Fellowship in Jesus' love:
Sweetly each, with each combined,
In the bonds of duty join'd,
Feels the cleansing blood applied,-
Daily feels that Christ hath died.
2 Still, O Lord, our faith increase;
Cleanse from all unrighteousness:
Thee the' unholy cannot see;
Make, O make us meet for thee:
Every vile affection kill;
Root out every seed of ill;
Utterly abolish sin;
Write thy law of love within.
3 Hence may all our actions flow; Love the proof that Christ we know; Mutual love the token be,
Lord, that we belong to thee:
Love, thine image, love impart;
Stamp it now on every heart:
Only love to us be given:
Lord, we ask no other heaven.
the Christian warrior stand In all the armour of his God;
The Spirit's sword is in his hand,
His feet are with the Gospel shod;—
2 In panoply of truth complete,
Salvation's helmet on his head;
With righteousness a breast-plate meet,
And faith's broad shield before him spread ;-
3 Undaunted to the field he goes;
Yet vain were skill and valour there, Unless, to foil his legion foes,
He takes the trustiest weapon, prayer.
4 Thus, strong in his Redeemer's strength,
Sin, death, and hell, he tramples down;
Fights the good fight, and wins at length,
Through mercy, an immortal crown.
ARM me with thy whole armour, Lord;
Support my weakness with thy might;
Gird on my thigh thy conqu'ring sword,
And shield me in the threat'ning fight:
From faith to faith, from grace to grace,
So in thy strength shall I go on;
Till heaven and earth flee from thy face,
And glory end what grace begun.
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