Abounding life; there glorious grace

Reigns through the Lord our righteousness.]

HYMN 125. C. M. Barby. [*]

CHRIST's Compassion to the Weak and Tempted. Heb. iv, 16; V, 7. Matt. xii, 20.

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W of our High Priest above;

VITH joy we meditate the grace

e His heart is made of tenderness,

His bowels melt with love.

p 2 Touch'd with a sympathy within, He knows our feeble frame;

He knows what sore temptations mean,
For he has felt the same.

-3 But spotless, innocent, and pure,
The great Redeemer stood;

e While Satan's fiery darts he bore, And did resist to blood.

p 4 He in the days of feeble flesh, Pour'd out his cries and tears; e And in his measure feels afresh What ev'ry member bears.

b 5 (He'll never quench the smoking flax,
But raise it to a flame;

The bruised reed he never breaks,
Nor scorns the meanest name.)
o 6 Then let our humble faith address
His mercy and his pow'r;

o We shall obtain deliv❜ring grace,
In the distressing hour.

HYMN 126. L. M. Islington. [*]
Charity and Uncharitableness. Rom. xiv,17,19, 1 Cor. x, 52.
1 NOT diff'rent food, nor diff'rent dress,
Compose the kingdom of our Lord;

But peace, and joy, and righteousness,
Faith, and obedience to his word.

2 When weaker Christians we despise,
We do the gospel mighty wrong;
For God, the gracious and the wise,
Receives the feeble with the strong.
3 Let pride and wrath be banish'd hence,
Meekness and love our souls pursue:

Nor shall our practice give offence
To saints, the Gentile or the Jew.

HYMN 127. L. M. Portugal. [*] CHRIST'S Invitation to Sinners. Matt. xi, 28-30. "OME hither, all ye weary souls,

1" COM

Ye heavy laden sinners come;

I'll give you rest from all your toils,
And raise you to my heav'nly home.

2 They shall find rest, who learn of me,
I'm of a meek and lowly mind;

But passion rages like the sea,
And pride is restless as the wind.

3 Bless'd is the man, whose shoulders take
My yoke, and bear it with delight;
My yoke is easy to his neck,

My grace shall make the burden light."
o 4 Jesus, we come at thy command,
With faith, and hope, and humble zeal;
Resign our spirits to thy hand,

To mould and guide us at thy will.

HYMN 128. L. M. Green's. [*]

The Apostles' Commission. Mark xvi, 15, &c. Matt. xviii, 18, &c.

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66

10, preach my Gospel," saith the Lord; Bid the whole earth my grace receive: o He shall be sav'd, who trusts my word; e He shall be damn'd, who wont believe. -2 I'll make your great commission known, And ye shall prove my Gospel true; By all the works that I have done, By all the wonders ye shall do,

g 3 Go heal the sick; go raise the dead; Go cast out devils in my name:

Nor let my prophets be afraid,

Tho' Greeks reproach, and Jews blaspheme...

4 Teach all the nations my commands;

I'm with you till the world shall end:

All pow'r is trusted in my hands;

I can destroy, and I defend.'

o 5 He spake,-and light shone round his head; On a bright cloud to heav'n he rode:

g They to the farthest nations spread The grace of their ascended God.

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HYMN 129. L. M. Armley. [b*]
Abraham offering his Son. Gen. xxii, 6, &c.

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AINTS, at your heav'nly Father's word, Give up your comforts to the Lord;' He shall restore what you resign, Or grant you blessings more divine. 2 So Abrah'm, with obedient hand, Led forth his son, at God's command; The wood, the fire, the knife he took; His arm prepar'd the dreadful stroke. d 3 "Abrah'm, forbear," the angel cry'd, "Thy faith is known, thy love is try'd; "Thy son shall live, and in thy seed, "Shall the whole earth be bless'd indeed." 04 Just in the last distressing hour, The Lord displays deliv'ring pow'r; The mount of danger is the place, Where we shall see surprising grace.

HYMN 130. L. M. Sicilian

[b*] Love and Hatred. Phil. ii, 2. Eph. iv, 30, &c. W by the bowels of my God,

e 1 N His sharp distress, his sore complaints,--

By his last groans, his dying blood,-..
I charge my soul to love the saints.

-2 Clamour and wrath and war begone,
Envy and spite for ever cease;

Let bitter words no more be known,
Amongst the saints, the sons of peace.
e 3 The Spirit, like a peaceful dove,
Flics from the realms of noise and strife;
Why should we vex and grieve His love,
Who seals our souls to heav'nly life?
4 Tender and kind be all our thoughts,
Through all our lives let mercy run:
-So God forgives our num'rous faults,
For the dear sake of Christ his Son.

HYMN 131. L. M. Islington. [b*]
The Pharisee and Publican. Luke xviii, 10, &c.;
EHOLD, how sinners disagree,-

1 Be The publicar and Pharisee

• One doth his righteousness proclaim,
e The other owns his guilt and shame.
p 2 This man at humble distance stands,
And cries for grace with lifted hands;
o That boldly rises near the throne,
And talks of duties he has done.

-3 The Lord their diff'rent language knows,
And diff'rent answers he bestows:
o The humble soul with grace he crowns,
e Whilst on the proud his anger frowns.
-4 Dear Father, let me never be

Join'd with the boasting Pharisee;
e I have no merits of my own,
But plead the suff'rings of thy Son.
HYMN 132. L. M. Brenifore. Oporto.
Holiness and Grace. Tit. ii, 10, 13.

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O let our lips and lives express, The holy Gospel, we profess; So let our works and virtues shine, To prove the doctrine all divine.

2 Thus shall we best proclaim abroad The honours of our Saviour God; When the salvation reigns within, And grace subdues the pow'r of sin. e 3 Our flesh and sense must be denied, Passion and envy, lust and pride;

o Whilst justice, temp'rance, truth and love, Our inward piety approve.

-4 Religion bears our spirits up,

While we expect that blessed hope,The bright appearance of the Lord;—And faith stands leaning on his word.

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HYMN 133. C. M. York. [*]
Love and Charity. 1 Cor. xiii, 2—7, 18.
ET Pharisees of high esteem
Their faith and zeal declare;

All their religion is a dream,

If love be wanting there.

2 Love suffers long with patient cye,
Nor is provok'd in haste;

She lets the present injury die,
And long forgets the past.

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3 (Malice and rage, those fires of hell,
She quenches with her tongue;
Hopes, and believes, and thinks no ill,
Though she endures the wrong.)

4 (She ne'er desires, nor seeks to know
The scandals of the time;

Nor looks with pride on those below,
Nor envies those who climb.)
5 She lays her own advantage by,
To seek her neighbour's good:-

• So God's own Son came down to die,
And bought our lives with blood.

o 6 Love is the grace, that keeps her pow'r,
In all the realms above;

There faith and hope are known no more,
But saints for ever love.

HYMN 134. L. M. Islington. Quercy. [b]
Religion vain without Love. 1 Cor. xiii, 1, 2, 3.

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Hand nobler Speech than angels use;
[AD I the tongues of Greeks and Jews,

If love be absent, I am found,

Like tinkling brass, an empty sound.
2 Were I inspir'd to preach, and tell
All that is done in heaven and hell;
Or could my faith the world remove,
Still-I am nothing without love.
3 Should I distribute all my store,
To feed the bowels of the poor;
Or give my body to the flamme,
To gain a martyr's glorious name;—
4 If love to God, and love to men,
Be absent-all my hopes are vain:
Nor tongues, nor gifts, nor fiery zeal,
The works of love can e'er fulfil.

HYMN 135. L. M. Sicilian. Green's. [*]
Love of Christ in the Heart. Eph. ii, 16, &c.

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NOME, dearest Lord, descend and dwel By faith and love in ev'ry breast; o Then shall we know, and taste, and feel, The joys that cannot be express'd.