4 Dear Lord-and shall we ever live
At this poor dying rate,
Our love so faint, so cold to thee,
And thine to us so great?
5 Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
With all thy quickening powers;
Come, shed abroad a Saviour's love,
And that shall kindle ours.
NOME, Holy Spirit, come; Let thy bright beams divine Rise on our sorrow and our gloom, And in our darkness shine.
Convince us all of sin,
Then lead to Jesus' blood;
And to our wondering view reveal
The mercy of our God.
Revive our drooping faith;
Our doubts and fears remove;
And kindle in our breasts the flame
Of never-dying love.
4 'Tis thine to cleanse the heart,
To sanctify the soul,
To pour fresh life in every part,
And new create the whole.
Ghost-dispel our sadness,
Pierce the clouds of nature's night;
Come, thou source of joy and gladness,
Breathe thy life and spread thy light.
2 Hear, oh hear our supplication,
Blessed Spirit, God of Peace;
Rest upon this congregation,
With th' abundance of thy grace.
3 Author of our new creation-
Bid us all thine influence prove;
Make our souls thy habitation;
Shed abroad the Saviour's love.
Regeneration. John i. 13.
all the outward forms on earth,
Nor rites that God has given,
Nor will of man, nor blood, nor birth,
Can raise a soul to heaven.
2 The sovereign will of God alone
Creates us heirs of grace;
Born in the image of his Son,
A new, peculiar race.
3 The Spirit, like some heavenly wind.
Breathes on the sons of flesh;
New models all the carnal mind,
And forms the man afresh.
4 Our quickened souls awake and rise
From the long sleep of death;
On heavenly things we fix our eyes,
And praise employs our breath.
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1 ETERNAL Spirit, we confess
The Operations of the Holy Spirit.
And sing the wonders of thy grace;
Thy power conveys our blessings down,
From God the Father and the Son.
2 Enlightened by thy heavenly ray,
Our shades and darkness turn to day;
Thine inward teachings make us know
Our danger and our refuge too.
3 Thy power and glory work within,
And break the chains of reigning sin;
Do our imperious lusts subdue,
And form our wretched hearts anew. 4 The troubled conscience knows thy voice; Thy cheering words awake our joys; Thy words allay the stormy wind, And calm the surges of the mind.
1 HOW helpless guilty nature lies,
Unconscious of its load!
The heart, unchanged, can never rise
To happiness and God.
2 Can aught, beneath a power divine,
The stubborn will subdue?
'Tis thine, almighty Saviour, thine
To form the heart anew.
S 'Tis thine the passions to recall,
And upward bid them rise,
And make the scales of error fall
From reason's darkened eyes.
4 To chase the shades of death away,
And bid the sinner live;
A beam of heaven, a vital ray,
'Tis thine alone to give.
5 Oh change these wretched hearts of ours,
And give them life divine:
Then shall our passions and our powers,
Almighty Lord, be thine.
178 The Dry Bones. Ezek. xxxvii. 3.
OOK down, O Lord, with pitying eye,
See Adam's race in ruin lie;
Sin spreads its trophies o'er the ground,
And scatters slaughtered heaps around.
2 Thy ministers are sent in vain,
To prophesy upon the slain;
In vain they call, in vain they cry,
Till thine almighty aid is nigh.
3 But if thy Spirit deign to breathe,
Life spreads through all the realms of death;
Dry bones obey thy powerful voice;.
They move-they waken-they rejoice.
179 Total Depravity. Eph. ii. 3.—Rom. v. 12, &c.
BACKWARD, with humble shame, we look
How is our nature dashed and broke
In our first father's fall!
2 To all that's good averse and blind,
But prone to all that's ill;
What dreadful darkness vails our mind!
How obstinate our will!
3 Yet, mighty God, thy wondrous love
Can make our nature clean,
While Christ and grace prevail above
The tempter, death, and sin.
4 The second Adam shall restore
The ruins of the first;
Hosanna to that sovereign power
That new creates our dust.
Divine Love. Rom. v. 5.
1 LOVE divine, all love excelling,
Joy of heaven, to earth come down;
Fix in us thy humble dwelling,
All thy faithful mercies crown;
Jesus-thou art all compassion;
Pure, unbounded love thou art;
Visit us with thy salvation,
Enter every longing heart.
2 Come, almighty to deliver,
Let us now thy life receive:
Suddenly return, and never—
Never more thy temples leave:
Thee we would be always blessing,
Serve thee as thy hosts above;
Pray, and praise thee without ceasing,
Glory in thy precious love.
3 Carry on thy new creation;
Pure and spotless may we be;
Let us see our whole salvation
Perfectly secured by thee;
Changed from glory into glory,
Till in heaven we take our place;
Till we cast our crowns before thee,
Lost in wonder, love, and praise.
Prayer for Sanctification.
RACIOUS Father, hear thy child,
G Now in Jesus reconciled;
Let me now behold thy face-
Triumph in thy saving grace;
Pour thy graces from above,
Hope and joy and peace and love.
2 Lord, I will not let thee go,
Till the blessing thou bestow:
Hear my Advocate divine;
Lo, his powerful plea is mine;
Can his intercession fail?
Shall I not in him prevail ?
3 Holy Spirit-Life Divine,
Come and make this temple thine;
Shed thy light throughout my soul,
Move and actuate the whole;
Spring of life-thyself impart,
Rise eternal in my heart.
Praise for recovering Grace.
COME, thou fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
2 Teach me some melodious measure,
Sung by flaming hosts above;
I would chant, with heavenly pleasure,
Praises to thy boundless love.
3 Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to save my soul from danger,
Interposed his precious blood.
4 Oh, to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be:
Let thy grace, Lord, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to thee.
5 Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it-
Prone to leave the God I love ;
Here's my heart, oh take and seal it,
Seal it from thy courts above.
WEET peace of conscience, heavenly guest,
Come, fix thy mansion in my breast;
Dispel my doubts, my fears control,
And heal the anguish of my soul.
2 Come, smiling hope, and joy sincere—
Come, make your constant dwelling here;
Still let your presence cheer my heart,
Nor sin compel you to depart.
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