2. Grace, like an uncorrupted seed, Abides and reigns within; Immortal principles forbid The sons of God to sin. 3. They find access at ev'ry hour, Hence they derive a quick'ning pow'r 4. O happy souls! O glorious state 1. To dwell so near their Father's seat, MY Hymn 261. c. M. Y hope my portion and my God, How low my hope of joys above! 3. Great God! thy sov'reign pow'r impart, And make me learn thy grace. 4. Shew my forgetful feet the way 1. WH Hymn 262. L. M. HAT various hind'rances we meet Yet who that knows the worth of pray'r 2. Pray'r makes the dark'ned cloud withdraw 3. Restraining pray'r we cease to fight; The weakest saint upon his knees. 4. While Moses stood with arms spread wide, 5. Have you no words! Ah, think again, 1. IN Hymn 263. P. M. N themselves, as weak as worms, Succour they at length obtain: 4. Wrestling pray'r can wonders do, S Pray'r can force a passage thro' 5. Hezekiah on his knees Proud Assyrria's host subdu❜d; Had his life by pray'r renew'd. After three long years of drought. 7. We can likewise witness bear, That the Lord is still the same; 8. For the wonders he hath wrought, 1. Hymn 264. L. M. PRINKLED with reconciling blood, 3. Let me my grateful homage pay; 1. Hymn 265. L. M. 'ESUS, where'er thy people meet, There they behold thy mercy-seat; Where'er they seek thee thou art found, And ev'ry place is hallow'd ground. 2. For thou, within no walls confin'd, Inhabitest the humble mind; Such ever bring thee, where they come, And going, take thee to their home. 3. Dear shepherd of thy chosen few! Thy former mercies here renew; Here, to our waiting hearts proclaim The sweetness of thy saving name. 4. Here may we prove the pow'r of pray'r, To strengthen faith and sweeten care; To teach our faint desires to rise, And bring all heav'n before our eyes. 5. Behold at thy commanding word, We stretch the curtain and the cord; Come thou, and fill this wider space, And bless us with a large increase. 6. Lord, we are few, but thou art near; 1. Nor short thine arm nor deaf thine ear; Oh rend the heav'ns, come quickly down, And make a thousand hearts thine own. BE Hymn 266. c. M. EING of beings, God of love, To thee our hearts we raise : Thy all-sustaining pow'r we prove, And gladly sing thy praise. 2. Thine, wholly thine, we pant to be, Made, and preserv'd and sav'd by thee, 3. Heav'n-ward our ev'ry wish aspires, The sole return thy love requires, 4. For more we ask; we open then 5. Come, Holy Ghost, the Saviour's love So shail we ever live and move, 4. FAITH. Hymn 267. L. M. AITH comes by hearing God's record Concerning Jesus Christ the Lord; 1. The happy means which he To brine ne 4 the gospel-rest. ain blest, 2. The joyful sound is news of grace, Redemption of a fallen race, Thro' Jesu's righteousness divine, Which bright from faith to faith doth shine. 3. The promise of immortal bliss We have in Christ our righteousness: By this our righteousness is bought, Faith pleads our right, but buys it not. 4. True Faith receives the offer'd good, And promise seal'd with Jesu's blood. Faith gives no title to the bliss, But takes the Saviour's righteousness. |