Chang'd from glory into glory,
Till in heav'n we take our place;
Till we cast our crowns before thee,
Lost in wonder, love, and praise!

181. Love. 8-6-8.

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.-JOHN Xiii. 34, 35.

BEHOLD, how sweet and good a thing
It is to dwell in peace!

How pleasing to our heav'nly King
This fruit of righteousness!
When brethren all in love agree,
How blest the joy of unity.

2 The holy oil on Aaron's head,*
Or dew on Hermon's hill,
Could no such heav'nly odours shed,
Or powers of life distil;

'Tis to his church by JESUS given,
An earnest and foretaste of heav'n.

3 In him when holy brethren join,
And follow after peace,
The hallow'd fellowship divine
He promises to bless;

His chiefest graces to bestow,

Where two or three thus meet below.

* Psalm cxxxiii. 1, 2.

4 JESUS, to us vouchsafe to give, The blessing from above;

May all thy children henceforth live
United in thy love;

May peace, and love, and unity
Bind us for ever one in thee.

182. Love. 8-8-6.

And we have known and believed the love that GOD hath to us.-1 JOHN iv. 16.

O LOVE divine, how sweet thou art!
When shall I find my longing heart
All taken up by thee?

Grant me, O gracious Lord, to prove
The sweetness of redeeming love,
The love of CHRIST to me!

2 GOD only knows the love of God:
O that it now were shed abroad
In this poor stony heart!

Give me to "know the love" divine;
This heav'nly portion, Lord, be mine,
Be mine this better part!

30 that I could for ever sit,
With Mary, at the Master's feet;
Be this my happy choice!
My only care, delight, and bliss,
My joy, my heav'n on earth, be this,
To hear the Bridegroom's voice!

4 O that I may, with favour'd John, Recline my weary head upon

My dear REDEEMER'S breast!

From care, and sin, and sorrow free,
Give me, O Lord, to find in thee
My everlasting rest!

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee.-ISAIAH xxvi. 3. -O Lord, I am oppressed, undertake for me.-ISAIAH xxxviii. 14.

THOU friend of friendless sinners hear, And magnify thy grace divine; Pardon a worm that would draw near, That would his heart to thee resign; A worm, by self and sin opprest, That pants to reach thy promis'd rest. 2 With holy fear, and rev'rend love, I long to lie beneath thy throne; 1 long in thee to live, and move, And stay myself on thee alone: Teach me to lean upon thy breast, To find in thee the promis'd rest. 3 Take me, my SAVIOUR, as thine own, And with thy Father plead my cause; Be thou my portion, Lord, alone, And bend me to obey thy laws; And with thy gracious presence blest, Give me to find thy promis'd rest.

4 Bid the tempestuous rage of sin,
With ev'ry furious passion die;
Let the Redeemer dwell within,
And turn my sorrows into joy :
Oh, may my heart, by thee possess'd,
Know thee to be my promis'd rest.

184. Repentance. C.M.

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank GOD, through JESUS CHRIST Our Lord.-ROM. vii. 24, 25.

JESUS! thy power I fain would feel;
Thy love is all I want:

O let thine ears consider well
The voice of my complaint!

2 Thou seest me yet a slave to sin,
And yet afar from GOD;
O purify and make me clean,
By thy redeeming blood!

3 O JESUS! undertake for me:
Thy peace to me be given!
For while I stand away from thee,
I stand away from heav'n!

4 I will not my offence conceal,
I will not hide my sin;

But all my crimes with weeping tell,
And own how vile l've been.

5 Lord! will thy wrathful jealousy,
Like fire for ever burn?

And wilt thou not a succour be,
And comfort those that mourn?

6 Reject not, Lord, my humble prayers; Nor yet my soul destroy:

Hath not my SAVIOUR SOwn in tears,
That I might reap in joy?

185. Repentance. S.M.

I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.-Rom. vii. 9.

My gracious injur'd Lord
To thee what shall I say?
Well may I tremble at thy word,
And scarce presume to pray!

2 JESUS, well may I fear
E'en to implore thy grace,
So often falsely I've drawn near
Before thine holy face.

3

Nigh with my lips I drew;
My lips were all unclean:

Thee with my heart I never knew ;
My heart was full of sin:

4 [Far from the living Lord,
Without all hope of heav'n,
Thy holiness I still abhorr'd,
Nor look'd to be forgiven.
With all pollutions stain'd,
Thy hallow'd courts I trod;
Thy name, thy temple I profan'd,
And dar'd to call thee GOD!]