3 Eternal life thy words impart;

On these my fainting spirit lives: Here sweeter comforts cheer my heart, Than the whole world around me gives. 4 Thy name my inmost powers adore; -Thou art my life, my joy, my care; Depart from thee! 'tis death: 'tis more: 'Tis endless ruin, deep despair!

5 Low at thy feet my soul would lie;
Here safety dwells, and peace divine:
Still let me live beneath thine eye,
For life, eternal life, is thine!

244. Crucified to the World. L.M.

But GOD forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.—GAL. vi. 14.

GROUND of my hope,theCross appears:
I see the "man of sorrows" bleed:
I bid adieu to guilty fears,

And in his death my pardon read.

2 And could'st thou, O my SAVIOUR, die, To rescue me from endless woe?

Enough! there's none more blest than J, Since thou could'st love a sinner so. 3 I leave the world its boasted store Of pleasures that must quickly end: I prize its vanities no more,

Since I have found the sinner's friend.

4 I care not if the world revile,

The world that hates my master's cause;
The world I know would quickly smile,
Were I again what once I was.

5 Then farewell, world, and farewell all
That emulates a SAVIOUR'S claims;
I'll hear him and obey his call,
Regardless who applauds or blames.
6 I'll praise him while he gives me breath,
Nor then will cease to sing his love:
For, when my voice is lost in death,
I hope to join the choirs above.

245. Crucified with Christ. 7s.

I am crucified with CHRIST: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but CHRIST liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the SON of GOD, who loved me, and gave himself for me.GAL. ii. 20.

JESUS, fix each wav'ring mind!
To thy cross our spirits bind:
Earthly passions far remove:
Lift our souls to things above.

3. Dust and ashes tho' we be,
Full of sin and misery-
Thine we are, thou Son of God:
Take the purchase of thy blood!
3 Who in heart on thee believes,
He th' atonement now receives;

He with joy beholds thy face,
Triumphs in thy pard'ning grace.
4 Lord, thy grace O may we see,
Make our souls athirst for thee!
May we each thine influence prove,
Quick'ning all our hearts to love.
5 Boundless wisdom, power divine,
Love unspeakable are thine;
Ever, Lord, to thee be giv'n
Praise by all in earth and heav'n,

246. Desiring Christ. L. M.

But CHRIST is all.-COL. iii. 11.

WHEN, gracious Lord, when shall it be
That I shall find my all in thee;
The fulness of thy promise prove,
The seal of thine eternal love?

2 Thee, only thee, I fain would find,
And cast the world and sin behind:
An helpless soul, I come to thee,
With only sin and misery.

3 Lord, I am sick-my sickness cure!
I want-do thou enrich the poor:
Under thy mighty hand I stoop-
O lift the abject sinner up!

4 Lord, I am blind-be thou my sight: Lord, I am weak-be thou my might:

Au helper of the helpless be,
And let me find my all in thee.

247. Desiring Communion with God. C.M.

O, that I knew where I might find him !---Job xxiii. 3
O THAT I knew the secret place,
Where I might find my God!
I'd spread my wants before his face,
And pour my woes abroad.

2 I'd tell him how my sins arisė,
What sorrows I sustain ;

How grace decays, and comfort dies,
And leave my heart in pain.

3 He knows what arguments I'd take
To wrestle with my God;
I'd plead for his own mercy's sake,
And for my SAVIOUR'S blood.

4 My GOD will pity my complaints,
And heal my broken bones;
He takes the meaning of his saints,
The language of their groans.

5 Arise, my soul, from deep distress,
And banish ev'ry fear;

He calls thee to his throne of grace
To spread thy sorrows there.

248. Desiring Conformity to Christ, 112th. I am crucified with CHRIST; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but CHRIST liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the SON of GOD, who loved me, and gave himself for me.-GAL. ii. 20. THOUhidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathom'd, no man knows,

I see from far thy beauteous light;
And inly sigh for thy repose:
My heart is pain'd, nor can it be
At rest, till I find rest in thee.
2 Is there a thing beneath the sun,

That strives with thee my heart to
share?

Ah! tear it thence, and reign alone,
And govern every motion there!
Then shall my heart from earth be free,
When it hath found its all in thee.

30 crucify this self, that I

No more, but CHRIST in me may live!
Bid all my vile affections die,

Nor let one hateful lust survive ;
In all things nothing may I see,
Nothing desire, or seek, but thee.

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4 Lord, draw my heart from earth away, And make it only know thy call Speak to my inmost soul, and say, "I am thy SAVIOUR GOD, thine all!" Oh dwell in me, fill all my soul, And all my pow'rs by thine controul.

Z