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The trumpet of the Gospel sounds
With an inviting voice.

2 Ho! all ye hungry starving souls,
That feed upon the wind,
And vainly strive with earthly toys
To fill an empty mind.

3 Eternal wisdom has prepar'd
A soul-reviving feast,

Like wine and milk salvation flows
For every willing guest.

4 Here, ye that pant for living streams, And pine away and die;

May freely quench your raging thirst,
With springs that never dry.

5 My God! the treasures of thy love
Are everlasting mines,

Deep as our helpless mis'ries are,
And boundless as our sins!

6 The happy gates of Gospel-grace
Stand open night and day :
LORD, we are come to seek supplies,
And drive our wants away.

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Come ; for all things are now ready.-LUKE xiv. 17.
HOW sweet and awful is the place,
With CHRIST within the doors,
While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores!

2 While all our hearts and all our songs Join to admire the feast, buk Each of us cry with thankful tongues, "LORD, why was I a guest?

3 "Why was I made to hear thy voice, "And enter while there's room; "When thousands make a wretched choice,

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"And rather starve than come ?"

4 'Twas the same love that spread the That sweetly drew us in;

[feast, Else we had still refus'd to taste,> And perish'd in our sin.

5 Pity the nations, O our GOD,
Constrain the earth to come;
Send thy victorious word abroad,
And bring the strangers home!
6 We long to see thy churches full;
That all the chosen race

May, with one voice,and heart, and soul,
Sing thy Redeeming Grace.

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2 Ready the FATHER is to own?ks
And kiss his late returning son
Ready the loving SAVIOUR stands,
Andspreads for you his bleeding hands.
3 Ready the Spirit to impart

His gracious influence to your heart;
T' apply and witness with the blood,
And seal you of the sons of GOD.

4 Ready for you the angels wait,
To triumph in your blest estate;
Tuning their harps they long to praise
The wonders of redeeming grace.

5 Come then, O sinner, to your LORD,
To happiness in CHRIST restor'd;
His proffer'd benefits embrace,
And taste the fulness of his

grace.

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And yet there is room.-LUKE xiv. 22.

YE wretched, hungry, starving poor,
Behold a royal feast!

Where mercy spreads her bounteous
For ev'ry humble guest.

2 See JESUS stands with open arms;

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He calls, he bids you come; 11 Guilt holds you back, and fear alarms; But see, there yet is room;

3 Room in the SAVIOUR'S bleeding heart;
There love and pity meet;
Nor will he bid the soul depart, /
That trembles at his feet.

4 [In him the Father reconcil'd
Invites your souls to come;
The rebel shall be call'd a child,
And kindiy welcom❜d home.]4

5 0 come, and with his children taste
The blessings of his love;

While hope attends the sweet repast
Of nobler joys above.

6 There, with united heart and voice," Before th' eternal throne,

Ten thousand thousand souls rejoice,
In blessedness unknown.

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7 And yet ten thousand thousand more,
Are welcome still to come :
Ye longing souls, the grace adore,
Approach, there yet is room.

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Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.-LUKE xiv. 21.

COME, sinners, to the Gospel feast;
Let every soul be JESU's guest,
Sent by their LORD, his servants call;
The invitation is to all.

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2 Come, all ye souls by sin opprest, Ye restless wanderers after rest; Ye poor,and maim'd, and halt,and blind, In CHRIST a hearty welcome find. 3 Come and partake the Gospel feast; Be sav'd from sin, in Jesus rest; The message as from God receive; Freely to JESUS come and live. 4 See him set forth before your eyes, That precious, bleeding sacrifice: His offer'd benefits embrace,

And taste his free, redeeming grace. 5 This is the time, no more delay, Behold the acceptable day;

O then come in at JESU's call,
And live thro' him who died for all.

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Yet there is room.-LUKE xiv. 22.

YE dying sons of men,

Immers'd in sin and woe,
The Gospel's voice attend,

While JESUS sends to you:
Ye perishing and guilty come,
At JESU's feast there yet is room.
2 No longer now delay,

Nor vain excuses frame:
He bids you come to-day,
Tho' poor, and blind, and lame:

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