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6 Have patience with us sinners ev'ry That thus we may show,
day,
In our whole behaviour, that Jesus we
know.

Forgive us all our trespasses we pray;
O instruct & warn us without cessation; 7 Grant us to increase
And with thy peace, thy love and con- In knowledge and grace,
Fill all our hearts. Rejoicing by faith

solation,

7 Of Christ we'll gladly testify each In Jesus' atonement, wrought out by hour,

Until his kingdom shall appear with

pow'r;

Then will all see clearly, how thou
hast trained

God's children, when they once shall
have attained To bliss complete.
8 Blest Comforter, vouchsafe us all
the grace,
To yield thee joy for thy great faith-
fulness,

For thy love and patience; from sin
protect us,
And in the narrow way to life direct
Thou heav'nly Guide!

us,

223.*

O SPIRIT of grace!

T. 4.

Thy kindness we praise,

In showing to us,

his death.

224.* T. 22.

O Comforter, God Holy Ghost!
Thou heav'nly gifts on us bestow'st ;
The Pledge of our salvation art,
And bear'st thy witness in our heart:
2 The sheep of Jesus, which were lost,
Thou callest, teaching them to trust
For help, forgiveness, peace and grace,
In him, the Lord our Righteousness.
3 Thy unction freely dost impart
To ev'ry poor and contrite heart,
Which Jesus as the Saviour knows,
From whom alone salvation flows.
4 The feeble souls thou dost sustain,
Anointest all the witness train;
Keepest believers in the faith,

And art their Guide in life and death,

That life and salvation proceed from 5 Who can thy operations trace,

Christ's cross.

2 In darkness we stray'd,

Until we were led

By thee to believe,

That Jesus, our Saviour, will sinners receive...

3. Our hearts thou didst cheer,

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Dispelling all fear;

We humbly could claim

Salvation and pardon in

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O Spirit of love,

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And with an active zeal my soul inflame [train. To do thy will, and glorify thy name.

Joy, honor and glory, 'midst his chosen 3 Endow me richly with thy gifts and

6 O therefore impart

Thyself to each heart,

grace

To fit me for the duties of my place:

So open thou my lips, my heart to raise, Jesus, who did for sinners die, That both my heart and lips may give

thee praise.

4 As in thy temple,keep thou residence Within my soul, and never part from

thence,

Until I'm fitted and prepar'd by thee Life to exchange for immortality.

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COME, Holy Spirit, come,

Let thy bright beams arise;
Dispel the darkness from our minds,
And open all our eyes.

2 Revive our drooping faith,
Our doubts and fears remove;
And kindle in our breast the flame
Of never-ceasing love.

3 Convince us of our sip,

Then lead to Jesus' blood; And to our stubborn hearts reveal

The hidden love of God.

4 'Tis thine to cleanse the heart,
To sanctify the soul,
To pour fresh life on ev'ry part,
And new-create the whole.
5 If thou, O Comforter!

Thine influence withdraw,
What easy victims soon we fall

To conscience and the law! 6 No longer burns our love;

Our faith and courage fail;
Our sin revives, and death and hell
Our feeble souls assail.

7 Dwell therefore in our hearts;
Our minds from bondage free:
Then shall we know, and praise, and
love

The Father, Son, and Thee.

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SPIRIT of truth, come down,
Reveal the things of God,
Make thou to us Christ's Godhead
known,

Apply his precious blood.
His merits glorify,

That each may clearly see,

2

Hath surely dy'd for me.

No man can truly say

That Jesus is the Lord, Unless thou take the veil away, And breathe the living word: Then, only then we feel

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Our interest in his blood, And cry with joy unspeakable, "Thou art my Lord, my God!" 3 O that the world might know The all-atoning Lamb! Spirit of faith, descend and show The virtue of his name ; The grace which all may find, The saving pow'r, impart; O testify to all mankind And speak in ev'ry heart!

228. T. 14.

COME, Holy Ghost, eternal God,
Proceeding from above,
Both from the Father and the Son,

Thou God of peace and love.
2 Thou art the only Comforter
In all our soul's distress;
Thou showest us our unbelief,

And Christ's redeeming grace.
3 Thou dost thy sanctifying gifts
Unto the church impart;
Writest God's holy, precious law
On each believer's heart.

4 Thy holy unction pow'r affords
The gospel to proclaim:
By thee enabled, we set forth

Salvation in Christ's name.

5 Assist and strengthen us, O Lord!
Thou know'st we all are frail:
Grant, neither Satan, world, nor flesh,
May o'er Christ's flock prevail.

6 Cause all disharmony and strife
In Christendom to cease:
And give to all the flocks of Christ
Love, union, truth, and peace.

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229. T. 14.

COME, blessed Spirit, gracious Lord,
Thy pow'r to us make known;
Strike with the hammer of thy word,
And break each heart of stone.

2 Give us ourselves, and Christ, to
know

In this our gracious day; Repentance unto life bestow, Christ's pard'ning love display: 3 Convince us first of unbelief, And freely then release; Fill ev'ry soul with sacred grief, And then with sacred peace. 4 Show us our poverty, relieve And then enrich the

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COME, Holy Spirit, on us breathe,

With all thy quick'ning pow'rs;
Kindle our love, confirm our faith,

Warm these cold hearts of our's.
2 Assure my conscience of her part
In the Redeemer's blood;

The knowledge of our sickness give-And bear thy witness in my heart,

The knowledge of our cure.

5 A blessed sense of guilt impart,
And then remove the load;
Trouble, then lead the troubled heart
To Christ's atoning blood.

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O Holy Ghost, eternal God,
Descending from above,
Thou fill'st the soul, thro' Jesus' blood,
With faith, and hope, and love.
2 Thou comfortest the heavy heart,
By sin and grief opprest;
Thou to the dead dost life impart,
And to the weary, rest.
3 Thy sweet communion charms the soul
And gives true peace and joy;
Which Satan's pow'r can ne'er control,
Nor all his wiles destroy.

4 Let no false comfort lift us up

To confidence that's vain:

Nor let their faith and courage droop,
Who love the Lamb once slain.

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5 Breathe comfort where distress a-
bounds,

O make our conscience clean;
And heal, with balm from Jesus' wounds,
The fest'ring sores of sin.

That I am born of God.

3 Thou art the Earnest of his love,
O lead us, that we may
The Pledge of joys to come:
above

Obtain our lasting home.

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BREATHE on these bones so dry.
and dead,

God Holy Ghost! thy influence shed,
In all our hearts abroad:
Point out the place, where gra
abounds;

Direct us to the bleeding wounds
Of Jesus, our incarnate God.

2 Convince us that the Lamb was
slain:

For us, and to our minds explain

Let us our dear Redeemer see,
The myst❜ry of the cross:
And serve and love him fervently;
This be our gain, else all things loss.

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2 Come, Holy Ghost, my soul inspire,
Attest that I am born again;
Come and baptize me, Lord, with fire,
Nor. let thy former gifts be vain:
Grant me a sense that I'm forgiv'n,
A pledge that I'm an heir of heav'n.

3 Grant me th' indisputable seal,
That ascertains the kingdom mine!
That pow'rful stamp I long to feel,
The signature of love divine:
O shed it in my heart abroad,
Fulness of love, of heav'n, of God!

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THOU great Teacher, who instructest
Christ's flock, and us to bliss conductest,
Who noblest gifts to grant didst deign
To th' apostles, thine anointed,
By thee for that great work appointed
To teach, reprove and comfort men,
And freely offer
grace
Unto the Gentile race;
Lord, have mercy!

Grant us to be-Immoveably
Fix'd on their ground, upheld by thee!

XIII. Of God's Call of Grace to the unconverted Sinner.

235.* T. 583.

15" Tho' then unborn, tho' not in person there,

share;

TEACH us, O Lord! the cross's" Yet in that act of grace thou hast a mystery, And grant us docile hearts to learn of" Pardon of sin was then for thee pro

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"When Jesus death for ev'ry man endur'd.

6" For all who flee from Sinai's fiery wrath,

"And look to Calv'ry's sacrifice by faith,

"The Judge supreme, to whom all pow'r is giv'n,

"Ordaineth pardon, happiness and heav'n.

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"Just as thou art, to Jesus come,
and live;

Repenting sinners Jesus will receive; Be thou e'er so corrupt and stain'd with sin,

"Fear not, his precious blood can wash thee clean."

8 Who finds that sin hath quite o'erspread his soul,

That his own efforts ne'er can make him whole,

Helpless at Jesus' feet resolves to lie, Jesus hath sworn that sinner shall not die.

9 Tho' he was dead before, behold, 4 They by the Father are esteem'd,

he lives,

The Saviour quick'ning, whom the
Father gives;

Henceforth must sin lie vanquish'd at
his feet,

Thro' faith in Jesus, he shall vict'ry

meet.

10 How pleasing 'tis, a new-born soul to view,

How doth its happiness our own renew! Might all the pow'r of Christ's atonement prove,

And know the virtue of his dying love!

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When thus presented by our Saviour;
Heal'd by his wounds, from sin redeem'd
They prove the Father's love & favor;
He owns them as his sons and heirs,
And all he hath their own declares;
Eternal life they now inherit,
Procur'd for them by Jesus' merit;
He dwells in them, in him they live,
Since Jesus sinners doth receive.
5 Might all his loving heart but see,
And know his bowels of compassion
To sinners, straying carelessly,

Or such as mourning seek salvation:
Him, when on earth'midst sinners trace;
Zaccheus takes his saving grace;
He comforts Magd'len in affliction,
op-Regards her tears and deep conviction,
Her sins, tho' many, he forgives;
My Saviour sinners poor receives.
6 Behold how he with Peter dealt,
Tho' deep his fall, he show'd him
favor.

Who have no hope to be redressed; Who loathe the world and all its ways, Dread wrath divine, and mourn for

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Condemn'd to hell in their own
science;
Such wretched sinners find reprieve,
Since Jesus sinners doth receive.
2 The fondest mother cannot have
Towards her darling such affection,
As Jesus show'd, vile man to save;

His love exceedeth our conception.
He left his throne and blest abode,
To bear the sinner's heavy load.
Since he now thro' his death & suff'ring
Hath made an all-sufficient off'ring,
Our debt is paid, and we may live;
For Jesus sinners doth receive.
3 Now is his sympathizing heart
A refuge for the most distressed;
He freely pardon will impart;

By him their debt is quite erased.
His blood like th'ocean without ground,
Their sins hath swallow'd up & drown'd,
The Holy Ghost to them is given,
Who leads them in the path to heaven;
And prompts them always to believe,
That Jesus sinners doth receive.

Not only when on earth he dwelt

Was he a sin-forgiving Saviour;
No, he is still the very same,
Just, good and merciful his name;
As he was in humiliation,

So is he still in exaltation.
Repenting souls, you may believe,
Our Saviour sinners doth receive.

7 Come, sinners, come, tho' vile and
base;

Returning prodigals he meeteth; He freely offers them his grace,

Them with a pard'ning kiss he
greeteth.

Why wilt thou stand in thy own way ?
Why wilfully be Satan's prey?

Wilt thou sin's drudge remain for ever,
Tho' he appear'd thee to deliver?
Do not delay, sin's service leave,
Since Jesus sinners will receive.
8 Come, ye that heavy laden are,

Come, weary, void of self-assistance;
Tho' doubting, ready to despair,

Come but to him without resistance. Behold his heart with love replete, Full of desire the worst to meet;

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