PRAYING FOR A BLESSING.
6 Why should the foe thy purchase seize? Remember, Lord, thy dying groans: The meed of all thy sufferings these, O claim them for thy ransomed ones!
7 Extend to these thy pardoning grace, To these be thy salvation showed: O add them to thy chosen race!
O sprinkle all their hearts with blood!
8 Still let the publicans draw n
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Open the door of faith and heaven,
And grant their hearts thy word to hear, And witness all their sins forgiven.
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1 THOU Son of God, whose flaming eyes
Our
Accept the evening sacrifice
Which now to thee we give.
2 We bow before thy gracious throne,
And think ourselves sincere;
But show us, Lord, is every one Thy real worshipper?
3 Is here a soul that knows thee not, Nor feels his want of thee?
A stranger to the blood which bought His pardon on the tree?
4 Convince him now of unbelief,
His desperate state explain;
And fill his heart with sacred grief, And penitential pain.
5 Speak with that voice which wakes the And bid the sleeper rise!
[ dead,
And bid his guilty conscience dread The death that never dies.
6 Extort the cry," What must be done To save a wretch like me?
How shall a trembling sinner shun That endless misery?
7" I must this instant now begin Out of my sleep to awake; And turn to God, and every sin Continually forsake:
8" I must for faith incessant cry,
And wrestle, Lord, with thee:
I must be born again, or die To all eternity."
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O thou all- victorious Lord! Thy power to us make known; Strike with the hammer of thy word, And break these hearts of stone.
2 0 that we all might now begin Our foolishness to mourn;
And turn at once from every sin, And to our Saviour turn!
3 Give us ourselves and thee to know, In this our gracious day; Repentance unto life bestow, And take our sins away.
4 Conclude us first in unbelief, And freely then release;
Fill every soul with sacred grief, And then with sacred peace.
5 Impoverish, Lord, and then relieve, And then enrich the poor;
The knowledge of our sickness give, The knowledge of our cure.
6 That blessed sense of guilt impart, And then remove the load;
Trouble, and wash the troubled heart In the atoning blood.
7 Our desperate state through sin declare, And speak our sins forgiven; By perfect holiness prepare, And take us up to heaven.
S. M.
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NPIRIT of faith, come down,
And make to us the Godhead known,
And witness with the blood:
" Tis thine the blood to apply, And give us eyes to see,
Who did for every sinner die,
Hath surely died for me.
2 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 Our interest in his blood, And cry, with joy unspeakable,
" Thou art my Lord, my God!" 30 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 power impart; And testify to all mankind,
And speak in every heart. 4 Inspire the living faith,
Which whosoe'er receives,
The witness in himself he hath, And consciously believes; The faith that conquers all, And doth the mountain move, And saves whoe'er on Jesus call, And perfects them in love.
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1 INNERS, your hearts lift up, your hope!
This, the day of Pentecost; Ask, and ye shall all receive, Surely now the Holy Ghost God to all that ask shall give. 2 Ye all may freely take The grace for Jesu's sake; He for every man hath died, He for all hath risen again; Jesus now is glorified,
Gifts he hath received for men.
4 Blessings on all he pours,
In never- ceasing showers,
3 He sends them from the skies On all his enemies;
By his cross he now hath led Captive our captivity;
We shall all be free indeed,
Christ, the Son, shall make us free.
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