HYMN 81. DESIRING PERSEVERANCE. HAIL, Alpha and Omega, hail! The finifher of all our hopes, The truth, the life, the path. 2 Hail, first and last, the morning-star, In whom we live and move; Increase our little spark of faith, And purify our love. 3 Let that belief which JESUS taught, Be treafur'd in our breaft; The evidence of unfeen joys, The fubftance of our reft. 4 Olet us go from ftrength to strength, 7 STRIVING TO PRAISE CHRIST. * LE Let us, whom JESUS hath redeem'd, Not unto us, to thee alone, Be praise and glory giv'n'; 3 The hofts of fpirits now with, thee, 4 Had we our tongues like them infpir'd, Like theirs our fongs fhou'd rife; Like them we never fhou'd be tir'd, But love the facrifice. 5 Till we this veil of flesh lay down, And when, O LORD, we reach thy throne, HYMN 83. RESTING UNDER THE CROSS.. CHILDREN HILDREN of Ifrael, fee what fhade It was for weary trav'lers made; 2 Here let us fit, and all prepare T 3 We fing thy fuffrings, wounds and blood, The virtue of thy pain: We fing thy griefs, thou dying God, 4 We hail thee, thou by Jews revil'd; Hail! very GOD, the promis'd child, 5 While others praise an unknown GoD, HYMN 84 PRIVILEGES OF GOD'S CHILDREN. I B LESSED are the fons of God, They are bought with CHRIST's own blood; They are ranfom'd from the grave, Life eternal they shall have: 2 They the feal of this receive, peace: All their fins are wash'd away, 3 They produce the fruits of grace, In the works of righteousness; They are lights upon the earth, 4 Born of GoD, they hate all fin, 5 Tho' they fuffer much on earth, Strangers quite to this world's mirth; Yet they have an inward joy, Pleasures that can never cloy; They alone are truly bleft, Heirs of God, joint-heirs with CHRIST) 1 HYMN 85. Come, thou wounded Lamb of God! Come, wafh us in thy cleansing blood; Give us to know thy love, then pain Is fweet, and life or death is gain. 2 Take our poor hearts, and let them be For ever clos'd to all but thee; Seal thou our breasts, and let us wear 3 How can it be, thou heav'nly King, 5 First-born of many brethren, thou; To thee both earth and heav'n must bow; Help us to thee our all to give, "Thine may we die, thine may we live ! HYMN 86. JESU, JESU, dearest LORD, Thy patience, pity, tenderness, |