4 Dear Lord-and shall we ever live
At this poor dying rate,
Our love so faint, so cold to thee,
And thine to us so great?
5 Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
With all thy quickening powers;
Come, shed abroad a Saviour's love,
And that shall kindle ours.
Reviving Influence,
COME, Holy Spirit, come;
Let thy bright beams divine
Rise on our sorrow and our gloom,
And in our darkness shine,
Convince us all of sin,
Then lead to Jesus' blood;
And to our wondering view reveal
The mercy of our God.
Revive our drooping faith;
Our doubts and fears remove;
And kindle in our breasts the flame
Of never-dying love.
1 HOLY Ghost-dispel our sadness,
Pierce the clouds of nature's night;
Come, thou source of joy and gladness,
Breathe thy life and spread thy light.
2 Hear, oh hear our supplication,
Blessed Spirit, God of Peace;
Rest upon this congregation,
With th' abundance of thy grace.
3 Author of our new creation-
Bid us all thine influence prove;
Make our souls thy habitation;
Shed abroad the Saviour's love.
Regeneration. John i. 13.
1 NOT all the outward forms on earth,
Nor rites that God has given,
Nor will of man, nor blood, nor birth,
Can raise a soul to heaven.
2 The sovereign will of God alone
Creates us heirs of grace;
Born in the image of his Son,
A new, peculiar race.
3 The Spirit, like some heavenly wind.
Breathes on the sons of flesh;
New models all the carnal mind,
And forms the man afresh.
4 Our quickened souls awake and rise
From the long sleep of death;
On heavenly things we fix our eyes,
And praise employs our breath.
176 The Operations of the Holy Spirit.
ETERNAL Spirit, we confess
And sing the wonders of thy grace;
Thy power conveys our blessings down,
From God the Father and the Son.
2 Enlightened by thy heavenly ray,
Our shades and darkness turn to day;
Thine inward teachings make us know
Our danger and our refuge too.
3 Thy power and glory work within,
And break the chains of reigning sin;
Do our imperious lusts subdue,
And form our wretched hearts anew.
4 The troubled conscience knows thy voice;
Thy cheering words awake our joys;
Thy words allay the stormy wind,
And calm the surges of the mind.
1 HOW helpless guilty nature lies,
Unconscious of its load!
The heart, unchanged, can never rise
To happiness and God.
2 Can aught, beneath a power divine,
The stubborn will subdue ?
'Tis thine, almighty Saviour, thine
To form the heart anew.
3 'Tis thine the passions to recall,
And upward bid them rise,
And make the scales of error fall
From reason's darkened eyes.
4 To chase the shades of death away,
And bid the sinner live;
A beam of heaven, a vital ray,
'Tis thine alone to give.
5 Oh change these wretched hearts of ours,
And give them life divine :
Then shall our passions and our powers,
Almighty Lord, be thine.
178 The Dry Bones. Ezek. xxxvii. 3.
1 LOOK down, O Lord, with pitying eye,
See Adam's race in ruin lie;
Sin spreads its trophies o'er the ground,
And scatters slaughtered heaps around.
2 Thy ministers are sent in vain,
To prophesy upon the slain;
In vain they call, in vain they cry,
Till thine almighty aid is nigh.
3 But if thy Spirit deign to breathe,
Life spreads through all the realms of death;
Dry bones obey thy powerful voice;
They move-they waken-they rejoice.
179 Total Depravity. Eph. ii. 3.—Rom. v. 12, &c.
1 BACKWARD, with humble shame, we look On our original;
How is our nature dashed and broke
In our first father's fall!
2 To all that's good averse and blind,
But prone to all that's ill;
What dreadful darkness vails our mind!
How obstinate our will!
3 Yet, mighty God, thy wondrous love
Can make our nature clean,
While Christ and grace prevail above
The tempter, death, and sin.
4 The second Adam shall restore
The ruins of the first;
Hosanna to that sovereign power
That new creates our dust.
Divine Love. Rom. v. 5.
1L Joy of heaven, to earth come down;
OVE divine, all love excelling,
Fix in us thy humble dwelling,
All thy faithful mercies crown;
Jesus-thou art all compassion;
Pure, unbounded love thou art;
Visit us with thy salvation,
Enter every longing heart.
2 Come, almighty to deliver,
Let us now thy life receive:
Suddenly return, and never-
Never more thy temples leave:
Thee we would be always blessing,
Serve thee as thy hosts above;
Pray, and praise thee without ceasing,
Glory in thy precious love.
3 Carry on thy new creation;
Pure and spotless may we be; Let us see our whole salvation Perfectly secured by thee; Changed from glory into glory,
Till in heaven we take our place; Till we cast our crowns before thee,
Lost in wonder, love, and praise. C. Wesley.
Prayer for Sanctification.
1 Gow in Jesus reconciled;
RACIOUS Father, hear thy child,
Let me now behold thy face-
Triumph in thy saving grace;
Pour thy graces from above,
Hope and joy and peace and love.
2 Lord, I will not let thee go,
Till the blessing thou bestow:
Hear my Advocate divine;
Lo, his powerful plea is mine;
Can his intercession fail?
Shall I not in him prevail ?
3 Holy Spirit-Life Divine,
Come and make this temple thine
Shed thy light throughout my soul,
Move and actuate the whole;
Spring of life-thyself impart,
Rise eternal in my heart.
Praise for recovering Grace.
1 COME, thou fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
2 Teach me some melodious measure,
Sung by flaming hosts above;
I would chant, with heavenly pleasure,
Praises to thy boundless love.
3 Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to save my soul from danger,
Interposed his precious blood.
4 Oh, to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be:
Let thy grace, Lord, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to thee.
5 Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it-
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, oh take and seal it,
Seal it from thy courts above.
SWEET peace of conscience, heavenly guest, Come, fix thy mansion in my breast; Dispel my doubts, my fears control,
And heal the anguish of my soul.
2 Come, smiling hope, and joy sincere-
Come, make your constant dwelling here;
Still let your presence cheer my heart,
Nor sin compel you to depart.
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