HYMN 2. S. M. Dover. [*] Communion with Christ and with Saints. 1 Cor. x. 16,17. 1 [TESUS invites his saints JES To meet around his board; Here pardoned rebels sit, and hold Communion with their Lord. 2 For food he gives his flesh; He bids us drink his blood: Amazing favour! matchless grace— Of our descending God!] 3 This holy bread and wine Maintain our fainting breath, By union with our living Lord, And interest in his death. 4 Our heavenly Father calls Christ and his members one ; e We the young children of his love, And he the First-born Son. 5 We are but several parts o 6 Let all our powers be joined, Pleasure and love fill every mind, HYMN 3. C. M. York. [*] The New Covenant sealed. 1 "THE promise of my Father's love I seal th' engagement to my Lord, 3 The light, and strength, and pardoning grace, My life and soul, my heart and flesh, And all my powers are thine. 4 I call that legacy my own, Which Jesus did bequeath; p 'Twas purchased with a dying groan, And ratified in death. o 5 Sweet is the memory of his name, C. M. HYMN 4. C. M. Canterbury. [b] Christ's dying Love. H Was God's eternal Son! OW condescending, and how kind e Our misery reached his heavenly mind, e 2 [When Justice, by our sins provoked, P 3 He sunk beneath our heavy woes, To raise us to his throne: -There's ne'er a gift his hand bestows, e But cost his heart a groan. 4 This was compassion like a God- o 5 Now, though he reigns exalted high, e Well he remembers CalvaryNor let his saints forget. e 6 [Here we behold his bowels roll, As kind as when he died; p And see the sorrows of his soul, Hard is the wretch who never feels p 8 Here let our hearts begin to melt, -And, with our joy for pardoned guilt, g HYMN 5. C. M. Barby. [*] Christ the Bread of Life. John vi. 31, 35, 39. 1LET us adore th' eternal Word. "Tis he our souls hath fed: -Thou art the living stream, O Lord, 2 [The manna came from lower skies, Where the fresh springs of pleasure rise, 3 The Jews, the fathers, died at last, o 4 Blest be the Lord, who gives his flesh, And often spreads his table fresh, Lest we should faint again. -5 Our souls shall draw their heavenly breath, While Jesus finds supplies; Nor shall our graces sink to death, For Jesus never dies. e 6 Daily our mortal flesh decays, HYMN 6. L. M. Bath. [*] The Memorial of our absent Lord. John xvi. 16. Luke xxii. 19. John xiv. 3. JESUS's gone above the skies, Where our weak senses reach him not. e And carnal objects court our eyes, 2 He knows what wandering hearts we have, -And, to refresh our minds, he gave That we may dwell in heavenly light, We wait thy chariot's awful wheels, HYMN 7. L. M. Gloucester. [b] Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ. Gal.vi.14. 1 WHEN I survey the wondrous cross, On which the Prince of glory died, My richest gain, I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride. e 3 See from his head, his hands, his feet, o 5 Were the whole realm of nature mine, HYMN 8. C. M. Bethlehem. [*] COME, OME, let us join a joyful tune, Ye saints on high, around his throne, e 2 While once upon this lower ground, -What dear refreshment here ye found, o 3 The tree of life, that, near the throne, 4 (Hovering among the leaves, there stands And Jesus on the branches hangs The banner of his love.) 5 ("Tis a young heaven of strange delight While in his shade we sit; e His fruit is pleasing to the sight, And to the taste as sweet. 6 New life it spreads through dying hearts, 7 Now let the flaming weapon stand, 8 Infinite grace our souls adore, HYMN 9. S. M. Watchman. [*] The Spirit, the Water, and the Blood. Who from his bosom sent his Son, e 4 (My Saviour's pierced side g e -By water we are purified, Whose death was thy desert; 1 John v. 6. |