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3 'Tis love that makes our cheerful feet
In swift obedience move!
The devils know and tremble too,
But Satan cannot love.

4 This is the grace that lives and sings,
When faith and hope shall cease;
"Tis this shall strike our joyful strings
In the sweet realms of bliss.

5 Before we quite forsake our clay
Or leave this dark abode,
The wings of love bear us away
To see our smiling God.

377. L. M. Dr. Watts.

Religion vain without Love. 1 Cor. xiii. 1–3. 1 LJAD I the tongues of Greeks and Jews.

HAnd nobler speech than angels use,

If love be absent, I am found

Like tinkling brass, an empty sound.
2 Were I inspir'd to preach and tell
All that is done in heav'n and hell,
Or could my faith the world remove
Still I am nothing without love.
3 Should I distribute all my store,
To feed the bowels of the poor,
Or give my body to the flame,
To gain a martyr's glorious name.
4 If love to God and love to men
Be absent, all my hopes are vain;
Nor tongues, nor gifts, nor fiery zeal,
The work of love can e'er fulfil.

378. S. M. Dr. Watts.

Christ unseen and beloved. 1 Pet. i. 8. 1 OT with our mortal eyes,

No

Have we beheld the Lord,

Yet we rejoice to hear his name,
And love him in his word.

2 On earth we want the sight

Of our Redeemer's face,

Yet, Lord, our inmost thoughts delight
To dwell upon thy grace.

3 And when we taste thy love,

Our joys divinely grow

Unspeakable, like those above,
And heav'n begins below.

379. L. M. Dr. Watts. Seeking Christ. Cant. i. 7.

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whom my soul admires above THOU All earthly joy, and earthly love, Tell me, dear shepherd, let me know Where doth thy sweetest pasture grow? 2 Where is the shadow of that rock, That from the sun defends thy flock? Fain would I feed among thy sheep, Among them rest, among them sleep. 3 Why should thy bride appear like one That turns aside to paths unknown! My constant feet would never rove, Would never seek another love. 4 [The footsteps of thy flock I see: Thy sweetes pastures here they be: A wondrous feast thy love prepares, Bought with toy wounds, and groans, and tears. 5 His dearest flesh he makes my food, And bids me drink his richest blood: Here to these hills my soul will come, Till my beloved lead me home.]

380. C. M. Dr. Watts.

Sight through a Glass, and Face to Face. 1 Cor. xiii. 12.

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LOVE the windews of his grace, Through which my Lord is seen; Andung to meet my Saviour's face Without a glass between.

20, that the happy hour were come,
To change my faith to sight!

I shall behold my Lord at home
In a diviner light.

3 Haste, my beloved, and remove
These interposing days,

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Then shall my passions all be love,
And all my pow'rs be praise.

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381. L. M. Dr. Watts

Living and dying in the Love of God.
CANNOT bear thine absence, Lord;
My life expires if thou depart:
Be thon, my heart, still near iny God,
And thou, my God, be near my heart.

8 I was not born for earth or sin,

Nor can I live on things so vile:

Yet I will stay my Father's time,
And hope and wait for heav'n awhile.
3 Then, dearest Lord, in thine embrace
Let me resign my fleeting breath;
And, with a smile upon my face,
Pass the important hour of death.

382. L. M. Dr. Doddridge.

Prayer for Love to the Brethren. 1 Pet. 1. 22.

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GREAT Spirit of immortal love!

Vouchsafe our frozen hearts to move: With ardour strong these breasts inflame To all that own a Saviour's name. 2 Still let the heav'nly fire endure Fervent and vig'rous, true and pure: Let ev'ry heart and ev'ry hand Join in the dear fraternal band. 3 Celestial Dove! descend and bring The smiling blessings on thy wing; And make us taste those sweets below, Which in the blissful mansions grow. 383. S. M. Mr. Beddome. Christian Love. Gal. iii. 28.

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ET party names no more

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The Christian world o'erspread:
Gentile and Jew, and bond and free,
Are one in Christ their head.

2 Among the saints of earth,

Let mutual love be found;
Heirs of the same inheritance,
With mutual blessings crown'd.

3 Let Envy, child of hell!

Be banish'd far away;

Those should in strictest friendship dwell
Who the same Lord obey.

4 Thus will the church below

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Resemble that above,

Where streams of pleasure ever flow,
And ev'ry heart is love.

384. S. M. Mr. John Fawcett.
Love to the Saints.

1I LOVE the sons of grace!

The heirs of bliss divine,

Who walk in paths of righteousness,
And fly from ev'ry sin.

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2 They will my faults reprove,
When heedlessly I err;

How do I prize their faithful love,
Their kind and tender care!

3 They Jesu's image bear:

How lovely is the sight;

They shall at length with him appear
In everlasting light.

4 They love the Father's name,
And gladiy do his will;

They humbly follow Christ the Lamb
In purity and zeal.

5 Their footsteps I'll pursue
With vigour till 1'die:
Rejoicing in the pleasing view
Of meeting them on high.

6 It is a sweet employ,

To join in worship here;
But how divine must be the joy
To see each other there!"

385. L. M. Dr. Watts.

Watchfulness and brotherly Love.
Psalın cxli. 2-5.

MY God, accept my early vows,

Like morning incense in thine house:

And let my nightly worship rise,

Sweet as the evening sacritice.

Watch o'er my lips, and guard them, Lord, From ev'ry rash and heedless word; Nor let my feet incline to tread The guilty paths where sinners lead. 3 O may the righteous, when I stray, Smite and reprove my wand'ring way! Their gentle words, like ointment shed, Shall never bruise but cheer my head. 4 When I behold them prest with grief, I'll cry to heav'n for their relief; And by any warm petitions prove How much I prize their faithful love. 386. S. M. Mr. John Fawcett. Brotherly Love.

BLEST be the tie that binds

Our hearts in christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds)
Is like to that above..

2 Before our Father's throne
We pour our ardent pray'rs;
Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,
Our comforts and our cares.
3 We share our mutual woes,

Our mutual burdens bear:
And often, for each other, flows
The sympathizing tear.

4 When we asunder part,

It gives us inward pain;
But we shall still be join'd in heart,
And hope to ineet again.
5 This glorious hope revives

Our courage by the way;
While each in expectation lives,
And longs to see the day.
6 From sorrow, toil, and pain,
And sin we shall be free;

And perfect love and friendship reign
Through all eternity.

387. C. M.

At the parting of Christian Friends. 'BLEST be the dear uniting love,

That would not let us part!
Although our bodies sep'rate move,
Still we are join'd in heart.

2 Join'd in one spirit to our head,
Where he appoints we go:
And still in Jesu's footsteps tread,
And do his work below.
30 let us ever walk in him,
And nothing know beside;
Nothing desire, nothing esteem,
Like Jesus crucify'd.

4 Closer and closer let us cleave
To his belov'd embrace;
Till all his fulness we receive,
And see him face to face.

5 Partakers of the Saviour's grace,
The same in mind and heart;'
Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place,
Nor life por death shall part.

60 let us keep in view the day

Which shall our flesh restore,

When death shall all be done away,

And bodies part no more.

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