3

Let not confcience make you linger,
Nor of fitnefs fondly dream;
All the fitness he requireth
Is to feel your need of him:
This he gives you,

'Tis the Spirit's rifing beam.

4 Come, ye weary, heavy laden, Bruis'd and mangled by the fall; If ye tarry till you're better,

You will never come at allNot the righteous,

Sinners Jefus came to call.

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The fame.

Ho! every one that thirfteth. If. Iv.

I.

Bleffed are they that thirst, for they fhall be filled. Matt. v. 6.

Let him that is athirst come, and take of the water of life freely. Rev. xxii. 17.

1

Ho!

O! ev'ry one that thirfts, draw nigh;
Salvation fuits the finner's cafe;

Mercy and free falvation buy;

Buy wine, and milk, and gospel grace.

2 Nothing ye in exchange may give;
Leave all ye have and are behind;
Freely the gift of God receive,
Pardon and peace in Jefus find.

3

For finners Jefus deign'd to bleed,

And finners in his kingdom fhare; Who comes as fuch, and feels his need, Shall find a kind reception there.

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For the Success of the Gospel.

As becometh the gospel. Phil. i. 27.

With reverence and godly fear. Heb. xii. 28. He will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth. 1 Cor. xiv. 25.

HE good hand of God has brought us again,

(A favour bestow'd, we hope, not in vain) To hear from our Saviour the word of his grace; Then be our behaviour becoming the place. 2 Remember the ends for which we are met: Alas, my dear friends, we often forget!

3

The motives that brought us the Lord only fees;
But, if he has taught us, our ends will be thefe:

Toworship the Lord with praise and with pray'r;
To practife his word as well as to hear;

To own with contrition the deeds we have done, And take the remiffion God gives in his Son. 4 Bleft Spirit of Chrift, defcend on us thus;

Thy fervant affift, teach him to teach us;
O fend us thy unction, to teach us all good,
And touch with compunction, and sprinkle with
blood.

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The fame.

The word preached did not profit-not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. Heb. iv. 2.

Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only. Ja.

i. 22.

He that received feed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and underftandeth it; which alfo beareth fruit. Matt. xiii. 23.

I THY prefence, gracious God, afford;
Prepare us to receive thy word;

Now give to us the hearing ear,
May faith be mix'd with what we hear!

CHORUS.

Thus, Lord, thy waiting fervants bless,
And crown thy gofpel with fuccefs.
2 Distracting thoughts and cares remove,
O fix our hearts and hopes above;
With food divine may we be fed,
With Chrift himself, the Living Bread.
CHOR. Thus, Lord, &c.

3 To us thy facred word apply
With fov'reign pow'r and energy;
And may we, in thy faith and fear,
Practife thy word as well as hear.
CHOR. Thus, Lord, &c.

4 Father, in us thy Son reveal,

Teach us to know and do thy will;
Thy faving pow'r and love difplav,

Through Christ, the Life, the Truth, the Way.
CHOR. Thus, Lord, &c.

39.

The fame.

Thou haft bid these things from the wife and prudent, and revealed them unto babes. Matt. xi. 25. They that are unlearned and unftable wreft the fcriptures to their own deftruction. 2 Pet. iii. 16. The anointing teacheth you of all things; and is truth, and is no lie. 1 John ii. 27.

AS

S, Lord, our bleffings come from thee,
And in thy light the light we fee;
Thou hid'ft thy truth from prudent eyes,
But mak'ft the babe and fuckling wife:
O give us now the hearing ear,
And fill our fouls with godly fear!

2 Open thy fcriptures to our mind;
May we the hidden treasure find!
Do thou the myfteries unfold,
More precious far than mines of gold;
And, when thy gofpel is fet forth,
Oh may we fee and feel its worth!

3 The facred page we're fure to wreft,
Unless with that anointing bleft
By which alone thy mind we learn,
And can thy bleffed truths difcern:
Give us, O Lord, the feeing eye;
With power, too, thy word apply.

4 Though we may fee the table spread,
Yet that is not to eat the bread:
By faith may we receive that food
By which our strength may be renew'd;
Receiving in our hearts the word,
May we go on to ferve our Lord!

40.

The fame.

They went and preached the Lord working with them, and confirming the word. Mark xvi. 21.

Our

gofpel came not unto you in word only; but also in power, and in the Holy Ghoft, and in much affurance. I Theff. i. 5.

Not the word of men, but in truth the word of God. 1 Theff. ii. 13.

LORD, we come before thee now,

At thy feet we humbly bow;

On thy help our fouls depend;
In compaffion now descend: