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2 By thy reconciling Love
Ev'ry ftumbling Block remove;
Each to each unite, endear;
Come, and spread thy Banner here.
3 Make us of one Heart and Mind,
Courteous, pitiful and kind,
Lowly, meek in Thought and Word,
Altogether like our Lord.

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4 Let us each for other care,
Each another's Burden bear
Tothy Church the Pattern give,
Shew how true Believers live.
5 Let us then with Joy remove
To thy Family above,

On the Wings of Angels fly,
Shew how true Believers die.

HYMN CCCCLXVI.

ARISE, my tend'reft Thoughts, arife, To Torrents melt my ftreaming Eyes; And thou, my Heart, with Anguish feel Thofe Evils, which thou canst not heal! 2 See human Nature funk in Shame! See Scandals pour'd on Jefu's Name! The Father wounded thro' the Son! The World abus'd, the Soul undone! 3 See the fhort Courfe of vain Delight Clofing in everlafting Night!

In Flames that no Abatement know,
The briny Tears for ever flow.

4 My God, I feel the mournful Scene;
My Bowels yearn o'er dying Men;
And fain my Pity wou'd reclaim,

And fnatch theFire-Brands from the Flame! 5 But feeble my Compaffion proves, And can but weep where moft it loves; Thine own all-faving Arm employ, And turn those Drops of Grief to Joy.

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HYMN

CCCCLXVII,

A Charge to keep I have,
A God to glorify;

A never-dying Soul to fave,
And fit it for the Sky.

2 To ferve the prefent Age,
My Calling to fulfil;

O may
it all my Pow'rs engage,
To do my Master's Will!

3 Arm me with jealous Care,

As in thy Sight to live;

And Othy Servant, Lord, prepare
A good Account to give!

4 Help me to watch and pray,

And on thyself rely;

And let me ne'er my Truft betray,

Left I for ever die.

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HYMN

CCCCLXVIII.

I FAR from my Thoughts, vain World, be

gone,

Let my religious Hours alone;
May I by Faith the Saviour fee:
I wait a Vifit, Lord, from thee!
2 O warm my Heart with holy Fire
And kindle there a pure Defire;
Come, dearest Saviour, from above,
And feed my Soul with heavenly Love.
3 Blefs'd Jefus, what delicious Fare!
How sweet thy Entertainments are?
Never did Angels tafte above
Redeeming Grace and dying Love.
5 Hail, great Immanuel, all divine;
In thee thy Father's Glories, fhine!
Thou brightest, sweeteft, fairest. One,
That Eyes have feen or Angels known.

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HYMN CCCCLXIX.

ISE, my Soul, adore thy Maker;
Angel's Praise join thy Lays,
With them be Partaker.

2 Sov'reign Lord of ev'ry Spirit,
In thy Light lead me right,
Thro' my Saviour's Merit.

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3 Thou this Night waft my Protector,
With me stay all this Day,
Ever my Director.

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Leave me not, but ever loveme;
Let thy Peace be my Bliss,
Till thou hence remove me.

5 Holy, holy, holy Giver

Of all Good, Life and Food,
Reign ador'd for ever.

6 Glory, Honour, Thanks, and Bleffing,
One in Three, we give thee,
Never never ceafing,

HYMN CCCCLXX:

IERE I fleep for ev'ry Favour
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This Day fhew'd me by my God,

I will blefs my Saviour.

2 Omy Lord! what fhall I render Tothy Name, ftill the fame, Gracious, good and tender.

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Leave me not, but ever love me ;
Let thy Peace be my Blifs,
Till thou hence remove me.

4 Vifit me with thy Salvation;
Let thy Care now be near,
Round my Habitation,

5 Thou, my Rock, my Guard, my Tow's Safely keep while I fleep,

Me, with all thy Pow'r.

7 And, whene'er in Death I flumber, Let me rife with the Wife, Counted in their Number.

HYMN CCCCLXXI.

IAH! lovely Appearance of Death,
No Sight upon Earth is fo fair:

Not all the gay Pageants that breathe,
Can with a dead Body compare ;
With folemn Delight I furvey

The Corps when the Spirit is fled,
In Love with the beautiful Clay,
And longing to lie in its Stead.
2 How bleft is our Brother, bereft

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Of all that could burden his Mind;
How easy the Soul that hath left
The wearifome Body behind!!
Of Evil incapable thou,

Whofe Relics with Envy I fee,
No longer in Misery now,
No longer a Sinner like me!

This Earth is affected no more

With Sicknefs, or fhaken with Pain;

The War in the Members is o'er,

And never shall vex him again :

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