Jesus! thou art all compassion, 2 Breathe, O breathe thy gracious Spirit Into every troubled breast; Let us all in thee inherit, End of faith as its beginning, 3 Finish, Lord, thy new creation; 181. Love. 8-6-8. A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.JOHN xiii. 34, 35. 1 BEHOLD, how sweet and good a thing It is to dwell in peace! How pleasing to our heav'nly King 2 The holy oil on Aaron's head,1 Could no such heav'nly odours shed, "Tis to his church by Jesus given, 3 In him when holy brethren join, His chiefest graces to bestow, Where two or three thus meet below. 4 Jesus, to us vouchsafe to give, May all thy children henceforth live May peace, and love, and unity, 182. Love. 8-8-6. And we have known and believed the love that GOD hath to us.-1 JOHN iv. 16. 1 O LOVE divine, how sweet thou art! Grant me, O gracious Lord, to prove 1 Psa'm exxxiii. 1, 2, 2 God only knows the love of God: Give me to "know the love" divine; 3 O that I could for ever sit, 4 O that I may, with favor'd John, 183. Peace. 112th. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee.-ISAIAH xxvi. 3.-0 Lord, I am oppressed, undertake for -ISAIAH XXxiii. 14. me. 1 THOU friend of friendless sinners hear, 2 With holy fear, and rev'rend love, I long to lie beneath thy throne; I long in thee to live, and move, And stay myself on thee alone: Teach me to lean upon thy breast, To find in thee the promis'd rest. 3 Take me, my Saviour, as thine own, And with thy Father plead my cause; Be thou my portion, Lord, alone, And bend me to obey thy laws; And with thy gracious presence blest, Give me to find thy promis'd rest. 4 Bid the tempestuous rage of sin, With ev'ry furious passion die; Let the Redeemer dwell within, And turn my sorrows into joy: Oh, may my heart, by thee possess'd, Know thee to be my promis'd rest. 184. Repentance. C.M. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank GOD, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord.-Rom. vii. 24, 25. 1 JESUS! thy power I fain would feel; O let thine ears consider well 2 Thou seest me yet a slave to sin, O purify and make me clean, 3 O Jesus! undertake for me: 4 I will not my offence conceal, But all my crimes with weeping tell, 5 Lord! will thy wrathful jealousy, And wilt thou not a succour be, 6 Reject not, Lord, my humble prayers; 185. Repentance. S.M. I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.-ROM. vii. 9. 1 My gracious injur'd Lord To thee what shall I say? Well may I tremble at thy word, 2 Jesus, well may I fear E'n to implore thy grace, So often falsely I've drawn near |