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Hymn.

Imploring a blessing on the Means.

1 THOU SON of GOD, whose flaming eyes
Our inmost thoughts perceive,
Accept the ev❜ning sacrifice,
Which now to Thee we give.

2 We bow before Thy gracious throne,
And think ourselves sincere ;
But show us, LORD, is ev'ry one
Thy real worshipper?

3 Is here a soul that knows Thee not,
Nor feels his want of Thee?
A stranger to the blood which bought
His pardon on the tree?

4 Convince him now of unbelief;
His desp'rate state explain;

And fill his heart with sacred grief,
And penitential pain.

5 Speak with that voice which wakes the dead, And bid the sleeper, Rise!'

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And bid his guilty conscience dread
The death that never dies.

6 Extort the cry, 'What must be done 'To save a wretch like me?

'How shall a trembling sinner shun 'That endless misery?"

Hymn.

Imploring a blessing on the Means.

1 COME, O Thou all-victorious LORD,
Thy pow'r to us make known;
Strike with the hammer of Thy word,
And break these hearts of stone.

2 O that we all might now begin
Our foolishness to mourn;
And turn at once from ev'ry sin,
And to our SAVIOUR turn.

3 Give us ourselves, and Thee to know,
In this our gracious day:
Repentance unto life bestow,
And take our sins away.

4 Conclude us first in unbelief,
And freely then release;

Fill ev'ry soul with sacred grief,
And then with sacred peace.

5 Impov'rish, LORD, and then relieve,
And then enrich the poor;
The knowledge of our sickness give;
The knowledge of our cure.

6 That blessed sense of guilt impart,
And then remove the load;

Trouble, and wash the troubled heart
In the atoning blood.

7 Our desp'rate state through sin declare,
And speak our sins forgiv'n;
By perfect holiness prepare,
And take us up to heav'n.

Hymn.

Imploring a blessing on the Means.

1 O LORD, our languid souls inspire!
For here, we trust, Thou art:
Send down a coal of heav'nly fire,
To warm each waiting heart.

2 Dear SHEPHERD of Thy people, hear,
Thy presence now display;
As Thou hast giv'n a place for pray'r,
So give us hearts to pray!

3 Show us some token of Thy love,
Our fainting hope to raise ;
And pour Thy blessings from above,
That we may render praise!

4 Within these walls let holy peace,
And love, and concord, dwell;
Here give the troubled conscience ease,
The wounded spirit heal!

5 The feeling heart, the melting eye,
The humble mind, bestow;
And shine upon us from on high,
To make our graces grow!

6 And may the Gospel's joyful sound,
Enforc'd by mighty grace,

Awaken many sinners round,
To come and fill the place!

Hymn.

Imploring a blessing on the Means.

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1 JESUS, where'er Thy people meet, There they behold Thy mercy-seat; Where'er they seek Thee, Thou art found, And ev'ry place is hallow'd ground.

2 For Thou, within no walls confin'd, Inhabitest the humble mind;

Such ever bring Thee, where they come, And going, take Thee to their home.

3 Dear SHEPHERD of Thy chosen few,
Thy former mercies here renew!

Here, to our waiting hearts, proclaim
The sweetness of Thy saving Name!

4 Here may we prove the pow'r of pray'r,
To strengthen faith, and sweeten care;
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heav'n before our eyes!

5 LORD, we are few, but Thou art near; Nor short Thine arm, nor deaf Thine ear; Oh rend the heav'ns, come quickly down, And make each sinner's heart Thine own!

Hymn.

The Lord's Prayer.

1 FATHER of all! to Thee we bow,
Who dwell'st in heav'n ador'd,
At present art through all Thy works
The universal LORD.

2 For ever hallow'd be Thy Name
By all beneath the skies!

And may Thy kingdom still advance
Till grace to glory rise!

3 To Thee, O FATHER! may each heart
In filial love be giv'n!
And let Thy blessed will be done
On earth, as 'tis in heav'n!

4 Give us each day our daily bread;
The bread of life bestow:

As we our brother's faults forgive,
To us forgiveness show.

5 Direct our life, and guard our feet,
From ev'ry evil way,

Lest in temptation's fatal path
Our wand'ring footsteps stray.

6 Thine is the pow'r, the kingdom Thine, The glory due to Thee;

Thine from eternity they were ;-
And Thine shall ever be !

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