Can his off'ring be in vain?

No; a cov'nant-keeping God, Says that he shall see his seed"All the purchase of his blood: Lord with sin and self we part; Saviour take each broken heart.

EXERCISES OF BELIEVERS.

XXVI. P. M.

WESLEY'S COLLEC, the last

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verse original.

Rapture.

HOW happy are they

Who the Saviour obey,

And whose treasures are laid up above;'
Tongue cannot express

The sweet comfort and peace

Of a soul in its earliest love.

That sweet comfort was mine,
When the favour divine,

I first found in the blood of the Lamb
When my heart it believ'd,

What a joy I receiv'd,

What a heaven in Jesus's name!

"Twas a heaven below,

My Redeemer to know,

And the angels could do nothing more

Than to fall at his feet,

And the story repeat,

And the Saviour of sinners adore.

Jesus all the day long

Was my joy and my song,

Oh! that more his salvation might see;

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Thou hast lov'd me I cried, Thou hast suffer'd and died To redeem such a rebel to thee.

On the wings of his love,

I was carried above,

All my sin and temptation and pain;
And I could not believe,

That I ever should grieve.

That I ever should suffer again.

Then I rode on the sky,
Freely justified I,

Nor e'en envied Elijah his seat;
My soul mounted higher,

In a chariot of fire,

And the world it was under my feet.

O th' rapturous height,

Of that holy delight,

Which I felt in the life-giving blood!
Of the Saviour possess'd,

I was perfectly bless'd,
Overwhelm'd in the goodness of God!

PAUSE.

8 Now my remnant of days, Would I spend in his praise,

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Who hath died my poor soul to redeem ; Whether many or few,

All my years are his due:

May they all be devoted to him.

What a mercy is this!

What a heaven of bliss!

How unspeakably happy am I !

Gather'd into the fold,

With believers enroll'd,

With believers to live and to die

10 Lo! the day's drawing nigh,
When, my soul, thou shalt fly
To the place thy salvation began:
Where the Three and the One,
Father, Spirit, and Son,

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Laid the scheme of redemption for man.

XXVII. 7s. J. LELAND.

How do you do?

RETHREN, I am come again,
Let us join to pray and sing;
Joseph lives and Jesus reigns,
Praise him in the highest strains.
2 Many days and years have past,
Since we met together last;
Yet our lives do still remain,
Here on earth we meet again.
3 Many of our friends are gone,
To their long eternal home;
We are waiting here below,
Soon we after them shall go.
4 Brethren! tell me how you do;
Does your love continue true,
Are you waiting for your King,
When he shall return again?
5 If you want to know of me,
How I am, or what I be;
Here I am, behold who will,
Sure I am a sinner still.

6 Weak and wounded, sick and lame,
All unholy, all unclean;

Worse and worse myself I see,
Yet the Lord remembers me.

XXVIII. 8, 7, 4 P

Hope of a revival.

COME, dear brethren in the Saviour, Though we're few, let's not despair; Jesus able is to favour;

Fly to him with ev'ry care:
He is able, he is able
Zion's drooping head to rear.
2 If but two or three remaining,

Meet for pray'r, he's in the midst;
Let us then, without complaining,
Wait 'till he shall us increase :
He is able, &c.

Soon he'll make our sorrows cease.

3 By him stars and spheres were framed,
Light and darkness Jesus made;
From their graves the dead he raised ;
Shall not his redeem'd be sav'd?
He is able, &c.

To bestow what we have crav'd.

4 Well, my friends, as Christ is able,
Of his will we cannot doubt,
Since for all the Father gave him
Full salvation he wrought out;
Sure he never, sure he never
Spilt his precious blood for nought.
5. Let us love, adore, and praise him,
As the Lord, our righteousness;
Own him in our whole behaviour,
Singing, "We are sav'd by grace:"
Till in heaver, &c.

He shall give us all a place.

6 Now let's sweetly join in concert,
To adore the sacred Three;

God who made us, Christ who sav'd us,
And the Spirit praised be,

By the ransom'd, &c.
Through a blest eternity.

XXIX. 8, 6, 4, 4, 6. MS. Altered.....
Slow Traveller.

HAPPY souls, how fast you go,

And leave me here behind:

Don't stop for me,

For now I see

The Lord is just and kind.

2 Go on, go on, my soul says go, And I'll come after you: Though I'm behind,

Yet I can find,

And sing hosannas too.

3 May you have strength, that you may run, And keep your footsteps right; Though fast you go,

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so slow,

You are not out of sight.

4 When you arrive in worlds above,

And all their glories see;

When you get home

Your journey's done;

Then look ye out for me.
5 For I will run fast as I can,
Along the way I'll steer,

Through Christ my strength,
I shall at length

Be one among you there.

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