2 Command thy blessing, Jesus Lord!
May we thy true disciples be!

Speak to each heart the mighty word,
Say to the weakest, "Follow me."

3 Command thy blessing in this hour,
Spirit of truth! and fill this place
With humbling and exalting power,
With quick'ning and confirming grace.

4 O Thou, our Maker, Saviour, Guide!
One true eternal God confest :

May nought in life or death divide
The saints, in thy communion blest!

222.

1

LET God the Father live

2

3

4

For ever on our tongues;

Sinners from his first love derive
The ground of all their songs.

Ye saints, employ your breath
In honour to the Son,

Who bought your souls from hell and death,

By offering up his own.

Give to the Spirit praise

Of an immortal strain,

Whose light, and power, and grace convey

Salvation down to men.

The water tinged with blood t
Bespeaks our pardon'd sin;
O may the blessed Spirit bear
The same record within.

5 To the great One and Three,
That seal this grace in heaven,
The Father, Son, and Spirit, be
Eternal glory given.

+ See Note at the end of the volume.

HOW can we adore or worthily praise
Thy goodness and power, thou God of all grace?
With honour and blessing before thee we fall,
Most gladly confessing thee Father of all.
Thou, Saviour, art one with God the Supreme,
His eternal Son, and equal with him:
Invested with glory, on high dost thou sit,
While angels adore thee, and bow at thy feet.
How great was thy love, how wondrous thy
grace!

Thou cam'st from above, to save a lost race;
And man to deliver, of woman wast born,
That every believer to God might return.
How soon will thy seat of judgment appear!
Prepare us to meet and welcome thee there;
Thy witnessing Spirit in us shed abroad,
And bid us inherit the kingdom of God.

DOXOLOGY.

To Him that chose us first
Before the world began,
To Him that bore the curse,

To save rebellious man;

To Him that form'd our hearts anew,
Be endless praise and glory due.

224. TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER.

YE servants of the Lord,
Each in his office wait,

Observant of his heavenly word,
And watching at his gate.

2 Let all your lamps be bright,
And trim the golden flame;
Gird up your loins as in his sight,
For awful is his name.

3

Watch! 'tis your Lord's command,
And while we speak he's near;
Mark the first signal of his hand,
And ready all appear.

4 O happy servant he,

5

In such a posture found!

He soon his Lord in heaven shall see,
And be with honour crown'd.

Christ shall the banquet spread
With his own bounteous hand,
And raise that favour'd servant's head
Amidst the angelic band.

END OF BOOK III.

BOOK IV.

INSTRUCTIVE HYMNS,

IN FIVE PARTS.

PART I.-OF GOD THE CREATOR.

PART II.-OF GOD THE REDEEMER.

PART III. THE STRAIT GATE.

PART IV.-THE WEDDING GARMENT. PART V.-THE ARK.

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