2 No heav'nly harpings soothe our ear,
No mystic dreams we share ;

Yet hope to feel thy comfort near,
And bless Thee in our prayer.

3 When tongues shall cease, and pow'r decay, And knowledge empty prove,

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Do Thou thy trembling servants stay
With faith, with hope, with love!

HEBER.

St. Paul's.

1 COME, gracious Spirit, heav'nly Dove,
With peace and comfort from above;
Display to us thy glorious light,
And fill our souls with pure delight.

2 Lead us to holiness,-the road,
Which we must take to dwell with God:
Lead us to Christ,-the living way,
Nor let us from his footsteps stray.

3 Lead us to God,-our final rest,
To be with Him forever blest:

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Lead us to heaven, its bliss to share,-
Fulness of joy forever there!

S. M.

Prayer for the Spirit.

Aff 1 COME, Holy Spirit, come,

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BROWN.

With beams of heav'nly light;

Come, make our hearts thy blessed home,
And give us pure delight.

2 'Tis thine to cleanse the heart,

To sanctify the soul,

To pour fresh life on ev'ry part,
And new create the whole!

mp 8 Our guilty spirits heal

By pow'r of JESUS' blood,

mf And to our wond'ring view reveal The secret love of God.

4 Our wand'ring thoughts reclaim,
Our doubts and fears remove,

mf And kindle in our breasts the flame Of never dying love!

HART.

Edyfield. Broadstreet,

Prayer for the Spirit.

1 HOLY Ghost, with light divine
Shine upon this heart of mine;
Chase the shades of night away,
Turn the darkness into day.

2 Holy Ghost, with pow'r divine
Cleanse this guilty heart of mine;
Long has sin without control
Held dominion o'er my soul.

3 Holy Ghost, with joy divine
Cheer this sadden’d heart of mine;
Bid my many woes depart,

Heal my wounded, bleeding heart.
4 Holy Spirit, all divine,

Dwell within this heart of mine; mf Cast down ev'ry idol throne, Reign supreme,-and reign alone!

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Aff

H.M.

REED.

Murray. St. Phillip's.

Prayer for the Spirit.

1 0 THOU, that hearest prayer,
Now hear our humble cry,
And let thy servants share
Thy blessing from on high:
We plead the promise of thy word;
Grant us thy Holy Spirit, Lord!

2 If earthly parents hear

Their children, when they cry;
If they, with love sincere,

Their children's wants supply;
Much more wilt Thou thy love display,
And answer, when thy children pray.

3 Our heav'nly Father Thou!

We, children of thy grace!

O, let thy Spirit now

Descend and fill the place;

So shall we feel the heav'nly flame,
And all unite to praise thy name.

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L. M.

PRATT'S COLL.

St. Peter's. Ellenthorpe.

Influences of the Holy Spirit.

1 ETERNAL Spirit, we adore,

And praise the wonders of thy power;
It brings the heav'nly blessings down
From God, the Father, and the Son.
2 Enlighten'd by thy heav'nly ray,
Our shades and darkness turn to day;
Thine inward teachings make us know
Our danger and our refuge too.

3 Thy glorious pow'r doth work within,
And break the chains of reigning sin,
Doth our imperious lusts subdue,
And form our wretched hearts anew.

mp 4 The troubled conscience knows thy voice,
Thy cheering words awake our joys;
Thy words allay the stormy wind,
And calm the surges of the mind.

WATTS.

Manchester. Newton,

Regeneration by the Spirit.

1 NOT all the outward forms on earth,
Nor rites, that God has given,

Nor will of man, nor blood, nor birth
Can raise a soul to heaven.

2 The sov'reign will of God alone
Creates us heirs of grace,

Born in the image of his Son
A new, peculiar race!

8 The Spirit, like some heav'nly wind,
Blows on the sons of flesh,

New-models all the carnal mind,
And forms the man afresh.

mf 4 Our quicken'd souls awake, and rise
From the long sleep of death;

On heav'nly things we fix our eyes,
And praise employs our breath!

WATTS.

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(ii. 130.)

C. M, Newton. Christmas.

The new Creation.

1 ATTEND while God's exalted Son

Doth his own glory shew!

Behold, He sits upon his throne,
Creating all things new.

aff 2 Mighty Redeemer, set me free
From my old state of sin;

O, make my soul alive to Thee,
Create new pow'rs within.

3 Renew mine eyes, and form mine ears,
And mould my heart afresh ;

Give me new passions, joys, and fears,
And turn the stone to flesh.

4 Far from the regions of the dead,
From sin, and earth, and hell,

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Aff

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In the new world, by grace outspread,
I would forever dwell.

C. M.

WATTS.

Christmas. Peterborough.

Regeneration by the Spirit.

1 CAN aught beneath a pow'r divine
The stubborn will subdue?-

'Tis thine, eternal Spirit, thine
To form the heart anew.

2 'Tis thine the passions to recall,
And upward bid them rise;
To make the scales of error fall
From reason's darken'd eyes;

8 To chase the shades of death away,
And bid the sinner live:-

A beam of heav'n, a vital ray,
'Tis thine alone to give.

4 O, change these wretched hearts of ours,
And give them life divine;

Then shall our passions and our powers,
Almighty Lord, be thine!

STEELE.

202.

C, M.

Ipswich. Nazareth.

Regeneration by the Spirit.

Aff 1 O LORD, on darkness shed thy light,
And send thy renovating might;
Create anew each guilty heart,

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And thine own image now impart.

2 Nor will nor pow'r of man can change
The love to sin, so fix'd and strange:
No voice but thine can wake the dead,
And lift them from corruption's bed!
3 0, Thou, who art enthron'd above,
Now send thy Spirit down in love,
And let thy keen and pow'rful word
Pierce like the edge of glitt'ring sword.
4 Inspire the soul with love divine;
Lord, make the will submit to thine,
And let the warm affections rise
To things eternal in the skies!

Aff 1 O, HOLY Spirit! come,

ALLEN.

Prayer for the Holy Spirit.

With energy divine!

On nature's deep and cheerless gloom

In truth's bright splendor shine!

2 Come, Holy Spirit, now,
Sent from Messiah's throne!
Let penitential thoughts outflow
From smitten hearts of stone!

3 0, Holy Spirit, come

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And speak with mercy's voice!

O, come, and make each heart thy home;
Let ev'ry soul rejoice!

C. M.

Prayer for the Spirit.

ALLEN.

Kendall. China.

1 ALMIGHTY Spirit, now behold
A world, by sin destroyed:

Creating Spirit, as of old,

Move on the formless void!