1 O Saviour, welcome to my heart; Possess thy humble throne;
Bid every rival hence depart, And claim me for thy own.
2 The world and Satan I forsake; To thee I all resign;
My longing heart, O Saviour, take, And fill with love divine.
3 Oh, may I never turn aside, Nor from thy bosom flee; Let nothing here my heart divide; I give it all to thee.
Grateful Acknowledgment.
1 My Maker and my King, To thee my all I owe;
Thy sovereign bounty is the spring Whence all my blessings flow.
2 The creature of thy hand, On thee alone I live; My God, thy benefits demand More praise than I can give.
3 Lord, what can I impart,
When all is thine before? Thy love demands a thankful heart, The gift, alas! how poor!
4 Shall I withhold thy due?
And shall my passions rove? Lord, form this wretched heart anew, And fill it with thy love.
5 Oh, let thy grace inspire
My soul with strength divine; Let all my powers to thee aspire, And all my days be thine.
The eternal God is thy Refuge.
1 How can I sink with such a prop As my eternal God,
Who bears the earth's huge pillars up, And spreads the heavens abroad?
2 How can I die while Jesus livės, Who rose and left the dead? Pardon and grace my soul receives From my exalted Head.
3 All that I am, and all I have, Shall be forever thine;
Whate'er my duty bids me give, My cheerful hands resign.
4 Yet if I might make some reserve, And duty did not call,
I love my God with zeal so great, That I should give him all.
1 Lord, I am thine, entirely thine, Purchased and saved by blood divine; With full consent thine would I be, And own thy sovereign right in me. 2 Grant one poor sinner more a place Among the children of thy grace; A wretched sinner, lost to God, But ransomed by Immanuel's blood. 3 Thine would I live, thine would I die, Be thine through all eternity; The vow is past beyond repeal, Now will I set the solemn seal. 4 Do thou assist a feeble worm The great engagement to perform; Thy grace can full assistance lend, And on that grace I dare depend.
Jesus, I am thine.
1 Jesus, spotless Lamb of God,
Thou hast bought me with thy blood, I would value nought beside Jesus, Jesus crucified.
2 I am thine, and thine alone, This I gladly, fully own;
And, in all my works and ways, Only now would seek thy praise. 3 Help me to confess thy name, Bear with joy thy cross and shame; Only seek to follow thee,
Though reproach my portion be. 4 When thou shalt in glory come, And I reach my heavenly home, Louder still my lips shall own I am thine, and thine alone.
To me to live is Christ.
1 Christ, of all my hopes the ground, Christ, the spring of all my joy, Still in thee let me be found,
Still for thee my powers employ. 2 Fountain of o'erflowing grace, Freely from thy fulness give; Till I close my earthly race,
Be it "Christ for me to live." 3 Firmly trusting in thy blood, Nothing shall my heart confound; Safely I shall pass the flood,
Safely reach Immanuel's ground. 4 Thus, oh, thus an entrance give To the land of cloudless sky! Having known it "Christ to live," Let me know it "gain to die."
1 Lord, we are thine: bought by thy blood, Once the poor guilty slaves of sin; But thou hast brought us nigh to God, And made thy Spirit dwell within. 2 Thou hast our sinful wanderings borne, With love and patience all divine; As brands then from the burning torn, We own that we are wholly thine.
3 Lord, we are thine: thy claims we own, Ourselves to thee we wholly give; Reign thou within our hearts alone, And let us to thy glory live.
4 Here let us each thy mind display, In all thy gracious image shine, And haste that long-expected day When thou shalt own us wholly thine.
Renouncing the World.
1 Let worldly minds the world pursue; It has no charms for me; Once I admired its trifles, too, But grace has set me free.
2 Its pleasures now no longer please, No more content afford;
Far from my heart be joys like these, Now I have seen the Lord.
3 As by the light of opening day The stars are all concealed; So earthly pleasures fade away When Jesus is revealed.
4 Creatures no more divide my choice; I bid them all depart;
His name and love and gracious voice Have fixed my roving heart.
1 Jesus, all-atoning Lamb,
Thine, and only thine, I am: Take my body, spirit, soul; Only thou possess the whole. 2 Thou my one thing needful be; Let me ever cleave to thee; Let me choose the better part; Let me give thee all my heart. 3 Whom have I on earth below? Thee, and only thee, I know; Whom have I in heaven but thee? Thou art all in all to me.
Desires after Consecration.
10 thou, to whose all-searching sight The darkness shineth as the light, Search, prove my heart, it pants for thee; Oh, burst these bonds, and set it free. 2 Wash out its stains, refine its dross; Nail my affections to the cross; Hallow each thought; let all within Be clean, as thou, my Lord, art clean. 3 If in this darksome wild I stray, Be thou my light, be thou my way; No foes, no violence I fear,
No fraud, while thou, my God, art near. 4 When rising floods my soul o'erflow, When sinks my heart in waves of woe, Jesus, thy timely aid impart,
And raise my head, and cheer my heart, 5 Saviour, where'er thy steps I see, Dauntless, untired, I follow thee; Oh, let thy hand support me still, And lead me to thy holy hill.
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