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2 Fain I would my all resign,
Gladly lose my will in thine,
Careless be of things below,
Thee alone content to know
Simple, innocent, and free,
Seeking all my bliss in thee.
3 O lead captive ev'ry thought!
Then, in sweet subjection brought,
I shall to thy goodness leave
When, and what, thou art to give :
All thy works to thee are known;
Let thy blessed will be done!
4 As thou wilt, dispose of me,
Only say I'm one with thee;
Let the inward-man possess
All the myst'ries of thy grace,-
All the heights of faith to prove,-
All the depths of humble love!

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1 JUDGE of the earth, thou vital source
Of wisdom, truth, and might!
Thine ancient counsels all divine,
Are gracious, wise, and right!
2 Right is the gospel, right the laws,
Right are the frowns of God;
Right is the whole display of grace,
And right th' atoning blood!

3 Right all the dealings of the Lord;
And all his saints shall prove,-

Whether he smiles, or frowns, or hides,

All is in perfect love!

4 All the keen sorrows now we feel,
Thro' all this dreary night,

All are to lead from sin to God,-
Then all are surely right!

5 Shines the whole providence of God
With love divinely bright!

Whether he gives, withholds, or takes,
All is divinely right!

6 Soon shall we mount, with rapt'rous flight,
The regions of the blest,
And sing, not merely-all was right,
But all supremely best!

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"The Spirit of Faith." 2 Cor. iv. 13.

FIRST PART.

How glorious is that faith

The church-elect receives!

"Tis God within-Immanuel's breath,.

By which the saint believes !

2 How strange the course it takes!Unlike our selfish race

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It seeks the poor, the rich forsakes,
And gives the graceless grace!

Faith lives and works within,

Without our righteous deeds,

Nay, sometimes 'midst our deeds of sin,-
Its holiest work proceeds!

Its holiest work is this,

To lead the sinful soul

To Christ, the sinner's righteousness,
His life, his strength, his All!

And when this truth he shuns,
Or does not freely bow,

Faith asks, when drowning in his sins,
Is Jesus needful now?

Faith, tho' divinely pure,

Does not to pure-ones come ;

It can't the pharisee endure,
The sinner is its home!

Yea, where this heav'nly guest
Takes up its lov'd abode,
Is in the soul with sin opprest,
And sinking with its load!

8 Yet, tho' of pow'r divine,

Faith does not bear the load ;But leads the burden'd soul to lean Upon the Son of God!

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"The Spirit of Faith." 2 Cor. iv. 13.

SECOND PART.

FAITH is an eye within,

Not to be look'd upon,

But by it, thro' the clouds of sin,
To view th' atoning Son.

Faith is the arm of grace,
Not on itself to rest,-
But by it, thro' the wilderness,
The church reclines on Christ.

3 The hand divine is Faith,
Which God the Spirit gives,
To touch, not self, but, Christ-the Life,
And he who touches lives.

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Faith is the beauteous feet

By which we walk abroad,

In Christ, thro' ev'ry heav'nly street,—
The city of our God.

Faith is a two-edg'd sword,
That lays the aliens dead;

That cuts at all that's not the Lord

The good as well as bad.

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Faith, as a shield, averts,

And screens us from the world;

And quenches all the fiery darts
By sin and Satan hurl'd.

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"The Spirit of Faith." 2 Cor. iv. 13.

THIRD PART.

1 THE royal shoes are Faith,

The Prince's daughter wears ;These are the beauty that she hath, And not mere deeds and prayers.

2 With deeds and prayers but drest We stiffly stalk abroad;

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And are but Pharisees at best,
And hateful, unto God,

Some think, indeed, by these
The Sov'reign's love to win;
But fail at ev'ry turn to please;
Their very
best is sin.

The righteous deeds such hold,
Are veriest, vilest pelf;-

Mere imitations of heav'n's gold,
And not the gold itself.

Nay, even Faith, tho' true,
Will not the honour take;

But gives

to Christ the glory due,

And labours for his sake.

It works thro' all restraints,
To put the crown on him;

Or creature-sinners, creature-saints,
Must bow before His Name!

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