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Free me from every weight: nor fear
Nor sin can come, if thou art here.
2 From all eternity, with love

Unchangeable thou hast me viewed;
Ere knew this beating heart to move,
Thy tender mercies me pursued;
Ever with me may they abide,
And close me in on every side.

3 In suffering be thy love my peace;
In weakness be thy love my power;
And when the storms of life shall cease,
My God, in that important hour,

In death as life be thou my Guide,
And bear me through death's whelming tide.

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For Guardianship and Guidance.

1 O THOU, to whose all-searching sight
The darkness shineth as the light,
Search, prove my heart; it pants for thee:
Q, burst these bonds, and set it free!

2 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.

3 When rising floods my soul o'erflow, When sinks my heart in waves of woe, O God, thy timely aid impart,

And raise my head, and cheer my heart.

4 If rough and thorny be the way,
My strength proportion to my day;
Till toil, and grief, and pain shall cease,
Where all is calm, and joy, and peace.

172.

C. M.

Doddridge.

Joy in the Presence of God.

1 SHINE on our souls, eternal God,
With rays of beauty shine;
O, let thy favor crown our days,
And all their round be thine.

2 Did we not raise our hands to thee,
Our hands might toil in vain ;
Small joy success itself could give,
If thou thy love restrain.

3 With thee let every week begin,
With thee each day be spent,
For thee each fleeting hour improved,
Since each by thee is lent.

4 Thus cheer us through this desert road, Till all our labors cease,

And Heaven refresh our weary souls
With everlasting peace.

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1 COME, blessed Spirit, Source of light,
Whose power and grace are unconfined,
Dispel the gloomy shades of night,
The thicker darkness of the mind.

2 To mine illumined eyes display
The glorious truth thy word reveals;
Cause me to run the heavenly way;
The book unfold, unloose the seals.

3 Thine inward teachings make me know,
The mysteries of redeeming love,
The emptiness of things below,
The excellence of things above.

4 While through this dubious maze I stray,
Spread, like the sun, thy beams abroad,
To show the dangers of the way,
And guide my feeble steps to God.

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The Want within.

1 I FEEL within a want

Forever burning there;
What I so thirst for, grant,
O Thou who hearest prayer.

2 This is the thing I crave
A likeness to thy Son;
This would I rather have

Than call the world my own.
3 Like him, now in my youth,
I long, O God, to be,
In tenderness and truth,
In sweet humility.

4 'Tis my most fervent prayer;
Be it more fervent still;

Be it my highest care;
Be it my settled will.

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10 THAT the Lord would guide my ways

To keep his statutes still!

O that my God would grant me grace
To know and do his will!

2 O, send thy Spirit down to write
Thy law upon my heart!

Nor let my tongue indulge deceit,
Nor act the liar's part.

3 From vanity turn off mine eyes;
Let no corrupt design,
Nor covetous desires, arise
Within this soul of mine.

4 Order my footsteps by thy word,
And make my heart sincere;
Let sin have no dominion, Lord,
But keep my conscience clear.

5 Make me to walk in thy commands; "Tis a delightful road;

Nor let my head, or heart, or hands, Offend against my God.

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1 GOD, who is just and kind,
Will those who err instruct,
And to the paths of righteousness
Their wandering steps conduct.

2 The humble soul he guides,
Teaches the meek his way;
Kindness and truth he shows to all
Who his just laws obey.

3 Give me the tender heart That mixes fear with love,

And lead me through whatever path Thy wisdom shall approve.

4 O, ever keep my soul
From error, shame, and guilt;
Nor suffer the fair hope to fail,
Which on thy truth is built.

177. L. M.

Doddridge.

Subjection to the Father of our Spirits.

1 ETERNAL Source of life and thought,
Be all beneath thyself forgot:

Whilst thee, great Parent-mind, we own,
In prostrate homage round thy throne.

2 Whilst in themselves our souls survey
Of thee some faint reflected ray,

They wondering to their Father rise;
His power how vast! his thoughts how wise!

3 0, may we live before thy face,

The willing subjects of thy grace;
And through each path of duty move
With filial awe and filial love.

178.

C. M. CAPPE'S SELECTION.

Prayer for divine direction.

1 ETERNAL Source of life and light,
Supremely good and wise,

To thee we bring our grateful vows,
To thee lift up our eyes.

2 Our dark and erring minds illume
With truth's celestial rays;
Inspire our hearts with sacred love,
And tune our lips to praise.

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