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The golden streets to tread.

Yet here a while I stay, In hope of that glad day, When I am call'd away

To the mansions above.
There to enjoy the pleasure,
Of unconsuming treasure,
And shout in highest measure
Hallelujahs of love.

5 The hope of seeing Jesus,
When all my conflicts ceases;
My love to him increases,
His name to adore.
Come O my blessed Saviour!
Vouchsafe to me this favor,
To dwell with thee forever,
When time shall be no more.

6 Then in the blooming garden,
Regain'd by Christ's free pardon,
Upon the banks of Jordan,

I'll worship the Lamb,
of Moses,

And join the song

While Jesus sweet composes,

A song that never closes,

Of praises to his name.

HYMN 121. C. M.

The hope of Heaven, support under Trials.

HEN I can read my title clear

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To mansions in the skies,

I bid farewell to every fear,

And wipe my weeping eyes.

2 Should earth against my soul engage, And hellish darts be hurl'd,

Then I can smile at satan's rage,
And face a frowning world.

3 Let cares like a wild deluge, come,
And storms of sorrow fall,

May I but safely reach my home,
My God, my heav'n, my all.

4 There shall I bathe my weary soul
In seas of heav'nly rest;:
And not a wave of trouble roll
Across my peaceful breast.

HYMN 122, C. M.

The glory of Christ in Heaven.

THE delights, the heav'nly joys,
The glories of the place,

Where Jesus sheds the brightest beams
Of his o'er-flowing grace!

2 Sweet majesty and awful love
Sit smiling on his brow,
And all the glorious ranks above
At humble distance bow.

3 Princes to his imperial name
Bend their bright sceptres down,
Dominions, thrones, and powers rejoice
To see him wear the crown.

4 Archangels sound his lofty praise
Through ev'ry heav'nly street,
And lay their highest honors down
Submissive at his feet.

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5 Those soft, those blessed feet of his That once rude iron tore;

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High on a throne of light they stand,
And all the saints adore.

6 His head, the dear majestic head,
That cruel thorns did wound,
See what immortal glories shine,
And circle it around.

7 This is the man, th' exalted man
Whom we unseen adore ;

But when our eyes behold his face,
Our hearts shall love him more.

T8 Lord, how our souls are all on fire
To see thy bless'd abode,

Our tongues rejoice in tunes of praise,
To our incarnate God.]

9 And whilst our faith enjoys this sight,
We long to leave our clay,
And wish thy fiery chariots, Lord,
To fetch our souls away.

HYMN 123.

Invitation.

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OME and taste along with me, Consolations running free; From my Father's worthy home, Sweeter than the honey comb.

2 Wherefore should I thirst alone,
Two is better still than one ;
More that comes of free good will,
Makes the bargain sweeter still.

3 Saints in glory sing aloud,
For to see an heir of God

Coming in at heaven's door,
Making up the number more.

4 Goodness running like a stream,
Through the new Jerusalem;
By its constant breaking forth,
Sweetens earth and heaven bothe

Though my body do its best, For to keep me off from Christ: Drawn by grace I come to him, He alone can pardon sin.

6 Sinful nature, lurking vice,
Cannot stop the work of grace ;:
Whilst there is a God to give,
And a sinner to receive.

7. When I go to heaven's store,
Asking for a little more;
Jesus gives a double share,
Calling me a gleaner there.

8 Then I go rejoicing home,
From the banquet of perfume:
Gleaning manna on the road,
Dropping from the mouth of God.

9. Heaven here and heaven there, Comforts growing every where ; This boldly can attest,

For my soul has got a taste.

HYMN 124. C. M.

The examples of Christ and the Saints:

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IVE me the wings of faith to rise

Within the veil, and see

The saints above, how great their joys,
How bright their glories be.

2 Once they were mourning here below,
And wet their couch with tears :
They wrestled hard as we do now,
With sins and doubts and fears.

3 I ask'd them whence their vict'ry came:
They with united breath
Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb,
Their triumph to his death.

4 They mark'd the footsteps that he trod,
(His zeal inspir'd their breast)
An following their incarnate God,
Possess'd the promis'd rest.

5 Our glorious leader claims our praise For his own pattern giv❜n,

While the long cloud of witnesses

Shews the same path to heav'n.

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HYMN 125. L. M.

The Lord's

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Instituted.

WAS on that dark, that doleful night,

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When powers of earth and hell arose Against the Son of God's delight,

And friends betray'd him to his foes.

2 Before the mournful scene began He took the bread, and bless'd, and brake; What love thro' all his actions ran !

What wond'rous words of grace he spoke !

3 This is my body broke for sin, Receive and eat the living food:

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