Here's sealing blood shed for your sake,
Which doth my test'ment ratify;
Let all drink and remember me.

3 Your pardon with what's for your good,
Is purchas'd with my dearest blood:
My blood to you makes pardon free;
In drinking then remember me.

4 For hungry souls here's manna rare,
God sends from heaven for your fare;
This manna falls now plenteously:
In eating then remember me.

5 Here God sits on a throne of
grace,
Where sinful men may see his face;
My blood procures your access free:
In drinking then remember me.

6 See here the tree of life with fruit,
And waves which heal, and strength recruit ;
These I shake down, poor soul to thee;
Eat freely and remember me.

7 See Jacob's ladder here set up,

A covenanting God at top;

Climb, and God will transact with thee;

In doing this remember me.

8 Hence runs of life the river pure,

Which our soul's wounds doth cleanse and cure,

It freely runs to all you see;

Drink by faith and remember me.

HYMN 72. C. M.

Marriage Hymn.

Thy choisest blessings give ; ́

grace,

And on thy servants cause thy face
To shine, and they shall live.

2 Enrich them with thy heavenly grace,
Unite their hearts in love;
May they, in all thy holy ways

To thee themselves approve.

3 Let harmony and holy love, And friendship ever run,

Through all their thoughts and life to prove, Of twain they now are one.

4 Allure them, Jesus! with thy charms,
And joyfully they'll flee,

By faith and love into thine arms,
And thus be one in thee.

5 Adorn their house, adorn their ways,
With fruit divinely fair;

So in this world they'll shew thy praise,
In th' next thy glory share.

E

HYMN 73.

The Beggar's Prayer.

NCOURAG'D by thy word
Of promise to the poor,

Behold a beggar, Lord,

Waits at thy mercy door:

No hand, no heart, dear Lord but thine,

Can help or pity wants like mine.

2 The beggar's usual plea,

Relief from men to gain,

If offer'd unto thee,

I know thou would disdain:

But those which move thy gracious ear,

Are such as men would scorn to hear.

3 I have no right to say

That though I now am poor,
Yet once there was a day

When I possessed more:
Thou knowest from my very birth

I've been the poorest wretch on earth.

4 Nor dare I to profess
As beggars often do,
Though great is my distress,

My faults have been but few :
If thou should leave my soul to starve
It would be what I should deserve.

5 Nor dare I to pretend
I never begg'd before,
And if thou now befriend

I'll trouble thee no more:
Thou often hast reliev'd my pain,
And often I must come again.

6 Though crumbs are much too good For such a wretch as I, No less than children's food

My soul can satisfy-:

O do not frown and bid me go;

I must have all thou canst bestow.

7 Nor can I willing be

Thy bounties to conceal From others, who like me

Their wants and hunger feel,
I'll tell them of thy mercy's store,
And try to send a thousand more.

8 Thy ways, thou only wise,
Our thoughts and ways transcend,
Far as the arched skies

Above this earth extend:

Such pleas as mine men would 'not bear, But God receives a beggar's prayer.

H

HYMN 74. L. M.

For the New Year.

AIL the new year that's now begun, Now let us all to God return : From sinful ways may we all cease, And with each other live in peace.

2 While thousands have been call'd away, Yet still we live to see this day:

With thanks to God then all draw near
To celebrate the happy year.

3 While many are sick and confin'd,
Others depriv'd of sense and mind,
We yet retain them bright and clear,
To celebrate the happy year.

4 Then let us all to God repair,
And offer him our praise and prayer,
Now unto him may we draw near
To celebrate the happy year.

5 And now forsake all vice and sin,
And the new year with God begin :
Then with great joy we shall appear
To celebrate the happy year.

6 Then truly happy such will be,
Who from all sin do always flee,
And unto Christ will now give ear,
Such we do wish a happy year.

All those who see their undone state,
Leaving their all for Jesus' sake,
To such we can, with joy sincere,
Wish them a happy, happy year.

H

8All those who now are born again,
And in Christ Jesus do remain,
All such as those we need not fear,
They will enjoy a happy year.

9 But true religion still we find,
Gives the most peace unto the mind;
Possessors of it will appear,
To wish us all a happy year.

WH

HYMN 75. L. M.

On the great duty of prayer.

"HAT var'ous hindrances we meet
In coming to the mercy seat;

Yet who that knows the worth of pray'r,
But wishes to be often there.

2 Pray'r makes the darkest clouds withdraw, Pray'r climbs the ladder Jacob saw;

Gives exercise to faith and love,
Brings ev'ry blessing from above.

3 Restraining pray'r we cease to fight,
Pray'r makes the christian's armour bright:
And satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees.

4 When Moses stood with arms spread wide,
Success was found on Isr'el's side:
But when through weariness they fail'd,
That moment Amaleck prevail'd.

5 Have you no words? ah think again,
Words flow apace when you complain,
And fill your fellow creatures' ears
With the sad tale of all your cares.