LET us join, ('tis God commands,)
Let us join our hearts and hands;
Help to gain our calling's hope,
Build we each the other up.
2 God his blessing shall dispense;
God shall crown this ordinance;
Meet in his appointed ways,
Nourish us with heavenly grace.
3 Let us then as brethren love;
Faithfully his gifts improve;
Carry on the earnest strife;
Walk in holiness of life.
4 Plead we thus for faith alone,
Faith which by our works is shown:
God it is who justifies;
Only faith the grace supplies:
Active faith that lives within,
Conquers earth, and hell, and sin;
Sanctifies and makes us whole,
Forms the Saviour in the soul.
6 Let us for this faith contend;
Sure salvation is its end;
Heaven already is begun,
Everlasting life is won.
7 Only let us persevere,
Till we see our Lord appear:
Never from the rock remove,
Saved by faith which works by love.
O THOU, our Husband, Brother, Friend;
Behold a cloud of incense rise:
The prayers of saints to heaven ascend,
Grateful, accepted sacrifice.
2 Regard our prayers for Zion's peace;
Shed in our hearts thy love abroad;
Thy gifts abundantly increase;
Enlarge and fill us all with God.
3 Before thy sheep, great Shepherd, go,
And guide into thy perfect will:
Cause us thy hallow'd name to know;
The work of faith in us fulfil.
4 Help us to make our calling sure;
O let us all be saints indeed;
And pure as thou thyself art pure;
Conform'd in all things to our Head.
5 Take the dear purchase of thy blood;
Thy blood shall wash us white as snow;
Present us sanctified to God,
And perfected in love below.
6 From all iniquity redeem;
Cleanse by the Spirit and the word;
And free from every spot of blame;
And make the servant as his Lord.
COME, wisdom, power, and grace divine,
Come, Jesus, in thy name to join
A happy, chosen band;
Who fain would prove thy utmost will,
And all thy righteous laws fulfil,
In love's benign command.
2 If pure essential love thou art,
Thy nature into every heart,
Thy loving self inspire:
Bid all our simple souls be one;
United in a bond unknown;
Baptized with heavenly fire.
3 Still may we to our Centre tend;
To spread thy praise our common end,
To help each other on;
Companions through the wilderness;
To share a moment's pain, and seize
An everlasting crown.
4 Jesus, our tender'd souls prepare;
Infuse the softest, social care,
The warmest charity;
The bowels of our bleeding Lamb;
The virtues of thy wondrous name,
The heart that was in thee.
5 Supply what every member wants;
To found the fellowship of saints,
Thy Spirit, Lord, supply:
So shall we all thy love receive,
Together to thy glory live,
And to thy glory die.
O SAVIOUR, cast a gracious smile:
Our gloomy guilt, and selfish guile,
And shy distrust remove:
The true simplicity impart,
To fashion every passive heart,
And mould it into love.
2 O that we now the power might feel,
To do on earth thy blessed will,
As angels do above;
In thee the Life, the Truth, the Way,
To walk, and perfectly obey
Thy sweet constraining love.
3 Jesus, fulfil our one desire,
And spread the spark of living fire
Through every hallow'd breast:
Bless with divine conformity;
And give us now to find in thee
Our everlasting rest.
COME, thou all-inspiring Spirit,
Into every longing heart:
Bought for us by Jesus' merit,
Now thy blissful self impart:
Sign our uncontested pardon;
Wash us in the atoning blood;
Make our hearts a water'd garden;
Fill our happy souls with God.
2 As thou giv'st the enlarged desire,
Which for thee we ever feel,
Now our panting souls inspire,
Now our cancell'd sin reveal;
Claim us for thy habitation:
Dwell within our hallow'd breast;
Seal us heirs of full salvation,
Fitted for our heavenly rest.
3 Give us patiently to tarry,
Till for all thy glory meet; Waiting, like attentive Mary, Happy at the Saviour's feet: Keep us from the world unspotted, From all earthly passions free; Wholly to thyself devoted;
Fixt to live and die for thee.
AND are we yet alive,
And see each other's face?
Glory and praise to Jesus give,
For his redeeming grace.
Preserved by power divine,
To full salvation here;
Again in Jesus' praise we join,
And in his sight appear.
3 What troubles have we seen!
What conflicts have we past!
Fightings without, and fears within,
Since we assembled last.
But out of all the Lord
Has brought us by his love; And still he does his help afford,
And hides our life above.
Let us take up the cross,
Till we the crown obtain;
And gladly reckon all things loss,
So we may Jesus gain.
GLORY be to God above,
God from whom all blessings flow:
Make we mention of his love,
Publish we his praise below:
Call'd together by his grace,
We are met in Jesus' name;
See with joy each other's face,
Followers of the bleeding Lamb.
2 Let us then sweet counsel take,
How to make our calling sure :
Our election how to make,
Past the reach of hell secure:
Build we each the other up;
Pray we for our faith's increase;
Solid comfort, settled hope,
Constant joy, and lasting peace.
[L. B. 469.] 4 lines 10 & 11.
ALL thanks to the Lamb, who gives us to meet! His love we proclaim, his praises repeat:
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