HYMNS O F Petition and Thankfgiving FOR T HE PROMISE OF THE F ATHER. By the Reverend Mr. John and CharlesWesley, BRISTOL: ' PTVV in U r iv-r-S -- -:x xv. 26, 27. 1 TESUS, our exalted head, J Regard thy people's prayer, bend us in thy body's ftead Th' abiding Comforter, From thy dazlir.g throne above. From thy Father's glorious feat Send thy Spiiit of truth and love, Th' eternal ParacLte. C 7] 2 MTuing forth from him and thee O let the Blefing flow, Pour the dreaming Deity On all the church below ; Him to tcftify thy grace, Him to teach how good thou art Him to vouch thy Godhead, place In every faithful heart. 3 God of God, and light of light, Thee let him now reveal, Juflify US by thy right, And damp us with thy fcal, Fill our fouls with joy and peace, Wifdoin, grace, and utterance giv Conditute thy witneflcs, And in thy members live. 4 By the Holy Ghoft we wait To fay, thou art tlie Lord, Sav'd, and to our fird edate In perfect love rcltor'd, Then we (hall in every breath - Tedily the power we prove, Publifh thee in life and death The God of truth and love. s HYMN XV. John xvi. 6, 7. ON of God, for thee we langui/h, Still thy Abfencc we bemoan, Overwhelm'd with grief andangui&j Poor, forfaken, and alone : Thou art to thy heaven departed ; See us thence with pity fee, Comfbrtlefs and broken-hearted, Drooping, dead fbt .want of thee. &3 C'8 ] 2 Once thy blifsful love we faded, Chear'd by thee with living brc?c . O how fhort a time it lafted, O how loon the joy is fled 1 Where is now our boafted Saviour, Where our rapture of delight ! Thou haft, Lord, withdrawn thy favour. Thou art vanifh'd from our fight. g Yet thou haft the caufc unfolded, Could we but the truth receive, Thou in humbling love haft told it, Needful 'tis for us to grieve : Sfript of that excejfive pleafure, Fondly we the lofs deplore, *Till we find aga'n our treafure, Find, and never lofe thee mojre. 4 That we may thyfelf inherit, Us thou doft awhile forfake, That we may receive thy Spirit, Thou haft took his comforts back : After a fhort night of mourning We again fhall fee thy face, Triumph in thy full returning, Glory in thy perfect, grace. 5 For thy tranfient outward Prefence W T e thine endlefs love fhall feel, Seated in our inmoft eflence Thou (halt by thy Spirit dwell : Jefus come ! thyfelf the giver Let us for the gift receive, Let us live in God for ever, God in us for ever live! [ «9 J HYMN XVL John xvi. 7. OThou who by thy blood Had bought a world to God, Thou who to thy Father gone Doft in our behalf appear, Hear thy des'late fervant's groan, Send us down the Comforter. Hadft Thou not purg'd our ftain, And gone to God again, None of Adam's helplefs race Could that bleffcd Spirit find ; But thou haft obtain d the grace, Purchas'd him for all mankind. Didft thou not plead above For us thy dying love, Never could we hope thy aid, Never for thy Spirit call : But thou haft the Father pray'd, Haft receiv'd the gift for All. " And if I go away, (By faith we hear thee fay) I the Comforter will fend, Comforter of you that grieve, All your goings to attend, Ever in your Flearts to live." Amen our Hearts reply Uplifted to the fky Pant to be the blcft abode, Swell to be polled by thee, Fill'd with the indwelling God,. Fill'd to all eternity. [ «o] HYMN XVII. John xvi. 18. 1 T^Ternal Paraclete, defcend, X_j Thou gift and promiie of our Lord, To ever)' foul, till time fhall end, Thy fuccour, and thyfelf afford, Convince, convert us, and infpire ; Come, and baptize the world with fire. 3 Come, and difplay the power below, And work thy threefold work of grace : Compel mankind themfelves to know, Convince" of fin th'-Apoftate race, Brood o'er the deep of nature's light, And fpeak again, Let there be light. 3 Thou only knowft the fallen man, Thou only canft his fall reveal, The monfter to himfelf explain, And make his darknefs viable, Pierce all the folds of helliih art. And rent the covering from his heart. 4 Come then, thou foul dividing fword, That doth from Jefu*s mouth proceed. The foes and haters of their Lord Find Out o'erturn, and ftrike them dead Deftroy the fin that keeps them blind, And flay the pride of all mankind. 5 Spirit of truth in All begin That work of thine awak'ning rower. Convince the C rid of fin, WhoSatan and not Chriit adore; Who Jefus flight, reject, dilclaim, id never knew his Caving name. 6 Shew them they never yet receiv'd In truth whom they in words profefs, They never yet in Chrift believ'd, Or own'd The Lord their righteoufnefs, Still in the damning fin they lie, As pleas'd in unbelief to die. 7 People and pricft are doubly dead, Arc aliens from the life divine, Grofs darknefs o'er the earth is fpread, . 'Till thou into the conscience fhine, The powerful quick conviftion dart, . And found the unbelieving heart. 8 Oh wouldftthou now in all.rcveal The righteous wrath of hoftile heaven, Becaufe the blood they will not feel, The blood that fhews their fins forgiven; They will not him, their Lord, receive, They will not come to Chrift and live. HYMN XVIII. i A RM of the Lord awake, awake, il The tenors of the Lord difplay, Out. of cheir iins the nations fhake, Tear their vain confidence away, Conclude them all in unbelief, And fill their hearts with facred grief. 2 Impart the falutary pain, The fudden foul-condemning power, Blow on the godlincf: of man, Wither the grafs, and blaft the flower, That, when their works are all o'erthrowa, The word of grace may (land alone. 3 Trouble the fouls who know not God, Their carelefs, ChriftUfs fpirits wound, [22] Overwhelm with their own finful load, And all their virtuous pride confound. Their depth of wickednefs reveal, And (hake them o'er the mouth of hell. 4 Naked and deflitute and blind Themfelvcs let the poor wretches fee, Their total fall lament to find ; 'Till every mouth is ftopt by thee, And all the world with confeious fear Guilty before their God appear. 5 Guilty becaufe they know not him, Who liv'd and dy'd, their fouls to fave, Who came his people to redeem : No part or lot in Chrift they have, 'Till thou the painful veil remove. And (hew their hearts his dying love. HYMN XIX. John xvi. to. i /^OME then to thofe who want thine Aid, V-^ Who now beneath their burthen groan, Bind up the wound thyfelf haft made, The righteoufnefs of faith make known, ( Offer'd to all of Adam's line.) The perfect righteoufnefs divine. 2 Convince the fouls, who feel their fin, There is, there is a ranfom found, A better righteoufnefs brought in, And grace doth more than fin abound. Pardon to all is freely given, For Jefus is return'd to heaven. 3 He died to purge our guilty flain, He rofe the world to juftify, C *3 1 And while the heavens our Lord contain. No longer feen by mortal eye, He reigns our advocate, above, And pleads for all his bleeding love. 4 His bleeding love 'tis thine to fcal With pardon on the contrite heart : To us, to us, the grace reveal, The righteoufnefs impute, impart, Difcharge thy fecond fun&ion here, And now defcend the Comforter. 5 The righteoufnefs of Chrift our Lord, For pardon of our fins, declare, Infpeak the evei lading word That freely ju (lifted we are, By grace rccciv'd, and brought to God, And fav'd thro' faith in Jefu's blood. HYMN XX. 1 QPIRITof faith, on thee we call, O The merits of our Lord apply, Convince, and then convert us all, Condemn, and freely juftify, Set forth the all- atoning Lamb, And fpread the powers of Jefu's name. 2 Jefus the merciful and juft To every heart of man reveal, In him enable us to truft, Forgivcncfs thro' his blood to feel Let all in him redemption find ; Sprinkle the blood on all mankind. 3 Is he not to his father gone, That we his righteoufnefs might fhare ? And art thou not on earth fentdown, The fruit of his prevailing prayer, I>4] The witnefs of his grace, and feal, The heavenly gift unfpeakable ! O might we each receive the grace By thee to call the Saviour mine ! Come Holy Ghoft, to all our race, Bring in the righteoufnefs divine, Infpire the fenfe of fin forgiven, And give our earth a tafte of heaven. HYMN XXI. i A GAIN, thou fpirit of burning come, JLJl Thy laft great office to fulfil, Tojhew the hellifh tyrant's doom, The hellifh tyrant's doom to feal, To drive him from thy facred fhrine, And fill our fouls with life divine. 2 Of judgment now the world convince, The end of Jefu's coming fhew, To fentence their ufurping prince, Him and his works deftroy below, To finifh, and, abolifh fin, And bring the heavenly nature in. 3 Who gauls the nations with his yoke, And bruifes with an iron rod And fmites with a continual ftroke, The world's fierce ruler and its God, Wilt thou not, Lord, from earth expel, And chafe rhe fiend to his own hell ? 4 Yes, thou (halt foon pronounce his doom. Who rules in wrath the realms below. That wicked one reveal, confume, Avenge the nations of their foe, In bright vindictive lightning fhine, And flay him with the breath divine. [*5] HYMN XXII. I HPHEN the whole earth again (hall reft, X And lec its paradife reftor'd, Then every foul in Jefus bleft Shall bear the image of his Lord, In finifh'd liolinefs renewed, Imroeafurably fill'd with God. a Spirit of fanftifying grace, Haften that happy gofpel-day, Come, and rcftorc the fallen race, Purge all our filth and blood away, Our inmoft foul redeem, repair-, And fix thy feat of judgment there. 3 Judgment to execute is thine, To kill and fave for thine alone Exert that Energy divine, Set up the everlatting throne, The inward kingdom frOm above, The glorious power of perfett love. 4 O would'fl thou bring the final fecne, Accomplifh the redeeming plan, Thy great millenial reign begin, That every ranfom'd child of man, J That every foul may bow the knee, And raife to reign with God in thee , HYMN XXIII. John xvi. 13, 14, 15. 1 QPIRIT of truth defcend, ^ and with thy church abide, Our guardian to the end, Ourfure unerring guide, Us into the whole counlel lead Of God reveal'd below, And teach us all the truth we need To life eternal know. C c «* "vVhate'er tiiou hear'ft above To us with power impart. And fried abroad the love Of Jefus in cur heart : One with the Father, and the So"n, Thy record is the fame, O make to us the Godhead known Thro' faith in JehYs name. To all our fouls apply The do&rine of our Lord, Our confeience certify, And witnefs with the word, The realizing light difplay. And fhew us things to come, The after-ftate, the final day, And man's eternal doom. The judge of quick and dead, The God of truth and love, Who doth for finners plead, Our Advocate above ; Exalted by his Father there Thou doff, exalt below. And all his grace on earth declare, And all his glory fhew. Sent in his name thou art, His work to carry on, His Godhead to affert, And make his mercy known : Thou fearchefl the deep things of God. Thouknow'ff. the Saviour's mind. And tak'ft of his atoning blood, Tofprinkle all mankind. Now then of his receive, And fhew to us the grace, Andall hisfulnefs give To all the ranfom'd race, C *t1 Whate'er he did for finncrs buy With his expiring groan, By faith, in us reveal, apply, And make it all our own. 7 Defcending from above, Into our fouls convey His comfort, joy and love, Which none can take away, His merit and his righteoufnefs, Which makes an end of fin. Apply to every heart his peace, And bring lfis kingdom in. % The plenitude of God, That doth in Jefus dwell, On us thro' him beftow'd, To us fecure and feal : Now let us tafteour mafter'sblifs, The glorious heavenly powers, For all the Father hath is his, And all he hath is ours. N Y M H XXIV. John xvi. 20, 21, 22. l T ESU, dear departed Lord, J True and gracious is thy word, We in part have found it true ; All thy faithful mercies fliew. * Thou art to thy Father gone, Thou haft left us here alone, Left us a long fad to keep, Left us for thy lofs to weep. 3 Laugh the world fecure and glad. They rejoice, but we are fad, We, alas, lament and grieve, ::;fortlefs 'till thou relieve. C 2 [ *8 ] 4 As a woman in her throes Sinks o'erwhelm'd with fears and wees,' Sinks our foul through grief and pain, Struggling to be born again. .5 As fhe foon forgets to mourn, Glad that a man-child is born, Let us, lightened of our load, Find relief in thee our God. 6 Jefus, vifit us again, Look us out of fin and pain, Kindly comfort us who mourn, Intojoy our forrow turn. 7 Thy own joy to us impart, Root it deeply in our heart, Joy which none can take away, Joy which {hall for ever {lay. 8 All the kingdom from above, All the happinefs of love, Be it to thy fervants given, Pardon, holinefs, and heaven. HYMN XXV. For tiie Fruits of the Spirit. 1 TESUS, God of peace and love, I Send thy bieffing from above,. Take and ieaL us for thine own, Touch our hearts, and make them one. 2 By the fenfe of fin forgiven Purge out all the former leaven, Malice, guile, and proud offence ; Take the {tone of {tumbling hence. 3 "Root up every bitter root, Multiply the Spirit's fruit, Love, and joy. and quiet peace, Meek, loni-fuffering gentlenefs. t*9l 4 Strict and general temperance, Boundlcfs, pure* benevolence, Cordial firm fidelity ; All the mind which was in thee. HYMN XXVI. i pOME, Holy CciefiiaJ Dove, V_>* To vifit a forrowful breufl, My burthen of guilt to remove, And bring me aifurancc and reft : Thou only haft power to relieve Afinner o'erwhelm'd witfrhis load, The fenfe of acceptance to give, And fprinkle his heart with thy blood. 2 With me if of old thou haft ftrove, And ftrangely with -held from my fin, And tried by the lure of thy love My worthless affe&ions to win ; The work of thy mercy revive, Thine uttermoit mercy exert, And kindly continue to drive, And hold 'till I yield thee my heart. q Thy call if I ever have known, And ligh'd from myfelf to get free, And groan'd the unfpeakable groan, And longd to be happy in thee; Fulfil the imperfect dclire, Thy peace to my confidence reveal r The fenfe of thy favour infpire, And give me my pardon to feel. 4 If, when 1 had put thee to grief, And madly to folly return'd, Thy pity hath been my relief, And lifted me up as 1 mourn'd ; -Moll pitiful Spirit of grace. Relieve me again arid i'e(lorc> My fpirit in holiness ratfe, To fail j andtb il.'fier norncic, ^3 L 30 ] ' If now 1 lament after God, And gafp for a drop of thy love, If Jefus bath bought thee with blood. For mc to receive from above ; "Come, heavenly Comforter, come, Truewitnefs of mercy divine, And make me thy permanent home. And feal me eternally thine. HYMN XXVII. Q?IRIT of faith, come down, Reveal the things of God, ' And. make to us the Godhead known, /find witnefs with the blood ; 'Tis Thine the blood t' apply, And give us eyes to fee "Who did for every finner die Hath furely died for me. No man can truly fay That Jefus is the Lord, Unlefsthou take the veil away, And breathe the living word, Then, only then we feel Our intereft in his blood, And cry with joy unfpeakable Thou art my Lord my God ! 1 know my Saviour lives, He lives, who died forme, My inmoft foul his voice receives. Who hangs'on yonder tree: -Set forth before my eyes Ev'n now I fee him bleed, And hear his mortal groans, and cries, While fuffering in my ftead. O that the world might know My deav atoning lamb ! Spirit of faith, defcend, and ( Xhew [ 3' ] The virtue of his name; The grace which all ma)- fin^. The faving power impart, And teftify to all mankind, And fpeak in every heart. Infpire the living faith, (Which whofoe'er receives The witnefs in himfelf he hath^ And confcioufly believes) The faith that conquers all, And doth the mountain move, And faves whoe'er on Jefis call,. And perfects them in love. HYMN XXVIII. AUTHOR of every work divine Who doft thro' both creations fhine, The God of nature and of grace, Thy glorious fteps in all we fce r And wifdom attribute to thee, And power, and Majefty, and praife. Thou didftthy mighty wings oiit-fprcad, And brooding o'er the chaos, fhed Thy life into th' impregn'd abyfs, The vital principle infufe, And out of nothing's womb produce The earth and heaven, and all that is, That all-informing breath thou art Who doft continued life impart, And bidft the world perfilr. to be : Gamifh'd by thee yon azure iky, And all thofe beauteous orbs on high Depend in golden chains from thee Thou doft create the earth anew, (Irs maker and preferver too) By thine Almighty arm luflain ; E»»3 Nature perceives thy fccret force, And dill holds on her even courfe, And owns thy providential reign. 5 Thou art the Univerfal foal, The plaftick power that fills the whole, And governs earth, air, fea, and fky, . The creatures all, thy breath receive, . And who by thy infpiring live, Without thy infpiration die. 6 Spirit immenfe, eternal mind, Thou on the fouls of loft mankind Dofl with benigneft influence move, Pleas'd toreftorethe ruin'd race, And new create a world of grace In all the image of thy love. H Y M N XXIX. i Q P I R I T of grace, we bl efs thy name, O Thy works and. offices proclaim, Thy fruits, and properties, and powers Thou doft with kind infendring care The Godlefs heart of man prepare, That God may yet again be ours. . 2 Thou did ft thy fallen creature fee, . Fallen from happinefs and thee, And fwiftiy to our refoue come. Well-pleas'd amongft the Tons of men To fix thy rclidence agai;>, And make them thy eternal home. 3. Thou dofl the firftgood thought infpire, The firft uint fpark of pure clelirc Is kindled by thy gracious breath, By thee made confeious of his fall, The tinner hears thy/udden call, [j-_ And ftarts our of the. fleej^ot death. C 33 J Convinc'd of fin and unbelief He finks o'erwhclm'd with facred griefy. And pines difconfolate for God, Till thou the healing balm apply, The finner freely juftify In Jcfu'snarac, and Jefu's blood. HYMN XXX. i QPIRIT of power, 'tk thine alone O To finifh what thyfelf begun, And crown thy work with full fuccefs, To them that groan beneath their fin, Thou bring'ftthe fweet refrefhment in, The everlafting righteoufnefs. 2 Thoudoftby thine Almighty grace Again the abject finner raife, Again our flefhly fouls refine, Spirit of fpirit born, we love, And only feek, the things above, And live on earth the life divine. 3 Thou doft the vital feed infufc, Thou doft the creature new produce In all its glorious parts conpleat, The fubjefts of the kingdom here Thou makeft, e'er the judge appear, For all thy heavenly kingdom meet, 4 Thou that revealing fpirit art Who doft the hearing car impart, The clear illuminated fight, Spirit of wifdom from on high, Of knowledge that fhall never die, Of holy, true, eternal light. 5 Thou art the end of doubtful care, The antidote of fad defpair We feel in that fweet power of thine, Thro' thee, who lift'ft the fallen up, [ 34 2 We rife, rejoice, abound in hope,.. And blefs thine energy divine. Author of never-failing peace, Whene'er we languifh in diftrefs, O'erwhelm'd with fin and mifery,,. Thy prefence brings us fure relief, To gladnefs turns our every grief: And joy in God is joy in thee. Spirit of meek and Godly fear, The children, taught of thee, revere, And do their heavenly Father's will*. Pierc'd with an humble filial awe, They love to keep his bleffed law, And all his kind commands fulfil. Spirit of pure and holy love, We feel thee flreaming from above In calm unutterable peace, The love by thee diffus'd abroad Unites our happy hearts to God, And feals our everla£tin° blifs. HYMN XXXL S Thy gracious God-delighting fruit. Is joy, •fidelity and peace, Meeknefs which no affront can move, Truth, temperance, long-fuffering, love, And univerfal righteoufnefs. .a- Reftorer of the fin-hck mind, Our fouls a perfect, foundnefs find Thro' all their. powers in theerenew'd, Spirit of life and might, divine, iiy thee we in the image fhine, In all the ftrength and life of God. 3 . Thou doft the living power exert T' invig'rate and confirm the heart [35] Of thofe who feel thy work begun, To exercife our every grace, Quicken us in the glorious race, Till all the glorious race is run. 4 Thro' thec (lie flefh we mortify, A daily death rejoice to die, To live from fin for ever free ; -\n holy iinlcfs life to lead Is only in thy track to tread,A To walk in love, in God, in thee. 5 Thro' thee we render God his^due, The worfhip fpiritual and true. With loving hearts rejoice to pay : Him, while we find thy prefent power, In truth and fpiril we adore, And pray — when e'er in thee we pray, 6 Thou pleadcftin the living (tones With fpeechlcls eloquence of groanr, Whi chpierce our pitying Father's ear ; The anfwer of thy prayer we feel, The glorious joy unfpeakable, And triumph in the Comforter. 7 True witnefs of our fonfh'p thee We feel from fear and farrow free, And Father, Abba Father, cry. Seal of our endlefs blifs thou art, Foretafte, and earned in our heart Of pleafures that fhall never die. 8 Firft-fruits of yonder land above, Celeftialjoy, feraphic love To us, to us in thee is given : And all that to the fp hit fow, Shall of the fpirit reap, and know The ripe ft bappineft of heaven. A [36] HYMN XXXII. WAY with our fears, Our troubles and tears'! The Spirit is come, The witnels of Jefus retum'd to his home : The pledge of our Lord To his heaven reftor'd, Is fent from the fky, Ar.d tells us our Head is exalted on high. a Our Advocate there By his blood and his prayer The gift hath obtained, For us*he hath pray 'd, and the Comforter gain 'd: Our glorified head His fpirit hath fhed, With his people to ftay, And never again will he take him away, o Our heavenly guide With us fhall abide : His comfort impart, And fet up his kingdom of love in *he heart : The heart that believes His kingdom receives, His power and his peace, His life, and his joy's everlafting increafe. 4 The prefenre divine Doth inwardly fhine, The Shechinah refts On all our affemblies, and glows in our bread?. By day and by night The pillar of light Our iteps fhall attend, And convoy us fafe to our profperous end. 5 Then let us rejoice In heart and in voice, Our leader purfue, And fhout as we travel the wildernefi ; With the fpirit remove To Sion above, Triumphant a-rife. And walk in our God, till we fly to the ft i T I N J 8.