Earnestly desiring and seeking Holiness.
1 JESUS, Thine all-victorious love
Shed in my heart abroad;
Then shall my feet no longer rove,
Rooted and fix'd in GOD.
2 Love only can the conquest win,
The strength of sin subdue,
(Mine own unconquerable sin,)
And form my soul anew.
3 Love can bow down the stubborn neck, The stone to flesh convert;
Soften, and melt, and pierce, and break,
An adamantine heart.
4 O that in me the sacred fire
Might now begin to glow!
Burn up the dross of base desire,
And make the mountains flow!
5 0 that it now from heav'n might fall,
And all my sins consume!
Come, HOLY GHOST, for Thee I call ;
Spirit of burning, come.
6 Refining fire, go through my heart,
Illuminate my soul;
Scatter Thy life through ev'ry part,
And sanctify the whole.
7 My stedfast soul, made one with Thee,
Shall then no longer move;
But CHRIST be all the world to me,
And all my heart be love.
Earnestly desiring and seeking Holiness.
1 JESUS, the all-restoring Word,
My fallen spirit's hope,
After Thy lovely likeness, LORD,
Ah, when shall I wake up?
2 Thou, O my GOD, Thou only art
The Life, the Truth, the Way;
Quicken my soul, instruct my heart,
My sinking footsteps stay.
3 Of all Thou hast on earth below,
In heav'n above, to give,
Give me Thy only love to know,
In Thee to walk and live.
4 Fill me with all the life of Love;
In mystic union join
Me to Thyself, and let me prove
The fellowship divine.
5 Open the intercourse between
My longing soul and Thee,
Never to be broke off again
To all eternity.
Earnestly desiring and seeking the Shepherd.
1 THOU Shepherd of Israel and mine,
The joy and desire of my heart,
For closer communion I pine;
I long to reside where Thou art:
The pasture I languish to find,
Where all, who their SHEPHERD obey,
Are fed, on Thy bosom reclin❜d,
And screen'd from the heat of the day.
2 Ah! show me that happiest place,
The place of Thy people's abode,
Where saints in an ecstasy gaze,
And hang on a crucified GOD:
Thy love for a sinner declare ;
Thy passion and death on the tree;
My spirit to Calvary bear,
To suffer and triumph with Thee.
3 'Tis there with the lambs of Thy flock,
There only I covet to rest;
To lie at the foot of the rock,
Or rise to be hid in Thy breast:
"Tis there I would always abide,
And never a moment depart;
Conceal'd in the cleft of Thy side,
Eternally held in Thy heart.
"Whom have I in Heaven, &c."
1 COME, SAVIOUR-JESUS, from above!
Assist me with Thy heav'nly grace!
Empty my heart of earthly love,
And for Thyself prepare the place.
2 O let Thy sacred presence fill,
And set my longing spirit free!
Which pants to have no other will,
But night and day to feast on Thee.
3 While in this region here below,
No other good will I pursue;
I'll bid this world of noise and shew,
With all it's glittring snares, adieu.
4 That path with humble speed I'll seek,
In which my SAVIOUR'S footsteps shine;
Nor will I hear, nor will I speak
Of any other love but Thine.
5 Henceforth may no profane delight
Divide this consecrated soul;
Possess it Thou, who hast the right,
As LORD and MASTER of the whole.
6 Nothing on earth do I desire,
But Thy pure love within my breast:
This, only this will I require,
And freely give up all the rest.
1 As when the weary trav❜ller gains
The height of some o'er-looking hill,
His heart revives, if cross the plains
He eyes his home, though distant still.
2 While he surveys the much-lov'd spot, -
He slights the space that lies between;
His past fatigues are now forgot,
Because his journey's end is seen.
3 Thus, when the Christian pilgrim views,
By faith, his mansion in the skies,
The sight his fainting strength renews,
And wings his speed to reach the prize:"
4 The thought of home his spirit cheers,
No more he grieves for troubles past;
Nor any
future trial fears,
So he may safe arrive at last.
5 'Tis there, he says, I am to dwell
With JESUS, in the realms of day;
Then I shall bid my cares farewell,
And He will wipe my tears away.
6 JESUS, on Thee our hope depends,
To lead us on to Thine abode;
Assur'd our hope will make amends
For all our toil while on the road.
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