6 There, in the full repose of faith,
The soul delights to see,
Not only one who deeply loves,
But Love itself in Thee.
JOHN VI. 37.-" Him that cometh to me I
will in no wise cast out."
1 JUST as I am-without one plea
But that thy blood was shed for me,
And that thou bid'st me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come.
2 Just as I am-and waiting not
To rid my soul of one dark spot-
To Thee whose blood can cleanse each blot,
O Lamb of God, I come.
3 Just as I am-tho' toss'd about
With many a conflict, many a doubt,
Fightings within and fears without,
O Lamb of God, I come.
4 Just as I am-poor, wretched, blind,
Sight, riches, healing of the mind,
Yea, all I need in Thee to find-
O Lamb of God, I come.
4 Just as I am-thou wilt receive,
Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve,
Because thy promise I believe,
O Lamb of God, I come.
6 Just as I am-thy love I own
Has broken every barrier down;
Now to be thine, yea, thine alone-
O Lamb of God, I come.
177 JOHN X. 3.-" He calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out."
1 JESUS, lead us, by thy power
Safe into the promised rest;
Hide our souls within thine arms,
Let us lean upon thy breast.
2 Nothing can preserve our going,
But salvation full and free;
Nothing can our souls dishearten
But our absence, Lord, from thee.
3 In thy presence we are happy,
In thy presence we're secure ;
In thy presence all afflictions
We can easily endure.
4 In thy presence we can conquer,
We can suffer, we can die;
Far from Thee we faint and languish ;
O, our Saviour, keep us nigh.
178 JOHN X. 29.-" No man is able to pluck
them out of my Father's hand.
1 THO' twice ten thousand sinners go
Down to the pit of endless woe,
God's choice from all repentance free,
The guard of his elect shall be.
2 To fall from that, if God be true,
No sinner shall whom He foreknew;
Whom God will save to God must rise,
And fill a mansion in the skies.
3 Triumphant grace shall ever keep
The weakest of the way-worn sheep;
Salvation's free, and shall be given,
To all who trust the God of heaven.
1 SAVED from the awful guilt of sin,
By Him who bare the cross;
We'll now a cheerful strain begin,
Where God began with us.
2 We sing the vast unmeasured grace,
Of height and depth untold,
Which did the saints elect embrace
As sheep within the fold.
3 We had not known the blood for sin,
Nor sweets of pardoning love,
Unless our worthless name had been
Enrolled for life above.
4 Well may we sing, since bought with blood
Of God's eternal Son;
O how secure God's purpose stood,
Ere time its race begun!
180 JOHN XIII. 8.-" If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me."
1 FOR ever here my rest shall be,
Close to thy bleeding side;
This all my hope, and all my plea,
For me the Saviour died.
2 My dying Saviour, and my God,
Fountain for guilt and sin,
Sprinkle me ever with thy blood,
And cleanse and keep me clean.
3 Wash me, and make me thus thine own,
Wash me, and mine thou art:
Wash me, but not my feet alone,
My hands, my head, my heart.
4 Th' atonement of thy blood apply,
Till faith to sight improve;
Till hope in full fruition die,
And all my soul be love.
181 JOHN XIV. 2.-" In my Father's house are many mansions."
1 STAR-gemm'd floor of the land I love,
Tell me, and tell me now,
What are the many glittering pearls
Which hang on thy jewelled brow?
2 Schoolmen write in the lettered page,
That each is a world like ours;
But where sky-birds sing superior songs,
In more delightful bowers.
3 Where the wolf and the lamb in concord
Where the leopard harmless lives,
And where undewed with the sweat of man,
The field its harvest gives.
4 Where sin hath shed no withering blight,
Where death no entrance gains,
Where the men of a thousand years ago,
Still bound across the plains.
5 Many, if such ye be, fair worlds,
Would ask no brighter doom,
Than within your gorgeous palaces
To find a lasting home.
6 So let them, more ambitious, I
More towering wishes frame-
I would not dwell in these but with
The Lord of all of them.
7 They may be near to the pearly gates,
They may stand close to heaven,
But who would live in the servant's lodge
If the mansion-house were given?
JOHN XIV. 6.-"I am the way."
1 JESUS, my all, to heaven is gone,
He whom I fix my hopes upon!
His track I see, and I'll pursue
The narrow way, till Him I view.
2 The way the holy prophets went
The road that leads from banishmentThe King's highway of holiness
I'll go; for all his paths are peace.
3 This is the way I long have sought,
And mourned because I found it not;
My grief and burden long have been
Because I could not cease from sin.
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