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"Led by the Spirit of God"

Author: Hart Meter: 8.8.6 Appears in 9 hymnals First Line: Descend from heaven, celestial Dove Lyrics: 1 Descend from heaven, celestial Dove, With flames of pure seraphic love Our ravished breasts inspire; Fountain of joy, blest Paraclete, Warm our cold hearts with heavenly heat, And set our souls on fire. 2 Breathe on these bones, so dry and dead; Thy sweetest, softest influence shed In all our hearts abroad; Point out the place where grace abounds; Direct us to the bleeding wounds Of our incarnate God. 3 Conduct, blest Guide, thy sinner-train To Calvary, where the Lamb was slain, And with us there abide; Let us our loved Redeemer meet, Weep o’er his piercèd hands and feet, And view his wounded side. 4 [From which pure fountain if thou draw Water to quench the fiery law, And blood to purge our sin; We’ll tell the Father in that day, (And thou shalt witness what we say), “We’re clean, just God, we’re clean.”] 5 Teach us for what to pray, and how; And since, kind God, ’tis only thou The throne of grace canst move, Pray thou for us, that we, through faith, May feel the effects of Jesus’ death, Through faith, that works by love. 6 [Thou, with the Father and the Son, Art that mysterious Three-in-One, God blest for evermore! Whom though we cannot comprehend, Feeling thou art the sinner’s Friend, We love thee and adore.] Topics: Person and Power of the Spirit

Tell me no more of earthly toys

Author: Harrison Meter: 8.8.6 Appears in 78 hymnals

Thou great, mysterious God unknown

Meter: 8.8.6 Appears in 84 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Thou great mysterious God unknown, Whose love hath gently led me on, E'en from my infant days, Mine inmost soul expose to view, And tell me if I ever knew Thy justifying grace, Used With Tune: RHODE ISLAND Text Sources: Methodist Hymn Book, p. 107

Praise for Redeeming Love

Meter: 8.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: How vast the sufferings, who can tell Lyrics: 1 How vast the sufferings, who can tell, When Jesus fought sin, death, and hell, And was in battle slain? How great the triumph, who can sing, When from the grave the immortal King Triumphant rose again? 2 Yet we’ll attempt his name to bless, While we pass through the wilderness To Canaan’s happy shore. But when we reach the plains above, And every breath we draw is love, We’ll sing his glories more.

Abundance of good folk, I find

Author: John Berridge Meter: 8.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal

There is a Friend, who sticketh fast

Author: Berridge Meter: 8.8.6 Appears in 4 hymnals Lyrics: 1 There is a Friend, who sticketh fast, And keeps his love from first to last, And Jesus is his name; An earthly brother drops his hold, Is sometimes hot and sometimes cold, But Jesus is the same. 2 He loves his people, great and small, And, grasping hard, embraces all, Nor with a soul will part; No tribulations which they feel, No foes on earth, or fiends of hell, Shall tear them from his heart. 3 His love before all time began, And through all time it will remain, And evermore endure; Though rods and frowns are sometimes brought, And man may change, he changes not; His love abideth sure. 4 [A method strange this Friend has shown, Of making love divinely known To rebels doomed to die; Unasked, he takes our humblest form, And condescends to be a worm, To lift us up on high.] 5 [The law demanded blood for blood, And out he lets his vital flood To pay the mortal debt; He toils through life, and pants through death, And cries, with his expiring breath, “’Tis finished,” and complete!] 6 [Let all the ransomed of the Lord Exalt his love with one accord, And hallelujah sing; Adore the dying Friend of man, And bless him highly as you can; He is your God and King.] Topics: Offices and Characters of Christ Scripture: Proverbs 18:24

Mutual aid

Author: C. Wesley Meter: 8.8.6 Appears in 34 hymnals First Line: Come, wisdom, power, and grace Divine! Topics: Love-Feast

The Day of Pentecost

Author: Hart Meter: 8.8.6 Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: When the bless'd day of Pentecost Lyrics: 1 When the blest day of Pentecost Was fully come, the Holy Ghost Descended from above, Sent by the Father and the Son, To bring immortal blessings down, And shed abroad God’s love. 2 Sudden a rushing wind they hear; And fiery cloven tongues appear; And sat on every one; Cloven, perhaps, to be a sign, That God no longer would confine His word to Jews alone. 3 And were these first disciples blessed With heavenly gifts? And shall the rest Be passed unheeded by? What! has the Holy Ghost forgot To quicken souls that Christ has bought, And lets them lifeless lie? 4 No, thou Almighty Paraclete, Thou shedd’st thy heavenly influence yet, Thou visit’st sinners still; The breath of life, thy quickening flame, Thy power, thy Godhead, still the same, We own, because we feel.