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Self-Dedication.

1 O Saviour, welcome to my heart;
Possess thy humble throne;

Bid every rival hence depart,
And claim me for thy own.

2 The world and Satan I forsake;
To thee I all resign;

My longing heart, O Saviour, take,
And fill with love divine.

3 Oh, may I never turn aside,
Nor from thy bosom flee;
Let nothing here my heart divide;
I give it all to thee.

S. M.

Grateful Acknowledgment.

1 My Maker and my King,
To thee my all I owe;

Thy sovereign bounty is the spring
Whence all my blessings flow.

2 The creature of thy hand,
On thee alone I live;
My God, thy benefits demand
More praise than I can give.

3 Lord, what can I impart,

When all is thine before?
Thy love demands a thankful heart,
The gift, alas! how poor!

4 Shall I withhold thy due?

And shall my passions rove?
Lord, form this wretched heart anew,
And fill it with thy love.

5 Oh, let thy grace inspire

My soul with strength divine;
Let all my powers to thee aspire,
And all my days be thine.

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The eternal God is thy Refuge.

1 How can I sink with such a prop
As my eternal God,

Who bears the earth's huge pillars up,
And spreads the heavens abroad?

2 How can I die while Jesus livės,
Who rose and left the dead?
Pardon and grace my soul receives
From my exalted Head.

3 All that I am, and all I have,
Shall be forever thine;

Whate'er my duty bids me give,
My cheerful hands resign.

4 Yet if I might make some reserve,
And duty did not call,

I love my God with zeal so great,
That I should give him all.

L. M.

Bought with a Price.

1 Lord, I am thine, entirely thine,
Purchased and saved by blood divine;
With full consent thine would I be,
And own thy sovereign right in me.
2 Grant one poor sinner more a place
Among the children of thy grace;
A wretched sinner, lost to God,
But ransomed by Immanuel's blood.
3 Thine would I live, thine would I die,
Be thine through all eternity;
The vow is past beyond repeal,
Now will I set the solemn seal.
4 Do thou assist a feeble worm
The great engagement to perform;
Thy grace can full assistance lend,
And on that grace I dare depend.

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Jesus, I am thine.

1 Jesus, spotless Lamb of God,

Thou hast bought me with thy blood,
I would value nought beside
Jesus, Jesus crucified.

2 I am thine, and thine alone,
This I gladly, fully own;

And, in all my works and ways,
Only now would seek thy praise.
3 Help me to confess thy name,
Bear with joy thy cross and shame;
Only seek to follow thee,

Though reproach my portion be.
4 When thou shalt in glory come,
And I reach my heavenly home,
Louder still my lips shall own
I am thine, and thine alone.

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To me to live is Christ.

1 Christ, of all my hopes the ground,
Christ, the spring of all my joy,
Still in thee let me be found,

Still for thee my powers employ.
2 Fountain of o'erflowing grace,
Freely from thy fulness give;
Till I close my earthly race,

Be it "Christ for me to live."
3 Firmly trusting in thy blood,
Nothing shall my heart confound;
Safely I shall pass the flood,

Safely reach Immanuel's ground.
4 Thus, oh, thus an entrance give
To the land of cloudless sky!
Having known it "Christ to live,"
Let me know it "gain to die."

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Wholly Christ's.

1 Lord, we are thine: bought by thy blood,
Once the poor guilty slaves of sin;
But thou hast brought us nigh to God,
And made thy Spirit dwell within.
2 Thou hast our sinful wanderings borne,
With love and patience all divine;
As brands then from the burning torn,
We own that we are wholly thine.

3 Lord, we are thine: thy claims we own,
Ourselves to thee we wholly give;
Reign thou within our hearts alone,
And let us to thy glory live.

4 Here let us each thy mind display,
In all thy gracious image shine,
And haste that long-expected day
When thou shalt own us wholly thine.

Renouncing the World.

1 Let worldly minds the world pursue;
It has no charms for me;
Once I admired its trifles, too,
But grace has set me free.

2 Its pleasures now no longer please,
No more content afford;

Far from my heart be joys like these,
Now I have seen the Lord.

3 As by the light of opening day
The stars are all concealed;
So earthly pleasures fade away
When Jesus is revealed.

4 Creatures no more divide my choice;
I bid them all depart;

His name and love and gracious voice
Have fixed my roving heart.

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Consecration.

1 Jesus, all-atoning Lamb,

Thine, and only thine, I am:
Take my body, spirit, soul;
Only thou possess the whole.
2 Thou my one thing needful be;
Let me ever cleave to thee;
Let me choose the better part;
Let me give thee all my heart.
3 Whom have I on earth below?
Thee, and only thee, I know;
Whom have I in heaven but thee?
Thou art all in all to me.

L. M.

Desires after Consecration.

10 thou, to whose all-searching sight
The darkness shineth as the light,
Search, prove my heart, it pants for thee;
Oh, burst these bonds, and set it free.
2 Wash out its stains, refine its dross;
Nail my affections to the cross;
Hallow each thought; let all within
Be clean, as thou, my Lord, art clean.
3 If in this darksome wild I stray,
Be thou my light, be thou my way;
No foes, no violence I fear,

No fraud, while thou, my God, art near.
4 When rising floods my soul o'erflow,
When sinks my heart in waves of woe,
Jesus, thy timely aid impart,

And raise my head, and cheer my heart,
5 Saviour, where'er thy steps I see,
Dauntless, untired, I follow thee;
Oh, let thy hand support me still,
And lead me to thy holy hill.

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