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460 Saying, This is my body.”

Luke xxii. 19.

THE KING of heaven a feast has made,
And to His much-loved friends.

The faint, the famish'd, and the sad,
This invitation sends.

2 "Beggars, approach my royal board,
Furnish'd with all that's good;
Come, sit at table with your LORD,
And eat celestial food.

3 My body and my blood receive,
It comes entirely free;

I ask no price for all I give,
But O remember me. ""

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4 May each, with strength from heaven endued, Say, "My beloved's mine;

I eat His flesh, and drink His blood,
In signs of bread and wine."

BEHOLD, a table richly spread

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With wine and milk and heav'nly bread; A plenteous feast of Gospel grace,

A feast prepared for all our race.

2 The SAVIOUR's name is now ador'd,
By thousands who surround the board;
JESUS invites poor sinners still,
And all may come whoever will.

3 Ye worms of earth, no longer doubt,
The SAVIOUR will not cast you out;
Why should you meet an awful doom,
When JESUS cries, "There yet is room

4 Room in the precious means of grace,
Room in the SAVIOUR'S Sweet embrace,
Room in the fountain of His blood,
Come now and plunge beneath the flood.
5 Room in the kingdom of His love,
Room in the FATHER's home above,
Ten thousand saints His name adore;

But still He cries, "There's room for more."

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"Come, for all things are now ready."
Luke xiv. 17.

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How sweet and sacred is the place,

With CHRIST within the doors,

While everlasting love displays
The choicest of her stores.

2 While all our hearts and all our songs
Join to admire the feast,

Each of us cries, with thankful tongues, "LORD! why was I a guest ?"

3 Why was I led to hear Thy voice, And enter while there's room;

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When thousands make a wretched choice,
And rather starve than come?

4 'Twas the same love that spread the feast,
That sweetly drew us in;
Else we had still refused to taste,
And perish'd in our sin.

5 Pity the nations, O our GOD!
Incline the earth to come;
Send Thy victorious word abroad,
And bring the strangers home.

6 We long to see Thy churches full,
That all the chosen race

May with one voice, and heart, and soul,
Sing Thy redeeming grace.

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"Take, eat." Matt. xxvi. 26.

HILDREN of Zion, ye who sing The lofty praises of your KING; Who in His solemn temple dwell, And of His boundless glory tell.

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2 Come in, ye blessed of the LORD,
Ye that believe His holy word:
Come! and receive our heav'nly bread,
The food with which His saints are fed.
3 Your SAVIOUR's boundless goodness prove,
And feast on His redeeming love:
Come! all ye happy souls that thirst:
The last is welcome as the first.
4 Come to His table and receive
Whate'er a pard'ning GoD can give;
His love through ev'ry age endures,
His promise and Himself are yours.

464

"Ye do show the Lord's death."
1 Cor. xi. 26.

AUTHOR of our salvation, Thee

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With lowly, thankful hearts we praise; Author of this great mystery,

Figure and means of saving grace.

2 The sacred, true, effectual sign,
Thy body and Thy blood it shows;
The glorious instrument divine,

Thy mercy and Thy strength bestows.

3 We see the blood that seals our peace, Thy pard'ning mercy we receive; The bread doth visibly express

The strength through which our spirits live.

4 Our spirits drink a fresh supply,
And eat the bread so freely giv'n ;
But soon we hope to meet on high,
And banquet with our LORD in heav'n.

465

"The just for the unjust."

1 Pet. iii. 18.

BY faith, my LORD, I now behold,

Expiring on the tree;

Muse on the wondrous scene of love,
He dies, my soul, for thee.

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2 Stretch'd on the cross, thy SAVIOUR hung,
Sustained thy heavy load;
Wash'd all thy dreadful crimes away,
In streams of richest blood.

3 Survey, my soul, the wondrous LAMB,
Slain for the chosen seed:
Oh! the amazing, matchless grace,
That moved Him thus to bleed!

4 Deeply affecting 'tis to see

My JESUS bath'd in blood;

To view in Him the crimson path
That leads my soul to GOD.

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"In the name of the Father," &c.
Matt. xxviii. 19.

may the

LORD, messenger of

peace,

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Thy ev'ry truth proclaim;
Sway'd by the force of sov'reign grace,
Baptize in Thy great name.

2 If twice ten thousand foes withstand,
Thy word is still the same;
Still we obey Thy great command,
Baptize in Thy great name.

3 Fearless of all that men can say,
We trace the heav'nly LAMB;
Pursue Him in the watery way,
Baptizing in His name.

4 LORD, while Thy saints thus follow Thee.
Thy glory is their aim;
Constrain'd by love, they long to be
Baptizing in Thy name.

5 LORD, bid our ev'ry fear begone,
Support each weaker frame;

Blest with Thy presence, we'll go on,
Baptizing in Thy name.

Saith your redeeming LORD;

Ye all are now appriz'd,

That 'tis your SAVIOUR'S word;

Arise, arise, without delay,
And His divine command obey.