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By thy passion on the tree,
Let all our griefs and troubles cease;
O remember Calvary,

And bid us go in peace!

4 Never will we hence depart,
Till thou our wants relieve,
Write forgiveness on our heart,
And all thine image give!
Still our souls shall cry to thee,
Till perfected in holiness;
O remember Calvary,

And bid us go in peace!

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ESU, at whose supreme command
We now approach to God,

Before us in thy vesture stand,
Thy vesture dipped in blood!
Obedient to thy gracious word,
We break the hallowed bread,
Commemorate thee, our dying Lord,
And trust on thee to feed.

2 Now, Saviour, now thyself reveal,
And make thy nature known;
Affix thy blessed Spirit's seal,
And stamp us for thine own:
The tokens of thy dying love
O let us all receive;

And feel the quickening Spirit move,
And sensibly believe!

3 The cup of blessing, blessed by thee,
Let it thy blood impart ;

The bread thy mystic body be,
And cheer each languid heart.

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The grace which sure salvation brings
Let us herewith receive;

Satiate the hungry with good things,
The hidden manna give.

4 The living bread, sent down from heaven, In us vouchsafe to be:

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Thy flesh for all the world is given,
Ånd all may live by thee.

Now, Lord, on us thy flesh bestow,
And let us drink thy blood,

Till all our souls are filled below
With all the life of God.

6-8 s.

VICTIM Divine, thy grace we claim,

While thus thy precious death we show:
Once offered up, a spotless Lamb,

In thy great temple here below,
Thou didst for all mankind atone,
And standest now before the throne.

2 Thou standest in the holy place,

As now for guilty sinners slain;
The blood of sprinkling speaks, and prays,
All prevalent for helpless man ;
Thy blood is still our ransom found,
And speaks salvation all around.

3 The smoke of thy atonement here
Darkened the sun, and rent the veil,
Made the new way to heaven appear,
And showed the great Invisible:

Well pleased in thee, our God looked down,
And called his rebels to a crown.

4 He still respects thy sacrifice;

Its savour sweet doth always please; The offering smokes through earth and skies, Diffusing life, and joy, and peace : To these, thy lower courts, it comes, And fills them with divine perfumes. 5 We need not now go up to heaven,

To bring the long-sought Saviour down: Thou art to all already given,

Thou dost even now thy banquet crown: To every faithful soul appear,

And show thy real presence here!

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1 "THE promise of my Father's love
Shall stand for ever good,"

He said; and gave his soul to death,
And sealed the grace with blood.
2 To this sure covenant of thy word
I set my worthless name;

I seal the engagement to my Lord,
And make my humble claim.

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3 Thy light, and strength, and pardoning grace
And glory shall be mine:
My life and soul, my heart and flesh,
And all my powers are thine.

4 I call that legacy my own

Which Jesus did bequeath;

"Twas purchased with a dying groan, And ratified in death.

5 Sweet is the memory of his name,
Who blest us in his will,

And to his testament of love
Made his own life the seal.

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BREAD

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READ of heaven! on thee I feed,
For thy flesh is meat indeed.
Ever may my soul be fed

With this true and living bread:
Day by day with strength supplied
Through the life of him who died.
2 Vine of heaven! thy blood supplies
This blest cup of sacrifice;

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"Tis thy wounds my healing give;
To thy cross I look and live.
Thou my life! O let me be
Rooted, grafted, built on thee!

7s & 6s (1-8).

1 JESUS, Master of the feast,
The feast itself thou art,
Now receive thy meanest guest,
And comfort every heart:
Give us living bread to eat,
Manna that from heaven comes down,
Fill us with immortal meat,
And make thy nature known.

2 In this barren wilderness

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Thou hast a table spread,
Furnished out with richest grace
Whate'er our souls can need
Still sustain us by thy love,
Still thy servants' strength repair,
Till we reach the courts above
And feast for ever there.

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BREAD of the world, in mercy broken!
Wine of the soul, in mercy shed!

By whom the words of life were spoken,
And in whose death our sins are dead!

Look on the heart by sorrow broken,
Look on the tears by sinners shed,
And be thy feast to us the token
That by thy grace our souls are fed!

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N memory of the Saviour's love,
We keep the sacred feast,
Where every humble, contrite heart,
Is made a welcome guest.

2 By faith we take the bread of life
With which our souls are fed,
The cup in token of his blood
That was for sinners shed.

3 Under his banner thus we sing
The wonders of his love,
And thus anticipate by faith,
The heavenly feast above.

C. M.

1 BE known to us in breaking bread,

But do not then depart; Saviour, abide with us, and spread Thy table in our heart.

2 There sup with us in love divine; Thy body and thy blood,

That living bread, that heavenly wine,
Be our immortal food.

GOD! how often hath thine ear To me in willing mercy bowed! While worshipping thine altar near, Lowly I wept, and strongly vowed:

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