Come, and Let Us Sweetly Join
VERSE 1
Come and
let us sweetly join,
Christ
to praise in hymns divine;
Give we
all with one accord
Glory to
our common Lord.
VERSE 2
Sing we
then in Jesus’ Name,
Now as
yesterday the same;
One in
every time and place,
Full for
all of truth and grace.
VERSE 3
We for
Christ, our Master, stand,
Lights
in a benighted land:
We our
dying Lord confess;
We are
Jesus’ witnesses.
VERSE 4
Witnesses
that Christ hath died,
We with
Him are crucified;
Christ
hath burst the bands of death,
We His
quickening Spirit breathe.
VERSE 5
Strive
we, in affection strive;
Let the
purer flame revive,
Such as
in the martyrs glowed,
Dying
champions for their God.
VERSE 6
Make us
all in Thee complete,
Make us
all for glory meet,
Meet to
appear before Thy sight,
Partners
with the saints in light.
VERSE 7
We, like
them, may live and love;
Called
we are their joys to prove,
Saved
with them from future wrath,
Partners
of like precious faith.
VERSE 8
Let the
fruits of grace abound;
Let in
us Thy vowels sound;
Faith,
and love, and joy increase,
Temperance
and gentleness.
VERSE 9
Plant in
us Thy humble mind;
Patient,
pitiful, and kind,
Meek and
lowly let us be,
Full of
goodness, full of Thee.
VERSE 10
Christ
is now gone up on high,
Where to
Him our wishes fly;
Sits at
God’s right hand above;
There
with Him we reign in love!
VERSE 11
Come,
Thou high and lofty Lord!
Lowly,
meek, incarnate Word!
Humbly
stoop to earth again,
Come and
visit abject men!
VERSE 12
Hands
and hearts and voices raise,
Sing as
in the ancient days;
Antedate
the joys above,
Celebrate
the feast of love.
VERSE 13
Jesus,
dear expected guest,
Thou art
bidden to the feast,
For
Thyself our hearts prepare,
Come,
and sit, and banquet there!
VERSE 14
Jesus,
we Thy promise claim,
We are
met in Thy great Name;
In the
midst do Thou appear,
Manifest
Thy presence here!
VERSE 15
Sanctify
us, Lord, and bless,
Breathe
Thy Spirit, give Thy peace,
Thou
Thyself within us move,
Make our
feast a feast of love.
VERSE 16
Call, O
call us each by name,
To the
marriage of the Lamb;
Let us
lean upon Thy breast,
Love be
there our endless feast!
VERSE 17
Let us
join, (’tis God commands)
Let us
join our hearts and hands
Help to
gain our calling’s hope,
Build we
each the other up.
VERSE 18
God His
blessings shall dispense,
God
shall crown His ordinance;
Meet in
His appointed ways;
Nourish
us with social grace.
VERSE 19
Let us
then as brethren love,
Faithfully
His gifts improve,
Carry on
the earnest strife,
Walk in
holiness of life.
VERSE 20
Still
forget the things behind,
Follow
Christ in heart and mind,
Toward
the mark unwearied press,
Seize
the crown of righteousness.
VERSE 20
Plead we
thus for faith alone,
Faith
which by our works is shown:
God it
is Who justifies;
Only
faith the grace applies.
VERSE 21
Active
faith that lives within,
Conquers
earth, and hell, and sin,
Sanctifies,
and makes us whole,
Forms
the Savior in the soul.
VERSE 23
Let us
for this faith contend,
Sure
salvation is its end:
Heaven
already is begun,
Everlasting
life is won.
VERSE 24
Only let
us persevere,
Till we
see our Lord appear,
Never
from the Rock remove,
Saved by
faith, which works by love.
VERSE 25
Partners
of a glorious hope,
Lift
your hearts and voices up,
Jointly
let us rise, and sing
Christ
our Prophet, Priest, and King.
VERSE 26
Monuments
of Jesus’ grace,
Speak we
by our lives His praise;
Walk in
Him we have received,
Show we
not in vain believed.
VERSE 27
While we
walk with God in light,
God our
hearts doth still unite;
Dearest
fellowship we prove,
Fellowship
in Jesus’ love.
VERSE 28
Sweetly
each, with each combined,
In the
bonds of duty joined,
Feels
the cleansing blood applied,
Daily
feels that Christ hath died.
VERSE 29
Still, O
Lord, our faith increase,
Cleanse
from all unrighteousness,
Thee the
unholy cannot see;
Make, O
make us meet for Thee!
VERSE 30
Every
vile affection kill,
Root out
every seed of ill,
Utterly
abolish sin,
Write
Thy law of love within.
VERSE 31
Hence
may all our actions flow,
Love the
proof that Christ we know;
Mutual
love the token be,
Lord,
that we belong to Thee
VERSE 32
Love,
Thine image, love impart!
Stamp it
on our face and heart!
Only
love to us be given!
Lord, we
ask no other heaven.
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