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348 In envy or contention live, Presume that they indeed believe ?

6 True faith unites to Christ the root, By him producing holy fruit ; And they who no such fruit can show, Still on the stock of nature grow.

7 Lord, let thy word effectual prove To work in us obedient love ! And may each one who hears it, dread A name to live, and yet be dead.

Book 1. Hymns 8, 20, 85, 87, 91, 104, 12, 139, 141. Book II. Hymns 34, 49, 86, 91, 99.

1 OF all the gifts thine hand bestows, Thou Giver of all good! Not heaven itself a richer knows, Than my Redeemer s blood.

2 Faith too, the blood-receiving grace, From the same hand we gain ; Else, sweetly as it suits our case, That gift had been in vain.

3 Till thou thy teaching power apply, Our hearts refuse to see, And, weak as a distemper d eye, Shut out the view of thee.

4 Blind to the merits of thy Son, What misery we endure ! Yet fly that hand from which alone We could expect a cure.