Hymn XXXIX. When Kindred depart from each other.
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Kindred having visited each other, and being to returne
to their severall habitations, doe in this
Hymn praise God for their Meeting; and pray
him to blesse them in their separation.
Sing this as the former Hymn.
[1]
To bid each other now adue
Time, warnes us to prepare;
And, that those Callings we pursue
To which oblig'd we are.
To thee therefore, by whom we came
Each others weal to know:
We render praise: And in thy Name,
Asunder Lord, we go.
2
Though us, ô Lord! to live apart,
Our Fortunes do compell;
Keep us united, still, in hart,
Where ever we shall dwell.
A Dweller, in our Dwellings be:
Vs, there, depart not from.
And let us meet againe, in Thee;
When we together come.
3
Alliances are seldome good;
And, rarely kind they are,
Who nothing have, but Flesh and Blood,
To make, and keep them Deare.
Therefore, let us endeavour so,
That we, by Grace, may be
More nearly knit, and thereby grow,
Vnited all to thee.
4
Preserve among us honest Mirth:
At least, when we shall mourne,
Make Sorrow midwife to the Birth,
At which, true Joyes are borne.
And, of our Meetings, here below,
If this the last shall prove;
Our Conversation, forme Thou so,
That we may meet above.