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HOSEA II. 14, 15.

Lift up your hearts to things above,
Ye partners in distress;
Allured and brought by Jesu's love
Into the wilderness,
With us expect again to hear
His comfortable voice,
And feel His great salvation near,
And evermore rejoice.
From hence He shall our comforts raise,
From hence our vineyards give;
And by His all-restoring grace
Our drooping souls revive.
He from the depth of misery
Shall lift His mourners up,
And lo! He gives us now to see
An open door of hope.
Even now we sweetly call to mind
The former gospel-days,
The joy of our first love we find
The ecstasy of grace.
We sing the glories of the Lamb,
And feel His blood applied,
As when we out of Egypt came
But newly justified.