Lord, let thy Servant Depart in Peace: even in Thy Peace, which passeth understanding, and which Christ the Prince of Peace doth give, and nothing in the World can take away! O give me that Peace which beseemeth a Soul, which is so near the Harbour, even the World of endless PEACE and LOVE! where perfect UNION (such as I am capable of) will free me from all the sins and troubles, which are caused by the convulsions, divulsions, and confusions of this divided SELFISH World. Call home this Soul by the encouraging Voice of Love, that it may joyfully hear, and say, It is my Fathers Voice: Invite it to thee by the heavenly Messenger: Attract it by the tokens and the foretasts of Love: The Messengers that invited me to the Feast of Grace, compelled me to come in without constraint: Thy effectual call did make me willing: And is not Glory better than preparing Grace? Shall I not come more willingly to the Celestial Feast? What was thy Grace for, but to make me willing of Glory, and the way to it? Why didst thou dart down thy Beams of Love, but to make me Love thee, and to call me ⟨p. 117⟩up to the everlasting Centre! Was not the Feast of of Grace, as a Sacrament of the Feast of Glory: Did I not take it in remembrance of my Lord until he come? Did not he that told me, All things are ready, tell me also that He is gone to prepare a place for us, and it is his will that we shall be with him and see his Glory. They that are Given him, and Drawn to him by the Father on Earth, do come to Christ: Give now and Draw my Departing Soul to my Glorified Head: And as I have Glorified thee on Earth in the measure that thy Grace hath prevailed in me, pardon the sins by which I have offended thee, and Glorify me in the beholding and participation of the Glory of my Redeemer; come Lord Jesus, come quickly with fuller Life, and Light, and Love, into this too Dead, and Dark, and Disaffected Soul, that it may come with joyful willingness unto thee.
Lord, let thy Servant Depart in Peace: even in Thy Peace, which passeth understanding, and which Christ the Prince of Peace doth give, and nothing in the World can take away! O give me that Peace which beseemeth a Soul, which is so near the Harbour, even the World of endless PEACE and LOVE! where perfect UNION (such as I am capable of) will free me from all the sins and troubles, which are caused by the convulsions, divulsions, and confusions of this divided SELFISH World. Call home this Soul by the encouraging Voice of Love, that it may joyfully hear, and say, It is my Fathers Voice: Invite it to thee by the heavenly Messenger: Attract it by the tokens and the foretasts of Love: The Messengers that invited me to the Feast of Grace, compelled me to come in without constraint: Thy effectual call did make me willing: And is not Glory better than preparing Grace? Shall I not come more willingly to the Celestial Feast? What was thy Grace for, but to make me willing of Glory, and the way to it? Why didst thou dart down thy Beams of Love, but to make me Love thee, and to call me ⟨p. 117⟩up to the everlasting Center! Was not the Feast of of Grace, as a Sacrament of the Feast of Glory: Did I not take it in remembrance of my Lord until he come? Did not he that told me, All things are ready, tell me also that He is gone to prepare a place for us, and it is his will that we shall be with him and see his Glory. They that are Given him, and Drawn to him by the Father on Earth, do come to Christ: Give now and Draw my Departing Soul to my Glorified Head: And as I have Glorified thee on Earth in the measure that thy Grace hath prevailed in me, pardon the sins by which I have offended thee, and Glorifie me in the beholding and participation of the Glory of my Redeemer; come Lord Jesus, come quickly with fuller Life, and Light, and Love, into this too Dead, and Dark, and Disaffected Soul, that it may come with joyful willingness unto thee.
