PSALMS OF DAVID.
The way and end of the righteous and the wicked.
1 T) LESS'D is the man who shuns the place
J-J Where sinners love to meet;
Who fears to tread their wicked ways,
And hates the scoffer's seat :
2 But in the statutes of the Lord
Has placed his chief delight ;
By day he reads or hears the word,
And meditates by night.
3 [He. like a plant of gen'rous kind,
By living waters set,
Safe from the storms and blasting wind,
Enjoys a peaceful state.]
4 Green as the leaf, and ever fair,
Shall his profession shine;
While fruits of holiness appear
Like clusters on the vine.
5 Not so the impious and unjust;
What vain designs they form!
Their hopes are blown away like dust,
Or chaff before the storm.
6 Sinners in judgment shall not stand
Amongst the sons of grace,
When Christ, the judge, at his right hand |
Appoints his saints a place.
7 His eye beholds the path they tread,
His heart approves it well ;
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PSALM I.
But crooked ways of sinnerc
Down to the gates of ho]].
1 rpiIE man is over ble-
J- Who shuns the sinners' Trays,
Among their councils never s
Nor tak<^ the Boorners' place.
2 But makes the law of <
His study and delight,
Amidst the labours of the da\,
And watches of the night.
3 He like a tree shall thrive,
With waters near the root;
Fresh as the leaf his name shall live;
His works are heavenly fruit.
4 Not so the ongodl)
They no such blessings find:
Their hopes shall flee like empty chaff
Before the driving wind.
5 How will they bear to stand
Before that judgment-seat,
Where all the saints, at Christ's right hand,
In full assembly meet !
6 He knows, and he approves
The way the righteous go ;
But sinners and their works shall meet
A dreadful overthrow.
Difference between the righteous and wicked.
1 TTAPPY the man whose cautious feet
J- A Shun the broad way that si:
"Who hates the place where atheists meet,
And fears to talk as scoffers d<>.
2 He loves t' employ the morning light
Amongst the statutes of the Lord :
And spends the wakeful boon of night,
With pleasure, pond'ring o'er his "Word.
PSALM II.
3 He, like a plant by gentle streams, ^salm.
Shall flourish in immortal green ; «
And Heav'n will shine with kindest beams f ,
On ev'ry work his hands begin.
4 But sinners find their counsels cross'd :
As chaff before the tempest flies,
So shall their hopes be blown and lost,
When the last trumpet shakes the skies.
5 In vain the rebel seeks to stand
In judgment with the pious race;
The dreadful Judge, with stern command
Divides him to a diff rent place.
6 " Strait is the way my saints have trod ;
I bless'd the path, and drew it plain;
But you would choose the crooked road,
And down it leads to endless pain."
(Translated according to the Divine pattern, Acts
iv. 24, &c.)
Christ dying, rising, interceding, and reigning. ^salttt,
1 ri\ /TAKER and sov'reign Lord A
LlrX Of heaven, and earth, and seas, «■
Thy providence confirms thy word, g# ^
And answers thy decrees.
2 The things so long foretold
By David are fulfill'd,
W hen Jews and Gentiles join'd to slay
Jesus, thine holy child.]
3 Why did the Gentiles rage,
And Jews, with one accord,
Bend all their counsels to destroy
Th' Anointed of the Lord?
4 Rulers and kings agree
To form a vain design ;
Against the Lord their pow'rs unite,
Against his Christ they join.
5 The Lord derides their rage,
And will support his throne ;
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He that hath raited him from the dead
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Hath own'd him for hit Son— .{Pause.)
6 Now he's ascended high,
And a-ks to rule the earth.
The merit of his blood he |
And pleads his heav'nly birth.
7 He asks, and God bestows
A large inheritance ;
Far as the world's remotest ends
His kingdom shall advance.
8 The nations that rebel
Must feel his iron rod ,
He'll vindicate those honours well
Which he received from God.
9 [Be wise, ye rulers, now,
And worship at his throne;
With trembling joy, ye people, bow
To God's exalted Bon.
10 If once his wrath arise,
Ye perish on the place ;
Then blessed is the soul that flies
For refuge to his grace.]
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Christ'' 8 deaths resurrection, and ascension.
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1 TllTHY ^d the nations join to day
» » The Lord's anointed Son?
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"Why did they cast his laws away,
And tread his gospel down?
2 The Lord, that sits above the skies,
Derides their rage below;
He speaks with vengeance in his eyes.
And strikes their spirits through.
3 " I call him my Eternal Son,
And raise him from the dead;
I make my holy hill his throne,
And wide his kingdom spread.
4 " Ask me, my Son, and then enjoy
The utmost heathen lands:
PSALM II.
Thy rod of iron shall destroy
The rebel that withstands."
6 Be wise, ye rulers of the earth,
Obey th' anointed Lord,
Adore the King of heavenly birth,
And tremble at his word.
6 With humble love address his throne ;
For if he frown, ye die:
Those are secure, and those alone,
Who on his grace rely.
Christ's death, resurrection, and ascension.
1 "TTTHY did the Jews proclaim their rage?
» » The Romans why their swords employ?
Against the Lord their powers engage,
His dear Anointed to destroy ?
2 " Come let us break his bands," they say;
" This man shall never give us laws;"
And thus they cast his yoke away,
And nail'd the Monarch to the cross.
3 But God, who high in glory reigns,
Laughs at their pride, their rage controls ;
He'll vex their hearts with inward pains,
And speak in thunder to their souls.
4 " I will maintain the King I made
On Zion's everlasting hill;
My hand shall bring him from the dead,
And he shall stand your Sov'reign still."
v. [His wondrous rising from the earth
Makes his eternal Godhead known;
The Lord declares his heavenly birth,
" This day have I begot my Son.
6 " Ascend, my Son, to my right hand,
There thou shalt ask, and I bestow,
The utmost bounds of heathen lands :
To thee the northern isles shall bow."]
7 But nations that resist his grace,
Shall fall beneath his iron stroke;
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His rod shall crash his foes with ease,
As potters' earthen work is broke Pause.
8 Now, ye that sit on earthly thrones,
Be wise, and serve the Lord, the Lamb ;
Now at his feet submit your crowns,
Rejoice and tremble at his name.
9 With humble love address the Son,
Lest he grow angry, and ye die :
His wrath will burn to worlds unknown,
If ye provoke his jealousy.
10 His storms shall drive you quick to hell ;
He is a God, and ye but dust:
Happy the souls that know him well,
And make his grace their only trust.
Doubts and Fears suppressed.
1 ~j\/TY God, how many are my fears !
A-UL How fast my foes increase !
Conspiring my eternal death,
They break my present peace.
2 The lying tempter would persuade
There's no relief in heaven;
And all my swelling sins appear
Too big to be forgiven.
3 But thou, my glory and my strength,
Shalt on the tempter tread,
Shalt silence all my threat'ning guilt,
And raise my drooping head.
4 [I cried, and from his holy hill
He bow'd a listening ear ;
I call'd my Father and my God,
And he subdued "my fear.
5 He shed soft slumbers on mine eyes,
In spite of all my foes ;
I woke and wonder'd at the grace
That guarded my repose.]
PSALMS III. IV.
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6 What though the hosts of death and hell
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All arm'd against me stood?
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Terrors no more shall shake my soul ;
My refuge is my God
7 Arise, 0 Lord, fulfil thy grace,
While I thy glory sing ;
My God has hroke the serpent's teeth,
And death has lost his sting.
8 Salvation to the Lord belongs ;
His arm alone can save :
Blessings attend thy people here,
And reach beyond the grave.
A Morning Psalm.
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1 r\ LORD, how many are my foes,
v./ In this weak state of flesh and blood !
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My peace they daily discompose,
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But my defence and hope is God.
2 Tired with the burdens of the day,
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To thee I raised an evening cry ;
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Thou heard'st when I began to pray,
And thine almighty help was nigh.
3 Supported by thine heav'nly aid,
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I laid me down, and slept secure :
Not death should make my heart afraid,
Though I should wake and rise no more.
4 But God sustain'd me all the night :
Salvation doth to God belong :
He raised my head to see the light,
And makes his praise my morning song.
Ilea ring of p rai/er.
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1 f\ GOD of grace and righteousness,
v_/ Hear and attend when I complain ;
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Thou hast enlarged me in distress,
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Bow down a gracious ear again.
2 Ye sons of men, in vain ye try
To turn my glory into shame ;
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. ire reproach i. 3 -name*
3 Know that the Lord divides his saint*
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From all the tribes of men beside !
He hears the cry of penitents,
1 ba dear sake of < 'hrist that died.
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4 When our obedient hands have done
A thousand works of rijrhteousneoi,
. God alone,
And glory in his pard'ning grace.
5 Let the unthinking many say,
" Who will bestow some earthly _
But, Lord, thy lipht and love we
Our souls desire this heavenly for>d.
6 Then shall my cheerful pow'rs rejoice
At grace and favours so divine :
•ill I change my happy choice.
F -r all their corn, and all their wine.
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An Evening Puilm.
4.
1 T ORD, thou wilt hear me when I pray;
-Li I am for ever thine ;
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I fear before thee all the day,
Xor would I dare to sin.
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2 And while I rest my weary head.
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From cares and business free.
«>et conversing on my bed
With my own heart and thee.
3 1 pay this ev'ning sacrifice :
And, when my work is done,
Great God: my faith and hope relies
Up^n thy zraco alone.
4 Thus, with my thoughts composed to peace.
I'll give mine eyes to sleep j
Thy hand in safety keepi my days,
And will my slumbers keep.
PSALM V.
For the Lord's-day morning.
1 T ORD, in the morning thou shalt hear
-Li My voice ascending high ;
To thee will I direct my pray'r,
To thee lift up mine eye :
2 Up to the hills, where Christ is gone
To plead for all his saints,
Presenting at his Father's throne
Our songs and our complaints.
3 Thou art a God before whose sight
The wicked shall not stand ;
Sinners shall ne'er be thy delight,
Nor dwell at thy right hand.
4 But to thy house will I resort,
To taste thy mercies there ;
I will frequent thine holy court,
And worship in thy fear.
5 O may thy Spirit guide my feet,
In ways of righteousness !
Make every path of duty straight,
And plain before my face ( Pause. )
6 My watchful enemies combine
To tempt my feet astray ;
They flatter, with a base design
To make my soul their prey.
7 Lord, crush the serpent in the dust,
And all his plots destroy:
While those that in thy mercy trust
For ever shout for joy.
8 The men that love and fear thy name
Shall see their hopes fulfill 'd :
The mighty God will compass them
With favour as a shield.
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PSALM VI.
I <«* in sickness.
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1 ..draw the dreadful storm j
Nor let • »o hot
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J's bow'd down with heavy cat**,
tfa pain opprei
My couch is * >are,
w and pain wear out my days;
nij^ht with cries,
Counting the minutes as they pa**,
Till the slow morning rise.
4 Shall I be still tormented more ?
Mine eye consumed with grief?
How long, my God, how long
Thine hand aff>rd relief?
8 He hears when dust and ashes speak,
He pities all our groans ;
He saves us for his mercy's sake,
And heals our broken bones.
6 The virtue of his gov reign word
res our fainting breath \
For silent graves praise not the Lord.
Nor is he known in death.
Psalm. Temptations in richness overcome.
g 1 T ORD, I can suffer thy rebukes,
-L^ "When thou with kindness dost chastise;
L. M. But thy fierce wrath I cannot bear;
ll me rise.
And ease the tornnn that I feel;
The wounds thine heavy hand hath made,
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■»• I pass my weary davs
In sighs and groans ; and when 'tis night
PSALM VII.
My bed is water'd with my tears ;
My grief consumes and dims my sight.
4 Look, how the powers of nature mourn !
How long, Almighty God, how long?
When shall thine hour of grace return ?
"When shall I make thy grace my song?
5 I feel my flesh so near the grave,
My thoughts are tempted to despair;
But graves can never praise the Lord,
For all is dust and silence there.
6 Depart, ye tempters, from my soul,
And all despairing thoughts depart ;
My God, who hears my humble moan.
Will ease my flesh, and cheer my heart.
God's care of his people.
1 "j\TY trust is in my heavenly Friend,
-L»JL My hope in thee, my God :
Rise, and my helpless life defend
From those that seek my blood.
2 With insolence and fury they
My soul in pieces tear,
As hungry lions rend the prey,
When no deliv'rer's near.
3 If I had e'er provoked them first,
Or once abused my foe,
Then let him tread my life to dust,
And lay mine honour low.
4 If there be malice hid in me,
(I know thy piercing eyes,)
I should not dare appeal to thee,
Nor ask my God to rise.
5 Arise, my God, lift up thy hand,
Their pride and power control;
Awake to judgment, and command
Deliv'rance for my soul. — Pause.
6 [Let sinners, and their wicked rage,
Be humbled to the dust;
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PSALM VIII.
$>«alm. Shall not the God of truth n
To vindicate the jtutJ
7 Bil knows the heart, Be trie* the reins,
He will defend th' upright;
His sharpest arrows he onlains
Against the -
8 For mo their malice digg'd a pit,
But there themselves arc east;
My God makes all their iniaehief light
On their own heads at last.]
9 That cruel, persecuting race
Must feel his dreadful iwofd ;
Awake, my soul, and praise the |
And justice of the Lord!
Jiaalm, God's sovereignty and goodness.
8 1 f\ LORD, our heavenly kiiiLr.
■ vx Thy name is all divine;
g ^ Thy glories round the earth are -
And o'er the heavens they shine.
! When to thy works on high
I raise my wond'ring eyes,
And see the moon, complete in light,
Adorn the darksom.
When I survey the stars,
And all their shining form?.
Lord, what is man, that irorthlett thing,
Akin to dust and w<
Lord, what is worthless man,
That thou shouldst love him so?
Next to thine angels is he placed,
And lord of all below.
Thine honours crown his head.
While beasts, like slaves, i
And birds that cut the air with wings.
And fish that cleave the I
How rich thy bouir
And wondrous are thy \v ,
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Of dust and worms thy power can frame
A monument of praise.
7 Out of the mouths of babes
And sucklings thou canst draw
Surprising honours to thy name,
And strike the world with awe.
8 O Lord, our heavenly king,
Thy name is all divine ;
Thy glories round the earth are spread,
And o'er the heaven they shine.]
Christ's condescension and glorification.
/~\ LORD, our Lord, how wondrous great
Is thine exalted name
The glories of thy heavenly state
Let men and babes proclaim.
2 When I behold thy works on high,
The moon that rules the night,
And stars that well adorn the sky,
Those moving worlds of light ;
3 Lord, what is man, or all his race,
Who dwells so far below,
That thou shouldst visit him with grace,
And love his nature so?
4 That thine eternal Son should bear
To take a mortal form ;
Made lower than his angels are,
To save a dying worm.
5 [Yet while he lived on earth unknown,
And men would not adore, ,
Th' obedient seas and fishes own
His Godhead and his power.
6 The waves lay spread beneath his feet ;
And fish, at his command,
Bring their large shoals to Peter's net,
Bring tribute to his hand.
7 These lesser glories of the Son
Shone through the fleshly cloud;
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PSALM VI IT.
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■ . we behold bhn oa I
And men eonfeei bun God.]
8 Let him be rrown'd with i
Who lx.uod his head to <i<
And be his benoon eomeied high,
By all things that havo breath.
9 Jesus our Lord, how wottdi
Is thine exalted name!
The glories of thy heavenly state
Let the whole earth proclaim.
Tlit homnnq, of children.
1 A LM1GHTY Ruler of the skies,
-^-Thro'the wide earth thy name
And thine eternal glories rise
O'er all the heav'ns thy hands have made.
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Part I.
Ver. 1, '2, 2 To thee the voices of the young
Para-
phrased.
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A monument of honour raise ;
And babes, with uninstructed t<r:
Declare the wonders of thy praise.
3 Thy power assists their tender age
To bring proud rebels to the ground,
To still the bold blasphemers' rage,
And all their policies confound.
4 Children amidst thy temple throng
To see their great Redeemer's fan
The Son of David is their song,
And young hosannas fill the
5 The frowning scribes and angry priests
In vain their impious cavils bring:
Revenge sits silent in their faff
AVhile Jewish babes proclaim their King.
Adam and Christy lords of the old and new
creation.
1 T ORD, what was man. when made at
J-^ Adam the offspring of the dust, [lirst.
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That thou shouldst set him and his race,
But just below an angel's place?
2 That thou shouldst raise his nature so,
And make him lord of all below ;
Make every beast and bird submit,
And lay the fishes at his feet?
3 But 0 ! what brighter glories wait
To crown the second Adam's state?
What honours shall thy Son adorn,
Who condescended to be born?
4 See him below his angels made,
See him in dust amongst the dead,
To save a ruin'd world from sin ;
But he shall reign with pow'r divine.
5 The world to come, redeem 'd from all
The miseries that attend the fall,
New made and glorious, shall submit
At our exalted Saviour's feet.
Wrath and Mercy from the judgment-seat.
1 XI7"ITH my whole heart I'll raise my song;
» » Thy wonders I'll proclaim;
Thou sov'reign Judge of right and wrong,
Wilt put thy foes to shame.
2 I'll sing thy majesty and grace ;
My God prepares his throne
To judge the world in righteousness,
And make his vengeance known.
3 Then shall the Lord a refuge prove
For all the poor oppress'd ;
To save the people of his love,
And give the weary rest.
4 The men that know thy name will trust
In thy abundant grace ;
For thou hast ne'er forsook the just,
Who humbly seek thy face.
5 Sing praises to the righteous Lord,
Who dwells on Z ion's hill,
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Who ineat'ning word,
And doth his grace fulfil.
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1 W " ''^ ^P***^^?8! wpro«ne and just,
* * shall once inquire for blood,
The hamble souls that mourn in dust
Shall find a faithful God.
2 He from the dreadful gates of death
- \\\- own children raise!
In /.;■ ■ ith cheerful breath,
They ring their Father's praise.
;> Hi- foes shall (all, with heedless feet,
Into the pit they made ;
And sinners perish in the net
That their own hands had Bpnad,
4 Thus, by thy judgments, mighty God,
Are thy deep counsels known;
When men of mischief are desti
The snare must be their own. — {Pause.)
5 The wicked shall sink down to hell;
Thy wrath devour the lands
That dare forget thee, or rebel
Against thy known commands.
6 Though saints to sore distress are brought,
And wait, and long complain,
Their cries shall not be still forgot,
Nor shall their hopes be vain.
7 [Rise, great Redeemer, from thy seat,
To judge and save the poor;
Let nations tremble at thy feet,
And man prevail no more.
8 Thy thunder shall affright the proud,
And put their hearts to pain ;
Make them confess that thou art God,
And they but feeble men.]
PSALM X.
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Prayer heard, and Saints saved.
1 TTTHY doth the Lord stand off so far?
» ▼ And why conceal his face,
When great calamities appear,
And times of deep distress ?
2 Lord, shall the wicked still deride
Thy justice and thy power?
Shall they advance their heads in pride,
And still thy saints devour ?
3 They put thy judgments from their sight,
And then insult the poor?
They boast in their exalted height,
That they shall fall no more.
4 Arise, 0 God, lift up thine hand,
Attend our humble cry :
No enemy shall dare to stand
When God ascends on high. {Pause.)
5 Why do the men of malice rage,
And say with foolish pride,
" The God of heaven will ne'er engage
To fight on Z ion's side"?
6 But thou for ever art our Lord ;
And powerful is thine hand,
As when the heathens felt thy sword,
And perish 'd from thy land.
7 Thou wilt prepare our hearts to pray,
And cause thine ear to hear ;
He hearkens what his children say,
And puts the world to fear. ,
8 Proud tyrants shall no more oppress,
No more despise the just;
And mighty sinners shall confess
They are but earth and dust.
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? the Righteous, and hates the Wicked.
1 "IV/T Y refuge is the God of love ;
J_tJ_ Why do my foes insult and cry,
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" Fly like a tim'rous, trembling d<
To distant woods or mountains ily"<
\ eminent be all de>troy\i.
(That linn foundation of our peace,)
And riolenee maJoet jnatiee void.
Where shall t he rightofal -
3 The Lord in hoav'n has lix'd his throne.
His eye survey* the world below :
To him all mortal thingl an* known,
His eyelids sean-h our spirits through.
4 If lie attlicts his saints so tar.
To prove their love and try their |
"What may the bold transgressors tear:
Hi- very soul abhors their ways.
5 On impious wretches lie shall rain
Tempests of brimstone, fire, and death ;
Such as he kindled on the plain
Of Sodom with his angry bn-ath.
6 The righteous Lord loves righteous souls.
Whose thoughts and actions are shut re ;
And with a gracious eye beholds
The men that his owu image bear.
The Saint's Safety and Ilojje in evil times.
LORD, if thou dost not soou appear,
Virtue and truth will fly away ;
A faithful man amongst us here
Will scarce be found, if thou delay.
2 The whole discourse when neighbours meet,
Is fill'd with trifles loose and vain ;
Their lips are flattery and deceit,
And their proud language is profane.
3 But lips that with deceit abound
Shall not maintain their triumph long;
The God of vengeance will confound
The flatt'ring and blaspheming tongue.
\4 " Yet shall our words be free," tlx
I " Our tongues shall be controll'd by none :
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Where is the Lord will ask us why ?
Or say our lips are not our own?"
5 The Lord, who sees the poor oppress'd,
And hears th' oppressor's haughty strain,
Will rise to give his children rest,
Nor shall they trust his word in vain.
6 Thy word, 0 Lord, though often tried,
Void of deceit shall still appear ;
Not silver seven times purified
From dross and mixture, shine so clear.
7 Thy grace shall in the darkest hour
Defend the holy soul from harm ;
Though when the vilest men have power,
On every side will sinners swarm.
Complaint of a general corruption of manners.
1 TTELP, Lord, for men of virtue fail,
J- A Religion loses ground ;
The sons of violence prevail,
And treacheries ahound.
2 Their oaths and promises they break,
Yet act the flatt'rer's part;
With fair deceitful lips they speak,
And with a double heart.
3 If we reprove some hateful lie,
How is their fury stirr'd !
" Are not our lips our own?" they cry ;
"And who shall be our Lord?"
4 Scoffers appear on every side,
Where a vile race of men
Is raised to seats of power and pride,
And bears the sword in vain.— .( Pause. )
5 Lord, when iniquities abound,
And blasphemy grows bold;
When faith is hardly to be found,
And love is waxing cold,
6 Is not thy chariot hast'ning on?
Hast thou not given this sign?
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M.-iv we not trust and live upon
A promise N divine?
7 ' Yi -.' -uith the Lord, "now will I rise,
And make oppressors flee ;
1 shall appear to their surprise.
And set my servants free."
8 Thy word, like silver seven time* b
Through apes shall endure;
The men that in thy truth confide
Shall find the promise sure.
Pleading with Cod under desertion.
1 T T 0 \ V long, 0 Lord, shall I complain,
J-JL Like one that seeks his God in vain'
Canst thou thy face for ever hide,
And I still pray and be denied ?
2 Shall I for ever be forgot,
As one whom thou regardest not?
Still shall my soul thine absence mourn,
And 8t.iU despair of thy return?
3 How long shall my poor troubled breast
Be with these anxious thoughts oppress'd !
And Satan, my malicious foe,
Rejoice to see me sunk so low?
4 Hear, Lord, and grant me quick relief,
Before my death conclude my grief;
If thou withhold thy heav'nly light,
I sleep in everlasting night.
5 How will the powers of darkness boaM.
If but one praying soul be lost !
But I have trusted in thy grace,
And shall again behold th]
6 Whate'er my feen or foes suggest,
] Thou art my hope, my joy, my rest;
My heart shall feel thy lm< . mm) r;ii«-e
, My cheerful voice I
PSALMS XIII. XIV.
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Complaint tauter temptations of tlie Devil.
1 TTOW long wilt thou conceal thy face?
J-J- My God, how long delay?
When shall I feel those heav'nly rays
That chase my fears away ?
2 How long shall my poor lab'ring soul
"Wrestle and toil in vain?
Thy word can all my foes control,
And ease my raging pain.
3 See how the prince of darkness tries
All his malicious arts ;
He spreads a mist around my eyes,
And throws his fiery darts.
4 Be thou my sun, and thou my shield,
My soul in safety keep ;
Make haste, before mine eyes are seal'd
In death's eternal sleep.
5 How would the tempter boast aloud
If I become his prey !
Behold, the sons of hell grow proud
At thy so long delay.
6 But they shall fly at thy rebuke,
And Satan hide his head ;
He knows the terrors of thy look,
And hears thy voice with dread.
7 Thou wilt display that sov'reign grace,
Where all my hopes have hung ;
I shall employ my lips in praise,
And victory shall be sung.
By nature all men are Sinners.'
1 TMOOLS in their heart believe and say,
J- " That all religion's vain;
There is no God that reigns on high
Or minds th' affairs of men."
2 From thoughts so dreadfully profane,
Corrupt discourse proceeds;
2fi
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|Jaalm.
14.
14.
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And in their impious hands are found
Abominable d
8 The Lord from his celestial thrope
k'.l down on things below,
To tind the man that sought his grace,
Or did his just be know.
i By Datura ;ill are gone affray,
Their practice .-ill the suiih;
Thera'i Done that fears his Maker's hand,
There's none that loves his name.
5 Their tongues are used to speak deceit,
Their slanders never pi
How swift to mischief are their feet,
Nor know the paths of peace!
6 Such seeds of sin (that bitter root)
In every heart are found ;
Nor can they bear diviner fruit,
Till grace refine the ground.
The folly of Persecutors.
1 A *^ sinners now so senseless grown
-£*- That they the saints devour?
And never worship at thy throne,
Nor fear thine awful pov .
2 'IreatGod! appear to their sun •
Reveal thy dreadful name;
Let them no more thy wrath despise,
Nor turn our hope to shame.
3 Dost thou not dwell among the just?
And yet our foei deride,
That we should make thy name our tru-t;
(•rent God! confound their pride.
O that the jovial day were come
To finish, our distress !
When God shall bring big children home.
Our songs shall n. .
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27
Character of a Saint.
1 TXTHO shall inhabit in thy hill,
V? O God of holiness!
"Whom will the Lord admit to dwell
So near his throne of grace?
2 The man that walks in pious ways,
And works with righteous hands ;
That trusts his* Maker's promises,
And follows his commands.
3 He speaks the meaning of his heart,
Nor slanders with his tongue ;
Will scarce believe an ill report,
Nor do his neighbour wrong.
4 The wealthy sinner he contemns,
Loves all that fear the Lord ;
And though to his own hurt he swears,
Still he performs his word.
5 His hands disdain a golden bribe,
And never gripe the poor ;
This man shall dwell with God on earth,
And find his heaven secure. «•
Religion and Justice, Goodness and Truth.
WHO shall ascend thy heavenly place,
Great God, and dwell before thy face 1
The man that minds religion now,
And humbly walks with God below;
! Whose hands are pure, whose heart is clean,
Whose lips still speak the thing they mean;
No slanders dwell upon his tongue;
He hates to do his neighbour wrong. r
\ [Scarce will he trust an ill report,
Nor vents it to his neighbour's hurt :
Sinners of state he can despise,
But saints are honour'd in his eyes.]
t [Firm to his word he ever stood,
And always makes his promise good.
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15.
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Nor dare* to ehange the thing ho swears,
Whatever pain or I
5 [He never dealt in bribing gold,
And monroi thai justice should b
"While others gripe and grind the poor,
'•harity attends his door.]
6 He loves his enemies, and
For those that carte him to Ins face;
And doth to all men still t! ..
That he would hope or wish from them.
7 Vet. when his holiest works are done,
His soul depends on grace alone ■
This is the man thy face shall see,
And dwell for ever, Lord, with thee.
OMT Poverty.
1 pRESERVE me, Lord, in time of need;
-t For succour to thy throne I flee,
Lut have no merits there to plead;
My goodness cannot reach to T:
2 Oft have my heart and tongue COUf
How empty and how poor I am ;
My praise ean never make thee bleai
Nor add new glories to thy name.
3 Yet, Lord, thy saints on earth may
Some profit by the pood we do;
These are the company I keep.
These are the choicest friends I know.
4 Let others chor.se the loni of mirth
To give a relish to their wine;
I love the men of heavenly birth,
thoughts and language are divine.
Cl< r nj.
1 TTOW fast their guilt and mm
J- A Who haste to seek some idol
I will not taste their sacrifice.
Their otf'rings of forbidden blood.
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29
2 My God provides a richer cup,
And nobler food to live upon ;
He for my life has offer'd up
Jesus, his best beloved Son.
3 His love is my perpetual feast ;
By day his counsels guide me right;
And be his name for ever bless'd
Who gives me sweet advice by night.
i I set him still before mine eyes ;
At my right hand he stands prepared
To keep my soul from all surprise,
And be my everlasting guard.
Courage in Death) and hope of the Resurrection.
1 TTTHEN God is nigh, my faith is strong
» » His arm is my almighty prop :
Be glad, my heart; rejoice, my tongue;
My dying flesh shall rest in hope.
2 Though in the dust I lay my head,
Yet, gracious God, thou wilt not leave
My soul for ever with the dead,
Nor lose thy children in the grave.
3 My flesh shall thy first call obey,
Shake off the dust, and rise on high ;
Then shalt thou lead the wondrous way
Up to thy throne above the sky.
4 There streams of endless pleasure flow ;
And full discov'ries of thy grace
(Which we but tasted here below)
Spread heavenly joys through all the place.
Support and Counsel from God without merit.
1 Q< AVE me, 0 Lord, from every foe;
^ In thee my trust I place,
Though all the good that I can do
Can ne'er deserve thy grace.
2 Yet if my God prolong my breath,
The saints may profit by 't;
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16.
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16.
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Psalm.
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Ver.
1—3.
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! XVI.
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Thi -.-tints, the glory of the earth,
The men of my detfght.
'.) Let heatheni to their idols haste,
And worship wood or stone;
But my delightful lot i-
Where the true <'"<! is known.
4 HiB hand proridee my constant food,
He fills my daily cup;
Much am I pleased with present good,
But more rejoice in hope,
5 God is my portion and my joy,
His counsels are my light;
He give* me sweet advice by day,
And gentle hints by night,
6 My soul would all her thoughts approve
To his all-seeing eye;
Nor death, nor hell, my hope shall move
"While such a friend is nigh.
The Death and Hesurrectif/n of Christ.
1
' T SET the Lord before my face,
He bears my courage up :
My heart and tongue their joys express,
.My leek shall rest in hope.
2 u My spirit, Lord, thou wilt not leave
AY here souls departed are;
Nor quit my body to the grave,
To see corruption there.
3 " Thou wilt reveal the path of life,
And raise me to thy throne;
Thy courts immortal pleasure give,
Thy presence joys unknown."
4 [Thus in the name of Christ the Lord,
The holy David Bmgj
And Providence fulfils the wi.rd
Of his prophetic tongue.
5 Jesus, whi'ii lores,
Was crucified and slain :
PSALM XVII.
Behold, the tomb its prey restores !
Behold, he lives again !
6 When shall my feet arise and stand
On heav'n's eternal hills?
There sits the Son at God's right hand,
And there the Father smiles.]
Portion of Saints and Sinners.
1 A RISE, my gracious God,
-£TL And make the wicked flee ;
They are but thy chastising rod,
To drive thy saints to thee.
2 Behold, the sinner dies,
His haughty words are vain ;
Here in this life his pleasure lies,
And all beyond is pain.
3 Then let his pride advance,
And boast of all his store ;
The Lord is my inheritance,
My soul can wish no more.
4 I shall behold the face
Of my forgiving God ;
And stand complete in righteousness,
"YVash'd in my Saviour's blood.
5 There's a new heaven begun,
When I awake from death,
Dress 'd in the likeness of thy Son,
And draw immortal breath.
The Sinner's Portion and Sainfs Hope. ,
I T ORD, I am thine ; but thou wilt prove
-L* My faith, my patience, and my love :
When men of spite against me join
They are the sword, the hand is thine.
Their hope and portion lies below :
'Tis all the happiness they know,
'Tis all they seek; they take their shares,
And leave the rest among then- heirs.
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17?
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18.
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Parti.
Ver.
1—6,
15—18.
3 What rinneri value I rec
Lord, ti> enough that thou art mine:
1 > 1 1 «- 1 1 1 behold thy blissful fa
And stand complete in righteousness.
4 This life's a dream, an empty show;
But the bright world to which 1 go
Hath joys substantial and sincere:
When shall 1 wake and lind me there?
0 glorious hour! O bless'd abode!
1 shall be near and like my God !
And flesh and sin no more control
The sacred pleasures of the soul.
6 My flesh shall slumber in the ground
Till the last trumpet's joyful sound ;
Then burst the chains with sweet surprise.
And in my Saviour's image rise.
Deliverance from Despn it.
1 mHEE will I love, 0 Lord, my strength,
J- My rock, my tower, my high defence;
Thy mighty arm shall be my trust,
For I have found salvation thence.
2 Death, and the terrors of the grave,
Stood round me with their dismal shade;
While floods of high temptations rose,
And made my sinking soul afraid.
3 I saw the op'ning gates of hell,
With endless pains and sorrows there,
Which none but they that feel can tell,
While I was hurried to despair.
4 In my distress I call'd my God,
When I could scarce believe him mine ;
He bow'd his ear to my complaint,
Then did his grace appear divine.
5 [With speed he Hew to my relief;
As on a cherub's wing he rode ;
Awful and bright as lightning shone
The face of my deliverer God.
PSALM XVIII.
33
G Temptations fled at his rebuke,
The blast of his almighty breath;
He sent salvation from on high,
And drew me from the deeps of death.]
7 Great were my fears, my foes were great,
Much was their strength, and more their
rage ;
But Christ my Lord is conqu'ror still,
In all the wars that devils wage.
8 My song for ever shall record
That terrible, that joyful hour.
And give the glory to the Lord,
Due to his mercy and his power.
Sincerity proved and rewarded.
1 T ORD, thou hast seen my soul sincere,
-L^ Hast made thy truth and love appear ;
Before mine eyes I set thy laws,
And thou hast own'd my righteous cause.
2 Since I have learn'd thy holy ways,
I've walk'd upright before thy face :
Or if my feet did e'er depart,
'Twas never with a wicked heart.
3 What sore temptations broke my rest !
What wars and strugglings in my breast !
But through thy grace, that reigns within,
I guard against my darling sin.
4 That sin that close besets me still,
That works and strives against my will ;
When shall thy spirit's sov'reign power
Destroy it, that it rise no more?
5 [With an impartial hand, the Lord
Deals out to mortals their reward ;
The kind and faithful soul shall find
A God as faithful and as kind.
6 The just and pure shall ever say,
Thou art more pure, more just than they ;
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-hall know
God hath
J-. and true thy word,
Who i| a God betide the Lord I
Or when
'IV lie that gffldl me with hit mi^ht,
e bi< holy sword to wield;
And, while with no and hell I
Spreads hi- salvation for my shield.
He lives, and Messed be my K«»ck ;
The God ofmj salvation lives;
The dark designs of hell are broke;
Sweet is the peace my Father gives.
Before the scoffers of tl
I will exalt my Father's name;
Nor tremble at their mighty
But meet reproach, and bear the shame.
To David and fail royal ><■< «1
Thy grace for ever shall extend ;
Thy love to saints in Christ their head
Knows not a limit nor an end.
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31,34,35,
46, &c.
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rictory and Triumph over temporal enemies.
WE love thee, Lord, and we adore;
Now is thine arm reveal'd :
Thou art our strength, our heaven!
Our bulwark, and our shield.
"We fly to our eternal Rock,
And find a sure d» i
His holy name our lips in v.
And draw salvation thence.
Whell God our leader shines in arms,
"What mortal heart can 1 •
The thunder of his loud alarms,
The lightning of hi-
PSALM XVIII.
35
1 He rides upon the winged wind ;
And angels, in array,
In millions wait to know his mind,
And swift as flames obey.
> He speaks, and at his fierce rebuke
Whole armies are dismay 'd;
His voice, his frown, his angry look,
Strikes all their courage dead.
I He forms our generals for the field,
With all their dreadful skill;
Gives them his awful sword to wield,
And makes their heart of steel.
' [He arms our captains to the fight,
(Though there his name's forgot;
He girded Cyrus with his might,
But Cyrus knew him not.)
t Oft has the Lord whole nations bless'd
For his own church's sake;
The powers that gave his people rest
Shall of his care partake.]
TJie Conqueror's song.
TO thine almighty arm we owe
The triumphs of the day :
Thy terrors, Lord, confound the foe,
And melt their strength away.
! 'Tis by- thine aid our troops prevail,
And break united powers,
Or burn their boasted fleets, or scale
The proudest of their towers.
How have we chased them thro' the field,
And trod them to the ground,
While thy salvation was our shield,
But they no shelter found !
i In vain to idol saints they cry,
And perish in their blood ;
Where is a Rock so great, so high,
So powerful as our God ?
LM XIX.
Pfata,
1 ever lives,
18.
.me be ever bless 'd;
'Tis his own arm the rictorj gives,
C On kii,_ u David did,
He poun i .iwn;
Secures their hoooan to tluir -
And well supports the crown.
19.
The Book of Nature and Scripture.
(Tor i 1 1 ming.)
S. M.
1 TOEHOLD, the lofty sky
-£} Ik-dares its Maker God,
Part I.
And all his starry works on high
Proclaim his power abroad.
2 The darkness and the light
Still keep their course the same ;
"While night to day, and day to night,
Divinely teach his name.
3 In every different land
Their general voice is known ;
They show the wonders of his hand,
And orders of his throne.
4 Ye British lands, rejoice,
Here he reveals his word;
We are not left to nature's voice,
To bid us know the Lord.
6 His statute* and commands
Are set before our eyes ;
He puts his gospel in our hands,
"Where our salvation lies.
6 His laws are just and pure,
His truth without deceit,
His promises for ever sure.
And his rewards are great.
7 [Not honey to the taste
,
Affords so much delight,
PSALM XIX.
37
Nor gold that lias the furnace pass'd
So much allures the sight.
8 While of thy works I sing,
Thy glory to proclaim,
Accept the praise, my God, my King,
In my Redeemer's name.]
God's Word most excellent.
(For a Lord's-day Morning.)
1 TDEHOLD, the morning sun
J-) Begins his glorious way,
His beams through all the nations run,
And life and light convey.
2 But where the gospel comes,
It spreads diviner light ;
It calls dead sinners from their tombs,
And gives the blind their sight.
3 How perfect is thy word !
And all thy judgments just !
For ever sure thy promise, Lord,
And men securely trust.
4 My gracious God, how plain
Are thy directions given !
0 may I never read in vain,
But find the path to heaven !— (Pause.)
5 I hear thy word with love,
And I would fain obey ;
Send thy good Spirit from above
To guide me, lest I stray.
6 O who can ever find
The errors of his ways?
Yet with a bold presumptuous mind
I would not dare transgress.
7 Warn me of every sin,
Forgive my secret faults,
And cleanse this guilty soul of mine,
Whose crimes exceed my thoughts.
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8 While with my heart and tongue
•.hroad,
Accept the worship and tl •
M\ >aviour and m\ I
Tic Bookt iff Nature and of Scripture compared.
1 rpHE heavens declare thy glory, Lord,
J- 111 every star thy wisdom shines;
I lut when our eyea behold thy word,
We read thy name in fairer
2 The roffing sun, the changing li^ht,
And nights and days, thy power confess:
But the bless'd volume thou hast writ
Keveals thy justice and thy _
3 Sun, moon, and stars, convey thy praise
Round the whole earth, and never stand,
So when thy truth began itfl
It touch'd and glanced on every land.
4 Nor shall thy spreading g
Till through the world thy truth has run.
Till Christ has all the nations bless'd
That fcee the light, or feel the sun.
5 Great Sun of Righteousness, arise,
Bless the dark world with heavenly light:
Thy gospel makes the simple wise,
Thy laws are pore, thy judgments right.
6 Thy noblest wonders here we view
In souls renew'd, and sins forgiven ;
Lord, cleanse my sins my soul renew.
And make thy word my guide to heaven.
Tlie Bo'jks of Katuve and of Scripture.
(To the tune of the 113th Psalm.)
1 /~*i RE AT God, the heavens' well-order 'd
vJT frame
Declares the glories of thy name ;
There thy rich work- of wonder shine;
PSALM XIX.
39
A thousand starry beauties there,
A thousand radiant marks appear
Of boundless power and skill divine.
2 From night to day, from day to night,
The dawning and the dying light
Lectures of heavenly wisdom read :
With silent eloquence they raise
Our thoughts to our Creator's praise,
And neither sound nor language need.
3 Yet their divine instructions run
Far as the journeys of the sun,
And every nation knows their voice :
The sun, like some young bridegroom dress'd,
Breaks from the chambers of the east,
Rolls round, and makes the earth rejoice,
4 Where'er he spreads his beams abroad,
He smiles and speaks his Maker God ;
All nature joins to show thy praise :
Thus God in every creature shines ;
Fair is the book of nature's lines,
But fairer is thy book of grace.— ( Pause. )
5 I love the volumes of thy Word ;
What light and joy those leaves afford
To souls benighted and distress'd !
Thy precepts guide my doubtful way,
Thy fear forbids my feet to stray,
Thy promise leads my heart to rest.
6 From the discoveries of thy law
The perfect rules of life I draw ;
These are my study and delight ;
Not honey so invites the taste,
Nor gold that hath the furnace pass'd
Appears so pleasing to the sight.
7 Thy threat'nings wake my slumbering eyes,
And warn me where my danger lies ;
But 'tis thy blessed gospel, Lord,
Pssalm.
19.
40
PSALM XX.
Psalm.
19.
{taalm.
20.
L. M.
That makes in y gqffl clean,
Converts my i ,IV sin,
And .,.ir(]<
b Who knows |
My God, fcrgrre mj
And from presumptuous sins restrain;
■aise,
That J have read thy book of'-'
And book of nature, not in vain.
1 "VTO W may the God of power and grace
-^ Attend his people's humble cry!
Jehovah hears when [and prays,
And brings deliverance from on high.
2 The name of Jacob's God defends
Better than shields or brazen walls ;
lie from his sanctuary sends
Succour and strength when Zion calls.
3 Well he remembers all our sighs,
His lore exceeds our best d<
His Lowe accept! the sacrifice
Of humble groans and broken hearts.
4 In his salvation is our hoj.e,
And, in the name of Isr'el'l God,
Our troops shall lift their banners up,
Our navies spread their flagi abroad
5 S<-me trust in horses train'd for war,
And some of chariots make their boasts;
Our surest expectations are
From thee, the Lord of hcavenlv hosts.
6 [O may the mem'ry of thy name
Inspire our armies for the fight I
Our foes shall fall and die with shame,
Or quit the field with shameful flight.]
7 Now save u<s Lord, from slavish fear,
Now let our hopes be firm and strong,
PSALM XXL
41
Till the salvation shall appear,
And joy and triumph raise the song.
Our King is the care of Heaven.
1 rilHE king, 0 Lord, with songs of praise,
J- Shall in thy strength rejoice;
And, bless'd with thy salvation, raise
To heaven his cheerful voice.
2 Thy sure defence through nations round
Has spread his glorious name ;
And his successful actions crown'd
With majesty and fame.
3 Then let the king on God alone
For timely aid rely ;
His mercy shall support the throne,
And all our wants supply.
4 But, righteous Lord, his stubborn foes
Shall feel thy dreadful hand ;
Thy vengeful arm shall find out those
That hate his mild command.
5 When thou against them dost engage,
Thy just but dreadful doom
Shall, like a fiery oven's rage,
Their hopes and them consume.
6 Thus, Lord, thy wondrous power declare,
And thus exalt thy fame ;
Whilst we glad songs of praise prepare
For thine almighty name.
Christ exalted to the Kingdom.
1 "Pi AVID rejoiced in God his strength,
-L' Raised to the throne by special grace,
But Christ the Son appears at length,
Fulfils the triumph and the praise.
2 How great is the Messiah's joy
In the salvation of thy hand !
Lord, thou hast raised his kingdom high,
And given the world to his command.
L. M.
Ver. 1-
9.
42
Plata.
21.
IJsalm.
22.
C. M.
Part I.
Ver.
1—16.
PSALM XX I I
:i Ti|V nti whate'er he will,
-N'"' <1"th " BS< withhold;
Blessing! of lore prevent him still,
And crowns of glory, not of gold.
•i Honour and majesty divine
Around his sacred temple shine;
Bless'd with the faronrofthy i'acc,
And length of everlasting
5 Thine hand shall find out all' his foes;
And u a fiery oven glows
With raging heat and Living coals,
So shall thy wrath devour their souls.
Christ.
1 WIn **" my God ni-v ",ul :
" » Nor will a smile afford ?
(Thus David once in anguish spoke,
And thus our dying Lord.)
2 Though 'tis thy chief delight to dwell
Among thy praising sai
Yet thou canst hear a groan as well,
And pity our complaints.
3 Our fathers trusted in thy name,
And great deliverance found;
But I'm a worm, despised of men,
And trodden to the ground.
4 Shaking the head they pass me by,
And laugh my sou] to scorn ;
"In vain he trusts in God," thev civ,
lected and forlorn."
5 But thou art he who form'd my flesh
By thine almighty word:
And since I hung upon tin- breast,
My hope is in the Lord.
6 "Why will my Father hide his fi
When foes stand threatning round,
In the dark hour of deep dil
And not a helper found U-f Pause . )
PSALM XXII.
43
7 Behold thy darling left among
tfaafot
The cruel and the proud,
22.
As bulls of Bashan, fierce and strong,
As lions roaring loud.
8 From earth and hell my sorrows meet
To multiply the smart ;
They nail my hands, they pierce my feet,
And try to vex my heart.
9 Yet if thy sov'reign hand let loose
The rage of earth and hell,
Why will my heavenly Father bruise
The Son he loves so well?
10 My God, if possible it be,
Withhold this bitter cup ;
But I resign my will to thee,
And drink the sorrows up.
11 My heart dissolves with pangs unknown,
In groans I waste my breath;
Thy heavy hand has brought me down
Low as the dust of death.
12 Father, I give my spirit up,
And trust it in thy hand ;
My dying flesh shall rest in hope,
And rise at thy command.
Christ's Sufferings and Kingdom.
1 " "VTOW from the roaring lion's rage,
-^ 0 Lord, protect thy Son,
$aalm,
22.
Nor leave thy darling to engage
The powers of hell alone."
C. M.
2 Thus did our suffering Saviour pray
Part II.
With mighty cries and tears ;
God heard him in that dreadful day,
Ver. 20,
And chased away his fears.
21, 27—
3 Great was the vict'ry of his death,
31.
His throne exalted high :
And all the kindreds of the earth
Shall worship or shall die.
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PSALM XXII.
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22.
flsalm.
22.
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4 A num'rous <<n>j.rinu must arise
l'n-ni his expiring groans;
Tlicv shall be reckon'd in his eyes
J-'or daoghten and for sons.
6 The meek and humble souls shall see
Hi*- table richly spread ;
And all that seek the Lord shall be
"With joys immortal tod.
6 The isles shall know the righteousness
Of our incarnate < tod,
And nations yet unborn profess
Salvation in his blood.
Christ's Suffering* and Exaltation.
1 "VTOW let our mournful songs record
■i-^ The dying sorrows of our Lord,
"When he complain'd in tears and blood
As one forsaken of his God.
2 The Jews beheld him thus forlorn,
And shake their heads, and laugh in scorn
" He rescued others from the grave;
Now let him try himself to save.
3 " This is the man did once pretend
God was his father and his Friend ;
If God the blessed lov'd him so,
Why doth he fail to help him now?"
4 Barbarous people! cruel pi
J low they stood round like savage beasts;
Like lions gaping to devour,
When God had left him in their power.
5 They wound his head, his hands, his feet,
Till streams of blood each other meet;
By lot his garments they divide,
And mock the pangs in which he died.
6 But God, his Father, heard his cry :
Raised from the dead, he reigns on high;
The nations learn his righteouflOf
And humble sinners taste his grace.
PSALM XXIII.
45
God our Shepherd.
1 TIT Y shepherd is the living Lord ;
jJfJL Now shall my wants be well sup-
His providence and holy word [plied ;
Become my safety and my guide.
2 In pastures where salvation grows
He makes me feed, he makes me rest;
There living water gently flows,
And all the food divinely bless'd.
3 My wandering feet his ways mistake,
But he restores my soul to peace,
And leads me, for his mercy's sake,
In the fair paths of righteousness.
4 Though I walk through the gloomy vale
Where death and all its terrors are,
My heart and hope shall never fail,
For God my Shepherd's with me there.
5 Amidst the darkness and the deeps,
Thou art my comfort, thou my stay ;
Thy staff supports my feeble steps,
Thy rod directs my doubtful way.
6 The sons of earth, and sons of hell,
Gaze at thy goodness, and repine
To see my table spread so well
With living bread, and cheerful wine
7 [How I rejoice when on my head
Thy Spirit condescends to rest !
'Tis a divine anointing, shed
Like oil of gladness at a feast.
8 Surely the mercies of the Lord
Attend his household all their days ;
There will I dwell to hear his word,
To seek his face and sing his praise.]
God our Shepherd.
1 "IV/TY shepherd will supply my need,
'JjA. Jehovah is his name ;
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paalm,
23.
46
PmIk,
23.
PSALM XXIII.
In pastures fresh be make* me I
• the living stream.
2 lie brinies my wand'ring spirit back
When I forsake hie
Arid leade me, for his mercy's sake,
In pathe <>i' truth mihI grace.
3 When I walk through the shades' of death,
Thy preaenee is my stay ;
A word of thy supporting breath
Drives all my feare away.
4 Thy hand, in sight "fall my foes,
Doth still my tabic Spread,
My cup with bl< Mings overflows,
Thine oil anoints my head.
5 The sore provisions of my God
Attend me all my day- :
0 may thy house be mine abode,
And all my work be prai
6 There would I find a settled rest,
"While others go and come;
No more a stranger or a guest,
But like a child at home.
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23.
S. M.
Qod oar S/'f/'hcrd.
1 rpiIE Lord my shepherd is,
J- I shall be well supplied;
Since he is mine, and I am his,
What can I want b
2 Ho leads me to the place
Where heavenly pasture grows,
Where living waters Lr<'iitly pass,
And full salvation fiowi.
3 If e'er I go astray,
He doth my soul reclaim,
And guides me in his own right way.
For his most holy name.
4 While Ik1 affbrde his aid
1 cannot yield to fear;
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47
Though I should walk thro' death's dark
My Shepherd's with me there, [shade,
5 In spite of all my foes,
Thou dost my table spread ;
My cup with blessings overflows,
And joy exalts my head.
6 The bounties of thy love
Shall crown my following days ;
Nor from thy house will I remove,
Nor cease to speak thy praise.
Dwelling with God.
1 rpHE earth for ever is the Lord's,
-L With Adam's num'rous race :
He raised its arches o'er the floods,
And built it on the seas.
2 But who among the sons of men
May visit thine abode ?
He that has hands from mischief clean,
Whose heart is right with God.
3 This is the man may rise and take
The blessings of his grace ;
This is the lot of those that seek
The God of Jacob's face.
4 Now let our souls' immortal powers
To meet the Lord prepare,
Lift up their everlasting doors,
The King of Glory's near.
6 The King of Glory ! who can tell
The wonders of his might?
He rules the nations ; but to dwell
With saints is his delight.
Saints dwell in Heaven.
1 nnHIS spacious earth is all the Lord's,
J- And men and worms, and beasts and
He raised the building on the seas, [birds:
And gave it for their dwelling-place.
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24.
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24.
L. M.
48
PSALM XXV.
tfsalm.
24.
psalm.
25.
S. M.
Part I.
Ver.
1—11.
2 But there'i ■ brighter world on high,
Thy palace, Lord, above the iky:
Who dial] atoend that bleai'd abode,
And dwell so near his Maker G<-<1 1
3 lie that abhors and liars to sin,
Whoet heart is pure, whose hands are clean,
Him .'-hall the Lord the .Saviour bless,
And clothe his soul with righteousness.
4 These are the men, the piou
That seek the God of Jacob's face ;
These shall enjoy the blissful sight,
And dwell in everlasting light.—{"PcW3e. )
5 Rejoice, ye shining worlds on high,
Behold the King of Glory nigh !
Who can this King of Glory be?
The mighty Lord, the Saviour's he.
6 Ye heavenly gates, your leaves display,
To make the Lord the Saviour way :
Laden with spoils from earth and hell,
The Conqu'ror comes with God to dwelL
7 Raised from the dead, he goes before ;
He opens heaven's eternal door,
To give his saints a bless'd abode,
Near their Redeemer and their God.
Waiting for Pardon and Direction.
I LIFT my soul to God,
;
My trust is in his name :
Let not my foes that seek my blood
Still triumph in my shame.
Sin, and the powers of hell,
Fersuade me to despair :
Lord, make me know thy cov'nant well,
That I may 'scape the snare.
From the first dawning light
Till the dark evening rise,
For thy salvation, Lord, I wait
With ever-longing eyes.
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4 Remember all thy grace,
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And lead me in thy truth ;
25.
Forgive the sins of riper days,
And follies of my youth.
5 The Lord is just and kind ;
The meek shall learn his ways,
And every humble sinner find
The methods of his grace.
6 For his own goodness' sake
He saves my soul from shame :
He pardons, though my guilt be great,
Through my Redeemer's name.
Divine Instruction.
^satot.
1 TT7HERE shall the man be found
VV That fears t' offend his God?
25.
That loves the gospel's joyful sound
S. M.
And trembles at the rod?
2 The Lord shall make him know
Part II
The secrets of his heart,
Ver.
The wonders of his cov'nant show,
10 14.
And all his love impart.
3 The dealings of his hand
Are truth and mercy still
With such as to his cov'nant stand,
And love to do his will.
4 Their soul shall dwell at ease
Before their Maker's face ;
Their seed shall taste the promises
In their extensive grace.
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Distress of Soul.
25.
1 "jl/TINE eyes and my desire
-L*J- Are ever to the Lord ;
S. M.
I love to plead his promises,
Part III
And rest upon his word.
2 Turn, turn thee to my soul,
Ver.
Bring thy salvation near;
15—22.
25.
LM XXVI.
tfsalm.
26.
L M.
Wh.-n will thy hai v feet
(Mir
3 When shall tl. ace
Of my forgiring God
E& Itora BM In. in
Mv manuring feet have trod!
4 The tumult of my thou
Doth hut enlarge d
-My ipirit languish,
ite and low,
5 Willi every morning light
.My SOTTOW
Look on my anguish and my pain,
And pardon all m _ j bMaaJ
6 Behold the hosts of hell,
J low cruel is their hate!
linst my life they rise, and join
Their fury with <:•
7 O keep my soul from d<
Nor put my hope to shame,
Fori have placed my only trust
In my Redeemer's name.
8 With humble faith I wait
To see thy face again ;
Of Israel it .shall ne'er be -
He sought the Lord in vain.
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"FUDGE me. (.) Load, and prove say ways
And try my reins, and try my heart
My faith upon thy pi
Nor from thy law my feet depart.
2 I hate to walk, 1 hate to
With men of vanity and lies;
Qer and the hy;
Are the abhorrence of mini
3 Amongst thy saints will I appear
With hands well Tinhofl in innocence,
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51
But when I stand before thy bar,
The blood of Christ is my defence.
4 I love thy habitation, Lord,
The temple where thine honours dwell ;
There shall I hear thine holy word,
And there thy works of wonder tell.
5 Let not my soul be join'd at last
With men of treachery and blood,
Since I my days on earth have pass'd
Among the saints, and near my God.
The Cliurch is our Delight and Safety.
1 fTHHE Lord of glory is my light,
J- And my salvation too ;
God is my strength, nor will I fear
What all my foes can do.
2 One privilege my heart desires :
O grant me an abode
Among the churches of thy saints,
The temples of my God !
3 There shall I offer my requests,
And see thy beauty still ;
Shall hear thy messages of love.
And there inquire thy will.
4 "When troubles rise, and storms appear,
There may his children hide ;
God has a strong pavilion, where
He makes my soul abide.
5 Now shall my head be lifted high
Above my foes around,
And songs of joy and victory
Within thy temple sound.
Prayer and Hope.
1 GOOXasI heard my Father say,
^ "Ye children, seek my grace,"
My heart replied without delay,
' I'll seek my Father's face. "
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PSALM XXIX.
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27.
C. M.
P^rt II.
Ver. 8, 9,
13, 14.
tfsalm.
29.
L. M.
2 Let not thy bee be hid from me,
Nor frown my soul .-.
God of my life, I fly t
In a dittreiumg day.
3 Should friends and kindred near and dear
i me to want or die,
My God would make my life his care,
And all my need supply.
4 My Bunting Been had died with grief,
Had not my soul bettered
To see thy grace provide relief;
Nor was my hope decerrecL
5 Wait on the Lord, ye trembling saints,
And keep your courage up ;
He'll raise your spirit when it mints,
And far exceed your hope.
Storm and TJiunder.
1 /^i IVE to the Lord, ye sons of fame,
VX Give to the Lord renown and power,
Ascribe due honours to his name,
And his eternal might adore.
2 The Lord proclaims his power aloud
Over the ocean and the land ;
His voice divides the watery cloud,
And lightnings blaze at his command.
3 He speaks, and tempest, hail, and wind,
Lay the wide forest bare around :
The fearful hart and frighten'd hind
Leap at the terror of the sound.
4 To Lebanon he turns hie voice.
And, lo, the stately cedars break :
The mountains tremble at the noise,
The valleys roar, the deserts quake.
5 The Lord sits sov'reign on the flood,
The Thund'rer reigns for ever king;
But makes his Church his bless'd abode,
Where we his awful glories sing.
PSALM XXX.
53
fsalm,
30.
L. M.
Part I.
6 In gentler language there, the Lord
The counsels of his grace imparts;
Amidst the raging storm, his word
Speaks peace and courage to our hearts.
Sickness healed, and Sorrow removed.
1 T WILL extol thee, Lord, on high :
J- At thy command diseases fly :
Who but a God can speak and save
From the dark borders of the grave ?
2 Sing to the Lord, y« saints of his,
And tell how large his goodness is ;
Let all your powers rejoice and bless,
While you record his holiness.
3 His anger but a moment stays,
His love is life and length of days ;
Though grief and tears the night employ.
The morning star restores the joy.
Health, Sickness, and Recovery.
1 T71 IRM was my health, my day was bright,
J- And I presumed 'twould ne'er be
Fondly I said within my heart, [night;
"Pleasure and peace shall ne'er depart."
2 But I forgot thine arm was strong,
Which made my mountain stand so long,
Soon as thy face began to hide,
My health was gone, my comforts died.
3 I cried aloud to thee, my God,
" What canst thou profit by my blood?
Deep in the dust can I declare
Thy truth, or sing thy goodness there?
4 " Hear me, 0 God of grace," I said,
" And bring me from among the dead :"
Thy word rebuked the pains I felt,
Thy pardoning love removed my guilt.
5 My groans, and tears, and forms of woe,
Are turn'd to joy and praises now;
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L. M.
Part II.
Ver. 6.
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PSALM XX XT.
}3aalm.
31.
CM.
Tart I.
13—1.'),
22, 23.
I throw my sackcloth en the ground,
And ease tad gladness gird me round.
6 My tongue, the glory ol my frame,
Shall ne'er be silent of thy name ; [heav'n,
Thy praise shall sound throngfa earth and
For sickness heal'd and tini fargjhvn.
from Death.
1 TXTO thine hand, 0 God of truth,
-*- My ipiril 1 commit;
Thou hast redeem 'd my soul from death,
And saved me from the pit.
2 The passions of my hope and fear
Maintain 'd a doubtful strife,
While sorrow, pain, and sin, conspired
To take away nay life.
3 " My times are in thine hand," I cried,
" Though 1 draw near the du>t ;*'
Thou art the refuge where I hide,
The God in whom I trust.
4 0 make thy reconciled face
Upon thy servant shine,
And save me for thy mercy's sake,
For I'm entirely thine.— f Pause, )
5 ['Twas in my haste my spirit said,
" I must despair and die,
I am cut oft' before thine eyes ;"
But thou hast heard my cry.]
6 Thy goodness how divinely free!
How wondrous is thy gi
To those that fear thy majesty,
And trust thy promises!
7 0 love the Lord, all ye his saints,
And sin;: his p raises loud;
He'll bend his ear t<> your complaints
And recompense the proud.
PSALM XXXTT.
55
Deliverance from Slander and Reproach.
1 "\/|"Y heart rejoices in thy name,
jj/JL My God, my help, my trust ;
Thou hast preserved my face from shame.
Mine honour from the dust.
2 " My life is spent with grief," I cried,
" My years consumed in groans,
My strength decays, mine eyes are dried,
And sorrow wastes my bones."
?t Among mine enemies, my name
Was a mere proverb grown,
While to my neighbours I became
Forgotten and unknown.
4 Slander and fear on every side
Seized and beset me round ;
I to the throne of grace applied,
And speedy rescue found.—f Pause. )
5 How great deliverance thou hast wrought
Before the sons of men !
The lying lips to silence brought,
And made their boastings vain !
6 Thy children from the strife of tongues
Shall thy pavilion hide ;
Guard them from infamy and wrongs,
And crush the sons of pride.
7 Within thy secret presence, Lord,
Let me for ever dwell ;
No fenced city wall'd and barr'd,
Secures a saint so well.
Forgiveness of Sins on Confession.
1 f\ BLESSED souls are they
^-^ Whose sins are cover'd o'er !
Divinely bless'd, to whom the Lord
Imputes their guilt no more.
2 They mourn their follies past,
And keep their hearts with care ;
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PSALM XXXII.
iJsalm.
32.
iJsalm.
32.
CM.
Their lips and live-, without deceit,
Shall prove their faith sincere.
3 "While I conceal'd my guilt,
I felt the fest'ring wound,
Till I confesa'd my sins to thee,
And ready pardon found.
4 1. in to pray,
Let saints keep near the throne;
Our help, in times of deep distress,
Is found in God alone.
Free Pardon and Sincere 0>
1 TTAPPY the man to whom his God
II No more imputes his sin,
But, -wash'd in the .Redeemer's blood,
Hath made his garments clean !
2 Happy beyond expression he
WnOM debt! are thus discharged;
And from the guilty bondage free,
He feels his soul en!
3 His spirit hates deceit and lies,
His words are all sincere;
He guards his heart, he guards his eyes,
To keep his conscience clear.
4 "While I my inward guilt suppress'd,
No quiet could I find ;
Thy wrath lay burning in my breast,
And rack'd my tortured mind.
6 Then I confess'd my troubled thoughts,
.My secret sins revealed;
Thy pard'ning grace forgave my faults,
Thy grace my pardon seal*d.
6 This shall invite thy saints to pray;
When like a raging flood
Temptations rise, our strength and stay
Is a forgiving God.
PSALM XXXIT.
57
Repentance and free Pardon.
1 "OLESS'D is the man, for ever bless 'd,
-D Whose guilt is pardon 'd by his God ;
Whose sins with sorrow are confess'd,
And cover'd with his Saviour's blood.
2 Bless'd is the man to whom the Lord
Imputes not his iniquities ;
He pleads no merit of reward,
And not on works but grace relies.
3 From guile his heart and lips are free ;
His humble joy, his holy fear,
With deep repentance well agree,
And join to prove his faith sincere.
4 How glorious is that righteousness
That hides and cancels all his sins,
While a bright evidence of grace
Through his whole life appears and shines !
A guilty Conscience eased by confession and
pardon.
1 "ITTHILE I keep silence, and conceal
» » My heavy guilt within my heart,
What torments doth my conscience feel !
What agonies of inward smart!
2 I spread my sins before the Lord,
And all my secret faults confess ;
Thy gospel speaks a pard'ning word,
Thine Holy Spirit seals the grace.
3 For this shall every humble soul
Make swift addresses to thy seat ;
When floods of huge temptation roll,
There shall they find a bless'd retreat.
4 How safe beneath thy wings I lie,
When days grow dark and storms appear
And when I walk, thy watchful eye
Shall guide me safe from every snare.
^ saint.
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Part I.
$aalm.
32.
L. M.
Part II.
5S
PSALM XXXIII.
33.
C. M.
Par* I.
IJaalm.
33.
c. II
Part II.
1 T> EJ( IICE, ye righteous, in the Lord.
-1 *> This work belongs t<> you;
of hie name, hia fays, lii=> word.
How holy, just, and true!
2 His mercy and hia righteousness
Let heaven and earth preeUum;
Hi- wrorkl of nature and oi
sal his irondroai name.
3 Ili> wisdom and almighty word
Tin- heavenly arches bj i i
And by the Spirit of the Lord
Their .-hilling hosta were made.
4 He bid the liquid water- flow
To their appointed deep;
The flowing seas their limits know,
And their own station keep.
5 Ye tenants of the apaeiooa earth,
With tear before him stand;
lie spake, and nature took its birth,
And rests ''ii hia command.
G He scorns the angry nations' r
And breaks their vain dec .
Hi- counsel Btands through ever
And in lull glory shines.
I God all-sujji <
1 "OLESS'D is the nation when the Lord
J-J Hath lix'd his gracious throne,
Where be reveals hia heavenly word,
And calls their tribes* his own.
with infinite -
- the who!,- world behold;
He form'd us all of equal
And knows our feeble mould.
i by the foroo
01' armies from the
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59
Nor speed nor courage of a horse
Can the bold rider save.
4 Vain is the strength of beasts or men
To hope for safety thence ;
But holy souls from God obtain
A strong and sure defence.
5 God is their fear, and God their trust;
When plagues or famines spread,
His watchful eye secures the just
Among ten thousand dead.
6 Lord, let our hearts in thee rejoice,
And bless us from thy throne ;
For we have made thy word our choice,
And trust thy grace alone.
Works of Creation and Providence.
1 "VTE holy souls, in God rejoice, [voice ;
J- Your Maker's praise becomes your
Great is your theme, your songs be new ;
Sing of his name, his word, his ways,
His works of nature and of grace,
How wise and holy, just and true !
2 Justice and truth he ever loves,
And the whole earth his goodness proves,
His word the heavenly arches spread :
How wide they shine from north to south !
And by the spirit of his mouth
Were all the starry armies made.
3 He gathers the wide flowing seas,
Those watery treasures know then* place
In the vast storehouse of the deep :
He spake and gave all nature birth ;
And fires, and seas, and heaven, and earth,
His everlasting orders keep.
4 Let mortals tremble and adore
A God of such resistless power,
Nor dare indulge their feeble rage :
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PSALM XXXIV.
33.
Part II.
As the
113th
PHkn.
i3salm.
34.
L. at
Parti.
Vain are your thoughts, an<l weak your
But his eternal com hands;
And rule* tin' w-rM from aire to age.
Creatures r ■ 'I -sufficient.
1 r\ HAPPY nation, where the Lord
v./ Reveals the treason of his word,
And builds his church, his earthly throne!
His eye the heathen world surveys,
Ue fcrm'd their hearts, he knows their ways,
But God their Biaker i* unknown.
2 Let Icings rely upon their host,
And of his strength the champion boast;
In vain they boast, in vain rely;
In vain we trust the brutal force,
Or speed, or courage, of a horse,
To guard his rider or to Hy.
3 The eye of thy companion. Lord,
Doth more secure defence aflbrd [stand;
When deaths or dangers threat'ning
Thy watchful eye preserves the just,
Who make thy name their tear and trust,
"When wars or famine waste the land.
4 In sickness, or the bloody field,
Thou our physician, thou our shield,
Send us salvation from thy throne :
We wait to see thy goodness shine;
Let us rejoice in help divine,
For all our hope is God alone.
God's care of Hie £■
1 T ORD, I will bless thee all my days;
J-J Thy praise shall dwell upon my tongue;
My -"ul shall glory in thy _
"While saints rejoice to hear the -
2 Come, magnify the Lord with me,
Come, let us all exalt his name ;
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61
I sought th' eternal God, and he
Has not exposed my hope to shame.
3 I told him all my secret grief,
My secret groaning reach'd his ears;
He gave my inward pains relief,
And calm'd the tumult of my fears.
4 To him the poor lift up their eyes,
Their faces feel the heavenly shine ;
A beam of mercy from the skies
Fills them with light and joy divine.
5 His holy angels pitch their tents
Around the men that serve the Lord ;
0 fear and love him, all his saints,
Taste of his grace, and trust his word.
6 The wild young lions, pinch'd with pain
And hunger, roar through all the wood;
But none shall seek the Lord in vain,
Nor want supplies of real good.
Religious Education.
1 /CHILDREN, in years and knowledge
V-^ young,
Your parents' hope, your parents' joy,
Attend the counsels of my tongue,
Let pious thoughts your minds employ.
2 If you desire a length of days,
And peace to crown your mortal state,
Restrain your feet from impious ways,
Tour lips from slander and deceit.
3 The eyes of God regard his saints,
His ears are open to their cries ;
He sets his frowning face against
The sons of violence and lies.
4 To humble souls and broken hearts
God with his grace is ever nigh ;
Pardon and hope his love imparts,
When men in deep contrition lie.
Psalm,
34.
$salm.
34.
L. M.
Part II.
Ver.
11—22.
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^salrn.
34.
( . II
Parti.
Ver.
1—10.
PSALM XXXlVT
heals their broken
Th.-y in hi, ,,rai>(. unjJoy fchtir breath.
•ranee.
1 T'LL Men the Lord Gram day to day,
Ye humble Booh thai use to pray,
Come, help my lips to pr
2 Sing to the honour of his name,
raffVer cried;
bis hope exposed to shame,
Nor raa bis rait denied.
When threafrring sorrows round me stood,
And endless fears arose,
Like the loud billows of a flood,
Redoubling all my woes,
I told the Lord my sore distress,
With heavy groans and tears;
He gave my sharpest torment i
And rileneed all my t.ars.— (Pause.)
5 [0 sinners, come and taste his love,
Come learn his pleasant
And let your own experience prove
The sweetness of hi- g
6 He bids his ADgell pit.-li their tents
Bound where his children dwell;
A\ hat ills their heavenly care prevents
Xo earthly league can tell.]
7 [0 love the Lord, ye iambi of his;
His eye regards the just:
How richly blees'd their portion is
Who make the Lord their n u
8 Young lions, pineh'd with hunger, roar
And famish in the wood;
But God supplies his holy poor
With every needful good.]
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Exhortations to 'Peace and Holiness.
$»alm.
1 f^\ OME, children, learn to fear the Lord,
^ And, that your days be long,
34.
Let not a false or spiteful word
CM.
Be found upon your tongue.
Part II
2 Depart from mischief, practise love,
Pursue the works of peace ;
Ver.
So shall the Lord your ways approve,
11—22.
And set your souls at ease.
3 His eyes awake to guard the just,
His ears attend their cry ;
When broken spirits dwell in dust,
The God of grace is nigh.
4 What though the sorrows here they taste
Are sharp and tedious too,
The Lord who saves them all at last
Is their supporter now.
5 Evil shall smite the wicked dead ;
But God secures his own,
Prevents the mischief when they slide,
Or heals the broken bone.
6 When desolation, like a flood,
O'er the proud sinner rolls,
Saints find a refuge in their God,
For he redeem'd then- souls.
Prayer and Faith of persecuted Saints.
Psalm,
1 "VTOW plead my cause, Almighty God,
-1^1 With all the sons of strife ;
35.
And fight against the men of blood,
CM.
Who fight against my life.
Parti
2 Draw out thy spear and stop their way,
Lift thine avenging rod ;
Ver.
But to my soul in mercy say,
1—9.
" I am thy Saviour God !"
3 They plant their snares to catch my feet,
And nets of mischief spread ;
u
IJaalm.
35.
PSALM XXXV.
psalm.
35.
CM.
Part II.
Ver.
12—14.
Plongt the deetroyen in thi
That their own hands have made.
ga and darkneea hide their
Ami riippYy be their ground;
Thy wrath shall make their lives a prey,
And all their rage confound.
They fly like chaff before the wind,
thine angry breath ;
I of the Lord behind
Panne* them down to death.
They love the road that leads to hell;
Then let the rebels die,
Whose malice is implacable
Against the Lord on high.
But if thou hast a chosen few
Amongst that impious race,
Divide them from the bloody crew
By thy Bnrprising grace.
8 Then will I raise my tuneful voice,
To make thy wonders known ;
In their salvation I'll rejoice,
And bless thee for my own.
Love to Enemies.
1 T)EHOLD the love, the gen'rous love,
J-> That holy David shows ;
Hark, how his sounding bowels move,
To his afflicted foes !
2 "When they are sick his soul complains,
And seems to feel the smart;
The spirit of the gospel reigns,
And melts his pious heart.
3 How did his flowing tears condole,
As for a brother dead !
And fasting, mortified his soul,
While for their life he pray'd.
4 They groan"d, and cursed him on their bed,
Yet still he pleads and mourns;
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And double blessings on his head
The righteous God returns.
0 glorious type of heavenly grace !
Thus Christ the Lord appears ;
While sinners curse, the Saviour prays,
And pities them with tears.
: He the true David, Israel's King,
Bless'd and beloved of God,
To save us rebels, dead in sin,
Paid his own dearest blood.
The Perfections and Providence of Qod.
1 TTIGH in the heavens, eternal God,
JL-L Thy goodness in full glory shines ;
Thy truth shall break through every cloud
That veils and darkens thy designs.
For ever firm thy justice stands,
As mountains their foundations keep ;
Wise are the wonders of thy hands ;
Thy judgments are a mighty deep.
3 Thy providence is kind and large,
Both man and beast thy bounty share ;
The whole creation is thy charge,
But saints are thy peculiar care.
My God ! how excellent thy grace,
Whence all our hope and comfort springs ;
The sons of Adam in distress
Fly to the shadow of thy wings.
From the provisions of thy house
We shall be fed with sweet repast ;
There mercy like a river flows,
And brings salvation to our taste.
Life, like a fountain rich and free,
Springs from the presence of my Lord ;
And in thy light our souls shall see
The glories promised in thy word.
35.
36.
L. M.
Ver.
5—9.
€6
ibalm.
36.
C. M.
V«jr. 1, 2,
5-7, 9.
M XXXVI.
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36.
1 YTTHILE men growboW in wick
» * And yet a ('•<■>] they own,
My heart within m<
u Their thoughts believe r
2 Their thoughts ami ways at once declare,
Wnate'er their Lips i
G<-«1 hath no wrath tor them to fear,
Nor will they * ek his grace.
.'} What strange self-fiatt'ry blinds their eyes!
But there- a bast'ning hour,
When they '■hall see with -ore sun
The terrors of thy power.
4 Thy justice shall maintain its throne,
Though mountains melt away;
Thy judgments are a world unknown,
A deep nnfathom'd sea.
6 Above these, heaven's created rounds,
Thy mercies, Lord, extend;
Thy truth outlives the narrow bounds
Where time and nature end.
6 Safety to man thy goodi;*
Nbr overlooks the I
Beneath the shadow of thy winga
Thy children choose to rest.
7 [From thee, when creature-atreami run lovv
And mortal camfm
Perpetual sprmga of lift ahall flow,
And raise our pleaanrea high.
8 Though all created light d
And death cloae upoor i
Thy preaence makea eternal day.
Where clouds can never I
77ie Wicktdneu qf Man, and the Majesty of God,
1 "TITHE X man grows bold in sin,
n't within me cries,
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67
" He hath no faith of God within,
" Nor fear hefore his eyes."
2 [He walks awhile conceal'd
In a self-flatt'ring dream,
Till his dark crimes, at once reveal'd,
Expose his hateful name.]
3 His heart is false and foul,
His words are smooth and fair ;
"Wisdom is banished from his soul,
And leaves no goodness there.
4 He plots upon his bed
New mischiefs to fulfil ;
He sets his heart, and hand, and head,
To practise all that's ill.
5 But there's a dreadful God,
Though men renounce his fear ;
His justice, hid behind the cloud,
Shall one great day appear.
6 His truth transcends the sky,
In heaven his mercies dwell;
Deep as the sea his judgments lie,
His anger burns to hell.
7 How excellent his love,
Whence all our safety springs :
0 never let my soul remove
From underneath his wings !
The cure of Envy, Fretfulness, and Unbelief.
1 TTTHY should I vex my soul, and fret
» » To see the wicked rise ?
Or envy sinners waxing great
By violence and lies ?
2 As flowery grass, cut down at noon,
Before the evening fades,
So shall their glories vanish soon
In everlasting shades.
3 Then let me make the Lord my trust,
And practise all that's good ;
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37.
PSALM XXXVII
■Jpsalm.
37.
So shall L dwell amongst the just,
And he'll provide me Good.
4 I to my God my ways commit,
And cheerful wait his will;
Thy hand which guides my douhtful feet
Shall my desires fullil.
5 Mine innocence shalt thou display,
And make thy judgments known.
Fair as the light of dawning day,
And glorious as the noon.
6 The meek at last the earth possess,
And are the heirs of heaven;
True riches, with abundant peace.
To humble souls are given. — ( Paiu*e. )
7 Rest in the Lord, and keep his way,
Nor let your anger
Though Frovidence should long delay
To punish haughty vice.
8 Let sinners join to break your peace,
And plot, and rage, and foam;
The Lord derides them, for he sees
Their day of vengeance come. [sword,
9 They have drawn out the threat'ning
Have bent the murd'rous bow,
To slay the men that fear the Lord,
And bring the righteous low.
10 My God shall break their bows, and burn
Their persecuting darts.
Shall their own swords against them turn,
And pain surprise their hearts.
Char it ij to the Poor.
1 TTTIIY do the wealthy wicked boast
* » And grow profanely bold?
The meanest portion of the just
Excels the sinner's gold.
2 The wicked borrows of his friends,
But ne'er designs to pav;
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69
The saint is merciful, and lends,
Nor turns the poor away.
3 His alms with liberal heart he gives
Amongst the sons of need ;
His mem'ry to long ages lives,
And blessed is his seed.
4 His lips abhor to talk profane,
To slander or defraud ;
His ready tongue declares to men
What he has learn'd of God.
5 The law and gospel of the Lord
Deep. in his heart abide;
Led by the Spirit and the word,
His feet shall never slide.
6 When sinners fall, the righteous stand,
Preserved from ev'ry snare;
They shall possess the promised land,
And dwell for ever there.
The Way and End of the Righteous and the
Wicked.
1 "|\/TY God, the steps of pious men
-JAX Are order 'd by thy will ;
Though they should fall they rise again,
Thy hand supports them still.
2 The Lord delights to see their ways,
Their virtue he approves ;
He'll ne'er deprive them of his grace,
Nor leave the men he loves.
3 The heavenly heritage is theirs,
Their portion and their home ;
He feeds them now and makes them heirs
Of blessings long to come.
4 Wait on the Lord, ye sons of men,
Nor fear when tyrants frown ;
Ye shall confess their pride was vain,
When justice casts them down. ( Pause.)
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CM.
4Ja«ilm. 5 The haughty linner have I seen,
« — Nor fearing man n<
0 /, Like a tall bay-tree, fair and green,
Spreading hia armi abroad.
6 And 1<»: be ranish'd from t ho ground,
Destroy 'd by handa warn i
Nor r<»>t. nor branch, nor leaf, was found
Where all that pride had b en.
7 But maj-k the man of righteousness,
I li- aereral atepa attend ;
True pleasnre runa through all his ways.
And peaceful is hia cud.
38 * A MIDST thy wrath remember love,
-£^- Restore thy servant, Lord;
Nor let a father'a chaat'ning prove
Like an avenger's sword.
2 Thine arrowa atick within my heart,
My Besh ia Borely pi
Between the sorrow and the smart,
My .spirit finda no rest.
3 My sins a heavy load appear,
And o'er my head are gone;
Too heavy they for me to bear,
Too hard for me t' atone.
4 My thoughts are like a troubled sea,
My head still bending down;
And I go mourning all the day,
Beneath my Father'a frown.
5 Lord, J am weak and broken sore,
None of my powers are whole-.
The inward anguish makes me roar,
The anguish of my soul.
(] All my desire to thee is known,
Thine eye counts every tear;
And every sigh and every _
Is noticed by thine
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71
7 Thou art my God, my only hope ;
My God will hear my cry,
My God will bear my spirits up
When Satan bids me die.
8 [My foot is ever apt to slide,
My foes rejoice to see 't ;
They raise their pleasure and their pride
"When they supplant my feet.
9 But I'll confess my guilt to thee,
And grieve for all my sin ;
I'll mourn how weak my graces be,
And beg support divine.
10 My God, forgive my follies past,
And be for ever nigh ;
0 Lord of my salvation, haste
Before thy servant die.]
Watchfulness over the Tongue.
1 rpHUS I resolved before the Lord—
JL " Now will I watch my tongue ;
Lest I let slip one sinful word,
Or do my neighbour wrong."
2 And if I'm e'er constrain'd to stay
With men of lives profane,
I'll set a double guard that day,
Nor let my talk be vain.
3 I'll scarce allow my lips to speak
The pious thoughts I feel,
Lest scoffers should th' occasion take
To mock my holy zeal.
4 Yet if some proper hour appear,
I'll not be overawed;
But let the scoffing sinners hear
That I can speak for God.
Tlie Vanity of Man as mortal.
1 fTlEACH me the measure of my days,
J- Thou Maker of my frame ;
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ALM XXXIX.
Pubm,
1 would surrey life's narrow space,
39.
And learn how frail I am.
2 A span is all that we can
C. M.
An inch or two of time;
Man is but vanity and dust
Part 11.
In all his flower and prime.
Ver.
3 See the vain rare of mortals move
4—7.
Like shadows o'er the plain;
They rage and strive, desire and love,
But all the noise is vain.
4 Some walk in honour's gaudy show,
Some dig lor golden ore;
They toil for heirs, they know not who,
And straight are seen no more.
5 What should I wish or wait for, then,
From creatures earth and dust?
They make our expectations vain,
And disappoint our trust
6 Now, 1 forbid my carnal hope,
My fond desires recall;
I give my mortal int'rest up,
And make my God my all.
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Side-bed Devotum.
39.
1 /""I OD of my life, look gently down,
vX Behold the pains 1 feel;
C. 11
But 1 am dumb before thy throne,
Nor dare dispute thy will.
Part III.
2 Diseases are thy servants, Lord,
Ver.
They come at thy command;
9—13.
I'll not attempt a murmuring word,
:;-t thy chastening hand.
3 Yet I may plead with humble cries,
Remove thy sharp rebuk
My strength consumes, my spirit dies,
Through thy repeated rtr
4 Crush'd a- a moth beneath thy hand,
We moulder to the dust;
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73
Our feeble powers can ne'er withstand,
And all our beauty 's lost.
5 [This mortal life decays apace,
How soon the bubble's broke !
Adam and all his numerous race
Are vanity and smoke.]
6 I'm but a sojourner below,
As all my fathers were ;
May I be well prepared to go,
When I the summons hear.
7 But if my life be spared awhile,
Before my last remove,
Thy praise shall be my business still,
And I'll declare thy love.
A Song of Deliverance from great Distress.
1 T WAITED patient for the Lord,
-*- He bow'd to hear my cry ;
He saw me resting on his word,
And brought salvation nigh.
2 He raised me from a horrid pit,
"Where mourning long I lay,
And from my bonds released my feet,
Deep bonds of miry clay.
3 Firm on a rock he made me stand,
And taught my cheerful tongue
To praise the wonders of his hand
In a new thankful song.
4 I'll spread his works of grace abroad,
The saints with joy shall hear,
And sinners learn to make my God
Their only hope and fear.
5 How many are thy thoughts of love!
Thy mercies, Lord, how great !
"We have not words nor hours enough.
Their numbers to repeat.
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PSALM XI,
6* When I'm afflicted, poor, and low,
And liirht end peace depart)
My God beholds my heavy woe,
And bears me on his heart.
13 5 aim.
Tlie Incarnation and Sacrifice of Christ.
40.
1 rpHL'S saitli the Lord, "Your work is
J- Give your bornt-offringi o'er; [vain,
C. ML
In dying goats, and bullocks slain,
Tart II.
.! delighti no more."
yer# 5 —
2 Then spake the Sarkrar, " Lo, I'm here,
My God, to do thy will:
9.
Whate'er thy sacred bookfl declare
Thy servant shall fulfil.
3 " Thy law is ever in my sight,
I keep it near my heart ;
Mine ears are open'd with delight
To what thy lips impart."
4 And see, the bleu'd Redeemer comes,
The eternal Sou appears,
And at the appointed time assumes
The body God pre]
5 Much he reveal'd 1 -ace.
And much his truth he show'd.
And preach'd the way of righto
Win : hlies stood.
6 His Father'^ honour touch'd his heart,
He pitied sinners'
And, to fdlf part)
tacrifice.--{ Pause. )
7 No blood of beasts on altar shed,
Could wash the conscience clean,
But the rich sacrifice he paid
Atones for all our sin.
S Then was f read,
And Satau's kingdom shook;
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ib
Thus by the woman's promis'd seed
The serpent's head was broke.
Christ our Sacrifice.
1 rn HE wonders, Lord, thy love has wrought,
-*- Exceed our praise, surmount our thought,
Should I attempt the long detail,
My speech would faint, my numbers fail.
2 No blood of beasts on altars spilt
Can cleanse the souls of men from guilt;
But thou hast set before our eyes
An all-sufficient sacrifice.
3 Lo ! thine eternal Son appears,
To thy designs he bows his ears,
Assumes a body well prepared,
And well performs a work so hard.
4 "Behold, I come," the Saviour cries,
With love and duty in his eyes ;
" I come to bear the heavy load
Of sins, and do thy will, my God.
5 " 'Tis written in thy great decree,
'Tis in thy book foretold of me,
I must fulfil the Saviour's part ;
And lo ! thy law is in my heart !
6 "I'll magnify thy holy law,
And rebels to obedience draw,
When on my cross I'm lifted high,
Or to my crown above the sky.
7 The Spirit shall descend and show,
What thou hast done, and what I do ;
The wond'ring world shall learn thy grace.
Thy wisdom, and thy righteousness."
Charity to the Poor.
1 T) LESS'D is the man whose bowels move
J-) And melt with pity to the poor;
Whose soul, by sympathizing love,
Feels what his fellow-saints endure.
iisalm.
40.
L. M.
Ver.
5—10.
Psalm.
41.
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PSALM XLII.
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41.
L. M.
Ver.
1—3.
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42.
C. Iff.
Part I.
Ver.
1—3
2 His heart contrives for thoir relief
More good than bil own hands can do:
J Ic. in the time of gen'ral grief,
Shall find the Lord has bowels too.
3 His soul shall live secure on earth,
With secret blessingi on his head,
When drought, and pestilence, and dearth
Around him multiply their dead.
4 Or if he Languish on his coach,
God will pronounce his sins forgiven;
Will save him with a healing touch,
Or take his willing soul to heaven.
N and Hope.
1 TTTITII earnest longings of the mind,
t t My God, to thee 1 look:
So pants the hunted hart to find
And taste the oooling brook.
2 When shall I see thy courts of grace,
And meet my God againl
So long an absence from thy face
My heart endures with pain.
3 Temptations vex my weary soul,
And tears are my repast;
The foe insults without control,
" And where 's your God at last?"
4 'Tis with a mournful pleasure now
I think on ancient days;
Then to thy house did numbers go,
And all our work was praise.
5 But why, my soul, sunk down so far,
Beneath this heavy load?
Why do my thoughts indulge despair,
tin against mj I
6 Hope in the Lord, whose mighty hand
Can all thy woes remove,
For 1 shall yet before him stand
And sing restoring love.
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Melancholy Thoughts reproved.
1 ~|\/TY spirit sinks within me, Lord,
-LtJL But I will call thy name to mind,
And times of past distress record,
When I have found my God was kind.
2 Huge troubles, with tumultuous noise,
Swell like a sea, and round me spread;
Thy water-spouts drown all my joys,
And rising waves roll o'er my head.
3 Yet will the Lord command his love,
When I address his throne by day,
Nor in the night his grace remove ;
The night shall hear me sing and pray.
4 I'll cast myself before his feet,
And say, " My God, my heavenly rock,
Why doth thy love so long forget
The soul that groans beneath thy stroke?''
5 I'll chide my heart that sinks so low,
Why should my soul indulge her grief?
Hope in the Lord, and praise him too ;
He is my rest, my sure relief.
6 Thy light and truth shall guide me still,
Thy word shall my best thoughts employ,
And lead me to thine heav'nly hill,
My God, my most exceeding joy.
The Church's Complaint in Persecution.
1 T ORD, we have heard thy works of old,
-L* Thy works of power and grace,
When to our ears our fathers told
The wonders of their days.
2 How thou did«t build thy churches here,
And make thy gospel known ; .
Amongst them did thine arm appear,
Thy light and glory shone.
3 In God they boasted all the day,
And in a cheerful throng
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PSALM XLV.
psalm.
45.
Did thousands meet to praise nod pray,
And grace was all their -
4 But now our souls an- seised with shame,
( 'oiifusioii iills our
To hear the enemy blaspheme,
And fools reproach thy g
5 Yet have we n<>t forgot OUT God,
Nor falsely dealt with Be
Nor have our Btepa declined the road
Of duty thou hast given;
6 Though dragons all around us roar,
With their dotriu the breath,
And thine own hand ha- bruised us sore
Bard by the gates of death ( J'
7 We are exposed all day to die
rtyrs for thy cause,
As she<ij» for -daughter bound we lie
By sharp and bloody laws.
S Awake, arise, Almighty I.
Why sleeps thy wonted <,'race?
Why should we look like men abhorrd,
( >r banish'd from thy faeel
9 Wilt thou for ever cast us <>i\\
And >till neglect oui
F<>!- ever hide thine heavenly love
From our afflicted
10 Down to the dost our soul is bow'd,
And dies upon the ground;
Rise for our help, rebuke the proud,
And all their powers confound,
11 Redeem us from perpetual shame,
Our Saviour and our God ;
We plead the honours of thy name.
The merit- of thy blood.
The Q
1 ^\ |*Y Saviour and my King,
^* *~ Thy beauties are divine,
PSALM XLV.
Thy lips with blessings overflow,
And every grace is thine.
2 Now make thy glory known,
Gird on thy dreadful sword,
And ride in majesty to spread
The conquests of thy word.
3 Strike through thy stubborn foes,
Or melt their hearts t' obey,
While justice, meekness, grace, and trutli.
Attend thy glorious way.
4 Thy laws, 0 God, are right ;
Thy throne shall ever stand ;
And thy victorious gospel proves
A sceptre in thy hand.
5 [Thy Father and thy God
Hath without measure shed
L...-> opirit, like a joyful oil,
T' anoint thy sacred head.]
6 [Behold, at thy right hand
The Gentile Church is seen,
Like a fair bride in rich attire,
And princes guard the queen.]
7 Fair bride, receive his love,
Forget thy father's house ;
Forsake thy gods, thy idol-gods,
And pay the Lord thy vows.
8 O let thy God and King
Thy sweetest thoughts employ ;
Thy children shall his honour sing
In palaces of joy.
TJie Personal Glories and Government of Christ.
1 T'LL speak the honours of my King,
-*- His form divinely fair ;
None of the sons of mortal race
May with the Lord compare.
2 Sweet is thy speech, and heavenly grace
Upon thy lips is shed ;
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45.
C. M.
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45.
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IJaalm.
45.
L. M.
Parti.
Thy God with blessings infinite
llatli crown'd thy sacred bead.
3 Ginl on thy sword, victorious 1'rince!
Ride with majestic sway;
Tiiy terror shall strike through thy foes,
And make the world
Thy throne, 0 God, for ever stands;
Thy word of grace shall prove
A peaceful sceptre in thy hands,
To rule the taints by love.
5 Justice and truth attend thee still,
But mercy is thy choice;
And God, thy God, thy BOoJ shall fill
With most peculiar joys.
The Glory of ChrL-t, and Puoscr of his Gospel.
1 "VTOW be my heart inspired to
-*-* The glories of my .Saviour King,
Jesus the Lord ! how heavenly fair
His form! how bright his beauties are!
2 O'er all the sons of human race
He shines with a superior _
Love from his lips divinely floWB,
And blessings all his state com]
3 Dress thee in arms, most mighty Lord!
Gird on the terror of thy sword !
In majesty and glory ride.
With truth and meekness at thy -
4 Thine anger, like a pointed dart,
Shall pierce the foe? of stubborn heart;
Or words of mercy, kind and sweet,
Shall melt the rebels at thy feet.
5 Thy throne, o God, for crcr standi,
Grace is the sceptre in thy hands;
Thy laws and works are ju>t and riuht,
Justice and grace arc thy delight.
6 God, thine own God, has richly shed
His oil of gladness on thy head,
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81
And with his sacred Spirit bless'd
His first-born Son above the rest.
Christ and his Church.
1 nnHE King- of saints, how fair his face.
J- Adorn 'd with majesty and grace !
He comes with blessings from above,
And wins the nations to his love.
2 At his right hand our eyes behold
The queen array'd in purest gold ;
The world admires her heavenly dress,
Her robe of joy and righteousness.
3 He forms her beauties like his own ;
He calls and seats her near his throne :
Fair stranger, let thine heart forget
The idols of thy native state.
4 So shall the King the more rejoice
In thee the fav'rite of his choice ;
Let him be loved, and yet adored,
For he's thy Maker and thy Lord.
5 O happy hour, when thou shalt rise
To his fair palace in the skies,
And all thy sons (a numerous train)
Each like a prince in glory reign.
6 Let endless honours crown his head ;
Let every age his praises spread ;
While we with cheerful songs approve
The condescensions of his love.
Tlie Church's Safety among National Desolations.
1 f^i OD is the refuge of his saints,
v-^ When storms of sharp distress invade;
Ere we can offer our complaints,
Behold him present with his aid.
2 Let mountains from their seats be hurl'd
Down to the deep, and buried there ;
Convulsions shake the solid world,
Our faith shall never yield to fear.
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45.
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Part IT.
46.
L. M.
Part I.
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46.
iJsalm.
46.
L. M.
Part II.
3 Loud may the troubled ocean r
Ju sacred peace our souls abide,
"While every nation.
Trembles ami dreadfl the swelling tide.
4 There is a stream, whose gentle flow
Supplies the city of our God :
Life, love, and joy. still ^1 i«linrr through,
And wat'ring our divine abode.
5 That sacred stream, thine holy word,
That all our raging tear controls;
Sweet peace thy promises afford,
And pre new strength to tainting souls.
6 Sion enjoys her monarch's l<»ve.
Secure against a threatening hour;
Nor can her firm foundation! n.
liuilt on his truth, and arm'd with power.
I
1 T ET Sion in her K [rise;
1-^ Though tyrants rage, and kingdoms
lie nttera his almighty w
The nations melt, the tumult dies.
2 The Lord of old for Jacob fboght,
And Jacob's Qod is still our aid:
Behold the works his band has wrought,
What desolations he has made:
3 From sea to sea, through all the shores,
lie makes the nois
When from on high his thunder r
lie awes the trembling world to ;
4 He breaks the bow, he cats
Chariots he hums with heavenly flame;
silence, all the earth, and h
The sound and glory of his name.
5 " Be still, and lean that I am <•
1*J1 be exalted o'er the lands;
I will l>e known and fear'd I
But still my throne in Sion -
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6 O Lord of hosts, almighty King,
"While we so near thy presence dwell,
Our faith shall sit secure, and sing
Defiance to the gates of hell.
Christ ascending and reigning.
1 /~\ FOR a shout of sacred joy
V/ To God the sov'reign King !
Let every land their tongues employ,
And hymns of triumph sing.
2 Jesus our God ascends on high ;
His heavenly guards around
Attend him rising through the sky,
With trumpets' joyful sound.
3 "While angels shout and praise their King,
Let mortals learn their strains ;
Let all the earth his honours sing;
O'er all the earth he reigns.
4 Rehearse his praise with awe profound,
Let knowledge lead the song,
Nor mock him with a solemn sound,
Upon a thoughtless tongue.
5 In Israel stood his ancient throne,
He loved that chosen race ;
But now he calls the world his own,
And heathens taste his grace.
6 The British islands are the Lord's,
There Abraham's God is known ;
"While powers and princes, shields and
Submit before his throne. [swords,
The Church is the Honour and Safety of a
Nation.
1 |~pi RE AT is the Lord our God,
1- vT And let his praise be great;
He makes his Churches his abode,
His most delightful seat.
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47.
C. If
13 s aim.
48.
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- W.M XLVIII.
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2 These templei of his _
48.
How beautiful they -
The honours of OUT native place,
& M.
And bulwarks of our land.]
3 In Sioo God if known,
Parti.
A refuge in distress;
Vcr.
How bright has his salvation shone
Through all her pa]
l — a.
4 When kings against her join'd,
And saw the Lord was. there,
In wild eonfosion of the mind
They fled with hasty fear.
."3 When navies tall and proud
Attempt to spoil our pe
He sends his tempest roaring loud,
And sinks them in the -
6 Oft have our father- 1
Our eyes have often seen,
How well our God secures the fold
Wnere bis own sheep have been.
7 In every new dial
We'll to hi- house repair,
We'll think anon his wondrous grace,
And seek deliv'rance there.
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48.
1 T71AK as thy name IS known,
J- The world declares thy praise;
S. M.
Thy saints. 0 Lord, before thy tin-one
Their songs of honour rs
Part 11.
2 With joy let Judah si
Vcr.
On Sion'l chosen hill,
10—14.
Proclaim the wonders of thy hand,
And counsels of thy will.
3 1- ' alk around
The city where we dwell,
Compass and view thine holy ground,
And mark the building well;
PSALM XLIX.
85
4 The orders of thy house,
fsaim.
The worship of thy court,
48.
The cheerful songs, the solemn vows,
And make a fair report.
5 How decent and how wise !
How glorious to behold !
Beyond the pomp that charms the eyes,
And rites adorn'd with gold.
6 The God we worship now
Will guide us till we die,
Will be our God while here below,
And ours above the sky.
Pride and Death.
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1 TXTHY doth the man of riches grow
* » To insolence and pride,
49.
To see his wealth and honours flow
C. M.
With every rising tide?
2 [Why doth he treat the poor with scorn,
Part I.
Made of the self-same clay,
Ver.
And boast as though his flesh was born
6—14.
Of better dust than they?]
3 Not all his treasures can procure
His soul a short reprieve,
Redeem from death one guilty hour,
Or make his brother live.
4 [Life is a blessing can't be sold,
The ransom is too high ;
Justice will ne'er be bribed with gold,
That man may never die.]
5 He sees the brutish and the wise,
The tim'rous and the brave,
Quit their possessions, close their eyes,
And hasten to the grave.
6 Yet 'tis his inward thought and pride —
" My house shall ever stand ;
And that my name may long abide,
I'll give it to my land."
86
PSALM XUX.
49.
13aalm.
49.
C. M.
Tart II.
Ver.
14, 15.
psalm.
49.
7 Vain arc- his thoug - are lost,
on his mem'i
Hi- name is written in the dust
Where his own carcass lies, — (Pause. )
8 This is the folly of their way;
And yel tl .-.in,
Approve the irords their lathers say,
And art their vrorks again.
9 Men void of wisdom and of grace,
If honour raise them high,
Live like the beast, a thoughtless race,
And like the beast they (lie.
10 Laid in the grave like silly sheep,
Death feeds upon them there,
Till the last trumpet break their sleep
In terror and despair.
Death and the Resurrection.
1 "V7"E sons of pride, that hate the just
A And trample on the poor,
"When death has brought you down to dust,
Your pomp shall rise no more.
2 The last great day shall change the scene;
When will that hour appear?
When shall the just revive, and n
O'er all that soorn'd them here!
3 God will my naked soul receive,
When sep'rate from the flesh;
And break the prison of the grave,
To raise my bones afresh.
4 Heaven i- my everlasting home,
Th' inherit.!
Let men of pride their rage resume,
But I'll repine no more.
The rich Sinner's 1> Sutaft
WHY do the proud insult tl •
And beast the large estates they have?
PSALM L.
87
How vain are riches to secure
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Their hanghty owners from the grave !
49.
2 They can't redeem one hour from death,
With all the wealth in which they trust;
Nor give a dying brother breath,
When God commands him down to dust.
3 There the dark earth and dismal shade
Shall clasp their naked bodies round ;
That flesh, so delicately fed,
Lies cold, and moulders in the ground.
4 Like thoughtless sheep the sinner dies,
Laid in the grave for worms to eat :
The saints shall in the morning rise,
And find th' oppressor at their feet.
5 His honours perish in the dust,
And pomp and beauty, birth and blood;
That glorious day exalts the just,
To full dominion o'er the proud.
6 My Saviour shall my life restore,
And raise me from my dark abode;
My flesh and soul shall part no more,
But dwell for ever near my God.
Tlie Last Judgment.
^salm.
1 rpHE Lord, the Judge, before his throne,
J- Bids the whole earth draw nigh,
50.
The nations near the rising sun,
C. M.
And near the western sky.
Parti.
2 No more shall bold blasphemers say,
" Judgment will ne'er begin;"
Ver.
No more abuse his long delay
1—6.
To impudence and sin.
3 Throned on a cloud, our God shall come ;
Bright flames prepare his way ;
Thunder and darkness, fire and storm,
Lead on the dreadful day.
88
psalm.
50.
PSA L
Psalm.
50.
( . ML
Part II.
Ver-
IO, 11,
14, 15.
23.
psalm.
50.
4 ll-avc!) from I shall hear,
Atfa i
And earth and hell shall know and fear
5 " But gather all my sainti
'• That made their peace with < I
And leal'd it with his blood.
c, "Their faith and works brought forth to
Shall mak<- the world confess, [light,
'-.'lit,
And heaven adore
1 milUS saith the Lord, "The spacious
-L And flocl ire mine; [fields,
O'er all the cattle of the hills
I claim a right ■!'
2 " I ask no sheep for sacrifice,
bolloeki burnt with fire;
To hope and love, to pray and praise,
Is all that I require.
1 upon me when trouble*! near,
My hand -hall set thee free;
Then shall thy thankful lips 04 1
The honour due to me.
4 u The man that offers humble pa I
1 !•
And those that tread my holy ways,
Shall my salTation
crita.
1 TTTHEN « :nent shall de-
» » . [scend,
■ Is the nations t<> attend,
And hear his awful word.
slain
"Will I t!.r world n |
PSALM L.
Altars, and rites, and forms, are vain,
"Without the fire of love.
3 " And what have hypocrites to do
To bring their sacrifice?
They call my statutes just and true,
But deal m theft and lies.
4 " Could you expect to 'scape my sight,
And sin without control ?
But I shall bring your crimes to light,
With anguish in your soul."
5 Consider ye that slight the Lord,
Before his wrath appear,
If once you fall beneath his sword,
There's no deliv'rer there.
Hypocrisy exposed.
1 rpHE Lord, the Judge, his Churches
J- Let hypocrites attend and fear, [warns,
"Who place their hopes in rites and forms,
But make not faith nor love their care.
2 Vile wretches dare rehearse his name
With lips of falsehood and deceit ;
A friend or brother they defame,
And soothe and flatter those they hate.
3 They watch to do their neighbours wrong,
Yet dare to seek their Maker's face ;
They take his cov'nant on their tongue,
But break his laws abuse his grace.
4 To heaven they lift their hands unclean,
Denied with lust, defiled with blood ;
By night they practise every sin,
By day their mouths draw near to God.
5 And while his judgments long delay,
They grow secure and sin the more ;
They think he sleeps as well as they,
And put far off the dreadful hour.
6 0 dreadful hour ! when God draws near,
And sets then' crimes before their eyes !
_89_
50.
CM.
Part III
Ver.
1, 5, 8,
16,21,
22.
i:ealm.
50.
L. JUL
Part ill
90 PSALM L.
His wrath their guilty souls shall tear,
And no tleliv'rer dare to rise.
13 salm. The Last Judgment.
HA 1 rpHE Lord, the Sov'reign, sends his sum-
«"' -*- mons forth, [north:
Calls the south nations and awakes the
From east to west the sounding orders
spread [dead ;
Through distant worlds and regions of the
No more shall atheists mock hifl long delay:
His vengeance sleeps no more: behold the
day! [nigh,
2 Behold! the Judge descends, his guards are
Tempest and fire attend him down the sky:
Heaven, earth, and hell, draw near; let all
things come,
To hear his justice, and the sinner's doom.
"But gather first my saints," the Judge
commands, [lands.
" Bring them, ye angels, from the!
3 " Behold my cov'nant stands for ever good,
Seal'd by th' eternal Sacrifice in blood,
And sign 'd with all their names; the Greek,
the Jew,
That paid the ancient worship or the new,
There's no distinction here : come, spread
their thrones,
And near me seat my fav'rites and my sons.
4 " I their Almighty Saviour and their God,
I am their Judge: ye heavens proclaim
abroad
My just eternal sentence, and declare
Those awful truths, that sinners dread to
hear.
Sinners in Zi<»n, tremble and retire;
I doom the painted hypocrite to fire.
PSALM L.
91
5 " Not for the want of goats or bullocks slain
Do I condemn thee: bulls and goats are
vain [store
Without the flames of love: in vain the
Of brutal offerings that were mine before ;
Mine are the tamer -beasts and savage breed,
Flocks, herds, and fields and forests where
they feed.
6 "If I were hungry, would I ask thee food?
When did I thirst, or drink thy bullocks'
blood?
Can I be flatter'd with thy cringing bows?
Thy solemn chatterings and fantastic vows ?
Are my eyes charm'd thy vestments to be-
hold,
Glaring in gems, and gay in woven gold?
7 " Unthinking wretch ! how couldst thou
hope to please
A God, a Spirit, with such toys as these ;
While, with my grace and statutes on thy
tongue, [wrong?
Thou lov'st deceit, and dost thy brother
In vain to pious forms thy zeal pretends,
Thieves and adulterers are thy chosen
friends.
8 " Silent I waited with long-suffering love
But didst thou hope that I should ne'er re-
prove ? [in,
And cherish such an impious thought with-
That God, the Righteous, would indulge
thy sin?
Behold my terrors now : my thunders roll,
And thy own crimes affright thy guilty soul."
9 Sinners, awake betimes; ye fools, be wise;
Awake before this dreadful morning rise ;
92
LM L.
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50.
Change yoor vain thoughts, your crooked
works amend, [friend;
Fly to the .Saviour, make the Judge your
Lot, like a Bon, hi* last Tengeanoi
Your trembling souls, and no deliv'rer near.
Tlve Last Judjmcnt.
1 finilE G«-d of glory sends bis summons
JL forth, [north;
Calls the sooth nation?, and awakes the
From east to west the sov'reign orders
spread,
Thro' distant worlds and regionsof the dead
The trumpet sounds; hell trembles; heaven
rejok [voices.
Lift up your heads, ye saints, with cheerful
2 No more shall atheists mock his long delay,
- no more; behold the
day . [nigh ;
Behold the Judge descends, his g;.
Tempests and fire attend him down the sky.
When God appears, all nature shall adore
him; [him.
While sinners tremble, saints rejoice before
3 "• H< a on, earth, and hell, draw near; let all
things come
To hoar my justice, and the sinner's doom;
1 tat gather first my saints," the Judge com-
mands, [lands."
"Bring them, ye angels, from their distant
When Christ retains, wake every cheerful
passion ; [vation.
And shoot, ye saints; ho comes for your sal-
4 " Behold my eov'nant standi
Beal'd by th' eternal Sacrifice in Mood,
And rign'd with all their names; the Greek,
the •'
That pi the new."
PSALM L. 93
There's no distinction here, join all your
voices, [rejoices.
And raise your heads, ye saints, for heaven
5 " Here (saith the Lord) ye angels, spread
then* tin-ones,
And near me seat my fav'rites and my sons :
Come, my redeem 'd, possess the joys pre-
pared
Ere time began ; 'tis your divine reward."
When Christ returns, wake every cheerful
passion ; salvation.
And shout, ye saints; he comes for your
(Pause the First.)
6 "lam the Saviour, I th' Almighty God ;
I am the Judge; ye heavens proclaim
abroad
My just eternal sentence, and declare
Those awful truths that sinners dread to
hear." [him;
When God appears, all nature shall adore
While sinners tremble, saints rejoice before
him. [profane;
7 " Stand forth, thou bold blasphemer, and
Now feel my wrath, nor call my threat-
'nings vain ; [attire,
Thou hypocrite, once dress'd in saints'
I doom the painted hypocrite to lire."
Judgment proceeds; hell trembles; heaven
rejoices ; [voices.
Lift up your heads, ye saints, with cheerful
8 " Not for the want of goats or bullocks
slain [vain
Do I condemn thee; bulls and goats are
Without the flame of love; in vain the
store
Of brutal offerings, that were mine before.'
94 PSALM I,
iJsalm. Earth is the Lord"s, al] "nature shall adore
u « him ; [liim.
0 Ui While sinners tremble, saints rejoice before
9 " If I were hungry, would I a-k thee food?
When did I thn>t, or drink thy bullocks'
blood? [breed,
Mine are the tamer beasts, and
Flocks, herds, and fields and t< .rests where
they feed."
All is the Lord's, he rules the wide creation ;
Gives sinners vengeance, and the saints
salvation.
[bows,
10 " Can I be flatter'd with thy cringing
Thy solemn chatt'rings, and fantastic vows?
Are my eyes charm "d thy vestments to
behold,
Glaring in gems, and gay in woven gold?*'
God is the Judge of hearts; no fair disguises
Can screen the guilty when his vengeance
rises.
(Pause the Second.)
11 "Unthinking wretch! how couldst thou
hope to please
A God, a Spirit, with such toys as these;
While, with my grace and statute -
tongue, [wrong ?
Thou lov'st deceit, and dost thy brother
Judgment proceeds ; hell trembles ; heaven
rajOW [voire-.
Lift up your brads, ye saints, with cheerful
12 M In vain t*> pious forms thy zeal pretends:
Thieves and aduk'rers are thy chosen
friends;
While the false fiatt'rer at my altar waits,
His banlen'd soul divine instruction hates."
PSALM LI.
95
God is the Judge of hearts ; no fair disguises
Can screen the guilty when his vengeance
rises.
13 " Silent I waited with long-suffering love ;
But didst thou hope that I should ne'er
reprove, [within,
And cherish such an impious thought
That the All- Holy would indulge thy sin?"
See, God appears ; all nature joins t' adore
him ; [him.
Judgment proceeds, and sinners fall before
14 " Behold my terrors now ; my thunders
roll, [soul ;
And thy own crimes affright thy guilty
Now like a lion shall my vengeance tear
Thy bleeding heart, and no deliv'rer near.
Judgment concludes ; hell trembles ; heaven
rejoices ; voices.
Lift up your heads, ye saints, with cheerful
EPIPHONEMA.
15 Sinners, awake betimes; ye fools, be wise;
Awake before this dreadful morning rise;
Change your vain thoughts, your crooked
works amend, [friend ;
Fly to the Saviour, make the Judge your
Then join, ye saints, wake every cheerful
passion ; [salvation.
When Christ returns, he comes for your
A Penitent 'pleading for Pardon.
1 ^HOW pity, Lord; O Lord, forgive;
k3 Let a repenting rebel live :
Are not thy mercies large and free ?
May not a sinner trust in thee ?
2 My crimes are great, but not surpass
The power and glory of thy grace ;
Great God, thy nature hath no bound,
So let thy pardoning love be found.
90
iJaalm.
51.
. AI LI.
13salm.
51.
L M.
Part II.
3 0 wash my soul from every tin,
Ami make my guilty conscience clean;
J [ere on my heart the burcb
And i
4 My lips with shame my sine confess
Against thy law, againsl thy gra
Lord, should thy judgmenl
J am condemn'd, but thou art clear.
5 Should sudden rengeance seise my breath,
I must pronounce thee just in death:
And if my soul were sent to hell,
Thy righteous law approves it well.
G Yet save a trembling sinner, L- rd,
Whose hope, still hoy'ring round thy word,
Would light on some sweet j.i«. in-
Some sure support against despair.
Original and actual
1 T OKD, I am vile, conceived in sin,
-LJ And h<>rn unholy and unclean;
Sprung from the man whose guilty fall
( lorrupts the race, and taints us ah.
I as we draw cur infant Breath,
The seeds of sin grow up for death;
Thy law demands a perfect heart;
But we're defiled in every part.
3 [Great God, create my heart anew.
And form my spirit pure and true;
O make me wise betimes, to spy
My danger and my n
JJehold, 1 fall before thy lace;
My only refuge is thy grace :
No outward forms can make me c'»
The leprosy Lies deep within.
5 No bleeding bird, UOr bleeding b(
Nor hyssop branch, nor >prinkling priest,
Nor running brook, nor flood, nor I
Can wash the dismal stain away.
PSALM LI.
97
6 Jesus, my God, thy blood alone
Hath power sufficient to atone ;
Thy blood can make me white as snow :
No Jewish types could cleanse me so.
7 While guilt disturbs and breaks my peace,
Nor flesh nor soul hath rest or ease ;
Lord let me hear thy pard'ning voice,
And make my broken bones rejoice.
Tlie Backslider restored.
1 /~\ THOU that hear'st when sinners cry,
V>7 Though all my crimes before thee lie,
Behold them not with angry look,
But blot their mem'ry from thy book.
2 Create my nature pure within,
And form my soul averse to sin :
Let thy good Spirit ne'er depart,
Nor hide thy presence from my heart.
3 I cannot live without thy light,
Cast out and banish'd from thy sight:
Thine holy joys, my God, restore,
And guard me, that 1 fall no more.
4 Though I have griev'd thy Spirit, Lord,
His help and comfort still afford ;
And let a wretch come near thy throne,
To plead the merits of thy Son.
5 A broken heart, my God, my King,
Is all the sacrifice I bring ;
The God of grace will ne'er despise
A broken heart for sacrifice.
6 My soul lies humbled in the dust,
And owns thy dreadful sentence just :
Look down, O Lord, with pitying eye,
And save the soul condemn 'd to die.
7 Then will I teach the world thy ways ;
Sinners shall learn thy sov'reign grace;
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51.
L. M.
Part HI
98
PSALM LI.
51.
C. M.
Part I.
Ver.
a—13.
I'll lead them to my Saviour's blood,
And they shall praise a pard'ning God.
8 O may thy lore inspire my tongoe!
Salvation shall bo all my song;
And all my pow'ra shall join t<> I
The Lord, my strength and righteousness.
Original and actual Sin confuted and pardoned.
IT ORD, I would spread my sore distress
JLi And guilt before thine
Against thy laws, against thy grace,
How high my crimes arise!
2 Shouldst thou condemn my soul to hell,
And crash my flesh to dust,
Heaven would approve thy vengeance well,
And earth must own it just.
3 I from the stock of Adam came,
Unholy and unclean ;
All my original is shame,
And all my nature sin.
4 Born in a world of guilt, I drew
Contagion with my breath ;
And as my days advanced, I grew
A juster prey for death.
5 Cleanse me, O Lord, and cheer my feoul
With thy forgiving love;
0 make my broken spirit whole,
And bid my pains remove.
6 Let not thy Spirit quite depart*
Not drive me from thy face;
Create anew my vicious heart,
And till it with thy grace,
7 Then will I make thy mercy known
Before the Bona of men ;
Backsliders shall address thy throne,.
And turn to Cod again.
PSALM LII1.
99
Repentance and Faith in the Blood of Christ.
1 r\ GOD of mercy, hear my call,
v-/ My loads of guilt remove ;
Break down this separating wall
That bars me from thy love.
2 Give me the presence of thy grace,
Then my rejoicing tongue
Shall speak about thy righteousness,
And make thy praise my song.
3 No blood of goats nor heifers slain
For sin could e'er atone ;
The death of Christ shall still remain
Sufficient and alone.
4 A soul oppress'd with sin's desert,
My God will ne'er despise;
A humble groan, a broken heart,
Is our best sacrifice.
2
Victory and Deliverance from Persecution.
ARE all the foes of Sion fools,
Who thus devour her saints?
Do they not know her Saviour rules,
And pities her complaints?
They shall be seized with sad surprise ;
For God's revenging arm
Scatters the bones of them that rise
To do his children harm.
In vain the sons of Satan boast
Of armies in array;
When God has first despised their host,
They fall an easy prey.
O for a word from Sion's King,
Her captives to restore !
Jacob with all his tribes shall sing,
And Judah weep no more.
100
PSALM LV.
1J saint.
55.
CM.
Yer.
1-8,
16—18,
1 f\ GOD, my refuge, hear my
^-^ Behold my 0
For earth and bell my hurt dei
And triumph in mj
2 Their d at my lift-,
My soul with guilt they load.
And fill my thoughts with inward strife,
To .'■hake my hope in God.
3 With inward pain my heart-string
with every breath ;
Horror and I round
Amongst the shades of death.
4 0 were I like a feather'd dove.
And innocence had
IM fly, and make a long remove
From ail tl
5 Let me to some «
And find a peaceful
Whl : blow,
Tempi
6* Vain hopes and v;iin inventions all
To 'scape the rage of hell :
The mighty God on whom 1 call,
Can Bave i
T By morning light l'H seek his
At noon repeat my cry ;
Tin- night shall hear me ask his grace,
Nor will he Ion ; deny.
8 G"d shall | al from fear,
Or shield me when afraid;
Ton tl tr,
If he command their aid.
9 1 cast my burdens >n tl:. I
The Lord sustains them all:
My < ■•
That saints shall never fall.
PSALM LVI.
101
10 My highest hope shall not be vain,
My lips shall spread his praise;
While cruel and deceitful men
Scarce live out half their days.
Dangerous Prosperity.
1 T ET sinners take their course,
-Li And choose the road to death ;
But in the worship of my God
I'll spend my daily breath.
2 My thoughts address his throne
When morning brings the light ;
I'll seek his blessing every noon,
And pay my vows at night.
3 Thou wilt regard my cries,
0 my eternal God !
While sinners perish in surprise,
Beneath thine angry rod.
4 Because they dwell at ease
And no sad changes feel ;
They neither fear nor trust thy name,
Nor learn to do thy will.
5 But I with all my cares
Will lean upon the Lord ;
I'll cast my burden on his arm,
And rest upon his word.
6 His arm shall well sustain
The children of his love ;
The ground on which their safety stands
No earthly power can move.
Deliverance from Oppression and Falsehood.
1 /~\ THOU whose justice reigns on high,
V./ And makes th' oppressor cease,
Behold how envious sinners try
To vex and break my peace.
2 The sons of violence and lies
Join to devour me, Lord ;
PSALM LVII.
56.
Psalm.
57.
Bui as my hourly dangers rise,
My refuge Li thy ■
I must holy, just, and true,
I have reposed my trust;
Nor will 1 tear what flesh can do,
Sspring of the dust.
my words to mischief .still,
Charge me with unknown faults;
doth ail their counsels till,
And malice all their thoug
6 .Shall they escape without thy frown?
Most their device- stand I
O cast the haughty sinner down,
And let him know thy hand. ( Pause. )
G God counts the sorrows of his saints,
Their groans affect his ears;
Thou hast a hook lor my complaints,
A bottle tor my teai -.
7 When to thy throne 1 raise my cry,
The wicked fear and flee;
So swift i.> prayer to reach the sky,
So near i- (.><>d to me.
S In tiiee, most holy, just, and true,
1 have reposed my trust;
Nor will I fear whit man can do,
The offspring of the dust.
9 Thy solemn rows are on me, 1
Thou shait receive my pre
I'll sing, " Bow faithful is thy word,
1 low righteous all thy ways:"
10 Thou hast secured my soul from death,
That heart and hand, and life and breath,
May be employ'd for thee.
1 1 TV God, in whom are all the -
A.T JL Of boundless love, and grace unknown,
PSALM LVIII.
103
Hide me beneath thy spreading wings,
Till the dark cloud is overblown.
I Up to the heavens I send my cry,
The Lord will my desires perform ;
He sends his angel from the sky,
And saves me from the threatening storm.
I Be thou exalted, O my God,
Above the heavens, where angels dwell ;
Thy power on earth be known abroad,
And land to land thy wonders tell.
I My heart is fix'd, my song shall raise
Immortal honours to thy name ;
xVwake, my tongue, to sound his praise —
My tongue, the glory of my frame.
> High o'er the earth his mercy reigns,
And reaches to the utmost sky ;
His truth to endless years remains,
When lower worlds dissolve and die.
I Be thou exalted, 0 my God,
Above the heavens, where angels dwell ;
Thy power on earth be known abroad,
And land to land thy wonders tell.
Warning to Magistrates.
i TUDGES, who rule the world by laws,
«J Will ye despise the righteous cause?
"When th' injured poor before you stands,
Dare ye condemn the righteous poor,
And let rich sinners 'scape secure, [hands ?
While gold and greatness bribe your
I Have ye forgot, or never knew,
That God will judge the judges too ?
High in the heavens his justice reigns:
Yet you invade the rights of God,
And send your bold decress abroad
To bind the conscience in your chains.
104
VJs.nlm.
58.
PSALM LX.
60.
('. M.
Y,r.
1—5,
10—12.
'A A poison 'd arrow is your tongue,
The arrow iharp, tli-e ] >< -i-oti strong,
And death attends where'er it wounds:
You hear i t tean ;
So the deaf adder stops her ears
Against the power of charming sounds.
4 Break out their teeth, eternal God,
Those teeth of lions dyed in blood;
And crush the serpents in the dust:
As empty chaff when whirlwinds rise
Before the sweeping tempest
So let their hopes and names be lost.
5 Th' Almighty thunders from the sky;
Their grandeur melts, their titles die,
As hills of snow dissolve and run,
Qr snails that perish in their slime,
Or births that come before their time —
Vain births, that never see the sun.
6 Thus shall the vengeance of the Lord
Safety and joy to saints afford;
And all that hear shall join and say.
" Sure there's a God that rules on high,
A God that hear- his children cry,
And will their sufferings well repay."
for Dimppoi.
War.
1 T OI\D, hast thou east the nation off?
J-J Must we for ever mourn 1
Wilt thou indulge immortal wrath?
Shall mercy ne'er return ?
2 The terror of one frown of thine
Mierl - _th away ;
Like men that totter drunk with wine,
We tremble in dismay.
3 Great Britain shakes beneath thy stroke,
And dread- thy threat ning hand;
PSALM LXIL
105
0 heal the island thou hast broke,
tfsalm.
Confirm the wav'ring land.
60.
4 Lift up a banner in the field
For those that fear thy name ;
Save thy beloved with thy shield,
And put our foes to shame.
5 Go with our armies to the fight,
Like a confederate God;
In vain confederate powers unite
Against thy lifted rod.
6 Our troops shall gain a wide renown
By thine assisting hand ;
"lis God that treads the mighty down,
And makes the feeble stand.
Safety in God.
$s aim.
1 TTTHEX overwhelm'd with grief
» » My heart within me dies;
61.
Helpless, and far from all relief,
S. M.
To heaven I lift mine eyes.
2 0 lead me to the rock
Ver.
That's high above my head,
1—6.
And make the covert of thy Avings
My shelter and my shade.
3 "Within thy presence, Lord,
For ever I'll abide ;
Thou art the tower of my defence,
The refuge where I hide.
4 Thou givest me the lot
Of those that fear thy name ;
If endless life be their reward,
I shall possess the same.
No Trust in the Creatures.
$salm.
1 ~|\/f Y spirit looks to God alone;
-i-T-i- My rock and refuge is his throne;
62.
In all my fears, in all my straits,
My soul on his salvation waits.
106
62.
L M.
V.T.
5—12.
M LXIII.
63.
C. If.
Part i.
1— 5.
2 Trust liim. ye saints iii all your wavg,
Poor out y-.ur In- .-.:
When helpera fail, and I
God ia our all-sufficii
3 False are the men of high «i
The baser sort are vanity;
Laid in the balance, both a]
Light as .-i puff of empty air.
■1 Make not increasing gold your b
Nor let your bearta on glittering dust ;
A\ hy will you grasp the fleeting smoke,
And not believe what God has
0 Once has his awful roice rtedarfid.
Once and again my cars have !.•
" All power is his eternal due;
lie must be fear'd and trusted too."
6 For Boven ignpo* ■ lone,
Grace is a partner of the throne:
Thy grace and justice, mighty Lord,
Shall well divide OUT last reward.
1 T^ARLY, my God, without delay,
J-J 1 haste to Beek thy t
My thirst] -
W ithout thy cheering gi .
'2 So pilgrims on t! i mdt
Beneath a burnin
Long for a cooling stream at hand,
d thy glory and thy power
Through all thy temple shine;
My God, repeat that heavenly |
That \ ivii ><> divine.
Can , i|,
dwell.
PSALM LXIII.
107
5 Not life itself, with all her joys,
Psalm.
Can my hest passions move,
63.
Or raise so high my cheerful voice,
As thy forgiving love.
6 Thus till my last expiring day
I'll bless my God and King ;
Thus will I lift my hands to pray,
And tune my lips to sing.
Midnight Thoughts recollected.
psalm.
1 TT1WAS in the watches of the night
J- I thought upon thy power,
63
CM
I kept thy lovely face in sight
Amidst the darkest hour.
Part II.
2 My flesh lay resting on my bed,
Ver.
My soul arose on high :
" My God, my life, my hope," I said,
6—10.
" Bring thy salvation nigh."
3 My spirit labours up thine hill,
And climbs the heavenly road;
But thy right hand upholds me still,
^Yhile I pursue my God.
4 Thy mercy stretches o'er my head
The shadow of thy wings ;
My heart rejoices in thine aid,
My tongue awakes and sings.
5 But the destroyers of my peace
Shall fret and rage in vain ;
The tempter shall for ever cease,
And all my sins be slain.
6 Thy sword shall give my foes to death,
And send them down to dwell
In the dark caverns of the earth,
Or to the deeps of hell.
Longing after God.
Psalm.
1 /2J.REAT God, indulge my humble claim,
v-J Thou art my hope, my joy, my rest ;
63.
108
PSALM LXIII.
JJaalm.
63.
L. M.
JJsalm.
63.
S. II
The glor i •■ name
to make me bless'd.
•2 Thou great and go d, I!.-",
Thou art my Father and □
And I am thii iea —
Thy son, thy bl with blood.
3 With heart, and eyes, and lifted hands,
For thee II I look,
As travellers in thirsty
Pant for the cooling water-brook.
4 With early U I t I love t' a]
Anion-- thy k thy face;
Oft have 1 seen thy |
And felt the power _race.
5 Not finite, nor wines that tempt our taste,
Nor all the j<»ys our sen-es know.
Could make me so divinely 1
Or raise my i one so.
6 My Life itself without thy love
No taste ■ f pleasure could afford;
'Twould but a tiresome burden prove,
If I were banish 'd from the Lord.
Amidst the wakeful hours of night,
When busy cares afflict my
One thought of thee gives new delight,
And adi
8 I'll lift my hand.-. I'll raise my -
"While 1 have breath to pray or j i
This work shall make my heart rejoice,
And B] ■ ant of my da;
1 *\ p t my tongue
-i-* A- ill thee mine ;
And let my early cries prevail
To tae vine.
2 My thirsty, faint': g
Thy mercy doth in -
PSALM LXV.
109
Not travellers in desert lands
$salm.
Can pant for water more.
63.
3 Within thy churches, Lord,
I long to find my place ;
Thy power and glory to behold,
And feel thy quick'ning grace.
4 For life without thy love
No relish can afford ;
No joy can be compared to this,
To serve and please the Lord.
5 To thee I'll lift my hands,
And praise thee while I live ;
Not the rich dainties of a feast
Such food or pleasure give.
6 In wakeful hours of night,
I call my God to mind ;
I think how wise thy counsels are,
And all thy dealings kind.
7 Since thou hast been my help,
To thee my spirit flies,
And on thy watchful providence
My cheerful hope relies.
8 The shadow of thy wings
My soul in safety keeps ;
I follow where my Father leads,
And he supports my steps,
Public Prayer and Praise.
$salm.
1 rTlHE praise of Sion waits for thee, '
J- My God, and praise becomes thy house;
65.
There shall thy saints thy glory see,
L. M.
And there perform their public vows.
Parti.
2 0 thou whose mercy bends the skies,
To save when humble sinners pray,
Ver.
All lands to thee shall lift their eyes,
1—5.
And islands of the northern sea.
110
IJaalm.
65.
PSALM LXV.
psalm,
65.
L. If.
Part II.
Yer.
5—13.
Bat grace thai] pur... away their stain;
The blood of Christ will never fail
To ira&h my garm< gain,
4 Bless'd u the man whom thou shalt choose.
And give him kind ace sa to thee;
Give him a place within thy ho
B thy love divinely tree.— ( Pause. )
be] tear when Sion prays;
Babel, prepare for
When Sion'fl God himself ai
In terror and in rig]
6 With dreadful -lory God fulfill
What his afflicted saints request;
And with almighty wrath reveals
Bis love, to give his Ohm
7 Then shall the flocking nations run
T i Sion'fl hill, and own their Lord;
The rising and the Betting sun
Shall se<- the Saviour's name a«l
iorm» and Sea.
1 rnilE God of our salvation hears
-A- The -roans of Sipu mix'd with tears
Yet when he comes with kind di -
Through all the way his terror
2 On him the race of man depends,
Far as the earth's n
When the Creator's name is known
By nature's feeble light alone.
3 Sailors that travel o'er the
Address their frig]
When tempests rage and I
At dreadful distance from the shore,
4 He bids the -
lie calms i;
PSALM LXV.
Ill
When a tumultuous nation raves,
Wild as the -winds, and loud as waves.
5 "Whole kingdoms shaken by the storm,
He settles in a peaceful form ;
Mountains established by his hand,
Firm on their old foundation stand.
6 Behold, his ensigns sweep the sky,
New comets blaze, and lightnings fly ;
The heathen lands, with swift surprise,
From the bright horrors turn their eyes.
7 At his command the morning ray
Smiles in the east, and leads the day ;
He guides the sun's declining wheels
Over the tops of western hills.
8 Seasons and times obey his voice;
The evening and the morn rejoice
To see the earth made soft with showers,
Laden with fruit, and dress'd in flowers.
9 'Tis from his wat'ry stores on high
He gives the thirsty ground supply ;
He walks upon the clouds, and thence
Doth his enriching drops dispense.
10 The desert grows a fruitful field,
Abundant fruit the valleys yield ;
The valleys shout with cheerful voice,
And neighb'ring hills repeat their joys.
11 The pastures smile in green array ;
There lambs and larger cattle play;
The larger cattle and the lamb
Each in his language speak thy name.
12 Thy works pronounce thy power divine ;
O'er every field thy glories shine ;
Through every month thy gifts appear :
Great God ! thy goodness crowns the year.
A Prayer-licarinrj God, and the Gentiles called.
I TT)RAISE waits in Sion, Lord, for thee;
-*- There shall our vows be paid :
112
PSALM LXV.
iisalm.
65.
C. M.
Part I.
ysalm.
65.
C. M.
Part II.
Thou I q - J i j 1 1« -i --, jiiav;
All flesh -liaii nek thine aid.
- vail,
Buf e i- thine;
And thou wilt mam as power and skill
To conquer every sin.
Bless'd are the men whom thou wilt choose
Tobri
ling in thine house,
'•li.it thy Church requests,
Thy truth and terror shine,
And work.-, of dreadful righteousness
Fulfil thy kind design.
5 Thus shall the wond'ring nations see
The Lord Lb good and just;
And distant island* fly to t.
And make thy name their trust
>> They dread thy glitt'ring tokens, Lord,
When signs in heaven a] |
But they shall learn thy holy word,
And love as well as
. L'urth, and Sea.
1 'finiS by thy strength the mountains stand,
J- God of eternal power;
tb calm at thy command,
And tempests oeaae t" i
2 Thy morning light and evening shade
•mfbrtfl bring;
Thy pie
Thy flowers adorn the sj :
na and hours,
Beaven, i artl thine;
When clouds distil in fruitful showers,
The Author is divine.
PSALM LXV.
113
ftsalm.
4 Those wand 'ring cisterns in the sky,
Borne by the winds around,
65.
With wat'ry treasures well supply
The furrows of the ground.
5 The thirsty ridges drink their fill,
And ranks of corn appear ;
Thy ways abound with blessings still,
Thy goodness crowns the year.
The blessings of the Spring.
13 3 aim.
A Psalm for the Husbandman.
65.
1 f^i OOD is the Lord, the heavenly King,
VX AVho makes the earth his care;
C. M
Visits the pastures every spring,
Part III
And bids the grass appear.
2 The clouds, like rivers raised on high,
Pour out at thy command
Their wat'ry blessings from the sky,
To cheer the thirsty land.
3 The soften 'd ridges of the field
Permit the corn to spring,
The valleys rich provision yield,
And the poor lab Vers sing.
4 The little hills, on every side,
Rejoice at falling showers ;
The meadows dress'd in all their pride
Perfume the air with flowers.
6 The barren clods, refresh 'd with rain,
Promise a joyful crop;
The parching grounds look green again,
And raise the reaper's hope;
6 The various months thy goodness crowns ;
How bounteous are thy ways !
The bleating flocks spread o'er the downs,
And shepherds shout thy praise.
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66.
C. M.
Part I.
PSALM LXVI.
IJaihn.
66.
QING, all ye • a, t(, ,)1(> j^,.^
*J Sing with a. joyful i
AN ith melody of sound
I lis honours, and your j
i the power that shakes the sky,
" How terrible art thou!
Sinnera before thy j n Bence fly,
Or at thy
3 [Come, see the wonders of cur God,
How glorious are his * i
In Moses' band he puts his rod,
And cleaves the frighted
4 He made the ebbing channel dry,
While [srael paas'd the flood;
There did the Church begin their joy,
And triumph in their God.]
5 He rules by I night:
Will rebel mortals dare
Proroke th' Eternal to the ii-ht,
And tempt that dreadful war?
- our God, and never
ts, fulfil his •
He keeps our life, maintains our peace,
And guides our doubtful
7 Lord, thoa nasi proved our Bufl ring souls,
To make our graces shine;
1 bears the burning c
The natal to I
s Through wat'ry deeps and fiery ways
\\ e march at thy command;
Led to possess the pn
By th hand.
1 iyr^)v ^laI1 »«y solemn
■Li To that Almighty Power
PSALM LXVII.
115
That heard the long requests 1 made
3?salm.
In my distressful hour.
66.
2 My lips and cheerful heart prepare
To make his mercies known ;
C. M.
Come, ye that fear my God, and hear
The wonders he has done.
Part 11.
3 When on my head huge sorrows fell,
Ver.
I sought his heavenly aid ;
13—20.
He saved my sinking soul from hell,
And death's eternal shade.
4 If sin lay cover'd in my heart,
While prayer employ'd my tongue,
The Lord had shown me no regard,
Nor I his praises sung.
5 But God (his name he ever bless'd!)
Has set my spirit free ;
Nor turn'd from him my poor request,
Nor turn'd his heart from me.
The Nation's Prosperity, and the Cliurck's
£3 saint,
Increase.
67.
1 QHINE, mighty God! on Britain shine
^-} With beams of heavenly grace;
C. M.
Reveal thy power through all our coasts,
And show thy smiling face.
2 [Amidst our isle exalted high,
Do thou our glory stand,
And, like a wall of guardian fire,
Surround the fav'rite laud.]
3 "When shall thy name, from shore to shore,
Sound all the earth abroad ;
And distant nations know and love
Their Saviour and their God?
4 Sing to the Lord, ye distant lands,
Sing loud with solemn voice ;
While British tongues exalt his praise,
And British hearts rejoice.
H
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9*1 lm.
67.
PSALM LXVIII
Psalm.
68.
L. M.
Part I.
Ver.
6 He, th-
Thai stta enl
commands the worlds he made
In justice and in I
- i.-ill obey her Maker's will,
And yield a lull in<
Our God will crown his
With fruit/uk* u and \ i
7 God tl.' round
1 li> choicest fayoui
While t bound
Shall see, adore, and
Tii' V
1 T ET God arise in all his might;
-Li And put the troops of hell to flight,
I ' t<» cloud the
rray'd in burning iamet ;
ames:
1 his fainting foes expire,
fire.]
3 He rides ami thunders through tl^
Ili- name. Jehovah, Bounds on high:
. t«» his name,
4 The widow and tli.
Fly t<> hia aid in sharp dial
In him the poor and
ther kind.
5 lie breaks ti.«' ca] tire's heavy chain,
And i • l^ght again ;
But rel tte his will [.Passat,
Shall dwell in chains and darkness still.
D him. ye nn"
1 li> W( I
lli& honour.- shall enrich y. ur \.
PSALM LXVII1.
117
7 He shakes the heavens with loud alarms ;
How terrible is God in arms !
In Israel are his mercies known,
Israel is his peculiar throne.
8 Proclaim him King, pronounce him bless'd;
He's your defence, your joy, your rest:
When terrors rise, and nations faint,
God is the strength of every saint.
Christ's Ascension, and the Gift of the Spirit.
1 T ORD, when thou didst ascend on high,
-L^ Ten thousand angels fill'd the sky ;
Those heavenly guards around thee wait,
Like chariots that attend thy state.
2 Not Sinai's mountain could appear
More glorious when the Lord was there ;
While he pronounced his dreadful law,
And struck the chosen tribes with awe.
3 How bright the triumph none can tell,
When the rebellious powers of hell,
That thousand souls had captive made,
Were all in chains like captives led.
4 Raised by his Father to the throne,
He sent the promised Spirit down,
With gifts and grace for rebel men,
That God might dwell on earth again.
Praise for Temporal Blessings.
1 TITE bless the Lord, the just, the good,
* » Who fills our heart with joy and food ;
Who pours his blessings from the skies,
And loads our days with rich supplies.
2 He sends the sun his circuit round,
To cheer the fruits, to warm the ground ;
He bids the clouds with plenteous rain
Refresh the thirsty earth again.
3 'Tis to his care we owe our breath,
And all our near escapes from death ;
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PSALM LXIX.
llsalm.
68.
\i s aim.
69.
C. If.
Tart I.
Yer.
1—14.
and health to (J<ul belong';
He heals the weak, and guards the strong.
4 Be make.- the sainl and sinner prove
The common bL lore;
But the wide difi'rence that remaius
dleti joy or i adieu pains.
5 The Lord that bruised the serpent's head
On all the serpent's seed shall oread ;
The stubborn sinner's hope confound,
And smite him with a lasting wound.
6 But his right hand i raise
From the deep earth or &
And bring them to his courts above;
There shall they taste his special love.
The Sufferings of Christ for our Salvation.
1 " 0 AVE me, O God! the swelling floods
k3 Break in upon my soul ;
I sink, and sorrows o'er my head
Like mighty water; roUL
2 1 cry till all my voice be gone,
In tears 1 waste the day;
My God, behold my longing eyes,
And shorten thy delay.
3 They hate my soul without a cause,
And still their number grows
More than the hairs around my head,
And mighty are mj
4 'Twai then 1 paid that dreadful debt
That men could never pay,
And gave those honours t«> thy law
Which sinners took away."
5 Thus in the great Messiah's name
The royal prophet mourns;
Thus he awakes our hearts to grief,
And gives us joy by turns,
6 " Now shall the sail d find
Salvation in my name;
PSALM LXIX.
For I have borne their heavy load
Of sorrow, pain, and shame.
7 Grief, like a garment, clothed me round,
And sackcloth was my dress.
While I procured for naked souls '
A robe of righteousness.
S Amongst my brethren and the Jews
I like a stranger stood,
And bore their vile reproach to bring
The Gentiles near to God.
9 I came in sinful mortals' stead
To do my Father's will ;
Yet when I cleansed my Father's house,
They scandalized my zeal.
10 My fasting ana my holy groans
Were made the drunkard's song:
But God, from his celestial throne.
Heard my complaining tongue.
11 He saved me from the dreadful deep,
Nor let my soul be drown'd;
He raised and fix'd my sinking feet
On well-establish'd ground.
12 'Twas in a most accepted hour
My prayer arose on high ;
And for my sake my God shall hear
The dying sinner's cry."
The Passion and Exaltation of Christ.
1 ]VfOW let our lips, with holy fear,
-L ^ And mournful pleasure, sing
The sufferings of our great High Priest.
The sorrows of our King.
2 He sinks in floods of deep distress;
How high the waters rise !
"While to his heavenly Father's ear
He sends perpetual cries.
3 u Hear me, O Lord, and save thy Son,
Nor hide thy shining face ;
120
PSA I
(J&alm.
Why ibdllU thy lav r ic look tiki one
69.
Forsab □ of thy ■_•.
4 With nge they persecute the man
roans beneath thy wound ;
While for a sacrifu e I potur
My liii- apoa the ground.
5 They tread my hoDOOI to the dust,
And laugh when 1 complain;
Their sharp insulting >landers add
Fresh anguish t<> my pain.
6 All my reproach is known to tl.< c,
The scandal and the shame;
Reproach has broke my bleeding heart,
And lies defiled my name,
7 I look'd for j<ity, but in vain;
My kindred arc my
I a-k my friends far eomfort round,
But meet with no relict.
6 With vinegar they mock my thir.-t,
They give me gall for food ;
And, sporting with my dying gn
They triumph in my blood.
9 Shine into my distressed soul,
Let thy compassion
And though my Besi) sink down to death,
Redeem it from the grave.
1<) I shall arise to praise thy name,
Shall reign in worlds unknown;
And thy salvation, () my God,
shall -<-at me on thy throne."
i3aalm.
• ■ad Death.
69.
1 "OATHER, I sing thy wondrous grjM
J- I bless my Saviour's name;
C. M.
He bough! salvation for the poor,
And bore the sinner's shame.
Part 111.
2 His deep «i- ed u.> high ;
duty and his zeal
PSALM LXIX.
121
Fulfill'd the law which mortals broke,
And finish'd all thy will.
3 His dying groans, his living songs,
Shall better please my God
Than harp or trumpet's solemn sound,
Than goat's or bullock's blood.
4 This shall his humble followers see,
And set their hearts at rest ;
They by his death draw near to thee,
And live for ever bless'd.
5 Let heaven, and all that dwell on high,
To God their voices raise,
"While lands and seas assist the sky,
And join t' advance the praise.
6 Zion is thine, most holy God,
Thy Son shall bless her gates ;
And glory purchased by his blood
For thy own Israel waits.
Christ's Passion, and Sinners' Salvation.
1 T\EEP in our hearts let us record
-L' The deeper sorrows of our Lord ;
Behold the rising billows roll
To overwhelm his holy soul.
2 In long complaints he spends his breath,
While hosts of hell, and powers of death.
And all the sons of malice, join
To execute their cursed design.
3 Yet, gracious God, thy power and love
Has made the curse a blessing prove ;
Those dreadful sufferings of thy Son
Atoned for sins which we had done.
4 The pangs of our expiring Lord
The honours of thy law restored ;
His sorrows made thy justice known,
And paid for follies not his own.
5 0, for his sake, our guilt forgive,
And let the mourning sinner live :
69.
Ipaalm.
69.
L. M
Part I.
122
PSALM LXIX.
IKiim.
69.
L. M.
Part II.
V,r.
r, &c.
The Lord will hear us in his name,
Nor thai] our hope be torn'd to shame.
08 and Zeal
1 TWAS for '">' k;,k(>' sternal God,
-1- Thy Bon sustain 'd that heavy load
Of base reproach and bo
And Bhame defiled his sacred face,
2 The Jews, hit brethren and his kin.
Abased the Man that check'd their sin ;
AN hile ho fhlfill'd thy holy laws,
They hate him, but without a ea
•" [" My Father's house," said ho. "was made
A place for worship, not f<>r trade;"'
Then, scattering all their gold and brass.
He scourged the merchants from the place.]
4 [Zeal for the temple of his I
Consumed his :,.,„];
Reproaches at thy glory thrown
Ho felt, and mourn 'd them as his own.]
5 [His friends forsook, his followers Hod,
While foes and arms surround his head;
They curse him with a sland'rons tongue,
And the false jodge maintains the vrrong.]
6 Ili> life they load with hateful li
And charge his lips with blasphemies;
They nail him to the shameful tree:
There hung the .Man that died for me.
7 [ Wretches, with hearts as hard as stones,
Iii^ult his piety and groans;
(Jail was the food they gave 1dm there,
Anil mock'd his thirst with vinegar.]
8 Bnt (;<>d beheld, and from his throne
Marks out the men that hate his Son:
The hand that raised him from the dead
Shall poor the i their head.
PSALM LXXT.
123
The aged Saint's Reflection and Hope.
1 1\TY God, my everlasting hope,
-1-t JL I live upon thy truth ;
Thine hands have held my childhood up,
And strengthen'd all my youth.
2 My flesh was fashion 'd by thy power,
With all these limbs of mine ;
And from my mother's painful hour
I've been entirely thine.
3 Still has my life new wonders seen
Repeated every year ;
Behold my days that yet remain,
I trust them to thy care.
4 Cast me not off when strength declines,
When hoary hairs arise ;
And round me let thy glory shine,
Whene'er thy servant dies.
5 Then in the history of my age,
When men review my days,
They'll read thy love in every page,
In every line thy praise.
Christ our Strength and Righteousness.
1 ~j\/TY Saviour, my almighty Friend,
jjJL When I begin thy praise,
Where will the growing numbers end,
The numbers of thy grace ?
2 Thou art my everlasting trust;
Thy goodness I adore !
And since I knew thy graces first,
I speak thy glories more.
3 My feet shall travel all the length
Of the celestial road,
And march with courage in thy strength,
To see my Father God.
4 When I am fill'd with sore distress
For some surprising sin,
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71.
C. II
Part III.
Ver.
17 — 21.
I'll plead thy perfect righteousness
And mentioo none but thine.
6 How will my lips
The rict'rii - of m;. B
-M: ■ ■• '•'■ ; ; hell,
.Shall thy salvatit D
6 [My tongue .-hall all the day proclaim
rionr and my Qod;
Hii death has br< aghl m;
And drown'd them in hi* blood.
7 Awake, awake, my tuneful pow<
With this delightni
I'll entertain the darkest hours,
Nor think the leason I i
>'jng.
1 Ct®D ofml childhood and my youth,
v-J Th<- guide of all my
1 have declared thy heayenly truth,
And told thy won .
2 Wilt thou forsake my hoary hairs,
It Gqd my stn ngtfa d< |
:j Let me thy power and truth proclaim
And '.■ of thy name
When I shall qui!
4 The land of silence and of<
' ' breath
5 Thy right) p and high,
reliable thy d
And all my pr
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6 Oft have I heard thy threat niugs roar,
And oft endured the grief;
But- when thy hand has press'd me sore,
Thy grace was my relief.
7 By long experience have 1 known
Thy sovereign power to save ;
At thy command I venture down
Securely to the grave.
8 When I lie buried deep in dust,
My flesh shall be thy care ;
These withering limbs with thee I trust,
To raise them strong and fair.
The Kingdom of Christ.
1 /"^ RE AT God ! whose universal sway
^-T The known and unknown worlds obey,
Now give the kingdom to thy Son,
Extend his power, exalt his throne.
2 Thy sceptre well becomes his hands,
All heaven submits to his commands;
His justice shall avenge the poor,
And pride and rage prevail no more.
3 With power he vindicates the just,
And treads the oppressor in the dust;
His worship and his fear shall last,
Till hours, and years, and time, be past.
4 As rain on meadows newly mown,
So shall he send his influence down ;
His grace on fainting souls distils,
Like heavenly dew on thirsty hills.
5 The heathen lands that lie beneath
The shades of overspreading death,
Revive at his first dawning light,
And deserts blossom at the sight.
6 The saints shall flourish in his days,
Dress'd in the robes of joy and praise ;
Peace, like a river, from his throne
Shall flow to nations yet unknown.
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TI-M> iball reign where'er the sun
... '' Mire journeys run;
His kingdom stretch from -
I i;H. noo„s sl,,.H wax and wane no more.
2 L»"-1J"I«1. the islands Mitl, their k
And Europe her best tribute brings;
From north to south the princes meet,
ropay their homage at hit
3 There Persia, glorious to behold,
There India shin,.. i„ eastern gold;
And barb'rous nations at hie
Submit, and bow. and own their Lord 1
4 For him shall endless prayer be made
And princes throng to crown his I
His name like sweet perfume shall rise
"N ith every morning sacrifice.
pie and realm- of every tongue
Dwell on his love with sweetest song;
And infant voices shall proclaim
Their early blessings on his name.
6 Blessings abound where'er he reigns,
The pris'ner leaps to loose his chains';
The weary find eternal rest,
And all the sons of want are bless'd.
7 [Where he displays his healing power,
Death and the curse are known no more;
In him the tribes of Adam I
gs than their
tare rise and bring
liar honours to our K
Angels descend with songs again,
And earth repeat the long Amen.]
1 "V ' >W ' ::1 conT>nced the Lord is kind
-^ To men of heart sincere:
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Yet once ray foolish thoughts repined,
And border'd on despair.
2 I grieved to see the wicked thrive,
And spoke with angry breath,
" How pleasant and profane they live !
How peaceful is their death !
3 " With well-fed flesh and haughty eyes,
They lay their fears to sleep ;
Against the heavens their slanders rise,
While saints in silence weep.
4 " In vain I lift my hands to pray,
And cleanse my heart in vain;
For I am chasten'd all the day,
The night renews my pain."
5 Yet while my tongue indulged complaints
I felt my heart reprove, —
" Sure I shall thus offend thy saints, .
And grieve the men I love."
6 But still 1 found my doubts too hard,
The conflict too severe,
Till I retired to search thy word,
And learn thy secrets there.
7 There, as in some prophetic glass,
I saw the sinner's feet
High mounted on a slippery place,
Beside a fiery pit.
8 I heard the wretch profanely boast,
Till at thy frown he fell ;
His honours in a dream were lost,
And he awakes in hell.
9 Lord, what an envious fool I was!
How like a thoughtless beast !
Thus to suspect thy promised grace,
And think the wicked bless'd.
10 Yet was I kept from full despair,
Upheld by power unknown ;
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That Messed band that broke the snare
Shall LTiii.lt' DM t«» thy tin
1 /?}_0I>, my supporter and my nope,
^-J My help for ever near,
Thine arm of mercy held me uj>.
When sinking in despair.
2 Thy counsels, Lord, -hall guide my feet
Through thk dark wilder
Thine hand conduct me near th\
To dwell before thy face,
3 Were 1 in heaven without my God,
'Twould be no joy to me ;
And whilst this earth is my abode,
1 long for none but thee.
4 What if the springs of life were broke,
And flesh and heart would faint;
God is my soul's eternal i
The strength of every saint.
5 Behold, the sinners that i ■
Par from thy presence die;
Not all the idol-gods they love
Can save them when the]
6 But to draw near to fcto
Shall be my sweet employ ;
My tongue shall sound thy works abroad,
And tell the world my joy.
The /'
1 T OltD, what a thoughtless wretch was I.
■H To mourn, and murmur, and repine,
the wicked, placed oi
In pride and robes of honour shine.
2 But O their end, their dreadful end I
Thy sanctuary taught mi
On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand,
And fiery billows roll below.
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3 Now let them boast how tall they rise,
I'll never envy them again;
There they may stand with haughty eyes,
Till they plunge deep in endless pain.
4 Their fancied joys, how fast they flee !
Just like a dream when man awakes;
Their songs of softest harmony
Are but a preface to their plagues.
5 Now I esteem their mirth and wine
Too dear to purchase with my blood;
Lord, 'tis enough that thou art mine,
My life, my portion, and my God.
The Mystery of Providence unfolded.
URE there 's a righteous God,
Nor is religion vain ;
Though men of vice may boast aloud,
And men of grace complain.
I saw the wicked rise,
And felt my heart repine,
While haughty fools, with scornful eyes,
In robes of honour shine.
[Pamper 'd with wanton ease,
Their flesh looks full and fair ;
Their wealth roils in like flowing seas,
And grows without tlieir care.]
Free from the plagues and pains
That pious souls endure ;
Through all their life oppression reigns,
And racks the humble poor.
Their impious tongues blaspheme
The everlasting God ;
Their malice blasts the good man's name
And spreads their lies abroad.
But I, with flowing tears,
Indulged my doubts to rise ;
" Is there a God that sees or hears
The things below the skies?"
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— ^ Held mo in hard bu
/ 0. Till to thy house my feet were brought,
To learn thy justice th< :
Thy word with light a 1 1< 1 power
Uid my mistakes amend ;
1 view *d llit.' Burners' life before,
But here 1 learnt their end.
On what a Blippery steep
The thoughtless w retches
And O that dreadful fiery deep
That waits their tall below !
10 Lord, at thy feet 1 bow,
My thoughts no more repine;
1 call my God my portion now,
And all my powers are thine.
The Church pleading with 6
Pern
1 "IITILL God for ever cast us off!
* » His wrath for ever smoke
Against the people of his low,
His little chosen Hock?
2 Think of the tribe- BO dearly bought
With their Redeemer's 1
Nor let thy Bion be
Where once thy glory Btood.
3 Lift up thy feet and march in L
Aloud our ruin calls ;
what a wide and fearful w,
1> made within thy walls.
4 Where once thy churches pray'd and
Thy foes profanely roar; [sang
Over thy gates their ensigns hang,
Bad tokens of their power.
5 How are the Beats of worship broke!
They tear thy buildings down,
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And he that deals the heaviest stroke
Procures the chief renown.
6 With flames they threaten to destroy
Thy children in their nest ;
" Come, let us burn at once," they cry,
"The temple and the priest."
7 And still to heighten our distress,
Thy presence is withdrawn ;
Thy wonted signs of power and grace,
Thy power and grace are gone.
8 No prophet speaks to calm our woes,
But all the seers mourn;
There 's not a soul amongst us knows
The time of thy return. — (Pause. )
9 How long, eternal God, how long
Shall men of pride blaspheme ?
Shall saints be made their endless song,
And bear immortal shame ?
10 Canst thou for ever sit and hear
Thy holy name profaned?
And still thy jealousy forbear,
And still withhold thine hand.]
11 What strange deliv'rance hast thou shown
In ages long before !
And now no other God we own,
No other God adore.
12 Thou didst divide the raging sea
By thy resistless might,
To make thy tribes a wond'rous way,
And then secure their flight.
13 Is not the world of nature thine,
The darkness and the day?
Didst not thou bid the morning shine,
And mark the sun his way?
14 Hath not thy power form'd every coast,
And set the earth its bounds,
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With Bummer's heat, and winter -
In their perpetual re
15 And shall tl rth aixl dust
That -
Will not thy hand, that fbrm'd them first,
Areage thine inj
1G Think on the oov'nant thou hast made,
And all thy
Nor 1ft the birds "I )-n y i.
And rex thy mow
17 Our foes would triumph in our blood,
And make our h< |
Plead thy own cm.
And give thy children rest
[A |.] -lied to the glorious Revohiti
mi, or the hap]
!.l- throne.]
1 rilO thee, most Holy and mosl I
J- To thee we bring our thank:
j Thy work- declare thy nam.' i> nigh,
Thy works of wonder and
2 Britain iraa doonfd v> I
Her frame dissolred, her t
When God a new snpportf I
To bear the pillar!
;j He from thy hand : ■•■• 'wn,
And sware to role by wholesome laws;
: shall tread th' opj
4 Let haughty niaainn sink their ]
Nor lift so high their KOrnfhJ h.
But lay tl.. r foolish thoughts aside,
And own the king tl made.
'5 Such honoti
. do the winds promotion 1 1
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"Tis God the Judge doth one advance,
'Tis God that lays another low.
No vain pretence to royal birth
Shall fix a tyrant on the throne :
God, the great sov'reign of the earth,
Will rise and make his justice known.
[His hand holds out the dreadful cup
Of vengeance mix'd with various plagues,
To make the wicked drink them up,
Wring out and taste the bitter dregs.
How shall the Lord exalt the just!
And while he tramples on the proud,
And lays their glory in the dust,
My lips shall sing his praise aloud.]
Israel saved, and the' Assyrians destroyed.
1TN Judah, God of old was known ;
-L His name in Israel great ;
In Salem stood his holy throne,
And Zion was his seat.
2 Among the praises of his saints
His dwelling there he chose ;
There he received their just complaints
Against their haughty foes.
3 From Zion went his dreadful word,
And broke the threat 'ning spear,
The bow, the arrows, and the sword,
And crush 'd th' Assyrian war.
4 What are the earth's wide kingdoms else
But mighty hills of prey?
The hill on which Jehovah dwells
Is glorious more than they.
6 'Twas Zion's King that stopp'd the breath
Of captains and their bands;
The men of might slept fast in death,
And never found their hands.
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G At thy rebuke, 0 Jacob's God,
Both hone and chariot Cell;
Who knowi of thy rod!
Thy vengeance \\ ho can
7 What power ••an Btand before thy
When once thy wrath appears! [light
When heaven shim is round with dreadful
Tlie earth lies still and £
8 When God, in his own sov'ivign ways,
Comee down to save th' opprei
The wrath of man shall work hi- ;
And boll restrain tl
9 [Vow to the Lord, and tribute bring,
Ye princes, fear his frown;
His terrors shake the proudest king,
And cut an army down.
10 The thunder of his sharp rebuke
Our haughty foes shall R
For Jacob's God hath not for*
But dwells in Zion still.]
uniting, and Hope prevailing.
1 npO God I cried with mournful voice,
J. I Bought his gracious
In the Bad day when.tr
And lill'd the night with fear.
2 Sad were my days, and dark my nights,
My soul refused relief;
I thought on God tin' just and wise.
But thoughts increased my
3 Still 1 complam'd, and, still opj.ress'd,
My heart began to break ;
My God, thy wrath fork
Ami kept my eyes awake.
4 Mv overwhelming -
Till 1 could sj.eak no at I
Then 1 within my-elf withdrew,
Ami call'd thy judgments o'er.
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1 call'd back years and ancient times
When I beheld thy face ;
My spirit search'd for secret crimes
That might withhold thy grace.
I call'd thy mercies to my mind
"Which I enjoy'd before ;
And will the Lord no more be kind?
His face appear no more?
Will he for ever cast me off?
His promise ever fail?
Has he forgot his tender love?
Shall anger still prevail ?
But I forbid this hopeless thought,
This dark, despairing frame,
Rememb'ring what thy hand hath wrought :
Thy hand is still the same.
I'll think again of all thy ways,
And talk thy wonders o'er ;
Thy wonders of recov'ring grace,
When flesh could hope no more.
Grace dwells with justice on the throne;
And men that love thy word
Have in thy sanctuary known
The counsels of the Lord.
Comfort derived from ancient Providences.
HOW awful is thy chast'ning rod!''
May thy own children say :
" The great, the wise, the dreadful G-od,
How holy is his way !"
2 I'll meditate his works of old,
The King that reigns above ;
I'll hear his ancient wonders told,
And learn to trust his love.
3 Long did the house of Joseph lie
With Egypt's yoke oppress'd;
Long he delay'd to hear their cry,
Nor gave his people rest
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4 The sons of good old Jacob seem'd
Abandon'd to their
But his almighty arm ndeem'd
The nation that he
6 Israel, his people and his sheep,
Must follow where he calN;
He bade then venture through the deep,
And made the waves their walls.
G The waters saw thee, mighty God!
The water* saw thee comet
Backward they lied, and frighted stood,
To make thine armies room.
7 Strange was thy journey through the sea,
Thy footsteps, Lord, unknown;
Terrors attend the wondro .
That brings thy mercies down.
8 [Thy voice, with terror in the sound,
Through clouds and darkness broke;
All heaven in lightning shone around,
And earth with thunder shook.
9 Thine arrows thro' the skies were hurl'd,
How glorious is the Lord!
Surprise and trembling seized the world,
And his own saints adored.
10 He gave them water from the rock,
And safe, by Moses' hand,
Through a dry desert led his flock
Home to the promised land.]
Providences of (iud n
1 T ET children hear the mighty deeds
-L^ "Which God perform 'd of old,
Which in our younger years we saw,
And which OUT lathers told.
2 lie bids as make hii glories known,
His Works of power and grace;
And we'll convey his wooden «'
Through every rising
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3 Our lips shall tell them to our sons,
And they again to theirs ;
That generations yet unborn
May teach them to their heirs.
4 Thus they shall learn in God alone
Their hope securely stands ;
That they may ne'er forget his works,
But practise his commands.
Israel's Rebellion and Punishment.
1 r\ WHAT a stiff rebellious house
V-/ Was Jacob's ancient race !
False to their own most solemn vows,
And to their Maker's grace,
2 They broke the cov'nant of his love,
And did his laws despise ;
Forgot the works he wrought to prove
His power before their eyes.
3 They saw the plagues on Egypt light
From his revenging hand ;
What dreadful tokens of his might
Spread o'er the stubborn land.
4 They saw him cleave the mighty sea,
And march'd in safety through,
With watery walls to guard their way,
Till they had 'scaped the foe.
5 A wondrous pillar mark'd the road,
Composed of shade and light ;
By day it proved a sheltering cloud,
A leading fire by night.
6 He from the rock their thirst supplied ;
The gushing waters fell,
And ran in rivers by their side,
A constant miracle.
7 Yet they provoked the Lord most High,
And dared distrust his hand :
" Can he with bread our host supply
Amidst this desert land?"
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6 The Lord with indignation h<
And «
i.l prepared
To vsadicati
perance.
1 TXTHBN | L'-nl reproves,
' * And fill- their hearts with ■
^ ct he forgirei tl i men hi
And Bends them heavenly bread.
•2 He fed them with a liberal
And made hi- treasures known;
e the midnight clonda command
To poor proi ision down.
The manna, like a morning shower,
Lay thick around theu
The corn of heaven, bo light, so pure,
A- though 'twere angels' meat.
4 But they in murmuring language
u .Manna i- all our
We loathe this light, this airy bread;
We must have flesh t<» tag
" Ye shall have flesh to please your lust,"
The Lord in wrath replied;
And sent them quails, like sand or dust,
Heap'd up from Bide*to side.
6 them all their own i
And. greedy as t hey fed,
J lis vengeance burnt with secret fire,
And Bmote the rebels dead.
7 When some were slain, the rest retura'd,
And - rd with tears;
Under the rod they l'car'd and mourn 'd,
□ forgot their fears,
8 Oft he c
Till, bj - hand,
The nation he resolved to
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Backsliding and Forgiveness.
GREAT God ! how oft did Israel prove
By turns thine anger and thy love?
There in a glass our hearts may see
How fickle and how false they. be.
How soon the faithless Jews forgot
The dreadful wonders God had wrought !
Then they provoke him to his face,
Nor fear his power, nor trust his grace.
The Lord consumed their years in pain,
And made their travels long and vain;
A tedious march through unknown ways
Wore out their strength, and spent their days.
Oft, when they saw their brethren slain,
They mourn 'd, and sought the Lord again;
Call'd him the Rock of their abode,
Their high Redeemer, and their God.
Their prayers and vows before him rise
As flattering words of solemn lies,
While their rebellious tempers prove
False to his covenant and his love.
Yet did his sovereign grace forgive
The men who not deserved to live ;
His anger oft away he turn'd,
Or else with gentle flame it burn'd.
He saw their flesh was weak and frail,
He saw temptations still prevail ;
The God of Abra'm loved them still,
And led them to his holy hill.
Hie Church's Prayer under
1 r\ RE AT Shepherd of thine Israel,
vT Who didst between the cherubs dwell,
And lead the tribes, thy chosen sheep,
Safe through the desert and the deep ;
2 Thy clnjrch is in the desert now :
Shine from on high, and guide us through ;
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_di no more.
3 Groat God, whom ii< avenly ho-
llow Long shall wo lament and ;
And wait in vain thy kind roturn?
How long shall thy fierce anger burn?
4 Instead of wine and cheerful bread,
Thy saints with th< are fed;
Turn us to thee, thy love i
We shall bo saved, and si^h no more.
(J'"t'*C I.)
5 Hast thou not planted with thy hands
A lovely vino in heathen I
Did not thy power defend it round,
And heavenly dews enrich the ground?
6 How did the spreading branchet
And bless the nations with the fruit!
But now, dear Lord, look down and see
Thy mourning vino, that lovely tree.
7 Why is its beanty thus defi
Why hast thou laid her fences waste?
Strangers and foes against her join,
And every beast dcv.au> the vino.
8 Return, Almighty God, return,
Nor let thy bleeding vineyard mourn;
Turn us to thee, thy love restore,
W< .. and sigh no more.
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9 Lord, when this vine in Canaan _
Thou wast its Strength and glory too:
Attaek'd in vain by all its foes,
Till the fair Branch of Pr
10 Fair Branch, ordain'd of old to shoot
From David's stock, from Jacob's root;
Himself a noble vine, and
The le
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11 'Tis thy own Son, and he shall stand,
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Thy first-born Son, adorn 'd and bless'd
With power and grace above the rest.
12 0, for his sake, attend our cry,
Shine on thy churches, lest they die ;
Turn us to thee, thy love restore,
We shall be saved, and sigh no more.
The Warnings of God to his People.
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1 Q< IX G to the Lord aloud,
^O And make a joyful noise ;
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Let Israel hear his voice.
2 " From vile idolatry
Ver. 1,
Preserve my worship clean ;
8—16.
I am the Lord, who set thee free
From slavery and sin.
3 " Stretch thy desires- abroad,
And I'll supply them well ;
But if you will refuse your God,
If Israel will rebel,
4 * I'll leave them," saith the Lord,
" To their own lusts a prey,
And let them run the dangerous road ;
'Tis their own chosen way.
5 " Yet 0 ! that all my saints
Would hearken to my voice !
Soon I would ease their sore complaints,
And bid their hearts rejoice.
6 " While I destroy their foes,
I'd richly feed my flock ;
And they should taste the stream that flows
From then eternal Rock."
God the Supreme Governor.
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1 A MONG th' assemblies of the great
-£*- A greater Ruler takes his seat;
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The (-■ :\eyg
Those gods on earth. and all their
2 Why "ill ye, then, frame wicked I
Or why npport th' uiiii.ilitt.-uu8 cause?
When trill ^ d the poor,
That sinners vex | motel
3 They know i. a ill they know;
Dark are the way- in which they go:
Their nam* ain.
For they shall rail and die like men.
Possess his universal throne,
And rule the nations with his rod;
He is our Judge, and he our God.
A Complaint against Persecutors.
1 A ND will the God of grace
-£*- Perpetual silence keep?
The God of justice hold his
And let his vengeance sleep?
2 Behold what cursed snares
The men of mischief spri
The men that hate thy saints and thee,
Lift up their threat'nmg head.
3 Against thy hidden ones
Their com toy;
I malice, with her watchful eye,
Pursoi
The noble and the
In-o thy past
The lion and the Bta]
cry,
Till not the nan
\ :• memory shall bo found. M
And call u . :nd;
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Give them like forests to the fire,
Or stubble to the wind.
7 Convince their madness", Lord,
And make them seek thy name ;
Or else their stubborn rage confound,
That they may die in shame.
8 Then shall the nations know-
That glorious dreadful word,
Jehovah is thy name alone,
And thou the sovereign Lord.
The Pleasure of Public Worship.
1 TTOW pleasant, how divinely fair,
1--1- O Lord of hosts, thy dwellings are I
With long desire my spirit faints
To meet the assemblies of thy saints.
2 My flesh would rest in thine abode,
My panting heart cries out for God ;
My God ! my King ! why should I be
So far from all my joys and thee?
3 The sparrow chooses where to rest,
And for her young provides her nest ;
But will my God to sparrows grant
The pleasure which his children want?
4 Bless'd are the saints which sit on high
Around thy throne of majesty ;
Thy brightest glories shine above,
And all their work is praise and love.
5 Bless'd are the souls that find a place
Within the temple of thy grace ;
There they behold thy gentler rays,
And seek thy face, and learn thy praise.
6 Bless'd are the men whose hearts are set
To find their way to Zion's gate ;
God is their strength, and through the road
They lean upon their helper God.
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,1 fchey walk with growing
Till all shall meet h
Till all before
And join in nobler worship there
1 flBEA.T <'"'1' attend whBt Zion smg*
y Til. 'joy thai from thy presence springs:
-1 ona day with thee on earth,
Exceed- a thousand days of mirth.
I «-nj..y the hi
Within thy bouse,
r thrones of]
Should tempt my feet to leare ;
3 God is our sun, he makes our d*
God is our shield, he guards our way
From all th' assaults of hell and sin,
From foes without and foes within.
4 All needful grace will God
And crown that grace with glory too;
He gives us all things, and withholds
from upright souls.
1 our Kin-. ign sway
The glorious en obey,
And devils at thy pn
Bless'd is the man that trusts in thee.
iJd't'jht in Ordinance* of Worship.
1 "\ ,TY soul. how lovely is the place
*jA To which thy God i
'Tis heaven to see his smiling
Though in his earthly fit
- Thi Monarch of the skies
reaks in upon our |
With kind and quick*niiu
Descends ami fills the place,
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"While Christ reveals his wondrous love,
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And sheds abroad his grace.
84.
4 There, mighty God, thy words declare
The secrets of thy will ;
And still we seek thy mercy. there,
And sing thy praises still. — ( Pause. )
5 My heart and flesh cry out for thee,
While far from thine abode ;
When shall I tread thy courts, and see
My Saviour and my God?
6 The sparrow builds herself a nest,
And suffers no remove ;
0 make me, like the sparrows, bless'd,
To dwell but where I love.
7 To sit one day beneath thine eye,
And hear thy gracious voice,
Exceeds a whole eternity
Employ'd in carnal joys.
8 Lord, at thy threshold I would wait
While Jesus is within,
Rather than fill a throne of state,
Or live in tents of sin.
9 Could I command the spacious land,
And the more boundless sea,
For one bless'd hour at thy-right hand,
I'd give them both away.
Longing for the House of God.
Usalm.
1 T ORD of the worlds above,
-L* How pleasant and how fair
84.
The dwellings of thy love,
As the
Thy earthly temples are !
148th
To thine abode
My heart aspires,
Psalm.
With warm desires
To see my God.
146
i LXXXIV.
tjsalin. 2 The sp
o / With ]
To find their
My spirit taints
"With equal
I well
3 O happy souls that pray
nta to hear!
O happy in. n that pay
Th*.-,r
Tin y -rill ;
And happy they
That love t!.
To Ziou's hill.
4 They go from strength to strength,
Through this dark vale o;
Till each in ars;
When God our K
Shall thither bring
Our willing feet.— -( Pause. J
' nd one sacred day
Wbn .bide,
r joy
Than fchooi -.de:
When
To b
Thau shine in courts.
- :ir sun an.] -
Our light and our <;.
With gifta bit hands are fill'd,
PSALM LXXXV.
147
He shall bestow
On Jacob's race
Peculiar grace
And glory too.
7 The Lord his people loves ;
His hand no good withholds
From those his heart approves.
From pure and pious souls:
Thrice happy he.
0 God of]
Whose spirit trusts
Alone in thee.
tff for an Answer to pmt/er.
1 T ORD. thou hast eall'd thy grace to mind,
-*-^ Thou hast reversed our heavy doom;
God forgave when Israel sinn'd.
And brought bis wand'ring captives home.
2 Thou hast begun to set us free.
And made thy fiercest wrath abate :
Now let our hearts be turu'd to thee.
And thy salvation be complete.
3 Revive our dying graces. Lord,
And let thy saints in thee rejoice;
Make known thy truth, fulfil thy word .;
We wait for praise to tune our voice.
4 "We wait to hear what God will say ;
He'll speak, and give his people peace :
But let them run no more astray.
Lest his returning wrath increase.
turn bu Oirist.
1 s^ ALVATION is for ever uigh
^ The souls that fear and trust the Lord;
And grace, descending from on high.
Fresh hopes of glory shall afford.
2 Mercy and truth on earth are met. [heaven;
Since Christ the Lord came down from J
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JJsalm.
85.
L. M.
Part I.
Ver.
1-3.
}3salm
85.
148
PSALM LXXXVII
^aalnt.
85.
L.M.
Tart II.
Ver.
ft, &c.
psalm.
86.
CM.
Ver.
8—13.
$salm.
87.
L. M.
By his obedien©
Justice iron.
Now truth .-in.! hoi ind,
Religion dwell on earth again;
And heavenly influi round
In our I .
His righl
To give us free access to God;
Our wandering feet shall -tray no more,
But mark hia steps and keep the road.
A general »
1 A MONG the princes, earthly
-£X There's none hath power divine;
Nor m their nature, mighty
Nor are their works like thine.
2 The nations thou hast made shall bring
Their i d thy throne;
For thou alone dost wondrous tl
For tlwu art God alone.
3 Lord, I would walk with holy [i
Teach me thine heavenly
And my poor scatter'd thoughts unite
In God my Father- pi
4 Great is thy mercy, and my tongue
Shall those sweet wondi i
Ih.w by th; linking soul
ell.
The CJiiirch the Birthplace of the Saints.
1 /^i ( lays
VJT Foundations for his heavenly praise:
He Uk< of Jacob well.
But still iu Zion lovea to dwell.
2 His
That pay their night and morning
But makes a more delight!
Where churcl
PSALM LXXXIX.
149
3 "What glories were described of old !
What wonders are of Zion told !
Thou city of our God below,
Thy fame shall Tyre and Egypt know,
4 Egypt and Tyre, and Greek and Jew,
Shall there begin their lives anew :
Angels and men shall join to sing
The hill where living waters spring.
5 When God makes up his last account
Of natives in his holy mount,
'Twill be an honour to appear
As one new-born or nourish'd there.
Tlie Covenant made with Clirist.
1 T7! OR ever shall my song record
-T The truth and mercy of the Lord;
Mercy and truth for ever stand,
Like heaven, established by his hand.
2 Thus to his Son he sware, and said,
"With thee my cov'nant first is made;
In thee shall dying sinners live,
Glory and grace are thine to give.
3 " Be thou my Prophet, thou my Priest;
Thy children shall be ever bless'd ;
Thou art my chosen King ; thy throne
Shall stand eternal like my own.
4 " There's none of all my sons above
So much my image or my love ;
Celestial powers thy subjects are,
Then what can earth to thee compare?
5 "David, my servant, whom I chose
To guard my flock, to crush my foes,
And raised him to the Jewish throne,
AYas but a shadow of my Son."
6 Now let the church rejoice and sing
Jesus, her Saviour and her King ;
Angels his heavenly wonders show,
And saints declare his works below.
150
PSALM LXXXIX.
ysslm.
89.
CM.
Part 1.
psalm.
89.
C. M.
Part II.
Ver.
7, &c.
1 "j%rY never-ceasing songs shall show
X'JL The mercies of the Lord :
And Boake succeeding ages know
1 low faithful is Ins word.
2 The sacred truths his lipa pronounce
Shall linn as heaven endure:
And if he speak a promiae once,
Th' eternal grace is sure.
3 How Long the race ofDaTid held
The promised Jewish throne!
But there's a nobler oov'nant saal'd
To David's greater Son.
4 His seed for ever shall possess
A throne above the skies;
The meanest subject of nil
Shall to that glory
5 Lord God of hosts, thy wondroni
Are song by saints above;
And saints on earth their honours raise
To thy unchanging lore.
Tli e Power and Majesty of I
1 ^IITITII reverence let the saints appear,
V V And bow before the Lord,
His high commands with ici'rcnce hear,
And tremble at his word.
2 How terrible thy glories be!
How bright thine armies shine!
Where is the power that vies with thee'
Or truth compared to tfa
3 The northern pole, and southern, rest
On thy supporting hand:
Darkness and day. from east to vest,
M,,ve round at thy command.
4 Thy words the raging winds control,
And rule t! <i>;
PSALM LXXXIX.
151
Thou mak'st the sleeping billows roll,
The rolling billows sleep.
5 Heaven, earth, and air, and sea, are thine,
And the dark world of hell ;
How did thine arm in vengeance shine
When Egypt durst rebel !
6 Justice and judgment are thy throne,
Yet wondrous is thy grace ;
"While truth and mercy, join'd in one,
Invite us near thy face.
A blessed Gospel.
1 T> LESS'D are the souls that hear and
AJ The gospel's joyful sound : [know
Peace shall attend the path they go,
And light their steps surround.
2 Their joy shall bear their spirits up,
Through their Redeemer's name;
His righteousness exalts their hope,
Nor Satan dares condemn.
3 The Lord, our glory and defence,
Strength and salvation gives ;
Israel, thy King for ever reigns,
Thy God for ever lives.
Christ's Mediatorial Kingdom.
1 TTEAR what the Lord in vision said,
AA And made his mercy known :
• " Sinners, behold your help is laid
On my Almighty Son.
2 " Behold the man my wisdom chose
Among your mortal race ;
His head my holy oil o'ernows,
The Spirit of my grace.
3 " High shall he reign on David's throne,
My people's better King;
My arm shall beat his rivals down,
And still new subjects bring.
152
PSALM L XXX IX.
psalm,
89.
IJsalm.
89.
C. M.
Part V.
Ver.
30, &c
4 "Mv truth shall guard hiin in his
\\\\U mercy by hit
While in my name, through earth and sea,
J Ee shall in triumph ride.
."J " Me for his Father and hi
I [e Shall for ever o\\ n,
Call me his n.ck, his high abode,
And I'll support my Son.
(J "My first-horn Son, array'd in grace,
At my right hand shall >it ;
Beneath him angels know their place,
And monarchs at i,
7 "My cdv'nam stands for ever I
My promises are strong;
Finn as the heavens his throne shall last,
His seed endure as
The Covenant of Grace unci:
1 " A^ET," saith the Lord, " if David's race,
X The children of my [
Should break my laws, abuse my grace,
And tempt mine anger down;
" Their sins I'll visit with the rod,
And make their lolly smart ;
But I'll not cease to be their God,
Nor from my truth depart.
" My o-v'nant 1 will ne'er revoke,
But keep my grace in mind;
And what eternal love hath spoke
Eternal truth shall bind.
" Once have I >\vorn I need no m .
And pledged my hi
the sacred pi
To 1 >a\ id and his i .
" The sun shall see his offspring rise
And spread froU
PSALM LXXXIX.
153
Long as he travels round the skies
To give the nations day.
6 " Sure as the moon that rules the night
His kingdom shall endure,
Till the fix'd laws of shade and light
Shall be observed no more."
Mortality and Hope.
A Funeral Psalm.
1 T> EMEMBER, Lord, our mortal state;
-*■ *> How frail our life, how short the date ;
Where is the man that draws his breath
Safe from disease, secure from death?
2 Lord, while we see whole nations die,
Our flesh and sense repine and cry,
" Must death for ever rage and reign ?
Or hast thou made mankind in vain?
3 " Where is thy promise to the just?
Are not thy servants turn'd to dust?"
But faith forbids these mournful sighs,
And sees the sleeping dust arise.
4 That glorious hour, that dreadful day,
Wipes the reproach of saints away,
And clears the honour of thy word :
Awake, our souls! and bless the Lord.
Life, Death, and the Resurrection.
1 rTlHINK, mighty God! on feeble man ;
J- How few his hours! how short his
span !
Short from the cradle to the grave ;
Who can secure his vital breath
Against the bold demands of death,
With skill to fly, or power to save ?
2 Lord, shall it be for ever said,
The race of man was only made
For sickness, sorrow, and the dust?
154
M XC.
89.
ilaalm. Arc not tliy servants, day by day,
Scut to their graves, and turn'd I
Lord, win re's thy kindness to the just?
;> Oast thou not promised to thy Bon,
And all his seed, a heavenly crown?
But flesh ami sense indulge despair i
For ever blessed he the Lord,
That faith can read his holy word,
And find a resurrection there.
4 ]•"<.!• ever blessed he the Lord,
Who is a long reward
For all their toil, reproach, and pain :
Let all below and all above
Join to proclaim thy wondrous love,
And each repeat their loud Amen.
Man m'-r'" .
A mournful Song at a FuaeraL
1 npHROXJGH every age, eternal God,
-L Thou art oar rest, OUT -sale abode:
High was thy throne ere heaven was made,
Or earth thy humble footstool laid.
2 Long badst thou reign'd ere time began,
Or dust was fashion'd to a man;
And long thy kingdom shall endure.
When earth and time shall be no more.
3 But man. weak man, is horn to die,
Made n]» of guilt and vanity:
Thy dreadful sentence, Lord, was j
" Return, ye Burners, to your dust."
4 [A thousand of our years amount
Scarce to a day in thine account:
Like yesterday's departed light,
Or the last watch of ending night.
5 Death, kike an overflowing stream,
Sweeps us away : oar life's a dream.
An empty tale, a morning flower
Cut down and wither'*! in an hour.]
IJsalm.
90.
L If.
PSALM XC.
155
5 [Our age to seventy years is set;
How short the time ! how frail the state !
And if to eighty we arrive,
We rather sigh and groan, than live.]
J But 0 how oft thy wrath appears,
And cuts off our expected years!
Thy wrath awakes our humble dread ;
We fear that power that strikes us dead.
I Teach us, O Lord, how frail is man ;
And kindly lengthen out our span,
Till a wise care of piety
Fit us to die and dwell with thee.
Man frail, and God eternal.
1 /^iUR God, our help in ages past,
V^ Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home :
2 Under the shadow of thy throne
Thy saints have dwelt secure ;
Sufficient is thine arm alone,
And our defence is sure.
3 Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting thou art God,
To endless years the same.
4 Thy word commands our flesh to dust—
" Return, ye sons of men ;"
All nations rose from earth at first,
And turn to earth again.
5 A thousand ages in thy sight
Are like an ev'ning gone ;
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.
6 [The busy tribes of flesh and blood,
With all their lives and cares,
Are carried downwards by the flood,
And lost in following years.
9*shtt.
90.
PSALM XC.
iJsalm.
90.
C. M.
Part II.
Yer.
8—12.
7 Time, hk«- an ever-rolling stream,
They fly, fbi
• lay.
itand,
d with the morning light;
The flo | hand
Lie withering ere 'tis night.]
9 Our God, our help in ages pact,
Our hope : me,
Be thou (.ui- guard while trouble*
And our eternal home.
1 T ORD, if thine eye surveys our faults,
J-^ And j
Thy dreadful wrath exa eds our thoughts,
I our (ear.
2 Thine anger turns our frame to dust;
B; thee,
Adam, and all his E
Their immortality.
3 Life, like a vain dies,
Nor can our
4 'Tis hut a few whose days amount
- and ten;
And all beyond that short account
!, and pain,
5 [Our vitals v. Ith la
p tlf crazy load,
i ins of life
road.]
6 Alm;_
PSALM XC.
157
0 let our sweet experience prove
The mercies of thy throne.
7 Our souls would learn the heavenly art
T' improve the hours we have,
That we may act the wiser part,
And live beyond the grave.
Breathing after Heaven.
13salm.
1 pETURX, 0 God of love, return;
-LV Earth is a tiresome place :
90.
How long shall we, thy children, mourn
C. M.
Our absence from thy face?
2 Let heaven succeed our painful years,
Part III
Let sin and sorrow cease ;
Ver.
And in proportion to our tears,
13, &c.
So make our joys increase.
3 Thy wonders to thy servants show,
Make thy own work complete;
Then shall our souls thy glory know,
And own thy love was great.
4 Then shall we shine before thy throne
In all thy beauty, Lord;
And the poor service we have done
Meet a divine reward.
The Frailty and Shortness of Life.
$salm.
1 T OED, what a feeble piece
-L^ Is this our mortal frame !
90.
Our life, how poor a trifle 'tis,
S. M.
That scarce deserves the name !
2 Alas ! the brittle clay
Ver. 5,
That built our body first !
10, 12.
And every month, and every day
'Tis mouldering back to dust.
3 Our moments fly apace,
Nor will our minutes stay ;
Just like a flood, our hasty days
Are sweeping us away.
153
ilsalm.
90.
IJsalm.
91.
L ft
Part I.
Ver.
1-7.
c>
4 Well, if our days moat fly,
We'll keep their end in sight;
We'll spend them all in w .
Ami let them speed their flight
5 They'll wait u^ -'.oner o'er
This life's tempestuous sea; "
Boon we shall reach the peaceful shore
Of bleaa'd eternity.
Ml Public Diseases and Dangers.
HE that hath made b
Shall find a moat I
Shall walk all day beneath his shade,
And there at night .-hall reat his head.
Then will I say, u My God, thy power
Shall be my fortreas and my
I that am form'd of feeble dust
Make thine almighty arm my trui
Thrice happy man ! Thy M
shall keep thee from the tow lei-'- -
Satan the fowler, who betr
Ungoarded s.»ul> a thousand
Just as a hen protects her brood.
From birds of prey that s.-.-k their blood,
Under her feathers, so the Lord
Makes his own arm his people's guard.
If burning beams of n
To dart a ] estQential fire,
God i- their U
To shield them with a healthful shade.
W rapours with malignant breath
death,
Israel is safi : the poia a'd air
Grows pore, ill- there.
What though a the .-
At thy rig ' hand ten the I
PSALM XCI.
159
Thy God his chosen people saves
Amongst the dead, amidst the graves.
8 So when he sent his angel down
To make his wrath in Egypt known,
And slew their sons, his careful eye
Pass'd all the doors of Jacob by.
9 But if the fire, or plague, or sword,
Receive commission from the Lord
To strike his saints among the rest,
Their very pains and deaths are bless'd.
10 The sword, the pestilence, or fire,
Shall but fulfil their best desire ;
From sins and sorrows set them free,
And bring thy children, Lord, to thee
Protection from Death.
1 "VTE sons of men, a feeble race,
JL Exposed to every snare,
Come, make the Lord your dwelling-place,
And try and trust his care.
2 No ill shall enter where you dwell ;
Or if the plague come nigh
And sweep the wicked down to hell,
'Twill raise his saints on high.
6 He'll give his angels charge to keep
Your feet in all your ways ;
To watch your pillow while you sleep,
And guard your happy days.
4 Their hands shall bear you, lest you fall
And dash against the stones ;
Are they not servants at his call,
And sent t' attend his sons?
5 Adders and lions ye shall tread ;
The tempter's wiles defeat;
He that hath broke the serpent's head
Puts him beneath your feet.
6 " Because on me they set their love,
I'll save them," saith the Lord;
91.
91.
CM.
PartlL
Ver.
9—16.
160
Pitta.
91.
PSA LM XCII.
13salm.
92.
L. M.
Part I.
" I'll bear their joyful
ction and tl •
7 " My grace shall answer when they call;
In tmuhlc ['11 be nigh ;
My power shall help them when they foil,
And raise them when they die.
8 " Those thai on earth my name hare known,
I'll honour them in heaven;
There my salvation shall be shown,
And endless life be given."
.-Day.
1 ^WEET is the work, my God. my King,
^ To praise thy name, give thanks and
To show thy love by morning light, [sing;
And talk of all thy truth at night.
2 Sweet is the day of sacred rest,
No mortal cares shall seize my k
0 may my heart in tune he found,
Like David's harp of solemn sound:
3 My heart shall triumph in my Lord,
And bless his work-, and bless his word;
Thy works of grace, how bright they shine!
How deep thy counsels! how divine:
4 Fools never raise their thoughts so high,
Like brutes they live, like brutes they die;
Like grass they flourish, till thy breath
Blast them in everlasting death.
5 But 1 shall Bhare a glorious part.
When grace hath well refined my heart;
And fresh Buppliea of joy are shed,
Like holy oil, to c eer my head.
G Sin, my w< rsl enemy before,
Shall vex my eyes and ears no more;
My inward foes shall all be slain.
a break my ;
PSALM XCIII.
161
7 Then shall I see, and hear, and know,
All I desired or wish'd below ;
And every power find sweet employ
In that eternal world of joy.
T7ie Church is the Garden of God,
1 T ORD, 'tis a pleasant thing to stand
-Li In gardens planted by thine hand ;
Let me within thy courts be seen,
Like a young cedar, fresh and green.
2 There grow thy saints in faith and love,
Bless'd with thine influence from above;
Not Lebanon with all its trees
Yields such a comely sight as these.
3 The plants of grace shall ever live ;
Nature decays, but grace must thrive ;
Time, that doth all things else impair,
Still makes them flourish strong and fair.
4 Laden with fruits of age, they show
The Lord is holy, just, and true ;
None that attend his gates shall find
A God unfaithful or unkind.
The Eternal and Sovereign God.
1 JEHOVAH reigns, he dwells in light,
*J Girded with majesty and might;
The world, created by his hands,
Still on its first foundation stands.
2 But ere this spacious world was made,
Or had its first foundations laid,
Thy throne eternal ages stood,
Thyself the ever-living God.
3 Like floods, the angry nations rise,
And aim their rage against the skies ;
Vain floods, that aim their rage so high!
At thy rebuke the billows die.
4 For ever shall thy throne endure ;
i Thy promise stands for ever sure ;
162
$salm.
93.
As the
old 50th
Psalm.
PSALM XCIII
psalm.
93.
As the
old 12-Jd
Psalm.
And everlasting holiness
mes the dwellings of thy grace.
1 rpiIE Lord of glory r ds on high;
-*- Hh ' are strength and majesty;
This wide creation rose at his command,
Built by his word, and 'stablished by his hand.
Long stood his throne ore he began creation,
And his own Godhead is the firm foundation.
2 God is th' eternal Kin_': thy foes in vain
their rebellions to confound thy reign ;
In vain the storms, in vain the floods arise,
And roar tad I | the skies :
Foamingat heaven, they ni^e with wild commotion,
But heaven's high arches scorn the swelling ocean.
3 Ye tempests, rage no more ; ye floods, be still ;
And the mad e to his will :
Built on his truth, his Church must i
Firm ii : ■ hand :
See his own sons, when they appear before him,
Bow at his footstool, and with fear adore him.
Hie I.
1 rTUlE Lord Jehovah n
J- And royal state maintains.
His head with awful glories crown'd;
Array'd in robes of light,
girt with sovereign might)
And rays of majesty an-und.
2 Upheld by thy commands,
The world securely stands;
And skies and stars i bey thy word:
Thy throne was fix'd on high
-ky ;
Eternal i> ; .
3 In vain the I
Like billows fierce and \
i and roar;
PSALM XCIV.
163
In vain, with angry spite,
^salm.
The surly nations fight,
93.
And dash like waves against the shore.
4 Let floods and nations rage.
And all their powers engage ;
Let swelling tides assault the sky ;
The terrors of thy frown
Shall beat their madness down :
Thy throne for ever stands on high.
5 Thy promises are true,
Thy grace is ever new;
There fix'd, thy Church shall ne'er remove,
Thy saints with holy fear
Shall in thy courts appear;
And sing thine everlasting love.
Saints chastised, and Sinners destroyed.
^salm.
1 S~\ GOD, to whom revenge belongs,
v./ Proclaim thy wrath aloud ;
94.
Let sovereign power redress our wrongs,
C. M.
Let justice smite the proud.
Part I.
2 They say, " The Lord nor sees nor hears ;"
When will the fools be wise ?
Ver.
Can he be deaf who forai'd their ears?
1,2,
Or blind, who made their eyes ?
7—14.
3 Pie knows their impious thoughts are vain,
And they shall feel his power ;
His wrath shall pierce their souls with pain
In some surprising hour.
4 But if thy saints deserve rebuke,
Thou hast a gentler rod ;
Thy providences and thy book
Shall make them know their God.
5 Bless'd is the man thy hands chastise,
And to his duty draw ;
Thy scourges make thy children wise
When they forget thy law.
L
164
M XCV.
94.
C. M.
Tart II.
Vlt.
16—23.
Qod will ne'er cast off his saints,
Nor oil own promise break;
Be pardons bis inh<
F<»r tin
God our Support and Oomj
1 "IT^HO will arise and plead my right
» * Against my numerous foes,
While earth and hell their force unite,
And all my hopes I :
2 Had n«>t the Lord, my rock, my help,
B tstain'd my fainting head,
My life had now in silence dwelt.
My soul amongst the dead.
3 " Alas! my sliding feet!" I cried:
Thy promise was my prop;
Thy g instant by my side,
Thy .Spirit bore me up.
4 While multitudes of mournful thoughts
Within my bosom roll,
Thy boundless lore forgiTes my tank.-,
Thy comfbi - ul.
5 Powers of iniquity may ri
And frame perni
But God, my refuge, rules tin- -
He will defend my cause.
6 Let malice vent her rage aloud,
1.' r Ik. Id blasphemers si--.il';
The Lord oar Qod shall judge the
And cut the sinners off
95.
C. M.
.1 /'
1 QJING !■» the Lord Jehovah's name.
£} And in hi- strength rejoice;
When hi.-, salvation \
Exalted be our pi
2 With thanks approach i
Ah . Qour sing;
PSALM XCV.
165
The Lord's a God of boundless might,
$salm.
The whole creation's King.
95.
3 Let princes hear, let angels know,
How mean their natures seem,
Those gods on high and gods below,
When once compared with him.
4 Earth, with its caverns dark and deep,
Lies in his spacious hand ;
He fix'd the seas what bounds to keep,
And where the hills must stand.
5 Come, and with humble souls adore,
Come, kneel before his face ;
0 may the creatures of his power
Be children of his grace !
6 Now is the time ; he bends his ear,
And waits for your request :
Come, lest he rouse his wrath, and swear,
" Ye shall not see my rest."
A Psalm before Sermon.
JJsalm.
1 /^OME, sound his praise abroad,
Kj And hymns of glory sing;
95.
Jehovah is the sovereign God,
S. M.
The universal King.
2 He form'd the deeps unknown ;
He gave the seas their bound ;
The watery worlds are all his own,
And all the solid ground.
3 Come, worship at his throne ;
Come, bow before the Lord ;
We are his works, and not our own ;
He form'd us by his word.
4 To-day attend his voice,
Nor dare provoke his rod ;
Come like the people of his choice,
And own your gracious God.
5 But if your ears refuse
The language of his grace,
166
PSALM XCV.
95.
L. M.
Ver.
1-3,
6—11.
And hearts grow hard; like .stubborn Jews,
That onbaliering race;
6 The Lord, in rengeai
Will lift bis hand and m
"You tbat despise my promised rest
Shall have no portion th(
Canaan lost through Unbelief.
1 f~*\ OME, let our voices join to raise
^ a : of solemn praise;
i lorereigi] King; rehearse
His honour in ftraltfld rerse.
2 Come, let our souls address the Lord,
Who framed our natures with his word,
He is our Shepherd, we the sheep
His mercy shoes, bis pastures keep.
3 Come, let us hear bis voice to-day,
The counsels of bis lore obey;
Nor l<t our harden'd hearts renew
The sins and plagues tbat Israel knew.
4 Israel, tbat saw bis works of grace,
Yet tempt their Maker to hifl
A faithless unbelieving brood.
That tired the patience of their God.
Thus saith the Lord, ''How fai-e they prove
Forget my power) abuse my lore;
Since they despiss my rest, 1 swear
Their feet shall never enter then-."
G [Look back, my soul, with holy dread.
And view those ancient rebels <.■
Attend the ofier'd graoe to-day,
Nor Lose tl..' blessing by delay.
Seize the Kind promise while it waits,
And march to /ion's heavenly g|
Believe, and take the promisi
Obey, and be for I
PSALM XCVI.
167
CJirisfs First and Second Coming.
$salm.
1 Q ING to the Lord, ye distant lands,
O Ye tribes of every tongue ;
96.
His new discover'd grace demands
CM.
A new and nobler song.
Ver.
2 Say to the nations, Jesus reigns,
God's own Almighty Son;
1, 10,&c
His power the sinking world sustains,
And grace surrounds his throne.
3 Let heaven proclaim the joyful day,
Joy through the earth be seen ;
Let cities shine in bright array,
And fields in cheerful green.
4 Let an unusual joy surprise
The islands of the sea ;
Ye mountains, sink ; ye valleys, rise ;
Prepare the Lord his way.
5 Behold, he comes ! he comes to bless
The nations as then God;
To show the world his righteousness,
And send his truth abroad.
6 But when his voice shall raise the dead,
And bid the world draw near,
How will the guilty nations dread
To see their Judge appear !
The God of the Gentiles.
$salm.
1 T ET all the earth their voices raise
J-^ To sing the choicest psalm of praise,
96.
To sing and bless Jehovah's name :
As the
His glory let the heathens know,
113th
His wonders to the nations show,
Psalm.
And all his saving works proclaim.
2 The heathens know thy glory, Lord,
The wond'ring nations read thy word :
In Britain is Jehovah known ;
168
PSA LM XCVII.
IJsalm.
96.
133alm.
97.
L. M.
Parti.
Ver.
1—5.
^Sanlm.
97.
< Mir worship -hall do more be paid
To goda which mortal handa liave made;
( Mir Maker ia oar God alone.
S !!«■ framed the globe, be built the sky,
He made the shining worlds on high.
And reigna eomplete in glory there:
His 1m una are majesty and light;
His beauties, how divinely bright!
Ili> temple, how divinely fair!
4 Come the great day, the gloriooa hour,
When earth shall feel his laying power,
And barb'roua nation- tear hi> oa
Then shall the race ofmen confess
The beauty ol'his holinesa,
And in his coorta his -race proclaim.
Chritt reigning in //• vimg to
Judgment.
1 TTE reigna! the Lord, the Saviour reigns!
J- J- Praise him in evangelic strains;
Let the whole earth in boo
And diatant ialandajoin their voice.
2 Deep are his counsels, and unknown,
Bat grace and truth support his throne:
Though gloomy eloada bia way aurroand,
Juatice is their eternal ground.
3 In robea of judgment, lo! he cornea,
Shakes the wide earth, and eb
him burna devouring fire; [tombs;
The mountains melt, the seas retire.
4 His enemies, with sore diamay,
Fly from the Bight, and shun the day,
Then lift your heads, ye ,-aints. «m high,
And Bing, for your redemption's ni^h.
Utmm,
1 rpHB Lord is come; the heavena proclaim
J- His birth, the nations learn his name-
PSALM XCVII.
169
An unknown star directs the road
Of eastern sages to then.' Grod.
2 All ye bright armies of the skies,
Go worship where the Saviour lies ;
Angels and kings before him bow,
Those gods on high and gods below.
3 Let idols totter to the ground,
And their own worshippers confound ;
But Judah shout, but' Zion sing,
And earth confess her sov'reign King.
Grace and Glory.
1 rnH' Almighty reigns, exalted high
J- O'er all the earth, o'er all the sky ;
Though clouds and darkness veil his feet,
His dwelling is the mercy-seat.
2 0 ye that love his holy name,
Hate every work of sin and shame :
He guards the souls of all his friends,
And from the snares of hell defends.
3 Immortal light and joys unknown
Are for the saints in darkness sown ;
Those glorious seeds shall spring and rise,
And the bright harvest bless our eyes.
4 Rejoice, ye righteous, and record
The sacred honours of the Lord ;
None but the soul that feels his grace
Can triumph in his holiness.
Christ'' s Incarnation, and the Last v
1 "VTE islands of the northern sea,
JL Rejoice, the Saviour reigns ;
His word, like fire, prepares his way,
And mountains melt to plains.
2 His presence sinks the proudest hills,
And makes the valleys rise ;
The humble soul enjoys his smiles,
The haughty sinner dies.
170
PSALM XCVIIL
JJsalm.
97.
$isalm.
98.
C. If.
Tart I.
^Jsalm.
98.
C. II.
Part 11.
3 The heavens his rightful |
The idol-gods around
Fill their own worshipper* with shame,
And ! ' MUmL
4 Ad I his birth
Make the Redeemer known;
Thus shall he come to judge flu
And . his throne.
5 His foes shall tremble at his si^ht,
And hilla and aeaa retire ;
Hi- ehfldren take their unknown flight,
And leave the world in fire.
6 The seeds oi
For saints in darkness here,
Shall rise and spring in worlds unknown,
And a rich harvest bear.
1 rpO our Almighty Maker, (-
J- H
His great salvation shii
And makes I t-ss'd.
2 He sj.ake the word to Abram :
Hi* truth fulfils the g
The (• hia name their trust,
And lean
3 Let the whole earth hie lore proclaim
With all h< I
And spread the honours of his name
In :. QgS.
The MutiahU On
1 TOY to the world: the 1.
*J Let earth receive her J
% heart prepare him room,
And heaven and i
Let men their song
PSALM XCIX.
171
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
yaalm.
Repeat the sounding joy.
98.
3 No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground ;
He comes to make his blessings flow
Far as the curse is found.
4 He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of his righteousness,
And wonders of his love.
Christ's Kingdom and Majesty.
^salm.
1 rpHE God Jehovah reigns!
-A- Let all the nations fear ;
99.
Let sinners tremble at his throne,
S. M.
And saints be humble there.
2 Jesus the Saviour reigns !
Part I.
Let earth adore its Lord ;
Bright cherubs his attendants stand,
Swift to fulfil his word.
3 In Zion is his throne,
His honours are divine ;
His Church shall make his wonders known,
For there his glories shine.
4 How holy is his name !
How terrible his praise !
Justice, and truth, and judgment, join
In all his works of grace.
A Holy God worshipped with reverence.
$salm.
1 Tj! XALT the Lord our God,
-L^ And worship at his feet;
99.
His nature is all holiness,
S. M.
And mercy is his seat.
2 "When Israel was his Church,
Part II.
When Aaron was his priest,
When Moses cried, when Samuel pray'd,
He gave his people rest.
■
172
M C.
99.
100.
L. M.
$JsaIm.
100.
L. M.
( >ft be forgave theii
X<>r would destroy their race;
And oft he made his vengeance known,
When they abused his ^race.
Exalt the Lord our I
Whoa I! the same;
Still lie's a Ci < »« 1 of holiness,
And jealous for his name.
A plain Trans]
1 "YTE nations round tho earth, rejoice
J- Before the Lord, your sov'reign King ;
Serve him with cheerful heart and
With all your tongues his glory sing.
The Lord is God ; 'tis he al<>ne
Doth life, and breath, and being crive;
We arc his work, and not our own.
The sheep that on his pastures live.
:} Enter Ins gates with songs of joy,
With praise* to his courts repair;
And make it your divine employ
T<> pay your thanks and honours there.
4 The Lord i- good, the Lord is kind,
Great is his grace, his mercy sure:
And the whole race of' man shall find
His truth from age to age endure.
1 QtING to the Lord with joyful i
^3 Let every land his name adore;
The British Isles shall send the i
Across the ocean to ih»> shore.
2 Nations attend before his throne
With solemn fear, with sacred joy;
Know that the Lord is God alone;
. and he destroy.
PSALM CI.
173
3 His sov'reign power, without our aid,
Made us of clay, and form'd us men ;
And when, like wand 'ring sheep, we stray 'd,
He brought us to his fold again.
4 We are his people, we his care,
Our souls and all our mortal frame :
What lasting honours shall we rear,
Almighty Maker, to thy name ?
5 WV11 crowd thy gates with thankful songs,
High as the heaven our voices raise ;
And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,
Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.
6 Wide as the world is thy command,
Vast as eternity thy love !
Firm as a rock thy truth must stand,
Wrhen rolling years shall cease to move.
The Magistrate's Psalm.
1 "ITERCY and judgment are my song ;
-L*-L And since they both to thee belong,
My gracious God, my righteous King,
To thee my songs and vows I bring.
2 If I am raised to bear the sword,
I'll take my counsels from thy word ;
Thy justice and thy heavenly grace
Shall be the pattern of my ways.
3 Let wisdom all my actions guide,
And let my God with me reside ;
No wicked thing shall dwell with me
Which may provoke thy jealousy.
4 No sons of slander, rage, and strife,
Shall be companions of my life ;
The haughty look, the heart of pride,
Within my doors shall ne'er abide.
5 [I'll search the land, and raise the just
To posts of honour, wealth, and trust ;
The men that work thy holy will
Shall be my friends and fav rites still.]
^salm.
100.
101.
L. M
174
•I OIL
JJ&alm.
101.
i3salm.
101.
CM.
13 salm.
102.
6 In vain shall sinners bope b
By natt'ring or malicious lies;
And while the innocent 1 guard,
The bold oftnder iha'n'1
7 The impious crew, that fisetkms hand,
Shall hide th ., ,it the land;
And all that break the pub!
Where I have power, shall be suppress'd.
A Ptalm for a Master of a /
1 f\F justice and i
Vy And pay my God my
Thy graoe and JQftice, heavenly King,
Teach me to rule my hoc
2 Now to my repair,
And make thy servant 1
1*11 suffer nothing near me there
That shall offend thine i
3 The man that d<»th his neighbour wrong
Jiy falsehood or by
The scornful eye, the sland'rous tongue,
I'll thrust them from my d
4 I'll seek the faithful and the just,
And will their help enjoy;
These are the friends that 1 shall trust,
The servant.- I'll employ.
5 The wretch that deals in sly di
I'll not endure a ? .
The Liar's tongue 1 ever I
And banish from m;
6 I'll purge my family around,
And make the v irked flee;
found
elling fit for I
.1 Pragtr '.' tkt -i„
1 TJEARmi hide thy face,
-i-L Lut answer, lest 1 d
PSALM CIL
175
Hast thou not built a throne of grace
$3aaim.
To hear when sinners cry ?
102.
2 My days are wasted like the smoke
Dissolving in the air;
C. M.
My strength is dried, my heart is broke,
Part I.
And sinking in despair.
3 My spirits flag, like with'ring grass
Yer.
Burnt with excessive heat ;
1—13,
In secret groans my minutes pass,
20,21.
And I forget to eat.
4 As on some lonely building's top
The sparrow tells her moan,
Far from the tents of joy and hope
I sit and grieve alone.
5 My soul is like a wilderness,
AY here beasts of midnight howl;
There the sad raven finds her place,
And there the screaming owl.
6 Dark, dismal thoughts, and boding fears,
Dwell in my troubled breast ;
While sharp reproaches wound my ears,
Nor give my spirit rest.
7 My cup is mingled with my woes,
And tears are my repast ;
My daily bread, like ashes, grows
Unpleasant to my taste.
8 Sense can afford no real joy
To souls that feel thy frown :
Lord, 'twas thy hand advanced me high,
Thy hand hath cast me down.
9 My looks like wither'd leaves appear;
And life's declining light
Grows faint as evening shadows are
That vanish into night.
10 But thou for ever art the same,
0 my eternal God ;
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$)salm.
102.
PFAT.M PIT.
$)aalm.
102.
C. M.
Part II.
Ver.
13—21.
Agi ! kii<>\v- thy name,
And spread thy works abroad.
11 Thou wilt ariae and show thy I
\ill my Lord delay
•ml th' appointed hour of grace
That long expected day.
12 He hea he knows their cry,
And by mysterioni
Bedeemi the l ris'nera doom'd to die,
And fills their tongues with praise.
Pra; tiom restored.
1 T BT Zion and her bom rejoice:
JLi Behold the promised hour;
Her God hath heard her mourning voice,
And come* t* exalt hi.- DO
2 Her du»t and ruins that remain
Are ) precious in our i
Those ruins shall be built [
I all that dust shall rise.
3 The Lord will raise Jerusalem,
•and in glory there;
Nations shall how before his name,
And kings attend with fear.
4 ne iiti " llis throne,
With pity in his «;
He hears the dyu >an,
And -• I
5 lie frees the souls condemn'd to death.
And when his saints coin
It shan't be said, M That praying breath
Waa ever spent in vain."
6 This shall be known when we are dead,
And left on long record;
That agei yet unborn m.v,
And trust and praise the L id.
PSALM cm.
177
Mail's Mortality, and Christ's Eternity.
1 TT is the Lord our Saviour's hand
-L Weakens our strength amidst the race:
Disease and death, at his command,
Arrest us, and cut short our days.
2 Spare us, O Lord, aloud we pray,
Nor let our sun go down at noon ;
Thy years are one eternal day,
And must thy children die so soon ?
3 Yet in the midst of death and grief
This thought our sorrow should assuage:
Our Father and our Saviour live ;
Christ is the same through every age.
4 'Twas he this earth's foundation laid;
Heaven is the building of his hand ;
This earth grows old, these heavens shall
And all be changed at his command, [fade.
5 The starry curtains of the sky,
Like garments, shall be laid aside ;
But still thy throne stands firm on high,
Thy church for ever must abide.
6 Before thy face thy church shall live,
And on thy throne thy children reign ;
This dying world shall they survive,
And the dead saints be raised again.
Blessing God for his goodness to Soul and Body.
1 T>LESS, O my soul, the living God.
-L* Call home thy thoughts that rove
Let all the powers within me join [abroad;
In work and worship so divine.
2 Bless, O my soul, the God of grace ;
His favours claim thy highest praise;
Why should the wonders he hath wrought
Be lost in silence and forgot?
3 'Tis he, my soul, that sent his Son
To die for crimes which thou hast done ;
178
PSALM CIII.
JJsalm.
103.
103.
L. M.
Part II.
Ver.
8—18.
Tic owns tbe ransom
The hourly follies of our .
4 The vices of the mind he 1
And cures the pains that nature '
DOS the s"iil from hell, and saves
Our wafting life from threatening grave*
5 Our youth decayd, his power repairs,
ar growing 3 •
He satisfies our mouth with
And fills our hopes with heavenly food.
6 He sees th' oppressor and th' op]
And often gives the -
But will his justice more dil
In the last great rewarding day.
7 [His power he show'd by Moses' hands,
And gave to Israel his commands;
But sent his truth and mercy down
To all the nations by his Son.
8 Let the whole earth his power confess,
Let the whole earth adore his grace;
The Gentile with the Jew shall join
In work and worship so divine.]
God? t gentle Chasti'
1 rpiIE Lord, how wondrous are his ways!
JL How firm his truth: how
He takes his mercy for his throne, [grace:
And thence he mak< known.
2 Not half sol ■ hath spread
The starry heavens above our head.
As his rich love exceeds «>ur |
Exceeds the highest hopes we n
3 Not half so far hath nature placed
The rising morning from tl.
As hi> : es
The daily guilt of th
I owly doth hi< wrath
On swifter wings salvation
PSALM cm.
179
And if be lets his anger burn,
How soon his frowns to pity turn!
Amidst bis wrath compassion shines ;
His strokes are lighter than our sins;
And while his rod corrects his saints,
His ear indulges their complaints.
6 So fathers their young sons chastise
With gentle hands and melting eyes;
The children weep beneath the smart,
And move the pity of their heart.— {Pause.)
The mighty God, the wise and just,
Knows that our frame is feeble dust;
And will no heavy loads impose
Beyond the strength that he bestows.
He knows how soon our nature dies,
Blasted by every wind that Hies ;
Like grass we spring, and die as soon,
Or morning flowers that fade at noon.
But his eternal love is sure
To all the saints, and shall endure ;
From age to age his truth shall reign,
Nor children's children hope in vain.
Praise for Spiritual and Temporal Mercies.
1 r\ BLESS the Lord, my soul !
^~J Let all within me join,
And aid my tongue to bless his name
Whose favours are divine.
2 0 bless the Lord, my soul,
Nor let his mercies lie
Forgotten in unthankfulness,
And without praises die.
3 'Tis he forgives thy sins,
'Tis he relieves thy pain,
'Tis he that heals thy sicknesses
And makes thee young again.
4 He crowns thy life with love,
When ransom \\ from the grave:
#salm.
He that redeem 'd my ^»ul from hell
103.
Haifa
5 He fill" the poor with _
1 If gin
The Lord hath judnnents for the proud,
And ju -r «•«• for th
6 His wondrona w«.rk* and ways
He made by Moeea known;
But sent the world hia truth and grate
By h:-
#salm.
103.
1 "1 F V i .;. n • i at hii
DJL Wh re 10 great,
S. 11
AVI), u
So ready to 1
1 Part II.
2 God will not always chide ;
Yer.
And when . re felt,
8 18,
Hia atrokea are fewer than our <•
an our guilt.
3 High at are raised
■ ; hia grace
Our highest thoughts exei
4 His power aabdi
!<ive
Far ai
Doth all OUT guilt remove.
5 The pity of the 1
To those that fear his name,
Is such as tender parents feel ;
He knows our feeble frame.
G He knows wo are bwJ
tter'd with every hreath;
Hi- anger, like a i ieing wind.
Or like the inon. I
PSALM CIV.
181
If one sharp blast sweep o'er the field
It withers in an hour.
8 But thy compassions, Lord,
To endless years endure :
And children's children ever find
Thy words of promise sure.
Universal Dominion.
1 rnHE Lord, the sovereign King,
-L Hath fix'd his throne on high ;
O'er all the heavenly world he rules,
And all beneath the sky.
2 Ye angels, great in might,
And swift to do his will,
Bless ye the Lord, whose voice ye hear,
Whose pleasure ye fulfil.
3 Let the bright hosts who wait
The orders of their King,
And guard his churches when they pray,
Join in the praise they sing.
4 While all his wondrous works
Through his vast kingdom show
Then' Maker's glory, thou, my soul,
Shalt sing his graces too.
Glory of God in Creation and Providence.
1 "VT Y soul, thy great Creator praise :
-L*J- When clothed in his celestial rays
He in full majesty appears,
And, like a robe, his glory wears.
[Note. — This Psalm may be sung to the tune of the
old 112th or 127th Psalm, by adding these two
lines to every stanza ; viz. —
Great is the Lord ! what tongue can frame
An equal honour to his name?
Otherwise it must be sung as the 100th Psalm.]
2 The heavens are for his curtain spread,
The unfathom'd deep he makes his bed,
182
PSALM CIV.
flaalm. < Ikmds arc hh ehariot when hi
... Oi
104. ;} A"-' ''*• Nvl'""1 '''- "•vn 1"'<';itl1 inspires,
ojnisten are flaming .
And swift as thought their armies move.
To bear hk vengi ance or Mi
4 The worlds foundations by his hand
Are poised, and -hall for ever stand;
He binds the ocean in his chain,
Lest it should drown the earth again.
5 When earth was coTer'd with the flood,
Which high above the mountain-
He thunder'd, and the ocean fled,
Confined to its appointed bed.
6 The swelling billows know their bound.
And in their channels walk their round;
Yet thence conveyM by secret veins,
They spring on hills, and drench the plains.
7 He bid- the crystal fountains flow,
And cheer the valley- as tl •
Tame heifers there their thirst allay,
And f<<r the stream wild asses bray.
8 Prom pleasant trees which shade the brink,
The lark and linnet light to drink;
Their songs the lark and linnet n
And chide our silence in his ]
(Pause I.)
9 God from his cloudy cistern pours
On the parch'd earth enriching -;
The grove, the garden, and the field,
A thousand joyful 1
10 lb' makes th<
And
With herbs formal! of various power,
To nourish nature <>r to cure.
11 What noble fruit the vines produce!
The olive yields a shining juice;
PSALM CIA".
183
104
Our hearts are cheer 'd with generous! psalm.
"With inward joy our faces shine. [wine, I
12 O bless his name, ye Britons, fed
With nature's chief supporter, bread;
While bread your vital strength imparts, I
Serve him with vigour in your hearts. i
(Pause II J
13 Behold the stately cedar stands,
Raised in the forest by his hands ;
Birds to the boughs for shelter fly,
And build their nests secure on high.
14 To Craggy hills ascends the goat,
And at the airy mountain's foot
The feebler creatures make their cell;
He gives them wisdom where to dwell.
15 He sets the sun his circling race,
Appoints the moon to change her face ;
And, when thick darkness veils the day,
Calls out wild beasts to hunt their prey.
16 Fierce lions lead their young abroad,
And, roaring, ask their meat from God ;
But when the morning beams arise,
The savage beast to covert flies.
17 Then man to daily labour goes;
The night was made for his repose;
Sleep is thy gift, that sweet relief
From tiresome toil and wasting grief.
18 How strange thy works! how great thy!
And every land thy riches fill : [skill,
Thy wisdom round the world we see ;
This spacious earth is full of thee.
19 Nor less thy glories in the deep,
Where fish in millions swim and creep,
With wondrous motions, swift or slow,
Still wandering in the paths below.
20 There ships divide their watery way,
And flocks of scaly monsters play ; I
184
104.
PSALM CIV.
There dwells the huge leviathan.
Ami f.ams ami sports in spite of man.
tn.J
• ire thy works, Almighty Lord;
All nature rests apoD thy word,
Ami the whole sad
Waiting their portion from thy hand
22 While each receives hii diffrent food,
Their cheerful \<><>k> pronotu
iid bears, and whales ami worms,
Rejoice and praise in different
23 But when thy face i- hid. they mourn,
And. dying, to their dost return;
Both man and hea<t their souls resign:
Life, breath, and spirit, all is thine.
24 Yet thou eanst breathe on dust again,
And fill the world with beasts and men;
A word of thy creating breath
Repairs the wastes of time ami death.
25 His works, the wonders of his might*
Are honour'd with his own delight;
How awful are his glorious ways'.
The Lord is dreadful in his j
26 The earth stands trembling at t!
And at thy touch the mountains -moke;
Yet humble souls may see thy :
And tell their waul
27 In thee my h<'j.e> and wishes meet,
Ami make my meditations
Thy praises shall my breath employ,
Till it expire in end'..
28 "While haughty sinners d •
Their glory buried with their d
1 t«» my God, my heavenly
Immortal hallelujahs
PSALM CV.
[85
God's Conduct of Israel, and the Plagues of Egypt.
1 i^i IVE thanks to God, invoke his name,
vJT ^n(i tell the world his grace ;
Sound through the earth his deeds of fame,
That all may seek his face.
2 His cov'nant, which he kept in mind
For num'rous ages past,
To num'rous ages yet behind
In equal force shall last.
3 He sware to Abra'm and his seed,
And made the blessing sure ;
Gentiles the ancient promise read,
And find his truth endure.
4 " Thy seed shall make all nations bless'd,"
Said the Almighty voice,
" And Canaan's land shall be their rest,
The type of heavenly joys."
5 [How large the grant ! how rich the grace !
To give them Canaan's land,
When they were strangers in the place,
A little feeble band !
6 Like pilgrims through the countries round
Securely they removed ;
And haughty kings that on them frown'd
Severely he reproved:
7 " Touch mine anointed, and my arm
Shall soon revenge the wrong ;
The man that does my prophets harm
Shall know their God is strong."
8 Then let the world forbear its rage,
Nor put the church in fear ;
Israel must live through every age,
And be th' Almighty's care.]
(Pause 1.)
9 When Pharaoh dared to vex the saints,
And thus provoked their God,
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at their complaints,
Arm'd with hii dreadful rod.
K» He called for darkness; darkness came
Like an overwhelming flood :
He torn'd each lake and every stream
To lakes and streams of blood.
11 Be gave the sign, and noisome tlies
Through the whole country spread;
And frogs in croaking armies rise
About the monarch's \x d.
12 Through fields, and town-, and pa
The tenfold vengeance flew ;
Locusts in swarms devour'd their tree.-,
And hail their cattle slew.
13 Then by an angel's midnight stroke
The flower of Egypt died ;
The strength of every house was broke,
Their glory and their pride.
14 Now let the world forbear its i.
Nor put the church in fear;
Israel must live through evei ■;.
And be th' Almighty's care.
(Pautt LI.J
15 Thus were the tribe- from bondage brought,
And left the hated ground;
Each some Egyptian spoils had got,
And not one feeble found,
16 The Lord himself chose out their way,
And marked their journeys right;
Gave them a leading cloud by day.
A fiery guide by night
17 They thirst, and waters from tin
In rich abundance flow,
And. toll,, wing -till the course they took,
Ivan all the de-ert through.
18 O wondrous stream! 0 blessed type
Of> race!
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So Christ, our Bock, maintains our life
Through all this wilderness.
19 Thus guarded by th' Almighty hand,
The chosen tribes possess'd
Canaan, the rich, the promised land,
And there enjoy'd their rest.
20 Then let the world forbear its rage,
The church renounce her fear;
Israel must live through every age,
And be th' Almighty's care.
Praise to God.
1 rnO God, the great, the ever-bless'd,
JL Let songs of honour be address'd ;
His mercy firm for ever stands ;
Give him the thanks his love demands.
2 AY ho knows the wonders of thy ways?
Who shall fulfil thy boundless praise?
Bless'd are the souls that fear thee still,
And pay their duty to thy will.
3 Remember what thy mercy did
For Jacob's race, thy chosen seed ;
And with the same salvation bless
The meanest suppliant of thy grace.
4 0 may I see thy tribes rejoice,
And aid their triumphs with my voice :
This is my glory, Lord, to be
Join'd to thy saints, and near to thee.
Israel punished and pardoned..
C\ OD of eternal love,
How fickle are our ways !
And yet how oft did Israel prove
Thy constancy of grace !
They saw thy wonders wrought,
And then thy praise they sung;
But soon thy works of power forgot.
And murmur'd with their tongue.
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:j Now tht j word,
While rucks with riven flow;
Now with their lustci provoke the Lord,
And he reduced them low.
■I Yet when they mourn'd their faults,
Be hearken'd v> I
Brought his own covenant to his thoughts,
And call'd them Still hi- -
5 Their lames were in his book;
He saved them from their foes;
Oft he chastised, bat ne'er forsook
The people that he chose.
6 Let Israel hies- the Lord,
Who loved their ancient race;
And Christians join the solemn word
u to all the ] r
Israel led to Canaan, and Christian* to Heaven.
1 /^1 1VE thanks to God : he reigni
^JT Kind are his thoughts, bisnameiaLove;
His mercy ages past have known,
And ages l<>i >g to come shall own.
2 Let the redeemed of the Lord
: The wonders of his grace record ;
Israel, the nation whom he
And rescued from theirmighty foes.
3 [When God's almighty arm had broke
Their fetters and th" Egyptian yoke.
They traced the desert, wand'ring round
A wild and solitary ground !
■1 There they could find no leading road,
Nor city for a lix'd al
Nor food, nor P
Their burning thirst <>r hunger's rage,J
In their distress t<> God they cried :
Ci<»d w;i- their Saviour and their guide;
lie led their march far wandering round,—
'Twai the right path I round.
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6 Thus, when our first release we gain
From sin's old yoke and Satan's chain,
We have this desert world to pass,
A dangerous and a tiresome place.
7 He feeds and clothes us all the way,
He guides our footsteps lest we stray,
He guards us with a powerful hand,
And brings us to the heavenly land.
8 0 let the saints with joy record
The truth and goodness of the Lord !
How great his works ! how kind his ways !
Let every tongue pronounce his praise.
Correction for Sin, and release by Prayer.
1 TTIROM age to age exalt his name ;
-*- God and his grace are still the same ;
He fills the hungry soul with food,
And feeds the poor with every good
2 But if their hearts rebel and rise
Against the God that rules the skies ;
If they reject his heavenly word,
And slight the counsels of the Lord.
3 He'll bring their spirits to the ground,
And no deliverer shall be found ;
Laden with grief, they waste their breath
In darkness and the shades of death.
4 Then to the Lord they raise their cries ;
He makes the dawning light arise,
And scatters all that dismal shade
That hung so heavy round their head.
5 He cuts the bars of brass in two,
And lets the smiling prisoners through,
Takes off the load of guilt and grief,
And gives the labouring soul relief.
6 O may the sons of men record
The wondrous goodness of the Lord !
How great his works, how kind his ways !
Let every tongue pronounce his praise.
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1 TTAIN man. on foolish pleaeun
* Prepares for hie own punishment;
What pains, what loathsome mal
From luxury and lust ai
2 The drunkard Gaels his vitals v..
, Yet drowns his health to ]
; Till all his active powers arc lost)
And fainting life draws near the dust.
'3 The glutton groans and loathes to eat;
Bii soul abhors delicious meat;
Nature with heavy loads Oppn -
Would yield to death to 1
4 Then how the frighted sinners lly
\ To God for help with earne
lie hears their groans, prolongs tl.
And saves them from approaching death.
5 No medicines could effect the cure,
Bo quick, bo easy, or so sure ;
The deadly sentence God repeals,
He Bends his sovereign word, and heals.
6 0 may the sons of men record
The wondn oi the Lord !
And let their thankful offerings prove
How they adore their Maker's love.
1 TlTOrLD you behold the work
' * Hi^ wonders in the world abroad,
Go with the mariners and brace
The unknown regions of the seas.
2 They leave their native shores behind.
And seize the favour of the wind:
Till God command, and t«
That heave the ocean to the skiea
3 Now to the heavens they mount amain,
k to dreadful deeps again.;
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What strange affrights young sailors feel,
And like a staggering drunkard reel.
4 When land is far, and death is nigh,
Lost to all hope, to God they cry ;
His mercy hears the loud address,
And sends salvation in distress.
5 He bids the winds their wrath assuage,
The furious waves forget their rage ;
'Tis calm, and sailors smile to see
The haven where they wish to be.
6 0 may the sons of men record
The wondrous goodness of the Lord !
Let them their private off rings bring,
And in the church his glory sing.
The Mariner's Psalm.
1 rpHY works of glory, mighty Lord,
-A. Thy wonders in the deeps,
The sons of courage shall record
Who trade in floating ships.
2 At thy command the winds arise
And swell the towering waves ;
The men astonish'd mount the skies,
And sink in gaping graves.
3 [Again they climb the watery hills,
And plunge in deeps again ;
Each like a tottering drunkard reels,
And finds his courage vain.
4 Frighted to hear the tempest roar,
They pant with fluttering breath ;
And hopeless of the distant shore
Expect immediate death.]
5 Then to the Lord they raise their cries ;
He hears the loud request,
And orders silence through the skies,
And lays the floods to rest.
6 Sailors rejoice to lose their fears,
And see the storm allay 'd ;
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There let their vowa be paid.
God that brings them uric to land,
Let stupid mortals know-
That waves are under hi* command,
And all tho winds that blow.
8 O that the eons of men would |
The goodness of the Lord;
And those that see thy wondrous ways
Thy wondrous love •
A Psalm for New England.
1 TT7IIEN God, provoked with daring
* ▼ crimes,
Scourges the madness of the times,
He turns their field- t<> barren -
And dries the rivers from the land.
2 1 lis word can raise the spi
And make the witherM mountains green;
Send showery bleasingi from the
And harvests in the desert rise.
3 [Where nothing dwelt but beasts of prey,
Or men as fierce and wild ai they,
He bids th' oppress'd and poor repair,
And builds them towns and cities there.
4 They BOW the fields and trees they plant.
Whose yearly fruit supplies their want:
Their race grows up from fruit Jul s(
Their wealth increases with their flocks.
5 Thus they are Mess'd; but if they sin.
He lets the heathen nations in ;
A garage crew invades their lands.
Their princes die by barb'rous hands.
6 Their captive sons, exposed t<> •earn,
Wander unpitied and forlorn;
The country lies anfenced, nntilTd,
And desolation spreads the field.
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7 Yet if the humbled nation mourns,
Again his dreadful hand he turns;
Again he makes their cities thrive,
And bids the dying churches live.]
8 The righteous, with a joyful sense,
Admire the works of Providence ;
And tongues of atheists shall no more
Blaspheme the God that saints adore.
9 How few with pious care record
These wondrous dealings of the Lord !
But wise observers still shall find
The Lord is holy, just, and kind.
Love to Enemies from the Example of CJnist.
1 /~*i OD of my mercy and my praise,
V3T Thy glory is my song,
Though sinners speak against thy grace,
With a blaspheming tongue.
2 When in the form of mortal man
» Thy Son on earth was found,
With cruel slanders, false and vain,
They compass'd him around.
3 Their miseries his compassion move,
Their peace he still pursued ;
They render hatred for his love,
And evil for his good.
4 Their malice raged without a cause,
Yet, with his dying breath,
He pray'd for murderers on his cross,
And bless'd his foes in death.
5 Lord, shall thy bright example shine
In vain before my eyes ?
Give me a soul akin to thine,
To love my enemies.
6 The Lord shall on my side engage,
And, in my Saviour's name,
I shall defeat their pride and rage
Who slander and condemn.
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1 mill's the eternal Father spake
J- To Christ the Son: u Ascend and sit
At my right hand, till I shall make
Thy foei
2 Prom Zion shall thy word proa
Thy word, the sceptre in thy hand,
Shall make the liearta of rebels I
And bow their wills to thy command.
3 That day -hall show thy 1 1
When saints .-hall flock with willing minds,
And sinners crowd thy temple gi
Where holiness in beauty si
4 0 blessed power! O glorious
What a large victory shall •
And converts who thy grace ol
Exceed the drops ofmorni] j
Tlic K ***«*.
1 mill Lord of earth and sea
JL Spake to bis Son, and thus I
"Eternal shall thy priestho
And change horn hand to hand DO
•2 " Aaron and all hia sons must
But everlasting life is* thine,
To save for ever those that fly
_o hom the wrath di
" By me Melchisedec was mi
On earth a king and priest at 0DC6,
And thou, my heavenly Priest, shalt plead,
And thou, my King, shall rule in;.
While counsels of eti rnal |
I with honour and Ml
5 Thro' tin whole earth his reign shall «r-rf»nd,
And crush ; ' dare rebel;
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Then shall he j udge the rising dead,
And send the guilty world to hell.
6 Though while he treads his glorious way,
He drinks the cup of tears and blood,
The sufferings of that dreadful day
Shall but advance him near to God.
Christ's Kingdom and Priesthood.
1 TESUS, our Lord, ascend thy throne,
*) And near the Father sit ;
In Zion shall thy power be known,
And make thy foes submit.
2 What wonders shall thy gospel do !
Thy converts shall surpass
The numerous drops of morning dew,
And own thy sovereign grace.
3 God hath pronounced a firm decree,
Nor changes what he swore ;
" Eternal shall thy priesthood be,
When Aaron is no more.
4 " Melchisedec, that wondrous priest,
That king of high degree,
That holy man whom Abraham bless'd,
Was but a type of thee."
5 Jesus our Priest for ever lives
To plead for us above ;
Jesus our King for ever gives
The blessings of his love.
6 God shall exalt his glorious head,
And his high throne maintain ;
Shall strike the powers and princes dead
Who dare oppose his reign.
The Wisdom of God in his Works.
1 GONGS of immortal praise belong
^ To my Almighty God ;
He has my heart, and he my tongue,
To spread his name abroad.
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eat the works his hand hai
How glorious in our sight!
And men in evi -ought
His wonders with delight
How most exact is nature's f:
How wise tir Eternal mind I
His counsels never change the scheme
That his first thoughts design'd.
4 When he redeem'd his chosen sons,
He fix'd his covenant sure,
The orders that his lips pronounce
To endless years endure.
5 Nature and time, and earth and skies,
Thy heavenly skill proclaim;
"What shall we do to make us wise.
But learn to read thy name?
6 To fear thy power, to trust thy grace,
Is our divinest skill;
And he's the wisest of our race
That best obeys thy will.
The Perfections of God.
1 r\lXE AT is the Lord ! his works of might
VX Demand our noblest -
Let his assembled saints unite
Their harmony of tongues.
2 Great is the mercy of the Lord !
He gives his children food :
And, ever mindful of bis word.
He makes his promise good.
3 His Son, the great Redeemer, came
To seal his oornant sure;
Holy and reverend is his name.
His ways are just and pure.
4 They that would grow divinely I
Must with his fear begin :
Our fairest proof of knowledge bes
In hating every sin.
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Tlie Blessings of the Liberal Man.
1 fTlHAT man is bless'd who stands in awe
JL Of trod, and loves his sacred law :
His seed on earth shall be renown'd :
His house the seat of wealth shall be,
An unexhausted treasury,
And with successive honours crown'd.
2 His liberal favours he extends,
To some he gives, to others lends ;
A generous pity fills his mind :
Yet what his charity impairs,
He saves by prudence in affairs,
And thus he's just to all mankind.
3 His hands, while they his alms bestow'd,
His glory's future harvest sow'd;
The sweet remembrance of the just,
Like a green root, revives and bears
A train of blessings for his heirs,
When dying nature sleeps in dust.
4 Beset with threatening dangers round,
Unmoved shall he maintain his ground ;
His conscience holds his courage up :
The soul that's fill'd with virtue's light
Shines brightest in affliction's night,
And sees in darkness beams of hope. —
5 [111 tidings never can surprise [Pause.
His heart that fix'd on God relies,
Though waves and tempests roar around:
Safe on the rock he sits, and sees
The shipwreck of his enemies,
And all their hope and glory drown 'd.
5 The wicked shall his triumph see,
And gnash their teeth in agony,
To find their expectations cross'd ;
They and their envy, pride, and spite,
Sink down to everlasting night,
And all their names in darkness lost.]
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tsings of the Pious and Cliaritalk.
1 FT1HRICE li.'ij'j'V man who fears the Lord,
J- L . and trusts his
Honour and pi .trend, [word
And b!>
2 Compassion dwells upon his mind,
To worki of mercy still inclined;
He lends the poor some present aid,
Or gires them, not to be repaid.
3 When times grow dark, and tidings spread
That till his neighbours round with dread,
Hi- heart is arm'd against tl ■
For God with all his power is there.
4 lli< soul, well fix'd upon the Lord,
Draws heavenly courage from his word;
Amidst the darkness light shall rise,
To cheer his heart and bless his eyes.
5 He hath dispersed his alms abroad ;
His works are still before his God;
His name on earth shall long remain,
AVhile envious sinners fret in vain.
1 TJAPPT is he that fears the Lord,
XX And follows his commands;
Who lends the poor without reward.
Or gives with lil>eral hands,
v dwells within his
r his request
With blessings on hit
3 No evil tidings shall surj I
bli&h'd mind:
His soul to G"d hit refuge flies,
And leavi - ;nd.
4 In times of general •
Some beams of light shall shine,
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To show the world his righteousness,
And give him peace divine.
5 His works of piety and love
Remain before the Lord ;
Honour on earth and joys above
Shall be his sure reward.
TJie Majesty and Condescension of God.
1 X7"E that delight to serve the Lord,
X The honours of his name record,
His sacred name for ever bless ;
Where'er the circling sun displays
His rising beams, or setting rays,
Let lands and seas his power confess.
2 Not time, nor nature's narrow rounds,
Can give his vast dominion bounds;
The heavens are far below his height :
Let no created greatness dare
With our eternal God compare,
Arm'd with his uncreated might.
3 He bows his glorious head to view
What the bright hosts of angels do,
And bends his care to mortal things ;
His sovereign hand exalts the poor;
He takes the needy from the door,
And makes them company for kings.
4 When childless families despair,
He sends the blessing of an heir,
To rescue their expiring name;
The mother, with a thankful voice,
Proclaims his praises, and her joys:
Let every age advance his fame.
God sovereign and gracious.
1 "VTE servants of the almighty King,
-L In every age his praises sing ;
Where'er the sun shall rise or set,
The nations shall his praise repeat.
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2 Above the earth, beyond the sky,
Stands his high throne of majesty;
Nor time nor place his power restrain,
Nor bound his universal reign.
:* Which of the ions of Adam dare,
Or angeli with their God compare?
II-. brief, bow divinely bright,
Who dwells in uncreated light!
4 Behold his love! he stoops to view
What saints above and angels do;
And condescends yet more to know
The mean affairs of men below.
5 From dust and cottages obscure,
His grace exalts the humble poor;
Gives them the honour of his sons,
And fits them for their heavenly thrones.
6 [A word of his creating voice
Can make the barren house rejoice:
Though Sarah's ninety years were past,
The promised seed is born at last.
7 With joy the mother views her son,
And tells the wonders God has done :
Faith may grow strong when sense despairs;
If nature fails, the promise bears.]
Miracles attending Israel's Journey.
freed from Pharaoh's
1 TT7I1EX Israel,
TT hand.
Left the proud tyrant and his land,
The tribes with cheerful homage own
Their King, and Jndah was his throne.
2 Across the dec]) their journey lay ;
The deep divides to make them way;
Jordan beheld their march, and lied
With backward current to his head.
3 The mountains shook like frighted sheep,
Like lambs the little hillocks leap ;
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Not Sinai on her base could stand,
Conscious of* sovereign power at hand.
4 What power could make the deep divide ?
Make Jordan backward roll his tide?
AVhy did ye leap, ye little hills?
And whence the fright that Sinai feels?
5 Let every mountain, every flood,
Retire and know th' approaching God,
The King of Israel : see him here ;
Tremble, thou earth, adore and fear.
6 He thunders, and all nature mourns ;
The rock to standing pools he turns ;
Flints spring with fountains at his word,
And fires and seas confess the Lord.
The true God our Refuge.
1 1VTOT to ourselves, who are but dust,
-i- ^ Not to ourselves is glory due ;
Eternal God! thou only just,
Thou only gracious, wise, and true !
2 Shine forth in all thy dreadful name :
Why should a heathen's haughty tongue
Insult us, and to raise our shame, [long?"
Say, " Where's the God you've served so
3 The God we serve maintains his throne
Above the clouds, beyond the skies ;
Through all the earth his will is done ;
He knows our groans, he hears our cries.
4 But the vain idols they adore
Are senseless shapes of stone and wood ;
At best a mass of glitt'ring ore,
A silver saint or golden god.
5 [With eyes and ears they carve their head,
Deaf are their ears, their eyes are blind ;
In vain are costly offrings made,
And vows are scatter'd in the wind.
6 Their feet were never made to move,
Nor hands to save when mortals pray ;
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Mortals thai \>;\y them fear or lore,
i to be blind and deaf ai they.]
7 O Israel! make the Lord thy hi
Thy help, thy n fuge, and thy n
The Lord dial] build thy ruins up,
And Mess the people and the j . r ■
8 The dead no more can speak thy |
They dwell in silence and the grave;
But we shall live to sing thy gr
And tell the world thy power to save.
Popish Idolatry ?•<;.
'in for the 5th of November.
1 V OT to our names, Thou only just and true!
.i. ^ Not to our worthless names is glory due;
Thy power and grace, thy truth and justice, claim
Immortal honours to thy sovereign name :
Shine through the earth from heaven, thy bless'd
abode, [Godf
Nor let the heathens say, " And where's your
2 Heaven is thine higher court, there stands thy
throne ;
And through the lower worlds thy will is done ;
Our God framed all this earth, these heavens he
spread,
But fools adore the gods their hands have made:
The kneeling crowd, with looks devout, behold
Their silver saviours, and their saint? of gold.
3 [vain are those artful shapes of eyes i
The molten image neither BO
Their hands are helpless, nor their feet can move,
They have no speech, nor thought, n
nor love ;
Yet sottish mortals make their long complaints
To their deaf idols and their SB
4 The rich have sUtoeS Well adorn'd with gold;
The poor, content with gods of coarser n.-.uld,
With tools of iron cam
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Lopp'd from a tree, or broken from a rock :
People and priest drive on the solemn trade,
And trust the gods that saws and hammers
made.]
5 Be heaven and earth amazed ! "lis hard to say
Which is more stupid, or their gods or they :
0 Israel, trust the Lord ; he hears and sees,
He knows thy sorrows and restores thy peace;
His worship does a thousand comforts yield,
He is thy help, and he thy heavenly shield.
6 0 Britain, trust the Lord ; thy foes in vain
Attempt thy ruin, and oppose his reign ;
Had they prevail'd, darkness had closed our days,
And death and silence had forbid his praise ;
But we are saved, and live ; let songs arise,
And Britons bless the God that built the skies.
Recovery from Sickness.
1 T LOVE the Lord : he heard my cries,
-I- And pitied every groan ;
Long as I live, when troubles rise,
I'll hasten to his throne.
2 I love the Lord : he bow'd his ear,
And chased my griefs away ;
0 let my heart no more despair,
While I have breath to pray !
3 My flesh declined, my spirits fell,
And I drew near the dead ;
While inward pangs and fears of hell
Perplex'd my wakeful head.
4 " My God !" I cried, " thy servant save,
Thou ever good and just!
Thy power can rescue from the grave,
Thy power is all my trust."
5 The Lord beheld me sore distress'd,
He bid my pains remove ;
Return, my soul, to God thy rest,
For thou hast known his love.
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6 My G ]1 from deatli,
nd my breath,
Aixl in y remaining ;
ah in Trouble paid in the Ok
1 TTyilAT shall I rendertomj '
M F<.r all his kindness .shown'
• t shall visit thine abode,
>-»ngs address thy throne.
2 Among the saints that till thine house,
shall be paid;
There shall my zeal perform th«
,1 in anguish made.
3 How much is merey thy delight,
Thou ever-1
How dear thy servants in thy sight!
How precious is their 1
4 How happy all thy servants are!
How great thy grace to me !
My life which thou hast □
Lord, I dei
1 am thine, for ever thine,
Nor shall my purpose move;
Thv hand hath loosed my bonds of pain,
And bound me with thy love.
6 Here in thy courts I leave my vow,
And thy rich
"Win., who hear me now.
If 1 forsake the Lord
iena
1 f\ ALL ye n:i'
\J Kadi witli a different toi ._■
Il <.v. : aril his word,
And let his uume bt
2 His mercy reigns through every land;
Proclaim fa *d;
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For ever firm his truth shall stand ;
Praise ye the faithful God.
Praise to God from all Nations.
1 TpROM all that dwell below the skies,
S. Let the Creator's praise arise ;
Let the Redeemer's name be sung
Through every land, by every tongue.
2 Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ;
Eternal truth attends thy word ;
Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore,
Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Praise to God from all Nations.
1 rpHT name, Almighty Lord,
-1- Shall sound through distant lands ;
Great is thy grace, and sure thy word ;
Thy truth for ever stands.
2 Far be thine honour spread,
And long thy praise endure,
Till morning light and evening shade
Shall be exchanged no more.
Deliverance from a Tumult.
1 nnHE Lord appears my helper now,
J- IsTor is my faith afraid
What all the sons of earth can do,
Since heaven affords its aid.
2 'Tis safer, Lord, to hope in thee,
And have my God my friend,
Than trust in men of high degree,
And on then- truth depend.
3 Like bees, my foes beset me round,
A large and angry swarm ;
But I shall all their rage confound
By thine almighty arm.
4 'Tis through the Lord my heart is strong,
In him my lips rejoice;
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While his salvation is my song,
How cheerful i* my voice!
5 Like angry beei they girt me round;
When God appears they fly;
So horning thorns, with crackling sound,
Make a fierce blaze and die.
6 Joy to the saints and peace belongs;
The Lord protects their days;
Let Israel tune immortal songs
To his almighty grace.
Public Praise fur Deliverance from Death.
1 T ORD, thou hast heard thy servant cry
-L* And rescued from the* grave;
Now shall he live ; and none can die,
If God resolve to save.
2 Thv praise, more constant than before,
Shall fill his daily breath;
Thy hand, that hath chastised him sore,
Defends him still from death.
3 Open the gates of Zioh now,
For we shall worship there;
The house where all the righteous go
Thy mercy to declare.
4 Among th' assemhliea of thy saints
Our thankful voice we raise;
There we have told thee our complaints,
And there we speak thy praise.
Christ the F, i ' ''lurch.
1 T>EIIOLD the sure foundation-stone
J-J Which God in Zion lays.
To build our heavenly hopes op
And his eternal pi
And saints adore the name;
They trust their whole salvation hear.
Nor shall they suffer shame.
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3 The foolish builders, scribe and priest,
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118.
Yet on this rock the church shall rest,
And envy rage in vain.
4 What though the gates of hell withstood,
Yet must this building rise ;
'Tis thy own work, Almighty God,
And wondrous in our eyes.
Hosanna.
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1 rpHIS is the day the Lord hath made,
-*- He calls the hours his own ;
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Let heaven rejoice, let earth be glad,
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And praise surround thy throne.
2 To-day he rose and left the dead,
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And Satan's empire fell;
Ver.
To-day the saints his triumph spread,
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And all his wonders tell.
3 Hosanna to th' anointed King,
To David's holy Son ;
Help us, 0 Lord ! descend and bring
Salvation from thy throne.
4 Bless'd be the Lord, who comes to men
With messages of grace ;
Who comes in God his Father's name,
To save our sinful race..
5 Hosanna in the highest strains
The church on earth can raise ;
The highest heavens, in which he reigns,
Shall give him nobler praise.
An Hosanna for the Lord's Day..
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1 Qi EE what a living stone
^ The builders did refuse ;
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Yet God hath built his church thereon,
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In spite of envious Jews.
Ver.
2 The scribe and angry priest
Reject thine only Son ;
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ill Zion rest,
As the chief corner-Btone.
3 The work, 0 Lord, is thine,
And vondrocu in on
This day declares it all divine,
This day did Jesoi
4 This is the glorio .
That our Redeemer made ;
Let us rejoice, and sing, and pray,
Let all the church be glad.
."> Hrajwnn to the King
Of David's royal blood;
Bless him, ye saints : he comes to bring
Salvation from your God.
6 We bless thine holy word,
Which all this £raee displays;
And offer 09 thine altar. Lord,
Our sacrifice of praise.
An Hosanna for the Lord's Da>j.
IT O ! what a glorious corner-stone
JLi The Jewish builders did n
But God hath built his church thereon,
In spite of envy and the -1
2 Great God: the work is all divine,
The joy and wonder of our
This is* the day that prorefl it thine,
The day ti
lice; and saint-. Ik- triad;
da! let his name be I
A thousand honours on hia
With peaoe, and light, ai.
4 In God'l own name he B
Salvation to our dying HI
Let the whole church ail.
With
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i [I have collected and disposed the most useful ^Jsatat.
: verses of this Psalm under eighteen different heads, j
! and formed a Divine Song upon each of them. |
; But the verses are much transposed to attain some ,
1 degree of connexion. — In some places, among the
•words law, commands, judgments, testimonies, I
have used gospel, word, grace, truth, promises, &c,
as more agreeable to the New Testament and the
common language of Christians, and it equally an-j
swers the design of the Psalmist, which was to re- j
commend the Holy Scripture.]
The Blessedness of Saints, and Misery of Sinners.
1 T) LESS'D are the undefiled iu heart,
-D Whose ways are right and clean;
"Who never from thy law depart,
But fly from every sin.
2 Bless'd are the men that keep thy word,
And practise thy commands ;
With their whole heart they seek the Lord,
And serve thee with their hands.— (1-3.)
3 Great is their peace who love thy law;
How firm their souls abide !
Nor can a bold temptation draw
Their steady feet aside. — (Ver. 165.)
4 Then shall my heart have inward joy,
And keep my face from shame,
When all thy statutes I obey,
And honour all thy name. — (Ver. 6.)
5 But haughty sinners God will hate ;
The proud shall die accurs'd ;
The sons of falsehood and deceit
Are trodden to the dust.— (Ver. 21, 118.)
6 Vile as the dross the wicked are ;
And those that leave thy ways
Shall see salvation from afar,
But never taste thy grace.— (119, 155.)
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Secret Devotion, and dnejts.
1 npO thee, before the dawning light,
JL My gn | ray;
1 meditate thy name by night,
And keep thy law by day.— (147, 55.)
2 My spirit hints t<> Bee thy grace;
Thy promise bears me up;
And while salvation long d<
Thy word supports my hope.— <Ver. 81.)
i times a-day 1 lilt my hands,
And pay my thanks to thee;
Thy righteous providence demands
Repeated praise from me. — (Ver. 164.)
4 "When midnight darkness veils tin
I call thy works to mind ;
My thoughts in warm devotioi
And sweet acceptance find. — (Ver. 62.)
Profit
1 rpiIOU art my portion, O my God:
-L Boon as 1 know thy way,
My heart makes baste t' obey thy
And Buffers no de 1, 60.)
2 I choose the path of heavenly truth,
And glory in my choice;
Not all the riches of th<
Could make o
3 The testimonies of thy gi
♦ before my . j
Thence I derive my daily strength.
And there my comfort lies. — [30, 114.)
4 It' once I wander from thy path,
I think upon my \.
Then turn my leet to thy eommi
And trust thy pard'ning
5 Now 1 am thine, for ever thine ;
■ thy servant, 1
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Thou art my shield, my hiding-place;
My hope is in thy word. — (Ver. 94, 114.)
} Thou hast inclined this heart of mine
Thy statutes to fulfil ;
And thus till mortal life shall end
Would I perforin thy will.— (Ver. 112.)
Instruction from Scripture.
HOW shall the young secure their hearts:
And guard their lives from sin?
Thy word the choicest rules imparts
To keep the conscience clean.— (Ver. 9.)
! When once it enters to the mind,
It spreads such light abroad,
The meanest souls instruction find,
And raise their thoughts to God. — (130.)
i 'Tis like the sun, a heavenly light
That guides us all the day ;
And through the dangers of the night,
A lamp to lead our way. — (Ver. 105.)
The men that keep thy law with care,
And meditate thy word,
Grow wiser than their teachers are,
And better know the Lord. — (99, 100.)
Thy precepts make me truly wise ;
I hate the sinner's road ;
I hate my own vain thoughts that rise,
But love thy law, my God.— (104, 113.)
[The starry heavens thy rule obey,
The earth maintains her place;
And these thy servants night and day
Thy skill and power express.
But still thy law and gospel, Lord,
Have lessons more divine ;
Not earth stands firmer than thy word.
Nor stars so nobly shine.— (Ver. 89-91. "*
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How pure is every page !
That holy book shall guide our youth,
And well support on
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Delight in Se
1 (\ HOW I love thy holy law I
v/ Tif daily my delight;
And thence my meditations draw
Divine advice by night — (Ver. 97.)
2 My waking eyea prevent the day.
To meditate thy word;
My soul with Longing melts away
To hear thy gospel, Lord.— (Ver. 14S.;
3 How doth thy word my heart eng
How well employ my tong
And, in my tiresome pilgrimage,
Yields me a heavenly song. — (3. 13, "4
4 Am I a stranger or at home,
'Tis my perpetual feast;
Not honev dropping from the comb
So much allures the taste.— (19, 103.)
5 No treasures so enrich the mind ;
Not shall thy word be sold
For loads of silver well refined,
Nor heaps of choicest gold.— (72, 127.)
G When nature sinks, and spirits dl
Thy promises of grace
Are pillars to support my hope.
And there I write thy praii
ITohWii and Oomfortfrom the 1!'
1 T ORD. I esteem thy judgment!
-Li And. all thy statute*
Thence 1 maintain a constant ;
With every flattering lu-. -
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2 Thy precepts often I survey,
I keep thy law in sight,
Through all the business of the day,
To form my actions right. — (Ver. 97, 9.)
3 My heart in midnight silence cries,
" How sweet thy comforts be !"
My thoughts in holy wonder rise,
And bring their thanks to thee. — (62.)
4 And when my spirit drinks her fill
At some good word of thine,
Not mighty men that share the spoil
Have joys compared to mine. — (Ver. 162.)
Imperfection of Nature, and Perfection of
Scripture.
1 T ET all the heathen writers join
J-J To form one perfect book ;
Great God ! if once compared with thine,
How mean their writings look!
2 Not the most perfect rules they gave,
Could show one sin forgiven,
Nor lead a step beyond the grave ;
But thine conduct to heaven.
3 I've seen an end to what we call
Perfection here below ;
How short the powers of nature fall,
And can no farther go !
4 Yet men would fain be just with God
By works their hands have wrought;
But thy commands, exceeding broad,
Extend to every thought.
5 In vain we boast perfection here,
While sin defiles our frame,
And sinks our virtues down so far,
They scarce deserve the name.
6 Our faith, and love, and every grace,
Fall far below thy word ;
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But perfect truth and righteousness
Dwell only with the Lord.
The U -fion.
1 T ORD, 1 hare made thy word my choice
JLi My lasting heritage;
There shall my noblest powers rejoice,
Mv warmest thought! eng
I'll read the histories of thy love,
And keep thy laws in Bight,
While through the promisee I rove
With ever fresh delight
'Tis a hroad land of wealth unknown,
Where spring- of Ml
Seeds of immortal bliss are sown.
And hidden glory lies.
4 The best relief that mourners have,
It makes our sorrows bless'd ;
Our fairest hope beyond the grave,
And our eternal I
hd'je.
1 mHY mercies fill the earth, O Lord .
-L How good thy works a]. i-
Open mine eyes to read thy word.
And see thy wonders there.— {tU.
2 Iffy heart was fashion'd by thy hand;
My service is thy due:
0 make thy servant understand
The duties he must do._ \
3 Since I'm a stranger here below,
Let not my path be hid;
But mark the road my feet should
And be my constant guide.— (Ver. 19.)
4 When 1 oonfsei'd my waad'ring
Thou beard'st my son] complain;
Grant me the teachings of thy g»
Or 1 .shall stray again.— (Ver. 26.)
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6 If God to me his statutes show,
And heavenly truth impart,
His work for ever I'll pursue,
His law shall rule my heart (33, 34.)
6 This was my comfort when I bore
Variety of grief;
It made me learn thy word the more,
And fly to that relief— (Ver. 50, 71.)
7 [In vain the proud deride me now ;
I'll ne'er forget thy law,
Nor let that blessed gospel go,
Whence all my hopes I draw. — (Ver. 51.)
8 When I have learn 'd my Father's will,
I'll teach the world his ways ;
My thankful lips, inspired with zeal,
Shall loud pronounce his praise.] — (27,171.)
Pleading the Promises.
1 T) EH OLD thy waiting servant, Lord,
-D Devoted to thy fear ;
Remember and confirm thy word,
For all my hopes are there.— (Ver. 38, 49.)
2 Hast thou not writ salvation down,
And promised quick'ning grace ?
Doth not my heart address thy throne ?
And yet thy love delays.—(Ver.41,58,107.)
3 Mine eyes for thy salvation fail;
0 bear thy servant up !
Nor let the scoffing lips prevail
Who dare reproach my hope. — ( 123, 42. )
4 Didst thou not raise my faith, O Lord ?
Then let thy truth appear :
Saints shall rejoice in my reward,
And trust as well as fear — (Ver. 49, 74.)
Breathing after Holiness.
1 /~\ THAT the Lord would guide my ways
V-J To keep his statutes still !
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O that my God would errant me grace
To know and do bis will:— (Ver. 5, 33.)
2 0 send thy Spirit down to write
Thy law upon my heart!
Nor let my tongue indulge dV
Nor act the liar's part— {Ver. 29.)
3 From vanity turn off my eyes;
Let no corrupt del
Nor coretooj desires, arise
Within this soul of mine. — (Ver. 37, 36.)
4 Order my footstep! by thy word,
And make my heart sincere;
Let sin have no dominion, L
But keep my conscience clear. — (Ver. 133.)
5 My soul hath gone too far astray,
My feet too often slip;
Yet since I've not forgot thy way.
Restore thy wand'ring sheep.— {Ver. 176.)
6 Make me to walk in thy commands,
'Tis a delightful road;
Nor let my head, or heart, or hands,
Offend against m 360
Breathing after Deliverance.
1 "\/TY God, consider my distress,
^ 1- Let mercy plead my cause ;
Though I have sinn'd against thy \
t forget thy laws.— <Ver. 153.)
•2 Forbid, forbid the sharp reproach
Which I SO justly fear:
Uphold my life, uphold my
Nor let my shame appear— (39, 116.)
8 Be thon a surety, Lord, forme,
Nor let the proud ■ :
But make thy waith a
The shinings of thy --, 13"».)
4 Mv , ■ ' station fail,
My heart within me cries,
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" When will the Lord his truth fulfil,
And make my comforts rise?" — ( Ver. 82.)
5 Look down upon my sorrows, Lord,
And show thy grace the same
As thou art ever wont t' afford
To those that love thy name.— (Ver. 132.)
Tenderness of Conscience.
1 TTTITH my whole heart I've sought thy
» ' O let me never stray [face,
From thy commands, 0 God of grace !
Nor tread the sinner's way. — (Ver. 10.)
! Thy word I've hid within my heart
To keep my conscience clean,
And be an everlasting guard
From every rising sin. — (Ver. 11.)
! I'm a companion of the saints
Who fear and love the Lord :
My sorrows rise, my nature faints, [158.)
When men transgress thy word. — (63, 53,
; While sinners do thy gospel wrong,
My spirit stands in awe ;
My soul abhors a lying tongue,
But loves thy righteous law.— (161, 163.)
My heart with sacred rev'rence hears
The threat'nings of thy word ;
My flesh with holy trembling fears
The judgments of the Lord.— (161, 120.)
My God ! I long, I hope, I wait,
For thy salvation still ;
While thy whole law is my delight,
^ And I obey thy will.— (Ver. 166, 174.)
Benefit of Afflictions.
CONSIDER all my sorrows, Lord,
And thy deliv'rance send ;
My soul for thy salvation faints, [82.)
When will my troubles end?— (153, 81,
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2 Yet I bare (band 'tis good for me
r my Father b rod ;
Affliction! make me learn thy law,
And live upon m; 71.)
3 This is the comfort I enjoy
When new distress begins —
I read thy word, I ran thy way,
And hate my former sins. — (Ver. 50.)
4 Had not thy word been my delight
"When earthly joys were lied,
.1. oppreas'd with sorrow's weight,
Had sunk amongst the dead.— {Ver. 92.)
6 I know thy judgments, Lord, are right,
Though they may seem severe;
The sharpest suff'rings I endure
Flow from thy faithful rare. — (Ver. 75.)
6 Before I knew thy chastening rod
My feet were apt to stray;
But now I learn to keen thy word,
Nor wander from thy way. — (Ver. 67.)
Ih-'.y Resolutions.
1 / \ THAT thy statutes every hour
Vy Might dwell upon my mind!
Thence I derive a <jui<-kning power,
And daily peace I find. — (Ver. 93.)
2 To meditate thy precepts, Lord,
Shall be my sweet employ ;
My soul shall ne'er forget thy word.
Thy word is all my joy. — (Ver. 15, 1G.)
3 How would I run in thy commands,
If thou my heart di»
From sin and Satan's hateful rhain?.
And
4 My li}>s with courage shall declare
Thy statutes and thy name;
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I'll speak thy word tho' kings should hear,
Nor yield to sinful shame. — (Ver. 13, 46.)
5 Let bands of persecutors rise
To rob me of my right ;
Let pride and malice forge their lies,
Thy law is my delight.— (Ver. 61, 69, 70.)
5 Depart from me, ye wicked race,
Whose hands and hearts are ill ;
I love my God, I love his ways,
And must obey his will. — (Ver. 115.)
Prayer for quichening Grace.
1 "1%/T Y soul lies cleaving to the dust ;
-LJ-J- Lord, give me life divine ;
From vain desires and every lust
Turn off these eyes of mine.
2 I need the influence of thy grace
To speed me in thy way,
Lest I should loiter in my race,
Or turn my feet astray. — (Ver. 25, 37.)
3 When sore afflictions press me down,
I need thy quick'ning powers ;
Thy word that I have rested on
Shall help my heaviest hours. — (Ver. 107.)
4 Are not thy mercies sovereign still,
And thou a faithful God?
Wilt thou not grant me warmer zeal
To run the heavenly road ?— ( Ver. 156, 40.)
5 Does not my heart thy precepts love,
And long to see thy face ?
And yet how slow my spirits move
Without enlivening grace ! — (Ver. 159, 40.)
6 Then shall I love thy gospel more,
And ne'er forget thy word,
When I have felt its quick'ning power
To draw me near the Lord (Ver. 93.)
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1 "ITT' HEX pain and angniah seize me, Lord,
' » All my support is from thy word ;
My sou! 143, 28.)
Uphold me with thy strengthening grace.—.
2 The proud have framed their Kofi and lies,
They watch my feet with enviou-
And tempt my soul to snares and sin, [110.)
Yet thy commands I neer decline, — (51,69,
3 They hate me, Lord, without a cause,
They hate to see me love thy laws;
But I will trust and tear thy name, [78.)
Till pride and malice die with shame. — (161,
Sanctified Affix
1 TjlATHEPi, I bless thy gentle hand!
-«- How kind was thy chastising rod
That forced my conscience to a stand,
And brought my wand'ring soul to God!
2 Foolish and vain, I went ai
Ere I had felt thy scourges, Lord ;
I left my guide, and lost my way.
But now I love and keep thy word. — (67,59.)
3 'Tis good f.r me to wear th<
For pride is apt to rise and swell ;
'Tis good to hear my Father's stroke,
That 1 might learn his statutes well.- \1\J\
4 The law that issues from thy mouth
Shall raise my cheerful pasakmi more
Than all the treasures of the south.
Or western hills of golden ore.— (\
5 Thy handi have made my mortal frame,
Thy Spirit form'd my soul within;
Teach me to know thy wondrous name,
And guard me safe from death and tin. — 173.)
6 Then all that love and fear the I
At my salvation shall nj
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For I have hoped in thy word,
And made thy grace my only choice.— -( 74.)
Complaint of Quarrelsome Neighbours.
1 npHOU God of love, thou ever-bless'd,
J- Pity my suffering state ;
When wilt thou set my soul at rest
From lips that love deceit?
2 Hard lot of mine ! my days are cast
Among the sons of strife,
"Whose never-ceasing brawlings waste
My golden hours of life.
3 O might I fly to change my place,
How would I choose to dwell
In some wild lonesome wilderness,
And leave these gates of hell !
4 Peace is the blessing that I seek ;
How lovely are its charms !
I am for peace ; but when I speak,
They all declare for arms.
5 New passions still their souls engage,
And keep their malice strong:
What shall be done to curb thy rage,
0 thou devouring tongue !
6 Should burning arrows smite thee through,
Strict justice would approve;
But I had rather spare my foe,
And melt his heart with love.
Divine Protection.
UP to the hills I lift mine eyes,
Th' eternal hills beyond the skies,
Thence all her help my soul derives ;
There my Almighty refuge lives.
2 He lives, the everlasting God,
That built the world, that spread the flood ;
The heavens, with all their hosts, he made,
And the dark regions of the dead.
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3 He guides our feet, lie guards our way;
His morning 6miles bless all the day ;
the ev'ning veil, and keeps
The silent hours while Israel sleeps.
4 Israel, a name divinely 1»!
May rise secure, securely rest;
Thy holy Guardian's wakeful eyes
Admit no slumber nor surprise.
5 Xo sun shall smite thy head by day,
Nor the pale moon, with sickly ray,
Shall blast thy couch ; no baleful star
Dart his malignant fire so far.
6 Should earth and hell with malice burn,
Still thou shalt go, and still return
Safe in the Lord ; his heavenly care
Defends thy life from every snare.
7 On thee foul spirits have no po\\ < I
And in thy last departing hour,
Angels that trace the airy road
Shall bear thee homeward to thy God.
■ration, by Day and Niyht.
1 TT\0 heaven I lift my waiting «
J- There all my hopes are laid:
The Lord that built the earth and skies
Is my perpetual aid.
2 Their feet shall never slide to fall
Whom he designs to keep;
His car attend! the softest call ;
His eyes can never i
3 He will sustain our weakest powers
With his almighty arm,
And watch oar most unguarded hours
Against surprising harm.
4 Israel, rejoice and rest secure,
Thy kt ■«•) .i ifl the Lord ;
His wakeful eves amp]
For thine eternal guard.
PSALM CXXII.
God our Preserver.
1 TTPW ARD I lift mine eyes,
vJ From God is all my aid ;
The God that built the skies,
And earth and nature made :
God is the tower j His grace is nigh
To which I fly ; | In every hour.
2 My feet shall never slide
And fall in fatal snares,
Since God, my guard and guide,
Defends me from my fears :
Those wakeful eyes J Shall Israel keep
That never sleep | When dangers rise.
3 No burning heats by day,
Nor blasts of evening air,
Shall take my health away,
If God be with me there :
Thou art my sun, I To guard my head
And thou my shade | By night or noon.
4 Hast thou not given thy word
To save my soul from death?
And I can trust my Lord
To keep my mortal breath :
go and come, I Till from on high
I'll
Nor fear to die,
Thou call me home.
Going to Church.
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-i-X My friends devoutly say,
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5 Nor scorching sun, nor sickly moon,
Shall have his leave to smite ;
He shields thy head from burning noon,
From blasting damps at night.
6 He guards thy soul, he keeps thy breath,
Where thickest dangers come :
Go, and return secure from death,
Till God commands thee home.
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" In Zion let us all a).]. car,
And keep the solemn day
2 I l<»vc her gates, I love the road ;
The church, adorn'd with .
Stands like ■ palace built for ( •
To show his milder face,
3 Up to her courts with joys unknown
The holy bribes repair;
The Son of David holds his throne,
And sits in judgment tl.
4 He hears our praises and complaints:
And while his awful v. .ice
Divides the sinners from the sai
AVe tremble and rejoice.
6 Peace be within this Bacred place.
And joy a constant uu< s1 !
With holy gifts and heavenly grace
Be her attendants t
;l shall pray for Ziou still,
While life or breath remains;
There my best friends, my kindred dwell,
There God my Saviour reigns.
Goiny to Churcli.
1 TTOW pleased and bless'd was I,
JLX To hear the people cry,
"Come, let us seek our God to-day!"
Yes, with a cheerful zeal
We haste to Zion's hill,
And there our vows and honours pay.
! Zion, thrice nappy
Adorn'd with wondrous grace,
And walls of strength embrace thee round;
In thee our tribes appear
To pray, and praise, and hear
The sacred gospel's joyful sound.
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There David's greater Son
Has fix'd his royal throne,
He sits for grace and judgment there :
He bids the saint be glad,
He makes the sinner sad,
And humble souls rejoice with fear.
May peace attend thy gate,
And joy within thee wait
To bless the soul of every guest :
The man that seeks thy peace,
And wishes thine increase,
A thousand blessings on him rest!
My tongue repeats her vows,
" Peace to this sacred house !"
For there my friends and kindred dwell;
And since my glorious God
Makes thee his bless'd abode,
My soul shall ever love thee well.
Pleading with Submission.
OTHOU whose grace and justice reign
Enthroned above the skies,
To thee our hearts would tell their pain,
To thee we lift our eyes.
! As servants watch their master's hand,
And fear the angry stroke ;
Or maids before their mistress stand,
And wait a peaceful look ;
! So for our sins we justly feel
Thy discipline, 0 God ;
Yet wait the gracious moment still,
Till thou remove thy rod.
[ Those that in wealth and pleasure live,
Our daily groans deride,
And thy delays of mercy give
Fresh courage to their pride,
i Our foes insult us, but our hope
In thy compassion lies ;
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A Song for the Fifth of November.
1 TTAD not the Lord (may Israel say),
1-L Hadaott] B Lord maintain 'd our side
"When men, to make our lives a prey,
Rom like the swelling of the tide;
2 The swelling tide had Btopp'd our breath,
So fiercely did the waters roll.
We had bees swallow'd deep iu death;
Proud water- had o'erwhehn'd our soul.
3 "We leap for joy, we shout and sing,
Who just escaped the fatal I
So flies the bird with cheerful wing,
"When once the fowler's snare is broke.
For ever blessed be the Lord,
Who broke the fowler's cursed snare!
"Who saved us from the murdering
And made our lives and souls his care !
5 Our help is in Jehovah's name,
Who form'd the earth and built the skies,
He that upholds that wondrous frame
Guards his own church with watchful eyes.
The Saint's Trial aw1
1 TTNSHAKEK aa the sacred hill,
vJ And tirm as mount.-.
Firm as a rock the s<-ul shall reel
That leans, 0 Lord, on thee.
2 Not walla nor bills could guard so well
Old Salem's happy ground,
bose eternal I
That every saint surround.
3 "While tyrants are a smarting scourge,
T > di he •
Divine con ;!ay
The fury of the rod.
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Where Christ their Lord is gone.
5 But if we trace those crooked ways
That the old serpent drew,
The wrath that drove him first to hell
Shall smite his followers too.
The Saints Trial and Safety.
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2 As mountains stood to guard
The city's sacred ground,
So God and his almighty love
Embrace his saints around.
3 What though the Father's rod
Drop a chastising stroke,
Yet, lest it wound their souls too deep,
Its fury shall be broke.
4 Deal gently, Lord, with those
Whose faith and pious fear,
Whose hope, and love, and every grace,
Proclaim their hearts sincere.
5 Nor shall the tyrant's rage
Too long oppress the saint ;
The God of Israel will support
His children, lest they faint.
6 But if our slavish fear
Will choose the road to hell,
We must expect our portion there,
Where bolder sinners dwell.
Surprising Deliverance.
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•J The BOofier own- thy hand, and i
Unwilling honoura to thy name ;
While we with |
With cheerful Dotei thy love proclaim.
3 When we review our dismal fears,
nard to think they vanish'-.
With God we left our flowing fa m,
He makes oar joys like rive I
4 The man that in his furrow'd held
His scatter ■;
Will .shout to see the liar v.-
A welcome load of joyful sheaves.
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1 mar HEN God rereal'd his gracious name,
»▼ And changed my mournful -
My rapture - sing dream,
The grace • ;it.
2 The world beheld the glorious change.
And did thy hand c
Mv tongue broke out' in unknown strains,
And inng ■urprising j
3 '• Great ifl the work," my i- \
And own'd the power dil
: is the work," my heart replied,
M And l»e the glory thine."
4 The Lord can clear the d
iCan gfre us day for night;
Make ■;
To river- ol delight.
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Till tl- .oine;
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6 Though seed lie buried long in dust,
It sha'nt deceive their hope ;
The precious grain can ne'er be lost,
For grace ensures the crop.
The Blessing of God on the Business and Comforts
of Life.
1 TF God succeed not, all the cost
JL And pains to build the house are lost;
If God the city will not keep,
The watchful guards as well may sleep.
2 What if you rise before the sun,
And work and toil when day is done ;
Careful and sparing eat your bread,
To shun that poverty you dread ;
3 'Tis all in vain, till God hath bless'd;
He can make rich, yet give us rest :
Children and friends are blessings too,
If God our Sovereign makes them so.
4 Happy the man to whom he sends
Obedient children, faithful friends !
How sweet our daily comforts prove
When they are season'd with his love!
God All in All.
1 TF God to build the house deny,
J- The builders work in vain ;
And towns, without his wakeful eye,
An useless watch maintain.
2 Before the morning beams arise,
Your painful work renew ;
And till the stars ascend the skies
Your tiresome toil pursue.
3 Short be your sleep, and coarse your fare,
In vain, till God has bless'd ;
But if his smiles attend your care,
You shall have food and rest.
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4 Nor children, relatives, nor fries
Shall i ■ prove ;
Nor all the earthly joys he -
If sent without hifl love.
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1 r\ HAPPY man, whose soul is filld
yj With seal and reverent awe !
His lips to God their honours yield,
lli> lift adorns the law.
3 A careful providence .shall stand
And ever guard thy head,
Shall on the labours of thy hand
Its kindly blessings shed.
3 Thy wife shall be a fruitful vine ;
Thy children, round thy b- ard,
Each like a plant of honour shine,
And learn to fear the L*
4 The Lord shall thy beet hopes fulfil
For months and years to come ;
The Lord, who dwells on Zion's hill,
Shall send the blessings home.
5 This is the man, whose happy eyes
Shall see his house increase ;
Shall see the sinking church arise,
Then leave the world in peace.
1 TTP from my youth, ma;
vJ Have I been nursed in tear>:
My griefs were constant as the day.
And tedious as the year-.
2 Up from my youth I bore the rage
Of all the sons of strife;
Oft they SSsail'd my rip! r
Hut not destroy'd my life.
3 Their erne! plough had torn my fl
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Hourly they vex my wounds afresh,
Nor let my sorrows sleep.
4 The Lord grew angry on his throne,
And, with impartial eye,
Measured the mischiefs they had done,
Then let his arrows fly.
5 How was their insolence surprised
To hear his thunders roll !
And all the foes of Sion seized
With horror to the soul.
6 Thus shall the men that hate the saints
Be blasted from the sky ;
Their glory fades, their courage faints,
And all their projects die.
7 [What though they flourish tall and fair,
They have no root beneath ;
Their growth shall perish in despair,
And lie despised in death.]
8 [So corn that on the house-top stands
No hope of harvest gives ;
The reaper ne'er shall fill his hands,
Nor binder fold the sheaves.
9 It springs and withers on the place;
No traveller bestows
A word of blessing on the grass,
Nor minds it as he goes.]
Pardoning Grace.
1 /^VUT of the deeps of long distress,
V-J The borders of despair,
I sent my cries to seek thy grace,
My groans to move thine ear.
2 Great God ! should thy severer eye,
And thine impartial hand,
Mark and revenge iniquity,
No mortal flesh could stand.
3 But there are pardons with my God
For crimes of high degree;
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Thy Sou bu bought them with his blood.
To draw us near to thee.
4 I wait for thy salvation, L
With strong desired I wait ;
My soul, invited by thy word,
Standi fratching at thy gate.
5 [Just as the guards that keep the night
Long for the morning skies,
Watch the first beami of breaking light
Aud meet them with their
6 So waits my soul to sec thy
And, more intent than they,
Meets the first openings of thy G
And finds a brighter day.]
7 [Then in the Lord let Israel trust,
Let Israel seek his face;
The Lord is good as well as just.
And plenteous is his grace.
8 There's full redemption at his throne
For sinners long enslaved ;
The great Bedeemer is his Son,
And Israel shall be .saved.]
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1 T7UU)Mdcep distress and troubled thought
I -T To thee, my God, 1 raised my cries
If thou severely mark OUT faults
; No flesh can stand before thin.' I
2 But thou hast built thy throne "I
j Free to dispense thy pardons there,
! That sinners may approach thy *
And h->pe and h>ve. as well al fi
3 As the benighted pilgrims wait,
And Long and wish for breaking day.
it my soul before ttrj
, When will my God oil I
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4 My trust is fix'd upon thy word,
Nor shall 1 trust thy word iu vain ;
Let mourning souls address the Lord,
And find relief from all their pain.
6 Great is his love, and large his grace,
Through the redemption of his Son ;
He turns our feet from sinful ways,
And pardons what our hands have done.
Humility and Submission.
1 TS there ambition in my heart?
J- Search, gracious God, and see :
Or do I act a haughty part?
Lord, I appeal to thee.
2 1 charge my thoughts, be humble still,
And all my carriage mild ;
Content, my Father, with thy will,
And quiet as a child.
3 The patient soul, the lowly mind,
Shall have a large reward :
Let saints in sorrow lie resign'd,
And trust a faithful Lord.
At the Settlement of a Church.
1 TIT HERE shall we go to seek and find
» » An habitation for our God,
A dwelling for th' Eternal Mind,
Amongst the sons of flesh and blood?
2 The God of Jacob chose the hill
Of Zion for his ancient rest ;
And Zion is his dwelling still,
His church is with his presence bless'd.
3 Here I will fix my gracious throne,
And reign for ever, saith the Lord ;
Here shall my power and love be known,
And blessings shall attend my word.
4 Here will 1 meet the hungry poor,
And fill their souls with living bread;
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Sinnen that wait before nrj
With sweet prorision .-hall be fed.
5 Girded with truth, and clothed wirh grace,
My priests, my ministers, shall shine;
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liade an appearance so divine.
6 The saints, unable to contain
Their inward joys, shall shoot and sin-;
The Sou of David here sliall reign,
And Zion triumph in her E
7 [Jesus shall see a nnmeroni
Born here t' uphold his glorious name;
His crown shall flourish on his head,
While all his foes are clothed with shame.'
A Church Ettablithed.
1 r~\fO s^eeP nor slumber to his eyes
LXi G"<»d David would afibrd,
Till he had found below t! i
A dwelling h>r the Lord.
'2 The Lord in Zion placed his name,
His ark was settled there;
To Zion the whole nation came
To worship thrice a- year.
3 But we have no such lea _
NaT Wander far abroad ;
Where'er thy saints assemble now.
There is a house for God.] — ( J'
4 Arise, 0 King of grace,
And ent<r t<» thy |
Lo! thy church waits with
Thus to be own'd and bh -
■ ith all thy glorious train.
Thy Spirit and thy word ;
All that the ark did one- contain
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6 Here, mighty God, accept our vows,
Here let thy praise be spread ;
Bless the provisions of thy house,
And fill thy poor with bread.
7 Here let the Son of David reign,
Let God's Anointed shine;
Justice and truth his court maintain,
With love and power divine.
8 Here let him hold a lasting throne ;
And as his kingdom grows,
Fresh honours shall adorn his crown,
And shame confound his foes.
Brotherly Love.
1 T O ! what an entertaining sight
J-« Are brethren that agree !
Brethren, whose cheerful hearts unite
In bands of piety !
2 When streams of love from Christthe spring
Descend to every soul,
And heavenly peace, with balmy wing,
Shades and bedews the whole ;
3 'Tis like the oil, divinely sweet,
On Aaron's reverend head ;
The trickling drops perfumed his feet,
And o'er his garments spread.
4 'Tis pleasant as the morning dews
That fall on Sion's hill,
Where God his mildest glory shows,
And makes his grace distil.
Communion of Saints.
1 T)LESS'D are the sons of peace,
-D Whose hearts and hopes are one,
Whose kind designs to serve and please
Through all their actions run.
2 Bless'd is the pious house
Where zeal and friendship meet;
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3 Tims when on A.i, on*B head
They peut'd the rich perfume,
The <>il through all hi- raiment spread,
And pleasure fill'd the room.
4 Thus on the heavenly hills
The saints are bles>**d ahove,
Where joy. tike morning dew, distils,
And all the air is lore.
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1 r TOW pleasant *tis to see
i--i- Kindred and friends agree ;
Bach in their proper station DM I
And each fulfil their part,
With sympathising heart.
In all the care- of lift and love!
2 'Tis like the ointment shed
On Aaron's sacred head,
Divinely rich, divinely su
The oil through all the POOD
Diffused a choice perfume,
Rao throogh his robes, and bleaft'd hi> feel
:j Like fruitful showers of rain,
That water all the plain,
Descending from the neighboring hills
Such streams of pleasure roll
Through every friendlv soul,
"Where lo\e. like heavenly dew, disnk
1 "VfE that obey the immortal J\
J. ..ly place;
Bow to the glories of bis power,
And bless his won. Irons grafle.
2 Lift up your hand l»y morning light,
Ami send your s<.uU on !
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Raise your admiring thoughts by night
Above the starry sky.
3 The God of Zion cheers our hearts
With rays of quick'ning grace;
The God that spread the heavens abroad,
And rules the swelling seas.
The Church is God's House and Care.
1 "T> RAISE ye the Lord, exalt his name,
JL While in his holy courts ye wait,
Ye saints that to his house belong,
Or stand attending at his gate.
2 Praise ye the Lord : the Lord is good ;
To praise his name is sweet employ :
Israel he chose of old, and still
His church is his peculiar joy.
3 The Lord himself will judge his saints;
He treats his servants as his friends ;
And when he hears their sore complaints,
Repents the sorrows that he sends.
4 Through every age the Lord declares
His name, and breaks th' oppressor's rod ;
He gives his suffering servants rest,
And will be known th' Almighty God.
5 Bless ye the Lord who taste his love,
People and priest exalt his name:
Amongst his saints he ever dwells;
His church is his Jerusalem.
The Works of Creation, Providence, Redemption
of Israel, and Destruction of Enemies.
1 pi RE AT is the Lord, exalted high
VX Above all powers and every throne
Whate'er he please, in earth or sea,
Or heaven or hell, his hand hath done.
2 At his command the vapours rise,
The lightnings flash, the thunders roar ;
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Be pours the rain he brings the wind
And tempest from hi- airy store.
3 Twas he those dreadful tokena
0 Egypt, through thy stubborn land,
"When all thy first-born, beasti and men,
Fell <lea<l by hia avenging hand.
4 "What mighty nations, mighty |
He slew, and their whole country gave
To I-rael, whom his hand redeem'd.
No more to be prond Pharaoh'a -
6 His power the same, the same i.
That saves us from the hosts of hell ;
And heaven lie gives us to pos--
Whence those apostate angels 1'ell.
1 A "WAKE, ye -aims ; to praise your King
■£*- Your sweetest passioi -
Your pious pleasure, whil*
Increasing with the praise.
■2 Great is the Lord, and works unknown
Are his divine employ;
But still his siints are near his throne,
His treasure and hi
3 Heaven, earth, and sea (-"iit'ess his hand;
1 fa bids the vapours rise ;
Lightning and storm at his command
ep through the sounding si
4 All power that gods or kiiiLfs have claim VI
Is found with him alone;
Hut heathen gods should ne'er he named
Where our Jehovah's known.
5 Which of the Mo»-ks and Bti
Can give them showers of rain '.
In vain they worship glitt'ring dost,
And pray t.. gold in vain.
6 [Their gods have tOOguea that cai
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Their feet were ne'er design 'd to walk,
Nor hands have power to save.
7 Blind are their eyes, their ears are deaf,
Nor hear when mortals pray ;
Mortals that wait for their relief
Are blind and deaf as they.]
8 0 Britain, know thy living God,
Serve him with faith and fear ;
He makes thy churches his abode,
And claims thine honours there.
God's Wonders of Creation, Providence, Redemp-
tion of Israel, and Salvation of his People.
1 /~"i IVE thanks to God the sovereign Lord;
VX His mercies still endure ;
And be the King of kings adored ;
His truth is ever sure.
2 What wonders hath his wisdom done !
How mighty is his hand !
Heaven, earth, and sea, he framed alone
How wide is his command !
3 The sun supplies the day with light,
How bright his counsels shine !
The moon and stars adorn the night ;
His works are all divine.
4 [He struck the sons of Egypt dead ;
How dreadful is his rod !
And thence with joy his people led ;
How gracious is our God !
5 He cleft the swelling sea in two ;
His arm is great in might ;
And gave the tribes a passage through ;
His power and grace unite.
6 But Pharaoh's army there he drown'd ;
How glorious are his ways I
And brought his saints through desert
Eternal be his praise ! [ground ;
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Victorious is his sword;
While Israel t<«ok the promised land;
And faithful is his word.]
8 He saw the nations dead in sin;
He felt his pity m
How sad the state the world was in!
Bow boundlc» was his '•
9 He sent to save u^ from our woe;
His goodness never fails ;
From death, and hell, and every foe;
And still his grace prevails.
10 Give thanks to God the heavenly King;
His mercies still endure:
Let the whole earth his praises sing;
His truth is ever sure.
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1 r\ 1VE thanks to God most high.
^-* The universal Lord,
As the
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The sovereign King of kings;
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And be his grace adored.
His power and grace 1 And let his name
Are still the same; | Have endless praise
2 How mighty is his handl
What wonders. hath he done!
He fbrm'd the earth and
And spread the heavens alone.
Thy mercy, Lord, 1 Ami ever sure
Shall still endure; | Abides thy word.
\\ His wisdom framed the sun
To crown the day with light ;
The moon and twinkling stars
To cheer the darksome night
Bis power and grace 1 And let hi- i
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t [He smote the first-born sons,
The flower of Egypt, dead :
And thence his chosen tribes
With joy and glory led.
Thy mercy, Lord, I And ever sure
Shall still endure; | Abides thy word.
> His power and lifted rod
Cleft the Red Sea in two ;
And for his people made
A wondrous passage through.
His power and grace I And let his name
Are still the same; | Have endlesspraise.
! But cruel Pharaoh there,
With all his host, he drown'd;
And brought his Israel safe
Through a long desert ground.
Thy mercy, Lord, I And ever sure
Shall still endure ; j Abides thy word.
(Pause.)
The kings of Canaan fell
Beneath his dreadful hand;
While his own servants took
Possession of their land.
His power and grace I And let his name
Are still the same ; | Have endless praise,
He saw the nations lie
All perishing in sin,
And pitied the sad state
The ruin'd world was in.
Thy mercy, Lord, I And ever sure
Shall still endure ; j Abides thy word.
He sent his only Son
To save us from our woe,
From Satan, sin, and death,
And every hurtful foe.
His power and grace I And let his name
Are still the same; | Have endless praise.
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'J'.. < tod tin- heavenly King;
And let the spacious earth
lli< works and gloriei
Thy merry. Lord, I And ever sure
Shall >till endure ; / Abides thy word.
vJT Mercy and truth are all hie
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Abridged.
Wonders of grace to God belong,
Repeat his mercies in your soug.
2 Give to the Lord of lords renown,
The King of kings with -lory crown;
1 li- : shall endure
When lords and kings are known no more
3 lie built tbe earth, he spread the sky,
And lix'd the starry lights on high:
Wonders of grace to God i i
Repeat his mercies in your
4 He fills the sun with morning light ;
He bids the moon direct the night:
] [is mercies ever shall endure
When suns and in<.<.n> shall shine ))" more
o The Jews he Greed from Pharaoh's hand,
And brought them to the promised land;
Wonders of.grace t<> God b
»i He SAW the QentUes dead in sin,
And felt his pity work within :
]li> mercies ever shall endure
When death and sin shall reign no more.
7 II- m nt his Son with power to save
Prom guilt, and darkness, and tin
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8 Through this vain world he guides our feet,
And leads us to his heavenly seat;
His mercies ever shall endure
When this vain world shall be no more.
Restoring and preserving Grace.
1 r-TTTITH all my powers of heart and
L ' ' tongue
I'll praise my Maker in my song :
Angels shall hear the notes I raise,
Approve the song, and join the praise.
2 Angels that make thy church their care
Shall witness my devotions there ;
While holy zeal directs my eyes
To thy fair temple in the skies.]
3 I'll sing thy truth and mercy, Lord,
I'll sing the wonders of thy word ;
Not all thy works and names below
So much thy power and glory show.
4 To God I cried when troubles rose ;
He heard me and subdued my foes :
He did my rising fears control,
And strength diffused through all my soul.
5 The God of heaven maintains his state,
Frowns on the proud, and scorns the great,
But from his throne descends to see
The sons of humble poverty.
6 Amidst a thousand snares I stand,
Upheld and guarded by thy hand ;
Thy words my fainting soul revive,
And keep my dying faith alive.
7 Grace will complete what grace begins,
To save from sorrows or from sins :
The work that wisdom undertakes,
Eternal mercy ne'er forsakes.
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1 T ORD, thou hast seareh'd and
-L^ through;
Thine eye commands with piercing
My rising and my resting boon,
My heart and flesh, with all their powers.
2 My thoughts, before they are my own.
Are to my God distinctly known ;
He knows the words I mean to speak
Ere from my opening lips they break.
3 Within thy circling power T stand ;
On every side 1 find thy hand;
Awake, asleep, at home, abroad,
I am surrounded still with I
4 Amazing knowledge; vast and great!
What large extent! what lofty height !
My soul, with all the pos
Is in the boundless prospect lost.
5 O may these thou-' i breast,
Where'er 1 rove, where'er I
Nor let my weake ^assiona dare
Consent to sin. for God is there.
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6 Could T so f'also. so faithless pn
To quit thy service and thy lore,
Where, Lord, could 1 thy presence shun,
Or from thy dreadful glory run?
7 If up to heaven I take my flight,
"lis there thou dwell'et enthroned in light;
Or dive to hell, there vengeance n
And Safm groans beneath thy obsina
8 If, mounted on a morning ray.
I fly beyond the ■ i
Thy swifter hand would first arrive.
And there arrest thy mgnare,
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9 Or should I try to shun thy sight
Beneath the spreading veil of night,
One glance of thine, one piercing ray,
Would kindle darkness into day.
10 0 may these thoughts possess my breast,
Where'er I rove, where'er I rest!
Nor let my weaker passions dare
Consent to sin, for God is there.
(Pause 11.)
11 The veil of night is no disguise,
No screen from thy all-searching eyes :
Thy hand can seize thy foes as soon
Through midnight shades as blazing noon.
12 Midnight and noon in this agree,
Great God, they're both alike to thee ;
Not death can hide what God will spy,
And hell lies naked to his eye.
13 0 may these thoughts possess my breast,
Where'er I rove, where'er I rest!
Nor let my weaker passions dare
Consent to sin, for God is there.
The Wonderful Formation of Man.
1 Tp WAS from thy hand, my God, I came,
-L A work of such a curious frame ;
In me thy fearful wonders shine,
And each proclaims thy skill divine.
2 Thine eyes did all my limbs survey,
Which yet in dark confusion lay ;
Thou saw'st the daily growth they took,
Form'd by the model of thy book.
3 By thee my growing parts were named,
And what thy sovereign counsels framed
( The breathing lungs, the beating heart)
Was copied with unerring art.
4 At last, to show my Maker's name,
God stamp'd his image on my frame,
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And in some unknown Bwment jefa'd
The finished member! to the niiiKl.
5 There the young seedi of thought Logan,
And all the passfom of tin* man :
Great God, our infant natur
Immortal tribute to thy praise.— ( Pause. )
6 Lord, since in my advancing age
I've acted on life's busy s-
Thy thoughts of love to me surmount
The power of numbers to recount.
7 I could survey the oe«>an o'er,
And count each sand that makes the shore,
Before my swiftest thoughts coul<.
The numerous wonders of thy gr
8 These on my heart are still impi <
With these I give my eyes to rest;
And at my waking hour I find
God and his love possess my mind.
Sincerity professed, and (ira ■
1 "\ TY God, what inward grief I feel
^»J- "When impious men transgress thy
I mourn to hear their lips profane [will !
Take thy tremendous name in vain.
2 Does not my soul detect and hate
The sons of malice and d.
Those that oppose thy law- and :.
I count them enemies to me,
3 Lord, standi my soul, try every thought;
Though my own heart act
Of walking in ■ mlt
I beg the trial of 1 1 in i
4 Doth i I lurk within?
Do I indulge some unknown >\\\i
( ) turn my feet win ne'er I -
And lead me in thy perfect way.
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God is Everywhere.
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J- In vain my soul would try
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The notice of thine eye.
2 Thy all- surrounding sight surveys
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My rising and my rest,
My public walks, my private ways,
And secrets of my breast.
3 My thoughts lie open to the Lord
Before they're form'd within ;
And ere my lips pronounce the word,
He knows the sense I mean.
4 0 wondrous knowledge, deep and high !
Where can a creature hide ?
Within thy circling arms I lie,
Beset on every side.
5 So let thy grace surround me still,
And like a bulwark prove,
To guard my soul from every ill,
Secured by sovereign love. — ( Pause. )
i 6 Lord, where shall guilty souls retire,
Forgotten and unknown?
In hell they meet thy dreadful fire,
In heaven thy glorious throne.
7 Should I suppress my vital breath,
To 'scape the wrath divine,
Thy voice would break the bars of death,
And make the grave resign.
8 If, wing'd with beams of morning light,
I fly beyond the west,
Thy hand, which must support my flight,
Would soon betray my rest.
9 If o'er my sins I think to draw
The curtains of the night,
Those flaming eyes that guard thy law
Would turn the shades to light.
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10 The beami of noon, the midnight hour.
Are both alike to thee :
0 may I ne'er provoke that power
From which I cannot flee,
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1 TTTHEM I with pleasing wonder stand,
* » And all my frame survey.
Lord, 'tis thy work ; I <>wu thy hand
Thus built my humble clay.
2 Thy hand my heart and rein- post
Where unborn nature grew;
Thy wisdom all my feature! traced,
And all my members drew.
3 Thine eye with nicest care survey'd
The growth of every j>art;
Till the whole scheme thy thoughts had
Was copied by thy art. [laid
4 Heaven, earth, and sea, and fire, and wind,
Show me thy wondrous skill;
But I review myself, and find
Diviner wonders still.
5 Thy awful glories round me shine,
My flesh proclaims thy pn
Lord, to thy works of nature join
Thy miracles of gr
Th e Merck* of God in
An Evening Psalm.
1 T OIJH, when I count thy OKI
-Li They strike me with sin; i
Not all the sands that spread tin
To equal numberi
2 My flesh with tear and wonder stands,
The product of thy skill;
And hourly i thy hands
Thy thoughti of l©Y<
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3 These on my heart by night I keep ;
How kind, how dear to me !
0 may the hour that ends my sleep
Still find my thoughts with thee !
Watchfulness and brotherly Reproof.
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1 l\/f"Y God, accept my early vows,
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Sweet as the evening sacrifice.
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2 Watch o'er my lips, and guard them, Lord,
From every rash and heedless word ;
Nor let my feet incline to tread
The guilty paths where sinners lead.
3 0 may the righteous, when I stray,
Smite and reprove my wand 'ring way !
Their gentle words, like ointment shed,
Shall never bruise, but cheer my head.
4 When I behold them press'd with grief,
I'll cry to heaven for their relief;
And by my warm petitions prove
Plow much I prize their faithful love.
God is the Hope of the Helpless.
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J- From God I sought relief;
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In long complaints before his throne
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I pour'd out all my grief.
2 My soul was overwhelm 'd with woes,
My heart began to break ;
My God, who all my burden knows,
He knows the way I take.
8 On every side I cast mine eye,
And found my helpers gone ;
While friends and strangers pass'd me by,
Neglected or unknown.
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4 Then did I raise a louder cry,
And call'd thy mercy n«-ar,—
u Thou art my portion when i die;
lie thou my refttge here."
5 Lord, I am brought exceeding low;
Now let thine ear attend,
And make my foes who vex me know
I've an almighty Friend.
6 From my sad orison set me free,
Then shall I praise thy name,
And holy men shall join with me
Thy kindness to proclaim.
Complaint of heavy Ajjlictioiu in Mind and
Body.
i "VfY righteous Judge, my gracious God,
-i-'A Hear when I spread my hands
abroad,
And cry for succour from thy throne;
0 make thy truth and mercy known !
2 Let judgment not against me Ml
Behold thy servant pleads thy gl
Should justice call us to thy bar,
No man alive is guiltless there.
3 Look down in pity, Lord, and Bee
The mighty woes that burden me;
Down to the dust my life is brought,
Like one long buried and forgot.
4 1 dwell in darkness and mil
My heart is desolate within;
My thoughts in musing silence trace
The ancient wonder.-, of th\
o Thence 1 derive a glimpse of hope
To bear my sinking spirits up;
1 stretch my hands to (Jod tgam,
And thirst like parched land* for rain.
6 For thee 1 thii>t, I pray, 1 mourn;
When will thy smiling lace return?
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Shall all my joys on earth remove?
And God for ever hide his love?
7 My Glod, thy long delay to save
Will sink thy pris'ner to the grave ;
My heart grows faint, and dim mine eye;
Make haste to help before I die.
8 The night is witness to my tears,
Distressing pains, distressing fears ;
0 might I hear thy morning voice,
How would my wearied powers rejoice !
9 In thee I trust, to thee I sigh,
And lift my heavy soul on high ;
For thee sit waiting all the day,
And wear the tiresome hours away.
10 Break off my fetters, Lord, and show
Which is the path my feet should go ;
If snares and foes beset the road,
1 flee to hide me near my God.
1 1 Teach me to do thy holy will,
And lead me to thy heavenly hill :
Let the good Spirit of thy love
Conduct me to thy courts above.
12 Then shall my soul no more complain,
The tempter then shall rage in vain ;
And flesh, that was my foe before,
Shall never vex my spirit more.
Assistance and Victory in the Spiritual Warfare.
1 Til OR ever blessed be the Lord,
J- My saviour and my shield ;
He sends his Spirit with his word,
To arm me for the field.
2 When sin and hell their force unite,
He makes my soul his care,
Instructs me to the heavenly fight,
And guards me through the war.
3 A friend and helper so divine
Does my weak courage raise;
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And liis shall be
'// of Man, and Condfcmmo*
1 T ORD, what is man, poor feeUe man,
J-^ Born of the earth at first!
His life a .shadow, light sod vain,
.Still hasting to the dust.
2 O what is feeble, dying man,
Or any of li
That God should make it his concern
To vi-it him witli grace?
3 That God who darts his lightnings down,
Who shakes the worlds above,
And mountains tremble at his frown,
How wondrous is his love !
above Riches.
1 TT APPY the city, where their sons,
J-X Like pillars round a palae
And daughters, bright a3 polish'd stones,
Give strength and beauty to the state.
2 Happy the country when- the ibeep,
Cattle, and c<»rn, have large inen
Where men lecnrely work or ill
Nor Bona of plunder break the | •
li Happy the nation thus endow'd;
more dirinely bless'd are tl
On whom the sil-Bomciei
Himself with all I.
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l^rOi ^ * .Shall lill the remnant of my days
I vj Thy grace employ my humble ti
Till death and sjii
2 Tl.' v boor thaU '
Some thankful tnbui.
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And every setting snn shall see
New works of duty done for thee.
3 Thy truth and justice I'll proclaim :
Thy bounty flows an endless stream ;
Thy mercy swift, thine anger slow,
But dreadful to the stubborn foe.
4 Thy works with sovereign glory shine,
And speak thy majesty divine ;
Let Britain round her shores proclaim
The sound and honour of thy name.
5 Let distant times and nations raise
The long succession of thy praise,
And unborn ages make my song
The joy and labour of their tongue.
6 But who can speak thy wondrous deeds ?
Thy greatness all our thoughts exceeds !
Vast and unsearchable thy ways,
Vast and immortal be thy praise !
The Greatness of God.
1 T ONG as I live I'll bless thy name,
J-^ My King, my God of love !
My work and joy shall be the same
In the bright world above.
2 Great is the Lord, his power unknown,
And let his praise be great ;
I'll sing the honours of thy throne,
Thy works of grace repeat.
3 Thy grace shall dwell upon my tongue;
And while my lips rejoice,
The men that hear my sacred song
Shall join their cheerful voice.
4 Fathers to sons shall teach thy name,
And children learn thy ways ;
Ages to come thy truth proclaim,
And nations sound thy praise.
5 Thy glorious deeds of ancient date
Shall through the world be known ;
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Thine ami of power, thy heavenly state,
"NViili public splendour shown.
6 The world is nonaged by thy hands,
Thy saints ore ruled by love;
And thine eternal kingdom stands,
Though pockl and hills remove.
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Tfie Goodness of God.
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SW MET is the memory of thy grace,
My (Jod, my heavenly King!
Let age to age thy righteousness
In songs of glory sing.
2 God reigns on high, but not confines
His goodness to the skies;
Through the whole earth his bount>
And every want supplies.
3 With longing eyes thy creaturts wait
On thee for daily food ;
Thy liberal hand provides their DM
And fills their mouths with good.
4 How kind are thy compassions, Lord!
How slow thine anger- moves!
But soon he sends his pardoning word
To cheer the souls he loves.
I with all their endless race,
Thy power and praise proclaim;
But saints that taste thy I
Delight to bless thy name.
i to Sufferers.
1 T KT every tongoe thy _
-Li Thou sovereign Lord <>f all :
Ding hands uphold i'.
And raise the poor that fall.
2 When sorrow bowl the spirit down,
ii .-..in.' proud oporeeeor'i h
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3 The Lord supports our tottering days,
And guides our giddy youth ;
Holy and just are ail his ways,
And all his words are truth.
4 He knows the pain his servants feel,
He hears his children cry,
And, their best wishes to fulfil,
His grace is ever nigh.
5 His mercy never shall remove
From men of heart sincere ;
He saves the souls whose humble love
Is join'd with holy fear.
6 [His stubborn foes his sword shall slay,
And pierce their hearts with pain ;
But none that serve the Lord shall say,
" They sought his aid in vain."]
7 [My lips shall dwell upon his praise,
And spread his fame abroad :
Let all the sons of Adam raise
The honours of their God.]
Praise to God for his Goodness and Ti-uth.
1 T) RAISE ye the Lord! my heart shall
-I- In works so pleasant, so divine : [join
Now, while the flesh is mine abode,
And when my soul ascends to God.
2 Praise shall employ my noblest powers,
While immortality endures;
My days of praise shall ne'er be past.
While life, and thought, and being last.
3 Why should I make a man my trust?
Princes must die and turn to dust;
Their breath departs, their pomp and power
And thoughts all vanish in an hour.
4 Happy the man whose hopes rely
On Israel's God : he made the sky,
And earth, and seas, with all their train :
And none shall find his promise vain
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lie sends the Labouring com
And -rants the prii
6 The Lord hath eyes to give the Uiad;
The Lord rapport* the sinking mmd :
He helps tlie stranger in distress,
The Widow and the fatherless.
7 He lorei his saints he know- them well,
But tarns the wicked down to hell :
Thy God, 0 Zion! erer reigns;
Praise him in everlasting stn
Praise to fad for his Qoodne
I'LL praise my Maker with my breath;
And when my voice is lost in death,
shall employ my nobler po
oi j. raise shall ne'er be past,
While life, and thought, and being
Or immortality endures,
2 Why should I make a man my p
1'iii and turn to d
\'ain is the help ol flash and hi.
Their breath departs, their pomp and power
And thoughts all ranish in an hour,
Nor can they make their promiSl
:i Happy the man whose bop
On Israel'.- God: he mad.- the sky,
Ajid earth, and sea-, with all their train.
Oil truth lor •
He sares th' oppress'd, he f!
And none shall find his promise vain.
The I. the sinking mind;
1 !<• sends the laboui
Jle helps tli" stranger in di
nd the lath- :
And grant the prii
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5 He loves his saints, he knows them well,
But turns the wicked down to hell ;
Thy God, O Zion, ever reigns :
Let every tongue, let every age,
In this exalted work engage ;
Praise him in everlasting strains.
6 I'll praise him while he lends me breath ;
And when my voice is lost in death,
Praise shall employ my nobler powers ;
My days of praise shall ne'er be past,
While life, and thought, and being last,
Or immortality endures.
Tlie Divine Nature, Providence, and Grace.
1 "pRAISE ye the Lord! 'tis good to raise
-L Our hearts and voices in his praise ;
His nature and his works invite
To make this duty our delight.
2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem,
And gathers nations to his name ;
His mercy melts the stubborn soul,
And makes the broken spirit whole.
3 He form'd the stars, those heavenly flames;
He counts their numbers, calls their names;
His wisdom's vast, and knows no bound,
A deep where all our thoughts are drown 'd.
4 Great is our Lord, and great his might;
And all his glories infinite :
He crowns the meek, rewards the just ;
And treads the wicked to the dust.-( Pause.)
b Sing to the Lord ! exalt him high,
Who spreads his clouds all round the sky :
There he prepares the fruitful rain,
Nor lets the drops descend in vain.
6 He makes the grass the hills adorn,
And clothes the smiling fields with corn;
The beasts with food his hands supply,
And the young ravens when they cry.
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7 What w the nmntnre'a skttl of fa
The sprightly man, the warlike horse,
The nimble wit, the active limb,
Are all too mean delight* for him.
8 But saints are lovely in his Bight;
He views his children with delight;
He sees their hope, he knows their fear,
And looks and loves his image there,
Simmer and H
A Song for Great Britain.
1 i\ BRITAIN, praise thy might* God.
V7 And make his honours known abroad:
He bade the ocean round thee How;
I Not bars of brass could guard thee so.
2 Thy children are secure and bless'd;
j Thy shores have peace, thy cities rest;
' He feeds thy sons with fines! v
! And adds his blessing to their meat.
3 Thy changing seasons he ordains,
Thine early and thy latter rains;
His flakes of new like wool he sends.
And thus the springing corn defends.
4 With hoary frost he strews the ground;
His hail descends with clattVing sound:
Where is the man so vainly bold
That dares defy hi> dreadful coMM
5 He bids the southern breezes bli
The ice dissolves, the waters flow:
But he hath nobler works and ways
To call the Britons to his \
f> To all the isle his laws are shown;
spel through the nation known;
He hath :.
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The Seasons of the Year.
1 1ITITH songs and honours sounding loud,
» » Address the Lord on high :
O'er the heavens he spreads his cloud,
And waters veil the sky.
2 He sends his showers of blessings down
To cheer the plains below :
He makes the grass the mountains crown,
And corn in valleys grow.
3 He gives the grazing ox his meat,
He hears the ravens cry ;
But man, who tastes his finest wheat,
Should raise his honours high.
4 His steady counsels change the face
Of the declining year ;
He bids the sun cut short his race,
And wintry days appear.
5 His hoary frost, his fleecy snow,
Descend and clothe the ground ;
The liquid streams forbear to flow,
In icy fetters bound.
6 When from his dreadful stores on high
He pours the rattling hail,
The wretch that dares his God defy
Shall find his courage fail.
7 He sends his word, and melts the snow,
The fields no longer mourn ;
He calls the warmer gales to blow,
And bids the spring return.
8 The changing wind, the Hying cloud,
Obey his mighty word :
With songs and honours sounding loud,
Praise ye the sovereign Lord.
Praise to God from all Creatures.
1 "Y7"JE tribes of Adam, join
R X With heaven, and earth, and seas,
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To your Creator's j
Ye holy throng i In worlds of light
Proper
Of angels bright, j Begin the song.
Metre.
2 Thou 6un with dazzling r;iy>.
And moon that rules the night.
Shine to your Maker's j i
"With stars of twinkling light:
His power declare, j And clouds that ily
Ye floods on high, | In empty air.
3 The shining worlds above
In glorious order stand,
Or in swift courses move,
By his supreme command :
He spake the word, 1 From nothing came
And all their frame | To praise the Lord.
4 He moved their mighty wheels
In unknown
And each his word fulfils
"While time and nature last:
In different ways 1 His wondrous name,
His works proclaim | And speak his pi
(Pause. J
5 Let all the earth-born race,
And monstera of the deep;
The fish that cleave the seas,
Or in their botom
From sea and shore 1 And still display
Their tribute pay, j Their Maker*! power.
6 Ye vapours, hail, and mow,
l'raise ye th' Almighty Lord,
And stormy wind> that blow,
To execute his word ;
"When lightnings shine. Let earth adore
Or thunder- roar, hand divine.
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7 Ye mountains near the skies,
With lofty cedars there,
And trees of humbler size,
That fruit in plenty hear;
Beasts wild and tame, I In various forms,
Birds, flies, and worms, j Exalt his name.
8 Ye kings and judges, fear
The Lord, the sovereign King ;
And while you rule us here,
His heavenly honours sing ;
Nor let the dream I Make you forget
Of power and state J His power supreme.
9 Virgins and youths, engage
To sound his praise divine,
While infancy and age
Their feebler voices join:
Wide as he reigns I By every tongue
His name be sung j In endless strains.
10 Let all the nations fear
The God that rules above :
He brings his people near,
And makes them taste his love :
While earth and sky I His saints shall raise
Attempt his praise, J His honours high.
Universal Praise to God.
IT OUD hallelujahs to the Lord, [dwell;
-L« From distant worlds where creatures
Let heaven begin the solemn word,
And sound it dreadful down to hell.
[Note. — Thig Psalm may be sung to the tune of the
old 112th or 127th Psalm, if these two lines be
added to every stanza; viz. —
Each of his works his name displays,
But they can ne'er fulfil his praise.
Otherwise it must be sung to the usual tunes
of Long Metre. 1
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2 The Lord ! how absolute he reigns!
Let every angel bend the knee;
Sing of his love in heavenly str ,
And speak how fierce nil terrors be.
3 High on a throne his glories dwell,
An awful throne of shining bliss!
Fly through the world, O sun! and tell
How dark thy beams compared to his.
4 Awake, ye tempests, and his fame
In sounds of dreadful praise declare;
And the sweet whisper of his name
Fill every gentler breeze of air.
5 Let clouds, and winds, and wan
To join their praise with blazing fire;
Let the firm earth and rolling sea
In this eternal song conspire.
6 Ye flowery plains, proclaim his skill;
Valleys, lie low before his eye ;
And let his praise from every hill
Rise tuneful to the neighbouring sky.
7 Ye stubborn oaks, and stately pines,
Bend your high branches and adore ;
Praise him, ye l*»a-ts, in different
The lamb must bleat, the lion roar.
8 Birds, ye must make nil praise your theme
Nature demands a long from you;
While the dumb fiflfa that cut th<
Leap up, and mean his praises too.
9 Mortals, can you refrain your tongue.
When nature all around you BU
Oh, for a shout from old and young.
From humble swains and lofty 1
10 Widfl a- hit fait dominion lies.
Make the Creator's name be known;
Loud as his thunder -\\<mt his praise,
And sound it lofty as his throne.
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11 Jehovah ! 'tis a glorious word :
Oh, may it dwell on every tongue !
But saints who best have known the Lord
Are bound to raise the noblest song.
12 Speak of the wonders of that love
Which Gabriel plays on every chord :
From all below, and all above,
Loud hallelujahs to the Lord.
Universal Praise.
1 T ET every creature join
JL^ To praise the eternal Grod ;
Ye heavenly hosts, the song begin,
And sound his name abroad.
2 Thou sun with golden beams,
And moon with paler rays ;
Ye starry lights, ye twinkling flames,
Shine to your Maker's praise.
3 He built those worlds above,
And fix'd their wondrous frame ;
By his command they stand or move,
And ever speak his name.
4 Ye vapours, when ye rise,
Or fall in showers of snow,
Ye thunders, murmuring round the skies,
His power and glory show.
5 Wind, hail, and flashing fire,
Agree to praise the Lord,
When ye in dreadful storms conspire
To execute his word.
6 By all his works above
His honours be express'd ;
But saints that taste his saving love
Should sing his praises best.
(Pause I.)
7 Let earth and ocean know
They owe their Maker praise ;
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8 From mountains near :;
Let his high praise resound ;
From humble shrubs and cedars high,
And vales and fields around.
9 Ye lions of the wood,
And tamer beasts that graze,
Ye live upon his daily food,
And he expects your praise.
10 Ye birds of lofty wing,
On high his praises bear;
Or sit on flowery boughs, and sing
Your Maker's glory there.
11 Ye creeping ants and worms,
His various wisdom show,
And Hies, in all your shining swarms,
Praise him that dress*d you so.
12 By all the earth-born race
His honours be expi i
But saints, that know his heavenly grace.
Should learn to praise him best.
(Pause U.)
13 Monarchs of wide command,
Praise ye th' Eternal King;
Judges, adore that sovereign hand.
Whence all your honouri spring.
14 Let rigorous youth ei g
To sound his praises high;
While growing babes, and withering age,
Their feebler voices try.
15 United seal be shown
His wondrous fame to ri
God is the Lord! his name alone
Deserves our endk
16 Let nature join with art.
And all pronounce him l'.<
PSALM CXLIX.
265
But saints, that dwell so near his heart,
Should sing his praises best.
Praise God, all his Saints.
1 A LL ye that love the Lord, rejoice,
-£*• And let your songs be new ;
Amidst the church, with cheerful voice,
His later wonders show.
2 The Jews, the people of his grace,
Shall their Redeemer sing ;
And Gentile nations join the praise,
While Zion owns her king.
3 The Lord takes pleasure in the just,
Whom sinners treat with scorn ;
The meek that lie despised in dust,
Salvation shall adorn.
4 Saints should be joyful in their King,
Ev'n on a dying bed;
And like the souls in glory sing,
For God shall raise the dead.
5 Then his high praise shall fill their tongues*,
Their hands shall wield the sword ;
And vengeance shall attend their songs,
The vengeance of the Lord.
6 When Christ the judgment-seat ascends, i
And bids the world appear,
Thrones are prepared for all his friends
Who humbly loved him here.
7 Then shall they rule with iron rod
Nations that dared rebel:
And join the sentence of their God
On tyrants doom'd to hell.
8 The royal sinners, bound in chains,
New triumphs shall afford ;
Such honour for the saints remains :
Praise ye, and love the Lord !
149.
CM.
2M
PSALM CL.
^salm.
150.
CM.
Ver.
1.16.
1 TX God'i own house pronoanee hi
JL His <rn\ce he ti.
T<> heaven your joy and wonder 1 1
For there bis glory i
none move,
While you i
But the great work of Baying love
Your highest prau
3 All that have motion, life, ami breath,
[aim your Maker U.
Yet, when my roice expires in death.
My BOUl shall prai.-e him
THE CHRISTIAN DoXOLOGIES.
L. M.
TO God the Father, God tl
And God the Spirit, Three in One,
He honour, praise, and glory giVen,
By all <>M earth and all in heaven.
C. M.
LET God, the Father, and the I
And Spirit, be adored,
\\ here there are works to make him known,
Or ealntfl that love the Lord,
1 milK God of mercy be .
JL Wlio calls our souls from death ;
Who laves by nil redeeming *
And new creating breath.
2 To praise the Father, ami the B
And Spirit, all divine.
One in Three, and Three in Oue,
DOXOLOGIES.
267 •
S. M.
BoxoL
~\7^E angels round the throne,
J- And saints that dwell below,
Worship the Father, praise the Son,
And bless the Spirit too.
i
As the 113th Psalm.
"VT O W to the great and sacred Three,
1 1-V The Father, Son, and Spirit, be
Eternal praise and glory given,
Through all the worlds where God is known,
By all the angels near the throne,
And all the saiuts in earth and heaven.
As the 148th Psalm.
mO God the Father's throne
-i- Perpetual honours raise ;
[
Glory to God the Son ;
To God the Spirit, praise.
AVith all our powers,
Eternal King,
Thy name we sing,
"While faith adores.
END OF THE PSALMS.
HYMNS
AND
SPIRITUAL SONGS.
En ftfjree Books.
i.
COLLECTED FROM THE SCRIPTURES.
II.
COMPOSED ON DIVINE SUBJECTS.
ni.
PREPARED FOR THE LORDS SUPPER
BY
L WATTS, D.D.
u And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take
the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain
and hast redeemed us to God." — Rev. t. 9.
HYMNS.
BOOK I.
COLLECTED FROM THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.
A New Song to the Lamb that was slain.
1 T)EHOLD the glories of the Lamb
-D Amidst his Father's throne ;
Prepare new honours for his name,
And songs before unknown.
2 Let elders worship at his feet,
The church adore around,
With vials full of odours sweet,
And harps of sweeter sound.
3 Those are the prayers of the saints
And these the hymns they raise,
Jesus is kind to our complaints,
He loves to hear our praise.
4 [Eternal Father, who shall look
Into thy secret will ?
Who but the Son shall take that book,
And open every seal?
5 He shall fulfil thy great decrees,
The Son deserves it well :
Lo ! in his hand the sovereign keys
Of heaven, and death, and hell.]
6 Now to the Lamb that once was slain
Be endless blessings paid ;
Salvation, glory, joy, remain
For ever on thy head.
272
HYMN II.
BOOK I
2?pmn.
&pmn.
2.
L. M.
John i.
1,3,14;
Col. i. 16.
7 Thou hast redeem 'd our souls with blood
Hast set the prisoners free;
Hast made us kings and priests to God,
And we shall reign with thee.
8 The worlds of nature and of grace
Are put beneath thy power;
Then shorten these delaying days,
And bring the promised hour.
Hie Deity and Humanity of Christ.
1 T?RE the blue heavens were stretch'd
J-^ abroad,
From everlasting was the Word :
"With God he was; the Word was God,
And must divinely be adored.
2 By his own power were all things made :
By him supported all things stand ;
He is the whole creation's head,
And angels fly at his command.
3 Ere sin was born, or Satan fell,
He led the host of morning stars :
Thy generation who can tell,
Or count the number of thy yei
4 But lo! he leaves those heavenly forms.
The "Word descends and dwells in clay,
That he may hold converse with worms.
Dress'd in such feeble flesh as they.
f> Mortals with joy beheld his face,
The eternal Father's only Son ;
How full of truth! how full of gn
When through his eyes the Godhead shone
6 Archangels leave their high abode
To learn new mysteries here, and tell
The loves of OUT descending God.
The glories of Immanucl.
book i. HYMN III.
273
The Nativity of Christ.
$?pmn.
1 T)E HOLD, the grace appears!
-D The promise is fulfill'd!
3.
Mary, the wondrous virgin, bears,
S. M.
And Jesus is the child.
2 [The Lord, the highest God,
Luke i.
Calls him his only Son;
30, &c;
He bids him rule the land abroad,
ii. 10, &c
And gives him David's throne.
3 O'er Jacob shall he reign
With a peculiar sway ;
The nations shall his grace obtain,
His kingdom ne'er decay.]
4 To bring the glorious news,
A heavenly form appears ;
He tells the shepherds of their joys,
And banishes their fears.
5 " Go, humble swains," said he,
" To David's city fly;
The promised infant born to-day
Doth in a manger lie.
6 With looks and hearts serene,
Go visit Christ your King !"
And straight a flaming troop was seen :
The shepherds heard them sing,
7 " Glory to God on high !
And heavenly peace on earth !
Goodwill to men, to angels joy,
At the Redeemer's birth !"
8 [In worship so divine,
Let saints employ their tongues ;
With the celestial hosts we join,
And loud repeat their songs :
9 " Glory to God on high !
And heavenly peace on earth .
Goodwill to men, to angels joy,
At our Redeemer's birth !"]
274
HYMN IV.
BOOK L
Ibrmn.
c. m.
Luke ii.
M^Jfca,
Pari I.
P?rmn.
4.
Tit; I rUt.
1 "QJHBPHERDS, rejoice, lift up your
^ And send your fears away: [eyes
News fnun the regions of the ik
Salvation's lK»rn to-day!
2 " Jesus, the God whom ;
Comet down to dwell with you:.
To-day he makes his entrance here,
liut not as monarehs <\<>.
gold nor purple swaddling bai
Nor royal shining things;
A manger for hi> cradle stands.
And holds the King of kings.
ere the inJanl
And see his humble throne;
With tears of joy in all yoor
Go, shepherds, k Lai
5 Thus Gabriel tight around
The heavenly armies throng;
They tune their harps to lofty sound,
And thus conclude their -
f] " Glory to God that n
Let peace surround the earth !
Mortals shall know their Maker's lore
At their Redeemer's birth."'
7 Lord! and shall angels have their -
And men no ton -
0 may we lose our >.••
When they forget to prs
S Glory to God that rc>'_rn- above,
That pitied us forlorn!
r*s love,
For tl • : bora.
1 AinU I doubts be heard no
^C mora,
L •• ' ... and joy be all our theme:
_l
HYMN V.
His Spirit seals his gospel sure
To every soul that trusts in him.
2 Jesus, thy witness speaks within ;
The mercy which thy words reveal
Refines the heart from sense and sin,
And stamps its own celestial seal.
3 'Tis God's inimitable hand
That moulds and forms the heart anew;
Blasphemers can no more withstand,
But bow, and own thy doctrine true.
4 The guilty wretch that trusts thy blood,
Finds peace and pardon at the cross ;
The sinful soul, averse to God,
Believes and loves his Maker's laws.
5 Learning and wit may cease their strife,
"When miracles with glory shine;
The voice that calls the dead to life
Must be almighty and divine.
Submission to afflictive Providences.
1 "VTAKED as from the earth we came,
i-^l And crept to life at first,
We to the earth return again,
And mingle with our dust.
2 The dear delights we here enjoy,
And fondly call our own,
Are but short favours borrow 'd now,
To be repaid anon.
3 'Tis God that lifts our comforts high,
Or sinks them in the grave ;
He gives, and, blessed be his name !
He takes but what he gave.
4 Peace, all our angry passions, then ;
Let each rebellious sigh
Be silent at his sov'reign will,
And every murmur die.
5 If smiling mercy crown our lives,
Its praises shall be spread ;
276
HYMN VII.
6.
C. M.
Job xix.
25—27.
And we'll adore the justice too
That strikes our comforts dead.
Triumph ovtr Death.
1 r* RE AT God, I own thy sentence just
vX And nature must d<
I yield my body to the dust,
To dwell with fellow clay.
2 Yet faith may triumph o'er the grave,
And trample on the tombs;
My Jesus, my Redeemer, lives;
My God, my Saviour comes.
3 The mighty conqueror shall appear
High on a royal seat,
And death, the last of all his foes,
Lie vanquish'd at his feet.
4 Though greedy worms devour my skin,
And gnaw my wasting flesh,
When God shall build my bones again,
He clothes them all afresh.
5 Then shall I see thy lovely face
With strong immortal eyes;
And feast upon thy unknown grace
With pleasure and surprise.
The Invitation of the Gospel.
1 T ET every mortal ear attend,
-Li And every heart rejoice;
The trumpet of the gospel sounds
With an inviting voice.
2 11"! all ye hungry, starving souls
That feed upon the wind.
And vainly strive with earthly toys
To fill an empty mind ;
3 Eternal Wisdom has prepared
A soul-reviving ,'•
And bids your longing appetites
The rich yr>
7.
C. If.
ba. lv. I,
2, &LC.
HYMN VIII.
277
4 Ho! ye that pant for living streams,
And pine away and die,
Here you may quench your raging thirst,
With springs that never dry.
5 Rivers of love and mercy here
In a rich ocean join ;
Salvation in abundance flows,
Like floods of milk and wine.
6 [ Ye perishing and naked poor,
Who work with mighty pain
To weave a garment of your own
That will not hide your sin:
7 Come naked, and adorn your souls
In robes prepared by God,
Wrought by the labours of his Son,
And dyed in his own blood.]
8 Dear God ! the treasures of thy love
Are everlasting mines,
Deep as our helpless miseries are,
And boundless as our sins.
9 The happy gates of gospel grace
Stand open night and day;
Lord, we are come to seek supplies,
And drive our wants away.
The Safety and Protection of the Church.
1 TTOW honourable is the place
J--L Where we adoring stand ;
Zion, the glory of the earth,
And beauty of the land !
2 Bulwarks of mighty grace defend
The city where we dwell ;
The walls, of strong salvation made,
Defy th' assaults of hell.
3 Lift up the everlasting gates,
The doors wide open fling ;
Enter, ye nations that obey
The statutes of our King.
278
HYMN IX.
BOOK I
fcpmn.
8.
fcpmn.
CM.
sa. lv. 1,
2; Zeofa.
xiii. 1 ;
Mic. vii.
,9;Ezek.
xxxvi.
25, &c.
4 Here shall you taste unmingled joys,
And live in | i
You that have known Jehovah's name.
And ventured on his grace.
5 Trust in the Lord, lor ever trust,
And banish all your fears;
Strength in the Lord Jehovah dwells,
Eternal as his years.
6 [What though the rebels dwell on high,
His arm shall bring them low;
Low as the caverns of the grave
Their lofty heads shall bow.]
7 [On Babylon our feet shall tread
In that rejoicing hour;
The ruins of her walls shall spread
A pavement for the poor.]
The Promises and the Covenant of Grace,
1 TN vain we lavish out our lives
-L To gather empty wind ;
The choicest blessings earth can yield
Will starve a hungry mind.
2 Come, and the Lord shall feed our souls
With more substantial meat,
With such as saints in glory love,
With such as angel*
3 Our God will every want supply,
And fill our hearts with i <
lie gives by covenant and by oath
The riches of his grace.
4 Come, and he'll cleanse our spotted souls,
And wash away our stains
In the dear fountain that his Son
I'our'd from his dying veins.
5 [Our guilt shall vanish all away,
Though black as hell before;
Our sins shall sink beneath the sea,
And shall be i< • nn< 1 no more.
HYMN X.
279
6 And, lest pollution should o'erspread
Our inward powers again,
His Spirit shall bedew our souls,
Like purifying rain.]
7 Our heart, that flinty stubborn thing,
That terrors cannot move,
That fears no threat nings of his wrath,
Shall be dissolved by love.
8 Or he can take the flint away
That would not be refined ;
And from the treasures of his grace
Bestow a softer mind.
9 There shall his sacred Spirit dwell,
And deep engrave his law,
And every motion of our souls
To swift obedience draw.
10 Thus will he pour salvation down,
And we shall render praise;
We the dear people of his love,
And he our God of grace.
The Blessedness of Gospel Times.
HOW beauteous are their feet
Who stand on Zion's hill!
Who bring salvation on their tongues,
And words of peace reveal!
How charming is their voice !
How sweet the tidings are !
" Zion, behold thy Saviour King ;
He reigns and triumphs here."
! How happy are our ears
That hear this joyful sound,
Which kings and prophets waited for,
And sought but never found!
How blessed are our eyes
That see this heavenly light !
280
HYMN XI.
fcjjmn.
10.
11.
L. M.
Luke x.
21,22.
Prophets ami kings desired it long
But (lied without the sight.
5 The watchmen join their voice,
And tuneful notes employ:
Jerusalem breaks forth in songs,
And deserts learn the joy.
6 The Lord makes bare his arm
Through all the earth abroad;
Let every nation now behold
Their Saviour and their God.
The Humble enli'jli fined, and Carnal Reason
kmmbted.
1 rpHERE was an hour when Christ re
J- joiced,
And spoke his joy in words of pi
" Father, I thank thee, mighty ( I
Lord of the earth, and heavens, and seas.
2 I thank thy sovereign power and love
That crowns my doctrine with success,
And makes the babes iu knowledge learn
The heights, and breadths, and Id
3 But all this glory lies conceal'd [grace.
From men of prudence and of wit:
The prince of darkness blinds their
And their own pride resists the light
4 Father, 'tis thus because thy will
Chose and ordain'd it should b<
'Tis thy delight t' abate the proud,
And lay the haughty SCOrner low.
5 There's none can know the Father right,
But those who learn it from the Son;
Nor can the Son be well received.
But where the Father makes him known."
6 Then let. our tools adore our God,
Who deals bis graces as he please;
mortals an aeoounl
Or of his actions or di
book i. HYMN XIII.
281
Free Grace in revealing Christ.
l^rmn.
1 TESUS, the man of constant grief,
*s A mourner all his days,
u
His spirit once rejoiced aloud,
C. M.
And turn'd his joy to praise :
2 " Father. I thank thy wondrous love
Luke x.
That hath reveal *d" thy Son
21.
To men unlearned, and to babes
Has made thy gospel known.
3 " The mysteries of redeeming grace
Are hidden from the wise,
While pride and carnal reasonings join
To swell and blind their eyes."
4 Thus doth the Lord of heaven and earth
His great decrees fulfil,
And orders all his works of grace
By his own sovereign will.
The Son of God incarnate.
=^rmn
1 rPHE lands that long in darkness lay,
J- Now have beheld a heavenly light :
13.
Nations that sat in death's cold shade
L. M.
Are bless'd with beams divinely bright.
2 The Virgin's promised Sou is born,
Isa. ix. 2,
Behold the expected Child appear!
6,7.
What shall his names or titles be?
* The Wonderful, the Counsellor."
3 [This infant is the mighty God,
Come to be suckled and adored ;
Th' eternal Father, Prince of Peace,
The Son of David, and his Lord !]
4 The government of earth and seas
Upon his shoulders shall be laid ;
His wide dominion shall increase,
And honours to his name be paid.
5 Jesus, the holy child, shall sit
High on his father David's throne ;
282
HYMX XV.
Shall crush his foes hanaath his feet,
And reign to ages yet unknown.
Ttte Triumph of Faith.
1 W^H^ *hall the Turd's elect condemn?
** 'Tis God that justifies their souls;
And mercy, like a mighty stream,
O'er all their sins divinely rolls.
2 AY ho shall adjudge the saints to hell?
'Tis Christ that auffer'd in their -
And, the salvation to fulfil,
Behold him rising from the dead!
3 He lives! he lives! and sits above,
For ever interceding there ;
Who shall divide us from his love?
Or what should tempt us to despair?
4 Shall persecution, or distress,
Famine, or sword, or nakedness?
He that hath loved us bears us through,
And makes us more than conquerors too.
5 Faith hath an overcoming power ;
It triumphs in the dying hour:
Christ is our life, our joy, our hope,
Nor can we sink with such a prop.
6 Not all that men on earth can do,
Nor powers on high, nor powers below,
Shall cause I
Or wean our hearts from Christ our lore.
Our oicn Weakness, and Christ
1 T ET me hut hear my Saviour
-1^ " BtT ngth shall be equal to the day,"
Then I rejoice in »;•
Leaning OH all-sufficient gl
2 I gl<»ry in infirmity,
That Christ'! own power may rest on me;
When 1 am weak, then am I st;
I n iv shield, and Christ my eong.
book i. HYMN XVII.
283
3 1 can do all things or can bear
l^pmn.
All sufferings, if my Lord be there ;
15.
Sweet pleasures mingle with the pains,
While his left hand my head sustains.
4 But if the Lord be once withdrawn,
And we attempt the work alone,
When new temptations spring and rise,
We find how great our weakness is.
5 [So Samson, when his hair was lost,
Met the Philistines to his cost,
Shook his vain limbs with sad surprise,
Made feeble fight, and lost his eyes.]
Homnnah to Christ.
fyvmn*
1 TT OS ANN AH to the royal Son
-I- J- Of David's ancient line !
16.
His natures two, his person one,
C. If.
Mysterious and divine.
2 The root of David here, we find,
Mat. xxi
And offspring is the same ;
9; Luke
Eternity and time are join'd
xix. 38,
In our Immanuel's name.
40.
3 Bless'd he that comes to wretched men
With peaceful news from heaven .'
Hosannas of the highest strain
To Christ the Lord be given !
4 Let mortals ne'er refuse to take
Th' hosannah on their tongues,
Lest rocks and stones should rise, and break
Their silence into songs.
Victory over Death.
^Jttttt.
1 f\ FOR an overcoming faith,
^^ To cheer my dying hours,
17.
To triumph o'er the monster Death,
CM.
And all his frightful powers !
1 Cor. xv
2 Joyful with all the strength I have
My quivering lips should sing,
55, &c.
284
HYMN XIX.
17.
Ibpmn.
18.
CM.
Where is thy boasted vj< r ;
And where the monster's -
3 If sin be pardon 'd, J in secure,
Death bee do iting beside;
The law gives sin it> damning power;
But Christ, my ransom, died.
4 Now to the Uod of victory
Immortal thanks be paid,
Who makes us conquerors while we die,
Through Christ our tiring head.
Blessed are the Dead that die M tki
1 TTEAR what the voice from heaven pro-
L For all the pious dead ; [claims.
Sweet is the savour of their names,
And soft their sleeping bed.
Rev. xiv. 2 They die in jesus? an(i arfi yeag»^| ,
How kind their dumber! are:
From sufferings and from NM
And freed from every mare.
3 Far from this world of toil and strife,
They're present with the Lord;
The labours of their mortal life
End in a large reward.
3?rmn.
19.
C. M.
Luke ii.
27, &c.
Th> 8omg of >
1 T ORD, at thy temple we appear,
-Li As happy Simeon name,
And hope to meet our Saviour here;
0 make our joys the same!
2 With what divine and vast delight
The good old man was lill'd,
When fondly in his wither'd ami
He elasp'd the holy child!
3 " N<»w I <an leave this world." !.
" Behold thy servant dies;
I \c seen thy great salTation, Lord,
And close my peaeefnJ «
HYMN XX.
285
4 This is the light prepared to shine
Upon the Gentile lands ;
Thine Israel's glory, and their hope
To break their slavish bands."
5 [Jesus ! the vision of thy face
Hath overpowering charms ;
Scarce shall I feel death's cold embrace,
If Christ be in my arms.
6 Then while ye hear my heart-strings
How sweet my minutes roll ! [break,
A mortal paleness on my cheek,
And glory in my soul.]
Spiritual Apparel.
1 A WAKE, my heart ! arise, my tongue !
-£*- Prepare a tuneful voice ;
In God, the life of all my joys,
Aloud will I rejoice.
2 'Tis he adorn'd my naked soul,
And made salvation mine :
Upon a poor polluted worm
He makes his graces shine.
3 And lest the shadow of a spot
Should on my soul be found,
He took the robe the Saviour wrought,
And cast it all around.
4 How far the heavenly robe exceeds
What earthly princes wear !
These ornaments, how bright they shine,
How white the garments are!
5 The Spirit wrought my faith and love,
And hope, and every grace ;
But Jesus spent his life to work
The robe of righteousness.
6 Strangely, my Soul, art thou array'd
By the great Sacred Three !
In sweetest harmony of praise
Let all my powers agree.
19.
20.
CM.
Isa. lxi
10.
IIYMX XXII.
BOOK I
21.
C. Iff.
Rev. xxi
1—4.
Jbvmn.
22.
L. M.
Part I.
Rom. i\.
■ l
1 T 0 ! what a glorious si^ht aj ; •
-Li To our believing
The earth and seas are paat'd away,
And the old rolling -
2 Fretn the third heaven, where God resides
That holy, haj.j.y place,
The new Jerusalem comes down,
Adorn'd with shining gra
3 Attending angels shout lor joy,
And the bright armies sing,
" Mortals, behold the sacred seat
Of vour descending King.
4 " The God of glory down to men
Removes his bless'd abode;
Men, the dear oljects of his grace,
And he the loving God.
!i u 1 1 is own soft hand shall wipe the tears
From every weeping
And pains and groans, and griefs and fears
And death itself, shall die."
f] How long, dear Saviour! O how long
Shall this bright hour delay!
Fly swifter round, ye wheels of time.
And bring the welcome day.
1 TEfi 8 S LTiOQf and our God,
ti Array'd in majesty and hi
Thou art our life; our ■onk in thee
Pot* U ■ full felicity.
2 All our immortal hopes are laid
In thee, our sureT\ and our head :
Thy cross, thy oradle, and thy throne,
- yet unknown.
S L. r scheme
Th* eternal life and Jeans' name;
HYMN XXIII.
287
A word of thy almighty breath
Dooms the rebellious world to death.
4 But let my soul for ever lie
Beneath the blessings of thine eye :
'Tis heaven on earth, 'tis heaven above,
To see thy face and taste thy love.
Flesh and Spirit.
1 TTTHAT vain desires and passions vain
»▼ Attend this mortal clay !
Oft have they pierced my soul with pain,
And drawn my heart astray.
2 How have I wander'd from my God !
And, following sin and shame,
In this vile world of flesh and blood
Defiled my nobler frame !
3 For ever blessed be thy grace,
That form'd my soul anew,
And made it of a heaven-born race,
Thy glory to pursue.
4 My spirit holds perpetual war,
And wrestles and complains ;
But views the happy moment near
That shall dissolve its chains.
5 Cheerful in death I close my eyes
To part with every lust ;
And charge my flesh whene'er it rise
To leave them in the dust.
6 My purer spirit shall not fear
To put this body on ;
Its tempting powers no more are there,
Its lusts and passions gone !
Absent from the body, and present with the Lord.
I A BSENT from flesh ! O blissful thought,
-£^What unknown joys this moment brings!
Freed from the mischiefs sin has brought,
From pains, and fears, and all their springs.
22.
22.
CM.
Part II.
Rom. viii
1.
23.
288
HYMN XXIII.
£?pmn.
23.
L. M.
Parti.
2Cor.v.8.
23.
L. M.
Part II.
Mark x.
II.
2 Absent from flesh ! illustrious dfl
Surprising scene ! triumphant stroke
That rends the prison of my clay,
And I can feel my fetters broke!
3 Absent from flesh ! then rise, my soul,
"Where feet nor wings could never climb,
Beyond the heavens, where planets roll,
Measuring the cares and joys of time.
4 I go where God and glory shine,
His presence makes eternal day :
My all that's mortal I resign,
For angels wait and point my way.
A hopeful Youth falling short of Heaven.
1 "VTUST all the charms of nature, then,
J3JL So hopeless to salvation prove?
Can hell demand, can heaven condemn
The man whom Jesus deigns to love?
2 The man who sought the ways of truth,
Paid friends and neighbours all their due ;
A modest, sober, lovely youth,
And thought he wanted nothing new.
3 But mark the change : thus spake the Lord-
" Come, part with earth for heaven to-day ;'
The youth, astonish'd at the word,
In silent sadness went his way.
4 Poor virtues that he boasted so,
This test unable to endure I
Let Christ, and grass, and glory go,
To make his land and mono]
5 Ah, foolish choice of treasures here!
Ah, fata! love of tempting gold !
Must this base world be bought so dear?
Are life and heaven SO cheaply sold?
6 In vain the charms of nature shine,
If this vile passion gOTern me:
Transform my soul, O love divine !
And make me part with all for I :
HYMN XXV.
289
The rich Sinner dying.
1 TN vain the wealthy mortals toil,
J- And heap their shining dust in vain,
Look down and scorn the humble poor,
And boast their lofty hills of gain.
2 Their golden cordials cannot ease
Their pained hearts or aching heads,
Nor fright nor bribe approaching death
From glittering roofs and downy beds.
3 The lingering, the unwilling soul
The dismal summons must obey,
And bid a long, a sad farewell
To the pale lump of lifeless clay.
4 Thence they are huddled to the grave,
Where kings and slaves have equal thrones ;
Their bones without distinction lie
Amongst the heap of meaner bones.
A Vision of the Lamb.
1 A LL mortal vanities, begone,
-£-*- Nor tempt my eyes, nor tire my ears
Behold, amidst th' eternal throne,
A vision of the Lamb appears.
2 [Glory his fleecy robe adorns,
Mark'd with the bloody death he bore ;
Seven are his eyes, and seven his horns,
To speak his wisdom and his power.
3 Lo! he receives a sealed book
From him that sits upon the throne ;
Jesus, my Lord, prevails to look
On dark decrees and things unknown.]
4 All the assembling saints around
Fall worshipping before the Lamb,
And in new songs of gospel sound
Address their honours to his name.
5 [The joy, the shout, the harmony,
Flies o'er the everlasting hills;
24.
L. M.
Psa. xlix
6,9; Eccl
viii. 8;
Job iii. 14
15.
25.
L. M.
Rev. v
6—9.
290
HYMN XXVI.
25.
26.
C. Iff.
Peter i.
3—5.
" Worthy art thou cry,
" To read the book, to loose the seals."
6 Our voices join the heavenly strain,
And with transporting pleasure sine. —
" Worthy the Lamb tiiat once was slain.
To be our Teacher and our King!"
7 His words of prophecy reveal
Eternal counsels, deep designs;
His grace and vengeance shall fulfil
The peaceful and the dreadful lines.
8 Thou hast redeem '<1 our souls from hell
"With thine invaluable blood;
And wretches that did once rebel
Are now made fav'rites of their God.
9 "Worthy for ever is the Lord
That died for treasons not his own,
l>y every tongue to be ftdon 'i.
And dwell upon his Father's throne !
Hope of Heaven by the Resurrection of Christ.
1 T) LESS D be the everlasting God,
-D The Father of our Lord,
Be his abounding mercy pi
His majesty adored:
2 When from the dead he raised his Son,
And call'd him to the sky.
He gave our souls a lively hope
That they should never die.
3 What though our inbred sins require
Our Mesh to sec the dust,
Yet as the Lord oar E
So ail his followers must.
4 There's an inheritance divine
Re* that day ;
'Tis unconuptcd, undented,
And cannot i
5 Saints by t; kept
Till the salvation come ;
HYMN XXVIII.
291
We walk by faith as strangers here,
Till Christ shall call us home.
Assurance of Heaven.
1 [""TV EATH may dissolve my body now,
L ±J And bear my spirit home ;
Why do my minutes move so slow,
Nor my salvation come ?
2 With heavenly weapons I have fought
The battles of the Lord ;
Finish'd my course, and kept the faith,
And wait the sure reward.]
3 God has laid up in heaven for me
A crown which cannot fade ;
The righteous Judge at that great day
Shall place it on my head.
4 Nor hath the King of grace decreed
This prize for me alone ;
But all that love and long to see
Th' appearance of his Son.
(> Jesus the Lord shall guard me safe
From every ill design ;
And to his heavenly kingdom keep
This feeble soul of mine.
6 God is my everlasting aid,
And hell shall rage in vain ;
To him be highest glory paid,
And endless praise — Amen.
The Triumph of Christ over the Enemies of his
Church.
1 TITHAT mighty man, or mighty God,
» » Comes travelling in state,
Along the Idumean road,
Away from Bozrah's gate?
2 The glory of his robes proclaims
'Tis some victorious king :
292
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HYMN XXIX.
28.
29.
CM.
Isa. km.
-J— 7
" 'Tis I, the Just, the Almighty One,
That your salvation bring."
" Why, mighty Lord," thy saints inquire,
" Why, thine apparel's red?
And all thy vesture stain'd like those
Who in the wine-press tit
" I, by myself, have trod the press,
And crush'd my foes alone;
My wrath has struck the rebels dead,
My fury stamp'd them down.
" 'Tis Edom'l blood that dyes my robes
With joyful scarlet -
The triumph that my raiment wears
Sprung from their bleeding veins.
14 Thus shall the nations be destroy d
That dare insult my saints;
I have an arm t' avenge their wrongs,
An ear for their complaints."
The Ruin of Antichrist.
1 " T LIFT my banner," saith the Lord,
JL " Where Antichrist has stood;
The city of my gospel foes
Shall be a field of blood.
2 " My heart has studied just revenge,
And now the day appears;
The day of my redeem'd is come
To wipe away their tears.
3 " Quite weary is my patience grown,
And bids my fury j
Swift as the lightning it shall move,
And b« as fatal too.
4 " I .all for helpers, but in vain ;
Then has my gospel none?
W.'ll, mine own arm has nighi enough
To crush my foes alone.
5 " Slaughter and my devouring sword
Shall walk the streets around,
HYMN XXXI.
293
Babel shall reel beneath my stroke,
And stagger to the ground."
6 Thy honours, O victorious King !
Thine own right hand shall raise,
While we thy awful vengeance sing,
And our Deliverer praise.
Prayer for Deliverance answered.
1 TN thine own ways, O God of love,
J- "We wait the visits of thy grace ;
Our soul's desire is to thy name,
And the remembrance of thy face.
2 My thoughts are searching, Lord, for thee,
'Mongst the black shades of lonesome night ;
My earnest cries salute the skies
Before the dawn restore the light.
3 Look, how rebellious men deride
The tender patience of my God !
But they shall see thy lifted hand
And feel the scourges of thy rod.
4 Hark ! the Eternal rends the sky,
A mighty voice before him goes ;
A voice of music to his friends,
But threatening thunder to his foes.
5 Come, children to your Father's arms,
Hide in the chambers of my grace,
Till the fierce storms be overblown,
And my revenging fury cease.
6 My sword shall boast its thousands slain,
And drink the blood of haughty kings ;
While heavenly peace around my flock
Stretches its soft and shady wings.
Condescending Grace.
1 TITHEN the Eternal bows the skies
* * To visit earthly things,
With scorn divine he turns his eyes
From towers of haughty kings.
30.
L. M.
Isa. xxvi
8—20.
31.
294
HYMN XXXI.
31.
CM.
Parti.
Psalm
cxxxviii.
6.
$Stmt.
31.
CM.
Part II.
Col. iii. 3.
2 He bids his awful chariot roll
Far down ward from the skies,
To visit every humble soul
With pleasure in hit
3 Why should the Lord that reigns above
Disdain so lofty k
Say, Lr»nl, and why such looks of love
Opon such worthless things?
4 Mortals, be dumb! what creature dares
Dispute his awful will?
Ask no account of his affairs,
But tremble and 1* still.
5 Just like his nature is nil _
All sovereign and all free ;
Great God, how searchless are thy wavs
How deep thy judgments be!
The Christian's hidden life.
1 f\ HAPPY soul that lives on high,
y~J While men lie grovelling here !
His hopes are fix'd above the sky,
And faith forbids hi> tear.
2 His conscience knows no secret stings,
While peace and joy combine
To form a life whose holy springs
Are hidden and divine.
3 He waits in secret on his God,
Oil God i; i
Let earth be all in anna abroad,
I!.' dwells in heavenly peace.
4 His pleasures rise from things unseen,
nd this world and time:
Where neither ejOi nor ears have been,
Nor thoughts of sinners climb.
6 He want! no pomp nor royal tl
To rai>»> his figure here;
Content and plea>ed to live unk:
Till Christ, h-
HYMN XXXIII.
295
6 He looks to heaven's eternal hill
To meet that glorious day ;
But patient waits his Saviour's will
To fetch his soul away.
Strength from Heaven.
1 TTTHENCE do our mournful thoughts
TT arise?
And where's our courage fled?
Have restless sin and raging hell
Struck all our comforts dead?
2 Have we forgot th' Almighty name
That form'd the earth and sea?
And can an all-creating arm
Grow weary or decay ?
3 Treasures of everlasting might
In our Jehovah dwell ;
He gives the conquest to the weak,
And treads their foes to hell.
4 Mere mortal power shall fade and die,
And youthful vigour cease ;
But we that wait upon the Lord
Shall feel our strength increase.
5 The saints shall mount on eagles' wings,
And taste the promis'd bliss,
Till their unwearied feet arrive
Where perfect pleasure is.
Absurdity of Infidelity.
1 Q< HALL atheists dare insult the cross
^ Of our Redeemer God?
Shall infidels reproach his laws,
Or trample on his blood?
2 What if he choose mysterious ways
To cleanse us from our faults?
May not the works of sovereign grace
Transcend our feeble thoughts?
296
HYMN XXXIV.
33.
34.
L. M.
Parti.
Rom. i.
16.
3 What if his gospel bids u-
With flesh, and self, an<l -
The prize is most divinely bright
That we are call'd to win.
4 What if the foolish and the poor
His glorious grace partake,
This but confirms his truth the more,
For so the prophets spake.
5 Do some that own his sacred name
Indulge their souls in »in?
Jesus should never bear the blame,
His laws are pure and clean.
tf Then let our faith grow firm and strong,
Our lips profess his word;
Nor blush nor fear to walk among
The men that love the Lord.
Tltc Gospel the Power of God to Salvation.
1 TTTHAT shall the dying sinner do,
» » That seeks relief for all hi-
Where shall the guilty conscience find
Ease for the torment of the mind?
2 How shall we get our crimes forgiven?
Or form our natures fit for heaven?
filed with sin
Make their own pov ■ us clean?
3 In vain we search, in vain we try,
Till Jesus brit nigh ;
'Tis there such power and glory dwell
As save rebellion! wall from hell.
4 This is the pillar of our hope
That bear* our fainting spirits up;
We read the grace, we tru^t the word,
And find Miration in the Lord.
5 Let men or angels dig the mines,
| Where nature's golden treasure shines;
BOOK I.
HYMN XXXV.
297
Brought near the doctrine of the cross,
All nature's gold appears but dross.
6 Should vile blasphemers with disdain
Pronounce the truths of Jesus vain,
I'll meet the scandal and the shame,
And sing and triumph in his name.
None excluded from Hope*
1 TESUS, thy blessings are not few,
*J Nor is thy gospel weak ;
Thy grace can melt the stubborn Jew,
And bow th' aspiring Greek.
2 Wide as the reach of Satan's rage
Doth thy salvation flow ;
'Tis not confined to sex or age,
The lofty or the low.
3 While grace is offer'd to the prince,
The poor may take their share ;
No mortal has a just pretence
To perish in despair.
4 Be wise, ye men of strength and wit,
Nor boast your native powers ;
But to his sovereign grace submit,
And glory shall be yours.
5 Come, all ye vilest sinners, come,
He'll form your souls anew;
His gospel and his heart have room
For rebels such as you.
6 His doctrine is almighty love;
There's virtue in his name
To turn the raven to a dove,
The lion to a lamb.
Faith the Way to Salvation.
1 ~YT OT by the laws of innocence
-^ Can Adam's sons arrive at heaven;
New works can give us no pretence
To have our ancient sins forgiven.
298
IIYMX XXXVI.
BOOK L
35.
L. H
Parti.
Rom. i.
16;Eph.
ii. 8, 9.
35.
C. M.
Tart II.
Phil.iv.8.
36.
be best deeds that we have done
Can make a wounded conscience whole;
Faith is the grace, and faith al<
That flies to Christ and saves the .vml.
3 Lord, I believe thy heavenly word,
Fain would I have my §ou] renew 'd ;
I mourn for sin. and trust the Lord
To have it pardon d and subdued.
4 O may thy grace its power display.
Let guilt and death do longer reign ;
Save me in thine appointed way,
Nor let my humble faith be vain.
Truth, Sincerity, <i-c.
1 T ET those who bear the Christian name
-Li Their holy vows fulfil ;
The saints, the followers of the Lamb,
Are men of honour still.
2 True to the solemn oaths they take,
Though to their hurt they swear;
Constant and just to all th» y q
For God and angels hear.
3 Still with their lips their hearts agree,
Nor nattering words derise;
They know the God of truth can see
Through every fall
4 They hate th' appearance of a lie
In all the shapes 't I
They live in truth, and when they die.
1 Sterna] lift is theirs.
5 While hypocrites and liars fly
Before the Judge's frown,
His faithful friends, who fear a lie.
Beoeire th' immortal crown.
A luvcly carriage.
1 r\ 'TIS a lovely thing to see
V/ A man of prudent heart,
HYMN XXXYII
Whose thoughts, and lips, and life, agree
To act a useful part.
2 When envy, strife, and wars begin
In little angry souls,
Mark how the sons of peace come in,
And quench the kindling coals.
3 Their minds are humble, mild, and meek,
Nor let their fury rise ;
Nor passion moves their lips to speak,
Nor pride exalts their eyes.
4 Their frame is prudence mix'd with love,
G-ood works fulfil their day ;
They join the serpent with the dove,
But cast the sting away.
5 Such was the Saviour of mankind,
Such pleasures he pursued ;
His flesh and blood were all refined,
His soul divinely good.
6 Lord, can these plants of virtue grow
In such a heart as mine ?
Thy grace my nature can renew,
And make my soul like thine.
Christ's Humiliation, Exaltation, and Triumph.
1 fTIHE mighty frame of glorious grace,
-L That brightest monument of praise
That e'er the God of love design'd,
Employs and fills my labouring mind.
2 Begin, my soul, the heavenly song,
A burden for an angel's tongue ;
When Gabriel sounds these awful things,
He tunes and summons all his strings.
3 Proclaim inimitable love :
Jesus, the Lord of worlds above,
Puts off the beams of bright array,
And veils the God in mortal clay ?
4 What black reproach defiled his name,
When with our sins he took our shame !
300
HYMN XXXVII.
37.
■J?pmn.
37.
CM,
Part II,
Matt, v,
16,
He whom adoring angela bless'd
Is made the impious rebel's jest.
5 He that distributes crowns and thrones
Hang! on a tree, and bleeds, and groans;
The Prince of life resigns his breath,
The King of glory bows to death!
6 But see the wonders of his power!
He triumphs in his dying hour;
And while by Satan's rage he fell,
He dash'd the rising hopes of* hell.
7 Thus were the hosts of death subdued,
And sin was drown'd in Jesus' blood;
Thus he arose, and reigns above,
And conquers sinners by his love.
8 Who shall fulfil this boundless song?
The theme surmounts an angel's tongue:
How low, how vain are mortal airs,
WhflB Gabriel's nobler harp despairs'
Zeal and Fortitude.
1 "PVO I believe what Jesus saith,
J-J And think his gospel true?
Lord, make me bold to own my faith,
And practise virtue too.
2 Suppress my shame, subdue my fear.
Arm me with heavenly zeal,
That I may make thy power appear,
And works of praise fulfil.
3 If men shall see my virtue shine.
And spread my name abroad.
Thine is the power, the praise is thine,
|fy Saviour and my God!
4 Thus when the saints in glory meet,
Their lips proclaim thy grace ;
They cast their honours at thy |
And Own their borrowed rays.-f J'auM. )
5 Are we the soldiers of tin .
The followers of the Lamb?
HYMN XXXVIII.
301
And shall we fear to own his cause,
Or blush to speak his name?
6 Now must we fight if we would reign ;
Increase our courage, Lord !
We'll bear the toil, endure the pain,
Supported by thy word.
7 Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they're slain ;
They see the triumph from afar,
And shall with Jesus reign.
8 When that illustrious day shall rise,
And all thy armies shine
In robes of vict'ry through the skies,
The glory shall be thine.
The A tenement of Christ.
1 TT 0 W is our nature spoil'd by sin !
AJ- Yet nature ne'er hath found
The way to make the conscience clean,
Or heal the painful wound.
2 In vain we seek for peace with God
By methods of our own !
Jesus, there's nothing but thy blood
Can bring us near the throne.
3 The threat'nings of thy broken law
Impress our souls with dread ;
If God his sword of vengeance draw,
It strikes our spirits dead.
4 But thine illustrious sacrifice
Hath answer'd these demands ;
And peace and pardon from the skies
Came down by Jesus' hands.
5 Here all the ancient types agree,
The altar and the lamb ;
And prophets in their visions see
Salvation through his name.
6 'Tis by thy death we live, O Lord,
'Tis on thy cross we rest;
HYMN XXXIX. bookl
For ever be thy lore adored,
Thy name for ever bless'd
Jbvmn.
Thr ui
38.
1 T>LES8£D Redeemer, how divine,
-U How righteona is this rule of thine—
L. M.
- T<> do to nil men just the same
Part II.
As we expert or wish from them."
2 This golden lesson, short and plain,
Matt. viii.
- not the mind nor memory pain :
12.
And ovary eonseienee matt approve
This universal law ot love.
3 1 [ow blem'd would every nation be,
Tims ruled by lore and equity !
All would be friends without a foe,
And form a paradise below.
4 Jesus, forgive us that we k«*ep
Thy sacred law of love asleep;
No more let envy, wrath, and pride.
But thy bless'd maxims, be our guide.
fbsmn.
otm a/ Am Church.
39.
1 "1VTOW shall my inward joys arise,
-1^1 And borst Into a song :
CM.
Almighty love inspires my heart,
And pleasure tunes my toi
Isa. xlix.
2 Go<l on bis thirsty Zion hill
13, fce.
Borne mercy drops baa thrown.
And solemn oaths have bound It -
wer salvation down.
3 Why do we then indulge our fears,
Suspicions, and complaints 1
Is he a God, and shall hi- _
weary of hi< -
4 Can a kin«l woman e'er t
Thfl infant of bar womb'
And mongsl a thousand tender t!
■ mekhng have n<> ro<
COOK I.
HYMN XL.
303
5 "Yet," saith the Lord, "should nature
And mothers monsters prove, [change,
Zion still dwells upon the heart
Of everlasting love.
6 Deep on the palms of both my hands,
I have engraved her name ;
My hands shall raise her ruin'd walls,
And build her broken frame. "
The Business and Blessedness of glorified Saints.
1 " TTTHAT happy men, or angels, these,
* » That all their robes are spotless
white?
Whence did this glorious troop arrive
At the pure realms of heavenly light?"
2 From torturing racks, and burning fires,
And seas of their own blood they came ;
Bat nobler blood has wash'd their robes,
Flowing from Christ the dying Lamb.
3 Now they approach th' Almighty throne
With loud hosannahs, night and day ;
Sweet anthems to the great Three- One
Measure their bless 'd eternity.
4 No more shall hunger pain their souls,
He bids their parching thirst begone,
And spreads the shadow of his wings
To screen them from the scorching sun.
5 The Lamb that fills the middle throne
Shall shed around his milder beams :
There shall they feast on his rich love,
And drink full joys from living streams.
6 Thus shall their mighty bliss renew
Through the vast round of endless years,
And the soft hand of sovereign grace
Heal all their wounds, and wipe their tears,
39.
40.
L. M.
Rev. vii
13, &c.
301
HYMN XLIL boor!.
$pmn.
The Business and Blessedness of fjlorified Saints.
41.
1 rTUIESE glorious minds, how bright they
■*- shine !
C. Iff.
" Whence all their white array?
How came they to the happy seats
Rev. vii.
Of everlasting day?"
13, &c.
2 From torturing pains to endless joys
On fiery wheels they rode,
And strangely wabh'd their raiment white
In Jesus' dying blood.'
3 Now they approach a spotless God,
And bow before his throne ;
Their warbling harps and sacred songs
Adore the Holy One.
4 The unveil'd glories of his face
Amongst his saints reside,
While the rich treasure of his grace
Sees all their wants supplied.
5 Tormenting thirst shall leave their souls,
And hunger flee as fast ;
The fruit of life's immortal tree
Shall be their sweet repast
6 The Lamb shall lead his heavenly flock
Where living fountains i
And love divine shall wipe away
The sorrows of then 1
fcjmm.
Divine Wratk and ."
42.
1 A DORE and tremble, for our Uod
-£a- Is a consuming fire !
c. iff,
Hi- j. ilooi eyei bia wrath inflame,
And raise his rtagMDoe higher.
Nah. i.
2 Almighty vengeance, bow it burns:
1-3;
1 b.w bright his fury g
Heb. xii.
Va-t mnpuhm oi plagnee Mid storms
29.
Lie treasur'd for his foes.
HYMN XLII1.
305
3 Those heaps of wrath, by slow degrees,
Are forced into a flame ;
But kindled, oh ! how fierce they blaze,
And rend all nature's frame.
4 At his approach the mountains flee,
And seek a watery grave ;
The frighted sea makes haste away,
And shrinks up every wave ;
5 Through the wide air the weighty rocks
Are swift as hailstones hurl'd ;
Who dares engage his fiery rage
That shakes the solid world ?
6 Yet, mighty God, thy sovereign grace
Sits regent on the throne ;
The refuge of thy chosen race
When wrath comes rushing ,down.
7 Thy hand shall on rebellious kings
A fiery tempest pour,
While we beneath thy sheltering wings,
Thy just revenge adore.
Jesus our Surety and Saviour.
1 A DAM, our father and our head,
^Ll_ Transgress'd, and justice doom'd us
The fiery law speaks all despair ; [dead ;
There's no reprieve nor pardon there.
2 But 0 ! unutterable grace !
The Son of God takes Adam's place ;
Down to our world the Saviour flies,
Stretches his arms, and bleeds, and dies.
3 Justice was pleased to bruise the God,
And pay its wrongs with heavenly blood ;
What unknown racks and pangs he bore!
Then rose ; the law could ask no more.
4 Amazing work ! look down, ye skies,
Wonder and gaze with all your eyes ;
Ye heavenly thrones, stoop from above,
And bow to this mysterious love.
306
HYMN XLIV.
43.
43.
L. M.
Part II.
1 Cor. iii.
21.
fcjmn.
44.
5 Lo! they adore th' incarnate Son,
And >iii'_r the gloriea he liath w<
Sing how he broke our iron chains.
How deep he Mink, how high he ;.
6 Triumph and reign, victorious Lord,
By all the flaming hostfl adored :
And say, dear Conqueror, say how long
Ere we shall rise to join their song.
7 Send down a chariot from above,
With fiery wheels, and pared with love;
Raise us beyond th' ethereal blue,
To sing and love as angels do.
The Christian's Treasure.
1 T T 0 W vast the treasure we possess!
J- A How rich thy bounty, King of grace !
This world is ours, and worlds to come ;
Earth is our lodge, and heaven our home.
2 All things are ours : the gifts of Qod;
The purchase of a Saviour's blood :
"While the good Spirit shows us how
To use, and to improve them too.
3 If peace and plenty crown my days,
They help me, Lord, to speak thy praise :
If bread of sorrows be my food,
Those sorrows work my lasting good.
4 I would not change my bless'd estate
For all the world < all- go
And while my faith can keep her hold,
I envy not the sinner-
5 Father, I wait thy daily will;
Thou shalt divide my portion still;
Grant me on earth what seein> thee best,
Till death and heaven reveal the
Ch<
1 TTE dies! the Friend of sinner-
JLL Lqj Salem'i daughter! ireeparoandl
BOOK I.
HYMN XLIV.
307
A solemn darkness veils the skies ;
A sudden trembling shakes the ground.
2 Come, saints, and drop a tear or two
For Him who groan 'd beneath your load :
He shed a thousand drops for you,
A thousand drops of richer blood.
3 Here's love and grief beyond degree,
The Lord of glory dies for men !
But lo ! what sudden joys we see ;
Jesus the dead revives again !
4 The rising God forsakes the tomb !
The tomb in vain forbids his rise ;
Cherubic legions guard him home,
And shout him welcome to the skies !
5 Break off your fears, ye saints, and tell
How high our great Deliv'rer reigns;
Sing how he spoil'd the hosts of hell,
And led the monster Death in chains.
6 Say " Live for ever, wondrous King !
Born to redeem and strong to save;"
Then ask the monster, " "Where's thy sting?'1
And, "Where's thy vict'ry, boasting grave?"
The true Improvement of Life.
1 A ND is this life prolong'd to me ?
-£jL Are days and seasons given ?
0 let me, then, prepare to be
A fitter heir of heaven.
2 In vain these moments shall not pass,
These golden hours be gone ;
Lord, I accept thine offer 'd grace,
I bow before thy throne.
3 Now cleanse my soul from every sin
By my Redeemer's blood;
Now let my flesh and soul begin
The honours of my God.
4 Let me no more my soul beguile
With sin's deceitful toys;
44.
L. M.
Part I.
Luke
xxiii, 27,
29,44-46;
Matt,
xxvii, 50,
57;xxviii.
6, &c.
$?£Ttttt.
44.
C. Iff.
Part II.
Ps.xc.12.
308
HYMN XLV.
£?X>mn.
45.
CM.
P<ev. xxi
5—8.
Let cheerful hope, increasing still,
Approach to heavenly joys.
5 My thankful lips shall loud proclaim
The wonders of thy j
And spread the savour of thy name
"Where'er I spend n.;
6 On earth let my example shine,
And when I leave this state,
May heaven receive this soul of mine
To bliss supremely great.
The La.il Jw
1 OEE where the great incarnate God
^ Fills a majestic throne;
While from the skies his awful voice
Bears the last judgment down.
2 [" I am the first, and I the last,
Through endless years the same ;
I AM is my memorial still,
And my eternal name.
" Such favours as a God can give
My royal grace be>;
Ye thirsty souls, come taste the streams
"Where life and pleasure flows.]
" The saint that triumphs o'er his sins,
I'll own him for a -
The whole creation shall n
The oonqaetti he hai
5 " But bloody hands, and hearts unclean,
And all the tying I
The • thng crew,
That spurn at ofler'd grace:
6 " They shall be taken from my sight,
Bound fast in iron c
Ami headlong plunged into the lake
Where fire and darkness reigns.""]
HYMN XLVI.
309
0 may I stand before the Lamb,
When earth and seas are fled,
And hear the Judge pronounce my name,
With blessings on my head :
May I with those for ever dwell
Who here were my delight !
While sinners, banish 'd down to hell,
No more ofl'end my sight.
God glorious, and Sinners saved.
FATHER, how wide thy glories shine !
How high thy wonders rise ;
Known through the earth by thousand
By thousands through the skies, [signs,
! Those mighty orbs proclaim thy power,
Their motions speak thy skill,
And on the wings of every hour
We read thy patience still.
I But when we view thy strange design
To save rebellious worms,
Our souls are fill'd with awe divine
To see what God performs.
t When sinners break the Father's laws,
The dying Son atones ;
0 the dear myst'ries of his cross,
The triumph of his groans !
5 Now the full glories of the Lamb
Adorn the heavenly plains ;
Sweet cherubs learn Immanuel's name,
And try then- choicest strains.
6 0 may I bear some humble part
In that immortal song !
Wonder and joy shall tune my heart,
And love command my tongue.
Privileges of the Living above the Dead.
1 A WAKE, my zeal, awake, my love,
-£-»- To serve my Saviour here below,
Ib.gmn.
45.
46.
C. M.
Parti.
Rom. i.
30, and v.
8,9;
1 Pet. iii.
22.
46.
310
HYMN XLVII.
46.
L. M.
Part II.
Isaiah
xxxviii.
18, 19.
47.
C. M,
Zech.i.5.
In works which perfect saints above
And holy angels cannot do.
2 Awake, my charity, to feed
The hungry soul, and clothe th-
in heaven are found no sons of need,
There all these duties are no more.
3 Subdue thy passions, O my soul !
Maintain the figfet, thy work pursue,
Daily thy rising sins control,
And be thy vict ries ever new.
4 The land of triumph lies on high.
There are no foes t' encounter there ;
Lord, I would conquer till I die,
And finish all the glorious war.
5 Let every flying hour confess
I gain thy gospel fresh renown;
And when my life and labours
May I possess the promised crown !
Death of Kindred MRJ
1 "Y/fUST friends and kindred droop and die,
JLyA And helpers be withdrawn,
"While sorrow, with a weeping eye,
Counts up our comforts gone?
2 Be thou our comfort, mighty God!
Our helper and our friend;
Nor leave us in this dangerous road,
Till all our trials end.
3 O may our feet pursue the way
Our pious fathers led !
"With love and holy zeal i
The counsels of the death
4 Let us be vrean'd from all below.
Let hope our grief expel,
"While death invites our souls to go
Where our l>est kindred dwell.
HYMN XLIX.
311
The Christian Race.
1 A WAKE, our souls ! away, our fears !
-HL Let every trembling thought begone
Awake, and run the heavenly race,
And put a cheerful courage on.
2 True, 'tis a strait and thorny road,
And mortal spirits tire and faint ;
But they forget the mighty God
That feeds the strength of every saint ; —
3 Thee, mighty God ! whose matchless power
Is ever new and ever young,
And firm endures, while endless years
Their everlasting circles run.
4 From thee the overflowing spring
Our souls shall drink a fresh supply,
While such as trust their native strength
Shall melt away, and droop and die.
5 Swift as an eagle cuts the air,
We'll mount aloft to thine abode ;
On wings of love our souls shall fly,
Nor tire amidst the heavenly road.
Works of Moses and the Lamb.
1 TTOW strong thine arm is, mighty God!
LI. Who would not fear thy name?
Jesus, how sweet thy graces are !
Who would not love the Lamb?
2 He has done more than Moses did,
Our Prophet and our King ;
From bonds of hell he freed our souls,
And taught our lips to sing.
3 In the Red Sea, by Moses' hand,
Th' Egyptian host was drown 'd ;
But his own blood hides all our sins,
And guilt no more is found.
4 When through the desert Israel went,
With manna they were fed ;
312
HYMN I,
BOOK I.
$j?mn.
49.
Ifcpmn.
50.
CM.
Lukei.68
fcc; John
29, 32.
Our Lord invites us to his &
And calls it living bread.
5 Moses beheld the promis'd land,
Yet never reach'd the place;
But Christ shall bring his followers home,
To see his Father's face.
6 Then shall our love and joy be full,
And feel a warmer flame ;
And sweeter voices tune the song
Of Moses and the Lamb.
The Song of Zacharia*.
1 "VTOW be the God of Israel bless'd,
-i-^l Who makes his truth appear;
His mighty hand fulfils his word,
And all the oaths he sware.
2 Now he bedews old David's root
With blessings from the skies;
He makes the Branch of Promise grow,
The promised horn arise.
3 [John was the prophet of the Lord,
To go before his-face;
The herald which our Saviour God
Sent to prepare his ways.
4 He makes the great salvation known,
He speaks of pardon'd sins;
While grace divine and heavenly love,
In its own glory shines.
5 " Behold the Lamb of God," he cries,
" That takes our guilt away ;
I saw the Spirit o'er his head,
On his baptizing day.]
6 " Be every vale exalted high,
Sink every mountain low;
The proud must stoop, and humble souls
Shall bia Miration know.
7 " The heathen realms with Israel's land
Shall join in sweet accord ;
HYMN LIL
313
And all that's born of man shall see
The glory of the Lord.
8 " Behold the Morning Star arise,
Ye that in darkness sit;
He marks the path that leads to peace,
And guides our doubtful feet."
Preserving Grace.
L TT\0 God the only wise,
-L Our Saviour and our King,
Let all the saints below the skies
Their humble praises bring.
I 'Tis his almighty love,
His counsel, and his care,
Preserves us safe from sin and death,
And every hurtful snare.
I He will present our souls,
Unblemish'd and complete,
Before the glory of his face,
With joys divinely great.
Then all the chosen seed
Shall meet around the throne,
Shall bless the conduct of his grace,
And make his wonders known.
To our Redeemer, God,
Wisdom and power belongs,
Immortal crowns of majesty,
And everlasting songs.
TPWAS the commission of our Lord,
J- " Go teach the nations and baptize,"
The nations have received the word
Since he ascended to the skies.
He sits upon th' eternal hills,
With grace and pardon in his hands;
And sends his cov'nant with the seals,
To bless the distant British lands.
51.
S. M.
Jude ver.
24, 25.
52.
L. M.
Matt.
xxvii. 19 j
Acts ii.
314
HYMN LIV.
3l?rmn.
52.
53.
L. M.
deb. LI;
2 Tim. iii.
15, 16;
i's.t-xlvii
19,20,
]B?rmn.
54.
L. M.
Bah. i. 8,
AC.
3 •• Repent, ami be baptize*!," he saith,
" For the remisefoa of your sins;"
And thus our sense assists our faith.
And showi us what liis gospel means.
4 Our souls he washes in his blood,
Aj water make- tin* body clean;
And the good Spirit from our God
Descends like purifiying rain.
5 Thus we engage ourselves to thee,
And seal our cov'nant with the Lord;
0 may the Great Eternal Three
In heaven our solemn vows record !
Tlie Holy Scriptures.
1 /""I OD, who in various methods told
vJT His mind and will to saints of old,
Sent his own Son, with truth and grace,
To teach us in these latter days.
2 Our nation reads the written word,
That book of life, that sure record;
The bright inheritance of hea\< n
Is by the sweet conveyance given.
3 God's kindest thoughts are here express'*!,
Able to make us wise and bless'd;
The doctrines are divinely true,
Fit for reproof and oamfcit too.
4 Ye British Met, who read his love
In long epistle* from above,
1 lie hath not sent his sacred word
To every land,) praise ye the Lord.
Eltctinj Grace.
1 TESUS, we bless thy Father's name;
v Thy God and OUT! arc both the >am» ;
What heavenly blosningn from his throne
Flow down to tinneri through his Son!
I •• Chriai, be my first afoot," he said,
Then chose our KMSll in Christ our head.
HYMN LV.
315
Before he gave the mountains birth,
Or laid foundations for the earth.
3 Thus did eternal love begin
To raise us up from death and sin;
Our characters were then decreed,
" Blameless in love, a holy seed."
4 Predestinated to be sons,
Born by degrees, but chose at once,
A new, regenerated race,
To praise the glory of his grace.
5 With Christ our Lord we share our part
In the affections of his heart ;
Nor shall our souls be thence removed,
Till he forgets his first-beloved.
Hezekiak's Song.
1 TXT HEN we are raised from deep distress,
^ * Our God deserves a song;
We take the pattern of our praise
From Hezekiah's tongue.
2 The gates of the devouring grave
Are open'd wide in vain,
If he that holds the keys of death
Commands thern fast again.
3 Pains of the flesh are wont t' abuse
Our minds with slavish fears ;
"Our days are past, and we shall lose
The remnant of our years."
4 We chatter with a swallow's voice,
Or like a dove we mourn,
With bitterness instead of joys,
Afflicted and forlorn.
5 Jehovah speaks the healing word,
And no disease withstands ;
Fevers and plagues obey the Lord,
And fly at his commands.
54.
55.
CM.
Isaiah
xxxviil
9, &c.
316
HYMN LVII.
ftvmn.
56.
CM.
Rev. xv.
8;xvi.l9
xvii. 6.
57.
CM.
Rom. v.
12, &c;
Vs. li. 5;
Job xiv.
4
6 If half the strings of life should break,
He can our frame restore:
He casts our sins behind his back,
And they are found no more.
The Song of Moses and the Lamb.
1 TVTE sing the glories of thy love,
* » We sound thy dreadful name;
The Christian church unites the songs
Of Moses and the Lamb.
2 Great God : how wondrous are thy work
Of vengeance and ofgrai
Thou King of saints. Almighty Lord,
How just and true thy wv
3 Who dare refuse to fear thy name,
Or worship at thy throne?
Thy judgments speak thine holiness
Through all the nations known.
4 Great Babylon, that rules the earth.
Drunk with the martyrs' blood,
Her crimes shall speedily awake
The fury of our God.
5 The cup of wrath is ready mix'd,
And she must drink the dregs :
Strong is the Lord, her sov'reign Judge
And shall fulfil the plagues.
1 T> ACKWARD with humble shame we
-D On our original; [look
How is our nature dash'd and broke
In '>ur first father*! fall :
2 To all that's good averse and blind,
But pn. ne to all that's ill;
What dreadful darkness veils our mind!
How obstinate our will :
3 [Conceived in sin. O wretched state,
I draw our breath;
HYMN LYIII.
m
57.
The first young pulse begins to beat
Iniquity and death.
4 How strong in our degen'rate blood
The old corruption reigns.
And, mingling with the crooked flood,
"Wanders through all our veins.]
5 [Wild and unwholesome as the root
Will all the branches be,
How can we hope far living fruit
From such a deadly tree !
6 What mortal power from things unclean
Can pure productions bring !
Who can command a vital stream
From an infected spring t\
7 Yet, mighty God. thy wondrous love
Can make our nature clean.
While Christ and grace prevail above
The tempter, death and sin.
8 The second Adam shall restore
The ruins of the first ;
Hosannah to that sovereign power
That new creates our dust :
The Devil vanquished.
1 T ET mortal tongues attempt to sing
-L^ The wars of heaven, when Michael Q qm
Chief gen'ral ofth1 Eternal King. [stood
And fought the battles of our God.
2 Against the dragon and his host
The armies of the Lord prevail :
In vain they rage, in vain they boast,
Their courage sinks, their weapons fail.
3 Down to the earth was Satan thrown,
Down to the earth Ins legions fell ;
Then was the trump of triumph blown
And shook the dreadful deeps of hell.
4 Now is the hour of darkness past.
Christ has assumed his reigning power;
femn.
L. M.
Rev. xii
318
HYMN LX.
58.
$i?mn.
59.
L. M.
Rev.
xviii. 20,
21.
60.
L. M.
Luke i.
46, &c.
Behold the great accuser cast
Down from the skies, to rise no more.
B 'Ttrai by thy blood, immortal Lamb,
Thine armies trod the tuillljltu down ;
'Twas by tliy word and powerful name
They gain'd the battle and renown.
8 1 i'<j< -:<•<•. ye heavens! let every star
Shine with m tnd the sky!
Saints, while ye ring the heavenly war,
Raise your Deliverer's name on high !
Bahijhjix f"
1 TX Gabriel's hand a mighty stone
J- Lies, a fair type of Babylon ;
" Prophets, rejoice, and all ye saints,
God shall avenge your long complaints."
2 He said, and, dreadful as he stood,
lie sunk the millstone in the flood:
■ Thus terribly shall Babel fall,
Thus, and no more be found at all."
The Virgin Mary's Song.
1 /^\UR souls shall magnify the Lord,
^^ In God our Saviour we rejoice :
AVhile we repeat the Virgin's song.
May the same Spirit tune our voice.
2 [The Highest saw her low estate,
And mighty things his hand hath done ;
His overshadowing power and grace
Makei her the Mother of b
3 Let every nation call her bless'd,
And endlen year- prolong her fame;
Bat Qod alone must be adored :
Holy and reverend is his name.]
4 To thoM that fear and trust the Lord,
His merey itandl for ever sure:
Prom i
And the performance is secure.
HYMN LXII.
319
5 He spake to Abra'm and his seed,
" In thee shall all the earth be bless'd :"
The memory of that ancient word
Lay long in his eternal breast.
6 But now no more shall Israel wait,
No more the Gentiles lie forlorn :
Lo, the desire of nations comes ;
Behold the promised seed is born !
Christ our High Priest and King.
1 iyr OW to the Lord that makes us know
-L ^ The wonders of his dying love,
Be humble honours paid below,
And strains of nobler praise above.
2 'Twas he that cleansed our foulest sins,
And wash'd us in his richest blood ;
'Tis he that makes us priests and kings,
And brings us rebels near to God.
3 To Jesus, our atoning Priest,
To Jesus, our superior King,
Be everlasting power confess'd,
And every tongue his glory sing.
4 Behold, on flying clouds he comes,
And every eye shall see him move ;
Though with our sins we pierced him oncej
Then he displays his pardoning love.
5 The unbelieving world shall wail,
While we rejoice to see the day :
Come, Lord ; nor let thy promise fail,
Nor let thy chariot long delay.
Christ Jesus, the Lamb of God, worshipped by all
the Creation.
I r^\ OME, let us join our cheerful songs
^ With angels round the throne :
Ten thousand thousand are their tongues,
But all their joys are one.
60.
61.
L. M.
Rev. i.
5—7.
62.
320
HVMX LXIII.
fcpmn.
62.
CM.
Rev. v.
11—13.
63.
L. M.
Rev. v.
12.
2 " Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry,
" To be exalted thus :"
M Worthy the Lamb," our lips reply,
44 For he was slain for at,"
3 Jesus is worthy to receive
Honour and power divine;
And blessings more than we can give.
Be, Lord, for ever thine.
4 Let all that dwell above the sky,
And air. and earth, and seas,
Conspire to lift thy glories high,
And speak thine endless Drain,
5 The whole creation join in one,
To bless the sacred name
Of Him that sits upon the throne,
And to adore the Lamb.
Christ's Humiliation and Exaltation.
1 AlTHAT equal honours shall we bring
» » To thee, 0 Lord our God, the Lamb,
When all the notes that angels sing
Are far interior to thy name!
2 Worthy is he that once was slain,
The Prince of Peace that groan'd and died;
"Worthy to rise, and live, and reign
At his Almighty Father's side,
3 Power and dominion an his due
Who stood condemn'd at Pilate's bar;
Wisdom belongs to .
Though he was charged with madness here.
4 All riches are his native right,
Yet he sustain'd amazing
To him ascribe eternal might,
Who left his weakness on the cross.
5 Honour immortal must be paid,
id of scandal and of scorn ;
While glory .-dimes around his head.
And a bright crown without a thorn.
HYMN LXV.
321
! Blessings for ever on the Lamb
AT ho bore the curse for wretched men !
Let angels sound his sacred name,
And every creature say, Amen.
Adoption.
2?rmn
64.
S. M.
1 John
iii. 1;
BEHOLD what wondrous grace
The Father has bestow'd
On sinners of a mortal race,
To call them sons of God !
! 'Tis no surprising thing
That we should be unknown ;
The Jewish world knew not their King— Gal- iv- 6
G-od's everlasting Son":
Nor doth it yet appear
How great we must be made;
But when we see our Saviour here,
We shall be like our Head.
A hope so much divine
May trials well endure ;
May purge our souls from sense and sin,
As Christ the Lord is pure.
If in my Father's love
I share a filial part,
Send down thy Spirit like a dove,
To rest upon my heart.
We would no longer lie
Like slaves beneath the throne ;
My faith shall Abba Father cry,
And thou the kindred own.
The Kingdoms of the World become the King-
doms of the Lord*
IT ET the seventh angel sound on high,
-L^ Let shouts be heard thro' all the sky ;
Kings of the earth, with glad accord,
Give up your kingdoms to the Lord.
65.
322
HYMN LXVI.
65.
L. M.
Rev. xi.
15—18.
^pmn.
66.
L. M.
Sol. Song
i. 2,&c
2 Almighty God, thy power assume,
Who wast. -umI air. and art to come :
Jesus the Lamb who once was slam,
For ever live, for ever reign !
3 The angry nations fret and roar,
That they can <day the saints no more:
On wings of vengeance flies our God,
To pay the long arrears of blood.
4 Now must the rising dead appear;
Now the decisive sentence hear;
Now the dear martyrs of the Lord
Receive an infinite reward.
Christ the Kiny at hit Talk.
1 T ET him embrace my soul, and prove
J-^ Mine int'rest in his heavenly love ;
The voice that tells me, " Thou art mine,"
Exceeds the blessings of the vine.
2 On thee th' anointing Spirit came,
And spreads the savour of thy name;
That oil of gladness and of grace
Draws virgin souls to meet thy face.
3 Jesus, allure me by thy charms;
My soul shall fly into thine arms;
Our wand'ring feet thy favours bring
To the fair chambers of the King.
4 [Wonder and pleasure tune our voice
To speak thy praises and our joys;
Our mem'ry keeps this love of thine
Beyond the taste of richest wine.]
5 Though in ourselves deform 'd we are,
And black
Yet, when we put thy beau-
Fair as the courts of Solomon.
6 [While at his table sits the King,
He loves to see us smile and sing;
Our graces are our best perfume,
And breathe like spikenard round the room.]
HYMN LXVIII.
323
7 As myrrh Dew bleeding from the tree,
Such is a dying Christ to me ;
! And while he makes my soul his guest,
My bosom, Lord, shall be thy rest.
8 [No beams of cedar or of fir
Can with thy courts on earth compare;
| And here we wait, until thy love
j Raise us to nobler seats above.]
Seeking the Pastures of Christ the Shepherd.
1 rnHOCJ, whom my soul admires above
-L All earthly joy and earthly love,
Tell me, dear Shepherd, let me know,
Where doth thy sweetest pasture grow ?
2 "Where is the shadow of that rock
That from the sun defends thy flock?
Fain would I feed among thy sheep,
Among them rest, among them sleep.
3 Why should thy bride appear like one
That turns aside to paths unknown?
My constant feet would never rove,
Would never seek another love.
4 [The footsteps of thy flock I see;
Thy sweetest pastures here they be ;
A wondrous feast thy love prepares, [tears.
Bought with thy wounds, and groans, and
5 His dearest flesh he makes my food,
And bids me drink his richest blood ;
Here to these hills my soul will come,
Till my Beloved leads me home.]
The Banquet uf Love.
1 "TOEHOLD the Rose of Sharon here,
-D The Lily which the valleys bear;
Behold the Tree of Life that gives
Refreshing fruit and healing leaves.
2 Amongst the thorns so lilies shine ;
Amongst wild gourds the noble vine ;
66.
fk.pmn.
67.
L. M.
So!. Song
i. 7.
68.
L. M.
Sol. Song
ii. 1-7.
X
IIVMX LXIX.
BOOK I.
68.
ftttt*.
69.
L M.
ii. 8—13.
Bo in mil;, i ves,
To shield me from the bm
y taste.
dly be brought me b
When stands the banqael
I Et - iw ii i faint, and e'er my !,•
spread.]
.j With tiring i'ioui a me,
nine;
And opening bis own heart to me,
lit- shows bis thoughts how kind :
6 O never let my Lord de]
Lie down, ami rent upon I
I ebarge my iina not ones to m
Nor stir, nor wake, nor grieve or
( arisf appearing to Id* Ckmrckf and metmg her
■tny.
1 n^liE voiee of my Belored sounds
J- Over the rocks and r.-
O'er hills of guilt and
He leaps, lie fliet to my relief.
2 Saw through the v. .
With eyes of love he
Now in I
He thou b the baantiee of hii
be draws my heart
Both n ttfa his
. laith my Lord. " make hi -
No airatiil joys are worth thy stay."
4 The Jewish wintry i(
The mists are Bed, I nee em j
The sacred turtle-dove we bear,
Proclaim the new, the joyful year.
HYMN LXX.
5 Th' immortal vine of heavenly root
Blossoms and buds, and gives her fruit :
Lo ! we are come to taste the wine ;
Our souls rejoice, and bless the vine.
6 And when we hear our Jesus say,
" Rise up, my love, make haste away!"
Our hearts would fain outlly the wind,
And leave all earthly loves behind.
Christ inviting, and the Church ansivering the
Invitation.
1 rTTARK! the Redeemer from on high
L *-X Sweetly invites his fav 'rites nigh;
From caves of darkness and of doubt,
He gently speaks, and calls us out.
2 " My dove, who hidest in the rock,
Thine heart almost with sorrow broke,
Lift up thy face, forget thy fear,
And let thy voice delight mine ear.
3 " Thy voice to me sounds ever sweet ;
My graces in thy count'nance meet ;
Though the vain world thy face despise,
'Tis bright and comely in mine eyes."
4 Dear Lord, our thankful heart receives
The hope thine invitation gives ;
To thee our joyful lips shall raise
The voice of prayer and of praise.]
5 [I am my love's, and he is mine ;
Our hearts, our hopes, our passions join ;
Nor let a motion, nor a word,
Nor thought, arise to grieve my Lord.
6 My soul to pastures fair he leads,
Amongst the lilies where he feeds ;
Amongst the saints, whose robes are white,
Wash'd in his blood, is his delight.
7 Till the day break, and shadows flee,
Till the sweet dawning light I see,
HYMN LXXir.
3brmn.
70.
'i>r>mn.
71.
L. M.
B©L Song
iii. 1-
72.
Thine eyes bo me-ward often turn.
Nor l<-t my soul m darkness mourn.
be ■ hart on mountaini gn •
Leap o'er the hills of fear and sin ;
Nor guitt nor unbelief divide
My love, niv Saviour, from my side.]
Ckrittfowut i d bruwjht to the
Church.
1 r\FTKX I seek my Lord by night,
V/ Jesus, my love, my souls d<
"With warm desire and restlesa ti.
I seek him oft, but find him not.
2 Then I arise and search th<
Till I my Lord, my Saviour meet;
I ask tiie watchman of the night,
" Where did you see my soul's, delight?"
3 Sometimes I find him in my way,
Directed by a heavenly ray;
I leap tor joy to see hi-
And hold him fast in mine embr.
4 [I bring him to my mother- home,
Nor does my Lord refuse fco come
To Sion's sacred chambers, where
My soul first drew the vital air.
He gives me there his bleeding heart.
Pierced Cor my sake with deadly smart;
I give my soul to him, and there
Our loves their mutual token share.]
6 I charge you all, ye earthl]
Approach not to disturb m]
Nor sin, nor hell, come near my heart.
Nor cause my Saviour to depart.
The Otfomation of Christ, and Bqmu
Chunk.
1 pw A LIGHTERS of 8km, come, behold
±J The crown of honour and of gold
HYMN LXXIII.
327
"Which the glad church with joys unknown
Placed on the head of Solomon.
2 Jesus, thou everlasting King,
Accept the tribute which we bring:
Accept the well-deserved renown.
And wear our praises as thy crown.
3 Let every act of worship be
Like our espousals. Lord, to thee :
Like the dear hour when from above
"We first received thy pledge of love.
4 The gladness of that happy day,
Our hearts would wish it long to stay,
Nor let our faith forsake its hold,
Nor comfort sink, nor love grow cold.
5 Each following minute as it flies,
Increase thy praise, improve our joys.
Till we are raised to sing thy name
At the great supper of the Lamb.
6 0 that the months would roil away,
And bring that coronation day !
The King of grace shall fill the throne,
With all his Father's glories on.
The Church's Beauty in the eyes of Christ.
1 TT'IND is the speech of Christ our Lord,
Jl\. Affection sounds in every word :
"Lo! thou art fair, my love," he cries,
" Not the young doves have sweeter eyes.
2 [" Sweet are thy lips, thy pleasing voice
Salutes mine ear with secret joys;
No spice so much delights the smell,
Nor milk nor honey tastes so well.]
3 " Thou art all fair, my bride, to me ;
I will behold no spot in thee :"
What mighty wonders love performs,
And puts a comeliness on worms!
4 Defiled and loathsome as we are,
He makes us white, and calls us fair;
72.
L.M.
Sol. Song
in. 11.
73.
L.M,
Sol. Song
iv. 1— 11
S28
HYMN LXXTV.
H?pmn.
73. •
£>pmn.
74.
L M.
Sol. Sonij
iv. 13-15;
v. I.
.\<l<>ri)s us with that heavenly
I \\< graces and hi* rigfateooi
•• Mv sister and in] spouse," be cries,
'• Bound to mv-hf.irt by various |
Thy powerful lore my heart d
In strong delight and pleasing chains."
He calls me Irom the leopard -
From this wild world of beasts and m<n,
grloriei arc;
Not Lebanon La halt' so fair.
Nor dens of prey, nor flowery plains,
fchlyjoys, nor earthly pains,
Shall hold my feet Of Ibree HI]
When Christ invites my -oul away.
Tlte Chmrch I
1 117 E are a garden wall'd around,
y y Chosen and made pecoliargronnd
A little spot enclosi
Out of the world's wide wildei TH
2 Like trees of myrrh and spiee Wl
Planted by God the Father's hand;
And all hifl springs in Si<.n flow
To make the young plantation grow.
3 Awake, 0 heavenly wind! and •
jilow on this garden of perfume;
Spirit divine', desoend and breathe
A graeioni gale on planl
4 Make onr best spices flow abroad,
To entertain our Saviour (
And faith, and love, and joy. a- |
And every grace be active hero.
5 [Let my Befored come and
His pleasant fruits at his own 0
•■ 1 i ome, my spouse, I come !" !■
"With lore and pleasure in his i ••
6 Onr Lord into his garden
Well ; . rfumes,
HYMN LXXV.
329
And calls us to a feast divine,
Sweeter than honey, milk, or wine.
7 " Eat of the tree of life, my friends,
The blessings that my Father sends;
Your taste shall all my dainties prove,
And drink abundance of my love."
8 Jesus, we will frequent thy board,
And sing the bounties of our Lord ;
But the rich food on which we live [give.
Demands more praise than tongue can
The Description of Christ the Beloved.
.1 nnHE wondering world inquires to know
-L Why I should love my Jesus so :
" What are his charms," say they, " above
The objects of a mortal love?"
2 Yes! my beloved to my sight
Shows a sweet mixture, red and while;
All human beauties, all divine,
In my beloved meet and shine.
3 White is his soul, from blemish free,
Red with the blood he shed for me ;
The fairest of ten thousand fairs,
A sun amongst ten thousand stars.
4 [His head the finest gold excels ;
There wisdom in perfection dwells;
And glory like a crown adorns
Those temples once beset with thorns.
C- Compassions in his heart are found,
Hard by the signals of his wound :
His sacred side no more shall bear
The cruel scourge, the piercing spear.]
6 [His hands are fairer to behold
Than diamonds set in rings of gold ;
Those heavenly hands that on the tree
Were riaifd, and torn, and bled for me !
7 Though once he bow'd his feeble knees
Loaded with sins and agonies,
$>rmn.
74.
75.
L. M.
Sol. Son»
v. 9—16*
330
fcpmn
75.
HYMN LXXVI.
BOOI I.
"ii the throne of hi* command
Sii lega like marble pillara stand.]
8 [His i -v and love.
The eagle temper'd with the di
No mora s 1 1 ; 1 1 1 trickling sorrowi roll
Through thoee dear windows of b
!> 1 \\< month, that pour'd out loiig complaints,
miles an<l cheen bii minth g
His ooantenance tip
Than Lebanon with all its trees.
10 All over glorious is my Lord ;
Ifual be beloved, and yet adored:
Mi< worth if all the nations knew,
the whole earth would love him too.
,i, hut visits on Earth.
1 AV' 1 1 1 and hear me tell
▼ » What beauties in my Saviour dwell.
Where be ia gone they fain would know,
That they may seek and love him too.
I 2 My bed Beloved keepi his throne
vi. 1 — 3, On hills of light, in worlds unknown;
j2. But he descends and shows hii
I In the youi
3 [In vineyards planted by his hand.
Where fruitful trees in order stand;
Is among tho spicy b<
"Where lilies show •:
4 He baa engroea'd mj wannettkrre:
No earthly eharms my soul ran r
1 have a manaion in bii heart,
Nor death nor hell shall make us part.]
5 [Me takes my soul ere I'm aware.
And shows me where hit g
oadib
The heaven'. v r;i] tU
C < ) may my spirit da
On wings ot faith above tb
^pmn.
76.
L. M.
HYMN LXXVIII.
331
Till death shall make my last remove,
To dwell for ever with my love.]
Love of Christ to the Church in his language to
her and x>rovision$ for Iter.
1 "VTOW in the galleries of his grace
^ Appears the King, arid thus he says
" How fair my saints are in my sight !
My love how pleasant for delight !"
2 Kind is thy language, sov'reign Lord,
There's heavenly grace in every word ;
From that dear mouth a stream divine
Flows sweeter than the choicest wine.
3 Such wondrous love awakes the lip
Of saints that were almost asleep.
To speak the praises of thy name,
And makes our cold affections flame.
4 These are the joys he lets us know
In fields and villages below ;
Gives us a relish of his love,
But keeps his noblest feast above.
5 In Paradise, within the gates,
A higher entertainment waits;
Fruits new and old laid up in store,
"Where we shall feed, but thirst no more.
The Strength of Christ's Love.
1 r TTTHO is this fair one in distress
L Y Y That travels from the wilderness?
And, press'd with sorrows and with sins,
On her beloved Lord she leans.
2 This is the spouse of Christ our God,
Bought with the treasures of his blood;
And her request and her complaint
Is but the voice of every saint.]
3 " O let my name engraven stand,
Both on thy heart and on thy hand ;
332
HYMN LXXIX.
3fc?rmn.
78.
$pmn.
79.
L. M.
Ps. xix. ■).
3;lxxiii.
24, 25.
►Seal me upon thine arm, and wear
That pledge of love for ever there.
4 Stronger than death thy love is known,
Which Hoods of wrath could never drown;
And hell and earth in vain combine
To quench a fire bo much divine.
5 But I am jealous of my heart.
Lest it should once from thee depart;
Then let thy name be veil impret
As a fair simmer on my breast.
6 Till thou hast brought me to thy home,
Where fears and doubts can never eome,
Thy countenance let me qftei
And often thou shalt hear from me.
7 Come, my Beloved, haste away,
Cut short the hours of thy delay ;
Fly like a youthful hart or roe
Over the hills where spices grow."
A Morning ILijuul.
1 f^\ OD of the morning! at whose voice
VJT The cheerful sun makes haste to rise.
And like a giant doth rejoice
To run his journey through the skies.
2 From the fair chambers of the i
The circuit of his grace begins,
And without weariness or reflt,
Bound the whole earth he Hies and shine*.
3 0 like the sun may 1 fulfil
The appointed duties of the day,
With ready mind and active will
March on and keep my heavenly way.
4 [Hut 1 shall rove and lose the i
If God, my sun, should disappear,
And leave me in the world's wild ma7e.
To follow every wandering star.]
5 Lord, thy commando are clean at'
Enlightening our becl<>ud<-
HYMN LXXXI.
333
Thy threat'nings just, thy promise sure,
Thy gospel makes the simple wise.
6 Give me thy counsel for my guide,
And then receive me to thy bliss;
All my desires and hopes beside
Are faint and cold compared with this.
An Evening Hymn.
1 rpHUS far the Lord has led me on,
-L Thus far his power prolongs my days;
And every evening shall make known
Some fresh memorial of bis grace.
2 Much of my time has run to waste,
And 1 perhaps am near my home ;
But he forgives my follies past,
He gives me strength for days to come.
3 I lay my body down to sleep,
Peace is the pillow for my head ;
While well-appointed angels keep
Their watchful stations round my bed.
4 In vain the sons of earth or hell
Tell me a thousand frightful things ;
My God in safety makes me dwell
Beneath the shadow of his wings.
5 [Faith in his name forbids my fear;
0 may thy presence ne'er depart !
And in the morning make me hear
The love and kindness of thy heart.
6 Thus when the night of death shall come,
My flesh shall rest beneath the ground,
And wait thy voice to rouse my tomb,
AVith sweet salvation in the sound.]
A Song for Morning or Evening.
1 IV/fY God, how endless is thy love !,
-*y*- Thy gifts are every evening new ;
And morning mercies from above
Gently distil like early dew.
HYMN LXXXIII.
*>rmn.
81.
L. M.
Lain. iii.
23; Isa.
\lv. 7.
*rmn.
82.
L. If.
Job it.
17—21.
Hbvmn.
83.
CM.
Job « .
6-8.
2 Tboo spread'rt the curtains of the night,
' guardian of my sleeping 1
Thy sovereign irord restores the lights
And quickens all my drowsy po
3 I yield my powers to thy command,
To thei
Perpetual blessings from thine hand
Demand perpetual songs of praise.
God far above Creatures.
1 Oil. ALL the vile race of flesh and blood
^ Contend w ith their <
Shall mortal worms presume to be
More holy, wi-e, or just, than he?
2 Behold, he put- his tru«t in none
Of all the spirits round his throne;
Their natures, when compared with his,
neither holy, just, nor vise.
3 But how much meaner things are they
Who spring from dost, and dwell in clay!
Touch'd by the finger of thy wrath,
We faint and vanish like the moth.
4 From night to day. from day to night,
We die by thousands in thy sight;
I Buried in dust -whole nations lie
Like a forgotten vanity.
5 Almighty Power, to thee we l>ow;
How frail are we. how glorious thou!
No more t! h shall dare
With an eternal (J>«\ compare.
a mil r Prom
1 "VJ ( >T from the dust affliction grows,
-i-^ Nor troubles rise by chai
Yet we are born to cares and w<
irks break OUl from burning coals,
. itfl] are upwi
HYMN LXXXIV.
835
So grief is rooted in our souls,
And man grows up to mourn.
3 Yet with my God I leave my cause,
And trust his promised grace ;
He rules me by his well-known laws
Of love and righteousness.
4 Not all the pains that e'er I bore
Shall spoil my future peace,
For death and hell can do no more
Than what my Father please.
Salvation, Righteousness, and Strength in Christ.
1 JEHOVAH speaks! let Israel hear;
*J Let all the earth rejoice and fear,
"While God's eternal Son proclaims
His sovereign honours and his names.
2 " I am the last, and I the first,
The Saviour God, and God the just;
There's none beside pretends to show
Such justice and salvation too.
3 [" Ye that in shades of darkness dwell,
Just on the verge of death and hell,
Look up to me from distant lands,
Light, life, and heaven are in my hands.
4 " I by my holy name have sworn,
Nor shall the word in vain return ;
To me shall all things bend the knee,
And every tongue shall swear to me.]
5 " In me alone shall men confess
Lies all their strength and righteousness ;
But such as dare despise my name,
I'll clothe them with eternal shame.
6 " In me, the Lord, shall all the seed
Of Israel from their sins be freed,
And by their shining graces prove
Their interest in my pard'ning love."
I&pmn.
83.
84.
L. M.
Isa. xlv.
21—25,
fcpmn.
85.
S. M,
Lflfc. xlv.
21—25.
HYMN LXXXVI.
|bpmn.
86.
CM.
Job ix.
2—10.
.
1 rpilK Lord <»n hiLfli proclaims
-L Hi- Godhead from ii i.-> throne:
" Mercy and justice are the namea
By which I will be known.
2 M Ye dying i - bat -it
In darkness and dial
Look from the borders of the pit
To niN recoY'ring gi
3 Binnera shall hear the aoond;
Their thankful tongnea shall own
u Our righteousness .-m.1 atrength is found
In thee, the Lord, al«>iie."
4 In thee shall Israel trust,
Ami see their guilt forgiven:
God will pronounce the sinners just,
And take the saints to heaven.
1 TTQW should the sons of Adam's race
J--L Be pure before their I
If he contend in righteooaneaa,
We fall beneath his rod.
2 To vindicate my words -and thoughts
I'll make no more pretence;
Not one of all my thousand faults
Can bear a ju>t defence.
3 Strong ia his arm. his i,,
What vain ]>iv.-uni» I I
Against their Maker's hand to rift .
Or tempt th' unequal war.
4 [Mountains by his almighty wrath
torn ;
He >hak<\* the earth from south to north.
And all her pillars mourn.
5 Be bids the sun farl
Th' obedient -
HYMN LXXXVIII.
337
His hand with sackcloth spreads the skies,
And seals up all the stars.
6 He walks upon the stormy sea,
Flies on the stormy wind ;
There's none can trace his wondrous way,
Or his dark footsteps find.]
God dwells with the Humble and Penitent.
1 mHUS saith the high and lofty One :
-I- "I sit upon my holy throne ;
My name is God, I dwell on high,
Dwell in my own eternity.
2 "Butldescend to worlds below,
On earth I have a mansion too;
The humble spirit and contrite
Is an abode of my delight.
3 " The humble soul my words revive,
I bid the mourning sinner live,
Heal all the broken hearts I find,
And ease the sorrows of the mind.
4 " [When I contend against their sin,
I make them know how vile they've been ;
But should my wrath for ever smoke,
Their souls would sink beneath my stroke."
5 O may thy pard'ning grace be nigh,
Lest we should faint, despair, and die !
Thus shall our better thoughts approve
The methods of thy chast'ning love.]
Life the Day of Grace and Hope.
1 T IFE is the time to serve the Lord,
-L^ The time t' ensure the great reward ;
And while the lamp holds out to burn,
The vilest sinner may return.
2 [Life is the hour that God has given
To 'scape from hell and fly to heaven ;
The day of grace, and mortals may
Secure the blessings of the day ]
338
HYMN LXXXIX.
$pmn.
88.
89.
L. Iff.
Eedea.
xi. 9.
.3 The tiring know that they most die,
lint .-ill the dead forgotten lie;
Their mem'ry ud *
Alike onknowing and unknown.
4 [Their hatred and their love is lost,
Their envy buried in the dust;
They have no share in all that's done
Beneath the circuit of the sun.]
5 Then what my thoughts design to do,
My hands, with all y<»ur might pursue;
Since no device nor work is found.
Nor faith nor hope beneath tin* ground.
G There are no acts of pardon pass'd
In the col.l grave to which we hi
Bat darkness, death, and long despair,
1 Reign in eternal silence t.
Youth and /■
1 "VTE sons of Adam, vain and young,
A Indulge your eyes, indulge your tongue
Taste the delights your soulfl desire,
And give a loose to all your fire;
2 Pursue the pleasarei
And cheer your hearts with songs and wine
Enjoy the day of mirth r but know
There is a day of judgment too.
3 God from on high beholds your t;
His book n
The works of darkness yoa have done
Must all appear before the sun.
4 The lengeanee to your follies due
Should strike y< >ur hearts with terror through:
Hovr will yoa stand before his face,
Or answer for his injured g
5 Almighty God! turn off the
From these alluring van
And let the thunder of thy word
Awake tlu-ir took to tear tb
book i. HYMN XCL
339
Youth and Judgment.
3&jmn.
1 T 0 ! the young tribes of Adam rise,
J-J And through all nature rove ;
90.
Fulfil the wishes of their eyes,
CM.
And taste the joys they love.
Eccles.
2 They give a loose to wild desires ;
But let the sinners know
xi. 9.
The strict account that God requires
Of all the works they do.
3 The Judge prepares his throne on high ;
The frighted earth and seas
Avoid the fury of his eye,
And flee before his face.
4 How shall I bear that dreadful day,
And stand the fiery test?
I give all mortal joys away
To be for ever bless'cT. ' -■ .
Advice to Youth; or, Old Age and Death in an
$jpnm.
unconverted State.
91.
1 "\rOW in the heat of youthful blood
-L i Remember your Creator, God ;
L. M.
Behold the months come hastening on,
Eccles.
When you shall say, " My joys are gone !"
2 Behold the aged sinner goes,
xii. 1, 7;
Laden with guilt and heavy woes,
Isa. lxv.
Down to the regions of the dead,
20.
With endless curses on his head.
3 The dust returns to dust again ;
The soul, in agonies of pain,
Ascends to God, not there to dwell,
But hears her doom, and sinks to hell.
4 Eternal King! I fear thy name;
Teach me to know how frail I am ;
And when my soul must hence remove,
Give me a mansion in thy love.
Y
340
HYMN XCIT. book i.
fcrmn.
' the Wudom <■;
92.
1 QI1.\L! ■loud,
^J And not her speech be heard?
5. M.
The v« tenud Word,
Prow
Deserves it no regard ?
viii. 1,
2 "I was his chief delight*
His everla*ti: \
i his work.*,
Creation, was begun.
3 "[Before the flying clouds,
Before the solid land,
Before the fields, before the floods,
I dwelt at his right hand.
4 " When he adorn 'd the skies,
And built them, I was there,
To order when the sun should rise,
And marshal every star.
5 "When he pour'd out the sea,
And spread the flowing deep,
I gave the flood a firm decree
In its own bounds to keep.]
6 "Upon the empty air
The earth was balanced well;
With joy I saw the mansion where
The sons of men should dwell.
7 "My busy thoughts at first,
On their salvation ran.
Ere sin was bom, or Adam's dust
fashiott'd to a man.
8 " Then come, receive my gi
Ye children, and be
Happy the man that keeps my ways;
The man that shuns them dies.*'
HYMN XCV.
341
Christ, or Wisdom, obeyed or resisted.
1 mHUS saith the Wisdom of the Lord:
J- " Blest is the man that hears my
Keeps daily watch before my gates, [word,
And at my feet for mercy waits.
2 The soul that seeks me shall obtain
Immortal wealth and heavenly gain;
Immortal life is his reward,
Life, and the favour of the Lord.
3 But the vile wretch that flies from me
Doth his own soul an injury ;
Fools that against my grace rebel
Seek death, and love the road to hell."
Justification by Faith, not by Works.
1 "TTAIN are the hopes the sons of men
» On their own works have built ;
Their hearts by nature all unclean,
And all their actions guilt.
2 Let Jew and Gentile stop their mouths,
Without a murm'ring word,
And the whole race of Adam stand
Guilty before the Lord.
3 In vain we ask God's righteous law
To justify us now;
Since to convince and to condemn
Is all the law can do.
4 Jesus, how glorious is thy grace !
When in thy name we trust,
Our faith receives a righteousness
That makes the sinner just.
Regeneration.
1 "VTOT all the outward forms on earth,
±* Nor rites that God has given,
Nor will of man, nor blood, nor birth,
Can raise a soul to heaven.
342
HYMN xrVTI.
95.
John i.
5j & iii.
3, &e.
96.
CM.
I Cor. i.
26-31.
97.
2 The sovereign will of God alone
< 'rcatea as heirs i f grace;
Boni in the image of his Son,
A new peculiar race,
3 The Spirit. Hke some heavenly wind,
Blows on the sons of flesh,
New models all the carnal mind,
And forma the man afresh.
4 Our quicken 'd souls awake, and rise
From the long sleep of death ;
On heavenly things we fix our eyes,
And praise employs our breath.
1 X)UT few among the carnal wise,
J3 But few of noble rare.
Obtain the favour of this
Almighty King of I -
2 lie takes the men of meanest name
For sons and heirs of God :
And thus he poors abundant shame
On honourable blood.
3 He calls the foul, and makes him know
The myst'ries of his grace,
To bring aspiring wisdom low,
And all itfl pride al
4 Nature has all its glories lost
When brought before his throne;
No flesh shall in bis presence by
But in the Lord alone.
Christ our Wisdom, Rigkieousneu, <ic.
1 OUBIEDin shadows of the night,
-13 We lie till Christ restores the light;
Wisdom descends BO heal the blind.
And chase the darkness of the mind.
goilty souls are drown'd in tears,
Till his atoning blood appears;
BOOK T.
HYMN XCVIIL
343
Then we awake from deep distress,
And sing, " The Lord our Righteousness!'
3 Our very frame is mix'd with sin,
His Spirit makes our natures clean ;
Such virtues from his suffrings flow,
At once to cleanse and pardon too.
4 Jesus beholds where Satan reigns,
Binding his slaves in heavy chains :
He sets the prisoners free, and breaks
The iron bondage from our necks.
5 Poor helpless worms in thee possess
Grace, wisdom, power, and righteousness;
Thou art our mighty all, and we
G-ive our whole selves, O Lord, to thee.
CJirist our Wisdom, Righteousness, &c.
1 TTOW heavy is the night
-1-A That hangs upon our eyes,
Till Christ with his reviving light
O ver our souls arise !
2 Our guilty spirits dread
To meet the wrath of heaven :
But in his righteousness array'd,
We see our sins forgiven.
3 Unholy and impure
Are all our thoughts and ways ;
His hands infected nature cure
With sanctifying grace.
4 The powers of hell agree
To hold our souls in vain;
He sets the sons of bondage free,
And breaks the cursed chain.
5 Lord, we adore thy ways
To bring us near to God ;
Thy sovereign power, thy healing grace,
And thine atoning blood.
97.
L.M.
1 Cor. i
30.
98.
S. M.
1 Cor. i
30.
344
HYMN CI
3t?pmn.
99.
C. M.
Matt. iii.
9.
100.
L. M.
John iii.
16—18.
#pmn.
101.
*S7on« mad* C '
1 "17 A IX arc the hopea that rebela place
» Upon their birth and blood,
Descended from a pious race;
(Their fathers now with God.)
2 He from the cavea of earth and hell
Can take the hardest .stones,
And till the hou f Abra'm well
With new created sons.
3 Such wondrous power doth he possess
Who form'd our mortal frame.
Who call'd the world from emptiness —
The world obey'd and came.
Believe and be saved.
1 "VTOT to condemn the sons of men,
-i-^l Did Christ, the Son of God, appear;
No weapons in his hands are seen,
Xo flaming sword nor thunder there.
2 Such was the pity of our God,
He loved the race of man so well,
He sent his Son to bear our load
Of sins, and save our souls from hell.
3 Sinners, believe the Saviour's word,
Trust in his mighty name and h\e;
A thousand joys his lips afford,
His hands a thousand bl<
4 Bat vengeance and damnation lies
On rebels who refuse the g
Who God'fl eternal Sun despise,
The hottest hell shall be their place.
Joys in Heaven for a
1 \\THO can describe the
* » Through all the courts of Paradise,
To see a prodigal return,
To see an heir of glory lorn I
HYMN CII.
345
2 With joy the Father doth approve
The fruit of his eternal love ;
The Son with joy looks down and sees
The purchase of his agonies.
3 The Spirit takes delight to view
The holy soul he form'd anew;
And saints and angels join to sing
The growing empire of their King.
The Beatitudes.
1 r*DLESS'D are the humble souls that
L-L' Their emptiness and poverty ; [see
Treasures of grace to them are given,
And crowns of joy laid up in heaven.]
2 [Bless'd are the men of broken heart,
Who mourn for sin with inward smart;
The blood of Christ divinely flows,
A healing balm for all their woes.]
3 [Bless'd are the meek who stand afar
From rage and passion, noise and war ;
God will secure their happy state,
And plead their cause against the great.]
4 [Bless'd are the souls that thirst for grace,
Hunger and long for righteousness;
They shall be well supplied and fed
With living streams and living bread.]
6 [Bless'd are the men whose bowels move
And melt with sympathy and love ;
From Christ the Lord shall they obtain
Like sympathy and love again.]
6 [Bless'd are the pure whose hearts are clean
From the defiling powers of sin ;
With endless pleasure they shall see
A God of spotless purity.]
7 [Bless'd are the men of peaceful life
Who quench the coals of growing strife;
They shall be called the heirs of bliss,
The sons of God, the God of peace.]
101.
L. M.
Luke xv,
7,10.
102.
L. M.
Matt. v.
2—12.
HYMN CIV. bookl
8 [BleM Preri who partake
Of pain ami ihame for Jesui' lake;
Their souls .shall triumph in tin L
Glory and joy are their reward.]
2>pmn.
' ■
103.
1 T'-M not ashamed to own my Lord,
-L Or to defend his ca
G ML
Maintain the honour of his word,
The glory <>t' hu a
2 Tim. i.
2 Jesus, my God, 1 know his name,
12.
His name if all my trust;
Nor will he pat my soul to shame,
Nor let my hope be lost.
3 Firm as his throne his promise stands,
And he can well secure
What I've committed to his hands
Till the decisive hour.
4 Then will he own my worthless name
Before his Father*!
And in the new Jerusalem
Appoint my soul a place.
&pmn.
A State of Nature and Grace.
104.
1 "V^T the malicious or protl
-L^ The wanton or the proud,
C. If.
Nor thieves, nor sland'rers, shall obtain
The kingdom of our God.
1 Cor. ii
2 Surprising grace! and such wt
10, 11.
By nature and by
Heirs of immortal ;..
Unholy and unclean.
3 But we an- wash'd in .Tc-us" blood,
w -iv pardon'd through his na
And the good Spirit of our God
1 la- sanctified our frame.
4 < ) for a | - : severing power
To keep thy just i
BOOK T.
HYMN CVI.
847
We would defile our hearts no more,
No more pollute our hands.
Heaven Invisible and Holy.
1 "VT OR eye hath seen, nor ear hath heard
■*-* Nor sense nor reason known,
What joys the Father hath prepared
For those that love the Son.
2 But the good Spirit of the Lord
Reveals a heaven to come ;
The beams of glory in his word
Allure and guide us home.
3 Pure are the joys above the sky,
And all the region peace ;
No wanton lips nor envious eye
Can see or taste the bliss.
4 Those holy gates for ever bar
Pollution, sin, and shame;
None shall obtain admittance there
But followers of the Lamb.
5 He keeps the Father's book of life,
There all their names are found ;
The hypocrite in vain shall strive
To tread the heavenly ground.
Dead to sin by the Cross of Christ.
1 O HALL we go on to sin
^ Because thy grace abounds ;
Or crucify the Lord again,
And open all his wounds?
2 Forbid it, mighty God ! .
Nor let it e'er be said,
That we whose sins are crucified
Should raise them from the dead.
3 We will be slaves no more,
Since Christ has made us free ;
Has nail'd our tyrants to his cross,
And bought our liberty.
348
HYMN CVIII.
BOOK L
fcpmn.
107.
L. II
(Jen. iii.
1,15,17;
Gal.iv. 4;
Col.ii. 15.
108.
S. M.
lPet.i.8.
The Fall and Recovery of Man.
1 T\FX'EIVED by subtle snares of hell,
-L' Adam, our head, our father, fell,
"When Satan, in the serpent hid,
Proposed the fruit that God forbid.
2 Death was the threat 'ning: death began
To take possession of the man ;
His unborn race received the wound.
And heavy corses smote the ground.
3 But Satan found a worse reward;
Thus saith the vengeance of the Lord :
u Let everlasting hatred be
Betwixt the woman's seed and thee.
4 The woman's seed shall be my Son ;
He shall destroy what thou hast done;
Shall break thy head, and only feel
Thy malice raging at his heel."
5 [He spake : and bade four thousand years
Roll on; at length his Son appears;
Angels with joy descend to earth,
And sing the young Redeemer's birth.
6 Lo ! by the sons of hell he dies ;
But as he hung 'twixt earth and skies,
He gave their prince a fatal blow,
And triumph'd o'er the powers below.]
Christ unseen and beloved.
i "Vr^^ w*tu our mortai eyes
•i.^1 Have we beheld the Lord;
Yet we rejoice to hear his name,
And love him in his word.
2 On eartli we want the sight
Of our Redeemer's face;
Yet, Lord, our inmost thoughts delight
To dwell upon thy grace.
3 And when we taste tl
Our joys divinely grow
HYMN CX.
349
Unspeakable, like those above,
And heaven begins below.
The value of Christ, and his Righteousness.
1 "VTO more, my God, I boast no more
■^ Of all the duties I have done;
I quit the hopes I held before
To trust the merits of thy Son.
2 Now for the love I bear his name,
What was my gain I count my loss ;
My former pride I call my shame,
And nail my glory to his cross.
3 Yos, and I must and will esteem
All things but loss for Jesus' sake :
O may my soul be found in him,
And of his righteousness partake !
4 The best obedience of my hands
Dares not appear before thy throne ;
But faith can answer thy demands
By pleading what my Lord has done.
Death and immediate Glory.
1 rpHERE is a house not made with hands.
J- Eternal and on high ;
And here my spirit waiting stands
Till God shall bid it fly.
2 Shortly this prison of my clay
Must be dissolved and fall ;
Then, O my soul ! with joy obey
Thy heavenly Father's call.
3 'Tis he by his almighty grace
That forms thee fit for heaven ;
And, as an earnest of the place,
Has his own Spirit given.
4 We walk by faith of joys to come,
Faith lives upon his word :
But while the body is our home
We're absent from the Lord.
109.
L. M.
Phil, iii,
7-9.
110.
CM.
2 Cor. v.
1, 5—8.
350
HYMN CXII.
111.
C. M.
Titus iii.
3—7.
5 Tis pleasant to believe thy grace,
But we had rath.
We rould be absent from the flesh,
And present, Lord, with thee.
Salvation ly Grace.
1 T ORD, we confess our numerous faults,
J-^ I li>w great our guilt has been!
Foolish and vain were all our thoughts,
And all our lives were Bin.
2 But, O my soul! for ever praise,
For ever love his n
Who turns thy feet from dangerous ways
Of folly, sin, and shame.
3 ['Tis not by works ot righteousness
Which our own hands have done;
But we are Bared _;race
Abounding through his Son.
4 'Tis from the mercy of our God
That all our hopes
'Tis by the water and the blood
Our souls are wash'd from sin.
5 'Tis through the purchase of his death
"Who hung upon tb
The Spirit is sent down to breathe
On such dry bones
6 Reined from the dead, we live anew ;
And, justified by g]
We shall appear in glory too,
And see our Father -
Item.
112.
to Jtsu*.
QO did the Hebrew prophl
The brazen serpent high.
The wounded fell imined; .
The eamp forbore to die.
2 '• Look upward in the d_\\
And live," thfl prophet ■
HYMN CXIV.
Sol
But Christ performs a nobler cure,
When Faith lifts up her eyes.
3 High on the cross the Saviour hung,
High in the heavens he reigns :
Here sinners, by th' old serpent stung,
Look, and forget their pains.
4 When God's own Son is lifted up,
A dying world revives ;
The Jew beholds the glorious hope,
Th' expiring Gentile lives.
A Graham's Blessing on the Gentiles.
1 TTOW large the promise! how divine
-*•-*- To Abra'm and his seed !
" I'll be a God to thee and thine,
Supplying all their need."
2 The words of his extensive love
From age to age endure ;
The angel of the covenant proves,
And seals the blessing sure.
3 Jesus the ancient faith confirms,
To our great fathers given :
He takes young children to his arms,
And calls them heirs of heaven.
4 Our God, how faithful are his ways,
His love endures the same,
Nor from the promise of his grace
Blots out the children's name.
Abraham's Blessing on the Gentiles.
1 r\ ENTILES by nature, we belong
vT To the wild olive wood ;
Grace took us from the barren tree,
And grafts us in the good.
?. With the same blessings grace endows
The Gentile and the Jew ;
If pure and holy be the root,
Such are the branches too
352
HYMN CX VI.
BOOK I.
fcpmn.
114.
115.
C. M.
Rom. vii.
8, 9, 14,
24.
fcgmn.
116.
3 Thou let the children of the saints
Be dedicate to < tod ;
Pour out thy Spirit on them. Lord,
And wash them in thy blood.
4 Thus to the parents and their seed
Shall thy salvation i
And numerous households meet at lest
In one eternal home.
Convict ion of Sim by the i.
1 T ORD, how secure my conscience was,
-L^ And felt no inward dread!
I was alive without the law,
And thought my sins were dead.
2 My hopes of heaven were firm and bright,
But since the precept came
With a convincing power and light,
I find how vile I am.
3 [My guilt appeared hut small before,
fill terribly I saw
How perfect, holy, just, and pure,
Wa« thine eternal law.
4 Then felt my soul the heavy load,
My sins revived again;
I had provoked a dreadful God,
And all my hopes were slain.]
5 I'm like a helpless captive
Under the power of sin ;
I cannot do the good I would,
Nor keep my conscience clean.
6 My God, 1 cry with every breath
For some kind power to save,
To break the yoke of sin and death,
And thus redeem the slave.
Lore to God and our Xeiyhbour.
1 mil US saith the first, the great command,
J- " Let all thy inward powers unite
HYMN CXVII.
So'S
To love thy Maker and thy God
With utmost vigour and delight.
2 '"Then shall thy neighbour next in place
Share thine affections and esteem,
And let thy kindness to thyself
Measure and rule thy love to him."
3 This is the sense that Moses spoke,
This did the prophets preach and prove ;
For want of this the law is broke,
And the whole law's fulfiH'd by love.
4 But oh! how base our passions are!
How cold our charity and zeal ;
Lord, fill our souls with heavenly fire,
Or we shall ne'er perform thy will.
Election sovereign and free.
1 ["TVEHOLD the potter and the clay,
LXJ He forms his vessel as he please ;
Such is our God, and such are we,
The subjects of his high decrees.
2 Doth not the workman's power extend
O'er all the mass, which part to choose
And mould it for a nobler end.
And which to leave for viler use?]
3 May not the sovereign Lord on high
Dispense his favours as he will,
Choose some to life, while others die,
And yet be just and gracious still?
4 [What if, to make his terror known,
He lets his patience long endure,
Suffering vile rebels to go on,
And seal their own destruction sure?
5 What if he means to show his grace,
And his electing love employs
To mark out some of mortal race,
And form them fit for heavenly joys?]
6 Shall man reply against the Lord,
And call his Maker's ways unjust,
354
117.
118.
S. M.
John i.
17; Hob.
iii. 3, 5,
6;x. 28,
29.
£?r-mn.
119.
HYMN CXIX.
The thunder of whose dreadful void
('an crash b thousand worids to d
7 Bat, U my soal! if troths so bright
Bhoald dazzle and confound thy -
Yet still his written will o
And wait the great decisive day.
S Then shall he make his justice known,
And the whole world, before his throne,
With joy or terror shall confess
The glory of his righteous!
Sins a>; Gospel.
1 rTIHE law by Moses came,
J- But peace, and truth, and love.
Were brought by Christ, a nobler name,
Descending Gram above.
2 Amidst the house of God
Their diffrent works were done ;
Moses a faithful servant si
But Christ a faithful Son.
3 Then to his new commands
Be strict obedience paid;
O'er all his Father's house he stands
TheSor'reign and the Head.
4 The man that durst despise
The law that Moees brought,
Behold! how terribly he diet
For hi- presumptuous fault.
5 But sorer fengeanee falls
On that rebellion-, race
Who hate to hear when •
And dare resist hi- _
Dif>:rcnt Success of the Oot
1 /JURIST and his cross is all our theme;
V^ The myst'ries that we I
tndal in the .'
And folly to the Greek.
HYMN CXXI.
355
2 But souls enlighten 'd from above,
With joy receive the word ;
They see what wisdom, power, and love,
Shines in their dying Lord.
3 The vital savour of his name
Restores their fainting breath ;
But unbelief perverts the same
To guilt, despair, and death.
4 Till God diffuse his graces down,
Like showers of heavenly rain,
In vain Apollos sows the ground,
And Paul may plant in vain.
Faith of Things unseen.
1 T71AITH is the brightest evidence
J- Of things beyond our sight.
Breaks through the clouds of flesh and sense,
And dwells in heavenly light.
2 It sets times past in present view,
Brings distant prospects home,
Of things a thousand years ago,
Or thousand years to come.
3 By faith we know the worlds were made
By God's almighty word ;
Abra'm, to unknown countries led,
By faith obey'd the Lord.
4 He sought a city fair and high,
Built by th' eternal hands;
And faith assures us, though we die,
That heavenly building stands.
Children devoted to God.
For those who practise Infant Baptism.
1 mHUS saith the mercy of the Lord,
i- "I'll be a God to thee;
I'll bless thy numerous race, and they
Shall be a seed for me."
119.
CM.
1 Cor. i.
23,24;
hi. 6, 7;
2 Cor. ii.
16.
120.
CM.
Heb. xi.
1, &c.
121.
HYMN CXXIIT.
121.
('. M.
u, 15,
33.
122.
L. ML
BODL vi.
3, 4, <!ve.
123.
C, M.
•J Abra
And gave hi- sou I I
Ba1 wi
That once vm seaTd with blood.
Lydia sanctified bei b
Whi : d the void ;
Thus the believing _
Bii houeoheM to tin I
4 Thu- ■ i iiial King,
Thine aaciawJ truth embr
To thee their infant iWBijw iiiy, bri
And humbly claim thy grs
n buried wUK
1 T\0 we not know that solemn
J-/ That we are buried with tl
ied into his death, and than
Pat off the body of oar sin<
2 Our - lii iner breath,
I from corruption, guilt, as I
So from the grave did Christ ai
And live* to God above thi
3 No more let tin or 6
r our mortal flesh again :
The various lustl
I have dominion now
i j)Klh )U) the wretch, «< hose lust and w ine
J-' Had wasted his estate;
He bags a share amongst the swine.
To taste the huski they i
2 " 1 die with hangar here," he cries,
: ■■. e ni loreign lands;
My lather'- house has lafgS suj |
And bounteous are Ids hands.
" I'll go, and, with a mournful tongue,
Fall down b. fore hi 1'aee,—
HYMN CXXIV.
Father, I've done thy justice wrong,
Nor can deserve thy grace."
4 He said, and hasten'd to his home,
To seek his father's love;
The father saw the rebel come,
And all his bowels move.
5 He ran, and fell upon his neck,
Embraced and kiss'd his son ;
The rebel's heart with sorrow brake
For follies he had done.
6 " Take off his clothes of shame and sin,"
The father gives command,
" Dress him in garments white and clean,
With rings adorn his hand.
7 " A day of feasting I ordain,
Let mirth and joy abound ;
My son was dead, and lives again,
Was lost, and now is found."
The first and second Adam.
1 T\EEP in the dust, before thy throne,
jlJ Our guilt and our disgrace we own ;
Great God ! we own th' unhappy name
Whence sprang our nature and our shame
2 Adam the sinner : at his fall,
Death like a conqueror seized us all;
A thousand new-born babes are dead
By fatal union to their head.
3 But whilst our spirits, fill'd with awe,
Behold the terrors of thy law,
We sing the honours of thy grace,
That sent to save our ruin'd race.
4 We sing thine everlasting Son,
Who join'd our nature to his own :
Adam the second from the dust
Raises the ruins of the first.
123.
124.
L. If.
Rom. v.
12, &&
358
IIVMX CXXVI.
ftffntfl.
124.
3brmn.
125.
CM.
Heb. iv.
15, 16; v.
7; Matt.
ii. 20.
fcpmn.
126.
[By the rebellion of our man
Through all his seed the mischief ran ;
And by one man's obedience now,
Are all his seed made righteOUfl too.
6 Where sin did reign, and death abound,
There have the Bona of Adam found
Abounding life; there glorious grace
Reigns through the Lord our righteousness.
Christ's Compassion to the Weak and Tempted.
1 "VfriTII joy we meditate the grace
' » Of our 1 [igh Priest abore ;
His heart is made of tenderness,
His bowels melt with love.
2 Touch'd with a sympathy within,
He knows our feeble frame ;
He knows what sore temptations mean,
For he has felt the same.
3 But spotless, innocent, and pure,
The great Redeemer stood,
While Satan's fiery darts he bore,
And did resist to blood.
4 He in the days of feeble flesh
Pour'd out his cries and tears,
And in his measure feels afresh
"What every member bears.
5 [He'll never quench the smoking flax,
But raise it to a flame;
The bruised reed he never breaks.
Nor scorns the meanest name.]
6 Then let our humble faith address
His mercy and his power;
We shall obtain delivering grace
In the distressing hour.
Charity and I'nrharitablcncss.
1 "VTOT different food, or dhfrent dress,
±.y Compose the kingdom of our Lord;
~
HYMN CXXVIII.
359
But peace, and joy, and righteousness,
Faith, and obedience to his word.
2 When weaker Christians we despise,
We do the gospel mighty wrong;
For God, the gracious and the wise,
Receives the feeble with the strong.
3 Let pride and wrath be banish'd hence ;
Meekness and love our souls pursue ;
Nor shall our practice give offence
To saints, the Gentile, or the Jew.
Christ's Invitation to Sinners.
1 " f^\ OME hither, all ye weary souls,
V-^ Ye heavy laden sinners come ;
I'll give you rest from all your toils,
And raise you to my heavenly home.
2 They shall find rest that learn of me ;
I'm of a meek and lowly mind ;
But passion rages like a sea,
And pride is restless as the wind.
3 Bless'd is the man whose shoulders take
My yoke and bear it with delight :
My yoke is easy to his neck,
My grace shall make the burden light."
4 Jesus, we come at thy command ;
With faith, and hope, and humble zeal,
Resign our spirits to thy hand,
To mould and guide us at thy will.
The Apostles'1 Commission.
I " /^i 0 preach my gospel," sakh the Lord,
VJT " Bid the whole earth my grace
receive;
He shall be saved that trusts my word,
He shall be damn'd that won't believe.
" I'll make your great commission known,
And ye shall prove my gospel true
3C0
HYMN rxxx.
128.
L. M.
Mark xvi.
15, &o.
.Matt.
vxviii.lf].
&c.
129.
L. If.
130.
By all the works tli.it I have dose,
By all the wtm&m ye -hall do.
" Go heal the sick, go raise the <'•
rf out devils in my name;
Nor let my prostata b€ afraid; [pheme.
Though Greeks reproach, and Jews blas-
Teaeh all the nations my comm;:.
I'm with you till the world shall end;
All power is trusted in my hands,
I can destroy, and I defend."
5 He spake, and light shone round his head.
On a bright cloud to heaven he rode ;
They to the farthest nations spread
The grace of their ascended God
ranee.
1 O A IXTS,at your heavenly Father'sword,
^ Give up your comforts to the Lord ;
He shall restore what you resign,
Or grant you blessings more divine.
2 So Abra'm with obedient hand,
Led forth his son at God's command !
The wood, the fire, the knife, he took,
J lis arm prepared the dreadful stroke.
3 " Abra'm. forbear!" the angel a
" Thy faith is known, thy love il I
Thy sou shall live, and in thj
Shall the wlioV earth be i
4 Just in the last distrsosmfl hour
The Lord displays delivering power;
The mount of danger is the place
Where we shall see surprising
1 V OW by the bow- K of my ( ■
-L^ Hisshai] m complaint*.
By his last groans, his dying blood,
.1 to love the -
HYMN CXXXII.
361
2 Clamour, and wrath, and war, begone ;
Envy and spite, for ever cease :
Let bitter words no more be known
Amongst the saints, the sons of peace.
3 The Spirit, like a peaceful dove,
Flies from the realms of noise and strife;
Why should we vex and grieve his love,
Who seals our souls to heavenly life?
4 Tender and kind be all our thoughts !
Through all our lives let mercy run;
So God forgives our numerous faults,
For the dear sake of Christ his Son.
The Pharisee and Publican.
1 T)EHOLD how sinners disagree,
-D The Publican and Pharisee;
One doth his righteousness proclaim,
The other owns his guilt and shame.
2 This man at humble distance stands.
And cries for grace with lifted hands;
That boldly rises near the throne,
And talks of duties he has done.
3 The Lord their diff'rent language knows
And diff rent answers he bestoAvs ;
The humble soul with grace he crowns,
Whilst on the proud his anger frowns.
4 Dear Father: let me never be
Join'd with the boasting Pharisee!
I have no merits of my own,
But plead the suff rings of thy Son.
Holiness and Grace.
1 O 0 let our lips and lives express
^ The holy gospel we profess ;
So let our works and virtues shine,
To prove the doctrine all divine.
2 Thus shall we best proclaim abroad
The honours of our Saviour God,
PtoNtt*.
130.
L.M,
Phil. ii.
"2; Ephc<
iv. 30, &c
131.
L. M.
Luke
xviii. 10.
&c.
132.
L.M.
Titus ii
10—13.
IIYMX CXXXIII
132.
133.
CM.
1 Cor.
xiii.2— 7,
13.
When the Miration reigns within,
And grace subdues the power of sin.
3 Our flesh and MOM man be denied,
i and envy, lust and pride;
"Whilst justice, temperance, truth, and love,
Our inward piety approve.
4 Religion bears our spirits up,
While we expect that blessed hope,
The bright appearance of the Lord,
And faith stands leaning on his word.
Lore and Charity.
1 T ET Pharisees of high esteem
-AJ Their faith and zeal declare;
All their religion is a dream,
If love be wanting there.
2 Love suffers long with patient eye,
Nor is provoked in haste;
She lets the present injury die,
And long forgets the past.
3 [Malice and rage, those fires of hell,
She quenches with her tongue ;
Hopes and believes, and thinks no ill,
Though she endure the wr<-ng.]
4 [She nor desires nor seeks to know
sandals of the time;
Nor looks with pride on those below,
Nor i that climb.]
5 She lays her own advant;._
• k her neighbour's good;
So G S cams down I
And bought our lives with blood.
| ]. ii.it keeps hei |
In all the realms ;.
There faith and h< ■
But - love.
BOOK I.
HYMN CXXXVI.
363
Religion vain without Love.
1 TTAD I the tongues of Greeks and Jews,
J- J- And nobler speech than angels use,
If love be absent, I am found
Like tinkling brass, an empty sound.
2 Were I inspired to preach and tell
All that is done in heaven and hell,
Or could my faith the world remove,
Still I am nothing without love.
3 Should I distribute all my store
To feed the bowels of the poor,
Or give my body to the flame,
To gain a martyr's glorious name ;
4 If love to God and love to men
Be absent, all my hopes are vain ;
Nor tongues, nor gifts, nor fiery zeal,
The work of love can e'er fulfil.
The Love of Christ shed abroad in the Heart.
1 r\ OME, dearest Lord, descend and dwell
^ By faith and love in every breast;
Then shall we know, and taste, and feel
The joys that cannot be express'd.
2 Come, fill our hearts with inward strength,
Make our enlarged souls possess,
And learn the height, and breadth, and
Of thine unmeasurable grace. [length
3 Now to the God whose power can do
More than our thoughts or wishes know,
Be everlasting honours done
By all the church, through Christ his Son.
Sincerity and Hypocrisy.
1 f^\ OD is a Spirit, just and wise,
VX He sees our inmost mind ;
In vain to heaven we raise our cries,
And leave our souls behind.
364
HYMN CXXXVIII.
f*5mn.
136.
r. ML
John IT.
24; Pa
cxxxix.
23, 24.
137.
L. M.
2 Tim. i.
9,10.
138.
*2 Nothing bat trutli before bii tl u
With honour can appear;
The painted hypocrites are known
Through the disguise they wear.
3 Their Lifted •
Their !■• the gronnd;
]>ut God abhors the lauMha
Where DOt the heart is found.
4 Lord, March my thoughts, and try my ways
And make my so*] smeere ;
Then shall I stand beJeTC thy I
And find arifpptenrffi there.
Ion by Grace in •
1 "V[OW to the power oi I
■I-* Be everlasting henoura given ;
He tares from hell, ire blest hit name.
He calls our wandering feet to U
2 Not for our duties or d<
But of his own abounding |
He work- salvation in our I
And forms a people f-r hk |
3 Twas his own purpose that 1 •• g
To ret) in d to die :
Ho gave as grace in Christ hi- Son
Before he spread tl •
The Lord appears at
And makes his Fs - known;
Declares the great brans)
And brings immorl dowa.
5 He dies, and in that dreadful night
Did all the powers of hell <i
Rising, he brought our heaven to tight,
And to..k possession of the joy,
I "OH stands,
-I- My Lord, my h- pa, my ferastj
HYMN CXL.
365
If I am found in Jesus' hands,
My soul can ne'er be lost.
2 His honour is engaged to save
The meanest of his sheep :
All that his heavenly Father gave
His hands securely keep.
3 Nor death, nor hell, shall e'er remove
His favourites froni his breast ;
In the dear bosom of his love
They must for ever rest.
Hope in the Covenant.
1 TT OW oft have sin and Satan strove
J--1- To rend my soul from thee, my God !
But everlasting is thy love,
xVnd Jesus seals it with his blood.
2 The oath and promise of the Lord
Join to confirm the wondrous grace ;
Eternal power performs the word,
And fills all heaven with endless praise.
3 Amidst temptations sharp and long,
My soul to this dear refuge flies ;
Hope is my anchor, firm and strong,
While tempests blow and billows rise.
4 The gospel bears my spirit up ;
A faithful and unchanging God
Lays the foundation for my hope
In oaths, and promises, and blood.
A living and a dead Faith.
Collected from several Scriptures.
1 1%/TlS TAKEN souls, that dream of
jjJl heaven,
And make their empty boast
Of inward joys, and sins forgiven,
While they are slaves to lust !
2 Vain are our fancies, airy flights,
If faith be cold and dead,
138.
CM.
John x.
28, 29.
139.
L. M.
Heb. vi.
17—19.
140.
CM.
366
HYMN rxLl.
fcpmn.
fyvmn.
141.
S. M.
Isa. liii.
1-5,
10-12.
None but a living power unites
To Christ the tiring hpad.
3 Tis faith that changes all the heart;
'Tis faith that works by love,
That bids all sinful joys depart,
And lifts the thoughts above.
4 'Tis faith that conquers earth and hell,
By a celestial power;
This is the grace that shall prevail
In the decisive hour.
5 [Faith must obey her Father's will
As well as trust his g
A pardoning God is jealous still
For his own holiness.]
6 When from the curse he sets us free,
He makes our natures clean :
Nor would he send his Sou to be
The minister of sin.
7 [His Spirit purifies our frame,
And seals our peace with God;
Jesus and his salvation came
By water and by blood.]
Humiliation and Exaltation of Christ,
i "\V H0 hath l>eliev,i tl,y wor<1»
» » Or thy salvation known !
Reveal thine arm. Almighty Lord,
And glorify thy Son.
2 The Jews esteem'd him here
Too mean for their I
Sorrows hie chief acquaintance were.
Ami hi-? companion grief
3 They turn'd their eyei
And treated him with scorn;
But 'twas their griefs upon him lay.
Their sorrows he has borne.
4 Twas for the stubl-orn Jews,
And Gentiles Uien unknown,
HYMN CXLII.
367
The God of justice pleased to bruise
His best- beloved Son.
5 " But I'll prolong his days,
And make his kingdom stand ;
My pleasure," saith the God of grace,
" Shall prosper in his hand."
> [" His joyful soul shall see
The purchase of his pain,
And by his knowledge justify
The guilty sons of men.]
' [" Ten thousand captive slaves,
Released from death and sin,
Shall quit their prisons and their graves,
And own his power divine.]
( [" Heaven shall advance my Son
To joys that earth denied ;
Who saw the follies men had done,
And bore their sins and died."]
Humiliation and Exaltation of Christ.
LIKE sheep we went astray,
And broke the fold of God,
Each wandering in a different way,
But all the downward road.
! How dreadful was the hour
When God our wanderings laid,
And did at once his vengeance pour
Upon the Shepherd's head !
; How glorious was the grace
When Christ sustain 'd the stroke !
His life and blood the Shepherd pays
A ransom for the flock.
His honour and his breath
Were taken both away,
Join'd with the wicked in his death,
And made as vile as they.
But God shall raise his head
O'er all the sons of men
?§!£mn.
141.
142.
S. M.
Isa. liii.
6—12.
368
HYMN CXLIII.
1300 K I.
And make him K6 a minur
T<» recompense his pain.
" I'll give him," saith the L. rd,
" A portion with the strong;
lie .-hall pttSMI a large reward,
And hold his honours Ion-'."
143.
CM.
From
several
Scrip-
tures.
Charaf hxldren.
1 O 0 new-born babes desire the breast,
^-} To feed, and grow, and thrive;
So saints with joy the gospel taste,
And by the gospel live.
2 [With inward gust their heart approves
All that the word n
They love the men their Father
And hate the works he hates.]
3 [Not all the flattering baits on earth
Can make them slaves to lust;
They can't forget their heavenly birth,
Nor grovel in the dust.
4 Not all Hie chains that tyrants use
Shall bind then- souls to vice;
Faith, like a conqueror, can produce
A thousand victories.]
5 [Grace, like an unrorrupted seed,
Abides and reigns within;
Immortal principles forbid
The son> of God to sin.]
6" [Not by the terrors of a slave-
Do they perforin his will,
But with the noblest powers they have,
His sweet commands fullil.]
7 They find acee-s at every hour
To God within the veil ;
Hence they derive a <piick'ning power,
And joys that never fail.
8 0 happy Bonis ! M glorious
( U 01 1 ill' "
HYMN CXLV.
369
To dwell so near their Father's seat,
And see his lovely face?
9 Lord, I address thy heavenly throne ;
Call me a child of thine;
Send down the Spirit of thy Son
To form my heart divine.
10 There shed thy choicest loves abroad,
And make my comforts strong :
Then shall I say, "my Father God!"
With an unwavering tongue.
Tlie witnessing and sealing Spirit.
1 TTT HY should the children of a king
» ▼ Go mourning all their days?
Great Comforter! descend and bring
Some tokens of thy grace.
2 Dost thou not dwell in all the saints,
And seal them heirs of heaven ?
When wilt thou banish my complaints,
And show my sins forgiven?
3 Assure my conscience of her part
In the Redeemer's blood ;
And bear thy witness with my heart,
That I am born of God.
4 Thou art the earnest of his love,
The pledge of joys to come;
And thy soft wings, celestial Dove,
Will safe convey me home.
Christ and Aaron.
1 TESUS, in thee our eyes behold
*J A thousand glories more
Than the rich gems and polish'd gold
The sons of Aaron wore.
2 Theyfirst their own burnt-off 'rings brought
To purge themselves from sin ;
Thy life was pure without a spot,
And all thy nature clean.
143.
144.
CM.
Rom.viii.
14, 16;
Ephes. L
13, 14.
145.
C. M.
Heb. viL
and ix.
370
HYMN CXLVL
145.
146.
L. M.
3 [Fiesfa blood, as constant M the day,
AYas on their altar spilt;
But thy oik' offering takes away
For ever all our guilt.]
4 [Their priesthood ran through sev'ral
For mortal *ru their race; [hands,
Thy never-changing office stands
Eternal as thy days.]
5 [Once in the circuit of a year,
With Upod hut not his own,
Aaron within the vail a] ■;■•
Before the golden throne;
6 But Christ, by his own powerful blood,
Ascends above the skies,
And in the presence of our God
Shows his own sacrifice.]
7 Jesus, the King of glory, reigns
On Sion's heavenly hill;
Looks like a lamb that has been slain,
And wears his priesthood still.
8 He ever lives to intercede
Before his Father's face ;
Give him, my soul, thy cause to plead.
Nor doubt the Father's grace.
Charactirs of Christ.
Borrowed from inanimate things in Scripture.
1 /~^ 0 worship at Immanuel's feet,
VJT See in his face what wonders meet!
Earth is too narrow to express
His worth, his glory, or his gnOB,
2 [The whole creation can aflbrd
But some faint shadows of my Lord;
Nature, to make his beauties known.
Must mingle colours not her own.]
3 [Is he compared to wine or I
Dear Lord, oar souls would thus be fed;
HYMN CXLVI.
371
That flesh, that dying blood of thine,
Is bread of life, is heavenly wine.]
4 [Is he a tree? The world receives
Salvation from his healing leaves ;
That righteous branch, that fruitful bough,
Is David's root and offspring too.]
5 [Is he a rose? Not Sharon yields
Such fragrancy in all her fields ;
Or if the lily he assume,
The valleys bless the rich perfume.]
6 [Is he a vine? His heavenly root
Supplies the boughs with life and fruit;
O let a lasting union join
My soul to Christ, the living vine!]
7 [Is he the head? Each member lives,
And owns the vital power he gives ;
The saints below and saints above
Join'd by his Spirit and his love.]
8 [Is he a fountain? There I bathe,
And heal the plague of sin and death ;
These waters all my soul renew,
And cleanse my spotted garments too.]
9 [Is he a fire? He'll purge my dross:
But the true gold sustains no loss :
Like a refiner shall he sit,
And tread the refuse with his feet.]
10 [Is he a rock? How firm he proves!
The Rock of Ages never moves ;
Yet the sweet streams that from him flow
Attend us all the desert through.]
11 [Is he a way? He leads to God,
The path is drawn in lines of blood ;
There would I walk with hope and zeal,
Till I arrive at Sion's hill.]
12 [Is he a door? I'll enter in;
Behold the pastures huge and green;
146.
372
HYMN CXLVII.
$pmn.
146.
£?pmn.
147.
L M.
From
Sorip-
tur- I,
A paradise divinely fair;
None l»ut the afaeep hare freedom there]
13 [Is he deeign'd thr corner-si
Tor inon to build their heaven upon?
I'll make him my foundation too,
Nor fear the plotl of hell below.]
14 [Is lie a temple 1 I adore
Th' indwelling majesty and power;
And still to this most holy place,
"Whene'er I pray, I'll tarn my face.]
15 [Is be a itarl Be breaka the i.
Piercing the shades with dawning light;
I know his gloriei from afar,
I know the bright, the morning-star.]
16 [Is he a sun? His beams
His course is joy and rigl
Nations rejoice when he a]
To cha.se their clouds and dry th<
i7 O let me climb those higher sk
Where storm- and darkn<
There he displays his power abi
And shines and reigns th' incanu
18 Nor earth, i.
Nor heaven, bis lull resemblance I
1 li- 1"
Till we behold him fee to Cur.
1 ruL
1 r*rilI8 from the treason
L J- 1 borrow title- for my Lord;
Nor art nor nature can supply
Sufficient form- of majesty.
•_• Bright in a ji <■■ the Father*! face,
Bhining with undiminish'd
Th' eternal < Jod'a « terns -
The heir and partner <d hi> throne.]
3 The King of kin--, the Lord most high,
Writes his own name upon hi- t:
BOOK I.
HYMN CXLVIII.
373
He wears a garment dipp'd in blood,
And breaks the nations with his rod.
4 Where grace can neither melt nor move.
The lamb resents his injured love;
Awakes his wrath without delay,
And Judah's lion tears the prey.
5 But when for works of peace he comes,
What winning titles he assumes!
Light of the world, and Life of men ;
Nor bears those characters in vain.
6 With tender pity in his heart,
He acts the Mediator's part;
A friend and brother he appears,
And well fulfils the names he wears. .
7 At length the Judge his throne ascends,
Divides the rebels from his friends,
And saints in full fruition prove
His rich variety of love.
The Names and Titles of Cftrist.
1 r\TTITH cheerful voice I sing
L T V The titles of my Lord,
And borrow all the names
Of honour from his word :
Nature and art can ne'er supply
Sufficient forms of majesty.
2 In Jesus we behold
His Father's glorious face,
Shining for ever bright
With mild and lovely rays :
Th' eternal God's eternal Son
Inherits and partakes the throne.]
3 The so v 'reign King of kings,
The Lord of lords most high,
Writes his own name upon
His garment and his thigh :
His name is call'd the Word of God;
He rules the earth with iron rod.
147.
148.
As the
48 th
Psalm.
From
several
Scrip-
tures.
374
HYMN CXLIX,
jjrmn. 4 When promia
n Can neither melt nor dm
1 4 0. The angry Lamb i •
The injuria of hie lore :
Awakes his wrath without delay.
As lions r<»ar, and tear their prey.
5 But when for worke of peaee
The great Red emer comes,
What gentle eharai
What titles be aM
Light of the world, and Life of men;
Nor will he hear those namee in vain.
6 ImmciiM' oompaation n
In our Immanoel'i heart,
When he deteendi to act
A lAediator'i part i
I If i- a Friend and Brother too,
Divinely kind, divinely true.
7 At length the Lord, the ■
His awful throne ;i-
And drives the rebell tar
From favourites and friends:
Then shall the -aint< completely prove
The height* and depths of all his love.
The <>■
1 TOIX all the namee of lore and powet
9J That ever men or ai
All are too mean to ipeak his worth,
• hnmannel'a glory forth,
2 But 0 what condescending
11.- takes U) teach his heavenly
My eves with joy and WOttdl
What fcrmi of lore he bean for me.
3 [The Angel of the oor'nant stands
With his eommienoS i" his hands.
ker'l milder throne.
T«. make the gn at Miration known. J
fcpmn.
149.
L. M.
From
■en ral
Scrip-
tures.
HYMN CXLIX.
375
4 Great Prophet, let me bless thy name ;
By thee the joyful tidings came
Of wrath appeased, of sins forgiven,
Of hell subdued, and peace with heaven.]
5 [My bright Example, and my Guide,
I would be walking near thy side;
0 let me never run astray,
Nor follow the forbidden way !]
6 [I love my Shepherd : he shall keep
My wand'ring soul among his sheep ;
He feeds his flock, he calls their names,
And in his bosom bears the lambs.]
7 [My Surety undertakes my cause,
Answering his Father's broken laws;
Behold my soul at freedom set,
My Surety paid the dreadful debt.]
8 [Jesus, my great High Priest, has died ;
1 seek no sacrifice beside ;
His blood did once for all atone,
And now it pleads before the throne.]
9 [My Advocate appears on high,
The Father lays his thunder by :
Not all that earth or hell can say
Shall turn my Father's heart away.]
10 [My Lord, my Conqu'ror, and my King,
Thy sceptre and thy sword I sing;
Thine is the vict'ry, and I sit
A joyful subject at thy feet.]
11 [Aspire, my soul, to glorious deeds,
The Captain of salvation leads;
March on, nor fear to win the day.
Though death and hell obstruct the way.
12 [Should death, and hell, and powers un-
Put all their forms of mischief on, [known,
I shall be safe; for Christ displays
Salvation in more sov'reign ways.]
376^
JfcfM*.
150.
As the
148th.
From
Beveral
Scrip-
tures.
HYMN OL.
The Offices trf '
1 TOIN all the gloriooi names
J Of irisdom, love, and power,
That ever mortals knew,
That Angela ever bore :
All are too mean to speak his worth,
Too mean to set my Saviour forth.
2 But 0 what gentle terms,
What eondescendmg ways,
Doth our Redeemer use
To teach his heavenly grace !
Mine eves with joy and wonder see
What forms of love he bears for me.
3 [Array 'd in mortal flesh,
He like an angel stands,
And holds the promises
And pardons in his hands,
Commissioned from his Father's throne
To make his grace tomortals known.]
4 [Great Prophet of my God,
My tongue would bless thy name ;
By thee the joyful news
Of our salvation came;
The joyful news of sins forgiven.
Of hell subdued, and peace with heaven.
5 [Be thou my counsellor,
Mv pattern, and my guide;
And through this desert land
Still keep me near thy side:
O let mv feet ne'er ran astray,
Nor rate, nor seek the crooked way.]
6 [I love my Shepherd's I
His watchful eyes shall i
Mv waiid'rini: soul among
The thousands of his sheep:
He feed* hia Boek, he calls their names,
His bosom bears the tender lambs.]
HYMN CL.
377
[To this dear Surety's hand
Will I commit my cause;
He answers and fulfils
His Father's broken laws :
Behold my soul at freedom set !
My Surety paid the dreadful debt.]
[Jesus, my great High Priest,
Offer'd his blood, and died;
My guilty conscience seeks
No sacrifice beside :
His powerful blood did once atone,
And now it pleads before the throne.]
[My Advocate appears
For my defence on high ;
The Father bows his ears,
And lays his thunder by:
Not all that hell or sin can say
Shall turn his heart, his lovfe away.]
[My dear Almighty Lord,
My Conqu'ror and my King,
Thy sceptre and thy sword,
Thy reigning grace, 1 sing :
Thine is the power; behold, I sit
In willing bonds beneath thy feet.]
[Now let my soul arise,
And tread the tempter down :
My Captain leads me forth
To conquest and a crown :
A feeble saint shall win the day,
Though death and hell obstruct the way.]
! Should all the hosts of death,
And powers of hell unknown,
Put their most dreadful forms
Of rage and mischief on :
I shall be safe, for Christ displays
Superior power and guardian grace.
END OF BOOK I.
&rmn.
1.
L.M.
HYMNS.
BOOK II.
COMPOSED OX DIVINE SUBJECTS.
A Sony in Praise to God from Gnat Britain.
1 "VTATURE with all her powers shall sing
-L^ God the Creator and the King:
Nor aii-, nor earth, nor ilrii
Deny the tribute of their praise.
2 [Begin to make his glories known,
Ye seraphs that sit near his throne;
Tune your harps high, and spread the sound
To the creation" s utmost bound.]
3 [All mortal things of meaner frame,
Exert your force, and own his name:
"Whilst with our souls and with our voice
"We sing his honours and our joys.]
4 [To him be sacred all we have,
From the young cradle to the grave;
Our lips shall his loud wonders tell,
And every word a miracle.]
5 [This northern isle, our native land,
fa in the Almighty's hand;
( >ur foes of victory dream in vain,
And wear tin- captivating chain.
6 lb- builds and guards the British throne,
And makes it gracious like his own;
; successive princes kind.
And gives our dangers to the wind.]
monumental praises high
To him that thunders through the iky,
HYMN II.
379
And with an awful nod or frown
Shakes an aspiring tyrant down.
8 [Pillars of lasting brass proclaim
The triumphs of th' eternal name ;
While trembling nations read from far
The honours of the God of war.]
9 Thus let our flaming zeal employ
Our loftiest thoughts and loudest songs:
Britain, pronounce with warmest joy
Hosannah from ten thousand tongues.
10 Yet,mighty God ! our feeble frame
Attempts in vain to reach thy name ;
The strongest notes that angels raise
Faint in the worship and the praise.
The Death of a Sinner.
1 ~]\/TY thoughts on awful subjects roll, —
JLYJL Damnation and the dead :
What horrors seize the guilty soul
Upon a dying bed !
2 Lingering about these mortal shores,
She makes a long delay,
Till, like a flood with rapid force,
Death sweeps the wretch away.
3 Then swift and dreadful she descends
Down to the fiery coast,
Amongst abominable fiends,.
Herself a frightful ghost.
4 There endless crowds of sinners lie,
And darkness makes their chains ;
Tortured with keen despair they cry,
Yet wait for fiercer pains.
5 Not all their anguish and their blood
For their old guilt atones,
Nor the compassion of a God
Shall hearken to their groans.
6 Amazing grace ! that kept my breath,
Nor bade my soul remove,
380
HYMN IV.
Till I had learn d my Saviour's death,
And well insured his
*?J?mn.
The Death and Burial of a Saint.
3.
1 ^llT'-il'i' do we mourn departing friends
* » Or shake at death's alarm- 1
C. M.
'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends
To call them to his arms.
2 Are we not tending upward too,
it as time can move?
Nor would we wish the hours more slow
To keep us from our lore.
3 "Why should we tremble to convey
Their bodies to the tomb!
There the dear flesh of Jesus lay,
And left a long perfume.
4 The graves of all his saints he 1
And Boften'd every bed :
Where should the dying members rest,
But with their dying Head?
5 Thence he arose, ascending high,
And sbow'd <»ur feet the way;
Up to the Lord our flesh shall fly,
At the great rising day.
6 Then let the last loud trumpet sound,
And bid our kindred ri-e:
Awake, ye nations under ground!
Ye saints, ascend th'
$pmn.
it ion in the C.
4.
1 TTERE at thy cross, my dyi) g
i-1- I lay my >«>ul beneath thy ]<>ve,
L. M.
Beneath the droppings of thy blood,
Jesus, DOT shall it e'er n :
9 Mot all that tyrants think or say,
With rage and lightning in their
Nor hell shall fright my heart away,
Should hell with all its I •
HYMN V.
381
3 Should worlds conspire to drive me thence,
Moveless and firm this heart should lie,
Resolved, for that's my last defence,
If I must perish, there to die.
4 But speak, my Lord, and calm my fear :
Am I not safe beneath thy shade?
Thy vengeance will not strike me here,
Nor Satan dare my soul invade.
5 Yes, I'm secure beneath thy blood?
And all my foes shall lose their aim :
Hosannah to my dying God !
And my best honours to his name !
Longing to praise Christ letter.
1 T ORD, when my thoughts with wonder
-Li roll
O'er the sharp soitoavs of thy soul,
And read my Maker's broken laws
Repair'd and honour'd by thy cross ;
2 When I behold death, hell, and sin,
Vanquish'd by that dear blood of thine,
And see the man that groan'd and died
Sit glorious by his Father's side;
3 My passions rise and soar above,
I'm wing'd with faith, and fired with love ;
Fain would I reach eternal things,
And learn the notes that Gabriel sings.
4 But my heart fails, my tongue complains,
For want of their immortal strains :
And in such humble notes as these,
Must fall below thy victories.
5 Well, the kind minute must appear
When we shall leave these bodies here,
These clogs of clay, and mount on high
To join the songs above the sky.
4.
5.
L. M.
382
IIYMX VII.
6.
CM.
7.
CM.
A Morning
1 /~\NC'E more, my bouI, the rising day
^-^ Salutes thy v.
Once more, my roice, thy tribute pay
To Him that rules the .skies.
'2 Night unto night his name repeats,
The day renews the sound,
AVide as the heaven on which he sits
To turn the seasons round.
'S 'Tis be supports my mortal frame,
My tongue shall speak his ]»raise;
My eins would rouse his wrath to ilame.
And yet his wrath delays.
4 [On a poor worm thy power might tread,
And I could ne'er withstand;
Thy Justice might have crush'd me dead,
But mercy held thine hand.
5 A thousand wretched seals are lied
►Since the Last setting sun.
And yet thou length'nest out my thread,
And yet my moments run.]
6 Deal- God! let all my hours be thine,
Whilst 1 enjoy the Light;
Then .-hall my sun in smiles decline,
And brim; a pleasant night.
^READ Sovereign! let my evening
song
hike holy incense rise;
Assist the offerings of my tongue
T<> reach the lofty
2 Through all the dangers of the day
Thy hand was still my guard,
Anil Mill t<> drive my wan- -
Thy mercy stood prepared.]
1 [Dni
BOOK ir.
HYMN VIII.
383
3 Perpetual blessings from above
Encompass me around,
But O how few returns of love
Hath my Creator found!
4 What have I done for him that died
To save my wretched soul?
How are .my follies multiplied,
Fast as my minutes roll!
5 Lord, with this guilty heart of mine
To thy dear cross I flee ;
And to thy grace my soul resign
To be renew 'd by thee.
6 Sprinkled afresh with pard'ning blood,
I lay me down to rest,
As in th' embraces of my God,
Or on my Saviour's breast.
A Hymn for Morning or Evening.
1 TTOSANNAH, with a cheerful sound,
J- JL To God's upholding hand!
Ten thousand snares attend us round,
And yet secure we stand.
2 That was a most amazing power
That raised us with a word,
And every day and every hour
We lean upon the Lord.
3 The evening rests our wearied head,
And angels guard the room ;
We wake, and we admire the bed
That was not made our tomb.
4 The rising morning can't assure
That we shall end the day;
For death stands ready at the door
To seize our lives away.
5 Our breath is forfeited by sin
To God's avenging law ;
We own thy grace, Immortal King,
In every gasp we draw.
7.
8.
CM.
384 HYMN X. book ii
6 God is our sun, whose daily light
Our joy and safety b
Our feeble flesh lies safe at night
Beneath his shady wings.
Godly Sorrow oruimgfrom the Sufferings of
GkriiL
9.
CM.
1 A LAS ! and did my Saviour bleed?
-£*- And did my Sovereign die?
"Would he devote that sacred head
For such a worm as 1 1
2 [Thy body slain, sweet Jesus, thine.
And bathed in its own blood.
While all exposed to wrath divine
The glorious Suff'rer stood.]
3 Was it for crimes that I had done
He groan'd upon th<
Amazing pity '. grace unknown !
And love beyond c-
4 AVell might the sun in darkness hide,
And shut his glories in,
"When God, the mighty Maker, died,
For man, the creature's sin.
5 Thus might I hide my blushing face
While his dear cn-» app
Dissolve my heart in thankfuli
And melt my ey.s to tear-.
6 But drops of grief can ne'er repay
The debt of l<-ve 1 0W8 ;
Here, Lord, 1 give myself away;
- all that 1 can do.
Jjrmn.
1 A 1 "JIT V soul forsakes her vain delight!
1 v. 1>1 Aud huU llu. %vor],i farowt.ll,
C, m. - the dirt beneath n
And mischk
HYMN XL
385
2 No longer will I ask your love,
Nor seek your friendship more ;
The happiness that I approve
Is not within your power.
3 There's nothing round this spacious earth
That suits my large desire ;
To boundless joy and solid mirth
My nobler thoughts aspire.
4 [Where pleasure rolls its living flood,
From sin and dross refined,
Still springing from the throne of God,
And fit to cheer the mind.
5 Th' almighty Ruler of the sphere,
The glorious and the great,
Brings his own all-sufficience there,
To make our bliss complete.]
6 Had I the pinions of a dove,
I'd climb the heavenly road ;
There sits my Saviour dress'd in love,
And there my smiling God.
Parting with Carnal Joys.
1 T SEND the joys of earth away;
-L Away, ye tempters of the mind !
False as the smooth deceitful sea,
And empty as the whistling wind.
2 Your streams were floating me along
Down to the gulf of black despair,
And whilst I listen'd to your song,
Your streams had e'en convey 'd me there.
3 Lord, I adore thy matchless grace,
That warn'd me of that dark abyss,
That drew me from those treach'rous seas,
And bid me seek superior bliss.
4 Now to the shining realms above
I stretch my hands, and glance mine eyes;
0 for the pinions of a dove,
To bear me to the upper skies !
10.
I^pntn.
11.
L. M.
386
HYMN XI IT.
12.
C. M.
13.
L. M.
6 There, from the bosom of my God^
Oceans of endless pleasures roll;
There would I fix my last abode,
And drown the sorrows of my soul.
Chriit it tike Substance of tl>c Lcvitical J'
1 rrUIE true Messiah now app
J- The types are all withdrawn;
So fly the shadows and the stars
Before the rising dawn.
2 No smoking sweets, nor bleeding lambs.
Nor kid. DOT bullock -lain ;
Incense and spice of costly names
Would all he burnt in vain.
3 Aaron must lay his robes away,
His mitre and his vest,
When God himself comes down to be
The off ring and the priest
4 He took our mortal flesh, to show
The wonders of his love ;
For us he paid his life below,
And prays for us above.
5 " Father," he cries, " forgive their sins,
For I myself have died ;"
And then he shows his open'd veins,
And pleads his wounded
Creation, 1 RettOMr
tin)) Of tKU R
1 QTXG to the Lord that built th-
O The Lord that rear*d this -lately frame;
iM the nations sound his pi
And lands unknown repeat his name.
2 He form'd the seas, and form'd the hills,
Made every drop, and every dust.
\ re and time, with all their wheels,
And push'd them into motion first
from hi- high imperial tbr
He looks far down upon the Bph<
J
HYMN XV.
387
He bids the shining orbs roll on,
And round he turns the hasty years.
4 Thus shall this moving engine last
Till all his saints are gather'd in ;
Then for the trumpet's dreadful blast,
To shake it all to dust again !
5 Yet, when the sound shall tear the skies,
And lightning burn the globe below,
Saints, you may lift your joyful eyes,
There's a new heaven and earth for you.
The Lord's Day.
1 "TTTELCOME, sweet day of rest,
» ' That saw the Lord arise ;
Welcome to this reviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes !
2 The King himself comes near,
And feasts his saints to-day ;
Here we may sit, and see him here,
And love, and praise, and pray.
3 One day amidst the place
Where my dear God hath been,
Is sweeter than ten thousand days
Of pleasurable sin.
4 My willing soul would stay
In such a frame as this,
And sit, and sing herself away
To everlasting bliss.
Delight in Worship.
1 ~C1 AR from my thoughts, vain world, be-
-L Let my religious hours alone ; [gone,
Fain would my eyes my Saviour see ;
I wait a visit, Lord, from thee.
2 My heart grows warm with holy fire,
And kindles with a pure desire ;
Come, my dear Jesus, from above,
And feed my soul with heavenly love.
JSS
HYMN XVI.
3 [The trees of lift immortal stand
Iu fragrant rows at thy right hand;
And iu sweet murmurs, hy thy side,
Rivera of bliss perpetual glide.
4 Haste, then, out with a smiling face,
And spread the table of thy grace;
Bring down a taste of truth divine,
And cheer my heart with sacred wine.]
5 liless'd Jesus, what delicious fare !
How sweet thy entertainments are!
Never did angels taste above
Bedeeming grace, and dying lore.
G Hail, great Immanuel, all divine!
In thee thy Father's glories shine;
Thou brightest, sweetest, fairest one,
That eyes have seen or angels known!
Deliyht in Ordinances.
1 T ORD, what a heaven of saving grace
-L^ Shines through the beauties of thy face,
And lights our passions to a flame !
Lord, how we love thy charming name!
2 "When 1 can say, •• My God is mine,"
"When I can feel thy glories shine,
I tread the world beneath my feet.
And all that earth calls good OT gftal
'.l While Mich a Boene of sacred joyi
Our raptured eyes and souls amp]
Here we could sit, and gaze away
A long and everlasting day.
4 Well, we shall quickly pass the night
To the fair coasts of perfect light j
Then shall our joylul senses rove
O'er the dear object <<t' 001
5 [There shall we drink full draughts of bliss
And pluck new life from heavenly trees;
Yet. now and then, dear Lord. 1 •
A drop of heaven on worms below.
HYMN XVIII.
389
6 Send comforts down from thy right hand,
While we pass through this barren land,
And in thy temple let us see
A glimpse of love, a glimpse of thee.]
God's Eternity.
1 T> ISE, rise, my soul, and leave the ground,
J-U Stretch all thy thoughts abroad,
And rouse up every tuneful sound
To praise th' eternal God.
2 Long ere the lofty skies were spread,
Jehovah fill'd his throne;
Or Adam form'd, or angels made,
The Maker lived alone.
3 His boundless years can ne'er decrease,
But still maintain their prime;
Eternity's his dwelling-place,
And ever is his time.
4 While like a tide our minutes liow,
The present and the past,
He fills his own immortal now,
And sees our ages waste.
5 The sea and sky must perish too,
And vast destruction come ;
The creatures — look ! how old they grow,
And wait their fiery doom ! .
6 Well, let the sea shrink all away,
And flame melt down the skies;
My God shall live an endless day,
When th' 6ld creation dies.
The Ministry of Angels.
1 TTIGH on a hill of dazzling light
A-L The King of glory spreads his seat,
And troops of angels stretch 'd for flight | l# m.
Stand waiting round his awful feet. 1
2 " Go," saith the Lord, " my Gabriel, go, j
Salute the Virgin's fruitful womb ; I
390
HYMN XIX.
18.
&pmn.
19.
CM.
Make haste, ye cherubs, down below,
Sing and proclaim the Saviour come."
;} Here a bright squadron leaves the skies,
And thick around Elisha stands;
Anon a heavenly soldier flies,
And breaks the chains from Peter's hands
4 Thy winged troops, 0 God of h
"Wait on thy wand'ring church below;
Here we are sailing to thy i
Let angels he OUT COnYOJ
5 Are they not all thy servants, Lord I
At thy command they go and come;
With cheerful haste obey thy word,
And guard thy children to their home.
Our frail Bodies, and God our Preserver.
1 T ET others boast how strong they be,
-L^ Nor death nor danger fear;
But we'll confess, O Lord, to thee,
What feeble things we are.
2 Fresh as the grass our bodies stand,
And flourish bright and gay;
A blasting wind sweeps o*er the laud.
And fades the grass away.
3 Our life contains a thousand springs,
And dies if one be gone ;
Strange, that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long:
4 But 'tis our God supports our frame.
The God that built us first;
Salvation both* Almighty n;mie
That rear'd us from the dust.
5 [lb' spoke, and straight our Q4
In all their motions [brains
" Let blood (said he) flow round U
And round the veins it flows.
6 While we have breath, or u
Our Maker we'll ad-iv ;
HYMN XX.
391
His Spirit moves our heaving lungs,
Or they would breathe no more.]
BacTcslidings and Returns.
1 TTTHY is my heart so far from thee,
y y My God, my chief delight?
Why are my thoughts no more by day
With thee, no more by night?
2 [Why should my foolish passions rove?
Where can such sweetness be
As I have tasted in thy love,
As I have found in thee?]
3 When my forgetful soul renews
The savour of thy grace,
My heart presumes I cannot lose
The relish all my days.
4 But e'er one fleeting hour is past,
The fiatt'ring world employs
Some sensual bait to seize my taste,
And to pollute my joys.
5 [Trifles of nature or of art,
With fair deceitful charms,
Intrude into my thoughtless heart,
And thrust me from thy arms.]
6 Then I repent and vex my soul
That I should leave thee so ;
Where will those wild affections roll
That let a Saviour go?
7 [Sin's promised joys are turn'd to pain,
And I am drown'd in grief:
But my dear Lord returns again,
He flies to my relief.
8 Seizing my soul with sweet surprise.
He draws with loving bands ;
Divine compassion in his eyes,
And pardon in his hands.]
9 [Wretch that I am to wander thus
In chase of false delight !
20.
CM.
392
HYMN XXII.
^pmn.
21.
L. M.
22.
L. M.
Let me be fasten'd to thy i
Rather than lo<=p tliy sicrht.]
10 [Make haste, my flays, to reach the goal,
An<l bring my heart to rest
On the dear centre of my soul,
My God, my Saviour's bi
A Song of Praise to God the Red*
1 T ET the old heathens tune their
-" Of great Diana and of Jove;
But the sweet theme thai moTei my tongue
Is my Redeemer and his love.
2 Behold a God descends and dies
To save my soul from gaping hell :
How the black gulf where Satan lies
Yawn'd to receive me when I fell!
3 How justice frown'd and vengeance stood,
To drive me down to endless pain !
But. the great Son proposed his blood,
And heavenly wrath grew mild again.
4 Infinite Lover! gracious Lord!
To thee be endless honours given;
Thy wondrous name shall be adored
Round the wide earth and wider heaven.
With G Majesty.
1 mERRIBLE God, that reign's! on high,
J- How awful is thy thundering hand !
Thy fiery bolts, how fierce they ftyl
Nor can ail earth or hell withstand.
2 This the old rebel angels knew.
And Satan fell heneath thy frowns
Thine arrows struck the traitor through,
And weighty vengeance sunk hhn down.
3 This Sodom felt, and feeli it still,
And roars beneath th' eternal load;
" With endless burnings who can dwell?
Or bear the fury of a God '"
HYMN XXIII.
393
4 Tremble, ye sinners, and submit;
Throw down your arms before his throne ;
Bend your heads low beneath his feet,
Or his strong hand shall crush you down.
5 And ye bless'd saints, that love him too,
With reverence bow before his name;
Thus all his heavenly servants do ;
God is a bright and burning flame.
The sight of God and Christ in Heaven.
1 T\ESCENDfrom heaven, immortal Dove,
J-' Stoop down and take us on thy wings,
And mount and bear us far above
The reach of these inferior things :
2 Beyond, beyond this lower sky,
Up where eternal ages roll ;
Where solid pleasures never die,
And fruits immortal feast the soul.
3 O for a sight, a pleasing sight,
Of our Almighty Father's throne!
There sits our Saviour crown 'd with light,
Clothed in a body like our own.
4 Adoring saints around him stand,
And thrones and powers before him fall ;
The God shines gracious through the man,
And sheds sweet glories on them all.
5 O what amazing joys they feel,
While to their golden harps they sing,
And sit on every heavenly hill,
And spread the triumphs of their King !
6 When shall the day, dear Lord, appear,
That I shall mount to dwell above,
And stand and bow amongst them there,
And view thy face, and sing, and love?
22.
$?»mn.
394
HYMN XXV.
24.
L. M.
fcrmn.
25.
CM.
'■ The Evil of Sin visible in the Fall of AngeU and
Men.
1 TIT HEN the great Bnfldei arch'd the
*» skies,
And form'd all nature with a word,
The joyful cherubs tuned his prs
And every bending throne adored.
2 High in the midst of all the throng,
Satan, a tall archangel, sat :
Amongst the morning stars he sung,
Till sin destroy 'd his heavenly state.
3 ['Twas sin that hurl*d him from his throne,
Grovelling in fire the rebel lies:
" How art thou sunk in darkness down.
Son of the morning, from the skies !"]
4 And thus our two first parents stood,
Till sin defiled the happy place;
They lost their garden and their God,
And ruin'd all their unborn race.
5 [So sprung the plague from Adam's bower
And spread destruction all abroad;
Sin, the cursed name, that in one hour
Spoil'd six days' labour of a Gad!]
6 Tremble, my soul, and mourn for grief.
That such a foe should seise thy breast;
J-'ly to the Lord for quick relief:
<> may he slay this treach'rous guett!
7 Then to thy throne, notorious King.
Then to thy throne our shouts shall rise '.
Thine everlasting arm we i
For sin. the monster, bleeds and dies.
Complainitvj of Spiritual Sloth.
1 1|Y drowsy powers, why sleep ye so*
jLtJL Awake, my sluggish soul:
Nothing has half thy work to do,
Yet nothing 's half so dull.
HYMN XXVI.
395
2 The little ants for one poor grain
Labour, and tug, and strive;
Yet we who have a heaven t' obtain,
How negligent we live !
3 We, for whose sake all nature stands,
And stars their courses move ;
"We, for whose guard the angel bands
Come flying from above ;
4 We, for whom God the Son came down,
And labour'd for our good,
How careless to secure that crown
He purchased with his blood !
5 Lord, shall we lie so sluggish still,
And never act our parts?
Come, holy Dove, from th' heavenly hill,
And sit and warm our hearts.
6 Then shall our active spirits move,
Upward our souls shall rise ;
With hands of faith and wings of love
We'll fly and take the prize.
God Invisible.
1 T ORD, we are blind, we mortals blind,
-Ldl We can't behold thy bright abode ;
0 'tis beyond a creature mind
To glance a thought half way to God !
2 Infinite leagues beyond the sky
The great Eternal reigns alone,
Where neither wings nor souls can fly,
Nor angels climb the topless throne.
3 The Lord of glory builds his seat
Of gems insufferably bright,
And lays beneath his sacred feet
Substantial beams of gloomy night.
4 Yet, glorious L<"<rd, thy gracious eyes
Look through and cheer us from above;
Beyond our praise thy grandeur flies,
Yet we adore, and vet we love.
25.
26.
L. M.
396
HYMN XXVII.
3fc?mn.
.
0 H 1 f1 OD: the eternal awful name
L. If.
Psalm
cxlviii. 2.
That the whole heavenly army fears
That shakes the wide creations tr
And Satan trembles when lie hears.
2 Like flames of fin his servants are.
And light surrounds his dwelling-place;
Hut, 0 ye fiery flames! declare
The brighter glories of his face.
3 'Tis not for such poor worms m we
-peak so infinite a fchmgj
But your immortal eyes survey
The hjauti*'- of y our BOTereign King.
4 Tell how he shows his smiling I
And clothes all heaven in bright array.
Triumph and joy run through the place,
And sonars eternal ai the day.
5 Speak (for you feel his burning love)
What zeal it spread- through all your frame
That sacred fire dwells all above,
For we on earth have lost the name.
G [Sing of his power and just :.
That infinite right hand of his
That vanquish'd Satan and his ci
And thunder drove them down from bliss."
7 [What mighty storms of poison 'd darts
Wen buri'd upon tberebeli t! •
What deadly jarlini nail'd their hearts
the racki of long despair!]
9 [Shout to your King, ye hen\en!v
Yen that beheld the sjnkh
Firmly ye stood when they were lost;
Praise the rk h grace that kept you so.]
[aim his wooden from the -
-rant nation hear:
And while you sound hil lofty pi
Let hnn and fear.
HYMN XXIX.
397
d Eternity.
1 Q< TO OP down, my thoughts, that use to
^ Converse a while with death ; [rise,
Think how a gasping mortal lies,
And pants away his breath.
2 His quivering lip hangs feebly down,
His pulses faint and few :
Then speechless, with a doleful groan
He bids the world adieu.
3 But oh ! the soul that never dies !
At once it leaves the clay!
Ye thoughts, pursue it where it flies,
And track its wondrous way.
4 Up to the courts where angels dwell,
It mounts triumphant there;
Or devils plunge it down to hell,
In infinite despair.
5 And must my body faint and die?
And must this soul remove?
O for some guardian angel nigh
To bear it safe above !
6 Jesus, to thy dear faithful hand
My naked soul I trust,
And my flesh waits for thy command
To drop into the dust.
Redemption by price and power.
1 TESUS, with all thy saints above,
*J My tongue would bear her part,
Would sound aloud thy saving love,
And sing thy bleeding heart.
2 Bless'd be the Lamb, my dearest Lord,
Who bought me with his blood,
And quench'd his Father's flaming sword
In his own vital flood :
3 The Lamb that freed my captive soul
From Satan's heavy chains,
:398
HYMN XXX.
30.
S. M.
And sent the lion down to howl
Where hell and horror reif
4 All jclory to the dying Lamb,
And nerer-ceasing praise,
While angelfl lire to know his name,
Or saints to feel his ]
Heavenly Jog onBartk.
1 /~1 OME, we that lovo the Lord,
\J And let our joys be known ;
Join in a song with sweet accord,
And thus surround the throne.
2 [The sorrows of the mind
Be banislfd from the place;
Religion nerer was design'd
To make our pleasures less.]
3 Let those refuse to sing
That never knew our God ;
But fav'rite? of the heavenly King
Mav speak their joyi abroad.
4 [The God that rules on high,
And thunders when he pit
That rides anon the stormy sky.
And manages the ieas:]
5 This awful God is ours,
Our Father and our lore;
Be shall scud down hii heavenly
To earry as abom
C> There siiall Wfl ICC US foce,
And never, never lin :
Then from the riven ofhii
J)riuk endless pleasures in.
. and before ■ •
To thai immortal
The thought! of met amaafag hlist
Bhould constant J
8 [The men of grace have found
Glory began below :
HYMN XXXII.
399
Celestial fruits on earthly ground
From faith and hope may grow.]
9 [The hill of Sion yields
A thousand sacred sweets,
Before we reach the heavenly fields,
Or walk the golden streets.
10 Then let our songs abound,
And every tear be dry ;
We're marching through Immanuel's
To fairer worlds on high.] [ground
Christ's 'presence makes Death easy.
1 TXTHY should we start, and fear to die
* » What tim'rous worms we mortals
Death is the gate of endless joy, [are
And yet we dread to enter there.
2 The pains, the groans, and dying strife,
Fright our approaching souls away ;
Still we shrink back again to life,
Fond of our prison and our clay.
3 Oh ! if my Lord would come and meet,
My soul should stretch her wings in haste,
Fly fearless through death's iron gate,
Nor feel the terrors as she pass'd.
4 Jesus can make a dying bed
Feel soft as downy pillows are,
While on his breast I lean my head,
And breathe my life out sweetly there.
Frailty and Folly.
1 TTOW short and hasty is our life!
J- J. How vast our soul's affairs !
Yet senseless mortals vainly strive
To lavish out their years.
2 Our days run thoughtlessly along,
Without a moment's stay;
Just like a story or a song,
We pass our lives away.
30.
31.
L. M.
32.
I CM.
HYMN XXXIII. book n.
Ifcpmn.
3 God from on high invites us home,
32.
But we march heedl
And ever hastening to the tomb,
Stoop downwards as we run.
4 How we deeerre the deepest hell
That slight the joys above !
What chains of vengeance should we feel
That break such cords of lore!
5 Draw us, 0 God, with soven
And lift our thoughts on high,
That we may end this mortal race,
And see salvation nigh.
$pmn.
The blessed Society in II en
33.
1 1^) AISE thee, my soul, fly up, and run
-J-L Tlirough every heavenly street,
C. M.
And say, there's nought below the sun
That's worthy of thy f et.
2 [Thus will we mount on sacred wings,
And tread the courts above;
Nor earth, nor all her mightiest things,
.Shall tempt OUT meanest love.]
3 There on a high majestic throne
Th' almighty Father reigns,
And sheds his glorious goodness down
On all the blissful plains.
4 Bright like atui
And spread? eternal noon;
No evenings there nor gloomy nights,
To want the feeble moon.
5 Amidst tbOM ewr-shining skies,
Behold the sacred dove !
While banish'd sin and sorrow flics
From all the realms of love.
6 The glorious tenants of the place
►Stand bending round the throne;
And saints and seraphs sing and praise
The infinite Throe- One,
HYMN XXXV.
401
7 [But 0 ! what beams of heavenly grace
Transport them all the while !
Ten thousand smiles from Jesus' face,
And love in every smile !]
8 Jesus ! and when shall that dear day,
That joyful hour, appear,
When I shall leave this house of clay
To dwell amongst them there?
Breathing after the Holy Spirit.
1 /~10ME, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
v-^ With all thy quick'ning powers,
Kindle a flame of sacred love
In these cold hearts of ours.
2 Look how we grovel here below,
Fond of these trifling toys ;
Our souls can neither fly nor go
To reach eternal joys.
3 In vain we tune our formal songs,
In vain we strive to rise ;
Hosannahs languish on our tongues
And our devotion dies.
4 Dear Lord, and shall we ever lie
At this poor dying rate ?
Our love so faint, so cold to thee,
And thine to us so great ?
5 Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
With all thy quick'ning powers ;
Come, shed abroad a Saviour's love,
And that shall kindle ours.
Praise to God for Creation and 1
1 T ET them neglect thy glory, Lord,
-Li Who never knew thy grace ;
But our loud songs shall still record
The wonders of thy praise.
2 "VTe raise our shouts, O God, to thee,
And send them to thy throne ;
402
HYMN XXXVI.
BOOK IL
35.
36.
S. M.
All glory to th' united Three,
The undivided One.
'Twas he, and we'll adore his name,
That form'd us by a void;
'Tis he restores our ruin'd frame :
Salvation to the Lord !
Hosannah ! let the earth and skies
Repeat the joyful sound;
Rocks, hills, and vales, reflect the voice
In one eternal round.
Christ's Intercession.
1 "YITELL, the Redeemer's gone
' * T' a) 'pear before our G<>d ;
To sprinkle o'er the flaming throne
With his atoning blood.
2 No fiery vengeance now,
No burning wratlr comes down:
If justice calls for sinners' blood,
The Saviour shows his own.
3 Before his Fathe B
Our humble suit he moves:
The Father lays his thunder by,
And looks, and smiles, and loves.
4 Now may oar joyful tongues
Our Maker's honour sing;
Jesus, the Priest, receives our songs,
And bears them to the King.
5 [We bow before hii
And sound his glories higfa :
•• Hoaanimh to the God oi j
That lays his thunder by.]
6 " On earth thy meivy ;
And triumphs all ftboffl ;"
But, Lord, how weak are mortal strains
■ ik immortal love?
7 [How jarring and how low
Are all the i;
HYMN XXXVIII.
403
Sweet Saviour, tune our songs anew,
And they shall please the King.]
Christ's Intercession. =&Jgmn.
1 T IFT up your eyes to th' heavenly seats \ X 7
J-^ Where your Redeemer stays ;
Kind Intercessor, there he sits, | C. M.
And loves, and pleads, and prays.
2 'Twas well, my soul, he died for thee,
And shed his vital blood,
Appeased stern justice on the tree,
And then arose to God.
3 Petitions now, and praise may rise,
And saints their off'rings bring ;
The Priest, with his own sacrifice,
Presents them to the King.
4 [Let Papists trust what names they please,
Their saints and angels boast ;
We've no such advocates as these,
Nor pray to th' heavenly host.]
5 Jesus alone shall bear my cries
Up to his Father's throne ;
He, dearest Lord ! perfumes my sighs,
And sweetens every groan.
6 [Ten thousand praises to the King,
" Hosannah in the highest!"
Ten thousand thanks our spirits bring
To God and to his Christ.]
Love to God. 1£>»mn.
1 TTAPPY the heart where graces reign, Q Q
1J- Where love inspires the breast; ^ ®'
Love is the brightest of the train, C. M.
And strengthens all the rest.
2 Knowledge, alas ! 'tis all in vain,
And all in vain our fear;
404
IIYMX XI,
fcpmn.
38.
^fepmit.
39.
CM.
40.
C. M.
Our stubborn sins will fight and reign,
If love be absent there.
3 'Tis love that makes our cheerful feet
In swift obedience move;
The devils know and tremble too,
But Satan cannot love.
4 This is the grace that lives and sings
AVhen faith and hope shall cease;
'Tis this shall strike our joyful strings
In the sweet realms of bliss.
5 Before we quite forsake our clay,
Or leave this dark abode,
The wings of love bear us away
To see our smiling God.
The Shortness and Misery of Life.
1 /~\ UR days, alas '. our mortal days
V./ Are short and wretched too;
"Evil and tow," the patriaiv:
And well the patriarch knew.
'Tis but at best a narrow bound
That Heaven allows to men.
And pains and sins run through the round
Of threescore years and ten.
3 Well, if ye must be sad and few,
Run on, my days, in haste;
Moments of sin, and months of woe,
aiir.ot lly too fat
4 Let heavenly love prepare my soul,
And call her t> th-
Where yean of long salvation roll.
: glory never d
Our Comfort in the Corenant made with Christ.
1 /^UR God : how firm his promise stands
V-/ E'en when he hides hit
He trusts in our Redeemer's hands
| lory and hi« gl
HYMN XLIL
405
2 Then why, my soul, these sad complaints,
Since Christ and we are one?
Thy God is faithful to his saints,
Is faithful to his Son.
3 Beneath his smiles my heart has lived,
And part of heaven possess'd ;
I praise his name for grace received,
And trust him for the rest.
A Sight of God mortifies us to the World.
1 rTTP to the fields where angels lie,
L ^ And living waters gently roll,
Fain would my thoughts leap out and fly,
But sin hangs heavy on my soul.
2 Thy wondrous blood, dear dying Christ,
Can make this load of guilt remove ;
And thou canst bear me where thou fliest,
On thy kiud wings, celestial Dove !
3 0 might I once mount up and see
The glories of th' eternal skies !
What little things these worlds would be !
How despicable to my eyes !]
4 Had I a glance of thee, my God,
Kingdoms and men would vanish soon;
Vanish as though I saw them not,
As a dim candle dies at noon.
5 Then they might fight, and rage, and rave,
I should perceive the noise no more
Than we can hear a shaking leaf
While rattling thunders round us roll.
6 Great All in All ! Eternal King !
Let me but view thy lovely face,
And all my powers shall bow and sing
Thine endless grandeur and thy grace.
Delight in God.
I 1\/|"Y God, what endless pleasures dwell
-L» A Above at thy right hand !
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Thy courts beloir, how MililMo,
Where all thy gnoei >tand!
2 The swallow near thy temple lies,
And chirps a cheerful note ;
The lark mounts upward to the skies,
And tunes her warbling throat.
3 And we, when in thy presence, Lord,
We shout with joyful tongues;
Or sitting round our Father's board,
We crown the feast with n
4 While Jesus shines with quick'ning grace,
We sing, and mount on high;
But if a frown becloud his i.i
We faint, and tire, and die.
5 [Just as we see the lonesome dove
Bemoan her widow'd state,
Wand'ring she flies through all the grove,
And mourns her loving mate
6 Just so our thoughts from thing to thing
In restless circles rove ;
Just so we droop and hang the wing
"When Jesus hides his love.]
Christ's Sufferings and Glory.
1 "VTO W for a tune of lofty praise
-Li To great Jehovah's equal Son!
Awake, my voice, in heavenly lay«>
Tell the loud wonders he hath •;
'2 Sing how he left the worlds of light,
And the bright robes he wore above;
How swift and joyful was his flight,
On wings of everlasting 1
3 [Down to this base, this sinful earth,
He came to raise our nature high;
He came t' atone Almighty wrath;
Jesus, the God, was horn to die.]
1 [Hell and it> BOM maid around,
His precious blood the monsters spilt;
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While weighty sorrows press'd him down.
Large as the loads of all our guilt.]
5 Deep in the shades of gloomy death
Th' almighty Captive pris'ner lay;
Th' almighty Captive left the earth,
And rose to everlasting day.
6 Lift up your eyes, ye sons of light,
Up to his throne of shining grace ;
See what immortal glories sit
Round the sweet beauties of his face !
7 Amongst a thousand harps and songs,
Jesus, the God, exalted reigns ;
His sacred name fills all their tongues,
And echoes through the heavenly plains.
Hell; or, the Vengeance of God.
1 TTTITH holy fear and humble song,
' ▼ The dreadful God our souls adore
Rev'rence and awe become the tongue
That speaks the terrors of his power.
2 Far in the deep where darkness dwells,
The land of horror and despair,
Justice has built a dismal hell,
And laid her stores of vengeance there.
3 [Eternal plagues and heavy chains,
Tormenting racks and fiery coals,
And darts t' inflict immortal pains,
Dyed in the blood of damned souls.
4 There Satan the first sinner lies,
And roars and bites his iron bands ;
In vain the rebel strives to rise,
Crush'd with the weight of both thy hands.]
5 There guilty ghosts of Adam's race
Shriek out and howl beneath thy rod !
Once they could scorn a Saviour's grace.
But they incensed a dreadful God.
6 Tremble, my soul, and kiss the Son ;
Sinner, obey thy Saviour's call ;
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HYMN XLVI.
' Eke your damnation hastens OB,
And hell gapes wide to wait your fall,
^ijrmn. God's Condescension to our Worship.
1 rPHY favours, Lord, surprise our souls;
J- Will the Eternal dwell with us?
L. M. What can.-t thou find beneath the pole
To tempt thy chariot downward thus?
2 Still might he fill his starry throne,
And please his ears with Gabriel's songs-
But th' heavenly Majesty comes down,
And bows to hearken to our tongues.
3 Great God! what poor returns we pay
For love so infinite as thine !
Words are but air, and tongues but clay;
But thy compassion's all divine.
3i>r>mn. God's Oondeaa niton (u Jluman Affairs.
1 TTP to the Lord that reigns on high,
^ And views the nations from a tar.
Let everlasting praises fly,
And tell how large his bounties are.
2 [He that can shake the worlds he made,
Or with his word, or with his rod,
His goodness, how amazing gn
And what a condescending God:]
3 [God, that must stoop to view ii.,
And DOW to see what angels do,
Down to OUT earth he eai
And bends hit footsteps downwai
■i lie overrules all mortal things.
And manages our mean anairsi
On humble souls the King of kings
b0W8 his counsels and his « .
5 Our sorrows and our tears we pour
Into tin' bosom of oar God :
He hears us in the mournful hour.
And help- us bear the heavy load.
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6 In vain might lofty princes try
Such condescension to perform ;
For worms were never raised so high
Above their meanest fellow- worm.
7 0 could our thankful hearts devise
A tribute equal to thy grace,
To the third heaven our songs should rise,
And teach the golden harps thy praise.
Qlory and Grace in the Person of Christ.
1 1VTOW to the Lord a noble song !
■*-* Awake, my soul ; awake, my tongue
Hosannah to th' eternal Name !
And all his boundless love proclaim.
2 See where it shines in Jesus' face,
The brightest image of his grace ;
God, in the person of his Son,
Has all his mightiest works outdone.
3 The spacious earth and spreading flood
Proclaim the wise and powerful God ;
And thy rich glories from afar
Sparkle in every rolling star.
4 But in his looks a glory stands,
The noblest labour of thine hands ;
The pleasing lustre of his eyes
Outshines the wonders of the skies.
5 Grace ! 'tis a sweet, a charming theme ;
My thoughts rejoice at Jesus' name :
Ye angels dwell upon the sound ;
Ye heavens, reflect it on the ground.
6 O may I live to reach the place
Where he unveils his lovely face !
Where all his beauties you behold,
And sing his name to harps of gold !
Love to the Creatures is dangerous.
1 TT 0 W vain are all things here below,
J- J- How false, and yet how fair I
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HYMN XLIX.
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Each pleasure hath its poison too,
And every sweet a snare.
2 The brightest things below the sky
Give but a tlatt'ring light ;
We should suspect some danger nigh
When we possess delight.
3 Our dearest joys, and nearest friends,
The partners of our blood,
How they divide our wav'ring minds,
And leave but half fur God!
4 The fondness of a creature's love,
How strong it strikes the sense !
Thither the warm affections move,
Nor can we call them thence.
5 Dear Saviour ! let thy beauties be
My soul's eternal food;
And grace command my heart away
From all created good.
Moses dying in the embraces of God.
1 T\EATII cannot make our souls afraid,
J-7 If God be with us there;
We may walk through its darkest shade,
And never yield to fear.
2 I could renounce my all below,
If my Creator bid;
And run, if 1 were call'd to go,
And die as Moses did.
Jit I but climb to Piagmh'fl top,
And view the promised land.
My flesh itself should long to drop,
And prs>J f"r the command.
d in my heavenly Father's arms,
1 would forget my breath,
And bet my life among the charms
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HYMN LI.
411
Comforts under Sorrows and Pains.
1 ]VTOW let the Lord my Saviour smile,
i- ^ And show my name upon his heart,
I would forget my pains awhile,
And in the pleasure lose the smart.
2 But 0 ! it swells my sorrows high
To see my blessed Jesus frown ;
My spirits sink, my comforts die,
And all the springs of life are down.
3 Yet, why my soul, why these complaints?
Still while he frowns his bowels move ;
Still on his heart he bears his saints,
And feels their sorrows and his love.
4 My name is printed on his breast ;
His book of life contains my name :
I'd rather have it there impress'd
Than in the bright records of fame.
5 When the last fire burns all things here,
Those letters shall securely stand,
And in the Lamb's fair book appear,
Writ by th' eternal Father's hand.
6 Now shall my minutes smoothly run,
Whilst here I wait my Father's will;
My rising and my setting sun
Roll gently up and down the hill.
God the Son equal with the Father.
1 TT> RIGHT King of Glory, dreadful God!
J-J Our spirits bow before thy seat;
To thee we lift an humble thought,
And worship at thine awful feet.
2 [Thy power hath form'd, thy wisdom sways
All nature with a sov'reign word ;
And the bright world of stars obeys
The will of their superior Lord.]
3 [Mercy and truth unite in one,
And smiling sit at thy right hand ;
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Eternal justice guards thy throne,
And vengeance waits thy dread command.]
4 A thousand seraphs, strong and bright,
Stand round the glorious Deity ;
.But who amongst the sons of light,
Pretends comparison with thee?
5 Yet there is one of human frame,
Jesus, array'd in flesh and blood,
Thinks it no robbery to claim
A full equality with God.
6 [Their glory shines with equal beams,
Their essence is for ever one,
Though they are known by diffrent names,
The Father God, and God the Son.
7 Then let the name of Christ our King
"With equal honours be adored ;
His praise let every angel sing,
And all the nations own their Lord.]
Liatk dreadful or deliyhtful.
1 T\BATH! 'tis a melancholy day
JL/ To those that have DC
When the poor soul is forced away
To seek her last abode.
2 In vain to heaven Am lilts her I •;
But guilt, a heavy chain,
Still drags her downwards from the skies
To darkness, ore, and pain.
:> Awake, and mourn, ye heirs of hell,
inborn unnen fear,
You most be driv'n from earth, and dwell
A long for ever there.
4 Bee how the pit gapea wide for you.
And flashes in your face!
Ami thou, my soul, look downwards too,
And r- 1 1 1 -_r reooVring
5 lie If a God Of M.vereigtijove
That promised heaven to me,
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And taught my thoughts to soar above,
"Where happy spirits be.
6 Prepare me, Lord, for thy right hand,
Then come the joyful day,
Come death, and some celestial band,
To bear my soul away.
The Pilgrimage of the Saints.
1 T ORD ! what a wretched land is this,
-L^ That yields us no supply !
No cheering fruits, no wholesome trees,
Nor streams of living joy !
2 But pricking thorns through all theground
And mortal poisons grow,
And all the rivers that are found
With dang'rous waters flow.
3 Yet the dear path to thine abode
Lies through this horrid land :
Lord ! we would keep the heavenly road,
And run at thy command.
4 [Our souls shall tread the desert through
With undiverted feet,
And faith and flaming zeal subdue
The terrors that we meet.l
5 [A thousand savage beasts of prey
Around the forest roam ;
But Judah's Lion guards the way,
And guides the strangers home.]
6 [Long nights and darkness dwell below,
With scarce a twinkling ray;
But the bright world to which we go,
Is everlasting day.]
7 [By glimm'ring hopes and gloomy fears
We trace the sacred road;
Through dismal deeps and dang'rous snares
We make our way to God.]
8 Our journey is a thorny maze,
But we march upward still;
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HYMN LTV.
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Forget these troubles of the Mays,
And reach at Zion's hill.
9 [See the kind angels at the gates
Inviting us to come !
There Jesus the forerunner waits,
To welcome travelers home.]
10 There on a green and flowery mount
Our weary souls shall sit,
And with transporting joys recount
The labours of our feet
11 [No vain discourse shall fill our tongue,
Nor trifles vex our ear ;
Infinite grace shall fill our song,
And God rejoice to hear.]
12 Eternal glories to the King
That brought us safely through,
Our tongues shall never cease to sing,
And endless praise renew.
God's Presence is Light in Darkness.
1 "lV/fY God, the spring of all my joys,
-i-'JL The life of my delights,
The glory of my brightest days,
And comfort of my nights!
2 In darkest shades if he appear.
My dawning is begun ;
lie is my soul's sweet morning M
And he my rising m,
3 The opening heavens around me shine
With beams of sacred bliss.
While Jesus shows his heart is mine,
And whispers, " I am his."
4 My soul would leare this heavy clay
At that transporting word.
Run up with joy the shining way.
T' embraet my dearest Lord.
: hell and ghastly death.
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The wings of love and arms of faith
Should bear me conqueror through.
Frail Life, and succeeding Eternity.
1 rpHEE we adore, Eternal Name,
J- And humbly own to thee
How feeble is our mortal frame !
What dying worms are we !
2 [Our wasting lives grow shorter still
As months and days increase ;
And every beating pulse we tell,
Leaves but the number less.
3 The year rolls round and steals away
The breath that first it gave ;
Whate'er we do, where'er we be,
We're traveling to the grave.]
4 Dangers stand thick through all the
To push us to the tomb, [ground,
And fierce diseases wait around,
To hurry mortals home.
5 Great God ! on what a slender thread
Hang everlasting things !
Th' eternal states of all the dead
Upon life's feeble strings !
6 Infinite joy or endless woe
Attends on every breath ;
And yet how unconcern'd we go
Upon the brink of death.
7 Waken, 0 Lord, our drowsy sense,
To walk this dangerous road ;
And if our souls are hurried hence,
May they be found with God.
Vain Pi
1 1VT O, I shall envy them no more
-^ Who grow profanely great,
Though they increase their golden store,
And rise to wondrous height.
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8 They taste of all ti . j row
Upon this earthly clod !
"Well, they mayseaivli the creatine through,
For they have ne'er a God.
3 Shake off the thoughts of dying too,
And think your lite your own •
But death comes hastening on to you
To mow your glory do n.
4 Yes, you must bow your stately 1 i
Away your spirit flies,
And no kind angel near your bed
To bear it to the sk
5 Go now, and boast of all your stores,
And tell how bright you shine;
Your heaps of glittering dust are yours.
And my Redeemer's mine.
The Pleasures of a Good Conscience.
1 T ORD, how secure and bless'd are they
-Li "Who feel the joys of pardon 'd sin !
Should storms ofwratfa shake earth sad sea,
Their minds have heaven and peace within.
2 The day glides Swiftly o'er their I I
Made up of innocence and love;
And soft and silent as the shades
Their nightly minutes gently move.
3 [Quick as their thoughts their joyi
But fly not half so swift away ;
Their souls are eTer bright as noon.
And calm a- summer evenii
4 How oft they took to th' heavenly hills.
Where groTes of living pleasure growl
And longing hopes and cheerful smiles
Sit undisturb'd upon their brow.]
5 They (-cm to seek our golden b
Jlut spend the day, and share the night.
In numbering o'er th
That heaven prepares for their delight
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6 While wretched we, like worms and moles,
Lie grovelling in the dust below :
Almighty grace, renew our souls,
And we'll aspire to glory too.
The Shortness of Life, and the Goodness of God.
1 rpiME ! what an empty vapour 'tis!
J And days, how swift they are !
Swift as an Indian arrow flies,
Or like a shooting star.
2 [The present moments just appear,
Then slide away in haste,
That we can never say, " They're here,"
But only say, " They're past."]
3 [Our life is ever on the wing,
And death is ever nigh ;
The moment when our lives begin,
We all begin to die.]
4 Yet, mighty God! our fleeting days
Thy lasting favours share,
Yet with the bounties of thy grace
Thou load'st the rolling year.
5 'Tis sovereign mercy finds us food,
And we are clothed with love ;
While grace stands pointing out the road
That leads our souls above.
6 His goodness runs an endless round ;
All glory to the Lord !
His mercy never knows a bound,
And be his name adored.
7 Thus we begin the lasting song ;
And when we close our eyes,
Let the next age thy praise prolong,
Till time and nature dies.
Paradise c
rth.
1 r\ LORY to God that walks the sky,
^-* And sends his blessings through ;
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HYMN LX.
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That tells his saints of joys on high,
And g
2 [Glory to God that stoops his throne,
That dust and worms may see 't,
And brings a glimpse of glory down
Around hi-
3 When Christ, with all his graces crown 'd.
Sheds his kind beams abroad,
'Tis a young heaven on earthly ground,
And glory in the bud.
4 A blooming paradise of joy
In this wild desert sprit
And every sense I straight employ
On sweet celestial things.
5 White lilies all around appear,
And each his glory -
The Rose of Sharon blossoms here,
The fairest flower that ]>'■
6 Cheerful I feast on heavenly fruit,
And drink the pleasures down ;
Pleasures that How hard by the foot
Of the eternal throne.]
7 But ah! how soon my joys decay'.
How soon my sins arise,
And snatch the heavenly eoenf away
From these lamenting eyes!
8 When shall the time, dear Jesus, when
The shining day appear.
That I shall leave thoM clouds i
And goilt and darkness 1 i
9 Up to the fields above the skies
My hasty feet won
There everlasting flowers
And joys nil withering gj i
The Promise* our Security.
1 T> RAISE, everlasting pr
J- To him that earth's foundation laid,
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Praise to the God whose strong decrees
Sway the creation as he please.
2 Praise to the goodness of the Lord
Who rules his people by his word,
And there as strong as his decrees
He sets his kindest promises.
3 [Firm are the words his prophets give,
Sweet words on which his children live;
Each of them is the voice of God,
Who spoke, and spread the skies abroad.
4 Each of them powerful as that sound
That bid the new-made world go round,
And stronger than the solid poles
On which the wheel of nature rolls,]
5 Whence then should doubts and fears arise?
Why trickling sorrows drown our eyes?
Slowly, alas! our mind receives
The comfort that our Maker gives.
6 0 for a strong, a lasting faith,
To credit what th' Almighty saith !
T' embrace the message of his Son,
And call the joys of heaven our own !
7 Then should the earth's old pillars shake,
And all the wheels of nature break,
Our steady souls should fear no more
Than solid rocks when billows roar.
8 Our everlasting hopes arise
Above the ruinable skies,
Where th' eternal Builder reigns,
And his own courts his power sustains.
A Thought of Death and Glory.
1 ~|\/TY soul, come meditate the day,.
-LtJ- And think how near it stands,
When thou must quit this house of clay,
And fly to unknown lands.
2 [And you, mine eyes, look down and view
The hollow gaping tomb ;
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old we die with those that die.
And plan us in their stead.
Then would our spirit- learn to fly.
And c nverse with the dead :
4 Then should we KC the saints above
In their Of
And ■ r souls should love
T<> dwell with mortal worms.
5 [I low we should se«-rn these clothes of flesh,
Th. -
And Long
That we may rest with God '.]
should ■kneel foneke our clay
And pray and wi>h our souls away
To their eternal home.
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[Made in a great sudden storm of thunder. —
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1 O IXG to the Lord, ye heavenly hosts,
O And thoo, O earth. B
ith and hell through all their coasts
B
loonding ehai
- throne;
There all 1. ■ _ lie,
Till renj ti them down,
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And from his awful
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And tlmi!<:< :
4 Think. 0 my soul, the dreadful day
Sha. nn the sea.
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5 What shall the wretch, the sinner do !
He once defied the Lord ;
But he shall dread the Thund'rer now
And sink beneath his word.
6 Tempests of angry fire shall roll
To blast the rebel worm,
And beat upon his naked soul
In one eternal storm.
A Funeral Thought.
1 TT ARK ! from the tombs a doleful sound;
JjL My ears, attend the cry ;
" Ye living men, come view the ground
Where you must shortly lie.
2 Princes, this clay must be your bed,
In spite of all your towers ;
The tall, the wise, the reverend head,
Must lie as low as ours!"
3 Great God! is this our certain doom?
And are we still secure?
Still walking downward to our tomb,
And yet prepare no more?
4 Grant us the power of quickening grace,
To fit our souls to fly,
Then, when we drop this dying flesh,
We'll rise above the sky.
God the Glory and the Defence of Zion.
1 TTAPPY the church, thou sacred place,
J-X The seat of thy Creator's grace;
Thine holy courts are his abode,
Thou earthly palace of our God !
2 Thy walls are strength, and at thy gates
A guard of heavenly warriors waits ;
Nor shall thy deep foundations move,
Fix'd on his counsels and his love.
3 Thy foes in vain designs engage,
Against his throne in vain they rage ;
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Like rising waves, with angry roar,
That dash and die upon the shore.
4 Then let our souls in Zum dwell.
Nor fear the wrath of Koine and hell;
His arms embrace this happy ground,
Like brazen bulwarks built around.
5 God is our shield and God our sun;
Swift as the fleeting moments run,
On us he sheds new beams of ^race,
And we reflect his brightest pn
The Hopes of Heaven our Support undt
Earth.
1 TTTHEN I can read my title clear
» » To mansions in the skies,
I bid farewell to every fear,
And wipe my weeping eyes.
2 Should earth against my soul engage,
And hellish darts be hurl'd.
Then I can smile at Satan
And face a frowning world.
3 Let cares, like a wild deluge, come,
And storms of sorrow fall;
May I but safely reach my home,
My God, my heaven, my all!
4 There shall I bathe my weary soul
In seas of hea ven i\
And not a ware of trouble roll
Across my peaceful I
A Prospect of Heaven makes Death easy.
1 mHEBE ifl a land of pure delight
X Where saints immortal reign,
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasUIM banish pain.
2 Then mring abides.
And never-withering flowers;
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Death, like a narrow sea, divides
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3 [Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood
Stand dress'd in living green:
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan roll'd between.
4 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink
To cross this narrow sea,
And linger shivering on the brink,
And fear to launch away.]
5 0! could we make our doubts remove,
Those gloomy doubts that rise,
And see the Canaan that we love
With unbeclouded eyes;
6 Could we but climb where Moses stood,
And view the landscape o'er,
Not Jordan's streams, nor death's cold
Should flight us from the shore, [flood,
God's Eternal Dominion.
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1 f^\ RE AT God ! how infinite art thou!
VX What worthless worms are we!
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Let the whole race of creatures bow,
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And pay their praise to thee.
2 Thy throne eternal ages stood,
Ere seas or stars were made;
Thou art the ever-living God,
Were all the nations dead.
3 Nature and time quite naked lie
To thine immense survey,
From the formation of the sky
To the great burning day.
4 Eternity, with all its years.
Stands present in thy view;
To thee there 's nothing old appears ;
Great God ! there 's nothing new.
6 Our lives through various scenes are drawn,
And vex'd with trifling cares,
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While thine eternal thought moves on
Thine undisturb'd affair.-.
6 Great G<k1: how infinite art thou!
NYhat worthless sronss are we!
Let the whole race ol creatures bow,
And pay their praise to thee.
The humble WorA jp
1 piATHEB, I long, 1 faint to see
-i- The place of thine al
I'd leave thine earthly courts, and fie©
Dp to ihy seat, my God •
2 Here I behold thy distant lace,
And 'tis a pleasing sight;
But to abide in thine embrace
Is infinite delight.
3 I'd part with all the joys of sense
To gaze upon thy throne;
Pleasure springs fresh for ever thence,
Unspeakable, unknown.
4 [There all the heavenly hosts an
In shining ranks they move,
And drink immortal vigour in
With wonder and with love.
5 Then at thy feet with awful fear
Th' adoring armies fall ;
With joy they shrink t<> nothing there,
I «■ th' eternal All.
6 There J would vie with all the i
In duty and in I.
While "los than nothing," 1 could boast
And " rank
7 The more thv glories strike mine .
The humbler 1 shall lie;
Thus while 1 sink, my joys shall rise
l.'nmea-uial'ly high.
HYMN LXIX.
The Faithfulness of God in the Promises.
EGIX, my tongue, some heavenly
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theme,
And speak some boundless thing ;
The mighty works, or mightier name,
Of our eternal King.
2 Tell of his wondrous faithfulness,
And sound his power abroad ;
Sing the sweet promise of his grace,
And the performing God.
3 Proclaim " salvation from the Lord
For wretched, dying men ;"
His hand has writ the sacred word
With an immortal pen.
4 [Engraved as in eternal brass,
The mighty promise shines;
Nor can the powers of darkness rase
Those everlasting lines.]
5 [He that can dash whole worlds to death,
And make them when he please,
He speaks, and that almighty breath
Fulfils his great decrees.
6 His very word of grace is strong
As that which built the skies,
The voice that rolls the stars along,
Speaks all the promises.
7 He said, " Let the wide heaven be spread,'
And heaven was stretch 'd abroad :
" Abra'm, I'll be thy God," he said,
And he was Abra'm s God.
8 0 might I hear thine heavenly tongue
But whisper " Thou art mine !"
Those gentle words should raise my song
To notes almost divine.
9 How would my leaping heart rejoice,
And think my heaven secure!
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I trust the all-creating v.
And faith desires no more.]
God1 's Dominion over the Sea.
1 /^ OD of the seas! thy thund'ring voice
^-J Makes all the roaring waves rejoice,
And one soft word of thy command
Can sink them silent in the sand.
2 If but a Moses wave thy rod,
The sea divides and owns its God ;
The stormy floods their Maker knew,
And let his chosen armies through.
3 The scaly flocks amidst the sea,
To thee, their Lord, a tribute pay;
The meanest fish that swims the flood
Leaps up, and means a praise to God.
4 [The larger monsters of the deep
On thy commands attendance keep;
By thy permission sport and play,
And cleave along their foaming way.
5 If God his voice of tempest rears,
Leviathan lies still and fears;
Anon he lifts his nostrils high,
And spouts the ocean to the iky.]
6 How is thy glorious power adored
Amidst these watery nations, Lord!
Yet the bold men that trace the seas,
Bold men refuse their Maker's pi
7 [What teanaflof miracles tl •
And never tone ■ Mug to kneel
While on the Hood they safely ride.
They eoree the hand that smooths the tide!
8 Anon they plunge in watery graves,
And tome drink death among tin
Y«t the nirirmg erew blaephema,
wn the God that reeened theraj
_nal of thine hand !
Shakfl all tb m land;
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Great Judge ! descend, lest men deny-
That there's a God that rules the sky.
Praise to God from all Creatures.
1 rpHE glories of my Maker God
J- My joyful voice shall sing,
And call the nations to adore
Their Former and their King.
2 'Twas his right hand that shaped our clay.
And wrought this human frame ;
But from his own immediate breath
Our nobler spirits came.
3 We bring our mortal powers to God,
And worship with our tongues ;
We claim some kindred with the skies,
And join th' angelic songs.
4 Let growling beasts of every shape,
And fowls of every wing,
And rocks, and trees, and fires, and seas,
Their various tribute bring.
5 Ye planets, to his honour shine,
And wheels of nature roll,
Praise him in your unwearied course
Around the steady pole.
6 The brightness of our Maker's name
The wide creation fills,
And his unbounded grandeur flies
Beyond the heavenly hills.
The Lord's Day.
1 T)LESST> morning, whose young dawn-
-D Beheld our rising God, [in.
That saw him triumph o'er the dust.
And leave his dark abode !
2 In the cold prison of a tomb
The dead Redeemer lay,
Till the revolving skies had brought
The third, th' appointed day.
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The Bleeping ( lonqueror i
And bant their feeble chain.
4 To thy great name, Almighty Lord,
These sacred boon we pay;
And loud hoeannahs shall proclaim
The triumph of the day.
5 [Salvation and immortal ;
To our victorious K
Let heaven, and earth, and rocks, and seas,
With glad hosaimahi ring.]
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J-J- And leave me to my joy*;
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My iangne shall triumph in my God,
And make ajoyfhl i
2 Daiteeai and donbtfl bad veil'd my mind.
And diown'-d my bead in b
Till a . with shining rays,
3 0 what immort;i
And rajitures all divine,
"When JeftOJ told DM 1 was his,
And my bakrted mine:
4 In vain the tempter fright.- my soul,
And broafrs my peace in vain;
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Repentance from, a tentt of Divine Goodneu.
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1 7 S toil the kind return,
J- And these the thanks we owe,
Thus to abuae eternal l"ve,
Whence all our hk
what a stubborn frame
D reduced our mind!
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What strange rebellious wretches we,
And God as strangely kind!
3 [On us he bids the sun
Shed his reviving rays ;
For us the skies their circles run,
To lengthen out our days.
4 The brutes obey their God,
And bow their necks to men;
But we, more base, more brutish things,
Reject his easy reign.]
5 Turn, turn us, mighty God,
And mould our souls afresh ;
Break, sov'reign grace, these hearts of stone,
And give us hearts of flesh.
6 Let old ingratitude
Provoke our weeping eyes,
And hourly, as new mercies fall,
Let hourly thanks arise.
Spiritual and Eternal Joy.
1 T7JROM thee, my God, my joys shall rise,
J- And run eternal rounds,
Beyond the limits of the skies,
And all created bounds.
2 The holy triumphs of my soul
Shall death itself outbrave,
Leave dull mortality behind,
And fly beyond the grave.
3 There, where my blessed Jesus reigns,
In heaven's unmeasured space,
I'll spend a long eternity
In pleasure and in praise.
4 Millions of years my wond'ring eyes
Shall o'er tby beauties rove,
And endless ages I'll adore
The glories of thy love.
5 [Sweet Jesus, every smile of thine
Shall fresh endearments bring;
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And thou : new delight
From .-ill thy gra
my beloved, fetch my soul
Up to thy btess'd abode;
Fly, tor my spirit longs to see
My Saviour and my God.]
The Resurrection and Ascension of CJirist.
1 YTOSAXXAH to the Prince of light,
A-i- That clothed himself in clay,
Enter'd the iron gates of death,
And tore the bars away.
•i is no more the king of dread,
our Immanuel rose;
He took the tyrant's sting away,
And spoil'd our hellish :
3 See how the Conqueror mounts aloft,
And to his Father
With scan of honour in his flesh
And triumph in nil
4 There our exalted Saviour
And scatters blessings down;
Our Jesus fills the middle M
< >f the celestial throne,
--• your devotion, mortal tongues,
To leach liis bless'd abode;
l of your songs
To our incarnate God.
(I Bright angels, strike your !
Your sweetest roiees raise :
Let heaven and all created thing!
Sound our [mmanuel's praise.]
The Christian Warfare.
1 ["QTANDup, my soul, shake off thy fears,
LO And gird the gospel armour on;
March '
Where thy great Captain-Saviour'
HYMN LXXVIII.
431
2 Hell and thy sins resist thy course,
But hell and sin are vanquish'd foes;
Thy Jesus nail'd them to the cross,
And sung the triumph when he rose.]
3 [What though the prince of darkness rage,
And waste the fury of his spite,
Eternal chains confine him down
To fiery deeps and endless night.
4 What though thine inward lusts rebel,
'Tis but a struggling gasp for life;
The weapons of victorious grace
Shall slay thy sins, and end the strife.]
5 Then let my soul march boldly on,
Press forward to the heavenly gate ;
There peace and joy eternal reign,
And glitt'ring robes for conquerors wait.
6 There shall I wear a starry crown,
And triumph in almighty grace,
While all the armies of the skies
Join in my glorious Leader's praise.
Redemption by Christ.
1 TIITHEN the first parents of our race
▼ » Rebell'd and lost their God,
And the infection of their sin
Had tainted all our blood ;
2 Infinite pity touch'd the heart
Of the eternal Son ;
Descending from the heavenly court,
He left his Father's throne.
3 Aside the Prince of glory threw
His most divine array,
And wrapp'd his Godhead in a veil
Of our inferior clay.
4 His living power and dying love
Redeem'd unhappy men,
And raised the ruins of our race
To life and God again.
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5 To thee, dear Lord, our :
Bless'd Jesus, take us for thy own,
For we are doubly thine.
G Thine honour shall fof ever be
The business of oof
For cv«r»hall our thankful tongues
Speak thy deserved prata.
Praise to the Redo
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1 T3LUXGED in a gulf of dark despair
-L We wretched sinners lay,
"Without one cheerful beam of hope,
Or spark of glimm 'ring day.
2 With pitying eyes the Prince of Grace
Beheld our helpless grief,
He saw, and, 0 amazing love !
He ran to our relief.
3 Down from the shining Beats above
With joyful ha-tc be fled,
Enter'd the grave in mortal flesh,
And dwelt among the dead.
4 Be ipofl'd the powers of darkness
And brake our iron ehai
Jesm hath freed our captive souls
From everlasting pains.
5 [In vain the bathYd prime of hell
We that were dootn'd his endless slaves
An- raised abowi tkc sk •
G 0 for this love lei rocks and hills
Their lasting silence break.
And all harmonious human tongues
The Saviour's praises speak.
we will praise thee, dearest Lord,
Our souls are all on llame;
Hosannah round the spacious earth
To thine adored uame.'
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8 Angels, assist our mighty joys.
Strike all your harps of gold:
But when you raise your highest notes,
His love can ne'er be told.]
God's awful Power and Goodness.
1 f\^' thc Almighty Lord:
yj How matchless is his power!
Tremble, 0 earth, beneath his word,
"While all the heavens adore.
2 Let proud imperious kings
Bow low before his throne :
Crouch to his feet, ye haughty things,
Or he shall tread yon down.
3 Above the skies he reigns,
And with amazing blows
He deals insufferable pains
On his rebellious foes.
4 Yet, everlasting God,
We love to speak thy praise:
Thy sceptre's equal to thy rod.
The sceptre of thy grace.
5 The arms of mighty love
Defend our Sion well ;
And heavenly mercy walls us round
From Babylon and hell.
6 Salvation to the King
That sits enthroned above!
Thus we adore the God of might.
And bless the God of love.
Our Sin the cause of Christ's Death. WtgtUL
1 i XD now the scales have left mine eyes,
-£*- Xow I begin to see :
0 the curs'd deeds my sins have done!
What murd'rous things they be !
2 Were these the traitors, dearest Lord,
That thy fair body tore I
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Monsters, that stain'd those heavenly limbs
With floods of purp <
3 Was it for crimes that I had done,
My dearest Lord aai slain,
When justice seized God's only Son,
And put his soul to pain?
4 Forgive my guilt, O Prince of Peace!
I'll wound my God no in
Hence from my heart, ye sins, begone,
For Jesus I adore.
5 Furnish me. Lord, with heavenly arms
From grace's magazine,
And I'll proclaim eternal war
With every darling sin.
Redemption and Protection from Spiritual
Enemies.
1 A RISE, my soul, my joyful powers,
-£V. And triumph in my God;
Awake, my voice, and loud proclaim
His glorious grace abroad.
2 He raised me from the deeps of sin,
The gates of gaping hell,
And fix'd my standing more secure
Than 'twas before I fell.
3 The arms of everla-ting love
Beneath my soul he placed;
And on the Rock of Ages set
My slipp'ry ;
4 The city of my bless'd abode
Is wall'd around with grace,
Salvation for a bulwark stands
To shield the sacred place.
5 Satan may vent his sharpest spite,
And all his legions roar;
Almighty mercy guards my life,
And bounds his raging power
HYMN LXXXIV.
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6 Arise, my soul; awake, my voice,
And tunes of pleasure sing ;
Loud hallelujahs shall address
My Saviour and my King.
The Passion and Exaltation of Christ.
1 mHUS saith the Ruler of the skies :
-L " Awake,my dreadful sword ;
Awake, my wrath, and smite the Man,
My fellow," saith the Lord.
2 Vengeance received the dread command,
And, armed, down she flies ;
Jesus submits t' his Father's hands,
And bows his head and dies.
3 But O ! the wisdom and the grace
That join with vengeance now !
He dies to save our guilty race,
And yet he rises too.
4 A person so divine was he
Who yielded to be slain,
That he could give his soul away,
And take his life again.
5 Live, glorious Lord, and reign on high,
Let every nation sing;
And angels sound with endless joy
The Saviour and the King.
The Passion and Exaltation of Christ.
1 f^\ OME, all harmonious tongues,
^ Your noblest music bring ;
'Tis Christ the everlasting God,
And Christ the man, we sing.
2 Tell how he took our flesh,
To take away our guilt ;
Sing the dear drops of sacred blood
That hellish monsters spilt.
3 [Alas ! the cruel spear
AVent deep into his side,
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And the rich flood of purp
Their murd'rous weapon* dyed.]
4 [Tlie waves of swelling grief
Did o'er his bosom roll,
And mountains of almighty wrath
Lay heavy on his soul.]
5 Down to the shades of death
He bow'd his awful head ;
Yet he arose to live and n
When death itself is dead.
6 No more the bloody spear,
The cross and nails no more;
For hell itself shakes at his na
And all the heavens adore.
7 There the Redeemer sits
Hiirh on the Father's throne;
The Father lays his vengeance by,
And smiles upon his Bon.
8 There his full glories shine
With anon
And bless his saint>' and angels' eyes
To everlasting days.
icy of Pardon.
1 "ITT II Y does your face, ye hnmbl
▼ t Th"-e moorofu] colours wear?
What doubt- are these that waste your faith
And nonrisfa your despair!
2 What though your num'roui
The stars that fill the -:.
And aiming at th' eternal throne,
Like pointed mountains ri
3 What though your mighty guilt l>eyond
The w ids creation swell.
And has it- cursed foundations laid
Low I - : hell ;
Of never- fa
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Behold a dying Saviour's veins
The sacred flood increase.
5 It rises high and drowns the hills,
Has neither shore nor bound :
Now, if we search to find our sins,
Our sins can ne'er be found.
6 Awake, our hearts, adore the grace
That buries all our faults,
And pard'ning blood that swells above
Our follies and our thoughts.
Freedom from Sin and Misery in Heaven.
1 /~\UR sins, alas ! how strong they be !
yj And, like a violent sea,
They break our duty, Lord, to thee,
And hurry us away.
2 The waves of trouble, how they rise !
How loud the tempests roar !
But death shall land our weary souls
Safe on the heavenly shore.
3 There, to fulfil his sweet commands,
Our speedy feet shall move;
No sin shall clog our winged zeal,
Or cool our burning love.
4 There shall we sit, and sing, and tell
The wonders of his grace,
Till heavenly raptures fire our hearts,
And smile in every face.
5 For ever his dear sacred name
Shall dwell upon our tongue,
And Jesus and salvation be
The close of every song.
The Divine Glories above our Reason.
OW wondrous great, how glorious
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Who dwells amidst the dazzling light
Of vast infinity!
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2 Our soaring spirits upwards rise
Tow'rd the celestial throne:
Fain would we see the Messed Three,
And the almighty One.
3 Our reason stretches all its wings,
And climbs above the skies:
But still how far beneath thy feet
Our grovelling reason lies!
4 [Lord, here we bend our humble souls,
And awfully adore,
For the weak pinions of our minds
Can stretch a thought no more.]
5 Thy glories infinitely rise
Above our lab'ring tongue ;
In vain the highest seraph tries
To form an equal song.
6 [In humble notes our faith adores
The great mysterious King.
AVhile angels ■trail) their nobler powers,
And sweep the immortal string.]
Satiation
1 Q< ALVATIOX! 0 the joyful sound!
^ 'Tis pleasure to our e
A sovereign balm for every wound,
A cordial for our !•
2 Buried in sorrow and in no,
At hell's dark door we lay;
But we arise by grace divine
To see a heavenly day.
3 Salvation! let the echo fly
The spacious earth around,
AVhile all the armies of the sky
I ipire toraia the sound.
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V Victory over Satan.
3 A N N All to our conquerin
The prince of darkness flies;
1 TTOSAXXAll to our conquering King!
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His troops rush headlong down to hell,
Like lightning from the skies.
2 There, bound in chains, the lions roar,
And fright the rescued sheep ;
But heavy bars confine their power
And malice to the deep.
3 Hosannah to our conquering King !
All hail ! incarnate love!
Ten thousand songs and glories wait
To crown thy head above.
4 Thy victories and thy deathless fame
Through the wide world shall run,
And everlasting ages sing
The triumphs thou hast won.
Faith in Christ for Pardon and Sanctification.
1 TTQW sad our state by nature is!
J-X Our sin, how deep its stains !
And Satan binds our captive minds
Fast in his slavish chains.
2 But there's a voice of sovereign grace
Sounds from the sacred word :
" Ho ! ye despairing sinners, come,
And trust upon the Lord."
3 My soul obeys the mighty call,
And runs to this relief;
I would believe thy promise, Lord,
O help my unbelief!
4 [To the dear fountain of thy blood,
Incarnate God, I fly ;
Here let me wash my spotted soul
From crimes of deepest dye.
5 Stretch out thine arm, victorious King!
My reigning sins subdue;
Drive the old dragon from his seat,
With all his hellish crew.]
6 A guilty, weak, and helpless worm,
On thy kind arms I fall;
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Be thou my strength and righteousness,
My Jesus, and my all.
27ie Glory of Christ in Heaven.
1 / \II: the delights, the heaven;;
V./ The glories of the place
When beams
Of his o'erflowing gram]
2 Sweet majesty and awful love
miling oa his brow ;
And all the glorious rank- ,
At humble distance bow.
3 Princes to his imperial name
Bend their blight sceptres down;
Dominions, thrones, and powers, rejoice
To see him wear the crown.
4 Archangels sound his lofty praise
Through every heavenly si
And lay their highest honours down
Submissive at his feet
5 Those soft, those blessed feet of his,
That once rude iron tore;
High on a throne of light they stand,
And all the saints adore.
■ id, the dear majestic head
That cruel thorns did wound,
See what immortal glories shine,
And circle it around !
7 This is the man, th' exalted man,
Whom we unseen adore;
But when our eyes heboid his t
Our heart shall love him I
8 [Lord, how our Bonis are all on
e thy bless'd abode!
Our tongues rejoice in tunes of praise
OT incarnate < I
9 And while our faith enjoys this sight,
Dg to leave our clay,
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And wish thy fiery chariots, Lord,
To fetch our souls away.]
The Church saved, and her Enemies disappointed.
[Composed for the 5th of November 1694.]
1 Q^HOUT to the Lord, and let our joys
O Through the whole nation run ;
Ye British skies, resound the noise
Beyond the rising sun.
2 Thee, mighty God, our souls admire,
Thee our glad voices sing,
And join with the celestial choir
To praise th' eternal King.
3 Thy power the whole creation rules,
And on the starry skies
Sits smiling at the weak designs
Thine envious foes devise.
4 Thy scorn derides their feeble rage,
And with an awful frown
Flings vast confusion on their plots,
And shakes their Babel down.
5 [Their secret fires in caverns lay,
And we the sacrifice ;
But gloomy caverns strove in vain
To 'scape all-searching eyes.
6 Their dark designs were all reveal'd,
Their treasons all betray 'd;
Praise to the Lord that broke the snare
Their cursed hands had laid.]
7 In vain the busy sons of hell
Still new rebellions try;
Their souls shall pine with envious rage,
And vex away, and die.
8 Almighty grace defends our land
From their malicious power;
Let Britain with united songs
Almighty grace adore.
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God all, and in all.
MY God, my life, my love!
To thee,' to thee I call;
I cannot live if thou remove,
For thou art all in all.
2 [Thy shining grace can cheer
This dungeon where I dwell ;
'Tis paradise when thou art here;
If thou depart, 'tis hell.]
3 [The smilings of thy face,
How amiable they are !
'Tis heaven to rest in thine embrace,
And nowhere else but there.]
4 [To thee, and thee alone,
The angels owe their bliss ;
They sit around thy gracious throne,
And dwell where Jesus is.]
5 [Not all the harps above
Can make a heavenly place,
If God his residence remove,
Or but conceal his face.]
6 Nor earth, nor all the sky,
Can one delight afford,
No, not a drop of real joy,
Without thy presence, Lord.
7 Thou art the sea of love
Where all my pleasures roll,
The circle where my passions move,
And centre of my soul.
8 [To thee my spirits lly
With infinite desire;
And yet how fur from thee I lie!
Dear Jesus, raise me higher.]
God my only Happiness.
1 AfY God, my portion, and my love,
-U-i- My everlasting all!
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HYMN XCV.
I've none but thee in heaven above,
Or on this earthly ball.
2 [What empty things are all the skies,
And this inferior clod !
There 's nothing here deserves my joys,
There 's nothing like my God.]
3- [In vain the bright, the burning sun
Scatters his feeble light;
'Tis thy sweet beams create my noon ;
If thou withdraw, 'tis night.
4 And whilst upon my restless bed,
Amongst the shades I roll,
If my Redeemer shows his head,
'Tis morning with my soul.]
5 To thee we owe our wealth and friends,
And health, and safe abode ;
Thanks to thy name for meaner things,
But they are not my God.
5 How vain a toy is glittering wealth,
If once compared to thee !
Or what 's my safety or my health,
Or all my friends to me?
7 Were I possessor of the earth,
And call'd the stars my own,
Without thy graces and thyself
I were a wretch undone.
8 Let others stretch their arms like seas,
And grasp in all the shore;
Grant me the visits of thy face,
And I desire no more.
Look on him whom they pierced, and mourn.
1 TNFINITE grief! amazing woe !
-*- Behold my bleeding Lord !
Hell and the Jews conspired his death,
And used the Roman sword.
2 O the sharp pangs of smarting pain
My dear Redeemer bore,
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Wlien knotty whips i
II - sacred body b
3 Bui ku<»tty whips and ragged thorns
In vain do 1
In vain 1 blame the Roman hands,
I the more spiteful J-
4 Twere yoo, my bids, my cruel sins,
Each <>t' my crimes became a nail,
And anbelu f the spear.
you that j'ull'd the vengeance down
Upon bead;
Break, break i I bank; mine eyes'
And let my -
6 Strike, mighty grace, my flinty soul,
Till melting waters flow,
And deep repentance drown min.
In undissembied ■
1 "TV OWN headlong from their native skies
U The rebel angelfl fell,
And thunderbolts of flaming wrath
Panned them deep to bell.
2 Down from the top of earthly bliss
Rebellions man was hurl'd;
And Jeani itoap'd benssrh the p
airing world.
ice !
Must 1.
To sai
Miht angi Is -ink for erer down,
And barn in quenchL
God forsakes his shii
To raise us wretches higher!
With hallelujahs ring,
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And the full choir of human tongues
All hallelujahs sing.
Distinguishing Love.
1 T71R0M heaven the sinning angels fell,
J- And wrath and darkness chain 'd them
But man, vile man, forsook his bliss, [down;
And mercy lifts him to a crown.
2 Amazing work of sovereign grace
That could distinguish rebels so!
Our guilty treasons calld aloud
For everlasting fetters too.
3 To thee, to thee, Almighty Love,
Our souls, ourselves, our all, we pay;
Millions of tongues shall sound thy praise
On the bright hills of heavenly day.
Hardness of Heart complained of.
1 l\/r Y heart, how dreadful hard it is !
-i-'X. How heavy here it lies !
Heavy and cold within my breast,
Just like a rock of ice !
2 Sin, like a raging tyrant, sits
Upon this flinty throne,
And every grace lies buried deep
Beneath this heart of stone.
3 How seldom do I rise to God,
Or taste the joys above !
This mountain presses down my faith,
And chills my flaming love.
4 When smiling mercy courts my soul
With all its heavenly charms,
This stubborn, this relentless thing
Would thrust it from my arms.
5 Against the thunders of thy word
Rebellious I have stood ;
My heart, it shakes not at the wrath
And terrors of a God.
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6 Dear Saviour, steep this rock of mine
In thine own crimson sea !
None but a bath of blood divine
Can melt the flint away.
Tlie Booh of God's Decrees.
1 T ET the whole race of creatures lie
J-i Abased before their God ;
Whate'er his sovereign voice has form'd
He governs with a nod.
2 [Ten thousand ages ere the skies
"Were into motion brought,
All the long years and worlds to come
Stood present to his thought.
3 There's not a sparrow or a worm
But's found in his decrees ;
He raises monarchs to their throne,
And sinks them as he please.]
4 If life attends the course I run,
'Tis he provides those rays,
And 'tis his hand that hides my sun,
If darkness cloud my days.
5 Yet I would not be much concern'd,
Nor vainly lung to see
The volumes of his deep decrees,
What months are writ for me.
6 When he reveals the book of life,
O may I read my name
Amongit the choeen of his love,
The follower! of the Lamb!
' %ritt is the Life of my Soul.
1 TTOW full of anguish is the thought,
I 1 How it distracta and tears my heart,
It' Qod, at la>t, tin
Should frown, and bid my soul " Depart'*
•2 Lord, when 1 quit this earthly il
Where shall Illy but to thy on
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447
For I have sought no other home ;
For I have learn'd no other rest.
3 I cannot live contented here
Without some glimpses of thy face ;
And heaven without thy presence there
Would be a dark and tiresome place.
4 When earthly cares engross the day,
And hold my thoughts aside from thee,
The shining hours of cheerful light
Are long and tedious years to me.
5 And if no evening visit's paid
Between my Saviour and my soul,
How dull the night ! how sad the shade !
How mournfully the minutes roll !
6 This flesh of mine might learn as soon
To live, yet part with all my blood ;
To breathe when vital air is gone,
Or thrive and grow without my food.
7 [Christ is my light, my life, my care,
My blessed hope, my heavenly prize ;
Dearer than all my passions are,
My limbs, my bowels, or my eyes.
8 The strings that twine about my heart,
Tortures and racks may tear them off;
But they can never, never part
With their dear hold of Christ my love.]
9 [My God ! and can an humble child,
That loves thee with a flame so high,
Be ever from thy face exiled,
Without the pity of thine eye?
10 Impossible! for thine own hands
Have tied my heart so fast to thee,
And in thy book the promise stands,
That where thou art thy friends must be.]
The World's three Chief Temptations.
1 TT^HEN in the light of faith divine
» ' We look on things below,
448
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Honour, and gold, and sensual joy,
How vain and dangerous tool
2 [Honour's a puff of noisy breath;
Yet men expose their blood,
And venture everlasting death,
To gain that airy good.
3 Whilst others starve the nobler mind,
And feed "ii shining dust,
They roh the serpenl of his food
T indulge a sordid lust.]
4 The pleasures that allure our »
Are dangerous snan s to souls;
There's but a drop of flattering -
And dash'd with hitler b
6 God is mine all sufficient
My portion and my choice;
In him my vast desires are fill'd,
Ami all my powers rejoice.
6 In vain the world aCCOltS my ear.
And tempts my heart anew;
] cannot huy your bliss so dear,
Nor part with heaven for you.
A Happy Retu/rrection,
1 "VTO, I'll repine at death no IB<
1M But with a cheerful
To the cold dun-eon of the
These dying withering limbs of mine.
2 Let worms devour my waiting flesh,
And crumble ail my hones to dust,
My God shall raise my frame anew
At the revival of the just.
3 Break, sacred morning, through tl
Bring that delightful, dreadful day;
pt the hours, dear L<>nl, and come;
Thy lin-.Mii- wheels, how long t! •
4 [OUT weary Spirits taint to
The Hghl of thy returning
HYMN CIV.
449
And hear the language of those lips,
Where God has shed his richest grace.]
5 [Haste, then, upon the wings of love,
Rouse all the pious sleeping clay,
That we may join in heavenly joys,
And sing the triumph of the day.]
Christ's Commission.
1 f~^ OME, happy souls, approach your God
Vy "With new melodious songs ;
Come, tender to almighty grace
The tribute of your tongues.
2 So strange, so boundless was the love
That pitied dying men,
The Father sent his equal Son
To give them life again.
3 Thy hands, dear Jesus, were not arm'd
With a revenging rod,
No hard commission to perform
The vengeance of a God.
4 But all was mercy, all was mild,
And wrath forsook the throne,
When Christ on the kind errand came,
And brought salvation down.
6 Here, sinners, you may heal your wounds,
And wipe your sorrows dry;
Trust in the mighty Saviour's name,
And you shall never die.
6 See, dearest Lord, our willing souls
Accept thine offer 'd grace ;
We bless the great Redeemer's love,
And give the Father praise.
Reconciliation.
1 T> AISE your triumphant songs
-Li> To an immortal tunc ;
Let the wide earth resound the deeds
Celestial grace has done.
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John iii.
16, 17.
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450
HYMN
BOOK TL
ftypmn. 2 Sing how eternal love
• *» m Its chief Beloved <
1U nft And bid him raise our wretched r
From their abyss of woes.
\ His hand no thunder bears,
Nor terror clothes his brow;
No bolts to drive our guilty souls
To fiercer flames below.
\ 'Twas mercy fill'd the throne,
And wrath stood silent by,
When Christ was sent with pardons down
To rebels doom'd to die.
> Now, sinners, dry your tears,
Let hopeless sorrows cease ;
Bow to the sceptre of his love,
And take the oflfer'd peace.
I Lord, we obey thy call ;
AVe lay an humble claim
To the salvation thou hast brought,
And love and praise thy name,
jftjpmrt. Repentance flowing from God's Patience.
1 fl K * A ^"^ are we "vvretc^u>s vet alive?
lUil. J\ And do we yet rebel?
C. M. 'Tis boundless, 'tis amazing love,
That bears us up from hell.
2 The burden of our weighty guilt
"Would sink us down to flames;
And threatening vengeance rolls above,
To crush our feeble frames.
3 Almighty goodness cries, "Foil-
And straight the thunder -
And dare we now provoke his wrath,
And w< ary ..ut hi-
4 Lord, we have long abused thy love,
Too long indulged our sin;
Our aching hearts e'en bleed to see
What rebels we ha\<
HYMN CVII.
451
5 No more, ye lusts, shall ye command,
No more will we obey ;
Stretch out, 0 God, thy conqu'ring hand.
And drive thy foes away.
Repentance at the Cross.
1 /^H, if my soul were form'd for woe,
V./ How would I vent my sighs !
Repentance should like rivers flow
From both my streaming eyes.
2 'Twas for my sins my dearest Lord
Hung on the cursed tree,
And groan 'd away a dying life
For thee, my soul, for thee.
3 Oh, how I hate those lusts of mine.
That crucified my God !
Those sins that pierced and nail'd his flesh
Fast to the fatal wood !
4 Yes, my Redeemer, they shall die ;
My heart has so decreed ;
Nor will I spare the guilty things
That make my Saviour bleed.
5 Whilst with a melting broken heart
My murder'd Lord I view,
I'll raise revenge against my sins,
And slay the murderers too.
The ever-lasting absence of God intolerable.
1 rpHAT awful day will surely come,
-L Th' appointed hour makes haste,
When I must stand before my Judge
And pass the solemn test.
2 Thou lovely Chief of all my joys,
Thou Sovereign of my heart;
How could I bear to hear thy voice
Pronounce the sound, "Depart!"
3 [The thunder of that dismal word
Would so torment my ear
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107.
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'Twould tear my soul asunder. Lord,
With most tormenting tear.]
4 [What, to be banish'd for my life,
And yet forbid to die !
To linger in eternal pain.
Yet death tor ever fly :]
5 Oli, wretched state of deep despair!
To see my God remove,
And fix my doleful station where
I must not taste his love.
6 Jesus. I throw my arms around,
And bang upon thy breast;
Without a gracious smile from thee,
My Bpirit cannot rest.
7 Oh, tell me that my worthless name
Is graven on thy hands ;
Show me some promise in thy book
Where my salvation stao
8 [Give me one kind assuring word
To sink my tears again,
And cheerfully my soul shall wait
Her threescore years and ten.]
Accc&t to the Throne of Grace by a Mediator.
1 /^i OME, let us lift our joyful eyes
v_y Up to the courts above,
And smile to see our Father there
rpon a throne of love.
2 Once 't\\;t- ;i Be*1 of dreadful wrath,
And shot devouring flame;
Our God appear'd M consuming fire,"
And Vengeance was his name.
3 Rich were the drops of Jesus' blood,
That cahn'd his frowning face.
That sprinkled o'er the burning throne,
And turn'd the wrath to giace.
4 Now we may bow before I
And venture near the Lord;
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HYMN CX.
No fiery cherub guards his seat, j |^gmn.
Not double flaming sword. ' 1 A O
5 The peaceful gates of heavenly bliss 1 U (?■
Are open'd by the Son;
High let us raise our notes of praise,
And reach th' almighty throne.
6 To thee ten thousand thanks we bring,
Great Advocate on high :
And glory to th' eternal King
That lays his fury by.
The Darkness of Providence.
1 T ORD, we adore thy vast designs,
J-J Th' obscure abyss of Providence
Too deep to sound with mortal lines,
Too dark to view with feeble sense.
2 Now thou array'st thine awful face
In angry frowns, without a smile;
We through the cloud believe thy grace,
Secure of thy compassion stiLL
3 Through seas and storms of deep distress
"We sail by faith, and not by sight;
Faith guides us in the wilderness,
Through all the briers and the night.
4 Dear Father, if thy lifted rod
Resolve to scourge us here below,
Still we must lean upon our God,
Thine arm shall bear us safely through.
Triumph over Death, in hope of the Resurrection.
1 A ND must this body die?
-£*- This mortal frame decay!
And must these active limbs of mine S. 1C
Lie mould'ring in the clay?
2 Corruption, earth, and worms,
Shall but refine this flesh,
Till my triumphant spirit comes
To put it on afresh.
HYMN CXI
BOOK II
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God my Redeemer
And often from the
Looks down, and watches all iny dust,
Till ho shall hid it rise.
Array'd in glorious grace
Shall these vile bodies shine,
And every shape, and ever]
Look heavenly and divine
These lively hopes we owe
To Jesus' dying love;
We would adore his grace below
And sing his power ahove.
Dear Lord, accept the praise
Of these our humble
Till tunes of nohlor sound we raise
With our immortal tongues.
Thanksgiving
ZLON, rejoice, and Judah -sing:
The Lord assumes his th:
Let Britain own the heavenly King,
And make his glories known.
I The great, the wicked, and the proud,
From their high seats are hurl'd;
Jehovah rides upon a cloud,
And thunders through the world.
j He reigns upon th' eternal hills,
Distribute* mortal crowns,
Empires are iix'd beneath his smiles,
And totter at his frowns.
4 Navies that rule the ocean wide
Are vampiish'd hy his breath;
And legions ;irm'd with power and pride
death*
D Let tyrants make no more pretence
To vex our happy land;
Jehovah's name is our defence.
Our buckler is his hand.
BOOK IT.
HYMN CXIII.
455
6 [Long may the King, our sovereign, live,
To rule us by thy word ;
And all the honours he can give
Be offer'd to the Lord.]
Angels ministering to Christ and the Saints.
1 r\ RE AT God ! to what a glorious height
vX Hast thou advanced the Lord thy Son!
Angels, in all their robes of light,
Are made the servants of his throne
2 Before his feet thine armies wait,
And swift as flames of fire they move
To manage his affairs of state,
In works of vengeance and of love.
3 His orders run through all the hosts ;
Legions descend at his command,
To shield and guard the British coast*.
When foreign rage invades our land.
4 Now they are sent to guide our feet
Up to the gates of thine abode,
Through all the dangers that we meet
In travelling the heavenly road.
6 Lord, when I leave this mortal ground,
And thou shaft bid me rise and come,
Send a beloved angel down,
Safe to conduct my spirit home.
Angels ministering to Christ and the Saints.
1 ri^HE majesty of Solomon
-I- How glorious to behold !
The servants waiting round his throne.
The ivory and the gold!
2 But. mighty God, thy palace shines
With far superior beams;
Thine angel guards are swift as wmds,
Thy ministers are flames.
3 [Soon as thine holy Son had made
His entrance on this earth,
HYMN CXIV. bookil^
J?j?mn.
A thining army downward fled
113.
To celebrate his birth.
1 And when oppress 'd with pains and fears
On the cold ground he lies,
Behold a heavenly form appears
T' allay his ;• .
."> Now to the hands of Christ our King
Are all their legions given;
They wait upon his saints, and bring
His chosen heirs to heaven.
6 Pleasure and praise run through their host
To see a sinner turn ;
Then Satan has a captive
And Christ a subject born.
7 But there's an hour of brighter joy,
When he his angels sends
Obstinate rebels to destroy,
And gather in his friends.
S 0! could 1 -ay, without a doubt.
There shall my soul be found,
Then let the great archangel shout
And the last trumpet sound.
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Christ's Death, Victory, and Dominion.
114.
1 T SING my Saviour's wondmus death i
J- 1 te oonquer'd when he fell :
C. M.
" 'Tis finished!" said his dying breath,
nell.
2 M 'Tis finish'd!" our lmmanuel cries,
The dreadful work it
Hence shall his BOT'reign throne i
1 li- kingdom is begun.
3 Hi- i indation laid
For •:.'•: y and renown,
Whan through the re-_:i"n<: of the dead,
He , i the crown.
4 Ex
Sits our victorious Lord;
HYMN CXVI.
457
To heaven and hell his hands divide
The vengeance or reward.
5 The saints, from his propitious eye.
Await their sev'ral crowns,
And all the sons of darkness fly
The terror of his frowns.
God the Avenger of his Saints.
1 TTIGH as the heavens above the ground
J- A Reigns the Creator God;
Wide as the whole creation's bound
Extends his awful rod.
2 Let princes of exalted state
To him ascribe their crown.
Render their homage at his feet,
And cast their glories down.
3 Know that his kingdom is supreme,
Your lofty thoughts are vain ;
He calls you gods, that awful name,
But ye must die like men.
4 Then let the sov 'reigns of the globe
Not dare to vex the just ;
He puts on vengeance like a robe,
And treads the worms to dust.
5 Ye judges of the earth, be wise,
And think of heaven with fear;
The meanest saint that you despise
Has an avenger there.
Mercies and Tlianhs.
1 TT 0 W can I sink with such a prop
tl As my eternal God,
Who bears the earth's huge pillars up,
And spreads the heavens abroad?
2 How can I die while Jesus lives,
Who rose and left the dead?
Pardon and grace my soul receives
From mine exalted Head.
458
HYMN CXVIII.
3 All that I am, ami all I 1,
Shall be lor ever thine;
"Whate'er my duty bids me give
My cheerful hand* resign.
4 Yet if 1 might make some reserve,
And duty did Dot call,
I love my God with zeal so great
That 1 should give him all.
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I
1 T CANNOT bear thine
-i- My life expires if thou depart ;
Be thou, my heart, still near in; I
And thou, my God, be near my heart.
2 I was not born for earth or sin,
D I live «-n things so vile;
11 stay raj Father
And hope and wait for h< area awhile.
3 Then, dearest L- id, in thine en
Let me resign my fleeting
And with a unile upon mj
Pase tlf important boor of death.
The /'
B\A >< )1 » :, as
But the deai- stream when C
Speaks
1 Pardon an<] |
Behold,
And refa
Become the Eai 'rites of th L
Who i:a\'
N«.w I,.
And :
HYMN CXX.
459
The Holy Scriptures.
1 T ADEN with guilt and full of fears,
J-J I fly to thee, my Lord,
And not a glimpse of hope appears
But in thy written word.
2 The volume of my Father's grace
Does all my griefs assuage :
Here I behold my Saviour's face
Almost in every page.
3 [This is the field where hidden lies
The pearl of price unknown ;
That merchant is divinely wise
Who makes the pearl his own.
4 Here consecrated water flows
To quench my thirst of sin ;
Here the fair tree of knowledge grows,
Nor danger dwells therein.]
5 This is the Judge that ends the strife
Where wit and reason fail,
My guide to everlasting life
Through all this gloomy vale.
6 O may thy counsels, mighty <«od,
My roving feet command ;
Nor I forsake the happy road
That leads to thy right hand.
The Law and Gospel joined in Scripture.
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1
THE Lord declares his will,
And keeps the world in awe !
Amidst the smoke on Sinai's hill
Breaks out his fiery law.
The Lord reveals his face,
And, smiling from above,
Sends down the gospel of his grace,
Th' epistles of his love.
These sacred words impart
Our Maker's just commands;
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460
HYMN OX XI.
BOOK II.
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120.
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121.
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The j.ity of his melting heart,
Air indA
t [Henec we awake oar fear,
We draw oar e tafort beoee;
Thf ;inn* o: _ !:f-re,
And armoai
i-t < rucified,
And here behold his 1
All art- and knowk
Will do us little •_'
We read thf hearenly word,
We take the
the Lord,
And trust :
In vain dm
Oft a Inx.k divino.
Where wrath and lard the
Wht i
The Law and Gospel distinguished.
1 rpiIK law commands and makes us know
J- What duties to our G
■
Where lies our •treugth to do his will.
2 The 1 .nit and "in.
And ihowi how vil.' oar b
Oorj
giving l'«ve and eleai -
3 What earaM doth tlif law denounce
man that fa
Bat b
Pard'ning t! e gaill of nai
4 My tool, • i m re attempt t<> draw
Thy lift and comfort from the law;
Th«» man t; lives.
HYMN CXXIII.
461
Retirement and Meditation.
1 "JV/TY God, permit me not to be
-13-L A stranger to myself and thee;
Amidst a thousand thoughts I rove,
Forgetful of my highest love.
2 Why should my passions mix with earth,
And thus debase my heavenly birth?
Why should I cleave to things below,
And let my God, my Saviour, go?
3 Call me away from flesh and sense,
One sov'reign word can draw me thence;
I would obey the voice divine,
And all inferior joys resign.
4 Be earth with all her scenes withdrawn,
Let noise and vanity begone ;
In secret silence of the mind
My heaven, and there my God, I find.
The Benefit of Public Ordinances.
1 A WAY from every mortal care,
•»-*- Away from earth, our souls retreat ;
We leave this worthless world afar,
And wait and worship near thy seat.
2 Lord, in the temple of thy grace
We see thy feet, and we adore;
We gaze upon thy lovely face,
And learn the wonders of thy power.
3 While here our various wants we mourn,
United groans ascend on high;
And prayer bears a quick return
Of blessings in variety.
4 [If Satan rage, and sin grow strong,
Here we receive some cheering word ;
We gird the gospel armour on,
To fight the battles of the Lord.
5 Or if our spirit faints and dies,
(Our conscience gall'd with inward stings),
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Hera doth the righfa
With healing beama beneath hit ■■
my ion] would still abide
Within thy temple, near tl ;
But if my feel mu-t hence depart,
Still keep thy dwelling in mv heart.
Mo9U, Aaron, and Jothua.
1 TT1IS not the law of ton commands
J- On horj
Or sent to men by Id
Can bring en.
2 Tis not the blood which Aaron spilt,
Nor smoke of smeetest smell,
Can buy a pardon fox our guilt,
Or sare out tooli from
3 Aaron tin ; reath
■Is immediate will;
And in the di
Up<-n th' appointed hill.
4 And thus, on Jordan'i yonder side
The tr ttand,
WhuV , his bead and died
i i of rhe promiaed land.
• i<|, rejoice; now Joanna* V
bring poor fa
r the Barioo
The rule* and the |
1 7 [FE and immortal joys are grren
-L* To souls that mourn the «"
en of wrath n
HYMN C XXVII.
463
2 Woe to the wretch that never felt
The inward pangs of pious grief,
But adds to all his crying guilt
The stubborn sin of unbelief.
3 The law condemns the rebel dead,
Under the wrath of God he lies ;
He seals the curse on his own head,
And with a double vengeance dies.
God glorified in the Gospel.
1 rTIHE Lord, descending from above,
J- Invites his children near,
While power and truth and boundless love
Display their glories here.
2 Here in thy gospel's wondrous frame
Fresh wisdom we pursue;
A thousand angels learn thy name
Beyond whate'er they knew.
3 Thy name is writ in fairest lines,
Thy wonders here we trace ;
Wisdom through all the mystery shines,
And shines in Jesus' face.
4 The law its best obedience owes
To our incarnate God ;
And thy revenging justice shows
Its honours in his blood.
5 But still the lustre of thy grace'
Our warmer thoughts employs,
Gilds the whole scene with brighter rays,
And more exalts our joys.
Circumcision and Baptism.
[Written only for those who practise the baptism
of Infants.]
1 rpHUS did the sons of Abra'm pass
J- Under the bloody seal of grace :
The young disciples bore the yoke,
Till Christ the painful bondage broke.
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127.
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HYMN CXXIX.
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127.
128.
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129.
2 By milder vv
nit, and his i
J [e ft
Ami not forbids their infant race.
3 Their seed (a sprinkled with hit blood,
Their children set apart for God;
I [ia Spirit on their offspring
Like water ponred upon the bead,
-1 Lit every saint, wirh cheerful voice,
In this, large covenant rejoice;
Young children in their early d
Shall giro the God of Abra'in pi
Corrupt Xaturr from Adam.
1 T>LESS'D with the joys of innocence
-D Adam our father stood,
Till he debased his soul to sense,
Ami ate th' unlawful food.
2 Now we are born a ft
To sinful joys inclined;
Reason hai lost its native ;
And flesh enslaves the mind.
3 While flesh, and sense, and passion, reigns,
Sin is the s* i
We fancy music in our chains,
And so forget the load.
4 Greafl God! renew our rahVd firs
Our broken |
Inspire ns with a heavenly flame,
And flesh shall reign no more.
5 Eternal Spirit! write thy law
. our inward ;
And let the second Adam draw
1 [ia image on our !
We «
l rp is l.v •: . faith pf joyi I
J- We walk thro' deserts dark
HYMN CXXX.
Till we arrive at heaven our home,
Faith is our guide, and faith our light.
2 The want of sight she well supplies,
She makes the pearly gates appear,
Far into distant worlds she pries,
And brings eternal glories near.
3 Cheerful we tread the desert through,
While faith inspires a heavenly ray;
Though lions roar, and tempests blow,
And rocks and dangers fill the way.
4 So Abra'm, by divine command,
Left his own house to walk with God ;
His faith beheld the promised land,
And fired his zeal along the road.
The New Creation.
i A TTEND, while God's exalted Son
J^~ Doth his own glories show :
u Behold, I git upon my throne,
Creating all things new.
2 Nature and sin are pass'd away,
And the old Adam dies;
My hands a new foundation lay,
See the new world arise.
3 I'll be a Sun of righteousness
To the new heavens I make ;
None but the new-born heirs of grace
My glories shall partake."
4 Mighty Redeemer ! set me free
From my old state of sin ;
O make my soul alive to thee,
Create new powers within.
5 Renew mine eyes, and form mine ears,
And mould my heart afresh :
Give me new passions, joys, and fears,
And turn the stone to fiesh.
6 Far from the regions of the dead,
From sin, and earth, and hell ;
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HYMN CXXXII.
BOOK II.
132.
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Im i ho new world that grace ha* •
1 would for ever dwell.
1
1 F ET cvr ■! crown
J^ Thy head, my Saviour aadn
Thy hands have brought salratii
And writ the blessings in thy «
2 [What if w< ;Ii(i
And .search from Britain to Japan,
There shall tx . found
So just to God, bo safe for man.]
3 In vain the trembling conscience seeks
S..me solid ground to rest upon;
With long despair the spirit breaks,
Till we apply to Christ alone,
4 How well thy bleated truths ;._
How wise and holy thy commands:
Thy promisee, how firm they bv'.
How firm our hope and comfort
5 [Not the feign'd fields of heath 'nish bliss
Could raise such pleasure! in the mind:
Nor does the Turkish paradise
Pretend to joys so well refined.]
<; should all the forms that men «.•
alt my faith with tivadi rous art.
Id .all them vanity and
And bind the gospel to my heart
i \\T I Vophet of the Lor4
" " That oomes with truth and
I, thy Spirit and thy word
Shall load us in thy
perVente our High r
WhoonVd up his blood,
And lives to carry on his lore,
By pleading with on
HYMN CXXXIV.
467
3 We honour our exalted Kino-
How sweet are his commands!
He guards our souls from hell and sin
By his almighty hands.
4 Hosannah to his glorious name
"Who saves by diff'rent ways:
His mercies lay a sov'reign claim
To our immortal praise.
The Operations of the Holy Spirit.
1 TjlTERXAL Spirit: we confess
-Li And sing the wonders of thy grace ;
Thy power conveys our blessings down
From God the Father and the Son.
2 Enlighten'd by thine heavenly ray.
Our shades and darkness turn to day;
Thine inward teachings make us know
Our danger and our refuge too.
3 Thy power and glory work within,
And break the chains of reigning sin:
Do our imperious lusts subdue,
And form our wretched hearts anew.
4 The troubled conscience knows thy voice
Thy cheering works awake our joys;
Thy words allay the stormy wind,
And calm the surges of the mind.
Circumcision abolished.
1 ri^HE promise was divinely free,
-L Extensive was the grace;
" I will the God of Abra'm be,
And of his num'rous race."
2 He said ; and with a bloody seal
Confirm 'd the words he spoke :
Long did the sons of Abra'm feel
The sharp and painful yoke :
3 Till God's own Son, descending low,
Gave his own flesh to bleed;
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And I i now,
Prom the bard bondage G
4 The God of Abra'm claims our praise,
1 li-* promise! endure ;
And Christ, the Lord, in gender ways,
.Makes the salvation sure.
Type* and Prophecies of t '
1 "DEHOLD the woman's promia I
-L* Behold the ■_• some '.
Behold the prophets all agreed
To give him the superior n
2 Abra'm, the saint, rejoiced of old
When visions of the Lord he saw;
Moses, the man of God, foretold
This £reat f'ulfiller of hi.s law.
;J The typea bore witness to his name,
Obtain d their chief design, and •
The incense and the bleeding lamb,
The ark, the altar, and the
4 Predictions in abundance meet
To join their blesa • ad ;
Jesus, we worship at thy
And nations own the pn I
Miracle* at the Birth off
1 mi IK King of G
JL To make on this earth;
Behold tilt.- midnight bright u noon,
And heaven | ire li is birth !
it the young I i ad
What vrontten and i.ieet!
An anknov n star arose, and led
'J'iie eastern sages to bis
1 and Anna both o
The infant Saviour t<» proclaim;
Inward tliey fl | fire,
And blesi . and own'd bii
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469
4 Let Jews and Greeks blaspheme aloud,
And treat the holy child with scorn ;
Our souls adore th' eternal God,
Who condescended to be born.
Miracles in the Life, Death, and Resurrection of
Christ.
L T>EHOLD the blind their sight receive ;
J-J Behold the dead awake and live ;
The dumb speak wonders, and the lame
Leap like the hart, and bless his name.
2 Thus doth th' eternal Spirit own
And seal the mission of the Sou ;
The Father vindicates his cause
While he hangs bleeding on the cross.
3 He dies ! the heavens in mourning stood ;
He rises, and appears a God ;
Behold the Lord ascending high,
No more to bleed, no more to die !
4 Hence and for ever from my heart
I bid my doubts and fears depart;
And to those hands my soul resign
Which bear credentials so divine.
The Power of the Gospel.
1 rpHIS is the word of truth and love,
-L Sent to the nations from abcve ;
Jehovah here resolves to show
What his almighty grace can do.
2 This remedy did wisdom find
To heal diseases of the mind ;
This sovereign balm, whose virtues can
Restore the ruin'd creature, man.
3 The gospel bids the dead revive,
Sinners obey the voice, and live;
Dry bones are raised, and clothed afresh,
And hearts of stone are turned to flesh.
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4 [Whei •
The g i heavenly light;
Our lasts ita wondrous power oon1
And nls.]
name
t the lamb;
"While the wild world esteems it strange.
nd admire, and hate the change.]
6 May but : seal renew,
I^et sinner- gaze and hate n
The word that saves me does engage
A sure defence from all their rage.
The Example of ChrUt.
1 "A F Y deai Redeemer and my Lord.
jLtJL I read my duty in thy word;
But in thy life the law at |
Drawn out in living characters.
2 Such was thy truth and such thy zeal,
Such defrence to thy .Father's will,
Such love, and mi UM,
I would transcribe anil make them mine.
3 Cold mountains and the midnight air
"Witness'd the fenroor of thy prayer;
The desert thy temptatiom knew.
Thy conflict, and thy victory too.
4 Be thou my pattern; make me
More of thy •_
Then God the Judge shall own my name_
Amongst the followers of the Lamb.
Th e Exa :i<]>lcj of t v Bawds.
1 /~^ IVE me the wings of faith t
vJT Within the n
The saint- abore, how great the
How bright their .
2 Once they were mourning here 1
And wet their couch with
HYMN CXLI.
471
They wrestled hard, as we do now,
With sins, and doubts, and fears.
3 I ask them whence their victory came ;
They, with united breath,
Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb,
Their triumph to his death.
4 They mark the footsteps that he trod,
His zeal inspired their breast ;
And, following their incarnate God,
Possess the promised rest.
5 Our glorious Leader claims our praise
For his own pattern given,
While the long cloud of witnesses
Show the same path to heaven.
Faith assisted by Sense.
1 "V/TY Saviour God, my Sovereign Prince,
-LtJ. Reigus far above the skies;
But brings his graces down to sense,
And helps my faith to rise.
2 My eyes and ears shall bless his name,
They read and hear his word ;
My touch and taste shall do the same
"When they receive the Lord.
3 Baptismal water is design'd
To seal his cleansing grace,
While at his feast of bread and wine
He gives his saints a place.
4 But not the waters of a flood
Can make my flesh so clean,
As by his Spirit and his blood
He'll wash my soul from sin.
5 Not choicest meats, or noblest wines,
So much my heart refresh,
As when my faith goes through the signs,
And feeds upon his flesh.
6 I love the Lord that stoops so low
To give his word a seal:
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HYMN CXLIII
Bui ili.
Faith in Christ our Sacrifice.
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Could gh ■
stain,
But Christ, the heavenly Lamb,
ray;
nobler name
d richer blood than they.
My faith would lay her hand
« »n that dear head of thu
enitent, 1 stand,
my hin.
My ion] .<■■ -v- back to see
Imrdena thoa didst bear
When hanging on the cursed tree,
And hopes her guilt was there.
We ble>s the Lamb with cheerful voice,
i bleeding love.
1 TXT HAT different pow< nAfifl
» » Attend our mortal -
1 hate the thought* that work within,
1 hate.
1 complain, and groan, and die,
While BUI and Sala:
of triumph high,
.
Till perfect day ai
HYMN CXLV.
473
4 Thus will the flesh and spirit strive,
And vex and break my peace ;
But I shall quit this mortal life,
And sin for ever cease.
The Effusion of the Spirit.
1 /^i RE AT was the day, the joy was great,
^X When the divine disciples met,
Whilst on their heads the Spirit came,
And sat like tongues of cloven flame.
2 What gifts, what miracles he gave,
And power to kill, and power to save !
Furnish'd their tongues with wondrous
words,
Instead of shields, and spears, and swords.
3 Thus arm'd, he sent the champions forth
From east to west, from south to north :
" Go, and assert your Saviour's cause ;
Go, spread the mystery of his cross."
4 These weapons of the holy war,
Of what almighty force they are,
To make our stubborn passions bow,
And lay the proudest rebel low !
5 Nations, the learned and the rude,
Are by these heavenly arms subdued ;
AVhile Satan rages at his loss,
And hates the doctrine of his cross.
6 Great King of grace ! my heart subdue ;
I would be led in triumph too,
A willing captive to my Lord,
And sing the victories of his word.
Sight through a Glass, and Face to Face.
1 T LOVE the windows of thy grace,
-i- Through which my Lord is seen,
And long to meet my Saviour's face
Without a glass between. i •
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HYMN CXLVir. bookh.
2 0 that the happy hour were come
To change my faith to light]
I shall behold my Lord at home
Id a diviner light
3 Haste, my Beloved, and remove
These interposing days;
Then shall my passions all be love.
And all my powers be praise.
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The Vanity of Creatures.
146.
1 TITAN" has a soul of vast desires,
-i*J- He burns within with restless fires;
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Toss'd to and fro, his passions fly
From vanity to vanity.
2 In vain on earth we hope to find
Some solid good to fill the mind;
We try new pleasures, but we feel
The inward thirst and torment still.
3 So when a raging fever burns,
We shift from side to side by turns,
And 'tis a poor relief we gain,
To change the place, but keep the pain.
4 Great God, subdue this vicious thirst,
This love to vanity and dust;
Cure the vile fever of the mind,
And feed our souls with joys refined.
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The Creation of the IVorld.
147.
1 " TVfOW let a spacious world arise,"
■*-* Said the Creator Lord:
C. If.
At once th' obedient earth and skies
Gen. i.
Rose at his so v 'reign word.
2 [Dark was the deep; the waters lay
Confused, and drown'd the land:
He oall'd the light; the new-born day
Attends on his command.
.') lb- 1-ids the rli'iids aaeend on high;
The clouds ascend and bear
HYMN CXLVIII.
475
A watery treasure to the sky,
And float on softer air.
4 The liquid element below
Was gather'd by his hand;
The rolling seas together flow,
And leave the solid land.
5 With herbs and plants, a flowery birth,
The naked globe he crowu'd,
Ere there was rain to bless the earth.
Or sun to warm the ground.
Then he adorn'd the upper skies;
Behold, the sun appears ;
The moon and stars in order rise
To mark out months and years.
7 Out of the deep th' almighty King
Did vital beings frame,
The painted fowls of every wing,
And fish of every name.]
8 He gave the lion and the worm
At once their wondrous birth ;
And grazing beasts of various form
Rose from the teeming earth.
9 Adam was framed of equal clay,
Though sovereign of the rest;
Design 'd for nobler ends than they,
With God's OAvn image bless'd.
10 Thus glorious in the Maker's eye
The young creation stood ;
He saw the building from on high,
His word pronounced it good.
11 Lord, while the frame of nature stands,
Thy praise shall fill my tongue;
But the new world of grace demands
A more exalted song.
God reconciled in Christ.
1 "TwEAIlEST of all the names above,
•U My Jesus, and my God,
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Who can resist thy :
Or trifle with thy blood 1
2 'TU by the merits of thy death
The Father smiles again;
Tis by thine intereeding breath
The Spirit dwells with men.
3 Till God in human flesh I
My thoughts no comfort find;
The holy, just, and sacred Three
Are terrors to my mind.
4 But if Immanuel's fare appear.
My hope, my joy l^crins;
His name forbids my slavi-':
His grace remores my sins
f) While Jews on their own law n
And Greeks of wisdom boast,
I love the inoarna
And there I fix my trust
nr to Magistrates.
1 INTERNAL Soy'reign ofth
J-^ And Lord of all below,
"We mortals to thy majesty
Our first obedience owe.
2 Our souls adore thy throne supreme,
And bl<» thy providence
For magistrates of meaner name,
Our glory and defi
3 [The erowns of British ,
With rays shore thi
When laws and liberties combine
To make the nation Mess'd.]
4 Kingdoms on firm foundations -
"While virtue finds reward;
And sinners perish from tl •
By justice and the sword.
5 Let Cesser's dne b<- ever paid
I his throne:
HYMN CLI.
477
But consciences and souls were made
To be the Lord's alone.
S1
The Deceitfulness of Si a.
EN has a thousand treacherous arts
To practise on the mind ;
With flatt'ring looks she tempts our hearts
But leaves a sting behind.
2 With names of virtue she deceives
The acred and the young;
And while the heedless wretch believes,
She makes his fetters strong.
3 She pleads for all the joys she brings,
And gives a fair pretence ;
But cheats the soul of heavenly things,
And chains it down to sense.
4 So on a tree divinely fair
Grew the forbidden food ;
Our mother took the poison there,
And taiuted all her blood.
Prophecy and Inspiration.
1 THWAS by an order from the Lord
-*- The ancient prophets spoke his word ;
His Spirit did their tongues inspire,
And warm'd their hearts with heavenly fire.
2 The works and wonders which they wrought
Confirm'd the messages they brought ;
The prophet's pen succeeds his breath,
To save the holy words from death.
3 Great God, mine eyes with pleasure look
On the dear volume of thy book;
There my Redeemer's face I see,
And read his name who died for me.
4 Let the false raptures of the mind
Be lost and vanish in the wind :
Here I can fix my hopes secure;
This is thy word, and must endure.
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1 V OT to the terrors of the L
i-^ The tempest* fire, end smoke;
the thunder of that word
Wi. - • ,ii spoke;
2 But we are • - - hill,
The cr
Where milder words declare his will,
And ve abroad.
ild th' iimuiii-
_-•!» clothed in light!
Beh
ttghtl
4 Behold the h f there
• names are writ in heaven ;
And God, the judge of all, declares
Their
5 The saints on earth and all the dead
But one communion make;
All join in Christ, their living II
And of bii grace partake.
.My weary boo] would rest;
The man that dwells where Jesus is,
be for ever I .
77ie I)
1 D< IN, lifc ■ •
O ini. eti our vital bli
The only beifl
And tbe physician God.
2 Our beauty ami i
And stfa ;
But Christ
With his almighty breath.
- Mthin,
01 burn ami raj
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Till God's own Son, with skill divine,
The inward fire assuage.
4 [We lick the dust, we grasp the wind,
And solid good despise ;
Such is the folly of the mind,
Till Jesus makes us wise.
5 We give our souls the wounds they feel,
We drink the pois'nous gall,
And rush with fury down to hell,
But heaven prevents the fall.]
6 [The man possess'd among the tombs
Cuts his own flesh, and cries ;
He foams and raves, till Jesus comes,
And the foul spirit flies.]
Sdf-righ teousness insunicient.
1 "TTTHERE are the mourners." saith the
> y Lord,
" That wait and tremble at my word.
That walk in darkness all the day?
Come, make my name your trust and stay.
2 [" Xo works nor duties of your own
Can for the smallest sin atone ;
The robes that nature may provide
Will not your least pollutions hide.
3 " The softest couch that nature knows
Can give the conscience no repose;
Look to my righteousness and live ;
Comfort and peace are mine to give.]
4 " Ye sons of pride, that kindle coals
With your own hands to warm your souls,
Walk in the light of your own fire,
Enjoy the sparks that ye desire.
5 " This is your portion at my hands;
Hell waits you with her iron bands ;
Ye shall lie down in sorrow there,
In death, in darkness, and despair.*'
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<*ovcr.
1 T O, the d< _ 1 flies
-Li To Pharaoh's stubborn land;
The pride and flower of Egypt dies
By his vindictive hand.
2 He pat i of Jacob o'er,
Nor ponr'd the wrath divine;
II" taw the blood on every door,
And bleas'd the peaceful sign.
3 Thus the appointed Lamb most bleed
To break th* Egyptian y
Thus Israel is from bondage fir
And 'scapes the angel's stroke.
4 Lord, if my heart were sprinkled too
With blood so rich ;is thine,
Justice no longer would pursue
Thi* guilty soul of mine.
5 Jeans -:ain,
And h.-is at once procured
Freedom from Satan's heavy chain.
And - og sword.
/' ' -' nnd Despair.
1 T HATE the tempter and his charms,
■L I hate his flatt'ring breath ;
Tii- - i thousand forms
To cheat our soulfl
•2 He •
Or k; fear;
in wide extremes,
6 Now be p« rsuadee, • 1 1
To « alk the road to bear*
it sins, and <-
•• They cann A \^ fbrgin n."
4 Hie rbSftf
To think of ' •
HYMN CLVIII.
481
For prayer and devotion are
But melancholy breath."'
5 He tells the aged " They must die,
And 'tis too late to pray ;
In vain for mercy now they cry.
For they have lost their clay."
6 Thus he supports his cruel throne
By mischief and deceit.
And drags the sons of Adam down
To darkness and the pit.
7 Almighty G-od, cut short his power,
Let him in darkness dwell;
And that he vex the earth no more,
Confine him down to hell.
Sa tail's Devices.
1 "VT 0 W Satan comes with dreadful roar,
-L ^ And threatens to destroy:
He worries whom he can't devour
With a malicious joy.
2 Ye sons of God, oppose his rage,
Resist, and he'll begone ;
Thus did our dearest Lord engage
And vanquish him a^ne.
3 Now he appears almost divine,
Like innocence and love ;
But the old serpent lurks within
When he assumes the dove.
4 Fly from the false deceiver's tongue,
Ye sons of Adam, fly j
Our parents found the snare too strong,
Nor should the children try,
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BROAD is the road that leads to death.
And thousands walk together there ;
But wisdom shows a narrower path
With here and there a traveller.
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TTYMX CLIX.
ifcpmn.
158.
j3?PtttTt.
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2 " Deny thyself and take thy cross."
I- the Redeemers great command;
Nature must count her geld but dross
If she would gain this heavenly land.
3 The tearful soul that tires and faints.
And walks the ways of God M more.
Is but esteem 'd aba
And makes his own destruction sure.
4 Lord, let not all my hopes be vain,
Create my heart entirely new;
Which hypocrites could i
"Which false apostates never knew.
d State.
1 rpEEAT King of glory and of grace,
L VX "We own with humble shame
J low vile is our degenerate
And our fire ne.]
2 From Adam flows our tainted blood,
The poison reigns within ;
Makes us averse to all that's good,
And willing -
3 [Daily we break thy hoi}
And then reject thy g
Engaged in the old serpent'.- cause
Against our Maker -
4 We
And lo\e the distance well ;
With haste we run the ds
That had- to death and hell.
5 And can such rebels be restored 1
Such natures made divine?
oners see thy
And feel this power of thine.
6 We raise our rather'.- name on high,
Who his own Spirt
To bring re eHkraa strangers nigh,
And turn I 'ids.
HYMN CLXI.
483
Custom in Sin.
1 T ET the wild leopards of the wood
-L^ Put off the spots that nature gives,
Then may the wicked turn to God,
And change their tempers and their lives.
2 As well might Ethiopian slaves
Wash out the darkness of their skin;
The dead as well may leave their graves,
As old transgressors cease to sin.
3 AY here vice has held its empire long,
'Twill not endure the least control ;
None but a power divinely strong
Can turn the current of the soul.
4 Great God ! I own thy power divine,
That works to change this heart of mine !
I would be foruTd anew, and bless
The wonders of creating grace.
Tlce difficulty of Conversion.
1 Q< TRAIT is the way, the door is strait,
^J That leads to joys on high;
Tis but a few that find the gate,
While crowds mistake and die.
2 Beloved self must be denied,
The mind and will renew 'd ;
Passion suppress'd, and patience tried,
And vain desires subdued.
3 [Flesh is a dang'rous foe to grace,
Where it prevails and rules ;
Flesh must be humbled, pride abased,
Lest they destroy our souls.
4 The love of gold be banish'd hence,
That vile idolatry,
And every member, every sense,
In sweet subjection lie.
5 The tongue, that most unruly power,
Requires a strong restraint ;
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HYMN CLXIII.
We must be watchful every hour,
Ami pray, but never faint.]
6 Lord, can a feeble helpless worm
Fulfil a task so hard!
Thy grace must all my work perforin,
And pre the free reward.
Meditation
1 "A TY thoughts surmount these lower skies,
-»-*i And look within the veil;
There spring
The waters never fail.
2 There I behold, with sweet delight,
The Mossed Three in One;
And strong affections fix n,;
On God's incarnate Son.
3 Bis promise stands far ever firm,
1 [is grace shall ne'er depart :
He hinds my name upon his arm.
And seals it on his heart.
4 Light are the pain- that nature b;
How short our BOITG
When with eternal future things
The present we compare!
5 I would not he a stranger still
To that celestial place,
Where I for ever hope to dwell
Near my \i< d< em< i
Cum j ■
1 T\KA B Lord : behold oni
-L' Our sin- attempt to reign:
Stretch out thine arm of conquering
And let thy \'<>v< be slain.
2 [The lion with hi- dreadful pom
Affrights thy feeble sheep ;
! the glory of thy po
And chain him to the uV
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485
3 Must we indulge a long despair?
Shall our petitions die?
Our mournings never reach thine ear,
Nor tears affect thine eye ?]
4 If thou despise a mortal groan,
Yet hear a Saviour's blood ;
An Advocate so near the throne
Pleads and prevails with God.
5 He brought the Spirit's powerful sword
To slay our deadly foes ;
Our sins shall die beneath thy word,
And hell in vain oppose.
6 How boundless is our Father's grace,
In height, and depth, and length !
He made his Son our righteousness,
His Spirit is our strength.
The End of the World,
1 TTTHY should this earth delight us so?
» » Why should we fix our eyes
On these low grounds where sorrows grow,
And every pleasure dies?
2 While time his sharpest teeth prepares
Our comforts to devour,
There is a land above the stars,
And joys above his power.
3 Nature shall be dissolved and die,
The sun must end his race,
The earth and sea for ever fly
Before my Saviour's face.
4 When will that glorious morning rise?
When the last trumpet sound,
And call the nations to the skies,
From underneath the ground?
Unfruitfulness, Ignorance, and unsanctified
Affections.
IT ONG have I sat beneath the sound
J-J Of thy salvation, Lord;
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165.
486
HYMN CLXVI. book ii.
fctmn.
But -rill how weak my faith is found,
165.
And knowledge of thy e
2 Oft I frequent thy holy plate,
CM.
And hear almost in vain ;
How small a portion of th] .
My memory can retain :
3 [My dear Almighty, and my God,
How little art thou known
By all the judgment.* of thy rod.
And bleasingi of thy throne:]
4 How cold end feeble is my love!
How negligent my fear!
How low my hope of joye above!
1 low few anectioni there!
5 Great God! thy sovereign power impart
To give thy word me
"Write thy ■ajkajaon in my heart,
And make me learn thy grace.
6 [Show my forgetful feet the way
That leads to joys on high;
There knowledge grows without decay,
And love shall never die.]
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TJtc Divine Perfection*.
166.
1 T1T0W shall I praise th' eternal God,
i-A That Infinite Unknown?
C. M.
Who can ascend his high abode,
Or venture near his thi<
2 [The great Invisible! he dwells
Conoeal'd in dazzling light;
But his all-searching rye reveals
The secrets of the night.
3 Those watchful eves that never sleep
Survey the world around ;
Hi> wisdom is a bonndleea deep
Where all our thenghti an- drown'd.]
4 [Speak f ■
To lave or to destroy;
HYMN CLXVII.
487
Infinite years his life prolong,
And endless is his joy.]
5 [He knows no shadow of a chancre.
Nor alters his decrees;
Firm as a rock his truth remains
To guard his promises.]
6 [Sinners before his presence die;
How holy is his name !
His anger and his jealousy
Burn like devouring flame.]
7 Justice upon a dreadful throne
Maintains the rights of God ;
While mercy sends her pardons down
Bought with a Saviour's blood.
8 Now to my soul, immortal King,
Speak some forgiving word ;
Then 'twill be double joy to sing
The glories of my Lord.
The Divine Perfections.
1 ri RE AT God! thy glories shall employ
vT My holy fear, my humble joy;
My lips in songs of honour bring
Their tribute to th' eternal King.
2 [Earth, and the stars, and worlds unknown.
Depend precarious on his throne ;
All nature hangs upon his word,
And grace and glory own their Lord.]
3 [His sovereign power what mortal knows !
If he command, who dare oppose?
With strength lie girds himself around,
And treads the rebels to the ground.]
4 [Who shall pretend to teach him skill,
Or guide the counsels of his will?
His wisdom, like a sea divine,
Flows deep and high beyond our line.]
5 [His name is holy, and his eye ■
Burns with immortal jealousy
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HYMN CLXVIII.
fc?mn.
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He hates the sons of pride, and sheds
His 1 i< « on tlicir heads.]
6 [The beamings of his piercing sight
Bring dark hypocrisy to liL'ht;
Death and destruction naked lie,
And hell uncover'd to his eye.]
7 [Th' eternal law before him stands;
His justice, with impartial hands,
Divides to all their due reward.
Or by the sceptre or the sword.]
8 [His mercy, like a boundless sea,
Washes our load of guilt away;
"While his own .Son came down and died
T' engage his justice on <.ur side.]
9 [Each of his words demands my faith;
My soul can rest on all he saitfl ;
His truth inviolably ;.
The largest promise of his lips.]
10 O tell me, with a gentle I
" Thou art my God," and I'll rejoice'
Fill'd with thy love, I dare proclaim
The brightest honours of thy name.
The l)i cine Perfection*.
1 TEIH >VAII reigns, his throne is high,
«l Hi> robes an ! i ■_: 1 1 1 and majl
right,
No mortal can sustain tip -
2 His terrors keep the world in awe;
Hii justice guards his holy
Hii I
His truth and promise seal the _•
3 Through all his works his wisdom shines
And 1
Hii | fulfil
The n
4 And will this gl- I leend
To be my Father and my v
book it. HYMN CLXX.
489
Then let my songs with angels'join :
Heaven is secure if God be mine.
Tlie Divine Perfections.
"fevmn
1 rp HE Lord Jehovah reigns,
J- His throne is built on high;
169.
The garments he assumes
As the
Are light and majesty :
148th
His glories shine 1 No mortal eye
Psalm.
With beams so bright, | Can bear the sight.
2 The thunders of his hand
Keep the wide world in awe;
His wrath and justice stand
To guard his holy law :
And where his love 1 His truth confirms
Resolves to bless, | And seals the grace.
3 Through all his ancient works
Surprising wisdom shines,
Confounds the powers of hell,
And breaks their curs'd designs.
Strong is his arm, 1 His great decrees,
And shall fulfil J His sov'reign will.
4 And can this mighty King
Of glory condescend?
And will he write his name,
" My Father and my Friend?"
I love his name, 1 Join all my powers
I love his word ; | And praise the Lord.
God incomprehensible and sovereign.
?&gmn.
1 j"px\N creatures to perfection find
l_V^ Th' eternal, uncreated Mind?
170.
Or can the largest stretch of thought
L. M.
Measure and search his nature out?
2 'Tis high as heaven, 'tis deep as hell ;
And what can mortals know or tell?
400
IIVMX CLXX.
f^pmn. ]Iis glor} spreadl beyond the sky.
I n a ^n<l a'l the s»liinii)ir worlds on high.
1 I Ut 3 Bat man, vain man, would fain l>e wise;
Bora like a wild young colt, he Hies
Through all the follies of the mind,
And swells and snutl's the empty Mind.]
4 God is a King of power unknown,
Firm are the orders of his throne;
If he resolve, who dare oppose,
Or ask him why or what he does?
5 He wounds the heart, and he makes whole;
He calms the tempest oftb
When he shuts up in long de-pair,
Who can remove the heavy bar?
6 He frowns, and darkness veils the moon;
The fainting sun grows dim at boon;
The pillars of heaven*> starry ro<>f
Tremble and start at his reproof.
7 He gave the vaulted heaven its form,
The crooked serpent, and the worm ;
He breaks the billows with his breath,
And smites the sons of pride to death.
8 These are a portion of hi> •
But who shall dare describe his fare?
"Who can endure his light, or stand
To hear the thunders of his hand ?
END OF '
HYMNS.
BOOK III.
PREPARED FOR THE HOLY ORDINANCE OF THE
lord's SUPPER.
The Lord's Supper instituted.
1 'mWAS on that dark, that doleful night,
-*- When powers of earth and hell arose
Against the Son of God's delight,
And friends betray'd him to his foes :
?• Before the mournful scene began,
He took the bread, and bless'd, and brake ;
What love through all his actions ran !
What wondrous words of grace he spake !
3 " This is my body, broke for sin ;
Receive and eat the living food:"
Then took the cup, and bless'd the wine ;
" 'Tis the new cov'nant in my blood."
4 [For us his flesh with nails was torn,
He bore the scourge, he felt the thorn ;
And justice pour'd upon his head
Its heavy vengeance in our stead.
5 For us his vital blood was spilt,
To buy the pardon of our guilt,
When, for black crimes of biggest size,
He gave his soul a sacrifice.]
6 "Do this," he cried, "till time shall end,
In mem'ry of your dying Friend ;
Meet at my table, and record
The love of your departed Lord."
1.
L. M.
1 Cor. xi.
23, &c.
HYMN III.
7 [Jesus! tin ;.
IOW thy death, we ling thy name,
Till thou return, and we shall eat
The marriage supper of the Lamb.]
urnion uritk Christ, and uith .
1
2.
s. H
I Cor. x
16, 17.
fcrmn.
C. M.
JES I rS invites his saints
To meet around his hoard:
Here pardon'd rebels lit, and hold
Communion with their Lord.
2 For food hegivea his flesh,
He bids us drink his blood;
Amazing favour! matchless grace
Of our descending God!
3 This holy bread and wine
Maintains our fainting breath,
By union with our living Lord,
And int'rest in his death.
4 Our heavenly Father calls
Christ and his members one;
W<- the young children of his love,
And he the first-born .Son.
5 We are but several parts
Of the same broken bread;
One body hath its sev'ral limbs,
But Jesus is the 1-
6 Let all our powers be join 'd
His glorious name to raise;
Pleasure and love till every mind,
And every roice be praise.
The A in the Blood >■/
1 '• rpill" promise of my Father's love
J- Shall stand for evn j
He said :
And seal d the grace with I
S To this •!« ;ir eor'nanl of th]
"i^Tm. HYMN IV.
I seal th' engagement to my Lord,
And make my humble claim.
3 Thy light, and strength, and pard'ning grace,
And glory shall be mine ;
My life and soul, my heart and flesh,
And all my powers are thine.
4 I call that legacy my own
Which Jesus did bequeath;
'Twas purchased with a dying groan,
And ratified in death.
5 Sweet is the mem'ry of his name
Who bless'd us in his will,
And to his testament of love
Made his own life the seal.
Christ's dying Love.
1 TTOW condescending and how kind
Al Was God's eternal Son!
Our misery reach'd his heavenly mind,
And pity brought him down.
2 [When justice, by our sins provoked,
Drew forth its dreadful sword,
He gave his soul up to the stroke
Without a murmuring word.]
3 [He sunk beneath our heavy woes,
To raise us to his throne;
There's ne'er a gift his hand bestows
But cost his heart a groan.]
4 This was compassion like a God,
That when the Saviour knew
The price of pardon was his blood,
His pity ne'er withdrew.
5 Now though he reigns exalted high
His love is still as great :
Well he remembers Calvary,
Nor let his saints forget.
6 [Here we behold his bowels roll,
As kind as when he died ;
493
3.
4.
C. M.
494
4.
fbpmn.
5.
r. m.
John vi.
31,35,39
HYMN V. i
And see the MJffuiPi of fall
Bleed through his wounded side.J
7 [Here in receive repeat) d
Of Jesus' dyin<_r \ort ;
Bird is the wretch that never feels
One soft affection move.]
8 Here let our hearts begin to melt.
While we trie death 1 1
And with our joy f<>r pardoil'd gnftt,
Mourn that ire pierced the Lord.
Clirist the Bread of I
1 T ET us adore th' eternal Word,
J-i 'Tis he our seals hath fed i
Thoa art our tiring stream, ( I Lord,
And thou the immortal bread.
2 [The manna came from lower skies,
But Jesus from a'1
Where the fresh springs ofpleaaon
And rivers How with lore,
3 The Jews, the fathers died at last,
Who ate that heavenly bread;
But these prorisions which we ta-te
Can raise u> from the dead.]
4 Bless'd he the Lord that gites his lle«h
To nourish dying men ;
And often spreads his table fresh,
Lesi ire should faint again*
5 Our souls shall draw their I
\Yliil>t JesUS finds BQOp]
Not shali ear graces sink to deaths
Vt Daily our mortal flesh dee
But Christ oot life shall t
I lis unresisting power shall i
Our bodies from the I
BOOK in.
HYMN VII.
495
The Memorial of our absent Lord.
1 TESUS is gone above the skies,
«J Where our weak senses reach him not;
And carnal objects court our eyes,
To thrust our Saviour from our thought.
2 He knows what wandering hearts we have,
Apt to forget his lovely face ;
And, to refresh our minds, he gave
These kind memorials of his grace.
3- The Lord of Life this table spread
With his OAvn flesh and dying blood;
We on the rich provision feed,
And taste the wine, and bless the God.
4 Let sinful sweets be all forgot,
And earth grow less in our esteem ;
Christ and his love fill every thought,
And faith and hope be fix'd on him.
5 While he is absent from our sight,
'Tis to prepare our souls a place,
That we may dwell in heavenly light,
And live for ever near his face.
6 [Our eyes look upwards to the hills
Whence our returning Lord shall come ;.
We wait thy chariot's awful wheels,
To fetch our longing spirits home.]
Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ
1 TTTHEN I survey the wondrous cross
* » On which the Prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.
2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
Save in the death of Christ my God!
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to his blood.
3 See from his head, his hands, his feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down !
496
IIVMX VIII.
BOOK III.
$pmn.
fcpmn.
8.
CM.
Did e'er such lore and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose BO rich a crown?
4 [J lis dying crimson, like a
Spreads o'er his body on the tree;
Then am I dead to all the globe.
And all the globe i- dead to me.]
5 \V<n- the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small;
Love so amazing, so divine.
Demands my soul, my lite, my all.
The Tree of Life.
1 |~/^i OME. let us join a joyful tune
L V_y Xo our exalted Lord,
Ye saints on high around his throne.
And we around his hoard.
2 While once upon this lower ground
"Weary and faint ye
What dear refreshments here ye found
From this immortal food '.]
3 The tree of life, that near the throne
In heaven's high garden _
Laden with grace, hends gently down
Its ever-smiling- boughs.
4 [Hovering amongst the leaves there stands
The sweet celestial Dove;
And Josus on the branches hangs
The banner of his love.]
5 ['Tis a young hearen of strange d<
"While in his shade
Hi- fruit i- pleasing to the
And to the ; -
6 Xew life it spreads through dying hearts.
And cheers the drooping mind;
Vigour and joy the juice imparts,
"Without a sting behind.]
let the Ham in-.: weapon stauxL
And guard all Eden's trees;
BOOK TIL
HYMN IX.
497
There 's ne'er a plant in all that land
That bears such fruit as these.
8 Infinite grace our souls adore,
Whose wondrous hand has made
This living branch of sovereign power
To raise and heal the dead.
Tlie Spirit, the Water, and the Blood.
1 "T ET all our tongues be one
-L^ To praise our God on high,
Who from his bosom sent his Son
To fetch us strangers nigh.
2 Nor let our voices cease
To sing the Saviour's name;
Jesus, th' ambassador of peace,
How cheerfully he came !
3 It cost him cries and tears
To bring us near to God ;
Great was our debt, and he appears
To make the payment good.
4 [My Saviour's pierced side
Pour'd out a double flood ;
By water we are purified,
And pardon 'd by the blood.
5 Infinite was our guilt,
But he, our Priest, atones ;
On the cold ground his life was spilt,
And offer'd with his groans.]
6 Look up, my soul, to him
Whose death was thy desert,
And humbly view the living stream
Flow from his breaking heart.
7 There, on the cursed tree,
In dying pangs he lies.
Fulfils his Father's great decree,
And all our wants supplies.
8 Thus the Redeemer came,
By water and by blood;
HYMN X.
9.
3&r»mn.
10.
L. M.
And when the Spirit ipeaki tht
_r""d.
9 While the eternal Three
Bear their record above,
Ben I believe lie died for me,
And seal my Barioor'!
10 [Lord, cleanse my bob! from 8in,
Nor let thy grace depart;
Great Comforter, abide within,
And witness bo my heart.]
Clirixt crucified, the II V I r of God.
1 "VTATURE with open volume stands,
■*~y To spread her Maker- praise abroad ;
And every labour of hit hands
Shows something worthy ■■! a Qod,
2 Bat in the grace that rescued man
Hi-* brightest form of glory shines;
Here, on thecros*, 'tis fairest drawn
In precious blood, and crimson lines.
3 [Here his whole name appears complete;
Nor wit can guess, qor reason p
"Which of the t lit.
The power, the wisdom, or the love.]
4 Here I behold his inm<»>t I
Where grate and veDgeanei
Piercing his Bon with thai
T<> make the pare! I
5 O ! the sweet won
When- Qod tl
Her noblest life my spirit •
From hi- dear WOUD)
6 I would fcrerer speak his namn.
In sounds to mortal ears unknown;
With angels join to praise the Lamb,
And worship at bis Father's throne.
HYMN XII.
499
Pardon brought to our Senses.
1 T ORD, how divine thy comforts are !
J-J How heavenly is the place
Where Jesus spreads the sacred feast
Of his redeeming grace !
2 There the rich bounties of our God,
And sweetest glories shine;
There Jesus says that " I am his,
And my beloved 's mine."
3 " Here," says the kind, redeeming Lord.
And shows his wounded side;
" See here the spring of all your joys,
That open'd when I died."
4 [He smiles, and cheers my mournful heart,
And tells of all his pain ;
" All this," says lie, " 1 bore for thee ;"
And then he smiles again.]
5 "What shall we pay our heavenly King
For grace so vast as this?
He brings our pardon to our eyes,
And seals it with a kiss.
6 [Let such amazing loves as these
Be sounded all abroad ;
Such favours are beyond degrees,
And worthy of a God.]
7 [To him that wash'd us in his blood
Be everlasting praise ;
Salvation, honour, glory, power,
Eternal as his days.]
Ttte Gospel Feast.
1 rXJO^ rich are thy provisions, Lord!
L LX Thy table furnish'd from above!
The fruits of life o'erspread the board,
The cup o'erflows with heavenly love.
2 Thine ancient family the Jews
"Were first invited to the feast ; 2 I
500
HYMN XIII.
12.
We humbly take what they refuse,
And Gentiles thy salvation taste.
3 We are the poor, the Mind, the lame,
And help was tar, and death was nigh !
But at the gospel-call we came,
And every want received supply.
4 From the highway that leads to hell,
From paths of darkness and despair,
Lord, we are oome with thee to dwell,
Glad to enjoy thy presence here.]
5 [What shall we pay th' eternal Sun
That left the heaven of his abode,
And to this wretched earth came down,
To bring us wanderers back to (
6 It cost him death to save our lirea ;
To buy our souls it cost his own;
And all the unknown joys hegii
Were bought with agonies unknown.
7 Our everlasting love is due
To him that ransom'd sinners lost.
And pitied rebels when he knew
The vast expense his love would cost.]
Divine Love making a Feast, and calling in the
Giustt.
1 TTOW sweet and awful is the place
-1JL With Christ within the dfl
While everlasting love display!
The choicest oi her I
llt*<h • o Here every bowel ofotu '
With soft compassion rolll ;
Here peace and pardon bought with blood
1> food for dying souls.
3 ["While all our hearts and all OUT
Join to admire the feast :
Each of us cries w it li thankful tor.
" Lord, why S
13.
CM.
Luke xiv.
HYMN XIV.
501
4 " Why was I made to hear thy voice,
And enter while there's room ;
When thousands make a wretched choice,
And rather starve than come?"]
5 'Twas the same love that spread the feast
That sweetly forced us in ;
Else we had still refused to taste,
And perish'd in our sin.
6 [Pity the nations, 0 our God !
Constrain the earth to come ;
Send thy victorious word abroad,
And bring the strangers home.
7 We long to see thy churches full,
That all the chosen race
May with one voice, and heart, and soul,
Sing thy redeeming grace.]
The Sony of Simeon.
1 "VT 0 W have our hearts embraced our God,
■L.* We would forget all earthly charms,
And wish to die, as Simeon would,
With his young Saviour in his arms.
2 Our lips should learn that joyful song,
Were but our hearts prepared like his?
Our souls still willing to be gone,
And at thy word depart in peace.
3 Here we have seen thy face, O Lord,
And view'd salvation with our eyes,
Tasted and felt the living word,
The bread descending from the skies.
4 Thou hast prepared this dying Lamb,
Hast set his blood before our face,
To teach the terrors of thy name,
And show the wonders of thy grace.
5 He is our light; our morning star
Shall shine on nations yet unknown ;
The glory of thine Israel here,
And joy of spirits near thy throne.
13.
14
L. M.
Luke ii.
28.
502
HYMN XVI.
15.
C. If.
16.
CM.
Our Lord Jesus at his own Table.
1 rnnilE mom'ry f.t our <lvii - Lord
*- J- Awakes a thankful tangos;
How rich 1ip spread hii royal board,
And bless'd the food, sad -
2 Happy the men that eat this bn
But doubly bl
That gently bow'd his loving head,
And lean'd it, Lord, on thee.
3 By faith the san, taste
As that trreat fav'rite did;
And Bll and lean on Jesas' breast,
And take the heavenly bread.]
4 Down from the palass of the lb
Hither the K
" Come, my beloved, eat,'" he
" And drink salvation, friends.
5 ["My flesh is food and physic too,
A balm for all your pains;
And the red streams of pardon flow
From these, my pierced veins."]
6 Hosannah to his bounteous love
For such a feast below!
And yet ho feed- his saints above
With n"l»l.-r blessings too.
7 [Come, the dear day, the glorious hour,
That brings
Then we shall need BO more,
But dwell at the heavenly feast.]
The A 'j
1 "VTOW let our pains be all Isrg
-L^l Oar hearts BO more repine;
Our suffering! are not worth a th<
When, Lord, compared with thi
2 In lively figures 1 •■
The bleeding Priu
HYMN XVII.
503
Each of us hopes, he died for me,
And then our griefs remove.
3 [Our humble faith here takes her rise,
While sitting round his board ;
And back to Calvary she flies,
To view her groaning Lord.
4 Ilis soul, what agonies it felt
When his own God withdrew !
And the large load of all our guilt
Lay heavy on him too !
5 But the divinity within
Supported him to bear;
Dying, he conquer'd hell and sin,
And made his triumph there.]
6 Grace, wisdom, justice, join'd and wrought
The wonders of that day ;
No mortal tongue, nor mortal thought
Can equal thanks repay.
7 Our hymns should sound like those above,
Could we our voices raise ;
Yet, Lord, our hearts shall all be love,
And all our lives be praise.
The Flesh and Blood of Christ.
1 [""Y^T^ smS tne amazing deeds
L T T That grace divine performs ;
Th' eternal God comes down and bleeds
To nourish dying worms.
2 This soul-reviving wine,
Dear Saviour, is thy blood ;
We thank that sacred flesh of thine
For this immortal food.]
3 The banquet that we eat
Is made of heavenly things ;
Earth hath no dainties half so sweet
As our Redeemer brings.
4 In vain had Adam sought
And search'd his garden round;
16.
17.
S. M.
504
HYMN XVIII.
book in.
&pmn.
17.
18.
L. If.
For there waa no met blessed fruit
In all that happy ground.
Th' angelic host above
Can never taste this
They feast upon their Maker's love.
But not a Saviour-
On us the Almighty Lord
Bestows this matchless grace,
And meets us with tome cheering i
With pleasure in his 1
Come, all ye drooping saints,
Ami banquet with the Bang;
This wine will drown your sad complaints,
And tune your voice to sing—
8 Salvation to the name
Of our adored Christ;
Through the wide earth his grace proclaim,
His glory in the h _
Tlit Flesh and Blood of Christ.
1 TESUS : we bow before thy feet ;
«J Thy table is divinely -
Thy sacred flesh our souls have eat;
'Tis living bread: we thank thee. Lord!
2 And here we drink our Saviour's blood ;
We thank thee. Lord, 'tis generous wine
Mingled with love, the fountain iow'd
From that dear bleeding heart of thine,
3 On earth is DO NIC "id.
For the Lambs flesh i* heavenl]
In vain we March the Lri"l>e anmnd
For bread so hue. or wine m
4 Carnal prorisions can a!
But cheer the heart, <>r warm the head:
Bnt the rich cordial that in
i life eternal to the dead.
5 Joy to the U
His nan : bless:
HYMN XX.
505
To God the King, and God the Priest,
A loud hosannah round the place.
Glorying in the Cross.
1 A T thy command, our dearest Lord,
■£*- Here we attend thy dying feast ;
Thy blood like wine adorns thy board,
And thine own flesh feeds every guest.
2 Our faith adores thy bleeding love,
And trusts for life in one that died;
We hope for heavenly crowns above,
From a Redeemer crucified.
3 Let the vain world pronounce it shame,
And fling their scandals on the cause ;
We come to boast our Saviour's name,
And make our triumphs in his cross.
4 With joy we tell the scoffing age,
He that was dead has left his tomb ;
He lives above their utmost rage,
And we are waiting till he come.
The Provisions of the Table of our Lord.
\ T ORD, we adore thy bounteous hand,
-L^ And sing the solemn feast,
Where sweet celestial dainties stand
For every willing guest.
2 [The tree of life adorns the board
With rich immortal fruit;
And ne'er an angry flaming sword
To guard the passage to 't.
3 The cup stands crown'd with living juice,
The fountain flows above,
And runs down streaming for our use
In rivulets of love.]
A The food 's prepared by heavenly art,
The pleasures well refined ;
They spread new life through every heart,
And cheer the drooping mind.
506
IIYMX XXI.
Ji.rmn.
21.
CM.
5 Shout and proclaim the Saviour'i
• his wine ;
Join with your kindred .-aims above,
In loud hosannahs join.
6 A thousand a e God
Tliat give* such joy M this;
Hosannah! lot it sound abroad,
And reach where Jesus is.
and J fell.
1 |~/^1 O.M ES, lft u< lift our voices high,
L \J High u our joys a
And join the songi above the sky,
Where pleasure neYi
is, the God that fought and bled,
And conquer'd when he fell;
That rose, and at hia chariot v
_ d all the powera of hell.]
;> [Jesus, the God. in
To this triumphal feast,
And bringa immortal blessings down
•h redeemed e
4 The Lord! how glorious is his (
How kind hia smiles appear!
And 0! what humble words he says
To every humble ear!
5 M For you, the children of my love,
It was for you I died;
Behold my hands, behold my ;■
And look into my |
M " Those Ore the wounds for you 1 bore,
The tokeal of my ;
When 1 earns down to free your soula
From misery and i
7 [" Justice unsheath'd ita
And plunged it in my h-
Infinite pangs for you I bore,
i. i Hunting mart
BOOK III.
HYMN XXII.
507
8 " When hell and all its spiteful powers
Stood dreadful in my way,
To rescue those dear lives of yours,
I gave my own away.
9 " But while I bled, and groan'd, and died,
I ruin'd Satan's throne ;
High on my cross I hung, and spied
The monster tumbling down.
10 " Now you must triumph at my feast,
And taste my flesh and blood ;
And live eternal ages bless'd,
For 'tis immortal food."
11 Victorious God! what can we pay
For favours so divine ?
We would devote our hearts away
To be for ever thine.]
12 We give thee, Lord, our highest praise,
The tributes of our tongues ;
But themes so infinite as these
Exceed our noblest songs.
The Compassion of a dying Christ.
1 /^UR spirits join t' adore the Lamb;
v>J O that our feeble lips could move
In strains immortal as his name,
And melting as his dying love!
Was ever equal pity found?
The Prince of heaven resigns his breath,
And pours his life out on the ground,
To ransom guilty worms from death.
[Rebels, we broke our Maker's laws;
He from the threat'nings set us free,
Bore the full vengeance on his cross,
And nail'd the curses to the tree.]
[The law proclaims no terror now,
And Sinai's thunder roars no more;
From all his wounds new blessings flow,
A sea of joy without a shore.
508
IIYMX XXIV.
5 Here we have wash'd our deepest stains,
And heaJ'd our wounds with heavenly blood;
Bless'd fountain! springing from the veins
Of Jesus, our incarnate God.]
G In vain our mortal voices strive
To speak compassion so divine;
J lad we a thousand lives to
A thousand lives should all be thine.
23.
CM.
fcsmn.
CM.
Grace and Glory by (he Death of Christ.
|~Q1 ITTIXG around our Father's board,
LkJ We raise our tuneful breath ;
Our faith beholds her dying Lord,
And dooms our sins to death.]
AVe see the blood of Jesus shed,
Whence all our pardons rise;
The sinner views th' atonement made,
And loves the sacrifice.
Thy cruel thorn'-, thy shameful cross,
Procure us heavenly crowns;
Our highest gain sj wrings from thy loss;
Our healing from thy wounds.
4 O 'tis impossible that we
"Who dwell in feeble clay
Should equal suff'rings bear for thee,
Or equal thanks repay.
Pardon and Strength from Christ.
1 T71ATHER, we wait to feel thy grace,
J- To see thy glories shine;
The Lord will his own table bless,
And make the feast divine.
2 We touch, we taste the heavenly bread,
We drink the sacred cup;
"With outward forms our iense is fed,
Our souls rejoice in hope.
8 We thai] appear before the thrCHM
Of our forgiving God,
book in. HYMN XXV.
509
Dress'd in the garments of his Son,
?£?gmtt.
And sprinkled with his blood.
24.
4 We shall be strong to run the race,
And climb the upper sky;
Christ will provide our souls with grace,
He bought a large supply.
5 [Let us indulge a cheerful frame,
For joy becomes a feast ;
"We love the memory of his name
More than the wine we taste.]
Divine Glories and Graces.
^gwn.
1 TTOW are thy glories here display'd !
J-X Great God, how bright they shine!
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While at thy word we break the bread,
And pour the flowing wine !
2 Here thy revenging justice stands,
And pleads its dreadful cause ;
Here saving mercy spreads her hands,
Like Jesus on the cross.
3 Thy saints attend with every grace
On this great sacrifice ;
And love appears with cheerful face,
And faith with fixed eyes.
4 Our hope in waiting posture sits,
To heaven directs our sight :
Here every warmer passion meets,
And warmer powers unite.
5 Zeal and revenge perform their part,
And rising sin destroy ;
Repentance comes with aching heart,
Yet not forbids the joy.
6 Dear Saviour, change our faith to sight,
Let sin for ever die ;
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Then shall our souls be all delight,
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And every tear be dry.
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[I cannot persuade myself to put a full period to
these Divine Hymns till I have
Oft] MMDg of ^1 «ry to Qod the Father, the Son,
and the Bolj Spirit. Though the Latin name of
it, Gloria PatfXf he retained in our nation from
the Roman Church, ami though there may be
some exa itiow honour paid to the
\\<.rd- of it, which may hare wrought some un-
happj prejudices in weaker I .
lieve it still to be one of the
Christian worship. The subject of H it the doc-
trine of the Trinity, which i^ thai pecnhai
Of the Divine nature tliat our Lord Jem
| has so clearly rerealed unto men, and is as
;;inity. Tiie action is praise,
which is one of the moot complete and exalted
parts of heavenly worship I have cast the song
into a variety of forms, and have fitted it, by a
plain version, or a larger paraphrase, to be sung
either alone or at the conclusion of another
hymn. I have added ab» a few hosannahs, or
ascriptions of salvation to Christ, in the same
manner, and for the same e"nd.]
1 T>LE88'D be the Father and his love,
-13 To whose cei- 1 1 owe
Riven ofendk lajoya above,
And rills of comfort lion- I
2 Glory to tlu-e, (real B
l'rom who.-e dear wounded l»<.<ly rolls
A precious stream of vital blood,
Pardon and Life tor dying souls.
;i We oive line, Marod Spirit, pi
Who in our hi ad woe
Make.-? living ipringi of gram u
Ami into boandleei glory baw.
4 Thus God the Father, God the Boa,
And God the Spirit, we at
That tea of life and h-ve unknown,
Without a bottom or a IB
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1 f^i LORY to God the Father's name,
vT Who from our sinful race
Chose out his fa v 'rites, to proclaim
The honours of his grace.
2 Glory to God the Son be paid,
Who dwelt in humble clay,
And to redeem us from the dead,
Gave his own life away.
3 Glory to God the Spirit give,
From whose almighty power
Our souls their heavenly birth derive,
And bless the happy hour.
4 Glory to God that reigns above,
Th' eternal Three in One,
Who by the wonders of his love
Has made his nature known.
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L JET God the Father live
J-* For ever on our tongues :
Sinners from his first love derive
The ground of all their songs.
I Ye saints, employ your breath
In honour to the Son,
Who bought your souls from hell and death
By offering up his own.
3 Give to the Spirit praise
Of an immortal strain,
Whose light, and power, and grace, conveys
Salvation down to men.
4 While God the Comforter
Reveals our pardon'd sin,
0 may the blood and water bear
The same record within.
2.
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To the great One in Three,
That seal this grace in heaven.
The Father, Son, and Spirit, be
Eternal glory given.
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1 pi LORY to God the Trinity,
V-J "Whose name has mysteries unknown;
In essence One, in persons Three,
A social nature, yet alone.
2 When all our noblest powers are join'd,
The honours of thy name to raise,
Thy glories overmatch our mind,
And angels faint beneath the praise.
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1 rpiIE God of mercy be adored,
J- Who calls our souls from death,
Who saves by his redeeming word,
And new-creating breath.
2 To praise the Father and the Son,
And Spirit all divine.
The One in Three, and Three in One,
Let saints and angels join.
S. M.
1 JET God the Maker's name
-Li Have honour, love, and fear;
To God the Saviour pay the same,
And God the Comforter.
2 Father of lights above,
Thy mercy we adore,
The Son of thine eternal lore,
And Spirit of thy power.
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0 God the Father, God the Son,
And God the Spirit, Three in One,
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Be honour, praise, and glory, given,
By all on earth, and all in heaven.
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8.
A LL glory to thy wondrous name
J^- Father of mercy, God of love ;
Thus we exalt the Lord, the Lamb,
And thus we praise the heavenly Dove.
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9.
"VTOW let the Father and the Son
-L-* And Spirit be adored,
Where there are works to make him known,
Or saints to love the Lord.
C. M.
10.
TTONOUR to the almighty Three,
J-X And everlasting One :
All glory to the Father be,
The Spirit, and the Son.
S. M.
11.
X7"E angels round the throne,
-L And saints that dwell below,
Worship the Father, love the Son,
And bless the Spirit too.
S. M.
pi IVE to the Father praise,
VJT Give glory to the Son,
12.
And to the Spirit of his grace
Be equal honour done.
A Song of Praise to the blessed Trinity.
13.
As the 148th Psalm.
1 T GIVE immortal praise
J- To God the Father's love,
For all my comforts here,
And better hopes above;
13.
14.
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He sent his own I To die for sins
Eternal Son | That man had done.
I To God the Son belongs
Immortal glory too,
Who bought ns with his blood
From everlasting woe :
And now he lives, I And sees the fruit
And now he reigns, | Of all his pains.
To God the Spirit's name
Immortal worship give,
"Whose new-creating power
Makes the dead sinner live;
His work completes I And fills the soul
The great design, J With joy divine.
Almighty God ! to thee
Be endless honours done,
The undivided Three,
And the mysterious One:
Where reason fails J -There faith prevails,
With all her powers, | And love adores.
As the 148th Psalm.
TO Him that chose us first,
Before the -world 1 •
To Him that bore the curse
To save rebellious man;
ToIIim that form 'd J Is endless praise
Our hearts anew, | And glory due.
The Father's l«>ve .-hall run
Through our immortal -
We bring to God t
1 Loeannafcfl i d ear tongaea:
Our lips address J With equal pr
The Spirit's name [ And zeal the same.
Lei <vc!v saint aln>ve.
And angel round the throne,
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For ever bless and love
The sacred Three in One :
Thusheavenshallraise I When earth and time
His honours high, ] Grow old and die.
As the U8th Psalm.
0 God the Father's throne
Perpetual honours raise ;
Glory to God the Son,
To God the Spirit praise.
And while our lips I Our faith adores
Their tribute bring, | The name we sing.
As the 148th Psalm.
0 our eternal God,
The Father and the Son
And Spirit, all divine,
Three mysteries in One,
Salvation, power, I By all on earth,
And praise be given, | And all in heaven.
The Hosannah.
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1 TTOSANNAH to King David's Son,
X A Who reigns on a superior throne ;
We bless the Prince of heavenly birth,
Who brings salvation down to earth.
2 Let every nation, every age,
In this delightful work engage ;
Old men and babes in Sion sing
The growing glories of her King.
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1 TT OS ANN AH to the Prince of grace
XX Sion, behold thy King ;
Proclaim the Son of David's race,
And teach the babes to sing.
2 Hosannah to th' incarnate Word,
Who from the Father came ;
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be salvation to flic Lord,
AN' i tli blessings on his. name.
1 TTOSANNAH to the Son
II UfDavidandofG
Who brought the news of pardon down,
An<l bought it with his blood.
2 T«» Christ th' anointed King
Be oil'. giren ;
Let the wh<>U> earth his glory sine:.
AVlio made our peace with heart
As the 1 48th Psalm
1 TTOSANNAH to the King
J- J- Of David's ancient blood!
Behold he comes to
1 pgiring grace from < I
Let old and young I And at Irs feet
Attend his way. I Their honours lay.
2 Glory to God on high,
Salvation to the Lamb;
Let earth, and sea. and -
II- wondrous love proclaim:
Upon his head I And every a^e
Shall honours rest, j JPronouncehhi
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THE PSALMS AND HYMNS.
Absent from flesh! 0 blissful thought,
Adam, our father and our head,
Adore and tremble, for our God, .
Alas! and did my Saviour bleed,
All glory to thy wondrous name, ,
All mortal vanities, begone, .
All ye that love the Lord, rejoice,
Almighty Ruler of the skies, .
Amidst thy wrath remember love.
Among the assemblies of the great .
Among the princes, earthly gods,
And are we wretches yet alive,
And is this life prolong'd to me,
And must this body die,
And now the scales have left mine eyes,
And will the God of srrace.
Are all the foes of Sion fools,
Are sinners now so senseless grown, .
Arise, my gracious God, .
Arise, my soul, my joyful powers,
At thy command, our dearest Lord,
Attend, while God's exalted Son,
Awake, my heart; arise, my tongue,
Awake, my zeal; awake, my love,
Awake, our souls; away, our fears,
Awake, ye saints, to praise your King,
Away from every mortal care,
Backward, with humble shame, we look,
Begin, my tongue, some heavenly theme,
Behold how sinners disagree, .
Behold the blind their sij,rht receive,
Behold the glories of the Lamb,
Behold the grace appears.
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Behold the lofty ^ky, .
Behold the love, the gen'rous love,
Behold tlie morning' urn,
Behold the jKitter and the claw
Behold the Bote of Sharon here,
Behold the sure foundation stone,
Bebold the l seed, .
Behold the wretch whose lust and wine,
Behold thy waiting sen-ant. Lord,
Behold what wondrous grace,
■ tool, the living God,
- that see,
the sons of peace, .
the souls that hear and know,
the undcfiled in heart,
Bless'd be the eve
r md his love,
e man. for ever bless'd,
'.
man whose l>owcls move, .
the nation where the Lord,
irnlng, whose younu dawning rays,
I n itll the joys of innoeenc .
Redeemer, how divine, . .
• to pierce the skies, .
Bright Kintf of eiory, dreadful Go<l, ,
1 that leads to death,
in shadows of the nit'ht, .
But few among the carnal wise,
Can creatures to perfection find,
Children, in years and knowledge young,
Christ and his cross is all our theme,
Come, children, learn to fear the Lord,
Come, dearest Lord, descend and dwell, ,
approach your God,
Tome hither, all J
\y Spirit, heavenly I>ove,
: i raise,
a joyful tune,
• us join our cheerful songs,
i r joy fid eyes,
• oi lift our voices mgb, .
ind his praise abioad.
Lord,
r all my sorrows. Lord,
n of Zion, come, behold,
l>.ivii rejoiced In God his strength,
l our sore distress,
• ve,
i's afraid,
y now
I bv subtle snares of hell.
PSALMS AXD HTMNs.
Deep in our hearts let us record, .
Deep in the dust before thy throne, .
Descend from heaven, immortal Dove, .
Do I believe what Jesus saith.
Do we not know that solemn word,
Down headlong from their native skies,
Dread Sovereign! let my evening song, ,
Early, my God, without delay,
Ere "the blue heavens were stretch'd abroad,
Eternal Sovereign of the sky, .
Eternal Spirit! we confess, .
Exalt the Lord our God,
Faith is the brightest evidence, .
Far as thy name is known,
Far from my thoughts, vain world,
Father, how wide thy glories shine,
Father, I bless thy gentle hand, .
Father. I long. I taint to see, .
Father, I sing thy wondrous grace,
Father, we Wait to feel thy grace,
Finn and unmoved are they,
Firm as the earth thy gospel stands. .
Firm was my health, my day was bright,
Fools in their heart believe and say,
Foi ever blessed be the Lord,
For ever shall my song record,
From aire to age exalt his name, .
From all that dwell below the skies, .
From deep distress and troubled thought.
From heaven the sinning angels fell, .
From thee, my God, my joys shall rise,
Gentiles by nature, we belong,
Give me the wings of fa:.th to rise,
Give thanks to God: he reigns above,
Give thanks to God. invoke his name,
Give thanks to God most high.
Give thanks to God the sovereign Lord,
Give to our God immortal praise,
Give to the Father praise,
Give to the Lord, ye sons of fame,
Glory to God that walks the sky,
Glory to God the Father's name.
Glory to God the Trinity,
Co preach my gospel saith the Lord,
Go, worslup at Immanuel's feet,
God in his earthly temples lays, .
God is a Spirit, just and wise,"
God is tlie refuge of his saints, .
God, my supporter and my hope,
God of eternal love,
God of my childhood and my youth,
God of my life, look gently down,
God of my mercy and my praise.
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God of the morning! at whose rok
Go<l of the seas! tliy thund'ring voice,
I i a ful name,
• in rariooa method* told,
Ihe Lord, the heavenly Kine,
i I, how infinite- art thou,
. id, how oft did Israel prove, .
I. indulge ray humble claim,
tod, I own thy sentence jn-t, .
I • l. the heaven s well-ordered frame,
. thy gloria shall employ,
; na height,
Great God, whose universal sway,
ie Lord, exalted high, .
th( Lord, his works of might,
the Lord our God,
King of glory and of grace,
5 epherd of 'thine brad,
the day, the joy was great.
Had r the tongnes of Greeks and Jews, .
• the Lord, may Israel say,
Happy is be that fear* the Lord, .
Happy the church, thou sacred place, .
Happy th city where their sons,
Hap]-}- the heart where graces reign,
Happy the man to whom his God, .<
Happy the man whose cautious I
Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound, .
Hark! the Redeemer from on high, .
rd the Sariou i
He that hath made his refuse God,
nor hide thy face, .
Hear what the I-ord in vision said,
ce from heaven proclaims.
Help. Lord, for men of virtue fail.
Hence from my soul, sad tbo
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the ground,
HLli In the hearena, eternal Go '.,
High on a hill of dazzling '...:.:.
• i the Almighty Three, .
roqnering King,
. hi,
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i .
PSALMS AND HYMNS.
How condescending and how kind,
How did my heart rejoice to hear,
How fast their guilt and sorrows rise,
How ml! of anguish is the thought,
How heavy is the night
How honourable is the place,
How is our nature spoil'd by sin,
How large the promise, how divine,
How long, 0 Lord, shall I complain, .
How long wilt thou conceal thy face,
How oft have sin and Satan strove,
How pleasant, how divinely fair, .
How pleasant 'tis to see,
How pleased and bless'd was I, .
How rich are thy provisions. Lord,
How sad our state by nature is, .
How shall I praise the eternal God, .
How shall the young secure their hearts,
How short and" hasty is our life,
How should the sons of Adam's race,
How strong thine arm is, mighty God,
How sweet and awful is the place,
How vain are all things here below, .
How vast the treasure we possess,
How wondrous great, how glorious bright,
I cannot bear thine absence, Lord,
I give immortal praise.
I hate the tempter and his charms,
I lift my banner, saith the Lord,
I lift my soul to God,
I love the Lord: he heard my cries,
I love the windows of thy grace,
I send the joys of earth away,
I set the Lord be:'nre my face,
I sing my Saviour's wondrous death,
I waited patient for the Lord,
I will extol thee, Lord, on high,
If God succeed, not all the cost,
If God to build the house deny,
I'll bless the Lord from day to day.
I'll praise my Maker with my breath,
I'll speak the honours of my King,
I'm not ashamed to own my Lord,
In all my vast concerns with thee,
In anger, Lord, rebuke me not,
In Gabriel's hand a mighty stone,
In God's own house pronounce his praise,
In Judah God of old was known,
In thine own ways, 0 God of love,
In vain the wealthy mortals toil,
In vain we lavish out our lives,
Infinite grief! amazing woe.
Into thine hand, 0 God of truth,
Is there am1 ition in my heart,
Is this the kind return,
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It is the Lord our Saviour's hand,
Jehovah speaks! let Israel hear,
Jehovah reigns, he dwells in licht,
Jehovah reigns, his throne It
thee our eyes behold,
- ts.
. ne above the skies,
Je.-tiv our Lord, ascend thy throne, .
- >a\ iour and our God, .
Jesus shall reign where er the sun, .
man of constanl
Jesus, thy blessings are not tew,
lev* thy Fattie' I
me 1m>.v before thy feet,
"ve, .
Join all ;:
Join all the names of love and power,
Joy to the world: the Lord is come, ,
Judge me, () Lord, and prove my ways,
rule the world by laws, .
Ju>t are thy ways, and true thy word,
Kind is the speech of Christ our Lord,
Laden with guilt and full of fears,
Let all our tongues be one.
Lot all the earth their voices raise,
Let all the heathen writers join.
Let children hear the nighty deeds,
Let everlasting glories crown, .
creature join.
« attend, .
:<uii.Hie thy coo, In ess speak,
rise in all his might, .
the Father and the Son,
: e Father live,
I name.
Let him embrace my soul, and prove,
Let me but hear
Let mon.ii tongues attem] I I
l they be,
' •, •
I
: heathens tune, tt.eirsnnc,
on Inch,
hares lie,
IvCt the wild leoesu
.
itian name,
i lore th eternal Word,
en.
Lift up jn .. . • nly seats, .
PSALMS AND HYMNS.
Like sheep we went astray,
Lo, the destroying angel flies,
Lo! the young tribes of Adam rise,
Lo! what a glorious corner-stone,
Lo! what a glorious sight appears,
Lo! what an entertaining sight, .
Long as I live I'll bless thy name,
Long have I sat beneath the sound,
Lord, at thy temple we appear,
Lord, hast thou cast the nation off,
Lord, how divine thy comforts are,
Lord, how secure and bless'd are they,
Lord, how secure my conscience was,
Lord. I am thine; but thou wilt prove,
Lord, I am vile, conceived in sin,
Lord, I can suffer thy rebukes,
Lord, I esteem thy judgments right,
Lord, I have made thy word my choice,
Lord. I will bless thee all my days.
Lord, I woidd spread my sore distress,
Lord, if thine eye surveys our faults,
Lord, if thou dost not soon appear,
Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear,
Lord of the worlds above,
Lord thou hast call'd thy grace to mind,
Lord, thou hast heard thy servant cry,
Lord, thou hast search'd and seen me,
Lord, thou hast seen my soul sincere,
Lord, thou wilt hear me when I pray,
Lord, 'tis a pleasant thing to stand, .
Lord, we adore thy bounteous hand,
Lord, we adore thy vast designs.
Lord, we are blind, we mortals blind,
Lord, we confess our numerous faults,
Lord, we have heard thy works of old,
Lord, what a feeble piece,
Lord, what a heaven of saving grace,
Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I,
Lord, what a wretched land is this,
Lord, what is man, poor feeble man,
Lord, what was man when made at first,
Lord, when I count thy mercies o'er,
Lord, when my thoughts with wonder roll,
Lord, when thou didst ascend on high,
Loud hallelujahs to the Lord,
Maker and sovereign Lord,
Man has a soul of vast desires,
Mercy and judgment are my song,
Mine eyes and my desire,
Mistaken souls, that dream of heaven,
Must all the charms of nature, then,
Must friends and kindred droop and die,
My dear Redeemer and my Lord,
My drowsy powers, why sleep ye so, .
My God, accept my early vows, , .
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My God, consider my distress,
ow endleaa is thy love,
My God, how many are my fears.
My God, in whom are all the springs,
My God, my everlasting ho]
My God, my Kiiii;. thy various praise,
My God, my life, my iove..
My God. my portion, and my love,
My God, permit me nut to be,
My God, permit my tongue,
My God, the spring of all my Joys,
My God, the step* of pious men, .
My God, what endless pleasures dwell.
My God, what inward grief 1 feel,
My heart, hew dreadful hard it is,
My heart rejoices in thy name.
My never-ceasing songs shall show, .
My refuge is the God of love.
My righteous Judge, my gracious God,
My Saviour and my Kinir,
r God, my Sovereign Prince,
My Savlonr, my almighty Friend,
My Shepherd is the living Lord,
My Shepherd will supply my need,
My soul, come meditate tin- day,
My soul forsakes her vain delight,
My soul, how lovely is the place,
My soul lies dealing to the dust,
My soul, repeat Us praise.
My soul, thy great Creator praise,
My spirit looks to God slot
My spirit sinks within me. Lord,
My thoughts on awful subjects roll, .
My thoughts surmount these lower skies,
My trust is in my heavenly Friend, .
Nuked as from the earth we came.
Nature with all her powers -
Nature with open volume stands,
No, I snail envy them no inure.
No. I'll repine at death no more.
No mure, my God, 1 t.>>ast m more,
nor slumber to his eyes.
Nor eye hath seen, nor ear hath 1.
Not ail the M.kkI of hfSf.
the outward forms on earth, .
Hot by the laws of innocenec.
Not different bod, or different dress,
Nut from the dust effUerJon growsi .
Nut the malicious or profane, .
ndemn the vms ••; • • u,
x thou only Just and true,
imlves, who are but dust,
the terrors of the ixml.
Nut with- our mortal eyes,
Now be my heart lai
PSALMS AXD HYMNS.
Now
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be the God of Israel bless'd,
by the bowels of my God,
for a tune of lofty praise,
from the roaring lion's rage,
bave our hearts embraced our God,
I'm convinced the Lord is kind,
in the galleries of his grace,
in the beat of youthful blood,
let a spacious world arise,
let our lips with holy fear,
let our mournful songs record,
let our pains be all forgot,
let the Father and the Son, .
let the Lord my Saviour smile, .
may the God of power and grace,
plead my cause. Almighty God,
Satan comes with dreadful roar,
shall my inward joys arise,
shall my solemn vows be paid,
to the great and sacred Three, .
to the Lord a noble song,
to the Lord that makes us know,
to the power of God supreme,
0 all ye nations, praise the Lord,
0 bless the Lord, my soul,
0 blessed souls are they, .
0 Britain, praise thy mighty God,
0 for a shout of sacred joy,
0 for an overcoming faith, .
0 God, my refuge, hear my cries,
0 God of grace and righteousness,
0 God of mercy, hear my call,
0 God, to whom revenge belongs,
0 happy man, whose soul is till d,
0 happy nation, where the-iLord,
0 happv soul that lives on high,
0 how I love thy holy law,
0, if my soul were form'd for woe,
0 Lord, how many are my foes, .
0 Lord, our heavenly King,
0 Lord, our Lord, how wondrous great,
O that the Lord would guide my ways.
0 that thy statutes every hour,
0! the Almighty Lord,
0 the delights, the heavenly joys,
0 thou that hear'st when sinners cry,
0 thou whose grace and justice leign,
0 thou whose justice reigns on high,
O what a stiff rebellious house,
0 'tis a lovely thing to see,
Of justice and of grace I sing,
Often I seek my Lord by night.
Once more, my soul, the rising day,
Our days, alas! our mortal days.
Our God! how firm his promise stands.
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Our God, our help In ag< a
- slasl how strong tliey be,
Our wiuls shall magnify the Lord,
Our spirits Join f adore the Lamb,
Out of the deeps of long distress,
Pltmged in a gulf of dark despair,
redacting praise, be paid.
Its in Sinn, Lord, for thee,
Praise ye the Lord, exalt his name,
Praise ye the Lord, my heart shall join,
Praise ye the Lord, 'tis good to raise,
Preserve me, Lord, in time of need,
Questions and deszbts be beard no more,
e, my soul, fly np and run,
Raise your triumph
jre righteous, in the Lord,
■ >tir mortal state,
Return. O Cod of love, return,
Rise, rise, my souL and leave the ground,
Saints, at your heavenly Father's word,
• ■r niL'h,
Solvation! <> the joy fid sound.
Save me. 0 <i«-i. the swelling floods,
' I Lord, (rem every foe,
: i living stone,
it incarnate Hod,
rts dare Insnh I
Shall the vile race of fie^i and blood,
go i. n to sin, .
Shall wisdom try aloud.
Shepherds, rejoieel lift up your eyes,
Lord: 0 Lord, forgive,
.. on Britain shine,
Shout to the Lord, and let our joys,
row arts,
SB,
Lord,
Lord aloud
the Lord Jehovah's name,
Stag to the Lord that built the >kics,
• Lord with j"> tui voice,
Sim; to tl tanl lands.
Sins to t
round our Father's board,
Hebrew prophet raise.
So let our h)>* an I Uvea expreaa, .
So iicw-l.orn batx-s desire :
i • sard my Father -
Stand up. my soul, shake oft thy fears,
St'NP]. down, ury thoughts ti
Strait is the way, the door is strait.
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PSALMS A3TD HTM5S.
Sure there's a righteous God, .
Sweet is the memory of thy grace, .
Sweet is the work, my God, my King,
Teach me the measure of my days, .
Terrible God, that reign'st on high,
Th' Almighty reigns exalted high,
That awful day will surely come,
That man is bless'd who stands in awe, .
The earth for ever is the Lord's,
The glories of my Maker God
The God Jehovah reigns,
The God of glory sends his summons forth,
The God of mercy be adored, .
The God of our salvation hears,
The heavens declare thy glory, Lord,
The king, 0 Lord, with songs of praise, .
The King of glory sends his Son,
The King of saints, how fair his face,
The lands that long in darkness lay, .
The law by Moses came, .
The law commands, and makes us know,
The Lord appears my helper now,
The Lord declares his will,
The Lord, descending from above,
The Lord, how wondrous are his ways,
The Lord is come; the heavens proclaim,
The Lord Jehovah reigns,
The Lord my Shepherd is,
The Lord of glory is my light,
The Lord of glory reigns, he reigns on high,
The Lord on high proclaims, .
The Lord, the Judge, before his throne.
The Lord the Judge, his churches warns,
The Lord, the Sovereign King,
The Lord, the Sovereign, sends his summons forth,
The majesty of Solomon, ....
The man is ever bless'd
The mem'ry of our dying Lord .
The mighty frame of glorious grace,
The praise of Sion waits for thee,
The promise of my Father's love,
The promise was divinely free,
The true Messiah now appears,
The voice of my Beloved sounds,
The wondering world inquires to know,
The wonders, Lord thy love has wrought,
Thee we adore, Eternal Name,
Thee will I love, 0 Lord, my strength, .
There is a house not made with hands,
There is a land of pure delight, .
There was an hour when Christ rejoiced,
These glorious minds, how bright they shine,
Think, mighty God on feeble man, .
This is the day the Lord hath mads,
This is the word of truth and love.
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is earth is all the lord's,
Thou art m\ portion. O my Q
Thou God (if U,\e. thou era
Tlion whom my sotil a<lmir> -
; v man who (cats the Lord,
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Thus far the Lord has l<-< I :r
Thus I resolved l>efore tlie l-ord, .
Thus saith the first, the LTeat command,
Thu» vaitii tlie bljdl and lofty One,
Thus saitii the Lord, The sjiacious fields,
the Lord, If our work is rain,
Tim* salth tli'- merry of the Lord,
the Ruler of th<
r the Lord,
Thu>. tlie eternal Father spake.
Thus the great l/)nl of earth and sea,
Thy favours, I»r<l surpn-
o Lord,
• almighty Lord,
. mighty Lord,
it an empty vapour 'tis,
Tis by the faith of joys to come,
Tis by thy strength the mountains stand,
Tis from the treasures of his word,
c law of ten commands,
lb God I cried with mournful voice,
To God I made my virrows known.
To God the Father. God the Son,
To God the Fathers tbn •
it, the ever bless'd,
. the only wise.
To heaven I lift my waiting eyes,
To him that chose u> first.
To our Almighty Maker, God,
To our eternal God,
I afore the dawniner lisrht.
To thee, moot holy and i
To thine almighty arm we owe,
Twas by an order from t'
Twas for my sake, eternal God,
thy band, my GmL I came,
Twas in I
Twas on that dark, that doleful night,
Twas the commission of our Lord,
T'nslukcn as the sacred hill, .
my youth, may |
l'p to the fields where anf
Dp to the hi!l> I lift mil •■
l'p to t: tun high,
Upward 1 lift mine eyes,
Vain are the hopes that rebels place.
Vain are the hopes the sons of men, .
PSALMS AND HYMNS.
Vain man, on foolish pleasures bent,
We are a garden wall'd around,
We bless the Lord the just, the good,
We bless the Prophet of the Lord,
We love thee, Lord, and we adore,
We sing the amazing deeds, .
We sing the glories of thy love, .
Welcome, sweet day of rest.
Well, the Redeemer 's gone,
What different powers ot" grace and sin,
What equal honours shall we bring,
What happy men or angels these,
What mighty man, or mighty God,
What shall I render to my God,
What shall the 'lying sinner do,
What vain desires and passions vain,
When Christ to judgment shall descend,
When God is nigh, my faith is strong,
When God. provoked with daring crimes,
When God restored our captive state,
When God revealed his gracious name,
When I can read my title clear,
When I survey the wondrous cross,
When I with pleasing wonder stand,
When in the light of faith divine.
When Israel, freed from Pharaoh's hand,
When Israel sins, the Lord reproves,
When man grows hold in sin,
When overwhelm'd with grief,
When pain and anguish seize me, Lord,
When strangers stand and hear me tell,
When the Eternal bows the skies,
When the first parents of our race,
When the great Builder arch'd the skies,
When the great Judge, supreme and just,
When we are raised from deep distress,
Whence do our mournful thoughts arise,
Where are the mourners, saith the Lord,
Where shall the man be found.
Where shall we go t ■> seek and find, .
While I keep silence and conceal,
While men grow bold in wicked ways,
Who can describe the joys that rise,
Who hath believed thy word, .
Who is this fair one in distress,
Who shall ascend thy heavenly place,
Who shall inhabit in thy hill,
Who shall the Lord's elect condemn,
Who will arise and plead my right.
Why did the Jews proclaim their rage,
Why did the nations join to slay,
Why do the proud insult the poor,
Why do the wealthy wicked boast,
Why doth the Lord stand off so far, .
Why doth the man of riches grow,
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Why do wc mourn departing friends,
Why docs your face, ye humble souls,
Why baa my God my soul forsook,
Why i> my heart so far from thee. ;
Why should I vex my soul. :uid fivt,
Why iboold the children of a kin?.
Why should this earth delight 11- •
Why Bhooid we start, and fear to die,
Will <; id far ever cad oi off, .
With all my powers Of heart and tongue,
With cheerful i oiee I sin::.
With e lie mind,
With holy fear and humhle song,
With joy we meditate the grace,
With my whole heart I'll r.ii>.- i:.
With my whole heart Pre souirht thy face,
With re'v'reiue let the sain;-
With sonars and honours Bounding loud,
Would you behold the works of God,
- round the throne,
Ye holy soala, in God rejoice, .
Ye Wands Of tin- northern sea,
Ye nations round the earth, rejoice,
Ye servants of the Almighty Kincr,
Yc sons of Adam, vain and young,
Ye sons of men. a feeble race.
Ye sons of pride, that hate the just,
Ye that delimit to serve the Ixird,
Ye that obey the immortal King,
Ye tribes of Adam, join.
Yet, aaitfa the Lord, if David's raea,
Zion. rejoice; and Judah, sing, .
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