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 PREFACE, 
 
 OlNGING, is that part of divine worfhip 
 on earth, which is fuppofed to approach nearcft 
 10 the devotional exercifes of the Heavenly 
 Inhabitants ; and we are able to fay, from ex- 
 perience, that nothing of a religious nature is 
 better calculated to raife the foul to God, and 
 produce in it thofe pious affections which are 
 neccffary, and proper, to a mind engaged in 
 fo exalted an employment. As to the Hymns 
 which compofe the following collection, the 
 literary and pious world, have no doubt long 
 fmce judged of their excellence ; they are fe- 
 lecled from various authors, and many ol ihefc 
 authors of the higheft poetic merit. 
 
 With regard to the order in which the fol- 
 lowing Hymns are arranged, it appeared moil 
 proper, as approaching neareft to the divine 
 ccconomy. 
 
 The annexed plan of affociation has been 
 principally introduced for the convenience of 
 our members; we take the liberty however to 
 remark, that in forming it, we ftudioufly 
 avoided every thing that locked like party- 
 zeal, or unprofitable controveriy. We give 
 it not as the refuk of deep and learned re- 
 fearch, but as it is, in truth, the efrufioi>s of 
 the fimple, honeft, and unprejudiced mind. 
 As to the opinions which may be entertained 
 ot us by Ch.riif.ians of other names, we wil* 
 A 2 
 
iv PREFACE. 
 
 lingly leave thgm to be fettled at &■•■ 
 
 day when the fecrets of all hearts (hall he 
 difclofed ; in the mean time we fincerely 
 adopt the words of a celebrated poet, and 
 pray, 
 
 " If I atp right, O teach my heart 
 
 Still in the right to flay : 
 If I am wrong, thy grace impart 
 
 To find that better way." Por£ 
 
 
 By order of the Society, 
 ABRAHAM E. BROUWER, Elder. 
 JACOB CLIXCH, Clerk. 
 
 1 
 
 January i, 179; 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 CHARITABLE JUDGMENT, 
 
 A: 
 
 XL-feeing God ! 'tis thine to know 
 The fprings whence wrong opinions flow 
 To judge by principles within, 
 "When frailty ens. or when we fin. 
 
 2. 
 Who among men, great Lord of all, 
 Thy fervant to his bar fhould call ? 
 For modes of faith judge him a foe, 
 And doom him to the realms of woe ? 
 
 3- 
 Who with another's eye can read ? 
 Or worfhip by another's creed ? 
 Revering thy commands alone, 
 We humbly feck, and ufe our own. 
 
 4- 
 If wrong forgive, approve if right, 
 While faithful we obey our I : g h t , 
 And cens'ring none, are zealous ftill 
 To follow as to learn thy will. 
 
 5; 
 
 When fhall cu*- happy eyes behold 
 Thy people faJfcion'd in thv mould ; 
 And charity onr lineage prove 
 periv ; d trom thee, thou God of love ? 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 The TPvUE USE of MUSIC. 
 
 JLjNLISTED into the caufe cf fin 
 
 Why fbould a good be evil ? 
 Mufic alas Loo long has been 
 
 Prefs'd to obey the devil : 
 Drunken, or lewd, or light the lay, 
 
 Flows to the foul's undoing ; 
 Widens and ftxews with {lowers the way 
 
 Down to our utter ruin. 
 
 Who on the part of God will rife, 
 
 Innocent founds. recover : 
 Fly on the prey, and ieize the prize> 
 
 Plunder the carnal lover ; 
 Strip him of every moving drain. 
 
 Every melting meafure, 
 Mufic in vyrtne's caufe retain, 
 
 Refcue the holy plealure. 
 
 Come let us try if Jefu's Inve, 
 
 Wdl not as well mfpire us ; 
 This is the thsme of thole above, 
 
 This upon earth fhall fire us : 
 Try if your hearts are tim'd to ling, 
 
 Is there a fubjecr. greater ? 
 Haripony all its drains may brin<r, 
 
 Jeias s name is tweeter. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 4- 
 Je^us the foul of mufic is, 
 
 His is the nobleit pailion ; 
 Jefus's name is life and peace, 
 
 Happinefs and Salvation : 
 Jefus's name the dead can raife, 
 
 Shew us our fins forgiven ; 
 Fill us with all the life of grace, 
 
 Carry us up to heaven. 
 
 5- 
 Then let us in his praiies join, 
 
 Triumph in his lalvation ; 
 Glory aicribe to love divms 
 
 Worihip and adoration : 
 Heaven already is begun ; 
 
 Opcn'd in each believer ; 
 Only believe and Pull ling on, 
 
 Heaven is our's forsver ! 
 
 A 4 
 
CREATION. 
 
 HYMN I. 
 
 P, 
 
 ARENT of nature, God fupreme, 
 Thy works are great and good ! 
 AH nature manifefts thy name, 
 The fky, the earth, the flood. 
 
 2. 
 
 Thine is the cheerful day, and thine 
 
 The dark return of night ; 
 Thou haft prepar'd the fun to fhine, 
 
 And ev'ry feebler light. 
 
 3- 
 By thee, each region of the earth 
 
 In perfect order {lands ; 
 The glowing fouth, the frozen north 
 
 Obey thy fix'd commands. 
 
 4- 
 At thy command, the folid rock 
 
 Pour'd water from its fide ; 
 And thou didft lead thy chofen flock, 
 Thro Jordan's parting tide, 
 A & 
 
10 CREATION. 
 
 5 
 
 If nature owns its fov'reign Lord, 
 
 We would obey thy will ; 
 And whilft we truft thy faithful word, 
 
 We fing thy praties ltill. 
 
 HYMN II. 
 
 -INTERNAL wifdom, thee we praifc, 
 
 'i'hee the creation fings. 
 Willi thy loud name, rocks, hills, and feas, 
 
 And heaven's high palace ring. 
 
 Thy hand how wide it fpreads the fky ; 
 
 How glorious to behold ! 
 Tinged with a blue of heavenly dye, 
 
 And itarr'd with fparkling gold. 
 
 3- 
 If down I turn my wandering eyes, 
 
 On clouds and florins below; 
 Thofe under-regions of the Ikies 
 
 Thy num'rous glories fhow. 
 
 4- 
 Lo ! here thy wond'reus fkill arrays 
 
 The earth in cheerful green ; 
 A thou land herbs thy arc dif plays, 
 
 A thoufand flowers between. 
 
 5- 
 Infinite flrength and equal fkill. 
 
 Shine through thy works abroad . 
 Our luuls with \uft amazement fiil 
 
 And [peak ihe builder CoU ! 
 
CREATION*. 
 
 6. 
 But the mild glories of thy grace 
 
 Our fofter paflions move : 
 Pity divine in Jeiu's face, 
 
 We fee, adore, and love ! 
 
 H Y M N III. 
 
 JlLtERNAL God, almighty caufe 
 
 Of earth and feas and worlds unknown ; 
 
 All things are fubject to thy laws ; 
 All things depend on thee alone. 
 
 Thy glorious being fingly flands 
 Of all within Ufelf poiTefs'd ; 
 
 Controul'd by none are thy commands, 
 Thou from thyfelf alone art bleft. 
 
 3- 
 To thee, alone, ourfelves we owe ; 
 
 Let heav'n and earth due homage pay; 
 All other Gods we dilavow, 
 
 Deny their claims, renounce their fway, 
 
 4- 
 Spread thy great name thro' heathen lands, 
 
 Their idol Deities dethrone ; 
 Reduce the world to thy commands 
 
 And reign, as thou art, God alone. 
 
 H Y M N IV. 
 
 T 
 
 JL HE earth and all her fulnefs own* 
 
 Jehovah lor her fov'reign Lord ; 
 • The countlels myriads of her fons 
 Rofe into being at his word. 
 
as CREATION. 
 
 2. 
 
 His word did out of nothing call 
 The world, and founded all that is, 
 
 Launch'd on the Hoods this folid ball, 
 And fix'd it in the floating feas. 
 
 3- 
 But who fhall quit this low abode, 
 
 Who fhall afcend the heavenly place, 
 And ftand upon the mount of God, 
 
 And lee his Maker face to face ? 
 
 4- 
 The man whofe hands and heart are clean, 
 
 That blefied portion fhall receive ; 
 Whoe'er by grace is fav'd from fm 
 
 Hereafter fhall in glory live. 
 
 5- 
 
 He fhall obtain the ftarry crown ; 
 
 And number'd with the faints above, 
 The God of his falvation own, 
 
 The God of his falvation love, 
 6. 
 This is the chofen precious race 
 
 That feek their Saviour God to fee, 
 To fee in holinefi thy face, 
 
 O Jefus ! and be join'd to thee. 
 
 HYMN V. 
 
 B, 
 
 ►EFORE Jehovah's awful throne, 
 Ye nations bow with facred joy: 
 Know that the Lord is God alor.t. 
 He can create, and he deiiroy 
 
C R E A 1' I O X. 
 
 2. 
 
 His fov'reign pow'r without our aid, 
 Made us of clay and form'd us meii ! 
 
 And when like wand'ring fheep we ftray'd, 
 He brought us to his fold again. 
 
 3- 
 
 We'll croud thy gates with thankful fongs, 
 High as the heav'ns our voices raife ; 
 
 And earth, with her ten-thoufand tongues. 
 Shall fill thy courts with founding prai.e, 
 
 4- 
 Wide as the world is thy command ; 
 
 Vaft. as eternity thy love : 
 Firm as a rock thy truth will ftand 
 
 When rolling years friall ceafe to move. 
 
 HYMN VI. 
 
 HP r 
 
 A Kn, tpacious firmament on high, 
 With all the blue ethereal fky, 
 And fpangled heav'ns fa mining frame !) 
 Their great Original proclaim. 
 Th' unwearied fun, from day to day 
 Doth his Creator's pow'r difplay ; 
 And publifhes to ev'ry land 
 The work of an almighty hand. 
 
 2. 
 
 Soon as the evening fhades prevail, 
 The moon takes up the wond'rous tale, 
 And nightly to the lift'nmg earth 
 Repeats the ftory of her birth : 
 Whilft all the ftars that round her burn, 
 And all the planets in their turn, 
 Confirm the tidings as they roll, 
 And forest d the truth from pole to pole. 
 
i.t CREATION. 
 
 3- 
 What though in folemn filence, all 
 Move round this dark terreftrtal ball ; 
 What though no real voice, nor found, 
 Amid their radiant orbs be found; 
 In rtafon's ear they all rejoice, 
 And utter forth a glorious voice, 
 Forever finging as they fhine, 
 •• The hand that made us is divint." 
 
PROVIDENCE. 
 
 HYiMN VII. 
 
 Jk. ATHER of all, whofe powerful voice 
 Call'd forth this univerfal frame; 
 
 Whofe mercies over all rejoice, 
 
 Through endlefs ages ftill the fame : 
 
 Thou by thy word upholder! all ; 
 
 Thy bounteous love to ail is fhow'd ; 
 Thou hear 'ft thy every creature's call, 
 
 And filleft every mouth with good. 
 
 3- 
 In heaven thou reign'ft enthron'd in light 
 
 Nature's expanfe beneath thee fpread ; 
 Earth, air, and fea, before thy fight, 
 
 And hell's deep gloom are open laid ! 
 
 4- 
 Wifdom and might and love are thins , 
 
 Proftrate before thy face we fall, 
 Confefs thine attributes divine, 
 
 And hail thee Sovereign Lord of all. 
 
iS PROVIDENCE. 
 
 5- 
 Thee Sovereign Lord let all confefs, 
 
 That moves in earth, or air, or fky, 
 
 Revere thy power, thy goodnefs blefs, 
 
 Tremble before thy piercing eye. 
 
 HYMN VIII. 
 
 -A-jET every tongue thv goodnefs fpeak, 
 
 Thou Sov'reign Lord of all : 
 Thy ftrength'ning hands uphold the weak. 
 
 And raife the poor that fall. 
 2. 
 When forrow bows the fpirit down, 
 
 Or virtue lies diftreft, 
 Beneath the proud oppreffor's frown. 
 
 Thou giv'ft the mourner reft. 
 
 3- 
 The Lord fupports our infant days, 
 
 And guides our giddy youth ; 
 Holy and iufl are all thy wavs, 
 
 And all thy words are truth. 
 
 4- 
 Thy mercy never fhall remove 
 
 From men of heart fincere ; 
 Thou fav'it the fouls whole humble love 
 Is.join'd with holy fear. 
 
 5- 
 My lips fhall dwell upon thy praife 4 
 
 And fpread thy fame abroad : 
 Let all the fons of Adam raife 
 
 The honours of their God! 
 
PROVIDENCE. sy 
 
 HYMN IX. 
 
 T 
 
 JL O the hills I lift my eyes, 
 
 The eve rl ailing hills, 
 Streaming thence in frefh fuppiies, 
 
 My foul the fpirit feels ; 
 Will lie not his help afford ? 
 
 Help while yet I afk is given : 
 God conies down : The God and Lord 
 
 That made both earth and heaven- 
 
 Faithful fouls pray always; pray, 
 
 And lliil in God conhde ; 
 He thy feeble iteps mail ftay, 
 
 Nor furler tnee to Hide : 
 Lean on thy Redeemer's breaft, 
 
 He thy quiet ipirit keeps, 
 Reft in him, lecureiy reit ; 
 
 Thy watchman never fleeps. 
 
 3- 
 Neither fin, nor earth, nor hell 
 
 Thy keeper can lurpnle, 
 Carelefs (lumber cannot iteal 
 
 On his all-feeing eyes : 
 He is ijrati's lure defence; 
 
 Iirael fhail his kindnefs prove 
 Kept by his watchful providence 
 
 ond ever- waking love. 
 
 is 
 
it PROVIDENCE. 
 
 HYMN X. 
 
 J^jORD thou art good, all nature fhows 
 
 Thee full and free and kind ; 
 Thy bounty thro' creation flows, 
 
 Nor can it be confin'd. 
 2. 
 The whole in every part proclaims 
 
 Thy infinite good will ! 
 It fhines in fiars, it flows in ftreams, 
 
 And burfts from every hill. 
 
 It fills the wide extended main, 
 
 And heavens which fpread more wide 
 It drops in gentle fhowers of rain, 
 
 And rolls in every tide. 
 
 4- 
 Still hath it been diffus'd and free, 
 
 Through ages paft and gone ; 
 Nor ever can exhaufted be. 
 
 But ftill keeps flowing on. 
 
 5- 
 Through the whole earth it pours fupplies 
 
 Spreads joy thro' all its parts ; 
 jLord, may thy goodnefs draw our eyes, 
 
 And captivate our hearts. 
 6. 
 High admiration let it raife, 
 
 And kind afTe&ions move ; 
 Employ our. tongues in hymns of praifn, 
 
 And fill our hcart6 with love. 
 
PROVIDENCE. 19 
 
 H Y M N XI. 
 
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 VJOD is the Lord, the heavenly king, 
 
 Who makes the earth his care ; 
 Vifits the panares every fpring, 
 
 And bids the grafs appear. 
 2. 
 The clouds, like rivers rais'd on high, 
 
 Pour out at thy command, 
 Their wat'ry bleffings from the iky, 
 
 To cheer the thirtty land. 
 
 3' 
 The foften'd ridges of the field 
 
 Permit the corn to fpring ; 
 The valleys rich provisions yield, 
 
 The grateful labourers fmg. 
 
 The barren clods, refreftrd with rain, 
 
 Promife a joyful crop ; 
 The fields with verdure fill'd again 
 
 Revive the reapers hope. 
 
 5- 
 The various months thy goodnefs crowns, 
 
 How bounteous are thy ways ! 
 The bleating flocks fpread o'er the downs, 
 
 And Shepherds fhout thy praife. 
 
 H Y M N XII. 
 
 \^XOD of my life, whofe gracious ponv'r 
 Thro' various deaths my foul hath led, 
 
 Or tiirn'd afide the fatal hour, 
 Or lifted up my Jinking head ! 
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PROVIDENCE. 
 
 2. 
 
 la nil my ways thy hand I own, 
 Thy ruling Providence I fee; 
 
 Afiift me ftill try courfe to run, 
 And ftill direct my paths to thee. 
 
 3- 
 Whither, O whither mould I fly, 
 
 Bui to my loving Saviour's breaft, 
 Secure within thy .inns to lie, 
 
 And 1-dfe beneath thy wings to reft r" 
 
 4- 
 Enlarge my heart to make thee room ; 
 
 Enter, and in me ever flav ; 
 The crooked then (hall fttaight become 
 
 The dLiknefs (hall be loft in day ! 
 
 H Y M N XIII. 
 
 V_XOOD thou art. and good thou doft, 
 
 Thy m°rci"s r~ach to all ; 
 Chiefly thole who on thee truft, 
 
 And for thy mercy call : 
 New they every morning are; 
 
 As fathers, when their children cry, 
 Us thou doft in pity fpare, 
 
 And all our wants fupply. 
 
 2. 
 
 Mercv o'er thy works prefides : 
 
 Thy providence dKplay'd 
 Still preserves and ftill provides 
 
 For all thy hands have marie : 
 Keeps with moft diftinguifh'd ere, 
 
 The man who on thy love depends : 
 Watches every r:r:r.ber'd hair, 
 
 And all bis ftcps attends. 
 
PROVIDENCE. 21 
 
 3- 
 
 Who can Tound the dept'ns unknown 
 
 Of thy redeeming grace ? 
 Grace that gave thine or.iy ion, 
 
 To fave a ruin'd race ! 
 Millions of tranfgreffors poor 
 
 Thou haft for Jelu's lake forgiven ; 
 Made them of thy favour lure, 
 
 And match' d from hell to heaven. 
 
 *■ 
 
 Millions more thou ready art 
 
 To fave and to forgive ; 
 Everv foul, and every heart 
 
 Of man thou wilt receive : 
 Father now accept of mine 
 
 Which now through Chrift I offer thee 
 Tell me, now, in love divine, 
 
 That thou haft pardon'd me ! 
 
 HYMN XIV. 
 
 Ti. 
 HE Lord m^paiuire (hall prepare, 
 And feed me with a fhephcrd's care :,, 
 ; His prefence fhall my wants fupply, 
 I And guard me with a watchful eye : 
 PXvdy noon-day walks he (hall attend, 
 And all my midnight hours defend. 
 
 When in the fultry glebe I faint, 
 Or on the thirity mountain pant, 
 To ferdle vales and dewy meads, 
 My weary, wand'ring fteps he leads, 
 Where peaceful rivers, fort and flovv, 
 Amid the verdant landfkip flow. 
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£« PROVIDENCE. 
 
 3- 
 Though in the paths of death I tread, 
 With gloomy horrors over-fpread, 
 My ftedfaft heart fhall fear no ill, 
 For thou, O Lord, art with me ftill ; 
 Thy friendly crook fhall give me aid, 
 And guide me through the dreadful fhade. 
 
 4- 
 Tho' in a bare and rugged way 
 Through devious lonely wilds I ffray, 
 Thy bounty fhall my pains beguile ; 
 The barren wildernefs fhall fmile 
 With fudden greens and herbage crown'd. 
 And ftreams fhall murmur all around. 
 
REDEMPTION. 
 
 HYMN XV. 
 
 N« 
 
 OW begin the heavenly theme, 
 Sing aloud in Jefu's name ; 
 Ye who Jefu's kindnefs prove, 
 Triumph in Redeeming leve. 
 
 2. 
 Ye, who fee the Father's grace 
 Beaming in the Saviour's face, 
 As to Canaan on ye move, 
 Praife and blefs Redeeming love. 
 
 3- 
 
 Mourning fouls, dry up your tears, 
 Banifh all your guilty fears; 
 See your guilt and curfe remove, 
 Cancell'd by Redeeming hve ! 
 
 4- 
 Ye, alas! who long have been 
 Willing Haves of death and fin ; 
 Now Irom blifs no longer rove, 
 Stop — and talte Redeeming love! 
 
 5- 
 Welcome all by fin opprefs'd, 
 Welcome to your Savjour'6 breaft j 
 Nothing brought him from above, 
 Nothing but Redtmivg loi\e ! 
 
24 REDEMPTION 
 
 6. 
 Hither then your mufic bring, 
 Strike aloud each joyful ftriug ; 
 Mortals join the hoits above, 
 join to praife Redeem ng hve, 
 
 HYMN XVI. 
 
 W 
 \ V HY does your face, ye humble foi^s, 
 
 Thole mournful colours wear ? 
 What doubts are thr-fe that waite you/ faith 
 
 And nourifh your defpair. 
 v -2. 
 What tho' your num'rous firs exceed 
 
 The ftars that fill the fkies ; 
 And. aiming at th' eternal throne, 
 
 Like pointed mountains riie ! 
 
 3- 
 See here an endlefs ocean flows 
 
 Of never-failing grace ; 
 Behold a dying Saviour's veins 
 
 The facred flood incrcafe : 
 
 4" 
 It rifes high, and drowns the hills, 
 
 Has neither fhore nor bound : 
 
 Now, if we fearch to find our fniSj 
 
 Our iu'.s can ne'er be found. 
 
 HYMN XVII. 
 
 V 
 
 jLJEGIM, my tongue, fome heav'nly the;n?_ 
 Ar.u fpeak fome boundlcfs thing ; 
 
 The mighty works, or mightier name 
 Of our eternal King. 
 
HE DEMPTIO N. 
 
 2. 
 
 Tell of his wond'rous faithfulnefs, 
 And found his pow'r abroad ; 
 
 Sing the fwect promife of his grace, 
 Aad the performing God. 
 
 £• 
 Proclaim falvation from the Lord 
 
 For wretched dying men ; 
 ['His hand has writ the facred word 
 With an immortal pen. 
 
 4- 
 Fngrav'd as in eternal brafs 
 
 The mighty promife mines ; 
 Nor can che pow'rsof darknefs raze 
 
 Thefe everlafting lines. 
 
 H Y M N XVIII. 
 
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 O.ME, Lord, from above,. 
 The mountains remove, 
 O'erturn all that hinders the courfe of thy love: 
 
 2. 
 
 The blelung is tree 
 So, L<>rn, let it be : 
 I yield that thy ic>e mould-be given to me. 
 
 I freely receive 
 
 What -thou freely dafh give, 
 And coiileat in thy love, in thine Lien -to lire. 
 4- 
 
 The gift I embrace, 
 
 The g.vcr I pr^fe, 
 And afcr.be my falvation to Jefus's grace. 
 
REDE M PTIO N. 
 
 5- 
 It carac from above, 
 The foretafte I prove, 
 And I loon fftall receive all thy fulnefs of love. 
 
 H Y M N XIX. 
 
 JL^ET ev'ry mortal car attend, 
 And ev'ry heart rejoice ; 
 
 The trumpet of the gofpel founds 
 With an inviting voice. 
 
 2. 
 
 Rivers of love and mercv here 
 
 In a rich ocean join ; 
 Salvation in abundance flow's, 
 
 Like floods of milk and wine 
 
 3 
 
 The happ^ gates of gofpel grace 
 Stand open night and day ; 
 
 Lord, we are come to' feek fupplies, 
 And drive our wants awav. 
 
 HYMN XX. 
 
 T 
 
 JL-jET earth and heav'n agree, 
 
 Angels £nd men be join'd, 
 To celebrate with me 
 
 The Saviour of mankind : 
 T' adove the all-atoning Lamb, 
 And bi^is the found of Jefu's name. 
 
REDEMPTION. 27 
 
 Jefus ! tranfporting found ! 
 
 The joy of earth and heav'n ; 
 No other help is found. 
 No other name is giv'n, 
 By which we can falvation have, 
 But Jefus came the world to fave. 
 
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 Jefus I harmonious name ! 
 
 It charms the hofts above ; 
 They evermore proclaim, 
 And wonder at his love ; 
 *Tis all their happinefs to gaze, 
 'Tis heaven to fee our Jefu's face. 
 
 4- 
 H:s name the finner hears, 
 And is from fin fet free ; 
 'Tis mufic in his ears ; 
 'Tis life and viclory; 
 New fongs do now his lips employe 
 And dances his glad heart for joy. 
 
 5- 
 O unexampled love ! 
 
 O all-redeeming grace ! 
 How fwiftly didft thou move 
 To fave a fallen race ; 
 What fhall I do to make it known, 
 What thou for all mankind haft done ? 
 6. 
 O for a trumpet's voice, 
 
 On all the world to call ; 
 To bid their hearts rejoice 
 In him who dy'd for all! 
 For all, my Lord was. crucify'd 
 For all, for all my Saviour dy'd 1 
 C 2 
 
Sp "REDE M P T IO^y 
 
 HYMN XXI. 
 
 T 
 
 A. E heavens, rejoice in Jefus's grac?, 
 Let earth make a noife and echo his praife; 
 Our all-loving Saviour hath pacify'd God, 
 And paid for his favour the price of his blood. 
 
 2. 
 Ye mountains and vales, in praife 5 abound, 
 Ye hills and ye daks, continue the found.; 
 Break forth into Tinging, ye trees of the wood, 
 For Jeius is bringing loft finners to God. 
 
 3- 
 Atonement he made for every one, 
 The debt he hath paid, the work he hath done, 
 Shout ail the creation, below and above, 
 Afcribing falvation to Jefus's love. 
 
 H Y M N XX I L 
 
 R 
 
 E JO ICE, the Lard is King- 
 
 Your Lord and King adore ; 
 Mortals, give thanks and fing, 
 
 And triumph evermore : 
 Lift lip your hearts, life up your voice,- 
 Rejoice, again I fay rejoice ! 
 
 2. 
 Jefus the Saviour re 
 
 The God of truth and love, 
 When he had purg'd our ftains 
 
 He took his feat above; 
 ■ Lift up &c. 
 
ETE D EM PTI O X. 
 
 3-. 
 H?s kingdom cannot fail, 
 
 He rules o'er earth and heav'n 5 
 The keys of death and hell 
 
 Are to our-Jefus-giv-'n : . 
 Lift up. &c. 
 
 4- 
 He fits at God's right-hand, 
 
 Till all his foes Jubmit. : 
 And bow- to- hiscommand, 
 
 And fall beneath his feet : 
 Lift up, &c. 
 
 5- 
 Rejoice in glorious hope, 
 
 Jefus the Jndge mall come; 
 And take his fervants up. 
 
 To their eternal home. 
 We foon mall hearth' archangel's voice, 
 The trump of God fhall found, Rejoice! 
 
 HYMN XXIII, 
 
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 'OME, thou fount of cv'ry blefling,; 
 . Tuae my heart to- ling thy grace ! 
 Streams of mercy never ceafing, 
 
 Call for fongs of loudeft praife : 
 Teach me fome melodious fonnet, 
 Sung by flaming tongues above ; 
 Praife the mount — I'm fix ! d upon ifj 
 Mount of thy redeeming love i 
 
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30 REDE M PTIO X. 
 
 2. 
 
 O ! to grace how great a debtor 
 
 Daily I'm conftrain'd to be ! 
 Let thy goodnefs, like a fetter, 
 
 Bind my wand'ring heart to thee : 
 Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it ; 
 
 Prone to leave the God I Hve-*— 
 Here's my heart, O take and feal it; 
 
 Seal it for thy courts above. 
 
 K Y M N XXIV. 
 
 H 
 
 ARK '. how the gofpel-trumpet fouada 
 
 Thro' all the earth the echo bounds ! 
 And Jefus, by redeeming blood. 
 Is bringing limners back to God ; 
 And guides them fafely by his word, 
 
 To endlels day. 
 2. 
 Hail, aVUvi&orious eonq*ring Lord! 
 E thou by all shy w ^ ; -•„ ?.d »*'d, 
 W K o undertook for ftnful man, 
 And brought falvation through thy name, 
 That they with thee may ever reign 
 
 In endlefs day. 
 
 . 3- 
 Fight on, ye coftq'ring louh, fight on, 
 And when lhe conqueil you have won, 
 The palms of victory you Iball bear, 
 And in his kipgdom have a fiiiare, 
 And crowns of glory ever wear 
 In. endlefs d:iy. 
 
REDEMPTION. Ri 
 
 There we ftrall in fweet chorus join, 
 And faints end angels all combine 
 To fmg of his redeeming love, 
 When rolling years fha;l ceafe to move, 
 And this fhall be our theme above, 
 In endlefs day. 
 
 HYMN XXV. 
 
 SALVATION ! O the joyful found! 
 
 What pleafure to our cars ! 
 fov 'reign balm for ev'ry wound, 
 A cordial tor our fears. 
 
 Glory, honour, praife and power, 
 Be unto the Lamb for ever ; 
 Jefus C'.rift is our Redeemer ! 
 Hallelujah ! praife the Lord. 
 
 Salvation ! let the echo fly 
 
 The fpacious earth around, 
 
 While all the armies of the fky 
 Conlpire to raife the found. 
 Glory, ckc. 
 
 3- 
 
 Salvation! O thou bleeding Lamb! 
 
 To thee the praife belongs : 
 Salvation Rial] infpire our hearts, 
 
 And dwell upon our tongues. 
 Glory. &c. 
 
RE DEM PT I OX, 
 HYMN XXVI. 
 
 V.TLORY to God on high ! 
 Let earth and fkies reply ; 
 
 Praife ye his name'; 
 His love and grace ador**, 
 Who all our farrows bo?e ; 
 Sing aloud evermore, 
 
 Worthy the Lamb. 
 2. 
 ^|:-fus, our Lord and God, 
 jiore fin's trcmtud'ous load, 
 
 Praife ye his name : 
 Tell what his arm hath done; 
 What fpoils from death he won 
 Sing his great name alone, 
 
 Worthy the Lamb. 
 
 3- 
 While they around the throne 
 Cheerfully join in on^ 
 
 Piaifing his name : 
 Thofe who have felt his blood 
 Sealing their peace with God, 
 Sound his dear fame abroad 
 
 Worthy the Lamb. 
 
 4- 
 Join, all ye ranfom'd race 
 bur holy Lord to blefs ; 
 
 Praife ye his name : 
 In him we will rejoice, 
 And make a joyful naife 
 Shouting with heart and voice 
 
 Worthy the Lamb. 
 
REDEMPTION. 33 
 
 5 ' 
 What tho' we change our place, 
 
 Yet we (hall never ceafe 
 
 Praifiug his name : 
 
 To him our longs we bring, 
 
 Hail him our gracious king, 
 
 And without ceafing ling, 
 
 Worthy the Lamb. 
 
 6. 
 
 Then let the hofis above, 
 
 In realms of endiefs love, 
 
 Praife his dear name : 
 
 To him afcribed be 
 
 Honour and majefty, 
 
 Thro' all eternity, ; 
 
 Worthy the Lamb. 
 
 HYMN XXVIT. 
 
 X ATHER, is not thy promife pledg'd 
 
 To thine exalted Son, 
 That through the nations of the e^rtb, 
 
 Thy word of life (hall run ? 
 
 2. 
 
 " Afk. and I give the Heathen lands 
 
 " For thine inheritance, 
 ** And to the world's remoteft fhores 
 
 " Thine empire fhall advance." 
 
 3- 
 
 Are not all kingdoms, tribes, and tong 
 Under th' expance of heaven. 
 
 To the dominion of thy fon, 
 Without Exemption given ? 
 
34 REDEMPTION. 
 
 4- 
 From eail to weft, from north to foiuh, 
 
 Then be his name ador'd ! 
 Europ', with all thy millions, fhcut 
 
 Hofannahs to thy Lord I 
 
 5- 
 
 Ana, and Africa, refound 
 
 From more to more his fame ; 
 
 And thou Ameiira, in fongs 
 
 Redeeming love proclaim ! 
 
 HYMN XXVIII. 
 
 P, 
 
 LUXG'D in a gulph of dark defpair 
 We wretched Tinners lay, 
 Without one cheering beam of hope, 
 Or fpark of glirr.m'ring day. 
 
 With pitying eyes the Prince of Grace 
 Beheld prr helole r s grief: 
 
 He few, and (O amazing love !) 
 He ran to our relief. 
 
 3- 
 Down from the fhining feats above 
 With joyful hafte he fled; 
 
 Enter'd the grave in mortal fl»fh, 
 And dwelt among the dead. 
 
 4' 
 O! fw th s love, let rocks and hills 
 
 Their tailing filence break, 
 And all harmonious human tongues 
 
 The Saviour's praifes fpeak. 
 
REDEMPTION. 
 
 5- 
 Angels, affift our mighty joys, 
 
 Strike all your harps of gold ; 
 But when you raife your highefl notes, 
 
 K;s ls\e can ne'er be told. 
 
 HYMN XXIX. 
 
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 ID LOW ye the trumpet, blow 
 
 The gladly foiemn found, 
 Let all the. nations know, 
 To earth's remoteit bound, 
 The year ol jubilee is come : 
 Return ye ranfom'd finners, home* 
 
 2. 
 
 J°fas our great High Prieft, 
 Hath full atonement made ; 
 
 Ye weary fp.'rits reft, 
 
 Ye mournful fouls ba glad ; 
 The year of jubilee, &c. 
 
 3; 
 
 Extol the Lamb ol God, 
 
 The alt-atoning Lamb : 
 Redemption in his blood 
 
 Throughout the world proclaisa. 
 The year of jubilee, ccc. 
 
 4- 
 Ye flaves of fin and hell, 
 
 Your liberty receive, 
 A-.d fafe in J Has dwell, 
 And bieft in Jefus live. 
 Jut yeai of jutike, &c> 
 
REDE M PTIO N. 
 
 Ye who have fold for nought 
 
 Your heritage above, 
 Shell have it back unbought, 
 The gift of Tefu's love. 
 The year of jubilee, &c. 
 6. 
 The gofpel trumpet hear, 
 
 The news of heavenly grace, 
 And fav'd from earth appear 
 Before your Saviour's face. 
 The year of jubilee, &c. 
 
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 *%3 5ft *g 
 
 PRAYER an-d PRAISE, 
 
 H Y M N XXX. 
 
 G, 
 
 "RATEFUL notes and numbers bring, 
 While JEKOVAH's praife we iing ; 
 Holy, holy, holy, Lord, 
 Be thy glorious name ador'd ! 
 
 CHORUS. 
 
 Men on e?rth and faints above, 
 
 Sing the great Redeemer's love ; 
 
 Lord thy mercies never fail. 
 
 Hail, celeftial goodnefs, hail ! 
 2. 
 While on earth ordain'd to ilay. 
 Guide our footfteps in thy way : 
 'Till we come to reign with thee, 
 And all thy glorious greatness fee! 
 
 Men on earth, &c. 
 
 3- 
 
 T'ren with angels we'li again 
 Wake a louder, louder {train : 
 There, in joyful fongs of praife^ 
 We'ii our grateful voices raife. 
 Men on earth, &c. 
 
38 PRAYER and PRAISE, 
 HYMN XXXI. 
 
 J ESU, thy boundlefs love to me 
 
 No thought can reach, no tongue declare 
 
 O knit my thankful heart to thee, 
 And r-ign without a rival there ! 
 
 Thine wholly, thine alone I ana ; 
 
 Be thou alone ray ccnilaut flame ! 
 
 O grant that nothing in my foul 
 
 May dwell but thy pure love alone ! 
 
 O may thy love po fiefs me whoje ! 
 
 My joy, ray trcafure, and my crown ; 
 
 Strange flames far from my heart remove ; 
 
 My ev'ry act, word, thought, be love. 
 
 3 
 S:ill let thy love point out my way ; 
 
 How wond'rous things thy love hath wrought 
 Still lead me left I go aftray ! 
 
 DirerJt my word, mfpire my thought : 
 And if I fail, Icon may I hear 
 Thy voice, and kno.v that love is near. 
 
 4- 
 In fufP ring be thy love my peace, 
 
 In weaknefs be thy love my pow'r, 
 And when th.e ftorms of life flia.ll ceafe, 
 
 jefu, in that important hour, 
 In death, as life, be ihou my guid?, 
 And lave me, who for 'm. huft dy'd ! 
 
PRAYER and PRAISE. 39 
 H Y M N XXXII. 
 
 1 ROM all that dwell below tbe Ikies, 
 
 Let the Creator's praife arife; 
 
 Let the Redeemer's name be fung, 
 i Thro' ev'ry land, by ev'ry tongue, 
 [ Eternal are thy mercies. Lord, 
 
 Eternal truth attends thy word ; 
 
 Thy pratfe mail found from fhore to f&ore, 
 
 Till funs fhail rife and fet no more. 
 2. 
 
 Your lofty themes, ye mortals, bring, 
 
 In fongs of praife divinely fing; 
 
 The great falvation loud proclaim, 
 
 And fhout for joy the Saviour's name : 
 
 In ev'ry land begin the fong, 
 I To ev'ry land the {trains belong; 
 ; In cheerful founds all voices raife, 
 
 And fill the world with loudeft praife. 
 
 HYMN XXXIII. 
 1. 
 
 JL RAIS& the Lord, who reigns above, 
 
 And keeps his court below, 
 Praife the holy God of love, 
 
 And all his greatnefs fhew ; 
 Praife him for his noble deeds, 
 
 Praife him for his matchlefs power: 
 Him from whom all good proceeds, 
 
 Let earth and heaven adore. 
 
4 o PRA Y ERa kd PRAISE. 
 
 2. 
 
 Publifh, fpread to all around 
 
 The great JEHOVAH's name. 
 Let the trumpet's martial found 
 
 The Lord of holts proclaim : 
 Praife him every tuneful firing, 
 
 All the reach of heav'nly art, 
 All the powers of mufic bring, 
 
 The mufic of the heart. 
 
 3- 
 Him, in whom they move, and live, 
 
 Let every creature fing, 
 Glory to their maker give, 
 
 And homage to their King : 
 Hallow'd be his name beneath, 
 
 As in heaven en earth ador'd, 
 Praife the Lord in every breath ; 
 
 Let all things praife the Lord. 
 
 H Y M N XXXIV. 
 
 L< 
 
 /ORD if thou the grace impart, 
 Poor in fpirit, meek in heart, 
 I fhall as my mafter be, 
 Rooted in humility. 
 
 2- 
 
 From the time that thee I know, 
 Nothing may I feek below, 
 Aim at nothing great or high, 
 Lowly both my heart and eye. 
 
PRAYERaxd PRAISE. 4^ 
 
 3- 
 
 Simple, teachable, and mild, 
 Aw'd into a little child ; 
 Ouiet now without rav food, 
 Wean'd from ev'ry creature goodl 
 
 4- 
 Hangs my new born foul on thee*. 
 Kept from all idolatry, 
 Nothing wants beneath ab'ove, 
 Happy, happy in thy love. 
 
 HYMN. XXXV.. 
 1. 
 
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 .Y. heart is full of Chrift, and longs 
 Its glorious, matter to declare! 
 Gf him I make my loftier fongs, 
 
 I cannot from his praife forbear ; 
 My r.-a<iy tongue makes hafte to ring 
 The beauties of my heavenly king, 
 
 2 f 
 
 Fairer than all. the earth-born race, 
 Perfeft in comelinefs thou art, 
 
 Replenifh'd are thy lips with gr?.ce, 
 And full of love thy tender heart ; 
 
 God ever b left we bow the knee, 
 
 And own all falnefs dwells in thee. 
 
 a- 
 
 Gome and maintain thy righteous caufe, 
 And let thy glorious toil fucceed, 
 
 Difpread the victory of thy crofs, 
 Ride on and profper in thy deed : 
 
 Through earth triumphantly ride on, 
 
 And iei<rn in all our hearts alone. 
 
42 PRAYER and PRAISE. 
 
 4- 
 Thee. Jefus, king of kings, and Lord 
 
 Of Lords, I glory to proclaim, 
 From age to age thy praife record, 
 
 That all the world may learn thy name 
 And all fliall loon thy grace adore, 
 When time and Jin fhall be no more. 
 
 H Y M N XXX VI. 
 
 VJREAT God, I would not afk to fee 
 What in futurity (hall be; 
 If light and blifs attend my days, 
 Then let my future hours be praife. 
 
 . 2. 
 Is darknefs and diitrcfs my (hare? 
 Then let me try ft thy guardian care; 
 Enough for me, if love divine 
 At length thro' ev'ry cloud fhall fhine. 
 9. 
 
 u 
 
 Yet this my foul de-fires to know, 
 
 Be this my only wifh below, 
 
 • : - That Chrift is mine!"' t! is ;;reat rcqucft-, 
 
 Grant, bounteous God— and I am bieft. 
 
 HYMN XXXVII. 
 
 O 
 
 : trod, of my falvation hear, 
 And help a linnet to draw near, 
 
 With boldncfs, to the throne of grace 
 Help me thy benehjs to fing, 
 And fmile. to fee me feebly bring 
 
 My humble fa evince of praife. 
 
P Pv AVER and PRAIS E. 
 
 I c?.nnot praife thee as I would, 
 But thou art merciful and good, 
 
 I know thou never wilt defpife 
 The day of fmall and feeble things : 
 But bear me, till on Angels wings, 
 
 To all the heights of love I Fife. 
 
 3- 
 How fhj'.l I thank thee for thy ^ VliCC > 
 The truS I have to fee thy face, • 
 
 When fin fhall ail be purg'd away : 
 The night of doubt and fear is pad, 
 The mjsrning ftai appears at la ft., 
 
 And I fhall fee the perfe& day. 
 
 4- 
 
 The day of fweet and perfe'8 reft, 
 With pure enjoyment ever bleft, 
 
 I fhall delight to prove above 
 The height and depth of love divine: 
 Arid in thine image ever fhine, 
 
 Of glory, light, and heavenly love, 
 
 HYMN XXXVII I. 
 
 I 
 
 '•LL praife my Maker while I've breath. 
 And when rny voice is loft in death, 
 
 Praife fhall employ my nobler pow'rs : 
 My days of praife fhall ne'er he paft, 
 While life, and thought, and being laft. 
 
 Or immortality endures. 
 
4$< PRAYERaxdPRAISL 
 
 Happy the man who' e hop»s relv 
 On I'rael's God; he made the iky, 
 
 And earth, and fens, with all their train 
 His truth for ever (lands fecure! 
 He faves th' opprefs'd, he feeds the poor, 
 
 And none flaall find his promife vain. 
 
 3- 
 The Lord pours eye-fight on the blind.; 
 The Lord fupports the fainting mind ; 
 
 He fends tiie lab 'ring conference peace : 
 He helps the ftranger in diftfefs, 
 The w;dow and the farherlefs* 
 
 And grants the pris'ner fweet rsleafs, 
 
 4- 
 I'll praife him while he lends me breath, 
 And when my voice is loll in death, 
 
 Praife (hall employ. my nobler pow'rs : . 
 My days of praife fhall ne'er be pa ft, 
 While life, and thought, and being laft. 
 
 Or immortality endures. 
 
 HYMN XXXIX; 
 
 X ATHER, how wide thy glories fhine 
 
 How high thy wonders rife ! 
 Known thro' the earth by thoufand figns s 
 
 By thoufands through the fkt~s. 
 There mighty orbs proclaim thy pow'r, 
 
 Their motions, fpeak thy fkili; 
 And on the wings oi ev'ry hour 
 
 We read thy patience ftilL 
 
FTl A Y £ R a n o PRAISE. 
 
 IPart of tliy name divinely ftand-s 
 
 On all thy creatures writ ; 
 They {hew the labour of thy hands. 
 
 Or iinprefs of thy feet. 
 But when we view thy itrange tfefign 
 
 To lave- rebellious worms, 
 Where ju-ftice and companion join 
 
 In their divineft forms. 
 
 3- 
 Here the whole Deity is known, 
 
 Nor dares a creature guefs 
 Which of the glories brighten: fhonc, 
 
 The juflice, or the grace. 
 Now ihe full glories of the lamb - 
 
 Adorn the heav'nly plains, 
 Bright feraphs learn Imrnanuel's name, 
 
 And try their choiceii nrains. 
 
 4- 
 O may I bear Tome humble part 
 
 In that immortal fong ! 
 Wonder and joy (hall tune my heart, 
 
 And love command my tongas, 
 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghcil, 
 
 Who Pweetly all agree 
 To fave a world of finners loft, 
 
 Eternal glory be. 
 
 H Y M N XL. 
 
 B, 
 
 'E it my only wifdom here. 
 To ferve thee Lord with filial fear, 
 
 With loving gratitude ; 
 Superior fenie may I difplay, 
 By fhunning ev'ry evil way, 
 -And walking in the good, 
 
46 PRAYERand PRAISE 
 
 2. 
 
 O may I "till from fin depart; 
 A wile and underloading heart, 
 
 Jefus, to me be giv'n ! 
 And let me through thy fpirit know. 
 To glorify my God below, 
 
 And find my way to heav'n. 
 
 HYMN XLI. 
 
 V^LORY be to God on high, 
 God whofe glory fills the fky, 
 Peace on earth to man forgiven, 
 Man the weil-belov'd of heaven. 
 
 2. 
 
 Sovereign Father, heavenly king, 
 Thee we now prefumc to fing, 
 Glad thine attributes confefs, 
 Glorious all and numberlefs. 
 
 3/ 
 Hail by all thy works ador'd, 
 Hail the everlafting Lord ! 
 Thee with thankful hearts we prove, 
 Lord of power and God of love. 
 
 HYMN XLII. 
 
 V^OME Holy Spirit, fend down thofe beam* 
 Which gently flow in filent ftreams 
 
 From the eternal throne above : 
 Come, thou enricher of the poor, 
 Thou bounteous lource of all our More, 
 
 Fill us with faith, with hope, and i^T. 
 
PRAYER axd PRAISE. 
 
 Come, thou our foul's delightful gueft, 
 The wearied pilgrims fweeteft reft, 
 
 The fainting fttfferers bell relief ; 
 Come, thou our psffion's cool allay ; 
 Thy comforts wipe all tears away, 
 
 And turns to peace and joy all grisf. 
 
 3- 
 i Lord warn our finful ftains away, 
 Water from heaven our barren clay, 
 
 Our ftcknefs cure our bruifes heal ! 
 
 To thy fweet yoke our ftiff necks bow„ 
 
 Warm with thy fire our hearts of fadyr, 
 
 And there enthron'd for ever dwell. 
 
 4? 
 
 HYMN XLIII. 
 
 w 
 
 ILT thou, O Lord, regard my tears, 
 The fruit of guilt and fear ? 
 Me. v/ho thy juftice hath provok'd, 
 O will thy mercy fpare ? 
 2, 
 Yes, for the broken contrite heart, 
 Saviour, thy fufFerings plead ; 
 O quench not then the fmoaking flax, 
 Nor break the bruifed reed° 
 
 3- 
 Thy poor unworthy fervant view, 
 
 Refign'd to thy decree ; 
 Ordain me or to live or die* 
 
 But live or die to. thee ! 
 
4? PRAY E'R a n d P-R ATS E. 
 
 4- 
 Upon thy gracious promife, Lord, 
 
 My humbled foul is caft; 
 O bear me fafe thro ; life, thro' death, 
 
 And raife me up at lafl ! 
 
 5- 
 Low as this mortal frame mull lie, 
 
 This m6rtal frame fhall fing, 
 Where is thy victory, O grave! 
 
 And where, O death, thy fling. 
 
 U Y M N XL IV. 
 
 H 
 
 EAR me, O Lord, my God, and weigh 
 My ibrrows in the fcale of love ; 
 Lighten mine eyes, reftore the day, 
 The darknefs from my foul remove. 
 
 2. 
 
 Thou wilt, thou wilt, my hope return* \ 
 
 A hidden Ipirit of faith I feci, 
 My heart ih fervent wifh.es burns, 
 
 And God fhall there for ever dwell. 
 
 3- 
 My trufl is in thy gracious power, 
 
 I glory in falvation near, 
 IRejoice in hope of that glad hour. 
 
 When perfe-ft love fhall caft out fear, 
 
 4 - 
 T fing the gooduefs of the Lord, 
 
 The goodnefs I experience now, 
 
 And full I hang upon ihy word, 
 
 -My Saviour lo the utmoft iKoti 
 
PRAYER and PRAISE, 45 
 
 
 
 Thy !ovc I ever fhall proclaim, 
 A mon'ment of thy mercy I, 
 
 And praif'e the mighty Jefu's name, 
 Jefas the Lord, the Lord moft hi^h. 
 
 HYMN XLV. 
 
 T 
 
 ALK with us, Lord, thyfelf reveal. 
 While here o'er earth we rove : 
 Speak to our hearts, and let us feel 
 The kindling of thy love. 
 2. 
 With thee convening we forget 
 
 All time, and toil, and care; 
 !• 'Labour is reft, and pain is fvveet, 
 If thou, my God, art here. 
 3. 
 Here then, my God, vouchsafe to flay, 
 
 And bid my heart rejoice ; 
 My bounding heart fhall own thy fway, 
 And echo to thy voice. 
 • 4. 
 Thou called me to feek thy face : 
 
 'Tis all I wifh to fe<rk : 
 p> attend the whifpers of thy grace, 
 And hear thee inly fpeak. 
 
 ,. 6- 
 
 Let this, my every hour employ. 
 
 Till I thy Glory fee ! 
 inter into my Mafter's joy, 
 
 And find my heaven in thee. 
 D 
 
$0 PRAYERaxdFRAIS E. 
 H Y M X XLVL ' 
 
 X ORGIVE us for' thy mercy's fake, 
 
 Our multitude of iins forgive ! 
 And for thine own poffeffion take,. 
 
 And bid us to thy glory live, 
 Live in thy figrit, and gladly prove 
 Our faith, by our obedient love. 
 
 2. 
 The covenant of forgivenefs feaT, 
 
 And all thy mighty wonders mow t 
 Our inbred enemies expel, 
 
 And conquering them to conquer go; 
 Till all of pride and wrath be (lain, 
 And not one evil thought remain ! 
 
 3; 
 
 O put it in our inward parts, 
 The living law of perfect love ! 
 
 Write the new precept on our hearts ; 
 We (hall not then from thee remove, 
 
 Who in thy glorious image (bine, 
 
 Thy people, and for ever thine, 
 
 HYMN XLVIL 
 
 .INTERNAL power whofe high abeete 
 Becomes the grandeur of a God, 
 Infinite length beyond the bounds, 
 Where ftars revolve there little rounds ; 
 
PRAYERanb PRAISE. 5 t 
 
 Thee while the firft archangel fings, 
 Ke hides his face behind his wings : 
 And ranks of fhining thrones around 
 Pali worfhiping and ipread the ground. 
 
 a- 
 
 Lord, what fhall earth and afhes do ? 
 V/e would adore pur Maker too 1 
 From fin and duff to thee we cry, 
 The great, the holy, and che high S 
 
 4- 
 
 Earth from afar hath heard thy fame, 
 And worms have learn'd to lifp thy name 
 But O the glories of thy mind 
 Leave all our loving thoughts behind i 
 
 God is in heaven, and Man below : 
 Be fhort our tunes ; eur words be few 1 
 A folemn reverence checks our fongs, 
 And praife fits filent on our tongues. 
 
 HYMN XLVIII. 
 
 J ESUS, I love thy charming name; 
 
 Tis raufic to mine ear ; 
 Fain would I found \t out fo loud, 
 
 That earth and heav'n fhould hear, 
 
 2. 
 
 Yes thou art precious to my foul, 
 My tranfport, and my truft ; 
 
 jewels to thee are gaudy toys, 
 And gold is fordid duft. 
 D 2 
 
I PRAYERandPRAISI. 
 
 3- 
 
 All my capacious powers can wifh 
 
 In thee dotk richly rtteet : 
 Nor to mine eyes is light io dear, 
 
 Nor friendfhip half fo fweet. 
 
 4- • 
 Thy grace Mill dwells upon my heart, 
 
 And fheds its fragrance there ; 
 The nobleft balm of all its wounds, 
 
 The cordial of its care. 
 
 I'll fpeak the honours of thy name 
 With my hit lab'ring breath ; 
 
 Then fpeechlefs ciafp thee in mine armSj 
 The antidote of death. 
 
 HYMN XLIX. 
 
 i. 
 
 XT 
 
 i> OW fhall our fouls with pkafure raife, 
 To our derr Lord a fong of praife ; 
 We'll fing his love, his goodnefs tell, 
 Our Saviour hath done all things well. 
 
 With pitying eyes he view'd our cafe, 
 And came to fave our Tuin'ai race ; 
 He conquer'd fin, and<leath, and hell ; 
 Our Jelus hath done all things well. 
 
 3- 
 
 He undertook to bear our load, 
 And bring us back again to God ; 
 To fit us with hinifelf to dwell ; 
 Chriit Jefus hath done aU things welU 
 
PRAYER and PRAISE. 53 
 
 He will accomplifh his defign, 
 And all things in hirnfelf combine ; 
 No more fhail ever they rebel ; 
 Our Jems will do all things well. 
 
 5". 
 His work, how great! h;s plan, how vaft! 
 
 But when it all appears at lait, . 
 
 It will our higher! praife excel ; 
 
 for Jeius will do all things well. 
 
 6. 
 
 When the creation is reftor'd, 
 
 And God fhall be by all ador'd, 
 
 How loudly will the triumph fwell, 
 
 Our Jefus hath done all things well ! 
 
 7- 
 Sin, death, and hell, will Chnft deftroy, 
 And fill the univerfe with joy ; 
 His love fhall then each voice compel 
 To cry, ' He hath done all things well.' 
 
 8. 
 All creatures then as one fhall join. 
 To fnout aloud his praife divine ! 
 (As facred prophecies foretel) 
 And fay, < He hath done all things well.' 
 
 H Y M N L. 
 
 T 
 
 .J ESU, lover of my foul, 
 Let me to thy bofom fly, 
 
 While the~nearer waters roll, 
 
 While the tempeft itili is high : 
 
 Hide me. O my Saviour, hide, 
 Till I f }rfe is u=ft; 
 
 SalY'ir ' 
 
44 PRAYER akd P R A I S I. 
 
 2. 
 
 Other refuge have I nene, 
 
 Hangs my helplefs foul on thee; 
 Leave, ah ! leave me not alone, 
 
 Still fupport and comfort me : 
 All my truft on thee is ftay'd, 
 
 All my help from ihec I bring; 
 Cover my defencelefs head 
 
 With th* fhadow of thy wing. 
 
 3- 
 
 Plenteous grace with the? is found, 
 
 Grace to cover all my fan ; 
 Let the healing dreams abound ; 
 
 Make and keep me pure within. 
 Thou of life the fountain ;'rt, 
 
 Freely let me tak- of thee ; 
 Spring thou up within my heart, 
 
 Rife to all eternity. 
 
 HYMN LI. 
 
 G 
 
 ..TREAT God, indulge my humble elaim 
 | - t ou my hope, my joy, my reft! 
 The glories that compote thy name, 
 Stand ail engag'd to make me bleft. 
 
 Thou great and good, thou juft and wi-fe, 
 Thou art my Father and my God ! 
 
 And I am tl iuc by facred ties, 
 
 Tlry fan, thy fervant bought with blooi, 
 
PRAYER and PRAISE, §S 
 
 3- 
 
 With heart, and eyes, and lifted hands, 
 
 For thee I long, to thee I look, 
 As Travellers in thinly lands 
 
 Pant for the cooling water-brook* 
 
 4- 
 Even life itfelf, without thy love, 
 
 Xo lafling pleafure can afford ; 
 Yea, 'twould a tirefome burthen prove 
 
 If I were banifh'd from thee, Lord ! 
 
 5- 
 
 I'll lift my hands, I'll raife my voice, 
 While I have breath to pray or praife; 
 
 tfork (hall make my heart rejoice, 
 And ipcnd the remnant of my days, 
 
 H Y M X LIT. 
 
 M- 
 
 Y God. the fpring of all my joys. 
 The life of my delights, 
 The -lory of my brighter! days, 
 And comfort of my nights, 
 
 2, 
 
 In darkeft fhades if tnou appear, 
 
 My daw nine is begun ; 
 Thou art my foul's bright morning-fhr, 
 
 Aud thou my riling fun. 
 
 3- 
 
 Tne cp'r.ing heavens around me mine 
 With beams of facred blifs, 
 
 If jefus fhews his mercy mine. 
 Aid whifpera I am his. 
 
46 PRAYER and PRAISE. 
 
 4- 
 My foul would leave this heavy clay 
 
 At that tranfporling word, 
 Run up vrithjoy the fhining way, 
 
 To fee and praife my Lord. 
 
 H Y M N LIII. 
 
 X_^OVE divine, all loves excelling, 
 
 Joy of hcav'n to earth come down 
 Fix in us thy humble dwelling, 
 
 All thy faithful mercies crown : 
 Jefu, thou art all compafhon, 
 
 Pure unbounded love thou art : 
 Vilit us with thy falvalion, 
 
 Enter ev'ry trembling heart. 
 2. 
 Breathe, O breathe thy loving fpirit 
 
 Into ev'ry troubled breaft; 
 Let us all in thee inherit. 
 
 Let us find tha r . fecond reft. 
 Take away our bent of imning, 
 
 Alpha and Omega be, 
 End of faith as iis beginning, 
 
 Set our hearts at liberty. 
 
 SECOND PART. 
 
 3 
 Come, almighty to deliver, 
 
 Let us all thy life receive, 
 Suddenly return, and never, 
 
 Never more thy temples leave j 
 
FRAYERand PRAISE. 57 
 
 Thee we would be always bleiTing, 
 
 Serve thee as thy hofls above, 
 Pra\') and praife thee without ceafing, 
 
 Glory ie thy perfecx love. 
 
 4- 
 
 Finifh then thy new creation, 
 
 Pure and fpotlefs let us be ; 
 Let us fee thy great falvation, 
 
 Perfectly reftor'd in thee. 
 Chang'd from glory into glory, 
 
 Till in heaven we take ouj; place. 
 Till we call Out crowns before thee, 
 
 Loft in wonder, love, and praife \ 
 
 HYMN LIV. 
 
 I? OUNTAIN of life, to sll below, 
 
 Let thy falvation roll ; 
 Water, replenifh and o'erflow 
 
 Every believing foul. 
 
 2. 
 
 Into that happy number. Lord^ 
 
 Us rs uK?, 
 
 Jefus fulfil thy gracious worcfj 
 
 For thy own mercy's fake. 
 
 3- 
 ur nature's rapid tide, 
 And we fhall flow to thee,' 
 While down the ftream of time we glid; 
 Toouretey, 
 
$8 PRAYER and PRAISE 
 
 4- 
 The well ef life to us thou art, 
 
 Of joy the fwelling flood ; 
 Wafted by thee, with willing heart 
 
 We fwift return to God. 
 
 We foon (hall reach the bound lefs fea, 
 
 Into thy fulnafs fall, 
 Be loft and- fwallowed up in thee, 
 
 Our God, our all in all. 
 
 HYMN LY. 
 
 J.N boundlefs mercy- gracious Lord, appear, 
 Darknefs difpel, the humble mourner cheer, 
 Vain thoughts remove, melt down the flinty 
 Caufe ev'ry foul to choofe the better part. [hearty 
 
 2. 
 
 Thy prefence fills the univerfal fpace : 
 Thy grace appears for all the fallen race. 
 O ! vifit us with light and life divine, 
 Pill ev'ry foul, for ev'ry foul is thine. 
 
 3- 
 
 The blefTed Jefus is my Lord, my love; 
 
 He is my king, from him I would not move ; 
 
 Away then, all ye objects that divert, 
 
 Nor ieek to draw from my dear Lord my heart. 
 
 That uncreated beauty which hath gain'd 
 My willing heart, hath all your glory ftain'd ; 
 His lovelinefs my foul hath prepoffefs'd, 
 And ieft no raom for any other gueft. 
 
fRAYER and PRAISE, 59 
 HYMN LVI. 
 
 "S 
 
 HEPHE.RDS rejoice, lift up your eyes* 
 • ; Ana [end your fears away ; 
 u News -rem the regions of the Ikies ->-» 
 li Salvation's born to-day. 
 
 M Jefus, the God whom angels fear, 
 
 " Comes down to dwell with you j 
 
 " To-day he makes his entrance here, 
 " But not as monarchs do. 
 
 3- 
 " No gold, no purple iwadling bandsj 
 
 " Nor royal mining things; 
 ** A manger for his cradle Hands, 
 
 " And holds the King of Kings, 
 
 4- 
 " Go, Shepherds, where the infant lies, 
 
 sc And fee his humble throne ; 
 
 M With tears of joy in all your eyes, 
 
 " Go, Shepherds, kifs the Son." 
 
 5- 
 Thus Gabriel fang, and ftraight around 
 
 The heav'nly armies throng ; 
 They tune their harps to lofty lound, 
 And thus conclude the fong : 
 6. 
 
F K A Y E R akdTRAISE. 
 HYMN LVII. 
 
 JL HEE we adore, Eternal Name, 
 And humbly own to thee, 
 How feeble is our mortal frame. 
 What dying worms we be ! 
 
 Our wafting fives grow feorter dill, 
 
 As days and months increafe ; 
 And ev'ry beating pu'ife we tell, 
 
 Leaves but the number iefs. 
 
 3- 
 The yrar rolls round, and fteals away 
 
 The breath that frrft it gave : 
 Vv r hate'er we do. where'er we be, 
 
 We're travelling to the grave. 
 
 4- 
 Dangers ftand thick through all the ground, 
 
 To pufh us to the tomb ; 
 And fierce difeafes wait around, 
 
 To hurry mortals home. 
 
 5- 
 "Waken. O Lord, our droivfy fenfe. 
 
 To walk this dang'rous rond ; 
 And if our fou's are hurried! hence, 
 
 May they be f jund with G >d ! 
 
PRAYER and PRAISE. 
 HYMN LVIII. 
 
 T, 
 
 Who reigns enthron'd above ; 
 Ancient of everlafting days, 
 And God of love : 
 JEHOVAH GREAT I AM ! 
 
 By earth and heav'n confefs'd ; 
 I bow and blefs the facred name, 
 For ever bleft. 
 2 
 The God of Abrah'm praife, 
 
 At whofe fupreme command 
 From earth I rife — and feck the joys 
 
 At his right hand : 
 I all on earth forfake, 
 
 Its vvildom,-f?me, and pow'r : 
 And him my onlv portion make, 
 My fhie'ld and tow ! r. 
 
 3- 
 The God of Abrah'm pra;fe, 
 
 WKofe ail-fufBcicnt grace 
 Shall guide me all my haippy days. 
 
 In all -mv ways : 
 H* calls a worm his friend ! 
 
 He calls himfeif my God ! - 
 And he fhail fave me to trie end 
 Thro' Jefu's blood! 
 
 4- 
 He by himfeif hatn l-.vorn, 
 
 I on his oath depend, 
 I iha'.l on eagles wings up-bornc ? 
 T© heav'n afcend ; 
 
PRAYER and PRAISE. 
 
 I (hall behold his face, 
 
 I fhall his pow'r adore, 
 And ling the wonders of his grace 
 For evermore. 
 
 HYMN LIX. 
 
 T 
 
 % | ESUS, thou everlaflmg King. 
 Accpc the tribute winch we bring; 
 Accept thy well-deferv'd renown, 
 And wear our praifes as thy crowr. 
 
 2. 
 
 Let every aft of worfhip be 
 Like our efpoufals ; IjOrd, to thee : 
 Like the bled hour, when from above 
 "We firft receiv'd the pledge of love. 
 
 3- 
 The gladnefs of that happy day, 
 O may it ever, ever day ! 
 Not let our faith for fake its hold, 
 Nor hope decline, nor love grow cold ! 
 
 4- 
 
 Each following minute as it flies, 
 
 Increafe thy praife, improve our joys, 
 Till we are rais'd to ftng thy name, 
 At the great (upper of the Lamb. 
 
 H Y M N LX. 
 
 T 
 
 JL HE Lord of Sabbath 1ft us praafij 
 In cone >rt 
 
 W! 
 
PRAYERand PRAISE. 63 
 
 Thus, Lord, while we remember thee, 
 
 We bleft and pious grow, 
 By hymns of praife we learn to be 
 
 Triumphant here below. 
 
 3- 
 
 On this glad day a brighter fcene 
 
 Of glory was difplay'd 
 By God, th' eternal word, than when 
 
 This univerfe was made. 
 
 He rifes, who mankind hath bought 
 With grief and p3in extreme ; 
 
 *Twas great to fpeak the world from nought, 
 'Twas greater to redeem . l 
 
 H Y M N LXL 
 
 H, 
 
 .OW {hall I fpeak th' eternal God, 
 Whofe works with wonder here I view; 
 So wife and powerful, great and good, 
 
 No tongue can reach, nor thought can know. 
 
 Fain would I mount the eternal fkies, 
 And waft a tribute to thy praife ; 
 
 But ah how foon my ardor dies ! 
 
 How faint and languid are my laysl 
 
 3- 
 Affift me heav'nly pow'rs to fing, 
 
 Nor let my poor devotions die ; 
 And while I ftrike the loudeft firing, 
 
 Swift bear it thro' the tracklef;; fkyj 
 
$4 PRAYER an a PRAISE. 
 
 4- 
 Lord, had I thoufand harps and tongues, 
 
 A thoufand tongues fhould ail be thine ; 
 O for a thoufand nobler longs, 
 
 To praiie in accents more divine ! 
 
 5- 
 How oft I ftrive to foar above 
 
 And ftretch my wings, but ftrive in vai 
 Eor if from earth I juft remove, 
 How foon I fink, to earth again I 
 6. 
 
 Tis not for mortals here below 
 
 To fing the wondrous theme of heav'n 
 
 How litile is it here we know ! 
 
 How fmall the portion that is giv'u ! 
 
 ?• 
 I'll wait with pleafure, till my Lord 
 
 S~all to his bofom call me home ; 
 Then fweetly found his praife abroad, 
 
 And fee his face without a gloom.- 
 
 HYMX LXII. 
 
 B, 
 
 >EGLN my foul, th' exalted lay 
 Let each enraptur'd thought obey, 
 
 And ppaife th' almighty name; 
 Lo '. heav'n, and earth, and feas and flues, 
 In one melodious concert rife, 
 
 To fwell th' infpiring theme. 
 
PRAYER and PRAISE. 
 
 Thou, heaven of heavens, his vaft abode* 
 Ye clouds, proclaim your maker God ; 
 
 Ye thunders, fpeak his power ; 
 Lo ! on the lightning's rapid wings, 
 In triumph, rides the King of Kings 
 
 Th' atfonilh'd worlds adore. 
 
 3- 
 Ye deeps, with roaring billows rife, 
 To join the thunder of the fkies, 
 
 Praife him who bids you roll ; 
 His praife in fofter notes declare 
 Each whifpcring breeze of yielding air^ 
 
 And breathe it to the foul. 
 
 4- 
 Wake all ye foaring throng, and nng 
 Ye cheerful warblers of the fpring, 
 
 Harmonious anthems raife ; 
 To him who fhap'd your finer mould, 
 Who tip'd your glittering wings with gold, 
 
 And tun'd your voice to praife. 
 
 5' 
 Let man by nobler paffions fway'd, 
 The feeling heart, the rea&'ning head, 
 
 In heavenly praife employ ; 
 Spread the Creator's name around,. 
 Till heav'n's wide arch repeat the found, 
 
 The general buril of joy. 
 
 HYMN LXIIL 
 
 T *'• 
 
 X HOU Lord unto my Lord hath faid, 
 
 Sit thou, in glory fit, 
 Till I thine enemies have made 
 To bow beneath thy feet. 
 
§6 PRAYERand PRAISE. 
 
 2. 
 
 Nature is fubject to thy w . rd, 
 All pow\ to thee is ^iven ; 
 
 The uncQiitroul'd. almighty Lord 
 Of hell, and earth, and heaven. 
 
 3- 
 Come then and claim m^ for thine own j 
 
 Sav")ur, i! v right affert ; 
 Come, giacious L -rd, fet up thy throne, 
 
 Ano reign within my heart ! 
 
 4-. 
 
 So (hall I hlefs thy plea.'ing fway, 
 
 And fitting at thy feel, 
 Thy laws with all my heart obey, 
 
 With all my foul fubmit. 
 
 5- 
 Thy love the conqueft more than gains i 
 
 To all I [hall proclaim, 
 Jefus the king, the conqueror reigns ; 
 
 Bow down to Jeiu's name 
 6. 
 To thee fhall earth and hell fubmit. 
 
 And every foe fhall I 
 Tii! death exoires beneath thy feet. 
 
 And God is all in all! 
 
 H Y M N LXIV. 
 
 OW i'appy gracious Lord are we 
 JJivinely draw n to follow thee; 
 
 ofe hours divided are 
 Brtwixtthe mount and multitude; 
 Our days we'll fpend in d^ing good, 
 
 Our night in praifeand pray'r. 
 
PRAYER and PR-AISE. €7 
 
 The winter's night and fummers day- 
 Glide imperceptibly away, 
 
 Too fhort to fing thy praife ; 
 Too few we find the happy hours, 
 And bade to join thofe heavenly powers 
 
 In everlailing lays. 
 
 3- 
 
 With all who chaunt thy name on high, 
 And holy, holy, holy, cry, 
 
 A bright harmonious throng, 
 We long thy praifes to repeat, 
 And reftiefs fing around thy feat 
 
 The new eternal fong< 
 
 HYMN LXV 
 
 A j ^.T all the earth their voices raife 
 To fing a lofty pfalrn of praife, 
 
 And blefs the great Jebovaivs name; 
 His glory let the heathen know, 
 His wonders to the nations fhow, 
 
 And all his works of grace proclaim, 
 2. 
 Great is the Lord, his praife be great, 
 Who fits on high enthron'd in ftate, 
 
 To him alone let praife be given ; 
 Thofe Gods the heathen world adore, 
 Xn vain pretend to fov'reign power, 
 
 He only rules who made the hea'vV. 
 
68 PRA?ERand PRAISB. 
 
 •3- 
 
 He fram'd }he globe, he fpre2d the iky, 
 And all the Alining worlds on high, 
 
 He reigns complete in glory there; 
 His beams are majeity and lig v 't, 
 His glories how divinely bright! 
 
 His temple how divinely fair ! 
 
 i' 
 
 Let heaven be glad, let earth rejoice, 
 
 Let ocean lift i-ts roaring voice, 
 
 Proclaiming loud Jehovah reigns ; 
 For joy lei fertile galleys fmg, 
 And tuneful groves their tribute bring, 
 
 To him "a hole power the world iuftains. 
 
 5' 
 Come, the great day, the glorious hour, 
 
 When earth [hall own .his fov'reign pow'r, 
 And barb'rous nations tear his name ; 
 
 Then mail the univerfe confefs 
 
 The beauty of his holinefs, 
 
 And in his courts his grace proclaim. 
 
FELLOWSHIP. 
 
 KYMN LXVI. 
 
 ^| ESU, united by thy grace, 
 
 And each to each endear'd, 
 With confidence we feek thy face, 
 
 And know our pray'r is heard, 
 2. 
 Still let us own our common Lord, 
 
 And bear thine eafy yoke, 
 A band of love, a three-fold cord 3 
 
 Which never can be broke. 
 
 3- 
 Make us into one fpirir drink : 
 
 Baptize into thy name ; 
 And let us always kindly think, 
 
 And fweetly fpeak the fame, 
 
 4- . 
 To thee infeparsbly join'd, 
 
 Let all our fpir.i r s cleave ; 
 O may we all the loving mind 
 
 That was in thee receive ! 
 
 5- 
 This is the bond of perfe&nefe, 
 
 Thy fpotlefs charity ,* 
 O let us ftill, we pray, poffefs 
 
 The.mmd that was in thse $ 
 
70 FELLOWSHIP. 
 
 HYM X LXVII. 
 
 .1 jET party names no more 
 The Chriftian world o|erfpreadj 
 
 Gentile and Jew and bond «nd free 
 
 Are one in Chrift their head. 
 2. 
 Among the faints on earth 
 
 Let mutual love be found ; 
 Hefrs of the fame inheritance, 
 
 With mutual bleffings crown'd, 
 
 3-" 
 Let envy, child of hell, 
 
 Be banifh'd far away; 
 Thofe mould in ftri&e'ft friendfhip dweD, 
 
 Who the fame Lord obey. 
 
 4- 
 Thus will the church below 
 Re-fern ble that above ; 
 
 • ftr earns of pleafure always flov. r j 
 And every heart is love. 
 
 H Y M N LXVII I. 
 ©N ADMITTING A NEW MEMBER, 
 
 JjROTHER in Chrift, and well-beIov'd ; 
 
 To Jefus and his fervants dear, 
 Enter, and fhew thyfelf appro v'd ; 
 
 Eater, and find that God is here. 
 
FELLOWSHIP. i* 
 
 ,'VeIcome from earth ! — lo, the right hand 
 Of feilov/Ihip, to thee we give ! 
 
 iVith open arms and hearts we itiad, 
 And thee in Joiu's name receive* 
 
 3* 
 
 iay, is thy heart refolv'd as ours ? 
 
 Then let it burn with facred love : 
 rhen let ic taile the heavenly powers, 
 
 Partaker of the joys above. 
 
 4- 
 Jefu, attend, thyfelf reveal ! 
 
 Are we not met in thy great name ? 
 rhee in the midft we wait to feel, 
 
 We wait to catch the fpreading Same* 
 
 5- 
 rruly our fellowfhip below, 
 
 With thee and with the Father is : 
 [n thee eternal life we know, 
 
 And heaven's unutterable blifs. 
 
 HYMN LXIX. 
 
 Vx'OME, let us anew 
 Our journey purfue, 
 Roll round wkh the year, 
 And never ftand ftill till the Mafter appear! 
 His adorable will 
 Let us gladly fulfil, 
 And our talents improve 
 By the patience of hope, and the labour of love. 
 
;s FELLOWSHIP. 
 
 2. 
 
 Our life is a dream, 
 Our time as a flream, 
 Glides fwiftly away, 
 And the fugitive moment refufes to (lay : 
 The arrow is flown, 
 The moment is gone ; 
 The millennial year 
 Rufhes on to our view, and eternity's here. 
 
 3- 
 O that each in the day 
 Of his coming may fay, 
 " I have fought my way through, [do.''' 
 
 I have finifh'd the work thou didft give me to 
 O that each from his Lord 
 May receive the glad word, 
 " Well and faithfully done ! 
 Enter into my joy. and fit down on my throne.'* 
 
 HYMN LXX. 
 
 AT PARTING., 
 
 J ESUS, accept the praife 
 
 That to thy name belongs; 
 
 Matter of all our lays, 
 
 Subjeft of all our fongs ; 
 
 Through thee we now together came* 
 And part exultkig in thy name. 
 
IELLOWSHTP. 
 
 In flefh we part a while, 
 
 But ftiil fn fpirit join'd, 
 T' embrace the happy" toil, 
 
 Thou haft to each aflign'd : 
 And while we do thy bleffed will, 
 We bear our heav'n about us ftill, 
 
 3' 
 O let us thus go on 
 
 In all thy pleafant ways, 
 And, arm'd with patience, run 
 
 With joy th' appointed race ! 
 Keep us and ev'ry feeking foul, 
 Till all attain the heavenly goal, 
 
 t-i 4- 
 
 There we fhall meet again, 
 
 When all our toils are o'er, 
 And death, and grief, and pain, 
 
 And parting are no more. 
 We (ball with all our brethren rife, 
 And grafp thee in the flaming Ikies, 
 
 HYMN LXXI, 
 
 l, 
 
 J 
 
 A_^ORD we come before thee no-y 
 
 At thy feet we humbly bow ; 
 
 O ! do not our fuit di'fdain, 
 
 Shall we feek thee, Lord, in vain? 
 
 2. 
 
 Lord, on thee our fouls depend. 
 In companion now defcend, 
 Fill our hearts with thy rich ^race, 
 Tune our lips to fiag thy prafe, 
 E 
 
 7t 
 
t FELLOWSHIP 
 
 3- 
 In thine own appointed way, 
 Now we feck thee here we flay; 
 Lord we know not how to go, 
 Till a blefling thou beftow. 
 
 4- 
 Send fome meffage from thy ward, 
 That may joy and peace afford ; 
 Let thy fpirit now impart, 
 Full falvation to each heart. 
 
 Comfort thofe that weep and mourn, 
 Let the time of joy return ; 
 Thofe that are caft down lift up ; 
 Make them ftrong in faith and hope. 
 
 6. 
 Grant that all may feek, and find 
 Thee a gracious God and kind : 
 Heal the fick, the captive free ; 
 Let us all rejoice in thee. 
 
 HYMN LXXII. 
 
 c 
 
 'OME, and let us fweetly join, 
 Chrift to praife in Hymns divine '. 
 Give we all, with one accord, 
 Glory to our common Lord ; 
 Hands, and hearts, and voices raife : 
 Sing as in the ancient days ; 
 Antidate the joys above, 
 Celebrate the feafl of love. 
 
FELLOWSHIP. 75 
 
 2. 
 
 Strive we, in affection ftrive : 
 Let the purer flame revive, 
 Such as in the martyrs glow'd, 
 Dying champions for their God : 
 We like them may live and iote ; 
 CalI'd we are their joys to prove : 
 Sav'd with them from future wrath, 
 Partners of like precious faith. 
 
 3- 
 Sing we then in Jefu's name, 
 Now as yefterday the fame ! 
 One in ev'ry time and place, 
 Full for all of truth and grace : 
 We for Chrift our mailer ftand 
 Lights in a benighted land : 
 We our dying Lord confefs ; 
 We are Jefu's witneffrs. 
 
 4- 
 Witneffes that Chrift'hath dy'd ; 
 We with him are crucify'd : 
 Chrift hath burft the bands of death ; 
 We his quick'ning fpirit breathe : 
 Chrift has now gone up on high; 
 Thither all our wifh-s fly ; 
 Sits at God's right hand above; 
 There with him we reign in love. 
 
 HYMN LXXIII. 
 
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 OME away to the fkies, 
 
 My beloved, arife, 
 And rejoice in the day thou waft born 
 
 On this feftival day 
 
 Come exulting away, 
 And with finging to Sion return. 
 
3 FELLOWSHIP. 
 
 2. 
 
 We have laid up our love 
 
 And trsafure above, 
 Tho' our bodies continue below : 
 
 The redeem'd of the Lord, 
 
 We remember his word, 
 And with Tinging to Paradile go, 
 
 3- 
 
 With finging v/e praife 
 
 The original grace, 
 By our heavenly Father beflow'd; 
 
 Our being receive 
 
 From his bounty, and live 
 To the honour and glory of God. 
 
 4- 
 
 For thy glory we are 
 
 Created to fhare 
 Both the nature and kingdom divine 
 
 Created again, 
 
 That oar fouls may remain 
 In time and eternity thine. 
 
 K Y M N LXXIV. 
 
 JLXCEPT the Lord condua the plan, 
 The beli-concerted fchemes are vain, 
 
 And never can fucceed ; 
 We fpend our wretched Itrength for nought J 
 Eui if our works in thee are wrought, 
 
 They (hall be Weft indeed. 
 
FELLOWSHIP. 
 
 2. 
 
 In Jefu's name behold we meet, 
 Far ironi an evil world retreat, 
 
 And all its frantic ways; 
 One only thing refolv'd to know 
 And fquare our ufelul lives below 
 
 By reafoa and by grace. 
 
 ' 3- 
 Now, Jefua, now thy love impart, 
 To govern each devoted heart, 
 
 And fit us for thy will ! 
 Deep founded in the truth of grace, 
 Build up thy rihng church, and place- 
 
 The city on the hill. 
 
 HYMN LXXV. 
 i. 
 
 VJLORY be to God above, 
 
 God from whom all bleffings flow 
 Make we mention of his iove, 
 
 Pubiifh we his praife belew ; 
 CalPd together by his grace, 
 
 We are met in J.efu's name ; 
 1 Se: with joy each others' face, 
 
 Followers of the Bleeding Lamb. 
 
 2. 
 
 Let us then fweet counfel take, 
 
 How to make our calling fare : 
 Oar election how to make 
 
 Paft the reach of hell fecure : 
 Build we each the other up ; 
 
 Pray we for our faith's encreafe j 
 Solid comfort, fealed hope, 
 
 Conftant joy, and lailing peace. 
 
78 FELLOWSHIP. 
 
 3- 
 
 More and more let love abound : 
 
 Let us never, never reft, 
 Till we are in Jefus found, 
 
 Of our paradife poffeft : 
 He Temoves the flaming fword, 
 
 Calls us back from Eden driven 
 To his image here reftor'd, 
 
 Soon he takes us up to heaven ! 
 
 HYMN LXXVI. 
 
 o, 
 
 UR friendfhip fanclify and guide, 
 Unmixt with felfifnnefs and pride, 
 
 Thy glory be our angle aim ! 
 In all qui- intcrcourfe below, 
 Still let us in thy footftcps go, 
 
 Aud never meet but in thy name, 
 
 2. 
 
 Fix on thyfelf our Angle eye ! 
 Still let us on thyfelf rely, 
 
 For all the help that each conveys ; 
 The help as from thy hand receive, 
 And ftiii to thee all glory give, 
 
 All thanks, all might, all lOve, all praife. 
 
 3- 
 Whatc'er thou doft on one be (low, 
 Let each the double bL fling know, 
 
 Let each tl»t common burden bear ; 
 In comforts and in grids agree, 
 And wreftle for his friends with thee, 
 
 In aH the omnipotence of prayer. 
 
FELLOWSHIP. J9 
 
 4- 
 Witnefles of the all cleanfmg blood, 
 Long may we work the works of God, 
 
 And do thy will like thole above ! 
 Together fpread the gofpel-found, 
 And fcatter peace on all around, 
 
 And joy, and happinefs, and lov 
 
 i?e. 
 
 H Y M N LXXVI'I. 
 
 N. 
 
 OW let our voices join, 
 To form one pleafant long : 
 Ye pilgrims in Jehovah's ways. 
 With mufic pais along. 
 
 2. 
 
 How ftraight the path appears ! 
 
 How open and how fair ! 
 J\"o lurking gins t' entrap our feet ; 
 
 No fierce deilroyer there. 
 
 3; 
 
 But flowers of paradife 
 
 In rich profufion fpring : 
 The fun of glory gilds the path. 
 
 And dear companions ling. 
 
 4- 
 
 S~e Salem's golden fpires 
 
 In beauteous proipeft rife ; 
 And brighter crowns than mortals \vcm' ; 
 
 Which fparkis thro' the Ikies,. 
 
$9 rtLLOWSHIf. 
 
 HYMN LXXVIII. 
 
 V^OME, let us ?,fcend, 
 
 My companion and friend,. 
 To tafte of the banquet above ! 
 
 If thy heart be as mine. 
 
 If for Jefus it pine, 
 Come up into the chariot of love. 
 
 2. 
 
 "Who in Jefus confide, 
 
 We are bold to outride 
 The ftorms of affliction beneath i 
 
 With the prophet we foar 
 
 To the heavenly mere, 
 And cutfly all the arrows of death. 
 
 3- 
 By faith we are come 
 To ®ur permanent home ; 
 
 By hope we the rapture improve ; 
 By love we dill rife, 
 And look down on the fkies, 
 
 lor the heaven of heavens is love. 
 
 4- 
 
 Who on earth can conceive 
 
 How happy we live 
 In the palace of God the great King 
 
 What a concert of praife 
 
 When our Jefus 's grace 
 The whole heavenly company fing. 
 
FE LLO'WSH I P. 
 
 5- 
 
 \\ hat a rapturous fong 
 When the glorified throng 
 
 In the fpirit of harmony join ; 
 Join all the glad choirs, 
 Hearts, voices, and lyres, 
 
 And the burden is mercy divine. 
 
 PI Y M N LXXIX. 
 
 CHILDREN of the heav'nly King* 
 As we iournev let us hug ; 
 Sing our Saviour's worthy praife, 
 Glorious in his works and ways ! 
 
 We are trav'ling home to God, 
 In the way the fathers trod ; 
 They are happy now, and we 
 Soon their happinefs fnail fee. 
 
 3- 
 O, ye banifh'd feed ! be glad, 
 Chrift our advocate is .made ; 
 Us to fave, our flefh a flumes, 
 Brother to our fouls becomes. 
 
 4- 
 Fear not, brethren, joyful ftand 
 On the borders of our land ; 
 jefus Chrift, our Father's Son, 
 Kids us undifmay'd go on, 
 
 5- 
 Lord, obediently we'll go, 
 (rladly leaving all below ; 
 " Only thou our leader be, 
 And we ftijj will follow the.-? ! 
 
8* FELLOWSHIP. 
 
 HYMN LXXX. 
 
 A; 
 
 XL thanks to the Lamb who gives us to 
 His love we proclaim, his praifes repeat ; [meet; 
 We own him our Jefus, continually near, 
 To pardon, and bleis us, and perfc£l us here. 
 
 2. 
 In him we have peace, in him we have pow'r, 
 Preferv'd by his grace throughout the dark hour; 
 In all our temptation he keeps us to prove 
 His utmOft falvation, his fulnefs of love. 
 
 3- 
 Pronounce the glad word, and hid us be free; 
 Ah! haft thou not, Lord, a blefling for me ? 
 The peace thou haft given, this moment impart, 
 And open thy heaven of love in my heart ! 
 
 HYMN LXXXL 
 
 J ESU, Lord, wc look to thee, 
 Let us in thy name agree ; 
 Shew thyfelf the Prince of Peace ; 
 Bid our jars for ever ceafe. 
 
 2. 
 
 By thy reconciling love 
 
 Ev'ry ftumbling-block remove ; 
 
 Each to each unite, endear; 
 
 Come and fpread thy banner here ! 
 
FELLOWSH IP. $$ 
 
 Make us of one hear:: and mind, 
 Courteous, pitiful, and kind, 
 Lowly, meek in thought and word ; 
 Altogether like our Lord,. 
 
 4- 
 Let us each for other care, 
 Erich the other's burden bear; 
 To thy church the pattern give, 
 Shew how true believers live. 
 
 5- 
 Free from anger and from pride,. 
 Let us thus in God abide ; 
 All the depths of. love exprefs, 
 All the heights of holinei's, 
 
 6. 
 
 Let us then with joy remove 
 To thy family above : 
 On the wings of angels fly; 
 Shew how true believers die. 
 
 HYMN LXXXIL 
 
 v> OME on my partners in diflrefs, 
 My comrades through the wildemefs. 
 
 Who flili your bodies feel ; 
 Awhile forget your griefs and fears,. 
 And look beyond this vale of tsars. 
 
 To that cekilial LilL 
 
84 FELLOWSHIP. 
 
 Beyond the bounds of time and fpace, 
 Look forward to that heEv'nly place, 
 
 The faints' fecure abode : 
 On faiths' ftrong eagle-pinions rife, 
 And force your palfage to the fkies, 
 
 And icale the mount of God. 
 
 3- 
 Who fuffer with our Maiier here, 
 We fhall before his face appear, 
 
 And by his fide fit down : 
 To patient faith the prize is furc ; 
 And all that to the end endure 
 
 The crofsj fhail wear the crown. 
 
GLORY. 
 
 HYMN L XXXI 1 1. 
 
 c. 
 
 'OME, ye that love the Lord, 
 And let your joys be known ; 
 Join in a fong with fweet accord 
 While ye iurround the throne. 
 2. 
 Let thofe refufe to fing 
 
 Who never knew our God ; 
 
 But fervants of the heav'nly king 
 
 May fpeak their joys abroad. 
 
 3- 
 The God that rules on high, 
 
 That all the earth furveys? 
 That rides upon the Aormy iky, 
 
 And calms the roaring teas. 
 
 4- 
 This awful God is ours, 
 
 Our Father and our love : 
 He will fend down his heav'nly pow'rs 
 
 To carry us above. 
 
 5- 
 There we fhall fee his face, 
 
 And never, never fin ! 
 There, from the rivers of his grace, 
 
 Drink endlefs pleafures ia. 
 
86 GLORY. 
 
 Yea, and before we rife 
 
 To that immortal fhte, 
 The thoughts of fuch amazing blifs 
 
 Should conftant joys create. 
 
 7- 
 Then let our fongs abound, 
 
 And ev'ry tear be dry; 
 We're marching thro' Immanuel's ground 
 
 To fairer worlds, on high. 
 
 H Y M N L XXX IV. 
 
 1 AR above yon 
 
 Of the azure vaulted fky ; 
 Jefus fits his love revealing. 
 
 To his fplendid troops on high. 
 
 2. 
 
 Hofh feraphic humbly bowing, 
 
 At his footftool proftrate fall ;. 
 
 Saints and Angels all allowing, 
 God in Chriil is all in. all. 
 
 3-. 
 
 Could we leave our fooliih dreaming,. 
 
 • Of a fancied heaven below ; 
 And fee Jefu's glory beaaiing, 
 
 How our fouls would long to go. 
 
 4- 
 We fhould for his day be waiting, 
 
 When the full reward is given ; 
 When the glorious work compleatingj 
 
 Jefus takes his d.urc.iLj heaven. 
 
GLORY. 
 HYMN LXXXV. 
 
 yi RST PART, 
 
 A: 
 
 XD let this feeble body fail, 
 
 And let it faint cr die, 
 My foul fhall quit the mournful vale, 
 
 And foar to worlds on high • 
 Shall join the difembodied faints, 
 
 And find its long- fought reft; 
 That only blifs for which it pants 
 
 In the Redeemer's breaft. 
 2. 
 In hope of that immortal crown 
 
 I now the Crofs fuftain, 
 And gladly wander, up and down, 
 
 And fmile at toil and pain. 
 I fuffer on my three fcore years 
 
 Till my Deliv'rer come. 
 And wipe away his fervant's tears, 
 
 And take his exile home. 
 
 SECOND PART. 
 
 3- 
 
 what hath Jefr.s bought for me i 
 
 Before my ravifh'd eyes. 
 Rivers of life divine- 1 fee, 
 And trees of paradife ! 
 
 1 fee a world of fpirits bright, 
 
 Who tafte the pleafures there! 
 They all are rob'd in fpetlefs white, 
 And concurring palms, they bear. 
 
8S GLORY. 
 
 4- 
 O what are e11 my fufPnngs here, 
 
 If. Lord, thou count me meet, 
 With that eiiraptur'd hoft t' appear, 
 
 And worfhip at thy feet ! 
 Give joy or grief, give eafe or paia, 
 
 Take life or friends away ;. 
 Eut let me find them all again. 
 
 In that eternal day. 
 
 HYMN LXXXVL 
 
 A^ 
 
 .WAY with our for row and fear, 
 
 We foon fhall recover our home : 
 The city of faints fhall appear, 
 
 The day of eternity come ; 
 From earth we fhall quickly remove, 
 
 And mount to our native abode, 
 The houfe of our Father above, 
 
 The palace of Angels and God. 
 i. 
 Our mourning is all at an end, 
 
 When rais'd by the life giving word, 
 "We fee the new city defcer.d, 
 
 Adorn'd as a bride from her Lord ; 
 The city fo holy and clean, 
 
 No forrow can breathe in the air : 
 No gloom of affliction or fin, 
 
 No fhadow of evil is there ! 
 o. 
 3y faith we already behold 
 
 That lovely Jerufalem here, 
 Her walls are of jafp'er and gold, 
 
 As chryftal her buildings are clear ; 
 
GLORY. S$ 
 
 Jmmoveably founded in grace, 
 She (lands, as fhe ever bath flood, 
 
 .And brightly her builder difplays, 
 And flames- with the glory of God. 
 
 4- 
 
 No need of the fun in that day, 
 
 Which never is follow 'd by night, 
 Where Jefus's beauties difplay, 
 
 A pure and a permen^nt light. 
 The Larnb is their light and their fun. 
 
 And lo ! by reflection they fhine, 
 With Jefus ineffably one, 
 
 Arid bright in effulgence divine ! 
 
 H Y M N LXXXVIL 
 
 X HE Lord of life appears. 
 To wipe away the tears, 
 
 Trom all his fervants ever bleft • 
 He bids them fhare his joy, 
 Nor pain, nor bafe alloy, 
 
 Shall e'er difiurb their endlefs reft. 
 
 Jerufalem divine, 
 
 When fnall I call thee mine. 
 And to thy holy hill attain ; 
 
 Where weary pilgrims reft. 
 
 And in thy glories bleft, 
 With God Meffiah ever reiga ? 
 
GLORY 
 
 May I obtain the grace 
 
 To fill an humble place 
 In that inheritance above : 
 
 I'd ftretch my utmoft firing, 
 
 And loud Hofannahs ling, 
 To fpread thy fame Redeeming Love. 
 
 4- 
 There faints and angels join 
 
 In fellowfhip divine, 
 
 And rapture fwells the folemn lay; 
 
 They fee him ?s he is, 
 
 The fount of all their bliis, 
 
 And fource of everlafting day. 
 
 5 
 
 Reign true MefTiah reign, 
 
 Thy kingdom fhall remain, 
 When iun and flars no more fhall fhine 
 
 Myllerious Deity 
 
 Who ne'er began to be 
 To found thy endlefs praife be mine. 
 
 HYMN LXXXVIII. 
 
 o, 
 
 UR Lord is rifen from the dead, 
 
 Our Jefus is gone up on high, 
 The powers of hell are captive led, 
 
 Dragg'd to the portals of the fky. 
 2. 
 There his triumphal chariot waits, 
 
 And angels chaunt the folemn lay, 
 Lift up your heads, ye heavenly gates, 
 
 Ye everlafting doors give way. 
 
GLORY. 
 
 3- 
 
 Loofe all your bars of maffy lig'it, 
 
 And wide unfold the ethereal fcene ; 
 
 He claims thefe manfions as his right, 
 Receive the King of glory in. 
 
 * 4- 
 
 Who is the King of Glory, who ? 
 
 The Lord that all his foes o'ercame, 
 The world, fin, death, and hell o'erthre-^ 
 
 And Jefus is the conqueror's name. 
 
 5- 
 
 Lo ! his triumphal chariot waits, 
 
 And angels chaunt the folemn lay, 
 Lift up your heads, ye heavenly gates, 
 Ye everlafting doors give way. 
 6. 
 ! the King of Glory, who ? 
 The Lord of glorious power po-ffefl, 
 The King of faints and angels too, 
 God over ^11 for ever bleft. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS, 
 
 HYMN LXXXIX. 
 
 E A P T I S MU 
 
 V^APTAIN of our falvation, take 
 The fouls we here prefent to thee. 
 
 And rk for thy great fervice make 
 Thefe heirs of immortality ; 
 
 And let them m thine image rife, 
 
 And then tranfplant to paradife. 
 
 Unfpotted from the world <md pure, 
 Preferve them for thy glorious caufe ; 
 
 AccuftomM daily to endure, 
 
 The welcome burden of thy crofs, 
 
 Inur'd to toil and patient pain, 
 
 ■fill all thy perfect mind they gain. 
 
 3^ 
 
 Our children Lord be wholly thine, 
 And ferve and love thee all their days 
 
 Infufe the principle divine 
 
 In all who here expeft thy grace : 
 
 Let each improve the grace beflow'd J 
 
 '.Rife every child an heir of God. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. §3 
 
 HYMN XC. 
 
 IACRAMENTAL. 
 
 ^J ESUS at whofe fupreme command^ 
 
 We thus approach to God, 
 Before us in thy vefture ftand, 
 
 Thy vefture dipt in blood. 
 2. 
 Obedient to thy gracious word, 
 
 We break the hallow'd bread, 
 Commemorate our dying Lord 
 
 And truft on thee to feed. 
 
 Now Savior, now thyfelf reveal, 
 And make thy mercy known, 
 
 Affix the facra mental leal, 
 And ftamp us for thy own. 
 
 The tokens of thy dying love, 
 
 O let us all receive, 
 And feel the quick'ning fpirit move, 
 
 And fenfibly believe, 
 
 5- 
 The cup of bleffing bleft by thee, 
 
 Let it thy love impart ; 
 The bread thy myftic body be, 
 
 And chear each languid heart, 
 6. 
 The grace which fure falvation brings 
 
 Let us herewith receive, 
 Satiate the hungry with good thing?, 
 
 The hidden manna give. 
 
94 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 HYMN XCI. 
 
 SAC RAME NTAL. 
 
 T, 
 
 WAS on that night when doom'd to knov? 
 The eager rage of ev'ry foe, 
 That night in which he was betray'd, 
 The Saviour of the world took bread. 
 
 2. 
 And, after thanks and glory giv'n 
 To him that rules in earth and heav'n, 
 That fymbol of his flefh he broke, 
 And thus to all his followers fpoke. 
 
 3- 
 My broken body thus I give 
 For you, for all ; take, eat, and live : 
 And oft the facrcd rite renew, 
 That brings my wond'rous love to view. 
 
 Then in his hands the cup he rais'd, 
 And God anew h« thank'd and praii'd, 
 While kindnefs in his bofom glow'd, 
 And from his lips falvation flow'd. 
 
 5- 
 My blood I thus pour forth, he cries, 
 
 To cieanfe the foul in fin that lies ; 
 
 In this the covenant is feal'd, 
 
 And heav'n's eternal grace reveal'd. 
 
 6. 
 
 With love to man this cup is fraughr, 
 
 Let all partake the facred draught ; 
 
 Through lateft ages let it pour 
 
 In mem'ry of my dying^ hsur. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 95 
 
 HYMN XCII. 
 
 SAC RAMENTAL. 
 
 X_jORD, how divine thy comforts arc! 
 
 How heav'nly is the place 
 Where Jefus fpreads the (acred feaft 
 
 Of his redeeming grace ! 
 2. 
 There the rich bounties of our God, 
 
 And fweeteft glories mine ; 
 There Jefus fays, that " I am his, 
 
 And my beloved's mine." 
 
 3- 
 
 " Here," (fays the kind redeeming Lord, 
 
 And fhews his wounded fide) 
 " See here the fpring of all your joys, 
 " That open'd when I dy'd 1" 
 4.. 
 [He fmiles and cheers my mournful heart, 
 
 And tells of all his pain :] 
 " All this, fays he, I bore for thee ;" 
 [And then he fmiles again.] 
 
 5= 
 
 What fliail we pay our heav'nly King 
 
 For grace fo vaft as this ? 
 He brings our pardon to our eyes, 
 
 And feals it with a kifs. 
 6. 
 [Let fuch amazing loves as thefe 
 
 Be founded all abroad ; 
 Such favours are beyond degrees, 
 
 And worthy of a God.] 
 
96 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 HYMN XCIII. 
 SACRAMENTAL, 
 
 X iET us adore th' eternal word, 
 
 'Tis he our fouls hath fed ; 
 Thou art our living ftreem, O Lord, 
 
 And thou th' immortal bread. 
 2. 
 [The manna came from lower flues, 
 
 But Jefus from above, 
 Where the frefh fprings of pleafure rife, 
 
 And rivers flow with love. 
 
 3- 
 
 The Jewifh fathers dy'd at laft, 
 Who eat that heav'nly bread ; 
 
 But thefe provifions which we taflc 
 Can raife us from the dead.] 
 
 HYMN XCIV. 
 
 THE RESURRECTION. 
 
 A 
 
 •i^-RISE and hail the happy day, 
 Cait all low cares of life away, 
 
 And thoughts of meaner things ; 
 This day, to cure our deadly woes, 
 The fun of righteoufnefs arofe, 
 
 With healing in his wing*. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS, 
 
 2. 
 
 How wonderful, haw vaft his love, 
 Who left the fhining realms above, 
 
 Thefe happy feats of reft ! 
 How much for human kind he bore, 
 Their peace and pardon to reftore, 
 
 Can never be exprefs'd. 
 
 3* 
 Then let our fouls adore his grace ; 
 Let holy joy and thanks take place 
 
 Gf farrow grief and pain ; 
 Give glory to our God mofh high, 
 •And, midft the univerfal joy, 
 
 Proclaim good will to men. 
 
 4- 
 Let all in heav'n and earth rejoice, 
 •Angels and men unite their voice, 
 
 And hymn the happy day ; 
 When fatan's empire vancu'ifh'd fell, 
 And all the pow'rs of death and hell 
 
 Confeli'd his fov'reign fway. 
 
 HYMN XCV. 
 
 THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 
 WRITTEN AT EARLY DAW.V, BY A X.A3Y, 
 
 9» 
 
 w, 
 
 elcoms to me this foft. this filent dawft 
 ^ ^To pare devotion rnay'ft thou f tcred be : 
 My waking heart, with the returning morn, 
 •In grateful praife, my God, I'd raife to tfiee. 
 F 
 
9& U I S C E L L A N E O U & 
 
 2 
 
 In wonder loft — Ah, where fnall I begin, 
 Or how recount the myft'rics of thy love ? 
 
 That love which pardons all attrocious fin, 
 The love of Chrift, which I fo fweetly prove! 
 
 3- . 
 While thus my days with fmiling peace are 
 crown'd, 
 And I am fhelter'd in thy love's embrace ; 
 Oh may my heart with joyful praife refound, 
 At ev'ry facred feafon, time, and place. 
 
 4- 
 Jefus thy love (hall be my darling theme, 
 
 At early dawn or folemn midnight hour ; 
 Or when the fun firft darts his genial beam, 
 
 Or when he fhir.es in full meridian pow'r. 
 
 5- 
 In blooming fpring I'd celebrate thy praife; 
 
 The varied feafons, as they roll along, 
 Shall all bear witnefs to my artlefs lays, 
 
 Till I fhall join the heav'n-enraptur'd throng. 
 
 Then fhall I praife thee in fublimer ftrains, 
 And learn the notes yon brighter feraphs fing; 
 
 Shall fhare the glories of thofe blifsful plains, 
 And thee adore through one eternal fpring. 
 
 HYMN XCVI. 
 
 MORN INC. 
 
 A-iORD, in the morning thou fhalt hear, 
 
 My voice afcending high : 
 To thee will I direft my prayer, 
 
 To thee lift up mine eye. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Up to the hills where Chcift is gone, 
 To plead for all his faints, 
 
 Prefenting at his Father's throne 
 Our longs and our complaints. 
 
 3- 
 Thou art a God, before who fa fight 
 
 The wicked fhall not ftand, 
 Sinners fhall ne'er be thy delight, 
 
 Nor dwell at thy right hand. 
 
 4- 
 But to thy houfe will I refcrt, 
 
 To tafte thy mercies there ; 
 I will frequent thine holy court, 
 
 And worfhip in thy fear. 
 
 5- 
 
 O may thy fpirit guide rnv feet 
 In ways of righteoufnefs ! 
 
 Make ev'ry path of duty ftraight, 
 And plain before my face. 
 
 HYMN XCVIL 
 
 EVENING, 
 
 (D, 
 
 'EAR Jefus let my ev'ning iong 
 Like holy mcenfe rife ; 
 Afhft the offerings of my tongue 
 To reach the lofty fkies 1 
 
 2. 
 
 Thro' all the dangers of the day, 
 Thy hand was ftill my guard ; 
 
 And ftill to drive my wants away 
 Thy goodnefs Itood pre par 'dj 
 
;o MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 3- 
 Perpetual bleffings from above 
 
 Incempafs'd me around ; 
 But O how few returns of love 
 
 Kath my Creator found ! 
 
 What have I done for him that dy'd 
 
 To lave my helplefs foul 
 And y£t are mcrbies mi tti >ly'd 
 
 Faft as my minutes roll ? 
 
 '..'.'"'.'■$' 
 
 Lord with this guilty heart of mine 
 
 To thy dear crofs I flee, 
 
 And to thy grace my foul reiign, 
 
 To be renew'd by thee. 
 
 HYMN XCVIII. 
 MORNING AND EVENING. 
 
 My 
 
 God, how endlefs is thy le>ve ! 
 Thy gifts arc ev'ry eve*iing new; 
 And morning mercies from above, 
 Gently diilil like early dew. 
 2. 
 Thou fpread'ft t^e curtains of the night, 
 
 Great guardian of ray fieeping hours! 
 Thy fov'rc gn word reftoces the- li 
 
 And quickens all my dr*\« iy pow'rs. 
 
 3- 
 I yield my pow'rs to thy command, 
 . To rn-e I confecrate my days ; 
 Perpetual bteflings fi >»n tl hie band 
 
 Demand perpetual fongs of praifc« 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 HYMN XCIX, 
 
 THE NEW-YEAR. 
 
 OlNG tc the great Jehovah's praife ! 
 
 All praijfe to him belongs ; 
 Who kindly lengthens eut our days, 
 
 Demands pur choiceft fongs ; 
 "Whole providence has brought us through,. 
 
 Another varied year ; 
 We all with vows, and anthems new, 
 
 Before our God appear. 
 
 2. 
 Father, thy mercies pail we own,. 
 
 Thy ftill cominu'd care; 
 To thee preferring, thro' thy Son, 
 
 Whate'er we have, cr are : 
 Our lips and lives fhall gladly (hew 
 
 The wonders of thy love, 
 While on in Jefu's fteps we go 
 
 To leek thy face above, 
 
 3- 
 Our refidue of days cr hours, 
 
 Thine, wholly thine, fhall be } 
 And all our confecrated pow'rs, 
 
 A facrifice to thee ; 
 Till Jefus in the clouds appear 
 
 To fair.ts on earth forgiven, 
 And bring the grand fabba:ic year, 
 
 The jubilee of heaven, 
 
j02 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 H Y M N C 
 
 THE DYING CHRISTIAN, 
 
 V ITAL fpark of heavenly flame, 
 Quit, Oh quit this mortal frame, 
 Trembling, hoping, lingering, flyinj, 
 Oh the pain, the blifs of dying. 
 Ceafe, fond Nature, ceafe thy Itrife, 
 And let me languifh into life. 
 
 2. 
 Hark! theywhifper! Angels fay, 
 SilVr fpirit, come away. 
 What is this abforbs me quite ? 
 Steals my fenfcs, fhu's my fight, 
 
 Drowns my fpirits, draws my breath, 
 Tell me, my foul, Can this be death ? 
 
 3- 
 The world recedes — it difappears ! — 
 Heaven opens to my eyes! my ears 
 
 Wi h founds feraphic ring 
 Lenc. lend your wings! I nount ! I fly ! 
 O Grave! where is thy viftory ? 
 
 ,0 Death ! where is thy fling ? 
 
 HYMN CI. 
 FUN ERAL. 
 
 V v HY do we mourn ci*punmg friends. 
 Or [hake ar deat! 's alarms ? 
 'Tis tin the voice that Jefos fends 
 To call them to his arms. 
 
M I S C E I. L A X E O U I. i»3 
 
 2. 
 
 Why fhould we tremble to convey 
 
 Their bodies to the tomb ? 
 There the dear flefh of Jefus lay, 
 
 And left a long perfume. 
 
 3- 
 
 The graves of all the faints he bleft, 
 
 And foft'ned ev'ry bed : 
 "Where fhould the dying- members reft, 
 
 But with the dying head ? 
 
 4- 
 Thence he arofe and buril the chain, 
 
 To fnow our feet the way 
 From fhades where death and darknefe rcign ; 
 
 To realms of endlefs day. 
 
 5- 
 Then let the lafi loud trumpet found, 
 
 And bid his kindred rife ; 
 Awake, ye nations under ground, 
 
 Ye faints, afcend the fkies. 
 
 HYMN Gil, 
 
 FUNERAL, 
 
 R, 
 
 Our lofs is iris infinite gain ; 
 A foul out of prifon releas'd, 
 
 And freed from its bodily pain t 
 With fongs let us follow his flight, 
 
 And mount with his fpirit above, 
 Efcap'd to the manfions of light, 
 
 And lodg'd in the Eden of love, 
 
:a MISCELLANEO: 
 
 2. 
 
 Our brother the haven hath gain'd, 
 
 Out-flying the tempeft and wife!, 
 His reft he hath fooner obtain'd. 
 
 And left his companions behind : 
 Still toft on a lea of diftrefs 
 
 Hard toiling to make the bleft fhore, 
 "Where all is affurance and peace, 
 
 And forrow and fin are no more.' 
 
 3- 
 O Jefus, if this be thy will, 
 
 That fuddenly I fhould depart,. 
 Thy council of mercy reveal, 
 
 And whifper thy call to my heart. 
 O give me a fignal to know, 
 
 If foon thou would'ft have me remove, 
 And leave the dull body below, 
 
 And fiy to the regions of love. 
 
 4- 
 There all the fhip's company meet, 
 
 V/ho failed with the Saviour beneath, 
 "With fhouting each other they greet, 
 
 And triumph o'er trouble and death % 
 The voyage of life's at an end, 
 
 The mortal affliction is paft ; 
 The age that in heaven they fpend, 
 
 lor ever and ever fhall laft. 
 
 HYMN CIIL 
 FUNERAL. 
 
 w, 
 
 HY fhould we ftart and fear to die ? 
 What tim'rous worms we mortals are I 
 Death is the gate to endlefs joy, 
 And yet we dread to enter there j 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. iOJ 
 
 The pains, the groans, and dying flrife 
 
 Fright our approaching fouls away ; 
 And we fhrink back again to life, 
 Fond of our prifon and our clay. 
 2. 
 O, if the Lord would come and meet, 
 
 My foul mould ftretch her wings in hafte 3 
 Fly fearlefs thro' death's iron gate, 
 Nor feel the terrors as ihe pad ! 
 Jefus, can make a dying bed 
 
 Feel foft as downy pillows are ; 
 While on his breaft I lean my head, 
 And breathe my life out fweetly there. 
 
 HYMN CIV, 
 
 FUNERAL. 
 
 U NVEIL thy bofom, faithful tomb 5 
 
 Take this new tr-afure to thy truft, 
 And give this facred reliques room 
 To feek a (lumber in the duft. 
 
 Nor pain, nor grief, nor anxious fear 
 Invade thy bounds. No mortal woss 
 
 Can reach the lovely fieeper here, 
 And angels watch her foft repofe. 
 
 3- 
 
 So Jefus flept : God's dying fon 
 
 Paft through the grave, and bleft the bed. 
 Reft here, fair faint ; till from his throne 
 
 The morning break and pierce the fhade. 
 
ic6 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 4- 
 Break from "his throne, illufixious morn ; 
 
 Attend, O earth, his fovercign word ; 
 .Reftore thy trufh a glorious ferm ; 
 
 She mui't afcend to meet her Lord. 
 
 HYMN CV- 
 JUDGMENT. 
 
 H, 
 
 E comes ! he comes ! the Judge revere 
 The feventh trumpet fpeaks him near; 
 His lightnings flafh, his tlmnders roll, 
 How welcome to the faithful foul ! 
 
 Trom heav'n angelic voices found, 
 See the almighty Jefus croM'n'd! 
 Girt with omnipotence and grace, 
 And glory decks the S2viour's face. 
 
 3- 
 Defcending on his azure throne, 
 He claims the kingdoms for his own : 
 The kingdoms ail obey his word, 
 And hail him their triumphant Lord. 
 
 4- 
 Shout all the people of the fky, 
 And all the faints of the raoft high ; 
 Our Lord, \vho now his right obtains, 
 Tor ever and for ever reigns. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. i3f 
 
 HYMN CVL 
 
 J U D G M EiSX, 
 
 L 
 
 :IFT your heads, ye friends of Jefus } 
 Partners of his patience here ; 
 Chrifl, to all believers precious, 
 
 Lord of lords fhall foon appear,. 
 
 Mark the tokens 
 Of his heav'rily kingdom near. 
 
 2. 
 With what joyful acclamation 
 
 Shall the faints'his banner fee ? 
 
 View the mon'ments of his psfiion, 
 
 See the marks receiv'd for me ! 
 
 All dilcern him 
 All with fhouts cry out — 'tis he \ 
 o. 
 Lo, 'tis he, our hearts defire, 
 
 Come for his efpous'd below, 
 Come to join us with his choir, 
 
 Come to make our joys o'erfiowj 
 
 Palms of vi&'ry, 
 Crowns of glory to beftow. 
 
 4- 
 Yes, the prize fhall foon be given, 
 
 We his open face fhall fee ; 
 Love, the ezmeft of our heaven, 
 
 Love, our full reward fhall be ] 
 
 Love fhail crown us, 
 fileft. through all eternity, 
 
L< 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 H Y M N CVII. 
 
 JUDGMENT, 
 
 he comes with rlouds defcending, 
 
 Oace for favour'd fmners flain ! 
 
 Thoufand, thoufand Taints attending, 
 Swell the triumph of his train : 
 
 Hallelujah, 
 Ged appears on earth to reign. 
 
 Ev'ry eye fhrdl now behold him 
 Rob'd in dreadful ma 
 
 Thofe, who fet at nought, and fold him, 
 Pierc'd and nail'd him to the tree, 
 
 Deeply wading, 
 Shall the' true Meffiah fee. 
 
 . 3- 
 The dear tokens of his paffign ! 
 
 Still his dazling body bears ; 
 Caufe of endlefs exultation, 
 
 To his ranfoin'd worfhippers ; 
 
 With what rapture 
 Gaze we en thofe. glorious fears. 
 
 4- 
 Yea. amen ! let all adore thee, 
 
 -High on thine eternal throne ; 
 Saviour '.ake the power and glory, 
 
 Claim the kingdom for thine owa ; 
 
 Jah, Jehovah, 
 Everlailinj God come down. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 2C3 
 
 HYMN CVIII. 
 
 Ti 
 
 HE great Jehovah reigns 
 Upon a throne fublime ; 
 And from his own eternity 
 Sees the wide wafte of time. 
 
 2. 
 This great Jehovah's mine ! 
 
 The faint in rapture cries ; 
 And to this everlafting rock 
 
 My joyful fpirit flies. 
 
 3- 
 Erom this immortal fpring 
 
 Imrnenfe Ldvation Hows ; 
 And with the wonders of his love 
 
 My grateful bofom glows,. 
 
 r?*r i; 
 
 His name fhall be my fong 
 
 \\ hile life and breath are giv'n ; 
 
 And this unceafing praife fnall xua 
 Thro' all the joys of heav'n. 
 
 H Y M N CIX. 
 
 J- HE Lord fhall wipe away all tears 
 From sv'ry weeping eye, 
 And pains, and groans, and griefs, and 
 Aiid death itfelf fhall die. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 How long, dear Saviour, O how long ? 
 
 Shall this bright hour delay ? 
 Lly fwiftly round, ye wheels of time, 
 
 And bring the welcome day. 
 
 H Y M N CX. 
 
 c 
 
 OME, O thou univerfal good ! 
 
 Balm 01 the wounded cunicience, come 
 The hungry, dying i jink's food ; 
 
 The weary, wandering pilgrim's home ; 
 Haven to take the fhipwreck'd in ; 
 My everlailing rell from fin ! 
 
 Come, O my comfort and delight ! 
 
 My ftrength. and heakh, and fhield, aud fun: 
 My boaft, my confidence, and might, 
 
 My joy, my glory, and my crown ; 
 My gofp°l-hope, my calling's prize, 
 My tree of life, my paradife. 
 
 HYMN CXL 
 
 G. 
 
 'OD is king, ye lands rejoice, 
 Lift, ye ifles, .; thankful voice, 
 Shout ye faints, in joyful li.rai.is ; 
 God. your God and Father reigns. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 2. 
 
 He controls the fons of pride, 
 Sits above the raging tide ; 
 None his mighty hand can ftay, 
 None refill his fov'reign fway. 
 
 3- 
 
 Subj^cls of the Lord, be bold, 
 All his plan will foon unfold : 
 "Wheels encircling wheels combine 
 To compleat the grand defign. 
 
 4- 
 Bleft is faith, that trufts his pcw'r; 
 Bleft is hope, that waits his hour ; 
 Let the glorious clofe appear, 
 Hafte, great conqu'ror, bring it near, 
 
 K Y M N CXI I, 
 
 Kow fuited to our need ! 
 The grace that raifes fallen man, 
 
 Is wonderful indeed ! 
 2. 
 'Twas wifdom form'd the vail defign, 
 
 To ranfom us when loft ; 
 And lsve's unfathomable mine 
 
 Provided all the coft. 
 
 3- 
 
 Strict juftice, with approving look, 
 The holy cov'nant feal'd ; 
 
 And truth and pow'r undertook 
 The whole fhould be fulfill *<L 
 
ia MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 4- 
 Truth, wifdom. jufUce, pov/'r and love, 
 
 Are equally difplay'd ; 
 Now Jefus reigns eiuhron'd above, 
 
 Our advocate and head. 
 
 HYMN CXIII. 
 
 OHEPHERD divine, our wants relieve, 
 
 In this our evil day ; 
 To all thy tempted foli'wers give 
 
 The pow'r to watch and pray. 
 2. 
 Long as our fi'ry trials laff, 
 
 Long as the crofs we bear, 
 
 let our fouls on tl ee be caft 
 
 In never-ceafing pray'r ! 
 
 3-. 
 The fpirit of interceding grace, 
 
 Give us in faith to claim ; 
 To wreftle till we fee thy face, 
 
 And know thy hidden name. 
 
 *■ 
 Till thou thy perfect love impart, 
 
 Till thou ihyielf beftow, 
 Be this the cry of every heart, 
 
 I will not let thee go. 
 
 5 
 
 1 will not let thee go, unlef* 
 
 Thou tell thy name to me, 
 With all thy great falvation blefs, 
 And make me all like thee. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. gfigj 
 
 tlYMN CXI V.. 
 
 J: HO' troubles affail, and dangers affright,. 
 Tho' friends fhould all fail, and foes all unite ; 
 Yet one thing fecures us, whatever betide, 
 The prcrnife allures us, the Lord will provide, 
 
 2, 
 The birds without barn or ftore-houfe are fed 5 
 From them let us learn to truft for our bread ;. 
 His faints what is fitting fhall ne'er be deny'd, 
 So long as its written, the Lord will provide, 
 
 3* 
 We all may, like fhips. by temped be toft. 
 On perilous deeps, but need not be loft ; 
 Tho' fatan enrages the wind and the tide, 
 Yet fcripture engages, the Lord will provide, 
 
 When life finks apace, and death is in view, 
 The word of his grace lnall comfort us through j 
 Not fearing or doubting, with Chrift on our fide, 
 We hope to die fhouting, the Lord will provide. 
 
 HYMN CXV: 
 
 V^yOME, let us join our cheerful fong3 
 With angels round the throne, 
 
 Ten thoufand thoufand are their tonguejj 
 fiat all their joys are one* 
 
M I S C E L L A X E O U S. 
 
 Worthy the Lamb that dy'd, they cry, 
 
 To be exalted thus ; 
 Worthy the Lamb our hearts reply, 
 
 1 or he was (lain for us. 
 
 3- . 
 Jefus is worthy to receive 
 
 Honour and pow'r divine ; 
 And bleffings more than we can give, 
 
 Be, Lord, for ever thine. 
 
 4-. 
 The whole creation join in one, 
 
 To biefs the facrcd name 
 Of h,m that fits upon the throne, 
 
 And to adore the Lamb. 
 
 H Y M N CXVL 
 
 .LVlSE. my foul, and ftretch thy wing-s 
 
 i y o^tter portion trace ; 
 Rife from tfanfitory things, 
 
 rds heaven thy native place : 
 Sun. and moon, and fhrs decay, 
 
 Time fh.'Il foon this earth remove : 
 Ri'>, my foul, and hafte away 
 
 To feats prepar'd above. 
 
 2. 
 
 Rivers to the ocean run, 
 
 Nor flay in all their courfe ; 
 Fire afcending feeks the fun, 
 
 Bol ■ fpeed them to their fource : 
 So a foul that's born of God 
 
 is glorious face, 
 1' . rd tends to his abode, 
 
 To reil in bis embrace. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 3- 
 
 Ceafe, ye pilgrims, ceafe to moarn, 
 
 Prefs onward to the prize ; 
 Soon our Saviour will return, 
 
 Triumphant in the {kies : 
 Yet a feafon, and you know 
 
 Happy entrance will be giv'n. 
 All our forrows left below, 
 
 And earth exchan^'d for heav'a. 
 
 HYMN CXVII. 
 
 Y, 
 
 E virgin fouls arife, 
 With all the dead awake ! 
 Unto falvation wife, 
 
 Oil in your.veffels take : 
 Upfta-fting at the midnight cry 
 Behold the heavenly bridegroom nigh, 
 
 2, 
 
 He comes he comes to call 
 
 The nations to his ber, 
 And raife to glory all 
 Who fit for glory ar* ; 
 Made reedy for your full reward 
 Go forth with joy to meet your Lord. 
 
 3- 
 
 Go meet hirn in the fky 
 
 Your everlafting friend ; 
 Your head to glorify. 
 
 With all his faints ifcend : 
 Ye pure in heart obtain the grace 
 To fes without a veil his face. 
 
1*6 MISCELLANEOUS, 
 
 4- 
 Ye that have here receiv'd 
 
 The uriclion from above, 
 And in his fpirit liv ; d 
 Obedient to his love ; 
 Jefus fhall claim you for his bride ; 
 Rejoice with all the fanclified. 
 
 5- 
 The everlaftins; doors, 
 
 Shall foon the faints receive, 
 Above yon angel powers 
 In glorious joy to live ; 
 Far from a world of grief and fin, 
 With God eternally fhut in. 
 6. 
 Then let us wait to hear 
 
 The trumpet's welcome found, 
 To fee our Lord appear, 
 Watching let us be found ; 
 When Jefus doth the heavens bow, 
 Be found — as Lord, thou find'ft us now 1 
 
 HYMN CXVIII. 
 
 J ESUS ! and fhall it ever be, 
 A mortal man afham'd of thee ? 
 Scorn'd be the thought by rich and poor, 
 My foul fhall fcorn it more and more. 
 
 2. 
 
 Afham'd of Jefus ! fooner far 
 Let evening blufh to own a ffcar ! 
 Afham'd of Jefus ! jull as foon 
 Let morning blufh to own the fun. 
 
M IS CELLANEOUS. 117 
 
 3- 
 
 Afham'd of j^fus. that dear friend, 
 On whom for heaven my hopes depend ; 
 No, if I blufh be this my fhame, 
 That I no more revere his name. 
 
 4- 
 Afham'd of Jefus ! yes I may, 
 When I've no fin to wafh away ; 
 "No tears to wipe, no joys to crave, 
 Or no immortal foul to fave. . 
 
 5- 
 Till then, nor is the ooafting vain, 
 Till then I'll boaft a Saviour fiain; 
 And O may this my portion be. 
 The Saviour not afham'd of me ! 
 
 HYMN CXIX; 
 
 M- 
 
 .Y foul infpir'd with facred love, 
 
 God's holy name forever blefs ; 
 Of all his favours mindful prove, 
 
 And ftill thy graceful thanks exprefs. 
 2. 
 9 Tis he that all thy fins forgives, 
 
 And after ficknefs makes thee found, 
 -From danger he thy life retreives ; 
 
 By him with grace and mercy crown'd. 
 
 3- 
 The Lord abounds with tender love, 
 
 And unexampled acls of grace : 
 His wakened wrath do~s {lowly move 
 
 His willing mercy flies apace. 
 
lit MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 4- 
 As high as heaven its arch extends 
 
 Above this little fpot of clay 
 So far thy boundlefs love tranfeends 
 
 The fmall regards that we can pay, 
 
 5- 
 Let every creature jointly blefs, 
 
 The mighty God and thou my heart 
 With grateful thanks thy joy exprefs 
 
 And in this concert bear thy part. 
 
 HYMN CXX. 
 
 ^J ESUS, thy unexhaufled love, 
 
 Unmericed and free, 
 Delights our evil to remove, 
 
 And help our mifery. 
 2. 
 Thy goodnefs and thy truth to me, 
 
 To ev'ry foul abound ; 
 A vaft, unfathomable fea, 
 
 Where all our thoughts are drown'^, 
 
 3- 
 
 Its flri-ams the whole creation reach^ 
 
 So plenteous is the (lore ; 
 Enough for all, enough for each, 
 
 Enough for evermore ! 
 
 . 4- 
 
 Throughout the univerfe it reigns, 
 
 Unalterably fure ; 
 And while the truth of God remain;, 
 
 His goodnefs mull endure 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Thou art my everlafting truff, 
 
 Thy goodnefs I adore; 
 Send down thy grace, O bleded Lord ; 
 
 That I may love thee more. 
 
 HYMN CXXI. 
 
 a 
 
 ARK, the glad found ! Median comes, 
 
 The Saviour promised long ! 
 et every heart prepare a throne, 
 
 And ev'ry voice a long. 
 2. 
 Dn him the fpirit largely pour'd, 
 
 Exerts its holy fire ; 
 Vifdom and might, and zeal and love, 
 
 His holy breaft infpire. 
 
 3- 
 ie comes the pris'ners to releafe 
 
 la fatan's bondage held ; 
 The gates of brafs before him burft, 
 
 The iron fetters yield. 
 
 . 4- 
 
 [e comes from thickeft films or vice 
 
 To clear the mental ray ; 
 nd on the eye-balls of the blind 
 To pour celeftial day. 
 
 5- 
 He comes the broken heart to bind, 
 
 The bleeding foul to cure, 
 
 \nd with the riches of his grace, 
 
 To enrich the humble poor, 
 
i-o MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 6. 
 Our glad hofannas. prince of peace 
 
 Thy welcome fhall proclaim ; 
 And heaven's eternel arches ring 
 
 With thy beloved name. 
 
 HYMN CXXn. 
 
 O 
 
 FOR a fweet mfpiring ray 
 
 To animate our feeble drains, 
 From the bright realms of endlefs day, 
 The blifsful realms where Jefus reigns. 
 
 2. 
 
 There low before his glorious thrcne, 
 Adoring faints and angels fall ; 
 
 And with delightful worfhip own, 
 
 His frailes their blifs, their heaven, thei 
 
 3- 
 Immortal glorias crown his head, 
 
 While founding hallelujahs rife, 
 And love, and joy, and triumph fpr*ad, 
 
 Through all the regions of the flues* 
 
 4 
 He fmiles, snd feraphs tune their fongs 
 To bound lefs rapture while they gaxe : 
 
 Ten thou fan d thousand joyful tongues 
 Rciound his cveilailing praife ! 
 
M I S C E L L A X E O U 
 H Y M N CXXIII. 
 
 A, 
 
 .LL glory to cur gracious Lord ; 
 His love be by his church ador'd, 
 
 His love eternally the fame : 
 His fove let all his faints confefs, 
 
 Ills free, and everlaifrn.j grace 
 
 Let ail that fear the Lord prochirs. 
 
 In trouble on the Lord I cried, 
 
 A id felt the pard'ning word applied ; 
 
 lie aniwer'd me in ;jeacc- and. power, 
 He pluck'd my foul our of the net, 
 And iii a place of fafety fet, 
 
 And bad me go and fin no more, 
 
 3- 
 The Lord I now can fay is mine, 
 And confident in ftrength divine. 
 
 Nor man. nor fiends, nor fiefh I fear ; 
 Jefus the Saviour takes my part, 
 And keeps the illues of my heart, 
 
 My helper is for ever uec.r. 
 
 . 
 
 H Y M X CXXIV. 
 
 OVEREIGN of all the worlds on h 
 
 Allow my humnle -'aim ; 
 Nor while a worm would raife its head, 
 Difdain a Father's name. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 My Father God ! How fweet the found ! 
 
 How tender, end how de^r ! 
 Not all the melody of Heav'n 
 
 Could io delight the ear. 
 
 3" 
 
 Cora?, facrrd fpnit. feal the name 
 On mine expanding heart ; 
 
 And fhew, that in Jcl ovah's grace 
 I fhare a filial part. 
 
 .4- . 
 Chesr'd by ? fignsl fo divine, 
 
 Unwav'ring I believe ; 
 Thou know'ft I. Abba, F?lhrr, cry, 
 
 Nor can the fign deceive. 
 
 . 5- 
 On wings of cverlafting love 
 
 The comforter is come ; 
 All terrors at bis voice difperfe, 
 
 And endlefs pleafures bloom. 
 
 HYMN CXX~ 
 
 Jl ATHER of peace, and Qpcj of love 
 
 We own thy pou'v tg ' 
 That po'.v'r by which cur Shepherd T i:> 
 
 Victorious o'er the grave. 
 
 2. 
 
 We triumph in that Shepherd's name, 
 Still watchful for our good; 
 
 Who brought th' eternal cov'nant down. 
 And feal'd it with his blood. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 3- 
 So may thy fpfrit feal my foul, 
 
 And mou'id it to iby will ; 
 That my fond heart no mere may r„rav. 
 But kerp thy cov'nant Hill. 
 
 4; 
 Still mav we gain fuperior ftrength, 
 
 And prefs with vigour on, 
 
 Till full perfection crown our hope, 
 
 And fix us net;r thy throne. 
 
 HYMN CXXVL 
 
 G 
 
 .TREAT God, whofe univerfal fway 
 
 The known ami unknown worlds obey ; 
 Xow give the kingdom to thy Son ; 
 Extend his power, cxi.lt his throne. 
 
 Thy fceptre well becomes his hands. 
 All heaven fubmits to his commaads ; 
 His juftice fhall avenge the poor, 
 And pride ar.d rjge prevail no more. 
 
 3. 
 "With power he vindicates the juit, 
 And treads th' oppreffor in the duft ; 
 His worfhip and his fear Bsall lair. 
 Till hours and years, and time be pail, 
 
 4- 
 As rain on meadows newly mown, 
 So (ball he fend his influence down; 
 His grace on fainting fouls difHI?, 
 Like heavenly dew on chirfiv i ills 
 
l24 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 5- 
 I The heathen lands, that lie bei e 
 
 : hades of over fpreading 
 a Revive at bis firft dawning I 
 And dcferls blofiom at the li it. 
 
 6. 
 
 The faints thai] fibarifh in bis days, 
 
 • Dreft in the robesof joy and praih* ; 
 
 ; Peace, like a river, from his throne 
 
 i Shall flow to nations yet unknown. 
 
 HYMN CXXVII. 
 
 JL 1ME ! what an empty vapour 'tis ! 
 And days, how fwiit they are ! 
 Swift as an Indian arrow flies, 
 Or like a {hooting Mar. 
 i, 
 The prefent moments jult appear, 
 
 Then Aide away in bafie; 
 That wc can never fay, ' ; they're hese," 
 But only fay, " they're paft." 
 
 3-.' 
 Our life is ever on the wing. 
 
 And death is ever ni 
 The moment when our lives begin, 
 
 We all begin to die. 
 
 *Tis fov'reign mercy finds us food. 
 
 And we arc cloth'd with low- ; 
 While Grace (lands pointing out tie road 
 
 That leads our fouls above. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. it 5 
 
 / 
 5" 
 
 His goodnefs runs ?.n endlefs ro \-.c . 
 
 All glory to the Lord ! 
 His mercy never knows a bound. 
 
 And be his name ador'd. 
 6. 
 Thus we begin the lafting fong ; 
 
 And when we ciofe our eyes. 
 Let the next age thy praife prokng, 
 
 Till iime and r.ature dies. 
 
 HYMN C XXVII I, 
 
 )L ATHER, trine everlafting grace 
 
 Our fcanty thought lurpaiu* r'i.r : 
 
 Thy heart Mill melts with tendernefsi : 
 
 arms of love ftili open Eire, 
 Returning finncrs to receive, 
 
 lie and live ! 
 
 2. 
 
 .O love, thou bottornlefs abyfsi 
 
 My finis are fwallowed up in thee ; » 
 
 Covered is my l ;1 leoufnefs, 
 
 Nor fpot of guiii remains in me, 
 While | . through eerth and fkiesf, 
 
 Mercy, free, boundlefs mercy crie^ i 
 
 Though waves and ftorms 2:0 o'er my head, 
 Tho' ftrength^and health, and friends be gon« 
 
 Though joys he withered all :• ■" deads 
 1 ; withdrawn, 
 
 On this my ftcadfa relies, 
 
 Father, thy mercy aever aies. 
 
126 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 4- 
 Fixt on this ground v.'iil J rt 
 Though my heart Fail and 
 
 inchor thai! n 
 Though earth's - t aw ay 
 
 *S full pOWt I I .VC. 
 
 I 
 
 . 
 
 J 
 
 ESUS n ^,il reign where'er the fan 
 J) >es hi rnies run ; 
 
 li:s kingdom ftretch from mors to Qiore, 
 Till moons fhall wax and wane no mere. 
 
 See Perfia, glorkros to behold, 
 And India fhines in eaftern gold ; 
 All barbarous nations at his word 
 Submits and bow, and own their Lord> 
 
 3; 
 For him fhall endlefs prayer be made, 
 And praifes throng to crown his head : 
 His name, like fweet pur fume, mail rife 
 With ev'ry morning*, facrifice. 
 
 4- 
 People and realms of every tongue 
 Dwell on his love with fweeteft fong; 
 And infant voices fhall proclaim 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 i5 _-- abound where'er he reigns; 
 Tiie pri& v ng - iobfe his chains^ 
 
 .... reft, 
 Aiid all .. e loiis of want are bleft. 
 
 r: y m N ex xx. 
 P 
 
 V.v'OME, tliou long-expe£ked Jcfus ; 
 
 3 ... _ -j. th .■ people tree ; 
 Froisn our tears and (ins releafe us, 
 
 Let us find our rail in thee ! 
 Uriel's itrcngth and confoiation, 
 
 Hope of ail the eartl ... a aV( ; 
 Dear c^Iir j of ev'ry ualion, 
 
 Joy of ev'ry longing heart. 
 
 Born thy people to deliver, 
 
 liorii a child, and yet a king : 
 C >me ana reign in ui for ever, 
 
 Now thy gracious kingdom bring! 
 By thine own eternal fpirit 
 
 Rule in all oar hearts alone ; 
 L'v l! !:i. ali-fufheient merit, 
 
 Raife us to thy glorious throne. 
 
 HYXIX CXXXI, 
 
 T. 
 
 hy faith fulnefs, Lord, each moment we Rnfjj 
 So true to thy word, fo loving and kind ! 
 
 •■.-.. tei dcr to all the loft race, 
 The foaleil offeader ciay turn a;;d ruid grace. 
 
23 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 The mercy I feci, to others I fhew : 
 
 I fet to my foal that Jefus is true : 
 
 Ye all may find favour, vi ho come at his cal 
 
 O come to my Saviour : his gia< e is for ali. 
 
 3- 
 To favc what was loft from heaven he cam-; 
 Come, finntrs, and trull in j 
 He offers you pardon, he bids 
 If fin be your burden', O eome unto me ! 
 
 • let us fubmit his ,^:'3c~ in receive, 
 Fall down al lieve ; 
 
 We all are ' ke : 
 
 Our title :o heaven his merit we make. 
 
 HYMN CXXXII. 
 
 1 HE extent of JESU'S love 
 What hearl cam comprehend ? 
 A breadth whofe diftance none can prove, 
 A len 
 
 The firft'boru f; rsp u s try 
 The mvft'rv to e> 
 Yet cannot trace it ou , rv 
 The curfe they never bore.. 
 
 The grace unfearchable, 
 • Tranfcending human thou 
 Who, who in earth or heav'n can tell, 
 Or find the wonder ■ 
 
 Ail the angelic cho:r 
 Unite to give him praife : 
 And faints redeeming i:ve admire, 
 And ioud hofannas raife. 
 
MISCELLANEO U 5. it 9 
 
 HYMN CXXXIII. 
 
 ^ 
 
 .WAKE, our fouls (away our fears, 
 Let every trembling thought be gone) 
 Awake, and run the heavenly race, 
 And put a chearful courage on. 
 
 True 'tis a {trait and thorny road, 
 And mortal fpirits tire and faint 
 
 But we forget the mighty God, 
 
 That feeds the ftrength of e\ 'ry faint. 
 
 3- 
 
 O mighty God, thy matchlefs power 
 Is 6^er new, and ever young, 
 
 And firm endures while endlefs year* 
 Their everlaiting circles run, 
 
 4- 
 
 From- thee, the overflowing fpring, 
 Our fouls fhall drink a frefh fupply. 
 
 While fuch as truft their native ftrength, 
 Shall melt away, and droop and die. 
 
 Swift as an eagle cuts the air, 
 
 We'll mount aloft to thine abode ; 
 
 0;i wings of love our fouls fhall fly, 
 Nor tire arnidft the heavenly road. 
 
 G 5 
 
13* MISCELLANEOUS 
 
 HYMN CXXXIV. 
 
 c 
 
 'OME, wifdom, power, and grace divii 
 Come, Jeius, in thy name to join 
 
 A b.appy, chofen band, 
 Who fain would prove thine utmoft will, 
 And all thy righteous laws fulfil; 
 
 In love's benign command. 
 
 2. 
 
 If pure, effential love thou art, 
 Thy nature into every heart, 
 
 Thy loving felf ir.fpire ! 
 Bid all our fimple fouls be one, 
 United in a bond unknown, 
 
 Baptiz'd with heavenly fire. 
 
 3- 
 Still may we to our centre tend 
 To fpread thy praife, cur common end, 
 
 To help each other on ; 
 Companions through, this wildernefs, 
 To fhare a moment's pain, and feizc 
 
 An cverlafting crown. 
 
 4- 
 
 Supply what every member want*, 
 To found the fellowship of faints, 
 
 Thy fpirit Lord fupply : 
 So fhall we all thy love receive, 
 Together to thy glory live. 
 
 And to thy glory die. 
 
M ISCELLAXEOUS, 
 H Y M N CXXXV. 
 
 iLTERNAI. beam of light divine, 
 
 Fountain of unexhauftcd love, 
 In whom the Fathers' glories fhine, 
 
 Through earth beneath, and heaven above. 
 
 Jefu, the weary wanderer's reft, 
 Give me thy cafy yoke to bear : 
 
 With {lead fa ft patience arm my breaft, 
 With fpotlefs love, and lowly fear. 
 
 3- 
 Be thou O Rock of Ages nigh ! 
 
 So fhall each murmuring thought be gone J 
 And grief, and fear, and care fhall fly 
 
 As clouds before the mid-day fun. 
 
 4' 
 Speak to my warring paffions " Peace,'* 
 
 Say to my trembling heart < ; Be ftill ;' J 
 
 Thy power my ftrength and fortrefs is, 
 
 Fur all things ferve thy fovereign will, 
 
 5- 
 
 When pain o'er my weak fiefn prevails, 
 
 With lamb-like patipnee arm my bread | 
 W len grief my wounded foul afiails, 
 
 In lowly nieeknefs may I reft. 
 6. 
 So when on Sion thou "{halt ftand, 
 
 And all heaven's hdft adore their king, 
 Sh-jll I Le found at a L-hand, 
 
 Aad free from ijig 
 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
 H Y M N C XXXVI. 
 
 HAST OF CHARITY. 
 
 B, 
 
 'E prefent at our table Lord, 
 Be here and ev'ry v.hcrs ador'd ! 
 Tfteie creature's blefs, and grant that we 
 Way feaft in Paradise with thee. 
 
 H Y M N CXXXVII. 
 
 X HIS, this is the God we adore, 
 
 Our faithful unchangeable friend ; 
 Whofe love is as great as his pow'r, 
 
 And neither knows meafure nor end. 
 'Tis jefus, the firft and the iaft, 
 
 Whofe fpirit fhail guide ua fafe home 
 We'll praife him for all that is paff, 
 
 And iruft him for all that's to corn*. 
 
 S&aS 
 
 as 
 
CONSTITUTION of the Society of United 
 
 Christian Friends. 
 
 Eftablifhed at New-York, May. 1796. 
 
 P R EAMSLE, 
 
 JlN thinking upon any fubjeft, it is moft pro- 
 per to recur to firft principles. It is evident, 
 that the Lord Jefus Chrift is the firft principle,, 
 the foundation, and builder of all Chriftian 
 Society ; and the firft conftituent principle of 
 this great Mafter Builder is in theie woids : — 
 Ye have one Father, Mailer, or Head, and all 
 ye are Brethren. Much might be faid in praife 
 (for we conceive it would be improper to fay in 
 defence) of this truth ; but this may fiirhce, that 
 as the builder is unalterable", fo is it. 
 
 As the Chriftian Church is fitly compared to 
 a family or houfhold, and as Chrift is the head, 
 it is ordained by him, that there fhould be a 
 unity of love fabfiftiag between the members 
 or brethren of this houfhold; glorious law of 
 our gracious Mafter, but to the fhame of pro- 
 fefTing Chriftians, th » law of love has not al- 
 ways directed their conduct. : but we have to 
 rejoice that the darknefs of uncharitablenefs is 
 nigh gone; that the glorious light of love, of 
 univcrjai charity, begins to dawn, and fcatters 
 the clouds of error, ielfuhnefs, and fuperfiition : 
 men begin to think for themfelves. to throw off 
 the fhackies of ignorance, by which they have 
 been fail bouad in delufion. 
 
 It is of the higheft importance that men fhould 
 have a right judgment in things relative to God ; 
 that is, his will concerning them, and their duty 
 towards him, their neighbour, ana themfelves : 
 this is not difficult to obtain, would men but 
 ufe the mesas the Lord has given them. 
 
334 P R E A M B L E. 
 
 It appears to be a felf-evident truth, that mail 
 •was created for ! igher ends than the exercife^of 
 this animal Hie for a few years, and then to re- 
 turn to the elements of which his body is com- 
 pofed : but the word of God, the Creator, the 
 Faiher of the univerfe, confirms this to all who 
 believe therein ; it hath brought life and immor- 
 tality to light. 
 
 Profcfftng Chriftians have, and do vary greatly 
 in their modes of aifoch'.iion, but many ha\e 
 not kept in view the two grand principles be- 
 fore fpoken of; [viz. love and equality] and as 
 God has not made any one man or body of 
 men lord of the judgment of anether ; (as has 
 been and is afferted by feme) it is the privi- 
 lege, the duty, the happinefs of every man, to 
 exercife the power of difcernment that he h?.s 
 received from God, far he is the father of the 
 of all flefh, and the true light that en- 
 ieth e\ i ry man that come L :; into the world, 
 Lord hath fo conftituted us that we may, 
 and can be [ ful to each other 
 
 . oment of our m »ds, as well as promo- 
 ly comfort, lie hath therefore im- 
 planted fociai aife&ipns within our brealis. 
 Society is the happinefs, the glory of man — 
 Chriftian U ciety moft efpecially fo ; but locie-ty 
 without government would be confufion. 
 
 As nature and the -word of God fpeak men 
 en, it is usurpation in .: them- 
 
 felves, or fi Ives to be : 
 
 few over 
 
 chufe that form I 
 - them, h 
 
 ; It, ;u of t h 
 E&ukted Hits, • 
 
 lowing Rules fo: the Govfrnraect af o 
 ligious Sociel ■-. 
 
•sggS^ — -— «g 
 
 CONSTITUTION, &:. 
 
 T, 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 HIS Society (hall be colled the < ; UNITED 
 CHRISTIAN FRIENDS." 
 ART.. II. 
 
 OF SERVANTS. 
 
 Sec. i. There {hall be one Elder, chofen by 
 ballot, to ferve for one year, who fhall not be 
 eligible for the fuccecding year ; whofe duty it 
 fhall be in humility and love to watch over and 
 ferve the interefts of this fociety : he fhall pre- 
 fide at all meetings of the fociety ; he fhall com- 
 municate all the intelligence that he may have or 
 receive refpefting the fociety; he fhall vote as a 
 member, and on an equal divifion, fhall deter- 
 mine the matter bylot. It fhall be his duly to 
 propof-: to the fociety all perfons who may 
 apply tor admifiion ; he fhall notify all com-- 
 mon meetings of the fociety, and call all fpecial 
 meetings, either from his own motion,, or from 
 the application of three members. 
 
 Sec 2. There fhall be one Sceward, chofen 
 by ballot, to ferve for one year, who fhall not 
 be eligible for the fucceeding year : he fhail. 
 receive and pay all monies ; he fhall provide for 
 the Lord's Supper, and the Feaft of Charity ; he 
 fhall report to the fociety, every three months, 
 the receipts and expenditures of the faid monies ; 
 he mail be at liberty to call upon the clafs- 
 leaders for any afliftance he may require Li the 
 execution of his office. 
 
i 3 6 COXSTITUTIO N. 
 
 Sec. 3. There (hall be a Clerk to this r 
 chofen by ballot, to ferve for one year ; ) 
 keep a regifter of the names of the p 
 compofing this fociety ; he fhail keep the mi- 
 nutes of this fociety, and perform fuch other 
 Cervices as may appertain to his offi 
 
 Sec. 4 There fhall be an Attendant to this 
 fociety, chofen for one year, who fhall not be 
 eligible for the fucceeding year, whofe duty it 
 fhall be to affift the other fervarits of the fociety 
 whenever they fhall require his aid. 
 ART. III. 
 
 OF CLASSES. 
 
 This fociety fhall be divided into claffes of 
 not more than twelve, nor lefs than fix mem- 
 bers, and meet once a week. There (hall be one 
 leader to each clafs, each ciafs fhall choofe its 
 own leader by ballot, who fhall not ferve that 
 ciafs for mare than three months fucceffiveiy ; 
 he fhall endeavour, if pofTible, to fee each mem- 
 ber of his clafs once a week, to enquire after 
 their fpiritual welfare, and to advife, reprove in 
 love, comfort, or exhort, as occaiion may re- 
 quire. He fhall alfo report, as foon as pofhble, 
 to the Elder, and Steward, the cafe of fuch as 
 may be ikk or needy in his clafs ; and they 
 three, or a majority of them, fhall give fuch 
 relief as may be requifite. 
 
 ART IV 
 
 OF GENERAL MEETINGS. 
 
 Sec. 1. In obedience to the command of our 
 Redeemer, this fociety fhall meet from time to 
 time to celebrate the Supper of the Lord. 
 
 Sec 2. This fociety fhall meet on the firft 
 Sunday evening in each month, to celebrate * 
 
CONSTITUTION. 
 
 Feafl of Charity. At fueh meetings they fhall 
 freely convene- upon the moil profitable reli- 
 gious fubjefts, or.? fpeaiing at once, al 
 having due rrfpecl tolhe time and privileges of 
 the brethren. The time of keeping the feaft 
 fhall laft two hours ; the laft thrfee quarters of 
 which fhail be appropriated to fpeaking ot par- 
 ticular experience. Each member »f the 
 fhall be at liberty to invite one pei 
 Ifoafi be at leafi a moral, virtuous characler) to 
 pariake of the exercifes of the Feaft of C' 
 
 Sec. 3. This fociety fhall meet at fach times 
 as may be deemed convenient for worfhip and 
 mutual ed:: ; :~::on. 
 
 Sec. 4 This fociety fhall meet on the 
 Tuclday in May, in every year, to eieCt iheir 
 fervants. 
 
 Sec. 5. This fociety fhall meet on the firft 
 Tuefday in February, May, Auguft, and No- 
 vember, to tranfacL bufinefs. 
 
 ART. V. 
 
 Or ADMITTING MEMBERS. 
 
 Any perfors applying for admittance in this 
 fociety, rnuft be propofed at one meeting of the 
 fociety. and if unanimouily approved of at the 
 next meeting, they fhail be notified thereof, and 
 before they are admitted as members, tfc I 
 flowing queftions fhall be put .to them. 
 
 1. Do yon believe in the exiftence of one 
 God, the creator of all things, to whom you 
 wiii b° accountable at th j day of judgment for 
 the deeds done in the body? 
 
 t. Bo you helieve that Jefus Chrift was ths 
 promil Meffsah, and that he was fent i_.;-j 
 this world for the falvation t/f mankind? 
 
138 CO NSTITUTI O N. 
 
 3. Do you believe that the Lriptures rre a 
 revelation o! the will of God to m 
 
 they contain fu hcient rules foi .. 
 tice. 
 
 4. Are you det 
 devote your fell to 
 
 funt qbedien .t to his c >i imands ? 
 
 5. Are y »u 
 
 Celt to this fochty, and do y >u purpjfe, :;rV 
 God's help, to be ]>.;.. . . 
 
 on all ... 1 e means 01 grace i.aiiu . 
 me will admit ? 
 
 [hall anfwer in the arfir 
 to. the .foregoing qtieilions. then the L!J: 
 give them the r ' .h. "i a.,d o: . 
 prefence of the foeiety. 
 
 ART. VI. 
 
 O r E A i 1 T 1 3 M . 
 
 We believe Baptifm to be an ordinance o: the 
 gofpel; but as Chriiliansi have differed 
 the fubje&s and mode of adminiftering it, v.e 
 therefore wifh to leave both to the difcretifn of 
 each member. 
 
 ART VII. 
 
 O? EXPOtSlOJi OF MEMBERS, £:::. 
 
 If a member commits a faui 
 he fii ill h* proceeded agamft in that loving way 
 directed by our Lord— Matt, xviii. ch. 15. it., 
 iy ver. " Moreover if thy broiher fhall trefpafs 
 z gain ft thee, go and tell hr.n his fault b 
 t .ee and him alone ; if he fii 11 hear thee 
 haft gained thy brother; but it he will n> 
 thee, then take with thee one or two moi 
 in ii:e mouth of two or three witneffes every 
 word may be eihbiiflied ; aad if he fhs.ll Beg- 
 
[ : :■; £ ti-.tu n on. 139 
 
 '■d rhern. tell it unto the Chui :h ; bat 
 
 [ ;.....- ie C burch, let hi 1 be unto 
 
 - ; a nd a publican:" I f a 
 
 -.-..■ i ~V .: are . 
 
 1 ..e the iv, i>.p]ai it be w ■.. - laded, he Hull be 
 
 c li d tc ac< L for the '. me, in order that no 
 
 e ffc . : . 
 
 If a member d ?s m open, notorious fault, 
 hefhall be admonifhed by a deputation from 
 ■ the fociety, '■ i o fhail r port the cafe, that the 
 fociety may I idge. 
 
 If a member perfifis in faults after thefe kind 
 xseans are taken to reftore him. he fhall be fum- 
 moned to appear before the fpciety, at a meeting 
 to be held for tl at purpofe ; and whether he ap- 
 pears or not (unlets fame proper caufe fhould 
 prevent him, of which he fhall notify the fociety) 
 he fhall be proceeded againft as follows i — The 
 E'.d'r fhall declare his rauk and if he b ? pre- 
 fentj be has the liberty to defend hirnfelf ; but 
 if. after due examination, it fhall appear to two-) 
 thirds of the foeiety then prefeut, that he is 
 guilty or other wife, fo it fhall b^ declared to 
 him by the Elder. If he be guilty, his panifh- 
 ment fb !1 be fufpenfion for a time, or expulfiori, 
 which fnall be determined by the fociety in 
 ^naniier aforefaid, and declared to him by the 
 Elder in a tender and affectionate manner. 
 ART. VII f. 
 
 OF LAWS. 
 
 A chriftian fociety poffelles power withia 
 jtfelf to regulate its own concerns at all times, 
 without, being fubjecl: to any controul but the 
 law of God. It is neceffary however, in order 
 to maintain unity, that as general a concurrence 
 
t£0 CONSTITUTION. 
 
 be liar! in all regulations as poflible: therefore, 
 •when the final queffion is taken on any new law 
 
 or regulation, it (hall require three-fourths of 
 the members prefent tp aifent thereto, before the 
 law, &c. (ball pais. 
 
 — <•••<••< £>••>•> 
 
 DECLARATION. 
 
 W> 
 
 E who compofe the Society of United 
 Christian; Frienss, do unanimoufly agree, 
 that notwithftanding we have thought fit i fr 
 certain rvafons to form ourfelves into a feparate 
 religious body, yet we declare that we ?r; 
 willing and free to hold communion with 
 
 ians of any name; and rfully 
 
 ill fiu.h ?s may wifh to unite with us m 
 th • - sercjfe of aj^y of 01 
 
 is be fit it reconjh 
 
 :d ia the Llder by a member. 
 
 Abraham E. Brouzter, Prescient. 
 j-i-->t> Clinch, Clerk. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 A PAGE 
 
 LL- feeing God ! 'Lis thine to know, 5 
 All thanks to the laml jives us to meet. 82 
 
 And let this feeble body fail, 87 
 
 Away with our forrow and tear, - - 83 
 
 Arife and hail the happy day, - - 90 
 
 All glory to our gracious Lord, - - 121 
 
 Awake, our fouls, away our fears, » 129 
 
 BEFOPvE Jehovah's awful throne, - 12 
 
 Begin my tongue fome heavenly theme, - 24. 
 
 Blow ye the trumpet blow, - - 35 
 
 Be it my only wifdom here, - - 45 
 
 Begin my "foul, th' exalted lay, 64. 
 
 Brother in Chrift, and weli-beiowd, - 70 
 
 COME Lord from above. 25 
 
 Come thou fount of ev'ry bleffing, - 29 
 
 Come holy fpirit, fend down thole beams, 46 
 
 Come, let us anew, - - - 71 
 
 Corne and let us fweetly join, - - 74 
 
 Come away to the Ikies, - - 75 
 
 Come let us afcend, 8o 
 
 Children of the heavenly kingj - - 81 
 
 Come on my partners in diftrefs, - 83 
 
 Come ye that love the Lord, 85 
 
 Captain of our falvatioo, take, 92 
 
 Come O thou univerfal good, - - no 
 
 Come let us join our cheerful fohgs, - 113. 
 
 Come thou long-expected Jefus, - 127 
 
 Come wifdom. power, and grace divine, 130 
 
 DEAR Jefus let my ev'ning long, - 99 
 
 ENLISTED into the caufe of fia, - 6 
 
 Eternal wifdom, thec wc praife, - iO 
 
342 INDEX. 
 
 Eternal G >d . :aufe, - - a' 
 
 Eternal power whole high abode, - o 
 
 Except the Lord conduct the plan, - 76 
 
 Eternal beam of light divine, - - 131 
 
 FATTIER of all whofe powerful voice, 15 
 
 Father is not thy pro r.ilc pledg'd, - 35 
 
 II that dwell below the fkies, - 39 
 
 Father how wide thy glories fhine, - 4^ 
 
 Forgive us for thy mercy':, fake, - - 50 
 
 in of lite, to all below, 57 
 
 Far above yon glorious ceiling, 86 
 
 Father of peace, and God of love, - 122 
 
 Fa her, thine everlailing grace, - - 125 
 
 GOD is the-Xord the heavenly king, - 19 
 
 God of my life, whofe gracious pow'r, ii>. 
 
 Good thou art, and good thou doft, - 23 
 
 Glory to God on high, - 32 
 
 Grateful notes and numbers bring, - 37 
 
 God, I would not afk to fee, - 43 
 
 be to God on high, - 46 
 
 Great God. indulge my humble claim, - 54 
 
 Glory be to God above, - - 77 
 
 Gcid is king, ye lands rejoice, - - id 
 
 Giv.l God. whole univ. - 123 
 
 HARK ! how the gofpel trumpet founds, 30 
 
 Hear me O Lord, my Gcd, and weigh, 48 
 
 Flow fhail I fpeak th' eternal God, - 63 
 
 How happy gracious Lcrd < re we! - 66 
 
 He comes ! becomes! the judge revere ; 100 
 
 H^rk, the glad found ! Melfiah comes, 119 
 
 I'LL rraife my M.ker ■ reath, 43 
 In boundlefs mercy, gracious Lord appear, 58 
 
 JESU thy boundlefs love to me, - 38 
 
 Jefus I love thy ehermmg name, - 51 
 
 Jefu, lover of my foul, 53 
 
 h -y;. jverlaii ta 
 
I N D E X. 143 
 
 Je&i linked by thy grace, - 69 
 
 jefus accept the praife, -• - 72 
 
 jefu Lord we look to thee, - - 82 
 
 Jefus at whofe fupreme command, - g-5 
 
 Jefas ! and thai I it ever be, - - 116 
 
 ")e'V«s ; thy unexhawfted love, - - 118 
 
 Jefus Iliad reign where'er the fun, - 126 
 
 I ET every tongue thy goodnefs fpeak, - 16 
 
 Lord thou art good all nature fhews, - 18 
 
 Let ev'ry mortal err attend, 26 
 
 Let earth and heav'n agree, - - i!>. 
 
 Lord if thou thy grace impart", - 40 
 
 Love divine, all loves excelling, - 56 
 
 Let all the earth their voices raiie, - 67. 
 
 Let party names no mere, - - 7 J 
 
 Lord we come before thee now, - -3 
 
 Lord how divine thy comforts are, - 05 
 
 I et us adore the eternal word. - - 96 
 
 Lord, in the morning ibou fiialt hear, - oi 
 
 Lift your heads ye friends of Jefus, - 107 
 
 Lo ! he comes with clouds descending, 10S 
 
 MY heart is full of Chrift, and longs, - 41 
 
 My God the fpring of all my joys, - 55 
 
 My God how endlefs is thy love, - 100 
 
 My foul infpir'd with facred love, - 117 
 
 NOW begin the heavenly theme, - 23 
 
 Now (hall our fouls with plea fare raifc, gg 
 
 Now leS our voices join, - - 79 
 
 O GOD of my falvatim hear, - 42 
 
 Our friehdlhip fan&ify and guide, - 78 
 
 Our Lord is rifen from the dead, •• 90 
 
 O for a Tweet infpiring ray, - - 120 
 
 PARENT of nature, God fupreme, - 9 
 
 Plung'd in a gulph of dark defpair, - 31 
 
 Praife ye the Lord, who reign's above, - 39 
 
'44 I N D E X. 
 
 PAG 
 
 2,i 
 
 REJOICE the Lord 1S kh 
 
 Rej >ice tor a brother deceas'd, 
 Rife my foul aad Grfrtch thv wings, 
 
 ATION! O the joyful found, _ gl 
 
 ■ ids rejoice, lift up your eyes, - cd 
 
 Sing to the great Jehovah's- praife, - ib* 
 
 Salvation, what a-glorious- plan, - tl J 
 
 Shepherd divine, our wants* relieve, - na 
 
 Sovereign of all the worlds on high, - 121 
 
 THE earth and all her fulnets owns, - n 
 
 rh( fpaciOus firmament on high, - 13 
 
 To the hills I lift my eyes, 1? 
 
 The Lord my pafiure fliall prepare, - 21 
 
 Talk with ys Lord, thyiclf reveal, - *q 
 
 Thee we adore^praal name, - _ to 
 
 The God of Abraham pra'ke, - - 61 
 
 The Lord of fabbaih let us praife, - 6a 
 
 Thou Lord unto my Lord hath kid, - 65 
 
 The Lord of life appears, - - 89 
 Twas on that night when doora'd to know, 0.4 
 
 The great Jehovah reigns, - _ l0o , 
 
 The Lord flhall wipe away all tsars, - it. 
 
 Tho* troubles affail, and dangers affright, 113 
 's ime ! what an empty vapour 'tis, - .124 
 Thy faithfulnefs, Lord, each momem we find 127 
 
 The extent of Jefu's love, - - j 28 
 This, this is the G id we adore,* 
 tJNVEIL thy bofom, faithful tomb, 
 VITAL ipark of heavenly fl rne, 
 WHY dors your face ye humble fouls, ■ 
 
 Wilt thou O Lord, regard ta) tears, ' >- 47 
 Welcome to me this fa . ..dawn, 07 
 
 WJ y do we mourn departing (ricuc.^, - iQg 
 
 WJ y fix ) aid we flirt and fear to die, - 104 
 
 YE heavens, rejoice in Jefu's grace, - 28 
 
 Ye virgin fouls arife, - - - u< 
 
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