W#fP'$rt4o?v .jfctiefy} $rtrfc FROM THE LIBRARY OF REV. LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON, D. D. BEQUEATHED BY HIM TO THE LIBRARY OF PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Dhrtaton SOB C Section ^w my Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from Calvin College http://www.archive.org/details/collectionofhymnOOwest c / ■# * ST* — m.-4y.-*f-4*-~ <>•-<>• -O : •O--**'^- <»»«)"< ^>r>"<> " '# " »' "» >"«-^ I a i J G O L L E C T I O^L, | o t j H Y M N • S, j MORE PARTICULARLY DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF THE I N { WES T SOC IET Y t I BOSTON. Second Edition with Additions. § ■ THOU whofe pow'r o'er moving worlds prefides, i Whofe voice created, and whofe wifdom guides, ^ On darkling man in pure effulgence fliine, i And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. x *Tis thine alone to calm the pious breaft ! With filent confidence, and holy reft ; T From thee, great GOD, we fpring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end.*' 9 f ===== h I BOSTON; | c Printed by John & Thomas Fleet, f c mdccciii. ? INDEX For finding any Hymn by the Title. N. B. The Figures refer to the Hymns. A Hymn DOPTION, - - 7* Affliction and Death under Providence, 119 All Things working for Good, - 61 Amiable Deportment, 53 Anger and Meeknefs, - - 1$ Angel's Reply to theWomen who fought Chrift, 1 18 Appearance of Angels to the Shepherds, 44 Atonement of Chrift, - - 5 8 B Baptifm, . - - 115 Beatitudes, . - - 43 Benevolence divine, - - - 37 Benefit of early Piety, . - 6 Bible, excellency of, 80 Birth of Chrift, . - - 113 Birth Day, - - 159 Book of Nature and Scripture, - 9S C Changes of Life from God, - -163 Chrift apprehended, - - - 143 Birth of, - - .113 Condemnation and Crucifixion of, 144 Death of, - - 123 - Longing for the Prefence of, - 105 « Nativity of, - - 102 — - Sufferings of, - - .114 A 2 I N D E X. Kyrnn Chrift's Compaliion, - Uk . 35 — Death, - - - - 123 Example, - - 134 Priefthood and Aaf on's compared, 1 1 6 — Propitiation improved, - ■ 60 Regard to little Children, - 115 Chriftian Love, - - .124 fupported, - - - 145 Patience and Fortitude, - 18 ■ Privileges and Obligations, - 5 Comforts of Religion, - 31 Companion, - - - 32 Complaint of Ingratitude, - - 33 Confeffion, - - - 9 D Day of Grace and Hope, - - 62 Death of Chrift, - - - 123 • and Eternity, - .; 77 Divine Benevolence, - - - 37 — Counfels, - - 76 Sovereignty, - - - 39 Dying Saint, - - - - 24 E Early Death, - - 30 Piety, Benefit of, - - 6 Earth and Heaven, - 165 Enthufiaim and Superfrition, - 135 Envy, ----- 140 Equity, universal Law of, - 57 Eternity and Immenfity of God, - 73 Excellency of the Bible. - So v \ Faith, the Power of, - - 84 Faith and Repentance encouraged by the 7 Sacrifice of Chrift, - - j" INDEX. in Hymn Falfe Repentance, - - .152 Family Religion, - - 141 Fait D xy in Time of War, - 93 Faft Day, - - - - 106 Funeral Hymns, - - 36 & 109 Funeral Thought, - - - 69 Funeral of a young Perfon, - - no Give us this Day our daily Bread, - 89 God, Confidence in, - - 72 exalted above all Praiie, 96 Incomprehenlible, - 65 Love to - - 104. Reliance upon, - - 100 Wifdom of in his Works, - 126 juiHfied in the Appointments of this 7 Life, and of another, - J 150 God's Eternity and Immenfity, - - 73 Majeity, - - 74 tender Care of his Church, - 41 Good, all Things working for, - - 61 Gofpel, Invitation of, - 23 Rational Defence of, 48 Grace, renewing, Neceffity of, - 129 Gratitude, - - - - 97 Nature's Call to, - "34 Gravity and Decencv, - 51 Crave fanclified by Chrift, - - 85 Growing in Grace, - - - 91 H Happy Poverty, - - -83 I leavens declare the Being and Glory of God, 38 Heaven invifible and holy, - 63 Heavenly Vifitant, - - 15-7 Hid.lc-n Life cf a Chri&ian, - - 45 ir INDEX. Hymn Holinefs and Grace, - - 66 Hope in Diftrefs, - - 128 ■ none excluded from, - 49 Hopeful Youth falling ftiort of Heaven, 46 & 47 Humility, firft Part, - - 21 fecond Part, - - 2 2 Humility, Tendernefs and Sympathy, - 147 Hymns, Inefficacy of, without Devotion, 166 Hypocrify towards Man, - 16 J Jefus Chrift, - - - 62 Compaffion of, - - • 35 worfhipped by all the Creation, • 70 Ignorance of Man, - - 25 Importance of Time, - - 13 Inefficacy of Hymns without Devotion, 166 Ingratitude, Complaint of, - * 33 Invitation of the Gofpel, • - 23 Invocation to praife the Lord, ~ 90 Inoffenfivenefs, - - 17 Invifible Author of Nature, - - 28 Juftice, - . - - 19 Juftice and Equity, - 52 < and Truth, - - 53 Law and Gofpel diftinguifhed, - - 121 Leflbn of human Frailty, - - 149 Life the Day of Grace and Hope, - 62 Longing for the Prefence of Chrift, - 102 Lord's Prayer, - - 88 Love to God, - - 104 M Majefty of God, - 74 Marriage, - - - 142 I N D E X Hyrmi 20 Mecknefs, Mercy, - * ■ and Trutli met together, - 127 Morning Hymns, - - 9*t*Si* l S* Moles, Aaron and Jefus, - 1 V i and Chriit, - " % .... 94 N Nativity of Chriit, - - - 107 Nature's Call to Gratitude, - - 34 Neceffity and Bleflednefs of Revelation, 164 None excluded from Hope, - - 49 No Reft on Earth, - - - 13 2 Penitent, 4 Penitential Hymn, - - .105 Perfection of Scripture, - IX 7 Periecution, - Phyfician Great, - - ' „ I3 ° Praife, - - - - 26 & 29 to the Creator, - - - I 3 I for Creation and Providence, - 7 8 Invocation to, - 9° for national Peace, - - IIX for Redemption, - 79 Prayer, - 8 Pride, - - - -14 in Cloaths, - - - 81 Priefthood of Chrift and Aaron compared, 116 Propitiation of Chrift improved, - - 63 Profpeft of the Refurreftion, - - x 33 Profperity, - - - "39 Providence, - - - 86 Power of Faith, - -84 vi INDEX. R Hymn Rational Defence of the Gofpel, - 48 Redemption, - - * 75 Reliance upon God, - 100 Rejoice, O young Man, &c. - 161 Religion, the Comforts of, - 31 alone anfwers the Defires of Man, 155 Refignation, - - -112 RefurrecTion, a Profpect of, - 133 Retirement and Meditation, - - 122 Return from Sea, - * iox Sabbath-Day, - - 27 & 153 Sacrifice of Chrift, Faith and Repentance, "J encouraged by, - - J 59 Saint prepared to die, - 68 Scriptures, Perfection of, - - 117 Self-Dependence, - - 12 Seif-Examination, - - 136 < for the Evening, - 42 Seafonable Showers, - - 87 Sicknefs, Thoughts in, 99 Sincerity, - - 50 Storm and Thunder, - - 137 Strength from Heaven, 40 Submiffion to afflictive Providences, «=■ 67 ». under Afflictions, - - 156 Sufferings of Chrift, - - 114 Temperance, 54 Thanklgiving, • - 1 1 Things of good Report, - 56 Thoughts in Sicknefs, - - 99 INDEX. vn Hymn Time of general Sicknefs, - - 103 — Importance of, - - 13 To Jeius Chriil the Eternal Life, - J25 Toleration, - - . - 1 To the invifible Author of Nature, - 28 Tranfient Goodnefs, - - - 10 True Way to pleafe God, - - 160 Truth and Sincerity, - - - 50 Vanity of Man as mortal, 98 Virtuous Contemplation of Mortality, - 146 Virtuous Ufe of Profperity, - - 154 Univerfal Law of Equity, - - 57 Prefence and Infpeclion of God, 148 Vow, - . . - 7 W Wifdom's Expostulation with Sinners, - 3 Wifdom of God in his Works, - - 126 World a poor Exchange, - - 162 Year crowned with divine Goodnefs, - 92 Young encouraged to feek and love Chrift, 108 Youth and Judgment, - - - 123 C i ) HYMN I. Toleration. I. ALL knowing God, 'tis thine to know The fprings whence wrong opinions flow ; To judge, from principles within, When frailty errs, and when we fin. II. Who among men, high Lord of all, Thy fervants to his bar may call ; Decide of herefy, and fhake A brother o'er the flaming lake ? III. Who with another's eye can read ? Or worfhip by another's creed ? Revering thy command alone, We humbly feek and ufe our own. IV. If wrong, forgive ; accept, if right ? While faithful we obey our light, And cens'ring none, are zealous frill To follow as to learn thy will. V. ' When fhall our happy eyes behold Thy people fafliion'd in thy mould ; And charity our lineage prove Deriv'd from thee, O God of love ? B HYMN 2 HYMNS. H Y M N II. Perfecution. I. ABSURD and vain attempt ! to bind With iron chains the free-born mind ; To force convi£iion, and reclaim The wand'ring by deftru&ive flame : II. Bold arrogance ! to fnatch from Heav'n Dominion not to mortals giv'n : O'er conscience to ufurp the throne, Accountable to God alone. III. Mad zeal ! that with hell-fury burns, The rights of God and man o'erturns : Whofe blind prefumption fan&ifies Murders, rebellions, plots, and lies. IV. That fills the world with blood and woe, That hurls down kingdoms at a blow, That butchers fouls, and peoples hell With converts which its arms compel. V. Thus Rome afferts her proud decrees, Inforc'd bv fierce anathemas ; And wakens vengeance, to devour The foes of Antichriftian pow'r. VI. Jefus, thy gentle law of love Does no fuch cruelties approve : Mild as thyfelf, thy doftrine wields No arms, but what perAiufion yields. VII. HYMNS. VII. By proofs divine, and reafon (hong, It draws the willing foul along ; And conquefts to thy church acquires. By eloquence which heav'n infpirefi. VIII. O happy, who are thus compelled To the rich feafl by Jefus held ; May we our bleffings know ; and prize The light which liberty fupplies. HYMN III. Wifdom s ExpoftuJation with Sinners. I. ^npiS Wifdom's earned: cry; A Wifdom the voice of God, To voung and old, the low and high, Utters his will abroad. II. Within the human breaft, Her ftrong monitions plead, She thunders her divine proteft, Again it th' unrighteous deed. III. Within the holy place She calls with open arms ; 44 How long ye fools will ye embrace '■ Folly's deceiving charms. IV. 4 HYMNS. IV. "The race of man I love, " In mercy I chaflife : " Severely faithful I reprove ; 41 Hear, mortals, and be wife. V. " My houfe, a royal pile, " Invites you through its gate, M O leave the wilds of fin and guile, s * And enter ; ere too late. VI. " My joys, unfenfual, tafre ; " Come, drink of Wifdom's wine. 4i No forrow poifons my repaft, " The banquet is divine. VII. " Honour and peace, with me, " And life immortal dwell. " Your ways of woe and infamy " Take hold of death and hell." HYMN IV. The Penitent. t. OUR flowing urns, ye fountains, lend, Y To fill thefe failing eyes ; While mourning in the duft I bend, Till mercy bid me rife. II. Yes, I have known, from childhood known, My God, thy holy will : Too negligent, I bluihing own. Thy orders to fulfil, III, HYMNS. III. Thy friendly voice, without, within, In cieareft warnings (pike : " There winds the way of death and fin, M The path oi' glory take." IV. Unheeding what thy voice advis'd, I wont perverfely wrong ; The caution and the hope defpis'd, And madly rulh'd along. V. Sometimes I paus'd, and fighing faid, I will thefe ways forfake. Soon, by Tome headftrong luft o'erfway'd, The ieeble vow I brake. VI Ah ! whither has my folly rov'd ? Loft on perdition's ground, From thy ((ill waters far remov'd, What pafture have I found ? VII. WandYmg for reft, where reft is none, By guilt and fear purfu'd ; Idle, employ 'd, in crowds, alone, Sad images I view'd. VIII. Was this the great and good defign. For which I faw the dav ? Was reafon giv 'n, that beam divine, Thus to be flung away ? B 2 IX. 6 HYMNS. IX. Ingrate, thy bleflings I mifus'd, O thou long-fufPring Lord. Thy law contemn'd and grace abusM Demand thy damning word. HYMN V. Chriftian Privileges and Obligations. I. DOST thou my worthlefs name record Free of thy holy city, Lord ? Am I, a (inner, call'd to (hare The precious privileges there ? II. Art thou, my king, my father fly I'd ? And I, thy fervant and thy child ? While more than half the human race Are aliens from thy Zion's grace. III. Lo, wretched millions draw their breath In lands of ignorance and death : But 1 enjoy my line of time, Vv r ithin thy gofpel's favourite clime. IV. Pardon aflur'd, and heav'n difplay'd, Baniih my fears, my hopes pei made : And precepts, plentiful, and clear, Through life my dang'rous voyage fleer. HYMNS. V. Shall I receive this grace in vain ? Shall I my great vocation ftain ? Away, ye works in darknefs wrought ; Awav. each mean and wanton thought. 7 VI. My foul, I charge thee to excel In thinking right and afting well. Deep, deep, thy fearching pow'rs engage, Unbiafs'd, in the heav'n-born page. VII. Heighten the force of good defire, To deeds of mining worth afpire : More firm in fortitude, defpife The world's feducing vanities. VIII. Strong and more ftrong, thy paffions rule ; Advancing flill in virtue's ichool ; Contending ftill with noble ftrife, To emulate thy Saviour's life. HYMN VI. Benefit of early Piety. I. COME, children, learn the heav'nly art, To make your growing years Ail happy, and defend your heart From guilt, diftrefs, and fears. Remember him who gave you breath, Remember him who^ly'd To fave you from eternal death : His precepts be your guide. g H Y M N S. III. What ornaments a young man grace, In piety approv'd ! How lovely virtue's blooming face ! By God and man belov'd. IV. Virtue in early youth begun The man with eafe purfues ; And when his mortal courfe is run, In heav'n his life renews. V. Fond parents, with religious care Your tender offspring train : Warn them of ev'ry ambulh'd fnare, And fow the pious grain. VI. Thus the great Father gives command, Thus fpeaks a parent's love. Know, judgment's awful day, at hand, Your faithfulnefs will prove. *fc|M- *#*♦*§*♦ HYMN VII. "The Vow. I. MY heart is fix'd, the firm decree Is ratify'd within my breaft, I vow my foul, O Lord, to thee, In thee alone I feek my reft. II. Adieu, ye vain defires, adieu ; Ye luffs of every name, farewell : I bar all fellowship with you, I mean no more to live for hell. III. HYMNS. III. In diflipat ion's magic ground, In bufy fcenes of toil and care, What pleafures, or what gains are found, Which may with thine, O Lord, compare ? IV. Pleafures, which yield no peace, I leave ; Wealth hut a fpoil for death, I fpurn : Hopes I embrace which ne'er deceive, For wealth which never dies, I burn. V. To faith's heroic war I rife. Nor dread my ftrong and wily foes ; Safe in the arms thy word fupplies, Led by the wifdom it beftows. HYMN VIII. Prayer. I. OUR Father, thron'd above the ikies, To thee my empty hands I fpread. Thy child of duft beneath thee lies, Who afks thy blefling on his head. Let mercy all my fins difpel, As a dark cloud before the beam. My foul from bondage and from hell. To liberty and life redeem. III. With cheerful hope and filial fear, In that auguft and precious name By thee ordain'd, I now draw near ; And would the promis'd blefling claim. IV. §» HYMNS. IV. On thy good promifes I lean, Thy truth can never, never fail ; Though ftedfaft earth and heav'n's great fcene Shall perifh like an ev'ning tale. Will not an earthly parent feel The cravings of his child in need ! Will he prefent a piece of fteel For bread, his hungry mouth to feed ? VI. Cur heav'nly Father, how much more Will thy divine companions rife ; And open thy unbounded ftore, To fatisfy thy childrens cries ? VII. Yes, I will afk, and feek, and prefs, For gracious audience, to thy feat ; Still hoping, waiting, for fuccefs, If perfeverin^ to intreat. vnI - For Jefus, in his faithful word, The patient fupplicant has blefs'd : And ali thy faints, with fweet accord, The prevalence of pray'r atteft. HYMN IX. ConfeJJion. I. OGOD, the holy and the juft, Look not with anger's flafliing eye, Bt:iiold me pvoftrate in the dult, Hear a lamenting Turner's figh. HYMNS. ii II. Mv Tins like ocean's fands abound, My fins are ftain'd with crimfon hue : Their burden finks me to the ground. To heav'n I dare not lift my view. III. Above the fowls that fwitn in air. Above the beafts which graze below ; Reafon, thy noble gift, I (hare ; By reafon taught, thy laws I know. IV. How blefl ! if I to reafon's voice Had yielded an obeying ear : Bled ! if thy will had been my choice, Thou my delight, and thou my fear. V. But oh ! the paflions in my frame, Inwrought bvthee tor wifeft end, With blindfold violence o'ercame Reafon, and conscience reafon's friend. VI. In reafon's aid thy gofpel ltrove, I heeded not, but onward ran : The ways of ruin were my love, O what a flubborn thing is man ! VII. Lord, I am worthy to receive The dreadful fentence, "Thou (hd.lt die :" But ere the fatal ftrcke thou give, O turn thy face to Calvary. H Y M N 12 HYMNS. HYMN X. Tranjient Goodnefs. I. WHERE, O my foul, O where Thy image (hall I view ? In the light cloud which melts in air,- Or in the early dew. II. This hour, with flowing tears My follies I bewail : The next, my heart a wafte appears, Where all the fountains fail. III. Now, as the wax in flame Diflblves, and takes the feal : The tend'reft touch of grief and fhame Alternately I feel. IV. To day, her glimmering light Hope kindles in my breafl : The morrow, with defpair's black night, Has all my foul oppreft. O my unftedfaft mind, Toft between good and ill ! With fteady courfe the brutal kind Their Maker's law fulfil. VI. O miferable Mate Of hope by fear fubdu'd \ On thee, O Lord, for help I wait ; Fix, fix, my foul in good. HYMN Y HYMNS. 13 HYMN XL Thank/giving, I. £S — it was Thou, whofe gracious care Educ'd me from the womb, Sent me to drink thy healthful air, And nurs'd my tender bloom. II. Thy gentle hand my feet upheld, In childhood's flippery way ; Ere yet my tongue thy name had fpell'd, Thy name was all my flay. III. My ripening years were ftill purfu'd With mercies from above : Thy bounty raiment gave, and food, And loaded me with love. IV. If trouble's heavy arm was near, Thy pity felt my figh ; Knew all my forrow, all my fear, And brought falvation nigh. V. When I behold von azure fpace, Spangled with liars, and fee Th' imperial moon's refulgent face, Wond'ring, I think on thee. VI. Lord, what is man, that man mould gain Thv condefcending view ? That e'er thy majefty mould deign Such favour to renew ? C VII i 4 HYMNS, VII. And what am I, leaft worthy I Of all who creep below, That thou wilt pafs my follies by, And fo much goodnefs fhow ? VIII. O fummon thy whole ftrength, my foul, To blefs thy God alone. O memory, all his boons enrol ; I charge thee, lofe not one. HYMN XII. Self Dependence. I. GOD reigns : Events in order flow, Man's induftry to guide ; But in a diff'rent channel go, To humble human pride. II. The fwift not always, in the race, Shall feize the crowning prize : Not always wealth and honour grace The labour of the wife. III. Fond mortals but themfelves beguile, While on themfelves they reft. Blind is their wifdom, weak their toil, By thee, O Lord, unbleft. IV. Go, hufoandman, the foil prepare, •Call in the precious grain. To thee belongs the fun and air ? Dofl thou command the rain ? V HYMNS. 15 V. Yc crafty, fcheme your winding way, God fhall confound your flu 11 ; Know, time and accident obey His all dire&ing will. VI. Evil and good before him ftand, His million to perform ; The ble fling comes at his command, At his command the ftorm. VII. O Lord, in all our ways we'll own Thy providential pow'r ; Intruding to thy care alone, The let of ev'ry hour. «fc* 'I f 1 * J" H Y M N XIII. The Importance of 'Time. I. TIME, time, how few thy value weigh ! How few will eftimate a day ! Days, months and years keep rolling on, The foul negle&ed and undone. II. In painful cares, or empty joys, Our life its precious hours deftroys : While death ftands watching at our fide, Ea^er to flop the living tide. III. Was it for this, ye mortal race, The Maker gave you here a place ? Was it for this, his thought defign'd The frame of your immortal mind ? 36 HYMN S. XV. For lofty cares, for joys fublime, He fafhion'd you the Tons of time \ Pilgrims of time, ere long to be The dwellers in eternity. V. This feafon of your being, know, Is portion 'd you your deeds to fow, "Wifdom's and folly's differing grain, In future worlds is blifs and pain. VI. Be warn'd. Each night the day review, Idle, or bufy ; fearch it through : And while probation's minutes laft, Let every day amend the pa ft, ♦^-♦^■■^ HYMN XIV. Pride. I. Pride, thou dropfy of the mind, o Of felf-delufion born, Hateful to God, by all mankind In others feen with fcorn. II. Shall finning man, O Lord, prefume, To glory in thy fight ? Himfelf on his own virtues plume ? And claim thy heav'n by right ? III. I boaft of none, in none I truft, For mercy, Lord, I fue, Ah ! were my judge feverely juft, Perdition is my due. IV. HYMNS. r, IV. Shall mortal man, fo blind and weak, On his own pow'rs depend ? In thee I hope, thy blefling feek, O guide me and defend. 8 V. Shall man his brother man defpife, Vain of excelling worth ? And view afkance, with haughty eyes, His fellow worm of earth ? VI. Who made my birth, or ftation, high ? Another's mean and low ? Who made that poor man's cup fo dry ? But mine to overflow ? VII. My pride (hall nobler talents fwell ? Who made' yon ideots fmall ? Who gave me talents to excel ? Who but the God of all ? VIII. O come, mcek-ey'd humility, Come, dwell within my breaft, Thus, Jefus, I would learn of thee, And feci thy promis'd reft. *eg* *§***!+ HYMN XV. Anger and Meeknefs. I. MARK, when tcmpeftuous winds arife, The wild confufion and uproar ; All ocean mixing with the fkies, And (hip wrecks dafh'd upon the fliore. 1 C s II. a HYMNS. II. Not lefs confufion racks the mind. By its own fierce ideas toft ; When reafon is to rage refign'd, And in the whirl of paflion loll. III. O felf-tormenting child of Pride, Anger, bred up in hate and ftrife ; Ten thoufand ills, by thee fupply'd, Mingle the cup of bitter life. IV. Happy the meek, whofe gentle breaft, Serene as fummer's evening ray, Calm as the regions of the bleft, Enjoys on earth celeftial day. V. No friendfhips broke their bofoms fting, No jars their peaceful tents invade, Safe underneath Almighty wing, And, foes to none, of none afraid. VI. Spirit of grace, all meek and mild, With thy whole felf our fouls po fiefs : Pa (lion and pride be hence exil'd, So mall our frame thy own exprefs. «*§&■ *$**&> H Y M N XVI. Hypocrify towards Man. I. CONDITION hard of focial life, When love and prudence are at fti ife While that the kindeft thoughts infpires, This caution and diftrim require:, II HYMN S. 19 II. Fa! (hood alas ! too oft we meet, And for a friend a Joab greet : With fmiles and foftefl: fpeech care ft, We feel the poniard in our bread, III. There are, who in my happy days, Will eat my bread and found my praife : But when my fcftal times are o'er, Shun, as they would the plague, my door. IV. There is, whofe heart I fondly thought," In the fame mould with mine was wrought ; To whom my fecret I unclos'd, And my whole naked foul expos'd. V. Ere long his falfhood he betray 'd ; He publihYd counfels of the (hade On the houfe-top : Yea join'd my foe, And wove the plot to lay me low. VI. O for the pinions of a dove ! Far from all traitors I'd remove : And in fome lonely riarmlefs wild, Dwell there unknown and unbeguil'd, VII. O rather, Lord, thy fervant give, In love and wifdom here to live ; Till thou indulge me a releafe, To thy own world of truth and peace, HYMN as HYMNS. HYMN XVII. Inoffenjivenefs . WHILE in this world I dwell, The paths of fin Til fear ; And, pond'ring all my goings well, Walk inoffenfive here. II. My ev'ry flep I'll aim, As warn'd by wifdom's zeal ; Left e'er, O Lord, thy h IV. To you, to vou he bends His condefcending ear ; To you his pow'rful arm extends, In ev'ry want and fear, V. From your mifgiving breaft Sad diffidence remove. Why, children, are your fouls deprefl ? Why doubt your Father's love ? VI. With mildnefs in his face, Your weaknefTes he views. To humble worfhippeis, his grace He never will reiufc. VII. From the proud pharifee His countenance he turns : But will not with difpleafure fee A publican who mourns. *%*«&«%¥ HYMN XXIII. The Invitation of the Go/pel. I. LET ev'ry mortal ear attend, And ev'ry heart rejoice, The trumpet of the gofpel founds, With an inviting voice. Ho ! all ye hungry ftarving fouls, That feed upon the wind, And vainly drive, with earthly tovs To fill an empty mind. D IIT. 26 HYMN S. III. Eternal wifdom has prepared A foul -reviving feaft, And bids your longing appetites, The rich provifion tafte. IV. Ho ! ye who pant for living ftreams, And pine away and die ; Here you may quench your raging thirfr, With fprings that never dry. V. Rivers of love and mercy here In a rich ocean join : Salvation in ahundance flows, Like floods of milk and wine. VI. Ye perifhing and naked poor, Who work with mighty pain, To weave a garment of your own, That will not hide your fin. VII. Come naked, and adorn your fouls, In robes prepar'd by God, Wrought by the labours of his Son, And dy'd in his own blood. VIII. Jefus ! the treafures of thy love Are everlafting mines, Deep as our helplefs miferies are, And boundlefs as our fins. IX, The happy gates of gofpel-grace, Stand open night and day ; Lord, we are come to feek fupplies, And drive our wants away. 4f*-HS*+|* HYMN w HYMNS. ^7 HYMN XXIV. The dying Saint. I. HEN life's tempeftuous florins are o'er ; How calm he meets the friendly more, Who liv'd averfe to fin, Such peace on virtue's paths attends, That where the finner's pleafure ends, The good man's joys begin. II. See fmiling patience fmooth his brow ! See bending angels downward bow ! To liit his foul on high ; While eager for the bleit abode, He joins with them to praife the God, Who taught him how to die. III. The horrors of the grave and hell, Thofe horrors which the wicked feel, In vain their gloom difplay ; For he who bids yon comet burn, Or, makes the night defcend, can turn Their darknefs into day. IV. No forrow drowns his lifted eyes, No horror wrefts the ftruggliug fighs, As from the finner's breaft ; His God, the God of peace and love, Pours kindly folace from above, And heals his foul with reft. V. lit HYMN S. V. O grant, my Saviour, and my friend, Such joys may gild my peaceful end, And calm my evening clofe ; While loos'd from ev'ry earthly tie, With fteady confidence I fly To him, from whence I rofe. *%»*$***%+ HYMN XXV. The Ignorance of Man. I. BEHOLD yon new-born infant griev'd With hunger, thirfl and pain ; That afks to have the wants reliev'd, It knows not to explain. II. Aloud the fpeechlefs fuppliant cries, And utters, as it can, The woes that in its bofom rife, And fpeak its nature, Man. III. That infant, whofe advancing hour Life's various forrows try, (Sad proof of fin's tranfmiflive pow'r) That infant, Lord, am I. IV. A childhood yet, my thoughts confefs, Though long in years mature ; Unknowing whence I feel diftrefs, And where, or what its cure. V. Author of good, to thee I turn ; Thy ever wakeful eye Alone can all my "wants difcern, Thy hand alone fupply. VI. HYMNS. 29 VI. O let thy fear within me dwell, Thy love my footfteps guide, That love ihall vainer loves expel. That fear, all fears be fide. VII. And O, by error's force fubdu'd. Since oft my ftubborn will Prepoft'rous fhuns the latent good, And grafps the fpecious ill. VIII. Not to my wffli, but to my want, Do thou thy gifts applv : Unafk'd, what good thou knowefl, grant, What ill, though alk'd, deny. HYMN XXVI. Praife. I. PRAISE to God, immortal praife, For the love that crowns our days ; Bounteous fource of every joy, Let thy praife our tongues employ. For the bleflings of the field, For the ftores the gardens yield, For the vine's exalted juice, For the generous olive's ufe. III. Flocks that whiten all the plain, Yellow {heaves of ripen'd grain; Clouds that drop their fatt'ning dews, Suns that temperate warmth diffufe : D 2 IV. 3 o H Y M N S. IV. All that Spring, with bounteous hand, Scatters o'er the fmiling land ; All that liberal Autumn pours From her rich o*erflowing ftores : V. Thefe to thee, my God, we owe ; Source whence all our bleffings flow : And for thefe, my foul fhall raife, Grateful vows and folemn praife. VI. Yet, mould riling whirlwinds tear From its item the ripening ear ; Should the fig-tree's blafted (hoot Drop her greek untimely fruit ; VII. Should the vine put forth no more, Nor the olive yield her ftore ; Though the fick'ning flocks mould fall, And the herds defert the flail ; VIII. Should thine alter'd hand reftrain The early and the latter rain ; Blafl: each opening bud of joy, And the rifing year deftroy ; IX. Yet to thee my foul mould raife Grateful vows, and folemn praife j And, v/hen every blefling's flown, Love thee — for thyfelf alone. HYMN HYMNS. jr HYMN XXVII. For Sabbath Day. I. AGAIN the Lord of life and light Awakes the kindling ray ; Unleals the eye-lids of the morn, And pours encreafing day. II. O what a night was that, which wrap'd The heathen world in gloom ! O what a fun which broke this day, Triumphant from the tomb ! III. This day be grateful homage paid, And loud hofannas fung ; Let gladnefs dwell in ev'ry heart, And praife on ev'ry tongue. IV. Ten thoufand difFring lips fhall join To hail this welcome morn, Which fcatters ble flings from its wings, To nations yet unborn. V. Jefus, the friend of human kind, With ftrong companion mov'd, Defcended like a pitying God, To fave the fouls he lov'd. VI. The pow'rs of darknefs leagu'd in vain To bind his foul in death ; He (hook their kingdom when he fell, With his expiring breath, VII, 32 HYMNS. VII. Not long the toils of hell could keep The hope of Judah's line ; Coiruption never could take hold On aught fo much divine. VIII. And now his conqu'ring chariot wheels Afcend the lofty fkies ; While broke, beneath his pow'rful crofs, Death's iron fceptre lies. IX. Exalted high at God's right hand, And Lord of all below, Through him is pard'ning love difpens'd, And boundlefs bleflings flow. And ftill for erring, guilty man, A brother's pity flows ; And ftill his bleeding heart is touch'd With mem'ry of our woes. XI. To thee, my Saviour, and my King, Glad homage let me give ; And ftand prepar'd like thee to die, With thee that I may live. HYMN XXVIII. To the invifible Author of Nature. I. HY hand unfeen fuftains the poles, T On which this vaft creation rolls The ftarry arch proclaims thy pow'r, Thy pencil glows in every flow'r : HYMNS. 33 II. In thoufand ftiapes and colours rife Thy painted wonders to our eyes ; While beafts and birds with lab'nng throats, Teach us a God in thoufand notes. III. The meaneft part in nature's frame, Marks out fome letter ot thy name. Where fenfe can reach, or fancy rove, From hill to hill, from field to grove : IV. Acrofs the waves, around the fky, There's not a fpot, or low or high, Where the Creator has not trod, And left the footfteps of a God. +^H- ■«§++§$♦ HYMN XXIX, Praife. I. ALMIGHTY Maker, God! How wond'rous is thy name ! Thy glories how diffus'd abroad Through the creation's frame ! Nature in every drefs Her humble homage pays, And finds a thoufand ways t' exprefs Thine undiflembled praife. III. In native white and red The rofe and lilly ftand, And free from pride, their beauties fpread, To {hew thy flulful hand. IV. .34 HYMNS. IV. The lark mounts up the fky, With unambitious fong, And bears her Maker's praife on high Upon her artlefs tongue. V. My foul would rife and fing To her Creator too : Fain would my tongue adore my King, And pay the worfhip due. VI. But pride, that bufy (in, Spoils all that I perforin ; Curs ! d pride, that creeps fecurely in, And fwelfs a haughty worm. VII. Thy glories I abate, Or praife thee with defign ; Some of thy favours I forget, Or think the merit mine. VIII. The very fongs I frame Are faithlefs to thy caufe, And fteal the honours of thy name To build their own applaufe. IX. Create my foul anew, Elfe all my worfhip's vain ; This wretched heart will ne'er be true, Until 'tis form'd again. HYMN HYMNS. 35 HYMN XXX. Early Death. I. LIFE is a fpan, a fleeting hour. How foon the vapour flies ! Man is a tender, tranfient flow'r, That ev'n in blooming dies ! II. De.ith fpreads like winter's frozen arms, And beauty fmiles no more ; Ah ! where are now thofe rifiug charms, Which pleas'd our eyes before ? III. riie once lov'd form, now cold and dead, Each mournful thought employs : And nature weeps her comforts fled, And wither'd all her joys. IV. But wait the interpofing gloom, And lo ftern winter flies ! And dreft in beauty's fairefl bloom, The flow'ry tribes arife. V. Hope looks be^onli* the bounds of time ; When what we now deplore, Shall rife in full immortal prime, And bloom to fade no more. VI Then ceafe, fond nature, ceafe thy tears, Religion points on high ; There everlafting fpring appears, And joys that cannot die. HYMN 36 HYMNS. HYMN XXXI. The Comforts of Religion. I O BLEST Religion, heav'nly Fair ! Thy kind, thy healing pow'r, Can fweeten pain, alleviate care, And gild each gloomy hour. When difmal thoughts, and boding fears The trembling heart invade ; And all the face of nature wears A univerfal (hade : III. Thy facred dictates can afluage The tempeft of the foul ; And ev'ry fear fhall lofe its rage, At thy divine controul. IV. Through life's bewilder'd, darkfome way, Thy hand unerring leads ; And o'er the path, thy heav'nly ray, A cheering iuftre fheds. V. When feeble reafon, tir'd and blind, Sinks helplefs and afraid ; Thou bleft fupporter of the mind, How pow'rful is thy aid ! VI. O let my heart confefs thy pow'r, And find thy fweet relief, To brighten ev'ry gloomy hour, And foften ev'ry grief. ■i'fe* J&\\ 4-?A> *Tgrr 1TC&*' Tg?» H Y M N HYMNS. 37 II Y M N XXXII. Companion. I. BEHOLD, where breathing love divine, Our dying mailer Hands ; His weeping tol lowers gathering round, Receive his laft commands. II. From that mild teacher's paiting lips What tender accents fell ! The gentle precept which he gave, Became its author well. III. 11 Blefs'd is the man, whole foft'ning heart " Feels all another's pain ; M To whom the fupplicating eye, M Was never rais'd in vain. IV. " Whole breaft expands with generous warmth " A ftranger's woes to feel ; " And bleeds in pity o'er the wound, M He wants the pow'r to heal. V. " He fpreads his kind fupporting arms 11 To every child of grief ; !> His fecret bountv largely flows. *' And brings unafk'd relief. VI. " To gentle offices of love 11 His feet are never flow ; 11 He views through mercy's melting eye, " A brother in a foe, E VII. 3 8 H Y M N S. VII. " Peace from the bofora of his God, " My peace to him I give ; " And when he kneels before the throne, " His trembling foul mall live. VIII. •' To him protection lhall be Ihewn, 11 And mercy from above " Defcend on thofe who thus fulfil, *' The per feci: law of love." HYMN XXXIII. Complaint of Ingratitude. I. REAT GOD, to thee, my all I owe, And mall my tongue be ftill ? Shall conftant ftreams of mercy flow, Unting'd with any ill ? Shall ev'ry ddy new favours bring, And ev'ry night proclaim My God, their bounteous fource and fpring ? And yet unprais'd his name ! Ills Shall ev'ry moment prove his grace, And mew his tender care ? And is my heart not found the .place, Where warm affections are ? IV. Shall changing feafons, day and hour, Each minute as it flies, Evince thy ever bounteous pow'r, And fee new bleffings rife ? V G HYMNS. V. And does my foul no rapture find, No ardent thanks exprefs, No praifes warm my callous mind ? As humbly I confefs ! VI. Then, O my God, one favour {fill, Add to thy boundlefs More, My foul with grateful raptures fill, I'll praife thee, and adore ! «&■*&• H Y M N XXXIV. Nature's Call to Gratitude. I. tJOW cheerful, along the gay mead, JL The daifies and cow flips appear; Ti:'- flocks as they carelefsly feed, Rejoice in the ipring of the year. II. The myrtles that made the gay bow'rs, The herbage that fprings from the fod, Trees, plants, cooling fruits, and fweet flow ? rs, All rife to the praife of my God. III. Shall man, the great mafler of all, The only ipfenfibfe prove ? Forbid it, fair gratitude's call, Forbid it, devotion and love. IV. The Lord, who fuch wonders could raife, And ftill can deflroy with a nod, My lips mail incefiantly praife, My foul mail be wrapt in my God. H Y M N 39 4 o HYMNS, HYMN XXXV. The Companion of Jefus Chrijh i. YE Angel Forms, look clown ; and fee A fcene of ilrange diflrefs below : Behold Divine Humanity Diifolv'd in fympathetic woe. II. Lo, on high Olivet he ftands, Salem's proud tow'rs in profpeft rife : His bowels yearn, he fp reads his hands, Compaffion gulhing from his eyes : * ; O Salem, my prophetic view " Thy mighty miferies furveys ; " Vengeance, to thy rebellions due, " Unknown in part and future days. IV. " What labours have I fhunn'd, for thee, " What pow'rs of fuafion left untry'd, *' Thy children to allure to me, " And in a Saviour's fhadow hide ? v. u So when the falcon fails above, " The parent hen, with tender cry, " Under her guardian wing of love, " Collects her infant progeny. VI. *' But ah ! ye would not — O ye blind ! (He faid, and heav'd a deeper figh) " Your temple is to flames confign'd ; •• The dark predeftin'd hour is nigh.'* VII. Blefl; Jefus, in thy feeling heart, For me, a finner, fpare one place. I would be thine — O yield a part To me, in thy redeeming grace. ,*§*«§* ' H Y M N HYMNS. 4 r HYMN XXXVI. The Funeral. I. IN black proceflion, fad and flow, About the ftreets the mourners go : Man comes to make his long abode, Where darknefs dwells and worms corrode. II. There bufy life, there pleafure ends, And tie of blood, and tie of friends. There ends probation's hour, and there Virtue's hard ftrife with fin and care. III. Why for vain riches do I toil, Gath'ring for death a larger fpoil ? Why for this dying flefh purvey, The finful pleafures of a day. IV. Why cling fo clofely to my heart Kindred and friends ? we foon muft part ! And wherefore do I wafle the fpan Of mercy limited to man ? V. The pious few O let me join, And with their faith my breath refign ; That their hereafter, mine may be, Ev'n mine their bleft eternity, H Y M N XXXVII. Divine Benevolence. I. IN fhadow black as night, With fcarce one feeble ray Of nature's dim expiring light, . The nations loft their way, E z II, 42 HYMNS. II. Like foolifh fheep we flray'd, All from the Maker's fold : Each by his fev'ral fin betray 'd, His fev'ral path would hold. III. Blind, headlong every one To the fame ruin ran. Th' almighty Father from his throne, Beheld his creature man. IV. His wilder'd human race The Father's pity won : Forth from the bofom of his grace He fent his firft-born Son* V. Benevolent he came The meffenger of love ; Debating to a mortal frame His godlike form above. VI. With gentle voice he cries, " Sinners my yoke receive : " Light is my yoke, and life the prize 44 I to the yielding give." VII. Truth fpreads her golden wings, With the glad news fhe flew ; Salvation through the world fhe brings To Gentile and to Jew. VIII. O mercy, fweet and high, Above our loftieft praife : Ye noble natives of the fky, Your nobleft anthems raife. «tt4i» H Y M N H Y M N S. 43 HYMN XXXVIII. The Heavens declare the Being and Glory of God. I. THE fpacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal iky, And fpangled heavens, a mining frame, Their great original proclaim : T\\ unwearied fun, from day to day, Does his Creator's pow'r difplay, And publifhes to every land, The work of an almighty hand* III. Soon as the evening (hades prevail, The moon takes up the wond'rous tale, And nightly to the lift'ning earth, Repeats the (lory of her birth : IV. Whilft all the ftars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roil, And fproad the truth from pole to pole. V. What though, in folemn filence, all Move round the dark terreftial ball ? What though nor real voice nor found Amid their radiant orbs be found ? VI. In reafon's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, Forever fmging,' as they fnine, " The Hand that made us is Divine." H Y M N 44 HYMNS. HYMN XXXIX. Divine Sovereignty, I. TO vindicate our words and thoughts, We make no more pretence : Not one of all our num'rous faults, Can bear a juft defence. II. Strong is his arm, his heart .is wife, What vain prefumers dare, Again ft their Maker's hand to rife, Or tempt th' unequal war ? III. Mountains, by his almighty wrath, From their old feats are torn ; He makes the earth from fouth to north, And all her pillars mourn. IV. He bids the fun forbear to rife, Th' obedient fun forbears ; His hand with fackcloth fpreads the fkies, And feals up all the liars. V. He walks upon the foaming fea, Flies on the ftormy wind ; There's none can trace his fecret way, Nor his dark footfteps find. VI. Yet truth and judgment are his throne, And wond'rous is his grace ; While power and mercy, join'd in one, Invite us near his face. HYMN HYMN S. 45 H Y M N XL. Strength from Heaven. WHENCE do our mournful thoughts arife ? And where \s our courage fled ? Has re A lei's fin and raging hell Struck all our comforts dead ? II. Have we forgot th' almighty name That form'd the earth and fea ? And can an all" creating arm Grow weary or decay ? III. Treafures of everlafting might . In our Jehovah dwell ; He gives the conqueft to the weak, And treads their foes to hell. IV. Mere mortal power (hall fade and die, And youthful vigour ceafe ; But we who wait upon the Lord, Shall feel our ftrength increafe. V. The faints (hall mount on eagles wings, And tafte the promis'd blifs, Till their unwearied feet arrive, Where perfeft pleafure is. +*&«%* HYMN XLI. God's tender Care of his Church. I. NOW (hall my inward joys arife, And burft into a fong : Almighty love infpires my heart, And pleafure tunes my tongue, II. 46 HYMNS. II. God on his thirfty Sion-hill Some mercy drops has thrown, And folemn oaths have bound his love, To ihow'r falvation down. III. Why do we then indulge our fears, Sufpicions and complaints ? Is he a God, and mail his grace Grow weary of his faints. IV. Can a kind woman e'er forget The infant of her womb, Among a thoufand tender thoughts Her fuckling have no room ? V. " Yet, faith the Lord, mould nature change, " And mothers mon Iters prove, *' Sion ftill dwells upon the heart " Of everlaftinff love. 8 VI. " Deep on the palms of both my hands " I have engrav'd her name ; *' My hands mall raife her ruin'd walls, " And build her broken frame. " HYMN XLII. Self-Examination for the Evening. I. ND now, my foul the circling fun, Has all his beams withdrawn : Once more his daily race is run, And gloomy night comes on. If, A HYMNS. 47 II. Tluis one day more of life is gone ; A doubtful few remain : Come, then, review what thou haft done, Eternal life to gain. in. Do ft thou get forward in thy race, As time ftill pofts away ? And die to fin, and grow in grace, With ev'ry palling day ? IV. this day, what conquefts haft thou gain'd ? What fin is overcome ? What frefh degree of grace obtain'd, To bring tnee nearer home ? V. ^ias ! this life will foon be paft, 'Tis dying ev'ry day : 5ut do thy hopes make equal hafte ? Or negligence betray ? VI. Do they more ftrong and lively grow, And make more pure from fin ? jive more contempt of things below, Create more peace within ? VII. ) ! do not pafs this life in dreams, To be furpris'd by death :" bid fink where mercy never beams, When I relign my breath. VIII. h ! every day thy courfe review, Thy real ft ate to learn : Ind with renewed zeal purfue Thy great and chief concern. *£h*§* H Y M N 4 8 HYMNS. H Y M N XLIII. The Beatitudes. I. BLEST are the humble fouls that fee Their emptinefs and poverty ; Treafures of grace to them are giv'n, And crowns of joy laid up in heav'n. II. Bleft are the men oi broken heart, Who mourn for fin with inward fmart ; The blood of Chrift divinely flows A healing halm for all their woes. III. Bleft are the meek, who ftand afar, From rage and paffion, noife and war ; God will fecure their happy ftate, And plead their caufe again ft the great. IV. Bleft are the fouls that third for grace, Hunger and long for righteoufnefs ; They fhall be well fupply'd and fed With living ft reams and living bread, V. Bleft are the men whofe bowels move, And melt with fympathy and love ; From Chrift the Lord, they fhall obtain Like fympathy and love again : VI. Bleft are the pure, whofe hearts are clean From the defiling pow'rs of fin ; With endlefs pleafure they fhaH fee A God of fpotlefs purity. VII, HYMNS. 49 VII. Blelt are the men of peaceful life, Who quench the coals of growing ftrife : They mall be call'd the heirs of blifs, 'I he fons of God, the God of peace * VIII. Blefl are the fuffrers who partake Ol pain and fharne for Jefus' fake ; Their fouls mail triumph in the Lord, Glory and joy arc their reward. ' HYMN XLIV. The Appearance of Angels to the Shepherds. I. TTTHilemepherds watch'd their flocks by night y All feated on the ground, 7 * ' ine Angel ot the Lord came down, And glory ihone around. II. 1 Fear not," fair! he, (for mighty dread Had feiz d their troubled mind) " Glad tidings of great joy I bring lo you, and all mankind. « T • r. IIL lo you in David's town, this day " Is born, ot David's line, * The Saviour, who is Chrift the Lord ; M And this (hall be the fi