V.

Time, like an ever-rolling Stream,
Bears all it's Sons away,
They fly forgotten as a Dream
Dies at the op'ning Day.

VI.

O GOD our Help in Ages paft,
Our Hope for Years to come,
Be thou our Guard while Life fhall laft,
And our perpetual Home.

HYMN

CLXXXVIII.

The Lord hath laid on Him the Iniquity of us all. If. Tiii. 6.

I.

ARISE my Soul; with Wonder fee,

What Love divine for thee hath done, Behold thy Sorrow, Sin, and Grief, 4!! Are laid on GOD's eternal SON.

See! from his Head, his Hands, his Feet,
Sorrow and Love flow mingling down,
Did e'er fuch Love, fuch Sorrow meet,
Or Thorns compofe fo bright a Crown?

III.

Were the whole Realm of Nature mine,
That were a Prefent far too fmall;
Love fo amazing, fo divine,

Demands my Soul, my Life, my All.

HYMNÁ

HYMN CLXXXIX.

The Darkness of Providence.
Pfalm. xcvii. 2.

I.

ORD we adore thy dark Defigns,
The
The deep Abyss of Providence,
Too deep to found with mortal Lines,
Too dark to view with feeble Senfe.
II.

Now thou array'ft thine aweful Face!
In angry Frowns without a Smile;
Saints, thro' a Cloud believe thy Grace,
Secure of thy Compaffion still."

Thro' Seas and Storms of deep Diftrefs
They fail by Faith, and not by * Sight:
Faith guides them in the Wilderness,
Thro' all the Briars and the Night.

Dear FATHER! if thy lifted Rod
Refolve to fcourge us here below,
Still we muft + lean upon our God,.
Thine Arm fhall bear us fafely thro.

E Saints and Servants of the LORD

Y.The Triumphs of his Name record

His facred Name for ever bless:
Where'er the circling Sun difplays
His rifing Beams or fetting Rays,
Due Praise to his great Name addrefs:

GoE 2 Cor. v. 7. + Cant. viii. 5,

God thro' the World extends his Sway,
The Regions of eternal Day,

But Shadows of his Glory are,
With Him, whofe Majefty excels,
Who made the Heav'n in which he dwells,
Let no created Power compare.
II.

Tho' 'tis beneath his State to view
In highest Heav'n what Angels do,
Yet He to Earth vouchfafes his Care;
He takes the Needy from his Cell,
Advancing him in Courts to dwell,
Companion of the greatest there.

III.

To FATHER, SON, and HOLY GHOST,
The GOD whom Heaven's triumphant Hoft
And fuff'ring Saints on Earth adore,

Be Glory as in Ages paft,

As now it is, and fo fhall last

When Earth and Heav'n fhall be no more.

HYMN CXCI.

.I.

LEST be the Father and his Love,

Rivers of endless Joys above,
And Rills of Comfort here below!

II.

Glory to Thee, great Son of GOD!
Forth from thy wounded Body rolls.
A precious Stream of vital Blood,
Pardon and Life for dying Souls..

We

III.

We give the Sacred SPIRIT Praife,
Who, in our Hearts of Sin and Woe,
Makes living Springs of Grace arife,
And into boundless Glory flow.

IV.

Thus GOD the FATHER, GOD the SON,
And God the SPIRIT, we adore,
That Sea of Life and Love unknown,
Without a Bottom or a Shore.

HYMN CXCII.

In Spirit we trace

Thy Wonders of Grace;

Word.

And chearfully join in a Concert of Praise.
II.

The ANTIENT OF DAYS

His Glory difplays,

And shines on his Chofen with cherishing Rays.
IV.

The Trumpet of GOD

Is founding abroad

The Language of Mercy, Salvation thro' Blood.

V.

Thrice happy are they

Who hear and obey;

And fhare in the Bleffings of this Gofpel-day.

VI.

The People, who know

The SAVIOUR, below

With burning Affection to worship him glow.

VII.

Their Anguish and Smart
And Sorrows depart,

Who find his Salvation infcrib'd on their Heart,
VIII.

This Bleffing be mine
Thro' Favour divine

But O my REDEEMER the Glory be thine!
IX.S

The Work is of Grace ;

Thine, thine be the Praife! nu And mine to adore Thee and tell of thy Ways.

G

LORY and Honour be to Thee,
J1 hou felf-exiftent Deity;
Thee we revere, and Thee adore,
In Mercy infinite, and Pow'r.

II.

To Thee, our joyful Hearts we raise,
To Thee, we bring our Songs of Praise,
Whose bounteous Care and Love imparts
Celestial Bleffings to our Hearts.

III.

Unto the holy Triune GOD,

Who haft on us, poor Worms, bestow'd
Such Favour, fuch amazing Grace,
We pay our Homage, Thanks and Praise.

OME Thou Almighty King,
Help us thy Name to fing,

Help us to praise !

FATHER All-glorious,

O'er all Victorious,