Sun, and Moon, and Stars decay,
Time fhall foon this Earth remove :
Rife, my Soul, and hafte away
To Seats prepar'd above.
Rivers to the Ocean run,
Nor ftay in all their Course
Fire afcending feeks the Sun,
Both speed them to their Source :
So a Soul that's born of GOD
Pants to view his glorious Face, ||
Upwards tends to his Abode,
To reft in his Embrace.
Ceafe, ye Pilgrims, ceafe to mourn, ‡
Prefs onward to the Prize
Soon our SAVIOUR will return
Triumphant in the Skies:
Yet a Season and you know
Happy Entrance will be giv'n,
All our Sorrows left below, S
And Earth exchang'd for Heav'n.
HYMN LVI.
Public Thanksgiving.
SHOUT to the LORD, and let our Joys
Thro' the whole Nation run;
Ye British Skies, refound the Noise
John i. 12, 13. || Pf. xlii. 1, 2. ‡ Heb.xi. 13. § If. xxxv. 10. &
Thee, mighty GoD, our Souls admire,
Thee our glad Voices fing,
And join with the celeftial Choir
To praise th' eternal King.
III.
Thy Pow'r the whole Creation rules,
And on the ftarry Skies,
Sits fmiling at the weak Defigns.
Thine envious Foes devife.
Thy Scorn derides their feeble Rage,
And with an awful Frown,
Flings vaft Confufion on their Plots,
And fhakes their Babel down,
V..
Almighty Grace defends our Land
From their malicious Pow'r ;
Let Britain with united Songs
Almighty Grace adore.
Panting after GOD. Pf. xlii. 1.
HOU hidden Love of God whofe Height,
WhofeDepth unfathom'd no Man knows,
I fee from far thy beauteous Light,
Inly I figh for thy Repose:
My Heart is pain'd, nor can it be
At Reft, till it find Reft in Thee.
Is there a Thing beneath the Sun,
That ftrives with Thee my Heart to share !
Ah! tear it thence, and reign alone,
The LORD of ev'ry Motion there :
Then fhall my Heart from Earth be free,
When it has found Repofe in thee,
III.
Oh hide this Self from me, that I
No more, but CHRIST in me may live !
My vile Affections crucify,
Nor let one darling Lust survive :
In all Things nothing may I see,
Nothing defire, or feek, but Thee!
O Love thy fov'reign Aid impart,
To fave me from low-thoughted Care :
Chafe this Self-will through all my Heart,
Through all its latent Mazes there:
Make me thy duteous Child, that I
Ceafelefs may Abba, FATHER, cry. §
Each Moment draw from Earth away
My Heart that lowly waits thy Call,
Speak to my inmoft Soul and fay,
I am thy Love, thy God, thy All !
To feel thy Pow'r, to hear thy Voice,
To taste thy Love be all my Choice!
OME, my FATHER'S Family,
ranfom'd of the LORD,
Come, ye Sinners, who with me
Are ev'ry where abhorr'd ; t
Let us glady trace his Steps,
Who fuffer'd Death among the Jews, Whom the friendlefs Soul accepts, Whom all befide refuse.
JESUS, the defpis'd and mean,
Our Mafter let us own, ‡
He the Sacrifice for Sin,
The SAVIOUR He alone:
Let us take and bear his Crofs, $
Defpis'd Difciples let us be:
Mock'd and flighted, as he was
For you, my Friends, and me,
None but JESUS will we fing,
None elfe will we adore;
He our Prophet, Prieft, and King,
Shall be for evermore :
None among the heav'nly Pow'rs, **
Nor one on Earth our Praise
None but JESUs call we ours,
None but the bleeding LAMB !
Tin Concert with the Bleft,
HE LORD of Sabbath let us praise,
Who Joyful in harmonious Lays,
Employ an endless Rest.
Thus, LORD while we remember Thee,
We bleft and pious grow:
By Hymns of Praife we learn to be,
Triumphant here below.
On this glad Day a brighter Scene
Of Glory was display'd
By GoD, th' eternal WORD, than when
This Universe was made.
He rifes, who Mankind hath bought
With Grief and Pain extreme;
'Twas great to speak the World from Nought'Twas greater to redeem !
But the greatest of thefe is Love.
Hwhere Love infpires the Breaft!
Love is the Brighteft of the Train,
And perfects all the reft,
G
APPY the Heart, where Graces reign,
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