The Example of Christ. 1 John ii. 6.
ND is the gospel peace and love? So let our conversation be; The serpent blended with the dove, Wisdom and meek simplicity.
2 Whene'er the angry passions rise,
And tempt our thoughts or tongues to strife, On Jesus let us fix our eyes, Bright pattern of the christian life!
3 O how benevolent and kind! How mild! how ready to forgive! Be his the temper of our mind, And his the rules by which we live.
4 To do his heavenly Father's will, Was his employment and delight: Humanity and holy zeal
Shone through his life divinely bright. 5 Dispensing good where'er he came, The labours of his life were love: If then we love our Saviour's name, Let his divine example move.
6 But ah, how blind! how weak we are, How frail! how apt to turn aside ! Lord, we depend upon thy care, And ask thy Spirit for our guide!
See, from the clouds his glory breaks, When the first beams of morning rise! 2 The rising sun, serenely bright, O'er the wide world's extended frame, Inscripes, in characters of light His mighty Maker's glorious name. 3 Diffusing life, his influence spreads, And health and plenty smile around: And fruitful fields, and verdant meads, Are with a thousand blessings crown'd. 4 Almighty goodness, power divine, The fields and verdant meads display; And bless the hand which made them shine, With various charms profusely gay.
5 For man and beast, here daily food In wide diffusive plenty grows: And there, for drink, the crystal flood In streams sweet winding gently flows. 6 The flowery tribes, all blooming rise, Above the faint attempts of art: Their bright, inimitable dyes Speak sweet conviction to the heart,
7 Ye curious minds who roam abroad, And trace creation's wonders o'er! Confess the footsteps of the God, And bow before him, and adore.
HILE beauty clothes the fertile vale And blossoms on the spray, And fragrance breathes in every gale, How sweet the vernal day !
2 How kind the influence of the skies; Soft showers, with blessings fraught, Bid verdure, beauty, fragrance rise, And fix the roving thought.
3 O let my wandering heart confess, With gratitude and love,
The bounteous hand that deigns to bless The garden, field, and grove.
4 That bounteous hand my thoughts adore, Beyond expression kind, Hath sweeter, nobler gifts in store, To bless the craving mind.
5 Inspir❜d to praise, I then shall join Ġlad nature's cheerful song; And love and gratitude divine Attune my joyful tongue.
1 THE rising morn, the closing day, Repeat thy praise with grateful voice; Both in their turns thy power display, And laden with thy gifts rejoice.
2 Earth's wide-extended, varying scenes, All smiling round thy bounty show; From seas or clouds, full magazines, Thy rich diffusive blessings flow.
3 Now earth receives the precious seed, Which thy indulgent hand prepares: And nourishes the future bread, And answers all the sower's cares.
4 Thy sweet refreshing showers attend, And through the ridges gently flow, Soft on the springing corn descend: And thy kind blessing makes it grow. 5 Thy goodness crowns the circling year; Thy paths drop fatness all around; Ev'n barren wilds thy praise declare, And echoing hills return the sound. 6 Here spreading flocks adorn the plain; There plenty every charm displays; Thy bounty clothes each lovely scene, And joyful nature shouts thy praise.
KIPPIS.
HYMN DCCXXVI.
To the unknown God.
REAT God! in vain man's narrow view Attempts to look thy nature through: Our labouring powers with reverence own Thy glories never can be known. 2 Not the high seraph's mighty thought, Who countless years his God has sought, Such wondrous height or depth can find, Or fully trace thy boundless mind. 3 Yet Lord, thy kindness deigns to show Enough for mortal minds to know; While wisdom, goodness, power divine, Through all thy works and conduct shine. 4 O! may our souls with rapture trace Thy works of nature and of grace; Explore thy sacred name, and still Press on to know and do thy will!
STERNHOLD.
HYMN DCCXXVII.
The Majesty of God.
1 THE Lord descended from above
And bow'd the heavens most high;
And underneath his feet he cast
The darkness of the sky.
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