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HYMN LI.
Thine Eyes shall see the King in his
Beauty. Isaiah, xxxiii. 17.

SHOULD nature's charms to please

the eye,

In sweet assemblage join,
All nature's charms would droop and die,
Jesus, compared with thine."

2 Vain were her fairest beams display'd,
And vain her blooming store;
Her brightness languishes to shade,
Her beauty is no more.

S But ah, how far from mortal sight
The Lord of glory dwells!
A veil of interposing night
His radiant face conceals.
4 O could my longing spirit rise
On strong immortal wing,
And reach thy palace in the skies,
My Saviour and my King!

5 There thousands worship at thy feet,
And there (divine employ !)
The triumphs of thy love repeat,
In songs of endless joy.

6 Thy presence beams eternal day

O'er all the bussful place;

12 Wide as the wheels of nature roll, Thy hand supports and guides the

whole:

The sun is taught by thee to rise,

And darkness when to veil the skies.
3 The flowery spring, at thy command,
Perfumes the air, and paints the land;
The summer rays with vigour shine
To raise the corn and cheer the vine.
14 Thy hand in autumn richly pours
Through all our coast redundant stores;
And winters, soften'd by thy care,
No more the face of horror wear.
5 Seasons, and months, and weeks, and
days

Demand successive songs of praise;
And be the grateful homage paid,
With morning light and evening shade.
6 Here in thy house let incense rise,
And circling sabbaths bless our eyes,
Till to those lofty heights we soar,
Where days and years revolve no more.
HYMN LIV.
A Funeral Thought.

Who would not drop this load of clay, HARK! from the tombs, a mournful

And die to see thy face?

HYMN LII.

The Excellency and Sufficiency of the

Scriptures.

ATHER of mercies! in thy word
What endless glory shines!

For ever be thy name adored

For these celestial lines.

2 Here may the wretched sons of want
Exhaustless riches find;

Riches above what earth can grant,
And lasting as the mind.

3 Here the fair tree of knowledge grows,
And yields a free repast,
Sublimer sweets than nature knows
Invite the longing taste.

4 Here the Redeemer's welcome voice
Spreads heavenly peace around
And life, and everlasting joys

Attend the blissful sound.

5 O may these heavenly pages be
My ever dear delight;
And still new beauties may I sec,
And still increasing light.

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6 Divine Instructor, gracious Lord,
Be thou for ever near;
Teach me to love thy sacred word,
And view my Saviour there.

HYMN LIII.

The Seasons crowned with Goodness.
Psalm 1xv. 11.

TERNAL source of every joy!

Ewell may thy praise our is employ,

While in thy temple we appear,
To hail thee, sov'reign of the year.

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sound,

My ears, attend the cry:

Ye living men, come view the ground
'Where you must shortly lie.

Princes, this clay must be your bed,
In spite of all your towers!

The tall, the wise, the reverend head
'Must lie as low as ours.'

3 Great God! is this our certain doom?
And are we still secure?

Still walking downward to the tomb,
And yet prepare no more?

4 Grant us the power of quickening
grace,

To fit our souls to fly;

Then when we drop this dying flesh,
We'll rise above the sky.

HYMN LV.

A Charity Hymn.

LORD of life, all praise excelling,

Thou, in glory unconfined,
Deign'st to make thy hunible dwelling
With the poor of humble mind.
2 As thy love, through all creation,
Beams like thy diffusive light;
So the scorn'd and humble station
Shrinks before thine equal sight.
3 Thus thy care, for all providing,
Warm'd thy faithful prophet's tongue,
Who, the lot of all deciding,

To thy chosen Israel sung:

4 When thine harvest yields thee pleasure,

Theu the golden sheaf shalt bind, To the poor belongs the treasure

Of the scatter'd ears behind.

And in my stead, all the night long,
Sing to my God a grateful song.
S Praise God, from whom all blessings
flow,

Praise him, all creatures here below;
Praise him above, ye angelic host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
HYMN XLVI.

Paraphrase of the 100th Psalm.

EFORE Jehovah's awful throne,

Fain would our hearts and voices raise
A cheerful song of sacred praise.
2 But all the notes which mortals know,
Are weak, and languishing, and low;
Far, far above our humble songs,
The theme demands immortal tongues.
3 Yet whilst around his board we meet,
And worship at his sacred feet;
O let our warm affections move,
In glad returns of grateful love.

we and we adore,

Bye nations, bow with sacred joy; But long to know and love thee more;

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And whilst we taste the bread and wine,
Desire to feed on joys divine.
5 Let faith our feeble senses aid,
To see thy wondrous love display'd;
Thy broken flesh, thy bleeding veins,
Thy dreadful agonizing pains.
6 Let humble penitential woe,
With painful pleasing anguish flow;
And thy forgiving love impart,
Life, hope, and joy to every heart,
HYMN XLIX.
The Lord's Day.

And earth, with her ten thousand W

tongues,

Shall fill thy courts with sounding

praise.

5 Wide as the world is thy command, Vast as eternity thy love;

WELCOME, sweet day of rest,
That saw the Lord arise;
Welcome to this reviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes.

2 The King himself comes near
To feast his saints to-day;
Here we may sit, and see him here,
One day amidst the place
And iove, and praise, and pray.
Where Jesus is within,

Firm as a rock thy truth must stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move.s
HYMN XLVII.

Praise to the Redeemer.

То our Redeemer's glorious name

Awake the sacred song!

O may his love (immortal flame!)
Tune every heart and tongue.

2 His love, what mortal thought can

reach?

What mortal tongue display? Imagination's utmost stretch

In wonder dies away.

Is better than ten thousand days
Of pleasure and of sin.
4 My willing soul would stay
In such a frame as this,
Till it is call'd to soar away
To everlasting bliss.

HYMN L.

Preparations for religious Worship. from my thoughts, vain world.

3 He left his radiant throne on high,AR
Left the bright realms of bliss,
And came to earth to bleed and die!
Was ever love like this?

4 Dear Lord, while we adoring pay
Our humble thanks to thee;
May every heart with rapture say,
The Saviour died for me.'
50 may the sweet, the blissful theme
Fill every heart and tongue;
Till strangers love thy charming name,
And join the sacred song.

HYMN XLVIII.

Communion with Christ.

T 10 Jesus, our exalted Lord,

be gone,

Let my religious hours alone;
From flesh and sense I would be free.
And hold communion, Lord, with thes.
2 My heart grows warm with holy fire,
And kindles with a pure desire,
To see thy grace, to taste thy love,
And feel thine influence from above.
3 When I can say that God is mine,
When I can see thy glories shine,
I tread the world beneath my feet,
And all that men call rich and great.
Send comfort down from thy right
hand,

To cheer me in this barren land;

That name, in heaven and earth And in thy temple let me know
The joys that from thy presence flow.

adored,

HYMN LI. Thine Eyes shall see the King in his Beauty. Isaiah, xxxiii. 17. HOULD nature's charms to please

SHO the eye,

In sweet assemblage join,
All nature's charms would droop and die,
Jesus, compared with thine."

2 Vain were her fairest beams display'd,
And vain her blooming store;
Her brightness languishes to shade,
Her beauty is no more.

S But ah, how far from mortal sight
The Lord of glory dwells!
A veil of interposing night

His radiant face conceals.
4 O could my longing spirit rise
On strong immortal wing,
And reach thy palace in the skies,
My Saviour and my King!

5 There thousands worship at thy feet,
And there (divine employ !)
The triumphs of thy love repeat,
In songs of endless joy.

6 Thy presence beams eternal day
O'er all the bussful place;

Who would not drop this load of clay, And die to see thy face?

HYMN LII.

The Excellency and Sufficiency of the Scriptures.

ATHER of mercies! in thy word

FWhat endless glory shines!

For ever be thy name adored

For these celestial lines.

2 Here may the wretched sons of want Exhaustless riches find;

Riches above what earth can grant,
And lasting as the mind.

3 Here the fair tree of knowledge grows, And yields a free repast,

Sublimer sweets than nature knows
Invite the longing taste.

4 Here the Redeemer's welcome voice
Spreads heavenly peace around;
And life, and everlasting joys
'Attend the blissful sound.

5 O may these heavenly pages be
My ever dear delight;
And still new beauties may I see,
And still increasing light.
6 Divine Instructor, gracious Lord,
Be thou for ever near;
Teach me to love thy sacred word,
And view my Saviour there.

HYMN LIII.

The Seasons crowned with Goodness. Psalm lxv. 11.

12 Wide as the wheels of nature roll, Thy hand supports and guides the

TERNAL source of every joy! Well may thy praise our lips employ, While in thy temple we appear, To hail thee, sov'reign of the year.

whole:

The sun is taught by thee to rise, And darkness when to veil the skies. 3 The flowery spring, at thy command, Perfumes the air, and paints the land; The summer rays with vigour shine To raise the corn and cheer the vine. 4 Thy hand in autumn richly pours Through all our coast redundant stores; And winters, soften'd by thy care, No more the face of horror wear. 5 Seasons, and months, and weeks, and days

Demand successive songs of praise; And be the grateful homage paid, With morning light and evening shade. 6 Here in thy house let incense rise, And circling sabbaths bless our eyes, Till to those lofty heights we soar, Where days and years revolve no more. HYMN LIV.

A Funeral Thought.

HARK! from the tombs, a mournful

sound,

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Chorus.

These thy God ordains to bless The widow and the fatherless. 5 When thine olive plants increasing, Pour their plenty o'er thy plain, Grateful thou shalt take the blessing, But not search the bow again.

Chorus. These, &c.

6 When thy favour'd vintage flowing,
Gladdens thy autumnal scene,
Own the bounteous hand bestowing,
But thy vines the poor shall glean,
Chorus. These, &c.
7 Still we read thy word declaring
Mercy, Lord, thine own decree;
Mercy, every sorrow sharing,

Warms the heart resembling thee."
8 Still the orphan and the stranger,
Still the widow owns thy care,
Screen'd by thee in every danger,
Heard by thee in every prayer.
Hallelujah. Amen.

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ATHER of mercies! house

FWwe pay our homage and our vows;

Whilst with a grateful heart we share These pledges of our Saviour's care. 2 The Saviour, when to heaven he rose, In splendid triumph o'er his foes, Scatter'd his gifts on men below, And wide his royal bounties flow. 3 Hence sprang the Apostle's honour'd name,

Sacred beyond heroic fame; Herce dictates the prophetic sage, And hence the evangelic page. 4r lower forms, to bless our eyes, Pastors from hence and Teachers rise; Who, though with feebler rays they shine,

Stil mark a long extended line.

5 From Christ their varied gifts derive, And, fed by him, their graces live; Whilst guarded by his potent hand, Amidst the rage of hell they stand. 6 So shall the bright succession run, Through all the courses of the sun; Whilst unborn churches, by their care, Shall rise and flourish large and fair. 7 Jesus, our Lord, their hearts shall know

The spring whence all these blessings flow;

Pastors and people shout his praise, Through the long round of endless days.

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HYMN LVII.

Prayer for Ministers.

NATHER of mercies! bow thine ear, Attentive to our earnest prayer; We plead for those who plead for thee, Successful pleaders may they be! 2 How great their work, how vast their charge!

Do thou their anxious souls enlarge; Their best acquirements are our gain, We share the blessings they obtain. with energy divine, Their words, and let those words be

thine;

To them thy sacred truth reveal, Suppress their fear, inflame their zeal.' 4 Teach them to sow the precious seed, Teach them thy chosen flock to feed; Teach them immortal souls to gainSouls that will well reward their pain. 5 Let thronging multitudes around, Hear from their lips the joyful sound; In humble strains thy grace implore, And feel thy new-creating power. 6 Let sinners break their massy chains, Distressed souls forget their pains; Let light through distant realms be spread,

And Zion rear her drooping head.

Whenever the Hymns are used at the celebration of divine service, a certain portion or por tions of the Psalms of David in metre shall also be sung.

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AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE,

SHOWING WHERE TO FIND EACH PSALM BY ITS BEGINNING.

PSALMS.

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Against all those that strive with me
As pants the hart for cooling streams
At length, by certain proofs, 'tis
plain

Behold, O God, how heathen hosts
Bless God, my soul; thou Lord, alone
Bless God, ye servants, that attend
Defend me, Lord, from shame
Deliver me, O Lord, my God
Do thou, O God, in mercy help
For ever bless'd be God the Lord
For thee, O God, our constant praise
From lowest depths of woe
From my youth up, may Israel say
Give ear, thou Judge of all the earth
God in the great assembly stands
God is our refuge in distress
God's temple crowns the holy mount
- Had not the Lord, may Israel say
Happy the man whose tender care
Have mercy, Lord, on me
Hear, O my people, to my law
He's blest whose sins have pardon
gain'd

He that has God his guardian inade
Hold not thy peace, O Lord our God
How blest are they, who always keep
How blest is he, who ne'er consents
How good and pleasant must it be
How long wilt thou forget me, Lord
How many, Lord, of late are grown
How vast must their advantage be
I'll celebrate thy praises, Lord
In deep distress I oft have cry'd
In Judah the Almighty's known
In thee I put my steadfast trust
In vain, O man of lawless might
I waited meekly for the Lord
Jehovah reigns, let all the earth
Jehovah reigns; let therefore all
Judge me, O Lord, for I the paths
Just Judge of heaven, against my
foes

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Page 18 Lord, hear the voice of my complaint 32 22 Lord, let thy just decrees the king 36 Lord, not to us, we claim no share $7 Lord, save me, for thy glorious name 28 42 Lord, thou hast granted to thy land 45 54 Lord, who's the happy man that may 8 73 My crafty foe, with flattering art 16 My God, my God, why leav'st thou

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72 No change of time shall ever shock
28 0 all ye people, clap your hands
44 O come, loud anthems let us sing
25 Of mercy's never-failing spring
46 0 God, who hast our troops dispersed 30
71 0 God, my gracious God, to thee
22 O God, my heart is fully bent
27 O God, whose former mercies make 60
40 0 God of hosts, the mighty Lord

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O God, to whom revenge belongs 16 0 Israel's Shepherd, Joseph's Guide 43 49 O Lord, thou art my righteous Judge 4 44 0 Lord, my God, since I have placed 4 64 0 Lord, my rock, to thee I cry 30 Lord, our fathers oft have told 49 O Lord, to my relief draw near 70 Lord, the Saviour and defence 30 Lord, I am not proud of heart 73 On thee, who dwell'st above the skies 71 150 praise the Lord, for he is good 700 praise the Lord, with one consent 39 O praise the Lord, and thou, my soul 78 S6 O praise the Lord with hymns of joy 78 27 0 praise ye the Lord

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21 O praise the Lord in that blest place 80
510 render thanks, and bless the Lord
520 render thanks to God above
14 0 'twas a joyful sound to hear

O thou, to whom all creatures bow 23 Praise ye the Lord; our God to 17 praise

Let all the just to God, with joy
Let all the listening world attend
Let all the lands, with shouts of joy
Let David, Lord, a constant place
Let God, the God of battle rise
Lord, hear the voice of my complaint 4
Lord, hear my cry, regard my prayer 31 Since I have placed my trust in God
Lad, hear my prayer, and to my cry 76 Since godly men decay, O Lord

25 Preserve me, Lord, from crafty foes
33 Protect me from my cruel foes
72 Resolved to watch o'er all my ways
33 Save me, O God, from waves that
roll

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