2 We lift our hearts and voices
With blest anticipation,
And shout aloud,
And give to God
The praise of our salvation.
We lift our voice exulting
In thine almighty favour,
The love divine
Which made us thine
Shall keep us thine forever.
By faith we see the glory
To which thou wilt restore usy
We lift our eyes
To that high prize
Which thou hast set before us.
Thou God of our salvation
We joyfully adore thee;
We trust thy care
To keep us here
And bring us safe to glory.
HYMN LIX.
Fruitful showers, emblems of the gospel.
1 MARK the soft-falling snow,
And the diffusive rain,
To heaven from whence it fell,
It turns not back again,
But waters earth through every pore,
And calls forth all its secret store.
Array'd in living green,
The hills and valleys shine,
And man and beast is fed
By providence divine;
The harvest bows its golden ears,
The copious seed of future years.
"So saith the God of grace,
My gospel shall descend,
The purpose I intend ;
Millions of souls shall feel its power,
And bear it down to millions more.
4 "Joy shall begin their mareh,
And peace protect their ways,
While all the mountains round
Echo melodious praise;
The vocal groves shall sing THE GOD,
And every tree consenting nod."
The equity of the divine dispensations.
1. FATHER of men, who can complain
Under thy mild and equal reign?
Who does a weight of duty share
More than his aids and powers can bear?
2 With diff'ring climes and diff'ring lands,
With fruitful plains and barren sands,
Thy hand hath form'd this earthly round,
And set eaeh nation in its bound.
$ With like variety thy ray
Here sheds a full, there fainter day,
While all are in their measure show'd
The way to happiness and God.
40 the unbounding grace which brought
To us the words by Jesus taught!
So blest and with such hopes inspir'd,
How much is giv'n, how much requir'd!
Christ's resurrection, a pledge of ours.
1 BLESS'D be the everlasting God,
The Father of our Lord!
Be his abounding mercy prais'd,
His majesty ador'd!
2 When from the dead he rais'd his Son,
And call'd him to the sky,
He gave our souls a lively hope,
That they should never die.
3 What though thy uncontroll'd decree,
Command us back to dust?
Yet, as the Lord our Saviour rose,
So all his followers must.
There's an inheritance divine
Reserv'd against that day;
'Tis uncorrupted, undefil'd,
And cannot fade away.
We by thy pow'r, O God, are kept,
Till the salvation come;
We walk by faith, as strangers here,
Till thou shalt call us home.
Thanks to God for blessings in Christ.
LOUD be thy name ador'd,
Thy titles spread abroad,
Of Christ our glorious Lord,
The Father and the God;
Through such a Son, thy church's head,
O'er worlds unknown, thine honours spread.
2 Ten thousand gifts of love
From thee through him descend,
And bear our souls above,
To joys that never end;
Sustain'd by God, to heaven they soar,
And through the road his arm adore.
3 Ten thousand songs of praise
Shall for thy mercies rise,
And through eternal days,
Shall echo round the skies;
New shouts we'll give, and loud proclaim
The glories of thy sacred name.
The spring, an emblem of gospel blessing
1 PRAISE God, from whom all blessings flow,
Whose goodness crowns the varied year;
While nature's works his bounty show,
Let gratitude salute him here;
Swell, gently swell, the solemn song,
Now pour the bounding notes along,
Teach choirs below, to choirs above,
To echo back the common lay,
And, as they praise unbounded love,
To join in bounty's holiday.
To God the universal King
Be sacred every grateful choir !
In ceaseless hymns, all praises sing,
That endless bounty can inspire!
2 All lost, beneath stern winter's reign,
Creation's genial powers appear'd,
Spring call'd them into life again,
See, budding verdure shews thy heard;
Bless, bless, O man! the kind design,
Whose nobler counter-part is thine!
Thy powers a gloomier winter froze,
Till thy Messiah's cheering ray,
Prolifick of fair truth, arose,
And shed the blaze of mental day.
To God the universal King
Be sacred every grateful choir!
In ceaseless hymns, all praise sing,
That endless bounty can inspire!
3 All spotless, as the truth he taught,
Free, as the mercy he display'd,
He shew'd what human duty ought,
He did what heavenly goodness bade;
Enforc'd each just command he gave,
Nor liv'd, nor dy'd, in vain to save.
Praise God, whose heavenly mercy sent
His Son to save a sinful race,
Let ev'ry heart with one consent
Adore the free, the wondrous grace.
To God the universal King,
Be sacred every grateful choir !
In ceaseless hymns all praises sing,
That endless mercy can inspire!
HYMN LXIV.
The invitation of the gospel.
1 LET every mortal ear attend,
And every heart rejoice;
The trumpet of the gospel sounds
With an inviting voice.
2 Ho! all ye weary wand'ring souls
That feed upon the wind,
And vainly strive with earthly toys
To fill an empty mind..
3 Eternal wisdom has prepar'd
A soul-reviving feast,
And bids your longing appetites
The rich provision taste.
4 Ho! ye that pant for living streams,
And pine away and die;
Here you may quench your raging thirst
With streams tha never dry.
5 Rivers of love and mercy here
In a rich ocean join ;
Salvation in abundance flows
Like floods of milk and wine.
6 The happy gates of gospel grace
Stand open night and day:
Lord, we are come to seek supplies,
And drive our wants away.
HYMN LXV.
God exalted above all praise.
1 ALMIGHTY Author of our frame, To thee our vital pow'rs belong;
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