Universal adoration.

1 0 HOLY, holy, holy Lord!

Thou God of hosts, by all adored;

The earth and heavens are full of thee, Thy light, thy power, thy majesty.

2 Loud hallelujahs to thy name, Angels and seraphim proclaim:

Till suns shall rise and set no more.

3 Your lofty themes, ye mortals, bring;
In songs of praise divinely sing;
The great salvation loud proclaim,
And shout for joy the Saviour's name.

4 In every land begin the song;
To every land the strains belong:
In cheerful sounds all voices raise,
And fill the world with loudest praise.
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Reverential adoration.

Isaac Watts.

1 BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne,
Ye nations bow with sacred joy ;
Know that the Lord is God alone,
He can create, and he destroy.
2 His sovereign power, without our aid,
Made us of clay, and formed us men ;
And when like wandering sheep we strayed,
He brought us to his fold again.

3 We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs,
High as the heavens our voices raise;
And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,
Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.
4 Wide as the world is thy command;
Vast as eternity thy love;
Firm as a rock thy truth shall stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move.
Isaac Watts, alt. by J. Wesley.

Eternal praise to thee is given.

3 Apostles join the glorious throng,
And swell the loud triumphant song:
Prophets and martyrs hear the sound,
And spread the hallelujah round.

4 Glory to thee, O God most high!
Father, we praise thy majesty!
The Son, the Spirit, we adore!
One Godhead, blest for evermore.
Josiah Conder.

11 Invitation to worship.—Psalm 100.
1 ALL people that on earth do dwell,
Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice:
Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell,
Come ye before him, and rejoice.

2 The Lord, ye know, is God indeed, Without our aid he did us make; We are his flock, he doth us feed,

And for his sheep he doth us take.
3 O enter then his gates with praise,
Approach with joy his courts unto :
Praise, laud, and bless his name always,
For it is seemly so to do.

4 For why? the Lord our God is good,
His mercy is forever sure;
His truth at all times firmly stood,
And shall from age to age endure.

William Kethe.

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Praise to the Saviour.

1 JESUS, thou everlasting King,
Accept the tribute which we bring ;
Accept thy well-deserved renown,
And wear our praises as thy crown.
2 Let every act of worship be
Like our espousals, Lord, to thee;
Like the blest hour, when from above
We first received the pledge of love.

3 The gladness of that happy day,
O may it ever, ever stay!
Nor let our faith forsake its hold,
Nor hope decline, nor love grow cold.

4 Let every moment, as it flies,
Increase thy praise, improve our joys,
Till we are raised to sing thy name,
At the great supper of the Lamb.

4 O may I worthy prove to see
Thy saints in full prosperity,
That I the joyful choir may join,
And count thy people's triumph mine!
Tate and Brady.

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Welcome to the King of glory.

1 LIFT up your heads, ye mighty gates!
Behold, the King of glory waits;
The King of kings is drawing near,
The Saviour of the world is here.

2 The Lord is just, a helper tried ;
Mercy is ever at his side;
His kingly crown is holiness;
His scepter, pity in distress.

3 O blest the land, the city blest,
Where Christ the ruler is confessed!
O happy hearts and happy homes
To whom this King of triumph comes!

4 Fling wide the portals of your heart; Make it a temple, set apart

From earthly use for heaven's employ,
Adorned with prayer, and love, and joy.

5 Redeemer, come! I open wide
My heart to thee: here, Lord, abide!
Let me thy inner presence feel,
Thy grace and love in me reveal!

6 So come, my Sovereign! enter in,
Let new and nobler life begin;
Thy Holy Spirit guide us on,
Until the glorious crown be won!

Georg Weissel. Tr. by Miss C. Winkworth,

15 Longings for the house of God.

1 LORD of the worlds above,
How pleasant and how fair
The dwellings of thy love,

Thine earthly temples, are!
To thine abode my heart aspires,
With warm desires to see my God.
2 O happy souls that pray
Where God appoints to hear!
O happy men that pay

Their constant service there!
They praise thee still; and happy they
That love the way to Zion's hill.

3 They go from strength to strength, Through this dark vale of tears, Till each arrives at length, Till each in heaven appears: O glorious seat! thou, God, our King, Shalt thither bring our willing feet.

2 The universal King

Let all the world proclaim;
Let every creature sing

His attributes and name:

Him Three in One, and One in Three,
Extol to all eternity.

3 In his great name alone
All excellences meet,
Who sits upon the throne,

And shall forever sit;

Him Three in One, and One in Three,
Extol to all eternity.

4 Glory to God belongs;
Glory to God be given,
Above the noblest songs

Of all in earth and heaven;
Him Three in One, and One in Three,
Extol to all eternity.

Doxology.

Charles Wesley.

His glory let the heathen know,

proclaim.

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The glory of His grace.

1 LET all on earth their voices raise,

To sing the great Jehovah's praise,
And bless his holy name:

His glory let the heathen know,
His wonders to the nations show,

His saving grace proclaim.

2 He framed the globe; he built the sky; He made the shining worlds on high,

And reigns in glory there :
His beams are majesty and light;
His beauties, how divinely bright!

His dwelling-place, how fair!

3 Come the great day, the glorious hour, When earth shall feel his saving power,

All nations fear his name:

Then shall the race of men confess

The beauty of his holiness,

His saving grace proclaim.

1 JESUS, thou soul of all our joys,
For whom we now lift up our voice,
And all our strength exert,
Vouchsafe the grace we humbly claim;
Compose into a thankful frame,

And tune thy people's heart.

2 While in the heavenly work we join, Thy glory be our whole design,

Thy glory, not our own:
Still let us keep this end in view,
And still the pleasing task pursue,
To please our God alone.

3 Thee let us praise, our common Lord, And sweetly join, with one accord,

Thy goodness to proclaim:
Jesus, thyself in us reveal,
And all our faculties shall feel
Thy harmonizing name.

4 With calmly reverential joy,
O let us all our lives employ

In setting forth thy love; And raise in death our triumph higher, And sing, with all the heavenly choir, That endless song above.

Charles Wesley.

1 LORD, we come before thee now,
At thy feet we humbly bow;
O do not our suit disdain;

Shall we seek thee, Lord, in vain ?
2 Lord, on thee our souls depend;
In compassion now descend;
Fill our hearts with thy rich grace,
Tune our lips to sing thy praise.
3 In thine own appointed way,
Now we seek thee, here we stay ;
Lord, we know not how to go,
Till a blessing thou bestow.

4 Send some message from thy word,
That may joy and peace afford;
Let thy Spirit now impart
Full salvation to each heart.

5 Comfort those who weep and mourn; Let the time of joy return;

Those that are cast down lift up;

Make them strong in faith and hope.

6 Grant that all may seek and find
Thee, a gracious God and kind:
Heal the sick, the captive free ;
Let us all rejoice in thee.

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William Hammond.

Tribute of praise at parting.

1 CHRISTIANS, brethren, ere we part, Every voice and every heart

Join, and to our Father raise

One last hymn of grateful praise.

2 Though we here should meet no more, Yet there is a brighter shore;

There, released from toil and pain,
There we all may meet again.

3 Now to thee, thou God of heaven,
Be eternal glory given :
Grateful for thy love divine,
May our hearts be ever thine.

H. Kirke White, alt.