HYMN 5. L. M.
Christ and the Church. Psa. xlviii. 10. xlvii.9. c. 4, 5.
THE King of saints, how fair his face,
Adorn'd with majesty and grace!
He comes with blessings from above,
And wins the nations to his love.
2 At his right hand, our eyes behold
The queen array'd in purest gold;
The world admires her heav'nly dress,
Her robe of joy and righteousness.
3 He forms her beauties like his own,
He calls and seats her near his throne;
Fair stranger, let thine heart forget
The idols of thy native state.
4 So shall the King the more rejoice
In thee, the fav'rite of his choice;
Let him be lov'd, and yet ador'd,
For he's thy Maker and thy Lord.
5 O happy hour, when thou shalt rise
To his fair palace in the skies!
And all thy sons (a num'rous train)
Each like a prince in glory reign.
6 Let endless honours crown his head;
Let every age his praises spread;
While we with cheerful songs approve
The condescension of his love.
HYMN 6. Eights and Sevens Metre.
Consolations of Israel. Isa. xlix. 13. xl. 1, 2. Luke ii. 25, 26.
JOME, thou long expected Jesus,
Born to set thy people free;
From our fears and sins release us,
Let us find our rest in Thee.
2 Israel's strength and consolation,
Hope of all the saints thou art;
Dear desire of every nation,
Joy of every longing heart.
3 Born thy people to deliver ;
Born a child, and yet a king:
Born to reign in us for ever,
Now thy gracious kingdom bring:
4 By thine own eternal spirit,
Rule in all our hearts alone;
By thine all-sufficient merit,
Raise us to thy glorious throne.
Desire of all Nations. Hag. ii. 7. Job 14, 15. Isa. xxvi. 8.
NFINITE excellence is thine,
Thou lovely Prince of Grace;
Thine uncreated beauties shine
With never-fading rays.
2 Sinners, from earth's remotest end,
Come bending at thy feet;
To Thee their pray'rs and vows ascend,
In Thee their wishes meet.
3 Thy name, as precious ointment shed,
Delights the church around;
Sweetly the sacred odour's spread
Through all Immanuel's ground.
4 Millions of happy spirits live
On thine exhaustless store;
From Thee they all their bliss receive,
And still Thou givest more.
5 Thou art their triumph, and their joy ;
They find their all in Thee :
Thy glories will their tongues employ
Through all eternity.
HYMN 8. L. M.
Universal Praise. Ps. lxvi. 4. Rev. v. 13.
FROM all that dwell below the skies
Let the Creator's praise arise:
Let the Redeemer's name be sung
Through ev'ry land, by ev'ry tongue.
2 Eternal are thy mercies, Lord;
Eternal truth attends thy word;
Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore,
Till suns shall rise to set no more.
Fountain opened. Zec. xiii. 1. Ps. xxxvi. 9. Isa. xii. 18.
HERE is a fountain fill'd with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins; And sinners, plung'd beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.
2 The dying thief rejoic'd to see
That fountain in his day;
O may I there, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away!
3 Dear, dying Lamb, thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power,
Till all the ransom'd church of God
Be sav'd, to sin no more.
4 E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream,
Thy flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.
5 But when this lisping, stamm'ring tongue
Lies silent in the grave,
Then, in a nobler, sweeter song,
I'll sing thy pow'r to save.
King of Nations. Ps. lxvii 6,7. lxxii. 10-14.
JESUS his successive journies run;
ESUS shall reign where'er the sun,
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more.
2 [Behold the islands with their kings,
And Europe her best tribute brings ;
From north to south the princes meet,
To pay their homage at his feet.
3 There Persia, glorious to behold,
There India shines in eastern gold;
And barb'rous nations at his word
Submit, and bow, and own their Lord.]
4 For him shall endless pray'r be made,
And praises throng to crown his head;
His name like sweet perfume shall rise
With ev'ry morning sacrifice.
5 People and realms of every tongue
"Dwell on his love with sweetest song:
And infant voices shall proclaim
Their early blessings on his name.
6 Blessings abound where'er he reigns,
The pris'ner leaps to loose his chains;
The weary find eternal rest,
And all the sons of want are blest.
7 Where he displays his healing power,
Death and the curse are known no more;
In him the tribes of Adam boast
More blessings than their father lost.
8 Let ev'ry creature rise and bring
Peculiar honours to their King;
Angels descend with songs again,
And earth repeat the long Amen.
Rain of Heaven. Ps. lxxii. 6. Isa. lv. 10, 11.
S show'rs on meadows newly mown,
Jesus shall shed his blessings 'down;
Crown'd with whose life-infusing drops,
Earth shall renew her blissful crops.
2 Lands that, beneath a burning sky,
Have long been desolate and dry,
Th' effusions of his love shall share,
And sudden greens and herbage wear.
3 The dews and rains, in all their store,
Drenching the pastures o'er and o'er,
Are not so copious as that grace
Which sanctifying saves our race.
4 As, in soft silence vernal show'rs
Descend, and cheer the fainting flow'rs;
So, in the secrecy of love,
Falls the sweet influence from above. 5 That heavenly influence let me find In holy silence of the mind,
While ev'ry grace maintains its bloom,
Diffusing wide its rich perfume.
6 Nor let these blessings be confin'd
To me, but pour'd on all mankind,
Till earth's wide wastes in verdure rise,
And a young Eden bless our eyes. RIPPON's Coll.
Salvation, Righteousness and Strength. Isa. xlix. 6. lix. 16, 17. xxvi. 4. Ps. lxxi. 15, 16.
THE Lord on high proclaims
His godhead from his throne;' 'Mercy and justice are the names By which I will be known.
2 "Ye dying souls, that sit
In darkness and distress,
Look from the borders of the pit
To my recov'ring grace."
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