SELECTED FROM VARIOUS AUTHORS; WITH A KEY OF MUSICAL EXPRESSION. BY SAMUEL WORCESTER, D. D. Late Pastor of the Tabernacle Church, Salem, Mass. NEW EDITION. TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY HYMNS AND OCCASIONAL PIECES ADDED, BY SAMUEL M. WORCESTER, A. M. Pastor of the Tabernacle Church, Salem, Mass., and BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY CROCKER & BREWSTER. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1834, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. SELECTED FROM VARIOUS AUTHORS. HYMN 1. L. M. Old Hundred. [*] e 1 THERE is a God-all nature speaks, Through earth, and air, and sea, and o See from the clouds his glory breaks, [skies; When the first beams of morning rise. -2 The rising sun, serenely bright, O'er the wide world's extended frame, Inscribes, in characters of light, His mighty Maker's glorious name. o 3 The flow'ry tribes all blooming rise, Above the weak attempts of art; e The smallest worms, the meanest flies, Speak sweet conviction to the heart. -4 Ye curious minds, who roam abroad, And trace creation's wonders o'er, e Confess the footsteps of the God;a Bow down before him—and adore. 1 HYMN 2. C. M. Tunbridge. [b*] YE Steele. E humble souls, approach your God, For he is good, immensely good, 2 All nature owns his guardian care; • But nobler benefits declare The wonders of his love. e 3 He gave his Son, his only Son, -Tis here he makes his goodness known, e 4 To this dear refuge, Lord, we come ; o A safe defence, a peaceful home, When storms of trouble rise. -5 Thine eye beholds, with kind regard, Their humble hope thou wilt reward, o 6 Great God, to thy almighty Love 1 Steele. HYMN 3. C. M. Mitcham. Arundel. [*] God the Creator. TERNAL Wisdom, thee we praise; With thy lov'd name, rocks, hills, and seas, g 2 Thy hand, how wide it spread the sky! -Ting'd with a blue of heavenly die, 3 Thy glories blaze, all nature round, g 4 Infinite strength, and equal skill, e -5 But still the wonders of thy grace Our softer passions move; Pity divine, in Jesus' face, We see, adore, and love. HYMN 4. C. M. Bedford. [*] a 1 KEEP silence-all created things, And wait your Maker's nod; Watts. My soul stands trembling while she sings e 2 Life, death, and hell, and worlds unknown, Hang on his firm decree; He sits on no precarious throne, Nor borrows leave-to be. 3 Chain'd to his throne a volume lies, With all the fates of men; With ev'ry angel's form and size, -4 His providence unfolds the book, 5 (Here he exalts neglected worms, And there, the following page he turns, e 7 My God, I would not long to see Recorded in some humble place, 1 HYMN 5. L. P. M. St. Helen's. [*] God's Name proclaimed. Ex. xxxiv, 6-8. Watts. ATTEND, my soul, the voice divine, And mark what beaming glories shine Around thy condescending God! To us-to us, he still proclaims e His awful, his endearing names; Attend, and sound them all abroad. d 2 'Jehovah I, the sovereign Lord, "The mighty God, by heaven ador'd, 'Down to the earth my footsteps bend: e 'My heart the tenderest pity knows, 'Goodness, full-streaming, wide o'erflows, 'And grace and truth shall never end. 3 'My patience long can crimes endure, 'My pard'ning love is ever sure, When penitential sorrow mourns; 'To millions, through unnumber'd years, 'New hope and new delight it bears; 'Yet wrath against the sinner burns.' |