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HYMN 95. C. M.

An evening song.

OW from the altar of our hearts
Let flames of love arise:

Assist us, Lord, to offer up
Our ev'ning sacrifice.
2 Minutes and mercies multiplied,
Have made up all this day;
Minutes came quick, but mercies were
More swift and free than they.

3 New time, new favour, and new joys, Do a new song require :

Till we shall praise thee, as we would,
Accept our hearts' desire.

4 Lord of our days, whose hand hath set
New time upon our score;
Thee may we praise for all our time,
When time shall be no more.

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HYMN 96. C. M.

For Morning and Evening.

OSANNA, with a cheerful sound,
To God's upholding hand!

Ten thousand snares attend us round,

And yet secure we stand.

2 That was a most amazing pow'r,

That rais'd us with a word,

And ev'ry day, and ev'ry hour
We lean upon the Lord.

3 The ev'ning rests our weary head,
And angels guard the room;
We wake, and we admire the bed,
That was not made our tomb.

4 The rising morning can't assure
That we shall end the day;

For death stands ready at the door
To take our lives away.

5 Our breath is forfeited by sin,
To God's avenging law;

We own thy grace, immortal King!
In ev'ry gasp we draw.

6 God is our sun, whose daily light
Our joy and safety brings;
Our feeble flesh lies safe at night,
Beneath his shady wings.

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HYMN 97. S. M.

Lord's day morning.
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,
And feasts his saints to-day;
Here we may sit, and see him here,
And love, and praise, and pray.
3 One day amidst the place,
Where my great God hath been,
Is sweeter than ten thousand days
Of pleasurable sin.

4 My willing soul would stay
In such a frame as this;
And sing, and bear herself away
To everlasting bliss.

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HYMN 98. C. M.

Lord's day evening.

REQUENT the day of God returns To shed its quick'ning beams; And yet how slow devotion burns! How languid are its flames!

2 Accept our faint attempts to love,
Our frailties, Lord, forgive:
We would be like thy saints above,
And praise thee while we live.

3 Increase, O Lord, our faith and hope, And fit us to ascend,

Where the assembly ne'er breaks up,
The sabbath ne'er shall end;

4 There we shall breathe in heav'nly air,
With heav'nly lustre shine;
Before the throne of God appear,
And feast on love divine.

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HYMN 99. S. M.

The gospel Ministry.

1 HOW beauteous are their feet,

Who stand on Zion's hill;

Who bring salvation on their tongues, And words of peace reveal! 2 How charming is their voice, How sweet the tidings are! "Zion, behold thy Saviour-King, "He reigns and triumphs here." 3 How happy are our ears, That hear this joyful sound; Which kings and prophets waited for, And sought, but never found!

4 How blessed are our eyes,
That see this heav'nly light!
Prophets and kings desir'd it long,
But died without the sight.
5 The watchmen join their voice,
And tuneful notes employ ;

Jerusalem breaks forth in songs,
And deserts learn the joy.

6 The Lord makes bare his arm

Thro' all the earth abroad; Let ev'ry nation now behold Their Saviour and their God,

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HYMN 100. P. M.

At the forming of a Church.

GREAT Father of mankind,

We bless that wondrous grace,
Which could for Gentiles find
Within thy courts a place;
How kind the care our God displays,
For us to raise a house of prayer!
2 Tho' once estranged far,

We now approach the throne;
For Jesus brings us near,

And makes our cause his own:
Strangers no more, to thee we come,
And find our home, and rest secure.

3 To thee our souls we join,
And love thy sacred name;
No more our own, but thine,
We triumph in thy claim:
Our Father King, thy cov'nant grace
Our souls embrace, thy titles sing.

4 Here in thy house we feast

On dainties all divine:

And while such sweets we taste,
With joy our faces shine :
Incense shall rise from flames of love,
And God approve the sacrifice.

5 May all the nations throng
To worship in thy house;
And thou attend the song,
And smile upon their vows:

Indulgent still, till earth conspire
To join the choir on Zion's hill.

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HYMN 101. P. M.

On opening a place of worship.
N sweet exalted strains
The King of glory praise;
O'er heav'n and earth he reigns,
Thro' everlasting days:

He, with a nod, the world controls,
Sustains or sinks the distant poles.

blest.

2 To earth he bends his throne,
His throne of grace divine;
Wide is his bounty known,
And wide his glories shine
Fair Salem, still his chosen rest,
Is with his smiles and presence
3 Then, King of glory, come,
And with thy favour crown
This Temple as thy dome,
This people as thine own:
Beneath this roof, O! deign to show,
How God can dwell with men below.
4 Here may thine ears attend
Our interceding cries;
And grateful praise ascend
All fragrant to the skies:

Here may thy word melodious sound,
And spread the joys of heav'n around.
5 Here, may th' attentive throng
Imbibe thy truth and love;
And converts join the song

Of Seraphim above:

And willing crowds surround thy board With sacred joy, and sweet accord.

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