MEET and right it is to sing,
At all times, in every place,
Glory to our heavenly King,
To the God of truth and grace;
Join we then with sweet accord,
All in one thanksgiving join:
Holy, holy, holy Lord!
Never-ceasing praise be thine.
2. Vying with the heavenly choir,
Who declare thy praise above,
We on eagle's wings aspire,
On the wings of faith and love:
Thee they sing, with glory crown'd;
We extol the slaughter'd Lamb:
Lower if our voices sound,
Still our subject is the same.
3. Father, God, thy love we praise,
Love, which gave thy Son to die:
Jesus, full of truth and grace,
Thee alike we glorify:
Spirit, Comforter divine,
Praise by all to thee be giv'n,
Till we in full chorus join, (heaven.
When this earth is chang'
ALL glory to the sovereign Good, And Father of compassion,
To God, our help and sure abode,
Whose gracious visitation
Renews his blessings every day,
And takes our griefs and fears away,
Give to our God the glory.
2. The heavenly hosts with awe show forth
The praise of their Creator:
All creatures both in heaven and
Whate'er exists in nature, (earth,
Speak their divine Original,
Impress'd most wisely on them all:
Give to our God the glory.
3. What is created by our God
Enjoys his preservation;
And he extends o'er all abroad
His fatherly compassion:
Throughout the kingdom of his grace
Prevail his truth and righteousness:
Give to our God the glory.
4. In my distress I rais'd with faith
To God my supplication;
My Saviour rescu'd me from death,
And gave me consolation;
This makes me with both heart and voice
Before the God of grace rejoice:
Give to our God the glory.
5. The Lord hath ever to his flock
Kept without separation;
He doth abide our shield and rock,
Our peace and our salvation;
He leads us with a mother's care,
Protects from danger, guards from
Give to our God the glory. (fear:
6. As long as I have breath in me
I will sound forth his praises:
His precious saving name shall be
Exalted in all places:
My heart, with all thy strength adore
The God of grace, the God of power,
And give him all the glory.
7. Ye who profess his sacred name, | 7. Thy chastisements are nought
Give to our God the glory:
Ye who his power know and pro-
Give to our God the glory; (claim,
Rejoice from all vain idols freed,
The Lord is God, is God indeed:
Give to our God the glory.
When we our sins confess,
We thy forgiveness richly prove;
'Tis thy delight to bless.
8. Thou count'st thy children's
sighs and tears,
When they before thee mourn;
No tear too mean to thee appears
To put into thy urn.
8. Now then before his face appear, With praises and thanksgiving; With awe his holy name revere, And join with all the living, 9. Thou, when we sink oppress'd To extol the wonders he hath Dost us with pity view, (with grief, wrought, Administering thy kind relief, His mighty deeds, surpassing And lasting comfort too. Give to our God the glory.
T. 14.
I'LL praise thee with my heart and
O Lord, my soul's delight, (tongue,
Declaring to the world in song
Thy glory, praise, and might.
2. Thou art the eternal source of
The source of lasting bliss; (grace,
From thee unto the human race
Flows all true happiness.
3. What are we? what do we pos-
While here on earth below, (sess,
Which thy great love and tender-
(ness
Do not on us bestow?
4. Who spread the lofty firmament
And starry skies around? (scend
Who makes the dew and rain de-
To fructify the ground?—
5. Who doth preserve our life and
Our ease and safe abode? (health,
Who doth secure our peace and
Our ever-gracious God. (wealth?
6. On thee, almighty Lord of hosts,
Depend our life and all; (coasts,
Thou keepest watch around our
Protecting great and small.
And grieve both day and night?
On him we'll cast our every care,
Who gave us life and light.
11. Has he not tended us and fed,
Ev'n from our earliest days;
Our souls with loving-kindness led
Through many dangerous ways?
12. God never yet mistakes h
In his vast government: (ra
No, what he doth permit or aid
Is bless'd in the event.
13. Then murmur not, but be re
To his most holy will; (sign'
Peace, rest, and comfort thou wilt
My soul, in being still.
GOD reveals his presence;
Let us now adore him,
And with awe appear before him:
God is in his temple,
All in us keep silence,
And before him bow with rever
He's our Lord and Saviour:
Praise his name for ever.
2. God reveals his presence,
Whom the angelic legions
Serve with awe in heavenly re-
Holy, holy, holy,
Sing the hosts of heaven;
Praise to God be ever given:
Condescend-to attend
Graciously, O Jesus,
To our songs and praises.
3. O majestic Being,
Were but soul and body Thee to serve at all times ready: Might we, like the angels Who behold thy glory, (thee, With abasement sink before And thro' grace-be always,
In our whole demeanour, To thy praise and honour.
4. Grant us resignation,
Hearts before thee bowed, With thy peace divine endowed: As a tender flower
Opens and inclineth
(shineth; To the cheering sun which So may we-be from thee
Rays of grace deriving,
And thereby be thriving.
5. Lord, come dwell within us,
While on earth we tarry;
Make us thy blest sanctuary:
O vouchsafe thy presence,
Draw unto us nearer,
And reveal thyself still clearer:
Us direct and protect;
Thus we in all places
Shall show forth thy praises.
559.* T. 341.
THOU, Jesus, art our King;
Thy ceaseless praise we sing:
Thou art the eternal Light, That shines in deepest night: Wondering gaz'd the angelic train, While thou bow'dst the heavens beneath,
God with God wast man with man, Man to save from endless death. 3. Thou for our griefs didst mourn, Thou hast our sickness borne: All our sins on thee were laid;
Thou with unexampled grace All the mighty debt hast paid,
Due from Adam's helpless race. 4. Thou hast o'erthrown the foe, God's kingdom fix'd below: Conqueror of all adverse power, Thou heaven's gates hast open'd wide;
Thou thine own dost lead secure, And to life eternal guide.
5. Above the starry sky
Thou reign'st, enthron'd on high; Prostrate at thy feet we fall:
Power supreme to thee is giv'n, As the righteous Judge of ali, Sons of earth and hosts of heaven. 6. The seraphim in light
To sound thy praise unite; All their choirs thy glories sing: Who shall dare with thee to vie, Mighty Lord, eternal King,
Sovereign both of earth and sky? 7. The venerable train,
Patriarchs, first-born of men, And the Apostles of the Lamb, By whose strength they faithful prov'd,
Join to extol his sacred name
Whom in life and death they
lov'd.
8. The church, thro' all her bounds,
With thy high praise resounds:
The confessors fearless here
Boldly praise their heavenly King:
Children's feebler voices there
To thy name hosannas sing.
9. 'Midst danger's blackest frown
Thee hosts of martyrs own:
Pain and shame alike they dare,
Firmly trusting in their God;
Glorying thy cross to bear, (blood.
Sealing thus their faith with
10. Arise, exert thy power,
Thou glorious Conqueror:
Help us to obtain the prize,
Help us well to close our race;
That with thee above the skies
Endless joys we may possess.
J. Angelus.
Blessing and honour to our King,
Till he in glory shall appear.
4. Hail, Lamb once slain, thy pre-
cious blood
(God,
Hath brought us sinners nigh to
Worthy art thou alone:
Accept, O Lord, Ancient of days,
Thy universal church's praise,
Here and around thy glorious
throne.
T. 101.
THANKSGIVING, honor, praise,
and might
(der'd,
Unto the Lamb of God be ren-
Who brought us to his kingdom's
light,
(kindred;
From every nation, tongue, and
Before the world was form'd we
were ordain'd (hath no end.
By him to happiness and life which
2. To him who ever doth abide,
Be ceaseless songs of praise re-
peated (bride, By the whole Church, his chosen Here or in heavenly mansions
(name, The angelic hosts exalt his saving And we with all created beings do the same.
JESUS, the whole creation's Head, Lord of the living and the dead, Endless thy glories shine: Thy blood-bought church in mercy (throne, The church assembled round thy 3. By all the saints around his Or pilgrims here; we all are thine. throne, (heaven, With shouts of glory, to God's Son, And all the angelic choirs in Our King and Shepherd, praise be given: (rehearse; His glorious name They join with us his goodness to be prais'd
2. Pilgrims on earth, we here may (nest,
rest,
The sparrow here hath found a
Thine altars, O Lord God:
For all thy blessings and thy care,
Our gratitude in praise and prayer
Shall still ascend to thine abode.
3. Ye spirits of the just above,
With Christ now perfected in love,
Once our companions here;
In higher strains join us to sing
TILL permitted hence to go,
To behold my Saviour,
Whom ev'n here by faith to know,
I enjoy the favour:-
2. Till to heaven I go in peace,
Where no sin assaileth, Sorrows, sighs, and tears must cease, Love alone prevaileth :
3. Till the day when I shall tread
Those celestial mountains, Where the Lamb himself will lead
Me to living fountains:
4. Till that time mine eyes I'll raise Unto him in spirit,
And my feeble tongue shall praise My Redeemer's merit.
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2. The Lamb was slain! both day and night
The angelic choirs his praises sing; To him, enthron'd above all height, Heaven's hosts their noblest anthems bring; (song, While here poor sinners join the And praise him with a stammering tongue.
3. Gladly our own poor works we
leave,
(fame,
For him despise wealth, pleasure,
To him our souls and bodies give,
His death doth our affections claim:
Henceforth we own him as our Lord,
His name be by us all ador'd.
4. Thro' him alone we live, for he
Hath drowned our transgressions all
In love's unfathomable sea:
Fall prostrate, lost in wonder fall,
Ye sinners, for the Lamb was slain;
He died that we might life regain.
5. As ground, when parch'd with
summer's heat,
(er,
Gladly drinks in the welcome show-
So may we, listening at his feet,
Receive his word and feel his power:
May nothing in our hearts remain,
But this great truth, The Lamb
was slain."
J. Wesley.
ADORED be the Lamb of God,
That he upon the cross
To God, by his most precious blood,
Hath reconciled us:
All praise be given to him, that we
Were born the day of grace to see,
When he his love to us reveal'd,
And thus our pardon seal'd.
2. To be his priests and witnesses Is now our happy lot,
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