o 2 There everlasting spring abides,
And never-with'ring flowers:
e Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heavenly land from ours.

b 3 (Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood,
Stand dress'd in living green;
-So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan roll'd between.

p 4 But tim'rous mortals start and shrink,
To cross this narrow sea;
And linger, shiv'ring on the brink,
And fear to launch away.)

-5 Oh! could we make our doubts remove,
Those gloomy doubts that rise,

And see the Canaan that we love,

With unbeclouded eyes!

6 Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er

o Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.

HYMN 67. C. M. Arundel. [*]

God's eternal Dominion.

e 1 GREAT God! how infinite art thou!

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What worthless worms are we!

g Let the whole race of creatures bow, And pay their praise to thee.

2 Thy throne eternal ages stood,
Ere seas or stars were made:
a Thou art the ever-living God,
Were all the nations dead.

-3 Nature and time quite naked lie,
To thine immense survey,-
From the formation of the sky,
To the great, burning day.

g 4 Eternity, with all its years,

Stands present in thy view;

To thee there's nothing old appears-
Great God! there's nothing new.

e 5 Our lives through various scenes are drawn, And vex'd with trifling cares;

While thine eternal thoughts move on
Thine undisturb'd affairs,

a 6 Great God! how infinite art thou!
α What worthless worms are we!
g Let the whole race of creatures bow,
And pay their praise to thee!

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HYMN 68. C. M. Barby. St. Ann's. [*]
The humble Worship of God.
ATHER, I long, I faint, to see
The place of thine abode ;

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o I'd leave the earthly courts, and flee Up to thy seat, my God!

-2 Here I behold thy distant face, And 'tis a pleasant sight;

o But, to abide in thine embrace Is infinite delight.

-3 I'd part with all the joys of sense,
To gaze upon thy throne;

Pleasure springs fresh for ever thence,
Unspeakable, unknown.

o 4 There all the heavenly hosts are seen;
In shining ranks they move;
And drink immortal vigour in,
With wonder and with love.

p 5 Then at thy feet, with awful fear,
Th' adoring armies fall:

With joy they shrink to nothing there,
Before th' eternal ALL.

6 [There would I vie with all the host,
In duty and in bliss:

While less than nothing-I could boast,
And vanity-confess.]

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7 The more thy glories strike mine eyes,
The humbler I shall lie;

Thus, while I sink, my joys shall rise
Unmeasurably high.

HYMN 69. C. M. Christmas. [*]

The Faithfulness of God in the Promises.

[BEGIN, my tongue, some heavenly theme,

And speak some boundless thing,g The mighty works, or mightier NameOf our eternal King.

-2 Tell of his wondrous faithfulness, ი And sound his power abroad;

e Sing the sweet promise of his grace, And the performing God.

0 3 Proclaim-Salvation from the Lord, For wretched, dying men;

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His hand has writ the sacred word,
With an immortal pen.

g 4 Engrav'd, as in eternal brass,
The mighty promise shines ;

Nor can the powers of darkness raze
Those everlasting lines.

e 5 He who can dash whole worlds to death, And make them when he please!—

o He speaks, and that almighty breath Fulfils his great decrees.

6 (His very word of grace is strong, As that which built the skies; The voice that rolls the stars along

Speaks all the promises.

d 7 He said, Let the wide heaven be spread, And heaven was stretch'd abroad; Abra'am, I'll be thy God, he said,

And he was Abra'am's God.)

e 8 Oh, might I hear thy heavenly tongue
But whisper, Thou art mine!

-Those gentle words should raise my song
To notes almost divine.

o 9 How would my leaping heart rejoice,
And think my heaven secure!

o I trust the all-creating voice, And faith desires no more.]

HYMN 70. L. M. [*]

God's Dominion over the Sea. Ps. cvii, 23, &c. 1[OD of the seas, thy thund'ring voice of all the

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Makes all the roaring waves rejoice!

And one soft word of thy command
Can sink them silent in the sand.

2 If but a Moses waves his rod,
The sea divides, and owns its God;
The stormy floods their Maker knew,
And let his chosen armies through.
3 The scaly shoals amidst the sea
To thee, their Lord, a tribute pay;

The meanest fish that swims the flood,
Leaps up, and means a praise to God.
4 The larger monsters of the deep
On thy commands attendance keep;
By thy permission, sport and play,
And cleave along their foaming way.
5 If God his voice of tempest rears,
Leviathan lies still, and fears:
Anon, he lifts his nostrils high,
And spouts the ocean to the sky.
6 How is thy glorious power ador'd,
Amidst these wat'ry nations, Lord;
Yet the bold men that trace the seas,
Bold men refuse their Maker's praise.
7 What scenes of miracles they see,
And never tune a song to thee!
While on the flood they safely ride,
They curse the hand that smooths the tide
8 Anon they plunge in wat'ry graves,
And some drink death among the waves:
Yet the surviving crew blaspheme,
Nor own the God that rescu'd them!
9 Oh, for some signal of thine hand!
Shake all the seas, Lord, shake the land:
Great Judge! descend, lest men deny
That there's a God that rules the sky.]

From the 70th to the 108th Hymn, I hope the reader will forgive the neglect of rhyme, in the first and third lines of the Stanza.

HYMN 71. C. M. Devizes. [*]

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Praise to God from all Creatures.

1 HE glories of my Maker, God, My joyful voice shall sing;

And call the nations to adore

Their Former and their King.

2 'Twas his right hand that shap'd our clay, And wrought this human frame;

But from his own immediate breath
Our nobler spirits came.

3 We bring our mortal powers to God,
And worship with our tongues;

We claim some kindred with the skies,
And join th' angelic songs.

4 Let grov'ling beasts of ev'ry shape,
And fowls of ev'ry wing,

And rocks, and trees, and fires, and seas,
Their various tribute bring.

5 Ye planets, to his honour shine,
And wheels of nature roll;

Praise him in your unwearied course,
Around the steady pole.

6 The brightness of our Maker's Name
The wide Creation fills:

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And his unbounded grandeur flies
Beyond the heavenly hills.

HYMN 72. C. M. Sunday. [*]

Lord's Day: or, Resurrection of Christ.

。 1 BLESS'D morning, whose young dawnBeheld our rising God;

That saw him triumph o'er the dust,
And leave his last abode.

p 2 In the cold prison of a tomb,
The great Redeemer lay-

-Till the revolving skies had brought
The third-th appointed day.

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d 3 Hell and the grave unite their force, To hold our God in vain:

o The sleeping conqueror arose, And burst their feeble chain.

e 4 To thy great Name, almighty Lord, These sacred hours we pay;

o And loud Hosannas shall proclaim The triumph of the day.

s 5 Salvation, and immortal praise, To our victorious King!

Let heaven, and earth, and rocks, and seas,

With glad Hosannas ring.

HYMN 73. C. M. Mear. [*]

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Doubts scattered: Joys restored.

ENCE from my soul, sad thoughts, be
And leave me to my joys;

o My tongue shall triumph in my God,

And make a joyful noise.

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