2. When once it enters to the mind, It spreads such light abroad, 8. "Tis like the sun, a heavenly light 4. The men that keep thy law with care, 5. Thy precepts make me truly wise; I hate my own vain thoughts that rise, 6. Thy word is everlasting truth; That holy book shall guide our youth, [Hy. 73. 1. THERE is a house not made with hands, Eternal, and on high; And here my spirit waiting stands Till God shall bid it fly. 2. Shortly this prison of my clay Must be dissolved and fall; Then, O my soul, with joy obey Thy heavenly Father's call. 3. "Tis he, by his almighty grace, Who forms thee fit for heaven, And, as an earnest of the place, Has his own Spirit given. 4. We walk by faith of joys to come; 5. "Tis pleasant to believe thy grace, 1. WITH my whole heart I'll raise my song, Thy wonders I'll proclaim; Thou, sovereign Judge of right and wrong, 2. I'll sing thy majesty and grace: 8. Then shall the Lord a refuge prove 4. The men that know thy name will trust For thou dost ne'er forsake the just, 5. Sing praises to the righteous Lord, Who executes his threatening word, 2. I ask no sheep for sacrifice, Nor bullocks burnt with fire; 3. Call upon me when trouble's near,- 4. The man that offers humble praise, And those that tread my holy ways 354. God's Power and Goodness. [Ps. 66. i. 1. SING, all ye nations, to the Lord, 2. Say to the Power that shakes the sky,- 3. He rules by his resistless might: Will rebel mortals dare Provoke th' Eternal to the fight, And tempt that dreadful war? 4. O bless our God, and never cease; Ye saints, fulfill his praise; He keeps our life, maintains our peace, 2. Thy hand my heart and reins possessed, Where unborn nature grew; Thy wisdom all my features traced, 5. Lord, thou hast proved our suffering souls, 3. Thine eye with nicest care surveyed To make our graces shine: So silver bears the burning coals, The metal to refine. The growth of every part, Till the whole scheme, thy thoughts had laid, 4. Heaven, earth, and sea, and fire, and wind, 95 Where there are works to make him known, Or saints to love the Lord. 358. Christ ascending and reigning. [Ps. 47. 359. 1. O For a shout of sacred joy To God the sovereign King! 2. Jesus, our God, ascends on high; His heavenly guards around 3. While angels shout and praise their King, 4. Rehearse his praise with awe profound, 5. In Israel stood his ancient throne, But now he calls the world his own, 6. These western climes are all the Lord's, Submit before his throne. 1. To God, our strength, your voice, aloud, 2. With psalms of honor and of joy, 3. Now let the gospel trumpet blow, And teach his waiting church to know 4. This was the statute of the Lord And yet his courts preserve his word, 360. 1. SING to the Lord Jehovah's name, 2. With thanks approach his awful sight, The Lord's a God of boundless might, 8. Let princes hear, let angels know, How mean their natures seem, 4. Earth, with its caverns dark and deep, Lies in his spacious hand; He fixed the sea what bounds to keep, 5. Come, and with humble souls adore, 6. Now is the time; he bends his ear, 361. God's Wisdom in his Works. [Ps. 111. i. 1. SONGS of immortal praise belong He has my heart, and he my tongue, 2. How great the works his hand hath wrought, 8. How most exact is nature's frame! His counsels never change the scheme 4. When he redeemed his chosen sons, 5. Nature and time, and earth and skies, 6. To fear thy power, to trust thy grace, And he's the wisest of our race 1. UNSHAKEN as the sacred hill, That leans, O Lord, on thee. 2. Not walls, nor hills, could guard so well Old Salem's happy ground, As those eternal arms of love, That every saint surround.⚫ 3. While tyrants are a smarting scourge, 4. Deal gently, Lord, with souls sincere, Where Christ, their Lord, is gone. 5. But if we trace those crooked ways The wrath that drove him first to hell, 1. ETERNAL Wisdom, thee we praise! Thee the creation sings! [Hy. 64. With thy loved name, rocks, hills, and seas, 2. Thy hand, how wide it spread the sky! 3. Thy glories blaze all nature round, 4. Infinite strength, and equal skill, Shine through the worlds abroad; 5. But still the wonders of thy grace |