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Naught we can ask to make us blest
Is in this book denied.

5 For these inestimable gains,
That so enrich the mind,

O may we search with eager pains,
Assured that we shall find.

LONG.

THE SABBATH.

32.

STENNETT.

ANOTHER six days' work is done,
Another sabbath is begun;

Return, my soul, enjoy thy rest-
Improve the day thy God has bless'd.

2 O, may our prayers and praises rise,
As grateful incense to the skies;

And draw from heaven that sweet repose, Which none but he who feels it, knows.

3 This heavenly calm, within the breast, Prepares for that eternal rest

Which for the sons of God remains,
The end of cares, the end of pains.

4 In holy duties let the day
In holy pleasures pass away;
How sweet a sabbath thus to spend,
In hope of one that ne'er shall end!

COMMON.

33.

WATTS.

THIS is the day when Christ arose
So early from the dead;

Why should I keep my eyelids closed,
And waste my hours in bed?

2 This is the day when Jesus broke
The power of death and hell;
And shall I still wear Satan's yoke,
And love my sins so well?

3 To-day with pleasure Christians meet,
To pray and hear thy word;
And I would go with cheerful feet
To learn thy will, O Lord.

4 I'll leave my sport to read and pray, And so prepare for heaven;

O may I love this blessed day
The best of all the seven.

LONG.

34.

TAYLOR.

THIS day belongs to God alone;

He chose the sabbath for his own; And we must neither work nor play, Because it is God's holy day.

2 'Tis well to have one day in seven,
That we may learn the way to heaven;
Then let us spend it as we should,
In serving God and growing good.

3 We ought, to-day, to learn and seek What we may think of all the week; And be the better every day,

For what we hear our teachers say.

4 And every sabbath should be pass'd
As if we knew it were our last :
What would the dying sinner give
To have one sabbath more to live!

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THUS far we're spared again to meet
Before Jehovah's mercy seat;

To seek his face, to praise and pray,
And hail another sabbath day.

2 Let every tongue its silence break,
Let every tongue his goodness speak,
Who deigns his glory to display

On each returning Sabbath day.

COMMON.

36.

S. WESLEY.

THE Lord, of sabbath let us praise,
In concert with the bless'd;

Who, joyful in harmonious lays,
Employ an endless rest.

2 Thus, Lord, while we remember thee, We bless'd and pious grow;

By hymns of praise we learn to be
Triumphant here below.

3 On this glad day a brighter scene
Of glory was display'd,

By God th' eternal Word, than when
This universe was made.

4 He rises, who mankind hath bought
With grief and pain extreme;

'Twas great to speak the world from naught 'Twas greater to redeem.

SEVENS.

37.

NEWTON

SAFELY through another week
God hath brought us on our way;

Let us now a blessing seek

On this holy sabbath day;
Day of all the week the best,
Emblem of eternal rest.

2 Mercies multiplied each hour,
Gracious Lord, our praise demand;
Guarded by thy mighty power,
Nourish'd by thy bounteous hand;
Now from worldly care set free,
May we spend this day with thee.

3 May our thoughts to thee arise,
May we feel thy presence near;
May thy glory meet our eyes
While we in thy house appear;
And may all our sabbaths prove
Foretastes of the joys above.

LONG

38.

RHODES.

THE Lord commands his day shall be
A day of holiness and prayer;

A day of rest from industry,

From vain pursuits, and worldly care.
2 The rude, the ignorant, and base,
The Lord's most holy sabbath break;
They run from all the means of grace,
And by their sin destruction seek!
3 When children in their early days
Begin the sabbath to profane;
Led by example in the ways

Of wickedness and pleasures vain;

4 The Lord of sabbath they despise,
More harden'd in their baseness grow;
Till mighty vengeance from the skies
Shall hurl them down to endless wo.

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COME, let us join with one accord
In hymns around the throne;

This is the day our risen Lord

Hath made and call'd his own.

2 This is the day which God hath blest,
The brightest of the seven;

Type of that everlasting rest
The saints enjoy in heaven.

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