Psalms and Hymns: For the Use of the Magdalen Charity

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Magdalen Hospital, 1779 - 48 páginas

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Página 27 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Página 31 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 30 - To all my weak complaints and cries Thy mercy lent an ear, Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learnt To form themselves in prayer. Unnumber'd comforts to my soul Thy tender care bestow'd, Before my infant heart conceiv'd From whence those comforts flow'd.
Página 27 - The ill that I this day have done, That with the world, myself, and Thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be. ' Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die, that so I may Triumphing rise at the last day.
Página 33 - No rude alarms of raging foes; No cares to break the long repose; No midnight shade, no clouded sun, But sacred, high, eternal noon.
Página 14 - O let us to His courts repair, And bow with adoration there ; Down on our knees, devoutly all Before the Lord our Maker fall.
Página 14 - WITH one consent let all the earth To God their cheerful voices raise ; Glad homage pay with awful mirth, And sing before Him songs of praise. 2 Convinc'd that He is God alone, From whom both we and all proceed ; We, whom He chooses for his own, The flock that He vouchsafes to feed. 3 O enter then his temple gate, Thence to his courts devoutly press, And still your grateful hymns repeat, And still his name with praises bless.
Página 26 - I wake, I wake, ye heavenly choir ; May your devotion me inspire ; That I, like you, my age may spend, Like you may on my God attend. May I, like you, in God delight, Have all day long my God in sight ; Perform, like you, my Maker's will : Oh may I never more do ill.
Página 31 - The fields provide me food, and show The goodness of the Lord; But fruits of life and glory grow In thy most holy word.
Página 12 - Blot out my crying sins, Nor me in anger view ; Create in me a heart that's clean, An upright mind renew.

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