Thou! whom avenging powers obey,
Cancel my debt (too great to pay!)
Before the great accounting day.
4 Give my exalted soul a place
Among thy chosen right-hand race,
The sons of God, and heirs of grace.
Prostrate, my contrite heart I rend!
My God, my Father, and my Friend,
Do not forsake me in the end.

1

HARK!

227.

REV. xxi. 1, 2.

ye mortals, hear the trumpet, Sounding loud from shore to shore! Hark! the voice of the Archangel, Swearing, "Time shall be no more!" Rolling ages,

Now your solemn close appears!

2 This great moving frame of nature,
That huge mass of blazing day,

Yonder arch'd expanse of heaven,
Moon, and stars, all melt away!
What confusion

Seizes now each guilty soul!

3 But the just who lov'd their Saviour,
Near his throne in safety stand;

Lo! new earth and heavens appearing,
See the glorious happy land!
Hallelujahs

Echo through the bless'd realms.

4 Saints and angels now united,
Live in one divine abode;

Under Christ the King of heaven,
Form one empire unto God:
Hallelujah,

Righteousness there ever dwell.

5 Now redemption is completed,
Eras bless'd begin their round;
To all worlds in future ages,
They the praise of God shall sound:
Hallelujah,
Glory, glory be to God.

228.

REV. xxi. 1—9.

1 LO! what a glorious sight appears

to our admiring eyes!

The former seas have pass'd away,
the former earth and skies.

2 From heaven the New Jerusalem comes, all worthy of its Lord;

See all things now at last renew'd,
and paradise restor❜d!

3 Attending angels shout for joy,

and the bright armies sing; Mortals! behold the sacred seat of your descending King!

4 The God of glory down to men
removes his bless'd abode;

He dwells with men; his people they,
and he his people's God.

5 His gracious hand shall wipe the tears from ev'ry weeping eye;

Pains, griefs, and fears, shall be no more, no more shall death destroy.

229.

REV. xxi. 22, to the end.

WHEN pass'd these narrow scenes of night,

unbounded glories rise,

And realms of infinite delight,

unknown to mortal eyes.

2 There pain and sickness never come, and grief no more complains, Health triumphs in immortal bloom, and endless pleasure reigns.

3 No clouds those blissful regions know
for ever bright and fair;

For sin, the source of mortal woe,
shall never enter there.

4 There no alternate night is known,
nor sun's uncertain ray;

But glory from the sacred throne,
spreads everlasting day.

5 The nations who are sav'd are there,
there all their glories bring;

And saints in one bless'd union share
the TRIUMPHS of THEIR KING.

PART IV.

HYMNS FOR PARTICULAR OCCASIONS.

230. MORNING.

1 THANKS be to God for mercies past,

and blessings new bestow'd;

Thanks with each morn, while life shall last,
be heard from our abode.

2 And, O! thy grace, our God, impart,
as rays of morning shine;

That from a grateful humble heart,
our lives may all be thine.

3 This day thy favouring hand be nigh,
so oft vouchsaf'd before;

Still may it lead, protect, supply,
and we that hand adore!

4 If bliss thy providence impart,
for which resign'd we pray;
Give us to feel the grateful heart,
and without guilt be gay!

5 Affliction should thy love intend,
as vice or folly's cure;

Patient, to gain that gracious end,
may we the means endure!

6 May this, and ev'ry future day,
be wiser than the past;
And, still advancing on our way,
may heaven crown our last!

WI

231.

The same.

ITH thee, great God! the stores of light, and stores of darkness lie;

Thou form'st the sable robe of night,

and spread'st it round the sky.

2 And when with welcome slumbers press'd,
we close our weary eyes,
Thy power, unseen, secures our rest,
and makes us joyful rise.

3 Numbers, this night, great God! have met their everlasting doom;

In vain for them the morning shines, it reaches not the tomb.

4 Numbers on restless beds still lie,
and still bewail their woe;
While we by thy kind hand uprais'd,
a thousand pleasures know.

5 To thee, great God! in thankful songs,
our morning thoughts arise;

Propitious in thy Son, accept
the willing sacrifice.