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Here thy waiting people see,

Much of heav'n, and much of thee.
2 From thy gracious presence flows
Bliss, that softens all our woes,
While thy Spirit's holy fire

Warms cur hearts with pure desire.
3 Here we supplicate thy throne,
Here thou mak'st thy glories known;
Here we learn thy righteous ways,
Taste thy love, and sing thy praise.
4 Thus with festive songs of joy,
We our happy lives employ;
Love, and long to love thee more,
Till from earth to heaven we soar.

Hymn 9. L. M.

Weary Souls Invited to Rest.

1 COME, weary souls, with sin distress'd,
Come and accept the promis'd rest;
The Saviour's gracious call obey,
And cast your gloomy fears away.
2 Oppress'd with guilt, a painful load,
O come, and spread your woes to God;
Divine compassion, mighty love,
Will all the painful load remove.

3 Here mercy's boundless ocean flows,
To cleanse your guilt, and heal your woes;
Pardon and life and endless peace,
How rich the gift, how free the grace!
4 Lord, we accept with thankful heart,
The hope thy gracious words impart;
We come with trembling, yet rejoice,
And bless the kind inviting voice.
5 Great Saviour, let thy powerful love
Confirm our faith, our fears remove;

May that sweet influence in each breast,
Prepare us for thy heavenly rest.

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Christ the Wisdom of God.

1 HAPPY the man who finds the grace,
The blessing of God's chosen race,
The wisdom coming from above,
The faith that sweetly works by love.
2 Happy beyond description he,

Who knows," The Saviour died for me,"
The gift unspeakable obtains,
And heavenly understanding gains.
3 Wisdom divine! who tells the price
Of wisdom's costly merchandize !
Wisdom to silver we prefer,

And gold is dross compar'd to her. 4 Her hands are fill'd with length of days, True riches and immortal praise, Riches of Christ on all bestow'd, And honour that descends from God. 5 To purest joys she all invites, Chaste, holy, spiritual delights: Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her flowery paths are peace. 6 Happy the man who wisdom gains, Thrice happy-who his guest retains ; He owns and shall forever own, Wisdom, and Christ, and heav'n are one.

Hymn 11. C. M.

Universal Praise.

PART I.

1 PRAISE ye the Lord, y' immortal choir, That fills the realms above;

Praise him who form'd you of his fire,
And feeds you with his love.

2 Shine to his praise ye chrystal skies,
The floor of his abode;

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Or veil in shades your thousand eyes,
Before your brighter God.

-3 Thou restless globe of golden light,
Whose beams create our days,
Join with the silver green of night,
To own your borrow'd rays.
4 Winds, ye shall bear his name aloud,
Through the ethereal blue;
For when his chariot is a cloud,
He makes his wheels of you.

5 Thunder and hail, and fires and storms,
The troops of his command,
Appear in all your dreadful forms,
And speak his awful hand.

PART II.

Shout to the Lord, ye surging seas,
In your eternal roar;

Let wave to wave resound his praise,
And shore reply to shore.

7 While monsters sporting on the flood,
In scaly silver shine,

Speak terribly their maker, God,
And lash the foaming brine.

8 But gentler things shall tune his name
To softer notes than these

e;

Young zephyrs breathing o'er the stream,
Or whisp'ring through the trees.

9 Wave your tall heads ye lofty pines,
To him that bids you grow;

Sweet clusters bend the fruitful vines
On ev'ry thankful bough.

10 Let the shrill birds his honors raise, And climb the morning sky;

While grov'ling beasts attempt his praise
In hoarser harmony.

11 Thus while the meaner creatures sing,
Ye mortals take the sound;
Echo the glories of your king
Through all the nations round.

Hymn 12. C. M.

Praise to the Creator.

1 HAIL, Father whose creating call,
Unnumber'd worlds attend,
Jehovah, comprehending all,
Whom none can comprehend:"

2 In light unsearchable enthron'd,
Which angels dimly see,

The fountain of the Godhead own'd,
And foremost of the three.

3 From thee, through an eternal now,
The Son thine offspring flow'd
And everlasting Father thou,
As everlasting God.

4 Nor quite display'd to worlds above,
Nor quite on earth conceal'd;
By wond'rous unexhausted love,
To mortal man reveal'd.

5 Supreme and all-sufficient God,
When nature shall expire,
And worlds created by thy nod,
Shall perish by thy fire.

6 Thy name, Jehovah be ador'd
By creatures without end,
Whom none but thy essential Word
And Spirit comprehend.

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The Attributes of God.

1 Father, how wide thy glory shines! How bright thy wonders rise!

Known through the earth by thousand signs,
By thousands through the skies.

2 Those mighty orbs proclaim thy pow'r,
Those motions speak thy skill;
And on the wings of every hour
We read thy patience still.

3 But when we view thy great design,
To save rebellious worms,

Where vengeance and compassion join,
In their divinest forms;

4 Here the whole Deity is known;
Nor dares the creature guess

Which of the glories brightest shown,
The justice or the grace.

5 Now the full glories of the Lamb
Adorn the heav'nly plains;

Bright seraphs learn Immanuels name,
And try their choicest strains.

6 O may I bear some humble part
In that immortal song!

Wonder and joy shall tune my heart,
And love command my tongue.

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10 GOD, my God, my all thou art,
Ere shines the dawn of rising day
Thy sov'reign light within my heart,
Thine all enliv'ning pow'r display,

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