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3.

L.M.—Public Worship. Ps. c.

1 ALL people that on earth do dwell,
Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice;
Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell,
Come ye before him and rejoice.

2 The Lord, ye know, is God indeed,
Without our aid he did us make;
We are his flock, he doth us feed,

And for his sheep he doth us take.
3 O enter then his gates with praise,
Approach with joy his courts unto;
Praise, laud, and bless his name always,
For it is seemly so to do.

4 For why? the Lord our God is good,
His mercy is for ever sure;

His truth at all times firmly stood,
And shall from age to age endure.

4.

L.M.-Public Worship. Ps. c.

1 BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne,
Ye nations bow with sacred joy;
Know that the Lord is God alone;
He can create, and he destroy.
2 His sovereign power without our aid,
Made us of clay, and formed us men;
And when like wandering sheep we stray'd,
He brought us to his fold again.

3 [We are his people, we his care,

Our souls, and all our mortal frame:
What lasting honours shall we rear,
Almighty Maker, to thy name?]

4 We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs,
High as the heavens our voices raise;
And earth with her ten thousand tongues
Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.

5 Wide as the world is thy command,
Vast as eternity thy love;

Firm as a rock thy truth must stand
When rolling years shall cease to move.

5.

P.M.-Public Worship. Ps. xcv.

1 O COME, let us sing to the Lord, In God, our salvation, rejoice; In psalms of thanksgiving record

His praise, with one heart and one voice: For Jehovah is King, and he reigns, The God of all gods, on his throne: The strength of the hills he maintains, The ends of the earth are his own.

2 The sea is Jehovah's - he made

The tide its dominion to know:
The land is Jehovah's-he laid
Its solid foundation below.
O come let us worship and kneel
Before our Creator, our God
The people who serve him with zeal,

The flock whom he guides with his rod.

3 As Moses the fathers of old,

Through the sea and the wilderness led, His wonderful works we behold,

With manna from heaven are fed; To-day let us hearken, to-day,

To the voice that yet speaks from above,

And all his commandments obey,

For all his commandments are love.

4 His wrath let us fear to provoke,
To dwell in his favour unite;
His service is freedom, his yoke
Is easy, his burden is light:

But, Oh! of rebellion beware,
Rebellion that hardens the breast,
Lest God in his anger should swear
That we shall not enter his rest.

6.

P.M.-Public Worship.

1 LO! God is here! let us adore,
And own how dreadful is this place!
Let all within us feel his power,
And silent bow before his face!

Who know his

power, his

grace who prove, Serve him with awe, with reverence love. 2 Lo! God is here! Him day and night Th' united choirs of angels sing: To him enthron'd above all height,

Heaven's host their noblest praises bring: Disdain not, Lord, our meaner song, Who serve thee with a stammering tongue. 3 Gladly the toys of earth we leave,

Wealth, pleasure, fame, for thee alone; To thee our will, soul, flesh, we give; O take, O seal them for thine own! Thou art the God, thou art the Lord; Be thou by all thy works ador'd. 4 Being of Beings! may thy praise

Thy courts with grateful fragrance fill: Still may we stand before thy face, Still hear and do thy sovereign will: To thee may all our thoughts arise, Ceaseless, accepted sacrifice!

7.

C.M.-Reverential Worship.

Isa. viii. 13.

1 HOLY and reverend is the name

Of our Eternal King;

Thrice holy Lord! the angels cry,
Thrice holy, let us sing.

2 Holy is he in all his works,
And truth is his delight;
But sinners and their wicked ways
Shall perish from his sight.

3 The deepest reverence of the mind
Pay, O my soul, to God;

Lift with thy hands a holy heart
To his sublime abode.

4 With sacred awe pronounce his name,
Whom words nor thoughts can reach;
A broken heart shall please him more
Than the best forms of speech.

5 Thou, holy God! preserve my soul
From all pollution free;

The pure in heart are thy delight,
And they thy face shall see.

8.

C.M.-The day approaching, a motive to love and worship.
Heb. x. 24, 25.

1 THE day approacheth, O my soul,
The great decisive day,

Which, from the verge of mortal life,
Shall bear thee far away.

2 Another day, more awful dawns;
And lo, the Judge appears!
Ye heavens retire before his face,
And sink, ye darken'd stars.

3 Yet does one short preparing hour,
One precious hour remain;

Rouse thee, my soul, with all thy power,
Nor let it pass in vain.

4 With me my brethren soon must die,
And at that bar appear;

Now be our intercourse improv'd
To mutual comfort here.

5 For this thy temple, Lord, we throng;
For this thy board surround;
Here may our service be approv`d,
And in thy presence crown'd.

9.

C.M.-Worship in God's house, here and hereafter. Ps. xxiii. 6. 1 MY soul, triumphant in the Lord, Shall tell its joys abroad;

And march with holy vigour on,
Supported by its God.

2 Through all the winding maze of life
His hand has been my guide,
And in that long experienc'd care
My heart shall still confide.

3 His grace through all the desert flows,
An unexhausted stream;

That grace on Zion's sacred mount
Shall be my endless theme.

4 Beyond the choicest joys of earth
These distant courts I love;
But O! I burn with strong desire
To view thy house above.

5 Mingled with all the shining band,
My soul would there adore;
A pillar in thy temple fix'd,
To be remov'd no more.

10.

L.M.-The Lord's day morning.

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

Return, my soul, enjoy thy rest,
Improve the day thy God hath blest.

2 Come, bless the Lord, whose love assigns So sweet a rest to weary minds;

Provides an antepast of heaven,
And gives this day the food of seven.

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