FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF PUBLIC WORSHIP.
Praise to the Most High God.
1 GLORY be to God on high!
God, whose glory fills the sky;
Peace on earth to man forgiven,
Man, the well beloved of heaven:
Glory be to God on high!
God, whose glory fills the sky.
2 Favoured mortals, raise the song;
Endless thanks to God belong;
Hearts o'erflowing with his praise,
Join the hymns your voices raise.
3 Call the tribes of beings round,
From Creation's utmost bound;
Where the Godhead shines confessed,
There be solemn praise addressed.
4 Mark the wonders of his hand!
Power, no empire can withstand;
Wisdom, angels' glorious theme ;
Goodness, one eternal stream.
5 Awful Being! from thy throne
Send thy promised blessings down;
Let thy light, thy truth, thy peace,
Bid our raging passions cease.
Praise to the One Supreme. Ps. xcv.
1 O COME, and to th' Almighty King
Triumphant anthems let us sing!
To him who, high enthroned in state,
Is with unrivalled glory great.
2 The depths of earth are in his hand,
Her secret wealth at his command;
The strength of hills that threat the skies,
Subjected to his empire lies.
3 The rolling ocean's vast abyss
By the same sovereign right is his ;
'Tis moved by that Almighty hand,
Which formed and fixed the solid land.
4 Above the earth, beyond the sky,
Stands his high throne of majesty ;
Nor time, nor place, his power restrain,
Or bound his universal reign.
50 let us to his courts repair,
And bow in adoration there;
To him address, in joyful songs,
The praise that to his name belongs!
Assembling for Public Worship. Ps. cxxii.
We own the grace divine
Which all unites, to join,
And praise and seek their God to-day;
We would, with cheerful zeal,
Haste to thine holy hill,
And there our vows and homage pay.
2 Thrice happy is the place,
Where God unveils his face,
The purest pleasures there are found:
His servants there appear
pray, and praise, and hear
The sacred gospel's joyful sound.
3 May peace attend thy gate,
And joy within thee wait,
To bless the soul of every guest:
The man that seeks thy peace,
And wishes thine increase,
Unnumbered blessings on him rest!
My soul shall pray again,
Peace with this house remain,
For here my friends and brethren dwell;
And since my Father here
Draws to his children near,
My soul shall ever love thee well.
Invitation to the Sanctuary and Service of God. Jer. 1. 5.
1 INQUIRE, ye pilgrims, for the way
That leads to Zion's hill;
And thither set your steadfast face,
With a determined will.
2 Invite the strangers all around,
Your pious march to join ;
And spread the sentiments you feel
Of faith and love divine.
3 Come, let us to his temple haste,
And seek his favour there;
Before his footstool humbly bow,
And pour our fervent prayer.
4 Come, let us join our souls to God
In everlasting bands;
And seize the blessings he bestows,
With eager hearts and hands.
5 Come, let us seal without delay
The covenant of his grace;
Nor shall the years of distant life
Its memory efface.
6 Thus may our rising offspring haste
To seek their fathers' God;
Nor e'er forsake the happy path,
Their youthful feet have trod.
Praise to the Creator. Ps. c. 1. 3-5.
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 word, which all things made,
Gave life to clay, and formed us men:
And, when like wandering sheep we strayed,
He brought us to his fold again.
3 We are his people, we his care,
Our nobler, and our meaner frame :
What lasting honours can 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 thy throne thy truth will stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move.
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