Worthless are my prayers and sighing,
Yet, good LORD, in grace complying,
Rescue me from fires undying!

With Thy favoured sheep O place me!
Nor among the goats abase me,
But to Thy right hand upraise me.

While the wicked are confounded,
Doomed to flames of woe unbounded,
Call me! with Thy saints surrounded.
Low I kneel, with heart submission-
See, like ashes, my contrition-
Help me in my last condition!

Ah, that day of tears and mourning!
From the dust of earth returning,

Man for judgment must prepare him-
Spare, O GOD, in mercy spare him!
LORD, all-pitying JESU, blest,
Grant us Thine eternal rest.

Amen.

"The Desire of all nations shall come."

7. AND now with shades of night opprest,
When weary limbs are laid at rest,
The faithful soul shall wake and weep,
And unto Thee her vigils keep.

Health of the world, the FATHER's word,
By whom our untold prayers are heard,
Desire of nations, hear our sighs,
And raise us from our miseries.

Why do Thy wheels so long delay?
Come Thou and cast our chains away?
And ope the heavenly doors again,
Which Adam's crime hath closed amain.

Praise to the SON, Who cometh down,
To make lost man again His own,
Praise be throughout the days of Heaven,
TO FATHER and to SPIRIT given.

"Behold He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see Him."

8. Lo! He comes, with clouds descending,
Once for favour'd sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of His train :

Alleluia!

Alleluia! Amen.

Ev'ry eye shall now behold Him
Rob'd in dreadful majesty;

They who set at nought and sold Him,
Pierc'd and nail'd Him to the tree,
Deeply wailing,

Shall the dread MESSIAH see.

Ev'ry island, sea, and mountain,
Heav'n and earth shall flee away;
All who hate Him, must, confounded,
Hear the trump proclaim the day:
Come to judgment,
Come to judgment, come away!
Now redemption, long expected,
See in solemn pomp appear!
All His saints by men rejected,
Rise to meet Him in the air:
Alleluia !

Angels, martyrs, all are there!

Yea, Amen, let all adore Thee,
High on Thine eternal throne!
SAVIOUR! take the power and glory,
Make Thy righteous sentence known!
O, come quickly,

Claim the kingdoms for Thine own!

"And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat upon it."

9. GREAT GOD! what do I see and hear?
The end of things created!
The Judge of mankind doth appear,
On clouds of glory seated!

The trumpet sounds! the graves restore
The dead that they contain'd before!
Prepare, my soul, to meet Him..

The dead in CHRIST are first to rise,
And greet th' archangel's warning;
To meet the SAVIOUR in the skies,
On this most awful morning;
The trumpet sounds! the graves restore
The dead that they contain'd before!
Prepare, my soul, to meet Him.

His Cross, dread sign, in heav'n appears;
While stoutest hearts are quailing;
Th' ungodly rise, and all their tears
And sighs are unavailing.

The trumpet sounds! the graves restore
The dead that they contain'd before!
Prepare, my soul, to meet Him.

My Judge, O grant me to ascend
Before Thy throne immortal,
When thousand thousands Thee attend,
And enter Heav'n's high portal.
The trumpet sounds! the graves restore
The dead that they contain'd before!
Prepare, my soul, to meet Him.

"He that is least in the kingdom of heaven, is greater than he."

10. WHEN CHRIST the LORD would come on earth, His messenger before Him went;

The greatest born of mortal birth,

And charg'd with words of deep intent.

The least of all that here attend

Hath honour greater far than he
He was the Bridegroom's joyful friend,
His Body and His Spouse are we.
A higher race, the sons of light,
Of water and the Spirit born;
He the last star of parting night,
And we the children of the morn.
And as he boldly spake Thy word,
And joy'd to hear the Bridegroom's voice,
Thus may Thy pastors teach, Ŏ LORD,
And thus Thy list'ning Church rejoice!
TO FATHER, SON, and HOLY GHOST,

The GOD Whom Heaven and earth adore,
Be glory, as it was of old,

Is now, and shall be evermore.

The following Anthems are to be used at Evening Prayer after the Third Collect.

O WISDOM, Which camest out of the mouth of the Most High, reaching from one end to another, mightily and sweetly ordering all things; Come and teach us the way of understanding.

O LORD and Ruler of the house of Israel, Who appearedst to Moses in a flame of fire in the bush, and gavest him the law in Sinai; Come and deliver us with an outstretched arm.

O Root of Jesse, Which standest for an ensign of the people, at Whom the kings shall shut their mouths, Thou to Whom the Gentiles shall seek ; Come and deliver us now, tarry not.

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14.

Dec. 19.

O KEY of David, and Sceptre of the house of Israel, Thou that openest and no man shutteth, and shuttest and no man openeth; Come and bring the prisoner out of the prison-house, and him that sitteth in darkness and in the shadow of death.

O ORIENT Brightness of the Everlasting Light, and Sun of Righteousness; Come and enlighten them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death.

O KING and Desire of all nations, Thou Cornerstone, Who hast made both one; Come and save man, whom Thou formedst from the clay.

O EMMANUEL, our King and Lawgiver, Hope of the Gentiles, and their SAVIOUR; Come and save us, O LORD our GOD.

Christmas.

"Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass."

18.

YE faithful, approach ye,
Joyfully triumphing,

O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem;
Come and behold Him
Born the King of Angels:
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,

O come, let us adore Him, CHRIST the LORD.