I. The Musician's. HOU God of harmony and love, TH Whose name tranfports the faints above, And lulls the ravish'd spheres, On thee in feeble strains I call, And mix my humble voice with all Thy heav'nly chorifters. 2. If ought I know the tuneful art, The glory, Lord, be thine: To please the fiends beneath; 4. Suffice for this the season past: The leffons of thy grace; 5. Thine own musician, Lord, infpire, Repeat the Pfalmift's part! 6. So fhall I charm the lift'ning throng, The new Jerufalem. 7. O might I with thy faints afpire, And fing the fong of love! 8. What extafy of blifs is there! 9. O might I die, that awe to prove ! To fhout by turns the burfting joy, In fongs around thy throne. IN 'N this fecond Edition of the Hymns, feveral new ones are introduced, which favor the different Measures ufed in religious Compofitions; the former being for the most Part of the plainer Kind: And many excellent ones are added from Collections, which did not appear thirty Years ago; as more might, were it not to avoid, with the increased Bulk and Expence, too many on the fame Subjects, or in Measures very rarely ufed. For the fame Reasons the Reader is referred for Pfalms to the Book of Efalms. RELIGIOUS Mufic has been so much improved, it has been thought proper to lay together fome select Tunes in a feparate Book; but the Reader may please to obferve, that the Jike Diftinction is here ufed as in the former Book to make the Hymns correfpond with the Tunes. IN regard to Meafure, the fhort, common and long are diftinguishable, on fight of the Stanzas. The four fevens (i. e. four Lines of feven Syllables each) are distinguishable from the four eights, by the Mark (4-7) annexed to the Title of the Hymn; and all the lefs ufual Measures by the like Figures fet there; only a few Hymns with more musical Tunes have the Names of the Tunes annexed. IN regard to the quality of the Hymns and Tunes, the lofty are marked thus §, the lively thus, the foft or affecting thus, the grave or plaintive thus t, and a few of a very mournful Caft thus ¶; whilft those unmarked are of a middling Nature, e. i. not diftinguishable for gravity, softness, sprightliness, or fublimity, but may be very well adapted to Pulpit Difcourfes, Family Service, or private Ufe. HYMNS AND SACRED POEM § I. Divine Wrath and Mercy. DORE and tremble, for our GoD I. As a confuming fore His jealous eyes his wrath inflame, Vaft magazines of plagues and ftorms ; 3. Thofe heaps of wrath by flow degrees 4. At His approach the mountains flee, 5. Through the wide air the weighty rocks That fhakes the folid World? 6. Yet, mighty GoD, thy fov'reign grace Sits regent on the throne; The refuge of thy chofen race When wrath comes rufhing down. While we, beneath Thy fhelt'ring wings, II. For the Lord's Day. S. GAIN the LORD of life and light Unfeals the eyelids of the morn, 2. O what a night was that, which wrapt 3. This day be grateful homage paid, 4. To nations yet unborn. + IN. Defiring a Sight of Christ crucified. 6-8ths. I. Thy crofs, and hear thy cries! Sinner, thy SAVIOUR weeps for thee, For thee he weeps and dies! A IV. The Chriftian will ferve the Lord. A nobler fatisfaction win! 2. May we refolve with all our heart, With all our pow'rs, to ferve the LORD! Nor from his precepts e'er depart, Whofe fervice is a rich reward. 3. O be his fervice all our joy! Around let our example, Till others love the blefs'd employ, I. Nor, wand'ring, leave His facred ways! Great GoD, accept our foul's defire, And give us ftrength to live thy praise ! + VI. Human Frailty bewailed. LAS! how faulty is the beft? 1. Dangers, in diftant profpect feen, 3. Thus Peter in the trying hour And knew, vain man, alas! too late 4. Mark well, my foul, the dang'rous path 5. In the ftrait path that leads to life No foe can hurt whilft I'm fecur'd |