3 Lead us in all thy righteous ways,
Nor let our footsteps slide:
Make straight thy path before our face,
Our guardian still, and guide.
4 No more to sin, Lord, let us yield,
Defended from above,
And kept and cover'd with the shield
Of thy almighty love.
1 LORD! when we bend before thy throne, And our confessions pour,
Teach us to feel the sins we own
And hate what we deplore.
2 When we disclose our wants in pray'r,
May we our wills resign;
And not a thought our bosom share,
Which is not wholly thine.
3 Let faith each meek petition fill,
And lift it to the skies;
And teach our hearts 'tis goodness still
Which grants it, or denies.
4 When our united voices strive,
Their cheerful hymns to raise,
Let love divine within us live,
And lift our souls in praise.
5 Then on thy glories while we dwell,
Thy mercies we'll review,
Till love divine transported tell
Thou, God, art Father too!
1 LO! God is here! let us adore
And own how dreadful is this place,
Let all within us feel his power,
And humbly bow before his face.
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.
3 Almighty Father! may our praise
Thy courts with grateful fragrance fill;
Still may we stand before thy face,
Still hear and do, thy sov'reign will.
1 HARK the glad sound! the Saviour comes, The Saviour promis'd long,
Let ev'ry heart prepare a throne,
And ev'ry voice a song.
2 He comes, the pris'ners to release,
In Satan's bondage held;
The gates of brass before him break,
The iron fetters yield.
3 He comes, to bind the broken heart,
To make the wounded whole;
To preach glad tidings to the meek,
And bless the humble soul.
4 Our glad hosannas, Prince of Peace!
Thine advent shall proclaim,
And earth and heav'n shall join to sing
The glories of thy name.
1 IN the sun, the moon, the stars,
Signs and wonders there shall be:
Earth shall quake with inward wars,
Nations with perplexity.
2 Soon shall ocean's mighty deep,
Tossed with stronger tempests rise,
Wilder storms the mountains sweep,
Louder thunders wake the skies.
3 Dread alarms shall shake the proud,
Pale amazement, restless fear;
Then upon the thunder cloud,
Shall the Judge of men appear.
4 But though from that awful face,
Heav'n shall fade and earth shall fly,
Fear not ye, his chosen race
Your redemption draweth nigh.
1 O SAVIOUR! is thy promise fled?
Nor longer might thy grace endure,
To heal the sick, and raise the dead,
And preach thy gospel to the poor?
2 Come, Jesus! come! return again,
With brighter beam thy servants bless,
Who long to feel thy perfect reign,
And share thy kingdom's happiness.
3 Come, Jesus! come! and as of yore
The prophet went to clear thy way;
A harbinger thy feet before,
A dawning to thy brighter day.
4 So now may grace with heav'nly show'r
Our stony hearts for truth prepare;
Sow in our souls the seed of pow'r,
Then come and reap thy harvest there.
1 HOSANNA to the living Lord,
Hosanna to th' incarnate Word!
To Christ, Creator, Saviour, King,
Let heaven and earth Hosanna sing.
2 Hosanna Lord! thine angels cry,
Hosanna Lord! thy saints reply
Above, beneath us, and around
The dead and living swell the sound.
3 Oh! Saviour with protecting care,
Return to this thy house of
prayer,
Assembled in thy sacred name
Here we thy parting promise claim.
4 But chiefest in our cleansed breast,
Eternal! bid thy spirit rest,
And make our secret soul to be
A temple pure and fit for thee.
5 So in the last and dreadful day,
When earth and heav n shall melt away,
Thy flock redeem'd from sinful stain,
Shall swell the sound of praise again.
1 THE Lord will come: the earth shall quake,
The hills their fixed seats forsake,
And withering from the vault of night,
The stars withdraw their feeble light.
2 The Lord shall come! but not the same, As once in lowly form he came ;
A silent lamb to slaughter led,
The bruis'd, the suff'ring, and the dead.
3 The Lord shall come! a dreadful form, With wreath of flame, and robe of storm, On cherub wings, and wings of wind, Anointed judge of human kind.
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