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3 Lord, thy commands, are clean and pure,
Give heav'nly light to darken'd eyes;
Thy threat'ning just, thy promise sure,
Thy gospel makes the simple wise.

4 Give us thy counsel for our guide,
And then receive us to thy bliss;
All our desires and hopes beside,
Are faint and cold, compar'd with this.

4.

S.M.

Psalm xix.

1 BEHOLD the morning sun
Begins his glorious way;

His beams thro' all the nations run,
And life and light convey.

2 But where the gospel comes
It spreads diviner light,

It calls dead sinners from their tombs,
And gives the blind their sight.

3 How perfect is thy word,

And all thy judgments just!
For ever sure thy promise, Lord,
To it may all men trust.

4 Our gracious God, how plain
Are thy directions giv'n;
O may we never read in vain,
But find the path to heav'n!

5.

C.M.

1 LORD in the morning thou shalt hear
Our voice ascending high;

To thee will we direct our pray'r,
To thee devoutly cry,

2 To that blest world where Christ is gone
To plead for all his saints,
Presenting at his Father's throne,
Our songs and our complaints.

3 Oft to thy house will we resort,
To taste thy mercies there;
We will frequent thine holy court,
And worship in thy fear.

4 O may thy Spirit guide our feet
In ways of truth and grace!
Make ev'ry path of duty straight
And plain before our face.

6.

L.M.

1 THIS is the day the Lord hath bless'd The day to us in mercy giv'nThe holy sabbath of his rest,

The pledge and type of rest in heav'n.

2 This day within thy courts, O Lord!
Thy people love to seek thy face,
To sing thy praises, hear thy word,
Unfold their wants, implore thy grace.

3 May we the blest assembly join;
To God devote the sacred day;
Our earthly cares and thoughts resign,
Look up to heav'n and learn the way.

4 May we by ev'ry sabbath grow
In grace, humility, and love;
Thus by thy holy rest below,
Made fitter for thy rest above.

7.

L.M.

1 LORD of the Sabbath! hear our vows, On this thy day in this thy house; Accept as grateful sacrifice,

The songs which from thy temple rise.

2 Thine earthly sabbath's Lord, we love
But there's a nobler rest above,

O that we may that rest attain!
From sin, from sorrow, and from pain.

3 In thy bless'd kingdom we shall be,
From ev'ry mortal trouble free;
No sighs shall mingle with the song,
Which there shall rise from ev'ry tongue.

4 No rude alarms of raging foes,
No cares to break the long repose,
No midnight shade, no clouded sun,
But sacred, high, eternal noon.

8.

S.M.

1 WELCOME glad day of rest,
That saw the Lord arise;

O welcome to this thankful breast
And these rejoicing eyes!

2 The King himself comes near,
And meets his saints to day,
Here we may sit, and see him here,
And love, and praise, and pray.

3 One day within the place

Where our bless'd Lord has been,
Is sweeter than ten thousand days,
Of vanity and sin.

4 Our willing souls would stay,
In such a frame as this,

And wait the bright and perfect day,
Of everlasting bliss.

9.

1

P.M.

SERVANTS of God, awake

To hail this sacred day,

And in glad songs of praise

Your grateful homage pay;

Come bless the day that God hath bless'd The type of heav'n's eternal rest.

2

3

Upon this happy morn,
The Lord of life arose ;
He burst the bands of death

And vanquish'd all our foes

And now he pleads our cause above
And reaps the fruit of all his love.

All hail! triumphant Lord!
Heav'n with hosannas rings,
And earth with humbler strains,
Thy praise responsive sings;
Worthy the Lamb that once was slain,
Through endless years to live and reign.

10.

Psalm xcii.

L.M.

1 SWEET is the work our God and King,
To praise thy name, give thanks, and sing;
To shew thy love by morning light,
And talk of all thy truth at night.

2 Sweet is the day of sacred rest,
No earthly cares shall fill our breast;
O may our hearts in tune be found,
Like David's harp of solemn sound!
3 Our souls shall triumph in the Lord,
And bless him for his works and word:
Thy works of grace how bright they shine,
How deep thy counsels, how divine."

4 In that eternal world of joy

Shall ev'ry pow'r find sweet employ ;
Then shall we see, and hear, and know,
All we desir'd or wish'd below.

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