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2 Awake our love, awake our joy,
Awake our heart and tongue;
Sleep not when mercies loudly call;-
Break forth into a song.

3 Minutes and mercies multiplied,
Have made up all this day;

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More fleet and free than they.

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4 New time, new favour, and new joys,
Do a new song require;
Till we shall praise thee as we would,
Accept our heart's desire.

5 Lord of our time, whose hand hath set

New time upon our score;

Thee may we praise for all our time,
When time shall be no more.

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READ Sovereign! let my evening song

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Like holy incense rise;

Assist the offerings of my tongue
To reach the lofty skies..

2 Perpetual blessings from above
Encompass me around:

But Oh how few returns of love

Hath my Creator found!

3 What have I done for him that died To save my wretched soul?

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4 Lord, with this guilty heart of mine,
To thy dear cross I flee;

And to thy grace my soul resign,
To be renew'd by thee.

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5 Sprinkled afresh with pardoning blood,
I lay me down to rest;
As in the embraces of my God,
Or on my Saviour's breast.

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1 THUS far the Lord has led me on,

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Thus far his power prolongs my days;
And every evening shall make known
Some fresh memorial of his grace.

2 Much of my time has run to waste,
And I perhaps am near my home;
But he forgives my follies past,
And gives me strength for days to come.
3 I lay my body down to sleep,
Peace is the pillow for my head;
While well-appointed angels keep
Their watchful stations round my bed.

4 Faith in his name forbids my fear:
O may thy presence ne'er depart!
And in the morning make me hear
The love and kindness of thy heart.

5 Thus when the night of death shall come
My flesh shall rest beneath the ground,
And wait thy voice to rouse my tomb,
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LORY to thee, my God, this night, A
For all the blessings of the light;
Keep me, O keep me, King of kings,
Under thine own almighty wings.

2 Forgive me, Lord, for thy dear Son,
The ills that I this day have done ;
That with the world, myself and thee,
I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.

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3 Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed;
Teach me to die, that so I may
With joy behold the judgment-day, 07

4 Lord, let my soul for ever share
The bliss of thy paternal care;

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'Tis heaven on earth, 'tis heaven above,
To see thy face, and sing thy love.

5 For death is life, and labour rest

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Then welcome sleep, or death, to me,ʻi
I'm still secure, for still with thee.

6 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow
Praise him all creatures here below;
Praise him above, ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

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MNIPRESENT God! whose aid T No one ever ask'd in vain, desh yM Be this night about my bed, viti now be Every evil thought restrain

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Lay thy hand upon my soul,"
God of my unguarded hours!
All my enemies control,

Hell, and earth, and nature's powers.

2 O thou jealous God! come down,
God of spotless purity;

Claim, and seize me for thy own,
Consecrate my heart to thee:
Under thy protection take;
Songs in the night season give;
Let me sleep to thee, and wake;
Let me die to thee, and live.

3 Loose me from the chains of sense,
Set me from the body free;
Draw with stronger influence
My unfetter'd soul to thee:
In me, Lord, thyself reveal,
Fill me with a sweet surprise;
Let me thee, when waking, feel;
Let me in thy image rise.

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1 WHAT, though my frail eye-lids refuse Continual watching to keep,

And punctual as midnight renews,
Demand the refreshment of sleep;
A sovereign Protector I have,
Unseen, yet for ever at hand:
Unchangeably faithful to save,
Almighty to rule and command.

2 From evil secure, and its dread,
I rest, if my Saviour is nigh:
And songs his kind presence indeed
Shall in the night season supply;
He smiles, and my comforts abound;
His grace as the dew shall descend:
And walls of salvation surround
The soul he delights to defend.

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Thee, thee, for my God I avow;
My glad Ebenezer set up,
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I muse on the years that are past, b.9m JoJ
Wherein my defence thou hast prov'd,
Nor wilt thou relinquish at last

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My all to thy covenant care,

I, sleeping and waking, resign:
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The night is no darkness to me;
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2 Thy minist'ring spirits descend, associ
To watch while thy saints are asleep
By day and by night they attend,
The heirs of salvation to keep

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