2 Behold Jehovah's royal hand
A radiant crown display,

Whose gems with vivid lustre shine,
While suns and stars decay.

3 No more I seek for transient good,
Nor longer call it miue:

I spring to seize superior joys
Immortal and divine.

4 Ye hearts, with youthful vigour warm,
The glorious prize pursue;

Nor shall ye want the goods of earth,
While heaven is kept in view.

DODDRIDGE.

Faith in the invisible God.

TERNAL and immortal King!

Thy peerless splendours none can bear;

But darkness veils seraphic eyes,
When God with all his glory's there.

2 Yet faith can pierce the awful gloom,
The great invisible can see;

And with its tremblings mingle joy, In fix'd regards, great God! to thee. 3 Then every tempting form of sin, Aw'd by thy presence, disappears; And all the glowing, raptur'd soul The likeness it contemplates, wears. 40 ever conscious to my heart! Witness to its supreme desire; Behold it presses on to thee,

For it hath caught the heavenly fire. 5 This one petition would it urge,

To bear thee ever in its sight;
In life, in leath, in worlds unknown,
Its only portion and delight.

DODDRIDGE.

ORD! when my thoughts delighted rove

Lamidst the wonders of thy love,

Sweet hope revives my drooping heart,
And bids my fears and doubts depart.
2 Be all my heart and all my ways
Devoted to thy fervent praise;
And let my glad obedience prove
How much I owe, how much I love.

MRS. STEELE.

THOU

HOUGH perfect eloquence adorn'd
The sweet persuasive tongue;

Though I could speak in higher strains
Than ever angels sung:

2 Though prophecy my soul inspir'd,
And made all mysteries plain;
Yet, were I void of christian love,
These gifts were all in vain.

3 Although with liberal hands I gave
My goods the poor to feed,
Or gave my body to the flames;
Still, fruitless were the deed.

4 Nay, though my faith, with boundless power, Even mountains could remove;

I still am nothing, if I'm void

Of pure celestial love.

Edinburgh Coll.

HYMN 480. C. M.

The Law of Love.

ALL nature feels attractive power,

strong embracing force;

The drops that sparkle in the shower,
The planets in their course.

2 Thus in the universe of mind
Is felt the law of love;

The charity, both strong and kind,
For all that live and move.
3 In this fine sympathetic chain,
All creatures bear a part;
Their every pleasure, every pain
Link'd to the feeling heart.

4 More perfect bond! the christian plan
Attaches soul to soul;

Our neighbour is the suff'ring man,
Though at the farthest pole.

5 To earth below, from heaven above,
The faith, in Christ profess'd,
More clear reveals that God is love,
And whom he loves is bless'd.

HYMN 481. C. M.

Charity.

DRENNAN.

DAUGHTERS of pity, tune the lay;

To mourners joy belongs;

While he that wipes all tears away
Accepts our thankful songs.

2 No altars smoke, no off'rings bleed,
No guiltless lives expire;
To help a brother in his need
Is all our rites require.

3 Our off'ring is a willing mind
To comfort the distrest;
In others' good our own to find,
In others' blessings blest.

4 Go to the pillow of disease,

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Where night gives no repose,
And on the cheek where sickness prays,
Bid health to plant a rose.

5 Go where the friendless stranger lies,
To perish in his doom:

Snatch from the grave his closing eyes,
And bring his blessing home.

6 Thus, what our heavenly Father gave,
Shall we as freely give;
Thus copy him who liv'd to save,
And died that we might live.

HYMN 482. L. M.

Christian Zeal tempered by Charity.

HAMPSON.

GREAT God! whose all-pervading eye

When sunk too low or rais'd too high,
Teach me those passions to control.
2 Temper the fervours of my fiame;
Be charity their constant spring;
And O! let no unhallow'd flame
Pollute the offerings I bring.
3 Let peace with piety unite
To mend the bias of my will;

While hope and heaven-ey'd faith excite,
And wisdom regulates my zeal :-

4 That wisdom which to meekness turns,
Wisdom descending from above;
And let my zeal, whene'er it burns,
Be kindled by the fire of love.

HYMN 483. Sevens Metre.

WATTS.

Praise for Redemption. Ps. cxxx. 7. Luke i. 68. 1 Pet. i. 18, 19.

NOW

TOW begin the heavenly theme,
Sing aloud in Jesus' name:

Ye, who his salvation prove,
Triumph in redeeming love.

2 Ye, who see the Father's grace,
Beaming in the Saviour's face,
As to Canaan on ye move,
Praise and bless redeeming love.

3 Mourning souls, dry up your tears,
Banish all your guilty fears;
See your guilt and curse remove,
By the power of heavenly love.
4 Ye, alas! who long have been
Willing slaves of death and sin,
Now from bliss no longer tove,
Stop and taste redeeming love.
5 Welcome all by sin oppress'd,
Welcome to his sacred rest:
Nothing brought him from above,
Nothing but redeeming love.
6 When his spirit leads us home,
When we to his glory come,
We shall all the fulness prove
Of our Lord's redeeming love.
7 He subdu'd th' infernal pow'rs,
Those tremendous foes of ours,
From their cursed empire drove;
Mighty in redeeming love.
8 Hither, then, your music bring,
Strike aloud each cheerful string;
Mortals, join the host above,
Join to praise redeeming love.

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RIPPON'S Coll.

HYMN 484. Hallelujah Metre.

Jubilce. Lev. xxv. 10, 39, 40, 41. Isa. lii. 3.

BLOW ye the trumpet, blow

The gladly solemn sound!

Let all the nations know,
To earth's remotest bound,

The year of jubilee is come;

Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.

Exalt the Lamb of God,

The sin-atoning Lamb!

Redemption, by his blood,

Through all the lands proclaim;