OPENING AND CLOSE OF PUBLIC
Public Adoration. Ps. 100.
1 BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne,
Ye nations, bow with sacred joy!
Know that the Lord is God alone:
He can create, and he destroy.
2 His sovereign power, without our aid,
Made us of clay, and formed us men;
And when, like wandering sheep, we strayed,
He brought us to his fold again.
3 We are his people, we his care,-
Our souls and all our mortal frame:
What lasting honors shall we rear,
Almighty Maker, to thy name?
4 We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs;
High as the heavens our voices raise;
And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,
Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.
5 Wide as the world is thy command,
Vast as eternity thy love;
Firm as a rock thy truth shall stand
When rolling years shall cease to move.
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Public Praise. Ps. 100.
1 BE joyful in God, all ye lands of the earth;
O serve him with gladness and fear;
Exult in his presence with music and mirth;
With love and devotion draw near.
2 Jehovah is God, and Jehovah alone
Creator and Ruler o'er all;
And we are his people-his sceptre we ownHis sheep, and we follow his call.
3 O enter his gates with thanksgiving and song; Your vows in his temple proclaim;
His praise with melodious accordance prolong; And bless his adorable name.
4 For good is the Lord, inexpressibly good,
And we are the work of his hand;
His mercy and truth from eternity stood,
And shall to eternity stand.
Public Worship. Ps. 95.
1 O COME, loud anthems let us sing,
Loud thanks, to our almighty King;
For we our voices high should raise
When our salvation's Rock we praise.
2 Into his presence let us haste
To thank him for his favors past;
To him address, in joyful songs,
The praise that to his name belongs.
3 For God, the Lord, enthroned in state,
Is with unrivalled glory great-
The King eternal over all
Whom by the title gods we call.
4 The depths of earth are in his hand-
Her secret wealth at his command;
The strength of hills that threat the skies
Subjected to his empire lies.
5 The rolling ocean's vast abyss
By the same sovereign right is his;
"Tis moved by his almighty hand,
That formed and fixed the solid land.
60 let us to his courts repair,
And bow in adoration there-
With joy and fear, devoutly, all
Before the Lord, our Maker, fall.
Public Worship. Ps. 95.
1 COME, sound his praise abroad,
And hymns of glory sing:
Jehovah is the sovereign God,
The universal King.
2 He formed the deeps unknown;
He gave the seas their bound;
The watery worlds are all his own,
And all the solid ground.
3 Come, worship at his throne;
Come, bow before the Lord.
We are his works, and not our own:
He formed us by his word.
4 To-day attend his voice,
Nor dare provoke his rod;
Come, like the people of his choice.
And own your gracious God.
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1 COME, thou almighty King,
Help us thy name to sing-
Help us to praise.
Father all-glorious,
O'er all victorious,
Come and reign over us,
Ancient of days.
2 Come, thou eternal Lord,
By heaven and earth adored,
Our prayer attend.
Come, and thy people bless;
Give thy good word success;
Make thine own holiness
On us descend.
3 Be thou our comforter;
Thy sacred witness bear
In this glad hour.
Omnipotent thou art :
O, rule in every heart,
And ne'er from us depart,
Spirit of power!
4 O Holy One! to thee
Eternal praises be
Hence, evermore.
Thy sovereign majesty
May we in glory see,
And to eternity
Love and adore.
1 WHEN before thy throne we kneel,
Filled with awe and holy fear,
Teach us, O our God, to feel
All thy sacred presence near.
2 Check each proud and wandering thought
When on thy great name we call;
Man is nought-is less than nought:
Thou, our God, art all in all.
3 Weak, imperfect creatures, we
In this vale of darkness dwell;
Yet presume to look to thee
'Midst thy light ineffable.
4 O, receive the praise that dares
Seek thy heaven-exalted throne;
Bless our offerings, hear our prayers,
Infinite and Holy One!
Homage and Devotion.
1 WITH sacred joy we lift our eyes
To those bright realms above-
That glorious temple in the skies,
Where dwells eternal love.
2 Before the awful throne we bow
Of heaven's almighty King;
Here we present the solemn vow,
And hymns of praise we sing.
3 Thee we adore, and, Lord, to thee
Our filial duty pay;
Thy service, unconstrained and free,
Conducts to endless day.
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