Thy praise (delightful, glorious theme!)
Demands our heart, our life, our tongue.

2 Our hearts, our lives, our tongues, are thine :
O be thy praise their best employ !
But may our songs with angels join,
Nor sacred awe forbid the joy!
3 Thy glories the seraphick lyre,
On all its strings, attempts in vain :
Then how shall mortals dare aspire,
In thought, to try th' unequal strain ?
4 Yet the great Sovereign of the skies
To mortals bend a gracious ear;
Nor the mean tribute will despise,
When offer'd with a heart sincere.
5 Great God, accept the humble praise,
And guide our heart, and guide our tongue,
While to thy name we trembling raise
The grateful, though unworthy, song.

HYMN LXVI.

God exalted above all praise.

1 BEFORE the awful throne we bow
Of heav'n's Eternal King;

To him present the solemn vow,
And hymns of praises sing.

2 Ilow weak, great God, our noblest songs
To magnify thy ways!

Nor human nor angelick tongues

Can shew forth all thy praise.

3 Yet be it now our chief delight Our feeble notes to join,

Until with angels we unite

In anthems more divine.

4 Nor from thy presence cast away
The off'ring that we bring:

Lord! teach our hearts aright to pray,
And tune our lips to sing.

HYMN LXVII.

Praise to the great and good God. 1 LONG as we live, we'll bless thy name, Great King and God of love! Our work and joy shall be the same In the bright world above.

2 Thy grace shall dwell upon our tongues; And, while our lips rejoice,

The men, who hear our sacred songs,
Shall join their cheerful voice.

3 Fathers to sons shall teach thy name,
And children learn thy ways;
Ages to come thy truth proclaim,
And nations sound thy praise.

Thy glorious deeds, of ancient date,
Shall through the world be known;
Thine arm of pow'r, thy heav'nly state,
With publick splendour shown.

9 The world is govern'd by thy hands,
The people rul'd by love;

And thine eternal kingdom stands,
Though rocks and hills remove.

HYMN LXVIII.

Invocation to praise God.

1 YE tribes of earth, in God rejoice:
His presence hail, with thankful voice;
To him your willing homage pay,
And wake the tributary lay;

Submissive to his will, in him

Behold the God of Gods supreme.

2 With conscious wonder oft survey'd,
He, not ourselves, our frame has made;
The subjects of his pow'r we stand,
The sheep that own his guiding hand

O enter then his gates with praise, To him your loudest accents raise. 3 With grateful hearts his love proclaim, And bless, O bless his awful name; For truth in him, and mercy, live; That truth shall time itself survive ; That mercy, through the length of days, Unclouded, pour its healing rays.

HYMN LXIX.

Praise and Thanksgiving.

1 OUR Maker, and our King,
To thee our all we owe,
Thy sovereign bounty is the spring
From whence our blessings flow.

2 Thou ever good and kind,

A thousand reasons move,
A thousand obligations bind
Our hearts to grateful love. -

3 The creatures of thy hand,
On thee alone we live ;
Great God, thy benefits demand
More praise than life can give.

40 let thy grace inspire

Our souls with strength divine; Let all our powers to thee aspire, And all our days be thine.

HYMN LXX.

Praise and Thanksgiving,

1 HOLY, holy, holy Lord!
Be thy glorious name ador'd!
Lord, thy mercies never fail
Hail, celestial goodness, hail

2 Though unworthy, Lord, thine ear
Our humble hallelujahs hear,
Purer praise we hope to bring,
When around thy throne we sing.
3 While on earth ordain'd to stay,
Guide our footsteps in thy way,
Till we come to reign with thee,
And all thy glorious greatness see.
4 Then no tongue shall silent be,
And all shall join in harmony;

That, through heav'n's all-spacious round,
Thy praise, O God, may ever sound.

5 Lord, thy mercies never fail :
Hail, celestial goodness, hail !
Holy, holy, holy Lord,
Be thy glorious name ador'd!

HYMN LXXI.

Praise and Thanksgiving.

1 HAIL, thou eternal King!
Thy ceaseless praise we sing :
Praise shall our glad tongues employ,
Praise o'erflow our grateful soul,
While we vital breath enjoy,

2

While eternal ages roll.

Let earth's remotest bound

With thy glad praise resound¡
From thine high and holy place,
Where thou dost in glory reign,
Thou, in condescending grace,
Deign'st to view the sons of men.

O Lord, thou God of love!
While we thy mercy prove,
Praise shall our glad tongues employ,
Praise o'erflow our grateful soul,

While we vital breath enjoy,

While eternal ages roll.

HYMN LXXII.

Praise and Thanksgiving.

1 SOVEREIGN Lord of might and glory!
Author of our mortal frame!
Joyfully we bow before thee,
And extol thine holy name :
Hallelujah!

Ever sacred be the theme!

2 Kind Dispenser of each blessing,
Which surrounds the human race!
May we, gratefully possessing,
Still adore thy boundless grace :
Hallelujah!

Praise to God, immortal praise!
3 While with joyful exultation
We attend before thy throne,
Let us, with glad ac lamation,
Thine abundant mercies own:
Hallelujah!

Praise belongs to thee alone!
In thine ev'ry dispensation,
Grace and mercy we descry;
Thon, the God of our salvation,
To preserve us, still art nigh:
Hallelujah!

Glory be to God on high!

HYMN LXXIII.

Praise and Thanksgiving.

O COME let us join,

With musick divine,

Our Creator to praise,

And joyfully sing his unspeakable grace! Thou light of mankind,

Shine into each mind,

And clearly reveal

Thy perfect and good and acceptable will.