e 1 SELECTED FROM VARIOUS AUTHORS. HYMN 1. L. M. Old Hundred. [*] Being of God. Ps. civ. HERE is a God-all nature speaks, Through earth, and air, and sea, and o See from the clouds his glory breaks, [skies; When the first beams of morning rise. -2 The rising sun, serenely bright, O'er the wide world's extended frame, Inscribes, in characters of light, His mighty Maker's glorious name. o 3 The flow'ry tribes all blooming rise, Above the weak attempts of art; e The smallest worms, the meanest flies, HYMN 2. C. M. Tunbridge. [b*] 1 YE Steele. 1 VE humble souls, approach your God, With songs of sacred praise; For he is good, immensely good, And kind are all his ways. 2 All nature owns his guardian care; In him we live and move; o But nobler benefits declare The wonders of his love. e 3 He gave his Son, his only Son, To ransom rebel worms; 'Tis here he makes his goodness known, In its divinest forms. e 4 To this dear refuge, Lord, we come ; 'Tis here our hope relies: o A safe defence, a peaceful home, When storms of trouble rise -5 Thine eye beholds, with kind regard, o 6 Great God, to thy almighty Love Steele. HYMN 3. C. M. Mitcham. Arundel. [*] 1 E God the Creator. TERNAL Wisdom, thee we praise; With thy lov'd name, rocks, hills, and seas, g 2 Thy hand,-how wide it spread the sky! How glorious to behold! -Ting'd with a blue of heavenly die, 3 Thy glories blaze, all nature round, Through skies, and seas, and solid ground, g 4 Infinite strength, and equal skill, -5 But still the wonders of thy grace e Our softer passions move; Pity divine, in Jesus' face, We see, adore, and love. a 1 K HYMN 4. C. M. Bedford. [*] EEP silence-all created things, Watts. My soul stands trembling while she sings The honours of her God. e 2 Life, death, and hell, and worlds unknown, Hang on his firm decree; He sits on no precarious throne, Nor borrows leave to be. 3 Chain'd to his throne a volume lies, With all the fates of men; With ev'ry angel's form and size, -4 His providence unfolds the book, 5 (Here he exalts neglected worms, And there, the following page he turns, e 7 My God, I would not long to see Recorded in some humble place, HYMN 5. L. P. M. St. Helen's. [*] God's Name proclaimed. Ex. xxxiv, 6—8. Watts. 1 ATTEND, my soul, the voice divine, And mark what beaming glories shine Around thy condescending God! To us-to us, he still proclaims e His awful, his endearing names; 0 Attend, and sound them all abroad. d 2 'Jehovah I, the sovereign Lord, "The mighty God, by heaven ador'd, 'Down to the earth my footsteps bend: e 'My heart the tenderest pity knows, 'Goodness, full-streaming, wide o'erflows, 'And grace and truth shall never end. 3 'My patience long can crimes endure, My pard'ning love is ever sure, When penitential sorrow mourns; 'To millions, through unnumber'd years, 'New hope and new delight it bears; 'Yet wrath against the sinner burns.' o 4 Make haste, my soul, the vision meet, e All prostrate at thy Sovereign's feet, And drink the tuneful accents in: o Speak on, my Lord, repeat the voice, Diffuse these heart-expanding joys, Till heaven repeat the rapt'rous scene. Doddridge. HYMN 6. C. M. Colchester. [*] Adam: or, the Fall of Man. Gen. iii. 1 ON man, in his own image made, How much did God bestow ! The whole creation homage paid, And own'd him Lord below. o 2 He dwelt in Eden's garden, stor'd And there, with his descending Lord, e 3 But oh! by sin how quickly chang'd! His heart, from God and truth estrang'd, -4 Now from his Maker's voice he flies, And thinks to hide amidst the trees, 5 Compell'd to answer to his name, o 6 But grace, unask'd, his heart subdu'd, By faith the promis'd Seed he view'd, 1 HYMN 7. H. M. Allerton. [*] Types of the Messiah. Heb. iv, 2. SRAEL, in ancient days, Of Sinai in a blaze, But learn'd the gospel too: The types and figures were a glass, In which they saw the Saviour's face. Newton. 2 The paschal sacrifice, And blood-besprinkled door,- And once apply'd with power, 3 The lamb, the dove, set forth Whose blood of matchless worth Was to be seen no more: e Describ'd a guilty soul enlarg'd, Throughout the sacred page, -O grant that I may faithful be 1 ARK! the herald angels sing, 4 Veil'd in flesh the Godhead see, |