Hymns and Spiritual Songs eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 211 pages of information about Hymns and Spiritual Songs.

Hymns and Spiritual Songs eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 211 pages of information about Hymns and Spiritual Songs.

4 Let me no more my soul beguile
With sin’s deceitful toys: 
Let cheerful hope increasing still
Approach to heavenly joys.

5 My thankful lips shall loud proclaim
The wonders of thy praise,
And spread the savour of thy Name
Where’er I spend my days.

6 On earth let my example shine,
And when I leave this state,
May heaven receive this soul of mine
To bliss supremely great.

Hymn 1:45. 
The last judgment, Rev. 21. 5-8.

1 See where the great incarnate God
Fills a majestic throne,
While from the skies his awful voice
Bears the last judgment down.

2 ["I am the first, and I the last,
“Thro’ endless years the same;
“I am is my memorial still,
“And my eternal name.

3 “Such favours as a God can give
“My royal grace bestows;
“Ye thirsty souls come taste the streams
“Where life and pleasure flows.]

4 ["The saint that triumphs o’er his sins,
“I’ll own him for a son,
“The whole creation shall reward
“The conquests he has won.

5 “But bloody hands and hearts unclean,
“And all the lying race,
“The faithless and the scoffing crew,
“That spurn at offer’d grace,

6 “They shall be taken from my sight,
“Bound fast in iron chains,
“And headlong plung’d into the lake
“Where fire and darkness reigns.”

7 O may I stand before the Lamb,
When earth and seas are fled! 
And hear the Judge pronounce my name
With blessings on my head!

8 May I with those for ever dwell
Who here were my delight,
While sinners banish’d down to hell,
No more offend my sight.

Hymn 1:46. [Supplement.]
The privileges of the living above the dead.

1 Awake, my zeal, awake, my love,
To serve my Saviour here below,
In works which perfect saints above
And holy angels cannot do.

2 Awake my charity, to feed
The hungry soul, and clothe the poor: 
In heaven are found no sons of need,
There all these duties are no more.

3 Subdue thy passions, O my soul! 
Maintain the fight, thy work pursue,
Daily thy rising sins control,
And be thy victories ever new.

4 The land of triumph lies on high,
There are no foes t’ encounter there: 
Lord, I would conquer till I die,
And finish all the glorious war.

5 Let every flying hour confess
I gain thy gospel fresh renown;
And when my life and labour cease,
May I possess the promis’d crown.

Hymn 1:47. [Supplement.]
Death of kindred improved.

1 Must friends and kindred drop and die? 
And helpers be withdrawn? 
While sorrow with a weeping eye
Counts up our comforts gone?

2 Be thou our comfort, mighty God! 
Our helper and our friend: 
Nor leave us in this dangerous road,
Till all our trials end.

3 O may our feet pursue the way
Our pious fathers led! 
With love and holy zeal obey
The counsels of the dead.

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