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.

Hymn 1:87. 
God dwells with the humble and penitent, Isa. 57. 15 16.

1 Thus saith the High and Lofty One,
“I sit upon my holy throne,
“My name is God, I dwell on high,
“Dwell in my own eternity.

2 “But I descend to worlds below,
“On earth I have a mansion too,
“The humble spirit and contrite
“Is an abode of my delight.

3 “The humble soul my words revive,
“I bid the mourning sinner live,
“Heal all the broken hearts I find,
“And ease the sorrows of the mind.

4 “When I contend against their sin “I make them know how vile they’ve been; “But should my wrath for ever smoke, “Their souls would sink beneath my stroke.”]

5 O may thy pardoning grace be nigh,
Lest we should faint, despair, and die! 
Thus shall our better thoughts approve
The methods of thy chastening love.

Hymn 1:88. 
Life the day of grace and hope.  Eccles. 9. 4 3 6 10.

1 Life is the time to serve the Lord,
The time t’ insure the great reward;
And while the lamp holds out to burn
The vilest sinner may return.

2 [Life is the hour that God has given
To ’scape from hell, and fly to heaven,
The day of grace, and mortals may
Secure the blessings of the day.]

3 The living know that they must die,
But all the dead forgotten lie,
Their memory and their sense is gone,
Alike unknowing and unknown.

4 [Their hatred and their love is lost,
Their envy bury’d in the dust;
They have no share in all that’s done
Beneath the circuit of the sun.]

5 Then what my thoughts design to do,
My hands, with all your might pursue,
Since no device, nor work is found,
Nor faith, nor hope beneath the ground.

6 There are no acts of pardon past
In the cold grave to which we haste,
But darkness, death, and long despair
Reign in eternal silence there.

Hymn 1:89. 
Youth and judgment, Eccles. 11. 9.

1 Ye sons of Adam, vain and young,
Indulge your eyes, indulge your tongue,
Taste the delight your souls desire,
And give a loose to all your fire.

2 Pursue the pleasures ye design, And cheer your hearts with songs and wine, Enjoy the day of mirth; but know There is a day of judgment too.

3 God from on high beholds your thoughts,
His book records your secret faults;
The works of darkness you have done
Must all appear before the sun.

4 The vengeance to your follies due Should strike your hearts with terror thro’:  How will ye stand before his face, Or answer for his injur’d grace?

5 Almighty God, turn off their eyes
From these alluring vanities;
And let the thunder of thy word
Awake their souls to fear the Lord.

Hymn 1:90. 
The same.

1 Lo the young tribes of Adam rise,
And thro’ all nature rove,
Fulfil the wishes of their eyes,
And taste the joys they love.

Copyrights
Project Gutenberg
Hymns and Spiritual Songs from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.