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 But in his looks a glory stands,
The noblest labour of thine hands: 
The pleasing lustre of his eyes
Outshines the wonders of the skies.

5 Grace, ’tis a sweet, a charming theme;
My thoughts rejoice at Jesus’ name: 
Ye angels, dwell upon the sound,
Ye heavens, reflect it to the ground!

6 O, may I live to reach the place
Where he unveils his lovely face,
Where all his beauties you behold,
And sing his Name to harps of gold!

Hymn 2:48. 
Love to the creatures is dangerous.

1 How vain are all things here below! 
How false, and yet how fair! 
Each pleasure hath its poison too,
And every sweet a snare.

2 The brightest things below the sky
Give but a flattering light;
We should suspect some danger nigh
Where we possess delight.

3 Our dearest joys, and nearest friends,
The partners of our blood,
How they divide our wavering minds,
And leave but half for God!

4 The fondness of a creature’s love,
How strong it strikes the sense! 
Thither the warm affections move,
Nor can we call them thence.

5 Dear Saviour, let thy beauties be
My soul’s eternal food;
And grace command my heart away
From all created good.

Hymn 2:49. 
Moses dying in the embraces of God.

1 Death cannot make our souls afraid
If God be with us there;
We may walk thro’ her darkest shade,
And never yield to fear.

2 I could renounce my all below,
If my Creator bid,
And run, if I were call’d to go,
And die as Moses did.

3 Might I but climb to Pisgah’s top,
And view the promis’d land,
My flesh itself shall long to drop,
And pray for the command.

4 Clasp’d in my heavenly Father’s arms
I would forget my breath,
And lose my life among the charms
Of so divine a death.

Hymn 2:50. 
Comfort under sorrows and pains.

1 Now let the Lord my Saviour smile,
And shew my name upon his heart,
I would forget my pains awhile,
And in the pleasure lose the smart.

But O it swells my sorrows high
To see my blessed Jesus frown! 
My spirits sink, my comforts die,
And all the springs of life are down.

3 Yet why, my soul, why these complaints? 
Still while he frowns his bowels move;
Still on his heart he bears his saints,
And feels their sorrows and his love.

4 My name is printed on his breast;
His book of life contains my name;
I’d rather have it there impress’d
Than in the bright records of fame.

5 When the last fire burns all things here,
Those letters shall securely stand,
And in the Lamb’s fair book appear,
Writ by th’ eternal Father’s hand.

6 Now shall my minutes smoothly run,
Whil’st here I wait my Father’s will;
My rising and my setting sun
Roll gently up and down the hill.

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