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 2:93. 
God all, and in all, Psalm 73. 25.

1 My God, my life, my love,
To thee, to thee I call,
I cannot live if thou remove,
For thou art all in all.

2 [Thy shining grace can cheer,
This dungeon where I dwell;
’Tis paradise when thou art here;
If thou depart, ’tis hell.]

3 [The smilings of thy face,
How amiable they are! 
’Tis heaven to rest in thine embrace,
And no where else but there.]

4 [To thee, and thee alone,
The angels owe their bliss;
They sit around thy gracious throne,
And dwell where Jesus is.]

5 [Not all the harps above
Can make a heavenly place,
If God his residence remove,
Or but conceal his face.]

6 Nor earth nor all the sky
Can one delight afford;
No not a drop of real joy,
Without thy presence, Lord.

7 Thou art the sea of love,
Where all my pleasures roll,
The circle where my passions move,
And centre of my soul.

8 [To thee my spirits fly
With infinite desire;
And yet how far from thee I lie! 
Dear Jesus, raise me higher!]

Hymn 2:94. 
God my only happiness, Psalm 73. 25.

1 My God, my portion, and my love,
My everlasting all,
I’ve none but thee in heaven above,
Or on this earthly ball.

2 [What empty things are all the skies,
And this inferior clod! 
There’s nothing here deserves my joys,
There’s nothing like my God.]

3 [In vain the bright, the burning sun
Scatters his feeble light;
’Tis thy sweet beams create my noon;
If thou withdraw, ’tis night.

4 And whilst upon my restless bed,
Amongst the shades I roll,
If my Redeemer shew his head
’Tis morning with my soul.]

5 To thee we owe our wealth and friends,
And health, and safe abode;
Thanks to thy Name for meaner things,
But they are not my God.

6 How vain a toy is glittering wealth,
If once compar’d to thee;
Or what’s my safety, or my health,
Or all my friends to me?

7 Were I possessor of the earth,
And call’d the stars my own
Without thy graces and thyself
I were a wretch undone.

8 Let others stretch their arms like seas,
And grasp in all the shore,
Grant me the visits of thy face,
And I desire no more.

Hymn 2:95. 
Look on him whom they pierced, and mourn.

1 Infinite grief! amazing woe! 
Behold my bleeding Lord: 
Hell and the Jews conspir’d his death,
And us’d the Roman sword.

2 O the sharp pangs of smarting pain
My dear Redeemer bore,
When knotty whips and ragged thorns
His sacred body tore!

3 But knotty whips and ragged thorns
In vain do I accuse;
In vain I blame the Roman bands,
And the more spiteful Jews.

4 ’Twere you, my sins, my cruel sins,
His chief tormentors were;
Each of my crimes became a nail,
And unbelief the spear.

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