9

My vows to Israel's King,
Make haste, and let me pay,
'Mid all his people bring

Mine homage due to day;
In his own courts, his holy ground,
Thy bulwarks, Salem, glittering round.
599.

L. M.-Psalm cxvii.

1 ALL nations, praise the Lord above,
All realms with melody adore;
For mighty o'er us is His love,
The Lord's high truth is evermore.
600.

7s.-The same.

1 HALLELUJAH, praise the Lord!
Praise him every Heathen land;
Praise him all with one accord,
Through the earth each scatter'd band.

2 Mighty is the tender love,

Which for us his will hath stor❜d;
No decay his truth shall prove :
Hallelujah, praise the Lord!

601.

148th M.-Prayer for the Holy Spirit.

1O THOU that hearest prayer! Attend our humble cry;

2

And let thy servants share
Thy blessing from on high:

We plead the promise of thy word,
Grant us thy Holy Spirit, Lord!

If earthly parents hear

Their children when they cry;

If they, with love sincere,

Their children's wants supply;

Much more wilt thou thy love display,
And answer when thy children pray.

3

4

5

6

Our heavenly Father! Thou-
We-children of thy grace-

O, let thy Spirit now

Descend and fill the place;

That all may feel the heavenly flame,
And all unite to praise thy name.

Oh, may that sacred fire,

Descending from above,
Our frozen hearts inspire

With fervent zeal and love;
Enlighten our beclouded eyes,
And teach our grovelling souls to rise.
And send thy Spirit down
On all the nations, Lord!
With great success to crown

The preaching of thy word;

That heathen lands may own thy sway,
And cast their idol-gods away.

Then shall thy kingdom come
Among our fallen race,

And the whole earth become

The temple of thy grace;

Whence pure devotion shall ascend,
And songs of praise, till time shall end.

PUBLIC AND SOCIAL WORSHIP.

602.

S. M.-"The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword." Heb. iv. 12.

1

2

THY word, Almighty Lord,
Where'er it enters in,

Is sharper than a two-edged sword,
To slay the man of sin.

Thy word is power and life,
It bids confusion cease,

And changes envy, hatred, strife,
To love, and joy, and peace.

3 Then let our hearts obey
The gospel's glorious sound;
And all its fruits from day to day,
Be in us and abound.

604.

L. M.-" Search me, O God!" Ps. cxxxix. 23, 24. 1 SEARCH, Lord! O search, my inmost heart! And light, and hope, and joy impart ; From guilt and error set me free, And guide me safe to heaven and Thee.

606.

C. M.-Earnestness. Ps. lxxxiv. 8.

1 LORD God, omnipotent to bless,
My supplication hear;
Guardian of Jacob, to my voice
Incline thy gracious ear.

2 If I have never yet begun
To tread the sacred road,

O teach my wandering feet the way
To Zion's blest abode !

3 Or, if I'm travelling in the path,
Assist me with thy strength,
And let me swift advances make,

And reach thine heaven at length. 4 My care, my hope, my first request, Are all compris'd in this,

To follow where thy saints have led,
And then partake their bliss.

612.

P. M.-" Shew me a token for good." Ps. lxxxvi. 17.

1 OF thy love some gracious token

Grant us, Lord, before we go;

Bless thy word which has been spoken,

Life and peace on all bestow,

When we join the world again,
Let our hearts with thee remain;

O direct us,
And protect us!

Till we gain the heavenly shore,
Where thy people want no more.

615.

L. M.-Dismission.

I DISMISS us with thy blessing, Lord;
Help us to feed upon thy word:
All that has been amiss forgive;
And let thy truth within us live.

1

2

616.

S. M.-The same.

ONCE more before we part,
We'll bless the Saviour's name,
Record his mercies every heart,
Sing every tongue the same.
Hoard up the sacred word,
And feed thereon and grow;
Go on to seek and know the Lord,
And practise what you know.
617.

L. M.-At parting.

1 LORD, now we part in thy blest name, In which we here together came; Grant us our few remaining days

To work thy will, and spread thy praise. 2 Teach us in life and death to bless The Lord our strength and righteousness; And grant us all to meet above,

Then shall we better sing thy love!

DOMESTIC AND PRIVATE WORSHIP.

628.

8s.-Evening.

1 WHAT though my frail eyelids refuse
Continual watching to keep,

And punctual as midnight renews,
Demand the refreshment of sleep;

A sovereign protector I have,
Unseen, yet for ever at hand,
Unchangeably faithful to save,

Almighty to rule and command.

2 From evil secure, and its dread,
I rest if my Saviour is nigh,
And songs his kind presence indeed
Shall in the night season supply:
He smiles and my comforts abound:
His grace as the dew shall descend,
And walls of salvation surround

The soul he delights to defend.

3 Kind author and ground of my hope, Thee, thee for my God I avow, My glad Ebenezer set up,

And own thou hast help'd me till now; I muse on the years that are past, Wherein my defence thou hast prov'd, Nor wilt thou relinquish at last

A sinner so signally lov'd.

PAUSE.

4 INSPIRER and hearer of prayer,
Thou feeder and guardian of thine,
My all to thy covenant care
I sleeping or waking resign:
If thou art my shield and my sun,
The night is no darkness to me;
And, fast as my moments roll on
They bring me but nearer to thee.

5 Thy minist ring spirits descend

To watch while thy saints are asleep;
By day and by night they attend,
The heirs of salvation to keep :
Bright seraphs dispatch'd from the throne,
Repair to their stations assign'd;

And angels elect are sent down,

To guard the elect of mankind.