No strange fire may in me glow 4 Let me with my heart to-day, 5 6 37 Rapt a while from earth away, Rest in me and I in Thee, O reveal Thyself to me, Blessed Love, Who diedst to win me: Hence all care, all vanity, For the day to God is holy: Come, Thou glorious Majesty, SAF Benjamin Schmolk. 1715. AFELY through another week Let us now a blessing seek, Waiting in His courts to-day; 2 Mercies multiplied each hour 7s. 6 lines. Through the week, our praise demand; 3 While we pray for pardoning grace, Take away our sins and shame: 4 Here we're come, Thy Name to praise; 5 May the Gospel's joyful sound 38 A John Newton. 1774. a. NOTHER six days' work is done, Return, my soul, enjoy thy rest, Improve the day thy God hath blest. L. M. 2 Come, bless the Lord, Whose love assigns. So sweet a rest to wearied minds; Provides an antepast of heaven, And gives this day the food of seven. 3 O that our thoughts and thanks may rise. And draw from heaven that sweet repose, 4 With joy God's wondrous works we view With praise we think on mercies past, 39 How sweet a Sabbath thus to spend, PSALM 118. Joseph Stennett. 1732. a. THe calls the hours His own: Let heaven rejoice, let earth be glad, And praise surround the throne. 3 Hosanna to the anointed King, Help us, O Lord: descend and bring 4 Blest be the Lord, Who comes to men Who comes in God His Father's Name, 5 Hosanna in the highest strains 40 The Church on earth can raise ; C. M. The highest heavens, in which He reigns, 7s. 6 lines. YHRIST, Whose glory fills the skies, Sun of Righteousness, arise, Triumph o'er the shades of night: 2 Dark and cheerless is the morn, Till Thy mercy's beams I see: 41 More and more Thyself display, JE Charles Wesley. 1740. Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit. Do Thou on our darkness shine, 7s. 6 lines. May Thy Love, with tender glow, Warm and cheer us forth to go, 3 Thou our only Hope and Guide; Till the endless morning break; Onward, upward, homeward still! 4 Lead us all our days and years In Thy straight and narrow way; Lead us through the vale of tears Christian Knorr von Rosenroth. 1684. ARISE, O King of grace, arise, And enter to Thy rest; C. M. Behold, Thy Church, with longing eyes, 2 Enter with all Thy glorious train, 3 Here, mighty God, accept our vows; 4 Here let the Son of David reign, Justice and truth His court maintain, Isaac Watts. 1719. a. 43 PSALM 84. ORD of the worlds above, LORD of above, To Thine abode H. M. With warm desires |