AMES. L. M.

Dr. L. MASON.

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1. COME, dearest Lord, who reign'st above, And draw me with the cords of love,

WHEN Jesus dwelt in mortal clay,

[Ps. 65, P. 1.

My God, and praise becomes thy house; praise of Sion waits for thee, There shall thy saints thy glory see, And there perform their public vows.

2. O thou, whose mercy bends the skies,
To save when humble sinners pray;
All lands to thee shall lift their eyes,
And every yielding heart obey.

3. Against my will my sins prevail,
But grace shall purge away the stain;
The blood of Christ will never fail

To wash my garments white again.

4. Blest is the man whom thou shalt choose,

And give him kind access to thee;

W what were his works from day to Give him a place within thy house,

But miracles of power and grace, [day,
That spread salvation through our race?

2. Teach us, O Lord, to keep in view
Thy pattern, and thy steps pursue;
Let alms bestow'd, let kindness done,
Be witness'd by each rolling sun.

3. The man who marks, from day to day,
In generous acts his radiant way,
Treads the same path his Saviour trod,
The path to glory and to God.

To taste thy love divinely free.

5. With dreadful glory God fulfils
What his afflicted saints request;
And with almighty wrath reveals

His love, to give his churches rest.

6. Then shall the flocking nations run To Sion's hill, and own their Lord; The rising and the setting sun

Shall see the Saviour's name adorel.

SWEET is the work, my God, my King, To praise thy name, give thanks, and sing,

To show thy love by morn-ing light, And talk of all thy truth at

[Ps. 92, P. 1. 3. I can do all things, or can bear
All sufferings, if my Lord be there;
Sweet pleasures mingle with the pains,
While his own hand my head sustains.

Those heavenly guards a - round thee wait, Like chariots that at-tend thy state.

Sel. 12.

[Ps. 68. P. 2.5. People and realms of every tongue

LORD! when thou didst ascend on high,

Ten thousand angels fill'd the sky;
Those heavenly guards around thee wait,
Like chariots that attend thy state.
2. Not Sinai's mountain could appear
More glorious, when the Lord was there;
While he pronounced his holy law,
And struck the chosen tribes with awe.

Dwell on his love with sweetest song;

And infant voices shall proclaim
Their early blessings on his name.

8. Let every creature rise and bring
Peculiar honors to our King;
Angels descend with songs again,
And earth repeat the loud amen.

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3. How bright the triumph none can tell, Sel. 14.
When the rebellious powers of hell,
That thousand souls had captive made,
Were all in chains, like captives, led.
4. Raised by his Father to the throne,
He sent his promised Spirit down,
With gifts and grace for rebel men,
That God might dwell on earth again.

(Stanza 5 omitted.)

[H. 279.

SEND the joys of earth away;
Away, ye tempters of the mind,
False as the smooth, deceitful sea,
And empty as the whistling wind.

2. Your streams were floating me along,
Down to the gulf of black despair,
And, whilst I listened to your song,
Your streams had e'en convey'd me there.

3. Lord, I adore thy matchless grace,
That warn'd me of that dark abyss,
That drew me from those treach'rous seas,
And bade me seek superior bliss.

4. Now to the shining realms above,
I stretch my hands, and glance my eyes:
O for the pinions of a dove,
To bear me to the upper skies.

ELLENTHORPE. L. M.

WAKE our souls, a-way our fears, Let ev'ry trembling thought be gone;

A - wake and run the heav'n-ly race, And put a cheer-ful cou

[H. 276. Thy smile can bid my pains depart, And raise my sacred pleasures high.

COME, weary souls, with sin distress'd, Come and accept the promised rest;

The Saviour's gracious call obey, And cast your gloomy fears a-way.

[H. 157. 3. In all their erring, sinful years,
O let them ne'er forgotten be;
Remember all the prayers and tears,
Which made them consecrate to thee.
4. And when these lips no more can pray,
These eyes can weep for them no more,
Turn thou their feet from folly's way,
The wanderers to thy fold restore.