The Psalmist: A New Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Baptist Churches

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American Baptist Publication Society, 1850 - Baptists - 768 pages

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Page 1 - The Sovereign Jehovah. 1 BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne, Ye nations, bow with sacred joy ; Know that the Lord is God alone ; He can create, and he destroy. 2 His sovereign power, without our aid, Made us of clay, and formed us men, And when, like wandering sheep, we strayed, He brought us to his fold again.
Page 539 - which I this day have done ; That with the world, myself, and thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be. 3 Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die that so 1 may With joy behold the judgment day. 4
Page 482 - 1 FROM all who dwell below the skies Let the Creator's praise arise ; Let the Redeemer's name be sung, Through every land, by every tongue. 2 Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ; Eternal truth attends thy word ; Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no
Page 143 - Cross. 1 IN the cross of Christ I glory, Towering o'er the wrecks of time ; All the light of sacred story Gathers round its head sublime. 2 When the woes of life o'ertake me, Hopes deceive, and fears annoy, Never shall the cross forsake me ; Lo ! it glows with peace and joy.
Page 474 - Christ's Kingdom. 1 HAIL to the Lord's Anointed, Great David's greater Son ! Hail, in the time appointed, His reign on earth begun ! He comes to break oppression, To set the captive free, To take away transgression, And rule in equity. 2 He comes, with succor speedy, To those who sufl'er wrong ; To help
Page 180 - The spiritual Coronation. • 1 ALL hail the power of Jesus' name ! Let angels prostrate fall ; Bring forth the royal diadem, And crown him Lord of all. 2 Ye chosen seed of Israel's race, — A remnant weak and small, — Hail him, who saves you by his grace, And crown him Lord of all.
Page 2 - 4 We'll crowd thy gates, with thankful songs, High as the heaven our voices raise ; And Earth, with her ten thousand tongues, Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise. 5 Wide as the world is thy command ; Vast as eternity thy love ; Finn as a rock thy truth shall stand, When rolling years shall cease to move.
Page 694 - roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. 3 My Father's house on high — Home of my soul — how near, At times, to faith's foreseeing eye The golden gates appear ! 4 " Forever with the Lord ! " Father, if 'tis thy will, The promise of that faithful word E'en here to me fulfil. 5
Page 613 - 3 O glorious hour ! O blest abode ! I shall be near and like my God, And flesh and sin no more control The sacred pleasures of my soul. 4 My flesh shall slumber in the ground Till the last trumpet's joyful sound, Then burst the chains, with glad surprise, And in my Saviour's image rise.
Page 603 - O, could we make our doubts remove, — Those gloomy doubts that rise, — And see the Canaan that we love With unbeclouded eyes, — 6 Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, — Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.

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