The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Isaac Watts

-5 Thine eye beholds, with kind regard,
The souls who trust in thee;

Their humble hope thou wilt reward,
With bliss divinely free.

o 6. Great God, to thy almighty loye
What honours shall we raise ?
Not all the raptured songs above
Can render equal praise. ~

STEELE.

HYMN 3. C. M. Mitcham. Arundel. [*]

God the Creator.

TERNAL Wisdom, thee we praise,
Thee the creation sings;

With thy loved name, rocks, hills, and seas,
And heaven's high palace rings.

g 2 Thy hand,-how wide it spread the sky!
How glorious to behold!

-Tinged with a blue of heavenly dye,
And starred with sparkling gold.

3 Thy glories blaze all nature round,
And strike the gazing sight,

Through skies, and seas, and solid ground,
With terror and delight.

g 4 Infinite strength, and equal skill,
Shine through the worlds abroad;
e Our souls with vast amazement fill,
And speak the builder-God.'

-5 But still the wonders of thy grace

Our softer passions move;

Pity divine in Jesus' face,

a 1

We see, adore, and love.

WATTS.

HYMN 4. C. M. Bedford. [*]
Sovereignty and Dominion of GOD.
EEP silence-all created things,
And wait your Maker's nod;"

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My soul stands trembling while she sings
The honours of her God.

e 2 Life, death, and hell, and worlds unknown
Hang on his firm decree;

He sits on no precarious throne,

Nor borrows leave-To BE.

3 Chained to his throne a volume lies,

With all the fates of men;

With every angel's form and size,
Drawn by th' eternal pen.

4 His providence unfolds the book,
And makes his counsels shine;
Each opening leaf, and every stroke,
Fulfills some deep design."

5 (Here he exalts neglected worms,
To sceptres and a crown;

And there, the following page he turns,
And treads the monarch down.

6 Not Gabriel asks the reason why,
Nor God the reason gives;
Nor dares the favourite angel pry
Between the folded leaves.)

e 7 My God, I would not long to see
My fate, with curious eyes;
What gloomy lines are writ for me,
Or what bright scenes may rise.

-8 In thy fair book of life and grace,
O may I find my name,

Recorded in some humble place,
Beneath my Lord-the Lamb..

WATTS.

HYMN 5. L. P. M. St. Helen's. [*]
GOD's Name proclaimed. Ex. xxxiv. 6—8.
TTEND, my soul, the voice divine,

And mark what beaming glories shine
Around thy condescending God!

To us-to us, he still proclaims,

e His awful, his endearing names;

Attend, and sound them all abroad.

d 2 "Jehovah I, the sovereign Lord,
"The mighty God, by heaven adored,
"Down to the earth my footsteps bend :
с My heart the tenderest pity knows,
"Goodness, full-streaming, wide o'erflows,
"And grace and truth shall never end.
3 "My patience long can crimes endure,
"My pardoning love is ever sure,

"When penitential sorrow mourns;
"To millions, through unnumbered years,
"New hope and new delight it bears;

"Yet wrath against the sinner burns."

o 4 Make haste, my soul, the vision meet,
e All prostrate at thy Sovereign's feet,
And drink the tuneful accents in:
o Speak on, my Lord, repeat the voice,
Diffuse these heart-expanding joys,
Till heaven repeat the rapturous scene.

HYMN 6. C. M. Colchester. [*]
Adam; or, The Fall of Man. Gen, iii.
N man, in his own image made,
How much did God bestow!

The whole creation homage paid,
And owned him lord below.

o 2 He dwelt in Eden's garden, stored
With sweets for every sense;

And there, with his descending Lord,
He walked in confidence.

e 3 But oh! by sin how quickly changed!
His honour forfeited;

His heart, from God and truth estranged,
His conscience, filled with dread.

4 Now from his Maker's voice he flies,
Which was before his joy:

And thinks to hide amidst the trees,
From an all-seeing eye.

5 Compelled to answer to his name,
With stubbornness and pride,
He cast on God himself the blame,
Nor once for mercy cried.

o 6 But grace, unasked, his heart subdued,
And all his guilt forgave:

By faith the promised SEED he viewed,
And felt the power to save.

NEWTON.

HYMN 7. II. M. Allerton. [*].
Types of the Messiah. Heb. iv. 2.
SRAEL in ancient days

I Not only had a view

Of Sinai in a blaze,

But learned the gospel too:

The types and figures were a glass,

In which they saw the Saviour's face.

2 The paschal sacrifice,

And blood-besprinkled door,-
Seen with enlightened eyes,

And once applied with power,
Would teach the need of other blood,
To reconcile an angry God,

3 The lamb, the dove, set forth
His perfect innocence,

Whose blood of matchless worth
Should be the soul's defence:
For he who can for sin atone,
Must have no failings of his own.
4 The scape-goat, on his head,
The people's trespass bore;
And to the desert led,

Was to be seen no more:

In him our Surety seemed to say, d" Behold, I bear your sins away.'

5 Dipped in his fellow's blood,
The living bird' went free :
The type, well understood,
Expressed the sinner's plea→→

e Described a guilty soul enlarged,
And by a Saviour's death discharged.,

6 Jesus, love to trace,

Throughout the sacred page,
The footsteps of thy grace,
The same in every age

To clearer light vouchsafed to me!

-O grant that I may faithful be

COWPER.

HYMN 8. 7s.

Redeeming Love. [*]

1HA

Birth of the Saviour.

TARK! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the new-born King!
"Peace on earth, and mercy mild,
"God and sinners reconciled!

2 Joyful, all ye nations, rise,
Join the triumph of the skies;
With th' angelic host proclaim,
Christ is born in Bethlehem.

4 Veiled in flesh-the Godhead see
Hail th' incarnate Deity;

Pleased as man with men to appear,

Jesus our Einmanuel here.

o 5 Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all he brings,
Risen with healing in his wings.
e 6 Mild, he lays his glory by;
Born, that man no more may die;
Born, to raise the sons of earth;
Born, to give them second birth.

HYMN 9. C. M.