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835.

1. HOW sweet and awful is the place, With Christ within the doors, While everlasting Love displays

The choicest of her stores!

2. While all our hearts, and every song,
Join to admire the feast,
Each of us cries, with thankful tongue,
"Lord, why was I a guest?

8. "Why was I made to hear thy voice,
And enter while there's room,

When thousands make a wretched choice,
And rather starve than come?"

4. 'Twas the same love that spread the feast
That sweetly forced us in;
Else we had still refused to taste,
And perished in our sin.

5. Pity the nations, O our God;

Constrain the earth to come;
Send thy victorious word abroad,
And bring the strangers home.

6. We long to see thy churches full,
That all the chosen race

May, with one voice, and heart, and soul,
Sing thy redeeming grace.

1077.

1. IF I must die, O, let me die

With hope in Jesus' blood-

The blood that saves from sin and guilt,
And reconciles to God.

2. If I must die, O, let me die

In peace with all mankind,
And change these fleeting joys below
For pleasures more refined.

8. If I must die,-and die I must,-
Let some kind seraph come,
And bear me on his friendly wing
To my celestial home.

4. Of Canaan's land, from Pisgah's top,
May I but have a view,

Though Jordan should o'erflow its banks,
I'll boldly venture through.

134.

1. IN all my vast concerns with thee,
In vain my soul would try
To shun thy presence, Lord, or flee
The notice of thine eye.

2. Thine all-surrounding sight surveys
My rising and my rest,

My public walks, my private ways,
And secrets of my breast.

3. My thoughts lie open to the Lord,
Before they're formed within;
And ere my lips pronounce the word,
He knows the sense I mean.

4. O, wondrous knowledge, deep and high!
Where can a creature hide?
Within thy circling arms I lie,
Enclosed on every side.

5. So let thy grace surround me still,
And like a bulwark prove,
To guard my soul from every ill,
Secured by sovereign love.

629.

1. MY thoughts surmount these lower skies, And look within the veil :

There springs of endless pleasure rise;
The waters never fail.

2. There I behold, with sweet delight,
The blessed Three in One;
And strong affections fix my sight
On God's incarnate Son.

3. His promise stands forever firm;
His grace shall ne'er depart:
He binds my name upon his arm,
And seals it on his heart.

4. Light are the pains that nature brings,
How short our sorrows are,
When with eternal future things
The present we compare!

5. I would not be a stranger still
To that celestial place,
Where I forever hope to dwell
Near my Redeemer's face.

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566.

1. O LORD, if in the book of life
My worthless name should stand,
In fairest characters, inscribed
By thine unerring hand,-

2. My soul thou wilt by grace prepare
For crowns above the skies,

And on my way, from heavenly stores,
Wilt grant me fresh supplies.

8. Then I to thee, in sweetest strains,
Will grateful anthems raise;

But life's too short, my powers too weak,
To utter half thy praise.

4. Had I ten thousand thousand tongues,
Not one should silent be;
Had I ten thousand thousand hearts,
I'd give them all to thee.

165.

1. O THOU, to whom all creatures bow
Within this earthly frame,

Through all the world, how great art thou!
How glorious is thy name!

2. When heaven, thy glorious work on high,
Employs my wondering sight,—
The moon, that nightly rules the sky,
With stars of feebler light,-

8. Lord, what is man, that thou shouldst choose To keep him in thy mind?

Or what his race, that thou shouldst prove
To them so wondrous kind?

4. O Thou, to whom all creatures bow
Within this earthly frame,

Through all the world, how great art thou!
How glorious is thy name!

274.

1. THERE is a fountain filled with blood,
Drawn from Immanuel's veins;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.

2. The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain, in his day;
O may I there, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away.

3. Thou dying Lamb, thy precious blood Shall never lose its power,

Till all the ransomed church of God
Are saved, to sin no more.

4. E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be, till I die.

5. And when this feeble, faltering tongue
Lies silent in the grave,
Then, in a nobler, sweeter song,
I'll sing thy power to save.

306.

1. JESUS, I love thy charming name; "Tis music to my ear;

Fain would I sound it out so loud

That earth and heaven might hear.

2. Yes, thou art precious to my soul,
My transport and my trust:
Jewels to thee are gaudy toys,
And gold is sordid dust.

3. All my capacious powers can wish
In thee doth richly meet;
Nor to my eyes is light so dear,
Nor friendship half so sweet.

4. Thy grace shall dwell upon my heart,
And shed its fragrance there,-
The noblest balm of all its wounds,
The cordial of its care.

5. I'll speak the honors of thy name With my last, laboring breath, And, dying, clasp thee in my arms, The antidote of death.

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1054.

1. HOW short and hasty is our life!
How vast our soul's affairs!
Yet foolish mortals vainly strive
To lavish out their years.

2. Our days run thoughtlessly along,
Without a moment's stay;
Just like a story, or a song,

We pass our lives away.

3. God from on high invites us home;
But we march heedless on,
And, ever hastening to the tomb,

Stoop downward as we run.

4. Draw us, O God, with sovereign grace,
And lift our thoughts on high,
That we may end this mortal race,
And see salvation nigh.

2. Thy throne eternal ages stood,
Ere seas or stars were made;
Thou art the ever-living God,
Were all the nations dead.

3. Eternity, with all its years,
Stands present in thy view;
To thee there's nothing old appears;
Great God, there's nothing new.

4. Our lives thro' various scenes are drawn,
And vexed with trifling cares,
While thine eternal thought moves on
Thine undisturbed affairs.

5. Great God, how infinite art thou!
What worthless worms are we!
Let all the race of creatures bow,
And pay their praise to thee.

131.

1. THRO' endless years thou art the same, O thou eternal God;

Each future age shall know thy name,
And tell thy works abroad.

2. The strong foundations of the earth
Of old by thee were laid;

By thee the beauteous arch of heaven
With matchless skill was made.

3. Soon shall this goodly frame of things, Created by thy hand,

Be, like a vesture, laid aside,

And changed at thy command.
4. But thy perfections, all divine,
Eternal as thy days,
Through everlasting ages shine,
With undiminished rays.

128.

1. GREAT God, how infinite art thou! What worthless worms are we! Let all the race of creatures bow, And pay their praise to thee.

791.

1. COME, let us join our friends above,
Who have obtained the prize,
And on the eagle wings of love
To joy celestial rise.

2. Let saints below in concert sing
With those to glory gone;
For all the servants of our King
In heaven and earth are one.

3. One family, we dwell in him;

One church above, beneath;
Though now divided by the stream-
The narrow stream-of death.

4. One army of the living God,

To his command we bow;

Part of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.

5. E'en now to their eternal home
Some happy spirits fly;
And we are to the margin come,
And soon expect to die.

6. O Saviour, be our constant Guide;
Then, when the word is given,
Bid Jordan's narrow stream divide,
And land us safe in heaven.

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