4. Thou good, and wise, and righteous Lord,
All move subservient to thy will;
Both peace and war await thy word,
And thy sublime decrees fulfil.
5. To Thee we pay our grateful songs,
Thy kind protection still implore:
O may our hearts, and lives, and tongues
Confess thy goodness and adore!
305 C. M. Praise to the REDEEMER.
TO our Redeemer's glorious name,
Awake the sacred song!
O may His love, (immortal flame!)
Tune every heart and tongue.
2. His love, what mortal thought can reach? What mortal tongue display? Imagination's utmost stretch
In wonder dies away.
3. Let wonder still with love unite,
And gratitude and joy :
Jesus be our supreme delight,
His praise our best employ.
4. Jesus who left his throne on high,
Left the bright realms of bliss,
And came to earth to bleed and die !-
Was ever love like this!
5. Lord, may the sweet, the blissful theme
Fill every heart and tongue;
Till strangers love Thy charming name,
And join the sacred song!
COME, let us join a song of praise,
To Jesus our exalted King;
Let angels hear the notes we raise,
And strike their golden harps and sing.
2. Sing how he left the heavenly throne,
And laid his splendid robes aside;
Put all our mortal weakness on,
And toiled, and suffered, wept and died.
3. Now lift your songs to nobler strains,
High let your ardent spirits soar;
See where the great Redeemer reigns,
And all the hosts of heaven adore.
4. Hail, mighty Prince! thy kingdom now,
Thy bliss and triumph, are complete :
To Thee the ransomed myriads bow,
And lay their glories at thy feet.
8. 7. 4. The same.
GLORY, glory everlasting,
Be to Him who bore the cross!
Who redeemed our souls, by tasting
Death, the death deserved by us:
Spread His glory,
Who redeemed his people thus.
2. His is love-yea love unbounded,
Without measure, without end;
Human thought is here confounded,
"Tis too vast to comprehend.
Praise the Saviour!
Magnify the sinners' Friend.
3. While we hear the wondrous story, Of the Saviour's cross and shame, Sing we Everlasting glory
'Be to God, and to the Lamb.'
Saints and angels,
Give ye glory to His name.
NOW to the Lord, who makes us know
The wonders of his dying love,
Be humble honours paid below,
And strains of nobler praise above!
2. 'Twas He that cleansed our foulest sins,
And washed us in his richest blood;
'Tis He that makes us priests and kings,
And brings us rebels near to God.
3. To Jesus, our atoning Priest,
To Jesus, our superior King,
Be everlasting power confessed,
And every tongue His glory sing.
C. M. Seamen exhorted to praise Christ.
YE British Seamen, praise the Lord;
To you the work belongs;
For God invites you by his word,
To raise your Gospel songs.
2. Rejoice in His redeeming love,
His wondrous mercy tell ;
How Christ descended from above,
To save your souls from hell.
3. Let the sweet praises of His name
Resound from pole to pole;
To every shore His grace proclaim,
As far as billows roll.
4. At every time, in every place,
The glorious theme pursue;
And long to praise him face to face,
In anthems ever new.
310 C. M. Worthy the Lamb.
COME, let us join our cheerful songs,
With angels round the throne;
Ten thousand thousand are their tongues,
But all their joys are one.
2. Worthy the Lamb that died,' they cry,
To be exalted thus:'
Worthy the Lamb,' our lips reply,
For He was slain for us.'
3. Jesus is worthy to receive
Honour and power divine;
And blessings, more than we can give,
Be, Lord, for ever thine.
4. Let all that dwell above the sky,
And air, and earth, and seas,
Conspire to lift thy glories high,
And speak thine endless praise.
WHAT equal honours shall we bring
To Thee, O Lord our God, the Lamb,
When all the notes that angels sing,
Are far inferior to thy name?
2. Worthy is He that once was slain,
The Prince of peace, that groaned and died;
Worthy to rise, and live, and reign,
At his Almighty Father's side.
3. Blessings for ever on the Lamb,
Who bore the curse for wretched men ;
Let angels sound his sacred name,
And every creature say, Amen.
312 L. M. Praise to the TRINITY.
BLEST be the Father and his love,
To whose celestial source we owe
Rivers of endless joys above,
And rills of comfort here below.
2. Glory to Thee, great Son of God,
From whose dear wounded body rolls
A precious stream of vital blood,
Pardon and life for dying souls.
3. We give the sacred Spirit praise,
Who in our hearts of sin and wo,
Makes living springs of grace arise,
And into boundless glory flow.
4. Thus God the Father, God the Son,
And God the Spirit, we adore,
That sea of life and love unknown,
Without a bottom or a shore!
HAIL! holy, holy, holy Lord!
Whom One in Three we know ;
By all thy heavenly host adored,
By all thy church below.
2. One undivided Trinity,
With triumph we proclaim:
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