4 Each golden hour of beaming light And dark affliction's midnight gloom 5 Full in thy view through life I pass, And, when each mortal bond is broke, H. M. 189. DODDRIDGE. 1 God's Fidelity to his Promises. THE promises I sing Which sovereign love hath spoke; His words of grace revoke; They stand secure, Not Zion's hill 2 The mountains melt away When once the Judge appears, And sun and moon decay That measure mortal years; But still the same, The promise shines In radiant lines, Through all the flame. Their harmony shall sound Through mine attentive ears, When thunders cleave the ground, And dissipate the spheres; Midst all the shock I stand serene, Thy word my rock. L. M. 190. HUTTON. The Mighty God our Refuge. 1 THE Lord Jehovah, slow to wrath, In awful glory holds his seat; In storms and whirlwinds hides his path, And treads the clouds beneath his feet. 2 He chides the sea, and it is dry! He smites the streams, they waste away! Carmel's and Bashan's pastures die, The mountains shake beneath his look; Hills melt, earth's old foundations burn: What might can stand his fierce rebuke, Which bids the rocks to overturn! 4 How safe are they who trust his power, C. M. 191. WATTS. Eternal Dominion of God. 1 GREAT God, how infinite art thou! 2 Thy throne eternal ages stood, 3 Eternity, with all its years, To thee there's nothing old appears; 4 Our lives through varying scenes are drawn, 5 Great God, how infinite art thou! Let the whole race of creatures bow, pay their praise to thee. And L. M. 192. WESLEY'S COL. Deliverances acknowledged. 1 GOD of my life! whose gracious power Through varied deaths my soul has led, Or turned aside the fatal hour, Or lifted up my sinking head! 2 In all my ways thy hand I own, 3 Whither, O whither should I fly, 4 I have no skill the snare to shun, But thou art greater than my heart. 5 Foolish and impotent and blind, 8 & 7s. M. 193. SPIRIT OF THE PSALMS God our Almighty Help. Psalm 127. 1 VAINLY, through night's weary hours, 2 Vain were all our toil and labor, 3 Vainer still the hope of heaven, Seek we then the Lord's anointed, Who through Christ his prayer addressed C. M. 194. BROWNE. Universal Goodness of God. 1 LORD, thou art good! all nature shows Thy bounty through creation flows, The whole in every part proclaims It shines in stars, and flows in streams, 3 We view it o'er the spreading main, 4 Long hath it been diffused abroad, 5 Through the whole earth it pours supplies, 6 My highest admiration raise, Employ my tongue in songs of praise, Goodness of God to Soul and Body. Psalm 103. I BLESS, O my soul, the living God, In work and worship so divine. 2 Bless, O my soul, the God of grace; His favors claim thy highest praise; Why should the wonders he hath wrought Be lost in silence, and forgot? |