Flow to us from Christ the Lord!
"It is finish'd!"
Saints the dying words record.
Finish'd all the types and shadows
Of the ceremonial Law;
Finish'd all that was predicted:
Death and hell no more shall awe,
"It is finish'd!"
Saints, from hence your comforts draw.
Tune your harps anew, ye seraphs,
Join to sing the pleasing theme;
All on earth, and all in heaven,
Join to praise Immanuel's name.
Hallelujah!
Endless glory to the Lamb!
HYMN LXXIV. L. M.
NATHER, ador'd in worlds above! Thy glorious name be hallow'd still; Thy kingdom come with pow'r and love; And earth, like heav'n, obey thy will.
Lord make our daily wants thy care;
Forgive the sins which we forsake:
"O! let us in thy kindness share,
As fellow-men of ours partake.
Evils beset us ev'ry hour;
Thy kind protection we implore: Thine the kingdom, thine the pow'r; Be thine the glory evermore!
HYMN LXXV. P. M.
ATHER of all, who reign'st above,
Enthron'd in majesty and love;
Thou hear'st thy needy creatures cry,
And mercy meets the lifted eye!
Thy kind compassions wide extend,
Unmeasur'd lengths that know no end.
In all my pilgrimage below,
Thy mercy to thy servant shew;
While in this weary desart land,
Defend and guide me by thy hand;
If nature from thy paths would stray,
Restrain me from the crooked way,
When snares beset me all around,
And dangers spread the faithless ground,
Then manifest a father's care,
And,save me from the fatal snare:
Unshaken may I ever stand,
Upheld by thine Almighty hand..
HYMN LXXVI. C. M.
HERE is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Eternal day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.
There everlasting spring abides,
And never fading flow'rs:
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heav'nly land from ours.
Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood,
Stand dress'd in living green:
So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan roll'd between.
But tim❜rous mortals start and shrink,
To cross this narrow sea:
And linger, shiv'ring on the brink,
And fear to launch away.
O could we make our doubts remove,
Those gloomy doubts that rise,
And see the Canaan which we love,
With unbeclouded eyes!
Could we ascend where Moses stood,
And view the landscape o'er,
Not Jordan's streams, nor death's cold flood Should fright us from the shore.
ATHER of all! in ev'ry age,
In ev'ry clime ador'd;
By saint, by savage, and by sage,
Jehovah, Jove, or Lord.
Thou great first-cause, least understood,
Who all my sense confin'd;
To know but this, that thou art good,
And that myself am blind.
Yet gave me, in this dark estate,
To see the good from ill;
And binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will.
What conscience dictates to be done,
Or warns me not to do;
This bids me more than hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away:
For God is paid when man receives,
T' enjoy is to obey.
Yet not to earth's contracted span
Thy goodness let me bound;
Or think thee, Lord alone of man,
When thousand worlds are round.
Let not this weak unknowing hand,
Presume thy bolts to throw ;
And deal damnation round the land
On each I judge thy foe.
If I am right, thy grace impart
Still in the right to stay;
If I am wrong, O teach my heart
To find that better way.
Save me alike from foolish pride,
Or impious discontent;
At aught thy wisdom has denied,
Or aught thy goodness lent.
Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.
Mean tho' I am, not wholly so,
Since quicken'd by thy breath:
O lead me wheresoe'er I go,
Thro' this day's life or death.
This day be bread and peace my lot,
All else beneath the sun
Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not,
And let thy will be done.
To thee, whose temple is all space,
Whose altar, earth, sea, skies!
One chorus let all beings raise!
All nature's incense rise!
IVE to our God immortal praise, Mercy and truth are all his ways; Wonders of grace to God belong, Repeat his mercies in your song.
Give to the Lord of lords renown,
The King of kings with glory crown;
His mercies ever shall endure,
When lords and kings are known no more..
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