I

Our hearts, to wifdom's facred ways,
That we may learn to live and die.

HYMN CCXXIV.

THY

C. M. [S. STENNETT.]

The Death of Infants.

'HY life, I read, my dearest Lord,
With transport all divine;

Thine image trace in ev'ry word,
Thy love in ev'ry line.

2 Methinks I fee a thoufand charms,
Spread o'er thy lovely face;
"When Infants in thy tender arms,
Receive the smiling grace.

3 I take thefe tender lambs, faid he,
And lay them on my breast;
Protection they fhall find in me;
In me, be ever bleft.

4 Death may the bands of life unloofe,
But can't diffolve my love;

Millions of Infant fouls compofe

The family above.

5 Their feeble frames my pow'r fhall raise, And mould with heav'nly fkill;

I'll give them tongues to fing my praise;
And hands to do my will.

6 His words the happy parents hear,
And fhout with joys divine;

Dear Saviour, all we have and are,
Shall be forever thine.

HYMN CCXXV.

C. M. [DODDRIDGE:]

On the Death of Children.

IYEmourning

Emourning friends, whofe ftreaming tears,
Flow o'er your children dead,

Say not, in transports of defpair,
That all your hopes are fled.

2. While cleaving to that darling duft,
In fond diftrefs you lie ;

Rife, and with joy and rev'rence view,
A heav'nly parent nigh.

3 Tho' your young branches torn away,
Like wither'd trunks you ftand;
With fairer verdure fhall they bloom,
Touch'd by th' Almighty's hand.

4 I'll give the mourners, faith the Lord,
In my own house a place ;

No names of daughters and of fons,
Can yield fo high a gracc.

5 Tranfient and vain is ev'ry hope,
A rifing race could give :
In endless honor and delight,
My children all fhall live.

HYMN CCXXVI.

C. M. [DODDRIDGE.]

Comfort in Trouble.

'MY God the cov'naut of thy love,

Abides forever fure;

And in its matchlefs grace I feel,
My happinefs fecure.

2 What tho' my houfe be not with thee,
As nature could defire;

To nobler joys than nature gives
Thy fervants all aspire.

3 Since thou, the everlasting God,
My father art become;

Jefus my guardian, and my friend,
And heav'n my final home.

4 I welcome all thy fov'reign will;
For all that will is love;

And when I know not what thou doft,
I wait the light above.

5 Thy cov❜nant the laf accent claims,
Of this poor fault'ring tongue;
And that fhall the first notes employ,
Of my celeftial fong.

HYMN CCXXVII. c. M. [RIPPON'S COLL.]

I

Fear not, it is I.

AND art thou, with us, gracious Lord?
To diffipate our fear?

Doft thou proclaim thyfelf our God?
Our God forever near?

2 Doft thou a father's bowels feel?

For all thy humble faints?

And in fuch friendly accents fpeak

To footh their fad complaints?

3 Why droops our hearts? Why flow our eyes While fuch a voice we hear?

Why rise our forrows, and our fears?
While fuch a friend is near?

4 To all thefe other favors add,
A heart to truft thy word;

And death itfeif fhall hear us fing,
While refting on the Lord.

HYMN CCXXVIII.

P. M. [STEELE.]

Submiffion.

AND can my heart afpire so high,

To fay, my father God!

Lord at thy feet I fain would lie,
And learn to kifs the rod.

2 I would fubmit to all thy will,
For thou art good and wife;
Let ev'ry anxious thought be flill,
Nor one faint murmur rife.

3 Thy love can cheer the darksome gloom,
And bid me wait ferene;

Till hopes and joys immortal bloom,
And brighten all the fcene.

4 My father, O permit my heart
To plead her humble claim,

And afk the blifs thefe words impart,
In my Redeemer's name.

HYMN CCXXIX.

1.
1

. M. [RIPPON'S COLL.]

Confolation in forrow.

THRO' all the various, thifting fcene,
Of life's mistaken ill, or good;

Thy hand O God, conducts unfeen,
The beautiful viciffitude.

2 Thou giveft with paternal care,
Howe'er unjustly we complain,
To each their neceffary fhare,
Of joy and forrow, health and pain.

3 Truft we to youth, or friends, or pow'r ? Fix we on this terreftrial ball?

4

When moft fecure, the coming hour,
If thou fee fit, may blast them all.

When lowest funk, with grief and fhame
Fill'd with affliction's bitter cup;

Loft to relations, friends, and fame,
Thy pow'rful hand can raife us up.
5 Thy pow'rful confolations cheer;
Thy fmiles fupprefs the deep fetch'd figh!
Thy hand can dry the trickling tear,
That fecret wets the widow's eye!
6 All things on earth, and all in heav'n,
On thy eternal will depend ;

And all for greater good were giv❜n,
And all, fhall in thy glory end.

HYMN CCXXX. L. M. [S. STENNETT.]

Thanksgiving Hymn.

TO God the univerfal King,

Let all mankind their tribute bring
All that have breath your voices raife,
Ir. fongs of never ceafing praife.

2 The fpacious earth on which we tread,
And wider heav'ns ftretch'd o'er our head,
A large and folemn temple frame,
To celebrate its builder's name.

3 Here the bright fun that rules the day,
As thro' the fky he makes his way;
To all the world proclalms abroad,
The boundless fov'reignty of God.