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GOOD thou art, and good thou dost,

Thy mercies reach to all,

Chiefly those who on thee trust,
And for thy mercy call;
New they every morning are;

As fathers when their children cry,
Us thou dost in pity spare,
And all our wants supply.

2 Mercy o'er thy works presides;
Thy providence displayed
Still preserves, and still provides
For all thy hands have made;
Keeps with most distinguished care
The man who on thy love depends;
Watches every numbered hair,
And all his steps attends.

3 Who can sound the depths unknown
Of thy redeeming grace?
Grace that gave thine only Son
To save a ruined race!
Millions of transgressors poor
Thou hast for Jesu's sake forgiven,
Made them of thy favour sure,

And snatched from hell to heaven.

2 And when thy purity we share,
Thy only glory we declare;
And humbled into nothing own,
Holy and pure is God alone.

3 Sole, self-existing God and Lord,
By all thy heavenly hosts adored,
Let all on earth bow down to thee,
And own thy peerless majesty;

4 Thy power unparalleled confess,
Established on the rock of peace;
The rock that never shall remove,
The rock of pure, almighty love.

C. M. 1 Chronicles xxix. 10-13, 248 1 BLEST be our everlasting Lord,

Our Father, God, and King!
Thy sovereign goodness we record,
Thy glorious power we sing.

2 By thee the victory is given;
The majesty divine,

And strength, and might, and earth, and heaven,

And all therein, are thine.

3 The kingdom, Lord, is thine alone,
Who dost thy right maintain,
And, high on thine eternal throne,
O'er men and angels reign.

4 Riches, as seemeth good to thee,
Thou dost, and honour, give;
And kings their power and dignity
Out of thy hand receive.

5 Thou hast on us the grace bestowed
Thy greatness to proclaim;
And therefore now we thank our God,
And praise thy glorious name.

6 Thy glorious name and nature's powers Thou dost to us make known;

And all the Deity is ours,
Through thy incarnate Son.

GREAT God to me the sight afford

him of old allowed:

And let my faith behold its Lord
Descending in a cloud.

2 In that revealing Spirit come down, Thine attributes proclaim,

And to my inmost soul make known
The glories of thy name.

3 Jehovah, Christ, I thee adore,
Who gav'st my soul to be!
Fountain of being, and of power,
And great in majesty.

4 The Lord, the mighty God, thou art;
But let me rather prove
That name in-spoken to my heart,
That favourite name of Love.

5 Merciful God, thyself proclaim
In this polluted breast;
Mercy is thy distinguished name,
Which suits a sinner best.

6 Our misery doth for pity call,
Our sin implores thy grace;
And thou art merciful to all
Our lost, apostate race.

1 COME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,

One God in Persons Three, Bring back the heavenly blessing, lost By all mankind and me.

Philippians i. 10; 2 Peter iii. 12.

THE day of Christ, the day of God,
We humbly hope with joy to see,
Washed in the sanctifying blood
Of an expiring Deity,
Who did for us his life resign;
There is no other God but one;
For all the plenitude divine
Resides in the eternal Son.

2 Spotless, sincere, without offence,
O may we to his day remain,

Who trust the blood of God to cleanse Our souls from every sinful stain. Lord, we believe the promise sure; The purchased Comforter impart, Apply thy blood to make us pure, To keep us pure in life and heart. 3 Then let us see that day supreme,

When none thy Godhead shall deny, Thy sovereign Majesty blaspheme, Ŏr count thee less than the most High:

When all who on their God believe, Who here thy last appearing love, Shall thy consummate joy receive,

And see thy glorious face above.

SPIRIT of truth, essential God,

Who didst thy ancient saints inspire Shed in their hearts thy love abroad, And touch their hallowed lips with fire;

Our God from all eternity,

World without end we worship thee!

2 Still we believe, almighty Lord, Whose presence fills both earth and heaven,

The meaning of the written word
Is by thy inspiration given;
Thou only dost thyself explain
The secret mind of God to man.

3 Come, then, divine Interpreter,

The scriptures to our hearts apply; And, taught by thee, we God revere, Him in Three Persons magnify; In each the Triune God adore, Who was, and is for evermore.

1 HAIL! Father, Son, and Spirit great,

Before the birth of time
Enthroned in everlasting state,
JEHOVAH, ELOHIM!

2 A mystical plurality

We in the Godhead own,
Adoring One in Persons Three,
And Three in nature One.'

3 From thee our being we receive,
The creatures of thy grace;
And, raised out of the earth, we live
To sing our Maker's praise.

Thy powerful, wise, and loving mind
Did our creation plan;

And all the glorious Persons joined
To form thy favourite, man.

GLORY

be to God on high,

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God whose glory fills the sky;
Peace on earth to man forgiven,
Man, the well-beloved of heaven.
2 Sovereign Father, heavenly King,
Thee we now presume to sing;
Glad, thine attributes confess,
Glorious all, and numberless.
3 Hail, by all thy works adored!
Hail, the everlasting Lord!

Thee with thankful hearts we prove
God of power, and God of love.

4 Christ our Lord and God we own,
Christ, the Father's only Son,
Lamb of God for sinners slain,
Saviour of offending man.

5 Bow thine ear, in mercy bow,
Hear, the world's atonement, thou!
Jesus, in thy name we pray,
Take, O take our sins away!
6 Powerful advocate with God,
Justify us by thy blood;

Bow thine ear, in mercy bow,
Hear, the world's atonement, thou.

7 Hear, for thou, O Christ, alone
Art with God the Father one,
One the Holy Ghost with thee,
One supreme, eternal THREE.

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JEHOVAH, God the Father, bless,
And thy own work defend !

With mercy's outstretched arms
embrace

And keep us to the end! Preserve the creatures of thy love,

By providential care

Conducted to the realms above,
To sing thy goodness there.
2 Jehovah, God the Son, reveal
The brightness of thy face;
And all thy pardoned people fill
With plenitude of grace!
Shine forth with all the Deity,
Which dwells in thee alone;
And lift us up thy face to see
On thy eternal throne.

3 Jehovah, God the Spirit, shine,
Father and Son to show!
With bliss ineffable, divine,

Our ravished hearts o'erflow.
Sure earnest of that happiness

Which human hope transcends,
Be thou our everlasting peace,
When grace in glory ends !