AT MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER.
After the Third Collect.
39 O LORD, turn not Thy face from us,
Who now to Thee draw nigh,
Lamenting all our sinful life,
With tears and bitter cry.
Judge not, O Lord, each evil deed,
Nor scan each misspent year;
For ev❜n our hearts betray how vile
All must to Thee appear.
To Thee our guilt we need not own,
Our sins we need not tell :
What we have been, and what we are,
Thou knowest, LORD, too well.
But mercy, LORD, is all we ask,
Mercy is all our prayer;
In mercy is our only hope,
O GOD, in mercy spare !
FATHER of mercy, hear our cry,
Hear us, Co-equal SON,
And Thou, O HOLY GHOST, Who reign'st
With Both, for ever ONE. Amen.
In other respects, the same as on Ash-Wednesday.
AT MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER. After the Third Collect.
40 Rock of Ages! cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee;
Let the Water and the Blood,
From Thy wounded Side which flow'd,
Be of sin the double cure,
Save from wrath, and make me pure.
Could my tears for ever flow,
Could my zeal no languor know;
These for sin could not atone,
Thou must save, and Thou alone:
Merit I have none to bring,
Simply to Thy Cross I cling.
While I draw this fleeting breath,
When my eyelids close in death,
When I soar to worlds unknown,
See Thee on Thy Judgment-Throne ;-
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee! Amen.
BEFORE THE HOLY COMMUNIÓN.
Hymn 34, "God of our life, &c." (See page 37.)
BEFORE THE SERMON.
41 OH! for a heart to love my GOD,
A heart from sin set free,
A heart that's sprinkled with the Blood,
So freely shed for me.
A heart resign'd, submissive, meek,
My blest Redeemer's Throne;
Where only CHRIST is heard to speak,-
Where JESUS reigns alone.
An humble, lowly, contrite heart,
Believing, true and clean;
Which neither life nor death can part
From Him That dwells within.
A heart in every thought renew'd,
And fill'd with Love Divine;
Perfect, and right, and pure, and good,—
A copy, LORD, of Thine.
O Thou, Who took'st a Heart like ours,
To make our hearts like Thine;
Thy Name to worship, love and bless,
May ev'ry heart combine. Amen.
AFTER THE SERMON.
Hymn 37,"SAVIOUR, when in dust, &c." (See page 40.)
AT MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER. After the Third Collect.
42 Go to dark Gethsemane,
Ye that feel the tempter's power;
There your Saviour's conflict see;
Watch with Him one bitter hour:
Turn not from His griefs away,
Learn of Him to watch and pray.
See Him in the judgment-hall,
Bound, and beaten, and condemn'd;
Sad, forsaken, spurn'd by all,
By His very friends disclaim'd;
Ye that suffer shame or loss,
Learn of Him to bear the cross.
Follow on to Calvary;
There the Blessed JESUS view,
Dying on th' accursed tree,
Made a Sacrifice for you :-
"It is finish'd!" hear Him cry,
Look on Him, and learn to die. Amen.
In other respects, the same as on the
Fourth Sunday in Lent.
Sunday next before Easter.
AT MORNING AND EVENING PRAYER,
After the Third Collect.
43 THE King of kings His banner rears,
The mystery of Love appears;
The LORD of Life resigns His Breath,
And dying, ransoms us from death.
Though bow'dHis Head,and clos'd His Eyes,
The Love He bears us never dies;
Ev'n in His Death, more living flows
The stream, which life on us bestows.
What prophets sang in mystic strain,—
A King who should for ever reign:
Behold Him on His purple Throne!
Let Heav'n and Earth His Sceptre own!
O honour'd Cross, O beauteous Tree!
In Eden's bow'rs was none like thee!
What glory can with thine compare,-
The LORD of Heav'n and Earth to bear?
JESU, to Thee all praise we pay,
Whose Cross hath borne our sins away;
The FATHER equally adore,
And HOLY SPIRIT, evermore.
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