5 And when this mortal frame decays,
And every weakness dies;
Complete thy wonders, Lord, and raise
Our spirits to the skies.
6 Then shall our joyful powers unite
In more exalted lays,
And join the happy sons of light,
In everlasting praise.
1 ALMIGHTY God! before whose throne The secrets of all hearts are known, Thou wilt approve our praise sincere, Our humble fervent prayers wilt hear.
2 Thou, who the homage wilt despise Of lying lips, and wand'ring eyes, And spurn the sacrifice, which brings To heavenly aims terrestrial things:
3 O grant us, in this awful hour,
To feel thy love; to own thy power:
And from the world's allurements free,
Raise each exalted thought to thee.
4 O may we live before thy face,
The willing subjects of thy grace:
And through each path of duty move,
With filial awe, and filial love.
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1 ALMIGHTY God! in prayer to thee,
We bow the head, and bend the knee.
With humble souls, and hearts resigned,
To thee with trembling lips, we raise
The holy sacrifice of praise:
Thou friend and father of mankind.
2 By thee inspired, our mortal frame
To being, from oblivion came;
Thy love and goodness to survey;
To view the glittering vault of night;
To hail the sweet return of light;
And all creation's blooming day.
3 In life's young morn, thou didst impart
The motion, to each beating heart:
And taught the streaming pulse to flow.
Amid sensation's changeful tide,
Thou bidst the trembling soul abide;
Alive to rapture, or to wo.
4 And still, unquenched, at thy behest.
The flame of being warms cach breast:
But fleeting life must soon be o'er.
Soon will thy hands again require
This transient spark of heavenly fire:
And these frail hearts shall heave no more.
5 But thou, O Father! prompt to save,
Wilt still regard the shrouded grave:
In thy protecting care we trust.
Death shall resign his iron sway;
And love, which beams eternal day,
Shall raise our spirits from the dust.
1 ALMIGHTY God! thy powerful word
From nothing, all things brought;
Earth, seas, and skies, by thee their Lord,
With matchless skill were wrought.
2 By thee preserved, the whole remains A proof of power divine;
And all, which this great whole contains,
By sovereign right is thine.
3 Sun, moon, and stars, thy views fulfil;
Through thee each planet rolls;
Earth, seas, and skies, obey thy will;
Thy power the world controls.
4 Thou over all art Lord supreme;
Thou every power dost give;
No being can dispute thy claim,
Nor independent live.
5 To thee, and thee alone, we bow,
To thee alone would live;
All that we have to thee we owe,
Ourselves to thee we give.
6 Accept what now, with faith and love,
We to thy will resign;
And let thy grace preserve, improve,
And perfect, what is thine.
1 A MEEK inquiring mind,
Lord, help us to maintain;
That growing knowledge we may find,
And growing virtue gain.
2 With understanding blest,
Created to be free,
Our faith on man we dare not rest,
Subject to none but thee.
3 Give us the light we need,
Our minds with knowledge fill;
From hurtful error guard our creed,
"From prejudice, our will.
4 The truth thou shalt impart,
May we with firmness own,
Abhorring each evasive art,
And fearing thee alone.
AUTHOR of being! God of love!
To thee our hearts we raise;
Thine all-sustaining power we prove,
And gladly sing thy praise.
2 Thine, wholly thine, we long to be;
Our sacrifice receive;
Made, and preserved, and saved by thee, To thee ourselves we give.
3 Heaven-ward our every wish aspires,
For all thy mercy's store:
The sole return thy love requires,
Is, that we love thee more.
4 For more we ask; let, O our Lord,
Our hearts embrace thy will;
Renew us by thy heavenly truth,
And from thy fulness, fill.
5 Still may we find thy heavenly love
Shed in our hearts abroad,
As onward to thy rest we move,
Our Father, and our God.
1 AUTHOR of good! we rest on thee:
Thine ever watchful eye
Alone our real wants can see,
Thy hand alone supply.
2 Oh! let thy love within us dwell,
Thy fear our footsteps guide;
That love shall vainer loves expel,
That fear, all fears beside.
3 And since by passion's force subdued,
Too oft with stubborn will
We blindly shun the latent good,
And grasp the specious ill:
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