While I am banish'd from thy house Why should the children of a king With all my powers of heart and tongue With melting heart and weeping eyes Y Ye angels that stand round the throne Ye careless dying sinners come Ye dying sons of men HYMN. 573 482 574 488 536 576 363. 2 575 481 34 577 211 322 372 578 242 Ye that thirst for solid pleasure 402 Ye virgin souls arise 579 Ye wretched, hungry, starving poor Ye prisoners of hope Ye servants of God, your master pro claim Ye that in his courts are found PSALMS AND HYMNS. 1. God the Creator of the World. L.M. PSALM C. BEFORE JEHOVAH's awful throne, 2 His sov'reign power, without our aid, Made us of clay, and form'd us men: And when like wand'ring sheep we stray'd, He brought us to his fold again. 3 We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs, High as the heav'ns our voices raise; And earth, with her ten thousand tongues, Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise. 4 Wide as the world is thy command, Vast as eternity thy love; Firm as a rock thy truth shall stand, When rolling years shall cease to move! B 2. God the Father of his People, C.M. Thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer: thy name is from everlasting.-ISAIAH lxiii. 16. THE GOD, who reigns above, we call 2 Tho' now dispers'd, the day will come, When he who made them his, Will take them hence, and bear them home, To "see him as he is." 3 Tho' now unknown, they soon shall be The sons of GOD confess'd: Those, who despise them now, shall see 4 But let his children, while on earth, 5 That they should glorify him here, And when at last he shall appear, 3. God the Father of his People. C.M. But now, O Lord, Thou art our Father.-ISA. lxiv. 8. OUR Father sits on yonder throne, He reigns throughout the world alone, 2 He knew us, when we knew him not; 3 He keeps us now, securely keeps, With vigilance that never sleeps; 4 He gives us hope that we shall be, And celebrate his love. 5 Then let us, while we dwell below, 6 How sweet to hear him say at last! "The days of banishment are past! |