Messiah's Kingdom. Is. lv. 12, 13. xxxv. 6, 7.
ESSIAH! at thy glad approach, The howling wilds are still; Thy praises fill the lonely waste, And breathe from every hill.
2 The hidden fountains at thy call, Their sacred stores unlock; Loud in the desert, sudden streams Burst living from the rock.
3 The incense of the spring ascends Upon the morning gale;
Red o'er the hill the roses bloom, The lilies in the vale.
4 Renew'd the earth a robe of light, A robe of beauty wears; And in new heavens a brighter sun, Leads on the promis'd years.
5 The kingdom of Messiah come Appointed times disclose;
And fairer in Emmanuel's land The new creation glows.
6 Let Israel to the prince of peace, The loud hosanna sing!
With hallelujahs, and with hymns, O Zion, hail thy King!
The great High Priest. Heb. iv. 14—16.
1 WHERE high the heavenly temple stands,
The house of God not made with hands,
A great high priest our nature wears, The patron of mankind appears.
2 He, who for men in mercy stood, And pour'd on earth his precious blood, Pursues in heaven his plan of grace, The Guardian of the human race.
3 Though now ascended up on high, He bends on earth a brother's eye; Partaker of the human name, He knows the frailty of our frame.
4 Our fellow-sufferer yet retains A fellow-feeling of our pains; And still remembers in the skies, His tears, and agonies, and cries.
5 In every pang that rends the heart, The man of sorrows had a part; He sympathizes in our grief, And to the sufferer sends relief.
6 With boldness, therefore, at the throne, Let us make all our sorrows known; And ask the aids of heavenly power, To help us in the evil hour!
HYMN DCIII.
God the Creator. Ps. civ.
1 ARISE, my soul, in hallow'd lays! Arise, the King of heaven to praise! My God! thy glories shine
In never-fading beauty bright: How art thou rob'd in radiant light, And majesty divine!
2 He, as a curtain, stretch'd on high The vast cerulean canopy,
And gave the fires to glow: *Twas he, tremendous potentate, Built on the waves his hall of state, Wide as the waters flow.
3 He walks upon the wings of wind, And leaves the rapid storms behind: Their monarch's awful will Seraphs await in dread suspense; And swifter than the lightning's glance, His mighty word fulfil.
4 Earth's base he deeply laid, to bear The shocks of elemental war, While time itself shall last;
He bad to move the vast profound, And o'er the solid mass around
A liquid mantle cast.
5 At thy rebuke the tides recede, Each growing hill upheaves it's head From the deep gulph below; The thunder of thy voice they hear, And to their caverns, smit with fear, Precipitately flow.
6 Now up the hill they labouring creep, Now down the vales tumultuous sweep, For such is thy command: Their tyrant rage thy wisdom bounds, Lest, madly rushing o'er their mounds They whelm the ruin'd land.
God the Benefactor. Ps. civ.
OD feeds with springs the lucid rills, That, tinkling down the shrubby hills, In wild meanders rove;
Where beasts to cool their thirst repair, Where sing the choristers of air Within the shady grove.
2 He bids the clouds their treasures shed, On the bleak mountain's singed head; Reviving meadows smile;
Hence, earth the tender herbage pours For lowing herds; hence genial stores, To bless the tiller's toil.
3 The vines with purple clusters glow, And, swell'd with nobler juices, flow, The drooping heart to cheer;
See, vats with olive tides abound, See, fields with golden harvests crown'd Frail nature to repair.
4 He bids the spiry firs arise, The cedars vigorous pierce the skies From Lebanon's chill brow; Fearless, amid conflicting storms, The tow'ring stork his cradle forms, High on the sounding bough.
Evening and Morning. Ps. civ.
1 EACH creature knows his safe abode, And treads the path assign'd by God; Far in the western skies
The punctual sun, at evening hour, Sinks in the sea; with feeble power The moon his place supplies.
2 But when the sable hand of night Has quench'd the sickly rays of light, Fierce through the devious wood The lion, gaunt with hunger, scours; The desert trembles as he roars, Invoking heaven for food.
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