4. There shall I bathe my weary soul In seas of heavenly rest,

And not a wave of trouble roll

Across my peaceful breast.

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(Devizes.)

HYMN 42.

WATTS.

My meditation of him shall be sweet." Ps. civ. 34.

1. WHEN langour and disease invade
This trembling house of clay,
'Tis sweet by faith to look above,
And long to fly away.

2. Sweet to look inward, and attend
The whispers of God's love;
Sweet to look upward to the place
Where Jesus pleads above.

3. Sweet to look back, and see my name
In life's fair book set down;
Sweet to look forward, and behold

Eternal joys my own.

4. Sweet to reflect how

grace divine

My sins on Jesus laid;

Sweet to remember that his blood

My debt of suffering paid.

5. Sweet in his sacrifice to trust,
Which saves from second death;
Sweet to experience, day by day,
His Spirit's quickening breath.

6. Sweet in the confidence of faith

To learn his wise decrees;

Sweet to lie passive in his hand,
And know no will but his.

7. If such the sweetness of the streams,
What must the fountain be?

What, to derive celestial bliss
Immediately from Thee?

(Arlington.)

TOPLADY.

SELECT HYMNS

FOR PUBLIC USE.

HYMN 1.

BEFORE SERMON.

"Whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul." ACTS xvi. 14.

1. ALMIGHTY GOD, eternal Lord,

Thy gracious power make known:
Warm by the virtue of thy word,
And melt the heart of stone.

2. Speak with the voice that wakes the dead, And bid the sleeper rise;

And make his guilty conscience dread
The death that never dies.

3. Let us receive the word we hear,
Each in an honest heart;

Lay up the precious treasure there,
And never with it part.

4. Now let our darkness comprehend
The light that shines so clear;
Now the glad tidings freely send,
And give us ears to hear.

(St. David's.)

HYMN 2.

"Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his

sight but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes

:

of him with whom we have to do." HEB. iv. 13.

1. ALMIGHTY God, thy piercing eye
Strikes through the shades of night;
And our most secret actions lie
All open to thy sight.

2. There's not a sin that we commit,
Nor wicked word we say,

But in thy dreadful book 'tis writ
Against the judgment day!

3. Lord, at thy feet ashamed we lie ;
Upward we dare not look ;

Pardon our grievous sins, we cry,
And blot them from thy book.

4. Thanks be for all the dying pains
Which our Redeemer felt;

His blood still washes out our stains,

And answers for our guilt.

WATTS.

HYMN 3.

"I myself will awake early." Ps. cviii. 2.

1. AWAKE my soul, and with the sun
Thy daily stage of duty run;
Shake off dull sloth, and early rise
To pay thy morning sacrifice.

2. Lord, I my vows to Thee renew;
Scatter my sins like morning dew;
Guard my first spring of thought and will,
And with Thyself my spirit fill.

3. Direct, control, suggest, this day,

All I design, or do, or say,

That all my powers with all their might
In thy sole glory may unite.

4. Praise God, from whom all blessings flow, Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host, Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. (Castleton.)

ΚΕΝ.