Metrical Psalms and hymns, for singing in churches

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Deighton, 1849 - 431 pages
 

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Page 133 - And an immortal crown. 2 A cloud of witnesses around Hold thee in full survey ; Forget the steps already trod, And onward urge thy way. 3...
Page 156 - CHRIST, Whose glory fills the skies, Christ, the true, the only light, Sun of Righteousness, arise! Triumph o'er the shades of night ! Day-spring from on high, be near; Day-star, in my heart appear.
Page 161 - COME, let us join our cheerful songs, With angels round the throne ; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 " Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, " To be exalted thus :" — " Worthy the Lamb," our lips reply,
Page 150 - Lo ! such the child whose early feet The paths of peace have trod ; Whose secret heart, with influence sweet, Is upward drawn to God...
Page 130 - Thus to be owned and blest. 2 Enter with all thy glorious train, Thy Spirit and thy word ; All that the ark did once contain Could no such grace afford. 3 Here, mighty God, accept our vows, Here let thy praise be spread ; Bless the provisions of thy house, And fill thy poor with bread.
Page 358 - GLORY to Thee, my God this night, For all the blessings of the light ; Keep me, O keep me, King of kings, Beneath Thine own Almighty wings.
Page 134 - BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne, Ye nations bow with sacred joy ; Know that the Lord is God alone, He can create, and he destroy.
Page 75 - The Lord ye know is God indeed, Without our aid He did us make ; We are His flock, He doth us feed, And for His sheep He doth us take.
Page 353 - WITNESS, ye men and angels ; now Before the Lord we speak ; To him we make our solemn vow, A vow we dare not break : 2 That, long as life itself shall last, Ourselves to Christ we yield ; Nor from his cause will we depart, Or ever quit the field.
Page 237 - Every eye shall now behold him, Robed in dreadful majesty ; Those who set at nought and sold him, Pierced and nailed him to the tree, Deeply wailing, Shall the true Messiah see.

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