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635. C. M. Anonymous.
Trust amid the Severities of G.o.d.
1 Thou Power supreme, whose mighty scheme These woes of mine fulfil, Here, firm, I rest; they must be best, Because they are thy will.
2 Then all I want,--O do thou grant This one request of mine,-- Since to enjoy thou dost deny, a.s.sist me to resign.
RELIGIOUS EXULTATION.
636. 7s. & 6s. M. Montgomery.
Confidence in G.o.d. Ps. 27.
1 G.o.d is my strong salvation; What foe have I to fear?
In darkness and temptation My Light, my Help, is near.
Though hosts encamp around me, Firm to the fight I stand; What terror can confound me With G.o.d at my right hand?
2 Place on the Lord reliance; My soul, with courage wait; His truth be thine affiance, When faint and desolate; His might thine heart shall strengthen; His love thy joy increase; Mercy thy days shall lengthen; The Lord will give thee peace.
637. S. M. Moravian.
Reliance on G.o.d.
1 Give to the winds thy fears; Hope and be undismayed; G.o.d hears thy sighs, G.o.d counts thy tears; G.o.d shall lift up thy head.
2 Through waves, through clouds and storms, He gently clears thy way; Wait thou his time, so shall the night Soon end in joyous day.
3 He everywhere hath rule, And all things serve his might; His every act pure blessing is, His path unsullied light.
4 Thou seest our weakness, Lord, Our hearts are known to thee: O, lift thou up the sinking hand, Confirm the feeble knee!
5 Let us, in life or death, Boldly thy truth declare; And publish, with our latest breath, Thy love and guardian care.
638. L. M. Doddridge.
Praising G.o.d in Life and in Death.
1 G.o.d of my life! through all its days My grateful powers shall sound thy praise; The song shall wake with opening light, And warble to the silent night.
2 When anxious cares would break my rest, And griefs would tear my throbbing breast, Thy tuneful praises, raised on high, Shall check the murmur and the sigh.
3 But, O, when that last conflict's o'er, And I am chained to flesh no more; With what glad accents shall I rise To join the music of the skies!
4 Soon shall I learn the exalted strains Which echo o'er the heavenly plains; And emulate, with joy unknown, The glowing seraphs round thy throne.
639. H. M. Doddridge.
Faithfulness of G.o.d's Promise.
1 The promises I sing, Which sovereign love hath spoke; Nor will the eternal King His words of grace revoke; They stand secure, And steadfast still; Not Zion's hill Abides so sure.
2 The mountains melt away, When once the Judge appears, And sun and moon decay, That measure mortal years; But still the same, In radiant lines, The promise s.h.i.+nes, Through all the flame.
640. C. M. Watts.
Salvation.
1 Salvation! O, the joyful sound!
'Tis pleasure to our ears, A sovereign balm for every wound, A cordial for our fears.
2 Buried in sorrow and in sin, At death's dark door we lay; But we arise, by grace divine, To see a heavenly day.
3 Salvation! let the echo fly The s.p.a.cious earth around, While all the armies of the sky Conspire to raise the sound.
641. 8s. & 7s. M. Dublin Coll.
Praise from Earth and Heaven.
