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O Righteous, in the Lord Rejoice

Meter: 8.6.6 D Appears in 8 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O righteous, in the Lord rejoice; how pleasant that with joyful voice God's saints his name should praise. With harp and hymn of gladness sing, your gift of sweetest music bring, to him a new song raise. 2 The Lord God from his throne on high looks down with clear and searching eye on all that dwell below. And he that fashioned heart and mind looks ever down on humankind the works of all to know. 3 His eye is on all those who fear; to those who hope, the Lord is near according to his word. Death cannot touch those in his hand, nor trouble conquer in the land; we wait upon the Lord. Topics: Funerals; Creation and Providence; Church; Funerals; Providence Scripture: Psalm 33:4-9 Used With Tune: FRANCES Text Sources: Psalter, 1912, alt.

Begin, My Soul, Th'Exalted Lay

Author: John Ogilvie Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 210 hymnals First Line: Begin, my soul, th’exalted lay Lyrics: 1 Begin, my soul, th’exalted lay, Let each enraptured thought obey, And praise th’Almighty’s name; Lo! Heav’n and earth, and seas, and skies In one melodious concert rise To swell th’inspiring theme! 2 Ye fields of light, celestial plains, Where gay transporting beauty reigns, Ye scenes divinely fair! Your maker’s wondrous power proclaim, Tell how He formed your shining frame, And breathed the fluid air. 3 Ye angels, catch the thrilling sound! While all th’adoring throngs around His wondrous mercy sing; Let every listening saint above, Wake all the tuneful soul of love, And touch the sweetest string. 4 Join, ye loud spheres, the vocal choir! Thou dazzling orb of liquid fire The mighty chorus aid; Soon as grey evening gilds the plain, Thou moon, protract the melting strain, And praise Him in the shade. 5 Thou, Heav’n of heav’ns, His vast abode, Ye clouds, proclaim your forming God! Ye thunders, speak His power! Lo! on the lightning’s gleamy wing In triumph walks th’eternal King, Th’astonished worlds adore. 6 Whate’er the gazing eye can find, The warms or soothes the musing mind, United praise bestow; Ye dragons, sound His dreadful name To Heav’n aloud, and roar acclaim, Ye swelling deeps, below! 7 Let every element rejoice: Ye tempests, raise your mighty voice Praise Him who bid you roll! His praise in softer notes declare Each whispering breeze of yielding air, And breathe it to the soul. 8 To Him, ye graceful cedars, bow! Ye towering mountains, bending low, Your great creator own! Tell, when affrighted nature shook, How Sinai kindled at His look, And trembled at His frown. 9 Ye flocks that haunt the humble vale, Ye insects fluttering on the gale, In mutual concourse rise! Crop the gay rose’s vermeil bloom, And waft its spoils, a sweet perfume, In incense to the skies. 10 Wake, all ye mounting throngs, and sing! Ye plumy warblers of the spring, Harmonious anthems raise, To Him who shaped your finer mold, Who tipped your glittering wings with gold, And tuned your voice to praise. 11 Let man, by nobler passions swayed, The feeling heart, the judging head, In heav’nly praise employ; Spread His tremendous name around, Till Heav’n’s broad arch ring back the sound, The general burst of joy. 12 Ye, whom the charms of grandeur please, Nursed on the silky lap of ease, Fall prostrate at His throne! Ye princes, rulers, all adore! Praise Him, ye kings! who makes your power An image of His own. 13 Ye fair, by nature formed to move, O praise th’eternal source of love With youth’s enlivening fire! Let age take up the tuneful lay, Sigh His blest name—then soar away, And ask an angel’s lyre. Used With Tune: FRANCES

O Let Your Mingling Voices Rise

Author: Mary A. Jevons Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 50 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O let your mingling voices rise In grateful rapture to the skies, And hail a Savior’s birth; Let songs of joy the day proclaim, When Jesus all-triumphant came, To bless the sons of earth. 2 He comes to bid the weary rest, To heal the sinner’s wounded breast, To bind the broken heart; To spread the light of truth around, And to the world’s remotest bound The heavenly gift impart. 3 He comes our sinking souls to save, From sin, from sorrow, and the grave, And chase our fears away; Triumphant over death and time, To lead us to a happier clime, Where reigns eternal day. 4 Then let your mingling voices rise, In grateful rapture to the skies, And hail a Savior’s birth; Let songs of joy the day proclaim, When Jesus all-triumphant came, To bless the sons of earth. Used With Tune: FRANCES Text Sources: Sonnets and Other Poems, Chiefly Devotional (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Company, 1845)

Jesus, Thy Saving Name I Bless

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Jesus, Thy saving name I bless, Delivered out of my distress, Thy faithfulness I prove; I magnify Thy mercy’s power; My refuge in the trying hour Was Thy almighty love. 2 Snatched from the rage of cruel men, Brought up out of the lion’s den, And thro’ the burning flame: Jesus, Thine outstretched hand I see, Might, wisdom, strength ascribe to Thee, And bless Thy saving name. 3 Hereby Thou favorest me, I know, Because Thou wouldst not let the foe My hunted soul destroy; Better than life Thy favor is, ’Tis pure delight, and perfect bliss, And everlasting joy. 4 Saved by a miracle of grace, Lord, I with thankful heart embrace The token of Thy love: This, this, the comfortable sign, That I the first born church shall join, And bless Thy name above. Used With Tune: FRANCES Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749, Vol. I

Come, Let Us Sing With Joyful Mirth

Author: John Brownlie Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, let us sing with joyful mirth The mystery of Immanuel’s birth, Who, virgin born, is here; The middle wall no longer stands, No flaming sword in cherub’s hands Inspires the soul with fear. 2 See, clear the pathway open lies That upward leads to paradise, Where stands the tree of life; And freely may I enter in, Whence I was driven by mortal sin, And worsted in the strife. 3 For He, the Father’s only Son, A glorious work hath now begun, Descending from above In servant’s form, though yet the Son, Unchanging while the ages run, To win us by His love. 4 Come, now, let hearts united be To laud His praises joyfully, The God-Man born today. And let Thy mercy reach us now, For pitiful and kind art Thou, O Virgin Born, we pray. Used With Tune: FRANCES Text Sources: Hymns of the Early Church by John Brownlie (London: Morgan & Scott, 1913

Ye righteous, in the Lord rejoice

Meter: 8.8.6 D Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Ye righteous, in the Lord rejoice; It well becomes the good man's voice To sing Jehovah's praise. With harp and hymn of gladness sing, Your gift of sweetest music bring, To him a new song raise. 2 For upright is Jehovah's word; And all the doings of the Lord In faithfulness are wrought. In justice and in judgment right The Lord doth ever take delight; With goodness earth is fraught. 3 Jehovah's word the heav'ns hath made, And all the host of them arrayed His breath has caused to be. He rolls the waters heap on heap; He stores away the mighty deep In garners of the sea. 4 Let all the earth Jehovah fear, Let all that dwell both far and near In awe before him stand; For, lo, he spake and it was done, And all, his sovereign pow'r begun, Stood fast at his command. 5 He makes the nations' counsels vain, The plans the peoples would maintain Are thwarted by his hand. Jehovah's counsel stands secure, His purposes of heart endure, For evermore they stand. 6 O truly is the nation blessed Whose God, before the world confessed, Jehovah is alone; And blessed the people is whom he Has made his heritage to be, And chosen for his own. Amen. Topics: The Church Covenant People; Fear of God; God Divine Perfections of; God Glory of; God Incomprehensibility of; God Power of; God Praise of; God Sovereignty of ; National Scripture: Psalm 33:1-12 Used With Tune: FRANCES Text Sources: Compiled from several sources

The God of Providence and Grace

Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Let all the earth Jehovah fear Lyrics: 1 Let all the earth Jehovah fear, Let all that dwell both far and near In awe before Him stand; for, lo, He spake and it was done, And all the sov'reign pow'r begun Stood fast at His command. 2 He makes the nations' counsels vain, The plans the peoples would maintain Are thwarted by His hand; Jehovah's counsel stands secure, His purposes of heart endure, For evermore they stand. 3 O truly is the nation blest Whose God before the world confessed Jehovah is alone; And blest the people is whom He Has made His heritage to be, And chosen for His own. Topics: Blessedness Of Those Chosen of God; Christ Glorying in; Christ Providences of; Divine Election; Faith Blessedness of; Godly Fear Exhortation to; Glory of God In Providence; God Adored and Exalted; God Creator of All; God Immutability of; God Works of; Missions Influence of; Nations Owe Allegiance to Christ; Purposes of God; Royalty of Christ Nations Subject to; Royalty of Christ Providential; Worship Call to Scripture: Psalm 33 Used With Tune: FRANCES

Behold, The Awful Day Comes On

Author: Augustus M. Toplady Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Behold, the awful day comes on, When Jesus on His righteous throne Shall in the clouds appear: With solemn pomp shall bow the sky, And, in the twinkling of an eye, Arraign us at His bar. 2 But first th’archangel’s trump shall blow, Our scattered dust its voice shall know, And quicken at the sound: The sea shall then give up her dead: And nations, starting from their bed, Shall cleave the opening ground. 3 Who shall withstand His righteous ire, When Jesus sets the clouds on fire, And makes the earth retreat? In vain shall sinners then repent. When each expiring element, Shall melt with fervent heat. 4 The dead in Christ shall first awake, The faithful few, who, for His sake, On earth were justified: Guarded by a seraphic band, Aloft they mount to His right hand, In whom they lived and died. 5 See next the guilty crowd arise. Beholding, with reluctant eyes, The glories of the Lamb; While taunting fiends impatient wait To hurl them from the judgment seat, To hell’s eternal flame. 6 Hark, as they mount, by devils borne, To meet their judge (on earth their scorn) Despairingly they cry, "Fall on us, rocks, with all your load, And screen us from the wrath of God, And hide us from His eye." 7 In vain on rocks and hills ye call, The rocks shall from their bases fall And know their place no more: The hills shall melt when God comes down, And mountains crumble at His frown, And groan beneath His power. 8 What thought can paint their black despair, Who this tremendous sentence hear, Irrevocably giv’n, "Depart, ye cursed, into hell, With everlasting burnings dwell, Remote from Me and Heav’n?" 9 But, O Thou Savior of mankind, Display Thy power, and to the blind Effectual light afford: Snatch them from unbelief and sin, And now compel them to come in, And tremble at Thy Word. 10 Methinks I hear Thy mercy plead, The voice of Him that wakes the dead Doth over sinners mourn: “Why do ye still your God forget, And madly hasten to the pit From whence is no return? 11 "Ye reasoners, make a rational choice; Listen, in time, to reason’s voice, Nor dare almighty ire: Turn, lest the hottest wrath ye feel, And find, too late, the flames of hell No metaphoric fire." Used With Tune: FRANCES Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems (London: Daniel Sedgwick and Hamilton & Adams, 1775)

Jesu, Thy Weak Disciples See

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Jesu, Thy weak disciples see, Entreated in the world like Thee, Partakers of Thy shame; Because we will not let Thee go, Sweet fellowship with Thee to know, And suffer for Thy name. 2 Thy marks we in our body bear, Our master’s cross we daily share, And bless the sacred sign, Here buffeted for doing well, We thankfully accept the seal, And feel that we are Thine. 3 Our back we to the smiters give, Evil for good with joy receive, Nor meanly strive to hide From spitting, and from shame our face, But glory in the full disgrace Of Jesus crucified. 4 For Thy dear sake we suffer wrong, And persecuted all day long, We thus the crown ensure, As sheep appointed to be slain, Our portion of contempt and pain We to the end endure. 5 We in Thy strength can all things do, Thro’ Thee can all things suffer too, When Thou the power shalt give, We then by faith shall see Thee stand The Great High Priest at God’s right hand, Our spirits to receive. 6 Wherefore to Thee our souls we trust, Our Savior to the uttermost To Thee we boldly come, With joy upon our heads return, High on the wings of angels borne To our eternal home. Used With Tune: FRANCES Text Sources: Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution by John and Charles Wesley (London: Strahan, 1744)

Stay, Thou Too Happy Sinner, Stay

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Stay, thou too happy sinner, stay, Smooth gliding down the flowery way, The broad, frequented road; Gay wretch, that dost in pleasure live, And all thy joy from earth receive, Thy soul is dead to God! 2 When death doth soul and body part, If dead to God even then thou art, Excluded from the skies, Shut up in darkness palpable, And justly left to its own hell, Thy soul for ever dies. Used With Tune: FRANCES