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Lord, thy early grace,?Nor let my soul complain?That the young morning of my day?Has all been spent in vain!
Song 26.?An Evening Song.
1 And now another day is gone,?I'll sing my Maker's praise!?My comforts every hour make known?His providence and grace.
2 But how my childhood runs to waste?My sins how great their sum!?Lord, give me pardon for the past,?And strength for days to come.
3 I lay my body down to sleep,?Let angels guard my head;?And, through the hours of darkness, keep?Their watch around my head.
4 With cheerful heart I close mine eyes,?Since thou wilt not remove;?And in the morning let me rise?Rejoicing in thy love.
Song 27.?For the Lord's Day Morning.
1 This is the day when Christ arose?So early from the dead:?Why should I my eyelids close,?And waste my hours in bed?
2 This is the day when Jesus broke?The powers of death and hell;?And shall I still wear Satan's yoke,?And love my sins so well?
3 To-day, with pleasure, Christians meet,?To pray, and hear thy Word;?And I would go with cheerful feet?To learn thy will, O Lord!
4 I'll leave my sport, to read and pray,?And so prepare for heaven:?O may I love this blessed day?The best of all the seven!
Song 28.?For Lord's Day Evening.
1 Lord, how delightful `tis to see?A whole assembly worship thee!?At once they sing, at once they pray;?They hear of heaven, and learn the way.
2 I have been there, and still would go?'Tis like a little heaven below!?Not all my pleasure and my play?Should tempt me to forget this day.
3 O write upon my memory, Lord,?The text and doctrines of thy Word,?That I may break thy laws no more,?But love thee better than before!
4 With thoughts of Christ and things divine?Fill up this foolish heart of mine:?That, hoping pardon through his blood,?I may lie down, and wake with God.
The TEN COMMANDMENTS out of the Old Testament put into short Rhime for Children.
Exod. 20.
1. Thou shalt have no more Gods but me.
2. Before no idol bow thy knee.
3. Take not the Name of God in vain:
4. Nor dare the Sabbath Day profane.
5. Give both thy parents honour due.
6. Take heed that thou no murder do.
7. Abstain from words and deeds unclean:
8. Nor steal, though thou art poor and mean.
9. Nor make a wilful lie, nor love it.
10. What is thy neighbour's, dare not covet.
The Sum of the Commandments out of the New Testament.
Matt. 22. 37.
With all thy Soul love God above;?And as thyself thy Neighbour love.
Our Saviour's Golden Rule.
Matt. 7. 12.
Be you to others Kind and True,?As you'd have others be to you.?And neither do nor say to Men?Whate'er you would not take again.
Duty to God and our neighbour.
Love God with all your Soul and Strength.?With all your Heart and Mind;?And love your Neighbour as your self:?Be faithful, just, and kind.
Deal with another as you'd have?Another deal with you.?What you're unwilling to receive,?Be sure you never do.
Out of my Book of Hymns_, I have here added, the _Hosanna and Glory to the Father, &c. to be sung at the end of any of these Songs, according to the Direction of Parents or Governors.
The Hosanna; or Salvation ascribed to Christ.
Long Metre.
1 Hosanna_ to king _David's Son,?Who reigns on a superior Throne;?We bless the Prince of Heav'nly Birth,?Who brings Salvation down to Earth.
2 Let every nation, every age,?In this delightful work engage;?Old Men and Babes in Sion sing?The growing glories of her King!
Common Metre.
1 Hosanna to the Prince of Grace;?Sion behold thy King;?Proclaim the Son of David's Race,?And teach the Babes to sing.
2 Hosanna to th' Eternal Word,?Who from the Father came;?Ascribe Salvation to the Lord,?With Blessings on his Name!
Short Metre.
1 Hosanna to the Son?Of David and of God,?Who brought the News of Pardon down,?And bought it with his Blood.
2 To Christ, th' anointed King,?Be endless blessings giv'n,?Let the whole Earth his Glory sing?Who made our Peace with Heav'n.
Glory to the Father and the Son, &c.
Long Metre.
To God the Father, God the Son,?And God the Spirit, Three in One,?Be Honour, Praise, and Glory giv'n,?By all on Earth, and all in Heav'n.
Common Metre.
Now let the Father and the Son,?And Spirit be ador'd,?Where there are works to make him known,?Or saints to love the Lord.
Short Metre.
Give to the Father Praise,?Give Glory to the Son,?And to the Spirit of his Grace?Be equal Honour done.
A Slight SPECIMEN of MORAL SONGS,
_Such as I wish some happy and condescending Genius would undertake for the use of Children, and perform much better_.
The sense and subjects might be borrow'd plentifully from the Proverbs of Solomon, from all the common appearances of nature, from all the occurrences in the civil life, both in city and country: (which would also afford matter for other divine songs). Here the language and measures should be easy and flowing with cheerfulness, and without the solemnities of religion, or the sacred names of God and holy things; that children might find delight and profit together.
This would be