TO God the Father, God the Son,
And God the Spirit, Three in One,
Be honour, praise, and glory given
By all on earth and all in heaven.
RAISE God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
INSPIRATION, AUTHORITY, AND EX
God hath revealed them to us by His Spirit. 1 Cor. ii. 10.
GOD, who didst Thy will unfold
In wondrous modes to saints of old,
By dream, by oracle, or seer:
Wilt Thou not still Thy people hear?
2 What though no answering voice is heard;
Thine oracles, the written word,
Counsel and guidance still impart,
Responsive to the upright heart.
3 What though no more by dreams is shown
That future things to God are known;
Enough the promises reveal:
Wisdom and love the rest conceal.
4 Faith asks no signal from the skies,
To show that prayers accepted rise;
Our Priest is in the holy place,
And answers from the throne of grace.
5 No need of prophets to inquire:
The sun is risen; the stars retire.
The Comforter is come, and sheds
His holy unction on our heads.
6 Lord, with this grace our hearts inspire:
Answer our sacrifice by fire;
And by Thy mighty acts declare,
Thou art the God who heareth prayer.
460 God spake in time past unto the fathers.
GOD, who in various methods told
His mind and will to saints of old,
Sent His own Son, with truth and grace,
To teach us in these latter days.
2 Our nation reads the written word,
That book of life, that true record:
The bright inheritance of heaven
Is by this sure conveyance given.
3 God's kindest thoughts are here exprest,
Able to make us wise and blest;
The doctrines are divinely true,
Fit for reproof and comfort too.
4 Ye British isles, who read His love
In sacred records from above,
O send abroad His saving word,
Till every land shall praise the Lord.
All Scripture is given by...God.
TWAS
TWAS by commission from the Lord
The ancient prophets spoke His word;
His Spirit did their tongues inspire,
And warmed their hearts with heavenly fire.
2 The works and wonders which they wrought
Confirmed the messages they brought;
The prophet's pen succeeds His breath,
To save the holy words from death.
3 Great God, mine eyes with pleasure look
On the dear volume of Thy book;
There my Redeemer's face I see,
And read His name who died for me.
4 Let the false raptures of the mind
Be lost and vanish in the wind,
Here I can fix my hope secure;
This is Thy word, and must endure.
4624 more sure word of prophecy.-2 Pet. i. 19.
ET everlasting glories crown
Thy hands have brought salvation down,
And writ the blessings in Thy word.
2 What if we trace the globe around,
And search from Britain to Japan,
There shall be no religion found
So just to God, so safe for man.
3 In vain the trembling conscience seeks
Some solid ground to rest upon;
With long despair the spirit breaks,
Till we apply to Christ alone,
4 How well Thy blessed truths agree! How wise and holy Thy commands ! Thy promises, how firm they be !
How firm our hope and comfort stands! 5 Should all the forms that men devise Assault my faith with treacherous art, I'd call them vanity and lies,
And bind the gospel to my heart.
The witness in himself.-1 John v. 10.
UESTIONS and doubts he heard no more,
Let Christ and joy be all our theme;
His Spirit seals His gospel sure
То every soul that trusts in Him.
2 Jesus, Thy witness speaks within ;
The mercy, which Thy words reveal,
Refines the heart from sense and sin,
And stamps its own celestial seal.
3 Tis God's inimitable hand
That moulds and forms the heart anew;
Blasphemers can no more withstand,
But bow, and own Thy doctrine true.
4 The guilty soul that trusts Thy blood
Finds peace and pardon at the cross;
The sinful soul, averse from God,
Believes and loves His Maker's laws.
5 Learning and wit may cease their strife,
When miracles with glory shine;
The voice that calls the dead to life
Must be almighty and divine.
The Holy Scriptures.-2 Tim. iii. 15.
OLY Bible, book Divine ;
Ho Precious treasure, thou art mine;
Mine to tell me whence I came;
Mine, to teach me what I am.
2 Mine, to chide me when I rove;
Mine, to show a Saviour's love;
Mine art thou to guide my feet;
Mine to judge, condemn, acquit.
8 Mine, to comfort in distress,
If the Holy Spirit bless;
Mine, to show by living faith
Man can triumph over death.
4 Mine, to tell of joys to come,
And the rebel sinner's doom;
Holy Bible, book Divine,
Precious treasure, thou art mine.
Thou hast magnified Thy word.
GREAT God, with wonder and with praise,
On all Thy works I look;
But still Thy wisdom, power, and grace,
Shine brightest in Thy book.
2 Here are my choicest treasures hid:
Here my best comfort lies:
Here my desires are satisfied;
And hence my hopes arise.
8 Lord, make me understand Thy law,
Show what my faults have been ;
And from Thy gospel let me draw
Pardon for all my sin.
4 Here would I learn how Christ has died
To save my soul from hell;
Not all the books on earth beside,
Such heavenly wonders tell.
5 Then let me love the Bible more,
And take a fresh delight
By day to read these wonders o'er,
And meditate by night.
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