Text Results

Switch back to the old search page.Advanced Search

Showing 491 - 500 of 588Results Per Page: 10 20 50

The conversion of sinners a matter for prayer and praise

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 26 hymnals First Line: There's joy in heaven, and joy on earth Lyrics: 1 There's joy in heaven, and joy on earth, When prodigals return, To see desponding souls rejoice, And haughty sinner's mourn. 2 "Come saints, and hear what God hat done," Is a reviving sound; O may it spread from sea to sea, E'en all the globe around. 3 Often, O sov'reign Lord, renew The wonders of this day; That Jesus here may see his seed, And satan lose his prey. 4 Great God the work is all thine own, Thine be the praises too, Let every heart and every tongue Give thee the glory due. Topics: The Church Church Meetings; Conversion of a sinner

God exalted above all Praise

Author: Dr. Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 227 hymnals First Line: Eternal Power! whose high abode Lyrics: 1 Eternal Power! whose high abode Becomes the grandeur of a God; Infinite length, beyond the bounds Where stars revolve their little rounds. 2 The lowest step above thy seat Rises too high for Gabriel's feet; In vain the tall Arch-angel tries To reach the height with wondering eyes. 3 Lord, what shall earth and ashes do? We would adore our Maker too; From sin and dust to thee we cry, The Great, the Holy, and the High! 4 Earth, from afar, has heard thy fame, And worms have learn'd to lisp thy name, But O the glories of thy mind Leave all our soaring thoughts behind. 5 God is in Heaven, but man below; Be short our tunes; our words be few: A sacred reverence checks our songs, And praise sits silent on our tongues. Topics: God; God Exalted above all praise; God Exalted Above all Praise; Reverential Worship Text Sources: Dr. Watts's Lyric Poems

God glorious, and Sinners saved

Author: Dr. Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 311 hymnals First Line: Father, how wide thy glory shines Lyrics: 1 Father, how wide thy glory shines! How high thy wonders rise! Known thro' the earth by thousand signs, By thousand thro' the skies. 2 [Part of thy name divinely stands On all thy creatures writ, They shew the labour of thy hands, Or impress of thy feet.] 3 But when we view thy strange design To save rebellious worms, Where vengeance and compassion join, In their divinest forms; 4 Our thoughts are lost in reverend awe; We love and we adore; The first arch-angel never saw So much of God before. 5 Here the whole Deity is known, Nor dares a creature guess Which of the glories brightest shone, The justice or the grace. 6 [When sinners broke the Father's laws, The dying Son atones; O, the dear mysteries of his cross! The triumph of his groans!] 7 Now the full glories of the Lamb Adorn the heavenly plains; Sweet cherubs learn Immanuel's name, And try their choicest strains. 8 O may I bear some humble part In that immortal song! Wonder and joy shall tune my heart, And love command my tongue. Topics: Scripture Doctrines and Blessings Salvation; Salvation of sinners; God glorious and Sinners saved Scripture: Isaiah 44:23 Text Sources: Dr. Watts's Lyric Poems

Glorious Things spoken of Zion the City of God

Appears in 1,311 hymnals First Line: Glorious things of thee are spoken Lyrics: 1 Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God! He, whose word cannot be broken, Form'd thee for his own abode: On the rock of ages founded, What can shake thy sure repose? With salvation's walls surrounded, Thou may'st smile at all thy foes. 2 [See the streams of living waters Springing from eternal love, Well supply thy sons and daughters, And all fear of want remove: Who can faint while such a river Ever flows thy thirst t' assuage? Grace, which like the Lord, the giver, Never fails from age to age. 3 Round each habitation hovering, See the cloud and fire appear! For a glory and a covering, Shewing that the Lord is near: Thus deriving from their banner, Light by night and shade by day; Safe they feed upon the manna Which he gives them when they pray.] 4 Blest inhabitants of Zion, Wash'd in the Redeemer's blood! Jesus, whom their souls rely on, Makes them kings and priest to God: 'Tis his love his people raises Over self to reign as kings, And as priests, his solemn praises Each for a thank-offering bring. 5 Savior, if of Zion's city I thro' grace a member am; Let the world deride or pity, I will glory in thy name: Fading is the worldling's pleasure, All his boasted pomp and show! Solid joys and lasting treasure, None but Zion's children know. Topics: The Church Glory Predicted; Glory of the Church predicted; Pillar of fire and cloud; Glorious things spoke of Sion Scripture: Isaiah 33:20-21

An evening Hymn

Author: Bp. Ken Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,057 hymnals First Line: Glory to thee, my God, this night Lyrics: 1 Glory to thee, my God, this night, For all the blessings of the light; Beneath thine own almighty wings. 2 Forgive me, Lord, for thy dear son, The ill that I this day have done; That, with the world, myself and thee, I, ere I sleep, at peace may be. 3 Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed; Teach me to die that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day. 4 O let my soul on thee repose! And with sweet sleep my eye-lids close; Sleep that shall me more vigorous make, To serve my God, when I awake. 5 If in the night I sleepless lie, My soul with heavenly thoughts supply, Let no ill dreams disturb my rest, No powers of darkness me molest. 6 Praise God, from whom all blessings flow Praise him, all creatures here below; Praise him above, ye heav'nly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Topics: Times and Seasons Evening

The Incomprehensibility of God

Author: Dr. Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 82 hymnals First Line: God is a name my soul adores Lyrics: 1 God is a name my soul adores, Th' Almighty Three, th' Eternal One Nature and grace, with all their powers, Confess the Infinite unknown. 2 From thy great self thy being springs; Thou art thy own original, Made up of uncreated things, And self-sufficience bears them all. 3 Thy voice produc'd the seas and spheres, Bids the waves roar, and planets shine; But nothing like thyself appears, Through all these spacious works of thine. 4 Still restless nature dies and grows; From change to change the creatures run; Thy being no succession knows, And all thy vast designs are one, 5 Thrones and dominions round thee fall, And worship in submissive forms; Thy presence shakes this lower ball, This little dwelling-place of worms. 6 How shall affrighted mortals dare To sing thy glory or thy grace, Beneath thy feet we lie so far, And see but shadows of thy face? 7 Who can behold the blazing light? Who can approach consuming flame? None but thy wisdom knows thy might, None but thy word can speak thy name. Topics: God; Incomprehensibility of God; Perseverance in grace Scripture: Job 11:7 Text Sources: Dr. Watts's Lyric Poems

The Moral Perfection of Deity imitated

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 22 hymnals First Line: Great Author of th' immortal mind! Lyrics: 1 Great Author of th' immortal mind! For noblest thoughts and views design'd; Make me ambitious to express The image of thy holiness. 2 While I thy boundless love admire, Grant me to catch the sacred fire; Thus shall my heavenly birth be known, And for thy child thou wilt me own. 3 Father, I see thy sun arise To cheer thy friends and enemies; And when thy rain from Heaven descends, Thy bounty both alike befriends. 4 Enlarge my soul with love like thine; My moral powers by grace refine; So shall I feel another's woe, And cheerful feed an hungry foe. 5 I hope for pardon through thy Son, For all the crimes which I have done: O, may the grace that pardons me Constrain me to forgive like thee! Topics: God; Love To our enemies; Perfections of God Moral perfections imitated Scripture: Matthew 5:48

Praise for national peace

Author: Steele Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 93 hymnals First Line: Great ruler of the earth and skies Lyrics: 1 Great ruler of the earth and skies, A word of thine almighty breath Can sink the world, or bid it rise: Thy smile is life, thy frown is death. 2 When angry nations rush to arms, And rage, and noise, and tumult reign, And war resounds its dire alarms, And slaughter dyes the hostile plains; 3 Thy sovereign eye looks calmly down, And marks their course, and bounds their pow'r; Thy word the angry nations own, And noise and war are heard no more. 4 Then peace returns with balmy wing, (Sweet peace! with her what blessings fled!) Glad plenty laughs, the vallies sing, Reviving commerce lifts her head. 5 Thou good, and wise, and righteous Lord, All move subservent to thy will; And peace and war await thy word, And thy sublime decrees fulfil. 6 To thee we pay our grateful songs, Thy kind protection still implore? O may our hearts, and lives, and tongues, Confess thy goodness and adore. Topics: Times and Seasons Days of Thanksgiving; National prayer and praise; Praise for peace of the nation; Thanksgiving days Scripture: Psalm 46:9

Sinners and Saints in the Wreck of Nature

Author: President Davies Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 65 hymnals First Line: How great, how terrible that God Lyrics: 1 How great, how terrible that God, Who shakes creation with his nod! He frowns—earth, sea, all nature's frame Sink in one universal flame. 2 Where now, O where shall sinners seek For shelter in the general wreck; Shall falling rocks be o'er them thrown? See rocks, like snow, desolving down. 3 In vain for mercy now they cry; In lakes of liquid fire they lie; There on the flaming billows tost, For ever—O forever lost. 4 But saints, undaunted and serene Your eyes view the dreadful scene; Your savior lives, the worlds expire, And earth and skies desolve in fire. 5 Jesus, the helpless creature's friend, To thee my all I dare commend. Thou canst preserve my feeble soul, When Lightnings blaze from pole to pole. Topics: The Day of Judgment; Sinner and saints in the wreck of nature

On a Year of threatening Rain

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 17 hymnals First Line: How hast thou Lord, from year to year Lyrics: 1 How hast thou Lord, from year to year, Our land with plenty crown'd? And generous fruit and golden grain Have spread their riches round. 2 But we Thy mercies have abus'd To more abounding crimes: What heights, what daring heights in sin Mark and disgrace our times! 3 Equal tho' awful is the doom, That fierce descending rain Should into inundations swell, And crush the rising grain! 4 How just that in the autumn’s reign, When we had hop'd to reap, Our fields of sorrow and despair Should lie a hedious heap. 5 But, Lord, have mercy on our land, Those floods of vengeance stay; Dispel these glooms, and let the sun Shine in unclouded day! 6 To thee alone we look for help; None else of dew or rain Can give the world the smallest drop, Or smallest drop restrain. Topics: Times and Seasons The Seasons of the Year; Threatening Rain