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Growing in Grace

Author: Dr. Doddridge Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 24 hymnals First Line: Praise to thy name, eternal God Lyrics: 1 Praise to thy name, eternal God, For all the grace thou shed'st abroad; For all thy influence from above, To warm our souls with sacred love: 2 Bless'd be thy hand, which from the skies Brought down this plant of Paradise, And gave its heavenly beauties birth To deck this wilderness of earth. 3 But why does that celestial flower Open, and thrive, and shine no more? Where are its balmy odors fled? And why reclines its beauteous head? 4 Too plain, alas! the langour shews Th' unkindly soil in which it grows; Where the black frost and beating storm Wither, and rend its tender form. 5 Unchanging sun thy beams display, To drive the frost and storms away; Make all thy potent virtues known To cheer a plant so much thy own. 6 And thou, bless'd spirit deign to blow Fresh gales of Heaven on shrubs below; So shall they grow, and breathe abroad A fragrance grateful to our God. Topics: The Christian; Christian Growing in grace; Growing in Grace; Growth in Grace; Prosperity of the soul desired Scripture: 2 Peter 3:18

We to this place are come, to show

Author: Beddome Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 8 hymnals Lyrics: We to this place are come, to show What we to boundless mercy owe; The Savior's footsteps to explore, And tread the path he trod before. Topics: Baptism Single Verses on Baptism

Solicitous of finishing his course with Joy

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 22 hymnals First Line: Assist us, Lord, thy name to praise Lyrics: 1 Assist us, Lord, thy name to praise For the rich gospel of thy grace; And that our hearts may love it more, Teach them to feel its vital power. 2 With joy may we our course pursue, And keep the crown of life in view; That crown, which in one hour repays The labor of ten thousand days. 3 Should bonds or death obstruct our way, Unmov'd their terrors we'll survey, And the last hour improve for thee, The last of life, or liberty. 4 Welcome those bonds which may unite Our souls to their supreme delight! Welcome that death, whose painful strife Bears us to Christ our better life! Topics: The Christian; Christian Desirous of finishing his course with joy; Freeness of the Gospel Scripture: Acts 20:24

The successful Resolve. I will go unto the King

Author: Edmund Jones Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 713 hymnals First Line: Come, humble sinner, in whose breast Lyrics: 1 Come, humble sinner, in whose breast A thousand thoughts revolve, Come, with your guilt and fear opprest, And make this last resolve. 2 "I'll go to Jesus, tho' my sin "hath like a mountain rose; "I know his courts, I'll enter in, "Whatever may oppose. 3 "Prostrate I'll lie before his throne, "And there my guilt confess, "I'll tell him I'm a wretch undone "Without his sovereign grace. 4 "I'll to the gracious King approach, "Whose sceptre pardon gives, "Perhaps he may command my touch, "And then the suppliant lives. 5 "Perhaps he will admit my plea, "Perhaps will hear my prayer; "But if I perish I will pray, "And perish only there. 6 "I can but perish if I go, "I am resolv'd to try: "For if I stay away, I know "I must forever die." Topics: Worship Hymns Before Prayer; Hymns before prayer; Public Religion; The successful Resolution Scripture: Esther 4:16

All in all

Author: Toplady Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 76 hymnals First Line: Compar'd with Christ, in all beside Lyrics: 1 Compar'd with Christ, in all beside No comliness I see; The one thing needful, dearest Lord, Is to be one with thee. 2 The sense of thy expiring love Into my soul convey: Thyself bestow; for thee alone My all in all, I pray. 3 Less than thyself will not suffice, My comfort to restore: More than thyself I cannot crave; And thou canst give no more. 4 Lov'd of my God, for him again With love intense I'd burn: Chosen of thee ere time began, I'd chuse thee in return. 5 Whate’er consists not with thy love, O teach me to resign: I’m rich to all th' intents of bliss If thou, O God, art mine. Topics: Christ All in All; One Thing Needful

For a time of general Sickness

Author: Leech Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 24 hymnals First Line: Death, with his dread commission seal'd Lyrics: 1 Death, with his dread commission seal'd, Now hastens to his arms: In awful state he takes the field, And sounds his dire alarms. 2 Attendant plagues around him stand, And wait his dread command; And pains, and dying groans obey The signal of his hand. 3 With cruel force, he scatters round His shafts of deadly power; While the grave waits its disten'd prey, Impatient to devour. 4 Look up, ye heirs of endless joy, Nor let your fears prevail; Eternal life is our reward, When life on earth shall fail. 5 What tho' his darts, promiscous hurl'd, Deal fatal plagues around; And heaps of putrid carcases O'erload the cumber'd ground; 6 The arrows, that shall wound your flesh, Were giv'n him from above, Dipt in the great redeemer's blood, And feather'd all with love. 7 These, with a gentle hand, he throws, And saints lie gasping too; But heavenly strength supports their souls, And bears them conquerors thro'. 8 Joyful they stretch their wings abroad, And all in triumph rise, To the fair palace of their God, And mansions in the skies. Topics: Times and Seasons Sickness; General sickness

At Dismission

Author: Hart Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 401 hymnals First Line: Dismiss us with Thy blessing, Lord Lyrics: 1 Dismiss us with thy blessing, Lord, Help us feed upon thy word, All that has been amiss forgive, And let thy truth within us live. 2 Tho' we are guilty, thou art good, Wash all our works in Jesu's blood; Give ev'ry fetter'd soul release, And bid us all depart in peace. Topics: Worship Hymns After Sermon; Public Religion

The Unity of God

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 156 hymnals First Line: Eternal God! Almighty cause Lyrics: 1 Eternal God! Almighty cause Of earth and seas and worlds unknown; All things are subject to thy laws; All things depend on thee alone. 2 Thy glorious being singly stands, Of all within itself possest; Control'd by none are thy commands; Thou from thyself alone art blest. 3 To thee alone ourselves we owe; Let heav'n and earth due homage pay; All other Gods we disavow, Deny their claims, renounce their sway. 4 Spread thy great name thro' heathen lands; Their idol-deities dethrone; Reduce the world to thy command, And reign, as thou art, God alone. Topics: God; Unity of God Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:4 Text Sources: Williams's Psalms

Support in God's Covenant under Trouble

Author: Dr. Doddridge Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 142 hymnals First Line: My God, the covenant of thy love, Lyrics: 1 My God, the covenant of thy love Abides for ever sure, And in its matchless grace I feel My happiness secure. 2 What tho' my house be not with thee, As nature could desire? To nobler joys, than nature gives, Thy servants all aspire. 3 Since thou, the everlasting God, My father art become; Jesus my guardian and my friend, And heaven my final home: 4 I welcome all thy sovereign will: For all that will is love; And when I know not what thou dost, I wait the light above. 5 Thy covenant the last accent claims Of this poor faltering tongue; And that shall the first notes employ Of my celestial song. Topics: Scripture Doctrines and Blessings Covenant of Grace; Covenant of grace Supporting under trouble Scripture: 2 Samuel 23:5

Divine drawings celebrated; or, gratitude the spring of true religion

Author: Dr. Doddridge Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 51 hymnals First Line: My God, what silkin cords are thine! Lyrics: 1 My God, what silkin cords are thine! How soft, and yet how strong! While power, and truth, and love combine To draw our souls along. 2 Thou saw'st us crush'd beneath the yoke Of satan and of sin: Thy hand the iron bondage broke, Our worthless hearts to win. 3 The guilt of twice ten thousand sins One moment takes away; And grace, when first the war begins, Secures the crowning day. 4 Comfort thro' all this vale of tears In rich profusion flows, And glory of unnumber'd years Eternity bestows. 5 Drawn by such cords we onward move, 'Till round thy throne we meet; And, captives in the chains of love, Embrace our conqueror's feet. Topics: The Influences and Graces of the Spirit; Day well spent; Drawings of the spirit of God; Gratitude the spring of true religion; Influences of the Spirit; Spirit of God His drawings celebrated; Time well spent Scripture: Hosea 9:4