Could I joy his saints to meet,
Choose the ways I once abhorred,
Find, at times, the promise sweet,
If I did not love the Lord?

Lord, decide the doubtful case!
Thou who art thy people's sun,
Shine upon thy work of grace,

If it be indeed begun.

Let me love thee more and more,
If I love at all; I pray,

If I have not loved before,

Help me to begin to-day!

NEWTON.

HYMN LXVI.

IN vain my fancy strives to paint
The moment after death,

The glories that surround the saint
When yielding up his breath.

One gentle sigh his fetters breaks,
We scarce can say "he's gone!"
Before the willing spirit takes
Her mansion near the throne.

Faith strives, but all its efforts fail,
To trace her in her flight;
No eye can pierce within the veil
Which hides that world of light.

So much, (and this is all) we know,
They are completely blest;

Have done with sin, and care, and woe,
And with their Saviour rest.

On harps of gold they praise his name,

;

His face they always view Then let us followers be of them

That we may praise him too.

NEWTON.

HYMN LXVII.

OBJECT of my first desire,
Jesus! crucified for me,
All to happiness aspire,

I would seek it, Lord, in thee:
Thee to serve, and thee to know,
Constitute our joy below;
Thee to see and thee to love
Constitute our bliss above.

Lord, it is not life to live,
If thy presence thou deny;
Lord, if thou thy presence give,
"Tis no longer death to die:
Source and giver of repose,
Singly from thy smile it flows;
Peace and happiness are thine,
Mine they are if thou art mine.

Whilst I feel thy love to me, Every object teems with joy: may I walk with thee, Then into thy presence die!

Here, O

Let me but thyself possess,

Total sum of happiness;

Real bliss I then shall prove,

Heaven below and heaven above.

HYMN LXVIII.

HALLELUJAH! hark on high!
How the countless myriads cry,

TOPLADY.

Hallelujah!

Like a thousand thunders roaring,

Like a thousand torrents pouring,

Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! melting floats

On the infant's silver notes,

66 Here," they lisp, "are we possessing 66 Unimagined boundless blessing."

Hallelujah! loud and long

Hallelujah!

Swells the youth's robuster tongue,
Quelled and pardoned every passion,
Deep they roll their adoration.

Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! prudent age,

Adds in accents slow and sage,

"From cares and sorrows disencumbered, "Here we offer thanks unnumbered."

Hallelujah! mild

appears

Hallelujah!

The thin

group of bending years,

And with quivering voice uneven,
Chaunt for their long sins forgiven.

Hallelujah!

Thrones and powers of every name,
Cherub beauty, seraph flame,

Join with man. till heaven so stable,
Shakes with one inimitable

Hallelujah!

PENTYCROSS.