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A Celebration of Divine Grace

Hymnal: The Psalter #170 (1912) Topics: Glory of God In Providence First Line: Praise waits for Thee in Zion Lyrics: 1 Praise waits for thee in Zion; All men shall worship there And pay their vows before Thee, O God Who hearest prayer. Our sins rise up against us, Prevailing day by day, But Thou wilt show us mercy And take their guilt away. 2 How blest the man Thou callest And bringest near to Thee, That in Thy courts forever His dwelling-place may be; He shall within Thy temple Be satisfied with grace, And filled with all the goodness Of Thy most holy place. 3 O God of our salvation, Since Thou dost love the right, Thou wilt an answer send us In wondrous deeds of might. In all earth's habitations, On all the boundless sea, Man finds no sure reliance, No peace, apart from Thee. Scripture: Psalm 65 Languages: English Tune Title: MENDEBRAS

Nature's Tribute to God

Hymnal: The Psalter #37 (1912) Topics: Glory of God In Creation First Line: The spacious heav'ns declare Lyrics: 1 The spacious heav'ns declare The glory of our God, The firmament displays His handiwork abroad; Day unto day proclaims His might, And night His wisdom tells to night. 2 Aloud they do not speak, They utter forth no word, Nor into language break Their voice is never heard; Yet through the world the truth they bear And their Creator's pow'r declare. 3 The clouds of heav'n are spread, A tent to hold the sun, And like a bridegroom fair Comes forth the mighty one, Rejoicing in his strength and grace To run his wondrous daily race. 4 His daily going forth Is from the end of heav'n; The firmament to him Is for his circuit giv'n; His journey reaches to its ends, And ev'rywhere his heat extends. Scripture: Psalm 19 Languages: English Tune Title: ARTHUR'S SEAT

The Witness of Nature to God

Hymnal: The Psalter #39 (1912) Meter: 8.8.8. Topics: Glory of God In Creation First Line: The heav'ns in their splendor declare Lyrics: 1. The heav'ns in their splendor declare The might and the glory of God, For day unto day speaks His praise, And night tells His wisdom abroad. 2 They speak not with audible word, Yet clear is the message they send; Their witness goes out thro' the earth, Their word to the world's farthest end. 3 Forsaking his tent in the sky, Arrayed as a bridegroom, the sun Comes forth in his glorious strength, Rejoicing his circuit to run. 4 He tells thro' the length of the heav'ns His Maker's great wisdom and might, And nothing is all of the earth Is hid from his heat and his light. Scripture: Psalm 19 Languages: English Tune Title: OLENA

O Splendor of God's glory bright

Author: Ambrose of Milan, 340-397; Louis F. Benson Hymnal: Trinity Hymnal #56 (1961) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: God Glory of Lyrics: 1 O Splendor of God's glory bright, From light eternal bringing light, Thou light of light, light's living Spring, True Day, all days illumining: 2 Come, very Sun of heaven's love, In lasting radiance from above, And pour the Holy Spirit's ray On all we think or do today. 3 And now to thee our pray'rs ascend, O Father, glorious without end; We plead with Sovereign Grace for pow'r To conquer in temptation's hour. 4 Confirm our will to do the right, And keep our hearts from envy's blight; Let faith her eager fires renew, And hate the false, and love the true. 5 O joyful be the passing day With thoughts as pure as morning's ray, With faith like noontide shining bright, Our souls unshadowed by the night. 6 Dawn's glory gilds the earth and skies, Let him, our perfect Morn, arise, The Word in God the Father one, The Father imaged in the Son. Amen. Scripture: John 1:4 Languages: English Tune Title: WINCHESTER NEW

With glory clad, with strength arrayed

Hymnal: Trinity Hymnal #64 (1961) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: God Glory of Lyrics: 1 With glory clad, with strength arrayed, The Lord, that o'er all nature reigns, The world's foundations strongly laid, And the vast fabric still sustains. 2 How surely stablished is thy throne, Which shall no change or period see! For thou, O Lord, and thou alone, Art God from all eternity. 3 The floods, O Lord, lift up their voice, And toss the troubled waves on high; But God above can still their noise, And make the angry sea comply. 4 Thy promise, Lord, is ever sure, And they that in thy house would dwell, That happy station to secure, Must still in holiness excel. Amen. Scripture: Psalm 93 Languages: English Tune Title: MENDON

Christ's Obedience and Death; or, God glorified and Sinner's saaved

Hymnal: Doctor Watts's imitation of the Psalms of David, to which is added a collection of hymns; the whole applied to the state of the Christian Church in general (3rd ed.) #121a (1786) Topics: Glory of God in our salvation; Glory of God in our salvation First Line: Father, I sing thy wondrous grace Lyrics: 1 Father, I sing thy wondrous grace, I bless my Saviour's name, He bought salvation for the poor, And bore the sinner's shame. 2 His deep distress has rais'd us high, His duty and his zeal Fulfill'd the law which mortals broke, And finish'd all thy will. 3 His dying groans, his living songs Shall better please my God, Than harp or trumpet's solemn sound, Than goat's or bullock's blood. 4 This shall his humble followers see, And set their hearts at rest; They by his death draw near to thee, And live forever blest. 5 Let heaven and all that dwell on high To God their voices raise, While lands and seas assist the sky, And join t'advance his praise. 6 Zion is thine, most holy God, Thy Son shall bless her gates; And glory purchas'd by his blood For thine own Israel waits. Scripture: Psalm 69 Languages: English

Christ's Obedience and Death; or, God glorified and Sinner's saaved

Hymnal: Doctor Watts's Imitation of the Psalms of David #121a (1790) Topics: Glory of God in our salvation; Glory of God in our salvation First Line: Father, I sing thy wondrous grace Lyrics: 1 Father, I sing thy wondrous grace, I bless my Saviour's name, He bought salvation for the poor, And bore the sinner's shame. 2 His deep distress has rais'd us high, His duty and his zeal Fulfill'd the law which mortals broke, And finish'd all thy will. 3 His dying groans, his living songs Shall better please my God, Than harp or trumpet's solemn sound, Than goat's or bullock's blood. 4 This shall his humble followers see, And set their hearts at rest; They by his death draw near to thee, And live forever blest. 5 Let heaven and all that dwell on high To God their voices raise, While lands and seas assist the sky, And join t'advance his praise. 6 Zion is thine, most holy God, Thy Son shall bless her gates; And glory purchas'd by his blood For thine own Israel waits. Scripture: Psalm 69 Languages: English

Christ's Sufferings and Zeal

Hymnal: Doctor Watts's imitation of the Psalms of David, to which is added a collection of hymns; the whole applied to the state of the Christian Church in general (3rd ed.) #122 (1786) Topics: Glory of God in our salvation; Glory of God in our salvation First Line: 'Twas for our sake, eternal God Lyrics: 1 'Twas for thy sake, eternal God, Thy Son sustain'd that heavy load Of base reproach and sore disgrace, While shame defil'd his sacred face. 2 The Jews his brethren and his kin, Abus'd the man that check'd their sin; While he fulfill'd thy holy laws, They hate him, but without a cause. 3 [My Father's house, said he, was made A place for worship, not for trade; Then scattering all their gold and brass, He scourg'd the merchants from the place.] 4 [Zeal for the temple of his God Consum'd his life, expos'd his blood: Reproaches at thy glory thrown He felt, and mourn'd them as his own.] 5 [His friends forsook, his followers fled, While foes and arms surround his head; They curse him with a slanderous tongue, And the false judge maintains the wrong.] 6 His life they load with hateful lies, And charge his lips with blasphemies: They nail him to the shameful tree; There hung the man that dy'd for me. 7 But God beheld, and from his throne Marks out the men that hate his Son; The hand that rais'd him from the dead, Shall pour the vengeance on their head. Scripture: Psalm 69:7-36 Languages: English

Christ's Sufferings and Zeal

Hymnal: Doctor Watts's Imitation of the Psalms of David #122 (1790) Topics: Glory of God in our salvation; Glory of God in our salvation First Line: 'Twas for our sake, eternal God Lyrics: 1 'Twas for thy sake, eternal God, Thy Son sustain'd that heavy load Of base reproach and sore disgrace, While shame defil'd his sacred face. 2 The Jews his brethren and his kin, Abus'd the man that check'd their sin; While he fulfill'd thy holy laws, They hate him, but without a cause. 3 [My Father's house, said he, was made A place for worship, not for trade. Then scattering all their gold and brass, He scourg'd the merchants from the place.] 4 [Zeal for the temple of his God Consum'd his life, expos'd his blood: Reproaches at thy glory thrown He felt, and mourn'd them as his own.] 5 [His friends forsook, his followers fled, While foes and arms surround his head; They curse him with a slanderous tongue, And the false judge maintains the wrong.] 6 His life they load with hateful lies, And charge his lips with blasphemies: They nail him to the shameful tree; There hung the man that dy'd for me. 7 But God beheld, and from his throne Marks out the men that hate his son; The hand that rais'd him from the dead, Shall pour the vengeance on their head. Scripture: Psalm 69:7-36 Languages: English

Christ's Obedience and Death; or, God glorified and Sinner's saaved

Hymnal: Doctor Watts's Imitation of the Psalms of David, corrected and enlarged, to which is added a collection of hymns; the whole applied to the state of the Christian Church in general (2nd ed.) #129 (1786) Topics: Glory of God in our salvation; Glory of God in our salvation First Line: Father, I sing thy wondrous grace Lyrics: 1 Father, I sing thy wondrous grace, I bless my Saviour's name, He bought salvation for the poor, And bore the sinner's shame. 2 His deep distress has rais'd us high, His duty and his zeal Fulfill'd the law which mortals broke, And finish'd all thy will. 3 His dying groans, his living songs Shall better please my God, Than harp or trumpet's solemn sound, Than goat's or bullock's blood. 4 This shall his humble followers see, And set their hearts at rest; They by his death draw near to thee, And live forever blest. 5 Let heaven and all that dwell on high To God their voices raise, While lands and seas assist the sky, And join t'advance his praise. 6 Zion is thine, most holy God, Thy Son shall bless her gates; And glory purchas'd by his blood For thine own Israel waits. Scripture: Psalm 69 Languages: English