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Heaven alone unfading

Author: Ford Appears in 165 hymnals Topics: Death; Hope In Death First Line: How vain is all beneath the skies Used With Tune: NUNDA

For those we love within the veil

Author: William Charter Piggott, 1872- Meter: 9.9.9.4 Appears in 19 hymnals Topics: The Life in Christ Death, Resurrection, and the Life Everlasting Used With Tune: ES IST KEIN TAG

Author: B. H. P. Appears in 35 hymnals Topics: God the Son His Death and Sufferering First Line: It was alone the Saviour prayed Refrain First Line: Alone, alone, He bore it all alone Used With Tune: [It was alone the Saviour prayed]

Give me the wings of faith to rise

Author: Dr. Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Appears in 524 hymnals Topics: The Christian Life Time, Death, Eternity Lyrics: 1 Give me the wings of faith to rise Within the veil, and see The saints above, how great their joys, How bright their glories be. 2 Once they were mourners here below, And poured out cries and tears: They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears. 3 I ask them whence their victory came; They, with united breath, Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb, Their triumph to His death. 4 They marked the footsteps that He trod, His zeal inspired their breast; And, following their incarnate God, Possess the promised rest. 5 Our glorious Leader claims our praise For His own pattern given; While the long cloud of witnesses Show the same path to heaven. Used With Tune: FIDES

Christ's All-sufficiency

Appears in 29 hymnals Topics: Christ his death and resurrection; Courage in death; Death and resurrection of Christ; Death courage in it; Resurrection and death of Christ; Christ his death and resurrection; Courage in death; Death and resurrection of Christ; Death courage in it; Resurrection and death of Christ First Line: How fast their guilt and sorrows rise Lyrics: 1 How fast their guilt and sorrows rise, Who haste to seek some idol god! I will not taste their sacrifice, Their offerings of forbidden blood. 2 My God provides a richer cup, And nobler food to live upon; He for my life has offer'd up Jesus, his best beloved Son. 3 His love is my perpetual feast; By day his counsels guide me right; And be his name forever blest, Who gives me sweet advice by night. 4 I set him still before mine eyes; At my right hand he stands prepar'd To keep my soul from all surprise, And be my everlasting guard. Scripture: Psalm 16

Christ's Passion and Sinners Salvation

Appears in 133 hymnals Topics: Christ his death and resurrection; Christ his obedience and death; Death and resurrection of Christ; Death and sufferings of Christ; Christ his death and resurrection; Christ his obedience and death; Death and resurrection of Christ; Death and sufferings of Christ First Line: Deep in our hearts let us record Lyrics: 1 Deep in our hearts let us record The deeper sorrows of our Lord; Behold the rising billows roll To overwhelm his holy soul. 2 In long complaints he spends his breath, While hosts of hell, and pow'rs of death, And all the sons of malice join To execute their curst design. 3 Yet, gracious God, thy power and love Has made the curse a blessing prove; Those dreadful sufferings of thy Son Aton'd for crimes which we had done. 4 The pangs of our expiring Lord The honours of thy law restor'd: His sorrows made thy justice known And paid for follies not his own. 7 Oh for his sake our guilt forgive, And let the mourning sinner live: The Lord will hear us in his name, Nor shall our hope be turn'd to shame. Scripture: Psalm 69

Christ's Sufferings and Zeal

Appears in 32 hymnals Topics: Christ his death and resurrection; Christ his obedience and death; Death and resurrection of Christ; Death and sufferings of Christ; Christ his death and resurrection; Christ his obedience and death; Death and resurrection of Christ; Death and sufferings of Christ 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

Christ our Strength and Righteousness

Appears in 310 hymnals Topics: Courage in death; Death and the resurrection; Resurrection and death; Courage in death; Death and the resurrection; Resurrection and death First Line: My Saviour, my almighty Friend Lyrics: 1 My Saviour, my almighty Friend, When I begin thy praise, Where will the growing numbers end, The numbers of thy grace? 2 Thou art my everlasting trust, Thy goodness I adore; And since I knew thy graces first, I speak thy glories more. 3 My feet shall travel all the length Of the celestial road, And march with courage in thy strength To see my father God. 4 When I am fill'd with sore distress For some surprising sin, I'll plead thy perfect righteousness, And mention none but thine. 5 How will my lips rejoice to tell The victories of my king! My soul redeem'd from sin and hell Shall thy salvation sing. 6 [My tongue shall all the day proclaim My Saviour and my God; His death has brought my foes to shame, And sav'd me by his blood. 7 Awake, awake, my tuneful powers; With this delightful song I'll entertain the darkest hours, Nor think the season long.] Scripture: Psalm 71:22-24

Christ's Death, Resurrection, and Ascension

Appears in 20 hymnals Topics: Resurrection and death of Christ; Resurrection and death of Christ First Line: Why did the Jews proclaim their rage? Lyrics: 1 Why did the Jews proclaim their rage? The Romans, why their swords employ? Against the Lord their powers engage, His dear Anointed to destroy? 2 "Come, let us break his bands, they say, "This man shall never give us laws;" And thus they cast his yoke away, And nail'd the Monarch to the cross. 3 But God, who high in glory reigns, Laughs at their pride, their rage controuls; He'll smite their hearts with inward pains, And speak in thunder to their souls. 4 "I will maintain the King I made "On Zion's everlasting hill, "My hand shall bring him from the dead, "And he shall stand your sovereign still. 5 [His wondrous rising from the earth Makes his eternal Godhead known; The Lord declares his heavenly birth: "This day have I begot my Son. 6 "Ascend, my Son, to my right-hand, "There thou shall ask, and I bestow "The utmost bounds of heathen lands; "To thee their suppliant tribes shall bow."] 7 But nations that resist his grace Shall fall beneath his lifted rod; His arm shall crush the impious race, That dares provoke th' avenging God. Pause. 8 Now ye that sit on earthly thrones, Be wise, and serve the Lord, the Lamb: Now to his feet submit your crowns, Rejoice and tremble at his name. 9 With humble love address the Son, Lest he grow angry, and ye die; His wrath will burn to worlds unknown, His love gives life above the sky. 10 His storms shall quell the stuborn foe, And sink his honours in the dust: Happy the souls, their God that know, And make his grace their only trust. Scripture: Psalm 2