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My God, how endless is thy love!

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 615 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances Morning Lyrics: 1 My God, how endless is thy love! Thy gifts are ev'ry ev'ning new; And morning mercies from above Gently descend like earthly dew. 2 Thou spread'st the curtains of the night, Great Guardian of my sleeping hours; Thy sov'reign word restores the light, and quickens all my drowsy pow'rs. 3 I yield myself to thy command; To thee devote my nights and days: Perpetual blessings from thy hand Demand perpetual songs of praise.

Great Lord of all angels! we adore

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 31 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances For a Congregation Lyrics: 1 Great Lord of angels! we adore The grace that builds thy courts below; And, midst ten thousand sons of light Stoops to regard what mortals do! 2 Amidst the wastes of time and death, Successive pastors thou dost raise, Thy kingdom and thy truth to spread, And form a people for thy praise. 3 At length, dismiss'd from feeble clay, Thy servants join th'angelick band, With them through distant worlds they fly, With them before thy presence stand. 4 O blest employment! glorious hope! Sweet lenitive of grief and care! When shall we reach those radiant courts, And all their joys and honours share? 5 Yet while these labours we pursue, Tho' distant from thy heav'nly throne, Give us a zeal and love like theirs, And half their heav'n shall here be known.

O thou, before whose gracious throne

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 104 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances For a Congregation Lyrics: 1 O thou, before whose gracious throne We bow our suppliant spirits down, Thou know'st the anxious cares we feel, And all our trembling lips would tell. 2 Avert thy swift desolating stroke, Nor smite the shepherd of the flock; Restore him, sinking to the grave, Stretch out thine arm, make haste to save; 3 But if our supplications fail, And prayer's and tears cannot prevail: Be thou his strength, be thou his stay: Support him through the gloomy way. 4 Around him may thy angels stand, Waiting the signal of thy hand, To bid his happy spirit rise, And bear him to their native skies.

Now let our drooping hearts revive

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 129 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances For a Congregation Lyrics: 1 Now let our drooping hearts revive, And let our tears be dry; Why should those eyes be drown'd in grief Which view a Saviour nigh? 2 Though earthly shepherds dwell in dust, The agèd and the young, The watchful eye, in darkness clos'd, And mute th’instructive tongue: 3 Th' eternal shepherd still survives, New comfort to impart; His eye still guides us, and his voice Still animates our heart. 4 The pow'rs of nature, Lord! are thine, And thine the aids of grace. Thine arm has borne thy churches up, Through ev'ry rising race. 5 Extert thy sacred influ'nce here; Thy mourning servants bless. O change to strains of cheerful praise Their accents of distress.

Consider all my sorrows, Lord!

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 91 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances Sickness and Recovery Lyrics: 1 Consider all my sorrows, Lord! And thy deliv'rance send. My soul for thy salvation faints; When will my troubles end? 2 Yet I have found, 'tis good for me To bear my Father's rod; Afflictions make me learn thy law, And live upon my God. 3 This is the comfort I enjoy When new distress begins; I read thy word, I run thy ways, And hate my former sins. 4 Had not thy word been my delight, When earthly joys were fled; My soul, oppress'd with sorrow's weight Had sunk amongst the dead. 5 I know, thy judgments, Lord! are right, Though they may seem severe; The sharpest suff'rings I endure Flow from thy faithful care.

Peace, my complaining heart!

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances Sickness and Recovery Lyrics: 1 Peace, my complaining heart! Ye busy cares, be still! Adore the just, the sov'reign Lord, Nor murmur at his will. 2 'Tis wisdom guides his hand; Nor dares my guilty fear, Amidst the sharpest pains I feel, Pronounce his hand severe. 3 To soften ev'ry stroke, Indulgent mercy bends; And, unrepining when I plead, His gracious ear attends. 4 Let me reflect with awe, Whene'er my heart complains: Compar'd with what my sins deserve, How easy are my pains! 5 Yes, Lord, I own thy hand, Thou just, and wise, and kind! Be ev'ry anxious thought suppress'd, And all my soul resign'd.

Diseases are thy servants, Lord!

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 13 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances Sickness and Recovery Lyrics: 1 Diseases are thy servants, Lord! they come at thy command. I'll not attempt a murmuring word Against thy chast'ning hand. 2 I'm but a sojourner below, As all my fathers were: May I be well prepar'd to go, When I the summons hear. 3 But, if my life be spar'd awhile, Before my last remove: Thy praise shall be my business still, And I'll declare thy love.

I love the Lord; he heard my cries

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 197 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances Sickness and Recovery Lyrics: 1 I love the Lord; he heard my cries, and pity'd ev'ry groan: Long as I live, when troubles rise, I'll hasten to his throne. 2 I love the Lord; he bow'd his ear; And chased my griefs away. O let my heart no more despair, While I have breath to pray! 3 Among the saints that fill thine house, My off'ring shall be paid; There shall my zeal perform the vows My soul in anguish made. 4 The Lord behold me sore distrest; He bade my pains remove. Return, my soul, to God, thy rest; For thou hast known his love.

With humble heart and tongue

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 162 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances For the Young, And Old Lyrics: 1 With humble heart and tongue, My God! to thee I pray; O make me learn, whilst I am young, How I may cleanse my way. 2 Make an unguarded youth The object of thy care; Help me to choose the path of truth, And fly from ev'ry snare. 3 My heart, to folly prone, Inspire with love divine; Unite it to thyself alone, And make me wholly thine. 4 O let thy word of grace My warmest thoughts employ; Be this through all my following days, My treasure and my joy. 5 To what thy laws impart Be my whole will inclin'd; O let them dwell within my heart, And sanctify my mind. 6 May thy young servant learn, By these to cleanse his way; And may I here the path discern That leads to endless day.

Eternal Sire, enthron'd on high!

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 15 hymnals Topics: Particular Occasions and Circumstances For the Young, And Old Lyrics: 1 Eternal Sire, enthon'd on high! Whom heav'nly hosts adore, Who yet to suppliant dust art nigh: Thy presence I implore. 2 Wilt thou forsake my hoary hairs, And leave my fainting heart? Who shall sustain my sinking years, If God, my strength, depart? 3 O guide me down the steep of age, And keep my passions cool; Teach me to scan the sacred page, And practise ev'ry rule. 4 Let me thy pow'r and truth proclaim To the surviving age; And leave a savour of thy name, When I shall quit the stage. 5 That solemn day is hast'ning on; My frame must soon decay. My friends, my youth's companions gone, Can I expect to stay? 6 My God! O smooth the mortal hour; On thee my hope depends. Support me with almighty pow'r While dust to dust descends. 7 Then let my soul, O gracious God! Ascend to realms of day; And in that sacred blest abode Its endless anthems pay.