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God of our life! thy constant care

Hymnal: CPHP1789 #CLVII (1789) Lyrics: 1 God of our life! thy constant care With blessings crowns each rising year: This feeble life thou dost prolong, And wake anew our annual song. 2 How many precious souls are fled To the vast regions of the dead, Since from this day the changing sun Thro' his last yearly period run! 3 We yet survive — but who can say, Or thro' the year, or month, or day, He shall retain my vital breath? Thus far, at least, in league with death! 4 That breath is thine, eternal God! 'Tis thine to fix the soul's abode: We hold our life from thee alone, On earth, or in the world unknown. 5 To thee our spirits we resign: O make and own them still as thine! So shall they smile, secure from fear, Tho' death should blast the rising year. 6 Thy children, eager to be gone, Bid time's impetuous tide roll on, And land them on that blooming shore Where sin and death are known no more. Topics: New Years' Day Languages: English

God, who in various methods told

Hymnal: CPHP1789 #LIV (1789) Lyrics: 1 God, who in various methods told His mind and will to saints of old, Sent down his son with truth and grace, To teach us in these latter days. 2 Our nation reads the written word, That book of life, that sure record; The bright inheritance of heav'n Is by this sure conveyance giv'n. 3 God's kindest thoughts are here exprest, Able to make us wise and blest; The doctrines are divinely true, Fit for reproof and comfort too. 4 O render thanks to God above, For his rich grace, his boundless love; Let all mankind receive his word And ev'ry nation praise the Lord. Topics: The Gospel Dispensation Thanks for the Gospel Languages: English

Great God, attend, while Sion sings

Hymnal: CPHP1789 #XLVIII (1789) Lyrics: 1 Great God, attend, while Sion sings The joy that from thy presence springs: To spend one day with thee on earth Exceeds a thousand days of mirth. 2 God is our sun — he makes our day; God is our shield — he guards our way From all th' assaults of hell and sin, From foes without and foes within. 3 All needful grace will God bestow, And crown that grace with glory too; He gives us all things, and withholds No real good from upright souls. 4 Cheerful they walk, with growing strength, Till all shall meet in heav'n at length; Till all before thy face appear, And join in nobler worship there. Topics: Blessings temporal and spiritual The Pleasure and Advantage of Publick Worship Languages: English

Great God, how endless is thy love

Hymnal: CPHP1789 #XXX (1789) Lyrics: 1 Great God, how endless is thy love! Thy gifts are ev'ry ev'ning new; And morning mercies, from above. Gently distil, 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 our drowsy pow'rs. 3 We yield our pow'rs to thy command; To thee we consecrate our days; Perpetual blessings from thine hand Demand perpetual songs of praise. Topics: Creation, Preservation, and temporal Blessings Languages: English

Great God! the heav'ns well-order'd frame

Hymnal: CPHP1789 #X (1789) Lyrics: 1 Great God! the heav'n's well-order'd frame Declares the glories of thy name; There thy rich works of wonder shine: A thousand starry beauties there, A thousand radiant marks appear, Of boundless pow'r, and skill divine. 2 From night to day from day to night, The dawning and the dying light, Lectures of heav'nly wisdom read; With silent eloquence they raise Our thoughts to our Creator's praise, And neither sound nor language need. 3 Yet their divine instructions run Far as the journeys of the sun; All nature joins to shew thy praise: Thus God in every creature shines; Fair is the book of nature's lines, Which shews thy wisdom and thy grace. Topics: Creation, Preservation, and temporal Blessings God known by his Works Languages: English

Great God, this sacred day of thine

Hymnal: CPHP1789 #LXXVII (1789) Lyrics: 1 Great God, this sacred day of thine Demands the souls' collected powers! May we employ in work divine, These solemn, these devoted hours! O may our souls adoring own The grace which calls us to thy throne! 2 The word of life dispens'd to day, Invites us to a heavenly feast; May every ear the call obey, Be every heart a humble guest! Let all draw near, and tasting prove The sweetness of thy boundless love. 3 Thy truth's most pow'rful aid impart; O may thy word, with life divine, Engage the ear, and warm the heart! Then shall the day indeed be thine; Then shall our souls adoring own The grace which calls us to thy throne. Topics: Adoration For the Lord's Day Languages: English

Great God, to thee, the mighty King

Hymnal: CPHP1789 #VI (1789) Lyrics: 1 Great God, to thee, the mighty King, Whose sovereign rule the world obeys, With reverent hearts thy people bring The tribute of their humble praise. 2 The earth's great sceptre fills thy hand; And, high enthron'd in majesty, Thou givest thence to every land The laws of truth and equity. 3 Unerring justice, Lord, is thine; And every nation shall confess, That thy decrees are all divine, And all thy ways are righteousness. 4 In judgment wise, thou wilt bestow To eery soul its due reward; Unceasing joy the good shall know, And live forever with their Lord. 5 But they who tread the sinner's path, And dare thy righteous laws disown, Shall meet with due returns from thee, And reap the fruit which they have sown. Topics: The divine Perfections The Justice of God Languages: English

Great God! we sing that mighty hand

Hymnal: CPHP1789 #CLVIII (1789) Lyrics: 1 Great God! we sing that mighty hand, By which supported still we stand: The opening year thy mercy shows. Thy mercy crowns it till it close. 2 By day, by night, at home, abroad, Still we are guarded by our God, By thine incessant bounty fed, By thine unerring counsel led. 3 With grateful hearts the past we own; The future, all to us unknown, We to thy guardian care submit, And peaceful leave before thy feet. 4 In scenes exalted, or depress'd, Thou art our joy, and thou our rest; Thy goodness all our hopes shall raise, Ador'd thro' all our changing days. 5 When death shall interrupt these songs, And seal in silence mortal tongues, Our helper God, in whom we trust, In better worlds, our souls shall boast. Topics: New Year's Day Languages: English

Great Lord of earth, and seas and skies!

Hymnal: CPHP1789 #XCIV (1789) Lyrics: 1 Great Lord of earth, and seas and skies! Thy wealth the needy world supplies; On thee alone the whole depends, Thy care to ev'ry part extends. 2 To thee perpetual thanks we owe, For all our comforts here below; Our daily bread thy bounty gives, And ev'ry rising want relieves. 3 The wastes of life thy pow'r repairs, Thy mercy stills tempestuous cares, And safe beneath thy guardian arm We live secur'd from ev'ry harm. 4 To thee we cheerful homage bring, In grateful hymns thy praises sing, Direct to thee our waiting eyes, And humbly look for fresh supplies. 5 We still our indigent and poor, Indebted much, yet lacking more; On thee we ever will depend, The rich, the sure, the faithful friend. 6 And, should thy measures seem severe, Calmly may we thy chast'ning bear, Without complaint to thee submit, Th' unerring Judge of what is fit. Topics: Confidence and Resignation Dependence and Resignation Languages: English

Great Ruler of the earth and skies

Hymnal: CPHP1789 #CLX (1789) Lyrics: 1 Great Ruler of the earth and skies! A word of thy almighty breath Can sink the world, or bid it rise; Thy smile is life, thy frown is death. 2 When angry nations rush to arms, And rage and noise, and tumult, reign, And war resounds its dire alarms, And slaughter spreads the hostile plain; 3 Thy sov'reign eye looks calmly down, And marks their course, and bounds their pow'r; Thy word the angry nations own, And noise and war are heard no more. 4 Then peace returns with balmy wing, (Sweet peace! with her what blessings fled!) Glad plenty laughs, the vallies sing, Reviving commerce lifts her head. 5 Thou good, and wise, and righteous Lord! All move subservient to thy will; And peace and war await thy word, And thy sublime decrees fulfil. 6 To thee we pay our grateful songs, Thy kind protection still implore: O may our hearts, and lives, and tongues, Confess thy goodness, and adore! Topics: Public Thanksgiving for national Blessings Thanksgiving for Peace Languages: English