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The Power and Majesty of God; or, Reverential Worship

Appears in 130 hymnals Topics: Frailty of Man; Frailty of Man First Line: With reverence let the saints appear Lyrics: 1 With reverence let the saints appear, And bow before the Lord; His high commands with reverence hear, And tremble at his word. 2 How terrible thy glories rise! How bright thine armies shine! Where is the power with thee that vies, Or truth compar'd with thine? 3 The Northern pole and Southern rest On thy supporting hand; Darkness and day from East to West, Move round at thy command. 4 Thy word the raging winds controul, And rule the boisterous deep; Thou mak'st the sleeping billows roll, The rolling billows sleep. 5 Heaven, earth, and air, and sea are thine, And the dark world of hell; They saw thine arm in vengeance shine When Egypt durst rebel. 6 Justice and judgement are thy throne, Yet wondrous is thy grace! While truth and mercy, join'd in one, Invite us near thy face. Scripture: Psalm 89:7-14

Weak and irresolute is man

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 43 hymnals Topics: Human frailty

The Vanity of Men as Mortal

Appears in 262 hymnals Topics: The Frailty of Life First Line: Teach me the Measure of my Days Scripture: Psalm 39

Love to the Creatures is dangerous

Appears in 246 hymnals Topics: Frailty of Our Life First Line: How vain are all Things here below Lyrics: 1 How vain are all Things here below! How false, and yet how fair! Each Pleasure hath its Poison too, And ev'ry sweet a Snare. 2 The brightest Things below the Sky Give but a flatt'ring Light; We should suspect some Danger nigh Where we possess Delight. 3 Our dearest Joys, and nearest Friends, The Partners of our Blood, How they divide our wav'ring Minds, And leave but half for God. 4 The Fondness of a Creature's Love, How strong it strikes the Sense! Thither the warm Affections move, Nor can we call them thence. 5 Dear Saviour! let thy Beauties be My Soul's Eternal Food; And Grace command my Heart away From all created Good.

On Mortality

Appears in 6 hymnals Topics: Frailty of Our Life First Line: Kind souls, reflect awhile with me Lyrics: 1 Kind Souls reflect, awhile with me, Upon our wretched State, How frail our Life, how short our Time, Our Miseries, how great. 2 How Short the Pleasures Earth affords, How transient, and how few, Compar'd with Heav'ns Eternal Joys, And Pleasures ever new. 3 Come let us leave the Things of Earth, (Whose Pleasures Poisons are,) And haste away to Canaans Land, And try our Intrest there. 4 Make the extended Skies your Tomb, Let Heav'n record your Worth, For know: Vain Mortals all must die: As Natures sickliest Birth. 5 Would bounteous Heav'n indulge my Pray'r, A nobler Choice I frame, Then here to be esteemed great, Or gain an Earthly Name. 6 But in thy Book of Life Divine, My God! inscribe my Name: There let it fill some humble Place, Beneath the slaughter'd Lamb, 7 My God! this Witness let me have, Till I resign my Breath, And chearfully my Soul shall wait "Till it is free'd from Death."

God far above Creatures; or, Man vain and Mortal

Appears in 70 hymnals Topics: Frailty of Our Life First Line: Shall the vile Race of Flesh and Blood Lyrics: 1 Shall the vile Race of Flesh and Blood Contend with their Creator God! Shall mortal Worms presume to be More Holy, Wise, or Just than He? 2 Behold, he puts his Trust in none Of all the Spirits round his Throne: Their Natures, when compar'd with his, Are neither Holy, Just, nor Wise. 3 But how much meaner Things are they Who spring from Dust, and dwell in Clay! Touch'd by the Finger of thy Wrath, We faint and vanish like the Moth. 4 From Night to Day, from Day to Night, We die by Thousands in thy Sight; Bury'd in Dust whole Nations lie Like a forgotten Vanity. 5 Almighty Pow'r, to Thee we bow; How frail are we! how glorious Thou! No more the Sons of Earth shall dare With an Eternal God compare. Scripture: Job 4:17-21

Summer, or all flesh like grass

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: Man His frailty First Line: The grass and flow'rs, which clothe the field Lyrics: 1 The grass and flow'rs, which clothe the field, And look so green and gay; Touch'd by the scythe, defenceless yield, And fall, and fade away. 2 Fit emblem of our mortal state! Thus in the scripture glass, The young, the strong, the wise, the great, May see themselves but grass. 3 Ah! trust not to your fleeting breath, Nor call your time your own; Around you see the scythe of death Is mowing thousands down. 4 And you, who hitherto are spar'd, Must shortly yield your lives; Your wisdom is to be prepar'd, Before the stroke arrives. 5 The grass, when dead, revives no more: You die to live again; Beware lest death should prove the door To everlasting pain. 6 Lord, help us to obey thy call, And all our sins remove, That when like grass our bodies fall, Our souls may rise above. Scripture: Isaiah 40:6-8

The Greatness of GOD

Appears in 258 hymnals Topics: Frailty of Man First Line: My GOD, my KIng, tny various Praise Lyrics: 1 My God, my King, thy various Praise Shall fill the Remnant of my days; Thy Grace employ my humble Tongue Till Death and Glory raise the Song. 2 The Wings of ev'ry Hour shall bear Some thankful Tribute to thine Ear; And ev'ry setting Sun shall see New Works of Duty done for Thee. 3 Thy Truth and Justice I'll proclaim; Thy Bounty flows, an endless Stream; Thy Mercy swift, thine Anger slow, But dreadful to the stubborn foe. 4 Thy Works with sov'reign Glory shine, And speak thy Majesty divine; Let Britain round her Shores proclaim The Sound and Honour of thy Name. 5 Let distant Times and Nations raise The long Succession of thy Praise, And unborn Ages make my Song The Joy and Labour of their Tongue. 6 But who can speak thy wond'rous Deeds, Thy greatness all our Thoughts exceeds; Vast and unsearchable thy Ways, Vast and immortal be thy Praise. Scripture: Psalm 144

Lord, we adore thy wondrous name

Author: Doddridge Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 29 hymnals Topics: Mercy of God to the Frailty of Man Scripture: Psalm 103

Sown in dishonor—raised in glory

Author: Samuel Wesley, Jr. Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 171 hymnals Topics: Life Frailty of First Line: The morning flowers display their sweets Scripture: Isaiah 40:8