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O God, Our Help in Ages Past

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,268 hymnals Topics: Anniversaries; God the Father His Care and Guidance; Psalm Adaptations; Worship

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 523 hymnals First Line: Why do we mourn departing friends Lyrics: Why do we mourn departing friends, Or shake at death's alarms? 'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends To call them to his arms. Are we not tending upward too As fast as time can move? Nor would we wish the hours more slow To keep us from our love. Why should we tremble to convey Their bodies to the tomb? There the dear flesh of Jesus lay, And left a long perfume. The graves of all his saints he blessed, And softened every bed; Where should the dying members rest, But with the dying Head? Thence he arose, ascending high, And showed our feet the way; Up to the Lord our flesh shall fly, At the great rising day. Then let the last loud trumpet sound, And bid our kindred rise; Awake, ye nations under ground; Ye saints, ascend the skies.

Hymn 10

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 76 hymnals First Line: My soul forsakes her vain delight Lyrics: My soul forsakes her vain delight, And bids the world farewell, Base as the dirt beneath my feet, And mischievous as hell. No longer will I ask your love, Nor seek your friendship more; The happiness that I approve Lies not within your power. There's nothing round this spacious earth That suits my large desire To boundless joy and solid mirth My nobler thoughts aspire. [Where pleasure rolls its living flood, From sin and dross refined, Still springing from the throne of God, And fit to cheer the mind; Th' Almighty Ruler of the sphere, The glorious and the great, Brings his own all-sufficience there, To make our bliss complete.] Had I the pinions of a dove, I'd climb the heav'nly road; There sits my Savior dressed in love, And there my smiling God.

Lo! what an entertaining sight

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 172 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Lo! what an entertaining sight Those friendly brethren prove, Whose cheerful hearts in bands unite, Of harmony and love! 2 Where streams of bliss from Christ the spring Descend on ev'ry soul; And heav'nly peace, with balmy wing Shades and bedews the whole. 3 'Tis like the oil divinely sweet On Aaron's rev'rend head, The trickling drops perfum'd his feet, And o'er his garments spread. 4 'Tis pleasant as the morning dews That fall on Zion's hill, Where God his mildest glory shows, And makes his grace distil. Topics: Brotherly Love Scripture: Psalm 133

Circumcision abolished

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 9 hymnals First Line: The promise was divinely free Lyrics: 1 The promise was divinely free; Extensive was the grace; "I will the God of Abra'm be, And of his num'rous race." 2 He said, and with a bloody seal Confirm'd the words he spoke; Long did the sons of Abra'm feel The sharp and painful yoke. 3 Till God's own Son, descending low, Gave his own flesh to bleed; And Gentiles taste the blessing now, From the hard bondage freed. 4 The God of Abr'am claims our praise; His promises endure: And Christ the Lord in gentler ways, Makes the salvation sure.

Gratitude

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,013 hymnals First Line: When all thy mercies, O my God Topics: Duties and Trials Steadfastness and Growth in Grace

Let coward guilt, with pallid fear

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 30 hymnals Topics: In a Thunder Storm; In a thunder-storm

Backward with humble shame we look

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 16 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Backward with humble shame we look, On our original; How is our nature dash'd and broke In our first father's fall! 2 To all that's good averse and blind, But prone to all that's ill; What dreadful darkness veils our mind! How obstinate our will! 3 How strong in our degenerate blood, The old corruption reigns, And, mingling with the crooked flood, Wanders through all our veins! 4 Wild and unwholesome as the root Will all the branches be; How can we hope for living fruit From such a deadly tree? 5 What mortal power from things unclean Can pure productions bring? Who can command a vital stream From an infected spring? 6 Yet, mighty God, thy wondrous love Can make our nature clean, While Christ and grace prevail above The tempter, death, and sin. 7 The second Adam shall restore The ruins of the first, Hosanna to that sovereign power That new-creates our dust. Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man; Original Sin; or, the first and second Adam Scripture: Job 14:4

My Father

Author: Frederick W. Faber Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 39 hymnals First Line: O God, thy power is wonderful Topics: Angels Joy of; God Attributes of; God Compassion of ; God Eternal; God Father; God Incomprehensible; God Wisdom of; Saints Encouraged

The second Man is the Lord from heaven

Author: John H. Newman Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 175 hymnals First Line: Praise to the Holiest in the height Topics: Christ Conqueror; Christ Humanity of; Christ in Gethsemane; Christ Sufferings of; Cross Lessons of the; Gethsemane; Gloria in Excelsis; God Wisdom of; Praise To God Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:47