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Ye That Obey th'Immortal King

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 70 hymnals Lyrics: 1. Ye that obey th’immortal King, Attend His holy place; Bow to the glories of His power, And bless His wondrous grace. 2. Lift up your hands by morning light, And send your souls on high; Raise your admiring thoughts by night Above the starry sky. 3. The God of Zion cheers our hearts With rays of quick’ning grace; The God that spread the heav’ns abroad, And rules the swelling seas. Used With Tune: ST. PETER (Reinagle) Text Sources: The Psalms of David, 1719

Behold The Woman's Promised Seed

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 41 hymnals First Line: Behold the woman’s promised seed! Lyrics: 2 Behold the woman’s promised seed! Behold the great Messiah come! Behold the prophets all agreed To give Him the superior room! 2 Abra’m, the saint, rejoiced of old When visions of the Lord he saw; Moses, the man of God, foretold This great fulfiller of his law. 3 The types bore witness to His name, Obtained their chief design, and ceased; The incense and the bleeding lamb, The ark, the altar, and the priest. 4 Predictions in abundance meet To join their blessings on His head: Jesus, we worship at Thy feet, And nations own the promised Seed. Used With Tune: HURSLEY Text Sources: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707-09, Book II

Remark, My Soul, The Narrow Bounds

Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 126 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Remark, my soul, the narrow bounds Of the revolving year! How swift the weeks complete their rounds, How short the months appear! 2 So fast eternity comes on, And that important day, When all that mortal life has done God’s judgment shall survey. 3 Yet like an idle tale we pass The swift advancing year; And study artful ways t’increase The speed of its career. 4 Waken, O God, my trifling heart Its great concern to see; That I may act the Christian part, And give the year to Thee. 5 So shall their course more grateful roll, If future years arise; Or this shall bear my smiling soul To joy that never dies. Used With Tune: RICHMOND Text Sources: Published posthumously in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scripture, by Job Orton (Shropshire, England: Joshua Eddowes & John Cotton, 1755)

I Love To Hear The Story

Author: Emily H. Miller Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 205 hymnals Lyrics: I love to hear the story which angel voices tell, How once the King of glory came down on earth to dwell. I am both weak and sinful; but this I surely know, The Lord came down to save me, because He loved me so. 2 I’m glad my blessèd Savior was once a child like me, To show how pure and holy His little ones might be; And, if I try to follow His footsteps here below, He never will forget me, because He loves me so. 3 To sing His love and mercy my sweetest songs I’ll raise; And, though I cannot see Him, I know he hears my praise; For He has kindly promised that even I may go To sing among His angels, because He loves me so. Used With Tune: ANGEL'S STORY Text Sources: The Little Corporal (Chicago, Illinois: 1867)

The Promises I Sing

Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 106 hymnals Lyrics: 1 The promises I sing, Which sovereign Love hath spoke; Nor will th’eternal King His words of grace revoke; They stand secure, and steadfast still; Not Zion’s hill abides so sure. 2 The mountains melt away When once the Judge appears, And sun and moon decay, That measure mortals’ years; But still the same, in radiant lines, The promise shines thro’ all the flame. 3 Their harmony shall sound Thro’ mine attentive ears, When thunders cleave the ground, And dissipate the spheres; ’Midst all the shock of that dread scene I stand serene, Thy Word my rock. Used With Tune: ARTHUR'S SEAT Text Sources: Published posthumously in Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures, by Job Orton (J. Eddowes and J. Cotton, 1755)

Comfort, Ye Ministers Of Grace

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 96 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Comfort, ye ministers of grace, Comfort the people of your Lord, Oh! lift ye up the fallen race, And cheer them by the Gospel word. 2 Go, into every nation, go! Speak to their trembling hearts, and cry, Glad tidings unto all we show; Jerusalem, thy God is nigh. 3 Accomplished is thy legal war, The mantle o’er thy sins is spread; Thy God the punishment hath bore, Thy God the debt hath more than paid. 4 Punished thou art, for He hath died The merit of His death is thine, Absolved, and freely justified, And clothed in righteousness divine. 5 Hark, in the wilderness a cry, A voice that loudly calls, "Prepare!" Prepare your hearts, for God is nigh, And means to make His entrance there. 6 The Lord your God shall quickly come: Sinners, repent, the call obey; Open your hearts to make Him room, Ye desert souls, prepare His way. 7 The Lord shall clear His way thro’ all, Whate’er obstructs, obstructs in vain; The vale shall rise, the mountain fall, Crooked be straight, and rugged plain. 8 Nature perverse and rough shall yield, Th’aspiring droop, the abject dare; Alike by sovereign grace compelled, Despair shall hope, and pride despair. 9 When all into subjection brought Level shall lie, and humbly low, Who captivated every thought, His glory then the Lord shall show. 10 The glory of the Lord displayed Together all mankind shall view; And what His mouth in truth hath said, His own almighty hand shall do. Used With Tune: REST Text Sources: Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742

Happy The Child Whose Youngest Years

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 143 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Happy the child whose youngest years Receive instructions well; Who hates the sinner’s path, and fears The road that leads to hell. 2 When we devote our youth to God, ’Tis pleasing in His eyes; A flower, when offered in the bud, Is no vain sacrifice. 3 ’Tis easier work if we begin To fear the Lord betimes; While sinners, that grow old in sin, Are hardened in their crimes. 4 ’Twill save us from a thousand snares To mind religion young: Grace will preserve our following years, And make our virtue strong. 5 To Thee, Almighty God, to Thee Our childhood we resign: ’Twill please us to look back and see That our whole lives were Thine. 6 Let the sweet work of prayer and praise Employ my youngest breath! Thus I’m prepared for future days, Or fit for early death. Used With Tune: AZMON Text Sources: Divine and Moral Songs for Children, 1715

The Holy Ghost Has Come

Author: Francis Bottome Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 13 hymnals First Line: The Holy Ghost is come Lyrics: 1 The Holy Ghost is come, We feel His presence here; Our hearts would now no longer roam, But bow in filial fear. 2 This tenderness of love, This hush of solemn power; ’Tis Heaven descending from above, To fill this favored hour. 3 Earth’s darkness all has fled, Heav’n’s light serenely shines, And every heart, divinely led, To holy thought inclines. 4 No more let sin deceive, Nor earthly cares betray, Oh, let us never, never grieve The Comforter away. Used With Tune: DENNIS Text Sources: Faith Hymns (new ed.) by Charles Cullis (Boston: Willard Tract Repisitory, 1887)

Blest Trinity, From Mortal Sight

Author: Jean B. de Santeüil; Henry W. Baker Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 23 hymnals First Line: Blest Trinity! from mortal sight Lyrics: 1 Blest Trinity! from mortal sight Veiled in Thine own eternal Light! We Thee confess, in Thee believe; To Thee with loving hearts we cleave. 2 O Father! Thou Most Holy One! O God of God! Eternal Son! O Holy Ghost! Thou Love divine! To join Them both is ever Thine. 3 The Father is in God the Son, And with the Father He is One; In both the Spirit doth abide, And with Them both is glorified. 4 Eternal Father! Thee we praise; To Thee, O Son! our hymns we raise; O Holy Ghost! we Thee adore! One mighty God, for evermore! Used With Tune: WOODWORTH Text Sources: Prais Breviary, 1680; Tr.: Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861

See, How Rude Winter's Icy Hand

Author: John Newton Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 38 hymnals First Line: See, how rude winter’s icy hand Lyrics: 1 See, how rude winter’s icy hand Has stripped the trees, and sealed the ground! But spring shall soon his rage withstand, And spread new beauties all around. 2 My soul a sharper winter mourns, Barren and fruitless I remain; When will the gentle spring return, And bid my graces grow again? 3 Jesus, my glorious sun, arise! ’Tis Thine the frozen heart to move; Oh! hush these storms and clear my skies, And let me feel Thy vital love! 4 Dear Lord, regard my feeble cry, I faint and droop till Thou appear; Wilt thou permit Thy plant to die? Must it be winter all the year? 5 Be still, my soul, and wait His hour, With humble prayer, and patient faith; Till He reveals His gracious power, Repose on what His promise saith. 6 He, by whose all commanding word, Seasons this changing course maintain; In every change a pledge affords, That none shall seek His face in vain. Used With Tune: LEIPZIG Text Sources: Olney Hymns (London, W. Oliver, 1779), Book 2