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The End of the World
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 37 hymnals First Line: Why should this earth delight us so? Lyrics: 1 Why should this earth delight us so?
Why should we fix our eyes
On these low grounds where sorrows grow,
And every pleasure dies ?
2 While time his sharpest teeth prepares,
Our comforts to devour,
There is a land above the stars,
And joys above his power.
3 Nature shall be dissolv'd and die,
The sun must end his race,
The earth and sea for ever fly
Before the Savior's face.
4 When will that glorious morning rise?
When the last trumpet sound,
And call the nations to the skies,
From underneath the ground? Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man
The End of the World
The Vanity of earthly Things
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 12 hymnals First Line: What are possessions, fame, and power Lyrics: 1 What are possessions, fame, and power
The boasted splendour of the great?
What gold, which dazzled eyes adore,
And seek with endless toils and sweat?
2 Express their charms, declare their use,
That we their merits may descry;
Tell us what good they can produce,
Or what important wants supply.
3 If, wounded with the sense of sin,
To them for pardon we should pray,
Will they restore our peace within,
And wash our guilty stains away?
4 Can they celestial life inspire,
Nature with power divine renew,
With pure and sacred transports fire
Our bosom, and our lusts subdue?
5 When with the pangs of death we strive,
And yield all comforts here for lost,
Will they support us, will they give
Kind succor, when we need it most?
6 When at th'Almighty's awful bar
To hear our final doom we stand,
Can they incline the Judge to spare,
Or wrest the vengeance from his hand?
7 Can they protect us from despair,
From the dark reign of death and hell,
Crown us with bliss, and throne us where
The just, in joys immortal, dwell?
8 Sinners, your idols we despise,
If these reliefs they cannot grant;
Why should we such delusions prize,
And pine in everlasting want? Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man
The Vanity of earthly Things
How long shall dreams of creature-bliss
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 36 hymnals Lyrics: 1 How long shall dreams of creature-bliss
Our flatt'ring hopes employ,
And mock our fond deluded eyes
With visionary joy?
2 How wretched they, that leave the Lord,
And from his word withdraw,
That lose his gospel from their sight
And wander from his law!
3 O thou eternal spring of good,
Whence living waters flow!
Let not our thirsty erring souls
To broken cisterns go.
4 Like characters inscrib'd in dust,
Are sinners borne away;
And all the treasures they can boast,
The portion of a day. Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man
How long shall dreams of creature-bliss
Indulgent God! with pitying eye
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 25 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Indulgent God! with pitying eyes
The sons of men survey.
Alas! how thoughtless mortals sport
In sin's destructive way!
2 Ten thousand dangers lurk around,
To bear them to the tomb:
Each passing hour may place them where,
Repentance cannot come.
3 Reclaim, O Lord! their wand'ring minds,
Amus'd with airy dreams;
That heav'nly wisdom may dispel
Their visionary schemes.
4 Guide and direct them by word,
Their dang'rous state to see;
That they may seek and find the path,
That leads to heav'n and thee. Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man
Indulgent God! with pitying eye
Raise, thoughtless sinner, raise thine eye
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 69 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Raise, thoughtless sinner, raise thine eye;
Behold God's balance lifted high;
There shall his justice be display'd,
And there thy hope and life be weigh'd.
2 See in one scale his perfect law;
Mark with what force its precepts draw;
Would'st thou the awful test sustain,
Thy works how light! thy thoughts how vain!
3 Great God! exert thy pow'r to save;
Deep on the heart this truth engrave;
Disperse the mist from sinners' eyes,
And make the wretched triflers wise.
4 O let them seize the present day,
Nor risk salvation by delay;
And, while they tremble, let them flee,
And find their help, their life, in thee. Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man
Raise, thoughtless sinner, raise thine eye
Ah, how shall fallen man
Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 156 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Ah, how shall fallen man
Be just before his God!
If He contend in righteousness,
We sink beneath his rod.
2 If he our ways should mark
With strict inquiring eyes,
Could we for one of thousand faults
A just excuse devise.
3 All-seeing, powerful God!
Who can with Thee contend?
Or who that tries the unequal strife,
Shall prosper in the end?
4 The mountains, in thy wrath,
Their ancient seats forsake!
The trembling earth deserts her place,
Her rooted pillars shake!
5 Ah, how shall guilty man
Contend with such a God?
None, none can meet him, and escape;
But through the Savior's blood. Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man Scripture: Job 9:2-6
Ah, how shall fallen man
Though I should seek to wash me clean
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 31 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Though I should seek to wash me clean
In waters of the driven snow,
My soul would yet in spots retain,
And sink in conscious guilt and wo:
2 The spirit, in his power divine,
Would cast my vaunting soul to earth,
Expose the foulness of its sin,
And show the vileness of its worth.
3 Ah, not like erring man is God,
That men to answer him should dare.
Condemn'd, and into silence awed,
They helpless stand before his bar.
4 There, must a Mediator plead,
Who, God and man, may both embrace;
With God, for man to intercede,
And offer man the purchased grace.
5 And lo! the Son of God is slain
To be this Mediator crown'd:
In Him, my soul, be cleansed from stain,
In Him thy righteousness be found. Topics: Fall and Depravity of Man Scripture: Job 9:30-33
Though I should seek to wash me clean
The Deity and Humanity of Christ
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 98 hymnals First Line: Ere the blue heavens were stretch'd abroad Lyrics: 1 Ere the blue heavens were stretch'd abroad,
From everlasting was the Word;
With God he was; the Word was God,
And must divinely be adored.
2 By his own power were all things made;
By him supported all things stand;
He is the whole creation’s Head,
And angels fly at his command.
3 Ere sin was born, or Satan fell,
He led the host of morning stars:
(Thy generation who can tell,
Or count the numbers of thy years?)
4 But lo, he leaves those heavenly forms,
The Word descends and dwells in clay,
That he may converse hold with worms,
Drest in such feeble flesh as they.
5 Mortals with joy beheld his face,
Th’eternal Father’s only Son;
How full of truth! how full of grace!
When through his eyes the Godhead shone.
6 Archangels leave their high abode
To learn new mysteries here, and tell
The loves of our descending God,
The glories of Immanuel. Topics: Christ His divinity Scripture: John 1:1
The Deity and Humanity of Christ
God the Son equal with the Father
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 99 hymnals First Line: Bright King of glory, dreadful God! Lyrics: 1 Bright King of glory, dreadful God!
Our spirits bow before thy seat,
To thee we lift an humble thought,
And worship at thine awful feet.
2 A thousand seraphs strong and bright
Stand round the glorious Deity;
But who amongst the sons of light
Pretends comparison with thee!
3 Yet there is one of human frame,
Jesus, array'd in flesh and blood,
Thinks it no robbery to claim
A full equality with God.
4 Their glory shines with equal beams;
Their essence is forever one,
Though they are known by different names,
The Father God, and God the Son.
5 Then let the name of Christ our King
With equal honors be ador'd;
His praise let every angel sing,
And all the nations own their Lord! Topics: Christ His divinity
God the Son equal with the Father
The Divinity of Christ
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 29 hymnals First Line: Thee we adore, Eternal Word! Lyrics: 1 Thee we adore, Eternal Word!
The Father's equal Son;
By heaven's obedient hosts ador'd,
Ere time its course begun.
2 The first creation has display'd
Thine energy divine;
For not a single thing was made
By other hands than thine.
3 But ransom'd sinners, with delight,
Sublimer facts survey,--
The all-creating Word unites
Himself to dust and clay.
4 Creation's Author now assumes
A creature's humble form:
A man of grief and woe becomes,
And trod on like a worm.
5 The Lord of glory bears the shame
To vile transgressors due;
Justice the Prince of life condemns
To die in anguish too.--
6 God over all, forever blessed,
The righteous curse endures;
And thus, to souls with sin distrest,
Eternal bliss insures.
7 What wonders in thy person meet,
My Savior, all divine!
I fall with rapture at thy feet,
And would be wholly thine. Topics: Christ His divinity
The Divinity of Christ
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