Thy spirit sways with soft control, 3 Why should we then decline from thee? Or strive to set our passions free From these soft bands of love? 4 Extend around thy loving arms, Where, captives to resistless charms, HYMN 418. 61. L. M. [#] 1 ARRAYED in clouds of golden light, To bless the sleeping world below: EVANGELICAL DEVOTION. HYMN 419. C. M. [# or b] Devotion. 1 WHILE thee I seek, protecting Power, With better hopes be filled. 2 Thy love the power of thought bestowed; 3 In each event of life, how clear Each blessing to my soul more dear, 4 In every joy that crowns my days, My heart shall find delight in praise, 5 When gladness wings my favoured hour, 6 My lifted eye, without a tear, The gathering storm shall see; HYMN 420. C. M. [b] Secret Devotion. 1 FATHER divine, thy piercing eye 2 There shall that piercing eye survey 3 I'll leave behind each earthly care; While grateful praise and fervent prayer 4 So shall the visits of thy love So shalt thou deign, in worlds above, HYMN 421. L. M. [# or b ] Devout Considerations and Desires. 1 As showers on meadows newly mown 2 Lands that, beneath a burning sky, 3 The dews and rains, in all their store, Drenching the pastures o'er and o'er, Are not so copious as that grace Which sanctifies and saves our race. 4 As, in soft silence, vernal showers Descend, and cheer the fainting flowers, So, in the secrecy of love, Falls the sweet influence from above. 5 That heavenly influence let me find While every grace maintains its bloom, 6 Nor let these blessings be confined HYMN 422. C. M. [# or b] 1 COME, holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, 2 Look, how we grovel here below, 3 In vain we tune our formal songs, Hosannas languish on our tongues, 4 Dear Lord, and shall we ever live 5 Come, holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, HYMN 423. L. M. [#] Pleasures of Devotion. 1 FAR from my thoughts, vain world, be gone; Let my religious hours alone : Fain would my eyes my Saviour see; 2 My heart grows warm with holy fire, 4 Hail, great Immanuel, all divine! |