Deep through all our hearts entwined To the FATHER lauds unending, EVENING. "And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind." 122. MAKER of men! Who by Thyself, Didst from the quickening earth bring forth At Whose command, instinct with life, Expel from us wild passions, LORD, Hereafter grant Thine endless joys, FATHER of mercies! hear our cry, "Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto JESUS the Author and Finisher of our faith, Who for the joy that was set before Him, endured the Cross, despising the shame." 123. ANGELS, lament, behold your GOD O CHRIST, with wondering minds we see No, SAVIOUR, no! the power of death The flesh may shrink, but we submit To bear it after Thee. Thy stripes have healed us, and Thy Blood Then may Thy Name by sins of ours Praise GOD, Who gave His only SON To be for sinners slain, And HOLY SPIRIT by Whose Breath Saturday. MORNING. "Hear my crying, O GOD: give ear unto my prayer." In substance One, in Persons Three, For Thy dear mercy's sake, receive Thy sweetness more and more. Our flesh, our reins, our spirits, LORD, So may all we, who here are met Thine endless joys possess. FATHER of Mercies! hear our cry; Who reignest with the HOLY GHOST, "Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." 125. AND now Thy labours, LORD, are done, Thou to Thy work hast set the bound,— But while the Sabbath now is blest, For all things now have found a tongue, Our heart of stone, LORD, from us take, Such are the hymns which Thee delight, Glory to GOD, both One and Three, Whose Word all things to being brought, "We do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that ye might walk worthy of the LORD, unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God, strengthened with all might according to His glorious power." 126. MAKER of all things, aid our hands, That our chaste lives may worthier prove Thou, only mighty, only good, Art to Thyself the way, Thou only, Who hast given the law, Perils environ all the road; O happy goal, where true repose, And Thou to Thine dost give to drink Of joy, as from a river. For Thee, good LORD, the heart doth pant, For Thee the spirit sighs, Grant unto those Thy grace hath saved EVENING. "In the evening, and morning, and at noonday will I pray, and that instantly; and He shall hear my voice." 127. THE fiery sun is gone; O, never-waning light, All-Holy Three, Thrice Blessed One, To Thee our lauds at morn, O, grant us, hence by Angels borne, To the Great FATHER, SON, "Our SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." 128. GREAT Mover of all hearts, Whose hand Doth all the secret springs command Of human thought and will: Thou, since the world was made dost bless Their order to fulfil. Faith, hope, and love, here weave one chain, When this short day is gone: We sow in dangers here and tears; |