Teach us, O thou heavenly King, Thus to show our grateful mind, Thus the accepted offering bring, Love to thee, and all mankind.
1 So let our lips and lives express The holy gospel we profess;
So let our works and virtues shine, To prove the doctrine all divine.
2 Thus shall we best proclaim abroad The honours of our Savior, God, When his salvation reigns within, And grace subdues the power of sin.
3 Our flesh and sense must be denied, Passion and envy, lust and pride; While justice, temperance, truth and love, Our inward piety approve.
1 TH' uplifted eye, and bended knee, Are but vain homage,Lord, to thee: In vain our lips thy praise prolong, The heart a stranger to the song:
2 Can rites, and forms, and flaming zeal The breaches of thy precepts heal? Or fasts and penance reconcile Thy justice, and obtain thy smile?
3 The pure, the humble, contrite mind, Sincere, and to thy will resigned, To thee a nobler offering yields,
Than Sheba's groves, or Sharon's fields.
4 Love God and man-this great command Doth on eternal pillars stand;
This did thine ancient prophets teach, And this thy well-beloved preach.
1 If high or low our station be, Of noble or ignoble name,
By uncorrupt integrity,
Thy blessing Lord we humbly claim.
2 The upright man no want shall fear; Thy providence shall be his trust; Thou wilt provide his portion here, Thou friend and guardian of the just.
3 May we, with most sincere delight, To all the test of duty pay; Regardful of each social right, Obedient to thy righteous sway.
1 LET Pharisees of high esteem Their faith and zeal declare, All their religion is a dream,
If love be wanting there.
2 Love suffers long with patient eye, Nor is provoked in haste; She lets the present injury die, And long forgets the past.
3 She lays her own advantage by, To seek her neighbor's good; So God's own Son came down to die, And save us by his blood.
4 Love is the grace that keeps her power In all the realms above;
There faith and hope are known no more, But saints forever love.
1 THUS saith the first, the great command, 'Let all thy inward powers unite To love thy Maker and thy God, With sacred fervor and delight.
2 Then shall thy neighbor next in place, Share thine affections and esteem; And let thy kindness to thyself Define and rule thy love to him.'
3 This is the sense that Moses spoke, This did the prophets preach and prove; For want of this the law is broke, And all the law's fulfill'd by love.
4 But O, how base our passions are! How cold our charity and zeal ! Lord, fill our souls with heavenly fire, Or we shall ne'er perform thy will.
1 WHQ is thy neighbor? he whom thou Hast power to aid or bless; Whose aching heart or burning brow Thy soothing hand may press.
2 Thy neighbor? 'tis the fainting poor, Whose eye with want is dim; O, enter thou his humble door, With aid and peace for him.
3 Thy neighbor? 'tis the weary slave, Fettered in mind and limb;
He hath no hope this side the grave; Go thou, and ransom him.
4 Thy neighbor? pass no mourner by ; Perhaps thou canst redeem
A breaking heart from misery; Go, share thy lot with him.
1 HAPPY the man, whose cautious steps Still keep the golden mean;
Whose life, by wisdom's rules well formed, Declares a conscience clean.
2 What blessings bounteous Heaven bestows, He takes with thankful heart; With temp'rance he both eats and drinks, And gives the poor a part.
3 To sect or party his large soul Disdains to be confined;
The good he loves of every name, And prays for all mankind.
4 His business is to keep his heart; Each passion to control; Nobly ambitious well to rule The empire of his soul.
5 Not on the world his heart is set, His treasure is above;
Nor aught beneath the sovereign good Can claim his highest love.
VI. MEEKNESS AND HUMILITY.
1 WHEREFORE should man, frail child of clay, Who from the cradle to the shroud, Lives but the insect of a day
O why should mortal man be proud?
2 Follies and crimes, a countless sum, Are crowded in life's little span : How ill, alas, does pride become That erring, guilty creature, man!
3 God of my life, Father divine ! Give me a meek and lowly mind : In modest worth, O let me shine, And peace in humble virtue find.
1 'BLEST are the meek,' he said, Whose doctrine is divine; The humble-minded earth possess, And bright in heaven shall shine.
2 The God of peace is theirs; They own his gracious sway; And yielding all their wills to him, His sovereign laws obey.
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