WORSHIP

The Beginning of Worship

1. In Thy name, O Lord, as - sem- bling, We, Thy people, now draw near;

Teach us to rejoice with trem- bling, Speak, and let Thy ser - vants hear

Hear with meekness, Hear Thy word with god

2 While our days on earth are lengthened, 3 There in worship purer, sweeter,

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Genevan Psalter, 1551

2 His sovereign power, without our aid, 4 We'll crowd Thy gates with thankful Made us of clay, and formed us men; And when, like wand'ring sheep, we

strayed,

He brought us to His fold again.
3 We are His people, we His care,
Our souls and all our mortal frame;
What lasting honors shall we rear,
Almighty Maker, to Thy name?

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songs;

High as the heavens our voices raise;
And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,
Shall fill Thy courts with sounding praise.
5 Wide as the world is Thy command;
Vast as eternity Thy love;
Firm as a rock Thy truth must stand,

When rolling years shall cease to move.

Rev. Isaac Watts, 1706, 1719; Verse 1, 11. 1, 2, alt. Rev. John Wesley

Joseph Mainzer, c. 1840

2 Know that the Lord is God indeed;
Without our aid He did us make;
We are His flock, He doth us feed,
And for His sheep He doth us take.

3 0, enter then His gates with praise;
Approach with joy His courts unto;

Praise, laud, and bless His name always,
For it is seemly so to do.

4 Because the Lord our God is good,
His mercy is forever sure;

His truth at all times firmly stood,
And shall from age to age endure.

Joseph E. Sweetser, 1849

2 The Lord is God; 'tis He alone

Doth life and breath and being give;
We are His work, and not our own;
The sheep that on His pastures live. 4

And make it your divine employ

To pay your thanks and honors there.

The Lord is good, the Lord is kind;

Great is His grace, His mercy sure; And the whole race of man shall find His truth from age to age endure. Rev. Isaac Watts, 1719 Arr. from Robert Schumann

2 Come, fill our hearts with inward 3 Now to the God whose power can do

strength,

Make our enlarged souls possess,
And learn the height, and breadth and
Of Thine immeasurable grace. [length

More than our thoughts or wishes
Be everlasting honors done, [know,
By all the church, through Christ His
Son.

Rev. Isaac Watts, 1709

2 Eternal are Thy mercies, Lord;
Eternal truth attends Thy word;
Thy praise shall sound from shore to
shore,

Till suns shall set and rise no more.
Rev. Isaac Watts, 1719

The Beginning of Worship

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Sir John Goss, 1872

and bless the Lord,

Ye peo - ple

of His choice;

Stand up

and bless the Lord your God, With heart and soul and voice.

2 Though high above all praise,
Above all blessing high,

Who would not fear His holy name,
And laud, and magnify?

3 0, for the living flame

From His own altar brought,

To touch our lips, our minds inspire,
And wing to heaven our thought!

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'Tis heav'n to

His earth-ly see His smiling face, Though in

courts.

And sheds abroad His grace.

2 There the great Monarch of the skies While Christ reveals His wondrous love, His saving power displays; And light breaks in upon our eyes, With kind and quickening rays. 3 With His rich gifts, the heavenly Descends and fills the place; [Dove

5

4 There, mighty God, Thy words declare
The secrets of Thy will;
And still we seek Thy mercy there,
And sing Thy praises still.

Rev. Isaac Watts, 1707