Inward Songs (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 Excerpt: ... God incarnate shall descend, Like his thy frame shall shine in light, And live in beauty without end. Then never, never more to leave Me thy immortal spirit blest, All joy thou shalt with me receive, And share the saints' eternal rest. LXXXIV. The happy hour.-I IS come, the hour when nature faints: Oh happy hour, the flesh shall die, The spirit with the perfect saints Live in all holy liberty. Faith it3 last work is doing fast, Hope in short space will be complete, Love in the soul shall reign at last, For ever full, for ever sweet. Satan his last vain arrow sends, To wound the spirit ere it fly, Angels exult, and Jesus bends To lift it to himself on high. LXXXV. A faint echo to the songs of heaven. HOLY, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts, Thou infinite I Am, To Thee and to the Lamb Heav'n's bright inhabitants through all its coasts Their ceaseless voices raise, All honour, glory, praise, Salvation, blessing, might, All wisdom, wealth to Thee, Ascribing in thy Spirit's light, Thrice glorious Deity. O say, shall we on earth be slow To pay the boundless thanks we owe? Shall man to aught beside assign The pow'r, the honour, only thine? Redemption, righteousness alone Proceed from thy eternal throne. By Thee all things created were Thy pleasure to fulfil, All saints to Thee their life refer, The beings of thy will: In the Lamb's book of life their names Were written, ere the worlds arose, Thine own to be, when deathless flames Shall feed on all thy foes. A little lapse of years shall bring The day of wrath, the day of bliss, The day of heav'n's incarnate King, When down to hell's abyss, Prepar'd for Satan's suffering, He will the curst dismiss. Then shall the universal voice Of happy spirits louder rise; Then shall they more in Thee rejoice, Jehovah only wise &quo...