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Great God, indulge my humble claim

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 272 hymnals Topics: The Christian Life Dedication Used With Tune: WARRINGTON

Forth in thy Name, O Lord, I go

Author: Rev. Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 346 hymnals Topics: Morning Used With Tune: WARRINGTON

Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness

Author: John Wesley, 1703-1791; Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, 1700-1760 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 499 hymnals Topics: Christ, the Lord Jesus Atoning Work of; Christ, the Lord Jesus Blood of; Forgiveness of Sins; The Christian Life Repentance and Faith Used With Tune: WARRINGTON

O God, Thou Bottomless Abyss

Author: Ernst Lange; John Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 54 hymnals Lyrics: 1. O God, Thou bottomless abyss! Thee to perfection who can know? O height immense! What words suffice Thy countless attributes to show? 2. Unfathomable depths Thou art; O plunge me in Thy mercy’s sea! Void of true wisdom is my heart; With love embrace and cover me: 3. While Thee, all-infinite, I set By faith before my ravished eye, My weakness bends beneath the weight; O’erpowered I sink, I faint, I die. 4. Eternity Thy fountain was, Which, like Thee, no beginning knew; Thou wast ere time began his race, Ere glowed with stars the ethereal blue. 5. Greatness unspeakable is Thine, Greatness, whose undiminished ray, When short-lived worlds are lost, shall shine, When earth and Heaven are fled away. 6. Unchangeable, all-perfect Lord, Essential life’s unbounded sea, What lives and moves, lives by Thy Word; It lives, and moves, and is from Thee. 7. Thy parent-hand, Thy forming skill, Firm fixed this universal chain; Else empty, barren darkness still Had held his unmolested reign. 8. Whate’er in earth, or sea, or sky, Or shuns or meets the wandering thought, Escapes or strikes the searching eye, By Thee was to perfection brought. 9. High is Thy power above all height, Whate’er Thy will decrees is done; Thy wisdom, equal to Thy might, Only to Thee, O God, is known! 10. Heaven’s glory is Thy awful throne, Yet earth partakes Thy gracious sway: Vain man! Thy wisdom folly own, Lost is thy reason’s feeble ray. 11. What our dim eye could never see, Is plain and naked to Thy sight; What thickest darkness veils, to Thee Shines clearly as the morning light. 12. In light Thou dwell’st; light that no shade, No variation, ever knew; Heaven, earth, and hell, stand all displayed, And open to Thy piercing view. Used With Tune: WARRINGTON Text Sources: Neues geistreiches Gesangbuch, by Johann A. Freylinghausen, 1714; translation in Collection of Psalms and Hymns (Charleston, South Carolina: 1737), number 16

Lord, how secure and blest are they

Author: Isaac Watts Appears in 201 hymnals Topics: Christian Experience Privileges of Believers Used With Tune: WARRINGTON

Exert Thy Power

Author: Mrs. Vokes Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 46 hymnals First Line: Exert Thy power, Thy rights maintain Lyrics: 1 Exert Thy power, Thy rights maintain, Insulted, everlasting King! The influence of Thy crown increase, And strangers to Thy footstool bring. 2 We long to see that happy time, That dear, expected, blissful day, When countless myriads of our race The second Adam shall obey. 3 Thy prophecies must be fulfilled, Though earth and hell should dare oppose; The stone cut from the mountain’s side, Tho’ unobserved, to empire grows. 4 Soon shall the mingled image fall, Brass, silver, iron, gold and clay, And superstition’s gloomy reign To light and liberty give way. 5 In one sweet symphony of praise, Gentile and Jew shall then unite; And infidelity, ashamed, Sink in th’abyss of endless night. 6 Afric’s emancipated sons Shall join, with Europe’s polished race, To celebrate, in different tongues, The glories of redeeming grace. 7 From east to west, from north to south, Immanuel’s kingdom shall extend; And every man, in every face, Shall meet a brother, and a friend. Used With Tune: WARRINGTON Text Sources: A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors by John Rippon, 1787