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Enthroned Amid the Seraphim

Appears in 2 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Lyrics: 1 Enthroned amid the seraphim, Where countless roll the wheels of time, Celestial light, almighty power! Burst forth in this afflictive hour! Effulgent, shine upon our race! Thy ancient mercies, Lord, retrace! 2 From superstition’s dark domain, From persecution’s cruel reign, When erst a tender vine was brought, With joys exuberantly fraught; In regions wrapped in destiny, It rose and bloomed, a lovely tree! 3 Its shade the mountains overspread; Its root, by bubbling fountains fed, Nor drought, nor desert, could arrest; Its branches filled the farthest west: Beside a thousand flowery banks, Its clusters swelled in glowing ranks. 4 Now torn and prostrate its defense, Despoiled of its magnificence, The savage hunter treads it down; It fades beneath a tyrant’s frown; The sword destroys, the fire devours, The Deity in darkness lours! 5 Ah! why deserted of our God? His vineyard, why a field of blood? Return, O God of hosts, return! Thy ravaged, slaughtered church discern! Behold, and victory impart! Thine, ever Thine, shall be our heart! Scripture: Psalm 80 Used With Tune: MELITA Text Sources: The Psalms, Newly Paraphrased for the Service of the Sanctuary by Joseph P. Bartrum (Boston: Russell, Osborne & Company, 1833)

Oh God, Eternal Friend and Guide

Author: Lewy Olfson Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Topics: Comfort; Darkness; God's Love; Grace; Healing; Mercy; Praise; Spiritual struggle; Suffering; Trust Used With Tune: MELITA

Almighty God, lift up our eyes

Author: William Courtenay Saunders Johnson, 1907-87 alt Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 4 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Topics: Australia; Divine Inspiration; Freedom; God's Love to Us; Intercession of the Church; National Life; Peace of the World; Reconciliation; Social Justice; Vision; Witness to Community Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-7 Used With Tune: MELITA

O Jesus, Son of God, In Thee

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Lyrics: 1 O Jesus, Son of God, in Thee I trust for that last victory, And kept by my eternal friend, I keep Thy works, ’till life shall end, Obedient unto death endure, And find Thy richest promise sure. 2 So when Thou shalt on earth appear, To fix Thy heavenly kingdom here, I shall with my Redeemer join, Partake the victory divine, And clothed with Thy resistless power The Conqueror of the world adore. 3 With Thee in full paternal might, Vested, I shall go forth to fight, Shall see the nations broke, subdued, And scattered by Thine iron rod, Swift as the shivered vessel flies And share the triumph of the skies. Used With Tune: MELITA Text Sources: Short Hymns, Vol. II (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762)

Dragwyddol Dad, anfeidrol Iôr

Author: W. Wh.; O. Ll. O.; D. H. Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Used With Tune: MELITA

Lord, Shall Thy Children Come To Thee?

Author: Samuel Hinds; Henry J. Buckoll Appears in 17 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Lyrics: 1 Lord, shall Thy children come to Thee? A boon of love divine we seek; Brought to Thine arms in infancy, Ere heart could feel, or tongue could speak, Thy children pray for grace, that they May come themselves to Thee today. 2 Lord, shall we come? and come again, Oft as we see Thy table spread, And tokens of Thy dying pain, The wine poured out, the broken bread? Bless, bless, O Lord, Thy children’s prayer, That they may come and find Thee there. 3 Lord, shall we come? not thus alone At holy time, or solemn rite; But every hour till life be flown, Through weal or woe, in gloom or light, Come to Thy throne of grace, that we In faith, hope, love, confirmed may be? 4 Lord, shall we come? come yet again? Thy children ask one blessing more: To come, not now alone; but then When life, and death, and time are o’er; Then, then to come, O Lord, and be Confirmed in Heaven, confirmed by Thee. Used With Tune: MELITA Text Sources: Sonnets and Other Short Poems, 1834

Thou Awful God, Whose Righteous Ire

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Lyrics: 1 Thou awful God, whose righteous ire In Sion as a furnace burns; Fit fuel of eternal fire, A face that all Thy mercy scorns; Behold us where in death we lie, Nor let our souls for ever die. 2 All we like sheep have gone astray, Have turned to our own wickedness, Rushed headlong down the spacious way; But O! how few their sins confess, Their foul apostasy bemoan, Or tremble as the wrath comes down. 3 Yet hast Thou left Thyself a seed, A remnant of peculiar grace, A little flock who mourn and plead, And wrestle for the faithless race, That will not hear Thy threatening rod, Or turn, and find a pardoning God. 4 Touched from above with fear divine, We would the weeping few increase, Our broken hearts and voices join, And wail our nation’s wickedness, In deepest groans our crimes declare, In all the agony of prayer. 5 Alas for us, to evil sold, A seed of lips and hearts unclean, In vice beyond example bold, Sunk in the dregs of time and sin, Laden with all iniquity, As Satan contrary to Thee! 6 Yet for the righteous remnant’s sake Our death-devoted Sodom spare, And call the storms of vengeance back— Or if Thou canst no more forbear, Thyself resume our wretched breath, But save us from eternal death. Used With Tune: MELITA Text Sources: Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecution by John and Charles Wesley (London: Strahan, 1744)

Great God, Who, Ready To Forgive

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Lyrics: 1 Great God, who, ready to forgive, In wrath rememberest mercy still, By whose preserving love we live, Though doomed the second death to feel; We magnify Thy patient grace, And tremble, while we sing Thy praise. 2 Had not Thy mercy interposed, When sleeping in our sins we lay, The staggering earth had yawned, and closed Its mouth on its devoted prey, We now had with our city fell, And quick descended into hell. 3 But O! The Savior of mankind Hath gained for us a longer space, Jesus His Father’s heart inclined To spare a vile rebellious race, To snatch from Corah’s fearful doom, And save us from the wrath to come. 4 Then let us to our Savior turn, Answer His mercy’s whole design, With godly fear rejoice, and mourn, And praises with confessions join, Till all these lowering clouds remove, And God appears: The God of love. Used With Tune: MELITA Text Sources: Hymns Occasioned by the Earthquake, March 8, 1750, second edition, 1756

By Willful Sin The Man Who Wrongs

Author: Charles Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Lyrics: 1 By willful sin the man who wrongs Himself, his neighbor, or His God, To Satan, not to Christ belongs; He knows not that atoning blood, Nor sees the great Invisible, But sleeps within the mouth of hell. 2 The man by faith who truly lives, And strives his faithfulness t’approve, Employs the talents he receives In all the toils of humble love, May cry with confidence divine, "I am my God’s, and He is mine!" Used With Tune: MELITA Text Sources: Short Hymns on Select Passages of Holy Scripture, (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762) Vol. II

Eternal Is Your Word, O LORD

Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Topics: God Faithfulness of; God's Word and Law; Law of God Scripture: Psalm 119:89-96 Used With Tune: MELITA Text Sources: OPC/URCNA 2016