2 Hail sacred Feast, which Jesus makes !
rich Banquet of his Flesh and Blood!
Thrice happy he, who here partakes
that sacred Stream, that heav'nly Food!

3 Why are its Dainties all in vain

before unwilling Hearts display'd Was not for you the Victim slain, forbid the Children's Bread?

are you

4 O let thy Table honour'd be,

and furnish'd well with joyful Guests;
And may each Soul Salvation see,
that here its holy Pledges tastes !

5 Drawn by thy quick'ning Grace, O Lord!
in countless Numbers let them come,
And gather from their Father's Board,
the Bread that lives beyond the Tomb!

6 Nor let thy spreading Gospel rest,

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till through the World thy truth has run,
Till with this Bread all Men be blest,
who see the Light, or feel the Sun!

A

HYMN XI.

For the same.

ND are we now brought near to God,
who once at Distance stood?

And to effect this glorious Change,
did Jesus shed his Blood?

2 O for a Song of ardent Praise,
to bear our Souls above!,
What should allay our lively Hope,
or damp our flaming love!

3 Then let us join the heav'nly Choirs,
to praise our heav'nly King!

O may that Love which spread this Board,
inspire us while we sing-

4" Glory to God in highest Strains,

"and to the Earth be Peace;

"Good-will from Heav'n to Men is come-
"And let it never cease!"

HYMN

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HYMN XII.

On the NEW-Y E A R.

HE God of Life, whose constant Care,
With blessings crowns each op'ning Year,

My scanty Span doth still prolong,
And wakes anew mine annual Song.

2 How many precious Souls are fled
To the vast Regions of the Dead,
Since to this Day the changing Sun
Through his last yearly Period run.

3 We yet survive; but who can say,
Or through this Year, or Month or Day,
"I shall retain this vital Breath,

"Thus far at least, in League with Death?"

4 That Breath is thine, eternal God;
'Tis thine to fix my Soul's Abode;

It holds its Life from thee alone
On Earth, or in the World unknown.

5 To thee our Spirits we resign,

Make them and own them still as thine;
So shall they live secure from Fear,
Though Death shall blast the rising Year.

6 Thy Children, panting to be gone,
May bid the Tide of Time roll on,
To land them on that happy Shore,

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Where Years and Death are known no more!

HYMN XVII.

For the Mercies of Redemption.

ALL-glorious God, what Hymns of Praise

Shall our transported Voices raise;
What ardent Love and Zeal are due,
While Heav'n stands open to our View?

2 Once we were fall'n, and O how low!
Just on the brink of endless Woe;
When Jesus, from the Realms above,
Borne on the Wings of boundless Love.

3 Scatter'd

3 Scatter'd the Shades of Death and night,
And spread around his heav'nly Light!
By him, what wond'rous Grace is shown
To Souls impoverish'd and undone !

4 He shews, beyond these mortal Shores,
A bright Inheritance as ours;

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Where Saints in Light our coming wait,
To share their holy, happy State.

HYMN XXV.

Funeral Consolations.

HEAR, what the Voice from Heav'n declares

to those in Christ who die !

"Releas'd from all their earthly Cares,
"they reign with him on high."

2 Then why lament departed Friends,
or shake at Death's Alarms?

Death's but the Servant Jesus sends
to call us to his Arms.

3 If Sin be pardon'd we're secure,
Death hath no Sting beside;

The Law gave Sin its Strength and Pow'r;
but Christ, our Ransom, died!

4 The Graves of all his Saints he bless'd,
When in the Grave he lay;

And rising thence their Hopes he rais'd
to everlasting Day!

5 Then joyfully, while Life we have,
to Christ, our Life, we'll sing-
"Where is thy Victory, O Grave?
"and where, O Death, thy sting?"

AN INDEX

OF THE

PRINCIPAL MATTERS CONTAINED

IN THE

JOURNALS OF GENERAL CONVENTIONS,

1785-1835, INCLUSIVE.

ABBREVIATED Service, Bp. Hobart's proposition for, II. 131, 174, 175, 187-189, 194, 228, 236, 297, 300.

ACTS, vi. 3., Corrupt rendering of, the occasion of a request on the part of the House of Deputies for the designation of a Standard Bible, I. 559.

ACT of Parliament authorizing the Abp. of Canterbury to consecrate Bishops for America, I. 55, 56.

ACT of the General Convention at Wilmington, I. 58, 59. ADDITIONAL Hymns, action respecting II. 132, 133, 172, 173, 191, Selection from the Psalms in metre with Hymns reported, 365, 366.

ADDRESS of the President, II. 118-120, 355; (1835), 562, 563; 644,

646.

ADDRESS of Presiding Bishop, (1821) I. 619.

ADDRESS to the Churches urging attendance upon General Convention, etc., I. 344, 345, 346, 356, 357, 375. ADULT Baptism, (see Baptism, form of,) action respecting Service for, I. 120.

ADVANCEMENT of Christianity, Institutions for the, commended, I. 426, 438.

AFFINITY, Table of Kindred and, II. 609, 614.

AGE of those to be ordained or consecrated, vide Can. IV. of 1789;

action respecting, I. 191, 192, 208.

ALABAMA, Application of, for admission into union, II. 356, action thereon, 362, 364, 365, 434; special canon in relation

to the Diocese of Mississippi, and Clergy and Church

es of Louisiana, 409, 421, 455, 460.

ALMS at the Holy Communion, vide Can. I. of 1814; action respecting, I. 420, 432, 435.

ALTERATIONS in the Liturgy, II. 131, 174, 175, 187–189, 194, 228, 236, 297, 300, vide Liturgy, alterations in.