2 Hail sacred Feast, which Jesus makes ! 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; 5 Drawn by thy quick'ning Grace, O Lord! 6 Nor let thy spreading Gospel rest, 1 till through the World thy truth has run, A HYMN XI. For the same. ND are we now brought near to God, And to effect this glorious Change, 2 O for a Song of ardent Praise, 3 Then let us join the heav'nly Choirs, O may that Love which spread this Board, 4" Glory to God in highest Strains, "and to the Earth be Peace; "Good-will from Heav'n to Men is come- HYMN I HYMN XII. On the NEW-Y E A R. HE God of Life, whose constant Care, My scanty Span doth still prolong, 2 How many precious Souls are fled 3 We yet survive; but who can say, "Thus far at least, in League with Death?" 4 That Breath is thine, eternal God; It holds its Life from thee alone 5 To thee our Spirits we resign, Make them and own them still as thine; 6 Thy Children, panting to be gone, 1 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; 2 Once we were fall'n, and O how low! 3 Scatter'd 3 Scatter'd the Shades of Death and night, 4 He shews, beyond these mortal Shores, 1 Where Saints in Light our coming wait, 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, 2 Then why lament departed Friends, Death's but the Servant Jesus sends 3 If Sin be pardon'd we're secure, The Law gave Sin its Strength and Pow'r; 4 The Graves of all his Saints he bless'd, And rising thence their Hopes he rais'd 5 Then joyfully, while Life we have, 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. |