Genesis 1:3-5

• [Gen 1:3] Blest Creator Of The Light

  Blest Creator of the light, Making day with radiance bright, Thou didst o’er the forming earth Give the golden light its birth. Shade of eve with morning ray Took from Thee the name of day; Darkness now is drawing nigh; Listen to our humble cry. May we ne’er by guilt depressed Lose the way to endless rest; Nor with idle thoughts and vain Bind our souls to earth again. Rather may we heavenward rise Where eternal treasure lies; Purified by grace within, Hating every deed of sin. Holy Father, hear our cry, Through Thy Son our Lord most high, Whom our thankful hearts adore With the Spirit evermore.

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• [Gen 1:3] God Of The Morning, At Whose Voice

  God of the morning, at Whose voice The cheerful sun makes haste to rise, And like a giant doth rejoice To run his journey through the skies. From the fair chambers of the east The circuit of his race begins, And, without weariness or rest, Round the whole earth he flies and shines. O like the sun may I fulfill Th’appointed duties of the day, With ready mind and active will March on and keep my heav’nly way. But I shall rove and lose the race, If God, my Sun, should disappear, And leave me in this world’s wild maze, To follow every wand’ring star. Lord, Thy commands are clean and pure, Enlight’ning our beclouded eyes; Thy threat’nings just, Thy promise sure, Thy Gospel makes the simple wise. Give me Thy counsel for my guide, And then receive me to Thy bliss; All my desires and hopes beside Are faint and cold compared with this.

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• [Gen 1:3] God, Our Father, Made The Daylight

  God, our Father, made the daylight; God, our Father, made the night; God made mountains, sea, and sky, And the white clouds floating high. God, we thank Thee for the showers; God, we thank Thee for the dew, Mighty trees and flowers small; God, our Father, gave them all.
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• [Gen 1:3] Let There Be Light, Lord God Of Hosts

  Let there be light, Lord God of hosts, Let there be wisdom on the earth; Let broad humanity have birth, Let there be deeds, instead of boasts. Within our passioned hearts instill The calm that endeth strain and strife; Make us thy ministers of life; Purge us from lusts that curse and kill. Give us the peace of vision clear To see our brothers’ good our own, To joy and suffer not alone, The love that casteth out all fear. Let woe and waste of warfare cease, That useful labor yet may build Its homes with love and laughter filled; God give thy wayward children peace.

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• [Gen 1:3] O Blest Creator Of The Light

  O blest Creator of the light, Who mak’st the day with radiance bright, And o’er the forming world didst call The light from chaos first of all. Whose wisdom joined in meet array The morn and eve, and named them day: Night comes with all its darkling fears; Regard Thy people’s prayers and tears. Lest, sunk in sin, and whelmed with strife, They lose the gift of endless life; While thinking but the thoughts of time, They weave new chains of woe and crime. But grant them grace that they may strain The heavenly gate and prize to gain: Each harmful lure aside to cast, And purge away each error past. O Father, that we ask be done, Through Jesus Christ, Thine only Son; Who, with the Holy Ghost and Thee, Doth live and reign eternally.

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• [Gen 1:3] O Trinity Of Blessed Light

  O Trinity of blessèd light, O Unity of princely might, The fiery sun now goes his way; Shed Thou within our hearts a ray. To Thee our morning song of praise, To Thee our evening prayer we raise; O grant us with Thy saints on high To praise Thee through eternity. All laud to God the Father be, All praise, eternal Son, to Thee, All glory, as is ever meet, To God the holy Paraclete.
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• [Gen 1:3] Thou, Whose Almighty Word

  Thou, whose almighty Word [or Thou, whose eternal word] Chaos and darkness heard, And took their flight; Hear us, we humbly pray, And, where the Gospel’s day Sheds not its glorious ray, Let there be light! Thou, who didst come to bring On Thy redeeming wing Healing and sight, Health to the sick in mind, Sight to the inly blind, O now, to all mankind, Let there be light! Spirit of truth and love, Life giving, holy Dove, Speed forth Thy flight; Move on the water’s face Bearing the lamp of grace, And, in earth’s darkest place, Let there be light! Blessèd and holy Three, Glorious Trinity, Wisdom, love, might! Boundless as ocean’s tide, Rolling in fullest pride, Through the world far and wide, Let there be light!

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• [Gen 1:4] Thou Framer Of The Light And Dark

  Thou Framer of the light and dark, Steer through the tempest Thine own ark; Amid the howling wintry sea, We are in port if we have Thee. The rulers of this Christian land, ’Twixt Thee and us ordained to stand, Guide Thou their course, O Lord, aright; Let all do all as in Thy sight. O God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Hear Thou in Heav’n Thy children’s cry, And in our of need be nigh.

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• [Gen 1:5] Evening And Morning

  Evening and morning, sunset and dawning, Wealth, peace and gladness, comfort in sadness, These are Thy works; all the glory be Thine! Times without number, awake or in slumber, Thine eye observes us, from danger preserves us, Causing Thy mercy upon us to shine. Father, O hear me, pardon and spare me; Calm all my terrors, blot out my errors, That by Thine eyes they may no more be scanned. Order my goings, direct all my doings; As it may please Thee retain or release me; All I commit to Thy fatherly hand.

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• [Gen 1:5] This Day The First Of Days Was Made

  This day the first of days was made, When God in light the world arrayed; Or when His Word arose again, And, conquering death, gave life to men. Slumber and sloth drive far away; Earlier arise to greet the day; And ere its dawn in heaven unfold The heart’s desire to God be told. Unto our prayer that He attend, His all creating power extend, And still renew us, lest we miss Through earthly stain our heavenly bliss. That us, who here this day repair To keep the Apostles’ time of prayer, And hymn the quiet hours of morn, With blessèd gifts He may adorn. For this, Redeemer, Thee we pray That Thou wilt wash our sins away, And of Thy lovingkindness grant Whate’er of good our spirits want. That exiles here awhile in flesh Some earnest may our souls refresh Of that pure life for which we long, Some foretaste of the heavenly song. O Father, that we ask be done, Through Jesus Christ, Thine only Son; Who, with the Holy Ghost and Thee, Doth live and reign eternally.

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