Revelation 8:1--9:21

• [Rev 8:2] The Law Commands And Makes Us Know

  The Law commands and makes us know What duties to our God we owe; But ’tis the Gospel must reveal Where lies our strength to do His will. The Law discovers guilt and sin And shows how vile our hearts have been; The Gospel only can express Forgiving love and cleansing grace. What curses doth the Law denounce Against the man that fails but once! But in the Gospel Christ appears, Pard’ning the guilt of numerous years. My soul, no more attempt to draw Thy life and comfort from the Law. Fly to the hope the Gospel gives; The man that trusts the promise lives.

  source: Cyberhymnal

• [Rev 8:4] Morning Prayer

  Thankful for the morning light, Shining over earth and sea; Thankful for the gift of sight O Father, Lord, to Thee. To Thee with all the heart I pray, Now at the dawning of the day; I know Thou hast me in Thy care, And Thou wilt hear my prayer. Thankful for the power to hear; Thankful for the power to speak; Lord, to Thee I bend my ear, Thy holy face I seek, To Thee my earliest thoughts are giv’n, Like incense, may they rise to Heav’n; And from Thee thence a blessing bear, In answer to my prayer. Thanks I give for strength and health, Making all my pulses leap; Greater boon than boundless wealth Is waking out of sleep. content and glad for each new day, O father, Lord, to Thee I pray; I pray to Heav’n for Thou art there; And Thou art everywhere. Greatest boon is heart of love; May at length this heart be mine; Lord, Thou sendest from above Thy love and truth divine. And they shall purge the willing soul Of earthly ills, and make it whole; For Thou didst come those ills to bear, And canst not spurn my prayer.

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• [Rev 8:4] Now From The Altar Of My Heart

  Now from the altar of my heart Let incense flames arise; Assist me, Lord, to offer up Mine evening sacrifice. Awake, my love! Awake, my joy! Awake, my heart and tongue! Sleep not: when mercies loudly call, Break forth into a song. This day God was my Sun and Shield, My Keeper and my Guide; His care was on my frailty shown, His mercies multiplied. Minutes and mercies multiplied Have made up all this day; Minutes came quick but mercies were More fleet and free than they. New time, new favor, and new joys Do a new song require; Till I shall praise Thee as I would, Accept my heart’s desire. Man’s life’s a book of history, The leaves thereof are days, The letters mercies closely joined, The title is Thy praise. Lord of my time, whose hand hath set New time upon my score, Then I shall praise for all my time, When time shall be no more.

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• [Rev 8:4] O God, Thy World Is Sweet With Prayer

  O God, Thy world is sweet with prayer; The breath of Christ is in the air; We rise on Thy free Spirit’s wings, And every thought within us sings. Thou art our Morning and our Sun, Our work is glad, in Thee begun; Our foot worn path is fresh with dew, For Thou createst all things new. O God, within us and above, Close to us in the Christ we love, Through Him, our only Guide and Way, May heavenly life be ours today!

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• [Rev 8:4] O Thou, Our Savior, Brother, Friend

  O Thou, our Savior, Brother, Friend, Behold a cloud of incense rise; The prayers of saints to Heaven ascend, Grateful, accepted sacrifice. Regard our prayers for Zion’s peace; Shed in our hearts Thy love abroad; Thy gifts abundantly increase; Enlarge, and fill us all with God. Before Thy sheep, great Shepherd, go, And guide into Thy perfect will; Cause us Thy hallowed Name to know, The work of faith in us fulfill. Help us to make our calling sure; O let us all be saints indeed, And pure, as Thou Thyself art pure, Conformed in all things to our Head. Take the dear purchase of Thy blood: Thy blood shall wash us white as snow; Present us sanctified to God, And perfected in love below.

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• [Rev 9:1] Thee, O Christ, The Father’s Splendor

  Thee, O Christ, the Father’s splendor, Life and virtue of the heart, In the presence of the angels Sing we now with tuneful art, Meetly in alternate chorus, Bearing our responsive part. Thus we praise with veneration All the armies of the sky; Chiefly him, the warrior primate, Of celestial chivalry, Michael, who in princely virtue Cast Abaddon from on high. By whose watchful care repelling— King of everlasting grace— Every ghostly adversary, All things evil, all things base, Grant us of Thine only goodness, In Thy paradise a place. Laud and honor to the Father, Laud and honor to the Son, Laud and honor to the Spirit, Ever Three, and ever One, Consubstantial, co-eternal, While unending ages run.

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• [Rev 9:11] My Soul Is Sad And Much Dismayed

  My soul is sad and much dismayed; See, Lord, what legions of my foes, With fierce Apollyon at their head, My heav’nly pilgrimage oppose! See, from the over-burning lake How like a smoky cloud they rise! With horrid blasts my soul they shake, With storms of blasphemies and lies. Their fiery arrows reach the mark, My throbbing heart with anguish tear; Each lights upon a kindred spark, And finds abundant fuel there. I hate the thought that wrongs the Lord; O, I would drive it from my breast, With Thy own sharp two-edged sword, Far as the east is from the west! Come then, and chase the cruel host, Heal the deep wounds I have received! Nor let the pow’rs of darkness boast That I am foiled, and Thou art grieved!

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• [Rev 9:11] Our Earth We Now Lament To See

  Our earth we now lament to see With floods of wickedness overflowed, With violence, wrong, and cruelty, The killing fields our constant abode, Where men like fiends each other tear, In all the hellish rage of war. As listed on Abaddon’s side, They mangle their own flesh, and slay: Tophet is moved, and opens wide Its mouth for its enormous prey; And myriads sink beneath the grave, And plunge into the flaming wave. O might the universal Friend This havoc of His creatures see! Bid our unnatural discord end; Declare us reconciled in Thee; Write kindness on our inward parts, And chase the murderer from our hearts! Who now against each other rise, The nations of the earth, constrain To follow after peace, and prize The blessings of Thy righteous reign, The joys of unity to prove, The paradise of perfect love!

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  source: Cyberhymnal