Hymns Recommended for Use in the Reformed Episcopal Church

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Page 191 - I heard the voice of JESUS say, " Behold, I freely give > The living water ; thirsty one, Stoop down, and drink, and live : " I came to JESUS, and I drank Of that life-giving stream ; My thirst was quenched, my soul revived, And now I live in Him. I heard the voice of JESUS say, " I am this dark world's Light ; Look unto Me, thy morn shall rise, And all thy day be bright...
Page 18 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 67 - We'll crowd Thy gates with thankful songs, High as the heavens our voices raise; And earth, with her ten thousand tongues, Shall fill Thy courts with sounding praise. 5 Wide as the world is Thy command, Vast as eternity Thy love; Firm as a rock Thy truth must stand, When rolling years shall cease to move.
Page 170 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take ; The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
Page 128 - HOW firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His excellent word! What more can He say than to you He hath said, You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled...
Page vi - Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 131 - But what to those who find ? Ah, this Nor tongue nor pen can show : The love of Jesus, what it is None but His loved ones know.
Page viii - The Old Testament is not contrary to the New : for both in the Old and New Testament everlasting life is offered to mankind by Christ; who is the only Mediator between God and man, being both God and man. Wherefore they are not to be heard which feign that the old Fathers did look only for transitory promises.
Page 132 - Buried in sorrow and in sin, At hell's dark door we lay; But we arise, by grace divine, To see a heavenly day. 3. Salvation ! let the echo fly The spacious earth around, "While all the armies of the sky Conspire to raise the sound.
Page 83 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh ; The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.

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