60.

Trinity Sunday.

H Early in the morning our song shall rise

OLY, Holy, Holy! LORD GOD Almighty!

to Thee:

Holy, Holy, Holy! Merciful and Mighty ;

GOD in THREE PERSONS, Blessed TRINITY!

Holy, Holy, Holy! all the Saints adore Thee, Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;

Cherubim and Seraphim falling down before Thee,

Which wert, and art, and evermore shalt be!

Holy, Holy, Holy! though the darkness hide Thee,

Though the eye of sinful man Thy Glory may not see,

Only Thou art Holy: there is none beside Thee Perfect in Power, in Love, in Purity!

Holy, Holy, Holy! LORD GOD Almighty!
All Thy works shall praise Thy Name, in
earth, and sky, and sea :

Holy, Holy, Holy! Merciful and Mighty,
GOD in THREE PERSONS, Blessed Trinity!

Amen.

61. GOD of Life, Whose Power benign Doth o'er the world in mercy shine, Accept our praise, for we are Thine.

62.

O FATHER, Uncreated LORD,
Be Thou in every land adored;
Be Thou by all with faith implored!

O SON of GOD, for sinners slain!
We bless Thee, LORD, Whose dying Pain
For us did endless Life regain.

O HOLY GHOST, Whose guardian Care
Doth us for heavenly joys prepare,
May we in Thy Communion share!

O Holy, Blessed TRINITY,

With faith we sinners bow to Thee;
In us, O GOD, exalted be! Amen.

THOU, Whom neither time nor space
Can circle in, Unseen, Unknown;
Nor Faith in boldest flight can trace,
Save through Thy SPIRIT and Thy SON!

And Thou, that from Thy bright Abode
To us in mortal weakness shown,
Did'st graft the Manhood into GOD,
Eternal, Co-eternal SON!

And Thou, Whose Unction from on high
By comfort, life, and love is known,
Who with the Parent DEITY,

Dread SPIRIT, art for ever ONE!

Great First and Last! Thy Blessing give,
And grant us Faith, Thy Gift alone:
To love and praise Thee while we live,

And do that Will Thou would'st have done.

Amen.

63.

Holy Baptism.

GLA

LAD sight! the Holy Church
Spreads forth her wings of love,

To welcome to her breast a child
Begotten from above.

Begotten at the font

By GOD the SPIRIT'S Power,
A gentle lamb from Satan snatched
In childhood's helpless hour.

E'en now around the font,
Unseen by mortal eye,
Bright ministering Angels watch
The wondrous Mystery.

There to receive their charge
In readiness they stand,
And long to guide its feeble steps
To their own happy land.

And all the host of Heaven
Rejoice before the LORD,

To see one child of fallen man
A child of GOD restored.

How true o'er Jordan's stream
The Baptist's words proclaim-
"Behold, One greater shall baptize
With Spirit and with Flame!"

Once by the stream discern'd
Were Gideon's chosen band;
Now by the font CHRIST marks His own
Within His Courts to stand.

Praise Him Who made,-praise Him
Who did redeem our race;
Praise Him Who doth us sanctify
With pure baptismal Grace. Amen.

64.

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ITH CHRIST We share a mystic grave,
With Him we buried lie;

Yet not within the darksome cave
By mournful Calvary.

The pure and bright baptismal flood
Entombs our nature's stain;
And from the healing waters born,
With CHRIST we rise again.

Thrice blest, if through this world of sin,

And lust, and selfish care,

Our resurrection-mantle, white

And undefiled, we wear.

Thrice blest, if through the gate of death,

Glorious at last and free,

We to our joyful rising pass,

O Risen LORD, with Thee. Amen.

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