2 Hail sacred Feast, which Jesus makes ! 3 Why are its Dainties all in vain before unwilling Hearts display'd 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, 20 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 "And let it never cease!" HYMN I HYMN XII. On the NEW-Y E A R. HE God of Life, whose constant Care, TH With blessings crowns each op'ning Year, My scanty Span doth still prolong, And wakes anew mine annual Song. 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 A HYMN XVII. For the Mercies of Redemption. LL-glorious God, what Hymns of Praise What ardent Love and Zeal are due, 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, ACTS, vi. 3., Corrupt rendering of, the occasion of a request on the ACT of Parliament authorizing the Abp. of Canterbury to consecrate ACT of the General Convention at Wilmington, I. 58, 59. 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 Conven- ADVANCEMENT of Christianity, Institutions for the, commended, I. AFFINITY, Table of Kindred and, II. 609, 614. AGE of those to be ordained or consecrated, vide Can. IV. of 1789; ALABAMA, Application of, for admission into union, II. 356, action to the Diocese of Mississippi, and Clergy and Church- ALMS at the Holy Communion, vide Can. I. of 1814; action respect- ALTERATIONS in the Liturgy, II. 131, 174, 175, 187–189, 194, 228, 236, |