Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1815
Compiler: John Thompson et al
Publisher/Printer: Looker and Wallace
First Line: Frequent the day of God returns
Topic: For the Lord's Day
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 271
Page Number: 229, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFREQUENT the day of God returns
To shed its quick'ning beams;
And yet how slow devotion burns,
How languid are its flames!
Accept our faint attempts to love,
Or frailties , Lord, forgive;
We would be like thy saints above,
And praise thee while we live.
Increase, O Lord, our faith and hope,
And fit us to ascend,
Where th' assembly ne'er breaks up,
The Sabbath ne'er shall end.
Where we shall breathe in heavenly air,
With heav'nly lustre shine:
Before the throne of God appear,
And feast on love divine.
Whre we, in high seraphic strains,
Shall all our powers employ;
Delight range the blissful plains,
And take our fill of joy.