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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13439 ***
+
+Divine Songs
+
+Attempted in the Easy Language of Children.
+
+By I. Watts.
+
+_Out of the Mouth of Babes and Sucklings thou hast perfected
+Praise_. Matt. xxi. 16.
+
+
+Transcriber's Note.
+
+Throughout, modern numerals have been substituted for their Roman
+equivalents.
+
+In Watts' dedication the original capitalisation, italics and
+spelling are retained; the aim thereby is to convey more accurately
+the flavour of the original.
+
+
+
+TO
+
+Mrs. SARAH     )
+Mrs. MARY _and_) ABNEY,
+Mrs. ELIZABETH )
+
+_Daughters of Sir_ THOMAS ABNEY, _Kt. and Alderman of London_.
+
+
+_My Dear Young Friends_,
+
+Whom I am constrained to love and honour by many Obligations. It was
+the generous and condescending Friendship of your Parents under my
+weak Circumstances of Health, that brought me to their Country-Seat
+for the Benefit of the Air; but it was an Instance of most uncommon
+Kindness, to supply me there so chearfully for two Years of Sickness
+with the richest Conveniences of Life. Such a Favour requires my
+most affectionate Returns of Service to themselves, and to all that
+is dear to them; and meer Gratitude demands some solemn and publick
+Acknowledgment.
+
+But great Minds have the true Relish and Pleasure of doing Good, and
+are content to be unknown.
+
+It is such a silent Satisfaction Sir _Thomas Abney_ enjoys in the
+unspeakable Blessings of this Year, that brought our present King to
+the Throne: and he permits the World to forget that happy Turn that
+was given to the Affairs of the Kingdom by his wise Management in
+the Highest Office of the City, whereby the Settlement of the Crown
+was so much strengthen'd in the Illustrious Family which now
+possesses it. O may the Crown flourish many Years on the Head of our
+Soveraign, and may his House possess it to the End of Time, to
+secure all Religious and Civil Liberties to the Posterity of those
+who have been so zealous to establish this Succession!
+
+The fair and lovely Character your Honoured Father hath acquired by
+passing thro' all the chief Offices of the City, and leaving a
+Lustre upon them, seems imperfect in his own Esteem, without the
+Addition of this Title, _A Succourer and a Friend of the Ministers
+of Christ_. And in this part of his Honour the Lady your Mother is
+resolved to have an unborrow'd Share, and becomes his daily Rival.
+
+It is to her unwearied Tenderness, and many kind Offices by Night
+and Day, in the more violent Seasons of my Indisposition, that
+(under God) I own my Life, and Power to write or think. And while I
+remember those Hours, I can't forget the cheerful and ready
+Attendance of her worthy Sister, her dear Companion and Assistant in
+every good Work.
+
+Under the Influence of two such Examples I have also enjoy'd the
+Pleasure and Conveniency of your younger Services, according to the
+Capacity of your Years; and that with such a Degree of sincere and
+hearty Zeal for my Welfare, that you are ready to vie with each
+other in the kind Imployment, and assist all you can toward my
+Recovery and Usefulness. So that whoever shall reap benefit by any
+of my Labours, it is but a reasonable Request, that you share with
+me in their Thanks and their Prayers.
+
+But this is a small Part of your Praise.
+
+If it would not be suspected of Flattery, I could tell the World
+what an Acquaintance with Scripture, what a Knowledge of Religion,
+what a Memory of Divine things both in Verse and Prose is found
+among you; and what a just and regular account is given of Sermons
+at your Age; to awaken all the Children that shall read these
+_Songs_, to furnish their memories and beautify their Souls like
+yours. The Honour you have done me in learning by heart so large a
+number of the _Hymns_ I have publish'd, perhaps has been of some use
+towards these greater Improvements, and gives me rich Encouragement
+to offer you this little Present.
+
+Since I have ventured to shew a Part of your early Character to the
+World, I perswade my self you will remember, that it must inlarge
+and brighten daily. Remember what the World will expect from the
+Daughters of Sir _Thomas Abney's_ Family, under such an Education,
+such Examples, and after such fair and promising Blossoms of Piety
+and Goodness. Remember what God himself will expect at your hands,
+from whose Grace you have received plentiful Distributions in the
+Beginning of your Days. May the Blessings of his Right Hand more
+enrich you daily, as your Capacities and your Years increase; and
+may he add bountifully of the Favours of his Left Hand, Riches and
+Honour. May his Grace make you so large a Return of all the Kindness
+I have received in your Family, as may prevail above the fondest
+Hopes of your Parents, and even exceed the warmest Prayers of
+
+_Your most Affectionate Monitor and obliged Servant in the daily
+Views of a future World_,
+
+
+I. WATTS.
+
+Theobalds,
+
+June 18.
+1715.
+
+
+PREFACE
+To all that are concerned in the Education of Children.
+
+
+
+My Friends,
+
+It is an awful and important charge that is committed to you. The
+wisdom and welfare of the succeeding generation are intrusted with
+you beforehand, and depend much on your conduct. The seeds of misery
+or happiness in this world, and that to come, are oftentimes sown
+very early, and therefore whatever may conduce to give the minds of
+children a relish for vertue and religion, ought in the first place
+to be proposed to you.
+
+Verse was at first design'd for the service of God, tho' it hath
+been wretchedly abused since. The ancients among the Jews and the
+Heathens taught their children and disciples the precepts of
+morality and worship in verse. The children of Israel were commanded
+to learn the words of the song of Moses, Deut. 31. 19,30. And we are
+directed in the New Testament, not only to sing with grace in the
+heart, but to teach and admonish one another by hymns and songs,
+Eph. 5. 19. and there are these four advantages in it:
+
+1. There is a greater delight in the very learning of truths and
+duties this way. There is something so amusing and entertaining in
+rhymes and metre, that will incline children to make this part of
+their business a diversion. And you may turn their very duty into a
+reward, by giving them the privilege of learning one of these songs
+every week, if they fulfil the business of the week well, and
+promising them the book itself when they have learned ten or twenty
+songs out of it.
+
+2. What is learnt in verse is longer retained in memory, and sooner
+recollected. The like sounds and the like number of syllables
+exceedingly assist the remembrance. And it may often happen, that
+the end of a song running in the mind may be an effectual means to
+keep off some temptation, or to incline to some duty, when a word of
+scripture is not upon the thoughts.
+
+3. This will be a constant furniture for the minds of children, that
+they may have something to think upon when alone, and sing over to
+themselves. This may sometimes give their thoughts a divine turn,
+and raise a young meditation. Thus they will not be forced to seek
+relief for an emptiness of mind out of the loose and dangerous
+sonnets of the age.
+
+4. These _Divine Songs_ may be a pleasant and proper matter for
+their daily or weekly worship, to sing one in the family at such
+time as the parents or governors shall appoint; and therefore I have
+confin'd the verse to the most usual psalm tunes.
+
+The greatest part of this little book was composed several years
+ago, at the request of a friend, who has been long engaged in the
+work of catechising a very great number of children of all kinds,
+and with abundant skill and success. So that you will find here
+nothing that savours of a party: the children of high and low
+degree, of the Church of England or Dissenters, baptized in infancy
+or not, may all join together in these songs. And as I have
+endeavoured to sink the language to the level of a child's
+understanding, and yet to keep it (if possible) above contempt; so I
+have designed to profit all (if possible) and offend none. I hope
+the more general the sense is, these composures may be of the more
+universal use and service.
+
+I have added at the end an attempt or two of _Sonnets_ on _Moral
+Subjects_ for children, with an air of pleasantry, to provoke some
+fitter pen to write a little book of them. My talent doth not lie
+that way, and a man on the borders of the grave has other work.
+Besides, if I had health or leisure to lay out this way, it should
+be employ'd in finishing the _Psalms_, which I have so long promised
+the world.
+
+May the Almighty God make you faithful in this important work of
+education: may he succeed your cares with his abundant graces, that
+the rising generation of Great Britain may be a glory amongst the
+nations, a pattern to the Christian world, and a blessing to the
+earth.
+
+
+
+Divine Songs
+
+For
+
+Children.
+
+
+Song 1.
+_A General Song of Praise to God_.
+
+1 How glorious is our Heavenly King,
+Who reigns above the sky!
+How shall a child presume to sing
+His dreadful majesty?
+
+2 How great his power is none can tell,
+Nor think how large his grace;
+Not men below, nor saints that dwell
+On high before his face.
+
+3 Not angels that stand round the Lord
+Can search his secret will;
+But they perform his heavenly word,
+And sing his praises still.
+
+4 Then let me join this holy train,
+And my first offerings bring;
+Th' eternal God will not disdain
+To hear an infant sing.
+
+5 My heart resolves, my tongue obeys,
+And angels shall rejoice
+To hear their mighty Maker's praise
+Sound from a feeble voice.
+
+
+Song 2.
+_Praise for Creation and Providence_.
+
+1 I sing th' almighty power of God,
+That made the mountains rise,
+That spread the flowing seas abroad,
+And built the lofty skies.
+
+2 I sing the wisdom that ordain'd
+The sun to rule the day;
+The moon shines full at his command,
+And all the stars obey.
+
+3 I sing the goodness of the Lord,
+That fill'd the earth with food;
+He form'd the creatures with his Word,
+And then pronounced them good.
+
+4 Lord, how thy wonders are display'd
+Where'er I turn mine eye,
+If I survey the ground I tread,
+Or gaze upon the sky.
+
+5 There's not a plant or flower below
+But makes thy glories known;
+And clouds arise and tempests blow
+By order from thy throne.
+
+6 Creatures (as num'rous as they be)
+Are subject to thy care:
+There's not a place where we can flee,
+But God is present there.
+
+7 In heaven he shines with beams of love,
+With wrath in hell beneath:
+'Tis on his earth I stand or move,
+And 'tis his air I breathe.
+
+8 His hand is my perpetual guard,
+He keeps me with his eye:
+Why should I then forget the Lord
+Who is for ever nigh?
+
+
+Song 3.
+_Praise to God for our Redemption_.
+
+1 Blest be the wisdom and the power,
+The justice and the grace,
+That join'd in council to restore
+And save our ruin'd race!
+
+2 Our father eat forbidden fruit,
+And from his glory fell;
+And we, his children, thus were brought
+To death, and near to hell.
+
+3 Blest be the Lord, that sent his Son
+To take our flesh and blood;
+He for our lives gave up his own,
+To make our peace with God.
+
+4 He honour'd all his Father's laws,
+Which we have disobey'd;
+He bore our sins upon the cross,
+And our full ransom paid.
+
+5 Behold him rising from the grave;
+Behold him rais'd on high:
+He pleads his merits there to save
+Transgressors doom'd to die.
+
+6 There on a glorious throne, he reigns,
+And by his power divine
+Redeems us from the slavish chains
+Of Satan, and of sin.
+
+7 Thence shall the Lord to judgment come,
+And, with a sovereign voice,
+Shall call, and break up every tomb,
+While waking saints rejoice.
+
+8 O may I then with joy appear
+Before the Judge's face,
+And, with the blest assembly there,
+Sing his redeeming grace!
+
+
+Song 4.
+_Praise for Mercies Spiritual and Temporal_.
+
+1 Whene'er I take my walks abroad,
+How many poor I see?
+What shall I render to my God
+For all his gifts to me?
+
+2 Not more than others I deserve,
+Yet God hath given me more;
+For I have food, while others starve,
+Or beg from door to door.
+
+3 How many children in the street
+Half naked I behold?
+While I am clothed from head to feet,
+And cover'd from the cold.
+
+4 While some poor wretches scarce can tell
+Where they may lay their head,
+I have a home wherein to dwell,
+And rest upon my bed.
+
+5 While others early learn to swear,
+And curse, and lie, and steal,
+Lord, I am taught thy name to fear,
+And do thy holy will.
+
+6 Are these thy favours, day by day
+To me above the rest?
+Then let me love thee more than they,
+And try to serve thee best.
+
+
+Song 5.
+_Praise for Birth and Education in a Christian Land_.
+
+1 Great God, to thee my voice I raise,
+To thee my youngest hours belong;
+I would begin my life with praise,
+Till growing years improve the song.
+
+2 'Tis to thy soveraign grace I owe,
+That I was born on Brittish ground,
+Where streams of heavenly mercy flow,
+And words of sweet salvation sound.
+
+3 I would not change my native land
+For rich Peru, with all her gold:
+A nobler prize lies in my hand
+Than East or Western Indies hold.
+
+4 How do I pity those that dwell
+Where ignorance and darkness reigns;
+They know no heav'n, they fear no hell,
+Those endless joys, those endless pains.
+
+5 Thy glorious promises, O Lord,
+Kindle my hope and my desire;
+While all the preachers of thy word
+Warn me t' escape eternal fire.
+
+6 Thy praise shall still employ my breath,
+Since thou hast mark'd my way to heaven;
+Nor will I run the road to death,
+And wast the blessings thou hast given.
+
+
+Song 6.
+_Praise for the Gospel_.
+
+1 Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,
+And not to chance as others do,
+That I was born of Christian race,
+And not a Heathen, or a Jew.
+
+2 What would the ancient Jewish kings,
+And Jewish prophets once have given,
+Could they have heard these glorious things,
+Which Christ reveal'd, and brought from heav'n!
+
+3 How glad the Heathens would have been,
+That worship idols, wood, and stone,
+If they the book of God had seen,
+Or Jesus and his gospel known!
+
+4 Then if the Gospel I refuse,
+How shall I e'er lift up mine eyes?
+For all the Gentiles and the Jews
+Against me will in judgment rise.
+
+
+Song 7.
+_The Excellency of the Bible_.
+
+1 Great God, with wonder and with praise,
+On all thy works I look;
+But still thy wisdom, power and grace
+Shine brighter in thy Book.
+
+2 The stars that in their courses roll,
+Have much instruction given;
+But thy good Word informs my soul
+How I may climb to heaven.
+
+3 The fields provide me food, and show
+The goodness of the Lord;
+But fruits of life and glory grow
+In thy most holy Word.
+
+4 Here are my choicest treasures hid,
+Here my best comfort lies;
+Here my desires are satisfy'd;
+And hence my hopes arise.
+
+5 Lord, make me understand thy law,
+Show what my faults have been;
+And from thy Gospel let me draw
+Pardon for all my sin.
+
+6 Here would I learn how Christ has dy'd
+To save my soul from hell:
+Not all the books on earth beside
+Such heav'nly wonders tell.
+
+7 Then let me love my Bible more,
+And take a fresh delight
+By day to read these wonders o'er,
+And meditate by night.
+
+
+Song 8.
+_Praise to God for learning to read_.
+
+1 The praises of my tongue
+I offer to the Lord,
+That I was taught, and learnt so young
+To read his holy Word.
+
+2 That I am taught to know
+The danger I was in,
+By nature and by practice too
+A wretched slave to sin.
+
+3 That I am led to see
+I can do nothing well;
+And whither shall a sinner flee,
+To save himself from hell?
+
+4 Dear Lord, this book of thine
+Informs me where to go
+For grace to pardon all my sin,
+And make me holy too.
+
+5 Here I can read and learn
+How Christ the Son of God
+Did undertake our great concern,
+Our ransom cost his blood.
+
+6 And now he reigns above,
+He sends his Spirit down,
+To show the wonders of his love,
+And make his Gospel known.
+
+7 O may that Spirit teach,
+And make my heart receive
+Those truths which all thy servants preach,
+And all thy saints believe!
+
+8 Then shall I praise the Lord
+In a more chearful strain,
+That I was taught to read his Word,
+And have not learnt in vain.
+
+
+Song 9.
+The All-Seeing God.
+
+1 Almighty God, thy piercing eye
+Strikes through the shades of night,
+And our most secret actions lie
+All open to thy sight.
+
+2 There's not a sin that we commit,
+Nor wicked word we say,
+But in thy dreadful book `tis writ
+Against the judgment-day.
+
+3 And must the crimes that I have done
+Be read and publish'd there,
+Be all exposed before the sun,
+While men and angels hear?
+
+4 Lord, at thy feet ashamed I lie,
+Upward I dare not look;
+Pardon my sins before I die,
+And blot them from thy book.
+
+5 Remember all the dying pains
+That my Redeemer felt,
+And let his blood wash out my stains,
+And answer for my guilt.
+
+6 O may I now for ever fear
+T' indulge a sinful thought,
+Since the great God can see, and hear,
+And writes down every fault!
+
+
+Song 10.
+_Solemn Thoughts of God and Death_.
+
+1 There is a God that reigns above,
+Lord of the heavens, and earth, and seas:
+I fear his wrath, I ask his love,
+And with my lips I sing his praise.
+
+2 There is a law which he has writ,
+To teach us all what we must do;
+My soul, to his commands submit,
+For they are holy, just and true.
+
+3 There is a Gospel of rich grace,
+Whence sinners all their comfort draw;
+Lord, I repent, and seek thy face;
+For I have often broke thy law.
+
+4 There is an hour when I must die,
+Nor do I know how soon `twill come;
+A thousand children young as I
+Are call'd by death to hear their doom.
+
+5 Let me improve the hours I have
+Before the day of grace is fled;
+There's no repentance in the grave,
+No pardons offer'd to the dead.
+
+6 Just as a tree cut down, that fell
+To north, or southward, there it lies:
+So man departs to heaven or hell,
+Fix'd in the state wherein he dies.
+
+
+Song 11.
+_Heaven and Hell_.
+
+1 There is beyond the sky
+A heaven of joy and love,
+And holy children, when they die,
+Go to that world above.
+
+2 There is a dreadful hell,
+And everlasting pains,
+There sinners must with devils dwell
+In darkness, fire, and chains.
+
+3 Can such a wretch as I
+Escape this cursed end?
+And may I hope, whene'er I die,
+I shall to heaven ascend?
+
+4 Then will I read and pray
+While I have life and breath;
+Lest I should be cut off to day,
+And sent t' eternal death.
+
+
+Song 12.
+_The Advantages of early Religion_.
+
+1 Happy's the child whose youngest years
+Receive instruction well;
+Who hates the sinner's path, and fears
+The road that leads to hell.
+
+2 When we devote our youth to God,
+'Tis pleasing in his eyes;
+A flower, when offer'd in the bud,
+Is no vain sacrifice.
+
+3 'Tis easier work if we begin
+To fear the Lord betimes;
+While sinners that grow old in sin
+Are hard'ned in their crimes.
+
+4 'Twill save us from a thousand snares
+To mind religion young;
+Grace will preserve our following years
+And make our vertue strong.
+
+5 To thee, Almighty God, to thee
+Our childhood we resign;
+'Twill please us to look back and see
+That our whole lives were thine.
+
+6 Let the sweet work of prayer and praise,
+Employ my youngest breath;
+Thus I'm prepar'd for longer days,
+Or fit for early death.
+
+
+Song 13.
+_The Danger of Delay_.
+
+1 Why should I say, "`Tis yet too soon
+"To seek for heaven or think of death?"
+A flower may fade before `tis noon,
+And I this day may lose my breath.
+
+2 If this rebellious heart of mine,
+Despise the gracious calls of Heaven;
+I may be hard'ned in my sin,
+And never have repentance given.
+
+3 What if the Lord grow wroth, and swear
+While I refuse to read and pray,
+That he'll refuse to lend an ear,
+To all my groans another day?
+
+4 What if his dreadful anger burn,
+While I refuse his offer'd grace,
+And all his love to fury turn,
+And strike me dead upon the place?
+
+5 'Tis dangerous to provoke a God;
+His power and vengeance none can tell:
+One stroke of his almighty rod
+Shall send young sinners quick to hell.
+
+6 Then `twill for ever be in vain
+To cry for pardon or for grace,
+To wish I had my time again,
+Or hope to see my Maker's face.
+
+
+Song 14.
+_Examples of early piety_.
+
+1 What blest examples do I find
+Writ in the Word of Truth,
+Of children that began to mind
+Religion in their youth.
+
+2 Jesus, who reigns above the skie,
+And keeps the world in awe;
+Was once a child as young as I,
+And kept his Father's law.
+
+3 At twelve years old he talk'd with men,
+(The Jews all wondering stand;)
+Yet he obey'd his Mother then,
+And came at her command.
+
+4 Children a sweet hosanna sung,
+And blest their Saviour's name;
+They gave him honour with their tongue
+While scribes and priests blaspheme.
+
+5 Samuel the child was wean'd, and brought
+To wait upon the Lord;
+Young Timothy betimes was taught
+To know his holy Word.
+
+6 Then why should I so long delay
+What others learn so soon?
+I would not pass another day
+Without this work begun.
+
+
+Song 15.
+_Against Lying_.
+
+1 O `tis a lovely thing for youth
+To walk betimes in wisdom's way;
+To fear a lye, to speak the truth,
+That we may trust to all they say.
+
+2 But lyars we can never trust,
+Though they should speak the thing that's true,
+And he that does one fault at first,
+And lyes to hide it, makes it two.
+
+3 Have we not known, nor heard, nor read,
+How God abhors deceit and wrong?
+How Ananias was struck dead
+Catch'd with a lye upon his tongue?
+
+4 So did his wife Sapphira die
+When she came in, and grew so bold
+As to confirm that wicked lye
+That just before her husband told.
+
+5 The Lord delights in them that speak
+The words of truth; but every lyar
+Must have his portion in the lake
+That burns with brimstone and with fire.
+
+6 Then let me always watch my lips,
+Lest I be struck to death and hell,
+Since God a book of reckoning keeps
+For every lye that children tell.
+
+
+Song 16.
+_Against Quarrelling and Fighting_.
+
+1 Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
+For God has made them so;
+Let bears and lyons growl and fight,
+For `tis their nature too.
+
+2 But, children, you should never let
+Such angry passions rise;
+Your little hands were never made
+To tear each other's eyes.
+
+3 Let love thro' all your actions run,
+And all your words be mild;
+Live like the blessed Virgin's Son,
+That sweet and lovely child.
+
+4 His soul was gentle as a lamb;
+And as his stature grew,
+He grew in favour both with man
+And God his Father too.
+
+5 Now, Lord of all, he reigns above,
+And from his heavenly throne,
+He sees what children dwell in love,
+And marks them for his own.
+
+
+Song 17.
+_Love between Brothers and Sisters_.
+
+1 What ever brawls are in the street
+There should be peace at home;
+Where sisters dwell and brothers meet
+Quarrels shou'd never come.
+
+2 Birds in their little nests agree;
+And `tis a shameful sight,
+When children of one family
+Fall out, and chide, and fight.
+
+3 Hard names at first, and threatening words,
+That are but noisy breath,
+May grow to clubs and naked swords,
+To murder and to death.
+
+4 The devil tempts one mother's son
+To rage against another:
+So wicked Cain was hurried on,
+Till he had kill'd his brother.
+
+5 The wise will make their anger cool
+At least before `tis night;
+But in the bosom of a fool
+It burns till morning light.
+
+5 Pardon, O Lord, our childish rage;
+Our little brawls remove;
+That as we grow to riper age,
+Our hearts may all be love.
+
+
+Song 18.
+_Against Scoffing and calling Names_.
+
+1 Our tongues were made to bless the Lord,
+And not speak ill of men:
+When others give a railing word,
+We must not rail again.
+
+2 Cross words and angry names require
+To be chastiz'd at school;
+And he's in danger of hell-fire,
+That calls his brother, fool.
+
+3 But lips that dare be so prophane
+To mock and jeer and scoff
+At holy things, or holy men,
+The Lord shall cut them off.
+
+4 When children, in their wanton play
+Served old Elisha so,
+And bade the prophet go his way,
+"Go up, thou bald head, go."
+
+5 God quickly stopt their wicked breath,
+And sent two raging bears,
+That tore them limb from limb to death,
+With blood and groans and tears.
+
+6 Great God, how terrible art thou
+To sinners ne'er so young!
+Grant me thy grace and teach me how
+To tame and rule my tongue.
+
+
+Song 19.
+_Against Swearing and Cursing, and taking God's Name in vain_.
+
+1 Angels that high in glory dwell
+Adore thy Name, Almighty God!
+And devils tremble down in hell
+Beneath the terrors of thy rod.
+
+2 And yet how wicked children dare
+Abuse thy dreadful glorious Name!
+And when they're angry, how they swear,
+And curse their fellows, and blaspheme!
+
+3 How will they stand before thy face,
+Who treated thee with such disdain,
+While thou shalt doom them to the place
+Of everlasting fire and pain?
+
+4 Then never shall one cooling drop
+To quench their burning tongues be giv'n.
+But I will praise thee here, and hope
+Thus to employ my tongue in heav'n.
+
+5 My heart shall be in pain to hear
+Wretches affront the Lord above;
+'Tis that great God whose power I fear,
+That heavenly Father whom I love.
+
+6 If my companions grow profane,
+I'll leave their friendship when I hear
+Young sinners take thy name in vain,
+And learn to curse, and learn to swear.
+
+
+Song 20.
+_Against Idleness and Mischief_.
+
+1 How doth the little busy bee
+Improve each shining hour,
+And gather honey all the day
+From every opening flower!
+
+2 How skilfully she builds her cell!
+How neat she spreads the wax!
+And labours hard to store it well
+With the sweet food she makes.
+
+3 In works of labour or of skill
+I would be busy too:
+For Satan finds some mischief still
+For idle hands to do.
+
+4 In books, or work, or healthful play
+Let my first years be past,
+That I may give for every day
+Some good account at last.
+
+
+Song 21.
+_Against evil Company_.
+
+1 Why should I join with those in play
+In whom I've no delight;
+Who curse and swear, but never play;
+Who call ill names, and fight?
+
+2 I hate to hear a wanton song:
+Their words offend my ears:
+I should not dare defile my tongue
+With language such as theirs.
+
+3 Away from fools I'll turn my eyes,
+Nor with the scoffers go:
+I would be walking with the wise,
+That wiser I may grow.
+
+4 From one rude boy, that's used to mock,
+They learn the wicked jest:
+One sickly sheep infects the flock,
+And poisons all the rest.
+
+5 My God, I hate to walk or dwell
+With sinful children here:
+Then let me not be sent to hell,
+Where none but sinners are.
+
+
+Song 22.
+_Against Pride in Clothes_.
+
+1 Why should our garments, made to hide
+Our parents' shame, provoke our pride?
+The art of dress did ne'er begin
+Till Eve our mother learnt to sin.
+
+2 When first she put the covering on,
+Her robe of innocence was gone;
+And yet her children vainly boast
+In the sad marks of glory lost.
+
+3 How proud we are! how fond to shew
+Our clothes, and call them rich and new,
+When the poor sheep and silkworms wore
+That very clothing long before!
+
+4 The tulip and the butterfly
+Appear in gayer coats than I:
+Let me be dress'd fine as I will,
+Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
+
+5 Then will I set my heart to find
+Inward adornings of the mind:
+Knowledge and virtue, truth and grace,
+These are the robes of richest dress.
+
+6 No more shall worms with me compare,
+This is the raiment angels wear:
+The Son of God, when here below,
+Put on this blest apparel too.
+
+6 It never fades, it ne'er grows old,
+Nor fears the rain, nor moth, nor mould:
+It takes no spot, but still refines;
+The more `tis worn, the more it shines.
+
+7 In this on earth would I appear,
+Then go to heaven, and wear it there:
+God will approve it in his sight;
+'Tis his own work, and his delight.
+
+
+Song 23.
+_Obedience to Parents_.
+
+1 Let children that would fear the Lord
+Hear what their teachers say;
+With reverence meet their parents' word,
+And with delight obey.
+
+2 Have you not heard what dreadful plagues
+Are threaten'd by the Lord,
+To him that breaks his father's law,
+Or mocks his mother's word?
+
+3 What heavy guilt upon him lies!
+How cursed is his name!
+The ravens shall pick out his eyes,
+And eagles eat the same.
+
+4 But those who worship God, and give
+Their parents honour due,
+Here on this earth they long shall live,
+And live hereafter, too.
+
+
+Song 24.
+_The Child's Complaint_.
+
+1 Why should I love my sports so well,
+So constant at my play,
+And lose the thoughts of heaven and hell,
+And then forget to pray?
+
+2 What do I read my Bible for,
+But, Lord, to learn thy will?
+And shall I daily know thee more,
+And less obey thee still?
+
+3 How senseless is my heart, and wild!
+How vain are all my thoughts!
+Pity the weakness of a child,
+And pardon all my faults.
+
+4 Make me thy heavenly voice to hear,
+And let me love to pray;
+Since God will lend a gracious ear
+To what a child can say.
+
+
+Song 25.
+_A Morning Song_.
+
+1 My God, who makes the sun to know
+His proper hour to rise;
+And, to give light to all below,
+Doth send him round the skies:
+
+2 When from the chambers of the east
+His morning race begins,
+He never tires, nor stops to rest,
+But round the world he shines.
+
+3 So, like the sun, would I fulfil
+The business of the day;
+Begin my work betimes, and still
+March on my heavenly way.
+
+4 Give me, O Lord, thy early grace,
+Nor let my soul complain
+That the young morning of my day
+Has all been spent in vain!
+
+
+Song 26.
+_An Evening Song_.
+
+1 And now another day is gone,
+I'll sing my Maker's praise!
+My comforts every hour make known
+His providence and grace.
+
+2 But how my childhood runs to waste
+My sins how great their sum!
+Lord, give me pardon for the past,
+And strength for days to come.
+
+3 I lay my body down to sleep,
+Let angels guard my head;
+And, through the hours of darkness, keep
+Their watch around my head.
+
+4 With cheerful heart I close mine eyes,
+Since thou wilt not remove;
+And in the morning let me rise
+Rejoicing in thy love.
+
+
+Song 27.
+_For the Lord's Day Morning_.
+
+1 This is the day when Christ arose
+So early from the dead:
+Why should I my eyelids close,
+And waste my hours in bed?
+
+2 This is the day when Jesus broke
+The powers of death and hell;
+And shall I still wear Satan's yoke,
+And love my sins so well?
+
+3 To-day, with pleasure, Christians meet,
+To pray, and hear thy Word;
+And I would go with cheerful feet
+To learn thy will, O Lord!
+
+4 I'll leave my sport, to read and pray,
+And so prepare for heaven:
+O may I love this blessed day
+The best of all the seven!
+
+
+Song 28.
+_For Lord's Day Evening_.
+
+1 Lord, how delightful `tis to see
+A whole assembly worship thee!
+At once they sing, at once they pray;
+They hear of heaven, and learn the way.
+
+2 I have been there, and still would go
+'Tis like a little heaven below!
+Not all my pleasure and my play
+Should tempt me to forget this day.
+
+3 O write upon my memory, Lord,
+The text and doctrines of thy Word,
+That I may break thy laws no more,
+But love thee better than before!
+
+4 With thoughts of Christ and things divine
+Fill up this foolish heart of mine:
+That, hoping pardon through his blood,
+I may lie down, and wake with God.
+
+
+The TEN COMMANDMENTS out of the Old Testament put into short
+Rhime for Children.
+
+Exod. 20.
+
+1. Thou shalt have no more Gods but me.
+2. Before no idol bow thy knee.
+3. Take not the Name of God in vain:
+4. Nor dare the Sabbath Day profane.
+5. Give both thy parents honour due.
+6. Take heed that thou no murder do.
+7. Abstain from words and deeds unclean:
+8. Nor steal, though thou art poor and mean.
+9. Nor make a wilful lie, nor love it.
+10. What is thy neighbour's, dare not covet.
+
+
+The Sum of the Commandments out of the New Testament.
+
+Matt. 22. 37.
+
+With all thy Soul love God above;
+And as thyself thy Neighbour love.
+
+
+Our Saviour's Golden Rule.
+
+Matt. 7. 12.
+
+Be you to others Kind and True,
+As you'd have others be to you.
+And neither do nor say to Men
+Whate'er you would not take again.
+
+
+Duty to God and our neighbour.
+
+Love God with all your Soul and Strength.
+With all your Heart and Mind;
+And love your Neighbour as your self:
+Be faithful, just, and kind.
+
+Deal with another as you'd have
+Another deal with you.
+What you're unwilling to receive,
+Be sure you never do.
+
+
+Out of my Book of _Hymns_, I have here added, the _Hosanna_ and
+_Glory to the Father_, &c. to be sung at the end of any of these
+Songs, according to the Direction of Parents or Governors.
+
+
+The _Hosanna_; or Salvation ascribed to Christ.
+
+Long Metre.
+
+1 _Hosanna_ to king _David's_ Son,
+Who reigns on a superior Throne;
+We bless the Prince of Heav'nly Birth,
+Who brings Salvation down to Earth.
+
+2 Let every nation, every age,
+In this delightful work engage;
+Old Men and Babes in _Sion_ sing
+The growing glories of her King!
+
+
+Common Metre.
+
+1 _Hosanna_ to the Prince of Grace;
+_Sion_ behold thy King;
+Proclaim the Son of _David's_ Race,
+And teach the Babes to sing.
+
+2 _Hosanna_ to th' Eternal Word,
+Who from the Father came;
+Ascribe Salvation to the Lord,
+With Blessings on his Name!
+
+
+Short Metre.
+
+1 _Hosanna_ to the Son
+Of _David_ and of God,
+Who brought the News of Pardon down,
+And bought it with his Blood.
+
+2 To Christ, th' anointed King,
+Be endless blessings giv'n,
+Let the whole Earth his Glory sing
+Who made our Peace with Heav'n.
+
+
+Glory to the Father and the Son, &c.
+
+Long Metre.
+
+To God the Father, God the Son,
+And God the Spirit, Three in One,
+Be Honour, Praise, and Glory giv'n,
+By all on Earth, and all in Heav'n.
+
+
+Common Metre.
+
+Now let the Father and the Son,
+And Spirit be ador'd,
+Where there are works to make him known,
+Or saints to love the Lord.
+
+
+Short Metre.
+
+Give to the Father Praise,
+Give Glory to the Son,
+And to the Spirit of his Grace
+Be equal Honour done.
+
+
+
+
+A Slight SPECIMEN of MORAL SONGS,
+
+_Such as I wish some happy and condescending Genius would undertake
+for the use of Children, and perform much better_.
+
+The sense and subjects might be borrow'd plentifully from the
+_Proverbs of Solomon_, from all the common appearances of nature,
+from all the occurrences in the civil life, both in city and country:
+(which would also afford matter for other divine songs). Here the
+language and measures should be easy and flowing with cheerfulness,
+and without the solemnities of religion, or the sacred names
+of God and holy things; that children might find delight and profit
+together.
+
+This would be one effectual way to deliver them from the temptation
+of loving and learning those idle, wanton or profane songs, which
+give so early an ill taint to the fancy and memory, and become
+the seeds of future vices.
+
+
+_The Sluggard_.
+
+1 'Tis the voice of the Sluggard. I heard him complain
+"You have waked me too soon! I must slumber again!"
+As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed,
+Turns his sides, and his shoulders, and his heavy head.
+
+2 "A little more sleep, and a little more slumber;"
+Thus he wastes half his days, and his hours without number:
+And when he gets up, he sits folding his hands
+Or walks about sauntering, or trifling he stands.
+
+3 I past by his garden, and saw the wild bryar
+The thorn and the thistle grow broader and higher:
+The clothes that hang on him are turning to rags;
+And his money still wasts, still he starves, or he begs.
+
+4 I made him a visit, still hoping to find
+He had took better care for improving his mind:
+He told me his dreams, talk'd of eating and drinking,
+But he scarce reads his Bible, and never loves thinking.
+
+5 Said I then to my heart, "Here's a lesson for me,"
+That man's but a picture of what I might be:
+But thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding:
+Who taught me betimes to love working and reading!
+
+
+_Innocent Play_.
+
+1 Abroad in the meadows to see the young lambs,
+Run sporting about by the side of their dams
+With fleeces so clean, and so white;
+Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage,
+When they play all in love without anger or rage,
+How much may we learn from the sight!
+
+2 If we had been ducks, we might dabble in mud:
+Or dogs, we might play till it ended in blood;
+So foul, or so fierce are their natures.
+But Thomas and William, and such pretty names,
+Should be cleanly and harmless as doves, or as lambs,
+Those lovely sweet innocent creatures.
+
+3 Not a thing that we do, nor a word that we say,
+Should injure another in jesting or play;
+For he's still in earnest that's hurt.
+How rude are the boys that throw pebbles and mire!
+There's none but a mad-man will fling about fire,
+And tell you, "`Tis all but in sport."
+
+
+The End.
+
+
+The TABLE.
+
+ 1. A General Song of Praise to God.
+ 2. Praise for Creation and Providence.
+ 3. Praise to God for our Redemption.
+ 4. Praise for mercies Spiritual and Temporal.
+ 5. Praise for Birth and Education in a Christian Land.
+ 6. Praise for the Gospel.
+ 7. The Excellency of the Bible.
+ 8. Praise to God for learning to read.
+ 9. The All-seeing God.
+10. Solemn Thoughts of God and Death.
+11. Heaven and Hell.
+12. The Advantages of early Religion.
+13. The Danger of Delays.
+14. Examples of early Piety.
+15. Against lying.
+16. Against Quarrelling and Fighting.
+17. Love between Brothers and Sisters.
+18. Against scoffing and calling Names.
+19. Against swearing and cursing, and taking God's Name in vain.
+20. Against Idleness and Mischief.
+21. Against Evil Company.
+22. Against Pride in Clothes.
+23. Obedience to Parents.
+24. The Child's Complaint.
+25. A Morning Song.
+26. An Evening Song.
+27. An Hymn for the Lord's Day Morning.
+28. An Hymn for the Lord's Day Evening.
+    The Ten Commandments.
+    The Sum of the Commandments.
+    Our Saviour's Golden Rule.
+    Duty to God and our Neighbour.
+    The Hosanna in Long Metre.
+                in Common Metre.
+                in Short Metre.
+    Glory to the Father in Long Metre.
+                        in Common Metre.
+                        in Short Metre.
+
+A slight Specimen of Moral Songs, viz.
+    The Sluggard.
+    Innocent Play.
+
+
+    The End of the Table.
+
+
+
+ADDENDUM to the Moral Songs.
+
+
+Transcriber's Note.
+
+In the 1715 edition, for the reasons explained by Watts in his
+Preface, there are only two moral songs, namely "The Sluggard" and
+"Innocent Play." Those added later are included in this Addendum.
+The texts are from an 1866 printing in New York, posted into the
+public domain by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) at
+
+http://www.ccel.org/ccel/watts/divsongs.html
+
+
+
+Song 3.
+The Rose.
+12,8,12,8
+
+How fair is the Rose! what a beautiful flower!
+The glory of April and May:
+But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour,
+And they wither and die in a day.
+
+Yet the Rose has one powerful virtue to boast,
+Above all the flowers of the field!
+When its leaves are all dead and fine colours are lost,
+Still how sweet a perfume it will yield!
+
+So frail is the youth and the beauty of man,
+Though they bloom and look gay like the Rose;
+But all our fond care to preserve them is vain,
+Time kills them as fast as he goes.
+
+Then I'll not be proud of my youth and my beauty,
+Since both of them wither and fade;
+But gain a good name by well doing my duty:
+This will scent like a Rose when I'm dead.
+
+
+Song 4.
+The thief
+8,7,8,7
+
+Why should I deprive my neighbour
+Of his goods against his will?
+Hands were made for honest labour,
+Not to plunder, or to steal.
+
+'Tis a foolish self-deceiving
+By such tricks to hope for gain:
+
+All that's ever got by thieving
+Turns to sorrow, shame, and pain.
+
+Have not Eve and Adam taught us
+Their sad profit to compute,
+To what dismal state they brought us
+When they stole forbidden fruit?
+
+Oft we see a young beginner
+Practice little pilfering ways,
+Till grown up a harden'd sinner,
+Then the gallows ends his days.
+
+Theft will not be always hidden,
+Though we fancy none can spy:
+When we take a thing forbidden,
+God beholds it with his eye.
+
+Guard my heart, O God of heaven,
+Lest I covet what's not mine;
+Lest I steal what is not given,
+Guard my heart and hands from sin.
+
+
+Song 5.
+The ant, or emmet.
+11,11,8,11,11,8
+
+These Emmets, how little they are in our eyes!
+We tread them to dust, and a troop of them dies,
+Without our regard or concern:
+Yet, as wise as we are, if we went to their school,
+There's many a sluggard and many a fool
+Some lessons of wisdom might learn.
+
+They wear not their time out in sleeping or play,
+But gather up corn in a sunshiny day,
+And for winter they lay up their stores:
+They manage their work in such regular forms,
+One would think they foresaw all the frosts and the storms,
+And so brought their food withindoors.
+
+But I have less sense than a poor creeping Ant,
+If I take not due care for the things I shall want,
+Nor provide against dangers in time;
+When death or old age shall once stare in my face,
+What a wretch shall I be in the end of my days,
+If I trifle away all their prime!
+
+Now, now, while my strength and my youth are in bloom,
+Let me think what shall serve me when sickness shall come,
+And pray that my sins be forgiven.
+Let me read in good books, and believe, and obey;
+That, when death turns me out of this cottage of clay,
+I may dwell in a palace in heaven.
+
+
+Song 6.
+Good resolutions.
+7,8,7,8
+
+Though I'm now in younger days,
+Nor can tell what shall befall me,
+I'll prepare for every place
+Where my growing age shall call me.
+
+Should I e'er be rich or great,
+Others shall partake my goodness:
+I'll supply the poor with meat,
+Never showing scorn or rudeness.
+
+Where I see the blind or lame,
+Deaf or dumb, I'll kindly treat them:
+I deserve to feel the same,
+If I mock, or hurt, or cheat them.
+
+If I meet with railing tongues,
+Why should I return them railing,
+Since I best revenge my wrongs
+By my patience never failing?
+
+When I hear them telling lies,
+Talking foolish, cursing, swearing,
+First I'll try to make them wise,
+Or I'll soon go out of hearing.
+
+What though I be low or mean,
+I'll engage the rich to love me,
+While I'm modest, neat, and clean,
+And submit when they reprove me.
+
+If I should be poor and sick,
+I shall meet, I hope, with pity;
+Since I love to help the weak,
+Though they're neither fair nor witty.
+
+I'll not willingly offend,
+Nor be easily offended:
+What's amiss I'll strive to mend,
+And endure what can't be mended.
+
+May I be so watchful still
+O'er my humours and my passion,
+As to speak and do no ill,
+Though it should be all the fashion.
+
+Wicked fashions lead to hell;
+Ne'er may I be found complying;
+But in life behave so well,
+Not to be afraid of dying.
+
+
+Song 7.
+Summer's evening.
+11,11,11,9
+
+How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun!
+How lovely and joyful the course that he run;
+Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun,
+And there followed some droppings of rain:
+But now the fair traveller's come to the west,
+His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best;
+He paints the skies gay as he sinks to his rest,
+And foretells a bright rising again.
+
+Just such is the Christian. His course he begins
+Like the sun in a mist, while he mourns for his sins,
+And melts into tears! then he breaks out and shines,
+And travels his heavenly way:
+But when he comes nearer to finish his race,
+Like a fine setting sun, he looks richer in grace;
+And gives a sure hope, at the end of his days,
+Of rising in brighter array.
+
+
+Song 8.
+Cradle hymn.
+8,7,8,7
+
+Hush, my dear! Lie still, and slumber!
+Holy angels guard thy bed!
+Heavenly blessings, without number,
+Gently falling on thy head.
+
+Sleep, my babe! thy food and raiment,
+House and home, thy friends provide;
+All without thy care or payment,
+All thy wants are well supplied.
+
+How much better thou'rt attended
+Than the Son of God could be,
+When from heaven he descended,
+And became a child like thee!
+
+Soft and easy is thy cradle:
+Coarse and hard thy Saviour lay,
+When his birthplace was a stable,
+And his softest bed was hay.
+
+Blessed Babe! what glorious features,--
+Spotless fair, divinely bright!
+Must he dwell with brutal creatures?
+How could angels bear the sight?
+
+Was there nothing but a manger
+Cursed sinners could afford,
+To receive the heavenly stranger?
+Did they thus affront the Lord?
+
+Soft, my child! I did not chide thee,
+Though my song might sound too hard:
+'Tis thy mother sits beside thee,
+And her arm shall be thy guard.
+
+Yet to read the shameful story.
+How the Jews received their King,
+How they served the Lord of Glory,
+Makes me angry while I sing.
+
+See the kinder shepherds round him,
+Telling wonders from the sky!
+Where hey sought him, there they found him,
+With his Virgin-mother by.
+
+See the lovely Babe a-dressing:
+Lovely infant, how he smiled!
+When he wept, his mother's blessing
+Sooth'd and hush'd the holy Child.
+
+Lo, he slumbers in a manger,
+Where the horned oxen fed!--
+Peace, my darling, here's no danger:
+There's no ox a-near thy bed.
+
+'Twas so save thee, child, from dying,
+Save my dear from burning flame,
+Bitter groans and endless crying,
+That thy blest Redeemer came.
+
+May'st thou live to know and fear him,
+Trust and love him all thy days,
+Then go dwell for ever near him:
+See his face, and sing his praise!
+
+I could give thee thousand kisses!
+Hoping what I most desire,
+Not a mother's fondest wishes
+Can to greater joys aspire!
+
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Divine Songs, by Isaac Watts
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Divine Songs, by Isaac Watts
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+Title: Divine Songs
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+Author: Isaac Watts
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+Release Date: September 11, 2004 [EBook #13439]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIVINE SONGS ***
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+Produced by Lewis Jones
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+
+Divine Songs
+
+Attempted in the Easy Language of Children.
+
+By I. Watts.
+
+_Out of the Mouth of Babes and Sucklings thou hast perfected
+Praise_. Matt. xxi. 16.
+
+
+Transcriber's Note.
+
+Throughout, modern numerals have been substituted for their Roman
+equivalents.
+
+In Watts' dedication the original capitalisation, italics and
+spelling are retained; the aim thereby is to convey more accurately
+the flavour of the original.
+
+
+
+TO
+
+Mrs. SARAH     )
+Mrs. MARY _and_) ABNEY,
+Mrs. ELIZABETH )
+
+_Daughters of Sir_ THOMAS ABNEY, _Kt. and Alderman of London_.
+
+
+_My Dear Young Friends_,
+
+Whom I am constrained to love and honour by many Obligations. It was
+the generous and condescending Friendship of your Parents under my
+weak Circumstances of Health, that brought me to their Country-Seat
+for the Benefit of the Air; but it was an Instance of most uncommon
+Kindness, to supply me there so chearfully for two Years of Sickness
+with the richest Conveniences of Life. Such a Favour requires my
+most affectionate Returns of Service to themselves, and to all that
+is dear to them; and meer Gratitude demands some solemn and publick
+Acknowledgment.
+
+But great Minds have the true Relish and Pleasure of doing Good, and
+are content to be unknown.
+
+It is such a silent Satisfaction Sir _Thomas Abney_ enjoys in the
+unspeakable Blessings of this Year, that brought our present King to
+the Throne: and he permits the World to forget that happy Turn that
+was given to the Affairs of the Kingdom by his wise Management in
+the Highest Office of the City, whereby the Settlement of the Crown
+was so much strengthen'd in the Illustrious Family which now
+possesses it. O may the Crown flourish many Years on the Head of our
+Soveraign, and may his House possess it to the End of Time, to
+secure all Religious and Civil Liberties to the Posterity of those
+who have been so zealous to establish this Succession!
+
+The fair and lovely Character your Honoured Father hath acquired by
+passing thro' all the chief Offices of the City, and leaving a
+Lustre upon them, seems imperfect in his own Esteem, without the
+Addition of this Title, _A Succourer and a Friend of the Ministers
+of Christ_. And in this part of his Honour the Lady your Mother is
+resolved to have an unborrow'd Share, and becomes his daily Rival.
+
+It is to her unwearied Tenderness, and many kind Offices by Night
+and Day, in the more violent Seasons of my Indisposition, that
+(under God) I own my Life, and Power to write or think. And while I
+remember those Hours, I can't forget the cheerful and ready
+Attendance of her worthy Sister, her dear Companion and Assistant in
+every good Work.
+
+Under the Influence of two such Examples I have also enjoy'd the
+Pleasure and Conveniency of your younger Services, according to the
+Capacity of your Years; and that with such a Degree of sincere and
+hearty Zeal for my Welfare, that you are ready to vie with each
+other in the kind Imployment, and assist all you can toward my
+Recovery and Usefulness. So that whoever shall reap benefit by any
+of my Labours, it is but a reasonable Request, that you share with
+me in their Thanks and their Prayers.
+
+But this is a small Part of your Praise.
+
+If it would not be suspected of Flattery, I could tell the World
+what an Acquaintance with Scripture, what a Knowledge of Religion,
+what a Memory of Divine things both in Verse and Prose is found
+among you; and what a just and regular account is given of Sermons
+at your Age; to awaken all the Children that shall read these
+_Songs_, to furnish their memories and beautify their Souls like
+yours. The Honour you have done me in learning by heart so large a
+number of the _Hymns_ I have publish'd, perhaps has been of some use
+towards these greater Improvements, and gives me rich Encouragement
+to offer you this little Present.
+
+Since I have ventured to shew a Part of your early Character to the
+World, I perswade my self you will remember, that it must inlarge
+and brighten daily. Remember what the World will expect from the
+Daughters of Sir _Thomas Abney's_ Family, under such an Education,
+such Examples, and after such fair and promising Blossoms of Piety
+and Goodness. Remember what God himself will expect at your hands,
+from whose Grace you have received plentiful Distributions in the
+Beginning of your Days. May the Blessings of his Right Hand more
+enrich you daily, as your Capacities and your Years increase; and
+may he add bountifully of the Favours of his Left Hand, Riches and
+Honour. May his Grace make you so large a Return of all the Kindness
+I have received in your Family, as may prevail above the fondest
+Hopes of your Parents, and even exceed the warmest Prayers of
+
+_Your most Affectionate Monitor and obliged Servant in the daily
+Views of a future World_,
+
+
+I. WATTS.
+
+Theobalds,
+
+June 18.
+1715.
+
+
+PREFACE
+To all that are concerned in the Education of Children.
+
+
+
+My Friends,
+
+It is an awful and important charge that is committed to you. The
+wisdom and welfare of the succeeding generation are intrusted with
+you beforehand, and depend much on your conduct. The seeds of misery
+or happiness in this world, and that to come, are oftentimes sown
+very early, and therefore whatever may conduce to give the minds of
+children a relish for vertue and religion, ought in the first place
+to be proposed to you.
+
+Verse was at first design'd for the service of God, tho' it hath
+been wretchedly abused since. The ancients among the Jews and the
+Heathens taught their children and disciples the precepts of
+morality and worship in verse. The children of Israel were commanded
+to learn the words of the song of Moses, Deut. 31. 19,30. And we are
+directed in the New Testament, not only to sing with grace in the
+heart, but to teach and admonish one another by hymns and songs,
+Eph. 5. 19. and there are these four advantages in it:
+
+1. There is a greater delight in the very learning of truths and
+duties this way. There is something so amusing and entertaining in
+rhymes and metre, that will incline children to make this part of
+their business a diversion. And you may turn their very duty into a
+reward, by giving them the privilege of learning one of these songs
+every week, if they fulfil the business of the week well, and
+promising them the book itself when they have learned ten or twenty
+songs out of it.
+
+2. What is learnt in verse is longer retained in memory, and sooner
+recollected. The like sounds and the like number of syllables
+exceedingly assist the remembrance. And it may often happen, that
+the end of a song running in the mind may be an effectual means to
+keep off some temptation, or to incline to some duty, when a word of
+scripture is not upon the thoughts.
+
+3. This will be a constant furniture for the minds of children, that
+they may have something to think upon when alone, and sing over to
+themselves. This may sometimes give their thoughts a divine turn,
+and raise a young meditation. Thus they will not be forced to seek
+relief for an emptiness of mind out of the loose and dangerous
+sonnets of the age.
+
+4. These _Divine Songs_ may be a pleasant and proper matter for
+their daily or weekly worship, to sing one in the family at such
+time as the parents or governors shall appoint; and therefore I have
+confin'd the verse to the most usual psalm tunes.
+
+The greatest part of this little book was composed several years
+ago, at the request of a friend, who has been long engaged in the
+work of catechising a very great number of children of all kinds,
+and with abundant skill and success. So that you will find here
+nothing that savours of a party: the children of high and low
+degree, of the Church of England or Dissenters, baptized in infancy
+or not, may all join together in these songs. And as I have
+endeavoured to sink the language to the level of a child's
+understanding, and yet to keep it (if possible) above contempt; so I
+have designed to profit all (if possible) and offend none. I hope
+the more general the sense is, these composures may be of the more
+universal use and service.
+
+I have added at the end an attempt or two of _Sonnets_ on _Moral
+Subjects_ for children, with an air of pleasantry, to provoke some
+fitter pen to write a little book of them. My talent doth not lie
+that way, and a man on the borders of the grave has other work.
+Besides, if I had health or leisure to lay out this way, it should
+be employ'd in finishing the _Psalms_, which I have so long promised
+the world.
+
+May the Almighty God make you faithful in this important work of
+education: may he succeed your cares with his abundant graces, that
+the rising generation of Great Britain may be a glory amongst the
+nations, a pattern to the Christian world, and a blessing to the
+earth.
+
+
+
+Divine Songs
+
+For
+
+Children.
+
+
+Song 1.
+_A General Song of Praise to God_.
+
+1 How glorious is our Heavenly King,
+Who reigns above the sky!
+How shall a child presume to sing
+His dreadful majesty?
+
+2 How great his power is none can tell,
+Nor think how large his grace;
+Not men below, nor saints that dwell
+On high before his face.
+
+3 Not angels that stand round the Lord
+Can search his secret will;
+But they perform his heavenly word,
+And sing his praises still.
+
+4 Then let me join this holy train,
+And my first offerings bring;
+Th' eternal God will not disdain
+To hear an infant sing.
+
+5 My heart resolves, my tongue obeys,
+And angels shall rejoice
+To hear their mighty Maker's praise
+Sound from a feeble voice.
+
+
+Song 2.
+_Praise for Creation and Providence_.
+
+1 I sing th' almighty power of God,
+That made the mountains rise,
+That spread the flowing seas abroad,
+And built the lofty skies.
+
+2 I sing the wisdom that ordain'd
+The sun to rule the day;
+The moon shines full at his command,
+And all the stars obey.
+
+3 I sing the goodness of the Lord,
+That fill'd the earth with food;
+He form'd the creatures with his Word,
+And then pronounced them good.
+
+4 Lord, how thy wonders are display'd
+Where'er I turn mine eye,
+If I survey the ground I tread,
+Or gaze upon the sky.
+
+5 There's not a plant or flower below
+But makes thy glories known;
+And clouds arise and tempests blow
+By order from thy throne.
+
+6 Creatures (as num'rous as they be)
+Are subject to thy care:
+There's not a place where we can flee,
+But God is present there.
+
+7 In heaven he shines with beams of love,
+With wrath in hell beneath:
+'Tis on his earth I stand or move,
+And 'tis his air I breathe.
+
+8 His hand is my perpetual guard,
+He keeps me with his eye:
+Why should I then forget the Lord
+Who is for ever nigh?
+
+
+Song 3.
+_Praise to God for our Redemption_.
+
+1 Blest be the wisdom and the power,
+The justice and the grace,
+That join'd in council to restore
+And save our ruin'd race!
+
+2 Our father eat forbidden fruit,
+And from his glory fell;
+And we, his children, thus were brought
+To death, and near to hell.
+
+3 Blest be the Lord, that sent his Son
+To take our flesh and blood;
+He for our lives gave up his own,
+To make our peace with God.
+
+4 He honour'd all his Father's laws,
+Which we have disobey'd;
+He bore our sins upon the cross,
+And our full ransom paid.
+
+5 Behold him rising from the grave;
+Behold him rais'd on high:
+He pleads his merits there to save
+Transgressors doom'd to die.
+
+6 There on a glorious throne, he reigns,
+And by his power divine
+Redeems us from the slavish chains
+Of Satan, and of sin.
+
+7 Thence shall the Lord to judgment come,
+And, with a sovereign voice,
+Shall call, and break up every tomb,
+While waking saints rejoice.
+
+8 O may I then with joy appear
+Before the Judge's face,
+And, with the blest assembly there,
+Sing his redeeming grace!
+
+
+Song 4.
+_Praise for Mercies Spiritual and Temporal_.
+
+1 Whene'er I take my walks abroad,
+How many poor I see?
+What shall I render to my God
+For all his gifts to me?
+
+2 Not more than others I deserve,
+Yet God hath given me more;
+For I have food, while others starve,
+Or beg from door to door.
+
+3 How many children in the street
+Half naked I behold?
+While I am clothed from head to feet,
+And cover'd from the cold.
+
+4 While some poor wretches scarce can tell
+Where they may lay their head,
+I have a home wherein to dwell,
+And rest upon my bed.
+
+5 While others early learn to swear,
+And curse, and lie, and steal,
+Lord, I am taught thy name to fear,
+And do thy holy will.
+
+6 Are these thy favours, day by day
+To me above the rest?
+Then let me love thee more than they,
+And try to serve thee best.
+
+
+Song 5.
+_Praise for Birth and Education in a Christian Land_.
+
+1 Great God, to thee my voice I raise,
+To thee my youngest hours belong;
+I would begin my life with praise,
+Till growing years improve the song.
+
+2 'Tis to thy soveraign grace I owe,
+That I was born on Brittish ground,
+Where streams of heavenly mercy flow,
+And words of sweet salvation sound.
+
+3 I would not change my native land
+For rich Peru, with all her gold:
+A nobler prize lies in my hand
+Than East or Western Indies hold.
+
+4 How do I pity those that dwell
+Where ignorance and darkness reigns;
+They know no heav'n, they fear no hell,
+Those endless joys, those endless pains.
+
+5 Thy glorious promises, O Lord,
+Kindle my hope and my desire;
+While all the preachers of thy word
+Warn me t' escape eternal fire.
+
+6 Thy praise shall still employ my breath,
+Since thou hast mark'd my way to heaven;
+Nor will I run the road to death,
+And wast the blessings thou hast given.
+
+
+Song 6.
+_Praise for the Gospel_.
+
+1 Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,
+And not to chance as others do,
+That I was born of Christian race,
+And not a Heathen, or a Jew.
+
+2 What would the ancient Jewish kings,
+And Jewish prophets once have given,
+Could they have heard these glorious things,
+Which Christ reveal'd, and brought from heav'n!
+
+3 How glad the Heathens would have been,
+That worship idols, wood, and stone,
+If they the book of God had seen,
+Or Jesus and his gospel known!
+
+4 Then if the Gospel I refuse,
+How shall I e'er lift up mine eyes?
+For all the Gentiles and the Jews
+Against me will in judgment rise.
+
+
+Song 7.
+_The Excellency of the Bible_.
+
+1 Great God, with wonder and with praise,
+On all thy works I look;
+But still thy wisdom, power and grace
+Shine brighter in thy Book.
+
+2 The stars that in their courses roll,
+Have much instruction given;
+But thy good Word informs my soul
+How I may climb to heaven.
+
+3 The fields provide me food, and show
+The goodness of the Lord;
+But fruits of life and glory grow
+In thy most holy Word.
+
+4 Here are my choicest treasures hid,
+Here my best comfort lies;
+Here my desires are satisfy'd;
+And hence my hopes arise.
+
+5 Lord, make me understand thy law,
+Show what my faults have been;
+And from thy Gospel let me draw
+Pardon for all my sin.
+
+6 Here would I learn how Christ has dy'd
+To save my soul from hell:
+Not all the books on earth beside
+Such heav'nly wonders tell.
+
+7 Then let me love my Bible more,
+And take a fresh delight
+By day to read these wonders o'er,
+And meditate by night.
+
+
+Song 8.
+_Praise to God for learning to read_.
+
+1 The praises of my tongue
+I offer to the Lord,
+That I was taught, and learnt so young
+To read his holy Word.
+
+2 That I am taught to know
+The danger I was in,
+By nature and by practice too
+A wretched slave to sin.
+
+3 That I am led to see
+I can do nothing well;
+And whither shall a sinner flee,
+To save himself from hell?
+
+4 Dear Lord, this book of thine
+Informs me where to go
+For grace to pardon all my sin,
+And make me holy too.
+
+5 Here I can read and learn
+How Christ the Son of God
+Did undertake our great concern,
+Our ransom cost his blood.
+
+6 And now he reigns above,
+He sends his Spirit down,
+To show the wonders of his love,
+And make his Gospel known.
+
+7 O may that Spirit teach,
+And make my heart receive
+Those truths which all thy servants preach,
+And all thy saints believe!
+
+8 Then shall I praise the Lord
+In a more chearful strain,
+That I was taught to read his Word,
+And have not learnt in vain.
+
+
+Song 9.
+The All-Seeing God.
+
+1 Almighty God, thy piercing eye
+Strikes through the shades of night,
+And our most secret actions lie
+All open to thy sight.
+
+2 There's not a sin that we commit,
+Nor wicked word we say,
+But in thy dreadful book `tis writ
+Against the judgment-day.
+
+3 And must the crimes that I have done
+Be read and publish'd there,
+Be all exposed before the sun,
+While men and angels hear?
+
+4 Lord, at thy feet ashamed I lie,
+Upward I dare not look;
+Pardon my sins before I die,
+And blot them from thy book.
+
+5 Remember all the dying pains
+That my Redeemer felt,
+And let his blood wash out my stains,
+And answer for my guilt.
+
+6 O may I now for ever fear
+T' indulge a sinful thought,
+Since the great God can see, and hear,
+And writes down every fault!
+
+
+Song 10.
+_Solemn Thoughts of God and Death_.
+
+1 There is a God that reigns above,
+Lord of the heavens, and earth, and seas:
+I fear his wrath, I ask his love,
+And with my lips I sing his praise.
+
+2 There is a law which he has writ,
+To teach us all what we must do;
+My soul, to his commands submit,
+For they are holy, just and true.
+
+3 There is a Gospel of rich grace,
+Whence sinners all their comfort draw;
+Lord, I repent, and seek thy face;
+For I have often broke thy law.
+
+4 There is an hour when I must die,
+Nor do I know how soon `twill come;
+A thousand children young as I
+Are call'd by death to hear their doom.
+
+5 Let me improve the hours I have
+Before the day of grace is fled;
+There's no repentance in the grave,
+No pardons offer'd to the dead.
+
+6 Just as a tree cut down, that fell
+To north, or southward, there it lies:
+So man departs to heaven or hell,
+Fix'd in the state wherein he dies.
+
+
+Song 11.
+_Heaven and Hell_.
+
+1 There is beyond the sky
+A heaven of joy and love,
+And holy children, when they die,
+Go to that world above.
+
+2 There is a dreadful hell,
+And everlasting pains,
+There sinners must with devils dwell
+In darkness, fire, and chains.
+
+3 Can such a wretch as I
+Escape this cursed end?
+And may I hope, whene'er I die,
+I shall to heaven ascend?
+
+4 Then will I read and pray
+While I have life and breath;
+Lest I should be cut off to day,
+And sent t' eternal death.
+
+
+Song 12.
+_The Advantages of early Religion_.
+
+1 Happy's the child whose youngest years
+Receive instruction well;
+Who hates the sinner's path, and fears
+The road that leads to hell.
+
+2 When we devote our youth to God,
+'Tis pleasing in his eyes;
+A flower, when offer'd in the bud,
+Is no vain sacrifice.
+
+3 'Tis easier work if we begin
+To fear the Lord betimes;
+While sinners that grow old in sin
+Are hard'ned in their crimes.
+
+4 'Twill save us from a thousand snares
+To mind religion young;
+Grace will preserve our following years
+And make our vertue strong.
+
+5 To thee, Almighty God, to thee
+Our childhood we resign;
+'Twill please us to look back and see
+That our whole lives were thine.
+
+6 Let the sweet work of prayer and praise,
+Employ my youngest breath;
+Thus I'm prepar'd for longer days,
+Or fit for early death.
+
+
+Song 13.
+_The Danger of Delay_.
+
+1 Why should I say, "`Tis yet too soon
+"To seek for heaven or think of death?"
+A flower may fade before `tis noon,
+And I this day may lose my breath.
+
+2 If this rebellious heart of mine,
+Despise the gracious calls of Heaven;
+I may be hard'ned in my sin,
+And never have repentance given.
+
+3 What if the Lord grow wroth, and swear
+While I refuse to read and pray,
+That he'll refuse to lend an ear,
+To all my groans another day?
+
+4 What if his dreadful anger burn,
+While I refuse his offer'd grace,
+And all his love to fury turn,
+And strike me dead upon the place?
+
+5 'Tis dangerous to provoke a God;
+His power and vengeance none can tell:
+One stroke of his almighty rod
+Shall send young sinners quick to hell.
+
+6 Then `twill for ever be in vain
+To cry for pardon or for grace,
+To wish I had my time again,
+Or hope to see my Maker's face.
+
+
+Song 14.
+_Examples of early piety_.
+
+1 What blest examples do I find
+Writ in the Word of Truth,
+Of children that began to mind
+Religion in their youth.
+
+2 Jesus, who reigns above the skie,
+And keeps the world in awe;
+Was once a child as young as I,
+And kept his Father's law.
+
+3 At twelve years old he talk'd with men,
+(The Jews all wondering stand;)
+Yet he obey'd his Mother then,
+And came at her command.
+
+4 Children a sweet hosanna sung,
+And blest their Saviour's name;
+They gave him honour with their tongue
+While scribes and priests blaspheme.
+
+5 Samuel the child was wean'd, and brought
+To wait upon the Lord;
+Young Timothy betimes was taught
+To know his holy Word.
+
+6 Then why should I so long delay
+What others learn so soon?
+I would not pass another day
+Without this work begun.
+
+
+Song 15.
+_Against Lying_.
+
+1 O `tis a lovely thing for youth
+To walk betimes in wisdom's way;
+To fear a lye, to speak the truth,
+That we may trust to all they say.
+
+2 But lyars we can never trust,
+Though they should speak the thing that's true,
+And he that does one fault at first,
+And lyes to hide it, makes it two.
+
+3 Have we not known, nor heard, nor read,
+How God abhors deceit and wrong?
+How Ananias was struck dead
+Catch'd with a lye upon his tongue?
+
+4 So did his wife Sapphira die
+When she came in, and grew so bold
+As to confirm that wicked lye
+That just before her husband told.
+
+5 The Lord delights in them that speak
+The words of truth; but every lyar
+Must have his portion in the lake
+That burns with brimstone and with fire.
+
+6 Then let me always watch my lips,
+Lest I be struck to death and hell,
+Since God a book of reckoning keeps
+For every lye that children tell.
+
+
+Song 16.
+_Against Quarrelling and Fighting_.
+
+1 Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
+For God has made them so;
+Let bears and lyons growl and fight,
+For `tis their nature too.
+
+2 But, children, you should never let
+Such angry passions rise;
+Your little hands were never made
+To tear each other's eyes.
+
+3 Let love thro' all your actions run,
+And all your words be mild;
+Live like the blessed Virgin's Son,
+That sweet and lovely child.
+
+4 His soul was gentle as a lamb;
+And as his stature grew,
+He grew in favour both with man
+And God his Father too.
+
+5 Now, Lord of all, he reigns above,
+And from his heavenly throne,
+He sees what children dwell in love,
+And marks them for his own.
+
+
+Song 17.
+_Love between Brothers and Sisters_.
+
+1 What ever brawls are in the street
+There should be peace at home;
+Where sisters dwell and brothers meet
+Quarrels shou'd never come.
+
+2 Birds in their little nests agree;
+And `tis a shameful sight,
+When children of one family
+Fall out, and chide, and fight.
+
+3 Hard names at first, and threatening words,
+That are but noisy breath,
+May grow to clubs and naked swords,
+To murder and to death.
+
+4 The devil tempts one mother's son
+To rage against another:
+So wicked Cain was hurried on,
+Till he had kill'd his brother.
+
+5 The wise will make their anger cool
+At least before `tis night;
+But in the bosom of a fool
+It burns till morning light.
+
+5 Pardon, O Lord, our childish rage;
+Our little brawls remove;
+That as we grow to riper age,
+Our hearts may all be love.
+
+
+Song 18.
+_Against Scoffing and calling Names_.
+
+1 Our tongues were made to bless the Lord,
+And not speak ill of men:
+When others give a railing word,
+We must not rail again.
+
+2 Cross words and angry names require
+To be chastiz'd at school;
+And he's in danger of hell-fire,
+That calls his brother, fool.
+
+3 But lips that dare be so prophane
+To mock and jeer and scoff
+At holy things, or holy men,
+The Lord shall cut them off.
+
+4 When children, in their wanton play
+Served old Elisha so,
+And bade the prophet go his way,
+"Go up, thou bald head, go."
+
+5 God quickly stopt their wicked breath,
+And sent two raging bears,
+That tore them limb from limb to death,
+With blood and groans and tears.
+
+6 Great God, how terrible art thou
+To sinners ne'er so young!
+Grant me thy grace and teach me how
+To tame and rule my tongue.
+
+
+Song 19.
+_Against Swearing and Cursing, and taking God's Name in vain_.
+
+1 Angels that high in glory dwell
+Adore thy Name, Almighty God!
+And devils tremble down in hell
+Beneath the terrors of thy rod.
+
+2 And yet how wicked children dare
+Abuse thy dreadful glorious Name!
+And when they're angry, how they swear,
+And curse their fellows, and blaspheme!
+
+3 How will they stand before thy face,
+Who treated thee with such disdain,
+While thou shalt doom them to the place
+Of everlasting fire and pain?
+
+4 Then never shall one cooling drop
+To quench their burning tongues be giv'n.
+But I will praise thee here, and hope
+Thus to employ my tongue in heav'n.
+
+5 My heart shall be in pain to hear
+Wretches affront the Lord above;
+'Tis that great God whose power I fear,
+That heavenly Father whom I love.
+
+6 If my companions grow profane,
+I'll leave their friendship when I hear
+Young sinners take thy name in vain,
+And learn to curse, and learn to swear.
+
+
+Song 20.
+_Against Idleness and Mischief_.
+
+1 How doth the little busy bee
+Improve each shining hour,
+And gather honey all the day
+From every opening flower!
+
+2 How skilfully she builds her cell!
+How neat she spreads the wax!
+And labours hard to store it well
+With the sweet food she makes.
+
+3 In works of labour or of skill
+I would be busy too:
+For Satan finds some mischief still
+For idle hands to do.
+
+4 In books, or work, or healthful play
+Let my first years be past,
+That I may give for every day
+Some good account at last.
+
+
+Song 21.
+_Against evil Company_.
+
+1 Why should I join with those in play
+In whom I've no delight;
+Who curse and swear, but never play;
+Who call ill names, and fight?
+
+2 I hate to hear a wanton song:
+Their words offend my ears:
+I should not dare defile my tongue
+With language such as theirs.
+
+3 Away from fools I'll turn my eyes,
+Nor with the scoffers go:
+I would be walking with the wise,
+That wiser I may grow.
+
+4 From one rude boy, that's used to mock,
+They learn the wicked jest:
+One sickly sheep infects the flock,
+And poisons all the rest.
+
+5 My God, I hate to walk or dwell
+With sinful children here:
+Then let me not be sent to hell,
+Where none but sinners are.
+
+
+Song 22.
+_Against Pride in Clothes_.
+
+1 Why should our garments, made to hide
+Our parents' shame, provoke our pride?
+The art of dress did ne'er begin
+Till Eve our mother learnt to sin.
+
+2 When first she put the covering on,
+Her robe of innocence was gone;
+And yet her children vainly boast
+In the sad marks of glory lost.
+
+3 How proud we are! how fond to shew
+Our clothes, and call them rich and new,
+When the poor sheep and silkworms wore
+That very clothing long before!
+
+4 The tulip and the butterfly
+Appear in gayer coats than I:
+Let me be dress'd fine as I will,
+Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
+
+5 Then will I set my heart to find
+Inward adornings of the mind:
+Knowledge and virtue, truth and grace,
+These are the robes of richest dress.
+
+6 No more shall worms with me compare,
+This is the raiment angels wear:
+The Son of God, when here below,
+Put on this blest apparel too.
+
+6 It never fades, it ne'er grows old,
+Nor fears the rain, nor moth, nor mould:
+It takes no spot, but still refines;
+The more `tis worn, the more it shines.
+
+7 In this on earth would I appear,
+Then go to heaven, and wear it there:
+God will approve it in his sight;
+'Tis his own work, and his delight.
+
+
+Song 23.
+_Obedience to Parents_.
+
+1 Let children that would fear the Lord
+Hear what their teachers say;
+With reverence meet their parents' word,
+And with delight obey.
+
+2 Have you not heard what dreadful plagues
+Are threaten'd by the Lord,
+To him that breaks his father's law,
+Or mocks his mother's word?
+
+3 What heavy guilt upon him lies!
+How cursed is his name!
+The ravens shall pick out his eyes,
+And eagles eat the same.
+
+4 But those who worship God, and give
+Their parents honour due,
+Here on this earth they long shall live,
+And live hereafter, too.
+
+
+Song 24.
+_The Child's Complaint_.
+
+1 Why should I love my sports so well,
+So constant at my play,
+And lose the thoughts of heaven and hell,
+And then forget to pray?
+
+2 What do I read my Bible for,
+But, Lord, to learn thy will?
+And shall I daily know thee more,
+And less obey thee still?
+
+3 How senseless is my heart, and wild!
+How vain are all my thoughts!
+Pity the weakness of a child,
+And pardon all my faults.
+
+4 Make me thy heavenly voice to hear,
+And let me love to pray;
+Since God will lend a gracious ear
+To what a child can say.
+
+
+Song 25.
+_A Morning Song_.
+
+1 My God, who makes the sun to know
+His proper hour to rise;
+And, to give light to all below,
+Doth send him round the skies:
+
+2 When from the chambers of the east
+His morning race begins,
+He never tires, nor stops to rest,
+But round the world he shines.
+
+3 So, like the sun, would I fulfil
+The business of the day;
+Begin my work betimes, and still
+March on my heavenly way.
+
+4 Give me, O Lord, thy early grace,
+Nor let my soul complain
+That the young morning of my day
+Has all been spent in vain!
+
+
+Song 26.
+_An Evening Song_.
+
+1 And now another day is gone,
+I'll sing my Maker's praise!
+My comforts every hour make known
+His providence and grace.
+
+2 But how my childhood runs to waste
+My sins how great their sum!
+Lord, give me pardon for the past,
+And strength for days to come.
+
+3 I lay my body down to sleep,
+Let angels guard my head;
+And, through the hours of darkness, keep
+Their watch around my head.
+
+4 With cheerful heart I close mine eyes,
+Since thou wilt not remove;
+And in the morning let me rise
+Rejoicing in thy love.
+
+
+Song 27.
+_For the Lord's Day Morning_.
+
+1 This is the day when Christ arose
+So early from the dead:
+Why should I my eyelids close,
+And waste my hours in bed?
+
+2 This is the day when Jesus broke
+The powers of death and hell;
+And shall I still wear Satan's yoke,
+And love my sins so well?
+
+3 To-day, with pleasure, Christians meet,
+To pray, and hear thy Word;
+And I would go with cheerful feet
+To learn thy will, O Lord!
+
+4 I'll leave my sport, to read and pray,
+And so prepare for heaven:
+O may I love this blessed day
+The best of all the seven!
+
+
+Song 28.
+_For Lord's Day Evening_.
+
+1 Lord, how delightful `tis to see
+A whole assembly worship thee!
+At once they sing, at once they pray;
+They hear of heaven, and learn the way.
+
+2 I have been there, and still would go
+'Tis like a little heaven below!
+Not all my pleasure and my play
+Should tempt me to forget this day.
+
+3 O write upon my memory, Lord,
+The text and doctrines of thy Word,
+That I may break thy laws no more,
+But love thee better than before!
+
+4 With thoughts of Christ and things divine
+Fill up this foolish heart of mine:
+That, hoping pardon through his blood,
+I may lie down, and wake with God.
+
+
+The TEN COMMANDMENTS out of the Old Testament put into short
+Rhime for Children.
+
+Exod. 20.
+
+1. Thou shalt have no more Gods but me.
+2. Before no idol bow thy knee.
+3. Take not the Name of God in vain:
+4. Nor dare the Sabbath Day profane.
+5. Give both thy parents honour due.
+6. Take heed that thou no murder do.
+7. Abstain from words and deeds unclean:
+8. Nor steal, though thou art poor and mean.
+9. Nor make a wilful lie, nor love it.
+10. What is thy neighbour's, dare not covet.
+
+
+The Sum of the Commandments out of the New Testament.
+
+Matt. 22. 37.
+
+With all thy Soul love God above;
+And as thyself thy Neighbour love.
+
+
+Our Saviour's Golden Rule.
+
+Matt. 7. 12.
+
+Be you to others Kind and True,
+As you'd have others be to you.
+And neither do nor say to Men
+Whate'er you would not take again.
+
+
+Duty to God and our neighbour.
+
+Love God with all your Soul and Strength.
+With all your Heart and Mind;
+And love your Neighbour as your self:
+Be faithful, just, and kind.
+
+Deal with another as you'd have
+Another deal with you.
+What you're unwilling to receive,
+Be sure you never do.
+
+
+Out of my Book of _Hymns_, I have here added, the _Hosanna_ and
+_Glory to the Father_, &c. to be sung at the end of any of these
+Songs, according to the Direction of Parents or Governors.
+
+
+The _Hosanna_; or Salvation ascribed to Christ.
+
+Long Metre.
+
+1 _Hosanna_ to king _David's_ Son,
+Who reigns on a superior Throne;
+We bless the Prince of Heav'nly Birth,
+Who brings Salvation down to Earth.
+
+2 Let every nation, every age,
+In this delightful work engage;
+Old Men and Babes in _Sion_ sing
+The growing glories of her King!
+
+
+Common Metre.
+
+1 _Hosanna_ to the Prince of Grace;
+_Sion_ behold thy King;
+Proclaim the Son of _David's_ Race,
+And teach the Babes to sing.
+
+2 _Hosanna_ to th' Eternal Word,
+Who from the Father came;
+Ascribe Salvation to the Lord,
+With Blessings on his Name!
+
+
+Short Metre.
+
+1 _Hosanna_ to the Son
+Of _David_ and of God,
+Who brought the News of Pardon down,
+And bought it with his Blood.
+
+2 To Christ, th' anointed King,
+Be endless blessings giv'n,
+Let the whole Earth his Glory sing
+Who made our Peace with Heav'n.
+
+
+Glory to the Father and the Son, &c.
+
+Long Metre.
+
+To God the Father, God the Son,
+And God the Spirit, Three in One,
+Be Honour, Praise, and Glory giv'n,
+By all on Earth, and all in Heav'n.
+
+
+Common Metre.
+
+Now let the Father and the Son,
+And Spirit be ador'd,
+Where there are works to make him known,
+Or saints to love the Lord.
+
+
+Short Metre.
+
+Give to the Father Praise,
+Give Glory to the Son,
+And to the Spirit of his Grace
+Be equal Honour done.
+
+
+
+
+A Slight SPECIMEN of MORAL SONGS,
+
+_Such as I wish some happy and condescending Genius would undertake
+for the use of Children, and perform much better_.
+
+The sense and subjects might be borrow'd plentifully from the
+_Proverbs of Solomon_, from all the common appearances of nature,
+from all the occurrences in the civil life, both in city and country:
+(which would also afford matter for other divine songs). Here the
+language and measures should be easy and flowing with cheerfulness,
+and without the solemnities of religion, or the sacred names
+of God and holy things; that children might find delight and profit
+together.
+
+This would be one effectual way to deliver them from the temptation
+of loving and learning those idle, wanton or profane songs, which
+give so early an ill taint to the fancy and memory, and become
+the seeds of future vices.
+
+
+_The Sluggard_.
+
+1 'Tis the voice of the Sluggard. I heard him complain
+"You have waked me too soon! I must slumber again!"
+As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed,
+Turns his sides, and his shoulders, and his heavy head.
+
+2 "A little more sleep, and a little more slumber;"
+Thus he wastes half his days, and his hours without number:
+And when he gets up, he sits folding his hands
+Or walks about sauntering, or trifling he stands.
+
+3 I past by his garden, and saw the wild bryar
+The thorn and the thistle grow broader and higher:
+The clothes that hang on him are turning to rags;
+And his money still wasts, still he starves, or he begs.
+
+4 I made him a visit, still hoping to find
+He had took better care for improving his mind:
+He told me his dreams, talk'd of eating and drinking,
+But he scarce reads his Bible, and never loves thinking.
+
+5 Said I then to my heart, "Here's a lesson for me,"
+That man's but a picture of what I might be:
+But thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding:
+Who taught me betimes to love working and reading!
+
+
+_Innocent Play_.
+
+1 Abroad in the meadows to see the young lambs,
+Run sporting about by the side of their dams
+With fleeces so clean, and so white;
+Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage,
+When they play all in love without anger or rage,
+How much may we learn from the sight!
+
+2 If we had been ducks, we might dabble in mud:
+Or dogs, we might play till it ended in blood;
+So foul, or so fierce are their natures.
+But Thomas and William, and such pretty names,
+Should be cleanly and harmless as doves, or as lambs,
+Those lovely sweet innocent creatures.
+
+3 Not a thing that we do, nor a word that we say,
+Should injure another in jesting or play;
+For he's still in earnest that's hurt.
+How rude are the boys that throw pebbles and mire!
+There's none but a mad-man will fling about fire,
+And tell you, "`Tis all but in sport."
+
+
+The End.
+
+
+The TABLE.
+
+ 1. A General Song of Praise to God.
+ 2. Praise for Creation and Providence.
+ 3. Praise to God for our Redemption.
+ 4. Praise for mercies Spiritual and Temporal.
+ 5. Praise for Birth and Education in a Christian Land.
+ 6. Praise for the Gospel.
+ 7. The Excellency of the Bible.
+ 8. Praise to God for learning to read.
+ 9. The All-seeing God.
+10. Solemn Thoughts of God and Death.
+11. Heaven and Hell.
+12. The Advantages of early Religion.
+13. The Danger of Delays.
+14. Examples of early Piety.
+15. Against lying.
+16. Against Quarrelling and Fighting.
+17. Love between Brothers and Sisters.
+18. Against scoffing and calling Names.
+19. Against swearing and cursing, and taking God's Name in vain.
+20. Against Idleness and Mischief.
+21. Against Evil Company.
+22. Against Pride in Clothes.
+23. Obedience to Parents.
+24. The Child's Complaint.
+25. A Morning Song.
+26. An Evening Song.
+27. An Hymn for the Lord's Day Morning.
+28. An Hymn for the Lord's Day Evening.
+    The Ten Commandments.
+    The Sum of the Commandments.
+    Our Saviour's Golden Rule.
+    Duty to God and our Neighbour.
+    The Hosanna in Long Metre.
+                in Common Metre.
+                in Short Metre.
+    Glory to the Father in Long Metre.
+                        in Common Metre.
+                        in Short Metre.
+
+A slight Specimen of Moral Songs, viz.
+    The Sluggard.
+    Innocent Play.
+
+
+    The End of the Table.
+
+
+
+ADDENDUM to the Moral Songs.
+
+
+Transcriber's Note.
+
+In the 1715 edition, for the reasons explained by Watts in his
+Preface, there are only two moral songs, namely "The Sluggard" and
+"Innocent Play." Those added later are included in this Addendum.
+The texts are from an 1866 printing in New York, posted into the
+public domain by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) at
+
+http://www.ccel.org/ccel/watts/divsongs.html
+
+
+
+Song 3.
+The Rose.
+12,8,12,8
+
+How fair is the Rose! what a beautiful flower!
+The glory of April and May:
+But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour,
+And they wither and die in a day.
+
+Yet the Rose has one powerful virtue to boast,
+Above all the flowers of the field!
+When its leaves are all dead and fine colours are lost,
+Still how sweet a perfume it will yield!
+
+So frail is the youth and the beauty of man,
+Though they bloom and look gay like the Rose;
+But all our fond care to preserve them is vain,
+Time kills them as fast as he goes.
+
+Then I'll not be proud of my youth and my beauty,
+Since both of them wither and fade;
+But gain a good name by well doing my duty:
+This will scent like a Rose when I'm dead.
+
+
+Song 4.
+The thief
+8,7,8,7
+
+Why should I deprive my neighbour
+Of his goods against his will?
+Hands were made for honest labour,
+Not to plunder, or to steal.
+
+'Tis a foolish self-deceiving
+By such tricks to hope for gain:
+
+All that's ever got by thieving
+Turns to sorrow, shame, and pain.
+
+Have not Eve and Adam taught us
+Their sad profit to compute,
+To what dismal state they brought us
+When they stole forbidden fruit?
+
+Oft we see a young beginner
+Practice little pilfering ways,
+Till grown up a harden'd sinner,
+Then the gallows ends his days.
+
+Theft will not be always hidden,
+Though we fancy none can spy:
+When we take a thing forbidden,
+God beholds it with his eye.
+
+Guard my heart, O God of heaven,
+Lest I covet what's not mine;
+Lest I steal what is not given,
+Guard my heart and hands from sin.
+
+
+Song 5.
+The ant, or emmet.
+11,11,8,11,11,8
+
+These Emmets, how little they are in our eyes!
+We tread them to dust, and a troop of them dies,
+Without our regard or concern:
+Yet, as wise as we are, if we went to their school,
+There's many a sluggard and many a fool
+Some lessons of wisdom might learn.
+
+They wear not their time out in sleeping or play,
+But gather up corn in a sunshiny day,
+And for winter they lay up their stores:
+They manage their work in such regular forms,
+One would think they foresaw all the frosts and the storms,
+And so brought their food withindoors.
+
+But I have less sense than a poor creeping Ant,
+If I take not due care for the things I shall want,
+Nor provide against dangers in time;
+When death or old age shall once stare in my face,
+What a wretch shall I be in the end of my days,
+If I trifle away all their prime!
+
+Now, now, while my strength and my youth are in bloom,
+Let me think what shall serve me when sickness shall come,
+And pray that my sins be forgiven.
+Let me read in good books, and believe, and obey;
+That, when death turns me out of this cottage of clay,
+I may dwell in a palace in heaven.
+
+
+Song 6.
+Good resolutions.
+7,8,7,8
+
+Though I'm now in younger days,
+Nor can tell what shall befall me,
+I'll prepare for every place
+Where my growing age shall call me.
+
+Should I e'er be rich or great,
+Others shall partake my goodness:
+I'll supply the poor with meat,
+Never showing scorn or rudeness.
+
+Where I see the blind or lame,
+Deaf or dumb, I'll kindly treat them:
+I deserve to feel the same,
+If I mock, or hurt, or cheat them.
+
+If I meet with railing tongues,
+Why should I return them railing,
+Since I best revenge my wrongs
+By my patience never failing?
+
+When I hear them telling lies,
+Talking foolish, cursing, swearing,
+First I'll try to make them wise,
+Or I'll soon go out of hearing.
+
+What though I be low or mean,
+I'll engage the rich to love me,
+While I'm modest, neat, and clean,
+And submit when they reprove me.
+
+If I should be poor and sick,
+I shall meet, I hope, with pity;
+Since I love to help the weak,
+Though they're neither fair nor witty.
+
+I'll not willingly offend,
+Nor be easily offended:
+What's amiss I'll strive to mend,
+And endure what can't be mended.
+
+May I be so watchful still
+O'er my humours and my passion,
+As to speak and do no ill,
+Though it should be all the fashion.
+
+Wicked fashions lead to hell;
+Ne'er may I be found complying;
+But in life behave so well,
+Not to be afraid of dying.
+
+
+Song 7.
+Summer's evening.
+11,11,11,9
+
+How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun!
+How lovely and joyful the course that he run;
+Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun,
+And there followed some droppings of rain:
+But now the fair traveller's come to the west,
+His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best;
+He paints the skies gay as he sinks to his rest,
+And foretells a bright rising again.
+
+Just such is the Christian. His course he begins
+Like the sun in a mist, while he mourns for his sins,
+And melts into tears! then he breaks out and shines,
+And travels his heavenly way:
+But when he comes nearer to finish his race,
+Like a fine setting sun, he looks richer in grace;
+And gives a sure hope, at the end of his days,
+Of rising in brighter array.
+
+
+Song 8.
+Cradle hymn.
+8,7,8,7
+
+Hush, my dear! Lie still, and slumber!
+Holy angels guard thy bed!
+Heavenly blessings, without number,
+Gently falling on thy head.
+
+Sleep, my babe! thy food and raiment,
+House and home, thy friends provide;
+All without thy care or payment,
+All thy wants are well supplied.
+
+How much better thou'rt attended
+Than the Son of God could be,
+When from heaven he descended,
+And became a child like thee!
+
+Soft and easy is thy cradle:
+Coarse and hard thy Saviour lay,
+When his birthplace was a stable,
+And his softest bed was hay.
+
+Blessed Babe! what glorious features,--
+Spotless fair, divinely bright!
+Must he dwell with brutal creatures?
+How could angels bear the sight?
+
+Was there nothing but a manger
+Cursed sinners could afford,
+To receive the heavenly stranger?
+Did they thus affront the Lord?
+
+Soft, my child! I did not chide thee,
+Though my song might sound too hard:
+'Tis thy mother sits beside thee,
+And her arm shall be thy guard.
+
+Yet to read the shameful story.
+How the Jews received their King,
+How they served the Lord of Glory,
+Makes me angry while I sing.
+
+See the kinder shepherds round him,
+Telling wonders from the sky!
+Where hey sought him, there they found him,
+With his Virgin-mother by.
+
+See the lovely Babe a-dressing:
+Lovely infant, how he smiled!
+When he wept, his mother's blessing
+Sooth'd and hush'd the holy Child.
+
+Lo, he slumbers in a manger,
+Where the horned oxen fed!--
+Peace, my darling, here's no danger:
+There's no ox a-near thy bed.
+
+'Twas so save thee, child, from dying,
+Save my dear from burning flame,
+Bitter groans and endless crying,
+That thy blest Redeemer came.
+
+May'st thou live to know and fear him,
+Trust and love him all thy days,
+Then go dwell for ever near him:
+See his face, and sing his praise!
+
+I could give thee thousand kisses!
+Hoping what I most desire,
+Not a mother's fondest wishes
+Can to greater joys aspire!
+
+
+
+
+
+
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