2 Let evil thoughts and spirits flee before us;
Till morning cometh, watch, O Master, o'er us;
In soul and body Thou from harm defend us,
Thine angels send us.

3 Let holy thoughts be ours when sleep o'ertakes us ;
Our earliest thoughts be Thine when morning wakes us;
All day serve Thee, in all that we are doing

Thy praise pursuing.

4 As Thy beloved, soothe the sick and weeping,
And bid the prisoner lose his griefs in sleeping;
Widows and orphans, we to Thee commend them,
Do Thou befriend them.

5 We have no refuge, none on earth to aid us,
Save Thee, O Father, who Thine own hast made us;
But Thy dear presence will not leave them lonely,
Who seek Thee only.

Rev. Petrus Herbert, 1566. Tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1863

{Safely through another week God has brought us on our way; Waiting in His courts to-day;

Day of all the week the best, Emblem of e-ternal rest; Day of all the week the best;

19 ERNAN L. M.

Lowell Mason, 1850

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I Another six days' work is done, An - oth- er Sabbath is be gun;

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Re-turn, my soul, enjoy thy rest, Im-prove the day thy God hath blest. A-MEN.

2 Come, bless the Lord, whose love assigns 4 This heavenly calm within the breast
So sweet a rest to wearied minds,
Provides an antepast of heaven,
And gives this day the food of seven.

3 O that our thoughts and thanks may rise,
As grateful incense, to the skies;
And draw from heaven that sweet repose
Which none but he that feels it knows.

LISBON S. M.

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Is the dear pledge of glorious rest
Which for the Church of God remains,
The end of cares, the end of pains.

In holy duties let the day,
In holy pleasures, pass away:
How sweet a Sabbath thus to spend,
In hope of one that ne'er shall end.
Rev. Joseph Stennett, publ. 1732: alt. Ash and Evans Coll. 1769
Daniel Read, 1785

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Wel-come to this reviving breast, And these re-joic - ing eyes.

I This is the day the Lord hath made; He calls the hours His own;

Let heaven re-joice, let earth be glad, And praise sur-round the throne. A - MEN.

Through a-ges joined in tune, Sing Ho-ly, Ho-ly, Ho-ly, To the great God Triune. A-MEN.