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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 357

5. To spend one sacred day

Where God and saints abide, Affords diviner joy Than thousand days beside : Where God resorts, I love it more To keep the door Than shine in courts.

Hymn 049. How pleasant, how divinely fair. ISAAC WATTS, D.D. (3).

Psalms of David, 1719. Psalm l.xxxiv. The pleasure of public worship.

Two verses are omitted, and in ver. i, line 3, strong is put instead of long, which appears in the original.

Hymn 050. Pleasant are Thy courts above.

HENRY F. LYTE (7). In The Spirit of the Psalms, 1834. Psalm Ixxxiv.

Hymn 051. How lovely are Thy tents, O Lord ! CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Arminian Magazine, 1798; Works, viii. 165. Psalm Ixxxiv. Published ten years after the writer s death. Verses 2 and 5 are omitted

2. My heart and flesh cry out for God : There would I fix my soul s abode, As birds that in the altars nest ; There would I all my young ones bring, An offering to my God and King, And in Thy courts for ever rest.

In ver. 5 Charles Wesley wrote, All, all is theirs, who upright live.

Hymn 652. Great is the Lord our God.

ISAAC WATTS, D.D. (3).

Psalms of David, 1719. Ps. xlviii. I-S. The Church is the honour and safety of a nation.

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