This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com ‘ Q”, 4/5’ Hmma {-3 (j #1 THE HOLT YEAR, 02, HYMNS FOR SUNDAYS AND HOLYDAYS, And for other Occasiom. LONDON: RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE. I862. LONDON GILBERT AND RIvINGTON, PRINTERS, s'r. Josm’s sqwuxs. CONTENTS. PAGE PREFACE . v CALENDAR of HYMNs for SuNDAYS and HOLYDAYS . xxxi CALENDAR of HYMNS for WEEK DAYS . xxxv HYMNs for SuNDAYS and HoLYDAYS, in the order of the Collects of the Boox of COMMON PRAYER . I HYMNs for OTHER OCCASIONS ‘ . 156 SuPPLEMENT of Hymns from other collections already published . ‘ . 231 INDEX of FsIm’ LINES of the Hymns this volume . 33 5 INDEx of TuNEs . 34.3 TuNEs to certain HYMNS in this volume . 353 PREFACE. AN apology seems to be needed for adding another Hymn~ Book to those already in existence. The following con - siderations are therefore submitted to the reader. I. The primary requisite of a Hymn-Book designed for use in Public Worship, seems to be, that it should follow the guidance of the Church, and be adjusted to her Ritual. A Hymn-Book of the Church ought to represent the mind of the Church. It ought to show an intelligent approba tion of her intentions, and a dutiful submission to her appointments. In a word, a Hymn-Book of the Church of England ought to be a faithful companion to the Book of Common Prayer. 2. This idea of a Hymn-Book does not appear to have been as yet fully realized in this country, though happily considerable advances have been recently made towards its realization, especially by such publications as the Salisbury Hymn-Book, Hymns Ancient and Modern, and several others which will readily occur to the reader. In confir mation of this statement some evidence may be adduced. 3. In framing her Boox or COMMON PRAYER, the Church of England has endeavoured to dispense spiritual food to her vi Preface. people in due unson; that is, she designed to set before them the principal articles of Christian Faith and Practice in an orderly manner, so that each Season of her year, and almost every Sunday and Holyday throughout it, should teach its own appropriate lesson of doctrine and duty. We may illustrate this proposition by one or two ex amples, commencing with the first season of the Chris tian Year,-—that of AnvENT. 4.. On examining the portions of Holy Scripture.which the Church of England has appointed to be used on the Sundays in the season of Advent, and on"comparing them with those prescribed in the Ancient Liturgics of the West ern Church for that season, we find that the Church of England has carefully followed the order of the Early ‘ Church in this respect, and has engrafted into her own Oflice those parts of Holy Scripture which had been used from time immemorial at that period of the year. Those portions of Holy Scripture relate generally to the FmsT and SEcoND ADvnrT of Christ, and inculcate the duties consequent on the First Coming of Christ to save, and on His Second Coming to judge the world. But this is not all. The Ancient Church reminded her people, that Christ, Who came once to save, and Who will come again to judge, is now over coming to every mem ber of the Church. The Ancient Church taught that Christ is now war coming to every Christian in the following ways, viz. 1. In the Hofy Scriptures, which are His Word; and 2. That He is now over coming to every one, by those whom He has appointed to be Ministers of His Holy Word and Sacraments; and 3. That He is over coming to His faithful people in the times of their trials and distresses, to comfort and deliver them. Preface. vii This doctrine .of Christ’s continual coming to every Chris tian was ever present to the mind of the greatest Teachers of the Western Church 1, and is embodied in her Liturgies. Solomon says, “Give' instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet .wiser”; teach a just man, and he will in crease in learning." So it was with the Church of England. In the struc ture'of her religious oflices for the season of Advent, she followed the guidance of the Ancient Church; and, with reverence be it said, she improved upon it 3. She hap pily caught and appropriated the instructive and comfort able doctrine of Christ’s ferperual coming ,--— I. In Holy Scripture ; 7.. In the Ministry of the'Church; and 3. In critical times of trouble; and she gave greater clearness and prominence to that doctrine. She took good care that her people should not forget the great fundamental truth of Christ’s FmsT AnvENT to save, and of His SEcoNn Anvnrr to judge the world ; and therefore she set in the forefront of the season of Advent the collect, “Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which Thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great 1 See for example the admirable exposition in S. Au gustine’s Epistle to Hesychius, Epist. cxcix. § 25 : Christus usque ad finem saculi venire non cessat. 9 Prov. ix. 9. 3 The Collects for the Second and Third Sundays in Advent, which give the key-note to the special teaching of those Sundays respectively, are peculiar to the English Liturgy. That for the Second Sunday was composed in 1549; that for the third in 1661. Wxmmwwmc "a . :2“. viii Preface. humility; that in the last day when He shall come again in His glorious majesty to judge both the quick and dead, we may rise to the life immortal thr'ough Him who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen." And she ordered that this collect should be repeated every day, together with the other collects in Advent, until Christmas Eve. Having thus secured the great doctrines of Christ’s FIRST ADvENT, which is past, and His SECOND ADvENT, which is fimm, she next provided for that of His continual taming, by which He is ever present,- and she exhorted her people to meditate on the three modes in which He is ewr coming to them ;— X. In Ho51 Scripture, 2. By the Christian Mnistry; 3. In and by trials and troubles : and is thus ever pre paring them for His future Second Coming to Judg ment. The first of these three modes of Christ’s Coming is brought before their eyes in the Second Sunday in Advent, by the Collect “ Blessed Lord, who hast caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning;" and by the Epistle, “ Whatsoever things were written aforetime, were written /br our learning, that we through patience and com fort of the Scriptures might have hope." The second mode of Christ’s Coming is presented in the Collect {hr the Third Sunday in Advent, “ O Lord Jesu Christ, Who at Thy first coming didst send Thy Messenger to prepare Thy way before Thee, grant that the Mnimrs and Stewards of Thy mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready Thy way;" and by the Epistle, “ Let a man so account of us as of the Ministers of can", and Stewards of the mysteries of God." The Church has also given greater emphasis to this doctrine of Christ’s continual Coming in His Mnimrs, by Preface. ix - connecting this Sunday with one of her four Ember Seam”, when she sets apart and sends forth persons to serve in the sacred Ministry of His Church. In the Collect for the Fourth Sunday in Advent we are comforted with the assurance, that, although “ through our manifold sins and wickedness we are sore let and hindered in running the race that is set before us," yet we may look for help and deliverance through Christ. “ O Lord, raise up, we pray Thee, Thy power, and come among us, and with great might succour us." And the Epistle reminds us that the Lord is ever “ at hand," and that therefore we need not be “ careful,"--or distracted by anxieties,—but that in every thing we should resort to God “ by prayer, and suppli cation with thanksgiving, and then the peace of God which passeth all understanding will keep our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." A Church Hymn-Book ought to follow the leading of the Church. It ought to be adapted to her Services. The Hymn-Books which are now in common use in our churches, contain some excellent Hymns of a general character for the season of Advent ; but they do not profess to supply any Hymns of a special kind for the particular Sundays of that season. They do not refer to the thm .w'ueral modes just specified, in which Christ is over coming to His Church. This is a defect in our popular Hymnology. Whether it has in any degree been supplied in the present volume, is left to the judgment of the reader. That it ought to be supplied, no one, it may be presumed, can doubt. 5. Still further, all persons who have studied the early Christian Liturgies, and are conversant with the writings of Christian Antiquity, especially with the Homilies of the Fathers on the Seasons of the Church, will be thankful to Almighty God for the wisdom with which He endued her, “.W»,__'.-__WM ‘h w\~b 1 Preface.