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The Southern harmony, and musical companion

containing a choice collection of tunes, hymns, psalms, odes, and anthems

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PART I. CONTAINING MOST OF THE PLAIN AND EASY TUNES COMMONLY USED IN TIME OF DIVINE WORSHIP.
  
[Young people all, attention give]
  
[Come, ye sinners, poor and wretched]
  
[Salvation! O the joyful sound]
  
[Thou Man of grief, remember me]
  
[To-day, if you will hear his voice]
  
[Come, humble sinner, in whose breast]
  
[O thou who hear'st when sinners cry]
  
[Mercy, O thou Son of David]
  
[Jesus, my all, to heav'n is gone]
  
[Children of the heav'nly King]
  
[Grace! 'tis a charming sound]
  
[Did Christ o'er sinner's weep]
  
[Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)]
  
[Lord I cannot let thee go]
  
[As on the cross the Saviour hung]
  
[Come, we that love the Lord]
  
[Am I a soldier of the cross]
  
[Jesus my all to heav'n is gone]
  
[How sweet the name of Jesus sounds]
  
[Lord, what is man, poor feeble man]
  
[Sweet is the day of sacred rest]
  
[Dear friends, farewell, I do you tell]
  
[O Thou in whose presence my soul takes delight]
  
[Hail the blest morn, see the great Mediator]
  
[Come away to the skies]
  
[Once more, my soul, the rising day]
  
[I am a great complainer, that bears the name of Christ]
  
[The time is swiftly rolling on]
  
[Welcome, welcome, ev'ry guest]
  
[How painfully pleasing the fond recollection]
  
[O come, loud anthems let us sing]
  
[So fades the lovely, blooming flow'r]
  
[Come, ye that love the Lord]
  
[Mercy, O thou Son of David]
  
[The faithless world promiscuous flows]
  
[Will God for ever cast us off]
  
[Saw ye my Saviour]
  
[When shall we all meet again]
  
[I love my blessed Saviour]
  
[My soul, repeat his praise]
  
[When I can read my title clear]
  
[Afflictions, though they seem severe]
  
[Remember, sinful youth, you must die, you must die]
  
[Our cheerful voices let us raise]
  
[And am I born to die]
  
[Teach me the measure of my days]
  
[When the midnight cry began, O what lamentation]
  
[Though troubles assail, and dangers affright]
  
[Come, O thou traveller unknown]
  
[Farewell, my dear brethren, the time is at hand]
  
[The cross of Christ inspires my heart]
  
[Farewell, my lovely friends, farewell]
  
[Bright scenes of glory strike my sense]
  
[I find myself placed in a state of probation]
  
[My Shepherd will supply my need]
  
[Who is this that comes from far]
  
[From whence does this union arise]
  
[Do not I love thee, O my Lord]
  
[No more beneath th' oppressive hand]
  
[The people called Christians]
  
[Glorious things of thee are spoken]
  
[Hark! don't you hear the turtle dove]
  
[While beauty and youth are in their full prime]
  
[Am I a soldier of the cross]
  
[The day is past and gone]
  
[Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings]
  
[Broad is the road that leads to death]
  
[Come, humble sinner, in whose breast]
  
[How lost was my condition]
  
[Through all the world below]
  
[On Jordan's stormy banks I stand]
  
[By Babel's streams we sat and wept]
  
[O when shall I see Jesus, and dwell with him above]
  
[He dies, the Friend of sinners dies]
  
[Oh! may I worthy prove to see]
  
[O, once I had a glorious view]
  
[Come all, who love my Lord and master]
  
[The chariot! the chariot! its wheels roll in fire]
  
[Come on, my partners in distress]
  
[O tell me no more of this world's vain store]
  
[In seasons of grief to my God I'll repair]
  
[Brethren, don't you hear the sound]
  
[Come, little children, now we may]
  
[There is a land of pleasure]
  
[Come, thou fount of ev'ry blessing]
  
[The watchmen blow the trumpet round]
  
[Religion is the chief concern]
  
[Dismiss us with thy blessing, Lord]
  
[No more beneath th' oppressive hand]
  
[How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord]
  
[To leave my dear friends, and with neighbors to part]
  
[How tedious and tasteless the hours]
  
[Return, O God of love, return]
  
[Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings]
  
[When in death I shall calm recline]
  
[A few more days on earth to spend]
  
[The time is soon coming]
  
[Why do we mourn departing friends]
  
[Blow ye the trumpet, blow]
  
[Ye nations all, on you I call. Come, near this declaration]
  
[Come, all you weary travellers]
  
[Jesus, thou art the sinner's friend]
  
[Come, Christians, be valiant, our Jesus is near us]
  
[Come, all ye young people of every relation]
  
[There was a Romish lady brought up in popery]
  
[Dark and thorny is the desert]
  
[Come, humble sinner, in whose breast]
  
[The day of the Lord—the day of salvation]
  
[A story most lovely I'll tell]
  
[Wake, Isles of the South! your redemption is near]
  
[Hail! ye sighing sons of sorrow]
  
[Come away to the skies, My beloved, arise]
  
[O tell me where the Dove has flown]
  
[There is a happy land]
  
[The Lord into his garden comes]
  
[O how I have long'd for the coming of God]
  
[Father, I long, I faint to see]
  
[Why should we start, or fear to die]
  
[And if you meet with troubles]
  
[Come, thou fount of every blessing]
  
[No more shall the sound of the war-whoop be heard]
  
[Soldiers, go, but not to claim]
  
[Young people all, attention give]
  
[He comes! he comes! to judge the world]
  
[My days, my weeks, my months, my years]
  
[I sing a song which doth belong to all the human race]
  
[Burst, ye emerald gates, and bring]
  
[How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord]
  
[Vain, delusive world, adieu]
  
[Brethren, we have met to worship]
  
[When I can read my title clear]
  
[Come and taste, along with me]
  
[I am a stranger here below]
  
[Shall men pretend to pleasure]
  
[And let this feeble body fail]
  
[Hark! hark! glad tidings charm our ears]
  
[There's a friend above all others]
  
[This world's not all a fleeting show]
  
[From Greenland's icy mountains]
  
[Say now, ye lovely social band]
  
[My Christian friends, in bonds of love]
  
[With inward pain my heartstrings sound]
  
[How splendid shines the morning star]
  
[Those happy spirits, &c.]
  
[Hark! the jubilee is sounding]
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PART II. CONTAINING SOME OF THE MORE LENGTHY AND ELEGANT PIECES, COMMONLY USED AT CONCERTS, OR SINGING SOCIETIES.
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APPENDIX: CONTAINING SEVERAL TUNES ENTIRELY NEW.

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[Vain, delusive world, adieu]

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The following poem is scored for music in the source text.

[1]

Vain, delusive world, adieu,
With all of creature good;
Only Jesus I pursue,
Who bought us with his blood.
All thy pleasures I forego,
I trample on thy wealth and pride;
Only Jesus will I know,
And Jesus crucified

2

Other knowledge I disdain,
'Tis all but vanity:
Christ, the Lamb of God, was slain,
He tasted death for me!
Me to save from endless wo,
The sin-atoning victim died!
Only Jesus will I know,
And Jesus crucified!

3

Here will I set up my rest;
My fluctuating heart
From the haven of his breast
Shall never more depart:
Whither should a sinner go?
His wounds for me stand open wide;
Only Jesus will I know
And Jesus crucified

4

Him to know is life and peace,
And pleasure without end;
This is all my happiness,
On Jesus to depend;
Daily in his grace to grow,
And ever in his faith abide,
Only Jesus will I know,
And Jesus crucified!

5

O that I could all invite,
This saving truth to prove:
Show the length, the breadth, the heigh
And depth of Jesus' love!
Fain I would to sinners show
The blood by faith alone applied!
Only Jesus will I know
And Jesus crucified
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