Six centuries of select hymns and spiritual songs collected out of the Holy Bible together with a catechism, the canticles, and a catalogue of vertuous women / by William Barton.

HYMN 444. Affection to Ordinances. 2. METRE.

Psal. 84.

LORD God of Hosts, how lovely fair, thy Tabernacles be! My longing Soul would fain repair, thy sacred Courts to see. My flesh and heart cry out amain for thee the living God, O when shall I come near and see the place of thine abode!

Most happy therefore are those men that dwell so nigh thy Courts, And they whose zeal doth carry them to such Divine resorts. From strength to strength they walk full fast, through growth in Grace and Love: Untill they come to God at last, in Sion (there) above.

2. PART.

One day, O Lord, of prayer and praise spent in thy Courts of Grace, Is better than a thousand days in any other place.

Much rather would I keep a door where God his Grace presents, Than have my dwelling evermore, in Sinners furnish'd Tents.

For God the Lord Jehovah is, a constant Sun and Shield, He will vouchsafe his Grace to his, and Glory freely yield. And no good thing with-hold will he from them that walk upright, Lord God of Hosts, so blest they be that trust upon thy might.