I reioyced, when they sayd to me, We wil go into the house of the Lord. Psalme 122:1, (Geneva Bible)

HYMN 3, C.M.
The death and burial of a saint.
by Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

hy do we mourn departing friends,
Or shake at death’s alarms?
’Tis but the voice that Jesus sends
To call them to his arms.

Are we not tending upward too
As fast as time can move?
Nor would we wish the hours more slow
To keep us from our love.

Why should we tremble to convey
Their bodies to the tomb?
There the dear flesh of Jesus lay,
And left a long perfume.

The graves of all his saints he blessed,
And softened every bed;
Where should the dying members rest,
But with the dying Head?

Thence he arose, ascending high,
And showed our feet the way;
Up to the Lord our flesh shall fly,
At the great rising day.

Then let the last loud trumpet sound,
And bid our kindred rise;
Awake, ye nations under ground;
Ye saints, ascend the skies.

—from The Psalms & Hymns of Isaac Watts. Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book II: Composed on Divine Subjects (Soli Deo Gloria, 1997).

salms 8 (Geneva Bible)
To him that excelleth on Gittith. A Psalme of Dauid.
1 O lord our Lord, how excellent is thy Name in all the worlde! which hast set thy glory aboue the heauens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes & suckelings hast thou ordeined strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemie and the auenger.
3 When I beholde thine heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordeined,
4 What is man, say I, that thou art mindefull of him? and the sonne of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower then God, and crowned him with glory and worship.
6 Thou hast made him to haue dominion in the workes of thine hands: thou hast put all things vnder his feete:
7 All sheepe and oxen: yea, and the beastes of the fielde:
8 The foules of the ayre, and the fish of the sea, and that which passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 O Lorde our Lorde, howe excellent is thy Name in all the world!

Grace and peace to you this Lord’s Day.