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HYMN 85. L.M.
New-Year. (cont.)

1	GOD of our lives, thy constant care With blessings crowns each op'ning year; Our guilty lives thou dost prolong, And wake anew our annual song.
2	How many precious souls are fled To the vast regions of the dead, Since from this day the changing sun Thro' his last yearly period run!
3	Our breath is thine, eternal God; Tis thine to fix our soul's abode; We hold our lives from thee alone, On earth, or in the world unknown.
4	To thee our spirits we resign; Make them and own them still as thine; So shall they smile, secure from fear. Tho' death should blast the rising vear.

HYMN 86. L.M.
New-Year.

1	BLEST be th' Eternal Infinite! Whose skill conducts this rolling sphere; Who rules our day, who guards our night, And guides the swift, revolving year!
2	Our race arc falling ev'ry hour, While we distinguished yet appear; 'Tis of thy matchless love and pow'r, That we are spar'd another year.
3	O! for a sweet refreshing time; Saviour! thy people wish thee near: Come, and our joys shall be sublime, While we begin another year.
4	May thy good spirit he our guide, While thus we stay as pilgrims here;

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HYMN 86. L.M.
New-Year. (cont.)

4	Nor let us from our God backslide, As we have done the former year.
5	Strengthen our faith, increase our love: Fill us with godly, filial fear; And to thy waiting children prove Thy grace thro' ev'ry fleeting year.
6	This truth impress on ev'ry soul, That vast eternity is near; That time's swift moments onward roll, To bring the last, the closing year.
7	When nature in a blaze shall die, Or death conclude our being here; Then to our Jesus may we fly, To spend a never-ending year.

HYMN 87. L.M.
New-Year.

1	GREAT God, we sing that mighty hand, By which supported, still we stand: The op'ning year thy mercy shows; Let mercy crown it till it close.
2	By day, by night, at home, abroad, Still we are guarded by our God; By his incessant bounty fed, By his unerring counsel led.
3	With grateful hearts the past we own; The future, all to us unknown, We to thy guardian care commit, And peaceful leave before thy feet.
4	In scenes exalted or depress'd, Be thou our joy, and thou our rest; Thy goodness all our hopes shall raise, Ador'd thro' all our changing days.
5	When death shall interrupt our songs, And silence these our mortal tongues,