HYMN 34. C. M.

None excluded from hope, Rom. i. 16. 1 Cor.

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i. 24.

ESUS, thy blessings are not few,

J Nor is thy gospel weak;

Thy grace can melt the stubborn Jew,
And bow the aspiring Greek.

2 Wide as the reach of Satan's rage,
Doth thy salvation flow:
'Tis not confined to sex or age,
The lofty or the low.

3 While grace is offered to the prince,
The poor may take their share;
No mortal has a just pretence
To perish in despair.

4 Be wise, ye men of strength and wit,
Nor boast your native powers;
But to his sovereign grace submit,
And glory shall be yours.

5 Come, all ye vilest sinners, come,
He'll form your souls anew:
His gospel and his heart have room
For rebels such as you.

6 His doctrine is almighty love:
There 's virtue in his name
To turn the raven to a dove,
The lion to a lamb.

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HYMN 35. C. M.

Truth, sincerity, &c. Phil. iv. 8.

ET those who bear the Christian name
Their holy vows fulfil :

The saints, the followers of the Lamb,
Are men of honour still.

2 True to the solemn oath they take,
Though to their hurt they swear;
Constant and just to all they speak,
For God and angels hear.

3 Still with their lips their hearts agree,
Nor flattering words devise,
They know the God of truth can see
Through every false disguise.

4 They hate the appearance of a lie,
In all the shapes it wears;

They live the truth, and, when they die,
Eternal life is theirs.

5 While hypocrites and liars fly

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Before the Judge's frown,

His faithful friends, who fear a lie, Receive the immortal crown.

HYMN 36. C. M.

A lovely carriage.

OTIS a lovely thing to see

A man of prudent heart,

Whose thoughts, and lips, and life agree
To act a useful part.

2 When envy, strife, and wars begin
In little angry souls,

Mark how the sons of peace come in,
And quench the kindling coals.

3 Their minds are humble, mild, and meek, Nor let their fury rise;

Nor passion moves their lips to speak,
Nor pride exalts their eyes.

4. Their frame is prudence mixed with love, Good works fulfil their day:

They join the serpent with the dove,
But cast the sting away.

5 Such was the Saviour of mankind,
Such pleasures he pursued:

His flesh and blood were all refined,
His soul divinely good.

6 Lord, can these plants of virtue grow
In such a heart as mine?
Thy grace my nature can renew,
And make my soul like thine.

HYMN 37. C. M.

Zeal and fortitude.

OI believe what Jesus saith, And think the gospel true?

Lord, make me bold to own my faith,
And practise virtue too.

2 Suppress my shame, subdue my fear,
Arm me with heavenly zeal,
That I may make thy power appear,
And works of praise fulfil.

3 If men shall see my virtue shine,
And spread my name abroad,
Thine is the power, the praise is thine,
My Saviour and my God.

4 Thus when the saints in glory meet,
Their lips proclaim thy grace;
They cast their honours at thy feet,
And own their borrowed rays.

PAUSE.

5 Are we the soldiers of the cross?
The followers of the Lamb?
And shall we fear to own his cause,
Or blush to speak his name?

6 Now we must fight if we would reign;
Increase our courage, Lord!
We'll bear the toil, endure the pain,
Supported by thy word.

7 Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they 're slain;
They see the triumph from afar,
And shall with Jesus reign.

8 When that illustrious day shall rise,
And all thy armies shine

In robes of victory through the skies, The glory shall be thine.

HYMN 38. L. M.

The universal law of equity, Matt. viii. 12. LESSED Redeemer, how divine,

BHow righteous is this rule of thine!

To do to all men just the same
'As we expect or wish from them.'
2 This golden lesson, short and plain,
Gives not the mind nor memory pain;
And every conscience must approve
This universal law of love.

3 How blest would every nation be,
Thus ruled by love and equity!
All would be friends without a foe,
And form a paradise below

4 Jesus, forgive us, that we keep
Thy sacred law of love asleep;
No more let envy, wrath, and pride,
But thy blest maxims be our guide.

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HYMN 39. C. M.

God's tender care of his church, Isa. xlix. 13.

NOW shall my inward joys arise

And burst into a song, Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue.

2 God on his thirsty Zion hill

Some mercy drops has thrown,
And solemn oaths have bound his love
To shower salvation down.

3 Why do we then indulge our fears,
Suspicions, and complaints?
Is he a God, and shall his grace
Grow weary of his saints?

4 Can a kind woman e'er forget
The infant of her womb,

And 'mongst a thousand tender thoughts
Her suckling have no room?

5 Yet (saith the Lord) should nature change. And mothers monsters prove,

'Sion still dwells upon the heart Of everlasting love.

6 Deep on the palms of both my hands I have engraved her name, 'My hands shall raise her ruined walls, And build her broken frame.'

HYMN 40. L. M.

The business and blessedness of glorified saints, Rev. vii. 13, &c.

1WHAT happy men or angels these,

That all their robes are spotless white? • Whence did this glorious troop arrive At the pure realms of heavenly light?" 2 From torturing racks, and burning fires, And seas of their own blood, they came; But nobler blood has washed their robes, Flowing from Christ the dying Lamb. 3 Now they approach the almighty throne, With loud hosannas night and day, Sweet anthems to the great Three One Measure their blest eternity.

4 No more shall hunger pain their souls,
He bids their parching thirst be gone,
And spreads the shadow of his wings
To screen them from the scorching sun.
5 The Lamb that fills the middle throne
Shall shed around his milder beams,
There shall they feast on his rich love,
And drink full joys from living streams.
6 Thus shall their mighty bliss renew

Through the vast round of endless years,
And the soft hand of sovereign grace
Heals all their wounds, and wipes their tears.
HYMN 41. C. M.

The same; or, The martyrs glorified, Rev. vii.

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13, &c.

HESE glorious minds, how bright they
Whence all their white array? [shine!

'How came they to the happy seats

Of everlasting day?'

2 From torturing pains to endless joys On fiery wheels they rode,

And strangely washed their raiment white In Jesus' dying blood.

3 Now they approach a spotless God,
And bow before his throne;

Their warbling harps and sacred songs
Adore the Holy One.

4 The unveiled glories of his face
Amongst his saints reside,

While the rich treasure of his grace
Sees all their wants supplied.

5 Tormenting thirst shall leave their souls,
And hunger flee as fast;

The fruit of life's immortal tree

Shall be their sweet repast.

6 The Lamb shall lead his heavenly flock
Where living fountains rise,
And love divine shall wipe away
The sorrows from their eyes.

While we beneath thy sheltering wings Thy just revenge adore.

HYMN 43. L. M.

The Christian's treasure, 1 Cor. iii. 21. OW vast the treasure we possess !

HOW

How rich thy bounty, King of Grace! This world is ours, and worlds to come; Earth is our lodge, and heaven our home.

2 All things are ours, the gifts of God,
The purchase of a Saviour's blood:
While the good Spirit shows us how
To use and to improve them to.

3 If peace and plenty crown my days,
They help me, Lord, to speak thy praise;
If bread of sorrows be my food,
Those sorrows work my lasting good.
4 I would not change my blest estate
For all the world calls good or great:
And while my faith can keep her hold,
I envy not the sinner's gold.

5 Father, I wait thy daily will;

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Thou shalt divide my portion still :
Grant me on earth what seems thee best,
Till death and heaven reveal the rest.

HYMN 44. C. M.

The true improvement of life.

AND is this life prolonged to me?

Are days and seasons given?

O let me then prepare to be

A fitter heir of heaven!

2 In vain these moments shall not pass,
These golden hours be gone :
Lord, I accept thine offered grace,
I bow before thy throne.

3 Now cleanse my soul from every sin
By my Redeemer's blood:
Now let my flesh and soul begin
The honours of my God.

4 Let me no more my soul beguile
With sin's deceitful toys:
Let cheerful hope increasing still,
Approach to heavenly joys.

5 My thankful lips shall loud proclaim
The wonders of thy praise,
And spread the savour of thy name
Where'er I spend my days.

6 On earth let my example shine,
And when I leave this state,

May heaven receive this soul of mine
To bliss supremely great.

HYMN 45. C. M.

The last judgment, Rev. xxi. 5-8.

1 CEE where the great incarnate God Fills a majestic throne,

While from the skies his awful voice
Bears the last judgment down.

2 [I am the first, and I the last,

Through endless years the same;
I AM is my memorial still,
And my eternal name.

3Such favours as a God can give

My royal grace bestows;

Ye thirsty souls, come taste the streams
Where life and pleasure flows.]

4 [The saint that triumphs o'er his sins,
'I'll own him for a son;

The whole creation shall reward
The conquests he has won.

5 But bloody hands and hearts unclean, And all the lying race,

The faithless and the scoffing crew,
That spurn at offered grace;

6 They shall be taken from my sight,
Bound fast in iron chains,

And headlong plunged into the lake
Where fire and darkness reigns."]

7 O may I stand before the Lamb,

When earth and seas are fled! And hear the Judge pronounce my name With blessings on my head!

8 May I with those for ever dwell Who here were my delight,

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While sinners, banished down to hell, No more offend my sight.

HYMN 46. L. M.

The privileges of the living above the dead.

AWAKE, my zeal, awake, my love,

To serve my Saviour here below, In works which perfect saints above, And holy angels cannot do.

2 Awake, my charity, to feed

The hungry soul, and clothe the poor;
In heaven are found no sons of need,
There all these duties are no more.
3 Subdue thy passions, O my soul!
Maintain the fight, thy work pursue,
Daily thy rising sins control,
And be thy victories ever new.
4 The land of triumph lies on high,
There are no foes to encounter there :
Lord, I would conquer till I die,
And finish all the glorious war.

5 Let every flying hour confess,
I gain thy gospel fresh renown;

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And when my life and labour cease,
May I possess the promised crown!

HYMN 47. C. M.

Death of kindred improved.

MUST friends and kindred drop and die,

And helpers be withdrawn?
While sorrow with a weeping eye
Counts up her comforts gone?

2 Be thou our comfort, mighty God!
Our helper and our friend:

Nor leave us in this dangerous road,
Till all our trials end.

3 O may our feet pursue the way
Our pious fathers led!
With love and holy zeal obey
The counsels of the dead!

4 Let us be weaned from all below;
Let hope our grief expel!

While death invites our souls to go
Where our best kindred dwell.

HYMN 48. L. M.

The Christian race, Isa. xl. 28-31.

AWAKE, our souls, away, our fears; Let every trembling thought be gone: Awake, and run the heavenly race, And put a cheerful courage on. 2 True, 'tis a strait and thorny road, And mortal spirits tire and faint; But they forget the mighty God That feeds the strength of every saint.

OW strong thine arm is, mighty God!

HOW

Who would not fear thy name? Jesus, how sweet thy graces are!

Who would not love the Lamb?

2 He has done more than Moses did,
Our Prophet and our King;
From bonds of hell he freed our souls,
And taught our lips to sing.

3 In the Red sea by Moses' hand
The Egyptian host was drowned;
But his own blood hides all our sins,
And guilt no more is found.

4 When through the desert Israel went,
With manna they were fed:
Our Lord invites us to his flesh,
And calls it living bread.

5 Moses beheld the promised land,
Yet never reached the place;

But Christ shall bring his followers home,
To see his Father's face.

6 Then shall our love and joy be full,
And feel a warmer flame;
And sweeter voices tune the song
Of Moses and the Lamb.

HYMN 50. C. M.

The song of Zacharias, and the message of John the Baptist; or, Light and salvation, by Jesus Christ, Luke i. 68, &c. John i. 29, 32.

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NOW be the God of Israel blessed

Who makes his truth appear,

His mighty hand fulfils his word,
And all the oaths he sware.

2 Now he bedews old David's root

With blessings from the skies;

He makes the branch of promise grow,
The promised horn arise.

3 [John was the prophet of the Lord
To go before his face,

The herald which our Saviour God
Sent to prepare his ways.

4 He makes the great salvation known,
He speaks of pardoned sins;
While grace divine and heavenly love
In its own glory shines.

5 Behold the Lamb of God,' he cries,
That takes our guilt away:
'I saw the Spirit o'er his head
'On his baptizing day.]

6 Be every vale exalted high,
'Sink every mountain low;

The proud must stoop, and humble souls
'Shall his salvation know.

7 The heathen realms with Israel's land
Shall join in sweet accord;

And all that's born of man shall see
The glory of the Lord.

8 Behold the Morning-star arise,
Ye that in darkness sit;

'He marks the path that leads to peace, 'And guides our doubtful feet.

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HYMN 51. S. M.
Persevering grace, Jude 24, 25.
10 God the only wise,
Our Saviour and our King,

Let all the saints below the skies
Their humble praises bring.

'Tis his almighty love,

His counsel, and his care,

Preserves us safe from sin and death,
And every hurtful snare.
He will present our souls
Unblemished and complete,
Before the glory of his face,
With joys divinely great.

Then all the chosen seed

Shall meet around the throne,

Shall bless the conduct of his grace,
And make his wonders known.

To our Redeemer, God,
Wisdom and power belongs,
Immortal crowns of majesty,
And everlasting songs.

HYMN 52. L. M.

Baptism, Matt. xxviii. 19. Acts ii. 38.

WAS the commission of our Lord,

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'Go teach the nations, and baptize;" The nations have received the word Since he ascended to the skies.

2 He sits upon the eternal hills,

With grace and pardon in his hands,
And sends his covenant with the seals,
To bless the distant British lands.
3 Repent, and be baptized, (he saith,)
For the remission of your sins;'
And thus our sense assists our faith,
And shows us what his gospel means.
4 Our souls he washes in his blood,
As water makes the body clean;
And the good Spirit from our God
Descends like purifying rain.

5 Thus we engage ourselves to thee,

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And seal our covenant with the Lord: O may the great eternal Three

In heaven our solemn vows record!

HYMN 53. L. M.

The Holy Scriptures, Heb. i. 1, 2. 2 Tim. iii. 15, 16. Psalm cxlvii. 19, 20.

SOD, who in various methods told
His mind and will to saints of old,

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Sent down his Son, with truth and grace,
To teach us in these latter days.

2 Our nation reads the written word,
That book of life, that sure record:
The bright inheritance of heaven
Is by the sweet conveyance given.

3 God's kindest thoughts are here expressed,
Able to make us wise and blessed;
The doctrines are divinely true,
Fit for reproof, and comfort too.
4 Ye British isles, who read his love
In long epistles from above,
(He hath not sent his sacred word
To every land,) Praise ye the Lord.

14 Predestinated to be sons,

Born by degrees, but chose at once;
A new regenerated race

To praise the glory of his grace. 5 With Christ our Lord we share our part In the affections of his heart,

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Nor shall our souls be thence removed, Till he forgets his first beloved.

HYMN 55. C. M.

Hezekiah's song; or, Sickness and recovery, Isa. xxxviii. 9, &c.

WOur God deserves a song:

WHEN we are raised from deep distress

We take the pattern of our praise
From Hezekiah's tongue.

2 The gates of the devouring grave
Are opened wide in vain,

If he that holds the keys of death
Commands them fast again.

3 Pains of the flesh are wont to abuse
Our minds with slavish fears,
Our days are past, and we shall lose
The remnant of our years.'

4 We chatter with a swallow's voice,
Or like a dove we mourn,
With bitterness instead of joys,
Afflicted and forlorn.

5 Jehovah speaks the healing word,
And no disease withstands;
Fevers and plagues obey the Lord,
And fly at his commands.

6 If half the strings of life should break,
He can our frame restore;

He casts our sins behind his back,
And they are found no more.

HYMN 56. C. M.

The song of Moses and the Lamb; or, Babylon falling, Rev. xv. 3. and chap. xvi. 19. and xvii. 6.

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WE sing the glories of thy love,

We sound thy dreadful name;

The christian church unites the songs
Of Moses and the Lamb.

2 Great God, how wondrous are thy works
Of vengeance and of grace!
Thou King of saints, Almighty Lord,
How just and true thy ways!

3 Who dares refuse to fear thy name,
Or worship at thy throne?

Thy judgments speak thine holiness,
Through all the nations known.

4 Great Babylon, that rules the earth,
Drunk with the martyrs' blood:
Her crimes shall speedily awake
The fury of our God.

5 The cup of wrath is ready mixed,
And she must drink the dregs;

Strong is the Lord, her sovereign Judge, And shall fulfil the plagues.

HYMN 57. C. M.

Original sin; or, The first and second Adam,

Rom. v. 12. Psalm li. 5. Job xiv. 4.

ACKWARD with humble shame we look

Bon our original:

How is our nature dashed and broke
In our first father's fall!

2 To all that 's good averse and blind,
And prone to all that 's ill;

What dreadful darkness veils our mind!
How obstinate our will!

3 [Conceived in sin (O wretched state)
Before we draw our breath,
The first young pulse begins to beat
Iniquity and death.