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The same.

1. BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne,

[Ps. 100. ii. 2. Eternal are thy mercies, Lord; Eternal truth attends thy word;

Ye nations bow with sacred joy; Know that the Lord is God alone, He can create, and he destroy. 2. His sovereign power, without our aid, Made us of clay, and formed us men; And when, like wandering sheep,we strayed, He brought us to his fold again.

3. We are his people, we his care,

Our souls, and all our mortal frame: What lasting honors shall we rear, Almighty Maker, to thy name!

4. We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs; High as the heavens our voices raise; And earth, with her ten thousand tongues, Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.

5. Wide as the world is thy command, Vast as eternity thy love;

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Firm as a rock thy truth must stand, When rolling years shall cease to move.

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1. WITH One consent, let all the earth
To God their cheerful voices raise;
Glad homage pay, with awful mirth,
And sing before him songs of praise :-

2. Convinced that he is God alone,

From whom both we and all proceed;
We, whom he chooses for his own,
The flock which he vouchsafes to feed.

3. O enter then his temple gate,

Thence to his courts devoutly press; And still your grateful hymns repeat, And still his name with praises bless. 4. For he's the Lord-supremely good, His mercy is forever sure;

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His truth, which always firmly stood, To endless ages shall endure.

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1. FROM all that dwell below the skies
Let the Creator's praise arise:
Let the Redeemer's name be sung
Through every land, by every tongue.

Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till Suns shall rise and set no more.

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1. LOUD hallelujahs to the Lord,
From distant worlds where creatures
dwell!

Let heaven begin the solemn word,
And sound it dreadful down to hell.

2. The Lord-how absolute he reigns!
Let every angel bend the knee,
Sing of his love in heavenly strains,
And speak how fierce his terrors be.
High on a throne his glories dwell,
An awful throne of shining bliss:
Fly through the world, O sun! and tell
How dark thy beams compared to his.
Awaké, ye tempests, and his fame

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In sounds of dreadful praise declare;
Let the sweet whisper of his name
Fill every gentler breeze of air.

5. Let clouds, and winds, and waves agree
To join their praise with blazing fire;
Let the firm earth and rolling sea
In this eternal song conspire.

6. Mortals, can you refrain your tongue,
When nature all around you sings?
O for a shout from old and young,
From humble swains and lofty kings!

7. Wide as his vast dominion lies,

Make the Creator's name be known;
Loud as his thunder shout his praise,
And sound it lofty as his throne.

8. Jehovah 't is a glorious word!
O may
it dwell on every tongue!
But saints, who best have known the Lord,
Are bound to raise the noblest song.

9. Speak of the wonders of that love,
Which Gabriel plays on every chord;
From all below, and all above,
Loud hallelujahs to the Lord!

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Be honor, praise, and glo-ry given, By all on earth, and all in heaven.

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Public Prayer and Praise. [Ps. 65. i. 9.

1. THE praise of Zion waits for thee,

My God, and praise becomes thy house; There shall thy saints thy glory see,

And there perform their public vows. 2. O thou, whose mercy bends the skies, To save when humble sinners pray; All lands to thee shall lift their eyes, And distant islands of the sea.

8 Against my will my sins prevail,

But grace shall purge away their stain; The blood of Christ will never fail

To wash my garments white again.

4. Blest is the man whom thou shalt choose,
And give him kind access to thee;
Give him a place within thy house,
To taste thy love divinely free.
5. With dreadful glory God fulfills

What his afflicted saints request;
And with almighty wrath reveals
His love to give his churches rest.
6. Then shall the flocking nations run
To Zion's hill, and own their Lord;
The rising and the setting sun

Shall see the Saviour's name adored.

Longing for God's House. [Ps. 84. vi.
1. GREAT God, attend, while Zion sings
The joy, that from thy presence springs,
To spend one day with thee on earth
Exceeds a thousand days of mirth.

2. Might I enjoy the meanest place
Within thy house, O God of grace,
Not tents of ease, nor thrones of power,
Should tempt my feet to leave thy door.

3. God is our sun-he makes our day;

God is our shield-he guards our way
From all th' assaults of hell and sin,
From foes without and foes within.

4. All needful grace will God bestow,
And crown that grace with glory, too;
He gives us all things, and withholds
No real good from upright souls.

5. O God, our King! thy sovereign sway
The glorious hosts of heaven obey,
And devils at thy presence flee;
Blest is the man that trusts in thee!

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Christ's second Coming. [Ps. 97. iii.

1. He reigns; the Lord, the Saviour reigns;
Praise him in evangelic strains;
Let the whole earth in songs rejoice;
And distant islands join their voice.

2. Deep are his counsels and unknown,

But grace and truth support his throne;
Though gloomy clouds his way surround,
Justice is their eternal ground.

3. In robes of judgment, lo, he comes! Shakes the wide earth, and cleaves the tombs;

Before him burns devouring fire,

The mountains melt, the seas retire.

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1. THE Saviour, when to heaven he rose
In splendid triumph o'er his foes,
Scattered his gifts on men below,
And wide his royal bounties flow.

2. Hence sprung th' apostles' honored name, Sacred beyond heroic fame:

In lowlier forms to bless our eyes,
Pastors from hence, and teachers rise.

3. So shall the bright succession run

Through the last courses of the sun;
While unborn churches, by their care,
Shall rise and flourish, large and fair,

4. Jesus, our Lord, their hearts shall know,
The spring whence all these blessings flow;
Pastors and people shout his praise,
Through the long round of endless days.

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Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise him, all creatures here below;

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Praise him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Fa-ther, Son, and Holy Ghost.

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[Ps. 69- iii. 2. Spare us, O Lord, aloud we pray,

1. DEEP in our hearts let us record
The deeper sorrows of our Lord:
Behold the rising billows roll,
To overwhelm his holy soul.

2. In long complaints he spends his breath;
While hosts of hell, and powers of death,
And all the sons of malice join,
To execute their base design.

3. Yet, gracious God, thy power and love
Have made the curse a blessing prove;
Those dreadful sufferings of thy Son
Atoned for sins which we had done.

4. The pangs of our expiring Lord
The honors of thy law restored:
His sorrows made thy justice known,
And paid for follies not his own.
5. Oh, for his sake, our guilt forgive,
And let the mourning sinner live!
The Lord will hear us in his name,
Nor shall our hope be turned to shame.
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Man frail—God unchanging. [Ps. 102. v. 1. Ir is the Lord our Saviour's hand,

Weakens our strength amid the race: Disease, and death, at his command, Arrest us, and cut short our days.

Nor let our sun go down at noon:
Thy years are one eternal day,

And must thy children die so soon? 3. Yet, in the midst of death and grief,

This thought our sorrow shall assuage;— "Our Father and our Saviour live: . Christ is the same through every age." 4. "Twas he this earth's foundation laid; Heaven is the building of his hand; This earth grows old, these heavens shall fade,

And all be changed at his command.

5. The starry curtains of the sky,

Like garments, shall be laid aside;
But still thy throne stands firm and high;
Thy church forever must abide.

6. Before thy face thy church shall live,
And on thy throne thy children reign,
This dying world shall they survive,
And the dead saints be raised again.

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1. GREAT Former of this various frame,
Our souls adore thine awful name,
And bow and tremble while they praise
The Ancient of eternal days.

2. Before thine infinite survey,
Creation rose as yesterday;
And, as to-morrow, shall thine eye
See earth and stars in ruin lie.

3. Beyond the highest angel's sight,
Thou dwellest in eternal light,
Which shines with undiminished ray,
While suns and systems waste away.

4. Our days a transient period run,

And change with every circling sun;
And while to lengthened years we trust,
Before the moth we sink to dust.

5. But let the creatures fall around;
Let death consign us to the ground;-
Let the last general flame arise,
And melt the arches of the skies;-
6. Calm as the summer's ocean, we
Can all the wreck of nature see;
While grace secures us an abode
Unshaken as the throne of God.

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2. Though I have most unfaithful been,
Of all who e'er thy grace received;
Ten thousand times thy goodness seen.
Ten thousand times thy goodness
grieved ;—

3. Yet O! the chief of sinners spare,
In honor of my great High Priest;
Nor, in thy righteous anger, swear
I shall not see thy people's rest.

4. O Lord, my weary soul release,
And raise me by thy gracious hand;
Guide me into thy perfect peace,
And bring me to the promised land.

The great Journey.

[Hy. 470.

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1. BEHOLD the path that mortals tread
Down to the regions of the dead!
Nor will the fleeting moments stay,
Nor can we measure back our way.

2. Our kindred and our friends are gone;
Know, O my soul, this doom thine own:
Feeble as theirs my mortal frame,
The same my way, my house the same.
3. And must I, from the cheerful light,
Pass to the grave's perpetual night?—
From scenes of duty, means of grace,
Must I to God's tribunal pass?

4. Awake, my soul, thy way prepare,
And lose, in this, each mortal care;
With steady feet that path be trod,
Which, through the grave, conducts to God.
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National Judgments deprecated [Hy. 614. 1. WHILE o'er our guilty land, O Lord, We view the terrors of thy sword; Oh, whither shall the hopeless fly? To whom but thee direct their cry? 2. On thee, our guardian God, we call, Before thy throne of grace we fall, And is there no deliverance there! And must we perish in despair?

3. See, we repent, we weep, we mourn,
To our forsaken God we turn;

O, spare our guilty country, spare
The church, which thou hast planted here.

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