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2. When once it enters to the mind,

It spreads such light abroad,
The meanest souls instruction find,
And raise their thoughts to God.

8. "Tis like the sun, a heavenly light
That guides us all the day;
And through the dangers of the night,
A lamp to lead our way.

4. The men that keep thy law with care,
And meditate thy word,
Grow wiser than their teachers are,
And better know the Lord.

5. Thy precepts make me truly wise;
I hate the sinners' road;

I hate my own vain thoughts that rise,
But love thy law,
my God.

6. Thy word is everlasting truth;
How pure is every page!

That holy book shall guide our youth,
And well support our age.

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[Hy. 73. 1. THERE is a house not made with hands, Eternal, and on high;

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And here my spirit waiting stands Till God shall bid it fly.

2. Shortly this prison of my clay Must be dissolved and fall; Then, O my soul, with joy obey Thy heavenly Father's call.

3. "Tis he, by his almighty grace, Who forms thee fit for heaven, And, as an earnest of the place, Has his own Spirit given.

4. We walk by faith of joys to come;
Faith lives upon his word;
But while the body is our home,
We're absent from the Lord.

5. "Tis pleasant to believe thy grace,
But we had rather see;
We would be absent from the flesh,
And present, Lord, with thee.

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1. WITH my whole heart I'll raise my song, Thy wonders I'll proclaim;

Thou, sovereign Judge of right and wrong,
Wilt put my foes to shame.

2. I'll sing thy majesty and grace:
My God prepares his throne
To judge the world in righteousness,
And make his vengeance known.

8. Then shall the Lord a refuge prove
For all the poor oppressed;
To save the people of his love,
And give the weary rest.

4. The men that know thy name will trust
In thine abundant grace:

For thou dost ne'er forsake the just,
Who humbly seek thy face.

5. Sing praises to the righteous Lord,
Who dwells on Zion's hill,

Who executes his threatening word,
And doth his grace fulfill.

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2. I ask no sheep for sacrifice,

Nor bullocks burnt with fire;
To hope and love, to pray and praise,.
Is all that I require.

3. Call upon me when trouble's near,-
My hand shall set thee free;
Then shall thy thankful lips declare
The honor due to me.

4. The man that offers humble praise,
He glorifies me best,

And those that tread my holy ways
Shall my salvation taste.

354.

God's Power and Goodness. [Ps. 66. i.

1. SING, all ye nations, to the Lord,
Sing with a cheerful noise;
With melody of sound record
His honors and your joys.

2. Say to the Power that shakes the sky,-
"How terrible art thou!
Sinners before thy presence fly,
Or at thy feet they bow."

3. He rules by his resistless might: Will rebel mortals dare Provoke th' Eternal to the fight,

And tempt that dreadful war?

4. O bless our God, and never cease;

Ye saints, fulfill his praise;

He keeps our life, maintains our peace,
And guides our doubtful ways.

2. Thy hand my heart and reins possessed, Where unborn nature grew;

Thy wisdom all my features traced,
And all my members drew.

5. Lord, thou hast proved our suffering souls, 3. Thine eye with nicest care surveyed

To make our graces shine:

So silver bears the burning coals, The metal to refine.

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The growth of every part,

Till the whole scheme, thy thoughts had laid,
Was copied by thine art.

4. Heaven, earth, and sea, and fire, and wind,
Show me thy wondrous skill;
But I review myself, and find
Diviner wonders still.

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Where there are works to make him known, Or saints to love the Lord.

358. Christ ascending and reigning. [Ps. 47. 359.

1. O For a shout of sacred joy

To God the sovereign King!
Let every land their tongues employ,
And hymns of triumph sing.

2. Jesus, our God, ascends on high;

His heavenly guards around
Attend him rising through the sky,
With trumpets' joyful sound.

3. While angels shout and praise their King,
Let mortals learns their strains;
Let all the earth his honors sing;
O'er all the earth he reigns.

4. Rehearse his praise with awe profound,
Let knowledge lead the soug:
Nor mock him with a solemn sound
Upon a thoughtless tongue.

5. In Israel stood his ancient throne,
He loved that chosen race;

But now he calls the world his own,
And Gentiles taste his grace.

6. These western climes are all the Lord's,
Here Abraham's God is known;
While powers and princes, shields and
swords,

Submit before his throne.

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1. To God, our strength, your voice, aloud,
In strains of glory raise;
High to Jehovah, Jacob's God,
Exalt the notes of praise.

2. With psalms of honor and of joy,
Let all his temples ring;
Your various instruments employ,
And songs of triumph sing.

3. Now let the gospel trumpet blow,
On his appointed feast,

And teach his waiting church to know
The Sabbath's sacred rest.

4. This was the statute of the Lord
To Israel's favored race:

And yet his courts preserve his word,
And there we wait his grace.

360.

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1. SING to the Lord Jehovah's name,
And in his strength rejoice;
When his salvation is our theme,
Exalted be our voice.

2. With thanks approach his awful sight,
And psalms of honor sing:

The Lord's a God of boundless might,
The whole creation's King.

8. Let princes hear, let angels know,

How mean their natures seem,
Those gods on high, and gods below,
When once compared with him.

4. Earth, with its caverns dark and deep, Lies in his spacious hand;

He fixed the sea what bounds to keep,
And where the hills must stand.

5. Come, and with humble souls adore,
Come, kneel before his face;
O may the creatures of his power
Be children of his grace!

6. Now is the time; he bends his ear,
And waits for your request;
Come, lest he rouse his wrath, and swear,-
"Ye shall not see my rest."

361. God's Wisdom in his Works. [Ps. 111. i.

1. SONGS of immortal praise belong
To my almighty God:

He has my heart, and he my tongue,
To spread his name abroad.

2. How great the works his hand hath wrought,
How glorious in our sight!
And men in every age have sought
His wonders with delight.

8. How most exact is nature's frame!
How wise th' eternal mind!

His counsels never change the scheme
That his first thought designed.

4. When he redeemed his chosen sons,
He fixed his covenant sure;
The orders that his lips pronounce
To endless years endure.

5. Nature and time, and earth and skies,
Thy heavenly skill proclaim:
What shall we do to make us wise,
But learn to read thy name?

6. To fear thy power, to trust thy grace,
Is our divinest skill;

And he's the wisest of our race
Who best obeys thy will

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1. UNSHAKEN as the sacred hill,
And fixed as mountains be,
Firm as a rock, the soul shall rest, ⚫

That leans, O Lord, on thee.

2. Not walls, nor hills, could guard so well Old Salem's happy ground, As those eternal arms of love,

That every saint surround.⚫

3. While tyrants are a smarting scourge,
To drive them near to God,
Divine compassion still allays
The fury of the rod.

4. Deal gently, Lord, with souls sincere,
And lead them safely on
To the bright gates of paradise,

Where Christ, their Lord, is gone.

5. But if we trace those crooked ways
Which the old serpent drew,

The wrath that drove him first to hell,
Shall smite his followers too.

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1. ETERNAL Wisdom, thee we praise!

Thee the creation sings!

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With thy loved name, rocks, hills, and seas,
And heaven's high palace rings.

2. Thy hand, how wide it spread the sky!
How glorious to behold!
Tinged with a blue of heavenly die,
And starred with sparkling gold.

3. Thy glories blaze all nature round,
And strike the gazing sight,
Through skies, and seas, and solid ground,
With terror and delight.

4. Infinite strength, and equal skill,

Shine through the worlds abroad;
Our souls with vast amazement fill,
And speak the builder God.

5. But still the wonders of thy grace
Our softer passions move;
Pity divine in Jesus' face
We see, adore, and love.

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