5 Shout, ye nations of the earth,
Sing the triumphs of his birth;
All the world by him is bleft,
Sound his praife from eaft to weft :
Jews and Gentiles jointly fing,
CHRIST Our common LORD and King;
CHRIST our life, our joy, our fong,
To eternity prolong.
337.
COME
OME, thou long expected JESUS!
Born to fet thy people free;
From our fears and fins release us,
Let us find our reft in thee!
Ifrael's ftrength and confolation,
Hope of all the earth thou art;
Dear Defire of ev'ry nation,
Joy of ev'ry longing heart! 2 Born thy people to deliver,
Born a Child, and yet a King;
Born to reign in us for ever,
Now thy gracious kingdom bring!
By thine own eternal Spirit
Rule in all our hearts alone ;.
By thine all-fufficient merit,
Raise us to thy glorious throne.
HYMN 338.
1 Sovereign grace has power alone
To fubdue a heart of ftone;
And the moment grace is felt,
Then the hardest heart will melt.
2 When the LORD was crucify'd,
Two tranfgreffors with him dy'd;
One with vile blafpheming tongue
Scoff'd at JESUs as he hung.
3 Thus he spent his wicked breath
In the very jaws of death
Perifh'd, as too many do,
With the Saviour in his view.
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4 But the other, touch'd with grace, Saw the danger of his cafe;
Faith receiv'd to own the LORD,
Whom the Scribes and Priests abhorr'd.
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5 LORD, he pray'd-remember me,
"When in glory thou shalt be;"
"Soon with me, the LORD replies,
"Thou shalt be in Paradife."
6 This was wondrous grace indeed,
Grace vouchfaf'd in time of need.
Sinners, truft in JESU's name,
You fhall find him ftill the fame.
7 But beware of unbelief,
Think upon the harden'd thief:
If the gospel you difdain,
CHRIST to you will die in vain.
HYMN
SICKNESS, OR DIVINE, CORRECTION.
H ow happy the forrowful man,
Whofe forrow is fent from above!
Indulg'd with a vifit of pain,
Chaftis'd by omnipotent love:
The Author of all his distress,
He comes by affliction to know;
And God he in heaven fhall blefs
That ever he fuffer'd' belów.
2 Thus, thus may I happily grieve,
And hear the intent of his rod,
The marks of adoption receive,
The ftrokes of a merciful God;
With nearer access to his throne,
My burden of folly confefs,
The cause of my miferies own,
And cry for an answer of peace.
3 O Father of mercies, on me,
On me in affliction beftow.
A pow'r of applying to thee,
A fanctify'd ufe of my wo:
I would in a Spirit of prayer
To all thy appointments fubmit;
The pledge of my happiness bear,
And joyfully die at thy feet.
4 Then, Father, and never till then,
I all the felicity prove,
Of living a moment in pain,
Of dying in JESUS's love:
A fufferer here with my LORD,
With JESUS above I fit down,
Receive an eternal reward,
And glory obtain in a crown.
HYMN
340.
A FUNERAL HYMN.
AH! lovely appearance of death,
No fight upon earth is so fair;
Not all the gay pageants that breathe,
Can with a dead body compare ;
With folemn delight I furvey
The corps when the spirit is fled,
In love with the beautiful clay,
And longing to lie in its ftead.
2 How bleft is our brother, bereft
Of all that could burden his mind;
How eafy the foul that hath left
The wearifome body behind!
Of evil incapable thou,
Whose relics with envy I fee;
No longer in mifery now,
No longer a finner like me.
3 This earth is affected no more
With fickness, or fhaken with pain; The war in the members is o'er,
And never shall vex him again:
No anger henceforward, or fhame,
Shall redden this innocent clay,
Extinct is the animal flame,
And paffion is vanish'd away..
4 This languishing head is at reft,
Its thinking and aching are o'er;
This quiet immoveable breast
Is heav'd by affliction no more;
This heart is no longer the feat
Of trouble and torturing pain;'
It ceases to flutter and beat,
It never fhrall flutter again::
5
The lids he fofeldom could clofe,
By forrow forbidden to fleep,
Seal'd up in eternal repofe,
Have strangely forgotten to weep:
The fountains can yield no fupplies,
Thefe hollows from water are free; The tears are all wip'd from thefe eyes,, And evil they never-fhall fee..
6: To mourn and to fuffer is mine,
While bound, in a prifon I breathe;
And still for deliverance pine,
And prefs to the iffues of death:
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