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LIV. Electing grace, or saints beloved in Christ, Eph. i. 3.

Jesus! we bless thy Father's name;
Thy God and ours are both the same:
What heav'nly blessings from his throne
Flow down to sinners thro' his Son!

2. Christ be my first elect he said,
Then chose our souls in Christ our head,
Before he gave the mountains.birth
Or laid foundations for the earth.

3. Thus did Eternal Love begin
To raise us up from death and sin;
Our characters were then decreed
Blameless in love, a holy seed.

4. 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,

Nor shall our souls be thence remov'd

Till he forgets his first-belov'd.

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LV. Hezekiah's song, or sickness and recovery, Isa. Xxxviii.

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WHEN We are rais'd from deep distress

Our God deserves a'song,

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

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2. The gates of the devouring grave

Are open'd wide in vain

If he that holds the keys of death

Commands them fast again.

3. Pains of the flesh are wont t' 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.

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

We sing the glories of thy love,

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The Christian church unites the songs:

We sound thy dreadful name;

Of Moses and the Lamb.

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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"
Thro' all the nations known.

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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 mix'd, And she must drink the dregs;

Strong is the Lord her Sov'reign Judge,

And shall fulfil the plagues.

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LVII. Original sin, or the first and second Adam, Rom. v.

12. &c. Psal. li. 5. Job xiv. 4.

BACKWARD with humble shame we look

On our original;

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

2. To all that 's good averse and blind, But 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

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The old corruption reigns,
And mingling with the crooked flood
Wanders thro' all our veins!]

[5. Wild and unwholsome as the root

Will all the branches be;
How can we hope for living fruit

From such a deadly tree?

6. What mortal pow'r from things unclean

Can pure productions bring ?

Who can command a vital stream

From an infected spring?]

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7. Yet, mighty God! thy wondrous love
Can make our nature clean,
While Christ and grace prevail above
The tempter, death, and sin.

8. The second Adain shall restore
The ruins of the first;
Hosanna to that sov'reign Pow'r
That new creates our dust!

LVIII. The devil vanquished, or Michael's war with the

Dragon, Rev. xii 7.

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The wars of heav'n, when Michael stood
Chief gen'ral of the Eternal King
And fought the battles of our Godos* יי
2. Against the Dragon and his host
The armies of the Lord prevail;
In vain they rage, in vain they boast,dod
Their courage sinks, their weapons fails
3. Down to the earth was Satan thrown,
Down to the earth his legions fell,
Then was the trump of triumph blown,
And shook the dreadful deeps of hell. 1
4. Now is the hour of darkness past,
Christ has assum'd his reigning pow'r;
Behold the great accuser cast
Down from the skies to rise no more.

5. 'Twas by thy blood, immortal Lamb!
hine armies trod the tempter down,
'Twas by thy word and pow'rful name
They gain'd the battle and renown..
6. Rejoice ye heav'ns, let ev'ry star
Shine with new glories round the sky:
Saints while ye sing the heav'nly war
Raise your Delivier's name on high.

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