2. His Majefty will not despise
The Day of feeble Things;
Grateful the Songs of Children rise,
And please the King of Kings.

3. We all His kind Protection fhare,
Within His Arms we reft;

The Sucklings are His Tendereft Care,
While hanging on the Breaft.

4. We praise Him with a ftammering Tongue, While under His Defence,

He fmiles to hear the artless Song

Of Childish Innocence.

5. He loves to be remember'd thus,
And honour'd for His Grace,
Out of the Mouths of Babes like us
His Wisdom perfects Praife.

6. Glory to God, and Praise, and Power,
Honour, and Thanks be given:

Children, and Cherubim adore

The LORD of Earth and Heaven.

IV.

HAPPY State of Infancy,
Stranger to guilty Fears,

We live from Sin and Sorrow free

In these our tender Years.

2. JESUS the LORD our Shepherd is,

And did our Souls redeen,

Our present and Eternal Bliss

Are both fecur'd in Him.

3. His Mercy Every Sinner claims,

For all His Flock He cares :

The

The Sheep He gently leads, the Lambs
He in His Bofom bears...

4. Loving He is to All His Sons
Who hearken to His Call;,
But Us, His weak, His Little Ones,
He loves us beft of all..:

5. If unto us our Friends are good, "Twas He their Hearts inclin'd, He bids our Fathers give us Food, And makes our Mothers kind...

6. Then let us thank him for his Grace,
He will not disapprove

Our meaneft Sacrifice of Praise,
Our Childish, prattling Love..

V...

LL Thanks and Praife to GoD belong
Our Father and Our Friend;

Let us with Life begin the Song,
Which never more shall end.

2. All Power and Majefty are His,
He ever reigns alone;

Our Souls He did in Mercy feize,
And He can keep His Own,

3. Unfpotted from the World, and Sin,
In Innocence we live,

Before the Poifon works within,

To GOD our Hearts we give.

4. Not to the vain Defires of Men
We live, but to our GoD,
Who died for us, and rose again,
To wash us in His Blood.

5. To Him our earliest Fruits we brings

The Sacrifice of Praife;

All our Diverfion is to fing

The dear Redeemer's Grace.

6. To Him we innocently live,
Delight His Will to do;

A Pattern to you Men we give,
A Child may teach e'en You.

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Children ye must be All again,
Make Hafte like us to be;

Return ye wife, ye finful Men
To harmless Infancy.

8. Poor Men, acknowledge your Offence,
And blush to hear our Song,

And figh to see the Innocence.
Ye have out-liv'd so long.

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PART VI.

NOME, let us our good GoD proclaim,

COME
By Earth and Heaven ador'd;

Children are bid to praise His Name,
And magnify the LORD.

2. Let us with all His Saints agree,

With all His Hofts above,

Part of His Family are We,
His Family of Love.

3. Worthlefs are our beft Offerings,
Our Songs are void of Art,
Yet GoD accepts the smallest Things
Given with a Willing Heart.

4. Us for the Sake of CHRIST He loves, Who did our Souls redeem,

And

And all our: Childish Thoughts approves,
When offer'd up thro' Him.

5. He makes us His peculiar Care,
While by His Spirit led;

We all His genuine Children are,
And on His Bounty feed.

6. Though Men defpife our Infancy,
Angels attend our Ways,

They wait on Us, yet always fee
Our Heavenly Father's Face.

7. Surrounded by a Flaming Hoft,
The bright Cherubic Powers;
Not all the Kings of Earth can boast
Of fuch a Guard as Ours.

8. And while th' Angelic Army fings,
With them we feebly join

T'extol the Glorious King of Kings,
The Majefty Divine!

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VII.

OVER of Little Children, Thee,
O JESUS, we adore;

Our kind, and loving Saviour be
Both now and evermore..

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2. O take us up into Thine Arms,

And we are truly bleft;

Thy new-born Babes are fafe from Harms
When lying on Thy Breast.

3. There let us ever, ever sleep,
Strangers to Guilt and Care,

Free from the World of Evil keep
Our tender Spirits there.

4. Still

4. Still as we grow in Years, in Grace
And Wisdom let us grow,

But never leave Thy dear Embrace,
But never Evil know.

5. Strong let us in Thy Grace abide,
But ignorant of Ill;

In Malice, Subtlety, and Pride
Let us be Children still..

6. Lover of Little Children, Theo

O JESUS, we adore:

Our kind, and loving Saviour

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Both now, and evermore..

·Avenge me on mine Adversary..

JESU,

Luke xviii..

Esu, Thou haft bid us pray,
Pray always, and not faint,
With the Word a Power convey
To utter our Complaint,
Quiet will we never know
Till we from Sin are fully freed:
O avenge us of our Foe,

And bruife the Serpent's Head!

2. We have now begun to cry, And we will never end Till we find Salvation nigh,

And grafp the Sinner's Friend: Day and Night we'll speak our Woe, With Thee importunately plead:

avenge us, &c..

3. Speak the Word, and we fhall be

From all our Bands releas'd, Only Thou canst set us free, By Satan long opprest ;