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We have no biding city here,
But feek one out of fight;
Thither our fteady courfe we fteer
Up to the plains of light.

Patient th' appointed race to run,
This world we caft behind;
From ftrength to ftrength we travel on,
Jerufalem to find.

5. Thither in all our thoughts we tend,
With longing eyes look up;
Our hearts and pray'rs before us fend
Our scouts of faith and hope.

6. Who bring us news of Sion near,

That palace of our KING;
We soon shall see the tow'rs appear,
They're nearer while we fing.

7. Thro' Thee, who all our fins hath borne,
And graciously forgiv'n;
With fongs to Sion we return,
And to our native heav'n.

8. E'en now we tafte the pleasures there,

A cloud of odours comes; Soft wafted by the balmy air,

Sweet as Araby's gums.

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Religion.

ET everlafting glories crown

Thy head, our SAVIOUR, and our LORD;

Thy hands have brought falvation down,
And writ the bleffings in Thy word.

[2. What if we trace the globe around,”
And fearch from Britain to Japan;
There fhall be no religion found
So juft to Gop, fo fate for man?]
3. In vain the trembling confcience feeks
Some folid ground to reft upon
With long defpair the fpirit breaks,
Till we apply to CHRIST alone.
How well Thy bleffed truths agree!

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Thy promifes, how firm they be ! How firm our hope and comfort stands ! 5. Not the fam'd fields of Heath'nish bliss Could raise fuch pleasures in the mind;

Nor does the Turkish paradife
Pretend to joys fo well refin'd.]

6. Should all the forms, that men devife,
Affault our faith with treach'rous arts;
We'd call them vanity and lies,
And bind the gospel to our hearts.

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§ CLXXX. The Invitation of the Gospel.

LET ev'ry mortal ear attend,

And ev'ry heart rejoice;

The trumpet of the Gospel founds
With an inviting voice!

2. Ho, all ye hungry ftarving fouls,
That feed the wind;
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And vainly strive with earthly toys
To fill an empty mind!

3. Eternal Wisdom has prepar'd
A foul-reviving feast,

And bids your longing appetites
The rich provifion taste.

4. Ho, ye that pant for living streams,
And pine away, and die;

Here ye may quench your raging thirst,
With fprings that never dry!

5. Rivers of love and mercy here

In a rich ocean join;
Salvation in abundance flows.

Like floods of milk and wine. [6. Ye perishing and naked poor;

Who work, with mighty pain,
To weave a garment of your own,
That will not hide. your fin !
7. Come naked, and adorn your fouls
In robes prepar'd by GoD;
Wrought by the labors of his SON,
And dy'd in His own blood!]

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CLXXXI. Chrift our Strength.

ET me but hear my SAVIOUR fay, Strength fhall be equal to thy day:" Then I rejoice in deep distress,

Leaning on all-fufficient grace.

2. I glory in infirmity,

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That CHRIST's own pow'r may reft on me; When I am weak, then am I ftrong, Grace is my fhield, and CHRIST my fong. 3. I can do all things, or can bear All fuff'rings, if my LORD be there Sweet pleasures mingle with the pains, While his left-hand my head fuftains. But if the LORD be once withdrawn, And we attempt the work alone; When new temptations fpring and rife, We find how great our weakness is: 5. So Sampfon, when his hair was loft, Met the Philistines to his coft,

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Shook his vain limbs with fad furprize, Made feeble fight, and loft his eyes.

CLXXXII. God our Preferver,

1. LET others boaft how ftrong they be,

Nor death nor danger fear; But we'll confefs, O LORD, to thee, What feeble things we are.

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CLXXXIV. An Ordination Hymn.

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ET Sion's watch-men all awake, And take th' alarm they give! Now let them from the mouth of GoD, Their aweful charge receive!

2. 'Tis not a cause of finall import, The paftor's care demands

But what might fill an angel's heart;

And's in the SAVIOUR'S hands.

3. They watch for fouls (for which the Lord Did heav'nly blifs forego)

For fouls, which muft for ever live,
In raptures, or in woe.

4. All to the great tribunal hafte,

Th' account to render there;

And should'ft Thou strictly mark our faults,
LORD, where should we appear!

5. May they, that JESUS whom they preach, Their own Redeemer fee!

And watch Thou daily o'er their fouls,
That they may watch for Thee!

CLXXXV. Praise to God for Creation
and Redemption.

LET them neglect Thy glory, LORD,

Who never knew Thy grace;

But our loud fong fhall ftill record
The wonders of Thy praise.

2. We raise our fhouts, O GOD, to thee,
And fend them to Thy throne
All glory be afcribed to

Thy ever bleffed fon!

3. 'Twas He (and we'll adore his name) That form'd us by a word

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"The whole creation fhall reward

"The conqueft he has won.

8." But bloody hands, and hearts unclean, "And all the lying race,

"The faithlefs and the fcoffing crew, "That fpurn at offer'd grace.

9." They fhall be taken from my fight, "Bound faft in iron chains; "And headlong plung'd into the lake. "Where fire and darkness reigns."] 10. O may I ftand before the LAMB, When earth and feas are fled; And hear the judge pronounce my name, With bleffings on my head!

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CLXXXVII. Custom in Sin.

ET the wild leopards of the wood Put off the fpots that nature gives; Then may the wicked turn to GOD, And change their tempers and their lives. 2. As well might Ethiopian flaves

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Wash out the darkness of their fkin ;
The dead as well may leave their grav es,
As old tranfgreffors cease to fin.

3. Where vice has held its empire long,
"Twill not endure the leaft controul
None but a pow'r divinely ftrong
Can turn the current of the foul.

4. Great GOD, I own Thy pow'r divine,
That works to change this heart of mine
I would be form'd anew, and bless
The wonders of creating grace!
CLXXXVIII. Life the Day of Grace.
LIFE is the time to ferve the LORD.
The time t'infure the great reward

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§ CLXXXIX. Public Worfbip. 6-8s.

O, GOD is here! let us adore,

3. Gladly the toys of earth we leave,
Wealth, pleafure, fame, for Thee alone:
Tp Thee our will, foul, flefh, we give;
O take, O feal them for thy own!
Thou art the GOD, thou art the LORD;
Be Thou by all thy works ador'd!
4. Being of beings, may our praise

Thy courts with grateful fragrance fill
Still may we ftand before Thy face,
Still hear and do Thy fov'reign will.
To Thee may all our thoughts arife,
Ceafelefs, accepted facrifice!

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5. In Thee we move. All things of thee
Are full, Thou fource and life of all!
Thou vaft unfathomable fea!
Ye fons of men, fall proftrate fall;
In wonder loft, for GOD is man!
All may we lufe, fo Thee we gain!
6. As flow'rs their op'ning leaves display,
And glad drink in the folar fire;
So may we catch th' enliv'ning ray,
So may Thy influence us infpire:
Thou beam of the eternal beam,
Thou purging fire, Thou quick'ning flame!

CXC. Christ's fecond Coming. 67. (a)

And own how dreadful is this place! 1. One for favor'd finners flain!

Let all within us feel his pow'r,
And filent bow before his face!

Who know His pow'r, His grace who prove,
Serve Him with awe, with rev'rence love..
2. Lo, GOD is here! Him day and night
Th' united choirs of angels fing:
To Him enthron'd above all height,
Heav'ns hofts their nobleft praifes bring:
Difdain not, LORD, our meaner song,
Who praife Thee with a flamm'ring tongue,

LO! He comes with clouds defcending

Thoufand, thousand faints attending
Swell the triumph of his train;
Hallelujah, praife the Lord;
GoD appears on earth to reign.
2. Ev'ry eye shall now behold Him,
Rob'd in dreadful majesty;

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(a) Drop the Italicks and ufe Oliver's tune

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