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MY Saviour, my almighty Friend,
when I begin thy praise,

Where will the glowing numbers end,
The numbers of thy grace?

2 Thou art my everlasting trust,
Thy goodness I adore;

And since I knew thy graces first,
I speak thy glories more.

3 How will my lips rejoice to tell
The victories of my King;

My soul, redeemed from sin and hell,
Shall thy salvation sing.

4 My tongue shall all the day proclaim
My Saviour and my
God;
His death has brought my foes to
And saved me by his blood. [shame,
5 Awake, awake, my tuneful powers;
With this delightful song
I'll entertain the darkest hours,
Nor think the season long.

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Thy grace still dwells upon my heart,
And sheds its fragrance there;
The noblest balm of all its wounds,
The cordial of its care.

5 I'll speak the honors of thy name
With my last, laboring breath.
Then speechless, clasp thee in my arms,
The antidote of death.

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LORD, in the morning thou shalt hear
My voice ascending high;

To thee will I direct my prayer,
To thee lift up mine eye:

2 Up to the hills where Christ is gone
To plead for all his saints,
Presenting at his Father's throne
Our songs and our complaints.
Thou art a God before whose sight
The wicked shall not stand;
Sinners shall ne'er be thy delight,
Nor dwell at thy right hand.
But to thy house will I resort,
To taste thy mercies there;
I will frequent thy holy court,
And worship in thy fear.

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5 O may thy Spirit guide my feet
In ways of righteousness!
Make every path of duty straight
And plain before my face.

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THERE is an hour of peaceful rest,
To mourning wanderers given:
There is a joy for souls distressed,
A balm for every wounded breast,
'Tis found above-in heaven.

2 There is a home for weary souls,

By sin and sorrow driven; [shoals,
When tossed on life's tempestuous
Where storms arise and ocean rolls,
And all is drear but heaven.

3 There faith lifts up her cheerful eye,
To brighter prospects given;
And views the tempest passing by,
The evening shadows quickly fly,
And all serene is heaven.

4 There fragrant flowers immortal
And joys supreme are given; [bloom,
There rays divine disperse the gloom;
Beyond the confines of the tomb,
Appears the dawn of heaven.

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SING, ye redeemed of the Lord,

Your great Deliverer sing;
Pilgrims for Zion's city bound,
Be joyful in your King.

2 A hand divine shall lead you on
Through all the blissful road,
Till to the sacred mount you rise,
And see your smiling God.

3 The garlands of immortal joy
Shall bloom on every head,
While sorrow, sighing, and distress,
Like shadows all are fled.

4 March on in your Redeemer's strength, Pursue his footsteps still;

And let the prospect cheer your eye,
While laboring up the hill.

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songs and honors sounding

3 Great is their peace who love thy law; WITdress the Lord on high; [loud,

How firm their souls abide!

Nor can a bold temptation draw

Their steady feet aside.

Over the heavens he spreads his cloud, And waters veil the sky.

2 He gives the grazing ox his meat,
He hears the ravens cry;
But man, who tastes his finest wheat,
Should raise his honors high.

3 His steady counsels change the face Of the declining year;

He bids the sun cut short his race,
And wintry days appear.

4 He sends his word, and melts the snow, The fields no longer mourn;

He calls the warmer gales to blow,
And bids the spring return.

5 The changing wind, the flying cloud, Obey his mighty word;

With songs and honors sounding loud,
Praise ye the sovereign Lord.

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E o thee our hearts we raise;

TERNAL Father, God of love,

Thy all-sustaining power we prove,
And gladly sing thy praise.

2 Thine, wholly thine, oh, let us be!
Our sacrifice receive;

Made, and preserved, and saved by thee,

To thee ourselves we give.

3 Come, Holy Ghost! the Saviour's love
Shed in our hearts abroad;
So shall we ever live and move,
And be, with Christ, in God.

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MY God, I love thee-not because

I hope for heaven thereby;
Nor yet because, if I love not,
I must forever die.

2 Thou, oh my Jesus, thou didst me
Upon the cross embrace;

For me didst bear the nails and spear,

And manifold disgrace;

3 And griefs and torments numberless, And sweat of agony;

E'en death itself;-and all for one
Who was thine enemy.

4 I love thee, blessed Jesus Christ,
Not seeking a reward;-
But as thyself hast loved me,
O ever loving Lord!

5 E'en so I love thee, and will love,
And in thy praise will sing;

Only because thou art my God, And my eternal King.

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MY

God! the covenant of thy love Abides for ever sure;

And in its matchless grace I feel

My happiness secure.

Since thou, the everlasting God,
My Father art become,

Jesus my Guardian and my Friend,
And heaven my final home,-

3 I welcome all thy sovereign will,
For all that will is love;

And when I know not what thou dost,
I wait the light above.

4 Thy covenant in the darkest gloom
Shall heavenly rays impart,
And when my eyelids close in death,
Sustain my fainting heart.

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E trembling souls, dismiss your
Be mercy all your theme; [fears,
Mercy, which like a river flows
In one perpetual stream.

2 Fear not the powers of earth, and hell;
God will those powers restrain;
His arm shall all their rage repel,
And make their efforts vain.

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Fear not the want of outward good;
For his he will provide;

Grant them supplies of daily food,

And give them heaven beside.

4 Fear not that he will e'er forsake,
Or leave his work undone;
He's faithful to his promises,
And faithful to his Son.

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shed its quickening beams; REQUENT the day of God returns,

And yet how slow devotion burns;
How languid are its flames!

2 Accept our faint attempts to love;
Our frailties, Lord, forgive:
We would be like thy saints above,
And praise thee while we live.

3 Increase, O Lord, our faith and hope, And fit us to ascend,

Where the assembly ne'er breaks up, The Sabbath ne'er shall end.

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all the blood of beasts

On Jewish altars slain,

8 If e'er I go astray,

He doth my soul reclaim,
And guides me in his own right way,
For his most holy name.

Could give the guilty conscience peace, 4 While he affords his aid,

Or wash away the stain.

2 But Christ, the heavenly Lamb,
Takes all our sins away;
A sacrifice of nobler name,
And richer blood than they.

8 My faith would lay her hand

On that dear head of thine, While like a penitent I stand, And there confess my sin.

4 Believing, we rejoice

To see the curse remove;

We bless the Lamb with cheerful voice
And sing his bleeding love.

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I cannot yield to fear;

[shade.

Tho' I should walk thro' death's dark My Shepherd's with me there.

5 Amid surrounding foes

Thou dost my table spread,
My cup with blessings overflows,
And joy exalts my head.

6 The bounties of thy love

Shall crown my following days; Nor from thy house will I remove, Nor cease to speak thy praise.

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On sinners of a mortal race,

To call them sons of God.

2 'Tis no surprising thing

That we should be unknown;

The Jewish world knew not their King,
God's everlasting Son.

3 Nor doth it yet appear

How great we must be made:

But when we see our Saviour here
We shall be like our head.

4 A hope so much divine

May trials well endure,

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EAR Saviour, we are thine, Our names, our hearts, we would reBy everlasting bands:

And souls, into thy hands.

2 Accepted for thy sake,

And justified by faith,

We of thy righteousness partake,
And find in thee our life.

3 To thee we still would cleave,
With ever growing zeal;

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May purge our souls from sense and sin, If millions tempt us Christ to leave,

As Christ the Lord is pure.

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O let them ne'er prevail.

4 Thy Spirit shall unite

Our souls to thee, our head;
Shall form us to thy image bright,
That we thy paths may tread.

5 Death may our souls divide

From these abodes of clay;
But love shall keep us near thy side,
Through all the gloomy way.

6 Since Christ and we are one,

Why should we doubt or fear?

Since he in heaven has fixed his throne, He'll fix his members there.

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