4 The gospel bears my spirit up;
A faithful and unchanging God
Lays the foundation for my hope,
In oaths, and promises, and blood.

HYMN CXL. Common Metre.

A living and a dead Faith; collected from feveral Scriptures.

MISTAKEN fouls! that dream of heav'n,
And make their empty boast
Of inward joys, and fins forgiv'n,
While they are flaves to luft.

2 Vain are our fancies, airy flights,
If faith be cold and dead;
None but a living pow'r unites
To Christ the living head.

3 'Tis faith that changes all the heart,
'Tis faith that works by love;
That bids all finful joys depart,
And lifts the thoughts above.

4 'Tis faith that conquers earth and hell By a celestial pow'r ;

This is the grace that shall prevail
In the decifive hour.

5 [Faith must obey her Father's will,
As well as trust his grace;
A pard'ning God is jealous still
For his own holiness.

6 When from the curse he fets us free,
He makes our natures clean ;
Nor would he send his Son to be
The minister of fin.

7 His spirit purifies our frame,

And feals our peace with God:

Jesus, and his salvation, came
By water and by blood.]

HYMN CXLI. Short Metre.

The Humiliation and Exaltation of Christ. Ifa.

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liii. 1-5, 10-12.

HO has believ'd thy word,
Or thy falvation known ?

Reveal thine arm, Almighty Lord,

And glorify thy Son.

The Jews esteem'd him here
Too mean for their belief:

Sorrows his chief acquaintance were,
And his companion, grief.

They turn'd their eyes away,
And treated him with scorn;
But 'twas their griefs upon him lay,
Their forrows he has borne.

'Twas for the stubborn Jews,
And Gentiles, then unknown,
The God of justice pleas'd to bruise
His best-beloved Son.

"But I'll prolong his days,
" And make his kingdom stand;
"My pleasure," faith the God of grace,
"Shall profper in his hand.

6 "[His joyful foul shall fee
"The purchase of his pain,
"And by his knowledge justify
"The guilty fons of men.]
" [Ten thousand captive slaves,
"Releas'd from death and fin,

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" Shall quit their prisons and their graves, "And own his pow'r divine.]

8 " [Heav'n fhall advance my Son
"To joys that earth deny'd;
"He saw the follies men had done,
"And bore their fins, and dy'd.")
HYMN CXLII. Short Metre.
The fame. Ifa. liii. 6-12.
IKE sheep we went astray,
And broke the fold of God;
Each wand'ring in a diff'rent way,
But all the downward road.

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2 How dreadful was the hour,
When God our wand'rings laid,
And did at once his vengeance pour
Upon the Shepherd's head!

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How glorious was the grace
When Christ sustain'd the stroke !
His life and blood the Shepherd pays
A ransom for the flock.

His honour and his breath
Were taken both away;

Join'd with the wicked in his death,
And made as vile as they.

But God shall raise his head
O'er all the fons of men,

And make him fee a num'rous seed,
To recompense his pain.

" I'll give him," faith the Lord,
"A portion with the strong;
"He shall possess a large reward,
" And hold his honours long."

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HYMN CXLIII. Common Metre. Characters of the Children of God; from several

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S new-born babes defire the breaft,
To feed, and grow, and thrive;

So faints with joy the gospel taste,
And by the gofpel live.

2 [With inward gust their heart approves
All that the word relates ;
They love the men their Father loves,
And hate the work he hates.]

3 [Not all the flatt'ring baits on earth
Can make them flaves to luft;
They can't forget their heav'nly birth,
Nor grovel in the dust.

4 Not all the chains that tyrants use
Shall bind their fouls to vice;
Faith, like a conqu'ror, can produce
A thousand victories.]

5 [Grace, like an uncorrupted feed,
Abides and reigns within ;
Immortal principles forbid
The fons of God to fin.]
6 [Not by the terrors of a flave
Do they perform his will;
But, with the noblest pow'rs they have,
His sweet commands fulfil.]

7 They find access, at ev'ry hour,
To God, within the vail;
Hence they derive a quick'ning pow'r,
And joys that never fail.

8 O happy fouls! O glorious state
Of overflowing grace;

To dwell so near their Father's feat,
And fee his lovely face.

9 Lord, I address thy heav'nly throne;
Call me a child of thine;

Send down the spirit of thy Son
To form my heart divine.

10 There shed thy choicest loves abroad,
And make my comforts strong:
Then shall I say, "My Father God,"
With an unwav'ring tongue.

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HYMN CXLIV. Common Metre. The witnessing and fealing Spirit. Rom. viii. 14,

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16. Eph. i. 13, 14.
HY should the children of
Go mourning all their days?
Great Comforter! descend and bring
Some tokens of thy grace.

2 Doft thou not dwell in all the faints,
And feal the heirs of heav'n?
When wilt thou banish my complaints,
And shew my fins forgiv'n ?
3 Assure my confcience of her part
In the Redeemer's blood;
And bear thy witness with my heart,
That I am born of God.

4 Thou art the earnest of his love,
The pledge of joys to come;
And thy foft wings, celestial Dove,
Will fafe convey me home.

HYMN CXLV. Common Metre.
Christ and Aaron; taken from Heb. vii, and ix.

TESUS, in thee our eyes behold

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A thousand glories more