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"Ere fin was born, or Adam's dust
"Was fashion'd to a man.

" Then come, receive my grace,
"Ye children, and be wife;

"Happy the man that keeps my ways, "The man that shuns them dies."

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HYMN XCIII. Long Metre. Christ, or Wisdom obeyed, or resisted. Prov. viii. 34-36. 'HUS faith the wisdom of the Lord, "Blefs'd is the man that hears my word; "Keeps daily watch before my gates, "And at my feet for mercy waits. 2 "The foul that seeks me, shall obtain " Immortal wealth, and heav'nly gain; "Immortal life is his reward,

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"Life, and the favour of the Lord.

"But the vile wretch that flies from me,
"Doth his own soul an injury;
"Fools, that against my grace rebel,
"Seek death, and love the road to hell."

HYMN XCIV. Common Metre.

Justification by Faith, not by Works; or, the Law condemns, Grace justifies. Rom. iii. 19-22.

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are the hopes the fons of men

On their own works have built;

Their hearts by nature all unclean,
And all their actions guilt.

2 Let Jew and Gentile stop their mouths,
Without a murm'ring word,
And the whole race of Adam stand

Guilty before the Lord.

3 In vain we ask God's righteous law
To justify us now,

Since to convince and to condemn
Is all the law can do.

4 Jesus, how glorious is thy grace
When in thy name we trust !
Our faith receives a righteousness
That makes the finner just.
HYMN XCV. Common Metre.
Regeneration. John i. 13. and iii. 3, &c.
COT all the outward forms on earth,

N° Nor rites that God has giv'n,

Nor will of man, nor blood, nor birth,
Can raise a foul to heav'n.

2 The sov'reign will of God alone
Creates us heirs of grace;
Born in the image of his Son,
A new peculiar race.

3 The Spirit, like some heav'nly wind,
Blows on the fons of flesh,
New-models all the carnal mind,
And forms the man afresh.

4 Our quicken'd fouls awake and rife
From the long fleep of death;
On heav'nly things we fix our eyes,
And praise employs our breath.
HYMN XCVI. Common Metre.
Election excludes Boasting. I Cor. i. 26-31.
UT few among the carnal wife,
But few of noble race,
Obtain the favour of thine eyes,
Almighty King of grace!

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2 He takes the men of meanest name
For fons and heirs of God;

And thus he pours abundant shame
On honourable blood..

3 He calls the fool, and makes him know

The myst'ries of his grace; To bring afpiring wisdom low, And all its pride abase.

4 Nature has all its glories lost,

When brought before his throne; No flesh shall in his prefence boast, But in the Lord alone.

HYMN XCVII. Long Metre. Christ our Wisdom, Righteousness, &c. 1 Cor. i. 30.

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URY'D in shadows of the night,
We lie till Christ restores the light;

Wisdom descends to heal the blind,
And chase the darkness of the mind.

2 Our guilty souls are drown'd in tears,
Till his atoning blood appears :
Then we awake from deep distress,
And fing, The Lord our Righteousness.

3 Our very frame is mix'd with fin,
His spirit makes our natures clean;
Such virtues from his suff'rings flow,
At once to cleanse and pardon too.

4 Jesus beholds where Satan reigns,
Binding his flaves in heavy chains;
He fets the pris'ners free, and breaks
The iron bondage from our necks.

5 Poor helpless worms in thee possess
Grace, wisdom, pow'r and righteousness;
Thou art our mighty All, and we
Give our whole selves, O Lord, to thee.

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HYMN XCVIII.

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The fame.

Short Metre.

OW heavy is the night

That hangs upon our eyes,

'Till Christ with his reviving light
Over our fouls arife!

Our guilty spirits dread

To meet the wrath of heav'n';
But in his righteousness array'd
We fee our fins forgiv'n.

Unholy and impure
Are all our thoughts and ways,

His hands infected nature cure

With fanctifying grace.

The pow'rs of hell agree
To hold our souls in vain ;
He fets the fons of bondage free,
And breaks the cursed chain.

Lord, we adore thy ways,
To bring us near to God;
Thy sov'reign pow'r, thy healing grace,
And thine atoning blood.

HYMN XCIX. Common Metre. Stones made the Children of Abraham; or, Grace not conveyed by religious Parents. Matt. iii. 9.

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VAIN are the hopes that rebels place

Upon their and blood,

Defcended from a pious race,
(Their fathers now with God.)

2 He from the caves of earth and hell
Can' take the hardest stones,

And fill the house of Abr'am well
With new created fons.

3 Such wond'rous pow'r doth he possess,
Who form'd our mortal frame,
Who call'd the world from emptiness ;
The world obey'd, and came.

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HYMN С.

Long Metre.

Believe, and be saved. John iii. 16-18.

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OT to condemn the fons of men
Did Christ the Son of God appear:

No weapons in his hands are seen,
No flaming sword, nor thunder there.

2. Such was the pity of our God,
He lov'd the race of man so well,
He fent his Son to bear our load
Of fins, and save our fouls from hell.

3 Sinners, believe the Saviour's word,
Trust in his mighty name, and live;
A thousand joys his lips afford,
His hands a thousand blessings give.
4 But vengeance and damnation lies
On rebels who refuse his grace;

Who God'sal Son defpife, beloved

The hottest hell shall be their place.
HYMN CI. Long Metre.

Joy in Heaven for a repenting Sinner. Luke xv. 7, 10.
HO can describe the joys that rife,

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W Through all the courts of paradise,

To fee a prodigal return,
To fee an heir of glory born ?

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