Now be the God of Ifrael bleft Now by the bowels of my God Now for a tune of lofty praise
Now have our hearts embrac'd our God Now in the galleries of his grace Now in the heat of youthful blood Now let a fpacious world arife Now let our pains be all forgot Now let the Father and the Son Now let the Lord my Saviour smile Now Satan comes with dreadful roar Now fhall my inward joys arife Now to the Lord a noble song Now to the Lord that makes us know Now to the power of God fupreme FOR an overcoming faith
Oh! if my foul was form'd for wo Oh! the almighty Lord
Oh the delights, the heavenly joys Often I feek my Lord by night
. Once more, my foul, the rifing day Our days, alas! our mortal days Our God, how firm his promife fiands Our fins, alas! how ftrong they be Our fouls fhall magnify the Lord Our fpirits join t'adore the Lamb PLUNG'D in a gulph of dark despair Praife, everlafting praife, be paid
RAISE thee, my foul, fly up and run Raife your triumphant fongs
Rife, rife, my foul, and leave the ground AINTS, at your heavenly Father's word Salvation! Ó the joyful found See where the great incarnate God Shall the vile race of flesh and blood Shall we go on to fin
Shout to the Lord, and let our joys
Sin has a thousand treacherous arts Sin like a venomous disease Sing to the Lord who built the skies Sing to the Lord with joyful voice Sing to the Lord, ye heavenly hofts Sitting around our Father's board So did the Hebrew prophet raise So let our lips and lives exprefs
Stand up, my foul, fhake off thy fears Stoop down, my thoughts, that use to rife Strait is the way, the door is ftrait
ERRIBLE God, who reign'ft on high That awful day will furely come
Thee we adore, Eternal Name
The glories of my Maker, God The God of mercy be ador'd
The King of Glory fends his Son
The lands that long in darkness lay The law by Mofes came
The law commands and makes us know
The memory of cur dying Lord
The promise of my Father's love The promife was divinely free The true Meffiah now appears The voice of my beloved founds The wondering world inquires to know There is a boufe not made with hands There is a land of pure delight There was an hour when Chrift rejoic'd Thefe glorious minds how bright they This is the word of truth and love Thou, whom my foul admires above Thus did the fons of Abrah'm pafs Thus far the Lord has led me on
Thus faith the firft, the great command Thus faith the high and lofty One Thus faith the Ruler of the skies Thus faith the mercy of the Lord Thus faith the Wisdom of the Lord Thy favours, Lord, furprise our fouls Time, what an empty vapour 'tis 'Tis by the faith of joys to come 'Tis from the treasures of his word 'Tis not the law- of ten commands To God the Father, God the Son To God the only wife To God the Father's throne To him who chose us firft
'Twas by an order from the Lord 'Twas on that dark, that doleful night. 'Twas the commiffion of our Lord
AIN are the hopes the fons of men Vain are the hopes that rebels place Unfhaken as the facred hill
Up to the fields where angels lie Up to the Lord who reigns on high E are a garden wall'd around Wwe blefs the prophet of the Lord
We fing th' amazing deeds We fing the glories of thy love Welcome, fweet day of reft Well, the Redeemer's gone
What different powers of grace and fin What equal honours fhall we bring What happy men or angels these What mighty man, or mighty God Whence do our mournful thoughts arife When I can read my title clear When in the light of faith divine When I furvey the wondrous cross When we are rais'd from deep diftrefs When trangers ftand and hear me tell When the firft parents of our race When the great Builder arch'd the skies Where are the mourners, faith the Lord Who can defcribe the joys that rise Who has believ'd thy word Who is this fair one in diftrefs Who fhall the Lord's elect condemn Why did the Jews proclaim their rage Why does your face, ye humble fouls Why do we mourn departing friends Why is my heart fo far from thee Why fhould the children of a King Why fhould this earth delight us fo Why fhould we start and fear to die With cheerful voice I fing With holy fear and humble fong With joy we meditate the grace
E angels round the throne
Ye fons of Adam, vain and young
Ye that obey th' immortal King
COLLECTED FROM THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.
HYMN I. Common Metre. [*] A new fong to the Lamb that was flain. Řev. v. 6, 8, 9-12.
1 BEHOLD the glories of the Lamb,
his Father's throne:
Prepare new honours for his name, And fongs before unknown.
2 Let elders worship at his feet, The church adore around, With vials full of odours fweet, And harps of sweeter found.
3 Thofe are the prayers of all the faints, And thefe the hymns they raise : Jefus is kind to our complaints, He loves to hear our praife.
4 [Eternal Father, who fhall look Into thy fecret will?
Who but the Son fhall take that book,
And open every feal?
5 He fhall fulfil thy great decrees, The Son deferves it well;
Lo, in his hand the fovereign keys Of heaven, and death, and hell!]
6 Now to the Lamb, that once was flain, Be endlefs bleffings paid;
Salvation, glory, joy remain Forever on thy head.
7 Thou haft redeem'd our fouls with blood, Haft fet the prisoners free;
Haft made us kings and priests to God, And we fhall reign with thee.
8 The worlds of nature and of grace Are put beneath thy power; Then fhorten thefe delaying days, And bring the promis'd hour.
HYMN II. Long Metre.
The Deity and Humanity of Chrift. John i. 1, 3, 14. Col. i. 16. and Eph. iii. 9, 10.
'RE the blue heavens were ftretch'd abroad, From everlafting was the Word:
With God he was; the Word was God, And muft divinely be ador'd.
2 By his own power were all things made; By him fupported, all things ftand; He is the whole creation's head, And angels fly at his command. 3 Ere fin was born, or Satan fell, He led the hoft of morning ftars; (Thy generation who can tell,
Or count the number of thy years
But lo, he leaves those heavenly forms; The Word defcends and dwells in clay, That he may hold converfe with worms, Drefs'd in fuch feeble flesh as they. 5 Mortals with joy beheld his face, Th' eternal Father's only Son! How full of truth! how full of grace! When through his flesh the Godhead fhone!
6 Archangels leave their high abode, To learn new myfteries here, and tell The love of our defcending God, The glories of Immanuel.
HYMN III. Short Metre.
The Nativity of Chrift. Luke i. 30, &c.-ii. 10, &c.
EHOLD the grace appears, The promife is fulfill'd;
Mary the wondrous virgin bears, And Jefus is the child.
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