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(DEUT, Xxiii. 9.)

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YREAT God of heaven and nature, rise,
And hear our loud, united cries

See Britain bow before thy face,
Through all her coasts, and seek thy grace.
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And purge our land from all its crimes;
Reform'd and deck'd with grace divine,
Let princes, priests, and people shine.

577.

(JOEL i. 14.)

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1 SEE, gracious Lord, before thy throne Thy mourning people bend!

'Tis on thy sovereign grace alone Our humble hopes depend.

2 Tremendous judgments from thy hand
Thy dreadful power display;

Yet mercy spares this guilty land,
And still we live to pray.

3 Great God! and why is Britain spar'd,
Ungrateful as we are!

O make thy awful warnings heard,
While mercy cries, 'Forbear!'

4 O turn us, turn us, mighty Lord,
By thy resistless grace;

Then shall our hearts obey thy word,
And humbly seek thy face.

578.

(PSALM XC. 3-9.)

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1 WHILE with ceaseless course the sun

Hasted through the former year,

Many souls their race have run,
Never more to meet us here.

2 Fixt in an eternal state,

They have done with all below;
We a little longer wait,

But how little--none can know.

3 As the winged arrow flies,
Speedily the mark to find;
As the lightning from the skies
Darts, and leaves no trace behind ;-
4 Swiftly thus our fleeting days
Bear us down life's rapid stream;
Upwards, Lord, our spirits raise;
All below is but a dream.

5 Thanks for mercies past receive,
Pardon of our sins renew;
Teach us, henceforth how to live
With eternity in view.

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Ancient of endless days;

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We cumber'd long the ground; buħ.

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And what thy great concern?

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Set out afresh for heaven;
Seek pardon for thy former sins,
In Christ so freely given..
4 Devoutly yield thyself to God,
And on his grace depend;

With zeal pursue the heavenly road,
Nor doubt a happy end.

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Are days and seasons given?

Oh, let me then prepare to be
A fitter heir of heaven.

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These golden hours be gone;

Lord, I accept thine offer'd grace,
I bow before thy throne.

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By my Redeemer's blood;

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The honours of my God.

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