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O thou almighty Lord of Hosts,
Who art my God and King,
To reign with whom my spirit boasts,
And boasts of thee to fing,
Behold, with all my faints I come,
(Thy love invites us nigh),
To dwell within thy heav'nly dome,
Rejoicing gloriously."

4. How bleft are they, and only they
Within thy house who dwelldal kop
They never ceafe by night or day
Thy praifes, Lord, to tell.

5 Bleft is the man whofe Strength thou art,
In whofe heart are thy ways
Thy ways, revive his fainting heart:
From thee he never ftrays.

6 Bleft are they all who march along w
By Chrift's conducting eye:

Their fteps they measure by their fong,
And danger all defy.

While paffing thro' the parched vales
Which lengthen out the way, and ge
The falling fains fupply the wells, wo
Their thirfty fouls to stay.

So they from ftrength unwearied go
Still forward unto ftrength,
Until in Zion they fhall know
The glorious Lord at length

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Within thy houfe my fpirit dwells:
My pleasures all are there.

11 For God the Lord's a Sun and Shield; He'll fhine our fears away,

And make our foes to fly the field,

As darkness: flies the day:

He'll grace and glory to us give,
And will with-hold no good
From thofe who uprightly do live,
And walk in gratitude.

12 O thou almighty Lord of Hofts,
How greatly blefs'd is he,
In thee alone whose spirit boasts!
So bleft thy Christ shall be:

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So bleft thy Chrift, and all his feed;
From glory, glory, they
Onwards, like rifing funs, proceed
Unto the perfect day.

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DESCRIPTIVE and commemorative, according to the feafon then being, of the past, prefent, and future ways of the Lord God towards his people, his elected church; who indeed, as to their per fons, are innumerable, but, as to their spirits, are one with their Lord their Head, in whofe name and communion, by the Holy Ghoft who dwellet in them all, they are authorized and led, conjunctly and feverally, to breathe forth their joyful fpirits into their Father's bofom, in this gloriously triumphant fong of praife.

Behold the bleffings, here defcrib'd,
Of everlafing Gráce,

Whofe reigos is only circumfcrib'd.
By tb' utmat bounds of space:
For truth and mercy both are one:
Suffice hath kifed peace;

nd God's come down to join with man
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THY face, O Lord, hath burft the cloud, And thin'd away our fins;

And thy beloved land aloud

To fing thy praise begins: Jacob's captivity, return'd, Shall ever joyful be;

2 For all our guilt, in which we mourn'd, Is burfed now by thee.

3 Thou haft thy burning wrath remov'd,
And turn'd it all away

From us, upon thy dear Belov'd,
Thy Lamb, whom thou did't flay.
4 Turn us, our Saviour and our God,
Conftrain us by thy love,

And make our hearts thy firm abode,
And never more remove.

5 Thine indignation overpast,
And all thine anger gone,
Let not this tribulation laft,
For which thy people groan.
6 Wilt thou not us revive again,
That we may joy in thee?
7 And by thy mercy eafe our pain,
And fet thy children free?

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I'll hear what God the Lord will fpeak:

To faints he fpeaketh peace;

But let them never more betake

Themfelves to foolishness.

his falvation must be near;

The day begins to dawn:

That glory may anon appear,

The morning-fhade's withdrawn,

Our land fhall foon be fill'd with joy,

And everlafting peace:

Meffiah fhall our foes deftroy;

He comes with truth and grace.

10 Mercy

10 Mercy and Truth in him combine,
To blefs the human race;

While Peace and Juftice kifs and twine
In a divine embrace.

11 TRUTH springs from earth of woman born,
The Saviour shall appear;

While RIGHTEOUSNESS falutes the morn
Which brings the Saviour near.

12 Yea, what is good the Lord fhall give;
Our land fhall yield increase.
Juftice to lead us while we live,
Shall go before his face.

PSALM LXXXVI.

THE fpeaker in this Pfalm (for there is but one) finds himself authorized to plead his own holiness, as the foundation of his claim to the divine fas vour: wherefore he fays, ver. 2. Preferve my foul; FOR IAM HOLY: O thou my God, fave thy Servant that trufteth in thee. See parallels, Pfal. xxxv. xl. exvi. &c. Who can this be but the Lord of David ??

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The Father's Servant here become,
Who was in God's own form,
THE SON, fhall bring his chosen home,
And all his will perform:

Who Pleads his holiness,

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Nor will the Lord reject the face

Of his ANOINTED DEAR.

BOW down thine ear, O Lord, me hears
For I am poor and low:

In this mine hour my plaint I pour
Into thy bofom, fol.

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2 Preferve my foul, and me confole,
For I am holy, Lord:

O thou, my God, let love be fhow'd
To him who trusts thy word.

3 The mercy fhew to me that's due;
I daily cry to thee:

Do thou afford an anfwer, Lord,
Unto my righteous plea:

4 Rejoice, my foul, where troubles roll;
For I'm thy Servant, Lord;
I cry to thee, do thou me free,
And speedy help afford.

5 For thou art kind, to love inclin'd,
O Lord, and full of grace:
Thy mercies flow, in ftreams, unto
All thofe who feek thy face.

6 Give ear, O Lord, when I've implor'd
Attend unto my cry:

In day of fear, when trouble's near,
My pray'r thou❜lt not deny.

8 Among the gods of wood and stone,
Lord, who is like to thee?

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Or may the works which they have done
With thine compared be?

The nations all whom thou hast mäde, ✅
Shall come and worship thee;

And bow before the Lord their head,
And bend the pliant knee.

10 For thou art great, and great thy deeds; Thou, thou art God alone;

Thy glory far all fearch exceeds, ba
And fcarce thy name is known.
11: But shew thou me thy ways, O Lord,
And I will fhew thy truth;

My heart fhall cleave unto thy word,
Thy name fhall fill my mouth,

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