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Bloom, full of faith, and full of hope,
Of joy, and love, in endless youth!
Let Zion's daughters ever thine,

As pillars in thy houfe, O God,
Polish'd with care and skill divine,"
Thy praise in all the world abroad!
13 Let all thy treafures overflow,
Affording all delights in ftore;
That all thy fam'ly, Lord, may know
Thy loving-kindness evermore!

14 Let thousands and ten thousands go,
And let them lead ten thoufands more,
Who shall thy gofpel-trumpet blow,
To fpread thy joy all nations o'er !
Let no in-breaking ever be,

In going out, or coming in ;
From all complaints our ftreets be free,
Our God, our Glory ftill therein!"

15 Thus bleffed fhall the people be

With everlasting truth and grace, Whofe God Jehovah is-for he

Shall make Meffiah's blood their peace!

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MESSIAH, glorified, fings to God, with all his faints around. See Pfal. civ. cviii. &c.

The triumph of the Son of God,
Who gloriously triumphant rode,
In chariots of falvation grand
Victorious o'er the hellish band,
Afcribing to his Father's praife
The glory of his Father's ways,
And teaching all his faints, along,
To join him in his joyful fang

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thee extol, my God, O King, And all my faints with me fhall fing: I'll praife thy name for evermore, And all thy glorious ways explore. 2 I'll blefs thee, Lord, and, all day long, Thy, name fhall ever fwell my fong : 3 The Lord is great, and greatly he Is to be praised ftill by me:

His greatnefs far all fearch exceeds, And like himself are all his deeds: 'Th' expreffions of Jehovah's love, Jehovah like, fhall never move. 4 Race unto race fhall fhew thy ways, And.fing the glory of thy praife; They fhall declare each work of thine,, And praife the joys of love divine. 5 Thy glorious Majefty I'll tell, And on thine honour ever dwell; Thy works of wonder. I'll difplay,. And mufe upon them night and day. 6 My faints around me catch the theme, And fing the glories of thy name, Thy terrible tremendous ways Became the fubject of their praife:.

For, while thy greatness I describe,
My fong and fpirit they imbibe;
And, while thy glory circles round,
Both earth and heav'n with joy refound ::
7 They publifh fhall abundantly
The mem ry of thy love fo high:
The glory of thy righteoufnefs,.
In fongs of praife they, fhall exprefs..

8 The Lord is very gracious,
In him compaffions ever flow;

In mercy he is plenteous,

And unto wrath and anger flows

The Lord our God is good to all,
Like dews and rains his bleflings fall
Upon the evil and the good:
O were his bleffings understood!

But, oh! the myft'ries of his love, The chofen few alone fhall prove : His mercies are fo great and high, They fill the earth and fill the fky. no Lord, all thy works thy praife proclaim, And all thy faints fhall blefs thy name :: 11 They fhall thy kingdom's glory tell,

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And on thy pow'r and love fhall dwell: r2 To make the fons of men to know The mighty actions he fhall fhow, And all the glorious majesty Of his Meffiah's kingdom high. 13 Thy kingdom, Lord, thro' ages all, With thy dominion, ever fhall

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Remain the fame, the Lord before-
When time itfelf fhall be no more..

14 The Lord alone upholdeth all,
And raifeth thofe again who fall:
The eyes of all attend on thee,
That they with food may filled be:
16 Thine open hand most lib'rally
Doth all their craving wants fupply,.
O thou, the giver of all good:
Let men be fill'd with gratitude!
17 The Lord is juft in all his ways;
His holiness proclaims his praife:
18 The holy Lord is nigh to all

That call on him, in truth that call. 19 He will tulfil the Juft's defire,

And grant them, ere they can require,,
Who love, and glory in his name,
The bleflings that are meet for them."

20 The Lord preferveth in his joy
The faithful, who themselves employ
In works of faith, in works of love,
That they may all his glory prove:
But he will overturn them quite,
Who in their perverse ways delight;
Who his falvation great neglect,
The Lord will evermore reject.
21 My mouth the praises of the Lord
Shall evermore with joy record:
Let all flesh blefs his holy name,
And found his everlasting fame:
Clap, clap your hands, ye faints, to God,
And found your Father's praife abroad;
Around Meffiah, evermore,

Your Father and

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God adore!

PSALM CXLVI.

THE fpirit and fubject of this, and the four following Palms, may molt concifely be expreffed in that one word, wherewith they both begin and end, viz. HALLELUJAH, rendered, Praise ye the Lord; which may be called their illustration or title. See Pfalm xxxiii. &c.

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Come, celebrate, with raptures great,
With holiness and joy,

The reign of grace, truth, mercy, peace,
Which we with Chrift enjoy!

TO God let hallelujahs rise;

My foul, O praise him thou: 2 For, while I live, I'll praifes give Unto my God, I vow:.

I'll praises fing unto my King,
And glory in my God:"

And, while I live, I will contrive
To found his praife abroad.

3 Truft not in kings, nor earthly things;
The fons of men are duft:

In man there is no help nor blefs;
In God Jehovah trust.

4 For man fhall die, his breath fhall fly;
Unto his earth he turns:

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That very day his thoughts decay;

His friend who trufts him mourns.
O happy he, whose help shall be
The God of Jacob, then,

Whofe hope is on the Lord alone!
His God fhall him fuftain :

6 His God, who doth delight in truth,
Who made the earth and heav'n,
The fea, and all around the ball,
His plighted faith hath giv❜n;

7 That he will do the judgment true
For all oppreffed ones,

And will fupply the poor who cry,
And hear the pris'ners groans:

8 The Lord the blind, in eyes and mind,
Will blefs with pleasant fight;
The Lord will raife the low and base,
And make their darkness light:
The Lord beholds, and ftill upholds,
The fons of righteousness;

But all their foes he fills with woes,
And fhame, and dire diftrefs.

9 The Lord obferves, and ftill preserves,
And helps the fatherless,

The widows too, and all who do

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Delight in holinefs;

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