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2 The volume of my Father's grace
Does all my grief affuage:
Here I behold my Saviour's face
Almost in ev'ry page.

3 [This is the field where hidden lies
The pearl of price unknown ;
That merchant is divinely wife,
Who makes the pearl his own.
4 Here confecrated water flows,

To quench my thirst of fin;
Here the fair tree of knowledge grows,
No danger dwells therein.]

5 This is the Judge that ends the strife,
Where wit and reafon fail
My guide to everlasting life,
Through all this gloomy vale.

6 Oh! may thy counfels, mighty God,
My roving feet command;
Nor I forfake the happy road
That leads to thy right hand.

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HE Lord declares his will,

And keeps the world in 'awe;

Amidit the fmoke on Sinai's hill,
Breaks out his fiery law.

2 The Lord reveals his face,
And, fmiling from above,
Sends down the gospel of his grace,
Th' epiftles of his love.

3 Thefe facred words impart Our Maker's just commands; The pity of his melting heart,

And vengeance of his hands. 4 [Hence we awake our fear

We draw our comfort hence; The arms of grace are treasur'd here, And armour of defence.

5 We learn Chrift crucify'd, And here behold his blood; All arts and knowledges befide Will do us little good.]

6 We read the heav'nly word, We take the offer'd grace, Obey the ftatutes of the Lord, And truft his promifes.

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What duties to our God we owe ; But 'tis the gospel muft reveal Where lies our strength to do his will. 2 The law difcovers guilt and fin, And fhews how vile our hearts have been Only the gospel can exprefs Forgiving love, and cleanfing grace. 3 What curfes doth the law denounce Against the man that fails but once ? But in the gofpel Chrift appears, Pard'ning the guilt of num'rous year 4 My foul, no more attempt to draw Thy life and comfort from the law; Fl to the hope the gospel gives : The man that trufts the promise lives.

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LONG METRE.
Retirement and Meditation.
Y God permit me not to be

A ftranger to myself and the; Amidft a thoufand thoughts I rove, Forgetful of my highest love.

2 Why fhould my paffions mix with earth
And thus debafe my heav'nly birth?
Why should I cleave to things below,
And let my God, my Saviour, go?

3 Call me away from flesh and sense,
One fov'reign word can draw me thence
I would obey the voice divine,
And all inferiour joys refign.

4 Be earth with all her fcenes withdrawn;
Let noife and vanity be gone :
In fecret filence of the mind,

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CXXIII.

LONG METRE. The Benefit of publick Ordinances. WAY from ev'ry mortal care,

AWAY from mortalls retreat

We leave this worthless world afar
And wait and worship near thy feat.

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Lord in the temple of thy grace
We fee thy feet, and we adore;
We gaze upon thy lovely face,
And learn the wonders of thy pow'r.

While here our various wants we mourn,
United groans afcend on high;
And prayers produce a quick return
Of bleffings in variety.

If Satan rage, and fin grow ftrong,
Here we receive fome cheering word;
We gird the gospel armour on,
To fight the battles of the Lord.

Or if our spirit faints and dies,
(Our confcience gaul'd with inward ftings)
Here doth the righteous fun arife,
With healing beams beneath his wings.

Father! my foul would still abide
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CXXIV. COMMON METRE.
Mofes, Aaron, and Joshua.

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IS not the law of ten commands
On holy Sinai giv'n,
Or fent to men by Mofes' hands,
Can bring us fafe to heav'n.

'Tis not the blood which Aaron spilt,
Nor fmoke of sweetest smell,
Can buy a pardon for our guilt,

Or fave our fouls from hell.

3 Aaron the priest refigns his breath,
At God's immediate will ;
And in the defart yields to death,
Upon th' appointed hill.

4 And thus on Jordan's yonder fide

The tribes of Ifrael ftand,
While Mofes bow'd his head and dy'd
Short of the promis'd land.

5 Ifrael rejoice, now * Joshua leads,
He'll bring your tribes to reft;
So far the Saviour's name exceeds
The ruler and the priest.

CXXV. LONG METRE.
Faith and Repentance, Unbelief and Impeni-

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IFE and immortal joys are giv'n
To fouls that mourn the fins they've
done;

Children of wrath made heirs of heav'n,
By faith in God's eternal Son.

2 Woe to the wretch that never felt
The inward pangs of pious grief,
But adds to all his crying guilt
The ftubborn fin of unbelief.

3 The law condemns the rebel dead,
Under the wrath of God he lies:
He feals the curfe on his own head,
And with a double vengeance dies.
CXXVI. COMMON METRE.

GOD glorified in the Gospel.

HE Lord, defcending from above,
Invites his children near;
While pow'r and truth, and boundless
Difplay their glories here. [love

2 Here, in the gospel's wond'rous frame,
Fresh wisdom we pursue ;
A thousand angels learn thy name,
Beyond whate'er they knew.

3 Thy name is writ in faireft lines,
Thy wonders here we trace;
Wisdom through all the myft'ry fhines,
And fhines in Jesus' face.

4 The law its beft obedience owes
To our incarnate God;
And thy revenging justice shows
Its honours in his blood.

5 But ftill the luftre of thy grace

Our warmer thoughts employs,
Gilds the whole scene with brighter rays,
And more exalts our joys.

CXXVII. LONG METRE.
Circumcifion and Baptifm.

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HUS did the fons of Abrah'm pass
Under the bloody feal of grace;
The young difciples bore the yoke,
'Till Chrift the painful bondage broke.

2 By milder ways doth Jefus prove
His Father's cov'nant, and his love ;

* Joshua the fame with JESUS, and fignifies He feals to faints his glorious grace,

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Nor does forbid their infant race.

3 Their feed is fprinkled with his blood,
Their children fet apart for God;
His fpirit on their offspring shed,
Like water pour'd upon the head.

4 Let ev'ry faint with cheerful voice
In this large covenant rejoice;
Young children in their early days,
Shall give the God of Abrab'm praise.

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CXXVIII.

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COMMON METRE.
Corrupt Nature from Adam.
LESS'D with the joys of innocence,
Adam our father, food,
'Till he debas'd his foul to fenfe,
And eat th' unlawful food.

Now we are born a fenfual race,
To finful joys inclin'd;
Reafon has lost its native place,
And flesh inflaves the mind.

While flesh and sense and paffion reigns,
Sin is the sweetest good:
We fancy mufick in our chains,
And fo forget the load.

Great God! renew our ruin'd frame,
Our broken pow'rs restore,
hfpire us with a heav'nly flame,
And flesh fhall reign no more.
Eternal Spirit! write thy law
Upon our inward parts,
And let the fecond Adam draw
His image on our hearts.

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IS by the faith of joys to come
We walk thro' defarts dark as night,
'Till we arrive at heav'n our home,
Faith is our guide, and faith our light.

a The want of fight she well supplies,
She makes the pearly gates appear:
Far into diftant worlds the pries,
And brings eternal glories near.
3 Cheerful we tread the defart through,
While faith infpires a heav'nly ray,
Though lions roar and tempests blow,
And rocks and dangers fill the way.
4 So Abrab'm by divine command,
Left his own house to walk with God;
His faith beheld the promis'd land,
And fir'd his zeal along the road.

CXXX. COMMON METRE
The new Creation.

TTEND, while God's exalted

A Doth his own glory fhew:

Behold I fit upon my throne,
Creating all things new.

2 Nature and fin are pass'd away,
And the old Adam dies;
My hands a new foundation lay-
See the new world arife!

3 I'll be a Sun of righteousness

To the new heav'ns I make; None but the new-born heirs of grace My glories fhall partake. Mighty Redeemer fet me free From my old ftate of fin; Oh, make my foul alive to thee, Create new pow'rs within:

5 Renew mine eyes, and form mine ear
And mould my heart afresh;
Give me new paffions, joys and fears,
And turn the stone to flesh.

6 Far from the regions of the dead,
From fin and earth and hell;
In the new world that grace has made,
I would forever dwell.

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E blefs the prophet of the Lord,
That comes with truth and grace;
Jefus, thy fpirit and thy word,
Shall lead us in thy ways.

We rev'rence our High-Priest above,
Who offer'd up his blood;
And lives to carry on his love,
By pleading with our God.

3 We honour our exalted King;

How fweet are his commands !.
He guards our fouls from hell and fin,
By his almighty hands.

4 Hofanna to his glorious name,
Who faves by diff'rent ways,
His mercy lays a fov'reign claim
To our immortal praise.

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CXXXIII.

LONG METRE.
The Operations of the Holy Spirit.
TERNAL Spirit! we.confefs

2 He faid, and with a bloody feal

Confirm'd the words he spoke;
Long did the fons of Abrah`m feel
The sharp and painful yoke.

3 'Till God's own Son, defcending low,
Gave his own flesh to bleed;
And Gentiles taste the bleffings now,
From the hard bondage freed.

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Types and Prophecies of CHRIST.
EHOLD the woman's promis'd feed
Behold the great Meffiah come!
Behold the prophets all agreed
To give him the fuperiour room!
2 Abrab'm, the faint, rejoic'd of old
When vifions of the Lord he faw;
Mofes, the man of God, foretold
This great fulfiller of his law.

3 The types bore witness to his name,
Obtain'd their chief defign and ceas'd;
The incenfe, and the bleeding lamb,
The ark, the altar, and the priest.

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Predictions in abundance meet,

End fing the wonders of thy grace; To join their bleflings on his head:

Thy pow'r conveys our bleffings down
From God the Father and the Son.

2 Enlighten'd by thine heav'nly ray,
Our fhades and darkness turn to day;
Thine inward teachings make us know
Our danger and our refuge too.

3 Thy pow'r and glory works within,
And breaks the chains of reigning fin;
Doth our imperious lufts fubdue,
And forms our wretched hearts anew.
4 The troubled conscience knows thy voice,
Thy cheering words awake our joys;
Thy words allay the ftormy wind,
And calm the furges of the mind.

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Jefus, we worship at thy feet,
And nations own the promis'd feed.

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LONG METRE.
Miracles at the Birth of CHRIST.
HE King of glory fends his Son
To make his entrance on this earth;
Behold the midnight bright as noon,
And heav'nly hofts declare his birth!

About the young Redeemer's head
What wonders, and what glories meet!
An unknown ftar arofe and led
The eaftern fages to his feet.

Simeon and Anna both confpire
The infant Saviour, to proclaim ;

Inward they felt the facred fire,
And blefs'd the babe,and own'd his name.

4 Let Jews and Greeks blafpheme aloud,
And treat the holy child with fcorn ;-
Our fouls adore th' eternal God
Who condefcended to be horn.

CXXXVII. LONG METRE.

Miracles in the Life, Death, and Refurrection

of CHRIST.

EHOLD the blind their fight receive! 'Boud, the dead awake, and live:

The dumb fpeak wonders! and the lame
Leap like the hart, and bless his name!

Thus doth th' eternal spirit own
And feal the miffion of his Son;
The Father vindicates his cause,
While he hangs bleeding on the cross.

3 He dies! the heav'ns in mourning ftood;
He rifes, and appears a God!
Behold the Lord afcending high,
No more to bleed, no more to die.

4 Hence and forever from my heart
I bid my doubts and fears depart;
And to thofe hands my foul refign,
Which bear credentials fo-divine.

CXXXVIII.

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LỌNG METRE.

The Power of the Gospel.
HIS is the word of truth and love,
Sent to the nations from above;
Jeboval here refolves to thew
What his almighty grace can do.

2 This remedy did wisdom find,
To heal difeafes of the mind;
This fov reign balm, whofe virtues can
Reftore the ruin'd creature, man.

3 The gospel bids the dead revive,
Sinners obey the voice, and live:
Dry bones are rais'd, and cloth'd afresh,
And hearts of ftone are turn'd to flesh.

4 [Where Satan reign'd in shades of night,
The gofpel strikes a heav'nly light;
Our lufts its wond'rous pow'r controuls,
And calms the rage of angry fouls.

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Lions and beafts of favage name
Put on the nature of the lamb;

While the wide world esteems it ftrange,
Gaze, and admire, and hate the change.]
May but this grace my foul renew,
Let finners gaze and hate me too :
The word that faves me does engage
A fure detence from all their rage.

CXXXIX. LONG METRE.

The Example of CHRIST.

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MY read my duty in thy my Lor
But in thy life the law appears,

Drawn out in living characters.

2 Such was thy truth, and such thy zeah
Such def'rence to thy Father's will,
Such love, and meekness fo divine,
I would transcribe and make them min
3 Cold mountains, and the midnight air,
Witnefs'd the fervour of thy pray's;
The defart thy temptations knew,
Thy conflict, and thy vict❜ry too.
4 Be thou my pattern; make me bear
More of thy gracious image here!
Then God, the judge, fhall own my nam
Amongst th' foll'wers of the Lamb.

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COMMON METRE, The Examples of CHRIST and the Saint IVE me the wings of faith to rise Within the vail, and fee

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The faints above, how great their joys;
How bright their glories be !

Once they were mourning here below,
And wet their couch with tears:
They wrestled hard, as we do now,

With fins, and doubts, and fears.

3 I ask them, whence their vict'ry came
They, with united breath,
Afcribe their conqueft to the Lamb ;
Their triumph, to his death.

4 They mark'd the footsteps that he trod
(His zeal infpir'd their breast :)
And, following their incarnate God,
Poffefs'd the promis'd reft.

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Our glorious leader claims our praise,
For his own pattern giv'n,
While the long cloud of witneffes
Shew the fame path to heav'n.

CXLI. COMMON METRE. Faith affifted by Senfe: Or, Preaching, Baptifm, and the Lord's Supper.

I Y Saviour God,my Sov'reignPrince

MReigns far above the skies;

But brings his graces down to fenfe,
And helps my faith to rife.

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