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HYMNS, &c.

PART I.

CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES.

SECTION I.

GOD's NATURE, PERFECTIONS,
and PURPOSES.

HYMN I. Univerfal Praife to JEHOVAH,
Abraham's God and ours.

I THE GOD of Abr'ham praife,
Who reigns enthron'd above;

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Ancient of everlasting days,
And GoD of love:

JEHOVAH, great I AM!
By earth and heav'n confefs'd;
I bow and blefs the facred name,
For ever bleft.

The God of Abr' ham praife,
At whofe fupreme command

From earth I rife-and feek the joys
At his right hand;

I all on earth forfake,

Its wifdom, fame, and pow'r; And him my only portion make, My fhield and tow'r.

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The GoD of Abr' ham praife,
Whofe all-fufficient grace

Shall guide me all my happy days,
In all his ways:

He calls a worm his friend!
He calls himself my God!
And he fhall fave me to the end,
Through Jefu's blood.

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HE God who reigns on high,
The mighty angels fing

And "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY," cry,
"ALMIGHTY KING!

"Who was, and is, the fame;
"And evermore shall be;

JEHOVAH, FATHER, GREAT I AM
"We worship Thee.”

Before the SAVIOUR'S face
The ranfom'd nations bow;
O'erwhelm'd at his Almighty grace,
For ever new:

He fhews his prints of love,
They kindle to a flame!

And found through all the worlds above, The flaughter'd LAMB.

6 The whole triumphant hoft Give thanks to GoD on high;

"Hail FATHER, SON, and HOLY GHOST" They ever cry:

Hail, Abr'ham's God and MINE,

I join the heav'nly lays ;

All might and majefty are thine

And endlefs praife.

OLIVER.

II. God's encouraging NAMES.
ING to the Lord, who loud proclaims
His various, and his faving NAMES;
O may they not be heard alone,

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But by our fure experience known!
2 Let great JEHOVAH be ador'd,
Th' Eternal, All-fufficient LORD,
He thro' the world moft high confefs'd,
By whom 'twas form'd, and is poffefs'd.
3 Awake, our nobleft pow'rs, to blefs
The God of Abr' ham, God of PEACE;
Now by a dearer title known,
Father and GOD of Chrift his Son.
4 Thro' ev'ry age his gracious ear
Is open to his fervants pray'r;
Nor can one humble foul complain,
That it hath fought its GoD in vain.
5 What unbelieving heart fhall dare
In whifpers to fuggeft a fear?

While ftill he owns his ancient name,
The fame his pow'r, his love the fame.
6 To thee our fouls in faith arise,
To thee we lift expecting eyes;
And boldly thro' the defart tread,

For GoD will guard, where Gon shall lead.
DODDRIDGE.
III. Doctrine and use of the TRINITY.
1 ATHER of Glory, to thy Name
Immortal praise we give,
Who doft an act of grace proclaim,
And bid't us, rebels, live.

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2 Immortal honour to the Son, Who makes thine anger ceafe;

Our lives he ranfom'd with his own,
And dy'd to make our peace.
3 To the Almighty SPIRIT be
Immortal glory giv’n;

Whofe influ'nce brings us near to thee,
And trains us up for Heav'n.

4 Let men with their united voice
Adore th' eternal God;

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And fpread his honours, and their joys,
Through nations far abroad.

Let faith and love and duty join
One gen'ral fong to raife;

And faints in earth and heav'n combine
In harmony and praife.

IV. To the Trinity.

WATTS'S S.

GLORIOUS UNION, God unfought,*

All thy works thy goodnefs fhow,
Centre of perfection thou!

2 Praife we, with uplifted eyes,
Him that dwells above the skies:
God who reigns on Sion's hill
Made, redeem'd, and keeps us ftill.
3 Join th' angelic hofts above,
Praife the FATHER'S matchlefs love,
Who for us his Son hath giv❜n,
Sent him to regain our heav'n.
4 Glory to the SAVIOUR'S grace
Help of Adam's helpless race;
Who, for our tranfgreffions flain,
Makes us one with God again.
5 Join the HOLY GHOST to blefs;
He makes known and feals our peace,

*Alluding to Rom. x. 20.

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Us he cleanses, and makes whole,
Quickens and transforms the foul.

V. The fame.

TOPLADY.

HOLY, bleffed, glorious THREE
from all eternity,

Make us veffels of thy grace,
Ever running o'er with praise.
2 Thee we laud with grateful fong,
Sever'd from the guilty throng,
Ranfom'd by thy Son who died,
By thy fpirit fanctified.

30 that we thy love might tafte!
Blefs us, and we shall be blefs'd;
Cleanfe us, Lord, from fin's abufe,
Fit us for the maiter's ufe!

4 In our hearts, thy temples, dwell;
With the hope of glory fill:
Be on earth our gueft divine,

Then in heav'n we fhall be thine.

TOPLADY.

VI. Thanksgiving to the Trinity.
ETERNAL. God, the thanks receive,

Father of ev'ry mercy thou,
Almighty, and all-gracious too!
In humble, yet exulting fongs,
Thy praifes iffue from our tongues,
For that inceffant, boundless love,
Which we and all thy creatures prove.
2 Fashion'd by thy creating hand,
And by thy providence fuftain'd,
We with our gratitude to fhew,
For all thy. temp'ral bleffings due.

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