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Now to the Lamb that once was flain, .

Be endless bleffings paid;

Salvation, glory, joy remain,

For ever on thy head.

CV. The Son of God incarnate: Or, the Titles and the Kingdom of Chrift.

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HE lands that long in darkness lay,
Now haye beheld a heav'nly light;
Nations that fat in death's cold shade,
Are bleft with beams divinely bright.

2 The virgin's promis'd Son is born;
Behold th' expected child appear,
What fhall his names or titles be?
The wonderful, the counsellor.

3 This infant is the mighty God,
Come to be fuckl'd and ador'd;
Th' Eternal Father, prince of peace,
The fon of David and his Lord.

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The government of earth and feas,
Upon his fhoulders fhall be laid;
His wide dominions fhall increase,
And Honours to his name be paid.

5 Jefus the holy child fhall fit,
High on his father David's throne;

Shall crufh his foes beneath his feet,
And reign to ages yet unknown.

CVI. Bleffed are the Dead that die in the Lord. Rev. xiv. 13.

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EAR what the voice from heav'n proclaims,
For all the pious dead;

Sweet is the Savour of their names,
And foft their fleeping bed.

2 They die in Jefus, and are blefs'd;
How kind their flumbers are!
From fuff'rings and from fins releas'd,
And free from ev'ry fnare.

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Far from this world of toil and ftrife,
Thy're present with the Lord;

The labours of their mortal life,

End in a large reward.

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CVII. Hope of Heaven by the Resurrection of Chrift, 1 Pet, i. 3, 4, 5.

'BLESS'D be the everlasting God,

The Father of our Lord';

Be his abounding mercy prais'd,

His Majefty ador'd.

2 When from the dead he rais'd his fon,
And call'd him to the sky,

He gave our fouls a lively hope,
That they fhould never die.

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What tho' our inbred fins require,
Our flel to fee the duft;

Yet as the Lord our faviour rofe,
So all his followers muft.

4 There's an inheritance divine,
Referv'd against that day;
'Tis uncorrupted, undefil'd,
And cannot waste away.

5 Saints by the pow'r of God are kept,
Till the falvation come;

We walk by faith, as ftrangers here,1 'Till Chrift fhall call us home.

CVIII. The Chriftian Race. Ifa.

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WAKE our fouls, away our fears;
Let ev'ry trembling thought begone:.

Awake, and run the heav'nly race,
And put a chearful courage on.

2 True, 'tis a strait and thorny road,
And mortal fpirits tire and faint,...

But they forget the mighty God,

That feeds the ftrength of ev'ry faint..

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3 The mighty God, whose matchless pow'r,
Is ever new, and ever young,

And firm endures while endless years
Their everlasting circles run.

From thee the over-flowing spring,
Our fouls fhall drink a fresh fupply;
While fuch as truft their native strength,
Shall melt away, and droop and die.

5 Swift as an eagle cuts the air,

We'll mount aloft to thine abode; On wings of love our fouls fhall fly, Nor tire amidst the heav'nly road.

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CIX. The Works of Mofes and the Lamb. Rev. xv. 3.

OW ftrong thy arm is mighty God!
Who wou'd not fear thy name?

Jefus, how fweet thy beauties are!

Who would not love the Lamb?

2 He has done more than Mofes did,
Our prophet and our king :
From bonds of hell, he freed our fouls,
And taught our lips to fing.

3 In the red fea, by Mofes' hand,

Th' egyptian-hoft was drown'd: But his own blood hides all our fin,

And guilt no more is found.

4 When thro' the defart Ifra'l went,
With Manna they were fed;
Our Lord invites us to his flef,.
And calls it living bread.

5 Mofes beheld the promis'd land,
Yet never reach'd the place :

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But Chrift fhall bring his followers home,
To fee his Father's face.

6 Then fhall our love and joy be full,
And feel a warmer flame;
And sweeter voices tune the fong,
Of Mofes and the Lamb.

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O God the only wife,
Our Saviour and our king,
Let all the faints below the skies,
Their humble praises bring.

2 "Tis his Almighty love,

His counfel and his care,
Preferves us fafe from fin and death,
And ev'ry hurtful fnare.

3 He will present our fouls,
Unblemish'd and compleat,
Before the glory of his face,
With joys divinely great.

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