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Compass and view thy holy ground,
And mark the building well:

4 The orders of thy house,
The worship of thy court;

The chearful fongs, the folemn vows;
And make a fair report.

5 How decent, and how wife!
How glorious to behold!

Beyond the pomp that charms the eyes,
And rites adorn'd with gold.

6 The God we worship now,
Will guide us till we die;

Will be our God, while here below
And ours above the fky.

CLXXIX.

The last Judgment. Pfalm 1.

HE God of glory fends his fummons forth

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Calls the fouth nations and awakes the north: From east to west, the fov'reign orders spread, Thro' diftant worlds, and regions of the dead. The trumpet founds; hell trembles; heav'n rejoices: Lift up your heads, ye faints, with chearful voices.

2 No more shall Atheists mock his long delay;
His vengeance fleeps no more: Behold the day !
Behold the judge defcends! his guards are nigh!
Tempefts and fire attend him down the sky!

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When God appears, all nature shall adore him :
While finners tremble, faints rejoice before bim.

3 "Heav'n, earth and hell, draw near: let all things

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"To hear my justice, and the finner's doom; "But gather firft my faints," (the judge commands) Bring them, ye angels, from their diftant lands.' When Chrift returns, 'wake ev'ry chearful passion : And bout, ye faints! he comes for your salvation.

4 "Behold my cov'nant ftands for ever good;

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"Seal'd by th' eternal facrifice in blood,

"And fign'd with all their names, (the Greek, the Jew,)

"That paid, the antient worship, or the new." There's no diftinction bere, join ALL your voices;

And raife your heads, ye faints, for heaven rejoices.

"Here (faith ye Lord) the angels fpread their

Thrones;

"And near me feat my favourites and my fons. "Come my redeem'd, poffefs the joys prepar'd "E're time began, 'tis your divine reward." When CHRIST returns, 'wake ev'ry chearful passion And fhout ye faints, he comes for your falvation.`

PAUSE the FIRST.

6" I am the Saviour, I th' Almighty God: "I am the Judge; ye heav'ns proclaim abroad My juft, eternal fentence, and declare "Thofe awful truths that finners dread to hear "

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When GOD appears, all nature shall adore him :
While finners tremble, faints rejoice before him.

"Stand forth, thou bold blafphemer, and prophane; "Now feel my wrath, nor call my threat'nings vain "Thou hypocrite, once drest in faint's attire ; "I doom the painted hypocrite to fire." Judgment proceeds; hell trembles; heav'n rejoices : Lift up your heads, ye faints, with chearful voices.

8 "Not for the want of goats or bullocks flain "Do I condemn thee: Bulls and goats are vain "Without the flame of love: In vain the ftore "Of brutal off'rings that were mine before." Earth is the Lord's; all nature shall adore him: While finners tremble, faints rejoice before him.

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"Iff were hungry, would I ask the food?

"When did I thirst, or drink thy bullocks blood?
"Mine are the tamer beasts, and savage breed;
"Flocks, herds, and fields, and forefts where they
"feed."

All is the Lord's; he rules the wide creation;
Gives finners vengeance, and the faints falvation.

10" Can I be flatter'd with thy cringing bows.?

Thy folemn chatt'rings, and fantastic vows ? "Are my eyes charm'd thy vestments to behold, "Glaring in gems, and gay in woven gold?" God is the judge of hearts: No fair difguifes Can fcreen the guilty when his vengeance rifes.

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PAUSE the SECOND.

11" Unthinking wretch! how couldst thou hope to please

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"A God, a spirit, with fuch toys as these?

"While with my grace and ftatutes on thy tongue, "Thou lov'ft deceit, and doft thy brother wrong." Judgments proceeds; bell trembles; heaven rejoices;

Lift up your heads, ye faints, with chearful voices.

12" In vain to pious forms, thy zeal pretends; "Thieves and adult'rers are thy chosen friends : "While the falfe flatt'rer at my altar waits, "His harden'd foul divine instruction hates." God is the judge of hearts; no fair disguises, Can fcreen the guilty when his vengeance rifes.

13 "Silent I waited with long-fuff'ring love:
"But didst thou hope that I should ne'er reprove ?
"And cherish fuch an impious thought within,
"That the All-Holy would indulge thy fin?"
See God appears; all nations join t'adore him ;
Judgment proceeds, and finners fall before him.

14 Behold my terrors now; my thunders roll,
"And thy own crimes affright thy guilty foul.
"Now, like a lion, fhall my vengeance tear

Thy bleeding heart, and no deliv'rer near."
Judgment concludes; hell trembles; heav'n rejoices;
Lift up your heads, ye faints, with chearful voices.

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EPIPHONEMA.

Sinners, awake betimes; ye fools, be wife :
Awake before this dreadful morning rise :

Change your vain thoughts, your crooked works

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Fly to the Saviour; make the Judge your friend.
Then join, ye faints, 'wake ev'ry chearful passion :.
When Chrift returns, becomes for your falvation.

Praise for Protection,
Pfalm. lvii.

CLXXX.
Grace and Truth.

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Y God, in whom are all the fprings
Of boundless love, and grace unknown;

Hide me beneath thy fpreading wings,
Till the dark cloud is overblown.

2. Up to the heav'ns I fend my cry; The Lord will my defires perform;

He fends his angel from the sky,

And faves me from the threat'ning ftorm.

34 Be thou ezalted O my God,

Above the heav'ns where angels dwell:
Thy pow'r on earth be known abroad,
And land to land thy wonders tell.

4. My heart is fix'd; my fong fhall raise
Immortal honours to thy name :
Awake, my tongue, to found his praise ::
My tongue, the glory of my frame.

P. 2.

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