Before him, burns devouring fire;
The mountains melt, the seas retire.

4 His enemies, with fore dismay,

Fly from the fight, and fhun the day :
Then lift your heads, ye faints on high,
And fing, for your redemption's nigh.

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Pfalm. xcvii. 9, &c.

H' Almighty reigns exalted high,
O'er all the earth, o'er all the sky:
Tho' clouds and darkness veil his feet,
His dwelling is his mercy feat.

2 O ye that love his holy name,
Hate ev'ry work of fin and shame :
He guards the fouls of all his friends
And from the fnares of hell defends.

3 Immortal light, and joys unknown,

For those that truft the Lord are fown:
Thofe glorious feeds fhall spring and rife,
And the bright harvest bless our eyes.

4 Rejoice, ye righteous, and record

The facred honours of the Lord:
None but the foul that feels his grace,
Can triumph in his holiness.

CXCVII.

CXCVII.

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Praise for the Gospel.

Pfalm. xcvii. 1, &c.

O our Almighty Maker, God,
New honours be addrest:

His great falvation fhines abroad
And makes the nations bleft.

2 He fpake the word to Abr'am first ;
His truth fulfils the grace :

The gentiles make his name their truft,
And learn his righteousness.

3 Let the whole earth his love proclaim
With all their diff'rent tongues;
And spread the honours of his name
In melody and fongs.

CXCVIII. The Meffiah's coming and Kingdom. Pfal. xcviii.

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Joy

OY to the world; the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her king:

Let ev'ry heart prepare him room,

And God the Saviour fing.

2 Joy to the earth, the Saviour reigns; Let men their tongues employ ;

While fields, and floods, rocks, hills, and plains, Repeat the founding joy.

3 No more let fins and forrows grow, Nor thorns infeft the ground;

He comes to make his bleffings flow,

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Far as the curfe is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace;
And makes the nations prove

The glories of his righteousness,

And wonders of his love.

CXCIX. Chrift's Kingdom and Majefty. Pfalm. xcix. 1, &c.

THE Lord Jehovah reigns

Let all the nations fear;

Let finners tremble at his throne,
And faints be humble there.

2 Jefus, the Saviour reigns,

Let earth adore it's Lord:

Bright Cherubs his attendants stand,
Swift to fulfil his word.

3 In Zion is his throne,

His honours are divine :

His church fhall make his wonders known

For there his glories fhine.

4 How holy is his name! How terrible his praise !

Juftice

Justice and truth, and judgment join
In all his works of grace.

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Praise to our Creator.
Pfalm. c.

E nations round the earth, rejoice,

'Y' Before the Lord, your fov'reign king;

Serve him with chearful heart and voice,
With all your tongues his glory fing.

2 The Lord is God: "Tis he alone

Doth life and breath, and being give: We are his work, and not our own; The sheep that on his paftures live.

3 Enter his gates with fongs of joy, With praises to his courts repair; And make it your divine employ,

To pay your thanks and honours there.

4 The Lord is good, the Lord is kind;
Great is his grace his mercy fure:

And the whole race of man fhall find
His truth from age to age endure.

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ING to the Lord, with joyful voice;
Let ev'ry land his name adore:

The british ifles fhall fend the noise
Across the ocean, to the fhore.

2. Nations

2 Nations attend before his throne,
With folemn fear, with facred joy:
Know that the Lord is God alone;
He can create, and he destroy.

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His fov'reign pow'r without our aid,
Made us of clay, and form'd us men:
And when, like wandring sheep we stray'd

He brought us to the fold again.

4 We are his people, we his care,
Our fouls and all our mortal frame :
What lafting honours shall we rear,
Almighty Maker to thy name?

5 We'll croud thy gates with thankful fongs;
High as the heav'ns our voices raise :
And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,
Shall fill thy courts with founding praife.

6 Wide as the world is thy command!
Vaft as eternity thy love!

Firm as a rock, thy truth muft ftand,
When rolling years fhall cease to move.

CCII. The Truth of Chriftianity. inwardly witneffed. 1 John v.

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