6 Then all that love and fear the Lord,
At my falvation shall rejoice;

For I have hoped in thy word,
And made thy grace my only choice.

CCLIX. Pardoning Grace.

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ROM deep diftrefs, and troubled thoughts,
To thee my God, I rais'd my cries!

If thou feverely mark our faults,
No flesh can ftand before thine eyes.

2 But thou haft built thy throne of grace
Free to dispense thy favours there,
That finners may approach thy face,
And hope, and love, as well as fear.

3 My truft is fix'd upon thy word,
Nor fhall I trust thy word in vain :
Let mourning fouls addrefs the Lord,
And find relief from all their pain.

4 Great is his love, and large his grace,
Thro the redemption of his Son;
He turns our feet from finful ways,
And pardons what our hands have done.

CCLX. Humility and Submission,

I S there ambition in my heart?

Or

1

Or do I act a haughty part?
Lord, I appeal to thee.

2 I charge my thoughts, be humble ftill,
And all my carriage mild;
Content, my Father, with thy will,
And quiet as a child.

3 The patient foul, the lowly mind,
Shall have a large reward:
Let faints in forrow lie refign'd,
And truft a faithful Lord.

At the Settlement of a

Church; or, the Ordination of

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a Minister.

Pfal. cxxxii. 5,

13---18.

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HERE fhall we go to feek and find
A habitation for our God;

A dwelling for th' eternal mind,
Among the fons of flesh and blood?

2 The God of Jacob chofe the hill
Of Zion for his facred reft;
And Zion is his dwelling still,
His church is with his prefence bleft.

3 Here will I fix my gracious throne,
And reign for ever faith the Lord;

4

Here shall my pow'r and love be known,
And bleflings fhall attend my word.

Here will I meet the hungry poor,
And fill their fouls with living bread;
Sinners that wait before my door,
With sweet provision shall be fed.

Girded with truth, and cloath'd with grace,
My priests, my minifters fhall fhine;
Not Aaron in his còftly dress,
Made an appearance so divine.

6 The faints, unable to contain

Their inward joys, shall shout and fing;
The Son of David here fhall reign,
And Zion triumph in her king.

7.(Jesus shall see a num'rous feed

Born here, t' uphold his glorious name;
His crown fhall flourish on his head,
While all his foes are cloath'd with shame.)

CCLXII. A Church established.

I

N

Pfal. cxxxii

O fleep or flumber to his eyes,
Good David would afford,
'Till he had found below the skies,
A dwelling for the Lord.

2 The Lord in Zion plac'd his name,
His ark was fettled there :

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To Zion the whole nation came
To worship thrice a year.

3 But we have no fuch lengths to go,
Nor wander far abroad;
Where-e'er thy faints affemble now,'
There is a houfe for God.

4 Arife, O king of grace, arife,
And enter to thy reft:

Lo! thy church wairs with longing eyes,
Thus to be own'd and bleft.

5 Enter, with all thy glorious train,
Thy fpirit, and thy word:
All that the ark did once contain,
Could no fuch grace afford.

6 Here, mighty God, accept Sur vows,
Here let thy praise be spread;
Blefs the provifions of thy house,
And fill thy poor with bread.

7 Here let the fon of David reign,
Let God's anointed fhine;
Juftice and truth, his court maintain
With love and pow'r divine.

8 Here let him hold a lafting throne,
And as the kingdom grows,
Fresh honours fhall adorn his crown,
And fhame confound his foes.

CCLXIII.

Brotherly Love.

Pfal. cxxxiii.

O, what an entertaining fight,
Are brethren that agree!

Brethren, whofe chearful hearts unite

In bands of piety.

2 When streams of love, from Chrift the spring, Defcend to ev'ry soul,

And heav'nly peace, with balmy wing,
Shades and bedews the whole :

3

As when on Aaron's reverend head,
They pour'd the rich perfume;
'Twas on his facred collar † spread,
And pleasure fill'd the room.

4 Tis pleasant, as the morning dews,
That fall on Sion's hill,

Where God his mildeft glory fhews,
And makes his grace diftill.

+ Collar feems more proper than fkirts. Thus it is tranflated by Ainfworth, and paraphrafed by Bp. Patrick. And thus the fame word is tranflated in our version of Job. xxx. 18. The hebrew word properly fignifies mouth, and appears to denote the top of Aaron's garment, round his neck, on which the oil would naturally fall, when his head was fo plentifully

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