Ye angels, join the joyful acclamation,
And fing the love, that brings to men falvation.

2. His gracious eys beheld in full furvey,.
Where Adam's race in mingled ruin lay::
No human aid the danger could avert ::
No angel's hand could foothe the raging finart..
In his own breaft divine compaffion rifes,

And the grand scheme the court of heav'n surprises.

3 God's only Son, with peerless glories bright,
His Father's faireft image and delight,,
Juftice and grace the victim have decreed,
To wear our flesh, and in that flesh to bleed.
Proftrate in duft, ye finner, all adore him,

And tremble, while your hearts rejoice before him.

4 The wond'rous work is done; the cov'nant ftood;
And Jefus expiates human guilt with blood;
Nail'd to the tree, he bows his facred head;
A mangled corpfe, he dwells among the dead.
Rifing, he fends his word thro' ev'ry nation,
Sinners, believe, and gain compleat falvation..

Father of grace, accept our humble praife,,
O let it run thro' everlafting days! :
And thou, bleft Saviour, fpotlefs Lamb of God,
Receive the fouls, dear-ranfom'd with thy blood; :
And to thofe fongs, form all our feeble voices,
In which the choir round thy bright throne rejoices
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XCIV. God fupplying the Neceffities of his People. Phil. iv.

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'MY God! how charming is the found!

How pleasant to repeat!

Well may that heart with pleasure bound,
Where God hath fix'd his feat.

2 What want shall not our God fupply,
From his abundant stores ?
What ftreams of mercy from on high,
An arm almighty pours!

3 From Chrift the ever-living fpring,
These ample bleffings flow:
Prepare, our lips, his name to fing,

Whofe heart hath lov'd us fo.

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Now to our father and our God,

Be endless glory giv'n,

'Thro' all the realms of man's abode,

And thro' the highest heav'n.

XCV. The Law and Gofpel joined in Scripture.

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HE Lord declares his will,

And keeps the world in awe ;

Amidst the fmoak on Sinai's hill,
Breaks out his firey law.

2 The Lord reveals his face,
And, fmiling from above,
Sends down th' epiftles of his grace,
Th' epiftles of his love.

3 Thefe facred words impart,
Our maker's just commands;
The pity of his melting heart,
And vengeance of his hands.

14 Hence we awake our fear :
We draw our comfort hence:
The arms of grace are treasur'd here,
And armour of defence.

5 We learn Christ crucify'd,
And here behold his blood:
All atrs and knowledges befide,
Will do us little good.]

6 We read the heav'nly word ;
We take the offer'd grace;
Obey the ftatutes of the Lord,
And truft his promises.

7 In vain shall satan rage,
Against a book divine;

Where wrath and lightning guards the page ;

Where beams of mercy fhine.

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HE law commands, and makes us know,
What duties to our God we owe;

But 'tis the gospel must reveal,

Where lies our strength to do his will,

2 The law discovers guilt and fin.

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And shews how vile our hearts have been;

Only the gospel can exprefs,

Forgiving love and cleansing grace.

What curfes doth the law denounce,
Against the man that fails but once?
But in the gospel, Chrift appears,

Pard'ning the guilt of num'rous years.

4 My foul no more attempt to draw
Thy life and comfort from the law;
Fly to the hope the gospel gives:
The man that trufts the promise lives.

XCVII.
Death, and Refurrection of
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EHOLD, the blind their fight receive!
Behold, the dead awake and live led V

The dumb fpeak wonders, and the lame

Leap like the hart, and blefs his name!

2 Thus doth the Eternal Spirit own,
And feal the miffion of his Son';
The Father vindicates his caufe,
While he hangs bleeding on the cross.

3 He dies; the heav'ns in mourning food;
He rifes, and appears a God:

Behold the Lord afcending high,
No more to bleed, no more to die!

4 Hence, and for ever, from my heart,
I bid my doubts and fears depart :
And to thofe hands my foul refign,"
Which bear credentials fo divine.

XCVIII.

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The Example of
Chrift.

Y dear Redeemer, and my Lord!
I read my duty in thy word;
But in thy life the law appears,
Drawn out in living characters.

2 Such was thy truth, and fuch thy zeal,
Such def'rence to thy Father's will,
Such love and meeknefs fo divine,
I would tranfcribe, and make them mine.

3 Cold mountains, and the midnight air,
Witnes'd the fervour of thy pray'r;
The defart thy temptations knew,
Thy conflict, and thy vict❜ry too.

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