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Thy People with Salvation crown,
Blefs thofe, O God, that are thine own:
Govern thy Church, and Lord, advance
For ever thine Inheritance.

From day to day, O Lord, do we
Highly exalt and honour Thee.
Thy Name we worship and adore
World without End for evermore.
Vouchsafe, O Lord, we humbly pray,
To keep us fafe from Sin this Day.
O Lord, have Mercy on us all;
Have mercy on us, when we call.
Thy Mercy, Lord, to us difpenfe
According to our confidence.
Lord, we have put our Truft in thee,
Confounded let us never be.

210.

Hrift it was, whom holy David
Did predict, and of him talk:
We in Retrospect now have it,
That God once on Earth did walk.
2. He's the Source, and he's the
Ending

Of paft, prefent, and to come:
Chaos on his Word depending,
Yielded Worlds out of her womb.
3. When he faw, that Plant fo tender,
Man incurr'd Death's legal wound,
He took Flefh, as its Defender ;
Plant himself out of dry ground.

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7. Then a wondrous Wound was open'd,

Blood and Water thence did flow; This not cafually happen'd,

Grace compleat to it we owe.
8. When his Body venerable

Thus was awfully broke up,
How did it the Fiend difable,

Robb'd of his malicious hope! 9. What avail'd him, Revolution

In God's Creature to intrigue ? Man's reftor'd in conflitution,

With his God again in League. 10. This attain'd in manner lafting, Jefus to his Throne ascends, And th' Atchievement of Deathtafting

'Midft his Godlike Scutcheon blends.

Heb. ii. 9.

11. Our Deliv'rer! take our praises:
Hoary Age alike and Youth,
Matron, Virgin, Babe, now raifes
Notes to fing thy Love and Truth.

"Prudentius.

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211.

Veni, Redemptor gentium,
un komm der heyden Heiland.
Aviour of the Nations come,'

Born a Child from Virgin's womb!

At which wonders every land,
God for him fuch Birth ordain'd.

2. Not begot like men unclean,
But without the Stain of fin;
In our Nature God was born,
Us to fave, who were forlorn.
3. Lo! a Virgin doth conceive,
Yet Virginity not leave ;
All the female Virtues were

Thron'd in her, for God was there.
4 From his chambers forth he went,
Left bright Glory's element;
And at once both God and Man,
He his bleffed Course began.
5. His path from the Father came,
And returns unto the fame :
He as low as Hell goes down,
And then back unto God's Throne.
6. O thou God-like every way,
Carry thy victorious Sway
In the Flesh to fuch a length,
That we gain thy Godly Strength.
7. Bright thy Manger fhines and

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Far as the Sun its beams extends, Praife him to the World's utmost ends. 2. The whole world's Maker fovereign

Affum'd a fervant's Body mean, That he the Flefh by Flesh might fave,

Nor quite to wreck his Creature leave.

3. The Heart fo meek (that finward house)

Of Mary, God for Temple chofe; Who, tho' no Man had interpos'd, Was found with child from th'Holy Ghoft.

4. The Mother then brought forth

her Child;

So Gabriel's promife was fulfill'd;
Of him John alfo much would fay,
By leaping while in th'womb he lay.
5. On ftraw in greatest poverty
He lay; th'hard Manger patiently
He bore; a little Milk him fed,
Who ne'er a bird lets fuffer need.
6. The heav'nly hoft rejoice thereat,
And Angel-hymns it celebrate;
Poor Shepherds news of one obtain,
Maker and Shepherd of all Men,
7.Thanks, praife be to thee evermore
O Chrift,whom the pure Virgin bore,
God Father, Son and Spirit blett,
Eternal Laud to you's addrest.

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kies,

On a Woman's lap now lies;
He, who the World's foundation laid,
Is now a little Infant made.

Hallelujah. 4. Th'eternal Splendor is in fight, Gives the world its faving Light, And drives the clouds of Sins away, To make us children of the Day.

Hallelujah. 5. The Son, th'almighty God confefs'd,

Was in his own world a Gueft; And open'd, through this World of ftrife,

A Way to everlasting Life.

Hallelujah. 6. For therefore poor on earth he

came,

That we might his Riches claim; To make us Heirs of endless blifs, With all thofe darling faints of his. Hallelujah.

7. For us thefe Wonders hath he

wrought,

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fee,

Hat Star fo beauteous, Ye Magi! which ye Doth point out duteous A brighter Majesty. Your hearts expanding afk,who is it? 'Tis God incarnate makes us a Vifit, 2. That Source of Bleffing,

To Abra'm nam'd of old; To rule unceasing,

As Jee's branch, foretold; (His Realm, as God, ne'er had dimenfions)

Begíns his human Race and Pretenfions.

3. O Boy, appointed

For threefold Character! To thee's prefented

Gold, Frankincenfe and Myrrh. Of the two former what's th' inten

tion?

The Sceptre and Godhead already mention'd.

4. But why that latter?

The Caufe muft all furprize! That spicy Matter

To burial Ufe applies.

Oh yes! and God into Death's valley Himself would stoop, that we thence might rally.

5. Bethle'm, thou'rt greeted,

Who bear'ft the Prince of life! Be all united

In praifes of your Chief; Ye dead and living, bleft and com. plaining!

None need in Death be henceforth remaining.

215.

Prud.

Y word alone was Light produc'd,

To fhew his Love furpaffing Thought: BY Ward,

Then let us all unite to fing

Praife to our new bota God and

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Hallelujah.

And all the other Creatures; For Man the Lord's near touch was

us'd,

T'impart his breath and features:

Why this twas from a profpect | 4. Jefu, who by thine own love flain

mild,

That once his Splendor undefil'd
He'd in this frame embody.
2 The curious Image was difgrac'd,
To death and frailty fliding:
Th'eternal Lover then made hafte,
And in fuch Tent refiding,
Took that fame clay which we had
marr'd,

And round his own Heart wrapt it
hard,

To fnatch it from all Damage. 3. Chrift is our Flesh: I can lay

claim

Both to his Death and Rifing.
View I him dead? I this can name
My competent chastifing:
And when he from the Tomb revives,
"Tis fixt that he as Man ftill lives,
And I as his Companion.

216.

Idem.

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By thine ownPow'r took'ft life again,

And Conqu'ror from the grave
didft rife:

O may thy Death our hearts revive,
And at our death a new Life give,

A glorious life that never dies.
5. Jefu, who to thy Heav'n again
Return'dft in triumph, there to reign

Of men and angels fov'reign King: O may our parting Souls take flight Up to that Land of joy and light,

And there for ever grateful fing. 6. All glory to the facred Three, One undivided Deity,

All honour, pow'r, and love, and
praise :
Still may thy bleffed Name fhine
bright

In beams of uncreated light,
Crown'd with its own eternal Rays

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When dying, I'll greet thee,

And reft from my labour:

To thee at last my Soul shall hafte.
I.

8. My Jefu's firft bleeding
Át his Circumcifion,
His earlieft Blood-fhedding,

9.

Did loudly petition,

And mercy free defir'd for me.
He's God come from Heaven;
But ev'n in our Nature,
Unto him is given

The Sway o'er each Creature: All Knees fhall bow 'fore JESUS low.

10. The name of the Saviour, As Prophets made mention, To me doth discover

His bloody Redemption;
Who Man was made ofDavid's Seed.
11. That name is most precious,
In Rofe-colour written,
So fweet's the Name Jesus,
It all things does sweeten :
But dreadful founds to all hell-
hounds.

12. The great Boys and younger
Thy first Wound hath gained;
The Young men in Honour
Here keep them unstained :
Without it,what's the Married State?
II.

13. So patient a Gard'ner

Who knows, and unwearied,
His Flowers to water?
His Blood he not spared;
But pours on that with dearest Sweat.
14. In Oliver's garden,

Before the Jews bound him,
Most heavily laden

I kneeling have found him, Wat'ring the Ground with Bloodfweat round.

15. With blood and fweat mingled, From all his whole Body,

His

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