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more pain.
Come and let him that heareth,

For the former things are paffed fay, come!
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Behold, I come quickly. I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the

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Amen! even fo, come Lord

JESUS!

The Grace of our Lord JESUS CHRIST be with us all!

SCRIPTURE HYMNS.

III.

Out of Pfalm i.

But all the Race was gone aftray,
All had forfook the faving Way
Of Chrift's bright Revelation.

OW bleft is he, who ne'er 3. How long will they be ignorant

1.HOW

confents

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By ill advice to walk Nor ftands in finners ways, nor fits Where men profanely talk.

2. But makes the living law of God His business and delight: Devoutly reads therein by day,

And meditates by night.

3. Like fome fair tree, which fed by fereams,

With timely Fruit does bend, He ftill fhall flourish, and fuccefs All his defigns attend.

I12.

Out of Pf. xiv.

Es (pricht der unweilen mund wohl,

Ain foolish boaft

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men abfurdly

Of God and true Religion;

Their faithlefs hearts are full of luft,

Their life's a contradiction: Corrupted is their very frame; God's holiness abhors the fame ; There's none doth good, but evil. 2. The Lord from his celeftial throne Look'd down on ev'ry creature, To find one Man who had begun To love God's holy nature;

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Of their abomination,
Who thus defpife my covenant,

Nor fpare my holy nation?
They never call upon the Lord,
But truft unto their golden hoard,

And turn their own defenders. 4. Yet are their hearts in conftant pain,

And fecret fear and trembling : God with his Sion will remain,

Where Saints are ftill affembling: But you deride the poor's advice, The greateft comfort you defpife,

That God's their only refuge. 5. O, that the joyful day would come, To change our mournful station, When God will bring his children home,

And finish our Salvation! Then fhall the tribes of Jacob fing, And Judah praise their Lord and King, With lafting Hallelujah's.

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2. His perfect Worship here is fix'd, | z. Direct me in thy Truth,

On fure foundations laid;
His equal laws are in the scales
Of truth and justice weigh'd.
3. My trufty counsellers they are,
And friendly warnings give:
Divine rewards attend on those

Who by thy precepts live.

4. But what frail man obferves how
He does tranfgrefs and fail? [oft
O cleanfe me from my fecret faults,
Thou God that know'ft them well.

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M'Lord,

Y Shepherd is the living

No thing therefore I need:
In pastures fair, near pleasant ftreams,
He fetteth me to feed.

2. He fhall convert and glad my foul,
And bring my mind in frame
To walk in paths of righteousness,
For his molt holy Name.

3. Yea, tho' I walk in vale of death,
Yet will I fear no ill :
Thy Rod and Staff do comfort me,
And thou art with me ftill.
4. Ev'n in the prefence of my foes,

My table thou fhalt spread,
Thou wilt fill full my cup, and thou
Anointed haft my head.

5. Thro' all my life thy favour is
So frankly fhew'd to me,
That in thy House for evermore
My dwelling-place fhall be.

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And teach me, I thee pray:
Thou art my Saviour and my God,
On thee I wait alway.

3. Remember not the Faults
And frailty of my youth;
Call not to mind, how ignorant
I have been of thy truth.

4.

Not after

my

deferts

Let me thy Mercy find:
But of thy own benignity,
Lord, have me in thy mind.
5. Thy mercy is full fweet,
Thy truth a perfect guide:
Thy Spirit, Lord will finners teach,
And fuch as go afide.
6. Now for thy holy Name,

O Lord, I thee intreat,
To grant me Pardon for

my

Sin

For it is very great.
7. Whofo doth reverence thee,
By thee he shall be kept,
To lead his life in fuch a way,

As thou doft best accept.
8. All thofe that thee respect,

Know thy fecret Intent;
And unto them thou doft declare
Thy Will and Teftament.
9. My eyes and thankful heart

To thee I will advance,
That pluck'd my feet out of the fnare
Of fin and ignorance.

10. Preferve and keep my Soul,

And ftill deliver me;
And let me not be overthrown,
Because I trust in thee.

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Why fhould I be difmay'd?

'Tis he defends my life, of whom

Then need I be afraid?

2. Hear

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117.

Out of Pf. xxxi.

Ear me, O Lord, and that right foon ;

To help me, make good speed; Be thou my Rock, and house of stone, My fence in time of need.

2. For why? as stone thy ftrength is try'd,

Thou art my Fort and tow'r : For thy name's fake be thou my guide, And lead me in thy pow'r. 3. Into thy hands, Lord, I commit My Soul, which is thy due: Because thou haft redeemed it, O Lord, my God most true. I loath fuch folk as will not part From things to be abhorr'd: When they on trifles fet their heart, My Truft is in the Lord.

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5. For I will in thy mercy joy, I fee it doth excel:

Thou feeft when ought would me

annoy,

And know'ft my foul full well.

6. Pluck thou my feet out of each fnare

Which hath for me been laid: Thou art my ftrength, and all my care Is for thy mighty Aid.

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118.

The fame.

In dich hab ich gehoffet Herr.

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Reat God, in thee I put my trust,

Preferve my Soul from being loft

In fhame and defolation;

Thy grace, O Lord, I will record,
To ev'ry generation.

2. Vouchsafe to lend a gracious ear,
When I to thee direct my pray`r;
Relieve thy helpless Creature;
From outward woes and fecret foes
Redeem my fallen nature.

3. Thy faving name is my defence, I feek and draw falvation thence; Thy Grace is my pavillion; Thou art the God, whofe very nod Can crush an hoftile million. 4. My rock, my refuge, and my tow'r! I reft upon thy mighty pow'r, And trust thy Revelation: In thy relief I drown my grief 'Bout Satan's machination. 5.Whate'er my fears and foes fuggeft, Thou art my hope, my joy, my rest, My boaft and fure protection; Within thy care, I boldly dare Th'whole world and hell's infection. 6. My fpirit I commit to thee, My Saviour, ne'er depart from me, But grant me thy falvation; From pangs of death, retake my breath

Into thy habitation.

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Hood, and on

'E's wife, who does what's

God's goodness does rely: Thus thy enjoyments he'll secure, Thy juft defires fupply.

2. Leave thy concerns to him, in firm Dependence on him live;

He'll either grant what thou wouldst have,

Or what is better give.

And fince he makes God's will his

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Hew pity, Lord! O Lord, for-
give,

Is not thy mercy still the same ?
Let a repenting Sinner live:
Pardon his guilt, who owns his shame.

3. Think not mere wealth makes Ifthou thy judgments fhouldft difplay,

happy men :

For what contents the Poor, Is better than bad men's ill got, Or ill employed Store.

4. God will the wicked's power,

tho' great,

In pieces furely break: But good men by his arm fhall be Upheld, tho' ne'er so weak.

5.

Their patient waiting and their
days

Of forrow God regards,
And with his promis'd happiness
Them and their Seed rewards.
6. In all my life I never yet

That lib'ral man could fee, Whofe alms reduc'd himself to want, Or race to beggary.

7. He mercifully lends, and thus
His feed a bleffing gain.
If thou would't fafely dwell, do good,
And from all fin refrain.

8. Mark well the righteous man, and him

That's upright in his ways; Mercy attends his happy life, And peace concludes his days. 9. Wife precepts he infils, men's

minds

To form, and manners guide:

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I die; and righteous is thy name.
But, O my God, thy judgments ftay;
For I confefs my fin and blame.

2.

I from the stock of Adam came; And my conception was unclean; My whole Original is fhame; My nature nothing else but fin. No bleeding bird, nor bleeding beaft, Nor running brook, nor flood, nor fea,

Nor hyffop-branch, nor fprinkling priest,

Can wash native ftain away.

my

3. O cleanse my heart, and chear my foul;

O chear me with forgiving love;
And make my broken fpirit whole,
And all my fin and fhame remove.
Let not thy Spirit quite depart;
Hide not thy love, hide not thy face.
O cleanfe again my vicious heart,
And fill it with thy faving grace.
4. The wicked will I teach thy ways;
And to confefs their Saviour bring;
And fhew the wonders of thy grace,
And teach them all thy praife to fing.
O gracious God! my heart infpire
With ev'ry movement of thy grace;
And touch my tongue with hallow'd

fire, To praise the Lord, my righteousness.

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2. O to my longing eyes once more That view of glorious pow'r reftore, Which thy majeftic Houfe difplays: Because to me thy wondrous Love Than life itself does dearer prove, My lips fhall always fpeak thy praise.

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AY God be gracious to us

3. My life, while I that life enjoy, Mhere,

In bleffing God I will employ,
With lifted hands adore his Name:
My foul's content fhall be as great,
As theirs who choiceft dainties eat,
While I with joy his praife proclaim
4. When down I lie fweet fleep to
find,

Thou, Lord, art prefent to my mind,
And when I wake in dead of Night.
ce Because thou ftill doft fuccour bring,
Beneath the fhadow of thy wing
I reft with fafety and delight.

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His Bleffing on us pour,
And may his countenance moft clear`

Shine on us evermore :
That we may know what is his will,
What glorifies his Name,
And that the Heathens foon may feel
Salvation in the Lamb,
And be brought o'er to him.

124.

Pf. lxxii.

ONE King fhall a bleft Sceptre

Gifts, beyond Solomon, receive,
That under his judicious care,
The People happily may live:
Then from the mountains peace hall
flow,
And plenty from the hills below.

2. The

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