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 OF THE 
 
 Vnited Freewill Baptist Church, 
 
 TOGETHER WITH 
 
 HYMNS 
 
 AND 
 
 SPIRITUAL SONGS, 
 
 FOR THE USB OF ITS MEMBERS. 
 
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 BY JOHN ELLIOTT AND SAMUEL STEVENS', 
 
 Elders and Preachers of the Connexion. 
 
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 THE FIRST EDITION. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: 
 PRINTED BY D. HEARTT. 
 
 1819. 
 
Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit: 
 
 |****$j BE IT REMEMBERED, That on 
 %4v\ ? ,ie fyit-4 ^ay °^ February, in the forty- 
 <$ £ thircl year of the Independence of the 
 
 J******* v : if * States of America, \. D. IS19, 
 Tohn Elliott and San.uel Stevens, of the 
 said district, have deposited in th.s office the title 
 of a book, the right whereof they claim as propri- 
 etors, in the words following, to wit: 
 
 The Discipline of the United Freewill Baptist 
 Church, together with Hymns and Spiritual 
 Songs, for the use of its members. By John 
 Elliott and Samuel Stevens, Elders and 
 Preachers of the connexion. The first edi- 
 tion. 
 In conformity to the act of the congress of the 
 united States, intituled " an act for the encourage- 
 ment of learning, by securing the copies of maps, 
 charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors 
 of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." 
 And also to the act, entitled " an act supplementa- 
 ry to an act entitled "an act for the encouragement 
 of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, 
 and books, to the authors and proprietors of such 
 copies during the times therein mentioned," and ex- 
 tending the benefits thereof to the arts of design- 
 ing, engraving, aud etching historical and other 
 prints.*' 
 
 D. CALDWELL, 
 Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 IT has been the desire of ne public a 
 long time to know what were the r> <ms 
 of John Elliott and myself, Samuel Stevens, 
 now elders and preachers of the Freewill 
 Baptist Society, for leaving or coming out 
 from the society of people called the Metho- 
 dist, which I, Samuel Stevens, shall state as 
 follows: In the year 1809, John Elliott an^ 
 myself and a number of young men belong* 
 ing to the society in New York, had formed 
 a number of prayer meetings, for the pur- 
 pose of doing good; in which, I believe, a 
 number of souls were converted to God and 
 changed from the error of their way, and who 
 had joined the society, and still attended these 
 prayer meetings. It was not long before the 
 duty of baptism was impressed on our irinds. 
 We had generally all been christened in our 
 infant days; but this we considered no bap- 
 tism, being not capable of receiving it as 
 converted believers. It then appeared plain 
 to us, from many passages of scripture, that 
 immersion was the only way to follow our 
 Lord to Jordan, and in the liquid grave to be 
 buried with our Lord and Master. Rom. ch. 
 vi. Application was first to be made to the 
 elders for this ordinance to be p rormed. 
 Brother John Elliott accordingly waited on 
 
the elder, and told him his desire, and stated 
 to him 'hat it was also the desire of many 
 more, but mentioned no names. The preacher 
 desirtd to know whether he had been chris- 
 tened; »e told him he had. The preacher 
 then replied, "I cannot baptize yon in the 
 way you wish;" he also gave him. a book, 
 desiring him to read it, and said, it would sa- 
 tisfy him, and requested him to call and see 
 hi' again. In tne mean time, sermon after 
 sermon was preached, pointed against bap- 
 tism by immersion. However, instead of put- 
 ting ;o silence those of us who believed in 
 this mode of baptism, it rather confirmed us 
 stronger in our belief of the duty of it, and 
 «dded more to the number, who never saw it 
 a duty before. So instead of growing weaker, 
 as they supposed, we grew stronger. The 
 preachers, seeing their craft in danger, finally 
 had to perform a solemn ordinance which 
 they did not believe in; and in order to show 
 their disapprobation of this ordinance, they 
 would get some to kneel down by the water 
 side; having done this, the preacher would 
 pour or spzinkle the water on them, saying, 
 at the same time, the people told them thus 
 to do. 
 
 To this unscriptural mode we could not 
 agree; nor could we agree to the unscriptu- 
 ral mode ot eating the Lord's supper at twelve 
 o'clock in the day, when it was delivered in 
 the evening alter supper; nor of admitting 
 unconverted people to the table knowingly. 
 Neither could we agree to the doctrine of 
 
three persons in one God, and one God in 
 three persons; which we consider as ii 
 sible for them to prove from the scriptures. 
 These, together with the confession of their 
 far h, and constraining peop'e to read men's 
 works instead of the scriptures, were to us 
 great grievances. 
 
 Biome Elliott, however, waited on the 
 preacher wiih the bupk he gave him to read 
 Tht p him how he sa 
 
 now; whether he was not convinced i.-f the. 
 impropriety of befog baptized? He replied 
 that he was not, and that he shoukl ieave ihe 
 church. The p old him not to leave 
 
 the church; that sooner than he thou! <1 leave 
 the church he would baptize him. Br ther 
 Elliott asked him if he was ever baptized 
 himself by immersion? He replied, that he 
 never had been. Then, said brother Elliott, 
 you do not b.lieve in it, and you shall never 
 baptize me. He then left the methooist 
 church. 
 
 Bi other Elliott then hired a house for the 
 purpose of holding public meetings in, and a 
 great Dumber attended his preaching; but it 
 ^vas not long befoie persecution arose ai^c-inst 
 him, by those he thought were his friends 
 before, but who he now found were his me3t- 
 est foes, for no other cruise than his leaving 
 the methodist church; and 1 myself was also 
 one of his enemies. What the methodists 
 said, I would have agreed to, had i been to 
 put him to the torture. 
 
 Bigotry and superstition took such full pos- 
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session of my heart, that I thought I should 
 have done God a service to have put him to 
 death. All the lies that could be invented 
 were told of him; and, like S;;ul of old, I 
 myself weut with a number more of brethren 
 to pull down the house he had taken to wor- 
 ship God in; and that we did not succeed was 
 not for the want of good will. Seeing this 
 pleased our leaders, we continued to fire the 
 red hot balls of persecution at him. We 
 thought if we could knock him down, we, as 
 methodists, should carry our point. 
 
 For five long years I was a methodist, of 
 the strictest sort; I used to fast oft; and I 
 believe had I been called to take up arms, I 
 would have ventured my life for the name of 
 a methodist in the field of battle. 
 
 But all this was but strong delusion to me. 
 Seeing thai all my efforts to bring back to the 
 methodist church brother Ellioit, I consider- 
 ed if he should die, he mus: be finally lost. 
 
 We would often meet together, and the 
 first thing which we would commence on 
 would be religion. After about the space of 
 twelve months, we begun to be more friendly 
 with each other; so that I would invite him 
 to those prayer meetings which I and a num- 
 ber more of my methodist brethren used to 
 attend, and he would oft, with my free con- 
 sent and desire, officiate in these meetings; 
 and I often attended brother Elliott to his 
 meetings, and used also to officiate in them. 
 The power of the Lord Jesus appeared to be 
 in th*se meetings; numbers were brought to 
 
the faith of the gospel, and a great number 
 did attend, so that the house was too small tc» 
 contain all the people. 
 
 But the devil, who never sleeps, but, as 
 our Lord has told us, goeth about as a roar- 
 ing lion, seeking whom he may devour, was 
 determined to wage war with us. This he 
 effected by entering into the hearts of num- 
 bers of the leading characters. They all be- 
 gan and with one voice said, that these meet- 
 ings should be stopped, or that I should leave 
 the society. To which I replied, to stop the 
 meetings I should not consent, but to leave 
 the society, if they were determined to bring 
 me into bondage, I would leave the church 
 willingly. But to this they did not seem to 
 agree. A number came to talk with me on 
 the subject of my leaving the church; to 
 which I said, that Christ had made me free, 
 and that I would not be brought into bondage 
 again. But to leave the church I could hardly 
 bear the thoughts, for there was not one that 
 I could join. The baptists hold the doctrine 
 of unconditional election and reprobation; to 
 these I could not agree. I at last made up 
 my mind to leave the methodist church, to 
 join no other, but to stand alone, and continue 
 my exhortations to sinners. 
 
 After about six months the methodist 
 church summoned me to appear before them, 
 to be tried for a breach of their discipline. I 
 told them, that I should never attend their 
 church tribunal. They then gave me the 
 liberty of withdrawing from the society; for 
 
which I thanked them, and told them that I 
 was read into their meeting, and thai if they 
 saw fit they mi:<ht read me out again; which 
 accordingly they did, in the next love feast 
 meeting, for the cause of holding those meet- 
 ings. 
 
 I must confess I felt somewhat distress- 
 ed in my mind to think that I was now thrown 
 upon the wide world, without any society that 
 I could see myself clear to join. I was at 
 this time about nineteen years of age. But, 
 however, I looked up to the Lord for his 
 grace, which I found was all sufficient for me 
 in every trying hoiir.^ Brother Elliott and 
 myself still continued our meetings, and the 
 Lord seemed still to pour forth his power 
 Upon the people. A number of the metho- 
 dist members used also to attend with us, and 
 to express great joy; but their leaders told 
 then, that if they continued to attend these 
 meetings they would turn them out of the 
 chinch. 
 
 They accordingly did turn out a number 
 of pious godly people, who thought it no 
 crime to go where they found the Lord. 
 Their preachers would give out from the pul- 
 pit for the members to take notice, that if 
 any of them should be caught going to Elliott 
 »nd Stevens's meeting, they should be turned 
 out of their society. But this did not avail 
 them any thinir, as the people were possessed 
 of too much of the republican spirit to be 
 thus tyrannized over by their bigoted leaders. 
 
 Being thus situated, and as there was no 
 
society for us to join, we then thought it pru- 
 dent to form a separate society, the number 
 being about twelve, which we ccordingly 
 did, under the name of the United Freewill 
 Baptist Church. The people chose John 
 Elliott and myself to be their preachers, and 
 we accordingly were both baptized by im- 
 mersion, by one who believed in these ordi- 
 nances and was baptized himself, as we be- 
 lieve. Our meeting continued to grow, and 
 numbers were added to the church. We 
 had no masters by which we were governed, 
 but one who was Christ our God. If any- 
 one walked disorderly, we each would exhort 
 him; if he repented, well; if not, we cast him 
 from among us. 
 
 Love and harmony prevailed among- us, 
 so that the wicked used to call us [he social 
 twenty, or the happy few. Every one that 
 felt thei»r duty went forward and performed 
 it. But as neither of us were orda ncu, we 
 felt backward in performing t ; ios. tnings 
 which fell to our lot. But how to iiet these 
 performed we did not know. The members 
 being near now one hundred, some began to 
 complain; until at length we made our wants 
 known to God by prayer, and the Lord sent 
 one fatherly old man, who had been a pres- 
 byteriun clergyman in Scotland, by the name 
 of John Hanning, who joined the church; r.nd 
 agreeable to the consent of the church we 
 were both ordained to preach the gospel. 
 The academy we preacher in was large and 
 was filled wiih a very respectable audience 3 
 
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 and the Work of the Lord went on power- 
 fully among us. 
 
 It has been said by some, that we denied 
 the divinity of our Lord and Saviour, and say 
 that he is only a good man; that the wicked 
 will rise to judgment, and then are to be 
 burned up; and that this society is in full 
 eennexion with that society of people known 
 by the name of the Christian Society. Now 
 to the first objection I answer, that ever since 
 we were preachers we always believed, and 
 do now believe, that Christ is the eternal 
 God made manifest in a human form, and 
 that there is no scripture to prove the being 
 of three persons in one God, as the Trinita* 
 rians say, and that there are mor*e than one 
 hundred and forty passages of sacred writ, to 
 prove - : m *he very God, and besides him no 
 ohe.. As to <he objection, that the wicked 
 will rise and then b? finally destroyed, we 
 never preached 0* harboured such a belief. 
 And as to this society being in connexion 
 with the christian society, and their princi- 
 ples, I now boldly assert we never were. 
 
 I now proceed to mention the rise of the 
 branches of this society, in the state of Rhode* 
 Island, where myself and brother Elliott, 
 through the blessing of God, were in tru~ 
 mental in raising two branches. After we left 
 the city of New- York, we proceeded to 
 Rhode-Island, where we preached and la- 
 boured fo- fifteen mohtfia during which time 
 brother John Elliott baptized < ^reat number; 
 and as a society of people met with much 
 
• opposition from every carnal professor and 
 wicked person. But the Lord carried on his 
 own work in spite of men and devils; and in 
 that part we ordained three preachers to 
 preach the gospel where their lots might be 
 cast. We then left that part, and came back 
 to New- York, and from thence to the city of 
 Philadelphia, in November, 1814. And after 
 preaching several times, and a number wish- 
 ing to join themselves in a body under the 
 name of the United Freewill Baptist Society, 
 this was accordingly done on the 3 1 st of De- 
 cember, 1814; where it has been growing 
 more or less ever since, though not without 
 much opposition and great persecution. Buc 
 amidst all the floods of opposition, the Lord 
 lias stood by us, and his grace has been all 
 sufficient. Our wicked hypocritical foes think 
 themselves secreted; but known unto us are 
 all their secret plots, and it is our determina 
 tion, at some future time, to mention their 
 names and their conduct. 
 
 We have, through the blessing of God and 
 the kind aid of the citizens, been enabled to 
 erect a house for the worship of God, in 
 Queeu-street, betweenFifth andSixth streets, 
 where the society now meets. In this meet- 
 ing house seats are all free, and we invite all 
 our fellow-citizens to worship the Lord there, 
 A branch of this society has also raised a 
 house for the worship of God in Frankford, 
 where they meet with much opposition; but 
 they have the same Clod to assist them. 
 We have no creed among us, nor do we 
 
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 force any person to believe as we do; but let 
 every one believe and act, as far as he can, 
 according to the holy scriptures. We bind 
 no person's conscience as to baptism; if any 
 person never has been baptized by immer- 
 sion, and is satisfied in his mind, we say he can 
 become a full member of the church. We 
 hold an open and free communion with all 
 good christians, who are in good standing 
 with other churches. We mean to be as li- 
 beral as the gospel is free; and hope that 
 every person into whose hands this may fall, 
 will give it a candid reading and lay aside 
 prejudice. We pray for all Christians, and 
 for their prosperity; and that the whole world 
 may come to the knowledge of the truth as 
 it is in Christ our God, and that his mantle 
 of love may be spread over the whole human 
 family of mankind. 
 
 The society have thought proper to form 
 among themselves a Benevolent Society, to 
 assist the members of this church who are 
 in need, or to put them into business, that 
 they may make a comfortable living for them- 
 selves. But the money borrowed from this 
 society for the above purposes cannot remain 
 in the hands of the borrower longer at a time 
 than three years, at six per cent, the borrow- 
 er giving a mortgage on his real or personal 
 property to double the amount of the money 
 borrowed. The members of the society to 
 pay in monthly to the funds. 
 
 The officers of this society are to receive 
 no compensation for their trouble; and are 
 
to consist of one president, one secretary, 
 and one treasurer, who shall meet monthly 
 to regulate the business with the society. 
 But their officers shall not be accountable for 
 any loss that the society may sustain by the 
 non-payment of the money borrowed. The 
 officers of this society are to be balk>ted for 
 by the members of said society, and hold 
 their office for twelve months. 
 
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 New-York, 12{h June, 1811. 
 These presents certify, that the elder, John Elli- 
 ott, was ordained elder in the United Freewill Bap- 
 tist society of this city, on Sabbath, the 9th instant; 
 and was by the elder, deacons and trustees, in the 
 presence of said society and a respectable audito- 
 ry, installed accordingly. 
 
 Given by order of said society, and attested 
 by us, day and. date above mentioned. 
 
 John Harming, \ 
 
 c i di > Elders. 
 
 Samuel Stevens, J 
 
 Khenr. Whiting, 1 
 
 Stickler Hvmes, I Deacons. 
 
 Pulef Duryea, J 
 
 William Cornwell,^} 
 
 David Waotaiu, ! ^ 
 
 James M/Smith, r* Trustee5 < 
 
 William Hyatt, J 
 
 North Providence, June 1~, 1814. 
 To whom it may concern, at a meeting held this 
 day, at the house of Goliah Williams, we the sub- 
 scribers do hereby certify, that elder John Elliott 
 has pieached among- us about eighteen months, 
 and we do greatly approve of his conduct in all 
 his walk, talk and conversation; and as he is about 
 to leave us we dismiss him with hopes that God 
 will bless him on his journey home, and safely 
 guide and protect him, and hasten his return. He 
 has assisted in raising a society in this place in the 
 name of the United Freewill Baptists; for which 
 we thank kind heaven, arid for the doctrine which 
 he preaches. 
 
 James W . AneilL l r ., 
 
 o ■ o. ° y Elders. 
 
 aamuel atevens, J 
 
 Goliah Williams, 1 i 
 
 t i a -ii r Deacon? 
 
 Joseph AugiH, 
 
District of Southwark, January 5, 1819. 
 We. the subscribers, inhabitants of the district 
 of Southwark, in the county of Pniladeiphia, and 
 commonwealth of Pennsylvania, certify, that we 
 have known elder John Elliott for between two and 
 three years last past; that his character has during 
 that time been fair and exemplary; that for two 
 years last past he has been minister of the United 
 Freewill Baptist church of the aforesaid district of 
 Southwark, of which church we arc members; that 
 during the time we were perfectly satisfied with 
 his conduct; that he fully discharged the duties 
 of his pastoral office, at all times showing himself 
 to be an active and zealous supporter of the holy 
 religion which he professes. 
 
 Samuel Stevens, 
 James Wiatt, 
 William Thompson, 
 Joseph Shaw, 
 
 i New- York, June 12, 1811. 
 
 These presents certify, that elder Samuel Ste- 
 vens was ordained pastor in the United Freewill 
 Baptist Society of this city, on Sabbath, the 9th 
 instant, and was by the aider, deacons, and trustees, 
 In the presence of said society, and a respectable 
 auditory, installed accordingly. 
 
 Given by order of said society, and attested 
 by us, day and date above mentioned. 
 
 John Haiutine, ") ,< 
 
 > aiders. 
 
 > Deacons. 
 
 John Elliott, 
 Ebcnezer Whiting, 
 Stickely Hymes, 
 Rulef Duryea, 
 William Cornwell, j 
 David Wagain, ^Trustees, 
 
 James M. Smith, 
 William Hyatt, 
 
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 North Providence, June 17, 1814-. 
 To whom it may concern. At a meeting held this 
 day, at the house of Goliah Williams, we the sub- 
 scribers do hereby certify, that elder Samuel Ste- 
 vens has preached among us about eighteen months, 
 and we do greatly approve of his conduct in all his 
 walk, talk and conversation; and as he is about to 
 leave us, we dism.ss him with hopes that God will 
 bless him on his juurney home, and safely guide 
 and protect him, and hasten his return. He has 
 assisted in raising a society in this place, in the 
 name of the United Freewill Baptists; for which we 
 thank kind heaven, and for the doctrine which he 
 preaches. 
 
 James W. Angill, "| 
 
 John Elliott, j Elders ' 
 
 Goliah Williams, 
 
 Joseph Angill, 
 
 j. Deacons. 
 
 District of South wark, January 5, 1819. 
 W e, the subscribers, inhabitants of the district 
 of South wark, in the county of Philadelphia, and 
 commonwealth of Pennsylvania, certify, that we 
 have Known elder Samuel Stevens for between two 
 and three years last past; that his character dur- 
 ing that time has been fair and exemplary; that for 
 two years last past he has been minister of the 
 United Freewill Baptist Church of the aforesaid 
 district of Southwark, of which church we are 
 members; that during that time we were perfectly 
 satisfied with his conduct; that he fully discharged 
 the dut es of his pastoral office, and at all times 
 showing himselt to be an active and zealous sup- 
 porter of the holy religion which he professes. 
 John Eilioit, 
 James Hiatt, 
 William Thompson, 
 Joseph Shaw, 
 
TU\\es ani llfesnilatioiis 
 
 OF THE 
 
 United Freewill Baptist Society. 
 
 Article 1. We profess and resolve, 
 through the grace of God, to follow our 
 Lord and Master through an evil as well 
 as a good report, and beiieve his good spi- 
 rit is in all his humble followers, to lead 
 them in all truth. " That was the true light, 
 that lighteth every man that cometh into the 
 world. He was in the world, and the world 
 knew him not." John i. 9, 10. 
 
 Art. 2. Any person wishing to join the 
 society shall be desired to forsake the fash- 
 ions of this vain life, and through the grace 
 of God to take up their cross and follow our 
 Lord and Master through an evil as weli as 
 a good report. 
 
 Art. 3. In order to show our love and 
 fellowship one to another, the members 
 shall meet together once a week. In this 
 meeting there snail be full liberty given to 
 the members to speak, sing, or pray, each 
 to speak one by one. In this meeting also 
 there mav be liberty given at the close foi* 
 
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 members to join the church, as the elders 
 may think proper. 
 
 Art. 4. The ordinance of baptism by 
 immersion is to be administered to all per- 
 sons on becoming members of this society. 
 They are not however to be constrained to 
 it, should their consciences lead them to 
 think it not an immediate duty; but should 
 they at any time think it a duty, then they 
 are to be baptized. 
 
 Infams shall not be sprinkled among us, 
 but may be brought forward publicly to the 
 elder, who shall lay his hands on them and 
 call their names out in public. Their names 
 and ages shall then be registered in the 
 church books for their benefit. " Then were 
 there brought unto him little children, that 
 he should put his hands on them, and pray: 
 and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus 
 said, suffer little children, and forbid them 
 not to come unto me: for of such is the 
 kingdom of heaven. And he laid his hands 
 on them, and departed thence." Matt. xix. 
 13, 14, 15. 
 
 Art. 5. The Lord's supper shall be ad- 
 ministered once a month among us. It shall 
 be done in the evening after preaching. The 
 members may sit around the table; but if 
 their conscience leads them to kneel, they 
 are at liberty so to do. All who have an- 
 swered their minds to the Lord, as far as 
 respects baptism by immersion, and every 
 other ordinance which they have felt it their 
 duty to perform; and who have also fc 
 
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 their brethren and sisters their trespasses 
 against them; the elder shall invite lo the 
 table of the Lord. « And now abided) faith, 
 hope, and charity, these three; but the great- 
 est of these is charity." 1 Cor. xiii. 13. " For 
 by one spirit are we all baptized into one 
 body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whe- 
 ther we be bond or free; and iiave been all 
 made to drink, into one spirit. For the body is 
 not one member, but many." 1 Cor. xii. 13, 
 14. "But now, in Christ Jesus* ye, who 
 sometimes were far off, are made nigh by 
 the blood of Chriht. For he is our peace, 
 who hath made both one, and hath broken 
 down the middle wali of partition between 
 us; having abolished in his tlesh the enmity, 
 even the law of commandments contained 
 in ordinances: for to make in himself of 
 twain one new man, so making peace; and 
 that he might reconcile both unto God in 
 one body by the cioss, having slain the en- 
 mity thereby: and came and preached peace 
 to you which were afar off', and to them that 
 were nigh. For through him we both have 
 access by one spirit unto the Father. Now 
 therefore ye are no more strange >s and fo- 
 reigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, 
 and oi'the houshold of God.* s £ph, ii. 13-- 19. 
 Art. 6. The whole body of members shall 
 meet together once in three months, in each 
 district. Each member shall have a permit 
 from the elders, which permit shall admit 
 him or her into this meeting. The elder 
 shall have power to admit into this meeting 
 
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 any decent person for three times. Our love 
 feast shall be thus: when the children of God 
 meet together, the elder shall open with 
 singing and praying, the bread and water 
 shall pass among them, which shall be a 
 token of their love to God and their brethren 
 in the Lord. The elder shall then give li- 
 berty to each individual to speak of the deal- 
 ings of God to them. The meeting shall 
 last two hours, and no longer, if possible. 
 " And they, continuing daily with one accord 
 in the temple, and breaking bread from house 
 to house, did eat their meal with gladness 
 and singleness of heart." Acts ii. 46. 
 
 Art. 7. The members of this society, 
 both male and female, shall have the liberty 
 of freeing their minds to the public, before 
 or after preaching; but this liberty shall only 
 extend to the members of this society. The 
 elder shall give liberty to the sisters to have 
 their prayer meetings by themselves, if they 
 think proper. In all our prayer meetings 
 this rule shall be observed among us. No 
 particular brother or sister shall be singled 
 out to speak in any of our meetings, as this 
 would have a bad tendency, and bring death 
 and coldness into the church; but they shall 
 rise as God may give them ability to speak 
 in his name. 
 
 Art. 8. No preacher shall be ordained 
 among us until he be first baptized by im- 
 mersion; nor shall a deacon be ordained un- 
 til he has performed the same duty to God- 
 nor shall any one be allowed to hold an office 
 
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 in this society until he has been baptized by 
 immersion. 
 
 Art. 9. No man having two wives, nor 
 any woman having two husbands, shall be 
 allowed to join this society, though they 
 may have a bill of divorcement previous to 
 their offering themselves to the society, un- 
 less they forsake the company of the last 
 one. u And he saith unto them, whosoever 
 shall put away his wife, and marry another, 
 com uitteth adultery against her. And if 
 a wom3n shall put away her husband, and be 
 married to another, she committeth adulte- 
 ry." Mark x. 11, 12. 
 
 Art. 10. It is enjoined upon every mem- 
 ber, being the head or having the charge of 
 a family, that they shaii read the holy scrip- 
 tures and pray in their respective families 
 morning and evening. Secret prayer is like- 
 wise enjoined on each member. Matt. vi. 6. 
 
 Art. 11. Particular care shall be taken 
 of the poor of the society, that they do not 
 want the necessaries of life, it any are in 
 want, they shall apply to the deacons of the 
 church, who shall report tnem, and shall ap- 
 ply immediate relief to their necessities. 
 
 Art. 12. Every preacher who has left all 
 for the gospel's sake, shali be supported by 
 the church. They shall not have too much, 
 nor yet too little, but a decent support from 
 the church. 
 
 Art. 13. It is desired that all the mem- 
 bers live in the habit of plainness in their 
 dress, in the habit of cleanness in their waik, 
 
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 talk and conversation: that they be like a 
 light in a dark and a benighted land. 1 Pet. 
 iii. 2—13. 
 
 Art. 14. All differences and disputes that 
 may fall out among us, shall be settled by 
 impartial judges, free of any expenses what- 
 ever. Brother must not go to law with bro- 
 ther. Any contentious member, refusing to 
 abide by this rule, and who shall put his bro- 
 ther or sister to an unnecessary expense by 
 going to law before an unbeliever, shall be 
 expelled from the society. 1 Cor. ch. vi. 
 
 Art. 15. Any member among us who is 
 dissatisfied in the church, and wishing to join 
 elsewhere, the church seeing fit, the elder 
 shall give such a one a letter of dismission 
 from the church. All disorderly persons 
 among us shall have the liberty of request- 
 ing a church trial, which liberty shall be 
 granted them. Any member dissatisfied 
 with their church trial, may apply to the 
 quarterly or yearly conference for redress, 
 and shall then have a hearing. No member 
 shall be cut off from among us until all 
 proper means shall have been tried for his 
 or her recovery. All who are disowned shall 
 be disowned in the love feast meetings. 
 
 Art. 16. No member shall buy, sell, or 
 hold a slave. 
 
 Art. 1 7. Swearing of every kind, in courts 
 or elsewhere, is disallowed by us as a soci- 
 ety. " Swear not at all; neither by heaven-, 
 f')r it is God's throne; nor by the earth; for 
 it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for 
 
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 it is the city of the great king. Neither 
 shalt thou swear by thy head, for thou canst 
 not make one hair white or black." Matt. 
 v. 34, 35, 36; James v. 12. 
 
 Art. 18. All vain and unprofitable exer- 
 cises or amusement, such as balls, plays, 
 shows, cards, dice; all manner of gaming, 
 drinking liquor to an excess, singing carnal 
 songs, reading unchaste, unprofitable books; 
 all backbiting, speaking evil one of another, 
 lying, envying one another, is disallowed by 
 us as a society. " And thus shall all men 
 know u.at ye are the disciples of Christ if 
 ye have love one toward another." 
 
 Art. 19. The members shall not busy 
 themselves with politics, or in bribing peo- 
 ple to vote at elections; that is, they can give 
 in their votes as they shall see lit, only let it 
 be done in a way that becomes a follower of 
 that holy and meek Saviour, and that the 
 world may see that this is not our homefbut 
 that we are seeking a country out of sight, 
 whose founder and builder is the living God. 
 Art. 20. The sabbath day, commonly 
 called Sunday, shall be reverenced and kept 
 holy, by attending on public worship. No 
 servile work shall be done on that day; and 
 when possible, victuals shall be cooked the 
 day before. 
 
 Art. 21. Any member who has been ex- 
 pelled from the church, or has withdrawn 
 from the church, and wishing to return, shall 
 make it known to the elder; who shall 
 notice [>-• i aQ ^ embers to meet, three 
 
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 months from the time of application being 
 made; when the returning person must at- 
 tend. The elder shall then call the person's 
 name out, and shall ask if there is any ob- 
 jection, why the person shall not be received 
 on six months probation. If there is any 
 objection, it shall be made in this meeting, 
 and it shall be left to the members to deter- 
 mine whether they shall be received or not. 
 Art. 22 The order of the deacons of this 
 society shall continue thus: " And in those 
 days, when the number of the disci;. I "s was 
 multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the 
 Grecians against the Hebrews, because their 
 widows were neglected in the daily minis- 
 tration. Then the twelve called the multi- 
 tude of the disciples unto them, and said, it 
 is not reason that we should leave the word 
 of God, and serve tables. Wherefore, bre- 
 thren, look ye out among you, seven men 
 of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and 
 wisdom, whom we may appoint over this 
 business. But we will give ourselves conti 
 nuaily to prayer, and to the ministry of the 
 word. And the saying pleased the whole 
 multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man 
 full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Phi- 
 lip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, 
 and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of 
 Antioch; whom they set before the apostles: 
 and when they had prayed, they laid their 
 hands on them." Acts vi. 1-— 6. Likewise 
 must the deacons be grave, not double- 
 
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 dy of filthy lucre, holding the mystery of 
 tr^e faith in a- pure conscience. And let those 
 also first be proved; then let them use the 
 office of a deacon, being found blameless, 
 Even so must their wives be grave, not slan- 
 derous, sober, faithful in all things. Let the 
 deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling 
 their children and their own houses well. 
 For they that have used the office of a dea- 
 con well, purchase to themselves a good de- 
 gree, and great boldness in the faith, which 
 is in Christ Jesus." I Tim. iii. 8 — 13. The 
 business of the deacons is to visit the sick, 
 to attend to the tables of the Lord, to take 
 the charge of all the money of the church, 
 to attend to all the public meetings, to visit 
 all disorderly members, to exhort and re- 
 prove with all long suffering, to report all 
 disorderly' members to the elder, regularly 
 to attend to the quarterly meetings of the 
 Church business, to receive all the members' 
 monthly donations; to report to the mem- 
 bers, once every three months, what they 
 have received, what they have expended, 
 and how much is in the funds; strictly to vi- 
 sit the sick members, to pray with them, to 
 see they do not want the necessary articles 
 of life; to give licenses for interments in the 
 burying ground, for members and strangers, 
 to receive all money for the interments, 
 strangers to pay all expenses of the same; 
 to keep a book for the names of those inter- 
 red, and time of interments; strictly to at- 
 tend to the quarterly and veariy conferences, 
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 to report the names of all orderly as well 
 as disorderly members; how many have been 
 expelled from society, what were their 
 crimes; of all returning members that are 
 on probation; to have full powers to preach 
 the gospel when time and opportunity may 
 serve; to fill up the elder's place when he 
 is absent, that is, to preach, to baptize, to ad- 
 minister the Lord's supper, to administer 
 matrimony; to be punctual at all meetings 
 of the eiders, to see that the members live 
 in the habits of love, and to see that none 
 walk out of the way. 
 
 Art. 23. The form of solemnizing ma- 
 trimony. 
 
 At the day and time appointed for solem- 
 nizing matrimony, the persons to be marri- 
 ed, standing together, the man on the right 
 hand and the woman on the left, the minis- 
 ter shall say: 
 
 Dearly beloved, we are gathered together 
 here, in the sight of God, and in the pre- 
 sence of these witnesses, to join together 
 this man and this woman in holy matrimo- 
 ny: which is an honourable estate, institut- 
 ed of God in the time of man's irinocency, 
 signifying unto us the mystical union that 
 is betwixt Christ and his church; which 
 holy estate Christ adorned and beautified 
 with his presence, and the first miracle that 
 he wrought in Cana of Gallilee; and is com- 
 mended of St. Paul to be honourable among 
 all men; and therefore is not by any to be 
 cnterprised, or taken in hand unadvisedly, 
 
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 but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, and in* 
 the f<>ar of God. Into which holy estate 
 those two persons pi iow to be 
 
 joined. Therefore rf any w any just 
 
 cause why they may not law < joined 
 
 together, let him now speak, or els hereaf- 
 ter forever hold his peace. And also, speak- 
 ing unto the persons that are to be married, 
 he shall say: I require and charge you both, 
 as you will answer at the dreadful day of 
 judgment, when the secrets of all nearts 
 shall be disclosed, that if eiiher of you know 
 any impediment why you may not be law- 
 fully joined together in matrimony, you do 
 now concessit. For be ye well assured, that 
 so many as are coupled together otherwise 
 than God's word doth allow, are not joined 
 together by God, neither is their marriage 
 lawful. 
 
 If ro imp ^iiment be alleged, then shall 
 the minister say unto the man: 
 
 M. wilt thou have this woman to thy wed- 
 ded wife, to live together after God's ordi- 
 nance, in the holy estate of matrimony? 
 Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour 
 and keep her, in sickness and in health; 
 and forsaking all others keep thee only unto 
 her, so long as ye both shall live? 
 
 The man shall answer, I will. 
 
 Then shall the minister say unto the wo- 
 man, 
 
 N. wilt thou have this man to thy wed- 
 ded husband; to live together after God's or- 
 dinance, in the holy estate of matrimony? 
 
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 "Wilt thou obey him, serve him, love, honour 
 and keep him, in sickness and in health; and 
 forsaking all others, keep thee only unto 
 him, so long as ye both shall live? 
 
 The woman shall answer, I will. 
 
 Then the minister shall cause the man 
 with his right hand to take the woman by 
 her right hand, and to say after him as fol- 
 lowed: 
 
 I, M., take thee N., to be my wedded 
 wife, to have and to hold, from this day for- 
 ward, for better or for worse, for richer or 
 for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love 
 and to cherish, till death us do part, accord- 
 ing to God's holy ordinance; and therefore 
 I plight thee my faith. 
 
 Then shall they lose their hands, and the 
 woman with her right hand, taking the man 
 by his right hand, shall likewise say after 
 the minister, 
 
 I, N., take thee, M., to be my wedded 
 husband, to have and to hold, from this day 
 forward, for better or for worse, for richer 
 or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to 
 love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do 
 part, according to God's holy ordinance; and 
 thereto I give thee my faith. 
 
 Then, shall the minister say, let us pray. 
 
 O eternal God, creator and preserver of 
 all mankind, giver of all spiritual grace, the 
 author of everlasting life; send thy blessing 
 upon these thy servants, this man and this 
 woman, wnom we bkss in t! \y name, that as 
 Isaac and Rebecca lived faithfully together, 
 
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 so these persons may surely perform and 
 keep the vow and covenant betwixt them 
 made, and may ever remain in perfect love 
 and peace together, and live according to thy 
 laws, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Then shall the minister join their right 
 hands together, and say: 
 
 Those whom God hath joined together, 
 let no man put asunder. 
 
 Forasmuch as M. and N. have consented 
 together in holy wedlock, and have witness- 
 ed the same before God and this company, 
 and thereto have pledged their faith either 
 to the other, and have declared the same by 
 joining of hands; I pronounce that they are 
 man and wife together, in the name of the 
 Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
 Ghost. Amen. 
 
 Then the minister shall say, 
 
 Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed 
 be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will 
 be done on earth as it is in heaven: Give us 
 this day our daily bread; and forgive us our 
 trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass 
 against us: And suffer us not to be led into 
 temptation; but deliver us fr,om evil. Amen. 
 
 Then shall the minister say, 
 
 O God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God 
 of Jacob, bless this man and this woman, 
 and sow the seed of eternal life in fcbeir 
 hearts, that whatsoever in thy holy word 
 they shall properly learn they may indeed 
 fulfil the same. Look, O Lord, mercifully 
 upon them from heaven, and bless thein. 
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 And as thou didst send thy blessing upon 
 Abraham and Sarah> to their great comfort; 
 so vouchsafe to send thy blessing upon this 
 man and this woman; that tney obeying thy 
 will, and always being m safety \\n lev thy 
 protection, may abide in thy love unto their 
 lives end, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 Amen. 
 
 O God, who by thy mighty power hast 
 made all things of nothing, who also, after 
 other things set in order, didst appoint that 
 out of man, created after thine own image 
 and similitude, woman should take her be- 
 ginning; and knitting them together didst 
 teach that it should never be lawful to put 
 asunder those whom thou by matrimony 
 hadst made one: O God, who hast conse- 
 crated the state of matrimony to such an 
 excellent mystery, that in it is signified and 
 represented the spiritual marriage and unity 
 betwixt Christ and his church; look merci- 
 fully upon this man and this woman, that 
 both this man may love his wife, according 
 to thy word, as Christ did love his spouse 
 the church, who gave himself for it, loving 
 and cherishing it even as his own flesh; and 
 also that this woman may be loving and ami- 
 able, faithful and obedient to her husband; 
 and in all quietness, sobriety, and peace, be 
 a follower of holy and godly matrons. O 
 Lord, bless them both, and grant them to 
 inherit thy everlasting kingdom, through 
 Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Then shall the minister say, 
 
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 Almighty God, who at the beginning did 
 create our &f3t parents, Adam and Eve, and 
 did sanctify and join theiw together in mar- 
 riage; pour upon you the riches of his grace, 
 Sanctify and bless you, that ye may please 
 him both in body and soul, and live together 
 in holy love unto your lives end. Amen. 
 
 Art. 24. No one single elder or preacher 
 among us shall have the power to ordain any 
 preacher in the connexion, or any deacon: 
 it must he done by two or three preachers, 
 who are regularly ordained preachers of this 
 connexion, at the yearly meeting, where the 
 application being made known, the ordinance 
 shall be then and there performed. The 
 preachers present may sign the certificate 
 of their ordination. 
 
 Art. 2.5. No deacon in any branch among 
 us shall have the power, when the resident 
 elder is present, of calling any church meet- 
 ing for any business, without first consulting 
 the elder of that branch and having his con- 
 sent. 
 
 Any meeting of business may be appoint- 
 ed, if he shall consider it necessary, before 
 the quarterly meeting commence. 
 
 Art. 26. Tne persons chosen to the office 
 of deacons shall remain for one year, and if 
 approved of by the elder and the church, 
 shall then be ordained for one year more; 
 when they may be reelected or others chosen 
 in their place. The election shall only be 
 confined to the branch to which they belong. 
 Alj members, both male and female, bap- 
 
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 tized and unbaptized, shall have full power 
 to vote for or against them, and the majority 
 shall carry. Any charge that may be alleged 
 agaipst either of the deacons, shall be sup- 
 parted by five regular baptist members of 
 the said branch, who shall report to the elder; 
 the elder seeing fit, shall call a church meet- 
 ing, when himself and other elders with con- 
 sent shall give him or them a fair church 
 trial. If found guilty of the charges, they 
 shall be broke of their office, and be liable to 
 be expelled from the society. They shall 
 have the liberty of appealing to the quarterly 
 or yearly conference for redress. The de- 
 cision of the yearly conference shall be final. 
 
 Art. 27. Any addition that may be thought 
 proper, may be put to these rules at the yearly 
 meeting, and at no other time. 
 
 Art. 38. Whenever the number of twelve 
 persons may be gathered together in a body, 
 and wishing to join the church and come un- 
 der its rules and agreements, shall appoint a 
 person to report them to the quarterly or 
 yearly conference. They may be received 
 in full connexion with this church. The 
 branch seeing fit, may continue their preach- 
 ers agreeable to his consent; but must apply 
 for ordination to the yearly conference. 
 
 Art. 29. No deacon among us shall have 
 power to call, or cause, or suffer any stran- 
 ger or unbaptized preacher to preach in any 
 of the society's meeting houses, or mem- 
 ber's houses. Any deacon who shall be guilty 
 of a breach of this article shall be liable to 
 
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 be removed from their office. No preacher 
 slull pre o a:no .g us, until he be first bap- 
 tized by . immersion, and strictly believes in 
 the ordinance by immersion. 
 
 Art. 30. No deacon shall receive any pay- 
 or compensation for performing the duties oi 
 their office. 
 
 Art. 31. Any member who shall open 
 their houses for any strange preacher to 
 preach In them, or to encourage any schism 
 or division by opening their doors to receive 
 the like characters, shall be liable to be expel- 
 led from the society, and never be suffered to 
 join it any more. 
 
 Art. 3 2. All meeting houses or burying 
 grounds that may hereafter be built or pur- 
 chased, and ground bought or taken or 
 ground rent, or given to the church, the 
 deeds for the same shall be drawn in the 
 name of the United Freewill Baptist Society, 
 and the said meeting houses always to conti- 
 nue to be buiit in the name of the said soci- 
 ety, arid to be held as the property of the 
 said society in general for the use of all its 
 ordained eluers. 
 
 Art. 33. No meeting house shall be built 
 for the United Freewill Baptist Society with- 
 out the consent of the yearly conference. 
 
 Art. 34. All meeting houses or property 
 that may have been built, or shall hereafter 
 be built or bought under the name of the 
 United Freewill Baptist Societj , shall oe con- 
 sidered the lawful and real property of the 
 sidd society in general. 
 
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 Art. 35. The form of ordaining an ekler. 
 Aft a; 1 the sermon is preached, the elected 
 person shall be presented by two eiders unto 
 the ruling elder, saying, We present unto 
 you this godly man, to be ordained to the mi- 
 nistry. 
 
 Then the ruling elder shall say to him 
 that is to be ordained, in the presence of the 
 congregation, 
 
 Brother, forasmuch as the holy scriptures 
 command that we should not be hasty in 
 laying on of hands, and admitting any person 
 to government in the church of Christ, which 
 he hath purchased with no less price than the 
 effusion of his own blood; before I admit you 
 to this administration, I will examine you on 
 certain articles, to the end that the congre- 
 gation present may have a trial and bear wit- 
 ness how you are minded to behave yourself 
 in the church of God. 
 
 Are you persuaded that you are truly call- 
 ed to this ministration, according to the will 
 of our Lord Jesus Christ? 
 
 Answer. I am so persuaded. 
 
 Ruling Elder. Are you persuaded that the 
 holy scriptures contain sufficiently all doc- 
 trine required of necessity for eternal salva- 
 tion, through faith in Jesus Christ? and are 
 you determined out of the same holy scrip- 
 tures 10 instruct the people committed to 
 your charge, and to teach or maintain noth- 
 ing as required of necessity to eternal salva- 
 tion but that which you shall be persuaded 
 may be concluded and proved by the same? 
 
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 and that you form no creed or confession oi 
 faith in the church of God, nor ever sanction 
 the same elsewhere among other churches? 
 
 Answer. I am so persuaded and determin- 
 ed, by God's grace. 
 
 Ruling Elder. Will you, then, faithfully 
 exercise yourself in the same holy scriptures, 
 and call upon God by prayer for the irue un- 
 derstanding of the same, so as you may be 
 able by them to teach and exhort with whole- 
 some doctrine, and to withstand and convince 
 the gainsayers? 
 
 Answer. I will do so, by the help of God. 
 
 Ruling Elder. Are you ready, and with 
 faithful diligence, to banish and drive away 
 all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary 
 to God's word, and both privately and openly 
 to call and encourage others to the same? 
 
 Answer. I am ready, the Lord being my 
 helper. 
 
 Ruling Elder. Will you deny all ungodli- 
 ness and worldly lusts, and live soberly, righ- 
 teously and godly, in this present world, that 
 you may show yourself in all things an ex- 
 ample of srocd works unto others, that the 
 adversary may be ashamed, having nothing 
 to say against you? 
 
 Answer. I will so do, the Lord being my 
 helper. 
 
 Ruling Elder. Will you maintain and set 
 forward as much as shall be in you, quietness, 
 love and peace among all men; and such as 
 shall be unquiet, disobedient and criminal in 
 your district, correct and punish according to 
 
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 * ueh authority as you have by God's word, 
 as shall be committed unto you? 
 
 Answer. I will so do, by the help of God, 
 
 Ruling Elder. Will you show yourself 
 gentle, and be merciiul, tor Christ's sake, to 
 poor and needy people, and to all strangers 
 des imte of help? 
 
 Answer. I will so show myself, by God's 
 help. 
 
 Ruling Eldrr. Are you ready and willing 
 to baptize by immersion all believers who 
 may be convinced of this duty, and take all 
 pains to teach this to be your command from 
 the Lord Jehovah, and laying aside infant 
 sprinklings as the traditions of man, and not 
 of God? 
 
 Answer. I will, the Lord be my helper. 
 
 Ruling Elder. Will you endeavour to keep 
 the ordinances as they are delivered to you, 
 to administer the Lord's supper in the even- 
 ing, the members to sit at the table? 
 
 Answer. I will so do, by the help of God. 
 
 The ruling elder shall then put the bible 
 into his hand, saying, Take thou authority 
 to preach the word of God, and to admi- 
 nister all the sacred ordinances of God's 
 house. 
 
 Akt. 36. The following charge shall be 
 given to the elder after he is ordained. 
 
 Thou, therefore, my brother and fellow 
 labourer in the gospel, be strong in the grace 
 that is in Christ Jesus, and the things thou 
 hast heard of Christ among many, witness 
 the same; we, as the church of Christy charge 
 
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 tbee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, 
 who shall judge the quick and the dead at 
 his appearing in his kingdom, preach the 
 „word; be instant in season and out of season; 
 reprove, rebuke, exhort, win all long suf- 
 fering*and doctrine. Be thou diligent; never 
 be unemployed; never be trifling with time. 
 Be ye serious; let your motto be, holiness to 
 the Lord. Avoid all lightness and foolish talk- 
 ing. Converse sparingly, and conduct your- 
 self prudently with women. Take no step 
 towards marriage without first consulting 
 with your brethren. Believe evil of no one, 
 without good evidence; always l^an towards 
 the accused. Preach not for filthy lucre, but 
 for precious souls. Endure hardness as a 
 good soldier for Christ's sake. In all things 
 showing thyself a pattern of good works. In 
 doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, sin- 
 cerity. Make full proof of thy ministry. 
 
 Art. 37. The following provision shall bo 
 made for the trial of an elder. If a regular 
 baptized member or members of the Free- 
 will Baptist church, shall know any crime of 
 wnich the elder shall be guilty, the said mem- 
 ber or members shall call upon the elder and 
 privately intreat him, as a father. If he re- 
 pent, well; if not, they shall call two or three 
 more of the brethren, and again intreat him. 
 If he still shall persist in his wickedness, the/ 
 shall then draw up a letter mentioning the 
 crin\e and the accuser's name; a copy of 
 which shall be sent to the accused, and ano- 
 ther to the post convenient cider, who sh»4[ 
 
bring with him as many more ciders as pos- 
 sible, and shall appoint him a church trial, at 
 the place where the crime was committed, 
 when the accused, wi;h his witnesses, shall 
 meet with his accusers, face to face. The el- 
 ders shall sit on the trial and patiently hear 
 the evidences on both sides, and if two thirds 
 of the elders shall think him guilty, they shall 
 suspend him from preaching uniil the next 
 yearly conference; when he shall have ano- 
 ther trial, which shall determine his case. 
 If. however, "he eloer can prove that his ac- 
 cusers have reported or spread abroad his 
 crime before they have waited on him pri- 
 Vftely, the trial shall not be suffered to go 
 on in any respect whatever, but his accusers 
 shall be liable to be turned out of the society. 
 
 Art 3». The following shail be the man- 
 ner in which a ruling elder shall be chosen, 
 and the duties he shall perform. 
 
 Once in every seven years a general con- 
 ference shall be held of the ordained preach- 
 ers in the connexion, at the most convent ent 
 branch. Having met together, the elders 
 present shall choose a president and clerk; 
 the president may appoint two elders. The 
 ciders present shall then proceed to elect 
 the ruling elder; the majority shall carry. 
 He shall then be set apart by the laying on 
 •f hands and prayer; and if not impeached, 
 he shall hold his office for seven years. At 
 the expiration of seven years he may be re- 
 elected, or another chosen in his place. 
 
OPIftlOX 
 
 OF 
 
 THE TRINITY. 
 
 As there has been much said concerning 
 the doctrine of the Trinity, preached by John 
 Elliott and Samuel Stevens, we have thought 
 proper here to make mention of our belief 
 of Christ; not, hw-vei, considering it as a 
 creed, or a confession of faith, nor is any one 
 constrained to believe this doctrine in order 
 lo become a member of this church. 
 
 The Being- and Unity of God, 
 
 There is one God, the Creator of all 
 worlds, visible and invisible, who in con- 
 sideration of .his divine &*$c, which is the 
 original source and incomprehensible foun- 
 tain of all life and being, is calied 1 Am that 
 I Am, or Jehovah, who Is, who Was, and 
 who Is To Be, the First and the Last, the 
 Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the 
 Omega, the All and In AIL The being and 
 unity of Jehovah God ar-c inculcated bv the 
 
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 general tenor of divine revelation, as well as 
 by many express declarations; and may be 
 considered as the ground-work or founda- 
 tion of all religion. It is therefore written, 
 " Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God is One 
 Jehovah." Deut. vi. 4. Mark xii. 29. « Thus 
 saith Jehovah the King of Israel, I am the 
 first, and I am the last, and besides me there 
 is no God.'* Isa. xliv. 6. " I am Jehovah thy 
 God, and thou shalt know no God but mc" 
 Hos. xiii. 4. 
 
 Medemfitinn by the Assumption of 
 Humanity. f 
 
 No sooner had man eaten of the forbidden 
 fruit, than a merciful promise was made of 
 his future redemption and salvation, which 
 were to be effected by the exertion of a di- 
 vine power in his behalf, bruising the head 
 of the serpent, thereby delivering him from 
 the dominion of evil and infidelity, and res- 
 toring him to that happiness, from which he 
 had so wofully fallen. To effect this great 
 end, the one God, Jehovah himself, in the 
 fulness of time descended, and, according to 
 the principles of his own divine order, as- 
 sumed a human essence and form by incar- 
 nation; in and by wnich form, as a medium 
 
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 suited to the states and perceptions of hi* 
 creatures, he might not only become visible 
 to them, but might also gradually intro- 
 duce among them, from the fountain of pure 
 divinity within that medium, such ameasure 
 ' of his divine influence as would tend to re- 
 , move ihe impending 1 destruction from their 
 heads, and at length raise them to a state of 
 fi.'iii happiness. f 
 
 T"e reason why this assumption of Hu- 
 manity became necessary was, because in 
 this, and in no other way, could the infinite- 
 ly pure and divine essence approach the 
 cause of man's disorder, now risen to its ex- 
 treme limit, without danger of consuming; 
 him: for as human nature is the seat and ha- 
 bitation of evil, it appears, that the only 
 mode of expelling such evil, or at least of 
 reducing its power, was by Jehovah prepa- 
 ' ring for himself a body, wherein he might 
 as it were come into contact with, a*>d at the 
 same time resist and overcome, those infer- 
 nal spirits, who, being present with man, are 
 continually seducing and endeavouring to 
 destroy him. This combat and victory over 
 the powers of darkness, by Jehevah himself 
 while in the Humanity, form a principal 
 subject ef divine revelation; an,4 ijence it k 
 
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 that we so frequently find him described as 
 a Mighty Man, a Man of War, a Conquer- 
 or, a King of Glory, &c. &c. 
 
 Numerous are the passages in the Sacred 
 Scriptures, which confirm the doctrine here 
 maintained, of the descent of Jehovah him- 
 self into the world, in order that he might 
 become an incarnate God, and thus an ever- 
 lasting Redeemer and Saviour. But the fol- 
 lowing will be found amply sufficient on the 
 present occasion. « Behold, a virgin shall 
 conceive, and bear a Son, and shall call his 
 name Tmmanuel (God with us)." Isa. vii. 14. 
 Matt, i, 22, 23. « Unto us a Child is borl), 
 tmto us a Son is given, and the government 
 shall be upon his shoulder: and his name 
 ahall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the 
 Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the 
 Prince of Peace." Isa. ix. 6. " It shall be 
 said in that day, Lo, this is our God, we have 
 waited for him, and he will save us: this is 
 Jehovah, we have waited for him, we will be 
 glad and rejoice in his salvation." Isa. xxv. 
 9. " Behold, the Lord Jehovih will come 
 with strong hand, and his arm shall rule 
 for him: he shall feed his flock like a Shep- 
 herd.'* Isa. xl. 10, 11. "All flesh shall 
 know j that 1 Jehovah ajn thy Saviour suid 
 
4.3 
 
 thy Redeemer, the Migthy One of Jacob.'* 
 Isa. xlix. 26. 
 
 The form, under which Jehovah appear- 
 ed, and by which he may be said to have 
 sent himself into the world, was called the 
 Son of God; and it was so called for the rea- 
 sons to be now stated. As it was impossible 
 for the infinitely pure and naked Divinity, 
 such as it is in itself, to come down among 
 men, without consuming them r in an instant, 
 the divine mercy of Jehovah God prompted 
 him to come down in such a way of accom- 
 modation, that the full intensity of his glory 
 should be withheld from their eyes, while 
 he presented himself in the world principal- 
 ly as divine truth, veiied or clothed in hu- 
 man nature, from which nevertheless the 
 divine good was not, nor could be, really 
 separate. Now this divine truth, so veiied 
 and clothed, inasmuch as it necessarily ap- 
 peared to be something distinct from the 
 pure Divinity, while notwithstanding this 
 latter was actually within it, as the soul of a 
 man is within hjs body, was on that account 
 called the Son of God. It is moreover to 
 be observed, that the divine human princi- 
 ple within that form proceeded forth from 
 God, or the pure Divinity, comparatively as 
 
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 a son from a father; and that the very ma- 
 ternal substances also were excited, and put 
 into human form, by the divine power alone. 
 Thus in both respects, that is, in reference 
 both to the form, which was born of a vir- 
 gin, and to that which came down from hea- 
 ven, the Lor<l while on earth was called the 
 Son of God. 
 
 The divine truth, which, as before ob- 
 served, more particularly descended, and 
 was more immediately adjoined to the visi- 
 ble human form, was the same as the Word, 
 of which it is written, " In the beginning 
 was the Word, and the Word was with Got?, 
 and God was the Word: all things were 
 made by him, and without him was not any- 
 thing made that was made. And the Word 
 iva* madcjlesk, and dweit among us; and we 
 beheld his glory, the glory as of the Only- 
 begotten of the Fatner, full of grace and 
 truth." John i. 1, 3, 14. 
 
 The work of redemption did not, as is 
 too generally supposed, consist in the Son's 
 offering himself as a sacrifice in the room 
 of mankind, with a view to apjfease the 
 wrath of the Father, to satisfy his vindictive 
 justice, and thereby to atone for the sins of 
 the ^orld; fpr m the first place, there is n© 
 
45 
 
 such odious passion as wrath in the Divine 
 Being, nor is he possessed of any such at- 
 tribute as vindictive justice; and in the next 
 place, it is contrary to every principle of 
 justice, both human and divine, that the in- 
 nocent should suffer for the crimes of the 
 guilty. But redemption, being a work pure- 
 ly divine, consisted in the actual subjugation 
 of the powers of darkness, in the orderly ar- 
 rangement of the heavens, and in the conse- 
 quent foundation of a new spiritual church 
 on earth. 
 
 A process of this nature apd description, 
 when conducted by a divine power, may 
 •well be supposed to have the effect of 
 « bruising the head of the serpent," accord- 
 ing to the first prediction and promise after 
 the fall of man, that is, of destroying the do- 
 minion of self-love and the love of the world 
 in the human mind. But how could any 
 vicarious sacrifice, atonement, or pacifica- 
 tion of supposed wrath in the Deiiy, by one 
 not at all concerned in the offences of the dis- 
 obedient, produce any change of state in the 
 guiity and impenitent? And without a change 
 of state, how can an unregenerate person be 
 qualified for the enjoyment of heavenly hap- 
 piness? Such a scheme of salvation, as that 
 
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 •here alluded to, certainly puts at defiance 
 every principle of sound reason, and throws 
 Into shade all our ideas of the divine attri- 
 butes and perfections. Above all, it is en- 
 tirely opposed to the truth of divine revela- 
 tion, when properly understood; for this ve- 
 ry distinctly teaches, that God is, a Being of 
 pure love and mercy, and that all the satis- 
 faction or atonement, which he requires, is, 
 that we on our parts endeavour by repen- 
 tance to forsake our sins, to put away from 
 us the evil of our doings, >and t° turn to him 
 with sincerity of heart; in short, as ttie pro- 
 phet says, tf to do justice, to love mercy, and 
 to walk humbly with our God:" while he on 
 his part is ever present with his Spirit to 
 give us the power so to do, and to direct our 
 steps in the way that leads to everlasting life. 
 In agreement with these sentiments it is 
 written, « To obey is better than sacrifice" 
 i JSara. xv. 22. w Sacrifice and offering thou 
 didst not desire, burnt-offering and sin-* 
 mighast thou not required" Fs. xl. 6. The 
 same is again repeated in another place, in 
 nearly the same words, hut with an addition, 
 explaining the kind of sac- iii :e that really is 
 acceptable to Jehovah: " Thou hast not de- 
 sired sacrifice: else would 1 give it: thou (jc- 
 
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 lightest not in burnt-offering: the sacrifice* of 
 Gvd are a broken heart.'" Ps. li, 16, 17. Je- 
 hovah likewise by his servant Hos*a says, 
 li i desired mercy, and not sacrifi.ee " Has. vi. 
 6; which words are expressly quoted by our 
 Lord in the Gospel, as having an immediate 
 reference to the great end for which he came 
 into the world: see Matt. ix. I 3 And though 
 many have inferred, that the sacrifices and 
 burnc-oiferings, enjoined upon the children- 
 of Israel, were acceptable to Jehovah in con- 
 sideration of their reminding him of the fu- 
 ture sacrifice of his Son on the cross, whose 
 blood should in like manner be *pilt, in or- 
 der to render him propitious to man kind; yet,, 
 that such a notion or view is foreign to the 
 true design of theii permission, and that they 
 were ail representative of the wpTship of the 
 heart, or obedience to the divine iaw, is suf- 
 ficiently plain from the following explicit de- 
 claration: " Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the 
 God of Israel, I spake not unto yourfathers, 
 nor commanded them in the d&y that I 
 brought them out of the land of Egypt, con- 
 cerning' burnt -offerings ©r sacrifices. But 
 this thing commanded I them, saying-, Obey 
 my voice, and I will be your God, and ye 
 stiail be my peopie: aftd WftOc yc in all thr 
 
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 waijs that I have commanded you, that it may 
 be well unto you." Jer. vii. 22, 23. 
 
 It was stated above, that redemption con- 
 sisted in three things, viz. I. the subjugation 
 of the powers of darkness; 2. the orderly ar- 
 rangement of the heavens; and, 3. the conse- 
 quent formation of a new church on earth. 
 The subjugation of the powers of darkness is 
 in the Sacred Scripture called a judgment; 
 and this was accomplished by the Lord 
 while in the Humanity on earth, as is plain 
 from his own words: " Now is the judgjn cnt 
 of this ivor Id; now shall the prince of this 
 world be cast out." John xii. 31. "The 
 prince of this world is judged." John xvi. 1 1. 
 " Be of good cheer, I have overcome the 
 world." John xvi. 33. And again, "I be- 
 held Satan as lightning fall from heaven." 
 Luke x. 18. At the same time he formed 
 new heavens above, and a new earth below, 
 that is, a new church both in the spiritual 
 and the natural world, wherein, according to 
 prophecy, should dwell righteousness and 
 peace. Thus, by virtue cf his Divinity op« 
 erating in and by his Humanity, he deliver- 
 ed mankind from the overwhelming power 
 of evil, reduced to order all things in hea^ 
 ven, and laid the foundation pf a new spiri- 
 
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 tiial church on earth. This process, bc^uti 
 in divine mercy, and conducted by divine 
 power, constituted the true nature of re- 
 demption. 
 
 The Glorification of the Humanity . 
 
 The descent of Jehovah God into the 
 world by the assumption of Humanity, be- 
 ing for the purpose of effecting the restora- 
 tion of man, as above described, it was ne- 
 cessary,, when that work was accomplished, 
 that he should again ascend, or return back to 
 that glory, of which he appeared to be emp- 
 tied, when he so far humbled himself as to 
 take upon Mm our infirm nature. In short, 
 it was necessary, that he should divest him- 
 self of that material body, with which he was 
 clothed for a time, and which in a great 
 measure concealed from mankind the glory 
 of his Divinity. But as it was by Humanity 
 in conjunction with Divinity, that the re- 
 demption of man was, and could alone be, 
 effected; so, in order to perpetuate this new 
 condition of the Divine Agent, and that he 
 might be a Redeemer and Saviour to eterni- 
 ty, he gradually united in himself all the at- 
 -ributes and perfections of Divinity, with all 
 
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 the principles and forms of Humanity. This 
 union of the divine essence with the human, 
 which was mutual and reciprocal, was pre- 
 ceded by the most grievous and severe temp- 
 tations, the last of which was the passion on 
 the cross, by which the Lord finally laid 
 down the merely natural life, together with 
 all the infirmities incident to it, and thus en- 
 tered into the purely divine life, yet in and 
 wi'h a Humanity perfectly Glorified and Di- 
 vine. 
 
 The reciprocal unition of Divinity with 
 Humanity, and of Humanity with Divinity* 
 in which consisted the glorification of the 
 Son, or his union with the Father, after 
 temptation, is thus described by the Evan- 
 gelist: " Jesus said, The hour is come, that 
 the Son of Man should be glorified. Now 
 is my soul troubled; and what snail I say? 
 Father, save me from this hour: but/or this 
 cause came I unto this hour. Father, glo- 
 rify thy name. Then came there a voice 
 from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, 
 and will glorify it again.** John xii. 23, 27, 
 28. " When Judas was gone out, Jesus said, 
 Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God t* 
 glorified in him. If God be glorified in Mm, 
 
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 God shall also glorify him in himself, and 
 shall straightway glorify him." John xiii. 31, 
 32. " Father, the hour is come; glorify 
 thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee. 1 * 
 John xvji. 1, 5. And to instruct us, that the 
 great end and design of all the sufferings, 
 which our Lord endured while on earth, 
 was (not the pacification of any wrath in the 
 Father, but) the glorification of his own 
 Humanity, according to the eternal princi- 
 ples ot divine order, he said to his disciples, 
 " Ought not Christ to have suffered these 
 things, and to enter into his glory?** Luke 
 xxiv.26. 
 
 The glorification of the Humanity was the 
 same thing also as the return of Jesus to the 
 Father, or to the divine essence, from which 
 he came forth. He therefore says, " I came 
 forth from the Father, and am come into the 
 world: again, I leave the world, and go to 
 the Father.** John xvi. 28. Prior to, and 
 during the progress of, his glorification, that 
 is, while in his state of humiliation, the 
 Lord was apparently distinct from the Fath- 
 er; for he prayed to him, and said, that the 
 Father was greater than he, and that he 
 came to do his will. In this state also he 
 
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 suffered temptations and crucifixion. But in 
 his state of glorification he said, that he and 
 the Father were one; that the Father was in 
 him, and he in the Father; yea, that all things 
 belonging to the Father were his; and in 
 conclusion, after his resurrection, that all 
 power was given unto him in heaven and in 
 earth. 
 
 It follows, therefore, that after the descent 
 of Jehovah God into the world, and during 
 the time in which he was veiled with a 
 Humanity visible to men, he sustained a 
 character and title suited to the low con- 
 dition and appearance assumed; but that, 
 on his re-ascent, he again returned into 
 that ineffable glory, which he had before all 
 worlds, and which now, in consequence of 
 the incarnation and glorification, shines in 
 heaven with a seven-fold lustre, as it is ex- 
 pressed by the prophet: " The light of the 
 moon shall be as the light of the sun, and 
 the light of the sun shall be seven -fold, as 
 the light of seven days y in the day that Je- 
 hovah bindeth up the breach of his people, 
 and hcaleth the stroke of their; wound." Isa. 
 xxx. 26. 
 
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 The Holy S/tirit y or Divine O/rcrclion. 
 
 The great Jehovah having thus shown 
 himself to be not only the Creator, but al^o 
 the Redeemer and Saviour, by means of the 
 Humanity wi,ich he assumed in the world; 
 and having returned to heaven, together 
 with and in that Flumanity glorified, it 
 became necessary in the removal of his 
 personal presence from the churchy to se- 
 cure to it the presence of his Holy Spirit: 
 and this is effected by the divine truth pro- 
 ceeding immediately out of the Lord's glo- 
 rified body from the Father, or divine es- 
 sence within him. Hence the Holy Spi- 
 rit, called also the Spirit of truth, and the 
 Comforter, becomes a new character of the 
 Lord, arising out of the incarnation of him- 
 self, as divine truth, or as the Word, and his 
 subsequent glorification: and hence it is 
 written, " I tell yoy. the truth; it is expedient 
 for you that I go away; for if I go not away, 
 the Comforter will not come unto you; but if 
 I depart, I will tend him unto you. When 
 he the S/iirit of truth is come, he will guide 
 you into all tniih: for he shall not speak of 
 himself He shall glorify me; for he shall 
 
 receive of mmc y and shall show it unto you* 
 
 fc.2 
 
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 All things that the Father hath, are mine: 
 therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, 
 and shall show it unto you." John xvi. 7, 1 3 
 to 15. Again, « The Holy Spirit ivas not 
 yet, because that Jesus was not yet glori- 
 fied." John vii. 39. But after his glorifica- 
 tion, " Jesus breathed on his disciples, and 
 saith, Receive ye the Holy Spirit." John 
 xx. 22. 
 
 In these passages the Holy Spirit, though 
 apparently represented asadistinct person by 
 himself, yet cannot in reality be considered 
 as such; because it is expressly said of him, 
 that he shall not speak of himself, but shall 
 take of the Lord?*; that there was no Holy 
 S/iiritumil the glorification of Jesus; andlast- 
 ly, that the breath, or divine truth, proceed- 
 ing from him, after his glorification, is the. 
 Holy Spirit. It further appears from the 
 circumstance of there having been no Holy 
 Spirit until the glorification of Jesus, that in 
 some respects it is to be distinguished from 
 the Spirit of Jehovah, or even the Spirit of 
 holiness, which existed prior to the incarna- 
 tion. And it is remarkable, that in the orig- 
 inal of the Old Testament the term Holy 
 Spirit is not so much as once mentioned, 
 though the phrase Spirit of hvlinets occurs 
 
55 
 
 three time?, once in Ps. li. 11; and twice in 
 Isa. lxiii. 10, 11. Neither is it said by any 
 of the prophets, that they spake from the 
 Holy Spirit, but from Jehovah, 'five differ- 
 ence between the one and the other may be 
 been in what follows. 
 
 By the S/iiri' of Jehovah is understood the 
 djvine truth proceeding from him, and ope- 
 rating through the medium of angels and 
 lipiriis. This operation, passing through 
 suohamedium, though adequate to the wants 
 and necessities of former ages prior lo tUe 
 incarnation, was at length, in consequence of 
 the excessive accumulation of evii, found to 
 be no longer effectual in promoting the re- 
 ibima'ion, regeneration, and salvation of 
 mankind. It therefore became necessary, 
 that the Lord should assume the Humanity, 
 and by the divine truth proceeding inunedi- 
 aidy from himself, when glorified, as well 
 as mediately through angels and spirits, re- 
 store to man the capacity of receiving new 
 spiritual life. This divine truth, proceeding 
 both mediately and immediately from the 
 Lord, is what is emphatically called the 
 Holy Spirit, because his Humanity/ now 
 glorified, is the only fountain and source of 
 all holiaess; as U is tfriucfl, " Who shall not 
 
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 fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for 
 thou only mrt holy." Apoc. xv. 4. By the 
 latter Spirit, that is, by the Holy Spirit, 
 man is also enabled to comprehend spiritual 
 things even in a natural and rational manner, 
 and so to have a more full and satisfactory 
 view of the great truths of revelation, espe- 
 cially of Him, from whom alone they pro- 
 ceed, of whom alone they treat, and to whom 
 alone they continually lead. 
 
 In addition to these considerations we fur- 
 ther learn, that the Lord himself is the Holy 
 Spirit, since he, from whom any thing pro- 
 ceeds, must be essentially the same with it, 
 but in a primary order and degree. On 
 which account, after identifying himself with 
 the Father, he proceeds to identify himself 
 in like manner with the Comforter, or Spirit 
 of truth, whom he promised to send after 
 his personal departure out of the world, say- 
 ing to his disciples, " I will not leave you 
 comfortless; / will come to you." John xiv. 
 18. 
 
 The Divine Trinity '» 
 
 Havskg in the preceding pages consid- 
 ered the Lord as the Father, as the Son, 
 and as the Holy Spirit; and having identified 
 
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 these essentials as one undivided God; it 
 follows, that there is a Divine Trinity in the 
 person of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 
 similar to the human trinity of soul, body, 
 and proceeding operation in every individual 
 man. And as the three essentials, which con- 
 stitute a human trinity, do not in the small- 
 est degree derogate from the unity of man's 
 nature, perception, and life; so neither do 
 the three essentials, which constitute the 
 divine trinity, in the smallest degree violate 
 the divine unity, but on the contrary they 
 rather exalt, illustrate, and confirm it. 
 
 To assert, as some do, that the Father is 
 one person, the Son another, and the Holy 
 Spirit a third, each one distinct from the 
 other, each one by himself a complete God 
 and Lord, though to one are ascribed pro- 
 perties which aie denied to the others, and 
 all three coeval with each other, that is to 
 tay. all three coexistent wkb each other 
 from eternity, is such a manifest and yet 
 contradictory avowal of a Trinity of Gods, 
 that no after-palliation, no lip confession ot 
 there being still only One God, can ever be 
 admitted as an apology for t lie insult offered 
 both to the Sacred Scriptures and to sound 
 reason. The most that can be allowed to 
 
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 the professors of such a faith is,, that 
 the three Gods whom they affect te ac* 
 knowledge, may occasionally be unanimous. 
 And yet it appears, that they have not al- 
 ways been so, since the one has required a 
 atonement for sin on his part, which the two 
 others did not think necessary on theirs. 
 But, not to dwell on the absurdities of a doc* 
 trine which has completely overturned the 
 church and introduced a species of refined 
 heathenism in the place of the true christian 
 religion, it is sufficient to observe, that in the 
 apostolic age no such faith was known, and 
 that for hundreds of years christians were 
 satisfied with acknowledging and worship- 
 ping Jesus Christ as the true God: the doc- 
 trine of a trinity of persons not having been 
 invented for so long a time after the first 
 publication of Christianity. 
 
 This deplorable state of the christian 
 church is clearly predicted by our Lord in 
 the 24th chapter of Matthew's gospel; and 
 its dangerous principles, now so universally 
 prevalent, are called by him the abomina- 
 tion of desolation, spoken of by the prophet 
 Daniel, standing in the holy place, or church. 
 But at *he same time a promise is made, 
 that, on the consummation or end of this 
 
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 church, a new one shall be raised up, which 
 will both in doctrine and in life acknowledge 
 only OneGod,inOne Divine Person, in whom 
 nevertheless is a Divine Trinity, as already • 
 explained; the Father or Divine Essence be- 
 ing the soul, the Son or Divine Humanity 
 being the body, and the Holy Spirit being 
 the proceeding influence or operation, all 
 belonging to one and the same God, who is 
 no other than our ever-adorable Lord and 
 Saviour Jesus Christ. 
 
 To confirm this doctrine in all its fulness, 
 would be to transcribe a great part of the 
 Sacred Scriptures. But as without such au- 
 thority it may possibly still be a matter of 
 doubt with some readers, let the following 
 passages be consulted, and the truth will be 
 manifest. 
 
 That our Lord Jesus Christ is the Father, 
 is proved from Isa. ix. 6. John x. 30. Chap. 
 xii.45. Chap, xiv.7,9. Chap. xvi. 15. Chap, 
 xvii. 10. Apoc. i. 8, 11, 17. Chap. xxii. 13. 
 Besides a maltitude of other passages, which 
 declare that the Redeemer and Saviour of 
 the world is no other than the great Jeho- 
 vah. 
 
 That he is the Son y is universally acknow- 
 ledged: nevertheless see Matt. i. 23, Chap. 
 
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 iii. 17. Luke i. 31, 32, 35. John i. 18. 8cc. 
 
 And that he is the Holy Sfiirit, is proved 
 from Johnvii. 39. Chap.xiv. 18. Chap. xvi. 
 14. Chap. xx. 22. Apoc. ii. 7, 11, 17,29. 
 Chap. xv. 4. 
 
 From all these passages, and numberless 
 others, compared together, it is most mani- 
 fest, that there is only One God in One Per- 
 son, in whom is the Divine Trinity of Father, 
 Son, and Holy Spirit* and that our Lord and 
 Saviour Jesus Christ is that One God. 
 
 The Lord. 
 
 We have already treated of the being and 
 unity of God, who, as the unsearchable foun- 
 tain of all life, is called Jehovah, or I Am, in 
 the Sacred Scriptures of the Old Testament 
 We have likewise seen, that the same Di- 
 vine Being is not only the Creator of all 
 worlds, but that in due time he became also 
 the Redeemer and Saviour of mankind, by 
 descending upon this earth, assuming our 
 nature, and therein and thereby delivering 
 his creatures from the overwhelming power 
 of evil. It is further observable, that in the 
 Scriptures of the New Testament he is no 
 where distinguished by his name Jehovah, zs 
 
61 
 
 he had been in times antecedent to the incar- 
 nation: which is a circumstance that doubt- 
 less must have for its foundation or cause 
 (independent of its reference to Jewish pre- 
 judices) some new condition of the divine 
 existence, or some new relation opened be- 
 tween the Creator and the creature, by the 
 assumption of Humanity. 
 
 While men were in the habit of receiving 
 communications from heaven through the 
 medium of prophets, no apparent violence 
 was offered to their reasqn, nor we e ihey 
 placed in any danger of profanation, by be- 
 ing informed in plain terms, that the revela- 
 tions so given were dictated by the great Je- 
 hovah himself. But when he actually made- his 
 appearance in the world in theform of a Man, 
 inasmuch as he was regarded by the people in 
 no other character than that of a mere hu~ 
 man being like themselves, had he openly 
 and constantly announced himself as Jeho- 
 vah, as that very God of their fathers, who 
 in ancient times had commissioned Moses 
 and others to make known his wiiJ to them, 
 it would have been impossible for them to 
 have received him in such a high character, 
 impossible to have acknowledged him as the 
 Creator and Preserver of the universe. On 
 F 
 
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 ;Iie contrary, they would have treated him 
 with still greater contempt, than they gene- 
 rally did; they would have disdained his con- 
 versation j and with one consent would have 
 ^pronounced, what only some amongst them 
 ventured to assert, that " he had a devil, and 
 was mad." 
 
 It was therefore a dictate of divine mercy 
 and love, on the part of Jehovah when iff the 
 flesh, noi only towards the Jewish people, 
 but towards all others, who, by reason of his 
 appearing in the form of a Man, too hastily 
 conclude that he was in reality no more; 
 that, instead of the name Jehovah, he took 
 that of Lord, and instead of Father, that qf 
 Son. For this reason, and because it was 
 not lawful foj; the Jews to pronounce the 
 Word Jehovah, whenever any passage of the 
 Old Testament, containing the name, is re- 
 ferred to in the New, instead of Jehovmh, the 
 term I^ord is substituted; evidently implying, 
 that the latter is tantamount to the ijjjrmer, 
 yet with this additional signification, that the 
 title of Lord is used to denote Jehovah m the 
 Humanity, or God Incarnate, ^ 
 
 But another reason may also be stated', 
 why the name Jehovah is no where used in 
 the Gospels,, and even w8y $e sp£tlfe&>*» 
 
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 Lord, its direct substitute, does not always 
 distinguish Jesus, he being frequently called 
 blaster and Christ, as well as Lord. During 
 his abode in the world, or before his glorifi- 
 cation, though he was tndced Jehovah in the 
 Humanity, yet he was not in all respects Je- 
 hovah as to the Humanity: for in the first 
 state he was still subject to the infirmities 
 derived from the mother; but in the last he 
 was wholly exempt from every thing of the 
 kind. Again, in the fi< st state he more par- 
 ticularly sustained the character of divine 
 truth; and on this account he is often called 
 Christ and Master, these expressions having 
 more immediate reference to divine truth, 
 than to divine good. But on his becoming 
 one with the Father, even as to the Huma- 
 nity, that is, on his entering upon the entire 
 character of divine good, which is superior 
 to that of divine truth, (John xiv. 28) as 
 was the case fully after his resurrection, the 
 title of Lord is then more uniformly ascribed 
 to him by his disciples, and most emphatical- 
 ly by Thomas, who in the ardour of his faith 
 exclaims, " My Lord and my God.'" John 
 xx. 28. 
 
 In confirmation of the sentiments above 
 expressed, first, in respect to the danger of 
 
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 profanation, which many would have incur- 
 red, had the Loid spoken lo the multitude oth- 
 erwise than in parabolical or allegorical lan- 
 guage, we read, that Jesus said to his disci- 
 ples, m Unto you it is given to know the mys- 
 teries ot j he kingdom of God; but toothers in 
 parables, that seeing they might not see, and 
 hearing they might not understand" Luke 
 viii. 10. Again, "Jesus said, For judgment 
 I am come into this world, that they who 
 see not, might see; and that they who see, 
 might be made blind." John ix. 39. And 
 even to his disciples, who could not as yet 
 comprehend the purport of his sayings, nor 
 discern the high character which he really 
 sustained, he observed, " I have yet many 
 things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear 
 them nonv." John xvi. 12. 
 
 In the next place, in reference to the term 
 J.ord being- substituted for the name Jeho- 
 vah, we find, that Jesus, when quoting the 
 first commandment, " Hear, O Israel, Jeha- 
 vah our God is one Jehovah" &c. Dcut. vi. 
 4, expresses it thus, t( Hear, O Israel, the 
 Lord our God is one Lord" Sec. Mark xii. 
 29. And where in Ps. ex. 1, it is written, ^Je- 
 hovah said unto my Lord," Sec. Jesus quotes 
 the passage in these terms, " The Lord said 
 
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 unto my Lord," Sec. Matt. xxii. 44. Again, 
 The arm of Jehovah, Isa. liii. 1, is called the 
 arm of the Lord, John xii. 38; and so plainly 
 refers to the miraculous power of Jesus, that 
 no doubt can be entertained of his being the 
 true Jehovah of the Old Testament, while 
 he is acknowledged as the sole Lord of the 
 New. 
 
 By the term Lord, therefore, wheresoever 
 it occurs in the Sacred Scriptures, as an ap- 
 pellation of Deity, we are uniformly to un- 
 derstand Jehovah in the Humanity, or in 
 other words, the Saviour of the world, Jesus 
 Christ, who hath all power in heaven and 
 in earth, Matt, xxviii, 13; who is one and the 
 same with the Father, John xiv. 7 to 1 1 ; and 
 who therefore says to his disciples, " Ye call 
 me Master, and Lord; and ye say well, for 
 so Tarn." John xiii. 13. 
 
 It may be further remarked concerning 
 the appellation Lord, that it implies a nearer 
 and dearer relation to man, than is suggested 
 either by the name Jehovah, or by the term 
 God, or by both in conjunction; while at the 
 same time it involves every divine attribute 
 and perfection belonging to tl e Deity. Hence 
 .it will in general be found, that whenever a 
 Jr&ember of the true church has Qecaaen t$ 
 
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 speak of the Supreme Being, especially if 
 addressing himself to another member of 
 the samechurcr, he will readily and sponta- 
 neously make mention of him by the ap- 
 proved title or appellation of Lord. But, on 
 the other hand, whenever a person, who may 
 be considered in a state of separation from 
 the church, or even one who is yet only in 
 iti externals, is similarly circumstanced, he 
 will as readily and spontaneously use the 
 term God. Sometimes indeed a member of 
 the true internal church will also use this 
 latter term: but it will be found in general 
 to be either in the way of accommodation to 
 the states of others, or in reference to some 
 su ject that does not immediately involve the 
 identity of Jesus with Jehovah. The former 
 expression, viz. Lord*, arises from an interior 
 perception and acknowledgment of the Di- 
 vine Presence in a Human Form, accompa- 
 nied with a degree of confidence in his pro- 
 vidence and protection: but the latter ex- 
 pression, viz. God, for the most part an- 
 nounces, on the part of those who habitually 
 use it, a vague, distant, and obscure idea of 
 the Being so denominated. 
 
 We conclude this article with a quotation 
 from Paul, which, singular as it may appear, 
 
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 yet does credit to the discernment even of 
 an apostle: " I pve \ou to understand, (says 
 he) that no man can say, that Jesus is the 
 Lord, but by the Holy Spirit." 1 Cor. xii. 3. 
 The Holy Spirit is divine truth. 
 
 Concluding Testimonies^?-:;/?* the Sacred 
 Scriptures, in Proof of the sole, *«- 
 fircme, and exclusive Divinity of our 
 Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 
 
 |. "Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and 
 bear a Son, and shall call hi* name Imman- 
 
 uel." Isa. vii. 14 w Now the birth of 
 
 Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as 
 his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, 
 before the| came together, she was found 
 with cnild of the Holy Spirit. Then Joseph 
 her husband being a just man, and not will- 
 ing to malte her a public example, was mind- 
 ed to put her away privily. But while he 
 thought on these things, behold, the angel of 
 the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, say- 
 ing, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to 
 take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which 
 is conceived in her, is of the Holy Sfiirit. 
 And she shall bring forth a Son, and thou 
 
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 $tiaft call his name Jesus; for he shall sayc 
 his peojile from their sins. Now ail this was 
 done, that it might be fulfilled which was 
 spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, 
 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall 
 bring forth a Son, and they shall call his 
 name Emmanuel, which being interpreted 
 is, God with us." Matt. i. 18 to 23. 
 
 2. " Unto us a Child is born, unto us a 
 Son is given, and the government shall be 
 Upon his shoulder: and his name shall be 
 called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty 
 God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince 
 «r Peace.'* Isa. ix. 6. 9 
 
 3. « The voice of him that crieth in the 
 wilderness, Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, 
 make straight in the desert a highway for our 
 
 God." Isa. xl. 3. John said, {< I am the 
 
 Voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make 
 straight the way of the Lord, as said the 
 prophet Esaias. But there standeth One- 
 among you, whom ye know not; He it is, 
 iv ho coming mfier me is preferred before me 9 
 Whose shoes' iaichet / am not worthy to un- 
 loose. And I knew him not: but that he 
 should be made manifest to Israel, therefore 
 am I come baptiaang witji Watej." Jobfl |> 
 
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 4. " Behold, the Lord Jehoyjh will come 
 with strong hand, and nis arm shaljl rule for 
 him. He shall feed his Jlock like a Shefi- 
 hcrd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, 
 and carry them in his bosom, and shall gent- 
 ly lead those that are with young." Isa. xl. 
 10, 1 1. " Jehovah is my Shefiherd^ I shall 
 
 not want." Ps. xxiii. I. — \ Jesus said, 
 
 K I am the good Shefiherd: my sheep hear 
 my voice, and I know them, and they follow 
 me: and I give unto them eternal life." Juhn 
 x. 11, 14, 27,28. 
 
 5. " Thus saith Jehovah that createh 
 thee, O Jacob, and he that tinned thee, O 
 Israel, Fear not; for I have redeemed thee. 
 I am Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of 
 Israel, thy Saviour. I, even I, am Jehovah; 
 and beside me there is no Saviour" lsa. xliii. 
 
 1, 3, 11. "And tht angel said unto 
 
 them, Fear not; for behold, I bring you good 
 tidings of great joy, which shall be to all 
 fleoftie. For unto you is born this day, in 
 the city of David, a Saviour, which is C hrist 
 r»iE Lord." Luke ii. 10, 11. 
 
 6. Thus saith Jehovah, u Look unto ?ne, 
 and be ye saved % ail the ends of the earth: 
 for I am God, and there is none else." Isa. 
 xv. 22. — Thus saith Jesus, M Come un-> 
 
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 %d me, all ye that labour, and are heavy la- 
 den; and I will give you rest." Malt. xi. 28. 
 7. «' Thy Maker is thine Husband: Jeho- 
 vah of hosts is his name. " Isa. liv. 5.- 
 
 u Let us be glad and rejoice; for the mar' 
 riage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath 
 made herself ready." Apoc. xix. 7V See 
 also Matt. ix. 15. John iii 29. 
 
 8. " Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of 
 Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in 
 the midst of thee.''* Isa. xii. 6. "I am God 9 
 and not man, the Holy One in the midst of 
 thee: 9 Hos. xi. 9. " The King of Israel, 
 •ven Jehovah, is in the midst of thee" 
 Zeph iii. 1 5. " Sing and rejoice, O daugh- 
 ter of Zion: for lo, I come, and i" will dwell 
 in the midst of thee, saith Jehovah." Zech. 
 
 ii. io. Jesus said, " Where two or 
 
 tferee are gathered together in my name, 
 there am I in the midst of them." Matt, xviii. 
 20. And again, " Lo, I am with you alway 
 even unto the end of the world" Matt. 
 Sxviii. 20. 
 
 9. " I Jehovah search the heart, I try the 
 tvins, even to give every man according to 
 'his ways, and according to the fruit of his 
 doings." Jer. xvii. 10. " The righteous 
 £©d tffcih the hearts and the reins" Ps. vii, 
 
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 S. Jesus saith, " lam He vho seara.* 
 
 eth the reins and hearts: and I will give un- 
 to every one of you according to your works,' 9 
 Apoc. ii. 23. 
 
 10. " Jesus said unto the sick *!>f the pal- 
 sy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. But 
 there were certain of the scribes sitting 
 there, and reasoning in their hearts, Who 
 can forgive sins, but God only?'* Mark i& 
 5 to 7. Luke v. 20, 21. Matt. ix. 2. 
 
 11." Jesus spake unto his disciples, say- 
 ing, All fioiver is given unto me in heaven 
 and in earth," Matt, xxviii. 18. 
 
 12. "In the beginning was the Word, 
 and the Word was with God, and God was 
 the Word, He was in the world, and. the 
 world was made by him, and the\world knew 
 him not. And the Word was made fle*h y 
 and dwelt among us. John bare witness of 
 him, and cried, saying, This was he, of 
 whom I spake, He that cometh after me, is 
 preferred before mej for he was before me," 
 Johni. 1, 10, 14, 15. 
 
 13. " As the Father hath life in himself, 
 so hath he given to the S«n to have life in 
 Mmself" Johft v. 26. 
 
 A*. « fcsvs said U9tfl» the Jews ; Yerijj 
 
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 Terily I say unto you, Before Abraham was, 
 lam." John viii. 58. 
 
 15. Jesus said, " I and my Father are 
 One" John x. 30. 
 
 16 " Jesus saith, I am the ivay y and the 
 truth, and the life." John xiv. 6. 
 
 17. Jesus saith, "If ye had known Me", 
 ye would have known my Father also: and 
 from henceforth ye know him, and have seen 
 him, Philip saiih unto him, Lord, show us 
 the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith 
 unto him, Have i" bten so long time with you, 
 and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip? he 
 that hath seen Mw, hath seen the Father; 
 and how sayest thou then, Shew us the 
 Fathbr?" John xiv. 7 to 9. 
 
 18. Jesus said to his disciples, " Without 
 me ye can do nothing." John xv. 5. 
 
 19. Jesus saith, « All things that the Fath- 
 er fiat h, are mine." John xvi. 15. 
 
 20. "Jesus breathed on his disciples, and 
 saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Spirit." 
 John xx. 22. 
 
 21. " Thomas answered and said unto Je- 
 sus, My Lord, and my God." John xx. 28. 
 And this acknowledgment of Thomas is 
 graciously received and approved by Jesus, 
 t«r. 29. 
 
22. « I am Alfxha and Omega, the fagln 
 ning and the ending, saith the Lord, who is, 
 and who was, and who is to come, the Almigh- 
 ty. I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, 
 and heard behind me a great voice, as of a 
 trumpet, saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the 
 First and the Last. And I turned to see the 
 voice that sfiake with me. And being turned, 
 I saw One like unto the Son." Apoc. i. 8, 
 10 to 13. See also chap. xxi. 6; and chap, 
 xxii. 13. 
 
 23. " I saw itf the midst of the seven can- 
 dlesticks one like unto the Son of Man, clo- 
 thed with a garment down to the foot, and 
 girt about the paps with a golden girdle. 
 His head and his hairs were white like wool, 
 as white as snov. ; and his eyes were as a flame 
 of fire; and his feet like unto fine brass, as if 
 they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the 
 sound of many waters. And he had in his 
 right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth 
 went a sharp two-edged sword: and hia 
 countenance ivas as the sun shineth in his 
 strength. And when I saw him I fell at his 
 feet as dead: and he laid his right hand upon 
 me, saying unto me, Fear not; lam the First 
 and the Last: I am he that liveth, and was 
 dead: and behold, I am alive Jbr evermef^Cy 
 Amen" Apoc, i, 13 to 18, 
 
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 24. " And the Lord God of the holy pro- 
 phets sent his angel to show unto his ser- 
 vants the things which must shortly be done. 
 
 . 1 Jesus have sent mine angel to testify 
 
 unto you these things in the churches/* 
 Apoc. xxii. 6, 16. 
 
HYMNS 
 
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 SPIRITUAL SONGS 
 
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 HYMN I. C. M. 
 
 1 f\ FOR a thousand tongues to sing 
 
 My dear Redeemer's praisel 
 The glories of my God and King* 
 The triumphs of his grace! 
 
 2 My gracious Master, and my God, 
 
 Assist me to proclaim, 
 To spread through all the earth abroad 
 The honours of thy name. 
 
 3 Jesus, the name that charms our fears> 
 
 That bids our sorrows cease: 
 'Tis music in the sinner's ears; 
 'Tis life, and health, and peace. 
 
 4 He breaks the power of cancell'd sin, 
 
 He sets the prisoner free: 
 His blood canjnake the foulest clean, 
 
 His blood avail'd for me. 
 3 Hear him, ye deaf: his pi ^ise, ye dumb } 
 
 Your loosen'd tongues employ; 
 Ye blind, behold your Saviour come, 
 
 And leap, ye lame, lor joy! 
 
 € Look unto him, ye nations, own 
 Your God, ye fallen race? 
 
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 -Look, and be sav'd through faith alo;ie v 
 Be justified by grace. 
 
 7 See all your sins on Jesus laid; 
 
 The Lamb of God was slain; 
 His soul was once an offering made 
 For every soul of man. 
 
 8 Awake from s»uilty nature's sleep, 
 
 And Christ shall give you light; 
 Cast all your sins into the deep, 
 And wash the jEthiop white. 
 
 9 With me, your chief, ye then shall know,. 
 
 Shall feel your sins forgiven; 
 
 Anticipate your heaven below, 
 
 And own that love is heaven. 
 
 HYMN II. P. M. 
 1 r PHE Lord has now began to move, 
 With his kind spirit on the youth; 
 Which causes them to mourn; 
 Some find themsejVvS in such a state, 
 They tear with them it is too late, 
 To ever be forgiven. 
 
 S O mourners, now you have began 
 
 To seek the Lord while ^ou are youngs 
 
 Through teaching of his grace; 
 Pray do not turn back to the world, 
 Lest you should be in darkness hurl'd, 
 And never see his face. 
 
 3.0! that the Lord would o;rant relief, 
 To those dear souls that's full of grief; 
 For want of pard'ning grace: 
 
..\nd set them free to sing his praise, 
 And spend the rest of their few days, 
 In holy acts of praise. 
 
 4 O! children who have found the Lord, 
 Pray give attention to his word, 
 
 And what he saith, that do: 
 That you may grow in grace and truth. 
 And serve the Lord now in your youth., 
 And eternal life pursue. 
 
 HYMN III. C. M. 
 
 1 'HHIS good to wait upon the Lord, 
 
 When Christ himself draws near, 
 And ev'ry heart with one accord 
 Ascends in solemn prayer. 
 
 2 While thus we feel the Saviour's love 
 
 In heavenly showers descend, 
 Our souls commune with saints above 
 In bliss that knows no end. 
 
 3 We taste the precious streams of grace : 
 
 The fountain makes them sing; 
 We travel through the wilderness, 
 They sit before the King. 
 
 4 We pray for grace to hold out well 
 
 The conflict but begun; 
 They of their past engagements tell, 
 And sing the conquests won. 
 
 5 We fight the battles of the Lord, 
 
 And are sometimes cast down: 
 They wield no more the warrior's sword. 
 But wear the conqueror's crown. 
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 HYMN IV. P. M. 
 
 1 T\ARK and tho< y is the desert 
 
 T>ro' which pilgrims make their way^ 
 Yet beyond this vale of sorrow. 
 
 Lies the fields of endless clay. 
 Fiends loud howling through the desert 
 
 Make them tremble as they go, 
 And the fiery dams of Satan 
 
 Often brings their courage low. 
 
 2 O, young soldiers, are you weary 
 
 Of the roughness of the way? 
 Does your strength begin to fail you,, 
 
 And your vigour to decay? 
 Jesus, Jesus, will go with you; 
 
 He will lead you to his throne; 
 He who dy'd his garments for you, 
 
 And the wine press trod alone. 
 
 3 He whose thunder shakes creation, 
 
 He who bids the planets roll; 
 He who rides upon the tempest, 
 
 And whose sceptre sways the wholer 
 Round him are ten thousand angels 
 
 Ready to obey command; 
 They are always hovering round you, 
 
 Till you reach the heavenly land. 
 
 4 There on flowery hills of pleasure, 
 
 Lies the fields of endless rest; 
 Love and joy ,nd peace for ever 
 
 Rei ;ric> and triumphs in your breast^ 
 Who can paint the scenes of glory 
 
 \Vfccre the ransom'd dwell on high> 
 
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 There on golden harps for ever 
 Sound redemption through the sky, 
 
 Sj There 's a million flaming seraphs 
 
 Who fly across the heavenly plains; 
 Thert they sing immoitai praises: 
 
 Glory, Rlory, is their strain. 
 But mcthinks a sweeter concert, 
 
 Makes the heavenly arches ring; 
 And the song is heard in Ziot), 
 
 Which the angels cannot sing. 
 
 6 O, their crowns! how bright they sparkle, 
 
 Such as monarchs never wore: 
 They are gone to richer pastures; 
 
 Jesus is their shepherd there. 
 Hail! ye happy, happy spirits, 
 
 Death no more snail make you fearj 
 Grief nor sorrow, pain or anguish, 
 
 Shall no more distress you there, 
 
 HYMN V C. M. 
 ) IN evil long I took delight, 
 Unaw'd by shame or fear; 
 Till a new object struck my sight, 
 And stopt my wild career. 
 
 2 I saw one hanging on a tree, 
 
 In agonies of biood; 
 He fix'd his languid eyes on me, 
 As near his cross I stood. 
 
 3 Sure never till my latest breath, 
 
 Shall I forget that look; 
 He seem'd to charge me with his death. 
 Though not a word he spoke, 
 
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 4 My conscience felt and own'd the guilt, 
 
 And plung'd me in despair; 
 I saw my sins his blood had spilt, 
 And help'd to nail him there. 
 
 5 Alas! I knew not what I did, 
 
 But now my tears are vain; 
 Where shall my trembling soul be bio*, 
 For I the Lord have slain! 
 
 6 A second look he gave, which said, ' 
 
 I freely all forgive; 
 This blood is for thy ransom paid, 
 I died that thou may'st live. 
 
 7 With pleasing grief and mournful joy, 
 
 My spirits now were fill'd; 
 That I should such a life destroy, 
 Yet live by him I kill'd. 
 
 HYMN VI. S. M. 
 
 ! /^ CHARGE to keep I have; 
 . A God to glorify; 
 A never dying soul to save, 
 
 And fit it for the sky: 
 To serve the present age, 
 
 My calling to fulfil; 
 O may it all my powers engage 
 
 To do my Master's will! 
 
 2 Arm me with jealous care, 
 
 As in thy sight to live; 
 And O, thy servant, Lord, prepare 
 
 A strict account to give; 
 Help me to watch and pray. 
 
 And on thvstlf rely; 
 
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 Assured, if I thy trust betray, 
 1 shall for ever die. 
 
 HYMN VII. C. M. 
 
 1 TTOSANNA to the Prince of light, 
 
 That cloth'd himself in clay, 
 Emei'd the iron tjates of death, 
 And tore the bars away. 
 
 2 Death is no more the king of dread, 
 
 Since our Immanuel rose; 
 He .ook the tyrant's sting away, 
 And spoil'ri our hellish foes. 
 
 3 See how the Conqu'ror mounts aloflj 
 
 And to his throne he flies, 
 With scars of honour in his flesh 
 And triumph in his eyes. 
 
 4 There our exalted Saviour reigns 
 
 And scatters blessings down; 
 Our Jesus fills th* eternal seat 
 Of the celestial throne. 
 
 5 Raise your devotions, mortal tongues^ 
 
 To reach hisbkss'd abode; 
 Sweet be the accents of our songs 
 To our incarnate God. 
 
 6 Bright angels, strike your loudest strings, 
 
 Your sweetest voices raise; 
 Let heaven and all created things 
 Sound our Inimanuel's praise. 
 
 HYMN VIII. C. M. 
 J O God! our help in ages past, 
 Our hope for years to come^ 
 
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 Our shelter from the stormy blas^t, 
 And our eternal home. 
 
 2 Under the shadow of thy throne 
 
 Still may we dwell secure; 
 Sufficient is thine arm alone, 
 And our defence is sure. 
 
 3 Before the hills in order stood, 
 
 Or earth receiv'd her frame, 
 From everlasting thou art God, 
 To endless years the same. 
 
 4 A thousand ages in thy sight 
 
 Are like an evening gone; 
 Short as the watch that ends the nig^t, 
 Before the rising sun. 
 
 5 The busy tribes of flesh and blood, 
 
 With all their cares and fears, 
 Are carried downward by the flood, 
 And lost in following years. 
 
 6 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, 
 
 Bears all its sons away; 
 They fly forgotten, as a dream 
 Dies at the opening day. 
 
 7 O God! our help in ages past, 
 
 Our hope for years to come: 
 Be thou our guard while life shall last, 
 And our perpetual home. 
 
 HYMN IX. C. M. 
 1 TJIDST thou, dear Jesus, suffer shame. 
 And bear the cross for me? 
 And shall I fear to own thy name, 
 Or thy disciple be? 
 
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 2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should dread 
 To suffer shame or loss; 
 But in thy footsteps let me tread. 
 And glory in thy cross. 
 
 o Inspire my soul with life divine, 
 And holy courage bold; 
 Let knowledge, faith and meekness sjiine, 
 Nor love nor zeal grow cold. 
 
 4 Say to my soul, " why dost thou fear 
 
 The face of feeble man? 
 Behold thy heavenly Captain's here, 
 Before thee in the van." 
 
 5 O how my soul would up and run, 
 
 At this reviving word; 
 Nor any painful sufferings shun, 
 To follow thee, my Lord. 
 
 6. For this let men reproach, defame. 
 And call me what they will; 
 So, I may glorify thy name, 
 And be thy servant still. 
 
 7 To thee I cheerfully submit, 
 And all my powers resign; 
 Let wisdon point out what is fit, 
 And I'll no more repine. 
 
 PAUSE. 
 
 a I'll cheerfully take up the cross^ 
 And follow thee, my Lord; 
 Submit to tortures, shame and loss 
 At thy commanding word. 
 
 9 But let thy grace sufficient be 2 
 In ev'ry time of need; 
 
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 Then, Lord, I'll boldly fight for thee. 
 And ev'ry time succeed. 
 
 HYMN X. C. M. 
 
 1 pO ME. friends, let's hear the voice of 
 ^ Christ, 
 
 Which says, my yoke put on; 
 And learn to wear it in our youlh, 
 That we the race may run. 
 
 2 For Christ has said, my burden's lights 
 
 My yoke is easy too; 
 Then let us leave all other yokes. 
 Keep this alone in view. 
 
 3 For yokes of men to bondage lead, 
 
 But this gives life and peace, 
 And while we wear this blessed yoke, 
 We feel out strength increase. 
 
 4 Then let us wear this heavenly yoke, 
 
 That we his rest may know; 
 WithChrist we'll draw, and with him work, 
 The gospel truth to show. 
 
 5 For Christ's commands while we obey$ 
 
 Our souls with joy do fill; 
 And grief is far from those who do 
 Our Master's blessed will. 
 
 6 Hence, brethren, leL us all unite, 
 
 To walk this heavenly way; 
 And wear this easy yoke of Christ, 
 In perfect harmony. 
 
 HYMN XI. S. M. 
 1 DESTRUCTION'S dangerous roac^- 
 What multitudes pursue! 
 
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 While that which leads the soul to God, 
 Is known and sought by few. 
 
 2 Believers enter in, 
 
 By Christ the living gate: 
 But they who will not leave their sin 
 Complain it is 100 strait. 
 
 3 If self must be denied, 
 
 And sin forsaken quite, 
 They'd rather choose the road that's wide. 
 And strive to think it right. 
 
 "4 Ericompass/t! by a throng, 
 
 On numbers ihcy depend, 
 Saying so many can't he wron^, 
 And miss a happy end. 
 
 5 But numbers are no mark 
 
 That men will rig&t be found; 
 
 For few were sav'd in Noah's ark, 
 
 And many million's diown'd. 
 
 6 Obey the gospel call, 
 
 And enter while you may; 
 The flock -of Christ was always small, 
 And none are safe but they. 
 
 7 Lord, open sinners' eyes, 
 
 Their awful state to see; 
 And make them, e'er the storm arise, 
 To thee for safety 11 ee. 
 
 HYMN XII. C. M. 
 VE saints, attend ihe Saviour's voice. 
 
 Spoke in his word of grace; 
 He says, and in it O rejoice! 
 
 In me ye shuil have peace. 
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CHORUS. 
 
 Oh glory hallelujah, praise ye my God, 
 Oh glory hallelujah, love and serve the Lord. 
 
 2 Tho* storms and tempests round you roar, 
 
 And foes and fears increase; 
 He says, and what could he say more? 
 In me ye shall have peace. 
 Oh glory, &c. 
 
 3 What though afflictions still abound, 
 
 Your troubles still increase, 
 He says, and O how sweet's the sound! 
 In me ye shall have peace. 
 Oh glory, &c. 
 
 4 What tho' your hearts with sorrow bleed. 
 
 And sighs and tears increase; 
 He says, and O 'tis true indeed, 
 In me ye shall have peace. 
 Oh glory, &c. 
 
 5 Tho' you shall pass thro* death's cold flood. 
 
 To gain your wish'd release, 
 He says, and sure he'll make it good, 
 In me ye shall have peace. 
 Oh glory, &c. 
 
 6 When you his face in glory view, 
 
 Where joy can ne'er decrease, 
 Eternity shall prove it true, 
 In him ye shall have peace. 
 Oh glory, &c. 
 
 HYMN XIIL P. M. 
 
 John xii. 21. " Sir, we would see Jesus/' 
 I « ClR, we would see Jesus," 
 
 The blessed prince of love? 
 
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 He only can relieve us, 
 
 And all our griefs remove; 
 
 O! tell us as a preacher, 
 
 Where Jesus Christ doth dwell. 
 
 Describe his charming features, 
 His glowing beauties tell. 
 
 " Sir, we would see Jesus/* 
 
 Tnc sinner's constant friend, 
 We know he won't deceive us, 
 
 But love us to the end; 
 His blessed word assures us, 
 
 His blessed flock shall stand; 
 His mighty arm secures us, 
 
 From all the hostile band. 
 
 " Sir, we would see Jesus,'* 
 
 The glorious king of grace; 
 A sight of him would ease us, 
 
 And fill our souls with peace; 
 We would behold his beauty, 
 
 And run into his arms; 
 And iearn the christian's duty, 
 
 Amidst those blessed charms. 
 
 * Sir, we would see Jesus," 
 
 As prophet, priest, and king, 
 W r e hope he will receive us, 
 
 Though we are poor and mean, 
 For in the holy scripture, 
 
 This blessed truth we find, 
 He loves the humble creature, 
 
 The meek and lowly mind. 
 
 " Sir, we would see Jesus," 
 And at his feet adore: 
 
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 His ways, although all glorious, 
 We humbly would explore. 
 
 O tell vis where to find him, 
 And how wt may him know; 
 
 Where does the rose of Sharon, 
 The spotless iiliy grow. 
 
 6 " Sir, we would see Jesus/* 
 
 And hearken to his voice, 
 O! this would greatly please us, 
 
 And make our hearts rejoice. 
 That sound is so transporting, 
 
 It ends the sinner's strife, 
 That sound is so inviting-, 
 
 It brings the dead to life. 
 
 HYMN XIV. C. M. 
 
 1 \\fHY should the children of a King 
 
 Go mourning all their days? 
 Great Comforter, descend and bring 
 The tokens of thy grace. 
 
 2 Dost thou n "A dwell in ai! thy saints, 
 
 And seal tne heirs of heaven? 
 When wilt thou banish my complaints,, 
 And show my sins i'or;;iven? 
 
 3 Assure my conscience of her part 
 
 In my Redeemer's blood; 
 And bear thy witness with my heart, 
 That I am born of God. 
 
 4 Thou art the earnest of his love, 
 
 The pledge ol joys to come; 
 May thy blest wings, ceiestial Dove, 
 Safely convey me home. 
 
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 HYMN XV. 
 
 1 IT AUK1 listen to the trumpeters, 
 Th<y call for volunteers; 
 On Zion's bright and flowery mount 
 Behold the officers: 
 
 5 Their horses white, their armour's bright. 
 With courage bold they stand, 
 Enlisting soldiers for their King, 
 To march to Canaan's land. 
 
 3 II sets my heart all in a flam.e 
 
 A soldier for to be; 
 I will enlist, gird on my arms, 
 And fight for liberty. 
 
 4 YVe want no cowards io our bands, 
 
 That will their colours fly; 
 We call for valiant-hearted men. 
 That's net afraid to die. 
 
 5 To see our armies on parade, 
 
 How martial they appear; 
 A I! arm'd and drcsAi \ ■•. rrn 
 They look like men of \va. . 
 
 6 They follow their great General, 
 
 The great eternal Lamb, 
 Hi> garment's stnin'd in his own blood, 
 King Jesus is his name. 
 
 7 The trumpets sound, the armies shout, 
 
 Thty drive the hosts of hell: 
 How dreadful is our God t' adore, 
 The great Emanuel. 
 
 % Sinners, enlist with Jesus Christ, 
 The great tenia] fox; !; 
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 ^*nd march with us to Cai&an*£ land, 
 Beyond the swelling flood. 
 
 9 There on a green and flowery mount, 
 
 Where fruits immortal grow; 
 With angels ali array 'd in white, 
 Alii; our Redeemer know; 
 
 10 We'ii shout and sing for evermore, 
 
 lit tha ; . eternal world; 
 While Sal an and his army too, 
 Shall down to hell be hurl'd. 
 
 1 1 Lift up your heads, ye soldiers bold; 
 Redemption's drawing nigh; 
 We soon shall hear the trumpet sound, 
 That shakes the earth and sky. 
 
 12 In fiery chariots we shall rise, 
 And leave the world on fire; 
 And all surround the throne of love, 
 
 And join the heavenly choir. 
 
 HYMN XVI. P. M. 
 
 1 1| AIL! happy beaver in Jesusi 
 
 Too' all uungs around thee may frown; 
 At present vvh,iv,r thy rase is, 
 
 This, know, thou art bom to a crown. 
 
 2 Then let not earth's trill s distress thee, 
 
 Thy kingdom's preparing above; 
 Be faithful, and Jesus will bless thee 
 With joys that can never remove. 
 
 3 O, envy not those that aspire; 
 
 Tho' wicked men prosper, don't grieve; 
 When their's is all burnt up with fire, 
 Thy portion will be to receive. 
 
4 Han! happy uelievcr in Jesus! ' -. 
 
 No longer for trifles then care; 
 The kingdom above never ceases, 
 And Jesus will soon call thee there. 
 
 HYMN XVII. C. M. 
 
 1 TyHAT poor despised company 
 
 Of travellers are these, 
 That's walking yonder narrow way, 
 Along that rugged maze? 
 
 2 Why, they are of a royal line, 
 
 They're children of a king, 
 
 Heirs of immortal crowns divine, 
 
 And loud for joy they sing. 
 
 3 Why do they then appear so mean, 
 
 And why so much despis'd? 
 Because of their rich robes unseen 
 The world is not appriz'd. 
 
 4 Why, some of them seem poor, distressed, 
 
 And lacking daily bread? 
 Heirs of immortal wealth possess'd, 
 With hiaden manna fed. 
 
 5 Why do they shun that pleasant path, 
 
 Which worldlings love so well? 
 Because it is the road to death, 
 
 The certain way to Hell. 
 > Why do they walk the narrow road, 
 
 Along that rugged maze? 
 Because this way their leader trod; 
 
 They love and keep his ways. 
 What, is there then no other road 
 
 To Salem's happy ground? 
 
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 Christ is the only way to God—- 
 No other can be found. 
 
 HYMN XVIII. P. M. 
 
 1 'T^HERE is a land of pleasure, 
 
 Where streams for ever roll; 
 *Tis there I. have my treasure, 
 
 And there I hope to rest my soul: 
 Long darkness dwelt around, 
 
 With scarcely once a cheering ray; 
 But since my Saviour found me, 
 
 A light has shown along my way. 
 
 2 My way is full of danger; 
 
 But it's the path that leads to God; 
 Then like a valiant soldier, 
 
 VI) dauntless keep the happy road. 
 Now I must gird my sword on, 
 
 My helmet, breast plate, and my shield, 
 And fight the host of Satan, 
 
 Until I gain the heavenly field. 
 
 3 I'm on my way to Canaan, 
 
 Still guided by my Saviour's hand; 
 O come along, dear sinner, 
 
 And see Emanuel's happy land. 
 To all that stays behind me 
 
 1 bid a long, a long farewell! 
 O come, or you'll repent it 
 
 When you do reach tne gates of hell! 
 
 4 The vale of tears surrounds me, 
 
 And Jordan's current rolls before! 
 O now I stand and tremble 
 
 To h£ar the dismal waters roar!- 
 
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 Whose hand shall then support trie, 
 And keep my soul from sinking there; 
 
 From sinking down to darkness, 
 And to the regions of despair. 
 
 5 The waves shall not affright me, 
 
 Although they're deeper than the]grave, 
 If Jesus will stand by me 
 
 I'll calmly ride on Jordan's waves: 
 His word has calm'd the ocean; 
 
 His lamp has cheer'd the gloomy vale: 
 
 may this friend be with me 
 
 When through the gates of death I sail. 
 
 6 Then come, thou king of terror, 
 
 And with thy weapons lay me low! 
 
 1 soon shall 'reach that region 
 Where everlasting pleasures flow. 
 
 Now, Christians, I must leave you 
 A few more days to suffer here; 
 
 Through grace I soon shall meet you— • 
 My soul exults — I'm almost there. 
 
 7 But O the thoughtless company 
 
 Thai crowds the road that leads to wo: 
 For them I'm filled with sympathy — 
 
 I soon must bid them a long adieu! 
 O sinn.-rs, must I leave you, 
 
 No more to join your social band? 
 No more to stand before you, 
 
 Till at the judgment seat we stand? 
 
 8 Soon the arch angel's trumpet 
 
 Shall shake the globe from pole to pole; 
 And all the wheels of nature 
 Shall in a moment cease to roll! 
 
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 Then I shall see my Saviour 
 
 Wnh shining ranks of angels come., 
 
 To execute his vengeance, 
 
 And take his ransom'd people home. 
 
 HYMN XIX. P. M. 
 
 ! THO' in the outward church below, 
 
 The wheat and tares together grow, 
 Jesus e'er long will weed the crop, 
 And pluck the tares in anger up. 
 For soon the reaping time will come, 
 And angels shout the harvest home. 
 3 Will it relieve their horrors there, 
 To recollect their stations here, 
 How much they heard, how much they 
 
 knew, 
 How long amongst the wheat they grew? 
 For soon, &c. 
 
 3 Oh I this will aggravate their case! 
 They perish'd under means of grace; 
 To them the word of life and faith, 
 Became an instrument of death. 
 
 And soon, &c. 
 
 4 We seem alike when thus we meet, 
 Strangers might think we all were wheat; 
 But to the Lord's all-searching eyes, 
 Each heart appears without disguise. 
 
 And soon, he. 
 
 5 The tares are spar'd for various ends, 
 Some for the sake of praying friend?; 
 Others, the Lord, against their will, 
 Employs his counsels to fulfil. 
 
 #ut soon, &c. 
 
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 Q But though they grow so tall and strong* 
 His plan will not require them long; 
 In harvest, when he saves his own, 
 The tares shall into hell be thrown. 
 For soon. Sec. 
 
 HYMN XX. C. M. 
 
 1 nnHE blessed Jesus was baptiz'd 
 
 Of John, in Jordan's stream; 
 And we are sure he is u the Christ^ 
 And mean to follow him. 
 
 2 Some say affusion is as well, 
 
 And will sprinkle too; 
 But by the Saviour's track we tell 
 Which way we ought to go. 
 
 3 Some say that all who are baptiz'd 
 
 In water, are to blame; 
 But we had rather follow Christ, 
 Than all the rules of men. 
 
 4 Some point us here, and others there, 
 
 And some despise it all; 
 But we will follow Jesus where 
 His pleasant voice doth call. 
 
 5 We see that beauty in the cross, 
 
 We will obey his word, 
 And count all other things but dross, 
 To follow Christ the Lord. 
 
 6 Unto the world we show, 
 
 That we are dead to sin; 
 And by the Spirit risen too, 
 Through faith in Jesus' name. 
 
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 We do not think by this, 
 
 We merit Jesus' love; 
 But in obedience we have peace, 
 
 And thus we forward move. 
 
 HYMN XXI. P. M. 
 
 T ET earth and heaven agree, 
 Angels and men be join'd,-; 
 To celebrate with me, 
 
 The Saviour of mankind: 
 T' adore the all atoning Lamb, 
 And bless the sound of Jesu's name. 
 
 Jesus, transporting sound! 
 
 The joy of earth and heaven; 
 No other help is found; 
 
 No other name is given, 
 By which we can salvation have, 
 But Jesus came the world to save. 
 Jesus, harmonious name! 
 
 It charms the host above! 
 They evermore proclaim, 
 
 And wonder at his love! 
 'Tis all their happiness to gaze, 
 'Tis heaven to see our Jesu's face. 
 His name the sinner hears, 
 
 And is from sin set free; 
 'Tis music in his ears, 
 
 'Tis life and victory: 
 New songs do now his lips employ, 
 And dances his glad heart for joy. 
 
 Stung by the scorpion sin, 
 My poor expiring soul 
 
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 The balmy sound drinks iiij 
 
 And is at once made whole: 
 See there my Lord upon the tree! 
 I hear, I feel, he died for me. 
 
 6 O, uncxampPd love! 
 
 O, all-; edeeming grace! 
 How swiftly didst thou move 
 
 To save a fallen race; 
 What snail I do to make it known, 
 What thou for all mankind hast done! 
 
 7 O for a trumpet-voice 
 
 On all the world to call, 
 To bicl their hearts rejoice 
 
 In him who died for all! 
 For all my Lord was crucified, 
 For all, for all my Saviour died! 
 
 8 To serve thy blessed will, 
 
 Thy dying love to praise, 
 Thy counsel to fulfil, 
 
 And minister thy grace, 
 Freely, what I receive, to give, 
 The life of heaven on earth I live. 
 
 HYMN XXII. P. M. 
 
 ] TlOW happy, how joyful, how loving I 
 XL feel, 
 I want to feel more love, yea more love 
 
 and zeal, 
 I want my love perfect, I want my love 
 
 pure, 
 That oil things with patience I well may 
 endure. 
 
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 2 I want to be little, more simple, more mild, 
 More like my blest Master, and more like 
 
 a child; 
 
 More watchful, more prayerful, more low- 
 ly in mind, 
 
 More thankful, more gentle, more loving 
 and kind. 
 
 3 I want to have wisdom that comes from 
 
 above, 
 
 I want my heart fill'd with the purest of 
 love; 
 
 J want my faith stronger, my anchor hop* 
 sure, 
 
 And like a good soldier all hardness en- 
 dure. 
 
 4 I want to be stripped from all human pride, 
 All malice and anger I would lay aside; 
 From sin and from bondage I want to be 
 
 free, 
 And live, my dearSaviour, live only to thee. 
 
 5 While suffering, enduring, in duty believe, 
 Forgiving if any my spirit should grieve, 
 Remembering at all times what Jesus did 
 
 say, 
 And set out anew and begin every day. 
 
 6 My treasures in heaven I want to lay up, 
 Where no moth and no rust will ever cor- 
 rupt, 
 
 Where no thief or robber will venture or 
 
 dare, 
 My heart and my treasure I want shouM 
 
 be there. 
 
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 7 My faith, and my hope, and my love, and 
 
 my zeal, 
 I want them deep rooted and feel them 
 
 within; 
 My light I want clear, that beholders may 
 
 see, 
 How faith and good works in sweet union 
 
 agree. 
 
 8 My union I want with the Father and Son, 
 , I want that perfected which grace hath 
 
 begun, 
 With love and sweet union that sooths 
 
 every care, 
 And with my dear brethren all burthens 
 
 to bear. 
 '9 Come, love and sweet union, to thee I do 
 
 call, 
 I want to feel more love, yea more love to 
 
 all; 
 O come, my beloved, come hasten tome, 
 And fill up my vessel full as it can be. 
 
 10 Come, brethren and sisters, both aged 
 
 and youth, 
 And all who are willing to walk in the 
 
 truth, 
 Come fill up your vessels with union and 
 
 love, 
 And on our blest journey we'll joyfully 
 
 move. 
 
 1 1 When time is no more, and from earth 
 
 we remove, 
 To dwell in the regions of pure light and 
 fove^ 
 
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 With Jesus our Saviour, and all holy men, 
 We'll sing hallelujah for ever, amen. 
 
 HYMN XXIII. S. M. 
 
 1 VE fearful saints, aiarch on, 
 
 It is the Loid's command; 
 Never let trifles stop your way 
 To Canaan's promised land. 
 
 2 Though numerous foes arise, v; 
 
 And hell your course withstand, 
 Still f rce your passage through them ajl 
 To Canaan's promis'd land. 
 
 3 Keep on a forward pace, 
 
 A id never, never stand, 
 Till you behold your Saviour's face 
 In Canaan's promis'd land. 
 
 4 Cast not a wishful eye 
 
 Towards your native strand, 
 Like Lot's frail wife, but onward press 
 To Canaan's promis'd land. 
 
 5 Mind not the alluring wiies 
 
 Prepar'd by Satan's band, 
 To draw you from the narrow path 
 Which leads to Canaan's land. 
 5 The scripture is your rule, 
 By it you fall or stand; 
 Walk in the way which it points out 
 To Ca aai ' promis'd land. 
 7 Then si I ■ ■•-• join above 
 
 Wi I t a ^om'd band, 
 To ce , • ?jr v deeming love 
 In Canaan's promis'd lanct 
 
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 HYMN XXIV. C. M. 
 
 1 OlNNER, how oft hath God reprov'd, 
 
 AHd fill'd thee with distress! 
 Yet still thou perseverest in 
 The paths of wickedness. 
 
 2 Sudden destruction soon will come 
 
 On those who thus rebel, 
 Eternal vengeance will consign, 
 Their- guilty souls to hell. 
 
 3 O tremble at the awful thought, 
 
 And yield to striving grace, 
 Lest God should say " I'll strive no more," 
 And frown thee from his face, 
 
 HYMN XXV. P. M. 
 
 1 VE sons of Adam, lift your eyes, 
 
 Behold how free the Saviour dies, 
 To save your souls from hell! 
 
 There's your Creator and your friend; 
 
 Believe, and soon your fears shall end, 
 And you in glory dwell. 
 
 2 Doubt not to^s word; his grace is free; 
 Believe he died, and calls for thee, 
 
 And your poor souls shall live: 
 Can free salvation be deny'd, 
 When in his dying groans he cry'dj 
 
 "Father, their sins forgive?" 
 
 3 Believe, and feel his boundless love; 
 It soon will bear your souls above. 
 
 To peaceful realms on high; 
 He swears as certain as he lives, 
 This hand a free salvation gives> 
 
 * Why, sinner, wiil ye die?" 
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 4 Will you despise the vast renown, 
 And c boose despair before a crown? 
 
 0< nave eternai joy? 
 Receive a kingdom in your heart, 
 Of life and joy that ne'er'll depart, 
 
 Nor earth or hell destroy. 
 
 HYxMN XXVI. P. M. 
 
 1 r T , riERE fell from God's favour two ex- 
 
 iles of Ed. n, 
 
 They wander'd through deserts of sorrow 
 and pain; 
 
 Were banish'd from Paradise, the piace 
 of their freedom, 
 
 And we their posterity are apt to com- 
 plain: 
 
 O never again in the green shady bowers, 
 
 Where our first parents dvv.it, shall W6 
 spend our sweet hours, 
 
 Nor taste of the fruit, nor smell to the 
 flowers, 
 
 Nor sound to the numbers of Eden again. 
 
 2 O hard is our fate, cries these heart wan- 
 
 d'ring strangers, 
 The brutal creation more happy than we: 
 Surrounded with troubles, temptations, 
 
 and dangers, 
 If God had been just, could surb evils 
 
 e'er be. 
 Hush all these complaints, let us mend 
 
 our behaviour, 
 We need not go mourning ajs exiles fop 
 
 ever} 
 
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 Ifwc but repent and believe in the Sa- 
 viour, 
 
 Who died to redeem us, and lives to re- 
 store. 
 
 J His character is lovely, it shines forth with 
 splendor, 
 
 He invites our attention to joys most sub- 
 lime-: 
 
 He's mov'd with compassion, his heart is 
 mos: tender, 
 
 His blood has aton'cl for the world of man- 
 kind. 
 
 Come, ail you despondent, with hearts 
 n-w i • iv nting, 
 
 Convicted- condemned, with sorrow re- 
 pent] sg, 
 
 Come just- as. you are, with your souls all 
 consenting, 
 
 Accept of salvation in Jesus's name. 
 
 Come, all you fond youth who are doating 
 on beauty, 
 
 Who revel in ball-rooms, and gamble by 
 nigi.t; 
 
 Yet strangers to happiness, neglecters of 
 duty, 
 
 In Jesus I find a superior delight: 
 
 His voice is sweet music, his person en- 
 dearing, 
 
 To my spirit the wine of his kingdom is 
 cheering; 
 
 My heart is a leaping, my soul's persever- 
 ing, 
 
 ]\f y Saviour's my suitor, my partner in love.- 
 
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 5 He offers you pardon, he waits to em- 
 
 brace you: 
 
 H« re's pleasure for ever, come follow the 
 Lamu; 
 
 Ecligior.'a a calling that will not disgrace 
 you 
 
 A-.i onour from heaven arising to fame. 
 
 C< - >u ambitious, that rise by gra- 
 
 dation. 
 
 So 10 ' the i^Sory of every nation; 
 
 C ; tow aid receive it, and take your 
 high nation, 
 
 li h< ciVen be ciown'd on Jesus's throne. 
 
 6 Com* aii you vain tiplers, who often get 
 
 heac'y, 
 Who sup at the tavern and lodge in the 
 
 stre ; 
 You reel on a precipice, you ought to be 
 
 steady, 
 soon you will tumble, and fall in the 
 
 deep: 
 Wh le liquids are plenty, and you'll not 
 
 be craving, 
 Where devils torment, and the damned 
 
 are raving, 
 Where billows of justice in vengeance are 
 
 waving, 
 Overwhelming your souls in the torment 
 
 of hell. 
 
 Y Come, all you poor misers, though rich 
 in your coffers, 
 I doubt much if ever you literal will 
 be, 
 
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 Except you repent, and take Christ at bis 
 offers; 
 
 Your treasure lies useless till death turns 
 thf key. 
 
 You've ground down the poor to accumu- 
 late riches, 
 
 Such impious conduct your character im- 
 peaches; 
 
 The root of ail evil your spirit bewitches, 
 
 To make life penurious, ant ell .a con- 
 te iiipt. 
 3 Come, all you proud deists, who boast of 
 your reason, 
 
 Who will not believe what you can't com- 
 jprehend: 
 
 Come meet your opponent, let us argue 
 a season, 
 
 And see wnere the contest will turn in 
 the end. 
 
 You've erected a babel, now come and de- 
 fend it, 
 
 Comprehend your existence or else don't 
 pretend it; 
 
 Here rises -■.. mountain, and you can't as- 
 cend it. 
 
 You're lost in the valley and sunk in de- 
 spair. 
 9 Come, all ye bold atheists, who glory in 
 error, 
 
 Deny the true God, and pay homage to 
 chanct; 
 
 B.e struck with conviction, and tremble 
 with terror, 
 
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 As you on to ruin so swiftly advance. 
 By chance there's a God, and by chance 
 
 there's a Saviour, 
 By chance there's a hell, and you'll heir 
 
 it for ever; 
 By chance there's a heaven, for each true 
 
 believer, 
 By chance there are angels and seraphs 
 above. 
 10 The church of the first-born to bliss have 
 attained, 
 Though once they were exiles that wan- 
 der 'd in time; 
 Eternity before them the mystery ex- 
 plained, 
 The gioiies of heaven unfolding in prime. 
 Again they're restor'd to the most pleas* 
 
 ing bowers, 
 In the presence of God now they spend 
 
 their sweet hours; 
 Their souls are enrap-ur'd with heavenly 
 
 power, 
 To sing the sweet anthems of Eden again. 
 HYMN XXVII. P. M. 
 I TTTHEN my Saviour, my Shepherd i9 
 near, 
 How quickly my sorrows depart^ 
 New beauties around me appear, 
 
 New spirits enliven my heart; 
 His presence gives peace to my soul, 
 
 And Sataii assaults me in vain; 
 While my Shepherd his power controls^ 
 I think I no more shall complain., 
 
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 2 But, alas! what a change do I find, 
 
 When my Shepherd withdraws from ray 
 sight, 
 My fears all return to my mind, 
 
 My day is soon chang'd into night; 
 Then Satan his efforts renews, 
 
 To vex and ensnare me again; 
 AH my pleasing enjoyments I lose, 
 
 And can only lament and complain. 
 
 3 By these changes I often pass through 
 
 I am taught my own weakness to know"; 
 lam taught what my Shepherd can dc, 
 
 And how much to his mercy I owe; 
 It is he that supports rne through all, 
 
 When I faint, he revives me again, 
 He attends to my prayer when I call, 
 
 And bids me no longer complain- 
 
 4 Wherefore then should I murmur and 
 
 grieve, 
 
 Since my Shepherd is always the same, 
 And has promis'd he never will leave 
 
 The soul that confides in his name; 
 To relieve me from all that I fear, 
 
 He was buffeted, tempted and slain: 
 And at length he will surely appear, 
 
 Tho' he leaves me awhile to complain, 
 
 5 While I dwell in an enemy's land, 
 
 Can I hope to be always in peace? 
 ? Tis enough thai my Shepherd's at hand> 
 
 And that shortly this warfare will cease^ 
 For ere long he wi'»! b'H me remove 
 
 From this region of sorrow and pafn, 
 
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 To abide in his presence above, 
 And then I no more shall complainv 
 
 HYMN XXVIII. L. M. 
 
 1 Q WHAT amazing love is this! 
 
 On earth I taste immortal bliss! 
 I feel that voice which is divine, 
 And know that Jesus Christ is mine. 
 
 2 He leads me on the heavenly road, 
 And feeds my soul with angel's food; 
 My soul, how free his goodness flows! 
 His bleeding love no limits knows, 
 
 3 My soul hath found my Christ to-day;: 
 I feel my darkness rone away; 
 
 His pres-iiCi* made my bars remove, 
 And O, I feast on heavenly love! 
 
 4 I feel my sins are all forgiven; 
 
 This is my Christ, my, all, my heaven! 
 My soul begins her lasting theme, 
 "All glory \o my God, the Lamb!'* 
 
 RYMN XXIX. C. M. 
 
 1 A PPRO ACH, my soul, the mercy seat? 
 
 Where Jesus answers prayer; 
 There humbly fall before his feet, 
 For none can perish there. 
 
 2 Thy promise is my only plea, 
 
 With this I venture nigh: 
 Thou callest the burdened souls to tbce ? 
 And such, O Lord, am I. 
 
 "5 Bow'd down beneath a load of sin., 
 By Satan sorely prest; 
 
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 By war without, and fears within, 
 I come to thee for rest. 
 
 4 Be thou ray shield and Aiding place> 
 
 That sheltered near thy side, 
 I may my fierce accuser face, 
 And tell him " thou hast died." 
 
 5 O, wondrous love! to bleed and die, 
 
 To bear the cross and shame; 
 That guilty sinners, such as I, 
 Might plead thy eraeious name. 
 
 6 " Poor tempest-tossed, soul be still. 
 
 My prorais'd grace receive;" 
 'Tis Jesus speaks, I must, I will, 
 I can, I do believe. 
 
 HYMN XXX. C. M. 
 
 1 UOW r pilgrims, let us go in p^ace, 
 
 While through this wori ; we rovej 
 Till all these parting moments cease, 
 And we shall meet above. 
 
 2 Though trials here our souls annoy, 
 
 And foes beset the road, 
 We're hast'ning to eternai joy, 
 Where we shall rest with God. 
 
 3 Let us fejoice in God our Kir-R;, 
 
 While pilgrims here we rove, 
 And join with heart and voice to sing; 
 The wonders of his love 
 
 4 Soon we shall reach the heavenly land; 
 
 And tread the peaceful shore; 
 And we unite the glorious band. 
 Our Jesus to adore. 
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 5 O! the transporting scenes of bliss 
 Our souls shall then enjoy! 
 For if we be where Jesus is, 
 There's nothing can annoy. 
 
 HYMN XXXI. C. M. 
 
 1 1 ORD, what a wretched land is this, 
 
 f.iat yields us no supply? 
 No cheering fruits, no wholesome trees, 
 Nor streams of living joy. 
 
 2 Bur prickling thorns thro' all the ground, 
 
 And mortal poisons grow; 
 And all the rivers that are found, 
 With dangerous waters flow. 
 
 3 Yet the good path to thine abode 
 
 Lies through this horrid land; 
 L< :-d, we would keep the heavenly road, 
 And run at thy command. 
 
 4 Our souls shall tread the desert through, 
 
 With undivided feet: 
 And .with a flaming zeal subdue 
 The terrors that we meet. 
 
 5 A thousand savage beasts of prey 
 
 Around the forest roam; 
 But Judah's Lion guards the' way, 
 And guides the stranger hoi 
 
 6 Long nights and darkness dwell below, 
 
 With scarce a twinkling r 
 But the bright world towiiici w:: go 
 Is everlasting day. 
 
 7 By glimm'm - ^pes ; my fears, 
 
 We trace tne sacrea road; 
 
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 Thro' dismal deeps and dang'rous snares, 
 We make our way to God. 
 
 8 Our journey is a thorny maze, 
 
 But we march upward still; 
 Forget these troubles of the ways, 
 And reach at Zion's hill. 
 
 9 See the kind angels at the gates 
 
 Inviting- us to come; 
 There Jesus the forerunner waits 
 To welcome trav'llers iiome. 
 
 10 There on a green and flowery mount 
 
 Our weary souls shall sit; 
 And with transporting joys recount 
 The labours of our feet. 
 
 1 1 No vain discourse shall fill our tongudj 
 
 Nor trifles vex our ear; 
 Infinite grace shall be o*r song, 
 And God rcjoir.e to hear. 
 
 12 Eternal glories to the King 
 
 That brought us safely through; 
 Our tongues shall never cease to sing, 
 And endless praibe renew. 
 
 HYMN XXXII. P. M. 
 
 1 "W li'VE found the rock, the traveller.* 
 VY cry'd, 
 
 Halle, hallelujah, 
 The Stone that all the prophets try'd, 
 
 Halle, hallelujah; 
 Come, children, drink the balmy dew, 
 Halle, hallelujah, 
 
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 *Twas Christ that shed his blood for you ; 
 O glory, hallelujah. 
 O glory, giory, g>ory, hallelujah, 
 O glory, glory, hallelujah. 
 
 3 This costly mixture cures the soul, 
 
 >in and guilt had made so foul; 
 O *■ •-; a you would believe in God, 
 An wasti ,,: (Jurist's most precious blood, 
 % 01 arken, children! Christ is come, 
 .. bride is ready, let us nan; 
 I'm giad I ever saw the day, 
 Tnat we might meet to praise and pray. 
 
 4 Th r 's glory, glory, in my soul, 
 
 Co oe, mdyrner, feci the current roll; 
 Welcome, dear friends, 'tis known to 
 
 mght, 
 It shines around in dazzling light. 
 
 5 And in this light we'll soar away, 
 Where there's* no night, but open day! 
 O children, children, bear the cross, 
 And count the World below as dross. 
 
 6 We'll bear the cross, and wear the crown s 
 And by our Father's side sit down; 
 
 His grace will feed our hungry souls.) 
 While love divine eternal roils. 
 
 7 His fiery chariots make their way, 
 To weicorne us to heavenly day, 
 There glitt'ring minions we shall join 
 To praise the Prince of David's line. 
 
 HYMN XXXIII. P. M. 
 I "pROM whence does this union arise ? 
 That hatred is conquer'd by love? 
 
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 J i fastens our souls with such ties, 
 
 That distance nor* time can't remove. 
 It cannot in Eden be found, 
 
 Nor yet in a paradise lost; 
 It grows on ImmanuePs ground, 
 
 And Jesu's dear blood it did cost. 
 My friends once so dear unto me, 
 
 Our souls so united in love; 
 Where Jesus is gone we shall be, 
 
 In yonder blest mansions above. 
 Oh! why then so loth for to part, 
 
 Since there we shall soon meet again? 
 Engrav'd on Emanuel's heart, 
 
 At a distance we cannot remain. 
 
 And since we shall see that, bright day 5 
 
 And join with the angels above, 
 Set free from our prisons of ciuy, 
 
 United in Jesus's love. 
 With Jesus we ever shall reign, 
 
 And all his bright glory shall see } 
 Singing hallelujahs, Amen; 
 
 Amen! even so let it be. 
 
 HYMN XXXIV. C. M. 
 
 T>LEST be the dear uniting love, 
 
 That will not let us parti 
 Our bodies may far off ri move, 
 
 We still are one in heart. 
 Join'd in one spirit to our H-ad, 
 
 Where he appoints we 
 And still in Jesu's footsteps read. 
 And show his praise beww. 
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 3 O may we ever walk in him. 
 
 And nothing know beside: 
 Nothing desire, nothing esteenu 
 But Jesus crucified! 
 
 4 Closer and cioser let us cleave 
 
 To his belov'd embrace; 
 Expect his fulness to receive, 
 And grace to answer grace* 
 
 5 Partakers of the Saviour's grace, 
 
 The same in mind and heart: 
 Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place 
 Nor life, nor death can part. 
 
 6 But let lis hasten to the day, 
 
 W;..ich shall our flesh restore: 
 When death shali all be done away. 
 And bodies part no more! 
 
 HYMN XXXV. P. M. 
 
 i POME, my christian friends and breth- 
 • ren. 
 Bound for Canaan's happy land; 
 Come, unite, and walk together, 
 
 Christ, the Saviour, gives command. 
 Lay aside all party spirit, 
 
 Slight your christian friends no more; 
 Come, unite, through Jesu's merit, 
 Zion's peace again restore. 
 
 2 We'll not bind our brother's conscience. 
 This to God alone is free; 
 Nor contend for non-essentials. 
 But in Christ united fee. 
 
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 Here's the word, the grand criterion, 
 
 This shall all our doctrine prove; 
 Christ the centre of our union, 
 
 And the bond in christian love. 
 -.: Here's my hand, my heart, and spirit, 
 
 Now in fellowship I'll j>ive; 
 Now wc love and peace inherit, 
 
 Show the world how christians live: 
 Now we're one iri Christ our Saviour, 
 
 Male or female, bond or free; 
 Vv'e will praise thy name for ever, 
 
 And be happy, Lord, in thee. 
 -i Now we'll preach and pray together, 
 
 Praise, give thanks, and shout and sing; 
 Now we'll strengthen one another, 
 
 And adore our heavenly King: 
 Now we'll join in sweet communion, 
 
 'Round the table of the Lord; 
 Lord, confirm our christian union, 
 
 By thy spirit and thy word. 
 5 Now the world will be constrained 
 
 To believe in Christ our King; 
 Thousands, thousands, be converted, 
 
 Round the earth his praises ring: 
 Happy day, O joyful hoar, 
 
 Thank the Lord, his name we'll bless; 
 Send thy name, my Lord, with power, 
 Fill the world with righteousness. 
 
 HYMN XXXVI. P. M. 
 
 1 T5RETHREN, we have met to worship. 
 And adore the Lord our God; 
 Will you pray with all your power, 
 While we meet to preach his w 
 
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 All is vain, unless the Spirit 
 
 Of the Holy One comes down; 
 Brethren, pray, and holy manna 
 
 Will be showerM all around. 
 Brethren, see poor sinners round you. 
 
 Slumbering on the brink of wo: 
 Death is coming; hell is moving; 
 
 Can you bear to let them go? 
 See our fathors, and our mothers, 
 
 And our children sinking down; 
 Brethren, pray, and holy manna 
 
 Will be shower'd all around. 
 Brethren, there are poor backsliders, 
 
 Vv ho '.verb once near heaven's door; 
 Bit they have betray'd the Saviour, 
 
 And are worse than e'en before. 
 Yet the Saviour cnreVs pardon, 
 
 If they will lament their wound; 
 Brethren, pray, and holy manna 
 
 Will be shower'd aH around. 
 Let us love our God supremely; 
 
 Let «;s Love each other too; 
 Let us love and pray for sinners, 
 
 Till our God makes all things new, 
 n he'll call us home to heaven; 
 
 At his table we'll sit down; 
 Christ will gird himself and serve us, 
 
 With sweet manna all around. 
 
 HYMN XXXVII. C. M. 
 
 "PARE you well my brother true, 
 Fare you well in love that's true;; 
 
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 Depart in peace, God speed your way> 
 
 And don't forget for me to p;;..y: 
 
 Go on rejoicing in the Lord, 
 
 ProcJaim his gospel and his word; 
 
 In Jesus' foot-stepa trace them through, 
 
 And shout and sing hosanna too. 
 
 And be faithful, brother, do, 
 Be humble, meek, be kind and true, 
 Be honest, plain, harmless and wise, 
 Sweep clean old forms, that light may rise; 
 Like Paul to know nothing beside 
 Christ Jesus, and him crucify'd, 
 Preach him as you do journey through, 
 And shout and sing hosanna too. 
 
 When persecution does arise, 
 
 In love, pray God to ope' their eyes; 
 
 And let your light with brightness shine, 
 
 Hedge up their way with truth divine; 
 
 And if insulting foes you meet, 
 
 Be arm'd with perfect love complete, 
 
 With Jesus clear your passage through, 
 
 And shout and sing hosanna too. 
 
 Shine, O shine, dear brother, shine, 
 Shine with eternal truth divine; 
 Trim your lamp and let it burn, 
 That sinners may from darkness turn; 
 That all who hear your words may say. 
 Did not our hearts burn on the way? 
 Expound the scripture to them true, 
 And shout and sing hosanna too. 
 
 Do every duty day by day, 
 
 And never cease to watch and pray • 
 
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 Be patient with the afflicting rod, 
 And keep y--,urr,eJf in the love of God, 
 Fare you well, my brother true, 
 Fare you well I bid adieu, 
 Depart in peace, God speed your way, 
 Ami don't forget for me to pray. 
 
 HYMN XXXVIII. P.M. 
 
 1 \\THEN T man was first created in Eden 
 
 he was plac'd, 
 The head and representative of all the 
 
 human race; 
 But by the subtle serpent hewasbeguird 
 
 and fell, 
 And for his disobedience was doom'd to 
 
 death and hell. 
 
 2 But in this situation behold the promise 
 
 made, 
 The seed of mortal woman shall bruise 
 
 the serpent's head; 
 Destroy the works of darkness, that man 
 
 should only feci % 
 
 The malice of the serpent a raging at his 
 
 heel. 
 
 3 These word* fhey were spoken in spirit 
 
 and in truth, 
 
 In types and darkest shadows the Saviour 
 was set forth; 
 
 And sacrifice and offerings, all on the al- 
 tar slam , 
 
 The blood of bulls and heifers can ne'er 
 remove the stain. 
 
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 4 At the appointed hour then Jeses he took 
 
 place, 
 Assum'd a fleshy body, and undertook our 
 
 case; 
 He kept the law in our stead, and suffer'd 
 
 on the tree, 
 He answer'd all the laws demands, and 
 
 paid the penalty. 
 
 5 With piercing thorns they crown'd him 5 
 
 and naii'd him to the tree, 
 All nature seem'd to languish to hear his 
 
 agony; 
 But justice cried against him, come pay 
 
 in sinner's doom, 
 For man you've undertaken the work you 
 
 must perform. 
 
 6 The sun was cloth'd in sackcloth, the 
 
 earth it seem'd to mourn, 
 
 All nature seem'd to languish, to hear our 
 Saviour groan; 
 
 But the law was ended upon his spotless 
 head, 
 
 He cried and said its fmish'd, the dread- 
 ful debt is paid. 
 
 7 They hid him in the sepulchre, because 
 
 it was at hand, 
 The grave it could not hold him, nor 
 
 death's cold iron band; 
 He overcame his enemies and gain'd a 
 
 glorious crown; 
 He conquer'd all the powers of hell, and 
 
 broke its kingdom dsjwn. 
 
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 8 And when that he was risen, to Mary he 
 
 appear'd; 
 Ge tell my friends and brethren what you 
 
 have seen and heard; 
 Go tell them I am risen, and death could 
 
 do no more, 
 I go unto my father's house to live for 
 
 evermore. 
 
 9 He came to his disciples, and found them 
 
 all alone, 
 He gave them their commission, to make 
 
 his gospel known: 
 Go preach my gospel to the poor, baptize 
 
 them in my name, 
 Beginning at the spiteful Jews, that put 
 
 my soul to shame. 
 
 10 Go preach unto all nations, let every 
 
 creature hear; 
 Go publish Free Salvation to all both far 
 
 and near: 
 And in your great temptations, I'll speedy 
 
 comfort send, 
 And, lo ! I will be with you, until the world 
 
 doth end. 
 
 YMN XXXIX, P.M. 
 
 1 a^O-DAY if you will hear his voice, 
 
 Now is the time to make your»chofce, 
 Say will you to mount Zion go? 
 Say will you have this Christ or no?. 
 
 2 Say will you be for ever blest, 
 And with this glorious Jesus r..e?\' 
 
Will you be sav'd from guilt and pain: 
 Will you with Christ for ever reign? 
 
 3 Make now your choice and halt no more, 
 For now he's waiting for the poor; 
 
 Say now, poor souls, what will you do? 
 Say, will you have this Christ or no? 
 
 4 Once more I ask you in his name, 
 I know his love remains the same; 
 Say, will you to mount Zton go? 
 Say, will you have this Christ or no? 
 
 5 Ye dear young men, for ruin bound, 
 Amidst the gospel's joyful sound, 
 Come, go with us, and you shall prov^e 
 The joys of Christ's redeeming love. 
 
 6 Your sports and all your glittering toys, 
 Compar'd with our celestial joys, 
 
 Like momentary dreams appear, 
 Come, go with us, your souis are dear. 
 
 7 Or must we leave you, bound to hell, 
 Resolv'd with devils there to dwell? 
 Still we will weep, lament and cry, 
 That God may change you ere you die 
 
 8 Young ladies, rftw we look to you, 
 Are you resolv'd to perish too? 
 To rush in carnaj pleasure on, 
 And sink in flaming rivers down? 
 
 9 Then, blooming friends, a long farewell; 
 We're bound to heaven, but tqu to hell.? 
 Still God may hear us while. we pray, 
 And change you ere the burrajig day. , 
 
 
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 IQ Come, ye that love the blessed Lord, 
 Atfd feel redemption in bis blood, 
 Let's watch and pray, and travel on, 
 Till Jesus comes to call us home. 
 
 1 1 A few more clays and we shall go. I 
 From all our cares and foas belowj 
 In shouts of triumph we shall fly, 
 And dwell with Christ eternally. 
 
 HYMN XL. P. M. 
 
 1 A H, lovely appearance of death! 
 
 What sight upon earth is so fair? 
 Not all the gay pageants that breathe^ 
 
 Can with a dead body compare: 
 With solemn delight I survey 
 
 The corpse when the spirit is fled. 
 In love with the beautiful clay, 
 
 And longing to lie in its stead. 
 
 2 How blest is our brother, bereft 
 
 Oi all that could burthen his mind; 
 I-Jow e,asy Uie soul, that has left 
 
 This wearisome body behind! .. 
 Of evil incapable thou, 
 
 Whose relics with envy I see, 
 No longer in misery no\v, 
 
 No longer a sinner like me. 
 
 * This earth is affected no more 
 
 With sickness, or shajken with pain;. 
 The war in the members is o'er, 
 
 Aud never shall vex him again: 
 
 No anger henceforward, or shame 
 
 Shall redden this iQnaceat clay; 
 
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 Extinct is the animal flame, 
 And passion is vanished away. 
 
 This languishing head is at rest, 
 
 Its thinking and aching av€ o'erj 
 This quiet immoveable breast 
 
 Is heav'd by affliction no more: 
 This heart is no longer the seat 
 
 Of trouble and torturing pain; 
 It ceases to flutter and beat, 
 
 It never shall flutter again. 
 
 ^The lids he so seldom could close, 
 
 By sorrow forbidden to sleep, 
 SeaPd up in eternal repose, 
 
 Have strangely forgotten to weep: 
 The fountain can yield no supplies, 
 
 These hollows from water are free; 
 The tears are all wiped from these eyes; 
 
 And evil they never shall see. 
 
 To mourn and to suffer is mine, 
 
 While bound in a prison I breathe ) 
 And still for deliverance pine, 
 
 And press to the issues of death': r 
 What now with my tears I bedew, 
 
 O might I this moment become! 
 3Vly spirit created anew, 
 
 My flesh be coiisigii'd to the tomH! 
 
 HYMN XLI. L. M. 
 
 f\ DEATH, it is a solemn call, 
 A. sudden judgment to us all; 
 Our friend is dead, laid in the clay; 
 Which is a cap for us today. 
 
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 2 Death takes the young as well as old, 
 Death takes them in his arms so cold; 
 Alike the aged and the young 
 
 He conquers and lays in the tomb. 
 
 3 I spy'd a youth the other clay, 
 All in his prime, looking so gay; 
 Who'd trifled all his time away, 
 And now is gone t' eternity. 
 
 4 This youth upon his dying bed 
 Eternity began to dread; 
 
 He cry'd, O Lord, I see my state, 
 But now I fear it is too late. 
 
 5 His tender parents standing by, 
 With tears fast flowing from each eye; 
 He says, O father, pray for me, 
 
 For I'm going t' eternity, 
 
 6 His tender sister, standing by, 
 Says, my dear, you're going to die; 
 Your youth is spent, your days are past, 
 And to the grave you're hast'ning fast. 
 
 7 A few more breaths could be perceiv'd, 
 Before this youth did take his leave: 
 
 O friends and parents, fare you well, 
 I'm dragg'd by devils down to hell. 
 
 8 Dear youths, I pray you warning take, 
 And all your sinful ways forsake. 
 This youth did die in utmost grief, 
 To think^in hell there's no relief. 
 
 S His sisters now do scream and cry, 
 And strive in vain their teal's to dry; 
 
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 With aching helms afrd troubl'd mindsj 
 To think in hell he is tfbnfin'd. 
 
 10 This is a solemn time, you see. 
 For he is gone t' eternity; 
 
 A day of trial hastens on, 
 
 When you and I must meet our doon^ 
 
 11 O let us all be well inclin'd, 
 For we must die in a short time; 
 And then for ever we must dwell 
 With Christ, or in the flames of heJL 
 
 -12 Now to conclude, I do you tell, 
 
 We all, through grace, may escape helj& 
 And if in Jesus Christ we die, / 
 
 AVe'll dwell with God eternally, 
 
 .HYMN XLII. P. M. 
 
 1 T O! he com?s with clouds descending. 
 
 Once for favour'd sinners slain! [ 
 Thousand, thousand saints attending," '* 
 Swell the triumphs of his train: 
 
 Hallelujah! 
 God appears on earth to reign. 
 
 2 Ev'ry eye shall now behold him 
 
 Rob'd in dreadful majesty; 
 Those who set at naught and sold him*. 
 Pierc'd and nail'd him to the tree, 
 
 Deeply wailing, 
 Shall the true Messiah see. 
 
 o The dear tokens of his passion, 
 Still his dazzling body bears; 
 Cause of endless exultation 
 To his ransom'd worshippers^ 
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 With what rapture 
 Gaze we on those glorious sc&rs. 
 
 Yea! Amen! let all arfore thee 
 High on thy eternal throne! 
 
 Saviour, take the power and glory, 
 Claim the kingdom for thine own* 
 
 Jah! Jehovah! 
 Everlasting God come down. 
 
 HYxMN XLIII. P. 1$. 
 
 TjEATH, he is the king of terrors, 
 
 And a terror to all kings; 
 Oft he fills our minds with horror, 
 
 Telling us of frightful things: 
 .Land of darkness, shades of silence, 
 \ Gloomy vault, where pris'ners lie: 
 Many thousands have been conqu«r'd, 
 
 You, alas! must shortly die. 
 
 "• D^n't you see how unexpected 
 
 In my chariot 1 do ride, 
 Convulsions, fits, and pain an£ sickness, 
 
 Are the weapons by my side. 
 Deaf I am to all entreaties: 
 
 When commission'd I must go, 
 With mortal paleness on my features,, 
 
 Thus 1 give the fatal blow. 
 
 /S Never have I spared any, 
 
 Parents, children, husbands, wives; 
 Neither am I l*rib'd by money, 
 
 Physic will not save your lives, 
 kingdoms, country, or their cities, 
 
 Kings, their, councils, or their slaves, 
 
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 Nctae of these I've ever pitied; 
 Soon I'll bring them to their gnav^&- 
 
 «4 There they lie without distinction; 
 
 Thus I boast my thousands slaiy 
 Nor can they, without permission, 
 
 Ever hope to rise again. 
 Stop, O death, don't boast of victory. 
 
 Hark, and hear what faith can say 
 About one Jesus, who on Calvary 
 
 Died, and in the grave did lay. 
 
 5 See him rising, hear him crying, 
 
 I, O Death, have conquer'd ycfu, 
 -Although your looks are so dismaying 
 
 Yei my saints I will bear through. 
 Thus the souls that are believing, / 
 
 May rejoice in Christ their King;/' 
 Death s no more than a black curtail, 
 
 Drawn to let the saints go in. 
 
 6 There the wicked cease from troubling, 
 
 And the weary are at rest, 
 There the saints shall cease from praying 
 
 There they are divinely blest. 
 Free from sickness, free from sorrow, 
 
 Free from anguish, care and pain; 
 No dread thoughts of gloomy horrorj 
 
 Ere shall frighten them again. 
 
 7 There the saints sing hallelujahs, 
 
 And complete in Christ their King, 
 Ask the grave, Where's now thy vict'ry? 
 
 Boasting monster! where's thy sting? 
 If we're pardon'd through the Saviour, 
 
 Though the grave may us*. annoy, 
 
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 Death's the gate to endless pleasure- 
 Road to everlasting joy. 
 
 HYMN XLIV. P. M. 
 
 ?HPIS finish'd, 'tis done! 
 
 The spirit is fied; 
 The prisoner is gone, 
 
 The christian is dead: 
 The christian is living 
 
 Through Jesus's love, 
 And gladly receiving 
 
 A kingdom above. 
 
 All honour and praise 
 
 Arc Jesus's due: 
 ^Supported by grace, 
 
 Ho fought his way through:, 
 'riumphaotly glorious, 
 
 Through Jesus's zeal, 
 And more than victorious 
 
 O'er sin, death and hell. 
 
 Then let us record 
 
 The conquering name; 
 Our Captain and Lord 
 
 Witii shouting proclaim: 
 Who trust in his passion, 
 
 And follow our Head, 
 To certain salvation 
 
 We all shall be led. 
 
 O Jesus! lead on 
 
 Thy militant care; 
 And give us the crown 
 
 Of righteousness there* 
 
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 Where dazzled with glory 
 
 The Seraphim gaze; 
 Or prostrate adore thee 
 
 In silence of praise. 
 
 5 Come, Lord, and display 
 
 Thy sign in the sky; 
 And bear us away 
 
 To mansions on high: 
 The kingdom be given 
 
 The purchase divine; 
 And crown us in heaven 
 
 Eternally thine. 
 
 HYMN XLV. L. M. 
 
 1 VOUNG people, all attention give, 
 
 While I address you in God's name; 
 You who in sin and folly live, 
 
 Come hear the counsel of a friend. 
 
 2 I've sought for bliss in glittering toys, 
 
 And rang'd th' alluring scenes of vice; 
 But never knew substantial joys 
 Until I heard my Saviour's voice. 
 
 3 He spake at once my sins forgiven, 
 
 And wash'd my load of guilt away; 
 He gave me glory, peace, and heaven, 
 And thus I fomid the hreavenly way. 
 
 4 And now with trembling sense I view 
 
 The billows roll beneath your feet; 
 For death eternal waits for you, 
 
 Who slight the force ot gospel truth. 
 
 5 Youth like the- spring will soon be gone, 
 
 By fleeting time or conquering death; 
 
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 Your morning sun may s"it at noon, 
 And leave you ever in the dark. 
 
 <5 Your sparkling eyes and blooming cheekfc 
 Must wither like the blasted rose; 
 The coffin, earth, and winding sheet 
 Will soon your active limbs enclose. 
 
 7 Ye heedless ones that wildly stroll, 
 
 The grave will soon become your bed; 
 Where silence reigns and vapours roll 
 In solemn darkness round your head. 
 
 8 Your friends will pass the lonesome place, 
 
 .And with a sigh move slow along, 
 Still gazing on the spires of grass 
 
 With which your graves are overgrown. 
 
 9 Your souls will land in darker realms, 
 
 Where vengeance reigns and billows 
 roar, 
 And roll amid the burning flames, 
 
 When thousand thousand years are o'er. 
 
 10 Still sunk in shades of endless night, 
 
 To groan asd howl in ceaseless pain, 
 And never more behold the light, 
 And never, never me again. 
 
 1 1 Ye blooming youth, this is the state 
 
 Of all who do free grace refuse; 
 And soon with you 'twill be too late 
 The way of life in Christ to choose. 
 
 12 Come, lay your carnal weapons by, 
 
 No longer fight against your God; 
 But with the gospel now comply, 
 And heaven shall be your great reward. 
 
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 HYMN XLYI. P. M. 
 
 1 "VTY friends and my neighbours that live 
 ' "*■ in this place, 
 
 Come listen awhile and I'll tell you your 
 
 case; 
 You have slighted the gospel, despised 
 
 God's word, 
 And scoff 'd at the preachers that were 
 
 sent by the Lord. 
 
 2 There's many a good sermon you have 
 
 h'eard in this place, 
 To warn you of sinning, and teach you 
 
 God's grace; 
 But now may »he preachers complain to 
 
 the Lord, 
 And mourn that the people have rej ected 
 
 his word. 
 
 3 Some under affliction will appear for to 
 
 mourn, 
 And when in sharp sickness they promise 
 
 to return; 
 But if the Lord spares them, they will 
 
 turn to their sin, 
 To drinking and swearing, and to dancing 
 
 again. 
 
 4 Sinners, now you are left in a dangeroirv; 
 
 case, 
 You can rail at God's people, and that in 
 
 their face; 
 You make yourselves merry, but fripnds, 
 
 you don't know, 
 God's vengeance pursues you wherever 
 you go. 
 
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 5 We read that Oie wicked" were turn'd into. 
 
 hell, 
 And all who forget God with devils must 
 
 dwell: 
 I pray you be entreated to turn to the 
 
 Lord, 
 Whilst mercy is offer'd be led by his 
 
 word. 
 
 6 Farewell, my dear friends, I must bid yoa 
 
 farewell, 
 The love that I have for you there's no 
 
 tongue can tell; 
 And I wish above all things we all may 
 
 prepare 
 To meet Christ in glory, and reign with 
 
 him there. 
 
 HYMN XLVII. P. M. 
 
 i^ TTARK, my soul, the trumpet sounding, 
 Christ the awful judge is cornel 
 Now arise, shake off ihy slumber, 
 Angels wait to make him room; 
 Thou art welcome, thou art welcome, 
 To thy everlasting home. 
 
 2 See the ransom'd throng ascending, 
 
 Swift toward their Zion move; 
 Through the skies their courses bending* 
 Till they take their seats above: 
 
 There to worship, &x. 
 And adore the God of love. 
 
 3 On thy great white throne of glory, 
 
 © thou everlasting King, 
 
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 There the angels fall before thee, 
 And the saints due praises sing; 
 
 Thou art worthy, Sec. 
 O thou Lamb for sinners slain. 
 A By thy groaning and thy bleedings 
 Thou didst thy apparel stain; 
 Groaning, dying, interceding, 
 For the helpless race of man, 
 
 Now triumphant, Sec. 
 King of kings for ever reign. 
 
 5 With thy sword and bloody vesture, 
 
 Now thine enemies subdue; 
 Now the stubborn nations conquer, 
 O thou righteous, just and true, 
 
 King eternal, &c. 
 Conquer now thine ev'ry foe. 
 
 6 In th« skies the awful token 
 
 Of thy coming does appear, 
 Nature's all confus'd and broken, 
 Rocks and mountains hurled are: 7 
 
 In whose ruins, Sec. 
 Now these rebels quake and fear. 
 
 Y In thy robes of vengeance flaming, 
 With the armies of the skies; 
 Turning in the ruins flaming, 
 
 Lightning from thy presence fliest 
 
 In thy fury, Sec. 
 Conqu'ring thy last enemies. 
 
 8 Shock'd by the tremendous thunder* 
 Lo! we uemble and behold; 
 Rocks and hills are cltav'd asunder^ 
 Elements in flames are roll'd; 
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 Like a vesture, Sec. 
 Thou didst all the heavens unfold. £ 
 
 9 Now the tribes of earth v/ith mourning, 
 
 Stand to hear their final doom; 
 Down from where there's no returning, 
 Down to that infernal gloom, 
 
 They are banish'd, &c. 
 Never more from thence to come. 
 
 10 Then with joy and admiration, 
 
 Shall the followers of the Lamb 
 Shout all honour and salvation, 
 To the dear Redeemer's name; 
 
 They shall praise thee, kc. 
 Who through tribulation came. 
 
 HYMN XLVIII. P. M. 
 
 1 f)UR Lord is ris'n indeed, 
 
 And bids his members rise; 
 Ye saints, by Jesus freed, 
 
 Pursue him to the skies. 
 This is the day the Lord hath made,, 
 Rejoice, and be for ever glad. 
 
 2 On this triumphant day, 
 
 Peculiarly his own; 
 He calls his church to pray, 
 • And sing around his throne. 
 This is the day the Lord hath m?.de ? 
 Rejoice and be for ever glad. 
 
 3 Jesus, to us impart 
 
 Thy resurrection's power, 
 And teach our quicken'd he? :^. 
 k$ living kord t 3 a-dorej 
 
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 To live wall the redeem'd ai»ve } 
 Rejoicing in thy pard'ning iove 
 
 4 Us, by thy grace, assure 
 
 Thou dost our sins forgive; 
 . And (hen our spirits pure, 
 
 Unto thyself receive; *" 
 
 To keep the day of rest above, 
 Rejoicing in thy heavenly love, 
 
 HYMN XLIX. ' P. M. 
 
 1 TXJTHAT love flows -round from heart to 
 heart, 
 How all rejoice to act their part, 
 
 Where Christ his«house dues build: 
 No hammers jar, nor axes sound, 
 But peace and harmony abound, 
 Each breast with joy is fili'd. 
 .2 bach piece of timber finds its place, 
 ^ Whether 'tis pillar, beam or brace, 
 And perfectly they join: 
 While unbelievers wond'ring stare, 
 To see the happy labourers share 
 The heavenly bread and wine. . 
 
 o Angels had ne'er such food to eat, 
 At once so strengthening and so sweej 3 
 
 As Jesus here bestows* 
 Here love divine has rais'd a throne, 
 Here the rich grace of God is known, 
 The tree of life here grows. 
 4 When once the temple's finish'd right*, 
 Tis most inviting to the sight; 
 Christ dwells and walks therein, 
 
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 Come, dearest Christian, take a seat. 
 In this biest house at Jesus' feet, 
 Who takes away your sin. 
 
 5 Sinners, who sell your souls to buy 
 Honour and gold and vanity, 
 
 Your horrid trading leave; 
 Submit to Christ, and find your place 
 In this biest temple, form'd by grace, 
 
 For all that do believe. 
 
 HYMN L. P. M. 
 
 1 QEE the eternal Judge descending, 
 
 Seated on his shining throne; 
 Now, poor sinners, Christ shall show thee 
 He is the eternal one, 
 
 Trumpets call thee. 
 Come to hear thy awful doom. 
 
 2 Hear the sinner now lamenting 
 
 At the thoughts of future pain; 
 
 Cries and tears he now is venting, 
 
 But he cries and weeps in vain. 
 
 Greatly mourning 
 That he ne'er was born again. 
 
 p Yonder stands the lovely Saviour, 
 With the marks of dying love, 
 O! that I had sought his favour, 
 When I telt his spirit move! 
 
 Doomed justly, 
 For I have against him strove. 
 
 4 All his warning I have sighted, 
 While he daily sought my soul; 
 
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 If some vows to him I plighted. 
 Yet for sin I broke the whole; 
 
 Qolden moments, 
 How neglected did they roll. 
 
 5 Yonder stands my godly neighbours. 
 
 Who were once despis'd by me," 
 They are clad in dazzling splendor^ 
 Waiting my sad fate to see, 
 
 Farewell neighbours, 
 Dismal gulph I'm bound for thee, 
 
 6 Hail ye ghosts that dwell in darkness, 
 
 Grov'ling, raiding of your chains, 
 Christ has now denounced my sentence^ 
 I must dwell in endless pains; 
 
 Down I'm rolling, 
 Never to return again, 
 
 7 Now experience plainly shows me, 
 
 Hell is not a fabled thing; 
 Lo, I see my friends in glory, 
 Round the throne they ever sing; 
 
 I'm tormented 
 By an everlasting sting, 
 
 HYMN LL C. Ivi. 
 
 1 JJOW sweet the name of Jesus sounds. 
 
 In a believer's ear! 
 It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds^. 
 And drives away his fear. 
 
 2 It makes the wounded spirit wholCj 
 
 And calms the troubled breast] 
 'Tis manna to the hungry soul, 
 And to the weary rest. 
 
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 3 Dear name,! the rock on which I build, 
 
 My shield and hiding place; 
 My never failing treasury, fill'd 
 With boundless stores of grace. 
 
 4 Jesus! my shepherd, husband, friend, 
 
 My prophet, priest and king; 
 My Lord, my life, my way, my end, 
 Accept the praise I bring. 
 
 5 Weak is the effort of my heart, 
 
 And cold my warmest thought; 
 But when I see thee as thou art, 
 I'll praise thee as I ought. 
 
 6 'Till then I would thy love proclaim 
 
 With ev'ry fleeting breath; 
 And may the music of thy name 
 Refresh my soul in death. 
 
 HYMN LII. C. M. 
 
 1 f\ WHAT a soul-transporting sight 
 
 Mine eyes to-day have seen; 
 A spectacle of strange delight 
 To angels and to men. 
 
 2 See there, ye unbelieving race> 
 
 The wisdom from above; 
 Behold, in that pale smiling face, 
 The power of him we love. 
 
 3 See glory, while he lays it down, 
 
 Shine through the sinking clay; 
 And, lo! without a parting groan 
 The christian wings his way. 
 
 4 Without a groan the christian dies> 
 
 But not without a word. 
 
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 On me, on me, he loudly cries, 
 To follow to the Lord! 
 
 5 Christ calls me by my worthless name], 
 My soul he beckons home — 
 And, lo! in Jesu's hands I am! 
 And, lo! I quickly come! 
 
 HYMN LIII. P. M. 
 
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 travellers to Zion, 
 Come let us join aad pray; 
 For Satan like a lion 
 
 Is roaring for his prey. 
 And if we only slumber 
 
 In sin, where Satan reignjs, 
 He'll count us of his number, 
 And bind us with his chains. 
 
 Have we not seen our leaders, 
 
 Who pointed out the way, 
 Though they were tall as cedars, 
 
 Yet when they cease to pray 
 Old Satan saw them stagger, 
 
 And aim'd his fatal blow; 
 He struck them with his dagger^, 
 
 And quickly laid them low. 
 
 But if there were an army 
 
 Of devils in the field, 
 One single saint, by prayer, 
 
 Would force them all to yield, 
 Then let us pray together, 
 
 With cries that pierce the sky ? 
 And we shall soon see whether 
 
 Old Satan will no^ fly, 
 
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 4, O Saviour, give us power. 
 
 To conquer all our foes, 
 And help us ev'ry hour 
 
 'Till this short life shall close,; 
 Then bring us to that shore, 
 
 Where we shall all he blest, 
 And fight with fiends no more, 
 
 But sing, and shout, and rest. ' 
 
 HYMN LIV. C. M. 
 
 1 T\7"I!1LL met, dear friends, in Jesus namo. 
 
 Come let us now rejoice; 
 While we our Saviour's name proclaim, 
 With cheerful heart and toice. 
 
 2 But oh! dear Jesus, Lamb of God! 
 
 Send down the heavenly dove; 
 His graces to diffuse abroad, 
 And warm our hearts with love: 
 
 3 In vain, dear Saviour, here we meet, 
 
 Except thy face we see: 
 Thy presence mates life's journey sweet; 
 Dear Lord, we cleave to thee. 
 
 5 A dungeon shows a heavenly dawn, 
 When there with thee we dwell; 
 But if thy presence is withdrawn, 
 A palace is a hell. 
 
 *J Then, O dear Jesus, condescend 
 To meet us with a smile; 
 Thy spirit's quick'ning infTence send s 
 And cleanse pur hearts from guiles 
 
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 6 That at the close each one may say, 
 
 We've not met here in vain; 
 
 For we have tasted heaven to day, 
 
 Nor could we more contain. 
 
 HYMN LV. C. M. 
 
 1 f\ HAPPY souls, how fast you go, 
 
 And leave me here behind; 
 Don't stop for me, for now I see 
 The Lord is just and kind. 
 
 2 Go on, go on, my soul says go, 
 
 And I'll come after you; 
 Although behind, yet I can find 
 I'll sing Hosanna,too. 
 
 3 And give you strength that you may run, 
 
 And keep your footsteps right; 
 Though fast you go, and I so slow, 
 You are not out of sight. 
 
 4 When you get to the world above, 
 
 And all the glory see; 
 When you gel home, your journey's done. 
 Then look you out for me. 
 
 5 For I will come, fast as I can, 
 
 Along that way I steer: 
 Lord, give me strength; I shall at length 
 Be one among )ou there. 
 
 6 There altogether we shall be; 
 
 Together we shall sing: 
 Together we shall praise our God, 
 And everlasting King. 
 
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 HYMN LVI. L. M. 
 
 1 pILGRIMS, with pleasure let us part. 
 
 Since we are bound up in one heart; 
 No length of days, no distant place 
 Can ever break these bands of grace. 
 
 2 Parting with joy, we'll join to sing^ 
 The wondefs of our bleeding king: 
 Oar distant bodies may remove, 
 But nothing shall divide our love. 
 
 5 In vain may earth and hell combine, 
 To quench that love which is divine, 
 It will not cea'se with dying breath, 
 Nor cool when we are cold in death, 
 
 4 And now in love with Jesus's name, 
 Let bodies part and spread his fame; 
 That other souls may leave their wo, 
 And join with us m glory too. 
 
 5 A few more rolling days and years 
 Shall brings period to our tears; 
 Soon we shall reach the blissful shore, 
 Where parting hours are known no more. 
 
 6 Tkere shall our souls adore the hand 
 That led us through this desert land; 
 I-ose ail our grief, forget our pains, 
 Aad join in everlasting strains. 
 
 HYMN LVII. L. M. 
 
 I fOME, ye that do in Jesus dwell,. 
 v My Christian brethren, now farewell; 
 Come, part in peace, and part in love, 
 And sing and pray where'er ye roye. 
 
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 2 Come, wifR your tears aad leave yotn» 
 
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 Do not lament while Jesus reigns; 
 For though in body we may part, 
 Yet we are still as nigh in heart. 
 
 3 And if to distant lands I-go,' 
 
 It is the jub'lee trump to blow: 
 O may my Jesus be with thee; 
 And when you're well remember me, 
 
 4 And when I near my Master get, 
 Then I shall find you near my seat; 
 And we shall often meet as one, 
 When pleading at our Father's throne. 
 
 5 And if I never more return, 
 
 Do not for my long absence mourn; 
 For if I am but near my God, 
 Then all is well, though far abroad. 
 
 6 Since God is every where so tame, 
 Then let us part to spread his fame^ 
 Soon we shall end this mortal race, * 
 Then all shall meet him face to face. 
 
 7 And hallelujah, then our song, 
 
 All sounding through the countless throng 
 Jesus our God that lovely name, r 
 
 Shall be our everlasting theme, 
 
 HYMN LVIII. C. M. 
 
 1 J HEAR the gospel's joyful sound: 
 An organ I shall be, 
 To sound aloud redeeming lore. A 
 
 V M smne/s' misery, 
 
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 2 My honour'd parents, fare vou well; 
 
 My Jesus doth me call; 
 I leave you here with God, until 
 I meet you once for all. 
 
 3 My wild affections I'll forsake, 
 
 My parents and their house; 
 And to the wilderness betake, 
 To pay the Lord my vows. 
 
 4 I will forsake my chiefest mates,* 
 
 That nature could afford; 
 And wear the shfcth unto the field, 
 To wait upon the Lord. 
 
 5 Then through ths wilderness I'll riua. 
 
 Preaching the gospel free: 
 
 O! be not anxious for your son, 
 
 The Lord will comfort me. 
 
 6 And if through preaching I should gain 
 
 True subjects to the Lord: 
 'Twill more than recompense my pain, 
 To see tnera love his word. 
 
 7 My soul doth wish Mount Zion well, 
 
 'What'er beeomes of me; 
 There my best friends and kindred dwell. 
 And there 1 long to be. 
 
 8 Here, in thy courts, I leave my vows, 
 
 And thy rich grace record: 
 Witness yc saints who hear me now, 
 If I forsake the Lord. 
 
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 HYMN LIX C. M. 
 
 iy E happy children who follow Jesus, 
 Into the house of prayer and praise; 
 Who are join'd in union while love increases, 
 Resolved this way to spend vour days; 
 Although we are hated by the world and Satan, 
 And flesh and such as know not God; 
 Vet happy moments and joyful seasons, 
 We oft times find on Canaan's road. 
 
 2 Whilst we've been waiting on lovely Jesus, 
 
 We've felt some streams coming from above,: 
 Our hearts have burned with holy raptures 
 
 We long to be absorb 'd in love, 
 Then let us hold fast what is given, 
 
 And trust in God for time to come, 
 Sure we shall find our way to heaven, 
 
 So farewel Brethren, 1 am going home. 
 
 3 But as we go, let us praise our Jesus, 
 
 And pray for those who spurn his grace, 
 Lest they should lose love's richest treasure* 
 
 And ne'er enjoy God's smiling face; 
 Now here's my hand and my best wishes, 
 In token of my Christian love, 
 In hopes with you to praise mv Jesus, 
 So farewel Brethren we>i] meet above. 
 
 HYMN LX. C. M. 
 
 l^\r HE ^ any turn from Zion's way, 
 Alas! what numbers do, 
 Methinks I hear my Saviour say, 
 Wilt thou forsake me too. 
 
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 2 Ah Lord, with such a heart as mine, 
 
 Unless thou hoJrl me ast, 
 I feel i must 1 shall decline. 
 And prove tike them at last, 
 
 3 Yet I hou alone last power » know. 
 
 To save a 'Wretch iike me, 
 
 To whom or wither eould I go, 
 
 if 1 should turn from thee. 
 
 4 Be\ond a doubt, I rest assur'd, 
 
 Thou art the Christ of God, 
 Who hast eternal life secur'd, 
 H\ promise and b\ blood. 
 
 5 The help of men and angels join'd', 
 
 Could never reach my case, 
 
 Nor <*an 1 hope relief to find, 
 
 Bui in thy boundless grace. 
 
 6 No voice but thine can give me rest, 
 
 \nd bid m> fears depart, 
 No love bm thine can make me bless'd, 
 And satisfy my heart. 
 
 7 What anguish has that question stirrd, 
 
 if 1 will also go, 
 Yet Lord relying on thy word, 
 i humbly answer- no. 
 
 HYMN LXI. P. M. 
 
 I pO\!E th^'i long expected Jesus, 
 BoiD to set iSy people free, 
 FVotn our fears s.-y I - re'ease us, 
 Let us find our resl in thee; 
 
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 Israel's strength and consolation 
 Hope of all the saints thou art, 
 Dear desire of every nation, 
 Joy of every longing heart. 
 
 2 Born thy people to deliver, 
 Born a child and yet a king, 
 Born to reign in ns for ever, 
 Now thj gracious kingdom bring, 
 By thine own eternal spirit, 
 Rule in all our hearts alone, 
 By thine all sufficient merit. 
 Raise us to thy glorious throne. 
 
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 1Q.REAT God, thy watchful care we bless, 
 Which guards our synagogues in peace, 
 Nor dare tumultuous foes invade, 
 To fill our worshippers with dread. 
 
 2 These walls we to thy honour raise, 
 
 Long may they echo to thy praise, 
 And thou descending fill the place, 
 With choicest tokens of thy grace. 
 
 3 Hce let the great Redeemer reign, 
 
 With ail the graces of his train, 
 While power divine his word attends, 
 To conquer foes and cheer his friends. 
 
 4 And in the great decisive da\ , 
 
 When God the nations shall survey, 
 May it before the world appear, 
 
 That crowds were born to glory here, 
 
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 HYMN LXIII C. M. 
 
 ATYEAR Shepherd of thy people hear, 
 Thy presence now display, 
 As thou hast given a place for prayer, 
 So give us hearts to pray. 
 
 2 Within these walls, let holy peace, 
 
 And love and concord dwell. 
 There give the troubled conscience ease. 
 The wounded spirit heal. 
 
 3 Shew us some token of thy lore, 
 
 Our fainting hope to raise, 
 And pour thy blessings from above, 
 That we jvay render praise. 
 
 4f And may the gospel's joyful sound, 
 Enforc'd by mighty grace, 
 Awaken many sinners round, 
 To come and fill the place. 
 
 HYMN LXIV. L. M. 
 
 1F\0TH it not grief and wonder move, 
 To think of Israel's dreadful fall, 
 Who wanted miracles to prove, 
 
 Whether the Lord was God or Baal. 
 
 2 See how the great Elijah stands. 
 
 His feet do glow with love and zeal, 
 In faith and prayer he lifts his hands, 
 And makes to heaven his great appeal. 
 
 3 Lord, if I thy servant am, 
 
 If 'tis thy message fills my heart, 
 
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 Now glorify thy holy name, 
 
 And show this people who thou art 
 
 4 He spake and lo, a sudden flame, 
 
 Consum'd the dust, the wood, the stone, 
 The people struck at once proclaim, 
 The Lord is God the Lord alone. 
 
 5 Like him we mourn an awful day, 
 
 While more for Baal than God appear, 
 Like him my Brethren, let us pray, 
 And may the God of Israel hear. 
 
 © Lord if thy servant speak the truth, 
 If he indeed is sent by thee, 
 Confirm thy word to all these youth, 
 And let us thy salvation see. 
 
 7 Now may the spirit's holy fire, 
 
 Prove every heart that hears the word, 
 Consume each hurtful vain desire, 
 
 And make us know thou art the Lord. 
 
 HYMN LXV. P. M. 
 
 lOAW you my Saviour, 
 
 Saw you my Saviour, 
 Saw you my Saviour and God; 
 
 Oh! he groan'd on Calvary, 
 
 To set us sinners free; 
 And to save us from death by his blood. 
 
 2 He was extended, 
 He was extended, 
 Shamefullv nail'd to the cross, 
 
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 Oh! .he bowed his head and died; 
 Tin:* my Lord was crucified: 
 For to save us from death by his love. 
 
 3 Jesus huus bleeding, 
 Jesus hun« bleeding, 
 
 Three drea -ul hours in pain, 
 
 O! the Sum r iu-/d to shine, 
 
 When his Majesty divine; 
 Was derided, insulted and slain. 
 
 4 Darkness prevailed, 
 Darkness prevailed, 
 
 Darkness prevailed o'er the land, 
 And the solid rocks was rent, 
 Through Creation's vast extent; 
 
 When the Jews crucified the Son of Man 
 
 5 It is finished, 
 It is finished, 
 
 And the dreadful work i§ done, 
 He was taken by the gi eat, 
 And embalm'd in spices sweet, 
 
 And in a new Sepulchre was laid. 
 
 6 Hail! niighly Saviour, 
 Hail: mighty Saviour, 
 
 Prince and the author of peace; 
 
 O! he burst the bands of death; 
 
 And triumphant through the earth. 
 He ascended the mansions of bliss. 
 
 V He has now ascended, 
 He has now ascended, 
 To tjie bless'd mansions above.; 
 
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 Oi he sits enthron'd in bliss, 
 For to give us life and peace, 
 And to bring us to mansions of rest. 
 
 8 I will forgive them, 
 I will forgive them, 
 If they repent and believe, 
 O! let them turn to me, 
 And salvation they shall see, 
 And to cleanse them I'll wash them in blood, 
 
 HYMN LXVI. C. M. 
 
 I'D ISE, rise my soul, and leave the ground; 
 Stretch all thy thoughts abroad, 
 And rouse up every tuneful sound, 
 To praise the eternal God. 
 
 2 Long ere the lofty skies were spread, 
 Jehovah fill'd his throne; 
 
 Or Adam form'd or angels made, 
 Jesus lived alone. 
 
 3 His boundless years can ne'er decrease, 
 But still maintain their prime, 
 Eternity's his dwelling place, 
 
 And ever is his time. 
 
 4 While like a tide our minutes flow, 
 The present and the past; 
 
 He fills his own eternal throne, 
 And sees our ages waste. 
 
 5 The sea and sky must perish to(K 
 And vast destruction come; 
 
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 The creatures look how old they grow, 
 And what their eternal doom. 
 
 6 Well, let the sea shrink all away, 
 And flame melt down the skies," 
 My God shall live an endless day, 
 \V hen old creation dies. 
 
 HYMN LXVII. C. M. 
 
 lTyHAT mighty man, or mighty God, 
 Comes travelling in state, 
 Along the Idumean road, 
 Away from Bozrah's gate. 
 
 2 The glory of his robes proclaim, 
 'Tis some victorious kinsr, 
 
 'Tis I, the Just, the Almighty One, 
 That your salvation bring. 
 
 3 Why mighty Lord; thy saints inquire, 
 Why thine apparel's red. 
 
 And all thy vesture stain'd like those 
 Who in the wine-press tread. 
 
 4 I, by myself have trod the press, 
 And crush'd my foes alone; 
 
 !Vly wrath hath struck the rebels dead, 
 My fury stamp'd them down. 
 
 5 I, have subdued the infernal powers, 
 And broke their kingdom down, 
 
 I, have distroyed that monster death, 
 And made my power known. 
 
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 <Tis Edom's blood that dies my robes, 
 With joyful scarlet stains. 
 The triumph that my raiment wears, 
 Sprung from their bleeding veins. 
 
 Thus shall the nations be subdued, 
 That dare insult my sainls, 
 I have an arm to avenge their wrongs, 
 An ear for their complaints. 
 
 HYMN LXVIII. C. M. 
 
 ITtOLY and reverend is the name, 
 
 Of our eternal king, 
 Thrice holy Lord the angels cry, 
 Thrice holy let us sing. 
 
 Heaven's brightest lamps with him compared, 
 How mean they look and dim; 
 The fairest angels have their spots, 
 When once compared with him. 
 
 Holy is lie in all his works, 
 And truth is his delight, 
 But sinners and their wicked ways 
 Shall perish from his sight. 
 
 The deepest reverence of the mind, 
 Pay, O my soul to God, 
 Lift with thy hands a holy heart, 
 To his sublime abode. 
 
 With sacred awe pronounce his name, 
 Whom words nor thoughts can reach, 
 A broken heart shall please him more, 
 Than the best forms of speech. 
 
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 6 Thou holy God, preserve my soul, 
 From ail pollution free, 
 The pure in heart, are thy delight. 
 And they thy face shall see. 
 
 HYMN LXIX. P. M. 
 
 1 fjOl) with us, O glorious name! 
 
 Let it shine in endless fame, 
 God and man in Christ unite, 
 O, mysterious depth and height. 
 
 2 God with us amazing love, 
 Brought him from his courts above, 
 Now, ye saints his grace admire, 
 Swell the song with holy fire. 
 
 3 God with us, blissful theme! 
 Let the impious not blaspheme, 
 Jesus shall in judgment sit, 
 Dooming rebels to the pit. 
 
 4 God with us, wondrous grace! 
 Let us see him face to face, 
 That we may Emmanuel siug, 
 As we ought our God and King, 
 
 HYMN LXX. S. M. 
 
 1 f^OME all harmonious tongues, 
 Your noblest music bring, 
 
 'Tis Christ the everlasting God, 
 'Tis Christ the blessed Kin^. 
 
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 J Tell how he took our flesh, 
 To take a\vay our guilt. 
 Sing the dear drops of sacred blood, 
 That hellish monsters spilt. 
 
 ! Alas! the cruel spear, 
 Went deep into his side, 
 And the rich flood of purple gore, 
 Their murd'rous weapons dy d. 
 
 The waves of swelling grief, 
 Did o'er his bosom roil, 
 And mountains of Almighty love, 
 Lay heavy on his soul. 
 
 » Down to the shades of death, 
 He bow'd his awful head, 
 Yet he arose to live and reign, 
 When death itself is dead. 
 
 i No more the bloody spear, 
 The cross and nails no more, 
 For hell itself shakes at his name, 
 And all the heavens adore. 
 
 [ There our Redeemer sits, 
 High on his blessed throne, 
 He is our Father and our God, 
 And smiles upon his own. 
 
 HYMN LXXI. C. M. 
 
 T>LEST morning whose young dawning rays. 
 Beheld our rising God, 
 That saw him triumph o'er the dust, 
 And leave his last abode. 
 
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 2 In the cold prison of a tomb," 
 The dear Redeemer lay, 
 
 Till the revolving skies had brought, 
 The third, the appointed day. 
 
 3 Hell and the grave unite their force, 
 To hold our God in vain, 
 
 The sleeping conqueror arose, 
 And burst their feeble chain. 
 
 4 To thy great name almighty Lord, 
 These sacred hours we pay, 
 
 And loud hosannas shall proclaim, 
 The triumph of the day. 
 
 5 Salvation and immortal praise, 
 To our victorious King, 
 
 Let heaven, and earth, and rocks, and seas, 
 With glad hosannas ring. 
 
 HYMN LXXII. L. M. 
 
 I <r ]PlS finished, so the Saviour cried, 
 
 And meekly bow'd his head and died, 
 >Tis finished yes, the race is run, 
 The battle fought, the vict'ry won. 
 
 2 'Tis finished all that heaven decreed. 
 And all the ancient prophets said, 
 'Tis now fulfill'd as was designed, 
 
 In me the Saviour of mankind. 
 
 3 'Tis finished Aaron now no more, 
 Must stain his robes with purple gore. 
 The sacred veil is rent in twain, 
 
 And Jewish rites no more remain. 
 
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 4 £ Tis finished t ii is my dying groan, 
 SI all sins of every kind forgiven, 
 Millions shall be redeemed from death, 
 By this my last expiring breath. 
 
 5 'Tis finished heaven is reconciled, 
 
 And all the powers of darkness spoiled, 
 Peace, love, and happiness again, 
 Return and dwell with sinful men. 
 
 G 'Tis finished, let the joyful sound, 
 Be heard thro' all the nations round, 
 'Tis finished let the echo fly, 
 Thro' heaven, and hell, thro' earth and sky. 
 
 HYMN LXXITI. C. M. 
 
 'T'HERE is a fountain fill'd with blood, 
 Brawn from Immanuel's veins, 
 > And sinners plung*d beneath that flood, 
 Lose all their guilty stains. 
 
 2 The d)ing thief rejoiced to see. 
 That fountain in his day, 
 
 O, may 1 there tho' vile as he, 
 Wash all my sins away. 
 
 3 Bear suffering Lamb thy precious bloody 
 Shall never lose its power, 
 
 4 Till all the rausomd church of God, 
 Ee sav*d, to sin no mere. 
 
 4 E'er since by faith, I saw the stream, 
 Thy flowing wounds supply, 
 Redeeming iove has been my theme. 
 And shall be till I die. 
 
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 6 But when this lisping stammering tongue, 
 Lies silent in the grave, 
 Then in a nobler, sweeter song, 
 I'll sing the power to save. 
 
 HYMN LXX1V. P. M. 
 1 TfOW shall I my Saviour set forth, 
 ** How shall I his beautie? declare, 
 O, how shall I speak of his worth, 
 Or what his chief dignities are? 
 His angels can never express, 
 Nor saints who sit nearest his throne, 
 How rich are his treasures of grace, 
 No this is a mystery unknown. 
 2 In him all the fullness of God, 
 For ever transcendently shines, 
 Tho' once like a mortal he stood, 
 To finish his gracious designs; 
 Tho' once he was nail'd to the cross, 
 Vile rebels like me to set free, 
 Hi* glnrv sustained no loss, 
 Eternal his kingdom shall be. 
 S His wisdom, his love and his power, 
 Seemed then with eact, other to vie, 
 | When sinners he stoop'd to restore, 
 Poor sinners condemned to die, 
 He laid all his grandeur aside, 
 And dwelt in a cottage of clay, 
 poor sinners he lov'd till he dy'd> 
 To wash their pollutions away. 
 4 O, sinners believe and adore, 
 This Saviour so rich to redeem. 
 
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 No creature can ever explore, 
 The treasures of goodness in him; 
 Come all ye who see yourselves lost, 
 And feel yourselves bunlen'd with sin, 
 Draw near while with terror your toss'd, 
 Believe and your peace shall begin. 
 
 HYMNLXXV. P.M. 
 
 1 QOD of power! God of love! 
 
 Earth thy footstool, Heaven thy throne! 
 From thy seat of bliss above, 
 
 Bow thine ear in mercy down. 
 Thou, who dwell'st in endless space, 
 
 Fill the house, we now prepare, 
 With thy presence aud thy grace, 
 
 Hear, oh, hear thy people's pray'r. 
 
 2 Vainly human power essays, 
 
 Vainly to»ls the artists skill, 
 Worthily a shrine to raise, 
 
 Which thy majesty may fill. 
 But where in thy sacred name, 
 
 Two or three assembled are, 
 They may thy sure promise claim, 
 
 Thou wilt hear their humble prayer. 
 
 3 Once o'er all this favor'd land, 
 
 Savage wilds and darkness spread; 
 Shelter'd now by thy kind hand, 
 
 Cheerful dwellings rear their head. 
 Where once frown'd the tangled wood, 
 
 Fertile held* and meadows smile : 
 Where the stake of torture stood, 
 
 Rises now thy Church's pile. 
 
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 4 Where the arrow's VengefW flight, 
 
 Sex. n'or age, nor childhood spard; 
 Fraud was skill, and pow-*r was rights 
 
 There thy gospel's sound is heard! 
 Heard, alas! too oft in vain 
 
 Yet, with mild, prevailing force, 
 Spreads its love-diffusing reign, 
 
 Nor can aught impede its course. 
 
 & Where the hostile fire-brand's flash. 
 
 Reddened, late, the midnight air, 
 And the falling coluunrs crash, 
 
 Drown 4 d the cry of wild despair. 
 Thou, whose nod the storms obey, 
 
 Midst the wreck of blazing domes, 
 Bad*st the foe his fury stay, 
 
 And respect our private homes. 
 
 6 For these wonders of thy grace, 
 
 See us bow the grateful knee, 
 And with this thy holy place, 
 
 Consecrate ourselves to thee. 
 And when in this Temple's bound, 
 
 To thy altar we repair, 
 Breathe thy healing presence round, 
 
 Hear, oh hear, thy people's prayer! 
 
 HYMN LXXYI. C. M. 
 
 CEE where the great incarnate God 
 
 JmIIs a majestic throne, 
 While from the skies, his awful voice, 
 Bears the last judgment down. 
 
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 2 I am the first, and I the last, 
 
 Thro' endless years the same; 
 I ana, is my memorial still. 
 And my eternal name. 
 
 3 Such favours as a God can give, 
 
 My royal grace bestows; 
 Ye thirsty souls come taste the streams, 
 \V here life and pleasure flows. 
 
 4 The saint that triumphs o'er his sins, 
 
 HI own him for a Son, 
 The whole creation shall record 
 The conquests he has won. 
 
 Q But bloody hands and hearts unclean, 
 And all the lying race, 
 The faithless and the scoffinsr crew 
 That spurn at otter d grace. 
 
 6 They shall be taken from my sight, 
 
 Bound fast in iron chains, 
 And headlong plunged into the lake 
 Where pain and darkness reigns. 
 
 7 0, may 1 stand before the lamb 
 
 Wben earth aid seas are fled, 
 And hear the Judge pronounce my name, 
 With blessings on my head. 
 
 8 May 1 with these for ever dwell, 
 
 Who here were my delight: 
 While sinners banish'd down to hell. 
 No more offend my sight. 
 
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 HYMN LXXVII. P. M. 
 
 i\ |Y loving fellow travellers, 
 Who are for Canaan bound, 
 Let's raise a song to Jesus, 
 Make hills and vallies sound. 
 Though troubles do beset us 
 AYhile in this barren place, 
 Yet Jesus will be with us 
 And keep us by his grace. 
 
 2 Tho' infernal spirits tempt us, 
 Our souls they would beguile, 
 The world may persecute us; 
 At us they laugh and smile; — 
 The world would fain deceive us 
 And bring us into thrall; 
 
 But glory be to Jesus, 
 Through him we conquer all. 
 
 3 Since we are so surrounded, 
 Our number seems so few, 
 Let us unite the closer, 
 
 To Jesus still prove true; 
 The wolf can never harm us 
 While in our Shepherd's care, 
 But if we once are parted 
 The wolf will soon appear, 
 
 4 My love to Christ for ever, 
 And to my brethren dear, 
 Let's cherish one another 
 And feel each other's care; 
 Press forward on our journey, 
 Keep Zion still in view, 
 
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 And in spite of all opposers 
 The Lord will bring us through. 
 
 5 Our warfare's nearer over 
 Than when we last did meet, 
 Who next shall leave the army 
 To valk the golden street? 
 No matter which, my brethren, 
 If Jesus gives the call, 
 If I'm the next poor pilgrim, 
 "With Christ 1 leave you all. 
 
 ? Come let us sing his praises, 
 Lest we should meet no more, 
 Till Jesus lands his army 
 On that eternal shore. 
 Sing Glory, hallelujah, 
 Sweet Jesus quickly come, 
 Prepare us for thy glory, 
 And take thy children home. 
 
 HYMN LXXVIII. P. M. 
 
 TEHOVAH Lord, to thee we raise 
 All humble song of sacred praise, 
 
 For comforts in thy Word; 
 By truths divine, as now reveal'd, 
 Dear Lord, our sorrows all are heal'd, 
 
 And peace of mind restor'd. 
 
 The eternal Father in the Son, 
 And Holy Spirit thence, as One, 
 
 En thy blest form we see; 
 Thousands of angels hail thee King, 
 And endless hallelujahs sine, 
 
 T| praise thy Deity. 
 
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 3 Rise then, my soul, from ev'ry sin, 
 The work of righteousness begin, 
 
 And serve this Prinee of light; 
 Whose spirit caus'd the lame to walk, 
 The deaf to hear, the dumb to talk, 
 
 And now to faith gives sight. 
 
 4 Jesus, thou light and life divine, 
 
 All honour, pow'r, and strength be thine; 
 
 To thee my praise I bring; 
 Thou art my all, in glory clad, 
 My Lord, my Saviour, and my God, 
 
 My Prophet, Priest, and King. 
 
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 1 T>RAISE ye the Lord, adore his name, 
 
 Declare his love, his truth proclaim; 
 Be it to ev'ry nation known, 
 Jesus is God, and God alone. 
 
 2 Thy honour and thy name we sing, 
 To thee, great God, our tribute bring; 
 
 The wondrous works which thou hast done, 
 Shall soon be known from sun to sun. 
 
 3 Now for a shout of sacred joy, 
 Zion, thy heart and voice employ; 
 Great is the Lord, he dwells in thee, 
 And great Jehovah's praise must be. 
 
 4 Hosanna to thy name, O Lord, 
 Thy love and goodness we record; 
 We join the angel hosts above, 
 And praise Jehovah, God of love. 
 
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 HYMN LXXX. P. M. 
 
 1 rpHE great Jehovah praise, 
 
 Who lives and reigns in heav'n; 
 The God of truth, and love, and grace, 
 
 To sinners givn. 
 Great is the Lord, the Lamb, 
 By holy saints contest; 
 He is their Lord, their great I Am, 
 Adord and blest. 
 
 3 The dear Redeemer praise, 
 He ail-suiticieiit is; 
 He'll guide us safely all our days, 
 
 : o worlds of Ijiiss. 
 In him secure we stand, 
 Almighty is his pow'r; 
 Our rock tbro' ail the desert land, 
 Our shield and tow ; r. 
 
 3 Our great eternal King 
 
 In heav'n supremely reigns; 
 Angels and saints his praises sing, 
 In s'- eetest strains: 
 There all his people ive, 
 Before his holy throne, 
 And all the joys their God can give, 
 Shall be their own. 
 
 HYMN LXXXI. All 8's. 
 
 1 tESUS, thou King, enthroned on high, 
 To whom angelic hosts draw nigh, 
 Whose courts they fill with thankful songs, 
 Resounding from immortal tongues; 
 
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 Thee they proclaim thro* realms of rest, 
 "God over all, for ever blest." 
 
 2 We would like them thy pow f r proclaim, 
 And swell the honours of thy name; 
 That name whence all our mercies rise, 
 Which to each want gives due supplies: 
 Our King thou art, adord, confest, 
 
 M God over all, for ever blest.'* 
 
 3 Thy Word, unfolded, pours it's light, 
 To clear and bless the mental sight; 
 We see in each prophetic line 
 
 The glories of thy godhead shine; 
 Our great Emmanuel stands confest, 
 ■* God over all, for ever blest." 
 
 4 Be this our care, while here we stay, 
 To walk with thee, who art " the way;" 
 In thtee, "the truth" divine, believe; 
 From thee, "the life,'' our life receive; 
 Thee the sole Lord of pow'r possest, 
 
 * God over all, for ever blest." 
 
 HYMN LXXXII. L. M. 
 
 1 JESUS, thou son of love divine, 
 
 Thy rays thro' all creation shine; 
 In thee, with bright effulgence, meet 
 In blessed union, light and heat. 
 
 2 Thro 4 heav'n thy glory is displayed 
 In one bright day without a shade: 
 Angels from thee supremely prove 
 The nameless, endless joys of love. 
 
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 3 With thee they dwell in vernal light, 
 Nor feel nor fear the shades of night; 
 Thy heavenly beams will never fail, 
 But one eternal day prevail. 
 
 4 Be darkness known on earth no more, 
 But truth display^ from shore to shore; 
 Till men of ev'ry land shall see 
 
 Thy glory, Lord, and worship thee. 
 
 9 <Tis done— the sun of love appears, 
 
 The shades withdraw, the morning clears; 
 Now love and truth prevail again, 
 And one eternal da\ shall reign. 
 
 HYMNLXXX1I1. AllS's. 
 
 1 rpIUS, this is the God we adore, 
 1 Our faithful unchangeable friend; 
 Whose love is as great as his pow'r, 
 And neither knows measure nor end: 
 
 % <Tis Jesus, the First and the Last, 
 
 Whose spirit shall guide us safe homej 
 Well praise him for all that is past, 
 And trust him for all that's to come. 
 
 HYMN LXXXIV. C. M. 
 
 1 f\V/R Jesus is both God and Man, 
 ^ In human form is he; 
 Tho' finite beings cannot scan 
 His vast infinity. 
 
 2- Why should we fear to say or sing, 
 Our God is Man alone, 
 
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 When to the heavens the sovereign King 
 As God and Man is known? 
 
 3 Angels behold him as he is, 
 
 In human form divine; 
 While wisdom, love, and endless bliss, 
 From his blefct body shine. 
 
 4 Jesus to angels thus made known, 
 
 They see the God they love: 
 In human form he fills the throne, 
 And all the heav'us above. 
 
 5 This is the God our souls adore; 
 
 We s^lory in his name, 
 And joyful will, from shore to shore, 
 His Deity proclaim. 
 
 HYMN LXXXV. All Tb. 
 
 1 JESUS mercy let us sing, 
 
 He is our eternal King; 
 With our tongues will we make known, 
 Mercy is from him alone. 
 
 2 Now the human is divine, 
 
 See what nameless glories shine 
 From the body of our Lord! 
 Be his holy name ador'd. 
 
 3 Truth and faithfulness are giv'n 
 From the Lord, the God of heav'n; 
 Mercy ever shall endure, 
 
 Jesu's truth and love are sure. 
 
 4 In his name will we rejoice, 
 All tk« day lift up our voice; 
 
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 Glory in the Lord alone, 
 For no other God we own. 
 
 HYMN LXXXVI. S. M. 
 
 npO God be praises giv'n, 
 
 Who hath the Word unsealed, 
 Disclosed the wondM-ous things of heaven, 
 And holy truth reveabd. 
 
 Now living waters flow 
 To cheer the humble soul; 
 From sea to sea the rivers go, 
 
 And spread from pole to pole. 
 
 Now righteousness shall spring, 
 And grow on earth again; 
 Jesus Jehovah be our King, 
 And o'er the nations reign. 
 
 Jesus shall rule alone, 
 
 The world shall hear his Word; 
 By one blest name shall he be known, 
 The Universal Lord. 
 
 HYMNLXXXVII. P.M. 
 
 THV name we extol, Jehovah, our King, 
 For ever in thee we'll triumph and sing; 
 
 Thro' error and darkness the truth has been, 
 seal'd, 
 
 But now the rich wonders of love are reveal'd. 
 
 The sacred contents <f heaven's blest Word 
 Are opened to men by Jesus our Lord; 
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 The veil is remov'd, we now enter and find 
 The Word's deep arcana explain'd to the mind, 
 
 3 Now heaven and earth in union shall prove, 
 And angels with men conjoined in love: 
 
 Deep truths of the gospel shall make mortals 
 
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 And join the church here with the church in the 
 
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 4 An influx divine from Jesus shall come, 
 His wisdom and love guide travellers home; 
 From Jesu's blest body sweet influence flow. 
 To cheer, and to comfort the church here below. 
 
 5 While love makes us pure, truth holds out her 
 
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 To lead, and conduct to Canaan's blest land: 
 By love and truth guided, we joyfully rise, 
 And Jesus adoring, press on to the skies. 
 
 HYMN LXXXVIII.' S. M. 
 
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 X /^jREAT God, we give thee praise 
 For all thy wond'rous grace, 
 Thy kind and condescending ways, 
 To our poor fallen race. 
 
 3 Thou hast thy love reveal*d 
 
 Beyond what prophets knew. 
 The holy book of truth unseal'd 
 To our astonished view. 
 
 3 We wander now no more 
 
 Where sons of darkness lead: 
 
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 But truth, in sacred light, explore, 
 And wonder while we read. 
 
 4 No more a fruitless strife 
 
 For ever we maintain; 
 The Word is spirit truth, and life. 
 And human notions vain. 
 
 5 The Word is all divine, 
 
 Its inmost is the Lord; 
 
 His glories thro 4 the letter shine, 
 
 And be his name ador'd. 
 
 HYMN LXXXIX. All8's, 
 
 1 a-HE Scriptures we justly esteem 
 A The glory supreme of the Lord, 
 When Jesus, their spirit, is seen, 
 
 That lustre divine to afford. 
 In ev'ry prophetical book. 
 
 Then ri s htlv unfolding, unseal d, 
 
 With ioy we discern, as we look. 
 The wonderful Saviour reveal d. 
 
 3 The first gracious promise to man, 
 
 A. blessed prediction appears, 
 To save is the soul of the pian, 
 
 And gives it the glory it wears. 
 The ancient Levitical law, 
 
 Was prophecy after it's kind; 
 In types there the faithful foresaw 
 
 The Saviour redeeming mankind. 
 * Review each prophetical song, 
 
 Which shines in predictions rich tram, 
 
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 The sweets all to Jesus belong 
 And point out his sutF'rings and rei*n: 
 
 5>iNe David his harp never strung 
 With more of true sacred delight, 
 
 1 han when of the Saviour he sun*, 
 Divinely reveal'd to his sight. 
 4 May Jesus more precious become, 
 His Word be a iamp to our feet, 
 £'n T e iD this ui,de ™ess roam, 
 lill brought in his presence to meet! 
 
 1 lien, then will we gaze on thy face, 
 
 Uur Prophet, our Priest, and our Kin* 
 Recount all thy wonders of grace ^ 
 
 Thy praises eternally sing. 
 
 HYMN XC. C. M. 
 
 1 \\ r E read the holy Word with joy, 
 
 And while the mind is there, 
 
 w, SWeet and P ,easi "§ the employ, 
 What wond'rous truths appear' 
 
 2 Would we our God and Saviour know? 
 
 (That knowledge most divine!) 
 To wisdom's source we'll humble go, 
 For there his glories shine. 
 
 3 Wish we ourselves, our souls to learn, 
 
 Their nature, state, and end? 
 To inspiration's pages turn, 
 There all the man is penn'd. 
 
 4 Would we the heav'nly kingdom view, 
 
 While we for heav'n prepare? 
 
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 Tis iu the sacred pa«^es too; 
 The humble read it there. 
 
 * Whatever we want to learn, or know 
 Of useful, pure, and good; 
 To Jesus, and his scriptures go, 
 It shall be understood. ^ 
 
 6 Jesus, thou God of all the Word, 
 To thee be honour giv'n! 
 Thou givest grace and wisdom, Lord, 
 And thou wilt guide to heav'n. 
 
 HYMN XCI. L. M. 
 
 1 •X'HERE is a stream, whose gentle flow 
 
 A Supplies the city of our God: 
 Life, love, and joy, still gliding thro', 
 And wat'ring our divine abode. 
 
 2 That sacred stream, the holy Word, 
 Which all our raging fear controls: 
 Sweet peace it's promises afford, 
 
 And give new strength to fainting souls, 
 
 3 Happy the man, who fears the Lord, 
 Keeps his commands, obeys his Word; 
 In this his highest wisdom lies, 
 This man alone is truly wise. 
 
 4 Lord, grant me this celestial skill, 
 To fear thy name, obey thy will; 
 Then thy salvation I shall see, 
 And live for ever, Lord, with thee, 
 
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 HYMN XC1L C. 3M 
 
 1 pOUNDED on truth, thy church shall rise 
 
 In thy bright image, Lord; 
 
 And with supreme affection prize 
 
 The doctrines of thy Word. 
 
 2 Thy truth shall spread on ev'ry hand, 
 
 In heav'n and earth be known; 
 Thy holy church for ever stand, 
 Eternal as thy throne. 
 
 3 Thy truth is wisdom, and shall raise 
 
 Thy sons to perfect light; 
 Teach them thy holy name to praise, 
 And worship thee aright. 
 
 4* Thy Word is pure, and all divine, 
 It makes the simple wise; 
 Its beams of heav'nly glory shine 
 To our astonishd eyes. 
 
 5 Thy Word shall be my only guide, 
 It's wonders I'll explore; 
 And while in truth t can confide, 
 Its Author 1*11 adore. 
 
 HYMN XCIII. P. M. 
 
 1 VOW diffuse thy holy spirit, 
 
 Nourish, Lord, the heav'nly seed: 
 Let each heart thy grace inherit, 
 Raise the weak, the hungry feed: 
 
 From the gospel 
 Now supply the people's need. 
 
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 2 O may all enjoy the blessing, 
 
 Which thy Word design mI to give: 
 Let us all, thy love possessing, 
 Joyfully the truth receive, 
 
 And for ever 
 To thy praise and glory live. 
 
 HYMN XCIV. L. M. 
 
 1 TXARK! glad tidings to the shepherds, 
 
 Joyful news the angels bring; 
 God himself in flesh hath entered, 
 Jesus is the new-born King; 
 Hail all glory, hail all glory, 
 Let the whole creation sing. 
 
 2 Shepherds start from midnight slumber; 
 See the glory shining round, 
 
 Gazing on the blaze, they wonder, 
 'Till they're prostrate on the ground. 
 Hallelujahs, hallelujahs, 
 By the shepherds doth resound. 
 
 3 Fear not shepherds, saith the angels, 
 Banish sorrow from your eyes. 
 
 For in Bethlehem's coarse manger 
 God a spotless infant lies. 
 See Jehovah, see Jehovah, 
 Veil'd in clay below the skies. 
 
 it Haste away, ye eastern sages. 
 See the star proclaims your God, 
 Fear not Herod tho he rages, 
 Sending peals of death abroad. 
 Rachel mourning, Rachel mourning, 
 For her children he destroy d. 
 
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 B Sinners roar and saints rejoices, 
 At the great Redeemer's birth; 
 Angels join their cheerful voices, 
 Goo;) will to men, peace on earth. 
 Hallelujah, hallelujah, 
 Glory in the Saviour's birth. 
 
 8 Let all people have salvation, 
 Saith the heralds from above; 
 Sound his name thro 4 every nation, 
 Teach the world redeeming love. 
 Go, ye herahls, go, ye heralds, 
 Spread his name where'er ye rove. 
 
 7 Jesus, spread thy gospel glory, 
 Save pior dying souls from hell; 
 Let all nations bow before thee, 
 Love thy name and with thee dwell. 
 Haste ye heralds, haste ye heralds, 
 Your Redeemers name :o tell. 
 
 HYMN XCV. P. M. 
 
 1 T IGHT of life, the great Messiah, ^ 
 ■^ Promis'd da> -spring from on high, 
 Deign to visit waiting mortals 
 
 From thy state above the sky. 
 
 2 Goti incarnate, veil thy splendour, 
 
 Jo> of heaven, to earth come down; 
 Make in flesh thy humble dwelling, 
 All thy faithful mercies crown. 
 
 3 Shepherds, did you learn his coming, 
 
 Wai.st you kept your flocks by night; 
 
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 Did you set^ his star in heaven 
 Blaze with new-created light? 
 
 1 Haste, ye Ma»i. pome am! worship, 
 See the orient star before; 
 Bring yoiir presents, gold and spices, 
 Blest Vrabia's balmy store. 
 
 5 Ail ye joyous host of heaven, 
 
 Loudly speak the Saviour's praise; 
 Saints and angels in full chorus, 
 Your seraphic voices raise. 
 
 6 Come. O come: your hallelujahs 
 
 In wide-echoing songs proclaim: 
 Heav ; n and earth with joy resounding, 
 Praise the blest Redeemer'-; name. 
 
 HYMN XCVI. P. M. 
 
 1 T> APT into future times, the prophet sung: 
 
 A virgin shall conceive, a virgin bear a Son! 
 From Jesse's root behold a Branch, a iiod — 
 Wonderful, Counsellor the mighty God, 
 The everlasting Father, Prime of Peace, 
 His name — his government shall stili increase. 
 
 2 Swift fly the year*, and rise th' expected morn! 
 Oh spring to light, auspicious Babe! be bom. 
 Hark! a glad voice the lonely desert cheers: 
 Prepare the way! the liud, tl.e God appears! 
 The God, the God! the vocal hills reply. 
 
 The rocks proclaim ih approacl.-og Deity. 
 
 3 Lo, earth receives him from ilie bending skies! 
 Sink down ye mountains, and ye vailies nsej 
 
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 With head* declin-d. ve cedars homa^ 
 
 Be MM ■ » : ft rap-id ftoo*3 j 
 
 The :?av i . -. i •'told: 
 
 Hear him y. ceaf. and at - :«thold. 
 
 4 Now crimes shall c~ase. and Errors empire fail: 
 Rc'ui i aloft her scale: 
 
 Peace o*er the earth her alive «aml ei tea d ^ 
 And white rob'd Iqi >m beat m deseend. 
 
 No sigh repeated, the wide bear, 
 
 Since Je«u» -loops — to wipe each contrite tear. 
 
 5 As ihe gspid shepherd tends his fle^c* care. 
 Beapti fre*l est pat the puresi air, 
 £\plor-» tfce kfest, the w and-riug sheep directs, 
 B* dm,} • ■•ei>ees lbe», and bj night pro'. 
 
 1 hu> -hall mankind ins guardian care engage, 
 The promi»-d Father of an endlesa age. 
 
 6 Rise, e m i f ti witl light, imperial ?a)etn. r 
 Exalt r> town head, and lift ihj ei 
 
 * - _• * h y s p a (■ i ■ « m; 
 
 See latere sons and daughters, yet unborn, 
 In crowding rank; > le arise, 
 
 ReeeiNi..- .. -paring for the skic?! 
 
 HYMN XCV1I. C. M. 
 
 1 "P OWN" from the worlds of radiant Ji. 
 
 B- Sai me. 
 
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 2 He m1:« 
 
 From mis*r> and despair; 
 
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 Bids us receive his wond'rous grace, 
 And seek salvation there. 
 
 3 We come, Emmanuel, at thy call, 
 
 Believe thj glad'ning Word; 
 Renounce our sins, ourselves, our all. 
 And glory in our Lord. 
 
 4 Salvation to Jehovah's name 
 
 With grateful hearts we sing, 
 And join our voices to proclaim 
 Our Saviour and our King. 
 
 5 Immortal praise to God belongs. 
 
 For such unfathourd love; 
 Join all below in rapt'rous songs, 
 And shout ye hosts above. 
 
 HYMN XC VI II. All 7*. 
 
 1 TJARK! the skies with music sound' 
 
 Heav'nly glory beams around; 
 Christ is born! the augeis sing, 
 Glory to the new-born King. 
 
 2 Peace is come, good -will appears, 
 Sinners, wipe away your tears; 
 Christ for you in flesh to-day 
 Humbly in the manger lay. 
 
 3 Shepherds tending flocks by night, 
 Heard the song, and saw the light; 
 Took their reeds, and softest strains 
 Echo'd thro' the happy plains. 
 
 * Mortals, hail the glorious King! 
 Richest incense cheerful bring; 
 
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 Praise and love Emmanuel's name, 
 And iiis boundless grace proclaim. 
 
 HYMN XCIX. L. M. 
 
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 HE morning dawns, celestial light 
 Dispels the gloomy shades of night; 
 Truth rears her standard once again, 
 And love, celestial iove, shall reign. 
 
 2 The heavenly sun, the Lord our God, 
 Beams his refulgent ravs abroad: 
 He chines to bless the humble soul, 
 And spread his truth from pole to pole. 
 
 3 Now nations barbarous, rude, and blind, 
 111 Jesus shall salvation find: 
 
 Idols before his name shall fall, 
 And Christ our God, be Lord of all. 
 
 4* Thus ev'ry land and clime shall hear, 
 The Lord is God, his name revere; 
 From sin, and deaih, and darkness rise, 
 And join the concert of the skies. 
 
 HYMN C. P. M. 
 
 1 HPO welcome Jesus, God of love, 
 
 Let earth and neavn in rapiure rise; 
 Your tongues in praise, ye christians, move, 
 
 Ye angers' sing above the *kies: 
 Be Jesus s dear-Iov'd name with, pleasure sung, 
 By earth and heav'n, by ail of ev'ry tongue. 
 
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 2 He comes again to bless our race, 
 
 Reveal the glories of his Word, 
 To teach the wonders of his grace 
 
 And reign the only God and Lord. 
 Sinners prepare yuur hearts give Jesus room, 
 Your God is love to bless you is he come. 
 
 3 Redesm'd by mercy, come and bring 
 
 Your grateful tribute to your Gud; 
 Exalt the goodness of your King, 
 
 And spread his nameless love abroad. 
 Love shall attune our hearts and tongues to 
 
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 An everlasting song to Jesu's praise. 
 
 HYMN CL L. M. 
 
 1VOW Lord, thy kingdom is begun, 
 
 And soon shall spread from sun to sun; 
 Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, 
 Thy kingdom rise and fall no more. 
 
 2 Now all the boasting sons of pride 
 From Jesu's presence seek to hide, 
 Usurpers abdicate their throne, 
 And our Jehovah reigns alone. 
 
 o Hail, blessed King! in triumph ride, 
 With truth and justice at thy side; 
 Now bring the haughty kingdoms down, 
 For thou alone shalt wear the crown. 
 
 4 Come, glorious Conqu'ror, rule alone 9 
 Set up thy kingdom, take thy throne; 
 Joyful before thy feet we fall 
 
 And hail thee King and Lord of all. 
 
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 HYMN C1I. L. M. 
 
 i J^OW to onr God a song of praise, 
 F- • holy is his name; 
 Oracious and true are all his ways, 
 We will his love proclaim. 
 
 % See from his throne divinely flow 
 His heav'nly trulh and love; 
 Now we his great redemption know, - 
 His richest mercy prove. 
 
 8 He is the Lord our only God, 
 He comes to men again; 
 His truth and love are spread, 
 And glorious is his reign. 
 
 4 Jesus thou hast to us made known 
 
 The doctrines of thy Word; 
 Thou art our Saviour God alone, 
 W r e know no other Lord. 
 
 5 To thee our songs of praise arise, 
 
 Thou wilt accept ou» lays; 
 And as U» purer states we rise 
 
 We'll give ihee purer praise. 
 
 HYMN Gill. L. M. 
 
 1T>EG1N the song, aloud rejoice, 
 Join ev ry heart, and ev'ry voice; 
 Jesus the God of heav'n proclaim 
 And publish thro' the world his name. 
 
 2 Hark! angels sing bis praise above 
 The heav'ns re-echo with his love; 
 His second arlvem angels «i»:g 
 And new the songs that hail their King. 
 
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 2 Ye christians, learn the rapt'rous lays, 
 In songs oflove advance his praise? 
 O welcome Jesus to the soul, 
 And sound his name from pole to pole. 
 
 .4 Now, now we shall his glory know, 
 The Lord our God will dwell below; 
 In his New Church make his abode, 
 And reign with us, the mighty God. 
 
 5 Rise, ev'ry heart, with rapture sing, 
 Hail Jesus hail him God and King; 
 With all the holy angels vie, 
 In songs oflove and equal joy. 
 
 HYMN CIV. C. M. 
 
 1 A RISE, ye happy christians rise, 
 
 And join the cheerful song; 
 Let notes of praise salute the skies, 
 And heav'n the sound prolong. 
 
 2 Jesus the God, th' eternal Lord, 
 
 A second time appears; 
 Fulfils his own prophetic Word, 
 And his new kingdom rears. 
 
 3 Jerusalem from heav'n descends 
 
 In robes of light divine; 
 And soon the earth's remotest ends 
 8hali see her glory shine. 
 
 * Jesus in his new kingdom reigns, 
 No other God we know; 
 His name resounds thro' heav'n's domains, 
 We shout his praise below. 
 
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 HYMN CV. L. M. 
 
 1 nnHE joyful happy day appears, 
 
 Jehovah dries his Zion's tears; 
 He comes to bless the humble race, 
 And shew the wonders of his grace. 
 
 2 Behold, our God, the mighty God, 
 Who spread the num'rous worlds abroad, 
 Is our Redeemer; we rejoice, 
 
 And praise his name with cheerful voice. 
 
 3 We'll trust in him, nor be afraid, 
 Jehovah is our fortress made; 
 
 He is our aid, his arm is strong, 
 And we'll exalt him in our song. 
 
 4 Wells of salvation open stand, 
 And living waters bless the land; 
 Now, while we draw the truths divine, 
 Our grateful praises, Lord, be thine. 
 
 HYMN CVI. L. M. 
 
 1 QREAT God of heav'n, it cannot be 
 
 That good and evil flow from thee; 
 Thou art eternally the same, 
 And love and mercy are thy name. 
 
 2 Thy ways are truth thy laws are right, 
 Justice and mercy thy delight; 
 
 To all thy tender mercies flow, 
 In heav'n above, and earth below. 
 
 3 Thou didst in love our race create, 
 Holy and happy was their state; 
 
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 And when by sin thy creatures fell, 
 Thou didst redeem their souls from hell. 
 
 4 To all thy grace is freely giv'n, 
 
 And thou wouldst lead them all to heav'nj 
 Thy nature's love, thy dealings kind, 
 Nor one for hell was e'erdesign'd. 
 
 § Great God! how kind are all thy ways! 
 How free thy love, how rich thy grace! 
 All needful aid to us is giv n, 
 And we have pow'r to rise to heav'o. 
 
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 HYMN CVII. C. M. 
 
 TT \RK, the glad sound! The Saviour comet 
 
 The Saviour promis'd Ion 
 
 Let ev'ry heart prepare a throne, 
 And ev'ry voice a song. 
 
 2 On him the Spirit largely pour'd, 
 
 Exerts its sacred tire; 
 Wisdom and might, and zeal and Iove ? 
 His holy breast inspire. 
 
 3 He comes the pris'ners to release, 
 
 In Satan's bondage held; 
 The gates of brass before him burst, 
 The iron fetters yield. 
 
 4 He comes from thickest films of vice 
 
 To purge the mental ray; 
 And on the eyes oppress'd with night, 
 To pour celestial day. 
 
 5 He comes the broken heart to bind, 
 
 The bleeding soul to cure; 
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 A: I ^i r h life ■ .raw. 
 
 T" inricb the humble poor. 
 
 6 Oar glad hosannas. Prince of peaeel 
 Thy u elc ome shall p rt t ! a i ■ : 
 And hea% n'< eterna 
 
 SV];Ji tl y beloved name. 
 
 HYMN CVIH. L. M. 
 
 i A WAKE, my bsvI, mi 
 ~ Tfce | use* ' • r'nh Kin^: 
 
 A^ake and join the sacred tbr. _-. 
 
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 C I .1 strain* re. 
 
 Am emulate ifc* angelic el 
 Loudly the joyful news p- 
 SaWation ji in Jesu'? name. 
 
 I salvation! Shout the glorion* Mild, 
 
 Proclaim i; to tiie world around. 
 
 The Saviour ? V. 
 
 4 I'll pi-aiir hip whilst I hav? my I 
 
 And when ag in death. 
 
 O may my b "il rise. 
 
 T:- join l] - in the ft 
 
 HYMN CIX, L ML 
 
 ''HRO' all the rarioas unJtiBg scene 
 
 Of life's mistaken ill o ■ 
 Thy h . 3 01 seen. 
 
 The slvki&siti 
 
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 2 Thou givest with paternal care 
 
 Whate'er thy wisdom judges besl; 
 And all thy heav'nly bounty share, 
 With equal mercies all are blest. 
 
 3 AH things on earth, and all in heaven, 
 
 On thy blest providence depend; 
 They all for greatest good were giv'n, 
 And all shall in thy glory end. 
 
 4 This be my care, to pass my days 
 
 Obedient to thy holy Word, 
 Resign'd to all thy gracious ways, 
 And grateful live to thee my Lord. 
 
 HYMN CX. S. M. 
 
 inrO God the ouly wise, 
 
 Our Saviour and our King, 
 Let all the saints below the skies 
 Their humble praises bring. 
 
 2 'Tis his almighty love, 
 
 His counsel and his care, 
 Preserves us safe from sin and death, 
 And ev'ry hurtful snare. 
 
 3 He will receive his saints 
 
 Unblemish'd and complete, 
 Before the glory of his faee, 
 To joys divinely great. 
 
 4< Then all the chosen seed 
 
 Shall meet around the throne, 
 
 Shall bless the conduct of his grace., 
 
 And make his wonders known. 
 
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 To our redeeming God 
 
 Wisdom and pow'r belong, 
 Immortal crowns of majesty, 
 And everlasting song. 
 
 HYMN CXI. L. M. 
 
 YyHEN" earthly comforts fade away, 
 Assist me. Lord, resign'd, to say, 
 Tho' awful judgments round me roll, 
 Thou art the portion of my soul. 
 
 AItho ? the fig-tree cease to bear, 
 The vine no mantling cluster wear, 
 The labour of the olive fail, 
 Nor verdant pastures clothe the vale: 
 
 Tho' bleating flocks should perish all, 
 Nor fatten'd herds adorn the stall; 
 And tho' this dismal sight and sound 
 Spread deathful famine all around: 
 
 Yet in my God will I rejoice, 
 With thankful heart, and cheerful voice; 
 His praise shall still my powers employ; 
 And his salvation be my joy. 
 
 HYMN CXII. C. M. 
 
 t JEHOVAH, Lord of truth divine, 
 Thy Word of grace proclaim: 
 O! may it spread from land to land, 
 Til! all shall know thy name! 
 
 2 We long to see thy church increase, 
 Thy own new kingdom grow: 
 
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 That all the earth may live in peace, 
 And heav'n be seen below. 
 
 3 Prosper the labours of our hands 
 
 To spread thy truth abroad; 
 May ev'ry weak attempt promote 
 The knowledge of our God. 
 
 4 Go forth, blest Lord, in all thy pew'r, 
 
 The distant nations bring; 
 In thy own kingdom may they stand, 
 And know their God and King. ' 
 
 5 One gen'ral chorus then shall rise 
 
 From men of ev'ry tongue; 
 And songs of joy salute the skies, 
 By ev'ry nation suug. 
 
 HYMN CXIII. C. M. 
 
 1T> EJOTCE, ye happy souls rejoice, 
 Who in New Salem stand; 
 And let your all-harmonious voice 
 Sound high from land to land. 
 
 2 All nations soon shall hear and and see, 
 
 How great your favours prove; 
 How wond'rous rich those blessings be, 
 Which flow from Jesu's love. 
 
 3 Jerusalem, divinely blest, 
 
 In all its grandeur new, 
 Shall be by ev'ry tongue confest, 
 When they your glory view. 
 
 4 Delightful church, the Lord's abode! 
 
 Here stands Jehovah's throne, 
 
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 The habitation of our God, 
 Where Jesus reigns alone. 
 
 6 Delightsome land of oil and wine, 
 Here milk and honey flow; 
 Celestial blessings here combine, 
 And fruits immortal grow. 
 
 6 Here will we take our joyful rest, 
 Nor e er Salem roam; 
 For ever and for ever blest 
 In this our happy home. 
 
 HYMN CXIV. C. M. 
 
 ITyHEN God arises in his pow'r, 
 His enemies must flee; 
 The righteous, in that joyful hour, 
 Shall trust, O Lord, in thee. 
 
 2 Jerusalem shall own her King, 
 In his all powrful Word; 
 And humble sacrifices bring 
 To her redeeming Lord. 
 
 3 Protected by his mighty hand, 
 
 Secure our souls remain; 
 The happy church shall ever stand. 
 And endless be her reign. 
 
 4 Jesus, we trust in none but thee, 
 
 In thy own truth confide; 
 Thou \\\h our God, our teacher be, 
 We want no other guide. 
 
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 HYMN CXV. S. M. 
 
 IT^HE holy city see, 
 
 In all its glory stand; 
 Quick to it's gates, ye people, flee 
 From ev'ry distant land. 
 
 2 Now one eternal day 
 
 Shall in the city reign; 
 Darkness and night are fled away, 
 Ne'er to return again. 
 
 3 Ye distant lands attend. 
 
 Ye people that are nigh, 
 Behold Jerusalem descend 
 In grandeur from on high. 
 
 4 The gates wide open view, 
 
 The Lord invites you in; 
 It's honours are for me, for you, 
 And all who flee from sin. 
 
 o Jesus is Lord alone, 
 
 In Zion, lo! he reigns: 
 Bow to his sceptre, Jesus own, 
 And walk the golden plains. 
 
 6 O happy, happy state! 
 
 Great God, we thankful come; 
 Low at thy footstool humbly wait, 
 Till thou shalt take us home. 
 
 7 Jerusalem shall be 
 
 Our peaceful, blest abode; 
 Here will v\e love and honour thee, 
 Oar Jesus and our God! 
 
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 HYMNCXVI. L/M. 
 
 1 JERUSALEM, arise and sing, 
 
 iu highest strains, to God your King; 
 ? Tis your's to give the purest lays, 
 'Tis your's the noblest songs to raise. 
 
 2 You are his church, his chosen bride* 
 With you Jehovah doth reside; 
 
 'Tis you his richest favours prove, 
 And you must sing the song of love. 
 
 3 Come sound his holy name abroad, 
 Hosaunato our Saviour God; 
 
 To him be endless praises giv'n, 
 
 By his new church in earth and heav'n. 
 
 4 Ye holy angels all above, 
 
 Come join our song of joy and love; 
 
 One universal chorus raise, 
 
 And earth and heav'n resound his praise, 
 
 To Jesus, Lord and God alone, 
 
 Who reigns on heav'n's eternal throne, 
 Be glory, povv'r, and honour sung, 
 By ev'ry heart, and ev'ry tongue. 
 
 HYMN CXVII. C. M. 
 
 1 tEHOVAH reigns the mighty Lord, 
 " And Jesus is his name; 
 
 Now in his church his praise record, 
 Ye saints his pow'r proclaim. 
 
 2 Zion rejoice, and Judah sing, 
 
 Your hearts and tongues employ; 
 
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 Ami boundless be the joy 
 
 3 Jesus shall reign from sun to sun, 
 
 Jn evry clime and land; 
 His holy kingdom is begun, 
 And must for ever stand. 
 
 4 Rejoice, ye righteous, and proclaim 
 
 His truth, his pow'r, and love: 
 Throughout the earth make known his name, 
 And sing, ye hosts above. 
 ."> On trutt? and good is built his throne, 
 The idol gods must fall, 
 Jesus-Jehovah ruie alone, 
 The soy-reign Lord alone, 
 
 HYMN CXVIII. C. M. 
 
 1 >f OW blessing, honour, glory, praise, 
 
 . By angel-hosts are snhg; * 
 The saints below - their voices raise, 
 And join in heavily throng. y 
 
 2 Adord be he, who comes to bless 
 
 The nations with his love; 
 To shew his truth and righteousness. 
 And ev'ry cloud remove. 
 
 3 Blest he our God, who comes to reiga 
 
 In Z ion's happv land: 
 Jerusalem is built again, 
 And shall for ever stand. 
 
 t No more this kingdom shall decay, 
 No more the temple fall; 
 Here Jesus reigns with endless sway, 
 The King andXord of all. 
 
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 HYMN.CXIX. L. M. 
 
 1 jERUS\LEM, thou church divine. 
 
 In al! your heav'nly glory shine; 
 Your brightest robes of glory wear, 
 And for your God and King prepare. 
 
 2 Lift up your heads, ye heav'nly gates; 
 Behold, the Kins; of glory waits; 
 
 Ye everlasting doors, give way, 
 The king of Zion comes to-day. 
 
 3 " Who is the king of glory? tell!" 
 The mighty Lord who ennquer'd hell; 
 Strong is his arm, divine his might, 
 'Tis he who puts your foes to flight. 
 
 4 Lift up your heads, ye heav'nly gates; 
 Behold, the King of glory waits* 
 
 " Who is the King of glory, say, 
 
 " That comes in grandeur on the way?" 
 
 5 The Lord of hosts, the mighty God, 
 Who rules his foes with iron rod; 
 'Tis he who your salvation brings, 
 Jesus the Lord, the King of kings. 
 
 HYMN CXX. All 8's. 
 
 1 A WAY with our sorrows and fears, 
 
 At length we've recover'd our home; 
 The city of saints now appears, 
 
 The day of redemption is come. 
 Afflictions and trials are past, 
 
 We dwell in our native abode, 
 The house, which for ever shall last, 
 The palace of angels and God, 
 
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 2 Our mourning is all at an end, 
 
 Since, lav'd by the life-giving Word, 
 We see I he new oil) descend, 
 
 Adorn'd as a bride for her Lord: 
 The city so holy and clean, 
 
 No sorrow can breathe in the air, 
 No gloom of affliction is seen, 
 
 No shadow of evil is there. 
 
 3 In raptures we now can behold 
 
 The heav'nly Jerusalem here; 
 Her walls are of jasper and gold, 
 
 As crystal her buildings are clear. 
 Immovably founded in truth, 
 
 She stands on a rock so secure, 
 She II flourish, immortal, in youlh, 
 
 For ages of ages endure. 
 
 4 No need of the sun in this day, 
 
 Which ne'er shall be follow d by night, 
 For Jesus himself doth display 
 
 A pure and a permanent light. 
 The Lamb is our light and our sun, 
 
 His glory pervades the wide heav'n; 
 Jehovah and Jesus are one, 
 
 No other salvation is giv'n. 
 
 5 Tbf* saints in his presence receive 
 
 Their great and eternal reward; 
 With him Ihej forever shall live, 
 
 And reign in the smile of their Lord. 
 Now kin lies the lire in our breast, 
 
 The flame of angelica] love; 
 With hea\ 'n upon earth we are blest, 
 
 With joys that come down from above. 
 
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 HYMN CXXI. C. M. 
 
 l'npIS ffood to praise Jehovah's name, 
 And of his mercy sins;; 
 To sneak of his eternal fame, 
 And celebrate oar King. 
 
 2 Sweet is the work to sing and tell 
 
 The goodness of the Lord; 
 How we by love are rais'd from hell, 
 And by ihy truth restor'd. 
 
 3 "Tis pleasant to exalt our God, 
 
 Who gathers outcasts in, 
 And sends his love and truth abroad, 
 To heal the plague of sin. 
 
 4 The broken heart of deepest wound 
 
 The Lord in inercy heals; 
 Makes dying sinners strong and sound, 
 And for the wretched feels. 
 
 5 Sing to the Lord, his love declare, 
 
 My voice shall gladly join; 
 He saves our souls, we are his care, 
 His mercy is divine. 
 
 HYMN CXXII. All 8's. 
 
 lpNGAG'D in thy worship, O Lord, 
 If languid and dull be my heart, 1 
 Awaken me straight with thy Word 
 Thy grace to enliven impart. 
 
 2 Vd never sit joyless as dead, 
 
 While others rejoice in thy name: 
 
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 Nor mournfully hpgilowniny head, 
 While they thy rich mercy proclaim. 
 
 3 From formal to faithful I'd rise, 
 
 From coldness to rapture and love; 
 
 1 lon^ for the heavenly joys, 
 To raise my affections above. 
 
 4 The shadow, the form, and the name, 
 
 Are nothing, dear Saviour, to me; 
 The pow r, and the life, and the flame, 
 Can only conjoin me with thee. 
 
 HYMN CXXI1L S. M. 
 
 t T OUD, at thy sacred feet 
 -^ Joyful would we appear; 
 Within thy earthly temple meet 
 To see thy glory here. 
 
 2 We come to worship thee, 
 
 For thou art God alone; 
 In humble pray'r to hend the knee, 
 Before thy holy throne. 
 
 5 Thv Word is our delight, 
 
 Thy truth will make us free; 
 "Tis from thyself a heav'ly light, 
 It leads our souls to thee. 
 
 4 Thy goodness we behold, 
 
 While in thy presence. Lord: 
 Thy wond'rotrs t»'uth and lo\e unfold 
 The treasures of thy Word. 
 
 6 In ml our meetings here, 
 
 Our souls are blest with good; 
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 Thou wilt to waiting minds be near, 
 And give thy children food. 
 
 6 So will we render praise 
 To thee, the God of love; 
 With pleasure walk in all thy ways, 
 Till we shall meet above. 
 
 HYMN CXX1V. S. U, 
 
 ITlOW happy when we meet 
 To hear the holy Word; 
 To bow at Jesu"s blessed feet, 
 Who is our only Lord. 
 
 2 Here saints with rapture join, 
 
 To serve the God of heavn; 
 And here they taste the living wine, 
 From Jesus freely giv'n: 
 
 3 In love and wisdom grow, 
 
 In holiness abound; 
 Cheerful to brighter kingdoms go, 
 Where richer joys are found. 
 
 4 Jehovah smites the rock, 
 
 The living waters rise; 
 Refresh the humble, thirsty flock 
 With true substantial joys. 
 
 5 The bread of life is giv'n, 
 
 The saints with rapture feed, 
 Ten thousand blessings flow from heav'n, 
 And here we're blest indeed. 
 
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 HYMN CXXV. All 8 s. 
 
 lnnHE Lord is here, let us adore, 
 And own how awful is this place! 
 
 Let all within us feel his pow'r, 
 And silent bow before his face! 
 
 "Who know his pow'r, his grace who prove. 
 
 Serve him in fear, with rev'rence love. 
 
 2 Lo, God is here! him day and night 
 
 United choirs of angels wing: 
 To him.enthron'd above all height, 
 
 Hcav'n's host their noblest praises bring: 
 Disdain not, Lord, our meaner song, 
 Who praise thee with a feebler tongue. 
 
 3 Being of beings, may our praise 
 
 Thy courts with grateful fragrance fill: 
 Still may we stand before thy face, 
 
 Still hear aud do thy sov'reign will; 
 To thee may all our thoughts arise, 
 Ceaseless, accepted sacrifice! 
 
 HYMft CXXVI. C. M. 
 
 ApRATSE ye the Lord, who reigns above, 
 
 Aud keeps his courts below: 
 Praise him, the holy God of love, 
 
 And all his goodness show. 
 Praise him for all his noble deeds, 
 
 And for his matchle*.} pow'r: 
 Praise him, from whom all good proceeds. 
 
 Let earth and heav'n adore. 
 
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 2 With joy we'll spread to all abroad 
 
 The great Emmanuel's name: 
 Let ev'ry heart confess him God, 
 
 Him " Lord of hosts" proclaim. 
 Praise him with ev'ry tuneful string, 
 
 And all your heav'nly art: 
 With all the pow'r of music, bring 
 
 The music of the heart. 
 
 3 Praise him, in whom we move and live, 
 
 Let ev'ry creature sing; 
 And glory to their Maker give, 
 
 And homage to their King. 
 With songs we'll praise his name beneath, 
 
 Jesus, be thou ador'd: 
 O praise the Lord with ev'ry breath; 
 
 Let all things praise the Lord. 
 
 HYMN CXXVIL L. M. 
 
 1 ALMIGHTY Lord, thou just and true, 
 
 What songs of praise to thee are due! 
 
 Our happy state to thee we owe, 
 
 And grateful hymns of praise shall flow. 
 
 2 As we advance in wisdom's ways, 
 
 Thy love demands new songs of praise; 
 Our pleasures, joys, and hopes increase, 
 And all within is settled peace. 
 
 i Our foes with weaker pow'r assail, 
 With strength increasing we prevail; 
 Above temptation's pow'r we rise, 
 And press with zeal to yonder skies. 
 
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 4t Transporting thought! celestial state! 
 For this we live, for this we wait; 
 And while we take the happy road, 
 Our songs of praise ascend to God. 
 
 HYMN CXXVIII. P. M. 
 
 ITJAlL, happy day, the tvpe of rest, 
 Xl When all the faithfufshall be blest, 
 And cease from toil and pain; 
 So we to-day the emblem prove, 
 Cease from all work, but praise and love, 
 And heav'nly peace obtain. 
 
 2 To-day our mighty Conqu'ror rose, 
 In triumph o'er his num'rous foes, 
 
 And death a captive bound: 
 So we from ev'ry evil rise, 
 Mount up in thought to yonder skies, 
 
 And walk on Zion's ground. 
 
 3 Be gone, then, ev'ry worldly care; 
 My soul to study, praise, and pray'r, 
 
 To-day be wholly giv'n; 
 I'll humbly wait at Jesu's feet, 
 The saints in solemn worship meet, 
 
 And learn the way to heav'n. 
 
 4 Jesus will kindly condescend 
 
 To teach my soul, my heart amend, 
 
 And fill me with his love; 
 That ev'ry sabbath 1 may know 
 A rich foretate of heaven below, 
 
 The rest of saints above. 
 
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 HYMN CXXIX. L. M. 
 
 4 'pHTNE earthly sabbaths, Lord, we love: 
 But there's a nobler rest above; 
 To that thy servants all aspire 
 With ardent hope, and strong desire. 
 
 2 There languor shall no more oppress; 
 The heart shall feel no more distress; 
 No moans shall mingle with the songs, 
 Which dwell upon immortal tongues. 
 
 3 No anxious cares shall there annoy, 
 No conscious guilt disturb the joy; 
 But every doubt and fear shall cease, 
 And perfect love give perfect peace. 
 
 4 Soon shall the glorious day begin, 
 Which ends the reign of death and sin: 
 Lord, give us then those joys to know, 
 Which from celestial worship flow. 
 
 HYMN CXXX. C. M. 
 
 1 C\ FOR a heart that's pure and clean, 
 
 A mind and will renew'd! 
 In life no base transgression seen, 
 But evils all subdu'd! 
 
 2 Nor will T dream, the heart and life 
 
 Are in a moment clean; 
 For long and painful is the strife, 
 That must be felt within. 
 
 3 Nobly the strife T will maintain, 
 
 And every sin oppose, 
 
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 Till self and all it's loves are slain. 
 And conquer'd all my foes. 
 
 1 But, Lord, the arduous work is thine, 
 Tis thou canst make me pure; 
 My soul to thee 1 will resign, 
 For there 1 am secure. 
 
 HYMN CXXXI. C. M. 
 
 1 nrHE state of conflict now is past, 
 
 The long temptations cease. 
 Darkness and sforms no longer last, 
 The soul is blest with peace. 
 
 2 Jehovah's kind, all-powerful hand 
 
 Doth every cloud remove; 
 He guides us to a better laud, 
 A land of rest and love. 
 
 3 Now waters from their fountains flow, 
 
 In soft and gentle rilis, 
 Refresh our minds where'er we go, 
 O'er valleys plains or hills. 
 
 4 If walking through the humble vale, 
 
 Or on the mount we rise; 
 
 The living waters cannot fail, 
 
 The fountain never dries. 
 
 * The wheat and barley, oil and wine 
 Upon our board are spread: 
 Ten thousand blessings now combine, 
 And kindly we are fed. , 
 
 6 blessed state! O joyful day 
 Of plenty, peace, and rest! 
 
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 Cheerful we'll tread the desert way, 
 To be so richly blest. 
 
 ? Jesus will be our Saviour God, 
 When desolations come; 
 And through temptation's gloomy road 
 Guide us in safety home. 
 
 HYMN CXXX1I. P. M. 
 
 1 JESUS, God of all creation, 
 
 Pure, unbounded love thou art, 
 Visit us with thy salvation, 
 
 Enter every waiting heart; 
 Breathe. O breathe thy holy spirit 
 
 Into every troubled breast; 
 Let us all thj grace inherit, 
 
 Let us find the promis'd rest. 
 
 2 Come, almighty to deliver, 
 
 May we all thy peace receive; 
 Quickly come, and then, O never, 
 
 Never more thy temples leave. 
 Thee we would be always blessing, 
 
 Serve thee as thy hosts above, 
 And !t;y mercy each possessing, 
 
 Glory in thy perfect love. 
 
 3 Finish then thy new creation, 
 
 Pure and spotless let us be; 
 May we feel thy great salvation, 
 
 Come with healing povv'r from thee;; 
 Lord, we would on earth adore thee, 
 
 Till in heaven we take our place, 
 Till we cast onr crowns before thee, 
 
 Lost in wonder, love, and praise! 
 
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 HYMN CXXX11I. C. M. 
 
 r pHE cross of Jesus purifies, 
 
 From self aud sin sets free; 
 His cross cloth make us truly wise, 
 And brings humility. 
 
 Reproaches, persecution, shame — 
 These must the christian bear; 
 
 But when sustain'd for Jesu's name, 
 How light the burdens are! 
 
 Must we endure some earthly loss, 
 Some keen distresses prove? 
 
 If these are part of Jesu's cross, 
 We'll bear them all in iovc. 
 
 Must sharp temptations too beset, 
 And inward conflicts seize? 
 
 The faithful soul will not forget, 
 That these shall end in ease. 
 
 When evil's dead, our spirits rest, 
 Comfort aud peace are giv'n; 
 
 In Jesu's love supremely blest, 
 We taste the joys of heaven. 
 
 HYMN CXXXIV. S. M. 
 
 1 T SEE a host of foes 
 
 Around me daily stand, 
 And al! my holy way oppose 
 To Canaan's happy land. 
 
 i But shall I yield to fear? 
 Is aa my courage gone? 
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 Is not my kind Protector near, 
 To lead me safely on? 
 
 3 My God makes known his aid, 
 
 In every new distress; 
 I'll urge my way, nor be afraid, 
 He will be nigh to bless. 
 
 4 No more I'll dare to stray 
 
 From his protecting hand; 
 v But trust in bim, and keep my way, 
 Till brought to Zion's land. 
 
 HYMN CXXXV. C. M. 
 
 l T^ULL forty years was Israel led 
 
 Through deserts waste and wide; 
 They hunger'd oft for daily bread, 
 Their souls were deeply tried. 
 
 3 So we our wilderness must go, 
 Our forty years sustain; 
 Pass through the dreary paths of woe, 
 And walk the thorny plain. 
 
 3 What doth this lonely desert mean? 
 These forty years imply? 
 Temptations, sorrows, trials kecu, 
 And desolation nigh. 
 
 1 Conflicts internal, sharp, severe, 
 And hell against us join'd; 
 No rays of heavenly light appear, 
 To raise the sinking mind. 
 
 5 The hungry soul can find no bread, 
 His thirst no spring supplies; 
 
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 Bui every step he seems to tread, 
 His sorrows swell and rise. 
 
 6 Now, tempted soul, look up on high, 
 Trust in thy gracious God; 
 Though dark thy state, thou shalt not die, 
 For Jesus guides the rod. 
 
 HYMN CXXXVI. C. M. 
 
 1 VOW God reveals his glorious name. 
 
 And brings his truth to light; 
 And love divine, with ardent flame, 
 Dispels the shades of night. 
 
 2 With balmy wing sweet peace descends, 
 
 And dwells with man again; 
 Now sacred truth her path attends, 
 And love and goodness reign. 
 
 3 My soul, pursue the path of peace, 
 
 Religion's joys attend; 
 For these for ever will increase, 
 They'll never, never end. 
 
 4 These only can the bliss bestow; 
 
 Immortal souls should prove; 
 From one short word all pleasures flow, 
 That blessed word is love. 
 
 5 This is the grace that lives and sings, 
 
 When faith and hope shall cease; 
 'Tis this shall strike our joyful strings, 
 In the sweet realms of bliss. 
 
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 HYMNCXXXVII. CM. 
 
 1 Q HAPPY man, thy Maker's care, 
 
 With every mercy blest! 
 Peace, solid peace, thy portion here, 
 Hereafter endless rest! 
 
 2 Assur'd of Jesu's powerful love, 
 
 Composure all thy soul, 
 Thy heart, affections, mind above, 
 How sweet thy minutes roll! 
 
 3 No storms or tempests rage within, 
 
 The fire of hell subdu d; 
 Conquer'd by truth thy every sin, 
 And all the man renew'd. 
 
 4 Look up, beloved soul, and see 
 
 What nameless glories rise, 
 The vast reward prepar'd for thee, 
 In yonder peaceful skies! 
 
 HYMN CXXXYIII. L. M. 
 
 lpILGRIMS to Ziou's city bound, 
 Now passing thro' the desert ground, 
 Urge on with joy your rugged way, 
 And press to everlasting day. 
 
 I See yonder holy kingdom rise, 
 The golden portals meet your eyes; 
 Angels look down, and bid you come 
 To your delightful, peaceful home. 
 
 5 No longer wrapp'd in ten-fold night 
 The heav'nly state, those worlds of light; 
 
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 It's glories now are brought to view, 
 Beyond what all our fathers knew. 
 
 Now ev'ry bumble mind may rise 
 With growing ardour to the skies; 
 The bappy land with transport view, 
 And know it's boundless glories too. 
 
 HYMN CXXXIX. C. M. 
 
 1 A BOVE these narrow scenes of night, 
 "* Unbounded glories rise, 
 
 And realms of infinite delight, 
 Unknown to mortal eyes. 
 
 2 Thro' all those wide extended plains 
 
 Shines one eternal day; 
 Jesus our Lord for ever reigns, 
 And blessings crown bis sway. 
 
 "► No stormy cloud those regions know, 
 For ever bright and fair; 
 And sin, that source of mortal woe, 
 Can never enter there. 
 
 4 O may this heav'nly prospect fire 
 Our hearts with ardent love; 
 May lively faith and strong desire 
 Bear ev'ry wish above. 
 
 HYMN CXL. P. M. 
 
 1 /"^OME, in spirit now rise 
 
 To your state in the skies, 
 Take a foretaste of pleasures above; 
 
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 With the prophet we'll soar 
 To the joys evermore; 
 Lo! We mount in the chariot of love. 
 
 2 What a rapturous song! 
 Hark! the glorify'd throng 
 
 Raise their voices in praise of the Lamb; 
 
 Hallelujah! they cry, 
 
 To the King of the sky, 
 To the great everlasting I Am. 
 
 3 See! the Lord on the throne, 
 Where he reigneth alone, 
 
 Beams his spirit, abundantly given, 
 
 That with angels we men, 
 
 Having souls born again, 
 May be blessed with the pleasures of heaven. 
 
 4 Who on earth can conceive 
 How divinely we live, 
 
 In the city of God, the great King? 
 
 Let a shout now ascend, 
 
 Never more lo have end, 
 And all heaven with the echo shall rinsr. 
 
 5 May our foreheads proclaim 
 His ineffable name, 
 And our spirits his glory display; 
 Till we see the Great Light, 
 As the sun in it's might, 
 Through eternity blaze in full day 
 
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 HYMN CXLI. L. M. 
 
 •pLESS, O my soul, the God of love, 
 ^ Who rules o'er all in heaven above; 
 His great and holy name adore, 
 In songs of joy for evermore. 
 
 He feeds us with the bread divine, 
 Gives us to drink the heavenly wine; 
 And here we sweet conjunction prove, 
 With thee, the Lord our God of love. 
 
 What entertainment can compare 
 With thy own feast, when thou art there., 
 In all thy love and wisdom, Lord, 
 As thou hast promis'd in thy Word? 
 
 : Jesus distributes every good, 
 And fills our mouths with heavenly food; 
 Our strength renew'd, with eagle's wing 
 We mount to Heaven, and praise our King. 
 
 HYMN CXLII. S. M. 
 
 1 nnHIS is a feast of love, 
 
 A union with the Lord; 
 But none the sweet communion prove, 
 Save those ''hat love the Word. 
 
 2 May every feast increase 
 
 The union of the heart! 
 And cordial harmony acid peace 
 To every mind impart! 
 
 3 As one in heart and mind, 
 
 Joint heirs of joys above, 
 
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 Be each to eaeh as angels kind, 
 And walk in truth and love. 
 
 4* That we who eat the bread, 
 And drink the holy wine, 
 At last may live with Christ our head. 
 And all in glory join. 
 
 HYMN CXLIIf. C. M. 
 
 1 ONCE more do we enjoy the sign, 
 
 That we are sons of God, 
 Partake the sacred bread and wine, 
 The holy flesh and blood. 
 
 2 Now seaFd again by Jesu's love,. 
 
 We call the Lord our own; 
 With strength renewed, mount up above. 
 And hasten to his throne. 
 
 3 happy meeting, heavenly feast ? 
 
 Where God and sinners meet! 
 And we (behold) the honoured guests, 
 That sit at Jesu's feet! 
 
 4 But O! the blest, transporting thought! 
 
 Soon we shall rise above; 
 And, to the heavenly table brought, 
 There taste the feast of love! 
 
 5 With angels and blest spirits join, 
 
 In all that can be giv'n, 
 Of goodness, truth, and love divine 
 J a that eternal heav'n! 
 
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 HYMN CXLIV. S. M. 
 
 1 A RISK, my soul, arise, 
 
 And with a cheerful voice, 
 In God, the source of all thy joys, 
 Thy Saviour God, rejoice. 
 
 2 His robes were stain'd in blood, 
 
 W hen he subdued his foes; 
 Aud 'twas for us the mighty God 
 To conquer hell arose. 
 
 2 By his almighty pew'r 
 
 Against the hells he foughtj 
 
 And in the great and awful hour 
 
 Our full redemption wrought. 
 
 4 His woud'rous mercy sing, 
 
 Ye servants of the Lord; 
 To him your thankful praises bring, 
 His nameless love record. 
 
 5 He owns us for his sheep, 
 
 He breaks the tyrant's rod; 
 His flock he will in safety keep, 
 Our Saviour is our God. 
 
 HYMN CXLV. L. M. 
 
 1 JESUS the Man of love we sing, 
 
 The creatures' Servant, and their King: 
 In robes of flesh the Saviour came, 
 And bore for us contempt aud shame. 
 
 2 By suff ring and temptation try'd, 
 Jesus his human glorify 'd; 
 
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 Redeem'd mankind from sin and pain, 
 And open'd heav'n to all again. 
 
 g A fallen world he came to save, 
 He rose victorious from the grave: 
 His death and resurrection prove 
 How vast his pow'r, how great his love. 
 
 4 To Jesus be all glory giv'n, 
 
 Saviour of men, and God of heav'n: 
 Redeeming love we joyful sing, 
 And triumph in our God and King. 
 
 HYMNCXLVI. L. M. 
 
 1CEE from the tomb the Saviour rise! 
 He mounts above the lofty skies! 
 The everlasting doors extend; 
 The heav'ns wjth acclamations rend. 
 
 2 One shout of universal praise 
 Angels and men exulting raise; 
 Millions of hearts and voices join, 
 To hail the human made divine. 
 
 3 What strains of rapture, joy, and love, 
 Echoed thro' all the plains above, 
 When Jesus rose, assum'd his throne, 
 And in refulgent glory shone! 
 
 4 There, there he reigns th' almighty God, 
 And spreads his truth and love abroad: 
 We join the heav'nly hosts, and sing, 
 
 AH glory be to God our King. 
 
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 HYMN CXLYII. C. M. 
 
 IpOME, Faith Divine, thy powers impart 
 Call Wisdom from above: 
 Come, Charity possess the heart, 
 And prompt to deeds of Love. 
 
 2 O God of Truth! the gift is thine: 
 
 Thy dictates we obey: 
 God of Love! propitious shine 
 Thy Love shall grace the day. 
 
 3 Now Love and Truth together meet 
 
 Thus Heav'nly Laws ordain, 
 And happy Union! Joy complete! 
 Shall bless the Church again. 
 
 HYMN CXLYIIL L. M. 
 
 lTTE rose, he rose, the mighty God 
 His foes beneath his footstool trod: 
 Triumphant rose the Lord most high, 
 And angels shout him thro' the sky, 
 
 2 The everlasting doors unfold, 
 
 While angels sing to harps of gold; 
 
 Millions of voices join above, 
 
 To hail the God of pow'r and love. 
 
 a The heav'ns with acclamations ring, 
 One gen'ral chorus hails the King; 
 Jesus the King of glory, known 
 To all in heav'n as God alone. 
 
 4 Ye saints below, your voices raise, 
 Repeat his love in humbler lays: 
 
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 Thro' earth let joyful accents roll, 
 And hear his name from pole to pole. 
 
 5 Jesus our God for us arose, 
 
 Redeein'd our souls, subdu'd our foes; 
 And soon our happy souls shall rise, 
 To sing his praise above ihe skies. 
 
 HYMN CXL1X. C M. 
 
 innEACH me the measure of my days, 
 Thou Maker of my frame; 
 I would survey life'* narrow space, 
 And learn how frail I am. 
 
 2 A span is all that we can boast, 
 
 An inch or two of time; 
 Man is but vanity and dust, 
 In all his flowr and prime. 
 
 3 See the vain race of mortals move 
 
 like shadows o'er the plain; 
 They rage and strive, desire and love. 
 Bat all their noise is vain, 
 
 i Some walk in honour's ^audy shovvj 
 Some dig lor golden ore, 
 They toil for heirs, they know not who. 
 And straight are seen no more. 
 
 5 What should 1 wish or wait for then 
 
 From creatures, earth and dust? 
 They make our expectations vain, 
 And disappoint our trust. 
 
 6 Now 1 forbid my carnal hope, 
 
 My foud desires recall; 
 
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 I give my mortal interest up, 
 And make my God my all. 
 
 HYMN CL. L. M. 
 
 IgEE slow and solemn move along, 
 The weeping kindred, gazing throng; 
 A friend is dead, belov'd and dear, 
 And nature drops the tender tear. 
 
 2 But say, ye kindred, tell us why 
 You heave that melancholy sigh? 
 He is not dead, but lives above, 
 
 In worlds of light and endless love. 
 
 3 He only leaves his flesh and blood, 
 His soul is gone to dwell with God; 
 With him to be for ever blest, 
 With life eternal, endless rest. 
 
 4 Say not he's dead, tie lives indeed; 
 Throw off the sable mourning weed; 
 Let evry pensive tear be dry, 
 
 And sing your friend to worids on higfi 
 
 HYMN CLI. C. M. 
 
 *A F , riend and *&*»% Io, is deadi 
 The eold and lifeless clay 
 Must make in dust it's silent bed, 
 And there it shall decay. 
 
 2 But is she dead?— Ah, no! she lives! 
 Her nobler spirit flies 
 To worlds of bliss, where Jesus give's 
 The life that never dies. 
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 3 Methinks I see her joyful stand 
 
 Before the God of love: 
 He smiles— she enters Zion's land, 
 And shares the joys above. 
 
 4 The*i let us dry our mournful tears, 
 
 To grief no more give place; 
 
 In heav'n our sister now appears, 
 
 To sing her Saviour's praise- 
 
 5 Ere Ions*, releas d, our souls shall go, 
 
 Where pleasures never cease, 
 To join the friend we lov'd below, 
 In everlasting peace. 
 
 6 Farewell, dear friend, from earth farewell! 
 
 We soon shall rise to thee; 
 And when we meet, no tongue can tell, 
 How great our joy shall be. 
 
 HYMN CLII. L. M. 
 
 i 1>LEST is the man, who dies in peace, 
 And gently fields his soul to rest; 
 Who gains from earth the kind release, 
 Leaning upon his Saviours breast. 
 
 2 So fades a stimmer-elond away; 
 
 So sinks the gale, when storms are o'er; 
 So gently shuts the eye of day; 
 So dies a wave along the shore. 
 
 3 A holy quiet reigns around; 
 
 A cairn, which nothing e'er destroys; 
 INoughl can disturb that peace profound ? 
 Which this unfetter'd soul enjoys. 
 
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 4 Farewell! conflicting hopes and fears, 
 
 Where light, and shade, alternate dwell! 
 How bright th" unchanging morn appears! 
 Farewell! inconstant world, farewell! 
 
 5 His duty done, as drops the clay, 
 
 The spirit gains it's full release, 
 While guardian angels sweetly say, 
 " Blest is the man, who dies in peace." 
 
 HYMN CLIll. All Vs. 
 
 1 T> ICH in mercy. Jesus reigns, 
 Heaven owns no other king; 
 Crown him, mortals, in your strains, 
 
 While his matchless grase )ou sing. 
 Angels wake their loftier lays, 
 Kindled from celestial fires; 
 Humbler spirits bid his praise 
 Sweetly flow from silver Ijres. 
 
 2 Mortals! catch the pleasing strain, 
 
 Gratitude demands the song- 
 Jesus builds his Church a^ain, 
 
 Where your Babel stood so long. 
 Truth divine her wall supports, 
 
 Love has pav'd her streets of gold; 
 Jasper towers, and crystal courts, 
 
 Gates of pearl, that never fold. 
 
 3 Pilgrims! enter, and rejoice — 
 
 Here your Saviour holds his throne: 
 ? Tis the City of his choice, 
 
 'Tis the Church he calls his own. 
 
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 Precious gems on every side, 
 
 Heightening all her heavenly charms 
 lis the Lamb's celestial Bride, 
 Smiling in her Husband's arms. 
 
 HYMN CLIV. L. M. 
 
 1^/TTH one consent let all the earth 
 
 To God their cheerful voices raise; 
 Mad homage pay, with awful mirth, 
 Avid sing before him songs of praise. 
 '0 Convinc'd that he is God alone, 
 
 From whom both we and all proceed; 
 We whom he chooses for his own, 
 The flock that he vouchsafes to feed. 
 
 3 O enter then his temple §ate, 
 
 Thence to his eourts devoutly press, 
 And still your grateful hymns repeat, ' 
 And still his name with praises bless. 
 
 4 For he's the Lord, supremely good, 
 
 His mercy is for ever sure; 
 His truth, which always firmly stood. 
 To endless ages shall endure. 
 
 HYMN CLV. P. M. 
 
 1TTARK! the voice of love and mercy 
 Sounds aloud from Calvary! 
 See it rends the rocks asunder, 
 
 Shakes the earth and veils the sky! 
 < It is finish'd!* 
 Hear the dying Saviour crvl 
 
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 2 It is finish'd!— what pleasure 
 
 Do these charming words afford! 
 Heavenly blessing* without measure, 
 
 Flow to us from Christ the Lord, 
 It is finish'd!— 
 Saints, the dying words record. 
 
 J Finish'd all the types and shadows, 
 Of the ceremonial law! 
 Fiuish'd all that God has promis'd; 
 
 Death and hell no more shall awe. 
 It is tinish'd — 
 Saints, from hence your comfort draw 
 
 [Happy souls, approach the table, 
 Taste the soul-reviving food; 
 
 Nothing half so sweet and pleasant 
 As the Saviour's flesh and blood. 
 
 It is tinish'd! — 
 
 Christ has borne the heavy load] 
 
 Tune your harps anew ye Seraphs, 
 Join to sing the pleasing theme; 
 
 All on earth, and ail in heaven 
 Join to praise lmmLanuel's name. 
 
 Hallelujah! 
 
 Glory to the bleeding Lamb! 
 
 HYMN CLVI. [7's] 
 
 1 C? KIS T' tIle Lorf,J is riseu to -<fay! 
 Sons of men and angels say! 
 
 Raise your joys and triumphs high! 
 
 s » D g> ye heavens— and earth, reply. 
 
2 Love's redeeming work is done,^-« 
 Fought the fight, the battle won: 
 Lo! the sun's eclipse is o'er: 
 
 Lo! fie sits in blood no more. 
 
 3 Vain the stone, the watch, the sea!, 
 Christ hath burst the gates of Hell: 
 Death in vain forbids his rise, 
 Christ hath open'd paradise. 
 
 4 Lives again our glorious king! 
 
 " Where, death! is now thy sting?'* 
 
 Once he died our souls to save: 
 
 " Where's thy victory, boasting grave?'* 
 
 f? Soar we now where Christ has led, 
 Following our exalted head: 
 Made like him, like him we rise, 
 Our's the cross, the grave? the skies. 
 
 6 What, though once we perish'd all, 
 Partners of our parent's fail; 
 Second life let us receive, 
 
 In our heavenly Adam live. 
 
 7 Hail thou Lord of earth and heaves! 
 Praise to thee by both be given! 
 Thee we greet triumphant now, 
 liail! the Resurrection — thou. 
 
 HYMNCLVII. S.M, 
 
 IDLEST be the tie that binds 
 -E* Our hearts in Christian love! 
 The fellowship of kindred inind§ 
 Is like to that above. 
 
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 Before our Father's throne, 
 We pour our ardent prayers: 
 Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,- 
 Our comforts and our cares. 
 
 We share our mutual woes; 
 Our mutual burdens bear: 
 And often for each other flows 
 The sympathizing tear, 
 
 i When we asunder part, 
 It gives us inward pain; 
 But we shall still be join'd in heart, 
 And hope to meet again. 
 
 This glorious hope revives 
 Our courage by the way: 
 While each in expectation lives. 
 And longs to see the day. 
 
 From sorrow, toil, and pain, 
 And sin we shall be free; 
 And perfect love and friendship reign 
 Through all eternity. 
 
 HYMN CLVIII. S. M. 
 
 IT ET party names no more 
 
 The Christian world o'erspread; 
 Gentile and Jew, and bond and free, 
 Are one in Christ their head. 
 
 I Among the saints on earth, 
 Let mutual love be found; 
 Heirs of the same inheritance, 
 With mutual blessings crown'd. 
 
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 \ Let e-ivy, child of Hell! 
 Be banish 'd far a v. ay: 
 Those shouJd in strictest friendship dwell, 
 Who the same Lord obey. 
 
 b Thus will the church below 
 Resemble that above; 
 Where streams of pleasure ever flow, 
 And every heart is love, 
 
 HYMN CLVIX. L. M. 
 
 iQUR Lord is risen from the dead, 
 Our Jesus is gone up on high; 
 The pow'rs of hell are captive led, 
 Dragg'd to the portals of the sky. 
 
 2 There his triumphal chariot waits, 
 And angels chant the solemn lay; 
 
 « Lift up your heads, ye heav'nly gates! 
 Ye everlasting doors give way!" 
 
 3 Loose all your bars of massy light, 
 And wide unfold the radiant scene; 
 He claims those mansions as his right, 
 Receive the King of glory in. 
 
 4 " Who is the King of glory, who?" 
 The Lord that all his foes overcame, 
 The world, sin, death, and hell o'erthrew, 
 And Jesus is the conqu'ror's name. 
 
 9 Lo! his triumphal chariot waits, 
 And angels chant the solemn lay, 
 " Lift up your heads ye heav'nly gates! 
 Ye everlasting doors give way!" 
 
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 6 '-Who is the King of glory, who?" 
 The Lord of boundless pqw'r possest, 
 The king of saints and angels (oo, 
 God over all, forever blest! 
 
 HYMN CLX. P. M. 
 
 fpHE joyful morn, my God, is come, 
 That calls me to thy honour'd dom 
 
 Thy presence to adore: 
 My feet the summons shall attend, 
 With willing steps thy courts ascend, 
 And tread the hallowd floor. 
 
 2 Hither from Judith's utmost end, 
 The heaven-protected tribes ascend; 
 
 Their offerings hither bring: 
 Here, eager to attest their joy, 
 In hymns of praise their tongues employ, 
 
 And hail th' immortal Kins- 
 
 3 Be peace implor'd by each on thee, 
 O Sion while with bended knee. 
 
 To Jacob's God we prav; 
 How bless'd, who calls himself thy friend! 
 Success his labours shall attend, 
 
 And safety guard his way, 
 
 4 May st thou be free from' hostile fear, 
 Unmov'd the voice of tumult hear, 
 
 Nor war's wild wastes deplore: 
 May plenty nigh thee take her s\'and, 
 And in thy courts with lavish hand. 
 
 .Distribute all her store 
 
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 @ ^Seat of my friends and brethren, hail! 
 Mow can my tongue, O Sion, fail 
 
 To bless thy lov'd abode? 
 How cease the zeal that in me glows, 
 Thy good to seek, whose walls inclose 
 The mansions of my God? 
 
 HYMN CLXL P. M. 
 
 1 A WAKE, our drowsy souls, 
 
 Skake otf each slothful band; 
 
 The wonders of this day 
 
 Our noblest songs demand: 
 Auspicious morn! thy blissful rays! 
 Bright seraphs hail in song* of praise. 
 
 2 At thy approaching dawn, 
 Reluctant death resigned 
 The glorious Prince of Life, 
 In dark domains confiird; 
 
 Th' angelic-host around him bends, 
 And 'midst their shouts our God ascends. 
 
 3 All hail, triumphant Lord! 
 Heaven with hosannas rings; 
 While earth in humbler strains, 
 Thy praise responsive sings: 
 
 "Worthy art thou, who once wast slain, 
 " Thro' endless years to live and reign.'' 
 
 4? Gird on, great God, thy sword, 
 
 Ascend the conquering car, 
 Wlule justice, truth, and love, 
 Maintain the glorious war: 
 Victorious thou, thy foes shalt tread, 
 And sin and hell in triumph lead. 
 
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 i Make bare thy potent arm. 
 
 And wing the unerring dart. 
 
 With salutary pangs, 
 
 To each rebellious heart: 
 Then dying souls for life shall sue, 
 Numerous as drops of morning dew. 
 
 HYMNCLXII. L.M. 
 
 \ffY song shall bless the Lord of all, 
 My praise aspire to his abode; 
 Thee, Saviour, by that name I call, 
 The great Supreme, the mighty God. 
 
 I "Without beginning or decline., 
 
 Object of faith, aud not of sense 
 Eternal ages saw him shine — 
 He shines eternal ages hence. 
 
 J As much, when in the manger laid, 
 Almighty ruler of the sky; 
 As when the six days' work he made, 
 Fill'd all the morning stars with joy. 
 
 L Of all the crowns Jehovah bears, 
 Salvation is his dearest claim; 
 That gracious sound well pleas'd he hears 3 
 And owns Emmanuel for his name. 
 
 7 A cheerful confidence I feel, 
 
 My well-plac'd hopes with joy I see: 
 My bosom glows with heav'nly zeal 
 To worship him who died for me. 
 
 i As man, he pities my complaint, 
 
 His pow'raud truth are all divine; 
 
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 He will not fail, he cannot faint, 
 Shall not salvation then be mine? 
 
 HYMN CLXIII. L. M. 
 
 i jESUS, where'er thy people meet, 
 There they behold thy mercy-seat; 
 Where'er they seek thee thou art found, 
 And ev'ry place is ha!low ? d ground. 
 
 2 For thou, within no walls eonfin'd, 
 Inhabitest the humble mind; 
 
 Such ever bring thee, where they come, 
 And going, take thee to their home. 
 
 3 And though, O Lord, the flock be few, 
 Thy former mercies here renew; 
 Here, to our waiting hearts proclaim 
 The sweetness of thy saving name. 
 
 4 Here may we prove the power of pray'r, 
 To strengthen faith and sweeten care; 
 To teach our faint desires to rise, 
 
 And bring all heaven before our eyes. 
 
 5 Behold at thy commanding word, 
 We stretch the curtain and the cord; 
 Come thou and fill this wider space, 
 And bless us with a large increase- 
 
 6 Lord, we are few, but thou art near; 
 Nor short thine arm, nor deaf thine ear: 
 O rend the heavens, come quickly down. 
 And make a thousand hearts thine own) 
 
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 HYiMN CLXIV. All 8 ? s, 
 
 lYy HEN Joseph his brethren beheld, 
 
 Afliicted and trembling with fear, 
 His heart with compassion was fill'd; 
 
 From weeping he could not forbear, 
 Awhile his behaviour was rough, 
 
 To bring their past sin to their mind; 
 Bu l when they were humbled enough, 
 
 He hasten d to shew himself kiud. 
 
 2 Thus dragg"d by my conscience, I came, 
 
 And laden with guilt, to the Lord, 
 Sunounded with terror and shame, 
 
 Unable to utter a word. 
 At first he lookd stern and severe; 
 
 What anguish then pierced my heart! 
 Expecting each moment to hear 
 
 The sentence, 4 ' Thou cursed, depart!'' 
 
 3 But, oh! what surprise when lie spoke, 
 
 While tenderness beam'd in his face; 
 My heart then to pieces was broke, 
 
 O'ervvhelm'd and confounded by grace: 
 " Poor sinner, I know thee full well, 
 
 ' By thee I was sold and was slain; 
 - But I dy'd to redeem thee from hell, 
 And raise thee in glory to reign. 
 
 4, "I'm Jesus, whom thou hast blasphem'd r 
 « And crucify'd often afresh; 
 « But let me henceforth be esteem'd, 
 • ; Thy brother, thy bone, and thv flesh; 
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 Si My pardon I freely bestow, 
 
 " Thy wants I will fully supply; 
 
 " 1*11 guide thee and guard thee below, 
 " And soon will remove thee on high. 
 
 5 " Go, publish to sinners around, 
 
 ("That they may be willing to come,' 
 " The mercy which now you have found. 
 And tell them that yet there is room. v 
 Oh, sinners, the message obey! 
 
 jVo more vain excuses pretend; 
 But come, without further delay, 
 To Jesus, our brother and friend. 
 
 HYMN CLXV. All 8s. 
 
 1 ELIJAH'S example declares, 
 
 Whatever distress may betide, 
 The saints may commit all their cares 
 
 To Him who will surely provide. 
 When rain long withheld from the earth 
 
 Occasional a famine of bread, 
 The prophet, secur'd from the dearth, 
 
 By ravens was constantly fed. 
 
 2 More likely to rob than to feed, 
 
 Were ravens who liv'd upon prey; 
 But when the Lord's people have need, 
 
 His goodness will find out a way: 
 This instance to those may seem strange, 
 
 Who know not how faith can prevail; 
 But sooner all nature shall change, 
 
 Than one of God's promises fall. 
 
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 Nor is it a singular case, 
 
 The wonder is often renew'd; 
 x \nd many can say to his praise, 
 
 He sends them by ravens their food; 
 Thus wordlings, though ravens indeed, 
 
 Though greedy and selfish their mind, 
 If God has a servant to feed, 
 
 Against their own wills can be kind. 
 
 Thus Satan, that raven unclean, 
 
 Who croaks in the ears of the saints, 
 Compell'd by a power unseen, 
 
 Administers oft to their wants: 
 God teaches them how to find food, 
 
 From all the temptations they feel; 
 This raven, who thirsts for my blood, 
 
 Has help'd me to many a meal. 
 
 How safe and how happy are they, 
 
 Who on the good Shepherd rely! 
 He gives them out strength for the day, 
 
 Their wants he will surely supply: 
 He ravens and lions can tame, 
 
 All creatures obey his command; 
 Then let me rejoice in his name, 
 
 And leave all my cares in his hand. 
 
 HYMN CLXVI. L. M. 
 
 iqEE, Gabriel swift descend to earth, 
 Glad to foretel a Saviour's birth; 
 Hark! a full choir of angels sing, 
 The new-born Saviour, and the king- 
 
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 2 Behold these swift-vviihtftl envoys wait 
 Oh Jesus, in his humble state; 
 The desert and the garden prove 
 Their glowing zeal^ their tender love. 
 
 [3 But who their mighty joys can tell, 
 When Jesus vanquish'd death and hell? 
 They saw the glorious conqu'ror rise. 
 And fill'd his friends with sweet surprise.] 
 
 4 Still are these glorious hosts above 
 Employ 'd in messages of love; 
 
 On saints below they cheerful wait, 
 Nor think the work beneath their state. 
 
 5 Jesus, my Lord, my living friend, 
 May these thy servants me attend 
 Thro' life; and when I quit this clay, 
 Safe to thine arms my soul convey. 
 
 HYMN CLXVII. S. M. 
 
 lT^ELCOME, sweet day of rest, 
 That saw the Lord arise; 
 Welcome to this reviving breast, 
 And these rejoicing eyes. 
 
 2 The King himself comes near 
 
 To feast his saints to-day; 
 Here we may sit, and see him here, 
 And love and praise and pray. 
 
 3 One day amidst the place 
 
 Where Jesus is within, 
 Is better than ten thousand days 
 Of pleasure and of sin. 
 
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 4 My willing soul would stay 
 Jn such a frame as this, 
 Till it is call'd to soar away 
 To everlasting bliss. 
 
 HYMN CLXVIII. L. M, 
 
 i T>0 angels bow before thy tin-one 
 
 To thee, their ev'ry oft'ring send! 
 And shall not man thy godhead own 
 And low before thine altar beud? 
 
 £ Do all the first born sons of light, 
 Their highest honour pay to thee! 
 Shall man withhold his humble mite, 
 Refuse to bend the suppliant knee? 
 
 J Forbid it Lord! — our breasts inflame, 
 With holy zeal, with pure desire, 
 To sing the glories of thy name, 
 In concert with the heav'nly choir! 
 
 4 To thee, may our devotion r\?a: 
 
 For thee, each pious passion glow: 
 (3 may the fervours of the skies, 
 Kindle in all our souls below! 
 
 St Ml, in the Sacred Bush, may we 
 Heboid thy rays of Godhead shine; 
 
 '•The angel of Thy Presence see," 
 In ev'ry page, in ev'ry line! 
 
 fi "While bands of shining hosts above, 
 All «Bo!v, Holy, Holy, cry;" 
 jtsus, thou God of truth and love, 
 Amen, Amen, our hearts reply! 
 
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 HYMN CLXIX. L. M. 
 
 i /"^OME, weary souls, with sin distrest, 
 "lime, and accept the prornis'd rest; 
 The Saviour s gracious call obey, 
 An-I cast your gloomy fears away. 
 
 2 Oppress'd with guilt, a painful load; 
 O come, and spread your woes abroad: 
 Divine compassion, mighty love, 
 With all the painful load remove. 
 
 3 Here mercy's boundless ocean (lows, 
 
 To cleanse your guilt and heal your woes; 
 Pardon, and life, and endless peace;. 
 How rich the gift! how free the grace! 
 
 4 Lord, we accept with thankful heart, 
 The hope thy gracious words impart; 
 We come with trembling, yet rejoice, 
 Asid bless the kind inviting voice- 
 
 3 Hear Saviour! let thy powerful love 
 Confirm our faith, our tears remove; 
 And sweetly influence every breast, 
 And guide us to eternal rest. 
 
 HYMNCLXX, P. M. 
 
 t VE scarlet-colour'd sinners, come; 
 * Jesus the Lord invites you home; 
 
 O whither can you go? 
 What! are your crimes of crimson hue? 
 His promise is for ever true, 
 He 11 wash you white as snow. 
 
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 2 Backsliding souls, fill'd with your wa\s, 
 Whose weeping nights, and wretched days, 
 
 l;i bitterness are spent! 
 Refurn to Jesus, he'll reveal 
 His lovely face, and sweetly heal, 
 
 What you so much lament, 
 
 3 Tried souls! — look up — he says, 'tis I — 
 He loves you still, but means to try 
 
 If faith will bear the test; 
 The Lord has giv'n the ehiefest good, 
 He shed for you his precious blood; 
 
 C trust him for the rest! 
 
 4 Ye tender souls, draw hither too, 
 Ye grateful, highly favour'd poor, 
 
 Who/'p/ the debt you owe; 
 Press on, the Lord hath more to g'ne; 
 By faith upon him daily live, 
 
 And you shall find it so. 
 
 HYMN CLXXI. C If. 
 
 1 "H r >W oft, alas! this wretched heart 
 Has wander'd from the Lord! 
 How oft my roving thoughts depart, 
 Borgetful of his word! 
 
 3 Yet sovereign mercy calls, " Return:" 
 Dear Lord, and may I come! 
 My vile ingratitude 1 mourn; 
 O take thy wanderer home. 
 
 3 An 1 canst thou, wilt thou yet forgive. 
 And bid my crimes remove? 
 
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 And 9hall a pardon'd rebel live 
 To speak the wondrous love! 
 
 Almighty grace thy healing power 
 
 How glorious, how divine! 
 That can to life and bliss restore 
 
 So vile a heart as mine. 
 
 Thy pardoning love, so free, so sweet, 
 JJear Saviour, I adore; 
 
 keep me at thy sacred feet, 
 And let me rove no more. 
 
 HYMNCLXXII. CM, 
 
 HTHE Lord will happiness divine 
 
 On contrite hearts bestow; 
 Then tell me, gracious God, is mine 
 A contrite heart or no? 
 
 1 hear, but seem to hear in vain, 
 
 Insensible as steel; 
 If ought is felt, 'tis only pain 
 To find I cannot feel. 
 
 '*I sometimes think myself inclin'cl 
 To love thee, if 1 could; 
 But often feel another mind, 
 Averse to all that's good. 
 
 My best desires are faint and few, 
 „ i fain would strive for more; 
 But when 1 cry, " My strength renew ; 
 Seem weaker than before. 
 
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 5 I see (by saints with comfort fill'd, 
 
 When in tin house of pray**; 
 But st ill in bondage I am held, 
 And find no comfort there. 
 
 6 O make this heart rejoice or ache: 
 
 Dreide tins doubt for me; 
 And if it be not broken, break, 
 And heal it if it be. 
 
 HYMN CLXXIII, C. fc 
 
 1 pROSTRATE, dear Jesus, at thy feet 
 
 A guilty rebel lies; 
 And upwards to the mercy seat, 
 Presumes to lift his eyes. 
 
 2 O let not justice from me hence: 
 
 Stay, stay, the vengeful storm: 
 Forbid it that Omnipotence 
 Should crush a feeble worm. 
 
 3 If tears and sorrow would suffice 
 
 To pay the debt I owe, 
 Tears should from both my weeping eyes 
 In ceaseless torrents flow. 
 
 4 But no such sacrifice I plead 
 
 To expiate my guilt; 
 No tears, but those which thou hast shed. 
 No blood, but thou hast spilt. 
 
 5 Think of thy sorrows, dearest Lord, 
 
 And all my sins forgive; 
 
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 Justice will well approve the word, 
 That bids the sinner live. 
 
 HYMN CLXXIV. C. M. 
 
 AND did the holy and the just, 
 The Sovereign of the skies, 
 Stoop down to wretchedness and dust, 
 That guilty worms might rise? 
 
 Yes, the Redeemer left his throne, 
 His radiant throne on high, 
 
 (Surprising mercy! love unknown;) 
 To suffer, bleed, and die. 
 
 He took the dying traitor's place, 
 
 And suffer'd in his stead; 
 For man, (O miracle of grace!) 
 
 For man the Saviour bled! 
 
 Jesus, my soul, adoring, bends 
 
 To love so full, so free; 
 And may 1 hope that love extends 
 
 Its sacred power to me? 
 
 What glad return can I impart 
 
 For favors so divine? 
 O take my all — this worthless heart, 
 
 And make it only thine. 
 
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 HYMNCLXXV. P.M. 
 
 1 Q JESUS, the donor of all we enjoy, 
 
 Our lives lo thine honor we wish to employ 
 With praises unceasing we'll sing of thy name 
 Tiiy goodness increasing thy love we'll pro 
 claim. 
 
 2 With joy we remember the dawn of that day, 
 When cold as December in darkness we lay, 
 The sweet invitation we heard with surprise, 
 And witnessed salvation to flow from the skies 
 
 3 The wonderful name of our Jesus we'll sing, 
 And publish the fame of our Captain and King 
 With sweet exultation his goodness we prove, 
 His name is salvation, his nature is love. 
 
 4 We now are enlisted in Jesus's cause, 
 Divinely assisted to conquer our foes, 
 
 His grace will support us till conflicts are o'er 
 He then will escort us to Zion's bright shore. 
 
 5 And when to the regions of glory we rise, 
 And join the bright legions and shout thro' th< 
 
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 W r e'll tell the glad story of Jesus's grace, 
 And give him the glory, the honor and praise. 
 
 6 In this blest employment our spirits shall rest 
 In sweetest enjoyment on Jesus's breast. 
 
 To drink of the streams of Emmanuels love, 
 And bask in the beams of his glory above. 
 
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 HYMN CLXXVf. L. M. 
 
 L T)ETURN, my roving heart, return, 
 
 And chase these shadowy forms no more: 
 Seek out some solitude to mourn, 
 And thy forsaken God implore. 
 
 I thou, great God, whose piercing eye 
 Distinctly marks each deep recess; 
 In these sequester'd hours draw nigh, 
 And with thy presence till the place. 
 
 I Thro' all the windings of my heart, 
 My search let heavenly wisdom guide; 
 And stili its radiant heems impart, 
 'Till all be search'd and puriiy'd. 
 
 i Then, with the visits of thy love, 
 Vouchsafe my inmost soul to cheer; 
 "Till every grace shall join to prove 
 That God hath tix'd his dwelling there. 
 
 HYMN CLXXYSI. S. M. 
 
 1 "\{Y sorrows like a flood, 
 
 Impatient of restraint, 
 Into my bosom, O my God, 
 Pour out a long complaint. 
 
 2 This impious heart of mine, 
 Could once defy the Lord, 
 
 Could rush with violence on to sin, 
 In presence of thy sword. 
 
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 3 How often have 1 stood 
 
 A rebel to the skies, 
 And yet, and yet, O matchless grace. 
 
 Thy thunder silent lies. 
 
 i O shall I never feel 
 The melting? of thy love? 
 
 Am I of such hell-harden'd steel 
 That mercy cannot move. 
 
 3 O'ercome by dying love, 
 
 Here at thy cross I lie; 
 And throw my flesh, my soul, my all, 
 
 And weep, and love, and die. 
 
 ti "Rise,'' says the Saviour, "rise, 
 " Behold my wounded veins; 
 
 ci Here flows a sacred crimson flood, 
 " To wash away thy stains." 
 
 HYxMN CLXXVIII. S. M. 
 
 ♦X'HE day is past and gone, 
 The evening shades appear, 
 O may I ever keep in mind, 
 
 The night of death draws near. 
 
 I lay my garments by, 
 Upon my bed to rest; 
 So death will soon remove me hence, 
 And leave my soul undrest. 
 
 Lord keep me safe this night, 
 Secure from all my fears; 
 May angels guard me while I sleep,. 
 Till morning light appears. 
 
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 And when I early rise, 
 To view th' unwearied sun, 
 May I set out to win the prize 
 And after glory run. 
 
 That when my days are past, 
 And I from time remove, 
 Lord I may in thy bosom rest, 
 The bosom of thy love. 
 
 HYMN CLXXIX. P. M. 
 
 1 r^UR Saviour alone 
 
 The Lord, let us bless 
 Who reigns on his throne, 
 
 The prince of our peace! 
 Who evermore saves us 
 
 By shedding his blood: 
 All hail, holy Jesus, 
 
 Our Lord and our God. 
 
 2 We thankfully sing 
 
 Thy glory and praise, 
 Thou merciful spring 
 
 Of pity and grace: 
 Thy kindness for ever 
 
 To men we will tell, 
 And say, our dear Saviour 
 
 Redeems us from hell. 
 
 3 Preserve us in love, 
 
 While here we abide: 
 O never remove 
 Thy presence, nor hide 
 
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 Thy glorious salvation, 
 
 'Till each of us see 
 With joy the bless'd vision 
 
 Completed iu thee! 
 
 HYMN CLXXX. P. M. 
 
 1 ^y ELCOME, thou well-belov'd of God, 
 
 Thou heir of grace, redeem'd by blood: 
 Weleome with us thine hand to join, 
 A partner of our lot divine: 
 
 Blessings abundant from above 
 
 Give him, we pray, Thou God of Iove» 
 
 2 With us the pilgrim state embrace; 
 We travel to a blissful place, 
 The new Jerusalem above, 
 
 The throne of God, the seat of love: 
 The Holy Ghost, that knows the way, 
 Conduct thee on from day to day. 
 
 S The staff of promise now receive, 
 The weary footsteps to relieve, 
 The chief support the pilgrim knows, 
 Leaning on this he forward goes: 
 Thus if for rest thy spirits call, 
 Trusting on this, thou canst not fall. 
 
 4 With peace, with ceaseless peace be shod, 
 The shoes of peace receive of God; 
 These keep from pain the pilgrim's feet, 
 And make the Hogged way seem sweet: 
 So Sion's paths shall ever prove 
 The paths of joy, and peace, and love. 
 
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 Thus onward move with upright peace; 
 Steadfast pursue the gospel-race: 
 Fill'd with the power of truth divine, 
 Prove all the strength of Jesus thine: 
 Commissioned angels soon shall come, 
 And waft thee to thy wish'd-for home. 
 
 HYMN CLXXXI. P. M. 
 
 L QOME brethren, let us join and sing 
 The growing empire of our King, 
 Who spilt his precious blood; 
 Christ, our God, he calh for all, 
 That he might save our souls from thrall. 
 And bring us in the road. 
 
 j He rides victorious through the land, 
 His saints rejoice, his heralds stand. 
 
 And they aloud do call; 
 Sinners repent, to Jesus fly, 
 While he in mercy passes by, 
 
 And offers grace to all. 
 
 I The work of God is going on, 
 Souls daily flee from Babylon, 
 
 And on the Lord do call; 
 Old formalists with wonder gaze, 
 And Babels merchants stand amaz'd, 
 
 To see their mother fall. 
 
 k The wilderness doth sweetly ring, 
 With prayers and praises to the King, 
 
 Who sits on Ziou's hill, 
 The towns and cities hear his voice, 
 The sinners mourn the saints rejoice, 
 With praise the streets are fill'd. 
 
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 Hide on, all conquering king ride on, 
 Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, 
 
 Let heaven and earth agree; 
 To sound aloud thy worthy fame, 
 Till all our souls shall be on tlame } 
 
 To rise and reign with thee. 
 
 HYMN CLXXXII. P. M. 
 
 "ORETHREN, while we sojourn here ; 
 
 Fight we must but should not fear. 
 Foes we have, but we've a friend, 
 One who loves us to the end; 
 Forward then with courage go, 
 Long we shall not dwell below, 
 Soon the joyful news will come 
 Child, your Father calis, come home. 
 
 In the world a thousand snares, 
 Lay to take us unawares; 
 Satan with malicious art, 
 Watches each unguarded heart; 
 But from Satan's malice free, 
 Saints shall soon victorious be, 
 Soon the joyful news will come, 
 Child, your Father calls, come home. 
 
 But of all the foes we meet, 
 None so apt to turn our feet; 
 None betray us into sin, 
 Like the foes we have within; 
 Ye! let nothing spoil your peace, 
 Christ will also conquer these, 
 Then the joyful news will come; 
 Child, your Father calls, come home, 
 
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 HYMN CLXXXIII. C. M. 
 
 1 pR/VYER is the soul's sincere desire, 
 
 Utter'd or unexpress'd; 
 The motion of a hidden fire, 
 That trembles in the breast. 
 
 2 Prayer is the burden of a sigh, 
 The falling of a tear; 
 
 The upward glancing of an eye, 
 When none but God is near. 
 
 3 Prayer is the simplest form of speech 
 That infant lips can try; 
 
 Prayer the sublimest strains that reach 
 The majesty on high. 
 
 4f Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, 
 The Christian's native air; 
 His watch-word at the gates of death, 
 He enters heaven with prayer. 
 
 5 Prayer is the contrite sinners voice, 
 Returning from his ways; 
 
 While angels in their song rejoice, 
 And cry, behold he prays. 
 
 6 In prayer on earth the saints are one, 
 In word, in deed, in mind; 
 
 When with the Father in the Son, 
 Sweet fellowship they find. 
 
 HYMN CLXXXIV. P. M. 
 
 1 pOME every pious heart 
 
 That loves the Saviours name, 
 
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 Vour noblest powers exert; 
 To celebrate his fame, 
 TV11 all above and all below, 
 The debt of love to him you owe. 
 
 2 He lefl his starry crown, 
 And laid his robes aside, 
 
 On wings of love came down; 
 And wept and bled and died. 
 What he endured, O! who can tell, 
 To save our souls from death and hell 
 
 3 From the dark grave he rose, 
 The mansion of the dead, 
 And spoil'd our hellish foes; 
 And bruised the serpent's head. 
 
 Up through the sky the conqueror rode, 
 And reigns on high the mighty God. 
 
 4 From thence he'll quiekly come, 
 His chariot will not stay, 
 
 And bear our spirits home, 
 To realms of endless day; 
 There shall we see his lovely face, 
 And ever be in his embrace. 
 
 3 Jesus we ne'er can pay 
 The debt we owe thy love, 
 Yet tell us how we may 
 Our gratitude approve; 
 Our hearts our all to thee we give, 
 The gift tho' small thou wilt receive. 
 
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 HYMN CLXXXV. P. M. 
 
 INTERNAL Spirit, source of light, 
 
 Enlivening, consecrating fire, 
 Descend, and with celestial heat 
 
 Our dull, our frozen hearts inspire: 
 Our souls refine, our dross consume! 
 Come, Condescending Spirit, come! 
 
 ■2 In our cold hreasts, O strike a spark 
 Of the pure flame which seraphs feel: 
 Nor let us wander in the dark, 
 
 Or lie benumb'd and stupid still: 
 Come, vivifying Spirit, come, 
 And make our hearts thy constant home! 
 
 3 Whatever guilt and madness dare, 
 
 We would not quench the heavenly fircj 
 Our hearts as fuel we prepare, 
 
 Tho' in the flame we should expire; 
 Our breasts expand to make thee room: 
 Come, purifying Spirit, come! 
 
 4 Let pure devotion's fervor rise! 
 
 Let every pious passion glow! 
 O lei the rapture of the skies 
 
 Kindle in our coid hearts below! 
 Come, condescending Spirit, come, 
 And make our souls thy constant home! 
 
 HYMN CLXXXVI. P. M. 
 
 IVE servants of God, your Master proclaim, 
 And publish abroad His wonderful name, 
 The name all victorious of Jesus extol: 
 His kingdom is glorious, and rules over all. 
 
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 2 The waves of the sea have lift up their voice. 
 
 Sore troubled that we in Jexus rejoice: 
 The floods they are roaring, hut Jesus is here; 
 While we are adoring, He always is near. 
 
 3 Men, devils engage, the billows arise, 
 
 And horribly rage, and threaten the skies: 
 Their fury shall never our stedfastness shock, 
 The weakest believer u built on a rock. 
 
 4 God ruleth on high, Almighty to save, 
 
 And still he is nigh, His presence we have; 
 The great congregation His triumphs shall sing, 
 Ascribing salvation to Jesus our King. 
 
 5 Then .let us adore, and give him his right, 
 
 All glory and pow'r, and wisdom and might, 
 AH honour, and blessing with angels above, 
 And thanks never ceasing and infinite love, 
 
 HYMN CLXXXVII. C. M. 
 
 1 r\ THAT I knew the secret place, 
 
 Where I might fiud my God! 
 I'd spread my wants before his face. 
 And pour my woes abroad. 
 
 2 l ? d tell him how my sins arise^ 
 
 What sorrows I sustain; 
 How grace decays, and comfort dies, 
 And leaves my heart in pain. 
 
 3 He knows what arguments I'd take 
 
 To wrestle with my God; 
 I'd plead for his own mercy's sake, 
 And for his precious blood. 
 
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 4 My God will pity my complaints, 
 
 And heal my broken bones; 
 He takes the meaning of his saints, 
 The language of their groaus. 
 
 5 Arige. my soul, from deep distress, 
 
 And banish every fear; 
 He calls thee to his throne of grace, 
 To spread thy sorrows there. 
 
 HYMN CLXXXVIIL L. M. 
 
 1 TESTIS, in whom the Godhead's rays 
 Beam forth with milder majesty, 
 I see thee full of truth and grace, 
 And come for all I want to thee. 
 
 3 Wrathful, impure, and proud I am, 
 Nor constancy, nor strength I have: 
 But thou, Lord, art still the same, 
 And hast not lost thy power to save. 
 
 £ Save me from pride, the plague expel; 
 Jesu, thine humble self impart, 
 O let thy mind within me dwell; 
 O give me lowliness of heart. 
 
 5 Enter thyself, and cast out sin; 
 Thy spotless purily bestow; 
 Touch me, and make the leper clean; 
 Wash me, and I am white as snow. 
 
 $ Fury is not in thee^ my God, 
 
 O why should it be found in thine! 
 Sprinkle me, Saviour, with thy blood, 
 And all thy gentleness is mine. 
 
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 a Pour but thy blood upon the flame, 
 Meek, and dispassionate, and mild, 
 The leopard sinks into a lamb, 
 And I become a little child. 
 
 HYMN CLXXXIX. L. M. 
 
 1 T> APID my days and months rnn on, 
 
 How soon another year is gone! 
 How swift my golden moments roll, 
 How much neglected by my soul! 
 
 2 Let me begin with holy fear, 
 This new, this fleeting, flying year; 
 Too many unimprov'd have pass'd, 
 This year perhaps may be my last, 
 
 3 Give me, great God, an heart to pray: 
 Let all old things be done away; 
 Give me naw strength to conquer sin, 
 And plant new holiness within. 
 
 4 I ask new wisdom for this year; 
 New fitness for my trials here; 
 Of every grace a richer store, 
 My God to love and honour more. 
 
 3 This year, O sheath war's direful sword! 
 Let every nation serve the Lord: 
 \isit thy church, and may she bear 
 Much glorious fruit this blessed year, 
 
 HYMN CXLX. L. M. 
 
 I "DESET with snares on every hand, 
 In life's uncertain path 1 stand: 
 
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 Saviour divine, diffuse thy light, 
 
 To guide my doubtful footsteps right, 
 
 2 Engage this roving treacherous heart 
 To tix on Mary's better part; 
 
 To scorn the trifles of a day, 
 For joys that none can take away. 
 
 3 Then let the wildest storms arise; 
 Let tempests mingle earth and skies; 
 No fatal shipwreck shall I fear, 
 
 But all my treasures with me bear. 
 
 4 If thou, my Jesus, still be nigh, 
 Cheerful 1 live and joyful die; 
 Secure, when mortal comforts flee, 
 To find ten thousand worlds in thee. 
 
 HYMN CXCI. P. M. 
 
 ITESUS, fill I of all compassion, 
 
 Hear thy humble suppliant's cry: 
 Let me know thy great salvation; 
 See I languish, faint, and die- 
 
 3 Guilty, but with heart relenting, 
 Overwhelmed with helpless grief, 
 Prostrate at thy feet repenting, 
 Send, O send me quick relief! 
 
 3 Whether should a wretch be flying, 
 But to him who comfort gives? 
 Whether from the dread of dying, 
 But to him who ever lives? 
 
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 * ^ W hile I view thee, wounded, grieving, 
 Breathless on the cursed tree, 
 Fain I'd feel my heart believing 
 That thou sutfer'dst thus for me. 
 
 ■5 With thy righteousness and Spirit, 
 I am more than angels blest; 
 Heir with thee all things inherit. 
 Peace, and joy, and endless rest. *' 
 
 6 Without thee, the world possessing, 
 I should be a wretch undone; 
 
 Search thro' heaven, the land of blessing, 
 Seeking good, and finding none.} 
 
 7 Hear then, blessed Saviour, hear me, 
 My soul cleaveth to the dust; 
 
 Send the comforter to cheer me, 
 Lo! in thee I put my trust. 
 
 HYMN CXCII. L. M. 
 
 Baptism Hymn. 
 
 i npHE great Redeemer we adore, 
 
 Who came the lost to seek and save; 
 Went humbly down from Jordan's shore, 
 To find a tomb beneath its wave. 
 
 i Thus it becomes us to fulfil, 
 
 All righteousness he meekly said; 
 Why should we then to do his will, 
 Or be asbain'd, or be afraid. 
 
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 3 With thee into thy watery tomb, 
 
 Lord, 'tis our glory to descend; 
 'Tis wond'rous grace that gives us room, 
 To be interr'd by such a friend. 
 
 4 Yet as the yielding waves give way, 
 
 To let us see the light again; 
 So on the resurrection day, 
 The bands of death prov'd weak and vain. 
 
 5 Thus when thou s-halt again appear, 
 
 The gates of death shall open wide; 
 Our spirits hear thy mighty voice, 
 And rise and triumph at thy side. 
 
 HYMNCXCIII. P.M. 
 
 1 lESUS mighty King in Sion, 
 
 Thou alone our guide shalt be; 
 Thy commission we rely on, 
 We would follow none but thee. 
 
 2 As an emblem of thy passion, 
 
 And thy vict'ry o'er the grave; 
 
 We who know thy great salvation, 
 
 Are baptiz'd beneath the wave. 
 
 3 Fearless of the world's despising, 
 
 W T e the ancient path pursue; 
 Buried with our Lord, and rising 
 To a life divinely new. 
 
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 HYMN CXCIV. L. M. 
 
 rjO teach the nations and baptize, 
 Aloud the ascending Jesas cries; 
 
His glad apostles took the word, 
 
 And round the nations preach'd their Lord. 
 
 2 Commission'd thus by Zion's King, 
 We to his holy laver bring; 
 
 These happy converts, who have known, 
 And trusted in his grace alone. 
 
 3 Lord in thy house they seek thy face, 
 O bless them with peculiar grace; 
 Refresh their souls with love divine, 
 Let beams of glory round them shine. 
 
 HYMN CXCV. L. M. 
 
 i Q RE AT God we in thy courts appear, 
 With humble joy, and holy fear; 
 Thy wise injunctions to obey, 
 Let saints and angels hail the day. 
 
 2 Great things, O! everlasting one, 
 Great things, for us, thy grace has done; 
 Constraint! by thy Almighty love, 
 
 Our willing feet, to meet thee move. 
 
 3 In thy assembly, here we stand, 
 Obedient to thy great command, 
 The sacred flood is full in view, 
 And thy sweet voice invites us thro'. 
 
 4 The word, the spirit, and the bride, 
 Must not invite, and be deny 'd; 
 Was not the Lord, who came to save, 
 Interr'd in such a liquid grave. 
 
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 5 Thus we, dear Saviour, own lliy name- 
 Receive us rising from the stream; 
 Then to thy table let us come, 
 And dwell in Zion sour home. 
 
 HYMN CXCVL P. M. 
 
 1 ''T'HUS it became the King of grace, 
 
 And thus should all the favour'd race. 
 High heavens commands fulfil; 
 For that the condescending God, 
 Should lead his followers thro' the flood. 
 Was heavens etern-.l will. 
 
 2 'Tig not as led by custom's voice, 
 
 We make these ways our favour'd choice; 
 
 And thus with zeal pursue: 
 No heavens eternal sovereign Lord, 
 •Has in the precepts of his word, 
 
 Enjoin'd us thu* to do, 
 
 3 And shall we ever dare despise, 
 The gracious mandate of the skies; 
 
 Where condescending heaven, 
 To sinful man's apostate race, 
 In matchless love and boundless grace; 
 
 His will reveal'd has given. 
 
 4d Thou everlasting gracious king, 
 Assist us now thy grace to sing; 
 
 And still direct our way, 
 To those bright realms of peace and rest. 
 Where ail the exulting tribes are bless'd; 
 
 With one great choral day. 
 
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 HYMN CXCVII. P. M. 
 
 1 T)ESCE\D celestial dove, 
 
 And make thy presence known; 
 Reveal thy Sovereign love, 
 
 And seal us for thine own: 
 Unbless'd by thee, our works are vain, 
 Nor can we ever acceptance gain. 
 
 2 When Christ, our Saviour, God, 
 
 The Sovereign Kins; of light, 
 In Jordan's swelling flood, 
 
 Received the holy rite; 
 In open view a form came down, 
 And dove-like flew, the king to cw wn. 
 
 .] The day was never known. 
 Since time began its race: 
 On which such glory shone, 
 
 And which displays such grace: 
 As that which shed in Jordan's stream 
 On Jesus' head, the heavenly beam. 
 
 4 Continue still to shiue, 
 
 And fill us with thy tire: 
 This ordinance is thine, 
 
 Do thou our souls inspire; 
 Thou wilt attend on all thy sons, 
 Till time shall end, thy promise runs. . 
 
 HYMN- CXCYIII. C. M. 
 
 f\N Jordan's stormy banks 1 stand, 
 And cast a wishful eye; 
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 To Canaan's fair and happy land, 
 Where my possessions lie. 
 
 2 the transporting rapturous scene, 
 
 That rises to my sight; 
 Sweet fields, array 'd in living green, 
 And rivers of delight. 
 
 3 There generous fruits, that never fail, 
 
 On trees immortal grow; 
 There roeksj, and hills, and brooks and vales, 
 With milk and honey flow. 
 
 4 All o'er these wide extended plains, 
 
 Shines one eternal day; 
 There Christ, our God for ever reigns, 
 And scatters night away. 
 
 5 No chilling winds, or poisonous breath, 
 
 Can reach that healthful shore; 
 Sickness, and sorrow, pain, and death, 
 Are felt and fear'd no more. 
 
 6 When shall I reach that happy place, 
 
 And be for ever blest; 
 When shall I see my Father's face, 
 And in his bosom rest. 
 
 7 Fill'd with delight, my raptur'd soul, 
 
 Can here no longer stay; 
 Tho' Jordan's waves around me roll, 
 Fearless I'd launch away. 
 
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 11 VMNCXCIX. F.Mi 
 
 l £NCOURAGED by thy word, 
 Of promise to the poor; 
 Behold a beggar, Lord, 
 
 AVaits at thy mercy's door: 
 No hand i,or heart, dear Lord, but thine, 
 Can help or pity wants like mine. 
 
 2 The beggars usual plea, 
 Relief from men to gain; 
 If otier'd unto thee, 
 
 1 know thou wouldst disdain: 
 But those which move thy gracious ear, 
 Are such as men would scorn to hear. 
 
 3 I have no right to say, 
 
 That though J now am poor: 
 let once there was a day, 
 \Y hen 1 possessed more: 
 Thou knowestirorn my very birth, 
 I've been the poorest wretch on earth. 
 
 4 Nor dare I to profess, 
 , A 9 beggars often do; 
 Though great is my distress, 
 My faults have been but few: ' 
 
 I thou shoulds. leave my soul to starve. 
 It uould be what! well deserve. 
 
 5 Nor dare I to pretend, 
 1 never begg'd before; 
 And if thou now befriend, 
 I'll trouble thee no more: 
 
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 Thou often has reliev'd ray paiu, 
 And often I must come againj 
 
 6 Though crumbs are too good, 
 
 For such a worm as I; 
 No less than children's food, 
 
 My soul can satisfy: 
 Q, do not frown, and hid me go, 
 I must have all thou canst bestow. 
 
 I Nor can I willing he, 
 
 Thy bounty to conceal; 
 From others, who, like me. 
 
 Their wants and misery feel: 
 I'll till then of thy mercy's store/ 
 And try to send a thousand more. 
 
 8 Thy ways, thou only wise, 
 
 Our thoughts and ways transcend; 
 Far as the arched skies, 
 
 Above this earth extend: 
 Such pleas as mine men would not hear, 
 But Gad accepts a beggars prayer. 
 
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 Wk the subscribers, inhabitants of the County of Bur- 
 lington, in the State of New Jersey, — Do certify, that a 
 person came amongst us at least two months ago, entitled 
 elder John Elliott, in the character of a minister of the 
 United Freewill Baptist Church, agreeable to his creden- 
 tials presented to us, that during the time he has been 
 amongst us he has officiated repeatedly in our Free meet- 
 ing house and private houses. A.lso, to our satisfaction, 
 the inhabitants have been more attentive than on former 
 occ ; <oris during the time he has been amongst us, — the 
 people generally have expressed a wish to have an oppor- 
 tunity of hearing him again. 
 
 Dated March 22, 1819. 
 
 Henry Hays, 
 
 John Scott, 
 Abraham Scott, 
 John Lacerence, 
 Stephen Lacerence, 
 Ellis Wright, 
 Jeremiah Oakley, 
 Henry Scott, 
 
 Jos. Kimble, 
 Joseph Kimble, 
 Joseph Kimble, 
 Daniel Hancock, 
 William Hancock, 
 Abraham W. Scott. 
 AVilliam Scott. 
 
 Wi the subscribers, inhabitants of the County of Bur- 
 lington, to the State ot New Jersey, — Do certify, that .we 
 have known elder John Elliott for one year last past, that 
 his character has during that time been fair and exemplary, 
 that for ten months last past he has been minister of the 
 United Freewill Baptist Cimrch of the aforesaid County of 
 Burlington and State of New Jersey, that during that time 
 we were perfectly satisfied with his conduct, that he fully 
 
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 discharged the duty of his pastoral office, at all times 
 shewing himself to be an active and zealous supporter of 
 the holy religion which he professes. 
 
 County of Burlington and State of New Jersey. Given in 
 the year of our Lord, April 3, 1820. 
 
 Subscribers' 'Names. 
 
 Abraham Scott, 
 Jacob Shadaker, 
 Samuel Hodson, 
 Benjamin Carty, 
 Edward Keeler, 
 Finemore Price, 
 Charles Clived, 
 Henry S. Boulton, 
 Asa Carty, 
 
 Aaron Potts, 
 Joseph Stiles, 
 Joseph Kemble, 
 Saml. S. Wright, 
 Joseph Ivens, 
 Michael Newton, 
 John Frazer, 
 Samuel Gaskill. 
 
 We the subscribers, inhabitants of the County of Bur- 
 lington, in the State of New Jersey, — Do certify, that we 
 have known elder Samuel Stevens, for one year last past, 
 that his character has during that time been fair and exem- 
 plary, that for ten months last past he has been minister of 
 the United Freewill Baptist Church of the aforesaid Coun- 
 ty of Burlington, and State of New Jersey, that during that 
 time we were perfectly satisfied with his conduct, that he 
 fully discharged the duty of his pastoral office, at all times 
 shewing himself to be an active and zealous supporter of 
 L he holy religion which he professes. 
 
 bounty of Burlington and State of New Jersey. Given in 
 the year of our Lord, April 3, 1820. 
 
Subscribers' A\: 
 
 Abraham Scolt, 
 Jacob Shadaker, 
 Samuel Hodson, 
 Benjamin Carty, ' 
 Echvard Keeler, 
 Fiaememore Price, 
 Charles Clined, 
 Henry S. Boulton, 
 Ast Cart j, 
 
 Aaron Potts. 
 Joseph Stiles, 
 Joseph Kembel, 
 Saml. S. Wright. 
 Joseph Ivins, 
 Michael Newton 
 John Frazer, 
 Samuel Gaskill 
 
TABLE OF FIRST LINES. 
 
 Pags 
 
 A Charge to keep 1 have, 8*0 
 
 Approach, my soul, the mercy-seat, - 108 
 
 Ah! lovely appearance of death, - - 122 
 
 Arise, ye happy christians, rise, - - XH3 
 
 Awake, my soul, awake and sing, - - 186 
 
 Avjay with our sorrows and fears, - ±91 
 
 Almighty Lord, thou just and true, - - 1500 
 
 Above these narrow scenes of night, - 2*)9 
 
 Arise, my souS, arise, - 213 
 
 A friend and sister, lo! is dead, - - 217 
 
 Awake our drowsy souls, ... 226> 
 
 And did the holy and the just,, - - tiuT 
 
 Blest be the dear uniting love, - 
 Brethren we have met to worship, - 
 Blest morning, whose young dawning rays, 
 Begin the song, aioud rejoice, 
 Biess, O! my soul, the God of love, 
 Blest is the man who dies in peace, - 
 Blest be the tie that binds, - 
 Brethren, while we sojourn here, 
 Beset with snares on bvery hand, 
 
 Come friends let's hear the voice of Christ, 
 Come my christian friends, and brethren, - 
 Come ye that do in Jesus dwell, 
 Come thou long expected Jesus, - 
 Come all harmonious tonsrues. 
 
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 Come in spirit now rise, - 209 
 
 Come faith divine thy powers impart, - 215 
 
 Christ, the Lord, is risen to-day, - 221 
 
 Come weary souls, with siu distrest, - 234? 
 
 Come brethren let us join and sing, - - 24-4? 
 
 Come every pious heart, - 246 
 
 Dark and thorny is the desert, 78 
 
 Didst thou, dear Jesus, suffer shame, * 82 
 
 Destruction's dangerous road, 84* 
 
 Death, he is the king of terrors, - - 126 
 
 Doth it not grieve and wonder move, - 14<8 
 
 Dear Shepherd of thy people hear, - 148 
 
 Down from the worlds of radient light, - 178 
 
 Do angels bow before thy throne, - - 23S 
 
 Descend, celestial dove, - - 257 
 
 Engag'd in thy worship, 0, Lord, - 196 
 
 Elijah's example declares, ... 330 
 
 Eternal Spirit, source of light, - - 248 
 
 Encouraged by thy word, - . 259 
 
 From whence does this union arise, - 112 
 
 Fare you well, my brother true, . - 116 
 
 Founded on truth, thy church shall rise, 174i 
 
 Full forty years was Israel led, - - 206 
 
 Great God, thy watchful care we bless, - 147 
 
 God, with us, O, glorious name, - - 154 
 
 God of power, God of love, - 159 
 
 Great God, we give thee praise, - - 17o 
 
 Great God of heaven, it cannot be, - 184 
 
 Go teach the nations, and baptize, - - 254 
 
 Great God, we in thy courts appear, - 255 
 
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 Hosanna to the Prince of li;' t, 
 Hark, listen to the trumpeters, 
 Hail happy believer in Jesus, 
 How happy, how joyful, how loving I feel, 
 Hark, my sou , the trumpet sounding, 
 How sweet the name of Jesus sounds, 
 Holy and reverend is the name, 
 How shall I my Saviour set forth, 
 Hark, g!a<' tidings to the shepherds, 
 Hark, the skies with music sound, - 
 Hark the glad sound, the Saviour comes, 
 How happy when we meet, 
 Hail happy day, the type of rest, 
 He rose, he rose, the mighty God, 
 Hark the voice of love and mercy, 
 How oft alas tikis wretched heart, - 
 
 In evil long I took delight. 
 
 I hear the gospel's joyful sound, 
 
 I see a host of foes, - 
 
 Jehovah Lord, to thee we raise, 
 Jesus thou King, enthroned on high, 
 Jesus thou Son of love divine, 
 Jesus' mercy let us sing, - 
 Jehovah Lord of truth divine, - 
 Jerusalem arise and sing, ... 
 Jehovah reigns the mighty Lord, - - 
 Jerusalem thou church divine, 
 Jesus Gad of all Creation, - 
 Jesus the man of love we sing, 
 Jesus where'er thy people meet, 
 Jesus on whom the Godhead's rays, 
 
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 .lesus full of all compassion, 
 Jesus mighty Kiug in Zion, 
 
 Let earth and heaven agree, 
 Lord what a wretched land is this, 
 Lo! he comes with clouds descending, 
 Light of life the great Messiah, 
 Lord at thy sacred feet, - 
 
 Let party names no more, - 
 
 My friends and my neighbours that live in 
 
 this place, - 
 My loving fellow travellers, 
 My song shall bless the Lord of all, 
 My sorows like a flood, - 
 
 Now pilgrims let us go in peace, 
 Now diffuse thy holy soirit, 
 Now Lord, thy kingdom is begun, 
 Now to our God a song of praise, - 
 Now blessing, honour, glory, praise, 
 Now God reveals his glorious name, 
 
 O, for a thousand tongues to sing, 
 0,God, our help in ages past, 
 O, what amazing love is this, 
 O, death, it is a solemn call, 
 Our Lord is risen indeed, - 
 O, what a soul-transporting sight, - 
 O, happy souls, how fast you go, 
 Our Jesus is both God and man, 
 O, for a heart that's pure and clean, 
 O, happy man, thy makers care, 
 Once more do we enjoy the sign, 
 
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 Our Lord is risen from the dead, - - 224 
 
 O, Jesus, the donor of all we enjoy, - 239 
 
 Our Saviour alone, - - - * ' - 24-2 
 
 O, that I knew the secret place, - - 249 
 
 On Jordan's stormy banks I stand, - 257 
 
 Pilgrims with pleasure let us part, - 142 
 
 Praise ye the Lord, adore his uame, - 164 
 
 Praise ye (he Lord, who reigns above, 199 
 
 Pilgrims to Zion's city bound, - - 208 
 
 Prostrate, dear Jesus, at thy feet, - . 237 
 
 Prayer is the soul sincere desire, - 246 
 
 Rise, rise my soul, and leave the ground, 151 
 
 Rapt into future times the prophet sung, 177 
 
 Rejoice, ye happy souls, rejoice, - - 189 
 
 Rich in mercy, Jesus reigns, - - 219 
 
 Return my roving heart, return, - - 240 
 
 Rapid my days and months run on, - 251 
 
 Sir, we would see Jesus, - - - 86 
 
 Sinner, how oft hath God reprov'd, - 101 
 
 See the eternal Judge descending, - - 136 
 
 Saw you my Saviour, - 149 
 
 See where the great incarnate God, - 160 
 
 See from the tomb the Saviour rise, - 214 
 
 See slow and solemn move along, - - 217 
 
 See Gabriel swift descend to earth, - 231 
 
 The Lord has now began to move, 76 
 
 'Tis good to wait upon the Lord, 77 
 
 There is a land of pleasure, - - - 92 
 
 Tho' in the outward church below, - 94 
 
 '{The blessed Jesus was baptiz'd, - 95 
 
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 There fell from God's favour two exiles of 
 
 Eden, - - 
 
 To-day, if you will hear his voice, 
 'Tis finished, 'tis doue, 
 'Tis finished, & the Saviour cried, 
 There is a fountain, fill'd with blood, 
 The great Jehovah praise, ... 
 This, this is the God we adore, 
 To God be praises giv'n, - 
 Thy name we extol Jehovah our King, 
 The scriptures we justly esteem, 
 There is a stream whose gentle flow, 
 The morning dawns celestial light, 
 To welcome Jesus, God of love, 
 The joyful, happy day appears, 
 Through all the various shifting scene, 
 To God, the only wise, - 
 
 The holy city see, - 
 
 'Tis good to praise Jehovah's name, 
 The Lord i9 here, let us adore, 
 Thine earthly Sabbath's, Lord, we love, 
 The state of conflict now is past, 
 The cross of Jesus purifies, - 
 This is a feast of love, 
 reach me the measure of my days, 
 The joyful morn, my God is come, 
 The Lord will happiness divine, 
 The day is past and gone, - 
 The great Redeemer we adore, 
 Thus it became the King of grace, 
 
 Why should the children of a King, 
 What poor despised company, 
 
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 When my Saviour, my Shepherd is near, 106 
 
 We've found the rock, the travellers cried, lit 
 When man was first created, in Eden -he was 
 
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 What love flows round, from heaff'to heart, 133 
 
 We'll met dear friends in Jesus' name, - 140 
 
 When any turn from Zion's way, - - 143 
 
 What might man, or mighty God, - 132 
 
 We read the holy word with joy, - - 172 
 
 When earthly comforts fade away, 188 
 
 When God arises in his power, - - 199 
 
 With one consent, let all the earth, 220 
 
 When Joseph his brethren beheld, - 229 
 
 Welcome sweet day of rest, - 232 
 
 Welcome thou well belov'd of God, - 243 
 
 Ye saints attend the Saviour's voice, - 83 
 
 Ye fearful saints march on, - 100 
 
 Ye sons of Adam, lift your eyes, - 101 
 
 Young people all, attention giv?, — 129 
 
 Ye travellers to Ziou, ... 139 
 
 Ye happy children, who follow Jesus, - l±5 
 
 Ye scarlet colour'd sinners come, - 234 
 
 Ve servants of God, yonr master proclaim. -18 
 
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