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We view the glories of thy face,

And learn the wonders of thy pow'r.

3 Whilst here our various wants we mourn,
United pray'rs ascend on high;

And faith expects a sure return
Of blessings in variety.

4 If Satan rage, and sin grow strong,
Here we receive some cheering word;
We gird the gospel armour on,
To fight the battles of the Lord.

5 Here, when our spirit faints and dies,
And conscience smarts with inward stings;
The Sun of righteousness shall rise,
With healing beams beneath his wings.
6 Here would our ravish'd souls abide ;
Or if from hence we must depart,
Let neither life nor death divide
Our God and Saviour from our heart.

WATTS, altered.

HYMN 296. C. M.

Faith in the Promise of Salvation.

BEGIN, my tongue, some heavenly theme,
And speak some lofty thing;

The mighty works, or mighty name
Of our eternal King!

2 Tell of his wond'rous faithfulness,
Or sound his pow'r abroad;
Sing the blest promise of his
And the performing God.

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3 Proclaim salvation from the Lord,

To sinful, dying men ;

His hand has writ the sacred word,
With an unerring pen.

4 Engrav'd as in eternal brass,

The gracious promise shines; Nor shall the hand of time erase Those everlasting lines.

5 Then why these doubts and sad complaints,
If Christ and we are one ?

The word extends to all the saints,
Who humbly love the Son.

6 By faith in this our souls have liv'd,
And part of heaven possess'd;

We'll praise him then for

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And trust him for the rest.

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HYMN 297. C. M.

The Ignorance of Man.

EHOLD the new-born infant griev'd
With bunger, thirst and pain!

It cries to have its wants reliev'd,
But knows not to complain.

2 Such childhood yet I must confess,
Though long in years mature;
Unknowing whence I feel distress,
And where to seek its cure.

3 Author of good! to thee I turn ;
Thy ever watchful eye,
Alone, can all my wants discern,
Thy hand alone supply.

4 O let thy fear within me dwell,
Thy love my footsteps guide!
That love shall vainer loves expel,
That fear, all fears beside.

5 And since, by error's force subdu'd,
My oft misguided will

Prepost'rous shuns the latent good,
And grasps the specious ill;

6 Not to my wish, but to my want,

Do thou thy gifts apply;

Unask'd, what good thou knowest, grant,
What ill, though ask'd, deny.

WATTS.

MERRICK.

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HYMN 298. S. M.

Adoption.

EHOLD, what wond'rous grace
The Father hath bestow'd

On sinners of a mortal race,

To call them sons of God!

2 'Tis no surprising thing,

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That we should be unknown;

The Jewish world knew not their king,
God's everlasting Son.

Nor doth it yet appear

How great we shall be made;

But when we see our Saviour here,
We shall be like our head.

A hope so much divine

May trials well endure;

May cleanse our souls from sense and sin,
As Christ the Lord is pure.

If in our Father's love

We share a filial part,

Send down thy Spirit, like a dove,

To rest upon our heart.

6

We would no longer lie,

Like slaves beneath the throne ;

Our faith shall Abba, Father, cry,

And thou the kindred own.

HYMN 299. L. M.

BLEST

The Beatitudes.

LEST are the humble souls that see
Their emptiness and poverty;

Treasures of grace to them are giv'n,
And crowns of joy laid up in heaven.
2 Blest are the men of broken heart,
Who mourn for sin with inward smart ;
The blood of Christ divinely flows,
A healing balm for all their woes.

WATTS.

3 Blest are the meek, who stand afar
From rage and passion, noise and war;
God will secure their happy state,

And plead their cause against the great.
4 Blest are the souls that thirst for grace,
Hunger and long for righteousness;
They shall be well supply'd and fed
With living streams and living bread.
5 Blest are the men whose bowels move,
And melt with sympathy and love ;
From Christ the Lord, they shall obtain
Like sympathy and love again.

6 Blest are the pure, whose hearts are clean
From the defiling power of sin;
With endless pleasure they shall see
A God of spotless purity.

7 Blest are the men of peaceful life,
Who quench the coals of growing strife ;
They shall be call'd the heirs of bliss,
The sons of God, the God of peace.
8 Blest are the suff'rers, who partake
Of pain and shame for Jesus' sake;
Their souls shall triumph in the Lord,
Glory and joy are their reward.

'HYMN 300. L. M.

The Presence of God mortifying us to the World.

COME, blessed Lord, descend and dwell
By faith and love within our breast;

Then shall we know, and taste, and feel,
Such joys as cannot be express'd.

2 Come, fill our hearts with inward strength,

Make our enlarged souls possess,

And learn, the height, and breadth, and length
Of thy unmeasurable grace.

3 Could we but pierce the veil, and see
The glories of th' eternal skies,

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What little things these worlds would be!
How despicable in our eyes!

4 Great All in All, eternal King!
Could we but view thy glorious face,
Then all our pow'rs should join to sing
Thy boundless wisdom and thy grace.
5 Now to the God, whose pow'r in heaven
And earth has works of wonder done,
Be everlasting honours giv'n,

By all the church, through Christ his Son.

ETER

HYMN 301. L. M.

The only Living and True God. Ps. 86.
TERNAL God, almighty Cause
Of earth and sea and worlds unknown;
All things are subject to thy laws,
All things depend on thee alone.

2 Thy glorious being singly stands,
Of all within itself possest;
Controll'd by none are thy commands
Thou from thyself alone art blest.
3 To thee alone ourselves we owe,
To thee alone our homage pay ;.
All other gods we disavow,

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Deny their claims, renounce their sway. 4 In thee, O Lord, our hope shall rest, Fountain of peace and joy and love! Thy favour only makes us blest ; Without thee, all would nothing prove. 5 Worship to thee alone belongs, Worship to thee alone we give ;

Thine be our hearts, and thine our songs,
And to thy glory we would live.

6 Spread thy great name through heathen lands,

Their idol deities dethrone;

Subdue the world to thy commands,

And reign, as thou art, God alone.

WATTS.

BROWN.

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