AND Spiritual Songs. In THREE BOOKS. I. Collected from the SCRIPTURES. II. Composed on DIVINE SUBJECTS. SOLITI ESSENT (i. e. CHRISTIANI) CONVENIRE, CARMENQUE CHRISTO PLINIUS IN EPIST. PRINTED AT WORCESTER, (MASSACHUSETTS) And SOLD at his BOOK-STORE, and by the BOOKSELLERS in Town and Country. HYMNS 123 I BE 6, 8, 9, 10, 12. EHOLD the glories of the Lamb Amidst his Father's throne: Prepare new honours for his name, And fongs before unknown.. 2 Let elders worship at his feet, The church adore around; 3 Thofe are the pray'rs of all the faints, 4 [Eternal Father, who fhall look Who but the Son fhall, take that book, 5 He fhall fulfil thy great decrees; 7 Thou haft redeem'd our fouls with blood, 8 The worlds of nature and of grace. II. LONG METRE. The Deity and Humanity of Chrift. John i. 1, 3, 14; and Col. i. 16; and Epb. iii. 9, 10. ERE RE the blue heav'ns were stretch'd abroad, From everlasting was the word: With God he was as; the word was God,', And must divinely be ador'd. . 1 2 By his own pow'r were all things made, By him fupported all things ftand; He is the whole creation's head, And angels fly at his command. . 3 Ere fin was born, or Satan fell, He led the host of morning ftars; ; (Thy generation who can tell, Or count the number of thy years ?)* 4 But lo, he leaves thofe heav'nly forms,, The Word defcends and dwells in clay, That he may hold converfe with worms,, Drefs'd in fuch feeble flesh as they.. 5 Mortals with joy beheld his face e Th' eternal Father's only Son;; How full of truth! how full of grace! When thro' his eyes the Godhead fhone! 6 Archangels leave their high abode, To learn new myft'ries here and tell The love of our defcending God, The glories of Immanuel. |