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"Zion, behold thy Saviour-King,
"He reigns and triumphs here."

How happy are our Ears

That hear this joyful Sound,"

Which Kings and Prophets waited for,

And fought, but never found!

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How bleffed are our Eyes

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That fee this heavenly Light;

Prophets and Kings defir'd it long,
But dy'd without the Sight!
The Watchmen join their Voice,
And tuneful Notes employ ;
Jerufalem breaks forth in Songs,
And Deserts learn the Joy.

The Lord makes bare his Arm

Thro' all the Earth abroad:

Let ev'ry Nation now behold

Their Saviour and their God.

XI. The Humble enlightened, and carnal Reafon bumbled: or, The Sovereignty of Grace, Luke x, 21, 22.

1 There was an Hour when Christ rejoic'd, And spoke his Joy in Words of Praise;

"Father, I thank thee, mighty God,
"Lord of the Earth, and Heav'ns and Seas,

2" I thank thy fov'reign Pow'r and Love,
"That crowns my Doctrine with Success;
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Shall crush his Foes beneath his Feet,
And reign to Ages yet unknown.

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XIV. The Triumph over Faithor, Chrift's
unchangeable Love, Róm. viii. 33, &c. 17
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WHO fhall the Lord's Elect condemn?
'Tis God that juftifies their Souls;

And Mercy, like a mighty Stream,
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O'er all their Sins divinely rolls.
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2 Who fhall adjudge the Saints to Hell
'Tis Chrift that fuffer'd in their Stead;
And the Salvation to fulfil,

Behold him rifing from the Dead!

3 He lives! He lives, and fits Above, For ever interceding there:

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Who fhall divide us from his Love?
Or what fhall tempt us to Despair?

Shall Perfecution, or Distress,
Famine, or Sword, or Nakedness ?

He that hath lov'd us bears us thro',

And makes us more than Conqu❜rors too.

5 Faith hath an overcoming Pow'r,

It triumphs in the dying Hour:
Chrift is our Life, our Joy, our Hope;
Nor can we fink with fuch a Prop.

6 Not all that Men on Earth can do,
Nor Pow'rs on high, nor Pow'rs below,
Shall cause his Mercy to remove,

Or wean our Hearts from Christ our Love.

3 "The Myft'ries of redeeming Grace "Are hidden from the Wife:

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4 Thus doth the Lord of Heav'n and Earth His great Decrees fulfil,

And orders all his Works of Grace

By his own fov'reign Will.

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XIII. The Son of God incarnate: or, The Titles and the Kingdom of Chrift, Ifa. ix. 2, 6, 7.

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THE Lands that long in Darkness lay,
Now have beheld a heav'nly Light;
Nations that fat in Death's cold Shade,
Are blefs'd with Beams divinely bright.
2 The Virgin's promis'd Son is born;
Behold th' expected Child appear!
What shall his Names or Titles be?!
"The WONDERFUL, the COUNSELLOR!

3 [This Infant is the mighty God,

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Come to be fuckled and ador'd;

Th' Eternal Father, Prince of Peace,
The Son of David, and his Lord.]

The Government of Earth and Seas
Upon his Shoulders shall be laid;
His wide Dominions fhall increase,
And Honours to his Name be paid.

5 Jefus, the holy Child, fhall fit
High on his Father David's Throne;

"And makes the Babes in Knowledge learn

"The Heights, and Breadths, and Lengths of

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"But all this Glory lies conceal'd

Grace.

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"From Men of Prudence and of Wit;

"The Prince of Darkness blinds their Eyes, "And their own Pride refifts the Light.

"Father, 'tis thus, because thy Will "Chofe and ordain'd it fhould be fo; "'Tis thy Delight t'abase the Proud, And lay the haughty Scorner low.

"There's none can know the Father right, "But thofe that learn it from the Son;

"Nor can the Son be well receiv'd,

"But where the Father makes him known.

6" Then let our Souls adore our God,
"That deals his Graces as he please ;
"Nor gives to Mortals an Account
"Or of his Actions, or Decrees."

XII. Free Grace in revealing Chrift,
Luke x. 21.

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ESUS, the Man of conftant Grief,
A Mourner all his Days;

His Spirit once rejoic'd aloud,
And turn'd his Joy to Praise :

2 "Father, I thank thy wond'rous Love,
"That hath reveal'd thy Son

"To Men unlearned; and to Babes "Has made thy Gospel known.

XV. Our own Weakness, and Chrift our Strength, 2 Cor. xii. 7, 9, 10.

ET me but hear my Saviour fay,
Strength fhall be equal to thy Day;

Then I rejoice in deep Distress,

Leaning on all-fufficient Grace.

2 I glory in Infirmity,

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That Chrift's own Power may reft on me ;
When I am weak, then am I ftrong;
Grace is my Shield and Chrift my Song.

I can do all Things, or can bear

All Sufferings if my Lord be there ;
Sweet Pleasures mingle with the Pains,
While his left Hand my Head fuftains.
4 But if the Lord be once withdrawn,
And we attempt the Work alone,
When new Temptations fpring and rife,
We find how great our Weakness is.
5 So Samfon, when his Hair was loft,
Met the Philistines to his coft;

Shook his vain Limbs with fad Surprise,
Made feeble Fight, and loft his Eyes.

XVI. Hofanna to Chrift, Matt. xxi. 9.
Luke xix. 38, 40.