6" Be ev'ry Vale exalted high,

7

"Sink ev'ry Mountain low;

"The Proud must stoop, and humble Souls "Shall his Salvation know.

"The Heathen Realms with Ifr'el's Land

"Shall join in fweet Accord;

"And all that's born of Man fhall fee

"The Glory of the LORD.

8" Behold the Morning-Star arise, "Ye that in Darkness fit;

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3

"He marks the Paths that leads to Peace, "And guides our doubtful Feet.”

LI. Perfevering Grace, Jude 24, 25.

O GOD the only Wife,

Our Saviour and our King,

Let all the Saints below the Skies,
Their humble Praises bring.

'Tis his Almighty Love,
His Counsel and his Care,
Preferves us fafe from Sin and Death,
And ev'ry hurtful Snare.

He will present our Souls
Unblemish'd and complete,
Before the Glory of his Face,

With Joys divinely great.

Shall meet around the Throne,

Shall blefs the Conduct of his Grace,

And make his Wonders known.

TWAי

"Go, teach the Nations and baptize."

The Nations have receiv'd the Word
Since he afcended to the Skies.

2 He fits upon th' eternal Hills,
With Grace and Pardon in his Hands,
And fends his Cov'nant with the Seals,
To blefs the diftant British Lands.

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"Repent, and be Baptiz'd," he faith,
"For the Remiffion of your Sins;"
And thus our Senfe affifts our Faith,
And fhews us what his Gospel means.

Our Souls he washes in his Blood,
As Water makes the Body clean;
And the good Spirit from our Gov
Defcends like purifying Rain.

5 Thus we engage ourselves to Thee,
And feal our Cov'nant with the LORD;
"O may the
great Eternal Three
In Heaven our folemn Vows record!

LIII. The Holy Scriptures, Heb. i. 1. 2 Tim. iii. 15, 16. Pfalm cxlvii. 19, 20.

1

GOD, who in various Methods told

His Mind and Will to Saints of old,
Sent his own Son with Truth and Grace,
To teach us in these latter Days.

2 Our Nation reads the written Word,
That Book of Life, that fure Record:
The bright Inheritance of Heav'n
Is by the fweet Conveyance giv❜n.

3 GOD's kindeft Thoughts are here exprefs'd,
Able to make us wife and blefs'd;
The Doctrines are divinely true,
Fit for Reproof and Comfort too.
Ye British Isles, who read his Love
In long Epiftles from above,

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(He hath not fent his facred Word To ev'ry Land) Praise ye the LORD'

LIV. Ele&ting Grace; or, Saints beloved in
CHRIST, Eph. i. 3, &c. .

JES

ESUS, we blefs thy Father's Name; Thy GoD and ours are both the fame; What heav'nly Bleffings from his Throne, Flow down to Sinners thro' his Son!

2" CHRIST, be my first Elect," he faid; Then chofe our Souls in CHRIST Our Head: Before he gave the Mountains Birth,

Or laid Foundations for the Earth. 3 Thus did Eternal Love begin

To raise us up from Death and Sin;
Our Characters were then decreed,
"Blameless in Love, a holy Seed."
4 Predeftinated to be Sons,

Born by Degrees, but chose at once;
A new Regenerated Race,

To praise the Glory of his Grace.

5 With Christ our Lord we share our Part In the Affections of his Heart:

Nor fhall our Souls be thence remov'd, 'Till he forgets his First-belov'd.

LV. Hezekiah's Song; or, Sickness and Recovery, Ifa. xxxviii. 9, &c.

WHEN we are rais'd from deep Distress

Our God deferves a Song;

We take the Pattern of our Praise

From Hezekiah's Tongue.

2 The Gates of the devouring Grave Are open'd wide in vain,

3

If he that holds the Keys of Death
Commands them fast again.

Pains of the Fle.h are wont t' abuse
Our Minds with flavish Fears;

"Our Days are paft, and we shall lofe

"The Remnant of our Years."

4 We chatter with a Swallow's Voice,
Or like a Dove we mourn,

With Bitterness instead of Joys,
Afflicted and forlorn.

5 JEHOVAH fpeaks the healing Word,
And no Disease withstands ;
Fevers and Plagues obey the Lord,
And fly at his Commands.

6 If half the Strings of Life should break,
He can our Frame restore:

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He cafts our Sins behind his Back,
And they are found no more.

LVI. The Song of Mofes and the Lamb; or
Babylon falling, Rev. xv. 3. and chap.
xvi. 19. and xvii. 6.

WE fing the Glories of thy Love,

We found thy dreadful Name;

The Chriftian Church unites the Songs
Of Mofes and the Lamb.

2 Great GOD, how wond'rous are thy Works,
Of Vengeance and of Grace:
Thou King of Saints, Almighty Lord,
How juft and true thy Ways!

3 Who dares refufe to fear thy Name,
Or Worship at thy Throne !

Thy Judgments fpeak thine Holiness
Thro' all the Nations known.