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4 When from his courts the fun retires,
And with the day his voice expires,
The morning stars adopt the fong,
And thro' the night the praise prolong.
5 The lift'ning earth with rapture hears,
Th' harmonious mufic of the spheres ;
And all her tribes the notes repeat,
That God is wife, and good, and great.
6 But man endow'd with nobler pow'rs,
His God in nobler ftrains adores;
His is the gift to know the fong,
As well as fing with tuneful tongue.

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HYMN CCXXXI.

L. M. [RIPPON'S COLL.]

For Charity Lectures.

GREAT author of th' immortal mind,,
For nobleft thoughts and views defign'd,
Make me ambitious to exprefs,

The image of thy holiness.

2 While I thy boundless love admire,
Grant me to catch the facred fire;
Then fhall my heav'nly birth be known,
And for thy child thou wilt me own.

3 Father I fee thy fun arife

To cheer thy friends and enemies ;
And when thy rain from heav'n descends,
Thy bounty both alike befriends.

4 Enlarge my foul, with love, like thine;
My mortal pow'rs by grace refine;
So fhall I feel another's woe,
And cheerful feed an hungry foc.

5 I hope for pardon, thro' thy fon,
For all the crimes which I have done :
O may thy grace that pardons me,
Conftrain me to forgive, like thee.

HYMN CCXXXII. L. M. [GIBBONS.]

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Charity commended.

WHEN Jefus dwelt in mortal clay,
What were his works from day to day,

But miracles of pow'r and grace,
That fpread falvation thro' our race?
2 Teach us, O Lord, to keep in view
Thy pattern; and thy fteps pursue ;
While alms beftow'd and kindness done
Is witnefs'd by each rolling fun.

HYMN CCXXXIII. S. M.

Love as Brethren.

LET party names no more,

[BEDMORE.]

The chriftian world o'erfpread;
Gentile and Jew, and bond and free,
Are one, in Chrift their head.

2 Among the faints on earth,
Let mutual love be found;
Heirs of the fame inheritance ;
With mutual bleffings crown'd.

3 Let envy, child of hell,

Be banifh'd far away;

Thofe fhould in fweeteft friendship dwell, Who the fame Lord obey.

4 Then will the church below, Refemble that above;

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Where ftreams of pleasure ever flow,
And ev'ry heart, is love.

HYMN CCXXXIV. C. M. [COWPER.]

Evangelical obedience.

Noftrength of nature can suffice,
To ferve the Lord aright;

And what he has, the mifapplies,
For want of clearer light.

2 How long beneath the law I lay,
In bondage and distress

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I toil'd, the precept to obey,
But toil'd without fuccefs.

3 Then to abstain from outward fio,
Was more than I could do ;

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Now if I feel its power within,
I feel, I hate it, too.

Then all my fordid works were done,

A righteoufnefs to raise;

Now freely chofen in thy' Son,

I freely choose his ways.

What fhall I do? was then the word,
That I may worthier grow?

What fhall I render to the Lord?
Is my inquiry now.

6 To fee the law by Chrift fulfill'd,
And hear his pard'ning voice;
Changes a flave into a child,
And duty into choice.

HYMN CCXXXV. C. M. [STEELE.]
The example of Chrift.

AND is the gofpel peace and love?

Such let our converfation be ;

The ferpent blended with the dove,
Wisdom and meek fimplicity.

2 Whene'er the angry paffions rise,
And tempt our thoughts or tongues to ftrife;
To Jefus let us lift our eyes,
Bright pattern of the chriftian life.

3 O how benevolent and kind!
How mild! how ready to forgive!
Be this the temper of our mind,
And these the rules by which we live.

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To do his heav'nly father's will,
Was his employment and delight;
Humility and holy zeal

Shine thro' his life divinely bright!

5 Difpenfing good where'er he came,
The labors of his life were love;
O, if we love the Saviour's name,
Let his divine example move.

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HYMN CCXXXVI. c. M. [STERLE.]
The Goodness of God.

YE humble fouls approach your God,
With fongs of facred praife,

For he is good, immensely good,
And kind are all his ways.

7 All nature owns his guardian care,

In him we live and move;

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But nobler benefits declare

The wonders of his love.

3 He gave his fon, his only fon,
To ranfom rebel worms;

'Tis here he makes his goodness known,
In it
diviner forms.

4 To this dear refuge, Lord, we come,
'Tis here our hope relies;

A fafe defence, a peaceful home,
When forms of trouble rife.

5 Thine eye beholds with kind regard
The fouls who truft in thee;

Their humble hope thou wilt reward,
With blifs divinely free.

6 Great God, to thy almighty love,
What honours fhall we raise ?
Not all the raptur'd songs above
Can render equal praife.

HYMN CCXXXVII.

Praife.

P. M. RICHARDS.]"

SHOUT Jehovah strong in battle,
Count the vict’ries he hath won ;
Sing the Saviour's mighty conquefts,
Praise him, praise him, cry tis done :
He hath finish'd, finish'd, finish'd, he hath
What his love ere worlds begun,

2 Give to Jefus pow'r and glory,
Say, the triumph, Lord, is thine:
He hath took from fin dominion:
Death and hell the prey refign:

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