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Hymn LX. Long Metre.

The Influences of the Divine Spirit.
TERNAL Spirit, we confess,

And fing the wonders of thy grace
Thy power conveys the bleffings down
From God the Father and his Son.
2 Enlighten'd by thy heavenly ray,
Our fhades and darkness turn to day;
Thy inward teachings make us know
Our danger and our refuge too.
3 Thy gentle influence works within,
And breaks the chains of reigning fin;
Doth our imperious lufts fubdue,
And forms our wretched hearts anew.
4 The troubled confcience knows thy voice,
It makes the broken heart rejoice;
Thy words allay the ftormy wind,
And calm the furges of the mind.

Hymn LXI. Common Metre.

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Creating Wifdom.

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WATTS.

TERNAL Wifdom! thee we praife,
Thee, all thy creatures fing;

With thy great name, rocks, hills and feas
And heaven's high arches ring.

2 Thy hand, how wide it spread the sky!
How glorious to behold!

Ting'd with a blue of heavenly dye,
And ftarr'd with sparkling gold.

3 There doft thou make the globes of light
Their endless circles run;

There, the pale planets rule the night,
And day obeys the fun.

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4 The roaring winds ftand ready there, Thy orders to obey:

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With fpreading wings, they fweep the air,
To make thy chariot way.

The rolling mountains of the deep
Obferve thy ftrong command;

Thy breath can raife the billows steep,
Or fink them to the fand.

6 Thy glories blaze all nature round,
And strike our feeble fight,
Through fkies and feas and folid ground,
With terror and delight.

7 Infinite ftrength and equal fkill

Shine through the worlds abroad;
Our fouls with vast amazement fill,
And fpeak the builder, God.

Hymn LXII. Long Metre.

WATTS.

Chrift exalted a Prince and a Saviour.
XALTED Prince of life, we own
The royal honours of thy throne;
"Tis fix'd by God's almighty hand,
And feraphs bow at thy command.
2 Exalted Saviour, we confefs

The fovereign triumphs of thy grace;
Where beams of gentle radiance shine,
And temper majefty divine.

3 Wide thy refiftlefs fceptre fway,
Till all thy enemies obey;

Wide may thy crofs its virtue prove,
And conquer millions by thy love.
4 Mighty to vanquish and forgive!
Thine Ifrael fall repent and live;

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And loud proclaim thy healing breath,
Which gives them life, who wrought thy death.

DODDRIDGE.

Hymn LXIII. Common Metre. [* or by

Walking by Faith.

AITH is the brightest evidence
Of things beyond our fight;
It pierces through the veil of fenfe,
And dwells in heav'nly light.
2 It fets time paft in prefent view,
Brings diftant prospects home;
Of things a thousand years ago,
Or thousand years to come.

3 By faith we know the world was made
By God's almighty word;

We know the heavens and earth shall fade,
And be again restor❜d.

4 Abrah'm obey'd the Lord's command,
From his own country driven;
By faith he fought a promis'd land,
But found his reft in heaven.

Thus through life's pilgrimage we stray,
The promife in our eye;

By faith we walk the narrow way,

That leads to joy on high.

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Hymn LXIV. Long Metre. [* or b]

Preparation for religious Worship.

DAR from my thoughts,vain world, be gone,
Let my religious hours alone;

From flesh and fenfe I would be free,
And hold communion, Lord, with thee.

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2 My heart grows warm with holy fire,
And kindles with a pure defire
To fee thy grace, to tafte thy love,
And feel thine influence from above.
3 When I can fay that God is mine;
When I can fee thy glories fhine;
I tread the world beneath my feet,
And all that men call rich and great.
4 Send comfort down from thy right hand,
To cheer me in this barren land!
And in thy temple let me know
The joys that from thy prefence flow.

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Hymn LXV. Common Metre. [*]

The Succefs of the Gospel.

ATHER, is not thy promise fure

F To thy exalted, Son?

That through the nations of the earth.
Thy word of life shall run!

2 "Afk and receive the heathen lands
For thine inheritance,

And to the world's remoteft ends
Thy empire fhall advance."

3 Haft thou not faid, the blinded Jews
Shall their Redeemer own?
Whilft Gentiles to his standard crowd,
And bow before his throne ?

4 Are not all kingdoms, tribes and tongues, Beneath the arch of heaven,

To the dominion of thy Son,

Without exception, given?

5 From east to west, from north to south, Then be his name ador'd;

Let earth with all its millions shout
Hofanna to the Lord.

RIPPON'S Collection.

Hymn LXVI. Common Metre. [or b]

The Lord's Prayer.

ATHER of all! Eternal Mind!
Thou great and good alone!
Thy children form'd and blefs'd by thee,
Approach thy facred throne.

2 Thy name in hallow'd ftrains be fung!
We join the folemn praife;

To thy great name, with heart and tongue, Our cheerful homage raife.

3 Thy righteous, mild and equal reign,
Let every being own;

And in our minds, thy work divine,
Erect thy gracious throne.

4 As angels, round thy feat above,
Thy bleft commands fulfil ;
So may thy creatures, here below,
Perform thy heav'nly will.

5 On thee, we day by day depend,
Our daily wants fupply;

And feed with truth and virtue pure,
Our fouls which never die.

6 Extend thy grace to every fault,
And let thy love forgive;
Teach us divine forgiveness too,
Nor let refentment live,

7 Where tempting fnares befet the way,
Permit us not to tread;

Avert the threat'ning evil near,
From our unguarded head.

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