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5. Part Five: Hymns
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[The Mercies of Almighty God]
The Mercies of Almighty GodTo miserable Me,
Purchas'd by His most precious Blood,
Are, Oh! how Rich and Free!
Mercies, which Answer and Remove
All my just Miseries:
Mercies, Well-worth my Praise and Love,
And Thankful Sacrifice.
Behold, O Gracious Lord, I do
Present my self to Thee:
No Beasts, but my Own Body to
My God, shall Off'red be.
A Body, by the Death of Thine
For Thee full dearly Bought,
To Thee, with Every Thing of mine,
Is now Sincerely brought.
My Living Body Off'red here
So does continue Still;
Oh! may it Live, Thy Name to Fear,
And still to Do Thy Will.
May, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD
On all I do in It,
According to Thy Holy Word,
Be now most Plainly Writ.
May I, the Pleasing of Thee, make
My daily care therein,
And never any Pleasure take
Defil'd with Loathsome Sin.
Lord, Let me thus my Reason use
In Off'ring Thee Thy Own:
'Tis all Right Reason I should choose
To be Thine, Thine alone.
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Isaiah XXVI.
The Title:
When Moab shall be trodden down,And in mount Sion rest God's hand,
In that day shall this Song, to God
Be sung all over Judah's land.
The Song
[1]
A City of exceeding strengthDoth henceforth unto us belong,
And the decreed salvation shall
Like walls and bulwarks keep it strong.
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Set open then the city gates,That so the righteous nation
That keeps the truths, may enter in
And of it take possession.
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In perfect peace thou wilt him keepWhose thoughtful mind is one thee stay'd,
And that because his confidence
On thee alone is ever lay'd.
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Put then your trust upon the LordThroughout eternal ages length:
Because the Lord Jehovah is
A Rock of everlasting strength.
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For he brought down high seated ones,The haughty city he laid low,
He laid it level with the ground,
And it into the dust did throw.
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The feet of the afflicted manTriumphing trampled it upon,
And it ly'th prostrate under foot,
Foot of the poor and needy one.
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Uprightness is the Kings high way,The very road the just did take:
The path way of the righteous man
Thou didst for him most even make.
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Moreover in thy judgments wayThee, Lord, we longing look't to see:
Our souls desire was to thy name,
And to the memory of thee.
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In evening and in morning prayerMy soul thee earnestly desir'd;
Yea with my spirit in midst of me
I day and night for thee enquir'd.
For when thy judgments are display'd
On earth, the worlds inhabitants,
Will lay to heart thy righteous works,
And learn the righteousness of saints.
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Though for a wicked man there shouldBowels of divine pity yearn,
Yet he the way of righteousness
By no means will be brought to learn:
In land of righteousness he will
Still work perverse iniquity,
He will not well consider of
Jehovah's glorious majesty.
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Lord, when thine hand was lifted upIn exhaltation very high,
Lest they should see thine hand, they did
Perversely turn away their eye.
But they with blushing shame, shall see
The zeal thou for thy people hast,
And the consuming fire that shall
Thine adversaries wholly wast.
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Jehovah, thou for ever wiltSafety and peace for us ordain:
For our affairs thou manage didst
And for us all our works maintain.
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O Lord our God, thou only artOur Lord, yet others besides thee
Have lorded it, and over us
Have exercised tyranny:
But notwithstanding henceforth we
No other lord, save thee will take,
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From this time will we mention make.
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Those that opprest us now are dead,So dead that they shall live no more,
Their ghosts from hence departed are,
And none shall them to life restore.
Because thou hast them visited,
And them hast utterly destroy'd.
For ever they are perished
And of all memory made void.
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Jehovah thou the nationHast very much increast, increast
Hast thou the nation very much,
Thy glory is made manifest;
That nation which thou hadst remov'd,
And far away didst send it forth
By dissipating it unto
The utmost ends of all the earth.
And far away didst send it forth
By dissipating it unto
The utmost ends of all the earth.
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O Lord, when they were in distressThey did thee visit with their cryes,
And secret prayer they poured out,
When as thou diddest them chastize.
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Like as a pregnant woman whenApproaching child-birth comes apace
Is pain'd, and in her pangs cry's out,
So were we Lord before thy face.
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We have conceiv'd & have been pain'd,We have as it were brought forth wind,
The worlds inhabitants fell not
On earth no safety we could find.
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Thy dead shall surely live again,With my dead corps arise they must;
Awake out of the sleep of death
And sing ye who dwell in the dust:
Because the dew that falls on thee
Is like the dew that makes herbs grow
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The earth the Rephaims shall throw.
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Come then, my people, enter inTo chambers that most secret are,
And after thee, shut thou the doors
And fasten them with utmost care:
There do thou hide thy self a while,
It will but as a moment be,
And all the indignation will
Be wholly passed over thee.
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Behold the Lord is coming forthOut of his habitation
To punish their iniquity
The earths inhabitants upon.
The earth shall then disclose and show
The bloods in her lay buried,
Her slain shall be expos'd to view
And be no longer covered.
Divine hymns.
[I.] The Song of the Pardoned.
Luke VII. 4.7.
THE Sin of my First Father is
Mine, the Just Law doth say,
The Sin of a Vile Nature, This
Doth unto me Convey.
Mine, the Just Law doth say,
The Sin of a Vile Nature, This
Doth unto me Convey.
Innumerable Sins I do
Hence madly Perpetrate;
Sins, which the Good I Have and Know;
Doth sadly aggravate.
Hence madly Perpetrate;
Sins, which the Good I Have and Know;
Doth sadly aggravate.
But, O my Precious CHRIST, I see,
THOU art my Surety made:
A Full Obedience was by Thee
To Thy Great Father Paid.
THOU art my Surety made:
A Full Obedience was by Thee
To Thy Great Father Paid.
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Thy Vast Obedience is by Him
Now freely Reckon'd mine;
And me doth unto Life Redeem
That Righteousness of Thine.
Now freely Reckon'd mine;
And me doth unto Life Redeem
That Righteousness of Thine.
O may I Love that Glorious One:
Lord, Thou deserv'st my Love;
Such Things Thy Love hath for me done,
Things all my Thoughts above!
Lord, Thou deserv'st my Love;
Such Things Thy Love hath for me done,
Things all my Thoughts above!
My God, I Love Thee; And I Grieve
That I Love Thee no more:
I Love Thee, and that I may Live
Thy Praises, I Implore.
That I Love Thee no more:
I Love Thee, and that I may Live
Thy Praises, I Implore.
[II.] Good Inferences.
Rom. VIII. 32,33,34,39.
GOD, in His Love to man, don't spare
His own Beloved Son;
But gives Him up, the Curse to bear,
For mans Redemption.
His own Beloved Son;
But gives Him up, the Curse to bear,
For mans Redemption.
Since He hath now for Sinners done
That Greatest Thing, we know,
On us, He won't count any One
Too Great, for to bestow.
That Greatest Thing, we know,
On us, He won't count any One
Too Great, for to bestow.
Gods chosen who now can Arraign
Whom God hath Justify'd?
And who shall dare Those to Condemn,
For whom His Christ hath Dy'd?
Whom God hath Justify'd?
And who shall dare Those to Condemn,
For whom His Christ hath Dy'd?
Dy'd! Yea, and Rising from the Dead,
At the Right-Hand of God,
He Sits in Glorious Pow'r, to Plead
The Merits of His Blood.
At the Right-Hand of God,
He Sits in Glorious Pow'r, to Plead
The Merits of His Blood.
Us from such Love of God as This,
A Love so Free and Great,
In our Lord Jesus Christ, there is
Nothing shall Separate.
A Love so Free and Great,
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Nothing shall Separate.
[III.] The Lessons of the Gospel.
From Tit. 2,11,12,13,14.
The Gospel of Gods Glorious Grace,
Which with News of Salvation
Shines every where, Ungodliness
And Worldly Lusts, bids us to shun.
Which with News of Salvation
Shines every where, Ungodliness
And Worldly Lusts, bids us to shun.
It bids and binds us, all to take,
A Sober, Righteous, Godly Way,
And Conscience of all Duty make,
While in this present World we stay:
A Sober, Righteous, Godly Way,
And Conscience of all Duty make,
While in this present World we stay:
Hoping and Looking daily for
The Blessed Promise of this Word,
That the Great God our Savior,
Shall come in Glory: Come O Lord!
The Blessed Promise of this Word,
That the Great God our Savior,
Shall come in Glory: Come O Lord!
Even JESUS CHRIST, who freely gave
Himself to Death, for us, that we
Might through Him Redemption have
From that Worse Thing Iniquitie:
Himself to Death, for us, that we
Might through Him Redemption have
From that Worse Thing Iniquitie:
And He Himself, so Purifie
A People, His own Choice, and Rare,
Who Zealous of Good Works shall be,
And in that Zeal peculiar.
A People, His own Choice, and Rare,
Who Zealous of Good Works shall be,
And in that Zeal peculiar.
[IV.] Evening Thoughts.
Phil. I. 21.
Thy CHRIST is now my Life: I flyTo CHRIST with an Enliven'd Faith.
And now 'twill be my Gain to Dy,
To CHRIST fetch'd by a Stingless Death.
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An hymn. The Right Understanding of much Affliction
Heb. XII. 5,6,11.
The Exhortation of the Lord,
With Consolation Speaks to us;
As unto Children, His Good Word,
We must Remember, Speaking Thus:
With Consolation Speaks to us;
As unto Children, His Good Word,
We must Remember, Speaking Thus:
‘My Child, when God shall Chasten Thee,
‘His Chastning do thou not Contemn:
‘When Thou His Just Rebukes dost see,
‘Faint not, Rebuked under Them.
‘His Chastning do thou not Contemn:
‘When Thou His Just Rebukes dost see,
‘Faint not, Rebuked under Them.
The Lord with fit Afflictions will,
Correct the Children of His Love;
He doth Himself their Father still;
By His most Wise Corrections prove.
Correct the Children of His Love;
He doth Himself their Father still;
By His most Wise Corrections prove.
Afflictions for the present here
The Vexed Flesh will Grievous call;
But Afterwards there will appear,
Not Grief, but Peace, the End of all.
The Vexed Flesh will Grievous call;
But Afterwards there will appear,
Not Grief, but Peace, the End of all.
Tried, and Coming forth as Gold. A Short HYMN, To Assist the Pauses of a SELF-EXAMINATION.
The Trial of a Soul,
Believing.
My Soul, Dost thou a Precious Christ
Prize above all, & Place on High?
And on His Gospel-way to Rest,
Rest, and with Purest Hopes rely!
Prize above all, & Place on High?
And on His Gospel-way to Rest,
Rest, and with Purest Hopes rely!
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Repenting.
My Soul, The Death of Every SinDost thou as thy own Life pursue!
And welcome any Bitter Thing
That will more Bitter Sin Subdue?
Loving.
My Soul, To Know and Serve thy God,To all things here dost thou prefer?
And as a Brother Seek the Good
Of all that His dear Children are?
Coming into the Covenant of GOD
LORD, Sav'd by Grace, how Rich & Free!My Quick'ned Soul comes at thy call.
I to Thy COVENANT agree;
JESUS, My Head, Fulfill it all!
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