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His words my fainting soul revive,
His Spirit keeps my faith alive.

4 Grace will complete what grace begins,
To save from sorrows and from sins;
The work that wisdom undertakes,
Eternal mercy ne'er forsakes.

437. be made known unto God."—Phil. iv. 6.

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WITH grateful songs surround his throne,
Whose goodness o'er the earth is known;
Whose mercy, boundless as his name,
Flows through eternity the same!

2 Ye ransom❜d whom his love secures,
Yours is the grace; the strains be yours:
By him redeem'd, his mercy tell,
Who sav'd you from the pow'rs of hell.

3 From east to west, from south to north,
His goodness sent his gospel forth:
He call'd; and as his grace inclin'd,
Bow'd to his truth your stubborn mind.

4 When Israel's tribes, condemn'd to stray,
Wander the desert's dreary way,
With hunger faint, with thirst opprest,
No shelt'ring city yields its rest.

5 He leads them, tho' unseen his hand,
In the best way to Canaan's land;
His wisdom all his church shall guide,
Where near his throne his saints reside.

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6 Let the redeem'd their voices raise,
And speak aloud the Saviour's praise;
Proclaim his goodness, and declare

The wonders which he makes them share.

438.

"Who is a God like unto thee?"

Micah vii. 18.

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WITH Israel's God who can compare?

Or who like Israel happy are?

O people saved by the Lord,

He is thy shield and great reward!

2 Upheld by everlasting arms,

Thou art secur'd from foes and harms;
In vain their plots, and false their boasts,
Our refuge is the Lord of Hosts.

439.

"He hateth putting away."-Mal. ii. 16.

ITH Jesus and his chosen race,

WITH

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Subsists a bond of sov'reign grace;
A bond which hell's infernal train,
Shall ne'er dissolve nor rend in twain.

2 This sacred bond shall never break,
Tho' earth should to her centre shake;
Sing then, ye saints, assur'd of this,
For God has pledg'd his holiness.

3 Hail, sacred union, firm and strong,
How great the grace, how sweet the song,
That worms of earth should ever be,
One with incarnate Deity.

4 This sacred tie should still their fears, For all he is and has is theirs;

With him made one, they cannot fall, Their head, their life, their hope, their all. 5 Hail, sacred union, firm and strong, How great the grace, how sweet the song, That worms of earth should ever be, One with incarnate Deity.

440.

"A merciful and faithful High Priest." C. M.

Heb.ii. 17.

WITH joy we meditate the grace

Of our high Priest above;

His heart is made of tenderness,
His bowels melt with love.

2 Touch'd with a sympathy within,
He knows our feeble frame;

He knows what sore temptations mean,
For he has felt the same.

3 But spotless, innocent, and pure,
The great Redeemer stood,
While Satan's fiery darts he bore,
And did resist to blood.

4 He in the days of feeble flesh,
Pour'd out his cries and tears,
And in his measure feels afresh

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5 He'll never quench the smoking flax, But raise it to a flame;

The bruised reed he never breaks,

Nor scorns the meanest name.

6 Then let our humble faith address
His mercy and his pow'r,
We shall obtain deliv'ring grace
In the distressing hour.

441.

"Thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Cor.xv.57

L. M.

WITH mingled joy and holy awe,
My soul looks back to Calvary;
The dreadful record Sinai's law,
Nail'd to my Saviour's cross I see.
2 Death and his sting I overcome,
Once Jesus proved their utmost power;
He tells me of his vacant tomb,
And makes me more than conqueror.
3 In glorious raiment white and clean,
I come to God without alarm;
No spot on me by justice seen,
My safeguard, the Almighty's arm.
4 I cast away my slavish chains,
Now to a Father I draw near,

The cross of Christ my soul constrains
To walk with God in holy fear.

442.

"Send forth thy light and thy truth." L.M.

Ps. xliii. 3.

WITH
WITH rev'rend awe, and cheerful tongues,
To thee, great God! we raise our songs,

Impart thy Spirit's sacred flame,
And tune our souls to sing thy name.
2 Let holy, humble, fervent love,
In raptures lead our souls above;
And ev'ry pow'r shall join to bless
Eternal love and sov'reign grace.

3 We hail the gospel's joyful sound,
There life, eternal life, is found:
Blow this great trumpet, mighty Lord!
That souls may hear and feel thy word.

4 Now may some poor
lost sinner say,
'This was the great, the glorious day,
'When Jesus did his pow'r impart,
'And his great trumpet reach'd

my heart.' 5 Thus, dearest Lord! new trophies gain, Exert thy pow'r, extend thy reign: Let all our souls with praise abound, For the great gospel's joyful sound.

443.

"Salvation to our God."-Rev. vii. 10.

WRAPP'D in the silence of the night
Lay the whole prostrate world,
When bursting, glorious, heav'nly light,
A wondrous scene unfurl'd!

2 Hark! the cherubic armies shout,
And glory leads the song;

C.M.

Goodwill and peace are heard throughout
Th' harmonious, heav'nly throng,

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