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Safety in public dangers, 91. and triumph of
the church in national desolations, 46. in
God, 61. and delight in the church, 27.
Saints happy, and sinners cursed, 1, 11, 119, 1st
part. safety in evil times, 12, 46. the best com-

Support and comfort from God, 16. for the af-
flicted and tempted, 55. and comfort in God,
94, 119, 14th part.

Surety and sacrifice, Christ, 40.

EMPTATIONS overcome, 3, 18. in sick-

13. support under them, 3, 55, 94.
Tempter, see Satan.

pany, 16. Characterized, 15, 24. and sinner'sness, 6. escape from them, 25. of the devil,
portion, 1, 17. dwell in heaven, 15, 24. pun-
ished and saved, 78, 106. God's care of them,
34. reward at last, 50, 90, 92. and sinner's
end, 1, 11, 37. patience, and world's hatred,
37. chastised and sinners destroyed, 94. die,
but Christ lives, 102. punished and pardoned.
106, 107. conducted to heaven, 106, 107. tried
and preserved, 66, 125. afflictions moderated,
125. judging the world, 149.

Salvation of saints, 10. and triumph, 18. and
defence in God, 61. by Christ, 69, 85.
Sanctified afflictions, 94, 119, last part.
Satan subdued, 3, 6, 13.

Scripture compared with the book of nature,
19, 119, 7th part. instruction from it, 119, 4th
part. delight in it, 119, 5th and 18th parts. ho-
liness and comfort from it, 119, 6th part. per-
fection, 119, 7th part. variety and excellency,
119, 8th part. attended with the Spirit, 119,
9th part.

Seasons of the year, 65, 147.
Seamen's song, 107.

Secret devotion, 34, 119, 2d part.
Seeking God, 63.

Self-examination, or evidences of grace, 26,

139.

Separate souls, heaven, 17.
Shepherd of saints is God, 23.

Shipwreck prevented, 107.
Sick-bed devotion, 6, 38, 39.
Sickness healed, 6, 30, 116.

Signs of Christ's coming, 12, 96, &c.

Sin of nature, 14. original and actual, con-
fessed and pardoned, 51. and chastisement
of saints, 78, 106. universal, 14..

Tender conscience, 119, 13th part.
Thanks, public, for private mercies, 116, 118.
see Praise.

Threatenings and promises, 81.
Thunder and storm, 29, 135, 136, 148.
Times, evil, 11, 12.
Tongue governed, 34, 39.

Trial of our graces by afflictions, 66, 125. of our
hearts, 26, 139.

Triumph for salvation, 18. and safety of the
church in national desolations, 46. at the last
day, 149.

Troubles, see Afflictions, Temptations.
Trust in the creatures vain, 62, 146.
Truth, grace, and protection, 57, 145, 146. see
God, Faithfulness.
Tumult, deliverance from it, 118.

VA

VANITY of man as mortal, 39, 89, 144. of life
and riches, 40.

Vengeance and compassion, 68. against the
enemies of the church, 76, 149.

Victory hoped and prayed for, 20. over tempta-
tions, 6, 18, 144. over temporal enemies, 18.
and deliverance from persecution, 53.
Vineyard of God wasted, 80.

Unbelief and envy cured, 37. punished, 95.
Unchangeable God, 89, 111.

Vows paid in the church, 116. of holiness, 119,
15th part.

Sincerity, 19, 26, 32, 139. proved and rewarded, WAITING for pardon and direction, 25. for

18. professed, 119, 3d part.

Sinner cursed and saint happy, 1, 11. and saint's
portion, 1, 17, 37, 50. hatred and saint's pa-
tience, 37. destroyed and saints chastised, 94.
Sins of tongue, 12, 34, 50.

Slander, deliverance from it, 31.
Song, see Psalm.

Sorrows, see Affliction, Sickness, &c.
Souls in separate state, 17, 146, 150.

Spirit given at Christ's ascension, 68. his teach-
ing desired, 51, 119, 9th part.

answer to prayer, 85, 130, 143.
War, prayer in time of it, 20. disappointments
therein, 60. victory, 18. spiritual, 18, 144.
Warnings of God to his people, 81.
Watchfulness, 19, 141. over the tongue, 39.
Weather, 65, 107, 135, 147, 148.
Wicked, see Sinner, Saint.
Wickedness of man, 14, 36, 51.

Wind, see Providence, Seasons, Storm.
Winter and summer, 147.

Wisdom and equity of providence, 9. of God in
his works, 11f.

Spiritual enemies overcome, 3, 18, 144. bless-Word of God, see Scripture.
ings and punishments, 81. mindedness, 119,
2d part. see Saint, Grace, &c.

Spouse of Christ the King is the church, 45.
Spring of the year, 65. and summer, 65, 104.
and winter, 147.

Storm and thunder, 29, 48, 135.

Strength, repentance, and pardon prayed for,
38. from Christ, 71. of grace, 138.
Submission, 123, 131. to Christ, 2. to sickness,
39.

Success of the gospel, 19, 110.

Sufferings and death of Christ, 22. and king-
dom of Christ, 2, 22, 69, 110.
Summer, 65. and winter, 147.

Works of creation and providence, 104, 147,
148. and grace, 19, 33, 111, 135, 136. good,
profit men, not God, 16

World's hatred and saints' patience, 37.
Worship and order of the gospel, 48. delight in
it, 84. with reverence, 89, 99. daily, 55, 134,
141. in a family, 138. public, 63, 84, 122, 132,
absence from it, 42, 63.

Wrath and mercy from the judgment-seat, 9.
see more in God, Punishment, Sinner,
Vengeance.

Zion, its citizens, 16. see Church.

7EAL and prudence, 39.

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p. 69 Hear me, O God, nor hide thy face
6 Hear what the Lord in vision said
19 Help, Lord, for men of virtue fail
37 He reigns, the Lord, the Saviour reigns
38 He that hath made his refuge God
37 High in the heavens, eternal God
26 How awful is thy chastening rod
8 How did my heart rejoice to hear
9 How fast their guilt and sorrows rise
62 How long, O Lord, shall I complain
How long wilt thou conceal thy face
10 How pleasant, how divinely fair
18 How pleasant 'tis to see

HILDREN in years and knowledge young
Come, children, learn to fear the Lord
Come, let our voices join to raise
Come, sound his praise abroad
Consider all my sorrows, Lord

D Deep in our hearts let us record

AVID rejoiced in God his strength

Exalt the Lord our God
ARLY, my God, without delay

FAR as thy name is known

Father, I bless thy gentle hand
Father, I sing thy wondrous grace
Firm and unmoved are they

Firm was my health, my day was bright
Fools in their heart believe and say
For ever blessed be the Lord
For ever shall my song record
From age to age exalt his name
From all that dwell below the skies
From deep distress and troubled thoughts

GIVE thanks to God: he reigns above

Give thanks to God, invoke his name
Give thanks to God most high
Give thanks to God the sovereign Lord
Give to our God immortal praise
Give to the Lord, ye sons of fame
God in his earthly temple lays
God is the refuge of his saints
God, my supporter and my hope
God of eternal love

God of my childhood and my youth
God of my life, look gently down
God of my mercy and my praise
Good is the Lord, the heavenly King
Great God, attend while Zion sings
Great God, how oft did Israel prove
Great God, indulge my humble claim
Great God, the heaven's well-ordered frame
Great God, whose universal sway
Great is the Lord, exalted high
Great is the Lord, his works of might
Great is the Lord our God
Great Shepherd of thine Israel

H Happy is he that fears the Lord
Happy the city where their sons
Happy the man to whom his God
Happy the man whose cautious feet

AD not the Lord, may Israel say

11 How pleased and blest was I

53 How shall the young secure their hearts

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I lift my soul to God

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I'll bless the Lord from day to day

43 I'll praise my Maker with my breath
43 I'll speak the honours of my King
56 I love the Lord, he heard my cries
In all my vast concerns with thee
12 In anger, Lord, rebuke me not
32 In God's own house pronounce his praise
In Judah God of old was known
28 Into thine hand, O God of truth
44 I set the Lord before my face

Is there ambition in my heart
23 It is the Lord our Saviour's hand
57 I waited patient for the Lord
32 I will extol thee, Lord, on high

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ET all the earth their voices raise
Let all the heathen writers join
65 Let children hear the mighty deeds
39 Let every creature join

49 Let every tongue thy goodness speak
53 Let God arise in all his might
60 Let sinners take their course

Let Zion in her King rejoice
49 Let Zion and her sons rejoice
48 Let God the Father and the Son
62 Lo, what a glorious corner-stone
62 Lo, what an entertaining sight
63 Long as I live I'll bless thy name
14 Lord, hast thou cast the nation off
39 Lord, I am thine, but thou wilt prove
22 Lord, I am vile, conceived in sin
33 Lord, I can suffer thy rebukes
48 Lord, I esteem thy judgments right
32 Lord, if thine eyes survey our faults
20 Lord, if thou dost not soon appear
50 Lord, I have made thy word my choice
30 Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear
37 Lord, I will bless thee all my days
36 Lord, I would spread my sore distress
23 Lord of the worlds above

11 Lord, thou hast called thy grace to mind
33 Lord, thou hast heard thy servant cry

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62 Lord, thou hast searched & seen me through 63
51 Lord, thou hast seen my soul sincere
23 Lord, thou wilt hear me when I pray
36 Lord, 'tis a pleasant thing to stand

Lord, we have heard thy works of old
59 Lord, what a feeble piece
51 Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I
66 Lord, what is man, poor feeble man
15 Lord, what was man when made at first
3 Lord, when I count thy mercies o'er

Lord, when thou didst ascend on high
Loud hallelujahs to the Lord

MAKER and sovereign Lord

Mercy and judgment are my song
Mine eyes and my desire
My God, accept my early vows
My God, consider my distress
My God, how many are my fears
My God, in whom are all the springs
My God, my everlasting hope-
My God, my King, thy various praise
My God, permit my tongue
My God, the steps. of pious men
My God, what inward grief I feel
My heart rejoices in thy name
My never-ceasing song shall show
My refuge is the God of love

My righteous Judge, my gracious God
My Saviour and my King
My Saviour, my almighty Friend
My shepherd is the living Lord
My shepherd will supply my need
My soul, how lovely is the place
My soul lies cleaving to the dust
My soul, repeat his praise
My soul, thy great Creator praise
My spirit looks to God alone
My spirit sinks within me, Lord
My trust is in my heavenly Friend
No sleep nor slumber to his eyes

Not to our names, thou only just
Not to ourselves, who are but dust
Now be my heart inspired to sing
Now to the great and sacred Three
Now from the roaring lion's rage
Now I'm convinced the Lord is kind
Now let our lips with holy fear
Now let our mournful songs record
Now may the God of power and grace
Now plead my cause, Almighty God
Now shall my solemn vows be paid

ALL ye nations, praise the Lord

O blessed souls are they
O bless the Lord, my soul
O Britain, praise thy mighty God
Of justice and of grace I sing
O for a shout of sacred joy
O God, my refuge, hear my cries
O God of grace and righteousness
O God of mercy, hear my call
O God, to whom revenge belongs
O happy man, whose soul is filled
O happy nation, where the Lord
O how I love thy holy law
O Lord, how many are my foes
O Lord, our heavenly King

O Lord, our Lord, how wondrous great
O that the Lord would guide my ways
O that thy statutes every hour

O thou that hearest when sinners cry
O thou whose justice reigns on high
O thou whose grace and justice reign
Our God, our help in ages past
Out of the deeps of long distress
O what a stiff rebellious house

PRAISE waits in Zion, Lord, for thee

Praise ye the Lord, exalt his name Praise ye the Lord, my heart shall join Praise ye the Lord, 'tis good to raise Preserve me, Lord, in time of need

EJOICE, ye righteous, in the Lord Romeyr, Lord, our mortal state

Return, O God of love, return

SALVATION is for ever nigh

Save me, O God, the swelling floods
Save me, O Lord, from every foe
See what a living stone

Show pity, Lord; O Lord, forgive
Shine, mighty God, on Britain shine

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32 The heavens declare thy glory, Lord
13 The King of saints, how fair his face
13 The king, O Lord, with songs of praise
38 The Lord appears my helper now
51 The Lord, how wondrous are his ways
47 The Lord Jehovah reigns

47 The Lord is come, the heavens proclaim
28 The Lord my shepherd is

21 The Lord of glory is my light

5 The Lord of glory reigns, he reigns The Lord, the Judge, before his throne

61 The Lord, the Judge, his churches warns 52 The Lord, the sovereign King

52 The Lord, the Sovereign, sends his summons 24 22 The man is ever blest

69 The praise of Sion waits for thee
12 This spacious earth is all the Lord's

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33 The wonders, Lord, thy love has wrought 20 31 Think, mighty God, on feeble man 12 This is the day the Lord hath made 11 Thou art my portion, O my God 17 Thou God of love, thou ever blest 30 Through every age, eternal God

Thrice happy man who fears the Lord
53 Thus I resolved before the Lord
15 Thus saith the Lord, the spacious fields
46 Thus saith the Lord, your work is vain
67 Thus the eternal Father spake
45 Thus the great Lord of earth and sea
22 Thy mercies fill the earth, O Lord
26 Thy name, almighty Lord

4 Thy works of glory, mighty Lord
26 Tis by thy strength the mountains stand
42 To God the Father's throne

60 To God the Father, God the Son
16 To God I cried with mournful voice
55 To God I made my sorrows known
4 To God the great, the ever blest
5 To heaven I lift my waiting eyes
6 To our almighty Maker God
16 To thee, before the dawning light
57 To thee, most holy and most high
26 To thine almighty arm we owe
27 Twas for thy sake, eternal God
59 Twas from thy hand, my God, I came
40 'Twas in the watches of the night

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When overwhelmed with grief
When pain and anguish seize me, Lord
When the great Judge, supreme and just
Where shall the man be found
Where shall we go to seek and find
While men grow bold in wicked ways
While I keep silence, and conceal
Who shall ascend thy heavenly place
Who shall inhabit in thy hill
Who will arise and plead my right
Why did the Jews proclaim their rage
Why did the nations join to slay
Why do the proud insult the poor
Why do the wealthy wicked boast
Why doth the Lord stand off so far
Why doth the man of riches grow
Why has my God my soul forsook
Why should I vex my soul and fret
Will God for ever cast us off

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And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy, &c. for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us, &c.-REVELATION V. 9.

Soliti essent (i. e. Christiani) convenire, carmenque Christo, quasi Deo, dicere.-PLIN. IN EPIST.

THE

PREFACE.

THE following extracts from the Doctor's preface contain the substance of his plan in the three different parts into which the Hymns are divided; the whole would have exceeded the limits of a small book.

"Far be it from my thoughts to lay aside the Book of Psalms in public worship; few can pretend so great a value for them as myself: it is the most noble, most devotional, and divine collection of poesy; and nothing can be supposed more proper to raise a pious soul to heaven than some parts of that book; never was a piece of experimental divinity so nobly written, and so justly reverenced and admired: but it must be acknowledged still, that there are a thousand lines in it which were not made for a church in our days to assume as its own. There are also many deficiencies of light and glory which our Lord Jesus and his apostles have supplied in the writings of the New Testament: and with this advantage I have composed these Spiritual Songs, which are now presented to the world. Nor is the attempt vainglorious or presuming: for in respect of clear evangelical knowledge, The least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than all the Jewish prophets,' Matt. xi. 11.

"Now let me give a short account of the following composures.

"The greatest part of them are suited to the general state of the gospel, and the most common affairs of Christians; I hope there will be very few found but what may properly be used in a religious assembly, and not one of them but may well be adapted to some seasons either of private or public worship. The most frequent tempers and changes of our spirit, and conditions of our life, are here copied, and the breathings of our piety expressed according to the variety of our passions, our love, our fear, our hope, our desire, our sorrow, our wonder, and our joy, as they are refined into devotion, and act under the influence

and conduct of the blessed Spirit; all conversing with God the Father, by the new and living Way' of access to the throne, even the person and the mediation of our Lord Jesus Christ. To him also, even to the Lamb that was slain, and now lives,' I have addressed many a song; for thus doth the Holy Scripture instruct and teach us to worship in the various patterns of Christian Psalmody described in the Revelation.

"I have aimed at ease of numbers, and smoothness of sound, and endeavoured to make the sense plain and obvious. If the verse appears so gentle and flowing as to incur the censure of feebleness, I may honestly affirm, that sometimes it cost me labour to make it so."

"In the first part I have borrowed the sense and much of the form of the song from some particular portions of Scripture, and have paraphrased most of the doxologies in the New Testament, that contain any thing in. them peculiarly evangelical: and many parts of the Old Testament also, that have a reference to the times of the Messiah."

"The second part consists of hymns whose form is mere human composure; but I hope the sense and materials will always appear divine. I might have brought some text or other, and applied it to the margin of every verse, if this method had been as useful as it was easy. If there be any poems in the book that are capable of giving delight to persons of a more refined taste and polite education, perhaps they may be found in this part; but except they lay aside the humour of criticism, and enter into a devout frame, every ode here already despairs of pleasing."

"I have prepared the third part only for the celebration of the Lord's Supper, that, in imitation of our blessed Saviour, we may sing an hymn, after we have partaken of the bread and wine."

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