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Faith our strong protection be, And godliness with all its power; 'Stablish our posterity,

Till time shall be no more.

Let the spirit of grace o'erflow
Our unconverted land:

Let the least and greatest know,
And bow to thy command:
Wisdom, pure religious fear,
Our King's peculiar treasure prove:
Blest with piety sincere,
Inspired with humble love.

277.

[L. B. 435.]

S. M.

MESSIAH, Prince of Peace,

Where men each other tear,

Where war is learn'd, they must confess
Thy kingdom is not there:

Who, prompted by thy foe,
Delight in human blood,
Apollyon is their king, we know,
And Satan is their God.

But shall he still devour

The souls redeem'd by thee?

Jesus, stir up thy glorious power,

And end the apostacy:

Come, Saviour from above,

O'er all our hearts to reign;

And plant the kingdom of thy love,

In every heart of man.

While thou our long-lost paradise
Dost, with thyself, restore..
Fightings and wars shall cease;
And, in thy Spirit given,
Pure joy and everlasting peace
Shall turn our earth to heaven.

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278.

[L. B. 437.]

8 lines 7 & 6.

HAPPY day of union sweet!
O when shall it appear!
When shall all thy people meet
In amity sincere?

Tear each other's flesh no more,
And kindly think and speak the same;
All express the meekening power
And spirit of the Lamb.

Visit us, bright Morning Star,
And bring the perfect day:
Urged by faith's incessant prayer,
No longer, Lord, delay:
Now destroy the envious root;
The ground of nature's feuds remove:
Fill the earth with golden fruit,
With pure millennial love.

279.

[L. B. 438.]

S. M.

MESSIAH, full of grace,

Redeem'd by thee, we plead

The promise made to Abraham's race,
To souls for ages dead.

2 Their bones, as quite dried up,
Throughout the vale appear:

3

Cut off and lost their last faint hope,
To see thy kingdom here.

Open their graves, and bring

The outcasts forth to own

Thou art their Lord, their God, and King,

Their true Anointed One.

4

To save their race forlorn,

Thy glorious arm display;

And show the world a nation born,
A nation in a day.

280.

[L. B. 439.]

6 lines 8.

FATHER of faithful Abraham, hear
Our earnest suit for Abraham's seed;
Justly they claim the tenderest prayer,
From us, adopted in their stead-
Who mercy through their fall obtain,
And Christ by their rejection gain.

2 Outcasts from thee, and scatter'd wide,
Through every nation under heaven,
Blaspheming whom they crucified,
Unsaved, unpitied, unforgiven;
Branded, like Cain, they bear the load,
Abhorr'd of men and cursed of God.

3 But hast thou finally forsook,
For ever cast thy own away?
Wilt thou not bid the murderers look
On him they pierced, and weep, and
pray?
Yes, gracious Lord, thy word is past:
All Israel shall be saved at last.

4 Come, then, thou great Deliverer, come!
The veil from Jacob's heart remove;
Receive thy ancient people home;
That, quicken'd by thy dying love,
The world may their reception find
Life from the dead for all mankind.

SECTION V.

PETITION: FOR CHRIST'S UNIVERSAL REIGN.

281.

[s. B. 256.]

L. M.

BRIGHT as the sun's meridian blaze,
Vast as the blessings he conveys,

Wide as his reign from pole to pole,
And permanent as his control-

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2 So Jesus, let thy kingdom come;
Then sin and hell's terrific gloom
Shall, at thy brightness, flee away;
The dawn of an eternal day.

3 Then shall the heathen, fill'd with awe, Learn the blest knowledge of thy law, And antichrist, on every shore,

Fall from his throne to rise no more.

4 Then shall thy lofty praise resound, On Afric's shore, through India's ground; And islands of the southern sea,

Shall stretch their eager arms to thee.

5 Then shall the Jew and Gentile meet,
In pure devotion at thy feet;

And earth shall yield thee, as thy due,
Her fulness, and her glory too.

60 that from Britain now might shine,
This heavenly light, this truth divine!
Till the whole universe shall be
But one great temple, Lord, for thee.

282.

[S. B. 255.]

P. M.

O'ER the gloomy hills of darkness,
Look, my soul, be still and gaze;

All the promises do travail,

With a glorious day of grace:
Blessed gospel,

Let thy glorious morning dawn!

2 Let the Indian, let the Negro,
Let the rude Barbarian see,
That divine and glorious conquest,
Once obtain'd on Calvary!

Let the gospel

Loud resound from pole to pole.

3 Kingdoms wide, that sit in darkness, Grant them, Lord, the glorious light;

May the everlasting gospel

Pierce the gloom of heathen night;
And redemption,

Freely purchased, win the day.

4 Fly abroad, thou mighty gospel;
Win and conquer, never cease;
May thy lasting wide dominion,
Multiply and still increase:
Sway thy sceptre,

Saviour, all the world around.

283.

[s. B. 277.]

L. M.

FROM all that dwell below the skies,

Let the Creator's praise arise:
Let the Redeemer's name be sung,
Through every land, by every tongue.

2 Eternal are thy mercies, Lord;
Eternal truth attends thy word;

Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more.

284.

[L. B. 242.]

C. M.

FATHER of me and all mankind,

And all the hosts above,

Let every understanding mind,

Unite to praise thy love:

2 To know thy nature and thy name,
One God in Persons Three:

And glorify the Great I AM,
Through all eternity.

3 Thy kingdom come, with power and grace, To every heart of man:

Thy peace, and joy, and righteousness,
In all our bosoms reign.

4 Thy righteousness that never ends,
But makes an end of sin;