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2 Other refuge have I none;
Hangs my helplefs foul on thee;
Leave, ah! leave me not alone,
Still fupport and comfort me:
All my trust on thee is ftay'd,
All my help from thee I bring;
Cover my defenceless head

With the fhadow of thy wing.

3 Thou, O CHRIST, art all I want;
More than all in thee I find;
Raise the fallen, chear the faint,
Heal the fick, and lead the blind;
Juft and holy is thy name;

I am all unrighteousness !
Vile, and full of fin I am,

Thou art full of truth and grace.

4 Plenteous grace with thee is found,
Grace to pardon all my fin:
Let the healing ftreams abound,
Make, and keep me pure within:
Thou of life the fountain art,
Freely let me take of thee;
Spring thou up within my heart,
Rife to all eternity!

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HYMN 77.

CHRIST OUR GREAT MELCHISEDEC.

THOU

HOU dear Redeemer, dying Lamb!
We love to hear of thee;

No mufic like thy charming name,
Nor half fo fweet can be!
O may we ever hear thy voice,
In mercy to us fpeak!
And in our Prieft will we rejoice,
Thou great MELCHISEDEC.

2 Our JESUS fhall be still our theme,
While in this world we stay;
We'll fing our JESU's lovely name,
When all things elfe decay:
When we appear in yonder cloud,
With all his favour'd throng;
Then will we fing more fweet and loud,
And CHRIST fhall be our fong.

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HYMN 78.

CHRIST OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

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ESU, thy blood and righteousness, My beauty are, my glorious dress; 'Midft flaming worlds in these array'd, With joy fhall I lift up my head.

2 When from the duft of death I rife,
To claim my manfion in the skies;
E'en then fhall this be all my plea,
"JESUS hath LIV'D, hath DY'D for me."
3 Bold fhall I ftand in that great day;
For who ought to my charge fhall lay?
Fully thro' thefe abfolv'd I am

From fin and fear, from guilt and shame.
4 Thus ABRAHAM the friend of God,
Thus all the armies bought with blood,
Saviour of finners thee proclaim;
Sinners, of whom the chief I am.

5 This fpotless robe the fame appears,
When ruin'd nature finks in years;
No age can change its glorious hue,
The grace of CHRIST is ever new.
6 O let the dead now hear thy voice,
Now bid thy banish'd ones rejoice,
Their beauty this, their glorious dress,
JESUS THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS,

HYMN

79.

THE GREATNESS AND COODNESS OF GOD.

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EHOVAH reigns, his throne is high,
His robes are light and majesty:

His glory thines with beams fo bright,
No mortal can fuftain the fight.

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2 His terrors keep the world in awe;
His juftice guards his holy law;
His love reveals his fmiling face;
His truth and promise feal the grace,

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Thro' all his works his wisdom shines, And baffles Satan's deep defigns; His pow'r is fov'reign to fulfil The nobleft counfels of his will. 4 And will JEHOVAH Condefcend To be my Father and my Friend! Then let my fongs with Angels join ; Heav'n is fecure, if God be mine.

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HYMN 80.

Heavenly King,

Look down from above;

Affift us to fing

Thy mercy and love:
So fweetly o'erflowing,
So plenteous the ftore,
Thou still art bestowing,
And giving us more.
2 O GOD of our life,

We hallow thy name;
Our bus'ness and strife
Is thee to proclaim:
Accept our thanksgiving
For creating grace;

The living, the living

Shall fhew forth thy praife.

3 Our Father and LORD,
Almighty art thou;
Preferv'd by thy Word,
We worship thee now:
The bountiful donor
Of all we enjoy ;

Our tongues to thine honour,
And lives we'll employ.

4 But O; above all

Thy kindness we praise,
From fin and from thrall
Which faves a loft race,
Thy Son thou hast giv’n
A world to redeem,
And bring us to heav'n,
Whofe truft is in him.

5 Wherefore of thy love
We fing and rejoice,
With angels above

We lift up our voice;
Thy love each believer
Shall gladly adore,

For ever and ever,

When time is no more.

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