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The HYMNS for the ORDINARY

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For Monday Morning.

Come let us fing unto the Lord, let us heartily rejoice in the Strength of our Salvation. Let us come before his Prefence with Thanksgiving, and fhew our felves glad in him with Palms. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all Gods.

O come let us worship, and fall down, and kneel before the Lord our Maker. For He is the Lord our God. And we are the People of his Pafture, and the Sheep of his Hands

O Lord our God, thy Wonders and Favours towards us, are in fo great Number, that we are not able to count them..! Thou hast given us Life, Motion, and Being.

Thou dost always give us Evidences of thy Bounty in doing us Good, in fending from Heaven Rain and fruitful Seafons, and in filling our Hearts with Food and Gladnefs.

Thou haft fent thy Only Son into the World, to the end that He might be a Propitiation for our Sins.

Thou haft honoured us with an holy Calling: Thou haft adopted us, and then calleft us to the Poffeffion of thy Glory.

For all thefe Things we blefs Thee, we worship Thee, and we exalt thy glorious Name, faying with Angels, and all the Heavenly Hoft, Holy, Hely, holy, Lord God of Hofts, Heaven and Earth are full of the Majefty of thy Glory, O God moft High.

Let our Mouth be filled for ever with thy Praife, and let all Flesh blefs Thee perpetually

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghoft. As it was in the Beginning, is now, and ever fhall be, World without End.

Amen.

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Another Hymn for Monday Morning.

Lord, from the Morning hear our Voice; from the Morning we will feek after Thee: Send thy Light and Truth, to the end that they may guide us, and bring us into thy holy Tabernacles. We will come into thy Houfe, and we will caft down our felves in thy Holy Temple, with that Reverence which is due unto Thee.

I wash my Hands in Innocence, and I encompass thy Altar, O Lord, to break forth into Thanksgivings, and to tell of all Thy wonderful Works. My God, I love the Habitation of thy Houfe, and the Place where is the Tent of thy Glory.

Make us to understand thy Goodnefs in the Morning, for our Hope has been in Thee. Make us to know the Way in which we are to walk, for we have lifted up our Hearts to Thee: Teach us to do thy Will, for Thou art our God: Let thy good Spirit guide us as through an even Country.

Satisfie us every Morning with thy Goodness, to the end that we may be joyful all our Days. Let the Work of thy Grace appear in us, and we fhall blefs thy holy Name.

Let us blefs the Lord, who heaps upon us good Things every Day. Let us give Thanks to the Father, who has made us capable of partaking of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light, who haft delivered us from the Power of Darknefs, and brought us into the Kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have Redemption by his Blood, even the Remiffion of Sins.

Glory be to the Father, &c.

An Hymn for Monday Evening.

PRAISE the Lord, call upon his Name, publish his great Acts among the People, fing to Him, fing Pfalms to Him, fpeak of all his marvellous Works. Glorifie his holy Name: Let the Heart of all those that seek the Lord, rejoice: Seek the Lord and his Strength, feek continually his Strength: Remember all his marvellous Works.

Our God is Great, of great Power, none can tell the Greatnefs of his Wifdom. Sing to the Lord with Thanksgivings, by answering one another; Sing Pfalms to our God.

Jerufalem praife the Lord, Sion praife thy God. Tis He that ftrengthens the Bars of thy Gates, and that bleffes thy Children within thee. 'Tis He that makes thy Land peaceful: Tis He that makes known his Word to Jacob, and his Statutes to Ifrael: He

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has not dealt fo with all the Nations. "Tis He that has fo loved the World, that He has given his Only Son, to the end that whoever believes in Him fhould not perish, but have everlasting Life.

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What shall we render unto the Lord? All his Benefits are upon

We will take the Cup of Salvation, and we will blefs his holy Name: We will now pay Him our Vows before all his People, in the Courts of his House, in the midst of thee, O Jerufalem, praise the Lord.

Glory be to the Father, &c.

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Another Hymn for Monday Evening.

Lord God our King, we will exalt Thee, and we will blefs thy Name for ever.

The Lord is Great, and worthy of great Praife: There is no End of his Greatness: One Generation fhall tell another the Glory of thy Works. We will speak of the glorious Magnificence of thy Majefty: We will every where declare the Memorial of Thy great Goodness: We will publish thy Righteousness with Songs of Triumph.

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The Lord is merciful and gracious, flow to Anger, and of great Goodness. The Lord is gracious to all, his Mercies are over all his Works..!

Lord, all thy Works fhall praife Thee, and thy Beloved fhall blefs Thee: They hall repeat the Glory of thy Kingdom, and publish thy great Acts.

Thy Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, thy Dominion endureth through all Ages. The Lord upholds thofe that are falling, and fets upright thofe that are ftumbling.

The Lord is righteous in all his Ways, and full of Goodness in all his Works.

The Lord is near all thofe that call upon Him, to all thofe that call upon Him fincerely. !

The Eyes of all Creatures wait upon Thee, Thou giveft them. their Food, Thou openeft thy Hand, and fatisfieft the Defires of all living Creatures.

He fulfils the Defires of thofe that fear Him: He hears their Cry and delivers them. The Lord keeps all thofe that love Him, and. roots out all the Evil-doers.

Our Mouth fhall fhew forth the Praises of the Lord, and all Creatures fhall blefs his Holy Name for ever.

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An Hymn for Tuesday Evening.

Lord God of our Fathers, Thou art bleffed, Thou art worthy; to be praised,, and exalted above all Things for ever. The holy Name of thy Majefty is bleffed Thou art blessed in thy Holy Temple Thou art bleffed in the glorious Throne of thy Kingdom, celebrated and glorified eternally.

O all you Works of the Lord, praife Him, and exalt Him above all Things for ever.

O ye Heavens, praise Him; ye Angels of the Lord, praife Him all ye Creatures of Heaven, of Earth, and of the Sea, praife Him, and exalt Him above all Things for ever.

Ye Sons of Men praise Him: Let Ifrael blefs the Lord: Let him praife Him, and exalt Him above all Things for ever.

Ye Priefts and Minifters of the Lord; ye Spirits and Souls of the Juft; ye Saints, humble of Heart, blefs the Lord, praise Him, and exalt Him above all Things for ever.

All ye the Servants of the Lord, blefs the Lord, the God of Gods, for He is gracious, and his Mercy endureth for ever.

Thou art bleffed, O Lord God, of our Fathers, and blessed is the Name of thy Glory, in all the Churches, through Jefus Chrift: Thou art worthy of Praife for ever and ever: Let us blefs the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; let us praife and exalt Him for ever..

Glory be to the Father, &."

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Another Hymn for Tuefday Evening.

God, we will celebrate Thee with all our Heart, we will fing Pfalms to Thee, we will bow down our felves in the Palace of thy Holiness, and we will praife thy Goodness and: Faithfulness. Lord, we adore thy infinite Majefty, we blefs Thee for thy Mer cy, and we rejoice in thy Salvation.

Thou haft made thy Favour admirable towards Men.

Thou haft fent thy Son, to the end that Thou mighteft manifest the Truth of thy Promifes made to the Fathers, and to the end that the Gentiles may praife Thee for thy Mercy; for the fake of which we will praife Thee among the Nations, and we will fing Hymns to thy

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O ye Gentiles, rejoice with his People. O all ye Nations, praise the Lord. O all ye People, celebrate Him: You that were formerly no People, but are now the People of God: You that in former Times had not obtained Mercy, but who have now obtained Mercy.

O the Deptli of the Riches, of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his Judgments, and his Ways paft finding out! Who has known the Thoughts of the Lord Or who has been his Counsellor? Or who has first given Him any Thing, and He hath not returned it to him? for all Things are of Him, by Him, and for Him. To Him be Glory for ever and ever.

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An Hymn for Wednesday Evening.

NOME, and let us prefent our felves before the Face of God, let us caft down our felves before Him.

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us, not Know that the Lord He is God, 'tis He that hath made we our felves: We are his People, and the Flock which He feeds and leads. Enter into his Gates with Thanksgiving, and into his Courts with Praife, celebrate and bless his holy Name: For the Lord is gracious, his Mercy endureth for ever, and his Truth from one Generation to another.

O God, we adore Thee as our God, as our Creator stin ther of our Lord Jefus Chrift, we humble our felves in the relence, and acknowledge thy infinite Majefty.

The Angels adore Thee, and all the Host of Heaven fall down before Thee, and praife Thee, faying, Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of Hoft, all the Earth is fill'd with thy Glory.

Receive the Honours that we pay to Thee upon Earth, we poor Mortals, miferable Sinners, who are thy Creatures and thy Children through Grace, o

Glory be to the Father, &c.
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Another Hymn for Wednesday Evening.

OME, and let us prefent our felves before the Face of God, let us worship Him in his Temple, let us caft our felves down in his Sanctuary.

The Lord is here: How venerable and holy is this Place! This is the House of God, this is the Gate of Heaven.

O Lord God of our Fathers, Thou art bleffed for evermore.
To Thee belongs Might, Power, Glory, Eternity, and Majesty.

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