SHEPHE

CHRISTMAS.

HEPHERDS rejoice and send
away;

News from the sky! a faviour's born to-day,
Jefus the God comes down to dwell with you;
To-day he comes; but not as monarch's do.
No gold, no purple; royal fhining things;
A manger stands, and holds the King of Kings.

Thus Gabriel fung; the heav'nly angel's throng;

They tune their harps, and thus conclude the fong:

Glory to God, who reigns enthron'd above Good will to men, and peace and endless love.

COMMUNION.

WORTHY, O Lord! art thou alone

praises to receive:

Immortal love fupports thy throne;
And by that love ev'n angels live.

Therefore with angels and archangels, and with all the company of Heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name: Evermore praifing thee, and faying, Holy, holy, holy Lord, our God; heaven and earth are full of thy glory Glory be to thee, O Lord most high. Amen.

GILEAD.

SALY

GILEAD.

ÁLVATION, oh! the joyful found,
Tis pleasure to our ears;

A fov'reign balm for every wound;
A cordial for our fears.

Buried in forrow and in fin,

At hell's dark door we lay: But we arife by grace divine To see a heavenly day.

Salvation! let the echo fly

The fpacious earth around; While all the armies of the fky Confpire to raise the found."

ANTHEM.

AY not up treasure on earth, where moth Land ruft doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up treasure in heaven, where neither moth nor ruft doth corrupt, and where thieves break not through nor fteal. He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will be paid him again. Bleffed are the merciful; for they fhall obtain mercy.-Rejoice, and be exceeding glad; for great is your reward in heaven

Praifed

Praifed be the Lord. For who is God, but the Lord; and who hath any ftrength except our God.—

Sing to the Lord, and blefs his name;
From day to day his praife proclaim.

ANTHEM,

From Job 7.

S there not an appointed time upon earth?

Is there his days, the days of an hireling?

I'm made to poffefs months of vanity; and wearifome nights are appointed to me.

When I lie down I fay, When fhall I arife, and the night be gone? I'm full of toffing to and fro' unto the dawning of the day. My flesh is clothed with worms; my fkin is broken, and become loathfome. I loath it: I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity. My days are fwifter than a weaver's fhuttle; and are fpent without hope. O remember that my life is wind; mine eyes fhall no more fee good. As the cloud is confumed and vanifheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave fhall come up no more. For now fhall I fleep in the duft; and thou fhalt feek me in the morning, but I fhall not be.

FROM

ANTHEM, with the Hallelujah Chorus.

ROM heaven the loud angelic fong began,
It shook the skies, and reached aftonish'd

man.

By man re-echoed it fhall mount again;
While fragrant odours fill the blissful plain.

Worthy the Lamb of boundless fway;
In earth or heaven the Lord of all:
Ye princes, rulers, powers, obey !!
And low before his footsteps fall.

Higher, ftill higher fwell the ftrain;
Creation's voice the note prolong.
The Lamb fhall ever, ever reign;
Let Hallelujahs crown the fong.

Hallelujah! for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Chrift: And he fhall reign for ever and ever, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. Hallelujah.

CANAAN

'CANAAN.

HAPPY beyond defcription he,

Who in the paths of piety
Loves, from his birth, to run;
Its ways are ways of plenteousness,
And all its paths are joy and peace,
And heaven on earth began.

If this felicity were mine,
I every other would refign,
With juft and holy fcorn.
Cheerful and blithe my way purfue,
And with the promised land in view
Singing to God return.

ANTHEM,

From feveral parts of Scripture.

If. 60. 1. Arife, fhine, O Zion! for thy light is come; and the glory of the Lord is rifen upon thee. Ver. 3. And the Gentiles fhall come to thy light; and Kings to the brightness of thy rifing.-Luke 2. 10. Sing, fing, O heavens and be joyful, O earth! for behold I bring you glad tidings of great joy, which fhall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Saviour which is Chrift the Lord. Ver. 14. Glory be

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