2 All may of life" partake,
And find the way to heav'n;
Salvation for his fake
Is now to finners giv'n;
Hence ev'ry one
His face may fee,
And be fet free
Through faith alone,

3 Surrounded by his love
As monuments of grace,
We fing, and heav'nward move
To that celeftial place:

For well we know
That God will come2,
And take us home
From ev'ry foe.

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CCLVI.

THUNDER and LIGHTENING welcomed as facred Meffengers from God.

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EE! fee how forked light'nings fly,
As meffengers of the most High!
Hark how his thunders, as they roll,
DO WELCOME him from pole to pole.
2 The figns fortel that day is near
When Chrift in grandeur will appear;
Till then we, of his goodnefs fing,
And WELCOME our eternal King!

3 All hail! thou Judge of quick and dead
Thy faints are, all fecure from dread:
Hence freed from fear and fad difmay,
We WELCOME that important day.

(w) Rev. xxii. 17. (x) Acts iv. 12.) Heb. v. 9. (y) Eph. ii. 8. (z) Rev. xxii. 20. (a) Exod. ix. 23, 28, 29, 33, 34. xix. 16.-Pfal. Ixxvii. 18.-Ifa. xxix. 6. (b) Luke xxi. 5-Acts ii. 17, &c, (c) Matt, xxv. 31. (d) Tim. iv. 1.

No death can enter where thou art,
To injure our immortal part;

We therefore wait thy will to prove,
And WELCOME thy design of love.

CCLVII.

The happy effects of Grace, is, and shall for ever be, the Song of the Righteous.

HOSANNAHS to the God of love

Let all his children raife;

And celebrate with these above
The great Creator's praife!

2 Perpetual bleflings we receive-
Faft as the minutes roll:
No ftranger can his love conceive
To each believing foul.

3 The facred joy and fweet delight
Which we in Chrift have found,
Doth make us gladly all invite
In ev'ry nation round.

4 To all the world our wishes flies,
And bids the worst to come;
Come, fellow-finners, now arise,
The Lord will make you rooms

(e) John viii. 51. (f) 2 Cor. xiii. II. (g) Ifa. lv. Luke xiv. 22. (h) I Cor. ii. 9.

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6 The full extent of Jefu's grace,
If this can ere be known,

Will be when we behold his face1,
And fit around his throne.

But fince already we partake
This grace in fome degree,
O Lord, we'll henceforth jointly make
Moft grateful fongs to thee.

$ "Tis grace that will to glory bang
All thofe who ufe the fame;
There evermore its fons fhall fing,
And its effects proclaim!

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CCLVIII.

Praife for the greatness of God's Glory, Majefty, and Love.

I TIGH1 over all JEHOVAH reigns
In everlasting itate!

3

His pow'r the universe sustains,
Which did the fame create.

The highest heav'ns can't contain
His glorious majefty!

Hence who the glory can explain,
Which we ere long fhall fee?

Yet we who tafte can now declare
The riches of his grace" :

Lo! this is far beyond compare
To all the fallen race.

4 Ye faints and angels, join in one
To celebrate his praise;

Let us in fongs of what he's done
Our hearts and voices raife.

5 He ev'ry day in plenty gives
His bleffings from above:

All things on his rich bounty lives",
And do his goodness prove.

These bleffings, though fo great, are smally
Compar'd with what he wrought

For all who fuffer'd by the fall,

When he falvation brought.

7 Such matchless love beyond degree,
What language can relate?

This fhall our fong for ever be
In an immortal state!

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CCLIX.

Praife flowing from a feeling fenfe of the goodness of GOD.

XTOL the great JEHOVAH's name,
Who reigns enthron'd on high!
All creatures fpread abroad his fame
Throughout both earth and fky.

2 From far, ye happy spirits hafte,
Affemble round his throne;
New pleasures' we in Chrift fhall tafte,
Which yet we have not known.

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(p) Eph. iii. 19.1 John iii. 1, 22 (r) Pfal. cxlviii. 1,

(0) Pfal. civ. 14, 15.

(q) Pfal. cxlv. 1.-Dan. iv. 37.

cl. 6.-Rev. v. 13. (f) Pfal. xvi. 11.-xxxvi. 8.

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3 The Lamb, who all our forrows bores!
Shall here his children meet,-
While we in our affections foar,
Towards his glorious feat.

4 Already Jefus has begun
On his peculiar care",

To fhine far brighter than the fun;
Hence we these bleffings fhare.

5 With all our pow'rs we'll gladly tell,
And joyfully relate§

What has been done for us who fell
From our firft happy state.

We'll fing of that great love* which brought
Salvation from above:

Our praise fhall be to him who fought,
And did of us approve.

7 And of the glories of that place
Where our Redeemer reigns',
We'll fing, but when we fee his face,
We'll ftill exalt our ftrains!

To relate all that has been done for the fallen race, will be a fubject that muft run parallel with eternity; but the righteous, whofe hearts are fet at liberty, will lofe no time in beginning this delightful employment. The Pfalmift, when filled with the love of God, cries out in one place, Come and bear, all ye that fear God, and will declare what he hath done for my foul, Pfal. Ixvi. 16. and in many other places he speaks very largely of the mighty deliverances that God had wrought for him; and of the unfpeakable benefits which he had received.-The reft of the facred writers do all speak in like manner; and fo do those who are true believers in every generation: for they are all the children of God by faith in Chrift Jefus; Gal. iii. 26. and can experimentally fay, that which we have feen and heard, declare We unto you, that ye alfo may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jefus Chrift, 1 John i. 3. We will publifh with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all his wonderous works, Pfal. xxvi. 7.