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all the earth abroad?Let every nation now behold?Their Saviour and their God.
Hymn 1:11.?The humble enlightened, and carnal reason humbled;?or, The sovereignty of grace, Luke 10. 21 22
1 There was an hour when Christ rejoic'd,?And spoke his joy in words of praise;?"Father, I thank thee, mighty God,?"Lord of the earth, and heavens, and seas.
2 "I thank thy sovereign power and love,?"That crowns my doctrine with success;?"And makes the babes in knowledge learn?"The heights, and breadths, and lengths of grace.
3 "But all this glory lies conceal'd?"From men of prudence and of wit;?"The prince of darkness blinds their eyes,?"And their own pride resists the light.
4 "Father, 'tis thus, because thy will?"Chose and ordain'd it should be so;?"T'is thy delight t' abase the proud,?"And lay the haughty scorner low.
5 "There's none can know the Father right?"But those who learn it from the Son;?"Nor can the Son be well receiv'd,?But where the Father makes him known."
6 Then let our souls adore our God?That deals his graces as he please,?Nor gives to mortals an account?Or of his actions, or decrees.
Hymn 1:12.?Free grace in revealing Christ, Luke 10. 21.
1 Jesus, the man of constant grief,?A mourner all his days;?His spirit once rejoic'd aloud,?And tun'd his joy to praise.
2 "Father, I thank thy wondrous love,?"That hath reveal'd thy Son?"To men unlearned; and to babes?"Has made thy gospel known.
3 "The mysteries of redeeming grace?"Are hidden from the wise,?"While pride and carnal reasonings join?"To swell and blind their eyes."
4 Thus doth the Lord of heaven and earth?His great decrees fulfil,?And orders all his works of grace?By his own sovereign will.
Hymn 1:13.?The Son of God incarnate; or, The titles and the?kingdom of Christ, Isa. 9. 2 6 7.
1 The lands that long in darkness lay?Now have beheld a heavenly light;?Nations that sat in death's cold shade?Are bless'd with beams divinely bright.
2 The virgin's promis'd Son is born,?Behold th' expected Child appear;?What shall his names or titles be??The Wonderful, the Counsellor.
3 This infant is the mighty God?Come to be suckled and ador'd?Th' eternal Father, Prince of Peace,?The son of David, and his Lord.
4 The government of earth and seas?Upon his shoulders shall be laid?His wide dominions still increase,?And honours to his name be paid.
5 Jesus the holy child shall sit?High on his father David's throne,?Shall crush his foes beneath his feet,?And reign to ages yet unknown.
Hymn 1:14.?The triumph of faith; or, Christ's unchangeable love,?Rom. 8. 33 &c.
1 Who shall the Lord's elect condemn??'Tis God that justifies their souls,?And mercy like a mighty stream?O'er all their sins divinely rolls.
2 Who shall adjudge the saints to hell??'Tis Christ that suffer'd in their stead,?And the salvation to fulfil,?Behold him rising from the dead.
3 He lives, he lives, and sits above,?For ever interceding there:?Who shall divide us from his love??Or what should tempt us to despair?
4 Shall persecution, or distress,?Famine, or sword, or nakedness??He that hath lov'd us bears us thro',?And makes us more than conquerors too.
5 Faith hath an overcoming power,?It triumphs in the dying hour;?Christ is our life, our joy, our hope,?Nor can we sink with such a prop.
6 Not all that men on earth can do,?Nor powers on high, nor powers below,?Shall cause his mercy to remove,?Or wean our hearts from Christ our love.
Hymn 1:15.?Our own weakness, and Christ our strength,?2 Cor. 12. 7 9 10.
1 Let me but hear my Saviour say,?"Strength shall be equal to thy day,"?Then I rejoice in deep distress,?Leaning on all-sufficient Grace.
2 I glory in infirmity,?That Christ's own power may rest on me;?When I am weak, then am I strong,?Grace is my shield, and Christ my song.
3 I can do all things, or can bear?All sufferings, if my Lord be there;?Sweet pleasures mingle with the pains,?While his left hand my head sustains.
4 But if the Lord be once withdrawn,?And we attempt the work alone,?When new temptations spring and rise?We find how great our weakness is.
5 [So Samson, when his hair was lost,?Met the Philistines to his cost;?Shook his vain limbs with sad surprise,?Made feeble fight, and lost his eyes.]
Hymn 1:16.?Hosanna to Christ, Matt. 21. 9. Luke 19. 38 40.
1 Hosanna to the royal Son?Of David's ancient line,?His natures two, his person one,?Mysterious and divine.
2 The root of David here we find,?And offspring is the same;?Eternity and time are join'd?In our Immanuel's name.
3 Bless'd he that comes to wretched men?With peaceful news from heaven;?Hosannas of the highest strain?To Christ the Lord be given.
4 Let mortals ne'er refuse to take?Th' hosanna on their tongues,?Lest rocks and stones should rise, and break?Their silence into songs.
Hymn 1:17.?Victory over death, 1 Cor. 15, 55 &c.
1 O for an overcoming faith?To cheer my dying hours,?To triumph o'er the monster Death,?And all his frightful powers.
2 Joyful with all the strength I have?My quivering lips should sing,?"Where is thy boasted victory, Grave??And where the monster's sting?"
3 If sin be pardon'd I'm secure,?Death hath no sting beside;?The