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1 AND are we now brought near to GOD,
Who once at distance stood?
And, to effect this glorious change,
Did JESUS shed his blood?
20 for a song of ardent praise,
To bear our souls above!
What should allay our lively hope,
Or damp our flaming love!

Then let us join the heavenly choirs,
To praise our heavenly King!

O may that love which spread this board,
Inspire us while we sing:

4" Glory to GOD in highest strains, "And to the earth be peace; "Good-will from heaven to men is come, "And let it never cease!"

HYMN 96. L. M.

1 TO JESUS, our exalted Lord,
That name in heaven and earth adored,
Fain would our hearts and voices raise
A cheerful song of sacred praise.

2 But all the notes which mortals know,
Are weak, and languishing, and low;
Far, far above our humble songs,
The theme demands immortal tongues.
S Yet whilst around his board we meet,
And worship at his sacred feet,
O let our warm affections move,
In glad returns of grateful love.
4 Yes, LORD, we love and we adore,
But long to know and love thee more;
And, whilst we taste the bread and wine,
Desire to feed on joys divine.

5 Let faith our feeble senses aid,
To see thy wondrous love display'd;
Thy broken flesh, thy bleeding veins,
Thy dreadful agonizing pains.
6 Let humble, penitential wo,
With painful, pleasing anguish flow;
And thy forgiving love impart,
Life, hope, and joy to every heart.

3 Be wise as serpents, where you go,
But harmless as the peaceful dove;
And let your heaven-taught conduct show
That ye 're commission'd from above.
4 Freely from me ye have received,
Freely, in love, to others give;
Thus shall your doctrines be believed,
And by your labors, sinners live.

HYMN 98. L. M.

St. Mark xvi. 15, &c. and St. Matt. xxviii. 18, &c. 1 "GO preach my Gospel," saith the LORD,

"Bid the whole earth my grace receive; "Explain to them my sacred word, "Bid them believe, obey, and live.

2 "I'll make my great commission known. "And ye shall prove my Gospel true, By all the works that I have done, "And all the wonders ye shall do. 3" Go heal the sick, go raise the dead, "Go cast out devils in my name; "Nor let my prophets be afraid, "Though Greeks reproach, and Jews blaspheme.

4 While thus ye follow my commands "I'm with you till the world shall end "All power is trusted in my hands;

"I can destroy, and can defend."

5 He spake, and light shone round his head;

On a bright cloud to heaven he rode; They to the farthest nations spread The grace of their ascended GOD.

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Sacred beyond heroic fame;
Hence dictates the prophetic sage,
And hence the evangelic page.

3 In lower forms, to bless our eyes,
Pastors from hence and teachers rise;
Who, though with feebler rays they shine,
Still mark a long extended line.

4 From CHRIST their varied gifts derive,

ORDINATION, OR INSTITUTION OF And, fed by him, their graces live;

MINISTERS.

HYMN 97. L. M.

St. Matt. x.

100 forth, ye heralds, in my name, Sweetly the gospel trumpet sound; The glorious jubilee proclaim,

Where'er the human race is found. 2 The joyful news to all impart, And teach them where salvation lies; With care bind up the broken heart,

And wipe the tears from weeping eyes.

Whilst guarded by his potent hand, Amidst the rage of hell they stand. 5 So shall the bright succession run Through all the courses of the sun; Whilst unborn churches, by their care, Shall rise and flourish large and fair. 6 JESUS, our LORD, their hearts shall know,

The spring whence all these blessings flow;

Pastors and people shout his praise, Through the long round of endless days.

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FATHER of mercies, bow thine ear, Attentive to our earnest prayer; We plead for those who plead for thee, Successful pleaders may they be!

2 How great their work, how vast their charge!

Do thou their anxious souls enlarge;
Their best acquirements are our gain,
We share the blessings they obtain.
$ Clothe, then, with energy divine,
Their words, and let those words be thine;
To them thy sacred truth reveal,
Suppress their fear, iuflame their zeal
4 Teach them to sow the precious seed,
Teach them thy chosen flock to feed;
Teach them immortal souls to gain;
Souls that will well reward their pain.
5 Let thronging multitudes around,
Hear from their lips the joyful sound;
In humble strains thy grace implore,
And feel thy new-creating power.
6 Let sinners break their massy chains,
Distressed souls forget their pains;
Let light through distant realms be spread,
And Zion rear her drooping head.

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1 AND wilt thou, O Eternal GOD,
On earth establish thine abode?
Then look propitious from thy throne,
And take this temple for thine own.
2 These walls we to thine honor raise,
Long may they echo in thy praise;
And tnou, descending, fill the place
With the rich tokens of thy grace.
3 Here may the great Redeemer reign,
With all the graces of his train;
While power divine his word attends,
To conquer focs and cheer his friends.
4 And in the last decisive day,
When GOD the nations shall survey,
May it before the world appear,
Thousands were born for glory here.

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4 Blessings abound where'er he reigns!
The prisoner leaps to burst his chains;
The weary find eternal rest,

And all the sons of want are blest.
5 Where he displays his healing power,
Death and the curse are known no more

In him the tribes of Adam boast

More blessings than their father lost.
6 Let every creature rise, and bring
Peculiar honors to our King:
Angels descend with songs again,
And earth repeat the loud amen.
HYMN 103. L. M
Paalin cxvii.

1 FROM all that dwell below the skies,
Let the Creator's praise arise;
JEHOVAH'S glorious name be sung
Through every land, by every tongue.
2 Eternal are thy mercies, LORD,
And truth eternal is thy word;
Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore.
Till suns shall rise and set no more.

HYMN 104. L. M.
IO SPIRIT of the living GOD!
In all thy plenitude of grace,
Where'er the foot of man hath trod,
Descend on our apostate race!

2 Give tongnes of fire and hearts of love,
To preach the reconciling word;
Give power and unction from above,
Where'er the joyful sound is heard.
3 Be darkness, at thy coming, light;
Confusion, order, in thy path;
Souls without strength inspire with might;
Bid mercy triumph over wrath.

4 Convert the nations; far and nigh
The triumphs of the cross record;
The name of JESUS glorify,
Till every people call him LORD.

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For Missions to the new settlements in the United States.

1 WHEN, LORD, to this our Western land, Led by thy providential hand,

Our wand'ring fathers came, Their ancient homes, their friends in youth, Sent forth the heralds of thy truth,

To keep them in thy name.

2 Then, through our solitary coast, The desert features soon were lost;

Thy temples there arose;

Our shores, as culture made them fair,
Were hallow'd by thy rites, by prayer,
And blossom'd as the rose.

3 And O! may we repay this debt
To regions solitary yet

Within our spreading land! There, brethren, from our common home, Still westward, like our fathers, roam; Still guided by thy hand.

4 Saviour! we own this debt of love: O shed thy Spirit from above,

To move each Christian breast; Till heralds shall thy truth proclaim And temples rise to fix thy name, Through all our desert west.

HYMN 106.

C. M. Isaiah xxxv. 2.

1 ON Zion, and on Lebanon,
On Carmel's blooming height,
On Sharon's fertile plains, once shone
The glory, pure and bright:

2 From thence its mild and cheering ray
Stream'd forth from land to land;
And empires now behold its day;
And still its beams expand.

3 Its brightest splendors, darting west,
Our happy shores illume;
Our farther regions, once unblest,
Now like a garden bloom:

4 But ah! our deserts deep and wild
See not this heavenly light;
No sacred beams, no radiance mild,
Dispel their dreary night.

5 Thon, who didst lighten Zion's hill,
On Carmel who didst shine,
Our deserts let thy glory fill,
Thy excellence divine!

6 Like Lebanon, in tow'ring pride,
May all our forests smile;
And may our borders blossom wide,
Like Sharon's fruitful soil.

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1 FROM Greenland's icy mountains From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains

Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver

Their land from error's chain. 2 What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's Isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile:

In vain with lavish kindness

The gifts of GOD are strown; The Heathen in his blindness

Bows down to wood and stone.

8 Shall we, whose souls are lighted
With wisdom from on high;
Shall we, to men benighted
The lamp of life deny?
Salvation! oh, Salvation!
The joyful sound proclaim,
Till each remotest nation
Has learnt Messiah's name!

4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his story,
And you, ye waters, roll,
Till, like a sea of glory,
It spreads from pole to pole;

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1 DISOWN'D of heaven, by man opprest Outcasts from Zion's hallow'd ground, Wherefore should Israel's sons, once blest, Still roam the scorning world around? 2 LORD! visit thy forsaken race,

Back to thy fold the wand'rers bring; Teach them to seek thy slighted grace, And hail in CHRIST their promised King. 3 The veil of darkness rend in twain Which hides their Shiloh's glorious light The sever'd olive branch, again

Firm to its parent stock unite.

4 Hail, glorious day, expected long! When Jew and Greek one prayer shal.

pour,

With eager feet one temple throng,
With grateful praise one GOD adore
HYMN 109. IV. 1.
Rev. xv. 3, 4.

1 HOW wondrous and great
Thy works, GoD of praise'
How just, King of saints,

And true, are thy ways! Oh, who shall not fear thee, And honor thy name! Thou only art holy,

Thou only supreme! 2 To nations long dark

Thy light shall be shown; Their worship and vows

Shall come to thy throne: Thy truth and thy judgments Shall spread all abroad, Till earth's every people Confess thee their GOD.

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1 LORD, how delightful 't is to see A whole assembly worship thee: At once they sing, at once they pray; They hear of heaven, and learn the way. 2 I have been there, and still would go, 'T is like a little heaven below; Not all that earth and sin can say Shall tempt me to forget this day. 30 write upon my mem'ry, LORD, The text and doctrine of thy word; That I may break thy laws no more, But love thee better than before.

4 With thoughts of CHRIST and thing divine,

Fill up this sinful heart of mine;
That hoping pardon through his blood,
I may lie down and wake with GOD.

HYMN 114. C. M.

1 MERCY, descending from above,
In softest accents pleads;

O may each tender bosom move,
When mercy intercedes!

2 Children our kind protection claim;
And God will well approve,
When infants learn to lisp his name,
And their Creator love.

3 Delightful work! young souls to win,
And turn the rising race

From the deceitful paths of sin,

To seek their Saviour's face.

4 ALMIGHTY GOD! thine influence shed To aid this blest design;

The honor of thy name be spread,

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And all the glory thine.

CHARITABLE OCCASIONS.

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1 BLEST is the man whose soft'rring heart Feels all another's pain;

To whom the supplicating eye

Is never raised in vain:

2 Whose breast responds with gen'rous warinth,

A stranger's wo to feel;

Who weeps in pity o'er the wound

He wants the power to heal.

3 To gentle offices of love

His feet are never slow;

He views, through mercy's melting eye,
A brother in a foe.

4 To him protection shall be shown;
And mercy, from above,

Descend on those who thus fulf

The Christian law of love.

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These thy GOD ordains to bless The widow and the fatherless. When thine olive plants increasing Pour their plenty o'er thy plain, Grateful, thou shalt take the blessing, But not search the bough again. These, &c.

When thy favor'd vintage flowing, Gladdens thine autumnal scene, Own the bounteous hand bestowing, But thy vines the poor shall glean. These, &c.

7 Still we read thy word declaring Mercy, LORD, thine own decree; Mercy, every sorrow sharing,

Warms the heart resembling thee. 8 Still the orphan and the stranger, Still the widow owns thy care; Screen'd by thee in every danger, Heard by thee in every prayer. Hallelujah, Amen.

TO BE USED AT SEA.
HYMN 118. L. M.

1 GOD of the seas! thine awful voice
Bids all the rolling waves rejoice;
And one soft word of thy command
Can sink them silent on the sand.

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roain,

And breathe the tainted air
In burning climates, far from home,
Yet thou, their GOD, art there.
3 Thy goodness sweetens every soil,
Makes every country please:
Thou on the snowy hills dost smile,
And smooth'st the rugged seas!

4 When waves on waves, to heaven up rear'd,

Defied the pilot's art:

When terror in each face appear'd,

And sorrow in each heart;

5 To thee I raised my humble prayes,
To snatch me from the grave!

I found thine ear not slow to hear,
Nor short thine arm to save!

6 Thou gav'st the word-the winds did

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