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O YE who followed CHRIST in love,
While yet He dwelt in realms above,
First children of Almighty grace:
First fathers of the faithful race!

O! how can words of equal worth
The wonders of your faith set forth!
Or tell of all your hopes and sighs,
Which faith uplifted to the skies!

In dreary exile here below,

Ye found the world an empty show;
On sure delights ye fixed your love,

And looked for rest in Heaven above.

The heart, O GOD, that loves Thee well,
Still longs with Thee in peace to dwell;
Forbid, O LORD, our souls to roam,
And fix them on our future home.

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THE LORD shall reign where'er the sun Doth his successive journeys run;

His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, Till moons shall wax and wane no more.

To Him shall fervent prayer be made, And princes throng to crown His head; His Name like sweet perfume shall rise With every morning sacrifice.

People and realms of every tongue
Shall hail His love with sweetest song;
And infant voices shall proclaim
Their early blessings on His Name.

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.

28.

Now JESUS lifts His prayer on high,
Emerging from the stream,
And, lo! descending from the sky,
The SPIRIT's radiant beam.

Swift moving, like a beauteous dove,
It rests on Him alone;

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This," saith the Voice of God above, Is My Beloved SON."

So those on whom is duly poured
The blest baptismal wave,
They too are children of the LORD,
They too may ask and have.

If Thou, LORD, hast removed our stain In that most holy flood,

May no fresh sin destroy again

The cleansing of Thy Blood!

29.

To bless Thy chosen race,
In merey, LORD, incline;
And cause the brightness of Thy face
On all Thy saints to shine.

That so Thy wondrous ways

May through the world be known, Whilst distant lands their tribute pay, And Thy salvation own.

Let diff'ring nations join

To celebrate Thy fame;

Let all the world, O LORD, combine
To praise Thy glorious Name.

30.

HALLELUJAH! best and sweetest
Of the hymns of praise above!
Hallelujah! thou repeatest,
Angel-host, these notes of love,
This ye utter,

While your golden harps ye move.

Hallelujah! Church victorious
Join the concert of the sky!
Hallelujah! bright and glorious,
Lift, ye saints, this strain on high!
We poor exiles

Join not yet your melody.

Hallelujah! strains of gladness

Suit not souls with anguish torn; Hallelujah! sounds of sadness

But become our state forlorn ;
Our offences

We with bitter tears must mourn.

But our earnest supplication,
Holy GoD, we raise to Thee;

Visit us with Thy salvation,
Make us all Thy joys to see;
Hallelujah!

Ours at length this strain shall be.