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5 Thy faints are comforted I know,

And love thy house of pray'r; I therefore go where others go, But find no comfort there.

6 O make this heart rejoice, or ach;
Decide this doubt for me;

And if it be not broken, break,
And heal it, if it be.

LXV. C. The future peace and glory of the church. Chap. lx. 15-20.

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Ear what God the LORD hath spoken,
O my people, faint and few;

Comfortless, afflicted broken,
Fair abodes I build for you:
Thorns of heart-felt tribulation
Shall no more perplex your ways;
You fhall name your walls, falvation,
And your gates shall all be praise.
2 There, like ftreams that feed the garden,
Pleasures, without end, fhall flow;
For the LORD, your faith rewarding,
All his bounty fhall beftow:
Still in undisturb'd poffeffion,
Peace and righteousness hall reign ;
Never fhall you feel oppreffion,
Hear the voice of war again.,

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Ye no more your funs defcending,
Waning moons no more fhall fee
But your griefs, for ever ending,
Find eternal noon in me:

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GOD fhall rife, and fhinining o'er you,
Change to day the gloom of night;
He, the LORD, fhall be your glory,
God your everlasting light.

JEREMIAH.

LXVI. Truft of the wicked, and the righteous compared. Chap. xvii. 5-8.

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Beneath a burning sky;

The worthlefs bramble with'ring ftands,

And only grows to die.

2 Such is the finners awful cafe,

Who makes the world his truft;
And dares his confidence to place
In vanity and duft.

3 A fecret curfe destroys his root,
And dries his moisture up ;
He lives awhile, but bears no fruit,
Then dies without a hope.

4 But happy he whofe hopes depend
Upon the LORD alone;

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The foul that trufts in fuch a friend,
Can ne'er be overthrown.

Tho' gourds fhould wither, cifterns break,
And creature comforts die;

No change his folid hope can shake,

Or ftop his fure fupply.

LAMENTATIONS.

LXIX. The LORD is my portion. Chap. iii. 24.

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1-FROM pole to pole let others roam,
And fearch in vain for blifs;

My foul is fatisfy'd at home,
The LORD my portion is.

2 JESUS who on his glorious throne
Rules heav'n, and earth, and fea;
Is pleas'd to claim me for his own,
And give himself to me.

3 His perfon fixes all my love,
His blood removes my fear;
And while he pleads for me above,
His arm preferves me here.

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His word of promife is my food,
His Spirit is my guide;

Thus daily is my ftrength renew'd
And all my wants fupply'd (m).

5 For him I count as gain each loss,
Difgrace, for him, renown;
Well may I glory in his cross,
While he prepares my crown!

6 Let worldlings then indulge their boaft, How much they gain or spend!

Their joys muft foon give up the ghost,
But mine shall know no end.

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(m) Book III. Hymn 59.

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EZEKIEL.

LXX. Humbled and filenced by mercy.
Chap. xvi. 64.

I ONCE perishing in blood I lay,

Creatures no help could give;

But JESUS, pafs'd me in the way,
He faw, and bid me live.

2 Tho' Satan ftill his rule maintain'd,
And all his arts employ'd;
That mighty word his rage reftrain'd,
I could not be destroy'd;

3 At length the time of love arriv'd
When I my LORD fhould know;
Then Satan, of his pow'r depriv'd,
Was forc'd to let me go.

4 O can I e'er that day forget

When JESUS kindly spoke!

"Poor foul, my blood has paid thy debt, And now I break thy yoke.

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Henceforth I take thee for my own,

And give myself to thee;

Forfake the idols thou haft known,

And yield thy heart to me."

6 Ah, worthlefs heart! it promis'd fair,
And faid it would be thine;

I little thought it e'er would dare
Again with idols join.

7 LORD, doft thou fuch backflidings heal, And pardon all that's paft?

Sure, if I am not made of fteel,
Thou haft prevail'd at last.

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8 My tongue, which rafhly spoke before,
This mercy will restrain;

Surely I now fhall boast no more,
Nor cenfure, nor complain.

LXXI. C. The covenant. Chap. xxxvi. 25-28.

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HE LORD proclaims his grace abroad! Behold, I change your hearts of ftone; Each fhall renounce his idol god,

And ferve, henceforth, the LORD alone. 2 My grace, a flowing ftream, proceeds To wafh your filthiness away; Ye fhall abhor your former deeds, And learn my ftatutes to obey. 3 My truth the great defign infures, I give myfelf away to you;

You fhall be mine, I will be your's,
Your GOD unalterably true.

4 Yet not unfought, or unimplor'd,
The plenteous grace fhall I confer (n);
No-your whole hearts shall seek the LORD,
I'll put a praying spirit there.

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From the first breath of life divine,
Down to the last expiring hour;

The gracious work fhall all be mine,
Begun and ended in my pow'r.

LXXII. C. JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH:
Chap. xlviii. 35.

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