Mix'd with those beyond the sky,
Chanters to the Lord most high,
We our hearts and voices raise,
Echoing thy eternal praise.
2 One, inexplicably three,
One, in simplest unity:

God, incline thy gracious ear,
Us, thy lisping creatures, hear!
Thee while dust and ashes sings,
Angels shrink within their wings;
Prostrate seraphim above
Breathe unutterable love.

3 Happy they who never rest,
With thy heavenly presence blest!
They the heights of glory see,
Sound the depths of Deity:

Fain with them our souls would vie; Sink as low, and mount as high; Fall, o'erwhelm'd with love, or soar; Shout, or silently adore!

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HAIL! holy, holy, holy Lord!

Whom one in three we know;

By all thy heavenly host adored,
By all thy church below.
2 One undivided Trinity
With triumph we proclaim;
Thy universe is full of thee,
And speaks thy glorious name.
3 Thee, holy Father, we confess;
Thee, holy Son, adore;
Thee, Spirit of truth and holiness,
We worship evermore.

4 The incommunicable right,
Almighty God, receive!

Which angel choirs, and saints in light, And saints embodied, give.

5 Three persons equally divine We magnify and love :

And both the choirs ere long shall join
To sing thy praise above.

6 Hail! holy, holy, holy Lord,
(Our heavenly song shall be,)
Supreme, essential One, adored
In co-eternal Three!

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THOUSAND oracles divine Their common beams unite; That sinners may with angels join To worship God aright:

2 To praise a Trinity adored
By all the hosts above;

And one thrice-holy God and Lord
Through endless ages love.

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3 Triumphant host! they never cease To laud and magnify

The triune God of holiness,

Whose glory fills the sky:

4 Whose glory to this earth extends, When God himself imparts,

And the whole Trinity descends
Into our faithful hearts.

5 By faith the upper choir we meet,
And challenge them to sing
Jehovah, on his shining seat,
Our Maker and our King.

6 But God made flesh is wholly ours, And asks our noblest strain;

The Father of celestial powers,
The Friend of earth-born man!

7 Ye seraphs, nearest to the throne,
With rapturous amaze

On us, poor ransom'd worms, look down,
For heaven's superior praise!

8 The King, whose glorious face ye see,
For us his crown resign'd;
That fulness of the Deity,

He died for all mankind!

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Whom one all-perfect God we owr,

Restorer of thy image lost,

Thy various offices make known;
Display, our fallen souls to raise,
Thy whole economy of grace.

2 Jehovah, in three persons, come,
And draw, and sprinkle us, and seal,
Poor, guilty, dying worms, in whom
Thou dost eternal life reveal;
The knowledge of thyself bestow,
And all thy glorious goodness show.
3 Soon as our pardon'd hearts believe
That thou art pure essential love,
The proof we in ourselves receive
Of the three witnesses above;
Sure, as the saints around thy throne,
That Father, Word, and Spirit are one.
4 0 that we now, in love renew'd,

Might blameless in thy sight appear:
Wake we in thy similitude,

Stamp'd with the triune character;
Flesh, spirit, soul, to thee resign;
And live and die entirely thine!

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ALL-CREATING God,
At whose supreme decree

Our body rose, a breathing clod,
Our souls sprang forth from thee:

2 For this thou hast design'd,
And form'd us man for this;
To know, and love thyself, and find
In thee our endless bliss.

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My soul, through my Redeemer's care,

Saved from the second death, I feel;

My eyes from tears of dark despair,
My feet from falling into hell.

2 Wherefore to him my feet shall run;
My eyes on his perfections gaze :
My soul shall live for God alone,
And all within me shout his praise.

SACRAMENTAL.

THE LORD'S SUPPER.

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N that sad, memorable night,

When Jesus was for us betray'd,

He left his death-recording rite:

He took, and bless'd, and brake the bread;

And gave his own their last bequest,

And thus his love's intent express'd:

2 "Take, eat, this is my body, given To purchase life and peace for you, Pardon, and holiness, and heaven;

Do this my dying love to show : Accept your precious legacy,

And thus, my friends, remember me."
3 He took into his hands the cup,
To crown the sacramental feast,
And, full of kind concern, look'd up,
And gave to them what he had blest:
"And drink ye all of this, (he said,)
In solemn memory of the dead.

4 " This is my blood, which seals the new Eternal cov'nant of my grace:

My blood, so freely shed for you,
For you and all the sinful race:

My blood, that speaks your sins forgiven,
And justifies your claim to heaven."

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LET all who truly bear

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The bleeding Saviour's name,

Their faithful hearts with us prepare,

And eat the paschal Lamb:

Our Passover was slain

At Salem's hallow'd place,
Yet we who in our tents remain
Shall gain his largest grace.

2 This eucharistic feast
Our every want supplies,
And still we by his death are blest,

And share his sacrifice;

By faith his flesh we eat,

Who here his passion show,

And God out of his holy seat
Shall all his gifts bestow.