2 Thou standest in the holiest place,
As now for guilty sinners slain;
The blood of sprinkling speaks, and prays,
All-prevalent for helpless man;

Thy blood is still our ransom found,
And speaks salvation all around.

3 We need not now go up to heaven

To bring the long-sought Saviour down; Thou art to all already given,

Thou dost e'en now thy banquet crown ;— To every faithful soul appear,

And show thy real presence here.

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A foretaste of glory.

WHAT delight is this,

S. M.

Which now in Christ we know,—
An earnest of our glorious bliss,
Our heaven begun below!

2 When He the table spreads,
How royal is the cheer;
With rapture we lift up our heads,
And own that God is here.

3 The Lamb for sinners slain,
Who died to die no more,
Let all the ransom'd sons of men,
With all his hosts, adore.

4 Let earth and heaven be join'd,
His glories to display,

And hymn the Saviour of mankind
In one eternal day.

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Rejoicing at the table, with godly sorrow.

10 Jesus, our exalted Lord,

L. M.

The Name by heaven and earth ador.d,

Fain would our hearts and voices raise

A cheerful song of sacred praise.

2 As round about Jerusalem

The guardian mountains stand, So shall the Lord encompass them Who hold by his right hand.

3 The rod of wickedness shall ne'er
Against the just prevail,

Lest innocence should find a snare,
And tempted virtue fail.

4 Do good, O Lord, do good to those
Who cleave to thee in heart,-
Who on thy truth alone repose,
Nor from thy law depart.

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C. M.

Returning to Zion with songs of joy.

AUGHTER of Zion, from the dust

D Exalt thy fallen head;

Again in thy Redeemer trust,

He calls thee from the dead.

2 Awake, awake, put on thy strength,
Thy beautiful array;

The day of freedom dawns at length,—
The Lord's appointed day.

3 Rebuild thy walls, thy bounds enlarge
And send thy heralds forth;

Say to the south,-Give up thy charge!
And,-Keep not back, O north!

4 They come, they come: thine exiled bands, Where'er they rest or roam,

Have heard thy voice in distant lands,
And hasten to their home.

5 Thus, though the universe shall burn,
And God his works destroy,

With songs thy ransom'd shall return,
And everlasting joy.

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11th P. M. 76, 76, 77, 76.

Security and safety.

NEE the gospel Church secure,
And founded on a Rock;

All her promises are sure;

Her bulwarks who can shock? Count her every precious shrine: Tell, to after-ages tell,— Fortified by power divine,

The Church can never fail.

2 Zion's God is all our own,
Who on his love rely;

We his pard'ning love have known,
And live to Christ, and die:
To the New Jerusalem

He our faithful Guide shall be;
Him we claim, and rest in him,
Through all eternity.

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WHO

Her confidence and security.

S. M.

HO in the Lord confide,
And feel his sprinkled blood,

In storms and hurricanes abide
Firm as the mount of God:
Steadfast, and fix'd, and sure,
His Zion cannot move;
His faithful people stand secure
In Jesus' guardian love.

2 As round Jerusalem
The hilly bulwarks rise,
So God protects and covers them
From all their enemies.
On every side he stands,

And for his Israel cares;

And safe in his almighty hands

Their souls forever bears.

2 Love's mysterious work is done;
Greet we now the' atoning Son;
Heal'd and quicken'd by his blood,
Join'd to Christ, and one with God.

3 Him by faith we taste below,
Mightier joys ordain'd to know;
When his utmost grace we prove,
Rise to heaven by perfect love.

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12th P. M. 76, 76, 78, 76.

For a parting blessing.

LAMB of God, whose dying love

We now recall to mind,

Send the answer from above,

And let us mercy find:
Think on us who think on thee,

And every struggling soul release;

O remember Calvary,

And bid us go in peace!

2 By thine agonizing pain,

And bloody sweat, we pray,—

By thy dying love to man,-
Take all our sins away:
Burst our bonds, and set us free;

From all iniquity release;

O remember Calvary,

And bid us go in peace!

3 Let thy blood, by faith applied, The sinner's pardon seal;

Speak us freely justified,

And all our sickness heal:

By thy passion on the tree,

Let all our griefs and troubles cease;

O remember Calvary,

And bid us go in peace!

THE GOSPEL.

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10th P. M. 8 lines 8s.

A

The Fountain of living waters.

FOUNTAIN of life and of grace In Christ, our Redeemer, we see: For us, who his offers embrace, For all, it is open and free: Jehovah, himself, doth invite

To drink of his pleasures unknown: The streams of immortal delight, That flow from his heavenly throne. 2 As soon as in him we believe, By faith of his Spirit we take: And, freely forgiven, receive The mercy for Jesus's sake! We gain a pure drop of his love; The life of eternity know; Angelical happiness prove,

And witness a heaven below.

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All-sufficiency of the gospel.

C. M.

THE gospel! O, what endless charms

Dwell in that blissful sound;

Its influence every fear disarms,
And spreads delight around.

2 Here pardon, life, and joy divine,
In rich effusion flow,

For guilty rebels, lost in sin,

And doom'd to endless wo.

3 The' almighty Former of the skies Stoops to our vile abode;

While angels view with wond'ring eyes, And hail the' incarnate God,