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Let faithful Abram's race their off'rings bring,

By tuneful David taught his praise to sing,
Their guide, their legislator, and their king:

Who spread o'er Egypt's land substantial night,
Who with a longer sun did Joshua's faith requite.

Ye priests of God, let praise like incense rise,
Tho' Corah's sons your order may despise,

And wish the priest himself a sacrifice.

Praise him for others too, and thus commend
Your greatest en'mies to your only friend.

Praise him, his servants who have learnt to see,
There's nought so sweet as this captivity,

From whence 'tis greatest bondage to be free.

Praise him, whose pow'r can grant whate'er you

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Whose cars will hear your prayers, for he is love.

Ye righteous souls, untainted with your clay, Spring thro' the vast expanse and wing your way, To reach the confines of eternal day.

Celestial anthems sing with seraphs join'd,

And souls unbodied bless the almighty mind.

Ye humble men, whom self-admiring pride,
With all its baits could never draw aside,
Praise him, whose love does o'er the meek preside.
Who throws the purple tyrants from their seat,
And makes the poor of spirit rich and great.

Ye Jewish youths, his wond'rous praises tell,
Whose presence could the raging flames repel;
And turn to heaven the punishment of hell.
Who on submissive fire triumphant rode,
The man assuming, to declare the God.

All glory, praise, dominion, majesty,
Now and for everlasting ages, be

To the essential one, and co-eternal three!

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HYMN THE FIRST.

I.

WHEN all thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view I'm lost

In wonder, love, and praise.

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O how shall words with equal warmth,

The gratitude declare,

That glows within my ravish'd breast!

But thou canst read it there.

III.

Thy providence my life sustain'd,
And all my wants redrest;
When in the silent womb I lay,

And hung upon the breast.

HYMNUS PRIMUS.

I.

CUM misericordias recolligo, tua
Paterna quas, Jehova, cura contulit,
Suspensa cogitando, mens hæret mea,

Amorne major siet an admiratio.

II.

Quæ verba, quæ pietatis eloquentia

Ardore eodem gratias effabitur,

Quo pectus intus concipit! sed gaudium,

Quod fervet intus, tu legis, tu intelligis.

III.

Tua cura, præsens semper et semper vigil, Me conditum uteri vidit in silentio,

Eademque cura me secuta est provida,

Cum matris ad mammam pependi infantulus.

IV.

To all my weak complaints and cries

Thy mercy lent an ear;

Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learnt

To form themselves in prayer.

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Unnumber'd comforts to my soul

Thy tender care bestow'd ;

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my infant heart conceiv'd

From whom those comforts flow'd.

VI.

When in the slippery paths of youth

With heedless steps I ran ;

Thine arm unseen convey'd me safe,

And led me up to man.

VII.

Through hidden dangers, toils and deaths,

It gently clear'd my way;

And through the pleasing snares of vice,

More to be fear'd than they.

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