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2 Thy hand hath all things made,

Let all things own thy power,

Till morning light and evening shade
Shall be exchang'd no more.

PSALM XVI.

Domestic happiness.

I BLEST are the fons of peace,.
Whose hearts and hopes are one,
Whofe kind defigns to ferve and please
Through all their actions run;

2 Bleft is the pious house

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Where zeal and friendship meet, Their mingled praife, their mingled vows

Make their communion fweet;

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Such blifs their bofoms fills

Who dwell with God above:

There joy like morning dew diftils,

And all the air is love.

PSALM XVII.

Refurrection of Christ..

I SEE what a living ftone

The builders did refuse

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Yet God hath rais'd a church thereon
Of Gentiles and of Jews.

2 The work, O Lord, is thine, And glorious in our eyes: This day declares it all divine;

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This day did Jefus rife.

Your loud hofannas fing,

And spread his name abroad:

He comes, ye faints, he comes to bring
Salvation from our God.

4 We bless thine holy word
Which all this grace difplays:
Hear and accept, almighty Lord,
Our facrifice of praise.

PSALM XVIII.

The Lord's Supper.

I JESUS invites his faints
'To meet around his board:

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His people here may fit, and hold
Communion with their Lord.

Here we show forth his love
Which spake in every breath,

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Prompted

Prompted each action of his life,
And triumph'd in his death.

3 Here let our powers unite

Thy glorious name to praife,

Great fource of all that grace and truth
The word of Chrift difplays.

4 Let love inspire our breasts,
And model every thought;
Be angry paffions far remov'd,
And felfifh views forgot.

5 One faith, one hope, one Lord,
One God alone, we know
Brethren we are; let every heart
With kind affections glow.

6 Warm'd with our master's love,
And thine unmeafur'd grace,

Our hearts, in one wide wifh of
All human-kind embrace.

peace,

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PSALM XIX.

Truth, the love of it.

IMPOSTURE fhrinks from light,
And dreads the curious eye:

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But christian truths the teft invite,
They bid us fearch and try.

2 A meek inquiring mind,

Lord, help us to maintain;

That from thy word, with growing joy,
We growing light may gain.

3 Do thou our fpirits lead;
With foundest knowledge fill;
From noxious error guard our creed,
From ftubbornnefs our will.

4 The truths that God imparts
In word and deed we'll own;

Abhorring all illufive arts,
And fearing God alone.

PSALM XX.

Anxiety unavailing and unreasonable.

I CAN anxious thoughts increase
Our years' appointed fum;

Or, while they fpoil our prefent peace,
Secure one day to come?

2 Difquieting defire

May well their hearts corrode,

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Who see their hopes with life expire,
Or know no guardian God.

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Will he, whose bounty gave

Our life, its food deny ?

Will not what nature's wants may crave

Nature's great God fupply?

4 Then let to-morrow's cares
Until to-morrow stay;

The trouble which to-day prepares
Sufficeth for to-day.

PSALM XXI.

Chriftian unity.

I LET party-names no more
The christian world o'erspread;

Gentile, and Jew, and bond, and free,
Are one in Chrift their head.

2 Among the faints on earth
Let mutual love be found;
Heirs of the fame inheritance
With mutual bleffing crown'd.

Let envy and ill-will

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Be banish'd far away;

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