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When war and trumpet's dreadful clang
Alarm'd his soul with fearfulness:
Thy suff'ring Lord, believer, see,
And praise the heart that bled for thee!
The horrors of his hell-touch'd soul,

From wounds of death have made thee whole!

LORD God, my Saviour, day and night
Before thee cry'd have I.

2 Before thee let my prayer come;
Give ear unto my cry.

3 For troubles great do fill my soul;
My life draws nigh the grave,
4 I'm counted with those that go down
To pit, and no strength have.

5 Ev'n free among the dead, like them
That slain in grave do lie;

Cut off from thy hand, whom no more
Thou hast in memory.

6 Thou hast me laid in lowest pit,
In deeps and darksome caves.

7 Thy wrath lies hard on me, thou hast
Me press'd with all thy waves.

8 Thou hast put far from me my friends,
Thou mad'st them to abhor me;
And I am so shut up, that I

Find no evasion for me.

9 By reason of affliction

Mine eye mourns dolefully:

To thee, Lord, do I call, and stretch
My hands continually.

10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead?
Shall they rise, and thee bless?

11 Shall in the grave thy love be told? In death thy faithfulness?

12 Shall thy great wonders in the dark, Or shall thy righteousness

'Be known to any in the land Of deep forgetfulness?

13 But, Lord, to thee I cry'd; my pray'r At morn prevent shall thee.

14 Why, Lord, dost thou cast off my soul, And hid'st thy face from me?

15 Distress'd am I, and from my youth
I ready am to die;

Thy terrors I have borne, and am
Distracted fearfully.

16 The dreadful fierceness of thy wrath
Quite over me doth go:
Thy terrors great have cut me off,
They did pursue me so.

17 For round about me ev'ry day,
Like water, they did roll;
And, gathering together, they
Have compassed my soul.

18 My friends thou hast put far from me,
And him that did me love;
And those that mine acquaintance were
To darkness didst remove.

PSALM LXXXIX.

PRECISELY parallel to Psal. ii. See ver. 27. 'I ‹ will make him, my First-born, higher than the

kings of the earth,' &c.

Descriptive of THE SON OF GOD,

Whose empire's all the world abroad,

And of the glory of his reign,

Which lasts for evermore: amen

This song of high triumphant praise,

Let faith and love for ever raise! nor i

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GOD'S

Come, all ye saints, adore and sing! Our covenant is Christ our King! YOD's mercies I will ever sing; And with my mouth I shall Thy faithfulness make to be known To generations all.

2 For mercy shall be built, said I,
For ever to endure:

Thy faithfulness, ev'n in the heav'ns,
Thou wilt establish sure.

3 I with my chosen One have made
A cov❜nant graciously;

And to my servant, whom I lov'd,
To David sworn have I;

4 That I thy seed establish shall
For ever to remain,

And will to generations all

Thy throne build and maintain.

5 The praises of thy wonders, Lord,
The heavens shall-express;
And in the congregation

Of saints thy faithfulness.

6 For who in heaven with the Lord
May once himself compare?
Who is like God among the sons
Of those that mighty are?

7 Great fear in meeting of the saints
Is due unto the Lord;

And he of all about him should
With rev'rence be ador'd.

8 0 thou that art the Lord of hosts,
What Lord in mightiness

Is like to thee? who compass'd round Art with thy faithfulness.

9 Ev'n in the raging of the sea

Thou over it dost reign;

And when the waves thereof do swell,
Thou stillest them again.

10 Rahab in pieces thou didst break,
Like one that slaughter'd is;

And with thy mighty arm thou hast
Dispers'd thine enemies.

11 The heav'ns are thine, thou for thine own The earth dost also take;

The world, and fulness of the same,
Thy pow'r did found and make.

12 The north and south from thee alone
Their first beginning had;

Both Tabor mount and Hermon hill
Shall in thy name be glad.

13 Thou hast an arm that's full of pow'r,
Thy hand is great in might,

And thy right hand exceedingly
Exalted is in height.

14 Justice and judgment of thy throne
Are made the dwelling-place;
Mercy, accompany'd with truth,
Shall go before thy face.

15 O greatly bless'd the people are
The joyful sound that know;
In brightness of thy face, O Lord,
They ever on shall go.

16 They in thy name shall all the day
Rejoice exceedingly;

And in thy righteousness shall they
Exalted be on high.

17 Because the glory of their strength
Doth only stand in thee;

And in thy favour shall our horn
And pow'r exalted be.

18 For God is our defence; and he

To us doth safety bring:

The Holy One of Israel
Is our almighty King.

19 In vision to thy Holy One
Thou said'st, I help upon

A strong one laid; out of the folk
I rais'd a chosen one;

20 Ev'n David, I have found him out
A servant unto me;

And with my holy oil my King
Anointed him to be.

21 With whom my hand shall stablish'd be ; Mine arm shall make him strong.

22 On him the foe shall not exact,

Nor son of mischief

wrong.
23 I will beat down before his face
All his malicious foes;

I will them greatly plague who do
With hatred him oppose.

24 My mercy and my faithfulness
With him yet still shall be:

And in my name his horn and pow'r
Men shall exalted see.

25 His hand and pow'r shall reach afar,
I'll set it in the sea;

And his right hand established
Shall in the rivers be.

26 Thou art my Father, he shall cry,
Thou art my God alone;

And he shall say, Thou art the Rock
Of my salvation.

27 I'll make him my first-born, more high
Than kings of any land.

28 My love I'll ever keep for him, My cov'nant fast shall stand.

29 His seed I by my pow'r will make For ever to endure;