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Let all the angel throng

Give thanks to God on high;
While earth repeats the joyful song,
And echoes through the sky.

2 Incarnate Deity,

Let all the ransomed race
Render in thanks their lives to Thee,
For Thy redeeming grace.
The grace to sinners show'd,
Ye heavenly choirs proclaim,
"Salvation to our God,

And cry,

Salvation to the Lamb!"

3 Spirit of holiness,

Let all Thy saints adore
Thy sacred energy, and bless
Thine heart-renewing power.
Not angel-tongues can tell
Thy love's ecstatic height,
The glorious joy unspeakable,
The beatific sight.

4 Eternal, Triune Lord!

Let all the hosts above,

Let all the sons of men record
And dwell upon Thy love.
When heaven and earth are fled
Before Thy glorious face,

Sing all the saints Thy love hath made
Thine everlasting praise.

L.M.

[J. COOPER ?] The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost.-2 Corinthians xiii. 14.

ATHER of Heaven! whose love profound
A ransom for our souls hath found,

FAT

Before Thy throne we sinners bend;
To us Thy pardoning love extend.

2 Almighty Son! Incarnate Word!
Our Prophet, Priest, Redeemer, Lord,
Before Thy throne we sinners bend;
To us Thy saving grace extend.

3 Eternal Spirit, by whose breath
The soul is raised from sin and death,
Before Thy throne we sinners bend;
To us Thy quickening power extend.
4 Jehovah! Father, Spirit, Son;
Mysterious Godhead! Three in One!
Before Thy throne we sinners bend;
Grace, pardon, life, to us extend.

74 Praise the Lord, for His mercy endureth

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ever.-2 Chronicles xx. 21.

ATHER of Heaven! whose love profoun
A ransom for our souls hath found,

To Thee, great God! the song we raise ;
Thee for Thy pardoning love we praise.

2 Almighty Son! Incarnate Word!

Our Prophet, Priest, Redeemer, Lord!
To Thee, great God! the song we raise ;
Thee for Thy saving grace we praise.

3 Eternal Spirit! by whose breath,

The soul is raised from sin and death;
To Thee, great God! the song we raise;
Thee for Thy quickening power we praise.

4 Jehovah, Father, Spirit, Son!

Mysterious Godhead! Three in One!
To Thee our hearts, our songs we raise!
Thee only we adore and praise.

L.M.

WATTS.

15 God who is rich in mercy.-Ephesians ii. 4.

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LESSED be the Father and His love,

BLE

To whose celestial source we owe

Rivers of endless joys above,

And rills of comfort here below.

2 Glory to Thee, great Son of God,
From whose dear wounded body rolls
A precious stream of vital blood,
Pardon and life for dying souls.
We give the sacred Spirit praise,
Who in our hearts of sin and woe
Makes living springs of grace arise,
And into boundless glory flow.

4 Thus God the Father, God the Son,
And God the Spirit, we adore ;
Ocean of life and love unknown,
Unfathomed depth, without a shore.

6666,88.

WATTS.*
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76 To the praise of the glory of His grace.

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Ephesians i. 6.

O Him that chose us first,
Before the world began ;

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To Him that bore the curse

To save rebellious man;

To Him that formed our hearts anew
Are endless praise and glory due.

2 The Father's love shall run

Through our immortal songs
We bring to God the Son

Hosannas on our tongues :
Our lips address the Spirit's name
With equal praise and zeal the same.

2 Holy One, who sin abhorrest, Awful sin-consuming flame! Holy One, our sin who borest,

Through our sin whose passion came! Holy One, who takest sorrow

When we touch the thing abhorred ! Dare our lips this dread strain borrow, Holy, holy, holy Lord?

3 In this strain what fulness dwelleth !
How it makes the Godhead known !
Of Thy deepest depth it telleth,
Everlasting Three in One!

Fullest praise Thy saints thus bring Thee,
Meetliest thus art Thou adored;
This the song they ever sing Thee,
Holy, holy, holy Lord!

4 Lord, with sin-bound souls Thou bearest
Struggling towards this strain divine;
Glad on mortal lips Thou hearest
That thrice-awful name of Thine.
But Thou listenest, O how sweetly!
When from holy lips outpoured,

Rings through heaven this strain full meetly,
Holy, holy, holy Lord!

5 Shall we, Lord, fit voices never Bring to that eternal hymn ? Hallow us to help the endeavour

Of Thy pure-lipped seraphim!

Hark! their own high strain we bring Thee;

Listen to the full accord!

This the song we ever sing Thee,

Holy, holy, holy Lord!

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65, 65, 65, 67.

H. BONAR.*

Blessed be the name of the Lord, from this time forth and for evermore.—Psalm cxiii. 2.

1 EVE

To the Father be!

Everlasting praises

To the Saviour be!
Everlasting praises
To the Spirit be!
Everlasting praises

To the blessed Trinity!

2 Everlasting praises

For the Father's love!
Everlasting praises

For the Saviour's love!

Everlasting praises

For the Spirit's love!

Everlasting praises

To the Trinity of love!

87,87,88,7.

DECIUS, tr. J. D. BURNS.

66 if God be for us, who can be against us?

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If

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Romans viii. 31.

God alone on high be praise
And blessing for His favour;
No trouble that our foes can raise

Can harm a man for ever.

God shows us His good will; and peace
He brings to us, which ne'er shall cease;
The enmity is ended.

2 Thee, God the Father, we adore,
Thy boundless mercy proving;
Thine is the glory, Thine the power,
Thy throne remains unmoving;
Thy might all measure doth transcend,
Thy will must reach its certain end;
Well may we praise and bless Thee!