Make ev'ry beast and bird submit, And lay the fishes at his feet. To crown the second Adam's state? Who condescended to be born ? 4 See him below his angels made ; See him in dust among the dead, But he fhall reign with pow'r divine. The mis’ries that attend the fall, HYMN XVIII. L. M. [WATTS.) Abel's Blood ! a LOOD has a voice to pierce tbe skies, Revenge! the blood of Abel cries : slain Speaks peace as loud from ev'ry vein. 2 Pardon and peace from God on high ; Behold, he lays his vengeance by ; 3 To Jefus let our praises raise, Who gave his life a fa-fice : HYMN XIX. Ľ, M.' [RICHARDS) i Abraham'; Rejoicing. OD will provide, ihe Patriarch frid, And faith gives ev'ry doubt away ; Fearless he climes Morich's mound, And sees afar Christ Jesus' day. His facrifice, and his alone :: Nor ought, lave Christ, can e'er atene. 3 Ten thousand blessings crown the Lamb, Ifaac, at Peace with Philiftia. See Philistines friendly come ; ! Hark! they bail one common Lord; One by him, by them ador'd. Met in peacë, they dwell as friends ; Jew and Gentile binds in love. Bid all nations bend the knee ; Bring the wand'rers home, as one. Peace in heav'n by Jesus' blood; Thou the truth, the life, the way, Jacob's Prophecy of Shiloh. As death illumes his closing eyes ; And Judah claims no more the praise. Shiloh ! afcend salvation's throne, Leader ! Commander, guide us home! 3 Speak but the word, and light shall be ; That light of life which points to thee ;, Melchizedek a Type of Christ. Make a wounded sidner whole !- Let not thy sweet vifits cease ! With thy sacred bread and wine ! Half of which cannot be told.. 3. Hail Melchizedek divine ; P. M. All my pow'rs before thee fall, HYMN XXIII. P. M. [RICHARDS.) ) Noah; or, the Covenant of the Bow. ·LET nations who tremble in fear of a flood, Look up to the cloud, see the bow of their God, And resting in peace on the promise divine, Remember 'twas made for the ages of time: 3 Then Jesus, the Saviour, traoflating the bow, From thence to his head, and descending below, Bleft fullness of grace, and salvation for man. 3 Hail Alpha, Omega, the first and the last ! Thy purposes future, the present, and past, thy own. Thy arch as the Master, mid mansions of day, HYMN XXIV. 4. M. [WATTS.] Mofes, Aaron, and Foshua. 'TIS: "IS not the law of ten commands, On holy Sinai givin, be 2 'Tis not the blood wlich Aaron spilt, Nor smoke of sweetest smell, Or fave our soul from heil. At God's immediate will, Upon th' appointed hils. The tribes of Israel Itane, Suct of the promis'd' lack Aaron's Rodoc her and ev'ry prinor frefert hiš rod : Vibile che atode witn:blofioms brooms, 26. And theds the almond's rich perfumes. iis, thë rape of birth divine Wacom thou, O Lord, nast chuíe as thine ; The rata, the potent, ine fem, ihe'root, Who bars for us immortal fruit. Thy'rod, thy staff fhall guide us hemel: we'll trust its pow'ra Nor fear a lhadow's fhaded hour. 2 |