V.

He faid, "Let the wide heav'n be fpread,"
And heav'n was ftretch'd abroad;
"Abrah'm, I'll be thy God," he said,
And he was Abrah'm's God.

VI.

Oh, might I hear thine heav'nly tongue
But whisper, Thou art mine!

Those gentle words should raise my song,
To notes almost divine.

VII.

How would my leaping heart rejoice,
And think my heav'n fecure!

I trust the all-creating voice,
And faith defires no more.

HYMN

CXIII.

GOD's prefence is light in darkness.

MY

I.

Y God! the fpring of all my joys,
The life of my delights,

The glory of my brighteft days,
And comfort of my nights!

II.

In darkest shades if he appear,

My dawning is begun!

He is my foul's bright morning-ftar,
And he my rifing fun.

The

III.

The op'ning heav'ns around me shine
With beams of facred bliss,
While Jefus fhews his mercy mine,
And whifpers, I am his.

IV.

My foul would leave this heavy clay
At that transporting word,
Run up with joy the fhining way,
T'embrace my dearest Lord.
V.

Fearless of hell and ghaftly death,
I'd break thro' ev'ry foe;

The wings of love, and arms of faith,
Should bear me conqu❜ror thro'.

STAN

The Chriftian Warfare.

I.

TAND up my foul, fhake off thy fears,
And gird the gofpel-armour on ;

March to the gates of endless joy,
Where thy great captain Saviour's gone.
II.

Hell and thy fins refift thy courfe,
But hell and fin are vanquifh'd foes
Thy Jefus nail'd 'em to the cross,
And furg the triumph when he rose.

Then

III.

Then let my foul march boldly on,
Prefs forward to the heav'nly gate,
There peace and joy eternal reign,
And glitt'ring robes for conqu'rors wait.
IV.

There may I wear a starry crown,
And triumph in Almighty grace,
While all the armies of the skies,
Join in my glorious leader's praise.

HYM N CXV.
CHRIST'S Death, Victory, and
Dominion,

1.

Sing my Saviour's wond'rous death;

He conquer'd when he fell;

'Tis finish'd, faid his dying breath,
And shook the gates of hell.
II.

'Tis finifh'd our Emmanuel cries,

The dreadful work is done; Hence fhall his fov'reign throne arise, His kingdom is begun.

His cross a fure foundation laid

For glory and renown,

When through the regions of the dead
He pafs'd to reach the crown,

Exalted

IV.

Exalted at his Father's fide

Sits our victorious Lord;

To heav'n and hell his hands divide,
The vengeance or reward.
V.

The faints from his propitious eye,
Await their fev'ral crowns,
And all the fons of darkness fly
The terror of his frowns.

HYMN

CXVI.

The Example of CHRIST.

MY

I.

Y dear Redeemer, and my Lord!
I read my duty in thy word:
But in thy life the law appears.
Drawn out in living characters.

II.

Be thou my pattern; make me bear

More of thy gracious image here;

Then God, the Judge, fhall own my name, Amongst the foll'wers of the Lamb.

HYMN

HYMN

CXVII.

Circumcifion and Baptifm.

(Written only for those who practise the Bap tism of Infants)

TE

I.

HUS did the fons of Abra'm país
Under the bloody feal of grace;
The young difciples bore the yoke,
Till Chrift the painful bondage broke.
II.

By milder ways doth Jefus prove
His Father's cov'nant, and his love;
He feals to faints his glorious grace,
And not forbids their infant-race,

III.

Their feed is fprinkled with his blood;
Their children fet apart for God;
His spirit on their offspring fhed,
Like water pour'd upon the head.

V.

Let ev'ry faint with chearful voice
In this large covenant rejoice;
Young children in their early days
Shall give the God of Abra'm praise.