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God's Servants should praise Him.
1. YE servants of God, your Master proclaim,
And publish abroad his wonderful name;
The name, all victorious, of Jesus extol;
His kingdom is glorious, and rules over all.
2. God ruleth on high, almighty to save;
And still he is nigh, his presence we have;
The great congregation his triumph shall sing.
Ascribing salvation to Jesus our King.
3. "Salvation to God, who sits on the throne!"
Let all cry aloud, and honor the Son;
Immanuel's praises the angels proclaim,
Fall down on their faces, and worship the Lamb.
4. Then let us adore, and give him his right,-
All glory and power, and wisdom and might;
All honor and blessing, with angels above,
And thanks never ceasing, and infinite love.
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Unbelief banished.
1. BEGONE, unbelief! my Saviour is near;
And for my relief will surely appear;
By prayer let me wrestle, and he will perform;
With Christ in the vessel, I smile at the storm.
2. Though dark be my way, since He is my guide,
"Tis mine to obey, 't is his to provide;
Though cisterns be broken, and creatures all fail,
The word he has spoken will surely prevail.
3. His love in time past forbids me to think
He'll leave me at last, in trouble to sink;
Each sweet Ebenezer I have in review
Confirms his good pleasure, to help me quite through.
4. Determined to save, he watched o'er my path,
When, Satan's blind slave, I sported with death;
And can he have taught me to trust in his name,
And thus far have brought me, to put me to shame?
For verses 5, 6, and 7, of the 190th hymn, see p. 246.
Praise for Divine Goodness and Truth.
1. I'LL praise my Maker with my breath;
And when my voice is lost in death,
Praise shall employ my nobler powers;
My days of praise shall ne'er be past,
While life, and thought, and being last,
Or immortality endures.
2. Happy the man, whose hopes rely
On Israel's God: He made the sky,
And earth and seas, with all their train;
His truth for ever stands secure;
He saves th' oppressed, he feeds the poor,
And none shall find his promise vain.
3. He loves his saints; he knows them well;
But turns the wicked down to hell;
Thy God, O Zion, ever reigns:
Let every tongue, let every age,
In this exalted work engage:
Praise him in everlasting strains.
Backslider's Return through Christ.
1. WEARY of wandering from my God,
And now made willing to return,
I hear, and bow me to the rod;
For thee, not without hope, I mourn;
I have an Advocate above,
A Friend before the throne of love.
2. O Jesus, full of truth and grace,
(More full of grace than I of sin,)
Yet once again I seek thy face;
Open thine arms, and take me in,—
And freely my backslidings heal,
And love the faithless sinner still.
3. Thou knowest the way to bring me back,
My fallen spirits to restore;
O! for thy truth and mercy's sake,
Forgive, and bid me sin no more:
The ruins of my soul repair,
And make my heart a house of prayer.
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