4. How blessed are our eyes,

That see this heav'nly light!
Prophets and kings desir'd it long,
But dy'd without the sight.
5. The watchmen join their voice,
And tuneful notes employ;
Jerusalem breaks forth in songs,
And deserts learn the joy.

6. The Lord makes bare his arm
Thro' all the earth abroad;
Let every nation now behold

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Their Saviour and their God.

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JESUS, Ship

ESUS, great Shepherd of thy sheep,

we fly:

Thy little flock in safety keep,
For O the wolf is nigh!

2. He comes, of hellish malice full,
To scatter, tear, and slay;
He seizes ev'ry straggling soul,
As his own lawful prey.

3. Us into thy protection take,
And gather with thine arm :
Unless the fold we first forsake,
The wolf can never harm.

4. We laugh to scorn bis cruel pow'r,
While by our Shepherd's side;
The sheep he never can devour,
Unless he first divide.

5. O do not suffer him to part

The souls that here agree!
But make us of one mind and heart,
And keep us one in thee!

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6. Together let us sweetly live,
Together let us die;
And each a starry crown receive,
And reign above the sky.

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ESUS, thy wand'ring sheep behold!
See, Lord, with yearning bowels see,

Poor souls that cannot find the fold, 'Till sought and gather'd in by thee. 2. Lost are they now, and scatter'd wide, In pain, and weariness and want: With no kind Shepherd near, to guide The sick, and spiritless and faint. 3. Thou, only thou, the kind and good, And sheep-redeeming shepherd art; Collect thy flock, and give them food And pastors after thine own heart. 4. In ev'ry messenger reveal

The grace they preach divinely free; That each may by thy Spirit tell : "He dy'd for all, who dy'd for me." 5. A double portion from above, Of thy all-quick'ning Spirit impart; Shed forth thy universal love In ev'ry faithful pastor's heart. 6. Thine only glory let them seek,

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O let their hearts with love o'erflow; Let them believe, and therefore speak, And spread thy mercy's praise below.

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OMFORT, ye ministers of grace,
Comfort the people of your Lord;

O lift ye up the fallen race,

And cheer them by the gospel-word.

2. Go into ev'ry nation, go,

Speak to their trembling hearts, and cry,
Glad tidings unto all we show;
Jerusalem, thy God is nigh.
3. Hark! in the wilderness a cry:
A voice that loudly calls, Prepare!
Prepare your hearts, for God is nigh,
And means to make his entrance there!

4. The Lord your God shall quickly come:
Sinners repent, the call obey:
Open your hearts to make him room,
Ye desert souls, prepare his way.
5. The Lord shall clear his way thro' all;
Whate'er obstructs, obstructs in vain:
The vale shall rise, the mountain fall,
Crooked be straight, and rugged plain.
6. The glory of the Lord display'd
Shall all mankind together view:
And what his mouth in truth hath said,
His own almighty hand shall do.

XI. ORDINANCES.

1. BAPTISM.

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Baptism. Matth. xxviii, 19. Acts ii. 38. WAS the commission of our Lord : "Go teach the nations and baptize."

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The nations have receiv'd the word,
Since He ascended to the skies.

2. He sits upon th' eternal hills,
With grace and pardon in his hands,
And sends his cov'nant with the seals,
To bless the distant heathen lands.

3. " Repent and be baptiz'd," he saith,
For the remission of your sins;"
And thus our sense assists our faith,
And shews us what his gospel means.

4. Our souls he washes in his blood,
As water makes our bodies clean;
And the good spirit from our God
Descends like purifying rain,

5. Thus we engage ourselves to thee,
And seal our cov'nant with the Lord;
O may the great Eternal Three
In heav'n our solemn vows record.

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ELESTIAL Dove, descend from high,
And on the water brood:

Come, with thy quick'ning pow'r apply
The water and the blood.

2. I love the Lord that stoops so low
To give his word a seal;
But the rich grace his hands bestow
Exceeds the figure still.

3. Almighty God, on thee we call,
And our request renew:
Accept in Christ, and bless withal,
The work we have to do.

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Y Saviour's pierced side
Pour'd out a double flood;

By water we are purifiy'd,
And pardon'd by the blood.
2. Call'd from above, I rise,
And wash away my sin;
The stream to which my spirit flies,
Can make the foulest clean.

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3. It runs divinely clear,

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A fountain deep and wide;
'Twas open'd by the soldier's spear
In my Redeemer's side.

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OME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Honour the means ordain'd by thee!

Make good our apostolic boast,
And own thy glorious ministry.

2. Father, in these reveal thy Son;
In these for whom we seek thy face.
The hidden mystery make known,
The inward pure baptizing grace.

3. Jesus, with us thou always art:
Effectuate the sacred sign:
The gift unspeakable impart,
And bless the ordinance divine.
4. Eternal Spirit, descend from high,
Baptizer of our spirits thou!
The sacramental seal apply,
And witness with the water now.

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2. EUCHARISTIC.

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The Lord's Supper instituted. 1. Cor. xi. 23,&c.

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WAS WAS on that dark, that doleful night,
When pow'rs of earth and hell arose

Against the Son of God's delight,

And friends betray'd him to his foes.

2. Before the mournful scene began

He took the bread, and bless'd, and brake;