7. Our heart, that flinty stubborn thing, That terrors cannot move,

That fears no threat'nings of his wrath,
Shall be dissolv'd by love.

8. Or he can take the flint away That would not be refin'd,

And from the treasures of his grace
Bestow a softer mind.

9. There shall his sacred Spirit dwell And deep engrave his law,

And ev'ry motion of our souls

To swift obedience draw.

10. Thus will he pour salvation down,

And we shall render praise;

We the dear people of his love,

And he our God of grace.

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X. The blessedness of gospel-times, or the revelation of Christ to Jews and Gentiles, Isa. iii. 7, 8, 9, 10. Mat. xiii, 16, 17.

How beauteous are their feet

Who stand on Sion's hill,

Who bring salvation on their tongues,

And words of peace reveal!

2. How charming is their voice!
How sweet their tidings are!
Sion, behold thy Saviour king;
He reigns and triumphs here.".

3. How happy are our ears

That hear this joyful sound,

Which kings and prophets waited for,
And sought but never found!

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.

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6. The Lord makes bare his arm

Thro' all the earth abroad,

Let ev'ry nation now behold

Their Saviour and their God.

XI. The bumble enlightened, and carnal reason bumbled, or the sovereignty of grace, Luke x. 21, 22.

THERE
HERE was an hour when Christ rejoic'd,

And spoke his joy in words of praise ;
"Father! I thank thee, mighty God!
"Lord of the earth, and heav'ns, and seas.

2. "I thank thy sov'reign pow'r and love
"That crowns my doctrine with success,
"And makes the babes in knowledge learn
"The heights, and breadths, and lengths of grace.

3. "But all this glory lies conceal'd "From men of prudence and of wit; "The prince of Darkness blinds their eyes, "And their own pride resists the light.

4. "Father! 'tis thus because thy will "Chose and ordain'd it should be so, "'Tis thy delight t' abase the proud "And lay the haughty scorner low.

5.

"There's none can know the Father right "But those who learn it from the Son,

"Nor can the Son be well receiv'd

"But where the Father makes him known."

6. Then let our souls adore our God
That deals his graces as he please,
Nor gives to mortals an account
Or of his actions or decrees.

XII. Free grace in revealing Christ, Luke x. 21.

Jesus, the man of constant grief,

A mourner all his days,

His Spirit once rejoic'd aloud

And turn'd his joy to praise.

2. " Father! I thank thy wondrous love

"That hath reveal'd thy Son

To men unlearned and to babes

"Has made thy gospel known.

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3. "The myst'ries of redeeming grace
Are hidden from the wise,

"While pride and carnal reas'nings join
"To swell and blind their eyes."

4. Thus doth the Lord of heav'n and earth
His great decrees fulfil,

And orders all his works of grace

By his own sov'reign will.

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XIII. The Son of God incarnate, or the titles and the king*
dom of Christ, Isa. ix. 2, 6, 7.

THE lands that long in darkness lay
Now have beheld a heav'nly light,
Nations that sat in death's cold shade
Are bless'd with beams divinely bright,
2. The virgin's promis'd Son is born,
Behold th' expected Child appear:
What shall his names or titles be?
"The Wonderful, the Counsellor."

[3. This infant is the mighty God!
Come to be suckled and ador'd,
Th' Eternal Father, Prince of Peace,
The son of David, and his Lord ]

4. The government of earth and seas
Upon his shoulders shall be laid,
His wide dominions shall increase,
And honours to his name be paid.

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4. Jesus the holy Child shall sit High on his father David's throne,

Shall crush his foes beneath his feet,
And reign to ages yet unknown.

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XIV. The triumph of faith, or Christ's unchangeable loves Rom. viii. 33, &c.

WHO shall the Lord's elect condemn ?

'Tis God that justifies their souls, And mercy like a mighty stream O'er all their sins divinely rolls.

2. Who shall adjudge the saints to hell? 'Tis Christ that suffer'd in their stead; And the salvation to fulfil

Beheld him rising from the dead!

3. He lives! he lives! and sits above, For ever interceding there:

Who shall divide us from his love,
Or what should tempt us to despair?
4. Shall persecution or distress,
Famine or sword, or nakedness?
He that hath lov'd us bears us thro',
And makes us more than conqu’rors too.

5. Faith hath an overcoming pow'r,

It triumphs in the dying hour:
Christ is our life, our joy, our hope,
Nor can we sink with such a prop.