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HYMNS OF PRAISE.

EXHORTATIONS

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Psalm xcv.

TO PRAISE.

TATE AND BRADY.*

COME, loud anthems let us sing,
Loud thanks to our Almighty King;
For we our voices high should raise,
When our salvation's rock we praise.

2 Into His presence let us haste,
To thank Him for His favours past;
To Him address, in joyful songs,
The praise that to His name belongs.

3 For God, the Lord, enthroned in state,
Is with unrivalled glory great ;

The hills' great strength is in His hand,
He made the sea, He fixed the land.

4 O let us to His courts repair,
And bow with adoration there;
Low on our knees, devoutly, all
Before the Lord our Maker fall:

5 For He's our God, our Shepherd He,
The flock of His rich pasture we ;
To-day, then, like His flock draw near,
To-day-if you His voice will hear.

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Psalm xcv.

OME, sound His praise abroad,
And hymns of glory sing;
Jehovah is the sovereign God,
The universal King.

2 He formed the deeps unknown;
He gave the seas their bound;
The watery worlds are all His own,
And all the solid ground.

3 Come, worship at His throne;
Come, bow before the Lord;
We are His works, and not our own;
He formed us by His word.

4 To-day attend His voice,

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Nor dare provoke His rod;
Come, like the people of His choice,
And own your gracious God.

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Psalm c.

LL people that on earth do dwell,

WATTS.

KETHE.

Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice; Him serve with mirth, His praise forth tell, Come ye before Him and rejoice.

2 Know ye, the Lord is God indeed;

Without our aid He did us make;
We are His flock, He doth us feed;

And for His sheep He doth us take.
3 O enter, then, His gates with praise,
Approach with joy His courts unto;
Praise, laud, and bless His name always,
For it is seemly so to do.

4 For why? the Lord our God is good,
His mercy is for ever sure;

His truth at all times firmly stood,

And shall from age to age endure.

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WITH one consent let all the earth
To God their cheerful voices raise ;
Glad homage pay with pious mirth,

And sing before Him songs of praise : 2 Convinced that He is God alone,

From whom both we and all proceed, We, whom He chooses for His own, The flock that He vouchsafes to feed. 3 O enter, then, His temple gate,

Thence to His courts devoutly press, And still your grateful hymns repeat, And still His name with praises bless. 4 For He's the Lord, supremely good; His mercy is for ever sure;

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His truth, which always firmly stood,
To endless ages shall endure.

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Psalm c.

E nations round the earth, rejoice

YE Befores ne Lord, you soy reign

WATTS.

Before the Lord, your sovereign King;
Serve Him with cheerful heart and voice,
With all your tongues His glory sing.
2 The Lord is God: 'tis He alone

Doth life and breath and being give;
We are His work, and not our own,
The sheep that on His pastures live.
Enter His gates with songs of joy,
With praises to His courts repair ;
And make it your divine employ

To pay your thanks and honours there. 4 The Lord is good, the Lord is kind,

Great is His grace, His mercy sure;
And the whole race of man shall find
His truth from age to age endure.