8 Bleffed be the pow'r who gave us,
Freely gave his Son to fave us ;
Blefs'd the Son, who freely came :
Honour, bleffing, adoration,
Ever from the whole creation
Be to GOD, and to the Lamb..

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EASTER- DAY.

ESUS, who dy'd a world to fave,
Revives, and rifes from the grave,
By his almighty pow'r:

From fin, and death, and hell set free,
He captive leads captivity,

And lives to die no more.

and fee

2 Children of God, look up
Your Saviour cloth'd with majesty,
Triumphant o'er the tomb:

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Give o'er your griefs, caft off your fears,
In heav'n your mansions he prepares,
And foon will take you home.

His church is ftill his joy and crown,
He looks with love and pity down

On her he did redeem:

He taftes her joys, he feels her woes,
And prays that the may fpoil her foes,
And ever reign with him.

4 O may we all from fin awake, May all in heav'n our places take, Near our exalted Head!

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May all our fouls to heav'n afpire,
In thought, in will, in ftrong defire,
To carnal pleasures dead!

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HRIST the LORD is ris'n to day, Sons of men and angels fay! Raife your joys and triumphs high, Sing, ye heav'ns, and earth reply. 2 Love's redeeming work is done, Fought the fight, the battle won; Lo! our fun's eclipfe is o'er, Lo! he fets in blood no more.

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Vain the stone, the watch, the feal
CHRIST hath burft the gates of hell::
Death in vain forbids his rife;
CHRIST hath open'd Paradise.

4 Lives again our glorious King,
Where, O death, is now thy fting!
Once he dy'd our fouls to fave,
Where thy victory, O grave!

5 Soar we now where CHRIST hath led, Following our exalted Head;

Made like him, like him we rise,
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies.

6 What tho' once we perish'd all, Partners of our parents fall; Second life we all receive,

In our heav'nly Adam live.

7 Hail, the LORD of earth and heav'n!: Praise to thee by both be giv'n! Thee we greet triumphant now, Hail, the refurrection-Thou! 8 King of glory! foul of bliss! Everlasting life is this—

Thee to know, thy pow'r to prove ;;
Thus to fing, and thus to love.

THE

HYMN 325:

ANOTHER.

HE Sun of righteousness appears,,
To fet in blood no more!

Adore the scatt'rer of your fears,
Your rifing Sun adore.

2 The faints, when he refign'd his breath, Unclos'd their fleeping eyes;

He breaks again the bands of death,
Again the dead arise.

3 Alone the dreadful race he ran,
Alone the wine-press trod;

He dy'd, and fuffer'd as a man,
He rifes as a GOD.

4 In vain the ftone, the watch, the seal, Forbid an early rife,

To him who breaks the gates of hell,
And opens Paradise.

HY M N 326.

THE RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION OF CHRIST.,

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HOSANNA to the Prince of light,
That cloth'd himfelf in clay;

Enter'd the iron gates of death,
And tore the bars away.

2 Death is no more the king of dread,
Since our IMMANUEL rofe;
He took the tyrant's fting away,`)
And fpoil'd our hellish foes.

3 See how the Conqu❜ror mounts aloft,
And to his Father flies;
With fears of honour in his flesh,
And triumph in his eyes.

4 Raife your devotion, mortal tongues,
To reach his bleft abode,
Sweet be the accents of our fongs,
To our incarnate GOD...

5 Bright Angels, ftrike your loudest strings, Your fweeteft voices raife:

Let heav'n, and all created things,
Sound our IMMANUEL's praife.

HYMN 327.

THE RESURRECTION.

I PLEAS'D we read in facred ftory,

How our LORD refum'd his breath;
Where, O grave's, thy conqu'ring glory?
Where's thy fting, thou phantom Death?
Soon thy jaws, reftrain'd from chewing,
Muft difgorge their ranfom'd prey :
Man first gave thee pow'r to ruin,
Man too takes that pow'r away.

2 I am Alpha, fays the Saviour;
I Omega likewise am;
I was dead, and live for ever,
GOD Almighty and the Lamb.
In the LORD is our perfection,
And in him our boaft we'll make;
We shall share his refurrection,
If we of his death partake.

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Ye that die without repentance,

Ye must rife when CHRIST appears; Rife to hear your dreadful fentence, While the faints rejoice in theirs : You to dwell with fiends infernal, They with JESUS CHRIST to reign: They go into life eternal,

You to everlasting pain.