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HYMNS OF PRAISE.

EXHORTATIONS TO PRAISE.

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L.M. TATE AND BRADY.*
Psalm xcv.

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 Sing to the Lord with cheerful Him serve with mirth, His praise for 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 tak 3 O enter, then, His gates with praise, Approach with joy His courts unt Praise, laud, and bless His name alw 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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ITH 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.

L.M.
Psalm c.

VE nations round the earth, rejoice

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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

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Psalm c.

EFORE Jehovah's awful throne Ye nations bow with sacred joy Know that the Lord is God alone,

He can create, and He destroy.

2 His sovereign power, without our aid,
Made us of clay and formed us me
And when, like wandering sheep we st
He brought us to His fold again.
3 We are His people, we His care,
Our souls, and all our mortal frame
What lasting honours shall we rear,
Almighty Maker, to Thy name?
We'll crowd Thy gates with thankful s
High as the heavens our voices rais
And earth, with her ten thousand tong

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Shall fill Thy courts with sounding 5 Wide as the world is Thy command : Vast as eternity Thy love;

Firm as a rock Thy truth must stand,
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Worship the Lord in the beauty of holi
I Chron. xvi. 29.

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WORSHIP the Lord in the be holiness!

Bow down before Him, His glory proc With gold of obedience and incense of lo

Kneel and adore Him, the Lord is Hi 2 Low at His feet lay thy burden of carefu High on His heart He will bear it for t Comfort thy sorrows, and answer thy pr

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3 Fear not to enter His courts in the slenderness Of the poor wealth thou wouldest reckon as thine;

Truth in its beauty, and love in its tenderness,

These are the offerings to lay on His shrine.

4 These, though we bring them in trembling and fearfulness,

He will accept for the name that is dear; Mornings of joy give for evenings of tearfulness, Trust for our trembling, and hope for our fear. 5 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness! Bow down before Him, His glory proclaim; With gold of obedience and incense of lowliness, Kneel and adore Him—the Lord is His name.

We have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Eph. ii. 18.

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For whom the Son did die,
Close, close around Him gather;
Ye cannot come too nigh.
Draw near, by Him invited,

Made bold by His own might,
By His own smile delighted,
With His own presence bright.

2 Throw every power and passion
Into each song, each prayer;
Bring a free, ful! oblation!

Let all your strength be there!
With utmost rapture greet Him!

Your inmost souls outpour!
Spirit to spirit meet Him;

Within the veil adore!