God, the Saviour, is preparing
Means to spread his truth abroad;
Ev'ry language

Soon shall tell the love of God.

4 God of Jacob, high and glorious,
Let thy people see thy hand;
Let the gospel be victorious,
Thro' the world in ev'ry land:
And the idols

Perish, Lord, at thy command.

1 REJOICE, for Christ, the Saviour reigns;

He spreads his triumphs all abroad;

And sinners, freed from endless pains,
Own him their Saviour, and their God.
2 His sons and daughters from afar,
Daily at Zion's gate arrive;

Those who were dead in sin before,
By sov'reign grace are made alive.
3 Oh, may his conquests still increase,
And ev'ry foe his pow'r subdue;
While angels celebrate his praise,
And saints his growing glories show.
4 Loud hallelujahs to the Lamb,
From all below, from all above;
In lofty songs exalt his name ;-
In songs as lofty as his love.

HYMN 431.

H. M.

DODDRIDGE.

Isa. Ix. 1.

ZION, tune thy voice,

And raise thy hands on high;

Tell all the earth thy joys,

And boast salvation nigh.
Cheerful in God,

Arise and shine,
While rays divine`

Stream all abroad.
2 He gilds thy mourning face
With beams that cannot fade;
His all-resplendent grace
He pours around thy head;
The nations round
Thy form shall view,
With lustre new
Divinely crown'd.

3 In honor to his name

Reflect that sacred light;

And loud that grace proclaim,

Which makes thy darkness bright:
Pursue his praise,

Till sov'reign love
In worlds above
The glory raise.

4 There on his holy hill

A brighter Sun shall rise, And with his radiance fill

Those fairer, purer

skies;

While round his throne,
Ten thousand stars,
In nobler spheres
His influence own.

HYMN 432.

H. M.

TOPLADY.

1B The gladly solemn sound!

LOW ye the trumpet, blow

Let all the nations know

To earth's remotest bound;
The year of Jubilee is come;
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home.

2 Exalt the Lamb of God,
The sin-atoning Lamb;
Redemption by his blood,
Thro' all the lands proclaim;
The year, &c.

3 Ye slaves of sin and hell,
Your liberty receive;
And safe in Jesus dwell,
And blest in Jesus live.

4 The gospel trumpet hear,
The news of pard'ning grace;
Ye happy souls, draw near,
Behold your Saviour's face.

5 Jesus, our great High Priest,
Has full atonement made:
Ye weary spirits, rest;

Ye mournful souls be glad!

1

HYMN 433. L. P. M. Doddridge.

Efficacy of God's word. Jer. xxiii. 29.

W

́ITH rev'rend awe, tremendous Lord,
We hear the thunders of thy word;
The pride of Lebanon it breaks,
Swift the celestial fire descends,
The flinty rock in pieces rends,
And earth to its deep centre shakes.

2 Array'd in majesty divine,
Here sanctity and justice shine,

And horror strikes the rebel thro'; While loud this awful voice makes known The wonders which thy sword hath done, And what thy vengeance yet shall do.

3 So spread the honors of thy name;
The terrors of a God proclaim;
Thick let the pointed arrows fly;
Till sinners, humbled in the dust,
Shall own the execution just,

And bless the hand by which they die.

4 Then clear the dark tempestuous day, And radiant beams of love display, Each prostrate soul let mercy raise; So shall the bleeding captives feel, Thy word, that gave the wound, can heal, And change their notes to songs of praise.

HYMN 434. 8, 7, 4.

KELLY.

Isa. lii. 7.

N the mountain's top appearing,
Lo, the sacred herald stands;
Welcome news to Zion bearing,
Zion long in hostile lands:
Mourning captive,

God himself will loose thy bands.

2 Has thy night been long and mournful, All thy friends unfaithful prov'd? Have thy foes been proud and scornful, By thy sighs and tears unmov'd? Cease thy mourning,

Zion still is well belov'd.

3 God, thy God, will now restore thee!
He himself appears thy friend:
All thy foes shall flee before thee,
Here their boasts and triumphs end:
Great deliv'rance

Zion's King vouchsafes to send.

4 Peace and joy shall now attend thee,
All thy warfare now is past,
God, thy Saviour, shall defend thee,
Peace and joy are come at last;
All thy conflicts
End in everlasting rest.