2 He framed the globe; he built the sky;
He made the shining worlds on high,
And reigns complete in glory there;
His beams are majesty and light;
His beauties, how divinely bright!
His temple, how divinely fair!

3 Come, the great day, the glorious hour,
When earth shall feel his saving power,
And barbarous nations fear his name;
Then shall the race of man confess
The beauty of his holiness,

And in his courts his grace proclaim.

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DODDRIDGE.

The Glory of the Church in the latter Day. Is. lx. 1.

1 O 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 crowned.

3. In honor to his name,

Reflect that sacred light,

And loud that grace proclaim,

Which makes thy darkness bright:
Pursue his praise,

Till sovereign love
In worlds above
The glory raise.

The Triumph of Christ.

1 LOUD to the Prince of heaven Your cheerful voices raise;

DODDRINGE

To him your vows be given,
And fill his courts with praise:
With conscious worth,

All clad in arms,

All bright in charms,

He sallies forth.

2 Fair truth, and smiling love, And injured righteousness,

In thy retinue move,

And seek from thee redress:
Thou in their cause
Shalt prosperous ride,
And far and wide
Dispense thy laws.

3 Before thine awful face

Millions of foes shall fall,

The captives of thy grace,-
That grace which conquers all:

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The world shall know,
Great King of kings,
What wondrous things
Thine arm can do.

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WATTS.

A Vision of the Kingdom of Christ among Men.

1 LO, what a glorious sight appears
To our believing eyes!

The earth and seas are passed away,
And the old rolling skies.

2 From the third heaven, where God resides,
That holy, happy place,
The new Jerusalem comes down,
Adorned with shining grace.

3 Attending angels shout for joy,
And the bright armies sing,
"Mortals, behold the sacred seat
Of your descending King.

4 "The God of glory down to men
Removes his blest abode;

Men the dear objects of his grace,
And he the loving God.

5 "His own soft hand shall wipe the tears
From every weeping eye,

And pains, and groans, and griefs, and fears, And death itself, shall die."

6 How long, dear Savior! O, how long
Shall this bright hour delay?

Fly swifter round, ye wheels of time,
And bring the welcome day.

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DODDRIDGE.

Emblems of the salutary Effects of the Gospel. Is. Iv. 10, 11, 12.

1 MARK the soft-falling snow,
And the diffusive rain:

To heaven, from whence it fell,
It turns not back again;
But waters earth

Through every pore,

And calls forth all

Its secret store.

2 Arrayed in beauteous green,
The hills and valleys shine;
And man and beast are fed
By Providence divine:
The harvest bows

Its golden ears,

The copious seed

Of future years.

3 "So," saith the God of grace,
"My gospel shall descend,
Almighty to effect

The purpose I intend;

Millions of souls

Shall feel its power,

And bear it down

To millions more."

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COWPER.

The future Peace and Glory of the Church.

1 HEAR what God, the Lord, hath spoken: "O my people, faint and few, Comfortless, afflicted, broken,

Fair abodes I build for you. Thorns of heart-felt tribulation

Shall no more perplex your ways;
You shall name your walls Salvation,
And your gates shall all be Praise.

2 "There, like streams that feed the garden,
Pleasures without end shall flow;
For the Lord, your faith rewarding,
All his bounty shall bestow;
Still, in undisturbed possession,

Peace and righteousness shall reign;
Never shall you feel oppression,
Hear the voice of war again.

3 "Ye no more your suns descending,
Waning moons no more shall see ;
But, your griefs forever ending,
Find eternal noon in me:

God shall rise, and, shining o'er ye,
Change to day the gloom of night;
He, the Lord, shall be your glory,
God your everlasting light."

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