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GADSBY'S SELECTION.

Before he made the worlds above, Or earth on her huge columns placed.

2 Long ere the sun's refulgent ray

Primeval shades of darkness drove, They on his sacred bosom lay, Loved with an everlasting love.

3 Then in the glass of his decrees, Christ and his bride appear'd as one; Her sin, bv imputation, his,

Whilst she in spotless splendor shone.

40 love, how high thy glories swell! How great, immutable, and free! Ten thousand sins, as black as hell, Are swaliow'd up, O love, in thee!

5[ Loved, when a wretch defiled with sin, At war with heaven, in league with hell, A slave to every lust obscene; Who, living, lived but to rebel.]

6 Believer, here thy comfort stands ,­From first to last salvation's free, And everlasting love demands An everlasting song from thee.

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Singing of Mercy.- Ps. lxxxix. 1; ci. 1; Rom. xv. 9. THY mercy, my God, is the theme of my song, The joy of my heart, and the boast of my tongue; Thy free grace alone, from the first to the last, Has won my affections, and bound my soul fast.

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Thy mercy, in Jesus, exempts me from hell; Its glories I'll sing, and its wonders I'll tell; ' Twas Jesus, my Friend, when he hung on the tree, Who open'd the channel of mercy for me.

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