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Nugae sacrae, or, Psalms and Hymns, and Spiritual Songs
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HYMNS.

While the form which then was known Most, would, as its end, declare; Some believe, it bids alone

Jesus on the heart to bear:

Those, the use of wine and bread Own'd by Him, its sense define; These, to share in Christ their head,* Of his hidden life divine.

Him, to hold in memory sweet, ( Now their risen Lord above,) Chief when Christian brethren meet At the social feast of love.

And while such, its force maintain, Need, they turn, the path retrace To the" elements" again,

Which in Moses' law had place?

No- nor would they judge the rest; For who dare their faith reprove, Who in Christ, as fruits attest, Spiritually live and move.t

Thus, dear Lord, in all we think, Say, or do, or feel, or seeWhen we eat, or when we drink, Help us to remember Thee!

* Eph. v. 23.

+ Acts xvii. 28.

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