HYMNS.

Tho' God, neither persons respects,* Nor limits His Spirit's descent, t Tho' Jesus no suppliant rejects, I But willeth, that all should repent;§

Yet, wisdom divine may see right, To wield in the kingdoms below, That potent, distinguishing might, It wills not, tow'rd persons, to show.

Thus Pharaoh's oppressions, o'errul'd

At length, to the help of the Jews, Effect, that by chastisement school'd, The guidance of Moses they chuse.

God's hand, thus, the Christian beholds In the rise, and the ruin, of realms; For whom He will raise, He upholds, And whom He will humble, o'erwhelms.

This part of the heart- teaching word,

Compared and construed with its whole, No ground of alarm should afford To the lowly and contrited soul.

* 1 Pet. i. 17.

+1 Cor. xii. 7. $ 1 Tim. ii. 4.

John vi. 37.

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