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SACRED SONGS

6 What mortal pow'r from things unclean Can pure productions bring?

Who can command a vital ftream From an infected fpring?

7 Yet, mighty God, thy wondrous love Can make our nature clean, While Chrift and grace prevail above The tempter, death, and fin.

8 The fecond Adam fhall reftore The ruins of the firſt;

Hofanna to that fov'reign Pow'r That new- creates our duft!

XXIII.

The promifed Meffiah Born. Luke i. 46.

OUR UR fouls fhall magnify the Lord,

In God the Saviour we rejoice; While we repeat the Virgin's fong, May the fame Spirit tune our voice. 2 The Higheft faw her low eftate,

And mighty things his hand hath done; His over- fhadowing pow'r and grace Makes her the mother of his Son.

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