2 3 4 His kingdom cannot fail, He rules o'er earth and heaven; Lift up your heart, &c. He sits at God's right hand, Lift up your heart, &c. Rejoice in glorious hope, Jesus, the Judge, shall come, To their eternal home. We soon shall hear the archangel's voice ; 161. 1 JOY OY to the world-the Lord is come; Let heart every prepare him room, And heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the earth-the Saviour reigns; Let men their songs employ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains, Repeat the sounding joy. 3 No more let sins and sorrows grow, He comes to make his blessings flow 4 He rules the world with truth and grace, 1 And makes the nations 162, L ORD, what was man, when made at first, That thou shouldst set him and his race 2 That thou shouldst raise his nature so, 3 But, O! what brighter glories wait ; 4 See him below his angels made 5 The world to come, redeem'd from all 1 New made, and glorious, shall submit 163. WE E bless the prophet of the Lord, That comes with truth and grace; Jesus, thy Spirit and thy word Shall lead us in thy ways. M 2 We reverence our High Priest above, 3 We honour our exalted King, How sweet are his commands! 4 Hosanna to his glorious name, 1 164. THE (HEB. ix. 23-26.) HE true Messiah now appears, So fly the shadows and the stars C. M. 2 No smoking sweets, nor bleeding lambs, Nor kid, nor bullock slain; Incense and spice of costly names 3 Aaron must lay his robes away, When God himself comes down to be 4 He Ook our mortal flesh, to show wonders of his love; For us he paid his life below, ช 977 2 5 Father,' he cries, forgive their sins, 1 165. JE (HEB. 9.) ESUS, in thee our eyes behold entire sf] Than the rich gems and polish'd gold The sons of Aaron wore. 2 They first their own burnt-offerings brought To purge themselves from sing mo ol Thy life was pure without a spot, And all thy nature clean. 3 Fresh blood as constant as the day Was on their altar spilt; But thy one offering takes away For ever all our guilt. 4 Their priesthood ran through several hands, For mortal was their race; 1 Thy never-changing office stands 5 Once in the circuit of a year, 6 But Christ, by his own powerful blood, Ascends above the skies, And in the presence of our God u sel Shews his own sacrifice. 7 Jesus, the King of Glory, reigns Looks like a lamb that has been slain, 8 He ever lives to intercede Give him, my soul, thy cause to plead, 166. (HEB. ix. 24.) C. M. 1 LIFT up your eyes to the heavenly seats Where your Redeemer stays; Kind intercessor, there he sits, And loves, and pleads, and prays. 3 Jesus alone shall bear my cries 4 Ten thousand praises to the King, Ten thousand thanks our spirits bring 167. (HEB. X. 19-22.) C. M. 1 COME, let us lift our joyful eyes n ♪ Up to the courts above, And smile to see our Father there, buA |