Religion
Hymn 216
From Spiritual Melody (1691), Part IX
COme, let us with united joys
To God our voices raise;
With thankful hearts before him come
And loudly sing his praise.
Our Lord is a great God and King,
In Pow'r eminent
Above all Gods, him Angels serve,
And Princes represent.
To him that made us let us kneel,
And Adoration give,
Who are his People, and the Sheep
That on his Pasture live.
To day let's hear his voice, and not
Such hardned Sinners prove,
As those that in the Wilderness
Provoked God above.
They prov'd his Pow'r, and saw his Works,
And griev'd him forty year,
Till wearied with the murm'ring Race,
He could no longer bear.
He did their Unbelief, and base
Ingratitude detest;
And in his anger swore they should
Not come into his rest.
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