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A WEDDING HYMN.
1. Since Jesus freely did appear
To grace a marriage feast:
To Lord, we ask thy presence here
To make a wedding guest.
2. With gifts of grace their hearts endue,
Who now have plighted their hands:
On every soul assembled here,
O make thy face to shine.
3. As Isaac and Rebecca give
A pattern chaste and kind:
So may this married couple live,
And die in faith divine.
HYMN 1. Long Metre.
1 . Say which of you would see the Lord?
You all may now obtain his grace.
Behold him in the written word !
Where John unveils the Saviour's face
2. Clear as the trumpet's voice he speaks
To every soul that turns his ear;
Amidst the golden candlesticks
He walks, and lo! now he is here.
3. Present to all believing souls
They see him with an eagle eve;
Down to. his feet a garment rolls,
Stained with a glorious crimson die.
4. A golden girdle binds his breast,
Wher'er streams of consolation flow,
Milk for his new born babes, who rest
In him, nor other's comforts know.
5. His form is as the son of man:
His eyes are as a flame of fire;
They dart a sin costuming pain,
And life and joy divine inspire.
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