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ADORATION AND PRAISK.
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Zion is defended and supplied.
1 LORIOUS things of thee are spoken,
Zion, city of our God ;
He whose word cannot be broken,
Formed thee for his own abode.
On the Rock of Ages founded,
What can shake thy sure repose ?
With salvation’s walls surrounded,
Thou may st smile at all thy foes.
2 See, the streams of living waters
Springing from eternal love,
Well supply thy sons and daughters
And all fear of want remove.
Who can faint while such a river
Ever flows their thirst t’ assuage ;
Grace which, like the Lord, the giver,
Never fails from age to age.
3 Round each habitation hovering,
See the cloud and fire appear,
For a glory and a covering,
Showing that the Lord is near :
Thus deriving from their banner
Light by night and shade by day,
Thus they feed upon the manna
Which he gives them when they pray.
4 Bless’d inhabitants of Zion,
Washed in the Redeemer’s blood;
Jesus, whom their souls rely on,
Makes them kings and priests to God.
’Tis his love his people raises
Over self to reign as kings ;
And, as priests, his solemn praises
Each for a thank-off’ring brings.
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