A century of select hymns. Collected out of Scripture. All to be sung in five or six tunes commonly known and practized. By W.B. Minister of the Gospel at Martins in Leicester.

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A century of select hymns. Collected out of Scripture. All to be sung in five or six tunes commonly known and practized. By W.B. Minister of the Gospel at Martins in Leicester.
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Barton, William, 1598?-1678.
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London :: Printed by T.R. for Francis Eglesfield, and Thomas Underhill, in S. Pauls Church-yard, and Francis Tyton at the three daggers neer the Temple in Fleetstreet,
1659.
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Hymns, English -- Early works to 1800.
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"A century of select hymns. Collected out of Scripture. All to be sung in five or six tunes commonly known and practized. By W.B. Minister of the Gospel at Martins in Leicester." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A76062.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.

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H. 19. COVENANT-GRACE. Give lad, &c.

Isa. 55. 1, 2, 3.
HO, all that thirst and pine, Come to the waters here: And, ye that have no coyn, Come buy, and eat good cheer: O Come, I say, Buy milk and wine, yet without coyn, and without pay.
Why do ye money spend for that which is not bread? And labour without end, and are not fill'd or fed: Hark diligently,

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And eat ye food both fat and good, to your souls joy.
Incline your ear, and come, hear, and your soul shall live, And I will make you room, and I to you willl give My Covenant grace: The mercies sure, which shall endure to David's race.

2 PART. Give laud, &c.

Ezek. 36. 25,
Besprinkle you will I, with water that shall cleanse: And I will purifie your conscience, by this means; from Idols, then, And all excesse of filthinesse I'le make you clean.
26,
I will in you create a heart with grace refin'd: I will regenerate the spirit of your mind: your heart of stone I will remove, and make it prove a tender one.
27.
My Spirit I will place within you, and will cause That you shall (by my grace) walk in my Statute-Laws,

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So that ye shall Observe, with trust, my judgments just, and do them all.

3 PART. Give laud, &c.

Heb. 10. 11,
And this shall be (in summe) the Covenant of my word, Made good, in daies to come, to Israel, saith the Lord: My Laws will I Put in their hearts, and inward parts, effectually.
12.
And they shall all know me, together great and small: And gracious I will be to their offences all. Their sinnes, therefore, And doings ill, I never will remember more.
Jer. 32. 40.
My people then shall they be stil'd, and I their God, Nor will I turn away from doing of them good: My fear shall be In them so put, that they shall not depart from me:

4 PART.

Jer. 50. 5.
They shall enquire the way with faces Sion-ward: Come, joyn ye, shall they say, in Covenant with the Lord,

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Such as shall bind Perpetually, and never be put out of minde.
32. 39.
And I will give them all one heart, and way, saith God, And fear me, then, they shall for ever, for their good: Their good alwaies, And of their Sonnes and little ones in after-daies.
Ezek. 34. 23. Zech. 14. 9.
One Shepherd I will place over my pasture stock: (A King of Davids race) and he shall feed my Flock: Then shall there be One Lord alone, and his Name One, in midst of thee.
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