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REjoyce all you faithful Nations of the Earth; when you hear the sweet Name of our dear Redeemer.
Rejoyce, and with your bended Knees and Hearts, adore the blessed Jesus.
He is the Son of the Ever-living God; equally participating the Glories of his Father.
He is that great Messias whom the Pro∣phets foretold; and all the ancient Saints so long expected.
At length in fulness of Time he came; to visit in Person our miserable World.
He came with his hands full of Mira∣cles; and every Miracle full of Mercies.
He made the crooked become streight; and the lame to walk, and leap for Joy.
He open'd the Ears of the Deaf to hear; and gave sight to them that were born blind.
He loosen'd the Tongues of the dumb to speak; O may he govern ours to sing his Praise!
He cleansed the Lepers with a Word of his Mouth; and heal'd their Diseases who but toucht his Garment.
To the Poor he reveal'd the Treasures of his Gospel; and taught the Simple the Mysteries of his Kingdom.
He cast out Devils by the Command of his Will; and forc'd them to confess and adore his Person.
He raised the Dead from the Grave to Life; that was four Days bury'd and corrupted.
Nay even himself being slain for us up∣on the Cross; and his Tomb made fast and secur'd with a Guard:
He rais'd again by his own victorious Power; and carry'd up our Nature to the highest Heavens.
All these stupendious Signs, O glorious Jesus! were done by the hand of thy Al∣mighty Mercy.
To witness thy Truth with the Seal of Heaven; and endear thy Precepts with obliging Miracles.
That thus ingag'd we might believe in thee; and obeying thy Law, be eternal∣ly saved.
O let not all this Love, dear Lord, be lost; by so many Tokens so kindly ex∣prest.
One Miracle more we humbly beg; but one as strange and hard as all the rest.
Soften our stony Hearts; into a tender Sense of thy great Goodness, and their own true Duty.
Raise our dead Spirits from this heavy Earth; to dwell with thee in the Land of the Living.
That as we here admire thy bounteous Power; and daily sing the Wonders of thy Grace:
We may hereafter adore thy blessed Self; and sing eternally the Wonders of thy Glory.
Glory be to the Father, &c. As it was in the beginning, &c.