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Consider the High Priest, etc.
Heb. 3:1.
Now let our cheerful eyes survey
Our great High Priest above,
And celebrate his constant care
And sympathetic love.
2 Though raised to heaven’s exalted throne
Where angels bow around,
And high o’er all the hosts of light,
With matchless honors crowned—
3 The names of all his saints he bears
Deep graven on his heart;
Nor shall the weakest Christian say
That he has lost his part.
4 Those characters shall fair abide,
Our everlasting trust,
When gems, and monuments, and crowns,
Have moldered down to dust.
5 So, gracious Saviour, on my breast
May thy loved name be worn—
A sacred ornament and guard,
To endless ages borne.
Doddridge.