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252. HYMNAL. Emerson (Wm.) A 
 Selection of Psalms and Hymns. ' ISO 
 pp. and index. 12mo. sheep. Boston, 
 1808. 1st edition. $3.00 
 
 An early American hymnal by the 
 father of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
 
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 APR 97 1935 
 SELECTION ,4 
 
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 PSALMS AND HYMNS, 
 
 EMFRACING ALL THE VARIETIES OF SUBJECT 
 AND METRE, 
 
 suitable for 
 
 PRIVATE DEVOTION, 
 
 AND THE ' • ,:^,, 
 
 ■ ■ -J-' 
 
 WORSHIP OF CHURCHES., 
 
 WILLIAM EMERSON, A.M. 
 
 :^STOU OF 
 
 THE FIRST CHURCH IN BOSTON, ^"H 
 
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 Sing ye praises with understanding."— —P3. xl\5ii, 7; 
 
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 NO. 4, CORNHILL. 
 
 1808, 
 
" I am bold to maintain the great principle on which my 
 present work is founded ; and that is, that if the brig-htest 
 genius on earth, or an angel from heaven, should translate 
 David, and keep close to the sense and st5ie of the inspired 
 author, we should only obtain thereby a bright or heavenly 
 copy of the devotions of the Jewish king, but it never could 
 make the fittest psalmbook for a christian people." 
 
 Dr. Watts in his inquiry into the right luay of 
 fitting the book of Psalms for christian ivorship. 
 
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 BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the fifth day of September, in' the thirty- 
 third year of the Independence of the United States of America, WILLIAM 
 EMERSON, of the said Distrift, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, 
 
 the Richt whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : -, 
 
 •' A SELECTION of PSALMS and HYMNS, embracing all the varieties of 
 subieft and metre, suitable for Private Devotion, and the Worship of Churches. 
 By WUliam Emerson, A. M. pastor of the First Church in Boston. " Smg ye 
 praises with understanding." Ps. xlvii. 7 " . . ^ . ...., j 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 A SALMODY is the most natural, social, and, to the 
 generality of christians, the most delightful part of 
 publick worship. It induces at once calmness and 
 energy in the exercise of devotion : It suppresses the 
 turbulent passions ; cures the heart of that bitterness, 
 which is known only to itself ; soothes, if it cannot 
 heal, a wounded and distracted spirit ; and inspires the 
 breast with resignation, hope, gratitude, and joy. 
 
 Yet it has long been matter of just complaint, that 
 this sacred art has not received sufficient cultiv:;tion, 
 and, of course, that all the benefits, which it is capable 
 of bestowing, have not been enjoyed. Attempts, in- 
 deed, have been made in numerous parts of Christen- 
 dom, to improve the psalmody of the church. Mem^ 
 bers of different communions have begun to judge it 
 proper, not to confine the aids of their devotion to the 
 work of any one man, but to consecrate to the use of 
 the sanctuary various productions of various authors. 
 
 Most collections of sacred poetry extant, however, 
 have met with objectors. Of a person dictating the 
 prayers, and supplying the instructions of a congrega- 
 tion, it is rationally expected, that he will be decent in 
 his language, grave in his manner, and uniform and 
 
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 consistent in his explication of the scriptures. But in 
 some of the psalms and hymns, Avhich are used in our 
 country, the voice of poetry is silent ; in some there 
 is a remarkable incongruity with the plainest parts of 
 the sacred writings ; and in others a contrariety of 
 character in the compositions themselves. 
 
 Whatever, also, may be said in favour of retaining 
 in our holy songs the names of Israel, Judah, Zion, &c. 
 from respect to the Hebrew classicks, yet in christians 
 it certainly is wrong, to breathe hatred or contempt 
 against infidels, after the Jewish manner, in odes of 
 praise to the author of happiness. 
 
 As all the metrical compositions in a psalmbook, 
 moreover, are intended to be sung, they ought to be- 
 distinguished by appropriate names. Authors and 
 compilers have generally denominated the metres 
 Common, Long, Short, and Particular ; but since there 
 are as many as twenty kinds of measure, which have 
 fallen under the last mentioned term, it has no pecu- 
 liar meaning. 
 
 Lastly, prefixing to each psalm and hymn the name 
 of a tune, well composed and judiciously chosen, is an 
 evident and valuable auxiliary to musical bands, and 
 conduces to the perfection of sacred harmony. No 
 American hymnbook has hitherto offered this aid to 
 the performers of psalmody. 
 
 The most powerful remedy for the crrours and de- 
 ficiencies here alluded to, consists in improving the 
 character of books, which, combining the influence of 
 poetry and musick, are designed to excite our religious 
 
affections, and form our religious sentiments. The 
 circumstances and taste of christians will always be 
 changing, and consequently there ^vill sometimes be a 
 call for variations in christian psalmody. 
 
 In this selection of Psalms and Hymns, from the 
 best "writers, there are such occasional alterations, 
 from the original verse, either made or adopted, as, 
 it is hoped, will be thought important and salutary. 
 It has been my endeavour, not so much to mul- 
 tiply the means of this species of devotion, as to reject 
 what savours of party spirit and sectarian notions ; 
 and not so much to choose what Is new and rare, as 
 what is pure, scriptural, and excellent,^ — is congenial to 
 the temper of the gospely and feeds the fire of love 
 which the gospel enkindles. 
 
 A numeral denomination of metres has suggested 
 itself as being easy and significant ; and in most of 
 them a reason of the several names will be readily 
 discerned. 
 
 The tunes have been selected, or composed, and 
 adapted by a man, who is skilled in his profession, and 
 who has contributed liberally to enrich the variety, 
 and refine the taste of Columbian musick. If 
 the tune affixed is unknown, or inaccessible, still the 
 chorister, in the mode of octave, has a desirable guide 
 to his choice. 
 
 It must afford pleasure to the friends of psalmody^ 
 to observe an increasing attention to- the spirit and 
 manner of its performance. Concerning this sec> 
 lion of the United States, it may be safely assert- 
 
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 ed, that the style of musical compositions is grad- 
 ually becoming chaster, the execution of singers 
 more correct, and the practice of singing more 
 general. In many of our congregations, where for- 
 merly the musick of the church was performed by an 
 exclusive choir, the worshippers in every part of the 
 house are beginning to rise, and assist in this sublime 
 and edifying portion of divine service. Too much 
 commendation cannot be given to this very decent 
 practice, nor too much zeal exerted, if exerted with 
 discretion, towards rendering it a universal and con- 
 firmed custom. 
 
 Atkinson-street y 
 Aug. 27, 1808= 
 
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PSALMS. 
 
 THIRD METRE. T PENTONVILLE; 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. ■*■* A major. 
 
 Difference betiveen the righteous and the nvickecL 
 
 1 The man is ever blest, 
 Who shuns the sinners' ways, 
 Among their counsels never stands. 
 Nor takes the scorner's place : 
 
 2 But makes the law of God 
 His study and delight, 
 Amidst the labours of the day. 
 And watches of the night. 
 
 3 He like a tree shall thrive, 
 With waters near the root : 
 
 Fresh as the leaf his name shall live ; 
 His works are heav'niy fruit. 
 
 4 Not so th' ungodly race, 
 They no such blessings find : 
 Their hope shall fi\ like empty chaff 
 Before the driving wind. 
 
 5 God knows, and he approves 
 The way the righteous go ; 
 
 But sinners and their works shall meet 
 A dreadful overthrow. 
 
PSALMS, 
 
 SECOND METRE. TT FULHAif, 
 
 Eightlinc stanzas, ■■■*♦ G major*^ 
 
 Christ* s kingdom among the Gentiles. 
 
 1 To God let fervent pray'rs arise 
 With ev'ry daily sacrifice, 
 
 The great Messiah's reign to spread, 
 And with new honours crown his head. 
 Soon may he reign where'er the sun 
 Doth his successive journeys run ; 
 His kingdom stretch from shore to shore. 
 Till moons shall wax and wane no more. 
 
 2 Great God I may realms of ev'ry tongue 
 Dwell on thy love with sweetest song ; 
 And with united hearts proclaim, 
 
 That grace ^nd truth by Jesus came. 
 Blessings abound where'er he reigns ; 
 The pris'ner leaps to loose his chains ; 
 The weary find eternal rest, 
 And contrite hearts with peace are blest. 
 
 3 Where he displays his healing pow'r, 
 The sting of death is known no more ; 
 In him the tribes of Adam boast 
 More blessings than their father lost. 
 Parent of good ! to thee we trace 
 These boundless stores of richest grace ; 
 All have their source in love divine ; 
 And be the praise and glory thine. 
 
PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. TTT CALIFORNIA. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. -ixi. E major. 
 
 A morning fisabn. 
 
 1 In sleep's serene oblivion laid, 
 I safely pass'd the silent night : 
 Again I see the breaking shade, 
 I drink again the morning light. 
 
 2 New-born, I bless the waking hour ; 
 Once more, M'ith awe, rejoice to be ; 
 My conscious soul resumes her pow'r, 
 And springs, my guardian God ! to thee, 
 
 3 O guide me through the various maze 
 My doubtful feet are doom'd to tread ; 
 And spread thy shield's protecting blaze 
 Where dangers press around my head. 
 
 4 A deeper shade shall soon impend, 
 A deeper sleep mine eyes oppress ; 
 Yet then thy strength shall still defend, 
 Thy goodness still delight to bless. 
 
 5 That deeper shade shall break away, 
 I'hat deeper sleep shall leave mine eyes : 
 Thy light shall give eternal day ; 
 
 Thy love, the rapture of the skies. 
 
PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. T\T TRURO. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. x V . F major. 
 
 ^n evening Jisalm, 
 
 1 Thus far the Lord has led me on ; 
 Thus far his pow'r prolongs my days ; 
 And ev'ry "evening shall make known 
 Some fresh memorial of his grace. 
 
 2 Much of my time has run to waste, 
 And I perhaps am near my home ; 
 But he forgives my follies past, 
 
 And gives me strength for days to come. 
 
 3 I lay my body down to sleep ; 
 Peace is the pillow of my head ; 
 His ever- watchful eye shall keep 
 Its constant guard around my bed. 
 
 4 Faiih in his name forbids my fear ; 
 O may thy presence ne'er depart ! 
 And in the morning may I hear 
 Thy loving kindness on my heart ! 
 
 5 Thus when the night of death shall come. 
 My flesh shall rest beneath the ground ; 
 And wait thy voice to break my tomb. 
 With sweet salvation in the sound. 
 
P S A L M S. 
 
 FIRST METRE. TT; NEW-YORK. 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. ^ * F major- 
 
 Lord's daij mornijtg. 
 
 Lord I in the morning thou shalt hear 
 Our voice ascending high ; 
 To thee will we address our pray'r, 
 To thee direct our eve. 
 
 2 Thou art a God, before whose sight 
 The wicked shall not stand ; 
 Sinners shall ne'er be thy delight, 
 Nor dwell at thy right hand. 
 
 3 But to thy house will we resort, 
 To taste thy mercies there ; 
 We will frequent thy holy court, 
 And worship in thy fear. 
 
 4 O may thy spirit guide our feet 
 In ways of truth and grace ; 
 Make ev'ry path of duty straight, 
 And plain before our foce. 
 
 5 The men, who love and fear thy name. 
 Shall see their hopes fulfiird, 
 
 The mighty God will compass them 
 With favour as a shield. 
 
6 PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. ■\TT CARTHAGf. 
 
 fixline stanzas. ' *■• C miner. 
 
 Prayer i?i aickness. 
 
 1 O SPARE me, Lord, nor o'er my head 
 The fulness of thy vengeance shed ; 
 With pitying eye my weakness view, 
 Heal my vex'd sou), my strength renew ; 
 O give my pains their bound to know, 
 And fix a period to my wo. 
 
 I My life, though yet in mid career, 
 Beholds the winter of its year 
 Relentless from my cheek each trace 
 Of youth and blooming health erase, 
 And spread before my wasting sight 
 The shades of all-obscuring night, 
 
 I Return, great God, return and save 
 Thy servant from the greedy grave. 
 Shall death's long silent tongue, O say, 
 The records of thy pow'r display ? 
 Or pale corruption's starti'd ear 
 Thy praise within its prison hear ? 
 
PSALMS. 
 
 ^IRST METRE. VTT HANCOCK, 
 
 Fouriine stanzas. V AJ.. B major. 
 
 God the refuge of persecuted virtue. 
 
 1 fT H E N storms hang o'er the christian's head. 
 He flies unto his God ; 
 And under his refreshing shade 
 Finds a secure abode. 
 
 2 When foes without, and fears within^ 
 Seek to disturb his peace, 
 To God he makes his sorrows known- 
 And strait his sorrows cease. 
 
 3 When winds of strong temptation blow^ 
 And floods of trouble roll, 
 God is the help and refuge too 
 Of his distressed soul. 
 
 4 But when tremendous terrours seize 
 Where will the sinner fly ? 
 He feels a thousand agonies. 
 And no deliverer nigh. 
 
8 PSALMS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. VTTT PENSANCt. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. v aax. F major. 
 
 Divine condescension. 
 
 1 O THOU, to whom all creatures bow. 
 Within this earthly frame ! 
 
 Through all the world how great art thou ! 
 
 How glorious is thy name ! 
 
 When heav'ii, thy beauteous work on high, 
 
 Employs my wond'ring sight ; 
 
 The moon, that nightly rules the sky, 
 
 With stars of feebler light : 
 
 2 What's mortal man, that. Lord, thou lov'st 
 To keep him in thy mind ? 
 
 Or what his offspring that thou prov'st 
 
 To them so wondrous kind ? 
 
 Him next in power thou didst create 
 
 To thy celestial train ; 
 
 Ordain*'d with dignity and state 
 
 O'er all thy woi^cs to reign. 
 
 3 They jointly -own his powerful sway, 
 The beasts that prey or graze ; 
 
 The bird that wings its airy way, 
 
 The fish that cuts the seas. 
 
 O thou, to whom all creatures bow. 
 
 Within this earthly frame ! 
 
 Through all the world how great art thou I 
 
 How glorious is thy name ! 
 
PSALMS. 9 
 
 SECOND METRE. TV MARTIN'S LANE. 
 
 Tourline stanzas. A.^x. F major. 
 
 God's naine ow trust. 
 
 1 The great Jehovah be ador'd, 
 Th' eternal, all-sufficient Lord ; 
 Through all the world Most High confess'dj 
 By whom 'twas form'd, and is possess'd ! 
 
 2 Awake, our noblest powers, to bless 
 The God of Abra'm, God of peace, 
 Now by a dearer title known. 
 Father and God of Christ his son. 
 
 3 Through every age his gracious ear 
 Is open to his servants' prayer ; 
 Nor can one humble soul Complain 
 That he has sought his God in vain, 
 
 4 What unbelieving heart shall dare 
 In whispers to suggest a fear, 
 
 While God still owns his ancient name, 
 The same his power, his love the same ? 
 
 5 To thee our souls in faith arise. 
 To thee we lift expecting eye?, 
 And boldly through the desart tread. 
 
 For God vv^ill guard where God shall lead. 
 
\^ PSALM S. 
 
 SECOND METRE. V ISLINGTON. 
 
 Fourline itanzgs. •**■• q major. 
 
 The government of God. 
 
 1 i^HAT eyes, like thine, eternal sire, 
 Through sin's obscurest depths inquire ? 
 What judge, like thee, on virtue's foes 
 The needful vengeance can impose ? 
 
 2 The meek observer of thy laws 
 
 To thee commits his injur'd cause ; 
 In thee, each anxious fear resign'd, 
 The fatherless a father find. 
 
 3 Thine is the throne : beneath thy reign ^ 
 Immortal king I the tribes profane 
 Behold their dreams of conquest o'er, 
 And vanish to be seen no more. 
 
 4 Thou, Lord, thy people's wish canst read^ 
 Ere from their lips the prayer proceed ; 
 'Tis thine their drooping hearts to rear, 
 Bow to their wants th' attentive ear, — • 
 
 5 The weeping orphan's cheek to dry, 
 The guiltless sufferer's cause to try, 
 To reiti each earth-born tyrant's will^ 
 And bid the sons of pride be still 
 
PSALMS. 11 
 
 SECOND METRE. VT ASH VALE, 
 
 Eigktline stanzas. -^^ -^ • G minor. 
 
 ^ The mysteries of providence to be solved hereafter. 
 
 1 The heart dejected sighs to know, 
 Why vice triumphant reigns below, 
 Why saints have fali'n in every age 
 The victims of tyrannick rage. 
 Fast roll successive years away, 
 Fast hastens on th' important day, 
 When to th' astonish'd world's surprise, 
 God's high tribunal shall arise. 
 
 2 Hark ! 'tis the trumpet's piercing sound ; 
 The rising dead assemble round ; 
 
 In close procession see they come, 
 Each to receive his final djoom. 
 Lo ! there a vile, degcn'rate race, 
 Pale terrour sits on every face ; 
 Here, on the right, a joyful band, 
 The sons of suifering virtue 'itand. 
 
 3 The sentence pass'd, lo ! these arise 
 To bliss and glory in the skies : 
 
 While those, who once stood high in fame. 
 Sink to contempt and lasting sliame. 
 Thus shall God's providence appear 
 Without a shade, divinely fair, 
 And blushing doubt widi joy confess 
 The Lord's a God of righteousness, 
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12 PSALMS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. VTT DORSET. 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. .^VJ.1. D minor. 
 
 Corrufition of manners. 
 
 1 Help, Lord ! for men of virtue fail, 
 Religion loses ground ; 
 
 The sons of wickedness prevail. 
 And treacheries abound. 
 
 2 Their oaths and promises they breaks 
 Yet act the flatterer's part ; 
 
 With fair, deceitful lips they speak, 
 And with a double heart. 
 
 3 Scoffers appear on every side, 
 Where a vile race of men 
 
 Are rais'd to seats of power and pride, 
 And bear the sword in vain. 
 
 4 Lord ! when iniquities abound, 
 And blaspliemy grows bold ; 
 When faith is hardly to be found, 
 And love is waxen cold ; 
 
 5 Is not thy chariot hastening on ? 
 Hast thou not giv'n the sign ? 
 May we not trust and live upon 
 A promise so divine ? 
 
PSALMS. 13 
 
 SECOND METRE. VTTT M U S I C K, 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. -^vxaa, Sb major. 
 
 Remonstrance. Pleading. Hofie. 
 
 1 How long shall I, my God ! in vain, 
 Prest by a weight of griefs complain ? 
 Say , shall I sink in deep despair, 
 Forever banish 'd from thy care ? 
 
 2 Condemn 'd thy absent beams to monnij 
 Still to divided counsels turn 
 
 My lab'ring thoughts, and hear the foe 
 Exulting, triumph in my wo ? 
 
 3 Thy suppliant's voice attentive weigh, 
 And bid, O bid, thy heavenly ray 
 With healing influence o'er me rise, 
 E'er death's dark slumbers close my eyes, 
 
 4 But while the threats of foes I hear, 
 Thy mercy. Lord, dispels my fear ; 
 My hopes on thy salvation rest, 
 
 And fill with conscious joy my breast. 
 
14 PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. VTV MOUNT AIRY. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. -^vl v . q major. 
 
 The existence of GoD. 
 
 There is a God, all nature speaks, 
 Through earth, and air, and seas, and skies \ 
 See, from the clouds his glory breaks, 
 When the first beams of morning rise ! 
 The rising sun, serenely bright, 
 O'er the wide world's extended frame. 
 Inscribes, in characters of light, 
 His mighty maker's glorious name. 
 
 Diffusing life, his influence spreads, 
 And health and plenty smile around, 
 And fruitful fields, and verdant meads 
 Are with a thousand blessings crown'd. 
 For man and beast, here daily food 
 In wide diffusive plenty grows ; 
 And there, for drink, the crystal flood 
 In streams sweet- winding gently flows. 
 
 The flow'ry tribes all blooming rise 
 Above the faint attempts of art ; 
 Their bright, inimitable dyes 
 Speak sweet conviction to the heart. 
 Ye curious minds, who rove abroad, 
 And trace creation's wonders o'er, 
 Confess the footsteps of the God, 
 And bow before him, snd adore» 
 
PSALMS. 15 
 
 SEVENTH METRE. VV NORTON. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. ^v v . Am^r. 
 
 The sincere worshipiier. 
 
 1 W^HO shall tow'rd thy chosen seat 
 Turn in glad approach his feet ? 
 Who, great God I a welcome guest, 
 On thy hallow 'd mountain rest ? 
 
 2 He whose heart thy love has warm'd, 
 He whose will, to thine conform 'd, 
 Bids his life unsullied run ; 
 
 He whose word and thought are one. 
 
 3 He who ne'er with cruel aim 
 Seeks to wound an honest fame ; 
 What he swears, with steadfast will 
 To his loss he shall fulfil. 
 
 4 Nor by avaricious loan 
 
 Make the poor man's bread his own ; 
 Nor can bribes his sentence guide 
 'Gainst the guiltless to decide. 
 
 5 He who thus, with heart unstain'd, 
 Treads the path by thee ordain'd, 
 He, great God ! shall own thy care, 
 And thy constant blessings share. 
 
16 PSALMS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. VVT WAREHAM. 
 
 Fourliiie Stanzas. ufV V X. G major. 
 
 The blessings of nature and revelatiofi. 
 
 1 liET heathens to their idols haste, 
 And worship wood or stone : 
 But my delightful lot is cast 
 Where the true God is known. 
 
 2 In this enlighten'd, pleasant land, 
 My happy portion lies ; 
 
 Where nature's ever-bounteous hand 
 All human want supplies. 
 
 3 Therefore my soul shall bless the Lord, 
 Whose precepts give me light, 
 
 And consolation still afford 
 In sorrows dismal night. 
 
 4 I strive each action to approve 
 To thine all- seeing eye ; 
 
 No danger shall my hope remove, 
 For thou art ever nigh. 
 
 5 Thou shalt the paths of life display, 
 Which to thy presence lead ; 
 Where pleasures dwell without allay, 
 And joys that never fade. 
 
PSALMS. 17 
 
 SECOND METRE. VVTT KANTWICH. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. .^v v xi. Bb major, 
 
 The resurrection. 
 
 1 VT HAT sinners value I resign ; 
 
 Lord ! 'tis enough that thou art mine : 
 
 I shall behold thy blissful face, 
 
 And stand complete in righteousness. 
 
 2 This life's a dream, an empty show ; 
 But the bright world to which I go 
 Hath joys substantial and sincere : 
 When shall I wake and find me there 
 
 3 O glorious hour, O blest abode ! 
 I shall be near and like my God ! 
 And flesh and sin no more control 
 The sacred pleasures of the soul. 
 
 My flesh shall slumber in the ground, 
 Till the last trumpet's joyful sound ; 
 Then burst the chains with glad surprise, 
 And in my Saviour's image rise. 
 
18 P S A L M S. 
 
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 SECOND METRE. VVTTT HALIFAX, 
 
 f ©uiiine stanzas. ■^*" V ±11 • ^^ major, 
 
 God executing vengeance on his enefnies. 
 
 1 GroD left the beauteous realms of light, 
 While heav'n bovv'd down its awful head, 
 Beneath his feet substantial night, 
 
 Was like a sable carpet spread. 
 
 2 The chariot of the king of kings, 
 Which active troops of angels drew, 
 On a strong tempest's rapid wings. 
 With most amazing swiftness flew. 
 
 3 Black wat'ry mists and clouds conspir'd 
 With thickest shades his face to vail ; 
 But at his brightness soon retir'd, 
 
 And fell in show'rs of fire and hail. 
 
 4 His sharpened arrows round he threw, 
 Which made his scattered foes retreat ; 
 Like darts his nimble lightnings flew, 
 And quickly finish'd their defeat. 
 
 5 The deep its secret stores disclos'd, 
 Tlie world's foundations naked lay, 
 By his avenging wrath expos'd. 
 Which fiercely rag'd that dreadful dayc 
 
PSALMS. 19 
 
 «£COND METRE. VTV ^i. ITALY. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. -rvia\.. Bb major. 
 
 The works o/* God. 
 
 The spacious firmament on high, 
 
 With all the blue etherial sky, 
 
 And spangPd heav'ns, a shining frame, 
 
 Their great original proclaim. 
 
 Th' unwearied sun, from day to day. 
 
 Does his creator's pow'r display ; 
 
 And publishes to ev'ry land 
 
 The work of an almighty hand. 
 
 Soon as the ev'ning shades prevail, 
 The moon takes up the wond'rous tale, 
 And nightly to the listening earth 
 Repeats the story of her birth : 
 While all the stars, that round her burn, 
 And all the planets in their turn. 
 Confirm the tidings as they roll. 
 And spread the truth firom pole to pole. 
 
 What though, in solemn silence, all 
 Move round this dark, terrestrial ball ; 
 What though no real voice nor souiid 
 Amid their radiant orbs be found ; 
 In reason's ear they all rejoice. 
 And utter forth a glorious voice ; 
 Forever singing as they shine, 
 The hand that made us is divine, 
 
20 PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRm YV MUNICH. 
 
 EiglUline stanzas. xV.i\,» B minor. 
 
 Supfilication in war. 
 
 1 AVhile sounds of war are heard around, 
 And death and ruin strew the ground ; 
 To thee we look, on thee we call, 
 
 The parent and the Lord of all. 
 Thou, who hast stamp'd on human kind 
 The image of a heav'n-born mind, 
 And in a father's wide embrace 
 Hast cherish'd all the kindred race ; 
 
 2 O see, with what insatiate rage 
 
 Thy sons their impious battles wage ; 
 How spreads destruction, like a flood. 
 And brothers shed their brothers' blood ! 
 See guilty passions spring to birth, 
 And deeds of hell deform the earth ; 
 While righteousness and justice mourn, 
 And love and pity droop forlorn. 
 
 3 Great God ! whose pow'rful hand can bind 
 The raging waves, the furious wind, 
 
 O bid the human tempest cease. 
 And hush the madd'ning world to peace. 
 With r jv'rence may each hostile land 
 Hear and obey that high command, 
 Thy son's blest errand from above— 
 *' Mv creatures, live in mutual love !'^ 
 
PSALMS. 21 
 
 FIRST METRE. VVT STAMFORD. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. -^-<rv r. D major. 
 
 The mission of Jesus Christ. 
 
 1 Hark the glad sound ! the Saviour comes ! 
 The Saviour promis'd long ! 
 
 Let ev'ry heart a throne prepare, 
 
 And ev'ry voice a song. 
 
 On him the spirit largely pour'd, 
 
 Exerts its holy fire ; 
 
 Wisdom, and pow'r, and zeal, and love 
 
 His sacred breast inspire. 
 
 2 He comes, the prisoners to release, 
 In wretched bondage held : 
 
 The gates of brass before him burst, 
 
 The iron fetters yield. 
 
 He comes, from thickest films of vice 
 
 To clear the mental ray ; 
 
 And on the eye-balls of the blind 
 
 To pour celestial day. 
 
 3 He comes, the broken heart to bind, 
 The wounded soul to cure ; 
 
 And, with the treasures of his grace, 
 
 T' enrich the humble poor. 
 
 Our songs of joy and gratitude 
 
 His welcome shall proclaim ; 
 
 Hail to the prince of peace, Vvho comes 
 
 In G D our father's name ! 
 
gS PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. VYTT LEINSTPER. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. ^v^^xl. D major. 
 
 Supfilication for entire obedience. 
 
 1 Supreme and universal light ! 
 Fountain of reason ! judge of right ! 
 Without whose kind, directing ray, 
 In everlasting night we stray ! 
 Assist me, Lord ! to act, to be, 
 What nature and thy laws decree ; 
 Worthy that intellectual flame, 
 Which from thy breathing spirit came. 
 
 '2 My moral freedom to maintain, 
 Bid passion serve, and reason reign, 
 Self-poib'd and independant still 
 On this world's varying good or ill. 
 No slave to profit, shame, or fear, 
 O may my steadfast bosom bear 
 The stamp of heav'n, an honest heart, 
 Above the mean disguise of art. 
 
 > May my expanded soul disclaim 
 The narrow vievv% the selfish aim ; 
 But with a christian zeal embrace 
 Whatever is friendly to my race. 
 O Father ! grace and virtue grant ; 
 No more I wish, no more I want : 
 To know, to serve thee, and to love, 
 Is peace below. — is bfiss above. 
 
PSALMS. 23 
 
 SECOND METRE. VVTTT KIDDERMINSTER. 
 
 Sixline stanzas. -^V-^Vlll. F major. 
 
 God our shepherd. 
 
 1 The Lord my pasture shall prepare, 
 And feed me \\ith a shepherd's care ; 
 His presence shall my wants supply, 
 And guard me with a watchful eye ; 
 My noon-day walks he will attend, 
 And all my^midnight hours defend. 
 
 When in the sultry glebe I faint, 
 Or on the thirsty mouritain pant, 
 To fertile vales and dewy meads 
 My weary, wand'ring steps he leads, 
 Where peaceful rivers, soft and slow, 
 Amid the verdant landscape flow, 
 
 3 Though, in a bare and rugged way, 
 Through devious, lonely wilds I stray, 
 Thy bounty shall my pains beguile ,* 
 The barren wilderness shall smile, 
 
 With sudden greens and herbage crown'd. 
 And streams shall murmur all around. 
 
 4 Though in the paths of death I tread, 
 With gloomy horrour.- overspread. 
 My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, 
 For thou, O Lord ! art with me still ; 
 Thy friendly hand shall give me aid, 
 And guide me through the dreadful shade. 
 
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24 PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. VVTV LITCHFIELD. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. jT^-^^l v . q majgr. 
 
 Qualifications for heaven, 
 
 1 The earth is thine, almighty Lord ! 
 It owes its being to thy word ; 
 And all that it contains is thine, 
 Form'd and upheld by pow'r divine. 
 
 Raised on the floods, at thy command, 
 Firm does the wond'rous fabrick stand ; 
 And, fiil'd with various good, thy grace 
 Hath giv'n it for our dwelling-place. 
 
 3 But there's a brighter world on high, 
 Thy palace, Lord, above the sky : 
 Who shall ascend that blest abode, 
 And dwell so near his maker, God ? 
 
 4 He that abhors and fears to sin, 
 
 Whose heart is pure, whose hands are clean 
 He shall behold thee face to face. 
 And stand complete in righteousness. 
 
PSALMS. 2» 
 
 THIRD METRE. XXV INVOCATION. 
 
 Fourline stanza*. x\.JX \ » F major. 
 
 The presence of God in affliction. 
 
 1 In vain, while sorrow spreads 
 Her melancholy gioom, 
 
 Kind providence its blessings sheds, 
 And nature's beauties bloom. 
 
 2 The scenes that charm the sight 
 My heart no more admires ; 
 
 for a beam of heav'nly light, 
 When earthly hope expires ! 
 
 3 Thou centre of my rest ! 
 Look down with pitying eye, 
 While, with protracted pain opprest, 
 
 1 breathe the plaintive sigh. 
 
 4 Thy presence, O my God ! 
 My every wisli contains ; 
 
 With this, beneath affliction's load 
 My heart no more complains. 
 
 5 This can my cares control, 
 Gild each dark scene with light ; 
 This is the sunshine of the soul, 
 Without it all is night. 
 
26 PSALMS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. XXVT ARLINGTOK. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. ^-^.x^ \ x, q major. 
 
 Self examination. 
 
 1 Be thou my judge : thy searching eyes 
 My watchful life haye known : 
 On thee, O God ! my soul relies, 
 Nor fear of lapse shall own. 
 
 2 O search me stiil ; my heart, my reins, 
 With strictest view^ suryey : 
 
 Thy love, great God, my hope sustains, 
 Thy truth directs my way. 
 
 3 The house of guile, and seat of lies, 
 With studious care 1 shun : 
 
 From crowds that impious deeds deyise 
 My steps abhorrent run. 
 
 4 la innocence I wash my hands, 
 Thine altar compass round, 
 
 And grateful join the sacred bands, 
 Whose hymxns thine acts resound. 
 
 5 How oft inspir'd with warmth divine, 
 Thy tlireshhold have I trod ! 
 
 How lov'd the courts whose walls enshrine 
 The glory of my God ! 
 
PSALMS. 27 
 
 SECOND METRE. VWTT PHILADELPHIA 
 
 Eigktline stanzas. -i*.-^ V ±i.. A major. 
 
 The safety of trusting in God. 
 
 The Lord, my saviour, is my light, 
 Whatterrours can my soul affright ? 
 While God, my strength, my life is near, 
 What mortal shall alarm my fear ? 
 Should numerous hosts besiege me round, 
 My courage shall maintain its ground ; 
 Though war should rage in dread away ; 
 God is my strength, my hope, my stay. 
 
 This only bliss my heart desires, 
 To this my ardent wish aspires, 
 In God's own house to spend my days, 
 To hear his word, and sptak his praise ; 
 When troubles rise, my guardian God 
 Will hide me safe in his abode ; 
 Firm as a rock my hope shall stand, 
 Sustain 'd by his almighty hand. 
 
 Should ev'ry earthly friend depart, 
 Sliould love forsake a parent's heart ; 
 The God, on whom my hopes depend, 
 Will be my father and my friend. 
 Ye humble souls, in every strait 
 On God with faith and patience wait ; 
 His hand shall life and strength afford ; 
 Wait, therefore, ever on the Lord, 
 
28 P S A L M S. 
 
 FIRST METRE. WVTTT ASAPHS. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. jri..rv V 111. Bb major. 
 
 Trusting God in firosjierity and adversity. 
 
 J- HE Lord ! how tender is his love, 
 
 His justice how august ; 
 
 Hence all her fears my soul derives, 
 
 There anchors all her trust. 
 
 He show'rs the manna from above, 
 
 To feed the barren waste ; 
 
 Or points with death the fiery hail, 
 
 And famine waits the blast. 
 
 Crowns, realms, and worlds, his wrath incens'd, 
 
 Are dust beneath his tread : 
 
 He blights the fair, unplumes the proud. 
 
 And shakes the learned head. 
 
 He bids distress forget to groan. 
 
 The sick from anguish cease ; 
 
 In dungeons spreads his healing wing, 
 
 And softly vv^hispers peace. 
 
 His vengeance rides the rushing wind, 
 
 Or tips the bolt widi flame ; 
 
 His goodness breathes in every breeze. 
 
 And warms in every beam. 
 
 Lord ! grant that still with grateful heart 
 
 My years resign'd may run ; 
 
 'Tis thine to give, or to resume, 
 
 And mav thv will be done ! 
 
PSALMS. 29 
 
 SECOND METRE. XXTX" BROMLEY. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. -^v.^^i^v. G major. 
 
 The majesty of God in thunder. 
 
 1 GrivE to the Lord, ye sons of fame, 
 Give to the Lord renown and power ; 
 Ascribe due honaurs to his name, 
 And his eternal might adore. 
 
 2 The Lord proclaims his pow'r aloud 
 O'er the vast ocean, and the land ; 
 His voice dissolves the wat'ry cloud, 
 And liglit'nings blaze at his command. 
 
 3 When he from heav'n in thunder speaks. 
 With mrjest}- and terrour crown'd ; 
 His voice the stately cedar breaks, 
 
 Aiid throws its scatter'd limbs around. 
 
 4 His voice divides the flames of fire, 
 And forked streaks of light'ning sends, 
 The mountain trembles at his ire, 
 The lofty forest lovrly bends. 
 
 5 In gentler language, here the Lord 
 The counsek- of his grace imparts ; 
 Amidst the raging storm, his word 
 Speaks peace and comfort to our hearts. 
 
so PSALMS. 
 
 SEVENTEENTH METRE. V V V A L L E K. 
 
 Sixline jtanzas. .^vyv.^x. Bnainor, 
 
 Waiting for morning. 
 
 1 liONG and mournful is the night, 
 Mental night of gloomy fear : 
 Source of comfort, source of light, 
 When, O when wilt thou appear I 
 
 Thy beams alone can bid the gloom depart, 
 And spread celestial morning o'er my heart» 
 
 2 Morning of that glorious day, 
 Which the blest enjoy above. 
 Where with full unclouded ray 
 Shines thine everlasting love : 
 
 Where joy triumphant fills the bright abode, 
 O happy world ! fair paradise of Go b ! 
 
 3 Thither if the heart aspire. 
 Shall it, Lord, aspire in vain ? 
 Shall the breathings of desire 
 Rise with unavailing pain ? 
 
 O thou, my guide, my solace, and my rest ! 
 In this sad desart shall I rove unblest ? 
 
 4 Not in vain aspires the heart, 
 That depends on thee alone ; 
 Light and joy thou wilt impart, 
 Eadiant dawn of bliss unknown. 
 
 Here let me wait beneath thy guardian wing, 
 Till from th}'- smile celestial morning spring. 
 
PSALMS. 31 
 
 FIRST METRE. "VVVT BROOMSGROVE, 
 
 Fourline stanzas. x\..^\.J\,l» C major. 
 
 Our times in God*« hand. 
 
 1 Weak and irresolute is man : 
 The purpose of to-day, 
 Woven with pains into his plan. 
 To-morrow rends away. 
 
 2 Some foe to his upright intent 
 Finds out his weaker part ; 
 Virtue engages his assent, 
 But pleasure wins his heart. 
 
 5 Life's voyage is of awful length, 
 Through dangers little known : 
 A stranger to superiour strength, 
 Man vainly trusts his own. 
 
 4 But oars alone can ne'er prevail 
 To reach the distant coast ; 
 The breath of heav'n must swell the sail. 
 Or all the toil is lost. 
 
32 PSALMS, 
 
 THIRD METRE. XXXTT TIGRIS. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. x\.x\.^\.xx, q j^gjo,^ 
 
 Confession and pardon, 
 
 1 O BLESSED souls are they, 
 Whose sins are cover 'd o'er ! 
 Divinely blest, to whom the LoRp 
 Imputes their guilt no more ! 
 
 2 They mourn their follies past, 
 And keep their hearts vi^ith care ; 
 Their lips and lives without deceit, 
 Shall prove their souls sincere. 
 
 3 While I conceal'd my guilt, 
 I felt the fest'ring wound ; 
 
 But I renounc'd my former sins, 
 And peace and pardon found. 
 
 4 Let sinners learn to pray ; 
 
 Let saints keep near the throne ; 
 Our help in times of deep distress. 
 Is found in God alone. 
 
PSALMS. 33 
 
 SECOND METRE. VXYTTT BANNER. 
 
 Sixline stanzas. ^\.^\.x^m.±±» C major. 
 
 Works of creation and firovidence. 
 
 1 Ye holy souls, in God rejoice, 
 
 Your maker's praise becomes your voice ; 
 Great is your theme, your songs be new ; 
 Sing of his name, his word, his ways, 
 His works of nature and of grace, 
 How wise and holy, just and true ! 
 
 2 Justice and truth he ever loves. 
 
 And the whole earth his goodness proves ; 
 His word the heav'nly arches spread : 
 How wide they shine from north to south ! 
 And by the spirit of his mouth 
 Were all the starry armies made. 
 
 3 He gathers the wide-flowing seas. 
 Those wat'ry treasures know their place 
 In the vast storehouse of the deep ; 
 
 He spake, and gave all nature birth. 
 And fires, and seas, and heav'n, and earth, 
 His everlasting orders keep. 
 
 4 Let mortals tremble, and adore 
 A God of such resistless pow'r, 
 Nor dare indulge their feeble rage : 
 
 Vain are your thoughts, and weak your hands, 
 But his eternal counsel stands. 
 And rules the world from age to age. 
 
34! PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. VX'^TV ©^^ BRICK. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. .rv.^\..^VA V . B5 majM-. 
 
 Instructions of piety, 
 
 1 Children in years and knowledge young, 
 Your parents' hope, your parents' joy ! 
 Attend the counsels of my tongue ; 
 
 Let pious thoughts your minds employ. 
 
 2 If you desire a length of days, 
 
 And peace to crown your mortal state, 
 Restrain your feet from impious ways, 
 Your lips from slander and deceit. 
 
 FIRST METRE. HUDDERSFIELD, 
 
 Fourline stanzas. £b major. 
 
 1 In the soft season of thy youth, 
 In nature's smiling bloom. 
 
 Ere age arrive, and trembling wait 
 Its summons to the tomb : 
 
 2 Remember thy creator, God ; 
 For him thy pow'rs employ ; 
 
 Make him thy fear, thy love, thy hope, 
 Thy confidence, and joy. 
 
 3 He shall defend and guide thy course 
 Through life's uncertain sea : 
 
 Till thou art landed on the shore 
 Of blest eternity^ 
 
PSALMS. 35 
 
 FiaST METRE. XVYV BRIGHTON. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. .^\..£\..^\. \ » A major. 
 
 -- — Christian charity. 
 
 1 Behold, where, breathing love divine. 
 Our dying master stands ! 
 
 His weeping follow 'rs gath'ring round, 
 Receive his last commands. 
 
 2 From that mild teacher's parting lips 
 What tender accents fell ! 
 
 The gentle precept which he gave, 
 Became its author well. 
 
 3 Blest is the man, whose soft'ning heart 
 Feels all another's pain ; 
 
 To whom the supplicating eye 
 Was never rais'd in vain : 
 
 4 Whose breast expands with gen'rous warmth^ 
 A strangers wo to feel ; 
 
 And bleeds in pity o'er the wound, 
 He wants the power to heal. 
 
 5 He spreads his kind supporting arms 
 To ev'ry child of grief : 
 
 His secret bounty largely flows, 
 And brings unask'd relief. 
 
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36 PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. V WVT PORTtfGAfc. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. .^\.y\../V. V !• G major. 
 
 The perfections and firovidence of God. 
 
 1 O Lord ! thy mercy, my sure hope, 
 The highest orb of heav'n transcends, 
 Thy sacred truth's unmeasur'd scope 
 Beyond the spreading skies extends. 
 
 2 Thy justice like the hills remains ; 
 Unfathom'd depths thy judgments are ; 
 Thy providence the world sustains ; 
 The whole creation is thy care. 
 
 3 Since of thy goodness all partake. 
 With what assurance should the just 
 Thy shelt'ring wings their refuge make. 
 And saints to thy protection trust ! 
 
 4 Such guests shall to thy courts be led, 
 To banquet on thy love's repast ; 
 And drink, as from a fountain head, 
 Of joys which shall forever last. 
 
 5 O let thy saints thy favour gain ; 
 To upright hearts thy truth display ! 
 With thee the springs of life remain ; 
 Thy presence is eternal day. 
 
PSALMS. 37 
 
 SECOND METRE. XXXVTT ALMANZA. 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. x\,x'%.^\. v xx« C major. 
 
 The /irosjierity of the wicked no cause of discontent, 
 
 2 liET not the sinner's wealth or might 
 The envy of thy soul excite : 
 Anon thine eye shall see him fade. 
 Quick as the flow'r or vernal blade. 
 
 2 But thou thy will to heav'n's high Lord, 
 His faith thy trust, thy rule his word, 
 Submit ; and, nourish'd by his hand, 
 Inherit from his gift the land. 
 
 3 With patient hope await his will, 
 Nor let the sight of prosp'rous ill 
 Impel thee, with disquiet vain, 
 His wise disposals to arraign. 
 
 4 In him delight, on him depend ; 
 
 Him choose thy guide, thy way, thine end > 
 So shall his love thy wishes grant, 
 His care anticipate thy want. 
 
 5 He'll bid thine acts in light serene 
 
 Fair as the rising morn be seen ; 
 Thy justice as the noon of day 
 Diffusive pour its cloudless ray. 
 
38 PSALMS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. XYXVTTT CHRISTMAS. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. .^v^v^x y xxx» Eb major. 
 
 Comfort in sickness and death. 
 
 1 iV^HEN sickness shakes the languid frame, 
 Each dazzling pleasure flies ; 
 Phantoms of bliss no more obscure 
 
 Our long deluded eyes. 
 
 2 Then the tremendous arm of death 
 Its hated sceptre shows ; 
 
 And nature faints beneath the weight 
 Of complicated wos. 
 
 3 The tott'ring frame of mortal life 
 Shall crumble into dust ; 
 Nature shall faint — but learn, my soul ! 
 On nature's God to trust. 
 
 4 The man, whose pious heart is fix'd 
 On his all- gracious God, 
 
 In ev'ry frown may comfort find, 
 And kiss the chast'ning rod. 
 
 5 Nor him shall death itself alarm ; 
 On heav'n his soul relies ; 
 
 With joy he views his maker's love. 
 And with composure dies. 
 
PSALMS. 39 
 
 FIRST METRE. VYYTX" BRIDGE; 
 
 Elghtline stanzas. .^X-rk.-^AZX. Gnomof. 
 
 The vanity of mortal man. 
 
 Teach me the measure of my days, 
 
 Thou maker of my frame ! 
 
 I would survey hfe's narrow space, 
 
 And leani how frail I am. 
 
 A span is all that we can boast, 
 
 A fleeting hour of time : 
 
 Man is but vanity and dust, 
 
 In all his fiow'r and prime. 
 
 See the vain race of mortals move 
 
 Like shadows o'er the plain ; 
 
 They rage and strive, desire and love. 
 
 But all the noise is vain. 
 
 Some walk in honour's gaudy show ; 
 
 Some dig for golden ore : 
 
 They toil for heirs, they know not who, 
 
 And strait are seen no more. 
 
 What should I wish or wait for, then, 
 From creatures, earth and dust ? 
 They make our expectations vain, 
 And disappoint our trust. 
 Now I resign my earthly hope, 
 My fond desires recal ; 
 I give my mortal int'rest up, 
 And make my God my alL 
 
40 PSALMS. 
 
 FIFTH METRE. VT KEW. 
 
 Sixline stanzas. ./vxu. Frngjoj^ 
 
 Deliverance and /irotection, 
 
 1 liV iTH patient hope my God I sought ; 
 He to his suppliant's want his thought 
 In happiest hour applied : 
 
 He from the dark and miry pit, 
 High on the rock has rais'd my feet ; 
 Nor fear my steps to slide. 
 
 2 His praise inspires my grateful tongue, 
 And dictates to my lips a song 
 
 In strains unheard before. 
 Admiring crowds his work shall see. 
 Their strength on him repose with me, 
 With me his name adore. 
 
 3 Blest, who in thee, great God ! confide, 
 Nor madly trust the arm of pride. 
 And helps that but betray. 
 
 Thy mercies, Lord, all praise surmount, 
 Nor numbers can their sum recount, 
 Nor words their worth display. 
 
 4 With strong desire my bosom glows 
 Thy truth and mercy to disclose, 
 
 In man's relief display 'd : 
 O ! let that truth dispel my wo. 
 That mercy, Lord, around me throw 
 Its all-protecting shade. 
 
PSALMS. 41 
 
 SECOND METRE; XTT TILDE K. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. ^^j_iX. D major. 
 
 Comfiassion to the afflicted. 
 
 1 Blest is the man, whose heart is kind, 
 And melts with pity to the poor ; 
 Who, with a sympathizing mind, 
 Feels wliat his fellow-men endure. 
 
 2 His heart contrives, for their relief, 
 More good than his own hand can do ; 
 He, in the time of gen'ral grief, 
 
 Shall find the Lord hath pity too. 
 
 3 This man shall live secure on earth, 
 With secret blessings on his head, 
 Though sword, or pestilence, or dearth, 
 Around him multiply their dead. 
 
 4 Or, if with mortal sufferings try'd, 
 Suff 'rings shall all his soul refine ; 
 Sweet hope his refuge shall provide, 
 And minister a bliss divine. 
 
42 PSALMS, 
 
 SECOND METRE. VT TT OPORTft 
 
 ffouTlinc stanzas. AJLill, A major!' 
 
 Resignation, 
 
 1 O WHY, my soul, dost thou complain ? 
 Why drooping seek the dark recess ? 
 Shake oiFthe melancholy chain, 
 For God created all to bless. 
 
 2 But ah ! my heart is human still ; 
 The rising sigh, the falling tear, 
 My languid vitals' feeble rill. 
 The sickness of my soul declare. 
 
 3 But yet, with fortitude resign'd 
 I'll thank th' inflictor of the blow, 
 Forbid the sigh, compose my mind, 
 Nor let the gush of mis'ry flow. 
 
 4 The gloomy mantle of the night, 
 Which on my sinking spirit steals, 
 Will vanish at the morning light. 
 Which God, my east, my sun, reveals. 
 
PSALMS. 43 
 
 FIRST MEfRE. VT TTT CHELSEA, 
 
 Fourlinc sunzas. .^Lulll* G minoif . 
 
 Absence from God. 
 
 1 O THOU, whose tender mercy hears 
 Contrition's humble sigh ; 
 
 Whose hand, indulgent, wipes the tears 
 From sorrow's weeping eye I 
 
 2 See ! low before thy throne of grace, 
 A wretched wand'rer mourn ; 
 
 Hast thou not bid me seek thy face ? 
 Hast thou not said, return ? 
 
 3 Absent from thee, my guide, my light ! 
 Without one cheering ray ; 
 
 Through dangers, fears, and gloomy night, 
 How desolate my way ! 
 
 4 O shine on this benighted heart. 
 With beams of mercy shine ; 
 And let thy healing voice impart 
 A taste of joys divine ! 
 
 5 Thy presence only can bestow 
 Delights which never cloy : 
 Be this my solace here below. 
 And my eternal joy ! 
 
44 PSALM S. 
 
 SECOND METRE. VT TA/ KETHRING. 
 
 , Eightline stanzas. .^xx^x \ , G major. 
 
 God the leader of his fieo/ile. 
 
 1 O God of our forefathers ! hear, 
 And make thy faithful mercies known, 
 While we with confidence draw near, 
 And place our trust on thee alone. 
 Arise, as in the ancient days, 
 
 (The ancient annals speak ihy fame) 
 ^ Be now omnipotently nigh. 
 To endless ages still the same. 
 
 2 From Egypt when thy chosen race 
 Triumphant urg'd their wond'rous way, 
 Divmely led, behold they pass 
 
 Th' unwatry deep, the empty 'd sea. 
 At distance heap'd on either hand. 
 Yielding a strange unbeaten road, 
 In crystal walls the waters stand. 
 And own the power of Israel's God. 
 
 3 That arm which is not shorten'd now, 
 Which wants not now the pow'r to save, . 
 Shall, present with thy people still. 
 
 Bear them through life's tumultuous wave. 
 By earth and hell pursu'd in vain. 
 To thee thy chosen seed shall come, 
 Shouting their heav'nly Canaan gain. 
 And pass through death triumphant home. 
 
PSALMS. 45 
 
 SECOND METRE. XT V HENLAN. 
 
 Fomline stanzas. .^va-j v • G major. 
 
 The glory of Christ^ s kingdom. 
 
 1 Our hearts a grateful theme shall sing, 
 The glories of our Saviour King ; 
 Our tongues his merit shall proclaim, 
 And speak the honours of his name. 
 
 2 O'er all the sons of human race, 
 He shines with a superiour grace ; 
 Love from his lips divinely flows. 
 And blessings all his state compose. 
 
 3 Th' eternal God supports his throne : 
 Our joyful hearts his sceptre own ; 
 For all his laws and works are right ; 
 Justice and truth are his delight. 
 
 4 God, his own God, has richly shed 
 The oil of gladness on his head ; 
 And with his sacred spirit blest 
 His first-born Son above the rest. 
 
46 PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND^ METRE. VT \TT EXETER. 
 
 Sixline stanzas. -^vi^ VI. D rtiarjor. 
 
 God our refuge. 
 
 1 GroD is our refuge in distress, 
 
 A present help when dangers press ; 
 In him undaunted we'll confide : 
 Though earth were from her centre tost. 
 And mountains in the ocean lost, 
 Torn piece- meal by the roaring tide. 
 
 2 In tumults when the heathen rag'd. 
 And kingdoms war against us wag'd, 
 
 He thunder'd, and dispers'd their pow'rs ; 
 The Lord of hosts conducts our arms^ 
 Our tow'r of refuge in alarms ; 
 Our fathers' guardian God and ours. 
 
 3 Come, see the wonders he has wrought, 
 On earth what desolation brought ; 
 How he has calm'd the jarring world : 
 He broke the warlike spear and bow ; 
 With them their thund'ring chariots too, 
 Into devouring flames were hurPd. 
 
 4 Submit to God's almighty sway ; 
 For him the nations shall obey, 
 
 And earth her sov'reign Lord confess : 
 The Lord of hosts conducts our arms, 
 Our tow'r of refuge in alarms, 
 As to our fathers in distress. 
 
PSALMS. 47 
 
 FIRST METRE. VT VTT SYDENHAM. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. .^l-i V IX. C major. 
 
 Rational and devout firaise, 
 
 1 O FOR a shout of sacred joy, 
 To God, the sov'reign king ! 
 Let ev'ry land its tongues employ, 
 And hymns of triumph sing. 
 
 2 In Israel stood his ancient throne ; 
 He lov'd that chosen race ; 
 
 But now he calls the world his own, 
 And heathens taste his grace. 
 
 3 While angels praise the heavenly king. 
 Let mortals learn their strains : 
 
 Let all the earth his honours sing ; 
 O'er all the earth he reigns. 
 
 4 Rehearse his praise with awe profound^ 
 Let knowledge lead the song ; 
 
 Nor mock him with a solemn sound 
 Upon a thoughtless tongue. 
 
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48 PSALMS. 
 
 THIRD METRE. VT VTTT FALCON STREET. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. ^^i^ \ xix. q maior. 
 
 Christian nvor shift and order, 
 
 Gtreat is the Lord our God, 
 
 And let his praise be great ; 
 
 He makes the church his blest abode. 
 
 His most delightful seat. 
 
 Far as thy name is known, 
 
 The world declares thy praise ; 
 
 Thy saints, O Lord ! before thy throne 
 
 Their songs of honour raise » 
 
 Let strangers walk around 
 
 The city where we dwell ; 
 
 Compass and view thy holy ground, 
 
 And mark the building well : 
 
 The order of thy house, 
 
 The w^orship of thy court, 
 
 The cheerful songs, the solemn vows^ 
 
 And make a fair report. 
 
 How decent and how wise 1 
 
 How glorious to behold ! 
 
 Beyond the pomp that charms the eye, 
 
 And rites adorn'd with gold. 
 
 The God we worship now 
 
 AVill guide us till we die ; 
 
 Will be our God while here below, 
 
 Our God above the sky. 
 
PSALMS. 49 
 
 SECOND METRE. VT TV LEINSTER. 
 
 E jghtline stanzas. .^xiuizv. Dmajor. 
 
 The heavenly kingdom an inheritance. 
 
 Ye humble souls, complain no more ; 
 Let faith survey your future store ; 
 How happy, how divinely blest, 
 The sacred words of truth attest. 
 When conscious grief laments sincere, 
 And pours the penitential tear ; 
 Hope points to your dejected eyes 
 A bright reversion in the skies. 
 
 In vain the sons of wealth and pride 
 Despise your lot, your hopes deride ; 
 In vain they boast their little stores, 
 Trifles are their's, a kingdom your's : 
 A kingdom of immense delight. 
 Where health, and peace, and joy unite ; 
 Where undeclining pleasures rise, 
 And ev'ry wish has full supplies ; 
 
 A kingdom which can ne'er decay, 
 Though time sweeps earthly thrones away : 
 The state which pow'r and truth sustain, 
 Unmov'd forever must remain. 
 Great God ! to thee we breathe our pray'r 
 If thou confirm our interest there, 
 Enroll 'd among thy happy poor, 
 Our largest wishes ask no morct 
 
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 50 PSALMS. 
 
 TWELFTH METRE. T CHER&ITOS. 
 
 Sisliae Stanzas. -M* Bb major. 
 
 The last judgment. 
 
 1 The God of glory sends his summons forth, 
 
 Calls the south nations, and awakes the north : 
 
 From east to west the sovereign orders spread. 
 
 Thro' distant worlds and regions of the dead. 
 
 The trumpet sounds ; hell trembles ; heav'n 
 
 rejoices ; 
 
 Lift up your heads, ye saints, with cheerful 
 voices. 
 
 No more shall atheists mock his long delay : 
 His vengeance sleeps no more ; behold the day ; 
 Behold the judge descends : his guards are 
 
 nigh; 
 Tempest and fire attend him down the sky. 
 When God appears, all nature shall adore him ; 
 While sinners tremble, saints rej oice beibre him . 
 
 Sinners awake betimes ; ye fools be wise ; 
 Awake before this dreadful morning rise : 
 Change your vain thoughts, your crooked 
 
 works amend, 
 And by repentance make the judge your friend : 
 Then join the saints : wake ev'ry cheerful 
 
 passion, 
 When Christ returns, he comes for your sal- 
 vation. 
 
PSALMS. 51 
 
 SECOND METRE, T T RIPTON. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. •"■■•• C miner. 
 
 Penitence, 
 
 Shew pity, Lord ! O Lord, forgive ! 
 
 Let a repenting sinner live ; 
 
 Are not thy mercies large and free ? '" j^m 
 
 May not the contrite trust in thee ? ^H 
 
 With shame my num'rous sins I trace, '^BP 
 
 Against thy law, against thy grace ; 
 
 And though my pray 'r thou should'st not hear^ 
 
 My doom is just, and thou art clear. 
 
 Yet save a penitent, O Lord ! 
 
 Whose hope, still hov'ring round thy word, 
 
 Seeks for some precious promise there. 
 
 Some sure support against despair. 
 
 My sins are great, but don't surpass 
 
 The riches of eternal grace ; 
 
 Great God ! thy goodness hath no boundj, 
 
 So let thy pard'ning grace be found. 
 
 O ! wash my soul from ev'ry stain, 
 Nor let the guilt I mourn, remain ; 
 Give me to hear thy pard'ning voice, 
 And bid my bleeding heart rejoice. 
 Then shall thy love inspire my tongue ; 
 Salvation shall be all my song ; 
 And all my pow'rs shall join to bless 
 The Lord, my strength and righteousness^ 
 
53 PSALMS. 
 
 THIRD METRE. T TT MOUNT EPHRAIM. 
 
 Fourjine stanzas. i-in. Eb major. 
 
 V 
 
 Devotion and confidence. 
 
 1 Thou wilt regard my cries, 
 -=«*- O my eternal God ! 
 
 While sinners perish in surprise, 
 Beneath thine angry rod. 
 
 2 Because they dwell at ease, 
 And no sad changes feel, 
 
 They neither fear thy holy name, 
 Nor learn to do thy will. 
 
 3 But, like an olive tree. 
 Within thy courts I'll stand, "' 
 And confidently, Lord, rely 
 On thy protecting hand. 
 
 4 With all my heavy cares, 
 I'll lean upon the Lord ; 
 
 I'll cast my burden on his arm, 
 And rest upon his word. 
 
 5 His arm shall well sustain 
 The children of his love ; 
 
 The ground, on which their safety stands, 
 No earthly pow'r can move. 
 
PSALMS. 63 
 
 SECOND METRE. T TTT BROOKFIELD. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. X^A14.. C minor. 
 
 The degeneracy of the world removed by the gosfiel. 
 
 1 Behold the fool ! whose heart denies 
 Tlie God who form'd the earth and skies ! 
 And, while the path of sin he treads, 
 How wide the dire example spreads ! 
 
 2 Th' eternal sov 'reign from on high 
 Cast on the sons of men his eye ; 
 To see if any understood, 
 And fear'd and lov'd their maker, God. 
 
 3 But all were so degenerate grown, 
 None the true God had fully known ! 
 Both Jew and Gentile long had been 
 By lust ensiav'd, and dead in sin. 
 
 4 Both, gone from wisdom's path astray, 
 Pursu'd the errours of their way, 
 With dismal superstition blind, 
 And causeless terrours fiU'd their mind. 
 
 5 Who, gracious God ! to sinners' eyes 
 Could bid the wish'd salvation rise ? 
 Thy Son did light and truth display, 
 And turn their darkness into day. 
 
54 PSALMS, 
 
 FIFTH METRE. T JV &EDEMPT10H. 
 
 SiKline stanzas. ■■-*''■ '' • C major. 
 
 Deliverance from enemies. 
 
 1 Thy name, O God ! my heart avows, 
 Do thou my injur'd cause espouse, 
 And be thy strength my aid ; 
 
 My fervent cries in mercy hear, 
 And let them, by thy pitying ear, 
 With full regard be weigh'd. 
 
 2 For people from thy fear estranged, 
 With tyrants fierce, against me rang'd, 
 My fainting soul pursue ; 
 
 But 'midst my helpers heav'n's high Lord 
 Shall stand, and, faithful to his word, 
 Each adverse pow'r subdue. 
 
 3 O ! let my heart, their rage repell'd. 
 Itself a willing ofF'ring yield ; 
 
 To thee its praise shall flow ; 
 While to my thoughts thy mercies rise. 
 That gave me with exulting eyes 
 To see my prostrate foe. 
 
PSALMS. 55 
 
 riRST METRE. TV BUCKINGHAM. 
 
 Fourrme sunzasi J-i V • A minor. . 
 
 Imfiatience corrected by fait Ju 
 
 1 O WERE I like a feather'd dove ! 
 If innocence had wings, 
 
 I'd fly, and make a long remove 
 From all these restless things, 
 
 2 Let me to some wild desert go, 
 And find a peaceful home , 
 Where storms of malice never blow, 
 Temptations never come. 
 
 3 Vain hopes, and vain inventions all, 
 T' escape the rage of hell 1 
 
 The mighty God, on whom I call, 
 Can save me here as well. 
 
 4 By morning light I'll seek his face, 
 At noon repeat my cry ; 
 
 The night shall hear me ask his grace. 
 Nor will he long deny. 
 
 5 God, my preserv^er and my friend, 
 Can shield me when afraid ; 
 
 Ten thousand angels must attend, 
 If he command their aid. 
 
56 PSALMS. 
 
 Divine assistance, 
 
 1 Xo God the only wise, 
 Our saviour and our king, 
 
 Let all. the saints with joyful hearts 
 Their humble praises bring. 
 
 2 'Tis his almighty love, 
 His counsel and his care, 
 Preserves us safe from sin and death, 
 And ev'ry sinful snare. 
 
 3 He will present our souls 
 Unblemish'd and complete, 
 Before the glory of his face, 
 With joys divinely great. 
 
 4 Then all his feiithful sons 
 Shall meet around the throne, 
 l^iall bless the conduct of his grace, 
 And make his wonders known. 
 
 B To God the only wise. 
 All majesty belongs : 
 And be his pow'r and grace adored 
 In everlasting songs. 
 
PSALMS. m 
 
 SECOND METRE. T VTT COLKBROOKK. 
 
 Foufline stanzas. i-j v aa. JBbujajpr. 
 
 Praise to God. 
 
 1 Be thou exalted, O our God \ 
 Above the heav'ns where angels dwell : 
 Thy pow'r on earth be known abroad, 
 And land to land thy wonders tell. 
 
 2 Our hearts are fix'd ; our songs shall raise 
 Immortal honours to thy name : 
 Awake, our tongues, to sound his praise, 
 Our tongues, the glory of our frame ! 
 
 3 In thee, our God ! are all the springs 
 Of boundless love, and grace unknown : 
 All the rich gifts that nature brings. 
 Are gifts descending from thy throne. 
 
 4 High o'er the earth thy mercy reigns. 
 And reaches to the utmost sky ; 
 Thy truth to endless years remains, 
 When lower worlds dissolve and die. 
 
 5 Be thou exalted, O our God ! 
 Above the heav'ns where angels dwell : 
 Thy pow'r on earth be known abroad, 
 And land to land thy wonders tell. 
 
58 PSALMS. 
 
 UCOKD METRE. T VTTT iJRLEANS. 
 
 Sixline stonxas. A-« V xxx. q major. 
 
 The destruction of ofifiressors. 
 
 1 Shall tyrants rule by impious laws ? 
 Shall they despise the righteous cause, 
 When innocence before them stands ? 
 Dare they condemn the helpless poor, 
 And let oppressors rest secure, 
 
 While gold and greatness bribe their hands ? 
 
 2 Do they forget th' almighty name ? 
 That God o'er all is judge supreme ? 
 High in the heav'ns bis justice reigns ; 
 Yet they invade the rights of God, 
 And send their bold decrees abroad. 
 To bind the free-born soul in chains. 
 
 3 A poison'd arrow is their tongue, 
 The arrow sharp, the poison strong, 
 And death attends where'er it wounds ; 
 They hear no counsels, cries, nor tears ; 
 So the deaf adder stops her ears 
 Against the melody of sounds. 
 
 4 Thus shall thy justice, mighty Lord ! 
 Freedom and peace to men afford ; 
 And nations shall unite and say. 
 
 Sure there's a God who 'rules on high, 
 Who hears th' oppressed when they cry, 
 And all tlieir suff 'rings will repay. 
 
PSALMS. 59 
 
 THIRD METBLE. T TV PELHAW. 
 
 Eightlinc stanza*. i-<lXV.. D mayor. 
 
 Deliverance from savages, 
 
 1 liORD ! let our humble cry- 
 Before thy throne ascend ; 
 Behold us with compassion's eye, 
 And still our lives defend. 
 
 For foes, a num'rous band, 
 Against our lives conspire ; 
 They aim destruction through the land, 
 And spread the raging fire. 
 
 2 Beneath the silent shade 
 Their secret plots they lay. 
 
 Our peaceful towns by night invade, 
 And waste the fields by day. 
 And will the God of grace, 
 Regardless of our pain, 
 Permit secure that bloody race 
 To riot o'er the slain ? 
 
 3 Deliver us fi-om death, 
 Send our invaders home ; 
 
 Or drive them with thy pow'rful breath 
 Through distant wilds to roam. 
 Then shall our grateful voice 
 Proclaim our guardian God ; 
 In thy salvation we'll rejoice, 
 And sound thy praise abroad > 
 f2" 
 
60 PSALMS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. T V TtmBMDGt. 
 
 Eightlkie stanzas. l-«-^. O, 
 
 Hu7niliation for disapfiointment in war. 
 
 LiORD ! hast thou cast the nation oiF? 
 
 Must we forever mourn ? 
 
 Wilt thou consume us in thy wrath ? 
 
 Shall mercy ne'er return ? 
 
 If thou thy guardian care withdraw, 
 
 Then these inveterate hosts. 
 
 Which spread defeat and cruel war, 
 
 Will desolate our coasts. 
 
 Our country shakes beneath thy stroke^ 
 And dreads thy lifted hand ; 
 O hear the people thou hast broke, 
 And save the sinking land ! 
 Lift up thy banner in the field, 
 For those who fear thy name ; 
 Defend thy people with thy shield, 
 And put our foes to shame. 
 
 Go with our armies to the fight, 
 
 And be their guardian God ; 
 
 In vain confed'rate pow'rs unite 
 
 Against thy lifted rod. 
 
 Our troops shall gain a wide renown 
 
 By thine assisting hand ; 
 
 For God shall tread the mighty down^ 
 
 And make the feeble stand. 
 
PSALMS. 61 
 
 THIRD MfiTRE. T XT WOTTOIJ. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. x-i^xj.. E minor. 
 
 Safety in God. 
 
 1 "\y HEN overwhelm'd with grief, 
 Our hearl: within Ub dies, 
 Helpless and far from all relief, 
 To heav'n we lift our eyes. 
 
 2 O lead us to the rock, 
 That's high above our head ; 
 And make the covert of thy wings 
 Our shelter and our shade. 
 
 3 Within thy presence, Lord, 
 Forever we'll abide ; 
 
 Thou art the tow'r of our defence, 
 The refuge where we hide. 
 
 4 Not all the hosts of death 
 Shall fill us with dismay, 
 
 If thou support our sinking faith, 
 And be our help and stay. 
 
 5 Ye terrours, then, begone ! 
 Our confidence is here : 
 
 The man who truly fears his God, 
 Should know no other fear. 
 
63 PSALMS, 
 
 SECOND METRE. T XTT SHAROS. 
 
 Fourline stanza*. 1-i.^Vii. D majoT. 
 
 ^'b trust but in God. 
 
 1 CSroD does his saving health dispense^ 
 And flowing blessings daily send : 
 He is our fortress and defence ; 
 
 On him our souls shall still depend. 
 
 2 In him, ye people, always trust ; 
 Before his throne pour out your hearts ; 
 For God, the merciful and just, 
 
 To all his timely aid imparts. 
 
 3 The vulgar fickle are and frail ; 
 The great dissemble and betray ; 
 And laid in truth's impartial scale, 
 The lightest things will both outweigh. 
 
 4 Then trust not in oppressive ways ; 
 By spoil and rapine grow not vain ; 
 Nor let your hearts, if wealth increase., 
 Be set too much upon your gain. 
 
 5 For God has oft his will expressed, 
 And we this truth have fully known ; 
 To be of boundless pow'r possess'd. 
 Belongs, of right, to God alone. 
 
THIRD METRE. 
 Fourline stanzas. 
 
 PSALMS. es 
 
 T VTTT JONLEY. 
 
 Morning of the Lord's day. 
 
 1 AViTHiN thy churches, Lord ! 
 I long to find a place ; 
 
 Thy pow'r and glory to behold, 
 And seek thy promis'd grace. 
 
 2 My God ! permit my tongue 
 This joy, to call thee mine : 
 
 And let mine earnest pray'r prevail 
 To taste thy love divine. 
 
 3 For life, without thy love, 
 No relish can afford ; 
 
 No joy can be compar'd with this, 
 To serve and please the Lord. 
 
 4 In wakeful hours of night, 
 I call my God to mind ; 
 
 I think how wise thy counsels are, 
 And all thy dealings kind. 
 
 5 Since thou hast been my help. 
 To thee my spirit flies ; 
 
 And on thy watchful providence 
 My cheerful hope relies. 
 
6* PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METR£. T VTV CLAPTQN. 
 
 Sixiine stanzas. x^J\.L v » Eboai^or. 
 
 In time of insurrection. 
 
 1 O Lord, to our request give ear, 
 And free our souls from hostile fear ; 
 For crafty men, of impious mind, 
 Their poM^'rs in secret league combin'd, 
 With factious rage their plots devise, 
 And vent their malice fraught with lies. 
 
 2 Behold the slaughter-breathing throng, 
 Whet like a sword tneir threat 'ning tongue, 
 And bend their bows to shoot their darts 
 Against the men of upright hearts ; 
 
 In works of mischief they agree. 
 And vainly think that none shall see. 
 
 3 But, wretches, whither will ye fly ? 
 Behold the arrow from on high 
 Descends, and bears upon its wing 
 The wrath of heav'n's offended king ! 
 Your slanders on yourselves shall fall, 
 Hated, despis'd, and shunn'd by all. 
 
 4 The world shall then God's pow'r confess. 
 His wisdom, love, and righteousness ; 
 And men shall see with reverend thought, 
 The wonders that his hand hath wrought ; 
 While all shall own his dealings just, 
 And in his name the righteous trust. 
 
p s A L M s. m 
 
 FIRST METRE. T YV 8TRATHAM.' 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas, x-jxk. v • D major. 
 
 Praise to the God of the seasons. 
 
 1 'Tis by thy strength the mountains stand, 
 God of eternal pow'r ! 
 
 The sea grows calm at thy command, 
 And tempests cease to roar. 
 
 2 Thy morning light and ev'ning shade 
 Successive comforts bring ; 
 
 Thy plenteous fruits make harvest glad, 
 Thy flow'rs adorn the spring. 
 
 3 Seasons, and times, and moons, and hours, 
 Heav'n, earth, and air are thine ; 
 
 When clouds distil in fruitful show'rs. 
 The author is divine. 
 
 4 Those floating cisterns in the sky, 
 Borne by the winds around, 
 With wat'ry treasures well supply 
 The furrows of the ground. 
 
 5 The thirsty ridges drink their fill, 
 And ranks of corn appear ; 
 
 Thy ways abound with blessings still y 
 Thy goodness crowns the year. 
 
66 PSALM S. 
 
 rmST METRE. T YVT africi. 
 
 Fourtoc stanzas. a-*-^*. v a, ^^^ m^. 
 
 The p(mer and goodness of Gc». 
 
 1 Come, see the wonders of our God ! 
 How glorious are his ways ! 
 
 In Moses' hand he puts his rod. 
 And cleaves the frighted seas. 
 
 2 He made the ebbing channel dry, 
 While Isr'el pass'd the flood ; 
 There did the church begin its joy, 
 And triumph in its God. 
 
 S O bless our God, and never cease, 
 Ye i^aints, iulfil his praise ; 
 He keeps our life, maintains our peace, 
 And guides our doubtful ways. 
 
 4 Lord ! thou hast prov'd our suffering souls, 
 To make our virtues shine ; 
 
 So silver bears thi^burning coals 
 The metal to refine. 
 
 5 Through wat'ry deeps and fiery ways 
 We march at thy command. 
 
 Led to possess the prom is 'd place 
 By thine unerring hand» 
 
PSALMS. 67 
 
 THIRD METRE. T VVTT RUTLAND, 
 
 Fourline stanzas, x^-^^ v ±x. D major. 
 
 Universal firaise. 
 
 1 liET diff 'ring nations join 
 To celebrate thy fame ; 
 
 Let all the world, O Lord ! combine 
 To praise thy glorious name. 
 
 2 To bless thy chosen race, 
 In mercy, Lord, incline ; 
 
 And cause the brightness of thy fac€ 
 On all thy saints to shine : 
 
 That so thy wond'rous way 
 May through the world be known ; 
 While distant lands their tribute pay, 
 And thy salvation own, 
 
 ^ O let them shout and sing, 
 Dissolv'd in pious mirth ; 
 For thou, the righteous judge and king, 
 Shalt govern all the eartli. 
 
 5 Let diff'ring nations join 
 To celebrate thy H^me ; 
 Let all the world, O Lord ! combine 
 To praise thy glorious name. 
 
68 PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. T YVTTT EPPING. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. a-jxv v axi. A major. 
 
 ! The comfiassion of God. 
 
 2 GroD of all grace, accept our praise \ 
 Thy pow'r sustains, thy goodness cheers ; 
 Mercy and truth are all thy ways, 
 
 And love in ev'ry scene appears. 
 
 2. Ready thy povvTful aid to lend 
 To all in need or in distress, 
 Thou art the mourning widow's friend, 
 The father of the fatherless. 
 
 3 Those who in foreign exile roam 
 Partake of thy protection too ; 
 
 And ransom'd captives hast'ning home, 
 The joys of freedom there renew. 
 
 ^ In each perplexity we meet, 
 
 O show the way we else should miss ; 
 And, guiding still our erring feet. 
 Conduct us to the realms of bliss. 
 
 5 Always thy favour let us share. 
 And thankfully its aid improve ; 
 Through life, dependants on thy care ; 
 In heav'n, the objects of thy love. 
 
PSALMS. 69 
 
 SECOND METRE; T VTV SEPULCHRR. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. ajxvxxx. D mmor. 
 
 The sufferings of Christ. 
 
 1 Deep in our hearts let us record 
 The sorrows of our dying Lord, 
 Behold the rising billows roll, 
 To overwhelm his holy soul. 
 
 2 The Jews, his brethren and his kin, 
 Abus'd the man who check'd their sin ; 
 While he obey'd God's holy laws, 
 They hate him, but! without a cause. 
 
 3 In long complaints he spends his breath, 
 While hosts of hell, and pow'rs of death. 
 And all the sons of malice join 
 
 To execute their vain design. 
 
 4 Yet, gracious God ! thy pow'r and love 
 Have made the curse a blessing prove ; 
 Though once upon the cross he bled, 
 Immortal honours crown his head. 
 
 5 Through Christ thy Son our guilt forgive, 
 And let the mourning sinner live ; 
 
 The Lord will hear us in his name, 
 Nor shall our hope be turn'd to shame. 
 
FS^A L M S. 
 
 FIRST METRE. T ^V HARVARD. 
 
 Feurline stanzas, i-jyv.^Y» q jnjnor, 
 
 Meditation on deatli, 
 
 1 My thoughts, that oft ascend the skies, 
 Come, search the dust beneath, 
 Where nature all in ruin lies, 
 
 And owns the pow'r of death. 
 
 2 See, how the tyrant triumphs here ! 
 His trophies scatter'd round ! 
 
 What heaps of mould'ring bones appear 
 Through all the hollow ground ! 
 
 3 Soon must we leave the banks of life, 
 And try death's doubtful sea ; 
 
 Vain are our groans, and vain the strife 
 To gain a moment's stay. 
 
 4 Soon shall some friend let fall the tear 
 O'er our cold limbs, and say — 
 
 *' Once they were strong as mine appear, 
 And mine must be as they." 
 
 5 Thus shall our lifeless members teach 
 What now our senses learn ; 
 
 For dust and ashes loudly preach 
 Man's first and great concern. 
 
PSALMS; ? i 
 
 FIRST METRE. T XXT ELENBOROU GH, 
 
 Fonrline stanzas. i-<-^\..^vx» F ininoc 
 
 Reflections on the advancing years of life. 
 
 1 My God, my everlasting hope ! 
 I live upon thy truth : 
 
 Thy hands have held my childhood up^ 
 And strengthen'd all my youth. 
 
 2 My frame was fashion 'd by thy pow'r^ 
 And shows thy skill divine ; 
 
 And from my mother's painful hour 
 I've been entirely thine. 
 
 3 Still has my life new wonders seen, 
 In each revolving year : 
 
 Behold my days that yet remain, — 
 I trust them to thy care. 
 
 4 Cast me not oiF when strength declines. 
 When hoary hairs arise ; 
 
 And round me let thy glory shine^ 
 Whene'er thy servant dies."^ 
 
 B Then in the hist'ry of my age, 
 When men review my days, 
 They'll read thy love in ev'ry page^ 
 In ev'ry line thy praise. 
 
 g2 
 
72 PSALM S, 
 
 SECOND METRE. T WTT BETHEL 
 
 Eightline stanzas. a-j-^^V11, G major. 
 
 The kingdo7n of Christ. 
 
 CxREAT God ! whose universal sway 
 The known and unknown worlds obey: 
 Extend the kingdom of thy son, 
 Till ev'ry land his rule shall own. 
 The sceptre well becomes his hands, 
 And wise and good are his commands ^ 
 His laws protect the humble poor, 
 And bid oppression rage no more. 
 
 They form to righteousness the mind, 
 To all that's candid, gentle, kind ; 
 Inspire with love the human breast, 
 And stormy passions soothe to rest. 
 As gentle rain on parching ground. 
 His gospel sheds its influence round ^ 
 Its grace on fainting souls distils. 
 Like heav'nly dew on thirsty hills. 
 
 The heathen lands that lie beneath 
 The shades of darkness and of death., 
 Kevive at its first dawning light, 
 And deserts blossom at the sight. 
 His throne immoveable shall stand, „.^ 
 Upheld by thine almighty hand ; 
 Till all shall love thee and adore, 
 . And vice and mis'ry be no more. 
 
PSALMS. 73^ * 
 
 THIRD METRE. TVVTTT DOVER 
 
 Fouiline stanzas. i-j^v^viii. • Fmajor. 
 
 The mystery of firovidence unfolded. 
 
 1 There is a righteous God, 
 Nor is religion vain ; 
 
 Though men of vice may boast aloud,. 
 And virtuous men complain. 
 
 2 I saw the wicked rise, 
 And felt my heart repine, 
 
 While haughty fools, with scornful eyes^ 
 In robes of honour shine. 
 
 3 The tumult of my thoughts 
 Held me in deep suspense, 
 
 Till to thy house my feet vrere brought 
 To learn thy justice thence. 
 
 4 Thy word with light and pow'r 
 Did my mistakes amend ; 
 
 I view'd the sinners' life before. 
 But here I learnt their end. 
 
 5 Lord ! at thy feet I bow ; 
 My thoughts no mOre repine ; 
 
 I call my God my portion now, 
 And all my powers are thine. 
 
76 PSALM S. 
 
 EIGHTH METRE. T VYVT DAVENPORT; 
 
 Fourline stanzas. j-i^v^v \ x, Gn»;yor, 
 
 God unchangeably good. 
 
 1 This God is the God we adore, 
 The faithful, unchangeable friend, 
 Whose love is as great as his pow'r, 
 And knows neither measure nor end. 
 
 2 'Tis he is the first and the last, 
 Whose hand shall conduct us safe home 
 We'll praise him for all that is past, 
 And trust him for all that's to come. 
 
 FIRST METRE. DEVIZESr 
 
 Fourline staazas. A major. 
 
 1 ^^iTH God my friend, the radiant sun 
 Sheds a more lively ray : 
 
 Each object smiles, all nature charms ; 
 I sing my cares away. 
 
 2 I cannot doubt his bounteous love, 
 Unmeasurably kind ; 
 
 To his unerring, gracious will 
 Be ev'ry wish resign'd. 
 
 3 Good, when he gives, supremely good ; 
 Nor less when he denies : 
 Afflictions from his gracious han(J> 
 Are blessings in disguise. 
 
PSALMS. Ti 
 
 FmST METRE. T VWTT CANNONS. 
 
 EJghtlinc stanzas. l-i-rv,-rv. V XI. D major. 
 
 Trust in God under the trials of virtue, 
 
 1 Oh ! how my fears the dangers move 
 That virtue's paths enclose ! 
 
 While I the wise pursuit approve, 
 
 Alas, what toils oppose ! * 
 
 For see ! ah, see ! while yet her wayc 
 
 With doubtful step I tread, 
 
 A hostile world its terrours raise, 
 
 Its snares delusive spread. 
 
 2 Oh ! how shall I, with heart prepar'd, 
 Those terrours learn to meet ; 
 
 How from the thousand snares to guard, 
 
 And to restrain my feet ? 
 
 But why art thou cast down, my soul ? 
 
 Say why, distrustful still, 
 
 Thy thoughts with vain impatience roll 
 
 O'er scenes of future ill ? 
 
 3 Let faith suppress each rising fear, ' . 
 Each anxious doubt exclude ; 
 
 Thy maker's will hath plac'd thee here, 
 
 Thy maker wise and good ! 
 
 He to thy ev'ry trial knows 
 
 Its just restraints to give, 
 
 Attentive to behold thy wos, 
 
 And faithful to relieve. 
 
78 PSALM S. 
 
 FIRST METRE. T VVVTTT ST. MART1K5. 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. i^x^.^\. v xxx, A major. 
 
 Religious education of children. 
 
 1 Hear, O my people ; to my law 
 Devout attention lend ; 
 
 Let the instruction of my mouth 
 Deep in your hearts descend. 
 
 2 My tongue, by inspiration taught, 
 Shall parables uilfold, 
 
 Dark oracles, but understood, 
 And own'd for truths of old ; 
 
 5 Which we from sacred registers 
 Of ancient times have known, 
 And our forefathers' pious care 
 To us has handed down. 
 
 4 We will not hide them from our sons ; 
 Our QfFspring shall be taught 
 
 The praises of the Lord, whose strength 
 Has works of wonder wrought. 
 
 5 And generations yet to come 
 Shall to their unborn heirs 
 Religiously transmit the same, 
 And th ey again to theirs. 
 
PSALMS. 79 
 
 SECOKD METRE. T VVTV OLD SOUTHi 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. 4-*.^v.^v.ax\.» ^ minor. 
 
 SujipUcation in iifne of war, 
 
 1 Though terrours guard thine awful seat 
 And dazzling glories veil thy face ; 
 
 Yet mercy calls us to thy feet ; 
 
 Thy throne, O God ! 's a throne of grace. 
 
 2 Let past experience of thy care 
 Support our hope, our trust invite : 
 Again attend our humble pray'r, 
 Again be mercy thy delight ! 
 
 3 Our arms succeed, our councils guide, 
 Let thy right hand our cause maintain ; 
 Till wars destructive rage subside, 
 And peace resume her gentle reign. 
 
 4 O when shall time the period bring, 
 When raging war shall waste no more ; 
 When peace shall stretch her balmy wing 
 O'er ev'ry land, round ev'ry shore ? 
 
 !) When shall the gospel's healing ray, 
 Kind source of amity divine. 
 Light in our w^orld celestial day ? -^^ 
 
 When shall the nations, Lord, be thine ? 
 
80 PSALMS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. T WV HITCHIN 
 
 l?builine stanzas. A-«-<rv-o..^v. £ major. 
 
 The return of liberty and peace. 
 
 1 Deserted now the verdant fields, 
 No lowing herds appear : 
 
 No golden grain the harvest yields, 
 No fruit the gardens bear. 
 
 2 Our harps upon the willows hung, 
 We sat in silent grief : 
 
 The voice of joy forsook our tongue, 
 And tears were our relief. 
 
 3 Jehovah saw our sad distress, 
 He pity'd and arose : 
 
 Swift to his sons he brings redress, 
 And scatters all our foes. 
 
 4 Hail, liberty ! hail, balmy peace ! 
 Our wonted joys restore : 
 
 At thy return our sorrows cease. 
 Our country mourns no more. 
 
 5 See the blest change ! the verdant fields 
 New cloth'd with herds appear ; 
 
 The golden grain the harvest yields ; 
 Rich fruit the gardens bear. 
 
PSALMS. 81 
 
 THIRD METRE. T VVXI AVIGNON. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. l^J^AAl. E major. 
 
 Spiritual blessings and punishments. 
 
 1 Sing to the Lord, aloud, 
 And make a joyful noise 
 
 God is our strength, our saviour GoD^ 
 Let Isr'el hear his voice. 
 
 2 From vile idolatry 
 Preserve my worship clean ; 
 
 I am the Lord who set thee free 
 From slavery and sin. 
 
 ^3 Stretch thy desires abroad, 
 And I'll supply them well ; 
 But if ye will refuse your God, 
 If Isr'el will rebel ; 
 
 4 I'll leave them, saith the Lord, 
 To their own lusts a prey ; 
 
 And let them run the dangerous road, 
 'Tis their own chosen way. 
 
 5 Yet, O that all my saints 
 Would hearken to my voice ; 
 
 Soon would I ease their sore complaints, #^ 
 And make their hearts rejoice. 
 
82 PSALM & 
 
 THIRD METRE. IV'WTT ALLISON. 
 
 f ourline stanaas. A-«-^v.^vyvxi. A minor. 
 
 Warning to magistrates. 
 
 1 GroD in th' assembly stands, 
 And with impartial eye, 
 
 Beholds how rulers use their pow-r, 
 
 And does their actions try. 
 
 * 
 
 2 When equity prevails, 
 
 The judge their virtue loves ; 
 But when iniquity abounds, 
 Their deeds he disapproves, 
 
 3 The voice of conscience speaks 
 In silence to the mind ; 
 
 How long will ye unjustly judge ? 
 And be to sinners kind ? 
 
 4 Protect the helpless poor ; 
 The fatherless defend ; 
 
 Dare not the widow to oppress, 
 And be the sufferer's friend. 
 
 5 Remember, though you're high ; 
 Your title gods on earth ; 
 
 Your heads must in the grave be laid 
 With men of humbler birth. 
 
PSALMS. 83 
 
 SECOND METRE. T YYITTTT 8ARNARO. 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. lwi-^.^-^xxJ>. G minor. 
 
 Comtilaint against persecutors. 
 
 1 Absurd and vain attempt ! to bind 
 With iron chains the freebom mind ; 
 To force conviction, and reclaim 
 The vvand'ring by destructive flame. 
 
 2 Bold arrogance ! to snatch from heav'n 
 Dominion not to mortals giv'n : 
 
 O'er conscience to usurp the throne, 
 Accountable to God alone. 
 
 3 Mad zeal ! that fills the world with wo 
 That hurls down kingdoms at a blow ! 
 That wakens vengeance to devour 
 The foes of antichristian power. 
 
 4 Jesus, thy gentle law of love 
 Doth no such cruelties approve ; 
 Mild as thyself, thy doctrine wields 
 No arms, bat what persuasion yields, 
 
 5 By proofs divine and reason strong, 
 It draws the willing soul along ; 
 And conquests to thy church acquires 
 By eloquence which heav'n inspires. 
 
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84 PSALM S, 
 
 FOURTH METRE, T VWT'VT' BETHESDA. 
 
 fightline stanzas. J-*-^.*^.^! V • G m^r. 
 
 Delight in fiublick nvorahip, 
 
 1 XiORD of the worlds above, 
 How pleasant and how fair 
 The dwellings of thy love, 
 Thine earthly temples are \ 
 
 To thine abode 
 My heart aspires 
 With warm desires 
 To see my God. 
 
 2 O happy souls that pray, 
 Where God appoints to hear ! 
 O happy men that pay 
 Their constant service there ! 
 
 They praise thee still ; 
 And happy they 
 Who love the way 
 To Sion's hill. 
 
 3 They go from strength to strength 
 Through this dark vale of tears, 
 Till each arrives at length, 
 
 Till each in heav'n appears : 
 O glorious seat, 
 When God our king 
 Shall thither bring 
 Our willing feet I 
 
PSALMS. 85 
 
 SECOND METRE. T WW ARNHEIM, 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. i^.^\..r^.^\, \ • C major. 
 
 The firomised Messiah. 
 
 1 "W^ELCOME the hope of Isr'el's race^ 
 The messenger of truth and grace ! 
 Your hearts in righteousness prepare ; 
 Behold your wish'd redemption near I 
 
 2 See glory, bursting from the skies, 
 O'er Judah's land effulgent rise ; 
 And fix amidst her coasts its seat, 
 Where justice, truth, and mercy meet : 
 
 3 While faith and hope, their offspring dear, 
 Attendant on their steps appear : 
 
 And join'd in friendly compact move, 
 Bless'd with philanthropy and love. 
 
 4 Truth in thy lands, O earth ! shall spring, 
 And righteousness her healing wing 
 Expanding, downward cast her eye ; 
 While heav'n's great monarch, from on high^ 
 
 5 The heathen gloom shall chase away. 
 And bring again a glorious day ; 
 And, from his own propitious will, 
 The promis'd grace to man fulfil. 
 
86 PSALM S. 
 
 SECOND METRE. T YVVVT ^^^ HUNDRED; 
 
 Fourline itanzas. X-i.^v.^x.xvvx. ^ major. 
 
 The only living and true God. 
 
 1 Eternal God ! almighty cause 
 Of earth, and sea, and worlds unknown f 
 All things are subject to thy laws ; 
 All things depend on thee alone. 
 
 ^ Thy glorious being singly stands, 
 Of all within itself possess'd ; 
 Controll'd by none are thy commands ; 
 Thou from thyself alone art blest. 
 
 3 To thee alone ourselves we owe, 
 To thee alone our homage pay ; 
 All other gods wc disavow, 
 
 Deny their claims, renounce their sway^ 
 
 4 In thee, O Lord ! our hope shall rest, 
 Fountain of peace, and joy, and love ! 
 Thy favour only makes us blest ; 
 Without thee, all would nothing prove. 
 
 5 Worship to thee alone belongs \ 
 Worship to thee alone we give ! 
 Thine be our hearts and thine our songs^ 
 And to thy glory \\ e would live ! 
 
PSALMS. 87 
 
 SECOND METRE. T WWTT PORTUGAL. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. I^jr^.^^.£\. V Ax. g major. 
 
 T/ie church the birth-place of saints. 
 
 1 And will the great eternal God 
 On earth establish his abode ? 
 And will he from his radiant throne 
 Regard our temples as his own ? 
 
 2 We bring the tribute of our praise, 
 And sing that condescending grace, 
 Which to our notes will lend an ear, 
 And call us sinful mortals near. 
 
 3 Thy watchful care, O God ! we bless, 
 Which guards our house of prayer in peacCj 
 That no tumultuous foes invade, 
 
 To fill the worshippers with dread. 
 
 4 These walls we to thine honour raise, 
 Long may they echo to thy praise ; 
 And thou, descending, fill the place 
 With choicest tokens of thy grace. 
 
 5 And in the great decisive day, 
 When thou the nations shalt survey. 
 May it before the world appear, 
 That crowds were born to glory hece I 
 
88 PSALMS. 
 
 'S^.S^ LXXXVIII. <«^S5'- 
 
 On the death of friends, 
 
 1 O God of my salvation, hear ! 
 My nightly groans, my daily pray'r, 
 That still employ my wasting breath ; 
 My soul, declining to the grave, 
 Implores thy sov 'reign pow'r to save 
 From dark despair and gloomy death. 
 
 2 As lost in lonely grief I tread 
 The silent mansions of the dead, 
 Or to some throng'd assembly go \ 
 Through all alike I rove alone. 
 Forgotten here, and there unknown, 
 The change renews my piercing wo. 
 
 3 Wilt thou neglect my mournful call ? 
 Or who shall profit by my fall, 
 When life departs and love expires ? 
 Can dust and darkness praise the Lori) 
 Or wake and brighten at his word, 
 
 To join the high angelic choirs ? 
 
 4 My friends are gone, my comforts fled, 
 The sad remembrance of the dead 
 Recalls my wand'ring thoughts to mourn ; 
 But through each melancholy day, 
 
 I call on thee, and still will pray, 
 Imploring still thy kind return^ 
 
PSALMS. S9 
 
 FIRST METRE. T VVVTV MORNINGTON; 
 
 Fourliae stanzas. x^J\.^^^\.±x^m G major.^ 
 
 Blessings of the gospel. 
 
 1 Sing to the Lord, ye distant lands ! 
 Ye tribes of ev'ry tongue ! 
 
 His ne w-discover'd grace demands 
 A^new and nobler song. 
 
 2 Say to the nations, Jesus came 
 A guilty world to save ; 
 
 From vice and errour to reclaim, 
 And rescue from the grave. 
 
 3 Let heav'n proclaim the joyful day ; 
 Joy through the earth be seen ; 
 Let cities shine in bright array, 
 And fields in cheerful green. 
 
 4 Let gladness' welcome voice surprise 
 The islands of the sea. 
 
 Ye mountains ! sink ; ye vallies ! rise ; 
 Prepare the Saviour's way. 
 
 5 Blest are the souls that hear and know 
 The gospel's joyful sound ; 
 
 Peace shall attend the path they go, 
 And light their steps surround. 
 
90 PSALMS. 
 
 THIRD METRE. Vp MARLBOROUGH. 
 
 •Fourline stanzas. ^^w^» ^ minor. 
 
 The due employment of time. 
 
 1 The swift declining day, 
 How fast its moments fly ! 
 
 While ev'ning's broad and gloomy shade 
 Spreads o'er the western sky. 
 
 2 Ye mortals ! mark its pace ; 
 Employ the hours of light, 
 
 And know your maker can command 
 An instantaneous night. 
 
 3 His word blots out the sun 
 In its meridian blaze, 
 
 And cuts from smiling, vig'rous youth 
 The remnant of its days. 
 
 4 On the dark mountain's brow 
 Your feet shall quickly slide ; 
 And from its airy summit dash 
 Your momentary pride. 
 
 5 Give glory to the Lord, 
 Who rules the rolling sphere ; 
 Submissive at his footstool bow, 
 And seek salvation here. 
 
PSALMS. 91 
 
 FIRST METRE. VPT WAKDS WORTH. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. .^vv^a. D m^or. 
 
 Divine protection^ resignation^ and gratitude. 
 
 1 rV HEN I survey life's varied scene, 
 Amidst the darkest hours ; 
 
 Bright rays of comfort shine between 
 And thorns are mix'd with flow'rs. 
 
 2 This thought can all my fears control, 
 And bid my sorrows fly ; 
 
 No harm can ever reach my soul, 
 Beneath my father's eye. 
 
 3 Whate'er thy sacred will ordains, 
 O give me strength to bear ; 
 
 And let me know my father reigns. 
 And trust his tender care. 
 
 4 If pain and sickness rend this frame, 
 And life almost depart ; 
 
 Is not thy mercy still the same 
 To cheer my drooping heart ? 
 
 5 Is blooming health my happy share ? 
 O may I bless my God ; 
 
 Thy goodness let my song declare, 
 And spread thy praise abroad. 
 
92 PSALMS. 
 
 ^COND METRE. XCTT MOLESWORTU 
 
 Fourline stanzas. -^v-11. j. ^^j^y^ 
 
 For the Lord*$ day. 
 
 1 Good is the work, my God, my king ! 
 To praise thy name, give thanks, and sing ; 
 To show thy love by morning light, 
 And talk of all thy truth at night. 
 
 2 Welcome, thou day of sacred rest ! 
 No mortal care shall seize my breast : 
 My heart shall triumph in the Lord, 
 And bless his works and bless his word. 
 
 3 And I shall share a glorious part. 
 
 When grace hath well refin'd my heart ; 
 When doubts and fears no more remain, 
 To break my inward peace again. 
 
 4 Then I shall see, and hear, and know. 
 All I desir'd or wish'd below. 
 And ev'ry pow'r find sweet employ 
 In the eternal world of joy. 
 
PSALMS. 93 
 
 SIXTH METRE. XPTTT r^SV 
 
 Sixline stanzas. A.^lll. F ipajor. 
 
 The eternal and sovereign God. 
 
 1 The Lord Jehovah reigns, 
 And royal truth maintains, 
 
 His head with awful glories crown'd ; 
 Array 'd in robes of light, 
 Begirt with sov 'reign might, 
 And rays of majesty around. 
 
 2 Upheld by thy commands 
 The world securely stands, 
 
 And skies and stars obey thy word ; 
 Thy throne was fix'd on high 
 Ere stars adorn 'd the sky ; 
 Eternal is thy kingdom, Lord. 
 
 3 In vain the noisy crowd. 
 Like billows fierce and loud. 
 Against thine empire rage and roar ; 
 In vain with angry spite 
 
 The surly nations fight, 
 
 And dash like waves against the shore. 
 
 4 Thy promises are true. 
 Thy grace is ever new, 
 
 There fix'd thy church shall ne'er remove ; 
 Thy saints with holy fear 
 Shall in thy courts appear, 
 And sing thine everlasting love. 
 
94 PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. VPTV NEWCOURT. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. ^xv^x v • F major. 
 
 All things work together for good to the righteous. 
 
 Not from relentless fate's dark womb, 
 Or from the dust, our troubles come ; 
 No fickle chance presides o'er grief 
 To cause the pain, or send relief. 
 
 2 Look up, and see, ye sorrowing saints I 
 The cause and cure of your complaints ; 
 Know, 'tis your heav'nly father's will ; 
 Bid ev'ry murmur then be still. 
 
 3 He sees we need the painful yoke ; 
 Yet love directs his heaviest stroke ; 
 He takes no pleasure in our smart, 
 But wounds to heal and cheer the heart* 
 
 4 Blest trials those that cleanse from sin. 
 And make the soul all pure within, 
 Wean the fond mind from earthly toys^ 
 To seek and taste celestial joys \ 
 
PSALMS. 95 
 
 FIRST METRE. XCV MEAR. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. -^^ ^ • G major. 
 
 Solemn praise, 
 
 1 Sing to the Lord Jehovah's name, 
 And in his strength rejoice : 
 
 When his salvation is our theme, 
 Exalted be our voice. 
 
 2 With thanks approach his awful sight, 
 And songs of honour sing : 
 
 The Lord's a God of boundless might, 
 The whole creation's king. 
 
 3 Let princes hear, let angels know, 
 How mean their natures seem, 
 Those gods on high, and gods below, 
 When once compar'd with him. 
 
 4 Earth, with its caverns dark and deep, 
 Lies in his spacious hand ; 
 
 He fix'd the sea what bounds to keep, 
 And where the hills must stand. 
 
 5 Come, and with humble souls adore ; 
 Come, kneel before his face : 
 
 O may the creatures of his pow'r 
 Be children of his grace ! 
 
 i2 
 
96 PSALMS. 
 
 EIGHTH METRE. 'VTVT UXBRIDGE, 
 
 Eightline stanzas. .^V^ V 1. F major. 
 
 Praise to the sujireme ruler and judge. 
 
 1 O Sing to the Lord a new song, 
 Let th' universe join in the strain, 
 Each day the glad tribute prolong, 
 His wonders, his glory maintain. 
 Let gratitude bless the kind pow'r 
 From whom our salvation descends : 
 How great is the God we adore ! 
 How rich are the blessings he sends ! 
 
 2 In the beauty of lK)liness bow ; 
 
 O worship with fear and with love ! 
 How solemn his temples below ! 
 How glorious his presence above ! 
 Proclaim to the nations around, 
 That our God th' omnipotent reigns, 
 "Whose righteousness space cannot bound, 
 Wiiose purpose unalter'd remains. 
 
 3 O let the wide heav'ns rejoice, 
 The earth with her myriads be glad, 
 Old ocean shall join his loud voice. 
 And the woods in rich verdure be clad i 
 Rejoice ! for the Lord is at hand ; 
 Prepare, for his judgment is nigh ; . 
 Before him all nations shall stand ; 
 
 No guilt from his justice can fly. 
 
PSALMS. 95^ 
 
 SECOND METRE. VPVTT WELL?. 
 
 Fourline staneas. -^^ ^ **• F major, 
 
 God the supreme judge. 
 
 1 He reigns ; the Lord Jehovah reigns \ 
 Praise him in everlasting strains ; 
 Let the whole earth in songs rejoice^ 
 
 ' And distant islands join their voice. 
 
 2 Deep are his counsels and unknov^^n ; 
 But grace and truth support his throne ; 
 Though gloomy clouds his ways surround? 
 Justice is their eternal ground. 
 
 3 In robes of judgment, lo ! he comes, 
 
 Shakes the wide earth, and cleaves the tombs ; 
 Before him burns devouring fire, 
 The mountains melt, the seas retire. 
 
 4 His enemies with sore dismay 
 
 Fly from the sight, and shun the day : 
 Then lift your heads, ye saints on high, 
 And sing; for your redemption's nigh I 
 
98 PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. VPVTTT DUNSTAN 
 
 Fourline stanzas. -^vv^ V XX1» q major. 
 
 The divine nature, providence) and grace. 
 
 1 Praise ye the Lord ! tis good to raise 
 Our hearts and voices in his praise : 
 His nature and his works invite 
 To make this duty our delight. 
 
 2 Great is the Lord, and great his might, 
 And all his glories infinite : 
 His wisdom's vast, and knows no bound, 
 A deep where all our thoughts are drown'd. 
 
 He loves the meek, rewards the just, 
 Humbles the wicked in the dust. 
 Melts and subdues the stubborn soul, 
 And makes tlie broken spirit whole. 
 
 4 His saints are precious in his sight ; 
 He views his children with delight ; 
 He sees their hope, he knows tlieir fear, 
 Approves and loves his image there. 
 
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PSALMS. 99 
 
 THIRD METRE. VPTV SUTTOl 
 
 Fourliae stanzas. .t\.^l-<A.. F major. 
 
 A holy God nvorshifified with reverence. 
 
 1 The God, Jehovah, reigns, 
 Let all the nations fear ; 
 
 Let sinners tremble at his throne, 
 And saints be humble there. 
 
 2 Exalt the Lord our God ! 
 And worship at his feet ; 
 His nature is all holiness, 
 And mercy is his seat* 
 
 3 When Isr'el was his church, 
 When Aaron was his priest, 
 
 When Moses cried, when Samuel pray'd^ 
 He gave his people rest. 
 
 4 Oft he forgave their sins. 
 Nor would destroy their race ; 
 
 And oft he made his vengeance known. 
 When they abused his grace. 
 
 5 Exalt the Lord our God ! 
 Whose grace is still the same ; 
 Still he's a God of holiness, 
 And jealous of his name. 
 
100 
 
 PSALMS. 
 
 
 SECOND METRE. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. 
 
 C. 
 
 A psalm of praise . 
 
 CASTLE-STREET. 
 G major. 
 
 1 Before Jehovah's awful throne, 
 Ye nations bow with sacred joy : 
 Know that the Lord is God alone ; 
 He can create and he destroy. 
 
 2 His pow'rful word, which all things made, 
 Gave life to clay, and form'd us men ; 
 And when like wand'ring sheep we stray 'd 
 He brought us to his fold again. 
 
 3 We are the people of his care. 
 
 Our souls with all our mortal frame : 
 What lasting honours shall we rear, 
 Almighty maker ! to thy name ? 
 
 4 We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs ; 
 High as the heav'ns our voices raise ; 
 
 And earth, with her ten thousand tongues, 
 Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise. 
 
 5 Wide as the world is thy command ; 
 Vast as eternity thy love ; 
 
 Firm as a rock thy truth must stand. 
 When rolling years shall cease to move. 
 
PSALMS. 101 
 
 SECOND METRE. pT B LIN DON; 
 
 Fourljae stanzas. v^l« D major. 
 
 The magistrate's psalm. 
 
 1 Mercy and judgment are my song ; 
 And since they both to thee belong, 
 My gracious God ! my righteous king, 
 To thee my songs and vows I bring. 
 
 2 If I am rais'd to bear the sword, 
 I'll take my counsel from thy word ; 
 Thy justice and thy heav'niy grace 
 Shall be the pattern of my ways. 
 
 3 Let wisdom all mine actions guide, 
 And with me honesty reside ; 
 
 No sons of slander, rage, and strife 
 Shall be companions of my life. 
 
 4 In vain shall sinner.':> hope to rise 
 By flatt'ring or malicious lies : 
 
 I'll, search the land, and raise the just 
 To posts of honour, wealth, and trust. 
 
 5 But while the innocent I guard, 
 No bold offender shall be spar'd ; 
 And all who break the publick rest, 
 Where I have pow'r, shall be supprest. 
 
l(M PSALMS. 
 
 TWELFTH METRE. pTT BOWDOIK. 
 
 Sialine Stanzas. v^J-i. Dpaajor. 
 
 God the eternal sovereign. 
 
 1 This earthly globe, the creature of a day, 
 Tho' built by God's right hand must pass 
 
 away ; 
 And long oblivion creep o'er mortal things, 
 The fate of empires, and the pride of kings : 
 Eternal night shall veil their proudest story, 
 And drop the curtain o'er all human glory. 
 
 2 The sun himself, with gath'ring clouds opprest. 
 Shall in his silent, dark pavilion rest ; 
 
 His golden urn shall break, and useless lie, 
 Amidst the common ruins of the sky ; 
 The stars rush headlong in the wild commotion, 
 And bathe their glitt 'ring foreheads in the ocean. 
 
 3 Butfix'd, O God ! forever stands thy throne : 
 Jehovah reigns, a universe alone : 
 
 Th' eternal fire that feeds each vital flame. 
 Collected, or diffus'd, is still the same : 
 He dwells within his own unfathom'd essence, 
 And fills all space with his unbounded presence. 
 
 4 But oh ! our highest notes the theme debase, 
 And silence is our least injurious praise : 
 Cease, cease your songs, the daring flight 
 
 control ; 
 Revere him in the stillness of the soul : 
 With silent duty meekly bend before him. 
 And deep within your inmost hearts adore him. 
 
PSALMS. 103 
 
 THIRD METRE. PTTT LOUDON.' 
 
 Fourline stanzas. v^XAJ.. C major. 
 
 Mercy in the midst of judgment, 
 
 1 Our souls, repeat his praise, 
 Whose mercies are so great ; 
 Whose anger is so slow to rise, 
 So ready to abate. 
 
 2 High as the heav'ns are rais'd 
 Above the ground we tread, 
 So far the riches of his grace 
 Our highest thoughts exceed. 
 
 3 His word subdues our sins ; 
 And his forgiving love, 
 
 Far as the east is from the . west, 
 Will all our guilt remove. 
 
 4 The pity of the Lord, 
 
 To those who fear his name. 
 Is such as tender parents feel : 
 He knows our feeble frame. 
 
 3 He knows we are but dust, 
 Scatter'd with ev'ry breath ; 
 His anger like a rising wind, 
 Can send us swift to death. 
 
104 PSALMS. 
 
 NINTH METRE, PTV ST. MICHAELS, 
 
 Eightlinc stanzas. V^l V . Bb Major. 
 
 Praise to God, 
 
 1 JLJLESS God, O my soul ! 
 Rejoice in his name ; 
 And let my glad voice 
 Thy greatness proclaim : 
 Surpassing in honour, 
 Dominion, and might, 
 Thy throne is the heav'n, 
 Thy robe is the light. 
 
 2 The sky we behold, 
 A curtain displayed, 
 The chambers of heav*n 
 
 On waters are laid : ; ' ' 
 
 The clouds are a chariot 
 
 Thy glory to bear, 
 
 On winds thou art wafted, 
 
 Thou ridest on air. 
 
 3 As rapid as fire - ' 
 Thine angels on high ' ' '^S. 
 Convey thy commands, 
 
 Thy ministers fly. 
 
 The earth, on its basis 
 
 Eternal sustain'd, 
 
 Is fix'd in the station ^. 
 
 Thy wisdom ordain'd. 
 
 A> The world, when at first 
 
 Of chaos compos'd, ;i ' 
 
 Was void, without form, 
 
 In waters enclosed ; 
 
 Thy voice, how majestick. 
 
 In thunder was heard! 
 
 The waters subsided. 
 
 The mountains appear'd. 
 
PSALMS. 105 
 
 FIRST METRE. PV MOULINES. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. v^ v . G major. 
 
 The fiilgrimage of life> 
 
 1 Our country is Immanuel's ground ; 
 We seek that promis'd soil : 
 
 The songs of Sion cheer our hearts, 
 
 While strangers here we toil. 
 
 Oft do our eyes with joy o'erflow, 
 
 And oft are bath'd in tears ; 
 
 Yet nought but heav'n our hopes can raise ; 
 
 And nought but sin our fears. 
 
 2 The flow'rs that spring along the road, 
 We scarcely stoop to pluck ; 
 
 We walk o'er beds of shining ore. 
 
 Nor waste one wishful look. 
 
 We tread the path our master trode : 
 
 We bear the cross he bore ; 
 
 And ev'ry thorn that wounds our feet, 
 
 His temples pierc'd before. 
 
 3 Our pow'rs are oft dissolv'd a^vay 
 In ecstacies of love ; 
 
 And while our bodies wander here, 
 
 Our souls are fix'd above. 
 
 We purge our mortal dross away, 
 
 Refining as we run ; 
 
 But while we die to earth and sense. 
 
 Our heav'n is here begun. 
 
106 PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. PVT CALL GOT. 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. V^ V J.. F major. * 
 
 Praise due from the righteous. 
 
 1 O RENDER thanks to God above, 
 The fountain of eternal love ! 
 WiiOse mercy firm through ages past 
 Hath stood, and shall forever last. 
 
 2 Who can recount his wond'rous deeds ? 
 His greatness all our praise exceeds : 
 What mortal eloquence can raise 
 
 A tribute equal to his praise ? 
 
 3 Happy, almighty God ! are thej> 
 Wlio from thy precepts never stray ; 
 Who know what's right, nor only so, 
 But always practise what they know. 
 
 4 Be this my happiness, to see 
 Thy saints in full prosperity ! 
 That I the joyful choir may join, 
 And deem thy people's triumph mine. 
 
 5 Extend to me that favour. Lord, 
 Thou to thy children dost afford : 
 
 When from the grave thou sett'st them free^ 
 May thy salvation visit me ! 
 
PSALMS. 107 
 
 FIRST METRE. PVTT READING. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. v^ v ai. C major. 
 
 Protection and firaise. 
 
 X Let songs of praise from all below 
 To thee, O God ! ascend, 
 Whose bounties unexhausted flow, 
 Whose mercies know no end. 
 But chief by them that debt be paid, 
 Midst dangers circling round, 
 Who still in thine almighty aid 
 Have some protection found. 
 
 2 The wand'ring exile doom'd to stray 
 O'er many a desert wide ; 
 
 Who fearless takes his lonely way, 
 With God his guard and guide : — 
 The mariner, who tempts the sea 
 When storms impending low'r. 
 Or tempests rage — yet trusts in thee, 
 And owns thy mighty pow'r : — 
 
 3 The wretch who, pressed by countless wos 
 That no cessation see, 
 
 Siiil bids his steadfast hope repose, 
 Almighty Lord ! on thee : — 
 All, all shall join to bless thy name, 
 Whose heav'nly aid they prove ; 
 As all have felt^ let all proclaim 
 Thy boundless pov^V and love, 
 :^2 • 
 
108 PSALMS. 
 
 NINETEENTH METRE. P VTTT BERMdNDSEr.' 
 
 Sevenline stanzas. ^-^ » i-XX, D major. 
 
 Solemn invocation. 
 
 1 Come thou almighty king. 
 
 Help us thy name to sing, 
 
 Help us to praise ! 
 
 Father all-glorious, 
 
 O'er all victorious, 
 
 Come and reign over us, 
 
 Ancient of days ! 
 .2 Come thou eternal Lord, 
 
 By heav'n and earth ador'd, 
 
 Our pray'r attend, 
 
 Come, and thy people bless ; 
 
 Give thy good word success - 
 
 Make thine own holiness 
 
 On us descend ! 
 
 3 Be thou our comforter ; 
 I'hy sacred witness bear 
 In this glad hour ; 
 Omnipotent thou art : 
 Then rule in every heart, 
 And ne'er from us depart. 
 Spirit ot pow'r ! 
 
 4 O holy One ! to thee 
 Eternal praises be 
 Hence, evermore ! 
 Thy sov'teign majesty 
 May we in glory see^ 
 And to eternity 
 Love and adore I 
 
psalms: 109 
 
 FIRST METRE. PTy WAYBRIDGE; 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. v^xxv. G major. 
 
 The example of Christ. 
 
 1 GroD of our mercy and our praise 1 
 Thy glory is our song ; 
 We'll speak the honours of thy grace, 
 With a rejoicing tongue. 
 
 3 When in the form of mortal man 
 Thy Son on earth was found, 
 With cruel slanders, false and vain, 
 They compass 'd him around. 
 
 3 Their mis'ries his compassion mov'd, 
 Their peace he still pursu'd : 
 
 They render'd hatred for his love, 
 And evil for his good. 
 
 4 Their malice rag'd without a cause ; 
 Yet with his dying breath 
 
 He pray'd for murd'rers on the cross. 
 And bless'd his foes in death. 
 
 5 O may his conduct, all divine, 
 To us a model prove : 
 
 Like his, O God ! our hearts incline 
 Our enemies to love. 
 
110 PSALMS, 
 
 SECOND METRE. pV" BERKELEY. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. \-/-^v» Bb major, 
 
 The success of the gosfiel. 
 
 Thus the eternal Father spake 
 To Christ his Son ; Ascend, and sit 
 At my right hand, till 1 shall make 
 Thy foes submissive at thy feet. 
 
 ^2 From Sion shall thy word proceed,. 
 Thy word, the sceptre in thy hand, 
 Shall make the hearts of rebels bleed, 
 And bow their wills to thy command. 
 
 3 That day shall show thy pow'r is great, 
 When saints shall flock with willing minds^ 
 And sinners crowd thy temple- gate, 
 Where holiness in beauty shines. 
 
 4 O blessed pow'r ! O glorious day ! 
 What a large vict'ry shall ensue ! 
 And converts, who thy grace obey. 
 Exceed the drops of morning dew» 
 
PSALMS. Ill 
 
 SECOND MITRE. PYT BARNSTABLE. 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. v-'.^^a. G major. 
 
 The divine perfections. 
 
 1 Praise ye the Lord ; our God to praise 
 Our souls their utmost pow'rs shall raise, 
 With private friends, and in the throng 
 
 Of saints, his praise shall be our song. 
 
 2 His works are all of matchless fame, 
 And universal glory claim ; 
 
 His truth confirm'd through ages past, 
 Shall to eternal ages last. 
 
 3 By precept he has us enjoin 'd, 
 
 To keep his vvond'rous works in mind ; 
 
 And to posterity record, 
 
 That good and gracious is the Lord. 
 
 4 Just are the dealings of his hands, 
 Immutable are his commands ; 
 By truth and equity sustain'd 
 And for eternal rules ordain'd. 
 
 5 Who wisdom's sacred prize would win, 
 Must with the fear of God begin ; 
 Immortal praise and heav'nly skill 
 Have they who know and do his wilL 
 
112 PSALM S. 
 
 FIRST METRE. PVTT ACCESS. 
 
 Fourline Stanzas. v^.^^j.x. A major, 
 
 Liberality rewarded. 
 
 1 Happy is he who fears the Lori>, 
 And follows his commands, 
 
 Who lends the poor without reward, 
 Or gives with lib'ral hands. 
 
 2 As pity dwells within his breast 
 To all the sons of need ; 
 
 So God shall answer his request, 
 With blessings on his seed. 
 
 3 No evil tidings shall surprise 
 His well establish'd mind ; 
 
 His soul to God his refuge flies, 
 And leaves his fears behind. 
 
 4 In times of general distress, 
 Some beams of light shall shine, 
 
 To show the world his righteousness. 
 And give him peace divine. 
 
 5 His works of piety and love 
 Remain before the Lord ; 
 Honour on earth, and joys above^^ 
 Shall be his sure reward. 
 
PSALMS. 113 
 
 TWELFTH METRE, PXTTT 
 
 BOWDOIN. 
 
 Sixline stanzas. v^^vxxi. D major. 
 
 Reverence to the sujireme Governour. 
 
 The Lord of glory reigns supremely great, 
 And o'er heav'n's arches builds his royal seat: 
 Through worlds unknown his so v 'reign sway 
 
 extends ; 
 Nor space nor time his boundless empire ends : 
 His eye beholds th' affairs of ev'ry nation, 
 And reads each thought thro' his immense 
 
 creation. 
 
 Light'nings and storms his mighty word obey, 
 And planets roll, where he has mark'd their 
 
 way : 
 Unnumber'd cherubs veil'd before him stand, 
 And at his signal all their wings expand : 
 Tiis praise gives harmony to all their voices. 
 And ev'ry heart through the full choir rejoices. 
 
 Rebellious mortals, cease your tumults vain, 
 Nor longer such unequal war maintain : 
 Let clay with fellow clay in combat strive, 
 But dread to brave the pow'r by which you live : 
 With contrite hearts, fall prostrate and adore 
 
 him ; 
 For, if he frown, ye perish all before him. 
 
114 PSALMS, 
 
 SECOND METRE. CXIV WINCHESTER. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. v^xvx v . C major. 
 
 Miracles amending' Israelis journey. 
 
 1 ▼▼HEN Isr'el, freed from Pharaoh's hand, 
 Left the proud tyrant and his land ; 
 Their tribes with cheerful homage own 
 Their king, and Judah was his throne. 
 
 2 Across the deep their journey lay ; 
 The deep divides to make them way : 
 Jordan beheld their march and fled, 
 With backward current to his head. 
 
 3 What pow'r could make the deep divide ? 
 Make Jordan backward roll his tide ? 
 Why did ye leap, ye little hills ? 
 
 And whence the terrour Sinai feels ! 
 
 4 Let ev'ry mountain, ev'ry flood, 
 Retire and know th' approaching God, 
 The king of Isr'el : see him here ! 
 Tremble, thou earth ! adore and fear. 
 
 5 He thunders, and all nature mourns ; 
 The rock to standing pools he turns : 
 Flints spring with fountains at his word, 
 And fires and seas confess the Lord. 
 
PSALMS. 115 
 
 TENTH METRE. CY'V BRITAIN. 
 
 Sixlihe stanzas. v.-r\. v . G major. 
 
 Idolatry rejirovcd. 
 
 .1 Not to our names, thou only just and true, 
 Not to our worthless names is glory due : 
 Thy povv'r and grace, thy truth and justice 
 
 claim 
 Immortal honours to thy so v 'reign name ; 
 Shine through the earth, from heav'n thy blest 
 
 abode ; 
 Nor let the heathen say, where is your God ? 
 
 2 Heav^'n is thy higher court ; there stands thy 
 
 throne, 
 And thro' the lower worlds thy will is done ! 
 God fram'd this earth ; the starry heav'ns he 
 
 spread ; 
 But fools adore the gods their hands have made ; 
 The kneeling cro\vd, with looks devout,behold 
 Their silver saviours, and their saints of gold. 
 
 3 Be heav'n and earth amaz'd ! 'Tishardto say, 
 Which are more stupid, or their gods, or they ; 
 O christian,trust the L o r d ; he hears and sees ; 
 He knows thy sorrows, and restores thy peace ; 
 His worship does a thousand comforts yield ; 
 He is thy help, and he thy heavenly shield. 
 
116 PSALMS. 
 
 ?S?LS^- cxvi. *s".^,7o^ 
 
 Recovery from sickness. 
 
 1 1 LOVE the Lord, he heard my cries, 
 And pity'dev'ry groan : 
 
 Long as I live, when troubles rise, 
 I'll hasten to his throne. 
 
 2 I love the Lord : he bovv'd his ear, 
 And chas'd my griefs away : 
 
 O let my heart no more despair, 
 While I have breath to pray. 
 
 3 Among the saints who fill thy house, 
 My ofF'rings shall be paid ; 
 
 There shall my zeal perform the vows 
 My soul in anguish made. 
 
 4 The Lord beheld me sore distrest, 
 He bade my pains remove : 
 Return, my soul ! to God, thy rest, 
 For thou hast known his love. 
 
 5 How happy all thy servants are ! 
 How great thy love to me ! 
 
 My life, which thou hast made thy care, 
 Lord ! I devote to thee. 
 
PSALMS. IK 
 
 FIRST METRE. PWTT DETINGEtJ 
 
 EifihUine stanza. ^-^ V lA. GOMjOr. 
 
 Praise to God from all nations. 
 
 1 O ALL yc nations, praise the Lord, 
 Each with a different tongue ; 
 In ev'ry language learn his word, 
 And let his name be sung. 
 His mercy reigns through ev'ry land ; 
 Proclaim his grace abroad ; 
 Forever firm his truth shall stand — 
 Praise ye the faithful God. 
 
 SECOND METRE. DENBIGH. 
 
 Eightline stanza. £ major. 
 
 1 From all who dwell below the skies 
 Let the creator's praise arise ; 
 Let his almighty name be sung 
 Through ev'ry land, by ev'ry tongue, 
 Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ! 
 Eternal truth attends thy word ; 
 Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, 
 Till suns shall set and rise no more. 
 
 THIRD METRE. LEWISHAM. 
 
 Eightline stanza. F major. 
 
 1 Thy name, almighty Lord ! 
 Shall sound through distant lands ; 
 Great is thy grace and sure thy word : 
 Thy truth forever stands. 
 Far be thine honours spread, 
 And long thy praise endure, 
 Till morning light and ev'ning shade 
 Shall be exchang'd no more. 
 
118 PSALMS. 
 
 jpirst metre. PYVTTT Bristol 
 
 iFourline stanaas. v^zv v XXJ.. G major. 
 
 For the JLord^s day, 
 
 1 This is the day the Lord hath made ; 
 He calls the hours his own : 
 
 Let heav'n rejoice, let earth be glad, 
 And praise surround his throne. 
 
 2 To-day arose our glorious head, 
 And death's dread empire fell ; 
 To-day the saints his triumph spread, 
 And all its wonders tell. 
 
 3 Hosanna ! the anointed king 
 Ascends his destin'd throne ; 
 
 To God your grateful homage bring. 
 And his Messiah own : 
 
 4 Sent by his father's love, he came 
 To bless our sinful race : 
 
 Let us adore the father's name, 
 And celebrate his grace. 
 
 5 Adore him in the highest strains 
 The church on earth can raise : 
 
 The highest heav'ns in which he reigns 
 Shall give him nobler praise. 
 
PSALMS. 119 
 
 FIRST METRE. PVTV WILMINGTON. 
 
 F^rline stanzas. V^-^l-^. Bb major. 
 
 Virtuous resolutions, 
 
 1 O that thy statutes ev'ry hour 
 May dwell upon my mind ! 
 Thence I derive a quick'ning pow'r, 
 And daily peace I find. 
 
 2 To meditate thy precepts, Lord, 
 Shall be my sweet employ : 
 
 My soul shall ne'er forget thy word ; 
 Thy word is all my joy. 
 
 5 How w^ould I run in thy commands, 
 It thou my heart discharge 
 From vice and passion's hateful bands, 
 And set my feet at large ! 
 
 4 My lips with courage shall declare 
 Thy statutes and thy name, 
 Wliatever loss or scorn I bear j 
 Nor yield to sinful shame. 
 
 5 Depart from me, ye wicked race 
 Whose hands and hearts are ill ; 
 I love my God, I love his ways, 
 And must obey his will. 
 
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120 PSALM S. 
 
 FIRST METRE. PVV HITCHIS. 
 
 FourHne stanzas. V-^./v^rv, E maj-Jr. 
 
 Prudence. 
 
 1 O 'tis a lovely thing to see 
 The man of prudent heart ! 
 
 Whose thoughts, and lips, and life agree 
 To act a useful part. 
 
 2 When envy, strife, and war begin 
 In Tittle angry souls ; 
 
 Mark how the sons of peace come in, 
 And quench the kindling coals 1 
 
 5 Their minds are humble, mild, and meekj 
 No furious passions rise ; 
 Nor malice moves their lips to speak. 
 Nor pride exalts their eyes. 
 
 4 Their lives are prudence mix'd with love ; 
 Good works employ their day ; 
 
 They join the serpent with the dove. 
 But cast the sting away. 
 
 5 Such was the Saviour of mankind ; 
 Such pleasures he pursu'd ; 
 
 His manners gentle and refin'dp 
 His soul divinely good* 
 
PSALMS. im 
 
 FOURTH METRE. PVVT »URLlNGTOII. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. \^ -^^ l . Bb m^or. 
 
 Divine /irotectioiir 
 
 1 XJpwardI lift mine eyes, 
 From God is all my aid ; 
 The God who built the skies, 
 And earth's foundations laid : 
 
 God is the tow'r To which I fly : 
 
 His grace is nigh In ev'ry hour. 
 
 2 My feet shall never slide, 
 Or fall in fatal snares, 
 
 Since God, my guard and guide, 
 
 Defends me from my fears. 
 Those wakeful eyes, That never sleep, 
 His children keep When dangers rise. 
 
 .3 No burning heats by day, 
 
 Nor blasts of ev'ning air, 
 
 Shall take my heahh away. 
 
 If God be with me there : 
 Thou art my sun. And thou my shade. 
 
 To guard my head By night or noon. 
 
 i Hast thou not giv'n thy word. 
 To save my soul from death ? 
 And I can trust the Lord 
 To keep my mortal breath : 
 I'll go and come, Nor fear to die. 
 
 Till from on high He calls me home. 
 
133 , P S A L M S. 
 
 SrXTH METRE. PWTT RHODES 
 
 Sixline stanza*. ^-^.^v.^vxi. G major. 
 
 Going to church. 
 
 1 How did my heart rejoice, 
 To hear the publick voice, 
 Come, let us seek our God to-day ! 
 The summons we attend, 
 
 With joy his courts ascend, 
 
 And there our vows and honours pay. 
 
 2 The church, thrice happy place ! 
 Adorn'd with lovely grace, 
 
 And walls of strength embrace thee round i 
 In thee our tribes appear, 
 To pray, and praise, and hear 
 The sacred gospel's joyful sound. 
 
 3 May peace attend thy gate, 
 And joy within thee wait, 
 
 To bless the soul of ev'ry guest ; 
 The man who seeks thy peace, 
 And wishes thine«increase, 
 A thousand blessings on him rest ! 
 
 4 My tongue repeats her vows, 
 Peace to this holy house ! 
 
 For here my friends and kindred dwell : 
 And since my glorious God 
 Makes thee his blest abode. 
 My soul shall ever love thee well. 
 
P S A L M S. 128 
 
 THIRD METRE. PVVTTT STOCKPORT. 
 
 FourGne stanzas. V-<-rv.^XJ.l, F major. 
 
 God our trust in affliction. 
 
 1 Commit thou all thy ways 
 And griefs into his hands, 
 
 To his sure trust and tender care, 
 Who heav'n and earth commands : 
 
 2 Who points the clouds their course, 
 Whom winds and seas obey : 
 
 He shall direct thy wand'ring feet, 
 He shall prepare thy way. 
 
 3 No profit canst thou gairt 
 By self-consuming care ; 
 
 To him commend thy cause, his ear 
 Attends the softest prayer. 
 
 4 Give to the winds thy fears ; 
 Hope, and be undismayed ; 
 
 God hears thy sighs, he counts thy tears, 
 And he '11 lift up thy head. 
 
 5 Through waves, and clouds, and storms^ 
 He'll gently clear thy way ; 
 
 Wait thou his time, so shall this night 
 Soon end in boundless day. 
 
124 PSALMS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. P YXTV ST. PATRICK^. 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. v^-^v.^rvA r . p major. 
 
 Victory from God. 
 
 1 Had not the God of truth and love, 
 When hosts against us rose, 
 Display 'd his vengeance from above, 
 And crush 'd the conqu'ring foes : 
 
 2 Their armies, like a raging flood, 
 Had swept the guardless land. 
 Destroy 'd on earth his bless'd abode, 
 And whelm 'd our feeble band. 
 
 3 But safe beneath his spreading shield 
 His sons securely rest, 
 
 Defy the dangers of the field, 
 And bare the fearless breast. 
 
 4 And now our souls shall bless the Lord, 
 Who broke the deadly snare : 
 
 Who sav'd us from the murd'ring sword, 
 And made our lives his care. 
 
 5 Our help is in Jehov ah's name, 
 Who form'd the heavens above : 
 
 He that supports their wond'rous fr^e, 
 Can guard his church by love* 
 
« 
 PSALMS. 1^5 
 
 THIRD METRE. PYYV CONNEXION. 
 
 Fouiline stanzw. V'.^vxv v • E major. 
 
 Security in God. 
 
 1 Oft have our fathers told, 
 Our eyes have often seen, 
 
 How well our God secures the fold. 
 Where his own sheep have been. 
 
 2 In every new distress, 
 We'll to his house repair, 
 
 We'll meditate his works of grace, 
 And seek deliv 'ranee there. 
 
 3 Unshaken as the hills, 
 And firm as mountains be. 
 Firm as a rock the soul shall rest, 
 That leans, O Lord I on thee. 
 
 4 Not walls could guard so well 
 Old Salem's happ\ ground. 
 As those eternal arms of love, 
 
 . Which every saint surround. 
 
 5 Deal gently. Lord ! with those 
 Whose faith and pious fear, 
 
 Whose hope, and love, and every grace., 
 Proclaim their hearts sincere. 
 
im PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. T'X'YVT C^VONSHIR?. 
 
 Fouriine stanzas. v^^x^v t x* Eb major. 
 
 Weeping seed-time^ joyful harvesi. 
 
 1 The darken'd sky, how thick it low'rs ! 
 Troubled with storms, and big with show'rs ; 
 No cheerful gleam of light appears, 
 
 But nature pours forth all her tears. 
 
 2 Yet, let the sons of grace revive ; 
 God bids the soul who seeks him live ; 
 And from the gloomiest shade of night 
 Calls forth a morning of delight. 
 
 3 The seeds of extacy unknown 
 Are in these water'd furrows sown ; 
 
 See the green blades, how thick they rise^ 
 And with fresh verdure bless our eyes ! 
 
 4 In secret foldings they contain 
 Unnumber'd ears of golden grain ; 
 And heav'n shall pour its beams around, 
 Till the ripe harvest load the ground. 
 
 5 Then shall the trembling mourner come, 
 And bind his sheaves, and bear them home ; 
 The voice long broke with sighs shall sing. 
 Till heav'n with halleluiah's ring ! 
 
PSALMS. 127 
 
 SECOND METRE. PyWTT OXFORD 
 
 Fourline stanzas. v^-rv-rvvxA. C major. 
 
 Success and firosfierity from God. 
 
 1 If God succeed not, all the cost 
 And paihs to build the house are lost ; 
 If God the city will not keep, 
 The watchful guards as well may sleep. 
 
 2 What though we rise before the sun, 
 And work and toil when day is donef^ 
 Careful and sparing eat our bread, 
 To shun that poverty we dread ; 
 
 3 'Tis all in vain, till God hath blest ; 
 He can make rich, yet give us rest : 
 Children and friends are blessings too, 
 If God our father make them so. 
 
 4 Happy the man to whom he sends 
 Obedient children, faithful friends : 
 How sweet our daily comforts prove, 
 When they are season'd with his love ! 
 
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138 PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. PVVVTTT HENliBY. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. V«.^\.-<rv V J.ll.» G major. 
 
 Family duties and blessinga. 
 
 1 Blest is the man who fears the Lord, 
 And walks by his unerring word ; 
 Comfort and peace his days attend, 
 And God will ever prove his friend* 
 
 2 To him who condescends to dwell 
 With saints in their obscurest cell. 
 Be our domestick altars rais'd, 
 Andl5aily let his name be prais'd. 
 
 3 To him may each assembled house 
 Present their night and morning vows ; 
 Their servants and their rising race 
 
 Be taught his precepts and his grace; 
 
 4 Then shall the charms of wedded love. 
 Still more delightful blessings prove ; 
 And parents' hearts shall overflow 
 With joys that parents only know. 
 
 5 When nature droops, our aged eyes 
 Shall see our children's children rise ; 
 Till pleas 'd and thankful we remove^ 
 And join the family above. 
 
PSALMS. 129 
 
 5EC0ND METRE. PYXTX" WEATHERSFIELJJi 
 
 Twelvelinrstanzas. \^.r%.^'%.x^\.» q major. 
 
 Praise for national peace. 
 
 Gtreat ruler of the earth and skies ! 
 A word of thine almighty breath 
 Can sink the world or bid it rise : 
 Thy smile is life, thy frown is death. 
 When angry nations rush to arms, 
 And rage, and noise, and tumult reign^ 
 And war resounds its dire alarms, 
 And slaughter dyes the hostile plain ; 
 Thy sov 'reign eye looks calmly down, 
 And marks their course, and bounds their 
 
 pow'r ; 
 Thy law the angry nations own, 
 And noise and war are heard no more. 
 
 Then peace returns with balmy wing ; 
 
 Sweet peace ! with her what blessings fled ! 
 
 Glad plenty laughs, the valleys sing. 
 
 Reviving commerce lifts her head. 
 
 Thou good, and wise, and righteous Lord ! 
 
 All move subservient to thy will ; 
 
 Both peace and war await thy word, 
 
 And thy sublime decrees fulfil. 
 
 To thee we pay our gratelbl songs, 
 
 Thy kind protection still emplore : 
 
 O may our hearts, and lives, and tongues^ 
 
 Confess thy goodness and adore ! 
 
130 PSALM S, 
 
 THIRD METRE. PVVV NORTHAMPTON. 
 
 Eightime stanzas. V_,.^,^.A, _ q maj^r. 
 
 The pardoning mercy o/" God. 
 
 1 From lowest depths of wo, 
 ^To God we sent our cry : 
 
 Lord, hear our supplicating voice, 
 And graciously reply. 
 Should'st thou severely judge, 
 Who can the trial bear ? 
 But thou forgiv'st lest we despond, 
 And quite renounce thy fear, 
 
 2 Our souls with patience wait 
 For thee, the living Lord ; 
 
 Our hopes are on thy promise built. 
 
 Thy never-failing word. 
 
 Our longing eyes look out 
 
 For thine enliv'ning ray, 
 
 More duly than the morning watch 
 
 To spy the dawning day. 
 
 3 In thee we trust, O God J 
 No bounds thy mercy knows ; 
 
 The plenteous source and spring from which 
 
 Eternal succour flows : 
 
 Whose friendly streams to us 
 
 Supplies in want convey ; 
 
 A healing spring, a spring to cleanse. 
 
 And wash our guilt away. 
 
PSALMS. . 131 
 
 FIRST METRE, /""YYVT CIRENCESTER, 
 
 Eightline stanzas. x^-^-^,^1. ^ tOAjor, 
 
 Humility and contentment. 
 
 1 Is there ambition in my soul ? 
 Search, gracious God ! and see ; 
 Or do I act a haughty part ? 
 Lord, I appeal to thee. 
 
 Drive from the confines of my heart 
 All discontent and pride ; 
 Kor let me in erroneous paths 
 With thoughtless sinners glide. 
 
 2 Whate'er thine all- discerning eye 
 Sees for thy creature fit, 
 
 I'll bless the good, and to the ill 
 Contentedly submit. 
 With humble pleasure let me view 
 The prosp'rous and the great ; 
 Malignant envy let me fly, 
 And odious self-conceit 
 
 3 Let not despair nor fell revenge 
 Be to my bosom known ; 
 
 give me tears for others' wo^ 
 And patience for my own. 
 Feed me with necessary food ; 
 
 1 ask not wealth or fame ; 
 
 But give me eyes to view thy works^ 
 And sense to praise thy name* 
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132 PSALMS, 
 
 FIRST METRE, PWVTT TRANQUILLY, 
 
 Fourline stanzas. v^-^-^.^11.. Bb major. 
 
 The privilege of fiublick ivor shift. 
 
 1 The Lord in Sion placed his name, 
 His ark was settled there ; 
 
 To Sion the whole nation came 
 To worship thrice a year. 
 
 2 But we have no such lengths to go, 
 Nor wander far abroad : 
 Where'er thy saints assemble now. 
 There is a house for God. 
 
 3 Arise, O God of grace ! arise, 
 And enter to thy rest : 
 
 Lo ! thy church waits with longing eyes,y 
 Thus to be own'd and blest. 
 
 4 Here, mighty God ! accept our vow^s^ 
 Here let thy praise be spread : 
 
 Bless the provisions of thy house, 
 And fill thy poor with bread. 
 
 5 Here let the Son of David reign ; 
 Let God's anointed shine ; 
 Justice and truth his court maintain. 
 With love and power divine. 
 
PSALMS. 133 
 
 THIRD METRE. rVXXTTT YARMOUTH. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. v>-rvzv-^XAXi. A major. 
 
 Domestick love. 
 
 Lo what a pleasing sight 
 
 Are brethren that agree ! 
 
 How blest are all whose hearts unite 
 
 In bands of piety. 
 
 From those celestial springs 
 
 Such streams of comfort flow, 
 
 As no increase of riches brings, 
 
 Nor honours can bestow. 
 
 All in their stations move, 
 
 And each fulfils his part, 
 
 In all the cares of life and love, 
 
 With sympathizing heart. 
 
 Form'd for the purest joys, 
 
 By one desire possest ; 
 
 One aim the zeal of all employs, 
 
 To make each other blest. 
 
 No bliss can equal theirs 
 
 Where such affections meet : 
 
 While praise devout and mingled pray'rs 
 
 Make their communion sweet. 
 
 'Tis the same pleasure fills 
 
 The breast in worlds above ; 
 
 Where joy like morning dew distils, 
 
 And all th^ air is love. 
 
134 PSALMS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. PyXXTV ENFIELD* 
 
 lighfcJine stanzas, v^-^u:vurvA v . DmajoK 
 
 Daily and nightly devotion. 
 
 1 Before the rosy dawn of day, 
 . To thee, my God ! I'll sing ; 
 
 Awake my soft and tuneful lyre, 
 Awake each charming string. 
 Awake, and let thy flowing strains 
 Glide through the midnight air. 
 While high amid the silent orbs 
 The silver moon rolls clear : 
 
 2 While all the glitt'ring starry lamps 
 Are lighted in the sky ; 
 
 And set their maker's greatness forth 
 To thine admiring eye. 
 Awake my soft and tuneful lyre, 
 Awake each charming string ; 
 Before the rosy dawn of day 
 To thee, my God ! I'll sing. 
 
 3 And as the gloomy night returns, 
 Or smiling day renews ; 
 
 Thy constant goodness still my soul 
 
 "With benefit pursues. 
 
 For this, I'll midnight vows to thee 
 
 With early incense bring ; 
 
 And ere the rosy dawn of day^ 
 
 Thy lofty praises sing. 
 
PSALMS. I3S 
 
 FIRST METRE. PWX'V TORE AY. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. V-/.rv.^Vxv v • Eb major. 
 
 Praise to God in his house. • 
 
 1 Awake, ye saints, to praise your king ; 
 Your sweetest passions raise ; 
 
 Your pious pleasure, while you sing, 
 Increasing with the praise. 
 
 2 Great is the Lord ; and works unknown 
 Are his divine employ : 
 
 But still his saints are near his throne^ 
 His treasure and his joy. 
 
 3 Heav'n, earth, and sea, confess his hand ; 
 He bids the vapours rise ; 
 
 Light 'ning and storm, at his command, 
 Sweep through the sounding skies. 
 
 4 All pow'r that kings or gods have claim'd 
 Is found with him alone : 
 
 But heathen gods should ne'er be nam'd, 
 Where our JehovxVh's known. 
 
 5 Columbia ! know the living God ; 
 Serve him with faith and fear, 
 
 He makes thy churches his abode, 
 And claims thine honours there. 
 
136 P S A L M S. 
 
 FOURTH METRE. PVVVVT CLAPHAM. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. v^-^:v.^vxv v x. A major. 
 
 The divine flower, wisdom^ and goodness, 
 
 1 GrivE thanks to God most high, 
 The universal Lord, 
 
 The sov 'reign king of kings, 
 
 And be his grace ador'd ! 
 His pow'r and grace Are still the same ; 
 And let his name Have endless praise. 
 
 2 How mighty is his hand ! 
 What wonders hath he done \ 
 He form'd the earth and seas, 
 And spread the heav'ns alone. 
 
 Thy mercy, Lord ! Shall still endure ; 
 And ever sure Abides thy word. 
 
 3 His wisdom fram'd the sun, 
 To crown the day with light ; 
 The moon and twinkling stars. 
 To cheer the darksome night. 
 
 His pow'r and grace Are still the same ; 
 And let his name Have endless praise. 
 
 4 He sent his only Son 
 To save us from our wo, 
 From errour, sin, and death, 
 And ev'ry hurtful foe. 
 
 Thy mercy, Lord ! Shall still endure ; 
 And ever sure Abides thy word. 
 
PSALMS* 137 
 
 THIRD METRE. PVVVVTT THORN. 
 
 Fouriine stanzas. V^-i^-rv.^ V aa. Faaajor. 
 
 Love to the church. 
 
 1 I LOVE thy church, O God ! 
 Her walls before thee stand, 
 Dear as the apple of thine eye, 
 And graven on thy hand. 
 
 2 If e'er to bless thy sons 
 My voice or hands deny ; 
 
 These hands let useful skill forsakCy 
 This voice in silence die. 
 
 3 If e'er my heart forget 
 Her welfare, or her wo : 
 
 Let ev'ry joy this heart forsake, 
 And ev'ry grief o'erflow. 
 
 4 For her my tears shall fall ; 
 For her my prayers ascend ; 
 
 To her my cares and toils be giv'n 
 Till toils and cares shall end. 
 
 5 Beyond my highest joy 
 
 I prize her heav'nly ways, 
 
 Her sweet conmmnion, solemn vows^ 
 
 Her hymns of iov€ and praise. 
 
138 PSALM S. 
 
 THIRD METRE. PVVWTTT WILTOW, 
 
 Fourline stanzas. v-yv-TV-^rv v J.ax# y ni^jwr. 
 
 Sfiiritual strength and joy, 
 
 1 My soul, review the time, 
 In which my God I sought ; 
 I cry'd aloud for aid divine, 
 And aid divine he brought. 
 
 2 Through all my fainting heart, 
 His secret vigour spread ; 
 
 To me his strength he did impart. 
 And rais'd my drooping head. 
 
 3 Then will I raise my voice, 
 And form a cheerful song ; 
 With all the saints I will rejoice, 
 Who to his courts belong. 
 
 4 With them the path I'll trace, 
 Which leads to his abode ; 
 
 And join to sing redeeming grace 
 Along the joyful road. 
 
 5 Within these sacred walls, 
 I shall be ever blest ; 
 
 I'll follow where my father calls, 
 And seek his heav'niy rest. 
 
PSALMS. 139 
 
 SECOND METRE. PVY'^T'^r WICKHAM. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. V^-<^-<rV-^l-rv. G major. 
 
 God's omniscience and ojnnifiresence. 
 
 Father of all ! omniscient mind ! 
 Thy wisdom who can comprehend ? 
 Its highest point what eye can find, 
 Or to its lov. est depths descend ? 
 What cavern deep, what hill sublime, 
 Beyond thy reach, shall I pursue ? 
 What dark recess, what distant clime, 
 Shall hide me from thy boundless view ? 
 
 If up to heaven's ethereal height, 
 Thy prospects to elude, I rise ; 
 In splendour there, supremely bright. 
 Thy presence shall my sight surprise. 
 Thee, mighty God ! my wondering soul. 
 Thee all her conscious pow'rs adore ; 
 Whose being circumscribes the whole, 
 Whose eyes the universe explore. 
 
 Thine essence fills this breathing frame., 
 It glows in ev'ry vital part ; 
 Lights up my soul with livelier flame, 
 And feeds with life my beating heart. 
 To thee from whom my being came. 
 Whose smile is all the heav'n I know ! 
 Inspir'd with this exalted theme, 
 To thee my grateful strains shall flew. 
 
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140 PSALM S. 
 
 FIRST METRE. TVT GBQUeiA, 
 
 EMolme stanzas. V/ .^ i^ , j. ^^^^ 
 
 The righteous firayer. 
 
 1 Xo thee, O God ! my prayer ascends. 
 But not for golden stores ; 
 Nor covet I the brightest gems 
 On the rich eastern shores : 
 
 ^ Nor that deluding, empty joy 
 Men call a mighty name ; 
 Nor greatness, with its pride and state, 
 My restless thoughts inflame : 
 
 3 Nor pleasure's fascinating charms, 
 My fond desires allure : 
 
 But nobler things than these, from thee. 
 My wishes would secure. 
 
 4 The faith and hope of things unseen 
 My best affections move ; 
 
 Thy light, thy favour, and thy smiles, 
 Thine everlasting love : 
 
 5 These are the blessings I desire ; 
 Lord, be these blessings mine — 
 And all the glories of the world 
 
 I cheerfully resign. 
 
PSALMS. 141 
 
 3tC0KD METRE. PVT T EVERSHAM. 
 
 Fo urline sUnzas. V^ -^V l-< i . E minor . 
 
 Fraternal admonition. 
 
 1 liORD ! set upon my lips a guard, 
 And let my tongue be doubly barr'd ; 
 Let not my heart to vice incline, 
 Nor let my hand in mischief join. 
 
 2 If e'er from wisdom's path I stray. 
 And walk in sin's delusive way, 
 Let virtue's friends, severely kind. 
 Reprove the errours of my mind. 
 
 o Their faithful words, like ointment shed, 
 Shall never bruise, but heal my head : 
 And when I find them press'd with grief, 
 I'll pray to heav'n for their relief. 
 
 4 How blest the sacred tie that binds. 
 In union sweet, according minds ! 
 How swift the heav'nly course they run. 
 Whose hearts, whose faith, whose hopes are one! 
 
 5 Their streaming eyes together flow 
 For human guilt and mortal wo ; 
 Their ardent pray'rs together rise, 
 Like mingling flames in sacrifice. 
 
142 PSALMS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. P'^TT TT XOUGHTON, 
 
 Eightline stanzas. v^-^J-iXl. Bb major. 
 
 The mercy of God.. 
 
 1 O THOU the wretched's sure retreat, 
 Who dost our cares control, 
 
 And with the cheerful smile of peace 
 
 Revive the fainting soul ! 
 
 Did ever thine indulgent ear 
 
 The humble plea disdain ? 
 
 Or when did plaintive mis'ry sigh. 
 
 Or supplicate, in vain ? 
 
 2 Oppress'd with grief and shame, dissolved 
 In penitential tears, 
 
 Thy goodness calms our anxious doubts, 
 
 And dissipates our fears. 
 
 New life from thy refreshing grace 
 
 Our sinking hearts receive ; 
 
 Thy gentlest, best lov'd attribute, 
 
 7'o pity and forgive. 
 
 3 From that blest source, propitious hope 
 Appears serenely bright, 
 
 And sheds her soft and cheering beam 
 
 O'er sorrow's dismal night. 
 
 Our hearts adore thy mercy. Lord ! 
 
 And bless the friendly ray, 
 
 Which ushers in the smiling morn 
 
 Of everlasting day. 
 
PSALMS. 143 
 
 FIRST METRE. TXt TTT YORK: 
 
 Fourline stanzas. \^.c^l^l^X, G major. 
 
 CoeJ the refzige of the afflicted. 
 
 1 AFFLiGtioN is a stormy deep, 
 Where wave resounds to wave : 
 Though o'er my head the billows roll^ 
 I know the Lord can save. 
 
 Perhaps, before the morning dawn. 
 He'll reinstate my peace ; 
 For he, who bade the tempest roar, 
 Can bid the tempest cease. 
 
 In the dark w^atches of the night, 
 I'll count his mercies o'er ; 
 I'll praise him for ten thousand past. 
 And humbly sue for more. 
 
 -i Here will I rest, here build my hopes- 
 Nor murmur at his rod : 
 He's more than all the world to me, 
 My health, my life, my God ! 
 
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144 PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. Pyt TV UTICA. 
 
 FoiirliAe stanzas. v^^^Vi^l \ . G major. 
 
 Divine firotection^ peace, and iileiity. 
 
 1 Ijord ! let thy potent arm control 
 These threatening waves that round us roll ; 
 These sons of vanity that rise, 
 
 With fraudful hands and impious lies. 
 
 2 Then shall our sons, beneath thy care, 
 Grow up like plants erect and fair ; 
 Our daughters shall like pillars rise, 
 
 Where splendid buildings charm the eyes/ ^'3| 
 
 3 Then plenty shall our stores increase, 
 Plenty, the lovely child of peace ; 
 The flock its fleecy wealth shall yield, 
 And pour its thousands o'er the field. 
 
 4 The well fed ox shall then afford 
 His cheerful labours to his lord ; 
 No more shall sons of plunder reign. 
 Nor sons of misery complain. 
 
 5 O happy people ! favoured state ! 
 Whom such peculiar blessings wait ; 
 Happy ! who on the Lord depend, 
 Their help, their guardian, and their friend* 
 
PSALMS. 145 
 
 FIRST METRE. PVT V SPARTA. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. v^-^J-« v . G mafor. 
 
 The divine sufierintendence. 
 
 1 liONG as I live I'll bless thy name, 
 My king, my God of love ! 
 
 My work and joy shall be the same 
 In the bright world above. 
 
 2 Thy grace shall dwell upon my tongue ; 
 And, while my lips rejoice, 
 
 ' The^en who hear my sacred song 
 Shall join their cheerful voice. 
 
 3 Fathers to sons shall teach thy name. 
 And children learn thy ways : 
 Ages to come thy truth proclaim, 
 And nations sound thy praise. 
 
 4 Thy glorious deeds of ancient date 
 Shall through the world be known ; 
 Thine arm of power, thy heav'nly state, 
 With publick splendour shown. ' 
 
 5 The world is govern'd by thy hands, 
 Thy saints are ruPd by love ; 
 
 And thine eternal kingdom stands, 
 Though rocks and hills remove. 
 
140 PSALMS. 
 
 SBCONO METRE. PYT VT ST. RELEiPa. 
 
 ^S?xline Stanzas. k^^^xj v i. C majox, * 
 
 Praise for divine goodness, 
 
 1 I'LL praise my maker with my breath ; 
 And when my voice is lost in death, 
 Praise shall employ my nobler pow'rs ; 
 My days of praise shall ne'er be past, 
 While life, and thought, and behig last, 
 Or immortality endures. 
 
 2 Happy the man whose hopes rely 
 On him who form'd the brilliant sky, 
 And earth, and seas, with all their train : 
 His truth forever stands secure ; 
 
 He saves th' opprest, he feeds the poor ; 
 And none shall find his promise vain. 
 
 3 The Lord hath eyes to give the blind, 
 The Lord supports the sinking mind ; 
 He sends the lab'ring consciopce peace ; 
 He helps the stranger in distress, 
 
 The widow and the fatherles, 
 
 And grants the pris'ner sweet release. 
 
 4 Ke never will with sinners dwell : 
 
 But loves his saints, and knows them weil^ 
 Thy God, O christian ! ever reigns : 
 Let ev'ry tongue, let ev'ry age 
 In this exalted work engage : 
 Praise him in everlasting strains. 
 
PSALMS. 147 
 
 aECOND METRE. PVT VTT LORRAIN. 
 
 tightline stanzas. \_/-^\.l^ V 11. G oiajoft 
 
 Summer and wiriter. 
 
 1 Praise ye the Lord ; O blissful theme, 
 To sing the honours of his name ! 
 
 'Tis pleasure, 'tis divine delight. 
 And praise is comely in his sight. 
 He speaks ! and swiftly from the skies 
 To earth the sov 'reign mandate flies ; 
 Observant nature hears his word, 
 And bows obedient to the Lord. 
 
 2 Now thick descending flakes of snow 
 O'er earth a fleecy mantle throw ; 
 Now glitt'ring frost o'er all the plains 
 Extends his universal chains. 
 
 At his fierce storms of patt'ring hail 
 The shiv'ring pow'rs of nature fail : 
 Before his cold what life can stand, 
 Unshelter'd'by his guardian hand ? 
 
 3 He speaks ! the ice and snow obey, 
 And nature's fetters melt away : 
 Now vernal gales soft rising blow, 
 And murm'ring waters gently flow. 
 But nobler works his grace record : 
 To heal our wos he sent his word ; 
 No thunders from his mount he hurl'd, 
 But truth and love to bless the world. 
 
148 P S A L M S. 
 
 FdUR't'H METRE. PVT VTTT WHITCHARCR; 
 
 filghtlJnc stanzas. v-yvij v ixi. C major. 
 
 Praise to God /ro7n all creatures, 
 
 1 Ye tribes of Adam, join" 
 With heav*n, and earth, and seas, 
 And oiFer notes divine 
 
 To your creator's praise. 
 Ye holy throng Of angels bright, 
 
 In worlds of light, Begin the song. 
 
 2 Thou sun with dazzling rays', 
 Thou moon, that ruls't the night, 
 Shine to your maker's praise, 
 
 With stars of twinkling light. * 
 
 His pow'r declare, Ye floods on high, ^ 
 
 And clouds that fly In liquid air. 
 
 3 The shining worlds above 
 In glorious order stand, 
 Or in swift courses move 
 By his supreme command. 
 
 He spake the word. And all their frame 
 From nothing came To praise the Lord. 
 
 4 He mov'd their mighty wheels 
 In unknown ages past : 
 
 And each his word fulfils, 
 
 While time and nature last. 
 In diiferent ways His works proclaim 
 
 His wond'rous name, And speak his praise: 
 
PSALMS. 149 
 
 NINTH METRE. PVl TV SUSSEX, 
 
 Eightline stanzas. V--^J^i-fV.. G major, 
 
 Thanksgiving. 
 
 1 O PRAISE ye the Lord, 
 Prepare your glad voice, 
 His praise in the great 
 Assembly to sing. 
 
 In their great creator 
 Let all men rejoice, 
 And heirs of salvation 
 Be glad in their king. 
 
 2 Let them his great name 
 Devoutly adore ; 
 
 In loud swelling strains 
 His praises express, 
 Who graciously opens 
 His bountiful store, 
 Their wants to relieve, and 
 His children to bless. 
 
 3 With glory adorn'd, 
 His people shall sing 
 To God, who defence 
 And plenty supplies : 
 Their loud acclamations 
 To him their great king, 
 Through earth shall be sounded, 
 And reach to the skies. 
 
 4 Ye angels above. 
 His glories who've sung 
 In strains more exalted, 
 Now publish his praise : 
 We mortals delighted, 
 Would borrow your tongue ; 
 Would join in your numbers, 
 And chant to your lays. 
 
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150 PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. pT ASYLUM. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. v^Xj. C major. 
 
 General praise. 
 
 1 From vocal air, and concave skies, 
 Let wafted halleluiahs sound ; 
 And let the sacred triumphs rise, 
 Till vaulted heav'n the notes rebound. 
 Thou solar orb ! whose ruddy beam 
 Compels the shades of night to \vt\di ; 
 Thou silver moon I whose fainter gleam 
 Scarce trembles o'er yon ay.nre field : 
 
 2 Ye stars ! who circle round the pole, 
 Illumin'd with distinguish'd rays ; 
 Instruct your vocal spheres to roll, 
 Symphonious to your maker's praise. 
 His name with pious praises sing, 
 Who kindl'd first the beamy light ; 
 Who first commanded you to spring 
 Forth from the cells of ancient night. 
 
 3 Ye active youths, in manly prime ! 
 
 Ye virgins deck'd with blooming grace 1 
 Ye eiders press'd by creeping time ! 
 And you, the inflint tender race ! — 
 Your voices raise with mix'd acclaim, 
 To praise the universal Lord ; 
 The sole, august, majestick name;'' 
 O'er eardi and distant heav'n ador'd ! 
 
HYMNS, 
 
 SECOND METRE. T TRURO, 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. ^* ^ '^^P'' 
 
 A Morning hymn. 
 
 1 GrcD of the morning, at whose voice 
 The cheerful sun makes haste to rise, 
 And rob'd in splendours doth rejoice 
 To run his journey through the skies ! 
 
 2 O, like the sun, may we fulfil 
 Th' appointed duties of the day ; 
 With read} mind, and active will, 
 March on and keep our heav'nly way. 
 
 3 But we shall rove and lose our race, 
 If God, our sun, shall disappear, 
 And leave us ui the world's wide maze 
 To follow ev'ry wand'ring star. 
 
 4 Lord ! thy commands are right and pure, 
 Enlight'ning our beclouded eyes ; 
 
 Thy threat'nings just, thy promise sure, 
 Thy gospel makes the simple wise. 
 
 5 Give us thy counsel for our guide, 
 And then receive us to thy bliss ; 
 All our desires and hope beside 
 
 Are faint and cold, compared with this. 
 
HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. . TT BRABROOK. 
 
 Eightline stanzas, •'••'•• D m^jor. 
 
 Morning firayer. 
 
 1 To thee let our first ofF'rings rise, 
 Whose sun creites our clay, 
 
 Swift as his gladd'iiing influence flies, 
 
 And spotless as his ray ! 
 
 This day thy fav'ring hand be nigh, 
 
 So oft vouchsaf'd before ; 
 
 Still may it lead, protect, supply, 
 
 And we that hand adore ! 
 
 2 If bliss thy providence impart, 
 For which resign 'd we pray, 
 Give us to feel the grateful heart 
 That without guilt is gay. 
 Afiliction should thy love attend, 
 As bin's or folly's cure ; 
 Patient, to gain that blessed end, 
 May we the means endure ! 
 
 3 If bright or cloudy scenes await. 
 Sure profit let us gain ; 
 
 That heav'n nor high nor low estate 
 
 ,May send to us in vain. 
 
 Be this and ev'ry future day. 
 
 Sail wiser than the past ; 
 
 That from the whole of life's survey 
 
 We may find peace at last ! 
 
HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. TTT BARNSTABLE. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. ^^^* G major. 
 
 The Christian Sabbath, 
 
 1 Again our weekly labours end, 
 And we the sabbath's call attend : 
 Now use, our souls ! the sacred rest, 
 And learn forever to be blest. 
 
 2 This day may our devotions rise 
 To heav'n a grateful sacrifice ; 
 
 May heav'n that peace divine bestow, 
 Which none but they who feel it know ! 
 
 3 This heavenly calm within the breast 
 Is the dear pledge of glorious rest, 
 Which for the sons of God remains. 
 The end of cares, and toils, and pains. 
 
 4 In varied scenes, both old and new. 
 
 With joy, great God ! thy works we view ; 
 In praise recal thy mercies past. 
 In hope thy future mercies taste. 
 
 5 In holy duties let the day. 
 
 In hory pleasures, pass aw^ay : 
 
 How sweet the sabbath thus to spend 
 
 In hope of that which ne'er shall end ! 
 
HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE, T"y ARLINGT»N. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. -■■¥•• q major. 
 
 Morning of Loud's day* 
 
 I Ea-rly, my God ! without delay, 
 I haste to seek thy face : 
 My thirsty spirit faints away, 
 Without thy cheering grace. 
 
 2 So pilgrims on the scorching sand, 
 Beneath a burning sky, 
 Long for a cooling stream at handy 
 And they must drink or die. 
 
 Not life itself, wi\h all its joys, 
 Can my best passions move ; 
 Or raise so high m.y grateful voice, 
 As thy forgiving love. 
 
 Thus, till my last expiring day, 
 I'll bless my God and king : 
 Thus will I lift my hands to pray^ 
 And tune my lips to sing. 
 
HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. TT CA8TLE-STREET» 
 
 Fourline stanzas. ^ • G major. 
 
 The eternal sabbath. 
 
 1 GroD of the sabbath ! hear our vows, 
 On this thy day, in this thy house ; 
 And own, as grateful sacrifice, 
 
 The songs which from thy churches rise, 
 
 2 Thine earthly sabbaths, Lord, we love : 
 But there's a nobler rest above ; 
 
 Thy servants to that rest aspire 
 With ardent hope and strong desire, 
 
 3 Tliere languor shall no more oppress ; 
 The heart shall feel no more distress ; 
 No groans shall mingle with the songs 
 That dwell upon immortal tongues. 
 
 4 No gloomy cares shall there annoy ; 
 No conscious guilt disturb our joy ; 
 But every doubt and fear shall cease, 
 And perfect love give perfect peace. 
 
 5 When shall that glorious day begin, 
 Beyond the reach of death or sin ; 
 Whose sun shall never more decline^ 
 But with unfading lustre shine ? 
 
 o2 . 
 
HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. XTJ TRANQUILLA- 
 
 Fourliae stanzas. ▼ x. B5 major. 
 
 Delight in the ivorshifi o/'GoD. 
 
 1 One privilege my heart desires : 
 LoiiD ! grant me an abode 
 Within the churches of thy saints. 
 The temples of my God. 
 
 2 There shall I offer my requests, 
 And see th} glory still ; 
 
 Shall hear thy messages of love, 
 And learn thy holy will. 
 
 SECOND METRE. MOLESWORTH, 
 
 Fourline stanzas. F major. 
 
 The same. 
 
 1 Let the unthinking many say, 
 Who will bestow some earthly good ? 
 Lord ! for thy light, and love we pray ; 
 Our souls desire this heav'nly food. 
 
 2 Surely the mercies of the Lord 
 Attend his household all their days : 
 There will we dwell to hear his word^ 
 To seek his face and sing his praise. 
 
HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. VTT BRIGHTON, 
 
 Fourline stanzas. v ±a. A major. 
 
 Homage and devotion. 
 
 1 "With sacred joy we lift our eyes 
 To those bright realms above, 
 That glorious temple in the skies^ 
 Where dwells eternal love. 
 
 2 Before the awful throne we bow 
 Of heav'n's almight}- king : 
 Here we present the solemn vow. 
 And hymns of praise we sing. 
 
 3 Thee we adore ; and, Lord ! to thee 
 Our filial duty pay : 
 
 Thy service, unconstrain'd and free, 
 Conducts to endless day. 
 
 4 While in thy house of pray'r we kneel 
 W^ith trust and holy fear, 
 
 Thy mercy and thy truth reveal, 
 And lend a gracious ear. 
 
 5 With fervour teach our hearts to pray, 
 And tune our lips to sing ; 
 
 Nor from thy presence cast away 
 The sacrifice we bring. 
 
8 HYMNS. 
 
 FOURTH METRE. VTTT WHICH ARCU. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. » aax» q major. 
 
 The house of fir ay er. 
 
 1 Gtreat Father of mankind I 
 We bless that vvond'rous grace, 
 Which couid for Gentiles find 
 Within thy courts a place. 
 
 How kind the care Our God displays, 
 For us to raise A house of pray'r ! 
 
 2 May all the nations throng 
 To worship in thy house ; 
 And thou attend the song 
 And smile upon their vows ; 
 
 Indulgent still, Till earth conspire 
 
 To join the choir On heav'n's high hill I 
 
 SECOND METRE. OLD HUNDRED. 
 
 Fourline stanzas A major. 
 
 77ie same. 
 
 1 Eternal source of life and thought ! 
 Be all beneath thy self forgot ; 
 
 W^hile thee, great parent-mind ! we own. 
 In prostrate homage round thy throne. 
 
 2 O may we live before thy face. 
 The willing subjects of thy grace ; 
 And through each path oi duty move 
 With filial awe, and filial love ! 
 
HYMN S. 
 
 FIRST METRE. TV NEW-YORK, 
 
 Fourline stanzas. ■■-^* F major. 
 
 God the creator of man. 
 
 1 A God ! a God ! the wide earth shouts- 
 A God ! the heav'ns reply : 
 
 He moulded in his palm the world, 
 And hung it in the sky. 
 
 2 Let us make man — with beauty clad? 
 And health in ev'ry vein, 
 
 And reason thron'd upon his brow, 
 Stepp'd forth majestick man. 
 
 3 Around he turns his wond'ring eyes. 
 All nature's works surveys ; 
 Admires the earth, the skies, himself ! 
 And tries his tongue in praise. 
 
 4 Ye hills, and vales ! ye meads and woods ! 
 Bright sun and glitt'ring stars ! 
 
 Fair creatures, tell me, if ye can. 
 Whence, why, and what I am. 
 
 5 What parent pow'r, all great and good. 
 Do these around me own ? 
 
 Tell me, creation, tell me how 
 T' adore the vast unknown ! 
 
10 HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE, V UTICA. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. **•• G major. 
 
 Religious princifiles, 
 
 1 Eternal and immortal king ! 
 
 Thy peerless splendours none can bear \ 
 But darkness veils seraphick eyes, 
 When God with all his glory's there. 
 
 2 Yet faith can pierce the awful gloom^ 
 The great invisible can see ; 
 
 Aiid with its tremblings mingle joy, 
 In fix'd regards, great God, to thee ! 
 
 3 Then ev'ry tempting form of sin, 
 Aw'd by thy presence, disappears ; 
 And all the glowing raptur'd soul, 
 The likeness it contemplates, wears. 
 
 4 jO ever conscious to my heart ! 
 Witness to its supreme desire : 
 Behold it presses on to thee, 
 
 For it hath caught the heav'nly fire.. 
 
 5 This one petition would it urge — 
 To bear thee ever in its sight, 
 
 In life, in death, in worlds unknown;, 
 Its only portion and delight. 
 
HYMNS. 11 
 
 FJR.ST MFTRE. VT ST.MARTIN^; 
 
 Fourline stanzas. a^x« ^ in*jor» 
 
 Design of God's works 
 
 1 Songs of immortal praise belong 
 To our almighty God ; 
 
 He has our ^leart, and he our tongue, 
 To spread his name abroad. 
 
 2 How great the works his hand hath wrought ! 
 How glorious in our sight ! 
 
 And men in ev'ry age have sought 
 His wonders with delight. 
 
 3 How most exact is nature's frame ! 
 How wise th' eternal mmd ! 
 
 His counsels never change the scheme. 
 That his first thoughts designed. 
 
 4 Nature, and time, and earth, and skies, 
 Thy heav'nly skill proclaim : 
 
 What shall we do to make us wise. 
 But learn to know thy name P 
 
 .5 To fear thy pow'r, to trust thy grace, 
 Is our divinest skill ; 
 And he's the wisest of our race, 
 Who best obeys thy will. 
 
12 HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. VTT CONCORD. 
 
 Fourli&e stanzas. -ivxx, Ebouyor 
 
 T/ie fierfections of God displayed in his works. 
 
 1 V^E sing th' almighty power of God, 
 Who bade the mountains rise, 
 
 Who spread the flowing seas abroad, 
 And built the lofty skies. 
 
 2 We sing the wisdom that ordain 'd 
 The sun to rule the day ; 
 
 The moon shines bright at his command, 
 And all the stars obey. 
 
 3 We sing the goodness of the Lord, 
 Who fills the earth with food ; 
 Who form'd his creatures by a word, 
 And then pronounc'd them good. 
 
 4 Lord, how thy wonders are display 'd 
 Where'er we turn our eyes ; 
 Whether we view the ground we tread, 
 Or gaze upon the skies ! 
 
 5 There's not a plant nor fiow'r below. 
 But makes thy glories known ; 
 And clouds arise, and tempests blow, 
 By order from thy throne. 
 
HYMNS. IS 
 
 FIRST METRE. VTTT MEAR, 
 
 FSi&rline stanzas. .^vxa*. ©major. 
 
 Poiver of God. 
 
 1 'TwAs God, who hurPd the rolling spheres, 
 And stretch'd the boundless skies ; 
 
 Who form'd the plan of endless years, 
 And bade the ages rise, 
 
 2 From everlasting is his might. 
 Immense and unconfin'd : 
 
 He pierces through the realms of light, 
 And rides upon the wind. 
 
 3 He darts along the burning skies ; 
 Loud thunders round him roar : 
 All heav'n attends him as he flies, 
 And hell proclaims his pow'r. 
 
 4 He speaks, and nature's wheels stand still, 
 And leave their wonted round ; 
 
 The mountains melt ; the trembling hills 
 Forsake their ancient bound. 
 
 5 Ye w^orlds with every living thing. 
 Fulfil his high command : 
 Mortals pay homage to your king. 
 And own his ruling hand. 
 
14 HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. VTV LAMBETH. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. -^1 V . A major. 
 
 Divine counsels. 
 
 Keep silence, all created things, 
 
 A.nd own your maker God ! 
 
 My trembling soul with rev'rence sings, 
 
 And spreads his name abroad. 
 
 Life, death, and hell, and worlds unknown 
 
 Hang on his firm decree ; 
 
 He sits on no precarious throne, 
 
 Nor borrows leave to be. 
 
 Before his throne a volume lies 
 
 With all the fates of men ; 
 
 With ev'ry angel's form and size 
 
 Drawn by th' eternal pen. 
 
 Unn umber 'd ages ere the skies 
 
 Were into motion brought, 
 
 Whate'er through endless years should rise 
 
 Stood present to his thought. 
 
 His mighty voice bids ancient night 
 
 Her endless realms resign ; 
 
 And lo ! ten thousand globes of light 
 
 In fields of azure shine. 
 
 His wisdom with superior sway 
 
 Guides the vast moving frame ; 
 
 While all the ranks of beings pay 
 
 Deep rev'rence to his name. 
 
HYMNS. 15 
 
 FIRST METRE. VV DErTENGEN. 
 
 Eightlinc stanzas. -<rv v . G nujor, 
 
 Omnipresence and omniscience of God. 
 
 1 GtkeatGod, how vast is thine abode ! 
 Mysterious are thy ways ; 
 
 Unseen thy footsteps in the air, 
 
 And trackless in the seas. 
 
 Yet the whole peopl'd world bespeaks 
 
 Thy being and thy pow'r, 
 
 'Midst the resplendent blaze of day, 
 
 The awful midnight hour. 
 
 2 Nor all the peopl'd worlds alone, 
 Rich fields and verdant plains — 
 But lonely wilds by man untrod, 
 Where silent horrour reigns. 
 Tempests and storms that sweep the sky, 
 And cataracts sublime ; 
 
 Volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, 
 That waste the torrid clime : 
 
 3 Vast caverns deep, and cloud-topt hills, 
 Huge mountains rude and bare, 
 Terrifick rocks and swelling waves-— 
 Thy grandeur all declare. 
 
 Through all creation's widest range 
 The hand of heav'n is near. 
 Where'er we wander in the world, 
 Lo ! God is present there. 
 
16 HYMNS. 
 
 SBCGKD ^fETRE. VVT ISLUJGTON. 
 
 Fouflinc stanzas. XV. V 1, q major. 
 
 God's dominion oier the seas. 
 
 1 GroD of the seas ! thy thund'ring voice 
 Makes all the roaring waves rejoice ; 
 And one soft M^ord of thy command 
 Can sink them silent in the sand. 
 
 2 The scaly tribes amidst the sea, 
 To thee, their Lord, a tribute pay : 
 The meanest fish that swims the flood 
 Proclaims the mighty pow'r of God. 
 
 3 How is thy glorious pow'r ador*d 
 Amidst the wat'ry nations. Lord ! 
 Yet the bold men who trace the seas, 
 Shall they refuse their maker's praise ? 
 
 4 When scenes of wonder here they see, 
 Then let them raise a song to thee ; 
 And, Vv^hile the flood they safely ride, 
 Bless the kind hand that smoothes the tide. 
 
HYMN S. K 
 
 TENTH METRE. VVTT LQDI. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. .TV V AX. G major. 
 
 Thanks to God for creation and fir enervation. 
 
 1 JL Hou pow'r supreme, by whose command we live I 
 The grateful tribute of our praise receive : 
 To thine indulgence we our being owe, 
 And all thy joys, which from that being flow. 
 Not many suns have form'd the rolling year, 
 And run their destin'd courses round this sphere. 
 Since thy creative eye our jrm survey'd, 
 'Midst undistinguish'd heaps of matter laid. 
 
 3 Thy skill our elemental clay refin'd, 
 The vagrant particles in order join'd ! 
 AVith perfect symmetry compos'd the whole, 
 And stamp'd thy sacred image on the soul ; 
 A soul suscceptible of endless joy. 
 Whose frame, nor force, nor time shall e'er destroy ; 
 Which shall survive, though nature claim our breath, 
 And bid defiance to the darts of death : 
 
 To realms of bliss with active freedom soar, 
 And live when earth and skies shall be no more ^ 
 Author of life ! in vain our tongue essays 
 For this immortal gift to sing thy praise. 
 How shall our hearts their g!"ateful sense rcveal> 
 Where all the energy of words must fail ? 
 O may its influence in our life appear. 
 And ev'ry action prove our thanks sincere ■ 
 
18 HYMNS, 
 
 ELEVENTH METRE. VVTTT BETHEL. 
 
 iPourllne stanzas. ■*»- ' *-*-^» F major. 
 
 God our shepherd and guardian. 
 
 1 J. HE Lord is our shepherd, our guardian, and guide ; 
 AYnattvei we want, he will kindly provide ! 
 To tlie sheep of his pasture his mercies abound, 
 His care and protection his flock will surround. 
 
 2 The Lord is our shepherd ; what then shall we fear ? 
 What danger can frighten us while he is near ? 
 Not When the time calls us to walkthrough the vale 
 Of the shadow of death, shall our hearts ever fail : 
 
 8 Though afraid, of ourselves, to pursue the dark way, 
 Tiiy rod and thy staff be our comfort and stay ; 
 For we know by thy guidance, when once it is past, 
 To a fountain of life it will bring us at last. 
 
 4 The Lord is become our salvation and song, 
 His blessings have follow'd us all our life long ; 
 His n;!me will we praise while we have any breath, 
 Be content all our life, and resign'd in our death. 
 
HYMNS. 19 
 
 PWBLPTH METRE. VTV CHBRRKPO^f,- 
 
 Sixlinc stanzas. .rvi.^V. Bb-xaajOfc 
 
 The never-ceasing goodness of God. 
 
 1 House of our God, with cheerful anthems 
 
 ring, 
 While all our lips and hearts his goodness sing ; 
 With sacredjoyhis wond'rousdeeds proclaim ; 
 Let ev'ry tongue be vocal with his name ; 
 Tiie Lord is good, his mercy never-ending ; 
 His blessings in perpetual show'rs descending. 
 
 2 His goodness never fails ; the dawn, the shade 
 Siill see new bounties through new scenes 
 
 displayed ; 
 Succeeding ages bless this sure abode, 
 And children lean upon their fathers' God. 
 The deathless soul, thro' its immense duration, 
 Drinks from this source immortai consolation. 
 
 3 Burst into praise, our souls ! all nature join ; 
 Angels and men, in harmony combine ; 
 While human years are measur'd by the sun. 
 Yea, while eternity its course shall run, 
 
 His .2;oodness in perpetual show'rs descending, 
 Exalt in songs and raptures never-ending. 
 
20 HYMNS. 
 
 SEVENTH METRE. ^AT FOXCROFT 
 
 Fourline stanzas, x\x\., p m^joj. 
 
 The perfections and providence of God, 
 
 1 Ijet us with a joyful mind 
 Praise the Lord, for he is kind : 
 For his mercies shall endure, 
 Ever faithful, ever sure. 
 
 2 Let us sound his name abroad, 
 For of gods he is the God : 
 Who by wisdom did create 
 
 The heav'ns high, and all their state : 
 
 3 Did the solid earth ordain 
 How to rise above the main : 
 Who, by his commanding might, 
 Fiil'd the new-made world with lightl 
 
 4 Caus'd the golden-tressed sun, 
 All the day his course to run : 
 And the moon to shine by night, 
 'Mid her spangPd sisters bright. 
 
 5 All his creatures God does feed, 
 His full hand supplies their need : 
 Let us therefore warble fc^rth 
 His high majesty and worth. 
 
HYMNS. ^ 
 
 SEVENTH METRE. VVT FINBDOW. 
 
 Sixline stanzas, <^X-<rvA. G m^or. 
 
 h 
 
 Praise to God for his greatness and mercy, 
 
 1 txLORY be to God on high ! 
 God whose glory fills the sky, 
 Peace on earth to man forgiv'n, 
 Man the well-belov'd of heav'n : 
 Glory be to God on high, 
 
 God whose glory fills the sky. 
 
 2 Favour'd mortals, raise the song ; 
 Endless thanks to God belong : 
 Hearts o'erflowing with his praise, 
 Join the hymns your voices raise : 
 Glory be to God on high, 
 
 God whose glory fills the sky, 
 
 3 Call the tribes of beings round, 
 P'rom creation's utmost bound ; 
 Where the godhead shines confessM? 
 There be solemn praise address'd - 
 Glory be to God on high, 
 
 God whose glory fills the sky. 
 
 4 Mark the wonders of his hand ! 
 Pow'r, no empire can withstand ; 
 Wisdom, angels' glorious theme ; 
 Goodness, one eternal stream : 
 Glory be to God on high, 
 
 God whose glory fills the sky. 
 
 5 Awful being ! from thy throne 
 Send thy promis'd blessings down : 
 Let thy light, thy truth, thy peace, 
 Bid our raging passions cease ; 
 Glory be to God on high, 
 
 God whose glory fills the sky I 
 
22 HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. VVTT LITCHFIELD. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. -:\..^ll, ^ major. ' 
 
 Praise to the divme goodness. 
 
 Awake, my soul ! awake my tongue ! 
 My God demands the grateful song : 
 Let all my nobler pow'rs record 
 The wond'rous mercy of the Lord. 
 
 2 Divinely free his mercy flows, 
 
 Forgives my crimes, allays my wos : 
 He bids approaching death remove, 
 And crowns me with indulgent love. 
 
 3 He fills my longing soul with good ; 
 Substantial bliss ! immortal food I 
 Youth smiles renew 'd in active prime, 
 And triumphs o'er the pow'r of time. 
 
 4 In him the poor opprest shall find 
 A friend almighty, just, and kind ; 
 His glorious acts, his wond'rous ways. 
 To all the world proclaim his praise. 
 
HYMN S. 23 
 
 SECOND METRE. WTTT PORTUGAL; 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. -^-<rvxii. G m<gor. 
 
 Divine mercy ajid truth. 
 
 1 Now to the Lord, a joyful song ! 
 Awake, my soul ! awake, my tongue ! 
 Hosanna to th' eternal name, 
 And all his boundless love proclaim ! 
 
 5 The spacious earth, and spreading flood, 
 Proclaim the wise, and powerful God, 
 And his rich glories from afar 
 Sparkle in ev'ry rolling star. 
 
 3 Forever shall my song record 
 
 The truth and mercy of the Lord : 
 Mercy and truth forever stand. 
 Like heav'n establish'd by his hand. 
 
 FIRST METRE. SYDENHAM. 
 
 Fourline stanzas, C major. 
 
 The same. 
 
 1 Ij£t heav'n, and all that dwell on high, 
 To Gop their voices raise ; 
 
 While lands and seas assist the sky 
 To celebrate his praise. 
 
 2 Let the whole earth his love proclaim, 
 With all her different tongues ! 
 
 And spread the honours of his name 
 In melody and songs. 
 
2* HYMNS. 
 
 FOURTH METRE. XXTV BETHESUA. 
 
 JEightUne stanzas. xv-^VA v • Gm^^Jot. 
 
 Universal Praise to Gou, 
 
 1 liET all the nations fear 
 The God who rules above ; 
 He brings his people near, 
 And makes them taste his love. 
 
 When earth and sky Attempt his praise, 
 His saints shall raise His honours high. 
 
 2 Ye vapours, hail, and snow, 
 Praise ye th' almighty Lord, 
 And stormy winds that blow, 
 To execute his word. 
 
 When light'nings shine. Or thunders roar, 
 Let earth adore His hand divine, 
 
 3 Ye kings, and judges, fear 
 
 The Lord ; the sov'reign king ; 
 
 And while you rule us here, 
 
 His heav'nly honours sing : 
 Nor let the dream Of pow'r and state, 
 Make you forget His pow'r supreme. 
 
 4 Ye vigorous youths, engage 
 To sound his praise divine. 
 While infancy and age 
 Their feebler voices join. 
 
 Wide as he reigns, His name be sung 
 By ev'ry tongue In endless strains. 
 
HYMNS. 25 
 
 SEVENTH METRE. VVV .^OTTOIT, 
 
 Fourline stanzas. -rv-rv v . Eb major. 
 
 The harmony of praise, 
 
 1 Thou who sitt'st enthron'd above ! 
 Thou, in whom we live and move ! 
 Thou, who art most great, most high ! 
 God, from all eternity ! 
 
 2 O, how sweet, how excellent, 
 
 'Tis when tongue and heart consent ; 
 Grateful hearts and joyful tongues, 
 Hymning thee in tuneful songs ! 
 
 3 When the morning paints the skies, 
 When the stars of ev'ning rise. 
 We thy praises will record, 
 Sov'reign ruler ! mighty Lord ! 
 
 4 Decks the spring with flow'rs the field ? 
 Harvest rich doth autumn yield ? 
 Giver of all good below I 
 
 Lord, from thee these blessings flow. 
 
 5 Sov'reign ruler ! mighty Lord ! 
 We thy praises will record : 
 Giver of these blessings ! we 
 Pour the grateful song to thee. 
 
26 HYMNS. 
 
 EIGHTEENTH METRE. VWT ANDES. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. .^\.x\. \ 1, q jngjor. 
 
 Praise to God /7'Ofn all nature. 
 
 1 O AZURE vaults ! O crystal sky ! 
 The world's transparent canopy ! 
 Break your long silence, and let mortals know, 
 With what contempt you look onthmgs below. 
 
 2 O light ! thou fairest, first of things, 
 From whom all joy, all beauty springs ; 
 O praise th' almighty ruler of the globe, 
 Vv no useth thee as his imperial robe. 
 
 3 Great eye of all ! whose glorious ray 
 Ruies the bright empire of the day ; 
 O praise his name, without whose purer light, 
 Thou hadst been hid in an abyss of night. 
 
 4 Ye moon, and planets ! who dispense 
 By God's command your influence ; 
 Resign to him, as to your maker due, 
 That homage which man's iblly pays to you. 
 
HYMNS. ^7 
 
 EIGHTEENTH METRE. V V VTT CRAFTSBURY. 
 
 Foiirline stanzas. -^-^ \ M.1, C major. 
 
 Praise to God from all nature. 
 
 1 Ye mists and vapours, hail and snow, 
 And you who through tne concave blow, 
 Swift to perform the mandates of his word. 
 Whirlwinds and tempests ! praise th' al- 
 mighty Lord. 
 
 2 Praise him, ye monsters of the deep, 
 That in the sea's vast bosom sleep ; 
 
 At whose command the foaming billows roar, 
 Yet know their limits, tremble, and adore. 
 
 3 Praise him, old monuments of time ! 
 O praise him, ye in youthful prime ! 
 All ye who shine in beauty's excellence ! 
 And praise him, thou sweet age of innocence ! 
 
 4 Let the wide world his praises sing. 
 From whom its various blessings spring : 
 Let echoing anthems make his praises known, 
 On earth his footstool, as in heav'n his throne ! 
 
28 HYMNS. 
 
 FIFTH METRE. VYVTTT KEW. 
 
 Sixline stanzas. .^V.^^ V ill. F major. 
 
 The praise of nature. 
 
 1 Thou heav'n of heav'ns, his vast abode^ 
 Ye clouds, proclaim }our maker, God, 
 Ye thunders, speak his pow'r ; 
 
 Lo ! on the light'ning's rapid wings 
 In triumph rides the king of kings, 
 Th' astonisL*'d worlds adore. 
 
 2 Ye deeps, with roaring billows rise, 
 To join the thunder of the skies, 
 Praise him who bids you roll ; 
 His praise in softer notes declare, 
 Each whisp'ring breeze of yielding air, 
 And breathe it to the soul. 
 
 3 Wake, all ye soaring throng, and sing \ 
 Ye cheerful warblers of the spring, 
 Harmonious anthems raise ; 
 
 To him who shap'd your finer mould. 
 Who tipt your glitt'ring wings with gold, 
 And tun'd your voice to praise. 
 
 4 Let man, by nobler passions sway'd, 
 The feeling heart, the reas'ning head. 
 In heav'nly praise employ ; 
 
 Spread the creator's name around. 
 
 Till heaven's wide arch repeat the sound.. 
 
 The general burst of joy. 
 
HYMNS. 29 
 
 EIGHTH METRE. VVTy DAVENPORT. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. .^V-^Vl.^. G noajw. 
 
 Gratitude to the author of nature. 
 
 1 How cheerful the field, and the mead I 
 How gay does ail nature appear ! 
 The flocks as they carelessly feed, 
 Rejoice in the spring of the year. 
 
 2 The foliage that shades the gay bow'rs, 
 . Tlie herbage that springs from the sod, 
 Trees, plants, cooling fruits, and sweet flow'rSj 
 All rise to the praise of oui God. 
 
 3 Shall man, the great master of all, 
 The only insensible prove ? 
 Forbid it, fair gratitude's call ! 
 Forbid it, devotion and love ! 
 
 4 The God who such wonders can raise. 
 His name be for ever ador'd ! 
 Our lips shall incessantly praise, 
 Our hearts shall rejoice in the Lord .. 
 
 ^2 
 
3b H Y M N S. 
 
 SEVENTH IJETRE. VVV CHAUNCY- 
 
 rovfline stanzas, x\..^-^. D major. 
 
 Praise in firosfierity, 
 
 1 Praise to God, immortal praise, 
 For the love that crowns our days, 
 Bounteous source of ev'ry joy ! 
 Let thy praise our songs employ : 
 
 2 For the blessings of the field, 
 For the stores the gardens yield ; 
 For the vine's exalted juice, 
 For the gen'rous olive's use. 
 
 3 Flocks that whiten all the plain, 
 Yellow sheaves of ripen 'd grain. 
 Clouds that drop their fatt'ning dews, 
 Suns that temp'rate warmth diffuse : 
 
 4 All that spring with bounteous hand 
 Scatters o'er the smiling land : 
 
 All that lib'ral autumn pours 
 From her rich o'erflowing stores : 
 
 5 These to thee, our God ! we owe, 
 Source whence all our blessings flow ! 
 And for these our souls shall raise 
 Grateful vows and solemn praise. 
 
HYMNS, si 
 
 SEVENTH METilE. V V V T KGRTOH. 
 
 EightUne stanzas. w^-^-r\.x. A major. 
 
 Praise in adversity. 
 
 1 Yet, O God ! should whirlwinds tear 
 From its stem the rip'ning ear ; 
 Should the fig-tree's blasted shoot 
 Drop her green untimely fruit : 
 
 2 Should the vine put forth no more, 
 Nor the olive yield her store : 
 Though the sick'ning flocks should fall 
 And the herds desert the stall ; 
 
 Should thine alter'd hand restrain 
 Th' early and the latter rain ; 
 Blast each op'ning bud of joy, 
 And the rising year destroy : 
 
 4 Still to thee our souls shall raise 
 Grateful vows and solemn praise ; 
 And, when ev'ry blessing's flown, 
 Love thee — for thyself alone. 
 
32 HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. VWTT BROOMSGROVE. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. ,/v-^v.^vxi. q it\n]ot. 
 
 Praise and fhanksgiving. 
 
 1 Come, let us join our cheerful songs 
 With angels round the throne ; 
 
 Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, 
 But all their joys are one. 
 
 2 Thou, Lord ! art worthy to receive 
 Honour and povv'r dlA ine ; 
 
 And blessings more than we can give 
 Be, Lord ! forever thine, 
 
 3 Let all that dwell above the sky, 
 And air, and earth, and seas. 
 Conspire to lift thy glories high, 
 And speak thine endless praise. 
 
 SECOND METRE. BROMLEY. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. G major. 
 
 The same. 
 
 1 The wonders. Lord! thy love has wrought, 
 Exceed our praise, surpass our thought : 
 Should we attempt the long detail, 
 
 Our speech would faint, our numbers fail. 
 
 2 Let all the sons of men record 
 
 The wond'rous goodness of the Lord : 
 How great his works ! how kirid his ways ! 
 Let ev'ry tongue pronounce his praise. 
 
HYMNS. 3^ 
 
 NINTH METRE. VVVTTT STOCKWELL. 
 
 I Fourline stanzas. .^.^X^XXA. C m^or. 
 
 Thanksgiving and firaise. 
 
 1 "]My soul, praise the Lord, speak good of his 
 
 name !'* 
 His mercies record, his bounties proclaim : 
 To God, their creator, let all creatures raise 
 The song of thanksgiving, the chorus of praise I 
 
 2 Though, hid from man's sight, God sits on his throne, 
 Yet here by his works their author is known : 
 
 The world shines a mirror its maker to show, 
 And heav'n views its image reflected below. 
 
 3 Those agents of pow'r, fire, water, earth, sky. 
 Attest the drei^d might of God the most high : 
 Who rides on the whirl-wind while clouds veil his 
 
 form ; 
 Who smiles in the sunbeam, or frowns in the storm. 
 
 4 By knowledge supreme, by wisdom divine, 
 God governs this earth with gracious dtsign : 
 O'er beast, bird, and insect, his providence reigns. 
 Whose will first created, whose love still sustains. 
 
 5 And man, his last work, with reason endu'd, 
 Who, falling through sin, by grace is renew'd ;— . 
 To God, his creator, let man ever raise 
 
 The song of thanksgiving, the chorus of praise ! 
 
34 HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. 'X'VVTV BLENDON. 
 
 fourline Stanzas. u\../\x\.x \ , D major. 
 
 The bounty of providence sfiiritualized. 
 
 1 Father of lights ! we sing thy name, 
 Who kindl'st up the lamp of day ; 
 Wide as he spreads his golden flame, 
 His beams thy pow'r and love display. 
 
 2 Fountain of good ! from thee proceed 
 The copious drops of genial rain, 
 Which 'midst the hills and thro' the meads, 
 Revive the grass, and swell the grain. 
 
 3 Thro' the wide world thy bounties spread ; 
 Ytt millions of our guilty race, 
 Though by thy daily bounty fed, 
 Despise thy law, and slight thy grace. 
 
 4 Not so may our forgetful hearts 
 O'erlook the tokens of thy care ; 
 But what thy lib'ral hand impart. 
 Still own in praise, still ask in pray'r. 
 
 5 So shall our suns more grateful shine, 
 And show'rs in richer drops shall fall, 
 When all our hearts and lives are thine, 
 And thou, O God ! enjoy 'd in all. 
 
HYMNS. 33 
 
 FIFTH METRE. WW REDEMPTION, 
 
 Sixline stanzas. -<rv/V-fV V . C major. 
 
 Submission to the divine ivilL 
 
 1 Almighty king of heav'n above, 
 huicnrdl source of truth and love, 
 Aad Lord of all below ! 
 With rev'rence and religious fear, 
 Permit thy suppliants to draw near, 
 And at thy feet to bow. 
 
 5 All things are under thy control, 
 Eternal wisdom rules the whole, 
 Educing good from ill ; 
 Submissive therefore we resign, 
 Our wills are swallow'd up in thine, 
 In thy most holy will. 
 
 3 In heav'n above, thy will is done, 
 There, angels wait around thy throne, 
 Thy counsels to obey ; 
 
 - Adoring at thy feet they fall, 
 Confess thee, sov'reign Lord of all. 
 And own thy pow'rful sway. 
 
 4 Lord, may we join the heav'nly throng, 
 May mortals learn th' angelic song, 
 Who dwell beneath the sun ; 
 
 May ev'ry tongue thy praise proclaim. 
 This be the universal theme, 
 *' Jehovah's will be done.'' 
 
36 HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. VYVVT PEN8AMCE. 
 
 Elghtline stanzas. ^vxv-iv v J.. F major. 
 
 Gratitude for divine mercies. 
 
 1 tY HEN all thy mercies, O my God, 
 My rising soul surveys, 
 Transported with the view, I'm lost 
 In wonder, love, and praise. 
 
 Thy providence my life sustain'd, 
 And all my wants redress'd, 
 When in the silent womb I lay, 
 Or hung upon the breast. 
 
 2 To all my weak complaints and cries 
 Thy mercy lent an ear, 
 
 Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learn'd 
 To form themselves in prayer. 
 Unnumbered comforts on my soul 
 Thy tender care bestow 'd ; 
 Before my infant heart conceiv'd 
 From whom those comforts flow'd. 
 
 .3 When in the slipp'ry paths of youth 
 With heedless steps I ran, 
 Thine arm unseen convey 'd me safe. 
 And led me up to man. 
 Through hidden dangers, toils, and death, 
 It gently clear'd my way ; 
 And through the pleasing snares of vice, 
 More to be fear'd than they. 
 
HYMN S. 37 
 
 FIRST METRE. ^TYXVTT ST, ASAPHS; 
 
 Eightline sunzas, ^v^v^x v xx. Bb major. 
 
 Gratitude for divine mercies, 
 
 T^HEN pale with sickness, oft hast thou 
 
 With health renew 'd my face ; 
 
 And when in sin and sorrow sunk, 
 
 Reviv'd my soul with grace. 
 
 Thy bounteous hand with worldly good 
 
 Has made my cup run o'er ; 
 
 And in a kind and faithful friend 
 
 Has doubled all my store. 
 
 Ten thousand thousand precious gifts 
 My daily thanks employ, 
 Nor is the least a cheerful heart, 
 That tastes those gifts with joy. 
 Through ev'ry period of my life, 
 Thy goodness I'll pursue ; 
 And after death in distant worlds, 
 The glorious theme renew. 
 
 When nature fails, and day and night 
 
 Divide the time no more, 
 
 My ever grateful heart, O Lord, 
 
 Thy mercy shall adore. 
 
 Through all eternity to thee 
 
 A jo;,ful song I'll raise : 
 
 For O, eternity's too short 
 
 To utter all thy praise. 
 
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as HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. XXXVTTT SHARON. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. -^^-^.^ V HI. D major. 
 
 Gratitude for all things » 
 
 1 GroD of my life, my thanks to thee, 
 Shall, like my debts, continual be ; 
 In constant streams thy bounty flows, 
 Nor end, nor intermission knows, 
 
 2 From thee, my comforts all arise, 
 
 My num'rous wants thy hand supplies ; 
 Nor can I need or wish for more 
 Than thou canst furnish from thy store, 
 
 3 If what I ask, my God denies. 
 It is because he's good and wise ; 
 And what for evils I mistake, 
 
 He can my greatest blessings make. 
 
 4 Deep, Lord, upon my thankful breast, 
 Let all thy goodness be impress'd ; 
 Dispose me, each revolving day. 
 
 For daily gifts my praise to pay. 
 
 5 In praise I'll spend my latest breath, 
 Then yield it to the call of death ; 
 In hope that thou my flesh wilt raise, 
 To celebrate thy deathless praise. 
 
 
HYMNS. 39 
 
 FOURTH METRE. XXXTX '^^RhlJJSTr^^* 
 
 Eightline itanzas. u^.A-^liV. Bb major. 
 
 God faithful to his promises. 
 
 The promises I sing, 
 Which love supreme hath spoke, 
 Nor will th' eternal king 
 His words of grace revoke : 
 
 They stand secure. 
 
 And steadfast still ; 
 
 Not Sion's hill 
 
 Abides so sure. 
 
 The mountains melt away, 
 When once the Judge appears. 
 And sun and moon decay, 
 That measure mortal years : 
 
 But still the same 
 
 In radiant lines 
 
 His promise shines 
 
 Through all the flame. 
 
 Their harmony shall sound 
 Through my attentive ears, 
 When thunders cleave the ground, 
 And dissipate the spheres : 
 
 'Midst all the shock 
 
 Oi that dread scene, 
 
 I stand serene. 
 
 Thy word my rock. 
 
*& HYMNS. 
 
 ElGHTtt METRE. xry PERSIA. 
 
 Tourlme stanza*. ^\.xu, A minor. 
 
 God the only refuge of the afflicted, 
 
 1 How vast is the tribute I owe 
 Of gratitude, homage, and praise, 
 To the giver of all I possess, 
 The life and the length of my days ! 
 
 2 Thou alone, the great author of all ! 
 The faithful, unchangeable friend ! 
 Thou alone all our griefs canst remove,- 
 Thou alone, from all evils defend. 
 
 3 When the sorrows I boded were come, 
 I pour'd out my sighs and my tears ; 
 And to him who alone can relieve 
 My soul breath'd her vows and her pray'rs. 
 
 4 When my heart throbb'd with anguish and 
 pain. 
 When paleness my cheek overspread — 
 When sickness pervaded my frame ; 
 Then my soul on my maker was staid. 
 
 
HYMNS. 41 
 
 EIGHTH METRE, YT T WADSWORTH. 
 
 Fourline stan/as. -<r\.l^l. Eb major. 
 
 God the only refuge of the afflicted, 
 
 1 W"hen death's awful image was nigh, 
 And no mortal was able to save, 
 Thou didst brighten the valley of death, 
 And illumine the gloom of the grave. 
 
 2 In mercy thy presence dispels 
 
 The shades of affliction's dark night, 
 
 . And turns the sad scene of despair 
 To a morning of joy and delight. 
 
 3 Great source of my comforts restor -d ! 
 Thou soother and balm of my wos ! 
 Thou hope and desire of my soul ! 
 On thy mercy I'll ever repose. 
 
 4 How boundless the gratitude due 
 To thee, O thou God of my praise ; 
 The fountain of all I possess, 
 The life and the light of my days ! 
 
 R 'JL 
 
12 PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. VT TT OPORTO. 
 
 f outline stanzas. jr^l^Ll, ^ major. 
 
 JResi^nation. 
 
 1 O WHY, my soul, dost thou complain ? 
 Why drooping seek the dark recess ? 
 Shake off the melancholy chain, 
 For God created all to bless. 
 
 2 But ah ! my heart is human still ; 
 The rising sigh, the falling tear, 
 My languid vitals' feeble rill. 
 The sickness of my soul declare. 
 
 3 But yet, with fortitude resign'd 
 I'll thank th' inflictor of the blow, 
 Forbid the sigh, compose my mind, 
 Nor let the gush of mis'ry flow. 
 
 4 The gloomy mantle of the night. 
 Which on my sinking spirit steals, 
 Will vanish at the morning light. 
 Which God, my east, my suUj reveals* 
 
PSALMS. 43 
 
 FIRST METllE. VT TTT CHELSEA. 
 
 Fourlinc sunzas. -*:^ajxxx. Gminoj. 
 
 Absence from God. 
 
 1 O THOU, whose tender mercy hears 
 Contrition's humble sigh ; 
 
 Whose hand, indulgent, wipes the tears 
 From sorrow's weeping eye I 
 
 2 See ! low before thy throne of grace, 
 A wretched wand'rer mourn ; 
 
 Hast thou not bid me seek thy face ? 
 Hast thou not said, return ? 
 
 3 Absent from thee, my guide, my light ! 
 Without one cheering ray ; 
 
 Through dangers, fears, and gloomy night, 
 How desolate my way ! 
 
 4 O shine on this benighted heart. 
 With beams of mercy shine ; 
 And let thy healing voice impart 
 A taste of joys divine ! 
 
 5 Thy presence only can bestow 
 Delights which never cloy : 
 Be this my solace here below. 
 And my eternal joy ! 
 
44- HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. VT TV NANTWICH» 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. uxxuk V . Bb majof. 
 
 The author of our comforts, deliverances and hofies, 
 
 1 Gtreat source of life ! our souls confess 
 The various riches of thy grace ; 
 Crown 'd with thy mercy, we rejoice, 
 And in thy praise exalt our voice. 
 
 2 By thee the vault of heav'n was spread ; 
 By thee the earth's foundation laid, 
 And all the scenes of man's abode 
 Proclaim a wise and gracious God. 
 
 3 Thy quick'ning hand restores our breath, 
 When trembling on the verge of death, 
 Gently it wipes away our tears. 
 
 And lengthens life to future years. 
 
 4 Our lives are sacred to the Lord ; 
 Kindl'd by him, by him rest or 'd ; 
 And while our hours renew their race, 
 May sin no more their hours disgrace ! 
 
 5 So when, at length, by thee \^'e're led 
 Through unknown regions of the dead, 
 With hope triumphant, may we move 
 To scenes of nobler life above 1 
 
HYMNS, 49 
 
 FIRST METRE. VT V BRAMSHOT. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. x\.Lj V • A minor. 
 
 Penitential hofie in the divine goodness. 
 
 1 O THOU unknown, almighty cause 
 Of all my hope and fear ! 
 In whose dread presence ere an hour, 
 Perhaps I must appear ! 
 
 2 If I have wander'd in those paths 
 Of life I ought to shun ; 
 As something, loudly in my breast. 
 Remonstrates I have done : 
 
 3 Where human weakness has come shorty 
 Or frailty stepp'd aside, 
 Do thou, all- good ! for such thou art^ 
 In shades of darkness hide. 
 
 4 Where with intention I have err'd, 
 No other plea I have. 
 But thou art good ; and goodness still 
 Delighteth to forgive. 
 
46 H Y M N ^. 
 
 SECOND METRE. VT •\TT RA,VEN£, 
 
 Fourline stanaas. XVX-J V X. ^Gminor. 
 
 Devout supplication. 
 
 Oh ! source of uncreated light 
 
 By whom the worlds were rais'd from night 
 
 Come, visit ev'ry pious mind ; 
 
 Come, pour thy joys on human kind. 
 
 2 Plenteous in grace, descend from high, 
 Rich in thy matchless energy : 
 From sin and sorrow set us free^ 
 And make us temples worthy thee. 
 
 3 Purge and refine our earthly parts : 
 But oh ! inflame and fire our hearts 
 Our frailties help, our vice control, 
 Submit the senses to the soul. 
 
 4 Chase from our path each noxious foe. 
 And peace, the fruit of love, bestow : 
 And, lest our feet should step astray. 
 Protect and guide us in our way. 
 
HYMNS. 47 
 
 FIRST METRI. VT VTT PENSANC5, 
 
 Eightlme sunzas, ./Vl^ V i.l« F m^or. 
 
 1 ^W^HiLE thee I seek, protecting power ! 
 Be my vain willies stiii-d ; 
 
 And may this consecrated hour 
 
 With better hopes be fill'd. 
 
 Thy love the pow'rs of thought bestow'd ; 
 
 To thee my thoughts would soar ; 
 
 Thy mercy o'er my life has flow'd ; — 
 
 That mercy I adore ! 
 
 2 In each event of Ufe, how clear 
 Thy ruling hand I see ! 
 
 Each blessing to my soul more dear, 
 
 Because couierr'd by thee. 
 
 In every joy that crowns my days, 
 
 In every pain I bear, 
 
 My heart shall find delight in praise, 
 
 Or seek relief in prayer. 
 
 3 When gladness wings my favour'd hour, 
 Thy love my thoughts shall fill : 
 
 . Resign'd, when storms of sorrow low'r. 
 My soul shall meet thy will. 
 My lifted eye without a tear, 
 The gath'ring storm shall see ; 
 ]My stedfast heart shall know no fear ; — 
 That heart will rest on thee ! 
 
m HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. VT V"^!! STAMFORD. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. -^»-J-« * All., D major. 
 
 T/ie univeriSfil Jirayer* 
 
 1 Father of all ! in every age, 
 In every clime ador'd, 
 
 By saint, by savage, and by sage, 
 
 The universal Lord ! 
 
 Thou great first cause, least understood, 
 
 Who all my sense confin'd. 
 
 To know but this, tliat thou art good, 
 
 And that myself am blind. 
 
 2 What blessings thy free bounty gives, 
 Let me not cast away ; 
 
 For God is paid when man receives — 
 
 To enjoy is to obey. 
 
 Save me alike from foolish pride. 
 
 And impious discontent, 
 
 At aught thy wisdom has deny'd, 
 
 Or aught thy goodness lent. 
 
 S Teach me to feel another's wo. 
 To hide the fault I see : 
 That mercy I to others show, 
 That mercy show to me. 
 What conscience dictates to be done 
 Or warns me not to do : 
 This, teach me more than hell shun, 
 That, more than heav'^n pursue. 
 
HYMNS. « 
 
 FIRST METRE. XTJX ST, ASAPHRl 
 
 Eightline stanzas. -^Lil-A^ Bb major. 
 
 The universal fira^er, 
 
 liORD, not to earth's contracted span, 
 
 Thy goodness let me bound ; 
 
 Or think thee Lord alone of man. 
 
 When thousand worlds are round. 
 
 Let not this weak, unknowing hand 
 
 Presume thy bolts to throw ; 
 
 And deal damnation round the land, 
 
 On each I judge thy foe. 
 
 If I am right, thy grace impart, 
 
 Still in the night to stay : 
 
 If I am wTong, O teach my heart 
 
 To find that better way. 
 
 Mean though I am, not wholly so, 
 
 Since quicken 'd by thy breath ; 
 
 Lord ! lead me wheresoe'er I go, 
 
 Through this day's life or death. 
 
 This day be bread and peace my lot : 
 
 All else beneath tlie sun, 
 
 Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not 
 
 And let thy will be done. 
 
 To thee, whose temple is all space. 
 
 Whose altar, earth, sea, skies ! 
 
 One chorus let all beings raise ! 
 
 All nature's incense rise. 
 
S» HYMNS. 
 
 EIRST METRE. T ELtNBOROUCH, 
 
 Fourline stauzas. *^» F minor. 
 
 Prayer to the sufireme being, 
 
 i My God ! the father of mankind, 
 Whose bounty all things share ; 
 Let me thy grace my portion find ; 
 All else beneath my care. 
 
 2 I ask not titles, wealth, nor state, 
 By worldly men possest ; 
 
 Yet shall I still be rich and great, 
 If virtue fill my breast. 
 
 3 Let fervent charity remain 
 For ever in my breast : 
 
 O let me feel another's pain, 
 In others' joys be blest. 
 
 4 To charity within my heart, 
 Let steady faith unite ; 
 
 Nor let me from thy law depart, 
 Nor let me live by sight. 
 
 5 With patience fortify my mind, 
 To bear each future ill ; 
 
 In life and death alike resign'd 
 To thine unerring will. 
 
HYMNS. 51 
 
 FIRST METRE. T T CHELSEA. 
 
 FourUne stanzas. ■»^^' G inmor, 
 
 God the t^reserver of frail man, 
 
 1 Ijet Others, confident and vain, 
 Nor death nor dangers fear ; 
 We would a lively sense maintain 
 That death is ever near. 
 
 2 Just like the grass our bodies stand. 
 And flourish bright and gay ; 
 A blasting wind sweeps o'er the land ; 
 Soon fades the grass away. 
 
 3 Our life contains a thousand springs, 
 And dies if one be gone : 
 Strange that a harp of thousand strings 
 Should keep in tune so long. 
 
 4 'Tis God alone upholds our frame, 
 Who rear'd it from the dust ; 
 Hosanna to his mighty name, 
 In whom is all our trust ! 
 
im HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. T TT LOUGHTON, 
 
 Eightlin© stanzai, Ou^l*. Bb major. 
 
 The decrees of Gob. 
 
 1 Let the whole race of creatures lie 
 Abas'd before the Lord ! 
 Whate'er his powerful hand has form'd, 
 He governs with a word. 
 
 Ten thousand ages ere the skies^ 
 Were into motion brought ; 
 The rising years and worlds to come^ 
 Stood present to his thought. 
 
 2 There's not a sparrow nor a worm, 
 O'erlook'd in his decrees : 
 
 He raises monarchs to a throne, 
 
 Or sinks with equal ease. 
 
 If light attend the course I go, 
 
 ^Tis he provides the rays ! 
 
 And 'tis his hand that hides the sun,. 
 
 If darkness cloud my days. 
 
 3 Trusting his wisdom and his love^ 
 I would not wish to know 
 What, in the book of his decrees, 
 Awaits me here below. 
 
 Be this, O God ! my fervent prayer^ 
 Whate'er my lot may be ; 
 Or joys or sorrows, may they form 
 My soul for heav'n and thee. 
 
HYMNS. 53 
 
 THIRD METRE, T TTT WOTTOK* 
 
 Fourlinc sunzaj. J-ixix. Enaiagc." 
 
 The changes of human life appointed by God. 
 
 1 As various as the moon 
 Is man's estate below : 
 
 To his bright day of gladness soon 
 Succeeds a night of wa 
 
 2 The night of wo resigns 
 Its darkness and its grief ; 
 Again the morn of comfort shines^ 
 And brings our souls relief. 
 
 3 Yet not from fickle chance 
 These varying scenes arise : 
 
 Our dark and brighter hours advance, 
 By laws supremely wise. 
 
 4 God measures out to all 
 Their lot of good and ill ; 
 
 Nor this too great, nor that too small, 
 Ordain'd by heav'n's high will. 
 
 5 Let man conform his mind 
 To ev'ry changing state : 
 
 Be joyful now and now resign'd^, 
 And the great issue wait. 
 
 s2 
 
54 HYMN 'S» 
 
 FIRST *f^RE. ^ hXjr MOt/LttJtt. 
 
 BightUtteitanzas. liiO. V • <; aajnt. 
 
 The myu^ry Utid denigfdty of:fir&vidence. 
 
 GroD moves in a mysterious way 
 
 His wonders to perform ; 
 
 He plants his footsteps in the sea, 
 
 And rides upon the storm. 
 
 Deep in unfathomable mines 
 
 Of never failing skill, 
 
 He treasures up his great designs, 
 
 And works his sov 'reign will. 
 
 Ye fearful saints ! fresh courage take ; 
 The clouds ye so much dread, 
 Are big with mercy, and will break 
 In blessings on your head. 
 Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, 
 But trust him for his grace ! 
 Behind a frowning providence 
 He hides a smiling face. 
 
 His purposes will ripen fest, 
 Unfolding ev'ry hour : 
 The bud may have a bitter taste, 
 But sweet will be the flow'r. 
 Blind unbelief is sure to err, 
 And scan his work in vain : 
 God is his own interpreter, 
 And he will make it plain. 
 
HYMNS. U 
 
 PfRgf METRE. T \r ^DbNIA. 
 
 FourUiK stanzas, mu \ , Gmingri 
 
 -Submission to Jirovidenee, 
 
 1 Nak^d as from the earth we came, 
 And rose to life at first, 
 
 We to the earth return again. 
 And mix with kindred dust. 
 
 2 The dear delights we here enjoy^ 
 And fondly call our own, 
 
 Are but short favours borrow 'd now, 
 To be repaid anon. 
 
 3 'Tis God who lifts our comforts high, 
 Or sinks them in the grave ; 
 
 He gives, and blessed be his name, 
 He takes but what he gave. 
 
 4 Peace, then, ye restless passions, peace I 
 Let each repining sigh 
 
 Be silent at his sovereign will, 
 And ev'ry murmur die. 
 
 5 If smiling mercy crown our lives, 
 Its praises shall be spread ; 
 
 And we'll adore the justice too, 
 That strikes our coroforts dead. 
 
56 HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. T \rT " BRAMSHOT; 
 
 Fourline stanzas. mu v x, ^ minor. 
 
 Acquiescence in the will of God, 
 
 1 Author of good ! we rest on thee 
 Thine ever watchful eye 
 Alone our real wants can see, 
 Thy hand aione supply. 
 
 2 Oh ! let thy fear within us dwell, 
 Thy love our footsteps guide ; 
 That love shall vainer loves expel. 
 That fear, all fears beside. 
 
 3 And since, by passion's force subdu'd 
 Too oft with stubborn will, 
 We blindly shun the latent good. 
 And grasp the specious ill : 
 
 4 Not what we wish, but what we want,^ 
 Let mercy still supply : 
 The good, unask'd, let mercy grant, 
 The 2l, though ask'd, deny. 
 
HYMNS. ^ 
 
 SECOND METRE. T VTT ANGLESEA- 
 
 ^ Fourlinc stanzas. x-< v XJ- F major.. 
 
 M) rest oa eareJi. 
 
 1 Man has a soul of vast desires, 
 He burns within with restless fires 
 Tost to and fro, his passions fly 
 From vanity to vanity. 
 
 2- In vain on earth we hope to iind 
 Some solid good to iill the mind : 
 We try new pleasures, but we feel 
 The inward thirst and torment still. 
 
 So when a raging fever burns, 
 
 We shift from side to side by turns : 
 
 And 'tis a poor relief we gain, 
 
 To change the place, but keep the pain. 
 
 4 Great God ! subdue this vicious thirst, 
 This love to vanity and dust ; 
 O cure the fever of the mind, 
 And feed our souls with joys refin'd. 
 
58 HYMNS. 
 
 THIRTEENTH METRE. T VTTT AMSTERDAM^ 
 
 Eightline stanzas. J-i v XAi. G major. 
 
 The better portion. 
 
 1 Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings, 
 Thy better portion trace ; 
 
 Rise from transitory things, 
 Tow'rds heav'n thy native place : 
 Sun, and moon, and stars decay, 
 Time shall soon this earth remove ; 
 Rise, my soul, and haste away 
 To seats prepar'd above. 
 
 2 Rivers to the ocean run, 
 Nor stay in all their course ; 
 Fire ascending seeks the sun, 
 Both hasten to their source ; 
 So a soul, that's born of God, 
 Pants to view his glorious face, 
 Upward tend to his abode, 
 To rest in his embrace. 
 
 3 Cease, ye pilgrims, cease to mourn, 
 Press onward to the prize ; 
 
 Soon our Saviour will return, 
 Triumphant in the skies ; 
 Yet a season, and you know 
 Happy entrance will be giv'n. 
 All our sorrows left below. 
 And earth exchang'd for heav'Uo 
 
HYMNS, 59 
 
 'TENTH METRE. T TV COVENTRY^ 
 
 Fourlinestanzsw. x-ix-^. E major. 
 
 Devout asfiirations, 
 
 1 If friendless in the vale of tears I stray, 
 Where briars wound, and thorns perplex my 
 
 way, 
 Still let my steady soul thy goodness see, 
 And with strong confidence lay hold on thee. 
 
 2 In ev'ry creature, Lord, I own thy pow'r ; 
 In each event thy providence adore : 
 
 Thy promises shall cheer my drooping soul, 
 Thy precepts guide me, and thy fear control. 
 
 3 Then, when at last I quit this transient scene. 
 Help me to leave it with a heart serene : 
 Teach me to fix my ardent hopes on high, 
 And, having Uv'd to thee, in thee to die. 
 
 SEVENTH METRE. TURIN. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. F major . 
 
 The same. 
 
 1 Tis religion that can give 
 Sweetest pleasures while we live : 
 'Tis religion must supply 
 
 Solid comforts when we die. 
 
 2 After death its joys will be 
 Lasting as eternity : 
 
 Let me then make God my friencj^r 
 And oa all his ways attend. 
 
m HYMNS. 
 
 riRST WETRB. T V DEVIZES* 
 
 Fourline stanzas. J^x^» Amajor. 
 
 ^ resolution founded an Jacobus voiv. 
 
 1 O THOU, by whose all- bounteous hand 
 Thy people still are fed ; 
 
 Who through life's weary pilgrimage 
 Hast all our fathers led : 
 
 2 To thee our humble vow we raise ; 
 To thee address our prayer ; 
 
 And in thy kind and faidiful hand, 
 Deposite all our care, 
 
 3 If thou, through each perplexing path, 
 Wilt be our constant guide ; 
 
 If thou wilt daily food su}:)ply, 
 And raiment wilt provide ; 
 
 4 If thou wilt spread thy shield around, 
 Till all our wand'rings cease ; 
 
 And at our Father's safe abode 
 Our souls arrive in peace ; 
 
 5 To thee, as to our cov'nant God, 
 Ourselves we will resign ; 
 
 And count that all on earth we have/^ 
 And e'en our life is thine. 
 
HYMNS. 61 
 
 FIRST METRE. T^XI '^^^^JJilr^^' 
 
 The flower of faith, 
 
 1 Faith adds new charms to eardily bliss, 
 And saves us from its snares ; 
 
 Its aid in ev'ry duty brings, 
 And softens all our cares : 
 
 2 Extinguishes the thirst of sin, 
 And lights the sacred fire 
 
 Of love to God and heav'nly things, 
 And feeds the pure desire. 
 
 3 The wounded conscience knows its pow'r, 
 The healing balm to give ; 
 
 That balm the saddest heart can cheer, 
 And make the dying live. 
 
 4 Wide it unveils celestial worlds, 
 Where deathless pleasures reign, 
 And bids us seek our portion there. 
 Nor bids us seek in vain. 
 
 On that bright prospect may we rest, 
 Till this frail body dies ; 
 And then on faith's triumphant wings 
 To endless glory rise. 
 
m HYMNS. 
 
 CEVENTH METRE. T VTT HOTHAM. 
 
 EightUne stanzas. J-i-^Vll. j-b major. 
 
 Freedom fr 07)1 errour, guilty and folly. 
 
 1 Blest instructer ! from thy ways 
 Who can tell how oft he strays ? 
 Save from errour's growth my mind, 
 Leave not, Lord, one root behind. 
 Purge me from the guilt that lies 
 Wrapt within my heart's disguise ; 
 Let me thence, by thee renevv'd, 
 Each presumptuous sin exclude : 
 
 2 So my lot shall ne'er be join'd 
 With the men whose impious mind. 
 Fearless of thy just command, 
 Braves the vengeance of thy hand. 
 Let my tongue, from errour free. 
 Speak the words approved by thee ; 
 To thine all-observing eyes. 
 
 Let my thoughts accepted rise, 
 
 3 Taught by thee thy servant's breast 
 Joys the blessings to attest ; 
 Hcap'd on those whose hearts sincere 
 Learn thy precepts to revere. 
 
 While I thus thy name adore, ^ 
 
 And thy healing grace implore. 
 Blest redeemer ! bow thine ear ; 
 (jroD my strength ! propitious hear. 
 
H Y M N ^. 03 
 
 rniRD METRE. T VTTT INVOCATION. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. 1^x^111. F maior. 
 
 The invitation of 'misdom. 
 
 1 X IS wisdom's earnest cry ! 
 Wisdom, the voice of God, 
 
 To young and old, to low and higli? 
 Utters her will abroad. 
 
 2 Deep in the human breast 
 Her strong monitions plead : 
 She thunders her divine protest 
 Against th' unrighteous deed. 
 
 S Within the holy place, 
 She stretches out her hand : 
 Ye sinners, listen to my grace ; 
 Ye simple, understand. 
 
 4 The race of man I love, 
 In mercy I chastise. 
 Severely faithful I reprove, 
 Hear, mortals, and be wise. 
 
 5 Honour and peace with me 
 And joys immortal dwell : 
 But ways of guilt and infamy 
 Conduct to death and hell. 
 
64 HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. T VTV HAHFAX. 
 
 Fourline stanaas. a-^-^^j. V , Eb major. 
 
 The wise choice. 
 
 Beset with snares on ev'ry hand, 
 In life's uncertain path we stand ; 
 Father divine ! diffuse thy light 
 To guide our erring footsteps right. 
 
 2 Engage our frail and wav'ring heart 
 Wisely to choose the better part ; 
 To scorn the trifles of a day, 
 For joys that never fade away. 
 
 3 Then let the fiercest storms arise ; 
 Let tempests mingle earth and skies ; 
 No fatal shipwreck shall we fear, 
 But all our treasures with us bear. 
 
 4 If thou, our father ! still be nigh, 
 Cheerful we live and joyful die : 
 Secure, when mortal comforts flee, 
 To find ten thousand worlds in thee. 
 
HYMNS. 65 
 
 SECOND M£TRE. T W EPPING. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. Xux\. \ » E major. 
 
 77-!^ reivard of virtue^ and punishment of vice. 
 
 1 Blest is the man, yes, more than blest. 
 Whose heart no guilty thoughts employ ! 
 God's endless sunshine fills his breast, 
 And conscience whispers peace and joy* 
 
 2 Pure rectitude's unerring way 
 
 His heav'n-conducted steps pursue ; 
 While crowds in guilt and errour stray, 
 Unstain'd his soul, and bright his view.:' 
 
 S By God's almighty arm sustain 'd, 
 True virtue soon or late shall rise ; 
 Enjoy her conquest nobly gain'd, 
 And share the triumph of the skies* 
 
 4 But fools to sacred wisdom blind, 
 Who vice's tempting call obey, 
 A diif'rent fate shall quickly find; 
 To ev'ry storm an easy prey. 
 
 t2- 
 
66 H V M N S. 
 
 SECOND METRE. T VT/T L!ENSTER> 
 
 Eightline jtanza*. J-«-^ V X« D major. 
 
 B-digion. 
 
 1 See mild religion from above, 
 Descends, a sweet engaging form, 
 The messenger of heav'nly love, 
 The bow of promise in a storm. 
 The guilty passions wing their flight, 
 Sorrow, remorse, affection cease ; 
 Religion's yoke is soft and light, 
 And all her paths are paths of peace, 
 
 2 Ambition, pride, revenge depart. 
 And folly flies her chast'ning rod ; 
 She makes the humble, contrite heart 
 A temple of the living God. 
 Beyond the narrow vale of time, 
 Where bright, celestial ages roll, 
 To scenes eternal, scenes sublime. 
 She points the way and leads the soul. 
 
 3 At her approach the grave appears 
 The gate of paradise restor'd ; 
 
 Her voice the watching cherub fears. 
 And drops his double flaming sword. 
 Baptiz'd with her renewing fi.re. 
 May we the crown of glory gain ; 
 Rise when the host of heav'n expire, 
 And reign with God, forever reign. 
 
HYMNS, 67 
 
 SECOND METRE. T VVTT WELL*. 
 
 Fourline Stanzas* xa^\. \ xi, F major. 
 
 The yoke of religion easy. 
 
 Come hither, all ye weary souls ! 
 Ye heavy-laden sinners ! come : 
 141 give you rest from all your toils, 
 And raise you to a heav'nly home. 
 
 2 They shall find rest who learn of me 
 I'm of a meek and lowly mind : 
 But passion rages like the sea, 
 And pride is restless as the wind. 
 
 3 Blest is the man whose shoulders take 
 My yoke, and bear it with delight ; 
 My yoke is easy to his neck, 
 My grace shall make the burden light. 
 
 4 Great God ! we come at this command 
 With faith, and hope, and humble zeal, 
 Resign our spirits to thy hand, 
 To mould and guide us at thy will. 
 
68 HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. T WTTT ST. MARTIN?. 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. 3^x\. y xi±, A major. 
 
 T7ie comforts of religion. 
 
 1 When gloomy thoughts and boding fears 
 The trembling heart invade ; 
 And all the face of nature wears 
 A universal shade r 
 
 2" Religion's dictates can assuage 
 The tempest of the soul ; 
 And ev'ry storm shall cease to rage 
 At her divine control. 
 
 3 Through life's bewilder'd, darksome way, 
 Her hand unerring leads ; 
 
 And o'er the path her heav'nly ray 
 A cheering lustre sheds. 
 
 4 When feeble reason, tir'd and blind, 
 Sinks helpless and afraid ; 
 
 Thou blest supporter of the mind, 
 How pow'rful is thine aid ! 
 
 5 O let our hearts confess thy pow'r, 
 And find thy sweet relief, 
 
 To brighten ev'ry gloomy hour, 
 And soften ev'ry grief. 
 
HYMNS. ' 69 
 
 THIRD METRE. T VTV FALCON-STREET, 
 
 Sightline stanzas. i-*.rvi-r^. C majpr, 
 
 The fileasures of religion. 
 
 1 Come ye, who love the Lord ! 
 And let your joys be known : 
 Join in a song of sweet accord, 
 And thus approach his throne. 
 The sorrows of the mind 
 
 Be banish 'd from this place ! 
 Religion never was designed 
 To make our pleasures less. 
 
 2 Th^ eternal God is our's, 
 The God whose name is love ; 
 
 He will send down his quick 'ning pow'rs 
 To carry us above. ♦ 
 
 There shall we see his face 
 And never more shall sin ; 
 There from the rivers of his grace 
 Drink endless pleasures in. 
 
 3 The sons of God have found 
 Glory begun below : 
 Celestial fruits on earthly ground 
 From faith and hope may grow. 
 Then let our songs increase, 
 And ev'ry tear be dry : 
 
 We're traveling through the paths of peace 
 To fairer worlds ou high. 
 
TO HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. T XV HITCHIK," 
 
 FOurline stanzas. Xux\..^, E major. 
 
 T/ie excellency of the holy scrifitures. 
 
 1 Father of mercies ! in thy word 
 What endless glory shines ! 
 Forever be thy name ador'd 
 
 For these celestial lines. 
 
 2 Here may the wretched sons of want 
 Exhaustless riches find ; 
 
 Riches, above what earth can grant, 
 And lasting as the mind. 
 
 3 Here, the fair tree of knowledge grows, 
 And yields a free repast : 
 
 Far richer fruits tlian nature knows, 
 Invite the longing taste. 
 
 4 Here, springs of consolation rise, 
 To cheer the fainting mind ; 
 And thirsty souls receive supplies, 
 And sweet refreshment find. 
 
 5 O may these heav'nly pages be 
 Our ever dear delight ; 
 
 And still new beauties may we see, 
 And still increasing light ! 
 
HYMNS. 71 
 
 SECOND METRE. T y^T HENTHAN. 
 
 Fturline stanzas, l^J\.x\.l» G njajor. 
 
 Light ayid comfort from the scrifitures* 
 
 1 ]My soul to God, its source, aspires ! 
 Come, Lord, and fill my vast desires ! 
 Be thou my portion, here I rest, 
 Since of my utmost wish possest. 
 
 2 O ! let thy sacred word impart 
 
 Its gen'rous influence to my heart ; 
 With pow'r, and light, and love divine. 
 Assure my soul that thou art mine. 
 
 3 The blissfi.ll word, with joy replete, 
 Shall bid my gloomy fears retreat ; 
 And heav'n-born hope, serenely bright, 
 Shine cheerful through this mortal night. 
 
 4 Then shall my joyful spirit rise 
 On wings of faith above the skies : 
 And when these transient scenes are o'er, 
 And this vain world shall tempt no more ; 
 
 5 O ! may I reach the blissful plains, 
 Where thine unclouded glory reigns, 
 And dwell for ever near thy throne, 
 In joys to mortal thought unknown. 
 
^% HYMNS. 
 
 THIRD MBTRE. T X VTT MOUNT EPHRAIM. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. ±jx^x\.i.x, Eb major. 
 
 The birth of Christ. 
 
 Behold the grace appear, 
 The blessing promis'd long ! 
 Angels announce the Saviour near 
 In this triumphant song : 
 
 2 Glory to God on high I 
 And heav'nly peace on earth 1 
 Good will to men, to angels joy ^ 
 At the Redeemer's birth ! 
 
 3 In worship so divine, 
 Shall man refrain his part ? 
 Forbid it, gratitude ! we join 
 The song, with grateful heart. 
 
 4 Glory to God on high ! 
 And heav'nly peace on earth ! 
 Good will to men, to angels joy, 
 At our Redemer's birth ! 
 
HYMNS. 73 
 
 FOURTH METRE. T WTTT ' CLAPHAM. 
 
 Ei^htlinc stanzas. I^^V-^XIX. A major. 
 
 The birth of ChrUt proclaimed by angels. 
 
 1 Hark ! what celestial notesj; 
 What melody we hear ! 
 
 Soft on the morn it floats, 
 And fills the ravish'd eai% 
 The tuneful shell, 
 The golden lyre, 
 And vocal choir 
 The concert swell. 
 
 2 Th' angeiick hosts descend. 
 With harmony divine : 
 
 See ! how from heav*n they bend, 
 
 And in full chorus join. 
 
 Fear not, say they, 
 
 Great joy we bring j 
 
 Jesus, your king. 
 
 Is born to day. 
 
 •S He comes from errour's night 
 
 Your wand'ring feet to save ; 
 
 To realms of bliss and light 
 
 He lifts you from the grave. 
 
 This glorious morn, 
 
 (Let all attend !) 
 
 Your matchless friend. 
 
 Your Saviour's born. 
 4 Glory to God on high ! 
 
 Ye mortals, spread the sound. 
 
 And let your raptures fly 
 
 To earth's remotest bound ! 
 
 For peace on earth, 
 
 From God in heav'n, 
 
 To man is giv'n. 
 
 At Jesus' birth. 
 U 
 
74 PSALMS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. T VVTV HAVERHILL. 
 
 Eightlinc staneas. i^-r\.-^i v . G major. 
 
 The goodness of God in the seasons of the year. 
 
 Eternal source of ev'ry joy \ 
 Well may thy praise our lips employ, 
 While In thy temple we appear : 
 Thy goodness crowns the circling year. 
 Wide as the wheels of nature roll, 
 Thy hand supports and guides the whole ; 
 The sun is taught by thee to rise, 
 And darkness when to veil the skies. 
 
 The flow'ry spring at thy command, 
 Perfumes the air and paints the land ; 
 The summer rays with vigour shine. 
 To raise the corn and cheer the vine. 
 Thy hand in autumn richly pours 
 Through all our coasts abundant stores j 
 And winters, soften'd by thy care. 
 No more the face of horrour wear. 
 
 Seasons, and months^ and weeks, and days^ 
 Demand successive psalms of praise : 
 Still be the grateful homage paid. 
 With morning light and ev'ning shade ! 
 O may our more harmonious tongues. 
 In worlds unknown pursue the songs ; 
 And in those brighter courts adore. 
 Where days and years revolve no more. 
 
PSALMS, 75 
 
 SECOND METRE. T VVV PALMIS". 
 
 Fourline stanzas. X-<x^.^v v . D major, 
 
 Power of government from God alone ^ 
 
 1 To thee, Most Holy and Most High, 
 We render thanks and sing thy praise ; 
 Thy works declare thy name is nigh, 
 Thy works of wonder and of grace. 
 
 2 To bondage doom'd, thy free-born soqs 
 Beheld their foes indignant rise ; 
 
 And, sore oppress^ by earthly thrones^ 
 Appealed to him who rules the skies. 
 
 3 Then, mighty God ! with equal pow'r 
 Arose thy vengeance and thy grace, 
 To drive their legions from our shore, 
 And save the men who sought thy face. 
 
 4 Let haughty princes sink their pride, 
 Nor lift so high their scornful head ; 
 But lay ^leir impious thoughts aside, 
 
 % And own the powers which God has made, 
 
 5 Such honours never come by chance, 
 Nor do the winds promotion blow ; 
 But God the judge doth one advance, 
 'Tis he who lavs another low. 
 
?6 HYMNS. 
 
 THIRD METRE, T V WT RUTLAND. 
 
 Fourline stanaas. J-i-^v^\. > x» major, 
 
 Christ the light of the world. 
 
 1 Behold, the prince of peace, 
 The chosen of the Lord, 
 God's well beloved son fulfils 
 The sure prophetick word. 
 
 2 No royal pomp adorns 
 This king of righteousness : 
 Meekness and patience, truth and love, 
 Compose his princely dress. 
 
 5 The spirit of the Lord, 
 In rich abundance shed, 
 On this great prophet gently lights, 
 And rests upon his head. 
 
 4 Jesus, the light of men ! 
 His doctrine life imparts : 
 
 O may we feel its quick 'ning pow^r 
 To w arm and glad our hearts ! 
 
 5 CheerM by its beams, our souls 
 Shall run the heav'nly way : 
 
 The path which Christ hath mark'd and trod 
 Will lead to endless day. 
 
HYMNS. 77 
 
 SEVENTH METRE. T'^rXVTT CHAUNCV. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. Xu.^\.^^ \ XX, D major. 
 
 Invitations of mercy, 
 
 1 Come ! said Jesus' sacred voice, 
 Come, and make my paths your choice ; 
 I will guide you to your home ; 
 Wear) pilgrim, hither come 1 
 
 2 Thou, who, houseless, sole, forlorn, 
 Long hast borne the proud world's scornj 
 Long hast roam'd the barren waste. 
 Weary pilgrim, hither haste 1 
 
 3 Ye who, tost on beds of pain. 
 Seek ibr ease, but seek in vain : 
 Ye, whose swoln and sleepless eyes 
 Watch to see the morning rise : 
 
 4 Ye by fiercer anguish torn. 
 
 In rerhorse for guilt who mourn ; 
 Here repose your heavy care : 
 W^ounded spirits who can bear ? 
 
 5 Sinner, come ! for here is found 
 B-ilm that flows for ev'ry \vound ! 
 Peace that ever shall endure. 
 Rest eternal, sacred, sure. 
 
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78 HYMNS. 
 
 FOURTH METRE. T VWTTT WESTFORD. 
 
 ^htline stanzas. i^ -<rv.^ V 111, G major. 
 
 Fruitful showers^ e?nble?ns of the effects of the gos/iel. 
 
 1 Mark the soft-falling snow, 
 And the descending rain ! 
 To heaven whence it fell, 
 It turns not back again ; 
 
 But waters earth 
 
 Through ev'ry pore, 
 
 And calls forth ail 
 
 Her secret store. 
 
 ^ Array 'd in beauteous green 
 The hills and vallies shine, 
 And nrian and beast are fed 
 By providence divine : 
 
 The harvest bows 
 
 Its golden ears, 
 
 The copious seed 
 
 Of future years. 
 
 3 So, saith the God of grace, 
 My gospel shall descend, 
 Almighty to effect 
 The purpose I intend ; 
 
 Millions of souls 
 
 Shall feel its pow'r. 
 
 And bear it down 
 
 To millions more. 
 
HYMNS. 79 
 
 SECOND METRE. T VVTV" EXETEO. 
 
 SixUioe stanzas. , x-<.^-^VA^v. D major. 
 
 The excellency of the gosfieL 
 
 ^We love the volumes of thy word : 
 What light and joy those leaves afford 
 To souls benighted and distrest ! 
 Thy precepts guide our doubtful way ; 
 Thy fear forbids our feet to stray ; 
 Thy promise leads our hearts to rest. 
 
 From the discov'ries of thy law, 
 The perfect rules of life 'we draw ; 
 These are our siudy and delight : 
 Not honey so invites the taste, 
 Nor gold that hath the furnace past, 
 Appears so pleasing to the sight. 
 
 Thy threat'nings wake our slumbr'ing eyes, 
 And warn us where our danger lies ; 
 But 'tis thy blessed gospel, Lord, 
 That makes the guilty conscience clean. 
 Converts the soul, subdues our sin, 
 And gives a free, but large, reward. 
 
80 HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. T 'W'V CALLCOTT^ 
 
 Fourline stanzas. J-j-^a..^^.^\.. F maior. 
 
 The example of Christ. 
 
 1 A N D is the gospel peace and lore ? 
 So let our conversation be ; 
 
 The serpent blended with the dove, 
 Wisdom and meek simplicity. 
 
 2 Whene'er the angry passions rise. 
 
 And tempt our thoughts or tongues to strife. 
 On Jesus let us fix our eyes, 
 Blight pattern of the christian life I 
 
 3 O how benevolent and kind ! 
 How miid ! how ready to forgive 1 
 Be his the temper of our mind, 
 And his the rules by w hich \\ e live. 
 
 4 To do his heav'nly father's will 
 Was his employment and delight : 
 Humility and holy zeal 
 
 Shone through his life divinely bright^ 
 
 5 Dispensing good where'er he came. 
 The labours of his lilt w ere love : 
 If theu we love our ScViour's name. 
 Let liis divine exanjpie move* 
 
THIRD METRE. 
 
 HYMNS. 81 
 
 T VWT BuxTO«p» 
 
 Fourline stanzas. j-<^v^x^xx. q maj^jr 
 
 T/ie happiness of christiaris, 
 
 1 How welcome is their voice, 
 Who speak the Saviour's name, 
 Who bring salvation on their tongues. 
 And terms of peace proclaim ! 
 
 2 How grateful is the sound ! 
 How good the tidings are ! 
 The church beholds her Saviour king 
 He reigns and triumphs here. 
 
 3 How blessed are our ears, 
 That hear this joyful sound, 
 Which kings and prophets waited for, 
 And sought, but never found ! 
 
 4 Christians, unite your tongues. 
 And cheerful notes employ ; 
 Let saving love inspire your songs, 
 And heathens learn the joy. 
 
 5 The Lord displays his grace 
 Through all the earth abroad ; 
 And ev'ry nation shall adore 
 Their maker and their God, 
 
89 HYMNS. 
 
 SECOKD METRE. T VV VTT ARNHElKf. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. X-<xv.^V-^\.Al. C major. 
 
 Christian privileges and obligations. 
 
 1 lio, wretched millions draw their breath, 
 111 lands of ignorance and death ! 
 
 But I enjoy my share of time, 
 Within thy gospel's favoured clime. 
 
 2 Shall I receive this grace in vain ? 
 Shall I my great vocation stain ? 
 Away, ye v» orks in darkness wrought ! 
 Away, each sensual, wanton thought ! 
 
 3 My soul, I charge thee to excel. 
 In thinking right, and acting well ; 
 Deep let thy searching pow'rs engage, 
 Unbias'd in the sacred page. 
 
 4 Heighten the force of good desire, 
 To deeds of shining worth aspire ; 
 More firm in fortitude, despise 
 The world's seducing vanities. 
 
 5 Strong and more strong, thy passions rule, 
 Advancing still in virtue's school ; 
 Contending still, with noble strife, 
 
 To imitate thy Saviour's life. 
 
HYMNS. 83 
 
 SECOND METRE. T V V "V" [ T T MOLESWORTHt 
 
 Fourline stanzas. i^-^^V-^AXX. F ra^or. 
 
 Imitation of Christ. 
 
 1 I READ my duty in the word 
 Of my Redeemer and my Lord ! 
 But in his Ufe the law appears 
 Drawn out in living characters. 
 
 2 What zeal his mission to fulfil ! 
 What def'rence to his father's will ! 
 His love and meekness how^ divme ! 
 I \vould transcribe and make them mine. 
 
 3 Cold mountains and the midnight air, 
 Witness'd tlie fervour of his pray'r ; 
 The desert his temptations knew, 
 His conflict and his vict'ry too. 
 
 4 He is my pattern : may I bear 
 More of his gracious image here ! 
 And let me trace the steps he trode, 
 Which lead to virtue and to God» 
 
8^ H Y M N S. 
 
 SECOND METRE. T "V WTV DUNSTAN, 
 
 Fourliae stanzas. xu.^\..^\.x\.L V • q major. 
 
 JSvangelical conversation. 
 
 So let our lips and lives express 
 The holy gospel we profess ! 
 So let our works and virtue shine, 
 To prove the doctrine all divine. 
 
 2 Thus shall we best thine honours raise, 
 Great God, and others learn to praise ; 
 Whenheav'nly truth shall reign within, 
 And break thepow'r of ev'ry sin. 
 
 4 Our flesh and sense must be denied, 
 Passion and envy, lust and pride ; 
 While justice, tenip'rance, truth, and love. 
 Our inward piety approve. 
 
 4 What though we drink of sorrow's cup, 
 Religion bears our spirits up ; 
 Hope waits the coming of the Lord, 
 And faith stands leaning on his word. 
 
HYMNS. 85 
 
 SECOND METRE, T VVV V PORTUGAJ.. 
 
 Fourline stanzis. J-i.^rV-^V-^x > . G major. 
 
 The christian race. 
 
 1 A\VAKE our souls ! away our fears, 
 , Let ev'ry trembling thought be gone ; 
 
 Awake, and run the heav'nly race, 
 
 And put a cheerful courage on. 
 
 2 True, 'tis a rough and thorny road, 
 And mortal spirits tire and faint ; 
 But they forget the mighty God, 
 Who feeds the strength of ev'ry saint, 
 
 3 The mighty God, whose matchless pow'r 
 Is ever new and ever young, 
 And firm endures while endless years 
 Their everlasting circles run. 
 
 4 S\^ ift as an eagle cuts the air, 
 We'll mount aloft to thine abode ; 
 On wings of love our souls shall fly, 
 Nor tire amidst the heav'nly road. 
 
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86 HYMNS. 
 
 /oS=SS LXXXVI. "^'^o^'- 
 
 Zeal a7id vigour in the christian race. 
 
 1 Awake, my soul ! stretch ev'ry nerve, 
 Aad press with vigour on : 
 A heav'nly race demands thy zeal. 
 And an immortal crown. 
 
 2 A cloud of witnesses around 
 Hold thee in full survey : 
 Forget the steps already trod, 
 And onward urge thy way. 
 
 3 'Tis God's all animating voice 
 That calls thee from on high, 
 
 'Tis his own hand presents the prize 
 To thine aspiring eye. 
 
 4 That prize, with peerless glories bright, 
 Which shall new lustre boast, 
 
 When victors' vxi;eaths and monarchs' gems 
 Shah blend in common dust. 
 
HYMNS. 87 
 
 FIRST METRE. T W VVTT C0NC0R1>. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. J-j.^-.^.^V V ll# Eb major. 
 
 Sincerity in divine worship. 
 
 GroD is a spirit, just and vvise, - 
 Who sees our inmost mind : 
 In vain to heav'n we raise our cries, 
 And leave our souls behind. 
 
 2 Nothing but truth before his throne. 
 With honour can appear : 
 The formal hypocrites are known, 
 Through the disguise they wear. 
 
 3 Their lifted eyes salute the skies, 
 Their bended knees the ground : 
 But God abhors the sacrifice, 
 Where not the heart is sound. 
 
 4 Lord, search our thoughts, and try our ways, 
 And make our souls sincere ! 
 Then shall we stand before thy face. 
 And find acceotance there. 
 
88 HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. T VWA7TTT TWINSTE^IJ. 
 
 JEfiurlinc stanzas. 1-i-A.iV-^ V 111. f major, 
 
 Love to God. 
 
 1 Do not I love thee, O my God ? 
 Behold my heart, and see ; 
 And turn each worthless idol out, 
 That dares to rival thee. 
 
 S Would not my ardent spirit vie 
 With angels round thy dirone, 
 To execute thy sacred will, 
 And make thy glory known ? 
 
 3 Would not my heart pour forth its blood, 
 In honour of thy name ; 
 And challenge the cold hand of death 
 To damp th' immortal flame ? 
 
 4 Thou know'st I love thee, dearest Lord 1 
 But O ! I long to soar 
 Far from the sphere of mortal joys, 
 And learn to love tliee more. 
 
HYMNS. 89 
 
 FIRST METRE. T WVTV TUNBRIDGE* 
 
 Eightline stanzas. J^.^.^.^l-.r\.. D minor. 
 
 Hojie of divine mercy. 
 
 1 'When rising from the bed of death, 
 O'ervvhelm'd with guilt and fear, 
 
 I see my maker face to face, 
 
 O how shall I appear ! 
 
 If V et, while pardon may be found, 
 
 And mercy may be sought, 
 
 My heart with inward horrour shrinks 
 
 And trembles at the thought. 
 
 2 When thou, O Lord ! shalt stand disclosed 
 In majesty severe, 
 
 And sit in judgment on my soul, 
 
 O how shall I appear ! 
 
 But there's forgiveness. Lord, with thee ; 
 
 Thy nature is benign ; 
 
 Thy pard'ning mercy I implore, 
 
 For mercy, Lord, is thine. 
 
 3 O let thy boundless mercy shine 
 On my benighted soul ! 
 
 Correct my passions, mend my heart. 
 And all my fears control. 
 And may I taste thy richer grace 
 In that decisive hour. 
 When Christ to judgment shall descend. 
 And time shall be no more. 
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90 HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. Vp WINDSOR^ 
 
 Fourlinestanza*. .^v^. Aniinor, 
 
 Prayer for kind affections. 
 
 1 Far from thy servants, God of grace, 
 Th' unfeeling heart remove, 
 
 And form in our obedient souls 
 The image of thy love. 
 
 2 O may our sympathizing breasts 
 The gen'rous pleasure know, 
 Kindly to share in others' joy, 
 And weep for others' wo ! 
 
 3 Where'er the helpless sons of grief 
 In low distress are laid. 
 
 Soft be our hearts their pains to feel, 
 And swift our hands to aid. 
 
 4 Under the gentle sway of love 
 Be ev'ry passion brought ; 
 
 , O be the law of love fulfill 'd 
 In ev'ry act and thought ! 
 
 5 Be ye, our hearts, dilated wide 
 With this kind social grace ; 
 And, in one grasp of fervent love, 
 All earth and heav'n embrace. 
 
HYMNS. 91 
 
 SEVENTH METRE. VPT SOMERSET. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. .^v^i. E major. 
 
 The dwellings of the righteous. 
 
 1 Mercy, judgment now my tongue 
 Makes the subject of its song : 
 Lord, to whom then shall 1 sing, 
 But to thee, th' eternal king ? 
 Wisdom shall my footsteps guide. 
 Nor permit my feet to slide, 
 
 Or from thine all-perfect way, 
 Lost in paths of sin, to stray. 
 
 2 Come, O come, celestial guest ! 
 Let my roof with thee be blest ; 
 Let thy beams effulgent play. 
 And within my mansion stay. 
 
 Lo ! my heart, with studious care. 
 For thy presence I prepare. 
 And my dwelling's full extent 
 Spotless to thy view present. 
 
 3 Ne'er shall my presumptuous hand 
 Dare to break thy just command ; 
 Ne'er within me shalt thou find 
 Aught that speaks a faithless mind. 
 Come, ye faithful, just, and good, 
 Eager for the bright abode — 
 Come, ye pure in heart, O come, 
 Sure with me to find a home. 
 
92 HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE, VPTT PALMIS. 
 
 Fourline^tanzas. -^V^ll. q major. 
 
 The beatitudes. 
 
 1 Blest are the humble souls that see 
 Their ignorance and poverty ; 
 Treasures of grace to them are giv'n, 
 And crowns of joy laid up in heav'n. 
 
 2 Blest are the men of broken heart, 
 Who mourn for sin with inward smart 
 For them divine compassion flows, 
 
 A healing balm for all their wos. 
 
 3 Blest are the meek, who stand afar, 
 From rage and passion, noise and war ; 
 God will secure their peaceful state, 
 And plead their cause against the great. 
 
 4 Blest are the just whoseek his face, 
 Hunger and thirst for righteousness ; 
 They shall be wtW supplied, and fed 
 With living streams and livmg bread. 
 
HYMNS. 93 
 
 SECOND METRE. VPTTT EERKELEt. 
 
 Fourline Stanzas, xW-^llA-* Bb majorv 
 
 The beatitudes. 
 
 1 Blest are the men whose hearts still move/ 
 And melt with sympathy and love ; 
 
 They shall themselves irom God obtaia 
 Like sympathy and love again. 
 
 2 Blest are the pure, whose hearts are clean 
 From the defiling pow'r of sin, 
 
 With endless pleasure they shall see 
 A God of spotless purity. 
 
 3 Blest are the men of peaceful life, 
 
 Who quench the kindling flames of strife ; 
 They shall be called the heirs ol" bliss, 
 The sons of God, the God of peace. 
 
 4 Blest are the sufF'rers, who partake 
 Of pain and shame for Jesus' sake ; 
 Their souls shall triumph in the Lord ; 
 Glory and joy are their reward. 
 
94 HYMNS. 
 
 XJRST METRE. "VPTY 
 
 T.icrhtline stanzas. XVV^X V 
 
 ENfFIELD. 
 
 Eightliue Stanzas, .^xv^x v , jj5 mjjor. 
 
 Justice and equity. 
 
 Come, let us search our ways and see 
 
 Have they been just and right ? 
 
 Is the great rule of equity 
 
 Our practice and delight ? 
 
 What we would have our neighbour do, 
 
 Have we still done the same ? 
 
 From others ne'er w ithheld the due. 
 
 Which we from others claim ? 
 
 Have we ne'er envy'd others' good? 
 
 Ne'er envy'd others' praise ? 
 
 In no man's path rciahgnant stood? 
 
 Nor us'd detraction's ways ? 
 
 Have we not, deaf to his request, 
 
 Turn'd from another's wo ? 
 
 The scorn w hich wrings the sufF'rer's breast. 
 
 Have Ave abhorr'd to show ? 
 
 Then may we raise our modest pray'r 
 
 To God the just and kind ; 
 
 May humbly cast on him our care, 
 
 And hope his grace to find. 
 
 Religion's path they never trode, 
 
 Who equity contemn : 
 
 Nor ever are they just to God, 
 
 Who prove unjust to man. 
 
HYMNS. 95 
 
 THIRD METRE. VPV flONNEXION, 
 
 Fourline stanzas. -^^ ^ » E major. 
 
 Catholicism. 
 
 liET party names no more 
 The christian world o'erspread ; 
 Gentile, and Jew, and bond, and free, 
 Are one in Christ their head. 
 
 2 Among the saints on earth, 
 Let mutual love be found ; 
 Heirs of the same inheritance, 
 With mutual blessings crown'd. 
 
 3 Envy and strife, be gone, 
 And only kindness known, 
 Where all one common father have, 
 One common master own. 
 
 Thus w^ill the church below 
 Resemble that above ; 
 Where streams of purest pleasure flow, 
 And ev'ry heart is love. 
 
96 HYMNS. 
 
 ^CO>fD METRE. VPVT OLD BRICK. 
 
 Fouriine stanzas. ^vv^ v J.. ^^ major. 
 
 Tke firofierties of christian charity. 
 
 1 liET men of high conceit and zeal 
 Their fervour and their faith pioclaim : 
 If charity be wanting still, 
 The rest is but a sounding name. 
 
 2 Knowledge is apt to bloat the mind, 
 And zeal to set the world on lire ; 
 But charity is calm and kind, 
 
 And gentle thoughts will btill inspire. 
 
 3 She's meek and patient, sufF'ring long, 
 And slowly her resentments rise : 
 Soon she forgets the greater w rong, 
 And rage and all revenge defies. 
 
 4 She envies none their better state, 
 
 But makes her neighbour's bliss her own ; 
 Nor vaunts herself with mind elate, 
 But still a modest air puts on. 
 
 5 This is the grace that reigns on high, 
 And brightly will forever burn ; 
 When hope shall in fruition die, 
 And faith to sight triumphant turn. 
 
.HYMNS. 97 
 
 FIRST METRE. XrVTT ST. PATRICKS* 
 
 Fourline stsnzas. AV.. V 11. G major. 
 
 Charity essential to the christian doctrine. 
 
 1 Though perfect eloquence adorn'd 
 The sweet persuasive tongue : 
 Though we could speak in higher strains 
 Than ever angels sung : 
 
 2 Tho' prophecy our souls inspir'd, 
 And made all myst'ries plain ; 
 Yet, were w^e void of christian love, 
 These s:ifts were all in vain. 
 
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 3 Altho' we gave with lib'ral hands 
 Our goods the poor to feed, 
 
 Or gave our bodies to the flames, 
 Still fruitless were the deed. 
 
 4 Nay, tho' our faith with boundless pow'r 
 E'en mountains could remove, 
 
 We still are nothing, if we're void 
 Of charitv and love. 
 
98 H Y M N S. 
 
 SEVENTH METRE. VPVTTT DEPTFORD. 
 
 *ightline Stanzas. -^vV^ V 111. E major. 
 
 Beneficence. 
 
 1 Father of our feeble race ! 
 Wise, beneficent, and kind ! 
 Spread o'er nature's anriple face. 
 Flows thy goodness unconfin'd. 
 Musing in the silent grove, 
 Oi^'the busy walks of men, 
 
 Still we trace thy wond'rous love, 
 Claiming large returns again. 
 
 2 Lord, what ofF'ring shall w'e bring, 
 At thine altars w^hen we bow ? 
 Hearts, the pure, unsullied spring, 
 Whence the kind affections flow : 
 Soft compassion's feeling soul, 
 
 By the melting eye ex press 'd ; 
 Sympathy, at whose control. 
 Sorrow leaves the wounded breast : 
 
 5 Willing hands to lead the blind. 
 Bind the wound, or feed the poor ; 
 Love, embracing all our kind, 
 Charity, with lib'ral store. 
 Teach us, O thou heav'nly king. 
 Thus to show our grateful mind, 
 Thus th' accepted off 'ring bring. 
 Love to thee, and all mankind. 
 
HYMNS. 99 
 
 FIFTH METRE. XPTX ALLEGHANY. 
 
 Sixline stanzas. ^VV^l-^V, G major. 
 
 The pleasure of benevolence. 
 
 1 Hail, source of pleasures ever new ! 
 While thy kind dictates we pursue, 
 We taste a joy sincere ; 
 Too high lor sordid minds to know, 
 W^ho on themselves alone bestow 
 Their wishes and their care. 
 
 2 By thee inspir'd, the gen'rous breast, 
 In blessing others only blest, 
 With kindness large and free, 
 Delights the widow's tear to stay, 
 To teach the blind the smoothest way, 
 And aid the feeble knee. 
 
 O God of love ! with pious care, 
 In others' joys and griefs to share, 
 Do thou our hearts incline ; 
 Each low, each selfish wish control, 
 Warm ^vith benevolence our soul, 
 And make us whoUv thine. 
 
100 HYMNS. 
 
 THIRD METRE. p LOUDQX, 
 
 'Fourline stanaas. ^ • C roa^Or. 
 
 The love of truth. 
 
 i Imposture shrinks from light. 
 And dreads the curious eye ; 
 But christian truths the test invite^ 
 They bid us search and try. 
 
 2 A meek, inquiring mind, 
 Lord, help us to maintain ; 
 
 That growing knowledge we may find; 
 And growing virtue gain. 
 
 3 With understanding bless'd, 
 Created to be free. 
 
 Our faith on man w^e dare not rest, 
 Subject to none but thee. 
 
 4 Give us the light we need, 
 Our minds with knowledge fill, 
 From noxious errour guard our creed, 
 From prejudice, our will. 
 
 5 The truth thou shalt impart, 
 May we with firmness own ; 
 Abhorring each evasive art, 
 And fearing thee alone. 
 
HYMNS. 101 
 
 SECOND METRE. pT OLD HUNDRED. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. ^-'» A major. 
 
 Uncharitable judgment. 
 
 1 Omniscient God ! 'tis thine to know 
 The springs, whence wrong opinions flow 
 To judge from principles within, 
 When frailty errs, and when we sin. 
 
 2 Who among men, high Lord of all, 
 Thy servant to his bar may call .? 
 Judge him, for modes of faith, thy foe, 
 And doom him to the realms of wo ? 
 
 3 Who, with another's eye, can read ? 
 Or worship by another's creed ? 
 Guided by thee we tbrm our own ; 
 And bow to thy commands alone. 
 
 4 If wrong, coiTCCt ; accept, if right, 
 While faithful we obey our light ; 
 And, cens'ring none, are zealous still 
 To follow, as to learn, thy will. 
 
 5 When shall oiu' happy eyes behold 
 Thy people, flishion'd in thy mould ? 
 And charity our lineage prove, 
 Deriv'd from thee, O God of love ? 
 
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102 HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. pTT . ABRIDGE* 
 
 Fourline stanzas. v^XX. • Eb major. 
 
 Christian moderation. 
 
 1 Happy the man whose cautious steps 
 Still keep the golden mean ; 
 
 Whose life by wisdom's rules well form'd. 
 Declares a conscience clean. 
 
 2 Not of himself he highly thinks, 
 Nor acts the boaster's part ; 
 
 His modest tongue the language speaks 
 Of his more humble heart. 
 
 3 Not in base scandal's arts he deals, 
 For truth is in his breast ; 
 
 With grief he sees his neighbour's faults, 
 And thinks and hopes the best. 
 
 4 What blessings bounteous heav'n bestows, 
 He takes with thankful heart ; 
 
 With temp'rance he receives his food, 
 And gives, the poor a part. 
 
 • 5 To sect and party his large soul 
 Disdains to be confin'd ; 
 The good he loves, of ev'ry name, 
 And prays for all mankind. 
 
H Y M N S, 103 
 
 SECOND METRE. PTTT EVERSHAM; 
 
 Eightline stanzas. V^lAl. E minor. 
 
 Temfitation TJithout a7id ivithiii. 
 
 Awake, my soul ! lift up thine eyes ; 
 See how thy foes against thee rise, 
 In long array, a numerous host ; 
 Awake, my soul, or thou art lost. 
 Here giant danger threat'ning stands, 
 Must'ring his pale, terrifick bands ; 
 There pleasure's silken banners spread, 
 And willing souls are captive led. 
 
 See where rebellious passions rage,. 
 And fierce desires and lusts engage ; 
 The meanest foe of all the train 
 Has thousands and ten thousands slain. 
 Thou treads't upon enchanted ground, 
 Perils and snares beset thee round ; 
 Beware of all, guard ev'ry part, 
 But most, the traitor in thy heart. 
 
 Come, then, my soul ! now learn to wield 
 
 The weight of thine immortal shield ; 
 
 Put on the armour from above. 
 
 Of fieav'nly truth, and heav'nly love. 
 
 The terrour and the charm repel. 
 
 And pow'rs of earth, and pow'rs of hell ; 
 
 The man of Calv'ry triumph'd here : 
 
 Why should his faithful Ibliowers fear ? 
 
10* HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. PTV °^" SOUTK. 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas. v>x v . A minor. ' 
 
 Holif resolution, 
 
 1 Ah, wretched souls, who strive in vain ! 
 Slaves to the v\ orld, and slaves to sin ! 
 
 A nobler toil may we sustain, 
 A nobler satisfaction win. 
 
 2 May we resolve with all our heart, 
 With all our powers to serve the Lord ; 
 Nor from his precepts e'er depart, 
 Whose service is a rich reward. 
 
 3 O be his service all our jo}' ! 
 Around let our example shine ; 
 Till others love die biess'd employ, 
 And join in labours so divine. 
 
 4 Be this the purpose of our soul, 
 Our solenm, our determin'd choice, 
 To yield to his supreme control, 
 And in his kind commands rejoice. 
 
 5 O may we never faint nor tire, 
 Nor wander from thy sacred ways ; 
 Great God! accept our souls' desire, 
 And give us strength to live ih} praise. 
 
HYMNS. 105 
 
 fJRST METRE. p V MORNfNGTON, 
 
 Fourline stanzas.. v- ▼ • G major. 
 
 Prudence. 
 
 1 Father of light ! conduct our feet 
 Through life's dark, dang'rous road ; 
 Let each advancing step still bring 
 Us nearer to our God. 
 
 2 Let heav'n-ey'd prudence be our guide t 
 And when we go astray, 
 
 Recal our feet from folly's path, 
 To wisdom's better way. 
 
 3 Teach us in ev'ry various scene 
 To keep our end in sight, 
 
 And while we tread life's mazy track 
 Let wisdom guide us right. 
 
 4 That heav'nly wisdom from above 
 Abundantly impart ; 
 
 And let it guard, and guide, and warm 
 And penetrate our heart : 
 
 5 Till it shall lead us to thyself, 
 Fountain of bliss and love ; 
 
 And all our darkness be dispers'd, 
 In endless life above. 
 
10« HYMNS. 
 
 5EC0ND METRE. P VT LEINSTER» 
 
 Eightline stanzas. V^ \ 1, D major. 
 
 Integrity, fortitude, and hope. 
 
 1 The man, whose firm and equal mind 
 To solid glory is inclined, 
 Determin'd will his path pursue, 
 
 A lid keep the godlike prize in view : 
 With cairn, undaunted, m^nl} breast, 
 Of virtue, honour, truth possest, 
 He'll stem the torrent of the age, 
 And fearless tread this mortal stage. 
 
 2 Amidst th' assailing ills of life. 
 Pride, passion, malice, envy, strife ; 
 He'll act his part without disguise, 
 Intrepid, generous, just, and wise. 
 In conscious rectitude secure. 
 This man unshaken will endure 
 Of human wos the num'rous train, 
 Oppression, bondage, sickness, pain. 
 
 3 And when, at last, th' eternal pow'r 
 Shall fix th' irrevocable hour ; — 
 That solemn hour which none can fly, 
 Since 'tis decreed that alJ must die ; 
 Conscious of sov'reign mercy nigh, 
 Sublime to heav'n he'll lift his eye : 
 While faith and hope in joys to come. 
 Waft him to realms beyond the tomb. 
 
HYMNS. 107 
 
 SECOND METRE. P VTT BROOKFIELD, 
 
 Fourline stanzas. ^ * ■*■*• C minor. 
 
 Humility. 
 
 1 "\t herefore should man , frail child of clay, 
 Who, from the cradle to the shroud, 
 Lives but the insect of a day— 
 
 O why should mortal man be proud ? 
 
 2 His brightest visions just appear, 
 Then vanish, and no more are found ; 
 The stateliest pile his pride can rear, 
 A. breath may level with the ground. 
 
 5 By doubt perplex'd, in errour lost, 
 With trembling step he seeks his way : 
 How vain of wisdom's gifts the boast ! 
 Of reason's lamp how faint the ray ! 
 
 4 Follies and crimes, a countless sum, 
 Are crowded in life's little span : 
 How ill, alas, does pride become 
 That erring, guilty creature man ! 
 
 5 God of our life, father divine ! 
 Give us a meek and lowly mind : 
 In modest worth, O let us shine, 
 And peace in humble virtue find. 
 
108 HYMNS. 
 
 6ECOND METRE. T VITF CANNONTJ', 
 
 Cightlmc stanzas. ^^ » AAA* D major. 
 
 Peace of conscience, and submission to God. 
 
 1 ^V^HiLE some in folly's pleasures roll, 
 And seek the joys which hurt the soul, 
 Be mine that silent, calm repast, 
 
 A peaceful conscience to the last : 
 That tree which bears immortal fruit. 
 Without a canker at the root ; 
 That friend, who never fails the just. 
 When other friends betray their trust. 
 
 2 With this companion in the shade 
 My soul no more shall be dismay 'd ! 
 But fearless meet the midr.ight gloom 
 And the pale monarch of the tomb. 
 Though God afflict, I'll not repine ; 
 The noblest comforts still arc mine ; 
 Comforts which shall o'er death prevail. 
 And journey with me through the vale. 
 
 3 Amid the various scene of ills. 
 Each stroke some kind design fulfils ; 
 And shall I murmur at my God, 
 When love supreme directs the rod ? 
 His hand will smoothe my rugged way. 
 And lead me to the realms of day ; 
 To milder skies, and brighter plains, 
 Where everlasting pleasure reigns. 
 
HYMNS. 109 
 
 JECOND METRE, PTX" CALIFORNIA* 
 
 Fourline stanzas. v^A-^V* E major. 
 
 Christian zeal temfiered by charity.. 
 
 1 Gtreat God ! whose all pervading eye 
 Sees ev'ry passion in my soul ! 
 
 When sunk too low or rais'd too high, 
 Teach me those passions to control. 
 
 2 Temper the fervours of my frame ; 
 Be charity their constant spring ; 
 And O, let no unhallow'd flame 
 Pollute the offerings I bring. 
 
 3 Let peace with piety unite 
 To mend the bias of my will ; 
 
 While hope and heav'n-ey'd faith excite, 
 And wisdom regulates, m.y zeal : — 
 
 4 That wisdom which to meekness turns, 
 Wisdom descending from above : 
 And let my zeal, whene'er it burns, 
 Be kindl'd by the fire of love. 
 
110 HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. pV NEWCOURT. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. v^-^V. F major. 
 
 Patience. 
 
 1 Patience ! O what a grace divine ! 
 Sent from the God of peace and love ; 
 That leans upon its father's hand, 
 
 As through the wilds of life we rove. 
 
 2 By patience we serenely bear 
 The troubles of our mortal state ; 
 And wait contented our discharge, 
 Nor think our glory comes too late, 
 
 3 Though we in full sensation feel 
 
 The weight, the wounds our God ordains ; 
 We smile amidst our heaviest wos, 
 And triumph in our sharpest pains, 
 
 4 O for this grace to aid us on, 
 And arm with fortitude the breast ; 
 Till life's tumultuous voyage is o'er, 
 We reach the port of endless rest. 
 
 5 Faith into vision shall be brought ; 
 Hope shall in full enjoyment die, 
 And patience in possession end 
 
 In the bright world of bliss on high. 
 
HYMN S. lU 
 
 FIFTH METRE. P VT REDEMPTION. 
 
 Sixline stanzas. V-..^X. C major. 
 
 Tranquillity and contentment. 
 
 If solid happiness we prize, 
 
 Within our breasts this jewel lies, 
 
 And they are fools who roam : 
 
 The world has little to bestow ; 
 
 From our ownselves our joys must flow ; 
 
 Our bliss begins at home. 
 
 To be resign'd when ills betide, 
 Patient when favours are deny'd, 
 And pleas 'd with favours giv'n : 
 This, gracious God ! is wisdom's part, 
 This is that incense of the heart, 
 Whose fragrance reaches heav'n. 
 
 Thus thro' life's changing scenes we'll go, 
 Its chequer'd paths of joy and wo 
 With cautious steps we'll tread ; 
 Quit its vain scenes without a tear. 
 Without a trouble or a fear. 
 And mingle with the dead : 
 
 While conscience, like a faithful friend, 
 Shall through the gloomy vale attend, 
 And cheer our dying breath ; 
 Shall, when all other comforts cease, 
 Like a kind angel, whisper peace, 
 And smoothe the bed of death. 
 
112 HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. PVTT WELLS. 
 
 Founine stanzas . V- yv 1 1 . F major. 
 
 JLife and death. 
 
 1 Ijife is the time to serve the Lord, 
 The time t' insure the great reward ; 
 And while the lamp holds out to burn,. 
 The greatest sinner may return. 
 
 2 Life is the hour that God has giv'n. 
 To fit us for the joys of heav'n ; 
 The day of grace, and mortals may 
 Secure the blessings of the day. 
 
 3 The living know that they must die j 
 But all the dead forgotten lie ; 
 They have no share in all that's done 
 Beneath the circuit of the sun. 
 
 4 There are no acts of pardon past 
 
 In the cold grave to which we haste % 
 Oblivion, darkness, and despair, 
 Still reign in gloomy silence there. 
 
 5 Then the great work we have to doj 
 Let us with all our might pursue ; 
 And wisely ev'ry hour employ. 
 Till faith and hope are lost in joy. 
 
HYMNS. 113 
 
 SECOND METRE. T YTTT HAMBURGH. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. V^^lll. G major. 
 
 The importance of time, 
 
 O TIME, how few thy value weigh, 
 
 How few can estimate a day ! 
 
 Days, months, and years are rolling on 
 
 The soul neglected and undone. 
 
 In painful cares or empty joys 
 
 Our life its precious hours destroys ; 
 
 While death stands watching at our side. 
 
 Eager to stop the rolling tide. 
 
 Was it for this, ye mortal race. 
 Your maker gave you here a place ? 
 Was it for this, his thought design'd 
 The frame of your immortal mind ? 
 For nobler cares, for joys sublime, 
 He fashion 'd all the sons of time ; 
 Pilgrims on earth, but soon to be 
 The heirs of immortality. 
 
 This season of your being, know, 
 Is giv'n to you, your seeds to sow ; 
 Wisdom and folly's diff'ring grain 
 In future worlds is bliss and pain. 
 Then let me ev'ry day review, 
 Idle or busy, search it through ; 
 And while probation's minutes last, 
 Let ev'ry day amend the past, 
 
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114 HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. PVTV FRAKKLlJf* 
 
 Fourline stanzas. \^.^l\, G minor. 
 
 The great journey. 
 
 Behold the path which mortals tread 
 Down to the regions of the dead ; 
 Nor will the fleeting moments stay 
 Nor can we measure back our way. 
 
 1^ Our kindred and our friends are gone ; 
 Know, O my soul ! this doom thine own j 
 Feeble as their's, thy mortal frame, 
 The same thy way, thy home the same. 
 
 3 From vital air, from cheerful li.e:ht, 
 To the cold grave''s perpetual night ; 
 From scenes of duty, means of grace, 
 Must I to God's tribunal pass 1 
 
 4 Awake, my soul ! thy way prepare, 
 And lose in this each meaner care ; 
 With steady feet that path be trod, 
 Which, through the grave, conducts to Go d. 
 
HYMNS. 115 
 
 FIRST METRE. PYV LANCASTER. 
 
 Eightlinc stanzas. v^xv v . C major. 
 
 Emblems of man's resurrection. 
 
 All nature dies, and lives again : 
 
 The flovv'r that paints the field, 
 
 The trees tliat crown the mountain's brow. 
 
 And boughs and blossoms yield ; 
 
 Resign the honours of their form 
 
 At winter's stormy blast ; 
 
 And leave the naked, leafless plain 
 
 A desolated waste. 
 
 Yet soon reviving plants and flow'rs 
 
 Anew sliall deck the plain ; 
 
 The woods shall hear the voice of spring. 
 
 And flourish green again. 
 
 So to the dreary grave consign'd, 
 
 Man sleeps in death's dark gloom, 
 
 Uiitil th' eternal morning wake 
 
 The slumbers of the tomb. 
 
 O may the grave become to us. 
 
 The bed of peaceful rest, 
 
 Whence we shall gladly rise at length, 
 
 And mingle with the blest ! 
 
 Cheer'd by this hope, with patient mind 
 
 We'll wait heav'n's high decree ; 
 
 Till the appoin.tcd period come, 
 
 When dcc^th shall set us free. 
 
116 HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. PYVT EVERSLEY. 
 
 Fourline stanza*. v^-^V V J., Eb major. 
 
 Hoiie of heaven from the resiirrectio7i of Christ. 
 
 1 Blest be the everlasting God, 
 The father of our Lord, 
 
 Be his abounding mercy prais'd. 
 His majesty ador'd. 
 
 2 When from the dead he rais'd his Son^ 
 And calPd him to the sky ; 
 
 He gave our souls a lively hope, 
 That they should never die. 
 
 3 What though the frame of man requires 
 That he should see the dust ; 
 
 Since Christ our pledge and pattern rose,^ 
 So all his foll'wers must. 
 
 4 There's an inheritance divine, 
 Reserv'd against that day : 
 'Tis uncorrupted, undefiPd, 
 And cannot fade away. 
 
 5 Saints by the pow'r of God are kept, 
 Till this salvation come ; 
 
 We walk by faith as strangers here. 
 Till he shall call us home. 
 
HYMNS. 117 
 
 FIRST METRE. PWTT NEWARK, 
 
 EjghtUne stanzas. v^^v > AO.. F m^h 
 
 Prospect of heaven. 
 
 1 There is land of pure delight, 
 Where saints immortal reign ; 
 Infinite day excludes the night, 
 And pleasures banish pain. 
 There everlasting spring abides. 
 And never- with'ring fiovv'rs : 
 Death, like a narrow sea divides 
 This heav'nly land from ours. 
 
 2 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood 
 Stand dress'd in living green : 
 
 So to the Jews old Canaan stood, 
 
 And Jordan rolPd between. 
 
 But tini'rous mortals start and shrink, 
 
 To cross this narrow sea ; 
 
 And linger, shiv'ring on the brink, 
 
 And fear to launch away. 
 
 3 Oh, could we make our doubts remove. 
 Those gloomy doubts that rise, 
 
 And see the Canaan that we love 
 
 "With unbeclouded eyes ! — 
 
 Could we but climb where Moses stood. 
 
 And view the landscape o'er — 
 
 Not Jordan's streams, nor death's cold flood, 
 
 Should fright us from the shore. 
 
118 HYMN S. 
 
 FIRST METRE. PVVTTT STRATHAM. 
 
 Fourhne stanzas* v^-A. V 111. D major. 
 
 The holiness and happiness of heaven, 
 
 1 Nor eye hath seen, nor ear hath heard. 
 Is or sense, nor reason known, 
 
 What joys' th' Ahiiighty hath prepar'd 
 For those who love his Son. 
 
 2 But the good spirit of the Lord 
 Reveals a heav'n to come ; 
 The beams of glory in his word 
 Allure and guide us home. 
 
 -3 Pure are the joys above the sky, 
 And all the region peace ; 
 No wanton tongue nor envious eye 
 Can see or taste the bliss, 
 
 4 Not the malicious nor profane, 
 The covetous nor proud. 
 
 Nor thieves nor sland'rers shall obtain 
 The kingdom of our God. 
 
 5 Those holy gates forever bar 
 Pollution, sin, and shame ; 
 
 None shall receive admittance there, 
 But foU'vvers of the Lamb. 
 
HYMNS. 119 
 
 rtRST METRE. PYTV \VAREHAM| 
 
 Pourline stanzas. \-^urs,x^^, G major, 
 
 T/w christian firefiared to die. 
 
 1 Death may dissolve my body now, 
 And bear my spirit home ; 
 
 Why do my minutes move so slow, 
 Nor my salvation come ? 
 
 2 With heav'nly weapons I have fought 
 The battles of the Lord, 
 
 Finish'd my course, and kept the faith. 
 And wait the sure reward. 
 
 3 God has laid up in heav'n for me 
 A crown which cannot fade ; 
 The righteous judge at that great day 
 Shall place it on my head. 
 
 4 Nor hath the king of heav'n decreed 
 This prize for me alone ; 
 But all that love and hope to see 
 Th' appearance of his Son. 
 
120 HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. C^Y^ FINLAKD, 
 
 Sixline stanzas. \-/aV-^v. C major. 
 
 T/ie dying saint. 
 
 1 fT HEN life's tempestuous storms are o'er ; 
 How calm he meets the friendly shore, 
 Who liv'd averse from sin ! 
 Such peace on virtue's paths attend, 
 That where the sinner's pleasures end, 
 The good man's joys begin. 
 
 2 See smiling patience smoothe his brow f 
 See bending angels downward bow 
 
 To lift his soul on high ! 
 While eager for the blest abode, 
 He joins with them to praise the God, 
 Who taught him how to die. 
 
 3 The horrours of the grave and hell, 
 Those horrours which the wicked feel, 
 In vain their gloom display ; 
 
 For he who bids yon comet burn, 
 Or makes the night descend, caji turn 
 Their darkness into day. 
 
 4 No sorrow drowns his lifted eyes, 
 
 No horrour wrests the struggling sighs, 
 As from the sinner's breast ; 
 His God, the God of peace and love, 
 Pours kindly solace from above. 
 And heals his soul with rest. 
 
HYMNS. 121 
 
 TiRST METRE. PYYT KETTERIN«. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. \^x\.^\.a., G major. 
 
 God the everlasting light of good men, 
 
 1 XE golden lamps of hcav'n ! fare\vell, 
 With all your feeble light : 
 Farewell, thou everchanging moon, 
 Paie empress of the night ! 
 
 And thou refulgent orb of day, 
 
 In brighter flc\nies arra) 'd ! 
 
 My soul, which springs beyond thy sphere, 
 
 No more demands thme aid. 
 
 2 Ye stars are but the shining dust 
 Of my divine abode, 
 
 The pavement of those heav'nly courts. 
 
 Where I shall reign with God. 
 
 The father of eternal light 
 
 Shall there his beams display ; 
 
 Nor shall one moment's darkness mix 
 
 With that unvari'd day. 
 
 No more the drops of piercing grief 
 Shall swell into mine eyes : 
 Nor the meridian sun decline. 
 Amid those brighter skies. 
 There all the millions of his saints 
 Shall in one song unite ; 
 And each the bliss of iill shall share 
 With infinite delight. 
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ISS HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. PVyTT MUNICH. 
 
 Eightlinc stanzas. v^^^^^VAX. B minor. 
 
 On the dangerous sickness of a minister. 
 
 1 O THOU, before whose gracious throne 
 We bow our suppliant spirits down, 
 Thou know'st the anxious cares we feel, 
 And all our trembling lips would tell. 
 Thou only canst assuage our grief, 
 And give our sorrowing hearts relief ; 
 In mercy then thy servant spare, 
 
 Nor turn aside thy people's prayer. 
 
 2 Avert thy desolating stroke, 
 
 Nor smite the shepherd of the flock ; 
 Restore him sinking to the grave. 
 Stretch out thine arm, make haste to save. 
 Bound to each soul by tender ties, 
 In ev'ry heart his image lies ; 
 Thy pitying aid, O God, impart. 
 Nor rend him from each bleeding heart. 
 
 3 But if our supplications fail. 
 
 And pray'rs and tears cannot prevail, 
 Be thou his strength, be thou his stay ; 
 Support him through the gloomy way. 
 Around him may thine angels stand, 
 Waiting the signal of thy hand, 
 To bid his happy spirit rise. 
 And bear him to their native skies. 
 
HYMNS. 123 
 
 SECOND METRE. P WTTT FULHAM- 
 
 Ejghtlinc stanzas. \^ -^ -<rv 1 1 1 . G xn^gr. 
 
 Heaven the reward of virtuous exertion. 
 
 1 There is a glorious world on high, 
 Resplendent with eternal day ! 
 
 Faith views the blissful prospect nigh, 
 While God's own word reveals the way. 
 There shall the fa v 'rites of the Lord 
 With never-fading lustre shine ; 
 Surprising honour ! vast reward ! 
 Conferr'd on man, by love divine ! 
 
 2 How blest are those, how truly wise, 
 Who learn and keep the sacred road ! 
 Happy the men, whom heav'n employs 
 To turn rebellious hearts to God ! 
 
 To win them from the fatal way. 
 Where erring folly thoughtless roves ; 
 And that blest righteousness display. 
 Which Jesus taugfc^, and God approves. 
 
 3 The shining firmament shall fade. 
 And sparkling stars resign their light ; 
 
 But these shall know nor change nor shade ; 
 
 For ever fair, for ever bright. 
 
 On wings of faith and strong desire, 
 
 O may our spirits daily rise ; 
 
 And reach at last the shining choir. 
 
 In the bright mansions of the skies. 
 
124 HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. P VVTV OXENBRIDGE- 
 
 Sixline stanzas. v^.^rv^vx v . D minor^ 
 
 Reflections on death. 
 
 1 Yet a few years or days, perhaps, 
 Or moments, pass in silent lapse, 
 And time to me shall be no more ; 
 
 No more the sun these eyes shall view ; 
 Earth o'er these limbs her dust shall strew, 
 And life's delusive dream be o'er. 
 
 2 Great God ! how awful is the scene ! 
 A lireath, a transient breath between ; 
 And can I trifle life away ? 
 
 To earth, alas ! too firmly bound. 
 Trees deeply rooted in the ground 
 Are shiver'd when they're torn away. 
 
 3 Yet, dumb with wonder, I behold 
 Man's thoughtless race, in errour bold, 
 Forget or scorn the laws of death ; 
 With these no projects coincide. 
 
 Nor vows, nor toils, nor hopes, they guide ; 
 Each thinks he draws immortal breath. 
 
 4 Great cause of all, above, below ! 
 Who knows thee, must for ever know 
 That thou'rt immortal and divine : 
 Thine image on my soul imprest, 
 
 . Of endless being is the test, 
 And bii^^eternity be mine. 
 
HYMNS. 12& 
 
 SEVENTH METRE. PVVV CRUCIFIXION. 
 
 Foufline stanzas. ^ J\.x\, V • C minor. 
 
 Death of the fiilgrim, 
 
 1 Ye that mourn a father's loss, 
 Ye that weep a friend no more ; 
 Call to mind the christian cross, 
 Which your friend, your father bore. 
 
 2 Grief, and penury, and pain 
 Still attended on his way, 
 
 And oppression's scourge and chain. 
 More unmerciful than they. 
 
 3 And while along that vale of tears, 
 Which his humble footsteps trode. 
 Still a shining path appears, 
 
 . Where the mourner w'alk'd with GoD: 
 
 4 Yet, rejoicing in his "lot. 
 
 Still shall mem'ry love to weep 
 
 O'er the venerable spot. 
 
 Where his dear, cold relicks sleep. 
 
 5 Grave ! the guardian of his dust. 
 Grave I the treas'ry of the skies, 
 Ev'ry atom of thy trust 
 
 Rests in hope again to rise 
 
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126 HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. P VV VT REANIMATION. 
 
 Eigiitline stanzas. \^x\.x\. v x. q major. 
 
 Reanimation. 
 
 1 tV HO, from the shades of gloomy night. 
 When the hist tear of hope is shed, 
 
 Can bid tiie soul return to Hght, 
 And break the slumber of the dead ? 
 No human skill that heart can warm, 
 Which the cold blast of nature froze j 
 Kecai to life the perish 'd form ; 
 The secret of the grave disclose. 
 
 2 But thou, our saving God, we know, 
 Canst arm th.e mortal hand with pow'r 
 To bid the stagnant pulses flow, 
 The animating heat restore. 
 
 Thy will, ere nature's tutor'd hand 
 Could with young life these limbs unfold, 
 Did the imprisoned brain expand, 
 And all its countless fibres told. 
 
 3 As from the dust, thy forming breath 
 Could the unconscious being raise ; 
 So can the silent voice of death 
 Wake at thy call in songs of praise. 
 Since twice to die is ours alone, 
 And twice the birth of life to see ; 
 
 O let us, suppliant at thy throne, 
 Devote our second life to thee. 
 
HYMNS. 127 
 
 THIRD METRE, PVWTT LEWISHAM. 
 
 Eifihtline stanzas. V-»-<rv.^\. > XI. F major. 
 
 The bafitism of infants. 
 
 liORD, what our ears have heard, 
 
 Our eyes delighted trace ; 
 
 Thy love in long succession shown 
 
 To Sion's chosen race. 
 
 Our children thou dost claim, 
 
 And mark them out lor thine. 
 
 Ten thousand biessiiigs to thy name, 
 
 For goodness so divine. 
 
 Thee, let the fathers own, 
 
 And thee, the soris adore ; 
 
 Join'd to the Lord in solemn vows,. 
 
 To be forgot no more. 
 
 Thy cov'nant may VvC keep, 
 
 And bless the happy bands, 
 
 Which closer still engage their hearts 
 
 To honour thy conmiands. 
 
 How great thy mercies. Lord, 
 How plenteous is thy giace ! 
 Which, in the promise of thy love. 
 Includes our rising race. 
 Our offspring, still thy care, 
 Shall own their father's God, 
 To latest times thy blessings share, 
 And sound thy praise abroad. 
 
128 HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE. T X X VTT T TUNBRIDGE. 
 
 Eightline stanzas. V^yv^ V ill. D minor. 
 
 On the death of a child. 
 
 Life is a span, a fleeting hour, 
 
 How soon the vapour flies ! 
 
 Man is a tender, transient flow'r, 
 
 That in the blooming dies. 
 
 Death spreads, like winter, frozen arms, 
 
 And beauty smiles no more ; 
 
 Where now are fled those rising charms 
 
 Which pleas'd our eyes before ? 
 
 The once lov'd form, now cold and dead^ 
 
 Each mournful thought employs ; 
 
 And nature weeps her comforts fled, 
 
 And wither 'd all her joys. 
 
 But wait the interposing gloom, 
 
 Ap.d lo ! stern winter flies ; 
 
 And, drest in beauty's Purest bloom. 
 
 The flow'ry tribes arise. 
 
 Hope looks beyond the bounds of time. 
 When what we now deplore, 
 Shall rise in full, immortal prime, 
 And bloom to fade no more. 
 Then cease, fond nature ! dry thy tears ; 
 Religion points on high : 
 There everlasting spring appears, 
 And joys which cannot die. 
 
HYMNS. 129 
 
 FIRST METRE. PWIV WANDSWORTH. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. V^^rV-^1-^ . d major. 
 
 Early religion, 
 
 1 Happy is he, whose early years 
 Receive instruction well ; 
 
 Who hates the sinner's path, and fears 
 The road that leads to hell. 
 
 2 Our youth, devoted to the Lord, 
 Is pleasing in his eyes ; 
 
 A flower when ofFer'd in the bud 
 Is no vain sacrifice. 
 
 3 'Tis easier work, if we begin 
 To fear the Lord betimes ; 
 While sinners, who grow old in sin, 
 Are harden'd in their crimes. 
 
 4 It saves us from a thousand fears, 
 To mind religion young ; 
 
 With joy it crowns succeeding years, 
 And renders virtue strong, 
 
 5 To thee, almighty God, to thee, 
 Our hearts we now resign ; 
 
 'Twill please us to look back, and see 
 That our whole lives were thine. 
 
130 HYMNS. 
 
 FIRST METRE, C\W WAYBRIDGB. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. \^x\.^\.x\.t G major. 
 
 God every where the refuse of his servants. 
 
 1 How are thy servants blest, O Lord ! 
 How sure is their defence ! 
 
 Eternal wisdom is their guide, 
 Their help omnipotence. 
 
 2 In foreign realms, and lands remote, 
 Supported by their care. 
 
 They pass unhurt, through burning climes, 
 And breathe in tainted air. 
 
 3 Thy mercy sweetens ev'ry soil, 
 Makes ev'ry region please ; 
 The hoary frozen hills it warms, 
 And smoothes the boist'rous seas. 
 
 4 Though by the dreadful tempest toss'd 
 High on the broken wave. 
 
 They know thou art not slow to hear, 
 Nor impotent to save. 
 
 5 The storm is laid, the winds retire, 
 Obedient to thy will : 
 
 The sea, that roars at thy command, 
 At thy command is still. 
 
HYMNS. 131 
 
 Fi^ST METRE. PY YYT TWINSTEAD, 
 
 Fourline stanzas. v-^x.iv^vx. F nwijor. 
 
 Marriage. 
 
 1 Though made by God's almighty hand, 
 Aiid in his image Ibrni'd ; 
 
 Yet Adam knew no happiness 
 Till love his bosom warm'd, 
 
 2 Eden, with all its beauteous groves, 
 And fruits of richest taste, 
 
 To one for social bliss designed, 
 Was but a lonely waste. 
 
 3 But when his lovely bride appear'd, 
 In native graces drest, 
 
 The latent spark burst into flame, 
 And love inspir'd his breast. 
 
 4 What wise provision hast thou made. 
 Great parent of mankind. 
 
 That all thine offspring may enjoy 
 The bliss for them design 'd ! 
 
 5 Then will we join our hearts and hands 
 In bonds of virtuous love ; 
 
 And while we live in peace below, 
 Prepare for bliss above. 
 
132 HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. PVVVTT ITALY, 
 
 Eightline stanza. v^zx,^\.,^Vi.l« Bb major. 
 
 Dedicatio7i of a church, 
 
 1 AV^iLL God descend in very deed 
 To temples rais'd by hunrian art ? 
 Or does Jehovah's glory need 
 The homage of the purest heart ? 
 Behold ! the heav'ns might strive in vain 
 To bound the place of his abode ; 
 
 The heav'n of heav'ns cannot contain 
 The great, the universal God. 
 
 2 Yet such is e'er his boundless grace, 
 That where his people once repair, 
 With contrite hearts to seek his face, 
 He condescends to meet them there. 
 Come, Lord ! and enter this thy rest, 
 And let thy presence fill the place ; 
 Here may thy goodness stand confess'd 
 The glories of redeeming grace ! 
 
 3 Here with one heart, and soul, and mind, 
 All free from discord's baleful reign, 
 
 In ties of pure affection join'd. 
 May we the bond of peace maintain. 
 United by a heav'nly birth. 
 One common hope directs our eyes, 
 From this thy temple on the earth, 
 To that, our home, beyond the skies. 
 
HYMNS. 133 
 
 THIRD METRE. P Y YY TTT TIGRIS. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. v^^v^^-^vxxi. G major. 
 
 The Lord's sufifier. 
 
 1 Jesus invites his saints 
 To meet around his board ; 
 Here may his people sit and hold 
 Communion with their Lord. 
 
 2 Here we show forth his love, 
 Which spake in ev'ry breath, 
 Prompted each action of his life. 
 And triumph'd in his death. 
 
 3 Our heav'nly Father calls 
 Christ and his members one ; 
 We are the children of his love, 
 And he the first-born Son. 
 
 4 One faith, one hope, one Lord, 
 One God alone we know ; 
 Brethren we are ; let ev'ry heart 
 With kind affections glow. 
 
 5 Let all our pow'rs be join'd. 
 Our Father's name to raise ; 
 Let gratitude fill ev'ry mind, 
 And ev'ry voice be praise. 
 
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134 - HYMNS, 
 
 SECOND METRE. P VVVTV MAR-TlK's LANE, 
 
 Fourline stanzas. \^x\..^\..^\.L\ F major. 
 
 Reme7nbrance of Christ. 
 
 1 ** This do in memory of your friend.'' 
 Such was the Saviour's last request, 
 Who all the pangs of death endur'd, 
 That we might live forever blest. 
 
 2 Yes, we'll record thy matchless love. 
 Thou dearest, tenderest, best of friends ! 
 Thy dying love the noblest praise 
 
 Of long eternity transcends. 
 
 3 'Tis pleasure more than earth can give, 
 Thy goodness through these veils to see ; 
 Thy table food celestial yields, 
 
 And happy they who sit with thee. 
 
 4 But Oh ! what vast transporting joys 
 Shall fill our breasts, our tongues inspire, 
 When join'd with the celestial train. 
 Our grateful souls thy love admire ! 
 
 5 When these vile bodies, all refin'd, 
 Perfect and glorious as thine own, 
 Unweari'd shall our minds obey. 
 And join in worship near thy throne. 
 
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HYMNS. 135 
 
 FIRST METRE. PVV VV SPARTA. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. v>.^.^.^x V • «m?jor. 
 
 Communion of saints, 
 
 1 Not to the terrours of the Lord, 
 The tempest, fire, and smoke. 
 Not to the thunder of that word, 
 Which God on Smai spoke ; 
 
 2 But we are come to Sion's hill, 
 The city of our God ; 
 
 Where milder words declare his will, 
 And spread his love abroad. 
 
 3 Behold th' innumerable host 
 Of angels cloth'd in light ! 
 Behold the spirits of the just, 
 Whose faith is turn'd to sight I 
 
 4 Behold the blest assembly there. 
 Whose names are writ in heav'n t 
 And God, the judge of all, declares 
 Their vilest sins forgiv'n. 
 
 5 The saints on earth, and all the dead 
 But one communion make ; 
 
 All join in Christ, their living head, 
 And of his grace partake. 
 
136 HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. PWWT RIPTOM. 
 
 Eig^htline stanzas. v^-^rv^'V.^X v ±» C minor. 
 
 J^or a fast day. 
 
 Gtreat framer of unnumbered worlds, 
 Thou whom unnumber'd worlds adore ! 
 Whose goodness ail thy creatures share, 
 While nature trembles at thy pow'r ! 
 Thine is the hand that moves the spheres, 
 That wakes the winds, and lifts the sea ; 
 And man, who moves the lord of earth. 
 Acts but the part assign'd by thee^ 
 
 While suppliant crowds implore thine aid. 
 To thee we raise the humble cry ; 
 Thine altar is the contrite heart, 
 Thine incense a repentant sigh. 
 If hard injustice grinds the poor, 
 Or avarice stains the sordid hand ; 
 If stern ambition thirsts for blood. 
 Or rude oppression wastes the land : 
 
 If heinous crimes like these abound, 
 O may a generous sorrow rise ; 
 And as new troubles threaten round, 
 'Midst wasting wars and angry skies. 
 May this our land, with heart sincere, 
 Confess thy pow'r, and bless the rod ; 
 By penitence make thee her friend, 
 And find in thee a guardian God ! 
 
HYMNS, 137 
 
 SECOND METRE. T' W VVTT ORLEANS. 
 
 Sijilinc itanxas. V^.<^-^.^ V 1^» C major. 
 
 MitioTial thanksgiving. 
 
 1 How rich thy gifts, almighty king ! 
 From thee our various comforts spring : 
 Th' extended trade, the fruitful skies, 
 The blessings liberty bestows, 
 
 Th' eternal joys the gospel shows — 
 All from thy boundless goodness rise^ 
 
 2 Here commerce spreads the wealthy store 
 That pours from ev'ry foreign shore ; 
 Science and art their charms display t 
 Religion teaches us to raise 
 
 Our voices to our maker's praise, 
 
 As truth and conscience point the way, 
 
 3 With grateful hearts, with joyful tongues^ 
 To God we raise united songs ; 
 
 His pow'r and mercy we proclaim : 
 Columbia joyfully shall own ; 
 Jehovah here has fix'd hfs throne^ 
 And triumph in his mighty name* 
 
 4 Long as the moon her course shall run. 
 Or man behold the circling sun, 
 
 May God within our nation reign ; 
 Crown her just counsels with success, 
 With peace and joy her borders blessj, 
 And all her sacred rights maintain ! 
 Aa2 
 
138 HYMNS. 
 
 SEVENTH METRE. pyVVVITT GREENS. 
 
 Sixliiie stanzas. v-'./v^rv-^V. V xix, D minor- 
 
 Terrible convulsion of the elements. 
 
 Now in deep and dreadful gloom, 
 Clouds on clouds portentous spread, 
 Black as if the day of doom 
 Hung o'er nature's shrinking head : 
 Lo ! the lightning breaks from highy 
 — God is coming ! God is nigh ! 
 
 Hear ye not his chariot wheels, 
 As the mighty thunder rolls ? 
 Nature, startled nature reels, 
 From the centre to the poles : 
 Tremble ! — ocean, earth, and sky I 
 Tremble !— God is passing by ! 
 
 God of vengeance \ from above 
 While thine awful bolts are hurl'd^ 
 O remember thou art love ! 
 Spare ! — O spare a guilty world ! 
 Stay thy flaming wrath awhile. 
 See thy bow of promise smile ! 
 
 Cool and tranquil is the night, 
 Nature's sore afflictions cease. 
 For the storm, that spent its might, 
 Was a covenant of peace : 
 Vengeance drops her harmless rod ; 
 Mercy is the pow'r of God ! 
 
HYMNS. 139 
 
 SECOim METRE. PV^Vyiy WINCHESTER-. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. V-'.^rv-^-^l.i^. C major. 
 
 [Preserving goodness. 
 
 1 Eternal God J we bless thy name, 
 The same thy pow'r, thy grace the same ; 
 The tokens of thy friendly care 
 
 Open, and close, and crown the year. 
 
 2 Supported by thy guardian hand, 
 Amidst ten thousand deaths we stand ; 
 And see, when we survey thy ways, 
 Ten thousand monuments of praise. 
 
 3 Thus far thine arm has led us on, 
 Thus far we make thy mercy known ; 
 And while we tread this desert land. 
 New mercies shall new songs demand. 
 
 4 Our grateful voice on Jordan's shore 
 Shall raise one sacred pillar more ; 
 Then bear in thy bright courts above, 
 Inscriptions of immortal love. 
 
140 HYMNS, 
 
 FIRST METRE. PVT DORSET, 
 
 Fourline stanza*. \^x\.iat D minor. 
 
 J^or a neio year, 
 
 1 Remark, my soul, the narrow bounds 
 Of the revolvmg year ; 
 
 How swift the weeks complete their rounds t 
 How short the months appear ! 
 
 2 So fast eternity comes on, 
 And that impoitant day, 
 
 When all that mortal life hath done,. 
 God's judgment shall survey* 
 
 3 Yet like an idle tale we pass 
 The swift, advancing year ; 
 And study artful ways t' increase 
 The speed of its career. 
 
 4^ Waken, O God, my careless heart, 
 Its great concern to see ; 
 That I may act the christian part,. 
 And give the year to thee. 
 
 B So shall their course more grateful roU^ 
 If future years arise ; 
 Or this shall bear my waiting soul 
 To joy beyond the skies. 
 
HYMNS. 141 
 
 FIRST METRE. P VT T OXFORD. 
 
 Fourlinc sunzas. v.. -^ A-» x . C major. 
 
 A hymn for sfiring. 
 
 1 W^HiLE beauty clothes the fertile vale, 
 And blossoms on the spray, 
 
 And fragrance breathes in ev'ry gale, 
 How sweet the vernal day ! 
 
 2 How kind the influence of the skies ; 
 Soft show'rs, with blessings fraught, 
 Bid verdure, beauty, fragrance rise, 
 And fix the roving thought. 
 
 3 O let my wond'ring heart confess, 
 With gratitude and love. 
 
 The bounteous hand thai deigns to bless 
 The garden, field, snd grove. 
 
 4 That bounteous hand my thoughts adore, 
 Beyond expression kind 
 
 Hath sweeter, nobler gifts in store 
 To bless the craving mind. 
 
 5 Inspir'd to praise, W'e then shall join 
 Glad nature's cheerful song ; 
 
 And love and gratitude divine 
 Attune my joyful tongue. 
 
142 HYMNS. 
 
 SECOND METRE. f^'VITT DENBIGH. 
 
 £ifihtlme Stanzas, ^v^.^l-ill« e major. 
 
 Autumnal hymn, 
 
 Gtreat God ! at whose all-pow'rful call, 
 At first arose this beauteous frame, 
 Thou bid'st the seasons change, and all 
 The changing seasons speak thy name. 
 Thy bounty bids the infant year, 
 From winter storms recover'd, rise ; 
 When thousand grateful scenes appeal'. 
 Fresh op'ning to our wond'ring eyes. 
 
 O how delightful 'tis to see 
 The earth in vernal beauty drest 1 
 While in each herb, and flow'r, and tree, 
 Thy blooming glories shine confest ! 
 Aloft, full beaming reigns the sun, 
 And light and genial heat conveys : 
 And, while he leads the seasons on, 
 From thee derives his quick'ning rays. 
 
 Around us from the teeming field, 
 Springs the rich grain, or purpl'd vine ; 
 At thy command they rise to yield 
 The strength'ning bread, or cheering wine^ 
 Indulgent God ! from ev'ry part 
 Thy plenteous blessings largely flow : 
 \A e see — ^we taste — let ev'ry heart 
 "With grateful love and duty glow. 
 
HYMNS. 143 
 
 SECOND METRE. PVI TTT COLNBROOK^ 
 
 Fourline stanzas. V^-^Lilll. Eb major. 
 
 ^ winter reflection, 
 
 1 The man whose faith and hope are strong, 
 And free from vexing cares his mind, 
 
 H As changing seasons pass along, 
 g^ Can in them all fresh pleasures find. 
 
 2 The man whose faculties are sound, 
 His heart upright, and conscience clean, 
 With tranquil mind can pass his round 
 Of life in ev'ry shifting scene. 
 
 3 Not only in his youthful prime. 
 And while his pow'rs continue firm, 
 But when he feels th' effect of time, 
 And age prepares him for the worm : 
 
 4 Grateful for ev'ry blessing past, 
 Patient in ev'ry present ill ; 
 
 And on whatever ground he's plac'd, 
 Hope does with pleasing prospects filL 
 
144 HYMNS. 
 
 FOURTEENTH METRE. P VT 1\T CORINTH, 
 
 Eightline stanzas. V^-A.1j1 V , D major. 
 
 The com7non lot. 
 
 i Once in the flight of ages past, 
 There liv'd a man : and who was he ? 
 Mortal ! howe'er thy lot be cast, 
 That man resembPd thee. 
 Unknown the region of his birth, 
 The land in which he di'd unknown ; 
 His name hath perish 'd from the earth, 
 This truth survives alone : 
 
 2 That joy, and grief, and hope, and fear, 
 Alternate triumph'd in his breast ; 
 His bliss and wo — a smile, a tear, 
 Oblivion hides the rest. 
 
 The bounding pulse, the languid limb, 
 The changing spirits' rise and fall ; 
 We know that these were felt by him, 
 For these are felt by all. 
 
 3 He suffer 'd — but his pangs are o'er ; 
 Enjoy 'd — but his delights are fled ; 
 
 Had friends — his friends are now no more ; 
 And foes — his foes are dead. 
 He saw whatever thou hast seen, 
 Encounter 'd all that troubles thee ; 
 He was — whatever thou hast been ; 
 He is — what thou shalt be. 
 
HYMNS. 145 
 
 SEVENTH METRE. PVT V FALMOUTH. 
 
 Fourlinc stanzas, ^ .*VI-* V • d major. 
 
 After sermon, 
 
 1 Thanks for mercies past, receive ; 
 Pardon of our sins renew ; 
 Teach us henceforth how to live, 
 With eternity in view. 
 
 ^ Bless thy word to old and young ; 
 Grant us, Lord, thy peace and love ; 
 And, when life's short race is run, 
 Take us to thy house above. 
 
 SECOND METRE, MORVEN. 
 
 Fourline stan/as. G major. 
 
 The same, 
 
 1 How blest is he whose tranquil mind, 
 When life declines, recals again 
 
 The years that time has cast behind, 
 And reaps delight in toil and pain ; 
 
 2 So, when the transient storm is past, 
 The sudden gloom, and driving show'r ; 
 The sweetest sunshine is the last, 
 
 The loveliest, is the evening hour. 
 
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146 HYMNS. 
 
 SEVENTH METRE. TXT VT GERMAN HYMN. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. v^.^*.xu v J.» q major. 
 
 At the close 6f the evening service. 
 
 1 Xhou didst make the darksome night, 
 Glorious being ! thou the day, 
 Which we close with cahn delight, 
 Pleas'd thy precepts to obey. 
 
 2 Bounteous providence divine ! 
 O how gracious is thy sway ! 
 Duty and delight combine ; 
 Truest bliss is to obey. 
 
 FIRST METRE. BRAMSHOT. 
 
 fourline stanzas. G major. 
 
 The same. 
 
 1 Soon will our fleeting hours be past, 
 And as the setting sun 
 
 Now leaves the clouds in yonder w est, 
 Our parting beams be gone. 
 
 2 May he, from whom all blessings flow, 
 Our sacred rites attend ; 
 
 Unite our hearts in wisdom's ways. 
 Till life's short journey end ; 
 
 3 And as the rapid sands run down, 
 Our virtue still improve ; 
 
 Till each receives the glorious crown 
 Of never fading love. 
 
HYMNS. 147 
 
 FIRST METRE. P VT VTT HANCOCK. 
 
 Fourline stanzas. V-'.icvi-i V xl. E major. 
 
 An evening hymn, 
 
 1 Indulgent God, whose bounteous care 
 O'er all thy works is shown ! 
 
 O let my grateful praise and pray'r 
 Ascend before thy throne ! 
 
 2 What mercies has this day bestow 'd ! 
 How largely hast thou blest ! 
 
 My cup with plenty overflow 'd, 
 With cheerfulness my breast. 
 
 3 Now may sweet slumbers close mine eyes, 
 From pain and sickness free ; 
 And let my waking thoughts arise 
 To meditate on thee. 
 
 4 So bless each future day and night, 
 Till life's fond scene is o'er ; 
 And then to realms of endless light 
 Enraptur'd let me soar. 
 
148 HYMNS. 
 
 SEVENTH METRE. PVTVTTT MIDDLETOWN, 
 
 £ightline stanaas. ^^ x\.Lt V xxx, ^ major. 
 
 Meditations in the night season. 
 
 1 TT HAT though downy slumbers flee. 
 Strangers to my couch and me ; 
 While with God's protection blest, 
 Cares and fears ne'er haunt my breast, 
 While the empress of the night 
 Scatters mild her silver light ; 
 While the vivid planets stray 
 Various through the mystick way ; 
 
 2 While the stars unnumber'd roll 
 Round the ever-constant pole ; 
 Far above the spangl'd skies, 
 All my soul to God shall rise. 
 'Midst the silence of the night 
 Mingling with those angels bright, 
 Whose harmonious voices raise 
 Ceaseless love and ceaseless praise : 
 
 5 'Midst the throng his gentle ear 
 Shall my grateful accents hear : 
 From on high will he impart 
 ibecret comfort to my heart ; 
 Lifting all my thoughts above 
 On the wings of faith and love : 
 Blest alternative to me, 
 Thus to sleep, or wake, with thee f 
 
HYMNS. 149 
 
 TWENTIETH METRE. PXT TX VITAL SPARER. 
 
 Eighteenline stanza. \-.^VJ-<x^v. Finiuor, 
 
 Funeral ode, 
 
 1 \ iTAL spark of heav'nly flame. 
 Quit, O quit this mortal frame ! 
 Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, 
 O the pain, the bliss of dying ! 
 Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife. 
 And let me languish into life. 
 Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, 
 Sister spirit come away : 
 What is this absorbs me quite ? 
 Steals my senses, shuts my sight, 
 Drowns my spirit, draws my breath ? 
 Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? 
 The world recedes ; it disappears ; 
 Heav'n opens on mine eyes ! mine ears 
 With sounds seraphick ring ; 
 Lend, lend your wings, I mount, I fly ; 
 O grave ! where is thy victory ? 
 O death where is thy sting ? 
 
 Bb2 
 
150 HYMNS. 
 
 FlJflST METRE. pT ACCtW; 
 
 7%e fieace of the grceve. 
 
 1 How Still and peaceful is the grave ! 
 Where, life's vain tumults past, 
 
 Th' appointed house, by heav'n's decree, 
 Receives us all at last. 
 
 2 The wicked there from troubling cease ; 
 Their passions rage no more ; 
 
 And there the weary pilgrim rests 
 From all the toils he bore. 
 
 3 There rest the pris'ners, now releas'd 
 From slav'ry's sad abode ; 
 
 No more they hear th' oppressor's voice, 
 Or dread the tyrant's rod. 
 
 4 There servants, masters, small, and great, 
 Partake the same repose ; 
 
 And there in peace the ashes mix 
 Of those who once were foes. 
 
 5 All levell'd by the hand of death. 
 Lie sleeping in the tomb ; 
 
 Till God in judgment call them forth 
 To meet their final doom. 
 
INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 
 
 Absence from God 
 
 Acquiescence in the will of God 
 
 Admonition, fraternal 
 
 Afflicted, compassion to the 
 
 Afflicted find refuge in God 
 
 All nature invoked to praise God 
 
 All things work together for good to the righteous P 
 
 Angels proclaiming Christ's birth 
 
 Author of our comforts, 8cc. 
 
 Autumnal hymn 
 
 Beatitudes 
 
 Beneficence 
 
 Benevolence, the pleasure of 
 
 Better portion 
 
 Blessings of nature and revelation 
 
 Bounty of providence spiritualized 
 
 Catholicism 
 
 Changes of human life 
 
 Charity essential to the christian doctrine 
 
 Child, death of 
 
 Christ's kingdom, the glory of 
 
 Christ's kingdom among the Gentiles 
 
 Christian charity 
 
 Christian worship and order 
 
 Christian privileges and obligations 
 
 Christian zeal, tempered by charity 
 
 Christian prepared to die 
 
 Christians, the happiness of 
 
 Church, the birth-place of saints 
 
 Church, love to the 
 
 Church, dedication of a 
 
 Comfort in sickness and death 
 
 Common lot 
 
 Communion of saints 
 
 Confession and pardon 
 
 Conscience, peace of 
 
 Conversation, evangelical 
 
 P. 
 
 43 
 
 H. 
 
 56 
 
 P. 
 
 141 
 
 P. 
 
 41 
 
 H. 
 
 41 
 
 H. 
 
 27 
 
 ;P. 
 
 94 
 
 H. 
 
 74 
 
 H. 
 
 44 
 
 H. 
 
 142 
 
 H. 
 
 92 
 
 H. 
 
 98^ 
 
 H. 
 
 99 
 
 H. 
 
 58 
 
 P. 
 
 16 
 
 H. 
 
 34 
 
 H. 
 
 95 
 
 H. 
 
 5S 
 
 H. 
 
 97 
 
 H. 
 
 128 
 
 P. 
 
 45 
 
 P. 
 
 2 
 
 P. 
 
 35 
 
 P. 
 
 48 
 
 H. 
 
 82 
 
 H. 
 
 109 
 
 H. 
 
 1)9 
 
 H. 
 
 81 
 
 P. 
 
 87 
 
 P. 
 
 ir,r 
 
 H. 
 
 132 
 
 P. 
 
 38 
 
 H. 
 
 144 
 
 H. 
 
 135 
 
 P. 
 
 32 
 
 H. 
 
 108 
 
 H. 
 
 84 
 
INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 
 
 Corruption of manners 
 
 Creation and providence, works of 
 
 Creation and preservation 
 
 Death of friends 
 
 Death, reflections on 
 
 Degeneracy of the world 
 
 Deliverance and protection 
 
 Desire for God's worship 
 
 Devotion and confidence 
 
 Devotion, daily and nightly 
 
 Devotion 
 
 Devout supplication 
 
 Devout aspirations 
 
 Difference between the righteous and wicked 
 
 Divine assistance 
 
 Divine counsels 
 
 Divine nature, providence, and grace 
 
 Divine perfections 
 
 Divine power, wisdom, and goodness 
 
 Divine protection 
 
 Divine proteciion, peace, and plenty 
 
 Divine protection, resignation, and gratitude 
 
 Divine superintendence 
 
 Divine mercy and truth 
 
 Domestick love 
 
 Education of children, religious 
 
 Enemies, deliverance from 
 
 Evening psalm 
 
 Evening service, close of 
 
 Evening hymn 
 
 Faith correcting impatience 
 
 Family duties and blessings 
 
 Fast day 
 
 Father of mercy, the 
 
 Freedom from errour, guilt, and folly 
 
 Funeral ode 
 
 God, eternal and sovereign 
 
 every where the refuge of his servants 
 
 executing vengeance on his enemies 
 
 faithful to his promises 
 
 holy, worshipped with reverence 
 
 his compassion 
 
 his condescension 
 
 his decrees 
 
 P. 
 
 12 
 
 p. 
 
 33 
 
 H. 
 
 17 
 
 P. 
 
 88 
 
 H. 
 
 124 
 
 P. 
 
 53 
 
 P. 
 
 40 
 
 H. 
 
 4 
 
 P. 
 
 52 
 
 P. 
 
 134 
 
 H. 
 
 47 
 
 H. 
 
 46 
 
 H. 
 
 59 
 
 P. 
 
 1 
 
 P. 
 
 56 
 
 H. 
 
 14 
 
 P. 
 
 98 
 
 P. 
 
 111 
 
 P. 
 
 136 
 
 P. 
 
 121 
 
 P. 
 
 144 
 
 P. 
 
 91 
 
 P. 
 
 145 
 
 H. 
 
 23 
 
 P. 
 
 133 
 
 P. 
 
 78 
 
 P. 
 
 54 
 
 P. 
 
 4 
 
 H. 
 
 146 
 
 H. 
 
 147 
 
 P. 
 
 55 
 
 P. 
 
 128 
 
 H. 
 
 136 
 
 H. 
 
 42 
 
 H. 
 
 62 
 
 H. 
 
 149 
 
 P. 
 
 93 
 
 H. 
 
 130 
 
 P. 
 
 18 
 
 H. 
 
 39^ 
 
 P. 
 
 99 
 
 P. 
 
 6S 
 
 P. 
 
 8 
 
 H. 
 
 52 
 
INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 
 
 God, his dominion over the seas 
 
 his existence 
 
 his government 
 
 his goodness in the seasons of the year 
 
 his greatness 
 
 his justice and goodness 
 
 his mercy 
 
 his majesty in thunder 
 
 his name our trust 
 
 his never-ceasing goodness 
 
 his omniscience and omnipotence 
 
 his omnipresence and omniscience 
 
 his presence in affliction 
 
 his perfections and providence 
 
 his perfections displayed in his works 
 
 his power 
 
 his works 
 
 his works, design of 
 
 our refuge 
 
 our shepherd 
 
 our she; herd and guardiaa 
 
 our trust in affliction 
 
 of mercy adored 
 
 pardoning mercy of 
 
 safety in 
 
 security /in 
 
 success and prosperity frbni 
 
 the creator of man 
 
 the eternal sovereign 
 
 the everlasting light of good men 
 
 the leader of his people 
 
 the refuge of the afflicted 
 
 the only refuge of the afflicted 
 
 the only living and true 
 
 the preserver of frail man 
 
 the refuge of persecuted virtue 
 
 the supreme judge 
 
 unchangeably good 
 
 victory from 
 Gospel, blessings of 
 excellency of 
 success of 
 Going to church 
 Gratitude to the author of nature 
 
 H. 
 
 16 
 
 P. 
 
 14 
 
 P. 
 
 10 
 
 P. 
 
 74 
 
 P. 
 
 104 
 
 P. 
 
 36 
 
 P. 
 
 142 
 
 P. 
 
 29 
 
 P. 
 
 9 
 
 H. 
 
 19 
 
 P. 
 
 139 
 
 H. 
 
 15 
 
 P. 
 
 25 
 
 H. 
 
 20 
 
 H. 
 
 12 
 
 H. 
 
 13 
 
 P. 
 
 19 
 
 H. 
 
 11 
 
 P. 
 
 46 
 
 P. 
 
 23 
 
 H. 
 
 18 
 
 P. 
 
 123 
 
 H. 
 
 43 
 
 P. 
 
 130 
 
 P. 
 
 61 
 
 P. 
 
 125 
 
 P. 
 
 i2r 
 
 H. 
 
 9 
 
 P. 
 
 102 
 
 H. 
 
 121 
 
 P. 
 
 44 
 
 P. 
 
 143 
 
 H. 
 
 40 
 
 P. 
 
 86 
 
 H. 
 
 51 
 
 P. 
 
 7 
 
 P. 
 
 or 
 
 P. 
 
 76 
 
 P. 
 
 114 
 
 P. 
 
 89 
 
 H. 
 
 79 
 
 P. 
 
 110 
 
 P. 
 
 122 
 
 H. 
 
 29 
 
INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 
 
 Gratitude for divine mercies 
 Gratitude for all tilings 
 Grave, peace of 
 Heaven, prospect of 
 
 the lioliness and happiness of 
 the reward of virtuous exertion 
 Heavenly kingdom an inheritance 
 Holy resolution 
 Homage and devotion 
 Hope, penitential, in the divine goodness 
 of divine mercy 
 
 of heaven, from the resurrection of Christ H 
 House of prayer 
 Humility and contentment 
 Idolatry reproved 
 Infants, baptism of 
 Instructions of piety 
 Integrity, fortitude, and hope 
 In time of insurrection 
 Invitations of mercy 
 Jacob's vow, the basis of a resolution 
 Jesus Christ, his birth 
 
 his birth proclaimed by angels 
 
 his example 
 
 his forgiveness of enemies 
 
 his kingdom 
 
 his sufferings 
 
 imitation of 
 
 mission of 
 
 the light of the ^vorld 
 Journey, the great 
 Judgment, the last 
 Justice and equity 
 Liberty and peace, return of 
 Liberality rewarded 
 Life and death 
 Lord's-day 
 Lrrd's-day morning 
 Lord's supper 
 Love to God 
 Magistrate's psalm 
 Magistrates warned 
 Marriage 
 Meditation on death 
 
 H. 
 
 36 
 
 H. 
 
 38 
 
 H. 
 
 150 
 
 H. 
 
 117 
 
 H. 
 
 118 
 
 H. 
 
 123 
 
 P. 
 
 49 
 
 H. 
 
 104 
 
 H. 
 
 7 
 
 H. 
 
 45 
 
 H. 
 
 89 
 
 H. 
 
 116 
 
 H. 
 
 8 
 
 P. 
 
 131 
 
 P. 
 
 115 
 
 H. 
 
 127 
 
 P. 
 
 34 
 
 H. 
 
 106 
 
 P. 
 
 64 
 
 H. 
 
 77 
 
 H. 
 
 60 
 
 H. 
 
 72 
 
 H. 
 
 73 
 
 H. 
 
 80 
 
 P. 
 
 109 
 
 P. 
 
 72 
 
 P. 
 
 69 
 
 H. 
 
 83 
 
 P. 
 
 21 
 
 H. 
 
 76 
 
 H. 
 
 114 
 
 P. 
 
 50 
 
 H. 
 
 94 
 
 P. 
 
 80 
 
 P. 
 
 112 
 
 H. 
 
 112 
 
 P. 
 
 92 
 
 P. 
 
 118 
 
 H. 
 
 133 
 
 H. 
 
 83 
 
 P. 
 
 101 
 
 P. 
 
 82 
 
 H. 
 
 131 
 
 P. 
 
 76 
 
INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 
 
 Meditations in the night season H. 148 
 
 Mercy in the midst of judgment P. 103 
 
 Messiah promised P. 85 
 
 Minister, dangerous sickness of H. 122 
 
 Miracles attending Israel's journey P. 115 
 
 Moderation christian H- 102 
 
 Modesty and humility H. 107 
 
 Morning of the Lord's-day P. 63 
 
 Morning prayer H. 2 
 
 Morning psalm P. 3 
 
 National peace, praise for P. 129 
 
 National thanksgiving H. 137 
 
 New year H. 140 
 
 No rest on earth P. 57 
 
 Oppressors, destruction of P. 58 
 
 Patience H. 110 
 
 Penitence P. 51 
 
 Persecution P. 83 
 
 Pilgrimage of life P. 105 
 
 Pilgrim death of H. 125 
 
 Power and goodness of God P. 66 
 
 Power of government from God only P. 75 
 
 Praise and thanksgiving H. 32 
 
 due from the righteous P. 106 
 
 for divine goodness P. 146 
 
 general P. 150 
 
 in adversity H. 31 
 
 in prosperity H. 30 
 
 of nature H. 28 
 
 to God P. 57 
 
 to God from all nations P. 117 
 
 to God in his house P. 135 
 
 to the God of the seasons P. 65 
 
 to the supreme ruler and judge P. 96 
 
 to God from all creatures P. 148 
 
 to God for his greatness and mercy H. 21 
 
 to the divine goodness H. 22 
 
 to God universal H. 24 
 
 the harmony of H. 25 
 
 to God from all nature H. 26 
 
 Prayer in sickness P. 6 
 
 for kind affections H. 90 
 
 righteous P. 140 
 
 universal H. 48 
 
JNDEX OF SUBJECTS. 
 
 Prayer to the supreme being 
 
 Preserving goodness 
 
 Principles, religious 
 
 Proclamation of Christ's birth 
 
 Properties of christian charity 
 
 Protection and praise 
 
 Providence, its mystery and benignity 
 
 mysteries of it to be solved hereafter P. 
 the mystery of, unfolded 
 Prudence 
 Psalm of praise 
 Qualifications for heaven 
 Quietness and prudence 
 Race, christian 
 Rational and devout praise 
 Renniniation 
 
 Reflections on the advancing years of life 
 Religion 
 
 comforts of 
 
 early benefits of 
 
 pleasures of 
 
 yoke of, easy 
 Reipembrance of Christ 
 Remonstrance, pleading, hope 
 Resurrection 
 
 Resurrection, man's emblems of 
 Resignation 
 Resolutions, virtuous 
 Righteous, the dwellings of 
 Sabbath, christian 
 Sabbath, eternal 
 Sabbath morning 
 Safety of trusting in God 
 Saint, the death of 
 Savages, deliverance from 
 Scriptures, excellency of 
 Scriptures, light and comfort from 
 Self-examination 
 Sermon, after 
 
 Showers, emblems of the gospel 
 Sickness, recovery from 
 Sincere worshipper 
 Sincerity in divine worship 
 Solemn praise 
 
 H. 
 
 SM 
 
 H. 
 
 139 
 
 H. 
 
 10 
 
 H. 
 
 75 
 
 H. 
 
 96 
 
 P. 
 
 107 
 
 H. 
 
 54 
 
 P. 
 
 11 
 
 P. 
 
 73 
 
 H. 
 
 105 
 
 P. 
 
 100 
 
 P. 
 
 24 
 
 P. 
 
 120 
 
 H. 
 
 85 
 
 P. 
 
 47 
 
 H. 
 
 126 
 
 P. 
 
 71 
 
 H. 
 
 66 
 
 H. 
 
 68 
 
 H. 
 
 129 
 
 H. 
 
 69 
 
 H. 
 
 67 
 
 H. 
 
 134 
 
 P. 
 
 13 
 
 P. 
 
 17 
 
 H. 
 
 115 
 
 P. 
 
 42 
 
 P. 
 
 119 
 
 H. 
 
 91 
 
 H. 
 
 3 
 
 H. 
 
 5 
 
 P. 
 
 5 
 
 P. 
 
 27 
 
 H. 
 
 i20 
 
 P. 
 
 59 
 
 H. 
 
 70 
 
 H. 
 
 71 
 
 P. 
 
 26 
 
 H. 
 
 145 
 
 H. 
 
 78 
 
 P. 
 
 116 
 
 P. 
 
 15 
 
 H. 
 
 87 
 
 P. 
 
 95 
 
Index of subjects. 
 
 Solemn invocation 
 Spiritual blessings and punishments 
 Spiritual strength and joy- 
 Spring, hymn for 
 Submission to the divine will 
 Submission to providence 
 Summer and winter 
 Supplication in war 
 Supplication for entire obedience 
 Supreme governour, reverence to 
 Temptation without and within 
 Terrible convulsion of the elements 
 Thanksgiving 
 Thanksgiving and praise 
 Thanksgiving for national peace 
 Time, the importance of 
 Time, the due employment of 
 Times, our, in God's hand 
 Tranquillity and contentment 
 Trust in none but God 
 Trust in God under the trials of virtue 
 Trusting God in prosperity and adversity 
 Truth, the love of 
 Uncharitable judgment 
 Universal praise 
 Universal prayer 
 Vanity of mortal man 
 Virtue rewarded and vice punished 
 Waiting for morning 
 War, humiliation in 
 War, supplication in time of 
 Wef*ping seed-time, joyful harvest 
 Wicked, their prosperity no cause of discontent 
 Winter reflection 
 Wisdom, the invitation of 
 Wise choice 
 
 Worship of God, delight in 
 Worship, publick, delight in 
 Worship, publick, privilege of 
 Zeal and vigouv in the christian race 
 
 Cc 
 
 P. 
 
 108 
 
 p. 
 
 81 
 
 p. 
 
 138 
 
 H. 
 
 141 
 
 H. 
 
 35 
 
 H. 
 
 55 
 
 P. 
 
 147 
 
 P. 
 
 20 
 
 P. 
 
 22 
 
 P. 
 
 113 
 
 H. 
 
 103 
 
 H. 
 
 138 
 
 P. 
 
 149 
 
 H. 
 
 33 
 
 P. 
 
 129 
 
 H. 
 
 113 
 
 P. 
 
 9Q 
 
 P. 
 
 31 
 
 H. 
 
 111 
 
 P. 
 
 62 
 
 P. 
 
 77 
 
 P. 
 
 28 
 
 H. 
 
 100 
 
 H. 
 
 101 
 
 P. 
 
 67 
 
 H. 
 
 49 
 
 P, 
 
 39- 
 
 H. 
 
 65 
 
 P. 
 
 30 
 
 P. 
 
 60 
 
 P. 
 
 79 
 
 P. 
 
 126 
 
 P. 
 
 37 
 
 H. 
 
 143 
 
 H. 
 
 63 
 
 H, 
 
 64 
 
 H. 
 
 6 
 
 P. 
 
 84 
 
 P. 
 
 132 
 
 H., 
 
 . Sr^ 
 
INDEX OF FIRST LINES. 
 
 143 
 3 
 9 
 
 -/\bsuiid and vain attempt to bind Scott V. 
 
 Affliction is a stormy deep Cotton P. 
 
 Ag-ain our weekly labours end Cappers Selec. H. 
 
 A God ! a God ! the wide earth shouts Darwin H. 
 
 Ah, wretched souls, who strive in vain Mrs. Steele H. 104 
 
 All natiu'e dies, and lives again Edinburgh Coll. H. 115 
 
 And will the great, eternal God Doddridge P. 87 
 
 And is the gospel peace and love Mrs. Steele H, 80 
 
 Awake, my soul ! awake, my tongue do. H. 22 
 
 Awake, my soul, lift up thine eyes Mrs. Barbauld H. 103 
 
 Awake, my soul, stretch ev'ry nen'e Doddridge H. 86 
 
 Awake, our souls, away, our feai*s Watts H. 85 
 
 Awake, ye saints, to praise your king* do. P. 135 
 
 As various as the moon ' Scott H. 53 
 
 Autlior of good, we rest on thee Merrick H. 56 
 
 Before Jehovah's awful throne Watts P 100 
 
 Before the rosy dawn of day XTni-v CoU- P. 134 
 
 Behold the fool, wliose heai't denies Merrick P. 53- 
 
 Behold the grace appear Watts H. 72- 
 
 Bel) old the prince of peace Ntedhatn H. 7^ 
 
 Behold the path which mortals tread Doddrid-gc H 114' 
 
 Behold wliere breathing love divine Mrs. Barhaidd P- 35 
 
 Beset with snares on ev'ry hand Doddridge H. 64- 
 
 Be thou my judge : thy searching eyes Merrick P. 26 
 
 Be thou exalted, O our God Watts P. 57" 
 
 Bless God, O my soul Vincent P 104 
 
 Blest are the men whose hearts still move Watts H. 93 
 
 Blest are the humble souls that see do. H. 92 
 
 Blest be the everlasting God do. H. 116 
 
 Blest instructer, from thy ways 3Ierrick H. 62 
 
 Blest is the man wliose heart is kind Watts P 41 
 
 Blest is the man who fears the Lord Belhrnp's Coll. P. 128 
 
 Blest is the man, yes, more than blest Blackloch H. 65 
 
 Cliildren in years, and knowledge young Watts P. 34 
 
 Come hither all ye weary soids d.o. H. 67 
 
 Come, let tis join our cheerful song's do. H. 32 
 
 Come, let us search our ways and see do. H. 94 
 
 Come, said Jesus' sacred voice Mrs. Barbauld H. 77 
 
INDEX O^ FIRST LINES. 
 
 CoiT>e, see the wonders of our God 
 Come, thou almighty king 
 Come, ye who love the Lord 
 Commit thou all thy ways 
 Death may dissolve my body now 
 Deep in our hearts let us record 
 Deserted now the verdant fields 
 Do not I love thee, O my God 
 Eai-ly, my God, without delay 
 Eternal God, almighty cause 
 Eternal God, we bless thy name 
 Eternal and immortal king 
 Eternal source of every joy 
 Eternal source of life and thought 
 Eaith adds ne w charms to earthly bliss 
 Far from thy servants, God of grace 
 Father of all, in every age 
 Father of all, omniscient mind 
 Father of light, conduct our feet 
 Father of mercies, in thy word 
 Father of our feeble race 
 From all who dwell below the skies 
 ■From lowest depths of wo 
 From vocal air and concave skies 
 Give thanks to God most high 
 Give to the Lord, ye sons of fame 
 God does his saving health dispense 
 God in the assembly stands 
 God is a spirit, just and wise 
 God is our refuge in distress 
 God left the beauteous realms of light 
 God moves in a myster'ous way 
 God of all grace, accept our praise 
 God of my life, my tlianks to thee 
 'God of our mercy, and our praise 
 God of the morning, at whose voice 
 God of the sabbath, hear our vows 
 God of the seas, thy thund'ring voice 
 Good is the work, my God, my king 
 Glory be to God on high 
 Great father of mankind 
 Great framer of unnumber'd worlds 
 Great God ! at whose all-pow'rful call 
 Great God ! how vast is thine abode 
 Great God ! whose all-pervading eye 
 Great God ! whose universal sway 
 
 Watts 
 Aiionyvious 
 Watts 
 Wesley 
 Watts 
 do. 
 Ajionyinous 
 Doddridge 
 Watts 
 Br ovine 
 Hoddrtdge 
 do. 
 do. 
 da. 
 Salisbury Coll. 
 Doddridge 
 Pope 
 Blacklock 
 Smart 
 Mrs. Steele 
 Taylor 
 Watts 
 Tate IJf Brady 
 Mrs. Toilet 
 Watts 
 Belknafs Coll. 
 Tate 15^ Brady 
 do. 
 Watts 
 Tate kSf Brady 
 do. 
 Cowper 
 Harris 
 Bro'xne 
 Watts 
 do. 
 Doddridge 
 Watts 
 
 do. 
 
 Taylor 
 
 Doddridge 
 
 Dyer 
 
 Anonymous 
 
 yervis 
 
 Watts 
 
 do. 
 
 P. 66 
 P. 108 
 H. 69 
 P. 123 
 H. 119 
 
 69 
 80 
 88 
 4. 
 86 
 H. 139 
 H. 10 
 P. 74 
 H. 8 
 H. 61 
 H. 90 
 H. 48 
 P. 139 
 H. 105 
 H. 70 
 H. 98 
 P. 117 
 P. 130 
 P. 150 
 P. 136 
 29 
 
 62 
 82 
 
 87 
 46 
 18 
 54 
 68 
 38 
 
 P. 109 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 16 
 
 92 
 
 H. 
 H. 
 H. 
 P. 
 H. 21 
 H. 8 
 H. 136 
 H. 142 
 H. 15 
 H. 109 
 P. 72 
 
INDEX OF FIRST LINES. 
 
 Great is the Lord our God Watts P. 4& 
 
 Great ruler of the earth and skies Mrs. Steele H. 138 
 
 Gre^t source of life, our souls confess Doddriuge H. 44 
 
 Had nut tlie God of truth and love Mrs. BarbaiUd P. 124 
 
 Hail, source of pleasures ever new Miacklock H. 99 
 
 Happy is he who fears the Lord Watts P. 112 
 
 Huppy is he, whose early years do. H. 129 
 
 Happy the man, %vhose cautious steps Needhavi H. 102 
 Hark the g-lad sound, the saviour comes Doddridge ■ P. 21 
 
 Hark, what celestial notes Salisb. Coil. H. 73 
 
 Hear, O my people ; to my law Tate IS" Brady P. 78 
 
 Help, Lord! for men of virtue fail Watts P. 12 
 
 He reigns, the Lord Jehovah reigns do. P. 97 
 
 How are thy servants blest, O Lord Addison 
 
 How cheerful the field and the mead Anojiymous 
 
 How did my heart rejoice Watts 
 
 How long shall L my God, in vain Merrick 
 
 How rich thy gifts, almighty king Kippis 
 
 Huw still and peaceful is the grave Mdin. Coll. 
 
 How vast is the tribute I owe ^ervis 
 
 How welcome is their voice Watts 
 House of our God, with cheerful antl\ems Doddridge 
 If friendless in the vale of years I stray Mrs.Barbauid 
 
 If God succeed not, all the cost Watts 
 
 If solid happiness we prize Cotton 
 
 I'll praise my rnaker with my breath Watts. 
 
 I love the Lord, he heard my cries do. 
 
 I love thy church, O God Dwight P. 137 
 
 Imposture shrinks from light Scott H. 100 
 
 Indvilgent God, whose bounteous care Liv. Coll. H. 147 
 
 I read my duty in the word Watts H. 83 
 
 In sleep's serene oblivion laid Havikesviorth P. 3 
 
 In the soft season of thy youth Salisb. Coll. P. 34 
 
 In vain wliile sorrow spreads Mrs. Steele P. 25 
 
 Is there ambition in my soul Williams' Coll, P. 131 
 
 Jcbus invites his saints Watts H. 133 
 
 Keep silence, all created things M?-s. Steele H. 14 
 
 Let all the nations fear Watts H. 24 
 
 Let tlill'ring nations join Tate i^ Brady P. 67 
 
 Let heathens to their idols haste Belknap's Coll. P. 16 
 
 Let heav'n, and all that dwell on high Watts H. 23 
 
 Let men of high conceit and zeal Broivne H. 96 
 
 Let not the sinner's wealth or might Merrick P. 37 
 
 Let others, confident and vain Watts H. 51 
 
 Let party names no more Birminghafn Coll. H. 95 
 
 Let songs of praise froiii all below Keiv Selection P. 107 
 
 H. 13a 
 
 H. 29 
 P. 122 
 P. 13 
 
 H. 137 
 H. 150 
 H. 40 
 81 
 19 
 59 
 127 
 111 
 146 
 116 
 
IKDEX OF FIRST LINES. 
 
 Let the unthinking- many say 
 
 Let the whole race of creatures lie 
 
 Let us with a joyful mind 
 
 L'.fc is a span, a fleeting hour 
 
 Life is the time to serve the Lord 
 
 Long and mournful is the nig-lit 
 
 Long as I live, 1*11 bless thy name 
 
 Lord, h:ist thou cast the nation oli" 
 
 Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear 
 
 Lord, let our hunible cry 
 
 Lord, let thy potent arm control 
 
 Lord, not to eartli's contracted span 
 
 Lord of the worlds above 
 
 Lord', set upon my lips a guard 
 
 Lo, what a pleasing sight 
 
 Lo, wretched millions draw their breath 
 
 Man has a soul of vast desires 
 
 Mark the soft-falling snow 
 
 Mercy and judgment are my song 
 
 Mercy, judgment, now my tongue 
 
 My God, the father of mankind 
 
 My God, my everlasting hope 
 
 My soul, praise the Lord, speak good of his name Far^ 
 
 My soul, review the time Watts 
 
 My soul to God, its source, aspires Mrs. Steele 
 
 My thoughts that oft ascend the skies Watts 
 
 Naked as from the earth we came do. 
 
 Nor <;ye hath seen, noi- ear hath heard do. 
 
 Not from relentless late's dark womb Needhatn 
 
 Not to our names, thou only just and true JVatts 
 
 Not to the terrours of the Lord do-. 
 
 Now to the Lord a joyful song do. 
 
 Now in deep and dreadful gloom Montgomery 
 
 No war nor battle's sound Mi/ton altered by Gardiner 
 
 Watts 
 
 do. 
 
 Milton 
 
 Mrs. Steele 
 
 Watts 
 
 Mrs. Steele 
 
 Watts 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 Barlow 
 
 Mrs. Steele 
 
 Pope 
 
 Watts 
 
 Belknap's Coll. 
 
 Watts 
 
 Scott 
 
 ■ Watts 
 
 Doddridge 
 
 Watts 
 
 Merrick 
 
 Collett 
 
 Wjtts 
 
 O all ye nations praise the Lord 
 O azure vaults ! O crystal sky 
 O blessed souls are they 
 O father of mercy 
 O for a shout of sacred joy 
 Oft have our fathers told 
 O God of my salvation, hear 
 O God of our foretathers, hear 
 Oil ! how my fears the dangers move 
 O Lord, thy mercj", my sure hope 
 O Lord, to our request give ear 
 Omniscient God I 'tis tliine to know 
 Co 2 
 
 Watts 
 
 Hosco^nmon 
 
 Watts 
 
 yervis 
 
 Watts 
 
 do. 
 
 BarloKv 
 
 Salisbury Cell. 
 
 Merrick 
 
 Tate er Brady 
 
 Belknap's Coll. 
 
 Scott 
 
 H. 
 H. 
 H. 
 H. 
 H. 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 H. 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 H. 
 H. 
 H. 
 P. 
 H. 
 H. 
 P. 
 H. 
 P. 
 H. 
 P. 
 H. 
 H. 
 P. 
 P. 
 H. 
 H. 
 H. 
 H. 
 P. 
 H. 
 P. 
 H. 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 II. 
 
 20 
 
 128 
 
 112 
 
 30 
 
 145 
 
 GO 
 
 5 
 
 59 
 
 l'i4 
 
 49 
 
 84 
 
 141 
 
 133 
 
 82 
 
 57 
 
 78 
 
 101 
 
 91 
 
 50 
 
 71 
 
 138 
 71 
 70 
 55 
 
 118 
 94. 
 
 115 
 
 135 
 2-^ 
 
 138 
 74i 
 
 117 
 26 
 32 
 42 
 47 
 
 125 
 8S 
 44 
 77 
 56 
 64 
 
 IGl 
 
INDEX OF FIRST LISES. 
 
 Once in the flight of ages past 
 
 One privilege my heiirt desires 
 
 O praise ye the Lord 
 
 O render thanks to God above 
 
 O shig to the Lord a new song 
 
 O source of uncreated light 
 
 O spare me. Lord, nor o'er my head 
 
 O thou, to \Yhom all creatures bow 
 
 O thou, whose tender mercy hears 
 
 O thou the wretched's sure retreat 
 
 O thou unknown, almighty cause 
 
 O thou by whose all-bounteous hand 
 
 O thoU;, before whose gracious throne 
 
 O that thy statutes every hour 
 
 O 'tis a lovely thing to see 
 
 O time, how few thy value weigh 
 
 Our country is Immanuel's ground 
 
 Our hearts a grateful theme shall sing 
 
 Our souls repeat his praise 
 
 O were I like a feather'd dove 
 
 O why, my soul, dost thou complain 
 
 Patience ! O what a graco divine 
 
 Praise to God, immortal praise 
 
 Praise to God, the great creator 
 
 Praise ye the Lord, 'tis good to raise 
 
 Praise ye the Lord ; our God to praise 
 
 Praise ye the Lord ! O blissful theme 
 
 Remark, my soul, the narrow bounds 
 
 Rise, my so\d, and stretch thy wings 
 
 See mi id religion from above 
 
 Shall tyrants rule by impious laws 
 
 Shew pity, Loi-d ! O Lord, forgive 
 
 Sing to the Lord aloud 
 
 Sing to the Lord Jehovah's name 
 
 Sir.g to the Lord, ye distant lands 
 
 Songs of immortal praise belong 
 
 So let our lips and lives express 
 
 Soon will our fleeting hours be past 
 
 Supreme and universal light 
 
 Teach me the measure of my days 
 
 Thanks for mercies past, receive 
 
 The darken'd sky, how thick it low'rs 
 
 The earth is thiiie, almighty Lord 
 
 The God Jehovah reigns 
 
 The God of glory sends his summons forth 
 
 The great Jehovah be ador'd 
 
 Montgomery 
 
 H. 
 
 144 
 
 ^ Watts 
 
 H. 
 
 6 
 
 Tate ijy Brady 
 
 P. 
 
 149 
 
 do. 
 
 P. 
 
 1-06 
 
 Taylor 
 
 P. 
 
 96 
 
 Dryden 
 
 H. 
 
 46 
 
 Merrick 
 
 P. 
 
 6 
 
 Tate ^ Brady 
 
 P. 
 
 8 
 
 Mrs. Steele 
 
 P. 
 
 43 
 
 Mrs. Carter 
 
 P. 
 
 142 
 
 Bums 
 
 H. 
 
 45 
 
 Doddridge 
 
 H. 
 
 60 
 
 Rippo7i's Coll. 
 
 H. 
 
 122 
 
 Watts 
 
 P. 
 
 119 
 
 do. 
 
 P. 
 
 120 
 
 Scott 
 
 H. 
 
 113 
 
 Mrs. Barbauld 
 
 P. 
 
 105 
 
 Watts 
 
 P. 
 
 45 
 
 do. 
 
 P. 
 
 103 
 
 do. 
 
 P. 
 
 55 
 
 Chattcrton 
 
 P. 
 
 42- 
 
 Bippons Coll. 
 
 H. 
 
 110 
 
 Mrs. Barbaxdd 
 
 H. 
 
 30 
 
 Taylor 
 
 H. 
 
 43 
 
 Watts 
 
 P. 
 
 98 
 
 Tate Ij" Brady 
 
 P. 
 
 111 
 
 Mrs. Steele 
 
 P. 
 
 147 
 
 Doddridge 
 
 H. 
 
 140 
 
 U7d-o. Coll. 
 
 H. 
 
 58 
 
 Montgoviery 
 
 H. 
 
 66 
 
 Watts 
 
 P. 
 
 58 
 
 do. 
 
 P. 
 
 51 
 
 do. 
 
 P. 
 
 81 
 
 do. 
 
 P. 
 
 95 
 
 do. 
 
 P. 
 
 89 
 
 do. 
 
 H. 
 
 11 
 
 do. 
 
 H. 
 
 84 
 
 Aiionyjnoiis 
 
 H. 
 
 146 
 
 Moore 
 
 P. 
 
 22 
 
 Watts 
 
 P. 
 
 39 
 
 Anonymous 
 
 H. 
 
 145 
 
 ■ Salisb. Coll. 
 
 P. 
 
 126 
 
 Watts 
 
 P. 
 
 24 
 
 do. 
 
 P. 
 
 99 
 
 forth do. 
 
 P. 
 
 50 
 
 Doddridp-e 
 
 p. 
 
 9 
 
INDEX OF FIRST LINKS. 
 
 The heart dejected sig-bs to know Keedha-m 
 
 The Lord, how tender is his love Darrein 
 
 The Lord in Sion plac'd his name fFatts 
 
 The Lord is our shepherd, our guardian, S;c. B^rcin 
 The Lord Jehovah rcig-ns IVatts 
 
 The Lord my i)asture shall prepare Addison 
 
 The Lord, my saviour, is my lig'ht Mrs. Steele 
 
 The Lord'of g-lory reig-ns, supremely great Doddridge 
 The man is ever blest Watts 
 
 The man whose fuith and hope are strong- Earle 
 
 The man whose firm and equal mind jfer'vis 
 
 The promises I sing Doduj-idge 
 
 There is a glorious world on high Mn-. Steele 
 
 There is a God, all nature speaks do. 
 
 There is a land of pure delight Watts 
 
 There is a rigliteous God do. 
 
 The spacious firmament on high Addison 
 
 The swift declining day Doddridge 
 
 The wonders. Lord ! thy love has wrought fTuits 
 The)' saw a glorious light Milton altered by Gardiner 
 I'liis do in memory of your friend Belknap^s Coll. 
 This earthly giobe,tlie creature of a day Mrs.Barbauld 
 This God is the God we adore Toplady^s Coll. 
 
 This is tlie day the Lord hath made * Watts 
 
 Thou didst make the darksome night AnGnymous 
 
 Though made by God's ulmiglity hand Belknap's Coll. 
 Though perfect eloquence ado\n'd Edinburgh Coll. 
 Though tcrrours guard thine awful seat Mrs. Steele 
 Tliou heav'n of hcav'ns, his vast abode Ogihie 
 
 Thou pow'r s\ipreme, by whose command 
 Thou wiio sitt'st entliron'd above 
 Thou wilt regard my cries 
 Thus far the Lord has led me on 
 Thus the eternal fatlier spake 
 Thy name, ulmiglity Lord 
 Thy name, O God, my heart avows 
 'Tis by thy strength the mountains stand 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 'Tis religion that can give 
 
 'Tis wisdom's eai'nest cry 
 
 7'o Gud the only wise 
 
 To God let fervent prayers arise 
 
 To tliee let our first off'ring-s rise 
 
 To thee, most holy, and most high 
 
 To thee, O God, my pray'r ascends 
 
 'Twas God who hurl'd the rolling spheres Lix. Coll. 
 
 Upward I lift mine eyes Watts 
 
 Mrs. Carter 
 Sandys 
 Watts 
 do. 
 do. 
 do. 
 Merrick 
 Watts 
 Masters 
 Scott 
 Watts 
 do. 
 Select Coll. 
 Belknap's Coll. 
 Mrs. Hoxi-e 
 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 
 IL 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 H. 
 H. 
 H. 
 H. 
 P. 
 
 P. 19 
 
 P. 90 
 H. 32 
 H. 75 
 H. 134 
 
 P. 
 
 P. 
 
 P. 
 
 H. 
 P. 
 H. 
 H. 
 H. 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 P. 
 H. 
 H. 
 P. 
 P. 
 H. 
 P 
 P. 
 H. 
 P. 
 
[N^DEX OF FIllST LINES'. 
 
 Vital spark of heav'nly flame Pope 
 
 Weak and irresolute is man Coivper 
 
 Welcome the hope of Israel's race Merrick 
 
 We love the volumes of tliy word Watts 
 
 We sing- the almig-hty pow'r of God do. 
 
 What eyes like tliine, eternal sire Merrick 
 
 What snmers value 1 resign Watts 
 
 What thoug'li dowriy slumbers flee Doihhijge 
 
 When all tiiy mercies, O my God Addison 
 
 Wlien dei<tli's ;;wful imag-e wivsaiigh jfervis 
 
 When gloomy thoughts and boding fears Mrs. Stee'e 
 Wr.cn I survey life's varied scene do. 
 
 When Isr'el fi-eed from Pharaoh's hand JVatts 
 
 Wlien life's leinpcstuuus storms are o'er West-B. Coll. 
 Wlien overwhelm'd with, grief fVatts 
 
 Wlien pale with sickness, «)ft hast tliou Adaisoii 
 
 When risivig from the bed of deatli do. 
 
 \\ hen sickness shakes the kir,guid frame Heginbothain 
 Wiien storms lumg o'er the christian's head Exeter Coll. 
 Wherefore should man, frail child of clay Enfield 
 While beauty clothes the fertile vale Mrs. Steele 
 
 While some in folly's pleasures roll Cotton 
 
 Wliile sounds of war are heard around Aikin 
 
 Wiiile thee I seek, protecting pow'r 3Iiss Williams 
 Who from the shades of gloomy night Mr^. Morton 
 Who sliall toward thy chosen seat Merrick 
 
 Will God descend in very deed jf. Williams 
 
 Within thy churches. Lord Wutts 
 
 V/ith patient hope, my God, I sought Merrick 
 
 With God, my friend, the radiant smi Toplad/s Coll. 
 With sacred joy we lift our eyes ^eivis 
 
 Ye golden h.mps of heav'n ! farewell Doddridge 
 
 Ye holy souls, in God rejoice Watts 
 
 Ye humble souls, complain no more do. 
 
 Ye mists and vapours, hail and snow JRoscomvion 
 Yc tribes of Adam join W^itts. 
 
 Ye that mourn a father's loss Montgoviery 
 
 Yet a few years or days, perhaps Haivkes^aorth 
 
 Yet, O God, should whirlwinds tear Mrs. Barbauld 
 
 H. 14-9 
 P. 31 
 P^ 85 
 H. 79 
 H. 12 
 P. 10 
 P. 17 
 H. 148 
 H. 36 
 H. 41 
 H. 67 
 P 91 
 P. 114 
 H. 1^0 
 P. 61 
 
 2>7 
 
 89 
 
 38 
 
 7 
 
 H. 107 
 H. 141 
 108 
 
 P 
 P. 
 H. 
 H. 
 P. 
 
 20 
 
 47 
 
 126 
 
 15 
 
 H. 132 
 P 63 
 
 40 
 
 76 
 
 7 
 
 H. 121 
 P 
 
 49 
 
 27 
 
 P. 148 
 H. 125 
 H. 124 
 H. 31 
 
INDEX OF METRES. 
 
 J^irst Metre, as in Psalm 5, and in Hymn 
 
 Second Metre, as in Psalm 2, and in Hymn 
 
 Third Metre, as in Psalm 1, and in Hymn 
 
 Fourth Metre, as in Psalm 148, and in Hymn 
 
 Fifth Metre, as in Psalm 40, and in Hymn 
 
 Sixth Metre, as in Psalm 93, 
 
 Seventh Metre, as in Psalm 15,and inHymns 21, 62 
 Eighth Metre, as in Psalm 96, and in Hymn 40 
 
 Ninth Me*-re, as in Psalm 1 04, and in Hymn 33 
 
 Tenth Metre, as in Psalm 115, and in Hymns 17,59 
 
 Eleventh Metre, as in Hymn 18 
 
 Twelfth Metre, as in Psalm 50, and in Hymn 19 
 Thirteenth Metre, as in Hymn 58 
 
 Fourteenth Metre, as in Hymn 144 
 
 Fifteenth Metre, as in Hymn 43 
 
 Sixteenth Metre, 3s in Hymn 74 
 
 Sevenieenth Metre, as in Psalm 30, 
 Eighteenth Metre, as in Hymn 18 
 
 Nineteenth Metre, as in Psalm 108, 
 Twentieth Metre, as in Hymn 149 
 
 Twentyfirst Metre, as in Hymn 4q 
 
INDEX 
 
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 2d 
 
 Asaph's, see 
 
 St. Asaphs 
 
 
 
 16th 
 
 Auspicious Morn 
 
 0. Holdcn 
 
 Suff. Selec. 
 
 3d 
 
 Avignon 
 
 U. K. Hill 
 
 Sac. Min. 
 
 3d 
 
 Aylesbury, se-^ Gerry 
 
 
-INDEX OF TUNES, Scc. 
 
 
 
 i 
 
 Collection where. 
 
 Metre. 
 
 Tune. 
 
 Author; 
 
 to be found. 
 
 2d 
 
 Banner 
 
 Mil grove 
 
 ^ewo't.Coll, 
 
 2d 
 
 Barnard, see 
 
 
 
 
 Ravenna 
 
 Correlli 
 
 Sac. Min. 
 
 2d 
 
 Barnstable 
 
 J. Oswald 
 
 Psal. Evan, 
 
 2d 
 
 Berkeley 
 
 J. Broderifi 
 
 do. 
 
 19th 
 
 Bermondsey 
 
 B. Milgrove 
 
 SufF. Selec. 
 
 2d 
 
 Bethel 
 
 Dr. Arnold 
 
 New b't. Coll. 
 
 Sth 
 
 Bethel, see Java 
 
 
 
 4th 
 
 Bethesda 
 
 Dr. Green 
 
 F. C. Coll. 
 
 2d 
 
 Blendon 
 
 Giardini 
 
 Newb't.Coll. 
 
 12th 
 
 Bovvdoin 
 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 1st 
 
 Brabrook 
 
 H.E. 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 1st 
 
 Bramshot 
 
 C. J.ockhart 
 
 Newb't.Coll. 
 
 1st 
 
 Bridge 
 
 U. K. HllL 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 1st 
 
 Brigiiton, see 
 
 
 
 
 Brighthelm stone 
 
 B. Milgrove 
 
 Sac. Min. 
 
 1st 
 
 Bristol, sec 
 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 Christmas 
 
 Dr. Ma dan 
 
 Suff. Selec. 
 
 10th 
 
 Britain, see Arcadia 
 
 
 2d 
 
 Bromley 
 
 J. Broderifi 
 
 Mass. Com. 
 
 2d 
 
 Brooklield 
 
 W. Billings 
 
 F. C. Coll. 
 
 1st 
 
 Broom sgrove 
 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 1st 
 
 Buckingham 
 
 
 F. C. Coll. 
 
 4th 
 
 Burlington 
 
 J. Cole 
 
 do. 
 
 3d 
 
 Biixton * 
 
 Dr. Madan 
 
 Sac. Min. 
 
 2d 
 
 Calcott, see 
 
 
 
 
 Morning-Hymn 
 
 J. IV. CallcGtt 
 
 Newb't. Coll. 
 
 1st 
 
 Cannons 
 
 Dr. Pefiusch 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 2d 
 
 Castle-Street 
 
 Dr. Madan 
 
 F. C. Coll. 
 
 2d 
 
 California 
 
 J. Kimball 
 
 Suff. Coll. 
 
 2d 
 
 Carthage 
 
 Dalmer 
 
 F. C. Coll. 
 
 7th 
 
 Chauncy 
 
 U. K. Hill 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 12th 
 
 Cherriton 
 
 Walker 
 
 Suff. Selec. 
 
 Ist 
 
 Chelsea 
 
 W. Burney 
 
 Newb't. Coll, 
 
 1st 
 
 Christma* 
 
 Handel 
 
 do. 
 
 1st 
 
 Cirencester 
 
 
 Lock.H.Coll 
 
 4th 
 
 Clapham 
 
 C. Lockhart 
 
 Psal. Evan, 
 
 2d 
 
 Clapton, see 
 
 Music 
 
 
 
 2d 
 
 Clarke, see 
 
 
 
 
 Kendal 
 
 Clarke 
 
 Psal. Eviin 
 
 2d 
 
 Coin brook 
 
 J. Battishal 
 
 do. 
 
INDEX OF TUNES 
 
 
 
 
 Collection whdrc 
 
 Metre. 
 
 Tur.e. 
 
 Author. 
 
 to be found. 
 
 3d 
 
 Connexion 
 
 W, Billings 
 
 B. C. M. 
 
 1st 
 
 Concord, eee 
 
 
 
 
 Tunbridge 
 
 Giardini 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 1st 
 
 Corinth 
 
 U. K. Hill 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 7tli 
 
 Cotton 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 10th 
 
 Coventry 
 
 Price 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 18th 
 
 Craftsbury 
 
 U. K. Hill 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 7th 
 
 Crucifixion 
 
 B. Milgrove 
 
 Newb't.Coll. 
 
 8th 
 
 Davenport 
 
 U. K. Hill 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 1st 
 
 Denbigh 
 
 Dr. yiadan 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 7th 
 
 Deptford 
 
 C. Lockhart 
 
 Mass. Com. 
 
 1st 
 
 Detengen 
 
 Handel 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 1st 
 
 Devizes 
 
 Tucker 
 
 Suff. Selec. 
 
 2d 
 
 Devonshire 
 
 ■ 
 
 Lock.H.CoU. 
 
 1st 
 
 Dorset 
 
 Dr. Burner/ 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 Sd 
 
 Dover 
 
 
 F. C. Coll. 
 
 2d 
 
 Dunstan 
 
 Dr. Ma dan 
 
 Suff. Selec. 
 
 1st 
 
 Ellenborough 
 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 1st 
 
 Enfield 
 
 Chandler 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 2d 
 
 Epping 
 
 C. Burney 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 2d 
 
 Eversham 
 
 
 do. 
 
 1st 
 
 Eversley 
 
 Dr. JVares 
 
 do. 
 
 2d 
 
 Exeter 
 
 
 Newb't. Coll. 
 
 3d 
 
 Falcon-Street 
 
 J. Smith 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 7th 
 
 Falmouth 
 
 Dr. Madan 
 
 B. C. M. 
 
 5th 
 
 Finedon 
 
 C. Lockhart 
 
 Newb't. Coll. 
 
 7th 
 
 Foxcroft 
 
 U. K. Hill 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 2d 
 
 Franklin 
 
 do. 
 
 Sac. Min. 
 
 2d 
 
 Fulham 
 
 D. Pur cell 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 1st 
 
 Georgia 
 
 
 F. C. Coll. 
 
 7th 
 
 German Hymn 
 
 Pleyel 
 
 Sac. Min. 
 
 3d 
 
 Gerry 
 
 A^enhall 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 7th 
 
 Greens 
 
 
 Newb't. Coll. 
 
 2d 
 
 Halifax 
 
 Dr. Ala dan 
 
 Newb't. Coll. 
 
 2d 
 
 Hamburgh 
 
 G. A. Homilius 
 
 ' Psal. Evan. 
 
 1st 
 
 Hancock 
 
 Handel 
 
 Suff Selec. 
 
 1st 
 
 Harvard 
 
 U. K. Hill 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 2d 
 
 Haverhill 
 
 Dr. Arnold 
 
 Newb't. Coll: 
 
 2d 
 
 Henllan 
 
 J. PMlifis 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 :d 
 
 Henley, see 
 
 Morven 
 
 
 
AND MUSICAL AUTHOKS, 
 
 
 
 
 Collection where 
 
 Metre. 
 
 Tone. 
 
 Author. 
 
 to be found. 
 
 3d 
 
 Henley 
 
 I. Smith 
 
 Mus. Olio. 
 
 1st 
 
 Hitchin 
 
 Coombs 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 7th 
 
 Hotham 
 
 Dr. Madan 
 
 Sal. Coll. 
 
 3d 
 
 Invocation 
 
 C. Lockhart 
 
 Newb't.ColI, 
 
 2d 
 
 Islington 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 2d 
 
 Italy 
 
 Sacchini 
 
 Sac. Min. 
 
 11th 
 
 Java, see Bethel 
 
 G. Burder 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 2d 
 
 Kidderminster 
 
 Br. Hays 
 
 do. 
 
 2d 
 
 Kettering 
 
 
 
 5th 
 
 Kew 
 
 Dr. Randal 
 
 F. C. ColL 
 
 1st 
 
 Lambeth 
 
 C. Lockhart 
 
 Sac. Min. 
 
 1st 
 
 Lancaster, see 
 
 
 
 
 Evening-Psalm 
 
 J. W. Callcott 
 
 Newb't.Coll 
 
 3d 
 
 Lewisham 
 
 B. Milgrove 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 2d 
 
 Lienster 
 
 Dr. Madan 
 
 do. 
 
 2d 
 
 Litchfield 
 
 J, Darnvell 
 
 Mass. Com. 
 
 10th 
 
 Lodi 
 
 U.K. Hill 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 16th 
 
 Lombardy 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 2d 
 
 Lorain 
 
 
 F. C. Coll. 
 
 1st 
 
 Lough ton 
 
 B. Milgrove 
 
 Psal. Evan, 
 
 3d 
 
 Loudon 
 
 T. Olmsted 
 
 Mus. Olio. 
 
 2d 
 
 Martin's-Lane 
 
 H.E. 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 1st 
 
 Mear 
 
 
 F. C. ColU 
 
 7th 
 
 Middletown 
 
 A. Bull 
 
 do. 
 
 2d 
 
 Molesworth 
 
 W. Burney 
 
 Newb't.ColI. 
 
 1st 
 
 Mornington 
 
 I. Smith 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 Sd 
 
 Morven, see 
 
 
 
 
 Henley 
 
 J. Darivell 
 
 Col. Repos. 
 
 1st 
 
 Moulin es 
 
 
 F. C. Coll. 
 
 3d 
 
 Mount Ephraira 
 
 B. Milgrove 
 U. K. Hill 
 
 Suff. Selec. 
 
 2d 
 
 Mount Airy 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 2d 
 
 Munich 
 
 German 
 
 do. 
 
 2d 
 
 Music 
 
 Dr. Arne 
 
 Mass. Com. 
 
 2d 
 
 Nantwich 
 
 Dr. Madan 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 1st 
 
 Newark 
 
 Dr. Arne 
 
 F. C. Coll. 
 
 2d 
 
 New court 
 
 
 SufF. Selec. 
 
 1st 
 
 New -York 
 
 King James 
 
 Sac. Min. 
 
 3d 
 
 Nortliampton 
 
 E, Mann 
 
 F. C. Coll. 
 
 7th 
 
 Norton 
 
 U. K. Hill 
 
 Bos, Selec. 
 
 2d 
 
 Old-Brick- ^ 
 
 0. Holden 
 
 F. C. ColL 
 
 Dd 
 
INDEX OF TUNES 
 
 
 
 
 Collection where 
 
 Metre. 
 
 Tune. 
 
 Author. 
 
 to be found;- 
 
 2d 
 
 Old-Hundred 
 
 
 Mus. Olio. 
 
 2d 
 
 Old-South, see 
 
 
 
 
 Psulra 90th 
 
 T. Olmsted 
 
 Mus. Olio. 
 
 2d 
 
 Oporto 
 
 Portuguese 
 
 Sac. Min. 
 
 2d 
 
 Orleans 
 
 T. Olmsted 
 
 do. 
 
 2d 
 
 Oxenbridge 
 
 U.K. Hill 
 
 •Bos. Selec. 
 
 2d 
 
 Oxford 
 
 Coombs 
 
 Mus. Olio. 
 
 2d 
 
 Pal mis 
 
 Giardini 
 
 Mass. Com 
 
 3^ 
 
 Pelham 
 
 do. 
 
 Suff. Selec. 
 
 1st 
 
 Pensance 
 
 H. Purcel 
 
 Sac. Min. 
 
 3d 
 
 Pentonville 
 
 JJhley 
 
 F. C. Coll. 
 
 8th 
 
 Persia 
 
 If. K. Hill 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 1st 
 
 Philadelphia 
 
 Dr. Madan 
 
 Mass. Com. 
 
 2d 
 
 Portugal 
 
 Thorley 
 
 F. C. ColL 
 
 2d 
 
 Ravenna 
 
 Correlli 
 
 Sac. Min. 
 
 1st 
 
 Reading 
 
 Reading 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 2d 
 
 Re animation 
 
 Dr. Schaffer 
 
 Suff. Selec. 
 
 5th 
 
 Redemption 
 
 Milgrove 
 
 Newb't. Coli. 
 
 6th 
 
 Rhodes 
 
 U. K. Hill 
 
 Sac. Min. 
 
 2d 
 
 Ripton 
 
 Gillct 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 3d 
 
 Rutland 
 
 
 Sac. Min. 
 
 2d 
 
 Sepulchre 
 
 Leach 
 
 Suff. Selec. 
 
 2d 
 
 Sharon 
 
 
 Psal, Evan 
 
 rth 
 
 Somei-set 
 
 Dr. Madan 
 
 do. 
 
 1st 
 
 Sparta 
 
 J. W. Callcott 
 
 Col. Repos., 
 
 1st 
 
 Stamford 
 
 Grigg 
 
 Suff. Selec, 
 
 1st 
 
 St. x\saph*3 
 
 Milgrove 
 
 Sac. Min. 
 
 2d 
 
 St. Helen's 
 
 Je7mings 
 
 F. C. Coll.. 
 
 1st 
 
 St. Martin' s 
 
 Tansur 
 
 do. 
 
 9th 
 
 St. Michael's 
 
 Handel 
 
 do. 
 
 3d 
 
 Stockport 
 
 
 Suff. Selec. 
 
 9th 
 
 Stock well 
 
 C. Lockhart 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 1st 
 
 St. Patrick's 
 
 
 F.C. Coll. 
 
 2d 
 
 Strathani 
 
 C. Lockhart 
 
 Suff. Selec. 
 
 9th 
 
 Sussex 
 
 Dr. Madan 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 3d 
 
 Sutton 
 
 
 F. C. Coll. 
 
 1st 
 
 Sydenham 
 
 L Smith 
 
 Suff. Selec. 
 
 15th 
 
 Tadcaster 
 
 C. Lockhart 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 3d 
 
 Thorn 
 
 
 Lock.H.ColL 
 
 3d 
 
 Tigris 
 
 B. Taylor 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 2cl 
 
 TiWea 
 
 Brown 
 
 F. C. Coll 
 
AND MtSICAL AUTHORS. 
 
 
 
 
 CoUeetion whc^s 
 
 Metre- 
 
 Tune. 
 
 Author. 
 
 to be found. 
 
 1st 
 
 Torbay 
 
 
 Lock. H.ColI. 
 
 1st 
 
 Tranquilla 
 
 O.Holden 
 
 SufF. Selec. 
 
 2d 
 
 Truro 
 
 
 F. C. Coll. 
 
 1st 
 
 Tunbridge 
 
 Kimball 
 
 Suff. Selec. 
 
 7th 
 
 Turin 
 
 Giardini 
 
 Psal. Evan. 
 
 1st 
 
 Twinstead 
 
 C. Lockhart 
 
 Newb't. Coll. 
 
 2d 
 
 Utica 
 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 2d 
 
 Uxbridge 
 
 Dr. Jrne 
 
 Sac. Min, 
 
 v»Oth 
 
 Vital Spark 
 
 
 F. C. ColU 
 
 8th 
 
 Wadsworth 
 
 U. K. Hill 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 1st 
 
 Wandsworth 
 
 Dr. Madan 
 
 Kev/b't. ColL 
 
 1st 
 
 Wareham 
 
 Dr. Arnold 
 
 F. C. Coll. 
 
 1st 
 
 Waybridge 
 
 Dr. Madan 
 
 B. Coll. 
 
 ^2d 
 
 Weathersfield 
 
 T. Olmsted 
 
 Bos. Selec. 
 
 2d 
 
 Wells 
 
 Holdrayd 
 
 F. C. Coll. 
 
 4th 
 
 Westford 
 
 S. Holyoke 
 
 Har. Amer. 
 
 4th 
 
 Which arch 
 
 C. Lockhart 
 
 Newb't. ColL 
 
 2d 
 
 Wickham 
 
 
 Lock.H.ColL 
 
 1st 
 
 Wilmington 
 
 J. Cole 
 
 Suff. Selec. 
 
 1st 
 
 Windsor 
 
 Kir by 
 
 F. C. ColL 
 
 2d 
 
 Winchester 
 
 
 do. ' 
 
 1st 
 or 3d 
 
 j- Wilton 
 
 Giardini 
 
 Bos. Selec, 
 
 3d 
 
 Wotton 
 
 G. Briellat 
 
 Mus. Olio. 
 
 3d 
 
 Yarmouth 
 
 
 Lock. H ColL 
 
 1st 
 
 York 
 
 J. Milton 
 
 PsaL Evan. 
 
 6tli 
 
 Zion 
 
 Dr. Madan 
 
 Newb't.ColL 
 
 ERRA 2'J.— 64th Psalm, for Clapton, read Music. 83d Psalm, 
 for Barnard, read Ravcfina. 101st Psalm, for Blindon, read 
 Blendon. 18th Hymn, for Bethely read Java. 71st Hymn, for 
 Henthan, read Henllan. 
 
 Ps. 93, 2d line, for truth, read state. 
 
 H. 105, last line, for life, read light. 
 
 A few errours.of less magnitude may have escaped correc- 
 tion, which ttie reader is requested to rectify. 
 
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