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 not the hafty production 
 of any one perfon, but the joint 
 labour of feveral, improved by 
 the judicious remarks of many. 
 The Society, for whofe ufe they 
 were drawn up, have now made 
 them public ; and hope they will 
 receive many farther improve- 
 ments, from the candid exami- 
 nation of thofe who have not 
 yet perufed them. 
 
 • Until fuitable offices are com- 
 pofed for Baptism, and the 
 Lord's Supper, thefe rites will 
 be adminiftered as ufual among 
 Protestant Dissenters. 
 
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 Morning Service. 
 
 «f The Morning Service is to be introduced 
 by the following Addrefs, from the 
 Minifler to the People^ the congrega- 
 tion rifing up. 
 
 Mi?rijler. 
 1 (f^\ BE joyful in the LORD all 
 % H 9 ye people : ferve the LORD 
 c ^C^^ with gladnefs ; and enter into 
 c his courts with praife. 
 
 c Know ye that the LORD he is 
 c GOD ; it is he who hath made us, 
 c and not we ourfelves ; we are his 
 c people, and the fheep of his pafture. 
 
 c Let us come into his prefence with 
 c thankfgiving : let us give unto the 
 c LORD the glory due unto his name. 
 
 c For the LORD is good ; his mercy 
 c is everlafting ; and his truth endureth 
 c to all generations.' 
 
 B People. 
 
2 MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 People. 
 Unto the LORD our GOD will we 
 lift up our fouls ' y and magnify his name 
 together. 
 
 f The Introdu&ory Prayer ; to be read 
 by the Minifter alone. 
 
 r\ HOLY, holy, LORD GOD 
 ^-^ almighty, before whom all crea- 
 tures bow ; may we celebrate thy per- 
 fections, and fpeak of thy wonderful 
 works, with attention and reverence ; 
 give thanks unto thee, and fing thy 
 praifes, with joy and gladnefs; humble 
 ourfelves before thee with fincere, and 
 contrite hearts ; and pray unto thee un- 
 der a juft fenfe of our dependence upon 
 thy providence; and with fervent cha- 
 rity to all men : and may thefe our 
 devotions, which we offer up in the 
 name, and as the difciples of JESUS 
 CHRIST, be acceptable to thee, O 
 GOD, our flrength and our redeemer. 
 Amen. 
 
 This 
 
MORNING SERVICE. 3 
 
 f This HYMN for celebrating 
 the Divine Perfections ; or 
 the following, for celebrating 
 the Divine Works, is to be re- 
 cited by the Minifler and Peo- 
 ple alternately, all jlanding. 
 
 Minifler. 
 TT7E praife thee,0 GOD; we mprai/e 
 ^ y worfhip thee, the moft pfpThmoji 
 glorious and excellent being; the !^£ oz>; 
 creator and governor of all things, 
 vifible and invisible. 
 People. 
 LORD GOD, thou art 
 greatly to be praifed ; and to be 
 had in reverence by all who draw 
 nigh unto thee. 
 
 Minifler. 
 We acknowledge thee, the one, o»t B 
 living, and true GOD: GOD 
 in heaven above, and earth be- 
 neath, and throughout all worlds : 
 there is none befides thee. 
 
 B 2 People. 
 
4 MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 People. 
 
 Unto us there is but o?ie GOD', 
 to whom be glory for ever. 
 Minifter. 
 Eternal, Thou alone art from everlaft- 
 
 ing, without beginning of days, 
 or end of years ; thou liveft, and 
 reigneft for ever and ever. 
 People. 
 We magnify thee, the high and 
 lofty One, who inhabitefl eternity. 
 Minifter. 
 in<vifibie 9 Thou art a fpiritual and in- 
 corruptible being; who dwelleft 
 in light inacceflible, and full of 
 glory ; whom no mortal eye hath 
 ieen, or can fee. 
 
 People. 
 We would worfhip thee, who art 
 a fpirit, in fpirit and, in truth. 
 Minifter. 
 omnipre. Infinite art thou, O GOD: 
 
 thou dwelleft not in temples made 
 with hands ; the univerfe is thy 
 temple ; thou art prefent at all 
 times in every part of thy domi- 
 nion. Peo- 
 
MORNING SERVICE. 5 
 
 People. 
 
 In thee we live, and move, 
 and have our being. 
 Minifter. 
 Thine is the greatnefs, and Ommptu»t t 
 the power, and the glory, and 
 the majefty : all things in heaven 
 and in earth are thine : thine is 
 the kingdom, and thou art to 
 be worfhiped as LORD over all. 
 People. 
 Thou art great, and greatly 
 to be feared \ thy greatnefs is un- 
 fearchable. 
 
 Minijier. 
 Thou art perfect in wifdom, Omni/cunt, 
 wonderful in council, and excel- 
 lent in all thy works. 
 People. 
 To the only wife GOD, be 
 honour and glory for ever. 
 Minijier. 
 Holy art thou, O GOD ; thou m yi 
 art of purer eyes than to be- 
 hold iniquity; thy countenance 
 regardeth the upright. 
 
 Peo- 
 
6 MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 People. 
 We reverence thy name ; for 
 thou art holy. 
 
 Minijier. 
 Juft, Thy righteoufnefs is like the 
 
 great mountains; thy truth reach- 
 eth to the heavens : juftice and 
 judgment are the everlafting foun- 
 dations of thy throne. 
 People. 
 yuji and true are all thy ways, 
 thou king of faints. 
 Minifter* 
 and Good •, Thou art good, thou doeft 
 good continually; the earth is 
 full of thy goodnefs ; and all thy 
 works bear teftimony to thy rich 
 and overflowing bounty : every 
 good, and every perfed: gift is 
 from above, and cometh down 
 from thee the Father of All. 
 People. 
 LORD, thy goodnefs is 
 above all praife ; univerfal as thy 
 works, and endlefs as eternity. 
 
 Mini- 
 
MORNING SERVICE. 7 
 
 Minifier. 
 All glory and honour ; blefling * w&* &* 
 and praife ; might, majefty and ever. 
 dominion be unto GOD for ever. 
 
 Amen. 
 
 f Inflead of the foregoing, maybe 
 ufed, at the choice of the Mi- 
 nijier, the following HYMN, 
 for celebrating the Divine 
 Works. 
 
 Minijier. 
 
 OG O D the Creator and go- General Aa 
 C 11 1 - ^ ofPrmJe 
 
 vernor or all things ; we to god 
 
 praife thee, we worfhip thee, the 
 moll excellent and glorious be- 
 ing, infinite and unchangeable 
 in power, wifdom, and goodnefs. 
 People. 
 Power, wifdom, and goodnefs, 
 are thine, LORD. 
 Minijier. 
 
 We praife thee, O GOD, we f» *««*- 
 
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 magnify thee, tor making known bimbybu 
 
 unto us thefe thy perfections ; 
 
 and 
 
8 MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 and that by thy works which we 
 behold, thou art leading us to 
 the contemplation and love of 
 thee, the fountain of life, and 
 the author of all good. 
 People. 
 With our whole hearts will we 
 praife thee \ a7 / id fpeak of thy 
 marvellous works. 
 
 Minijler. 
 General With admiration and joy do 
 the Works we behold the beauty, order, and 
 magnificence of thy creation : 
 thereby are we led to acknow- 
 ledge thine eternal being and 
 providence ; and to worfhip thee, 
 the author and condu&or of all 
 things. 
 
 People. 
 All thy works praife thee, a?id 
 we thy people blefs thee. 
 Minifler. 
 r*bia. i n vvifdom haft thou ftretched 
 
 <vcnlyBodiei, ill 
 
 out the firmament, and the hea- 
 vens are the work of thy hands ; 
 the fun, moon, and ftars thou 
 
 haft 
 
MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 haft ordained to fulfil thy plea- 
 fure : thefe declare thine almighty- 
 power, and univerfal goodnefs. 
 People. 
 
 The heavens^ and all the hojls 
 of heaven worjhip thee. 
 Minifler. 
 
 The air which we breathe is A\r % 
 thy wife provifton ; thou covereft 
 the heavens with clouds ; thou 
 prepareft the rain, and the dew ; 
 thou caufeft thy winds to blow ; 
 thou fendeft forth thy command- 
 ment; all things are obedient to 
 the voice of thy word. 
 People. 
 
 Thefe are thy wonderful works ; 
 thy name be praifed for ever. 
 Miitifler. 
 
 Of old haft thou laid the foun- Eank t 
 dations of the earth: thou haft 
 cloathed it with grafs ; furnifhed 
 it with herbs ; adorned it with 
 flowers ; and enriched it with 
 every thing neceflary for the fup- 
 port and happinefs of thy crea- 
 tures. C Peo- 
 
io MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 People. 
 The earth is thine, LORD, 
 thou haji filled it with the riches 
 of thy goodnefs. 
 
 Minifler. 
 Sea/aw, t he conftant fucccflion of day 
 
 and night ; and the grateful re- 
 turn of fummer and winter, feed- 
 time and harveft, are the graci- 
 ous appointments of thy provi- 
 dence. 
 
 People. 
 The day is thine ; the night 
 alfo is thine \ thy goodnefs endu~ 
 reth for ever. 
 
 Mi?tifier. 
 Anmac 9 \\vt birds of the air, the fifties 
 
 of the fea, and the cattle upon a 
 thoufand hills are thine; thou 
 fendeft forth thy fpirit, they are 
 created ; thou reneweft the face 
 of the Earth. 
 
 People. 
 Thou openeji thy handy they 
 are filled with good. 
 
 Mini- 
 
MORNING SERVICE. n 
 
 Minijler. 
 
 Thou art the Creator, and Fa- Mankind. 
 ther of mankind ; thou haft made 
 us in thine own image, to con- 
 template thy works, and fhew 
 forth thy praife. 
 
 People. 
 
 JVe are thine offspring \ we will 
 praife and exalt thee for ever. 
 Minifer. 
 
 Great and marvellous are all 
 thy works, O LORD GOD 
 almighty! thou haft made hea- 
 ven, and the heaven of heavens, 
 with all their hofts ; the earth, 
 and all the things that are there- 
 in ; the fca, and all that is in it ; 
 and thou preferveft them con- 
 tinually. 
 
 People. 
 
 LORD, how manifold 
 are thy works ! — In wifdom haft 
 thou made them all. 
 
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ia MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 f Here the Firft Leflbn is to be read out 
 of the Holy Scriptures ; after which 
 the Service is to proceed with the fol- 
 lowing Thankfgivings ; the congrega- 
 tion rijing up. 
 
 Minijler. 
 cc LET us now offer up unto GOD 
 " our fincere and humble thankfgivings, 
 " for his great goodnefs to us, and to 
 " all mankind. 
 
 " O give thanks unto the LORD 
 ye his people, give thanks at the 
 remembrance of his goodnefs. 
 
 Let us meditate upon his mercies 
 with delight; and let the words of 
 " our mouths, and the actions of our 
 lives, fhew forth his praife." 
 
 People. 
 Blefs the LORD y our fouls ', and 
 forget not all his benefits. 
 
 Mmifter. 
 
 *{h>i£ m ' * * L O R D of heaven and 
 earth, for the innumerable mer- 
 cies 
 
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MORNING SERVICE. 13 
 
 cies thou haft beftowed upon us. 
 We acknowledge, with all grati- 
 tude and joy, the gift of life : 
 thine almighty voice hath called f or Crea - 
 us into being ; and thy hand 
 hath placed us in this part of 
 thy glorious works. 
 
 We thank thee for the wife 
 and ufeful frame of our bodies; 
 and for the nobler powers of our p °™ ers a f 
 minds ; by which we are enabled Mmd y 
 to contemplate the beauty of thy 
 works, and the wonderful order 
 of thy providence ; and to attain 
 to the knowledge, and love of 
 thee, the Creator of the world, 
 and the Author of all good. 
 
 We thank thee that thou haft 
 implanted in us a fenfe of good 
 and evil ; and the amiable affec- 
 tions of benevolence and com- 
 panion ; hereby leading us to the 
 admiration and love of goodnefs ; 
 and to the enjoyment of that 
 happinefs, which arifes from the 
 practice of virtue, and true reli- 
 gion. " O 
 
i 4 MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 " O that men would praife the 
 " LORD for his goodnefs; and 
 u for his wonderful works to the 
 " children of men." 
 People. 
 We praife the LORD for his 
 goodnejs ; and for his wonderful 
 works to the children of men. 
 Minifter. 
 Prefer^. We thank thee, O ever boun- 
 ^uffingi of tiful and moll gracious GOD, 
 &A j or the continual prefervation of 
 
 our lives : in thy hand is the life 
 of every living creature, and the 
 breath of all mankind: our food 
 and raiment are the daily gifts of 
 thy bounty: thou giveft us health- 
 ful and fruitful feafons, and filleft 
 our hearts with joy and gladnefs : 
 the bleffings of friendfhip, liberty, 
 and equal government, are thy 
 wife and benevolent appointment. 
 " O thai- men wouid praife the 
 " LORD for his goodnefs ; and 
 iC for his wonderful works to the 
 " children of men." 
 
 Peo- 
 
MORNING SERVICE. 13 
 
 People. 
 We praife the LORD for his 
 goodnefs ; and for his wonderful 
 works to the childre?t of 7nen. 
 Mini/ter. 
 We blefs thee, O heavenly Fa - ««*« */ 
 
 - - ! \ r Ivimorta* 
 
 ther, that thy goodnels to man- iu y , 
 kind is not confined to this pre- 
 fent world ; but that thou haft 
 awakened in us the pleafing hope 
 of immortality ; and by the vari- 
 ous means of thy providence and 
 grace, art training us up for a 
 heavenly and everlafting life. 
 
 We thank thee for the in- Means of 
 ftrudtions and examples of wife ^ w '" 
 and good men in every age; and 
 for every opportunity of attain- 
 ing that meafure of knowledge 
 and virtue which is neceffary to 
 our happinefs. 
 
 But above all we praife and s*hathn 
 magnify thee, for the rich difplay christ. 
 of thy goodnefs, in the manifes- 
 tation of thy Son CHRIST 
 JESUS; whom thou haft raifed 
 
16 MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 up to blefs mankind ; to turn them 
 from darknefs to light; and from the 
 power of fin, to the worfhip and obe- 
 dience of thee, the true GOD. 
 
 We acknowledge with the higheft 
 gratitude, the perfect doctrine of our 
 blefled Saviour ; that by him thou haft 
 given us thy heavenly truth ; to en- 
 lighten our minds, to fanftify our hearts, 
 and guide our feet in the way of peace ; 
 and that in his life thou haft fet before 
 us an example of the moft exalted good- 
 nefs, to animate our endeavours, and 
 to encourage us to prefs forward conti- 
 nually. 
 
 We thank thee for the promifes of 
 thy mercy and forgivenefs, upon repen- 
 tance, and newnefs of life ; for the aflii- 
 rance of thy gracious influence to help 
 our infirmities ; and for the blefled hope 
 of immortality, confirmed to us in the 
 Gofpel. 
 
 We rejoice in the exceeding riches of 
 thy grace; that thou haft exalted thy 
 Son J E S U S to be a Prince, and a Savi- 
 our ; and that through thy wife and ' 
 
 merciful 
 
MORNING SERVICE. 17 
 
 merciful appointment, he is the Author 
 of eternal falvation to all thofe who 
 obey him. 
 
 " O that men would praife the LORD 
 " for his goodnefs ; and for his wonderful 
 <c works to the children of men." 
 People. 
 
 Blejfed be the GOD and Father of 
 our LORD JESUS CHRIST, 
 for his goodnefs 9 , and for his wonderful 
 works to the children of men. 
 
 % Here a Pfalm of Praife, or Thankfgi- 
 ving is to be fung ; and after that the 
 Second Leflbn read, out of the New 
 Testament. 
 
 f Then the Service muft proceed with 
 the following Addrefs, the congregation 
 rifing up. 
 
 Minifter. 
 " IF we fay we have no fin, we de~ 
 " ceive ourfelves, and the truth is not 
 fc in us, 
 
 D « If 
 
18 MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 " If we confefs and for fake our fins, 
 " GOD is faithful and juft to forgive 
 " us, and to cleanfe us from all un- 
 
 righteoufnefs. 
 
 Let us therefore, my chriftian bre- 
 " thren, with humble and contrite 
 " hearts confefs our fins at the throne 
 
 of the heavenly grace. 5 * 
 
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 % The General Confession; to be read 
 by the Minifter alone> the whole Con- 
 gregation kneeling. 
 
 ALMIGHTY GOD, Father of our 
 LORD JESUS CHRIST, Maker 
 of all things, and Judge of all men : we 
 acknowledge and lament before thee, 
 the manifold errors and follies of our 
 lives : we have not duly hearkened to 
 the voice of thy word : we have followed 
 too much the devices and defires of our 
 own hearts : we have been too unmind- 
 ful of thy goodnefs ; and ungrateful to 
 thee, our continual benefactor : we have 
 not always done unto others as we would 
 that they fhould do unto us : we have 
 
 departed 
 
MORNING SERVICE. i 9 
 
 departed from the ways of thy com- 
 mandments ; and expofed ourfelves to 
 thy righteous difpleafure : our only hope 
 is in thy mercy, which endureth for 
 ever. We bow ourfelves before the 
 throne of thy grace, imploring thy par- 
 don : O GOD have mercy upon the 
 work of thy hands : hear our Supplica- 
 tions, we befeech thee : forgive and ac- 
 cept thy people ; according to thy pro- 
 mifes by CHRIST JESUS, our LORD; 
 and may we hereafter live a godly, righ- 
 teous, and fober life, to the glory of 
 thy holy name. Amen. 
 
 % 'Then the following Prayers are to be 
 read) the congregation Jlill kneeling^ 
 and faying Amen, at the conclufwn of 
 each Prayer. 
 
 A Prayer for Repentance and Pardon. 
 
 f~\ Gracious GOD, our heavenly 
 ^^ Father, who defireft not the death 
 of a finner, but rather that he may turn 
 from his wickednefs and live ; and haft 
 D 2 encou- 
 
so MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 encouraged us to hope for thy mercy 
 upon repentance, and amendment of 
 life ; we defire, with our whole hearts, 
 to return to the obedience of thy com- 
 mandments : may we from henceforth 
 forfake every evil way ; correct whatever 
 is wrong in our temper and conduct ; 
 and delight in the pra&ice of every thing 
 good and virtuous ; that we may obtain 
 from thee, the G O D of all mercy, the 
 forgivenefs of our fins ; and an inheri- 
 tance among thofe who are fandtified. 
 Amen. 
 
 For religious Wifdom. 
 
 f\ Father of lights, and fountain of 
 ^^ knowledge, open the eyes of our 
 minds, and enlighten us with true wif- 
 dom : may we have pure and worthy 
 apprehensions of thy nature and provi- 
 dence : lead us to a right underftanding 
 of that religion which is acceptable to 
 thee, and recommended to us in the 
 Gofpel of thy Son : may we evermore 
 difcern, approve, and practice, the things 
 which are excellent ; and by a life de- 
 voted 
 
MORNING SERVICE. 21 
 
 voted to thy fervice, be prepared for the 
 glorious and everlafting kingdom of our 
 Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 Amen. 
 
 For good Difpojitions. 
 
 EVER bleffed and mod holy GOD, 
 who fearcheft the hearts of men ; 
 and before all things regardeft the virtu- 
 ous and upright mind ; we befeech thee 
 that our hearts may be endued with 
 every good and pious difpofition : and 
 that all the great truths of religion may 
 have a powerful and lafting influence, 
 in correcting the vices of our minds, and 
 amending the diforders of our lives ; that 
 by purity and righteoufnefs, we may ap- 
 prove ourfelves to thee, the judge of all 
 the earth. Amen. 
 
 Piety to GOD. 
 
 VX^E defire at all times, to retain a 
 * * moft devout fenfe, and holy ad- 
 miration, of thine excellent nature ; to 
 reverence thine authority ; to look up 
 
 unto 
 
22 MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 unto thee with fatisfaction and joy, as 
 the giver of all good ; to love thee with 
 all our hearts ; to delight in thy fervice ; 
 to be thankful for thine innumerable, 
 and undeferved mercies ; to confide in 
 thine all-gracious providence ; and to 
 yield an unreferved, and grateful obedi- 
 ence, to all thy holy commandments. 
 Amen. 
 
 Charity to Mankind. 
 
 A S children of the GOD of all love 
 -£** and mercy ; as members of the fo- 
 ciety of mankind ; and the common dis- 
 ciples of JESUS, we defire to put on 
 bowels of mercy, kindnefs, compaffion, 
 humblenefs of mind, meeknefs, long- 
 fuffering; forbearing one another, for- 
 giving one another. We would do unto 
 all men, as we defire they fhould do 
 unto us ; and in the conftant exercife of 
 juftice and honefty, humanity and mer- 
 cy, fulfil the gracious purpofes of thy 
 providence, and live in peace and cha- 
 rity with all men. Amen. 
 
 Self- 
 
MORNING SERVICE. 23 
 
 Self-government. 
 
 UNDER a deep fenfe of our obliga- 
 tions, as thine offspring, and the 
 facred duties of our profeflion, as the dif- 
 ciples of JESUS, who hath called us to 
 glory and virtue, and the joyful hope of 
 immortality, we earneftly defire to main- 
 tain a conftant government over our- 
 felves ; to be fober, chafte, and tempe- 
 rate in all things ; and to dired: our 
 views to a future ftate, in joyful expec- 
 tation of thy mercy unto eternal life. 
 Amen. 
 
 For Sincerity. 
 
 f~\ Ever prefent, moft holy, and righ- 
 ^■^ teous God ! before whom all things 
 are open ; may our hearts be upright in 
 thy fight : in whatever ftation thou art 
 pleafed to appoint our lot ; and where- 
 ever we are y in public, or in private, 
 may it be our uniform and fteady pur- 
 pofe, to difcharge our duty with fide- 
 lity : may we never remove our integrity 
 from us : and in that folemn day when 
 
 thou 
 
24 MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 thou fupreme over all, {halt judge the 
 world by JESUS CHRIST, may we be 
 able to appear with humble confidence 
 and joy ; and be admitted into his glo- 
 rious and everlafting kingdom* Amen. 
 
 Submifion to the Divine Providence. 
 
 r\ LORD GOD, whofe never-failing 
 
 ^^ providence ordereth all things both 
 in heaven and in earth, and who art the 
 Author of every good and perfect gift ; 
 we fubmit ourfelves to the difpofal of 
 that wifdom which cannot err, and to 
 the care of that goodnefs which is un- 
 changeable and everlafting : lead us whi- 
 ther thou pleafeft ; place us in what cir- 
 cumftances thou fhalt judge proper : we 
 would do thy whole will with fidelity 
 and pleafure ; we would bear thy whole 
 will with fubmiffion and patience : de- 
 fend us, O gracious Father, from every 
 real evil ; confer upon us every needful 
 good; may all events confpire to the 
 improvement and eftablifhment of our 
 virtue ; and may we be conducted by 
 
 thine 
 
MORNJNG SERVICE. z S 
 
 thine unerring hand, through all the 
 changes of this mortal life, and finally 
 admitted to the everlafting habitations of 
 the juft, which thou haft promifed to 
 thy faithful fervants by JESUS CHRIST S 
 our LORD, sfmen. 
 
 f Injiead of the following Prayers, the 
 General Intercession 7nay be read^ 
 at the choice of the Minijler. 
 
 A Prayer for all Ma72kind. 
 
 A LMIGHTY, and everlafting GOD, 
 -^*- who haft taught us to offer up 
 prayers, fupplications, and interceffions 
 for all men, we befeech thee to extend 
 thy mercy and favour to all mankind : 
 may all the families and kingdoms of the 
 earth be brought to the knowledge, and 
 pure worfhip of thee, the only true 
 GOD: enlarge the kingdom of our 
 LORD JESUS CHRIST, that kingdom 
 of truth and righteoufnefs, which fhall 
 never be deftroyed : put an end to all 
 idolatry, fuperftition, and falfe religion : 
 
 E may 
 
26 MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 may pure, and uncorrupted Chriftianity 
 prevail : may all who profefs the faith of 
 CHRIST, be fhining examples of good- 
 nefs : may the fpirit of perfecution for 
 ever ceafe ; and may truth and righteouf- 
 nefs, peace and charity, every where 
 abound. Amen. 
 
 For our Country. 
 
 r\ LORD GOD, high and mighty, 
 ^-^ who doft from thy throne behold 
 all the dwellers upon earth ; look down 
 with favour and mercy upon the king- 
 doms of Great Britain and Ireland, 
 and all our colonies and provinces : may 
 a fpeedy and effectual flop be put to the 
 progrefs of immorality and profanenefs : 
 may public virtue prevail ; and on that 
 lafting foundation, may the public hap- 
 pinefs be eftablifhed : may our liberties 
 be preferved inviolate, and handed down 
 to the lateft pofterity. Blefs us with 
 healthful times, and fruitful feafons : 
 crown the year with thy goodnefs : dif- 
 pofe us all to a grateful and temperate 
 
 enjoy- 
 
MORNING SERVICE. 27 
 
 enjoyment of the bounties of thy provi- 
 dence ; and may we fhew forth thy 
 praife, not only with our lips, but in 
 our lives ; by giving up ourfelves to thy 
 fervice, and walking before thee, in ho- 
 linefs and righteoufnefs, all our days. 
 Amen. 
 
 For the King. 
 
 ALMIGHTY GOD, the king of 
 -*** kings, and lord of lords, we hum- 
 bly befeech thee to fend down the 
 choiceft of thy bleflings upon thy fer- 
 vant George our king: in wifdom and 
 righteoufnefs, in juftice and clemency, 
 may he rule thy people : may all his en- 
 deavours to promote the virtue and hap- 
 pinefs, and to perpetuate the freedom of 
 his fubje&s, be crowned with fuccefs : 
 may the years of his government be 
 many, profperous, and happy : may we 
 evermore have reafon to rejoice in him, 
 as the minifter of thy providence to us 
 for good ; and may he at length be re- 
 warded in thy heavenly and everlafting 
 kingdom. Amen. 
 
 E 2 For 
 
2$ MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 For the gjueen and Royal Family. 
 
 f^\ GOD the fountain of all goodnefs* 
 ^-^ we befeech thee to viiit, with thine 
 efpecial favour, our gracious Queen Char- 
 lotte ; the Prince of Wales ; the Prin- 
 cefs Dowager of Wales ; and all the 
 Royal Family : may they cultivate all 
 thofe amiable and princely virtues, which 
 will render them the ornaments of their 
 high ftations, and extenfive bleffings to 
 mankind : grant them happinefs in this 
 world, and in that which is to come, 
 life everlafting. Aman. 
 
 For the Nobility and Magiftrates. 
 
 MAY it pleafe thee, O GOD, the 
 fountain of all power, to blefs the 
 king's counfellors, the nobility, judges, 
 and the whole body of the magiftracy 
 of this land : may they do the duties of 
 their ftations with understanding and 
 wifdom, with integrity and honour; and 
 under them may we, and all thy people, 
 lead peaceable and quiet lives, in all 
 
 godli- 
 
MORNING SERVICE. 29 
 
 godlinefs and honefty ; keeping the unity 
 of the fpirit, in the bond of peace, and 
 righteoufnefs of life. Amen. 
 
 For the Parliament. 
 [ To be read only when Jit ting. ] 
 
 O GOD of infinite wifdom, prefide 
 we intreat thee, in the great council 
 of the nation, at this time in parliament 
 afiembled; dired and profper all their 
 confultations, to the advancement of thy 
 glory ; the good of thy church ; the 
 fafety, honour, and welfare of our fo- 
 vereign, and his kingdoms : and may all 
 things be fo ordered by their endeavours, 
 that peace and liberty, truth and juftice, 
 religion and virtue, may be eftabliflied 
 amongft us, to all generations. Amen. 
 
 For the Minijlers of Religion. 
 
 C\ GOD, the Father of lights, and 
 ^^^ fountain of all good, endue the 
 minifters of thy true religion, of every 
 
 denomi- 
 
3 o MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 denomination, and in every part of the 
 Chriftian world, with the fpirit and 
 temper of CHRIST JESUS : may they 
 diligently purfue the good work of in- 
 ftructing the ignorant, and reforming the 
 vicious ; and in all the duties of their 
 office may they conduct themfelves, not 
 as having dominion over the faith of 
 Chriftians, but as examples to their 
 flocks ; and by the excellency of their 
 do&rines, and the holinefs of their lives, 
 may they fave themfelves, and thofe who 
 hear them. Amen. 
 
 For thofe who are in AfjliElion. 
 
 TkM OST merciful, and gracious GOD, 
 *Y* the GOD of all confolation and 
 good hope, we humbly recommend to 
 thy fatherly goodnefs, all thofe who are 
 any-ways afflicted, or diftreffed, in mind, 
 body, or eftate : \thofe especially for 
 whom our prayers are defred^ be thou, 
 in thy great mercy, a father to the father- 
 lefs ; and the defender of the widow ; 
 provide for the poor ; give health to the 
 
 fick ; 
 
MORNING SERVICE. 31 
 
 fick ; and eafe to thofe who are in pain ; 
 deliver thofe who are oppreffed ; and 
 comfort thofe who mourn : fupport thy 
 faithful fervants who are in bonds, or in 
 any manner perfecuted for righteoufnefs 
 fake ; give them fortitude in the day of 
 trial, and, in due time, a happy deli- 
 verance out of all their afflictions. And 
 from the various calamities we meet with 
 in human life, either in ourfelves or 
 others, may we learn to pity the dif- 
 trefled ; to mourn with thofe who 
 mourn ; to be patient under all the ap- 
 pointments of thy providence; and be 
 excited to # the purfuit of that happinefs, 
 which arifeth from the practice of virtue 
 and religion, and the glorious hope of 
 immortality: and this we afk in the 
 name, and as the difciples of JESUS 
 CHRIST, our Lord and Saviour. 
 Amen, 
 
 Concluding Prayer. 
 
 f\ LORD, our heavenly Father, al- 
 ^-^ mighty and everlafting GOD, who 
 haft fafely brought us to the return of 
 
 this 
 
3 2 MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 this day ; and haft permitted us to make 
 our united fupplications unto thee ; de- 
 fend us through the fame, by thy grace 
 and power. Accept the praifes, and 
 hear the prayers we have offered up to 
 thy divine majefty : and fulfil, O LORD, 
 the defires and petitions of thy fervants, 
 as may be moft expedient for them; 
 granting us in this world, knowledge of 
 thy truth, and in the world to come, 
 life everlafting. Amen. 
 
 |T*W R Father, who art in heaven ; 
 ^^ hallowed be thy name : thy king- 
 dom come : thy will be done on earth 
 as it is in heaven : give us this day our 
 daily bread ; and forgive us our tref- 
 pafles, as we forgive thofe who trefpafs 
 againft us ; and lead us not into temp- 
 tation ; but deliver us from evil : for 
 thine is the kingdom, and the power, 
 and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. 
 
 f Here a Pfalm mufl be fung^ while the 
 Minijier is preparing for the pulpit. 
 
 f The 
 
MORNING SERVICE. 33 
 
 f 77ie Benediction is to be pronounced by 
 the Minijler, at the conclufio?i of the 
 whole Service. 
 
 f Inflead of the foregoing Prayers, the 
 following General Intercession may 
 be ufed^ at the choice of the Minifler* 
 
 THE 
 
 General Interceffion. 
 
 OGOD, the Creator of heaven and 
 earth, the common Father of all 
 mankind; -we thy fervants do befeech thee 
 to hear us, not only in our prayers for 
 ourfelves, but in our interceffions for all 
 our brethren and fellow creatures : make 
 thy ways known upon earth, and thy 
 faving health unta all nations ; that all 
 mankind may be united in the pure and 
 holy worfhip of thee, the true and living 
 GOD, as the difciples of JESUS 
 CHRIST, whom thou haft fent. At?ien* 
 
 F Send 
 
34 MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 Send down thy heavenly blefling upon 
 every part of the Christian world : put 
 an end to all perfecution, and usur- 
 pation over the judgments and con- 
 sciences of mankind ; lead all profeffing 
 Chriftians to the right underftanding and 
 practice of our holy religion ; unite their 
 minds in charity and godly love ; and 
 may their light fo fhine before men, that 
 others feeing their good works, may glo- 
 rify thee, our Father, who art in heaven. 
 Amen. 
 
 In thine own due time, put an end 
 to all the diforders and calamities intro- 
 duced into this world, by the pride, 
 ambition, and tyranny of wicked men ; 
 and give unto all mankind unity, peace, 
 and concord. Amen. 
 
 Preferve the peace, liberty, and happi- 
 nefs of our native country; defend us 
 from the defigns of our enemies, and 
 from all great and wafting calamities ; 
 and confirm, and continue to us, that 
 wife and equal government, under which, 
 
 in 
 
MORNING SERVICE. 35 
 
 in thy great mercy, thou haft placed us. 
 Amen. 
 
 Keep and ftrengthen in the true wor- 
 fhipping of thee, in righteoufnefs and 
 holinefs of life, thy fervant George, our 
 mod gracious king : eftablifh his heart 
 in thy faith, fear, and love : may he 
 evermore confide in thee, and feek thy 
 honour and glory ; and be thou his de- 
 fender ' and keeper, giving him the vic- 
 tory over all our enemies. Amen. 
 
 Blefs and preferve our gracious Queea 
 Charlotte ; the Prince of Wales ; the 
 Princefs Dowager of Wales ; and all the 
 Royal Family. Amen. 
 
 May the lords of the council, and all 
 the nobility, be eminent for wifdom, 
 piety, and virtue. Amen. 
 
 [Prefide in the high court of To be nod 
 parliament, at this time afTem- 3/j£r. 
 bled; and over-rule all their de- %£ " 
 bates and confultations, for the 
 public good. Amen J] Blefs 
 
5' 
 
 MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 Blefs the judges, and all the magis- 
 trates of thefe lands : may they execute 
 juftice ; maintain peace ; be a terror to 
 evil-doers ; and a protection to thofe 
 who do well. Amen. 
 
 Blefs the minifters of the Chriftian 
 religion, with true knowledge, and un- 
 derftanding of thy word : may they be 
 faithful in the difcharge of their impor^ 
 tant duty ; that by the power of truth, 
 and the influence of a good example, 
 they may turn many to righteoufnefs. 
 Amen. 
 
 Blefs our universities, and all fchools 
 and feminaries of learning: may they 
 promote the true principles of religion, 
 virtue, and liberty; and may all ufeful 
 knowledge more generally prevail. Amen. 
 
 Blefs all thy people : difpofe their 
 hearts truly to fear and love thee ; to 
 receive thy word with pure affection ; to 
 do the duties of their feveral ftations with 
 fidelity ; to bring forth the fruits of the 
 
 fpirit ; 
 
MORNING SERVICE. 37 
 
 fpirit; and diligently to live after thy 
 commandments. Amen. 
 
 Bring into the way of truth all fuch as 
 have erred, and are deceived ; ftrengthen 
 fuch as do ftand ; raife up thofe who 
 fall ; comfort thofe who mourn ; bind 
 up the broken-hearted ; aflift all who are 
 in neceffity or trouble ; and have com- 
 panion upon all who are afflicted. Amen. 
 
 Preferve all thofe who are travelling 
 by land or by water ; all women labour- 
 ing with child; all fick perfons, and 
 young children : fupport the aged ; pro- 
 vide for the fatherlefs, and widows, and 
 all who are defolate and oppreffed ; and 
 fhew thy mercy to all prifoners and cap- 
 tives ; efpecially to fuch as are fuffering 
 for righteoufnefs fake. Amen. 
 
 Blefs our friends ; reward our bene- 
 factors ; forgive our enemies, perfecu- 
 tors, and flanderers ; and turn their 
 hearts. 
 
 People, 
 
38 MORNING SERVICE. 
 
 People. 
 May it pleafe thee, GOD, to have 
 mercy upon all men. 
 
 Mini/ler. 
 May the GOD, and Father of our 
 LORD JESUS CHRIST, the Father of 
 mercies, the GOD of all confolations, 
 hear our prayers. 
 
 People. 
 Gracioujly hear us, GO D, our 
 heavenly Father. 
 
 A co?tcluding Prayer. 
 
 Mt7ujler. 
 
 A Lmighty and moft merciful GOD, 
 £\- who haft: permitted us at this time, 
 with one accord to make our common 
 fupplications unto thee ; fulfil the defires 
 and petitions of thy fervants, as may be 
 moft expedient for them ; granting us in 
 this world knowledge of thy truth ; and 
 in the world to come life everlafting. 
 Amen. 
 f Here a Pfalm muji be fung^ while the 
 
 Mini/ler is preparing for the pulpit. 
 
 EVENING 
 
( 39 ) 
 
 EVENING SERVICE. 
 
 f This Service mujl be introduced by the 
 following Addrefs, frotn the Minijier to 
 the People, the congregation rifmg up. 
 
 Minijier. 
 
 HEAR all ye people, give ear all 
 ye inhabitants of the world ; 
 for the LORD GOD omnipotent 
 r eigne th. Let the heaven and the 
 earth praife him ; the feas, and every 
 thing that moveth therein. Sing unto 
 the LORD, and give thanks at the 
 remembrance of his goodnefs. Truft 
 in him at all times, ye people ; pour 
 out your hearts before him ; for 
 GOD is our refuge. He knoweth 
 our thoughts, and will render to every 
 man according to his works. Offer 
 therefore unto him the facrifices of 
 righteoufnefs ; for in his prefence is 
 
 " fulnefs 
 
40 EVENING SERVICE. 
 
 " fulnefs of joy, and at his right hand 
 " are pleafures for evermore." 
 People. 
 The LORD reig?teth ; let the earth 
 rejoice. 
 
 f "The Introductory Prayer ; to be read 
 by the Minijier alone. 
 
 /~\ EVER bleffed, and moft glorious 
 ^ LORD our GODt> the objed of 
 fupreme veneration, on whom all the 
 families of the earth continually de- 
 pend : we would prefent ourfelves be- 
 fore thee with reverence and humility : 
 we would offer up unto thee our facri- 
 fices of praife and thankfgiving, with 
 joy and gratitude. By celebrating thy 
 perfections, may we be excited to an 
 ardent love and imitation of thee, our 
 Father in heaven : and may the remem- 
 brance of thy great goodnefs to us, and 
 to all mankind, incline us to love and 
 ferve one another as brethren. May we 
 confefs our fins with unfeigned forrow> 
 and fteady purpofes of amendment : may 
 
 we 
 
EVENING SERVICE. 41 
 
 we pray unto thee, as the bountiful dif- 
 penfer of every good thing : may our 
 interceffions be accompanied with cha- 
 rity to all men: may we ferve thee 
 with freedom and delight ; and keep a 
 watchful guard over ourfelves, at all 
 times ; more efpecially whilft we are em- 
 ployed in the awful and important duties 
 of thy houfe : may no vain thoughts 
 diftrad: our minds ; no unworthy objed: 
 withdraw our affections ; but may our 
 whole hearts be engaged in thy worfhip ; 
 and the influence of thefe our religious 
 fervices be abundantly fhewn forth in 
 the actions of our lives. All which we 
 pray for in the name, and as the difci- 
 ples of JESUS CHRIST, our LORD. 
 Amen. 
 
 f Then 
 
42 EVENING SERVICE, 
 
 f Then the following HYMN \ for 
 celebrating the Divine Perfec- 
 tions, is to be recited by the 
 Mini ft er and People alternately > 
 all Jlanding. 
 
 Minifter. 
 
 %y r S W7 E p raife thee > ° GOD > 
 
 and 'living V V we worfhip thee, the one, 
 ' true, and living GOD; who art 
 infinite, and unchangeable, in all 
 thy perfe&ions. 
 
 People. 
 Blejfed art thou, LORD 
 GOD, and worthy to be praifed 
 for ever. 
 
 Minifler. 
 
 tbeCna. Thou, O GOD, art king of 
 
 %'<fZi; kings, lord of lords, the great 
 
 twb9h and only potentate, the Creator 
 
 and Preserver of all things : thou 
 
 didft Ipeak, and the world was 
 
 made ; thy providence fupports 
 
 the works of thy hands ; and the 
 
 happinefs of thy creatures, is the 
 
 end of all. 
 
 People. 
 
EVENING SERVICE. 43 
 
 People. 
 Thou art God over all, blejfed 
 for evermore. 
 
 Minijler. 
 Before the mountains were Ettn*i; 
 brought forth, or ever thou hadft 
 formed the earth, and the world ; 
 from everlafting to everlafting, 
 thou art GOD. 
 
 People. 
 Thou livejl) and reigneft for 
 ever. 
 
 Minifter. 
 Thou art the LORD, and immutai 
 changeft not: of old haft thou 
 laid the foundations of the earth ; 
 and the heavens are the work of 
 thy hands : thefe fhall perifh, but 
 thou fhalt endure ; thy counfel 
 ftandeth faft; and thy thoughts 
 unto all generations. 
 People. 
 Thou art the fame y eft er day y to- 
 day , and for ever. 
 
 G 2 Mini* 
 
44 EVENING SERVICE. 
 
 Minijler. 
 lnvi/ibie, We adore and worfhip thee, a 
 pure and fpiritual being, whom 
 no man hath feen, or can fee : 
 thou pafTeft by us on every fide, 
 but we behold thee not : thou 
 continually workeft wonders on 
 the right hand, and on the left; 
 but we do not perceive thee. 
 People. 
 Thou art a fpirit\ and they 
 who worjhip thee, muft worfjip in 
 fpirit, and in truth. 
 Minijler. 
 v™p«- Whither can we flee from thy 
 prefence ! heaven is thy throne ; 
 the earth thy footftool ; and the 
 univerfe thy habitation. 
 People. 
 All things are full of thee. 
 Mintjier. 
 Omnipo- Who can withftand thy power ! 
 the mountains fhake from their 
 foundations ; the rocks melt like 
 wax; and the earth trembleth at 
 thy prefence : thou doeft what- 
 ever 
 
EVENING SERVICE. 45 
 
 ever thou pleafeft in the armies 
 of heaven, and among the inha- 
 bitants of the world. 
 People. 
 
 With the LORD our GOD is 
 everlafting ftrength. 
 Minifter. 
 
 Thou haft founded the earth mjt, 
 by thy wifdom ; and ftretched out 
 the heavens by thine underftand- 
 ing : by thy knowledge the depths 
 are broken up, and the clouds 
 drop down the dew : thou art 
 mighty in wifdom, wonderful in 
 counfel, and excellent in all thy 
 works. 
 
 People. 
 
 LORD, how manifold are 
 thy works ! in wifdom haft thou 
 made them all. 
 
 Minifter. 
 
 Thou art the righteous LORD, j u p t • 
 who exercifeft judgment in the 
 earth : thy righteoufnefs is like 
 the great mountains ; thy faith- 
 fulnefs reacheth above the clouds; 
 eternal truth is thy law. 
 
46 EVENING SERVICE. 
 
 People. 
 Upright art t6ou> LORD; 
 all thy works are juft and true. 
 Minijler. 
 My 9 O LORD GOD, holy and re- 
 verend is thy name : thou art 
 of purer eyes than to behold ini- 
 quity : dinners cannot ftand be- 
 fore thee ; but the upright in 
 heart are always in the light of 
 thy countenance. 
 
 People. 
 JVe reverence thee, GOD^ 
 for thou art holy. 
 
 Minifter. 
 end Mer- Above all we praife thee, we 
 worfhip thee, as the LORD GOD 
 gracious and merciful ; the GOD 
 of love, and of all confolation : 
 thou exercifeft loving-kindnefs and 
 benignity : thou delighteft to make 
 all thy creatures happy : thou do- 
 eft good continually ; and thy 
 tender mercies are over all thy 
 works. 
 
 People. 
 
 ciful ; 
 
EVENING SERVICE. 47 
 
 People. 
 
 that men would praife the 
 LORD for his goodnefs y and for 
 his wonderful works to the children 
 of men. 
 
 Minifter. 
 
 But who, O LORD, can fhew 
 forth all thy praife ! we behold 
 the monuments of thy power ; we 
 trace the footfteps of thy wifdom ; 
 and every moment of our lives 
 partake of the riches of thy good- 
 nefs ; but none can fay, how 
 great, and wife, and good thou art. 
 People. 
 
 Who can find out thee, the aU 
 mighty, unto perfeEiion ! 
 Minifter. 
 
 With one confent, and with our ««</««// 
 whole hearts, we would celebrate L'/v/^. 
 thy glorious perfections here be- ££? 
 low, until our fouls grow up to a 
 due preparation for thy kingdom 
 and fervice above ; there to wor- 
 ihip thee in a more perfect man- 
 ner, through the ages of eternity. 
 Amen, f Here 
 
48 EVENING SERVICE. 
 
 % Here the Firft Leffon is to be read 
 out of the Holy Scriptures ; after 
 which the Service is to proceed with 
 the following Thanksgiving, the con- 
 gregation Jianding. 
 
 Minifter. 
 " REJOICE in the LORD, all ye 
 " people : come into his prefence with 
 " thankfgiving ; and be devout and joy- 
 " ful in his fervice. Sing praifes unto 
 " him, and blefs him ; for he is good, 
 " and his mercy endureth for ever." 
 People. 
 We will give thanks unto the LORD; 
 and celebrate his goodnefs with joyful 
 hearts. 
 
 Minifler. 
 Genial A LMIGHTY GOD, Father 
 wJikfgi. jTjL °f niercies ; we would offer 
 w * g * unto thee our unfeigned thanks- 
 givings for the difcoveries thou 
 haft made of thyfelf in the works 
 of thy hands ; and for thy good- 
 nefs and loving-kindnefs to us, 
 and to all men. We 
 
EVENING SERVICE. 49 
 
 We thank thee for our crea- for Crta . 
 tion ; for the excellent form of p n J e ^ f 
 our bodies ; for the breath of *•*» * nd 
 life; the light of reafon, and 
 confcience ; the benevolent and 
 friendly affections ; and all the 
 noble and ufeful powers of our 
 minds. 
 
 We thank thee for our conti- Pre j- ertvam 
 nual prefervation ; for the food 'jjJV*' 
 we eat; the raiment with which */£'/>• 
 we are cloathed ; the habitations 
 wherein we dwell ; for capacity 
 and ability to perform the duties 
 of our ftations; for health and 
 peace, to enjoy the bleflings of 
 thy providence ; for our prefent 
 fafety ; and the opportunity we 
 now enjoy of exprelling, in this 
 public manner, the grateful fen- 
 timents of our minds. 
 
 We thank thee for peaceable 
 times, and healthful and fruitful 
 feafons; for the adminiftration of 
 wife and equal laws ; for the con- 
 tinuance of our liberties, both ci- 
 H vil 
 
5 o EVENING SERVICE. 
 
 vil and religious ; for every per- 
 gonal and family bleffing ; for 
 every friendly and focial enjoy- 
 ment ; and for all the agreeable 
 and happy circumftances of our 
 lives. 
 
 People. 
 Thefe are the gifts of thy boun- 
 ty ; thy name be praijed for ever. 
 Minifter. 
 Redemp. gut above all we blefs thee, O 
 jBSUs ever gracious Father, for thine 
 ' ineftimable love in the redemption 
 of the world, by our LORD 
 JESUS CHRIST; for the 
 means of grace, and the hopes of 
 glory. We thank thee for thofe 
 pure and heavenly doctrines which 
 he hath taught, to lead mankind 
 in the way of truth, and falva- 
 tion ; for thofe holy and excellent 
 rules of virtue and true religion, 
 which he hath laid down in his 
 gofpel ; and for the amiable and 
 perfect example which he hath 
 left us, that we might follow his 
 
 fteps. 
 
EVENING SERVICE. 51 
 
 fteps. We thank thee, that in 
 obedience to thine authority, and 
 to fulfil all righteoufnefs, he fub- 
 mitted unto death ; that being hit Death > 
 made perfedt by fufFering, he 
 might become the Author of 
 eternal falvation to all who obey 
 him. 
 
 And finally we blefs thee, the 
 GOD and Father of our LORD 
 JESUS CHRIST, that by raifing «m** 
 him from the dead, thou haft 
 confirmed to us the glorious and 
 rejoicing hope of an inheritance in- 
 corruptible, undefiled, and which 
 fadeth not away, referved in the 
 heavens for us. 
 
 People. 
 Glory be to GOD in the bigheft\ 
 en earth peace ; good will to men. 
 
 Minifter. 
 O LORD our GOD, who can 
 number all thy mercies ! thy 
 bounty prevents our requefts ; 
 feafonably fupplies every return- 
 ing want, and gives us all things 
 
 H 2 richly 
 
52 EVENING SERVICE. 
 
 richly to enjoy. Write a law of thank- 
 fulnefs on our hearts, we befeech thee, 
 and grant that we may walk before thee, 
 in holinefs and righteoufnefs, all the 
 days of our lives. Amen. 
 
 f Here a Pfalm of Praife, or Thankf- 
 giving, is to be fung ; and after that 
 the Second Leflbn read, out of the 
 New Testament, except Gn the firft 
 Sunday in the Month, when the Ten 
 Commandments, and our Saviour s 
 Summary of the Moral Law, are to 
 be read, inftead of the Second Leffon, 
 in the Evening Service ; for which 
 purpofe they are printed together after 
 the Occaiional Forms. 
 
 % TJjen the Service muft proceed with the 
 following Addrefs to the People. 
 
 Minifter. 
 " SURELY it is meet to be faid 
 " unto GOD we have done iniquity. 
 
 <« To the LORD our GOD belong 
 " mercies and forgivenefs, though we 
 " have iinned againft him : 
 
 " Let 
 
EVENING SERVICE. 53 
 
 " Let us therefore confefs and lament 
 " our manifold tranfgreffions, before the 
 " throne of the heavenly grace." 
 
 f The General Confession; to be 
 read by the Minijier alone, the People 
 kneeling. 
 
 ALMIGHTY and moft merciful Fa- 
 ther, we confefs that in many- 
 things we have all offended : we have 
 not behaved as thy children, and as the 
 difciples of our bleffed Saviour : we have 
 not duly improved the talents with which 
 thou haft intruded us : we have too often 
 negleded our duty to ourfelves, and to 
 our fellow men ; and our confciences 
 witnefs againft us. With humble and 
 penitent hearts, we lament before thee, 
 O our Father, every inftance of difobe- 
 dience ; whatever we have done amifs 
 in thought, word, or deed ; every of- 
 fence againft thee, our neighbour, or 
 ourfelves : and if we have been injuri- 
 ous, unjuft, or have dealt deceitfully ; 
 if we have forgotten thy great loving- 
 
 kindnefs, 
 
54 EVENING SERVICE. 
 
 kindnefs, and departed from our charac- 
 ter as men, and as chriftians, forgive us, 
 according to thy promifes by CHRIST 
 JESUS our LORD ; forgive our fins, 
 we befeech thee, and cleanfe us from all 
 unrighteoufnefs : and may we bring forth 
 the fruits which are meet for repentance, 
 by walking in newnefs of life, and ftu- 
 dying to abound in holinefs, and every 
 good work. Amen. 
 
 f "Then the following Prayers are to be 
 read by the Minifter alone^ the congre- 
 gat ion Jlill kneeling^ and faying Amen, 
 at the conclufon of each Prayer. 
 
 A Prayer for the Pardon of Sin. 
 
 Mi7tifter. 
 
 OLORD GOD, whofe nature is to 
 have mercy, and to forgive, be- 
 hold with companion thy penitent crea- 
 tures. Thou knoweft our frame ; thou 
 remembreft that we are but duft : be 
 merciful unto us, O GOD, be merciful 
 unto us : may thy goodnefs lead us to 
 
 repent- 
 
EVENING SERVICE. 5 $ 
 
 repentance ; to deftroy every evil incli- 
 nation and habit, and to form our minds 
 to a virtuous and heavenly temper. May 
 we have a fixed abhorrence of fin ; and 
 hereafter live foberly, righteoufly, and 
 pioufly in this world, in humble expec- 
 tation of thy mercy unto eternal life, 
 declared to mankind by CHRIST 
 JESUS, our LORD. Amen, 
 
 A Prayer founded on the Perfections 
 of GOD. 
 
 OGOD, the unchangeable, and 
 everlafting fountain of life, per- 
 fection, and happinefs ; we lift up our 
 hearts unto thee, the greateft, wifeft, and 
 beft of beings : from the contemplation 
 of thy works, may we daily increafe in 
 the knowledge of thee ; attain to more 
 pure and worthy conceptions of thy na- 
 ture, and providence ; and ever manifeft 
 a becoming reverence for thy perfections ; 
 and a juft concern for thine honour and 
 fervice. Under a due fenfe of thine al- 
 mighty power, we would avoid thy dif- 
 
 pleafure, 
 
56 EVENING SERVICE. 
 
 pleafure, as the worft of evils : from a 
 full perfuafion that thou art wife in 
 counfel, faithful in thy promifes, and 
 righteous in all thy ways, we repofe an 
 unreferved confidence in all the mea- 
 fures of thy providence : as a being per- 
 fectly good, we would love thee with all 
 our hearts, and rejoice in thine univerfal 
 government. Above all we defire to 
 yield a chearful obedience to thy com- 
 mandments ; and by the perfevering love 
 and practice of righteoufnefs, in this 
 world, we humbly pray that we may at 
 length be prepared for thy glorious wor- 
 fhip in the heavenly world above. Amen. 
 
 A Prayer refpeSling relative Duties. 
 
 OGOD, who art love, and who 
 dwelleft in love ; may we earneftly 
 endeavour to imitate thy conftant and 
 univerfal goodnefs : may we behave in 
 our feveral ftations with integrity and be- 
 nevolence; and difcover the true fpirit 
 of piety and goodnefs in all the relations 
 of life : may we walk within our houfes 
 
 with 
 
EVENING SERVICE. S7 
 
 with perfed: hearts ; be faithful and af- 
 fectionate to our friends ; and juft and 
 charitable to all men : may we put on 
 the ornament of a meek, compaffionate, 
 and forgiving fpirit ; and may every good 
 and generous difpofition be daily impro- 
 ving in our breafts, until we become fit 
 for that happy kingdom, where love, 
 and peace, and joy reign for evermore. 
 Amen. 
 
 Self-government, and the perfonal 
 Virtues. 
 
 OGOD of wifdom, teach us the 
 knowledge of ourfelves ; may we 
 keep our hearts with all diligence ; and 
 amidft the trials and changes of this 
 world, maintain a conftant habit of felf- 
 government : in profperity may we be 
 humble, temperate, and charitable; re- 
 membering that we are men : in adver- 
 fity may we be patient, and wholly re- 
 figned to thine unerring providence. 
 Save us, O gracious GOD, from anger 
 and malice ; from revenge and unchari- 
 I tablenefs j 
 
58 EVENING SERVICE. 
 
 tablenefs ; from pride and prefumption ; 
 from the fnares of the wicked, and the 
 fatal influence of every evil example : 
 give us prudence to dired our affairs ; 
 refolution to preferve our innocence ; 
 and wifdom and conftancy to retain our 
 integrity as long as we live. Amen. 
 
 A Prayer relating to temporal Mercies. 
 
 ALMIGHTY GOD, the giver of 
 every good and perfect gift, we 
 recommend ourfelves, and all our con- 
 cerns to the difpofal of thy gracious 
 providence : thou knoweft what is truly 
 good for us ; and it is our higheft hap- 
 pinefs that we are under thy fatherly 
 care : in humble fubmiffion to thy wife 
 and gracious will, we befeech thee to 
 continue to us the ufe of our under- 
 standing, and reafon ; to blefs us with 
 health of body, and peace of mind ; 
 and to beftow upon us fuch a fhare of 
 the good things of this life, as thou 
 knoweft to be beft for us : condud: us 
 by thy gracious hand through all the 
 
 changes 
 
EVENING SERVICE. 59 
 
 changes of this world ; and may we at 
 laft be perfed and happy, in that hea- 
 venly inheritance, which is incorruptible 
 and fadeth not away. Amen. 
 
 A Prayer for all Mankind. 
 
 OG O D, the Father of all man- 
 kind, we offer up unto thee our 
 prayers and interceflions for our bre- 
 thren, and fellow creatures, wherever 
 difperfed : mercifully regard the work of 
 thine hands : let thy name be known, 
 and thy pure worfhip prevail throughout 
 the world : may all people, nations, 
 and languages acknowledge thee, the 
 true GOD : put an end to idolatry, fu- 
 perftition, and all falfe religion ; and 
 efpecially to perfecution for confcience 
 fake : may wifdom and goodnefs, liberty 
 and peace, charity and happinefs, every 
 where abound ; and thy kingdom of 
 truth and righteoufnefs fpread and flou- 
 rifh, until it cover the face of the whole 
 earth. Amen. 
 
 I 2 For 
 
60 EVENING SERVICE. 
 
 For our native Country. 
 
 O Almighty and everlafting GOD, 
 whofe kingdom ruleth over all, 
 we humbly befeech thee to continue thy 
 protection and favour to our native coun- 
 try, and all the dominions thereunto be- 
 longing : may true religion prevail ; pub- 
 lic liberty be eftablifhed ; an effectual 
 flop be put to the progrefs of error, 
 injuftice, profanenefs, and all immora- 
 lity ; and may truth, righteoufnefs, and 
 charity, abound more and more. If it 
 feemeth good to thy perfect wifdom, 
 gracioufly preferve us from peftilence 
 and famine ; and from all the wafting 
 calamities of war : may peace be within 
 our walls, and profperity within our 
 cities ; and may all the privileges we 
 enjoy, be fecured to us, and handed 
 down to the lateft pofterity. Amen. 
 
 'or 
 
EVENING SERVICE. 61 
 
 Fo?* the King. 
 
 r\ LORD GOD, high and mighty 
 ^-^ king of kings, and lord of lords, 
 fend down thy heavenly bleflings upon 
 thy fervant George, our rightful fove- 
 reign : preferve his life and health : may 
 he be eminent for wifdom, and the vir- 
 tues becoming his high ftation ; may he 
 be the faithful guardian of our public 
 liberties ; and the happy inftrument of 
 tranfmitting them to pofterity : may his 
 reign be long and profperous ; and may 
 he finally be rewarded with immortal 
 glory and felicity. Amen. 
 
 For the £>ueen, and the Royal Family. 
 
 r\ GOD, the Author of all good, 
 ^^ blefs our gracious Queen Char- 
 lotte, the Prince of Wales, the Prin- 
 cefs Dowager of Wales, and all the 
 Royal Family : may thy watchful pro- 
 vidence evermore defend them from all 
 evil, and profper them with all good : 
 guide them by thy counfel in this world, 
 
 and 
 
62 EVENING SERVICE. 
 
 and afterwards receive them into thine 
 everlafting kingdom. Amen. 
 
 For the Parliament. 
 [ To be read only when fating. ] 
 
 OGOD, the fountain of all wif- 
 dom, and the difpofer of all events, 
 be gracioufly prefent in the great council 
 of the nation, at this time in parliament 
 affembled : may they have wifdom to 
 difcern, and integrity to purfue the wel- 
 fare of thefe kingdoms : and may all 
 their debates be fo over-ruled by thy 
 gracious governance, as finally to termi- 
 nate in thy honour ; the encouragement 
 of virtue, and true religion ; and the 
 eftablifhment of our public liberties 
 throughout all generations. Amen. 
 
 For Privy Counfellors, Nobility y Judges, 
 MagiJtrateS) and all the People. 
 
 MAY it pleafe thee, O GOD, who 
 haft the hearts of all men in 
 thine hands, to blefs the King's privy 
 
 coun- 
 
EVENING SERVICE. 63 
 
 counfellors, the nobility, judges, magis- 
 trates, and the whole body of the people 
 of this land : may they all difcharge the 
 duties of their ftations with fidelity and 
 good confcience; feverally contribute to 
 the general welfare and happinefs ; and 
 thus be prepared for thine approbation, 
 and acceptance unto eternal life. Amen. 
 
 For Chrijlian Minijiers. 
 
 A GOD, the Father of our LORD 
 KJ JESUS CHRIST, the fountain of 
 light, from whom cometh every good 
 and perfed gift, we humbly befeech thee 
 to fend down thy heavenly bleffing upon 
 Chriftian minifters, of every denomina- 
 tion : may they be fo replenifhed with the 
 truth of thy do&rine; and {o exemplary 
 in unaffe&ed piety and goodnefs of life, 
 that they may become the happy means 
 of turning many to righteoufnefs ; and 
 of promoting the knowledge and prac- 
 tice of the pure and holy Gofpel of 
 JESUS CHRIST, our LORD. Amen. 
 
 For 
 
64 EVENING SERVICE. 
 
 For the affli&ed. 
 
 OGOD, the Creator and Preferver 
 of mankind, we commend to thy 
 fatherly goodnefs, all thofe who are 
 any-ways afflifted or diftreffed in mind, 
 body, or eftate ; [ efpecially thofe for 
 whom our prayers are defired\\ may it 
 pleafe thee to comfort and relieve them 
 according to their feveral necefTities ; 
 giving them patience under their fuffer- 
 ings ; and a happy iflue out of all their 
 afflictions. Amen. 
 
 Concluding Prayer. 
 
 OLORD GOD, our heavenly Fa- 
 ther, who haft permitted us with 
 one accord to make our common fup- 
 plications unto thee, fulfil, we befeech 
 thee, the deiires and petitions of thy fer- 
 vants, as thou in thy wifdom knoweft 
 to be good for us : we commit ourfelves 
 to the care of thy providence : merci- 
 fully defend us from all the dangers to 
 which we may be expofed : gracioufly 
 
 accept 
 
EVENING SERVICE. 65 
 
 accept thefe our fervices ; and grant that 
 in all our works begun, continued, and 
 ended, we may glorify thy holy name ; 
 and finally obtain everlafting life and 
 felicity ; which we humbly pray for in 
 the name, and as the difciples of JESUS 
 CHRIST, our LORD ; in whofe words 
 we conclude our prayers for ourfelves, 
 and for all mankind : 
 
 /^\U R Father, who art in heaven ; 
 ^^^ hallowed be thy name : thy king- 
 dom come : thy will be done on earth 
 as it is in heaven : give us this day 
 our daily bread ; forgive us our tref- 
 pafies, as we forgive thofe who trefpafs 
 againft us ; lead us not into temp- 
 tation ; but deliver us from evil : for 
 thine is the kingdom, the power, and 
 the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. 
 
 f Here a Pfalm is to be fung^ while the 
 Minijler is preparing for the pulpit. 
 
 f The Benediction is to be pronounced by 
 the Minijler^ at the conclufion of the 
 whole Service. 
 
 K THE 
 
( 66 ) 
 THE 
 
 THIRD SERVICE; 
 
 f To be ufed either Morning, or Even- 
 ing, at the choice of the Minijler. 
 
 f 'This Service is to be introduced by 
 the following Prayer, the Congregation 
 rifing up. 
 
 f The Introdu&ory Prayer ; to be read 
 by the Minifler alone. 
 
 INFINITELY great, moft glorious, 
 and ever bleffed LORD, our GOD! 
 The heavens, and the earth, and all 
 things which we behold, fhew forth thy 
 exiftence, and declare thy perfections. 
 Thy goodnefs is unchangeable, and thy 
 wifdom paft finding out. Thou art ex- 
 alted 
 
THE THIRD SERVICE. 67 
 
 alted in majefty and power, far above 
 our higheft conceptions ; yet thou re- 
 gardefl: us with the tendernefs of a Fa- 
 ther, and fheweft favour, and loving- 
 kindnefs to the children of men. We 
 would now offer up unto thee, O GOD, 
 our religious addreffes, encouraged by 
 thy goodnefs, and the gracious promifes 
 in the Gofpel of thy Son. May we 
 remember thee our Creator, Preferver, 
 and Benefa&or, with fear, love, and 
 gratitude ; and worfhip thee, who art 
 a fpirit, in fpirit and in truth ; that our 
 various fervices may be acceptable in 
 thy fight, and truly beneficial to our 
 own fouls. May we hearken to the 
 reading of thy word, as to the voice of 
 GOD; fing thy praifes with underftand- 
 ing and devotion ; and hear what fhall 
 be delivered for our inftru&ion, with 
 attention, candour and humility ; that 
 by all the means of grace, we may grow 
 wifer and better ; be gradually trained 
 up for thy heavenly kingdom; and at 
 laft become partakers of that happinefs, 
 K 2 which 
 
68 THE THIRD SERVICE. 
 
 which eye hath not feen, which ear hath 
 not heard, and which it hath not entered 
 
 into the heart of man to conceive. 
 
 Thefe our petitions we prefent unto 
 thee, in the name, and as the difciples 
 of our LORD and Saviour JESUS 
 CHRIST. Amen, v 
 
 f Then the following HTMN^ for cele- 
 brating the Divine Perfections, is 
 to be recited by the Minifler and 
 People^ alternately^ all fanding. 
 
 Mi?rijler. 
 
 hZ'ete' WJ^ P raifC ^^ GOD > WC 
 
 dwinePer. |/ V acknowledge and adore 
 
 jetlions of 
 
 y V acKnowieag* 
 thee, the one, true, and living 
 GOD, who alone art independent 
 and eternal ; whofe perfections are 
 infinite, and counfels unchange- 
 able; the greateft, wifeft, and beft 
 of beings ; the confidence and joy 
 
 of 
 
THE THIRD SERVICE. 69 
 
 of all thofe to whom thou haft 
 made thyfelf known. 
 
 By thy power were the heavens /w, r , 
 created ; and all their hofts by the 
 breath of thy mouth : thy hand 
 preferveth them in being ; they 
 are the minifters of thy good 
 pleafure. 
 
 Thou difpofeft all things in m/dm, 
 perfect wifdom; and maintained 
 the beauty and order of thy works : 
 all creatures are fubject to thy di- 
 rection; and thou affigneft them 
 their proper ftation and duty. 
 
 With the higheft veneration, 
 we prefent our addreffes to thee, and Good. 
 a Being of almighty power, and " 
 unerring wifdom : but in an efpe- 
 cial manner do we acknowledge, 
 with unfeigned love, and joyful 
 confidence, thine infinite and ever- 
 lafting goodnefs : thou art the 
 fountain of happinefs ; and thou 
 diffufeft thy bleffings through all 
 the works of thy hands. The 
 
 heavens 
 
7 o THE THIRD SERVICE. 
 
 heavens declare thy glory ; the earth is 
 full of thy goodnefs : the day is thine, 
 the night alfo is thine; and thou makeft 
 the morning, and the evening to re- 
 joice, 
 
 All the works of thy hands, and all 
 the ordinances of thy providence, bear 
 teftimony that thou art infinitely great, 
 and wife, and good. 
 
 The higheft and moft exalted angels 
 adore thee, O LORD, who art good, 
 and doeft good continually, who art 
 wife in heart, wonderful in counfel, and 
 excellent in working. 
 
 We, thine intelligent creatures in this 
 world, join our tribute of joyful praife 
 to thee, O GOD, the fovereign Creator 
 and LORD of all : thou alone art wor- 
 thy to receive glory, and honour, and 
 praife, from all thy creatures. " Praife 
 " ye the LORD." 
 
 People. 
 
 G Z), thy perfections fill our 
 hearts with love and joy : and our lips 
 fl^ew forth thy praife. 
 
THE THIRD SERVICE. 71 
 
 Minijier. 
 
 " O magnify the LORD with m bUfi 
 " me, and let us blefs his name lord-, 
 « together/' Thou, O GOD, ^ 9itour 
 art the Creator of mankind; thy 
 hands have made us, and fafhioned 
 us ; thou haft cloathed us with 
 fkin and flefh, and fenced us with 
 finews and bones. Thou haft Creator, 
 created the fpirit that is in man; 
 breathed into us the breath of 
 life ; and, by thine infpiration, 
 haft given us underftanding. 
 People. 
 
 GOD, thou haft made us> 
 and not we our f elves \ we are thy 
 people^ and the Jljeep of thy paf 
 ture. 
 
 Minifter. 
 
 Thou, O GOD, art the Giver Pttfirw, 
 of life : in thy hand is the foul 
 of every living thing, and the 
 breath of all mankind: thou art 
 the Preferver of men. 
 
 People. 
 
72 THE THIRD SERVICE. 
 
 People. 
 
 Thy viftation preferveth our 
 fpirits\ and thou, LORD >, tnakeft 
 us to dwell in fafety. 
 Minifter. 
 O thou moft high GOD, Pof- 
 feffor of heaven and earth, the 
 Judge of all, and the univerfal 
 Governor, King ; thy government is righte- 
 ous; thy providence perfect; and 
 all thy commandments are holy, 
 juft, and good : the obedience 
 of all reafonable creatures is due 
 to thee alone, the King of kings, 
 the Lord of lords, the blefTed and 
 only Potentate. 
 
 People. 
 We bow ourfelves before thee, 
 thy willing fubjeBs ; thy command- 
 ments are true, aitd righteous alto- 
 gether. 
 
 Minifter. 
 
 O GOD, thou art our Creator, 
 
 men 'Ta- an( ^ righteous Governor ; we rejoice 
 
 tber ' in the being we have received 
 
 from thee ; we yield a willing 
 
 fub~ 
 
THE THIRD SERVICE. 73 
 
 fubmiffion to all the orders of thy 
 government ; and we addrefs thee 
 as our Father > who haft made us 
 to bear thine image, and to par- 
 take of the bleffings of thy fa- 
 mily. 
 
 People. 
 
 We are thy children ; therefore 
 do we pray unto thee. 
 Mi7ujier> 
 
 We rejoice in thy fatherly care, 
 which thou haft manifefted to us, 
 ever fince we came into the world* 
 
 People* ' 
 
 We put our confidence in thee^ 
 whofe counfel is our guide ; and 
 whofe favour is our highefi hap-* 
 pinefs. 
 
 Minifter. 
 
 Now unto thee, the king eter- and to him 
 nal, immortal, and invifible, the Tur^umud 
 only wife, living, and true GOD, PraiJti - 
 we afcribe our chearful and united 
 praifes. Amen. 
 
 If Here 
 
74 THE THIRD SERVICE. 
 
 f Here the firft Leflbn is to be 
 read out of the Holy Scrip- 
 tures ; after which the Service 
 is to proceed with the following 
 Thanksgiving, the congrega- 
 tion rifeng up. 
 
 Minijler. 
 General ^ V E R gracious and mod 
 
 Ibankf. "-^ 
 
 :ion 
 
 E 
 
 giving: Ml j merciful Father, we render 
 unto thee our fincere thanks for 
 the manifold mercies we are con- 
 tinually receiving from thy hands ; 
 and we defire to recollect them 
 with fentiments of religious gra- 
 titude ; and with hearty purpofes 
 to a£t agreeably to them. 
 
 tor Crea- O GOD, thou art the Giver of 
 all good ; thou delighteR: in the 
 happinefs of thy creatures, and 
 art daily imparting the riches of 
 thy bounty. We thank thee, ef- 
 pecially, for all the instances of 
 thy goodnefs to ourfelves. Thou 
 art the Former of our bodies, and 
 the Father of our fpirlts. Thou 
 
 haft 
 
THE THIRD SERVICE. y 5 
 
 haft exercifed a wife and gracious p fe/irvam 
 care over us, ever fince we came %"#;"*/ 
 into the world: by thee are all •f Li f tl 
 our wants fupplied; from thee 
 all our enjoyments proceed; and 
 thou crowneft our days with thy 
 goodnefs. We blefs thee, who 
 giveft us food convenient for us, 
 and appointeft refrefhment for 
 our wearied powers. To thy kind 
 and merciful providence we owe 
 the raiment with which we are 
 cloathed ; our comfortable habi- 
 tations; and all the fruits of our 
 induftry and labour. 
 
 We thank thee for reafon and 
 underftanding ; and for all the for PolWm 
 treafures of knowledge thou haft 5?y* 
 
 O Mind ana 
 
 opened to our view ; that thou Mean* of 
 haft formed us for the practice of «#»/ ; 
 virtue, and true religion ; and 
 given us many opportunities for 
 the improvement of our minds, 
 and the attainment of our higheft 
 happinefs. 
 
 L 2 We 
 
76 THE THIRD SERVICE. 
 
 We thank thee, that we are 
 Amatols pl ace d * n a focial ftate ; are en- 
 dued with focial affe&ions ; and 
 enjoy fuch a variety of pleasures, 
 from the efteem and friendship of 
 our brethren. 
 piea/uns To thy goodnefs we afcribe all 
 &r?rt*ii the enjoyments we receive from 
 $,"{' t ^ Le P ra &i ce of virtue, and the juft 
 bcppier exercife of our powers ; the va- 
 riety of trials thou haft appointed 
 for the improvement and perfec- 
 tion of our natures here ; and the 
 profped thou giveft us of a more 
 perfect and happy ftate hereafter, 
 « O give thanks unto the LORD, 
 <c for he is good, and his mercies 
 " endure for ever." 
 People. 
 TV e give thanks unto the LORD^ 
 for he is good, and his mercies en- 
 dure for ever. 
 fhi Minifter. 
 
 F 
 
 various ^T e y e f s ^ t J 1QU w Jf e anc J 
 
 Dtjpenfa- > 
 
 tiomof gracious Difpofer of all things, 
 <w, for the various difpenfations of 
 
 thy 
 
THE THIRD SERVICE. 77 
 
 thy providence in favour of reli- i„f avour 
 gion, and the happinefs of man- f io * til ' 
 kind, in the feveral ages of the 
 world; for all the divine mef- 
 fengers thou haft fent; by whofe 
 inftru&ions and example, thy light 
 and truth have been preferved, in 
 the darkeft times of ignorance and 
 idolatry. 
 
 Above all, we thank thee, mer- 
 ciful Father, for the difplay of 
 the exceeding riches of thy good- 
 nefs in CHRIST JESUS; by /^ 
 whom thou haft made every ne- chrisT; 
 ceffary provision, for our improve- 
 ment in the knowledge and prac- 
 tice of true religion. 
 
 Bleffed be thy name, O GOD, 
 for this divine teacher, and Sa- 
 viour, whom thou haft fent to 
 declare unto us thy heavenly will ; 
 to fave us from ignorance and 
 vice; and to lead us, by his hea- 
 venly inftruftions, and amiable 
 example, to the love and practice 
 
 of univerfal goodnefs. 
 
 We 
 
78 THE THIRD SERVICE. 
 
 We offer up our moft joyful 
 gratitude to thee, the GOD and 
 Father of our LORD JESUS 
 CHRIST, that by him we are 
 affured of pardon, and thy gra- 
 cious acceptance, upon our return 
 to obedience and virtue; that he 
 has opened before us the folemni- 
 ties of a future judgment ; and 
 confirmed to us the joyful hope of 
 glory, honour, and immortality. 
 " O give thanks unto the LORD, 
 " for he is good, and his mercies 
 cc endure for ever." 
 People. 
 Bleffed be the GOD, and Fa- 
 ther of our LORD JESUS 
 CHRIST; for he is good, and 
 his mercies endure for ever. 
 Minijler. 
 We thank thee, heavenly Fa- 
 «ndtu ther, that though the pure and 
 p )f" ma ' holy religion of JESUS was cor- 
 rupted by wicked men, and its 
 divine light darkened, in thine 
 own due time a reformation was 
 
 brought 
 
 ?tcn 
 
THE THIRD SERVICE. 79 
 
 brought about, under the direction of 
 thy wife providence; and that we now 
 enjoy our chriftian liberty, and chrif- 
 tian privileges, in peace and tranquillity ; 
 none being permitted to rife up, and 
 make us afraid. " O give thanks to 
 " the GOD of heaven, for his mercy 
 " endure th for ever." 
 People. 
 Bleffedbe the LORD our GOD, for be 
 is good, and his mercy endureth for ever. 
 
 f Here a Pfalm of Praife, or Thankf- 
 giving, is to be fung ; and after that 
 the Second Leilbn read, out of the 
 New Testament, except when this 
 Service is ufed for the Evening of the 
 firft Sunday in the Month ; and then 
 the Ten Commandments, together 
 with our Saviour s Summary of the 
 Moral Law, are to be read, inftead 
 of the Second Leilbn ; for which pur- 
 pofe they are placed at the end of 
 'the Occafional Forms. 
 
 f Then 
 
80 THE THIRD SERVICE. 
 
 f Then mufi the Minijler read the foU 
 lowing Confession, the Minijler and 
 People all kneeling. 
 
 THE GENERAL CONFESSION. 
 
 ALmighty and moft merciful Fa- 
 ther, we confefs that we have 
 often iinned againft thee : we have dif- 
 regarded thine authority, and abufed thy 
 goodnefs : we have left undone thofe 
 things which we ought to have done ; 
 and done thofe things which we ought 
 not to have done : we have acted incon- 
 fiftently with our chriftian character ; 
 and departed from the holy command- 
 ment delivered unto us: we have been 
 unmindful of the perfect example fet 
 before us ; and forgotten the fure and 
 precious promifes to which we are called : 
 our only hope is in thy mercy : on thy 
 mercy thou haft encouraged us to hope ; 
 and haft declared by thy Son CHRIST 
 JESUS, that if we return to the obedi- 
 ence of thy commandments, thou wilt 
 have mercy, and forgive us. 
 
 People. 
 
THE THIRD SERVICE. 81 
 
 People, 
 To the LORD our GOD befaig 
 mercies and forgivenefs, though we have 
 Jinned againji him. 
 
 % Then the following Prayers are to be 
 read by the Minifler alone, the Co7i~ 
 gregatio?i JIM kneeling, and faying 
 Amen, at the co7iclufon of each Prayer* 
 
 A Prayer for Forgivenefs. 
 
 OLORD GOD, who delighteft in 
 mercy, and art not willing that 
 any fhould perifh, but that all (hould 
 repent and live ; fuffer us not to perifh 
 in our tranfgreflions ; and fave us efpe- 
 cially from the dominion of them, for 
 the time to come. Vouchfafe unto us 
 the light of thy countenance ; and efta- 
 blifti our minds with a fenfe of thy 
 approbation, and the hopes of thy 
 favour and acceptance unto eternal life. 
 Amen. 
 
 M For 
 
82 THE THIRD SERVICE, 
 
 For divine AJftjlance. 
 
 OGOD, the Author of all good, 
 grant us, we befeech thee, thy 
 gracious affiftance in the future courfe 
 of our lives; and teach us to a& agree- 
 ably to the profeflion we make, and the 
 defires we have now expreffed before 
 thee. Give us fuch a deep perfuafion 
 of the evil of fin, and of the importance 
 and excellency of a holy and virtuous 
 life, that we may carefully abftain from 
 all iniquity, and be filled with the fruits 
 of righteoufnefs, which are to thy honour 
 and glory. Amen. . 
 
 For the Knowledge and Improvement of 
 religious "Truth. 
 
 O Merciful GOD, who art the 
 Father of lights, and fountain of 
 all wifdom; enlighten our minds with 
 the knowledge of all ufeful truths ; may 
 they fink deep into our hearts, and in- 
 fluence our whole conduit. Having a 
 fteadfafi: faith in thy perfections, may we 
 
 a& 
 
THE THIRD SERVICE. 83 
 
 aft with integrity, and order our whole 
 converfation as in thy fight ; may we pre- 
 ferve a conftant regard to thy perfed: ad- 
 miniftration ; and receive with fubmiflion 
 and chearfulnefs whatever thou appoin- 
 teft : by the knowledge of thee, who 
 alone art good, may we improve in the 
 love of goodnefs ; and may the hope we 
 are encouraged to entertain, of thy con- 
 tinual fupport and afliftance, animate us 
 in the pra&ice of all good works. May 
 the manifeftation of thy mercy to man- 
 kind by JESUS CHRIST, awaken our 
 averfion to fin ; engage us to excel in 
 every virtue ; and xonftantly to purfue, 
 what thou, the righteous Judge, approveft, 
 and wilt finally reward and honour. By 
 a diligent attention to the truths of our 
 moft holy religion, may our minds be pu- 
 rified from all corrupt and fenfual paf- 
 fions ; may we acquire a more perfect 
 command over ourfelves ; proceed after 
 the example of JESUS, in the practice of 
 all goodnefs, and never be weary of well 
 doing : and above all, by the expectation 
 of an happy immortality, may our virtue 
 
 M 2 be 
 
84 THE THIRD SERVICE. 
 
 be fupported, and our peace fecured, 
 until we are removed from the prefent, 
 to a higher ftate of being ; and become 
 partakers of that everlafling happinefs, 
 which thou haft promifed to thy faithful 
 fervants. A?nen. 
 
 For the Pra&ice of particular Duties. 
 
 f\ Gracious GOD, from whom all 
 ^-^ holy and good defires do proceed, 
 produce in our minds thofe fentiments 
 which may difpofe us to all the duties of 
 life ; that in humility and meeknefs we 
 may walk before thee ; and being content 
 with fuch things as we have, may leave 
 all future events to thy gracious appoint- 
 ment. Incline us to thy worfhip and 
 fervice, and all the offices of piety to 
 thee, our Father in heaven. Teach us 
 to enjoy the gifts of thy bounty with 
 thankfulnefs ; and to pafs thro' the 
 afflidions, thou appointed for us, with 
 patience and fubmiffion to thy holy 
 will. 
 
 Affift 
 
THE THIRD SERVICE. 85 
 
 Affift us in the difcharge of all focial, 
 and relative duties : may we be honeft 
 in all our dealings ; and delight in 
 doing good : may we be ready to relieve 
 the poor, and to fhew companion to all 
 who are in diftrefs : may we be grate- 
 ful to our friends ; forgive our enemies ; 
 and always do to others, as we would 
 they fhould do to us. 
 
 Eftablifh in our fouls a prevailing 
 defire to bear a nearer refemblance to 
 thee, the original of all perfection ; and 
 to be in a ftate of continual improve- 
 ment, and preparation for the felicities 
 which thou haft provided for all good 
 men, from the foundation of the world. 
 
 And grant, O merciful Father, that 
 by thus expreffing before thee, the 
 defires of our hearts, we may be more 
 determined to live after thy command- 
 ments ; and fo attain that peace of 
 mind, which is thy peculiar gift ; and 
 after a comfortable and happy life, be 
 advanced to thine everlafting kingdom. 
 Amen. 
 
86 THE THIRD SERVICE. 
 
 A Prayer refpeSiing exterital Things. 
 
 OGOD, our heavenly Father, to 
 the direction of thy wife and 
 unerring providence we do entirely 
 commit ourfelves : fafe under thy pro- 
 tection, and happy in thy favour, we 
 would chear fully follow, where thou 
 pleafeft to conduct us : we defire only 
 that portion of the good things of this 
 life, which thou feeft to be fit for us ; 
 and would decline no fufferings, which 
 thou fhalt appoint, for the trial and 
 improvement of our virtue : fave us, we 
 befeech thee, from the fnares of prof- 
 peri ty and adverfity : fuffer us not to 
 forget thee in our abundance ; or to 
 queftion thy goodnefs in our diftrefs : 
 in health, and in ficknefs, in life and in 
 death, may we lift up our fouls unto 
 thee ; and make thy goodnefs alone our 
 confidence and joy : and may we fo 
 pafs through the changing fcenes of 
 the prefent world, that we may be pre- 
 pared for the pure and unmixed hap- 
 pinefs of thy glorious prefence for ever- 
 more. Amen. For 
 
THE THIRD SERVICE. 87 
 
 For all Mankind. 
 
 OGOD, the Father of all man- 
 kind, we rejoice in thine univer- 
 fal providence; and, with full confi- 
 dence, commit to thy direction all the 
 circumftances of our fellow creatures. 
 Thou art the fountain of all bleffings; 
 thou delighteft in doing good : grant, 
 merciful Father, that all mankind may 
 perceive thy hand in the advantages they 
 enjoy ; and be difpofed to render thee 
 their humble thanks, for all the in- 
 ftances of thy beneficence : and by 
 their gratitude to thee, may their good 
 difpofitions be improved, and their hap- 
 pinefs increafed continually. Amen. 
 
 For all Chriftian Churches. 
 
 WE befeech thee, O GOD of love 
 and mercy, to fend down thy 
 blefling upon all who profefs the faith 
 of our LORD JESUS CHRIST: fuf- 
 fer not their divifions to injure the caufe 
 
 of 
 
88 THE THIRD SERVICE. 
 
 of truth and liberty : gracioufly afiift 
 thofe who love thy holy name, in all 
 their fincere endeavours to reform the 
 abufes which have entered into thy 
 church ; and to promote the peace and 
 union of Chriftians : give them juft fen- 
 timents of the nature, and tendency of 
 our holy religion : fill their hearts with 
 love to thee, and to each other ; may 
 they approve themfelves the faithful 
 difciples of JESUS; and become 
 the inftruments of diffufing virtue and 
 happinefs in the world. Amen 
 
 For the Advancement of Chrijiia7t 
 Knowledge. 
 
 OLORD, who would'ft have all 
 men to be faved, fill the minds 
 of thy reafonable creatures with the 
 knowledge of thy truth : caufe thy light 
 to fhine upon thofe who fit in darknefs ; 
 difpel the prejudices under which they 
 labour : above all, we beg that thou 
 would'ft deliver them from every evil 
 affedion ; and bring them into the way 
 
 of 
 
THE THIRD SERVICE. 89 
 
 of truth, and happinefs. May the Gof- 
 pel of JESUS prevail through the 
 world ; and by the power of its truth, 
 and the exemplary conduit of thofe 
 who profefs it, enter the hearts and 
 govern the lives of all the inhabitants 
 of the earth ; and make all the nations 
 righteous and happy. Amen. 
 
 For the civil Happinefs of Mankind. 
 
 LORD GOD, who ruleft in the 
 nations, reform, we befeeeh thee, 
 all the diforders which arife from the 
 evil paffions of men : [put a ftop to the 
 wafting calamities of war ;] and prof- 
 per the juft defigns of all thofe who 
 delight in peace : may the bleflings of 
 free and equal government become 
 univerfal : and under the influence of 
 good laws, and a righteous adminiftra- 
 tion, may all the advantages of civil 
 fociety be widely extended; and the 
 beft interefts of mankind effe&ually 
 fecured : and whilft thy creatures enjoy 
 the gifts of thy bounty, may they unite 
 
 N in 
 
9 o THE THIRD SERVICE. 
 
 in praife and thankfgiving to thee, the 
 Author of all good. Ame7i. 
 
 For our own Country. 
 
 WE commit to thee, our righ- 
 teous Governor, all the impor- 
 tant interefts of our native Country : 
 grant, we befeech thee, that we may 
 live in fafety ; and enjoy the bleffings 
 thy providence has beftowed upon us, 
 in tranquillity and peace r mercifully 
 preferve us from all public calamities : 
 and that we may efcape the deftruclive 
 evils which thou appointed for wicked 
 nations, may we be difpofed to a gene- 
 ral reformation of manners ; and may 
 true religion and virtue fo prevail 
 amongft us, that our tranquillity may 
 be continued, and our diftinguifhed 
 privileges be handed down to fuc- 
 ceeding ages. Blefs all our colonies : 
 profper our alliance with foreign na- 
 tions : give us the fruits of the earth 
 in their feafons ; and may our trade 
 and commerce be fo conduced, as" to 
 
 become 
 
THE THIRD SERVICE. 91 
 
 become instruments of good to the 
 whole nation. Vouchfafe thy favour to 
 all orders of men among us : by a dili- 
 gent and chearful difcharge of the duties 
 of their feveral ftations, may they con- 
 tribute their part to the public welfare, 
 and the happinefs of all mankind. Be- 
 ftow upon us, O merciful Father, every 
 thing truly good ; and may we with one 
 heart, acknowledge and praife thee, who 
 art good, and doeft good continually. 
 Amen. 
 
 For the King. 
 
 WE recommend to the care of 
 thy providence, thy fervant 
 George our King : fill his heart with 
 every royal virtue ; and afiift him in the 
 important duties to which he is called : 
 preferve him from the defigns of his 
 enemies ; give him the hearts of all 
 his fubje&s ; and by their fidelity and 
 zeal, may his ufeful defigns be encou- 
 raged, and promoted : fucceed his juft 
 undertakings ; and after a life of great 
 and exteniive ufefulnefs in this world, 
 N 2 advance 
 
92 THE THIRD SERVICE. 
 
 advance him to thy heavenly and ever- 
 lafting kingdom. Amen. 
 
 For the ^ueen^ and Royal Family. 
 
 MAY it pleafe thee to blefs our 
 gracious Queen Charlotte ; 
 the Prince of Wales; the Princefs 
 Dowager of Wales; and all the Royal 
 Family : by the influence of a good 
 example, and a wife and faithful 
 difcharge of the duties of their high 
 ftations, may* they become great and 
 exteniive bleflings : may their happinefs 
 increafe continually in this world ; and 
 in the future ftate be crowned with 
 immortal glory. Amen. 
 
 For the Parliament \ when ftttiitg. 
 
 BLESS, we befeech thee, the high 
 court of Parliament ; may all the 
 members of that great affembly be 
 men fearing thee, and hating covetouf- 
 nefs : prefide in their counfels ; profper 
 their good defigns ; and may they wifely 
 difcern, and fteadily purfue the true 
 interefts of thefe kingdoms. Amen. 
 
THE THIRD SERVICE. 93 
 
 For the Nobility and Gentry. 
 
 BLESS the nobility, and gentry, 
 and all who are in ftations of 
 authority and power ; may they employ 
 all their influence to promote righteouf- 
 nefs and virtue ; become the means of 
 diffusing public and private bleflings ; 
 and be faithful ftewards of the manifold 
 bounties of thy providence. Amen. 
 
 For fudges and Magiftrates. 
 
 BLESS our judges and magiftrates; 
 may they difpenfe juftice with im- 
 partiality ; difcountenance profanenefs 
 and vice ; and be an encouragement 
 and praife to all who do well. Amen. 
 
 For Chrijiian Minijlers. 
 
 WE recommend to thy gracious 
 regard the minifters of the chrif- 
 tian religion ; humbly befeeching thee, 
 that their faithful endeavours to extend 
 the knowledge of thy truth, and to pro- 
 mote 
 
94 THE THIRD SERVICE. 
 
 mote the love and practice of thy holy 
 commandments, may be favourably ac- 
 cepted, and become fuccefsful : may 
 they do honour to thy truth, in their 
 public fervices, and in their lives ; and 
 do thou direct thy fervants, in the way 
 of righteoufnefs, to their higheft happi- 
 nefs. Amen. 
 
 For rich and poor. 
 
 BLESS thofe who are rich in this 
 world, with a difpofition to do 
 good : may the poor be fober, honeft, 
 and diligent in their ftations, and con- 
 fide in thy providence j and may we all 
 be thankful to thee for the bleflings 
 thou art pleafed to beftow upon us. 
 Amen. 
 
 For the affliffed. 
 
 OGOD of mercy, we humbly beg 
 thy favourable regard to all our 
 brethren in affliction: may thy wifdom 
 be their diredion ; thy power their fup- 
 port ; and thy goodnefs their confi- 
 dence ; and, by a patient behaviour 
 
 under 
 
THE THIRD SERVICE. 95 
 
 under their afflictions, and a thankful 
 acknowledgment of all thy mercies, 
 may they be prepared for unmixed hap- 
 pinefs, in a future and better world. 
 Amen. 
 
 A general Prayer. 
 
 MErcifully regard, O heavenly 
 Father, thefe our petitions for 
 ourfelves, and for others ; continue to us 
 fuch meafures of the good things of this 
 life, as thou feeft to be beft for us : may 
 thy good providence defend us thro' this 
 [day,] or [night,] and through all the 
 future days and nights of our lives; 
 teach us the right ufe of all our enjoy- 
 ments; lead us to a wife and careful 
 improvement of all thy mercies; and 
 finally advance us to thy glorious and 
 everlafting kingdom. Amen. 
 
 A concluding Prayer. 
 
 OGOD, the Father of mercies, and 
 the Father of our LORD JESUS 
 CHRIST, we humbly offer to thy gra- 
 cious acceptance thefe our prayers, in 
 
 his 
 
96 THE THIRD SERVICE. 
 
 his name: we rejoice that thou haft 
 raifed him above men and angels; that 
 thou haft given him a kingdom; and 
 that by him thou haft promifed to 
 beftow immortal life and happinefs upon 
 all thy faithful fervants : by his inftruc- 
 tions and example we defire to govern 
 our lives ; and in his form of words we 
 conclude our prayers to thee, 
 
 /^\U R Father, who art in heaven ; 
 ^^^ hallowed be thy name : thy king- 
 dom come : thy will be done on earth 
 as it is in heaven : give us this day 
 our daily bread ; forgive us our tref- 
 pafTes, as we forgive thofe who trefpafs 
 againft us ; lead us not into temp- 
 tation ; but deliver us from evil : for 
 thine is the kingdom, the power, and 
 the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. 
 
 f Here a Pfalm is to be fung^ while the 
 Minijier is preparing for the pulpit. 
 
 % The Benediction mujl be pronounced by 
 the Minijier ', at the conclujion of the 
 whole Service. 
 
 THE 
 
OCCASIONAL 
 
 PRAYERS 
 
 AND 
 
 THANKSGIVINGS; 
 
 % To be made ufe of as the Minijier 
 JJjall think proper. 
 
 OCCASIONAL PRAYERS. 
 
 A ColleEl adapted to the Spring Seajon. 
 
 OLORD, the Creator, and Pre- 
 ferver of all things, who with 
 unerring wifdom maintaineft the beauty 
 and order of thy works; we look up 
 with joy and confidence unto thy gra- 
 cious power, which caufes the returning 
 feafons to know their place: thou haft 
 fent forth thy fpirit ; thou haft renewed 
 [ o ] the 
 
OCCASIONAL PRAYERS. 
 
 the face of the earth : blefs, we befeech 
 thee, the fpringing of the year; and en- 
 rich the earth with the rain of heaven : 
 may grafs grow for the cattle, and herbs 
 and fruits for the fervice of man ; may 
 our paftures be cloathed with flocks ; our 
 vallies covered with corn; and the year 
 crowned with thy goodnefs : and may 
 we fo improve the various bleflings of 
 thy providence in this world, as to be 
 prepared for the unchangeable felicities 
 of thine everlafting kingdom. Amen. 
 
 A ColleB adapted to the Seafon of Harveji. 
 
 ALmighty GOD, the Fountain of 
 all goodnefs, in whofe power alone 
 it is to give fruitful feafons, and to fill 
 our hearts with food and gladnefs ; we 
 lift up our eyes unto thee, from whom 
 our hope cometh, befeeching thee to 
 preferve unto us the appointed weeks 
 of harveft, and to give us feafonable 
 weather for ripening, and gathering in 
 the fruits of the earth, that in due time 
 
 we 
 
OCCASIONAL PRAYERS. 
 
 we may enjoy them. * May the im- 
 moderate rains be abated ; and thy mercy 
 again pine upon us. Suffer not the 
 hopes of the hufbandman to fail; may 
 the poor be fatisfied with bread ; con- 
 tinue to bids us with the bounties of 
 thy providence ; and may we evermore 
 live to thy praife, in a wife, grateful, 
 and temperate enjoyment ok thy mer- 
 cies, who art the only Giver of all good. 
 Amen. 
 
 A ColleSi to be ufed on Qccafion of any 
 violent Storm, or Earthquake. 
 
 GREAT and glorious LORD GOD, 
 almighty in thy power, and un- 
 fearchable in all thy ways, at whofe 
 rebuke the earth trembles, and the foun- 
 dations of the hills do fhake; who thun- 
 dereft with thy voice, and fendeft forth 
 thy lightnings to the ends of the hea- 
 vens; who commandeft the winds, and 
 the fea, and they obey ; we, the chil- 
 dren of men, proftrate ourfelves before 
 
 [02] thy 
 
 * Only to be read in fuch a feafcn as is there 
 referred to, 
 
OCCASIONAL PRAYERS. 
 
 thy throne, adoring the greatnefs of thy 
 majefty, and imploring thy favour and 
 mercy to us. Awaken our attention 
 duly to confider the voice of thy pro- 
 vidence ; and poffefs our hearts with a 
 holy reverence of thy power, and a 
 humble confidence in thy goodnefs. It 
 is of thy goodnefs that we have not 
 been con fumed : in the midft of the 
 amazing inftances of thy power, thou 
 remembereft mercy ; fhewing forth the 
 care of thy providence in our prefer- 
 vation. May the remembrance of thefe 
 things produce in us thankfulnefs of 
 heart, and fuch ferioufnefs of fpirit, that 
 no calamity may ever furprife us, nor 
 death it felf find us unprepared ; and 
 this we beg, lor thy goodnefs fake, 
 declared unto mankind by JESUS 
 CHRIST our LORD. Amen. 
 
 A 
 
OCCASIONAL PRAYERS. 
 
 A ColleSt to be read in Time of IVar. 
 
 O Almighty GOD, King of all 
 kings, and Governor of all things, 
 to whom it juftly belongeth to punifh 
 fmful nations, and to be merciful to 
 thofe, who repent; we humbly befeech 
 thee, in this time of our danger, to be 
 the Defender of our country : give us 
 not up into the hands of our enemies ; 
 fave us from the edge of the fword ; 
 and preferve our land from the defla- 
 tions of war ; continue us in the undif- 
 turbed profeflion of thy true religion ; 
 in the enjoyment of our public liberties ; 
 and may we yet live fecure and happy, 
 under that wife and equal government, 
 which thou haft fet over us. We do 
 with all humility acknowledge ourfelves 
 unworthy of thtfe peculiar bleffings : 
 have mercy upon us; O GOD, have 
 mercy upon thy people : fend forth a 
 fpirit of reformation amongft us; avert 
 the evils we have deferved ; continue 
 thy favour and protection to us ; fave 
 and deliver us, O our GOD, for in thee 
 
 do 
 
OCCASIONAL PRAYERS. 
 
 do we put our truft : reftore tranquillity 
 and peace to contending nations; unite 
 the hearts of mankind in the bonds of 
 humanity and love ; and may the happy 
 time come, when the calamities of war 
 fhail ceafe for ever ; and peace and 
 righteoufnefs univerfally prevail. And 
 this we humbly beg, for thy mercy's 
 fake, declared unto mankind by CHRIST 
 JESUS our LORD. Amen. 
 
 A GolleSl to be ufed in a "Time of 
 remarkable Scarcity. 
 
 OGOD, our heavenly Father, by 
 whofe wife and gracious appoint- 
 ment it is, that the rain doth fall; the 
 earth is fruitful ; the beafts increafe ; 
 and fifties do multiply ; behold, we be- 
 feech thee, the prefent affli&ions of thy 
 people ; alleviate the diftreffes of the 
 miferable ; and may the cries of the 
 poor come unto thee: increafe the fruits 
 of the earth by thy heavenly benedic- 
 tion ; may our fcarcity be turned into 
 plenty ; and grant that we may improve 
 
 the 
 
OCCASIONAL PRAYERS. 
 
 the bounties of thy providence, to thy 
 praife, in relieving the diftreffes of 
 others; and by thankfully acknowledg- 
 ing thee, the Giver of every good and 
 perfect gift. Amen. 
 
 A ColleSl adapted to a Time of general 
 Sicknejs. 
 
 ALmighty, and moft wife GOD, 
 whofe never - failing providence 
 ordereth all things both in heaven and 
 in earth ; we humbly dired: our addreffes 
 unto thee, in this time of our calamity, 
 befeeching thee in behalf of our fellow 
 creatures and friends, who are fuffering 
 under the grievous ficknefs, with which 
 thou art pleafed to viflt us: may the 
 everlafting arms of thy mercy fupport 
 them, and the consideration of thy 
 fatherly goodnefs ftrengthen and com- 
 fort their fouls, in this time of their 
 diftrefs: fan&ify this general affliction 
 to the reformation of our manners, and 
 the improvement of our virtue; and 
 caufe us to rejoice in the humble hope, 
 
 that 
 
OCCASIONAL PRAYERS. 
 
 that every thing {hall work together for 
 good, In the midft of life we are in 
 death : of whom may we feek for fuc- 
 cour, but of thee, O GOD: reftrain 
 the progrefs of the diforder, if it be 
 agreeable to thy blefled will. May thofe 
 lives that are yet fpared be devoted to 
 thy fervice ; and may we, and all thy 
 fervants, be prepared for every event of 
 thy Providence ; that whether we live, 
 we may live unto the LORD; or whe- 
 ther we die, we may die unto the 
 LORD ; and whether living or dying, 
 may have an intereft in thy mercies 
 unto eternal life. Amen. 
 
 f A Prayer for Women drawing near 
 to the Time of Child-bearing. 
 
 OGOD, the Author of life, the 
 Fountain of happinefs, and the 
 gracious Preferver of thofe who do put 
 their truft in thee, mercifully regard 
 thy fervants, who are drawing near to 
 the time of child-bearing, and defire to 
 recommend themfelves to thy almighty 
 
 protec- 
 
OCCASIONAL PRAYERS, 
 
 protection: fave and deliver them in 
 the hour of pain by thy gracious aid; 
 may they be joyful mothers of living 
 and perfect children; and in due time 
 reftore them to health and ftrength ; 
 that they may enter into thy gates with 
 thankfgiving, and* into thy courts with 
 praife, be thankful unto thee, and blefs 
 thy Name. Amen. 
 
 A Prayer to be read^ when particularly 
 defired) for Perfons upon Journies^ or 
 Voyages. 
 
 ALmighty GOD, the Preferver of 
 all thy creatures, and the Con- 
 fidence of the ends of the earth, and 
 of them who are afar off upon the 
 feas; we humbly recommend to thy 
 continual protection, fuch as are abfent 
 from their friends, upon journies in 
 our own, or in foreign nations: may 
 thy gracious providence defend them 
 at all times, and in all places: preferve 
 them from the peculiar dangers to which 
 they may be expofed ; fucceed them in 
 
 [ P ] all 
 
OCCASIONAL PRAYERS. 
 
 all their lawful and honourable defigns ; 
 and return them to their habitations 
 in innocence and fafety, that they may 
 have frefh occafions to celebrate the 
 praifes of thy goodnefs with thankful 
 
 hearts. We, in a particular manner, 
 
 befeech thee in behalf of thy fervants, 
 who are going down to the fea in fhtips, 
 or are now travelling upon the great 
 ocean ; O eternal LOR D GOD, who com- 
 manded the winds, and ruleft the raging 
 of the waters, receive them under thine 
 almighty and moft gracious protection; 
 preferve them from the dangers of the 
 fea, * from the violence of the Enemy > 
 and the attempts of wicked and unrea- 
 fonable men; return them to their 
 native country in fafety, to enjoy the 
 fruits of their induftry and labour ; the 
 benefits of fociety ; and the pleafures of 
 domeftic life ; with a thankful remem- 
 brance of thy mercies, who art the only 
 Giver of all good. Amen. 
 
 OCCA- 
 
 * Only to be read in a time of war. 
 
OCCASIONAL THANKSGIVINGS. 
 
 A Thankf giving for a plentiful Harvefl. 
 
 ALmighty and ever blefled GOD, 
 who mercifully fupplieft the wants 
 of thy creatures, and art continually 
 giving teftimonies of thy gracious Pro- 
 vidence; we rejoice at this time with 
 humble thankfulnefs in the gifts of thine 
 undeferved bounty; that thou haft 
 caufed the earth to yield its increafe; 
 X hafl turned our fear city into plenty \ 
 and crowned the year with thy goodnefs : 
 whilft thou art thus fending down thy 
 bleffings upon us, may we be difpofed 
 to live in a fober, temperate, and cha- 
 ritable enjoyment of them ; and to 
 bring forth the fruits of holinefs, and 
 righteoufnefs, all the days of our lives. 
 Amen. 
 
 p 2 ] For 
 
 % Only to be read after a time of fear city. 
 
OCCASIONAL THANKSGIVINGS. 
 
 For the Ceajing of a general Sicknefs> 
 and the Reft } oration of the public 
 Health. 
 
 WE thank thee, O GOD, our hea- 
 venly Father, that of thy great 
 mercy thou haft affuaged the contagi- 
 ous ficknefs, with which our country 
 has of late been viftted; and haft in fo 
 good a meafure reftored the public 
 health: in the midft of our affli&ions 
 thou haft remembred mercy; thou haft 
 caufed the voice of joy and gladnefs to 
 be heard within our dwellings: we blefs 
 thy holy name for our prefervation ; 
 and render unto thee, the GOD of all 
 mercies, glory, and honour, thankfgiving 
 and grateful praifes now, and for ever- 
 more. Amen. 
 
 For public Peace ^ after a Time of War. 
 
 EVER gracious GOD, the Father 
 of all mankind, and the Gover- 
 nor of all the nations of the earth, we 
 give thee our unfeigned thanks, that 
 
 it 
 
OCCASIONAL THANKSGIVINGS. 
 
 it has pleafed thee to put a flop to the 
 dreadful calamities of war, and to unite 
 the contending nations in the bonds of 
 peace : we thank thee, that we have 
 been delivered from the dangers to which 
 we were expofed ; that the public liber- 
 ties of our country are preferved ; and 
 that we are ftill in poffeffion of many- 
 valuable priviledges and bleflings ; con- 
 tinue to give peace in our time, O LORD; 
 may the violent paffions of wicked men 
 be reftrained; may the unjuft deflgns 
 of tyrants be difappointed ; and may the 
 happy time come, when the nations 
 fhall learn war no more; and all man- 
 kind fhall be united in peace and love ; 
 and in the holy worfhip of thee, the 
 true GOD, as the common difciples of 
 JESUS CHRIST our LORD. Amen. 
 
 A T*hankfgiving for Recovery from 
 Sicknefs. 
 
 LORD, our heavenly Father, who 
 redeemed the lives of thy fervant 
 from deftruclion; and giveft health, and 
 
 life, 
 
OCCASIONAL THANKSGIVINGS. 
 
 life, and bleffing; accept the ftncere 
 and humble thankfgivings of thy fer- 
 vant, whom thou haft raifed from a 
 bed of ficknefs, and reftored to fome 
 good meafure of health and ftrength: 
 we praife thee for this gracious inftance 
 of thy goodnefs : may the remembrance 
 of thy late mercy to him y have a happy 
 and lafting influence upon his mind: 
 confirm and eftablifh the good refolutions 
 he has formed : and may that life, which 
 thy mercy prolongs, be devoted to thy 
 fervice, in a conftant obedience to thy 
 holy commandments. Amen. 
 
 A Thank/giving for a Perfons fafe 
 Return from a Journey^ or Voyage. 
 
 ALmighty GOD, the Preferver of 
 all thy Creatures, and the Con- 
 fidence of the ends of the earth, and 
 of thofe who are afar off upon the feas ; 
 we offer up unto thee our united thankf- 
 givings for the fignal mercies thou haft 
 vouchfafed to thy fervant, whom thou 
 haft prefer ved in his [Journey] or [Voy- 
 age :] 
 
OCCASIONAL THANKSGIVINGS. 
 
 age :] that thou haft prote&ed him from 
 every danger, to which he was expofed ; 
 and haft reftored him to his friends in 
 health, fafety, and peace. Write a law 
 of thankfulnefs upon his heart ; and 
 hereby engage him to a diligent and 
 grateful obedience of all thy command- 
 ments. Amen. 
 
 A Thank/giving for a Woman after 
 Child-bearing. 
 
 ALmighty GOD, the Father of all 
 mercies, the GOD of all confo- 
 lation ; we prefent before thee our un- 
 feigned thanks, for thy great mercy 
 vouchfafed to thy fervant, here in thy 
 prefence; whom thou haft delivered 
 from the pains and dangers of child- 
 bearing; * and made the living Mother 
 of a living and perfeEl Child. Thou 
 haft dealt gracioufly with thy fervant; 
 haft caufed her forrow to be fucceeded 
 by joy; and anguifti by refrefhment 
 and eafe : may a grateful remembrance 
 
 of 
 
 * Only to be read when the Child is living. 
 
OCCASIONAL THANKSGIVINGS. 
 
 of thy goodnefs ever enlarge her heart : 
 and may that life which thou haft fpared, 
 * and that infant Life which thou haji 
 given, be devoted to thy obedience and 
 fervice, through JESUS CHRIST our 
 LORD. Amen. 
 
 f Though the foregoing Qccafional Forms 
 are calculated for a confederable vari- 
 ety of Circumflances ; yet the Mini- 
 fier is at liberty to introduce fuch Forms 
 of his own, as he may more perfeElly 
 adapt to the circumflances of the time, 
 and his Congregation : and this he 
 may do, either by introducing them 
 in fome proper part of the Service ; 
 or in his Prayer before Sermon-, in 
 which the Society hopes to enjoy the 
 peculiar advantages of free prayer, 
 as dijlinguijhed fro7?i the advantages 
 of a precomposed form. 
 
 THE 
 
 * Only to be read when the Child is living. 
 
The 
 
 COMMANDMENTS; 
 
 f To be read the Firfl Sunday in every 
 Month, injiead of the Second LefTon, 
 in the Evening Service, the Congre- 
 gation /landing. 
 
 G 
 
 OD fpake thefe words, and faid, 
 
 I AM THE LORD, THY GOD: 
 
 Thou {halt have none other gods 
 but me. 
 
 Thou fhalt; not make to thyfelf any 
 graven image; nor the likenefs of any 
 thing which is in heaven above ; or in 
 the earth beneath ; or in the water under 
 the earth : thou {halt not bow down to 
 them, nor worftiip them; for I, the 
 LORD, thy GOD, am a jealous GOD; 
 and vifit the fins of the Fathers upon 
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THE COMMANDMENTS. 
 
 the Children, unto the third and fourth 
 generation of them who hate me; and 
 fhew mercy unto thoufands in them 
 who love me, and keep my command- 
 ments. 
 
 Thou fhalt not take the Name of 
 the LORD, thy GOD in vain: for the 
 LORD will not hold him guiltlefs, who 
 taketh his Name in vain. 
 
 Remember that thou keep holy the 
 Sabbath Day : fix days {halt thou labour 
 and do all that thou haft to do; but 
 the Seventh Day is the Sabbath of the 
 LORD, thy GOD; in it, thou fhalt do 
 no manner of work ; thou, and thy fon, 
 and thy daughter, thy man-fervant, 
 and thy maid-fervant, thy cattle, and 
 the ftranger that is within thy gates. 
 For in fix days the LORD made heaven, 
 and earth, the fea, and all that in them 
 is ; and refted the Seventh Day : where- 
 fore the LORD bleffed the Seventh Day, 
 and hallowed it. 
 
 Honour 
 
THE COMMANDMENTS. 
 
 Honour thy Father, and thy Mother; 
 that thy days may be long in the land, 
 which the LORD, thy GOD, giveth 
 thee. 
 
 Thou fhalt do no Murder. 
 
 Thou fhalt not commit Adultery. 
 
 Thou fhalt not Steal. 
 
 Thou fhalt not bear falfe Witnefs 
 againft thy Neighbour. 
 
 Thou fhalt not covet thy Neighbour's 
 Houfe ; thou fhalt not covet thy Neigh- 
 bour's Wife; nor his Man-fervant; nor 
 his Maid-fervant ; nor his Ox ; nor his 
 Afs ; nor any thing that is thy Neigh- 
 bour's. 
 
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 Hear 
 
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 THE COMMANDMENTS. 
 
 " Hear ye alfo the excellent Sum- 
 mary of the Moral Law, as delivered 
 by our Bleffed Saviour." 
 
 Thou shalt love the LORD, thy 
 
 GOD, WITH ALL THY HEART, WITH ALL 
 THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THY MIND, 
 AND WITH ALL THY STRENGTH: This 
 
 is the Firft, and Great Commandment: 
 and the Second is like unto it. 
 
 Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as 
 thyself: and whatsoever ye would 
 that men should do to you, do ye 
 even so to them. 
 
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 PSALMS 
 
 FOR 
 
 DIVINE WORSHIP. 
 
 Psalm I To GOD the Creator. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 GREAT firft of Beings! mighty LORD 
 Of all this wond'rous frame I 
 Produc'd by thy creating word, 
 The world from nothing came. 
 II. 
 Thy voice fent forth the high command; 
 
 T'was inftantly obey'd: 
 And thro' thy goodnefs all things {land, 
 Which by thy pow'r were made. 
 
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 Thy glories fhine throughout the whole, 
 Each part reflects thy light : 
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 For thee in courfe the planets roll, 
 
 And day fucceeds the night. 
 IV. 
 For thee the fun difperfes heat, 
 
 And beams of cheering day : 
 The diflant flars in order fet, 
 
 By night thy pow'r difplay. 
 V. 
 For thee the earth its produce yields ; 
 
 For thee the waters flow : 
 And various plants adorn the fields, 
 
 And trees afpiring grow. 
 VI. 
 Infpir'd with praife, our minds purfue 
 
 This wife and noble end; 
 And all we think, and all we do 
 
 Shall to thine honour tend. 
 
 Psalm II. 
 To GOD the Creator and Lord of all. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 ALMIGHTY GOD! thy powerful word 
 From nothing all things brought: 
 Earth, feas, and fides, by thee their LORD, 
 With fkill divine were wrought. 
 II. 
 By thee preferv'd the world remains 
 
 A proof of pow'r divine : 
 Whatever this great whole contains, 
 By fov'reign right is thine. 
 
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 in. 
 Sun, moon and flars thy mind fulfil ; 
 
 For thee each planet rolls : 
 Earth, Teas, and /kies obey thy will 5 
 
 Thy power the world controls. 
 IV. 
 Thou over all art LORD fupreme, 
 
 All things from thee derive : 
 No creature can difpute thy claim, 
 
 Or independant live. 
 V. 
 To thine all-gracious pow'r we bow, 
 
 Our wills to thee refign : 
 Accept the praife; accept the vow; 
 
 We wou'd be ever thine. 
 
 Psalm III. To GOT> the Creator. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 LET all the juft to GOD with joy, 
 Their chearful voices raifej 
 For well the righteous it becomes, 
 To fing glad fongs of praife. 
 II. 
 By his almighty word at firfr. 
 
 The heavenly arch was rear'd; 
 And all the beauteous hofts of light 
 At his command appear'd. 
 III. 
 The fwelling floods together roll'd, 
 He makes in heaps to lie; 
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 And lays as in a ftore-houfe fafe, 
 
 His wat'ry treafures by. 
 IV. 
 Let earth and all that dwell therein, 
 
 Before him rev'rent ftand ; 
 For when he fpake the word, t'was made, 
 
 T'was fix'd at his command. 
 V. 
 Whatever the mighty LORD decrees 
 
 Shall {land for ever fure ; 
 The fettled purpofe of his heart 
 
 To ages fliall endure. 
 VI. 
 The riches of thy mercy, LORD, 
 
 Do thou to us extend ; 
 Since we for all we want, and wilh, 
 
 On thee alone depend. 
 
 Psalm IV. To GOT) cur Creator. 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 SING to the LORD with joyful voice ; 
 Let every land his name adore; 
 The Britijb ifles fhall fend the noife 
 A-crofs the ocean to the fliore. 
 II. 
 Nations, attend before his throne 
 
 With folemn fear, with chearful joy ; 
 Know that the LORD is GOD alone, 
 He can create and he deftroy. 
 
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 III. 
 
 His fov'reign pow'r, without our aid, 
 
 Made us of clay and form'd us men ; 
 And when like wand'ring meep we ftray'd, 
 
 He brought us to his fold again. 
 IV. 
 We are his people, we his care, 
 
 Our fouls and all our mortal frame ; 
 What lading honours fliall we rear, 
 
 Almighty Maker, to thy name 1 
 V. 
 We'll croud thy gates with thankful fongs ; 
 
 High as theheav'ns our voices raife; 
 And earth with her ten thoufand tongues, 
 
 Shall fill thy courts with founding praife. 
 VI. 
 Wide as the world is thy command, 
 
 Vaft as eternity thy love : 
 Firm as a rock thy truth rauft ftand, 
 
 When rolling years mall ceafe to move. 
 
 Psalm V. To GOT) our Creator. 
 
 Long Metre. 
 I. 
 
 WITH one confent let all the earth 
 To GOD their chearful voices raife; 
 Glad homage pay with awful mirth, 
 And fing before him fongs of praife. 
 II. 
 Convinc'd that he is GOD alonje, 
 
 From whom both we and all proceed 3 
 
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 We whom he chufes for his own, 
 
 The flock whom he vouchsafes to feed. 
 III. 
 O enter then his temple gate! 
 
 Thence to his courts devoutly prefs \ 
 And ftill your grateful hymns repeat, 
 
 And ftill his name with praifes blefs. 
 IV. 
 For he's the LORD, fupremely good, 
 
 His mercy is for ever fure ; 
 His truth, which always firmly flood, 
 
 To endlefs ages ihall endure. 
 
 Psalm VI. To GOT> the Creator. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 OLORD, how excellent thy name! 
 How glorious to behold ; 
 Engraven fair on all thy works, 
 In characters of gold. 
 II. 
 On heav'ns unmeafurable face, 
 
 In lines immenfely great ; 
 In final I, on ev'ry leaf and flow'r, 
 Creator GOD is writ. 
 III. 
 Tho' reafon be not given to all, 
 
 Nor voice to thee, O fun ! 
 Their maker all proclaim, and here 
 Their language is but one. 
 
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 IV. 
 From land to land, and world to world, 
 
 Thy fame is ccho'd round ; 
 And ages, as they pafs, tranfmit 
 
 The never-dying found* 
 V. 
 Angels, theeldeft fons of light, 
 
 Began the lofty fong ; 
 They (aw the heavens expand abroad, 
 
 And earth on nothing hung. 
 VI. 
 Then man, the lad: and nobleft work, 
 
 Of all this nether frame, 
 With the flrft vital breath he drew 
 
 Confeft from whence he came. 
 VI. 
 O let us all give praife to GOD, 
 
 And magnify his name ; 
 His gracious and his mighty works 
 
 To all the world proclaim. 
 
 Psalm VII. To the Creator. 
 
 Proper Metre. 
 I. 
 
 YE tribes of Adam, join 
 With heaven and earth and feas, 
 And offer notes divine 
 To your Creator's praife : 
 Ye holy throng 
 Of angels bright, 
 In worlds of light 
 Begin the fong. 
 
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 II. 
 Thou fun with dazzling rays, 
 And moon who rul'ft the night, 
 Shine to your maker's praife, 
 Withftars of twinkling light': 
 His pow'r declare 
 Ye floods on high, 
 And clouds that fly, 
 In empty air. 
 III. 
 The fhining worlds above, 
 In glorious order (land, 
 Or in fwift courfes move, 
 By his fupreme command : 
 He fpake the word, 
 And all their frame 
 From nothing came 
 And praife the LORD. 
 IV. 
 He mov'd their mighty wheels 
 In unknown ages pall: ; 
 And each his word fulfils, 
 While time and nature laft : 
 In different ways 
 His works proclaim, 
 His wond'rous name, 
 And fpeak his praife. 
 V. 
 Let all the nations fear, 
 The GOD who rules above j 
 He brings his people near, 
 And makes them tafte his Jove* 
 
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 "While earth and iky 
 Attempt his praife; 
 His faints fliall raife 
 His honours high. 
 
 Psalm VIII. To GOT) the Creator. 
 Proper Tune. 
 
 HAIL voice divH$|[ thus the Almighty faid, 
 " Let there be light, now let a world be made :" 
 Light and a world there were; obedient rife 
 Sun, planets, ftars, earth, feas, and fpreading &ie3» 
 
 II. 
 Obedient to thy will, this teeming earth 
 To beads and worms of every kind gave birth : 
 With flocks, and herds, the plains were richly ftor'd, 
 And herbs and fruits did proper food afford. 
 
 III. 
 And laft, to finifh what thou had'ft defign'd, 
 (Of clay like theirs, but with a nobler mind) 
 Adam was made; made fov'reign of the reft> 
 And with his Maker's form divine imprefi. 
 
 IV. 
 Benignity and /kill and power divine 
 In the great whole, and ev'ry part did fliine: 
 Fair in its Maker's eye creation ftood, 
 He view'd it well, and pleas'd, pronoimc'd it gcod, 
 
 V. 
 May all thy works, O LORD, refound thy name, 
 Applaud thy Ml; thy paw*r, and love proclaim: 
 But above all below let man exert 
 Tte nobleft paffions of his grateful heart, 
 
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Psalm IX. 
 Ti GOT> the Creator of Mankind. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 GOD of our lives, vvhofe bounteous care 
 , Firft gave us pow'r to move; 
 How fliall our thankful hearts declare 
 The wonders of thy love. 
 II. 
 While void of thought and fenfe we lay, 
 
 Duft of our parent earth ; 
 Thy breath inform'd the Sleeping clay 
 And call'd us into birth. 
 III. 
 From thee our limbs their fafhion took, 
 
 And e'er our life began ; 
 Within the volume of thy book, 
 Were written ev'ry one. 
 IV. 
 Thine eye beheld in perfect view 
 
 The yet unfinifh'd plan ; 
 Th' imperfect lines thy pencil drew, 
 And form'd the future man. 
 V. 
 O may this frame, which riflng grew 
 
 Beneath thy forming hands 5 
 Be ftudious ever to purfue, 
 Whate'er thy will commands, 
 
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 Psalm X. 
 To GOT> the Creator of Mankind. 
 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 TW AS from thy hand, my GOD, I came, 
 A work of fuch a curious frame : 
 In me thy various wonders fhine, 
 And each proclaims thy ikill divine. 
 
 II. 
 Thine eyes did all my limbs furvey, 
 Which yet in dark confufion lay : 
 Thou faw'it the daily growth they took, 
 Form'd by the model of thy book. 
 
 III. 
 By thee my growing parts were nam'd ; 
 And what thy fov'reign counfel^, fram'd, 
 (The breathing lungs, the beating heart,) 
 Was copy'd with unerring art. 
 
 IV. 
 At lad to fliow my Maker's name, 
 He ftamp'd his image on my frame; 
 And in fome unknown minute join'd 
 The fmiili'd members to a mind. 
 
 V. 
 There the young feeds of thought began* 
 And all the paflions of the man: 
 Great GOD, our wond'rous nature pays 
 Immortal tribute to thy praife. 
 
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 Psalm XL 
 
 T'he Wifdom of GOD in the formation of 
 Man. 
 
 Commpn Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 WHEN I with pleafing wonder fland 
 And all my frame furvey, 
 LORD, 'tis thy work ; I own the hand 
 That built my humble clay. 
 II. 
 Thy hand my heart and reins poflefl, 
 
 Where unborn nature grew: 
 Thy wifdom all my features trac'd, 
 And all my members drew. 
 III. 
 Thine eye with niceft care furvey'd, 
 
 The growth of ev'ry part ; 
 Till the whole fcheme thy thoughts had laid, 
 Was copy'd by thy art. 
 IV. 
 Heav'n, earth, and fea, and fire and wind 
 
 Declare thy wond'rous ikill : 
 But we review ourfelves, and find 
 Divine wonders ftill. 
 V. 
 (Joodnefs and wifdom round melhine, 
 
 My form proclaims thy praife : 
 Ami with my tongue my foul fliall join 
 To celebrate thy praife. 
 
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 Psalm XII. 
 GOT) cur Father and Friend, 
 Proper Tune. 
 
 I. 
 
 THE LORD JEHOVAH reigns, 
 His throne is built on high ; 
 The garments he aflumes 
 Are light and majefty: 
 
 His glories fhine 
 
 With beams fo bright) 
 
 No mortal eye 
 
 Can bear the fight. 
 II. 
 The thunders of his hand 
 Keep the wide world in awe ; 
 His truth and juftice (land 
 To guard his holy law : 
 
 And where his love 
 
 Refolves to blefs, 
 
 His truth confirms, 
 
 And feals the grace. 
 III. 
 And will this gracious king 
 Of glory condefcend ? 
 "Will he declare himfelf, 
 4t My father and my friend ; " 
 
 I love his name, 
 
 I love his word ; 
 
 Join all my pow'rs, 
 
 And praife the LORD* 
 
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 Psalm XIII. 
 Confidence in GOT> our Father. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 T. 
 
 OGOD, on thee we all depend, 
 On thy paternal care : 
 Thou wilt the father and the friend 
 In ev'ry act appear. 
 II. 
 "With open hand and lib'ral heart, 
 
 Thou wilt our wants fupply : 
 Thy heav'nly bleffings ftill impart, 
 And no good thing deny. 
 III. 
 Our father knows what's good and fit, 
 
 And wifdom guides his love : 
 To thine appointments we fubmit, 
 And ev'ry choice approve. 
 IV. 
 In thy paternal love and care, 
 
 With chearful heart we truft ; 
 Thy tender mercies boundlefs are, 
 And all thy thoughts are juft. 
 V. 
 We cannot want while GOD provides, 
 
 What he allots is bed: 
 And heav'n, whate'er we want befldes, 
 Will give eternal reft: 
 
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 Psal>i XIV. To GOT) the Preferver. 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 " HE earth, and all the heav'nly frame, 
 -* Their great Creator's love proclaim : 
 He gives the fun his genial pow'r, 
 And fends the foft refrefliing fhow'r. 
 IL 
 The ground with plenty blooms again, 
 
 And yeilds her various fruits to men : 
 To men, who from thy bounteous hand, 
 Receive the gifts of every land, 
 III. 
 Nor to the human race alone, 
 
 Is his paternal goodnefs fhown ; 
 The tribes of earth and fea and air 
 Enjoy his univerfal care. 
 IV. 
 Not ev'n a fparrow yeilds it's breath, 
 
 Till GOD permits the ftroke of death : 
 He hears the ravens when they call, 
 The father, and the friend of all. 
 
 Psalm XV. Ti GOT> our Pre/erven 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 Great god ! to thee, our-grateful tongues.. 
 United thanks (hall raife : 
 Infpire our hearts to tune the fongs, 
 Which celebrate thy praife. 
 
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 II. 
 From thine almighty forming hand, 
 
 We drew our vital pow'rs : 
 Our time revolves at thy command 
 
 In all it's circling hours. 
 III. 
 Thy pow'r, our ever-prcfent guard, 
 
 From ev'ry ill defends : 
 "While num'rous dangers hover round, 
 Onr help from thee defcends. 
 
 IV. 
 Beneath the fhadow of thy wings 
 
 How fweet is our repofe : 
 The morning light renews the fprings, 
 
 From whence our comfort flows. 
 V. 
 In celebration of thy praife, 
 
 We would employ our breath : 
 And walking fteadfaft in thy ways,- 
 
 Will triumph e'en in death. 
 
 Psalm XVL 
 
 HOT) our Shepherd and Guardian. 
 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 AS the good fhepherd gently , leads, 
 His wand'ring flocks to verdant meads, 
 Where peaceful rivers foft and flow, 
 (Unidft the plcafing landscapes flow : 
 
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 IT. 
 So GOD, the guardian of our fouls, 
 Our wandYmg foot-fteps all controls: 
 When loft in fins perplexing maze, 
 He leads us back to wifdom's ways. 
 
 IN. 
 Tho' we muft journey through the plains, 
 Where death with all it's horror reigns; 
 Our lieadfaft heart no ill ftiall fear, 
 For thou, O LORD, art with us there. 
 
 IV. 
 By thee with peace and plenty bleft, 
 Our lives are one perpetual feaft: 
 Thine ever-watchful providence 
 Is our fupport and our defence. 
 
 V, 
 O bounteous GOD, our future days 
 Shall be devoted to thy praife; 
 And in thy houfe, thy facred name 
 And endlefs love fhall be our theme. 
 
 Psalm XVII. GOT) our Shepherd. 
 Long Metre. 
 
 i. 
 
 OU R fliepherd is the living LORD ; 
 Now fhall our wants be well fupply'd 
 His providence and holy word 
 Become our fafety and our guide. 
 
 II. 
 In paftures where falvation grows, 
 He makes us feed, he makes us reft r 
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 There living water gently flows, 
 And all the food's divinely bleft. 
 
 III. 
 Our wand'ring feet his ways miftake, 
 But he reftores our fouls to peace ; 
 And leads us for his mercy's fake 
 In the fair paths of righteoufnefs, 
 
 IV. 
 Tho' we walk thro' the gloomy vale, 
 Where death and all it's terrors are ; 
 Our heart and hope fhall never fail, 
 For GOD our fhepherd's with us there. 
 
 V. 
 Amidft the darkefl fcenes of grief 
 Thou art our comfort, thou our ftay : 
 Thy ftaff affords a kind relief, 
 Thy rod directs our doubtful way, 
 
 VI. 
 Surely the mercies of the LORD 
 Attend his children all their days : 
 Here will we dwell to hear his word, 
 To feek his face, and fing his praife. 
 
 Psalm XVIII. GOD our Shepherd. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 THE LORD himfelf, the mighty LORD 
 Vouchfafes to be our guide : 
 With more than fhepherd's tender car# 
 Our wants are all fupply'd| 
 
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 II. 
 His gooJnefs leads us to the place 
 
 Where heav'nly pafture grows : 
 Where living waters gently pals, 
 
 And full falvation flows. 
 III. 
 Tho' we too often go aftray, 
 
 He doth us ftill refrore; 
 And guides us in his own right way; 
 
 O may we fin no more. ! 
 IV. 
 While thus our GOD affords his aid, 
 
 We cannot yield to fear : 
 Tho' we ihould walk through death's dark lhade, 
 
 Our fhepherd's with us there. 
 
 Psalm XIX. to GOT> our Preferver, 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 TO heaven my grateful foul afcends, 
 On GOD alone for help depends : 
 His prefence my continual guard; 
 His grace the fource of my reward. 
 
 II. 
 The fpreading fldes by power divine, 
 In all their radiant glories fliine : 
 from his command, the /olid earth 
 And all it's flores, deriv'd their bit A. 
 
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 III. 
 
 Infpe&cd by all-piercing eyes, 
 No threatening fnares my foul furprife: 
 My trembling feet he fafely keeps ; 
 My faithful fhepherd never ileeps. 
 
 IV. 
 My foul, thy keeper is the LORD ; 
 How great his pow'r ! how fore his word ! 
 He fpreads a fhade on my right hand, 
 And will a fafe retreat command. 
 
 V. ' 
 Prote£ted by his guardian arm, 
 Should dreadful fcenes our fouls alarm; 
 Our lives are fafe : his heav'nly care 
 Defends us ftill from ev'ry fnare. 
 
 VI. 
 He guides our feet, he guards our way ; 
 His morning fmiles blefs all the day: 
 By him our/nortal lives are bleft; 
 His favour crowns with endlefs reft. 
 
 Psalm XX. 
 
 T>epcndanee on GOT) and hope in his 
 Goodnefs. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 My ^iOD, my everlafting hope, 
 J li ve upon thy truth: 
 
 Thine ■ hai; ds have nT ' ld m ^ dlildhood U P> 
 Andftren^'^^^y ^; 
 
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 n. 
 
 My flefh was famion'd by thy ppw'r 
 
 With all thefe limbs of mine : 
 And from my mother's painful hour, 
 
 I've been entirely thine. 
 III. 
 Still has my life new wonders feen 
 
 With each returning year : 
 Behold my days which yet remain, 
 
 I truft them to thy care. 
 IV. 
 Caft me not off when ftrength declines, 
 
 When hoary hairs arife : 
 And round me let thy goodnefs fhine, 
 
 When e'er thy fervant dies. 
 V. 
 Then in the hift'ry of my age, 
 
 When men review my days ; 
 They'll read thy love in ev'ry page, 
 
 In ev'ry line thy praife. 
 
 Psalm XXL 
 GOT) our all-fufficient dependance. 
 
 As the 113 Psalm. 
 
 I. 
 
 OH APPY nation, where the LORD 
 Reveals the treafure of his word, 
 And builds his church, his earthly throne. 
 His eye the heathen world furveys, 
 He form'd their hearts, he knows their ways, 
 But GOD their maker is unknown. 
 
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 II. 
 
 Let kings rely upon their hoft; 
 
 And of his ftrength the champion boaft 3 
 
 In vain they boaft, in vain rely: 
 In vain we trufl the brutal force, 
 The fpeed or courage of a horfe, 
 
 To guard his rider, or to fly. 
 III. 
 Thy providence, almighty LORD, 
 Poth more fecure defence afford 
 
 When death* or dangers threat'ning (land 
 Thy watchful eye preferves the juft, 
 Who make thy name their fear and trufr, 
 
 When wars, or famine wafte the land. 
 IV. 
 In ficknefs, or the bloody field, 
 Thou our phyfician, thou our fhield ; 
 
 Send us falvation from thy throne : 
 We wait to fee thy goodnefs ihine ; 
 Let us rejoice in help divine ; 
 O GOD, in thee we hope alone. 
 
 Psalm XXII. 
 Prefervation of Life from GOT). 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 LORD, unto thee we lift our eyes, 
 On thee our hopes are laid : 
 Thou who didft build the earth and ikies, 
 Art our fufficient aid : 
 
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 11. 
 feOD guides our feet, and guards our way. 
 
 With an almighty arm : 
 Preferves us fafe, both night and day, 
 From all definitive harm. 
 III. 
 it tho' thy providence fhould call 
 Where death difplays it's pow'r ; 
 Short of our lives the mafts mall fall. 
 Till GOD appoints the hour. 
 
 Psalm XXIII. 
 GOT>'s Defence our Security, 
 
 As the 113th Psalm. 
 
 I. 
 
 HE who has GOD his guardian mafc 
 Shall under his almighty fhade 
 Secure and undifturb'd abide : 
 This man with joy divine may fay, 
 He is my fortrefs and my ftay ; 
 
 Who always hath my wants fupply'cL 
 II. 
 For all whofe well-placM confidence 
 Have made the LORD their fure defence^ 
 
 May reft upon his promifes : 
 Either no ill fhali them o'ertake ; 
 Or elfe their very fuff'rings make 
 
 Their hearts and lives preparM for blifs; 
 
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 Psalm XXIV. 
 
 GOT) the Preferver to be adored. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 THY works of glory, mighty LORD: 
 Thy wonders in the deeps, 
 The fons of courage fhall record, 
 Who trade in floating fhips. 
 II. 
 At thy command the winds arife, 
 And fwell the tow'ring waves : 
 The men aftoniih'd mount the ikies, 
 And fink in op'ning graves. 
 III. 
 Then to the LORD they raife their cries; 
 
 He hears the loud requeft; 
 
 And orders filence thro' the ikies, 
 
 And lays the floods to reft. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Sailors rejoice to lofe their fears, 
 
 And fee the ftorm allay'd: 
 Now to their eyes the port appears, 
 There let their vows be paid. 
 V. 
 'Tis GOD that brings them fafe ts land ) 
 
 Let thdughtlefs mortals know, 
 That waves are under his command, 
 And all the winds that blow. 
 
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 VI. 
 
 O that the fons of men would praife 
 
 The goodnefs of the LORD! 
 And thofe who fee thy wond'rous ways, 
 
 Thy wond'roiis love record. 
 
 Psalm XXV. 
 
 Preferring Goodnefs acknowledged. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 HOW are thy fervants Weft, O LORD ! 
 How fure is their defence 1 
 Eternal wifdom is their guide, 
 Their help omnipotence. 
 II. 
 In foreign realms, and lands remote, 
 
 Supported by thy care ; 
 Through burning clirnes I pafs'd unhurt, 
 And breath'd in tainted air. 
 
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 Thy mercy fweeien'd evVy foil, 
 
 Made ev'ry region pleafe; 
 The hoary frozen hills it warm'd, 
 
 And fmooth'd the bcift'rous feas. 
 IV. 
 Think, O my foul, devoutly think, 
 
 How with affrighted eyes, 
 Thou faw'ft the wide extended deep, 
 
 In all its horrors rife ! 
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 v. 
 
 Confufion dwelt in ev'ry face, 
 
 And fear in ev'ry heart ; 
 When waves on waves, and gulphs on gulphs, 
 
 O'ercame the pilot's art. 
 VI. 
 Yet then from all ray griefs, O LORD, 
 
 Thy mercy fet mc free ; 
 Whilft in the confidence of pray'r 
 
 My foul took hold on thee. 
 VII. 
 .For though in dreadful whirles we hung 3 
 
 High on the broken wave ; 
 I knew thou wer't not flow to hear, 
 
 Nor impotent to fave. 
 VIII. 
 The ftorm was laid, the winds retir'd, 
 
 Obedient to thy will : 
 The fea that roar'd at thy command, 
 
 At thy command was ftill. 
 IX. 
 In midft of dangers, fears, and death, 
 
 Thy goodnefs I'll adore ; 
 And praife thee for thy mercies paft, 
 
 And humbly hope for more. 
 X. 
 My life, whilft thou preferv'ft my life, 
 
 Thy facrifice fhall be ; 
 And death, when death fhall be my doom, 
 
 Shall join my foul to thee» 
 
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 Psalm XXVI. 
 
 To the ONE GOT), 
 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 ETERNAL GOD, almighty caufe 
 Of earth, and Teas, and worlds unknown ! 
 The work! fubmits to all thy laws, 
 Depends entire on thee alone. 
 
 II. 
 Thy gorious being fingly {lands, 
 Of all within it felf poflefl : 
 Controul'd by none are thy commands ; 
 And in thy felf completely bled. 
 
 III. 
 To thee alone ourfelves we owe; 
 Letheav'n and earth the homage pay: 
 All other Gods we difavow, 
 Deny their claims, renounce their fway. 
 
 IV. 
 In thee alone we feek for blifs, 
 Thou great original of love ; 
 There all our wealth and treafure is ; 
 The world would infufficient prove. 
 
 V. 
 Spread thy great name thro' Gentile, lanis, 
 Their idol deities dethrone : 
 Reduce the world to thy command, 
 And reign, at thou art GOD, alone. 
 
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 Psalm XXVII. GOT> Eternal. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 RISE, rife, my foul, and leave the groun 
 Stretch all thy thoughts abroad: 
 And raife up ev'ry tuneful found, 
 To praife the eternal GOD. 
 II. 
 His boundlefs years can ne'er decreafe, 
 
 But ftill maintain their prime : 
 Eternity's his dwelling place, 
 And ever is his time. 
 III. 
 Whilft like a tide our minutes flow, 
 
 The prefcnt and the pad; 
 He fills his own immortal now, 
 And fees our ages wafte. 
 IV. 
 The feas and ikies mud perifli too, 
 
 A nd vail deftrucYion come : 
 And all things as they older grow, 
 Approach their final doom. 
 V. 
 But tho' the fea fhrink all away, 
 
 And flames melt down the ikies ; 
 Our GOD fhali live in endlefs day. 
 When this creation dies. 
 
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 Psalm XXVIII. 
 
 X}0 < D y s eternal "Dominion. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 C^ REAT GOD! how infinite art thou ! 
 T Imperfect mortals we! 
 Let the whole race of creatures bow, 
 And give their praife to thee. 
 II. 
 Thy throne eternal ages flood, 
 
 E'er earth or heavens were made ; 
 Thou art the ever living GOD, 
 Were all the nations dead. 
 IIL 
 Nature and time unveiled lie 
 To thine immenfe furvey ; 
 From the formation of the iky, 
 To the great final day. 
 IV. 
 Our lives thro' various fcenes are drawn, 
 
 And vex'd with. trifling cares: 
 But thine eternal thought moves on 
 Thine undifturb'd affairs. 
 V. 
 Great GOD! how infinite art thou! 
 
 Imperfeft mortals we! 
 Let the whole race of creatures bowf 
 And pay their praife to thee. 
 
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 Psalm XXIX. 
 
 GOD eternal, and Man mortal. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 OGOD our help in ages paft, 
 Our hope for years to cornel 
 Our lhelter from the ftromy blaft, 
 And our eternal home. 
 II. 
 Before the hills in order flood, 
 Or earth receiv'd her frame ! 
 From everlafting thou art GOD, 
 To endlefs years the fame. 
 III. 
 Thy word commands our flefh to duft, 
 
 "Return ye fons of men" 
 All nations rofe from earth at firft, 
 And turn to earth again, 
 IV. 
 Time like an overflowing dream 
 
 Bears all its fons away : 
 They fly, forgotten, as a dream 
 Dies at the op'ning day. 
 V. 
 O GOD our help in ages pad, 
 Our hope for days to come, 
 Our inciter from the ftormy blaft, 
 And our eternal home. 
 
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 Psalm XXX. GOT) Omniprefent. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 IN all my vaft concerns with thee, 
 In vain my foul wou'd try, 
 To fhun thy prefence, LORD, or flee 
 The notice of thine eye. 
 II. 
 Thine all-furrounding fight furveys 
 
 My rifing and my reft ; 
 My public walks, my private ways, 
 And fecrets of my bread. 
 III. 
 My thoughts lie open to the Lord 
 Before they're form'd within ; 
 And e're my lips pronounce the word, 
 He knows the fenfe I mean. 
 IV. 
 O wond'rous knowledge, deep and high! 
 
 Where can a creature hide ? 
 Within thy circling arms I lie, 
 Befet on every fide. 
 V. 
 If wing'd with beams of morning-light 
 
 I fly beyond the weft, 
 Thy hands, which muft fupport my flight, 
 Would foon betray my reft. 
 VI. 
 If o'er my fins I think to draw, 
 The curtains of the night. 
 
3 2 PSALM S. 
 
 Thofe flaming eyes that guard thy law" 
 Wou'd turn the /hades to light. 
 VII. 
 
 The beams of noon, the midnight-hour, 
 Are both alike to thee; 
 
 O may I ne'er provoke that pow'r, 
 From which I cannot flee ! 
 
 Psalm XXXI. The All-fee'ing G07>\ 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 LORD, thou haft fearch'd and feen me thro';. 
 Thine eye commands with piercing view 
 My rifing and my refting hours ; 
 My heart and flefh with all their powers. 
 
 II. 
 My thoughts, before they are my own, 
 Are to my GOD diftin&ly known : 
 He knows the words I mean to fpeak, 
 E'er from my op'ning lips they break. 
 
 III. 
 Within thy circling power I ftand; 
 On every fide I find thy hand : 
 Awake, afleep, at home, abroad, 
 I am furrounded ftill with GOD. 
 
 IV. 
 Amazing knowledge, vaft and great! 
 What large extent! what lofty height! 
 My foul with all the pow'rs I boaft. 
 Is in the boundlefs profpedl loft. 
 
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 V. 
 
 O may thefe thoughts poffefs my breaft, 
 JVhere-fer I rove, wkere-e'er I reft ! 
 JSlor let my weaker pajjions dare 
 Confent to fin, for GOV is there. 
 
 Pause I. 
 VI. 
 
 Could I fo falfe, fo faithlcfs prove, 
 To quit thy fervice and thy love, 
 Where, LORD, could I thy prefence fhun, 
 Or from thy dreadful glory ran ? 
 
 VII. 
 If up to heaven I take my flight, 
 'Tis there thou dwcll'ft enthron'd in light f 
 Or dive to hell, there vengeance reigns, 
 And Satan groans beneath thy chains. 
 
 VIII. 
 If mounted on a morning-ray 
 I fly beyond the weft em fea, 
 Thy fwifter hand would firft arrive, 
 And there arreft thy fugitive. 
 
 IX. 
 Or ihould I try to fhun thy fight 
 Beneath the fpreading veil of night, 
 One glance of thine, one piercing ray, 
 WouM kindle darknefs into day. 
 
 X. 
 O may thefe thoughts poffefs my breaft, 
 JVhere-e\r Irove, where-e^er I reft ! 
 Nor let my weaker pajjions dare 
 Confent to Jin, for GOT) is there, 
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 Pause II. 
 
 XI. 
 The veil of night is no difguife, 
 No fcrcen from thy all-fearching eyes; 
 Thy hand can feize thy foes as foon 
 Thro' midnight-ihades as blazing noon. 
 
 XII. 
 Midnight and noon in this agree, 
 Great GOD, they're both alike to thee; 
 No death can hide what GOD will fpy, 
 And hell lies naked to his eye. 
 
 XIII. 
 O may thefe thoughts pojfefs my breaft, 
 JVhere-fer I rove,, where-e'er I refl ! 
 Nor lat my weaker paffions dare 
 Confeni "to fin, for GOT> is there. 
 
 Psalm XXXII. 
 The Power of GOT>. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 > HP WAS GOD who fix'd the rolling fpheres, 
 
 51 And flretch'd the bound lefs ikies; 
 Who form'd the plan of endlefs years, 
 
 And bade the ages rife. 
 If. 
 From everlafting is his might; 
 
 Iramfcirfe and unconfln'd : 
 He pierces thro' the realms of light, 
 
 And rides upon the wind. 
 
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 in. 
 He darts along the burning ikies, 
 
 Loud thunders round him roar: 
 All heaven attends him as he flies, 
 
 All hell proclaims his power. 
 IV. 
 He fpeaks ; great nature's wheels Hand ftill, 
 
 And leave their wonted round : 
 The mountains melt; each trembling hill 
 
 Forfakes its antient bound. 
 V. 
 He fcatters nations with his breath ; 
 
 The fcatter'd nations fly : 
 Blue peftilence, and fpreading death 
 
 Confefs the godhead nigh. 
 VI. 
 Ye worlds, and every living thing, 
 
 Fulfil his high command; 
 Pay duteous homage to your King 
 
 And own his ruling hand. 
 
 Psalm XXXIII. 
 The Power of GOT>. 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 OCOME loud anthems let us flng, 
 Loud thanks to our almighty king; 
 High let us raifeour grateful voice, 
 When in JEHOVAH we rejoice, 
 Fz 
 
3 6 PSALMS 
 
 n. 
 The LORD, our GOD, inthron'd in (late, 
 Is with unrivall'd glory great; 
 A King fuperior far to all, 
 Whom Gods the heathen falfely call. 
 
 III. 
 The depths of earth are in his hand, 
 Her fecret (lores at his command : 
 The ftrength of hills which threat the fkies, 
 Subject to his great empire lies. 
 
 IV. 
 The rolling ocean's vaft abyfs, 
 By the fame fov'reign right is his ; 
 'Tis mov'd by his almighty hand, 
 Who form'd and fix'd the folid land. 
 
 V. 
 In thee the fov'reign right remains 
 Of all that earth or heaven contains; 
 Angels and men thee LORD alone, 
 King, maker, and prefcrvcr own. 
 
 VI. 
 Thine arm is mighty, (Irong thy hand, 
 Poflefs'd of abfolute command: 
 Yet, LORD, thou doft with juftice reign, 
 And truth and mercy (till maintain. 
 
 Psalm XXXIV. 
 
 The Majejly and Pozver cf GOT), 
 
 Long Metre. 
 I. 
 
 YE fons of men, in facred lays 
 Attempt your great Creator's praife; 
 
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 But O what tongue can fpeak his fame ; 
 What mortal verfe can reach the theme 1 
 
 II. 
 Enthron'd amidfl the radiant fpheres, 
 He glory like a garment wears: 
 And boundlefs wifdom, power, and grace, 
 Command our awe, invite our praife. . 
 
 III. 
 To GOD all nature owes its birth, 
 He form'd this pond'rous globe of earth j 
 He rais'd the glorious arch on high, 
 And meafur'd out the azure fky. 
 
 IV. 
 In all our maker's vaft deflgns, 
 Omnipotence with wifdom fliines: 
 His works thro' all this wond'rous frame, 
 Bare the great imprefs of his name. 
 
 V. 
 Rais'd on devotions lofty wing, 
 Our fouls his high perfections fing ; 
 O let his praife employ our tongues, 
 And lift'ning worlds approve the fongs. 
 
 Psalm XXXV. 
 
 The Power and Maje/ly of GOT). 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 WITH rev'rence let the faints appear, 
 And bow before the LORD ; 
 His high commands with rev'rence hear, 
 And liften to his word. 
 
3 8 PSALMS 
 
 II. 
 
 How wonderful thy glories are! 
 
 How bright thine armies fhine! 
 Thy pow'r is ; great beyond compare, 
 
 No truth fo firm as thine. 
 III. 
 The northern pole, and Touthern reft 
 
 On thy fupporting hand : 
 Darknefs and day, from eafl to weft, 
 
 Move round at thy command. 
 IV. 
 Thy words the raging winds controul, 
 
 And rule the boift'rous deep: 
 Thou mak'ft the fleeping billows roll, 
 
 The rolling billows fleep. 
 V. 
 Heav'n, earth, and air, and fea are thine, 
 
 And the dark world of hell: 
 How can thine arm in vengeance fhine 
 
 When mortals dare rebel ! 
 IV. 
 Juftice and judgment are thy throne ; 
 
 Yet wond'rous is thy grace : 
 And truth and mercy join'd in one, 
 
 Invite us near thy face. 
 
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 Psalm XXXVI. 
 The Pozuer of GOT) in his Works. 
 Proper Metre. 
 I. 
 
 ARISE my foul, on wings devout arife, 
 To praifeth' almighty fov'reign of the ikies; 
 In whom alone nnfpotted glory fhines, 
 Which not the heav'ns, nor bound lefs fpace confines. 
 
 II. 
 He fpread the firmament from pole to pole; 
 And hca'venly light d.rfus'd throughout the whole : 
 Of liquid air he bad the columns rife, 
 Which prop the ftarry concave of the fkies. 
 
 III. 
 His word in air this pondVous earth fuftain'd, 
 " Be fixt," he faid — and fixt the earth remain'd : 
 Heav'n, airandfea, tho' all their ftorms combine, 
 Shake not its bafe, nor break the law divine. 
 
 IV. 
 He bade the changing moon adorn the night, 
 Revolve her circle and increafe her light : 
 Aifign'd a province to each rolling fphere, 
 And taught the fun to regulate the year. 
 
 V. 
 Thou from the realms of everlafting day, 
 See'ft all thy works at one immenfe furvey; 
 Pleas'd at one view the whole to comprehend, 
 Part joind to part, concurring to one end. 
 
 VI. 
 Hail fov'reign goodnefs ! all creating mind! 
 On all thy works thyfelf inferib'd we find: 
 How various all, how variously indu'dl 
 How great their number, and each part how good! 
 
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 Psalm XXXVII. 
 The Greatnefs and MajeJIy of GOT>. 
 
 As the 113 Psalm. 
 
 T. 
 
 YE holy fouls in GOD rejoice, 
 Your maker's praife becomes your voice ; 
 Great is your theme, your fongs be new \ 
 Sing of his name, his works and ways, 
 His works of nature and of grace, 
 How wife and holy, juft and true ! 
 II. 
 Juftice and truth he ever loves, 
 And the whole earth his goodnefs proves; 
 His word the heavenly arches fpread 3 
 Far as they fhine from north to fouth : 
 And by the fpirit of his mouth, 
 Were all the fhining armies made. 
 III. 
 He gathers the wide flowing feas ; 
 Thofe wat'ry treafures know their placcy 
 
 In the vafl ftore-houfe of the deep; 
 He fpake and gave all nature birth ; 
 And fires, and feas, and heaven and earth, 
 His everlafting orders keep. 
 IV- 
 Mortals be humble, and adore 
 A GOD of fuch refiftlefs pow'r; 
 
 Nor dare indulge your feeble rage, 
 Vain are your thoughts and weak your hands 
 But his eternal counfel (lands, 
 
 And rules the world from age to age. 
 
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 Psalm XXXVIII. 
 GOT>'s univerfaJ 'Dominion, 
 Short Metre. 
 
 T. 
 I^HE LORD, the fov'reign king, 
 
 Hath fix'd his throne on high; 
 O'er all the hcav'nly world he rules, 
 And all beneath the iky. 
 II. 
 Ye angels, great in might, 
 And fvvirt to do his will, 
 Blefs ye, the LORD, whofe voice ye hear, 
 Whole pleafure ye fulfil. 
 III. 
 Let the bright hofts, who wait 
 
 The orders of their king, 
 And guard his churches when they pray. 
 Join in the praife they fing. 
 IV. 
 While all his wond'rous works, 
 
 Thro' his vaft kingdoms fhow 
 Their Maker's glory, thou my foul 
 Shalt fing his praifes too. 
 
 Psalm XXXIX. 
 The eternal and /over eign GOT), 
 Long Metre. 
 I. 
 
 J JEHOVAH reigns: he dwells in light, 
 Girded withmajefty and might: 
 The world, created by his hands, 
 Still on its firft foundation {lands. 
 G 
 
42 P S A L M S. 
 
 H. 
 
 But e'er this fpacious world was made, 
 Or had its full foundations laid, 
 Thy throne eternal ages flood, 
 Thyfelf the ever-living GOD 
 
 III. . 
 Like floods the angry nations rife, 
 And aim their rage againft the ikies; 
 Vain floods that aim their rage fo high! 
 At thy rebuke the billows die. 
 
 IV. 
 For ever (hall thy throne endure; 
 Thy promife (lands for ever fure; 
 And everlailing holinefs 
 Becomes the dwellings cf thy grace. 
 
 Psalm XL. 
 The Majefly and Condefcenfion of GOT)* 
 As the 113th Psalm. 
 
 I. 
 
 YE that delight to ferve the LORD, 
 The honours of his name record, 
 His (acred name for ever blefs: 
 Where-e'er the circling fun difplays 
 His rifing beams, or letting rays, 
 Let lands and fcas his pow'r confefs. 
 II. 
 Not time, nor nature's narrow rounds, 
 Can give his vaft dominion bounds; 
 The heav'ns are far below his height : 
 
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 Let no created greatnefs dare 
 With our eternal GOD compare, 
 Arm'd with his uncreated might. 
 III. 
 He bows his glorious head to view 
 What the bright hods of angels do, 
 
 And bends his care to mortal things \ 
 His fov'reign hand exalts the poor, 
 He takes the needy from the door, 
 And makes them company for kings, 
 
 Psalm XLI. 
 GOT) the unlverfal Sovereign., 
 As the 113th Psalm. 
 
 I. 
 
 LET all the earth their voices raife 
 To iing the choicer! pfalm of praife, 
 
 To dng and blefs Jehovah's name: 
 His glory let the heathens know, 
 His wonders to the nations (how, 
 And all his faying works proclaim. 
 II. 
 The heathens know thy glory, LORD ; 
 The wondYing nations read thy word, 
 
 In Britain is Jehovah known: 
 Our worlhip fhall no more be paid 
 To Gods which mortal hands have made; 
 Our Maker is our GOD alone. 
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44 PSALMS 
 
 III. 
 He fram'd the globe, he built the iky, 
 He made the fhining worlds on high, 
 
 And reigns compleat in glory there: 
 His beams are majefty and light; 
 His beauties how divinely bright I 
 
 His temple how divinely fair ! 
 IV. 
 Come the great day, the glorious hour, 
 When earth fhall feel his faving pow'r, 
 
 And barb'rous nations fear his name: 
 Then fhall the race of men confefs 
 The beauty of his holinefs, 
 
 And in his courts his grace proclaim. 
 
 Psalm XLIL 
 
 The JVifdom of GOT) in his Works. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 I. 
 ONGS of immortal praife belong, 
 
 s 
 
 To our almighty GOD; 
 He has our heart, and he our tongue, 
 To fpread his name abroad. 
 II. 
 How great the works his hand has wrought ! 
 
 How glorious in our fight! 
 And men in ev'ry age have fought 
 His wonders with delight. 
 III. 
 How mod exaft is nature's frame! 
 How wife th' eternal mind ! 
 
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 His counfels never change the fcheme 
 
 That his firft thoughts defign'd. 
 IV. 
 When he redeem'd his chofen fons, 
 
 He fix'd his cov'nant fure: 
 The orders that his lips pronounce 
 
 To endlefs years endure. 
 V. 
 Nature and time, and earth and lldes; 
 
 Thy heav'nly (kill proclaim : 
 What fhall we do to make us wife, 
 
 But learn to read thy name ? 
 VI. 
 To fear thy pow'r, to truft thy grace, 
 
 Is our divineft /kill ; 
 And he's the wifeil of our race 
 
 That bed obeys thy will. 
 
 Psalm XLIII. 
 
 The mjdom of GOT> in his Works. 
 
 As the 113 Psalm. 
 I. 
 
 GREAT GOD, the heav'ns well order'd frame 
 Declares the glories of thy name; 
 There thy rich works of wonder ihine : 
 A thoufand ftarry beauties there, 
 A thoufand radiant marks appear 
 Of boundlefs pow'r and ikill divine. 
 II. 
 From night to day, from day to night 
 The dawning and the dying light 
 
46 PSALMS 
 
 Le&ures of heavenly vvifdom read : 
 With filent eloquence they raife 
 Our thoughts to the Creator's praife, 
 
 And neither found or language need. 
 III. 
 Yet their divine inftruftions run 
 Far as the journeys of the fun, 
 
 And every nation knows their voice : 
 While he, like fome young bridegroom dreft, 
 Breaks from the chambers of the eaft, 
 
 Shines round, and makes the earth rejoice. 
 
 Psalm XLIV. 
 'The divine Goodnefs. 
 • Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 WHEN all thy mercies, O our GOD, 
 Our rifing foul furveys, 
 Tranfported with the view, we're loft 
 In wonder, love and praife. 
 II. 
 Thy providence our lives fuflain'd, 
 
 And all our wants redreif, 
 When in the filent womb we lay, 
 Or hung upon the bread. 
 IV. 
 To all our weak complaints and cries 
 
 Thy mercy lent an ear, 
 E'er yet our feeble thoughts had learnt 
 To form themfelves in pray'r. 
 
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 PRAISE. 47 
 
 IV. 
 Unnumber'd comforts on our fouls 
 
 Thy tender care beftow'd ; 
 Before our infant hearts conceiv'd 
 From whence thofe comforts flow'd. 
 V. 
 When in the flipp'ry paths of youth, 
 
 With heediefs fteps we ran, 
 Thine arm unfeen convey'd us fafe, 
 And lead us up toman. 
 VI. 
 Thro' hidden dangers, toils and death, 
 
 It gently clear'd our way ; 
 And thro' the pleafmg fnares of vice, 
 More to be fear'd than they. 
 VII. 
 O how mall words, with equal warmth, 
 
 The gratitude declare, 
 That glows within my ravifh'd heart ! 
 But thou can'ft read it there. 
 
 Pause 
 
 VIII. 
 When all thy mercies, oh our GOD, 
 
 Our rifing foul furveys, 
 Tranfported with the view, we'er loft 
 In wonder, love and praife, 
 IX. 
 [When worn with ficknefs, oft haft thou 
 
 With health renew'd our face ; 
 
 And, when in (ins and forrow funk. 
 
 Reviv'd our fouls with grace] 
 
48 PSALMS 
 
 x. 
 
 Thybounteous hand with worldly blifs, 
 
 Hath made our cup run o'er ; 
 And, in a kind and faithful friend, 
 
 Hath doubled all our ftore. 
 XL 
 Ten thoufand thoufand precious gifts 
 
 Our daily thanks employ; 
 Nor is the lead a chearful heart, 
 
 That taftes thofe gifts with joy. 
 
 xrr. 
 Through ev'ry period of our lives, 
 
 Thy goodnefs we'll purfue; 
 And after death, in diftant worlds, 
 
 The glorious theme renew. 
 XIII. 
 When nature fails, and day and night 
 
 Divide thy works no more, 
 Our ever grateful hearts, O LORD, 
 
 Thy mercy fhall adore. 
 XIV. 
 Through all eternity to thee, 
 
 A joyful fong we'll raife ; 
 For oh ! eternity's too fhort, 
 
 To utter all thy praife. 
 
 Psalm XLV. 
 On the divine Goodnefs. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 LORD thou art good : all nature fhows 
 Thee full, and free, and kind \ 
 Thy bounty thro' creation flows ; 
 
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 Nor can it be confm'd. 
 
 II. \ 
 
 The whole and ev'ry part proclaims 
 
 Thine infinite good will; 
 It fhines in ftars, and flows in dreams, 
 
 And burfts from ev'ry hill. 
 III. 
 It fpreads thro' all the fpreading main, 
 
 And heavens which fpread more wide, 
 It drops in gentle iho^w'rs of rain, 
 
 And rolls in ev'ry tide. 
 IV. 
 Still hath it been diffus'd and free, 
 
 Thro' ages pad and gone- 
 Nor ever can exhausted be, 
 
 But keeps flill flowing on. 
 V. 
 Still thro' the whole it pours fnpplies, 
 
 Spreads joy thro' all the parts ; 
 LORD, may fuch goodnefs draw our eyes, 
 
 And captivate our hearts. 
 VI. 
 High admiration let it ra'fe, 
 
 And kind affections move ; 
 Employ our tongues in hymns of praife^ 
 
 And fill our hearts with love. 
 
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 Psalm XLVI. 
 "The Goodnefs of GOT) unchangeable. 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 ETERNAL fource of ev'ry joy I 
 Well may thy praife our lips employ, 
 While in thy temple we appear; 
 Thy goodnefs crowns the circling year. 
 
 IT. 
 Wide as the earth and planets roll, 
 Thy hand fupports and cheers the whole; 
 By thee the fun is taught to rife, 
 And darknefs when to veil the ikies. 
 
 III. 
 The flow'ry fpring at thy command. 
 Embalms the air and paints the land; 
 The dimmer rays with vigour fhine, 
 To raife the corn, and cheer the vine. 
 
 IV. 
 Seafons and months, and weeks and days, 
 Demand fuccefTive hymns of praife: 
 Still be the chearful homage paid, 
 With op'ning light, and ev'ning fhade. 
 
 V. 
 O may our more harmonious tongues 
 In worlds unknown purfue the fongs: 
 And in thofe brighter courts adore, 
 Where days and years revolve no more. 
 
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 Psalm XLVIL 
 The "Divine Bounty, 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 r^ IS by thy flrength the mountains ftand, 
 I GOD of eternal pow'r, 
 
 The Tea grows calm at thy command, 
 And tempefts ccafe to roar. 
 II. 
 The morning light and ev'ning made 
 
 SuccefTive comforts bring; 
 Thy plenteous fruits make harveft glad; 
 Thy flowers adorn the fpring. 
 III. 
 Seafons, and times, and months and hours, 
 
 Heav'n, earih and air are thine; 
 When clouds diftil in fruitful fhow'rs, 
 The author is divine, 
 IV. 
 Thofe floating citterns in the iky 
 
 Borne by the winds around, 
 With wat'ry treafures well fupply, 
 The furrows of the ground. ~ 
 V. 
 The thirfty ridges drink their fill, 
 
 The ranks of corn appear ; 
 Thy ways abound with bleflings (till, 
 Thy goodnefs crowns the year. 
 
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5 * PSALMS 
 
 Psalm XLVIII. 
 
 The Goodnefs of GOT>. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 SWEET is the mem'ry of thy grace, 
 O GOD, our heav'nly king ; 
 Let age to age thy righteoufnefs 
 In founds of glory fing. 
 II. 
 GOD reigns on high, but not confines 
 
 His goodnefs to the ikies j 
 Thro' the whole earth his bounty ftiines, 
 And ev'ry want fupplies. 
 III. 
 With longing eyes thy creatures wait, 
 
 On thee for daily food; 
 Thy lib'ral band provides their meat, 
 And fills their months with good. 
 IV. 
 How kind are thy companions, LORD ! 
 
 How flow thine anger moves ! 
 But foon he fends his pardoning word 
 To chear the fouls he loves. 
 V. 
 Creatures with all their endlefs race 
 
 Thy pow'r and pfaife proclaim; 
 But faints that tafte thy richer grace 
 Delight to blefs thy name. 
 
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 Psalm XLXIX. 
 The Goodnefs of GOT>. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 LET ev'ry tongue thy goodnefs fpeak, 
 Thou fov'reign LORD of all; 
 Thy (Irengthning hands uphold the weak, 
 And raife the poor that fall. 
 II. 
 When for row bows the fpirit down, 
 
 Or virtue lies diftreft 
 Beneith fbtiie proud oppreflbr ? s frown, 
 Thou giv'ft the mourners reft. 
 III. 
 The LORD fupports our tott'ring days, 
 
 And guides our giddy youth: 
 Holy and juft are all his ways, 
 And all his words are truth. 
 IV. 
 He know the pain his fervants feel, 
 
 He hears his children cry, 
 And their beft wifhes to fulfil 
 His grace is ever nigh. 
 V. 
 His mercy never fhall remove 
 From men of heart fincere; 
 He faves the fouls, whofe humble love 
 Is join'd with holy fear. 
 
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 Psalm L, 
 
 The c Dhi?ie Mercy, 
 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 MY foul infpir'd with facred love, 
 GOD's holy name for ever blefs, 
 Of all his favours mindful prove, 
 And Hill thy grateful thanks exprefs. 
 
 II. 
 'Tis he who all thy (Ins forgives, 
 And after flcknefs makes thee found ; 
 From danger he thy life retrieves, 
 By him with grace and mercy crown'd. 
 
 III. 
 The LORD abounds with tender love, 
 And unexampled acts of grace ; 
 His waken'd wrath doth flowly move, 
 His willing mercy flies apace. 
 
 IV. 
 As high as heav'n its arch extends, 
 Above this little fpot of clay ; 
 So much his boundlefs grace tranfeends 
 The bed obedience we can pay. 
 
 V. 
 Let ev'ry creature join and blefs 
 The mighty LORD: and thou my heart, 
 With grateful joy thy fongs exprefs, 
 And in this confort bear thy part. 
 
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 Psalm LI. "Divine Mercy. 
 Short Metre. 
 I. 
 
 O BLESS the LORD our fouls, 
 Let all within us join, 
 And aid our tongues to blefs his name, 
 Whofe favours are divine. 
 H. 
 O blefs the LORD my foul, 
 
 Nor let his mercies lie 
 
 Forgotten in unthankfulnefs, 
 
 And without pralfes die. 
 
 rn. 
 
 'Tis he forgives our (ins ; 
 
 'Tis he relieves our pain; 
 'Tis he that heals our fickneiTes; 
 
 And makes us young again. 
 VI. 
 He crowns our lives with love ; 
 
 "When ranfom'd from the grave; 
 He that redeems our fouls from death', 
 
 Hath fov'reign pow'r to fave. 
 V. 
 He fills the poor with good ; 
 
 He gives the fuff'rcrs reft : 
 The LORD hath judgments for the proud, 
 
 And juftice for th' oppreft. 
 VI. 
 His wond'rous works and ways, 
 
 He made by Mofes known : 
 But fent the world his truth and grace 
 
 By his beloved fon. 
 
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 Psalm LII. T>ivwe Mercy. 
 Short Metre. 
 
 T. 
 
 OUR fouls, repeat his praife 
 Whofe mercies are fo great- 
 Whofe anger is fo flow to rife, 
 So ready to abate. 
 IT. 
 GOD will not always chide; 
 
 And when his ftrokes are felt, 
 His Strokes are fewer than our crimes 
 And lighter than our guilt. 
 III. 
 High as the heav'ns are rais'd 
 
 Above the ground we tread, 
 So far the riches of his grace 
 Our highefl thoughts exceed. 
 IV. 
 His pow'r fubdues our fins, 
 
 And his forgiving love, 
 Far as the eafl is from the wefl 7 
 Doth all our guilt remove. 
 V. 
 The pity of the LORD 
 
 To thofe that fear his name, i 
 Is fuch as tender parents feel ; 
 He knows our feeble frame. 
 VI. 
 He knows we are but duft, 
 Scatter'd with ev'ry breath 5 
 
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 His anger like a rifing wind 
 
 Can fend us fwift to death. 
 VII. 
 Our days are as the gra'fs, 
 
 Or like the morning-rlowV; 
 If one fharp blaft fweeps o'er the field, 
 
 It withers in an hour. 
 VIII. 
 feut thy companions, LORD, 
 
 To cndlcfs years endure ;' 
 And childrens children ever find 
 
 Thy words of promife fure. 
 
 Psalm LIII. 'Divine Providence. 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 THRO' all the various fhifting fcene 
 Of life's miftaken ill or good ; 
 Thy hand. O GOD, conducts unfeen, 
 The beautiful viciiTnude. 
 
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 Thou portion'ft with paternal care, 
 How e'er unjuftly we complain, 
 To each their neccflary fhare 
 Of joy and fbrrow, health and pain. 
 
 III. 
 All things on earth, and all in hcav'n 
 On thine eternal will depend ; 
 And all for greater good were given, 
 Would man purfue th' appointed end* 
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 IV. 
 
 Be this our care to all befide 
 
 Indiff'rent let our wiihes be : 
 Paffion be calm, and dumb be, pride, 
 And fix'd our fouls O GOD on thee. 
 
 Psalm LIV. 
 
 The Perfections and Providence of GOT) 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 HIGH in the Heav'ns, eternal GOD, 
 Thy goodnefs in full glory fliines 5 
 Thy truth fhall break thro' ev'ry cloud, 
 "Which veils and darkens thy defigns. 
 
 II. 
 For ever firm thy juftice (lands, 
 As mountains their foundations keep y 
 Wife are the wonders of thy hands, 
 Thy judgments are a mighty deep. 
 
 III. 
 Thy providence is kind and large ; 
 Both man and heart thy bounty fhare; 
 The whole creation is' thy charge; 
 The good are thy peculiar care. 
 
 IV. 
 O GOD, how excellent thy grace, 
 Whence all our hope and comfort fprings j 
 The fons of Adam in diftrefs 
 Fly to the fliadow of thy wings. 
 
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 Psalm LV. 
 
 ^Dependence upon Providence. 
 ' Long Metre. 
 
 I- [ikies, 
 
 GRE\T LORD of earth, and Teas, and 
 Thy wealth the needy world fuppljes: 
 On thee alone the whole depends, 
 Thy care to ev'ry part extends. 
 
 II. 
 To thee perpetual thanks we owe, 
 For all our comforts here below; 
 Onr daily bread thy bounty gives, 
 And ev'ry rifing want relieves. 
 
 III. 
 The waftes of life thy pow'r repairs, 
 Thy mercy ftills tempeftuous cares : 
 And fafe beneath thy guardian arm, 
 We live fecur'd from ev'ry harm. 
 
 IV. 
 To thee we ch earful homage bring; 
 In grateful hymns thy praifes (ing j 
 Direct to thee our waiting eyes, 
 And humbly look for frefli fupplies B 
 
 V. 
 We dill are indigent and poor, 
 Indebted much, yet lacking more 2 
 On thee we ever will depend, 
 The rich, the fure, the faithful friend; 
 
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 VI. 
 And fhould thy meafures feem fevere, 
 Calmly may we thy chaft'ning bears 
 Without complaint to thee fubmit, 
 Th' unerring judge of what is fit. 
 
 Psalm LVI. 
 
 ^Dependence on Providence. 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 ON thee, O GOD! we (till depend, 
 Our father, and our conftant friend j 
 All that is good thou can'ft fupply, 
 And put all threat'ning evil by. 
 
 II. 
 Should wars on ev'ry fide invade, 
 We'll fhelter feek beneath thy fhade : 
 We'll truit. to thy paternal care, 
 Nor want, nor harm, nor danger fear. 
 
 III. 
 We'll (till refer ourfelves to thee, 
 And with our lot contented be ; 
 With one consenting heart and voice, 
 Approve our heav'nly father's choice. 
 
 IV. 
 From earth we'll turn our longing eyes, 
 To regions far beyond the fkies j 
 O fit us for that bleft abode, 
 Where dwells our Saviour and our GOD* 
 
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 Psalm LVII. 
 
 SubmiJfiQn to Providence, 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 NAKED as from the earth we came, 
 And crept to life at firft, 
 We to the earth return again, 
 And mingle with our dull, 
 
 II. 
 The fond delights we here enjoy, 
 And call our own in vain, 
 Are but ihort favours borrow'd now, 
 To be repaid again. 
 
 III. 
 'Tis GOD that lifts our comforts high, 
 Or (inks them to the grave ; 
 He gives, and blefTed be his name, 
 He takes but what he gave. 
 
 IV. 
 Peace, all our hafty paflions then, 
 Let each impatient figh, 
 Be filent at his fov'reign will, 
 And ev'ry murmur die. 
 
 V. 
 If fmiling mercy crown our lives, 
 It's praifes fhall be fpread; 
 And we'll adore the juftice too. 
 That ftrikes our comforts dead 
 
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 Psalm LVIIL Praife to GOT*. 
 Short Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 ALMIGHTY maker GOD! 
 How wond'rous is thy name ! 
 Thy glories how diffus'd abroad 
 Thro' all creation's frame. 
 II. 
 Nature in ev'ry drefs 
 
 Her humble homage pays j 
 And does a thoufand ways exprefs 
 Her undiffembled praife. 
 III. 
 Our fouls would rife and fing, 
 
 Our great "creator too; 
 Fain would our tongue adore our king 
 And yield the worfhip due. 
 IV. 
 Let joy and worfhip fpend 
 
 The remnant of our days ; 
 And oft to GOD our fouls afcend 
 In humble a&s of praife. 
 
 Psalm LIX. 
 
 •/£ Song of Praife. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 i 
 
 I. 
 N GOD's own houfe pronounce his praife/ 
 His grace he there reveals; 
 
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 To heav'n your joy and wonder raife, 
 
 For there his glory dwells. 
 II. 
 Let all your facred paflions move, 
 
 While you rehearfe his deeds ; 
 But the great work of faving love, 
 
 Your higheft praife exceeds. 
 III. 
 All that have motion, life and breathV 
 
 Proclaim your maker bleft ; 
 Yet when our voice expires in death, 
 
 Our fouls fliall praife him beft. 
 
 Psalm LX. 
 General A61 of Praife, 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 BE thou exalted, O my GOD, 
 Above the heav'ns where angels dwell } 
 Thy pow'r on earth be known abroad, 
 And land to land thy wonders tell. 
 
 II. 
 My heart is fix'd ; my tongue (hall raife 
 Immortal honours to thy name ; 
 Awake, my tongue, to found his praife, 
 My tongue, the glory of my frame. 
 
 III. 
 High o'er the earth thy mercy reigns, 
 .A nd reaches to the utmofl iky ; 
 His truth to endlefs years remains, 
 When lower worlds diffolve and die. 
 
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 IV. 
 Be thou exalted, O my GOD, 
 Above the heav'ns where angels dwell; 
 Thy pow'r on earth be known abroad,' 
 And land to land thy wonders tell. 
 
 Psalm. LXl. 
 
 Praife to GOT) from all Creaturei, 
 
 Proper Metre. 
 
 f. 
 
 YE boundlefs realms of joy, 
 Exalt your maker's fame ; 
 Bis praife your fong employ 
 Above the (tarry frame : 
 
 Your voices raife, 
 
 Ye cherubim 
 
 And feraphim, 
 
 To fing his praife. 
 H. 
 Thou moon that rul'ft the night, 
 And fun that guid'ft the day. 
 Ye glittering ftars of light, 
 To him your homage pay : 
 
 His praife declare, 
 
 Ye heav'ns above, 
 
 And clouds that move 
 
 In liquid air. 
 
 III. 
 Let them adore the LORD, 
 And praife his holy name, 
 
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 By whofe almighty word 
 They all from nothing came : 
 And all (hall laft, 
 From changes free : 
 His firm decree 
 Stands ever fad. 
 IV. 
 Let earth her tribute pay ; 
 Praife him, ye dreadful whales. 
 And fifh that thro' the fea 
 Glide fwift with glitt'ring fcales^ 
 Fire, hail, and fnow, 
 And mifty air, 
 And winds that, where 
 He bids them, blow, 
 V. 
 By hills and mountains (all 
 In grateful confort join'd), 
 By cedars ftately tall, 
 And trees for fruit defign'd; 
 By ev'ry beaft, 
 And creeping thing, 
 And fowl of wing, 
 His name be blefi 
 VI. 
 Let all of royal birth, 
 "With thofe of humbler frame, 
 And judges of the earth, 
 His matchlefs praife proclaim : 
 In this defign 
 Let youths with maids, 
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 And hoary heads 
 
 With children join. 
 VII. 
 United zeal be fhown, 
 His wondVous fame to raife, 
 Whofe glorious name alone 
 Deferves our endlefs praife. 
 
 Earth's utmoft ends 
 
 His pow'r obey : 
 
 His glorious fway 
 
 The fky tranfcends. 
 
 PsAJ-M LXII. Praife to GOD. 
 Proper Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 PRAISE ye the LORD, the univerfal king, 
 H'S truth and power and his falvation fing, 
 Him GOD of Gods, him LORD of Lords pro- 
 claim, 
 X'et it be known he ever reigns fupreme. 
 
 II. 
 What mightydeeds have by his pow'r been done! 
 Amazing wonders by his pow'r alone : 
 He by his wifdom fpread abroad the Iky, 
 And hung out all the ftarry lamps on high. 
 
 III. 
 He bade the feas divide from folid land, 
 And made the earth above the waters ftand : 
 He form'd the fun to blefs the day with light, 
 The moon to cheec the gloomy face of night. 
 
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 IV. 
 He for his people needful food provides, 
 Cruards a 1 1 their blefTings,ai l theirfteps he guides; 
 Thro 7 fnares and dangers fafely leads them on 
 To biifs immortal, and his heavenly throne. 
 
 Psalm LXIII. Univerfal Praifa. 
 Short Metre, 
 
 T. 
 
 IET ev'ry creature join 
 _j To praife th' eternal GOD; 
 Ye heavenly hofts begin the drain 
 And found his name abroad. 
 II 
 Thou fun with golden beams, 
 And moon with paler rays, 
 Ye ftarry lights, ye heav'nly flames, 
 Shine to your maker's praife. 
 III. 
 He built thofe worlds above, 
 
 And fixt their wond'rous frame; 
 By his command they ftand or move, 
 And ever fpeak his name. 
 IV. 
 Ye vapours when ye rife, 
 
 Or fall in fhow'rs or fnow, 
 Ye thunders rolling round the llcies, 
 His pow'r and glory iliew. 
 V. 
 Wind, hail, and flafhing fire, 
 Agree to praife the LORD-* 
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 When ye in dreadful dorms confpire 
 
 To execute his word. 
 VI. 
 By all his works above, 
 • His honours be expreft; 
 But faints who tafte his faving love 
 
 Should fing his praifes beft. 
 
 Pause. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Ye tribes of Adam join 
 
 With heav'n, and earth, and feas, 
 
 And offer notes divine 
 
 To your creator's praife. 
 
 Ye holy throng 
 
 Of angels bright, 
 
 In worlds of light 
 
 Begin the fong. 
 
 VIII. 
 Thou fun with dazling rays, 
 And moon that rules the night, 
 Shine to your maker's praife, 
 With (tars of twinkling light. 
 
 His pow'r declare, 
 
 Ye floods on high, 
 
 And clouds that fly 
 
 In empty air. 
 
 IX. 
 The fli'ming worlds above 
 Jn glorious order fland, 
 Or in fwift courfes move 
 By his fupreme command 
 
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 He fpake the word, 
 
 And all their frame 
 
 From nothing came 
 
 To praife the LORD. 
 X. 
 He mov'd their mighty wheels 
 In unknown ages paft, 
 And each his word fulfils 
 While time and nature laft 
 
 In different ways 
 
 His works proclaim 
 His wond'rous name, 
 
 And fpeak his praife. 
 
 Pause. 
 
 XI. 
 Let all the earth-born race, 
 And monfters of the deep; 
 The flfh that cleave the feas* 
 Or in their bofom fleep, 
 From fea and ihore 
 Their tribute pay, 
 And dill dif play 
 Their maker's pow'r. 
 XII. 
 Ye vapours, hail and fnow, 
 Praife ye th' almighty LORD., 
 And ftormy winds that blow, 
 To execute his word. 
 When lightnings fnine* 
 Or thunders roar, 
 
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 Let earth adore 
 
 His hand divine. 
 
 XIII. 
 Ye mountains near the ikies, 
 With lofty cedars there, 
 And trees of humbler fize, 
 That fruit in plenty bear ; 
 
 Beads wild and tame, 
 
 Birds, flies and worms, 
 
 In various forms, 
 
 Exalt his name. 
 
 XIV. 
 Ye kings and judges fear 
 The LORD, the foVreign king; 
 And while you rule us here, 
 His heav'nly honours fing. 
 
 Nor let the dream 
 
 Of pow'r and flare, 
 
 Make you forget 
 
 His pow'r fupreme. 
 XV. 
 "Virgins and youths, engage 
 To found his praife divine, 
 While infancy and age 
 Their feebler voices join. 
 
 Wide as he reigns 
 
 His name be fung, 
 
 By ev'ry tongue, 
 
 In endlefs {trains, 
 
 XVL 
 Let all the nations fear 
 The GOD who rules above; 
 
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 He brings his people near, 
 And makes them tafte his love : 
 
 While earth and iky, 
 
 Attempt his praife, 
 
 His faints fhall raife 
 
 His honours high. 
 
 Psalm LXIV. Praife to GOT), 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 OA11 ye Tons of human race, 
 Rejoice in heaven's eternal king ; 
 With gladjiefs come before his face, 
 And Hallelujahs to him ling. 
 II. 
 Know that the LORD is GOD fupreme, 
 
 By whofe all -forming hand alone 
 Was rais'd from dull our mortal frame ; 
 We are his flock, he doth us own. 
 III. 
 Approach with loud thankfgiving fongs, 
 
 . The portals of his courts divine, 
 Laud him to whom all pow'r belongs, 
 And to his name your praifes join. 
 IV. 
 For good and gracious is the LORD, 
 
 His flowing mercy knows no end : 
 The truth of his moft facred word 
 To endlefs ages lhall extend 
 
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 Psalm LXV. 
 Praife to GOT) from all Creatures. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 HP HE glories of our maker GOD 
 -■* Our joyful tongues fliall fingj 
 And call the nations to adore 
 Their former, and their king. 
 II. 
 ? Twashis great hand that fliap'd our clay, 
 
 And wrought this wond'rous frame: 
 But from his own celeflial breath 
 Our nobler fpirits came. 
 III. 
 We bring our mortal powers to GOD, 
 
 And worihip with our tongues : 
 We claim fome kindred with the /Ides, 
 And join the heavenly fongs. 
 IV. 
 Let beafts which in the paftures feed, 
 
 Or in the defarts lie / 
 Fifties that move within the feas 
 And fowls beneath the jky. 
 V. 
 Let rocks, and woods, and fires and feas, 
 
 Their various tribute bring ; 
 And one united homage raife 
 To GOD, all nature's king. 
 VI. 
 Te planets to his honour fhine, 
 As thro' your orbs you run ; 
 
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 Praife him in your eterndl courfe 
 
 Around the fteady fun. 
 VII. 
 The glory of our maker's name, 
 
 Thro' all creation flies: 
 And his unbounded grandeur iliines 
 
 In worlds beyond the fkies. 
 
 Psalm LXVI. 
 praife for Creation and Providence, 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 I Sing th' almighty pow'r of GOD, 
 That made the mountains rife ; 
 That fpread the flowing feas abroad, 
 And built the lofty fkies. 
 II. 
 I (ing the the wifdom that ordain'd 
 
 The fun to rule the day; 
 The moon Urines full at his command, 
 And all the (tars obey. 
 III. 
 I fing the goodnefs of the LORD, 
 That fill'd the earth with food : 
 He form'd the creatures with his word, 
 And then pronounc'd them good. 
 IV. 
 LORD, how thy wonders are difplay'd 
 Where'er I turn mine eye ! 
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 If I fu rvey the ground I tread, 
 
 Or gaze upon the iky. 
 V. 
 There's not a plant, or flow'r below, 
 
 But makes thy glories known; 
 And clouds arife, and tempefts blow, 
 
 By order from thy throne* 
 VI. 
 Creatures (as num'rous as they be) 
 
 Are fubjeft to thy care : 
 There's not a place where we can flee. 
 
 But GOD is prefent there. 
 VII. 
 His hand is my prepetual guard, 
 
 He keeps me with his eye : 
 Why mould I then forget the LORD, 
 
 Who is for ever nigh ? 
 
 Psalm LXVII. 
 
 Umverfal Praife to GOT). 
 
 Short Metre. 
 
 I. 
 HT HY name, almighty LORD, 
 
 -*■ Shall found thro' diftanf lands: 
 Great is thy grace, and fure thy word : 
 Thy truth for ever (lands. 
 II. 
 Far be thine honour fpread, 
 
 And long thy praife endure, 
 Till morning light, and ev'ning fliade, 
 Shall be exchanged no more. 
 
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 Psalm LXYIII. 
 
 Praife to GOD from all Nations. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 WI TH chearful notes let all the earth 
 To heav'n their voices raife : 
 Let all, infpir'd with godly mirth, 
 Sing folemn hymns of praife. 
 II. 
 GOD's tender mercy knows no bound, 
 
 His truth fhall ne'er decay: 
 Then let the willing nations round 
 Their grateful tribute pay. 
 
 Psalm LXIX. 
 Praife to GOT> from all Nations. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 OA11 ye nations, praife the LORD; 
 Each with a diff'rent tongue: 
 In ev'ry language learn his word, 
 And let his name be fung. 
 
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 His mercy reigns thro' ev'ry land; 
 
 Proclaim his grace abroad : 
 For ever firm his truth fhall ftand; 
 
 Praife ye the faithful GOD. 
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 Psalm LXX. 
 
 Univerfal Praife to GOT). 
 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 FROM all who dwell below the ikies, 
 Let the creator's praife arife: 
 Let the redeemer's name be Tung, 
 Thro' ev'ry land, by ev'ry tongue. 
 II. 
 Eternal are thy mercies. LORD ; 
 
 Eternal truth attends thy word : 
 
 Thy praife fhall found from ihore to flio're, 
 
 Till funs fhall rife and fet no more. 
 
 Psalm LXXI. Praife to GOT>. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 r^REAT is the LORD; his works of might 
 f Demand our nobleft fongs : 
 Let his aflembled faints unite 
 Their harmony of tongues. 
 II. 
 Great is the mercy of the LORD, 
 
 He gives his children food ; 
 And ever mindful of his word, 
 He makes his promife good, 
 III; 
 His Ton, the great redeemer, came 
 To feal his cov'nant fure : 
 
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 Holy and rev'rend is his name, 
 
 His ways are juft and pure. 
 IV. 
 They who would grow divinely wife, 
 
 > ; uft with his fear begin; 
 Our faired proof of knowledge lies 
 
 In hating ev'ry (in. 
 
 LXXII. Praife to GOT). 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 PRAISE ye the LORD; ourGODtopraife 
 My foul her utmofr. pow'rs fliall raife ; 
 With private friends, and in the throng 
 Of faints, his praife fliall be my fong. 
 
 IT. 
 His works, for greatnefs tbo' renown'd, 
 His wond'rous works with eafe are found 
 By thofe who feek for them aright, 
 And in their pious fearch delight. 
 
 III. 
 His works are all of matchlefs fame, 
 And univerfal glory claim : 
 His truth, confirm'd thro' ages paft> 
 Shall to eternal ages laft. 
 
 IV. 
 By precept he has us enjoyn'd, 
 To keep his wond'rous works in mind : 
 And to pofterity record, 
 That good and gracious is our LORD. 
 
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 Psalm LXXIII. Praife to GOT). 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 THEE I will ble'fs, my GOD and king, 
 Thy endlefs praife proclaim \ 
 This tribute daily I will bring, 
 And ever blefs thy name. 
 II. 
 Thou, LORD, beyond compare art great, 
 
 And highly to be*prais'd : 
 Thy majefty, with bound lefs height, 
 Above our knowledge rais'd. 
 HI. 
 Renown'd for mighty a&s, thy fame 
 
 To future times extends : 
 From age to age thy glorious name 
 SuccefTively defcends. 
 IV. 
 WhilftI thy glory and renown, 
 
 And wond'rous works exprefs : 
 The world with me thy 'might mail own r 
 And thy great pow'r confefs. 
 V. 
 The praife that to thy love belongs, 
 
 They fliall with joy proclaim: 
 Thy truth of all their grateful fongs 
 Shall be the conftant theme. . 
 VI. 
 The LORD is good ; frefh acls of grace 
 His pity (till fupplies : 
 
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 His anger moves with floweft pace, 
 
 His willing mercy flies. 
 VII. 
 Thy love thro' earth extends its fame, 
 
 To all thy works expreft : 
 Thefe (hew thy praife, whjlft thy great name 
 
 Is by thy fervants bleft. 
 
 Tsalm LXXIV. 
 Pra'?fe to GOD for his Providence and Greece. 
 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. . 
 
 WIT H al ! my powers of heart and tongue 
 I'll praife my maker in myfong: 
 Angels fhall hear the notes I raife, 
 Approve thefpng, and join the praife. 
 
 II. 
 Angels who make thy church their care. 
 Shall wimefs my devotions there, 
 While holy zeal di reels my eyes 
 To thy fair temple in the ikies. 
 
 III. 
 I'll fing thy truth and mercy, LORD, 
 I'll fing the wonders of thy word : 
 Not all thy works and names below 
 So much thy pow'r and glory fhow. 
 
 IV. 
 The GOD of heaven maintains his ftate, 
 Frowns on the proud, and '(corns the great ; 
 But from his throne defcends to fee 
 The fons of humble poverty. 
 
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 V. 
 
 A mid ft a thoufand fnares I ftand 
 Upheld and guarded by thy hand : 
 Thy words my fainting foul revive, 
 And keep my dying faith alive. 
 
 VI. 
 Grace will compleat what grace begins, 
 To fave from forrow or from (ins : 
 The work that wifdom undertakes 
 Eternal mercy ne'er forfakes. 
 
 Psalm LXXV. 
 Praife to the great and good GOD, 
 Common Metre. 
 
 * i. 
 
 LONG as we live, we'll blefs thy name, 
 O king, O GOD of love : 
 Our work and joy fhail be the fame, 
 In the bright world above. 
 
 II. 
 
 Great is the LORD, his pow'r unknown, 
 
 And let his praife be great : 
 We'll ling the honours of thy throne, 
 
 Thy works of grace repeat. 
 III. 
 Thy grace fhail dwell upon our tongues, 
 
 And while our lips rejoice, 
 The men who hear our facred fongs, 
 
 Shall join their chearful voice. 
 
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 Fathers to fons fliall teach thy name, 
 
 And children learn thy ways : 
 Ages to come thy truth proclaim, 
 And nations found thy praife. 
 IV. 
 Thy glorious deeds of antient date 
 Shall jjiro' the world be known : 
 Thine arm of pow'r, thy heavenly ftate 
 With public fplendor fliown. 
 V. 
 The world is govern'd by thy hands, 
 
 Thy faints are rul'd by love : 
 And thine eternal kingdom (lands, 
 Tho' rocks and hills remove. 
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 Tsasm LX^vT. 
 
 AV' Univerfal Praife to GOT). 
 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 MY GOD, my King, thy various praife 
 Shall fill the remnant of my days : 
 Thy grace employ my humble tongue, 
 Till death and glory raife the fong. 
 
 The wings of^jry hour fliall bear 
 Some thankful tribute to thine ear : 
 And every fetting fun fliall fee 
 New works of duty done for thee. 
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 III. 
 Thy truth and juftice I'll proclaim ; 
 Thy bounty flows, an cndlefs dream j 
 Thy mercy Iwift, thine anger flow, 
 But dreadful to the ftubborn foe. 
 
 IV. 
 Thy works with fov'reign glory fhine, 
 And fpeak thy rhajefty divine: 
 Let Britain round her fhores proclaim 
 The found and honour of thy name. 
 
 V. 
 Letdiftant times and nations raife 
 The long fucceliion of thy praife: 
 And unborn ages make my fong 
 The joy and labour of their tongue. 
 
 VI. 
 But who can fpeak thy wondrous deeds ? 
 Thy greamefs all our thoughts exceeds : 
 Vafl and unfearchable thy ways, 
 Vail and immortal be thy praife. 
 
 Psalm LXXVIL 
 
 j£ll Creatures called upon to praife GOT). 
 
 Proper Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 OFor a hymn of univcrfal praife! 
 Its maker's fame let ev'ry creature raife : 
 Ye lofty heav'ns begin the folemn found, 
 And let it fpread the wide creation round. 
 
 II. 
 Ye angel hods who near his dazzling feat, 
 Wrapt in perpetual tranfport humbly wait, 
 
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 You beft muft know the glories of your king. 
 In fwceteft loftieft (trains his wonders fing. 
 
 III. 
 Blefs him, thou fun, great ruler of the day, 
 Before whofe fplendors thine muft fadeaway: 
 To him, the honours paid to thee, reftore; 
 And teach mankind thy maker to adore. 
 
 IV. 
 Ye moon and ftars, who with more feeble light 
 Break thro' the ihades, and gild the gloom of night, 
 Far as you can diffufe your feeble rays, 
 Tell his great name, and propagate his praife. 
 
 Pause. 
 
 V. 
 
 Fair light, the flrft of all created things, 
 From whom all earthly blifs and beauty fprings, 
 Help the blind world to fee their maker fliine 
 In light eflential, fairer far than thine. 
 
 VI. 
 Ye dancing fpheres that ever tuneful move, 
 Drawn tow'rds your centers by magnetic Jove> 
 Convey his name thro' all the vaft expanfe, 
 Whilft to the mufic of his voice you dance. 
 
 VII. 
 Let awful thunders bellowing in the air. 
 And bluft 'ring ftorms his dreadful praife declare; 
 Whilft gentler winds with balmy breath proclaim 
 The gracious GOD ; and fpread his lovely name. 
 
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 vim. 
 
 Let mifts, and clouds, and meteors allconfpire 
 In this bleft work, and help to fill the choir : 
 Whilft loud his praifes foaming billows roar, 
 And feas refound his name from more to fliore. 
 
 Pause II. 
 
 IX. 
 Ye fertile plains difplay your gayeft pride, 
 Ye valleys, to his honour, low fubfide ; 
 And at his call, ye mountains, ftately rife, 
 And bear his praifes to the neighbouring ikies. 
 
 X. 
 Ye trees of ev'ry kind, ye fruitful vines, 
 Ye fpreading oaks, and tall afpiring pines; 
 Or bend your heads, or let your juices flow, 
 To honour him, at whofe command you grow. 
 
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 To him let ev'ry bead this tribute pay, 
 He feeds the flocks, he findb the lions prey; 
 To celebrate his bounty and his pow'r, 
 Bleat all ye lambs, and all ye lions roar. 
 
 XII. 
 Ye birds, who thro' the airy regions wing, 
 Nature's muficians, you his praifc mult ling: 
 Ye flies and worms, his various fkill difplay ; 
 Tho' you can't ling, this homage you may pay. 
 
 Pause III. 
 
 XIII. 
 When nature's all in tune, fliall man refrain, 
 And have his voice and pow'r to fing in vain f 
 
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 O no ! let ev'ry rank, and fex, and age, 
 With all their might in this defign engage. 
 
 XIV. 
 Great kings and potentates, ye gods on earth, 
 And ev'ry man of meaner rank and birth, 
 Submit yourfelves to his imperial fway, 
 You're bound, and 'tis your honour to obey. 
 
 XV. 
 Let youthful voices fwell th' harmonious choir, 
 Old age their feebler breath in praife expire: 
 O ! let his love each virgin's heart inflame, 
 And infants learn to lifp his wond'reus name. 
 
 XVI. 
 But above all ye faints, your breath employ, 
 To found his praifes, and to tell your joy : 
 You, the bleft objects of his love and choice, 
 His glories fmg with well tun'd heart and voice. 
 
 XVII. 
 Loud as his thunders let his praifes found, 
 From heav'n to earth, from world to world rebound 
 Let art and nature in the fong confpire, 
 And the whole world become onefacred choir. 
 
 Psalm LXXYIII. 
 Let all in Heaven andEarth praife tJye LORD. 
 Long Metre. 
 
 O 
 
 I. 
 Praife the LORD in that bleft place 
 
 From whence his goodnefs largely flows : 
 
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 Praife him in heav'n where he his face 
 Unveil'd in perfect glory fhews. 
 
 II. 
 Praife him for all the mighty a&s, 
 Which he in our behalf has done : 
 His kindnefs this return exa&s, 
 With which our praife fhould equal run. 
 
 III. 
 Let all who vital breath enjoy, 
 The breath he does to them afford, 
 In juft returns of praife employ: 
 Let ev'ry creature praife the LORD. 
 
 Psalm LXXIX. 
 
 The Inflruttions of Nature and Succefs of the 
 Go/pel. 
 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 HP HE -heavens declare thy glory, LORD, 
 •*■ In ev'ry liar thy wifdom fhines: 
 But when our eyes behold thy word, 
 We read thy name in fairer lines. 
 
 II. 
 The rolling fun, the changing light, 
 And nights and days thy pow'r confefs : 
 But the bled volume thou haft writ, 
 Reveals thy juftice and thy grace. 
 
 III. 
 Sun moon and (tars convey thy praife 
 Round the whole earth and never ftand: 
 
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 So when thy truth began its race, 
 It touch'd and glanc'd on ev'ry land. 
 
 IV. 
 Nor Ilia 11 thy fpreading gofpel reft, 
 Till thro' the world thy truth hath run; 
 Till Chrift has all the nations bleft, 
 Who fee the light or feel the fun. 
 
 Psalm LXXX. 
 
 View of the Heavenly Bodies. 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 TH E fpacious firmamenr on high, 
 With all the blue etherial iky, 
 And fpangl'd heav'ns, a fhining frame, 
 Their great original proclaim. 
 
 II. 
 Th' unwearied fun from day to day 
 Doth his creator's pow'r difplay ; 
 And publishes to ev'ry land, 
 The work of one almighty hand. 
 
 III. 
 Soon as the ev'ning fhades prevail, 
 The moon takes up the wond'rous tale; 
 And nightly to the lift'ning earth 
 Repeats the (lory of her birth. 
 
 IV. 
 Whilft all the ftars which round her burn, 
 And all the planets in their turn, 
 
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 Confirm the tidings as they roll, 
 
 And fpread the truth from pole to pole. 
 
 V. 
 What tho' in fblemn filence all 
 Move round the dark terreitial ball; 
 What tho' no real voice nor found 
 Amidft their radiant orbs be found : 
 
 VI. 
 In reafon's ear they all rejoice, 
 And utter forth a glorious voice; 
 For ever tinging as they ihine, 
 The hand which made us is divine. 
 
 Psalm LXXXI. View of Nature, 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 HAIL King fupreme! all wife and good, 
 To thee our thoughts we raife; 
 While nature's beauties wide difplay'd, 
 Infpire our fouls with praife. 
 II. 
 At morning, noon, and ev'ning mild, 
 
 Thy works engage our view ; 
 Oft as we gaze our hearts exult 
 With tranfports ever new. 
 
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 Thy glory beams in ev'ry fhr, 
 Which gilds the gloom of night: 
 
 And decks the rifing face of morn 
 With rays of cheering light. 
 
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 IV. 
 
 The funny hill the dewy lawn 
 
 With thoufand beauties fhine; 
 The filent grove, and awful fhade 
 
 Proclaim thy pow'r divine. 
 V. 
 From tree to tree, a conftant hymn 
 
 Employs the feather'd throng; 
 To thee their chearful notes they fwell, 
 
 And chaunt their grateful fong. 
 VI. 
 Great nature's GOD ! ffill may thefe fcenes 
 
 Our ferious hours engage; 
 Still may our grateful hearts confult 
 
 Thy works inftruftive page. 
 
 Psalm LXXXII. 
 
 View of the Divine Works. 
 Common Metre, 
 
 I. 
 
 LOOK round, O man! furvey this globe, 
 Speak of creating pow'r; 
 See, nature gives a different robe 
 To ev'ry herb and flow'r! 
 II. 
 gee, various beings fill the air, 
 
 And people earth and fea ; 
 What greatf ul changes form the year, 
 How conftant night and day t 
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 in. 
 
 Next raife thine eye, the vaft expanie 
 
 A pow'r unbounded fhews; 
 See round the fun the planets dance, 
 
 And various worlds compofe. 
 IV. 
 Then turn into thy f elf, O man ! 
 
 With wonder view thy foul! 
 Confefs his pow'r that laid each plan, 
 
 And ftill directs the whole. 
 V. 
 And let obedience to his laws 
 
 Thy gratitude proclaim, 
 To him the firft almighty caufe, 
 
 JEHOVAH is his name. 
 
 Psalm LXXXIII. 
 
 Thou openejl thy Hand, they are filed with 
 Good. 
 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 VAST are thy works, almighty. LORD, 
 All nature refts upon thy word; 
 And the whole race of creatures {tands, 
 Waiting their portion from thy hands. 
 
 II. 
 While each receives his diff Vent food, 
 Their chearful looks pronounce it good, 
 Eagles, and bears, and whales and worms 
 Rejoice and praife in different forms. 
 
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 III. 
 
 But when thy face is hid they mourn, 
 And dying to their duft return; 
 Both men and beafts their fouls refign; 
 Life, breath, and fpirit, all is thine. 
 
 IV. 
 Yet thou can'ft breathe on duft again, 
 And fill the world with beafts and men; 
 A word of thy creating breath 
 Repairs the waftes of time and death. 
 
 V. 
 Thy works, the wonders of thy might, 
 Are honoured with thy own delight: 
 How awful are thy glorious ways! 
 With rev'rence will we fing thy praife. 
 
 VI. 
 The earth ftands trembling at thy ftroke, 
 And at thy touch the mountains fmoke: 
 Yet humble fouls may fee thy face, 
 And tell their wants to fovereign grace. 
 
 VII. 
 In thee our hopes and wifhes meet, 
 And make our meditations fweet : 
 Thy praifes fhall our breath empioy, 
 Till it expire in endiefs joy. 
 
 Psalm LXXXIV. 
 
 View of the Heavens, and Mankind. 
 
 Short Metre. 
 I. 
 
 OLORD our heavenly King, 
 Thy name is all divine; 
 
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 Thy glories round the earth are fpread, 
 
 And o'er the heav'ns they fhine. 
 II. 
 When to thy works on high, 
 
 I raife my wond'ring eyes, 
 And fee the moon compleat in light 
 
 Adorn the darkfome ikies : 
 
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 When I furvey the ftars 
 
 In all their fhining forms, 
 LORD what is man ! of mortal race, 
 
 Akin to dud and worms ? 
 IV. 
 O LORD our heavenly king, 
 
 Thy name is all divine, 
 Thy glories round the earth are fpread, 
 
 And thro' the heav'ns they mine. 
 
 Psalm LXXXV. 
 GOT> known by his Works. 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 GREAT is our GOD, his works of might 
 To praife his glorious name unite: 
 Heav'n, earth and fea confefs his hand, 
 And wait obedient his command. 
 
 II. 
 Thy hand unfcen fuftains the poles, 
 On which thy vail creation rolls; 
 
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 The ftarry Ikies proclaim thy power, 
 Thy pencil glows in ev'ry flower. 
 
 III. 
 In various fhapes and colours rife 
 Ten thoufand wonders to our eyes; 
 And beads and birds with labouring throat, 
 Teach us a GOD in every note. 
 
 IV. 
 A crofs the waves, around the iley, 
 There's not a place, or deep or high, 
 Where the creator has not trod, 
 And left the footfteps of a GOD. 
 
 V, 
 O may the fons of men record 
 The various goodnefs of the LORD, 
 How vafl his works, how kind his ways, 
 And ev'ry tongue pronounce his praife. 
 
 Psalm LXXXVL 
 
 Works of Creation and Providence. 
 Common Metre 
 
 I. 
 
 REJOICE ye righteous in the LORD, 
 This work belongs to you ; 
 Sing of his name, his ways, his word, 
 How holy, juft and true. 
 II. 
 His mercy and his righteoufnefs, 
 
 Let heav'n and earth proclaim; 
 His works of nature and of grace ' 
 Reveal his wond'rous name. 
 
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 ill. 
 His wifdomand almighty word 
 
 The heav'nly arches fpread; 
 And by the fpirit of the LORD 
 
 Their fkining hofts were made. 
 IV 
 He bid the liquid waters flow 
 
 To their appointed deep; 
 The flowing Teas their limits know, 
 
 And their own ftation keep. 
 V. 
 Ye tenants of the fpacious earth 
 
 With fear before him ftand ; 
 He fpake, and nature took its birth, 
 
 And reds on his command. 
 VI. 
 Thy glorious works our thoughts engage 
 
 How vaft thy pow'r divine I 
 Thy counfels (land thro' ev'ry age, 
 
 And in full glory fhine. 
 
 Psalm LXXXVII. 
 GOT) the Lord of Nature. 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 WITH glory clad, with ftrength array'd, 
 The LORD, who o'er all nature reigns, 
 The world's foundations ftrongly laid, 
 And the vaft fabric ftill fuftains. 
 
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 How furely {tablifh'd is thy throne ! 
 Which fhall no change or period fee 1 ; 
 For thou O LORD, and thou alone, 
 Art GOD from all eternity. 
 
 III. 
 The floods, O LORD, lift up their voice, 
 And tofs the troubled waves on high ; 
 But GOD above can (till their noife, 
 And make the angry fea comply. 
 
 IV. 
 Thy promife, LORD, is ever fure, 
 And they who in thy houfe would dwell, 
 That happy ftation to fecure, 
 Muft ftill in holinefs excel. 
 
 Psalm LXXXVIIL 
 
 THANKSGIVING. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 C> IVE thanks toGOD,the fov'reignLORD, 
 I His mercies (till endure ; 
 And be the king of kings ador'd, 
 His truth is ever fure. 
 II. 
 What wonders hath his wifdom done ! 
 
 How mighty is his hand ; 
 Heav'n, earth, and fea he fram'd alone, 
 How wide is his command. 
 
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 III. 
 
 The fun fupplies the day with light, 
 
 How bright his counfels fhine! 
 The moon and ftars adorn the night, 
 His works are all divine. 
 IV. 
 He faw the nations dead in fin; 
 
 He felt his pity move ; 
 How fad the flate the world was in! 
 How boundlefs was his love. 
 V. 
 He fent to fave us from our woe, 
 
 His goodnefs never fails; 
 From (in and death, and ev'ry foe; 
 And ftill his grace prevails. 
 VI. 
 Give thanks to GOD our heav'nly king, 
 
 His mercies ftill endure ; 
 Let the whole earth his praifes fing, 
 His truth is ever fure. 
 
 Psalm LXXXIX. 
 Thank/giving. 
 As the 148th Psalm. 
 I. 
 
 GIVE thanks to GOD moft high, 
 The univerfal LORD, 
 The fov'rejgn king of kings, 
 And be his grace ador'd. 
 
 His pow'r and grace 
 Are ftill the fame ; 
 And let his name 
 JJaye. endlefs praife, 
 
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 ' II. 
 How mighty is his hand ! 
 What wonders hath he done ! 
 He form'd the earth and Teas, 
 And fpread the heavens alone. 
 
 Thy mercy, LORD, 
 
 Will (till endure j 
 
 And ever fure 
 
 Abides thy word. 
 III. 
 His wifdom fram'd the fun 
 To blefs the day with light; 
 The moon and Alining liars 
 To cheer the darkfome night. 
 
 His pow'r and grace 
 
 Are ftill the fame ; 
 
 And let his name 
 
 Have endlefs praife. 
 IV. 
 He faw the nations lie 
 All perifhing in fin, 
 And pity'd the fad (late 
 The ruin'd world was in. 
 
 Thy mercy, LORD, 
 
 Shall ftill endure ; 
 
 And ever fure 
 
 Abides thy word. 
 V. 
 He fent his only fbn 
 To fave us from our woe, 
 O 
 
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 From folly, vice, and death, 
 And ev'ry hurtful foe. 
 
 His pow'r and grace 
 
 Are ftill the fame; 
 
 And let his name 
 
 Have endlefs praifc. 
 VI. 
 Give thanks to GOD alone, 
 To GOD, our heav'nly king, 
 And let the fpacious earth 
 His boundlefs goodnefs fing. 
 
 Thy goodnefs LORD 
 
 Shall ftill endure ; 
 
 And ever fure 
 
 Abides thy word. 
 
 Psalm XC. 
 Thank/giving* 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 C~^ IVE to our GOD immortal praife ! 
 ■*• Mercy and truth are all his ways: 
 Wonders of grace to GOT) belong, 
 Repeat his mercies in your Jong. 
 
 II. 
 Give to the LORD of lords renown, 
 The King of kings with glory crown : 
 His mercies ever Jhall endure, 
 When lords and kings are known no more. 
 
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 in. 
 He built the earth, he fpread the iky, 
 And fix'd the ftarry lights on high: 
 Wonders of grace to GOT) belong, 
 Repeat his mercies in your fong. 
 
 IV. 
 He fills the fun with morning light ; 
 And bids the moon dLreft the night : 
 His mercies ever /ball endure, 
 When funs and moons fhall fhine no more. 
 
 V. 
 He fent his Ton with pow'r to fave, 
 From guilt and darknefs and the grave; 
 Wonders of grace to GOT) belong, 
 Repeat his mercies in your fong. 
 
 VI. 
 Thro' this vain world he guides our feet, 
 And leads us to his heav'nly feat : 
 His mercies ever fhall endure, 
 When this vain world [ball be no more. 
 
 VII. 
 Give to our GOD immortal praife, 
 Mercy and truth are all his ways: 
 Wonders of grace to GOT) belong, 
 Repeat his mercies in your fong. 
 
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 Psalm XCL 
 ^hank/giving. 
 As the 148th Psalm. 
 
 I. 
 HP GOD the mighty LORD, 
 
 -■' Your joyful thanks repeat, 
 To him due praife afford, 
 As good as he is great : 
 
 For GOD does prove 
 
 Oar conflant friend ; 
 
 His bound Ids love 
 
 Shall never end, 
 II. 
 To him whofe wondVous pow'r 
 All other gods obey, 
 Whom earthly kings adore, 
 This grateful homage pay : 
 
 For GOD does prove 
 
 Our condant friend ; 
 
 I? is bound lefs love 
 
 Shall never end. 
 III. 
 By his almighty hand 
 Amazing works are wrought; 
 The heav'ns by his command 
 Were to perfection brought: 
 
 For GOD does prove 
 
 Our conftant friend; 
 
 His boundlefs love 
 
 Shall never end. 
 
 
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 IV. 
 
 He fpread the ocean round 
 About the fpacious land; 
 And made the rifing ground 
 Above the waters (land : 
 
 For GOD does prove 
 
 Our conftant friend; 
 
 His boundlefs love 
 
 Shall never end. 
 V. 
 Thro' heav'n he did difplay 
 His num'rous hofhof light ; 
 The fun to rule by day, 
 The moon and ftars by night : 
 
 For GOD does prove 
 
 Our conftant friend ; 
 
 His boundlefs love 
 
 Shall never end. 
 VI. 
 [He in our depth of woes, 
 On us with favour thought, 
 And from our cruel foes 
 In peace and fafety brought] 
 
 For GOD does prove 
 
 Our conftant friend ; 
 
 His boundlefs love 
 
 Shall never end. 
 VII. 
 He does the food fupply, 
 On which all creatures live: 
 To GOD who reigns on high, 
 Eternal praifes give: 
 
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 For GOD does prove 
 Our con ft am friend j 
 His bound lcfs love 
 Shali never end. 
 
 Psalm XCIL 
 
 Thank/giving* for the Knozvledge of GOT), 
 and for Providence. 
 
 Common Metre 
 I. 
 
 LET heathens to their idols bade, 
 And worihip wood and flonej 
 But our delightful lot is caft 
 
 Where thou, O GOD, art known. 
 II. 
 Thy hand provides our conftant food, 
 
 And fills our daily cup: 
 Much are we pleafcd with prefent good, 
 But more rejoice in hope. 
 III. . 
 Our fouls would all their thoughts approve, 
 
 To thine all-feeing eye, 
 Nor death, nor hell our hopes fhall move, 
 While GOD our friend is nigh. 
 
 Psalm XCIII. 
 
 "T'hankf giving, for temporal Blejfings. 
 
 Long Metre. 
 I. 
 E blefs the LORD, the juft the good, 
 Who fills our hearts with joy and food; 
 
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 Who pours his bleflings from the ikies, 
 And loads our days with rich fupplies. 
 
 II. 
 He fends the fun his circuit round, 
 To chear the fruits, to warm the ground : 
 He bids the clouds with plenteous rain 
 Refrefh. the thirfty earth again. 
 
 III. 
 >Tis to his care we owe our breath, 
 And all our near efcapes from death : 
 Safety and health to GOD belong ; 
 He heals the weak, and guards the ftrorrg. 
 
 Psalm XCIV. 
 
 'T hank/giving. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 SING to the LORD Jehovah's name, 
 And in his ftrength rejoice ; 
 When his falvation is our theme, 
 Exalted be our voice. 
 II. 
 With thanks approach his awful fight, 
 
 And pfalms of honour fing ; 
 The LORD'S a GOD of boundlefs might, 
 The whole creation's king, 
 III. 
 Let princes hear, let angels know, 
 How mean their natures feem; 
 Thofe gods on high, and gods below.> 
 When once compar'd with him* 
 
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 IV. 
 
 Earth with its caverns dark and deep, 
 
 Lies in his fpacious hand; 
 He fix'd the feas what bounds to keep, 
 
 And where the hills mud (land. 
 V. 
 Come and with humble fouls adore, 
 
 Come kneel before his face ; 
 O may the creatures of his pow'r 
 
 Be children of his grace 1 
 
 Psalm XCV. 
 
 "Thanks to GOT) for Prefervatloru 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 TO heav'n I lift my waiting eyes, 
 There all my hopes are laid : 
 The LORD that built the earth and fkies, 
 Is my perpetual aid. 
 II. 
 Their feet fhall never Aide to fall, 
 
 Whom he defigns to keep ; 
 His ear attends the foftefl call; 
 His eyes can never fleep. 
 III. 
 He will fuftain our weakeft povv 
 
 With his almighty arm, 
 And watch our moft unguarded hours 
 Againft furprizing harm. 
 
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 IV. 
 
 IfSel rejoice, and reft fecure, 
 Thy keeper is the LORD; 
 His wakeful eyes employ his pow'r 
 For thine eternal guard. 
 V. 
 Nor fcorching fun, nor fickly moon, 
 
 Shall have its leave to fmite; 
 He fhields thy head from burning noon, 
 From blading damps at night. 
 VI. 
 He guards thy foul, he keeps thy breath, 
 
 Where thickeft dangers come: 
 Go and return fecure from death, 
 'Till GOD commands thee home. 
 
 Psalm XCVL 
 'Thanks to GOD our Preferver. 
 As the 148th Psalm. 
 
 I. 
 
 UPWARD I lift mine eyes, 
 From GOD is all my aid ; 
 The GOD who built the fkies, 
 And earth and nature made : 
 GOD is the tow'r 
 To which I fly; 
 His grace is nigh 
 In ev'ry hour. 
 
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 II. 
 My feet {hall never Aide, 
 And fall in fatal fnares, 
 Since GOD my guard and guide 
 Defends me from my fears. 
 Thofe wakeful eyes 
 That never fleep, 
 Shall Ifr'el keep, 
 When dangers rife. 
 III. 
 No burning heats by day, 
 Nor blafts of ev'ning air, 
 Shall take my health away, 
 If GOD be with me there : 
 Thou art my fun, 
 And thou my made, 
 To guard my head 
 By night or noon. 
 IV. 
 Haft thou not giv'n thy word 
 To fave my foul from death ? 
 And I can truft my LORD 
 To keep my mortal breath ; 
 I'll go and come, 
 Nor fear to die. 
 Till from on high 
 Thou call me home, 
 
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 Psalm XCVII. 
 
 Thanks for temporal and fpiritaal Mercies* 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 GIVE thanks to GOD ; he reigns above, 
 Kind are his thoughts, his name, his lover 
 His mercy ages pad have known, 
 And ages long to come fhall own. 
 
 II. 
 He feeds and cloaths us ev'ry day, 
 He guides our footfteps left we (tray ; 
 He guards us with a pow'rful hand, 
 And brings us to the heav'nly land. 
 
 III. 
 O let the faints with joy record, 
 The truth and goodnefs of the LORD ! 
 How great his works ! how kind his ways] 
 Let ev'ry tongue pronounce his praife. 
 
 Psalm XCVIII. 
 
 GOT>'s tender Mercy to his People. 
 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 BLESS thou the LORD, my foul; his name 
 Let all the pow'rs within me blefs : 
 O let not his pafl favours lie 
 Forgotten in unthankfulnefs. 
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 II. 
 'Tis he who pardons all thy (ins; 
 He who jn (icknefs makes thee found ; 
 ? Tis he redeems thee from the grave-, 
 And (till thy life with love is crown'd. 
 
 III. 
 Abundant mercies flow from GOD, 
 Love is his nature and delight : 
 Slow is his wrath, and tho' he chides, 
 His ways ar? juft, his judgments right, 
 
 IV. 
 As heaven is far above the earth, 
 So his rewards exceed our love ; 
 Farther than eaft is from the weft, 
 His pardon does our fins remove. 
 
 Psalm XCIX. 
 
 Give thanks to GOD always in all things. 
 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 C^REAT GOD my joyful thanks to thee 
 J Shall, like thy gifts, continual be: 
 In conflant dreams thy bounty flows, 
 Nor end, nor inter mi (Hon knows. 
 
 II. 
 Thy kindnefs all my comforts gives, 
 Mynum'rous wants thine hand relieves: 
 Nor can I ever, LORD, be poor, 
 Who live on thine exhauftlefs {lore 
 
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 in. 
 If, what I wifh, thy will denies, 
 Tis becaufe thou art good and wife: 
 Afflictions, which may make me mourn, 
 Thou can'ft, thou do'ft to blefllngs turn. 
 
 IV. 
 Deep, LORD, upon my thankful bread, 
 Let all thy favours be impreft; 
 That I may never more forget 
 The fum, or any (ingle debt. 
 
 V. 
 May I with grateful heart, each day, 
 For daily gifts, my praifes pay ; 
 Delighted may I always be, 
 In all things to give thanks to thee. 
 
 Psalm C. 
 
 T'hankf giving. 
 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 O Render thanks to GOD above, 
 The fountain of eiernal love; 
 Whofe mercy firm thro' ages paft 
 Has flood, and fhall for ever lad. 
 
 II. 
 Who can his mighty deeds exprefs, 
 Not only vaft, but numberlefs ? 
 What mortal eloquence can raife, 
 His tribute of immortal praife? 
 
no PSALMS 
 
 ill. 
 Happy are they, and only they, 
 Who from thy judgments never ftray : 
 Who know what's right; not only fo, 
 But likewife practice what they know. 
 
 IV. 
 O may I worthy prove to fee 
 Thy faints in full profperity ; 
 That I the joyful choir may join, 
 And count thy people's triumph mine. 
 
 Psalm CI. 
 
 Thanks for the Goodnefs of GOT> to Mankind. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 OLORD, thy bounty flows above, 
 Where all the bled refide ; 
 By thee, the fpring and life of love, 
 With conftant blifs fupplied. 
 II. 
 Nor can the heavens extenfive bound 
 
 Thy goodnefs, LORD, confine : 
 In all thy worlds thy grace is found j 
 Earth fhares in love divine. 
 III. 
 But above all thy works below 
 
 Thy creature man is bieft ; 
 He Hands, thy great good will to fhew, 
 Diftinguifh'd from the reft. 
 
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 IV. 
 With comely form his body's grac'd, 
 
 Tho' for a ihell defign'd : 
 But, LORD, how much is this furpafs'd 
 
 By his indwelling mind ? 
 V. 
 There have his nobler pow'rs their feat, 
 
 Which fit him to be bleffc ; 
 To find in GOD a fund complete 
 
 Of happinefs and reft. 
 VI. 
 Surprizing love and goodnefs! LORD, 
 
 That claim our higheit praife ; 
 For ever let it be ador'd, 
 
 And holy wonder raife. 
 
 Psalm CIL 
 
 T'he Bounty of GOD in the Seafons of the Tear. 
 Proper Tune. 
 
 I. 
 
 LET thanks toxhee, all-fov'reign pow'r arife, 
 Who fix'd the mountains and who fpread the ikies . 
 From the glad climes whence morn in beauty dreft. 
 Forth goes, rejoicing, to the far theft weft. 
 
 It 
 On thee alone our whole dependance lies, 
 And thy rich mercy ev'ry want fupplies : 
 O thou great author of th' extended whole! 
 Revolving feafons praife thee as they roll. 
 
ii2 PSALMS 
 
 in. 
 By thee, fpring, fummer, nutumn, winter rife, 
 Thou giv'ft the frowning, thou the fftiiling ikies: 
 By thy command the foft'ning fhow'r diftils, 
 Till genial warmth the teeming furrow fills. 
 * IV. 
 
 Then fav'ring fun-mine o'er the clime extends, 
 And bled by thee the verdant blade afcends ; 
 Next fpring's gay produces cloath the flow'ry hills, 
 And joy the wood, and joy the valley fills. 
 
 V. 
 Then foon thy bounty fwells the golden ear, 
 And bids the harveft crown the fruitful year : 
 Thus all thy works confpicuous worfhip raife, 
 And nature's face proclaims her maker's praife. 
 
 Psalm CIIL 
 
 Thanks to GO J) for his innumerable Menu 
 
 Common Metre 
 
 I. 
 T ORD, when I count thy mercies o'er, 
 *-** They ftrike me with furprize ; 
 Not all the fands that fpread the iliorc 
 To equal numbers rife. 
 
 II. 
 
 My flefli with fear and wonder ftands, 
 
 The product of thy fkill ; 
 And hourly blefllngs from thy hands 
 
 Thy thoughts of love reveal. 
 
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 in. 
 Thefe on my heart by night I keep; 
 
 How kind, how dear to me ! 
 O may the hour that ends my fleep, 
 
 Still find my thoughts with thee. 
 
 Psalm CIV. 
 
 'The Blejjlngs of Spring, 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 GOOD is the LORD the heav'nly King, 
 Who makes the earth bis care; 
 Vifits the paftures ev'ry fpring, 
 And bids the grafs appear. 
 II. 
 The clouds, like rivers rais'd on high, 
 
 Pour out, at thy command, 
 Their wat'ry bleflings from the iky, 
 To chear the thirily land. 
 III. 
 The foften'd ridges of the field 
 
 Permit the corn to fpring ; 
 The vallies rich provifion yield, 
 And the poor lab'rers fing. 
 IV. 
 The little hills, on ev'ry fide, 
 Rejoice at falling {how'rs ; 
 The meadows, drefs'd in all their pride, 
 Perfume the air with flow'rs. 
 
H4 PSALMS 
 
 v. 
 
 The barren clods refrefh'd with rain, 
 
 Promife a joyful crop ; 
 The parching grounds look green again, 
 
 And raife the reaper's hope. 
 VI. 
 The various months thy goodnefs crowns ; 
 
 How bounteous are thy ways ? 
 The bleating flocks fpread o'er the downs, 
 And fhepherds fhout thy praife. 
 
 Psalm CV. 
 
 Ho s ann ah to JESUS CHRIST, the 
 
 Saviour. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 HARK the glad found,the S a v i o uRComes, 
 The Saviour promis'd long! 
 Let ev'ry heart prepare a throne, 
 And ev'ry voice a fong. 
 II. 
 On him the fpirit largely pour'd 
 
 Exerts its facred fire : 
 Wifdom and might, and zeal and lovei 
 His holy bread infpire. 
 III. 
 He comes the pris'ncrs to releafe, 
 
 In Satan's bondage held : 
 The gates of brafs before him. burft, 
 The iron fetters yeild. 
 
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 IV. 
 He came from thickeft films of vice 
 
 To clear the mental ray; 
 And on the eye opprefs'd with night 
 
 To pour celeflial day. 
 V. 
 He comes the broken heart to bind, 
 
 The bleeding foul to cure; 
 And with the treafure of his grace, 
 
 T'inrich the humble poor. 
 VI. 
 Our glad Hofannahs, Prince of peace, 
 
 Thy welcome fliall proclaim ; 
 And heaven's eternal arches ring 
 
 With thy beloved name. 
 
 Psalm CVL 
 
 Thanks to GOT) for Chrift, and the holy 
 Scriptures. 
 
 Long Metre. 
 I. 
 
 ("^ OD, who in various methods told 
 ■*" His mind and will to faints of old, 
 Sent his own fon with truth and grace, 
 To teach us in thefe latter days. 
 
 II. 
 Our nation reads the written word, 
 That book of life, that true record ; 
 The bright inheritance of heav'n 
 Is by this fure conveyance giv'n. 
 
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n<$ PSALMS 
 
 in. 
 God's kindeft thoughts are here expreft y 
 Able to make us wife and bleft : 
 The do&rines are divinely true, 
 Fit for reproof and comfort too. 
 
 IV. 
 O render thanks to GOD above, . 
 For his rich grace, his boundlefs love : 
 Let all mankind receive his word, 
 And ev'ry nation praife the LORD. 
 
 Psalm CVII. 
 
 Thanks to GOD for Jesus Christ and 
 the BleJJIngs of his GofpeL 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 SING to the LORD, ye diftant lands, 
 Ye tribes of ev'ry tongue ; 
 His new-difcover'd grace demands 
 A new and nobler fong. 
 II. 
 Say to the nations, Jesus reigns, 
 
 GOD's own almighty fon; 
 His pow'r the finking world fuflains, 
 And grace furrounds his throne. 
 III. 
 Let heav'n proclaim the joyful day, 
 
 Joy through the earth be feen j 
 Let cities-fhine in bright array, 
 And fields in chearful green. 
 
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 IV. 
 Let an unufual joy furprize 
 
 The iflands of the fea : 
 Ye mountains fink, ye valleys rife, 
 
 Prepare the LORD his way. 
 V. 
 Behold he comes, he comes to blefs 
 
 The nations as their GOD ; 
 To fhew the world his righteoufnefs, 
 
 And fend his truth abroad. 
 
 Psalm CVIIL 
 Praife for the GofpeL 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 TO our almighty maker, GO]}, 
 New honours be addreft; 
 His great falvation fhines abroad, 
 And makes the nations bleft. 
 II. 
 He fpake the word to Abiam firft, 
 
 His truth fulfils the grace; 
 The gentiles make his name their truft, 
 And learn his righteoufnefs. 
 III. 
 Let the whole earth his love proclaim 
 
 With all their diff'rent tongues; 
 And f pread the honours of his name 
 In melody and fongs. 
 
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 Psalm CIX. 
 
 Thankf giving for theBleJJings of 'the MeJJlah } s 
 Kingdom. 
 
 Common Metre, 
 
 I. 
 
 JOY to the world; the LORD is come ; 
 Let earth receive her king : 
 Let ev'ry heart prepare him room, 
 And heav'n and nature fing. 
 II. 
 Joy to the earth, the Sav iour reigns; 
 
 Let men their fongs employ; 
 While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains, 
 Repeat the founding joy. 
 III. 
 No more let fins and forrows grow, 
 
 Nor thorns infeft the ground ; 
 He comes to make his bleflings flow, 
 Far as the curfe is found. 
 IV. 
 He rules the world with truth and grace, 
 
 And makes the nations prove 
 The glories of his righteoufhefs, 
 And wonders of his love. 
 
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 Psalm CX. 
 
 The Way, and End of the righteous, and 
 wicked. 
 
 Common Metre 
 
 I. 
 
 HOW biift: is he, who ne'er confents 
 By ill advice to walk; 
 Nor ftands in Tinners ways, nor fits 
 Where men profanely talk ! 
 II. 
 But makes the perfect law of GOD 
 
 His bus'nefs and delight ; 
 Devoutly reads therein by day, 
 And meditates by night. 
 III. 
 Like fome fair tree, which, fed by ftreams, 
 
 With timely fruit does bend j 
 He (till fhall flourifh, and fuccefs 
 All his defigns attend. 
 IV. 
 Ungodly men, and their attempts, 
 
 No lading root fhall find ; 
 Untimely blafted, and difpers'd 
 Like chaff before the wind. 
 V. 
 Their guilt fhall ftrike the wicked dumb 
 
 Before their judge's face : 
 No formal hypocrite fhall then 
 Among the faints have place. 
 
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 VI. 
 For GOD approves the juft man's ways ; 
 
 To happinefs they tend : 
 But flnners, and the paths they tread, 
 
 Shall both in ruin end. 
 
 Psalm CXI. 
 
 Love to Enemies from the Example of ChriJI. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 I. 
 
 GOD of my mercies and my praife, 
 Thy glory is my fong ; 
 Tho'finners fpeafe againft thy grace 
 With a blafpheming tongue. 
 II. 
 When in the form of mortal man 
 Thy fon on earth was found, 
 With cruel flanders, falfe and vain, 
 They compafs'd him around. 
 III. 
 Their mis'ries his companion move, 
 
 Their peace he (till purfu'd; 
 They render hatred for his love, 
 And evil for his good. 
 IV. 
 Their malice rag'd without a caufe, 
 
 Yet, with his dying breath, 
 He pray'd for murd'rers on his crofs, 
 And blefl: his foes in death. 
 V. 
 LORD, fhall thy bright example fhine 
 In vain before my eyes ? 
 
PSALMS, i2i 
 
 Give me a foul a-kin to thine, 
 
 To love my enemies. 
 VI. 
 The LORD fhall on my fide engage, 
 
 And, in my Saviour's name, 
 I fhall defeat their pride and rage, 
 
 Whoflander and condemn. 
 
 Psalm CXIL 
 The blefed Man. 
 f Proper Tune. 
 
 I. 
 
 BLEST is the man who fears the LORD, 
 And walks with pleafure in his ways, 
 Who trembles at his holy word, 
 Yet gladly his command obeys : 
 His houfe with bleffings fhall abound, 
 His feed be mighty and renown'd. 
 
 II. 
 A gen'rous pity warms his heart ; 
 His kindnefs widely he extends; 
 The poor in all his wealth have part, 
 To fome he gives, to other lends : 
 Yet what his bounty waftes, repairs 
 By wifely ord'ring his affairs. 
 
 III. 
 Nor is that loft which he beftowS 
 With lib'ral heart to help the poor \ 
 His hand a future harveft fows, 
 /^nd fcatters to augment his ftore j 
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 His bounty Avail himfelf furvive, 
 And blelTmgs on his heirs derive. 
 
 IV. 
 When times with difmal face appear, 
 With frightful clouds, and gloom o'er fpread, 
 His heart Avail entertain no fear, 
 Above the gloom he'll lift his head : 
 His faith Avail bear his courage up, 
 And GOD approves and crowns his hope. 
 
 V. 
 Some friendly beams of cheering light, 
 Will thro' the darknefs make their way ; 
 And in afBi&ion's darkeff night, 
 Their greateft luftre faints display : 
 That heart ill tidings can't furprize 
 Which with firm Iruft on GOD relies. 
 
 Psalm CXIII. 
 The Blefings of the liberal Man. 
 Proper Tune. 
 
 I. 
 
 THAT man is bleft who ftands in awe 
 Of GOD, and loves his facred lawj 
 His feed on earth Avail be renown'd; 
 His houfe the feat of wealth Avail be, 
 An inexhaufted treafury, 
 And with fuccefllve honours crown'd. 
 II. 
 His lib'ral favours he extends, 
 To {qa\z he gives, to others lends : 
 
PSALMS. 
 
 A gen'rous pity fills his mind: 
 Yet what his charity impairs, 
 He favcs by prudence in affairs, 
 
 And thus he'sjuft to all mankind.. 
 III. 
 His hands, while they his alms beftow'd, 
 His glory's future harveft fow'd : 
 
 The fweet remembrance of the juft, 
 Like a green root, revives and bears 
 A train of bleflings for his heirs, 
 
 When dying nature fleeps in duft. 
 IV. 
 Befet with threatning dangers round, 
 Unmov'd Jhall he maintain his ground; 
 
 His confcience holds his courage up : 
 The foul that's fiil'd with virtue's light, 
 Shines brighteft in affliction's night; 
 
 And fees in darknefs beams of hope. 
 
 Psalm CXIV. 
 Liberality rewarded. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 HAPPY is he who fears the LORD, 
 And follows his commands ; 
 Who lends the poor without reward, 
 Or gives with lib'ral hands. 
 II. 
 £s pity dwells within his bread 
 To all the fons of need ; 
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 So GOD fliall anfwer his requeft 
 
 With blcflings on his feed. 
 III. 
 No evil tidings fhall furprize 
 
 His well-eftablifh'd mind; 
 His foul to GOD. his refuge flies, 
 
 And leaves his fears behind. 
 IV. 
 
 In times of general diftrefs 
 
 Some beams of light fhall fliine, 
 To fliew the world his rigbteoufnefs, 
 
 And give him peace divine. 
 V. 
 His works of piety and love 
 
 Remain before the LORD ; 
 Honour on earth, and joys above, 
 
 Shall be his fare reward. 
 
 Psalm CXV. 
 Brotherly Love, 
 Long Metre, 
 
 I. 
 
 OGOD, my Saviour, and my King 
 Of all I have or hope, the fpring; 
 Send down thy fpirit.from above, 
 And warm my heart with holy love. 
 
 II. 
 May I from ev'ry aft abftain, 
 That hurts or gives my neighbour pain; 
 
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 And ev'ry fecret wifh fupprefs 
 That would abridge his happinefs, 
 
 III. 
 Still may I feel my heart indin'd, 
 To act the friend to all my kind ; 
 Still wifh them fafety, health and eafc, 
 Wealth, fame* eternal life and peace. 
 
 IV. 
 With mercy let my breath o'erflow, 
 When I behold a wretch in woe j 
 And in his forrows bear a part 
 With ev'ry one of heavy heart. 
 
 V. 
 But when my neighbour's profp'rous ftatc, 
 Shall pleafure in himfelf create; 
 Let me too in his triumph join, 
 Nor once at his fuccefs repine. 
 
 VI. 
 With hearty and with forward zeal, 
 May I promote my brother's weal ; 
 Be pleas'd to pleafe, and give content, 
 His griefs to eafe, or to prevent, 
 
 VII. 
 And fhou'd my neighbour fpiteful proyc, 
 Still let me vanquifh fpite with love ; 
 Slow to refent, tho' he would grieve, 
 But apt and ready to forgive. 
 
 VIII. 
 Let love in all my conduct fliinc, 
 An image fair, tho' faint of thine: 
 Thus I thy follower wou'd prove 
 Father of men, great COD of love. 
 
u6 . DEVOTIONAL 
 
 Psalm CXVI. 
 
 A good Confcience > and SubmiJJion to GOD. 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 WHILE fome in folly's pleafures roll, 
 And feek the joys which hurt the foul; 
 Be ours that filent calm repaft, 
 A peaceful confcience to the lad : 
 
 II. 
 That tree, which bears immortal fruit, 
 Without a canker at the root : 
 That friend, who never fails the juft, 
 When other friends defert their trull. 
 
 III. 
 Amidft the various fcene of ills, 
 Each ftroke fome kind defign fulfills : 
 And fhall we murmur at our GOD, 
 When fov'reign love directs the rod P 
 
 IV. 
 Though heav'n affli&s, we'll not repine f 
 We ftill have peace and joys divine : 
 Joys which will over death prevail, 
 And brighten up its gloomy vale. 
 
 Psalm CXVII. 
 
 'the Pleafures of a good Confcience. 
 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 ORD, how fecure and bleft are they, 
 Whofe hands are pure, whofe hearts are clean-: 
 
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 Should tempefts fhake the earth and fea, 
 Their minds have heav'n and peace within; 
 
 II. 
 The day glides fweetly o'er their head, 
 Made up of innocence and love : 
 And foft and filent as the fhades, 
 Their nightly minutes gently move. 
 
 III. 
 Quick as their thoughts their joys come on, 
 But fly not half fo fad away : 
 Their fouls are ever bright as noon, 
 And calm as fummer ev'nings be. 
 
 IV. 
 How oft they look to th' heavenly hills, 
 Where groves of living pleafure grow ? 
 And pleating hopes, and chearful fmiles 
 Sit undifturb'd upon their brow. 
 
 V. 
 They fcorn to pine for golden toys, 
 But fpend the day, and fhare the night, 
 In mufing o'er diviner joys, 
 Which heaven prepares for their delight. 
 
 Psalm CXVIII. 
 
 The Pleafures of dome/lie Frtendfhip* 
 
 Short Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 BLEST are the fons of peace, 
 Whofe hearts and hopes are one 5 
 Whofe kind defigns to ferve and pleafe 
 Thro' all their actions run. 
 
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 II. 
 Bled is the pious houfe 
 
 Where zeal and friendfhip meet ; 
 Their fongs ofpraife, their mingled vows, 
 
 Make their communion fweet. 
 III. 
 Thus when on darorfshead 
 
 They pour'd the rich perfume, 
 The oil thro' all his raiment fpread, 
 
 And pleafurc fill'd the room. 
 IV. 
 Thus on the heav'nly hills 
 
 The faints are bled above, 
 Where joy like morning-dew diftils, 
 
 And all the air is love. 
 
 Psalm CXIX. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 ' Humility and SubmiJJion. 
 
 I. 
 
 IS there ambition in my heart ? 
 Search, gracious GOD, and fee; 
 Or do I a£t a haughty part ? 
 LORD, I appeal to thee. 
 II. 
 I charge my thoughts, be humble (till, 
 
 And all my carriage mild, 
 Content, my father, with thy will, 
 And quiet as a child. 
 
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 in. 
 The patient foul, the lowly mind, 
 
 Shall have a large reward : 
 Let faints in forrow lie refign'd, 
 
 And truft a faithful LORD. 
 
 Psalm CXX. 
 
 Obedience is better than Sacrifice* 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 HP HUS faith the LORD, " the fpacious fields> 
 
 "V " And flocks and herds are mine ; 
 '* O'er all the cattle of the hills 
 " I claim a right divine. 
 II. 
 " I afk no £heep for facriflce, 
 
 " Nor bullocks burnt with fire; 
 " To hope and love, to pray and praife, 
 " Is all that I require. 
 III. 
 *' Call upon me when trouble's near, 
 
 " My hand mall fet thee free; 
 « Then ihall thy thankful lips declare 
 f* The honour due to me. 
 IV. 
 *9 The man who offers humble praife, 
 
 " He glorifies me bell; 
 " And thofe who tread my holy ways 
 " Shall my falvation tafte. 
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 Psalm CXXI. 
 T^he Hdppinefs of a virtuous Life. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 t 
 
 HOW blefs'd are they who always keefy 
 The pure and perf eft way I 
 Who never from the facred paths 
 Of GOD's commandments ftray I 
 II. 
 How blefs'd ! who to his righteous laws 
 
 Have flill obedient been ! 
 And have with fervent humble zeal 
 His favour fought to win ! 
 III. 
 Such men their utmoft caution ufc 
 
 To fhun each wicked deed; 
 But in the path which he direfts 
 With conltant care proceed. 
 IV. 
 Thou ftriftly haft enjoin'd us, LORD; 
 
 To learn thy facred will; 
 And all our diligence employ 
 Thy ftatutes to fulfil. 
 V. 
 O then that thy mod holy will 
 Might o'er my ways prefide ! 
 And I the courfe of all my life 
 By thy direction guide! 
 
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 vi. 
 
 Then with atflirance ihould I walk, 
 
 From all confufion free; 
 Convinc'd, with joy, that all my ways 
 
 With thy commands agree. 
 
 Psalm CXXIL 
 
 Going to Churcb* 
 Proper Tune. 
 
 I. 
 
 HOW pleas'd and bleft, was I, 
 To hear the people cry, 
 Come, let usfeek our GOT) to-day; 
 
 Yes, with a chearful zeal 
 
 We hafte to Z ion's hill, 
 And there our vows and honours pay. 
 
 II. 
 Zion, thrice happy place, 
 
 Adorn'd with wond'rous grace, 
 And walls of ftrength embrace thee round ■ 
 
 In thee our tribes appear 
 
 To pray, and praife, and hear, 
 The facred gofpel's joyful found. 
 
 III. 
 May peace attend thy gate, 
 
 And joy within thee wait, 
 To blefs the foul of ev'ry gueft ; 
 
 The man who feeks thy peace, 
 
 And wifhes thine increafe, 
 A thoufand bleffings on him reft ! 
 
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i 3 2 DEVOTIONAL 
 
 IV. 
 
 My tongue repeats her vows, 
 
 "Peace to this f acred houfe ! 
 For there my friends and kindred dwell; 
 
 And (Ince my glorious GOD 
 
 Makes thee his belt abode, 
 My foul fhall ever love thee well. 
 
 Psalm CXXIIL 
 Inftruciion from Scripture. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 HOW fhall the young fecure their hearts, 
 And guard their lives from fin? 
 Thy word the choiceft rules imparts 
 To keep the confeience clean. 
 II. 
 When once it enters to the mind, 
 
 It fpreads fuch light abroad, 
 The meaneft fouls initru&ion find, 
 And raife their thoughts to GOD. 
 III. 
 'Tis like the fun, a heav'nly light, 
 
 That guides us all the day ; 
 And thro' the dangers of the night, 
 A lamp to lead our vvay c 
 IV. 
 The men who keep thy law with care> 
 And meditate thy word, 
 
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 (jtow wifer than their teachers arc, 
 
 And better know the LORD. 
 V. 
 Thy precepts make me truly wife ; 
 
 I hate the (inner' s road : 
 I hate my own vain thoughts that rife, 
 
 But love thy law, my GOD. 
 VL 
 [The flarry heav'ns thy rule obey, 
 
 The earth maintains her place ; 
 And thefe thy fervants night and day 
 
 Thy Jkill and pow'r exprefs. 
 VII. 
 But (till thy law and gofpel, LORD, 
 
 Have leflbns more divine : 
 Not earth (lands firmer than thy word, 
 
 Nor ftars fo nobly fhine.] 
 VIII. 
 Thy word is everlafting truth, 
 
 How pure is ev'ry page ! 
 That holy book fhall guide our youth* 
 
 And well fupport our age. 
 
 Psalm CXXIV. 
 
 The Character and Hope of the good Man. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 I. 
 
 LORD, who's the happy man who may 
 To thy bleft courts repair ; 
 Not, ftranger-like, to vifit them. 
 But to inhabit there ? 
 
j 3 4 DEVOTIONAL 
 
 ii. 
 ? Tis he, whofe ev'ry thought and deed 
 
 By rules of virtue moves; 
 Whofe gen'rous tongue difdains to fpeak 
 
 The thing his heart difproves. 
 III. 
 Who never did a flander forge, 
 
 His neighbour's fame to wound; 
 Nor hearken' to a falfe report, 
 
 By malice whifperM round. 
 IV. 
 Who vice, in all its pomp and pow'r, 
 
 Can treat with juft neglect; 
 And piety, tho' cloath'd in rags, i 
 
 Religioufly refpeft. 
 
 y. 
 
 Who to his plighted vows and truft 
 
 Has ever firmly flood ; 
 And tho' he promife to his lofs, - 
 
 He makes his promife good. 
 VI. 
 Whofe foul in finful ways difdains 
 
 His treafure to employ; 
 Whom no rewards can ever bribe 
 
 The guiltlefs to deftroy. 
 VII. 
 The man, who by this fteady courfe 
 
 Has happinefs infur'd : 
 When earth's foundation fliakes, foall ftand, 
 
 By providence fccur'd. 
 
P SALM S. *g$ 
 
 Psalm CXXV. 
 
 The Excellency of the Gofpeh 
 
 Short Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 BEHOLD the morning fun 
 ' Begins his glorious way; 
 His beams thro' all the nations run, 
 And life and light convey. 
 II. 
 But where the Gofpel comes, 
 
 It fpreads diviner light; 
 It calls dead finners from their tombs, 
 And gives the blind their fight. 
 III. 
 How perfect is thy word, 
 
 And all thy judgments juft ; 
 For ever fure thy promife LORD, 
 And men fecurely truft. 
 IV. 
 My gracious GOD how plain, 
 
 Are thy directions giv'n ; 
 O may I never read in vain, 
 But find the path to heav'n. 
 V, 
 While with my heart and tongue, 
 
 I fpread thy praife abroad, 
 Accept the worfhip and the fong, 
 My Saviour and my GOL>, 
 
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 Psalm CXXVI. 
 
 *£he Excellency of the Scriptures, 
 
 As the 113 Psalm. 
 I. 
 
 I Love the volumes of thy word ; 
 What light and joy thofe leaves afford 
 To fouls benighted and diftreft ! 
 Thy precepts guide my doubtful way, 
 Thy fear forbids my feet to (tray, 
 Thy promife leads my heart to reft. 
 II. 
 From the difcov'ries of thy law 
 The perfect rules of life I draw, 
 
 Thefe are my ftudy and delight : 
 Not honey fo invites the tafte, 
 Nor gold that hath the furnace pad, 
 Appears fo pleafing to the fight. 
 III. 
 Thy threat'nings wake my flumb'ring eyes, 
 And warn me where my danger lies ; 
 
 But 'tis thy bleiTed Gofpel, LORD, 
 That makes my guilty confcience clean, 
 Converts my foul, fubdues my (in, 
 And gives a free, but large reward. 
 IV. 
 Who knows the errors of his thoughts ? 
 My GOD, forgive my fecret faults, 
 
 And from prefumptuous (ins reftrain: 
 Accept my poor attempts of praife, 
 That I have read thy book of grace, 
 And book of nature, not in vain. 
 
PSALMS. 137 
 
 Psalm CXXVII. 
 
 The Pleafure of Public Worfyip. 
 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 HOW pleafant, how divinely fair, 
 O LORD of hods, thy dwellings are! 
 With long defire my fpirit faints 
 To meet the afTembliesof thy faints. 
 
 II. 
 My flcfh would reft in thine abode, 
 My panting heart cries out for GOD : 
 My GOD ! my King ! why mould I be 
 So far from all my joys and thee ? 
 
 III. 
 Bleft are the faints who fit on high 
 Around thy throne of majefty : 
 Thy brighter!: glories mine above, 
 
 And all their work is praife and love. 
 
 IV. 
 Bleft are the fouls who find a place 
 "Within the temple of thy grace ; 
 There they behold thy gentler rays. 
 And feek thy face, and learn thy praife. 
 
 V. 
 Bleft are the men whofe hearts are fet 
 To find the way to Z/Ws gate : 
 GOD is their ftrength ; and thro' the road 
 They lean upon their helper, GOD. 
 T 
 
138 DETOTIONAL 
 
 vr. 
 
 Chearful they walk with growing flrength, 
 'Till all fhall meet in heav'n at length'; 
 'Till all before thy face appear, 
 And join in nobler worfnip there. 
 
 Psalm CXXVIII. 
 
 Sincerity in 'Divine TFo>jbip. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 C""> OD is a fpirit, juft and wife, 
 JT He fees our inmoft mind : 
 In vain to heav'n we raife our cries, 
 And leaVc our fouls behind. 
 II. 
 Nothing but truth before his throne, 
 
 With honour can appear: 
 The formal hypocrites are known, 
 Thro' the difguife they wear. 
 III. 
 Their lifted eyes falute the Ikies, 
 
 Their bending knees the ground: 
 But GOD abhors the facrifice, 
 Where not the heart is found. 
 IV. 
 LORD fearch our thoughts, and try our ways, 
 
 And make our fouls fincere : 
 Then fhall we (land before thy face, 
 And find acceptance there. 
 
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PSALMS. i i9 
 
 Psalm CXXIX. 
 
 The Life md T)eath of good Men* 
 
 Common Metre, 
 I. 
 
 MY GOD, the fteps of pious men 
 Are order'd by thy will ; 
 Tho' they fhou'd fall, they rife again; 
 Thy hand fupports them (till. 
 II. 
 The LORD delights to fee their ways, 
 
 Their virtue He approves ; 
 He'll ne'er deprive the in of his grace, 
 Or leave the man he loves. 
 
 m. 
 
 The heavenly heritage is theirs, 
 
 Their portion and their home : 
 He feeds them now. and makes them heirs 
 
 Of bleffings long to come. 
 IV. 
 Mark well the man of r'ghteoufhefs. 
 
 His fev'ral Reps attend; 
 True pleafure runs thro' all his ways, 
 
 And peaceful is his end. 
 
 Psalm CXXX. 
 The Jujlice and Goodnefs of GOT). 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 HYjuftice, LORD, maintains its throne, 
 ThV mountains melt away ; 
 T: 
 
i 4 o DEVOTIONAL 
 
 Thy judgments are a world unknown, 
 
 A deep unfathom'd fea. 
 IT. 
 Safety to men thy goodnefs brings, 
 
 Nor overlooks the beaft : 
 Beneath the fhadow of thy wings 
 
 Thy children love to reft. 
 III. 
 From thee, when fhort-liv'd joys run low, 
 
 And mortal comforts die ; 
 Perpetual fprings of life fliall flow, 
 
 And raife our pleafures high. 
 IV. 
 Tho' all created light decay, 
 
 And death clofe up our eyes ; 
 Thy prefence makes eternal day, 
 
 Where clouds can never rife. 
 
 Psalm CXXXL 
 
 T^he Character and Reward of the good Man. 
 
 Long Metre. 
 
 I. 
 np HIS fpacious earth is all the LORD's, 
 
 **• And men, and worms, and beafts, and birds J 
 He rais'd it high above the feas, 
 And form'd it for their dwelling place. 
 
 II. 
 But there's a brighter world on high, 
 The heav'nly feats above the fky : 
 Who fhall afcend that bleft abode, 
 And dwell fo near his maker GOD ? 
 
PSALMS. 141 
 
 in. 
 
 He who abhors, and fears to (in, 
 Whofe heart is pure; whofe hands are cleao : 
 Him will the LORD delight to blefs, 
 And cloath with robes of righteoufnefs. 
 
 IV. 
 Thefe are the men, the pious race, 
 Who feek their heav'nly fathers face ; 
 Thefe fhall enjoy the bhfsful fight, 
 And dwell in everlafling light. 
 
 Psalm CXXXIL 
 %*/?? Seafons of the Tear. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 WITH fongs and honours founding loud 
 Addrefs the LORD on high; 
 Over the heav'ns he fpreads his cloud, 
 And waters veil the iky. 
 II. 
 He fends his fhow'rs of bleflings down 
 
 To chear the plains below : 
 He makes the grafs the mountains crown, 
 And corn in valleys grow. 
 III. 
 He gives the grazing ox his meat, 
 
 He hears the ravens cry : 
 Put man who taftes his fineft wheat, 
 Should raife his honours high. 
 
i 4 * DEVOTIONAL 
 
 IV. 
 His fteady counfels change the face, 
 
 Of the declining year ; 
 He bids the fun cut fhort his race, 
 
 And wint'ry days appear. 
 V. 
 His hoary froft, his fleecy fnow, 
 
 Defcend and clothe the ground ; 
 The liquid ftreams forbear to flow, 
 
 In icy fetters bound. 
 VI. 
 When from his dreadful ftorcs on high 
 
 He pours the rattling hail, 
 The wretch that dares his GOD defy 
 
 Shall find his courage fail. 
 VII. 
 He fends his word and melts the fhow, 
 
 The fields no longer mourn ; 
 He calls the warmer gales to blow, 
 
 And bids the fpring return. 
 VKL 
 The changing wind, the flying cloud, 
 
 Obey his mighty word : 
 With fongs and honours founding loud, 
 
 Praife ye the fov'reign LORD. 
 
 Psalm CXXXIII. 
 "The Citizen of Zim. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 W 
 
 I. 
 
 HO fliall inhabit in thy hill, 
 OGODofholjnefs? 
 
PSALMS. 143 
 
 Whom will the LORD admit to dwell 
 
 So near his throne of grace ? 
 II. 
 The man who walks in pious ways, 
 
 And works with right'ous hands j 
 Who trufts his maker's promifes, 
 
 And follows his commands. 
 III. 
 He fpeaks the meaning of his heart, 
 
 Nor flanders with his tongue ; 
 Will fcarce believe an ill report, 
 
 Nor do his neighbour wrong. 
 IV. 
 The wealthy (inner he contemns, 
 
 Loves all who fear the LORD; 
 And tho' to his own hurt he fwears, 
 
 Still he performs his word. 
 V. 
 His hands didain a golden bribe, 
 
 And never gripe the poor: 
 This man fhall dwell with GOD on earth, 
 
 And find his heav'n fecure, 
 
 Psalm CXXXIV. 
 
 Seeking after GOD, 
 Short Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 MY GOD, permit my tongue 
 This joy, to call thee minej 
 And let my early cries prevail 
 To tafte thy love divine.- 
 
i 4 4 DEVOTIONAL 
 
 II. 
 For life, without thy love, 
 
 No relifh can afford : 
 No joy can be compar'd to this, 
 
 To ferve and pleafe the LORD. 
 ill. 
 To thee I'll lift my hands, 
 
 And praife thee while I live ; 
 Not all the dainties of a feaft, 
 
 Such food or pleafure give. 
 IV. 
 In wakeful hours of night, 
 
 I call my GOD to mind ; 
 I think how wife thy counfels are, 
 
 And all thy dealings kind. 
 V. 
 Since thou haft been my help, 
 
 To thee my fpirit flies ; 
 And on thy watchful providence 
 
 My chearful hope relies. 
 VI. 
 The fliadow of thy wings 
 
 My foul in fafety keeps: 
 I follow where my father leads, 
 
 And he fupports my fteps. 
 
 Psalm CXXXV. 
 
 For Blejfing of GO'D on the Bufinefs and 
 Comforts of Life, 
 
 Long Metre. 
 I. 
 
 IF GOD fucceed not, all the coft 
 And pains to build the houfe are loft, 
 
PSALMS. 145 
 
 If GOD the ciry will not keep, 
 The watchful guards as well may fleep. 
 II. 
 
 What if you rife before the fun, 
 An\ work and roil when day is done ; 
 Careful and (paring eat your bread, 
 To fhun the poverty you dread : 
 
 III. 
 >Tis all in vain, till GIT} hath bleft; 
 He can make rich, yet g vo us reft: 
 Children and friends are blefimgs too, 
 If GOD our fov'reign make them fo. 
 
 IV. 
 Happy the man to whom he fends 
 Obedient children, faithful friends! 
 How fweet our daily comforts prove 
 When they are feafon'd with his love! 
 
 Psalm CXXXVI. 
 
 Breathing after Holinefs. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 OThat the LORD would guide my ways 
 To keep his ftatutes (till ! 
 O that my GOD would gram me grace 
 To know and do his will. 
 II. 
 O fend thy fpirit down to write 
 Thy law upon my heart i 
 U 
 
14* D V/DTIONT AL 
 
 N >- let n ^ mpeinhlgc deceit, 
 
 Njr a.'t : te liar's part- 
 Ill. 
 Fron 7tTty rim of ny eyes; 
 
 Let 'i > c r - 1 v L* i p, 
 
 N.)* C>/:i ) i. J • ire^ arite 
 Wiliui tais foul of nine. 
 IV. 
 Or Jer my f:> >tfteps by thy word, 
 
 A i 1 n ike ih / h 2 irt fiacere ; 
 Let tin have no .1 ni'iion, LORD, 
 Bat keep my confcience clear. 
 V. 
 My Ton 1 hath gone too far aftray, 
 
 M/ feet too often flip; 
 Yet (itice I've not forgot thy way, 
 Reftore thy watid'ring fheep. 
 vr. 
 
 Make me to walk in thy commands; 
 
 'Tis a delightful road : 
 Nor let my head, or heart, or hands, 
 
 OiTend againft my GOD. 
 
 Psalm CXXXVIL 
 
 The true Way to pleafe GOT>. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 I. 
 
 WHEREWITH (hall I approach the LORD, 
 And bow before his throne? 
 Or how procure his kind regard, 
 And for my guilt atone ? 
 
P S A L M S. i 47 
 
 H. 
 
 Shall altars flame, and victims bleed, 
 
 And fpicy fame* afcend ? 
 Will thefemy earned w'fh fncceed, 
 
 And make my GOD my friend ? 
 III. 
 Should thoufand rams in flames exp're, 
 
 Would thcfe his favours buy ? 
 Or oil that fhould, for holy fire, 
 
 Ten thoufand dreams fupply? 
 IV. 
 With trembling hands, and bleeding heart, 
 
 Should I mine offspring flay: 
 Would this atone fur ill-defcrt. 
 
 And purge my guilt away ? 
 V. 
 Oh! no, my foul, 'twere fruitlefs all, 
 
 Such victims bleed in vain : 
 No fat lings from the fiejd or flail, 
 
 Such favours can obtain. 
 VI. 
 To men their rights I mud allow, 
 
 And proofs of kindnefj give : 
 To GOD with bumble rev % rence\?ow, 
 
 And to his glory live. 
 \ [I. 
 Hands that are clean, and hearts fincerc, 
 
 He never will difpife : 
 And chearful duty he'll prefer 
 
 To colli y iacrifice. 
 
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148 DEVOTIONAL 
 
 Psalm CXXXVIIL 
 
 Heavenly Joy on Earth, and Pro/fed of 
 Immortality. 
 
 Short Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 COME, we who love the LORD, 
 And let onr joys be known ; 
 Join in a fong with fweet accord, 
 And thus furround the throne. 
 II. 
 The forrows of the mind 
 
 Be banifh'd from the place j 
 Religion never was defign'd 
 To make our pleafures lefs. 
 III. 
 The GOD who rules on high, 
 
 And thunders when he pleafe, 
 Who rides upon the- ftormy Iky, 
 And manages the fcas : 
 IV. 
 This awful GOD is ours, 
 
 Our father, and our love, 
 He fhall fend down his heav'nly pow'r 
 To carry us above 
 V. 
 Then fhall we fee his face> 
 
 And never, never (in; 
 There from the rivers of his grace 
 Drink endiefs pleafures in. 
 
PSALMS. 149 
 
 VI. 
 Yes, and before we rife 
 
 To that immortal (late, 
 The thoughts of fuch amazing blifs 
 
 Should conftant joys cteate. 
 VII. 
 The men of grace have found 
 
 Glory begun below : 
 Celeflial fruits, on earthly ground, 
 
 From faith and hope may grow. 
 VIII. 
 Then let our fongs abound, 
 
 And ev'ry tear be dry; 
 We're marching thro' InknanuePs, ground 
 
 To fairer worlds en high. 
 
 Psalm CXXXXIX. 
 
 JMen called upon to ivorjbip COD. 
 
 Short Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 COME, found his praife abroad, 
 And hymns of glory Gng: 
 Jehovah is the fov'reign GOD, 
 The univerfal King. 
 II. 
 He form'd the deeps unknown; 
 
 He gave the feas their bound; 
 The wat'ry worlds are all his own, 
 And all the folid ground. 
 
150 DEVOTIONAL 
 
 III. 
 
 Come, worfliip at his throne, 
 
 Come bow before the LORD ; 
 We are his works, and not our own, 
 
 He form'd us by his word. 
 IV. 
 To day attend his voice, 
 
 Nor dare provoke his rod ; 
 Come, like the people of his choice, 
 
 And own your gracious GOD. 
 
 Psalm CXL. 
 Blejfedare the Dead, -who die intbeLORT>. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 HARK! from on high a chearing voice, 
 Lend all a liftVmg ear: 
 'Twill make each pious heart rejoice, 
 And vanquifli ev'ry fear, 
 II. 
 « Write hence forth, blefTed are the dead 
 
 " Who in the LORD ihall die: . 
 «' Their weary flefh as on a bed, 
 " Soft in a grave Ihall lie. 
 III. 
 " Whiift their glad fouls, at lad releas'd, 
 
 " Toheav'n ihall take their flight! 
 'f There to enjoy eternal reft, 
 il And infinite delight. 
 
PSALMS. i 5 r 
 
 IV. 
 " They'll drop each load as they afcend, 
 
 " And bid farewell to woe: 
 M Their labours with their lives fhall end, 
 
 " Their reft no period know. 
 V. 
 u They'll drudge no more for daily bread, 
 
 " No more of fin complain ; 
 " No more be pinch'd with any need, 
 
 u Nor griev'd with any pain. 
 VI. 
 " Their conflicts then with bufy foes, 
 
 ** For evermore fhall ceafe: 
 u None fhall their pleafing work oppofe, 
 
 u Or once difturb their peace. 
 VII. 
 u But vaft rewards mall recompence 
 
 " Their hearty fervice here: 
 H And perfect love fhall banifh thence, 
 
 " All diffidence and fear. 
 
 Psalm CXLI. 
 New Year's Day. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 AND now, my foul, another year, 
 Of my Qiort life is pad : 
 I cannot long continue here, 
 And this may be my laft. 
 
i-: DEVOTIONAL 
 
 ii. 
 
 M« -la " F my itifo] \ \]fc h done, 
 will return again : 
 
 / n ■>•'■' ,r y frafling moments run, 
 
 1 tie icvv that y:t remain. 
 III. 
 Awake, my foul, "with utmofr. care 
 
 Thy true condition learn : 
 "What are thy hopes, how lure, how fair ? 
 
 And what thy chief concern? 
 IV. 
 Now a new fcene of time begins, 
 
 Set out therewith for heav'n : 
 Repent of all thy former fins, 
 
 Reform, and be forgiv'n. 
 V. 
 Devoutly yield thyfelf to GOD, 
 
 And to his care commend: 
 With zeal pur Cue the heav'nly road, 
 
 Nor doubt an happy end. 
 
 Psalm CXLIL 
 
 The LORT) is our Shepherd. 
 As the 113 Psalm. 
 
 I. 
 
 HT HE LORD my paflure fhall prepare, 
 * And feed me with a fhepherd's care: 
 His pretence Hull my wants flip ply, 
 And guard me with a watchful eye ; 
 My noon -day walks he fhall attend, 
 And all my midnight hours defead. 
 
PSALMS. 153 
 
 11. 
 
 When in the fultry glebe I faint, 
 Or on the thinly mountain pant; 
 To fertile vales and dewy meads 
 My weary wand'ring fteps he leads •, 
 Where peaceful rivers foft and flow 
 Amid the verdant laridfcape flow. 
 
 III. 
 Tho' in the paths of death I tread, 
 With gloomy horrors over-fpread, 
 My ftedfaft heart mail fear no ill, 
 For thou, O LORD, art with me dill ; 
 Thy friendly hand (hall give me aid, 
 And guide me thro' the dreadful fhade. 
 
 IV, 
 Tho' in a bare and rugged way, 
 Thro' devious lonely wilds I ftray, 
 Thy bounty fliall my pains beguile, 
 The barren wildernefs ihall fmile, 
 With fudden greens and herbage crown'd ; 
 And ftreams fliail murmur all around. 
 
 Psalm CXLIIL 
 The LORD'S Prayer imitated. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 FATHER of all ! eternal Mind 1 
 Immenfely good and great ! 
 Thy children form'd and blefs'd by thee/ 
 Approach thy heav'nly feat, 
 X 
 
154 DEVOTIONAL 
 
 II. 
 Thy name in hallow'd drains be fung I 
 
 We join the folemn praife : 
 To thy great name, with heart and tongue, 
 
 Our chearful homage raife. 
 III. 
 Thy righteous, mild, and fov'reign reign 
 
 Let ev'ry being own : 
 And in our minds, thy work divine, 
 
 Erect thy gracious throne. 
 IV. 
 As angels round thy feat above, 
 
 Thy bleft commands fulfil ; 
 §o may thy creatures here below 
 
 Perform thy heav'niy will. 
 V. 
 On thee we day by day depend, 
 
 Our daily wants fupply : 
 And feed with truth and virtue pure, 
 
 Our fouls which never die. 
 VI. 
 Extend thy grace to every fault, 
 
 Oh ! let thy love forgive : 
 Teach us divine forgivenefs too, 
 
 Nor let refentments live. 
 VII. 
 Where tempting fnares beftrew the way, 
 
 Permit us not to tread : 
 Avert the threat'ning evil near, 
 
 From our unguarded head. 
 
PSALMS. ift 
 
 VIII. 
 Thy facred name we thus adore, 
 
 With joyful humble mind : 
 And praife thy goodnefs, power, and truth, 
 
 Eternal, unconfm'd. 
 
 Psalm CXLIV. 
 For Chrtflmas 'Day. 
 Proper Tune. 
 
 I. 
 
 ARISE, and hail the happy day; 
 Cafl all low cares of life away, 
 
 And thought of meaner things: 
 This day to cure our deadly woes, 
 The fun of righteoufnefs arofe, 
 
 With healing in his wings. 
 II. 
 If angels on that happy morn, 
 The Saviour of the world was born, 
 
 Pour'd forth their joyful fongs ; 
 Muctvmore fhou'd we of human race, 
 Adore the wonders of his grace, 
 
 To whom the grace belong*. 
 III. 
 How wonderful ! how vaft his love ! 
 Who left the fhining realms above, 
 
 Thofe happy feats of reft! 
 How much for human-kind he bore, 
 Their peace and pardon to reftore, 
 
 Can never be exprefs'd. 
 
 X2 
 
i 5 6 DEVOTIONAL 
 
 iv. 
 
 Whilft we adore his boundlefs grace, 
 And holy joy and thanks take place 
 
 Of forrow, grief, and pain; 
 Give glory to our GOD moil: high, 
 And not amongft the gen'ral joy, 
 
 Forget good will to men. 
 V. 
 O then let heav'n and earth rejoice, 
 Creation's whole united voice, 
 
 And hymn the happy day ; 
 When Satan's empire vanquifh'd fell, 
 And all the pow'rs of death and hell, 
 
 Before his fov'reign fway. 
 
 Psalm CXLV. 
 
 A public national Thankf giving. 
 As the 113 Psalm. 
 
 I. 
 
 AY, mould we fearch the globe around, 
 Where can fuch happinefs be found, 
 As dwells in Britain's fa vour'd ifle? 
 Here plenty reigns; here freedom flieds 
 Her choiceft blemngs on our heads, 
 And bids our hleakeft mountains (mile. 
 II. 
 Here commerce fpreads the wealthy (tore 
 That comes from ev'ry foreign fliore; 
 Science and art their charms difplay j 
 
PSALMS. 157 
 
 Religion teaches ns to raife 
 
 Our voices to our maker's praife, 
 
 As truth and confeience point the way. 
 III. 
 WhenPRANCE, from pride and envy, plann'd 
 The ruin of our blifsful land, 
 
 Here vicVry arm'd herchofen race; 
 Go forth, my valiant fons, me faid, 
 Go ftrike the haughty Gaul with dread, 
 
 And triumph in his deep difgrace. 
 
 iy. 
 
 Thefe are thy gifts, almighty King! 
 From thee our matchlefs blefTmgs fpring t 
 
 Th' extended trade, the fruitful ikies, 
 The raptures liberty beflows, 
 Th' eternal joys the gofpel mews, 
 
 All from thy boundlefs goodnefs rife. 
 V. 
 From thee, the zeal and fpirit came, 
 That did our patriot chiefs inflame; 
 
 Their ikill, their courage, all are thine °. 
 Our daring troops with glory crown'd, 
 Tell to the wond'ring nations round, 
 
 The hand that leads us is divine. 
 VI. 
 With grateful hearts, with gladfome tongues, 
 To GOD we raife triumphant fongs; 
 
 His pow'r, his mercy, we proclaim : 
 At length, ye faithlefs tyrants, own 
 J&hovah here hath hVd his throne, 
 
 And tremble at his awful name. 
 
158 DEVOTIONAL 
 
 VII. 
 Long as the moon her courfe fhall rim, 
 Or man behold the circling fun, 
 
 Oflill may GOD in Britain reign! 
 Still crown her armies with fuccefs, 
 With peace and joy her borders blefs. 
 
 And all her facred rights maintain. 
 
 Psalm CXLVI. 
 *A Morning P faint. 
 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 ON thee, each morning, O my GOD, 
 My waking thoughts attend ; 
 Jn whom are founded all my hopes, 
 And all my wiihes end. 
 If. 
 My foul, in pleafing wonder loft, 
 
 His boundlefs love furveys; 
 And, fir'd with grateful zeal, prepares, 
 Her facriflce of praife. 
 III. 
 He leads me thro' the maze of ileep, 
 
 He brings me fafe to light; 
 And, with the fame paternal care, 
 Conducts my fteps till night. 
 iV». 
 When ev'ning flumbers prefs my eyes, 
 
 With his protection bleft, 
 
 In peace and fafety I commit, 
 
 My wcary'd limbs to reft. 
 
PSALMS. 159 
 
 V. 
 
 My fpirit, in his hands fecure, 
 
 Fears no approaching ill ; 
 For, whether waking or afleep, 
 
 The LORD is with me (till. 
 vr. 
 
 I'll daily to th' aftonim'd world, 
 
 Kis wond'rons a£ts proclaim; 
 While all with me (hall praifes (ing, 
 
 With me mall blefs his name. 
 VII. 
 At morn, and noon, and night I'll (till 
 
 The growing work pnrfue ; 
 And him alone will praife, to whom, 
 
 ,Eternal praife, is due. 
 
 Psalm CXLVII. 
 
 J$n Evening Pfahn. 
 Common Metre. 
 T. 
 
 INDULGENT GOD, whofe bount'ouscare. 
 O'er all thy works is fhewn ! 
 Oh ! let my grateful pray'r and praife 
 Afcend before thy throne. 
 II. 
 What mercies has this day beftow'd, 
 
 How largely haft thou bleft ! 
 My cup with plenty overflow'd, 
 With chearfulnefs my bread. 
 III. 
 Now may fweet (lumbers clofe my eyes, 
 From pain and ficknefs free ; 
 
\6o DEVOTIONAL 
 
 Arrd let my waking thoughts ante 
 
 To meditate on thee. 
 IV. 
 So blefs each future day and night, 
 
 Till life's fond fcene is o'er; 
 And then to realms of erfdlefs light, 
 
 O ! let my fpirit foar. 
 
 Psalm CXLVIII. 
 The Pleafures of "Divine Worjhip* 
 Proper Tune. 
 
 1 
 
 IORD of the worlds above, 
 j How plea fa nt and how fair 
 The dwellings of thy love, 
 Thy earthly temples are i 
 
 To thine abode 
 
 My heart afpires-, 
 
 Witji warm deflres 
 
 To fee my GOD. 
 II. 
 The fparrow for her young 
 With pleafure feeks a neft, 
 And wandYing fwallows long 
 To find their wonted reft \ 
 
 My fpirit faints 
 
 With equal zeal 
 
 To rife and dwell 
 
 Among- thy fain&v 
 
PSALMS. 161 
 
 in. 
 O happy fouls that pray, 
 Where GOD appoints to hear \ 
 O happy men that pay 
 Their conftant fervice there ! 
 
 They praife thee flill ; 
 
 And happy they 
 
 That lore the way 
 
 To Zionh hill. 
 
 IV. 
 They go from ftrength to ftrength, 
 Thro' this dark vale of tears, 
 Till each arrives at length, 
 Till each in heav'n appears : 
 
 glorious feat,^ 
 When GOD our King 
 Shall thither bring 
 Our willing feet ! 
 
 Pause. 
 
 V. 
 
 To fpend one facred day 
 Where GOD and faints abide, 
 Affords diviner joy 
 Than thoufand days befide : 
 Where GOD reforts 
 
 1 love it more 
 To keep the door 
 Than fhine in courts. 
 
 VI. 
 GOD is our fun and fhield, 
 Our light and our defence \ 
 Y 
 
162 DEVOTIONAL 
 
 With gifts his hands are fill'd, 
 We draw our bleflinga thence j 
 He (hall bcftow 
 On JacoVs race 
 Peculiar grace 
 And glory too. 
 
 VII. 
 The LORD his people loves; 
 His hand no good with-holds 
 From thofe his heart approves, 
 From pure and pious ibuls: 
 Thrice happy he, 
 O GOD of hqfts, 
 Whofe fpirit trails 
 Alone in thee. 
 
 Psalm CXLIX. 
 
 Univcrfal Prayer. 
 Common Metre. 
 
 I. 
 
 FATHER cf all ! in ev'ry age, 
 In evVy clime ador'd, 
 By faint, by favage, and by fage, 
 JEHOVAH, JOVE, or LORD I 
 II. 
 What conference diclares to be done, 
 
 Or warns me not to do, 
 This, teach me more than hell to fliun, 
 That, more than heaVn purfue. 
 III. 
 What bleffings thy free bounty gives, 
 Let me not cad away \ 
 
PSALMS. itf 3 
 
 For GOD is paid when man receives, 
 T' enjoy is to obey. 
 IV. 
 Yet not to earth's contracted fpan 
 
 Thy goodnefs let me bound, 
 Or think thee LORD alone of man, 
 When thoufand worlds are round. 
 V. 
 Let not this weak unknowing hand 
 
 Prefumc thy bolts to throw, 
 And deal damnation round the land, 
 On each I judge thy foe. 
 VI. 
 If I am right, O teach my heart 
 
 Still in the right to (lay ; 
 If I am wrong, thy grace impart 
 To find that better way. 
 VII. 
 Save me alike from foolilh pride, 
 
 Or impious difcontent, 
 At ought thy wifdom has denied, 
 Or ought thy goodnefs lent. 
 VIII. 
 Teach me to feel another's woe ; 
 
 To hide the fault I fee ; 
 That mercy I to others fhow, 
 That mercy fhow to me. 
 IX. 
 Mean tho' I am, not wholly fo, 
 
 Since quicken'd by thy breath : 
 Oh lead me whercfoe'er I go, 
 Thro' this day's life or death, 
 
 y 2 
 
j&t DEVOTIONAL 
 
 x. - 
 This day be bread and peace my lot; 
 
 All elfe beneath the fun 
 Thou know'ft if bed beftow'd or not, 
 
 And let thy will be done, 
 XL 
 To thee vvhofe temple is all fpace, 
 
 Whofe altar, earth, fea, fkies, 
 One chorus let all beings raife ! 
 
 AH nature's incenfe rife. 
 
 Psalm CL. 
 XJmverfal Praife, 
 Proper Tune. 
 
 I. 
 
 O Azure vaults ! O cryllal fky ! 
 The world's tranfparent canopy, 
 Break your long filence, and let mortals know, 
 "With what contempt you look on things below. 
 II. 
 O light! thefaireft, firft of .things, 
 From whom all joy. all beauty fprings, 
 Praife the almighty ruler of the globe 
 Who ufeth thee for his imperial robe. 
 III. 
 Thou radiant fun ! whofe glorious ray 
 Rules the bright empire of the day: 
 O praife his name, without whofe purer light 
 Thou hadft been hid in an abyfs of night. 
 IV. 
 Ye moon and planets! who difpence 
 By GOD's command, your influence: 
 
PSALMS. i6 5 
 
 Vaft ever-moving orbs; exalt his name 
 
 Who gave its being to each glorious frame. 
 
 V. 
 
 Ye mifts and vapours, hail and fnow, 
 
 And you who thro' the concave blow 
 
 Swift executors of his holy word, 
 
 Whirlwinds, and tempefls, praife th' almighty LORD. 
 VI. 
 Mountains, who to your maker's view 
 Are Jefs than mole-hills feem to you, 
 
 Praife him, who did all forms from chaos draw, 
 
 Him whofe command is univerfal law. 
 VII. 
 Praife him ye monfters of the deep 
 That in the fea's vail: bofom ileep! 
 
 At whofe command the foaming billows roar, 
 
 Yet know their limits, tremble, and adore. 
 VIII. 
 Let the wide world his praifes fing, 
 From whom their various blefTings fpring, 
 
 Let echoing anthems make his praifes known 
 
 On earth, his footftool, as in heaven his throne. 
 
 THE END. 
 
ERRATA. 
 
 PAGE 4. line 20. read /acred joy. P. 12. I. 
 16. read diviner. P. 30. 1. 3. read Jtormy. 
 p. 37. 1. 14. reader. P. 54. laft 1. read con- 
 cert. P. 68. Thofe verfesofthe 63d. Pfalm after 
 the firft Paufe, fhould have been printed as a fepa- 
 rate Pfalm, or entirely omitted ; as they are a dif- 
 ferent Metre from the firft part, and fome of them 
 were ufed before. P. '77. 1. 14. for their read the. 
 P. 105. for its read his. P. 107. 1. 2. read, his 
 name is love. P. 125. 1. 7. for breath, read breqft. 
 
A N 
 ALPHABETICAL 
 
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 Of the Firft Lines of all the PSALMS. 
 
 A Page 
 
 ALMIGHTY GOD thy pow'rful word 2 
 
 Almighty maker GOD 62 
 
 And now, my foul, another year 151 
 
 Arife, my foul, on wings devout arife 39 
 
 Arife and hail the happy day 155 
 
 As the good fhepherd gently leads 16 
 
 B 
 
 BE thou exalted, O my GOD 63 
 
 Behold the morning fun j^c 
 Blefs thou the LORD, my foul, his name 107 
 
 Bleft is the man who fears the LORD 121 
 
 Bleft are the fons of peace 127 
 
 OME we who love the LORD 148 
 
 Come found his praife abroad 140 
 
 E 
 
 E 
 
 TERNAL GOD, almighty caufc 27 
 
 Eternal fource of ev'ry joy 50 
 
 F 
 
 FATHER of all! eternal mind ? 153 
 
 Father of all, in ev'ry age > 162 
 
 From all who dwell below the fkies -jS 
 
An Alphabetical Table to the PSALMS. 
 
 G Page 
 
 GIVE thanks to GOD, thefov'reign LORD 9 $ 
 
 Give thanks to GOD moft high 96 
 
 Give to our GOD immortal praife 08 
 
 Give thanks to GOD, he reigns above 107 
 
 GOD of our lives, whofe bounteous care 10 
 
 Good is the LORD, the heav'nly king 1 r ^ 
 
 GOD of my mercies, and my praife i 2 o 
 
 GOD is a fpirit, juft and wife jqg 
 
 Great firft of beings ! mighty LORD ! 1 
 
 Great GOD ! to thee our grateful tongues 1 r 
 
 Great GOD ! how infinite art thou ! 2 q 
 Great GOD ! the heav'ns well order'd frame 45 
 
 Great LORD of earth, and feas and ikies en 
 
 Great is the LORD, his works of might j6 
 
 Great is our GOD, his works of might 02 
 
 Great GOD ! my joyful thanks to thee I0 8 
 
 GOD, who in various methods told 1 x * 
 
 H 
 
 HAIL ! voice divine ! thus the almighty faid 9 
 Hail, King fupreme ! all wife and good 88 
 
 Happy is he who fears the LORD j 2 . 
 
 Hark the glad found, the faviour comes 1 14 
 
 Hark, from on high a cheating voice 1 r Q 
 
 He who has GOD his guardian made 23 
 
 High in the heav'ns, eternal GOD rg 
 
 How are thy fervants bleft, O LORD 2 c 
 
 How bleft is he who ne'er confents 1 19 
 
 How bleft are they who always keep 130 
 
 How pleas'd and blefs'd was I ! j >, l 
 
 How fhall the young fecure their hearts 1 3 i 
 
 Jiow pleafant ! how divinely fair ! 1 37 
 
 rl 
 
An Alphabetical Table to the PSALMS. 
 
 I Page 
 
 I Love the volume of thy word 136 
 
 I fing th' almighty pow'r of GOD 73 
 
 If GOD fucceed not, all the cofl 144 
 
 In all my vaft concerns with thee 3 1 
 
 In GOD's own houfe pronounce his praife 62 
 
 Indulgent GOD, whofe bounteous care 159 
 
 Is there ambition in my heart ? 1 28 
 
 Jehovah reigns, he dwells in light 41 
 
 Joy to the world, the LORD is come 1 18 
 
 LET all the juft to GOD with joy 3 
 
 Let all the earth their voices raife 43 
 
 Let ev'ry tongue thy goodnefs fpeak 53 
 
 Let ev'ry creature join 67 
 
 Let heathens to their idols hafte 10 2 
 
 Let thanks to thee, all fov'reign pow'r arife 1 1 1 
 
 Long as we live we'll blefs thy name 80 
 
 Look round, O man, furvey this globe 89 
 
 LORD, unto thee we lift our eyes 22 
 LOFtD thou haft fearch'd and feen me thro' 32 
 
 LORD, thou art good, all nature (hews 48 
 
 LORD, when I count thy mercies o'er 1 1 2 
 
 LORD, how fecure and bleft are they 126 
 
 LORD, who's the happy man who may 133 
 
 LORD of the worlds above 160 
 
 M 
 
 MY GOD, my everlafting hope 20 
 My GOD, my King, thy various praife 18 
 
 My GOD, the fteps of pious men 139 
 
 My GOD, permit my tongue 143 
 
 My foul infpir'd with facred love 5 4 
 Z 
 
An Alphabetical Table to the PSALMS. 
 
 N 
 
 N p agc 
 
 AKED as from the earth we came 61 
 
 71 
 7$ 
 
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 OA1I ye Tons of human race 
 O ail ye nations, praife the LORD 
 
 O azure vaults, O chryftal iky ,$* 
 
 O blefs the LORD, our fouls 55 
 
 O come, loud anthems kt us ilng or 
 O, for an hymn of universal praife ' 8 a 
 
 O happy nation, where the LORD 2 i 
 O GOD, on thee we all depend 
 O GOD, our help in ages pad 
 O GOD my faviour, and my king 
 
 O LORD, how excellent thy name 6 
 O LORD our heav'nly king 
 
 OLORD, thy bounty flows above IIO 
 
 On thee, O GOD we flill depend {)Q 
 
 On thee, each morning, my COD ,-£ 
 
 O praife the LORD in that blefr place gZ 
 
 O render thanks to GOD above ' IOO 
 
 Our fhepherd is the living LORD . l? 
 
 Our fouls repeat his praife -5 
 O that the LORD' would guide my ways . 145 
 
 14 
 124 
 
 P 
 
 R 
 
 RAISE ye the LORD, the univerfa! King 66 
 Praife ye the LORD ; our GOD to praife 77 
 
 R 
 
 EJOICE, ye righteous in the LORD' 93 
 
 Rife, rife, my foul, and leave thy ground 28 
 
 SAY, fliould we fearch the globe around 156 
 Sing to the LORD with joyful voice 4 
 
An Alphabetical Table to the PSALMS. 
 
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 Sing to the LORD JEHOVAH's name 103 
 
 Sing to the LORD, ye diftant lands 1 1 6 
 
 Songs of immortal praife belong 44 
 
 Sweet is the mem'ry of thy grace 52 
 
 THAT man is bleft who frands in awe 1 22 
 
 The LORD JEHOVAH reigns 1 3 
 
 The earth, and ail the heav'nly frame 15 
 
 The LORD himfelf, the mighty LORD 18 
 
 The LORD the fov'reign king 41 
 
 The glories of our maker. GOD 72 
 
 Thee I will blefs, my GOD and King 78 
 
 The heav'ns declare thy glory, LORD 86 
 
 The fpacious firmament on high 87 
 
 The LORD my pafture (hall prepare 152 
 
 This fpacious earth is all the LORD'S 140 
 
 Thro' all the various Ihifting fcene $7 
 
 Thus faith the LORD, the fpacious fields 129 
 
 Thy name, almighty LORD 74 
 
 Thy juftice,. LORD, maintains it's throne 139 
 
 Thy works of glory, mighty LORD 24 
 
 'Tis by thy ftrength the mountains ftand $j 
 
 To heaven my grateful foul afcends 19 
 
 To GOD the mighty LORD 100 
 
 To heav'n I lift my waiting eyes 104 
 
 To our almighty maker GOD 1 1 7 
 
 'Twas from thy hand, my GOD, I came 1 1 
 
 ? Twas GOD who nVd the rolling fpheres 34 
 
 U 
 
 Uand V 
 PWAPvD I lift mine eyes 105 
 
 Vast are thy works, almighty LORD 90 
 
An Alphabetical Table to the PSALMS. 
 
 W Page 
 
 WE blefs the LORD, the juft, the good 102 
 When I with pleafing wonder ftand 12 
 
 When all thy mercies, O our GOD 46 
 
 Wherewith mall I approach the LORD 146 
 
 While fome in folly's pleafures roll 126 
 
 Who mall inhabit in thy hill 142 
 
 With one confent let all the earth 5 
 
 With rev'rence let the faints appear 37 
 
 With chearful notes let all the earth 75 
 
 With all my pow'rs of heart and tongue 79 
 
 With glory clad, with ftrength array'd 94 
 
 With fongs and honours founding loud 141 
 
 Y 
 
 YE tribes of Adam, join 7 
 
 Ye fons of men in facred lays 36 
 
 Ye holy fouls in GOD rejoice 40 
 
 Ye that delight to ferve the LORD 42 
 
 Ye boundlefs realms of joy 64 
 
 THE END. 
 
 
 
 

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