Our help in times of deep distress,
Is found in God alone.

C. M. Colchester. [*]

Free Pardon and sincere Obedience.

• 1 [HNo more imputes his sin;

APPY the man to whom his God

But washed in his Redeemer's blood,
Hath made his garments clean!
2 Happy, beyond expression, he
Whose debts are thus discharged;
And from the guilty bondage free,
He feels his soul enlarged.

-3 His spirit hates deceit and lies,
His words are all sincere ;

He guards his heart, he guards his eyes,
To keep his conscience clear.

e 4 While I my inward guilt suppressed,
No quiet could I find;

Thy wrath lay burning in my breast,
And racked my tortured mind.

-5 Then I confessed my troubled thoughts,
My secret sins revealed;

o Thy pardoning grace forgave my faults, Thy grace my pardon sealed.

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-6 This shall invite thy saints to pray;
When, like a raging flood,

Temptations rise, our strength and stay
Is a forgiving God.]

L. M. FIRST PART. Green's. Quercy. [*]

Repentance, Justification, and Sanctification.

LEST is the man, forever blest,

'B whose guilt is pardoned by his God;

Whose sins, with sorrow, are confessed,
And covered with his Saviour's blood.

2 Blest is the man to whom the Lord
Imputes not his iniquities;

He pleads no merit of reward,
And not on works, but grace relies.

3 From guile his heart and lips are free;
His humble joy, his holy fear,
With deep repentance well agree,
Ana join to prove his faith sincere.

o 4 How glorious is that righteousness, That hides and cancels all his sins! While a bright evidence of grace,

Through his whole life appears and shines.

L. M. SECOND PART. Quercy. Bath. [*] Conscience relieved by Confession and Pardon.

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WHILE I keep silence and conceal My heavy guilt within my heart, What torments does my conscience feel, What agonies of inward smart!

21 spread my sins before the Lord, And all my secret faults confess; -Thy gospel speaks a pardoning word, o Thy holy Spirit seals the grace.

3 For this shall every humble soul Make swift addresses to thy seat; e When floods of huge temptations roll, -There shall they find a blest retreat.

4 How safe beneath thy wings I lie, e When days grow dark and storins appear; -And when I walk, thy watchful eye

Shall guide me safe from every snare.

PSALM 33. C. M. 1st PART. St. Martin's. [*] Works of Creation and Providence.

•1 REJOICE, ye righteous, in the Lord,

This work belongs to you;

Sing of his name, his ways, his word,
How holy, just and true!

o 2 His mercy and his righteousness
Let heaven and earth proclaim;
-His works of nature and of grace
Reveal his wondrous name.

3 His wisdom and almighty word
The heavenly arches spread;
And by the Spirit of the Lord,
Their shining hosts were made.

4 He bade the liquid waters flow
To their appointed deep;
The flowing seas their limits know,
And their own stations keep.

e 5 Ye tenants of the spacious earth,
With fear before him stand:
g He spake, and nature took its birth,
And rests on his command.

6 He scorns the angry nations' rage,
And breaks their vain designs;
His counsel stands through every age,
And in full glory shines.

Arundel.

C. M. SECOND PART. Colchester. Mear. [*] Creatures vain; and GoD all-sufficient.

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Bas fixed his gracious throne;

LEST is the nation, where the Lord

Where he reveals his heavenly word,
And calls their tribes his own.
2 His eye, with infinite survey,
Does the whole world behold;
He formed us all of equal clay,
And knows our feeble mould.

d 3 Kings are not rescued by the force
Of armies from the grave;

Nor speed, nor courage of a horse,

Can the bold rider save.

e 4 Vain is the strength of beasts, or men, To hope for safety thence;

o But holy souls from God obtain

A strong and sure defence.

e 5 God is their fear, and God their trust,
When plagues or famine spread;
His watchful eye secures the just,
Among ten thousand dead.

o 6 Lord, let our hearts in thee rejoice,
And bless us from thy throne;

For we have made thy word our choice,
And trust thy grace alone.

P. M. FIRST PART. St. Helen's. [*]
Works of Creation and Providence.

• 1 Y Your Maker's praise becomes your voice,

E holy souls, in God rejoice,

Great is your theme, your songs be new; Sing of his name, his word, his ways,

His works of nature and of grace,

How wise and holy, just and true!

-2 Justice and truth he ever loves,
And the whole earth his goodness proves;
His word the heavenly arches spread:

e How wide they shine from north to south!
-And by the spirit of his mouth

Were all the starry armies made.

3 He gathers the wide-flowing seas,
Those watery treasures know their place,
In the vast store-house of the deep:
g He spake-and gave all nature birth!
And fires, and seas, and heaven and earth,
His everlasting orders keep.

a 4 Let mortals tremble, and adore
A God of such resistless power,
Nor dare indulge their feeble rage:

-Vain are their thoughts, and weak their hands; g But his eternal counsel stands,

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And rules the world from age to age.

P. M. SECOND PART. Cumberland. [*]
Creatures vain; and God all-sufficient.

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HAPPY nation, where the Lord
Reveals the treasures of his word,
And builds his church, his earthly throne:
-His eye the heathen world surveys,

He formed their hearts, he knows their ways;
But God, their Maker, is unknown.

d 2 Let kings rely upon their host,
And of his strength the champion boast;
In vain they boast, in vain rely :

-In vain we trust the brutal force,
Or speed or courage of a horse,
To guard his rider, or to fly.
e3 The eye of thy compassion, Lord,
Does more secure defence afford,

When death, or dangers threatening stand

o Thy watchful eye preserves the just,
Who make thy name their fear and trust,
When wars or famine waste the land.

-4 In sickness, or the bloody field,
Thou our Physician, thou our shield,
Send us salvation from thy throne:
e We wait to see thy goodness shine;
o Let us rejoice in help divine,
For all our hope is God alone.

PSALM 34. L. M. FIRST PART. Portugal. [*]

GOD's Care of Saints; or, Deliverance by Prayer.

1L Thy praise shall dwell upon my tongue;

ORD, I will bless thee all my days,

My soul shall glory in thy grace,

While saints rejoice to hear the song.

-2 Come magnify the Lord with me,
Come, let us all exalt his name;
I sought the eternal God, and he
Has not exposed my hope to shame.
e 3 I told him all my secret grief,

My secret groaning reached his ears;
-He gave my inward pains relief,
And calmed the tumult of my fears.
4 To him the poor lift up their eyes,
Their faces feel the heavenly shine;
A beam of mercy from the skies

Fills them with light and joy divine.
o 5 His holy angels pitch their tents,
Around the men who serve the Lord;
-O, fear and love him, all ye saints,
Taste of his grace, and trust his word.

6 The wild young lions, pinched with pain
And hunger, roar through all the wood;
o But none shall seek the Lord in vain,
Nor want supplies of real good.

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Islington.

L. M. SECOND PART. Bath. [*]

Ver. 11-22.-Religious Education.

CHILDREN, in years and knowledge young, Your parents' hope, your parents' joy, Attend the counsels of my tongue, Let pious thoughts your minds employ. e 2 If you desire a length of days, And peace to crown your mortal state; -Restrain your feet from sinful ways, Your lips from slander and deceit.

3 The eyes of God regard his saints, His ears are open to their cries; d He sets his frowning face against The sons of violence and lies.