When clouds distil in fruitful showers,
The Author is Divine.

4 Those wandering cisterns in the sky,
Borne by the winds around,
With watery treasures well supply
The furrows of the ground.

o 5 The thirsty ridges drink their fill,
And ranks of corn appear;

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Thy ways abound with blessings still,
Thy goodness crowns the year.

C. M. THIRD PART. York. [*]
A Psalm for the Husbandman.

1G Who makes the earth his care;

OOD is the Lord, the heavenly King,

Visits the pastures every spring,
And bids the grass appear.

2 The clouds, like rivers raised on high,
Pour out, at his command,
Their watery blessings from the sky,
To cheer the thirsty land.

3 The softened ridges of the field
Permit the corn to spring;
The valleys rich provision yield,
And the poor laborers sing.
4 The little hills on every side,
Rejoice at falling showers;

The meadows, dressed in all their pride,
Perfume the air with flowers.

5 The barren clods, refreshed with rain,
Promise a joyful crop ;

The parched grounds look green again,
And raise the reaper's hope.

6 The various months thy goodness crowns;
How bounteous are thy ways!

The bleating flocks spread o'er the downs.
And shepherds shout thy praise.]

PSALM 66. C. M. FIRST PART. Devizes. [*]

s 1

Governing God; or, our Grace tried.

SING, all ye nations, to the Lord,
Sing with a joyful noise:

With melody of sounds record
His honours and your joys.

6

-2 Say to the Power that shakes the sky, "How terrible art thou!

"Sinners before thy presence fly,

"Or at thy feet they bow."

3 [Come, see the wonders of our God; How glorious are his ways! In Moses' hand he puts his rod, And cleaves the frighted seas. 4 He made the ebbing channel dry, While Israel passed the flood;

o There did the church begin their joy, And triumph in their God.]

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5 He rules by his resistless might:
Will rebel mortals dare,
Provoke th' Eternal to the fight,

And tempt that dreadful war!

o 6 O bless our God, and never cease;
Ye saints, fulfill his praise:

He keeps our life, maintains our peace,
And guides our doubtful ways.

-7 Lord, thou hast proved our suffering souls,
To make our graces shine;

So silver bears the burning coals,

The metal to refine.

g 8 Through watery deeps and fiery ways, We march at thy command,

Led to possess the promised place,

By thine unerring hand.

C. M. SECOND PART. Barby. [*]

Ver. 13-20: Praise to God for hearing Prayer.

1 N To that almighty Power,

TOW shall my solemn vows be paid

Who heard the long requests I made,
In my distressful hour.

2 My lips and cheerful heart prepare
To make his mercies known,

Come ye, who fear my God, and hear
The wonders he has done.

p 3 When on my head huge sorrows fell,
I sought his heavenly aid;

o He saved my sinking soul from hell, And death's eternal shade.

e 4 If sin lay covered in my heart,
While prayer employed my tongue,
The Lord had shown me no regard,
Nor I his praises sung.

o 5 But God, his name be ever blest,
Has set my spirit free;

-Nor turned from him my poor request,
Nor turned his heart from me.

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PSALM 67. C. M. Bedford. [*]
Prosperity, Temporal and Spiritual

SHI

HINE on our land, Jehovah, shine,
With beams of heavenly grace ;

Reveal thy power through all our coasts,
And show thy smiling face.

-2 [Amidst our States exalted high,
Do thou our glory stand;

And like a wall of guardian fire,
Surround the favorite land.]

e 3 When shall thy name, from shore to shore,
Sound all the earth abroad?

And distant nations know, and love, 'Their Saviour and their God?

o 4 Sing to the Lord, ye distant lands, Sing loud with solemn voice;

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s Let every tongue exalt his praise,

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And every heart rejoice.

5 He the great Lord, the sovereign Judge
Who sits enthroned above,

Wisely commands the worlds he made,
In justice and in love.

-6 Earth shall obey her Maker's will,
And yield a full increase;

Our God will crown his chosen land,
With fruitfulness and peace.

o 7 God the Redeemer scatters round
His choicest favours here!

g While the Creation's utmost bound
Shall see, adore, and fear.

PSALM 68. L.M. 1ST PT. Blendon. Truro.[*]
V. 1-6; 32-35. The Vengeance and Compassion of God.
ET God arise in all his might.
And put the troops of hell to flight

As smoke that sought to cloud the skies,
Before the rising tempest flies.

e 2 [He comes arrayed in burning flames-
Justice and vengeance are his names:

e Behold his fainting foes expire,

g

Like melting wax before the fire.]

3 He rides and thunders through the sky
His name, JEHOVAH, sounds on high:
s Sing to his name, ye sons of grace;
Ye saints, rejoice before his face.

e 4 The widow and the fatherless
Fly to his aid in sharp distress;
In him the poor and helpless find
A Judge most just, a Father kind.
-5 He breaks the captive's heavy chain,
And prisoners see the light again;
e But rebels, who dispute his will,

Shall dwell in chains and darkness still.

PAUSE.

-6 [Kingdoms and thrones to God belong;
o Crown him, ye nations, in your song;
His wondrous names and powers rehearse;
His honours shall enrich your verse..

g 7 He shakes the heavens with loud alarms;
How terrible is God in arms!

-In Israel are his mercies known;
Israel is his peculiar throne.

D 8 Proclaim him King, pronounce him blest;
He's your defence, your joy, your rest:
g When terrors rise, and nations faint,
God is the strength of every saint.]

L. M. SECOND PART. Brentford. Green's. [*]
Ver. 17, 18. Christ's Ascension, and Gift of the Spirit
1ORD, when thou didst ascend on high,
Ten thousand angels filled the sky;

Those heavenly guards around thee wait,
Like chariots that attend thy state

g 2 Not Sinai's mountain could appear
More glorious, when the Lord was there;
While he pronounced his dreadful law,
And struck the chosen tribes with awe.

o 3 How bright the triumph none can tell,
When the rebellious powers of hell,
That thousand souls had captives made,
Were all in chains-like captives-led.
4 Raised by his Father to the throne,
He sent the promised Spirit down,
With gifts and grace for rebel men,
g That God might dwell on earth again.

L. M. THIRD PART, Weldon. Leeds. [*]
V. 19, 9, 20, 21, 22. Common and Spiritual Mercies.
WE bless the Lord, the just and good,

1

Who fills our hearts with joy and food;

Who pours his blessings from the skies,
And loads our days with rich supplies.

2 He sends the sun his circuit round,
To cheer the fruits, to warm the ground;
He bids the clouds, with plenteous rain,
Refresh the thirsty earth again

3 'Tis to his care we owe our breath,
And all our near escapes from death ·
Safety and health to God belong;

He helps the weak and guards the strong.. 4 He makes the saint and sinner prove The common blessings of his love:

e But the wide difference that remains,
a is endless joys and endless pains.

5 [The Lord, that bruised the serpent's head,
On all the serpent's seed shall tread;
The stubborn sinner's hope confound,
And smite him with a lasting wound.]

6 His own right hand his saints shall raise,
From the deep earth, or deeper seas;
And bring them to his courts above,
There to enjoy his perfect love.

PSALM 69. FIRST PART. C. M. [b] V. 1-14. The Sufferings of Christ for our Salvation. 1 ["SAVE me, O God; the swelling floods "Break in upon my soul:

"I sink, and sorrows o'er my head, "Like mighty waters roll