e 3 How most exact is nature's frame !
How wise the Eternal Mind!

-His counsels never change the scheme,
That his first thoughts designed.

4 When he redeemed his chosen sons,
He fixed his covenant sure;

g The orders that his lips pronounce, To endless years endure.

-5 Nature and time, and earth and skies, Thy heavenly skill proclaim :

e What shall we do to make us wiseBut learn to read thy name?

-6 To fear thy power, to trust thy grace,

Is our divinest skill;

And he's the wisest of our race,

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Who best obeys thy will.

Sunday.

C. M. SECOND PART. St. Martin's. [*]

The Perfections of God.

GREAT is the Lord; his works of might

Demand our noblest songs:

Let his assembled saints unite

Their harmony of tongues.

2 Great is the mercy of the Lord;
He gives his children food,
And, ever mindful of his word,
He makes his promise good.

3 His Son, the great Redeemer, came,
To seal his covenant sure;
Holy and reverend is his name;
His ways are just and pure.

4 They who would grow divinely wise,
Must with his fear begin:

Our fairest proof of knowledge lies
In hating every sin.j

PSALM 112. P. M. Cumberland. [*]
The Blessings of the liberal Man.

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HAT man is blest, who stands in awe

Tof God, and loves his sacred law;

His seed on earth shall be renowned; His house the seat of wealth shall be,

An unexhausted treasury,

And with successive honours crowned.

2 His liberal favours he extends;
To some he gives, to others lends;
A generous pity fills his mind:
Yet what his charity impairs,
He saves by prudence in affairs;

And thus he's just to all mankind.

3 His hands, while they his alms bestowed, His glory's future harvest sowed:

b

g

The sweet remembrance of the just,
Like a green root, revives, and bears
A train of blessings for his heirs,

When dying nature sleeps in dust.
4 Beset with threatening dangers round,
Unmoved shall he maintain his ground;
His conscience holds his courage up:
The soul that's filled with virtue's light,
Shines brightest in affliction's night;
And sees in darkness beams of hope.

PAUSE.

5 [Ill tidings never can surprise His heart that fixed on God relies;

Though waves and tempests roar around: Safe on a Rock he sits, and sees

The shipwreck of his enemies;

And all their hopes and glory drowned. 6 The wicked shall his triumph see, And gnash their teeth in agony,

To find their expectations crossed; They, and their envy, pride and spite, Sink down to everlasting night,

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And all their names in darkness lost.]

L. M. Oporto. [*]

Blessings of the Pious and Charitable.

HRICE happy man, who fears the Lord,

THRI

Loves his commands, and trusts his word

Honour and peace his days attend,

And blessings to his seed descend.

e 2 Compassion dwells upon his mind,
To works of mercy still inclined;
-He lends the poor some present aid,
Or gives them, not to be repaid.

e 3 When times grow dark, and tidings spread,
That fill his neighbours round with dread,

o His heart is armed against the fear,
o For God with all his power is there,
g 4 His soul, well fixed upon the Lord,
Draws heavenly courage from his word;
Amidst the darkness light shall rise,
To cheer his heart, and bless his eyes.
-5 He hath dispersed his alms abroad;
His works are still before his God;
His name on earth shall long remain,
While envious sinners fret in vain.

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C. M. St. Ann's. [*]
Liberality rewarded,

HAPPY is he who fears the Lord,

And follows his commands;
Who lends the poor, without reward;
Or gives with liberal hands.

2 As pity dwells within his breast,
To all the sons of need,-
So God shall answer his request,
With blessings on his seed.

3 No evil tidings shall surprise
His well-established mind;
His soul to God, his refuge, flies,
And leaves his fears behind.
4 In times of general distress,
Some beams of light shall shine,
To show the world his righteousness,
And give him peace divine.

5 His works of piety and love

Remain before the Lord; Honour on earth, and joys above, Shall be his sure reward.

PSALM 113. P. M. St. Helen's.

The Majesty and Condescension of God.

IYE who delight to serve the Lord,

The honours of his name record:

His sacred name forever bless: Where'er the circling sun displays His rising beams, or setting rays,

Let lands and seas his power confess. 2 Not time, nor nature's narrow rounds, Can give his vast dominion bounds;

The heavens are far below his height.

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e Let no created greatness dare With our eternal God compare,

Armed with his uncreated might. e 3 He bows his glorious head to view What the bright hosts of angels do,

And bends his care to mortal things: -His sovereign hand exalts the poor; He takes the needy from the door,

And makes them company for kings. 4 [When childless families despair, He sends the blessing of an heir,

To rescue their expiring name;
The mother, with a cheerful voice,
Proclaims his praises and her joys:
Let every age advance his faine.]

L. M. Quercy. [*]

God Sovereign and Gracious. servants of th' almighty King,

Yin every age his praises sing;

Where'er the sun shall rise or set,
The nations shall his praise repeat.
2 Above the earth-beyond the sky,
Stands his high throne of majesty;
Nor time nor place his power restrain-
Nor bound his universal reign.

3 Which of the sons of Adam dare,
Or angels with their God compare?
His glories how divinely bright,
Who dwells in uncreated light!

4 Behold his love! he stoops to view
What saints above and angels do;
And condescends, yet more, to know
The mean affairs of men below.
5 From dust, and cottages obscure,
His grace exalts the humble poor;
Gives them the honour of his sons,
And fits them for their heavenly thrones.
6 A word of his creating voice,
Can make the barren house rejoice:
Though Sarah's ninety years were past,
The promised seed is born at last.

7 With joy the mother views her son,
And tells the wonders God has done:

Faith may grow strong when sense despairs;
If nature fails, the promise bears?]

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PSALM 114. L. M. Blendon. [*]
Miracles attending Israel's Journey.

W Left the proud tyrant and his land,

THEN Israel, freed from Pharaoh's hand,

The tribes, with cheerful homage, own
Their King, and Judah was his throne.
e 2 Across the deep their journey lay;
o The deep divides to make them way
-Jordan beheld their march, and fled,
With backward current, to his head.
o 3 The mountains shook like frighted sheep,
Like lambs the little hillocks leap,
Not Sinai on her base could stand,
Conscious of sovereign power at hand.

e 4 What power could make the deep divide!
Make Jordan backward roll his tide!
Why did ye leap, ye little hills?

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And whence the fright that Sinai feels?

5 Let every mountain, every flood,
Retire, and know th' approaching God!
The King of Israel! see him here!
Tremble, thou earth, adore, and fear.
6 He thunders-and all nature mourns:
The rock to standing pools he turns;
Flints spring with fountains at his word,
And fires and seas confess the Lord.

PSALM 115. L. M. 1st Pr. Psalm 97th. [*]

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The true God; or, Idolatry reproved.

'N Not to ourselves is glory due;

TOT to ourselves, who are but dust,

Eternal God, thou only just,

Thou only gracious, wise and true! g 2 Shine forth, in all thy dreadful name; e Why should a heathen's haughty tongue Insult us, and, to raise our shame,

d Say, "Where's the God you've served so long?" o 3 The God, we serve, maintains his throne, Above the clouds, beyond the skies: Through all the earth his will is done; He knows our groans, he hears our cries.