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!

2 I 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 storms 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. Meur. [*]

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Creatures vain; and GoD all-sufficient.

BEST is the nation, where the Lord
Has fixed his gracious throne;

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.

o 1 E holy souls, in God rejoice,

Y Your Maker's praise becomes your voice,

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

His works of nature and of grace,

How wise and holy, just and true!

-2 Justice and truth he ever loves,

And the whole earth his goodness proves;
His word the 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,

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.

e 3 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. LORD, I will bless thee all my days,

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Thy praise shall dwell upon my tongue; 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.

Islington.

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

Ver. 11-22.—Religious Education.

1 [C Your parents' hope, your parents joy, YHILDREN, in years and knowledge young,

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.

e 4 To humble souls and broken hearts,
God with his grace is ever nigh;
Pardon and hope his love imparts,
When men in deep contrition lie.

-5 He tells their tears, he counts their groans,
His Son redeems their souls from death;
o His Spirit heals their broken bones,
o They in his praise employ their breath.]

C. M. FIRST PART. St. Ann's. [*]

V. 1-10.—Prayer and Praise for eminent Deliverance 'LL bless the Lord from day to day; How good are all his ways!

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Ye humble souls that use to pray,
Come, help my lips to praise.

2 Sing to the honour of his name,
How a poor sinner cried;

Nor was his hope exposed to shame,
Nor was his suit denied.

e 3 When threatening sorrows round me stood,
And endless fears arose,
Like the loud billows of a flood,
Redoubling all my woes;—

e 4 I told the Lord my sore distress,
With heavy groans and tears;
-He gave my sharpest torments ease,
And silenced all my fears.

PAUSE.

o 5 O sinners, come and taste his love,
Come learn his pleasant ways,
And let your own experience prove
The sweetness of his grace.

-6 He bids his angels pitch their tents,
Round where his children dwell;
What ill their heavenly care prevents,
No earthly tongue can tell.

o 7 O love the Lord, ye saints of his;
His eye regards the just;

How richly blest their portion is
Who make the Lord their trust!

-8 Young lions pinched with hunger roar,
And famish in the wood;