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Wilt thou to generations all

thine anger forth extend?

6 That in thee may thy people joy, wilt thou not us revive?

7 Shew us thy mercy, Lord, to us do thy salvation give.

8 I'll hear what God the Lord will speak:

to his folk he'll speak peace, And to his saints; but let them not return to foolishness.

9 To them that feat him surely near is his salvation;

That glory in our land may have
her habitation.

10 Truth met with mercy, righteousness and peace kiss'd mutually;

11 Truth springs from earth, and right

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8 Lord, there is none among the gods that may with thee compare; And like the works which thou has not any work is there. [done 9 All nations whom thou mad'st shal and worship rev'rently [com Before thy face; and they, O Lord thy name shall glorify.

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Because thou art exceeding great, and works by thee are done Which are to be admir'd; and thou art God thyself alone.

11 Teach me thy way, and in thy truth O Lord, then walk will I ; Unite my heart, that I thy name may fear continually.

12 O Lord my God, with all my heart
to thee I will give praise;
And I the glory will ascribe
unto thy name always:

13 Because thy mercy toward me
in greatness doth excel;
And thou deliver'd hast my soul
out from the lowest hell.

14 O God, the proud against me rise,
and vi'lent men have met,
That for my soul have sought; an
before them have not set.

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15 But thou art full of pity, Lord,
a God most gracious,
Long-suffering, and in thy truth
and mercy plenteous.

16 O turn to me thy countenance,
and mercy on me have;

Thy servant strengthen, and the son of thine own handmaid save.

17 Shew me a sign for good, that they which do me hate may see, And be asham'd; because thou, Lord, didst help and comfort me.

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7 In troublous times I'll call on thee; for thou wilt answer send.

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St. Mary, Evan. Chant. Flintoft. UPON the hills of holiness

he his foundation sets.

God, more than Jacob's dwellings all, delights in Sion's gates.

Things glorious are said of thee,
thou city of the Lord.
Rahab and Babel I, to those
that know me, will record:
Behold ev'n Tyrus, and with it
the land of Palestine,
And likewise Ethiopia;

this man was born therein.

And it of Sion shall be said,

This man and that man there Was born; and he that is most High himself shall stablish her.

When God the people writes, he'll count

that this man born was there. There be that sing and play; and all my well-springs in thee are.

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PSALM LXXXVIII. C. M.
St. Mary, Evan. Chant. Flintoft.
I LORD God, my Saviour, day and
before thee cry'd have I. [night

2 Before thee let my prayer come;
give ear unto my cry.

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12 Shall thy great wonders in the dark,
or shall thy righteousness
Be known to any in the land

of deep forgetfulness?

13 But, Lord, to thee I cry'd; my pray'r
at morn prevent shall thee.
14 Why, Lord, dost thou cast off my
and hid'st thy face from me? [soul,
15 Distress'd am I, and from my youth
I ready am to die;

Thy terrors I have borne, and am
distracted fearfully.

16 The dreadful fierceness of thy wrath quite over me doth go:

Thy terrors great have cut me off,
they did pursue me so.

17 For round about me ev'ry day,
like water, they did roll;
And, gathering together, they
have compassed my soul.

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My friends thou hast put far from me,
and him that did me love;
And those that mine acquaintance
to darkness didst remove.

PSALM LXXXIX.

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C. M.

London New, Edinburgh, Kilmarnock,
York. Chant. Lemon, Barrow,
Boyce, Attwood.

3 For troubles great do fill my soul; 89
my life draws nigh the grave.
4 I'm counted with those that
go
to pit, and no strength have.
5 Ev'n free among the dead, like them
that slain in grave do lie;
Cut off from thy hand, whom no more
thou hast in memory.

6 Thou hast me laid in lowest pit,

in deeps and darksome caves. 7 Thy wrath lies hard on me, thou hast me press'd with all thy waves.

8 Thou hast put far from me my friends, thou mad'st them to abhor me; And I am so shut up, that I

find no evasion for me.

9 By reason of affliction

mine eye mourns dolefully:
To thee, Lord, do I call, and stretch
my hands continually.

10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead?
shall they rise, and thee bless?
II Shall in the grave thy love be told?
in death thy faithfulness?

1 GOD's mercies I will ever sing;
and with my mouth I shall
Thy faithfulness make to be known
to generations all.

2 For mercy shall be built, said I,
for ever to endure;

Thy faithfulness, ev'n in the heav'ns,
thou wilt establish sure.

3 I with my chosen One have made a cov'nant graciously;

And to my servant, whom I lov'd,
to David sworn have I ;

4 That I thy seed establish shall
for ever to remain,

And will to generations all

thy throne build and maintain,

5 The praises of thy wonders, Lord,
the heavens shall express;

And in the congregation
of saints thy faithfulness.

6 For who in heaven with the Lord may once himself compare? Who is like God among the sons of those that mighty are!

7 Great fear in meeting of the saints is due unto the Lord;

And he of all about him should

with rev'rence be ador'd.

8 0 thou that art the Lord of hosts, what Lord in mightiness Is like to thee? who compass'd round art with thy faithfulness.

9 Ev'n in the raging of the sea

thou over it dost reign; And when the waves thereof do thou stillest them again. [swell,

10 Rahab in pieces thou didst break, like one that slaughter'd is; And with thy mighty arm thou hast dispers'd thine enemies.

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II The heav'ns are thine, thou for thine the earth dost also take; The world, and fulness of the same, thy pow'r did found and make.

12 The north and south from thee alone their first beginning had;

Both Tabor mount and Hermon hill shall in thy name be glad.

13 Thou hast an arm that's full of pow'r, thy hand is great in might ; And thy right hand exceedingly exalted is in height.

14 Justice and judgment of thy throne are made the dwelling-place; Mercy, accompany'd with truth, shall go before thy face.

15 O greatly bless'd the people are the joyful sound that know; In brightness of thy face, O Lord, they ever on shall go.

16 They in thy name shall all the day rejoice exceedingly ;

And in thy righteousness shall they exalted be on high.

17 Because the glory of their strength doth only stand in thee; And in thy favour shall our horn and pow'r exalted be.

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I will them greatly plague who do with hatred him oppose. My mercy and my

faithfulness

with him yet still shall be ;

And in my name his horn and pow'r
men shall exalted see.

His hand and pow'r shall reach afar,
I'll set it in the sea;

And his right hand established

shall in the rivers be.

26 Thou art my Father, he shall cry, thou art my God alone;

And he shall say, Thou art the Rock of my salvation.

27 I'll make him my first-born, more than kings of any land. [high 28 My love I'll ever keep for him, my cov❜nant fast shall stand. 29 His seed I by my pow'r will make for ever to endure;

And, as the days of heav'n, his throne shall stable be, and sure.

30 But if his children shall forsake my laws, and go astray,

And in my judgments shall not walk, but wander from my way: 31 If they my laws break, and do not keep my commandements; 32 I'll visit then their faults with rods, their sins with chastisements.

et I'll not take my love from him, nor false my promise make. ly cov'nant I'll not break, nor change

what with my mouth I spake. Once by my holiness I sware, to David I'll not lie;

His seed and throne shall, as the sun, before me last for aye.

t, like the moon, shall ever be

establish'd stedfastly;

And like to that which in the heav'n doth witness faithfully.

But thou, displeased, hast cast off, thou didst abhor and loathe; With him that thine anointed is thou hast been very wroth. Thou hast thy servant's covenant made void, and quite cast by; Thou hast profan'd his crown, while cast on the ground doth lie. Thou all his hedges hast broke down, his strong holds down hast torn. He to all passers-by a spoil, to neighbours is a scorn.

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2 Before thou ever hadst brought forth the mountains great or small;

Ere ever thou hadst form'd the earth, and all the world abroad; Ev'n thou from everlasting art to everlasting God.

3 Thou dost unto destruction

man that is mortal turn; And unto them thou say'st, Again, ye sons of men, return.

4 Because a thousand years appear no more before thy sight Than yesterday, when it is past, or than a watch by night. 5 As with an overflowing flood thou carry'st them away: They like a sleep are, like the grass that grows at morn are they. 6 At morn it flourishes, and grows, cut down at ev'n doth fade. 7 For by thine anger we're consum'd, thy wrath makes us afraid.

8 Our sins thou and iniquities

dost in thy presence place, And sett'st our secret faults before the brightness of thy face.

9 For in thine anger all our days
do pass on to an end:

And as a tale that hath been told,
so we our years do spend.

to Threescore and ten years do sum up | 3 Assuredly he shall thee save,

our days and years, we see;
Or if, by reason of more strength,
in some fourscore they be:

Yet doth the strength of such old
but grief and labour prove; [men
For it is soon cut off, and we
fly hence, and soon remove.

II Who knows the power of thy wrath?
according to thy fear

12 So is thy wrath: Lord, teach thou our end in mind to bear; [us And so to count our days, that we

our hearts may still apply
To learn thy wisdom and thy truth,
that we may live thereby.

13 Turn yet again to us, O Lord,
how long thus shall it be?
Let it repent thee now for those
that servants are to thee.

14 O with thy tender mercies, Lord,
us early satisfy;

So we rejoice shall all our days, and still be glad in thee.

15 According as the days have been, wherein we grief have had,

And years wherein we ill have seen, so do thou make us glad.

16 O let thy work and pow'r appear Ythy servants' face before;

And shew unto their children dear
thy glory evermore :

17 And let the beauty of the Lord
our God be us upon:
Our handy-works establish thou,
establish them each one.

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and give deliverance

From subtile fowler's snare, and from
the noisome pestilence.

4 His feathers shall thee hide; thy trus
under his wings shall be:
His faithfulness shall be a shield
and buckler unto thee.

5 Thou shalt not need to be afraid
for terrors of the night;
Nor for the arrow that doth fly
by day, while it is light;
6 Nor for the pestilence, that walks
in darkness secretly:

Nor for destruction, that doth wast
at noon-day openly.

7 A thousand at thy side shall fall,
on thy right hand shall lie
Ten thousand dead; yet unto thee
it shall not once come nigh.

8 Only thou with thine eyes shalt loo
and a beholder be;

And thou therein the just reward of wicked men shalt see.

9 Because the Lord, who constantly my refuge is alone,

Ev'n the most High, is made by th
thy habitation;

10 No plague shall near thy dwelli
no ill shall thee befall:
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II For thee to keep in all thy ways
his angels charge he shall.

12 They in their hands shall bear th
still waiting thee upon;
Lest thou at any time should'st das
thy foot against a stone.

C. M. 13 Upon the adder thou shalt tread,
and on the lion strong;

St. Ann, St. Paul.
Chant. Soaper, Mornington.
I HE that doth in the secret place
of the most High reside,
Under the shade of him that is
th' Almighty shall abide.

2 I of the Lord my God will say,
He is my refuge still,
He is my fortress, and my God,
and in him trust I will,

Thy feet on dragons trample shall,
and on the lions young.

14 Because on me he set his love,
I'll save and set him free;
Because my great name he hat
I will him set on high.
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15 He'll call on me, I'll answer him;
I will be with him still
In trouble, to deliver him,
and honour him I will

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