4 In varied fcenes, both old and new,
With joy, great God, thy works we view; In praise recall thy mercies paft,
In hope thy future bounties tafte.
In holy duties let the day,
In holy pleasures, pass away:
How fweet this fabbath thus to spend
In hope of that which ne'er shall end.
The equity of the divine dispensations.
I LORD, of thy mild and equal reign
Which of thy creatures can complain?
What man a weight of duty bears
Beyond the powers and aids he shares?
2 To different tribes, thine high commands
Their lot, in various climes and lands,
By different measures, have affign'd;
And yet to all are just and kind.
3 So hath thine intellectual ray
Here fhed a full, there fainter day,
While all are shown the plain fafe road
That leads to happiness and God.
4 How favor'd we to whom are brought
The gracious truths by Jefus taught!
So bleft, and with fuch hopes infpir'd,
How much is given, how much requir❜d?
Goodness of God to man and the inferior creatures.
THE earth and all the heavenly frame
Their great creator's love proclaim:
He gives the fun his genial power,
And fends the foft refreshing shower.
2 By him the ground its riches yields,
And plenty crowns the fmiling fields,
For man, who from his bounteous hand
Receives the gifts of every land.
3 Nor by the human race alone
Is his diffufive goodness known;
Whate'er inhabits earth, fea, air,
Partakes his univerfal care.
4 The maker and the friend of all,
He hears the ravens when they call;
And not a sparrow yields it's breath,
Till God permits the stroke of death.
Confidence in God our shepherd.
1 AS the good fhepherd gently leads
His wandering flocks to fertile meads,
Where peaceful rivers, foft and flow,
Amid the verdant landscape flow;
2 So God, the guardian of my foul,
Does all my erring fteps control;
When loft in fin's perplexing maze,
He brings me back to wisdom's ways.
3 Tho' I should journey thro' the plains
Where death in all it's horror reigns;
My stedfast heart no ill shall fear,
For thou, O Lord, art with me there.
4 By thee with peace and plenty bleft,.
Of all I need I am still poffeft:
Thy ever-watchful providence
Is my fupport, and my defence.
5 Like all the past, my future days
Will yield new fubjects for thy praise ::
Where'er I dwell, where'er I go,
My thankful heart thy praife shall show.
Acquiefcence and confidence in the unfearchable decrees of God.
I LORD, thy decrees, from human fight,
Are hid in fhades of deepest night:
Amid the lines with curious eye
Not angels would presume to pry.
2 Great God, I do not afk to fee
What in futurity fhall be:
If light and bliss attend my days,
Then let my future fongs be praise..
Is darkness and diftrefs my fhare?
Still let me trust thy guardian care :
Enough for me if love divine,
At length, thro' every cloud fhall fhine..
Praife due to God from all his creatures. I TO GOD, whofe glories are difplay'd Thro' all the earth, thro' all the skies, Be univerfal honours paid,
Let everlasting worship rife..
2 Let creatures, various as they are,,
To God united glory give:
Alike they want their maker's care,
Alike they on his bounty live.
3 But what can duft and afhes do?
Our praise may from the heart proceed :
While angels praife, we'll praife thee too,
And truft the grace that angels need.
PSALM XCV.
Bleffings of the gospel.
1 GOD, who his mind, to those of old,
In various times and methods, told;
By Chrift, more gloriously, difplays
His grace and truth, in later days.
2 That faithful volume which records
His character, his works, and words,
We read and in himself is giv'n,
The pledge of life, the hope of heaven.
3 Here knowledge of the nobleft kind
Expands and elevates the mind;
The heavenly doctrine, plain as true,
Inftructs, reproves, and comforts too.
whofe gratitude they raise,
Improve the talents that ye praise;
And aid its progrefs till the Lord
Hath bleft all nations with his word.
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