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And ere my lips pronounce the word,
He knows the fenfe I mean.

4 O wondrous knowledge, deep and high!
Where can a creature hide?
Within thy circling arms I lie,
Befet on every fide.

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So let thy grace furround me ftill,
And like a bulwark prove,

To guard my foul from every ill,
Secur'd by fovereign love.

PAUSE.

6 Lord, where fhall guilty fouls retire,
Forgotten and unknown?

In hell they meet thy dreadful fire,
In heaven thy glorious throne.
7 Should I fupprefs my vital breath,
To 'fcape the wrath divine,

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Thy voice could break the bars of death,
And make the grave refign.

8 If, wing'd with beams of morning-light,
I fly beyond the weft,

Thy hand, which muft fupport my flight,
Would foon betray my reft.

9 If o'er my fins I think to draw
The curtains of the night,

Thofe flaming eyes that guard thy law
Would turn the fhades to light.

10 The beams of noon, the midnight-hour,
Are both alike to thee;

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may I ne'er provoke that power

From which I cannot flee.

PSALM CXXXIX. 2d Part. Com. Met. [*] The wisdom of God in the formation of man.

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HEN I with pleafing wonder ftand,
And all my frame furvey,

Lord, 'tis thy work: I own thy hand
Thus built my humble clay.

2 Thy hand my heart and reins poffeft,
Where unborn nature grew;
Thy wifdom all my features trac'd,
And all my members drew.

4 [He ftruck the fons of Egypt dead;
How dreadful is his rod!

And thence with joy his people led:
How gracious is our God!

5 He cleft the fwelling fea in two;
His arm is great in might:

And gave the tribes a paffage through;
His power and grace unite.

6 But Pharaoh's army there he drown'd;
How glorious are his ways!

And brought his faints through defert ground;
Eternal be his praife.

7 Great monarchs fell beneath his hand;
Victorious is his fword;

While Ifrael took the promis'd land:
And faithful is his word.]

8 He faw the nations dead in fin;
He felt his pity move;

How fad the ftate the world was in;
How boundlefs was his love!

9 He fent to fave us from our wo;
His goodness never fails;

From death, and hell, and every foe;
And ftill his grace prevails.

10 Give thanks to God, the heavenly King;
His mercies ftill endure;

Let the whole earth his praifes fing;
His truth is ever fure.

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8 He faw the nations lie
All perifhing in fin,
And pity'd the fad ftate
The ruin'd world was in.
Thy mercy, Lord,
Shall ftill endure;
And ever fure
Abides thy word.

9 He fent his only Son
To fave us from our wo,
From Satan, fin, and death,
And every hurtful foe.
His power and grace
Are fill the fame;
And let his name
Have endless praise.

10 Give thanks aloud to God,
To God the heavenly King;
And let the fpacious earth
His works and glories fing
Thy mercy, Lord,

Shall fill endure;
And ever fure
Abides thy word.

PSALM CXXXVI. Abridged. Long Met. [x]

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IVE to our God immortal praife!

Geroy and truth are all his ways;

Wonders of grace to God belong,
Repeat his mercies in your fong.
2 Give to the Lord of lords renown,
The King of kings with glory crown;
His mercies ever fhall endure,

When lords and kings are known no more.

3 He built the earth, he fpread the sky,
And fix'd the ftarry lights on high:
Wonders of grace to God belong,
Repeat his mercies in your fong

4 He fills the fun with morning light,
He bids the moon direct the night :
His mercies ever fhall endure,

When funs and moons fhall fhine no more. 5 The Jews he freed from Pharaoh's hand, And brought them to the promis'd land:

Wonders of grace to God belong, Repeat his mercies in your fong. 6 He faw the Gentiles dead in fin, And felt his pity work within : His mercies ever fhall endure,

When death and fin fhall reign no more. 7 He fent his Son with power to fave From guilt, and darknefs, and the grave; Wonders of grace to God belong,

Repeat his mercies in your fong.

8 Through this vain world he guides our feet, And leads us to his heavenly feat;

His mercies ever fhall endure,

When this vain world fhall be no more.

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PSALM CXXXVIII. Long Metre. [*] Reloring and preferving grace.

WITH all my powers of heart and tongue,

I'll praife my Maker in my fong:

Angels fhall hear the notes I raife,
Approve the fong, and join the praife.
Angels, that make thy church their care,
Shall witness my devotion there,
While holy zeal directs my eyes
To thy fair temple in the fkies.]
3 I'll fing thy truth and mercy, Lord;
I'll fing the wonders of thy word;
Not all thy works and names below,
So much thy power and glory show.
4 To God I cry'd when troubles rofe;
He heard me, and fubdu'd my foes;
He did my rifing fears control,

And ftrength diffus'd through all my foul.
5 The God of heaven maintains his ftate,
Frowns on the proud and fcorns the great
But from his throne defcends to fee
The fons of humbie poverty

6 Amidst a thoufand fnares I ftand,.
Upheld and guarded by thy hand;
Thy words my fainting foul revive,
And keep my dying faith alive.
Grace will complete what grace begins,
To fave from forrows or from fins;

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