3 So let his highest praise be sung,
By all, through every clime,
While moon and stars reflect their lig
Or suns propitious shine.

HYMN 25. S. M. [#]
Restoring Grace.

1 THE Lord on high proclaims
His Godhead on the throne;
Mercy and Justice are the names
By which he will be known.

2 Ye dying souls, that sit

In darkness and distress,
Look from the borders of the pit
To his restoring grace.

3 Sinners shall hear the sound;

Their thankful tongues shall own,
Our righteousness and strength are found
In him, the Lord, alone.

4 In him shall Israel trust,

And see their guilt forgiven:
Our God will make the gentiles just,
And take the saints to heaven.

HYMN 26. L. M. [#]
Blessings in Nature.

1 GREAT GOD, at whose all-powerful call
At first arose this beauteous frame,
By thee the seasons change, and all
The changing seasons speak thy name.

2 Thy bounty bids the infant year,

From winter storms recovered, rise;
When thousand grateful scenes appear,
Fresh-opening to our wondering eyes.
3 Aloft, full-beaming, reigns the sun,

And light and genial heat conveys,
And, while he leads the seasons on,
From thee derives his quickening rays.
4 Around us, in the teeming field,

Stands the rich grain, or purpled vine ;
At thy command they rise, to yield

The strengthening bread, or cheering wine.

5 Indulgent God, from every part

Thy plenteous blessings largely flow;
We see, we taste; let every heart
With grateful love and duty glow.

HYMN 27. L. M. [#]

Seed-time and Harvest.

1 THE rising morn, the closing day,
Repeat thy praise with grateful voice;
Both in their turns thy power display,
And, laden with thy gifts, rejoice.

2 Earth's wide-extended, varying scenes,
All smiling round, thy bounty show;
From seas or clouds, full magazines,
Thy rich, diffusive blessings flow.

3 Now earth receives the precious seed,
Which thy indulgent hand prepares,

And nourishes the future bread,

And answers all the sower's cares.

4 Here, spreading flocks adorn the plain; There, plenty every charm displays; Thy bounty clothes each lovely scene, And joyful nature shouts thy praise.

HYMN 28. C. M. [#]

Blessings of God in Nature.

1 HAIL, great Creator, wise and good!
To thee our songs we raise :

Nature, through all her various scenes,
Invites us to thy praise.

2 At morning, noon, and evening mild,
Fresh wonders strike our view;
And, while we gaze, our hearts exult,
With transports ever new.

3 Thy glory beams in every star
Which gilds the gloom of night,
And decks the smiling face of morn
With rays of cheerful light.

4 The lofty hill, the humble vale,
With countless beauties shine;
The silent grove, the awful shade,
Proclaim thy power divine.

5 Great nature's God, still may these scenes Our serious hours engage;

Still may our grateful hearts consult
Thy works' instructive page.

HYMN 29. C. M. [#]

Blessings of Providence and Redemption.

1 THY goodness, Lord, our souls confess, Thy goodness we adore

A spring whose blessings never fail,
A sea without a shore.

2 Sun, moon, and stars, thy love attest
In every golden ray;

Love draws the curtains of the night,
And love returns the day.

3 Thy bounty every season crowns
With all the bliss it yields;
With joyful clusters loads the vine,
With strengthening grain the fields.

4 But chiefly thy compassions, Lord,
Are in the gospel seen;

There, like the sun, thy mercy shines,
Without a cloud between.

HYMN 30. L. M. [#]

Divine Guidance and Protection.

1 THY ways, O Lord, with wise design,
Are framed upon thy throne above,
And every dark or bending line
Meets in the centre of thy love.

2 With feeble light, and half obscure,
Poor mortals thine arrangements view,
Not knowing that the least are sure,
And the mysterious just and true.

3 Thy flock, thine own peculiar care, Though now they seem to roam uneyed, Are led or driven only where

They best and safest may abide.

4 They neither know nor trace the way; But, trusting to thy piercing eye, None of their feet to ruin stray,

Nor shall the weakest fail or die.

5 My favoured soul shall meekly learn
To lay her reason at thy throne;
Too weak thy secrets to discern,
I'll trust thee for my guide alone.

HYMN 31. C. M. [#]

Merciful Designs in apparent Evils.
1 GOD moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.

2 Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never-failing skill

He treasures up his bright designs,
And works his sovereign will.

3 Ye fearful souls, fresh courage take;
The clouds you so much dread
Are big with mercy, and shall break
In blessings on your head.

4 Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust him for his grace;