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Thy goodness, O Lord! let the people confess, Whom wars do not waste, nor proud tyrants oppress, And devoutly contemplate thy wonderful ways, Thou who turn'st the fierceness of men to thy praise! Then our lands in due season shall yield their in

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And the Lord give his people the blessings of peace.

HYMN CLXII.

The blessing of civil government. 1 ETERNAL, sovereign Lord on high, And Lord of all below!

We mortals to thy Majesty

Our first obedience owe.

2 Our souls adore thy pow'r supreme,
And bless thy providence,

For magistrates of meaner name,
Our glory and defence.

3 Kingdoms on firm foundations stand,
While virtue finds reward;
And sinners perish from the land,
By justice and the sword.

4 Where laws and liberties combine
To make a people blest,

There crowns with brightest lustre shine,
And kings are honour'd best.

5 Let Cæsar's due be ever paid
To Cæsar and his throne;

But consciences and souls were made
For thee, O God! alone.

HYMN CLXIII.

Universal prayer.

1 FATHER of all! in ev'ry age,
In ev'ry clime ador'd,

By saint, by savage, and by sage,
JEHOVAH, JOVE, or LORD!

2 Thou great First Cause! least understood ! Who all my sense confin'd

To know but this-that thou art good,
And that myself am blind;

3 Yet gave me, in this dark estate,
To see the good from ill,
And, binding nature fast in fate,
Left free the human will :-

4 What conscience dictates to be done,
Or warns me not to do,

This teach me more than hell to shun,
That, more than heav'n pursue :

5 What blessings thy free bounty gives,
Let me not cast away;

For God is paid, when man receives;
T' enjoy is to obey.

6 Yet not to earth's contracted span
Thy goodness let me bound,
Or think the Lord alone of man,
When thousand worlds are round.

7 Let not this weak, unknowing hand
Presume thy bolts to throw,
And deal damnation round the land,
On each I judge thy foe.

8 If I am right, O teach my heart
Still in the right to stay;

If I am wrong, thy grace impart,
To find the better way.

9 Save me alike from foolish pride,
Or impious discontent,

At aught thy wisdom has deny'd,
Or ought thy goodness lent.

10 Teach me to feel another's wo,
To hide the fault I see ;

That merey I to others show,
That mercy show to me.

11 Mean though I am, not wholly so, Since quicken'd by thy breath; O lead me wheresoe'er I go,

Through this day's life or death.

12 This day, be bread and peace my lot;
All else beneath the sun

Thou know'st it best bestow'd, or not-
And let thy will be done.

13 To THEE, whose temple is all space-
Whose altar, earth, sea, skies-
One chorus let all being raise !
All nature's incense raise !

The SUBJECTS of the foregoing HYMNS, which are taken chiefly from the Salisbury Collection.

Blessings temporal and spiritual

The Gospel Dispensation

Gneral forms of praise and thanksgiving

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65- 74

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86-101

102-128

129-132

133-145

147-149

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Adoration

Confidence and resignation

Farth, holiness, and moral virtues

Repentance and pardon

Life, death, and a future state
The Communion

Baptism

Ordination

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A TABLE OF FIRST LINES.

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ABBA, Father, God of love

Ah, wretched souls, who still remain
All-knowing God, 'tis thine to know
Almighty Author of our frame

Almighty Maker, God

And art thou with us, gracious Lord
Author of every work divine

Author of good, to thee we come
Awake, our souls, away our fears
Awake, my soul, lift up thine eyes
Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve
Awake, my soul, awake my tongue

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Before Jehovah's awful throne

Before the awful throne we bow

Behold the morning sun

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Behold the path which mortals tread
Behold the Lamb of God

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146

Bless'd be the everlasting God

Behold where breathing love divine

Be thou exalted, my God
Beyond expression blest is he

Blest are the humble souls who see
Blest be the grace which did proclaim

Can laughter feed th' immortal mind

Come weary souls with sin distrest

Come ye who love the Lord

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116

130

145

Commit thou all thy ways

D

Death calls our friends and neighbors hence

139

97

E

ternal God, Almighty Cause
ternal Source of life and thought
ernal Souce of every joy

ternal Sovereign, Lord on high

Hymn.

3

76

13

162

F

"ather of all, in every age

ather of all, thy care we bless
ather of everlasting love

Father of men, who ean complain
Father of mercies, God of love
ountain of being, God of love

Fountain of uncreated light
Frail is the state of mortal man
From all who dwell below the skies

G

Give to our God immortal praise
God of eternity, from thee

163

149

155

60

88

85

156

133
74

God of our life thy constant care

God, who in various methods told

Great God, attend, while Sion sings

Great God, how endless is thy love

Great God, the heaven's well-order'd frame

Great God, this sacred day of thine
Great God, to thee our grateful to gues
Great God, to thee, the mighty King
Great God, we sing that mighty band
Great Lord of earth, and seas, and skies
Great ruler of the earth and skies

H

23

137

157

54

48

30

10

77

28

6

158

94

160

Had we the tongues of Greeks or Jews
Hail, the God of our salvation

125

57

Hail, thou eternal King

71

Happy is he who fears the Lord
Happy the souls who trust in God
Happy the soul whose early years

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