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XXXIV. PSALM XIX. Long M. WATTS.

The Book of Nature and of Revelation compared.

HE heavens proclaim thy glory, Lord,
In every ftar thy wisdom fhines:

But when our eyes behold thy word,
We read thy name in fairer lines.
2 In all the glorious fcenes of light
Thy wife defigning mind we trace:
But this bleft volume to our fight
Reveals a father's mildeft grace.

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Sun, moon and ftars convey thy praise Round the whole earth, and never stand: So when thy truth began its race,

Its morning rofe on every land.

Nor fhall thy truth its progrefs reft,
'Till a full day in splendour fhine;
'Till Chrift has all the nations blest,
And shed on all his light divine.

Oh to thy noon-day glory rife,
And bless our world with heavenly light!
Through thee the fimple fhame the wife,
For all is pure, and all is right.

xxxv. PSALM XIX. Com. Met. TATE.

The fame.

HE glorious worlds of light above
Which heaven's vaft concave fill,

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Do all to wondering man proclaim
Their great Creator's fkill.

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2 The dawn of each awakened day
Extended knowledge brings;
And from the calm and folemn night
A new inftruction fprings.

3 Their powerful language to no clime
Or nation is confined;

'Tis nature's voice, and strongly speaks
Alike to all mankind.

4 But not fo clear and full it fpeaks,
As thy revealed word;
The leffons of thy Son to all
An ampler light afford.

5 His teachings all are wife and pure,
They yield fincere delight;

And, in the fearch of truth and good,
Afford divineft light.

XXXVI. PSALM XIX. Long M. ADDISON.

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Nature the Voice of GOD.

HE spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky,

And spangled heavens, a fhining frame,
Their great original proclaim.

Th' unwearied fun, from day to day,
Doth his Creator's power display;

And publishes to every land
The work of an Almighty hand.

Soon as the evening fhades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale;
And nightly to the listening earth
Repeats the story of her birth.

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While all the ftars, that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn,

Confirm the tidings as they roll,
And spread the truth from pole to pole.
What though in folemn filence all
Move round this dark terrestrial ball;
What though nor real voice nor found
Amidft their radiant orbs be found.

In reafon's ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice;
For ever finging, as they fhine,
"The hand that made us is divine."

XXXVII. PSALM XIX. Short M. WATTS.

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The fame.

EHOLD the lofty sky
Proclaims its Maker God,
And all his ftarry works on high
Diffufe his truth abroad.

The darkness and the light
Still keep their course the fame;
While night to day, and day to night
Divinely teach the fame.

In every different land

Their general voice is known; They fhew the wonders of his hand,

And orders of his throne.

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Ye christian lands rejoice!

To you his truth is given;

You are not left to nature's voice

To teach the path to heaven.

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But fuch as is his grace,

Let fuch be your return;
Never his holy truth debafe,

Nor from his precepts turn.

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Declares the glories of thy name;

There thy rich works of wonder shine :
A thousand starry beauties there,
A thousand radiant marks appear

Of boundless power and skill divine.
2 From night to day, from day to night,
The dawning and the dying light
Lectures of heavenly wifdom read;
With filent eloquence they raise
Our thoughts to our Creator's praise,
And neither found nor language need.

3 Yet their divine inftructions run
Far as the journey of the fun,

And every nation knows their voice: The fun, like fome young bridegroom dreft, Breaks from the chambers of the east,

Rolls round, and makes the earth rejoice. 4 Where'er he spreads his beams abroad, He fmiles, and speaks his Maker God; All nature joins to few thy praife. Thus God in every feature fhines; Fair is the book or nature's lines, may God in nature trace.

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XXXIX. PSALM XX. Long Met. WATTS.

Praife and Prayer to GOD in Time of War.

I WOW may the God of
the God of power
power and
Attend his people's humble cry!
Jehovah hears when Ifrael prays,
And brings deliverance from on high.
Thy mercy paffes our deferts:
Our foes are mercies, they chastise
Our fins, recall our wandering hearts;
And God accepts the facrifice.

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With thee, our first our best ally,
With thee, our reconciled God,

Our troops fhall lift their banners high,
Our navies spread their flags abroad.

Yet not in the proud trim of war,
In armed fleets, which gird our coafts,
Our fureft expectations are;

But thee, the Lord and God of hofts.

And as thy arm alone can save,

May we not dare our vows poftpone ;
But 'gainst the foe within be brave,
And by repentance fin atone.

grace

XL. PSALM XXII. Com. Met. TATE.

GOD the univerfal King, and Expectation of a Refloration to Righteoufnefs and Happiness.

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AY all the various tribes of men
To God their homage pay;

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And scattered nations of the earth
One fovereign Lord obey.