d Wonders of grace to God belong ;
Repeat his mercies in your song.
e 6 (He saw the Gentiles dead in sin,
And felt his pity work within;

d His mercies ever will endure,

When death and sin shall reign no more.) o 7 He sent his Son with power to save, From guilt, and darkness, and the grave; d Wonders of grace to God belong; Repeat his mercies in your song.

-8 Through this vain world he guides our feet, And leads us to his heavenly seat:

d His mercies ever will endure,

When this vain world shall be no more.

PSALM 138. L. M. Quercy. [*]

Restoring and Preserving Grace.

ITH all my powers of heart and tongue,
I'll praise my Maker in my song;

Angels shall hear the notes I raise,

Approve the song, and join the praise.

e 2 Angels, who make the church their care,
Shall witness my devotion there;

While holy zeal directs my eyes
To thy fair temple in the skies.

-3 I'll sing thy truth and mercy, Lord;
I'll sing the wonders of thy word;
Not all the works and names below,
So much thy power and glory show.
e [4 To God I cry'd when troubles rose:
He heard me, and subdu'd my foes:
o He did my rising fears control,

And strength diffus'd through all my soul. g 5 The God of heaven maintains his state, Frowns on the proud, and scorns the great: e But from his throne descends to see The sons of humble poverty.]

e 6 Amidst a thousand snares I stand,
Upheld and guarded by thy hand;
-Thy words my fainting soul revive,
And keep my dying faith alive.

o 7 Grace will complete what grace begins,
To save from sorrow or from sins;
The work that wisdom undertakes,
Eternal mercy ne'er forsakes.

PSALM 139. L. M. 1st Part. Bath. Geneva. [*]

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The All-seeing God.

ORD, thou hast search'd and seen me through Thine eye commands, with piercing view, My rising and my resting hours,

My heart and flesh with all their powers.
2 My thoughts, before they are my own,
Are to my God distinctly known ;

He knows the words I mean to speak,
Ere from my opening lips they break.
p 3 Within thy circling power I stand;
On ev'ry side I find thy hand:
Awake, asleep, at home, abroad,
I am surrounded still with God.
[4 Amazing knowledge, vast and great!
What large extent! what lofty height !
My soul, with all the powers I boast,
Is in the boundless prospect lost.

5 'O may these thoughts possess my breast,
'Where'er I rove, where'er I rest!
'Nor let my weaker passions dare
'Consent to sin; for God is there.'

PAUSE THE FIRST.

6 Could I so false, so faithless prove,
To quit thy service and thy love;
Where, Lord, could I thy presence shun,
Or from thy dreadful glory run?]

- If up to heaven I take my flight,

'Tis there thou dwell'st, enthron'd in light; a Or dive to hell, there vengeance reigns, And Satan groans beneath thy chains. -8 If, mounted on a morning ray,

I fly beyond the Western sea;
o Thy swifter hand would first arrive,
And there arrest thy fugitive.

-9 Or should I try to shun thy sight,
Beneath the spreading veil of night;
One glance of thine, one piercing ray,
Would kindle darkness into day.

e 10 O may these thoughts possess my breast,
Where'er I rove, where'er I rest;
Nor let my weaker passions dare
Consent to sin; for God is there!

PAUSE THE SECOND.

[11 The veil of night is no disguise ;-
No screen from thy all-searching eyes:
Thy hand can seize thy foes as soon,
Through midnight shades, as blazing noon.
12 Midnight and noon in this agree,—
Great God, they're both alike to thee:
Not death can hide what God will spy;
And hell lies naked to his eye.

13 O may these thoughts possess my breast,
Where'er I rove, where'er I rest;
Nor let my weaker passions dare
Consent to sin; for God is there!]

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L. M. 2nd Part. Portugal. [*]

The wonderful formation of Man.

TWAS

WAS from thy hand, my God, I came,
work of such a curious frame;

In me thy fearful wonders shine,
And each proclaims thy skill divine.
2 Thine eyes did all my limbs survey,
Which yet in dark confusion lay ;
Thou saw'st the daily growth they took,
Form'd by the model of thy book.

3 [By thee my growing parts were nam'd,
And what thy sovereign counsel fram'd,
(The breathing lungs, the beating heart,)
Was copied with unerring art.]

4 At last, to shew my Maker's name,
God stamp'd his image on my frame!
And in some unknown moment join'd
The finish'd members to the mind.

5 [There the young seeds of thought began,
And all the passions of the man:
Great God, our infant nature pays
Immortal tribute to thy praise.]

PAUSE.

6 Lord, since, in my advancing age. I've acted on life's busy stage,

Thy thoughts of love to me surmount
The power of numbers to recount.

7 I could survey the ocean o'er,

And count each sand that makes the shore,
Before my swiftest thoughts could trace
The num'rous wonders of thy grace.

8 These on my heart are still impress'd;
With these I give my eyes to rest;
And at my waking hour I find
God and his love possess my mind.
L. M. 3rd Part. Bath. [*]

Sincerity professed, and Grace tried.

[MY God, what inward grief I feel, When impious men transgress thy will!

"M

I mourn to hear their lips profane
Take thy tremendous name in vain.
2 Does not my soul detest and hate
The sons of malice and deceit?

Those that oppose thy laws and thee,
I count them enemies to me.

e 3 Lord, search my soul, try ev'ry thought:
Though my own heart accuse me not
Of walking in a false disguise,

I beg the trial of thine eyes.

4 Doth secret mischief lurk within?
Do I indulge some unknown sin?
-O turn my feet, whene'er I stray,
And lead me in thy perfect way.]

C. M. 1st Part. Wantage. [b]
God's Omnipresence and Omniscience.
e 1 TN all my vast concerns with thee,
In vain my soul would try

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To shun thy presence, Lord, or flee
The notice of thine eye.

2 Thy all-surrounding sight surveys
My rising and my rest;

My public walks, my private ways,
And secrets of my breast.

-3 My thoughts lie open to the Lord,
Before they're form'd within;
And ere. my lips pronounce the word,
He knows the sense I mean.

4 O wondrous knowledge, deep and high!
Where can a creature hide!
Within thy circling arms I lie,
Beset on ev'ry side.

o 5 So let thy grace surround me still,
And like a bulwark prove,
To guard my soul from ev'ry ill,
Secur'd by sovereign love.

PAUSE. Windsor.

a 6 Lord, where shall guilty souls retire,
Forgotten and unknown?

In hell they meet thy dreadful fire,—
In heaven thy glorious throne.

e 7 Should I suppress my vital breath,
To 'scape the wrath divine;

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

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

Thy hand, which must support my flight,
Would soon betray my rest.

9 If o'er my sins I think to draw
The curtains of the night;

o Those flaming eyes that guard thy law,
Would turn the shades to light.

g 10 The beams of noon, the midnight hour, Are both alike to thee:

e O may I ne'er provoke that Power,

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From which I cannot flee.

C. M. 2nd Part. Colchester. [*]

Wisdom of God in the Formation of Man.

HEN I, with pleasing wonder, stand,
And all my frame survey,

Lord, 'tis thy work! I own thy hand

Thus built my humble clay.

2 Thy hand my heart and reins possess'd,
Where unborn nature grew;

Thy wisdom all my features trac'd,
And all my members drew.