Let not the wonders he hath wro't, Be loft in filence and forgot. 3The vices of the mind he heals,

And cures the pains that nature feels; Redeems the foul from guilt, and faves Our wafting life from threat'ning graves. 4 Our youth decay'd, his power repairs, His mercy crowns our growing years; He fatisfies our mouth with good, And fills our fouls with heavenly food. 5 He fees the oppreffor and the oppreft, And often gives the fufferers reft; But will his juftice more display In the laft, great decifive day. 6 His power he show'd by Mofes' hands, gave to freel his commands;

And

But made his truth and mercy known
To all the nations by his Son.

WATTS.

Pfalm CIII. Second Part. S. M. [*] Divine Mercy in the midst of Judgment.

Mwhole mercies are fo great;

Y foul, repeat his praise,

Whofe anger is fo flow to rife,
So ready to abate.

2 God will not always chide,

And when his wrath is felt;
His ftrokes are fewer than our crimes,
And lighter than our guilt.
3 High as the heavens are rais'd
Above the ground we tread

So far the riches of his

grace

Our highest thoughts exceed,

4.

His grace fubdues our fins ;
And his forgiving love

Far as the eaft is from the weft,
Doth all our guilt remove.
5 The pity of the Lord

To thofe who fear his name,
Is fuch as tender parents feel;
He knows our feeble frame.
6 Our days are as the grafs,
Or like the morning flower;

When blafting winds fpread o'er the field,
It withers in an hour.

7 But thy compaffion, Lord,

Through ages fhall endure;

And children's children ever find

Thy words of promise fure.

WATTS

Plalm CIII. Third Part. C. M. [

God's tender Regard to human Weakness.

,

we thy won'drous power proclai

And make that power our trust;

Which rais'd at firft this curious frame,
From mean and lifeless duft.
2 By duft supported ftill it ftands,
Prepar'd in various forms;

And wrought by thy creating hands,
To nourish mortal worms.

3 A while thefe frail machines endure;
The fabric of a day!

Then lose their animating power;
And moulder back to clay.

4 Yet frail and feeble as we are,
This thought is our repofc,

PSALM S.

That he who firft our frame did rear,
Its various weaknefs knows.
He views us with a pitying eye,
While ftruggling with our load;
In pains and dangers he is nigh,
Our Father and our God.
6 Gently supported by his love,
We tend to realms of peace;
Where ev'ry pain fhall far remove,
And ev'ry frailty ceafe.

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DODDRIDGE.

Pfalm CIII. Fourth Part. C. M. [*]

Angelic Praife.

HOU, Lord, in heav'n haft plac'd thy throne,

THOU,

Thy vaft dominion fhall be known

To earth's remoteft ends.

2 Ye angels, who excel in might,
And wait to do his will,

Bless him, whofe work is your delight,
Whofe pleasure ye fulfil.

3 Ye feraphs, who with joy obey

The orders of your King,

Attend his churches when they pray,
And join the praife they fing.

4 Whilft all his works his praife proclaim,
O let my heart and tongue

Join with the univerfal frame,
In this eternal fong.

N

Partly from WATTS

Pfalm CIV. Firft Part. L. M. [X

Divine Majefty and Goodness in Sterm and Rain. WAKE, my foul, to hymns of praife, To God the fong of triumph raise; Adorn'd with majefty divine,

What pomp, what glory, Lord, are thine! 2 Light forms his robe, and round his head The heavens their ample curtain fpread; See on the wind's expanded wings The chariot of the King of kings!

3 Around him rang'd in awful state,
Dark filent storms attendant wait;
And thunders ready to fulfil

The mandates of his fovereign will.
4 From earth's low margin to the skies
He bids the dufky vapours rife ;
Then from his magazines on high,.
Commands th' imprifon'd winds to fly.

5

The lightning's pallid fheet expands,
And fhowers defcend on furrow'd lands;
Whilft down the mountain's channel'd fide,
The torrent rolls in fwelling pride.

6 Till spent its wild impetuous force,
And fettled in its deftin'd course,
It waters all the fruitful plains,
And life in various forms fuftains.
7 Thus clouds, and ftorms, and fires obey
Thy wife and all-controlling fway;
And whilft thy terrors round us ftand,
We fee a Father's bounteous hand.

MERRICK, with Alteration and Addition

Pfalm CIV. Second Part. L. M. [b]

The Seaman's Prayer.

ALMIGHTY Ruler of the skies,

How various are thy works! how wife!
Thy power throughout all space extends,
Sinks through all depth, all height transcends į
2 Not earth alone beholds her fhores
Enrich'd by thy exhauftlefs ftores;
Alike, throughout their liquid reign,
The spreading feas thy gifts contain.
3 Beneath, unnumber'd fishes fwarm,
Of diff'rent fize, of various form;
Above, the fhips incumbent ride,
Borne on the bofom of the tide.
4 Here, huge Leviathan is feen

To fport the mighty waves between;
There, icy mountains float and roll,
Driv'n from the feas beneath the pole.
5 On high, the concave we behold
In living blue, or sparkling gold;
Whilft waving azure fields around
Spread to th' horizon's utmoit bound.
6 The winds and waves obey thy will;
The needle owns thy power and fkill;
And, fteer'd by thy directing hand,
Our bark fhall gain the wifh'd for land.

MERRICK, with Alteration and Addition.

Pfalm CIV. Third Part. L. M. [or]

V

Divine Providence torvard Man and Beaf.

AST are thy works, Almighty Lord,
All nature refts upon thy word d;