14 Their fhips fpread their fails, The furface to fweep;
Their fifh nimbly glide,
Conceal'd in the deep;
They all know their season,
As feafons arise;
And tribes, which thy bounty
Has made, it fupplies.
15 Thy will and thy word
Endue them with breath,
Confum'd by thy blaft,
They fhrink into death
Reftor'd at thy pleasure,
New beings appear,
To people the waters,
The earth and the air.
16 Rejoice then, O Lord,
In glory fecure;
The works thoụ hast made
Through ages endure:
Yet, aw'd by thy prefence,
When thou draweft near,
Smoke burfts from the mountains,
Earth trembles with fear.
17 Thus, Lord, let me fing,
Thy glory to raise;
Delightful the strain,
When tun'd to thy praise.
The vile have their suff'rings,
The juft their reward:
Blefs GOD, O my fpirit!
O praife ye the Lord!
The Divine Promife to Abraham fulfilled.
IVE thanks to God, invoke his name,
And tell the world his grace;
Sound through the earth his deeds of fame,
That all may feek his face.
2 To Abrah'm and his feed he fwore, To give Canaan's land;
Though ftrangers, deftitute of power,
A little feeble band.
Like pilgrims through the countries round,
Securely, they remov'd;
And haughty kings who on them frown'd
Severely he reprov❜d.
4 The Lord himself chofe out their way,
And mark'd their journies right;
Gave them his leading cloud by day,
A fiery guide by night.
5 They thirst, and waters from the rock
In rich abundance flow;
And, foll'wing ftill the course they took,
Ran all the defart through.
6 O wond'rous fiream! O bleffed type
Of everflowing grace!
So Chrift our Rock maintains our life,
While we his footsteps trace.
7 Thus guarded by th' Almighty hand,
The chofen tribes poffefs'd
The bleffings of the promis'd land,
And there enjoy'd their rest.
Then let the world forbear its rage,
Nor put the church in fear;
Ifrael must live through ev'ry age,
And be th' Almighty's care.
Pfalm CVI. First Part. L. M. [*]
The Character and final Profperity of the Righteous.
RENDER thanks to God above,
The fountain of eternal love ;
Whofe mercy firm through ages past,
Has ftood, and fhall forever laft.
Who can his mighty deeds express,
Not only vaft, but numberlefs?
What mortal eloquence can raise
Juft tribute of immortal praise?
3 Happy are they, and only they,
Who from thy precepts never ftray f
Who know what's right, nor only fo,
But always practise what they know.
4 Extend to me that favour, Lord,
Thou to thy chofen doft afford;
Be this my happiness, to fee
Thy church in full profperity.
5 Remember what thy mercy did
For Jacob's race, thy chofen feed;
And with the fame falvation blefs
Each humble fuppliant of thy grace.
60 may I fee thy tribes rejoice,
And aid the triumph with my voice;
This is my glory, Lord, to be
Join'd to thy church, and near to thee.
7 Let Ifrael's God be ever bleft,
Who gives his people heavenly reft;
Let all his faints, with full accord,
Exalt their voice to praise the Lord..
TATE and WATTS, united.
Pfalm CVI. Sec. Part. S. M. [or b
Ifrael punished and pardoned: Or, the Love of God unchangeable. OD of eternal love!
G How fickle are our ways!
And yet how oft did Ifrael prove
The riches of thy grace
2 They faw his wonders wrought,
And then his praife they fung;
But foon his works of power forgot,
And murmur'd with their tongue.
3 Now they believe his word,
While rocks with water flow;
Now with their lufts provoke the Lord,
And dare the vengeful blow.
4 Yet, when they mourn'd their faults,
He hearken'd to their groans;
Brought his own cov'nant to his thoughts,
And call'd them ftill his fons.
5 Their names were in his book;
He fav'd them from their foes;
Oft he chaftis'd, but ne'er forfook
The people whom he chofe.
6 Let Ifrael blefs the Lord,
Who lov'd their ancient race;
And Chriftians join the folemn word
Amen, to all the praife.
Pfalm CVII. Firft Part. L. M. [b]
Ifrael led through the Wilderness to the Land of Promife.
IVE thanks to God; he reigns above;
Kind are his thoughts, his name is Love 3
His mercy ages paft have known,
And ages long to come fhall own.
2 Let the redeemed of the Lord
The wonders of his grace record;
Ifrael, the nation whom he chofe,
And refcu'd from their mighty foes.
3 In their diftrefs, to God they cry'd,
God was their Saviour and their Guide;
He led their march far wand'ring round;
'Twas the right path to Canaan's ground.
4 So when our first release we gain,
From fin's hard yoke and Satan's chain,
We have this defart world to trace,
A tiresome and a dang❜rous place.
5 God feeds and clothes us all the way,
He guides our footsteps, left we stray;
He guards us with a powerful hand,
And brings us to the heavenly land.
Then let us all with joy record
The truth and goodnefs of the Lord;
How great his works, how kind his ways!
Let every tongue pronounce his praife !
Plaim CVII. Second Part. L. M. [b]
Correction for Sin, and relief to Prifoners.
age to age exalt his name,
God and his grace are ftill the fame;
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