Proclaim to the nations around,
Our God, the omnipotent, reigns,
Whose righteousness space cannot bound,
Whose purpose unalter'd remains!
Encouragement from the Experience of God's Goodness.. 1 THROUGH all the changing scenes of life In trouble and in joy,
The praises of my God shall still
My heart and tongue employ.
2 The hosts of God encamp around
The dwellings of the just:
Protection he affords to all
Who make his name their trust.
3 O make but trial of his love!
Experience will decide,
How bless'd are they, and only they,
Who in his truth confide.
4 Fear him, ye saints! and you will then
Have nothing else to fear:
O make his service your delight;
Your wants shall be his care!
The Promise is to you and your Children:
1 LORD, what our ears have heard,
Our eyes delighted trace;
Thy love in long succession shown
To every rising race.
Our children thou dost claim,
And mark them out for thine;
Ten thousand blessings to thy name
For goodness so divine.
2 Thee, let the fathers own,
And thee, the sons adore;
Join'd to the Lord in solemn vows,
To be forgot no more.
Thy covenant may they keep,
And bless the happy bands,
Which closer still engage their hearts
To honour thy commands.
3 How great thy mercies, Lord!
How plenteous is thy grace!
Which in the promise of thy love,
Includes our rising race.
Our offspring, still thy care,
Shall own their father's God,
To latest times thy blessings share,
And sound thy praise abroad.
1 LET pure devotion rise,
And kindle to a flame,
Ascend like incense to the skies,
In our Redeemer's name.
2 How perfect and how free
Our heavenly Father's love;
He gave his only Son that we
Might dwell with him above.
3 His word, like drops of dew,
Descends on every heart,
Subdues and fashions us anew,
And bids our sins depart.
His grace our faith sustains,
And dissipates our fear;
Binds all our wounds, abates our pains,
And gives us comforts here.
5 He bids our willing eyes
Look through the gloomy shade,
To joys immortal in the skies,
That never cloy, nor fade.
1 GOD is our refuge in distress,
A present help when dangers press,
În him undaunted we 'll confide;
Though earth were from her centre toss'd,
And mountains in the ocean lost,
Torn piece-meal by the roaring tide.
2 He that has God his guardian made,
Shall under his almighty shade
Secure and undisturb'd abide :
Thus to my soul of him I'll say,
"He is my fortress, and my stay,
My God in whom I will confide.
3 His tender love, and watchful care,
Shall free me from the fowler's snare,
And from all noisome pestilence;
He over thee his wings shall spread,
And cover thine unguarded head;
His truth shall be thy strong defence."
1 LORD! when our thoughts delighted rove Amidst the wonders of thy love,
Sweet hope revives each drooping heart,
And bids our doubts and fears depart.
2 Be all our hearts and all our ways
Devoted to thy fervent praise;
And let our glad obedience prove
How much we owe, how much we love.
Various and universal praise to God. Psa. cl.
1 YE children of the living God,
To serve his name prepare;
Come ye with songs to his abode,
And bow with reverence there.
2 The firmament to him belongs,
The inmost of the mind;
Exalt the Lord in all your songs,
For he is good and kind.
3 Praise him for all his power and might,
How excellent his ways!
His every work is just and right,
We give Jehovah praise.
4 By all within us that has life
Be Jesus' praise express'd;
And this alone our daily strife,
To love and praise him best.
Evening Hymn. Psa. cxxxiv.
1 BLESS ye the Lord with solemn rite;
In hymns extol his name;
Ye who, within his house by night,
Watch round the altar's flame.
2 Lift up your hands amid the place
Where burns the sacred sign,
And pray, that thus Jehovah's face
O'er all the earth may shine.
3 From Zion, from his holy hill,
The Lord our Maker send
The perfect knowledge of his will,
Salvation without end.
MY God! my King! O may thy praise
Fill all the remnant of my days;
Thy grace employ my humble tongue,
And after death exalt my song!
2 May every opening morning bear
Some thankful tribute to thine ear;
And every setting sun still see
New works of duty done for Thee!
3 Thy works with boundless glory shine,
And speak thy majesty divine;
Let land to land aloud proclaim
The matchless honour of thy name.
4 But who can speak thy wond'rous deeds!
Thy greatness all our thoughts exceeds;
Vast and unsearchable thy ways;
Vast and immortal be thy praise,
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