4 Shall I receive this grace in vain ?
Shall I my great vocation ftain?
Away, ye works in darknefs wrought!
Away, each fenfual, wanton thought!
5 My foul, I charge thee to excel,
In thinking right, and acting well;
Deep let thy fearching powers engage,
Unbias'd in the facred page.

6 Heighten the force of good defire,
To deeds of fhining worth aspire ;
More firm in fortitude, defpife
The world's feducing vanities.

7 Strong and more ftrong, thy paffions rule,
Advancing still in virtue's fchool;
Contending ftill, with noble ftrife,
To imitate thy Saviour's life..

Hymn LIV.

E

Long Metre.

The only living and true GOD.

(Pfalm 86.)

SCOTT.

TERNAL God, almighty Caufe Of earth and fea and worlds unknown; All things are fubject to thy laws, All things depend on thee alone.

2 Thy glorious being fingly ftands,
Of all within itself poffeft;

Controll'd by none are thy commands;
Thou from thyself alone art blest.

To thee alone ourselves we owe,
To thee alone our homage pay;
All other gods we difavow,

Deny their claims, renounce their sway..
In thee, O Lord, our hope fhall reft,
Fountain of peace and joy and love!

Thy favour only makes us bleft; Without thee, all would nothing prove. 5 Worship to thee alone belongs,

Worfhip to thee alone we give ;

Thine be our hearts and thine our songs, And to thy glory we would live.

6 Spread thy great name through heathen lands, Their idol deities dethrone;

Subdue the world to thy commands,
And reign, as thou art, God alone.

Hymn LV.

Common Metre.

The Confolations of Age.

BROWN.

[b]

TERNAL God, enthron'd on high,

Whom angel hofts adore

Who yet to fuppliant duft art nigh,

Thy prefence I implore.

O guide me down the fteep of age,
And keep my paffions cool;
Teach me to fcan the facred page,
And practife every rule.

3 My flying years, time urges on,
My ftrength must foon decay;
My friends, my youth's companions gone,
Can I expect to stay?

4 Can I exemption plead, when death
Projects his awful dart ?

Can med'cines then prolong my breath,
Or cordials fhield my heart?

5 But thou canst cheer my mortal hour,
On thee my hope depends;
Support me by Almighty power,
While duft to duft defcends.

6 Then let my foul, O gracious God,
Afcend to realms of day;

And, in that facred bleft abode,
Its endless anthems pay.

7 Throughout the heaven's remoteft bound
Thy matchlefs love proclaim;
And join the choir of faints that found
Their great Redeemer's name.

B. WILLIAMS's Collection.

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TERNAL God, I blefs thy name,

The fame thy pow'r, thy grace the fame; The tokens of thy friendly care Open and clofe and crown the year. 2 Supported by thy guardian hand, Amidft ten thousand deaths I ftand; And fee, when I furvey thy ways, Ten thousand monuments of praise. Thus far thy arm has led me on, Thus far I make thy mercy known; And whilft I tread this defert land, New mercies fhall new fongs demand, 4 My grateful voice on Jordan's fhore Shall raife one facred pillar more; Then bear in thy bright courts above, Infcriptions of immortal love.

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DODDRIDGE.

Hymn LVII. Common Metre.

Joy and Gratitude.

TERNAL Love! how large the fum
Of bleffings from thy hand!

To banish forrow and be bleft

Is thy fupreme command,

2 Joy is our duty, glory, health,

The funfhine of the foul;

The beft return that we can make
To him who plans the whole.
3 Whatever, Lord, of earthly blifs
Thy fov'reign will denies,
Accepted at thy throne of grace,
Let this petition rife:

4 Give me a calm, a thankful heart,
From every murmur free;

The bleffings of thy grace impart,
And make me live to thee.

Let the bleft hope that thou art mine
My life and death attend;

YOUNG.

Thy prefence through my journey fhine,
And crown my journey's end.

RIPPON'S Collection.

Hymn LVIII. Long Metre.

God exalted above all Praife.

ETERNAL
TERNAL Power, whofe high abode
Becomes the grandeur of the God,
Extending far beyond the bounds

Where ftars revolve inferior rounds.
2 The lowest ftep beneath thy feat
Rifes too high for Gabriel's feet;
In vain the tall arch-angel tries

To reach its height, with wond'ring eyes. 3 Thy dazzling glory whilft he fings, He hides his face behind his wings, And ranks of thrones and powers around, Fall proftrate on the heav'nly ground. 4 Lord, what fhall earth and afhes do! We would adore our Maker too;

From lowest duft to thee we cry, The great, the holy, and the high. 5 Earth from afar hath heard thy fame, And men have learn'd to lifp thy name; But the full glories of thy mind

Leave all our foaring thoughts behind. 6 God is in heaven, and men below; Be fhort our hymns, our words be few; A facred reverence checks our fongs, And praife is filent on our tongues.

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Hymn LIX.

Long Metre.

Divine Goodness.

WATTS.

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TERNAL Source of every joy! Well may thy praife our lips employ ; Whilft in thy temple we appear, Thy goodnefs crowns the circling year. 2 Wide as the earth and planets roll, Thy hand fupports and cheers the whole; By thee, the fun is taught to rife, And darkness when to veil the fkies. The flowery fpring, at thy command, Embalms the air and paints the land; The fummer rays with vigour thine, To raife the corn and cheer the vine. Seafons and months and weeks and days Demand fucceffive hymns of praife; Still be the cheerful homage paid, With morning light and evening shade. 5 O, may our more harmonious tongues, In worlds unknown, purfue the fongs, And in thofe brighter courts adore, Where days and years revolve no more. Liverpool Collection

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