8 If e'er my ways have been perverse, Or foolish in thy view, 2 3 4 5 Recall my fteps to thy commands, CCLXXII. Long Met. GR UNKNOWN. Thanks to GOD for all Things. REAT God, my joyful thanks to thee Thy kindness every want relieves, What paffion afks, thy will denies, I may be weak, but thou art wife: Afflictions which I poorly mourn, Thou canft, and doft to bleffings turn. Deep, Lord, upon my thankful breast May all thy favours be impreft, That I may never more forget The fum, or any fingle debt. May I, with grateful heart, each day For daily gifts, my praises pay; Delighted may I always be, And thanks for all things give to thee. Proper I CCLXXIII. Proper Metre. BARBAULD. J EHOVAH reigns, let every nation hear, And at his footftool bow with holy fear; Let heaven's high arches echo with his name, And the wide peopled earth his praise proclaim; He reigns alone, let no inferior nature Ufurp, or fhare the throne of the Creator. 2 He faw the ftruggling beams of infant light Shoot thro' the maffy gloom of ancient night, His fpirit hushed the elemental strife, 3 4 5 And brooded o'er the kindling feeds of life; Seasons and months began their long proceffion, And measured o'er the year in bright fucceffion. The joyful fun fprung up th' ethereal way, Strong as a giant, as a bridegroom gay; And the pale moon diffused her fhadowy light Superior o'er the dufky brow of night; Ten thousand glittering lamps the fkies adorning, Numerous as dew-drops from the womb of morning, Earth's blooming face with flowers and fruits he dreft, And spread a verdant mantle o'er her breast; All glorious in unfullied bloom she stood, Her Maker bleffed his work, and called it good; The morning stars with joyful acclamation Exulting fung, and hailed the new creation.. PAUSE. Yet this fair world, the creature of a day, * From the paufe may be fung as a feparate hymn, beginning thus, This beauteous world, the creature of a day, 1 6 7 Eternal night shall veil their proudest story, The fun himself with thickeft clouds oppreft The stars rush headlong in the wild commotion, Th' eternal fire, that feeds each vital flame, He dwells within his own eternal effence, I With filent duty meekly bend before him, CCLXXIV. Common Metre. WATTS. The Greatnefs of God. Y foul with humbleft reverence fings M The great, the mighty King of Kings, 2 Life, death, this world, and worlds unknown, Hang on his firm decree : 3 He fits on no precarious throne, Nor borrows leave to be. Ten thousand ages ere the skies Were into motion brought, Ages Ages and worlds as yet unborn And lo, ten thousand worlds of light 5 Ages have rolled, and still fhall roll, CCLXXV. Common Metre. IMITATED FROM AN UNKNOWN AUTHOR. 1 E GOD praifed in Life and Death. NOUGH, my God, I know thee here, Hereafter may I know thee more, 2 In every smiling hour of life May God my thoughts employ: 3 Nor fhall the keenest sense of woe 5 And when I pass the gloomy vale, 6 Thus may I know and love thee here, I CCLXXVI. Common Metre. WATTS. A GOD's eternal Dominion. NCIENT of days, eternal King! From thee did all existence spring, 2 Thy throne eternal ages ftood, 3 Time and creation naked lie From the first birth of earth and sky, To the last awful day. 4 Eternity, its fource and flow, Which human grafp eludes, 5 Thy comprehenfive mind fees through; Swift as a tale our minutes flow, 6 Change |