12 Thy works pronounce thy power divine;
O'er every field thy glories shine;
Through every month thy gifts appear;
Great God, thy goodness crowns the year!

C. M. FIRst Part.

Colchester. Mear. [*]

Prayer heard and the Gentiles called.

Pere shall our vows be paid:
RAISE waits in Zion, Lord, for thee;

Thou hast an ear when sinners pray;
All flesh shall seek thine aid.

e 2 Lord, our iniquities prevail,
But pardoning grace is thine;

And thou wilt grant us power and skill
To conquer every sin.

-3 Blest are the men whom thou wilt choose,
To bring them near thy face;

Give them a dwelling in thine house,
To feast upon thy grace.

e 4 In answering what thy church requests
Thy truth and terror shine;

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And works of dreadful righteousness
Fulfill thy kind design.

5 Thus shall the wondering nations see
The Lord is good and just;

o And distant islands fly to thee,

And make thy name their trust.

g 6 They dread thy glittering tokens, Lord, When signs in heaven appear;

o But they shall learn thy holy word, And love as well as fear.

C. M. SECOND PART. Bedford. Arundel. [*] Providence in Air, Earth, and Sea.

1

IS by thy strength the mountains stand,

1'T God of eternal power;

The sea grows calm at thy command,

And tempests cease to roar.

o 2 Thy morning light and evening shade
Successive comforts bring;

Thy plenteous fruits make harvest glad,
Thy flowers adorn the spring.

-3 Seasons and times, and moons and hours,
Heaven, earth, and air are thine;

When clouds distil in fruitful showers,
The Author is Divine.

4 Those wandering cisterns in the sky,
Borne by the winds around,
With watery treasures well supply
The furrows of the ground.

o 5 The thirsty ridges drink their fill,
And ranks of corn appear;
Thy ways abound with blessings still,
Thy goodness crowns the year.

C. M. THIRD PART.

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York. [*]

A Psalm for the Husbandman.
OOD is the Lord, the heavenly King,
Who makes the earth his care;

Visits the pastures every spring,

And bids the grass appear.

2 The clouds, like rivers raised on high,
Pour out, at his command,
Their watery blessings from the sky,
To cheer the thirsty land.

3 The softened ridges of the field
Permit the corn to spring;
The valleys rich provision yield,
And the poor laborers sing.
4 The little hills on every side,
Rejoice at falling showers;

The meadows, dressed in all their pride,
Perfume the air with flowers.

5 The barren clods, refreshed with rain,
Promise a joyful crop;

The parched grounds look green again,
And raise the reaper's hope.

6 The various months thy goodness crowns;
How bounteous are thy ways!

The bleating flocks spread o'er the downs,
And shepherds shout thy praise.]

PSALM 66. C. M. FIRST PART. Devizes. [*]

s 1

Governing God; or, our Grace tried.

SING, all ye nations, to the Lord,
Sing with a joyful noise;

With melody of sounds record
His honours and your joys.

-2 Say to the Power that shakes the sky,
"How terrible art thou!
"Sinners before thy presence fly,
"Or at thy feet they bow."

3 [Come, see the wonders of our God;
How glorious are his ways!
In Moses' hand he puts his rod,
And cleaves the frighted seas.
-4 He made the ebbing channel dry,
While Israel passed the flood;

o There did the church begin their joy,
And triumph in their God.]

g 5 He rules by his resistless might: Will rebel mortals dare,

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Provoke th' Eternal to the fight,

And tempt that dreadful war!

o 6 O bless our God, and never cease;
Ye saints, fulfill his praise:

He keeps our life, maintains our peace,
And guides our doubtful ways.

-7 Lord, thou hast proved our suffering souls,
To make our graces shine;
So silver bears the burning coals,

The metal to refine.

g 8 Through watery deeps and fiery ways, We march at thy command,

Led to possess the promised place,

By thine unerring hand.

C. M. SECOND PART.

Barby. [*]

Ver. 13-20. Praise to God for hearing Prayer.
1 TOW shall my solemn vows be paid
To that almighty Power,

Who heard the long requests I made,
In my distressful hour.

2 My lips and cheerful heart prepare
To make his mercies known;

Come ye, who fear my God, and hear
The wonders he has done.

p 3 When on my head huge sorrows fell,
I sought his heavenly aid;

o He saved my sinking soul from hell, And death's eternal shade.

e 4 If sin lay covered in my heart,
While prayer employed my tongue,
The Lord had shown me no regard,
Nor I his praises sung.

o 5 But God, his name be ever blest,
Has set my spirit free;

-Nor turned from him my poor request,
Nor turned his heart from me.

PSALM 67. C. M. Bedford. [*]
Prosperity, Temporal and Spiritual.

1 HINE on our land, Jehovah, shine,
With beams of heavenly grace;

o Reveal thy power through all our coasts, And show thy smiling face.

-2 [Amidst our States exalted high, Do thou our glory stand;

And like a wall of guardian fire,

Surround the favorite land.]

e 3 When shall thy name, from shore to shore,
Sound all the earth abroad?

And distant nations know, and love,
Their Saviour and their God?

o 4 Sing to the Lord, ye distant lands,
Sing loud with solemn voice;

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8 Let every tongue exalt his praise,

And every heart rejoice.

g 5 He the great Lord, the sovereign Judge,
Who sits enthroned above,

Wisely commands the worlds he made,
In justice and in love.

-6 Earth shall obey her Maker's will,
And yield a full increase;

Our God will crown his chosen land,
With fruitfulness and peace.

o 7 God the Redeemer scatters round
His choicest favours here!
g While the Creation's utmost bound
Shall see, adore, and fear.

PSALM 68. L.M. 1ST PT. Blendon. Truro.[*]
V. 1-6; 32-35. The Vengeance and Compassion of God.
ET God arise in all his might,
And put the troops of hell to flight;

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As smoke that sought to cloud the skies,
Before the rising tempest flies.

e 2 [He comes arrayed in burning flames,
Justice and vengeance are his names:
e Behold his fainting foes expire,

Like melting wax before the fire.]

g 3 He rides and thunders through the sky;
His name, JEHOVAH, Sounds on high:
s Sing to his name, ye sons of grace;
Ye saints, rejoice before his face.

e 4 The widow and the fatherless
Fly to his aid in sharp distress;
In him the poor and helpless find
A Judge most just, a Father kind.
-5 He breaks the captive's heavy chain,
And prisoners see the light again;

e But rebels, who dispute his will,

Shall dwell in chains and darkness still.

PAUSE.

-6 [Kingdoms and thrones to God belong; o Crown him, ye nations, in your song; His wondrous names and powers rehearse; His honours shall enrich your verse.

g 7 He shakes the heavens with loud alarms;
How terrible is God in arms!

-In Israel are his mercies known;
Israel is his peculiar throne.

o 8 Proclaim him King, pronounce him blest;
He's your defence, your joy, your rest:
g When terrors rise, and nations faint,
God is the strength of every saint.]

L. M. SECOND PART. Brentford. Green's. [*] Ver. 17, 18. Christ's Ascension, and Gift of the Spirit.

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1 LORD, when thou didst ascend on high,
Ten thousand angels filled the sky;

Those heavenly guards around thee wait,
Like chariots that attend thy state.

2 Not Sinai's mountain could appear
More glorious, when the Lord was there;
While he pronounced his dreadful law,
And struck the chosen tribes with awe.