When foes in secret spread the snare,
Let my salvation be thy care.

2 Thy justice and thy power display,
And scatter far thy foes away;

While listening nations learn thy word,
And saints triumphant bless the Lord.
3 Then shall thy church exalt her voice,
And all that love thy name rejoice;
By faith approach thine awful throne,
And plead the merits of thy Son.

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Public Prayer and Praise.

1 THE praise of Zion waits for thee,
My God! and praise becomes thy house;
There shall thy saints thy glory see,
And there perform their public vows.
2 O Thou, whose mercy bends the skies,
To save when humble sinners pray!
All lands to thee shall lift their eyes,
And every yielding heart obey.

3 Blest is the man whom thou shalt choose,
And give him kind access to thee;
Give him a place within thy house,
To taste thy love divinely free.
4 With dreadful glory God fulfills
What his afflicted saints request;
And with almighty wrath reveals
His love, to give his churches rest.
5 Then shall the flocking nations run
To Zion's hill, and own their Lord;
The rising and the setting sun

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Shall see the Saviour's name adored.

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The Seasons of the Year.

1 ON God the race of man depends,
Far as the earth's remotest ends;
At his command the morning-ray
Smiles in the east, and leads the day.
2 Seasons and times obey his voice;
The evening and the morn rejoice,

To see the earth made soft with showers, Laden with fruit, and dressed in flowers. 3 The desert grows a fruitful field, Abundant food the vallies yield;

The vallies shout with cheerful voice, And neighb'ring hills repeat their joys. 4 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.

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Worship of God in his Temple.

1 PRAISE waits in Zion, Lord! for thee;
There shall our vows be paid;
Thou hast an ear when sinners pray:
All flesh shall seek thine aid.

2 O Lord! our guilt and fears prevail,
But pard'ning 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 thy house,
To feast upon thy grace.

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

And works of dreadful righteousness
Fulfill thy kind design.

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

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The distant isles shall fly to thee,
And make thy name their trust.

SECOND PART, C. M.

A Psalm for the Husbandman.

1 GOOD 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 vallies rich provision yield,
And cheerful lab'rers 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 parching grounds look green again,
And raise the reaper's hope.

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

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

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Goodness of God in the Seasons.

1 'TIS by thy strength the mountains stand, God of eternal power!

The sea grows calm at thy command,
And tempests cease to roar.

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 distill 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.

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

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Praise to God in Zion.

1 PRAISE on thee, in Zion's gates,
Daily, O Jehovah! waits:
Unto thee, who hearest prayer,
Shall the tribes of men repair.

2 Though with conscious guilt oppressed,
On thy mercy still we rest:
Thy forgiving love display!
Take, O Lord! our sins away.
3 Oh! how blessed their reward,
Chosen servants of the Lord,
Who within thy courts abide,
With thy goodness satisfied.

4 But how dire thy judgments fell,—
Saviour of thine Israel!

When thy people's cry arose,-
On their proud and impious foes!
5 By thy boundless might set fast,
Rise the mountains firm and vast:
Thou canst with a word assuage
Ocean's wild and deafening rage.
6 When thy signs in heaven appear,
Earth's remotest regions fear;
And the bounties of thy hand
Fill with gladness every land,

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Praises to Christ, the Saviour.

1 JESUS demands the voice of joy,

Loud through the land let triumph ring; His honors should your songs employ,-Let grateful praises hail the King.

2 Shout to the Lord-adoring own,

Thy works thy wondrous might disclose,
Thine arm victorious power has shown;
Thus did thy cross confound thy foes.

3 Low, at that cross, the world shall bow,
All nations shall its blessings prove;
While grateful strains in concert flow,
To sing thy power, and praise thy love.

4 Oh! bless our God, ye nations round! People and lands! rehearse his name; Let shouts of joy through earth resound, Let every tongue his praise proclaim.

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The God of Providence.

1 SING, all ye nations! to the Lord,
Sing with a joyful noise;
With melody of sound record

His honors 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 He made the ebbing channel dry,
While Israel passed the flood;
There did the church begin their joy,
And triumph in their God.

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

Led to possess the promised place,
By thine unerring hand.

5 Oh! bless our God, and never cease;
Ye saints! fulfill his praise:

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

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Praise to God for hearing Prayer.

1 NOW 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 v ho fear my God! and hear
The wonde's he has done.

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

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