My public walks, my private ways,
And secrets of my breast.

3. My thoughts lie open to thee, Lord,
Before they're form'd within;
And ere my lips pronounce the word,
Thou know'st the sense I mean,

4. O wondrous knowledge, deep and high!
Where can a creature hide?
Within thy circling arms I lie,
Beset on ev'ry side.

5. So let thy grace surround me still,
And like a bulwark prove,

1.

To guard my soul from ev'ry ill,
Secur'd by sov'reign love.

. HYMN 39. s. M.

MY heart and ways, O God!

By thee are search'd and seen;
My outward acts thine eye observes,
My secret thoughts within.

2. No spot the realms of space,

Whence thou art absent, know.
In heav'n thou reign'st a glorious King,
A righteous Judge below.

3. Lord! if within my heart

Thou aught should'st disapprove :
The secret evil bring to light,

And by thy grace remove.

4. If e'er I've been perverse
Or foolish in thy view:
Recall my steps to thy commands,
And form my life anew.

HYMN 40. c. M.

1. To thee, my God! my days are known; My soul enjoys the thought.

My actions all before thee lie,
Nor are my wants forgot.

2. Each secret wish devotion breathes,
Is vocal to thine ear;

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And all my walks of daily life
Before thine eye appear.

3. The vacant hour, the active scene,
Thy mercy shall approve;
And ev'ry pang of sympathy,
And ev'ry care of love.

4. Each golden hour of beaming light
Is gilded by thy rays;

And dark affliction's midnight gloom
A present God surveys.

5. Full in thy view thro' life I pass,
And in thy view I die.

1.

Lord! when all mortal bonds shall break,
May I still find thee nigh!

HYMN 41. c. M.

God's Wisdom.

SONGS of immortal praise belong
To my almighty God:

He hath my heart, and he my tongue,
To spread his name abroad.

2. How great the works his hand hath wrought! How glorious in our sight!

And men in ev'ry age have sought
His wonders with delight.

3. How most exact is nature's frame !
How wise th' eternal mind!

His counsels never change the scheme,
That his first thoughts design'd.

4. When he redeem'd the sons of men,
He fix'd his cov'nant sure:

The orders, that his lips pronounce,
To endless years endure.

5. Nature, and time, and earth, and skies,
Thy heav'nly skill proclaim,
What shall we do to make us wise,
But learn to read thy name?

6. To fear thy pow'r, to trust thy grace,
Is our divinest skill;

And he's the wisest of our race
Who best obeys thy will.

HYMN 42. c. M.

1. WHEN I with curious eyes survey

My complicated frame,

I read on ev'ry part inscrib'd
My great Creator's name.

2. With nicest art, in secret, God
Did ev'ry member write;
And, when the model was complete,
My eyes beheld the light.

3. He bade the purple flood of life
In circling streams to flow;
And sent the genial heat around
Through ev'ry part to glow.

4. Why was my body form'd erect,

Whilst brutes bow down to earth? But that my soul should learn to know, And elaim it's nobler birth.

5. Author of life! my tongue shall sing The wonders of my frame.

1.

Long as I breathe, and think and speak,
I'll praise thy glorious name.

HYMN 43. c. M.

God holy and just.

HOLY and rev'rend is the name
Of our eternal King.

Thrice holy, Lord! the angels cry:-
Thrice holy, let us sing.

2. Holy is he in all his works,
And saints are his delight;

But sinners and their wicked ways
Are hateful in his sight.

3. The deepest rev'rence, homage, love,
Pay, O my soul, to God;

Lift with thy hands a holy heart

To his sublime abode.

4. Thou, righteous God! preserve my mind From all pollution free;

Thine image form within my breast,
That I thy face may see.

1.

HYMN 44. C. M.

GOD is a spirit, just and wise;

sees our inmost mind.

In vain to heav'n we raise our cries,
And leave our souls behind.

2. Nothing but truth before his throne
With honour can appear.

The painted hypocrites are known Through the disguise they wear, 3. Their lifted eyes salute the skies, Their bended knees the ground: But God abhors the sacrifice,

Where not the heart is found.

4. Lord! search my thoughts, and try my ways,
And make my soul sincere:
Then shall I stand before thy face,
And find acceptance there.

HYMN 45. L. M.

1. PRAISE ye the Lord! 'tis good to raise Our hearts and voices in his praise:

His nature and his works invite

To make this duty our delight.

2. He loves the meek, rewards the just,
Humbles the wicked in the dust,
Melts and subdues the stubborn soul
And makes the broken spirit whole.
3. His saints are precious in his sight;
He views his children with delight;
He sees their hope, he knows their fear,
Approves and loves his image there.

HYMN 46. C. M.

1. WITH eye impartial, heav'ns high King Surveys each human tribe;

No earthly pomp his eyes can charm,
Nor wealth his favour bribe.

2. The rich and poor, of equal clay,
His pow'rful hand did frame;

All souls are his, and him alike

Their common Parent claim.

3. Ye sons of men of high degree,
Your great Superior own;

Praise him for all his gifts, and pay
Your homage at his throne.

4. Trust in the Lord, ye humble poor,
And banish ev'ry fear:

1.

The God you serve will ne'er forsake
The man of heart sincere.

HYMN 47. L. M.

WHAT eyes like thine, eternal Sire,

Through sin's obscurest depths inquire?
What judge, like thee, on virtue's foes
The needful vengeance can impose?
2. The meek observer of thy laws
To thee commits his injur'd cause:
In thee each anxious fear resign'd,
The fatherless a father find.

3. Thine is the throne; beneath thy reign,
Immortal King, the tribes profane.
Behold their dreams of conquest o'er,
And vanish to be seen no more.

4. 'Tis thine the orphan's cheek to dry,
The guiltless suff'rer's cause to try,
To rein each earth-born tyrant's will,
And bid the sons of pride be still.
HYMN 48 L. M.

1.THOU suit'st, O Lord, thy righteous ways
To various paths of human kind:
They, who for mercy merit praise,
With thee shall wondrous mercy find.

2. Such, as perversely choose to go,

Shall meet with due returns from thee:

Thou to the just wilt justice show;
The pure thy purity shall see.

3. For seeds are sown of glorious light,
A future harvest for the just;