e 2 Who knows the wonders of thy ways!
Who shall fulfill thy boundless praise
o Blest are the souls who fear thee still,
And pay their duty to thy will.
-3 Remember what thy mercy did
For Jacob's race, thy chosen seed:
And, with the same salvation, bless
The meanest suppliant of thy grace.
o 4 O may I see thy tribes rejoice,
And aid their triumphs with my voice!
-This is my glory, Lord, to be
Joined to thy saints, and near to thee.
S. M. Dover. [*]
V. 7, 8, 12—14, 43–48. Israel punished and pardoned.
OD of eternal love,
G How fickle are our ways!
And yet, how oft did Israel prove
Thy constancy of grace!
2 They saw thy wonders wrought,
And then thy praise they sung;
e But soon thy works of power forgot,
And murmured with their tongue.
3 Now they believe his word,
While rocks with rivers flow; e Now with their lusts provoke the Lord, Till he reduce them low.
4 Yet when they mourned their faults,
He hearkened to their groans;
Brought his own covenant to his thoughts,
And called them still his sons.
5 Their names were in his book;
He saved them from their foes:
Oft he chastised, but ne'er forsook,
The people whom he chose.
6 Let Israel bless the Lord,
Who loved their ancient race:
• And Christians join the solemn word, Amen, to all the praise.
PSALM 107. L. M. FIRST Part. Shoel. [*]
Israel led to Canaan: Christians to Heaven.
IVE thanks to God:-he reigns above;
G Kind are his thoughts; his name is love;
His mercy ages past have known,
And ages long to come shall own.
2 Let the redeemed of the Lord
The wonders of his grace record;
Israel, the nation whom he chose,
And rescued from their mighty foes.
3 [When God's almighty arm had broke
Their fetters and th' Egyptian yoke;
They traced the desert, wandering round
A wild and solitary ground!
4 There they could find no leading road,
Nor city for a fixed abode;
Nor food, nor fountain, to assuage
Their burning thirst, or hunger's rage.]
5 In their distress, to God they cried;
God was their Saviour and their Guide:
He led their march far wandering round;
'Twas the right path to Canaan's ground.
6 So, when our first release we gain
From sin's own yoke, and Satan's chain,
We have this desert world to pass,
A dangerous and a tiresome place.
7 He feeds and clothes us all the way;
He guides our footsteps, lest we stray;
He guards us with a powerful hand,
And brings us to the heavenly land.
o 80 let us, then, with joy record
The truth and goodness of the Lord! e How great his works! how kind his ways! u Let every tongue pronounce his praise.
L. M. SECOND PART. Bath. [*]
Correction for Sin; Release by Prayer.
1 FROM and his grace are still the same
age to age, exalt his name;
He fills the hungry soul with food,
And feeds the poor with every good.
e 2 But, if their hearts rebel, and rise Against the God who rules the skies; If they reject his heavenly word,
And slight the counsels of the Lord;—
—3 He'll bring their spirits to the ground,
And no deliverance shall be found;
a Laden with grief, they waste their breath
In darkness and the shades of death.
-4 Then to the Lord they raise their cries;
o He makes the dawning light arise,
And scatters all that dismal shade
That hung so heavy round their head.
5 He cuts the bars of brass in two,
And lets the smiling prisoner through;
Takes off the load of guilt and grief,
And gives the labouring soul relief.
060 may the sons of men record
The wondrous goodness of the Lord!
e How great his works! how kind his ways!
u Let every tongue pronounce his praise.
L. M. THIRD PART. Pleyel's. [*]
Intemperance punished and pardoned.
AIN man, on foolish pleasures bent,
What pains, what loathsome maladies
From luxury and lust arise!
2 The drunkard feels his vitals waste;
Yet drowns his health to please his taste,
Till all his active powers are lost,
And fainting life draws near the dust.
3 The glutton groans and loathes to eat;
His soul abhors delicious meat;
Nature, with heavy loads oppressed,
Would yield to death to be released.
4 Then how the frightened sinners fly
To God for help, with earnest cry!
He hears their groans, prolongs their breath,
And saves them from approaching death.
5 No med'cines could effect the cure,
So quick, so easy, or so sure:
The deadly sentence God repeals;
He sends his sovereign word and heals.
6 O may the sons of men record
The wondrous goodness of the Lord;
And let their thankful offering prove
How they adore their Maker's love.]
L. M. FOURTH PART. Oporto. [*]
Deliverance from Storm and Shipwreck.
WOULD you behold the works of God,
His wonders in the world abroad
Go with the mariners, and trace
The unknown regions of the seas.
2 They leave their native shores behind, And seize the favour of the wind; o Till God commands-and tempests rise, That heave the ocean to the skies.
o 3 Now to the heavens they mount amain,
e Now sink to dreadful deeps again:
-What strange affrights young sailors feel,
And like a staggering drunkard reel!
e 4 When land is far, and death is nigh,
p Lost to all hope, to God they cry;
-His mercy hears their loud address,
o And sends salvation in distress.
o 5 He bids the winds their wrath assuage,
The furious waves forget their rage:
-"Tis calm ;-and sailors smile to see
The haven where they wished to be.
o 60 may the sons of men record
The wondrous goodness of the Lord! -Let them their private offerings bring, . And in the church his glory sing.
Wareham. [*]
The Mariner's Psalm.
THY works of glory, mighty Lord,
The wonders in the deeps,
The sons of courage shall record,
Who trade in floating ships.
o 2 At thy command the winds arise, And swell the towering waves;
• The men, astonished, mount the skies, And sink in gaping graves.
-3 [Again they climb the watery hills,
And plunge in deeps again;
Each like a tottering drunkard reels,
And finds his courage vain.
d 4 Frighted to hear the tempest roar,
They pant with fluttering breath;
And, hopeless of the distant shore,
Expect immediate death.]
-5 Then to the Lord they raise their cries;
He hears the loud request,
g And orders silence through the skies, And lays the floods to rest.
u 6 Sailors rejoice to lose their fears,
And see the storm allayed;
Now to their eyes the port appears;
There let their vows be paid.
-7 'Tis God who brings them safe to land;
Let stupid mortals know,
That waves are under his command,
And all the winds that blow.
o 8 0 that the sons of men would praise
The goodness of the Lord!
-And those, who see thy wondrous ways,
Thy wondrous love record.
L. M. FOURTH PART. Moreton. Leeds. [*] Colonies and Nations blest and punished.
THEN God, provoked with daring crimes,
Scourges the madness of the times,
He turns the fields to barren sand,
And dries the rivers from the land.
2 His word can raise the springs again,
And make the withered mountains green;
Send showery blessings from the skies,
And harvests in the desert rise.]
3 Where nothing dwelt, but beasts of prey,
Or men as fierce and wild as they,
God bids th' oppressed and poor repair,
And builds them towns and cities there.
4 They sow the fields, and trees they plant,
Whose yearly fruit supplies their want;
Their race grows up from fruitful stocks,
Their wealth increases with their flocks.
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