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The pastures fmile in green array; Where flocks and herds delighted tray, And as the verdant mead they graze, Each in their language fpeak their praise. In all we view thy hand divine,

In every scene thy glories fhine,
Through every month thy gifts appear,
Great God, thy goodnefs crowns the year.

CIX. PSALM LXV. Long Met. STEELE.

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The fame.

HE rifing morn, the clofing day,
Thee, God, proclaim with grateful

voice;

Each in their turn thy power display,
And laden with thy gifts rejoice.

Earth's wide extended varying fcenes, All smiling round, thy bounty fhow; From clouds or feas, full magazines, Thy rich diffufive bleffings flow.

Now earth receives the precious feed, Which thy indulgent hand prepares ; And nourishes the future bread,

And anfwers all the fower's cares.

Thy goodness crowns the circling year, Thy paths drop fatnefs all around, E'en barren wilds thy praife declare, And echoing hills return the found.

PSALM

cx. PSALM LXVI. Prop. Met. DODDRIDGE.

Man the only Rebel against GOD.

HE Lord of glory reigns fupremely great,
And o'er heaven's arches builds his royal

feat.

Thro' worlds unknown his fovereign fway extends,
Nor space nor time his boundless empire ends.
His eye beholds th' affairs of every nation,

And reads each thought thro' his immenfe creation.
2 Light'nings and storms his mighty word obey,
And planets roll, where he has marked their way:
Unnumbered cherubs veiled before him ftand,
And at his fignal all their wings expand.

His praise gives harmony to all their voices, And every heart thro' the full choir rejoices. 3 Rebellious mortals, ceafe your tumults vain, Nor longer fuch unequal war maintain : Let clay with fellow clay in combat ftrive, But dread to brave the power, by which you live. With contrite hearts fall proftrate and adore him, For if he frown, ye perifh all before him.

cx. PSALM LXVII. Com. Met. WATTS. The Happiness of Britain.

I HINE, mighty God, on Britain fhine, With beams of heavenly grace;

Reveal thy power through all our coafts, And fhew thy fmiling face.

2 Amidft our ifle exalted high

Do thou our glory ftand,

And like a wall of guardian fire
Surround the favoured land.

3 Sometime thy name from fhore to shore
Shall spread the earth abroad,
And every nation know and love
Their Saviour and their God.

4 Already has thy richest truth
This happy ifland bleft:
Let holy gratitude to thee
Fill every British breast.

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Much of thy favours have we shared;

Ne'er may thy favours cease:

But ftill protect this happy ifle

With fcience, truth and peace.

CXII. PSALM LXVIII. Long Met. MERRICK.

Song of Praife.

E righteous of the earth rejoice

YE

In God, whose favour crowns your choice;

From day to day your joy express

In humble modeft thankfulness.

Great, wife and good; a theme of praise Exhauftlefs! In his prefence raise The pious ftrain, and cheerful fing The mercies of your heavenly king.

Their parent him the orphans hail; He bids the widow's caufe prevail; And, though above the higheft, high, Extends to all a friendly eye.

A manfion to the out-caft gives, The captive from his chain relieves,

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Nor e'er with fruitless vows implore
His aid the humble and the poor.

But to the virtuous, pious heart
His richest gifts he does impart.
Ye righteous of the earth rejoice

In God, whofe favour crowns your choice.

CXIII. PSALM LXVIII. Long Met. WATTS.

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Prefent Bleffings common; future fpecial.

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JE bless the Lord, the wife, the good, Who fills our hearts with joy and food; Who pours his bleffings from the skies, And loads our days with rich fupplies.

He fends the fun his circuit round, To cheer the fruits, to warm the ground; He bids the clouds, with plenteous rain, Refresh the thirsty earth again.

'Tis to his care we owe our breath, And all our near escapes from death: Safety and health to God belong, He guards the weak, and aids the ftrong.

Here all without diftinction prove Some common bleffings of his love; The world hereafter God reserves For treating each as each deferves.

Then life's vaft iffues fhall be known, And man fhall reap as man has fown. This hope the virtuous mind enjoys; This fear the finner's peace deftroys.

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CXIV. PSALM LXIX. Com. Met. WATTS.

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The Example of CHRIST's Obedience, Sufferings

and Reward.

ATHER, we fing thy wonderous grace,
The Saviour we proclaim;

FA

Beloved of God, endeared to man,

He bore reproach and fhame.

2 Thro' forrow and thro' death he passed,
Thy pleasure to fulfil :

He published to our world thy law,
And finished all thy will.

3 His faultlefs life, obedient death,
Were pleafing to his God,
And all his Father's richest love
Rewards the path he trod.

4 How wife the leffon to us all,
Who faith in him do own!
Whoe'er his Saviour's fteps pursues,
Shall fhare his Saviour's crown.

CXV. PSALM LXXI. Com. Met. ADDISON.

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Gratitude to GOD for his various Mercies.

WHE

WHEN all thy mercies, O my God,
My rifing foul furveys;
Tranfported with the view, I'm loft
In wonder, love, and praise.

2 O how fhall words with equal warmth
The gratitude declare,

Which glows in my delighted heart?
But thou canst read it there.