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PSALM 91. L. M.

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C. M. THIRD PART.

Ver. 13, &c.

Breathing after Heaven.

1 RETURN, O God of love, return;
Earth is a tiresome place:
How long shall we, thy children, mourn
Our absence from thy face?

2 Let heav'n succeed our painful years,
Let sin and sorrow cease;
And in proportion to our tears,
So make our joys increase.

3 Thy wonders to thy servants show,
Make thy own work complete;
Then shall our souls thy glory know,
And own thy love was great.

Then shall we shine before thy throne, In all thy beauty, Lord; And the poor service we have done Meet a divine reward.

S. M.

CANTERBURY.

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Ver. 1-7.

Safety in Public Diseases aud Danger.

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E, who bath made his refuge-
God,

Shall find a most secure abode;

Shall walk, all day, beneath his shade, And there, at night, shall rest his head. 2.3.

4 Just as a hen protects her brood, (From birds of prey that seek their Under her feathers, so the Lord [blood,) Makes his own arm his people's guard.

e 5 If burning beams of noon conspire To dart a pestilential fire,

• God is their life: his wings are spread To shield them with a healthful shade.

e 6 If vapours with malignant breath
Rise thick, and scatter midnight deatli,
o Israel is safe: the poison'd air
Grows pure, if Israel's God be there.
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9 But if the fire, or plague, or sword,
Receive commission from the Lord,
To strike his saints among the rest,
Their very pains and deaths are blest.

10 The sword, the pestilence or fire,
Shall but fulfil their best desire;
From sins and sorrows set them free,
And bring thy children, Lord, to thee.
PORTUGAL. OPORTO.

PSALM 92. L. M. FIRST PART.

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A Psalm for the LORD's Day.

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King,

WEET is the work, my God, my
[sing;
To praise thy name, give thanks and
To shew thy love by morning light,
And talk of all thy truth at night.

e 2 Sweet is the day of sacred rest,
No mortal cares shall seize my breast:
-O may my heart in tune be found,
Like David's harp of solemn sound!

s 3 My heart shall triumph in my Lord, And bless his works, and bless his word; e Thy works of grace, how bright they shine!

e How deep thy counsels! how divine!

-4 Fools never raise their thoughts so high;

[die;

e Like brutes they live, like brutes they -Like grass they flourish, till thy breath o Blast them in everlasting death.

o 5 But I shall share a glorious part,
When grace hath well refin'd my heart;
And fresh supplies of joy are shed,
Like holy oil to cheer my head.

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L. M. SECOND PART.

The Church is the garden of God.
1 LORD, 'tis a pleasant thing to stand,
In gardens planted by thy hand;
Let me within thy courts be seen,
Like a young cedar fresh and green.

2 There grow thy saints in faith and love,
Blest with thine influence from above;
Not Lebanon, with all its trees,
Yields such a comely sight as these,

3 The plants of grace shall ever live; (Nature decays but grace must thrive;) 'Time, that does all things else impair, Still makes them flourish,strong and fair.

4 Laden with fruits of age, they shew The Lord is holy, just and true: None that attend bis gates shall find A God unfaithful or unkind.

QUERCY.

PSALM 93. L. M. FIRST PART.
The eternal and sovereign God.
EHOVAH reigns; he dwells in light,
Girded with majesty and might:
The world, created by his hands,
Still on its first foundation stands.

e 2 But ere this spacious world was made,
Or had its first foundations laid,
Thy throne eternal ages stood,
Thyself the ever-living God.

3 Like floods the angry nations rise, And aim their rage against the skies: e Vain floods that aim their rage so high! —At thy rebuke the billows die.

4 For ever shall thy throne endure;
Thy promise stands for ever sure;

And everlasting holiness

Becomes the dwellings of thy grace.
OLD HUNDRED.

P. M. FIRST PART.

COD's Majesty and Sovereign Dominion.

1 THE Lord of glory reigns; he reigns on h gh; Lesty; His robes of state are strength and majThis wide creation rose at his command, Built by his word, and 'stablish'd by his hand: [creation, Long stood his throne, ere he began And his own Godhead-is the firm foundation.

2 God is th' eternal King: thy foes in vain [reign: Raise their rebellions, to confound thy In vain the storms, in vain the floods arise, [the skies; And roar, and toss their waves against Foaming at heav'n, they rage with wild commotion, [ling ocean. But heav'n's high arches scorn the sweld & Ye tempests rage no more; ye floods be still;

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P. M. SECOND PART. GOD's Power, and Zion's Safety. 1 THE Lord Jehovah reigns,

And royal state maintains;
His head with awful glories crown'd;
Array'd in robes of light,
Begirt with sov'reign night,
And rays of majesty around.

2 Upheld by thy commands,

The world securely stands,
And skies and stars obey thy word:
Thy throne was fix'd on high,
Before the starry sky:-
Eternal thy kingdom, Lord.

3 In vain the noisy crowd,,
Like billows fierce and loud,
Against thine empire rage and roar;
In vain, with angry spite,

The surly nations fight,

And dash like waves against the shore.

4 Let floods and nations rage,
And all their pow'rs engage,-
Let swelling tides assault the sky;
The terrours of thy frown
Shall beat their madness down;

Thy throne for ever stands on high.

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Ver. 1, 2, 3, 6-11.
Canaan lost through Unbelief.

2 COME,let our souls address the Lord" Who fram'd our natures with his word o He is our shepherd; we the sheep,

His mercy chose, his pastures keep.

-3 Come, let us hear his voice to-day, The counsels of his love obey;

e Nor let our harden'd hearts renew
The sins and plagues that Israel knew.

4 Israel, who saw his works of grace,
Tempted their Maker to his face;
A faithless, unbelieving brood,
That tir'd the patience of their God!

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Let an unusual joy surprise The islands of the sea;

Ye mountains sink, ye vallies rise,
Prepare the Lord his way.

5 Behold, he comes, he comes to bless The nations as their God;

o To shew the world his righteousness, And send his truth abroad.

g 6 But when his voice shall raise the dead,
And bid the world draw near,
How will the guilty nations dread,
To see their Judge appear!

ARUNDEL. CHRISTMAS.

P. M.

The GOD of the Gentiles.

1 LET all the earth their voices raise, To sing the choicest psalin of praise,

To sing and bless Jehovah's name; His glory let the heathens know, His wonders to the nations show,

And all his saving works proclaim.

2 The heathens know thy glory, Lord;
The wond'ring nations read thy word;
Among us is Jehovah known:
Our worship shall no more be paid
To gods which mortal hands have made:
Our Maker is our God alone.

3 He fram'd the globe, he built the sky, He made the shining worlds on high, And reigns complete in glory there; -His beams are majesty and light; His beauties, how divinely bright! His temple, how divinely fair!

g4 Come, the great day, the glorious hour, When earth shall feel his saving pow'r,

And barb'rous nations fear his name;
Then shall the race of men confess
The beauty of his holiness,

And, in his courts, his grace proclaim.
ST. HELLEN'S.

PSALM 97. L. M. FIRST PART.

Ver. 1-5.

g 3 In robes of judgment, lo, he comes! Shakes the wide earth, and cleaves the Before him burns devouring fire! [tombs The mountains melt, the seas retire!

-4 His enemies, with sore dismay, Fly from the sight and shun the day; o Then lift your heads, ye saints, on high, u And sing, for your redemption's nigh. PSALM 97TH.

L. M. SECOND PART. Ver. 6-9.

CHRIST'S Incarnation.

1 THE Lord is come; the heav'ns prociaim
His birth; the nations learn his name;
An unknown star directs the road
Of Eastern sages to their God.

32 All ye bright armies of the skies,

Go, worship where the Saviour lies, Angels and kings before him bow, Those Gods on high and gods below. -3 Let idols totter to the ground, And their own worshippers confound; o But Judah shout, but Zion sing, And earth confess her sov'reign king. OLD HUNDRED.

L. M. THIRD PART.
Grace and Glory.

1 THE Almighty reigns, exalted high, O'er all the earth, o'er all the sky: e Tho' clouds and darkness veil his feet, o His dwelling is the mercy-seat.

-2 O ye that love his holy name, Hate ev'ry work of sin and shame; He guards the souls of all his friends, And from the snares of hell defends.

o 3 Immortal light and joys unknown, Are for the saints in darkness sown; Those glorious seeds shall spring and rise And the bright harvest bless our eyes.

0 4 Rejoice, ye righteous, and record The sacred honours of the Lord;

CHRIST's reigning, and coming to Judg--None, but the soul that feels his grace,

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Can triumph in his holiness.

C. M.

GREEN'S.

Ver. 1, 3, 5---7, 11.

CHRIST'S Incarnation, and the last Judg

ment.

1 YE shores and isles of every sea,

Rejoice-the Saviour reigns; His word, like fire, prepares his way, And mountains melt to plains.

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