3 So let his highest praise be sung, By all, through every clime, While moon and stars reflect their light, Or suns propitious shine.
HYMN 25. S. M. [#] Restoring Grace.
1 THE Lord on high proclaims His Godhead on the throne; Mercy and Justice are the names By which he will be known.
2 Ye dying souls, that sit
In darkness and distress, Look from the borders of the pit To his restoring grace.
3 Sinners shall hear the sound;
Their thankful tongues shall own, Our righteousness and strength are found In him, the Lord, alone.
4 In him shall Israel trust,
And see their guilt forgiven: Our God will make the gentiles just, And take the saints to heaven.
HYMN 26. L. M. [#] Blessings in Nature.
1 GREAT GOD, at whose all-powerful call At first arose this beauteous frame, By thee the seasons change, and all The changing seasons speak thy name.
2 Thy bounty bids the infant year, From winter storms recovered, rise; When thousand grateful scenes appear, Fresh-opening to our wondering eyes. 3 Aloft, full-beaming, reigns the sun,
And light and genial heat conveys, And, while he leads the seasons on, From thee derives his quickening rays. 4 Around us, in the teeming field,
Stands the rich grain, or purpled vine; At thy command they rise, to yield
The strengthening bread, or cheering wine.
5 Indulgent God, from every part
Thy plenteous blessings largely flow; We see, we taste ; let every heart With grateful love and duty glow.
HYMN 27. L. M. [#]
Seed-time and Harvest.
1 THE rising morn, the closing day, Repeat thy praise with grateful voice; Both in their turns thy power display, And, laden with thy gifts, rejoice. 2 Earth's wide-extended, varying scenes, All smiling round, thy bounty show; From seas or clouds, full magazines, Thy rich, diffusive blessings flow.
3 Now earth receives the precious seed, Which thy indulgent hand prepares,
And nourishes the future bread,
And answers all the sower's cares.
4 Here spreading flocks adorn the plain; There, plenty every charm displays; Thy bounty clothes each lovely scene, And joyful nature shouts thy praise.
HYMN 28. C. M. [#]
Blessings of God in Nature. 1 HAIL, great Creator, wise and good! To thee our songs we raise :
Nature, through all her various scenes, Invites us to thy praise.
2 At morning, noon, and evening mild, Fresh wonders strike our view; And, while we gaze, our hearts exult, With transports ever new.
3 Thy glory beams in every star Which gilds the gloom of night, And decks the smiling face of morn With rays of cheerful light.
4 The lofty hill, the humble vale,
With countless beauties shine; The silent grove, the awful shade, Proclaim thy power divine.
5 Great nature's God, still may
Our serious hours engage;
Still may our grateful hearts consult Thy works' instructive page.
HYMN 29. C. M. [#]
Blessings of Providence and Redemption. 1 THY goodness, Lord, our souls confess, Thy goodness we adore
A spring whose blessings never fail, A sea without a shore.
2 Sun, moon, and stars, thy love attest In every golden ray;
Love draws the curtains of the night, And love returns the day.
3 Thy bounty every season crowns With all the bliss it yields; With joyful clusters loads the vine, With strengthening grain the fields.
4 But chiefly thy compassions, Lord, Are in the gospel seen;
There, like the sun, thy mercy shines, Without a cloud between.
HYMN 30. L. M. [#]
Divine Guidance and Protection.
1 THY ways, O Lord, with wise design, Are framed upon thy throne above, And every dark or bending line Meets in the centre of thy love.
2 With feeble light, and half obscure, Poor mortals thine arrangements view, Not knowing that the least are sure, And the mysterious just and true.
3 Thy flock, thine own peculiar care, Though now they seem to roam uneyed, Are led or driven only where
They best and safest may abide.
4 They neither know nor trace the way; But, trusting to thy piercing eye, None of their feet to ruin stray,
Nor shall the weakest fail or die.
5 My favoured soul shall meekly learn To lay her reason at thy throne; Too weak thy secrets to discern, I'll trust thee for my guide alone.
HYMN 31. C. M. [#]
Merciful Designs in apparent Evils. 1 God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storin.
2 Deep in unfathomable mines Of never-failing skill
He treasures up his bright designs, And works his sovereign will.
3 Ye fearful souls, fresh courage take; The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
4 Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace;
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