97.

"Our dwelling place in all generations." PSALM XC.

2. BEFORE the hills in order stood, Or earth received her frame,

From everlasting thou art God,

To endless years the same.

4. Our lives thro' various scenes are drawn,
And vexed with trifling cares;
While thine eternal thoughts move on
Thine undisturbed affairs.

Return, ye sons of men;"

All nations rose from earth at first,
And turn to earth again.

4. Time, like an ever-rolling stream,

Bears all its sons away;
They fly, forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.

5. O God, our help in ages past,

Our hope for years to come,

What worthless worms are we!

Let the whole race of creatures bow, And pay their praise to thee.

1. THRO' endless years thou art the same, O thou eternal God!

Ages to come shall know thy name, And tell thy works abroad.

98.

And our eternal home!

"The Living God."

1. GREAT God! how infinite art thou! What worthless worms are we! Let the whole race of creatures bow, And pay their praise to thee.

2. Thy throne eternal ages stood,

Ere seas or stars were made;
Thou art the ever-living God,
Were all the nations dead.

3 Eternity, with all its years,

Stands present in thy view;
To thee there's nothing old appears,
Great God! there's nothing new

Of old by thee were laid;

By thee the beauteous arch of heaven
With matchless skill was made.

3. Soon shall this goodly frame of things,
Formed by thy powerful hand,
Be, like a vesture, laid aside,

And changed at thy command.
4. But thy perfections all divine,
Eternal as thy days,
Through everlasting ages shine,
With undiminished rays.

5. Our children's children, still thy care,
Shall own their father's God;
To latest times thy favor share,
And spread thy praise abroad.

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ker's nod!

her God.

103.

"Keep silence, all created things."

2. LIFE,death and hell,and worlds unknown, Hang on his firm decree;

He sits on no precarious throne,
Nor borrows leave to be.

3. Before his throne a volume lies,
With all the fates of men;
With every angel's form and size,
Drawn by th' eternal pen.

4. His providence unfolds the book,
And makes his counsels shine;
Each opening leaf, and every stroke,
Fulfills some deep design.

5. My God, I would not long to see
My fate with curious eyes;-
What gloomy lines are writ for me,
Or what bright scenes may rise.
6. In thy fair book of life and

grace,

May I but find my name Recorded in some humble place, Beneath my Lord, the Lamb!

1. GREAT Ruler of all nature's frame!
We own thy power divine;
We hear thy breath in every storm,
For all the winds are thine.

2. Wide as they sweep their sounding way
They work thy sovereign will;
And, awed by thy majestic voice,
The tempest shall be still.

3. Thy mercy tempers every blast
To those who seek thy face:
And mingles with the tempest's roar
The whispers of thy grace.

4. Those gentle whispers let me hear,
Till all the tumults cease;
And gales of paradise shall soothe
My weary soul to peace.

"What shall I render unto the Lord ?"
PSALM CXVI.

106. 2. AMONG the saints that fill thy house, My offerings shall be paid; There shall my zeal perform the vows My soul in anguish made.

3. Now I am thine, forever thine,

Nor shall my purpose move; Thy hand hath loosed my bonds of pain, And bound me with thy love.

4. Here in thy courts I leave my vow, And thy rich grace record; Witness, ye saints, who hear me now, If I forsake the Lord.

1 I SING th' almighty power of God,

That made the mountains rise,
That spread the flowing seas abroad,
And built the lofty skies.

2. I sing the wisdom that ordained
The sun to rule the day;
The moon shines full at his command,
And all the stars obey.

3. I sing the goodness of the Lord,

That filled the earth with food;
He formed the creatures with his word,
And then pronounced them good.

4. Lord, how thy wonders are displayed, Where'er I turn mine eye;

If I survey the ground I tread,
Or gaze upon the sky!

5 There's not a plant or flower below
But makes thy glories known;

1. WITH Songs and honors sounding loud, Address the Lord on high;

Over the heavens he spreads his cloud,
And waters vail the sky.

2. He sends his showers of blessings down To cheer the plains below;

He makes the grass the mountains crown,
And corn in valleys grow.

3. His steady counsels change the face
Of the declining year;

He bids the sun cut short his race,
And wint'ry days appear.

4. His hoary frost, his fleecy snow.
Descend and clothe the ground;
The liquid streams forbear to flow,
In icy fetters bound.

5. He sends his word, and melts the snow, The fields no longer mourn;

He calls the warmer gales to blow,
And bids the spring return.

6. The changing wind, the flying cloud,
Obey his mighty word;

With songs and honors sounding loud,
Praise ye the sovereign Lord!

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all his ways.

109.

God a Sure Defense.

2. ALL nature owns his guardian care; In him we live and move;

But nobler benefits declare

The wonders of his love.

3. He gave his well-belovéd Son, To save our souls from sin:

'Tis here he makes his goodness known,
And proves it all divine.

4. To this dear Refuge, Lord, we come,
And here our hope relies;
A safe defense, a peaceful home,

When storms of trouble rise.

5. Great God! to thine almighty love
What honors shall we raise?
Not all the raptured songs above
Can render equal praise.

And speak some boundless thing:
The mighty works, or mightier name,
Of our eternal King.

2. Tell of his wondrous faithfulness,
And sound his power abroad;
Sing the sweet promise of his
And the performing God.

3. His

grace,

very word of grace is strong, As that which built the skies; The voice that rolls the stars along Speaks all the promises.

Nor dares a creature guess
Which of the glories brightest shone,

The justice, or the grace.

5. Now the full glories of the Lamb
Adorn the heavenly plains;
Bright seraphs learn Immanuel's name,
And try their choicest strains.

6. Oh, may 1 bear some humble part
In that immortal song!
Wonder and joy shall tune my heart,
And love command my tongue.