176 HYMNS. LXX. Sing the sweetpromise of his grace, And the performing God. 3 Proclaim, r' Salvation from the Lord, For wretched dying men ;" His hand has writ the sacred word With an immortal pen. 4 Engrav'd as in eternal brass, The mighty promise shines ; Nor can the the pow'rs of darkness rase Those everlasting lines.) 5 (He that can dash wholeworlds to death And make them when he please; He speaks and that almighty breath Fulfils (his great decrees. 6 His very word of grace is strong, As that which built the skies ; The voice that rolls the stars along, Speaks all the promises. Hesaid, " I,etthe wideheav'nbe spread And heav'n was stretch'd abroad " Ahrah'm, I'll be thy God," he said, And he was Abraham's God. e O, might I hear thine heav'nly tongue But whisper, " Thou art mine ; Those gentle wordsshould raisemy song To notes almost divine. 9 How would my leaping heart rejoice, And think my heav'n secure ! I trust the all creating voice, And faith desires no more.) HYMN LXX. [L. M.] God's dominion over the sea. 'Psalm cvii. 23, &c. 7 GOD of the seas, thy thund'ring voice Makes all the roaring waves rejoice! And one soft word of thy command Can sink them silent in the sand. 2 If but a Moses wave thy rod, The sea divides and owns its God ; The stormy floods their Maker knew, And let his chosen armies thro'. 3 The scaly -flocks amidst the sea, To thee, their Lord, a tribute pay ; The meanest fish that swims the flood, Leaps up, andmeans a praise to God. 4 (The larger monsters of the deep, On thy commands attendance keep; By thy permission sport and play, And cleave along their foaming way, 8 If. God his voice of tempest rears, Leviathan lies still and fears ; Anon he lifts his nostrils high, And spouts the ocean to the sky.) 8 How is thy glorious pow'r ador'd, Amidst these wat'ry nations, Lord! Yet the bold men that trace the seas, Bold men, refuse their Maker's praise. 7 What scenes of mirao(es they see, And never tune a song to thee! LXXI. LXXII. [Book Il, While on the flood they safely ride, They curse the hand that smooths the tide. 8 (Anon they plunge in wát'ry graves, And somedrink death among the waves: Yet the surviving crew blaspheme, Nor own the God that rescu'dthem.) 9 0, for some signal of thine hand ! Shake all the seas, Lord, shake the land: Great Judge, descend, lest men deny That there's a God that rules the sky. From the Ixxth to the cviiith Hymn I hope the reader milt forgive the neg- lect of rhyme in the first and third line of the stanza. HYMN LXXI. [C. M.] Praise to God,from all creatures. 1 THE glories of my Maker, God, Myjoyful voice shall sing, And call the nations to adore Their Former and their King. 2 'Twos his right-hand that shap'd our clay, And wrought this human frame: But from his own immediate breath Our nobler spirits came. 3 We bring our mortal pow'rs to God, And worship with our tongues ; We claim some kindred with the skies, And join th' angelic songs. 4 Let grov'ling beasts of ev'ry shape, And fowls of ev'ry wing, And rocks, and trees, and fires, and seas Their various tribute bring. 5 Ye planets, to his honour shine, And wheels of nature roll ; Praise him in your unwearied course Around the steady pole. 8 The brightness of our Melcer's name 'fhe wide creation fills, And his unbounded grandeur flies Beyond the heav'nly hills. HYMN LXXII. [C. M.] The Lord's-day : or, the resurrection of Christ. 1 BLESS'Dmorning, whose young dawx- Beheld our rising God; ling rays That saw him triumph o'er the dust, And leave his dark abode! 2 In the cold prison of a tomb The dead Redeemer lay, Till the revolving skies had brought, The third, th' appointed day. 3 Hell and the grave unite their force To hold our God, in vain ; The sleepingConqueror arose, And burst their feeble chain. 4 To thy great name, almighty Lord, These sacred hours we pay, And loud hosannas shall proclaim The triumph of the day. 5 (Salvation and immortal praise To our victorious King ; Let heav'n, and earth, and rocks, and With glad Hosannas ring. [seas,
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