4 Lord thy mercies never fail! Hail, celestial goodness, hail! Holy, holy, holy Lord!

Be thy glorious name adored.

46. L. M.

Salisbury Coll.

The Delight of Social Worship. Ps. lxxxiv.

1 How pleasant, how divinely fair,
O Lord of hosts, thy dwellings are!
With long desire my spirit faints
To meet the assemblies of thy saints.

2 Bless'd are the saints who dwell on high,
Around thy throne of majesty;

Thy brighter glories shine above,
And all their work is praise and love.

3 Bless'd are the souls that find a place
Within the temple of thy grace;
There they behold thy gentler rays,
Inquire thy will, and learn thy praise.

4 Bless'd are the men whose hearts are set
To find the way to Zion's gate;

God is their strength; and through the road
They lean upon their helper, God.

5 Cheerful they walk with growing strength,
Till all shall meet in heaven at length;
Till all before thy face appear,

And join in nobler worship there.

Watts.

47. 8, 8, 6 M.

Attendance upon Religious Institutions.

1 I'LL bless Jehovah's glorious name,
Whose goodness heaven and earth proclaim,
With every morning light;
And at the close of every day,
To him my cheerful homage pay,
Who guards me through the night.

2 Then in his churches to appear,
And pay my humble worship there,
Shall be my sweet employ:
The day that saw my Saviour rise,
Shall dawn on my delighted eyes
With pure and holy joy.

3 With grateful sorrow in my breast,
I'll celebrate the dying feast
Of my departing Lord;

And while his perfect love I view,
His bright example I'll pursue,

And meditate his word.

48. L. P. M.

Miss Daye.

Eternal Praise for Divine Goodness.

1 I'LL praise my Maker with my breath, And when my voice is lost in death,

Praise shall employ my nobler powers; My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.

2 Happy the man whose hopes rely On God alone: He made the sky,

And earth, and seas, with all their train His truth for ever stands secure;

He saves the oppressed; he feeds the poo
And none shall find his promise vain.

3 The Lord hath sight to give the blind;
The Lord supports the sinking mind;
He sends the contrite spirit peace:
He helps the stranger in distress,
The widow and the fatherless,

And grants the prisoner sweet release.

He loves the good; he knows them well
His love their joyful lips can tell;
Their gracious God for ever reigns:
Let every tongue, let every age,
In this exalted work engage:

Praise him in everlasting strains!

49. c. M.

Watts, alt'u

The Unceasing Goodness of our Heavenly Father.

1 JEHOVAH GOD! thy gracious power
On every hand we see;

O may the blessings of each hour
Lead all our thoughts to thee!

2 If on the wings of morn we speed
To earth's remotest bound,

Thy hand will there our footsteps lead,
Thy love, our path surround.

3 Thy power is in the ocean deeps,
And reaches to the skies;
Thine eye of mercy never sleeps,
Thy goodness never dies.

4 From morn till noon, till latest eve,
The hand of God we see;
And all the blessings we receive,
Ceaseless proceed from thee.

5 In all the varying scenes of time,
On thee our hopes depend;
Through every age, in every clime,
Our Father, and our Friend!

50. 10 & 11 s. M.

+ Thomson.

The unrivalled Power and Dominion of God.

1 JEHOVAH reigns! let every nation hear, And at his footstool bow with holy fear.

Let heaven's high arches echo with his name, And the wide-peopled earth his praise proclaim; Then send it down to hell's deep glooms resounding, Through all her caves in dreadful murmurs sounding.

2 He rules with wide and absolute command, O'er the broad ocean and the steadfast land; Jehovah reigns, unbounded and alone, And all creation hangs upon his throne: He reigns alone; let no inferior nature Usurp, or share the throne of the Creator.

3 This earthly globe, the creature of a day,
Though built by God's right hand, must pass away;
And long oblivion creep o'er mortal things,
The fate of empires, and the pride of kings:
Eternal night shall veil their proudest story,
And drop the curtain o'er all human glory.

4 The sun himself, with gathering clouds oppressed, Shall in his silent, dark pavilion rest;

His golden urn shall break, and useless lie,
Amid the common ruins of the sky;

The stars rush headlong in the wild commotion,
And bathe their glittering foreheads in the ocean.

5 But fixed, O God! forever stands thy throne;
Jehovah reigns, a universe alone :

The eternal fire that feeds each vital flame,
Collected, or diffused, is still the same:
He dwells within his own unfathomed essence,
And fills all space with his unbounded presence.

6 But Oh! our highest notes the theme debase,
And silence is our least injurious praise :

Cease, cease, your songs; the daring flight control;
Revere him in the stillness of the soul:

With silent duty meekly bend before him,
And deep, within your inmost hearts, adore him.

51. c. M.

Mrs. Barbauld

The Coming and Kingdom of Christ. Ps. xcviii.

1 Joy to the world! the Lord is come;
The long-predicted king:

Let every heart prepare him room,
And heaven and nature sing.