His ever watchful eye shall keep
Its conftant guard around my bed.
4 Faith in his name forbids my fear :
O may thy prefence ne'er depart;
And in the morning let me hear
The love and kindness of thy heart.
Thus when the night of death fhall come,
My flesh fhall reft beneath the ground;
And wait thy voice to break the tomb,
With glad falvation in the found.

Plaim V.

Common Metre.

For the Lord's Day Morning.

WATTS.

LORD, in the morning thou fhalt hear

My voice afcending high;

To thee will I addrefs my prayer,
To thee direct mine eye.
2 Thou art a God before whofe fight
The wicked fhall not stand;
Sinners fhall ne'er be thy delight,
Nor dwell at thy right hand.

3 But to thy houfe will I refort,
To taste thy mercies there;
I will frequent thy holy court,
And worship in thy fear.

4 O may thy Spirit guide my feet
In ways of truth and grace,
Make every path of duty straight
And plain before my face.

The men who love and fear thy name,
Shall fee their hopes fulfill'd;

The mighty God will compafs them
With favour, as a shield,

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WATTS

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Plaim VI.

Common Metre.

[b]

Prayer in Sickness.

Nanger, Lord, rebuke me not,
But fpare a wretch forlorn;

Correct me not in thy fierce wrath,
Too heavy to be borne.

2 Sorrow and pain confume the day,
I waste the night with cries,
Counting the minutes as they pafs,
Till the flow morning rife.

3 My tortur'd flesh diftracts my mind,
And fills my foul with grief;
How long, O Lord, wilt thou delay
To grant me thy relief?

4 The gloomy fhades of death cannot
Thy glorious acts proclaim;
No pris'ner of the filent grave
Can magnify thy name.

He hears when duft and afhes pray,
He pities all my groans;
He faves me for his mercy's fake,
And heals my broken bones.
The virtue of his fovereign word
Reftores my fainting breath:
To him will I devote that life
Which he has fav'd from death.

TATE and WATTS united and varied.

Palm VII. Common Metre. [ or b]

Confidence in God.

Y truft is in my heavenly friend,
My hope in thee, my God;

Rife, and my helpless life defend
From thofe who seek

B

my blood.

2 If malice lurk'd within my heart,
Before thy piercing eyes;
I fhould not dare appeal to thee,
Nor afk my God to rise.

3 Impartial Judge of all the world,
I truft my cause to thee;
According to my righteousness
So let thy fentence be.
Let wicked arts of wicked men

4

Be wholly overthrown ;

But guard the juft, O God, to whom
The hearts of both are known.

5 Then will I all the righteous ways
Of Providence proclaim;

I'll fing the praise of God most high,
And celebrate his name.

TATE and WATTS united.

Pfalm VIII. Common Metre. [or b]

Divine Condefcenfion.

THOU, to whom all creatures bow,
Within this earthly frame,

Through all the world, how great art thou!
How glorious is thy name!

2 When heaven, thy glorious work on high,
Employs my wond'ring fight;

The moon that nightly rules the sky,
With ftars of feebler light;

3 Lord, what is man! that thou fhould'st choose To keep him in thy mind!

Or what his race, that thou fhould'st prove

To them fo wond'rous kind!

4 Him next in power thou didit create

To thy celestial train ;

Ordain'd with dignity and state
O'er all thy works to reign.

5 They jointly own his powerful fway,
The beasts that prey or graze ;
The bird that wings its airy way,
The fish that cuts the feas.

60 thou, to whom all creatures bow,
Within this earthly frame,

Thro' all the world, how great art thou! How glorious is thy name!

Palm VIII. Long Metre.

Adam and Chrift, or the old and new Creation.

TATE.

[b]

LORD, what was man when made at firft,

Adam, the offspring of the duft,

That thou fhould'ft fet him, and his race,
But just below an angel's place!

2 That thou fhould'ft raise his nature so,
And make him Lord of all below;
Make ev'ry beast and bird fubmit,
And lay the fifhes at his feet!

3 But what fublimer glories wait
To crown the second Adam's state!
What honours fhall thy fon adorn,
Who condefcended to be born!
4 See him below his angels made!
See him in duft among the dead!
To fave the world from death and fin;
But he shall reign with power divine.

5

The world to come, redeem'd from all
The miferies that attend the fall,
New made and glorious fhall fubmit
At our exalted Saviour's feet.

Pfalm IX. ver. 10, 11.

Encouragement to Faith.

L. M. t*1

ING to the Lord, who loud proclaims His various and his faving names; O may they not be heard alone, But by our fure experience known. 2 The great Jehovah be ador'd, Th' eternal, all fufficient Lord; Through all the world, moft high confefs'd, By him 'twas form'd, and is poffefs'd 3 Awake, our nobleft powers, to bless The God of Abra'm, God of peace ; Now, by a dearer title known," Father and God of Chrift his Son. 4 Through every age his gracious car Is open to his fervant's prayer; Nor can one humble foul complain That he has fought his God in vain. 5 What unbelieving heart fhall dare In whifpers to fuggeft a fear,

While ftill he owns his ancient name,
The fame his power, his love the fame.
6 To thee our fouls in faith arise,
To thee we lift expecting eyes,
And boldly through the defart tread,
For God will guard where God shall lead.

Pfalm X.

DODDRIDGE.

Common Metre. [b]

A Prayer for Deliverance from Oppreffion.
THY doth the Lord ftand off fo far,

W And why conceal his face,

When great calamities appear,
And times of deep distress?