HYMN 38. 7s. M.

Praise to God in prosperity and adversity. 1 PRAISE to God, immortal praise, For the love that crowns our days: Bounteous fource of ev'ry joy ! Let thy praise our tongues employ : 2 For the bleffings of the field, For the ftores the gardens yield; For the vine's exalted juice, For the gen'rous olive's use. 3 Flocks that whiten all the plain, Yellow fheaves of ripen'd grain; Clouds that drop their fatt'ning dews, Suns that temp'rate warmth diffuse. 4 All that Spring with bounteous hand Scatters o'er the smiling land ; All that lib'ral Autumn pours From her rich o'erflowing ftores. 5 Thefe, to thee, our God! we owe, Source whence all our bleffings flow! And for these our fouls fhall raife Grateful vows and folemn praise. 6 Yet fhould rifing whirlwinds tear From its ftem the rip'ning ear; Should the fig-tree's blafted fhoot Drop her green untimely fruit : 7 Should the vine put forth no more, Nor the olive yield her store;

Tho' the fick'ning flocks fhould fall,
And the herds defert the ftall:

8 Should thine alter'd hand reftrain,
The early and the latter rain ;

Blaft each op'ning bud of joy,
And the rifing year deftroy:

9 Still to thee our fouls fhall raise
Grateful vows and folemn praise ;
And, when ev'ry blessing's flown,
Love thee for thyfelf alone.

HYMN 39. C. M.

Prayer for spiritual and eternal blessings. 1 ETERNAL fource of life and light, Supremely good and wife!

To thee we bring our grateful vows,
To thee lift up our eyes.

2 Our dark and erring minds illume
With truth's celeftial rays;
Inspire our hearts with facred love,
And tune our lips to praise.

3 Safely conduct us, by thy grace,
Thro' life's perplexing road;
And place us, when that journey's o'er,
At thy right hand, O God!

HYMN 40. C. M.

The universal prayer.

1 FATHER of all! in ev'ry age,
In ev'ry clime ador'd,

By faint, by favage, or by fage,
The univerfal Lord!

2 Thou great first caufe! leaft understood; Who all my fense confin'd,

To know but this-that thou art good, And that myself am blind.

3 What confcience dictates to be done,
Or warns me not to do;

This, teach me more than hell to fhun,
That, more than heav'n pursue.

4 What bleffings thy free bounty gives, Let me not caft away;

For God is paid when man receives
T'enjoy is to obey.

5 Yet, not to earth's contracted span
Thy goodness let me bound;
Or think thee Lord alone of man,
When thousand worlds are round.
6 Let not this weak, unknowing hand
Prefume thy bolts to throw ;
And deal damnation round the land,
On each I judge thy foe.

7 If I am right, thy grace impart,
Still in the right to stay ;
If I am wrong, O teach my
To find that better way.

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8 Save me alike from foolish pride,
Or impious difcontent

At aught thy wisdom has deny'd,
Or aught thy goodnefs lent."

9 Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I fee;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy fhow to me.

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10 Mean though I am, not wholly fo, Since quicken'd by thy breath; O! lead me, wherefoe'er I go,

Thro' this day's life or death.

11 This day be bread and peace my lot ;-
But all beneath the fun,

Thou know'ft if beft beftow'd or not;
And let thy will be done.

12 To thee, whofe temple is all space,
Whose altar, earth, sea, skies,
One chorus let all beings raise,
All nature's incenfe rife!

1 FATHER of all! eternal mind!
Immenfely good and great!

Thy children form'd and blefs'd by thee,
Approach thine awful feat.

2 Thy name in hallow'd strains be fung;
We join the folemn praise :

To thy great name, with heart and tongue,
Our cheerful homage raise.

3 Thy mild, thy wife, and righteous reign
Let ev'ry being own;

And in our minds, thy work divine,
Erect thy gracious throne.

4 As angels in the heav'nly worlds
Thy bleft commands fulfil ;
So may the creatures here below
Perform thy holy will.

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5 On thee we day by day depend;
Our daily wants fupply;

With truth and virtue feed our fouls,
That they may never die.

6 Extend thy grace to ev'ry fault;
Oh! let thy love forgive;
Teach us divine forgiveness too,
Nor let refentments live.

7 Where tempting fnares beftrew the way,
Permit us not to tread ;
Or turn all real evil far

From our unguarded head.

8 Thy facred name we would adore,
With cheerful, humble mind:

And praise thy goodness, pow'r and truth,
Eternal, unconfin'd!

HYMN 42. L. M.

Paraphrase of the Lord's prayer.

1 FATHER, ador'd in worlds above!
Thy glorious name be hallow'd still; :
Thy kingdom come with pow'r and love,
And earth like heav'n obey thy will.

2 Lord! make our daily wants thy care;
Forgive the fins which we forfake:
O let us in thy kindness share,
As fellow-inen of ours partake.

3 Evils befet us every hour!

Thy kind protection we implore:
Thine is the kingdom, thine the pow'r;
Be thine the glory evermore !