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To God above from All below
Let hymns of praise ascend
Whose Blessings unexhausted flow,
Whose Mercy knows no end.

2.

But chief by Those his name be blest,
To whom his aid he gave;
Beheld them by the Foe oppress'd,
And reach'd his arm to save.

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To East, to West, to South, to North,
Condemn'd awhile to roam,
His hand in pity brought them forth,

1.

Let songs of joy to God ascend,
Whose Love nor limit knows nor end.
But O, what tongue in equal lay
His acts can speak, his praise display?

2.

Thrice happy who with stedfast will
The dictates of his Law fulfil!
With These, thy chosen Flock, assign'd
May I my lot for ever find:

3.

O grant me, Lord, with These to prove
The pow'r of thy redeeming Love,
The grace thy Saints are blest to know
That Grace to me benignant shew.

4.

1.

Come, celebrate your God and King;
Awake the song, awake the string;
With awful rev'rence own his name;
His pow'r invoke, his praise proclaim.

2.

Aloud declare, through ev'ry Land,
The Wonders of his mighty hand;
And let his Name your thought employ;
His Name, sit theme of highest joy:

3.

Such joy may each for ever share,
Whose steps to Salem 's Fane repair:
O frequent seek that blest Abode,
O seek the face of Jacob 's God.

4.

1.

Awake, my Soul, to hymns of praise;
To God the song of triumph raise,
And thankful bless th' almighty Lord,
The God in ev'ry act ador'd,

2.

O cloth'd with Majesty divine,
What pomp, what glory, Lord, are thine!
Light forms thy robe, and round thy head
The Heav'ns their ample curtain spread.

3.

Thou know'st amid the fluid space
The strong-compacted beams to place,
That proof to wasting Ages lie,
And prop the chambers of the sky.

4.

1.

My Soul, throughout thine inmost frame,
Bless, bless the great Jehovah 's Name;
Cense not with studious thought to trace
The Acts of his stupendous Grace.

2.

He blots from Heav'n's record thy sin,
And, though thy passions war within,
Assuasive calms their furious strife,
And rescues from the pit thy life;

3.

He bids his blessings round thee rise;
Thy ev'ry wish with Good supplies;
Thy years renews in their decline;
And makes the Eagle's vigour thine.

4.

1.

Hear, Lord, my pray'r, and let my cries
Accepted to thy Throne arise:
O turn not Thou thy face away,
Nor longer my relief delay;

2.

Lord, mark my sorrows from on high,
And pitying to my call reply;
Fast as the mounting smoke decays,
On times light pinion flit my days:

3.

My bones the hearth's fierce heat sustain;
My heart the herbage of the plain
Resembles, o'er whose leaves have past
The fervors of the southern blast.

4.

For ah! forgetful of my food,

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Mercy, Judgement, now my tongue
Makes the subject of its Song:
Lord! to whom then shall I sing,
But to Thee, th' eternal King?

2.

Wisdom shall my footsteps guide,
Nor permit my feet to slide,
Or from thy All-perfect Way,
Lost in paths of Sin to stray.

3.

O Come, O come, celestial Guest,
Let my roof with Thee be blest?
Let thy Beams effulgent play,
And within my Mansion stay?

4.

Lo! my heart with studious care
For thy presence I prepare,

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Ye Tribes of Earth, in God rejoice,
His presence hail with thankful voice;
To Him your willing homage pay,
And wake the tributary lay.

2.

Submissive to his Will, in Him
Behold the God of Gods supreme;
Nor Lords with Him, nor Gods beside
The Honours of his Throne divide.

3.

With conscious wonder oft survey'd,
He, not Ourselves, our frame has made:
The subjects of his pow'r we stand,
The sheep that own his guiding hand.

4.

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Jehovah reigns: Ye Nations own,
With prostrate hearts, his sway:
Betwixt the Cherubs stands his Throne;
Earth! tremble and obey.

2.

His Rule, in Sion long confest,
O'er All extends; his Name
Shall hallow with its fear each breast,
Each tongue with zeal inflame.

3.

Thy Pow'r with Equity allied
Through time's long course has stood:

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Sing to the God whom we adore;
O sing, in lays unheard before,
The Mercies shown us from above,
The Wonders of redeeming Love:
His powerful Hand Salvation sends,
And Conquest on his Arm attends.

2.

His Justice through the World has shin'd;
His Truth, with endless Mercy join'd,
Now seals the promise of his Grace
To faithful Abraham 's chosen Race;
And Earth, to just obedience aw'd,
Has own'd her Saviour and her God.

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Ye distant Realms, your voice employ