4. Who knows the errors of his thoughts? My God, forgive my secret faults,

And from presumptuous sin restrain : Accept these poor attempts at praise : May I have read thy book of grace And book of nature not in vain.

19th Psalm, "The Spacious firmament, &c. (see Index,) 23d Psalm, "The Lord my pasture," &c. (see Index.)

XLII.

TWENTY-SECOND PSALM:

(By Dr. Watts.)

1. 'WHY will

my Father hide his face,
When foes stand threat'ning round,
In this dark hour of deep distress;
And not an helper found?

2. My God, if possible it be,

• Withdraw this bitter cup:
Yet I resign my will to thee,
And drink its sorrows up.

With thine Almighty word,

And since I knew a Father's name,
My hope is in the Lord.'

4. Thus did our suffering Saviour pray
With mighty cries and tears:
God heard him in that dreadful day,
And death relieved his fears.

5. The humble spirit yet shall see
The joys for which He bled;

And all who seek the Lord shall be
With fruits immortal fed.

XLIII,

TWENTY-NINTH PSALM.

(By Dr. Watts.)

1. GIVE to the Lord, ye sons of fame,
Give to the Lord renown and power:
Ascribe due honors to his name,
And his eternal might adore.

2. The Lord proclaims his power aloud
Over the ocean and the land;
His voice divides the watery cloud,
And lightnings blaze at his command.

3. He speaks, and tempest, hail, and wind
Lay the wide forest bare around ;
The fearful hart, and frighted hind,
Leap at the terror of the sound.

To

4. To Lebanon he turns his voice,
And lo! the stately cedars break:
The mountains tremble at the noise,
The valleys roar, the deserts quake.
5. The Lord sits sovereign on the flood,
The Thunderer reigns for ever king :
But makes his church his bless'd abode,
Where we his awful glories sing.
6. In gentle language there the Lord
The counsels of his grace imparts:
Amidst the raging storm his word
Speaks peace and courage to our hearts.

XLIV.

THIRTIETH PSALM.

Verse 6, &c. (By Dr. Watts.)

1. FIRM was my health, my day was bright, And I presumed 'twould ne'er be night, Fondly I said within my heart,

'Pleasure and peace shall ne'er depart,' 2. But I forgot Thine arm was strong Which made my mountain stand so long: Soon as Thy face began to hide,

My health was gone, my comforts died.

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3. I cried aloud to Thee, my God,

• What canst thou profit by my blood? Deep in the dust can I declare

Thy truth, or sing thy goodness there?'

4. Thy word rebuked the pains I felt,

Thy pardoning love removed my guilt: Thy praise shall sound through earth and heaven

For mercies sent, and sins forgiven.

XLV.

THIRTY-THIRD PSALM.

(By Dr. Watts.,

1. YE holy souls, in God rejoice,
Your Maker's praise becomes your voice;
Great is the theme, your songs be new :-
Declare his name, his word, his ways;
His works of nature, and of grace,
How wise and holy, just and true!

2. He gathers the wide flowing seas:
The watery treasures know their place
In the vast storehouse of the deep

He spake, and gave all nature birth;

And fires, and seas, and heaven, and earth
His everlasting orders keep.

CHORUS.

Justice and truth he ever loves,

And the whole earth his goodness proves :
Let mortals tremble and adore
A God of such resistless power!

XLVI.

THIRTY-SIXTH PSALM.

(By Dr. Watts.)

1. WHEN man grows bold in sin,
My heart within me cries,

"He hath no faith of God within,
"Nor fear before his eyes."

2. He walks a while conceal'd
In a self-flattering dream;

Till his dark deeds, at length reveal'd,
Expose his hateful name.

3. But there's a dreadful God,
Though men renounce his fear:
His justice, hid behind the cloud,
Shall one great day appear.