To Thee, of life th' eternal spring,
Invisible, almighty King,

One chorus let the nations raise,
One shout of universal praise.

3 So, warm'd by genial suns, the field
With full increase it's fruit shall yield,
And God, thy God, O Israel, shed
His choicest blessings on thy head:
God shall on us his blessings shower,
And man's whole race revere his power.
To thee, of life th' eternal spring,
Invisible, almighty King,

One chorus let the nations raise,
One shout of universal praise.

HYMN XXXI.

The Reign of Messiah. Ps. lxxii. 5--9. 1st Part.

THY

MERRICK,

HY foes succeeding times shall own, Long as the sun and waxing moon, With varied light, in swift career, Alternate guide the circling year.

pour,

2 The Son from heaven his grace shall
Delightful as the copious shower,
Whose drops refresh the new-shorn plain,
And swell with life the foodful grain.

3 His care the just aloft shall raise,
Nor fair prosperity his days

Desist to crown, till round the pole,
The measur'd months shall cease to roll.

4 From sea to sea his wide command
Shall reach, and from Euphrates' strand
Through realms of various tongue extend,
Far as to earth's remotest end.

5 To him the desert tribes shall kneel;
His foes, that on their conquering steel
Repos'd e'er-while their frantic trust,
Shall prostrate fall, and lick the dust.

HYMN XXXII.

The same. 2d Part. Ps. lxxii. 10--15.

MERRICK,

1 BEFORE Messiah's presence meet

The chiefs, at whose imperial feet
Arabia's far-divided shores

Prolific spread their richest stores.
2 See kings from Tarshish and each isle,
Their presents bring with willing toil;
Each prince to him shall homage pay,
Each nation own his equal sway.

3 He, when the helpless poor shall cry,
Shall hear propitious from on high,
Health to their fainting souls convey,
And challenge from the grave it's prey.
4 Nor fraud, nor rapine's iron hand
Shall dare to touch the pious band;
For sacred is their blood, and high
It's price in his paternal eye.

5 Long shall be live, and Sheba's gold
In tributary heaps behold

Display'd, while crouds shall suppliant bow, And thankful pay their daily vow.

HYMN XXXIII.

The same. 3d Part. Ps. lxxii. 16--19.

'L

MERRICK.

IFT to the mountains' height your eyes,
And see the yellow harvests rise,
Wide-waving, as the verdure spread
On Lebanon's exalted head.

2 Behold his cities o'er the plain

Pour from their gates a numerous train,
And healthful as the vernal birth,
That shades with green the joyous earth.

3 From age to age the orb of day
His brighter glories shall survey,

While man's whole race his love confess,
And, blest in him, his name shall bless.

4 Exalt, exalt your heavenly Lord,
In all his wonderous acts ador'd:
To him in loftiest praises join,
And bless the Majesty divine ;-

5 That Majesty, whose cloudless rays
O'er earth's capacious round shall blaze;
To him again in praises join;

1

O bless the Majesty divine!

SHEPH

HYMN XXXIV.

For the Jews. Ps. lxxx.

MERRICK.

HEPHERD of Israel bow thine ear;
O thou, our prayer indulgent hear,
Who Joseph's pasture hast prepar'd,
His guide by day, by night his guard:

Betwixt the cherubs seated high; Glad with thy beams our longing eye! 2 With all who from Manasses claim Their birth, and all of Ephraim's name, Each hostile power by thee o'erthrown, Let Benjamin thy presence own! How long, Great God, shall Israel see Thy wrath, nor bend the stubborn knee? 3 Behold a vine from Egypt's land, Transplanted by thy fostering hand. Behold in Canaan's shores her bed By Thee prepar'd, her root outspread Far as the utmost coast extends,

While o'er the hills her shade ascends; 4 Her branches, towering to the skies, With healthful stem conspicuous rise, Round the tall cedar's loftiest boughs Her covering veil intwin'd she throws; And, strengthen'd by thy power, defies Each storm that rends the wintry skies. 5 Long cherish'd by thy care she stood; Here, verging toward th' Assyrian flood, In circuit wide the earth she crown'd, And there, the ocean mark'd her bound. But now, in sad reverse, (ah why?) By Thee o'erthrown the fences lie: 6 The fruit expos'd beside the way, To each rapacious hand a prey: The savage boar with restless toil Uproots it from the loosen'd soil, And every monster of the wood Crops from the branch his obvious food.

7 Leader of hosts, and Israel's Lord!
Return; thy succours oft implor'd
Extend: from heaven's high seat incline
Thy eyes, and visit this thy vine.
Turn them again, thy face display,
And grief and fear shall fly away.

HYMN XXXV.

Attachment to public Worship. Ps. lxxxiv. 1st Part.

1

MERRICK.

OW sweet thy dwellings, Lord, how fair,
What peace, what bliss, inhabit there!
With ardent hope, with strong desire,
My heart, my flesh to Thee aspire :
I burn to tread thy courts, and Thee,
My God, the living God to see!
2 Eternal King, within thy dome
The sparrow finds her peaceful home;
With her the dove, a licens'd guest,
Assiduous tends her infant nest,
And to thy altars' sure defence
Commits th' unfeather'd innocence.

3 Blest, who, like these, from day to day,
To praise Thee, in thy temple stay;
Blest, who, their strength on Thee reclin'd
Thy seat explore with constant mind,
And Salem's distant towers in view,
With active zeal their way pursue.

4 Secure this vale of tears they tread,
To an eternal temple led;

While showers of grace from heaven distil'd, Refreshment to the travellers yield;