Takes off the load of guilt and grief, And gives the labouring soul relief. 60 may the sons of men record

The wondrous goodness of the Lord! How great his works! how kind his ways! Let every tongue pronounce his praise.

PSALM 107.-3d Part. L. M. [*] Intemperance punished and pardoned; or, a psalm for the glutton and the drunkard. AÏN man, on foolish pleasures bent,

V Prepares for his own punishment!

What pains, what loathsome maladies
From luxury and lust arise!

2 The drunkard feels his vitals waste,
Yet drowns his health to please his taste;
Till all his active powers are lost,
And fainting life draws near the dust.

3 The glutton groans, and loathes to eat;
His soul abhors delicious meat;
Nature, with heavy loads oppress'd,
Would yield to death to be releas'd.
4 Then how the frighted sinners fly
To God for help, with earnest cry!
He hears their groans, prolongs their
breath,

And saves them from approaching death. 5 No med'cine could effect the cure So quick, so easy, or so sure;

The deadly sentence God repeals;
He sends his sov’reign word, and heals.

6 O may the sons of men record
The wondrous goodness of the Lord!

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And let their thankful offerings prove
How they adore their Maker's love.

PSALM 107.-4th Part. L. M. [*] Deliverance from storms and shipwreck; or, the seaman's song.

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behold the works of God, His wonders in the world abroad,

WOULD You

Go with the mariners, and trace
The unknown regions of the seas.
2 They leave their native shores behind,
And seize the favour of the wind,
Till God commands, and tempests rise,
That heave the ocean to the skies.

3 Now to the heavens they mount amain; Now sink to dreadful deeps again:

What strange affrights young sailors feel,
And like a staggering drunkard reel!
4 When land is far, and death is nigh,
Lost to all hope, to God they cry:
His mercy hears their loud address,
And sends salvation in distress.

5 He bids the winds their wrath assuage;
The furious waves forget their rage:
"Tis calm; and sailors smile to see
The haven where they wish'd to be.
6 O may the sons of men record
The wondrous goodness of the Lord!
Let them their private offerings bring,
And in the church his glory sing.

PSALM 107.-C. M. [*]
The mariner's psalm.

HY works of glory, mighty Lord,
Thy wonders in the deeps,

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The sons of courage shall record,
Who trade in floating ships

2. At thy command the winds arise,
And swell the towering waves;
The men, astonish'd, mount the skies,
And sink in gaping graves.

3 [Again they climb the watery hills,
And plunge in deeps again:
Each like a tottering drunkard reels,
And finds his courage vain.

4 Frighted to hear the tempest roar,
They pant with fluttering breath;
And, hopeless of the distant shore,
Expect immediate death.]

5 Then to the Lord they raise their cries;
He hears their loud request,
And orders silence through the skies,
And lays the floods to rest.

Sailors rejoice to lose their fears,
And see the storm allay'd:

Now to their eyes the port appears;
There let their vows be paid.

7 'Tis God that brings them safe to land; Let stupid mortals know

That waves are under his command,
And all the winds that blow.

8 O that the sons of men would praise
The goodness of the Lord!

And those that see thy wondrous ways,
Thy wondrous love record.

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PSALM 107.-Last Part. L. M. [*]·
Colonies planted; or, nations blessed & punished.
A Psalm for New-England.
HEN God,provok'd with daring crimes,
Scourges the madness of the times
He turns their fields to barren sand,
And dries the rivers from the land.
2 His word can raise the springs again,
And make the wither'd mountains green,
Send showery blessings from the skies,
And harvests in the desert rise.

3 [Where nothing dwelt but beasts of prey,
Or men as fierce and wild as they,
He bids th' oppress'd and poor repair,
And builds them towns and cities there.
4 They sow the fields, and trees they plant,
Whose yearly fruits supply their want:
Their race grows up from fruitful stocks,
Their wealth increases with their flocks.

5 Thus they are blest: but if they sin,
He lets the heathen nations in ;
A savage crew invades their lands,
Their children die by barbarous hands.
6 Their captive sons, expos'd to scorn,,
Wander unpitied and forlorn;

The country lies unfenc'd, untill'd,
And desolation spreads the field.

7 Yet if the humbled nation mourns,
Again his dreadful hand he turns ;
Again he makes their cities thrive,
And bids the dying charches live.]
8 The righteous, with a joyful sense,
Admire the works of providence

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And tongues of atheists shall no more
Blaspheme the God that saints adore.
9 How few with pious care record
These wondrous dealings of the Lord!
But wise observers still shall find
The Lord is holy, just and kind.

PSALM 109.-C. M. [b]

Ver. 1-5, 31. Love to enemies from the example of Christ.

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GOD

NOD of my mercy and my praise,
Thy glory is my song,

Though sinners speak against thy grace
With a blaspheming tongue.

2 When in the form of mortal man
Thy Son on earth was found,
With cruel slanders, false and vain,
They compass'd him around.

Their miseries his compassion move,
Their peace he still pursu'd;
They render hatred for his love,
And evil for his good.

Their malice rag'd without a cause;
Yet with his dying breath

He pray'd for murderers on his cross,
And bless'd his foes in death.

5 Lord, shall thy bright example shine
In vain before mine eyes?

Give me a soul a-kin to thine,
To love mine enemies.

6 The Lord shall on my side engage,
And in my Saviour's name

I shall defeat their pride and rage,
Who slander and condemn.

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