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Grace above Riches; or, the happy Nation

Appears in 40 hymnals Topics: Blessings of a nation; Blessings of a nation First Line: Happy the city, where their sons Lyrics: 1 Happy the city, where their sons Like pillars round a palace set, And daughters, bright as polish'd stones, Give strength and beauty to the state. 2 Happy the land in culture dress'd, Whose flocks and corn have large increase; Where men securely work or rest, Nor sons of plunder break the peace. 3 Happy the nation thus endow'd, But more divinely blest are those On whom the all-sufficient God Himself with all his grace bestows. Scripture: Psalm 144:12-15

Give to our God immortal praise

Appears in 333 hymnals Topics: Creation, Preservation, and temporal Blessings Praise to God, our Creator and Preserver Lyrics: 1 Give to our God immortal praise! Mercy and truth are all his ways; Wonders of grace to God belong; Repeat his mercies in your song. 2 Give to the Lord of Lords renown; The King of Kings with glory crown: His mercies ever shall endure, When Lords and Kings are known no more. 3 He built the earth; he spread the sky, And fix'd the starry lights on high: Wonders of grace to God belong, Repeat his mercies in your song. 4 He fills the sun with morning light; He bids the moon direct the night; His mercies ever shall endure, When suns and moons shall be no more. 5 Give to our God immortal praise, Mercy and truth are all his ways; Wonders of grace to God belong, Repeat his mercies in your song. 6 Through this vain world he guides our feet, And leads us to his heav'nly seat: His mercies ever shall endure, When this vain world shall be no more.

Great God! the heav'ns well-order'd frame

Appears in 80 hymnals Topics: Creation, Preservation, and temporal Blessings God known by his Works Lyrics: 1 Great God! the heav'n's well-order'd frame Declares the glories of thy name; There thy rich works of wonder shine: A thousand starry beauties there, A thousand radiant marks appear, Of boundless pow'r, and skill divine. 2 From night to day from day to night, The dawning and the dying light, Lectures of heav'nly wisdom read; With silent eloquence they raise Our thoughts to our Creator's praise, And neither sound nor language need. 3 Yet their divine instructions run Far as the journeys of the sun; All nature joins to shew thy praise: Thus God in every creature shines; Fair is the book of nature's lines, Which shews thy wisdom and thy grace.

How cheerful along the gay mead

Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Creation, Preservation, and temporal Blessings The Beauties of Nature Lyrics: 1 How cheerful along the gay mead The daisies and cowslips appear; The flocks, as they carelessly feed, Rejoice in the spring of the year. 2 The foliage that shades the gay bowers, The herbage that springs from the clod, Trees, plants, cooling fruits, and fair flow'rs, All rise to the praise of our God. 3 Shall man, the great master of all, The only insensible prove? Forbid it fair gratitude's call, Forbid it devotion and love. 4 The God who such wonders can raise, Forever his name be ador'd; Our lips shall incessantly praise, Our heart shall rejoice in the Lord.

Let e'ery tongue thy goodness speak

Appears in 215 hymnals Topics: Blessings temporal and spiritual God kind and merciful Lyrics: 1 Let ev’ry tongue Tthy goodness speak, Thou sov'reign Lord of all! Thy strength’ning hands uphold the weak, And raise the poor that fall. 2 When sorrow bows the spirit down, When virtue lies distrest Beneath the proud oppressor’s frown, Thou giv’st the mourners rest. 3 Thy grace supports our tott'ring days, And guides our giddy youth: Holy and just are all thy ways, And all thy words are truth. 4 Thou know’st the pains thy servants feel; He hear’st thy children cry, And, their best wishes to fulfil, Thy grace is ever nigh. 5 Thy mercy never shall remove From men of heart sincere, To save the souls, whose humble love Is join'd with holy fear.

Our Shepherd is the living Lord

Appears in 56 hymnals Topics: Blessings temporal and spiritual God our Shepherd Lyrics: 1 Our shepherd is the living Lord; Now shall our wants be well supply'd; His providence and holy word Become our safety and our guide. 2 In pastures where salvation grows, He makes me feed, he makes me rest; There living water gently flows, And all the food's divinely blest. 3 Our wand'ring feet his ways mistake; But he restores our soul to peace, And leads us, for his mercy's sake, In the fair paths of righteousness. 4 Amidst the darkness and the deeps, Thou art our comfort, thou our stay; Thy staff supports my feeble steps, Thy rod directs my doubtful way. 5 Though we walk through the gloomy vale, Where death and all its terrors are, Our heart and hope shall never fail, For God our shepherd's with us there.

While I keep Silence, and conceal

Appears in 44 hymnals Topics: Blessings of a person Lyrics: 1 While I keep Silence, and conceal My heavy Guilt within my Heart, What Torments doth my Conscience feel! What Agonies of inward Smart! 2 I spread my Sins before the Lord, And all my secret Faults confess; Thy Gospel speaks a pard'ning Word, Thine holy Spirit seals the Grace. 3 For this shall every humble Soul Make swift Addresses to thy Seat; When Floods of huge Temptations roll, There shall they find a blest Retreat. 4 How safe beneath thy Wings I lie, When Days grow dark, and Storms appear, And when I walk, thy watchful Eye Shall guide me safe from every Snare. Scripture: Psalm 32

God, to correct the world

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 38 hymnals Topics: Public and national Blessings and Afflictions Lyrics: 1 God, to correct the world, In wrath is slow to rise; But comes at length, in thunder cloth'd, And darkness veils the skies. 2 His banners, lifted high, The nations' God declare, And, stain'd with blood, with terrors mark'd, Spread wonder and despair. 3 All earthly pomp and pride Are in his presence lost; Empires o'erturned, thrones, sceptres, crowns, In wild confusion tost. 4 While war and wo prevail, And desolation wide; In God, the sov'reign Lord of all, The righteous still confide. 5 Mysterious is the course Of his tremendous way: His path is in the trackless winds, And in the foaming sea. 6 Yet, though now wrapt in clouds, And from our view conceal'd The righteous Judge will soon appear, In majesty reveal'd! 7 He'll curb the lawless pow'r, The deadly wrath of man; And all the windings will unfold Of his own gracious plan. 8 The sons of tyranny, In ruin shall be hurl'd; And light, and liberty, and bliss, Embrace the new-born world.

On Thee, great Ruler of the skies

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 10 hymnals Topics: Public and national Blessings and Afflictions Lyrics: 1 On Thee, great Ruler of the skies, On thee our steadfast hope relies; When hostile powers against us join, What aid so present, Lord, as thine! 2 By thee secur'd, no fears we own, Though earth, convuls'd, beneath us groan, Though tempest o'er her surface sweep, And whirl her hills into the deep;-- 3 Though, arm'd with rage, before our eyes That deep in all its horrors rise, While, as the tumult spreads around, The mountains tremble at the sound. 4 Behold fair Sion's blest retreat, Where God has fixt his awful seat; Whose walls to heaven's almighty Lord His chosen residence afford. 5 God, ever watchful, ever nigh Bids storms around her harmless fly; His early care each foe withstands, And backward turns the yielding bands. Scripture: Psalm 44