4 Thou knowest the pains Thy servants feel, Thou hearest 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 ;
Thou sav'st the souls whose humble love
Is joined with holy fear.
6 My lips shall dwell upon Thy praise,
And spread Thy fame abroad:
Let all the sons of Adam raise
The honours of their God!
OOD Thou art, and good Thou dost ;
Thy mercies reach to all;
Chiefly those who on Thee trust,
And for Thy mercy call;
New they every morning are;
As fathers when their children cry,
Us Thou dost in pity spare,
And all our wants supply.
Mercy o'er Thy works presides;
Thy providence displayed
Still preserves, and still provides
For all Thy hands have made ;
Keeps, with most distinguished care,
The man who on Thy love depends;
Watches every numbered hair,
And all his steps attends.
Who can sound the depths unknown
Of Thy redeeming grace?
Grace, that gave Thine only Son
To save a ruined race!
Millions of transgressors poor
Thou hast, for Jesu's sake, forgiven;
Made them of Thy favour sure,
And snatched from hell to heaven.
Millions more Thou ready art
To save, and to forgive!
Every soul and every heart
Of man Thou would'st receive :
Father, now accept of mine,
Which now, through Christ, I offer Thee;
Tell me now, in love divine,
That Thou hast pardoned me!
THOU, O Lord God, art full of grace:
Above the clouds Thy mercies rise;
Steadfast Thy truth and faithfulness,
Thy word of promise never dies;
Nor earth can shake, nor hell remove,
The base of Thine eternal love.
2 Unsearchable Thy judgments are,
A boundless, bottomless abyss !
But, lo! Thy providential care
O'er all Thy works extended is;
In Thee the creatures live and move,
And are all glory to Thy love!
3 Thy love sustains the world it made ;
Thy love preserves both man and beast;
Beneath Thy wing's almighty shade
The sons of men securely rest;
And those who haunt the hallowed place,
Shall banquet on Thy richest grace.
4 Their souls shall drink the crystal stream,
Which ever issues from Thy throne ;
Fountain of joy and bliss supreme,
Eternal life and Thou art one;
To us, to all so freely given,
The light of life, the heaven of heaven!
MY soul, with all thy powers,
Bless the Lord's most holy name!
O my soul, till life's last hours,
Bless the Lord, His praise proclaim !
As the heaven the earth transcends,
Over us His care extends.
2 He with lovingkindness crowned thee,
Satisfied thy mouth with good;
From the snares of death unbound thee,
Eagle-like thy youth renewed !
Rich in tender mercy He,
Slow to wrath, to favour free.
3 Far as east and west are parted,
He our sins hath severed thus.
As a father, loving-hearted,
Spares his son, He spareth us;
For He knows our feeble frame,
He remembers whence we came.
4 From eternity, enduring
To eternity, the Lord,
Still His people's bliss ensuring,
Keeps His covenanted word;
Yea, with truth and righteousness,
Children's children He will bless.
HY goodness, Lord, our souls confess,
Thy goodness we adore :
A spring, whose blessings never fail,
A sea without a shore.
2 Sun, moon, and stars Thy love attest,
In every cheerful ray:
Love draws the curtains of the night,
And love restores the day.
3 Thy bounty every season crowns,
With all the bliss it yields;
With joyful clusters bend the vines,
With harvests wave the fields.
4 But chiefly Thy compassions, Lord,
Are in the Gospel seen :
There, like the sun, Thy mercy shines,
Without a cloud between.
5 Thy Son, Thy noblest, choicest gift,
Was from Thy bosom sent,
To bear from off a sinking world
Its load of punishment.
6 Ours is the life, the glory ours,
And His the death and shame;
Pardon, acceptance, peace, and joy,
Are published in His name.
YREAT God! to me the sight afford,
To him of old allow'd;
And let my faith behold its Lord
Descending in the cloud.
2 In that revealing Spirit come down,
Thine attributes proclaim,
And to mine inmost soul make known
The glories of Thy name.
3 Jehovah, Christ, I Thee adore,
Who gav'st my soul to be!
Fountain of being, and of power,
And great in majesty.
4 The Lord, the mighty God, Thou art;
But let me rather prove
That name in-spoken to my heart,
That favourite name of Love.
5 Merciful God, Thyself proclaim
In this polluted breast;
Mercy is Thy distinguished name,
Which suits a sinner best.
6 Our misery doth for pity call,
Our sin implores Thy grace;
And Thou art merciful to all
Our lost, apostate race.
HY ceaseless, unexhausted love,
Unmerited and free,
Delights our evil to remove,
And help our misery.
2 Thou waitest to be gracious still,
Thou dost with sinners bear;
That saved, we may Thy goodness feel,
And all Thy grace declare.
3 Thy goodness and Thy truth to me,
To every soul, abound;
A vast, unfathomable sea,
Where all our thoughts are drown'd
4 Its streams the whole creation reach,
So plenteous is the store;
Enough for all, enough for each,
Enough for evermore.
5 Faithful, O Lord, Thy mercies are!
A Rock that cannot move :
A thousand promises declare
Thy constancy of love.
6 Throughout the universe it reigns,
Unalterably sure;
And while the truth of God remains,
The goodness must endure.
7 Reserves of unexhausted grace
Are treasured up in Thee,
For myriads of the fallen race;
For all mankind, and me.
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