1.
How glows with grateful Love my breast!
For God the voice of my request
Accepts, and, while my hands I rear,
Bows to my plaint the willing ear:
For this, to Life's extremest hour,
My lips to Him the pray'r shall pour.
2.
While Death its snares around me threw,
The grave, its horrors to my view
Presenting, press'd with heaviest grief,
From Thee, great God, I sought relief:
" O save me, heav'nly Sire, I cried,
" And turn th' impending stroke aside. "
3.
Great is our God, beyond all bound
His Providence and Pow'r are found;
Just, good, and kind, is Israel 's Lord,
His breast with tend'rest pity stor'd,
And prompt his Arm, when Ills invade,
The guileless and the meek to aid.
4.
His Mercies, 'midst thy deepest woe,
By blest experience taught to know,
Turn, turn thee to thy rest, my Soul;
For He who sits above the pole
(Tremendous Name) has o'er thy head
The fulness of his bounty shed.
5.
Thou, mightiest Father, Thou wert nigh,
To save my soul from death, mine eye
From tears, to guard from lapse my feet,
And bid me in this earthly Seat
(Life's wide dominion) still reside,
To Thee in filial fear allied.
6.
To God my heart resign'd its care;
To Him my tongue address'd its pray'r:
While, struck with terrors as I stood,
A sea of sorrows round me flow'd,
" No more, my Soul, no more, I cried,
" In Man's fallacious aid confide. "
7.
O, what requital at my hand
Shall Mercies, Lord, like Thine, demand?
By Thee from each distress enlarg'd,
The Cup with benediction charg'd
I take, and, touch'd with holy flame,
Invoke my great Deliv'rer's name.
8.
Ev'n now, before th' assembled Train,
Ev'n now, within thy sacred Fane,
(That Fane, whose Walls, on firmest base
Uprear'd, fair Salem 's confines grace,)
Behold me at thine altar bow,
And, pleas'd, absolve my offer'd vow.
9.
Who Thy Decrees, great God, obey,
Secure on Thee their hope shall stay;
Nor Fraud nor Rapine's iron hand
Shall dare to touch the pious Band,
For sacred is their blood, and high
Its price in thy paternal eye.
10.
In Me thy Servant, Lord, in Me
The Offspring of thy Handmaid see,
Releas'd by thee, from day to day
The sacrifice of praise to pay
I joy, and, touch'd with holy flame,
Invoke my great Deliv'rer's Name.
11.
Ev'n now, before th' assembled Train,
Ev'n now within thy sacred Fane,
(That Fane, whose walls, on firmest base
Uprear'd, fair Salem 's confines grace,)
Behold me at thine altar bow,
And, pleas'd, absolve my offer'd vow.
How glows with grateful Love my breast!
For God the voice of my request
Accepts, and, while my hands I rear,
Bows to my plaint the willing ear:
For this, to Life's extremest hour,
My lips to Him the pray'r shall pour.
2.
While Death its snares around me threw,
The grave, its horrors to my view
Presenting, press'd with heaviest grief,
From Thee, great God, I sought relief:
" O save me, heav'nly Sire, I cried,
" And turn th' impending stroke aside. "
3.
Great is our God, beyond all bound
His Providence and Pow'r are found;
Just, good, and kind, is Israel 's Lord,
His breast with tend'rest pity stor'd,
And prompt his Arm, when Ills invade,
The guileless and the meek to aid.
4.
His Mercies, 'midst thy deepest woe,
By blest experience taught to know,
Turn, turn thee to thy rest, my Soul;
For He who sits above the pole
(Tremendous Name) has o'er thy head
The fulness of his bounty shed.
5.
Thou, mightiest Father, Thou wert nigh,
To save my soul from death, mine eye
From tears, to guard from lapse my feet,
And bid me in this earthly Seat
(Life's wide dominion) still reside,
To Thee in filial fear allied.
6.
To God my heart resign'd its care;
To Him my tongue address'd its pray'r:
While, struck with terrors as I stood,
A sea of sorrows round me flow'd,
" No more, my Soul, no more, I cried,
" In Man's fallacious aid confide. "
7.
O, what requital at my hand
Shall Mercies, Lord, like Thine, demand?
By Thee from each distress enlarg'd,
The Cup with benediction charg'd
I take, and, touch'd with holy flame,
Invoke my great Deliv'rer's name.
8.
Ev'n now, before th' assembled Train,
Ev'n now, within thy sacred Fane,
(That Fane, whose Walls, on firmest base
Uprear'd, fair Salem 's confines grace,)
Behold me at thine altar bow,
And, pleas'd, absolve my offer'd vow.
9.
Who Thy Decrees, great God, obey,
Secure on Thee their hope shall stay;
Nor Fraud nor Rapine's iron hand
Shall dare to touch the pious Band,
For sacred is their blood, and high
Its price in thy paternal eye.
10.
In Me thy Servant, Lord, in Me
The Offspring of thy Handmaid see,
Releas'd by thee, from day to day
The sacrifice of praise to pay
I joy, and, touch'd with holy flame,
Invoke my great Deliv'rer's Name.
11.
Ev'n now, before th' assembled Train,
Ev'n now within thy sacred Fane,
(That Fane, whose walls, on firmest base
Uprear'd, fair Salem 's confines grace,)
Behold me at thine altar bow,
And, pleas'd, absolve my offer'd vow.