Doctor Watts's Imitation of the Psalms of David, corrected and enlarged, to which is added a collection of hymns; the whole applied to the state of the Christian Church in general (2nd ed.) ‎#274

274. Praise to God for his Goodness and Truth

1 Praise ye the Lord, my heart shall join
In work so pleasant, so divine;
Now while the flesh is mine abode,
And when my soul ascends to God.

2 Praise shall employ my noblest powers,
While immortality endures;
My days of praise shall ne’er be past,
While life and thought and being last.

3 Why should I make a man my trust?
Princes must die and turn to dust;
Their breath departs, their pomp and power,
And thoughts all vanish in an hour.

4 Happy the man, whose hopes rely
On Israel’s God: He made the sky,
And earth, and seas, with all their train,
And none shall find his promise vain.

5 His truth forever stands secure;
He saves th’ opprest, he feeds the poor;
He sends the labouring conscience peace,
And grants the prisoner sweet release.

6 The Lord to sight restores the blind;
The Lord supports the sinking mind;
He helps the stranger in distress,
The widow and the fatherless.

7 He loves his saints, he knows them well;
But turns the wicked down to hell;
Thy God, O Zion, ever reigns;
Praise him in everlasting strains.

Text Information

• First Line: Praise ye the Lord, my heart shall join
• Title: Praise to God for his Goodness and Truth
• Meter: Long Metre
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1786
• Scripture:
  Psalm 146
• Topic: Afflicted: supported; Afflictions: in mind and body; Creatures: no trust in them; Faithfulness: Of God; God: goodness and truth; God: worthy of all praise; God: kind to his people; Goodness of God; Mercies: and truth of God; Princes vain; Souls in separate state; Trust in the Creatures vain

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