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Family-hymns gathered (mostly) out of the best translations of David's psalmsFamily-hymns gather'd (mostly) out of the best translations of David's psalms
Family-hymns gathered (mostly) out of the best translations of David's psalms.Family-hymns gather'd (mostly) out of the best translations of David's psalms.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1695
For the Lord's Day Morning. › Hymn 36: Hymn XXXVI. Psal. 63.1, 2.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To the Tune of Psal. 67.
O God thou art my God, I'll seek thee earnestly. My Soul in me thirsts after thee Here in the Deserts dry: That I might see thy power, And thy most glorious Grace, As I sometimes have seen it shine Within thy Holy Place.
O God thou art my God, I'll seek thee earnestly. My Soul in me thirsts after thee Here in the Desarts dry: That I might see thy pow'r, And thy most glorious Grace, As I sometimes have seen it shine Within thy Holy Place.
3, 4, 8. That Loving-kindness, Lord, Which I will ever praise, Is better far than Life it self, Tho' filled with prospering days, ⟨p. 38⟩Thus while my Life doth last I will extol thy Fame, My heart and hands will I lift up In thy most holy Name. My Soul is pressing on To follow after thee, And still I stand by thy right hand, For that upholdeth me.
3, 4, 8. That Loving-kindness, Lord, Which I will ever praise, Is better far than Life it self, Tho' fill'd with prosp'ring days, ⟨p. 38⟩Thus while my Life doth last I will extol thy Fame, My heart and hands will I lift up In thy most holy Name. My Soul is pressing on To follow after thee, And still I stand by thy right hand, For that upholdeth me.