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Joseph Addison·Post-Reformation
Verse 1
When all Thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view, I’m lost
In wonder, love, and praise.
Verse 2
Unnumbered comforts to my soul
Thy tender care bestowed,
Before my infant heart conceived
From whom those comforts flowed.
Verse 3
When worn with sickness, oft hast Thou
With health renewed my face;
And, when in sins and sorrows sunk,
Revived my soul with grace.
Verse 4
Ten thousand thousand precious gifts
My daily thanks employ;
Nor is the least a cheerful heart
That tastes those gifts with joy.
Verse 5
Through every period of my life
Thy goodness I’ll pursue;
And after death, in distant worlds,
The glorious theme renew.
Verse 6
Through all eternity to Thee
A joyful song I’ll raise;
For O, eternity’s too short
To utter all Thy praise.
Joseph Addison, “When All Thy Mercies, O My God”
Presbyterian 1895 No. 135 · C.M. · St. Peter
Samuel Stennett·Post-Reformation
Verse 1
How charming is the place
Where my Redeemer God
Unveils the beauties of His face,
And sheds His love abroad.
Verse 2
Not the fair palaces
To which the great resort,
Are once to be compared with this,
Where Jesus holds His court.
Verse 3
Here, on the mercy-seat,
With radiant glory crowned,
Our joyful eyes behold Him sit,
And smile on all around.
Verse 4
To Him their prayers and cries
Each humble soul presents:
He listens to their broken sighs,
And grants them all their wants.
Verse 5
To them His sovereign will
He graciously imparts;
And in return accepts, with smiles,
The tribute of their hearts.
Verse 6
Give me, O Lord, a place
Within Thy blest abode,
Among the children of Thy grace,
The servants of my God.
Samuel Stennett, “How Charming Is the Place”
Presbyterian 1895 No. 54 · S.M. · Mornington
William Cowper·Post-Reformation
Verse 1
Jesus, where-e’er Thy people meet,
There they behold Thy mercy-seat;
Where-e’er they seek Thee, Thou art found,
And every place is hallowed ground:
Verse 2
For Thou, within no walls confined,
Inhabitest the humble mind;
Such ever bring Thee where they come,
And going, take Thee to their home.
Verse 3
Dear Shepherd of Thy chosen few,
Thy former mercies here renew;
Here to our waiting hearts proclaim
The sweetness of Thy saving Name.
Verse 4
Here may we prove the power of prayer,
To strengthen faith, and sweeten care,
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heaven before our eyes.
Verse 5
Lord, we are few, but Thou art near;
Nor short Thine arm, nor deaf Thine ear:
O rend the heavens, come quickly down,
And make a thousand hearts Thine own.
Presbyterian 1895 No. 61 · L.M. · Keble