Thanksgiving for God's Particular Providence

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When all Thy mercies, O my God

Author: Joseph Addison (1712)
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1. When all your mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view, I'm lost
In wonder, love, and praise.
Oh, how shall words with equal warmth
The gratitude declare
That glows within my ravished heart,
But you can read it there.

2. To all my weak complaints and cries
Your mercy lent an ear,
Before my feeble tho'ts had learned
To form themselves in prayer.
Thru' hidden dangers, toils, and deaths
It gently cleared my way,
And thru' the pleasing snares of vice
More to be feared than they.

3. When worn with sickness, often you
With health renewed my face,
And when in sins and sorrows sunk,
Revived my soul with grace.
Your bounteous hand with worldly bliss
Has made my cup run o'er,
And in a kind and faithful friend
Has doubled all my store.

4. Thru ev'ry period of my life
Your goodness I'll pursue,
And after death in distant worlds
The glorious theme renew.
When nature fails, and day and night
Divide your works no more,
My ever-grateful heart, O Lord,
Your mercy shall adore.

Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #319

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Author: Joseph Addison

Addison, Joseph, born at Milston, near Amesbury, Wiltshire, May 1, 1672, was the son of the Rev. Lancelot Addison, sometime Dean of Lichfield, and author of Devotional Poems, &c, 1699. Addison was educated at the Charterhouse, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating B.A. 1691 and M.A. 1693. Although intended for the Church, he gave himself to the study of law and politics, and soon attained, through powerful influence, to some important posts. He was successively a Commissioner of Appeals, an Under Secretary of State, Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Chief Secretary for Ireland. He married, in 1716, the Dowager Countess of Warwick, and died at Holland House, Kensington, June 17, 1719. Addison is most widely known through… Go to person page >

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First Line:	When all Thy mercies, O my God
Title:	Thanksgiving for God's Particular Providence
Author:	Joseph Addison (1712)
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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GENEVA (Cole)

MANOAH (Greatorex)

MANOAH was first published in Henry W. Greatorex's Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1851). This anthology (later editions had alternate titles) contained one of the best tune collections of its era and included thirty-seven original compositions and arrangements by compiler Greatorex as well as m…

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BELMONT (Gardiner)

This tune has been mis-attributed to various other composers, but is clearly the work of the above-named composer.

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