CXXXVI.
[Another Version.]
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Praise yea the Lord, all his,
For gud and kynd he is.
His mercyes, rich and free,
Endure eternally.
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The God of Gods O prayse and blesse,
Whose mercie lasts for ay to his.
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Praise yea the Lord of Lords,
Who mercy ay affords;
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Who wonders great (alone)
Works, ay to mercy prone;
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Who maid the heavens by wisdome great;
Whose boundlesse mercy hath no date.
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Above proud watter's reach
Earth's plains who forth did streach;
Whose mercyes, rich and free,
Endure eternally.
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Lights fayre and great whose word maid shyne;
Whose mercy dayes do not confine.
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The sun̄e to reull the day,
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For he hath mercy ay,
The moone and stars by night,
To governe by ther light,
Who did apoynt; for great he is,
In mercy infinit to his.
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Who Egypt's first-borne smote;
Whose mercy faileth not;
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And thence maid Israell way,
For he hath mercy ay,
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With strenth of hand, with arme streacht out;
Whose mercy (ay) his guards about.
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Who maid the Read Sea stand
In heaps on aither hand;
For infinit he is
In mercy wnto his;
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And caused that through it Israell past,
For mercy ay with him doth last.
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With Pharo, who o'rthrew
His proud, persewing crew,
To floods and foes made prey;
For he hath mercy ay;
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And Israell led through desarts waist,
For mercy ay with him doth last.
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Great kings who did defeat;
Whose mercy passeth date;
Evin mighty kings did kill;
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For he hath mercy still;
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As Sihon king of Amorits;
Whose mercyes date no day compleats.
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By whome wes foyld and slaine
Ogh, Bashan's soveraine.
For evir firme and sure,
Whose mercys do endure;
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Wpon ther lands who did dispose;
For mercy ay to his he schowes.
In heritage who gave,
(No end whose mercyes have)
Their kingdomes, large and wyde,
In heritage to byde,
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With Israell, his servant deare;
In mercy ay to his found neare.
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Who us, broght low, did mynde,
(To mercy ay enclyn'd)
Yea, (when in bondage broght
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By foes), our freedome wroght;
For wnto his eternally,
Renew'd each day his mercies bee.
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Who food most freely gives
To evry thing that lives;
Whose mercies, rich and free,
Endure eternally.
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O praise the God of Heavin, to his
Who infinit in mercy is.
