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Lord’s Day 10, 2009

I reioyced, when they sayd to me, We wil go into the house of the Lord. (Psalme 122:1 Geneva Bible)

HYMN XV
MANNA. Ex. xvi. 18.
by John Newton (1725–1807)

John Newton

Manna to Israel well supply’d
The want of other bread;
While God is able to provide,
His people shall be fed.

(Thus though the corn and wine should fail,
And creature-streams be dry;
The prayer of faith will still prevail,
For blessings from on high.)

Of his kind care how sweet a proof!
It suit’d every taste;
Who gather’d most, had just enough,
Enough, who gather’d least.

’Tis thus our gracious Lord provides
Our comforts and our cares;
His own unerring hand provides,
And gives us each our shares.

He knows how much the weak can bear,
And helps them when they cry;
The strongest have no strength to spare,
For such he’ll strongly try.

Daily they saw the Manna come,
And cover all the ground;
But what they try’d to keep at home,
Corrupt’d soon was found.

Vain their attempt to store it up,
This was to tempt the Lord;
Israel must live by faith and hope,
And not upon a hoard.

—from Olney Hymns. Book I: On select Passages of Scripture.

Psalme 119:73–80
(Geneva Bible)
Iod.
73 Thine hands haue made me and fashioned me: giue mee vnderstanding therefore, that I may learne thy commandements.
74 So they that feare thee, seeing mee shall reioyce, because I haue trusted in thy worde.
75 I knowe, O Lord, that thy iudgements are right, and that thou hast afflicted me iustly.
76 I pray thee that thy mercie may comfort me according to thy promise vnto thy seruant.
77 Let thy tender mercies come vnto me, that I may liue: for thy Lawe is my delite.
78 Let the proude be ashamed: for they haue dealt wickedly and falsely with me: but I meditate in thy precepts.
79 Let such as feare thee turne vnto me, and they that knowe thy testimonies.
80 Let mine heart bee vpright in thy statutes, that I be not ashamed.