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Thanksgivings for the Beauty of his Providence

from A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God, in Several Most Devout and Sublime Thanksgivings for the same.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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Thy Mercy, O Lord, is in the Heavens, and thy Faithfulness reacheth unto the Clouds.

Thy Righteousness is like the great Mountains, thy Judgments are a great Deep : O Lord, thou preservest Man and Beast.

How excellent is thy loving Kindness, O God! therefor the Children of Men put their trust under the shadow of thy Wings.

They shall abundantly be satisfied with the fatness of thy House ; and thou shalt make them drink of the River of thy Pleasures.

For with thee is the Fountain of Life ; and in thy Light shall we see Light.

O continue thy loving kindness to them that know thee, and thy Righteousness, to the upright in heart.

Let not the foot of Pride come against me, and let not the hand of the Wicked remove me.

There are the workers of Iniquity faln ; they are cast down, and shall not be able to arise. Ps. 36.

Let us with all the Saints in the Church Triumphant ;

Sing

The Song of Moses the servant of God,

And

The Song of the Lamb,

Saying,

Great and Marvelous are thy Works, Lord God Almighty ; Just and true are thy Ways, thou King of Saints.

Let them ever be such in our Eyes, as they are in thine ;

Whose Delights have been in the habitable Parts of the Earth,

among the Children of Men.

O Lord, I delight in thee,

For making my Soul so wholly Active,

So prone to Imployment,

So apt to Love,

That it can never rest, nor cease from thinking.

I praise thee with Joy,

For making it so wide, that it can measure Ages.

See thine Eternity,

And walk with thee in all thy Ways.

It must be busie : And it is happy for me

Thou hast made it a Life like thine, O God

All Activity.

Its Rest is Imployment, and its Ease is Business.

Teach me the best and fairest Business.

Teach my Soul to walk with thee,

By thinking Wisely

Upon all thy Doings.

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The Works of Thomas Traherne
<I>Church's Year-Book</I>, <I>A Serious and athetical Contemplation of the Mercies of GOD</I>, [<I>Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation</I>]
, pp. 386 - 399
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2009

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