3 The lark mounts up the sky, And bears her Maker's praise on high, 4 Fain would I rise and sing Fain would my heart adore my King, 5 Let joy and worship spend 68 Heaven and earth are full of His glory. C. M. TERNAL Wisdom! thee we praise, ETER With thy loved name, rocks, hills, and seas, And heaven's high palace, rings. 2 Thy hand, how wide it spreads the sky, How glorious to behold! Tinged with a blue of heavenly dye, 3 There thou hast bid the globes of light Their endless circuits run: There the pale planet rules the night; 4 Thy glories blaze all nature round, 5 Infinite strength, and equal skill, 48 6 But the mild glories of thy grace, 69 C. M. All things created for His glory. The world from nothing came. 2 Lord, for thy glory shines the whole; For this the planets ceaseless roll, 3 For this the earth its produce yields; And blooming plants adorn the fields, 4 Inspired with praise, may we pursue That all we think, or say, or do, Shall to thy glory tend. 70 The God of nature and of grace. C. M. HE God of nature and of grace THE In all his works appears; His goodness through the earth we trace, 2 Behold this fair and fertile globe, 3 Lift to the arch of heaven your eye; His glory, boundless as the sky, 4 How excellent, O Lord, thy name, Spread through eternity, thy fame 5 These lower works that swell thy praise, 6 Millions before thy presence stand, 71 0 C. M. His greatness and condescension. Thy glory in the firmament, How wonderfully shown! 2 When I behold the heavens on high, The work of thy right hand; The moon and stars amid the sky, Thy lights in every land : 3 Lord! what is man that thou shouldst deign On him to set thy love, Give him on earth a while to reign, 4 O Lord, how excellent thy name; Let time thy saving truth proclaim, 72 His glory and majesty. C. M GOD, we praise thee, and confess And everlasting Father art, 73 2 To thee all angels cry aloud; 3 O holy, holy, holy Lord, 4 The apostles' glorious company, 5 The holy Church throughout the world, Of boundless majesty. FAT Wisdom, majesty, goodness. L. M. ATHER of all, whose powerful voice Call'd forth this universal frame! Whose mercies over all rejoice, Through endless ages still the same: Thou by thy word upholdest all; Thy bounteous love to all is show'd; Thou hear'st thy every creature's call, And fillest every mouth with good. 2 In heaven thou reign'st enthroned in light, Nature's expanse before thee spread; Earth, air, and sea, before thy sight, And hell's deep gloom, are open laid: Wisdom, and might, and love, are thine; Prostrate before thy face we fall, Confess thine attributes divine, And hail thee sov'reign Lord of all. 74 C. M. Universul sovereignty. HE Lord descended from above, THE And bow'd the heavens most high, 2 On cherubim and seraphim And on the wings of mighty winds, 3 He sat serene upon the floods, And he, as sov'reign Lord and King, 75 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. Omnipotence and immutability. HEN Israel out of Egypt came, Supported by the great I AM, Safe in the hollow of his hand, The Lord in Israel reign'd alone, And Judah was his fav'rite throne. 2 The sea beheld his power, and fled, Disparted by the wondrous rod; Jordan ran backward to its head, And Sinai felt the' incumbent God; The mountains skipp'd like frighten'd rams, The hills leap'd after them as lambs. 3 What ail'd thee, O thou trembling sea? What horror turn'd the river back? Was nature's God displeased with thee? And why should hills or mountains shake? Ye mountains huge, that skipp'd like rams? Ye hills, that leap'd as frighten'd lambs? |