2 Let all who owe to thee their birth, 106 Unsearchable. C. M. HAUL, Father, whose creating; TAIL, Father, whose creating call Jehovah, comprehending all, 4 Thy Name, Jehovah, be adored Whom none but thy essential Word 107 C. M. Dwelling in light which no man can approach unto. TERNAL Power, Almighty God, Unfading light is thine abode, To mortal man unknown. 2 Before the radiance of thine eye, The heavens no longer shine; And all the glories of the sky Are but the shade of thine. 3 Great God, and wilt thou condescend To cast a look below? To this vile world thy notice bend- 4 How strange, how wondrous, is thy love! With trembling we adore: Not all the' exalted minds above 5 While golden harps and angel tongues Great God, permit our humble songs 108 0 L. M. Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection? Greatness, whose undiminish'd ray, Essential life's unbounded sea, What lives and moves, lives by thy word, 109 Incomprehensibly glorious. OD is a Name my soul adores, L. M. G ee, One: Nature and grace, with all their powers, 2 Thy voice produced the sea and spheres; Bade the waves roar, the planets shine: But nothing like thyself appears Through all these spacious works of thine. 3 Still restless nature dies and grows; From change to change the creatures run: Thy being no succession knows, And all thy vast designs are one. 4 A glance of thine runs through the globe, 5 How shall polluted mortals dare And see but shadows of thy face. 6 Who can behold the blazing light? 110 Such knowledge is too wonderful for us. C. M. CHALL foolish, weak, short-sighted man S Beyond the Beyond the angels go, The great Almighty God explain, Or to perfection know? 2 His attributes divinely soar 3 The brightness of his glory leaves Nor man's nor angel's heart conceives 4 His grace is most unsearchable, They gaze, but cannot count or tell The treasures of his love. 111 C. M. Worthy of ceaseless praise from all his creatures. PRAISE ye the Lord, ye' immortal choirs That fill the worlds above; Praise him who form'd you of his fires, And feeds you with his love. 2 Shine to his praise, ye crystal skies, Or veil in shades your thousand eyes 3 Thou restless globe of golden light, 4 Thunder and hail, and fire and storms, Shout to the Lord, ye surging seas, Let wave to wave resound his praise, 6 Thus while the meaner creatures sing, 112 5th P. M. 4 lines 7s. Eternal praises to the Most High. THEE to laud in songs divine Angels in thy presence join: We with them our voices raise, Echo thine eternal praise. 2 Holy, holy, holy Lord, Live, by heaven and earth adored: JESUS CHRIST. 113 C. M. WHILE Glad tidings of great joy. WHILE shepherds watch'd their flocks by night, The angel of the Lord came down, 2 Fear not, said he, (for mighty dread 3 To you, in David's town, this day Is born, of David's line, The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord; 4 The heavenly babe you there shall find All meanly wrapp'd in swathing-bands, 5 Thus spake the seraph; and forthwith Of angels, praising God on high, song: 6 All glory be to God on high, Good-will henceforth, from heaven to men, 114 9th P. M. 87, 87 Peace on earth-good-will to men. [ARK! what mean those holy voices, Lo! the' angelic host rejoices; Heavenly hallelujahs rise. |