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PART III.

1. Nor doth His Love eclipfe His Might,
Or leffen His Majestick Powers,

Though ftooping from His Glory's Height;
Who is fo Great a GoD as Ours!

2. He in the Hollow of His Hand
Meafur'd the vaft unbounded Main;
The wide-extended Heavens He span'd:
Infinity His Arms contain.

3. He meeted out the Earth, and pois'd
The Mountains, hung on Empty Space,
When all the Morning-Stars rejoic'd,
And fhouted their Creator's Praise.

4. Creation's Line His Wisdom laid,
He grafp'd the Chaos with His Fift;
Sea, Air, and Earth, and Heaven He weigh'd,
And bad th' Exact Machine confift.

5. Who with the Great Omnifcient GOD,
Angel or Man in Council join'd,
To Him the Way of Judgment fhew'd,
Or taught that All-informing Mind?

6. He high enthron'd above All Height
A Partner in His Work difdains ;
In Power and Knowledge Infinite
The Self-directed Spirit reigns.

7. See the vaft Tribes that crowd the Face
Of Earth, the Islands scatter'd wide;

Survey the whole of Human-Race,

Their Wealth, their Number, and their Pride!

8. Light as the Balance-Duft, and small

To Him as the Minutest Grain,

Their Millions into Nothing fall,

• Or fwell'd to be discern'd in vain.”

9. The Nations with their GoD compare
(A Drop with the unfathom'd Sea)
They vanish All, diffolv'd in Air,
And loft in His Immenfity.

10. Lighter than Vanity, and lefs

Than Nothing, He on All looks down ; Nor can their Services appease

His Wrath, or mitigate His Frown.

11. Lebanon brings her Stores in vain,
Nor All her Cedars can afford,
Not all her Beasts for Sinners flain,
An Offering worthy of their LORD.

12. Nothing the Creature Adds to Him,
From whom their borrow'd Being flow'd,
Who Self-fufficient and Supream

Exifts, the One Eternal GoD.

PART IV.

1. Say then, Ye Worms of Earth, to whom Will Ye your glorious GoD compare! Vainly thro' all His Works

ye roam,

And find JEHOVAH's Likene there.

2. The vile Idolater belies

His Image with a Golden Shrine,

To counterfeit the Godhead tries;

And Stocks and Stones become Divine.

3. Man his own Deity reveres
By Self delight, and Self-esteem,
Whate'er the Sinner hopes, or fears,
Defires, or loves, is GOD to Him.

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4. But

4. But have ye not His Being known,
And clearly feen by Nature's Light;
Have not the Antient Fathers fhewn,
And You confefs'd The Infinite!

5. The Heavens His Glorious Power proclaim, Th' Invifible on Earth is fhew'd, Nature is written with His Name,

And All Things speak their Builder GOD.

6. Creation to His Law fubmits,

His Rule He over All maintains,
High on the Globe of Heaven He fits,
And undisturb'd for ever reigns.

7. Th' Inhabitants of Earth from thence,
As Grafhoppers His Eye beholds;
His Hand, and Power, and Providence
The Curtain of the Heavens unfolds.

8. "Tis He who ftretch'd them out, 'tis He Who ftill the wide Pavilion spreads,

That blue Etherial Canopy,

And draws it o'er His Creatures Heads.

9. Princes, and Kings, that dare withstand
Their uncontroul'd Creator's Sway,

Shall fink beneath His Mighty Hand,
And fall, and fade, and die away.

10. Planted awhile, or fown below,

Their Stock accurft fhall ne'er take Root; The LORD upon their Pride shall blow, Wither the Flower, and blast the Fruit.

11. Say then, ye abject Worms, to whom Will ye your Glorious GoD compare?

Who fhall His Holiness prefume

To match, or who His Power shall dare?
12. Lift

12. Lift up your Eyes to Things on high, Nor fix on Earth your groveling Thought,. Who built yon azure vaulted Sky?

Who spoke those beauteous Orbs from Nought?

13. GOD only Wife, and Great, and Strong, Made them to run their Heavenly Race; (Knowledge, and Might to Go D belong, Honour, and Majelty, and Praise.)

14. Their radiant Hofts He marshals right, Their Nature, Names, and Number knows ; He bids them in their Courses fight,

And blaft their Great Creator's Foes.

15. They hear; and Each His Will performs,
And lo! to Man they ever call,
Lift up your Eyes, ye abject Worms,
Adore the Glorious Caufe of All!

PART V.

1. The World He made He still fuftains.
Why then doft Thou, O Ifrael, fay,
My GOD forgets His People's Pains,
His Jacob is a Castaway.

2. Repent Thee of thy peevish Hafte,
Recall the rash defponding Word,
No more complain, The Hour is past,

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And I have wearied out my LORD.

3. Haft Thou not heard, haft Thou not known The Everlasting GoD, that laid

The Earth's Foundations, rules alone,

Nor faints to bear the World He made?

4. JEHOVAH is Unchangeable,
His Ways, and Thought, are not as Ours,

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He chears the languid Souls that fail,
And quickens all their drooping Powers.

5. Gently He lifts the Fallen up,

He gives them Faith, and Faith's Increase, Revives their feeble, dying Hope,

And fills with Love, and Joy, and Peace.

6. Blafted the Vigour of the Young
Shall fade, and suddenly decay;
The Bold, and Confident, and Strong,
Shall fear, defpair, and die away.

7. But They, who wait upon the LORD, Shall furely find His Promise true, Receive the Quickning Powerful Word,

And born of GOD their Strength renew..

8. Their willing Souls from Sin fet free; Shall fwiftly in His Statutes move, Shall walk in Glorious Liberty,

Shall fly upon the Wings of Love.

9. With Eagle's Wings their Souls fhall rife,
Steady and ftrong to Heaven foar,
Regain on Earth their Native Skies,

And faint, and fall, and fin no more.

The Sixty-third Chapter of ISAIAH.

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[The First Part alter'd from Mr. Norris.]

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O Common Vifion This I fee,
In more than Human Majefty,
Who is this Mighty Hero, who
With glorious Terror on his Brow?

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