PART III. 1. Nor doth His Love eclipfe His Might, Though ftooping from His Glory's Height; 2. He in the Hollow of His Hand 3. He meeted out the Earth, and pois'd 4. Creation's Line His Wisdom laid, 5. Who with the Great Omnifcient GOD, 6. He high enthron'd above All Height 7. See the vaft Tribes that crowd the Face 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 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, 12. Nothing the Creature Adds to Him, 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 B. 3 4. But 4. But have ye not His Being known, 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, 7. Th' Inhabitants of Earth from thence, 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 Shall fink beneath His Mighty Hand, 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 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, PART V. 1. The World He made He still fuftains. 2. Repent Thee of thy peevish Hafte, 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, He He chears the languid Souls that fail, 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 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, And faint, and fall, and fin no more. The Sixty-third Chapter of ISAIAH. 1. [The First Part alter'd from Mr. Norris.] N O Common Vifion This I fee, |