Let man with praises own,
And sound thy honours high.
2 Thee all in heaven above,
Thee all on earth below,
Th' exhaustless source of love,
The great Creator know.

3 God formed the living frame,
He gave the reasoning mind ;-
Then only he may claim

The worship of mankind.

4 So taught thine only son,

Blest messenger of grace!
Th' eternal is but one,
No second holds his place.

HYMN 83. L. M.

To the unknown God.

1 GREAT God! in vain man's narrow view Attempts to look thy nature through; Our laboring powers with reverence own, Thy glories never can be known.

2 Not the high seraph's mighty thought, Who countless years his God has sought, Such wondrous height or depth can find, Or fully trace thy boundless mind.

3 And yet thy kindness deigns to show Enough for mortal minds to know;

While wisdom, goodness, power divine,
Through all thy works and conduct shine.

4 O! may our souls with rapture trace
Thy works of nature and of grace;
Explore thy sacred truth, and still
Press on to know and do thy will.

HYMN 84. L. M.

The Divine Perfections above our Comprehension.
Job xi & xxvi.

1 CAN creatures to perfection find
Th' eternal, uncreated mind?

Or can the largest stretch of thought
Measure and search his nature out?

2 'Tis high as heaven, 'tis deep as hell,
And what can mortals know or tell?
His glory spreads through all the sky,
And all the shining worlds on high.

3 He frowns, and darkness veils the moon;
The fainting sun grows dim at noon;
The pillars of heaven's starry roof
Tremble and start at his reproof.

4 These are a portion of his ways;
But who shall utter all his praise !
Who can endure his light, or stand
To hear the thunders of his hand!

HYMN 85. L. M.

The Majesty of God. Isa. xl. 15, 16, 17.

1 YE weak inhabitants of clay,
Ye trifling insects of a day!

Low in your native dust bow down
Before th' Eternal's awful throne.

2 With trembling heart, with solemn eye,
Behold Jehovah seated high;

And search what worthy sacrifice
Your hands can give, your thoughts devise.

3 Let Lebanon her cedars bring
To blaze before the sovereign King;
And all the beasts, that on it feed,
As victims at his altar bleed.

4 Loud let ten thousand trumpets sound,
And call remotest nations round,
Assembled on the crowded plains,
Princes and people, kings and swains.

5 Joined with the living, let the dead,
Rising, the face of earth o'erspread;
And while his praise unites their tongues,
Let angels echo back the songs.

6 The drop that from the bucket falls,
The dust that hangs upon the scales,
Is more to sky, and earth, and sea,
Than all this pomp, great God! to thee.

HYMN 86. C. M.

God's Eternal Dominion.

1 GREAT God! how infinite art thou!
How frail and helpless we;

Let the whole race of creatures bow,
And pay their praise to thee.

2 Thy throne eternal ages stood,
Ere seas or stars were made;
Thou art the ever-living God,
Were all the nations dead.

3 Nature and time all open lie
To thine immense survey,
From the formation of the sky,
To the last awful day.

4 Eternity, with all its years,
Stands present to thy view;
To thee there's nothing old appears,
Great God, there's nothing new.

5 Our lives through varying scenes are drawn, And vexed with trifling cares,

While thine eternal thought moves on
Thine undisturbed affairs.

6 Great God! how infinite art thou!
How frail and helpless we!

Let the whole race of creatures bow,
And pay their praise to thee.

HYMN 87. L. M.

God Eternal and Immutable.

1 ALL-powerful, self-existent God,
Who all creation dost sustain !
Thou wast, and art, and art to come,
And everlasting is thy reign!

2 Fixed and eternal as thy days,
Each glorious attribute divine,
Through ages infinite, shall still
With undiminished lustre shine.

3 Fountain of being! Source of good!
Immutable thou dost remain !
Nor can the shadow of a change
Obscure the glories of thy reign.

4 Nature her order shall reverse,
Revolving seasons cease their round;
Nor spring appear with blooming pride,
Nor autumn be with plenty crowned;

5. Yon shining orbs forget their course, The sun his destined path forsake, And burning desolation mark

Amid the world his devious track :

6 Earth may with all her powers dissolve, If such the great Creator's will : But thou forever art the same,

I AM is thy memorial still..