CREATION AND PROVIDENCE.

27 L. M. Rochford 22. Wells 102.

A Summary View of the Creation, Gen. i.

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OOK up, ye saints, direct your eyes
To him who dwells above the skies;
With your glad notes his praise rehearse
Who form'd the mighty universe.
2 He spoke, and from the womb of night,
At once sprang up the cheering light:
Him discord heard; and, at his nod,
Beauty awoke, and spoke the God.
3 The word he gave, th' obedient sun
Began his glorious race to run:
Nor silver moon, nor stars delay
To glide along th' ethereal way.
4 Teeming with life,-air, earth, and sea,'
Obey th' Almighty's high decree!
To every tribe he gives their food,
Then speaks the whole divinely good.
5 But, to complete the wondrous plan,
From earth and dust he fashions man:
In man the last, in him the best,
The Maker's image stands confest.
6 Lord, while thy glorious works I view,
Form thou my heart and soul anew;
Here bid thy purest light to shine,
And beauty glow with charms divine!

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C. M. Crowle 3. New York 33.

The Creation of Man; or, God the Searcher of the Heart,

Psalm cxxxix.

1 ORD! thy pervading knowledge strikes Through nature's inmost gloom,.

And in thy circling arms I lay

A slumberer in the womb.

2 Thee will I honour, for I stand
A volume of thy skill;

Stupendous are thy works, and they
My contemplations fill!

3 Thine eye beheld me when the speck
Of entity began;

And o'er my form, in darkness fram'd,
Thy rich embroid❜ry ran:

4 Th' unfashion'd mass by thee was seen;
My structure, in thy book,

Was plann'd before thy curious mould
The future embryo took.

5 How precious are the streaming joys
That from thy love descend!

Would I rehearse their numbers o'er,
Where would their numbers end?
6 Not ocean's countless sands exceed
The blessings of the skies;

With night's descending shades they fall;
With morning splendours rise.

7 Thine awful glories round me shine,

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My flesh proclaims thy praise:
Lord! to thy works of nature join
Thy miracles of grace.'

C, M. Devizes 14. Tiverton 109.
A Song to Creating Wisdom.

1 ETERNAL Wisdom, thee we praise!
Thee the creation sings!

With thy lov'd name, rocks, hills, and seas,
And heaven's high palace rings.

2 Thy hand how wide it spreads the sky!
How glorious to behold!

Ting'd with the blue of heavenly dye,
And starr'd with sparkling gold.

3 Thy glories blaze all nature round,
And strike the gazing sight,

Thro' skies, and seas, and solid ground,
With terror and delight.

4 Infinite strength, and equal skill, y
Shine thro' the worlds abroad,
Our souls with vast amazement fill,
And speak the builder God.
5 But still the wonders of thy grace
Our softer passions move;

Pity divine in Jesus' face

We see, adore, and love. WATTS'S LYRICS.

30 L. M. Martin's Lane 67. Langdon 217,

God's Goodness to the Children of Men, Ps. cvii, 31.

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The various wonders of the Lord;}
And let his power and goodness sound
Thro' all your tribes the earth around.
2 Let the high heavens your songs invite,
Those spacious fields of brilliant light;
Where sun, and moon, and planets roll
And stars that glow from pole to pole.
3 Sing, earth, in verdant robes array'd-
Its herbs and flowers, its fruit and shade;
Peopled with life of various forms,
Of fish, and fowl, and beasts, and worms.
4 View the broad sea's majestic plains,"
And think how wide its Maker reigns;
That band remotest nations joins,
And on each wave his goodness shines.
5 But oh! that brighter world above,
Where lives and reigns incarnate love!
God's only Son, in flesh array'd,
For man a bleeding victim made.
6 Thither, my soul, with rapture soar!!
There, in the land of praise, adore:
The theme demands an angel's lay-
Demands an everlasting day,
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DODDRIDGE.

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L. M. Rothwell, 174, Virginia 234.

Providence; or, God working all things after the Council of his own Will,

1 THY ways, O Lord! with wise design, O Are fram'd upon thy throne above And every dark and bending line ea andre [ Meets in the centre of thy love.. uta

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Poor mortals thy arrangements view;
Not knowing that the least are sure,

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3 Thy flock, thy own peculiar care,

Though now they seem to roam uney'd,

Are led or driven only where

They best and safest may abide.

4 They neither know nor trace the way But, trusting to thy piercing eye,

None of their feet to ruin stray,

Nor shall the weakest fall or die.ja soni

5 My favour'd soul shall meekly learn
To lay her reason at thy throne;

Too weak thy secrets to discern,
I'll trust thee for my guide alone.

32 C. M. Staughton 264. Abingdon 42.

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'Creation and Providence.

LORD, when our raptur'd thought surveys

Creation's beauties o'er,

All nature joins to teach thy praise,
And bid our souls adore,

2 Where'er we turn our gazing eyes,
Thy radiant footsteps shine;
Ten thousand pleasing wonders rise
And speak their source divina.

3 The living tribes of countless forms,
In earth, and sea, and air,

The meanest flies, the smallest worms,

Almighty power declare

4 Thy wisdom, power, and goodness, Lord, an
In all thy works appear:

And, O! let man thy praise record,
Man, thy distinguish'd care a alime
5 From thee, the breath of life he drew
That breath thy power maintains;
Thy tender mercy, ever new,
His brittle frame sustains.

6 Yet nobler favours claim his praise, Of reason's light possest;

By revelation's brightest rays

Still more divinely bless'd. 1 Jasrollibal

7 Thy providence his constant guard,
When threat'ning woes impend,
Or will the impending dangers ward,
Or timely succours lend.

8 On us that Providence has shone
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O! may our lips and lives make known
Thy goodness and thy praise!

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33 L. M. Kingsbridge 88. Green's Hund. 89. Providence Equitable and Kind, Psalm evil,

1 THRO' all the various shifting scene's

Of life's mistaken ill or good go H Thy hand, O God! conducts unseenA The beautiful vicissitude, Imol Y & 2 Thou givest with paternal care,olo odT Howe'er unjustly we complain, gid 9A To each their necessary share old f

and sorrow, health and pain, but 3 Trust we to youth, or friends, or power? Fix we on this terrestrial ball?