CREATION AND PROVIDENCE. 27 L. M. Rochford 22. Wells 102. A Summary View of the Creation, Gen. i. A 1 L 28 NEEDHAM. 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 Stupendous are thy works, and they 3 Thine eye beheld me when the speck And o'er my form, in darkness fram'd, 4 Th' unfashion'd mass by thee was seen; Was plann'd before thy curious mould 5 How precious are the streaming joys Would I rehearse their numbers o'er, With night's descending shades they fall; 7 Thine awful glories round me shine, 29 My flesh proclaims thy praise: C, M. Devizes 14. Tiverton 109. 1 ETERNAL Wisdom, thee we praise! With thy lov'd name, rocks, hills, and seas, 2 Thy hand how wide it spreads the sky! Ting'd with the blue of heavenly dye, 3 Thy glories blaze all nature round, Thro' skies, and seas, and solid ground, 4 Infinite strength, and equal skill, y 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. E sons of men, with joy record 1 YE The various wonders of the Lord;} 32 DODDRIDGE. 31 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 2 With feeble light, and half obscure; 5 w And the mysterious just and true, 08 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 Too weak thy secrets to discern, 32 C. M. Staughton 264. Abingdon 42. 1 'Creation and Providence. LORD, when our raptur'd thought surveys Creation's beauties o'er, All nature joins to teach thy praise, 2 Where'er we turn our gazing eyes, 3 The living tribes of countless forms, The meanest flies, the smallest worms, Almighty power declare 4 Thy wisdom, power, and goodness, Lord, an And, O! let man thy praise record, 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, 8 On us that Providence has shone 18 od 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? |