6 Great God, how infinite art thou! 21. A (33.) L. M. LL-POW'RFUL, self-existent God, Thou wast, and art, and art to come; Fix'd and eternal as thy days, Each glorious attribute divine, Thro' ages infinite, shall still With undiminished lustre shine. 3 Fountain of being! source of good 4 Nature her order shall reverse, Revolving seasons cease their round; Nor spring appear with blooming pride, Nor autumn be with plenty crown'd: 5 Yon shining orbs forget their course; The sun his destin'd path forsake; And burning desolation mark Amid the world his wand'ring track: 6 Earth may with all her pow'rs dissolve, If such the great Creator's will: But thou for ever art the same; "I am" is thy memorial still. 22. (34.) L. M. God almighty. GIVE to the Lord, ye sons of fame, Ascribe due honours to his name, The Lord proclaims his pow'r aloud, 4 H thunders rend the vaulted skies, 6 We see no terrors in his name, The voice, that shakes all nature's frame, 23. (36.) C. M. 1 "TWA AS God who hurl'd the rolling spheres, And stretch'd the boundless skies; Who form'd the plan of endless years, 2 From everlasting is his might, He pierces through the realms of light, He darts along the burning skies; He scatters nations with his breath; 24, 25 BEING AND Blue pestilence and wasting death, 5 Ye worlds, with ev'ry living thing, Mortals, pay homage to your King, 1 WHEN in dark and dreadful gloom, Clouds on clouds portentous spread, Black as if the day of doom Hung o'er nature's shrinking head: 2 Then we hear his chariot wheels, 3 Darkness, wild with horror, forms 4 God of vengeance! from above, Spare! O spare a guilty world! Stay thy flaming wrath awhile, 25. (37.) L. M. God omnipresent and omniscient. LORD, thou hast search'd and seen me through; Thine eye commands, with piercing view, My rising and my resting hours, My heart and flesh, with all their pow'rs. ? Could I so false, so faithless prove, 3 If, mounted on a morning ray, I fly beyond the western sea; 4 Or should I try to shun thy sight 26. (38) C. M. 1 LORD, all I am is known to thee! To shun thy presence, or to flee Thy all-surrounding sight surveys My public walks, my private ways, My thoughts lie open to thee, Lord, 40 wondrous knowledge, deep and high! Within tay circling arms I lie, 5 So let thy grace surround me still, To guard my soul from ev'ry ill, 27. 1 God's Wisdom. SONGS of immortal praise belong To my almighty God: He hath my heart, and he my tongue, 2 How great the works his hand hath wrought! 3 How most exact is nature's frame! His counsels never change the scheme 4 When he redeem'd the sons of men, The orders, that his lips pronounce, 5 Nature, and time, and earth, and skies, 9 To fear thy pow'r, to trust thy grace, And he's the wisest of our race, 28. (43.) C. M. God holy and just. HOLY and rev'rend is the name Of our eternal King. |