12. P. M.

Solemn Adoration of Him who filleth all Things with His Presence.

1.

Lo! God is here: let us adore,
And humbly bow before his face;
Let all within us feel his power,

Let all within us seek his grace:
Who know his power, his grace who prove,
Serve him with awe, with reverence love.

2.

Lo! GOD is here: him, day and night,
United choirs of angels sing;
To him, enthron'd above all height,

Heaven's host their noblest praises bring:
Disdain not, LORD! Our meaner song,
Who praise thee with a faltering tongue.

3.

Being of beings! may our praise

Thy courts with grateful incense fill;
Still may we stand before thy face,
Still hear and do thy sovereign will:
To thee may all our thoughts arise,
A pure and holy sacrifice.

13. S. M.

Solemn Call to Worship.

1.

COME, sound his praise abroad, And hymns of glory sing; JEHOVAH is the sovereign GOD, The universal King.

2.

He form'd the deeps unknown; He gave the seas their bound; The watery worlds are all his own, And all the solid ground.

3.

Come, worship at his throne; Come, bow before the Lord: We are his works, and his alone; He form'd us by his word.

4.

To-day attend his voice;

No more provoke his rod;

Come, make his heavenly paths your choice, And own your gracious GoD.

5.

Thus you the joys will share
Which from devotion rise;
And every day your souls prepare
-For bliss which never dies.

14. P. M.

Eternal Praise to God.

1.

WE'LL praise our Maker with our breath; And, when we've past the vale of death, Praise shall employ our nobler powers: Our days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.

2.

Happy the man, whose hopes rely

On nature's GOD: He made the sky,

And earth, and seas, with all their train;

His truth for ever stands secure;

He saves the opprest; he feeds the poor; And none shall find his promise vain.

3.

The LORD hath sight to give the blind;
The LORD supports the sinking mind;
He sends the contrite spirit peace;
He helps the stranger in distress,
The widow and the fatherless,

And grants the prisoner sweet release.

4.

He loves the good, he knows them well;
His love their joyful lips can tell;
Their gracious GOD for ever reigns:
Let every tongue, let every age,
In this exalted work engage:
Praise him in everlasting strains.

15. c. M.

The Divine Perfections celebrated.

1.

WITH reverence let the saints appear, And bow before the LORD;

His high commands with reverence hear, And own his sovereign word.

2.

How wise, O GOD! thy counsels are!
How bright thy glories shine!

Thy power is great beyond compare ;
No truth so firm as thine.

3.

Heaven, earth, and sea, confess thy hand;
Thou bidst the vapours rise;

Lightning and storms, at thy command,
Sweep through the sounding skies.

4.

Thy voice can raging winds control,
And rule the boisterous deep;
Thou bidst the sleeping billows roll,
The rolling billows sleep.

5.

The northern pole, and southern, rest
On thy supporting hand;

Darkness and day, from east to west,
Move round at thy command.

6.

Justice and judgment are thy throne,
Yet boundless is thy grace;
While truth and mercy, joined in one,
Invite us near thy face.

16. L. M.

The Divine Perfections celebrated.

1.

To GOD, the great, the ever bless'd,
Let songs of honour be address'd;
His boundless wisdom, power, and
grace,
Command our awe, invite our praise.

2.

To him all nature owes its birth;

He form'd this ponderous globe of earth;
He rais'd the glorious arch on high,
And measur'd out the azure sky.

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3.

Tis he who bids the tempest rise,
And rolls the thunder through the skies;
His voice the elements obey;

Wide o'er the earth extends his sway.

4.

In every work and way divine,
Omnipotence and wisdom shine;
And goodness fixes still the end
To which they all unvarying tend.

5.

His pow'r we trace on every side;
Oh may his wisdom be our guide!
And while we live, and when we die,
May his almighty love be nigh.

17. L. M.

The Divine Perfections celebrated.

1.

Be thou exalted, O my God!

Above the heavens where angels dwell; Thy power on earth be known abroad, And land to land thy wonders tell.

2.

The earth and stars and worlds unknown
Were form'd by thy almighty word:
All things exist through thee alone;
All nature owns thee for its Lord.

3.

In thee, O GOD! are all the springs Of boundless love and grace unknown; All the rich gifts which nature brings, Are gifts descending from thy throne.