GOD.

BEING AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD.

55 (20).

GREA

REAT God, how infinite art Thou!
How frail and weak are we!
Let the whole race of creatures bow
And pay their praise to Thee.

2 Thy throne eternal ages stood,
Ere earth or heaven was 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,
To Thee there's nothing new.

C. M.

5 Our lives through various scenes are drawn, And vex'd with trifling cares;

While Thine eternal thought moves on
Thine undisturb'd affairs.

6 Great God, how infinite art Thou!
How frail and weak are we!
Let the whole race of creatures bow
And pay their praise to Thee.

56 (21).

L.M.

LL-POWERFUL, self-existent God,
Who all creation dost sustain!
Thou wast, and art, and art to come,
And everlasting is Thy reign.

2 Fix'd and eternal as Thy days,
Each glorious attribute divine,
Through ages infinite, shall still
With undiminish'd lustre shine.

3 Fountain of being! Source of good!
Immutable dost Thou remain;
Nor can the shadow of a change
Obscure the glories of Thy reign.
4 Earth may with all her powers dissolve,
If such the great Creator's will;
But Thou for ever art the same;
"I Am is Thy memorial still.

57 (26).

LORD, all I am is known to Thee;

In vain my soul would try

To shun Thy presence, or to flee
The notice of Thine eye.

2 Thine all-surrounding sight surveys
My rising and my rest,

My public walks, my private ways,
And secrets of my breast.

3 My thoughts lie open to Thee, Lord,
Before they're form'd within;

And ere my lips pronounce the word
Thou know'st the sense I mean.

C.1

4 Oh, wondrous knowledge, deep and high; Where can a creature hide?

Within Thy circling arms I lie,
Beset on ev'ry side.

5 So let Thy grace surround me still,
And like a bulwark prove,

To guard my soul from ev'ry ill,
Secured by sov'reign love.

58 (25).

L. M.

LORD, Thou hast search'd and seen me

Thine eye commands with piercing view
My rising and my resting hours,

My heart and flesh, with all their powers.
2 Could I so false, so faithless prove,
To quit Thy service and Thy love;
Where, Lord, could I Thy presence shun,
Or from Thy dreadful glory run?

3 The veil of night is no disguise,

No screen from Thine all-searching eyes; Thy hand can seize Thy foes as soon Through midnight shades as blazing noon. 4 Oh, may these thoughts possess my breast, Where'er I rove, where'er I rest! Nor let my weaker passions dare Consent to sin, for God is there.

59.

HE Lord is King! lift up thy voice,

L. M.

From world to world the joy shall ring: "The Lord omnipotent is King!"

2 The Lord is King! who then shall dare
Resist His will, distrust His care?
Holy and true are all His ways:
Let every creature speak His praise.

3 The Lord is King! exalt your strains: Ye saints, your God, your Father reigns; One Lord one empire all secures:

He reigns, and life and death are yours.

4 Oh, when His wisdom can mistake, His might decay, His love forsake, Then may His children cease to sing, "The Lord omnipotent is King!"

60.

MY

C. M

Y God, how wonderful Thou art,
Thy majesty how bright!
How glorious is Thy mercy-seat,
In depths of burning light!

2 Yet I may love Thee too, O Lord,
Almighty as Thou art;

For Thou hast stooped to ask of me
The love of my poor heart.

3 No earthly father loves like Thee,
No mother half so mild

Bears and forbears, as thou hast done
With me, Thy sinful child.

4 My God, how wonderful Thou art,
Thou everlasting Friend!

On Thee stay my trusting heart,
Till faith in vision end.

61 (33).

8s & 6s.

Y God, Thy boundless love I praise,

How sweetly bloom below!

It streams from Thine eternal throne;
Through heaven its joys forever run,
And o'er the earth they flow.

2 It robes in cheerful green the ground,
And pours its flowery beauties round,
Whose sweets perfume the gale:
Its bounties richly spread the plain,
The blushing fruit, the golden grain,
And smile on every vale.

3 But in Thy gospel see it shine,
With grace and glories more divine,
Proclaiming sins forgiven,

There faith, bright cherub, points the way
To realms of everlasting day,

And opens all her heaven.

4 Then let the love that makes me blest,
With cheerful praise inspire my breast,
And ardent gratitude;

And all my thoughts and passions tend
To Thee, my Father and my Friend,
My soul's eternal good.

32.

8s & 7s.

YOD is love; His mercy brightens

GOD
G All the path in which we rove;

Bliss He wakes and woe He lightens;
God is wisdom, God is love.

2 Chance and change are busy ever;
Man decays, and ages move;