3 The lark mounts up the sky, And bears her Maker's praise on high, 4 Fain would I rise and sing Fain would my heart adore my King, 5 Let joy and worship spend 68 Heaven and earth are full of His glory. C. M. TERNAL Wisdom! thee we praise, ETE E Thee the creation sings: With thy loved name, rocks, hills, and seas, And heaven's high palace, rings. 2 Thy hand, how wide it spreads the sky, How glorious to behold! Tinged with a blue of heavenly dye, 3 There thou hast bid the globes of light Their endless circuits run: There the pale planet rules the night; 4 Thy glories blaze all nature round, 5 Infinite strength, and equal skill, 6 But the mild glories of thy grace, 69 G C. M. All things created for His glory. YREAT First of beings! mighty Lord Of all this wondrous frame, Produced by thy creating word, The world from nothing came. 2 Lord, for thy glory shines the whole; It all reflects thy light: For this the planets ceaseless roll, 3 For this the earth its produce yields; For this the waters flow; And blooming plants adorn the fields, 4 Inspired with praise, may we pursue This wise and noble end, That all we think, or say, or do, Shall to thy glory tend. 70 The God of nature and of grace. C. M. HE God of nature and of grace THE In all his works appears; His goodness through the earth we trace, His grandeur in the spheres. 2 Behold this fair and fertile globe, By him in wisdom plann'd; 'Twas he who girded, like a robe, The ocean round the land. 3 Lift to the arch of heaven your eye; Thither his path pursue; His glory, boundless as the sky, 4 How excellent, O Lord, thy name, Spread through eternity, thy fame 5 These lower works that swell thy praise, 6 Millions before thy presence stand, 71 0 C. M. His greatness and condescension. Thy glory in the firmament, How wonderfully shown! 2 When I behold the heavens on high, The work of thy right hand; The moon and stars amid the sky, Thy lights in every land :— 3 Lord! what is man that thou shouldst deign On him to set thy love, Give him on earth a while to reign, Then fill a throne above? 4 O Lord, how excellent thy name; Let time thy saving truth proclaim, 72 0 His glory and majesty. C. M. GOD, we praise thee, and confess And everlasting Father art, 2 To thee all angels cry aloud; 3 O holy, holy, holy Lord, 4 The' apostles' glorious company, 73 5 The holy Church throughout the world, Of boundless majesty. FAT Wisdom, majesty, goodness. L. M. ATHER of all, whose powerful voice Call'd forth this universal frame! Whose mercies over all rejoice, Through endless ages still the same: Thou by thy word upholdest all; Thy bounteous love to all is show'd; Thou hear'st thy every creature's call, And fillest every mouth with good. laid: 2 In heaven thou reign'st enthroned in light, And hail thee sov'reign Lord of all. 74 C. M. THE Universal sovereignty. HE Lord descended from above, 2 On cherubim and seraphim And on the wings of mighty winds, 3 He sat serene upon the floods, And he, as sov'reign Lord and King, 75 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. WH Omnipotence and immutability. HEN Israel out of Egypt came, Safe in the hollow of his hand, 2 The sea beheld his power, and fled, Disparted by the wondrous rod; Jordan ran backward to its head, And Sinai felt the' incumbent God; 3 What ail'd thee, O thou trembling sea? |