4 Riches, as seemeth good to thee,
Thou dost, and honour give;
And kings their power and dignity
Out of thy hand receive.

5 Thou hast on us the grace bestow'd,
Thy greatness to proclaim;

And therefore now we thank our God,
And praise thy glorious Name.

6 Thy glorious Name, thy nature's powers, Thou dost to us make known;

And all the Deity is ours,

Through thy incarnate Son.

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Goodness.

GOD, my hope, my heavenly rest,
My all of happiness below,

Grant my importunate request,

To me, to me, thy goodness show;
Thy beatific face display,

The brightness of eternal day.
2 Before my faith's enlighten'd eyes,
Make all thy gracious goodness pass;
Thy goodness is the sight I prize :
O might I see thy smiling face:
Thy nature in my soul proclaim,
Reveal thy love, thy glorious name.

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Immanuel, God with us.

TERNAL depth of love divine,
In Jesus, God with us, display'd;

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How bright thy beaming glories shine!

How wide thy healing streams are spread! 2 With whom dost thou delight to dwell? Sinners, a vile and thankless race!

O God, what tongue aright can tell

How vast thy love, how great thy grace!

3 The dictates of thy sov'reign will With joy our grateful hearts receive; All thy delight in us fulfil;

Lo, all we are to thee we give.
4 To thy sure love, thy tender care,
Our flesh, soul, spirit, we resign ;
O fix thy sacred presence there,
And seal the' abode forever thine.

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Infinite love.

THOUSAND oracles divine
Their common beams unite,

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That sinners may with angels join,
To worship God aright.

2 Triumphant host! they never cease To laud and magnify

The triune God of holiness,

Whose glory fills the sky.

3 By faith the upper choir we meet,
And join with them to sing
Jehovah, on his shining seat,
Our Maker and our King.

4 For God, made flesh, is wholly ours, And asks our noblest strain;

The Father of celestial powers,
The Friend of earth-born man.

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God is Love.

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REAT God! to me the sight afford

GREAT God old allow'd;

And let my faith behold its Lord,

Descending in a cloud.

2 In thy revealing Spirit come,

Thine attributes proclaim,

And to my inmost soul make known The glories of thy Name.

3 Jehovah, Christ, I thee adore,
Who gav'st my soul to be;
Fountain of being and of power,
And great in majesty.

4 The Lord, the mighty God, thou art,
But let me rather prove
That name inspoken to my heart,
That fav'rite name of Love.

5 Merciful God, thyself proclaim
In this polluted breast;
Mercy is thy distinguish'd name,
And suits the sinner best.

6 Our mis'ry doth for pity call,
Our sin implores thy grace;
And thou art merciful to all
Our lost, apostate race.

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Love and mercy.

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YREAT God, accept a heart

That pants to sing thy praise; Thou, who without beginning art, And without end of days:

Thy goodness is display'd,

On all thy works impress'd;

Thou lovest all thy hands have made,
But man thou lovest best.

2 Gracious art thou to all
Who truly turn to thee;
O hear me, then, for pardon call,

And show thy grace to me:

Through mercy reconciled,

For Jesus' sake forgiven;

Receive, O Lord, thy favour'd child,
To sing thy praise in heaven.

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Source of all blessings.

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JEHOVAH, God, thy gracious power
On every hand we see;

O may the blessings of each hour
Lead all our thoughts to thee.
2 If on the wings of morn we speed,
To earth's remotest bound,

Thy hand will there our journey lead,
Thine arm our path surround.
3 Thy power is in the ocean deeps,
And reaches to the skies;
Thine eye of mercy never sleeps,
Thy goodness never dies.

4 From morn till noon-till latest eve,
Thy hand, O God, we see;

And all the blessings we receive,
Proceed alone from thee.

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The Author of every good gift.

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FATHER, to thee my soul I lift;

My soul on thee depends;
Convinced that every perfect gift
From thee alone descends.

2 Mercy and grace are thine alone,
And power and wisdom too:
Without the Spirit of thy Son,
We nothing good can do.

3 We cannot speak one useful word,
One holy thought conceive,
Unless, in answer to our Lord,

Thyself the blessing give.

4 His blood demands the purchased grace :

His blood's availing plea

Obtain❜d the help for all our race,

And sends it down to me.

5 Thou all our works in us hast wrought; Our good is all divine:

The praise of every virtuous thought,
And righteous word, is thine.

6 From thee, through Jesus, we receive
The power on thee to call,

In whom we are, and move, and live ́;
Our God is all in all.

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Holiness.

TOLY as thou, O Lord, is none;

H Thy so finous is all thine own

A drop of that unbounded sea
Is ours, a drop derived from thee.
2 And when thy purity we share,
Thine only glory we declare;
And, humbled into nothing, own,
Holy and pure is God alone.

3 Sole, self-existing God and Lord,
By all thy heavenly hosts adored,
Let all on earth bow down to thee,
And own thy peerless majesty:
4 Thy power unparallel'd confess,
Establish'd on the Rock of peace;
The Rock that never shall remove,-
The Rock of pure, almighty love.

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The Trinity.

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AIL! holy, holy, holy Lord,
Whom one in three we know ;
By all thy heavenly host adored,
By all thy Church below.
2 One undivided Trinity

With triumph we proclaim;
Thy universe is full of thee,
And speaks thy glorious Name.