4 If light attend the course we go,
'Tis he provides the rays;
And 'tis his hand that hides the sun
If darkness cloud our days.
5 Trusting thy wisdom, God of love,
We would not wish to know
What, in the book of thy decrees,
Awaits us here below..
6 Be this alone our fervent prayer,
Whate'er our lot shall be,
Or joys, or sorrows, may they form
Our souls for heaven and thee.
God's Power over his Works.
1 THE Lord our God is full of might:
The winds obey his will:
He speaks, and in his heavenly height
The rolling sun stands still.
2 Rebel, ye waves! and o'er the land.
With threatening aspect roar:
The Lord uplifts his awful hand,
And chains you to the shore.
3 Howl, winds of night! your force combine: Without his high behest,
Ye shall not in the mountain pine
Disturb the sparrow's nest.
4 Ye nations! bend, in reverence bend,
Ye monarchs! wait his nod,
And bid the choral song ascend
To celebrate our God.
Greatness and Grandeur of God.
1 How great is our Creator, God,
In wisdom, majesty, and might,
When he displays his power abroad,
And brings his wonders forth to light!
2 Behold what cloudy columns rise,
Terrific as the shades of night!
What peals of thunder rend the skies!
The lightning, how sublimely bright!
3 How dreadful is the threatening hail!
Th' approaching tempest, O how grand!
What terror doth the mind assail
When deep convulsions shake the land!
4 The seas with hollow murmurs groan;
The bowels of the mountains flame;
The elements, affrighted, own
The awful greatness of thy name.
5 Almighty God! thy chariot wheels
In solemn pomp and grandeur roll;
Thy presence trembling nature feels,
And humble reverence fills the soul.
The Power and Majesty of God. Ps. 89. 1 WITH reverence let the saints appear, And bow before the Lord;
His high commands with reverence hear, And tremble at his word.
2 How terrible thy glories be!
How bright thine armies shine!
Where is the power that vies with thee?
Or truth, compared with thine?
3 The northern pole and southern rest
On thy supporting hand;
Darkness and day from east to west
Move round at thy command.
4 Thy words the raging winds control,
And rule the boisterous deep;
Thou mak'st the sleeping billows roll-
The rolling billows sleep.
5 Justice and judgment are thy throne,
Yet wondrous is thy grace,
While truth and mercy, joined in one,
Invite us near thy face.
The Majesty and Condescension of God.
1 ETERNAL Power! almighty God!
Who can approach thy throne?
Accessless light is thy abode,
To angel-eyes unknown.
2 Before the radiance of thine eye
The heavens no longer shine,
And all the glories of the sky
Are but the shade of thine.
3 Great God! and wilt thou condescend
To cast a look below.
To this vile world thy notice bend,
These seats of sin and woe?
4 But O, to show thy smiling face,
To bring thy glories near-
Amazing and transporting grace
To dwell with mortals here!
5 How strange, how awful, is thy love! -
With trembling we adore.
Not all th' exalted minds above
Its wonders can explore.
6 While golden harps and angel-tongues
Resound immortal lays,
Great God! permit our humble songs
To rise and mean thy praise.
Eternity of God. Ps. 90.
1ERE mountains reared their forms sublime,
Or the fair earth in order stood,
Before the birth of ancient time,
From everlasting thou art God.
2 A thousand ages in their flight
With thee are as a fleeting day;
Past, present, future, to thy sight
At once their various scenes display.
3 But our brief life's a shadowy dream,
A passing thought, that soon is o'er,
That fades with morning's earliest beam,
And fills the musing mind no more.
4 To us, O Lord, the wisdom give
So every precious hour to spend
That we at length with thee may live
Where life and bliss shall never end.
God Eternal and Unchangeable.
1 ALL-POWERFUL, self-existent God,
Who all creation dost sustain !
Thou wast, and art, and art to come,
And everlasting is thy reign.
2 Fixed and eternal as thy days,
Each glorious attribute divine
Through ages infinite shall still
With undiminished lustre shine.
3 Fountain of being! Source of good!
Immutable thou dost remain;
Nor can the shadow of a change
Obscure the glories of thy reign.
4 Yon shining orbs may leave their
The sun his destined path forsake,
And burning desolation mark
Amid the worlds his devious track;
5 Earth may with all her powers dissolve,
If such the great Creator's will;
But thou forever art the same-
I AM is thy memorial still..
1 THERE's not a place in earth's vast round,
In ocean deep, or air,
Where skill and wisdom are not found,
For God is everywhere.
2 Around, within, below, above,
Wherever space extends,
There Heaven displays its boundless love,
And power with
3 Then rise, my soul, and sing his name, And all his praise rehearse,
Who spread abroad earth's wondrous frame, And built the universe.
4 Where'er thine earthly lot is cast,
power and love declare;
Nor think the mighty theme too vast,
For God is everywhere.
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