4 Immortal light, and joys unknown,
Are for the saints in darkness sown;
Those glorious seeds shall spring and rise,
And the bright harvest bless our eyes.

5 Rejoice, ye righteous! and record
The sacred honours of the Lord;
None, but the souls who taste his grace,
Can triumph in his holiness.

HYMN 34. L. M.

The Divine Being and Perfections. Ps. xxxvi. 5—9.

1 HIGH in the heav'ns, eternal God! Thy goodness in full glory shines;

Thy truth shall break through ev'ry cloud, Which veils and darkens thy designs.

2 For ever firm thy justice stands,
As mountains their foundations keep;
Wise are the wonders of thy hands;
Thy judgments are a mighty deep.

3 Thy providence is kind and large,
Both men and beasts thy bounty share;
The whole creation is thy charge,
The good are thy peculiar care.

4 O God, how excellent thy grace, Whence all our hope and comfort springs! The sons of Adam, in distress,

Fly to the shadow of thy wings.

HYMN 35. C. M.

The Eternity and Immutability of God.

1 THOU didst, O mighty God! exist Ere time began his race; Before the ample elements

Fill'd up

the voids of space;

2 Before the pond'rous earthly globe
In fluid air was stay'd;
Before the ocean's mighty springs
Their liquid stores display'd;

3 Ere through the gloom of ancient night
The streaks of light appear'd;
Before the high celestial arch
Or starry poles were rear'd;

4 Before the bright, harmonious spheres
Their glorious rounds begun;
Before the shining roads of heav'n
Were measur'd by the sun;

5 Ere men ador'd, or angels knew, Or prais'd thy wondrous name;

Thy bliss, eternal spring of life!
And glory were the same.

6 And when the pillars of the world
With sudden ruin break,

And all this vast and goodly frame
Sinks in the mighty wreck;

7 When from her orb the moon shall start,
Th' astonish'd sun roll back,
While all the trembling starry lamps
Their ancient course forsake;

8 Forever permanent and fix'd,
From interruption free,
Unchang'd in everlasting years,
Shall thy existence be.

HYMN 36. L. M.

God the Creator and Preserver. Ps. cxxi.

1 Up to the hills I lift mine eyes,
Th' eternal hills beyond the skies;
Thence all her help my soul derives;
There my almighty refuge lives.

2 He lives, the everlasting God,

Who built the world, who spread the flood;
The heav'ns with all their hosts he made,
And the dark regions of the dead.

3 He guides our feet; he guards our way;
His morning smiles bless all the day;
He spreads the ev'ning veil, and keeps
The silent hours while nature sleeps.

4 His servants, thus divinely blest,
May rise secure, securely rest;
Their holy guardian's wakeful eyes
Admit no slumber nor surprise.

5 No sun shall smite their head by day, Nor the pale moon with sickly ray Shall blast their couch; no baleful star Dart his malignant fire so far.

6 With fiercest rage should malice burn, Still they shall go, and still return, Safe in the Lord; his heav'nly care Defends their lives from ev'ry snare.

HYMN 37. S. M.

Praise to the Creator. Ps. xcv.

1 COME, Sound his praise abroad,
And hymns of glory sing!
Jehovah is the sov❜reign God,
The universal king.

2

He form'd the deeps unknown ;
He gave the seas their bound;

3

4

The wat❜ry worlds are all his own,
And all the solid ground.

Come, worship at his throne;
Come, bow before the Lord!

We are his work, and not our own,
He form'd us by his word.

To-day attend his voice,

Nor dare provoke his rod;

Make wisdom's peaceful paths your choice,

And own your gracious God.

HYMN 38, 8 & 6s. M.

Invocation of all creatures to praise God.

1 YE works of God! on him alone,
From earth his footstool, heav'n his throne,
Be all your praise bestow'd;

Whose hand the beauteous fabrick made,
Whose eye the finish'd work survey'd,
And saw that all was good.

2 Ye angels, who with loud acclaim,
Admiring view'd the new-born frame,
And hail'd th' eternal King!
Again proclaim your Maker's praise,
Again your thankful voices raise,
And sacred anthems sing.