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In prostrate homage, all confess
Thy greatness is by all unknown.

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Man, ah! how far remov'd below!
How weak his powers! how faint his sight!
His brightest day can only show

The dawning streaks of distant light.

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But lo! the bright, the morning Star!
His beams shall chase the shades away ;-
His beams, resplendent from afar,
Sweet promise of immortal day.

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To him our longing eyes we raise;
Him as our Guide we thankful own:
Through him, oh! may our humble praise
Accepted rise before thy throne !

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"Jehovah One, and His Name One."
Zech. xiv. 9.

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ALMIGHTY Father of mankind!
Jehovah, self-existent Lord!
Supreme and universal Mind!
As God alone, be thou ador'd.

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From everlasting thou hast been;
To everlasting thou shalt be:
No change, no cloud can intervene
To shade thy peerless majesty.

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One nature and one being thou-
Sole great First Cause, we humbly own;
To thee alone we pay the vow,

And bend in homage round thy throne.

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Father of Christ, and Israel's God!
Thy rule assert, thy praise restore :

On eagle wing send truth abroad, land thy name adore.

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Solemn Adoration of Him who filleth all Things with his Presence.

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Lo, God is here! let us adore,
And humbly bow before his face;
Let all within us feel his power,
Let all within us seek his grace:
Who know his power, his grace who
prove,
Serve him with awe, with reverence love.

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Lo, God is here! him, day and night,
United choirs of angels sing;

To him, enthron'd above all height,
Heaven's host their noblest praises bring:
Disdain not, Lord, our meaner song,
Who praise thee with a faltering tongue.

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Being of beings! may our praise
Thy courts with grateful incense fill ;
Still may we stand before thy face,
Still hear and do thy sovereign will:
To thee may all our thoughts arise,
pure and holy sacrifice.

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Humble Worship.

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GREAT Former of this varied frame!
Our souls adore thine awful name;
And bow and tremble, while they praise
The Ancient of eternal days.

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Majestic, from thy lofty throne,
Thou speakest, and thy will is done-

The holy, holy, holy Lord,
By all the angelic host ador'd.

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What, then, can feeble mortals do?
Let them adore their Maker too :
With lowly minds to thee we cry,
The Great, the Holy, and the High!

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Something we learn from nature's frame; Thy word hath more reveal'd thy name; But still thy greatness, Lord, we find Leaves all our soaring thoughts behind.

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Whate'er is glorious, good, and great,
Doth in thy wondrous nature meet;
And to thy name be glory given
By all on earth and all in heaven.

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Homage to the Almighty Sovereign.

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Oн come! loud anthems let us sing,
Loud thanks to our almighty King;
For we our voices high should raise,
When our salvation's Rock we praise.

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The Lord our God, enthron'd in state,
Is with unrivall'd glory great;
A King superior far to all

Whom gods the heathen falsely call.

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The depths of earth are in his hand;
Her secret wealth at his command;
The strength of hills that reach the skies
Subjected to his empire lies.

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The rolling ocean's vast abyss,
By the same sovereign right, is his;

'Tis mov'd by his almighty hand, That form'd and fix'd the solid land.

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He is our God, our Shepherd he;
His flock and pasture-sheep are we :
Come then, and, like his flock, draw near;
To day his voice, attentive, hear.

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A Call to Worship.

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COME, Sound his praise abroad, And hymns of glory sing: Jehovah is the sovereign God, The universal King.

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He form'd the deeps unknown; He gave the seas their bound; The watery worlds are all his own; And all the solid ground.

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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.

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To-day attend his voice,

Nor dare provoke his rod;

Come, make his heavenly paths your choice,

And own your gracious God.

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All Mankind called upon to praise God.

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YE nations round the earth, rejoice Before the Lord, your sovereign King: Serve him with cheerful heart and voice; With all your tongues his glories sing.

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The Lord is God: 'tis he alone
Doth life, and breath, and being give :
We are his work, and not our own,
The sheep that on his pasture live.
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Enter his gates with songs of joy;
With praises to his courts repair;
And make it your divine employ
To pay your thanks and honours there.

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The Lord is good, the Lord is kind;
Great is his love, his mercy sure;
And the whole race of men shall find
His truth, from age to age, endure.

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BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne,
Ye nations, bow with sacred joy :
Know that the Lord is God alone;
He can create and he destroy.

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His sovereign power, without our aid,
Made us of clay, and form'd us men;
And when, like wandering sheep, we stray'd,
He brought us to his fold again.

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We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs;
High as the heavens our voices raise;
And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,
Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.

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Wide as the world is thy command ;
Vast as eternity thy love;

Firm as a rock thy truth must stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move.

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