4 My gracious God, how plain
Are thy directions given!
Oh! may I never read in vain,
But find the path to heaven.

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BEING AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. L. M.

Existence of God manifest from his Works. THERE is a God-all nature speaks, Through earth, and air, and sea, and skies; See, from the clouds his glory breaks, When earliest beams of morning rise. 2 The rising sun, serenely bright,

Throughout the world's extended frame, Inscribes, in characters of light,

His mighty Maker's glorious name. 3 Ye curious minds, who roam abroad, And trace creation's wonders o'er, Confess the footsteps of your God;Bow down before him-and adore.

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Eternity of God.

GREAT God! how infinite art thou!-
What worthless worms are we!-
Let all the race of creatures bow,
And pay their praise to thee.

2 Thy throne eternal ages stood,
Ere seas or stars were made:
Thou art the ever-living God,
Were all the nations dead.
3 Eternity, with all its years,
Stands present in thy view:

To thee there's nothing old appears—
Great God! there's nothing new.
4 Our lives through various scenes are drawn,
And vexed with trifling cares;

While thine eternal thought moves on
Thine undisturbed affairs.

5 Great God! how infinite art thou!-
What worthless worms are we!-
Let all the race of creatures bow,
And pay their praise to thee.

THE God of nature and of grace,
In all his works appears;

His goodness through the earth we trace,
His grandeur in the spheres.

2 How excellent, O Lord, thy name,
In all creation's lines!

Spread through eternity, thy fame
With rising lustre shines.

3 Millions before thy presence stand,
Who feel, while they adore,
Fulness of joy, at thy right hand,
And pleasures evermore.

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God almighty and omnipresent.

GREAT God, thy penetrating eye
Pervades my inmost powers:
With awe profound, my wondering soul
Falls prostrate and adores.

2 To be encompassed round with God,
The holy and the just;

Armed with omnipotence to save,
Or crumble me to dust-

3 Oh, how tremendous is the thought!
Deep may it be impressed!
And may thy Spirit firmly grave
This truth within my breast.

4 Begirt with thee, my fearless soul
The gloomy vale shall tread;

And thou wilt bind th' immortal crown
Of glory on my head.

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WHERE'ER, thro' all his works, we send Our roving eyes abroad,

The various objects all conspire

To lead our souls to God;

2 That God, whose word all nature formed,
Whose eye all nature sees;
Whose hand all nature rules, sustains,
Or crushes, as he please ;-

3 Before whose high and dazzling throne
Myriads of angels bow;

Whose smile is everlasting bliss-
Whose frown is endless wo.

4 Low at his feet, then, O my soul,
In prostrate homage fall;

Make him thy fear, thy love, thy trust,
Thy joy, thy God, thy all.'

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Omniscience and Omnipresence of God.
LORD, where shall guilty souls retire,
Forgotten and unknown?-

In hell they meet thy dreadful fire-
In heaven thy glorious throne.

2 Should I suppress my vital breath,
To 'scape the wrath divine;

Thy voice would break the bars of death,
And make the grave resign.

3 If, winged with beams of morning light, I fly beyond the west;

Thy hand, which must support my flight,
Would soon betray my rest.

4 If o'er my sins I think to draw
The curtains of the night;

The flaming eyes that guard thy law,
Would turn the shades to light.

5 The beams of noon-the midnight hour, Are both alike to thee:

Oh! may I ne'er provoke that power,
From which I cannot flee.

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14 God our Creator and Benefactor.
WHEN all thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view, I'm lost
In wonder, love, and praise.
2 Unnumbered comforts to my soul
Thy tender care bestowed,
Before my infant heart conceived
From whom those comforts flowed.
3 When in the slippery paths of youth
With heedless steps I ran,

Thine arm, unseen, conveyed me safe,
And led me up to man.

4 Ten thousand thousand precious gifts
My daily thanks employ;

Nor is the least a cheerful heart,
That tastes those gifts with joy.
Through every period of my life,
Thy goodness I'll pursue;

And after death, in distant worlds,
The glorious theme renew.
6 Through all eternity, to thee
A joyful song I'll raise;
But, oh! eternity's too short
To utter all thy praise!

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

Oh! 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.

5 In all the varying scenes of time,
On thee our hopes depend;
In every age-in every clime,
Our Father and our Friend.

COME, ye that know and fear the Lord,

And lift your souls above;

Let every heart and voice accord,
To sing--that God is love,