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.
98. L. M. WATTS.
God Incomprehensible and Sovereign.
1 CAN creatures to perfection find The eternal, uncreated Mind? Or can the largest stretch of thought Measure and search his nature out?
2 T is high as heaven, 't is deep as hell, And what can mortals know or tell? His glory spreads beyond the sky, And all the shining worlds on high.
3 God is a King, of power unknown; Firm are the orders of his throne: If he resolve, who dare oppose,
Or ask him why, or what he does?
4 He wounds the heart, and he makes whole; And calms the tempest of the soul : When he shuts up in long despair, Who can remove the heavy bar?
5 He frowns, and darkness veils the moon, The fainting sun grows dim at noon; The pillars of heaven's starry roof Tremble and start at his reproof.
6 These are a portion of his ways: But who shall dare describe his face? Who can endure his light, or stand To hear the thunders of his hand?
1 ETERNAL and immortal King! Thy peerless splendors none can bear; But darkness veils seraphic eyes, When God with all his glory 's there.
2 Yet faith can pierce the awful gloom, The great Invisible can see ; And with its tremblings mingle joy, In fixed regards, great God! to thee.
3 Then every tempting form of sin, Shamed in thy presence, disappears ; And all the glowing raptured soul The likeness it contemplates, wears.
4 O ever conscious to my heart! Witness to its supreme desire: Behold it presseth on to thee, For it hath caught the heavenly fire.
5 This one petition would it urge- To bear thee ever in its sight; In life, in death, in worlds unknown, Its only portion and delight!
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 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 ERE 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.
Immutability of God. Ps. 102.
1 GREAT Former of this various frame! Our souls adore thine awful name; And bow, and tremble, while we praise The Ancient of eternal days.
2 Beyond an angel's vision bright, Thou dwell'st in self-existent light; Which shines with undiminished ray, While suns and worlds in smoke decay.
3 Our days a transient period run, And change with every circling sun; And, in the firmest state we boast, A moth can crush us into dust.
4 But let the creatures fall around; Let death consign us to the ground ; Let the last general flame arise, And melt the arches of the skies;
5 Calm as the summer's ocean, we Can all the wreck of nature see, While grace secures us an abode, Unshaken as the throne of God.
Eternal Dominion of God.
1 GREAT God, how infinite art thou ! How frail and weak are we! Let the whole 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, Cars,
Stands present in thy view; To thee there's nothing old appears; Great God! there's nothing new.
4 Our lives through varying scenes are drawn, And vexed with trifling cares, While thine eternal thought moves on Thine undisturbed affairs.
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