4 These are a portion of his ways;
But who shall utter all his praise?
Who can endure his light, or stand
To hear the thunders of his hand!

The Majesty of God. Isa. xl. 15, 16, 17.

1 YE weak inhabitants of clay,

Ye trifling insects of a day

Low in your native dust bow down
Before th' Eternal's awful throne.

2 With trembling heart, with solemn eye
Behold Jehovah seated high;

And search what worthy sacrifice

Your hands can give, your thoughts devise.

3 Let Lebanon her cedars bring
To blaze before the sovereign King;
And all the beasts, that on it feed,
As victims at his altar bleed.

4 Loud let ten thousand trumpets sound,
And call remotest nations round,
Assembled on the crowded plains,
Princes and people, kings and swains.

5 Joined with the living, let the dead,
Rising, the face of earth o'erspread;
And while his praise unites their tongues,
Let angels echo back the songs.

6 The drop that from the bucket falls,
The dust that hangs upon the scales,
Is more to sky, and earth, and sea,
Than all this pomp, great GOD! to thee.

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God's Eternal Dominion.

1 GREAT God, how infinite art thou!
How frail and helpless 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 Nature and time all open lie
To thine immense survey,
From the formation of the sky,
To the last awful day.

4 Eternity, with all its years,
Stands present to thy view;
To thee there's nothing old appears,
Great God! there's nothing new.

5 Our lives through varying scenes are drawn, And vexed with trifling cares,

While thine eternal thought moves on
Thine undisturbed affairs.

6 Great God, how infinite art thou!
How frail and helpless we !

Let the whole race of creatures bow,
And pay their praise to thee.

88. L. M.

God Eternal and Immutable.

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 Nature her order shall reverse,
Revolving seasons cease their round;
Nor spring appear with blooming pride,
Nor autumn be with plenty crowned;
5 Yon shining orbs forget their course,
The sun his destined path forsake,
And burning desolation mark

Amid the world his devious track:

6 Earth may with all her powers dissolve,
If such the great Creator's will:
But thou for ever art the same,
I AM is thy memorial still.

89. 10s M.

The unrivalled Power and Dominion of God.

1 THOU Power! who dost with absolute com

mand,

Sway the broad ocean and the steadfast land; Who reign'st on high, unbounded and alone, While all creation hangs upon thy throne;

2 This earthly globe, the creature of a day, Tho' built by thy right hand, must pass away; And long oblivion creep o'er mortal things, The fate of empires and the pride of kings:

3 The sun himself, with gathering clouds opprest, Shall in his silent, dark pavilion rest;

His golden urn shall break, and useless lie,
Amid the common ruins of the sky;

4 But fixed, O GOD! forever stands thy throne: Jehovah reigns, a universe alone :

Th' eternal fire that feeds each vital flame,
Collected, or diffused, is still the same.

5 But oh! our highest notes the theme debase, And silence is our least injurious praise: Cease, cease your songs, the daring flight control,

Revere him in the stillness of the soul.

God's universal Knowledge and Presence.
Ps. cxxxix.

1 FATHER of all! omniscient mind!
Thy wisdom who can comprehend?
Its highest point what eye can find,
Or to its lowest depths descend?

2 What cavern deep, what hill sublime,
Beyond thy reach shall I pursue?
What dark recess, what distant clime,
Shall hide me from thy boundless view ?
3 If up to heaven's ethereal height,
Thy prospect to elude, I rise;

In splendor there, supremely bright,
Thy presence shall my sight surprise.
4 Thee, mighty God! my wondering soul,
Thee, all her conscious powers adore;
Whose being circumscribes the whole,
Whose eyes the universe explore.

5 Thine essence fills this breathing frame, It glows in every vital part;

Lights up my soul with livelier flame, And feeds with life my beating heart. 6 To thee, from whom my being came, Whose smile is all the heaven I know, Inspired with this exalted theme, To thee my grateful strains shall flow.

91.

C. M.

Universal Presence of God.

1 My heart and all my ways, O God!
By thee are searched and seen;
My outward acts thine eye observes,
My secret thoughts within.

2 Attendant on my steps, all day
Thy providence I see;

And in the solitude of night

I'm present still with thee.

3 No spot, the boundless realms of space Whence thou art absent, know;

In heaven thou reign'st a glorious King,
An awful judge, below.

4 Goodness, and majesty, and power,
Through all thy works are shown;
Richly displayed in nature's frame,
As richly in my own.

5 To all my parts, their place and use
Thy wisdom had assigned,

Ere yet those parts a being had,
But in thy forming mind.

6 O! if within my thoughtless heart,
Thou aught should'st disapprove,