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BEMERTON. C. M.

HENRY WELLINGTON GREATOREX.

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Omniscience.

1 LORD, all I am is known to thee;
In vain my soul would try
To shun thy presence, or to flee
The notice of thine eye.

2 Thy all-surrounding sight surveys
My rising and my rest,

My public walks, my private ways,
The secrets of my breast.

3 My thoughts lie open to thee, Lord,
Before they're formed within;
And ere my lips pronounce the word,
Thou know'st the sense I mean.

4 0 wondrous knowledge, deep and high!
Where can a creature hide?
Within thy circling arms I lie,
Beset on every side.

5 So let thy grace surround me still,
And like a bulwark prove,
To guard my soul from every ill,
Secured by sovereign love.

ISAAC WATTS.

124 The Author of every perfect gift.
1 FATHER, to thee my soul I lift;
My soul on thee depends;
Convinced that every perfect gift
From thee alone descends.

Mercy and grace are thine alone,
And power and wisdom too:
Without the Spirit of thy Son,
We nothing good can do.

3 We cannot speak one useful word,
One holy thought conceive,
Unless, in answer to our Lord,
Thyself the blessing give.

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1 O GOD, thy power is wonderful, Thy glory passing bright;

Thy wisdom, with its deep on deep, A rapture to the sight.

2 I see thee in the eternal years
In glory all alone,

Ere round thine uncreated fires
Created light had shone.

3 I see thee walk in Eden's shade,
I see thee all through time;
Thy patience and compassion seem
New attributes sublime.

4 I see thee when the doom is o'er
And outworn time is done,
Still, still incomprehensible,
O God, yet not alone.

5 Angelic spirits, countless souls,
Of thee have drunk their fill;
And to eternity will drink

Thy joy and glory still.

6 O little heart of mine! shall pain
Or sorrow make thee moan,
When all this God is all for thee,
A Father all thine own?

FREDERICK W. FABER.

GOD-BEING AND ATTRIBUTES.

ALL SAINTS. L. M.

WILLIAM K

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1 O GOD, thou bottomless abyss!
Thee to perfection who can know?
O height immense! what words suffice
Thy countless attributes to show?

2 Greatness unspeakable is thine;

Greatness, whose undiminished ray,
When short-lived worlds are lost, shall shine,
When earth and heaven are fled away.
3 Unchangeable, all-perfect Lord,
Essential life's unbounded sea,

What lives and moves, lives by thy word;
It lives, and moves, and is, from thee.
High is thy power above all height;
Whate'er thy will decrees is done;
Thy wisdom, equal to thy might,
Only to thee, O God, is known!

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ERNEST LANGE. TR. BY J. WESLEY,

SECOND PART.

Wisdom, love, power.

1 THINE, Lord, is wisdom, thine alone; Justice and truth before thee stand: Yet, nearer to thy sacred throne,

Mercy withholds thy lifted hand.

2 Each evening shows thy tender love, Each rising morn thy plenteous grace; Thy wakened wrath doth slowly move, Thy willing mercy flies apace.

3 To thy benign, indulgent care,

Father, this light, this breath, we owe; And all we have, and all we are,

From thee, great Source of being, flow.

4 Thrice Holy! thine the kingdom is, The power omnipotent is thine; And when created nature dies,

128

Immanuel, God with us.

1 ETERNAL depth of love divine, In Jesus, God with us, displayed; How bright thy beaming glories shi How wide thy healing streams spread!

2 With whom dost thou delight to d Sinners, a vile and thankless race O God, what tongue aright can tell How vast thy love, how great grace!

3 The dictates of thy sovereign will With joy our grateful hearts receiv All thy delight in us fulfill;

Lo, all we are to thee we give.

4 To thy sure love, thy tender care,
Our flesh, soul, spirit, we resign;
O fix thy sacred presence there,
And seal the abode forever thine.
NICOLAUS L. ZINZENDORF. TR. BY J. WES

129 For the grace of the Holy Trinit
1 BLEST Spirit, one with God above,
Thou source of life and holy love,
O cheer us with thy sacred beams,
Refresh us with thy plenteous stream
20 may our lips confess thy name,
Our holy lives thy power proclaim;
With love divine our hearts inspire,
And fill us with thy holy fire.

3 O holy Father, holy Son,
And Holy Spirit, Three in One,
Thy grace devoutly we implore;

GOD-BEING AND ATTRIBUTES.

HAMBURG. L. M.

ARR, FROM A GREGORIAN CHANT, BY LOWELL MASON.

130

Incomprehensible glory.

1 GOD is the name my soul adores,
The almighty Three, the eternal One:
Nature and grace, with all their powers,
Confess the Infinite Unknown.

2 Thy voice produced the sea and spheres, Bade the waves roar, the planets shine; But nothing like thyself appears

Through all these spacious works of thine.

3 Still restless nature dies and grows; From change to change the creatures run: Thy being no succession knows,

And all thy vast designs are one.

4 A glance of thine runs through the globe, Rules the bright worlds, and moves their frame;

Of light thou form'st thy dazzling robe;
Thy ministers are living flame.

5 How shall polluted mortals dare
To sing thy glory or thy grace?
Beneath thy feet we lie afar,

And see but shadows of thy face.

6 Who can behold the blazing light?
Who can approach consuming flame?
None but thy wisdom knows thy might;
None but thy word can speak thy name.

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132 From everlasting to everlasting.

1 ERE mountains reared their forms sublime,

Or heaven and 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
Each passing moment so to spend,
That we at length with thee may live
Where life and bliss shall never end.

HARRIET AUBER.

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Omnipotence and wisdom.
1 COME, O my soul, in sacred lays,
Attempt thy great Creator's praise:
But O what tongue can speak his fame?
What mortal verse can reach the theme?

2 Enthroned amid the radiant spheres,
He glory like a garment wears;
To form a robe of light divine,
Ten thousand suns around him shine.

3 In all our Maker's grand designs,
Omnipotence, with wisdom, shines;

His works, through all this wondrous frame,
Declare the glory of his name.

4 Raised on devotion's lofty wing,
Do thou, my soul, his glories sing;
And let his praise employ thy tongue,
Till listening worlds shall join the song.

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THOMAS BLACKLOCK.

The Lord is King.

THE Lord is King! lift up thy voice,
O earth, and all ye heavens, rejoice!
From world to world the joy shall ring,
The Lord omnipotent is King.

2 The Lord is King! child of the dust,
The Judge of all the earth is just;
Holy and true are all his ways:
Let every creature speak his praise.

3 He reigns! ye saints, exalt your strains; Your God is King, your Father reigns; And he is at the Father's side,

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1 LORD of all being! throned afar.
Thy glory flames from sun and star;
Center and soul of every sphere,
Yet to each loving heart how near!

2 Sun of our life, thy quickening ray
Sheds on our path the glow of day;
Star of our hope, thy softened light
Cheers the long watches of the night.
3 Our midnight is thy smile withdraw
Cur noontide is thy gracious dawn;
Our rainbow arch thy mercy's sign;
All, save the clouds of sin, are thine!
4 Lord of all life, below, above,
Whose light is truth, whose warmth is lo
Before thy ever-blazing throne
We ask no luster of our own.

5 Grant us thy truth to make us free, And kindling hearts that burn for thee, Till all thy living altars claim

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