Ye angels who stand round the throne.

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Ye children of God, by faith in his Son..

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Ye desolate scenes to your solitude led.
Ye favour'd in Zion, enabled to say.
Ye glitt'ring toys of earth, adieu
Ye humble souls, approach your God
Ye humble souls, complain no more
Ye joyful saints, attend and raise ..

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Ye lambs of Christ's fold, ye weaklings in faith 401
Ye little flock whom Jesus feeds ...
Ye pris'ners of hope, o'erwhelmed with grief 373
Ye saints, proclaim abroad ...

Ye servants of God, your Saviour proclaim.
Ye saints, come meditate the day..

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GOD:

HIS BEING AND ATTRIBUTES.

i.

C. M.

1 FATHER, how wide thy glory shines,
How high thy wonders rise!

Known through the earth by thousand signs,
By thousands through the skies.

2 Those mighty orbs proclaim thy pow'r,
Their motions speak thy skill;
And on the wings of ev'ry hour
We read thy greatness still.

3 Part of thy name divinely stands
On all thy creatures writ;
They shew the labour of thy hands,
Or impress of thy feet.

4 But when we view thy strange design
To save rebellious worms,

Where vengeance and compassion join
In their diviaest forms,

5 Our thoughts are lost in sacred awe;
We love and we adore!

The holy angels never saw
So much of God before!

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6 Here the whole Deity is known!
Nor dares a creature guess
Which of the glories brightest shone,—
The justice or the grace.

7 When we had broke God's holy laws
The dying Son atones:

O the rich myst'ry of his cross!
The triumph of his groans!

8 Now the full glories of the Lamb
Adorn the heav'nly plains;
Bright seraphs learn Immanuel's name,
And try their choicest strains.

9 Soon shall I bear my blissful part
In that immortal song;

Wonder and joy shall tune my heart,
And love inspire my tongue!

2.

1 HOLY as thou, O Lord, is none !
Thy holiness is all thy own;
A drop of that unbounded sea
Is our's-a drop deriv'd from thee.

2 And when thy purity we share,
Thy only glory we declare;

And, humbled into nothing, own-
Holy and pure is God alone.

3 Sole, self-existing God and Lord,
By all the heav'nly host ador'd!
Let all within us bow to thee,
And own thy peerless majesty.

L. M.

4 Thy love unparallel'd confess,

Blest with th' immortal Prince of Peace;
That Rock that never can remove!
That River of eternal love!

3.

1 STAND and adore! how glorious He
That dwells in bright eternity!
We gaze, and we confound our sight,
Plung'd in th' abyss of dazzling light.
2 Thou sacred One! almighty Three!
Great everlasting Mystery!

What lofty numbers shall we frame
Equal to thy stupendous Name?

L. M.

3 Seraphs who, hov'ring round the throne,
Aspire to speak the great Unknown!
Rise higher on your burning wings,
Expressing still more boundless things!
4 You, whose capacious pow'rs survey
Largely beyond our eyes of clay :
Yet, what a narrow portion too
Is seen, or known, or thought by you!
5 How flat your highest praises fall
Below th immense Original!

Weak creatures we, that strive in vain
To reach an uncreated strain!

6 Great God! assist our feeble lays,
Sound forth thine own eternal praise:
A song so vast, a theme so high,
Requires no less than Deity.

1 GREAT God, thy glories shall employ
My sacred awe, my humble joy;
My lips in songs of honour bring
Their tribute to th' eternal King.

2 Earth and the stars and worlds unknow
Depend precarious on his throne;
All nature hangs upon his word,
And grace and glory own their Lord.
3. His sov❜reign pow'r what mortal knows?
If he command who dares oppose?
With strength he girds himself around,
And treads the rebels to the ground.
4 Who shall pretend to teach him skill?
Or guide the counsels of his will?
His wisdom, like a sea divine,
Flows deep and high beyond our line.
5 His name is holy, and his eye
Burns with immortal jealousy;
He hates the sons of pride, and sheds
His fiery vengeance on their heads.
6 The beamings of his piercing sight
Bring dark hypocrisy to light;
Death and destruction naked lie,
And hell uncover'd to his eye.

7 [Th' eternal law before him stands;
His justice with impartial hands
Divides to all their due reward,
Or by the sceptre or the sword.]