2 With feeble light, and half obscure,
Poor mortals Thy arrangements view;
Not knowing that the least are sure,
And the mysterious just and true.
1 HIGH in the heavens, eternal God,
Thy goodness in full glory shines;
Thy truth shall break through every cloud
That veils and darkens Thy designs.
2 Thy providence is kind and large,
Both man and beast Thy bounty share ;
The whole creation is Thy charge,
But saints are Thy peculiar care.
3 Life, like a fountain, rich and free,
Springs from the presence of the Lord;
And in His light O may we see
The glories promised in His word!
God's Dealings Mysterious.
1 GREAT God of Providence! Thy ways
Are hid from mortal sight;
Wrapped in impenetrable shades,
Or clothed with dazzling light.
2 The wondrous methods of Thy grace
Evade the human eye;
The nearer we attempt t' approach,
The farther off they fly.
3 But in the world of bliss above,
Where Thou dost ever reign,
These mysteries shall be all unveiled,
And not a doubt remain.
4 The Sun of Righteousness shall there
His brightest beams display,
And not a hovering cloud obscure
That never-ending day.
ATTRIBUTES OF GOD.
God's Eternal Dominion.
1 GREAT God! how infinite art Thou!
What worthless worms 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 Nature and time quite naked lie
To Thine immense survey,
From the formation of the sky
To the great burning day.
4 Eternity, with all its years,
Stands present in Thy view;
To Thee there's nothing old appears;
Great God! there's nothing new.
5 Our lives through various scenes are drawn, And vexed with trifling cares,
While Thine eternal thought moves on
Thine undisturbed affairs.
6 Great God! how infinite art Thou!
What worthless worms are we!
Let the whole race of creatures bow
And pay their praise to Thee.
1 Now let our infant voices raise
(By Him with
power endued)
To God a hymn of grateful praise,
And sing that God is good.
2 He made the sea, the mountains high,
The sun's refulgent flood;
And all beneath His azure sky
Tells us that God is good.
3 Our rosy health and bounding limbs,
Our pleasures and our food,
Are freely given to us by Him,
And prove that God is good.
4 And all His ways of providence,
Though oft misunderstood,
When reason bows to flesh and sense,
Proclaim that God is good.
5 But if we taste His sov'reign grace,
And His salvation prove,
Eternal mercy we shall trace,
And sing that God is love!
1 SHALL foolish, weak, short-sighted man Beyond bright seraphs go,
The great Almighty God explain,
Or to perfection know?
2 His attributes divinely soar
Above the creature's sight;
And prostrate seraphim adore
The glorious Infinite.
3 Jehovah's everlasting days,
They cannot numbered be;
Incomprehensible the space
Of thine immensity.
4 Thy wisdom's depths by reason's line
In vain we strive to sound,
Or stretch our labouring thoughts t' assign
Omnipotence a bound.
5 The brightness of Thy glories leaves
Description far below;
Nor man nor angel's heart conceives
How deep Thy mercies flow.
6 Thy love is most unsearchable,
And dazzles all above;
They gaze, but cannot count or tell
The treasures of Thy love.
God Unchangeable.
1 THROUGH endless years Thou art the same, O Thou eternal God!
Ages to come shall know Thy name,
And tell Thy works abroad.
2 The strong foundations of the earth
Of old by Thee were laid;
Thy hands the beauteous arch of heaven With wondrous skill have made. 3 Soon shall this goodly frame of things, Formed by Thy powerful hand, Be like a vesture laid aside,
And changed at Thy command. 4 Thy bright perfections all divine, Eternal as Thy days,
Through everlasting ages shine,
With undiminished rays.
God Knoweth us.
1 THOU God of justice, power, and grace,
Who would not fear Thy name?
Thine omnipresence fills all space,
Thine eyes through nature flame.
2 No secret thought can ever shun
The notice of Thine eye;
From Thee concealed no act be done,
For Thou art ever nigh.
3 Thine eye surveys the ground I tread,
Whene'er I rove abroad;
Within the curtains of my bed
I lie in sight of God.
No Hiding from God.
1 LITTLE children should obey
Everything their parents [teachers] say ;
God is watching all day long,
Whether they do right or wrong.
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