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, O God! to Thee.
P.M.-The Pardoning Grace of God. Micah vii. 18. 1 GREAT God of wonders! all thy ways Are matchless, godlike, and divine; But the fair glories of thy grace
More godlike and unrivall'd shine.
Who is a pardoning God like thee?
Or who has grace so rich and free?
2 Crimes of such horror to forgive,
Such guilty, daring worms to spare;
This is thy grand prerogative,
And none shall in the honour share:
Who is a pardoning God like thee?
Or who has grace so rich and free?
3 Angels and men resign your claim
To pity, mercy, love, and grace,
These glories crown Jehovah's name
With an incomparable blaze:
Who is a pardoning God like thee?
Or who has grace so rich and free?
4 In wonder lost, with trembling joy,
We take the pardon of our God,
Pardon for crimes of deepest dye:
A pardon bought with Jesus' blood:
Who is a pardoning God like thee?
Or who has grace so rich and free?
this strange, this matchless
This godlike miracle of love,
Fill the whole earth with grateful praise,
And all the angel choirs above:
Who is a pardoning God like thee?
Or who has grace so rich and free?
C.M.-The Goodness of God. Nahum i. 7.
1 YE humble souls approach your God,
With songs of sacred praise,
For he is good, immensely good,
And kind are all his ways.
2 All nature owns his guardian care,
In him we live and move;
But nobler benefits declare
The wonders of his love.
3 He gave his Son, his only Son,
To ransom rebel worms;
"Tis here he makes his goodness known In its diviner forms.
4 To this dear refuge, Lord, we come;
'Tis here our hope relies;
A safe defence, a peaceful home,
When storms of trouble rise.
5 Thine eye beholds with kind regard,
The souls who trust in thee;
Their humble hope thou wilt reward
With bliss divinely free.
6 Great God to thy almighty love
What honours shall we raise?
Not all the raptur'd songs above,
Can render equal praise.
L.M.-Divine Goodness. Ps. xxxiv. 8, 9.
1 TRIUMPHANT Lord, thy goodness reigns
Through all the wide celestial plains;
And its full streams redundant flow
Down to the abodes of men below.
2 Through nature's works its glories shine;
The cares of providence are thine;
And grace erects our ruin'd frame
A fairer temple to thy name.
30 give to every human heart
To taste and feel how good thou art;
With grateful love and reverend fear,
To know how blest thy children are.
4 Let nature burst into a song;
Ye echoing hills the notes prolong;
Earth, seas, and stars, your anthems raise,
All vocal with your Maker's praise.
5 Ye saints, with joy the theme pursue;
Its sweetest notes belong to you;
Chose by this condescending King,
For ever round his throne to sing.
L.M.-God is a Spirit. John iv. 24. 1 THOU art, O God, a Spirit pure, Invisible to mortal eyes:
The immortal and the eternal King,
The great, the good, the only wise.
2 Whilst nature changes, and her works
Corrupt, decay, dissolve, and die,
Thy essence pure no change shall see,
Secure of immortality.
3 Thou great invisible! what hand
Can draw thy image, spotless, fair?
To what in heaven, to what on earth,
Can men the immortal King compare?
4 Let stupid heathens frame their gods
Of gold and silver, wood and stone,
Our's is the God that made the heavens;
Jehovah he, and God alone.
5 My soul, thy purest homage pay,
In truth and spirit him adore;
More shall this please than sacrifice,
Than outward forms delight him more.
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L.M.-"There is none holy as the Lord." 1 Sam, ii. 2.
1 HOLY as Thee, O Lord, is none!
Thy holiness is all thy own;
A drop of that unbounded sea
Is ours, 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.
C.M.-" Gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and
1 THY ceaseless, unexhausted love,
Unmerited and free,
Delights our evil to remove,
And helps our misery.
2 Thou waitest to be gracious still,
Thou dost with sinners bear:
That sav'd, we may thy goodness feel,
And all thy grace declare.
3 Thy goodness and thy truth to me,
To every soul abound:
A vast unfathomable sea,
Where all our thoughts are drown'd.
4 Its streams the whole creation reach,
So plenteous is the store;
Enough for all, enough for each,
Enough for evermore.
5 Faithful, O Lord, thy mercies are;
A rock that cannot move:
A thousand promises declare
Thy constancy of love.
6 Throughout the universe it reigns,
Unalterably sure;
And while the truth of God remains,
The goodness must endure.
C.M.-The Excellency of the Word of God.
1 FATHER of mercies! in thy word
What endless glory shines!
For ever be thy name ador'd
For these celestial lines.
2 Here may the wretched sons of want
Exhaustless riches find:
Riches above what earth can grant,
And lasting as the mind.
3 Here the Redeemer's welcome voice
Spreads heavenly peace around;
And life and everlasting joys
Attend the blissful sound.
4 O may these heavenly pages be
My ever dear delight;
And still new beauties may I see,
And still increasing light.
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