3 How large his tender mercies are!
How wide his power extends!
On his beneficence and care
The universe depends.

4 Come, and with humble souls adore ;
Come, bow before his face:

O may the creatures of his power
Be children of his grace!

12. P. M.

Solemn Adoration of Him who filleth all Things with his Presence.

O! GOD is here: let us adore, And humbly bow before his face; Let all within us feel his power,

Let all within us seek his grace;

Who know his power, his grace who prove,
Serve him with awe, with rev'rence love.
2 Lo! GOD is here: him, day and night,
United choirs of angels sing;

To him, enthroned above all height,

Heaven's host their noblest praises bring:
Disdain not, LORD! our meaner song,
Who praise thee with a falt'ring tongue.

3 Being of beings! may our praise

Thy courts with grateful incense fill ;
Still may we stand before thy face,
Still hear and do thy sov'reign will:
To thee may all our thoughts arise,
A pure and holy sacrifice.

13. s. M.

Solemn Call to Worship.

COME, sound his praise abroad
And hymns of glory sing;

JEHOVAH is the sovereign GoD,
The universal King,

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He form'd the deeps unknown;

He gave the seas their bound;
The watery worlds are all his own,
And all the solid ground.

3 Come, worship at his throne;
Come, bow before the LORD;
We are his works and his alone;
He form'd us by his word.

4 To day attend his voice;
No more provoke his rod;

Come make his heavenly paths your choice,
And own your gracious GOD.

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Thus you the joys will share,
Which from devotion rise:

And every day your souls prepare
For bliss, which never dies.

14. P. M.

Eternal Praise to God.

I E'LL praise our Maker with our breath;
And, when we've pass'd the vale of death,
Praise shall employ our nobler powers:
Our days of praise shall ne'er be past,
While life, and thought, and being last,
Or immortality endures.

2 Happy the man whose hopes rely
On nature's GOD: He made the sky,

And earth, and seas, with all their train;
Ilis truth for ever stands secure ;

He saves the oppress'd; he feeds the poor;
And none shall find his promise vain.

3 The LORD hath sight to give the blind;
The LORD supports the sinking mind;
He sends the contrite spirit peace;

He helps the stranger in distress,
The widow and the fatherless,

And grants the prisoner sweet release.

4 He loves the good, he knows them well;
His love their joyful lips can tell;

Their gracious GOD for ever reigns:
Let every tongue, let every age,
In this exalted work engage :
Praise him in everlasting strains.

15. c. M.

The Divine Perfections celebrated.

1 WITH reverence let the saints appear,

And bow before the LORD;

His high commands with reverence hear,
And own his sovereign word.

2 How wise, O GOD! thy counsels are !
How bright thy glories shine!

Thy power is great beyond compare ;
No truth so firm as thine.

3 Heaven, earth, and sea, confess thy hand;

Thou bidst the vapours rise;

Lightning and storms at thy command,
Sweep through the sounding skies.

4 Thy voice can raging winds controul,
And rule the boisterous deep;
Thou bidst the sleeping billows roll,
The rolling billows sleep.

5 The northern pole, and southern, rest
On thy supporting hand;
Darkness and day, from east to west,
Move round at thy command.

6 Justice and judgment are thy throne,
Yet boundless is thy grace;

While truth and mercy joined in one,
Anvite us near thy face.

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16. L. M.

The Divine Perfections celebrated.

TO GOD, the great, the ever-bless'd, Let songs of honour be address'd; His boundless wisdom, power, and grace, Command our awe, invite our praise. 2 To him all nature owes its birth; He formed this ponderous globe of earth; He raised the glorious arch on high, And measured out the azure sky,

3 'Tis he, who bids the tempest rise,

And rolls the thunder through the skies;
His voice the elements obey;

Wide o'er the earth extends his sway.

4 In every work and way divine.
Omnipotence and wisdom shine;
And goodness fixes still the end,
To which they all unvarying tend.
5 His power we trace on every side;
Oh may his wisdom be our guide;
And while we live, and when we die,
May his almighty love be nigh.

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17. L. M.

The Divine Perfections celebrated. E thou exalted, O my God!

BE

Above the heavens where angels dwell;
Thy power on earth be known abroad,
And land to land thy wonders tell.

2 The earth, and stars, and worlds unknown,
Were formed by thy almighty word;
All things exist through thee alone;
All nature owns thee for its Lord.

3 In thee, O GOD! are all the springs
Of boundless love and grace unknown;
All the rich gifts which nature brings,
Are gifts descending from thy throne.

4 High o'er the earth thy mercy reigns.
And reaches to the utmost sky:
Thy truth to endless years remains,
Though lower worlds dissolve and die.
5 Be thou exalted, O my GOD!
Above the heavens where angels dwell;
Thy power on earth be known abroad,
And land to land thy wonders tell.

18. c. M.

The Divine Perfections celebrated. 1 THE glories, LORD! thy works proclaim, Our pious wonder raise ;

Th word still more reveals thy name,
And more exalts thy praise.

2 The numerous worlds thy hands have made,
Thy power almighty teach;
The plans thy forming wisdom laid,
Through endless ages reach.

3 Thy righteousness maintains its throne,
Though mountains sink to dust;
Thy judgments are a deep unknown,
Yet always wise and just.

4 Thy mercies, far beyond the rounds
Of earth and heaven, extend ;
Thy truth outlives the narrow bounds
Where time and nature end.

5 Unbounded is thy goodness, LORD!
How bright its wonders shine!
Of present, past, and future good,
The glory all be thine.

6 Incline us, LORD! as in thy sight,
To tread thy holy ways;

And all our noblest powers unite,
To celebrate thy praise.