4. High o'er the earth thy mercy reigns, 5. Be thou exalted, O my GOD! Above the heavens where angels dwell; 18. C. M. The Divine Perfections celebrated. 1. THE glories, LORD! thy works proclaim, Thy word still more reveals thy name, 2. The numerous worlds thy hands have made, 3. Thy righteousness maintains its throne, 4. Thy mercies, far beyond the rounds Thy truth outlives the narrow bounds 5. Unbounded is thy goodness, LORD! 6. Incline us, LORD! as in thy sight, 19. c. M. The Perfections of God. 1. How shall I praise the eternal God, Who can ascend his high abode, 2. The great Invisible-he dwells 3. Those watchful eyes which never sleep, Survey the world around: His wisdom is a boundless deep, Where all our thoughts are drown'd. : 4. Speak we of strength? His arm is strong To him eternal years belong, 5. He knows no shadow of a change, Nor alters his decrees; Firm as a rock his truth remains 20. L. M. Man frail and God eternal. 1. LORD! thou hast been thy children's GoD, Their hope, their refuge, and their trust. 2. Long hadst thou reign'd ere time began; 3. Great Father of eternity! How short are ages in thy sight! 4. Uncertain life, how soon it flies! Dream of an hour, how short our bloom! Like spring's gay verdure now we rise, Cut down ere night to fill the tomb. 5. Teach us to count our shortening days, 21. L. M. God incomprehensible. 1. GREAT GOD! in vain man's narrow view 2. Not the high seraph's mighty thought, Who countless years his GOD has sought, Such wondrous height or depth can find, Or fully trace thy boundless mind. 3. Yet, LORD! thy kindness deigns to show Enough for mortal man to know; While wisdom, goodness, power divine, Through all thy works and conduct shine. 4. Oh may our souls with rapture trace 22. C. M. Man frail and God eternal. 1. O GOD, our help in ages past, 2. Before the hills in order stood, 3. Thy word commands our flesh to dust, Return ye sons of men:' 6 All nations rose from earth at first, And turn to earth again. 4. Like flowery fields the nations stand, 5. O GOD, our help in ages past, 23. L. M. The Immutability of God. .1. ALL-POWERFUL, self-existent God, Who dost o'er all creation reign! Thou wast, and art, and art to come, Through all eternity the same. 2. Fix'd and eternal as thy days, |