1 GREAT First of Beings! mighty Lord Of all this wondrous frame! Produced by thy creating word, The world from nothing came. 2 Thy voice sent forth the high command- And through thy goodness all things stand, 3 Lord! for thy glory shine the whole; For this in course the planets roll, 4 For this the earth its produce yields, And blooming plants adorn the fields, 5 Inspired with praise, our minds pursue That all we think, and all we do, Steele. 2. L. M. Being of God. Ps. civ. Hamburg. 1 THERE is a God, all nature speaks, Through earth, and air, and seas, and skies; 2 The rising sun, serenely bright, Kent. 3. Gracious. H. M. Ex. xxxiv. 6. 1 INDULGENT God! how kind Are all thy ways to me,. Was enmity with thee; Carmathon. Yet now subdued by sovereign grace, They swell beyond my faults, How great their sum, how high they rise, My feet made haste to hell; 4 A monument of grace, A sinner, saved by blood- Watts. 4. L. M. Condescension of God. Rothwell. 1 THY favors, Lord, surprise our souls 3 What canst thou find beneath the poles, 2 Still might he fill his starry throne, And please his ears with Gabriel's songs; And bows to hearken to our tongues. 3 Great God! what poor returns we pay Words are but air, and tongues but clay, Needham. 5. C. M. Lanesboro', The Holiness of God. Ps. cxi. 9. 1 HOLY and reverend is the name Of our eternal King : Thrice holy Lord, the angels cry; 2 Heaven's brightest lamps with him compared, 3 Holy is he in all his works, 4 The deepest rev'rence of the mind, Lift with thy hands a holy heart Whitfield's Col. 6. 11. Portuguese Hymn. 1 THY mercy, my God, is the theme of my song, The joy of my heart, and the boast of my tongue, Thy free grace alone, from the first to the last, Hath won my affections, and bound my soul fast. 2 Without thy sweet mercy I could not live here, Sin soon would reduce me to utter despair; But through thy free goodness my spirits revive, And he that first made me still keeps me alive. 3 The door of thy mercy stands open all day, To the and the needy,who knock by the way; No sinner shall ever be empty sent back, poor Who comes seeking mercy for Jesus' sake. 4 Thy mercy in Jesus exempts me from hell; Its glories I'll sing, and its wonders I'll tell; 'Twas Jesus, my friend, when he hung on the tree, That opened the channel of mercy for me. 5 Great Father of mercies! thy goodness I own, 7. 7. God is love. 1 John, iv. 8. Turin. 1 EARTH, with her ten thousand flowers, Heaven's resplendent countenance; Hath this record-God is love. 2 Sounds among the vales and hills, 3 All the hopes and fears that start Meth. Col. L. M. Old Hundred. God self-existent and immutable. 1 ALL-POWERFUL, self-existent God, 2 Fixed and eternal as thy days, |