5 From earth's low margin to the skies,
Now, bids the pregnant vapours rise;
The lightning's pallid sheet expands;
And glads with showers the furrow'd lands;
6 Now, from thy storehouse, built on high,
Permits the imprison'd winds to fly,
And, guided by thy will, to sweep
The surface of the foaming deep:
7 Him praise-the everlasting King,
And mercy's unexhausted spring;
Haste, to his name your voices rear ;
What name like his the heart can cheer?
MERRICK'S PSALMS,

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C. M. Charmouth 28. Ellenborough 170.

The Omnipresence and Omniscience of God. Psalm cxxxix.

1 LORD! thou, with an unerring beam,
Surveyest all my powers:

My rising steps are watch'd by thee!
By thee, my resting hours.

2 My thoughts, scarce struggling into birth,
Great God, are known to thee:
Abroad, at home, still I'm inclos'd
With thine immensity.

3 To thee, the labyrinths of life
In open view appear;

Nor steals a whisper from my lips
Without thy list'ning ear.

4 Behind I glance, and thou art there;
Before me, shines thy name;

And 'tis thy strong Almighty hand
Sustains my tender frame.

5 Such knowledge mocks the vain essays
Of my astonish'd mind;

Nor can my reason's soaring eye
Its towering summit find.

PAUSE.

6 Where from thy Spirit shall I stretch
The pinions of my flight,

Or where, through Nature's spacious range,
Shall I elude thy sight?

7 Scal'd I the skies, the blaze divine
Would overwhelm my soul:
Plung'd I to hell, there should I hear
Thine awful thunders roll.

8 If on a morning's darting ray
With matchless speed I rode,
And flew to the wild lonely shore,
That bounds the ocean's flood,-
9 Thither thine hand, all-present God!
Must guide the wondrous way,
And thine Omnipotence support
The fabric of my clay.

10 Should I involve myself around
With clouds of tenfold night,

The clouds would shine like blazing noon
Before thy piercing sight.

11 The beams of noon, the midnight hour, 'Are both alike to thee:

may I ne'er provoke that "power
From which I cannot flee!'

9 C. M.

C. M. Abridge 201. Canterbury 199. Divine Sovereignty; or, God's Dóminion and Decrees. EEP silence, all created things;

1 KE

And wait your Maker's nod:

My soul stands trembling, while she sings
The honours of her God.

` 2 Life, death, and hell, and worlds unknown Hang on his firm decree :

He sits on no precarious throne,

Nor borrows leave TO BE.

3 Chain'd to his throne, a volume lies, With all the fates of men,

With every angel's form and size,
Drawn by th' eternal pen.

4 His providence unfolds the book,
And makes his councils shine;
Each opening leaf, and every stroke
Fulfils some deep design.

5 [Here, he exalts neglected worms
To sceptres and a crown:

And there, the following page he turns,
And treads the monarch down.

6 Not Gabriel asks the reason why;
Nor God the reason gives;
Nor dare the favourite angel pry
Between the folded leaves.]

7 My God, I would not long to see
My fate with curious eyes,
What gloomy lines are writ for me,
Or what bright scenes may rise;
8 In thy fair book of life and grace,
O may I find my name,
Recorded in some humble place,
Beneath my
Lord the Lamb!

WATTS'S LYRIC POEMS.

10 7's. Cookham 36. Alcester 213.

The Majesty of God.

1 GLORY to th' eternal King,

Clad in majesty supreme!

Let all heaven his praises sing,
Let all worlds his power proclaim.

2 Through eternity he reigns

In unbounded realms of light; He the universe sustains

As an atom in his sight.

3 Suns on suns through boundless space,

With their systems move or stand;

Or, to occupy their place,

New orbs rise at his command.

4 Kingdoms flourish, empires fall,
Nations live and nations die,
All forms nothing, nothing all-
At the movement of his eye.
5.0, let my transported soul
Ever on his glories gaze!
Ever yield to his controul,

Ever sound his lofty praise! B. FRANCIS.

11 L. M. Ulverston 179. Islington 40. Gould's 272.

The Wisdom of God.

1 WAIT, O my soul, thy Maker's will; Tumultuous passions, all be still;

Nor let a murmuring thought arise;
His ways are just, his councils wise.
2 He in the thickest darkness dwells,
Performs his work, the cause conceals;
But tho' his methods are unknown,
Judgment and truth support his throne.
3 In heaven, and earth, and air, and seas,
He executes his firm decrees;
And by his saints it stands confest
That what he does is ever best.

4 Wait then, my soul, submissive wait,
Prostrate before his awful seat;
And, 'midst the terrors of his rod,
Trust in a wise and gracious God. BEDDOME.

12 (First Part.) C.M. Liverpool 83. Exeter 4.

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.

STEELE.

12 (Second Part) C. M. Staughton 264.

Liverpool 83.

God is Love. 1 John iv. 8.

1 AMID the splendours of thy state, My God, thy Love appears

With the soft radiance of the moon

Among a thousand stars.

2 Nature through all her ample round

Thy boundless Power proclaims,
And, in melodious accents speaks
The Goodness of thy names.

3 Thy justice, holiness, and truth,..
Our solemn awe excite;.

But the sweet charms of sovereign grace
O'erwhelm us with delight.

4 Sinai, in clouds, and smoke, and fire,
Thunders thy dreadful name;

But Sion sings, in melting notes,
The honours of the Lamb.