4 Wherefore in me reveal the grace, Which present sure salvation brings; So shall I with thy people praise
The Lord of hosts, the King of kings, The pard'ning God, th' almighty Son, Return'd to thine eternal throne.
HOU shalt not tempt the Lord thy God:
The Lord thy God that Spirit is,
Who hath on man his grace bestow'd;
Whose tender mercies never cease;
But still he doth with sinners stay,
Though griev'd and tempted every day.
2 Transgressors of his righteous law
By sin offend his glorious eyes;
By sin we urge him to withdraw,
And force his ling'ring wrath to rise;
Till from his face he vows t' expel,
And leave us to our choice in hell.
3 Yet spare us, O thou God supreme,
Before we fill our measure up,
Thy true Divinity blaspheme,
And quench with thee our latest hope:
Thy Godhead on the rebels prove,
And
conquer us at last by love.
4 Thy living law of love reveal,
And write it in our inward parts,
Thou God of love unsearchable,
Set up thy kingdom in our hearts,
Thy kingdom in our hearts maintain,
And we shall never sin again.
HITHER shall a creature run?
From Jehovah's Spirit fly?
How Jehovah's presence shun,
Screen'd from his all-seeing eye?
Holy Ghost, before thy face,
Where shall I myself conceal?
Thou art God in every place,
God incomprehensible.
2 If to heaven I take my flight,
With Beatitude unknown,
Filling all the realms of light,
There thou sittest on thy throne!
If to hell I could retire,
Gloomy pit of endless pains;
There is the consuming fire,
There almighty vengeance reigns..
3 If the morning's wings I gain,
Fly to earth's remotest bound;
Could I hid from thee remain,
In a world of waters drown'd?
Leaving lands and seas behind,
Could I the Omniscient leave?
There thy quicker hand would find,
There arrest thy fugitive.
4 Cover'd by the darkest shade,
Should I hope to lurk unknown;
By a sudden light bewray'd,
By an uncreated Sun;
Naked at the noon of night,
Should I not to thee appear?
Forc'd to acknowledge in thy sight.
God is light, and God is here!
FATHER of mercies, attend,
And suffer a wretch to complain;
O Jesus, a sinner befriend,
Opprest with the weight of my chain: O pitiful Spirit of Love;
The God whom I fain would adore; My burthen, appear, and remove, Thy favour and image restore.
2 Thou hear'st the unspeakable groan,
Which heaves in a sorrowful heart;
Till Thou, whom I never have known,
The blissful assurance impart ;
The light of thy countenance show;
With heavenly evidence shine,
And bid me in liberty go,
In peace, and affiance divine.
3 Come then to thy creature, and tell
The secret I cannot explore,
Thy riches of mercy reveal,
Thy love's inexhaustible store;
Three mystical Persons in One,
The truth of thy Godhead attest,
Jehovah, the Father, the Son,
And Spirit, abide in my breast.
While yet I am calling, appear
The end of my trouble and pain:
Assur'd of a Trinity here,
I rise from my ruins again;
I know my Redeemer, who gives
A sinner his glory to see;
And all the Divinity lives
Eternally present in me.
GOD EXALTED ABOVE ALL PRAISE.
TERNAL Power, whose high abode
Becomes the grandeur of a God;
Infinite lengths, beyond the bounds
Where stars revolve their little rounds:
2 Thee, while the first archangel sings,
He hides his face behind his wings:
And ranks of shining thrones around
Fall worshipping, and spread the ground.
3 Lord, what shall earth and ashes do?
We would adore our Maker too;
From sin and dust. to thee we cry,
The great, the holy, and the high.
4 Earth from afar hath heard thy fame, And worms have learnt to lisp thy name; But, O the glories of thy mind
Leave all our soaring thoughts behind. 5 God is in heaven, and men below; Be short our tunes; our words be few! A sacred reverence checks our songs, And praise sits silent on our tongues.
NOVEREIGN, everlasting Lord,
How excellent thy Name!
Held in being by thy word,
Thee all thy works proclaim:
Through this earth thy glories shine,
Through those dazzling worlds above;
All confess the Source divine,
The' Almighty God of Love!
2 Thou God of power and grace,
Whom highest heavens adore,
Callest babes to sing thy praise,
And manifest thy power:
Lo! they in thy strength go on,
Lo! on all thy foes they tread,
Cast the dire accuser down,
And bruise the serpent's head.
3 Yet when I survey the skies
And planets as they roll;
Wonder dims my aching eyes,
And swallows up my soul,
Moon and stars so wide display,
Chaunts their Maker's praise so loud;
Pour insufferable day,
And draw me up to God!
4 WHAT is man, that thou, O Lord,
Hast such respect to him;
Comes from heaven the' incarnate Word,
His creatures to redeem!
Wherefore wouldst thou stoop so low?
Who the mystery shall explain?
God is flesh, and lives below,
And dies for wretched man!
5 Jesus, his Redeemer, dies,
The sinner to restore;
Falls that man again may rise,
And stand as heretofore:
Foremost of created things,
Head of all thy works he stood,
Nearest the great King of kings,
And little less than God!*
6 Him with glorious majesty
Thy grace vouchsaf'd to crown;
Transcript of the One in Three,
He in thine image shone:
All thy works for him were made,
All did to his sway submit;
Fishes, birds, and beasts obey'd,
And bow'd beneath his feet.
7 Sovereign, everlasting Lord,
How excellent thy name!
Held in being by thy word,
Thee all thy works proclaim: Through this earth thy glories shine, Through those dazzling worlds above,
All confess the Source divine,
The' Almighty God of Love!
So it is in the Hebrew.
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