11. L. M. Tucker.

Holiness, Justice, and Mercy united....Ps. lxxxv. 10. NFINITE grace! and can it be

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That heav'n's supreme should stoop so low! To visit one so vile as I,

One who has been his bitt'rest foe!

2 Can holiness and wisdom join,
With truth, with justice, and with grace,
To make eternal blessings mine,
And sin, with all its guilt, erase?
3 O love! beyond conception great,
That form'd the vast, stupendous plan!
Where all divine perfections meet
To reconcile rebellious man!

4 There wisdom shines in fullest blaze,
And justice all her rights maintains!
Astonish'd angels stoop to gaze,
While mercy o'er the guilty reigns.
5 Yes, mercy reigns, and justice too-
In Christ harmoniously they meet:
He paid to justice all her due,
And now he fills the mercy-seat.

6 Such are the wonders of our God,
And such th' amazing depths of grace,
To save from wrath's vindictive rod,
The chosen sons of Adam's race.

7 With grateful songs, then let our souls
Surround our gracious Father's throne;
And all between the distant poles
His truth and mercy ever own.

Holiness of God....Isaiah viii. 13.

1 HOLY and rev'rend is the name
Of our eternal King;

Thrice holy Lord, the angels cry-
Thrice holy, let us sing!

[2 Heav'n's brightest lamps, with him compar'd,
Are mean, and look but dim!
The fairest angels have their spots,
When once compar'd with him.}

3 Holy is he in all his works,
And truth is his delight;
But sinners and their wicked ways
Shall perish from his sight.

4 The deepest rev'rence of the mind,
Pay, O my soul, to God;
Lift with thy hands a holy heart,
To his sublime abode.

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5 With sacred awe pronounce his name,
Whom words nor thoughts can reach ;
A broken heart shall please him more
Than the best forms of speech.

Thou, holy God! preserve my soul
From all pollution free;

The pure in heart are thy delight,
And they thy face shall see,

13. C. M. Tate.

Immutability of God....Psalm cii. 25–28.

! THRO' endless years thou art the same,

O thou eternal God!

Ages to come shall know thy name,
And tell thy works abroad.

2 The strong foundations of the earth
Of old by thee were laid;

By thee the beaut'ous arch of heav'n
With matchless skill was made.

3 Soon shall this goodly frame of things,
Form'd by thy pow'rful hand,

Be like a vesture laid aside,

And chang'd at thy command. 4 But thy perfections all divine, Eternal as thy days,

Thro' everlasting ages shine,
With undiminish'd rays.

5 Thy children's children still thy care,
Shall own their father's God-
To latest times thy favor share,
And spread thy praise abroad.

14. L. M. Scott. Incomprehensibility of God....Job xi. 7. 1 WHAT finite pow'r, with ceaseless toil,

Can fathom the eternal mind?

Or who th' Almighty Three and One,
By searching to perfection find?

2 Angels and men in vain may raise
Harmonious, their adoring songs;
The lab'ring thoughts sink down opprest
And praises die upon their tongues.
3 Yet would I lift my trembling voice,
A portion of his ways to sing;
And, mingling with his meanest works,
My humble, grateful tribute bring.

15. C. M. Burder.

Love of God....1 John iv. 8.

1 COME, ye that know and fear the Lord, And raise your soul above;

Let ev'ry heart and voice accord,
To sing, that God is love.

2 This precious truth his word declares,
And all his mercies prove;

Jesus, the gift of gifts appears,
To shew that God is love.

8 Behold! his patience lengthen'd out,
To those who from him rove;
And calls effectual reach their hearts,
To teach them, God is love.
4 The work begun is carry'd on,
By pow'r from heav'n above;
And ev'ry step, from first to last,
Proclaims, that God is love.

[5 And O that you, whose harden'd hearts
No fears of hell can move,
May hear the gospel's mildest voice,
That tells you, God is love.]

6 Thousands, once vile and base as you,
Surround the throne above;

The grace that chang'd, has tun'd their hearts
To sing, that God is love.

7 O may we all, while here below,
This best of blessings prove;

'Till warmer hearts, in brighter worlds,
Shall shout, that God is love.

16. C. M. Kent.

Love of God, or Christ's death the effect, not the cause, of God's love to his chosen....John iii. 15.

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WAS not to make Jehovah's love
Towards the sinner flame,

That Jesus, from his throne above,

A suff'ring man became.

2 'Twas not the death which he endur'd,
Nor all the pangs he bore,
That God's eternal love procur'd;
For God was love before.

3 He lov'd the world of his elect,
With love surpassing thought;
Nor will his mercy e'er neglect
The souls so dearly bought.
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4 The warm affections of his breast
Towards his children burn;
And in this love he'll ever rest,
Nor from his oath return.

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17. E. M. Blacklock.

Majesty of God....Psalm civ.
OME, O my soul, in sacred lays,
Attempt thy great Creator's praise

COME, O

But O, what tongue can speak his fame!
What mortal verse can reach the theme!
2 Enthron'd amidst the radient spheres,
He glory like a garment wears;
To form a robe of light divine,

Ten thousand suns around him shine.
13 Before his throne a glitt'ring band
Of cherubs and of seraphs stand;
Ethereal spirits, who, in flight,
Outwing the active rays of light.]
4 To God all nature owes its birth;
He form'd this pond'rous globe of earth;
He rais'd the glorious arch on high,
And measur'd out the azure sky.

5 In all our Maker's grand designs,
Omnipotence with wisdom shines;
His works, thro' all this wond'rous frame,
Bear the great impress of his name.
6 Rais'd on devotion's lofty wing,
Do thou, my soul, his glories sing;
And let his praise employ thy tongue,
'Till list'ning worlds applaud the song!

18. L. M. Scott.

Mercies of God inestimable....Psalm cxxxix. 17, 18. 'HE glitt'ring spangles of the sky....

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The sands which spread th' extended shore,