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 thine almighty love,
What honours shall we raise?
Not all the raptured songs above
Can render equal praise.
236. The wisdom of God displayed in the harmony
1 FATHER, how wide thy glory shines !
How high thy wonders rise!
Known through the earth by thousand signs,
By thousands through the skies.
2 But when we view thy great design
To save rebellious worms,
Where vengeance and compassion join,
In their divinest forms,
3 Our thoughts are lost in reverend awe,
We love, and we adore;
The first Archangel never saw
So much of God before.
4 Here the whole Deity is known,
Nor dares a creature guess
Which of the glories brightest shone,
The justice or the grace.
5 Now the full glories of the Lamb
Adorn the heavenly plains;
Bright cherubs learn Immanuel's name,
And try their choicest strains.
6 O may I bear some humble part,
In that immortal song;
Wonder and joy shall tune my heart,
And love command my tongue.
1 COME let us lift our joyful eyes
Up to the courts above,
And smile to see our Father there,
Upon a throne of love!
2 Once 'twas a seat of dreadful wrath,
And shot devouring flame;
Our God appear'd consuming fire,
And vengeance was his name.
3 Rich were the drops of Jesus' blood,
That calm'd his frowning face+;
That sprinkled o'er the burning throne,
And turn'd the wrath to grace.
4 Now we may bow before his feet,
And venture near the Lord;
No fiery cherub guards his seat,
Nor double flaming sword.
5 The peaceful gates of heavenly bliss
Are open'd by the Son;
High let us raise our notes of praise,
And reach th' Almighty's throne.
6 To thee ten thousand thanks we bring,
Great Advocate on high;
And glory to the eternal King,
Who lays his anger by.
238. The condescending love of God.
1 THUS saith the high and lofty One,
I sit upon my holy throne;
My name is God, I dwell on high,
Dwell in my own eternity.
2 But I descend to worlds below,
On earth I have a mansion too;
The humble spirit and contrite
Is an abode of my delight.
3 The humble soul my words revive,
I bid the mourning sinner live;
Heal all the broken hearts I find,
And ease the sorrows of the mind.
4 When I contend against their sin,
I make them know how vile they've been;
But should my wrath for ever smoke,
Their souls would sink beneath my stroke.
+ V. 3. It is erroneous thus to represent God as implacable; He himself so loved the world, in the first instance, as to give his only-begotten Son for its redemption.
5 O may thy pardoning grace be nigh,
Lest we should faint, despair, and die;
Thus shall our better thoughts approve
The methods of thy chastening love.
1 BEGIN, my tongue, some heavenly theme,
And speak some boundless thing;
The mighty work, or mightier name,
Of our eternal King.
2 Tell of his wondrous faithfulness,
And sound his power abroad ;
Sing the sweet promise of his grace,
And the performing God.
3 Proclaim salvation from the Lord,
For wretched dying men;
His hand has writ the sacred word,
With an immortal pen.
4 Engraved, as in eternal brass,
The mighty promise shines;
Nor can the powers of darkness 'rase
Those everlasting lines.
5 His every word of grace is strong,
As that which built the skies;
The voice that rolls the stars along,
Speaks all the promises.
240. God's message to man by his anointed, the
1 LET every mortal ear attend,
And every heart rejoice;
The trumpet of the Gospel sounds,
With an inviting voice.
2 Ho! all ye hungry fainting souls,
That feed upon the wind,
And vainly strive, with earthly toys,
To fill an empty mind;
3 Eternal wisdom hath prepared
A soul-reviving feast,
And bids your longing appetites
The rich provision taste.
4 Ho! ye that pant for living streams,
And pine away and die,
Here you may quench your raging thirst,
With springs that never dry.
5 Rivers of love and mercy here,
In a rich ocean join;
Salvation in abundance flows,
Like floods of milk and wine.
6 Great God! the treasures of thy love
Are everlasting mines;
Deep as our helpless miseries are,
And boundless as our sins.
7 The happy gates of Gospel grace
Stand open night and day,
And here we come to seek supplies,
O drive our wants away!
1 GOD is goodness, wisdom, power,
Love him, praise him evermore;
Let us strive, and never cease,
Him in every thing to please.
2 Born for this intent we are,
Our Creator to declare;
God to love, and serve, and praise,
God to honour all our days.
3 Lift we then our hearts to God,
Like the Church above employ'd;
Day and night the angels sing
Praises to their Heavenly King.
4 Him that sitteth on the throne-
Him that died for man t'atone-
God and the triumphant Lamb
They eternally proclaim.
5 Let us then to God aspire,
Rivals of the heavenly choir;
Cherubim our faces wear,
Let us their enjoyments share.
6 Holy, holy, holy Lord,
Live by heaven and earth adored !
Fill'd with Thee, let all things cry
Glory be to God most High.
The beginning of the Creation of God, the author and finisher of
1 ATTEND while God's exalted Son,
Doth his own glories shew;
Behold I sit upon my throne,
Creating all things new.
2 Nature and sin are passed away,
And the old Adam dies;
My hands a new foundation lay,
See the new world arise!
3 I'll be a Sun of Righteousness,
To the new heavens I make;
None, but the new-born heirs of grace,
My glories shall partake.
4 Mighty Redeemer! set me free,
From my old state of sin;
O make my soul alive to thee,
Create new powers within.
5 Renew mine eyes, and form mine ears,
And mould my heart afresh;
Give me new passions, joys, and fears,
And turn the stone to flesh.
6 Far from the regions of the dead,
From sin, and earth, and hell;
In the new world that grace has made,
I would for ever dwell.
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