4 Decks the spring with flowers the field? Harvest rich doth autumn yield? Giver of all good below!

Lord! from thee these blessings flow.

5 Who thy wonders can express?
All thy thoughts are fathomless :
Lord, thou art most great, most high!
Such from all eternity!

11. 82. 167. 352. 367.

56.

C. M.

WATTS.

God above all praise.

1 WHO dares attempt the Eternal name,
With notes of mortal sound?
Dangers and glories guard the theme,
And spread despair around.

2 Celestial King! our spirits lie,
Trembling beneath thy feet,
And wish, and cast a longing eye,
To reach thy lofty seat.

3 When shall we see the great unknown,
And in thy presence stand?
Reveal the splendours of thy throne,
But shield us with thy hand.

4 In thee what endless wonders meet!
What various glory shines!
The crossing rays too fiercely beat
Upon our fainting minds.

5 Created powers, how weak they be!
How short our praises fall!

So much akin to nothing we,
And thou the Eternal All!

4. 44. 69. 207.

57.

L. M.

God above all praise.

WATTS

1 ETERNAL Power! whose high abode
Becomes the grandeur of a God;

Infinite length 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 dust 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 men have learned 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.

1 YE weak inhabitants of clay! Ye trifling insects of a day!

DODDRIDGE.

Low in your native dust bow down,
Before the Eternal's awful throne.

2 With trembling heart, with solemn eye,
Behold Jehovah seated high;

And search what worthy sacrifice

Your hands can give, your thoughts devise.

3 Let Lebanon its cedars bring,
To blaze before the sovereign king;
And all the beasts that on it feed,
As victims at his altar bleed;

4 Loud let ten thousand trumpets sound.
And call remotest nations round;
And while his praise unites their tongues,
Let angels echo back the songs:

5 The drop that from the bucket falls,
The dust that hangs upon the scales,
Is more to sky, and earth, and sea,
Than all this pomp, O God, to thee.

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59.

L. M.

Doxology.

BUTCHER.

IMMORTAL praise to God be given,
By all in earth and all in heaven;
The First, the Last, who reigns alone,
And fills an undivided throne.

60.

19. 23. 113. 219.

C. M.

Doxology.

ESTLIN.

1 THOU art the first, and thou the last;
Time centres all in thee,

The almighty God who was, and is,
And evermore shall be.

2 To thee let every tongue be praise
And every heart be love,

All grateful honours paid on earth,
And nobler songs above.

21. 49. 89. 223.

61.

4 T. 3.

JOHN FAWCETT.

Universal praise to God.

1 PRAISE to thee, thou great Creator!
Praise be thine from every tongue!
Join, my soul, with every creature,
Join the universal song.
Father, source of all compassion!
Free unbounded grace is thine:
Hail the God of our salvation!
Praise him for his love divine.

2 For ten thousand blessings given,
For the hope of future joy,

Sound his praise through earth and heaven, Sound Jehovah's praise on high.

Joyfully on earth adore him,

Till in heaven our song we raise There enraptured fall before him, Lost in wonder, love, and praise.

;

PIERPONT.

10 THOU, to whom, in ancient time,
The lyre of Hebrew bards was strung,
Whom kings adored in song sublime,
And prophets praised with glowing tongue!

2 Not now on Zion's height alone
The favoured worshipper may dwell,
Nor where, at sultry noon, thy Son
Sat weary by the patriarch's well.
3 From every place below the skies,
The grateful song, the fervent prayer,
The incense of the heart, may rise
To heaven, and find acceptance there.

4 To thee shall age, with snowy hair, And strength and beauty, bend the knee, And childhood lisp, with reverent air, Its praises and its prayers to thee. 5 O Thou, to whom, in ancient time, The lyre of prophet bards was strung! To thee, at last, in every clime

Shall temples rise, and praise be sung.

63.

47. 77. 226.

L. M.

All nations shall serve him.

WATTS.

1 YE nations round the earth, rejoice Before the Lord, your sovereign king; Serve him with cheerful heart and voice, With all your tongues his glory sing.

2 The Lord is God; 'tis he alone

Doth life and breath and being give;
We are his work, and not our own,
The sheep that on his pastures live.
3 Enter his gates with songs of joy,
With praises to his courts repair;
And make it your divine employ

To pay your
4 The Lord is good, the Lord is kind;
Great is his grace, his mercy sure;
And the whole race of man shall find
His truth from
age to age endure.

thanks and honours there.

64.

23. 77. 92. 219.

4.3. I. 4.2.

Praise from all men.

1 ALL from the sun's uprise,

Unto his setting rays,

Resound in jubilees

The great Jehovah's praise.

SANDYS.