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Our souls with vast amazement fill,
And speak the builder-GOD.

5 But still, the wonders of thy grace
Our softer passions move;

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Pity divine, in Jesus' face,
We see, adore, and love.

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HYMN 13, C. M.

God's eternal Dominion.

REAT God! how infinite art thou!
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Let the whole race of creatures bow,
And pay their praise to thee.
2 Thy throne eternal ages stood,
Ere seas or stars were made:
Thou art the ever-living God,
Were all the nations dead.
3 Eternity, with all its years,

Stands present in thy view;

To thee there's nothing old appears--
Great God! there's nothing new.

4 Our lives through various scenes are drawn,
And vexed with trifling cares;

While thine eternal thought, moves on
Thine undisturbed affairs.

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Let the whole race of creatures bow,
And pay their praise to thee.

HYMN 14, H. M.

Praise from all Creation.

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The honors of your God;

Touch every tuneful string,

And sound his name abroad:
Come, pour the trembling notes along,
And swell the grand immortal song.

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Your joyful voices raise;
Inhabitants of earth!

Your great Creator praise :

Let your hosannas joyful rise,

And shake the earth, and pierce the skies.

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And speak his power divine:
Let every hill and every vale
Re-echo with the sacred tale.
4 Let every creature sing

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The honors of our God,
Touch every tuneful string,

And spread his praise abroad:
Come, pour the trembling notes along,
And swell the universal song.

HYMN 15, L. M.

Majesty of God.

COME, O my soul! in sacred lays,

Attempt thy great Creator's praise;
But Oh! what tongue can speak his fame?
What mortal verse can reach the theme?
2 Enthroned amidst the radiant spheres,
He glory, like a garment, wears;
To form a robe of light divine,

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His works, through all his wondrous frame,
Bear the great impress of his name.

4 Raised on devotion's lofty wing,
Do thou, my soul! his glories sing;
And let his praise employ thy tongue,
Till listening worlds repeat the song.

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HYMN 16, 7s.

Praise for temporal Mercies.

PRAISE to God!-immortal praise,
For the love that crowns our days:
Bounteous source of every joy!

Let thy praise our tongues employ.

2 All that spring, with bounteous hand,
Scatters o'er the smiling land;-

All that liberal autumn pours
From her rich, o'erflowing stores:

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Whence our sweetest comforts flow;
These, through all my happy days,
Claim my cheerful songs of praise.
4 Lord! to thee my soul should raise
Grateful, never-ending praise;
And, when every blessing 's flown,
Love thee for thyself alone.

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HYMN 17, S. M

Praise to the Creator

ALMIGHTY Maker, God!

How wondrous is thy name!
Thy glories how diffused abroad,
Through all creation's frame!

2 Nature, in every dress,

Her humble homage pays;
And does, a thousand ways, express
Her undissembled praise.

3 My soul would rise and sing
Her great Creator too;

Fain would my tongue adore my King,
And pay the homage due.

4 Let joy and worship spend
The remnant of my days,
And oft to God my soul ascend,
In grateful songs of praise.

HYMN 18, H. M.
Rejoicing in God.

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Your great Preserver, raise,
Ye creatures of his hand!

Your highest notes of praise :
Let every voice

Proclaim his power,

His name adore,

And loud rejoice.

2 Let every creature join

To celebrate his name,

And all their various powers

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1 YE humble souls! approach your God,

With songs of sacred praise;
For he is good, supremely 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

'T is here he makes his goodness known
In its diviner forms.

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A safe defence, a peaceful home,
When storms of trouble rise.

5 Thine eye beholds, with kind regard,
The souls that trust in thee:
Their humble hope thou wilt reward,
With bliss divinely free.

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What honors shall we raise?
Not all th' angelic songs above
Can render equal praise.

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HYMN 20, C. M.

The Glory of God in Creation.

THE God of nature and of grace
In all his works appears;

His goodness through the earth we trace,
His grandeur in the spheres.

2 Behold this fair and fertile globe,
By him in wisdom planned!
'T was he who girded, like a robe,
The ocean round the land.

3 Lift to the arch of heaven your eye;
Thither his path pursue;

His glory, boundless as the sky,
O'erwhelms the wondering view.
4 How excellent, O Lord! thy name,
In all creation's lines!

Spread through eternity, thy fame
With rising lustre shines.

5 These lower works that swell thy praise,

High as our thoughts can tower,
Are but a portion of thy ways,—
The hiding of thy power.

6 Millions before thy presence stand,
Who feel, while they adore,
Fullness of joy, at thy right hand,
And pleasures evermore.

HYMN 21, 11s.

The Mercy of God.

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Free grace hath alone, from the first to the last, Secured my affections, and bound my soul fast. 2 Thy mercy has vanquished my obdurate heart, That wonders to feel its own hardness depart;

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