4 [There all the heavenly hosts are seen,
In shining ranks they move,
And drink immortal vigour in,
With wonder and with love.
5 Then at thy feet with awful fear
Th’ adoring armies fall
With joy they shrink to nothing there,
Before th’ Eternal All.
6 There I would vie with all the host
In duty and in bliss,
While less than nothing I could boast,
And vanity confess.] [1]
7 The more thy glories strike mine eyes,
The humbler I shall lie;
Thus while I sink, my joys shall rise
Unmeasurably high.
[1] Isaiah 40:17.
Hymn 2:69.
The faithfulness of God in his promises.
1 [Begin, my tongue, some heavenly theme,
And speak some boundless thing,
The mighty works, 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 Engrav’d as in eternal brass,
The mighty promise shines;
Nor can the powers of darkness rase
Those everlasting lines.]
5 [He that can dash whole worlds to death
And make them when he please,
He speaks, and that almighty breath
Fulfils his great decrees.
6 His very word of grace is strong
As that which built the skies,
The voice that rolls the stars along
Speaks all the promises.
7 He said, “Let the wide heaven be spread,”
And heaven was stretch’d abroad;
“Abrah’m, I’ll be thy God,”
he said,
And he was Abrah’m’s God.
8 O, might I hear thine heavenly tongue
But whisper, “Thou art mine;”
Those gentle words should raise my song
To notes almost divine.
9 How would my leaping heart rejoice
And think my heaven secure!
I trust the all-creating voice,
And faith desires no more.]
Hymn 2:70.
God’s dominion over the sea, Psalm 107. 23 &c.
1 God of the seas, thy thundering voice
Makes all the roaring waves rejoice,
And one soft word of thy command
Can sink them silent in the sand.
2 If but a Moses wave thy rod,
The sea divides, and owns its God:
The stormy floods their Maker knew,
And let his chosen armies thro’.
3 The scaly flocks amidst the sea,
To thee, their Lord, a tribute pay;
The meanest fish that swims the flood
Leaps up, and means a praise to God.
4 [The larger monsters of the deep,
On thy commands attendance keep,
By thy permission sport and play,
And cleave along their foaming way.
5 If God his voice of tempest rears,
Leviathan lies still and fears,
Anon he lifts his nostrils high,
And spouts the ocean to the sky.]
6 How is thy glorious power ador’d,
Amidst those watery nations, Lord!
Yet the bold men that trace the seas,
Bold men, refuse their Maker’s praise.


