4 High throned on heaven's eternal hill, In number, weight, and measure still Thou sweetly orderest all that is: And yet Thou deign'st to come to me, And guide my steps, that I, with Thee Enthroned, may reign in endless bliss.

5 Fountain of good, all blessing flows From Thee no want Thy fulness knows :

What but Thyself canst Thou desire ? Yet, self-sufficient, as Thou art, Thou dost desire my worthless heart: This, only this, dost Thou require.

6 O God, of good the unfathomed Sea! Who would not give his heart to Thee, Who would not love Thee with his might?

O Jesus, Lover of mankind! Who would not his whole soul and mind, With all his strength, to Thee unite? John Scheffler. 1657. Tr. John Wesley. 1739.

Awake up, my glory.-Psalm lvii. 8.

MY God, my King,

Thy praise I'll sing,

My heart is all Thine own:
My highest powers,
My choicest hours,

I yield to Thee alone.

2 My voice, awake,
Thy part to take,

My soul, the concert join ;
Till all around

Shall catch the sound,

And mix their hymns with mine.

3 But man is weak

Thy praise to speak;

Who is like Thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?-Exodus xv. 11.

GOD, Thou bottomless abyss!

Thee to perfection who can know ? O height immense! What words suffice Thy countless attributes to show? 2 Unfathomable depths Thou art;

O plunge me in Thy mercy's sea! Void of true wisdom is my heart; With love embrace, and cover me! 3 While Thee, all-infinite, I set

By faith before my ravished eye, My weakness bends beneath the weight; O'erpowered I sink, I faint, I die!

4 Eternity Thy fountain was,

Which, like Thee, no beginning knew ;

Thou wast ere time began his race, Ere glowed with stars the ethereal blue.

5 Greatness unspeakable is Thine, Greatness, whose undiminished ray, When short-lived worlds are lost, shall

shine

When earth and heaven are filed

away.

By the word of the Lord were the heavens made.-Psalm xxxiii. 6,

THY hand, O God, Thy forming skill, Firm fixed this universal chain; Else empty barren darkness still Had held its unmolested reign. 2 Whate'er in earth, or sea, or sky, Or shuns or meets the wandering thought,

Escapes or strikes the searching eye,

By Thee was to perfection brought. 3 High is Thy power above all height, Whate'er Thy will decrees is done : Thy wisdom, equal to Thy might, Only to Thee, O God, is known.

4 Heaven's glory is Thy awful throne, Yet earth partakes Thy gracious sway:

Vain man thy wisdom folly own,
Lost is thy reason's feeble ray.

5 What our dim eye could never see

Is plain and naked to Thy sight: What thickest darkness veils, to Thee Shines clearly as the morning light.

6 In light Thou dwell'st; light that no shade,

No variation, ever knew: Heaven, earth, and hell, stand all displayed

And open to Thy piercing view. Ernst Lange. 1711. Tr. John Wesley. 1737.

The immortal armies of the sky; Thou laugh'st to scorn the gods of earth;

Thou thunderest, and amazed they fly!

2 With downcast eye the angelic choir Appear before Thy awful face; Trembling they strike the golden lyre, And through heaven's vault resound Thy praise.

3 In earth, in heaven, in all Thou art; The conscious creature feels Thy nod, Whose forming hand on every part Impressed the image of its God. 4 Thine, Lord, is wisdom, Thine alone : Justice and truth before Thee stand: Yet, nearer to Thy sacred throne,

Mercy withholds Thy lifted hand. 5 Each evening shows Thy tender love, Each rising morn Thy plenteous

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7.6. 7.6. D. Thou art the same, and Thy years shall have no end.-Psalm cii. 27.

GOD, the Rock of Ages,
Who evermore hast been,
What time the tempest rages,
Our dwelling-place serene :
Before Thy first creations,

O Lord, the same as now,
To endless generations

The Everlasting Thou!

2 Our years are like the shadows
On sunny hills that lie,
Or grasses in the meadows

That blossom but to die :
A sleep, a dream, a story
By strangers quickly told,
An unremaining glory

Of things that soon are old.
8 O Thou, who canst not slumber,
Whose light grows never pale,
Teach us aright to number
Our years before they fail.
On us Thy mercy lighten,

On us Thy goodness rest,
And let Thy Spirit brighten

The hearts Thyself hast blest.
4 Lord, crown our faith's endeavour
With beauty and with grace,
Till clothed in light for ever,
We see Thee face to face:
A joy no language measures;

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A fountain brimming o'er;
An endless flow of pleasures;
An ocean without shore. Amen.
Bishop E. H. Bickersteth. 1858.
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The Lord He is God; there is none else beside
Him.-Deuteronomy iv. 35.

NONE else but Thee for evermore,

One, All, we dread, believe, adore

Great earth and heaven shall have their day,

And, worn and old, shall pass away, But Thou remainest on Thy throne, Eternal, changeless, and alone! 2 None else we praise! in every form, In peace of calm, and power of storm, In simple flower, and mystic star, In all around, and all afar,

In grandeur, beauty, truth, but Thee None else we hear, none else we see. 3 None else we love! for sweeter grace That made anew a ruined race: The heirs of life, the lords of death, With earliest voice and latest breath, When days begin, when days are done, Bless we the Father for the Son.

4 None else we trust! though flesh may fail,

Or heart may sink when foes assail,
Thou, by Thy Spirit, art our stay,
And peace that shall not pass away
None else in life and death have we,
But we have all in all with Thee.

5 Yea, none but Thee all worlds confess,
And those redeemed ones numberless :
Father, with Son and Spirit, One,
And evermore beside Thee none.
Of all that is, has been, shall be,
We praise, love, trust none else but
Thee! Amen.

Samuel J. Stone. 1865.