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CCLIV. Common Metre. BROWNE.

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LMIGHTY God, thy powerful word
From nothing all things brought;
Earth, feas, and skies, by thee, their Lord,
With skill divine were wrought.

2 By thee preserved the world remains
A proof of power divine;
And thy benevolence ordains

For good the whole defign.

3 Sun, moon and ftars thy views fulfil;
Thro' thee each planet rolls:
Earth, feas and fkies obey thy will;
Thy power the world controuls.
4 Thou over all art Lord fupreme,
All things from thee derive :
No creature can difpute thy claim,
Or independent live.

5 To thy all-gracious power we bow,
Our wills to thee refign:

Accept the praise; accept the vow;
And all our hearts be thine.

CCLV.

Common Metre. UNKNOWN.

To GOD the Creator.

LORD, how excellent thy hand!

Ό How glorious to behold!

Engraven fair on all thy works
In characters of gold.

2 On heaven's immeafurable face,
In lines immenfely great;

In fmall, on every leaf and flower,
CREATOR GOD is writ.

3 Though reafon be not given to all,
Nor voice to thee, O sun!
Their Maker all proclaim, and here
Their language is but one.

4 From land to land, and world to world,
Thy praise is echoed round;
And ages, as they pass, tranfmit
The never-dying found.

5 Angels, the eldest fons of God,
Began the lofty fong;

They faw the heavens expanded wide,
And earth on nothing hung.

6 Then man, the laft and noblest work
Of all this nether frame,

With the first vital breath he drew,
Confeft from whence he came.

7 O may we ne'er lofe fight of thee,
But deep at heart retain

Th' impreffion of our Maker God,
And fly the tribe profane.

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CCLVI. Common Metre.

Hymn to GOD the Creator and Benefactor.

Wond

Onderful God! of all the fpring,
With modeft awe I raise
My eye to thee, and dare to fing
Thy all-tranfcendent praife.

2 Chaos lay brooding in her bed;
His face th' Eternal fhews,
Confufion and diforder fled,

And beauteous nature rofe.

3 Th' Almighty fpake, and all was done;
He fpake, and firm it stood;
He viewed what wisdom had begun;
He viewed, and found it good.

4 Ten thousand worlds in order roll,
Obedient to thy will;

Ten thousand bleffings glad the whole,
And thy good will fulfil.

5 Terribly grand wouldst thou appear,
If only power we faw:

Sweet goodness softens the auftere,
Andmixes love with awe.

6 What thou haft mixed may we preserve
In sweetest union joined;

With holy fear thy laws obferve,
While love infpires our mind.

CCLVII. Long Metre.

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The one GOD.

BROWNE.

TERNAL God, almighty cause

Of earth and feas and worlds unknown,

Thefe

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Thefe worlds are fubject to thy laws;
These worlds depend on thee alone.

Thy glorious being fingly stands,
Of all within itself poffeft:

Difpenfing bleffing from thy hands,
Thou from thyfelf alone art bleft.

To thee the One Supreme we bow;
Let earth with heaven its homage pay;
All other gods we disavow,

Reject their claims, renounce their sway.

O fpread thy truth thro' every land;
All idol deities dethrone;

Reclaim the world to thy command,
And reign, as thou art, God alone.

CCLVIII.

Proper Metre.

BROWNE.

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GOD witnessed by all, worshipped by Man.

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AIL voice divine! Thus the Almighty faid, "Let there be light, and let a world be made:" Light and a world there were; obedient rise Sun, planets, ftars, earth, feas, and spreading skies.

Obedient to thy will, this teeming earth To beafts and worms of every kind gave birth; With flocks and herds, the plains were richly ftored, And herbs and fruits a rich supply afford.

At laft, the nobleft work thou hadst defigned,
Of equal clay, but with fuperior mind,
Proceeded man; the fovereign of the reft,
And with his Maker's form divine imprest.

Benignity and fkill and power divine
In the great whole, and every part did fhine :

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Fair in its Maker's eye creation ftood,

His work he viewed, and pleased, pronounced it good.

Thy various works, O Lord, atteft thy name, And all in reafon's ear thy hand proclaim; But thine, O man, is the fuperior part,

To pay the tribute of a grateful heart.

CCLIX.

"TWA

Common Metre. UNKNOWN.
The Power of GOD.

WAS God who hurled the rolling
spheres,

And ftretched the boundless skies Who formed the plan of endless years, And bade the ages rife.

2 His grandeur mocks our utmost fight,
His power is unconfined;

He pierces thro' the realms of light,
And rides upon the wind.

3 He fpeaks, and nature's wheels ftand ftill,
They cease their wonted round;
The mountains melt, th' affrighted hill
Starts from the trembling ground.

4 He scatters nations with his breath;
The scattered nations fly:

Blue peftilence, and wafting death
Confefs the Godhead nigh.

5 Ye worlds, with every living thing,
Fulfil his high command;

And, man, pay homage to thy king
And own his ruling hand.

Proper