These could I number, yet, my God, Thy providence preserves me safe, 5 Nor days, nor nights, nor months, nor years; Nor centuries would e'er suffice To sound th' unfathom'd depths of love, Mercy and Truth united....Psalm lxxxv. 10. 1 HEN first the God of boundless grace To rescue our apostate race From mis'ry, shame, and sin. 2 Quick thro' the realms of light and bliss, The joyful tidings ran; Each heart exulted at the news, That God would dwell with man. 3 Yet 'midst their joys they paus'd awhile, And ask'd, with strange surprise, "But how can injur'd justice smile, 5 "And hither bring rebellious men, "Whence rebels once were hurl'd? "But ah! must truth and righteousness 6 So spake the friends of God and man, 8" Behold! my vital blood I pour, "Let angry justice now no more 9 He spake, and heav'n's high arches rung, 20. 11s. Whitfield's Col. Mercy of God....Psalm lxxxix. 1. 1 HY mercy, my God, is the theme of my song, The joy of my heart, and the boast of my tongue; Thy free grace alone, from the first to the last, Has won my affections, and bound my soul fast. 2 Without thy sweet mercy, I could not live here, Sin soon would reduce me to utter dispair; But thro' thy free goodness, my spirits revive, And he that first made me still keeps me alive. s Thy mercy is more than a match for my heart, Which wonders to feel its own hardness depart : Dissolv'd by thy goodness, I fall to the ground, And weep to the praise of the mercy I found. 4 The door of thy mercy stands open all day, To the poor and the needy, who knock by the way; No sinner shall ever be empty sent back, Who comes seeking mercy for Jesus's sake. 5 Thy mercy in Jesus exempts me from hell; Its glories I'll sing, and its wonders I'll tell : 'Twas Jesus, my friend, when he hung on the tree, That open'd the channel of mercy for me. 6 Great Father of mercies, thy goodness I own, And the covenant love of thy crucify'd Son; All praise to the Spirit, whose witness divine, Seals mercy, and pardon, and righteousness mine. 1 21. C. M. Newton. Omniscience of God....Psalm cxxxix. Nor heav'n, nor earth, nor hell afford 2 The mighty whole, each smaller part, 3 Tho' greatly from myself conceal'd, 4 Since, therefore, I can hardly bear How vile and black must I appear, 5 But since my Saviour stands between, 7 What wond'rous love....what mysteries, My breaches of the law are his, 22. C. M. Blacklock. Omniscience and Omnipresence of God....Ps. cxxxix. 1 LORD, thou, with an unerring beam, Surveyest all my pow'rs; My rising steps are watch'd by thee.... 2 My thoughts, scarce struggling into birth, 3 To thee the labyrinths of life Nor steals a whisper from my lips 4 Behind I glance, and thou art there 5 Such knowledge mocks the vain essays Nor can my reason's soaring eye PART SECOND. 6 Where, from thy Spirit, shall I stretch Or where, thro' nature's spacious range, 7 Scal'd I the skies, the blaze divine 8 If on a morning's darting ray, 9 Thither thine hand, all-present God, 10 Should I involve myself around The clouds would shine like blazing noon, 11 If in thy being so enclos'd, How vain th' attempt to fly, 23. L. M. Anon. Power of God....1 Sam. xv. 29. 1 JEHOVAH is a God of might, He fram'd the earth, he built the sky; And what he speaks is surely right"The strength of Israel will not lie"2 Ye weary souls, with sin opprest, To him in ev'ry trouble fly: His promise is, "I'll give you rest"- |