In them is seen a God of pow'r,
From whom all life and being came:
Then let us all the Lord adore,
And bow before his matchless name.

2. C. M.

KNEELAND.

The same.

THE whole creation owns a God,
All nature speaks his name;
And from his own eternal word
The whole creation came.

2

The beasts, the birds, and creeping things,
His pow'r and wisdom prove;

The fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains,
Proclaim a God of love.

3

But when we view the creature mau,

And contemplate his state;
His own existence doth proclaim
A God divinely great.

4

'Tis wisdom, knowledge, love divine,

That constitute his soul;

Goodness, and truth, and power combine,
To form the perfect whole.

5

These, like so many copious streams,
From God the centre flow;

To quicken us to heav'nly things,
That we the Lord may know.

6

The dear relation which I find,
Between my God and me,

Should ever make me keep in mind
A God of purity.

3. L. M.

KNEELAND.

Justice and Judgment are the habitation of God's throne.
Psalm lxxxix. 14.

JUSTICE and judgment are God's throne,
Mercy and truth before him stand,
Perfection is in him alone,

And wisdom dwells at his right hand.

2

Thy mercy and thy boundless love,
For ever would we keep in mind;
For ev'ry grace we look above,
For thou art ever good and kind.

3

Goodness and mercy have no bound;
But, like the sun's most gentle beams,
Which lighten all this spacious ground,
Flow down to us in copious streams.

4

Thy truth, O Lord, to us impart,
May we the same with firmness own;
Abhorring each delusive art,

And fearing thee, the Lord, alone.

5

Give us the light we ever need,
Our minds with knowledge ever fill,
From noxious error guard our creed,
From prejudice defend our will.

6

May all the sons of Adam's race,

Their ev'ry faculty improve,

Till discord thro' the world shall cease,

And ev'ry creature meet in love.

4. L. M.

KNEELAND.

The Omnipotence of God displayed in his universal government. Psalm xxxiii. 9. Jer. x. 23. Prov. xvi. 1, 9.

Gen. xlv. 5

1.20.

THE great JEHOVAH's mighty sway,

The universal worlds obey;

And from his own eternal plan,

All nature rose, and order sprang.

2

All pow'r is vested in his hands;
All things adhere to his commands.;
In him doth all creation rest,
Who orders all things for the best.

3

All that his wisdom e'er design'd
Is executed to his mind;

And what, to us, may evil seem,
Is universal good, in him.

4

He rules the hearts of wicked men,
Directs their steps, unknown to them,
Restrains their wrath and sinful ways,
When they would not increase his praise.

5

But when the wicked do devise,
To do what God doth authorize;
Altho' they have an ill intent,
Yet he will not the act prevent.

6

But sad and painful is the stroke!
God will confound their wicked hope;
They have not done the ill they would,
While HE promotes the greater good.

5. C. M.

KNEELAND.

In vain we labor without the blessing of God.

EXCEPT the Lord the house doth build, The lab'rers toil in vain;

Not all the strength of workmen skill'd Can ever raise the same.

2

Except the Lord the city keep

From fire, and sword, and storm; The watchful guards as well may sleep As rise before 'tis morn.

3

In vain we plant, in vain we sow,
In vain we till the ground;
Except the Lord his show'rs bestow,
With grace our labors crown.

4

But shail we give our labor o'er,
And always idle stand,
Because we lack almighty pow'r,
Nor can the world command?

5

Almighty God! our sov'reign head!
Forbid the idle thought;

Nor let it ever once be said,

Our hands were made for nought.

6

Then what thy wisdom doth devise,
We'll do with all our might;

And trust in him who 's good and wise,
Our labors to requite.

7

The Lord alone our lot doth cast,

When all our work is done;

We'll thank him for his favors past,
And trust for what's to come.

6. C. M.

KNEELAND.

God's Faithfulness and Truth. Num. xii. 19. Rom. xi.. 29. 2 Cor. i. 20.

YE humble souls proclaim abroad
The honors of your king;
Show to the world a faithful God,
His praises ever sing.

2

His ways are ever just and true,
According to his will;

All that he ever thought to do
Is his own purpose still.

3

He never will himself deny;
His grace he will afford:
A God of truth can never lie,

Or break his sacred word.

4

Let rivers to their sources run,
Or streams forbear to flow;
Or planets fall into the sun,
And to destruction go;

5

Let sun and stars forget to rise,
Or quit their blest abode;
Or comets fall from yonder skies,
Out of their common road;

6

Yet truth eternally shall reign,
In spite of all their pow'r;
Not all the wit of skilful men
Can make it less or more.