4 Decks the spring with flowers the field? Harvest rich doth autumn yield? Giver of all good below! Lord! from thee these blessings flow. 5 Who thy wonders can express? 11. 82. 167. 352. 367. 56. C. M. WATTS. God above all praise. 1 WHO dares attempt the Eternal name, 2 Celestial King! our spirits lie, 3 When shall we see the great unknown, 4 In thee what endless wonders meet! 5 Created powers, how weak they be! So much akin to nothing we, 4. 44. 69. 207. 57. L. M. God above all praise. WATTS 1 ETERNAL Power! whose high abode Infinite length beyond the bounds 2 Thee while the first archangel sings, 1 YE weak inhabitants of clay! Ye trifling insects of a day! DODDRIDGE. Low in your native dust bow down, 2 With trembling heart, with solemn eye, And search what worthy sacrifice Your hands can give, your thoughts devise. 3 Let Lebanon its cedars bring, 4 Loud let ten thousand trumpets sound. 5 The drop that from the bucket falls, 19. 38. 66. 215. 59. L. M. Doxology. BUTCHER. IMMORTAL praise to God be given, 60. 19. 23. 113. 219. C. M. Doxology. ESTLIN. 1 THOU art the first, and thou the last; The almighty God who was, and is, 2 To thee let every tongue be praise All grateful honours paid on earth, 21. 49. 89. 223. 61. 4 T. 3. JOHN FAWCETT. Universal praise to God. 1 PRAISE to thee, thou great Creator! 2 For ten thousand blessings given, Sound his praise through earth and heaven, Sound Jehovah's praise on high. Joyfully on earth adore him, Till in heaven our song we raise There enraptured fall before him, Lost in wonder, love, and praise. ; PIERPONT. 10 THOU, to whom, in ancient time, 2 Not now on Zion's height alone 4 To thee shall age, with snowy hair, And strength and beauty, bend the knee, And childhood lisp, with reverent air, Its praises and its prayers to thee. 5 O Thou, to whom, in ancient time, The lyre of prophet bards was strung! To thee, at last, in every clime Shall temples rise, and praise be sung. 63. 47. 77. 226. L. M. All nations shall serve him. WATTS. 1 YE nations round the earth, rejoice Before the Lord, your sovereign king; Serve him with cheerful heart and voice, With all your tongues his glory sing. 2 The Lord is God; 'tis he alone Doth life and breath and being give; To pay your thanks and honours there. 64. 23. 77. 92. 219. 4.3. I. 4.2. Praise from all men. 1 ALL from the sun's uprise, Unto his setting rays, Resound in jubilees The great Jehovah's praise. SANDYS. |