When Gentiles Judah's sceptre took,
The Shiloh came as Jacob spoke:
When Daniel's weeks were nearly gone,
Christ died for sins-but not his own.
In Jesus, highest, lowest child,
Are all the prophecies fulfilled:
His birth, life, death, and rise, and reign,
Prove him Immanuel,-God and man.
OD of salvation, we adore
Thy pard'ning love, thy saving power; And to our utmost stretch of thought Hail the redemption thou hast wrought. To moles and bats cast human pride; Let God alone be magnified; His goodness let the heavens resound, Shouted from earth's remotest bound. Let all who his salvation know,Saints, who but taste his grace below, Join every angel-voice, to raise Anthems of never-ending praise.
OT to condemn the sons of men,
Nid Christ the Son of God appear;
No weapons in his hand were seen;
No flaming sword nor thunder there.
Such was the sympathy of God,
He loved the sons of men so well,
He gave his Son to bear our load
Of sins, and save our souls from hell!
Believing thus the Saviour's word,
And trusting in his name we live :
Ten thousand joys his lips afford;
His hands ten thousand blessings give.
CREATION AND PROVIDENCE OF GOD.
EFORE Jehovah's awful throne,
Let every nation bow with joy
Know that the Lord is God alone;
He can create, and he destroy.
His sov'reign pow'r, without our aid,
Made us of clay, and form'd us men;
And when, like wand'ring sheep, we stray'd,
He called us to his fold again.
We are his people, we his care,
Our souls, and all our mortal frame:
What lasting honors shall we rear,
Almighty Maker! to thy name?
We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs,
High as the heav'ns our voices raise;
And earth with her ten thousand tongues,
Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.
Wide as the world is thy command!
Vast as eternity thy love!
Firm as a rock thy truth shall stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move!
LORY to th' eternal King,
Clad in majesty supreme!
While all heav'n his praises sing,
We on earth his pow'r proclaim.
Through eternity he reigns,
His the darkness, his the light:
He this universe sustains,
As an atom in his sight.
Suns on suns, through boundless space,
With their systems move or stand;
Heaven and hell, and time and place,
Are, or not, at his command.
May my love-transported soul,
Ever on his glories gaze;
Ever yield to his control;
Ever sound his loftiest praise.
ATHER how wide thy glories shine!
How high thy wonders rise!
Known through the earth by thousand signs,
By thousand through the skies.
Part of thy name most glorious stands
On all thy creatures writ;
They show the labor of thy hands,
The impress of thy feet.
But when we view thy grand design
To save rebellious worms;
Where justice and compassion join
In their divinest forms:
Our thoughts are lost in rev'rend awe
We love and we adore;
The brightest seraph never saw
So much of God before.
Here thy great name appears complete,
And thought can never trace
Which of the glories brighter shine,
The justice, or the grace!
Though language fails, we must proclaim
Jehovah's wondrous ways;
And evermore the Saviour's name
Shall be our theme of praise.
GOD of Bethel! by whose hand
Thy people still are fed;
Who, through this weary pilgrimage,
Hast all our fathers led.
Through each succeeding path of life,
Our wand'ring footsteps guide;
Give us each day our daily bread,
And raiment fit provide.
O spread thy cov'ring wings around,
Till all our wand'rings cease;
And, at our Father's loved abode,
Our souls arrive in peace.
HEN I behold the heav'ns on high,
The work of thy right hand;
Sun, moon, and stars amid the sky,
Enlight'ning every land.
Lord, what is man, that thou should'st deign
On him to set thy love;
To give him here wide earth's domain
With hope to reign above.
O Lord! how excellent thy name!
How excellent thy grace!
Let time thy saving truth proclaim;
Eternity, thy praise.
HE Lord our Righteousness" to praise,
My soul her utmost powers would raise;
With private friends, and in the throng
Of saints, his praise shall fill my song.
His works are all of matchless fame,
And universal glory claim;
His truth, confirm'd through ages past,
Shall to unending ages last.
By precepts he has each enjoined
To keep his wondrous works in mind;
And, to eternity, record
How good and gracious is the Lord.
GOP! our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home:
Before the hills in order stood.
Or earth received her frame;
From everlasting thou art God,
To endless years the same.
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