4. Burst into praise, my soul; all nature, join; Angels and men, in harmony combine; While human years are measured by the sun, And while eternity its course shall run, His goodness in perpetual showers descending, Exalt in songs and raptures never ending. LORD, thou art good; all nature shows 2. The whole and every part proclaims It shines in stars and flows in streams, 3. It spreads through all the spreading main, 4. Through the vast whole it pours supplies, 5. High admiration let it raise, And kind affections move; 137. L. M. DODDRIDGE. The divine goodness. 1. TRIUMPHANT, Lord, thy goodness reigns 2. Through nature's works its glories shine: 3. O give to every human heart To taste and feel how good thou art; 4. Let nature burst into a song: Ye echoing hills, the notes prolong: Earth, seas, and stars, your anthems raise, All vocal with your Maker's praise. 5. Ye saints, with joy the theme pursue: THE Lord, how wondrous are his ways! 2. Not half so high his power hath spread 3. Not half so far hath nature placed 4. The mighty God, the wise and just, Knows that our frame is feeble dust, And will no heavy loads impose Beyond the strength which he bestows. 5. He knows how soon our nature dies, 6. But his eternal love is sure To all the saints, and shall endure : WHEN mercy is the theme, O could we catch the strain 2. It held its holy place In the Creator's breast When o'er the lawless earth When monstrous sin sprang forth to birth, 3. When Judah dared rebel, How soft compassion spoke! "Why will ye die, O Israel?" Why God provoke? He asks no sacrifice, But hearts made pure and clean, Set free from galling chains of vice, And hating sin. 4. Free as the almighty will, Demands no aid to reconcile, The wounded contrite soul, 140. P. M. WILLIAMS'S COLLECTION. Divine mercy. 1. 'Tis mercy calls: awake each grateful string; 2. The Lord, though seated far beyond the sky, care. 3. Hear this, ye pious but dejected minds, Whom error darkens or whom weakness blinds; |