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HYMNS.
PART I.
CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES.
SECT. I.
S POCTRINES CONCERNING GOD, HIS NATURE, PERFE^
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Praise to God.
HpO God the universal King
Let all mankind their tribute bring,
All that have breath your voices raise, 1
-i In songs of never-ceasing praise,
i 2 The spacious earth on which we tread.
And wider heav’ns stretch’d o’er our head,
, A large and solemn temple frame.
To celebrate its Builder’s fame.
! 3 Here the bright sun that rules the day.
As thro’ the sky he makes his way,
1 To all the world proclaims aloud
The boundless sov’reignty of God.
4 When from his courts the sun retires,
,i And with the day his voice expires.
The moon and stars adopt the song, N
, And thro’ the night the praise prolong.
5 The list’ning earth with rapture hears
Th’ harmonious music of the spheres ;
And all her tribes the hotes repeat.
That God is wise, and good, and great,
6 But man, endow’d with nobler pow’rs.
His God in nobler strains adores:
, His is the gift to know the song,
f As well as sing with tuneful tongue.