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!ECT. I.] HYMNS.
“ Nor let my weaker passions dare
f “ Consent to sin, for God is there.”
PAUSE II.
1 The veil of night is no disguise,
5 No screen from thy all-searching eyes;
Thy hand can seize thy foes as soon
S Thro’ midnight shades as blazing noon,
j 12 Midnight and noon in this agree,
j Great God, they’re both alike to thee :
1 Not death can hide what God will spy,
1 And hell lies naked to his eye.
|3 “ O may these thoughts possess my breast,
i “ Where’er I rove, where’er I rest !
J “Nor let my weaker passions dare
“ Consent to sin, for God is there.”
17.
God omnipotent. Psalm Ixxxix. 7—14.
1 WITH rev’rence let the saints appear
, ' ' And bow before the Lord,
t His high commands with rev’rence hear,
’ And tremble at his word.
2 How terrible thy glories be !
| How bright thine armies shine !
,■ Where is the pow’r that vies with thee ?
« Or truth compar’d to thine ?
$ The northern pole and southern rest
j On thy supporting hand ;
; Darkness and day from east to west
Move round at thy command.
i Thy words the raging wind control,
I And rule the boist’rous deep;
i Thou mak’st the sleeping billows roll,
f The rolling billows sleep.
S5 Heav’n, earth, and air, and sea are thine,
' And the dark world of hell: