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To thee, my God! my days are known

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 54 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 To thee, my god! my days are known; My soul enjoys the thought. My actions all before thee lie, Nor are my wants forget. 2 Each secret wish devotion breathes, Is vocal to thine ear; And all my walks of daily life Before thine eye appear. 3 The vacant hour, the active scene, Thy mercy shall approve; And ev'ry pang of sympathy, And ev'ry care of love. 4 Each golden hour of beaming light Is gilded by thy rays; And dark affliction's midnight gloom A present God surveys. 5 Full in thy view thro' life I pass, And in thy view I die. Lord! when all mortal bonds shall break, May I still find thee nigh

Great God, how infinite art thou!

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 322 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1. Great God, how infinite art thou! What worthless worms are we! Let the whole race of creatures bow, And pay their praise to thee. 2. Thy throne eternal ages stood, Ere seas or stars were made; Thou art the ever-living God, Were all the nations dead. 3. Nature and time all open lie To thine immense survey, From the formation of the sky To the last awful day. 4. Eternity, with all its years, Stands present to thy view; To thee there’s nothing old appears; Great God! there’s nothing new. 5. Our lives thro' various scenes are drawn, And vexed with trifling cares; While thine eternal thought moves on Thine undisturbed'd affairs. 6. Great God, how infinite art thou! How frail and weak we are! Let the whole race of creatures bow, And pay their praise to thee.

My heart and ways, O God!

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 My heart and ways, O God! By thee are search'd and seen; My outward acts thine eye observes, My secret thoughts within. 2 No spot the realms of space, Whence thou art absent, know. In heav'n thou reign'st a glorious King. A righteous Judge below. 3 Lord! if within my heart Thou aught should'st disapprove: The secret evil bring to light, And by thy grace remove. 4 If e'er I've been perverse Or foolish in thy view: Recall my steps to thy commands, And form my life anew.

My God, thy boundless love I praise

Meter: Irregular Appears in 141 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 My God, thy boundless love I praise; How bright on high its glories blaze! How sweetly bloom below! It streams from thy eternal throne; Through heav'n its joys for ever run, And o'er the earth they flow. 2 'Tis love that paints the purple morn, And bids the clouds, in air upborne, Their genial drops distil; In ev'ry vernal beam it glows, And breathes in ev'ry gale that blows, And glides in ev'ry rill. 3 It robes in cheerful green the ground, And pours its flowery beauties round, Whose sweets perfume the gale; Its bounties richly spread the plain, The blushing fruit, the golden grain, And smile on ev'ry vale. 4 But in thy gospel see it shine With grace and glories more divine, Proclaiming sins forgiv'n. There faith, bright cherus, points the way To realms of everlasting day, And opens all her heav'n. 5 Then let the love, that makes me blest, With cheerful praise inspire my breast, And ardent gratitude; And all my thoughts and passions tend To thee, my Father and my Friend, My soul's eternal good.

Give to the Lord, ye sons of fame

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 105 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 Give to the Lord, ye sons of fame, Give to the Lord renown and pow'r; Ascribe due honours to His name, And his eternal might adore. 2 The Lord proclaims His pow'r aloud O'er the ocean and the land; His voice divides the wat'ry cloud, And lightnings blaze at his command. 3 He speaks, and howling tempests rise, And lay the forest bare around; the fiercest beasts, with piteous cries, Confess the terror of the sound. 4 His thunders rend the vaulted skies, And palaces and temples shake. The mountains tremble at the noise, The valleys roar, the deserts quake. 5. The Lord sits sov'reign o'er the flood; The Thund’rer reigns for ever King; But makes his church His blest abode, Where we His awful glories sing. 6 We see no terrors in his name, But in our God a Father find. The voice that shakes all nature's frame, Speaks comfort to the pious mind.

All pow'rful, self existent God

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 91 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 All-pow'rful, self-existent God, Who all creation dost sustain! Thou wast, and art, and art to come; And everlasting is thy reign. 2 Fix'd and eternal as thy days, Each glorious attribute divine, Thro' ages infinite, shall still With undiminish'd lustre shine. 3 Fountain of being! source of good! Immutable dost thou remain; Nor can the shadow of a change Obscure the glories of thy reign. 4 Nature her order shall reverse, Revolving seasons cease their round; Nor spring appear with blooming pride, Nor autumn be with plenty crown'd: 5 Yon shining orbs forget their course; The sun his destin'd path forsake; And burning desolaton mark Amid the world his wand'ring track: 6 Earth may with all her pow'rs dissolve, If such the great Creator's will: But thou for ever art the same; "I am" is thy memorial still.

Almighty God, thy pow'rful word

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 Almighty God, thy pow'rful word From nothing all things brought; Earth seas, and skies, by thee their Lord, With skill divine were wrought. 2 Thy pleasure heav'nly hosts fulfil; For thee each planet rolls: Earth, sun, and stars perform thy will; Thy nod the world controls. 3 Thou over all art Lord supreme; All else from the derive. No being can dispute thy claim, Or independent live. 4 To thee, our Lord, we therefore bow; To thee, our all resign. Entire to thee ourselves we vow, For we are wholly thine.

Holy and rever'nd is the name

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 217 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 Holy and rev'rend is the name Of our eternal King/ Thrice holy, Lord! the angels cry:— Thrice holy, let us sing. 2 Holy is he in all his works, And saints are his delight; But sinners and their wicked ways Are hateful in his sight. 3 The deepest rev'rence, homage, love, Pay, O my soul, to God; Lift with thy hands a holy heart To his sublime abode. 4 Thou righteous God! preserve my mind From all pollution free; Thine image form within my breast, That I thy face may see.

'Twas God who hurl'd the rolling spheres

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 40 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 'Twas God who hurl'd the rolling spheres, And stretch'd the boundless skies; Who form'd the plan of endless years, And bade the ages rise. 2 From everlasting is his might, Immense and unconfin'd: He pierces through the realms of light, And rides upon the wind. 3 He darts along the burning skies; Loud thunders round him roar: All heav'n attends him, as he flies; All hell proclaims his pow'r. 4 He scatters nations with his breath; The scatter'd nations fly: Blue pestilence and wasting death, Confess the Godhead nigh. 5 Ye worlds, with ev'ry living thing, Fulfil his high command: Mortals, pay homage to your King, And own his ruling hand.

God is a spirit, just and wise

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 156 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 God is a Spirit, just and wise; He sees our inmost mind. In vain to heav'n we raise our cries, And leave our souls behind. 2 Nothing but truth before his throne With honour can appear; The painted hypocrites are known Through the disguise they wear. 3 Their lifted eyes salute the skies, Their bending knees the ground: But God abhors the sacrifice, Where not the heart is found. 4 Lord! search my thoughts, and try my ways, And make my soul sincere: Then shall I stand before thy face, And find acceptance there.