Sweet to look inward, and attend
The whispers of his love;

Sweet to look upward, to the place
Where Jesus pleads above.

Sweet on his faithfulness to rest,
Whose love can never end;
Sweet on his covenant of grace
For all things to depend.

Sweet, in the confidence of faith,
To trust his wise decrees;
Sweet to lie passive in his hands,
And know no will but His.

If such the sweetness of the streams, What must the Fountain be!

What, to derive celestial bliss

Immediately from Thee!

XIX.

THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD.

Ir is not strange, O God, that my thoughts should often turn to Thee; for what is there which may not serve to remind me of thy greatness, or thy goodness? Every thing which I see is thy work: every blessing which I enjoy is the gift of thy bounty and every event in my life is ordered by thy providence. Whenever I exercise my faculties, they should remind me of thy wisdom, power, and goodness; for they were made by Thee. I can think of no place where Thou art not

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present: I can look on nothing, beautiful or great, of which Thou art not the author. Heaven and earth are full of the majesty of thy glory: Thou sittest enthroned on the riches of the universe: and thou art as good as thou art great. All creatures spring from thee; and Thou only canst declare thy name! to be, I AM *. Self-existent from all eternity, before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art Godt. Thou art the Highl and Lofty One that inhabiteth eternity; ther Eternal God §. Heaven is thy throne, and/ the earth thy footstool. Thou hast spread out the heavens as a tent to dwell in T. All

* Ex. iii. 14.

+ Ps. xc. 2.
|| Is. lxvi. 1.

Is. lvii. 15. § Deut. xxxiii. 27.
Is. xl. 22.

nations before Thee are as nothing; and they are counted to thee less than nothing, and vanity*Thine eyes are in every place, beholding the evil and the good †. Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? or whither shall I up flee from thy presence? If I ascend into heaven, thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there: if I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me. { Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness: and the light are both alike to theet. Behold, the heaven and the heaven of

heavens, cannot contain thee *. Behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched-out arm; and there is nothing too hard for thee, great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways, Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come t. By thy word were the heavens made, and all the hosts of them by the breath of thy mouth. Thou didst speak, and it was done; thou didst command, and it stood fast . Thou saidst, Let there be light, and there was light §. And again, at the appointed time heaven and earth will flee from thy face, and no place be

Jer. xxxi. 17-19; Rev. xi. 17. § Gen. i. 3.

* 2 Chron. vi. 18.
Ps. xxxiii. 6, 9.