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CHRISTIAN EXERCISES.
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Omniscience and Omnipresence. of God celebrated.
1 A WHERE from thy Spirit shall I stretch
VV The pinions of my flight ?
Or where through nature’s spacious range
Shall I elude thy sight ?
2 Scaled I the skies, the blaze divine
Would overwhelm mv soul;
Plunged I to hell, there should I hear
Thine awful thunders roll.
3 If on a morning’s darting ray,
With matchless speed I rode,
And flew to the wild, lonely shore,
That bounds the ocean’s flood ;
4 Thither thine hand, all-present God
Must guide the wondrous way,
And thine omnipotence support
The fabric of my clay.
5 Should I involve myself around
With clouds of tenfold light,
The clouds would shine like blazing seas,
Before thy piercing sight.
6 If in thy being so enclosed,
How vain th’ attempt to fly,
Since every rising bud of thought
Is naked to thine eye I
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The praises of Christ.
1 I NFINITE excellence is thine
1 Thou lovely Prince of Grace ;
Thy uncreated beauties shine
With never-fading rays.
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