126. L. M. Kippis.

God Incomprehensible.

1Great God! in vain man's narrow view

Attempts to look thy nature through;

Our laboring powers with reverence own

Thy glories never can be known.

2Not the high seraph's mighty thought,

Who countless years his God has sought,

Such wondrous height or depth can find,

Or fully trace thy boundless mind.

3And yet thy kindness deigns to show

Enough for mortal minds to know;

While wisdom, goodness, power divine,

Through all thy works and conduct shine.

4O, may our souls with rapture trace

Thy works of nature and of grace:

Explore thy sacred truth, and still

Press on to know and do thy will.

God Unchangeable.

1Through endless years thou art the same,

O thou eternal God;

Each future age shall know thy name,

And tell thy works abroad.

2The strong foundations of the earth

Of old by thee were laid;

By thee the beauteous arch of heaven

With matchless skill was made.

3Soon may this goodly frame of things

Created by thy hand,

Be, like a vesture, laid aside,

And changed at thy command.

4But thy perfections, all divine,

Eternal as thy days,

Through everlasting ages shine,

With undiminished rays.