The sacred sketch book; containing selections from eminent religious writers in Britain and America. By J.F. Winks

JEHOVAH.
HARPS of Eternity! begin the song,
Redeemed and angel-harps ! begin to God,
Begin the anthem ever sweet and new,
While I extol Him, holy, just, and good.
Life, beauty, light, intelligence, and love
Eternal, uncreated, infinite!
Unsearchable Jehovah ! God of truth !
Maker, upholder, governor of all!
Thyself unmade, ungoverned, unupheld !
Omnipotent, unchangeable, great Ĝod !
Exhaustless fulness, giving unimpaired!
Bounding immensity, unspread, unbound !
Highest and best! beginning, middle, end !
All-seeing eye! all-seeing and unseen!
Hearing unheard ! all-knowing and unknown !
Above all praise ! above all height of thought !
Proprietor of immortality!
Glory ineffable! bliss underived !
Of old thou built'st thy throne on righteousness
Before the morning stars their song began,
Or silence heard the voice of praise. Thou laid'st
Eternity's foundation stone, and saw'st
Life and existence out of Thee begin.
Mysterious more the more displayed, where still
Upon thy glorious throne thou sit’st alone,
Hast sat alone, and shalt for ever sit
Alone, invisible, immortal One!
Behind essential brightness unbeheld.
Incomprehensible! what weight shall weigh,

What measure measure Thee? What know we more
Of Thee, what need to know, than thou hast taught,
And bid’st us still repeat at morn and even?
God! everlasting Father! Holy One!
Our God, our Father! our eternal All!

Pollok.

IMMUTABILITY OF GOD. “ BEFORE the mountains were brought forth, or ever he had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, he is God.” Possessed of perfect excellence, contemplating with infinite complacency his glorious attributes, and containing in himself a boundless sufficiency for the accomplishment of every thing great and desirable, he saw that it was becoming his character to unfold his perfections, and communicate his goodness, to an endless and innumerable race of beings. From an infinite height, he took a survey of the immeasurable vast of possible beings; and, in an expansion without limits, but desolate and wild, where nothing was, called into existence with a word the countless multitude of worlds, with all their various furniture. With his own hand he lighted up at once innumerable suns, and rolled around them innumerable worlds. All these he so dispersed and arranged, as that all received light, and warmth, and life, and comfort; and all, at the same time, he stored and adorned with a rich and unceasing variety of beauty and magnificence, and with the most suitable means of virtue and happiness. Throughout his vast empire, he surrounded his throne with intelligent creatures, to fill the immense and perfect scheme of being, which origin

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The sacred sketch book; containing selections from eminent religious writers ...