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Great God, the heav'ns'
well-ordered frame
Declares the glories of thy name:
There thy rich works
of wonder shine;
A thousand starry beauties there,
A thousand radiant marks appear
Of boundless power
and skill divine.
From night to day,
from day to night,
The dawning and the dying light
Lectures of heav'nly wisdom read;
With silent eloquence they raise
Our thoughts to our Creator's praise,
And neither sound
nor language need.
Yet their divine instructions run
Far as the journeys of the sun,
And every nation knows their voice:
The sun, like some
young bridegroom dressed,
Breaks from the
chambers of the east,
Rolls round, and makes
the earth rejoice.
Where'er he spreads
his beams abroad,
He smiles and speaks
his Maker God
All nature joins to show thy praise:
Thus God in ev'ry creature shines;
Fair is the book of nature's lines,
But fairer is thy book of grace.
I love the volumes of thy word;
What light and joy
those leaves afford
To souls benighted and distressed!
Thy precepts guide my doubtful way,
Thy fear forbids my feet to stray,
Thy promise leads my heart to rest.
From the discoveries of thy law
The perfect rules of life I draw;
These are my study and delight:
Not honey so invites the taste,
Nor gold that hath the furnace past
Appears so pleasing to the sight.
Thy threat'nings wake
my slumb'ring eyes,
And warn me
where my danger lies;
But 'tis thy blessed gospel, Lord,
That makes my guilty
conscience clean,
Converts my soul, subdues my sin,
And gives a free, but large reward.
Who knows the errors
of his thoughts?
My God, forgive my secret faults,
And from presumptuous
sins restrain:
Accept my poor attempts of praise,
That I have read thy book of grace,
And book of nature, not in vain.
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LYRICS
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Meter:
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8 8 8 8 8 8
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Dates:
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1719
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Bible Refs:
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Ps 19;
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LIST OF LYRIC SOURCES
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Hymn/Song Book
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Year
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Song #
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Name:
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ST. CHRYSOSTOM (ADORO TE)
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Meter:
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8 8 8 8 8 8
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Writer(s):
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Dates:
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1872
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LIST OF MUSIC SOURCES
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Hymn/Song Book
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Song #
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Key
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| # 611 | Eb | | # 178 | Eb | | # 326 | Eb | | # 419 | Eb | | # 275 | Eb | | # 438 | Eb | | # 755 | Eb |
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