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My Purchased Files| 248a | Doctor Watts's imitation of the Psalms of David, to which is added a collection of hymns; the whole applied to the state of the Christian Church in general (3rd ed.)#248b | 249 |
| Text: | God is every where |
248b. God is every where
1 In all my vast concerns with thee,
In vain my soul would try
To shun thy presence Lord, or flee
The notice of thine eye.
2 Thy all-surrounding sight surveys
My rising and my rest,
My public walks, my private ways,
And secrets of my breast.
3 My thoughts lie open to the Lord
Before they’re form'd within;
And ere my lips pronounce the word,
He knows the sense I mean.
4 Oh wondrous knowledge, deep and high;
Where can a creature hide?
Within thy circling arms I lie,
Enclos'd on every side.
5 So let thy grace surround me still,
And like a bulwark prove,
To guard my soul from every ill,
Secur'd by sovereign love.
Pause.
6 Lord, where shall guilty souls retire
Forgotten and unknown?
In hell they meet thy dreadful fire,
In heaven thy glorious throne.
7 Should I suppress my vital breath
To ’scape the wrath divine,
Thy voice would break the bars of death,
And make the grave resign.
8 If wing'd with beams of morning-light
I fly beyond the west,
Thy hand, which must support my flight,
Would soon betray my rest.
9 If o’er my sins I think to draw
The curtains of the night,
Those flaming eyes that guard thy law
Would turn the shades to light.
10 The beams of moon, the midnight-hour
Are both alike to thee:
Oh may I ne’er provoke that power
From which I cannot flee.
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| First Line: | In all my vast concerns with thee |
| Title: | God is every where |
| Meter: | Common Metre |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1786 |
| Scripture: | |
| Topic: | All-seeing God; Appeal to God: concerning our sincerity; Daily Devotion (15 more...) |
| Notes: | Now Public Domain. First Part |
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