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| EXTOL we now the living God, | |
| His praises loud relate, | |
| Who is—and whose existence is | |
| Not bound by time or date. | |
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| Who, One and only One, alone | 5 |
| Invisible doth dwell; | |
| And peerless in His unity, | |
| His limit who shall tell? | |
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| Material form, similitude, | |
| Or likeness, none hath He; | 10 |
| Nor can there to His holiness | |
| Comparison e’er be. | |
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| Ere glad Creation, at His word, | |
| To life and light outburst; | |
| Of primal date—Eternal He— | 15 |
| Without beginning—First! | |
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| In all the world—the wide expanse, | |
| Its dwellers all around, | |
| Proclaim His might, His majesty, | |
| Which everywhere abound. | 20 |
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| Prophetic powers he deigned below, | |
| Blest words of revelation, | |
| To them, His treasured men of worth, | |
| In glorious inspiration. | |
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| But like to Moses none arose, | 25 |
| ’Mid Israel’s chosen few, | |
| Who face to face with God did speak, | |
| And did His semblance view. | |
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| And when in mercy, laws of truth, | |
| God for His people penn’d, | 30 |
| He by that faithful Prophet pleased | |
| His holy law to send. | |
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| Nor ever will our gracious Lord | |
| Another code bestow; | |
| For, all complete, His perfect law | 35 |
| No altering change can know. | |
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| Our hidden thoughts, our ev’ry act, | |
| From Him are ne’er conceal’d; | |
| Yea! ere commenced, of all, the end | |
| To Him at once reveal’d. | 40 |
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| Rewarding kindness, as his meed, | |
| The good man’s just return; | |
| But to the wicked, punishment | |
| His own misdoings earn. | |
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| Who at His time—in length of days— | 45 |
| Will our Messiah send, | |
| Redeeming those who, anxious, wait | |
| Salvation as their end. | |
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| In wondrous mercy, then the dead | |
| Revive at God’s behest; | 50 |
| Then be His praises ever sung, | |
| His name be ever blest. | |
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