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THE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF DEITY.
LINES SUGGESTED BY THE FOLLOWING WORDS: “O MON FILS, ADOREZ DIEU ET NE CHERCHEZ PAS À LE CONNAÎTRE.”........ANACHARSIS.
1811.
God is a spirit, great and just;
We his dependent creatures are:
His pleasure called us from the dust;
His goodness keeps us, and his care.
We his dependent creatures are:
His pleasure called us from the dust;
His goodness keeps us, and his care.
He dwells enthroned in light on high;
He lives throughout the boundless whole;
Invisible to mortal eye,
Unsearchable by human soul.
He lives throughout the boundless whole;
Invisible to mortal eye,
Unsearchable by human soul.
To feeble man 'twas never given
The great mysterious One to know,
To scan the Majesty of heaven,
Or make his essence known below.
The great mysterious One to know,
To scan the Majesty of heaven,
Or make his essence known below.
Enough for us, his sovereign word
Reveals him as the God of love,
The just, the ever-gracious Lord,
Who can but righteousness approve;—
Reveals him as the God of love,
The just, the ever-gracious Lord,
Who can but righteousness approve;—
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Unfolds his blissful heaven above,
And glory for his children there;
While those who slight his offered love
Shall sink to darkness and despair.
And glory for his children there;
While those who slight his offered love
Shall sink to darkness and despair.
There, also, is enough revealed,
To guide us in the way we go;
And what his wisdom has concealed
Might be but misery to know.
To guide us in the way we go;
And what his wisdom has concealed
Might be but misery to know.
O, then adore th' eternal Mind
With wonder, gratitude, and fear;
Nor seek, what man may never find,
The knowledge of his essence here.
With wonder, gratitude, and fear;
Nor seek, what man may never find,
The knowledge of his essence here.
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