A47500:164
A feast of fat things full of marrow containing several Scripture songs taken out…
A feast of fat things full of marrow containing several Scripture songs taken out of the Old and New Testaments, with others composed by t[he author] : together [with o]ne hundred of divine hymns, being the first century.
London: printed by B.H., 1696
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
HYMN 3. On the Immensity and Omniscience of GOD.
Thy Knowledge, Lord, is infinite, there's nothing hid from Thee; Thou seest in the' Dark as in the Light, our Thoughts before thee be.
THy Knowledge, Lord, is infinite, there's nothing hid from Thee; Thou seest i'th' Dark as in the Light, our Thoughts before thee be.
2 From sight of thy All-seeing Eye, O whither can we go! In all dark Places thou dost pry, thine Eyes walk to and fro.
3 Through' the whole Earth, where can we hide? O! whither can we fly? Lord, from thy Presence; for thou art far off, and also nigh!
3 Thro' the whole Earth, where can we hide? O! whither can we fly? Lord, from thy Presence; for thou art far off, and also nigh!
4 Shall we to Heaven mount aloft, lo, Thou art present there? Or, if we should go down to Hell, even there thou dost appear?