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Spiritual songs being the marrow of Scripture in songs of praise to Almighty God…
Spiritual songs being the marrow of Scripture in songs of praise to Almighty God from the Old and New Testament : with a hundred divine hymns on several occasions as now practised in several congregations in and about London : with a table of contents / by Benjamin Keach, author of the war with the devil.
London: printed for John Marshal, 1700
A FEAST OF Fat Things &c. Containing, One Hundred Sacred Hymns, &c. › Hymn 3: HYMN 3.
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.
On the Immensity and Omniscience of GOD.
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 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! ⟨p. 8⟩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?
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 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! ⟨p. 8⟩4 Shall we to Heaven mount alost, lo, Thou art present there? Or, if we should go down to Hell, ev'n there thou dost appear?
5 Yea, should we take us morning Wings and dwell beyond the Sea, There would thy Hand have hold on us, and quickly with us be? 6 Nay, if we say, The Darkness shall shroud us, Lord, from thy Sight, Alas! the thickest Darkness is to Thee, like to the Light?
5 Yea, should we take us morning Wings and dwell beyond the Sea, There would thy Hand have hold on us, and quickly with us be? 6 Nay, if we say, The Darkness shall shroud us, Lord, from thy Sight, Alass! the thickest Darkness is to Thee, like to the Light?