A few meditations on the glorious attributes of God, by Amey Hayward

God’s attribute of goodness is most great,

And He in goodness is a God complete;

There is no man nor angel doth it know,

It is a fountain that doth overflow.

God’s attribute of love, it hath no end,

It doth above all other love transcend;

There is no man nor angel doth it know,

It is a fountain which doth overflow.

God’s attribute of mercy is so pure,

That now, and ever still it will endure:

No man or angel never can it know,

It is a fountain which doth overflow.

God’s attribute of glory is so bright,

That it doth dazzle all beholder’s sight;

It is a glory which doth so prevail,

The very angels doth their faces veil.

God’s attribute of knowledge is so high,

That He did know, from all eternity,

Adam would fall, with his posterity,

And so involve themselves in misery.

God’s attribute of wisdom, as we read,

By it the heavens and the earth was made;

It is a mystery which is so high,

The angels they desire therein to pry.

God’s attribute of justice none can let,

When He upon His judgment-seat shall sit,

To execute His judgments righteously,

‘Twill make the guilty sinners loud to cry.

To speak of all God’s attributes,

It is for me too high 

Which am an empty barren soul,

Both withered and dry.

I empty am, Lord, fill me with thy grace,

And barren too here in my spiritual race:

Withered and dry, Thou know’st I am, O Lord,

Therefore to me Thy saving grace afford.

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