X. GOD'S Presence desireable.

IMMENSE, eternal GOD!
How marvellous thy Name!
Thy Presence all abroad
Pervades all Nature's Frame;
Heav'n, Earth, and Air,
And the dark Cell,
Where Devils dwell
In long Despair.

Yet thou hast chosen Ways
To make thy Presence known,
To Fav'rites of thy Grace,
To upright Souls alone:
This Glory, LORD,
My Soul would see,
This Grace to me,
My GOD, afford.

If thou thy Lustre vail
The Charms of Nature fade;
All wither'd, weak, and pale,
They bow their languid Head:
My Father, shine;
For thou canst give
The Dead to live
By Beams divine.

Ev'n Eden's blissful Lands
Would in thine Absence mourn;
But thou wild Afric's Sands
To Paradise canst turn.
If GOD be there
The Gloom is bright;
But Noon is Night,
Till thou appear.

Come, for my Spirit glows
With infinite Desire!
Strong Love impatient grows,
And sets my Heart on Fire.
My Father, come;
That Presence give
On which I live;
Or call me home.