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Thanksgivings for God's Attributes

from A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God, in Several Most Devout and Sublime Thanksgivings for the same.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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Sing unto the Lord a new Song, and his praise from the ends of the Earth ; ye that go down into the Sea, and all that is therein : Ye Isles and the inhabitants of the Earth.

Let the Wilderness and the Cities lift up their voice, the Villages that Kedar doth inhabit : Let the inhabitants of the Rock sing ; let them shout from the top of the Mountain :

Let them give Glory to the Lord, and declare his praise in the Islands, Isa. 42. 10, 11, 12.

For he hath made my Soul

In the Image of himself,

An understanding eye,

That like an open day,

Shall at once be present in all places.

Though because he is invisible,

By bodily eyes he cannot be seen,

Yet hath he manifested himself,

His Essence, Wisdom, Goodness, Power,

In all places of his Dominion,

To the Understanding,

In the Fabrick of my Body, Nature of my Soul, Glory of the World,

Blessedness of his Laws, soveraign Providence, Miracles and Wonders.

O Lord I am satisfied with the fruit of thy Lips, with the works of thy Hands.

And now I ascend to thine Eternal Glory, To see the Treasure of thy Divine Essence, Which thou hast hidden for us.

Since the beginning of the World men have not heard, nor perceived by the Ear ; neither hath the Eye seen, O God besides, thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

The Fountain it self is sweeter than the Streams.

O Lord my God thou art very great, thou art cloathed with Majesty, Who coverest thy self with Light as with a Garment, who stretchest out the Heavens like a Curtain, Ps. 104. 1, 2.

That Greatness, Majesty, Light and Glory hast thou made to be the enjoyment of every Soul.

Thy Soveraignity and Dominion is the glory of my Soul : Thou hast made them mine by pleasing me perfectly, and advancing me in them.

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The Works of Thomas Traherne
<I>Church's Year-Book</I>, <I>A Serious and athetical Contemplation of the Mercies of GOD</I>, [<I>Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation</I>]
, pp. 413 - 419
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2009

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