' BAXTER'S POEMS. J.Inmense and boundless, present every where: Beyond all place and creatures, thou art there, Uncomprehended, comprehending all: Foreknowing whatsoever shall befal. Uncaused, thou causest all that hath a being: Unlmown, thouknowest; unse~n, thou art all-seeing Though necessary, yet without constraint; Unmoved, yet moving all, dost never faint. All things depend on thee, and thou on none ; A,nd changing all things, art unchanged alone. One in th' innumerable multitude; Perfectly ordering things which seem most rude. Infinite Power, one accent of whose breath, Can sentence Heav'n and earth to life or death. Yea, by one act of efficacious will Canst make and unmake worlds; give life, and kill. Reason transcending all created reason, Not only knowing all things in their season, But with a knowledge, perfect, infinite, Knowing thyself in thine eternal light. A knowledge which doth utterly excel The knowledge of the earth, the Heav'ns, and Hell; To know ten thousand worlds, were but to know The finite streams which from thy will do flow : Existents, futures, all contingeilcies . Conceal'd from man, are naked to thine eyes: Of every thing thou knowest the form and cause ; As giving all their nature and their laws. Nature's whole frame it but one piece to thee. The place and use of all things thou clost see. The globes of Heav'n and earth are in thy span ; Thou seest not things by parcels, like poor man.
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