s there a man whose daring hand
Can number every grain of sand?
Can count the drops that fill the sea,
Or tell how many stars that be?
Who, then, shall strive to comprehend
Infinity that knows no end?
Who shall set bounds to boundless power

Restrain omnipotence, or lower
Eternity to one poor hour?
Believe me, friend, thou canst no more
The vast designs of God explore,
Than thy short arm can touch the skies,
Or fathom ocean’s deep abyss.
Who shall disclose his Maker’s plan,

Or dare His secret will to scan?
Shall feeble, guilty, finite man?
None but perfection, such as His,
Can know th’Almighty as He is;
His glory never can be brought
Adapted to a mortal’s thought.
Consider where thou art, and fear

This unseen witness always near.
Dive not into His deep decree,
The object’s too elate for thee;
Thou must not ask, nor wish to see.
Cast each presumptuous doubt away;
Remember thou art, at best, but clay,
Whose only province is t’obey.

—from Worthy Is the Lamb (Soli Deo Gloria, 2004).

1 Ivdge me, O God, and defend my cause against the vnmercifull people: deliuer mee from the deceitfull and wicked man.
2 For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou put me away? why goe I so mourning, when the enemie oppresseth me?
3 Sende thy light and thy trueth: let them leade mee: let them bring mee vnto thine holy Mountaine and to thy Tabernacles.
4 Then wil I go vnto the altar of God, euen vnto the God of my ioy & gladnes: and vpon the harpe wil I giue thanks vnto thee, O God, my God.
5 Why art thou cast downe, my soule? and why art thou disquieted within mee? waite on God: for I will yet giue him thankes, he is my present helpe, and my God.

We are discontinuing Bunyan's Exposition of Genesis. There is much to be gained from it, but we are having too many questions about his hermeneutics. We will, at least for a while, forgo expositions and limit our Lord’s Day posts to Puritan hymns or poetry and Scripture Readings. The Lord’s Day Scripture reading, by the way, is simply my own daily reading from Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes.