LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
| Writer(s): | Isaac Watts
| Transl/Adapt: |
| Dates: |
| Bible Refs: | Rm 1:30; Rm 5:8-9; 1 Pe 3:22; Ps 19:1
| A Collection of Hymns (Methodist)
| 1889
| 263
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs Vol 1
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| 46
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MUSIC
| Name: | BEATITUDO
| | Meter: | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
| Writer(s): | John Bacchus Dykes
| Dates: | 1875
|  Baptist Hymn Book
| 405
| Ab
| Hymns of Faith
| 501
| Ab
| Believers Hymn Book
| 200
| Ab
| Believers Hymn Book
| 424
| Ab
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 604
| Bb
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| 1. Father, how wide thy glories shine!
How high thy wonders rise!
Known through the earth
by thousand signs,
By thousand through the skies.
2. Those mighty orbs
proclaim thy power,
Their motions speak thy skill,
And on the wings of every hour
We read thy patience still.
3. Part of thy name divinely stands
On all thy creatures writ;
They show the labour of thy hands,
Or impress of thy feet.
4. But when we view
thy strange design
To save rebellious worms,
Our souls are filled with awe divine
To see what God performs.
5. Our thoughts are lost in reverent awe;
We love and we adore;
The first archangel never saw
So much of God before.
6. Here the whole Deity is known,
Nor dares a creature guess
Which of the glories brightest shone,
The justice, or the grace.
7. When sinners break
the Father's laws,
The dying Son atones;
O the dear myst'ries of his cross,
The triumph of his groans.
8. Now the full glories of the Lamb
Adorn the heav'nly plains;
Sweet cherubs learn
Immanuel's name,
And try their choicest strains.
9. O may I bear some humble part
In that immortal song!
Wonder and joy shall tune my heart,
And love command my tongue.
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