Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1815
Compiler: John Thompson et al
Publisher/Printer: Looker and Wallace
First Line: The mighty frame of glorious grace
Topic: Love to Christ
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 279
Page Number: 235, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTHE mighty frame of glorious grace,
That brightest monument of praise,
That e'er the God of love design'd,
Employs and fills my laboring mind.
Begin, my soul, the heav'nly song,
A burden for an angel's tongue;
When Gabriel sounds these awful things,
He tunes and summons all his strings.
Proclaim inimitable love,
Jesus, the Lord of world's above,
Puts off the beams of bright array,
And veils the God in mortal clay.
He that distributes crowns and thrones,
Hangs on a tree and bleeds and groans!
The Prince of life resigns his breath,
The King of glory bows to death.
But see the wonders of his pow'r,
He triumph's in his dying hour;
And while by Satan's rage he fell,
He dash'd the rising hopes of hell.
Thus wre the host's of death subdu'd,
And sin was drown'd in Jesus' blood;
Then he arose, and reigns above,
And conquers sinners by his love.