Hymnal: The Christian Hymn-Book
Date: 1829
Compiler: B W Stone and T Adams
Publisher/Printer: N L Finnell
First Line: The mighty frame of glorious grace
Topic: Praise
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 187
Page Number: 212, 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 fill my laboring mind.
Begin, my soul, the heav'nly song,
A burden for an angel's tongue;
When Gabriel sound these awful things,
He tunes and sommons all his strings.
Proclaim inimitalbe love,
Jesus the Lord of worlds above
Puts off the beams of bright array,
And veils himself 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 power,
He triumphs in his dying hour;
And while by Satan's rage he fell,
He dash'd the rising hopes of hell.
Thus were the hosts of death subdu'd,
And sin was drown'd in Jesus' blood;
Then he arose, and reigns above,
And conquers sinners by his love.